Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I think therefore I am. It's time for Scotland to clear the colonialists out and make its own bright future.

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

Remember these hoosejocks.

They don't believe Scotland has the right to decide its own future ffs.
They sit in a Scottish Parliament and proclaim that only England can decide Scotland's future,
They should be arrested as agents of a foreign power.

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@JohnSwinney @AlMorrison14 Yet you could have set Scotland free by now.🤔😬

[Happy Doggo @wearehappydoggo]

We’ll do every thing we can to bring the glimmer back into these two beautiful golden retriever’s eyes.🤞❤️

We visited the mainland earlier this week to rescue them.

Their story is incredibly complicated and we’ll share more on that soon… but first, they’re safe with us, receiving the best medical care and we’re showing them safety for the first time.

They’re incredibly sick, malnourished and unhealthy dogs but Bonnie and Clyde are save at Happy Doggo now 🩷

Stay tuned for updates on their next chapter.

[Lucy McGhee @Luluphooey69]

More, fuck you scotland

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@ScottishLabour Lying red tory scumbags.

Constant real term cuts😡😡

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Healey’s Budget Disaster. This was a terrible budget, terribly presented, that did precisely nothing of consequence for almost anyone. So what are Healey and Burnham up to, other than not a lot? https://t.co/EHCCi9WCX0

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@AnnonymousAm @michaeljmarra Ah knew who ye meant😂

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@ScotNational Can these colonialists naw stick to one statement of utter pish?🤦🏻‍♂️

[he who was here has gone @hewhowashereha1]

Here we have Harriet Cross from Yorkshire but representing Gordon and Buchan asking for WM to not give Scotland any more powers to govern itself. Are the voters of Gordon and Buchan happy to be represented by this cuckoo?

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@grok @KushPatil_ As I said originally, shitetalker.🙄

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@grok @KushPatil_ So your sum total was cheaper translation of routine texts and stock image prices.🤦🏻‍♂️
No cheaper goods, no cost of living benefits for ordinary people worth mentioning and some UPS savings.

Of course no job loss figures as they’d be received negatively.🙄

Utter pish.

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@ibroxpark1 @CMochan @theSNP 2010 sick puppet wi 72 posts😂😂🙄

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@ibroxpark1 @CMochan @theSNP Fuck off tae England then is ma advice son🤷‍♂️

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@CMochan Yer a vile wee hoosejock mrs.🙄

[Robert Burns @Nugent4nil]

Carole Malone is on Vine screeching about benefits and how ridiculous it is that people are getting paid for doing nothing. The hypocrisy is astounding!

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

We’re hiring a COO for Happy Doggo…

🐶 Genuinely a role that will change the world for millions of dogs.

🌎 Operations / partners in 5 countries and growing fast.

📊 Huge ops challenge to help us save even more dogs.

You can apply here or share 🙏

https://t.co/zki2SWlFwo

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@grok @KushPatil_ All very abstract.
Facts are what matter and on that note, please provide examples of cheaper goods and services as a direct effect of AI.

I mean cheaper than say 10 yrs ago.
Then calculate how many jobs were lost to AI to achieve such price reductions.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

0.001% TAX

A junior auditor at @PwC in Luxembourg is getting ready to leave his job. Before he goes he goes looking for some training documents to take with him.

Instead he finds a folder that anyone in the company could open. No password. No warning. Just sitting there.

Inside are hundreds of secret deals between the Luxembourg government and some of the biggest companies on the planet. Deals that let them pay next to nothing in tax.

His name is Antoine Deltour. He copies 30,000 pages. That is the whole story. He copies a folder.

Let me explain what was actually in it, because this is where it gets interesting.

Between 2002 and 2010, PwC alone helped broker 548 of these secret tax agreements, known as tax rulings, for over 340 companies. Apple. Ikea. Pepsi. Disney. Deutsche Bank. AIG. Koch Industries. Skype. GlaxoSmithKline. Coach. Abbott Laboratories. Household names, every one of them.

The trick was simple. Companies moved profits through Luxembourg shell structures and Luxembourg quietly agreed in writing to look the other way on tax.

Some of these companies ended up paying an effective tax rate under 1 percent. In some cases as low as 0.001 percent. On billions of dollars.

Who was running Luxembourg for almost 20 years while this machine was built and protected? Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg until 2013.

Deltour did not leak straight to the world. In 2012 he passed the documents to French journalist Edouard Perrin, who used them for a TV documentary.

PwC noticed and filed a complaint with the Luxembourg courts. Then in November 2014, ICIJ @ICIJorg pulled together over 80 journalists across more than 30 media outlets in 26 countries and published the full scale of it as LuxLeaks.

The timing could not have been worse for Juncker, or depending how you look at it, could not have been better. He had just been elected President of the European Commission days before the story broke. The man who ran the tax haven for two decades was now running Europe.

A month later ICIJ dropped LuxLeaks 2, showing the other Big 4 accounting firms Deloitte, EY and KPMG were running the exact same playbook. This was never one bad apple. It was standard practice.

Juncker faced a no confidence vote in the European Parliament over it. He survived. Deltour was not so lucky.

December 2014, Luxembourg charges him with theft, violation of trade secrecy and fraudulent access to a computer system. He is facing up to 5 years in prison and a fine of 1,250,000 euros. For opening an unlocked folder on his way out the door.

April 2016, the criminal trial. Deltour and his colleague Raphael Halet, another former PwC employee who leaked a second batch of documents, are both convicted. Deltour gets 12 months suspended and a 1,500 euro fine. Perrin the journalist is acquitted.

Deltour appeals. Loses. Appeals again. Finally in May 2018 the Luxembourg Court of Appeal fully recognises him as a genuine whistleblower under European Court of Human Rights standards and acquits him completely.

Halet's fight took even longer. He lost his Luxembourg appeals and only won at the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber in 2023, nearly a decade after he first spoke up.

The European Commission that Juncker went on to lead never opened a single formal investigation into a single LuxLeaks tax ruling. Not one. It did chase Starbucks, Fiat and Amazon over separate deals, but the mountain of paperwork Deltour handed over sat there untouched.

So that is the LuxLeaks story. Build a tax avoidance machine for 20 years and get promoted to run the continent. Copy the evidence of it and spend most of a decade fighting to stay out of prison.

@BBCNews · @ICIJorg · @Reuters · @lemondefr and others.

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

@grok @KushPatil_ You think the rich won’t just shrug their shoulders at those losing their jobs?
You really are a stupid ai.
The billionaires don’t give a shit who becomes destitute.

[Scottish (Alba) Border 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ScotBorderOG]

😂😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[The Bell @theglasgowbell]

Exclusive: The Bell has learned political editor of the Daily Record, Paul Hutcheon, has quit, after an alleged affair with Labour MP for East Kilbride, Joani Reid.

As reported by Private Eye, Hutcheon oversaw favourable exclusives of Reid at his paper in past few months.