Situation Update; Capt Wardrobe - End March into April 2021
Are Drug dealers running the globe?
UK Govs Matt Hancock; UK Citizens now: USERS?
Addicts to technology,
continuous upgrade culture &
Corporate / Government propaganda
pic with thanks - Via UK Column
The Israel Pattern;
They announce plans for Covid CURE Pill - March 21st
Then UK announces one that ALLEVIATES SYMPTOMS - 4th April
An Israeli-American pharmaceutical company is preparing to launch a Phase I clinical trial for what could become the world's first oral COVID-19 vaccine.
Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company based on technology developed by Hadassah-University Medical Center, announced over the weekend a joint venture with India-based Premas Biotech to develop a novel oral vaccine. Together they formed the company Oravax Medical Inc. The vaccine is based on Orameds POD oral delivery technology and Premas's vaccine technology.
A tablet taken to combat symptoms of coronavirus is the goal of a new anti-virals taskforce being planned by the government, it has been reported.
The pill would be taken as soon as someone tests positive for the disease, with the aim of blocking the development of serious symptoms.
The new body will be modelled on the Vaccines Taskforce, whose actions last year underpinned the success of the current rollout.
Its target would be to convert the latest science on anti-viral therapeutics into approved treatments available to the NHS "within months", a source told the Mail on Sunday.
Currently, the drugs used to treat Covid are generally given only once a patient has developed serious symptoms.
These include dexamethasone, a cheap steroid found to cut deaths among those on ventilators by more than a third.
Another steroid, hydrocortisone, also improved survival rates among the critically ill.
"The success of the vaccine programme has shown what our country can achieve, identifying and deploying cutting edge medical treatments to save lives and beat the pandemic," the source said.
"Matt [Hancock] wants to replicate those achievements with anti-viral drugs.
"The new taskforce will be another crucial tool and is a further step towards making the UK the best place in the world for life science."
Pfizer trials oral pill
It comes after Pfizer announced the beginning of a phase one trial of an oral pill to be taken after once symptoms begin.
The company, which is conducting the trial in the US, says the drug has already shown strong potential against the Covid-19 virus and other viruses in laboratory experiments.
Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer's chief scientific officer, has said that: "Given the way that SARS-CoV-2 is mutating and the continued global impact of Covid-19, it appears likely that it will be critical to have access to therapeutic options both now and beyond the pandemic."
Whitehall mandarins are reportedly seeking senior figures from private industry to head the new task force, with no appointments yet agreed.
The set-up would follow the model of the Vaccines Taskforce, which was led by biochemist turned venture capitalist Kate Bingham, who successfully secured access agreements to six different vaccines across four formats.
The Government source said Ms Bingham is not in the frame to serve on the new anti-virals taskforce.
Pharmaceutcial giant Pfizer has kicked off a human trial for a Covid-19 pill that the company hopes to make available before the end of the year.
The trial, which is held at Pfizer labs in Belgium and the US, includes 60 clean-living adults aged 18-60 and will last for 145 days, according to various media reports. The final 28 days will reportedly used to get screening and dosing right.
The human trial consists of three phases, with more than 200 Pfizer researchers working full-time on the project.
During the first round, volunteers will be tested and monitored on how well the drug is tolerated, while the next phase will consist of adults taking multiple doses and the final phase evolves around the tolerance of the pill in combination with food intake. The final 28 days will reportedly used to get screening and dosing right.
According to Pfizer documents seen by various news outlets, volunteers did receive a warning that the drugs has so far only been tested on a limited number of animals.
"The safety of the study drug has been studied in animals. In these animal studies, no significant risks or safety events of concern were identified, and the study drug did not cause side-effects at any of the dose levels that will be used in clinical studies,” The Telegraph reported, citing Pfizer instructions.
HIV medication
The research is reportedly centred around a man-made anti-viral molecule – called PF 0732133 – which is a protease inhibitor, preventing the virus from reproducing in the nose, throat and lungs.
An operant conditioning chamber (also known as the Skinner box) is a
laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior. The operant
conditioning chamber was created by B. F. Skinner
"While states are key to mandatory vaccinations, the federal government
would be key to allowing travel restrictions and other barriers to the
noncompliant. In doing so, the restrictions would have to trump the
right to travel and other constitutional rights. The coercive impact on
individuals would be extreme. Noncompliant and non-immune citizens would
be isolated physically and socially. Moreover, to make such a system
work, there would have to be an easy form of proof of immunization or
vaccination – a type of antibody passport."
We can see an emerging society with regular mandatory vaccines as a constant part of daily life for all.
It is a life only possible for those who comply to whatever the state dictates - those who obey will have access to a normality designed by the Bio Security state -
Take note of the Palvlovian / BF Skinner behavioral aspect to it -
no vaccine = No essential services, No travel, No education. No internet.
HOW FAR WILL THEY TAKE IT? FOOD? WATER? HOUSING?
It's already started.
The first phased release of 50M COVI-PASS Digital Health Passports to both the private sector and governments was initialised in May 2020 - to over 15 countries, including Italy, Portugal, France, Panama, India, the US, Canada, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, United Arab Emirates and The Netherlands.
The COVI-PASS Digital Health Passport works on an intelligent colour mapping system (green, amber, red) to authenticate and validate a COVID-19 test providing test history and relevant health information. This allows for accurate data metrics to assess those who have tested positive and negative and the location only of their testing. The COVI-PASS Digital Health Passport can be used as an authenticated gateway for Public Services, Businesses and Employees to manage a safe return to work, life, and safe travel.
In China NOW! Soon to be GLOBAL; A Universal Basic Income / Social credit system,
a system reliant on constant monitoring & surveillance.
Track & Trace, anyone?
(L-R) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Defense stand in salute to the PLA at a dinner in Vancouver, in 2019, following the arrest of Meng two months earlier. (Still from video) and Inside Vancouver’s Haidilao restaurant, where over 60 surveillance cameras are installed, two for each table and in staff areas.
China's social credit system is an ambitious initiative to build a
database that monitors individual, corporate, and government behavior
across the country in real time.
According to the Chinese government, the system will use big data to
build a high-trust society where individuals and organizations follow
the law. It will do so by assigning social credit scores to each entity
based on their behavior, which are translated into a variety of rewards
and punishments.
Haidilao is renown in China for its exceptional customer service, because the baseline in mainland China is really, really low. Nice and courteous servers and cleanliness packaged and franchised as a key selling point. And it worked.
The thing is, they're so nice it seems surreal. Like their brains have been hijacked and reprogrammed. Think the all-smiling, all-cheery faces of a North Korean performance troupe. It belies a much scarier reality. This story only jacks up the creepiness factor by 1000. comment on Reddit
Trialling Soc Cred in Canada?
Ryan Pan, a manager with Haidilao Hot Pot in Vancouver confirmed that over 60 surveillance cameras have been installed in the restaurant at the request of the Haidilao corporation, as part of the social credit system in China. He said that the Vancouver location has 30 tables with two cameras assigned to each table.
When asked specifically why Haidilao required so many cameras to monitor staff and patrons, Ryan Pan said that the cameras were installed to “punish” staff if they didn’t adhere to corporate standards and to “people track”. Pan also said that the video is sent back to China but declined to say why this was, other than to say the reason for this was “secret.”
Founded in Sichuan, China, the Haidilao opened up at two locations in the Vancouver region, the most recent of which was opened in 2018 in a former Swiss Chalet restaurant in the trendy Kitsilano district of Vancouver. The location is within walking distance of the home rented by Huawei for staff temporarily re-located to Vancouver to assist Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the telecom giant. Following her arrest and hearing over a provisional US extradition request for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud in order to circumvent US sanctions against Iran. The Haidilao location is no more than 10 minutes to Meng Wanzhou’s mansion and the Peoples Republic of China Consulate. Haidilao has over 935 locations around the world and more than 36 million VIP members and 60,000 plus staff.
We reached out to Ivy Li, with the Canadian Friends of Hong Kong, who is a well-known public speaker, writer and activist on matters related to China and pro-democracy, to ask why Canadians should be concerned that China’s social credit system is now operational in Canada.
Ivy, who was born and raised in Hong Kong, had this to say in response: “Not only ethnic Chinese Canadians and residents, and businesses with Chinese ties are put at risk, but the privacy and safety of all Canadians and our society are compromised. Customers at a popular ethnic cuisine restaurant, especially in an upscale area, could be diplomats and politicians entertaining their guests, CEOs discussing their business strategies, professionals talking about company projects, journalists conducting interviews, etc., etc. Dinners discuss a wide range of subjects, especially after a couple of wine. The dining table in a popular restaurant is one of the best places to eavesdrop on someone and to get the pulse of a society.”
CHINA’S SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM
China’s social credit system was officially rolled out nationwide in 2014 with a plan to build “trust” in the marketplace and broader society. According to a report by USA Congressional Research Service (CRS) in 2020, China’s social credit system has developed into two connected but distinct systems: a system for monitoring individual behaviour, still in early pilot stages, and a more robust system for monitoring corporate behaviour.
17 MAY 2021 -
Wales will conduct an experiment to see if giving every adult in Wales a fixed amount of money every month has a positive impact.
Known as universal basic income (UBI), the idea is that the government provides everyone with a minimum living wage.
This would be enough so that every person would be able to pay for all basic essentials, regardless of whether they have another form of income.
When asked last week if he would trial the scheme, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Yes, you will see when the detailed ministerial responsibilities are published that a basic income pilot is one of the specific responsibilities of our new social justice minister Jane Hutt.
"It will have to be carefully designed, it will have to draw on the experience of attempted pilots in Scotland. I have a very long standing interest in basic income and I hope we will be able to mount an experiment here in Wales which will test whether the claims made for a basic income approach are actually delivered in the lives of people when you are able to have such an experiment. "
Mr Drakeford added that he "will do it on a cross party basis" and that there are "35 members who have expressed an interest".
Central banking digital currency
switching money on / off - A wealth expiry date?
“We believe CBDCs will contribute significantly to the modernisation of the international monetary landscape, hand-in-hand with reconfiguration in both payment and financial infrastructure. They will generate numerous opportunities for further digitisation in both corporates and financial institutions, as their integration in payment and financial infrastructure progresses,” PwC stated.
Henri Arslanian, the global digital currency leader at PwC, said that the general public will be the biggest beneficiary of the CBDC deployment. “It will give them access for the first time to a digital form of central bank money. And that is a big milestone in the evolution of money,” he stated.
Although some manifestations of the US dollar are already digital, there are inherent differences in what can be done with these new digital currencies. First, money can be time-based, and the issuer (the People’s Bank of China in the case of the digital yuan) can set an expiration date for your money. Money can also be “fine-tuned” to be sector-based, meaning that it can be designated to only be spent in certain sectors or stores. Finally, China has already implemented a draconian social credit score system, and that the digital yuan could end up tying into the social credit score. For centralized governments, CBDCs have huge benefits over both the current fiat system and a decentralized, neutral currency. However, that is not the case for the sovereign individual.
With CBDCs, the central government has the ability to attach an expiration date to money. Following the economic shutdowns of 2020, many people questioned whether the stimulus payments would circulate into the real economy or whether they’d just stay on the sidelines as savings or debt payments. Enter CBDCs. The U.S. Federal Reserve’s initial interest in a CBDC was as a way to influence the velocity of money.
When the U.S. government granted stimulus payments to its citizens to keep the economy afloat, there was no guarantee that the recipients would use them as the government intended. Those payments were meant to help people who lost jobs make ends meet and otherwise keep the economy moving. Saving that money for a rainy day, paying off debt, and investing it all run counter to the desires of a government that desires inflation.
Norway's central bank has set out plans to test a host of technical options for a CBDC over the next couple of years.
Norges Bank says it is pushing ahead with CBDC plans on the basis of recommendations from an internal working group as it seeks to see what the best technical option is "if it becomes relevant to introduce a CBDC in Norway".
The bank notes that payment technologies are evolving at breakneck pace and that the share of cash payments in Norway is now probably the lowest in the world.
Meanwhile, other central banks are pushing ahead with their CBDC work: neighbour Sweden is well advanced in its e-krona work, while China is already carrying out real world digital yuan trials and the UK has set up a taskforce to explore a Britcoin.
Norges Bank governor Øystein Olsen says: "Central bank cash provides the payment system with a number of important attributes that may be relevant to retain and develop further by issuing a CBDC. Additional knowledge is necessary for us to be able to decide whether issuing a CBDC is appropriate."
Turkey / India seek to regulate decentralised Cryptocurrency / blockchain
In a statement, the central bank had said crypto assets were "neither subject to any regulation and supervision mechanisms nor a central regulatory authority," among other security risks.
"Payment service providers will not be able to develop business models in a way that crypto assets are used directly or indirectly in the provision of payment services and electronic money issuance," and will not provide any services, it said.
China, Saudi Arabia, North Macedonia, Morocco, Algeria, Bolivia
Will Crypto be destroyed? crashed via a 911 type emergency as a cyber attack?
An attack on the infrastructure;
Power stations that supply energy
to blockchain servers &
the currency that it supports?
From “Event 201” to “Cyber Polygon”: The WEF’s Simulation of a Coming “Cyber Pandemic”
Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a “reset” of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis.
Do you want to live in a world where every purchase you make and every interaction you have with others is recorded, documented and unchangeable?
What about a world where everyone is manipulated into rating each other in some kind of evil social rating system on a daily basis?
Your every move is recorded and every website you visit is documented. Every book you read, every time you step off the curb before the light changes, and every time you go even one unit above the speed limit it is used against you. If your score drops, you lose access to travel and quality food, and if it drops enough you eventually lose your home and become untouchable with no hope of ever getting ahead in life.
According to a report from state-run media, “Remin Chain,” from Hangzhou’s Hyperchain Technology, will be integrated into the People’s Daily Online Public Opinion Monitoring Center—the government apparatchik responsible for monitoring and analyzing every comment made online by China’s 800 million netizens. As the name implies, the center is run by People’s Daily, one of the mouthpieces of the Communist Party.
Dr NAOMI WOLF: VACCINE PASSPORTS ARE DIRECTING US TO SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM
Bad behavior index =
low score = limited or no access
Good behavior index =
access to realm of essential services
The punishment for not getting tested and receiving the Immunity passport / Vaccine;
could see a limitation placed on access to / or a lower content INTERNET - and remember while you are locked down in your homes with no access to remote goods or services unless you are online - this will be crucial to the way you choose to proceed.
Remember Leiberman and his plan for an internet kill switch?
If the U.S government told the major Tier 1 ISPs to close, that's
technically not a single kill switch but it would cause a shutdown. In
fact, one report claims, in the event of a cyberwar, an Internet
shutdown would cause more problems that it would prevent.
While denying the bill authorized a presidential “kill switch in a fact
sheet, Lieberman told CNN, Right now, China, the government, can
disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that
here, too.Just because China does it is a laughable argument. It's
also clear he wants a way to turn parts of the Internet off.
Over the past year, billions of people all over the world have relied heavily on internet connectivity to keep in touch with family and friends, learn online, work from home and get vital information about the coronavirus pandemic.
Yet over the course of 2020, 29 countries intentionally shut down or slowed their internet communications at least 155 times, according to a new report published by
Access Now, a non-profit digital rights group.
Well, imagine a not too distant future.
One where the Net becomes a
behavior for access platform...
Essential workers get full access -
The poor & designated agitators & dissidents,
recieve low connectivity filled with crap -
or no access at all.
This system has been tested for years,
as digital TV - with Premium subscriptions
to more channels...The Internet is the new TV -
can't you tell?
Sites now filled with pop-ups - video adverts,
rollovers that obscure your view...
Youtube had Ads every 3 minutes...
THIS IS ALL ACCLIMATISING THE USER INTO CONSTANT UPGRADE CULTURE
AS HIGHER TECH IS USED ON THE WEB DEVICES USED TO ACCESS IT NEED REPLACING...IT IS ALSO THE NORMALISATION
AND ACCEPTANCE OF OF IDEOLOGICAL POLLUTION.
Eventually - The Internet will evolve into a fully augmented bio-enhanced reality within your perception
Add to that the premium upgrade platform of access via behaviorism
The team at Mojo comes from all corners of the globe and all walks of
life. We are Scientists. Futurists. Medical experts. And Technologists.
We've joined forces to give people superpowers so they can be their best
selves, whatever the occasion.
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Those 20th Century sci-fi movies: why do they seem to be becoming reality?
FLASHBACK TO MY SISTER SITE
DOWN WITH MURDER INC. [2001-6]
The shape of things to come?
The Technocratic authoritarian state
Flashback to 2002: Spielbergs 'Minority Report'
Pre-Crime
There is on the drawing board a device which automatically processes live picturesfrom closed circuit cameras and, from the body movement, sounds an alert when it detects that someone in the picture might be about to commit a crime.
While the new film Minority Report portrays a future where people are arrested before they commit crimes - the reality is that advances in genetics, and the processing of personal data, and, yes, CCTV are opening up some of those possibilities in the present.
Peter Schwartz, an internationally renowned futurist and business strategist is co-founder of Global Business Network in Emeryville, CA and the author of two books. He lectures and consults around the world regarding future trends and served as a consultant for the movies Deep Impact, War Games and Sneakers and was a script advisor to Steven spielberg on the film, Minority Report.
according to Schwartz:
People will live longer and be healthier, expect 100 to 150 years of age to be common. We will learn to prevent many diseases and regenerate body parts.
The end of retirement is upon us. People will have multiple careers and be able and want to work to a much older age than is customary today.
The US population will be more diverse in the future. We will continue to see waves of immigrants, primarily of Asian and Spanish descent.
At UC Berkley, 45 percent of the entering class in 2003 is of Asian descent; these are our future business and government leaders.
Since 1992 in California, the state has opened one new classroom per day.
America is still young, compared to other countries. Our population is and will continue to be vigorous and healthy which provides a good base for workers and soldiers. In contrast, Europe has an aging and shrinking population that will need to be taken care of, rather than produce goods and services.
There has been a movement out of poverty during the last 50 years and there is no reason this shouldn't continue. With the current rate of growth in individual income, in 2054 our population will be twice as rich as it is today. We won't eliminate poverty, but more people will see a rise in their income and net worth and there will continue to be boom and bust cycles.
Even though manufacturing jobs and plants are being eliminated today, as robotic and other technologies advance, manufacturing will return to the US (with fewer people involved). Technology will enable us to make things faster, cheaper and better than other less educated and technologically advanced countries.
A global middle class of 2 to 3 billion people will develop as China and other countries see increases in productivity and wealth.
Expect to see a tremendous growth of talent and population in major metropolitan cities of the country. These are great places to live today and that will remain constant in the future.
We will be connected. You will be able to reach anyone, anytime, anyplace and we will give up some privacy for this capability.
Biotechnology will bring us new, efficient and clean ways to manufacture items, much as nature makes thing now. We will design and build things from the bottom up, one atom at a time.
These new manufacturing processes will be 1000s of time more efficient than they are today and generate no pollution.
Manufacturing will be cleaner, greener, and more productive.
Buildings, fashions, icons and designs will remain stable and endure, but continue to evolve. Cities and buildings will be layered in time, in that older buildings that are 100 years old will be remodeled and exist next door to new modern structures.
Keyboards and wires will disappear; other forms of interaction with computers, buildings, and vehicles will be developed that are less intrusive and obvious. Examples include gestural, voice and other types of interfaces.
We will still have run-down neighborhoods, a drug problem and crime.
Some city icons (locations and buildings) will be frozen in time, the White House, the Space Needle; distinct and recognizable buildings will endure.
Expect to see more personalized communication and data flow. You will get your news real time, however you want it, wherever you are. The electronic books and newspaper will be reality and give you real time updates as things happen right in front of your eyes.
Hydrocarbon fuels will become obsolete and be replaced by clean hydrogen powered fuel cells.
Expect big advances in biotechnology, including the ability to control plant and animal evolution at the atomic and molecular level. There will be hybrid crosses between animal and plant species.
Nano and micro robotic technology will become a reality that impacts all aspects of our life.
- source
incidently - Global Business network have ties to the Tides foundation, The Rockerfeller Foundation
members write for outlets such as 'wired' and seem to justify several major foreign policy drives:
In "Nuclear Now" (Wired, February 2005), GBN Founder Peter Schwartz argues that the urgent and serious consequences of climate change require a renewed and major investment in nuclear power.
This policy is being pushed right now by the G8/7/6 power elite...as a new global energy policy which also seeks to implement a new era of Nuclear proliferation
Nuke Power as Green solutions initiative
April 1st 2021
As demand for low-carbon electricity rises around the world, nuclear power offers a promising solution. But how many countries are good candidates for nuclear energy development?
A new study in the journal Risk Analysis suggests that countries representing more than 80 percent of potential growth in low-carbon electricity demand - in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa - may lack the economic or institutional quality to deploy nuclear power to meet their energy needs. The authors suggest that if nuclear power is to safely expand its role in mitigating climate change, countries need to radically improve their ability to manage the technology.
Peter Schwartz is now with SALESFORCE
The inevitable Bill Gates connection
Selected by the U.S. federal government to demonstrate the viability of nuclear power through its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), TerraPower aims to build “fully functional advanced nuclear reactor within 7 years of the award,” according to the Office of Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
“We envision a 2050 grid that is powered by very significant wind and solar power, but is complemented by” Terra Power nuclear reactors, TerraPower president and CEO, Chris Levesque, tells CNBC Make It.
Levesque envisions that TerraPower will help the United States become a dominant force in nuclear power; as other countries transition their energy grids, “the United States will once again export reactors that set the standard for the world, just as we did for today’s conventional reactors,” Levesque says.
Robocop - Ruthless Corporation boss secretly creates crime sprees -
kills a cop to justify NeoFascist corporate police force & killer bot tech
Robocop
"In a dystopian future, Detroit is on the verge of collapse due to financial mismanagement and a high crime rate. The city signs a deal with the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to run Detroit's police department in exchange for letting OCP rebuild run-down sections of the city into a high-end utopia. Senior Vice President Dick Jones demonstrates a new law enforcement robot, ED-209. However, the robot malfunctions, killing an executive. Bob Morton, an ambitious executive, uses the opportunity to introduce his own experimental cyborg design, RoboCop."
Smart Cities Dive
According to Smart Cities Dive, "Minneapolis isn't the only city to inch toward police reform and disinvestment amid the protests. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged Sunday to divert an undisclosed amount from the city's police department budget, which currently sits at $6 billion annually, to social services, the New York Times reports. In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti vowed to cut up to $150 million from his police department's budget following rallies from activists."
Dallas is becoming a "smart city" using data-driven solutions to solve our issues with crime. Mark my words: Our mayor is leading us into a dystopian future. We would be wise to NOT follow other cities like Minneapolis and NYC where they have voted to defund the police. Even if the Dallas city council, the mayor, and the city manager all oppose the mantra to "defund the police", we may still witness the same artificial intelligence and machine learning agenda coming to us through backdoor deals that undermine our liberties.
Air Force rolls out Advanced Battle Management System devices in COVID-19 fight
The U.S. Air Force has begun deploying thousands of personal devices to
military personnel and health care providers that allow them to access
classified information from home or outside of the office, even though
the devices themselves are unclassified.
C4SRNET
Total Recall - cutting off essential services [oxygen]
to the 'terrorist sympathiser' poor ghettos of Mars
Total Recall and the danger of privatizing of natural resources
The privatization of natural resources essential to sustaining life sounds ethically wrong, sure, but that hasn't stopped people from buying a corporate ownership of water, especially in the United States. There is truth to be found in conspiracies, especially when governments and corporations are near indistinguishable.
The 1990 film Total Recall begins with Vilos Cohaagen, the governor of the entire Mars settlement, addressing the importance of terbinum ore. Cohaagen is a corporate dictator turned government official, so any hope that he was capable of putting the needs of human life over the bottom line is gone. He and his men discover an alien reactor made up of the highly sought after terbinum ore — but Cohaagen desires to maintain the monopoly of the selling of air to the citizens of Mars and so he goes to great lengths to ensure the reactor is never turned on.
By the end of the movie the purpose of the reactor is made clear. It's meant to generate breathable air for the planet by melting a massive glacier of ice below, thereby releasing enough oxygen to neutralize Mars' toxic atmosphere. Cohaagen actually plans to blow up the reactor to prevent any such air purification happening. It's almost unfathomable to imagine this level of greed.
the counter-Forum on Natural Commons, held by an array of social movements and civil society organisations, believe that this ‘revolution’ ‘is the first step to creating financial markets in water, air, soil and forests’ thus ‘effectively privatising nature’
The commodification of nature refers to the process of incorporating biophysical entities and/or information about them into economic systems for the purpose of exchanging the good or service for a profit.
Current emphases in the literature include examinations of
(i) the way commodification processes function and adapt in different domains of nature;
(ii) the socioecological consequences of, and barriers to, nature's commodification; and, more recently,
(iii) the limitations of neoclassical environmental economic valuation models and their applications. Studies examining the commodification of nature across time and space reveal capitalism's historically unique relation to nature based on generalized and specialized commodity production and the different manifestations of this often antagonistic relationship.
These studies stress that nature may not conform to the laws of the market and the market may not conform to the laws of nature.
Nature is not for sale! 2nd Forum on the Natural Commons on 2 June 2014 at the Regent’s Park Hub, London
Panel 1: New directions in conservation: a closer look at ‘value’ and offsetting.
A new conservation paradigm is emerging among policy makers; that in order to properly protect nature, it must be given a ‘proper value’. This usually means setting up ways to measure ecosystems and biodiversity in terms of pounds, dollars and euros so that nature, industry and economic growth can all appear on the same balance sheet.
This potent narrative underwrites much of the political energy that is currently directed at developing systems of ‘biodiversity offsetting’ around the world. Central to the concept is the idea that the ‘value’ of any particular item of biodiversity can be assessed against others and units of biodiversity value can be added up, divided and shifted around like figures in a spreadsheet. This is at the heart of the thinking behind ‘no net loss’ initiatives. It is an appealing (but fundamentally flawed) idea because it divorces the ‘value’ of biodiversity from the complex ecological, social and geographic relations that allow that biodiversity to exist.
Where did this new narrative for ‘value’ come from and how is it being engineered? Why is it treated as self-evident by policy makers and what does it conceal? This panel explores the new directions in global conservation policy, the difficult question of ‘value’ and its emergent role in environmental governance.
In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is "The Running Man" -- a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.
The Running Man exploding collar pictured left. ( TriStar, 1987) Collars like these were used by the totalitarian police state to control prisoners in the Schwarzenegger Sci-Fi action film. The collars would flash then explode if a prisoner strayed too far from boundaries
Techno-fascism -
SHOCKS FOR DISABLED KIDS
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A school in the US has won a court battle allowing it to use electric shock devices on students.
The country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had previously banned the use of electric shock devices last year.
But a 2-1 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has seen the ban overturned.
The decision was handed down after the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Canton, which has around 300 pupils, challenged the regulation.
After the ruling, the school said in a statement: “With the treatment, these residents can continue to participate in enriching experiences, enjoy visits with their families and, most importantly, live in safety and freedom from self-injurious and aggressive behaviors.”
Disability advocates have since blasted the court’s decision to overturn the ban.
"This ruling opens the door for continued torture of largely Black and brown disabled people in the name of treatment," said Lydia Brown, director of policy, advocacy, and external affairs for the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network.
"The FDA must reissue a ban on all devices used to inflict painful electric shock on others."
Shain Neumeier, an attorney who has represented former center residents, said: "State legislators need to end funding, if the court system is unwilling to put an end to this barbaric practice."
A Techno-fascist - 4th industrial revolution.
Fitness SHOCK BANDS?
If you've ever struggled with workout motivation (and seriously, who hasn't?) a new fitness band is here to help. Scheduled to be released next year, the band will jolt you with an electric shock whenever you step out of line.
Yes, you read that right—jolted. With electricity. If you fail to meet your goals, the Pavlok fitness band will hit you with 340 V of electric current, which Pavlok founder and CEO Maneesh Sethi compares to the static electricity you feel when you touch a metal doorknob.
Sethi says that while the fitness bands currently on the market are great for tracking everything from the number of steps you take to your sleep pattern, they can't actually change your habits. That’s where the Pavlok fitness band comes in, helping you form good habits and break bad ones.
5g millimetre frequency - Pain herding?
December 29, 2018 -
Today’s cellular and Wi-Fi networks rely on microwaves – a type of electromagnetic radiation utilizing frequencies up to 6 gigahertz (GHz) in order to wirelessly transmit voice or data. However, 5G applications will require unlocking of new spectrum bands in higher frequency ranges above 6 GHz to 100 GHz and beyond, utilizing sub-millimeter and millimeter waves – to allow ultra-high rates of data to be transmitted in the same amount of time as compared with previous deployments of microwave radiation.
Now a US weapons that relies on the capability of this electromagnetic technology to induce unpleasant burning sensations on the skin as a form of crowd control is being rolled out.
Millimeter waves are utilized by the U.S. Army in crowd dispersal guns called Active Denial Systems. Dr. Paul Ben-Ishai pointed to research that was commissioned by the U.S. Army to find out why people ran away when the beam touched them. “If you are unlucky enough to be standing there when it hits you, you will feel like your body is on fire.” The U.S. Department of Defense explains how: “The sensation dissipates when the target moves out of the beam. The sensation is intense enough to cause a nearly instantaneous reflex action of the target to flee the beam.”
Since
the outbreak of the coronavirus earlier this year, many apps have been
developed that use satnav-based location data to monitor the global
spread of the virus and to map outbreaks of the Covid-19 disease. Satnav
based apps are also proving their usefulness by helping people to
implement social distancing in queues and other public spaces.
Romanian company RISE has developed an app called CovTrack, which
monitors people in your vicinity made identifiable via Bluetooth
connections to your mobile phone and stores the identification data of
these devices.
By pressing a button you can access the database in which the unique
identifiers of the mobile phones are registered (without having access
to any personal data of these mobile phone users), to verify whether the
persons with whom you came in contact have subsequently been confirmed
with Covid-19. If you have identified a potential contact, you can refer
to the relevant authorities whether that contact requires your
inclusion among the monitored persons, or even testing for Covid-19.
GPS DAILY
"Radar will be an important piece of a multilayer urban sensing
architecture. Radar tracks through urban canyons can help us connect the
dots of detection and vehicle ID provided by other systems. Track
information can provide the glue to hold together optical track snippets
or disambiguate target tracks between waypoints provided by observers
or sporadic image captures. It can make sparse eyes-on data more
valuable without covering the skies in sensors. Of course, we'll need
to assemble the pieces in affordable ways. We'll want to explore
architectures of all sensor types and how they best complement each
other. We'll want to integrate existing airborne radars, UAVs, small
distributed sensors scattered throughout the city, as well as existing
transmitters like radio, televisions, and cell phones. "
is
a newly-developed remote sensing technology that works in all weather
and independent of daylight. Recent satellite designs such as
TerraSAR-x, which have resolutions of a couple of meters and sub-meters,
have provided appropriate data for modelling and monitoring of urban
areas.
"... in December last year, a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said the most likely source of the illness was "directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy."
According to a New York Times analysis, that language is crucial. By using words like “pulsed” and “directed,” the report was saying the energy wasn’t randomly emanated by a cellphone or other device. It was being aimed at people.
In the fall of 2020, a number of US troops in Syria developed mysterious flu-like symptoms, similar to those of the Havana syndrome. According to Politico, the Pentagon has now told top members of Congress that it suspects a Russian-directed energy attack was responsible."
now consider a 'vaccine' that is in actuality a nano disease that can be manipulated remotely
[Radio Frequency activated Bacteria & DNA was documented by NatureMag in 2002]
From 2002 - The Remote Control Of Bacteria
Remote-controlled bacteria could be just around the corner. Researchers have found a way to switch cell processes on and off with radio waves.
The goal is "microbial machines", Joseph Jacobson of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge told this week's
Materials Research Society meeting in Boston.
Cells, he explained, could be equipped with a toolbox of 'software' - such as the ability to glow periodically.
Remote-controlled enzymes could cut and paste these modules as if
downloading a particular program into the cells. This is a long way off,
but the components are taking shape.
Jacobson's team uses an electromagnetic field to switch on and off an
enzyme that snips open the genetic messenger molecule RNA. First they
attach a tiny particle of gold to the enzyme.
Only millionths of a millimetre across, the gold nanoparticle acts as an
antenna, harvesting energy from a radio-frequency electromagnetic
field. This energy breaks up the enzyme, rendering it useless. When the
field is switched off, the parts of the enzyme re-assemble of their own
accord.
Earlier this year the same team manipulated DNA in a similar way.
They stuck a gold antenna to DNA strands that spontaneously curl up
into hairpin structures where the two ends zip together. A
radio-frequency pulse picked up by the gold antenna opened up the
hairpin.
Showing that the approach works for proteins too greatly increases the
range of things that might be done with it - proteins orchestrate nearly
all the chemical processes in a cell.
National Lab Scientists Work to Reprogram Genes to Fight COVID-19
May 2020
Using CRISPR, Sandia National Lab researchers are genetically
engineering antiviral countermeasures to fight the coronavirus—and
potentially future outbreaks.
"Though society is largely focused on the coronavirus now, it's
ultimately difficult to keep people's attention focused on these sorts
of problems, Schoeniger said. For example, countering emerging
biological threats—one of Sandia's roles as a national lab—captured
national and lawmaker attention after the 9/11 attacks, yet that initial
sharp focus can quickly shift to the next crisis."
Imagine being able to signal an immune cell to generate antibodies that would fight bacteria or even cancer. That fictional possibility is now a step closer to reality with the development of a bio-compatible transistor the size of a virus. Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber and his colleagues used nanowires to create a transistor so small that it can be used to enter and probe cells without disrupting the intracellular machinery. These nanoscale semiconductor switches could even be used to enable two-way communication with individual cells.
Made of metal and thin, shape-changing film and coated in a heat-sensitive paraffin wax, "theragrippers," each roughly the size of a dust speck, potentially can carry any drug and release it gradually into the body.
The team published results of an animal study this week as the cover article in the journal Science Advances.
Gradual or extended release of a drug is a long-sought goal in medicine. Selaru explains that a problem with extended-release drugs is they often make their way entirely through the gastrointestinal tract before they've finished dispensing their medication.
"Normal constriction and relaxation of GI tract muscles make it impossible for extended-release drugs to stay in the intestine long enough for the patient to receive the full dose," says Selaru, who has collaborated with Gracias for more than 10 years. "We've been working to solve this problem by designing these small drug carriers that can autonomously latch onto the intestinal mucosa and keep the drug load inside the GI tract for a desired duration of time."
Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures Funds Microchip Implant Vaccine Technology
You really can not make this up The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
has donated more than $21 million towards developing a vaccine
technology that uses a tattoo-like mechanism which injects invisible
nanoparticles under the skin that is now being tested in a vaccine
against the virus that causes COVID-19.
“To maximize the utility of this technology for vaccination campaigns,
we aimed to create a platform compatible with microneedle-delivered
vaccines that could reliably encode data on an individual for at least
five years after administration,said the MIT paper, titled
Biocompatible near-infrared quantum dots delivered to the skin by
microneedle patches record vaccination. “In addition, this system also
needed to be highly biocompatible, deliver a sufficient amount of dye
after an application time of 2 min or less, and be detectable using a
minimally adapted smartphone.
Lifeboat
Nanotechnology Company Exicure Raises Over $42 Million from Bill Gates, AbbVie, Agilent and Others
Published: Feb 26, 2016
Exicure is developing three-dimensional, spherical nucleic acid (SNA)
architecture to develop a new class of immunomodulatory and gene
silencing drugs. SNA was developed by Chad Mirkin at the Northwestern
University International Institute for Nanotechnology. Exicure holds 51
pending patent applications and 26 allowed or issued patents.
Although the technology platform is quite complex, it essentially is
various single and double-stranded nucleic acids stuck on the outside of
a nanosphere.
BIOSPACE
Bill Gates Wants to Turn Your Birth Control On With a Remote
Say hello to wireless birth control.
"The idea for the device originated two years ago in a visit by Bill
Gates and his colleagues to Robert Langer's MIT lab. Gates and his
colleagues asked Langer if it were feasible to create birth control that
a woman could turn on and off and use for many years. Langer thought
the controlled release microchip technology he invented with colleagues
Michael Cima and John Santini in the 1990s and licensed to MicroCHIPS
might offer a solution. "
- Profusa, an empowered health company that is pioneering the next generation of personalized medicine, today announced in collaboration with RTI International and Duke University the award of a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) award to develop an early identification system to detect disease outbreaks, biological attacks and pandemics up to three weeks earlier than current methods. The RTI DARPA SIGMA+ funded effort is based on evaluating monitoring platforms including Profusa's first-of-its-kind, minimally-invasive injectable biosensor technology, the Lumeeâ„¢ Oxygen Platform, to measure tissue oxygen levels as a potential indicator of human response to infection or exposure.
Unlike current efforts, which among other methods track and predict outbreaks via public health network data of patients that seek medical care once already experiencing symptoms, this program will assess the ability to collect real-time physiological data including oxygen status through Profusa's injectable biosensor, and other measures to detect impending distress before symptoms are present.
"We believe that data collected by monitoring real-time changes in body chemistry will allow us to make an important shift towards preventative care and away from costly sick-care needed after a pandemic, like the flu, has taken hold," said Ben Hwang, Chairman and CEO of Profusa. "This could lead to advances like more effective vaccines and disease prevention plans that improve health outcomes and potentially reduce healthcare costs. We are honored to receive this DARPA grant and excited to work alongside our partners towards a healthcare ecosystem that is focused on true personalized care."
The data collected by this program will be used to develop new algorithms for the detection of respiratory infections using machine-learning techniques with the goal of optimizing predictive capabilities. The collaborative effort will monitor patients simultaneously, so the technology can provide real-time, geospatial information on the spread of an infectious disease in an urban environment, to derive more effective countermeasures and mitigation strategies.
The project is part of DARPA's SIGMA+ program in the Defense Sciences Office (DSO).
Where are they leading us? A Transhuman agenda...
Artwork by R Kikuo Johnoson
The robotisation of human faces. The not so subtle introduction to pop culture of man machine interfaces
"Called Xupermask and made of silicon with athletic mesh fabric on the sides, it is a joint venture between Will.i.am and Honeywell. It fits snugly around the bottom half of the face and comes with three dual-speed fans, a Honeywell HEPA filtration system (which the company is careful to say is not medical quality), as well as noise-canceling headphones, LED lights for nighttime, a rechargeable battery and Bluetooth capability. It allows you to play music and take calls, has a seal over the nose to keep glasses from fogging and makes the wearer look sort of like a sci-fi rhino warrior.
It's not exactly subtle.
The mask costs $299, which is very expensive for a simple face mask but the average top-end price for noise-canceling headphones (less than Sony and Bose, more than Apple). It was designed by Jose Fernandez, the Hollywood costume designer who created the SpaceX suits for Elon Musk and worked on "Black Panther," "The Avengers" and "X-Men 2." And it is going to be sold in direct-to-consumer, Supreme-style drops.
It's a bet, in other words, that hypebeast culture will embrace the mask."
Developed by Will-i-am & Honeywell
"Honeywell expects that as advances in quantum computing continue to accelerate over the next 18 to 24 months, the ability to replicate the results of a quantum computing application workload using a conventional computing platform simulation will come to an end.
The company's System Model H1 has now quadrupled its performance capabilities to become the first commercial quantum computer to attain a 512 quantum volume.
Central banking digital currency
switching money on / off - A wealth expiry date?
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Techno-fascism -
now consider a 'vaccine' that is in actuality a nano disease that can be manipulated remotely
Implantable real time biosensor
Lets take another look at that behaviour paradigm:
