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Here's why Charter cities are not alarmist remoaner rants
Shanker Singham's World Operating System looks at laws as services companies demand
Titus Gebel wants to 'remove politics' he has invited billionaires to invest in CCs
British Govt sold your sovereignty
UK out of EU laws
Private companies can operate jurisdictions under their corporate needs beyond the host countrys laws, a city within a city. A Network of Liberty=Billionaire investors, politicians, economists, think tanks and global business interests.
UK has clean slate
Brexit=Libertarian Exit
Freeports, free zones, free schools, free laws, free cities.
'Free' is for the investor classes (foreign and domestic) to transform the UK into a corporate governed rogue state
These are the stepping stones Sunak is laying while the UK MSM is asleep at the wheel. #Brexit
Uk is a Totalitarian democracy where voting exists but with zero participation in decisions made in Parliament. The Charter Cities Institute has a 286 page (Private) Governance Handbook primed for the UK's libertarian 'exit' from democracy and the ECHR.
A link to all my Twitter threads on Freeports, Special Economic Zones, Charter Cities, Corporate governance, Brexit, right-wing thinktanks, the network of liberty, Neoliberalism, and names of libertarian economists and anarcho-capitalists alike.
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Like Hong Kong, the UK Govt and its so-called opposition parties have reached a verdict, the markets know best, they will be trusted to self-regulate, UK's policymakers are 'free' from Big govt, 12 Freeports and 74 economic zones will install corporate governance post-Brexit.
The UK public are effectively lab rats in a laboratory experiment, this is what happens when Govt is shrunk to its 'proper' function, people know when they fail 'they bear the cost' - Milton Friedman.
The more power the market has the more the state implodes. ECHR, unions, welfare, the rule of law, environmental protections, unemployment, spiking inflation, and public spending are anathema to the Tories and the oligarch leading its cabal. What do you think happens next?
Globalization prioritizes capitalism, off-shoring revenue over core principles of social democracy. The most lucrative line of business is between Governments and the investor classes. Zone fever is the next stage in 'countrypreneurship', public services are 'small potatoes'
The UK is part of the reconfiguration of democracy to a plutocracy, where corporations set up governance in patchworks of sovereignty, in the UK these are represented by 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs, each zone will compete with the other, extract profit then move on leaving ruins.
'Administrative absolutism' will see the end of🇬🇧politics, the obstacle of democracy is being dismantled, and the public are now witnesses to their own fate. All public funding is being extracted to subsidize big corps to set up shop in the 74 zones, these will be charter cities
Freeports, free zones, free schools, free cities. The absence of politics is what our so-called representative parties seek, you do not allow local councils to collapse and then spend billions on setting up SEZs for nothing, these zones are modeled on Hong Kong and Singapore.
1950's, Mont Pelerin Group called its members neoliberals, they each believed that capitalism had to be protected from democracy, they believed that creeping socialism and the welfare state were a threat to their profits and individual freedom. Tories base everything on this.
A Freeport is a tax haven, it's not a regular port for freight, it is a zone designated for maximum capital accumulation beyond the prying eyes of Big Govt, relaxed laws in these ports and their companion SEZS mean relaxed enforcement of laws. Exiting ECHR will seal the fate of🇬🇧
SEZs will have fences and barriers put up around them, this comes from the libertarian maxim of protecting private property, residents in the zones will be issued compulsory purchase orders which are legal in the UK, so anyone objecting can 'opt in or out' of the zone.
Rees Mogg - we are restructuring the role of the state
Leave Campaign - we will write our own laws
Sunak - I will not allow a foreign court, like the ECHR, to block these flights
Singham - we are looking at Laws as services that companies demand
#Brexit
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Apr 19
PORT LABOUR IN THE EU
'Despite signs of considerable improvement in the past decades, scattered data suggest that the port worker continues to have one of the most dangerous occupations in the entire EU economy'
Do you understand why the TUC and RMT are against Sunak's Freeports?
Do you know that the Labour Party are referring to Sunak's Freeports as ports in their GE campaigning?
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Brexit is about capitalism without democracy, it is economic freedom that depends on political disenfranchisement. In the UK human labour is now effectively an entrapped domestic workforce, it is a required necessity in Cons and Labour's 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 SEZs. That same workforce is a result of corporate coercion working with neoliberal politicians to inflict pain and desperation as the public sector is absorbed into the private sector.
Each SEZ and Freeport spins a narrative of 'fragile zones of freedom' under siege from the regulatory state that oppresses the purity of unfettered capital accumulation.
Labour and Cons are a unity party who have betrayed social democracy. It is time for a seismic challenge to take place across the world, we must form new parties and break away from this toxic corporate imperial order.
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Apr 16
An Oil Baron Wants to Build Over a Local Park for His ‘Green’ Energy Project
Locals are taking him to court.
@novaramedia A 'port' is publicly owned, the 2 Freeports in Cromarty Firth, and the Firth of Forth are privately owned and fall under corporate governance.
Hydrogen, is not a green energy source which is why it is beloved by the fossil fuel industry since much of it is extracted from natural gas. Nigg is just one of 18 Special Economic Zones spread across Scotland.
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SEZ chaos hits Torry in Scotland.
Aberdeen councillors yesterday voted to back the leasing of St Fittick's Park for an energy transition zone in the face of strong opposition from Torry residents.
Campaigners gathered outside the Town House to protest the decision, which divided the chamber with the Labour group voting in opposition and the SNP, Liberal Democrat and Conservative groups in favour.
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Apr 10
Our main parties continue to exchange petty insults, playing the blame game while shredding public trust, and confidence in our democratic political system. This pantomime will get worse as the GE approaches.
We can no longer depend on the MSM to tell us the truth of what is going on behind closed doors. There are reasons for this subterfuge, corporations are dictating the terms.
It again falls to independent grassroots organisations to reveal what's actually happening, they are the ones who are exposing the rampant corruption. Please support them.
We must challenge politicians on all sides who are complicit in reducing the public to being mere spectators of their own fate.
We must demand public participation in decision-making processes that affect the lives of the majority of people in the UK.
We must insist that our representative MPs close the revolving door of big donors and prevent them once and for all from shaping policy to create wealth for themselves, their friends, and families.
The consequences are plain to see as austerity policies ravage towns, cities, and the environment.
The public sector, and the councils that are supposed to provide services are being privatised and bankrupted, it is all by design and down to Brexit.
What comes next is terrifying, corporate governance in 86 Special Economic Zones that are tax-exempt for 10 years.
Each of Sunak's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports must be publicly owned and publicly governed, otherwise, the UK can forget rejoining the EU.
Brexit allows the UK Govt to give State Aid (public money) to companies of their choosing, this is illegal in the EU because it distorts markets creating an unlevel playing field, which sabotages rejoining.
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Apr 7
‘States exerting power on behalf of corporations in SEZs’.
The most lucrative line of business is between corporations and the Govt.
The UK Govt is working to help companies enforce their rules and private laws within 86 Special Economic Zones, and this is tax payer funded. The cannibalisation of all our resources is stealthily underway, and the zone (being a complex subject) camouflages its agenda with culture wars. Watch @kennardmatt discuss corporate welfare in the form of State Aid (public money), SEZs, and how the obstacle of social democracy has been removed to pave the way for corporate hegemony. #BrexitDisaster @novaramedia

I have shocking news for Labour supporters.
Labour MPs, Mayors, Councillors, Lords, and Baronesses are sitting members of a cross-party alliance of Freeports consortia spanning England, Scotland, and Wales.
Labour Party members backing Sunak's 12 Freeports
Kim Johnson
Mick Whitley
Jon Cruddas
Margaret Mullane (candidate)
Keir Starmer
Rachel Reeves
Liam Byrne
Nick Fletcher
Gill Furniss
Dame Rosie Winterton
Clr Alan Nimmo
Clr Altany Craik
Clr Cammy Day
Baroness Blake of Leeds
Mayor Steve Rotheram

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If you are not shocked at the huge amount of corporations waiting in line to extract resources, pay no tax for 10 years, enjoy SEZ status for 25 years, receive tax payer's money to the tune of billions to subsidise them, introduce appalling work standards, ruin local communities, collapse, and absorb councils and public services, set up private security, private banking, money laundering, drugs, weapons trade, human trafficking, modern-day slavery, stolen art in 12 deregulated Freeports looking to expand into the surrounding zones, some of which are 75km in diameter then you are either an anarcho-capitalist or you are asleep.
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Apr 3
Q - What's the difference between Special Economic zones in the UK and SEZs in the EU?
A - SEZs in the UK are tax havens
A - SEZS in the UK are deregulated
A - SEZs in the UK are experiments in corporate governance
A - SEZs in the UK are privately run
A - SEZs in the UK distort competition
A - SEZs in the UK allow the Govt to give State aid (public money) to companies of their choice
A - SEZs in the EU, none of the above europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/155707…
Where is all this going?
Gove introduced Compulsory Purchase Orders in his Levelling Up Bill last Ict 2023, CPIs apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties.
Private equity is making aggressive incursions into the public sector as engineered insolvency bankrupts councils, and public assets are sold off.
Please watch the @PoliticsJOE_UK interview ‘Why we need to abolish landlords’ with @NickBano
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Mar 25
Labour = No rejoin, got it.
So we should be focusing on those spectacular Brexit benefits, right? But, here's what's coming next.
Labour are backing the Tory initiative of installing 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) the length and breadth of the UK.
48 SEZs in England
18 SEZs in Scotland
8 SEZs in Wales
8 Freeports in England
2 Freeports in Scotland
2 Freeports in Wales
0 SEZs and Freeports in Northern Ireland...I wonder why?
Labour are part of a cross-party alliance that sits on the Freeports consortia in England, Scotland, and Wales, the members include MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses. They are working with major stakeholders from dozens of companies, and being advised by governance consultancy's who specialise in deregulatory frameworks for Special Economic Zones, Locus Economica is one such consultancy.
Locus Economica worked very closely with the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai, our former Queen officiated at the opening ceremony of the Free zone in 1979. Jebel Ali Freezone is the flagship zone of DP World. Welcome to Brexit dystopia where deregulation that follows the culling of EU/UK retained laws on employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections were shredded on 31st Dece 2023, with 1000's more for the chop by 2026.
So Keir Starmer will not inherit the turmoil of Brexit or Sunak's Free zones to remedy the Tories attacks on just about everything publicly owned, because he and the Labour Party actively back the reconfiguration of the UK into a privatised plutocratic libertarian hellhole.locuseconomica.com
Now for the technical side of things which comes down to differences between WTO and EU State Aid rules.
For the Tories and Labour, Supply-Side Economics means low taxes and deregulation, so those at the top make the profits while those at the bottom watch society fall into oblivion. The cherry on top for those wilfully ignoring Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is State Aid under WTO rules allows Govt's in 3rd country's (the UK) to give preferential treatment to companies of their choosing inside the Freeports and SEZs, this is the trick of the zone, a state within a state, a bit like how the Mafia operates.
EU State Aid is strictly regulated to prevent Govt's doing this because it distorts markets creating an unlevel playing field, Brexit allows the Govt to break the rules under what I call 'legalized lawlessness'. The UK is now a Russian doll.
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