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Hello and welcome to the spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week we have

Spikes editor Brendan O'Neill. Hello? And Deputy Editor Tom Slater.

Hello. Coming up on the show, El Paso, Scottish Independence and the Democratic

Socialists of America.

15 to 20 people were killed in a mass shooting in El Paso.

They are a shopping center in Texas.

The gunman is 21-year-old Patrick Crusius.

The suspect posted his racist anti-immigrant

manifesto to the online message board 8 Chan. We must shine light on the dark

recesses of the internet. White supremacy is an international terrorism problem.

At the weekend, a gunman murdered at least 20 people in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

The gunman, Patrick Cruzius, has been linked to an anti-immigrant white nationalist manifesto,

which was posted online just before the killing.

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