NEW YOUTUBE DESIGN; SELL GOOGLE?

YouTube has redesigned its website.

70% of users do not like the changes, according to one poll (YouTube Redesign Targets Sharing, But Misses Mark)

Hours after YouTube put out a video explaining the changes, 6,703 members had clicked the "dislike" button.

2,280 clicked "like" (presumably employees of YouTube?).

"The layout is a mess! Why can't I remove vids which I've already watched?" wrote one member.

Others wrote "R.I.P. Youtube" and "Change it back".


The new design promotes:

1. Commercial entertainment (soft porn)

2. Celebrities (rich friends of Israel)

3. TV channels (propaganda).

So, we'll be seeing more Madonna, Obama, violence, soft porn...

YouTube has been attracting over 3 billion video views per day.

Will the more 'active' consumers desert when they discover it almost impossible to find their favourite type of non-commercial videos, when using 'search'.

YouTube is becoming more like a down-market TV channel of the sort that is watched only by 'passive' viewers.

We get the impression that more and more people are switching off the internet sites that are crammed with adverts and difficult to navigate.

Will the advertisers desert when they discover that most people these days have no money to buy their products.

Perhaps all the adverts will be for gold watches and luxury yachts.



We suspect that YouTube will survive, for a time.

But it does appear to be going the way of so many American companies (American Airlines, Enron, Readers' Digest...)

American corporations are useless at design; useless at listening to the customers; and useless at ethics.

We'll probably be hacked.

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aangirfan: January 2010: AVOID THOMAS COOK?

April 2011: SELL THOMAS COOK

November 2011: Thomas Cook shares collapse on news of bank talks.

Sell Google.

FINANCIAL CRISIS IN US AND UK NOT RESOLVED; BIG CORPORATIONS DESCEND ON EGYPT

There are growing trade deficits in the USA and in parts of Europe.

China is booming; the USA and UK are not.

There is growing debt, both government debt and personal debt, in the USA and parts of Europe.

Interest rates are being kept low in the USA and UK. Monetery policy is loose. It is still too easy for certain people to borrow money.

The financial sector in the USA and UK has not shrunk.

The Bank of International Settlements, based in Basel, points out in its recent report that none of the problems that led to the financial crisis has been resolved.

(FT.com / Global Economy - BIS warns on domestic and international debt)

In the USA and UK, economic power lies with the big global companies.

These big global companies are happy to make money in Asia, Africa and South America.

These big global companies have no particular loyalty to the ordinary folks in the USA and UK.

Cairo - Daniel Mayer

On 27 June 2011 Tony Cartalucci wrote about the Corporate Locusts, the big global companies that are hoping to take over Egypt, Tunisia and other such countries.

Cartalucci reports:

"The very corporations that funded the think-tanks and media organizations that crafted and sold the entirely engineered 'Arab Spring' hoax to the world, have finally swarmed into Egypt to settle in and strip its lands clean."

US Senator John McCain recently led a delegation to Egypt and Tunisia.

"Traveling with McCain was a collection of corporate parasites from General Electric, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Bechtel, ExxonMobil, Marriot, and Dow who surveyed Cairo like conquering despots."

George Soros has been funding the drafting a of a new constitution for Egypt.

"The end game in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya, Thailand, Myanmar, and eventually China and Russia (is) to form a homogeneous, centrally controlled, one world government where megalomaniacs arbitrarily contrive the rules by which the rest of humanity is made to live."

"Boycotting and replacing entirely these corporations that are now parading around Egypt's Cairo must be foremost on our agenda."

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Activist Post: Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks.

Many thanks to C. for the link.

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Whisky jobs to move to China and India? Time to boycott Johnnie Walker?

Japanese product.

The American economy has been hurt by nasty and stupid corporations moving jobs to China and India.

Now there is a risk that Scottish whisky produced by the giant Diageo company will soon be bottled not in Scotland but in India and China.

Diageo's Johnnie Walker has been described as being 'mass produced mouthwash'.

Some people are considering a boycott of Johnnie Walker, Bells, White Horse, Smirnoff, Guinness, Harp lager, Baileys, Captain Morgan and other products made by the giant Diageo company.

Diageo plans 'could ruin Scotch whisky'

DIAGEO plans to end Johnnie Walker's historic links with Kilmarnock in Scotland.

MPs from the four main political parties in Scotland have warned that this could be the beginning of a process that will destroy the Scotch whisky industry.

They sent a letter to Diageo's chief executive Paul Walsh demanding that he reverses the decision to close its Kilmarnock plant and a 200-year-old distillery in Glasgow.

These closures would mean the loss of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds from the economy.

American product.

Alan Gray, of Sutherland and Partners in Edinburgh, is one of the UK's top whisky business analysts.

He says: "I think there is a danger that this could develop into something more and that bottling could be moved outside Scotland."

Diageo plans 'could ruin Scotch whisky'

He said that just over 85% of whisky is bottled in Scotland. He warned that Diageo's plans followed similar moves by other major whisky producers.

Scots Whisky is worth just over £3 billion in export sales and even more in the domestic UK market.

Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, attacked Diageo's "shabby" treatment of its workers in Kilmarnock.

He warned that Diageo's move could push Scotland's whisky industry into terminal decline, like the steel and coal industries.

Whisky accounts for one in 50 jobs in Scotland.

Angus Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, has pointed out that Diageo recently made a profit of £1.6bn.

If Diageo bottles its whisky in China and India it would save huge amounts of money.

Diageo owns 28 of the 100 whisky distilleries in Scotland and controls around one third of the products.

Diageo plans 'could ruin Scotch whisky'



"Many of Scotland's biggest, best and most eminent companies - the House of Fraser, Anderson Strathclyde, The Distillers Company, Arthur Bell, Britoil, British Caledonian, Loganair - have slipped into non-Scottish, usually English, ownership" (George Rosie 1995, The Fletcher Forum)

Diageo controls Guinness and what used to be the Scottish drinks company Distillers

The Guinness share-trading fraud was a famous scandal of the 1980s.

It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a £2.7 billion take-over bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers.

A top British Jew called Gerald Ronson became known in the UK as one of the 'Guinness Four' for his part in the Guinness share-trading fraud along with Ernest Saunders and business associates Jack Lyons and Anthony Parnes.

Ronson "was convicted in August 1990 of one charge of conspiracy, two of false accounting, and one of theft, and was fined £5 million and given a one-year jail sentence." - Gerald Ronson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Key bored warrior: BOYCOTT DIAEGO

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The best Single Malt Scotch Whiskies are made by Bladnoch and by Morrison Bowmore Distillers.

Bladnoch 15 Year Old Sheep Label suggests apricot, citrus fruits, butter toffee, apple, pear, liquorice, melon, raspberry and strawberry.

Equally good is Auchentoshan 3 Wood made by Morrison Bowmore Distillers.

It suggests ripe fruit, spice, nuts, syrup, cinnamon, lemon, butterscotch and oak.