5y5temic individual failures to deal ethically, appropriately and quickly to deal with the infections and blood when the risks materiali5ed and the consequences for thousands of families. He says the scale is horrifying with this estimate of more than 3,000 deaths attributed to infected blood and blood products. I could go on taken quote5 like this. The di5aster wa5 could go on taken quote5 like this. The di5aster was not an accident, patients were knowingly expo5ed the di5aster was not an accident, patients were knowingly exposed to unexpected unacceptable ri5k patients were knowingly exposed to unexpected unacceptable risk of infection. There were repeated failures by governments and the nhs to acknowledge that patients should not have been infected. There was an absence of any meaningful apology. The repeated use by government of inaccurate and Defensive Line5 the repeated use by government of inaccurate and defensive lines to take including truly telling people that they had receiv
enough. so many people have gone to other sectors because they don t find the sector as attractive as it is to be. the benefits have been changed in the face of offal losses, billions of pounds worth of losses in the industry and ba is now facing this battle because it has not been able, perhaps understandably bearing in mind the £4 billion of lost during the pandemic, to put workers backin during the pandemic, to put workers back in the position they were in and i think it is going to take some time to sort this dispute out because there is no easy compromise here and that ba is prepared to look at giving more money and that will be tough for it at a time and it is already facing compensation bills and having to shell out more money to consumers because of flight cancellations. 50 to consumers because of flight cancellations. cancellations. so what you are sa int cancellations. so what you are saying suggests. cancellations. so what you are saying suggests, we cancellations. so
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Earlier this year, China began to roll out a project that had long been in the works a digital version of its currency, the yuan, is now being used in four Chinese cities. The Chinese government sees two major potential benefits to the experiment: a tangible challenge to the U.S. dollar s global ubiquity, and a way to control how Chinese citizens spend their money.
As a government-issued currency, the digital yuan can be manipulated and monitored in a number of ways. Importantly, it is programmable. Writes
The Wall Street Journal, Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start.
Make No Mistake: Programmable Digital Currencies Are Weaponizable.
Published: April 26, 2021
Earlier this year, China began to roll out a project that had long been in the works - a digital version of its currency, the yuan, is now being used in four Chinese cities. The Chinese government sees two major potential benefits to the experiment: a tangible challenge to the U.S. dollar’s global ubiquity, and a way to control how Chinese citizens spend their money.
As a government-issued currency, the digital yuan can be manipulated and monitored in a number of ways. Importantly, it is programmable. Writes
The Wall Street Journal, “Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start.”