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In his early Monday post, Tony describes weed smoke, broken toys, and visible idleness in deprived neighborhoods, fearing Chancellor Rachel Reeves' November 26 Autumn Budget will raise taxes on hardworking people to fund welfare and immigrants. Replies from tradespeople echo multi-generational unemployment tales, while critics call it unfair to disabled PIP recipients, noting fraud rates around 1% per government data. The post highlights growing worker discontent since Labour's July 2024 win, amid budget leaks of £15 billion welfare hikes and tax rises.

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Tony, a 50-year-old joiner who's worked since leaving school, shares a stark view of littered streets, late-morning school runs in new cars, and families with benefits but no jobs.

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Unveiled in Ottawa on December 12, 2024, the $7.5 million Memorial to the Victims of Communism honors those who suffered under communist rule and celebrates Canada as a refuge. Historians in 2023 flagged over 330 of the proposed names for potential Nazi collaborations, unverifiable details, or lack of Canadian ties, including figures like Roman Shukhevych and Janis Niedra. The wall will now display thematic content, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, to focus on broader history without individual listings. The change highlights the tangled histories of Eastern European anti-communist fighters.

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The memorial's planned Wall of Remembrance aimed to honor 553 individuals who fled communist regimes. But concerns over Nazi and fascist links among many names led officials to scrap the idea entirely.

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The Republic of the Marshall Islands introduced its Universal Basic Income initiative, Enra, this week, providing approximately $200 quarterly to eligible residents across 24 atolls through the Lomalo digital wallet. The $27 million annual program, funded by the U.S. Compact Trust Fund, utilizes the USDM1 stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasury bills to enable real-time transfers and reduce delays in remote areas. While proponents celebrate it as the world's first long-term, nationally funded UBI with blockchain integration, the International Monetary Fund has expressed concerns over fiscal risks, inflation, and the untested stablecoin's vulnerabilities.

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In a pioneering move for financial inclusion, the Republic of the Marshall Islands has launched its Enra UBI program, delivering quarterly payments via a blockchain-based digital wallet to over 33,000 citizens.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Slack for generating endless fake work and inefficient notifications that hinder productivity at his company, where it has replaced email. In a podcast and X posts, he advocated for an AI-native productivity suite to replace tools like documents, slides, email, and Slack, using trusted AI agents to handle routine tasks autonomously and escalate only when human input is needed. His remarks, viewed over 3 million times, drew responses from tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Satya Nadella, highlighting tensions in the $28 billion collaboration software market.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dreads his days buried in Slack's notification avalanche, calling it a generator of 'endless fake work'—and he's betting AI agents can finally fix it.

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The government-funded Mandarin Excellence Programme, run through UCL's Confucius Institute, supplies resources to dozens of secondary schools, reaching thousands of pupils with at least £20,000 per school annually since 2016. Materials depict Taiwan as part of the People's Republic of China, prompting critics like MP Alicia Kearns and activist Benedict Rogers to call it an unacceptable push of Chinese Communist Party views. Defenders note the UK's 1972 recognition of Beijing as China's sole legal government and Taiwan's own constitutional references to it as a province, while the programme aims to boost Mandarin skills for economic reasons. Neither UCL nor the Department for Education has responded publicly yet.

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Schoolchildren in England learn Mandarin with maps that mark Taiwan as a Chinese province, matching Beijing's long-held stance. A recent investigation brought this detail into sharp focus amid concerns over classroom materials.

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