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@kbin.socialhttps://www.vox.com/technology/2024/4/4/24120498/taiwan-hualien-earthquake-magnitude-tsmc-semiconductor-china-natural-disaster-global-economy
From Taiwan to South Korea to Silicon Valley, some of the most important nodes in the global tech economy are in disaster-prone places.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/politics/congress-leverage-weapons-sales-israel.html
Congress has oversight over American weapons sales to allies. Some Democrats say lawmakers should try to delay or even block them until Israel agrees to conditions on its offensive in Gaza.
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2024/04/04/intersex-people-un-resolution/
The UN Human Rights Council passed its first ever resolution Thursday 4 April on tackling discrimination against intersex people
https://time.com/6958408/sam-bankman-fried-effective-altruism-rousseau/
The philosopher explained, almost 300 years ago, why something like effective altruism was fatally flawed.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/daily-review-russia-north-korea/
Russia’s veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution extending oversight of sanctions on North Korea ends what had been a geopolitical consensus.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/swift-planning-launch-new-central-bank-digital-currency-platform-12-24-months-2024-03-25/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/china-s-xi-jinping-meets-with-us-business-leaders-in-beijing
President Xi Jinping met with a group of American business leaders in Beijing including Blackstone Inc.’s Stephen Schwarzman and Qualcomm Inc.’s Cristiano Amon as China is seeking to restore confidence in the economy and keep relations with the US on a stable footing.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/haiti_update
Caribbean leaders are holding an emergency meeting in Jamaica today to discuss the crisis in Haiti, where armed groups are calling for the resignation of unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Haiti is under a state of emergency, with tens of thousands displaced amid the fighting, and United Nations officials warn the country’s health system is nearing collapse. Ariel Henry was appointed prime minister after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, but he is currently stranded outside the country after a trip to Kenya, where he was seeking a U.N.-backed security force to help him maintain power. For more, we speak with Haitian American scholar Jemima Pierre, who says the unrest in Haiti today can be traced to decisions made two decades ago by the United States and other outside powers. “The root of this crisis is not last week, it’s not this week, it’s not even Ariel Henry. But we have to go back to 2004 with the coup-d’état,” says Pierre. She adds that because successive security plans have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council, “the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly.”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/13/occupation-forces-kill-six-including-three-children-in-west-bank-and-jerusalem/
Israel has repeatedly attacked the occupied territories since the war in Gaza killing over 400 Palestinians, including over 100 children, and detaining nearly 8,000.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/10/the-war-in-ukraine-is-decimating-russias-asian-minorities/
Putin’s “partial mobilization” is continuing a brutal legacy of colonization – as well as resistance – among the country’s minority groups.