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D.Arbus retweeted
#Emissions for the richest 0.1% jumped by more than half as their consumption increased this year
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Big news breaking on this
The Welsh Government has called in the data centre application for Cardiff East park and ride
Tomorrow’s planning committee meeting is off and the decision has been taken out of the council’s hands.
An AI sock puppet might be Cardiff data centre’s only supporter
propercardiff.news/an-ai-soc…
D.Arbus retweeted
Handing control of British water supplies to US hedge funds to make profit from every time we turn on a tap is not ending neoliberalism.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
D.Arbus retweeted
"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." — 1984
D.Arbus retweeted
The study included data from 309,932 #nuclear workers, of whom 269,487 were men (87%) and 40,445 were women (13%). The average follow-up was 35 years, and the average cumulative radiation dose to red bone marrow was 16.2 mGy.
Most deaths from leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma were observed among workers who accumulated less than 5 mGy of dose,” the researchers noted.
This study reports a positive association between protracted low dose exposure to ionising radiation and mortality due to some haematological malignancies.
Note, this is deaths, not incidence of cancer/leukaemia.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3922…
D.Arbus retweeted
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
D.Arbus retweeted
Hands up, who trusts Palantir with any of their personal data? I don’t.
No one should have to de facto allow private surveillance companies any insight into their lives to access public services like healthcare.
It’s time to get #PalantirOut of the British state!
Some MPs make false claims about Palantir, particularly about how we use data.
One MP even claimed that we could use NHS data to sell insights to private healthcare providers.
That’s flat-out wrong. False. We don’t do it. We never would.
We sell software. We don’t sell our customers’ data or reuse it for our own commercial purposes. The NHS holds the information. Our software helps connect its systems so it can make better use of it.
The NHS controls how its data is used. We process it on its instructions, with contractual obligations and technical safeguards, including encryption and strict access controls. Those controls apply to our engineers too.
More below.
D.Arbus retweeted
This is not what Democratic voters voted for
Getting into bed with Trump and supporting a massive increase in Data Centers and fossil fuel expansion and to muzzle community opposition
Spread the word
The new BAAJA Bill supported by Republicans and Democrats
Never forget
193 pipeline projects are currently underway or proposed that could add 17,000 miles of pipeline. 151 of these are gas pipelines across 42 states, covering 10,000 miles.
oilchange.org/blogs/how-the-…
D.Arbus retweeted
Modern groundworks are excessive and destructive..the amount of carbon that gets released from the soil must breach any committment to net zero..the removal of mature trees and hedgerows only to replant with saplings which have a high failure rate, again is nonsensical destruction..so why do they do it?
They could achieve the same in a better way, but don't or won't consider changing what they do and hardly any MP is understanding how they could improve an industry which allowed Grenfell and the cladding scandal, building on flood plains etc ..nobody seems to be held accountable to deliver for the climate.
Green belt towns and villages will get closer to those sorts of inner London temperatures and not a single mention of this in any local plan or by anyone!!
@CHinchliffMP @mhclg @CommunityPlann1 @yosmartie @RuralRoarUK
Travelling in to London today by train.
So much of the #Greenbelt is being DESTROYED by new building development.
It is so depressing to see. It wounds my soul. @AngelaRayner @andyburnham @10DowningStreet
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#AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite #climate risks, research reveals
181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids.
theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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Britain’s ‘useful idiots’ boosting Putin's propaganda
500 western commentators – including former Tory MP Matthew Gordon-Banks and former Lib Dem MP Lembit Öpik – were recruited by Kremlin-backed site RRN to take part in its disinformation campaigns
Sergei Cristo reports
ALT Revealed: Lembit Öpik and the 500 other westerners – including an ex-Tory MP – who helped Putin’s propaganda war on Ukraine. Background collage of faces on TV screens, in the colours of the Russian flag
D.Arbus retweeted
Will @andyburnham be Starmer 2.0?
Unless he takes back Thames Water, "public control" means absolutely NOTHING
Shareholders need zero compensation, slash and refinance the debt, stop ripping off households, no new low standard on sewage
lbc.co.uk/article/andy-burnh…
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Sign the petition to stop the privatisation of the British Library.
At a time when public spaces are being fenced off for corporate interests, any attempt to privatise the British Library represents an attack on the public's right to accessible, free and communal spaces. vist.ly/5savt
D.Arbus retweeted
Unusual to have a good planning decision from this Government but what amazing news!
The Norwich to Tilbury recommendation was sent by Planning Inspectors to Government yesterday so we hope for more common sense in that decision!
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm8x…
D.Arbus retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Thames Water's 'best & final offer' to Ofwat includes a demand to waive some penalties in return for a cash payment.
REALLY?? Offering money to be let off illegal sewage dumping??
@Andyburnham it's time to end this farce. Take Thames Water into Special Administration, then public ownership.
D.Arbus retweeted
Come on @andyburnham
You promised to reverse 40 years of neoliberalism, to tackle Thatcher's privatisation of life's essentials
You said public ownership is what "should be done"
Don't let Thames Water off the hook on the environment, TAKE IT BACK NOW
ft.com/content/5b382a54-67c9…
D.Arbus retweeted
I was a teenager in the Midlands when the Yorkshire Ripper was at large. Reclaim the Night was started by WOMEN for women then. Any attempt to hijack it, as in Nottm, with violence, or to infiltrate it by cross dressing is very wrong and disturbing.
Stop it.
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Anyone want to remind @andyburnham of #Flint #Michigan 😐🫢 Anyone want to remind @andyburnham of #Flint #Michigan 😐🫢
Anyone want to remind @andyburnham of #Flint #Michigan 😐🫢
@We_OwnIt