In April 2016, Ken Livingstone was ambushed by the odious John Mann and a camera crew following factual comments Ken made that Hitler supported Zionism. Ken was subsequently expelled from Labour Party while Mann left the party to become a Tory advisor.
An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.
“Officials have admitted Britain’s data centre boom could draw 40% more electricity than thought a few months ago, a surge that could push up energy bills.
The Labour government’s AI revolution has prompted more than a hundred data centres to seek grid connections for a massive 50 gigawatts (GW) of electricity capacity in total. It is more than the whole of Britain’s peak demand on a typical day.
However, figures from Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero suggest the true figure could be as high as 70GW.”
BREAKING: A judge ruled on Friday that Peru's left-wing presidential candidate Roberto Sanchez will stand trial for allegedly making false statements regarding his party's funding between 2018 and 2020.
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"Israeli officials and their allies in Congress and pro-Israel organizations are seeking to ensure that going forward, the Israeli prime minister and his/her officials will be functionally – and permanently – granted seats in the U.S. situation room."
For the SECOND DAY IN A ROW, protesters are rioting and confronting police in Brussels, Belgium.
The demonstrators are protesting over reforms in the educational system and a proposed increase in tuition fees.
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اسرائیل نے ایران کے توانائی کے بنیادی ڈھانچے پر حملہ کیا۔ جواب میں ایران نے اسرائیل کے توانائی کے بنیادی ڈھانچے پر حملہ کیا۔
اسرائیل نے ایران کی جوہری تنصیبات پر حملہ کیا۔ ایران نے اسرائیل کی جوہری تنصیبات پر حملہ کیا۔
اسرائیل نے ایران کے اسکولوں، یونیورسٹیوں اور ہسپتالوں پر حملہ کیا۔
لیکن ایران نے اسرائیل میں ایک بھی اسکول، یونیورسٹی یا ہسپتال پر حملہ نہیں کیا۔
اسے تہذیب اور تمدن کہتے ہیں۔ مہذب اور متمدن قومیں جنگ میں بھی کچھ کام نہيں کرتیں۔
Chinese people are not terrified of AI because China mostly presents automation as a way to remove humans from dangerous, exhausting, hostile work:
Coal mines, power grids, extreme weather, heavy industry, and disaster response.
In America, AI arrives with layoffs, “efficiency,” restructuring, shareholder value, and workers being told their lives are obsolete.
Same technology, different civilization logic.
One asks: How can machines reduce human suffering?
The other asks: How many humans can we remove from payroll?
AI does not automatically become dystopia.
It becomes dystopia when capitalism owns the switch.
Jon Snow, the former Channel 4 News Lead Presenter, has opened up about his Alzheimer's diagnosis.
The 78-year-old speaks about the disease in an interview with the Daily Mail, and forthcoming documentary.
In Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, he travels to Zambia to investigate a chemical spill and pollution in the Kafue River.
The world is awash with cash. The problem is what to do with it https://t.co/67DIA50pv5 We're told there is a shortage of money in the world. There isn't. There are just too many neoliberal politicians who are refusing to use it.
Will new towns be another PFI disaster? https://t.co/CkeMlcXh0h Rachel Reeves wants to resurrect Gordon Brown's great financial rip-off to build new towns. The result would be an absolute disaster.