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
It is clear that Putins war has damaged Russias economy. But there seem to have been continual predictions of an economic collapse, but somehow Russia keeps afloat. On many indicators, its war economy is doing OK. War is notoriously profitable.
On the other hand, it is plausible that an end to the war might be a problem for Russia. An end to the war might pull the plug on the Russian economy. Is this perverse incentive prolonging the war?
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.
The best reporting on this is from the Canary. #EPSTEIN #TRUMP
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/31/trump-compromised-by-israel/
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/
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