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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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Jun 25
Wow!

Incredible news to wake up to

Julian Assange is free after a plea deal

He was released on bail from Belmarsh prison & boarded a plane which is currently heading to Australia

His release is a testament to those fought for his freedom #JulianAssange

Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Saipan, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, where he’s expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act & be sentenced to 5yrs

Given he’s already served this time, he should walk free
The public have a right to know what their govts do in their name

Julian #Assange’s prosecution represented a grave threat to press freedom, undermining the key role of journalists & publishers in scrutinizing govts misdeeds & creating a chilling effect

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May 15
1/. Four years, ago this tweet👇broke the #CareHomeScandal

The govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

They KNEW about asymptomatic transmission in Jan 2020

Many thousands died

This revelation led to other questions…
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2/. From the start of the pandemic the govt had given #Palantir, a US spyware company with reported links to #CambridgeAnalytica, access to NHS health data

The NHS = the most trusted brand in the UK

Cambridge Analytica = the least trusted

Disturbing…

3/. Palantir worked on the NHS data store with #FacultyAI - a company with ties to Cummings

In 2020, @amnesty warned that Big Tech firms might use the COVID crisis to hoover up genomic data, obliterating the last frontier of privacy: our biological selves

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Mar 9
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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Feb 23
“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
"I was just saying it like it is & that’s what people respect me for"(!)

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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Jan 4
1/. In 2020 I started a thread warning that Trump might launch an attack on Iran before the end of his term

It wasn’t the first time there had been a real danger of a US-led, Israeli backed attack (records show Bush had come close in 2007/8)

The risk appears now to be very high
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2/. It’s clear that the bomb blasts in Kerman on the 4th anniversary of #Soleimani's assassination by the US, could lead to a quick ratcheting up of dangerous tensions

After Oct 7, the US sent two aircraft carrier groups to the region

Iran just deployed a warship to the Red Sea
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3/. Three US soldiers were killed & two dozen injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern #Jordan near the Syrian border, President @JoeBiden said

This could mark a dangerous escalation
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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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