The lying, spying, cheating, controlling, over-charging, tracking con trick that is digital globalism

The Final Straw that was Cup Final Day

I long ago gave up following the Beautiful Game that has been ruined by Bestial Greed. There is too much soccer now - too many home-and-away complications, too much sponsorship, too many obscne salaries, too much at stake, too little club loyalty, hardly any glory, and too many competitions designed to attract advertising - most of which are of only tangential interest to the average footie fan.

Yesterday however, due to familial difficulties in my life, I found myself at a loose end on Saturday lunchtime, and so went in search of live streaming available in order to watch the FA Cup Final due to kick off at 3.30 pm Gambian time. My sole interest in the match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City was for me, being a lifelong Man United fan, the potential joy of watching City get thrashed by Palace. As it turned out, it was one the most exciting Cup Finals of all time....and Palace deservedly won. But I didn't see any of it.

Every route to watching live coverage was an odious swamp of misleading promises, AI malfunction, and mendacious use of the word 'free'.

Sure, you could watch the game itself free, but you had to pay for long-term sporting channel packages often costing in excess of $170....and - as always - sign up by giving out endless personal details and approving bank orders enabling the Corporate shovel to be placed into your account at regular intervals, alongside a never-ending shoal of email/notification bombardment and hidden charges on into eternity.

Nevertheless, Virtual Personal Network (VPN) services were being offered by a dozen suppliers around the globe such that, in theory, in territories where the Cup Final was available by free-to-air broadcasters directly, fans could fool the media suppliers into thinking they lived in that region. Or put another way, be corrupted by those with the wrong values by joining a cconspiracy to lie to the authorities. You see People, this is the 21st Century, and in the New Normal, two wrongs make a right. It's settled science.

Well, VPN too turned out to be a liars' charter in every respect, and also complex to navigate towards membership, full of high-cost annual fees and riddled with arrows and links that went nowhere thanks to Bots whose brains hadn't been updated for some time.

So I moved on to live radio commentary. Most of these were simply written commentator notes updated every ten minutes. The rest were genuinely live spoken descriptions of the game, but once again the sign-up-to-a-life-sentence-of-rip-off lurked in the foreground.

The entire process was a bit being in an Elon Musk wet dream....he being the robber in full sight who pioneered X - where free speech is freely available, but you have to pay for it.

Slog World Exclusive: the invisible bug that makes calls for you -whether you like it or not: Illegal auto-call income stimulation....a developing global scandal

This new feature of digital perfidy is also presented today in the form of an appeal for further evidence about a cellphone scam I've been tracking for the last few days. You've read in the past here about blatant censorship of smartphone calls to 'Resistance' colleagues, whereby Secret State gargoyles across the world block completion of call conversations they've monitored and found 'unsafe'. [The favorite modus operandum is to tell the caller "the line you are calling is busy"]. But what I'm investigating now is something based more on amoral greed than State Surveillance.

Here is a list of the main mobile phone service providers of both data and conversation across the World:

Major Global Providers:

• AT&T (USA): A major US-based telecommunications company with a large international presence. 
• Verizon (USA): Another leading US provider with a strong global footprint. 
• China Mobile (China): The largest mobile operator in China and one of the largest globally. 
• T-Mobile (USA): A subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile offers wireless services in the US and other regions. 
• Deutsche Telekom (Germany): A major European telecom operator, with T-Mobile as its US subsidiary. 
• Vodafone (UK): A global telecommunications company with operations in multiple countries. 
• Reliance Jio (India): A leading mobile operator in India. 
• Bharti Airtel (India): Another major Indian telecom operator with a presence in many countries. 
• China Unicom (China): A state-owned telecom operator in China. 
• China Telecom (China): Another state-owned telecom operator in China. 
• NTT Docomo (Japan): A leading Japanese mobile operator. 

Regional Providers:

• Telefónica (Spain): A major European operator with a strong presence in Latin America. 
• Orange (France): A major European telecom operator with a presence in many countries. 
• MTN Group (South Africa): A leading African telecom operator with a presence in many countries. 
• GrameenPhone (Bangladesh): A major mobile operator in Bangladesh. 
• Telkomsel (Indonesia): A leading mobile operator in Indonesia. 
• Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indonesia): Another major Indonesian telecom operator. 
• Telcel (Mexico): A leading mobile operator in Mexico. 

Other Notable Providers:

• Telenor (Norway): A major mobile operator with a presence in Asia and Europe.
• US Mobile (USA): A US-based mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).
• Mint Mobile (USA): A US-based MVNO offering affordable plans.
• Visible (USA): A US-based MVNO offering data plans.
• Xfinity Mobile (USA): A US-based MVNO owned by Comcast.
• Boost Mobile (USA): A US-based MVNO offering data plans.
• Cricket Wireless (USA): A US-based MVNO owned by AT&T.
• PureTalk (USA): A US-based MVNO offering data plans.
• Tello (USA): A US-based MVNO offering affordable international calling.
• Assis Wireless (USA): A US-based MVNO. 
• In addition, The three main mobile phone service providers in Australia are Telstra, Optus, and Vodafone.

This is the nature of the question I'm putting to anyone who uses the telcon or data services (local or WhatsApp) of any of the above brands....or thinks I've missed some potential perpetrators our:

How many times have you 'received' a call on your mobile, only to find that the alleged caller thinks you just rang them?

I have already recruited one whistleblower....understandably, this person wants his regional location to remain a secret. What I can say is that the game in play here is downloading undetectable parasites into smartphones during "updating". This fascilitates illegal call stimulation by the parasite auto-dialling a frequently used number by the customer, with the recipient 'taking' the call, and the customer assuming that in fact he is the recipient.

I have personally had this happen five times this year. The vast majority of phone users either don't notice the anomaly, or put it down to user error. Equally, less than two per cent of phone owners ever check the detail of their bills.

There is some circumstantial evidence that major EU provider Orange is involved in the practice; this shouldn't surprise anyone, as the corporation has a long-standing track-record of dubiously vigorous pursuit of phone credit-debt that is in fact not down to the customer.

I have also received allegations that Telefónica in Spain may well be involved.

My appeal is simple: if this has happened to you and raised your suspicions, please text me in the strictest confidence at Whatsapp No +33 780 362 966