Mobile phone companies around the world are figuring out how to implement world-wide tracking of the movements of anyone that has a mobile phone.

In this context it makes no difference whether the phone is "smart" or "dumb": the phone company can track any phone that is communicating.

"Smart" phones allow other kinds of tracking as well — by the operating system (Android or iOS) and by malicious apps.

Parts of England are headed for permanent drought due to global heating.

*Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a "clear warning shot", given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today’s civilisation was "playing with fire". They said it was almost always human behaviour that caused diseases to spill over into humans.*

*As 'Fury of Virus Illustrates Folly of War,' UN Chief Calls for Global Ceasefire.*

Chinese expat Yang Hengjun, now an Australian citizen, is expected to be charged with espionage in China. He has been jailed more than a year, finishing with three months of solitary confinement, and not allowed to see a lawyer.

I remind people that Julian Assange faces roughly similar treatment and has been prosecuted in such an unjust way that it is like a veiled form of what China does blatantly.