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We are a colony. More evidence:

Professor Alfred Baird at the @UNGeneva warns of the withering of the Scottish nation under the unrelenting pressure of the coloniser and the urgency with which we must break free to preserve it. Prescient.

Kudos @CaptPaulWatson Krill are essential for life on this planet These giant factory ships are starving the whales and penguins and destroying a critical carbon sink Each year, Krill remove up to 12 billion tonnes of carbon from Earth’s atmosphere

Another mass slaughter of 245 pilot whales in the Faroes—an entire pod. I invite you to watch this piece presented by Ross McCall. It's moving, sincere and honest. The interview with this young woman will take your breath away. Over 6,000 whales have been killed since this was filmed, and despite all our campaigns, absolutely nothing has changed. Perhaps as long as the Faroese inhabit these Islands, it never will. youtube.com/watch?v=KgLABR…

From Canton to Calton: How the English Coloniser Waged a Drug War on Scotland as It Did on China with Opium to Steal Scottish Resources 1/ Scotland is enduring the most devastating drug epidemic in Europe. Since 2015, more than one thousand people have died every year from drug-related causes. In 2023, drug deaths climbed to 1,197. Police Scotland reported 1,065 suspected deaths in 2024. The highest figure was recorded in 2020, when the number reached 1,339. Although recent figures suggest a modest decline, the scale remains catastrophic. Per capita, Scotland’s drug death rate is over three times higher than England and Wales and more than fifteen times that of many European countries. Among developed nations, no comparable case exists. This is not simply a public health crisis. The devastation is concentrated in working-class areas that were once engines of industrial production. Glasgow, Dundee, Inverclyde, parts of Fife, and Ayrshire have become synonymous with grief and loss. The burden falls overwhelmingly on men aged thirty-five to fifty-four. Nearly all cases involve more than one substance. Heroin, methadone, street benzodiazepines such as etizolam, gabapentin, alcohol, and cocaine are often mixed. In 2023, benzodiazepine deaths more than doubled. Cocaine-related deaths rose to nearly five hundred. New synthetic opioids such as nitazenes and tranquilising agents like xylazine have begun to appear in coroners’ reports. Since 2017, over fifteen hundred babies have been born in Scotland with neonatal abstinence syndrome. These infants are not born to a nation recovering. They are born into a condition of prolonged abandonment. No explanation rooted in culture or individual behaviour can account for this. The causes are political and historical. Scotland’s current drug crisis is the result of decades of economic destruction, political disempowerment, and cultural erasure. The mechanism is modern. The logic is colonial. To understand the depth of this emergency, one must turn to the historical record. In 1839, the Qing Empire banned opium imports from British-controlled India. Opium was destroying Chinese society. British merchants refused to stop. The British state responded by declaring war. Gunboats shelled Chinese ports. The First Opium War ended in 1842 with the Treaty of Nanking. China was forced to legalise opium, open ports to British control, surrender territory including Hong Kong, and pay large financial indemnities. The British Crown and merchant class made immense profits while Chinese communities disintegrated. The Chinese experience of narcotic invasion provides a chilling precedent. Addiction was not an unfortunate consequence. It was the mechanism of subjugation. Sovereignty was broken not only through war but through chemical dependency. Entire generations were disabled while London’s wealth expanded. In the late 20th century, Scotland followed a similar path. The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s should have created the foundations for prosperity. By the early 1980s, annual oil revenues flowing to the British state exceeded £7 billion in direct tax receipts. In 1984–85, North Sea oil and gas revenues peaked at approximately £12 billion in nominal terms, accounting for around 6% of total UK government revenue. Adjusted for inflation, that figure is equivalent to over £40 billion today. When including total production value and associated revenues, the cumulative wealth extracted from Scottish waters now surpasses 2 trillion USD. @UN @UN_HRC @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN @eu_eeas @coe @EURightsAgency @francediplo @FranceintheUK @franceintheus @cgfEdimbourg @Elysee @GermanyDiplo @bundeskanzler @NorwayMFA @dfatirl @PresidentIRL @antonioguterres

Three nations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Same lock. Same colonial capture. Same constitutional keys withheld. Wales is the longest continuously colonially occupied nation on earth. 742 years. No liberation. No consent. Ancient sovereignty of Cymry suppressed but never legitimately extinguished. Ireland would've claimed that horrendous record, but they forced the lock partially open in 1922, pushing the colonialist occupiers out and have steadily fought onwards towards 32 state reunification ever since with their Fénechus intact. Scotland, after 319 years of English colonial occupation, with the power of its sovereign people is the constitutional quay. When that quay turns, and the lock releases, the flood won't stop at borders, it won't stop at palaces, castles or corporate headquarters. It will only recede when England's continued Empire is no more. Liberation in one lock changes the pressure in them all. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #IndyWales #UnitedIreland #IndyScotland #SovereigntySeries #EmpireLedger x.com/EoinJMartainn/…

@jk_rowling Scottish people voted for independence in 2014 referendum which was rigged by the English coloniser. Read: Unmasking the Manipulation of Scotland’s 2014 Referendum. The @UN through its decolonisation mechanisms will prevent such manipulation. x.com/thomsonchris/s…

Planning a spectacular May Day fundraiser in Glasgow for a statue of the great revolutionary John MacLean. Eternally grateful to Donald Anderson and author Ron Culley at Glasgow’s oldest pub

Powerful stuff from Ailsa Gray at the @UNGeneva Exploding the myth of consensial partnership, exposing the degree of coercion the Scottish Parliament of 1707 was put under by the Imperial English.

@DickWinchester @DearIain @Record_Politics Aye….it’s absolute bollocks from the record as usual. Westminster are, and always have been, free to move their nuclear subs anywhere they like. The fact they remain in Scotland only means they don’t want them in England. And they can take their rotting hulks in rosyth too.

@Record_Politics That's ridiculous. ScotGov isn't threatening the UK's nuclear deterrent. rUK will be free to move it anywhere they want once Scotland is independent.

In Scotland we already have a right to this as we are, collectively, the Crown (sovereign). In Switzerland the elected representatives refer to the people as ‘the sovereign.’ That’s what direct democracy means.

Shame on the farmer who delivered a trailer full of animals (we believe pigs) to the torture labs at #CharlesRiver, Tranent, East Lothian yesterday. Those animals face a horrendous death. He smirked at us as he drove out. #EndAnimalTesting @RuthJonesLabour @NeilForPoole @ZacGoldsmith

#ColetteWalker - a strong woman for Indy in West of Scotland

How many more times do we have to see heartbreaking images like this? 💔 This photograph captures the brutal reality that horses face when forced to compete in events like the Grand National. Jump racing isn't "sport" — it's exploitation for entertainment and gambling profits. What we see as a "thrilling race," these animals experience as terrifying, high-risk situations that all too often end in serious injury or death. This beautiful creature didn’t sign up for this. 😢 It’s time to expose the truth behind the glamour and betting. Horses deserve better than to risk their lives for our amusement. Share this post to raise awareness. Let's demand an end to this cruel industry. #EndJumpRacing #AnimalWelfare #BanTheGrandNational #NotEntertainment

This union of 'equals' that began with Scotland being allocated 45 MPs - one more than Cornwall- has been screwing Scotland and Scots since 1707.

The British Museum. That's the English Imperial Museum to you. Of course, they've stuffed that place with trophies. Now, which trophy of huge cultural and political significant did they take from Scotland? The stone on which the Kings of Scots were crowned. See a connection?

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