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Showing posts with label Julie Beal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julie Beal. Show all posts
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Agenda 21 Chapter 8 – The Final Coup

If you think the economy is simply going to collapse, think again. The bankers, the corporations, and the United Nations have got ecosystem accounting ready to rock and roll, and it’s set to change everything….
… the plan is brilliant. You reduce the number from 7+ billion by at least 33% without firing one shot. You simply privatize all natural resources and then price access so that the bottom third of the globe’s population cannot afford it. And so, they die; it will be the biggest die-off of the Anthropocene epoch. From Papua New Guinea to Croatia, from Bolivia to Ghana, from Canada to Central America, from Scotland to Nigeria, from Australia to America, forests, water rights, mineral rights, arable land, national parks, and much more is being privatized with the usual outcomes: degradation, displacement of indigenous populations, higher costs, lack of access to necessary resources — starvation, death, social unrest and rebellion… (‘Natural Capital and the Real End Game’, Sandy Krolick)There aren’t enough people talking about this. It casts a whole new light on the TPP, on the reasons for war, possible near-term changes to corporation tax, and economic failure in general, and boggles the mind when it comes to geoengineering. Whilst we can only speculate on these connections, one thing’s for sure - monocultures for biomass-products, GMOs, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and nuclear energy will play a huge role, as they are now deemed to be renewable and/or socially responsible.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Uberveillance: Internet of Things, Energy Harvesting, and Guardian Angels
Julie Beal, Contributor
Animal and product tagging is becoming the norm – this could lead to a tipping point where tagging everything with a microchip will become necessary.
Surveillance becomes truly ubiquitous (‘uberveillance’ ) and tagging humans is seen as the obvious next step in the perpetual imperative towards improving health and security.
Internet of Things
A decade ago, Larry Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, asserted his belief that databases of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) would become more centralised, based on Oracle’s business model, which has flourished since 9/11. Eventually, said Ellison, we would have a global database, and it would “track everything”. A Paperprepared for the International Telecommunication Union’s Workshop on Ubiquitous Network Societies in 2005 acknowledged that we were facing a future where “tiny devices the size of a grain of sand might give the wind a pair of eyes, or fingerprint-activated doorknobs may recognize owners by a simple touch”.
Now global surveillance of citizens is announced with pride and accepted without question. This is the age of the ‘Internet of things’ - everything is to be woven into the Web. Companies like IBM are busily creating ‘smartworld’ where the Internet becomes the system of systems, linking all devices, people, and even nature.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Smartworld: Identity Profiling With Biometrics
Julie Beal, Contributor
Biometric solutions are being implemented to provide additional authentication of identity, usually to supplement verification provided by a chip, e.g. in a smart card or phone, passport, etc.
A recent report, Next Generation Biometric Technologies Market Global Forecast & Analysis (2012-2017), predicts the global market for biometrics to reach $13.89 billion by 2017, reasoning that,
The existing methods of human identification such as identification documents and PIN are not able to cope up with the growing demand for stringent security, which gives a high growth opportunity for the use of biometric technology. This technology is very popular also because biometric characters like face, fingerprint, hand, etc. cannot be lost, stolen, or easily forged.From iris recognition to fingerprint authentication, biometrics is becoming the choice method for secure identity checks.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Smartworld - Identity Ecosystem
Tsze-lu said, "The ruler of Wei has been waiting for you, in order with you to administer the government. What will you consider the first thing to be done?” The Master replied, “What is necessary is to rectify names.” (Confucius, Analects XIII, 3, tr. Legge)
Julie Beal, Contributor
Part One: IDENTITY CRISIS
Cybersecurity has become the dominant concern for geeks and elites around the world, as governments and corporations attempt to exert control over the Internet to protect their interests. News is hot with updates on the TPP and the like, but there is little coverage of the push to control identity.
For many years, the anonymity afforded by the Internet has prompted discussions about the problem of not knowing who exactly you’re interacting with online, i.e. how can you tell it’s a real person, and not a dog? More to the point, how do you know who to trust?
Most of the technical aspects to resolving this issue have been successfully tried and tested for many years now, as those with the most to lose have implemented Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems which offer secure solutions for digital transactions. This has created a powerful industry, especially for military applications; in fact, the market for IAM is expected to grow to $12.3 billion by 2014, from just $2.6 billion in 2006.
This industry is now eager to expand into the civilian market, to provide each one of us with a unique global identification number, together with databases of all the personal information that makes us what we are. This is the age of e-governance, where just about everything is going online: relationships, government and business services, banking, and even law – increasingly these transactions can be done with a mobile device, bringing a whole new set of factors into play when it comes to identification.
Julie Beal, Contributor
Part One: IDENTITY CRISIS
Cybersecurity has become the dominant concern for geeks and elites around the world, as governments and corporations attempt to exert control over the Internet to protect their interests. News is hot with updates on the TPP and the like, but there is little coverage of the push to control identity.
For many years, the anonymity afforded by the Internet has prompted discussions about the problem of not knowing who exactly you’re interacting with online, i.e. how can you tell it’s a real person, and not a dog? More to the point, how do you know who to trust?
Most of the technical aspects to resolving this issue have been successfully tried and tested for many years now, as those with the most to lose have implemented Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems which offer secure solutions for digital transactions. This has created a powerful industry, especially for military applications; in fact, the market for IAM is expected to grow to $12.3 billion by 2014, from just $2.6 billion in 2006.
This industry is now eager to expand into the civilian market, to provide each one of us with a unique global identification number, together with databases of all the personal information that makes us what we are. This is the age of e-governance, where just about everything is going online: relationships, government and business services, banking, and even law – increasingly these transactions can be done with a mobile device, bringing a whole new set of factors into play when it comes to identification.
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