@wdlindsy They had that chance in 2016 but rejected it.
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"The task for the Democrats is what it should have been all along: remaking the party into the party of the bottom 90 percent — the party of people who don’t live off stocks and bonds, of people who are not CEOs or billionaires like Mark Cuban, the par... -
"In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, the Guardian has admitted it has been – even according to its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year."In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, the Guardian has admitted it has been – even according to its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year.
Remember that when editor Kath Viner comes cap in hand once again, as she did this week, begging for money from readers for her brand of supposedly “fearless, independent journalism”.
#TheGuardian #Israel #Genocide #Gaza
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-year-late-the-guardian-finally?publication_id=476450&post_id=151357499&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true -
"Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” said the group of about a dozen independent experts. “The world must pay attention to the largest modern famine taking shape in Sudan today.”"Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” said the group of about a dozen independent experts. “The world must pay attention to the largest modern famine taking shape in Sudan today.”
#Sudan #Starvation #Hunger #Chad #Africa
Despair in Chad camps as violence and hunger in Sudan drive 25,000 across border in a week | Global development | The Guardian
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I read this article with increasing disquiet.I read this article with increasing disquiet.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting (who, let us not forget, has accepted massive donations from private healthcare interests) is planning to make all our confidential patient information accessible to all 1.5m NHS workers, not just those treating us at the time. This will no doubt include privatised NHS branded companies.That sound is Palantir rubbing its grubby hands..
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The wealth gap between the richest and poorest in the UK soared by nearly 50 per cent in less than a decade, as stalling wages and rising asset values fuelled inequality at the height of austerity, reports the Fairness Foundation.The wealth gap between the richest and poorest in the UK soared by nearly 50 per cent in less than a decade, as stalling wages and rising asset values fuelled inequality at the height of austerity, reports the Fairness Foundation.
They warn that it “seriously exacerbates a wide range of arguably existential risks” to the UK, such as social unrest, failure to act on the climate crisis, economic stagnation and the decline of democracy.
#Inequality #Austerity #UKPolitics
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Google has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035, in order to power its AI data centres in the US.Here's a more detailed examination of the implications of Google buying nuclear reactors to power its AI data centres. Each reactor can power a medium-sized city. Google plans one reactor per data centre, which shows how much power AI grabs.
#SMRs #NuclearPower #AI #Google #InformationTechnology #InfoTech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/first-edition-google-data-centres-environment
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Google has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035, in order to power its AI data centres in the US.Google has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035, in order to power its AI data centres in the US.
What could possibly go wrong?
#SMRs #NuclearPower #AI #Google #InformationTechnology #InfoTech