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1/3 This week I attended the opening of the #Mandela centenary exhibition.

In a short speech, Lord Hain thanked one of the sponsors, Moti Group, twice.

According to @mailandguardian Lord Hain is
employed by them "in part to improve their poor reputation" mg.co.za/article/2018-0…
2/3 Moti Group is a mining & property
company that's been subject to some controversy. It allegedly has links to
Zimbabwean officials implicated in human rights violations & in 2017,
Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for the company's chair mg.co.za/article/2018-0…
3/5 Journalist @simonallison writes:

"There is no suggestion that the royals were aware of or intended to
endorse the Moti Group’s controversial business practises; or the group’s links
to senior Zimbabwean officials that have been implicated in serious human
rights violations."
This rings a #BellPottinger

Moti Group, who employ Peter Hain as an advisor & were at the #Mandela centenary exhibition with #MeghanAndHarry, use the PR firm Sans Frontières, which is run by Lord Bell, former head of Bell Pottinger, the firm that incited division in #SouthAfrica
According to ex-Minister @DavidColtart, PR firm #SansFrontiereAssociates which was set up by Lord Bell after the collapse of his disgraced PR outfit #BellPottinger & which advises Moti Group who have mining interests in #Zimbabwe, also acted for ZANUPF during #ZimbabweElections
When debating whether to represent a questionable individual, staff at PR companies used to joke that the answer was either “Yes”, “No” or “One for #BellPottinger”

Here's the story of the collapse of the PR firm whose ghosts are still haunting this thread newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
"Why is Peter Hain helping Moti, a tycoon who cuts deals with #Zimbabwe’s violent regime, to rub shoulders with #HarryandMeghan?" via @guyadams.

Interestingly the PR firm Moti uses, Sans Frontieres, was set up by Lord Bell after #BellPottinger collapsed dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
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Next month we will mark the 1st anniversary of the imprisonment of @Amnesty's #TanerKilic. He is being held on absurd "terrorism" charges.

For more than 5 decades, Amnesty has campaigned to free prisoners of conscience in #Turkey. Including writers, politicians etc. #FreeTaner
In 1964, #Turkey's former president, Celal Bayar, wrote to @amnesty from jail to thank us for campaigning for his release.

Next month we will mark a year in prison for Amnesty Turkey's honorary chair #TanerKilic. #FreeTaner #FreeRightsDefenders
“We will be free together
We will struggle together
We will win together.”
Politician, author & sociologist, Behice Boran, was an @Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience in #Turkey in 1973. Today Amnesty #Turkey's honorary chair has been in jail for almost a year. #FreeTaner #TanerKilic
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1/10. "The Joy of Freedom". The #Istanbul10 were released in early hours of Thursday morning after 113 days in jail. Where are they now?
2/10. Günal Kurşun is back with his family. Before he was jailed, Günal had never heard his son say his newest word: "Daddy" #Istanbul10
3/10. İdil Eser is back in her Istanbul flat with her cats Misha, Sasha and Kiki. They were very pleased to see her amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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Short Attention Span:
In the last two weeks, two big stories with far-reaching implications have come and it seems, gone:
1) Deeply reported, well-documented piece in NYT alleging that Trump is a tax fraud
2) Report by 6,000 global scientists on accelerating climate change /1
Trump calls media the "enemy of the people." And yet:
1) by flitting from one (inconsequential?) item ("horseface") to another, the media often plays into Trump's hands, with its insufficient persistence - e.g. treating a report on tax fraud as merely a one day item /1
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Hello everyone, welcome to @Nairametrics Corporate News Roundup for the week ended August 18, 208. This thread is sponsored by @BluechipTechNG

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Dear @tito_mboweni, if you want debate on Nationalisation of Mines, Land and natural resources, please say so. Your tweet is populist and misleading. You know this, why do you do this? In a few tweets, I will back up my bold statement. THREAD BELOW.
1. You know that one of the first pieces of legislation #Mandela signed was nationalisation of mines. You know that the State owns ALL mines in South Africa. Mining companies get prospecting and mining licenses from @DMR_SA. Please explain what conditions DMR has put in place?
2. If @DMR_SA has the power and authority to issue mining licenses, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that there is adequate provision for people who live in mining communities to have meaningful stake and adequate protection from capricious companies, international & local?
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One advice writer's give that we consistently explain poorly is "make every character have a unique voice."

The way we refuse to go too in-depth with it often makes it sound like characters should either be Regular, Cowboy or Yoda.

So, here, a small guide on writing voices.
#1 rhythm.

Possibly the hardest to define, every person and every character has a rhythm to how they speak. Sentence length, patterns in how we structure our speech, etc.

As a reader, it's often hard to pick up on, but as a listener, it becomes a lot easier to understand.
This rhythm can also be mostly silence. Characters we often regard as stoic or mysterious speak only when they need to. How long a given person goes between talking is a big part of their speech pattern.
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Almost all of the Road Runner cartoons are available via the @BoomerangToons app.

I subscribed for $5 & decided I'm gonna watch & tweet about 'em all in chronological order, even the later, terrible ones, for which I have an irrational affection.

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Boomerang lists them alphabetically not chronologically so Chuck Jones masterpieces sit side-by-side with 1960s atrocities (& later 'revival' attempts.)

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