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Scotland is on the front line of defending the High North.
Yet the Labour Government spends 7x more on defence in the South East of England than in the whole of Scotland.
An independent Scotland would never let our north coast go undefended.
I asked the Defence Secretary if the UK Government will finally put a permanent surface vessel in Scotland - the absence of which is currently a dangerous negation of Labours responsibility to Scotland.
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Q: Why don't Zionists want you to study Zionism?
A: "The more educated you get about Zionism, the less possible it is to be a Zionist."
- Rabbi Yakoov Shapiro
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Oh, so we're doing the 'Zionism is core to Jewish identity' dance today, are we? Because at other times we do the 'conflation is antisemitism' dance. So hard to keep up with what dance we're currently supposed to be doing.
#ItWasAScam
#ItsAScam
- @RMCunliffe
“I am a Jewish woman being called antisemitic. I don’t think you would sit here & lecture somebody of any other religion or race on what counted as bigotry or racism towards them in the way you have explicitly called me antisemitic..I don’t think you would do that
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This may be hard to believe @JDVance, but many U.S. citizens want to see pedophiles in the Epstein files held accountable.
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All of Europe Knew About Scotland’s Annexation and that 1707 Was No Voluntary Union. European states documented Scotland’s annexation by the English colonial state. The diplomatic evidence is overwhelming.
decolonise.scot/all-of-europ…
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In 1707, Scotland was not united in a "voluntary union". It was annexed, and the whole of Europe documented it at the time. Four sovereign states went on recognising a King of Scots straight through the date the Scottish Crown was supposedly extinguished. Within two years, London had to buy its own legitimacy abroad, mortgaging fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands to the Dutch for a guarantee of a succession it could not secure at home; Swift's word for it was that "every petty prince in Germany must be entreated to preserve the queen of Great Britain upon her throne."
Six years in, recognition had to be extorted from France and Spain at Utrecht as the price of ending a war, in a settlement Scotland was never party to. France put 5,000 troops and a fleet to sea in 1708 to reverse it. Spanish regular infantry fought at Glen Shiel in 1719, and the 274 who surrendered were taken as prisoners of war of a foreign crown; not as rebels, because Madrid had never accepted that the kingdom they came to restore had ceased to exist.
France treated with Scotland as a sovereign party again in 1745.
Rome/the Holy See recognised a King of Scots until 1766.
Europe's standard history of the new state, printed at The Hague in 1724, was titled Histoire d'Angleterre: the History of England.
A union nobody on the continent could see. An annexation everybody recorded.
In international law, recognition is the test of annexation. 1707 failed that test in its own century. Which is why Scotland's claim is not secession. It is state resumption.
All of Europe Knew About Scotland’s Annexation and that 1707 Was No Voluntary Union. European states documented Scotland’s annexation by the English colonial state. The diplomatic evidence is overwhelming.
decolonise.scot/all-of-europ…
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The same man helping to make antisemitism laws restricting, your speech has been arrested for molesting his own grandson.
The affidavit says that he urinated in his grandson’s mouth, but for whatever reason, the law that he helped pass is still on the books.
Should people who are molesting children, especially members of their own family, be able to make laws that put restrictions on your speech?
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Israel is a pedophile haven. There is an entire system wherein pedophiles are promoted into positions of power throughout D.C and Zionist-first “churches”. This is not a coincidence. It’s the revelation of the militarized system that is currently running the West.
The same man helping to make antisemitism laws restricting, your speech has been arrested for molesting his own grandson.
The affidavit says that he urinated in his grandson’s mouth, but for whatever reason, the law that he helped pass is still on the books.
Should people who are molesting children, especially members of their own family, be able to make laws that put restrictions on your speech?
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This latest article from Thomas Pikkety, the renowned French economist and leading authority on wealth inequality, should be essential reading here in the UK.
His argument is simple.
France has never been wealthier. Yet education funding per student has fallen by 20% since 2017, public services are struggling, and inequality is deeply embedded in the system.
Sound familiar?
The problem isn't that our countries have run out of wealth. It's how that wealth is distributed, who controls it, and the political choices made to protect it.
For decades, we've been told that austerity, declining public services and falling living standards are unavoidable consequences of economic crises, yet those same decades have seen extraordinary concentrations of private wealth.
Socialise the costs. Privatise the gains.
This is the reality we all need to wake up to.
These aren't inevitable economic outcomes. They're the consequences of political choices, made over time, that have prioritised the accumulation of private wealth over the needs of society.
And as public anger grows, we're seeing a deeply concerning response: The rise of the far right, directing that anger towards immigrants, disabled people, those claiming welfare and other vulnerable groups, rather than towards the economic structures responsible for the inequalities people are rightly furious about.
As @NaomiAKlein describes fascism, "it's capitalism's most ferocious threat response. A way of directing public anger downwards at the vulnerable, rather than upwards at the system."
Fascism doesn't challenge the status quo. It protects it by giving people someone else to blame.
The fundamental question isn't whether our societies can afford something better. It's why, when we've never been wealthier, we're repeatedly told we must accept less.
We need to fundamentally rethink an economy built around extraction, exploitation and wealth concentration, and start building one that delivers equitable, sustainable prosperity for everyone.
And with the UK Budget next week, this should be a serious warning to @UKLabour.
If the Budget fails to acknowledge this fundamental reality, and instead offers another round of "difficult decisions" that protect concentrated wealth while asking ordinary people to shoulder the burden, then @andyburnham really hasn't understood what's happening across Europe.
What's unfolding in France isn't an isolated protest. It's a warning of what happens when people stop accepting that a society growing ever wealthier somehow can't afford to give them a better life.
This isn't something politicians can keep kicking down the road.
The warning signs are everywhere. The question now is whether those in power are prepared to confront the causes, or continue defending the very system that's driving the anger.
@ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage
High schoolers, students: the twilight of macronism
Hundreds of thousands of young people work hard to earn their high school diplomas, but there is nothing planned to welcome them into higher education
thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/…
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Let’s see if the russian musk bots are back online.
I just watched the Musk Movie. It was 4 hours long. (@alexgibneyfilm) TY for putting in an intermission.) There was so much information. Its genre is documentary, but it could easily be put under horror also. It was a very good movie, but also psychologically terrifying.
I have to say the first hour of the movie, brought back memories of the old Elon. The one that my husband and I really liked. He was quirky, funny, smart, the first spacex successful launches were awesome, when Tesla was new, and everyone was excited about the electric cars, him working with Obama and him saying that AI was an existential risk. It was like he truly cared about the human race.
But then, he flips and turns into a villain. 😩 The last 3 hours he morphs into a psychotic megalomaniac. It was like an evil storm. The Tesla auto pilot starts crashing cars, killing people and then he lies about it & says how safe it is. He lost his shit during Covid with the lockdowns. His son transitioned into Vivian, and he said the woke mind virus needed to be destroyed. He went from AI being an existential threat & said it was summoning demons, to wanting to put an AI robot in every home. The government was regulating his businesses due to environmental concerns and he does not like being told what he can and cannot do.
I really believe part of the reason he went after our govt, to control it, was because of regulations they were putting on him and his companies. He realized to remove these regulations he needed to control politics. This is why our govt should not be able to be bought by the richest man in the world. The Ashley St. Clair part of the story is crazy! I’m glad she is exposing all these details. It was brave of her to tell her story. She could have easily signed the NDA and been rich, she decided to do the right thing. We need more people like this.
The doge part of the movie is devastating. Gutting really important humanitarian efforts, so many people, including children, around the world have died because of this. Halting scientific research projects, such as cancer research, that some have been working on for years. The purge of a lot of brightest and best from our govt departments, leaving dept frozen. Putting all our personal info in the hands of young kids who had idea what they were doing, who knows what will happen in the future now that all of info has been exposed. Cutting back at the EPA, surely helped his companies, but at what cost to our environment?
Watching the first quarter, he really could have been an amazing part of America’s history, but then he threw it all away and chose to be a villain. Why risk the future well being of America, especially when you have so many children? He says children are the future, yet the administration HE installed is dangerous and threatens our future. It makes no sense.
It’s like he has lost all empathy for others. Maybe he’s high all the time, which means we have a drugged up psychopath, who doesn’t care about anything but his own personal endeavors, no matter the consequences, and that same person is in charge of our government. What could go wrong? We left the movie scared about the future of the whole world.
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In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus
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FRENCH PROTEST FALSR FLAG EXPOSED
People throw grenades on the street to initiate police violence
They then nod to police and leave together.
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ISRAEL is behind the psyop blaming the FRENCH protests on Muslims. Zionists are on national television spreading lies about synagogues being burned but not mosques. All the large hasbara accounts are parroting this with identical posts and scripts. Stay informed. Recognise what psyops and propaganda look like.
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Why did the BBC say “questioned” rather than “interviewed”?
The answer is that the BBC launders Israel’s genocide, and does so to the point that they'll frame an interview with an anti-Zionist Jewish politician like it's a police interrogation.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski to be questioned by Laura Kuenssberg bbc.in/4yVlz9h
