2009-2020: there’s no money
2021: there’s no money
2022: there’s no money
2023: there’s no money
2024: there’s no money
2025: America’s fascist government demands a zillion pounds, with menaces
2026: A zillion pounds is a humiliating amount to give America, we need 11 gazillion
@bierkonceagain The only thing that, in theory, pushes markets to drop prices is competition. There is not supply side competition in a housing market which is why deregulating it has not led to more development - because more development cuts into profits. Natural monopoly = nationalise it!
@ConorOS56662557@bierkonceagain@austin_gra64873 Bullshit - it’s planned scarcity because that’s incentivised by capitalism. Look at the Labour government under Starmer - they attempted deregulation and house building dropped.
@Grope_of_Big@meadwaj Great, people now have buying power roughly comparable to 2008. Its not the government who have been driving up food and essential goods prices.
The cost of living crisis is a cost of climate and nature crises
(Another route for the impacts to play out on prices: soil degradation. Link to article below.)
fifth paragraph:
"The attacker had described himself as an 'ex-Muslim', showed support for the far right, and claimed on social media that Germany was allowing the 'Islamisation of Europe'."
The UK could have stopped a genocidal massacre in Sudan’s El Fasher but failed to act over concerns it would anger the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a top war crimes expert has told Parliament.
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond said he provided the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with intelligence for more than two years warning that the fall of El Fasher would unleash “one of the single largest mass casualty events of the 21st century”.
With his warnings ignored, more than 60,000 people were killed when the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the Northern Darfur state capital last October. The UN has since said the massacre showed “hallmarks of genocide”.
Addressing parliament’s International Development Committee on Tuesday, Raymond said his team from the Yale School of Public Health believed the UK was its “best hope” for stopping the siege. But his team’s warnings were ignored despite two dozen private meetings with the office of then-foreign secretary David Lammy.
He told MPs that Lammy’s officials prioritised the government’s “economic, security, and diplomatic relationships with the UAE” above “the genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians living in El Fasher and its surrounding communities”.
As the sole penholder for Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, the UK is responsible for driving international response to the conflict.
“They told me that the UK was facing significant private pressure behind the scenes from the UAE limiting its ability to affect the situation,” Raymond told MPs.
“Direct sanctions against UAE officials, at minimum, could have been used to interdict the clandestine UAE pipeline of advanced weaponry flowing to the RSF,” he added.
A UN report published Tuesday found that the RSF is responsible for 87% of verified incidents of rape and sexual slavery in Sudan, including el-Fasher, since the outbreak of violence in 2023.
“The tragedy of El Fasher shows that advanced technology and analysis can provide leaders essential decision support information, but satellite data and computing power cannot by itself generate either political will or moral courage,” said Raymond.
@PicaChu948@nintindoe@siteprotagonist I think it’s the being so privileged that you’re arrested in a state of cutesy infantilism parading as beyond material concerns that makes people want to douse everyone in the video in napalm.