US sanctions have turned United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese into a global financial outcast, leaving her unable to open any bank accounts or use credit cards in any country after being added to the US Treasury Department’s list of specially designated nationals.
Albanese said, "This is not about law but about power," noting that the sanctions have effectively cut her off from the global financial system, with even banks willing to help refusing out of fear of secondary US sanctions.
Members of her family, including her husband who works at the World Bank, face potential sanctions risks that could include fines of up to one billion dollars or twenty years in prison simply for conducting financial transactions with her, making her "shunned" even in the simplest daily dealings.
The plan to unleash a wave of small futuristic nuclear reactors to power the AI era is falling back on an age-old strategy to dispose of the highly toxic waste: bury it at the bottom of a very deep hole.
There is no very deep hole, and the stockpile of some 100,000 tons of radioactive waste being stored at nuclear plants and sites across the United States keeps getting bigger. #climatechange #climatecrisis
Interesting point.... about the perverse incentive to prolong the war/invasion
Motherf*ckin' Wind Farms
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JxXotRbB2jY
President Joe Biden's motherf*ckin' wind farms, made with the motherf*ckin' trillion dollars he taxed from the long untaxed giant motherf*ckin* corporations.
Build the new energy, build the new world, and fuck ICE.
As the revelations from the Epstein Files continue (and produce a fog of accusations & claims), here's the Guardian's ten key 'takeaways' as of Monday evening... but there's certainly more to come.
#EpsteinFiles #politics #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/new-jeffrey-epstein-files-key-takeaways
The backlog in Courts is a major cause of over-crowding in prison(s), with a large proportion of prisoners on remand; that is, as yet not convicted of any crime.
You'll be unsurprised this has a gendered dimension; women are more likely to be on remand for non-violent crimes than men are.
The crisis in our justice system is multi-faceted, but hopefully James Timpson continues to work quietly to resolve these issues, even if much is outside his remit!
#prison #politics
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/crisis-prisons-remand-overcrowding-mental-health-uk-politics--women-england-wales/
Right-wing media are suggesting that the energy transition has permanently fallen out of favor as a global priority, evidenced by business leaders’ and governments’ rapid shift in focus toward artificial intelligence. But other recent milestones and ambitious projects signal that long-term interest in climate action is still very much alive
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
There's only so much the council can do to save drunks from themselves and falling into the city docks.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/bristol-harbour-petition-divides-call-10772529
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