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5 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Reporters Without Borders new “Press freedom predators” gallery includes an EU leader for the first time: Hungary PM Viktor Orbán.

Congrats to him & to EU leaders who did nothing as a dictatorship emerged in the EU!

(especially @EPP, which backed him)
rsf.org/en/news/rsfs-2… Image
Wouldn't it be nice if @EPP leaders like Merkel, @vonderleyen, @ManfredWeber, @donaldtuskEPP, @JunckerEU apologised for their personal roles in letting the EU stop being a bloc of exclusively democratic states?
hrw.org/news/2020/04/2… Image
And then, you know, pledge to do everything in their power - institutionally & politically - to undo the mess the made?

And then act on it?
Yes, that would be a fine thing.

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7 Jul
Successive US administrations have largely perceived human rights more as an obstacle than as an essential component of addressing #Afghanistan’s problems.

This approach has been catastrophic... Image
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It's all very familiar to what happened after the Vietnam War.
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Egregious violations of international & domestic law.
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In blocking wider vaccine production globally, the EU takes a neocolonialist approach to the pandemic, saying:

❗️ we're in charge;

❗️ we decide who lives & dies;

❗️ we may give you some charity later if we feel generous & if you behave.

It’s arrogant & self-destructive. Image
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Hundreds of families in the #Czech Republic whose houses have been damaged or destroyed by the tornado are eligible for financial help…

BUT that money could be confiscated by bailiffs.

The country has a serious problem with bailiffs & private debt collectors... Image
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The scam works like this...
Indebtedness usually starts from a small debt of that's the equivalent of a few euros.

Creditors would not inform the debtor about the debt, but they would pass it to a private debt collector.

The private debt collectors would then wait several years before they pounced.
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Vaccines "outpaced by variants", says World Health Organization.

#Delta now in 98 countries: theguardian.com/society/2021/j…

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But we could tackle vaccine scarcity itself.

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Auschwitz personnel, 1944.

Ordinary people, not monsters, make atrocities happen. ImageImageImage
The endless stream of books and films that present those who supported and took part in atrocities as one-dimensional beasts, as simply monsters, sheds no light on how atrocities emerge. It offers no insight on how to prevent future atrocities.
Nazi horror didn’t start with genocide.

It started with words...

...with the dehumanizing of minority groups...

...and the mainstream acceptance of that dehumanization.
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