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Jun 6, 2022 • 18 tweets • 15 min read • Read on X
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Journalist Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to @guardian, has been missing in the Javari Valley in the #Brazilian Amazon for more than 30 hours after death threats to his indigenista companion, Bruno Pereira, who is also missing #IndigenousHistoryMonth theguardian.com/media/2022/jun…
'We knew it was a dangerous place but Dom really believed it’s possible to safeguard the nature & the livelihood of the Indigenous people. We urge Brazilian authorities to do all they can to help”

Appeal by the sister of missing journalist Dom Phillips
theguardian.com/world/video/20…
A record number of activists working to protect the environment & land rights were murdered in 2020 & 2019 according to @Global_Witness

Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation

Indigenous populations bear the brunt of the deadly violence ImageImageImageImage
Where are #DomPhillips & #BrunoPereira?

"Even if we don't find them alive, we must find them" says Dom's wife as fears for their well-being grow

Brazilian police have started a criminal investigation into their disappearance

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been "dismantling all structures of Indigenous policies" including a severe underfunding of environmental enforcement, says Ana Alfinito of @amazonwatch on @democracynow #DomPhillips #BrunoPereira @AlfinitoAna
The Brazilian federal police & military continue their search for British journalist Dom Phillips & Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira missing in the Amazon, as the search entered its fourth day & a suspect was reportedly detained.
#DomPhillips #BrunoPereira
Traces of blood have been found on the boat of a suspect who has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips & Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. #DomPhillips #BrunoPereira #Brasil #Brazil #IndigenousHistoryMonth
standard.co.uk/news/world/dom…
Brazilian police have found possible human remains in their search for journalist Dom Phillips & indigenous expert Bruno Pereira

Experts will analyse the "organic material" found in a river near the town of Atalaia do Norte in the Amazon rainforest
bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…
Brazilian rescue teams have found a backpack & clothes belonging to Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira

If they have indeed been killed, this should be turning point for protecting the Amazon & the Indigenous people who live there

We must defend the defenders! theguardian.com/world/2022/jun… Image
#BREAKING Bodies found in search for Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira

“Their souls have joined those of so many others who gave their lives in defence of the rainforest & Indigenous peoples”

Their murders must be a turning point 4 Indigenous rights globally
“Dozens of defenders of Indigenous groups have been killed during Bolsonaro's presidency yet it’s taken this to draw global attention. Dom & Bruno have fallen foul of the same perils they sought to warn others of.” @Channel4News #DomPhillips #BrunoPereira
“The battle to save Mother Earth will be the mother of all battles”

It’s a battle that’s already begun

#DomPhillips & #BrunoPereira are just the latest victims

In current times, the job of activists is more vital than ever

More vital & more dangerous.
A Brazilian suspect in the disappearance of British journalist #DomPhillips & #BrunoPereira has confessed to fatally shooting the men, police confirm

Police told media on Wednesday that the suspect led them to their bodies

Justice must be done
“The killing of Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira is devastating for their families & friends. It’s also the embodiment of a wider assault on environmental defenders & those who work with them & of the dangers faced by journalists”

We must defend the defenders theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“Dom & Bruno were killed in an undeclared global war against nature & the people who defend it

The frontlines of this war are the Earth’s remaining biodiverse regions – the forests, wetlands & oceans: a crucial part of our climate & planetary life-support system.” @jonathanwatts Image
Cattle ranching is the top cause of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country & accounts for 80% of deforestation

#DomPhillips did vital work to expose how largest beef company in the world JBS was laundering cattle from illegally deforested land👇
The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon this year hit a record high - 7 times the size of Manhattan each month!

98% of deforestation alerts go unpunished

Indigenous communities are the only ones standing up to this destruction. #DomPhillips
“Deep inside Javari Valley, fishing teams haul away up to half a tonne of pirarucu fish & 700 turtles – both protected species. Illegal gold mining dredgers pollute rivers with mercury. Cattle farmers are encroaching from the south.”

#DomPhillips #Brazil theguardian.com/global-develop…

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1/. “It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; & it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch”

Arthur Koestler’s 1944 essay expressing frustration at the failure of the world to acknowledge Nazi atrocities resonates today
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2/ “There are a few of us…yelling at you in newspapers…Now & then we reach your ear…But it only lasts a minute. You shake yourself like puppies who’ve got their fur wet; then the screen again descends & you walk on, protected by the dream-barrier which stifles all sound”
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3/ Koestler notes maniacs lose contact with reality so “perhaps it’s we, the screamers, who react in a sound & healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened fantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts” Image
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“They got me!” Liz Truss tells far-right kingpin, Steve Bannon, before going on to explain that, to have effectively tackled “the deep state” that runs Britain & its institutions, she would have “needed a bigger bazooka”! #LizTruss #BritanniaUnchained
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Liz Truss’ compares her premiership to a one night stand & says she was just “fattening the pig” for slaughter & that she should have gaslit the public like Rishi Sunak is doing (!)
"I faced the most almighty backlash...from the usual suspects in the media” Liz Truss

“Truss's decline is simultaneously tragic & horrifying but the claim that the media conspired against her can't go unchallenged. There are front pages praising her to the rafters” @mrjamesob



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Nov 6, 2023
Despite previous denials, Michelle Mone finally admits her involvement in failed PPE supplier Medpro

There should be a criminal investigation into possible intentional breach of beneficial ownership disclosure rules

The govt VIP Lane needs investigating

Something about the #MichelleMone interview doesn’t pass the smell test

Why are Mone & her husband - currently under criminal investigation in UK & Spain - being given a prime time slot to tell ‘their side of the story’?

5 questions @bbclaurak should ask

@bbclaurak “I don’t honestly think there’s a case to answer. I can’t see what we’ve done wrong” @MichelleMone

Wow! #MichelleMone & #DougBarrowman on @bbclaurak’s programme, this morning

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As the 2nd module of the #CovidInquiry begins covering “core UK decision-making & political governance”, comes news that Rishi Sunak - like Boris Johnson - has also fail to fully comply with the order to hand his WhatsApp messages

Both claim they can’t access key messages
#COVID
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“The govt needs get professional IT experts to recover these messages”

Charles Persinger who lost his wife & mother to #COVID, echoes the call of @CovidJusticeUK’s lawyers calling on the @covidinquiryuk to commission experts to retrieve Sunak & Johnson’s ‘lost’ WhatsApp messages
“It was like watching his death approach & seeing every mistake that was made”

@LoreleiKing describes listening to the timeline of govt inaction in the months leading to her husband’s death of #COVID19

Bereaved families want accountability #Covidinquiry
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Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September

It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇
twitter.com/en/privacy



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“I do not accept that Twitter has deteriorated in any way since Elon Musk took over”
A week before Twitter’s change in privacy policy, some questions for @elonmusk

1. What biometric information will be collected & what are the intended uses?

How will X ensure that that the data of X’s 530 million users isn’t used for unlawful purposes?
mashable.com/article/x-twit…
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1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe

Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK
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2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics

Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election
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3/. “The far right don’t need to win elections to spread their malign ideas” @kenanmalik

Last month, a coalition of the centre-right PP & the far-right Vox failed to win Spain’s election

Ystdy, Vox pledged it wouldn’t impede PP’s efforts to form a govt
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…




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