Quotes by Clare Rewcastle Brown - Page 1

I must try to do something. I'll never forgive myself if I don't try.
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Myself Never Try
Forgive
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I have had to put in police reports that I have been stalked and followed.
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Reports
Followed
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I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.
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Jungle
Lonely
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I have vivid memories of leaving North Borneo at 8, and I remember the vast canopy of rain forest.
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Rain
Vivid
Forest
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Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.
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Discredit
Fake
Fake News News Fake
Attempt
Fake News
Millions Of Dollars
Tune
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My mother would drag me to remote clinics to show the indigenous Dayaks what a healthy baby should look like.
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Drag
Indigenous
Clinics
Remote
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As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.
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Barefoot
Odd
Climb
Dodging
Trees
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Prime Minister Najib had continuously denounced me as an enemy of the Malaysian state and accused me of spreading Fake News.
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Accused
Prime Minister
Continuously
Fake News
Minister
Spreading
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Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.
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Adventure
Exposing
Scandal
World More Than
So-Called
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I'm fairly practiced at squirreling out stories and sources - I talk to people; I ask people if they know anyone worth talking to.
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Fairly
People Know Talk
People Talk Know
Practiced
Sources
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If a government is overreacting in this way and treating you as such a dangerous threat, then you know that you are doing your job.
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Treating
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I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was just one of many.
Clare Rewcastle Brown /
Analysis
Just One
Disapprove
Pulled
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I soon realised the state rulers were being protected by the federal government who relied on these rotten boroughs to deliver their vote.
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Federal Government
Protected
Realised
Rotten
Rulers
Deliver
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A super rich elite have emerged thanks to the lack of law and order, and thanks to the lack of jurisdiction over the transfers of international wealth.
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Jurisdiction
Law And Order
Thanks
Elite
Emerged
Transfer
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I discovered the Internet. I started seeing how much company information was out there - they didn't think it would be accessible to a middle-aged journalist sitting in her kitchen in England.
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Middle Aged
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Having grown up on Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo, I had become increasingly incensed by the seemingly mad and wanton destruction of the world's third largest and most biodiverse rainforest, the Borneo Jungle.
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Destruction
Jungle
Wanton
Increasingly
Seemingly
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But I have this vivid memory of flying over Borneo down the coast to Singapore. It was a two-hour journey in those days, and I remember looking out the window for two hours at this amazing canopy of unbroken jungle beneath me.
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Flying
Jungle
Singapore
Unbroken
Vivid
Window
Beneath
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As I found myself in the thick of the biggest investigative story of my career, I suffered state-backed computer hacking of my systems. Myself and my family were stalked by private security companies; my house was under surveillance.
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Hacking
Surveillance
Thick
Suffered
Investigative
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My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have been generated by Taib selling off rainforests with some of the money going through the British Virgin Islands.
Clare Rewcastle Brown /
Canada
Islands
Selling
Empire
Funds
Investigations
Uk
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I think people knew why I was doing what I was doing. They knew I wasn't part of an interest group. And, in a way, by attacking me, the Malaysian establishment identified me as someone who was principled and prepared to stand up to them.
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Establishment
Principled
Me People Way
Identified
Stand Up
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English is still the unifying language in Sarawak and I use my blog and broadcasts to expose the outrageous deforestation which has seen 95 per cent of Sarawak's rainforest cut down and replaced by logging and palm oil plantations which have enriched Taib and his family.
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Deforestation
Outrageous
Replaced
Unifying
Palm
Blog
Cent
Enriched
Expose
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In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower's account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn't dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.
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Asia
Backlash
Dare
Denial
East Asia
Rollercoaster
Unleashed
Account
Ludicrous
Newspaper
Published
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The people I spoke to who were worried they would be killed for talking to me are now all ministers in the government. This is a major, major breakthrough. You have democracy actually working, the return of the rule of law, in an area of the world which was really tipping into the night.
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Breakthrough
Ministers
Rule Of Law
Tipping
Government Democracy World
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