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• Britain Exits EU Technocracy For Own Brand

  31-01-2020 16:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Nigel Farage did a masterful job of exiting the EU while bashing it one last time. Note that The Daily Telegraph openly calls the EU a Technocracy but Americans have no idea of what that means.
  However, as Farage rode the populist party wave to victory, Britain will almost certainly fall into the techno-populist mentality that establishes their own brand of Technocracy. In other words, same outcome in the end: Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorAs Britain prepares to leave the European Union tonight,
  
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• House Sneaks Green New Deal Spending Into Infrastructure Framework

  31-01-2020 16:09 via technocracy.news
  
  The carrot-on-a-string is fixing the things that everyone knows desperately need fixing. The real payload is zero carbon, environmental justice, green transportation, alternative energy. ⁃ TN EditorToday, the Chairs of three U.S. House Committees released a framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment in infrastructure that would address some of the country’s most urgent infrastructure needs, from addressing the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer str
  
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• Bicycle Era Fail: Fatalities Hit 25 Year High

  31-01-2020 15:47 via technocracy.news
  
  This is ‘sustainability’? First, tell everyone to dump cars and ride bicycles. Second, build bike lanes everywhere so they can. Third, watch the death toll go up. Did planners ever consider this obvious consequence? ⁃ TN EditorAlongside the surging popularity of bike shares and fitness cycling in California comes a sobering statistic: From 2016 through 2018, more cyclists died in traffic accidents across the state than during any three-year period in the past 25 years.
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