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The pursuit of net zero has relied on Uighur Muslims forced to work in appalling conditions. Experts say Britain should follow other countries and take tougher stance.

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Many of the Chinese workers who are helping us to go green do not want to be at those factories. They do not arrive at work to manually crush silicon and load it into blazing furnaces because of a love of renewables, much less to earn a decent wage.

They are there as part of a mass forced labour programme by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that critics describe as a genocide. A reliance on men and women from the Uighur Muslim minority living in detention centres has helped the Xinjiang region to become the epicentre of the solar industry over the last 15 years.

At its peak, analysts believe that 95 per cent of the world’s solar modules were potentially tainted by forced labour in the region [of Xinjiang, in northwestern China]. This reliance on products partly made through working conditions that would be unfathomable in modern Britain represents what the Conservative MP Alicia Kearns calls an ethical “blind spot”.

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It is not only solar panels that are linked to widespread human rights abuses in the so-called Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region. Fuelled by an abundance of cheap, coal-driven electricity, the region produces vast amounts of everything from cotton to the lithium batteries that are ever more essential to our tech-driven lives.

But as governments across the world invest in solar energy in the race to reach net zero, experts have described a critical opportunity to curtail what has been one of Xinjiang’s champion industries.

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Alan Crawford, a chemical engineer who authored a 2023 report that exposed several companies with ties to forced labour, said that transparency from Chinese producers had decreased as a result. “Transparency has gotten worse because the Chinese know that people like us are looking,” he said.

While the Chinese authorities maintain that the Uighur community is free, images of internment camps have shown razor-wire fences manned by police. Leaked police files revealed a shoot-to-kill policy for escapers.

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The pervasiveness of forced labour across the early stages of the production process makes it difficult to find polysilicon from Xinjiang that has not been contaminated by forced labour. Hoshine Silicon, the dominant MGS producer in Xinjiang and a major supplier to the region’s polysilicon producers, has engaged in “surplus labour” programmes at its factories.

One propaganda account from 2018 details how a married couple were engaged in a “poverty alleviation” scheme in which they were moved 30 miles from their home in the rural Dikan township to work at a Hoshine factory in Shanshan county, leaving behind their children. The couple were described as being “relieved” of their worries by transferring their seven-acre grape farm to the state.

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[Laura] Murphy, a senior associate at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said legislation introduced in the US in 2021 showed how supply chains can be cleaned up. The Uighur Forced Labour Prevention Act, which bans the import of goods linked to the region, has led to thousands of solar panel shipments being stopped by US customs.

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It is for this reason that Murphy believes the UK should mirror the US approach, a strategy already being pursued by the European Union. If the UK’s controls against forced labour are not robust, there is a high probability that the UK will simply become a “dumping ground” for the tainted goods not wanted by the US.

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Andrew Yeh, executive director of the China Strategic Risks Institute, said relying too heavily on China for solar energy products could also leave Britain vulnerable in a geopolitical crisis.

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For Murphy, legislation is the only meaningful response to the issue. [...] She said: “Whatever it is that other countries think they might be doing to discourage it, shy of legislation, shy of enforcement, it is not working.

“We can be morally outraged all we want and we can express our desires not to have forced labour-made goods, even at governmental level. But until we actually put it in law and enforce it, companies will continue to import goods made with forced labour into the UK.”

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From Randi Najac

There's something about a screech owl that just always looks so grumpy!!

I feel like he's saying, "Hey lady, keep on walking! I've got one more hour of sunlight and then I'm going hunting!"

Western screech owl (in a saguaro cactus), Arizona, March, 2025

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So much for secure and traceable communication in the White House.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/theemptyqueue on 2025-04-03 15:21:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/BBQKITTY on 2025-04-03 11:38:02+00:00.


With April being here, we can see just which games were played the most on the Steam Deck throughout March. We took a look at the top 20 most played, and we are quite shocked that Monster Hunter Wilds showed up. Here is the list, but you can check out our article below for info on which games were added and removed from the last month:

  1. Balatro
  2. Stardew Valley
  3. Baldur's Gate 3
  4. Elden Ring
  5. Cyberpunk 2077
  6. Red Dead Redemption 2
  7. Brotato
  8. Slay the Spire
  9. Hades 2
  10. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition
  11. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  12. Hogwarts Legacy
  13. Vampire Survivors
  14. R.E.P.O.
  15. Hades
  16. Monster Hunter Wilds
  17. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  18. Split Fiction
  19. Fields of Mistria
  20. Marvel Rivals
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Israel should control the Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future and "cleanse if of enemies," Likud MK Amit Halevi told Radio 103FM on Sunday.

“We want to occupy the territory to cleanse it of the enemy; otherwise, it will kill your children and kidnap your grandchildren again,” he said. “Occupation is the nature of war.” Halevi said Israel is required to make a fundamental change in Gaza, part of which is control.

He said Israel needed “to return to Gaza permanently and control this space, because it is part of our homeland.”

When asked whether the occupation of the Gaza Strip would lead to the citizenship of Palestinians, he replied, “We want to distinguish between the status of the territory and control over it and the status of the residents, which is definitely something that deserves to be defined. When you give control over education, culture, and religion, you get the results you get.”

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The original was posted on /r/epicgamespc by /u/MeguminShiro on 2025-04-03 14:22:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/epicgamespc by /u/MeguminShiro on 2025-04-03 02:58:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/epicgamespc by /u/Madukes96 on 2025-04-01 05:51:31+00:00.

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What did I do to deserve God's wrath?

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Fuck Wayne Gretsky is all I can say.
What happened to that man?

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The debate over how Norway's wealth fund should respond to the security landscape comes at a time of higher defense spending and soaring industry profits.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/norway-urged-to-let-mega-wealth-fund-take-stakes-in-weapons-makers.html


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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Not really sure what the word is of what I'm looking for but...

I'm after chest freezer. It doesn't need to be working as I only need the shell.

I was thinking that I may be able to go to a recycling site and ask the staff there or something like that? I'm not sure if this is really a thing but I've definitely heard of people finding things that people have thrown away etc.

Do I just need to drive around my city looking for fly tipping/skips?

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I grew up in a rough household. We had holes punched into the walls, doors torn off the frames, my siblings and I saw regular abuse, and as a kid I constantly felt like I had to do things to keep the family held together.

I felt like I was treated by my parents as a servant. They constantly threw away anything I remotely liked, and continued stacking chores on me, especially those that weren't my own mess. They gave me the boot shortly before graduation, and long story short, I finally got a place for myself after years of effort.

I just can't shake this feeling though that things are painfully unfair. Like you escape hell after all these years, and the first thing expected from you is to find a job. I get it, you need to work to make money and pay the rent and bills but... why me? Why after all this time of putting up with the crap you have instead of being a kid are you just expected to step in line like everyone else when you never got that opportunity to find who you are and simply enjoy life for what it is.

I don't know, is this lazy? It's not that I don't want to work, but why can't I be a kid? Why can't I have some time to reclaim what all was taken from me and have some time to enjoy myself rather than grasp at random short memories I had before I was 5? Everyone else got it, why not me?

I don't know, am I just rambling about nothing?

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