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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What kind of suspicious unethical person or organisation would sponsor you, but only on condition that you NEVER saying ANYTHING that MIGHT damage their reputation - regardless of what they do or may have done in the past?

#Adani #ScienceMuseum
In August 2017, Indian customs alleged the Adani Group was diverting millions in funds from the company's books to Adani family tax havens overseas.

Adani was accused of using a Dubai shell company to divert the funds.

theguardian.com/business/2018/…
The details of $235 million diversion were published by The Guardian.

scribd.com/document/35631…
In 2014, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence mapped out a complex money trail from India through South Korea & Dubai, & eventually to an offshore company in Mauritius allegedly owned by Vinod Shantilal Adani, the older brother of Gautam Adani.

theguardian.com/world/2017/aug…

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The Heritage Foundation is a dangerous & very influential US neoliberal free-market fundamentalist think tank that represents the interests of the 0.1%

Charles WL Hill: "given that the Heritage Foundation has a political agenda, its work should be viewed with caution."
In 2005, Heritage established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

Thatcher herself maintained a long relationship with The Heritage Foundation. Shortly after leaving office, Thatcher was honoured by Heritage at a September 1991 dinner. Image
The Heritage Foundation rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, & is one of many climate change denial organizations that have been funded by ExxonMobil.

The Heritage Foundation strongly criticized the Kyoto Agreement to curb climate change.

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Tory MP Edward Leigh's views on the "migrant crisis":

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22 Nov
Toxic divisive ranting anti-@BBC culture war shithouse Paul Dacre has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail’s parent company because good sense & public outcry prevented him from becoming the next chair of the media regulator, @Ofcom.

theguardian.com/media/2021/nov…
A new guide from @StopFundingHate & Ethical Consumer @EC_magazine explains how you can help make Dacre's & Murdoch's divisive hate unprofitable.

#StopFundingHate

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The Relationship Between Emotions, Politics & Populism:

'Populists, on left & right, have crafted their deeply affective accounts of who is the danger, who is in danger & who is to blame, to respond to contemporary affective requests.'

@GeorgeMonbiot

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'Exclusionary populists define the people strictly as 'natives' & thus construct a large number of out-groups, whereas inclusionary populists understand the people more broadly, as those who have been aggrieved by neoliberal elites, regardless of ethnicity, religion or culture'.
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22 Nov
The Political Editor of the Daily Telegraph moaning about Labour "weaponising" Boris Johnson's inability to deliver a scripted speech is quite something.
Here's the Telegraph 'weaponising' a grotesque distortion of history & reality in order to demonise the Left - ironically, something which the Nazis also did.

Hitler allied himself with leaders of German conservative & nationalist movements, & in January 1933 became chancellor.
Hitler’s Third Reich was entirely #fascist.

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If Shamima Begum, the ISIS Bride, Is No Longer British, What Does Citizenship Mean? newyorker.com/news/letter-fr… via @NewYorker
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