In South Africa. If you do charity with large companies like Woolworth, distributing end of life food to the homeless. You have to sign a contract ensuring that it’s not given to white homeless people because of their BEE regulations. I don’t believe that it should be just government officials getting sanctioned for this… larger corporates supporting such racist systems deserve sanctions, too.
A couple of years ago, I was playing with an ancient laptop, a Toshiba 300 CDT. I can't remember exactly, but I believe it had an internal memory of 32 MB. Sources on the internet differ on the exact specification, perhaps there were different models, but we are definitely talking about megabytes, not gigabytes. I was wondering whether it would be possible to get such an old device connected to the internet securely and do "something real" with it. Could it still be useful in some way, however limited? It was released in 1998. Back then, people had to-do lists. They were using word processors, and they went online to visit websites. Why wouldn't that still be possible?
The UK's Sentencing Council has suspended its proposed "two-tier" sentencing guidelines. The suspension came after widespread backlash, including criticis
🏆 Jeffrey Sachs Should Be A Nobel Prize Winner AWESOMEProf. Jeffrey Sachs: I'm speaking of Netanyahu. He is a mass murderer. He is a killer. He commits war crimes. And he has control over American foreign policy and over American domestic policy now. That's the fact. The… pic.twitter.com/4BMXF6vuSd— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Ukraine currently operates four nuclear power plants with a total of 15 reactors. One of them, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, is the largest plant in Europe and has been under Russian occupation since March 2022. Russia, for its part, has 37 reactors divided among 11 power plants.If all or even some of these reactors were attacked and destroyed simultaneously, the destructive impact would be beyond calculation. The Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred in Ukraine in 1986, and which remains the worst disaster involving nuclear energy in history, killed dozens and led to long-term health problems for thousands of others. It also led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and rendered the surrounding area permanently uninhabitable, spreading radioactivity over a large area and even into Western Europe.
BRICS+ leaders are meeting in Rio de Janiero this summer. Their dedollarization drive has made huge progress over the last two years. Here’s what they’ve accomplished so far – and why the Rio Reset will stun the world…The warning signs were there (but most people missed them)In August 2023, all eyes were on Durban, South Africa when the leaders of the BRICS alliance met behind closed doors. A few weeks before, Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov made global headlines claiming the BRICS alliance was close to launching a “gold-backed currency.” Their intentions were clear: First to challenge, then to replace, the U.S. dollar.It was a bold claim – and for everyone who understood the role the dollar plays in the global financial system, it was a truly frightening moment. It would be an exaggeration to say the world held its breath – but I don’t mind telling you, I certainly held mine!
The gap between US and European living standards has been noticeable for some time, and some European countries aren’t even keeping up with the poorest states in the United States. That is, when we look at measures of income, states like West Virginia and Mississippi compare favorably against European countries like France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
