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YouTube video by Whitney's Fan Club "You Have No Idea What Palantir Has Planned" | Whitney Webb

Watch @whitneyweb.bsky.social expose the incomprehensible levels of corporate infiltration of critical infrastructure. And one more thing Peter Thiel is an advocate of Special Economic Zones and charter cities, or as Trump likes to call them, ‘Free cities’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNP...

Palantir have contracts with the UK’s police forces, three-quarters of whom refuse to declare whether they have a contract with Palantir.
Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions, also including the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council

“Most people have no idea what’s about to happen”
Palantir’s move into the ‘terrorism futures market’
Palantir secures health data as a major asset in its portfolio, including the NHS in the UK.
Palantir’s dragnet involves pre-crime tech or predictive policing.
Thread
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Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

State support for UK banks

Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England

Who else gets this level of state support?

Blimey! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 40 MILLION!! 👏

Class reply from Nicola

Almost like instead of paying out billions to private shareholders the money goes back into the system to be used for the upkeep of the infrastructure.
Nationalisation of public services works and prevents profiteering.

'Blatant bias': BBC under fire over double standards for Question Time panel BBC Question Time has come under fire after describing a Reform UK campaigner on its panel as an “academic” – while labelling a left-wing…

BBC under fire over 'blatant bias' on Question Time panel

BBC Question Time has come under fire after describing a Reform UK campaigner on its panel as an “academic” – while labelling a left-wing academic an “activist”. 👇

www.thenational.scot/news/2558375...

No one quite deserves to be made to look such a fool as Matt Goodwin. This is truly heartening.

Goodwin has been roasted tonight and rightly so. We need decent ordinary people across the country to stand up and be counted like some members of this audience tonight. The far right can buy the media but they can't buy our hearts and minds.

For most of the 1960s and 1970s we were one accident or serious illness away from King Andrew.

Britain would have a non executive president like Ireland or Italy and Farage is broadly deeply unpopular. Less popular than Starmer in fact. He'd never ever become president.

Being quietly carted off to a vast mansion in a quiet corner of Norfolk is about as far away from true accountability as you can get.

Prince Andrew in robes

The fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is no fall at all.

It comes ELEVEN years too late and has only happened as a damage limitation exercise.

We need to start having a grown up conversation about monarchy... and I'm starting it here.

Me @noosphere.app

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Lady in scarf, "We are the only country in the G7, apart from Italy, that doesn't charge an exit tax" #BBCQT

"The CEO of Revolut bank - net worth £11 billion- who has decided to take his money to the UAE"

"He's not taxed on the money he's made, but a cleaner is taxed on her minimum wage"

Man in glasses to Reform UK's Matt Goodwin #BBCQT

"I think it's quite poor that today you've used immigrants as a scapegoat for every single issue we've discussed"

"It's not a very good look for Reform UK given the racist stereotypes around them"

I have to say I am thoroughly depressed by our government’s inaction in the face of a foreign billionaire inciting anti democratic violence in this country. If we don’t stand up to one the next will conclude they can do what they like.

Full analysis: <https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/p-176626106?r=2w9sq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action>
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The window for resistance is closing, but it hasn’t closed. Every zone operates on public subsidy and political permission. Both can be revoked. Organize. Challenge. Resist.

12/ **REMEMBER: THESE ZONES ARE FRAGILE**
They depend on public money (withdrawable), public legitimacy (challengeable), political protection (can be voted out), legal frameworks (contestable), and community acquiescence (transformable into resistance).

11/ **CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY**
This is happening globally: Special Economic Zones, Export Processing Zones, corporate sovereignty. Connect with communities worldwide fighting the same battle. Share strategies and solidarity.

10/ **PRESSURE YOUR MP**
Demand parliamentary scrutiny of ISZ governance, the Freeports/Investment Zones merger, Defence and AI Growth Zone expansion, and conflicts of interest on zone governance boards.

9/ **FORCE MEDIA COVERAGE**
140+ zones affecting every aspect of national life deserve investigation. Contact journalists, write letters to editors, share information on social media. This can’t stay buried in business sections.

8/ **MAKE IT AN ELECTORAL ISSUE**
Demand candidates commit to zone reform or abolition. Make enterprise zone accountability a voting issue in local and national elections. Politicians respond to electoral pressure.

7/ **LEGAL CHALLENGES**
Challenge Mayoral Development Orders, compulsory purchase orders, 25-year licenses, and “regulatory sandboxes” that suspend protections. These zones depend on legal frameworks that can be contested.

6/ **UNIONIZE ZONE WORKERS**
If you work in an enterprise zone, join or form a union. Collective organizing is the most powerful tool to resist exploitation and demand fair wages, secure contracts, and workplace democracy.

5/ **ORGANIZE LOCALLY**
Build coalitions between affected groups: farmers losing abattoirs, students in commercialized universities, zone workers, residents facing compulsory purchase. You’re not alone—this affects every region.

4/ **SUPPORT ALTERNATIVES**
Back community-owned food processing, publicly-run research facilities, municipal data centres, and cooperative enterprise zones governed by workers and communities. Prove democratic ownership works better.

3/ **ATTACH CONDITIONS TO PUBLIC MONEY**
No more corporate welfare without strings. Push for: living wage guarantees, union recognition, profit-sharing with communities, local hiring quotas, environmental compliance, and IP sharing requirements.

2/ **CHALLENGE DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS**
Enterprise zones bypass normal democratic oversight. Demand that all zones require local council approval, genuine public consultation with veto power, and annual performance reviews with revocation powers.