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14 Sep, 6 tweets, 3 min read
John Malone, Chair of Liberty Global & the largest private landowner in the USA is setting up a formidable media company.

The $43 billion deal brings together AT&T’s Warner Bros, HBO, CNN, & Discovery’s array of cable channels - including GB "News"! 🤔

forbes.com/sites/dawnchmi…
Libertarian John Malone is on the board of directors for the grotesquely libertarian free-market Cato Institute, founded by the Koch Foundation in 1974.

And Malone donated US$250,000 to Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017. He's generous like that. 🧐

forbes.com/sites/michelat…
What's a 'free-market libertarian' you ask? Too big a question for a pithy tweet - detour #THREAD:

Anyway, while John Malone is on the board of directors of the grotesquely libertarian free-market Cato Institute (founded by the EVIL disaster capitalist Koch Foundation in 1974), James Buchanan was a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

So go ahead & join a few dots between GBNews' recent demonisation of OUR #NHS, and Malone, Buchannan, & GBNews' other libertarian disaster capitalist funders, Dubai based hedge funders Legatum, which funds free market think tank, the Legatum Institute! 🧐

Back in May, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that, alongside CNN, GB News will be an important part of the merged Discovery and WarnerMedia outfit: “We’ve just made a very big investment in the UK [in GB News], in terms of direction for us". 😬

deadline.com/2021/05/gb-new…

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14 Sep
The barbaric Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill has passed its final reading & is awaiting consideration by the House of Lords.

It contains new limits on the right to protest, sweeping new police powers, the criminalisation of Travellers & increased stop & search powers.
Damage to memorials, such as the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, could mean 10 years in prison - longer than many rape sentences.

The Bill is an unacceptable extension of police & state powers, & attacks the fundamental freedoms of speech, assembly & the right to protest.
If you STILL can't see the *crystal clear* historical parallels, you're either blind, or in denial.

Or you simply just don't care.

#NeverForget
#NeverAgain

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13 Sep
I see we've reached the 'racism is justified against black people & travellers because laws' stage of the Tory regime.

Reminds me of something we did in History at school - can't quite put my finger on it... 🙋‍♂️
#ToryBritain
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13 Sep
#THREAD

Since 9/11, the number of UK/US newspaper articles about terrorism increased exponentially - despite attacks in Europe & North America being much more common during the 1970/80s & typically carried out by left/right-wing nationalists.

theconversation.com/9-11-how-polit…
Sheffield University's @JaredAhmad1 makes a powerful & persuasive argument:

'Aside from the drama and newsworthiness of the 9/11 attacks, a major reason why terrorism dominated headlines was because politicians and other “elite” figures began talking about terrorism. A lot.'
'Studies reveal how, in the days, weeks and months after 9/11, politicians and security sources (often anonymous and unnamed) dominated the news of the terror threat during this period and helped encourage an atmosphere of patriotic fervour.'

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
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13 Sep
Do the #USA🇺🇸 & #UK🇬🇧 have a disproportionately large proportion of idiots?

Or do they have Governments & news media influenced by rich free-market fundamentalists who want to deregulate everything, make people live & work in unsafe environments, & who value profit over lives?
Hungary, Brazil, the USA & UK are among the top 25 worst-performing countries on earth for COVID deaths/million of population.

Of these countries, the UK & USA have *BY FAR* the highest number of cases over the last 7 days - more than twice as many as the next highest, Brazil.
And just to be clear:

Brazil 🇧🇷 (population 211 million) - 99,846 cases last 7 days.

UK 🇬🇧 (population 68 million) - 206,462 cases last 7 days.

USA 🇺🇸 (population 333 million) - 932,988 cases last 7 days.

Out of these countries, the UK is the worst performing.
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12 Sep
In 2013, at the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture, Boris Johnson said inequality is essential to fostering "the spirit of envy" & hailed greed as a "valuable spur to economic activity".

The damaged, lying, opportunistic hypocrite also demonised Romanians.

theguardian.com/politics/2013/…
Johnson warned that the accession of Romania to the EU meant that London could do nothing to stop the "entire population of Transylvania" from "pitching their tents in Marble Arch".

Romania's foreign minister expressed his outrage at "xenophobic, populist" politicians in the UK.
The deregulatory free-market ideology that he & his catastrophic & cruel Government subscribe to seem to relish deepening inequality, & in his speech he warned that the growing competition Britain faced in a globalised economy meant that inequality would deepen.
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Divisive liar & Tory MP PHILIP DAVIES has wrongly claimed that asylum seekers crossing the channel by boat "are illegal immigrants, not asylum seekers".

Why are politicians allowed to lie to voters?

And why are certain newspapers allowed to amplify their blatant lies?
Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through “safe” countries. Philip Davies cannot know whether they'd be recognised as refugees as this is determined by UK immigration officials reviewing their asylum applications.

fullfact.org/immigration/re…
The Express knows Philip Davies' claim that asylum seekers crossing the channel by boat "are illegal immigrants, not asylum seekers" is a blatant lie, & they get away with amplifying obvious lies by claiming 'it's marked 'comment' & is just an opinion'.🤬

ipso.co.uk/complain/compl…
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