@ChrisMayLA6 The insurance hazards of AI remind me of tangles with UK nuclear power.
In the late 1980s, as the Thatcher govt moved towards #privatisation of electricity generation, they planned to include nuclear in the package. Greenpeace employed insurance and investment specialists to do an assessment of the value of the electricity sector with nuclear included or excluded. The report reckoned tens of billions without nuclear, or zero with the risks and cleanup of nuclear included.
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"Enquête : à #Marseille comme ailleurs, l’accaparement du territoire par les infrastructures du #numérique"
"#Datacenters et #câbles #sousmarins transcontinentaux"
"Mainmise des géants du numérique"
"Data centers : une implantation territoriale opportuniste et des politiques d’État accueillantes"
"Les data centers : ces mega-ordinateurs bétonnés en surchauffe aux multiples dangers environnementaux"
"Data centers de #DigitalRealty : fuites répétées de gaz fluorés à fort potentiel de #réchauffement climatique"
"Le #rivercooling : #privatisation et accaparement de #ressources en #eau de qualité potable"
"Le river cooling : du #greenwashing mensonger financé par de l’argent public"
"Accaparement de l’#énergie électrique au détriment de projets d’intérêt #commun à urgence environnementale"
"#Îlotsdechaleur urbains"
"Récupération de « #chaleur fatale » ou comment faire perdurer le statu quo #écocidaire"
"Une #croissance exponentielle, un #extractivisme colonial sanglant"
https://www.laquadrature.net/2024/11/20/accaparement-du-territoire-par-les-infrastructures-du-numerique/
#laquadrature #environnement #bigtech
Les joies de la #privatisation du #Train (en #GrandeBretagne) « Privatisation du rail en Grande-Bretagne : véritable fiasco ? » (via #Hourrail) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTOYK7cStZk
Les joies de la #privatisation du #Train (en #Allemagne) « 48H sur l’un des pires réseaux ferroviaires d’Europe » (via #globetolter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znsjYi35IEg
If you're a UK citizen (subject?) and you care about the #NHS please ask your mp to sign this EDM calling for no new private finance initiatives in the NHS. It's urgent!
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Boosts welcome.
@mediapart
What could possibly go wrong….
#Privatisation #Degregulation #StateCapture #Energy
Du transport à la demande plutôt que l'autobus : un choix incohérent qui affaiblit le transport en commun à Gatineau
La privatisation du service public, un non-sens économique et une menace pour notre démocratie https://theconversation.com/la-privatisation-du-service-public-un-non-sens-economique-et-une-menace-pour-notre-democratie-266692 #économie #privatisation #service_public #démocratie #médias #audiovisuel_public
Un ouvrier de la STM remet les pendules à l’heure après la grève
National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/national-park-service-trump-administration #USfederalgovernmentshutdown2025 #USfederalgovernmentshutdowns #Trumpadministration #Nationalparks #Privatisation #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #USnews
National parks facing ‘nightmare’ under Trump, warns ex-director of service https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/national-park-service-trump-administration #USfederalgovernmentshutdown2025 #USfederalgovernmentshutdowns #Trumpadministration #Nationalparks #Privatisation #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #USnews
New analysis by Reclaiming Our Regional Economies warned that public money is being rapidly funnelled out of the care system into the hands of private companies, rather than reinvested to improve services.
Colour me surprised..
#SocialCare #Privatisation #UKPolitjics
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years | Social care | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/12/private-care-providers-in-three-english-regions-make-250m-in-three-years
Le 8 avril : chaîne humaine contre la privatisation des barrages
Maybe privatising services that were previously funded by governments & delivered by community based non-profits was never a good idea in the first place.
Maybe incentives to generate profit do not improve service delivery. Maybe the idea that ‘the market always does it better’ was a scam all along.
Maybe if we follow the money we could see who has profited from this privatised system & what their connections are with those who make policy.
Maybe we could do better.
@26pglt
Totally agree with you.
Without loophole-proof regulations, legislation and strong enforcement processes, #Capitalism will run way with your money, strip you naked and eventually kill you. That, is the sine qua non of #Privatisation as it embodies the very worse aspects of human nature. #StateCapture is a craft practiced by every #Grifter and the #Corporations they create.
#Antifa #AntiOligarchy #InUnity #AntiPopulism #AntiPrivatisation
#London #Transport (LT) News (No. 410 - September 24 1992) clipping:
Dr Alan Watkins, appointed LT’s new vice chairman and chief executive, pledged to meet as many staff as possible during his settling-in period. Taking responsibility for London Buses, London Underground and LT Trading, he aimed to support long-term planning amid the proposed bus #deregulation and #privatisation. Watkins, formerly of Hawker Siddeley and Lucas Industries, described himself as a supporter of deregulation and stressed addressing employee concerns quickly. He valued LT’s professional staff, emphasised continued investment in public transport, and brought management experience and personal insight as a passenger.
“ #allotments are the restoration of small plots of land to the #landless … the photographs are tender, accurate, depictions of harmony between ordinary people and the fruits of the earth … together they comprise “positive strategy to reunite people of all races with the commons. “
Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance (Watkins: London 2025)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/05/common-people/
@verdantsquare
@viacampesina_en
“ #allotments are the restoration of small plots of land to the #landless … the photographs are tender, accurate, depictions of harmony between ordinary people and the fruits of the earth … together they comprise “positive strategy to reunite people of all races with the commons. “
Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance (Watkins: London 2025)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/05/common-people/
An argument in favour of private healthcare, education, housing etc is that it offers customers choice.
Thing is, I don‘t want to be a customer. I am a citizen.
I don‘t want to have to choose between healthcare plans, or expensive schools or housing.
I want all my basic needs covered by the government. Period.
It is my right, as a citizen, to demand comprehensive care by the organised whole (state). This is what the social contract is about.
