Susan Craig

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

There’s a growing Mexican community in Scotland.

Ahead of the game against England, we paid some of them a visit…

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[Punt Road @punt_rd]

I love posting early AC/DC…I won’t stop!
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[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.

It includes:

64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
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Victim list

It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF

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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

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[Jeremy London @SirJeremyLondon]

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[Jeremy London @SirJeremyLondon]

This was AMAZING!!!!!!

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

Taylor is using a classic propaganda trick.

The Barnett formula doesn't "give Scotland back all its tax plus £2,600 more."

It isn't based on tax at all — it only adjusts Scotland's block grant when England's departmental spending changes.

Scotland raises around £88.5 billion in public revenue each year.

The block grant is about £41 billion, just 46% of that.

So Holyrood directly controls less than half of the money raised in Scotland; the remaining 54% is controlled by Westminster.

That 54% is UK spending in or charged to Scotland, mostly pensions, military spending, and UK debt servicing.

The "£2600 more per person" is simply a spending-per-head figure.
It's not a 'gift' or subsidy and is funded by UK borrowing, borrowing serviced from Scottish taxation and underpinned by Scottish resources.

So most of that supposed "extra" is London-controlled welfare, defence, and debt payments. Money Scotland neither decides on nor directly receives.

In short: Barnett is a mechanism of control that conceals extraction.

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

I'm sorry, but this is simply lovely, and I've no time for those who'll inevitably sneer at it as "Paddingtonism", or whatever. Like it or not, this is the version of Britain most British people identify with. Good on his M the K for participating, too.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

This guy tells the truth...

[Ewan @jelly_pack]

Underrated v funny dynamic in UK politics is Labour collapsing in no small part because of its futile attempts to appease Trump, while John Swinney of all people effortlessly has him under a Zohran-type spell lmao

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

Very moving - the Celtic nations are rising.

[Pat Kane @thoughtland]

The most interesting Scottish election commentary yesterday from @ailsa_henderson. Some good pointers for what the “independence majority” should do, at least in terms of tone, next:

“I’m not talking about the rights and wrongs of holding a referendum or of independence, but just how people react to the issue.

And we pick up in the data frustration about the way in which the constitutional issue has pushed other issues off the agenda. We absolutely see that in the data.

But one thing we also see is that the Scottish electorate is much less nostalgic than the English electorate. And the same is true in Northern Ireland as well.

And the thinking is that by having these important debates about our constitutional future, yes, they may well crowd out debates about how to improve education or how to improve health.

But they also do shift our temporal focus from thinking about the glory days that we used to have to thinking about how can we build a different future.

And regardless of what side of the constitutional debate you’re on, that shift in temporal framing does change the mindset.

As a result, the Scottish electorate is also much less angry than the English electorate…”

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Chef’s kiss

[Colin Mackay @STVColin]

President congratulates FM

[Ross Colquhoun @rosscolquhoun]

🎯

[Michael Stewart @mstewart_23]

Bernard Ponsonby has absolutely nailed the Independence Referendum question.

Does the current legal veto of Westminster sit with the notion of democracy?

We all know the answer to that rhetorical question.

[Susan Craig @SusanCraig65]

@afneil Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz argues small countries often do better because they can tailor policy to their own economy. Scotland isn’t too small to succeed — it’s too constrained.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

"THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE PAYING FOR"

Chris Helali (@ChrisHelali) holding shrapnel from a missile that killed an entire Iranian family except for one child, has a message for the American people.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Meet The Jew The Media Doesn't Want You To Know Exists @NaomiFromKent

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Fed up of the media lying to you every single day?

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Never before has aggressive scrutiny and fearless independent journalism been so important, yet never before has the mainstream media been so narrow in its perspectives, so infected in groupthink, and so tied to this failed political class and system.

If you find yourself screaming at the telly at the established pundits and news providers. The Laura Kuenssbergs, the Robert Pestons, the Trevor Phillips, Dana Bash and Bari Weiss, you are not alone. There are millions of people like you and we’re here for you.

This is not a program that will tell you what to think, the aim is to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to be able to make informed decisions in a functioning democracy, something that mainstream media is failing to do.

Like millions of others I’ve watched in horror and astonishment as the Israelis have used Western weapons and diplomatic protection to maim, mutilate and murder tens of thousands of small children and other civilians. There’s no other issue where the divide between the mainstream media and political class, which apparently regards this as tolerable, and the rest of us who’ve reacted like normal human beings, is so profound.

Above all, I feel deep shame and guilt at my own profession which continues to peddle a perverse inverted journalism, where allegations of racism are hurled not at the perpetrators and supporters of ethic cleansing, apartheid and genocide, but at their victims and their supporters, smeared and disempowered as antisemites.

Gaza encapsulates the political and intellectual and moral bankruptcy of those who rule over us and those who are to tell us what to think. Western politics and Western journalism is in desperate need of renewal, we want to be a part of that and we hope you join us.

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