The City sold Cape Town’s iconic Good Hope Centre for R135m, ignoring public voices, heritage obligations, and housing needs. With 400,000 residents still waiting for homes, this sale raises serious questions of transparency, accountability and public trust.

#GOODParty #UniteforChange #PublicAssets

Selling PIA ignores its role in national integration, remote connectivity, and public service—profit cannot be the only measure of value.
By Habib Afridi

Read more: thefridaytimes.com/24-Dec-2025/...

#PIAPrivatisation #PublicAssets #Neoliberalism #PakistanEconomy #StateFailure

Beyond Inefficiency: The Hidden Political Economy Behind Selling PIA True criticism of this privatisation does not defend mismanagement, but challenges a policy that deliberately undermines public entities so they can be later

PIA’s privatisation isn’t just about efficiency—it reflects decades of state failure, elite capture, and a shrinking vision of public welfare.
By Habib Afridi

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/24-Dec-2025/...

#PIAPrivatisation #PublicAssets #Neoliberalism #PakistanEconomy #StateFailure #Economic

Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money

ps: @europeanpowell.bsky.social has also posted fantastic stuff on the* #Tax-avoiding, #CorporateFiefdoms*, known as #Freeports & #SpecialEnterpriseZones, ie #PublicAssets, HANDED to #PrivateVultures at #Taxpayers expense!

Read his stuff,and sign the Petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Public services controlled by government that’s competitively elected and accountable with transparency and sunshine laws work best! Services always cost money. This puts the money into the services, not private pockets! #publicservices #publicmoney #publicassets #community #public

#ontario #onpoli #dougford #wasagabeach #publicassets

6/13 While UCP denies privatization intentions, Braid connects concerning dots: falling oil prices threaten deficits exceeding $5 billion, creating financial pressure that could make selling public health assets increasingly tempting for cash-strapped ministers.
#BudgetDeficit #PublicAssets

People say we need a businessman to run America.
But this isn’t business—it’s a hedge fund playbook.
Assets stripped, debt piled high, public good sold off.
We’re not being led. We’re being looted.
#Politics #HedgeFunds #Democracy #PublicAssets

This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness (The Guardian) In 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo-grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born – the ninth of 11 children to hardy Norweg...

"...a larger strategy comes into focus: Republicans are laying the groundwork to sell off some of the nation’s most treasured #publicassets. And it begins with gutting the numbers and the morale of the very people who protect them." #publiclands l.smartnews.com/p-l8GRpQA/5R... #wilderness

Fantastic Thread! EVERYONE in the #UK should read this and DEMAND an INQUIRY into #Freeports & #SpecialEnterpriseZones (aka #CorporateCriminalZones!)

This is OUR #PublicMoney -and OUR #PublicAssets that #Starmer's ROTTEN #RedToryBigBusinessLobbyists are HANDING to BigBusiness #Criminals!

10. #NZ Govt spending $15billion+ on US #wars & more on the US military #space race is a CHOICE! As is wasting $70billion on pushing #tobacco, $ on #speed & #guns -while they #defund hospitals, schools & sell #publicassets making us all poorer #NZGovtFail #austerity #Budget2025 #AtlasNetwork #nzpol

#TrickleDown #economics has *always* been a #MAGA #scam. #RWNJs *always* cut #publicservices and sell #publicassets to give super-rich donors more tax cuts.

#GinaRinehart, #ClivePalmer, #AndrewForest, #PeterDutton etc will *never* have enough to help with #affordablehousing.

#Unions work. #auspol

2/9 Premier Smith claims this creates "competition".

Critics warn it's designed to shift more surgeries to for-profit facilities.

Public hospitals could lose funding or be forced to rent their operating rooms to private companies.
#PrivateProfits #PublicAssets
#PatientCare #ABpoli #ABhealth

Happening right now- before your eyes- in #Trumpton!

And they will "STEAL"YOUR Pensions, YOUR Savings, YOUR #PublicAssets, YOUR Jobs, YOUR Rights and Protections, YOUR Country, YOUR Futures!

It's #Dystopia - led by #LiarStarmer and the rancid, #RobotReeves! There will be NO GROWTH-just RECESSION!

Unbelievable! #Fiefdoms run by cut-throat #CorporateCrooks - stealing #PublicAssets, exploiting workers, and environmental rights, #AvoidingTax - and ENRICHING THEMSELVES whilst DESTROYING our #PublicServices and PAUPERISING UK citizens!

We need a #PublicInquiry into this Criminal Heist!

#auspol #governance #publicassets #commbank #profits

Yay! So glad you're on here @europeanpowell.bsky.social - I need -AND EVERYBODY needs- your insight on the #SEZ's,#Freeports and now #UEZ's scams!

Basically, they're dodgy TAX FREE zones where #PublicAssets are STOLEN by #CorporateCrooks & #BigBusinessBandits and handed to the #BillionaireClass!🤬

'Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to #strip_mine #publicassets for the benefit of private interests'