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• 'It’s huge': Fears 80 per cent of NSW’s iconic Blue Mountains lost to bushfires

  17-01-2020 23:07
  
  This season's bushfires have "rewritten the rule book" as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains have been lost.
  
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• Fears 'huge' part of Blue Mountains burnt

  17-01-2020 22:16
  
  This season's bushfires have "rewritten the rule book" as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains have been lost.
  
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• Killer Robots: Still No International Laws To Govern Their Use

  17-01-2020 16:40 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats in militaries around the world are in a pitched arms race to develop fully autonomous killer robots. Proponents claim that it will make warfare more efficient and yet more ‘humane’ because fewer people would be killed.
  This is insane thinking. The risk of misuse by rogue and authoritarian government and terrorists is 100 percent. However, Technocrats invent because the can, not because there is a demonstrated need to do so. ⁃ TN EditorCountries are rapidly developin
  
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• Middle Class Increasingly Hollowed Out As Robots Take Millions Of Jobs

  17-01-2020 16:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Machine automation is driving down the value of human labor, and humans cannot possibly “compete” their way out of it. Lower skilled workers feel the pain first as their jobs are most easily automated.
  Presidential candidate and Technocrat Andrew Yang is the only politician talking about Universal Basic Income as a means to pacify the growing class of “unemployables” who may never see work again. This is not welfare or unemployment payments, but rather outright support fo
  
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