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"The Palantir Trap: How Brexit Britain Surrendered Its Soul, and Whether Burnham Can Buy It Back"
Palantir. Plymouth. Putin. How Brexit Britain became a proxy state for American surveillance capitalism while Europe burns.
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Palantir. Plymouth. Putin. How Brexit Britain became a proxy state for American surveillance capitalism while Europe burns.
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As Ukraine enters year five with no ceasefire in sight, US intelligence has formally warned Poland that Russia is preparing a military provocation against NATO's eastern flank. Drone strikes. Simulated air attacks. A possible ground incursion from Kaliningrad.
Into this fracture, Britain is not building European solidarity. It is monetising the crisis. Through deregulated freeports. Through surveillance contracts. Through deals that embed US spytech into the nervous system of British public life.
Into this fracture, Britain is not building European solidarity. It is monetising the crisis. Through deregulated freeports. Through surveillance contracts. Through deals that embed US spytech into the nervous system of British public life.
At Plymouth's freeport, Babcock and Supacat manufacture Jackal 3 military vehicles in a tax-sheltered enclave. Around 140 jobs. Typical of freeport promises. The Teesside precedent: £25m became £560m in public funds, and Michael Gove blocked the NAO from investigating.
SitRep - 03/07/26 - Dozens of substations hit in occupied Crimea
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The plan for occupied Crimea is clear: make it untennable and unlivable for Russians. Ukrainian drones are doing just that.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The plan for occupied Crimea is clear: make it untennable and unlivable for Russians. Ukrainian drones are doing just that.
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ADEYEMI DIDN'T JUST OPEN ONE ACCOUNT WITH THE CBN. HE OPENED THREE. AND EACH ONE REQUIRED A SEPARATE HUMAN APPROVAL CHAIN INSIDE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
PART 1 — THE 34 COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS AND THEN THE CBN
Let us first separate two things that are being conflated in online discussions.
The police investigation confirmed that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts with commercial banks. Nine of those were opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, including the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and related entities. These are standard commercial bank accounts at deposit money banks. Damaging, yes. But not the most alarming part of this story.
The CBN accounts are separate and additional to those 34.
What has now been confirmed by multiple national newspapers, including Punch, Vanguard, PM News, Tribune, and New Telegraph, is that Adeyemi's PFIPC allegedly opened three accounts directly with the Central Bank of Nigeria. A Treasury Single Account. A Domiciliary Account. A Pound Sterling Account.
Three accounts. At the apex bank of Nigeria. Not a commercial bank. The Central Bank.
And here is what makes this specific detail so significant. These three account types do not work the same way. They do not share the same application process. And none of them can be opened automatically or digitally via a self-service portal.
Every single one requires a manual human approval chain inside the federal government.
PART 1 — THE 34 COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS AND THEN THE CBN
Let us first separate two things that are being conflated in online discussions.
The police investigation confirmed that Adeyemi operated 34 bank accounts with commercial banks. Nine of those were opened in the names of his fictitious agencies, including the FCT Investment Promotion Agency and related entities. These are standard commercial bank accounts at deposit money banks. Damaging, yes. But not the most alarming part of this story.
The CBN accounts are separate and additional to those 34.
What has now been confirmed by multiple national newspapers, including Punch, Vanguard, PM News, Tribune, and New Telegraph, is that Adeyemi's PFIPC allegedly opened three accounts directly with the Central Bank of Nigeria. A Treasury Single Account. A Domiciliary Account. A Pound Sterling Account.
Three accounts. At the apex bank of Nigeria. Not a commercial bank. The Central Bank.
And here is what makes this specific detail so significant. These three account types do not work the same way. They do not share the same application process. And none of them can be opened automatically or digitally via a self-service portal.
Every single one requires a manual human approval chain inside the federal government.
PART 2 — HOW A TSA IS ACTUALLY OPENED
The Treasury Single Account is not a regular bank account. It is Nigeria's unified government financial infrastructure account, designed to consolidate all federal government revenue and payments under CBN oversight. Every naira flowing in and out of a government MDA passes through this system.
For a government agency to open a TSA at the CBN, the process is as follows.
The Accounting Officer of the MDA, typically the Permanent Secretary or Director General, must submit a formal budget proposal through the government's budget management system. That proposal must carry a valid budget code issued by the Budget Office. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation must then process a formal request to the CBN's Settlement Centre and Funds Department to activate the account. The CBN independently verifies the agency's status with the relevant supervising ministry and the SGF's office before activating anything.
Every one of those steps has a paper trail. Every step has a signature. Every step has a date. Every step has a named official who either approved or processed the request.
For the PFIPC to have an active TSA at the CBN, every single one of those steps had to be completed by someone. A budget code existed. An AGF official processed the activation. A CBN official received the instruction and set up the account.
Those people can be identified. Their signatures are on documents that currently exist.
The Treasury Single Account is not a regular bank account. It is Nigeria's unified government financial infrastructure account, designed to consolidate all federal government revenue and payments under CBN oversight. Every naira flowing in and out of a government MDA passes through this system.
For a government agency to open a TSA at the CBN, the process is as follows.
The Accounting Officer of the MDA, typically the Permanent Secretary or Director General, must submit a formal budget proposal through the government's budget management system. That proposal must carry a valid budget code issued by the Budget Office. The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation must then process a formal request to the CBN's Settlement Centre and Funds Department to activate the account. The CBN independently verifies the agency's status with the relevant supervising ministry and the SGF's office before activating anything.
Every one of those steps has a paper trail. Every step has a signature. Every step has a date. Every step has a named official who either approved or processed the request.
For the PFIPC to have an active TSA at the CBN, every single one of those steps had to be completed by someone. A budget code existed. An AGF official processed the activation. A CBN official received the instruction and set up the account.
Those people can be identified. Their signatures are on documents that currently exist.
PART 3 — THE DOMICILIARY AND POUND STERLING ACCOUNTS
This is where the story becomes even more specific.
We confirmed with CBN and OAGF documentation that foreign currency accounts cannot be automatically generated through an MDA's TSA portal. They are not a byproduct of opening a TSA. They require entirely separate manual applications.
To open a domiciliary sub-account linked to a government MDA's TSA, the Accounting Officer must write a formal letter addressed to the Director of Banking and Payments Services at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, requesting authorisation to open a foreign-currency sub-account. The OAGF reviews and approves the request. The OAGF then issues directives to the CBN. The CBN sets up the account. Only after that can the MDA access foreign currency transactions through TSA gateways.
The Pound Sterling account is a separate domiciliary account from a dollar or naira domiciliary account. In Nigeria's banking system, a single currency is used for each domiciliary account. You cannot hold pounds in a dollar domiciliary account. A pound sterling account is a distinct application. A distinct approval. A distinct CBN setup instruction.
So for the PFIPC to have both a domiciliary account and a pound sterling account at the CBN, at minimum two separate formal letters were written. Two separate OAGF approvals were issued. Two separate CBN setup instructions were executed. By named officials. On specific dates. With signatures.
Nobody has explained what sterling-denominated international transactions a Nigerian presidential investment promotion council had such an urgent need to conduct that justified opening a pound sterling account at the apex bank.
This is where the story becomes even more specific.
We confirmed with CBN and OAGF documentation that foreign currency accounts cannot be automatically generated through an MDA's TSA portal. They are not a byproduct of opening a TSA. They require entirely separate manual applications.
To open a domiciliary sub-account linked to a government MDA's TSA, the Accounting Officer must write a formal letter addressed to the Director of Banking and Payments Services at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, requesting authorisation to open a foreign-currency sub-account. The OAGF reviews and approves the request. The OAGF then issues directives to the CBN. The CBN sets up the account. Only after that can the MDA access foreign currency transactions through TSA gateways.
The Pound Sterling account is a separate domiciliary account from a dollar or naira domiciliary account. In Nigeria's banking system, a single currency is used for each domiciliary account. You cannot hold pounds in a dollar domiciliary account. A pound sterling account is a distinct application. A distinct approval. A distinct CBN setup instruction.
So for the PFIPC to have both a domiciliary account and a pound sterling account at the CBN, at minimum two separate formal letters were written. Two separate OAGF approvals were issued. Two separate CBN setup instructions were executed. By named officials. On specific dates. With signatures.
Nobody has explained what sterling-denominated international transactions a Nigerian presidential investment promotion council had such an urgent need to conduct that justified opening a pound sterling account at the apex bank.
In an interview, the Ukrainian “Polyphemus” operation was described that cleared corridors for long-range UAV strikes by systematic elimination of a network of small-scale radars.
A summary by a Russian blogger of the methods revealed in the interview: ⬇️
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A summary by a Russian blogger of the methods revealed in the interview: ⬇️
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“The target is not the launchers, but the eyes
The primary objective of ‘Polyphemus’ (the codename for the operation in the Bryansk region) was the network of small airspace surveillance radars.
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The primary objective of ‘Polyphemus’ (the codename for the operation in the Bryansk region) was the network of small airspace surveillance radars.
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“These sensors create continuous low-altitude radar coverage and, more importantly than simply detecting aircraft, allow operators to determine launch locations by correlating multiple radar detections.
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On July 1, MGNREGA formally ceased to exist, bringing to a close one of independent India's most consequential social welfare programmes. Its legacy, and the questions it raised about rights and the state's obligations, will continue to shape debates on work in rural India. 🧵
Governments of every political dispensation have sought to hollow out India’s rural employment guarantee scheme. Only a mass movement that keeps the vulnerable at its centre can make the MGNREGA what it is supposed to be.
Sowmya Sivakumar wrote: theindiaforum.in/article/underm…
Sowmya Sivakumar wrote: theindiaforum.in/article/underm…
Implementation is often another story. In 2024, Kalyani Raghunathan, @kkosec, Jordan Kyle, @_SudhaNarayanan, and Soumyajit Ray wrote about structural barriers to women’s claim-making under MGNREGA. Read: theindiaforum.in/public-policy/…
Money can vanish from your bank account in seconds.
What almost no Indian knows is that RBI rules can get every rupee back. If you act fast enough.
This is the rule banks will never explain to you.
Save this. One day it could save your money.
What almost no Indian knows is that RBI rules can get every rupee back. If you act fast enough.
This is the rule banks will never explain to you.
Save this. One day it could save your money.
The core rule is simple.
If money is taken from your account without your permission, and you report it to your bank within 3 working days, your liability is zero.
Zero. The bank has to return the full amount.
This is RBI policy, not a favour.
If money is taken from your account without your permission, and you report it to your bank within 3 working days, your liability is zero.
Zero. The bank has to return the full amount.
This is RBI policy, not a favour.
Here is the part people get wrong.
The 3 day clock does not start when you notice the fraud.
It starts the moment the bank sends you the alert. The SMS or email about that transaction.
This is why you never ignore a bank message. Read every one.
The 3 day clock does not start when you notice the fraud.
It starts the moment the bank sends you the alert. The SMS or email about that transaction.
This is why you never ignore a bank message. Read every one.
