foundationsofthedigitalstate.com
Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
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all the Indian restaurants in Glasgow being Pakistani or Kashmiri Muslims ;-)
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yeah it's fuckin started a war already that mask
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Hitler never took a pfennig of his salary, good Adolph.
I mean the Germans paid a fee to use his image on the postage stamps, and bought a copy of his unreadable meisterwerk for all married couples, but he did never take a pfennig of salary...
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but also thoughts and prayers for the SEO manager of The The
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Messthetics/Hegemony
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the first suicide bomber in the Middle Wast was a Lebanese Christian, pre-Al Quaeda the Hindu Tamil Tigers where the go-to (unless you include Shinto kamikaze pilots)
Israeli troops make a pilgrimage to the suicide site of Masada, etc, etc, it's circumstantial & usually related to relative weakness
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the CIA chief in Lebanon that was kidnapped by Hezbollah went to the same place for lunch every day and kept a list of agents in his top pocket as he couldn't remember their names and contact details
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maybe I'm wrong, maybe I only use the central belt
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Enid, Arthur, Phillip Kerr (in foreign too), Dick Francis (obvs), Jilly Cooper (obvs), Alistair McLean, John Wyndham, Hillary Mantel...
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that's true until it isn't tho
Everyone is assuming that Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and now Iran means endless impunity...
how big is this caravan for Gaza moving through the Mahgreb?
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also does this help or hinder the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East? what's the impact in Cairo? or Riyadh?
Regimes there might be anti-Iran but the population is not pro-Israel
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In my lifetime the US had authoritarianism and managed elections all across the south, this is in many ways a reversion to the mean
And the ludicrous semi-state nature of parties (candidate selections are state run and not indepenent) is a major danger for <managed> elections
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(1) what's the path to a Palestinian state?
(2) who executed these newly exhumed corpses?
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It is also the end of the old song <the road to peace in Israel/Palestine goes through X> where X has been variously Damascus, Cairo, South Lebanon, Tunis, Baghdad and finally Tehran.
Israel is attacking in order to prolong the war that when it ends will only lead to 2 questions:
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if only he was the chair of the oversight committee of her organisation or something
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yeah but
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Fannies, ya fannie
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in Italy at the mo and only have a binary English/Foreign setting
shit that comes out my mouth, I tell ya Geralian, Italeusch
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great bunch of lads
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worked with Hungarians at bet365, people were rotating of contract, so we went out for a meal in Stoke...
We were joking about <doing a runner> and tried to explain it to them, "oh" they said "you mean an English leave"
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and mitigated as best as possible the welfare cuts of the Tories and Labour
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and yet the SNP has granted full political rights to residents irrespective of their citizenship
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finnish forest holiday, sauna and a bloody lake to jump in, heaven...
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a book in the Turkish is a given no? for the lolling in the tepidariun
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the one where they invented the wave pool you mean, original and best...
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yeah and the security forces protected individuals
In countries where the security forces organised paramilitary killings the conviction rates for on the books killing and off them are the same
That is not the case in NI
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identikit blond women ✅️
identikit Chads with plastic surgery squared off jaws and roid physiques ✅️
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Nary Fabroekner plays for Ajax I think 🥅⚽️🏟🏃♂️
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once RFK said he would block Alabama calling out the National Guard it was game over, just a small matter of 28,000 arrests
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well yes, the whole <economy after tariffs> has strong <Menshevik Wrecking Centre> vibes
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that also isn't true tho is it
Ad Scotland has prospered our Barnett transfers have fallen below most of England
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yes the plan in Birmingham was <get 2,000 people arrested a day until the police force collapses from exhaustion>
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What's your point? We are in the UK still
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[waves elegant Edinburgh hand in somewhere on THAT side]
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my point was that the state supported informers in both PIRA and the UDA/UVF and let them away with murder
and specifically that your conclusion proves the loyalists are coddled by the state but the Provos aren't
Do read
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Your hero looking like a homeless jaickie - as is the custom of my people at their leisure
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You can tell a bar is old fashioned and authentic by the ~checks notes~ Singer Sewing Machine from Glasgow
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them cruise ships is biiiiigggg