A year or so ago, the then-Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern was asked by a journalist why her country's politics had not gone crazy. She replied "We have not allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up here".

@aidanjohnkelly

10 ай бұрын

It was crazy enough under her regime, they didn’t need Murdoch.

@therealrobertbirchall

10 ай бұрын

Yet despile their bragging about being environmentally responsible New Zealand almost is as bad as the USA for climate terrorism. None of their homes of commercial buildings are property insulated, and double glazing is a rarity. The Kiwi's waste so many things they could recycle. They do tend to keep their cars for a long time which helps reduce the pollution caused by vehicle manufacturing. But they don't build cars, trucks and busses they are all imported.

@Mogwai-ug9op

10 ай бұрын

@@therealrobertbirchall New Zealand, with it's population of 5.5 million, is almost as bad as US for "climate terrorism"? You sure?

@user-yk9em3je6q

10 ай бұрын

@@Mogwai-ug9op On a per capita basis, yes, NZ may well be worse than the US. It's also worth remembering that total carbon emmissions from the US armed forces are excluded from the US total.

@lagringa7518

10 ай бұрын

Uhhh... Jacinda did as much damage on her own. The Covid debacle and those concentration camps and she just happened to be one Schwabs Young Global Traitors.

Mr Murdoch was to my mind one of the worst things ever to happen to the UK

@klystrom

10 ай бұрын

On reflection he was one of the worst things to happen to the planet

@adrien5834

10 ай бұрын

To the world...

@gillscorner794

10 ай бұрын

To humanity

@geoffvalero3516

10 ай бұрын

yes and Australian society has been morally corrupted by his poison

@therealrobertbirchall

10 ай бұрын

Satan comes in many forms

Aaron doesn't need to apologize, I agree 100% with him. I think Rupert Murdock was the most destructive person to ever walk this earth. His toxic legacy will last for decades.

@sheezle3

10 ай бұрын

Milton Friedman and few others might disagree 😂 But yeah, Fox news has become a cancer for the world, especially when you consider how many right wing grifters from many, many countries have tried to recreate that blueprint

@ordohereticus3427

10 ай бұрын

100%

@tbang81

10 ай бұрын

Him and Maggie Thatcher standing shoulder to shoulder still give me goosebumps

@andrewmeiklem5098

10 ай бұрын

Expensive bottle chilling as we all speak. Can't wait... its been on ice for 20 years!

@michaelhibbert2907

10 ай бұрын

Haha deluded to believe he’s been the most destructive. A very bad man yea but the worst.. get a grip!

"When the man dies, it will be a fantastic day for humanity.." I don't agree with Aaron on everything, but my God he gets my vote for putting this out publicly.

@jake751

10 ай бұрын

People will be queuing up to dance on his grave.

@family-accountemail9111

10 ай бұрын

​@@jake751piss on it!

@user-co6qi2sl4g

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the multi married Murderoch spawned

@deedeepuffs951

10 ай бұрын

​@@jake751unfortunately cut the head of the snake and another will grow in its place.

Let's not forget the Hillsborough lies and phone hacking.

@mh1593

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely!! We still don't touch the Scum.

Hear, hear. A genuine service to humanity when that scumbag takes his last breath

@lycettewatson4713

10 ай бұрын

God does not sleep and he takes notes.

@DrMontague

10 ай бұрын

The workers and working class loved his right wing rag. They used to queue up outside the factories to buy the SUN. They relished Page 3 ,sport and xenophobia . Even striking miners of thatcher era loved it

@user-yk9em3je6q

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it will not be after due legal process. Nor, unfortunately, will his death be the result of being tarred, feathered and hung from a lamp post.

@graceomalley4

10 ай бұрын

He’ll die but the seeds of hatred and xenophobia he left behind will flourish without him. No great hope for change

Owen Jones is 100% right.

@csharpe5787

10 ай бұрын

Always

@scooby1992

10 ай бұрын

Especially the part about Murdoch having so much influence . It isnt an exaggeration to say he has actually manufactured the outcome of elections. Another downside is that centre left parties have to make a decision . They either court Murdoch and move to the right in order to get elected , having to jettison so many of their more radical policies in the process , whilst being allowed to keep a . few of the more moderate ones in return for being ' allowed ' to govern . The alternative is they ignore Murdoch and have radical policies and are not ' allowed ' to govern .

@timcomley5948

10 ай бұрын

Words you don’t often hear

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Except they aren't really "radical" policies, they are only if you are as far to the right as Murdoch is.@@scooby1992

@scooby1992

10 ай бұрын

@@kiwitrainguy Good point . My worry is that sensible left wing policies are painted as radical where as far right policies are called mainstream , but worryingly they are gaining traction .

There can't be a single demographic of people anywhere in the UK/world that he has not harmed, insulted, or diminished in some way. He and his corporation has over the years been a cancer on the human soul. He will not be missed.

Owen Jones always comes with the facts, kèep going Owen!

Brilliant Owen saying it how it is 👏👏

When Murdoch dies the devil will put up a sign on the gates of hell. The position is already taken.

@roboi2241

10 ай бұрын

The infernal host will start muttering "this neighborhood's really starting to go down hill" with some of the 20th century's unsung monsters due to take up their residency imminently.

@geoffvalero3516

10 ай бұрын

yes the devil will have to be careful...

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

To paraphrase Churchill "If he were to invade Hell I would make a favourable comment about the Devil".

Rupert Murdoch is ultimate Bond villain

@TequilaToothpick

10 ай бұрын

Elliott Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies was based on him.

@Matthew_Rushton

10 ай бұрын

@@TequilaToothpick “You forgot the first rule of mass media, Elliot! Give the people what they want!” - Still rings true today

@RankinMsP

10 ай бұрын

If only he'd go the same way.

@martinmurphy9679

10 ай бұрын

@@Matthew_Rushton Or tell them what they want then give it them.

@helveticaification

10 ай бұрын

Well, let's hope he comes to an appropriately horrible end - ASAP.

An Australian controlling media in the UK and US is not something I expected

@MrJonnyl123

10 ай бұрын

It’s incredible that was aloud to happen. You would think the xenophobia of the elites in both countries would’ve stopped it

@gabrielmaroto18

10 ай бұрын

@@MrJonnyl123 It was allowed because they approve the message they have more in common with each other than they do the citizens of the country they come from there are no nation any longer only dollars!

@MrJonnyl123

10 ай бұрын

@@gabrielmaroto18 yeh I know. But still, the British establishment allowing an Aussie to run their media is crazy

@Mogwai-ug9op

10 ай бұрын

It's been happening for your enitre life mate.

@csharpe5787

10 ай бұрын

​@@MrJonnyl123No, because he supports the right wing. The Tories and republicans.

There are a handful of people whose passing I would definitely celebrate, Murdoch is definitely one of them 🫡

@lagringa7518

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, it's waayyy overdue for still a lot of these die hard Neocons to kick the bucket. Doddering or lucid they refuse to give up their 50+ year reigns that have completely destroyed the peace and tranquility of an entire planet!

@zippymufo9765

10 ай бұрын

Nothing is going to change even if he passes.

@marcoroma2863

10 ай бұрын

@@zippymufo9765it is nevertheless a good start!

@lycettewatson4713

10 ай бұрын

Maybe being a Bond villain is his fantasy

Murdoch didn't resign. He was put out to pasture because he set the barn on fire.

@buntyjoy1800

10 ай бұрын

...and here comes Murdoch 2 The resurgence.

@Blackmark52

10 ай бұрын

@@buntyjoy1800 "and here comes Murdoch 2" I wouldn't bet the farm on that. The son is left with lawsuits that will make the 780 million daddy lost look insignificant. Smartmatic and Fox investors are going to be asking for billions of dollars and their case has already been won in court by Dominion.

Without the Iraq war, there would've been no ISIS. Good job, George W Bush and Tony Blair.

@flowerpower7288

10 ай бұрын

War is always about profiteering. No sane/decent human would EVER chose war when they have had to live with the consequences 😢

Disagree with Aaron on one point. We absolutely should say it will be a great day, because it's prosocial to celebrate the removal of harm from society.

@sam3317

10 ай бұрын

"removal of harm from society" Murdoch's already done the harm mate, he won and now he's bowing out. There's no point focusing on old school villains like Murdoch, when there's new school ones like Peter Thiel running about.

@tonymurphy2624

10 ай бұрын

@sam3317 So naïve. If you think that means he's done, I have a beachfront property in Kathmandu you might be interested in.

@zippymufo9765

10 ай бұрын

@@tonymurphy2624 The point is that the OP was claiming Murdoch's passing will "remove harm from society", which is an extremely naive viewpoint. What Murdoch created is here to stay.

@tonymurphy2624

10 ай бұрын

@zippymufo9765 The point is that Murdoch's harm comes in more than one form, one of which is his person, and it will be a removal of harm. The OP makes no mention of scale. Keep digging, though. The antipodes beckons.

@zippymufo9765

10 ай бұрын

@@tonymurphy2624 Sounds like pure desperate wishful thinking. But if I were wallowing in impotent seething rage like yourself, I guess I would enjoy any empty symbolic "victory" that I could.

I am surprised they let Owen speak up

@lesleyrobertson5465

10 ай бұрын

They’ll come after Owen next

The title points to Owen, but both Michael and Aaron had incredible takes as well. Beautifully said!

Power corrupts, ultimate power corrupts ultimately. The truth!

@toby81tube

10 ай бұрын

For ref: I think the phrase is "... absolute power corrupts absolutely"

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that the 38 likers of the comment didn't pick that up.@@toby81tube

The story of modern British politics is just as much about right wing media manipulation as anything else

Aaron is quickly becoming one of the best journalists in the UK.

@mosin949

10 ай бұрын

Aaron is a powerful Persian tiger 🐅 👏 🙌 😊

Quite right, Murdoch defiled everything he touched.

Very sharp analysis Micheal,Aaron and Owen,of the dictorial Murdoch.

When he dies his son Lachlan will have already taken over and he seems pretty much the same as his dear dad.

@kathrinedavey3080

10 ай бұрын

Yes, it looks like he wants to make it a dynasty, so his influence will live on

@michaelnorth3666

10 ай бұрын

Dynastic succession all ways fails the 3rd generation...that's Lachlan Murdoch...!

@korolev-musictodriveby6583

10 ай бұрын

@@michaelnorth3666- Hope so , he's even more hard line than his dad !

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Just like North Korea.@@kathrinedavey3080

There arent many people in the world more immoral than Murdoch esp. considering how far his influence spread. A very wicked man. Hope he looks back on his life now and feels ashamed.

@DrMontague

10 ай бұрын

The workers and working class loved his right wing rag. They used to queue up outside the factories to buy the SUN. They relished Page 3 ,sport and xenophobia . Even striking miners of thatcher era loved it

@rickydee5863

10 ай бұрын

He is beyound redemption he knows no shame .

@CrystalShadow

10 ай бұрын

Psychopaths cannot feel shame unfortunately.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

No, he'll look back on his life and congratulate himself on all the money he made and all the political influence he had and say "What a good boy am I".

Awesome Owen Jones as usual👍

Rudd wasn't going to introduce a carbon tax. It was a carbon offset programme. Murdock called it a tax in his papers because he knew the average Aussie didn't understand climate change, tax or politics. He knew the idea of 'another tax' would be frowned upon so HE called it that.

As a gaggle, the British adore their oligarchic owned media. Proof? Brexit.

@brianpark8758

10 ай бұрын

And our so called "social betters," which begins with the royal family from top down. Karl Marx once said, "the British are too stupid for revolution." I believe he was referring to the class structure, where the poorest in society love the royal family & the class system. I wouldn't call it stupid, I would call it indoctrination to the point of insanity.

@dianastevenson131

10 ай бұрын

48% of us didn't fall for Brexit.

@brianpark8758

10 ай бұрын

@@dianastevenson131 Your right, 48% didn`t vote for Brexit but 52% did!

@camdencobain1460

10 ай бұрын

What about Guardianista credulity apropos of the AS witchhhunt against Corbynistas & now the USkraine war?

@brianpark8758

10 ай бұрын

@@camdencobain1460 Controlled opposition. There's an interesting interview with Noam Chomsky & Andrew Marr doing the interviewing, that's worth checking out. Chomsky has written extensively on the subject from 'The Manufacture of Consent' with Edward S. Herman (you may already know this) to other books, papers & lectures.

You tell them Owen! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 The truth burns 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Love Novara and Michael , Ash, Owen, Aaron and the team! My superhero’s fighting to reveal the truth

Thanks Owen Jones. Truth be told he will see hell.

@timcomley5948

10 ай бұрын

That won’t be decided by you

@roshellboudreaux6263

10 ай бұрын

@timcomley5948 not trying or wishing GOD will handle.

He turned three great counties into banana republics.

Thank you for covering this 💚🙏🏼 Incredibly well said. Cheers

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER!! AND POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

The newspapers are controlled by rich people.

Tony Blair also spoke to Murdoch every week. Enough said. Murdoch has chosen every Prime Minister and President since the 80's.

The Larry Lamb episode is jaw dropping. As Aaron calls it "The fusion of politics and media..was rare in Britain.....is now the norm".

Owen Jones always on point! 100% factual.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Interesting that it was said on Sky News, I'm surprised it was even aired.

Murdoch is vile. But Britain has a history of vile press barons. Harmsworth, Dacre come to mind.

@hpvspeedmachine4183

10 ай бұрын

Lord Rothermere

A great day for humanity. True.

Very articulate and well said Owen.

Every wakening moment he was awake was about power Every decision he made was about power he had it severed for breakfast lunch and dinner Power over everything. He had it in spades but he soon will be gone …

Thank god for the real free press - the KZread news channels.

@ZachBobBob

10 ай бұрын

Most are already corrupted by Murdoch's dogma anyway. They just parrot what they hear from MSM

George Michael was on the BBC twenty years aGo saying he would never take on Murdoch as he'd never have a careEr again

Joseph Geobbels would be proud of Murdock.

Why do people buy newspapers ? Love Colin

@DrMontague

10 ай бұрын

The workers and working class loved his right wing rag. They used to queue up outside the factories to buy the SUN. They relished Page 3 ,sport and xenophobia . Even striking miners of thatcher era loved it

A shame he’s not leaving News Corp in a hearse…

why does murdoch hate so much about the eu? Is it about the eu anti tax avoidance directive?

@pollytickle8346

10 ай бұрын

Yep,

Owen is incredible

I find it incredulous that big sections of the media are defending Murdoch

Only reason he stepped down is to dodge taking the stand , he’ll be calling the shots still.

It’s hard to feel complete despair at what one individual did to all of us - the WHOLE planet. The one positive is that if one person could have so much negative impact, we each, individually have the power to do the opposite.

@peternelson7048

10 ай бұрын

That's not how it works unfortunately. It is always easier to organise people to act selfishly as a group than for the greater good.

@Bopflix

10 ай бұрын

@@peternelson7048 I’m a little more optimistic about the world than that, we’d still be living in caves bashing each others skulls in if that were the case.

@peternelson7048

10 ай бұрын

@@Bopflix It's good to be optimistic. Most people are decent in my experience but I am a realist. All you need to do is convince people that their way of life is under threat and you can get them to do unspeakable things. Power hungry people will always do this. Decent people have no desire to have control over others and so it will always be more likely that large groups of people will act selfishly than for the greater good.

@Bopflix

10 ай бұрын

@@peternelson7048 yeah agree with that, why the best people never seem to go into politics. It’s a kind of paradox. But maybe that’s the answer? We need to encourage the unlikely into politics, and those individuals with decency and vision could make huge strides. I actually feel sick in my stomach thinking about Gore having the election stolen. A great crime to us all that won’t addressed / acknowledged by history until long after we’re gone. Awful.

@CrystalShadow

10 ай бұрын

We don’t have the platform murdick does.

I've not heard the Larry Lamb story before. What does that tell you about the rest of UK press?

I'd like to echo the observation about the 2000 election. Murdoch prematurely and illegally declared Bush the winner, and after that Gore was always the supplicant. How different would the world be if Gore had been President???

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

The 2000 election was stolen and the 2016 & 2020 elections were "stolen".

He'll never retire, despite what he said.

Owen Jones bang-on the money - as ever.

It’s time we had laws around the foreign ownership of media as many countries do. We also need to carry out Leveson 2 to remove the self-regulation that the newspapers currently enjoy. I hope Labour will take action, but I greatly suspect that they won’t.

@johnwright9372

10 ай бұрын

It isn't only foreign ownership that is a problem. Cameron binned the Leveson Report and Leveson II because only his party stands to lose by it.

@northyorkshirechris5735

10 ай бұрын

@@johnwright9372 It was actually Bozo that binned Leveson 2 in his 2019 manifesto on the infamous ‘page 48’. The entry read “To support free speech, we will repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2014, which seeks to coerce the press. We will not proceed with the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry.” But yes, Leveson 2 must be restarted as press self-regulation really isn’t working.

Was our own Andrew Neil instrumental in setting up fox news.

Totally right, excellent reporting

Owen and Michael should become the new power couple of the British Left.

Owen nails it as he often does xx

murdoch is a poison

@DrMontague

10 ай бұрын

The workers and working class loved his right wing rag. They used to queue up outside the factories to buy the SUN. They relished Page 3 ,sport and xenophobia . Even striking miners of thatcher era loved it

Completely agreed , the man has bought nothing but chaos and misery to this world. And for what freaking purpose , power and ego. Hope he meets some justice still here in earth.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Justice for Murdoch would be an emphatic Labour victory in the Commons.

Owen jones is so right

When a child molester or a serial killer or anyone convicted of a serious crime, we ask how did this happen? Has a journalist ever been held to account for their contribution to to process?

@ivanfreely6366

10 ай бұрын

No.

In Australia , where he has a huge control and influence in the media and politics, his empire has played a major role in undermining action on climate change. Both parties have been playing along with him. Right at the moment his empire is running a campaign to defeat a referendum to give Aboriginal Australians an advisory voice into parliament , written into the constitution.

He played a huge role in ‘brexit’.

The devil reincarneted RM!!!!!

They're all talking about him like he's dead, but he's not, which is annoying.

100% agree with Owen Jones.

Russell Brand has been calling Rupert Murdoch out for the last twenty years or so...Say no more

Aaron II really appreciate you letting us know all this could you please shout all this info from the roof tops

brilliant 👏. he was spot on but the rest of the media chose to ignore all those facts

If the Media World ever needed an enema, Murdoch would be the point of entry

@CrystalShadow

10 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

Thanks for posting.

It was a clever idea to put politics on page 2 of the Sun, opposite the bare-breasted beauty on page 3. What a great way to get your readers to look at your political coverage.

Can a Sun reader read 1600 words at one go?!

@themsmloveswar3985

10 ай бұрын

If they are the same 25 words, perhaps....also no words with more than three syllables.

Thanks

He wasn’t wrong about the intelligence of most Sun readers.

@aidanjohnkelly

10 ай бұрын

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Mushroom existence: Kept in the dark and fed on BS.@@aidanjohnkelly

The Press has never been free

The Murdoch papers in Australia and Sky News AU got in trouble for climate denial

Thanks Owen

Owen Jones is a hero ❤ prayers and love for the oppressed peaple

Love you guys 💖

❤Novara media 👍

I can't agree more with such a resounding conclusion by the Noble Owen Jones!

brave Owen. On Sky of all places. But let us not kid ourselves anything is going to change.

Great video 👍

Agree totally.

Australia don't need to heat their homes as much as the UK, but I bet they have a thriving air-conditoning industry. I wonder if making hot air hotter through air-conditioning has more of an impact than making cold air warmer through heating leakage. 🤔

@geraldbutler5484

10 ай бұрын

Air cons running on solar panels is the way to go in Australia. The Murdoch/ Sky News/ Liberal(?) government is gone and now Australia will accelerate its decarbonisation. We are already no1 in rooftop solar and the sky is the limit! The petition against Murdoch’s News Ltd achieved the highest number of signatures for any such endeavour.

@thesunreport

10 ай бұрын

@@geraldbutler5484 Thanks for the reply. My point was about the hot air that air-cons push out to create the cool air inside the home. I think there is probably some scientific formula for air heating, and my guess is that it might show relatively that hot air is heated quicker than cold air. In that sense it doesn't matter where the electricity comes from as air-con units physically heat the outside air themselves.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

It's like running a fridge while its door is left open. The heat removed one place is transferred to another. The net heat gain comes from running the equipment (compressor) itself.@@thesunreport

@thesunreport

10 ай бұрын

@@kiwitrainguy Thanks, yes that makes sense.

Great video

Having worked on building sites during the Murdoch/Thatcher years taught me what the right-wing bollox was all about. ........the amount of working class sun reading numpties i had to associate with was horrendous . ......then the Brexitbollox appeared.!!!!! Is there ANY hope left.????

Liv Boeree has spoken on the Moloch problem, the god of negativity. Murdoch is one of the few individuals that can be identified as an active agent of Moloch, a disciple, even a demon. When he passes it will be to a place way beyond Dante's 9th level of hell.

Well said owen love it mate saying it as it is. your the man.

Perfect realization

Murdoch is the original architect of state capture.

While I agree with most thigs said here. It would be a mistake to think rupert was solely responsible for all the harm his companies caused. He is one of the elites for sure and he served their interests.

Murdoch has been more of a head of state in this country than our late queen

I am thinking that I would donate to this organisation but as a new watcher/listener, I want to know what the message or ambition of it is. I've probably missed it however I would like to know what you want to do. Is it to create awareness for more equal wealth for all? Is it complete socialism? Is it mainly about justice? What is Novara? I truly enjoy and embrace mostly everything I've heard here however if I understood what the aim you had was I would be more likely to put money into it. These are just thoughts I'm jotting down in a comment section and don't expect much reply. Cheers, really appreciate what's going on on the channel!