rees.ch - Stuff 2016

Some things I like

2016

Where	What	Comments
The Grauniad	Neoliberalism - the ideology at the root of all our problems	A seriously good article about the failure of Neoliberalism following the problems with Keynesian policies in the 1970s. The issues of Climate Change and Resource Overuse - both of which come from a vertiable explosion in World Population look like they will kill us all. A new direction is required, but there seem not to be any usable political theories out there.
Building and Construction	Waugh Thistleton designs one of the tallest timber office buildings in London	Timber, specifically CLT is about to go gang-busters
BBC	Wooden buildings reach new heights	The timber movement is beginning to gain traction.
The National	Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: Prospectus for Indyref2 has got to be more radical	Good article about voter choices. "The Same Old (left or right)" or "The Future".
Open Democracy	Five reasons why we don't have a free and independent press in the UK and what we can do about it	You don't say.....?
Alternet Org	Trump and US Corporations	The discounts, subsidies and credits the Corporations get is astronomical.
WNYC	How Talking About Trump Makes Him Normal In Your Brain	Seems right to me. How to hell the Truth.
The Guardian	A Brexit betrayal is coming - but who will get the blame?	Westminster supports Corporations
democracy now!	Inside Exxon's Great Climate Cover-Up: From Early Climate Change Researcher to Epic Climate Denier	Let's not ever let them forget their deeds.
brightside-me	The school of the future has opened in Finland	Better to go forwards than back.
thehumanist.com	Journalism in a Post-Fact Trump Era	Quote: "CNN's Christiane Amanpour urges her fellow journalists to commit to reporting not just on facts but also on values while refusing to normalize the hate and bigotry of the so-called "alt-right" that Trump's campaign unleashed. To Amanpour, this dedication to the truth means "investigating wrongdoing, holding power accountable, enabling decent government, [and] defending basic rights."
The Grauniad	Prof. Harald Lesch redet Klartext zum Klimawandel - Anthropozän lanz 6.10.2016	Klimatage und Waschtums Irsinn.
The Grauniad	Why our 21st century democracy needs the spirit of 1647 Michael Mansfield	Quote: "Now is the time to reach back into this history, and stem the advance of the new elite. Nothing should be off the table: the monarchy, the House of Lords, the relationship between the constituent parts of the UK, our outdated voting system. Questions about all these have been floating around for a long time, but rarely has the need to address them been so urgent. We need to create a democracy fit for the 21st century, in which the power of the people predominates over the people in power.*
You Tube	Gregory House On Religion	Some good ones here....
You Tube	Dr Denise Baden battles with the establishment view of Fidel Castro at the BBC	seems that the BBC dislikes Castro as much as it dislikes Scotland....
You Tube	The Solar Power Plant Noor: A shining light in the desert	Makes sense to me assuming the political issues can be sorted-out.
The Raw Story	The dark rigidity of fundamentalist rural America: a view from the inside	A bit like the Brexiteers, but in this case not so much a desire for past "good times" as anti-science, anti-change, based on religion. Quote: "When a 3,000-year-old book that was written by uneducated, pre-scientific people, subject to translation innumerable times, edited with political and economic pressures from popes and kings, is given higher intellectual authority than facts arrived at from a rigorous, self-critical, constantly re-evaluating system that can and does correct mistakes, no amount of understanding, no amount of respect, no amount of evidence is going to change their minds, assuage their fears."
You Tube	Homeopathy.	Fun!
The Guardian	Trump's climate denial is just one of the forces that points towards war. George Monbiot	Things are going to get really bad - probably sooner than many of us expect. Climate Change + overpopulation + few jobs = combustion
The National	Michael Gray: Eviction of Arran crofters is not just personal, it's political	It is high time to dump these free-loaders.
The Guardian	Nearly half of all Brits exhibit views that are anti-immigration, anti-Europe and cynical about human rights. Their politics are rooted in a fear of freedom, the very thing the left and centre must defend	How sad.
Daily Kos	Aftermath November 2016 from Steve Cohen on Vimeo.	Yep, time to not compromise with ignorant people ****
Huffington Post	Elizabeth Warren Blasts Trump For Embracing Lobbyists And Bigots	Business in Politics ****
TED	Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives	Most interesting ****
Truth-Out	Trump in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky	In Summary: Our children, and their children ar Fucked! ****
Guardian	Rust-belt romantics don't get it: the middle class is being wiped out too	Capitalism gone beserk: And we are all getting stung, well not a very small bunch of exceddingly or super-rich
The National	Lesley Riddoch: Is Westminster deliberately sabotaging our renewables industry?	The Tories and their friends are having a very bad effect on the UK.
The National	Mhairi Black: Tories tell Concentrix we're all crooks while real ones drink champagne	Politics as if the people mattered.
You Tube	Merade - Dakota at the UN	This conflict has to make every correct-thinking person sick.
Ferdinand Ludwig	Combining live trees and architecture	Seems to me this is very interesting, a development of Biological Building which I started to follow in the early 1990s.
You Tube	SignAloud: Gloves that Transliterate Sign Language into Text and Speech	What a grand development.
Guardian	It takes a special arrogance to say the poverty in I, Daniel Blake is unrealistic	The Tories are evil. Denial is usually the the first stage of correcting a problem, and they haven't yet begun.
addictinginfo.org	Are Trump Supporters Too Dumb To Know They're Dumb? Science Says "Probably"	Also worth a read.
Guardian	Never give a straight answer: how I learned to talk like a politician	Worth a read.
Youtube - CNBC	Perils Of Eroded Civic Knowledge Forewarned \| Rachel Maddow \| MSNBC	So many problems not being solved - Governments are still applying old (dogmatic) solutions to modern problems. Things need to change in a big way.
EuroMyths	Euromyths A-Z index	Thank You Boris - the people were fooled.
The Intellectualist	Noam Chomsky: Today's GOP Might Be Most Dangerous Organization in Human History	30 years and what have we got?
Guardian (.au)	A free market in tax is a grotesque reality	He's got this right. Change anyone?
Youtube	The Empire Files: Abby Martin with Dr. Jill Stein - Symptoms of a Sick Society	So much sense - The Greens.
The Unbounded Spirit	Drugs don't cause Addiction	Mandatory.
Youtube	The Empire Files - Enter the biggest prison system in history	Thanks Republicans, The War on Drugs - modern slavery. "Lamd of the Free" anyone?
Youtube	West Wing President Bartlet Standing up to the Bible	Kills it.
Youtube	The Fantastic Mr Feynman	Amazing.
Youtube	10 Times Richard Feynman Blew Our Minds	What a person he was.
Psychology Today	The Psychology Behind Donald Trump's Unwavering Support Research explains why Donald Trump maintains support despite shocking behavior.	Some attempts to explain stupidity.
Renewable Energy Network	Trial Begins for German Storage Facility Built with Used EV Batteries	Watch how the whole "intermittent" arguement against renewables is going to go away in the next decade. If only governments would take them on-board with enthusiasm.
IBC	James: Why The Media's Take On Corbyn Needs To Change	The UK media is so right-wing.
Vox	Fox News?	Rupert Murdoch is the person behind all this crap.
Simple Capacity	Your Zodiac Sign Has Shifted: NASA Updated The Zodiac Signs For The First Time In 2,000 Years	Haha, what a joke. I have been told I am a "typical" Libra, whereby I am a Virgo. WTF?
IFL Science	Largest Survey Yet Finds Fluoridation Safe And Effective	This won't stop the conspiracists. Alex Jones take note.
The National	Kevin McKenna: An independent Scotland will be Cameron's legacy	One of the worst PMs ever.
Guardian (.au)	Face the facts: competition and profit don't work in health, education or prisons	Too right, a terrible idea to put profit before people.
Business Insider	A neuroscience researcher reveals 4 rituals that will make you happier	Seems to make sense.
The National	Carolyn Leckie: Talk of meritocracy is cheap when privilege is still for sale at private schools	And the tories continue to drive backwards. Michael young was a great innovator. https://www.dartington.org/about/our-history/dartington-whos-who/michael-young/
Upworthy	16 years ago, a doctor published a study. It was completely made up, and it made us all sicker.	And still there are people who believe and newspapers (?) which promote this falsehood.
Grauniad	Leading insurers tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020	Insurance companies have been concerned with Climate Change for 30+ years - read their Annual Reports. Now they seem to be getting serious.
Kate Prothero	I've Had Enough Of Hearing About Jeremy Corbyn.	Spot on.
True Publica	Why Corbyn so terrifies the Guardian	Interesting use of Mr. Kuhn's work from back when. Makes sense to me.
Grauniad	Terminally ill artist who chose assisted dying gathered friends to say goodbye	This should be availabe to everyone.
Vimeo	My life and The Beatles	As Caroline says: "We had The Beatles" and how great it was.
You Tube	Paul McCartney and Jools Holland - Lady Madonna	Terrific!
You Tube	Melody Gardot and Stephan Braun	Lovely.
Desert Island Discs	Tom Hanks	A delightful man this. Talented too.
Great Lives	Mervyn King on Risto Ryti	A man with character, supporting Finland.
One Million Women	Naomi Klein, Capitalism and Climate Change	She doesn't hold back.
Huff Post	Iceland Has Jailed 29 Bankers. Why Can't the UK and US Do the Same?	Worth a read - scrumpy eh?
Grauniad	Britain broke Iraq. We can't turn our back on its refugees	Simon Jenkins just about says it all about the illegal war in Irak and the de-stabilisation of the Arab World. Maybe this is the final throws of Empire, both US and Britain?
BBC Future	How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.	And, so we have - Agnotology
Utrend	US inequality	Got that?
Grauniad	Inequality: how wealth is distributed in the UK - animated video - www.inequalitybriefing.org	Did someone say equitable? Balanced?
Sam Altman	Technology and wealth inequality	Worth a read. What will all those unemployed people do? Laze around or write novels?
The National	Cat Boyd: Get rid of private schools that foster social apartheid	Too bloody obvious.
You Tube	A campaign to convince multi-national companies operating in Australia to pay their fair share of tax.	This is true for most developed countries. Corporations are runing our infrastructure, and that even before the effects of low wages.
Richard Dawkins Foundation	Americans are in the middle of the pack globally when it comes to importance of religion	The implication of the chart is too obvious
BBC	Should We Solar Panel The Sahara?	Gerhard Kneiss in Germany began it all - Desertec. I translated their first release on this. http://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/teaching-officers/curry