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12-10-2020, 11:39 AM
#271
Originally Posted by GTM 3442
https://www.smh.com.au/national/unde...28-p55zxc.html
"A decade ago there were 98 democratic states in the world, according to Democracy Without Borders. By this year that had fallen to 87. Autocracy claimed eight nations last year alone.
"For the first time since 2001, a majority of all states worldwide are no longer under democratic rule," says its annual Varieties of Democracy report, published in March by researchers based at the University of Gothenburg. It draws on a survey of 3000 experts worldwide to produce 3 million data points.
Fifty-four per cent of the human race now lives under autocratic rule. "And with Hungary, there is for the first time an EU member state classified as autocratic," it finds."
FYI: Peter Hartcher has had the sponsored study tour, taken the special briefings as gospel, deeply drunk the Kool-aid.
And his article doesn't fully recognise the rise in authoritarianism in Modi's India, Boris in UK, ScoMo in Aussie, all of Washington and Suga in Japan.
The trend is growing daily.
Remember to wash your hands, wear a mask, use the QR tracing app, stay home if sick, work from home...................
"There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years." George Orwell.
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12-10-2020, 12:51 PM
#272
Originally Posted by greater fool
Not for me thanks. I will wash hands if required but not this incessant hand wringing nonsense I see around me. I will not wear a mask. I do not use the QR tracing app, and I do work from home but will go to meetings and meet people face to face outside the home where possible.
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12-10-2020, 01:24 PM
#273
Originally Posted by blackcap
Not for me thanks. I will wash hands if required but not this incessant hand wringing nonsense I see around me. I will not wear a mask. I do not use the QR tracing app, and I do work from home but will go to meetings and meet people face to face outside the home where possible.
Our authoritarian government is very keen to know what you're up to. They don't really need the tracing app, they're tracking your phone. monitoring
everything you do....................
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...rs-wide-access
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...ople-with-cctv
"There is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years." George Orwell.
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12-10-2020, 01:30 PM
#274
Originally Posted by greater fool
Cheers for the links there greater fool. Interesting to see and quite concerning. I guess the younger generation do not really have an issue with these type of things..
I often leave my phone at home though so hopefully they think I lead a very hermitic lifestyle.
"any private organisation can seek approval to join from Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment." That's a bit of a worry.
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12-10-2020, 03:28 PM
#275
Originally Posted by greater fool
This is the bit that concerns me:
"If biometric ID is compromised it cannot be repaired," the report noted.
That's the issue with digital biometrics, once it's been hacked or otherwise stolen, the keys to your identity are wide open for replicating elsewhere...
It's inevitable that the data will be hacked at some point...
Have the Govt mandarins and the Privacy Commissioner really thought about this?
Last edited by Davexl; 12-10-2020 at 03:29 PM.
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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12-10-2020, 06:27 PM
#276
A view of the Indian experience with biometric security and identity
https://www.paisabazaar.com/aadhar-c...-prevent-them/
Last edited by GTM 3442; 12-10-2020 at 06:28 PM.
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12-10-2020, 08:29 PM
#277
Originally Posted by GTM 3442
Introducing even more complexity for the ordinary citizen to prevent fraud, as a direct result of having a biometric security system.
Very interesting nonetheless...
But we are all getting slightly off topic - back to Geopolitics...
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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12-10-2020, 08:46 PM
#278
France joins the Pacific centric Geopolitical party over China concerns...
"France escalates China push, appoints ambassador for Indo-Pacific"
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/fr...12-p5647f.html
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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13-10-2020, 10:12 AM
#279
China’s insistence that Taiwan isn’t a country starts backfiring
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...aiwan-country/
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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13-10-2020, 10:53 AM
#280
All science is either Physics or stamp collecting - Ernest Rutherford
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