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A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras https://www.wired.com/story/a-lawsuit-from-backers-of-a-startup-city-could-bankrupt-honduras/ #Science/Environment #CharterCities #Science

A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras https://www.wired.com/story/a-lawsuit-from-backers-of-a-startup-city-could-bankrupt-honduras/ #Science/Environment #CharterCities #Science

A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras - The country faces a wave of claims after it repealed a law allowing for special economic ... - https://www.wired.com/story/a-lawsuit-from-backers-of-a-startup-city-could-bankrupt-honduras/ #science/environment #chartercities #science

@shrugdealer

holy. fucking. crap. 🤯

Just a reminder: This was initiated under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who came into power by a military coup against president Manuel Zelaya.

Although some of the tools seem new, It's the old story of US-backed military coups* wrecking countries also in the long term (in other cases the mechanism is military expenditure leading to foreign debt leading to World Bank-prescripted austerity measures).

* Europe or any other imperialists aren't much different. But it's *really* often the US...

#ForeignDebt #Honduras #LatAm #NeoColonialism #PrósperaZEDE #TradeAgreements #FreeTrade #CharterCities #PorfirioLobo

@shrugdealer

holy. fucking. crap. 🤯

Just a reminder: This was initiated under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who came into power by a military coup against president Manuel Zelaya.

Although some of the tools seem new, It's the old story of US-backed military coups* wrecking countries also in the long term (in other cases the mechanism is military expenditure leading to foreign debt leading to World Bank-prescripted austerity measures).

* Europe or any other imperialists aren't much different. But it's *really* often the US...

#ForeignDebt #Honduras #LatAm #NeoColonialism #PrósperaZEDE #TradeAgreements #FreeTrade #CharterCities #PorfirioLobo

@shrugdealer

holy. fucking. crap. 🤯

Just a reminder: This was initiated under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who came into power by a military coup against president Manuel Zelaya.

Although some of the tools seem new, It's the old story of US-backed military coups* wrecking countries also in the long term (in other cases the mechanism is military expenditure leading to foreign debt leading to World Bank-prescripted austerity measures).

* Europe or any other imperialists aren't much different. But it's *really* often the US...

#ForeignDebt #Honduras #LatAm #NeoColonialism #PrósperaZEDE #TradeAgreements #FreeTrade #CharterCities #PorfirioLobo

@shrugdealer

holy. fucking. crap. 🤯

Just a reminder: This was initiated under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who came into power by a military coup against president Manuel Zelaya.

Although some of the tools seem new, It's the old story of US-backed military coups* wrecking countries also in the long term (in other cases the mechanism is military expenditure leading to foreign debt leading to World Bank-prescripted austerity measures).

* Europe or any other imperialists aren't much different. But it's *really* often the US...

#ForeignDebt #Honduras #LatAm #NeoColonialism #PrósperaZEDE #TradeAgreements #FreeTrade #CharterCities #PorfirioLobo

@shrugdealer

holy. fucking. crap. 🤯

Just a reminder: This was initiated under the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who came into power by a military coup against president Manuel Zelaya.

Although some of the tools seem new, It's the old story of US-backed military coups* wrecking countries also in the long term (in other cases the mechanism is military expenditure leading to foreign debt leading to World Bank-prescripted austerity measures).

* Europe or any other imperialists aren't much different. But it's *really* often the US...

#ForeignDebt #Honduras #LatAm #NeoColonialism #PrósperaZEDE #TradeAgreements #FreeTrade #CharterCities #PorfirioLobo

"Próspera is a private, for-profit city, with its own government that courts foreign investors through low taxes and light regulation. Businesses can choose a regulatory framework from a menu of 36 countries or customize their own."

"The week of my visit, Patri Friedman, grandson of the economist Milton Friedman and the founder of a start-up-cities fund that invested in Próspera, had a chip with his Tesla key implanted into his hand. On a previous trip he brushed his teeth with genetically modified bacteria purported to prevent cavities. Another time he was injected with a protein booster intended to make him 'stronger and faster,' as he put it at a conference in Roatán that weekend."

"Critics have described it as a neocolonial state within a state, or an example of corporate monarchy, where yacht-owning C.E.O.s exploit land and labor in a poor country."

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-honduras-crypto.html

Paywall-free:
archive.ph/elhKp

#Prospera #NetworkStates #CharterCities

@ct_bergstrom This is not about losing one's mind, but about gaining control, and about implementing exactly what has been proposed.

Erecting de-facto democracy-free zones has been on the billionaire agenda for more than a decade, and flexibly called "going to #Mars", "#CharterCities", "#ModelCities"; or implemented in #Cayalá; cast into #ZEDE laws used against the very country they're in, like w/ #Próspera that asks the #US (!) to "encourage" (!) #Honduras to "respect its legal commitments".

What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9FRNc9ygpLSDh4pkX/what-if-we-could-redesign-society-from-scratch-the-promise
"… maybe the idea that promoting #governance #competition leads to faster #growth and greater #liberty, will seem just as obvious as the idea that an elected president usually provides better leadership than a dictator or a king. #CharterCities today are focused on making life better for the people who choose to move there."

@CloudyMrs

the racism is a smokescreen for all the sinister legislation they are shoving through for their donors tho turn the UK into a libertarian hellhole that the rich can use to ignore international law, and tax.

the whole problem was the EU was making it difficult for their callous business practices so they got in bed with UKIP and only the amoral Tories stayed to peddle their xenophobic lies to the public.

they won

THE END

#charterCities
#freePorts
#ECHR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfmAY6M6aA

@ChrisMayLA6
Is the Charter Cities moment here?
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/is-the-charter-cities-moment-here/
Sunak called Stanford professor Paul Romer "inspiring".
Romer, who described #CharterCities as 'quasi-sovereign units located within existing states' which would be maintained by a 'foreign guarantor nation or nations' claimed to not remember #Sunak
But what these two share is a belief in the needs of #capitalism over workers' rights.
Have #Freeports gone away? ask #Teesside

David Pilling in FT (sorry, behind their paywall) sets out why #chartercities might be the answer for #Africa's #governance crisis:

But, as was obvious in UK plans around these quasi-independent cities, the question really is who benefits from the independent regulatory structures?

if it enables relief from corrupt states then perhaps they may work, if it merely (as in the UK) offers relief from pesky #labour regulation, then its hard to see their social worth!

https://www.ft.com/content/7a0419bf-e76f-4abb-8024-043ee24e4382

The only reason to change laws of a previously stable country are for r/w libertarian ends, no one is paying attention or asking why? It has happened before throughout history with the same disastrous results. #chartercitieshttps://twitter.com/EuropeanPowell/status/1599317696343986176?s=20&t=gMg7z1P2ItxbX-5HSWrrXg

@fulelo This is an interrelated play to normalise the prospect of #CharterCities isn't it? King Peter is the marketing man for the #FreePort 'movement'.

Common laws already been trampled for benefit of frontier capitalists to set up shop and ruin the environment then charge the public to clean up polluted areas. Land grabbing, NHS gone, high inflation, mortgage increases will squeeze homeowners and force them to sell their homes. The only reason to change laws of a previously stable country are for r/w libertarian ends, no one is paying attention or asking why? It has happened before with the same disastrous results #CharterCities

I'll be tooting my arse off about #Libertarianism #Brexit #Sunak #Tories #chartercities #anglosphere #disastercapitalism #BylineTimes #climatecrisis #politics #fascism #corporatism #Government #thinktanks #Democracy #capitalism #DarkMoney #Revolvingdoor #AynRand #MiltonFriedman #FriedrichHayek #ATLAS #ERG #IEA #PolicyExchange #RightWing #Starmer #coalition #eu #Biden #EnterpriseCities #ShankerSingham #JacobReesMogg #LizTruss #SuellaBraverman #Libertarian #Coup #twittermigration #freespeech #UK

I'll be tooting my arse off about #Libertarianism #Brexit #Sunak #Tories #chartercities #anglosphere #disastercapitalism #BylineTimes #climatecrisis #politics #fascism #corporatism #Government #thinktanks #Democracy #capitalism #DarkMoney #Revolvingdoor #AynRand #MiltonFriedman #FriedrichHayek #ATLAS #ERG #IEA #PolicyExchange #RightWing #Starmer #coalition #eu #Biden #EnterpriseCities #ShankerSingham #JacobReesMogg #LizTruss #SuellaBraverman #Libertarian #Coup #twittermigration #freespeech #UK

I'll be tooting my arse off about #Libertarianism #Brexit #Sunak #Tories #chartercities #anglosphere #disastercapitalism #BylineTimes #climatecrisis #politics #fascism #corporatism #Government #thinktanks #Democracy #capitalism #DarkMoney #Revolvingdoor #AynRand #MiltonFriedman #FriedrichHayek #ATLAS #ERG #IEA #PolicyExchange #RightWing #Starmer #coalition #eu #Biden #EnterpriseCities #ShankerSingham #JacobReesMogg #LizTruss #SuellaBraverman #Libertarian #Coup #twittermigration #freespeech #UK