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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 6h

Tower Hamlets refused the Brick Lane data centre unanimously. The govt approved it in Angela Rayner's name. Her partner, Sam Tarry, is senior adviser at NorthPoint Strategy, a lobby firm working in AI, crypto and energy, chaired by Tory peer Lord Wharton.🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/free-zones...

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Free Zones are Stepping Stones to Free Cities: Brick Lane, Teesside and the Road to Próspera

Tower Hamlets Council unanimously rejected the Truman Brewery scheme. Labour approved it anyway

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Guardian, the BBC, the Daily Mail, and The Telegraph, have once again morally and ethically disgraced themselves over their continued allegiance to the genocidal State of Israel, as they spew venom over Zack Polanski’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WWh...

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WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"So many of the people I speak to here tell me they’ve voted Labour in the past – but this time, they’re voting Green to elect an independent local MP who will fight for their communities and keep the Labour government in check." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One page from Norman Finkelstein's new book Gaza's Gravediggers - An Inquiry Into Corruption In High Places.

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WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears

YouTube video by Double Down News

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fact - Tech companies are becoming more powerful than sovereign states. Reminder - That's a private, unelected multi-billionaire silencing and deplatforming the verified voice of a sovereign G7 government during an active conflict.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk used X to suspend the UK British Consulate’s account in Jerusalem after it called out the systemic abuse of thousands of Palestinians who were detained without trial. youtu.be/G6dRdO1I9WA

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Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk used X to suspend the UK British Consulate’s account in Jerusalem after it called out the systemic abuse of thousands of Palestinians who were detained without trial. youtu.be/G6dRdO1I9WA

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Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments

YouTube video by Dr Myriam François

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peter Thiel is a cancer on the world. Our govts are buying into his far-right ideological bullshit, and the software his company Palantir makes to commit genocide, destroy critical infrastructure, and spy on every aspect of our lives We are truly in the upside down m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFX...

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Billionaire Pervert Accidentally Tells The Truth | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sunak built Teesside's freeport, £560m public spend, 20-30 jobs, two men took the rest. Starmer promised an audit, Rayner shelved. Burnham inherits the programme having built Manchester's version himself. Three PMs, one mechanism. substack.com/@europeanpow...

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Rishi Sunak built Teesside as a freeport, handed two men with no investment a 90% stake in Teesworks Ltd, and it produced £560 million in public spending against 20 to 30 permanent jobs. Under Keir ...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What Are Free Zones—And Why Hasn’t Anyone Told You About Them? Ask your family and friends if they’ve heard of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, or AI Growth Zones. Most will look at you like you have two heads. That should worry you. 🧵

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Listened to a BBC programme on charter cities, Honduras to Sierra Leone to Dubai to outer space. But not one guest mentioned the mechanism doing the same job in the UK: 90+ free zones since Brexit, created by secondary legislation, no vote required. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-consen...

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The Consent Gap: What the BBC Left Out of Its Own Charter Cities Episode

A BBC programme on Paul Romer’s charter city idea spent close to an hour moving from Honduras to Sierra Leone to Dubai to outer space, with four guests, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Tom W.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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The Consent Gap: What the BBC Left Out of Its Own Charter Cities Episode

A BBC programme on Paul Romer’s charter city idea spent close to an hour moving from Honduras to Sierra Leone to Dubai to outer space, with four guests, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Tom W.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Freeports. SEZ's. AI Growth Zones, are all stepping stones to 'Free cities'. The UK is being privatised. This Labour Government are doubling down on economic growth no matter the consequences for critical infrastructure. My new piece on Substack: europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-infras...

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The Infrastructure Imperative

How Britain’s Ports, Water, and Data Became One Balance Sheet

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There are ninety-one free zones across the UK. The same secondary legislation. The same governance architecture. The same absence of mandatory audit. Teesworks is not the outlier. It is the instruction manual.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Murmur to the Mud is the second exhibition in an ongoing flower painting series begun in 2013. It started with a single image, flowers growing wild at the edge of a highway, I then began to remove human figures from my paintings. 🧵

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rishi Sunak announced Teesworks as his flagship Brexit freeport as Chancellor in 2021. Over £600m in public money followed. The freeport is now effectively closed. The site is being repurposed as an AI Growth Zone. The named partner: Anthropic. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/sunak-buil...

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Sunak Built Teesside Freeport. Now He Advises Anthropic, The Company Positioned To Take the Profit.

In 2021, Rishi Sunak stood at Teesworks and announced his flagship Brexit freeport.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Sunak Built Teesside Freeport. Now He Advises Anthropic, The Company Positioned To Take the Profit.

In 2021, Rishi Sunak stood at Teesworks and announced his flagship Brexit freeport.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This would be a disaster in terms of driving yet more planet-heating carbon emissions - and the fact they’re being fast-tracked to avoid greater public scrutiny suggests a total disregard for public opinion

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Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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The Infrastructure Imperative

How Britain’s Ports, Water, and Data Became One Balance Sheet

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Teesworks Freeport accounts are a disaster. Auditors are refusing to sign them off. STDC carries £420m in debt. There are no formal contracts covering any of it. This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...

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The Deregulated Free Zone Is What the Clearance Was For

The Teesworks accounts, the Anthropic data centre, and eight years of evidence that nobody in power wants to examine.

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Chickyholic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chickyholic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you're not following European Powell you're probably not aware of the UK's ties to Trump's ICE.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is beyond the pale. Cash for Custody: The Infrastructure Reform Won’t Need to Build Burnham’s Cabinet inherits, and keeps, a privatised enforcement contract with direct ICE ties europeanpowell.substack.com/p/cash-for-c...

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Cash for Custody: The Infrastructure Reform Won’t Need to Build

Burnham’s Cabinet inherits, and keeps, a privatised enforcement contract with direct ICE ties

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The US Trump regime is a truly disgusting hegemony, wildly out of control, behaving like a mafia cartel bent on dismantling international law. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4A1...

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Trump TARGETS COURT as He COLLAPSES GLOBALLY

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's here! @gilduran.com 's "The Nerd Reich" lands at a moment when the thesis it names, Silicon Valley fascism, has already left the page and entered planning law. 🧵

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Different lead singer. Same band.

Burnham received £345,000 of donations ahead of becoming PM

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Buy Gil Duran's book The Nerd Reich; know that the free zone rollout is global. UK has 91 free zones since Brexit. Tories and Labour colluded on carving up the UK into corporate governed territories via secondary legislation. ZERO Parliamentary debate ZERO consultation with public and press.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Stack of books. The nerd Reich, Gil Duran.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trump refusing to hand over 30-40 pages of handwritten notes taken by FBI agents during interviews from a 13-year-old girl who alleges Donald Trump physically and sexually assaulted her. Judge Sullivan promises to hold DOJ in contempt of court. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8_w...

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“I will hold you in contempt!” Judge drops Epstein BOMB on Trump

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bounded jurisdiction, no accountability, capital gets the vote. The UKs Freeports, SEZs, AI Growth Zones, all versions of that same idea. Tories and Labour colluded on it Post-Brexit, the free zone model is carving Britain into corporate-governed territory europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-zone-b...

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The Zone Before the Zone: How the City of London Corporation Invented Britain's Free Zone Model

Did you know London gained charter city status in the year 1075?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

WARNING⚠️Burnham is an active participant in this model. He built the Manchester free zone. He's now implementing it nationally, with a business adviser who holds AI company shares, an AI minister who deleted his corporate CV, and a chief of staff who told corporate clients to expect deregulation.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"It's not just the US. Watching the Starmer administration accelerate data centres, zoning and planning, usurping local councils and saying we want to build these things in greenbelts...under a vague conception of AI growth" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEf-...

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Naomi Klein: AI is a fascist idea

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In 2021, Greenland banned all future oil exploration, but now Trump and a Texas oil company called Greenland Energy have been illegally leaving shipping containers ready to begin drilling in the region. I say confiscate all the equipment NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGpC...

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Maddow: 'Is this how we invade Greenland?!'

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Naomi Klein: AI is a fascist idea

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Burnham is implementing an AI industrial strategy that will make those companies very rich. The Cabinet Office's statement on Chandra's conflicts of interest said there would be "specific mitigations which can include recusals" when organisations he previously advised engage with government.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Burnham's AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, deleted his corporate roles from LinkedIn before taking office. Those roles included adviser to Lazard bank, a stint at Atomico, a European tech-focused venture capital firm, >

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In Manchester, Burnham's Investment Zone, signed off with the Tories, directed £160 million in state aid into an area where Blackstone already held the land. Blackstone sold that land to Manchester United at an undisclosed premium on the same day Burnham walked into Westminster.>

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now look at what that strategy actually produces on the ground. Data centres, the physical infrastructure of the AI revolution, are being built on publicly de-risked land inside AI Growth Zones with accelerated planning approval, priority grid access, and energy price discounts, all publicly funded.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

While at Flint, Purnell told corporate clients to expect deregulation, no tax rises, and spending cuts. This is the team implementing Britain's AI industrial strategy.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Andy Burnham says he wants AI to power a new industrial revolution that drives good growth in every postcode. Here is what that revolution actually looks like up close. @thenerve.news @carolecadwalla.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/euro...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/08/2026

In April, I was kicked off of X. Now, YouTube is threatening to delete the Nerd Reich podcast. Anyone have experience dealing with this kind of thing? It's clearly a coordinated campaign to kill our channel via false complaints, but it appears YouTube will nuke our channel in the next two days.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My latest piece: how data centre AI Growth Zones are privatising Britain, and why the Andy Burnham Manchester Enterprise Zone is now the template for the entire UK. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-digita...

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THE DIGITAL ENCLOSURE: HOW DATA CENTRE GROWTH ZONES ARE PRIVATISING BRITAIN

And why the Burnham model is already the template

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating, and the vast majority of people living in its path do not know it is happening.

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