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3 Oct, 5 tweets, 7 min read
1/. #PandoraPapers reveal secret dealings of 330+ politicians & officials - including 35 current & former heads of state & govt

Exposé is based on a leaked dataset of 11.9 million files from all over the world & include disclosures about Tory party donors
google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
2/. “The tax system is a haven of scams, perks, City deals and profits" (#TonyBlair 1994)

The #PandoraPapers reveal the Blair’s bought an offshore firm that owned the £6.5m house they were buying so did not have to pay £312,000 in stamp duty @BBCPanorama bbc.com/news/uk-587805…
3/. The #PandoraPapers expose offshore accounts of world leaders, billionaires, oligarchs & criminals

It should lead to a crackdown on tax loopholes & money laundering...but we’ve been here before

What was the impact of #PanamaPapers & #ParadisePapers?
4/. The #PandoraPapers highlight the UK govt failure to introduce a register of offshore property owners despite repeated promises to do so

Are property buyers could be hiding money-laundering activities?

Mafia expert @robertosaviano says UK is the world’s most corrupt country. Image
5/. In 2012, the @TaxJusticeNet estimated that there was £13 trillion in offshore accounts avoiding tax

In 2016 the EU began making strict anti-tax avoidance laws & Cameron announced #Brexit Referendum

Join the dots: #Cummings #Bannon #CambridgeAnalytica #PalantirPlan #Genomics ImageImageImageImage

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5 Oct
“The most important thing is that we’re allowed to think about alternatives” (Žižek)

Ten years ago I joined @OccupyWallSt

Occupy’s incredible positive energy was underpinned by a cohesive sense of anger at corporate greed, govt mismanagement & inequality newint.org/features/web-e…
“This is the most hopeful I’ve felt for a long time.”

For those involved those early stages of Occupy Wall St in Zuccotti Park - nicknamed Liberty Plaza - the mood was intoxicating & contagious

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Over the next month, @OccupyWallSt spread across the US attracting celebrity & political support including from @JoeBiden, @SpeakerPelosi, & @algore

Occupy also crossed the Atlantic popping up outside St Paul’s Cathedral, just after I got home to London.
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28 Sep
“In the mid-1960s, I was a young NHS houseman in London specializing in obstetrics. One day I was called to A&E / ER to see a young woman who was bleeding...”

@Newsweek piece by retired doctor on how things were when abortion was illegal in the UK.
#AbortionBan #Texas #SanMarino
On Sunday, #SanMarino joined 50+ countries that have improved access to abortion in the past 25 years

It was decriminalised in South Korea (2021), Argentina (2020), Ireland (2019)

But other places - e.g. #Poland & #Texas - are swimming against the tide.
Women & girls pay a high price for restrictions on abortion. They pay with their health, their well-being & even with their lives

Last January, abortion in #Poland - already only available to women in extreme circumstances - was further restricted.
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27 Sep
Today, the @ElectoralCommUK registered Britain First as a political party

#BritainFirst is a far-right, fascist political organisation formed in 2011 by former members of the BNP. The BNP was created from the NF

If it can be shown to insight racial hatred, could it be barred?
In 2015, Bannon told #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions in societies

It worked

The far-right are not only on our streets & TLs but increasingly pulling strings of power
In 2017, Bannon asked #Farage to be part of a "convening authority" to "knit together a populist nationalist movement around the world"

He mentions Modi, Orban, Sisi, Duterte

We can add Trump, @BorisJohnson & @jairbolsonaro to that list, & several others
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26 Sep
1/. Polls have just closed in San Marino where people have been voting in a referendum on decriminalising abortion

#SanMarion along with Malta, Andorra & the Vatican, it is one of the last places in Europe where a total ban on abortion is still in force. theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
2/. #BREAKING: Residents in #SanMarino - a majority Catholic state surrounded by Italy - have voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion, overturning a 150-year-old law that had criminalized it

This good news comes two days before int’l #safeabortionday.
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3/. #SanMarino joins more than 50 countries that have improved access to abortion in the past 25 years

It was decriminalised in South Korea (2021), Argentina (2020), Ireland (2019)

But other places - such as Poland & Texas - are swimming against the tide
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22 Sep
1/. A Dutch judge has just thrown intn'l human rights law & Art.1 of the constitution out the window by ruling that police can target people based on “skin colour & race”

The Marchaussee, one the Dutch police forces, can continue to use "ethnic profiling"
nos.nl/artikel/239878…
2/. The ruling by a court in The Hague came at the end of a case brought by @amnestynl & a coalition of NGOs against the use of ethnicity in stop & searches by Dutch border police: a clear violation of the prohibition against discrimination

...Or so they & their lawyers thought
3/. Ethnic profiling & other forms of discriminatory policing are common across Europe

This year, a coalition of NGOs including @amnestyfrance @hrw & @OpenSociety launched a first class action demanding that authorities in #France stop #Controlesaufacies
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20 Sep
"#Aghanistan’s fall into the hands of the Taliban"

Briefing by @amnesty @fidh_en, & @omctorg documents the human rights crackdown since the #Taliban's seizure of power giving the lie to their claims that the rights of Afghans would be respected

OUT TMW
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“We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off, Iran” GenerWesley Clark)

Military action against #Afghanistan was a stepping stone ahead of the illegal invasion of Iraq!
A climate of fear now exists in #Afghanistan

The threat faced by human rights defenders is very real

Their offices & homes have been raided

They & their colleagues have been beaten & tortured by the Taliban

@amnesty's new report paints a dark picture.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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