#guardian
Peers know the Rwanda bill is flawed and dangerous. We must use every power to oppose it
First, the Home Office minister, Lord Sharpe, revealed that about 55,000 asylum applications were lodged in the last nine months of 2023. Second, ministers failed to deny reports that Rwanda has agreed to take just 300 refugees in the first three years of the scheme’s operation.
The scheme would also be astronomically expensive: the National Audit Office puts the costs at £541m. The cost for each refugee sent to Rwanda would be about £1.8m over three years. As Lord Carlile has observed, it would be cheaper to put them up at the Ritz.
When #security matters: working with #Qubes OS at the #Guardian
Configuring a Qubes workstation was a new challenge for the team as we abandoned years of experience writing Infrastructure as Code for the cloud and started learning how to write #Salt #configuration. Salt (also know as SaltStack) is a management engine available by default in Qubes.
#cybersecurity #news #journalism #linux #technology #software #securedrop
Progress at last! War bonds are a thing of the grizzly past. Now we're heading towards a brighter future with our shiny new defence bonds!
On Thursday leaders will discuss the idea of defence bonds, which have been floated by some, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as a means of funding an increase in defence investment.
Gold gab ich für Eisen.
Is the #Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
The Washington Post’s new #publisher and C.E.O., Will Lewis, was more clearly bearish on subscriptions. “That subscription-based model is now #waning and then will enter a more significant period of decline,” he said. “There’s very positive evidence of how news can be accessed and paid for in more innovative ways. There are day passes that are successful, there’s week passes, there are models like the #Guardian where you can make #donations. So there’s a whole new generation of paying user concepts. I’m pretty excited about it. I think it’s #newsroom 3.0.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event
#news #newspaper #press #journalism #future #finance #economy #capitalism #society #problem
#ecology #environment #disinformation #plastic #recycling #pollution #waste #guardian ">‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals | Recycling | The Guardian
‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
#science #climatechange #ecocide #pollution #Guardian #journalism #fossilfuel
Evelyn guards the pipe that sends kindness into the world
by David Zinn in Ann Arbor, Michigan
#art #streetart #DavidZinn #anamorphosis #mouse #tunnel #pipe #guardian #kindness
The British #Guardian reports that #CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over its pro-Israel editorial policies, which led to a regurgitation of Israel's propaganda and the censoring of Palestinians perspectives in the network’s coverage of the war in #Gaza.
CNN's editorial policy includes tight restrictions on quoting Hamas and reporting other Palestinian perspectives while Israel's government statements are taken at face value. Also, every story on the conflict must be cleared by the #Jerusalem bureau before broadcast or publication.
#Media #Propaganda #Complicity #PenForHire
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow