They are called ‘biometric’ because they are ‘metric’ - a mathematical model of the face, not just a photo of the face. They take features of the face and insert them into an algorithm and out pops a number that completely represents the face. That number can be compared to a number for any other face, no matter what the position or orientation of the face, and determine if it is the same face.

Having your picture taken and placed on file is one thing. Doing bio analysis of your facial features and recording THAT is quite another. The difference between a finger print and just a photo of your hand.

The devil is in the details. The US is just using the border as a development/testing pool of victims that have essential zero rights to protest or object to whatever is done.

Once perfected, this will be implemented by all US institutions - driving license, automobile registration, health insurance, and eventually every American will have their facial biometric on file. Get caught on any of the billions of surveillance cameras, instant recognition and identification. Post a photo in any social media platform, the government knows who you are. Critical of government policies? There will be no such thing as anonymity.This is truly ‘big brother’.

So, go across the border into the US? You are identified for life, and your movements can be traced, even in Canada through any social media post with your picture, by US agents. Even from a crowd scene photo.

Actually, I am a lot more interested in the daily hive. Has anyone experienced reading it long enough to detect its bias? Looks like an interesting independent Canadian news outlet, but little information on its financial backing.

No-dairy chocolate?

But I suppose it would 'work n long-distance space travel, where dairy would not exist.

What the Americans did, among others, was to convince the port authorities that they needed to demand such exorbitant levels of insurance on any ship carrying a nuclear cargo that it made the cost to shipping lines just too expensive.

When the business press brings out ANYTHING as if they have anything meaningful to say on the subject is a non-sequitur…

The business press just uses doubletalk to either support or reject the current governance policies. The super=rich ignore it, because by the time it gets into the business press it is too late and they have made their move months ago.

It is not insuring the reactor for replacement, it is insuring the entire nuclear powered ship so it can enter a port. Ships collide. Ships crash. Ships hit bridges. An oil spill is one thing, nuclear contamination of the entire port is another.

Open your eyes. It IS that orchestrated. The same line in the similar protests organized in the same fashion showing up within days of each other in different countries around the world. Someone is planning the timing of these events, well ahead of them.

The sooner the general public recognizes the pattern, educated or not, the sooner we can intervene.

Security Services already recognize this - an event happens somewhere in the world,they all go on alert knowing there will be a follow-up somewhere else in the world.

That is the problem with Canadians - we dismiss clear visionary projects too soon, just because there is ‘something else’ that vested interests want to protect their investment in. The Americans wanted the Seaway, and they did NOT want the Northern route because they would have no control over it. The Avro again and again and again. Canada does only what the Americans can control. I don’t see anyone complaining that the super-port for ocean-going freighters at Thunder Bay spoiled the North. Still as picturesque as ever.

There is nothing ‘free’ about the CBC. There is no such thing as a free lunch. We get the CBC through public funds only as long as the CBC presents the face the government wants. CBC bashes China precisely because the previous Trudeau government set that as the objective. Even the CBC ombudsman made that clear to me.

Ahhh, words of wisdom from the minds of the hard-core dogmatic ‘as it was, so shall it always be’ cult. It depends if you are teaching history or modern wealth management.

More Western news media are owned and controlled by religions than oligarchs. CBC stands for China Bashing Corporation.

The only way to stop the spread of fascism and to fight it IS to talk about it and to make people aware of it. We couldn’t stop it when I was a student in the 80’s, no matter what level the protest, and we can not stop it now. We can only make people aware of it.

Or maybe the field should be less ‘Ivory Tower’ and more concerned with modern economics.

Compare the battle between MMT and Friedman, and all the old rules and definitions go out the window. To Friedman, it is profit at all costs, to MMT it is social well being at all costs. With MMT, productivity is irrelevant in any analysis no matter what the definition, and to Friedman productivity is irrelevant except as an input cost. Friedman would ratter get rid of all labor as a needless input cost, no matter how productive they were, and MMT would rather have full employment, no matter how low their productivity was.

If you are a student of Business Admin. or have an MBA, then the old definitions are just swept aside. it is how to make money by using money, not on how to make money by making things.

When it means ‘money in your pocket’, the applied meaning takes on an entirely different perspective than when it means ‘marks towards graduation’.

Speaking of definitions, my pet peeve is the use of ‘decimate’ to indicate total or near total annihilation, when at its roots it means ‘one in ten destruction’. I am told that the English Language evolves, and so to the definitions in all fields, including economics, evolve.

There is always the purely mechanical emergency brake.

And exactly what did we do with the First Nations lands in Southern Ontario?

There is absolutely no doubt that the environment would be collateral damage. It always has, always will be. The trade-off will never go away. But the Rideau Canal system was done in an environmentally friendly manner, and so too could this venture.

One does not really have to go any further than the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church to see the proliferation of fascism in action, and also to see the tremendous effort to re-define fascism so that it does NOT apply to what the Empire has done in the past, and in fact many facets in it are still doing. Although the last Pope seemed to be trying to get the Empire away from operating in that mode, and we will see what the new Pope does.

My personal take is that the spread of fascism is being prompted by a particularly well organized institution that is co-coordinating a lot of the events that are feeding the fascist goals, and it is managing to stay below the radar simply because the news media refuses to call it for what it is. But the events are too well orchestrated, too well co-ordinated, too well funded, and too contiguous not to be planned by some central authority.

The rise of fascism has nothing to do with our ignorance of history, but with the success of the fascists in convincing the general public that what they are doing is not fascism. Those who control the label, control the information flow.

Yeah, then they would be forced to take public transportation.

So you think that the loss of huge tracts of trees has nothing to do with the decline of lumbering in Canada? The facts and the evidence indicate differently. Politicaldogma, on the other hand, has no respect for facts or the truth.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/british-columbia-forestry-future-pine-beetle-1.6712576