Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions -
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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says ...
 we've been warning about #ISDS for over 10 years; UK gov still hasn't addressed this...
A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law -
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A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law
Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts t...
 "Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations"
#China's #DeepSeek Releases New #OpenSource #AI Model Amid Google's Gemini 3 Roll Out - https://www.investors.com/news/technology/nvidia-stock-google-stock-deepseek-china-open-source-ai-models/ "Other Chinese companies building open source models include tech giants Baidu (BIDU) and Alibaba (BABA) as well as Zhipu AI, MiniMax and Moonshot AI."
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B -
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
: OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings
 "OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings" UK gov is scrabbling around for pennies, and yet wasting billions on this intrusive and unnecessary scheme
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel #Farage reject ‘banter’ claims -
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Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
 he was a #racist, is a racist and always will be a racist
"ceasefire" is actually just slow #gazagenocide View quoted note →
indeed, #labour still in denial... #brexit View quoted note →
‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist -
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‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist
The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up
 "“I have seen with my own eyes non-human craft and non-human beings,” Stratton says plainly at the beginning of the film."
#Ukraine banned from #Nato, #Russia readmitted to the #G8 and territory ceded: Trump’s draft plan -
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Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
 "Ukraine would receive “reliable security guarantees,” the plan says without specifying. " yeah, just like the last guarantees when Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons...
French authorities investigate alleged Holocaust denial posts on Elon Musk’s Grok AI -
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French authorities investigate alleged Holocaust denial posts on Elon Musk’s Grok AI
X chatbot suggested gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ‘designed for disinfection’ not mass executions Europe live
 "X chatbot suggested gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ‘designed for disinfection’ not mass executions" time to block #grok and #twitter