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27 Jul, 4 tweets, 5 min read
1/. #SYRIA - RAQQA BY NUMBERS

4 - Years since US-led coalition took the city from #ISIS

1,600 - civilians killed

80 - % of the city destroyed

75 - % of residents STILL reliant on support for food

80 - % of schools STILL damaged

0 - Reparations
2/. “They destroyed the soul of the city”

Today NE #Syria is suffering the worst drought in 9 years

Lack of access to clean water is creating a public health crisis with challenges in preventing the spread of disease incldg #COVID19 say @SavetheChildren.
reliefweb.int/report/syrian-…
3/. The US claim their coalition took all necessary measures to spare civilians in #Raqqa

But @amnesty found this rhetoric was far from the reality

Four years on, the people of Raqqa are still awaiting justice for the destruction of lives & livelihoods.
raqqa.amnesty.org
4/. This photo taken by Ismail Almoustafa, shows the centre of #Raqqa today

It is time for the @Biden administration to do the right thing & provide reparation for the civilians it killed & help alleviate the ongoing suffering of the city’s population. #Syria #SyrianLivesMatter

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26 Jul
1/. The caption on this image in @thetimes today can tell you a lot about the propagandistic coverage of refugees

Not a child but a ‘child migrant’

‘Offered a helping hand’ not ‘detained by Border Force officers’

Is it any wonder the girl looks so scared?” @brokenbottleboy Image
2/. Last year, @nytimes captioned a photo in an excellent article by @MatinaStevis:

“Greek authorities have been using tear gas and rubber bullets to repel the hordes.”

Language matters

Words such as “hordes”, “invasion”, “flood”, “swarm” are used widely - & for more a century ImageImage
3/ Orwell’s 1984 opens with Winston Smith writing in his diary about a film he’s seen

“One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him”
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25 Jul
Wow!

@sajidjavid who compared #COVID19 to flu has now deleted his Tweet where he says we need to “live with rather than cower from this virus”

.#SavidJavid was a banker

He has no health expertise or qualifications or knowledge about epidemiology, virology or public health.
Javid is a devotee of libertarian writer Ayn Rand

Twice a year he reads the courtroom scene in “The Fountainhead”, where the hero says he’d rather go to jail than submit to the collective will b/c the individual can bend the arc of history to their will.
“What Javid admires in Rand’s novel is the portrait of a steel-willed individual for whom tooth-&-claw capitalism is the best system because it places the fewest restrictions on such individuals. If illegal or unethical methods are required, what of it?”
westcountrybylines.co.uk/sajid-javid-he…
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24 Jul
At the 1914 @Olympics, women could compete only in sports in which they could wear long skirts

This week, Norway’s women’s handball team were fined for wearing shorts instead of bikinis

In 2014, the Colombian women’s cycling team were blasted for wearing a flesh-coloured kit. ImageImage
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Audre Lorde)

In the early 1900s, women could only compete in a handful of Olympic events

In 1912, the IOC President said “an #Olympics with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic & improper.” ImageImageImageImage
In the 1920s, frustrated at their lack of inclusion, women organised their own #Olympics

Four Women’s Games were staged (1922, 1926, 1930, 1934)

Although belittled by the media, the games drew public interest with 15,000 people coming to the 1930 games
bitchmedia.org/article/forgot…
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22 Jul
“Thirsty dogs!”

This ‘Hot Dog stand’ in London on the hottest day of the year, is proving very popular.
Dear @fesshole

On hot summer's day some years back I marinaded some chicken for a BBQ, filled the empty chicken boxes with water & put them outside my house with a "thirsty dogs" sign

That night, the old lady downstairs phoned

Wizzy, her pooch, who'd drank some water, was ill
“Did you wash the chicken containers very thoroughly?” the old lady asked

“Of course,” I said

I’d given them a good rinse. That was all

I didn’t get much sleep that night & in the morning I lay in bed listening out for Wizzy’s usual barks from the garden

But Wizzy was silent.
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19 Jul
1/. Gross press freedom violations revealed by #PegasusProject can’t be met with impunity

Govts & agencies who’ve spied on journalists must provide answers on this misuse of NSO technology #Pegasus #PegasusSnoopgate @amnesty @globalfreemedia @pressfreedom forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-the-ne…
2/. Journalists, MPs & human rights activists were selected as targets for surveillance by authoritarian regimes

#Pegasus is the spyware developed, marketed & licensed to govts around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group.
@citizenlab #PegasusProject
3/. In the months before he died & a year after his murder, people associated with Jamal Khashoggi, were selected for potential surveillance by clients of NSO

Hungary’s far-right govt is suspected of hacking phones of journalists & targeting owners
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11 Jul
Bottles & missiles thrown in Leicester Sq

At least it’s happening in London rather than some other European capital

If #England win or lose, it might be wise to stay clear of Trafalgar Sq / central London tonight
#ENGITA #EnglandvsItaly #ENG  #EURO2020 
Ystdy, an #England “fan” revealed the hotel where the #ITA team were staying & tweeted

“If #Italy’s hotel isn’t kept up all night by fire alarms & fireworks on Saturday I’ll be massively let down”

This is what happened👇
#ENGvITA #EURO2020 #Euro2021 #ENG
“Everything I know about morality & the obligations of men, I owe it to football” CAMUS

It teaches us about team work, fair play & that some things are more important than winning

At the EURO2012 #ENGvITA match, an #England fan dropped his pants to try & put off a penalty taker
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