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Technocracy News & Trends for Thursday, May 23, 2019

Erie, PA hungers for a Smart City makeover using Opportunity Zones and Public-Private Partnerships. Opportunity Zones are an investment bonanza for cash-strapped cities to implement Smart City technology. With over 9,000 OZ’s created in just 2 years, estimates run as high as $6 trillion for investable funds.

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Opportunity Zones To Fund Erie, PA Smart City Makeover

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Experts: The Only Defense Against Killer AI Is Not Developing It

Technocracy News & Trends for Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Trump signed the Opportunity Zone legislation (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) in December 2017 and then created the House Opportunity and Revitalization Council by Executive Order in December 2018.  With over 8,700 Opportunity Zones identified by state Governors, the money tornado is accelerating. Who created and pushed the Opportunity Zone inclusion in the Jobs Act? The Economic Innovation Group, founded by Sean Parker, co-founder of Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and its founding President. This spells trouble with a capital "T".

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Rockefeller Foundation, Mastercard Team Up On Opportunity Zones

Location Technology Is Key To Smart City Surveillance

Experts: Why American Cities Need To Be ‘Smarter’

Technocracy News & Trends for Tuesday, May 21, 2019

This is a pivotal broadcast because all three stories covered are foundational in understanding Technocracy.  It starts out with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) interview with Sen. Edward Markey on the proposed Green New Deal. A massive new research project has documented that 80% of all public corporations are actually owned by a very few. City-States are again being floated as a solution to getting rid of the nation-state.

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Green New Deal: CFR Interviews Sen. Edward Markey

Close-Knit Financial Oligarchy Controls All Major Corporations

‘Free Cities’: The Rise Of City-States

Technocracy News & Trends for Monday, May 20, 2019

First, a comparison of Technocracy, Sustainable Development as an economic system to replace Free Enterprise and Capitalism. It is essential to understand the big picture in order to understand individual issues.

Because there is no Federal legislation preventing its use, cities are gobbling up China-style facial recognition systems. Individual cities can easily block this surveillance technology, but citizens are sound asleep and completely oblivious to the destruction of their own civil liberties

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Cities Are Adopting Real-Time Facial Surveillance Systems

New York Post: China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Is Dystopian Nightmare

The Rise Of Hotel Robots In Seattle Worries Workers

Technocracy News & Trends for Friday, May 17, 2019

Britain has privacy laws similar to the U.S, but that didn’t restrain police from stopping and fining a resident for trying to cover his face to avoid being photographed by an AI camera on a public street. Every pedestrian was being photo’d and compared to a master database of wanted persons. 

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UK Pedestrian Fined $115 For Avoiding Facial Recognition Camera

EU On AI Ethics: Must ‘Enhance Positive Social Change’

DARPA: AI Mosaic Warfare And Multi-Domain Battle Strategy

Technocracy News & Trends for Thursday, May 16, 2019

Massive nationwide study in 2006 reveals that thirty-six percent of Americans are in a facial recognition database, and the number is growing rapidly. Law enforcement is mostly unregulated and agencies are free to drift toward a police state reality

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China Claims Its Social Credit System Has ‘Restored Morality’

US Police Capture 117 Million In Facial Recognition Systems

Eugenics: Will Gene Editing Make Rich People ‘Superior’

Technocracy News & Trends for Wednesday, May 15, 2019

The entire health care industry has been disrupted from top to bottom by Technocrats who believe that their AI programs and their "system" know better how to treat you than your own doctor.

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When Health Care Is Run By Technocrats, Don’t Get Sick!

Joe Biden’s ‘Green Revolution’ Isn’t Good Enough For Ocasio-Cortez

Technocracy Unplugged: Jeff Bezos Wants To Colonize Space With 1 Trillion Humans

Technocracy News & Trends for Tuesday, May 14, 2019

While Amazon seeks to obsolete human labor in its distribution business, its next target is delivery of those packages and the establishment of a massive network of ‘independent’ businesses. Is there any money in driving? Just ask an Uber or Lyft driver!

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Amazon Aims To Put UPS Out Of Business

AI 90% Accurate For Predicting Death By Heart Attack?

Modeling Technocracy: Garages Seen As ‘Urban Mobility Hubs’

Technocracy News & Trends for Monday, May 13, 2019

Threat analysis and decisions will be made autonomously using AI, notifying border patrol agents; however, this is a slippery slope that could all too easily be inducted into broad law enforcement practices. 

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Swarms Of AI Drones To Patrol Europe’s Borders

Transhuman Dreamin’: Immortality By ‘Biohacking’ With Blood Transfusions

Sick: Artificial Intelligence Set To Take Over Healthcare

Technocracy News & Trends for Friday, May 10, 2019

Ex-Governor of Texas Rick Perry is now Sec'y of Energy in the Trump Administration. Perry was the ramrod for the Trans-Texas Corridor when President Bush's North American Union tried to integrate Mexico, Canada in the United States into a model resembling the European Union. Now, Perry is building the largest super-computer in the world to run AI. Why? Listen to this podcast to get the seedy background. 

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Where Technocrats Play: U.S. Department Of Energy

Goodbye World: AI Arms Race Headed Toward Autonomous Killer Robots

Experts: Latin America Using Chinese Tech To ‘Exert Social Control’