Are we being manipulated by global govts as a means to an end ... eg rest control from our superstitions to enhance their own?
Interesting why business leaders are taking on the role of social engineers by enforcing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Merit is no longer the primary consideration. Workplace "governance" is the grass roots of a cultural change.
Governments are starting to recognize that fake news is something that must be actively fought. Various government agencies are now setting up services to debunk stories that they consider to be false. They are also considering imposing regulations and punishing sites that do publish misinformation.
And this is the counter measure to social manipulation, the govt manipulating the manipulators with the public the ones affected:
https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us...ws-cyber-propaganda-the-abuse-of-social-media
Is anyone waking up to what that means?punishing sites that do publish misinformation.
Govt going to force 5000 welfare recipients to drug testing, so they can cure them.. Orwellian LNP at work
honestly, I doubt it will have any effectGood idea..
honestly, I doubt it will have any effect
they will sell bread or nappies at half price to the neighbour and smoke/inject anyway.or revert to stealing to get the cash...But I see the point, less the practicality
If it was that easy to cure an addict they would have done it decades ago.
No one said it was easy, but as this strategy hasn't been tried before who is to say it won't work ?
Give it a try, and if it doesn't work, can it.
THE cashless welfare card championed by mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest” has done nothing to reduce methamphetamine use and instead backfired by leading to a crime surge, prostitution and rorting, WA’s leading Aboriginal health group warns.
Aboriginal Health Council of WA chairwoman Michelle Nelson-Cox said no drop in meth use had been seen in the East Kimberley, one of two sites in Australia where the Turnbull Government has been trialling the initiative for the past year. She also said the card was still being used as a currency for drugs.
“What we have seen since that policy was implemented in that particular region is an increase around elder abuse and trade-off with other alternatives — for example, taxi drivers are trading the cards for cash exchange,” Ms Nelson-Cox told a Federal inquiry into the meth epidemic.
“We have also seen a rapid increase in crime and prostitution.”
There has been a substantial decrease in per capita alcohol consumption from the mid-2000s. However, this decrease started well before the NTER [Northern Territory Emergency Response] and is almost certainly driven by factors other than income management.
The number of alcohol-related presentations to emergency departments and admissions to public hospitals by Indigenous people in the Northern Territory has increased dramatically since the mid-2000s.
Imprisonment rates of the Indigenous population have increased in the Northern Territory since 2002 at a faster rate than amongst the Indigenous population Australia-wide.
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When the data are taken as a whole, not only does it suggest that there has been very little progress in addressing many of the substantial disadvantages faced by many people in the Northern Territory, but it also suggests that there is no evidence of changes in aggregate outcomes that can plausibly be linked to income management.
It has been tried though in WA...
Well, I guess we have to take both sides views with a grain of salt.
The government reckons it's been a success (defending its idea), and the Aboriginal Health Council (quite possibly a mouthpiece for a community that wants unrestricted cash handouts) says it's a failure.
Neither of them appears to have produced any actual data, so I guess we all remain in the dark about the actual effects.
Did you read the second paper I posted? It has more data than you could shake a stick at, and was commissioned by the government.
Given the current day prevalence of humans seemingly oblivious to the distinction between facts and opinions thereof, my concern is that the introduction of more "Fact Checkers" will only give rise to the need for more "Fact Checker" checkers.We need more "Fact Checkers" in the media.
I agree.The underlying theory is fine, but like you say in practise it will create so many outcomes that anyone with a half a brain can see coming...home break-ins, robberies, car theft. If it was that easy to cure an addict they would have done it decades ago.
No one said it was easy, but as this strategy hasn't been tried before who is to say it won't work ?
Give it a try, and if it doesn't work, can it.
This has been tried in the US. And when these drug tests hasn't produce enough cases to kick desperate people off of welfare, they'll try coupons or food stamp. You know, when people are poor, are down on their luck, the thing to do is to publicly shame them and tell them how screwed up they are.
The drug problem has got worse over the decades despite "war on drugs" in the US and elsewhere.
Maybe people who take drugs and sell their kids to get drug money should be publicly shamed into getting help to get off the drugs. If we keep feeding their habit they will keep doing it.
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