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• Spiked On Climate: The UK Solution Cannot Be Technocracy

  02-01-2020 16:39 via technocracy.news
  
  The UK Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is run by Technocrats bent on social engineering while using faulty science to gain leverage over society. In that humans are carbon-based life forms, it is logically impossible to be zero-carbon without wiping out humanity. ⁃ TN EditorAsk people what the UK’s biggest housing problems are, and most will tell you, rightly, that there aren’t enough homes, and that prices and rents are far too high. But UK policymakers are preoccupied by s
  
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• Update: Gene-Editing Researchers Convicted In China

  02-01-2020 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Three years in prison is barely a slap on the hand in China, but three researchers who performed gene-editing experiments on embryos are busted for practicing medicine without a license. Alas, Technocracy marches on. ⁃ TN EditorA Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced on Dec. 30 to three years in prison because of his research, state media said.
  He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing
  
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• For Consumers, First 5G Rollout Doesn’t Live Up To The Hype

  02-01-2020 15:56 via technocracy.news
  
  For consumers, 5G will quickly lose its luster but 5G was never about end-users in the first place. Its real value is to light up the Internet of Things (IoT) that will enable command-and-control over entire cities. ⁃ TN EditorWhen Apple stock closed last year at an all time high after doubling from its January 2019 lows, there were many confused looks among the trader community: after all any attempts to justify the move through the company’s future earnings – which haven
  
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