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Opera reveals johnny foreigner's fears
FEAR MONGERING news networks must try harder, according to a survey by web browser maker Opera that shows that terrorism, nuclear attack and pandemics are not what people fear the most.
In an uncommon bout of rationality among human beings in America, Russia and Japan, those surveyed did not see Internet fraud as a top concern. Traffic accidents, fear of losing one's job, relationship problems and for the Russians and the Japanese, global warming, were ahead of online fraud.
The global warming one is a bit of a mystery, as climate change is a long term trend rather than a near term event, but the Japanese do live on islands. The Russians meanwhile have no such justification for fearing climate change, as their government has said that Siberia will benefit from a thaw. Clearly state run Russia Today needs to focus on this topic more, rather than harp on tiresomely about US military misadventures.
Oslo based Opera didn't bother to survey its own Norwegian folk or us sturdy Brits, whose fears no doubt would have included missing Question of Sport, running out of tea and/or choccie biscuits and whether the video recorded the final of Come Dancing or not.
As Opera doesn't provide Internet security software, one wonders why it bothered with this survey, but it gives us something to giggle about anyway. In a slight case of blowback the Opera survey finds that on average only four per cent felt they were safe while surfing the Internet with their mobile, and Opera produces web browsers for mobiles.
In response to the question of what would make the world a fairer place, only 11 per cent of Japanese and the Americans thought giving money to others was a good idea, one small victory for Fox News and its wealthy capitalist backers there, then. However 20 per cent of Russians thought this was a good one.
On the same question positions were reversed when asked if the ending of all wars would make the world a fairer place. Almost 60 per cent of the Japanese and Russians thought it would, while 59 per cent of Americans did not agree with the idea. By which they mean that the fairest world of all would be one where the subjugation of all peoples by the US military ensures American access to the world's resources, one imagines.
In a final twist to the survey, 14 per cent of those surveyed said they have no worries in their daily life. Obviously they are the banksters, who can thrive and prosper off the hard working backs of everyone else whatever happens, because they are too big to fail and all the politicians are too corrupt to do anything about it. µ
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@digP "and without evidence"
Erm.. really? I think that statement was the most abundantly proven one I've seen in quite a while actually.
Is talking in front of a live studio audience.
Ok, let's be serious. Osama/Obama, not much difference, both are dogs of war ;-)
Did you read the title of the article? Read it again. Now can you see that article will be irreverent like the title?
And as for 9/11 changing the world, only Americans think this, and only some of them.
Nothing has changed. Evil rulers still rule, murder and enslave whole countries. Empires are being forged, as they were in the past, through war, oppression, division and corruption.
We are just lucky to live in the same countries the new empires are ruled from!
Is it less than 50 years before America's empire starts to reduce? China rising fast, India too.
... for only a small part of the terrorism in the world. Countries like India have seen more terrorism and for far longer than the US.
So just going after Osama is not going to end terrorism anywhere.
Eh, wot.
"On the same question positions were reversed when asked if the ending of all wars would make the world a fairer place."
What an idiotic question! Wars are a *symptom* of an unfair world and ending them would end up as an extremely temporary measure.
I think much of this article also seems to be the opinion of the article's author. I think it is without context for which the poll can not show what the people tuly felt when asnering the poll. For example, the comment made that "By which they mean that the fairest world of all would be one where the subjugation of all peoples by the US military ensures American access to the world's resources" I think is pretty opinionated and without evidence. I can make no more of an assessment of what their thoughts are than you could, but if I were to take a stab, my guess is that even with all the wars ended, we would feel no safer, considering that terrorism is not something you can fight by means of war and knows no boundaries, lines on a map, or plays for any specific side other than their own agenda.
End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, (Which should have never been started or entered into by the US and its allies in the first place - Where is Osama Bin laden anyway?) and I still wouldn't feel any safer in the world we live in today. I'm not afraid to live my life, but 9/11 changed the world, and I don't feel any safer here today in the USA than I did before 9/11. With all the security checks and measures they put in place, if anything, I think it makes us a larger target for those who wish us harm, and also erodes our basic freedoms while justifying it as a means to protect us, and in that respect, ending the wars makes no difference in the outcome to our overall daily lives.
Oppression by any military regime, whether ours or foreign is a bad thing, and I think as an American, most Americans would agree. I think not just Americans would agree, but any person, from any country can see that this is not a good thing.
Polls are never accurate, nor even remotely in the context of the observers opinions. There is no yes or no answer that can sum up the question in a poll as the question may be answered yes or no but mean something entirely different to each person who answers yes or no.