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İngilizce öğrenmek için videolar 15
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Why Nobody Can Fix Britain
1 May 2026
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ►https://pastebin.com/DDxuw3RG 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com July 4, 2024. Britain elected Keir Starmer in the biggest Labour landslide since 1997. One promise: change. Less than two years later, that promise is dead. The economy is barely growing. Public debt is at levels not seen in over 60 years. The NHS is buckling. And Starmer is now one of the most unpopular leaders in the democratic world. In this video, we break down how Britain ended up here. The roots go back decades, through Thatcher, the 2008 financial crisis, austerity, Brexit, and the pandemic. Every government promised to fix it. None of them did. Now Britain is heading into local elections that could end Starmer's premiership and trigger the country's sixth Prime Minister in seven years. New parties on the left and right are rising fast, each with their own answer to Britain's decline. Neither one adds up. This is the story of how Britain became broken, and why kicking out Keir Starmer won't fix it. 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - A Prime Minister on the Edge 03:11 - The Lost Decade(s) 07:56 - Splinter Effect Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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Ozempic Is Worse And Better Than You Think
15 Nis 2026
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ►https://pastebin.com/iGUHi2eR 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are the fastest-growing drug class in history, with 50 million people expected to be on them by 2030. They don't just kill appetite. Studies show they reduce cravings for alcohol, nicotine, and even gambling. Jefferies estimates US airlines alone would save $580 million a year just from lighter passengers. But an annual course costs $15,000, Medicare won't cover it for weight loss, and the WHO says these drugs will reach less than 10% of the people who need them. In this video, we break down what the post-Ozempic economy actually looks like, who wins, who loses, and why the people who need it most are the last ones to get it. 00:00 - Intro 01:50 - Moderation Molecules 04:13 - The Skinny Economy 07:48 - The Price of Progress 12:13 - Ozempic for the Rich, Body Positivity for Everyone Else Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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The End of Viktor Orbán
5 Nis 2026
On April 12th, Hungarians will decide whether Orban's era is over. This is the story of how a freedom fighter became the thing he fought against. Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/JnAXUvwd 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com In 1989, a 25-year-old student delivered a six-minute speech demanding the Soviets leave Hungary. That speech made Viktor Orban the most famous person in the country. 35 years later, he's still in charge, having rewritten the constitution, captured the courts and media, gerrymandered the electoral map, and turned Hungary into the EU's most corrupt member state. But now his grip is slipping. The economy shrank in 2023, inflation hit 17.2% (the highest in the EU), billions in EU funds are frozen, and a former Fidesz insider named Peter Magyar is polling 16 points ahead of him. 00:00 - Intro 01:18 - From Rebel to Reactionary 04:51 - The Populist Playbook 08:32 - The Trouble Maker in Chief 10:47 - A Fading Star Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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Why Plastic Surgery Is Destroying Korea
1 Nis 2026
Head over to https://hensonshaving.com/2and20 and use code 2and20 to get a free 100 pack of blades. That's about two years worth of shaving for free. Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/fXdkjZPe 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com South Korea performs more cosmetic procedures per capita than any country on earth. But this is not just a Korean story. The same forces that built the world's most appearance-obsessed society, K-pop beauty standards, institutional hiring discrimination, and social media normalization are now spreading globally. This video traces how Korea got here, from American military surgeons in the 1950s to the K-pop trainee pipeline to the 1997 financial crisis that made surgery feel like an economic necessity. We examine it all. 00:00 - Intro 02:11 - The Standard 07:41 - The Loops 12:01 - The Export Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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How Canada Lost its Own Identity
21 Mar 2026
Give Odoo a Try Here: https://www.odoo.com/r/4t3 Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/LPqqkawu 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Canada just had its worst Winter Olympics in over 20 years. Both hockey teams lost gold in overtime. The bobsled team got shut out for the first time in 24 years. The country finished 8th in total medals. But this is not a hockey story. This is a story about what happens when a country with more natural resource wealth than almost anywhere on earth chooses to spend it all instead of saving it. Norway, a country one-seventh Canada's size, built a $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund and the greatest winter sports system in Olympic history. Alberta created its savings fund 14 years earlier, and today it is worth 80x less. We trace how hockey went from Canada's defining sport to a $5,000/year luxury that excludes nearly half the population. How youth registration dropped 35% in 14 years. How Canada spends $8 per citizen on sport while France spends $950. How the country's Olympic athletes live below the poverty line while the government allocates zero new funding. How outdoor rinks are melting, indoor arenas are crumbling, and the Calgary bobsled track was just demolished. And how Norway's model, built on the same resource wealth Canada squandered, shows exactly what was possible. 00:00 - Intro 01:29 - The Price Tag 06:12 - Pay to Play 10:42 - The Identity Problem 13:17 - The Norwegian Answer Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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The European Mindset is Destroying Europe
2 Mar 2026
Give Odoo a Try Here: https://www.odoo.com/r/qJb Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ►https://pastebin.com/ctFDZNMQ 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Europe has more AI talent per capita than the US, nine of the world's top 20 research institutions, and 450 million consumers. So why does it keep losing? In this video, we break down why Europe can't turn its advantages into outcomes: overregulation (GDPR, the EU AI Act), a venture capital desert fueled by conservative pension funds, a 27-country fragmentation problem that makes scaling a nightmare, and a commercialization failure that sends its best ideas (and people) straight to America. The numbers are brutal. US VC funds manage 6x more than EU funds. Senior engineers in Paris earn $65k vs $320k in the US. And not a single EU company with a market cap over €100bn has been built from scratch in the last 50 years. This is the story of how Europe built a Silicon Ceiling. 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Regulation as Religion 09:28 - No Money 12:48 - Europe ≠ Country 16:02 - Talent & Productivity Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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How Corruption Destroyed South Asia
10 Şub 2026
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/cU1uL3Uj 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka share the same ugly pattern: political dynasties looting public coffers while ordinary people scrape by or leave the country entirely. When the minister's son posts a $40,000 Christmas flex on Instagram, when Sheikh Hasina builds a $530 million UK property empire on a $12,000 salary, when a nuclear power plant costs twice what it should and pillows get billed at $49 each, Gen Z had enough. Mass protests toppled governments across South Asia in 2024 and 2025. Student movements in Bangladesh, Nepal corruption protests, and Sri Lanka economic crisis demonstrations unseated entrenched political elites. Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh after youth-led uprisings exposed decades of embezzlement and government corruption. Nepal's Gen Z took to the streets after viral Instagram posts revealed the extreme wealth of politicians' children. Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa family lost power when their economic mismanagement pushed the country into default. Now comes the hard part: turning street energy into actual political change. We went to Kathmandu, talked to students who marched, youth leaders negotiating with the old guard, and investigative journalists covering the fallout. The revolutions happened. The question is whether they stick, or whether the same entrenched parties with deeper pockets and patronage networks simply reclaim power at the ballot box. Bangladesh elections in February 2025 and Nepal elections in March 2025 will test whether youth movements can translate protest momentum into electoral victory. Sri Lanka offers one path forward under new president AKD. This is the story of what happens when a stolen future fights back, and whether South Asia's political corruption can finally be broken by a new generation demanding accountability, economic reform, and an end to dynastic politics. 00:00 - Intro 01:33 - The Art of the Steal 08:12 - Inside the Revolution 13:55 - The Future Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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How to Actually Tax the Rich and Get Away With it
24 Oca 2026
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V Norway Video: https://youtu.be/RixkTB2B3e8?si=yblFz9G1gEP3Gx4x US Healthcare Video: https://youtu.be/iWMF4e8RG1I?si=26do-d75DzOc4ajQ 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/54HfzxDC 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Tax the rich. It sounds simple, popular, and long overdue, especially as inequality rises and billionaires grow richer. In this video, we examine California’s proposed wealth tax, why similar taxes failed in countries like France, Sweden, and Norway, and how capital flight, tax avoidance, and valuation problems undermine the idea in practice. We then explore more effective alternatives like taxing share-backed loans, closing inheritance loopholes, ending carried interest, and asking whether America’s real problem is taxation or government spending. 00:00 - Intro 01:34 - Taxing Wealth 06:42 - Alternative Approaches 14:49 - Taxes, Taxes, & More Taxes Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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Why Everyone is Leaving New Zealand
11 Oca 2026
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/wsAxaaUK 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com September 2025. New Zealand. In just twelve months, nearly 73,000 young, working-age Kiwis packed up and left a country once sold as paradise. This video breaks down how decades of economic policy, an extreme housing bubble, and collapsing productivity turned one of the world’s most livable countries into a place its own future can’t afford. This is the story of how New Zealand started bleeding its youth and why stopping it may be far harder than anyone admits. 00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Sheep & Neoliberalism 05:23 - Rogernomics 08:35 - Property Policy 14:12 - A Far Away Land Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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France Has a Pension Problem
27 Ara 2025
Check out Odoo today: https://www.odoo.com/r/GzD7 Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/1NKN49TT 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com In January 2023, France triggered one of the largest protest movements in modern European history. President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 in an attempt to stop the collapse of France’s pension system. Millions of protesters flooded the streets. Trade unions went on strike. Public transport shut down. Garbage piled up across Paris. France came to a standstill. But behind the chaos was a hard economic reality. French pension spending has exploded. Pensioners now earn more than the average working French adult. Since 1970, wages in France have increased roughly 100 percent, while pensions grew closer to 160 percent. France now spends nearly 14 percent of its GDP on pensions, one of the highest rates in the developed world. In 2025, Parliament froze Macron’s pension reform until at least 2028, adding nearly €2 billion in costs. And pensions are only one part of a much larger crisis. France has run persistent budget deficits since the 1970s. Public debt is now over 110 percent of GDP and climbing. Economic growth is weak. Political fragmentation is extreme. And meaningful reform has become almost impossible. This is France. Vive la Spending.. 00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Social Insecurity 04:32 - No Leadership 08:26 - Debt Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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The AI Bubble is Worse Than You Think
13 Ara 2025
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/10agciWR 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Something strange is happening in the AI world. In just a few months, OpenAI has signed more than a trillion dollars worth of chip and data center deals. Nvidia. AMD. Broadcom. Microsoft. Oracle. Amazon. CoreWeave. Everyone is now tied into the same machine. Nvidia kicked things off with a plan to put up to 100 billion dollars into OpenAI. Enough to build data centers that use as much electricity as New York City. Then came the AMD deal. OpenAI agreed to buy 90 billion dollars of GPUs. In return, AMD handed them warrants for 160 million shares worth nearly 40 billion dollars. Shares that OpenAI can buy for a penny. A week later, Broadcom showed up with a 350 billion dollar custom chip deal. And that was only part of the list. Oracle for 300 billion. Microsoft for 250. Amazon for 38. CoreWeave for 22.4. Add it all up and OpenAI has committed to 1.15 trillion dollars of infrastructure over the next five years. More than the annual capex of every company in America combined. The crazy part is that OpenAI is only projecting 20 billion dollars in revenue by the end of 2025. So the question becomes unavoidable. How do you spend like a trillion dollar giant when you are not a trillion dollar company? What happens if the money runs out? And have we quietly built the most interconnected, circular, fragile bubble in modern tech? This is the real story behind the AI boom. And why some people think it might be too big to fail. Also this doesn’t need to be said, but this isn’t financial advice. Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site 00:00 - Intro 02:33 - The Numbers 06:28 - Circularity 09:03 - Economic Fallout
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Trump Hasn't Ended 7 Wars
30 Kas 2025
Check out Odoo today: https://www.odoo.com/r/yn86 Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/U83vG2nS 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Donald Trump says he stopped seven wars and deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Pakistan. India. Israel. Iran. Cambodia. Thailand. Rwanda. Congo. Serbia. Kosovo. Egypt. Ethiopia. On paper, it sounds like the second coming of Henry Kissinger. In this video, we check the receipts. We break down every conflict Trump claims to have ended and grade him on a simple diplomatic scorecard. Was there actually a war? Did it really end? And did Trump clearly play a role in stopping it, or did he just show up for the photo op? Along the way, we look at what Trump’s foreign policy tells us about American power in a multipolar world. Is he a disruptive dealmaker who can bang heads together when needed, or a chaos president who turns temporary ceasefires into grandiose tales of “historic peace”? By the end, we answer three questions. Has Trump really ended seven wars? What his peace record really looks like once you strip away the hype? And whether he should ever be anywhere near a Nobel Peace Prize? 00:00 - Intro 01:26 - Diplomatic Scorecard 02:46 - Alternative Facts 09:20 - Half Truths 16:41 - Genuine Successes 21:19 - Conclusion Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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Why China Owns the Future
15 Kas 2025
Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/NfWe23Je 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com Military Industrial Complex Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiSQGztwuE Rare earth metals power the modern world. Hidden inside every Tesla, iPhone, and fighter jet, these 17 obscure elements make electric vehicles faster, wind turbines stronger, and AI data centers possible. Without them, the clean energy revolution would collapse overnight. But there’s a catch. China produces 70% of the world’s rare earths and refines 92% of them. From mining in Inner Mongolia to processing and magnet manufacturing, Beijing controls nearly every step of the supply chain. The U.S. once led the industry with its Mountain Pass mine, until lawsuits, environmental policies, and corporate short-sightedness helped China take over. This video breaks down how the West gave away its rare earth dominance, how China built an industrial monopoly, and what this means for the future of EVs, AI, and global power. Watch to the end to understand how one country turned dirt into dominance. 00:00 - Intro 02:06 - The Foundation 05:39 - Mining Cowboys 07:57 - Western Idiocy 10:49 - Now What Includes music by Tom Fox – tomfox.site
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The Real Reason Why the United States is Constantly at War
2 Kas 2025
Get 33% off for 6 months of Cape: https://www.cape.co/?utm_source=creators&utm_platform=youtube&utm_campaign=2and20 Our Discord Community (FREE): https://discord.com/invite/Efbjh7Qj4V 📚 Review our sources ► https://pastebin.com/Kk4aG3Xt 💻 Check out our other socials ► linktr.ee/2and20 ✋ Get in touch ► kamal@2and20media.com In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower stood before the American people and issued a warning. He told the nation to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence" by what he called the military industrial complex. Few listened. Today, the United States spends almost 1 trillion dollars a year on its military. That is more than the next ten countries combined. Behind that number sits a tight web of corporations, lobbyists, and politicians who profit from every missile, jet, and warship built. Lockheed Martin. Raytheon. Boeing. Northrop Grumman. General Dynamics. These five companies have become the backbone of an economy that runs on conflict. This video explores how the American defense machine transformed from a wartime necessity into a permanent business model. It traces how the Second World War gave rise to defense contracting, how the Cold War cemented it, and how the collapse of the Soviet Union allowed these firms to consolidate power while ensuring the flow of taxpayer money never stopped. We look at how cost-plus contracts reward companies for overspending, how 1,700 former officials now work in the defense sector, and how over 80 percent of Congress consistently votes to increase the Pentagon budget. The revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors ensures that every general, every procurement officer, and every lobbyist has a personal stake in keeping the system alive. The people who start the wars are the same people who later cash in on rebuilding what those wars destroy. From the F-35 fighter jet that cost 1.7 trillion dollars, to aircraft carriers and missile systems that triple in price before completion, the defense industry has perfected a business model where failure pays better than success. 00:00 - Intro 02:32 - The Beginnings 06:16 - The Industry 11:23 - How to Keep the Bag
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How the USSR Created The World’s Greatest Environmental Disaster
12 Eki 2025
What you’re about to see is one of the worst environmental disasters in human history. The Aral Sea, once the world’s third-largest lake, has almost completely disappeared. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted two major rivers to grow cotton in the desert. Within a few decades, the water was gone, and so was an entire way of life. Today, the Aral Sea has shrunk to less than 10% of its original size, leaving behind rusting ships, toxic dust storms, and abandoned towns. Once home to thriving fishing industries, the region is now one of the poorest in Central Asia, plagued by high cancer rates, anemia, and birth defects caused by decades of pollution. In this 2&20 documentary, we travel across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, from Almaty to Karakalpakstan and the ghost town of Muynaq, to uncover how one decision in Moscow caused one of the greatest ecological and economic collapses of the 20th century. You’ll see how Soviet ideology tried to "conquer nature," and why that failure still shapes the region today. 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Into The Desert 08:00 - Destination Nukus 11:42 - The Human Costs 22:47 - Disaster Zone 26:15 - Conclusion
