Propaganda Blitz - A New Media Lens Book And An Urgent Appeal For Support
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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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"Some supporters of the Starmer leadership are privately getting cold feet" about suing 5 former Labour staff over the Leaked Report, after the Information Commissioner declared "case closed" on its own investigation of the leak.
Good!
Important update:
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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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‘Washington has scored a wider goal, smashing apart any hope of a security accommodation between Europe and Russia; deepening European dependency on the US, both militarily and economically...’
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Oh FFS ! Whenever you think it’s can’t get worse - it gets worse . . . UAE names oil chief to lead COP28 talks
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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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Thursday Jan.19, noon-2 PM EST, #WashingtonDC, join ,, and me to discuss the Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks case and my newly released book #SecretPowerWikiLeaksAndItsEnemies,foreword by ,
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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.
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The past eight years were the warmest on record globally.
We can’t relinquish our future to inaction.
We need urgent, large-scale & systemic #ClimateAction now.
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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 book that adds missing background to the build up to the war in Ukraine and the actions of NATO and the US which are complicit in the destruction of Ukraine and debunks the 'unprovoked aggression' narrative of the Western media.
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Yes, deeply shameful.
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And all of this without mentioning Julian Assange, a journalist and political prisoner still incarcerated in Belmarsh.
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They knew and hid the truth for profit:
'Our analysis allows us for the first time to actually put a number on what Exxon knew, which is that the burning of their fossil fuel products was going to heat the planet by about 0.2C of warming every decade.'
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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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German police are evicting climate activists trying to stop the bulldozing of a village for the expansion of a coal mine.
Germany is desperately trying to secure energy supplies now that sanctions on Russia are creating dire shortages in the country.
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'“In 2022, we saw the most significant assault on human rights protections in the UK in decades,” said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director at Human Rights Watch.'
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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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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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When you see the #EuropeanUnion supporting the Coup in #Peru and ignoring the outcry from the people, you have to wonder just how much do they really care about Democracy - Or is all about pursuing and protecting Business interests..?
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On this day in 1962, Operation Ranch Hand, a US Air Force plan to spray South Vietnamese forests with Agent Orange & other defoliants to reduce cover for the Viet Cong began
The Red Cross of Vietnam🇻🇳 estimates 1 million were disabled or suffered health problems due to exposure
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If we truly had an unruly, questioning media, journalists would be asking the Labour Party leadership and shadow cabinet (and the government itself) about their support for/whitewashing of apartheid in Israel ianjsinclair.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/why #racism
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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.
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"The Labour Files dismantles the central narrative of the media and the BBC about the Corbyn years, a narrative pushed on to the front pages of all the papers"
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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
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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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Apologies. The link I put up doesn't work. This one I think does:
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Mirvis later wrote:
'I am delighted to congratulate Boris Johnson, a longstanding friend and champion of the Jewish community, on becoming the next leader of the Conservative Party and our next Prime Minister.'
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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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"Chair of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to be named president of global climate talks." We are officially through the looking glass folks
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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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I'm posting this again because I still can't quite believe it
The COP process has been utterly compromised by FF involvement
We desperately need something different
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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.”
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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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