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About Those Vaccine ID Cards... - by Charles Hugh Smith
An idea that's simple as an abstraction--vaccine ID cards--turns out to be extremely difficult once real-world operational realities must be dealt with.
Vaccination cards will be issued to everyone getting Covid-19 vaccine, health officials say. (CNN)
Everyone will get a card "they can put in their wallet that will tell them what they had and when their next dose is due," says Dr. Kelly Moore of the Immunization Action Coalition.
"Your papers, please" is an expression or trope associated with police state functionaries, allegedly popularized in Hollywood movies featuring Nazi Party officials demanding identification from citizens during random stops or at checkpoints.
It's been a long time coming:
- "The Known Traveller : Unlocking the potential of digital identity for secure & seamless travel":
- The Totalitarian Dystopia of the World Economic Forum is Becoming Reality
- FBI reportedly uses data from Sabre, the world’s largest travel data holder, to conduct surveillance around the world.
- Total Information Awareness (TIA)
- The Global Grid
- and other "Asshollery of a very refined form"
Philosophically, blockchain is a totalitarian regime which aims to put a label on every atom in the universe. Based on confused views of signifier/signified and map/territory relations - It naively assumes that the quality of experience & truth increases, the deeper the simulacra.
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World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report (Guardian)
G20 governments have committed more than $230bn in Covid-19-related funding to fossil fuel production and consumption to date, far more than the $150bn to clean energy
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report (Guardian)
It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists
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Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers (scientificamerican)
For the first time, a quantum computer made from photons—particles of light—has outperformed even the fastest classical supercomputers.
Physicists led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Shanghai performed a technique called Gaussian boson sampling with their quantum computer, named Jiŭzhāng. The result, reported in the journal Science, was 76 detected photons—far above and beyond the previous record of five detected photons and the capabilities of classical supercomputers.
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The week in review, focus on corona
Your obedience is prolonging this nightmare
- AstraZeneca to be exempt from coronavirus-vaccine liability claims in most countries
- Coronavirus vaccine: Pfizer given protection from legal action by UK government
- Moderna Chief Medical Officer admits you could still transmit the Covid-19, even if vaccinated.
- Comments on Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine roll-out read like bot-generated advertising
- Covid vaccine: Facebook to ban anti-vaxx conspiracy theories
- Welsh Government Says People Will Get ID Cards To Prove They've Been Vaccinated
- Covid: Vaccination will be required to fly, says Qantas chief
- “Would you be willing to get a Covid vaccine in exchange for a $1,500 stimulus check?”
- Landmark legal ruling finds that Covid tests are not fit for purpose.
- Vitamin D Insufficiency May Account for Almost Nine of Ten COVID-19 Deaths
- Covid vaccine: How will we keep it cold enough?
- Head of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine is Female Sterilization
- Americans who've survived Covid-19 are now being denied life insurance.
- Xi Jinping may be facing an uphill battle in convincing the world to use a barcoded tracking
- We’re facing something much darker than a virus. 1 in 4 young adults are suicidal.
- Deep Breathing Could Help You Recover From Covid-19
- Look into my eyes, baby
"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." - G.Orwell
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Tesla CEO says electric cars will double global electricity demand
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy generating sources. Increasing the availability of sustainable energy is a major challenge as cars move from combustion engines to battery-driven electric motors, a shift which will take two decades, Musk said in a talk hosted by publisher Axel Springer.
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Germany energy regulator to close 4,788MW of coal plants
Germany’s energy regulator says as much as 4,788MW of coal-fired power generation capacity will cease to be marketable from January 1, as part of a policy to take carbon-polluting capacity out of the market, according to a Reuters report.
The move reflects Germany’s commitment to ending the fossil fuel age, idling the equivalent of five nuclear power plants in one step, while also cushioning the impact on utilities, regions and employment.
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Colombia Is Considering Legalizing Its Massive Cocaine Industry
Colombia Is Considering Legalizing Its Massive Cocaine Industry; There are 200k coca growing farmers. The state would buy coca at market prices. The programs for coca eradication each year cost $1 billion. Buying the entire coca harvest each year would cost$680M. It costs less to buy it all.
#Comment: Makes alot of sense, given the enormous dimensions of the global Illegal drug trade.
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250 million people participate in countrywide strike in India
Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers and farmers and their allies across India participated in a pan-India strike action against the recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by the Narendra Modi government.
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International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction (The Guardian)
Plan to draw up legal definition of ‘ecocide’ attracts support from European countries and small island nations.
Mariana Mazzucato: We may need climate lockdowns to halt climate change
We are approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions
#Comment: While such ideas might sounds appealing and progressive on first sight, on deeper reflection they are rather crazy and twisted: It is a play-book for eco-fascism. Large scale cooperation is obviously the key to solving the climate and biodiversity crisis - its been the driving force of humanity since the beginning. Yet even more centralisation of power is in my opinion not necessary nor helpful to foster more cooperation - on the contrary, it is what got us into these crisis in the first place. On closer introspection, massive power centralisation is precisely the defining characteristic of these"global climate regime" proposals made exclusively by WEIRD People ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic"). Plus, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes and who gets to decide what is "ecologically sound"? Lawyers, economists, politicians, bankers and military leaders (the likely arbiters of this regime) certainly strike me as far from ideal.
#Regenerative #Economics #Military #ClimateChange #Cryptocracy
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Are Americans Rational? - by Dmitry Orlov
"This defeat has multiple elements. First, the shale oil gamble is over. Drilling rates have collapsed, many shale oil companies are bankrupt, and US oil production is set to plummet from over 12 million barrels per day at its peak to around 5 million by next June. After that point the US will once again become a major oil importer, and since no other swing producers are available this will drive up oil prices, perhaps beyond the previous all-time record of $150/barrel, resulting in a US oil import bill of half a trillion dollars a year. But it is doubtful whether that much extra oil can be produced at almost any price."
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HIV-Like Virus Edited Out of Primate Genome
Breakthrough brings Temple researchers and their collaborators closer to a cure for human HIV infection. "We show for the first time that a single inoculation of our CRISPR gene-editing construct, carried by an adeno-associated virus, can edit out the SIV genome from infected cells in rhesus macaque monkeys,". The report, which was published online November 27 in the journal Nature Communications.
HIV breakthrough at Temple University gets researchers closer to the cure
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8 demand-side principles for Knowledge Management
1. People don’t pay attention to knowledge until they actually need it.
2. People value knowledge that they request more highly than knowledge that is unsolicited.
3. People won’t use knowledge, unless they trust its provenance.
4. Knowledge has to be reviewed in the user’s own context before it can be received.
5. One of the biggest barriers to accepting new knowledge is old knowledge.
6. Knowledge has to be adapted before it can be adopted.
7. Knowledge will be more effective the more personal it is.
8. You won’t really KNOW it until you DO it. -
The sun fires off its biggest solar flare in more than 3 years (space.com)
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Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization
A experiment aimed to help Google employees form exercise habits. Surprisingly, rewarding people to exercise on a consistent schedule produced less lasting habits than paying them for flexible exercise. Flexibility bred resilient habits.
