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Posted March 18, 2024
Updated March 18, 2024
So this weeks video is by Jack Edwards, it provides a 45 minute breakdown of some more than less modern literary classics. That is at least how I would view the book selections. Jack has hosted the Booker Prizes, which is a prestigious award show in the United Kingdom, as well as interviewed at Oxford University. He can also be seen with mayor Sadiq Khan of London UK, and has written his own book "the Uni Verse" as his all encompassing guide to taking an undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom.
In the 45 minute video, it talks of books that are largely fictional. I find the differenciation between his love of fiction and my personal love of nonfiction memoirs to be quite substantial. I am not quite sure how I came to be someone who loves the same character development that occurs through memoirs, and getting to live within the minds of the characters as their texts convey why they feel certain emotional responses to their lives. Either way. I find that, I enjoy listening to Jack as he reads a substantial number of books that I would otherwise not hear about existing, and listening to both a summary and his generalized analysis of the literature. He really has used his degree quite well after his departure from Durhamn, spending his time largely pursuing the exploration of such a large group of titles that his (assumed) next oxford application will be a very large sucess. The booker prizes, as it is refered to is actually followed on twitter by the Royal Families twitter account, making it an incredibly prestigious event.
Posted March 9, 2024
Updated March 9, 2024
Theresea May has announced her departure, or retirement as an mp in Great Britain. I will greatly miss her wit, and her sound assessment of social equity, as well as household policy. She has an incredible grip on how to manage crises, and she will be greatly missed. She is my second favorite international elected leader, ever. Presently my ranking for favorite politicans; would rank Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Prime Minister Theresa May. I cried when Stephen Harper had lost the general election in 2015. I still rewatch the commons sessions from Theresa May's time in office as Prime Minister, due to how incredibly enjoyable her approach to government and cooperation with Jeremy Corbyn (leader of the opposition) is.
Posted February 17, 2024
Updated February 17, 2024
So this, was the video that caught my interest. Having been a supporter of the house of lords in the uk, and sentate in Canada, I find having a proponent of referendums as well as flat out reforms to the democratic system to be quite unique. I like their professionalisim. I am quite enjoying watching and/or listening to the uk government houses' proceedings. What do you think? I found the relaxed tone and professionalism to be a quite a unique aspect to the debates vs the commons. I have been a conservative for years, thus return of the conservative, is absolutely an unexpected delight. I find parliamentary debates to be very fullfilling to listen to. I always have.
Posted February 11, 2024
Posted February 11, 2024
I was looking for something to rewatch or listen to I would further clarify, that I found to be particularly interesting. I found this was the first real look at antisematism I had seen, ever. It was the first time that I had seen a video with conspiratorial clips from films, now long forgotten. This is a great family. They are verry nice, verry kind, and are a major asset to our British Commonwealth of Friends.
I am going to be rewatching it, thus I shared it.
Posted February 9, 2024
Updated February 9, 2024
Reading about the horrific rot in Chinese culture, is nothing new. Somehow the international superpower, has continued to assert it's international dominance, while increasingly looking to intimidate the Western world. I am not sure how a group of Chinese government officials under Xi Jing Ping had been able to pull it off, but they did manage to round up a minority of persons and do so without anyone really noticing.
This issue was first raised in early 2019 or so. I took social studies separate from highschool, due to migranes. I wanted to get through the full textbook. That isn't possible with a health system that has left me in a dark room, just stranded for almost a decade.
The Uguar muslims are a sore point for myself. I was glad that I had been fortunate to have the honor and the priveledge of going back to school, but it did not preclude the increasing comments that "there [were] places for people like [him]" - or worse- "[you] are not human." Hillary Clinton had a severe concussion that permenantly effected her. She just doesn't have the stamina to be president. The sad reality is she has the stamina to do the job, but the pacing is nothing like the pre concussed version of her. She had American healthcare, including prism that substantially aided her vision. It's one of the major components in concussion recoveries. Often visual tracking is not the same after a head injury. Today Hillary is slightly less happy, but it is hard not to root for her success.
The Uguar muslim group of persons was targeted initially, cited as a national security issue, as the chinese chose to rezone, and redevelope the ugars homes, while displacing them. This kind of thing had happened durring the great leap forward. It was still uncharacteristic of the chinese to maintain urban planning advancement while conveluding the issue with racial purity. The muslim group were cited as potentially a threat to national security due to ISIL, which had become a legitimate issue. Cafe's in Paris being shot up, Edmonton stabbings inspired by ISIS, and then the conquering of islamic territory in Iraq, had become an international crisis. I feel bad thinking of the friends I grew up with that were from families that were Islamic. I would not want them to be lumped together with ISIL. The unfortunate part of the terrorist organization, is that they were successful at promoting extremeism in part due to their success in using islampihobia to suppress the majority of western muslim individuals, and arabic individuals living in non ISIL regions . The growing alienation and lack of inclusion was and is disheartening.
Whether it was the most appropriate or not, the ending of travel services by lockdown, was the most effective. Sending an international community into pandemic like lockdowns is not an option. Terror will always exist. Government makes every effort to satisfy the interests of the majority of civillians while targetting unusually poorly behalved members of society. I found this to be a sad video. I first raised it in Social 30-1. I took it of course, for the first time, over 1.5 years after highschool after reading the textbook cover to cover. I was asked to tutor the course. I declined, but had 2 wrong on the multiple choice component of the diploma, and then looked into having a remarked social written component due to a 25% varriance from my normal written work average.
Either way, the less subjective, non-thatcherite multiple choice was more than fair, giving me an equal footing on the exam with every albertan to compete from. The Thatcher reference was, a poor idea, but I had tried to stay clear of political fear mongering (Hitler and Stalin), extremism, and have a discussion in the paper regarding a more optumistic outward looking form of seeking common ground to lead to better living standards. The paper was a flop to the point that I debated on flat out rewriting the exam.
The reeducation camps looked to be a modern, unstoppable movement towards the next phase of chinese integration. Crackdowns on differences in China, replaced the government's own ambition for an outwardly competative China. China however, has been a global powerhouse for many, many years. The mongolians, were not friendly people, hense, there is literally "the great wall of china", built to help china deploy troops on the basis of land invasion. For such ongoing tensions to be in continuance from the ancient chinese empire through now, is not suprising. The chinese are about as competative internationally as they ever were. Their advertising is effective. They also squash disent, very very, easily. Unrest in China, is not tollerated. Two systems, one China, in Hong Kong is comming to an end. Hong Kong is to be integrated under present Presidential leadership. I do have concerns, as do international partners such as the Americans over China, and it's military agression. To intervene in chinese affairs, or even to partition a region for safe keeping of muslim Chinese persons (Uguars) is not possible without a land invasion. It makes the international response to places like Tiwan- ruled by the prior Chinese government before the communists took over, even more important. There is not a brinkmanship with China. There is a choice of setting red lines, then legitimately knowing when the troops are already to have been there on the group to free the region from the grips of a tryant in office.
American idealism, that cites republics with a democratic leadership or dictator installed as a partner for the united states, just does not work. The only colonial mechanism that has been sucessive, and pursued realistic outcomes was the British. In Canada, God Help me, after spending some time on indigenous racism, I would not be willing to elaborate, or cry my way through a book on racial slurs like I had durring monkey beach. What I will cite is my willingness to reccomend that the partitioning by great britain, and the colonial impact of hong kong on the rest of china, continues to exibit global leadership that is best in class. Colonialization is taught differently in the UK, and much of my own academic preparation for in class, centers around UK qualifications. I make every effort to put forward as much internationally compatible research, due to wishing to truely be capable of publishing my own work. I want to join the discussion. I cannot however go on a car ride, vomit, or not eat to avoid vomiting, and then show up in class after doing the mandatory readings and the supplimental reading, and suplimental research and practice opinion written work. I know very well what the process looks like to achieve high marks, but find alot more of what I spend my time doing as a hobby, is really, looking at politics, and reading about what works to solve the problems that are faced by persons internationally every day.
Posted January 29, 2024
Updated January 29, 2024
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's debate was the first ever of the Trump vs Clinton political debates that I would expect over the next century. As a Democratic donor to Hillary Clinton, this honestly must have been such a phenomenal honor at the time of this campaign. Truely, I would guess that he felt that way to be honest. Of all of the debates, Hilary Clinton has debated Mr. Trump on Policy like no one else. Ad Homien out the window. That is what Hillary brought to the trump debate. This was a genuine reflection of just how smart and competant both of them are. I watched Mitt Romney debate Obama after watching the Republican debates in 2012, when Barrack Obama sought and won, reelection. Newt Gingrich that year was the outperformer from the Republican Field. Rick Santorum brought human decency, and Ron Paul brought some room for consideration as to how drug policy is carried forward into the next century.
I had listened to hours of Mr. Trump speaking rather than simply news clips and opinions regarding the new entrant to politics. It is truely exciting to see Hillary give Donald such a run for his money. He gave her a run for her money, as well. It was enjoyable to just put this on and listen to it like an Audio Book. This was a very fair debate in my opinion. As part of the series of three, it even featured humourous comments made with respect by Mr Trump such as "You have been fighting ISIS your whole adult life".
Posted on January 15, 2024
Updated on January 15, 2024
Harry Styles fills in for the Late Late Show
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I watched the late late show previously , while Craig Fergeson was the host. I have not seen a full episode of James Corden's version of the show, however have become a Colbert enthusiast. What is unique is the youtube exerpts from the Late Late show, where James Corden and future friend Harry Styles meet during a one direction interview. The one direction carpool carokee was one of the first videos shot for the new tv show. At one point it was such a smashing success that the apple tv subscription service picked up carpool cariokee, much like seinfields comedians in cars getting coffee and ran a full series of it- not just the late late show. The late late show will now be hosted by? ummmm.... apparently there may not be a replacement all together.. According to wikipedia, the late late show franchise (slotted after David Letterman, now Stephen Colberts program, will likely be cut all together).
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The Harry Styles post was just fun. I wanted a post to just share what I am watching here at home, while you all are living your best lives, hopefully :). I liked his political humour, I felt as a former social studies award winning student from when I was younger, this really was a well satirized election. This week, specifically today, I did post a debate related to Harry's late late show appearance. I definitely hope if I just watch many Harry Styles videos, that I will just become him. Until later, check out the debate when you have time. I like to give you something to keep up to date with.
On my google part of the site, I had put a dynamic, news paper like front page to the website. Other times I promoted a video I created. This would be the most relevant content I can share at this date and time. See Film Reels- under Project Derek, with the little dragon icon, (Silver City West Edmonton Mall Fire Breathing Dragon).
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