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• YouTube’s Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda

  11-02-2022 22:19
  
  The platform’s search engine is funneling sports fans into watching political content about China.
  
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• Artificial Intelligence expert warns that there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI

  11-02-2022 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claims that 'it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious,' but didn't explain exactly what this means or which network achieved this.
  
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• Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January

  11-02-2022 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.
  
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• Scientists make non-alcoholic beer 'taste like regular beer'

  11-02-2022 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research could encourage beer fans to opt for healthier non-alcoholic alternatives, report scientists in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
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• Technocrat-In-Charge: Klaus Schwab’s ‘Great Narrative’ For The Global Borg

  11-02-2022 19:35 via technocracy.news
  
  You will own nothing but  you won’t be happy. You will also be assimilated into Schwab’s version of the Borg, where implanted technology will make you a docile servant of the master race. Schwab is the undisputed champion and pied piper of Technocracy, leading the world into total Scientific Dictatorship and neo-Feudalism. ⁃ TN EditorEvery civilization is built upon layers of mythology. In his recently published book, The Great Narrative, the founder and chairman
  
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• NASA to send two new missions to the sun to better understand our host star

  11-02-2022 18:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm projects have been selected by the US space agency, to 'improve our understanding of the dynamics of the sun.
  
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• IKE’s Smart City Surveillance Kiosks Installed In Houston

  11-02-2022 17:57 via technocracy.news
  
  Marketed on the basis of being free and convenient, the IKE kiosks collect data on every person who comes near them, including id’ing your bluetooth and wifi devices. Cameras record your face, examine your choices and selections. Their payback is “surveillance capitalism” where you are subsumed into the Technocrat control grid.
  See this recent story: ‘Free’ Interactive Kiosks Surveil Everyone While Scooping Up Their Personal Information. ⁃ TN EditorEach kiosk
  
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• SpaceX Starlink satellites disintegrate over Puerto Rico in new footage

  11-02-2022 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The footage was captured by a camera in Añasco, Puerto Rico, and shows what's strongly suspected to be ill-fated Starlink satellites disintegrating.
  
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• Lifetime of knowledge can clutter memories of older adults

  11-02-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While this wealth of life experience can make memory retrieval difficult, experts from Harvard and the University of Toronto said the upside is that it can boost creativity and decision-making.
  
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• Senators Finally Discover That CIA Is Using A Secret Program To Collect Data On American Citizens

  11-02-2022 16:54 via technocracy.news
  
  In 2015, a CIA whistleblower who actually created “The Hammer”software to spy on foreign terror threats, revealed that the CIA had turned the surveillance weapon against American citizens. The CIA and the NSA are generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses, but alas, they operate outside the law with impunity.
  This type of lawless behavior is completely in line with the Technocrat mindset. They eschew politicians and the political structures that exist to protect
  
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• NASA unveils the first EVER images from its James Webb Space Telescope

  11-02-2022 16:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It had been expected to take its first starry images in May, for release to the public in June, but the US space agency has today shared preliminary snaps, including a 'selfie' of the telescope's primary mirror.
  
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• Technocrat Propaganda: UN Chief Calls For Action On ‘5-Alarm Global Fire’

  11-02-2022 16:28 via technocracy.news
  
  The UN is the seat of modern Technocracy, aka Sustainable Development and Green Economy. Remembering that Technocracy defined itself as “the science of social engineering” as far back as 1938, propaganda is the main tool used today to drive populations into submission. Secretary-General António Guterres is pounding the podium to stimulate urgent action. ⁃ TN EditorAt a time when “the only certainty is more uncertainty”, countries must unite to forge a new, mo
  
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• Elon Musk-owned Neuralink's test monkeys were 'tortured', group claims

  11-02-2022 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The biotech firm is developing a brain-computer interface, that it claims could one day make humans hyper-intelligent, and allow paralysed people to walk again.
  
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• NASA will unveil the first ever images from its James Webb Space Telescope today

  11-02-2022 13:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It had been expected to take its first starry images in May, for release to the public in June, but the US space agency has now revealed plans to share preliminary snaps at 10:30 ET (15:30 GMT).
  
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• After the Great Resignation, Tech Firms Are Getting Desperate

  11-02-2022 13:00
  
  Faced with a shortage of qualified workers and fierce competition, companies are offering candidates money to interview and plush perks if they stay.
  
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• Digital HQs Will Be the New Place of Flexible Work

  11-02-2022 12:55
  
  The pandemic has shown that new modes of working can work. The traditional head office will have to change.
  
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• Living 'robofish' built from human cardiac cells swims just like a fish

  11-02-2022 12:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'biohybrid' recreates muscle contractions of a pumping human heart to push its tail fin side to side, report researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
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• 166 Britons move on to the next stage of ESA's search for astronauts

  11-02-2022 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While 22,523 people applied, just 1,361 have made it through to phase two - including 166 Britons who are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to walk in space.
  
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• Life could exist on planet orbiting 'white dwarf' star

  11-02-2022 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts may have detected a planet in the habitable zone of a nearly dead star called a white dwarf.
  
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• Koalas: Australia lists marsupial as endangered species

  11-02-2022 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The koala was not even classified as vulnerable until 2012, but it has seen a rapid decline.
  
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• The engineers battling to stop global warming ruining roads

  11-02-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Climate change is putting roads under stress but research is finding ways to make them more durable.
  
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• Archaeology: Roman 'PORTALOO' contains 'crusty material' with 1,500-year-old intestinal parasites

  11-02-2022 01:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The portable toilet - which stood at 12.5 inches high and 13.4 inches wide - was found by University of Cambridge-led experts in the baths of the Villa of Gerace.
  
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