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I just pitched a major TV producer my idea for a reality show where six CEOs have to survive for 30 days on the wages they pay their lowest-paid workers.
He said the network would reject it because the living conditions would be considered inhumane.
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So Palantir buying a Labour Lord was good value for their money after all.
Cash for access. Stinks.
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
bit.ly/4zrbMYF
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MEDIA NEWS
New documents released by the Scottish government under a freedom of information request show that data centres could cause water shortages, higher energy bills and power cuts.
Sky's @emmabirchley explains.
trib.al/ViooyB0
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233
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Times reports govt renewing NHS-Palantir contract over fear of patient disruption..proving*exactly* what critics have been saying. That we’re in a technofascist trap.
thetimes.com/article/b6cf6dd…
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Bullshit.
Nationalise them, you coward.
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So odd how we're not calling years of below-inflation pay rises "quiet paycutting"
'Quiet quitting' could be hitting the economy - here's why bbc.in/4ijTORZ
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Lawyers for the UK government today claimed in the Supreme Court that all these pensioners and priests getting arrested was itself an act of terrorism:
as it was Palestine Action seeking to overwhelm the justice system.
They really did say that!
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HMRC hasn't collected £614.6bn taxes since 2009-10.
Does not include tax lost due to offshore excursions, profit shifting
Govts claim they can't provide education, healthcare, housing, water, energy.
gov.uk/government/statistics…
Tax gap by value and % of theoretical tax liabilities
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John Kenneth Galbraith wrote The Affluent Society in 1958 about a country drowning in private wealth while its schools, streets and public services went to shit.
Nearly 70 years later, Austrian economists are still arguing we haven't privatized enough.
Fucking brilliant.
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Tesco profits shot up from £883m to £2.3bn.
An extra £1.4bn+ in profit while families STRUGGLE to afford basic groceries.
It’s not a cost-of-living crisis, it’s a cost-of-greed crisis—backed by government INACTION! 🛑
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Happens every day usually by the genocide and fascist regimes and their supporters on social media!
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Join us now! internal.diem25.org/en/event…
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We’ve had a staggering 42,000 suggestions of small fixes to improve the UK submitted to
Small-Ideas.org so far. You’ve ‘til 5pm Thur. 12 Nov to add yours!
Here’s a few of them…
- Tell people what their blood group is when they first get a blood test. It will encourage those in rare groups to become blood donors.
- Mandatory ‘AI edited’ label for property photos via estate agency sites
- ‘No wrong door’ rule for reporting issues to councils / public bodies. They must send to right place to stop people being passed from council to contractor to agency.
- Add cycle racks to the back of buses.
- Make grocery manufacturers label when pack sizes change. To tackle shrinkflation.
- Allow drivers to turn left on a red light.
All ideas submitted to Small-Ideas.org by 12 Nov will be assessed on the key criteria, then the best selected by a cross-party panel to turn into a manifesto
More info on the Small Ideas Initiative - a charitable project, on the website
