Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "OxfordUnion" channel.

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  5. I'll give you an example of a valid point that then missed the target. Konstantin pointed out the poor people of Asia and South America. Forgetting that he also ignored the poor of Africa he argued Britain has no influence. That is complete and utter BULLSHlT and is the same crappy argument that's used here in Australia by the pro-coal lobby. I just saw (only yesterday) a very good documentary on the world wide tax evasion industry (see below). Its almost 90minutes long but totally worth the time. Part of it covers the City of London and why its such a massive part of the tax evasion industry. There's a really insidious part to the tax evasion industry that deprives poor countries of tax income they could use to develop. I can understand why Konstantin might not know this stuff because I didn't until yesterday. I knew that London is called the "London Laundromat" because of what it does, but I didn't know some of this stuff. Way back in 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded he DID NOT capture London, but negotiated a treaty that is still in place today almost 900 years later. The actual City of London is 1 square mile marked by the old city walls as they were in 1066. The treaty was that London would surrender to William the Conqueror BUT it would get to decide how it traded with the rest of the world. When computerised off shore banking came along they used that treaty in a very unusual way. A real human trader sitting at a desk in London could be making trades but the actual trade is regarded as happening on a computer somewhere else. They gave an example of bananas from Guatemala. A trader in London buys banana's in Guatemala for very low prices from the local peasants using a company registered in the Cayman's. That company then sells the bananas in America or Europe marked up like 100 times the price (sort of thing). There is no one doing any work in the Cayman's there's just a computer there being remotely accessed. The farmer is in Guatemala, the trader is in London and the customer is in New York, Paris,.... etc. The trader pays no tax on his work because its regarded as being done in the Cayman's. The company he works for pays no tax because their profit is regarded as being made in the Cayman's. The farmer is getting ripped off, the Guatemalan Government gets no tax income, the British people get no tax income and its because of a 900 year old treaty with obscure conditions written in very old English. So when Konstantin says Britain has no influence its garbage on so many levels its hard to consider if he's ignorant, stupid or deliberately obtuse. These countries are poor because countries like Britain are keeping them poor. This is the link to the documentary on Tax Evasion -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt6O3US9IE4
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  11. ​ @Teasehirt  I certainly agree with those who think there is way to much LEFT ideology in education BUT do not mistake there is also a huge influence from the RIGHT in education. People forget the incredible levels of indoctrination that goes on in the private high schools and private universities around the world. Its most notable in economic policies. All of it has tragic consequences that we are now becoming aware of. Sorry if this takes some explaining. I'm Australian and BOTH my parents were high school teachers and most of their social circle were also high school teachers along with one of my cousins who was a high school principal. So I'm pretty well informed on was happening through the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 2000s. In my home state of Victoria we had 2 high school systems that ran in parallel. The standard high schools which were like everywhere else and technical schools. My father taught in the tech school system for decades. It was orientated towards giving boys the skills to work in industry. They did a lot less of history, geography, etc. and lot more of industrial trade skills like carpentry, metal work, tool making, plumbing,... etc. One of my fathers best friends taught panel beating and car repair. He and the mechanic teacher used to buy 1 Ford and 1 GM (Holden) from the wrecking yard each year and then have the students completely rebuild/restore them. They'd sell them at the end of the year and use that money for the next 2 cars the next year. That tech school system produced generations of people who went onto to complete apprenticeships in all sorts of trades. Then in the 1990s it was totally destroyed by a pack of Left wing clowns claiming it was too "male orientated." It was done by our Labor Party that was founded among the Trade Unions. BUT BY THE 90s the Labor party leadership went from working class trade unionists to University educated theorists driven by ideology. Our RIGHT LOVED IT because it helped undermine our trade unions and allowed them to send our manufacturing overseas. By the 2000s we had a problem. The Chinese demand meant building new mines and we didn't have the welders, plumbers, fitters, electricians,... to get it done and had to import massive amounts of skilled labor. Its been insanely destructive. It was all done to support and idiotic Leftist social agenda supported by the Right and their equally idiotic economic agenda.
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  18.  @piccalillipit9211  Shame - see if you can pick it up with a VPN. I'll try and give you a brief synopsis. There's a huge issue with the top 1% of humanity NOT paying any tax. At the same time the top 1% are squeezing the middle class harder and harder with increases in living costs while keeping wages frozen. That lack of tax income is also preventing many nations from using their institutions to lift their people out of poverty. At the center of the world's tax evasion industry is the City of London. Way back in 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded he stopped at London. A treaty was negotiated. the City of London surrendered but was allowed to conduct trade however it saw fit separate from the rest of England. That treaty is still in effect 900 years later. The actual City of London is 1 square mile delineated by the old walls from 1066. Under that 900 year old treaty the bankers in London get to decide where the business they are doing is regarded as having taken place. Its like the whole place is some magic black hole. They give an example of bananas grown in Guatemala and sold to America and Europe. The Trader in the City of London remotely accesses a computer in the Caymans to buy bananas very cheaply from farmers in Guatemala and then sells them at a massive profit to consumers in America and Europe. Nobody is actually in the Caymans. There's just a computer, but because of the treaty they can claim that the trade is done in the Cayman's which means the company making the profit pays NO TAX because their profit was made in the Cayman's not in London or in Guatemala. So the Guatemalans get little for their bananas and NO TAX from the actual deal. The British people get no tax either because according to the treaty no money was made in Britain. Even the trader who never left Britain can avoid tax because his work is regarded as having taken place in the Cayman's. There are 4 major hubs for this from of tax evasion (or avoidance as they call it) Switzerland, Singapore, Bermuda and the Cayman's. So Britain has influence over 1 (Singapore) and 100% control over 2 more. BUT it also has 100% control of another dozen or so island states across the world. This is why despite all the noise about the Panama Papers, Paradise papers and Pandor Papers went nowhere, because no laws were actually broken. With tax laws for international trade there's legal, illegal and a grey zone in between. That grey zone is the tax havens around the world controlled through the magic black hole that is the City of London. This is why Konstantin is so totally wrong about Britain having no ability to affect what happens with climate change. These countries are poor and will remain poor because the City of London keeps them poor by tax evasion or avoidance as they call it. The documentary says it all so much better.
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  25.  @Teasehirt  Interesting you put CRT in with Cancel Culture, Virtue Signalling and Gender Ideology because CRT is nothing like the other 3, BUT the public discussion of CRT is exactly like the other 3. CRT is actually a great example of a subject being hijacked by bad faith political actors. The entire public hysteria about CRT was NOT a manifestation of woke culture it was created by a right wing sociopath in America to stoke the culture war and influence the midterm elections. It looks like a woke issue but isn't. Its certainly a social issue about disparity, but the public hysteria wasn't created by them. I'm Australian but went to college in America (late 80s) so I'm interested in what's goes on in America. The public CRT explosion is an insane shitfest manufactured by a person named Chris Ruffo. FACTUALLY: CRT is not and never has been taught as a subject in any American high school. Its not even an undergraduate class and any university. It gets mentioned in some classes and that's all. It was only an area of post graduate study trying to ask a very legitimate question: WHY are African Americans, despite all the changes and programs, still at the bottom of the socio-economic scale? Part of that was considering: Are there some racial issues ingrained in "the system" that are not being addressed. We should be asking similar questions here in Australia about our indigenous peoples. Despite all the programs, why aren't they doing better? Its a legitimate question. What Chris Ruffo did was take CRT and flip it into a shitfest of hysterical nonsense. He was confronted about his lies. He made no secret he didn't care about facts. He wanted to win at the midterms and didn't care what it took. So long as the right won nothing else mattered. So CRT might look like a woke subject and its certainly a subject about inequality and disparity, but the public hysteria is a right wing construct done by narcissistic sociopath.
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