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europeanpowell.bsky.social
I have seen no questions about governance in UK free zones in the press, no mention of sovereignty grabs, yet Blackrock, Oracle, Blackstone, PEEL Group, Vanguard and many more are all primed to benefit from billions in UK State aid, taxpayers money!
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
What I find incredible with this Guardian article is that they have been ignoring the fact that the Tories and Labour set up 86 deregulated free zones immediately after Brexit.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
US wants Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Apparently opposing genocide "contravenes the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust." Beyond belief.

www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
Holocaust Memorial Day organiser dismissed over link to grassroots Israeli group accusing state of genocide
EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Goldberg departs as Scottish support worker over link to Standing Together organisation
www.jewishnews.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit December 9, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial. During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting. Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well. Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is … It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth. What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda. When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic. Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image. America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.

Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.

This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.

www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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esqueer.net
Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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meryemelnejefi.bsky.social
the thing that struck me, is it sounds like this friend was sharing the horrors of living in a nascent fascist state and trevor philips response was; 'sounds great'

?!?

these people are sociopaths
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 20d
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.

archive.ph/RlXPj
Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Not main point (see my other post) but depressing that Phillips happily regurgitates entirely fictional numbers invented by far-right trolls on X and attributes them to "experts" {and Times is happy to print this slop]

archive.ph/RlXPj#select...
She has made a start on trying to reduce numbers of those here unlawfully. Bizarrely, we do not even try to estimate how many illegal immigrants there are. Others know — the Americans reckon they have 13.7 million. It matters greatly. The 40,000 or so returns claimed by the Home Office would be impressive if our number were 100,000. But since most experts would put it nearer to two million its efforts seem limp.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked
Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter.
Please read
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Rothbard is a patron saint of the Broligarchs' efforts to establish their own personal empires offshore-which is why the subtitle of my new(ish) book is "The New Colonialism."
Rothbard-inspired techbros are styling themselves as imperial potentates.
See also, @raycraib.bsky.social's cool history.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
⚠️BE WARNED. Charter cities are coming to Brexit ravaged UK, this was the whole reason why the Tories' and Labour colluded on installing deregulated free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Suffolk's Forest City and the Ghost of Próspera: Why Britain Should Learn From Honduras
What happens when libertarian billionaires build “startup cities” promising prosperity but delivering corporate sovereignty? Ask the fishermen of Crawfish Rock.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
And I think: Britain has been warned.

Próspera is Forest City’s ghost, the future Suffolk residents are being asked to accept without ever being told what happened last time this exact model was tried, with this exact architect, backed by these exact libertarian billionaires.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
Look at the signatories backing Suffolk's Forest City, which is a charter city, a mixture of Labour politicians, the extreme far right, multi-millionaire libertarians.
www.forestcity.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
NEWS: 200+ women — including Nicola Coughlan of Derry Girls & Carice van Houten of Game of Thrones — are calling on UEFA to ban Israel.

They join mounting pressure. Everyone from Paul Pogba and Nigel Pearson, to Spain’s PM and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is now calling for the ban.
EXCLUSIVE: 200+ Actors, Artists, and Other Women Call for European Football to Ban Israel
The women, including Nicola Coughlan and Carice van Houten, sent a letter directly appealing to the wife of UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin to 'help remove Israel' from the association.
zeteo.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Systematic torture and murder, with no consequences.

news.sky.com/story/report...
Report claims almost 100 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli jails since October 2023
The highest number of deaths are alleged to have happened at the Sde Teiman detention centre.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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europeanpowell.bsky.social
TBI received early access to the AI action plan they would publicly endorse.
This is corruption: Private funding of policy development + early government access + public endorsement + funder profits from resulting policy.
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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misoshnik.bsky.social
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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cjayanetti.bsky.social
When Christian Calgie uses "mental health" as a two-word deflection to get himself out of a hole and then sweeps back in days later to resume being a cunt, you can see why the Right just thinks all mental health disability claims are fake until proven otherwise.

The accusation is the admission.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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financialtimes.com
The state of the 2,000 Palestinians released as part of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has cast a renewed spotlight on the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and how it has worsened in the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on.ft.com/4hBxyAY
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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bettinastruff.bsky.social
"In short, Labour is toast – and it knows it. Ministers and advisers are already looking beyond government to the well-paid, cushy corporate positions they all want to take up when they leave office."

Great article from @graceblakeley.substack.com

www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-de...
The hidden agenda behind Labour’s efforts to woo business
The party is steamrolling ahead with deregulation that will benefit big businesses at the expense of consumers. Why?
www.opendemocracy.net
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM