San Francisco is the nation's leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant. Michael Snyder

Ecological sciences have been based on the recognition of the interconnections and interrelatedness between humans and nature, between diverse organisms, and within all living systems, including the human body. It has thus evolved as an ecological and a systems science, not a fragmented and reductionist one. Diets have evolved according to climates and the local biodiversity the climate allows. The biodiversity of the soil, of the plants and our gut microbiome is one continuum. In Indian civilization, technologies are tools. Tools need to be assessed on ethical, social and ecological criteria. Tools/technologies have never been viewed as self-referential. They have been assessed in the context of contributing to the wellbeing of all. Vandana Shiva

This 9' 58" video was published by Amazing Polly on Jun 21, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqlwpvTu4JQ

According to data from the government's satellite monitoring agency, the Brazilian Amazon lost about 285 square miles in May, which is equivalent to two football fields every minute, the Guardian reports. May marks the beginning of the dry season, when most forest clearance and burning takes place.
May's 285 square miles adds to a loss of over 837 square miles from August to April, up from the 698 square miles lost over the same period the previous year, according to the non-governmental monitoring organization Imazon. - Elias Marat

So at first glance, observing that the human species has managed to inhabit nearly the entire planet, and that our population has grown over 1000-fold in the past 10,000 years, it may appear that we are indeed extremely intelligent. But when we consider the fact that it is very clear that we cannot continue to exist much longer with our present behaviours, and yet we persist with them anyway, this belief in our intelligence being so superior becomes very doubtful indeed.  Dr Paris Willams

For example, one of the studies that I review shows that a many-fold increase in mainstream media reporting about global warming suddenly occurred in the mid-2000s, in all the leading news media, at the same time that the financiers and their acolytes such as Al Gore decided to make and manage a global carbon economy. This media campaign has been sustained ever since and the global warming ethos has been institutionalized.    Carbon sequestration schemes have devastated local communities on every occupied continent. If anything, carbon schemes - from wind farms to biofuel harvesting to industrial battery production to solar-cell array installations to mining uranium to mega hydro-dam construction and so on - have accelerated habitat destruction. Dennis Rancourt

A recent Vuzix press release also does a great job of explaining how police will use their new iFalcon Face Control sunglasses. ..   Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses, which are nearly indistinguishable from everyday sunglasses, utilize the built-in camera on the glasses to detect faces and then transmits the information to a wearable portable computer over a wireless channel. The portable computer processes face images and compares them with faces from the database stored locally to find the match. Once there is a match, the solution retrieves relevant information from the database and instantly sends an alert to the wearer via the Vuzix Blade AR Smart Glasses.  MassPrivatel

Meanwhile, the moral considerations of men (and women) engaging in sexual relationships with automatons are no less troublesome. In the Book of Genesis, it says, "God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." Now it seems that mankind is not only attempting to play the role of God, mimicking the very process of Creation, but is arrogantly believing he has somehow improved upon the work of the Almighty.   In another part of the Bible, it states "thou shall not worship false idols or images." Yet here we are today, not only attempting to ‘perfect' the work of God through robotics and AI, we are content to have sexual relations with those idols as well. If there really is a God, he cannot be smiling upon such deeds. Finally, with plenty of room being made in the panoply of Liberalism for all sorts of cultural experimentation, such as men claiming themselves to be women (and vice-versa) simply by declaring it to be true, we must wonder where the ‘rights of robots' will be in the future. It is easy to imagine a time not so far off when sentient robots will qualify for all of the legal rights now accorded to human beings, while marriage between human and robot will also be legally recognized.  Robert Bridge

Julian Rose: I would like to conclude this article by revealing the agenda that has been most side-lined by the proclamations of the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the promotion of a vision of a decentralized society that fosters into reality benign, local and regional socio-economic cells of creative activity. Activities that lead the world away from the suicidal globalized capitalistic cliff face.

The United Kingdom and all European Countries as well as the USA and beyond, could and should be nations built on the foundations of human scale, self-governing communities, in which central government quite simply becomes redundant. Has no role to play, except within the sphere of certain international concerns.

Ron: While i agree that self-governing communities with foundations on a human scale need to be the core of future human socio-political development on this planet, the sad reality is that life here to date has created appaulingly false concepts about life, the universe and everything for almost all of our global population. That informational deficit has created inadequate spiritual and intellectual evolvement for most of the global population. Accordingly, there will be a need for the initiation of overarching governance arrangements oversighted by Universe Management for a period of time after stasis in order to assist people to understand Creation and true spiritual values; and to implement appropriate moral educational and physical methodologies to get individuals and communities 'up to speed'. Communities cannot give their members appropriate values and management if their leaders lack them.

In addition local, district and regional communities will need to develop consultative and decision making mechanisms on a grass roots oriented, republican governance basis, to handle issues and projects that involve district, regional and national infrastructure, health and education and similar matters.

It turns out that a "smart home" is an incredibly stupid idea. If you can't even open your front door without getting permission from a remotely processed Google login procedure that requires the smooth functioning of routers, servers and the power grid, you've put yourself in a stupid situation. Do you really want Google - now the most evil corporation in the world - to control your access to your own home? Do you even want Google knowing when you're entering and leaving your home ? Mike Adams

This 45' 02" video was spublished by Channel 4 News on May 23, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_csXGfdVM

This 34' 20" video was published by Scott Cahill on June 1, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbYPnkHw8U

As China is at the forefront of all of these epoch making innovations, it can be said that Chinese scientists are not only helping to make business more efficient, more cost effective and more consumer friendly, but they are actively working to make the world a better place by helping to expand the power of surgical innovation around the world through the use of remote surgery made possible by 5G network speeds.

This is yet another reason why complaints about Huawei technology in the US and some of its traditional partner nations is not only fatuous but could be deeply detrimental to those looking to receive medical treatment that is both of the best quality and deliverable in spite of erstwhile logistical setbacks. For many who seek both more advanced and lower cost medical treatment, China is providing workable solutions that meet the challenges of a changing world

Beyond this power to save lives, 5G will also help ordinary people to instantly share data and multimedia in such a way that renders most physical storage media totally unnecessary and even obsolete. Recent tests by China Mobile, the China Media Group and Huawei have successfully streamed 4K Ultra-HD video and hi-resolution audio over a 5G network. This means that far from just ending the irritating phenomenon of slow download times and buffering on the streaming of normal HD video and standard quality audio, 5G will allow for the highest possible quality in both audio and video to be seamlessly streamed from anywhere to anywhere around the world. With 5G it is possible to stream content from a mobile device that is of higher quality than that which was previously only possible in the world's most advanced digital cinemas.

Overall, for those living in both developed and underdeveloped countries, 5G will eventually render existing fiber-optic and satellite technologies largely unnecessary as 5G will be able to accomplish higher speeds at a lower cost vis-a-vis these older transmission formats. Likewise, the reliance on optical discs will effectively be eliminated while even traditional hard drives could be rendered less necessary for the average business and consumer than they currently are, thanks to high speed cloud storage made possible by 5G innovation.

The world that 5G will make possible is one that was once the dream of science fiction authors and those who imagined a life where the world's beauty, knowledge and information could be at one's fingertips without high cost, without cumbersome wires and without the need to invest in the maintenance of old fashioned infrastructure.

Not only does 5G provide an opportunity for those in the first world to take a major leap forward, but even more importantly, 5G will help the developing world to take a giant leap into a modern era in which a better future awaits all. Those who say otherwise are touting the same devious agenda as those who in previous epochs opposed the invention of the printing press, camera, locomotive, car, electricity, recorded sound, air travel, magnetic recording, the digital revolution, personal computing and the smart phone itself.

The future belongs to those who dare to dream and 5G will allow dreams to come true in both the developed and developing world. - Adam Garrie