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• Tens of thousands of Australians call for science focus during next election

  26-03-2019 19:10
  Close to 100 leaders from the science and technology sector, representing more than 70,000 STEM professionals across the country, met in Sydney to share their priorities for the upcoming Federal Election. They outlined four main focus areas for strong science and technology in Australia: Brought together by peak body Science & Technology Australia (STA), the […]
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• Australian decision-makers urged to solve it with science

  26-03-2019 19:00
  Collectively representing more than 70,000 Australian scientists and technologists through our membership and staff, we call for science to be a priority platform for the major parties’ campaigns in the next federal election. Science and technology will shape our future and help us solve some of the greatest challenges we face. It will underpin the […]
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• Blacklisted In China: Lifelong Sentence Is Worse Than Prison

  26-03-2019 15:45 via technocracy.news
  China’s Social Scoring System is Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, in action. Blacklisted citizens are shamed and shunned by friends, employers, banks and social services, and their ‘sentence’ is permanent. ⁃ TN EditorDavid Kong was feeling crumpled after a recent business trip to Chongqing, which took more than 30 hours on a hard sleeper known locally in China as the “green-skin train” for its distinctive dark olive hue. The same journey would have t
  
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• Sweden Expected To Force Banks To Handle Cash Transactions

  26-03-2019 15:17 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats pushing for a cashless society are seriously conflicted as its flagship experiment in Sweden is coming unravelled. The people in Sweden have spoken, and cash stays. ⁃ TN EditorSweden will likely push through a proposal to force banks to keep offering cash to customers who require it as the Nordic nation grapples with how to balance the rapid transformation into a cashless society.Key lawmakers said in interviews over the weekend that the government will probably seek to enact
  
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• Massive Coalition Backs Trump’s Climate Science Committee

  26-03-2019 15:07 via technocracy.news
  Global warming zealots, including Green New Deal advocates, are throwing an enraged fit against president Trump’s Climate Science Committee that seeks to establish the factual truth about climate change. ⁃ TN EditorA massive coalition of environmental organizations, activists, and think-tank leaders signed a letter to President Donald Trump supporting the proposed Presidential Commission on Climate Security (PCCS), as well as the work of Trump climate and national security
  
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