Some things I like

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Youtube

The Government Just Took Away YOUR FREEDOM | George Monbiot

Going, going, gone....
Youtube

Led by Donkeys - Who does Boris Johnson and his government really work for? In our opinion, not you.

How much further can the Tories take their corruption before the voting public sits up and takes notice?
Arte

Irish History - Independence and Partition

So much violence to hold on to a colony. I can't see the justification even if times are different. And as for Churchill, another stake in his reputation.
Youtube

Jonathan Pie: The World's End (COP26 short film with George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas & Ed Miliband)

Too bloody late. How angry we will all become because our politicians didn't act?
Youtube

MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040

There you go!
Youtube

How The Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial | Downstream

Failure all along the line.
Youtube

An Address to the Nation: EXTINCTION REBELLION ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR #APRIL2022

Will find my role.
The Guardian

HMRC to relocate to Newcastle office owned by Tory donors via tax haven

The UK government has really gone down a rabbit hole. The Tax Authority will be housed in a building owned by tax exiles. Really?
Youtube

The Tory Plan to Privatise The NHS |

Just the first 15 minutes. And there she goes - the NHS!
Youtube

James O'Brien, Leaked Lurgi-19 contract list's reveal companies profiting from pandemic

Tory corrupt scum!
Recommended
Renewable Energy World

Biden admin targets 700% community solar growth by 2025

The map here shows quite clearly the effect politics has on the change required as climate change progresses.
The Guardian

Almost $500bn ‘lost to tax abuse by firms and super-rich in 2021’

In a democracy the position of the UK in his business would be seen as a national disgrace.
Youtube

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050

Beyond crazy.
Recommend Juice Media!!!
Youtube

James O'Brien explains why the Owen Paterson scandal hit the public so hard | LBC

JOB usually does a grand job (?) of his subjects, but this is excepional.
Youtube

Cowardly MPs, whipped by Johnson just voted to rip up standards rules to block suspension of Tory MP

So much corruption in plain sight
Youtube

Honest Government Ad | COP26 Climate Summit

Lots of Anglo Saxons failing.
Recommend Juice Media!!!
PV Magazine

Retractable PV awning for recreational vehicles

Nice!
Youtube

Peter Stefanovic shares what the NHS means to him and why you should support Your NHS Needs You!

As we wave goodbye to he NHS as the Tories sell it off to their donors..
Dorset News

Jonathan Pie speaks more truth in 5 minutes than Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston have in their whole careers

Just about covers it.
LBC

'Don't mention the real ambulances! Here's a theoretical ambulance that may at some unspecified point in the future suffer a theoretical problem!'

Yep!
New Statesman

From Germany, the UK appears ever more dysfunctional and absurd

So many good points. The UK is rapidly going down the drain
Youtube

America, Rock’n’Roll and politics – a conversation with Barack Obama und Bruce Springsteen

A couple of home truths about the US of A here..
Youtube

Devastated Farmers: Thousands of Pigs to Die in Vain

Still not found any benefits of Brexit. This is a tragedy caused by the Tories and their supporters.
Youtube

How to Talk to a Science Denier

Sad to think the human brain can be so dysfunctional.
Youtube

Brexit Shortages Hit Food Packaging

Even more Brexit fun...
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Next Brexit Crisis: Container Ports Getting Blocked

More Brexit fun...
Youtube

The Brexit Taboo in British Politics

It does look as if Brexit has really screwed the UK for the forseeable future. I can't see a way out of it. WHich means the steady slide into the status of a second-rate country which has been going on for 40+ years will not be halted anytime soon.
Youtube

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 54 Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric

Some really good ideas....
Youtube

The BBC Refused To Show This Brexit Disaster

"It's only going to get worse" - Getaway...
Youtube

Honest Government Ad | Electric Vehicles

Got to be an Anglo Saxon failing. The Australian Government under the right-wing keeps its pollution level very high, blackmailed the Paris Conference and in spite of what the Australian States are doing, refuses to change course to renewables. Oh, it gives massive support (possobly because of political donations) to the exraction industry and farming.
Recommend Juice Media!!!
The Guardian

Millions of children in religious groups in England and Wales vulnerable to abuse.

No surprise really when the basis of religion is "obediance" to some (higher) power. Pure illusion.
Youtube

Nature and the Economy: Who Speaks for the Trees?

So much exceptional stuff in this video..
Youtube

Government Starting to Blame the Public for Brexit

Really good fun facts...
TED

What hallicinations mean

Surprising stuff....
TED

What is conscious...?

Much is just an hallucination....
Youtube

Nick Abbot & Peter Geoghegan on Tory Sleaze & Corruption

The UK government are little better than a sewer in a diarrhea pandemic
The Irish Times

Criticism of The Wind that Shakes the Barley reflected British unfamiliarity with conflict, says historian

The UK government forces were brutal in Ireland.
The Guardian

Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country

Yep, a country run mostly by misfits
Quote: "In his book The Old Boys, David Turner has the statistics for the “highly disproportionate share” of public school alumni in the top jobs of the UK. These figures come from 2014, to include boys at school at the same time as me in their middle-aged professional prime: “seven in 10 senior judges, six in 10 senior officers in the armed forces, and more than half the permanent secretaries, senior diplomats and leading media figures”. Seventeen out of 27 members of Johnson’s full cabinet in 2020 went to private school."
" A follow-up report by the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission, Elitist Britain 2019, paints a mostly unchanged picture. Private schools account for nearly 70% of the judges and barristers in the country. To this list can be added more than 50% of bishops and ministers of state and lord lieutenants and the England cricket team, these doors not even half open to anyone else."
Youtube

The Russia Report should have shocked the country. Instead Boris Johnson & UK media buried it

Corrupt doesn't cover it.
Youtube

Wealthy Tory donor scandal exposed - and why it threatens democracy

As the FT reported the UKgovernment is corrupt. Well done to all those who voted for the top clown and his circus.
CNN Business

The explosive Brexit spat that no one is talking about could slam the UK economy

Johnson's activities may have very far-reaching consequences...
The Guardian

Why is the Northern Ireland protocol still an issue? Actions have consequences - Fintan O’Toole

Johnson, in spite of his expensive education seems unable to assess facts and make choices which can actually sit in a real world. I wonder when his end will come and if it will be appropriately sticky?
Youtube

Freedom Day, Cummings and Brexit - That Was the Week That Was

A fine summary of a few activities this week.
The National

Dismantling of devolution will be straw that breaks the Union’s back

Succinct.
Quote: Brexit isn’t about trade or immigration, freedom of movement, it certainly isn’t about saving money – it’s about power. A British nationalist political elite that believes without question they have the right to rule without deference to any other authority, because that’s how things worked in Britain’s heyday. It’s a symptom of a sickness called exceptionalism, a belief system that misunderstands history, harks back to a rose-tinted view of what Britain used to be. Britain never partnered, it conquered, it didn’t trade, it extracted wealth from colonies, it didn’t help nations, it held them back so they couldn’t compete.
Twitter

Martina Anderson MLA

Gets right to the point. He does not represent these peple. Me neither.
The Guardian

Southern Water fined record £90m for deliberately pouring sewage into sea

Water is anatural monopoly and should not be run by for-profit companies
Quote: "It had 168 previous offences and cautions but had ignored these and not altered its behaviour. “There is no evidence the company took any notice of the penalties imposed or the remarks of the courts. Its offending simply continued,” he said."
The Guardian

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

Basically the polution-causing idustries not only ignored their own scientists, but they actively prevented facts becoming well known. The same methods, and to some extent the same people were involved who hide the cancer-causing effects of smoking.
The Guardian

Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India

Yep, a causic summary.
Quote: "he said, came from the fact that what “was truly best in their own civilisation, the upholding of dignity of human relationships, has no place in the British administration of this country”. Indeed, the British could not have allowed Indian subjects to avail themselves of these freedoms without threatening the empire itself."
Youtube

Dr Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India

Absolutely essential for anyone wanting to understand the colonial times of India.
Youtube

Brexit Government Still Don't Understand the Basics

What an absolute mess, all -ve, a project not for the benefit of the people.
Westcountry Bylines

Two cheers for French citizenship

Not a "subject". The UK is in such a backward state.
Youtube

Government Minister misleads #BBCBreakfast viewers on the findings in the #RussiaReport

Tory = mendicious!
Youtube

OBON: OBON DAY 2021 Campaign Song.

How to hold back the vomit? Oh, and the children are on holiday in Scotland this Friday - haha!!!
Youtube

The Conservative Government has brought our entire justice system to its knees with savage cuts

So much cut from our justice system, it's well on the way out.
Quote: "Closed over half our courts, 600 police stations & cut 21,000 police officers from our streets"
Youtube

Consumption Emissions: The UK's Hidden Footprint

Lies, they're Conservatives.
Youtube

Texas valedictorian Paxton Smith goes viral for her speech about abortion rights. It seems to me this is an issue whereby men do not want women to have sex. How sick is that?

She is right on the money. Womens' health is for them and their doctor to decide.
Youtube

Matt Hancocks car crash interview on Sky is another illustration of why we need a public inquiry NOW

Lying, lying, lying.
Youtube

September 10, 2019

A reprise of the lying BBC... An incomplete story is simply lying.
The Guardian

The ‘culture wars’ are a symptom, not the cause, of Britain’s malaise

Smoke and mirrors from the right-wing confuse (as they are intended) much of the UK public.
Twitter

Lies, lies and more lies.

Over 19 million views so far...
Youtube

GB Ex-chair of UK Conservative party condemns government’s stance towards Palestine

This is not anti-semitism, it's a damnation of the State of Israel
and a reflection of the condition of Israeli politicians and their
addiction to clientelism.
Cost of Johnson Website

222 Lies, Deceits and Scandals by Boris and his Tories.

And still the Tory-voting masses give praise to the master lier.
Byline Times

‘Government Could Have Saved More Than 100,000 Lives During Pandemic

And still the Tory-voting masses give praise to the master lier.
Byline TV

Divina De Campo, Robert Llewellyn & Otto English

The section by Robert Llewelly is terrific, so many Brits
doff their caps to the toffs, so sad, no critical thinking.
Start at 33:00
PBS

WATCH: The real world of 'Nomadland'

And there we have it...
CNN

Brianna dumps on Fox "News"...

She is brilliant!
Accidental Gods

How money is made. Either by a computer entry at the bank of England
or some other bank.

Yep, it's an image....
Accidental Gods

Dawson J. Teaching Economics for the 21st Century

A good situational analysis. (Except an annoying lady who keeps on saying "yes!")
The Guardian

Ireland will resist global corporate tax rate, says finance minister

Global tax competition, or how corporations play us off against one another.
Youtube

The COVID-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently | Mariana Mazzucato

Things really need to change, but, I'm not holding my breath...
Intelligence Squared

Debate on Indy2

The Scots simply don't get what they vote for. It's not democracy.
Youtube

Jacob Rees-Mogg Describes Scots And Welsh As Foreign Languages!

It's all about money - which isn't going into Tory pockets
Guardian

The planet cannot survive our remorseless pursuit of profit

Just about covers it...
Grand Designs

Grand Designs S18E09 Revisited Herefordshire The Recycled TimberFramed House

An astounding commitment to life, quality and a slow, craftsman's process.
Guardian

The amount the UK spends on defence can't be justified – so we rely on piffle

The list of funds wasted by UK governments is monumentous.
Guardian

Have Meghan and Harry moved the monarchy closer towards its end? If only

Well overdue. What a stupid idea of having a rich family as HoS.
Youtube

John Oliver Warns Meghan Markle What She's Getting Herself Into

Nothng more to be said about the UK royal family.
Democracy Now

The End of Trickle-Down Economics? Joe Stiglitz on the “Transformational” $1.9T American Rescue Plan

The man speaks truth
Youtube

Julia Gillard misogyny speech voted most unforgettable Australian TV moment: watch in full

Just about sums it up!
Guardian

Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth

The UK class system begins right at the top of the pyramid.
Youtube

Antifa, Women & Doomsday - Q&A | 4 September 2017

Normally quite "fluffy" this ABC QandA actually has some interesting stuff.
For the bit about English rule of India go to 44:50. Empire was a disaster for so many people who were oppressed.
Youtube

Robin Williams and Matt Damon Interview for Good Will Hunting (1998)

Love the film. The interview says a great deal about the relationships and the city which is also a favourite of mine.
Nation Cymru

Monbiot: Wales should escape ‘chaotic, dysfunctional, corrupt’ UK as soon as possible

The UK system is broken. Elections are not democratic, the head of state has been shown to be corrupt and the government is a dictatorship.
Guardian

Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars review – the truth about social mobility

Class is alive and well, living in the UK. See who the top dogs are and what their parents did.
Youtube

"Brexit Referendum Was Corruptly Won, But Result Stands Thanks To Loophole"

In June 2016, in what was explicitly stated to be an advisory and non-binding referendum, 16,141,241 people, that is 48.1%, voted to remain, 17,410,742 people, that is 51.9% voted to leave. Any rational person would describe this as a “dead heat” - not an “overwhelming majority to leave”. However, only 37.4% of the restricted electorate (which excluded 16-18 years old and many UK citizens living abroad) voted to leave. 62.6% of this electorate did not vote to leave. In fact only 26% of the whole population voted to leave. It was therefore never “The will of the people” to leave the EU. These are the facts...
Youtube

The Church of Sweden to allow Gender-Neutral References to God.

Kate has a good go at the man defending religion - who is also a wife beater. Wow, well worth watching.
Guardian

For 50 years, zero tolerance to drugs has failed – yet Britain refuses to change

Yep, a complete waste of money and human effort.
Yorkshire Bylines

The Digby Jones Index

No Comment....
Guardian

Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results

Money in politics, what a great idea!
Wikipedia

1945 Labour Party Election Manifesto

Because I feel so many governments have lost their way, I thought I would see what was the basis for a peoples' manifest asctually looked like. Most of the text was written by Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington.
The Guardian

There’s a simple way to green the economy – and it involves cash prizes for all

It isn't rocket science. We are supposed to be an intelligent species.

 

 




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