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"How The Media Controls Britain"

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We have yet to read Owen Jones' "The Establishment... And how they get away with it", although Russell Brand's take of the author has certainly piqued our interest: ''Owen Jones may have the face of a baby and the voice of George Formby but he is our generation's Orwell and we must cherish him." We do know, however, that the young author and Guardian columnist is one of those who are not afraid to think critically while accepting there is far more than meets the eye, and certainly than the controlled media would like revealed. To wit, from the book's official blurb:

Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged.

The following infographic from the book, showing "how the media controls Britain" reveals the schism between popular British sentiment about key social issues courtesy of media influences and reality, indicating that the "establishment" is more than happy to sow discord within the working/middle classes using its traditional "objective" distribution channels, while it remains aloof, collecting the rent its record capital provides.

 

And while the middle class around the world fights for scraps, and has seen its real wages over the past three decades largely unchanged, the "establishment", wrapped in a comfortable cocoon spun by the captured media, benefits:

 

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Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:41 | 5265325 king leon
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The media provide the buffer between us and thee establishment The media pedal thee official line, no questions asked. If "WE" can't ask the establishment awkward questions, then the don't have to give  answers. 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:53 | 5265333 tony wilson
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you scum are the keyboard versions of isis

stop your lies about spielbergs the hollow cause, 7 7 and 911

do not question the information given it is all true

israel is the planets eternal victim

believe the rabbi.

he is are only communication with the cube the moon saturn and satan kabbalistic talmudick wicked init.

 

 

 

"... The peddling of lies: that 9/11 was a Jewish plot or that the 7/7 London attacks were staged. The idea that Muslims are persecuted all over the world as a deliberate act of Western policy. The concept of an inevitable clash of civilisations.

We must be clear: to defeat the ideology of extremism we need to deal with all forms of extremism – not just violent extremism..."

David Cameron told the U.N. that "non-violent extremism" is just as dangerous as terrorism and must be eradicated using all means at the government's disposal. 


He references 9/11 and 7/7 Truthers as examples of the type of extremism that must be dealt in a similar fashion to ISIS...

 

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/09/david-cameron-says-non-violent.html#...

 

 

7/7 Ripple Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyzpzEgUWE

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:08 | 5265740 thamnosma
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but, but, but....Madonna is into Kabbala

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:02 | 5265373 huggy_in_london
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That 5% sure do make a lot of noise.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:03 | 5265377 Dublinmick
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But who controls the media?

http://www.in5d.com/40-outrageous-facts-most-people-dont-know.html

https://intheknow7.wordpress.com/jesuits-smom-knights-rcc/

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/06/presidential-bloodlines.html

Did you know all 44 U.S. presidents have carried European royal bloodlines into office? 34 have been genetic descendants from just one person, Charlemagne, the brutal eighth century King of the Franks. 19 of them directly descended from King Edward III of England. In fact, the presidential candidate with the most royal genes has won every single American election.

“This information comes from Burke's Peerage, which is the Bible of aristocratic genealogy, based in London. Every presidential election in America, since and including George Washington in 1789 to Bill Clinton, has been won by the candidate with the most British and French royal genes. Of the 42 presidents to Clinton, 33 have been related to two people: Alfred the Great, King of England, and Charlemagne, the most famous monarch of France. So it goes on: 19 of them are related to England's Edward III, who has 2000 blood connections to Prince Charles. The same goes with the banking families in America. George Bush and Barbara Bush are from the same bloodline - the Pierce bloodline, which changed its name from Percy, when it crossed the Atlantic. Percy is one of the aristocratic families of Britain, to this day. They were involved in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament at the time of Guy Fawkes”

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:25 | 5265438 GreatUncle
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The UK MSM false reporting in cahoots with the politicians is SO THEY CAN JUSIFY TAXING SO MUCH THEN POCKETING THE DIFFERENCE.

You will not find a poltician in the houses of parliament that is poor!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:45 | 5265450 limacon
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Media have always been under elite control .
When last did you see anything about the shenanigans at the Bohemian Club ?

See
About the Elite
https://www.academia.edu/8518616/The_Elite

For something different
http://flavorwire.com/478403/8-fascinating-secret-societies-and-bohemian...

For the serious conspirator
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Club

Bohemian Club

Membership

A number of past membership lists are in public domain,[7] but modern club membership lists are private. Some prominent figures have been given honorary membership, such as Richard Nixon and William Randolph Hearst. Members have included some U.S. presidents (usually before they are elected to office), many cabinet officials, and CEOs of large corporations, including major financial institutions. Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (including the Federal Reserve), utilities, and national media have high-ranking officials as club members or guests. Many members are, or have been, on the board of directors of several of these corporations; however, artists and lovers of art are among the most active members. The club's bylaws require ten percent of the membership be accomplished artists of all types (composers, musicians, singers, actors, lighting artists, painters, authors, etc.). Artistic members are admitted after passing a stringent audition demonstrating their talent.[citation needed]

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:38 | 5265454 willy wonker
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and there is somewhere on this planet where the media is not controlled by some small group of psycho/sociopaths

it is so easy to control the masses, they are easily misled

there are no and never have been any leaders, only misleaders

the key is often what is not said, some of what russell brand says rings true, just like david icke,and the author of stormcloudsgathering......

http://www.youtube.com/user/StormCloudsGathering

and even this guy...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W85OnL4xtY

about putin

try reading chomskys 'manufacturing consent' especially about el salvador highly sickening and the way media frames the situation, eg wirthy and unworthy victims

to get up to date the uk house of cowards (commons) voted against an attack against syria a few months ago, unfortunately that was the incorrect answer so the hegemon that is the usa engineered isis for so many reasons one of which is to force the correct answer, and now we are attacking syria.

how the fuck the willfully ignorant self absorbed selfish atomised multitude cant see this is exactly for the reason the state of mind described here has been arrived at.

how different was the level of ignorance of the many to many on the eve and during any war throughout time, even 70 years afterwards the truth or at least somewhere near it is not common knowledge

we are royally fucked and it is the burden of those who know to watch this shit happen to be chastised for it, laughed at and hated.

and so it was

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:50 | 5265478 thamnosma
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The author is a self-described marxist (re: communist) so now ZH is promoting this sort of bullshit?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:59 | 5265491 smacker
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Exactly.

I once posted a comment on his blog and it went into "awaiting moderation" status. It never appeared again.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:07 | 5265736 thamnosma
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Love your icon

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:17 | 5265526 TheMadNumismatist
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My thoughts exactly. I was never a fan of Max Keiser, but when he brought George Galloway i new that he had truly pocketed Putin’s rouble.

I think this article may be the one that proves ZH has jumped the shark.

The fucking article opens with Russell Brand as a reputable reference source. FFS!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:56 | 5265485 bentaxle
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Sure the media mind controls the Brit proles. Keeps pumping the scaremongering headlines. As the Scots just found to their cost, all you need do is to persistently hit people with scare stories about hitting them in the pocket. As in the Scottish referendum it was what currency? The Scottish share of national debt? Oil's just about to run out? Old people being unable to get healthcare treatment as the govt won't have the cash to fund the service etc, etc.

Then they have a House of Lords. This has a hand in "steering" the wrong kind of laws (that will affect their lordships,) up a blind alley...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:03 | 5265497 smacker
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It's certainly true that Britain's media exerts too much unhealthy influence over peoples' opinions, but Owen Jones is not fit to talk about it given his own commie/Marxist affiliations.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:20 | 5265639 falconflight
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So then, if Brits think that 24% of their Kingdom are Muslim, then they are more passive and pathetic than I could have imagined.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:20 | 5265767 griffey247
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haha epic

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 09:00 | 5266484 Monty Burns
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Very good point. Hadn't thought of it that way.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 22:09 | 5265958 robnume
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Unaccountable = Unacceptable!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 23:16 | 5266042 Karaio
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Only way England will hang when the last king with the guts of the last politician - if I'm not mistaken was Pitigrilli or Descartes who wrote it and it was not political, was a priest. 

Oh, I forgot, also need to drive on the right side of the road. 

hehe.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 02:16 | 5266186 damicol
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This is just one whining maxist cunt thinking he doensnt get  enough of the fucking gravy spilt in his lap.

No matter cash perks or  just to feed his fucking onbnoxious ego , the faggot is a fuckwit,and nothing this shit for brains comes up with is new,

 

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 03:10 | 5266220 God is The Son
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UK and France are Zionist Controled Nations, heavily condition in Leftist, Marxist, Liberal Though Patterns which Zionists prefer over Nationalists Mindset.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 04:27 | 5266253 The Abstraction...
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The last three Prime Ministers (including Cameron) were all Scottish, so there is also a strong Scottish component to the cabal.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 05:51 | 5266260 NuYawkFrankie
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I've even heard this said by some "educated" Brits:

"If it's on the BBC it has to be true - BY LAW!"

 

Guess they don't call'em "Thick Brits" for nothing

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 05:21 | 5266261 medium giraffe
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Question of the day: How can a 'representative' government have more rights than those it claims to represent? 

 

Anyway, I haven't seen this posted here, so , for your entertainment and amusement, I give you the Rt Honourable Rubber-Faced Goon suggesting that those that think 9/11 was a giant zionist plot are as dangerous as ISIS (skip to 4.00 min):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuwOfQI8YA8

 

Tue, 09/30/2014 - 16:08 | 5271986 Radical Marijuana
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http://libyaagainstsuperpowermedia.org/2014/09/30/bought-journalism-german-bestseller-reveals-cia-pay-western-media-for-spin-bias/

That Web page has a YouTube video embedded of an RT interview with a German journalist who has published a best-selling book in which he explains how "journalists" worked for the secret police, as well as apologizes for his previous role in doing that.

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!