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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 15h

‘Israel is a lunatic state,
Israel is a delusional state,
Israel is a genocidal state.’
- Norman Finkelstein, October 7th 2025

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8f...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

Back in the UK corporate governance is being implemented in 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, Defence Growth Zones, Food and University Enterprise Zones, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids so far). Palantir and Blackrock pulverizing critical infrastructure in the UK and in Gaza.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

Trump, Netanyahu and Tony Blair will install and manage special economic zones (SEZs) under a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labour to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced. progressive.international/wire/2025-10...

PI Briefing | No. 37 | The Plan to Colonize Palestine

The Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” for Gaza is little more than a blueprint for its colonization.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18h

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18h

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

It is astonishing that the MSM and majority of Independent Media are not joining the dots on Zone Fever,

I absolutely fucking despair.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

Back in the UK corporate governance is being implemented in 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, Defence Growth Zones, Food and University Enterprise Zones, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids so far). Palantir and Blackrock pulverizing critical infrastructure in the UK and in Gaza.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

For imperialism, genocide has always been profitable.

This is textbook disaster capitalism.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h

Trump, Netanyahu and Tony Blair will install and manage special economic zones (SEZs) under a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labour to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced. progressive.international/wire/2025-10...

PI Briefing | No. 37 | The Plan to Colonize Palestine

The Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” for Gaza is little more than a blueprint for its colonization.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

So much energy from Green Party Conference.

Great to hear about all the local parties in England & Wales calling up their new members, inviting them to action days and getting people involved.

Let's go! 💚🚀

novaramedia.com/2025/10/07/z...

Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists | Novara Media

The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

In April 2025, the UK and US Govt's refused to sign up for the EU's AI Safety Summit, JD Vance stating that the EU's proposal were 'woke regulation'.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

In June 2025, Labour published the Industrial Strategy Zones (ISZs) Action Plan, which aims to merge 12 freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones), as I said, Starmer's AI Growth Zones will become the digital layer.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

In January 2025, Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones, which are the digital layer of freeports and SEZs, 200 bids on sites have been recorded. Bidding is open indefinitely as per the UK Govt's website.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer's Labour Party quietly signed off on these deregulated carve-outs while publicly stating 'they were not a silver bullet for the economy'.
Angela Rayner announced more Investment Zones to come at Labour's last Investment Summit in 2024.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Palantir is a key component of the mass privatisation of infrastructure currently accelerating at pace post-Brexit. It is also connected with free zones of which their are 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones implemented by the Tories immediately after Brexit.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer will continue handing out Palantir contracts to councils, as one by one, councils are collapsing due to insufficient funding and poor management. This is part and parcel of how predatory corporations are making serious incursions into the public sector.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder - Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK institutions, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the police force, and the DLUHC.
23 of the contracts were given by the Tories.
The most recent contract given to Palantir was to Coventry City Council by Keir Starmer in April 2025.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel is currently the key speaker at his 4 part lecture series on the Anti-Christ, on the NHS of Palantir is deeply embedded, he said, "The NHS makes people sick" and "I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible".

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

You are being played for fools by Louis Mosley, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, the Tories and Keir Starmer's Labour Party when it comes to the safety and preservation of the NHS as a public service available to everyone.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel and Alex Karp are both Trump supporting billionaire CEO's of Palantir.
Meanwhile, public and professional scrutiny continues, driven by valid concerns over data sovereignty, transparency, and the public good.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Louis Mosley is quoted as saying that Palantir's strategy for entry into the British health industry was to "Buy our way in" by acquiring smaller rival companies with existing relationships with the NHS in order to "take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance"

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

"Thiel was speaking in a personal capacity and not my views...Alex Karp technically says the diametrical opposite....he sits on a different end of the political spectrum...Palantir is not political..."

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Watch the Parliament Live video dated 8th July 2025, 10 minutes 32 and listen to Louis Mosley respond to a question about the safety and integrity of the NHS in UK Palantir's hands...

EuropeanPowell on X: "Once again in the absence of @guardian 's lack of any robust critique on Keir Starmer's nationwide rollout of AI Growth Zones back in January 2025, I will explain what is happening. The UK is being carved up into patchworks of corporate sovereignties with governance powers https://t.co/kYFlxA8nQB" / X

Once again in the absence of @guardian 's lack of any robust critique on Keir Starmer's nationwide rollout of AI Growth Zones back in January 2025, I will explain what is happening. The UK is being carved up into patchworks of corporate sovereignties with governance powers https://t.co/kYFlxA8nQB

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