Karen
@karenneemcnally.bsky.social
My family, furry & otherwise, are my world ❤️ #XDissenter
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FAO The UK!
Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law.
All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.
All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
FAO The UK!
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If a new Govt tried to rule out compensation or dismantle these zones, it could face massive legal and financial challenges. ISDS is embedded in the CPTPP deals post-Brexit. x.com/EuropeanPowe...
x.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If a new Govt tried to rule out compensation or dismantle these zones, it could face massive legal and financial challenges. ISDS is embedded in the CPTPP deals post-Brexit. x.com/EuropeanPowe...
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As I’ve mentioned before, ISDS allows corporations to sue governments in secretive arbitration courts for billions if they believe their investments are harmed by policy changes.
The LCIA, while more transparent, still prioritises contractual obligations.
The LCIA, while more transparent, still prioritises contractual obligations.
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As I’ve mentioned before, ISDS allows corporations to sue governments in secretive arbitration courts for billions if they believe their investments are harmed by policy changes.
The LCIA, while more transparent, still prioritises contractual obligations.
The LCIA, while more transparent, still prioritises contractual obligations.
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However, there are significant hurdles. The 25-year contracts tied to these zones are legally binding, and many likely include compensation clauses or dispute resolution mechanisms like Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) or London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
However, there are significant hurdles. The 25-year contracts tied to these zones are legally binding, and many likely include compensation clauses or dispute resolution mechanisms like Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) or London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA).
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This could be framed as a defense of sovereignty, workers’ rights, and environmental standards, especially given the involvement of firms like BlackRock, which I’ve previously criticised for their shareholder-first approach and financialisation of public assets (e.g., green spaces).
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This could be framed as a defense of sovereignty, workers’ rights, and environmental standards, especially given the involvement of firms like BlackRock, which I’ve previously criticised for their shareholder-first approach and financialisation of public assets (e.g., green spaces).
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A left-wing government could, in theory, rewrite the regulations governing Freeports and SEZs on moral grounds, arguing that they were established undemocratically and prioritise corporate profits over the public good.
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A left-wing government could, in theory, rewrite the regulations governing Freeports and SEZs on moral grounds, arguing that they were established undemocratically and prioritise corporate profits over the public good.
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There absolutely is an undemocratic side of how Freeports and SEZs have been set up—clandestine deals between corporations and councils often bypass public scrutiny, and that’s a major issue. Secondary legislation is the main culprit here.
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There absolutely is an undemocratic side of how Freeports and SEZs have been set up—clandestine deals between corporations and councils often bypass public scrutiny, and that’s a major issue. Secondary legislation is the main culprit here.
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I often get asked, could incoming Govt's rewrite the regulations on SEZs/Freeports and avoid aggressive lawsuits from corporation set up in UK free zones?
Here's my answer
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Here's my answer
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May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I often get asked, could incoming Govt's rewrite the regulations on SEZs/Freeports and avoid aggressive lawsuits from corporation set up in UK free zones?
Here's my answer
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Here's my answer
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Nationalism is always a shallow basket of ideas.
It's invariably about flags and beige conformity, petty point scoring, and predictable pedantry.
In being so it manages to pull off the remarkable trick of being simultaneously both mildly threatening and deeply fucking dull.
It's invariably about flags and beige conformity, petty point scoring, and predictable pedantry.
In being so it manages to pull off the remarkable trick of being simultaneously both mildly threatening and deeply fucking dull.
May 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Nationalism is always a shallow basket of ideas.
It's invariably about flags and beige conformity, petty point scoring, and predictable pedantry.
In being so it manages to pull off the remarkable trick of being simultaneously both mildly threatening and deeply fucking dull.
It's invariably about flags and beige conformity, petty point scoring, and predictable pedantry.
In being so it manages to pull off the remarkable trick of being simultaneously both mildly threatening and deeply fucking dull.
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A must read.
This affects all of us, because if the truth goes unreported, our society is not free.
This affects all of us, because if the truth goes unreported, our society is not free.
Thank you Jonathan Cook for preparing this Report…
This speaks for us all
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
This speaks for us all
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Report on the chilling effect of counter-terrorism powers on journalism
This is my expert statement submitted to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as part of Hamas' legal appeal against its proscription as a terror group under UK law
open.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A must read.
This affects all of us, because if the truth goes unreported, our society is not free.
This affects all of us, because if the truth goes unreported, our society is not free.
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Since 2024, the government has spent £19.78 billion on 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 SEZs...
May 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Since 2024, the government has spent £19.78 billion on 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 SEZs...
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Dictatorship Complete ✔️
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub “diversity” content from its platforms.
Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics
Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the...
www.cnn.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Dictatorship Complete ✔️
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I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
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Amen.
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Amen.
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Starmer not looking the quite ‘Statesman’ now
Almost 20 European leaders, incl Emmanuel Marcon & Friedrich Merz, plus VDL, have posted in support of @ZelenskyyUa after White House showdown.
Notably, Keir Starmer has not. No 10 is referring reporters to PM’s comments this week on a just & lasting peace, with Ukraine at heart of talks.
Notably, Keir Starmer has not. No 10 is referring reporters to PM’s comments this week on a just & lasting peace, with Ukraine at heart of talks.
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Starmer not looking the quite ‘Statesman’ now
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What do you think happens when a company is allowed to 'self-regulate' inside a designated free zone?
For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.
For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.
February 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What do you think happens when a company is allowed to 'self-regulate' inside a designated free zone?
For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.
For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.
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What do people think happens to public infrastructure when corporations don't pay their fair share in taxes?
Your taxes will go up as corporate taxes go down.
Look what happened with the water companies.
Your bills will go up as you pay to clear up their mess.
1/2
Your taxes will go up as corporate taxes go down.
Look what happened with the water companies.
Your bills will go up as you pay to clear up their mess.
1/2
February 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What do people think happens to public infrastructure when corporations don't pay their fair share in taxes?
Your taxes will go up as corporate taxes go down.
Look what happened with the water companies.
Your bills will go up as you pay to clear up their mess.
1/2
Your taxes will go up as corporate taxes go down.
Look what happened with the water companies.
Your bills will go up as you pay to clear up their mess.
1/2
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The gap in time in between the US administration attacking and undermining the UK, and the leader of His Majesty's supposedly opposition parroting their words wholesale, is getting shorter and shorter
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
February 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The gap in time in between the US administration attacking and undermining the UK, and the leader of His Majesty's supposedly opposition parroting their words wholesale, is getting shorter and shorter
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
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“The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power”
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
The Collaborators
The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power
www.adambienkov.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“The real “threat from within” comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering on attacks on our own country by a hostile foreign power”
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
@adambienkov.bsky.social 👏
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-collab...
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Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense.
Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway.
What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway.
What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense.
Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway.
What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway.
What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer needs to go. I have no faith in him as leader of this country. He looks compromised.
How many who voted for Labour voted for a hostile environment?
This race to the cess-pitt of the Far-Right has to stop.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This race to the cess-pitt of the Far-Right has to stop.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Starmer needs to go. I have no faith in him as leader of this country. He looks compromised.
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A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK.
Unwritten constitution, corporates funding parties, weak parliament, billionaire controlled press won't obstruct right-wing coup.
Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament, now judiciary weakened.
Vote wisely.
archive.ph/GxpN6
Unwritten constitution, corporates funding parties, weak parliament, billionaire controlled press won't obstruct right-wing coup.
Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament, now judiciary weakened.
Vote wisely.
archive.ph/GxpN6
A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK
Without a constitution for protection, British politics is vulnerable to its own version of extremism
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK.
Unwritten constitution, corporates funding parties, weak parliament, billionaire controlled press won't obstruct right-wing coup.
Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament, now judiciary weakened.
Vote wisely.
archive.ph/GxpN6
Unwritten constitution, corporates funding parties, weak parliament, billionaire controlled press won't obstruct right-wing coup.
Boris Johnson illegally prorogued parliament, now judiciary weakened.
Vote wisely.
archive.ph/GxpN6
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This sort of stuff from MPs really does look corrupt.
Via Private Eye:
Via Private Eye:
![RACING HANDICAP
"THE racing industry generates more than £4bn per year and employs more than 85,000 people," announced Jack Rankin, Tory MP for Windsor, in a Commons debate on 24 October last year. He warned the government "to tread carefully and acknowledge the unintended consequences of further regulation" of the gambling industry, especially given its potential financial impact on horseracing.
Rankin declared that "an increase in financial checks on customers" – commonly known as affordability checks, which are being introduced to help ensure punters are making bets they can afford – "risks pushing a lot of gambling underground", meaning "less money would be reinvested in the sport".
Coincidentally, the most recent register of MPs' interests reveals that just a couple of months later, in January, Rankin was generously gifted two tickets with hospitality to attend the Berkshire Winter Million horseracing event at the Royal Windsor Racecourse, worth £312. The MP received this freebie from the Arena Racing Corporation, a horseracing firm which has expressed "major concerns" over government plans for affordability checks, declaring them a "potentially disastrous" measure which "will deter punters from betting on British horse and greyhound racing". What are the odds?
TICKET COLLECTOR
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February 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This sort of stuff from MPs really does look corrupt.
Via Private Eye:
Via Private Eye: