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Jan 16 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has NEVER been about news. It's about hate, division, manipulation, & doing whatever it takes to protect Murdoch's interests from democracy & prevent the countries in which it operates from dragging themselves into the twenty-first century.
#Leveson2
Just three companies—Harmsworth's DMG Media, Murdoch's News UK, & Reach—dominate 90% of the national newspaper market. And just 3 tax-avoiding billionaires own the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Times, Metro, i, Spectator, Talk Radio, Talk TV, & Times Radio.

#divideandrule #dontbuythesun

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The already grotesquely wealthy richest 1% pocketed two-thirds of ALL new wealth ($26 TRILLION) created since the pandemic began.

They own most platforms, press, & media, fund free-market think tanks, & bribe, support, or threaten Govts.

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Jan 16
"For the past 13 years people have been obliged to live their lives at the mercy of this irrational force called the market. But we know to our cost that this approach has failed. The market must serve our needs, not we the needs of the market" - John Smith, 1992.
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Govts "have power... to bring about change, to improve the lives of the people whose trust they carry. That is why it is so unacceptable, so unbearable to see the injustice in our country, the waste of human talent, the lack of hope, loss of pride, because it is not inevitable."
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Jan 16
#THREAD

Sunak will today propose broadening the definition of “serious disruption” even further, in a draconian new public order bill to help police stop what he calls a “disruptive minority” from using tactics such as blocking roads & slow marching.

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Sunak's proposals to help the police stop disruptive public protest, means heading even further down a route that has drawn heavy criticism from civil rights groups. The UK Govt now more closely resembles an illiberal authoritarian state than a functioning modern democracy.
Sunak - mistakenly imho - believes the public & business will support the government’s efforts to stop protesters causing serious disruption following a series of high-profile protests by groups such as #JustStopOil and #InsulateBritain.
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Jan 15
Rees-Mogg accuses Jews of being illuminati. Braverman tells Holocaust survivor she won't apologise for labelling asylum seekers 'invaders'. Johnson book says Jews control media. Tories use antisemitic conspiracy theory of Cultural Marxism. Bridgen compares vaccines to Holocaust.
Despite sections of the UK press accusing Jeremy Corbyn's @UKLabour of being 'antisemitic' every week, in 2019 the national news media chose to largely ignored Jacob Rees-Mogg directing an unequivocally antisemitic trope at fellow parliamentarians.

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A Holocaust survivor with an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, told Braverman her dangerous rhetoric was similar to that used to justify murdering her family under the Third Reich. Braverman refused to apologise, & doubled down.

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Jan 14
#UPDATED

A Glossary of Right-Wing Terms & Phrases*

*as used by right-wing politicians & pundits, #TuftonStreet 'think-tanks', the right-wing press & right-wing 'influencers', Spiked, the Spectator, Times Radio, talkRADIO, & Britain's Fox News, GB News.

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The manufactured "war on woke" is a distraction, designed to divide voters.

Under cover of COVID, wealth has been transferred from poor to rich on an unprecedented & unimaginable scale, eroding democracy & resulting in hardship, conflict, mass death, & environmental collapse.
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The barbaric #Rwanda Plan is reminiscent of the Nazis' heinous Madagascar Plan. Braverman's dangerous "invasion" rhetoric is profoundly un-British English nationalism, & her use of the antisemitic 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy theory, which inspired Anders Breivik, is grotesque.
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