rees.ch - Stuff 2021

Some things I like

2021

Where	What	Comments
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...
Youtube	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.