
Traquir
@traquir
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The 'why' of Independence. Poverty is running rampant across Scotland. Our energy wealth is being taken from us. Our industry is closing. Scotland should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world. It is utterly perverse. https://t.co/ACPDgbIcQR
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“Everything has changed. The landscape is unrecognisable.” Podcaster @seanmcdonald01 says voters were told they had to vote “no” to Scottish independence in 2014 to stay in the EU and keep energy prices down, but “the opposite happened” #bbcdn
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Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, the man most capable of leading negotiations for a Palestinian state, was beaten unconscious by eight Israeli prison guards on September 14 as he was being transferred between prisons.
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Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
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Thank you to everyone who came along to our sold-out event with Peter Oborne, discussing his new book Complicit - about UK complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. We're still adding up all the raffle money but the event has raised over £2000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians!
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The Effect of English Colonisation on Scotland (& Northern Ireland too) GDP per capita underlines the English coloniser's crimes: -Ireland (2024): $91,500 per person -Scotland (2024): $47,600 per person -Northern Ireland (2024): $41,500 per person The contrast is astonishing.
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I have instructed my legal team that it is my intention to pursue legal action against Keir Starmer’s decision to retrospectively change a law which a Conservative govt broke over 50 years ago.
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Former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, commenting on the British government’s proposed legacy legislation and its denial of the right of internees to compensation for wrongful imprisonment said: “I...
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What the Scottish people want from their relationship with Europe—EFTA or EU membership, say—is a matter for the people alone, not for the whim of a political party. Freeports are incompatible with EU membership and, Westminster/Holyrood imposed as they are, they are in
@LiberationScot @hazelbagend SNP want Scotland to be an independent country within the EU .An EU controlled by Ursula von der Leyen who threatens members with fines if they don't fall in line
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Regarding the right and effecting of Self-determination for Scotland The legal opinion obtained by ALBA in 2023 stated the following. Professor McCorquodale’s opinion confirmed that “the people of Scotland are distinct within the UK and have a right to self-determination.”
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Highland A9 corridor resembles barren wasteland. Easy to assume nothing cd ever grow here & 'sporting' landowners have taken over a real burden. Easy but wrong. Scotland’s Missing Forests premieres at REVIVE conference Nov 8. Then https://t.co/SiVOTvwJOZ
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The Highland A9 corridor certainly looks that way flanked by miles of bleak, treeless, uninhabited bog. It’s easy to conclude nothing could ever…
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The people of Scotland know this obvious truth. A simple majority in support of independence in an election should mean negotiations for independence should commence. No section 30 required No need to keep begging Westminster The predecessor state should have no role in the
📊 A clear message from Scots in today's poll: win over half the votes, and independence should be delivered
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Palestine Action found not to meet threshold for proscription. When a tin of red spray paint is considered more threatening than an F-16 bombing tents. The National ☕️🥐
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“Here, we’re just spectators, for English politicians have long ago forsaken the north.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐
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“The union is on life support, and the union without Scotland would make Northern Ireland even more of a rump and further expose its irrelevance.” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐
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While Israelis are celebrating wildly the release of their hostages, Palestinian families are terrorised that, if they dare celebrate the release of their own, hell will be visited upon them. This is not Peace breaking out. This is Apartheid at its worst!
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Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
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Calls are mounting for the release of Gaza’s Dr Hussam Abu Safia, who remains detained and reportedly tortured in Israeli prison after being abducted by Israeli forces last year https://t.co/4bK1N9IoT8
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"The message of Saleh’s assassination is clear: Anyone who continues to critically report on what is going on in Gaza [and] on Israel’s continuing destructive presence... will be captured, tortured and killed." — #AJOpinion by Eman Murtaja ⤵️
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Gaza journalists have been warned that they still are not safe, that they still face death for reporting.
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We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
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Tony Blair should run Gaza because he has Middle East experience, we’re told. That’s like saying Harold Shipman should run a care home because he’s got experience with pensioners. (h/t @karl_fh)
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'Keir Starmer stole Jeremy Corbyn’s clothes and now he’s dressing up as Nigel Farage' 👇
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A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment” & legal costs https://t.co/Gtw0Pbdmor
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Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’
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