This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes
Israel killed Siwar today in Gaza.
They dropped a bomb on the tent where she and her mother were sheltering in Khan Younis.
A mother and her child. Killed together.
Israel is burning civilian homes in Beit Yahoun and Ayta el-Jabal, South Lebanon.
Not military targets.
Civilian homes. Families’ homes. Entire neighborhoods.
This is what Israel calls a “peace agreement.”
⚠️UK people, wake up!
Did you know it's highly likely you and your family live in a deregulated Special Economic Zone?
There are 91 of these zones, and counting, in the UK.
What Is A Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?
An SEZ is a geographically designated area where normal planning rules, corporate tax arrangements, and regulatory oversight are loosened to attract private investment.
The pitch is always: jobs, growth, levelling up.
Heard this before?
What actually happens: public money, aka State aid, removes the risk and friction for corporations and dumps it on the public sector.
Land values rise.
Private capital captures the gain.
Democratic accountability is bypassed because decisions are made by zone boards, development corporations, and mayoral offices rather than elected councils.
Secondary legislation on zone policy bypassed Parliamentary debate, public consultation, and notification of the press.
This is why you have not heard of free zones.
Both the Tories and Labour colluded on the nationwide rollout of free zones immediately after Brexit. While out of office, Labour publicly said free zones were not a silver bullet for the economy, but mayors like Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram signed off with the Tories on setting them up anyway.
Zone ideology is the resurrection of Thatcher's free zone policy, which delivered hugely underwhelming results, partly because EU state aid rules limited how far the model could go.
Brexit rewrote those rules, opening the door to the scale of corporate subsidy now flowing through free zones to major asset managers and private capital.
The books below on free zones are few and far between. They all examine the history and contemporary application of free zone ideology.
So evil. Never forget nor forgive, the Israelis zip tied the wrists of men, women, children and babies at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, before murdering them.
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🚨 BREAKING: Israel has killed 8 year old Palestinian child Malek Wael Abu Shawish in Gaza.
He is the second Palestinian child reported killed since this morning.
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping bombs on tents full of civilians in Khan Younis — in the middle of the night as families sleep.
There is no refuge left in Gaza.
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🚨 BREAKING: Horrific moments as an Israeli strike hit a tent crowded with displaced families in the heart of Gaza City, causing casualties and widespread panic among civilians.
Some joke in the comments that the trees are being uprooted because "the trees are Hamas." But that isn't far from one of the actual justifications the IDF has given for uprooting Palestinian olive trees: that they allegedly provide cover for terrorists.
Settlers rampaged through Palestinian villages, torching olive groves, vandalizing homes, cutting cables and attacking residents. After the pogrom, the IDF raided one village and reportedly arrested ten Palestinians. A regular weekend in today's West Bank.
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BREAKING:
Israel is wiping out village after village in South Lebanon right now.
In the middle of the night.
Villages older than entire modern states.
Not military targets.
This is terrorism. Pure and simple.
Israeli bulldozers are uprooting hundreds of olive trees in the village of Zububa, in the occupied West Bank.
Trees that have stood for centuries.
Trees older than the “State of Israel.”
First, settler terrorists cut off a water pipe in a Palestinian village. Then, the IDF makes sure it isn't repaired. No water, no life. The goal is simple: ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes and land.
New “Blue Roads” have appeared in Hebron, near my home, marked as open exclusively to Israelis. Restricting access to roads based on national identity is segregation, not security. Hebron continues to serve as a laboratory of separation, and unequal rights.
#Hebron#Palestine
Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor.
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