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Damien Willey
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Welcome folks to daily doses of woke lefty, often humorously caustic analyses of the goings on in UK politics . ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on / socialisttelly ) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo

  1. 11h ago

    They Silenced The Canary - But Left Media Will NOT Stay Quiet

    Right, so, we have officially lost the Canary folks. They have had to shut up shop after repeated banking disruption, preventing them from functionally being able to operate as a business, thereby silencing them by default. Journalists were very much still there, still committed to their reporting. Readers were still there. They were on the up, they’d even begun circulating a physical newspaper not all that long ago. But when you can’t reliably access your own money, when you’re being debanked, then eventually you can’t keep operating. The establishment has found a way to silence voices they don’t like, all while still of course claiming a commitment to free speech and freedom of expression. Skwawkbox, who had joined with the Canary several months ago is now resuming reporting on its own site and has indeed carried this story today as it’s first release under its own header, but the Canary’s loss deserves answers, we all deserve answers, because if the powers that be can get away with doing this once, they know they can get away with it again. As a fellow independent left publisher, I am as you might imagine utterly disgusted and appalled by this. We spend our time finding stories, checking what powerful people say and trying to reach an audience without a millionaire paying the bills, all in order to hold power to account when more and more people are becoming aware that mainstream newspapers and TV news channels simply don’t do that. It’s the reason so many of us popped into existence. Apparently we also need to worry about whether the money readers have already given us, more often than not the only income many of us receive for our work, will actually be available when somebody needs paying, when we have to cover our own costs of living, because that was the immediate problem the Canary described. Wages delayed. Freelancers waiting. Projects cancelled. Even a payment needed to keep the website online was interrupted. Readers could want the journalism, journalists could be ready to produce it, and the work could still grind to a halt.

    They Silenced The Canary - But Left Media Will NOT Stay Quiet

  2. 11h ago

    Burnham’s North Sea Oil Plans Just Hit A MAJOR Israel Problem

    Right, so Andy Burnham is approaching a North Sea oil decision with an awkward Israel problem attached to it, because when isn’t there an Israel problem attached to a UK government. His administration has promised sanctions against companies helping to fund or expand illegal settlements. But one of the businesses that could benefit from Rosebank has a majority shareholder named in the UN’s settlement-business database. That shareholder is Delek. It owns more than half of Ithaca, which owns a fifth of Rosebank. And according to Scottish Independent news outlet The Ferret, a recent dividend from Ithaca’s existing operations meant just under £100 million for Delek. Now Rosebank obviously hasn’t started producing yet. But approving it could give Ithaca another source of earnings, with Delek among the owners standing to benefit. Israel standing to benefit. Which puts a fairly obvious question in Burnham’s lap. Does his government believe Delek should face restrictions under its settlement policy? If so, what happens to their oil plans in which case? And if not, why not? It’s a rather inconvenient moment for the tough talk to meet the shareholder register isn’t it?

    Burnham’s North Sea Oil Plans Just Hit A MAJOR Israel Problem

  3. 1d ago

    Did Israeli Spyware Just HACK Your Phone While Shopping?

    Right, so Google has cut an Israeli advertising company off after researchers caught its operation helping deliver spyware through online adverts. Discover-Tech had found a way to make those irritating little interruptions considerably nastier. You didn’t have to click. You didn’t have to download anything. Loading the advert could be enough for a selected device to come under attack. All those years of telling people to be careful what they click, and these enterprising little swines had decided to dispense with the whole clicking bit. The company presented itself as an ordinary advertising business. Find the audience, deliver the advert, collect the money. Except Citizen Lab’s investigation linked its advertising infrastructure to spyware attacks on devices at Al Jazeera. The newsroom had noticed unusual activity and helped researchers investigate. Someone trying to watch journalists had attracted some rather unwelcome attention themselves. Google subsequently terminated Discover-Tech’s access to its advertising exchanges. An operation that depended on reaching people had lost an important means of getting to them. But how had it acquired that access to begin with? Discover-Tech had appeared on Google’s approved and certified vendor lists. It had the reassuring credentials. It was inside the advertising business, where a website owner could accept its involvement without knowing what might follow when an advert loaded. And for the person using the device, there might be nothing obviously wrong to notice.

    Did Israeli Spyware Just HACK Your Phone While Shopping?

  4. 2d ago

    Burnham’s War On The Greens Is Turning Into Political Suicide

    Right, so Andy Burnham as you are I’m sure aware to some degree or other, decided to start a punch-up with the Greens for daring to become anti-Zionist, ostensibly for the sake of Israel, because how else are we meant to read a bust up over another party passing a progressive vote calling out the ethnic cleansing and genocide Zionism in practice has created, when Labour still cannot even call the matter genocide to begin with. And all of course while apparently forgetting that so many Labour run councils are only Labour run because of deals made with the Greens to share power, or secure the administration in some other way, case by case, or in exchange to some policy getting taken on, we know that deals like this lead to the running of the Council post-election when it’s a close run finish. But the fallout from this for Burnham has now reached from councils across the country to the inner workings of Downing Street itself it seems, all the way into his national security adviser’s living room. You see the journalist and author, Sarah Helm, who just happens to be married to Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser in question, has piped up in support of Palestine Action, and now the Met is taking a look at at her social media, presumably to see if she’s plotting the downfall of the state from her kitchen table. Th wife of the national security adviser to the Prime Minister folks, I reiterate. That’s a bit closer to Number 10 than your average Green councillor’s late-night Facebook posting, isn’t it? On Thursday, Labour gave its Green council partners an ultimatum: denounce your party’s 'Zionism is racism' motion or watch your precious deals with us go up in smoke. By Friday, Sheffield’s Greens had politely told them to jog on, offering to keep working together for the good of Sheffield anyway. Now Labour gets to choose between following through on its big scary threat or making life even more miserable for its own councillors. Decisions, decisions. Brilliant strategy: threaten your partners, then remember you actually need their votes to keep your own administration running. But Israel First isn’t it?

    Burnham’s War On The Greens Is Turning Into Political Suicide

  5. 3d ago

    Burnham's Green Threat Leaves His Own Side With A MASSIVE New Problem

    Right, so Andy Burnham has threatened to stop working with the Greens, and Labour councillors are now being asked to risk the partnerships helping them run their own councils, all it seems, in the interests of the state of Israel as a result. In Sheffield, the Labour leader has already sent the ultimatum to their Green partners. Reject your party’s position on Zionism, or this arrangement ends. It’s quite a thing to announce when you’ll still need somebody’s votes to get your agendas passed though isn’t it? But I guess next to the interests of Zionism, next to the interests of Israel, that’s secondary. Israel first, it’s like Starmer never left. All of this obviously began with the Greens’ conference vote declaring Zionism racism. Burnham condemned it and ruled out partnership with the Greens while the policy remained. Then, the following day, Labour chair Bridget Phillipson took that position into local government. Local Greens must publicly reject the policy and urge their national leadership to reconsider, or Labour withdraws from any working arrangements with the Greens. Change your policy at our demands or else. Balls to the will of your members. Well, we know Labour says balls to theirs, but the Greens being member led, means the leadership cannot do that even if so inclined. Now picture being a Labour councillor who spent weeks negotiating an agreement after the local elections. The Greens peeled away a metric ton of Labour’s seats. You’ve settled your disagreements, agreed priorities and started getting things done. Along comes your national party with a new condition, concerning a conference vote your local partners cannot reverse. And yet if they refuse? You get to work out who’ll support the administration instead. Negotiations reopening at local level across the country all over again!

    Burnham's Green Threat Leaves His Own Side With A MASSIVE New Problem

  6. 3d ago

    Israel's Drone Woes Get Hilariously Worse - This Time It's Jordan

    Right, so Jordanian border guards have been intercepting drug shipments flown in from Israel by drones and balloons. And alongside the seized cargo comes a complaint that’s rather awkward for Netanyahu: Jordanian military sources say Israel is telling the world about smuggling across this border, but only the half where Israel gets to be the victim. You know the familiar story by know I am sure. Weapons coming from Jordan. Israeli forces intercept them. Another warning about dangerous neighbours, another argument for more troops and a bigger barrier. We’re the victims, why does everybody hate us? Except the guards on the other side have been catching things too. Narcotics coming towards Jordan from Israeli territory. Which rather spoils the impression that criminality queues politely on the Jordanian side, waiting to threaten Israel every waking hour. According to the Jordanian sources quoted in the investigation, these have been repeated attempts over recent months. And Jordan’s interior minister, Mazen al-Faraya, had already spoken publicly about increasing drone trafficking from Israel before this week’s reporting appeared. So this needs rather more of an answer than just pointing at the border fence and huffing, because the parcels are one problem. The gangs sending them are another. Jordan can bring down an aircraft, recover its cargo and stop that delivery. But what happens to the people who prepared it on the Israeli side? Are they being investigated? Are the launches being disrupted? Or does Jordan get to catch the shipment and then listen to another lecture about its responsibilities?

    Israel's Drone Woes Get Hilariously Worse - This Time It's Jordan

  7. 4d ago

    Norway Dumps Israeli Banks - Smotrich's Settlements Pay The Price

    Right, so Norway finally put some of its money where its objections were. Its sovereign wealth fund dumped Caterpillar and banking entities linked to Israel’s illegal settlements, deciding that these were investments it could no longer justify. Gee, I wonder what took you so long? Well, Norges Bank announced that on 25 August last year, so why is it back in the news now then? Well, what deserves attention now is why those companies were excluded, because that takes us considerably closer to Netanyahu than the headline about Norwegian investments might suggest. Think about what normally attracts attention when an illegal settlement expands for instance. There’s the minister announcing it, the construction crews arriving, perhaps footage of Palestinians being prevented from reaching their land. The argument centres on what Israel is building and who suffers as a result. Meanwhile, somebody is arranging the finance. A contractor needs money before there’s a completed property to sell. Buyers paying deposits want guarantees. Behind the buildings are financial services helping the development happen, and Norway’s ethics investigators have examined the banks providing them. Suddenly, the bank’s role becomes a little harder to describe as ordinary business. Especially when the government promoting that construction is quite open about what it wants to achieve. Which brings us to Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, standing at a press conference last year to very much promote settlement expansion. He could hardly complain that outsiders were dragging politics into a housing development could he, when he went there first. He was there to explain its political purpose himself, which is an unusually helpful contribution from a man whose idea of diplomacy usually involves finding someone else’s land to start building on.

    Norway Dumps Israeli Banks - Smotrich's Settlements Pay The Price

  8. 4d ago

    Burnham's Zionism Balls Up: Polanski Handed An Opening

    Right, so Andy Burnham has taken to PMQ’s, having been teed up ever so kindly by Tory MP Harriet Baldwin, the Uniparty exposing itself yet again, at the at the Green party’s Zionism Is Racism motion and slapped the antisemitism label on it like a warning sticker on a dodgy microwave. The motion defines Zionism as an ethnonationalist project propped up by excluding or dominating Palestinians, and ditches the party's two-state bedtime story for the radical notion of one democratic state shared by all. Bold move from a man whose party's Gaza record is about as clean as a festival portaloo after a typical British summer – not this year’s obviously – has had its wicked way with it. Well, the Greens' Jewish leader Zack Polanski, speaking for a great many of us who aren’t inclined to take such hypocrisy on the chin, hurled the accusation right back at Labour, because let’s face it, there’s no shortage of places for it to stick. Harriett Baldwin must have been beside herself with glee. Toss a Labour prime minister the chance to smack the party to his left, and he lunges for it like it's the last sausage roll at a funeral buffet. Eager service for the establishment once more in the House of Commons, to nobody’s surprise whatsoever

    Burnham's Zionism Balls Up: Polanski Handed An Opening
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Welcome folks to daily doses of woke lefty, often humorously caustic analyses of the goings on in UK politics . ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on / socialisttelly ) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo

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  • Creator
    Damien Willey
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    577
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