Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "BBC News" channel.

The Tories ruthlessly defunded the NHS over 10 years (pretext for privatization - an it is not like they were getting too high funds in the old days). - UK per capita healthcare expenditures - only !! - USD 3,900 * ( U.S. with the private system USD 9,200 (among the HIGHEST in the world) Australia has 6,000. Wealthy European countries and Canada usually between 5,000 - 5,500 (and for that money a First World country definitely can have a good and well working system leaning towards non-profit and solidarity). * source: World Bank. Health care expenditures for nations, data 2014 Germany 5,600, Austria 5,400. I know from experience that both countries have good systems. 3,900, vs. 5,600 is a HUGE difference. If the UK had 69 % higher expenditures per capita the country would be at the German or Austrian level - and most of it would land in the NHS budget. see my longer comment under the thread of +Tiger Eye
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snakes and birds of prey !
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Melania Knauss entered the U.S. on a tourist visa, that allows you to stay 6 months, but not to work. - There are receipts showing she did modelling gigs during that time (illegal and would likely bar you from getting a green card later if known). Later someone - a sugardaddy (Trump ?) arranged for an Einstein visa for her. Which is unusual - it is not like she was a well known actor or model. And she certainly does not have other professional skills (IT, engineering, ...) that would make her indispensable.
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He did not "sneak" in - he was 10 years. so he grew up in the U.S. - Except knowing that it was extremely difficult (and expensive) to get citizenship. Impossible in his case because he crossed the border illegally (even when he was a minor).
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Are you a native ?
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Mary Robinson willingly gave cover to the regime ("misled" by her "friend" haya the stepmother. It is telling that she calls her friend so she had contacts before) - I wonder if money was involved for the services of Robinson to use her reputation to sugarcoat and cover for the tyrant. She may have done good work before, but that was not her proudest moment for sure. At the bare minimum she was very gullible. She was going there taking them at face value that Latifa is mentally ill ? Even if true - they have a lot of money, and she did not ask her how she lived. They could have sent her to treatment in Europe, U.S. or at least let her be seen in public in UAE. There were a lot of rumours and they hired her for this little act, for their PR. Has Mary Robinson no commons sense or no shame ? Doesnt the UN pay a pension (I seem to remember she was a president of Ireland before), is she that eager to get some money that she would play the stooge for a theocratic tyrant ? Also: Didn't she see the reports about her attempt to flee ? The woman that had tried to help her escape is not mentally ill and raised the alarm !
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From a rhetorical standpoint one can learn so much. Masterclass by Andrew Neil and Shapiro has the rightwing rhetoric tricks down, he delivers them fast, and confidently. he seems so confident, that he did not even bother to invest 2 minutes to check out who his interviewer was. The professional bullshitting does not hold up to a good interviewer.
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@paulgibbons2320 Sanders rocked the boat in 2016 - and doing it again. With some luck Corbyn will be PM soon and Sanders becomes president in January 2021. - hang on there in the island ;)
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So ... I am not up do date, but has Starmer already acted STRONGLY against the people that undemined Corbyn and delayed and sabotaged antisemitism investigations - the scandal that recently broke ? I am making a guess: No. They act against Long-Bailey because she is to the left and an ally of Corbyn. So another neoliberal that colludes with the Israeli lobby - which has nothing to do with being Jewish. (Likewise Zionists must not have the Jewish faith).
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Trump talked tough about how they would go after criminals - but what they really do is going after the EASY TARGETS - first after the families - preferably with children. These people are not as mobile, the children tie you down. - Criminals ? they are evasive, may have help and technology, may be dangerous. ...Let's wait for the dad's bringing children to school. Or someone who managed a restaurant for more than 10 years. With these people you KNOW where they are and they will show up on a regular base.
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1:30 Elderly lady: I guess I can buy some xx wine instead of Californian wine, will not make much of a difference .. but I like to give them a kick in my own way .... ;)
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As Prof. Richard D. Wolff said*: Those who call the shots are not interested in educating the U.S. citizens anymore. Well, not in public, non-profit, cost-free institutions. They privot to Asia, incl. China. There they assume will be new engineers, the qualified employees, most of the future sales, revenue and profit will be made there For-profit colleges are a business model. That's fine. * paraphrased - Dr. Wolff commented on Kansas who had to cut public services due to loss of tax revenue. The wealthy in the state had gotten a generous tax cut. The expected (by the Republicans governing) economic boom and trickle down did not happen. So Monday is school-free to save costs and to give teachers the "opportunity" to get a part time job on Monday to make ends meet (at Walmart often). In case that both parents are working (or a single parent that works) it means paying for childcare for one (more) day. Childcare is for-profit and very expensive in the U.S. 4 day week equals: not one of the wealthy areas (their private schools kept the 5 days week). The 4 days areas might even be with a higher crime rate. As the saying goes: The devil has always work for idle hands. So if the children are old enough to stay at home alone w/o supervision of an adult - them watching TV and playing video games idly is the good scenario. If politics continues to work for the ruling class and the haves only, they will continue to PIT the WORKFORCE of those Asian countries AGAINST the workforce of the wealthy countries. They do not NEED those kids, certainly not as PERSONS with a well rounded education, self-confidence, and the ability for life-long learning. Well at least many of them will not be needed. They do not NEED those children ANYMORE as future qualified employees to leverage their workforce and make a profit. The children of the decision makers get a private good education of course - and good positions for them will be availabe. So WHY would they fund public education - it could end with them having to pay the higher tax rate like in the boom era after WW2. (That era of relatively high taxes for the higher income brackets that were PAID by all, even multinationals, lasted until the 1980 in the U.S.). Oklahoma maybe has lost a lot of industrial jobs (thanks Bill Clinton), farming is a struggle for many (China tariffs on U.S. agricultural products anyone ? Trump is right of course in SOME way - but any SHARP turn in international trade is highly disruptive.) A lot of the government funding for school happens on the local level (property taxes) so wealthy areas have better funded schools (as is appropirate for a society fracture along class lines). Plus the parents are under pressure to rise money (some schools raise as much as few hundredthousand USD yearly. That money helps the schools to offer better or more programs and facilities - of course ONLY in the WEALTHY areas. The booming economy at the coasts does not support the states with another economic model. (But then that would be redistribution of wealth like they do in the wealthy European countries for their poorer, less industrialized or more rural ares. That would border on communism.)
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Somebody makes money of it - other than doctors and nurses of course.
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For those who are critical of the manager - his office is not "nice" and the dresser are old and worn down - and there are a lot of files - but there is no sign that it is filthy. - The mess shown later was from a tenant. When people lose control of their life (or are depressed, mentally ill, disabled or sick) - there goes the cleanliness.
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I wonder if Mulloon farm is faring better. Or Zaytuna farm under Geoff Lawton (permaculture, also water management). They manage and catch water, that means that the predators wer also doing better during the draught. - Now they are killing the micewith poison - so the bussards etc. will get it concentrated doses. And they do not reproduced in masses. They also could have promoted non-poisonous snakes and the birds of preay. But that has not happened, although theyx should know from last times.
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There was not path for citizenship - educated yourself - if only someone had issued an Einstein visa for him like for Melania Knauss .....She entered the U.S. on a tourist visa, that allows you to stay 6 months, but not to work. There are receipts showing she did modelling gigs during that time (illegal and would likely bar you from getting a green card later if known by the authorities). Later someone - a sugardaddy (Trump ?) arranged for an Einstein visa for her. Which is unusual - it is not like she was a well known actor or model. And she certainly does not have other professional skills (IT, engineering, ...) that would make her indispensable.
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the alleged "chemical" weapon attack was use of CHLORINE gas (or so the US said before they switched to the more "loaded" term "chemical weapon"). and we do not know IF there even was chlorine gas used never mind by whom. (the photos could be recycled by people who did not like the announcement of Trump that the US would get out of Syria) The video footage - shortly shown on the side - was allegedly caused by a rumour and people panicking resp. rinsing down to be on the safe side. The Red Cross could not find evidence, the UN investigators are bound to come THIS weekend. But as in the Skripal case - facts and independent investigations (and wisely waiting for results before taking action) is overrated.
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14:20 Ben Grifter: ".... that I am popular - and no one has ever heard of you ..." Well, that is not true and if Shapiro would have at least studied wikipedia for 1 minute he would know that Neil counts as right or center-right in the U.K. and is a household name in and well known outside the U.K. (Neil does a little jab, at 15:15 ...and I have never heard of you until I briefed myself on this) I wonder how someone can be a political commenter (even on U.S. politics mainly) and poses as new Conservative beacon and has not yet stumbled upon Andrew Neil, the well known Conservative in a network like the BBC. I knew that he is a lot of things - but not to the left. And I don't do political commentary and a channel for a living (he is paid by Breitbart ...). The Israeli lobby has the U.S. as most important market, but I think they consider U.K. important enought that it is the next important theater for them.
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The Tories asked the MOST COST-EFFICIENT system in Europe to deliver on efficiency measures ??? and then they would get more money. (so framing it as if they were wasteful ?) Well those bank bail outs DID increase the debt and the financial crisis caused by the banksters caused a recessiona and less revenue. The money has to come from somewhere. They knew the NHS would not be able to cut costs WHILE maintaining services. - so that saved them from making true on their promise.
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@AlwaysAC BBC have cushy jobs, and jobs in media and TV are disappearing, the publicly financed org is not sufficiently independent form the government, and they are terrified of being defunded. So they appease the people that seve big biz, finance, .... within Labour AND with the Tories.
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They would tell you about water management - it is not only the draught it is the soil that does not even take in what little rain comes down and allowing runoff of the precious rain.
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@friendlygoose Australian birds are not as fast as in other regions of the world, they are an easier target. And cats likely also kill smaller snakes, that would otherwise hunt the forfathers of that plague.
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@efpreston.77 You could use zoom to make proof reading easier. Caps make it harder to read for most people.
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@efpreston.77 Or you could design your comment to be shown as bold, enter it, read it, then open for editing and remove the two characters at the beginning and the end that create the style. (It is also overwhelming if you keep all in bold letters). How to write bold letters (works also for longer texts) in Youtube comments: To bold a word, put * asterisks * around it. For italics, use _ underscores _ For strikethroughs, put - hyphens - (or dashes) around the text. But you cannnot have spaces - like * bold * - no spaces gets you the desired result bold youtube does not offer a version for caps. when you hit the enter key twice (to have an empty line = creating some white space to separate paragraphes) yotube now autodeletes that, it is a more recent bug. You can fix that by putting some text in the line you want to keep. Just use the space character. (one or a few spaces , does not matter, and as many empty lines as you want). btw: I disagree with your political views but also with folks being called "crazy" online because they write in caps. It is just that is it seen as the equivalent of shouting if the whole comment is in caps. Or bold.
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It is expensive to be poor. - Sure one can do DIY - but for that one needs a basic set of tools, and (a clean) space to work. For instance furniture from the fleamarket. You need help with transport, sanding paper, without sanding machine it is going to be hard(er), maybe not impossible to get good results. Then you need a clean space where you can paint the stripped down furniture For good results with a quality brush, some foil to cover the floor, and of course paint. - Little investments ? If you have space to work, the skills and live modestly, the necessary resources can be within reach and that can be a good option. But if you are really poor (like the old lady having around 250 USD per month (after rent in the trailerpak, and utilities) the 20 or 30 bucks (if the furniture is for free) for a renovation can become an obstacle. And you have to get to the shop first, I would assume poor people cannot afford a car. either. And usually you have to hunt for the lucky finds - that requires mobility. The good thing, once you are equipped you are good - there is not much space to add new stuff or furniture. (The old lady made good use of the space and grew something).
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