Calum Baird 🕊️

Scottish singer-songwriter.
Mostly on this hellscape website to be sarcastic and annoying 🤓

[JD Slazengersportsocks @phasereturnmre]

We are deep inside the finding out here folks. Reform will rat fuck you as a thankyou for voting for them. It's up to yout decide If you enjoy that sort of thing or not...

[Michelle O’Neill @moneillsf]

The decision tonight to overturn the court ruling, and force an unwanted orange march through the Garvaghy Road is disgraceful.

This march is steeped in a history of hate, sectarian violence, and murder, and championed by Unionist leaders.

Our message tonight is clear.

There is no going back.

Not tomorrow. Not ever.

Sinn Féin stands fully with the Garvaghy Road community, and they have the full support of people from right across Ireland in the period ahead.

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

Picked up lots of comments from terminally online but chronically ill informed Scottish nationalists today. Folk convinced they’re socialists but intent on defending Glasgow City Council’s hire and refire scheme. I wrote more about this tendency here. https://t.co/OX8kuL0sFb

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@MarkEglinton There’s pressure to do well at Swansea or Motherwell and win every game. He couldn’t do anything right at Celtic, and was playing against Slovenia today as well.

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Republic of Ireland’s players are considering boycotting Sunday’s match against Israel after Gavin Bazunu, the goalkeeper, said he did not want to play.

Meetings are taking place at the team’s hotel in Hungary this morning as the players discuss whether they will collectively refuse to play the Nations League game as an act of protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza.

🔗: https://t.co/L0iaBuXNGz

[Stake Football @StakeFootball]

🚨🚨| JUST IN: Gavin Bazunu 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗦 to play for Ireland against Israel. 🇮🇪❌

Training is suspended as multiple teammates consider joining the boycott.

[@McDonnellDan]

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@JimGellatly 🤣

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

The dramatic head turn by @RoryStewartUK works better with the Batman transition sound fx.

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@LewisGr16690001 @CelticNoah Cost us half of what Hogh did

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I’m confident that the Lib Dems will be every bit as effective in saving us from fascism as they were in rescuing us from austerity, Boris Johnson and diamond-hard Brexit.
https://t.co/g7hmmyPY3W

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@CollowWillie That pass out wide from Lennon and then his cross. Who have we got in the team that could do that today?

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

Bad news for the former Rangers players that make up the BBC punditry

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

NEW: BBC to axe sports bulletins and tell staff they may have to reapply for jobs. Some cuts to staff numbers.

https://t.co/cgGkOfqygQ

[🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 @apocalypseos]

Alastair Crooke (@AWCrooke): Saudi Arabia is a pillar for one family. If it is no longer oil wealth for Wall Street and the petrodollar, there is nothing there. MBS had Trump as his security. That is gone. The reserves went into NEOM. He cannot deal with Ansar Allah because Washington runs the state.

“Saudi is a pillar that rests on one person, one family—one family that gerrymandered the succession so that they can become king. Don’t forget Salman changed the succession. It’s supposed to go from brother to brother to brother, and he changed all of that. He has alienated most of the family. It rests on a very fragile pillar. Unless they are seen as the source of oil wealth for Wall Street, for the petrodollar, for Washington—if that cannot be sustained—then what is there to Saudi Arabia? Nothing. There’s nothing there beyond that.

This is a huge humiliation in terms of Saudi culture. MBS had Trump on his side. This was his security. This was his basis for going ahead. And suddenly it’s clear to all the rivals, all those people in his own family. You recall the Ritz-Carlton episode, where he literally imprisoned them in a hotel and hung them upside down until all the money came out of their pockets. They were just literally humiliated. Some of them have disappeared. Some of them have been humiliated. And there are the tribes that have been largely dispossessed of their income. So what’s going to happen?

Well, there’s no money. The reserves that were built up. No one’s getting paid at the moment. Contracts, building sites—nothing is being paid. There is no money to pay anything. There’s no money to buy people out. There was a big reserve built up of cash, but most of that has gone on these big projects like the NEOM hotel and these other projects, and there’s none of that left.

So bin Salman is on his own there, with everyone looking and wondering. This is the end of a colonial structure. The colonial structure is collapsing in the Gulf, and the Saudis are the lynchpin of that. Why doesn’t he just do a deal with the Yemenis? The answer is he’s just too embedded in the United States structures. He can’t do it. He’s always been wholly embedded with US presidents, with the US military structures, down to the last element. They run the state for him, and he just cannot do it. He cannot make a deal with the Houthis.

The consequences are huge. Saudi Arabia is not selling oil. It doesn’t have money. It’s not allowed to sell its treasuries. It’s been trying to sell shares, but even its allies in the Gulf don’t want to buy them except at a huge discount, because they’re not sure that Saudi will be there as we know it tomorrow or the next day, or next month. There’s a great reluctance, even from Gulf allies, to come and help him out.

We’re seeing a huge shift. All of these post-colonial states are hanging by a thread, because Saudi Arabia and its connections with Israel—and its use by Israel as an Israeli platform over many, many years—have been the pivot for the whole Gulf region. Everyone is watching that.

At the same time, Iran is mobilizing a million people into these self-sacrifice battalions of a thousand people each. A million! This isn’t to defend against some expeditionary force from the United States coming and landing on the other side of the Hormuz. I don’t think that’s even possible. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t think they can go; where would they launch from? How would they arrive? What would be the transport? Who would supply them? How would they fight? What would be the purpose of it? I think in Washington and the Pentagon, everyone came to the conclusion to pursue this, to go on with war against the Houthis, who have effectively won against Saudi Arabia. It seems pointless and would end badly, end much worse, because it might widen and become a much wider regional war involving Iraq. If I were Bahrain or Kuwait seeing the Iranians mobilizing a million men, I would be very frightened indeed. I’m sure they are.

This was the bedrock of Israeli policy, the big gamble: to isolate, defame and undermine Iran and to base everything on the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia as the means to assimilate itself into the Middle East—into the region. Now that is visibly shaking before their eyes.

Inflation is everywhere. It has gone global. The crisis that was coming has come. It’s arrived. Inflation everywhere is going up because everything moves by diesel in Europe and in America. That’s the delivery system. The trains, often the boats, survive on diesel. So everything is going up. Prices are going up everywhere. Airfares are going up.”

The City built the Gulf on oil, garrisons, and a dollar ledger. The physical economy is sending the bill.

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@aboutceltic If this is the case, they should be in about the free agent market and getting players in where they can. Coaching staff needs changed urgently as well

[Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez @DiazCanelB]

Incapaz de justificar el castigo contra el pueblo de #Cuba y su guerra económica genocida, el presidente de EE.UU repite en la ONU que Cuba representa una amenaza. La mentira es el recurso de quienes se niegan a aceptar el derecho a la libre determinación del pueblo cubano.

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[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@67_Celtic_1888 In that line up, I’d switch Jota and Yang. The problem, though, is the lack of instruction and visible game plan. 2/3 more senior players have been saying that lately. Would probably keep KT over the young boy cos no idea what he’s like atm

[Calum Baird 🕊️ @CalumBairdSongs]

@sharko67 Worst football you’ll see but we’ll be organised

[Ana Ravé 🇵🇸🇱🇧 🇨🇳🇷🇺🇨🇺🇧🇾🇮🇷🇦🇱 @Ana46078]

Saliendo del concierto de Silvio Rodriguez, atascados porque estaba lleno el Coliseum (once mil personas aproximadamente) en A Coruña.

Impresionante Silvio, como siempre.

Cuba 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 SI, yankees no.