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(1)The headline here is completely misleading , cos what's actually happened is Starmer-era, not Corbyn-era: Starmer is trying to sue ex-Labour staff after a leak revealed disgusting behaviour by Labour HQ , and it might fail, costing Labour millions
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A final nail in the fossil-fuel coffin? Here is a key paper providing proof that has known since the 1970s that their oil and gas causes climate change. Something they have been denying and diminishing for decades. Admit mistakes, and accelerate fossil-fuel phase-out.
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A *must read. As recommended by international relations analyst
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Benjamin Abelow's 'How the West Brought War to Ukraine' is a vital corrective to 'mainstream' misreporting of the Ukraine war. The e-book version is just 59 pages long - a must-read. medium.com/@benjamin.abel
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I see people talking about a million and one important issues every day. I wish they understood that if we don’t stop climate change etc all their issues will be irrelevant, gone. EVERYTHING is at risk. All other concerns occur within this planet. Our entire existence is at risk
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Let's be clear Scale of antisemitism in the Labour Party WAS grossly & cynically exaggerated, for their own factional purposes, by Jeremy Corbyn's political enemies inside & outside the party I - and many other Jews - support Corbyn and feel very unwelcome in Starmer's party
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"Jeremy only has his self to blame" "You know perfectly well what I said" Watch @leicesterliz and @jeremycorbyn clash over his suspension from the Labour whip. #Peston
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. knew. Since the 1970s the oil giants' scientists have made accurate predictions about the impact of #FossilFuels on our climate. Then they covered it up & spent decades denying the truth Who will hold them accountable?
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'The study provides more evidence that Exxon's communication to investors and the public through the 21st century, which has played down the threats posed by climate change and cast computer models as uncertain, did not match what executives were told internally.'
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"In essence, Exxon didn’t just know, they knew precisely" how much the Earth would warm in the 20th and 21st centuries, decades ago. Interesting new study out today: axios.com/2023/01/12/exx
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A thorn in the Establishment side threatening the credibility of the royal family. Cue: PROPAGANDA BLITZ! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 'I'm not suggesting he's as bad as Hitler, but it is like reading Mein Kampf...'
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Forget about the fact you can't afford to live. Forget about the fact that your health system is collapsing. Forget about the fact that you could be sacked for going on strike. Prince Harry has written a book.
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Abelow: 'Policy makers in Washington and the European capitals — along with the captured, craven media that uncritically amplify their nonsense — are now standing up to their hips in a barrel of viscous mud.'
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This is why real change is no longer possible inside the Westminster system. There’s no space for decent people. The whole media-political landscape is rigged to benefit the self-interested elite.
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"Jeremy only has his self to blame" "You know perfectly well what I said" Watch @leicesterliz and @jeremycorbyn clash over his suspension from the Labour whip. #Peston
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Do two things: 1.) Watch this 90-second video. 2.) Reflect that all corporate media, right across the supposed spectrum, did everything in their power to destroy the reputation of this self-evidently sincere and compassionate politician. That's the world we're living in.
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.@Peston: I think you're saying Keir Starmer should join the picket line? @jeremycorbyn: Go along and listen to what people have to say, you'll learn a lot from it. @jeremycorbyn tells Keir Starmer to join the picket line to see why public sector workers are striking. #Peston
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Yes Peston did, but in smear campaigns it is important that the smears seem to be believed by everyone, not just the obvious Establishment types. “Alternative” folks like must help - & did twitter.com/bbcthisweek/st
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Peston gave credence to the smears. In November 2019, he tweeted: 'I find it heartbreaking, as a Jew, that the rabbi who by convention is seen as the figurehead of the Jewish community, feels compelled to write this about Labour and its leader.’ See: medialens.org/2020/with-head
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis's comments weren't heartbreaking, they were outrageous. Mirvis wrote: ‘The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud’
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READ: “The way in which the leadership of the Labour Party has dealt with anti-Jewish racism is incompatible with the British values of which we are so proud” Read the Chief Rabbi’s article in today’s Times Full article: facebook.com/34421204237460
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Peston gave credence to the smears. In November 2019, he tweeted: 'I find it heartbreaking, as a Jew, that the rabbi who by convention is seen as the figurehead of the Jewish community, feels compelled to write this about Labour and its leader.’ See: medialens.org/2020/with-head
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"Jeremy only has his self to blame" "You know perfectly well what I said" Watch @leicesterliz and @jeremycorbyn clash over his suspension from the Labour whip. #Peston
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Condoleezza Rice & Bob Gates: Ukraine’s "economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed, and much of its mineral wealth, industrial capacity and considerable agricultural land are under Russian control."
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In fact, the mass media are an intrinsic, key part of the system imposed by 'our rulers'. They are manufacturing consent for their own agendas and interests.
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“the role of the mass media is not to inform but to manufacture consent for the agendas and interests of our rulers.” @caitoz
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'Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?' (Edward, First Baron Thurlow 1731-1806)
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Is there any level at all of propaganda so obvious, so outrageous and so blatantly unfounded that the Guardian will not amplify it for the security services? Have their "journalists" absolutely no shame?
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Cook: ‘Much more treasure will be spent, and more blood spilled. There will be no winners apart from the neoconservative foreign policy hawks who dominate Washington and the war industry lobbyists who profit from the West’s endless military adventures.’
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