George Brennan

Socialist. Studied philosophy at UCL, with profound mediocrity. "Mastered" pseudoscience Economics with distinction at Birkbeck. TAX the !%, Defy Uncle Sam

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Regarding whether, as @ZackPolanski said, climate change is a World War 2 level threat, every single political, journalist, broadcaster and citizen, needs to listen to this interview with Prof Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate

https://t.co/mLUSqGXtzc

Professor Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester, with additional appointments at Uppsala University and the University of Bergen. Formerly Deputy Director and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, he is one of the UK’s leading experts on climate mitigation, carbon budgets and energy policy, and has advised governments and the European Commission on climate change.

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@krishgm @tombradby @skynews @itvnews @ITNProductions @esmewren @adamboultonTABB @KayBurley @alexberesfordTV @kayeadams @janem @rickygervais @rachelburden @bbcnews @skynews @NickyAACampbell @ShelaghFogarty @bbcnickrobinson @tomhfh @susannareid100

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Global, which owns LBC and more radio news stations in the UK and Europe than any other media corporation, gags its journalists *forever* from reporting anything negative about its activities.

LBC sacked broadcaster Sangita Myska 48 hours after she grilled an Israeli official about what Israel was doing in Gaza.

She can never tell you why without being backrupted, as she explains in an interview with Double Down News. Find a link to the full interview in the reply post below.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Dr Charlie Gardner, conservation scientist at the university of Kent, explaining that the U.K. government has no plan to protect us from the coming food crisis that even farmers are now warning about. Largely ignored by media also.
@andyburnham @UKLabour @yvettecoopwr @edballs @AngelaRayner @bphillipsonMP @bbcnews @skynews @lbc @itvnews @itn @campbellclaret #wildfires #climatechange

[GBC @GBC_Press]

A British actor surprises a TV host live on air:

"I'll talk about Gaza first."

[China Times @ChinaTimesX]

BREAKING 🚨: She is not STOPPING 🔥

🇺🇸 Journalist Abby Martin: "The whole world has to isolate this rogue state ISRAEL🇮🇱. You cannot expect change in a society this far gone."

[George Brennan @AndreRipois]

James O'Brien decapitates himself.

[Daithí Mac Cathmhaoil @DrDaveCampbell]

Stopped listening to O’Brien after this. Will never forget how this self proclaimed ally of women threw a female colleague under the bus after her dismissal. Utterly craven. Even if everything he said was true, he made a choice to thrash her knowing she couldn’t defend herself.

[George Brennan @AndreRipois]

Richard Sanders severs the head of the fake progressive LBC mouthpiece James O'Brien, and holds it aloft so all the world can see there are no brains in it.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Close to 600,000 views in 24 hours. Clearly struck a chord this one. Keep sharing. Full interview below.

[George Brennan @AndreRipois]

@I_amMukhtar Interruption of an unfinished point is censorship. One could compare and quantify the extent to which right wing voices are allowed to talk over leftwing voices.

[ThePrompter @MrPrompter]

They've also trashed the meaning of the word justice.

This Labour government is probably the most authoritarian government we've had in living memory.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Count Binface is a huge celebrity in Japan.

If Clacton voters are smart, they’ll elect him — and Japanese tourism will transform the place into one of the coolest international destinations on Earth.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Whitney Webb explains the future that the Big Tech oligarchs envision — one that is fundamentally anti-human, where people are either exploited or expendable.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Paul Newman In 1983 stated that the United States disregards the truth, always creating exaggerated enemies to justify wars and massacres for profit, while ignoring crimes committed by other nations like Israel.

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

These G1 Chinese robots do the laundry dance. Humans join in, in the background.

China is so far ahead in robot technology that the West will never catch up. China has most of the patents required to make robots perform human actions.

The majority of US GDP is based on Services, whereas China is inventing and making things.

Who took us down the wrong track

[Dr. Ahmed Thabit - دأحمد ثابت @ThabitAhmd]

هذا رئيس باكستان السابق عمران خان ،
هذا الرجل العظيم اشرف واجرأ من عاصرته في حياتى حتى الآن ..
هدد ترامب وسط البيت الأبيض قال له بالحرف نحن صنعنا النووي لندافع به على أنفسنا لا لنضعه ديكورا ،
هذا المسلم القوي وقف ضد الصهيوأمريكي ، لكن للاسف اطاح به العسكر في بلاده وخانه باتفاق مع الصهيوأمريكي ومساعدة CIA والموساد،
والآن هو في السجن ولقد فقد بصره ويعاني من الأمراض، للاسف قائد شريف يخونه عملاء الداخل .😢

[George Brennan @AndreRipois]

@yousef_ki1 ,

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"Iran has defeated the US empire & humiliated Israel

They did what no one thought was possible & forced the largest military empire the world has ever seen to the negotiating table

This is the story of how it happened & why the world will never be the same again"

@Lowkey0nline

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Day after day, Greta Thunberg shows more courage than many world leaders. She is a true activist.

"It's okay to feel heartbroken and terrified about the state of the world..."~Greta Thunberg.

[𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 @strategicsouth]

A Chinese lawmaker delivers a brutal lecture to the United States at the UN Security Council:

"Where does a country ruled by the Epstein class, while turning a blind eye to the genocide of the Palestinians, get the moral authority to lecture us on civil liberties?"

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

We need to talk about @BBCNewsnight.

It seems the majority of last night's episode centred on the re-admission of Diane Abbott to the Labour Party, presented in a heavily-slanted and biased tone. The questioning and comments put words into Abbott's mouth and adopted the most negative interpretation of her version of events.

Yet Newsnight has repeatedly refused to report on stories about abuse and misconduct towards Diane Abbott.

In August last year I approached Newsnight with copies of messages exchanged on Labour's internal Party messaging system by Paul Ovenden in 2015. At the time I approached Newsnight, Ovenden was the Head of Strategy at Starmer's Number 10.

Only a few months before, Starmer had delivered his racist "Islands of Strangers" speech after losing the Runcorn by-election to Reform. Abbott had also been recently re-suspended following comments she made on the BBC (that the BBC then clipped for socials devoid of key context, and again appeared to misrepresent last night).

The messages I presented to Newsnight were damning of Ovenden. They show him making deeply unpleasant, offensive and sexualised jokes about Diane Abbott.

Yet Newsnight refused to cover the messages. After I was told they had interested Newsnight, I was then told for weeks that they were embroiled in interminable editorial discussions. After six weeks I took the hint: the BBC, without saying it explicitly, weren't going to touch them.

It was plainly in the public interest for them to be reported. Indeed, I took the same messages to the great @ShehabKhan at ITV and they leapt on them after I proved their legal provenance and authenticity. ITV's reporting led Ovenden to resign and helped expose the rot in Starmer's "boys club" that would help catalyse his downfall.

There was simply no good reason for Newsnight not to report the Ovenden messages, not least because they had previously given extensive coverage to Abbott's suspension and the despicable comments made by Frank Hester. I believe that they chose not to do so because they didn't want to be seen to be attacking the government; or perhaps, it's because too many BBC people had had shared drinks with Ovenden (who had so be in Labour comms) over the years and thought he was a "lad" with protecting?

It was because of this background that I was astonished by Newsnight's interview with Zack Polanski this week - another episode where Newsnight was aggressively tone-policing comments made by left-wing figures in odd terms. During a segment in which Polanski was asked to comment on a collaboration on Instagram, Nick Watts interrupted Polanski to read him rebuttal messages sent by an unnamed Reform source live on air.

This was astonishing for all sorts of reasons. There was simply no good reason why the Reform (source) was unnamed. But I was genuinely amazed at how rapidly and without any seeming editorial discussion, Newsnight was airing texts in the moment when it sat for weeks twiddling it's thumbs over the Ovenden material.

I've seen how the BBC exercises its editorial judgment, how cautious it's many diligent reporters are about due process, fact-checking and impartiality. Yet when it comes to Newsnight, it's all over the place.

This past week has been further evidence that Newsnight is a pale shadow of what it once was.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

An excellent Japanese TV news report on yesterday’s Palestine Action arrests in London.

The whole world is watching Britain drag its elderly off the streets for opposing the absurd proscription of Palestine Action.

They’ll be shocked — in Japan, old people are very respected.