1/. As millions around the world gather today to demand #ClimateAction a QUESTION...

Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#COP26Glasgow #COP26  #ClimateEmergency #plasticpollution #ClimateJustice #ClimateMarch #ClimateActionNow
2/. “Every single grape wrapped in plastic! What the actual f***!”

You would probably be outraged like my friend Diane was! #COP26Glasgow #COP26  #FridaysForFuture #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticfree
#ClimateMarch #ClimateJustice
3/. CONFESSION

The individually wrapped grapes in the video aren’t real

But the plastic wrapped passion fruit were

& so is this footage

& so was Diane’s reaction

& so too was the outrage you perhaps felt

It’s time to channel the outrage into action
4/. Are individually plastic-wrapped grapes so much worse than all the other fruit & veg we see in wrapped in pointless plastic every day?

There’s a trash vortex/plastic soup the size of Texas in the Pacific

We cannot plead ignorance

We can no longer afford apathy
#COP26
5/. Plastics swallowed by marine mammals, seabirds & fish clog their digestive system causing starvation

The problem doesn’t just come from plastic we can see

Micro-plastics can be found at the bottom of our deepest oceans, in plankton, & even in humans!
6/. It is fitting that #COP26 is in the UK as Britain is the world’s 2nd biggest producer of plastic per person

This @GreenpeaceUK video shows how much plastic we dump in other countries

Plastic waste kills millions of birds, sea mammals & fish each year
7/. It’s time for action

🍇Cut your food waste & plastics
♻Recycle
✈️Cut your carbon footprint
🍏Buy local
🏝Clean a beach
🌳 Plant a tree
🌎 Join an org e.g: @Fridays4future
@Earthjustice @Greenpeace @NRDC @friends_earth @RnfrstAlliance @ExtinctionR
8/. In 1944, Churchill described Nazi atrocities as "a crime without a name"

Soon after, the term 'genocide' was coined

Is it time to recognise ‘ecocide’ as an intl crime?

Is it time for all of us to start getting actIve to protect our fragile planet? #COP26  #GlasgowCop26

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7 Nov
1/. “For two weeks, Scotland has become the centre of the world. Not just a place where we can meet one another, but a place where we can truly recognise one another.” Mindahi Bastida, Mexico

A delegation of 140 indigenous people have come to #Cop26 with a message. #COP26Glasgow
2/. “We came here to #COP26 because we knew world leaders would be here. But these world leaders are not listening to our leaders; to the indigenous leaders”

Uboye Gaba from Mexico (& his 1 year old son, Mene)
#COP26Glasgow @MingaIndigena #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoples
3/. “We are physically kicking out loggers, mining companies & land grabbers every day. We need your support. We need you to help to bring attention to what’s happening”

Puyr Tembe, president of @FEPIPA_Oficial in Brazil speaking at #cop26 #COP26Glasgow on #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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5 Nov
If I had a spare $10,800 I might spend it on dinner with #PeterThiel, the man behind the data/surveillance/genomics #Palantir who are behind the unparalleled #datagrab in the UK & globally

I’ve been investigating Palantir for 18 months & have a few questions I’d like to ask him! Image
So what would I ask Peter Thiel on our dinner date?

QUESTION 1:
Is it true that #Palantir taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data?

Whistleblower @chrisinsilico says Palantir showed them how to harvest data from Facebook users ahead of #Brexit vote.
QUESTION 2:
Emails link #CambridgeAnalytica & #Palantir’s psychographic project in data mining Facebook for electioneering in Brexit & in US in 2016

@chrisinsilico says “senior Palantir employees that were also working on the Facebook data”

Is this true? google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nyti…
Read 5 tweets
24 Oct
In 1989, Thatcher privatised the water industry claiming the UK had become the "Dirty Man of Europe"

4 decades on, the govt voted to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into Britain's rivers & seas @BorisJohnson @KwasiKwarteng @RobertSyms @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @SelaineSaxby
“And we cross now live to Shit Creek where it appears that...hang on...this can’t be live footage...the PM has a paddle...we know that @BorisJohnson_MP lost his paddle ages ago!”
#SewageScandal #Sewage #ShitGate #SewageStrewnUplands #rawsewage @RobertJenrick @RishiSunak
“We could say, if it’s good enough in India, it’s good enough for here. There’s nothing to stop that.”

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg speaking in 2016 on the possibility of slashing environmental & safety regulations on imported products after Brexit.
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.inde…
Read 5 tweets
23 Oct
Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele tells @haynesdeborah about Russian interference in #Brexit

Palantir who rptdly taught #CambridgeAnalytica how to scrape data run the NHS #COVID19 data store with Cummings-linked Vote Leave firm, #FacultyAI
👉#PalantirPlan
Christopher Steele also compiled a dossier alleging collusion btw Russia & the 2016 Trump election campaign

Were Brexit & Trump part of an intelligence-backed, right-wing plan for power through genomic data?

The #PalantirThree & #RussiaReport offer clues
Earlier this week, #ChristopherSteele told @GStephanopoulos that he’s speaking out now because “the problems we identified back in 2016 haven’t gone away, & arguably have actually got worse."

SEE THREADS👇on:
#RussiaReport
#Brexit
#PalantirPlan
#DataGrab
Read 6 tweets
22 Oct
1/. QUESTION: Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#COP26Glasgow #cop26plastics #COP26 #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #plasticpollution #ClimateJustice #FridaysForFuture
2/. “Every single grape wrapped in plastic! What the actual f***!”

You would probably be outraged like my friend Diane was! #COP26Glasgow #COP26 #FridaysForFuture #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticfree
3/. CONFESSION

The individually wrapped grapes in the video aren’t real

But the passion fruit were

& so is this footage from Sierra Leone

& so was Diane’s reaction

& so too was the outrage you perhaps felt

It’s time to channel the outrage into action
Read 6 tweets
19 Oct
1/. #FreedomOfExpression I’d under attack

A new @amnesty report reveals how govts around the world have relied on censorship & punishment - using new legislation - to shut down reporting & target people who have been critical of govt response to #COVID19.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. Numerous countries have put in place oppressive laws including Tanzania, Russia, Nicaragua & China

In China, more than 5,500 criminal investigations were opened against people who’d published information about the outbreak in the first 2 months of the #COVID19 pandemic alone
3/. @Amnesty’s report highlights the role of social media companies in facilitating the rapid spread of misinformation around #COVID

The destructive business model of Big Tech means that platforms are designed to amplify attention-grabbing content to engage users

V problematic!
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