• Election 2019: Parties use science to set themselves apart

    The major parties have laid out their science and technology platform for Australian voters, with clear differences in their approach and vision for empowering the solutions sector. Responding to a survey from peak body Science & Technology Australia (STA), the Coalition, the Labor Party and the Greens have all given clear answers to issues of […]
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  • Epic Fail: Universal Basic Income (UBI) Is A Waste Of Money

    The Technocrat push for UBI is mainly to address the displacement of workers due to the technology created by those same Technocrats. Economically speaking, it is a crackpot idea, but now an exhaustive study has been done by looking at all the failed experiments. Important conclusions include:Making cash payments to individuals to increase their purchasing power in a free-market economy is not a viable route to solving problems caused or exacerbated by neoliberal market economics.
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  • Punish Deniers: Germany Wants To Fine Anti-Vax Parents Up To $2,800

    Technocracy has teeth when you don’t agree with its phony science. Big Pharma has driven this vaccine hysteria from day one, turning it into a belief system devoid of facts. In 2015, Al Gore proposed to “punish climate-change deniers”. ⁃ TN EditorGermany’s Health Minister Jens Spahn wants to fine parents who refuse to vaccinate their children €2,500 ($2,800) in a bid to “eradicate measles,” according to an interview Spahn gave to Bild
  • Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping On You The Whole Time

    Surveillance is always for some other benefit like “training the AI program” but once your data is recorded, stored, transcribed and analyzed, it can and will eventually be used against you. ⁃ TN EditorWould you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?”
    Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And
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