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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

Fuld serves as strategic advisor for numerous tech / startup companies and works with big global tech brands like Google, Microsoft, Oracle (among others) in advisory or marketing/evangelism roles.
As the UK debates privacy vs. security, do we want Oracle handling our IDs?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

In June 2025, Australia revoked Hillel Fuld's visa / barring his entry, citing concerns about his online rhetoric (including that certain statements could be “Islamophobic” or inciting hatred, or “risk to good order”) as reasons.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

This statement has been widely interpreted as dehumanising, discriminatory, and evocative of historical atrocities, including forced markings of persecuted peoples.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

Hillel Fuld, who is identified as a strategic advisor to Oracle, recently published a post suggesting that released prisoners should be forcibly tattooed with the Star of David, a symbol sacred to Jewish identity as a mark of punishment or control.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

Oracle's founder, Larry Ellison, has donated significantly to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (over £300 million reported in some discussions), which has lobbied for digital ID schemes and influenced Labour's policy thinking.
Oracle is vehemently pro-Israel.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

The Home Office recently extended its Oracle cloud deal by £54 million over five years for general services, starting November 2025, not explicitly for digital ID, but relevant given the Home Office's lead on immigration and identity verification.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

Oracle holds £1 billion in multi-year cloud contracts across departments like the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, and Department for Work and Pensions, which could underpin digital ID systems.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

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Official government announcements do not name any providers yet.
That said, Oracle is frequently speculated to be a strong contender due to its deep existing ties to UK government IT infrastructure:

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21m

Keir Starmer's planned National Digital ID scheme announced in September 2025 and set for rollout by mid-2029, is still in the consultation and planning phase, with tech companies, including potentially Oracle, preparing to bid for multi-billion-pound contracts.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 6m

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Thiel and the Antichrist

As The Guardian has reported, Peter Thiel has been lecturing in San Francisco about the Antichrist, Armageddon and a one-world order. What his Antichrist fixation tells us is a great deal about his vi...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15h

Nathan Gill who went from UKIP ⏩ Brexit Party ⏩ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12h

Great that @zackpolanski.bsky.social is calling out Farage’s lies.
But something far more important is being meticulously installed behind the headlines.
The duopoly have colluded in carving up the UK into deregulated free zones.
Starmer is turbocharging the privatization of critical infrastructure

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 5d

What's happening behind those relentless headlines about immigration?
A Silent Coup where US corporations are restructuring the British State and commodifying the entire public sector.
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The Stories the Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You About Britain’s Corporate Takeover

While you’ve been distracted by Nigel Farage, corporations have been quietly seizing control of Britain

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 8h

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Really? Qatar gets its own air force facility inside the United States? Why?

When Trump is fighting the "enemy within" America and kicking out anyone who can't prove they belong here?

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Gilly 📎 @gillmh.bsky.social · 12h

AI definition - the liquid found at the bottom of a bin. I suspected as much.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11h

These national heroes have now waited more than a year for a meeting with Keir Starmer to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition. They are now in their eighties and are dying waiting for justice. This is no way to treat veterans Prime Minister

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Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 9h

Charlie King’s pervy brother up to no good. Again.

Prince Andrew email to Epstein about Virginia proves he LIED in BBC chat — The Sun

The bombshell email brings new context to his links with Epstein and piles more pressure on the Royal Family to further ostracise him PRINCE Andrew told paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein “we are in this toget...

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 9h

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‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport — The Guardian

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22h

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
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Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 18h

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Save Our Red Squirrels: Enforce Protections & Prioritise Habitat in UK Woodlands

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 18h

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We Can Make an Impact.

Oppose the Faroe Islands hosting the 2027 Island Games

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 18h