When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectivel…

In it they have created a list of Key issues that should have been debated by Politicians, Academics and the media, concerning Climate change issues. All three groups have not only failed to debate it, but have actively tried to blot them out of the discussion. List as follows:-

1 A capitalist system that places Corporate Shareholder Profits above ALL else, represents an inherently biocidal, indeed psychopathic logic. How does this corporate immorality dodge any discussion that is relevant to the industrial destruction of global life-support systems?

2 Corporations have consistently worked to deliver short-term profits over human and animal welfare. Look how they fought links between smoking/cancer; junk food/obesity; fossil fuel use/climate change; factory farming/animal suffering, high salt/Sugar diets and illness.

3 A relentless corporate lobbying campaign of elected governments to introduce, shape and strengthen policies to promote and protect unelected private power.
Still largely unchallenged by the corporate media a decade after this book was published

4 A relentless campaign spending $billions by the corporately funded advertising industry to sell consumer products and ‘services,’ plus the creation of artificial "needs and desires" (Because you are worth it) using children as a perceived easy target.

5 The collusion between powerful companies, rich investors and state planners to install compliant, often brutal, dictators in client states around the world.

6 The extensive use of loans and aid (with Strings attached) to ensnare poor nations in webs of crippling debt, ensuring that the West obtains or deepens control of their resources, markets and development.

7 The deployment of threats, bribery and armed force against countries that attempt to pursue self-development, rather than economic or strategic planning to comply with the "best interests" of the international community.’

8 The lethal role of corporate media in promoting the planet-devouring aims of private power.

All 8 of these points should be easily identifiable to even the casual observer of world affairs in the last few decades, so what are YOU going to do about this? We all share a common responsibility to expose these lies.
We let @medialens have the last words here

"Anyone concerned with the future of humanity has a responsibility to speak out about the crippling factors that are hindering effective action on climate. A good start would be to expose the fourth-estates failure in the role of challenging powerful interests in society."

"Once exposed there must be a movement to promote genuine public-interest alternative media. Until these initiatives start to kick in, be in no doubt that the corporate takeover of government policy has taken humanity to the very edge of the climate abyss."

When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectively for they are the friends of anyone engaged in a struggle to save the planet from rampant kleptocracy and the excesses of Billionaire media control.
This thread draws on their 2009 work "Newspeak in the 21st Century"

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When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectively for they are the friends of anyone engaged in a struggle to save the planet from rampant kleptocracy and the excesses of Billionaire media control. This thread draws on their 2009 work "Newspeak in the 21st Century"

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When we call @medialens "Our Friends" we do so collectively for they are the friends of anyone engaged in a struggle to save the planet from rampant kleptocracy and the excesses of Billionaire media control.
This thread draws on their 2009 work "Newspeak in the 21st Century"