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Property tycoon Ivan Ko hopes to find site for a charter city named Nextpolis between Dublin and Belfast to host 50,000 fellow Hong Kongers #brexit
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China’s recent imposition of national security laws in the region has prompted many Hongkongers to consider leaving. The British government has promised to provide assistance and relocation.
A department of foreign affairs spokesperson in Dublin confirmed there had been talks with Ko but appeared to pour cold water on the idea.
But don't assume there won't be many more property/city developers eyeing post-Brexit deregulated 3rd country UK to install slave cities.
But don't assume there won't be many more property/city developers eyeing post-Brexit deregulated 3rd country UK to install slave cities.
Part 3 of this thread; #SolentFreeport #Teeside #MacquarieGIG #Ofgem #Bamford #SouthernWater #SGN #ExxonMobil
Am adding replies as I go, as my 'unsent tweets' section is refusing save drafts, so bear with, please.
part 1 starts here;
You have paid a ransom in a transaction where the Govt had held you hostage to your needs.
Tories 'Goodbye public services, your taxes mean shit but we will steal them anyway and laugh and party as the welfare state finally collapses'
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Tories 'Goodbye public services, your taxes mean shit but we will steal them anyway and laugh and party as the welfare state finally collapses'
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When Govts curb the state of vital public services, understand this is about something bigger, workers must be disciplined, voices must be stifled, dissent eradicated, public must be divided, laws must be changed. This is totalitarian democracy. No say.
What do you think happens next? Mortgage rates become unmanageable, rents shoot up, food/energy bills skyrocket, etc. Imagine yourself as an unscrupulous disaster capitalist eyeing the chaos, you'll make a fortune out of other peoples suffering and pain which this Govt applauds.
@UnrollHelper @xpatjock @Tentoads4truth @barbetta1 @RachelNotley
Same idea as #SovereigntyAct, but with #CharterCities.
The whole point is to minimize fed govt so that 1%ers/Corporations have the power to rule over a province/city with freedom from the checks&balances of a federal govt. #KochAgenda
Same idea as #SovereigntyAct, but with #CharterCities.
The whole point is to minimize fed govt so that 1%ers/Corporations have the power to rule over a province/city with freedom from the checks&balances of a federal govt. #KochAgenda
@UnrollHelper @xpatjock @Tentoads4truth @barbetta1 @RachelNotley #KochNetwork - #NeoFeudalism
@pressprogress @NatObserver @guardian @gilmcgowan @CanadianPM @cafreeland @liberal_party @NDP @csiscanada @djclimenhaga @JasonOnTheDrums @ryanjesperson @WHCOS
#IndependentLegislatures #IndependentCities etc. ruled over by 1%ers/corps. Power/ $$.
@pressprogress @NatObserver @guardian @gilmcgowan @CanadianPM @cafreeland @liberal_party @NDP @csiscanada @djclimenhaga @JasonOnTheDrums @ryanjesperson @WHCOS
#IndependentLegislatures #IndependentCities etc. ruled over by 1%ers/corps. Power/ $$.
@UnrollHelper @xpatjock @Tentoads4truth @barbetta1 @RachelNotley @pressprogress @NatObserver @guardian @gilmcgowan @CanadianPM @cafreeland @liberal_party @NDP @csiscanada @djclimenhaga @JasonOnTheDrums @ryanjesperson @WHCOS @just_security @CREWcrew @JohnBrennan @lawfareblog @OversightDems @justicedems @RepAdamSchiff @RepSwalwell @tedlieu @SenWhitehouse @Tentoads4truth @SenWarren @mehdirhasan @carolecadwalla @BBCHARDtalk @Channel4News @HuffPost
UK hanging by a thread, once deregulation frenzy hits on Dec 31st 2023, a cartel of libertarian stakeholders from Singham, JCB, ERG/IEA, PEEL Group, Locus Economica will have successfully exploited Brexit to completely change UK laws for corporate control miro.com/app/board/uXjV…
Property and dispossessing low to middle income earners will force public to work in private sector, welfare state will perish. Join the dots, do you honestly believe that mass deregulation will those on benefit low to middle income? #BrexitDisaster
Libertarian tactics to dispossess the 'wrong' sort of homeowners by squeezing them dry via excess inflation, privatised services, mortgage increases, cost of living, forcing them to sell up and move to poorer areas, like tiny apartment living in Hong Kong
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How did we get to a point where the UK government are about to give away entire cities up and down the country to private companies? #CharterCities #FreePorts
Austerity has led to excess deaths through poverty. Austerity has led to David Cameron’s Big Society Actually meaning #FoodBankBritain. And it’s not just the unemployed using food banks. Wages for hard working people is so poor, and inflation so high that teachers and nurses are
using them to feed their families too. #FoodBankTories
The #Tories have run down schools and run down the #NHS. Schools aren’t properly supported or ventilated. Staff turnover is ridiculously high. Burnout is commonplace.
The #Tories have run down schools and run down the #NHS. Schools aren’t properly supported or ventilated. Staff turnover is ridiculously high. Burnout is commonplace.
+26 Tory MP's charged with, rape, physical assault, drug use, embezzlement, watching porn at HoC, paedophilia, breach of lobbying and social distancing rules, driving offences, groping, serious misconduct, cover ups/exerting undue influence in court cases, tax evasion #GTTONow
Context on these criminals. Ayn Rand (1905) was a writer who left🇷🇺for US in 1926, she escaped communism but substituted it for far right libertarian views. Sunak is a huge fan of her. Rand advocated empowering the state via police and judiciary to protect individual property>
Rand's free market ideology became a benchmark for libertarian attacks on the state which we are seeing rightg now from the Tories. Sovereignty has been 'restructured' (Rees-Mogg) to favour private interests and corporate rule beyond interference of big Govt.
Charter cities are coming. Patrik Schumacher libertarian superc*nt 'Abolish social housing, scrap prescriptive planning regulations & usher in the wholesale privatisation of our streets, squares and parks' He welcomed London’s influx of overseas investors
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His uncompromising position on social housing estates provoked particularly audible disgust. “When socially renting tenants are asked to move and offered a new place somewhere else, they are given these new houses for free,”
City-centre locations should instead be used to house “the most economically potent and most productive users who serve us most effectively, we should build a new city on Hyde Park. How much are you actually using it?” he asked Londoners in the audience.
Charter Cities Governance Guide packed with advice from libertarians like Tom Bell and Michael Castle Miller (direct links to UK Govt) See our whiteboard, join the dots, Truss is privatising the entire UK for total corporate rule!👇🏻
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Frost has a script for Truss to follow, Equalities Act will be abolished, that's workers rights gone. Do you see how that will benefit ruthless corporations to profit from modern day slavery in post Brexit UK?
Truss SEZ's now 75km across, UK is done for👇🏻
Truss SEZ's now 75km across, UK is done for👇🏻
Shout out to @GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham please take a look at the above Charter Cities Governance Guide which lays the groundwork for a deregulated post Brexit UK 3rd country to allow private corporations set their own libertarian favoured laws inc. dispute resolutions.
So why are the Tories remaking Britain into their own image? Their stealth plans for lawless charter cities will offer sovereign individuals protection under ‘polycentric’ laws, these are laws that are anti-statist and are privately produced to favour corporate hegemony. #Brexit
‘Win the courts, win the war’ means that the judiciary itself must be restructured according to free market wishes, this will not benefit workers rights, it will annihilate them. Post Brexit deregulation is key, ECHR abandoned, 2,400 EU laws repealed by 2023 according to Truss.
Trump managed to repeal 85 laws in 2 years. Once this clean slate is reached the UK Govt can forge ahead with it’s libertarian reforms of the entire country, ensuring whole regions become privatised to secure economic liberty beyond Govt reach. #Libertarian
Bear with me. In 1536 legislation was passed to deal with the impotent poor. The Poor Law System fell into decline until intro of Liberal Welfare Reforms and establishing of Trade Unions in 1906. Poor laws existed until 1967. Join the dots! #CharterCities
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Omen of what's next post Brexit UK. 2007 libertarian think tank CATO Institute wrote a paper titled 'The Case for an Activist Judiciary to Secure Economic Liberty' "Judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic and political change."
nytimes.com/2005/04/17/mag…
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Tories are in a deregulatory frenzy, 2 years will accelerate their fatal strategies across the entire infrastructure of UK society, 3rd country status, an 'emerging economy.' PEEL Group, DP World are frontier capitalists expanding their Freeports into lawless Charter Cities.
in 2015 the so called, dark money funded, think tank, the Tax Payers Alliance published their far right wish list for reducing the state and minimising taxes for the wealthy, this is a thread of *just* the contents!! 
Shanker Singham, Tom Bell, Sunak's mentor Prof.Paul Romer are all up to their necks in developing and physically experimenting with charter cities all over the world. Please read my threads, this is the evidence that lawless charter cities are real and happening. #CharterCities
The Brexit Freedoms Bill, Penny Mordaunts meetings with billionaire property magnate Alliance Texas, investors granted permanent settlement during this period (2,823), 75% were from countries of HR concern, while 65% were from Russia and China alone🧵
Tories anti governance is all about its commodification, transfer of public money to private hands, Mogg's restructuring of sovereignty, transformation of social sciences based think tanks to partisan pressure groups exerting massive influence on Govt🧵
IEA's r/w ideology includes climate change denial, total privatisation (Charter Cities) & the abolition of NHS. FREER is an offshoot think tank of IEA members-Truss Patel Badenoch, etc, it has been referred to the Charity Commission for political bias. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute…
Here's an example of how a r/w think tank is set up. As far back as 1976 Charles Koch drew up a blue print for the creation of a libertarian movement. In 1984 he launched Citizens for a Sound Economy, a non profit group fighting to reduce Govt. But grass roots became 'Astroturf'
Koch poured $7.9 million into this 'charitable foundation.' It claimed to represent housewives, farmers, small business, wage earners but was manufactured by corporate sponsors with a populist ideology. R/w think tanks often use quasi academic names as a front for radical ideas.
The ERG was formed 29 years ago in 1993, it is considered the most influential right wing think in British political history and has since its inception been holding the Govt hostage with far right radical libertarian ideology. It is tax payer funded🧵
Anthony Fisher🇬🇧 was encouraged by libertarian economist Milton Friedman🇺🇸 to form a think tank that would not disclose it's true r/w policies because a charity is politically neutral and 'our ideas would not prove popular with the public', Fisher formed the IEA in 1955 #Brexit
IEA's r/w ideology includes climate change denial, total privatisation (Charter Cities) & the abolition of NHS. FREER is an offshoot think tank of IEA members-Truss Patel Badenoch, etc, it has been referred to the Charity Commission for political bias. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute…
How to explain what a charter city is to a 10 year old.
One day the Govt allows a big company to buy the land your homes are on, they're so wealthy they decide to change the laws so they can make more money. They will draw up a new contract that you have to sign where you agree to live by their rules and not the Govt's anymore.
If the company don't like you for disagreeing with them because they lowered your wages and demanded you work more hours for even less pay, they might force you to leave their town and go and live in a special area they built for the very poor just so you don't bother the company
Yellow lines all linked to #Brexit Red lines all linked to Honduras (ZEDEs) #CharterCities Green lines to daughter and grand daughter of Anthony Fisher who formed IEA London in 1955. There is no way that the overlaps are benign. @bakerstherald
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World Tax Payers Conference of 2016 (you recall that date right?) brought together the worlds right wing libertarian think tanks to instigate radical reforms on the back of crisis,that's disaster capitalism in a nutshell. This webpage has been deleted...
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The sooner people realise that the reason Brexit was forced to happen was to reset the global economic infrastructure away from regulation and protection of the 99% to a fascist system of corporate hegemony, the tide will change to a democracy of equality and moderation in Govts
@raycraib has written the very first book on right wing libertarian charter cities: Adventure Capitalism - A History of Libertarian Exit.'
The parallels to post Brexit UK are unmistakable. Buy it, it will blow your mind!
The parallels to post Brexit UK are unmistakable. Buy it, it will blow your mind!
Since WWII, Great Depression, a huge ideological battle continues to rage between social democracy and individual liberty. Libertarians want to abolish Govt interference because taxing their 'property/wealth' is state theft' and represents oppressive constraints on their liberty
Spin fwd to 2022, multinationals/CEO profits have increased +1000% while workers wage increases have been frozen, cut or given the equivalent of crumbs from the table. Is it any wonder that a billionaire ant-democracy movement is currently at economic war with the state and Govt?
⚠️ #CharterCities & UK fracking/shale gas ⚠️
The official Solent Charter City boundary significantly expanded after 22nd Mar '22 to include the entire Isle of Wight.
Thanks to @SonicFixRepairs suggestion of consulting a geological map, there appears to be an answer...
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The official Solent Charter City boundary significantly expanded after 22nd Mar '22 to include the entire Isle of Wight.
Thanks to @SonicFixRepairs suggestion of consulting a geological map, there appears to be an answer...
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This is the Solent boundary as of 22nd Mar this year:
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And here is the current boundary:
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Govt. freeport maps lacked detail so I made these to show the sheer scale of these deregulation zones. Much extensive research on this and those involved done by @bakerstherald also condensed into some easy to read threads by @EuropeanPowell
Solent #CharterCities
Freeport East #CharterCities
Below is the far right taxpayers’ alliance proposing #CharterCities - the next big idea that will have infect the Tory Party. This is what the writer wants for Hull and then #Liverpool . Scared? You should be. Please read.
Below is the link to the whole article. You may think I’m being alarmist, that this will never be implemented. I hope you’re correct. taxpayersalliance.com/charter_cities…
But this idea sat beneath #BrexitBrokeBritain all along. Singapore on Thames. The creation of flat tax, union free, employment rights and benefits free city zones where capital can play without hindrance or oversight. The return of serfdom. Start paying attention or be a victim.
Tories already expanding vocabulary of Freeports by adding 'zones' into the mix, they're not just ports! The #Liverpool zone has a population of 2,3 million! Entire regions under corporate laws dictated and enforced under a privately owned judiciary. Brexit deregulation hell.
Excellent article by @eyes_lilly on Tories post Brexit Charter cities which are well underway as the next ERG PM takes the UK to it's authoritarian corporate run conclusion.
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Of course none of this was on the side of a bus, r/w #libertarian policies have for decades proven notoriously unpopular with the public, that's why think tanks were used under a pretext of 'charity status' so r/w ideologues could carry on with their destruction by stealth
Surely every serious national security strategist understands the distinction btwn Govts Geopolitical decisions and th military's detailed scenario planning & action program. A govt can decided on basis of expected value of outcome or worst case scenarios-the latter is paralyzing
2/ns The critical issue in China-India conflict is that,as of now (2020), #China controls the #escalatory ladder. So India's #National #Security Apparatus has to make assumptions about when and how #CCPpla will escalate, if it loses the first few steps on its escalatory ladder!
3/ns The worst case scenario for us is therefore the one in which after loosing previous escalations, #CCP China escalates to a full fledged war/attack on India, by shifting US-facing troops and highest quality equipment towards India. This has proved paralyzing for past Govts!🤔
