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COVID app and consent

Stephen Andrew – statement on Queensland’s COVID app

Here is some important information regarding the COVID-19 Check In Qld App

  1. The use of COVID-19 Check In Qld App is NOT MANDATORY for people entering business and or conducting business transactions. It is not compulsory for an individual to physically write their contact details on paper provided by a business. Check in Qld Privacy Policy – https://www.covid19.qld.gov.au/check-in-qld/privacy COVID app point 1
  1. Providing your name and place of residence verbally is required.
  2. CONSENT – It is NOT MANDATORY for people to provide CONSENT for businesses to keep private information electronically. COVID app point 3
  3. PRIVACY – Relevant Qld Department CHDE is not responsible for any loss as a result of your use, or your inability to use, Check in Qld. This includes any loss, damage, cost or expense, including loss of profits or income, loss or denial of opportunity, loss of use and loss of data.  COVID app point 4
  4. If you do not agree with the COVID-19 Check In Qld App Policy then do not use Check in QLD. COVID app point 5
  5. The COVID-19 Check In Qld App is not compulsory or mandatory for human beings. However, providing your name and place of residence is required by law when a police officer is asking for your identity. You can provide this information verbally. Businesses are required to record and store that information electronically, however you may advise that you do not consent to this. Any coercion by an individual or business against a human being in order to force the usage of electronic devices and/or consent to having personal details recorded on an electronic device, is breaking our constitutional law. See Australian Privacy Act 1988 Sect. 94H, Australian Bio Security Act Section 60, Australian Bio Security Act Section 61.

 

 

 

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Cash for influence

Stephen Andrew statement on cash for influence

Here’s what the media won’t tell you about cash for influence. Today, thousands of wealthy Billionaires, Foundations, NGO lobby groups and Think Tanks are forming highly unethical financial “partnerships” with many of our most “trusted” news outlets. None more so than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Through its Global Media Partnerships subsidiary, the Foundation “often directly subsidizes news reporting” on many of the topics dear to Gates’ heart, like public health, mass vaccination programs, climate change and population.
Miguel Castro, CEO of Global Media Partnerships said in 2018, “we invest a lot of time and effort into research”, especially on working out “what are the levers that can be pushed and pulled to affect change? Who are the right actors? What are the media consumption habits of the populations we are trying to impact?”
According to Columbia, out of nearly twenty thousand funding grants made by the Gates Foundation in 2019, more than $250 million went to journalism. As one journalist is quoted as saying: “When money is offered, we listen”. Recipients included major news outlets like Reuters, BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, The Conversation, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, the Centre for Investigative Reporting; the New York Times, the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Foundation, and the International Centre for Journalists; to name just a tiny few.
Here in Australia, Gates and dozens of other rich Foundations provide hundreds of millions in funding to newspapers and media organisations every year to push their agendas. As the Guardian says on its website, they are “finding that grantmakers and funders are becoming strategic in their approach, looking at how causes can align with their own impact goals, or the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
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