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Shareholder Discovery has sold its stake in GB "News". Bought for £20 million, it was offloaded for just £8M. The channel, where the average daily view is less than a minute, is currently being investigated by media regulator @Ofcom for its coverage of the COVID vaccine.
"Comments made during an interview with Dr Naomi Wolf about the coronavirus vaccine rollout raise potential issues... our investigation will consider whether this programme broke our rules designed to protect viewers from harmful material." - @Ofcom

ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/20…
This is the second @Ofcom investigation GB News is facing over its vaccine coverage.

The latest one relates to an interview with the author Naomi Wolf, in which she claimed women were being harmed by #Covid19 vaccines as part of an effort to “to destroy British civil society”.
#Ofcom said it would investigate whether the programme broke “rules designed to protect viewers from harmful material” after receiving more than 400 complaints from members of the public.

The interview with Wolf was originally broadcast on 4th October this year.
Dangerously irresponsible & quite possibly damaged conspiracy theorist Wolf compared doctors’ support for the vaccine rollout to the behaviour of the medical profession in Nazi Germany & described herself as the “last remaining independent journalist” willing to question this. 😬
Wolf was being interviewed on the Mark Steyn Show, which has repeatedly raised doubts over the safety of vaccines. Steyn’s claims that the jabs cause “every conceivable kind of damage” is typical of the ill-informed outrage-provoking style of the UK's very own Fox News wannabe.
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So right-wing Brextremist hedge-funder Paul Marshall bought out GB "News".

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Under dictator Jorge Ubico, the United Fruit Company gained control of 42% of Guatemala's land, & enjoyed tax exemptions & freedom from import duties. Then in 1953, the socialist government of Jacobo Arbenz redistributed the company’s land to the citizens who worked it.
United Fruit hired Bernays to restore Guatemala to a “banana republic.”

Bernays flew influential journalists to Guatemala, entertained them, & arranged them to meet politicians who said Arbenz was a Communist controlled by Moscow.
The media witnessed an anti-American demonstration in the capital, thought to be organized by Bernays. He created a US fake news agency called the Middle American Information Bureau that issued press releases saying Soviets planned to use Guatemala to launch attacks on the US.
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While US & UK right-wing free-market extremists distract voters with increasingly absurd divisive culture war bullshit, know that over the last several decades, the top 1% of Americans have taken $50 TRILLION From the bottom 90%.

time.com/5888024/50-tri…
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"Non-Marxists think that Marxism is one homogeneous dogmatic body of thinking. It is not. Marxism believes in Marx’s principle of ruthless criticism of the world & of the ideas about it."

@Raju_DasYorkU critiques some of David Harvey's ideas.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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'The 2008 crash didn’t kill off neoliberalism, it embedded its logic ever deeper in our lives. Harvey says the only way to end this system for good is to change how we fight it.'

jacobin.com/2019/07/karl-m…
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"Harvey does recognize, however, inadequately, that there are classes & that people should engage in (class) struggles. But that is not enough to be a Marxist. Nor is a Marxism which is seen merely ‘as a critique of capital’ enough."
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A few weeks ago Jeremy Hunt was criticised for announcing that 600,000 people on universal credit will effectively be forced to work, while neglecting to mention the role of fitness assessments, or what happens to carers or disable people. He also ignored elite's tax avoidance...
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telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…
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The last 60 years have seen large increases in income inequality in the UK: most of this change occurred in the 1980s.

Income & wealth have evolved at very different rates in the UK in recent decades, mostly due to sky-rocketing house prices.

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