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	<title>The Freemasonry of the Media</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/derek bateman.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”146″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right;” />By <strong>Derek Bateman <br /></strong> <br />For 45 years I have been a ‘Member of Her Majesty’s Press’ and have now become a lifetime member of the National Union of Journalists.  I was never one of the top gun star performers in any of the places I worked but I was steady and occasionally inspired.<br /><br />I didn’t ever cut it as a news reporter because it requires an unflinching doggedness for i/brformation that I lacked.  I just didn’t care enough about what passed for news most of the time because it was the ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ sludge that you still read in the papers today.</p>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Unionist parties failing to coordinate and think through lies and threats</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/mark2.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”133″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right;” /> By <strong>Mark McNaught<br /></strong> <br />The greatest sin in politics is when you believe your own propaganda.  On the eve of the second Darling/Salmond TV debate, Alistair Darling’s former minion Ed Balls declared that Scotland joining the Euro was the ‘least bad’ currency option when Scots vote yes, thus precluding any use of the pound. <br /> <br />It is a sad commentary on the Westminster parties that the only thing they can agree on is how to threaten the Scots.</p>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Thistle and Shamrock Entwined</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/thistle_shamrock.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”125″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right;” />  By <strong>Stephen Coyle <br /></strong> <br />Scotland is a nation with nothing to lose but its fear by voting ‘Yes’ in the independence referendum.  I would contend that given the Irish community’s commitment to social justice, solidarity and a shared rich ancestral heritage with Scotland, we should be among the foremost advocates of independence.</p>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>From the Upper Clyde to Independence</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/jimmy reid work in.png” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”100″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right; border: 0px;” />  By <strong>Peter Geoghegan <br /></strong> <br />Tam Brotherston knows a thing or two about political campaigns. Back in 1971, Brotherston was at the forefront of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders ‘work in’ that grabbed the world’s attention. <br /><br />But more than four decades after Jimmy Reid led the workers back into the shipyards, the former shop stweard is in no doubt that the biggest fight of his life is going on right now.</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Sir Ian Wood’s oil intervention was political</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/sir ian wood.png” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”75″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right; border: 0px;” />  By <strong>Martin Kelly <br /></strong> <br />Yesterday afternoon [Wednesday] at 15:15 an email popped into the generic inbox at Newsnet Scotland.  It was from Energy Voice – one of many outlets Newsnet Scotland subscribes to.<br /> <br />It was odd, as their usual daily email had arrived hours earlier – what was this?</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Rethinking Our Politics: The Political and Constitutional Future of Scotland and the UK</title>
	<link>http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/affairs-scotland/9631-rethinking-our-politics-the-political-and-constitutional-future-of-scotland-and-the-uk</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/henry mcleish.png” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”124″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right;” />A new book by <strong>former First Minister Henry McLeish<br /></strong> <br />The future of the Union and Scotland are big issues and we should not underestimate the significance of our date with destiny, and equally important, what happens after that.<br /> <br />
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Gimme A Break</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/derek bateman.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”146″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right;” />By <strong>Derek Bateman <br /></strong> <br />I’m flitting from meeting-to-show from interview-to-talk from Glasgow-to-Edinburgh and back this week and have something on every day and sometimes two things…I’m rescheduling because of overlap.<br /> <br />And on top of all that I’ve just heard from Ian Wood that there’s only 35 years of oil left…35 years! What are we going to do? And according to John Birt we won’t be able to watch Strictly while the oil dwindles…excuse me while I reach for the Kleenex.</p>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Whitehall bias and underperformance – another reason for independence</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/uk treasury.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”83″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right; border: 0px;” />  By <strong>Jim Cuthbert and Margaret Cuthbert <br /></strong> <br />When the Treasury produced a major report in May claiming that every Scot would be £1,400 better off under the union, this received wall-to-wall coverage in the media.  But was it in any way accurate? This is what we set out to examine in a report published by “Options for Scotland” on 14th August, (available on our website <a href=”http://www.cuthbert1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/”>www.cuthbert1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk</a> ).</p>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>The ‘Missing Million’ … most will say Yes</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/yes ballot.jpg” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”82″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right; border: 0px;” />  By <strong>Peter Geoghegan <br /></strong> <br />The question of Scotland’s ‘missing million’ has been a recurring one during the referendum campaign. According to the Electoral Commission Scotland, turnout at the 2011 Holyrood elections was 989,540 lower than the 1992 general election. So, where have all these erstwhile voters gone?</p>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Will it be a Yes For NHS or Currency No Thanks?</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[<p><img src=”http://78.110.165.228/images/nhs currency.png” border=”0″ width=”125″ height=”73″ style=”margin: 5px; float: right; border: 0px;” />  By <strong>G.A.Ponsonby <br /></strong> <br />It’s coming down to two clear issues in the race for the independence referendum.  The question is of course which of the two, NHS or Currency, chimes more with the electorate.<br /> <br />For the pro-Union Better Together campaign the dominant issue is currency, or rather a currency union.</p>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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