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UK Column News — 20th March 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twentieth of March twenty twenty six, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your
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Speaker 2: host Mike Rumson. Joining me by video link today are
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Speaker 2: Patrick Hennison and Basil Valentine. Later in the program, Haikoku
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Speaker 2: is going to be joining us to take another look
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Speaker 2: at Palenteer and the pressures building to have them dropped
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Speaker 2: from the NHS contract. We're going to be covering the
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Speaker 2: release of the Gaza Tribunal report, claims of EU preparation
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Speaker 2: for war with the United States over Greenland, and OFFCOM
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Speaker 2: has been demanding money with menaces from foreign companies again.
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Speaker 2: But we're going to begin today with Patrick and the
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Speaker 2: latest on Iran. Patrick and well, it is day twenty one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is amazing that we're now three weeks into
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Speaker 3: this war that we were told by the Trump administration,
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Speaker 3: by their their allies, by Israel, this would be over
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Speaker 3: very quickly. It would be days, they would topple the regime. Well,
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Speaker 3: here we are three weeks later and plans are afoot
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Speaker 3: to extend it for many weeks more. Nobody quite knows
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Speaker 3: what to expect here. So the main development this week,
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Speaker 3: Mike has been the war entering a new phase. Israel
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Speaker 3: struck the world's largest gas field. This is the South
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Speaker 3: Pars gas field shared by the Iranians and the Kataris
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Speaker 3: that supplies the world with a massive percentage of its
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Speaker 3: natural gas and L and G. Israel had the bright
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Speaker 3: idea to attack it, and Iran said in advance what
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Speaker 3: they would do if that happened, they would attack all
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Speaker 3: of the Gulf oil and gas infrastructure facilities around in
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Speaker 3: Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and Qatar, etc. UAE. And guess what.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly what the Iranians are doing. And now the
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Speaker 3: United States the Europeans are throwing their hands in there
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Speaker 3: saying wait, wait, wait, don't do that, don't do that.
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Speaker 3: This is going to destroy the global economy. This is
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Speaker 3: going to create a massive inflation spike for everything around
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Speaker 3: the world. Will these countries in the West be able
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Speaker 3: to withstand that level of shock? But I think it's
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Speaker 3: a bit too late for that, so things have developed.
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Speaker 3: It also conceivably could drag Turkey into this conflict a
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Speaker 3: bit more because they're heavily reliant on this natural gas
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Speaker 3: from this South Pars gas field here, So and this
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Speaker 3: is a story we'll bring up on screen here. Middle
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Speaker 3: East Research and Information Project a website which I follow
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Speaker 3: the wars cross boundaries perspectives on Iran and in the
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Speaker 3: region under siege. So this is now a regional war
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Speaker 3: effectively it was before, but now we're getting further down
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Speaker 3: that road. So that's a massive risk I think for
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Speaker 3: the rest of the world, and invariably my great powers
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Speaker 3: will be drawn in now to secure their interests. This
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Speaker 3: is how world wars be again, certainly this is how
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Speaker 3: the Second World War began. So this talk right now
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Speaker 3: that this can be contained, This is just a local
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Speaker 3: conflict that they can contain. This is just not credible.
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Speaker 3: It's not a credible argument at the moment here and
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Speaker 3: in terms of this how things could cascade regionally, I
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Speaker 3: want to put this report up on screen from twenty
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Speaker 3: first century WHI are again amazing work by Freddie ponton
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Speaker 3: inside the Caucus drone corridor fueling tensions with Iran. Now
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Speaker 3: we're talking about Azerbaijan. There is evidence that the US
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Speaker 3: and the Israelis are again using Azerbaijan as a corridor
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Speaker 3: to attack Iran. Irani naval ships have been hit in
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Speaker 3: the Caspian Sea and now Armenia as well looks like
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Speaker 3: it could be engaged. This is an incredibly well researched
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Speaker 3: piece and it just shows you the level of the
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Speaker 3: drone technology that's being used, how it's being used to
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Speaker 3: attack Iran, what types of drones, which countries produce these drones.
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Speaker 3: All of that data is in this excellent research piece
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Speaker 3: at twenty first century Wired dot Com. Again Freddie Ponton
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Speaker 3: doing great work. Incredible work. In fact. Now another stage, Mike,
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Speaker 3: is a stage of brutality that this conflict has gone into.
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Speaker 3: The Israelis, as you know, have a policy of targeted assassinations.
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Speaker 3: They have attacked and killed a rand supreme leader in
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Speaker 3: the opening days of this war. And now the Israeli
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Speaker 3: Defense Minister, Israel Katz will bring him up on screen.
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Speaker 3: Here a new doctrine has now come into play. Okay,
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Speaker 3: this is after they have assassinated this week Ali Larijani.
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Speaker 3: This is the head of the security, potential future leader
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Speaker 3: of the country. But this is one of the most
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Speaker 3: I think moderates in terms of ability to negotiate. The
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Speaker 3: Israelis are bragging that they killed him this week, as
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Speaker 3: well as the intelligence and this is what Israel. Katz
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Speaker 3: is saying, no one in Iran has immunity and everyone
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Speaker 3: is a target, and he goes on to say Iranian
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Speaker 3: intelligence Minister Katib was killed. We will continue to eliminate
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Speaker 3: and hunt them down. He's talking about every Iranian official.
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Speaker 3: Israel is claiming in the United States is backing this
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Speaker 3: up that they're terrorists. So if they're killing the Supreme Leader,
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Speaker 3: they're now targeting his son to anybody and this could
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Speaker 3: include at some point the President, members of Parliament, and
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Speaker 3: they're just going to hunt them down one by one.
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Speaker 3: So anybody who holds any office high office in Iran
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Speaker 3: is potentially going to be targeted and marked for killing,
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Speaker 3: assassination by Israel. This is total warfare. Okay, there's no
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Speaker 3: coming back from this. So if Israel is not restrained,
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Speaker 3: this is all but guaranteeing we're going to see a
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Speaker 3: bloody conflict that will not end in the negotiations, that
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Speaker 3: will only end on the battlefield. And who knows how
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Speaker 3: many dead civilians that's going to entail. That's what Israel.
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Speaker 3: That's the gauntlet they have laid down. Here. Where's the
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Speaker 3: United States? Where are the British on this? Where are
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Speaker 3: the Europeans. Is anybody going to weigh in, uh and
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Speaker 3: somehow draw this thing to some kind of a situation
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Speaker 3: where parties can negotiate or talk to each other. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't look likely.
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Speaker 1: We had a little bit of video there, Patrick.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is a video from Israel cats, but this
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Speaker 3: is from uh. Well, listen closely. He's saying it here.
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Speaker 3: So total escalation, total escalation, including Lebanon as well.
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Speaker 2: That's where we're at, absolutely, But it's not going all
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Speaker 2: the United States way anyway, or at least so if
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Speaker 2: we put this on screen, this is an F thirty five,
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Speaker 2: apparently with the missile heading towards it. So this fighter
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Speaker 2: was forced to divert from its combat mission. Over Iran
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Speaker 2: and make an emergency landing at an undisclosed US air
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Speaker 2: base in the Middle East. The story broke yesterday and
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Speaker 2: was eventually confirmed by the Pentagon, although not fully. US
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Speaker 2: officials have acknowledged the aircraft was hit by what is
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Speaker 2: believed to be Iranian far that's how they're describing it.
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Speaker 2: The pilot survived, and it's reported to be in a
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Speaker 2: stable condition in the hospital. This is the first F
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Speaker 2: thirty five shot down during a combat mission. Iran claimed
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Speaker 2: that it successfully struck the aircraft using its air defense systems.
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Speaker 2: And that's why even even a partial hit is significant
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Speaker 2: because if Iran, I'm not quoting from a comment online,
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Speaker 2: by the way, if Uranian air defenses were able to
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Speaker 2: track and strike a F thirty five, it could suggest
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Speaker 2: improvements in detection systems or exploitation of gaps in US operations.
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Speaker 2: It also challenges the perception that stealth aircraft can operate
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Speaker 2: in Iran impunity. So that was a quote that was
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Speaker 2: online and fairly good analysis. That's sixteen US aircraft have
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Speaker 2: been lost since the war began, that including multiple Reaper
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Speaker 2: drones shot down by Irinnan defenses. Of course, the three
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Speaker 2: fifteen fighters that were mistakenly shot down allegedly by Quity
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Speaker 2: air defenses, if that's what it was. And also the
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Speaker 2: case thirty five refilling aircraft which crashed in Western Iraq,
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Speaker 2: killing all six personnel on board, and now that latter
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Speaker 2: one was officially at least amid air collision, although Brian
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Speaker 2: Brian Gerrish at least absolutely is skeptical.
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Speaker 1: Of that claim.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about more on that an extra But Patrick,
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Speaker 2: I just wondering if you've got any thoughts on this,
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Speaker 2: because obviously this is the first time in f thirty
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Speaker 2: five has been shot down in combat and it definitely
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Speaker 2: demonstrates that it is not immune from this kind of attack.
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Speaker 3: What the Rains have been saying that they have radar
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Speaker 3: systems and it has been shown that they are able
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Speaker 3: to detect with their own proprietary systems. They're able to
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Speaker 3: detect stealth aircraft and once the lock has been achieved,
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Speaker 3: then that that aircraft has to disengage and then mission
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Speaker 3: aboard it. Otherwise you know, they can be targeted up
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Speaker 3: to a range of five hundred miles so and if
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Speaker 3: you think about the combat distance mic of what it
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Speaker 3: takes to fly a mission, the limitations of an F
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Speaker 3: thirty five. The longer the radar perimeter for detection, the
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Speaker 3: less likely they can carry out missions without putting the
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Speaker 3: pilot and the plane at risk.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Patrick, what's been going on in the United States
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Speaker 2: has been We've obviously heard in the last couple of
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Speaker 2: days some pushback with at least one resignation.
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Speaker 1: But what tells the Cowbard been saying.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's this is the biggest story right now in
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Speaker 3: the United States. They just had the House hearing on
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Speaker 3: National Security threats. So you can see there's the dn
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Speaker 3: I Director of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbart, next to John Ratcliffe,
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Speaker 3: the CIA director Cash Bettel, as well FBI director. So
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Speaker 3: Tolsey Gabart was really her feet were put to the
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Speaker 3: fire because her office basically, well, Congress and Senate lawmakers
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Speaker 3: are saying, well, you know, there's no evidence of an
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Speaker 3: imminent threat that Iran was going to attack. Did your office, TULSI,
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Speaker 3: have any evidence of this? And here, well, you can
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Speaker 3: watch this dramatic exchange for yourself. I mean, this is
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Speaker 3: just an incredibly important, I think exchange right here between
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Speaker 3: the senator from Georgia, John Ossoff, and Tulci Gabart Trump's
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Speaker 3: and I watch.
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Speaker 6: Under the law, you are responsible for providing national intelligence
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Speaker 6: to the President. Correct yes, And to the heads of
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Speaker 6: executive branch departments and agencies.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yes, And to the chairman of ad joint chiefs and
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Speaker 6: senior military commanders across the ices, and to the Senate
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Speaker 6: and the House and relevant committees.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Yes.
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Speaker 6: And the law states that the national intelligence you provide
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Speaker 6: to Congress quote should be timely, objective, and independent of
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Speaker 6: political considerations.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Yes.
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Speaker 6: And you noted in your opening statement you're here fulfilling
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Speaker 6: a statutory responsibility and that your testimony quote represents the
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Speaker 6: IC's assessment of threats.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 6: That opening statement, as submitted to the committee in advance
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Speaker 6: of this hearing, stated that as a result of last
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Speaker 6: summer's air strikes quote, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated
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Speaker 6: end quote.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Right.
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Speaker 6: And is that, in fact the assessment of the intelligence community. Yes,
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Speaker 6: So the assessment of the intelligence community is that Iran's
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Speaker 6: nuclear enrichment program was obliterated by last summer's air strikes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 6: And the opening statement you submitted to the committee last
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Speaker 6: night also stated, quote, there has been no efforts since
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Speaker 6: then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability end quote. Correct,
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Speaker 6: that's right, and that's the assessment of the intelligence community. Yes,
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Speaker 6: the White House stated on March first of this year
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Speaker 6: that this war was launched and was quote a military
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Speaker 6: campaign to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the
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Speaker 6: Iranian regime.
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Speaker 3: End quote.
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Speaker 6: That's a statement from the white House. Quote the imminent
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Speaker 6: nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Was it the
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Speaker 6: assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent
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Speaker 6: nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 8: The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to
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Speaker 8: rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment.
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Speaker 6: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there
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Speaker 6: was a quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 8: Or no. Senator, the only person who can determine and
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Speaker 8: what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.
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Speaker 9: False.
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Speaker 6: This this is the Worldwide Threats Hearing or you present
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Speaker 6: to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective, and independent of political considerations.
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Speaker 6: You've stated today that the intelligence community's assessment is that
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Speaker 6: Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated, and that quote there
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Speaker 6: had been no efforts since then to try to rebuild
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Speaker 6: their enrichment capability.
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Speaker 10: Was it the.
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Speaker 6: Intelligence community's assessment that, nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was
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Speaker 6: a quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime.
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Speaker 3: Yes or no?
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Speaker 8: It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what
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Speaker 8: is and is not an imminent threat.
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Speaker 11: That is up.
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Speaker 6: Here's the problem volume it is. It is precisely, it
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Speaker 6: is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat
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Speaker 6: to the United States. This is the Worldwide Threats Hearing.
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Speaker 6: Where As you noted in your opening testimony, quote you
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Speaker 6: represent the IC's assessment of threats. You are here to
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Speaker 6: represent the i SES assessment of threats. That's a quote
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Speaker 6: from your own opening statement. And so my question is,
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Speaker 6: as you're here to present the ICES assessment of threats,
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Speaker 6: was it the assessment of the intelligence community that, as
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Speaker 6: the White House claimed on March first, there was a
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Speaker 6: quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 3: Yes or no?
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Speaker 8: Once again, Senator, the intelligence community has provided the inputs
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Speaker 8: that make up this annual threat assessment. You want to
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Speaker 8: answer the question nature of the imminent threat that the
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Speaker 8: President has to make that determination based on a collection
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Speaker 8: and volume. You're here to be intelligence that he.
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Speaker 4: Is created with.
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Speaker 6: You're here to be timely, objective and independent of political consideration.
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Speaker 8: Exactly what I'm doing.
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Speaker 6: No, you're evading a question because to provide a candid
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Speaker 6: response to the committee would contradict a statement from the
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Speaker 6: White House.
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Speaker 3: Wow. So that was repeated Mike three times by other
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Speaker 3: senators during this So Tulsi really got it during these
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Speaker 3: hearings here. So basically she's saying that Donald Trump can
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Speaker 3: declare an imminent threat no matter what the intelligence community says,
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Speaker 3: So what's the point of having an intelligence assessment? That's
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Speaker 3: what they're saying here. And just to back this up
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Speaker 3: on the British side here will bring this is Jonathan Powell.
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Speaker 3: He is a UK security advisor here. He attended the
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Speaker 3: US Iranian talks and he can confirm there was a
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Speaker 3: deal on the table. Iran was making massive concessions and
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Speaker 3: again if you back that up with the US intelligence
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Speaker 3: community own assessment that they weren't pursuing a nuclear weapon,
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Speaker 3: they had no intention of doing that. So that's the
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Speaker 3: gist of it.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: At the same time, a massive resignation, the first major
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Speaker 3: resignation here, the counter Terrorism chief. His name is Joe Kent.
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Speaker 3: He resigned very publicly right before this hearing here, and
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Speaker 3: he's saying, after much reflection, I've decided to resign as
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Speaker 3: director of National counter Terrorism Center. He works for Toulsi Gabbard.
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Speaker 3: This is in her department. Here he says, I cannot
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Speaker 3: in good conscious support and ongoing war in Iran. Iran
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Speaker 3: poses no imminent threat to our nation. And it's clear
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Speaker 3: that we started this war due to pressure from Israel,
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Speaker 3: and it's a powerful American lobby. So I mean, this
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Speaker 3: has sent massive shock waves right through the system in
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Speaker 3: the US and it really makes Tulsi Gabbard look like
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Speaker 3: she's running cover for an illegal war that's been waged
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Speaker 3: by the White House and Israel. And now this is
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Speaker 3: the conversation that's now elevated in America. Here is Joe Kent.
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Speaker 3: He's doing media interviews now and he's being attacked by Fox.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's attacking him, his wife, etc. So this is the
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Speaker 3: first of two clips. But here he is basically saying,
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Speaker 3: framing that you have a serious problem in Washington regarding intelligence,
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Speaker 3: especially as it pertains to Iran.
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Speaker 10: But listen closely, so imminent threat you're saying that there
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Speaker 10: was no intelligence that you saw with the highest level
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Speaker 10: clearance obviously involved in this conversation that showed an imminent
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Speaker 10: threat from Iran to the United States.
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Speaker 11: No, unless we took certain actions, unless we came after
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Speaker 11: them in a way that they thought threat in the regime,
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Speaker 11: then we basically knew what they were.
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Speaker 4: Going to do.
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Speaker 11: Of course, like any country, So if you attack any country,
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Speaker 11: we know that they're going to have a right action.
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Speaker 10: We faced an threat once we attack you.
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Speaker 11: Fantastic, Yeah, exactly. But there was no intelligence that said, hey,
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Speaker 11: on whatever day it was, March first, the Iranians are
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Speaker 11: going to launch this big sneak attack. They're going to
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Speaker 11: do some kind of a nine eleven Pearl Harbor, et cetera.
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Speaker 11: They're going to attack one of our bases. There was
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Speaker 11: none of that intelligence. Again, back to what we know
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Speaker 11: about the Iranians, they're very, very deliberate with the escalation ladder.
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Speaker 3: So what you have here is another fake WMD, another
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Speaker 3: war waged with a fake WMD claim by the US government.
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Speaker 3: And he goes on to make a number of excellent points.
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Speaker 3: But let's look at his letter real quick. The next
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Speaker 3: point is perhaps more explosive. We take a closer look
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Speaker 3: at that, and specifically, we're going to look at this
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Speaker 3: section here and we'll just blow that up a little
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Speaker 3: bit more. There we are, early in this administration, high
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Speaker 3: ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media
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Speaker 3: deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform.
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Speaker 3: He's talking to the president in this resignation letter here,
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Speaker 3: so pro war sentiments encourage a war with Iran. This
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Speaker 3: echo chamber was used to deceive you, the President, into
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Speaker 3: believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United
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Speaker 3: States and that you should strike now there was a
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Speaker 3: clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie.
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Speaker 3: And this is the same tack at the Israelis used
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Speaker 3: to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost
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Speaker 3: our nation the lives of thousands of our best men
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Speaker 3: and women. We cannot make this mistake again. Now, just
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Speaker 3: to really pad out that. Listen to what he says
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Speaker 3: now about how Israel has been injecting fake intelligence into
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Speaker 3: the US system, and this is what Tulsey Gabbard's job
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Speaker 3: is meant to prevent. Yet Tulsi seems to be a
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Speaker 3: gatekeeper for what he's about to explain here. But listen
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Speaker 3: to this. This is explosive.
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Speaker 10: And just to be clear, there was no intelligence that
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Speaker 10: showed iminent threat. There was no intelligence that showed there
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Speaker 10: on the cusp of building a nuclear weapon. There's no
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Speaker 10: intelligence indeed that show they were trying to build a
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Speaker 10: nuclear weapon. And nobody, you know, said I've seen it,
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Speaker 10: but you haven't. It exists, but you just haven't seen it.
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Speaker 10: Did you ever hear anybody say there is intel that
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Speaker 10: shows this.
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Speaker 1: I did not know, but I know how this works.
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Speaker 11: I know the Israeli officials intelligence and in government will
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Speaker 11: come to US government officials and they will say all
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Speaker 11: kinds of things that we know from our intelligence just
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Speaker 11: simply isn't true. And they'll say, hey, I'm giving you
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Speaker 11: a preview. It's not an intelligence channels yet, but here's
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Speaker 11: what's going to happen, and that doesn't usually come.
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Speaker 10: To Wait wait a second, I mean I thought that
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Speaker 10: US policymakers made their decisions on the basis of intelligence
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Speaker 10: collected and or vetted by our intelligence. That's what we
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Speaker 10: have intelligence agencies that soak up hundreds of billions a year.
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Speaker 10: But you're saying that Israeli officials short circuited the entire
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Speaker 10: US government and just went right to American policymakers and said,
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Speaker 10: it doesn't matter what your country says, here's what we know.
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Speaker 12: Mean.
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Speaker 11: Usually they're they're pretty slack and they'll say, hey, this
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Speaker 11: isn't an intelligence channels yet because it's it's going to
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Speaker 11: take some time to get there. And here they're on
21:53
Speaker 11: the cost of building a bomb. You know, they're they're
21:55
Speaker 11: going to I don't know, you pick your topic. A
21:58
Speaker 11: lot of times, they'll sample different things until they find
22:00
Speaker 11: what sticks. But in general, the narrative about you know,
22:03
Speaker 11: they're going to do a premptive attack, or really just
22:06
Speaker 11: they're going to build a nuclear weapon and if we
22:08
Speaker 11: don't stop them now, they're going to build a nuclear weapon,
22:11
Speaker 11: and enrichment is the pathway to that. They're going to
22:14
Speaker 11: continue enriching at whatever percent enrichment became the narrative and
22:19
Speaker 11: so that hung up in that short circuited and really
22:21
Speaker 11: sabotaged the entire negotiations because the Iranians basically said, like,
22:25
Speaker 11: we're not going to negotiate if the if the whole
22:28
Speaker 11: starting point is no enrichment, and again that had nothing
22:31
Speaker 11: to do with a nuclear weapon, and the Iranians essentially
22:33
Speaker 11: agreed to that. So the Israelis came in, they move
22:36
Speaker 11: that red line, and they would do a lot to
22:38
Speaker 11: say like, oh, they're enriching and you know what that means.
22:40
Speaker 11: That means in X amount of time they could have
22:42
Speaker 11: a nuclear bomb. You have to ask now. And then
22:44
Speaker 11: the way the ecosystem would work is that the talking
22:47
Speaker 11: heads on TV, you know, your Mark levinz, Sean Hannity's,
22:50
Speaker 11: et cetera, they would say basically the exact same thing
22:53
Speaker 11: that night on TV, or there would be a you know,
22:55
Speaker 11: a piece written in the Wall Street Journal, the New
22:57
Speaker 11: York Times that would say something very very similar. Yet
23:00
Speaker 11: if you looked in classified intelligence, we didn't see any
23:04
Speaker 11: of that.
23:05
Speaker 3: Now, what Joe Kent's talking about is a conspiracy. They're
23:11
Speaker 3: hitting policymakers, they're hitting the White House, and they're also
23:15
Speaker 3: hitting the media at exactly the same time to create
23:18
Speaker 3: the impression of a consensus about something that's people are
23:23
Speaker 3: claiming to be happening but isn't actually happening. So, I mean,
23:28
Speaker 3: this is just absolutely incredible here. And there's just so
23:31
Speaker 3: many examples that have come out this week, might including
23:34
Speaker 3: this one that go against all the claims that are
23:37
Speaker 3: being made by Pete heg Seth, Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio.
23:41
Speaker 3: Trump was warned, it's confirmed by multiple sources of a
23:46
Speaker 3: likely Iranian retaliation on golf allies, if there's any attacks
23:51
Speaker 3: on Iran's energy infrastructure, that there would be retaliation, but
23:56
Speaker 3: also that they would retaliate against US basis. And that's
23:59
Speaker 3: exactly what happened. So the White House is saying that, well,
24:02
Speaker 3: we had no idea foreseeing that Iran would attack US bases,
24:06
Speaker 3: We didn't have any intelligence. Well that's not true. They
24:08
Speaker 3: absolutely did. So I mean, it's just one thing after another.
24:11
Speaker 3: Now here's the last thing. And I have to thank
24:13
Speaker 3: the Grayson for this report. And this is shows you
24:17
Speaker 3: how bad the fake intelligence has infected Washington. Here how
24:22
Speaker 3: Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to go Trump
24:27
Speaker 3: into the Iran war. So, and we'll break this down
24:32
Speaker 3: a little bit here, but Max Blumenthal wrote this piece.
24:34
Speaker 3: Officials have yet to produce any evidence that Iran played
24:38
Speaker 3: a role in either of these alleged attempts on Trump's life.
24:42
Speaker 3: Yet since those fateful events, Israel aligned Trump advisors Israeli intelligence.
24:47
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Netanyahu himself have gone to extreme lengths to
24:51
Speaker 3: order to make this tied to Tehran these assassination plots.
24:56
Speaker 3: More shocking stills the fact that, get this, the FBI
24:59
Speaker 3: has made manufactured a series of assassination plots, successfully convincing
25:05
Speaker 3: Trump that Iran was hunting him on US soil with
25:09
Speaker 3: highly sophisticated teams of hitmen. All of this was fabricated.
25:12
Speaker 3: In fact, this last fake plot is all basically has
25:17
Speaker 3: been ginned up using FBI informants. Okay, so now we
25:21
Speaker 3: have the details of this, and this includes ties to
25:25
Speaker 3: although it needs more analysis to what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
25:29
Speaker 3: the assassination attempt on Trump during the twenty twenty four campaign.
25:36
Speaker 3: So a lot of this is shrouded in a sort
25:39
Speaker 3: of nebulous bureaucracy by the FBI in this case. But
25:43
Speaker 3: this is just absolutely stunning. This revelation here, excellent report
25:49
Speaker 3: by Max Blumenthal at the Grey Zone, but it just
25:51
Speaker 3: shows you how corrupt this is. And it's not the
25:55
Speaker 3: first time like that we've seen this. If you read
25:58
Speaker 3: Trevor Aronson's Terror Factory, you'll see just reams of these
26:01
Speaker 3: fake terror plots on US soil that are used to
26:06
Speaker 3: basically bolster whatever the administration's policies are and extract public
26:12
Speaker 3: relations currency from it.
26:15
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Patrick. Now let's move on then
26:18
Speaker 1: to Volunteer and now Wednesday's program, we showed this.
26:22
Speaker 2: Article here a beggar's belief mod sources Warren Palanteer's rule
26:26
Speaker 2: at the heart of government is a threat to UK security. Now,
26:31
Speaker 2: this of course is adding some momentum to the campaign
26:35
Speaker 2: to get Polunteer out of the NHS.
26:38
Speaker 1: But Basil, let me welcome you to the program.
26:40
Speaker 2: First, just give us the latest on this and also
26:45
Speaker 2: tell us about the graphic that was attached to that
26:49
Speaker 2: particular article covering the shareholder, the companies that have shareholdings
26:53
Speaker 2: and Palaeer.
26:55
Speaker 7: Hello Mike, great to be with you. Well, we joined
26:58
Speaker 7: in a couple of minutes by Koku, the academic who
27:02
Speaker 7: is one of the lead campaigners to get all Palenteer
27:06
Speaker 7: contracts with the British government canceled because this farrago continues
27:12
Speaker 7: to mushroom. Yes, it turns out that large British pension
27:20
Speaker 7: companies are invested in Pallenteer.
27:25
Speaker 1: First of all Legal and General who.
27:28
Speaker 7: Provide pensions for, amongst others, Tesco and some of Britain's
27:33
Speaker 7: other biggest corporate employers. They've got about one point six
27:38
Speaker 7: billion invested in Paneteer apparently, So you know, this is
27:46
Speaker 7: you know, really starting to undermine the company's credibility and
27:50
Speaker 7: indeed the credibility of those companies.
27:52
Speaker 1: That support it.
27:55
Speaker 7: Something else, really very disturbing has come to light, and
27:59
Speaker 7: this is a cli of Yanis Vera Facis, the former
28:02
Speaker 7: Greek finance minister, speaking to Raleigh A. Karleek a few
28:08
Speaker 7: days ago about how intelligence gathered data gathered from atrocities
28:15
Speaker 7: taking place in Gaza is going to be reworked and
28:21
Speaker 7: use as a model for aspects of the NHS. This
28:26
Speaker 7: really is very ghoulish stuff, particularly when you bear in
28:29
Speaker 7: mind company chairman Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist is
28:34
Speaker 7: in Rome giving lectures about the Antichrist, much to the
28:38
Speaker 7: consternation of the Vatican. But let's see this clip. Janis
28:43
Speaker 7: Veri Factis, who still of course operates at a high level,
28:47
Speaker 7: and this is really off the charts.
28:53
Speaker 3: I was sitting next to a palanteer.
28:59
Speaker 9: Signed this engineer whatever you might call them, dinner and
29:04
Speaker 9: the conversation with other people around the table was about
29:08
Speaker 9: Gaza and this phone.
29:11
Speaker 3: This gentleman next to me.
29:14
Speaker 9: Suddenly started experiencing a kind of excitement having heard the
29:20
Speaker 9: word Gaza. I don't think he listened to what the
29:22
Speaker 9: conversation was. He was talking to somebody else, and he said, oh, Gaza,
29:27
Speaker 9: the Gasa was fantastic for us. He meant Palentre and
29:31
Speaker 9: I said, yeah, well, yeah, what tens of thousands of
29:33
Speaker 9: children being named and killed was.
29:35
Speaker 3: Fantastic, you know. He said no, no, no, that was terrible.
29:37
Speaker 9: But and he pointed at my phone, which was sitting
29:41
Speaker 9: on the table, of course idle, and he said, your
29:44
Speaker 9: phone now is useless to me because it's not moving,
29:47
Speaker 9: it's not going anywhere. If it's a stationary doesn't produce data.
29:51
Speaker 9: But if you bombard a densely populated area, people their
29:55
Speaker 9: phones run around a lot to produce a lot of data.
29:58
Speaker 9: To pick up a phone, they call the relatives that
30:01
Speaker 9: try to find out if their loved ones are maimed
30:05
Speaker 9: or dead or alive or whatever. And we train, that's
30:09
Speaker 9: what he said. We train our AI programs on this
30:13
Speaker 9: wealth of data that came out of Gaza. In circumstances
30:18
Speaker 9: that create panic and said, yeah, okay, can.
30:20
Speaker 3: You explain to me what did you get out of that?
30:22
Speaker 9: He said, well, we just sold a program, an AI program,
30:26
Speaker 9: to the British National Health Service for one billion pounds.
30:29
Speaker 9: And then I found out that it was done through
30:30
Speaker 9: the Tony Blair Institute, right involving Tony Blair's son, to
30:34
Speaker 9: the National Health Service in Britain. And what they're going
30:37
Speaker 9: to be using this program that was trained on the
30:40
Speaker 9: death and destruction of people in NA what is trained
30:44
Speaker 9: to do is to help organize British hospitals in cases
30:49
Speaker 9: of emergencies when you know nurses and doctors and so
30:52
Speaker 9: own panic. So you can see this is the first
30:54
Speaker 9: time in human history that you don't simply have the
30:57
Speaker 9: arms traight where arms dealers make a lot of money
30:59
Speaker 9: from say weapons that kill people.
31:02
Speaker 4: No.
31:03
Speaker 9: Here, the actual killing of the people, the people running
31:06
Speaker 9: around injured without buying anything, their movements, their screams, the agony,
31:14
Speaker 9: their pain is training AI, which then allows people like
31:18
Speaker 9: the generalmans next to me, through the Donny Blair Institute
31:22
Speaker 9: UH to sell to a national public health service.
31:32
Speaker 7: Haikoku joins us now from outside Palenteers headquarters in Soho
31:38
Speaker 7: Square in London. Hiko, welcome to the program. I don't
31:42
Speaker 7: know if you've heard the clip of John it's very
31:44
Speaker 7: effect you speaking there, or if you've seen it before.
31:49
Speaker 12: Yeah, I did see a few days ago. It's typical
31:53
Speaker 12: of the type of operations of this company behind us.
31:56
Speaker 12: It's the global center for what can only be this
32:00
Speaker 12: described as demonic types of control over AI. And it
32:04
Speaker 12: seems to me that these people, through their combination between money,
32:09
Speaker 12: intelligence agents connections out offici intelligence, have literally lost the
32:14
Speaker 12: plot completely. And imagine that they're about to reform the
32:19
Speaker 12: entire planet based upon some kind of psychopathic ideal of
32:24
Speaker 12: total control over information in order to facilitate a few
32:30
Speaker 12: elite vanguard leaders Peter Tiel, Alex carp and a few
32:35
Speaker 12: others around the Lewis Moseley they've got here in London
32:39
Speaker 12: who will administer the world. That's the type of mindset
32:43
Speaker 12: these people live in.
32:47
Speaker 7: I find it absolutely extraordinary that human suffering is being
32:54
Speaker 7: reworked into something for a health service. I mean, the
32:58
Speaker 7: British public completely unaware of this. If they weren't, there
33:03
Speaker 7: would be if they were to be aware of it
33:06
Speaker 7: would naturally be appalled isn't even strong enough language. I
33:11
Speaker 7: think we really need to amplify this Hiko and make
33:16
Speaker 7: it central to the campaign to get all their contracts canceled,
33:20
Speaker 7: every single one.
33:23
Speaker 12: I mean, I think it's quite true that suffering hasn't
33:27
Speaker 12: been used in that with the First World War was
33:29
Speaker 12: used to generate a lot of information about healthcare provision
33:34
Speaker 12: and amputations and making prosthetic equipment and all this sort
33:39
Speaker 12: of thing. So warfare has often kind of been used
33:41
Speaker 12: in this way. The key transition point here is the
33:45
Speaker 12: whole COVID saga. When they closed down the entire planet.
33:49
Speaker 12: This company raced around Britain and America introducing jobs as
33:55
Speaker 12: rapidly as possible with experimental vaccines that cause huge heart
34:00
Speaker 12: around the world. And this was if you like, their
34:03
Speaker 12: launching pad to become the generic agent to go to
34:09
Speaker 12: agent for artificial intelligence across the board in public sector spheres.
34:14
Speaker 12: And the interesting thing is they didn't even operate as
34:17
Speaker 12: a genuinely capitalist company for ten years and more, they
34:20
Speaker 12: made no profits whatsoever, and only after massive government contracts
34:24
Speaker 12: in other words, state subsidies, do they end up finally
34:27
Speaker 12: being in a position where they can be the central
34:30
Speaker 12: lever of international global surveillance, monitoring and slaughter around the world.
34:39
Speaker 12: That's the game they're playing, and they're combining all these
34:42
Speaker 12: different elements military data as a generic force within government efficiency,
34:49
Speaker 12: healthcare and all the consequent relations between biology and DNA
34:56
Speaker 12: and all the rest of it, which all these major
34:59
Speaker 12: corporations are in as they did, and so it's a
35:01
Speaker 12: totalistic vision of controlling the world through data.
35:07
Speaker 7: No surprise that Tony Blair's name popped up in that
35:11
Speaker 7: report and that the Tony Blair Institute may have been
35:14
Speaker 7: instrumental in getting pallenteered that contract. But the British government's
35:18
Speaker 7: obsession with this company goes all the way back to
35:21
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen. Michael Gove, who paid the way for some
35:25
Speaker 7: of the first contracts. Why is it that the UK
35:28
Speaker 7: government is obsessed with handing all these contracts to a
35:32
Speaker 7: company tied to Epstein. He was an early investor, and
35:37
Speaker 7: with this ghoulish view of the human future.
35:41
Speaker 6: I go.
35:43
Speaker 12: I think you basically have to look at Israel and
35:46
Speaker 12: the associations between Israel and the Zionist entity and its
35:51
Speaker 12: allies and its influence to understand why such corporations which
35:56
Speaker 12: weren't making profit, should have been closed down years ago,
35:58
Speaker 12: should have gone bankrupt years ago. Why they are still
36:01
Speaker 12: operational and how they became so influential and powerful around
36:05
Speaker 12: the world. It's all interconnected with the role of Israel
36:10
Speaker 12: around the world and its influence around the world. And
36:12
Speaker 12: of course that once you tie those threads together, that
36:15
Speaker 12: connects together Epstein, that connects together mand Ors, and that
36:17
Speaker 12: connects together Tony Blair, that connects it together. And of
36:21
Speaker 12: course the man they've got, this man now talking about
36:24
Speaker 12: the Antichrist. Peter Teel was the main sponsor. He created JD.
36:31
Speaker 12: Vans and JD Vance is supposed to be the man
36:33
Speaker 12: who takes over after Donald Trump. So here you see
36:37
Speaker 12: this man who talks about the Antichrist is trying to
36:39
Speaker 12: manufacture one.
36:42
Speaker 1: Patrick.
36:43
Speaker 7: Would you like to ask Naiker question?
36:47
Speaker 3: I just think, Hiker, what can what can the public do?
36:52
Speaker 3: How can they support you? Know what you're doing out there.
36:55
Speaker 3: I know that a lot of you have been very
36:57
Speaker 3: dedicated to this issue. Here are more people getting involved
37:01
Speaker 3: and becoming aware of what's going on here.
37:04
Speaker 12: It's something I've had in my mind for a year
37:07
Speaker 12: and more. But I was, to be honest with you,
37:10
Speaker 12: I was scared to do it because for a long time,
37:13
Speaker 12: if you're on your own and you start a protest
37:15
Speaker 12: against Palentier, then you asking for big trouble.
37:18
Speaker 3: You know.
37:18
Speaker 12: I saw that picture the video yesterday of Steve Sweeney
37:21
Speaker 12: being blown a bomb dropping right behind him. That's almost
37:24
Speaker 12: certainly a Palenteer type operation, and therefore I was a
37:28
Speaker 12: little bit concerned about it. But nevertheless, because the tide
37:31
Speaker 12: seems to have turned after the late last release of
37:34
Speaker 12: the Epstein files and the connection between Peter Manderson, care
37:38
Speaker 12: Starmer and Palenteer behind us was clearly established. I think
37:42
Speaker 12: they're on the back foot and the Israelis are also
37:45
Speaker 12: on the back foot. So if there's any time to
37:48
Speaker 12: take them on and destroy their power, it is now,
37:51
Speaker 12: and I think that over the summer. The good thing
37:53
Speaker 12: about them making the mistake of planting themselves in Soho
37:57
Speaker 12: Square is this is a big square. Show you around it,
38:00
Speaker 12: cause for the viewers who don't know, it's quite a
38:03
Speaker 12: big square. It's very popular in the summertime, and it's
38:06
Speaker 12: a square which is in the center of London's entertainment district,
38:10
Speaker 12: and so there will be hundreds of thousands of people
38:12
Speaker 12: passing through here. On a regular basis, and we're making music.
38:17
Speaker 12: We want to have a dance, We want to create
38:19
Speaker 12: an atmosphere of a festival type feeling that people question
38:24
Speaker 12: how AI has ended up not only taken away the
38:28
Speaker 12: jobs in this area, which is the main media, arts
38:30
Speaker 12: and music area, but also in threatening the lives of
38:34
Speaker 12: the whole of humanity and the freedom of the whole
38:36
Speaker 12: of humanity. And it's not even hidden by them. They've
38:39
Speaker 12: openly declared these things. They are making war on humanity itself.
38:43
Speaker 12: And therefore I think this can become a beating heart
38:46
Speaker 12: of resistance, almost like a woodstock if you like, over
38:50
Speaker 12: the next year or so. And Palanteer is sensitive to this.
38:55
Speaker 12: They had protests in Denver and they closed their office
38:57
Speaker 12: in Denver and moved to Florida only last month. So
39:02
Speaker 12: I know, we don't want them to close down here
39:04
Speaker 12: and move somewhere else. We want to shut them down completely.
39:08
Speaker 12: So we adding protests here every Thursday four o'clock. We're
39:11
Speaker 12: having speak outs and Speaker's Corner. But really it's going
39:14
Speaker 12: to take off in the summertime, and it's gradually taken off.
39:18
Speaker 7: That's great to hear, and if people can't make it
39:20
Speaker 7: to so hot Square. Where else can they find out
39:22
Speaker 7: about the campaign? Hiko, Well, I'm posting.
39:25
Speaker 12: Most of the stuff on my own substack, so it's
39:27
Speaker 12: hi co h E I k O k HW dot
39:31
Speaker 12: substack dot com. That's what I'm posting stuff. And there
39:33
Speaker 12: are be lots of new songs on there. I've been
39:36
Speaker 12: making songs and they're really I'd say they're very cool.
39:42
Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks so much for joining us, Hich, go
39:44
Speaker 7: back to you make.
39:46
Speaker 2: Thank you Basil, Thank you Hiker, and thanks Patrick as well.
39:49
Speaker 2: Now Patrick has come back to you then.
39:51
Speaker 1: And the question of Gaza, sorry that Israel versus Russia.
39:58
Speaker 3: Well this is really a along the line to the
40:00
Speaker 3: Pall and Teers story. Here we're talking about AI and
40:03
Speaker 3: how this has been used on the battlefield here, but
40:06
Speaker 3: not just that internationally. Here another great piece by the
40:09
Speaker 3: Gray Zone. This is by Wyatt Reid. Now this is interesting.
40:13
Speaker 3: This is a military spokesperson from Israel IDEF threatens elimination
40:18
Speaker 3: for Russian leaders who wish Israel ill. Now that's incredible.
40:23
Speaker 3: Let's look at that a little bit closer. A spokesperson
40:26
Speaker 3: from the IDF has drawn outrage in Moscow after threatening
40:31
Speaker 3: that Russian authorities who wish Israel ill could be subject
40:34
Speaker 3: to elimination, suggesting that Israel could hack into Russia close
40:39
Speaker 3: circuit television cameras around the capitol to identify and track targets.
40:45
Speaker 3: And just further on this, asked by a journalist with
40:49
Speaker 3: one of the Russian radio broadcasters here regarding this threat
40:54
Speaker 3: here in Israel, do they actually have access to Russian
40:58
Speaker 3: traffic cameras and CCTV works here? And the response here
41:02
Speaker 3: was they declined to answer, but said Kamani's Iranian leaders,
41:06
Speaker 3: elimination shows our capabilities are serious. No one who wishes
41:11
Speaker 3: us harm will be left aside. This is what she
41:14
Speaker 3: says here and mash this is I think this is
41:18
Speaker 3: a Middle Eastern media outlet or a Russian tech outlet here,
41:22
Speaker 3: but they revealed that the Israeli software firm Briefcamp has
41:27
Speaker 3: been used in Russia by private providers since twenty tens.
41:32
Speaker 3: Is founded by Israel's Hebrew University. BriefCam uses AI to
41:36
Speaker 3: let users review hours of video in minutes and make
41:40
Speaker 3: their video searchable, actionable, quantifiable using AI tools. Here are
41:44
Speaker 3: some of the firms, some big names, as an example
41:48
Speaker 3: of who is integrated with BriefCam here. You've got Salient
41:53
Speaker 3: Bosh variant among others here that have fully integrated and
41:59
Speaker 3: using briefcamps systems here. So this is an Israeli company
42:02
Speaker 3: and the IDEF threatening to weaponize this technology here. And
42:06
Speaker 3: just finally to go back, this was developed originally by
42:11
Speaker 3: Israel's Ministry of Housing Construction to safeguard illegal settlements and
42:15
Speaker 3: occupied East Jerusalem here. And the governments who are using
42:19
Speaker 3: this around the world, including the United Kingdom and many
42:23
Speaker 3: others listed here. And just to note, a French court
42:26
Speaker 3: found that the government's use in France a BriefCam was illegal,
42:31
Speaker 3: citing multiple violations of French and European privacy laws here.
42:36
Speaker 3: Yet it's being used all over Europe, all over Asia,
42:39
Speaker 3: North America, and even places like the United Arab Emirates
42:44
Speaker 3: as well. So I mean that just kind of it
42:47
Speaker 3: really adds to what Basil and Heiicel we're talking about
42:51
Speaker 3: about the size and scope of this network and how
42:55
Speaker 3: these tech companies are effectively trojan horses and now it's
42:59
Speaker 3: being weapons. Should people be taking these threats seriously? I'm certain,
43:04
Speaker 3: I'm certain Moscow will be looking at this very closely.
43:08
Speaker 1: Well. Moscow should be taking it very seriously.
43:11
Speaker 2: Everybody in the West should be taking it very seriously
43:13
Speaker 2: as well, because we've been trying to buying this drum
43:15
Speaker 2: for quite some time. Patrick to make the point that
43:18
Speaker 2: the Western tech industry is totally as is Reel, totally
43:22
Speaker 2: embedded in just about everywhere, and you know this is
43:25
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43:28
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43:30
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44:09
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Speaker 2: let me bring you back to the program again and well,
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Speaker 2: the Gaza Tribunal has issued its report. Just tell everybody
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Speaker 2: what that is, who's behind it and what the report says.
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Speaker 7: Thanks man, Yes, I mean, although you'd hardly know it
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Speaker 7: from the scant reporting in the corporate syndicate press. The
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Speaker 7: independent Gaza Tribunal published its findings this week. It hurt
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Speaker 7: testimony from witnesses including journalists, medics, academics, survivors, international law
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Speaker 7: experts and whistleblowers doing a job that should really have
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Speaker 7: been undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service. Of course they've
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Speaker 7: been preoccupied with arresting elderly clergymen and peace campaigners holding
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Speaker 7: pieces of paper. The aim of the tribunal that was
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Speaker 7: to uncover the full scale of British complicity in genocide,
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Speaker 7: and it concluded that the British government failed in its
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Speaker 7: fundamental obligation to prevent genocide as per the Geneva Convention,
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Speaker 7: and further that Britain has and been complicit in atrocity
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Speaker 7: crimes and in some instances actively participated in them. The
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Speaker 7: co author, Shadha Muri, warned that humanity has crossed a
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Speaker 7: red line of genocide, accusing top UK officials of lying,
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Speaker 7: manipulating the law and protecting the interests of foreign governments
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Speaker 7: and big businesses, not the British public. The former Labour
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Speaker 7: leader Jeremy Corbyn co authored the report, and he said
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Speaker 7: that the tribunal aimed to serve as a landmark contribution
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Speaker 7: to the campaign for justice and as a historical repository
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Speaker 7: of evidence for generations to come. He went on to
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Speaker 7: highlight Britain's strategic role, noting that Britain, although not the
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Speaker 7: biggest arms contributor to Israel, is nevertheless a crucial part
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Speaker 7: of it, partly because of the RAF base in Aquateri,
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Speaker 7: the sharing of intelligence information, and because of the way
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Speaker 7: the US has a significant military presence in Britain, one
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Speaker 7: of course, that it's using, as I speak, to load
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Speaker 7: up the B fifty twos to bomb Iran. This whole process,
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Speaker 7: he went on, has eroded britain standing in the world,
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Speaker 7: eroded our commitment to international law, to the United Nations,
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Speaker 7: to human rights, to international justice through the ICC and
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Speaker 7: the ICJ. So of course the atrocities haven't finished either,
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Speaker 7: have they. It turns out that we're going to hear
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Speaker 7: in a momment about Steve Sweeney the rockets that landed
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Speaker 7: within a few feet of him, causing him injury in
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Speaker 7: Lebanon that it's believed maybe made by Raphael, a company
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Speaker 7: with British operation which is headed up by Lord Hutton,
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Speaker 7: a labor pier. And of course the spyflights include the
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Speaker 7: one that was in the air when the World Kitchen,
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Speaker 7: British aid workers James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman
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Speaker 7: were murdered in Gaza in April twenty twenty four. The
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Speaker 7: Ministry of Defense holds video surveillance from that day, but
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Speaker 7: he is refusing to publish it. And of course we
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Speaker 7: don't know where the Paneer software played a part in
47:54
Speaker 7: that particular atrocity.
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Speaker 2: And Basil Germany and has decided to withdraw legal backing
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Speaker 2: for Israel in the ICGA kiss, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: This is significant.
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Speaker 7: Germany has been one of Israel's staunchest supporters throughout the genocide,
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Speaker 7: but they appear to have had some sort of change
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Speaker 7: of heart because they withdrawn their support, as it says
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Speaker 7: on the slide from the israel from the case, So
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Speaker 7: that significantly weakens to the Israeli side because they were
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Speaker 7: the only major European country doing so. It will now
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Speaker 7: be USA and Israel versus the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for that, Basil Patrick. Both Basil and Haiker
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Speaker 2: mentioned Steve Swiney, So just introduce the clip because we're
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Speaker 2: going to show what happened to him.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is a British journalist, I might add, Yes,
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Speaker 3: he works for RT International. He is the station chief,
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Speaker 3: their correspondent, lead correspondent in b Root, Lebanon, very important
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Speaker 3: location for international news. He's a war correspondent. Here watch
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Speaker 3: what happened while he was filing one of his recent
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Speaker 3: reports about a bridge collapse in southern Lebanon.
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Speaker 13: Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahaia in a minute,
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Speaker 13: not just.
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Speaker 3: A random shell falling there, I can assure you. Here,
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Speaker 3: Steve Sweeney took to social media. He has a stain
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Speaker 3: in injuries here today he says Israel tried to kill
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Speaker 3: me in a targeted air strike in southern Lebanon as
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Speaker 3: I was reporting on the targeting of bridges in the
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Speaker 3: force displacement of one million people, an ethnic cleansing operation
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Speaker 3: on a larger scale than the knock By. He's talking
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Speaker 3: about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israelis in nineteen
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Speaker 3: forty seven and forty eight. Here, so he says, no
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Speaker 3: doubt this was deliberate according to him. Here now Steve
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Speaker 3: Sweeney has recovering from his injuries. Here here he is
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Speaker 3: basically explaining what happened and also what would happened to
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Speaker 3: him more importantly, but he really puts this into a
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Speaker 3: harrowing perspective here he is.
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Speaker 14: I guess, so, yeah, well, you've probably all seen the
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Speaker 14: footage of the as right that took place in Sawdiffric
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Speaker 14: as we were reporting on the destruction of a bridge.
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Speaker 14: We've been treated in hospital for our injuries. I had
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Speaker 14: a shrapnel wound in my arm deeply embedded in the
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Speaker 14: bustle here that's been taken out and here it is
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Speaker 14: in this part here. But what I do want to
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Speaker 14: say is that this this was a deliberate, targeted attack
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Speaker 14: on journalists. There's no mistake about it. This was and
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Speaker 14: there's ready precision strike from a fighter jet. What we
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Speaker 14: were doing was we were reporting on the attacks on bridges,
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Speaker 14: which is effectively severing South Lebanon from the rest of
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Speaker 14: the country. One million people now internally displaced.
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Speaker 13: This is the real story.
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Speaker 14: It's not about us coming under attackers journalists. What we're
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Speaker 14: seeing now and what we were reporting on is this
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Speaker 14: plan for Israel to ethnically cleanse the south of Lebanon.
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Speaker 14: This is, without doubt an attack. This is on the
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Speaker 14: scale or bigger than the scale of the Nakbar. This
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Speaker 14: is the fourth displacement of a million people, which remains
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Speaker 14: their warcrime. And also we have to say that attacking
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Speaker 14: journalists is a war crime. Attacking civilian infrastructure is a
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Speaker 14: war crime. But if they think that they're going to
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Speaker 14: silence us, if they think that we're going to stay
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Speaker 14: out of the field, they're very very much mistaken.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and props to Steve Sweeney, very brave and tremendous,
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Speaker 3: hugely professional as well in his conduct and his statement there,
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Speaker 3: I think says it all. But you know, I would say, guys,
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Speaker 3: and maybe Basil has more information on this, but the
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Speaker 3: targeting of journalists is a little bit of a problem
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Speaker 3: regarding Israel in the last couple of years.
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Speaker 2: Well not just regarding Israel. Let's just put the British
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Speaker 2: government's position on the targeting of journalists on screen here.
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Speaker 2: So this was a statement made in the United Nations.
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Speaker 2: We must act to protect independent journalism. More journalists were
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Speaker 2: killed last year than any other year since the Committee
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Speaker 2: to Protect Journalists began collecting data, making it the dead
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Speaker 2: last year on record. This is Letitia Lunin, the UK
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Speaker 2: Mission to the United Nations, saying this last year, and
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Speaker 2: she said the UK remains a committed advocate for journalists
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Speaker 2: safety and protection as a co founder of the Media
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Speaker 2: Freedom Call. So, Basil, my question to you is, very briefly,
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Speaker 2: what has the British government said about this incident, because
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Speaker 2: it seems to me they're pretty silent on it.
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Speaker 7: Nothing is the short answered declassified of arsenal comment. They've
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Speaker 7: refused to do so. They're also not commented on the
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Speaker 7: two hundred and seventy odd journalists murdered in Gaza, more
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Speaker 7: than in World War One, World War II, the Korean War,
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Speaker 7: the Vietnam War and the Bosnian War combined. So that,
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Speaker 7: I mean obviously speaks to the deliberate targeting of journalists.
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Speaker 7: Steve Sweeney lucky to escape with.
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Speaker 2: His life, absolutely and continued absolute hypocrisy from the UK regime. Okay,
53:44
Speaker 2: let's move on then to Denmark and Greenland in particular. So,
53:48
Speaker 2: according to this article from Dr the Danish, effectually the
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Speaker 2: Danish equivalent of the BBC. Denmark was preparing for full
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Speaker 2: skilled war with the United States, so for Greenland in January,
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Speaker 2: alongside France, Germany and the other Nordic regions, elite troops
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Speaker 2: and F thirty five jets with live ammunition were sent,
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Speaker 2: allegedly and runways were to be blown up to prevent
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Speaker 2: an invasion. D R said that Donald Trump's threats to
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Speaker 2: see Greenland were taken so seriously that wide ranging preparations
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Speaker 2: were made to forcibly resist the US invasion of Greenland.
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Speaker 2: The Danish and French governments worked together to create a
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Speaker 2: Northern European coalition. According to the article, this included sending
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Speaker 2: blood to treat wooded soldiers, sending elite Danish troops and
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Speaker 2: French alpine troops to Greenland, preparing Greenland runways for demolition
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Speaker 2: as said, and sending armed F thirty five jets patrol
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Speaker 2: the skies. We wonder would they do any better there
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Speaker 2: than they're doing in Iran at the moment, but anyway,
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Speaker 2: This was apparently in response to the American attack on
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Speaker 2: Venezuela on the third of January, in which Maduro was
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Speaker 2: abducted and taken to the United States, and so Patrick,
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Speaker 2: a question for you really is what are we supposed
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Speaker 2: to make of this, because if you remember, there was
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Speaker 2: much jocularity over the so called if we just put
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Speaker 2: this on screen so called military exercise at the time
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Speaker 2: when Germans clearly found Greenland just a bit on the
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Speaker 2: coal side and headed back home pretty much as soon
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Speaker 2: as they arrived. So, I mean, are we supposed to
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Speaker 2: take this report in Danish mainstream news in any way? Seriously?
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is just probably the equivalent of a
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Speaker 3: sort of a NATO barroom brawl at the end of
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Speaker 3: the end of the day of exercises and training. It
55:36
Speaker 3: might as well have happened that way. But what I
55:39
Speaker 3: think also shows is just the I think I don't
55:43
Speaker 3: know how much you know, they say they drew up
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Speaker 3: these plans, Mike, you know, how realistic is this? Is
55:48
Speaker 3: this more for the Danish domestic political audience, that these
55:53
Speaker 3: types of reports are being elevated there, But realistically I
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Speaker 3: just don't ever see that as happening. But it really
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Speaker 3: just shows you that the whole artifice of NATO, of
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Speaker 3: the edifice, sorry, the edifice of NATO, is disintegrating, and
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Speaker 3: this is just a good example of it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Okay, well we're going to end today then
56:15
Speaker 2: with offcom so let's bring them on screen, because following
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Speaker 2: an investigation Ofcommas decided to find four Chan, the online community,
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Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty thousand pounds for failing to comply
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Speaker 2: with the UK's online age check requirements. Now they have
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Speaker 2: to OFFCOMMA is saying that the platform now has to
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Speaker 2: implement highly effective is assurance by the second April or
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Speaker 2: i fiz a daily penalty of five hundred pounds. So
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Speaker 2: this is what they had to say following an investigation
56:47
Speaker 2: and so on. They went on to say, we've also
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Speaker 2: find four Chan fifty thousand pounds for failing to assess
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Speaker 2: the risk of people in the UK encountering illegal content
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Speaker 2: on its site. This is fundamental, They say that keeping
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Speaker 2: users safe. In order to put in place appropriate safety
57:03
Speaker 2: measure to protect people, especially children, providers must first understand
57:07
Speaker 2: how harm could take place on their platforms. The company
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Speaker 2: must now carry out a suitable and sufficient illegal content
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Speaker 2: risk assessment by the second of April or face daily
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Speaker 2: penalty of two hundred pounds. Additionally, they said we have
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Speaker 2: fined four chan twenty thousand pounds for failing to specify
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Speaker 2: in its terms of service how individuals are to be
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Speaker 2: protected from illegal content, which they must nied out by
57:31
Speaker 2: the second of April or face a daily penalty of
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Speaker 2: one hundred pounds. So four Chan, for its part, basically
57:37
Speaker 2: yawned and stuck its fingers up at Offcom and said,
57:42
Speaker 2: in the only country in which four chan operates, the
57:44
Speaker 2: United States, it's breaking no law and the data's conduct
57:47
Speaker 2: is expressly protected by the First Amendment. Now, the BBC
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Speaker 2: reports ofcom is saying that the UK is setting new
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Speaker 2: standards for online safety. Eight checks and risk assessments are
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Speaker 2: cornerstones of our laws, and we'll take robust enforcement action
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Speaker 2: against firms that fall short. And I'm going to say
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Speaker 2: this is complete nonsense, because producing a press release detailing
58:09
Speaker 2: a completely unenforceable so called fine is not robust law enforcement.
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Speaker 2: When they replied to me about this, they said this,
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Speaker 2: if a provider fails to pay a fine, Offcome is
58:21
Speaker 2: entitled to seek recovery of those penalties where appropriate. If
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Speaker 2: a provider fails to comply with a requirement to implement
58:28
Speaker 2: age assurance, we could also seek a court order for
58:31
Speaker 2: business disruption measures such as requirement requiring payment providers or
58:35
Speaker 2: advertisers to withdraw their services from a platform, or requiring
58:39
Speaker 2: Internet service providers to block a site in the UK. Now,
58:43
Speaker 2: the word entitled does not mean will or even can.
58:48
Speaker 2: They have no money for bringing cases like this in
58:51
Speaker 2: other countries, so these finds are effectively unenforceable. They could
58:56
Speaker 2: add four chan to the Great Firewall of Britain, which
58:59
Speaker 2: already blocks RT and Spotnik, but a VPN is going
59:02
Speaker 2: to sort that out for anyone so inclined, And so
59:05
Speaker 2: it's a waste of time. And as I've said many
59:08
Speaker 2: many times already, none of this does anything to protect children,
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Speaker 2: who are by far most at risk from size like roblocks,
59:16
Speaker 2: where adults are free to pose as children with no
59:19
Speaker 2: effort to restrict that behavior. Apparently, and as we reported
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Speaker 2: in January January, at least one country, that's Egypt, has
59:26
Speaker 2: moved to do something about that by banning roblocks in
59:29
Speaker 2: that country. No OFFCOM insists that age assurance is the
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Speaker 2: way to protect children. Of course, it is absolutely the
59:40
Speaker 2: way to implement a form of digital ID. But Patrick,
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Speaker 2: this whole idea, this whole claim that they are you know,
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Speaker 2: finding companies in the United States or any other country
59:52
Speaker 2: in the world, and that those countries should pay any
59:54
Speaker 2: attention to that's just ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially look at once the business model of four Chan,
1:00:01
Speaker 3: I mean, it helped importance Britain to its future. Are
1:00:06
Speaker 3: they just going to go the way a bit shoot
1:00:08
Speaker 3: and other websites are basically just down tooled operations and
1:00:12
Speaker 3: just given up on sort of trying to exist behind
1:00:16
Speaker 3: the Great British Firewall. Here and note that four Chan
1:00:20
Speaker 3: is completely accessible and you can get anything you want
1:00:23
Speaker 3: on four Chan in China. In China, so, I mean,
1:00:26
Speaker 3: even China hasn't blocked four Chen, so probably because the
1:00:31
Speaker 3: Chinese government doesn't really view it as any kind of
1:00:33
Speaker 3: a threat because most of the users are using it
1:00:37
Speaker 3: for like sharing anime basically, I mean, so anyway, it's
1:00:40
Speaker 3: also the place where QAnon was launched, and how QAnon
1:00:45
Speaker 3: proliferated the online conspiracy cult was four Chan and very
1:00:51
Speaker 3: enthusiastic users included Jeffrey Epstein and Gilane Maxwell. By the way,
1:00:56
Speaker 3: I just thought i'd add that.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and date, So you know, four Chan perhaps
1:01:02
Speaker 2: deserving of some criticism in some ways, but we'll talk
1:01:04
Speaker 2: about that much more. An extra as well, so if
1:01:07
Speaker 2: you are UK COLN members, stay on the live stream
1:01:10
Speaker 2: and we'll have some uk cal news extra for you
1:01:13
Speaker 2: in a few minutes time. Otherwise, thank you very much
1:01:16
Speaker 2: to Patrick, Basil and Haiku for the contributions today, and
1:01:19
Speaker 2: for everybody that's watched. Don't forget jerm and Carl tonight
1:01:24
Speaker 2: and have a great weekend. We will see you at
1:01:26
Speaker 2: one pm as usual on Monday.
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Speaker 1: See then about