It is impossible to address all that is wrong with our world at this moment and time.
We could say that history repeats itself or that it would be easier to imagine the end of the world than capitalism which like viruses doesn’t get tired.
No matter our problems, whether they be wars, economics, pandemics, destruction of our ecosystems, mass shootings, genocide cleansing, natural disasters, inequality, pollution, finite resources, mass unemployment, racism, or our addiction to checking our smartphones. OUR COLLECTIVE DETRIMENT ACTION OF YET ANOTHER YEAR OF PUMPING CARBON INTO OUR ATHOMISPHERE OUT WEIGHT THEM ALL.
IN THE BACKGROUND NOISE OF OUR ONLINE LIVES, CONSUMERISM WHICH FORTUNATELY HAS NOW BEING RUDELY INTERRUPTED BY THE WAIL OF AMBULANCES CARRYING COVID-19 VICTIMS IS GOING TO BE THE BANSHEE OF 2021.
What can anyone do about it?
It is inaccurate to say that the pandemic has not brought positive changes like the growing spotlight on healthcare inequity (the result of the poor and people of color suffering disproportionately from COVID-19).
It is accurate to say that the pandemic has set in motion a tsunami of new content and it would be naïve to think none of these are going to stick.
Warnings are powerful and even dire, but they still fall on fatigued ears, immediately forgotten or superseded by the next disaster, the new normal.
With nearly 270 million people around the globe marching toward starvation with Climate change, the next climate change world gathering in Scotland is already turned into a political coo by Boris Johnston the banshee of the European Union.
(A Banshee is an Irish female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody willingly dares to attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.)
People need to brace themselves for the cold reality of what’s in front of them.
The vaccine is not a panacea.
It’ll take a year or more before some real material changes appear to the way we live and this journey from here to there is not a simple one.
WE ARE UNABLE TO VACCINATE AGAINST THE CONTINUING DESTRUCTION OF LIFE FOR-PROFIT WHICH WE DEPLORE.
AND WHICH IS THEN IMMEDIATELY FORGOTTEN OR SUPERESED BY THE NEXT DISASTER.
Humanity should not be an ONLINE AI TOY in the hands of a handful of rich people!
We know that those who have already died are mourned by all, the waste of life deplored by all. May they rest in peace.
2021 like any year holds the unknown but in the end, it is the earth that keeps us alive and it is the Sun that will kill us all.
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You don’t have to be told when you look around at the world, you are looking at the same things since time memorial – the blue sky – the land – the sea- the sun.
However, everything you have seen, heard, felt, emotionally, or not, are your cells communicating with each other, helped by trillions of nanotechnological machines.
It is true to say that the truth has no past. Reality is what it is.
However these days, we see the world with a completely different set of eyes.
Eyes that are subject to the mental filter of black and white conclusions, made by algorithms.
This binary perspective serves to negate what is really happing in our world. It lacks historical awareness, which is creating isolation that can be literal or psychological.
We hear talk about your values, my values, “democratic values,” the “values” of this or that community, “values clarification,” “changing values,” and many dozens of different employments of the term.
Now, of course, the very ubiquity of the term might mean that it is valuable — perhaps even invaluable. Or it might mean that “values” is an overvalued, inflated — and perhaps even a well-nigh worthless — coin of communication. I take the latter view.
Take a look around you. What do you see?
You might see smartphones, I Pads with shining, colorful screen, all data-driven by unseeing algorithms, trapping us in corsets of addiction, for-profit sake.
The word is ubiquitous in the present-day discourse of Climate change -COVID -19 -inequality, ongoing wars, all global problems.
It is — to cite only one example among many — important to know that a particular person “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” And yet there is something wrong with the term “values,” at least as that plural noun has come to be used in our culture.
What is wrong, I believe, is this:
“Values” functions as a catchall term to cover many different sorts of things that we would do well to keep distinct. “Values” covers and includes things ranging from the basest sort of self-interest to minimal moral scruples to the noblest ideals. As such, “values” can include anything — indeed everything — from personal preferences or tastes, unexamined prejudices, individual aims, and group goals, to religious convictions and moral principles.
Present value is the concept that states an amount of money today is worth more than that same amount in the future. In other words, money received in the future is not worth as much as an equal amount received today.
They are having little and less influence on how we see the world.
Why?
Because we are becoming less and less connected with surrounding influences and conditioners, either they are absent or because they are countered and controlled by other forces like the personalized advertising industry.
Now, of course, we have global organizations, countries governments, both to take a broader view of the problems.
And it’s true to say that vision is a complex process. The brain has to do a lot of work to take a picture and all brains see things differently.
Since our current technologies are advance exponentially ever few years our future habitat on earth will look entirely different.
Against the present backdrop, our current concerns about the world are therefore nieve, of no value put on anything is able to shed individualism.
There is one six-letter word that we can and should do without. That word is “values.”
On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with the word “value” — the verb and the noun — nor with its cognates “valuable,” “evaluate,” “evaluation,” etc.
We would be pretty well lost without them.
The present Pandemic hopefully will reshape what we need to value – Freshwater /Air/ Nature/ Life in all its forms, color.
We cannot hope that consumerism profit generosity will save the children, donkeys, ecosystems to climate change.
We must make it so by applying a world Aid commission of 0.05% on all activities within the global economy that operate for profit sake.
( See previous posts)
If the present Corna virus pandemic is teaching us anything it is that our present-day values are worthless.
Your data, your cookies are not your future.
You might have started out 100% human but by the time you die you are 95.5% alien. Another word only 0.25% human.
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If you thought that governments’ new energy grants are going to solve all our energy woes think again.
One of the greatest problems with green energy like fossil energy is that it is controlled by the energy giants. The very term Carbon Footprint was introduced by BP.
If green energy had the ability to produce electricity and placing it in the hands of the people rather than those of oil, gas, coal, and utility companies, we would than see its benefits.
It could also lead to some fundamental changes in the way we consume energy.
Electricity access is essential to people’s lives but cost equals pollution.
We need to start shifting our use of energy to when it is there and available rather than shifting the energy production to match our use.
There is already solar technology that allows the establishment of Solar-powered mini-grids, and it is essentially mini-grids are independent, decentralized electricity networks that can function separately from a national grid.
They can generate electricity for local consumption.
When combined with efficient and environmentally sustainable battery storage, solar mini-grids present a compelling economic case.
By 2050 we will still be getting 75% of our energy from fossil fuels’ – it is
estimated that by 2040, the world’s energy consumption will have increased
by almost 50% so watch this video below and tell me is to days rush to move
to alternative renewable energies, such as biomass, geothermal, tidal or
wave, solar, anaerobic digestion really green?
By then with climate change, the demands for cooling will outstrip the demands for heating.
There can be no doubt that implementing a shift in where we get our energy from is one of the grand challenges facing our planet today.
In the two videos below, you will see growing evidence of the non-inclusion of social conscience in the name of renewable energy development, as well as severe environmental damage, with fossil, fuel investment unmasked, exposing the dark side of renewables.
The question is: Are we all been taken for suckers when we hear that renewable energy is clean, that electric cars will save the world by not contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
How to quantify the overall environmental impact of energy technologies has actually been a subject of the academic literature for some time.
Engineers use a process called life cycle assessment to count up all of the interactions between a complete energy system and the environment.
For example, life cycle assessments of electricity generation typically consider power plant raw materials extraction, plant construction, fuel extraction, fuel processing, fuel delivery, fuel combustion, electricity transmission, and other upstream and downstream processes in order to paint a complete picture of the energy and emissions required to produce and deliver a unit of electricity.
There is no argument that total GHG emissions from natural gas, oil, and coal electricity are far greater than those from any renewable energy technology.
Even if it takes more energy and emissions to build a solar farm than, say, a natural gas power plant, the fact that the solar farm produces zero emissions during operation causes it to be cleaner overall. The same holds for all other forms of renewable energy—and nuclear to.
The facts are out there and they clearly show natural gas, oil, and coal electricity emissions vastly exceed those from renewables and nuclear.
But the question remains.
Every day, our species chews its way through more than a million terajoules of energy.
Humanity’s hunger for energy will reach unprecedented levels.
It is estimated that since commercial oil drilling began in the 1850s, we have sucked up more than 135 billion tonnes of crude oil to drive our cars, fuel our power stations, and heat our homes.
So let’s look at six of the main contenders.
Biomass – Recently-living natural materials like wood waste, sawdust, and combustible agricultural wastes can be converted into energy with far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum-based fuel sources. That’s because these materials, known as biomass, contain stored energy from the sun.
Biofuels – Rather than burning biomass to produce energy, sometimes these renewable organic materials are transformed into fuel. Notable examples include ethanol and biodiesel. Biofuels provided 2.7 percent of the world’s fuels for road transport in 2010, and have the potential to meet more than 25 percent of world demand for transportation fuels by 2050.
Hydropower – Also called hydroelectric power, hydropower is generated by the Earth’s water cycle, including evaporation, rainfall, tides, and the force of water running through a dam. Hydropower depends on high precipitation levels to produce significant amounts of energy.
Geothermal energy – Just under the earth’s crust are massive amounts of thermal energy, which originates from both the original formation of the planet and the radioactive decay of minerals. Geothermal energy in the form of hot springs has been used by humans for millennia for bathing, and now it’s being used to generate electricity. In North America alone, there’s enough energy stored underground to produce 10 times as much electricity as coal currently does.
Solar power – The most prevalent type of renewable energy, solar power is typically produced using photovoltaic cells, which capture sunlight and turn it into electricity. Solar energy is also used to heat buildings and water, provide natural lighting, and cook food. Solar technologies have become inexpensive enough to power everything from small hand-held gadgets to entire neighborhoods.
Wind power – Air flow on the earth’s surface can be used to push turbines, with stronger winds producing more energy. High-altitude sites and areas just offshore tend to provide the best conditions for capturing the strongest winds. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a network of land-based, 2.5-megawatt wind turbines in rural areas operating at just 20% of their rated capacity could supply 40 times the current worldwide consumption of energy.
Nuclear
Its problem is the radioactive waste and its disposal.
These energy resources are renewable, meaning they’re naturally replenished and they utilize energy sources that are readily available however I suppose that there remain three pertinent points when it comes to renewable green energy.
Availability – Cost – Sustainability.
‘How do I know if green electricity is really green?’
Leaving aside that some renewable energy technologies might produce more overall emissions than fossil fuels because they cost so much if you don’t have control over the type of energy, and its cost it’s equivalent to the pollution with all of us condemned to global warming.
Take Solar thermals for instance.
Really good but if it costs twice as much as burning coal the manufacturing cost was all dirty energy to produce clean energy…If you had a solar cell that took two Joules of dirty energy to make it and it only returned one Joule of clean energy in its life—it’s a loss…
Hydropower/Dams
Have environmental impacts, presenting social sustainability issues.
Wind and solar energy are highly dependent on the weather – and the time of day.
Fossil fuels have one major advantage over renewable energy sources – they are very easy to store and transport. Green energy requires the energy to be transmitting over long distances and currently, there is no easy way to store the electricity produced by wind or solar energy for appreciable periods of time.
Battery technology is not yet good enough to efficiently store large amounts of energy. This is an area that is really ripe for innovation and we are really only at the start of deploying and testing potential solutions.
The supply must match the demand.
So we have a quandary, do we continue to develop super grids like large-scale wind and solar power stations in the Mongolian Gobi desert or the Sahara, in the sea, or on land not suitable for agriculture or establish Solar-powered mini-grids with power-sharing deals.
Nearly a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the European Union comes from Russia far from green.
As new technology is developed it will shift the geopolitics of energy, It will change relationships between not just countries but cities, towns, villages, and apps.
A major energy transition is underway, creating opportunities while increasing uncertainty and developing the need to ensure sustainability, affordability, inclusiveness, and security.
By many measures, the world is still in the early stages of a deep and profound transformation in energy and industrial and agricultural processes. This transformation will not be easy, for mobilizing meaningful economic change is rarely a simple process that proceeds without opposition.
So where are we at the moment the vast majority of the country – nae, the world – is dependent on fossil fuels which are contributing to the destruction of the Earth’s atmosphere and ultimately our planet?
So throughout the course of our lifetimes, we can expect some big changes.
A large amount of responsibility falls to major energy suppliers who rely heavily on policy initiatives to drive deep decarbonization. Thinking more clearly about power and stimulating that broader narrative are the purposes of this post.
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As protests erupt on the streets of America and the world, current power structures no longer feel tenable. Can this popular uprising break the neoliberal grip on the state and create lasting structural change that will empower the disenfranchised?
Join us as the Former Finance Minister of Greece and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 25 (DiEM25) explores what a restructured economic and political landscape might look like in a post pandemic era, and what it would take to harness state power in service of the masses rather than corporations.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, philosopher, and politician. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament, Secretary-General of MeRA25, co-founder of DiEM25, and the former finance minister of Greece. Together with Bernie Sanders he co-founded Progressive International, to unite progressives around the world. He has taught economics at the University…
Racism refers to a variety of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority, power, and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others.
It can take several forms, including representational, ideological, discursive, interactional, institutional, structural, and systemic
Racism exists when ideas and assumptions about racial categories are used to justify and reproduce a racial hierarchy and racially structured society that unjustly limits access to resources, rights, and privileges on the basis of race. Racism also occurs when this kind of unjust social structure is produced by the failure to account for race and its historical and contemporary roles in society.
It is about much more than race-based prejudice it exists when an imbalance in power and social status is generated by how we understand and act upon race.
So let’s look at its forms starting with representational racism which to mind is both the foundation and the root cause of its existence.
Depictions of racial stereotypes are common in popular culture and media, like the historical tendency to cast people of color as criminals and as victims of crime rather than in other roles, or as background characters rather than as leads in film and television.
This form encapsulates a whole range of racist ideas that imply inferiority, and often stupidity and untrustworthiness, in images that circulate society and permeate our culture.
The presence of such images and our interaction with them on a near-constant basis helps to keep alive the racist ideas attached to them.
Then you have ideological Racism.
This is a totally different kettle of fish.
Historically, this particular form of ideological racism supported and justified the building of European colonial empires and the U.S. imperialism through the unjust acquisition of land, people, and resources around the world. This form of racism has a negative impact on people of color as a whole because it works to deny them access to and/or success within education and the professional world, and subjects them to heightened police surveillance, harassment, and violence among other negative outcomes.
Next, you have Racial language. The actual words we use to describe people and places.
This kind of racism is expressed as racial slurs and hate speech, but also as code words that have racialized meanings embedded in them, like “ghetto,” “thug,” or “gangsta.”
Unfortunately using words like these rely on stereotypical racial differences to communicate explicit or implicit hierarchies perpetuates the racist inequalities that exist in society.
Next, we have Institutional Racism. Practice through society’s institutions.
This takes the form of everything from laws to Stop and search. Institutional racism preserves and fuels the racial gaps in wealth education, and social status, and serves to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege.
One more form. International racism.
When a person of color is verbally or physically assaulted because of their race, this is interactional racism.
Not forgetting Structural Racism.
Structural racism results in large-scale, society-wide inequalities on the basis of race. Its a combination of all of the above forms.
And that leaves us with Systemic Racism.
This means that racism was built into the very foundation of our society, and because of this, it has influenced the development of social institutions, laws, policies, beliefs, media representations, and behaviors and interactions, among many other things. By this definition, the system itself is racist, so effectively addressing racism requires a system-wide approach that leaves nothing unexamined.
To sum up.
While something may not appear obviously racist at first glance, it may, in fact, prove to be racist when one examines the implications of it through a sociological lens. If it relies on stereotypical notions of race and reproduces a racially structured society, then it is racist.
In the end, describing someone using race, is racist and all of us do that.
It’s not Black lives that matter its all lives matter.
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It should come as no surprise that with the COVID 19 pandemic the internet has spawned a resurgence of fake news.
The term “fake news” has taken on its own life, referring not only to untrue reports but being increasingly used to dismiss reports that the user does not wish to agree with.
People prefer information that confirms their preexisting attitudes, view information consistent with their preexisting beliefs as more persuasive than dissonant information (confirmation bias), and are inclined to accept information that pleases them.
The problem is balancing community standards with free speech.
When it comes to Facebook and Twitter
Both are protected from the consequences of its users’ speech by a provision of the 1996 act that defines social media platforms as a “safe harbor” for speech. Ultimately, Facebook and Twitter must answer to its users.
Therefore Facebook and Twitter are under no obligation to write or enforce any censorship policies.
We don’t yet know it can be done at all.
There are an estimated 2.2 billion people worldwide using Facebook and over 200 million twits a day, so it is a monumental task.
So is there any solution?
Transparency is a step in the right direction and it has to be said that there are internal and external ongoing efforts to banning genuine toxic content and allowing people to vent frustrations in general but once you are in the business of private censorship, it’s hard to draw those distinctions.
Because censorship can be awfully vague and subject to misinterpretation if left to policies that are always fluid.
Any asserted claim made on Twitter or Facebook as news must be taken with a pinch of salt.
Why?
Because false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories.
Why retweet a post before you know whether it’s actually true?
They have more staying power.
Here is a solution.
Facebook and Twitter are digital written formates, not a conversation and as such, they have a duty to objectively separate truth from lies or mistakes.
Of course, it’s not possible to expect that every post or twitter should be subject to scrutiny but any that go Viral on any platform should be subject to scrutiny to ensure that they are not spreading dangerous, lies, or completely fabricated.
This scrutiny can be made a legal requirement subject to the same laws governing the legitimate of newspapers, ensuring ethics that are promoting objectivity and credibility.
Why?
Because the spreaders of fake news are using increasingly sophisticated methods.
HERE ARE A FEW SITES Devoted to fact-checking: factcheck.org, hoax-slayer.com, politifact.com, snopes.org, truthorfiction.com, and urbanlegends.about.com.”
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A conversation has to start somewhere so let’s start by imagining that we are looking out of the window of the International space station at Earth.
We can see that it is enormous but have no real sense of its size in relation to the Universe.
We know that it is covered in living organisms but can see no evidence of life.
We know it is spinning and traveling at speed but have no sense of movement or gravitational balance.
We see that it is round with colors, blue-white, yellow, and green.
It conveys a sense of wonder. Earth is our home planet.
It’s a little bit heartbreaking that we are looking at it through defunct human-made objects that contain toxic and hazardous materials.
IT IS SAID TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE YOU HAVE TO LOOK INTO THE PAST AND LEAR FROM THE MISTAKES MADE.
THE ONE GLARING MISTAKE IS THE CONTINUING DISCONNECTION BETWEEN NATURE AND HUMANITY IT HAS CREATED A WORLD WHERE BOTH ARE STRUGGLING TO EXIST.
So lets with a broad brush look at the present position.
Before we arrived nature governed, then along came the farmer, nature was harnessed to serve ownership, power, wealth, for the few, leading to greed, wars, inequality, racism, countries, and politics you name it, with one little industrialized country wanting it all at any cost.
So we formed the United Nations to sort it all out.
So we ended up with a world of short term thinking, with long term prospects getting worse. After decades of verbal an invisible virus has brought us to an impasse either continue inflicting suffering, or change course to a sustainable world.
Unfortunately, sustainability is misunderstood as it can only come if the world act as one. The likely hood of that happing is zero.
You only have to look at the differences in the ambition of countries with no vaccine on the horizon, to reopen their economies which are all heading into the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression.
So to avoid influences like panic and fear over the imperfections in our socio-economic realities we must first get a grip on Media platforms to tell the truth as their factuality paralyzes decision-makers.
There will be no quick solutions as here is going to be financial uncertainty for months if not years.
Governments up to now have and are spending billions to stave off the inevitable which is millions unemployed, and businesses small and large going bust.
With stimulus packages drying up, things will get worse before they can get better.
Obviously, we can’t simply re-open things all at once, or you’ll be sending off all us out to re-expose themselves to the threat and the likelihood of the second wave of COVID-19, and this might happen sooner than later with countries lifting restrictions both on movement and opening businesses.
Downplaying the severity of COVID-19 does nothing to help the problem, which is a very real threat to the health and safety of us all. Governments should not let economics become the prime driver, especially if it means risking people’s health and lives, which are far more important than their livelihoods.
We need to save people’s lives to keep the economy running. If economics remains our focus, everything will die.
We need a detailed plan.
Not something that’s hinted at. Not “as soon as we can.” Not “we have a good idea.”
WE NEED CREATIVITY. NOT DIGITAL SLAVERY.
What is the plan?
The European Union has laid out a vision for a green future with a financial package to promote it.
The USA Donald Dump is slashing environmental protections.
While China can’t wait to return to Manufacturing.
All aware of the fact that about half the world’s poor reside in fragile and conflict-affected situations today. If current trends continue, by 2030, areas that are fragile/hit by conflict will account for just 10% of the global population but as many as two-thirds of the world’s poor…where COVID -19 has only just started to spread.
All aware of the fact that climate change is ticking time bomb. Fiercer weather and worsening wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes over the last decade. (The next climate change world meeting is postponed until 2021 with little time left to avert climate catastrophes, with the whole question now not urgent with countries reverting to domestic problems, reducing international cooperation. Greenhouse gasses emissions will increase as they pivot back to burning fossil fuels.)
All aware that global emissions need to fall by 7.6% every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5° C.
All aware that pollution continues unabated. In 2016, 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste was generated. This is equivalent to almost 4,500 Eiffel Towers!
All aware that more than 470 million people worldwide are currently unemployed or underemployed.
All aware that the world resources such as – freshwater, fresh air are finite.
All aware that 212.4 million suffering from diabetes worldwide unaware of their condition.
All aware that the digital age is widening inequalities.
All aware that the next pandemic is only around the corner.
All aware that current conflicts/wars are a combination of a lack of resources fueled by the connectivity of the internet.
All aware that rising sea levels will result in mass immigration.
All aware that almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population. 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population.
All aware that this is the only planet humans can live on.
All aware of the need for social safety net programs.
All aware that I am all right jack does not work.
Its no wonder we want to go to where the sun does not shine but watch out for the tracking APP>
In the end, the only way to effect change that has to be invisible is the creation of a World AId Fund. (See previous Posts)
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We all know that with the technology that we have today that we and our habits are been constantly monitored.
What we don’t appreciate is that this data is non-regulated, its use, and by whom it is all but invisible.
When Governments introduce a tracking App surely it should ring alarm bells to the erosion of Democracy.
There is no argument to saving lives is a given but the argument here is that with so safeguards, transparency, or legal rights over the storage and eventually removal of this data. (Centrally as in the case of England.)
It will turn us into digital slaves.
Since the arrival of the internet power has become invisible, with corporate-owned software running everything from the stock exchanges, to regime change.
Facebook and Twitter are partly responsible for the election of a USA president Mr. Donald Dump, the Arab Rising, the Brotherhood in Egypt, the false news, etc.
Surely to many of our forebears gave their lives for us now to throw away what is left of our freedom to create an autocratic regime.
If we want to live in a society like China these tracking Apps will get us there sooner than you think.
If you look at China its Communist Party is planning to implement a single citizen score using opaque algorithms that are largely political.
In fact, China’s social credit scoring is best understood not as a single system but as an overarching ideology: Its government agencies compile and share data on judgments against individuals or companies.
Default on your debts, and you will be put on the “List of Untrustworthy Persons.” Blacklisted individuals cannot make “luxury purchases,” such as high-speed rail and air tickets or hotel rooms.
The ripple effect on every part of your life becomes a multiplier on punishments. Warning, these people who are on the blacklist. When a blacklisted person crosses certain intersections in Beijing, facial-recognition technology projects their face and ID number on massive electronic billboards.
As you see in Hong Kong the government eager to quash free speech and root out dissenters.
The tracking apps may well help to break the chain of infections, but with dedicated watchers to record deeds and misdeeds it will lead to socially engineer behavior by ascribing a number to citizens.
Good deeds gain points; bad deeds lose them, with perks and hardships attached and it won’t be long before they take a broad range of behaviors both financial and social, all underwritten by an invisible web of Big Data.
Everything becomes negotiable, no one will make a decision.
Businesses need to keep in constant touch with the government in order to stay in the business.
What harm could there be?”
Where will it extend to next?
Now it the time to ensure that your hard-won freedom is not sacrificed but protected.
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Boris Johnston Ministerial message to battle COVID-19 is now Stay alert.
This is how to do it.
Stay:
active bright careful intelligent observant perceptive sharp vigilant wary watchful wired wise hip jazzed quick ready spirited all ears cagey circumspect clever fast on the draw good hands heads up heedful on guard on one’s toes on the ball on the job on the lookout on the qui vive psyched up switched on wide-awake with it.
As with any software, there’s no foolproof way to know whether an app is malicious.
Pay attention to permissions, the number of times an app has been installed, the reviews, and the general reputation of the developer.
Be sure to keep an eye on permissions when installing apps. If an app you don’t trust much requires too many permissions, that’s a red flag that the app will potentially abuse those permissions.
It’s normal to come across apps that require too many permissions, but it’s often because that app actually is using your phone number, address book, and location to an advertising network’s servers so they can track you and serve ads to you.
For example, if an App requires permission to read your address book, access your location, and connect to the Internet, this is awfully suspicious.
Most malicious Android apps come from outside the Google Play Store. If you download a pirated app from a shady website, you shouldn’t be surprised if it brings malware onto your system.
(A Banshee is an Irish female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody willingly dares to attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.)
