SK 19.3.24 ”Intiassa asuu noin kuudesosa ihmiskunnasta. Se miten siellä eletään ja miten kansalaisia hallinnoidaan ja miten yhteiskunta organisoidaan, se on koko maailman normaali. Pohjoiseurooppalainen tyyli on pientä kikkailua siihen verrattuna”, väitöskirjatutkija Matias Castrén sanoo.
NRK Joakim Reigstad Norden-korrespondent
rapporterer fra Lappeenranta, Finland
Publisert 9. feb.
Eija Piispanen ombestemte seg da hun hørte at presidentkandidat Alexander Stubb vil tillate lagring og transport av atomvåpen i Finland. Nå går stemmen hennes til motkandidaten.
The EU Council formalised its position on the European digital identity at the Telecom Council meeting on Tuesday (6 December).
The European digital identity is intended to create a public version of digital wallets in each member state that can be used to identify, authenticate or verify certain aspects such as age in any other EU country.
These wallets will take the form of apps for smartphones. In the digital sphere, the EU’s ambition is to compete with the identification systems currently offered by Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook.
“We are looking at a massive advancement in how people use their identity and credentials in everyday contact with both public and private entities, and in how they use digital services,” said Ivan Bartos, Czech Deputy Prime minister for digitalisation.
Biblioteken runtom i Finland utvecklar operativa modeller med hjälp av vilka biblioteken kan fungera som plattformar för deltagande, möten och en trygg diskussion. I riksdagens budgetbehandling anvisades en miljon euro för vidareutveckling och spridning av koncepten i statsbudgeten för nästa år.
ur DB:s blogg, t ex "Danmarks Biblioteksforening har lanceret ideen om at biblioteker i samtlige landets kommuner er med til at lave Danmarks Største Vælgermøde den 26. okt. kl 19.30."
The Panthers' Capitol 'invasion' all came about as a result of an American racial divide that existed 50 years ago and in some measure continues today.
The Fantasyland of ‘The Spirit Level’ and the Limitations of the Health and Well-Being Industry. After years of the Thatcherite free market rhetoric has The Spirit Level turned things round? Not surprisingly things are a little less clear-cut than the thesis put forward by the authors. Essay by Gerry Hassan in Open Democracy 2010
As Facebook and Twitter are purging alternative media outlets, a neoconservative operative at a US government-funded think tank says more censorship is on its way. Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague discuss how scaremongering over Russia and China is being exploited to silence dissent on social media
Resumé of Leggett's lecture by Nafeez Ahmed (June 2018) "Late last year, Dr. Jeremy Leggett — solar energy entrepreneur, former oil man and government advisor — gave an eye-opening talk where he for the first time laid out his vision for two possible futures facing human civilisation. Speaking at an event hosted by Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, he told a gripped audience that the world had approached a major convergence point in which our choices would rapidly close off either one of these possible futures. One scenario heralds the promise of a successful transition to a new, more evolved kind of civilisation. Another scenario warns of a future plunged increasingly into scarcity, despotic chaos and conflict."
Screpanti, Department of Political Economy and Statistics, University of Siena. This is a modified version of the Preface to the book (in Greek): C. Lapavitsas, T. Mariolis and K. Gavrielidis, “Economic Policy for the Recovery of Greece” Athens: Livanis, 2018.