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UK Column News Podcast 12th June 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twelfth of June twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome do you UK Called News? I'm your host Mike
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Robinson joining me in the studio today. Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program.
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Charles, very much, Mike, and from Damascus we have Vanessa Biley.
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We're going to get started. I always said we weren't going to cover
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the election, but I just saw this quote from Grand Chaps this morning and
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I thought we had to laugh at it for comedy value. At least,
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you want to make sure that in this next government, whoever forms it,
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there's a proper system of countability. How much accountability has there been in the
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House of Commons for the last lot of years, Charles, I think it's
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a round number, a round number of that being zero. And you don't
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want to have somebody receive a supermajority, he says. I couldn't agree with
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that last statement. More of course, we don't want anybody, not certainly
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none of the mainstream parties to be there with the super majority or any kind
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of majority, because of course there is no accountability, no opposition in the
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Heiser Commons at all, and we'll be hearing a little bit from Andrew Bridge
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and on this later on. But Vanessa, let's move on the more serious
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stuff and get an update on what's been going on in Gaza. Yes,
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unfortunately, yet another Zionist massacre carried out under the pretext of rescuing Israeli hostages,
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although reports from within Palestine have said also that they managed to kill three
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of the Israeli hostage, including a dual American passport holder, so effectively an
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American citizen reports right from the moment that they started sort of you know,
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hitting social media troops hid inside an age truck for deadly US Israel Operation INTSRAT
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is central Gaza towards northern Gaza on the coastal area. So let's have a
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look at what action Ratanzi of Arties Going Underground said about it how the massacre
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unfolded. Israel's used the US built humanitarian peer to sneak in a unit of
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Israeli soldiers and reportedly American soldiers. The soldiers boarded a humanitarian atruck and drove
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to the Nustrut refugee camp. Once inside, they were discovered by Palestinians,
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which resulted in NonStop Israeli aerial bombardment and the soldiers opening fire inside the central
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market. This was eleven in the morning, so it was packed killing.
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Actually we know now that it's over two hundred and seventy four Palestinian and injuring
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up to seven hundred. So if we move on, this is from Al
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Jazeera. Sorry, this is not from Al Jazeera. This is just a
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video showing that on the seventh of June, basically the US reinstated the Peer
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that we reported as having been washed upstream towards the occupied territories where the ships
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were moored and repaired. And then this is just a video of the Israeli
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helicopters taking off from the area next to the Peer after the so called rescue
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mission. And you can see that basically this Peer is adjacent to the Nusaurats
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camp, so it would make absolute sense that this Peer would be used to
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bring in the Special Forces, both American and Israeli. The air bombardment,
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as I said, started at around eleven am in order to prepare the way
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for the special forces. This was actually confirmed. All of what I've just
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said was confirmed in Israeli media. If we just move on, so This
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was in Israel Haym in broad daylight in a sorry if you we missed a
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slide. Oh it's me sorry, So here you have. Basically, again,
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it's al Jazerio who collated a lot of testimony from civilians. This is
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just a report of the actual massacreas the workhouse. Ben became head missie this
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it's we can gum. That's not right, you're up up, we have
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to do for what are you? Hella Gandam and the wind cats? Did
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you? I learned that about in land is left. Should gigs stashi sella?
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I would have sure. Every report that I've read about this describes awful
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things like literally a tsunami of blood body parts everywhere, the fact that two
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hundred and seventy four people were massacred and seven hundred others injured, and of
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course with the hospitals absolutely decimated in the area, it's impossible to treat them.
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Israel basically confirmed that in broad daylight in a furniture truck, how the
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IDF caught Hamas by surprise. US and Israeli media, of course, is
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declaring this a success. More than a thousand Palestinians dead, dying, injured,
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three of their own hostages apparently killed, including an American citizen. Normally
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this would be declared a failure. This, I think is from Press TV.
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Again. The peer, the equipment, the personnel all supporting that humanitarian
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effort had nothing to do with the Israeli military rescue operation. Pentagon spokesperson Patrick
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Ryder told reporters. Added that the Israeli operation, despite its proximity to the
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US floating dot, does not put American personnel at a greater risk. So
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under school, the temporary peer on the coast of Gaza was put in place
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for one purpose only to help move additional urgently needed life saving assistance to Gaza.
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So the fact that he said that the Israeli military used a helicopter on
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a beach not far from the US peer to evacuate three of the captives and
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the soldiers that freed them amassas comment on the attack. Israel perpetrated the Nusaret
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massacre to block the ceasefire deal. And as it says in the article in
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the Cradle, so basically they're talking about the proposed cease fire deal, they're
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talking about America's responsibility alongside Israel. But also there has in the last twenty
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four hours in a report in the New York Times and in why Nets,
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Israeli media also demonstrating that the UK and the US were involved in intelligence gathering
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prior to the massacre. And then, if we're talking about this peace stale,
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I just want to show Matthew Miller, the US State Department spokesperson,
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talking about the most recent Biden peace plan. On Friday, President Biden outlined
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a proposal for an immediate ceasefire to the war in Gaza. Let me take
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a minute to break down its terms. In phase one of this proposal,
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there would be a full and complete ceasefire, an end to the death and
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destruction that has torn so many lives apart. Israel would withdraw its forces from
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all populated areas in Gaza. The hostages, who have been separated from their
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families for more than two hundred and forty days now would be reunited with their
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loved ones. We would surge humanitarian assistants into Gaza six hundred trucks a day,
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and then in phase two and phase three of the proposal, all of
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the hostages would come home. Working with our partners in the international community,
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we would launch a major reconstruction effort in Gaza to rebuild homes and neighborhoods and
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schools that have been destroyed through this war, and we would work to set
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the conditions for durable peace between Israel and Hamas. Should accept the deal now.
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The proposal that the President outlined on Friday is nearly identical to one that
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Hamasa that would accept just a few weeks ago. The only thing standing in
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between the people of Gaza and an immediate ceasefire is Hamas. It's time for
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Hamas to accept this deal and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. I
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mean, I don't know if you find that as extraordinary as I did.
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That there's not one mentioned though Israel should accept the deal, the release of
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the hostages. Of course, he doesn't mention the nine thousand plus Palestinian hostages
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being held extra judicially in Israeli jails and also being abused and tortured, as
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we're saying on a regular basis when prisoners are released back into Gaza. And
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the fact that it has been sad that the US is now offering four hundred
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million for rebuilding Gaza, while in reality we know that it's US bombs that
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have basically obliterated Gaza and massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians, fifty percent of
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which are children and offered. Obviously, it's also provided billions in wappins and
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funding to Israel, not only since the seventh of October, but also prior
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to. So all of this, in my opinion, is a lot of
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electioneering by Biden's administration to try and whitewash their role in the Israeli genocide in
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Gaza and in the occupied territories. And then while Hamat has officially accepted the
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peace deal, as it did about a week and a half ago, Israel
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has from yesterday refew and in reality, what they're now saying is that Biden
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sees fire plan allows the idea to destroy hamas there is no wording to that
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effect in the peace plan. So, as usual we have seen since this
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plan was put forward, Israel increase its attacks on defenseless Palestinians inside what is
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effectively an open air death camp. And guess what since the attack, the
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World Food Program halts its aid distribution from the US built guards appear because of
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security risks. So yet again, who is the loser and there's one thousand
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dead and injured Palestinians and the starving Palestinians whose access to humanitarian aid is now
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being completely cut off. Okay, Vanessa, thank you for that. Charles.
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Let's come back on to the topic of Sam Milia. Thank you,
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Mike. Good afternoon all. Yes, last week I spoke about Sam Melia,
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who you will recall is being imprisoned in Hmphull at the moment for offenses
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that have been cast in such a light as to make him appear to be
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a lone extremist. And the latest development as of a few weeks ago,
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was that he was denied access of any kind to his children. That included
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not having any photographs, not even being able to talk to his wife Laura
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on the telephone about the children lest she be struck off as a contact of
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his. So further to that piece on the news last week, Laura has
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put out a message on her telegram channel which I will just read out to
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you. I've just received a call from Sam Milia in Hmphull. His probation
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officer has just informed him that they've been inundated with letters and emails complaining about
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Sam not being able to have any contact with his children. As a result,
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they've decided to remove all but one of the restrictions. This means Sam
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can now receive photographs of his children, receive letters from his children, talk
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to his children on telephone, talk about his children. Of course, omitted
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is that he is unable to receive visits from his children. However, HMP
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Hall have advised they only haven't removed this because they legally aren't allowed to as
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an assessment has already started to take place. This means the assessment is already
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moving forward to hopefully the final restriction will be lifted very soon too, all
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being well. Now, the reason I've highlighted legally aren't allowed to is because
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one wonders, as per the document that I went through last week, why
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they were legally allowed to do this in the first place, since his supposed
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offenses had absolutely no bearing on children, especially not his own children, and
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the threshold for denying access to children is not only high, but is supposed
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to be reviewed continually in order to ensure that a situation like this does not
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happen. So with that in mind, I think we'll just look a little
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bit further into how the criminal justice system is performing at the moment, and
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these statistics are woefully out of date, but that's the way of it with
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many government publications. So although this is dated twenty fifth of April, twenty
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fourth is actually from twenty twenty two, and it just concerns reoffending and really
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whether or not the criminal justice system and its current iteration is actually fit for
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purpose. So the overall reoffending rate was twenty five point eight percent. Now
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you may be aware of such statistics that may not come as a surprise,
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but I think the general population that that is an outstanding failure of the criminal
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justice system. So to break it down further, adult defenders had a reoffending
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rate of twenty five point four juveniles had a reoffending rate of thirty three and
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a third percent, and adults released from custody or starting court orders had a
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proven reoffending rate of thirty three point four And quite staggeringly, adults released from
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custodial sentences less than twelve months had a reoffending rate of fifty six point one
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percent. And yet we're in a situation where we've reported several times now that
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sam Melia was imprisoned in order to be made an example of however, whilst
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the Ministry of Justice might not have certain things sort of dealt with, it
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is at least ready to publish statistics on the diversity of the judiciary, so
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we wait for those to come out in July of this year. And pertaining
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to the wider narrative, which of course is the sort of the pushing of
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the window in which people are captured by the definition of extremism, I'm going
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to play short clip now from Nigel Farag, who of course has made quite
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a splash with his election general election campaigning, and this is what he said
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to Sky News. The problem that I'm talking about is a separate problem of
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eighteen to twenty four year old young Muslims who are born in this country,
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who have who increasingly are being radicalized. Do you understand why people have found
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those comments uncomfortable to say the least, why it has been taken on by
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people You say, it has been used by people who are racist to fuel
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their arguments. I'm not interested in those people, and thank goodness, in
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this country they are a tiny minority, fringe. All I'm doing is stating
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an obvious truth that makes people in Britain feel very, very uncomfortable. There
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are a lot of issues with that, not least the fact that Farage cannot
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substantiate such a claim. Secondly, what does he think the results of it
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will be? Further division or not? To suggest that people should be fearful
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of a particular age group, of a particular sector of society or indeed ethnicity
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is extremely irresponsible, I would put it. But furthermore, it's conflating the
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issue of perhaps genuine radicalization or threat and the idea that somebody like Sam Melia
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who simply published a bunch of stickers could be put into the same category or
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indeed put on opposing side of offense and made to be looked like they are
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at serious loggerheads with one another. And I should just point out that Farage,
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an opportunist, certainly, has just put out on Twitter an accusation that
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he has identified somebody who threw what may have been a rock at him within
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the last couple of days, and it's very clear from photographic and video footage
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that he has completely misidentified the person in question. Of course, this has
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been retweeted and retweeted, and with the following as large as Farages, it's
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now on him to clarify this as quickly as possible. But it just goes
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to show how in these times, particularly with the lead up to a general
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election, people can put stuff out. Once it's out there, you very
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rarely ever hear the clarification of it. Very very significant issue. And I'll
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just finish off by saying that the clip I shared with Laura Tayler last week
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was part of a longer interview and that will be out on the UK column
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website soon, so please do keep an eye out for that. Thank you,
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Charles. Now let's move on to some good news and with respect to
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net zero policy at least, and we're going to Exeter for this. Now.
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There's been a long standing campaign because Exeitor has been running a pilot program
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for safer seats streets sorry, so of course they are talking about you know,
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low traffic zones or no traffic zones in this case, and naturally the
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Green Party has been to demand that the streets were all shut down, stop
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the cars traveling. We call an Exeter Councilors to resist suspending the active Streets
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trial in the various parts of Exeter that was taking place. It must be
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allowed to run its eighteen month course as originally planned, but in fact there
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was a really huge opposition to this in the area and just one typical tweet
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so that the catchphrase were using was stop the block. Exeter stopped the block.
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If you want an example of community not involved or consulted on the low
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traffic neighborhoods, look no further than the current trial and Exeter. It's hugely
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unpopular and ignored, please of the elderly and firm workers and businesses, per
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public transport, huge delays on our tier roads. So they held Sorry,
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I'll bring that back. There was a meeting held in Exeter a couple of
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days ago, and well it all seems to have gone very well for the
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naysayers because Exeter has now decided to drop the scheme. So let's have a
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look at this. This is their agenda and Decisions for Exeter Highways and Traffic
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Orders Committee from Monday the third of June, and this is what it says.
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The experimental traffic regulation orders associated with the various parts of Exeter are suspended
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as soon as practicable. The orders associated with some others are also suspended.
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Narrowing paintings from it in place to slow down traffic. They are going to
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maintain the various traffic camming measures as they describe it and so on. But
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that is a win for anybody that has been arguing against the low traffic neighborhoods
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and so on. So that's a positive development. So NAI's politive development.
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I think. I think that follows really with the the sam Elia case to
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show that public pressure does have a place. So to those who perhaps ask
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skeptical about the you know, the idea of protesting, whether it be via
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digital or written means, or we're actually getting out there and sharing people,
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sharing officials what you think there is, absolutely there is a place for it
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and that all results. Absolutely. Okay, let's move on. If you
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And yesterday I spoke to Andrew Bridging and that you will be going at
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that Andrew recorded yesterday inviting people to come and assist with his efforts to a
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campaign in North East Leicestershire. My name's Andrew Bridge and I'm the Independent candidate
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for Northwest Leicestershire. I've served as the MP since twenty ten. If you're
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able and willing to come and help on the ground in Northwest you'd be extremely
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You'd be striking a blow for democracy and direct democracy at that. Yeah,
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sorry, of course I should have said Northwest less you sure, sorry
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about that. So if you can possibly help with that, please do contact
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Andrew Bridging. Now let's move on then to health matters and well, good
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news or is it excuse my sarcasm, but let's bring this on screen because
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this is the European Medicine Agency. They have decided to authorize it already authorized
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zoonotic influenza vaccine from Sakiras or Sicaris. I'm not quite sure how you pronounced
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that. Exactly this is a vaccine which is produced by this organization CSL.
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SO CSL Sicaris is a pride champion of pandemic preparedness signs in agreement with the
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European Commission to provide pre pandemic vaccines to the EU. So this is exactly
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like the BUNG that was given to the various pharmaceutical companies during COVID, so
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before they'd ever announced the development of a COVID vaccine, there are all kinds
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of contracts, all kinds of multimillion pounds and multimillion euro deals being on with
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the big farmer companies for something which either hadn't received safety approval, hadn't even
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been developed yet, and so on. And they're doing the same thing again
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this time with avian influenza. So if we bring that back on screen,
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let's just look and see what they had to say. Four influenza pandemics have
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occurred over the past century, with the nineteen eighteen pandemic being the most severe
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in recent history, with an estimated mortality of up to fifty million people worldwide.
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Is that true, Well, there's plenty of debate around that. We'll
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talk about that an extra. So they say that strain matched pandemic influenza vaccines
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and manufacturer response to the declaration of a pandemic. Pre pandemic, also called
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zoonotic influenza vaccines are available in the inter pandemic period to help protect influenza strains
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with pandemic potential. These vaccines can be deployed under government guidance to mitigate the
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risk of an outbreak or provide a first line of defense in advance of a
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pandemic vaccine if a pandemic were to be declared. So that's fantastic, isn't
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it. They are preparing for the next pandemic, which is they claim going
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to be related to ivian flu. Now the question is what's the situation in
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the UK. Well, the MHRA has this document Guidance on string Changes in
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Authorized COVID nineteen Vaccines, and this was published on the fourth of March twenty
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twenty one. But this talks about halfway down the article that talks about antigen
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shift. They say usually via a reassurcement, a reassortment sorry of genes,
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creating a novel influenza virus with pandemic potential. This would imply that a new
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version of previously authorized vaccine would be decisively different to a previous version. Such
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a pandemic vaccine may differ from seasonal influenza vaccines e g. By the adjuvant
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that's used in order to provide strong and rapid protection already after the first dose,
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especially where such strains are per immunogenic. Sorry for pandemic preparedness a pre
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pandemic setting sort. In a pre pandemic setting, the manufacturing process and vaccine
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designed for a pandemic vaccine can already be determined before the pandemic is declared,
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even without knowing the actual pandemic strain. Yet this has prompted the development of
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the mock up concept generally termed pandemic preparedness vaccines, by which a vaccine is
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developed as a pre pandemic vaccine now termed zoonotic influenza vaccine with a strain that's
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emerging and that may have pandemic potential. So there's lots of maize and maybees
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and possibilities and perhapses. But they are making sure that the bungs keep going
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to the big farmer companies. I mean, why people should be out on
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the streets about there's many, many reasons why people should be out on the
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streets, But we are passing millions, if not billions of pounds every year
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to these companies for something which may never happen unless it's engineered to happen.
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And of course a lot of that is through mainstream media propaganda. But it's
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quite an incredible situation. Isn't it that avian flu is being promoted as the
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next pandemic already? It is absolutely I mean, you know, we've dealt
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with this over a number of weeks, now, I mean, from what
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you've just read, it's hard to be that even the people writing it really
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have any conviction behind it. Well they should have a conviction, Well they
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should, But you're actually right. I mean, obviously, on the one
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hand, it's there to be ignored, but on the other the sheer cost
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of it is absolutely phenomenal, and that is something that does need to be
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addressed to his grant Chat's true to his work about accountability. Well indeed,
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and of course we need to point out that Debbi is skeptical about avian flu
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being the actual pandemic that gets called. At the end of the day.
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She is of the view that this type of rhetoric is going to start to
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be applied with respect to antibiotics and so on an antibiotic resistance, So we
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should make that point as well. But moving on from this, then Maderna
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is really excited because they have announced positive phase three data for combination vaccine against
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influenza and COVID nineteen. So the quote here is combination vaccines have the potential
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to reduce the burden of respiratory viruses on health systems and pharmacies, as well
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as offer people more convenient vaccination options which could improve compliance and provide stronger protection
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from seasonal illness. Maderna is the only company with the positive phase three flu
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and COVID combination vaccine. Building on the momentum of positive phase three data across
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the respiratory portfolio, we continue to address significant unmet medical needs and advanced public
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health. Yes, okay, the less said about that the better, but
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we should look now then at the Daily Meal and they are attempting to place
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themselves as the mainstream media organization of choice with respect to vaccine injury. So
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this headline is the latest nice on Adam forty one had everything to live for,
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but he died after the astrosenica vaccine gave him a blood clot. Male
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readers share stories of the deaths or health problems they fear were caused by the
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job and their battles for compensation. Now in the Meals, and to be
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fair to the Meal, they did cover the issue of Nikola Shingler and her
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husband who had GIAM Barret syndrome as a result of the astrosenica vaccine, But
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of course they only did that after the UK Column covered that story first.
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That was the story that got the UK column kicked off YouTube and Vimeo and
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other platforms. But of course the Meal was not traded similarly by these platforms
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when they covered the story. So the fact that the Meal is now attempting
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to highlight these stories now, while that on one sense is good, but
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of course the Meal all the way through this was pushing out the pro vaccine
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propaganda just as hard as anybody else at the same time. So then moving
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on from this, we just want to raise the issue of fluoridation again and
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the reminder that there's a consultation going on with respect to north East England.
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So this is the open consultation community water fluoridation expansion in the northeast of England.
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Is updated on the twenty fourth of April. But it's just a reminder
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that the seventeenth of June is the deadline for any submissions to this. So
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just to read what it says here. The Health and Care Act twenty twenty
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two provides pars for the Secretary State to introduce very and terminated community water fluoridation
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schemes. Before using these parts, public consultation is required on the proposal,
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so if you are interested in taking part in that consultation, the link to
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that will be in the show notes, of course, if you're on the
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UK column website after the program, and as I say, it closes at
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eleven fifty nine pm on the seventeenth of June twenty twenty four, so do
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get that in the next couple of days. And we'll just remind you that
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we did cover this issue in March this year. Fluoride, the poison chalice
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impla inside this is Joy Warren. If you haven't seen that interview, have
31:06
a look at that and share it if you can. Okay, let's move
31:11
on. Then related in a certain sense, Charles and land us. It
31:17
is very much related. And I start with a slide to make a clarification,
31:22
and the eagle eyed viewer pointed out that the slide which I used a
31:26
couple of weeks ago, in which I was intending to point out the decrease
31:30
in capacity or at least energy generated from solar power, in actual fact,
31:34
I've been looking at the sun too long, and I'd pointed at biomass.
31:40
So what I should have shown to reflect solar was this, which does in
31:45
actual fact show a marginal gain. But of course we have to ask the
31:48
question at what cost to proper biodiversity and indeed food security. But to go
31:55
back to biomass, which has of course seen a significant decrease, we should
32:00
consider that in the light of the government's biomass strategy published last year in twenty
32:07
twenty three, from which I've drawn out a small number of points. But
32:12
just to make it clear that at the present moment, or at least at
32:15
the time of writing, government estimates that there are one hundred and twenty one
32:17
thousand of hectes given over to providing feedstock for biomass, which, if you're
32:24
not entirely familiar with it, is in effect burning wood or wood pellets or
32:30
combustible materials. There are effect sort of in effect wood based of course,
32:35
at a time where we're told that we absolutely shouldn't be burning wood mic.
32:38
Sorry, Yeah, can I just ask a question, and how much of
32:42
that is a crop a lided or forded. Yeah, that's exactly what I
32:47
want to come on and deal. So they in amongst this, they plan
32:53
to increase this area by approximately seventeen thousand hectares per annum. Of course,
32:58
this largely it's over to a monoculture crop you know, being grown and in
33:04
most cases non native, quick growing species, which is absolutely running completely counter
33:08
to the genuine sort of environmental movement or indeed any of the government's of spouse
33:14
policies on environmental transition. But critically here and on the issue of food security,
33:20
it does use arable land, and pertinent to Mike's question, this does
33:23
use thousands and thousands of tons of sugar, beet and wheat, not to
33:28
mention other crops which could perfectly well be grown for human or at least animal
33:34
consumption, but instead they are burned. Now, if you want to know
33:37
more about this and the related technologies, I would point you back towards the
33:42
UK column website and a series of articles produced or written by Ian Davis last
33:45
year. Are we really at war? Nonsensical sustainable development parts one and two
33:52
and sustainable renewable energy neither sustainable nor renewable, But we talk a lot about
33:58
the constraints on the population, which of course is increasing a smaller amount of
34:04
land being used for food production, and indeed the sort of contrived science that
34:08
brings us a load of threats which we're told are the fault of climate change,
34:15
but also us and our poor attitude or practices concerning biosecurity. So,
34:20
of course no great surprise to reintroduce at this point bird flu, or at
34:23
least the zoonotic sort of version and shifting of bird flu. So here we
34:30
have updated just last week confirmed findings of influenza of avian origin in non avian
34:36
wildlife. Now, as Mike points out, it's very easy to create the
34:42
idea of a forthcoming pandemic with almost no evidence, and just to give an
34:46
illustration of how this is being done at the moment, the confirmed findings go
34:51
back to week eight of twenty twenty three, since when there does not appear
34:55
to be any evidence of a confirmed finding. Of course, I do caveat
35:00
this by explaining once again that this is solely done by PC artists, which
35:07
of course is in effect meaningless because it may not be used as a diagnostic
35:12
tool, either in a live or dead or laboratory cultured specimen. But further
35:16
to that, the update from February the non avian wildlife, despite the government's
35:24
desperation for evidence of it. They do say that there have been no further
35:28
positive HPAI H five N one detections in non avian wildlife in gb Now,
35:36
with that in mind, it seems somewhat discordant to hear Jeremy Farrer at the
35:42
World Health Organization talking in such terms. We'll just have a quick look at
35:45
a video of him speaking within the last couple of weeks. The great concern,
35:52
of course, is that in doing so and infecting ducks and chickens,
35:54
but now increasingly mammals, that that virus now evolves and develops the ability to
36:01
infect humans and then critically the ability to go from human to human transmission.
36:07
And we know that in the rare cases I think I've had four or five
36:10
hundred cases so far of humans, the mortality rate is extraordinarily high. So
36:15
to me, this is a major concern. The current outbreak, for want
36:21
of a better word, in America amongst cows is really concerning as well,
36:25
and also talks to this issue of transmission. We have to understand in those
36:30
cow settings it sheds how H five N one is transmitting, because it may
36:37
be learning, not learning, evolving into transmitting in different ways. Do the
36:43
milking structures of cows create aerosols. Is it the environment which they're living in?
36:50
Is It's not an overstatement to say that he is that broadcasting to a
36:59
worldwide audience, and he is literally making stuff up on the spot. He
37:02
is putting forward rank hypotheses about whether or not something happens by aerosol, and
37:09
whether or not such a thing may lead to the deaths of many, many
37:15
people. It's a complete, absolute, out and out speculation. You're suggesting
37:20
he's a conspiracy theorist. Well, I think I could suggest a lot of
37:25
things, but what I think mainly, what I suggest is that what he
37:29
says does of course get picked up by all sorts of health agencies and all
37:32
the rest of it, and before we know it, it does appear to
37:37
be a sort of a going concern, as it were, that there is
37:40
a pandemic, or there is the threat of a pandemic, exactly like Mike
37:43
saying. The other thing I'd like to point back to from the previous document
37:47
that we were looking at is, of course the mention of anti terrorism,
37:52
which you might not think was particularly related to bird flu, but in actual
37:57
fact, under the Anti Terrorism, Crime and Security Act two thousand and one,
38:01
what they call high pathogenic avian influenza viruses are a listed pathogen. But
38:07
of course that doesn't actually stop you from keeping hold of such things if indeed
38:09
you believe that they do exist. You just have to make sure that you
38:14
notify the correct authorities of your intention to hold pathogens and toxins. But this
38:20
of course relates to the narrative that somehow food security and health security relates very
38:27
closely to national security. And on that note, we just look at an
38:31
article recent article from Health Policy Watch in which they announced that the United States
38:37
has expanded bilateral pandemic preparedness measures and established a Global Health Security Coordinator post.
38:45
Now, who is she and what did she say? She's called doctor Stephanie
38:49
Posuki, and the other day in an interview she describes her role and strategy
38:53
as being really important, and she says, we've seen that a lot of
38:57
emerging pathogens are zoonotic desas if you take a look as well at the areas
39:01
of partnership within the fifty countries, you'll see that zoonotic disease is a common
39:06
area partnership because this is something that has been identified by many other countries well,
39:12
how would this have happened without funding? And here we see the Bill
39:15
mill in de Gates Foundation funding in August twenty twenty two, nearly twenty million
39:20
dollars for the Perbright Institute, which of course supports vaccine manufacturing and innovation for
39:25
neglected tropical and zoonotic diseases of livestock. And hey, presdoy, the next
39:30
thing you know, you have such things coming to the fore, like,
39:32
of course, the Purbright Institute putting out information about blue tongue, which again
39:37
will cover more again in the future, but we have dealt with earlier this
39:42
year, and indeed, to sort of roam things off, here's a tweet
39:45
from the Met Office already somebody works for the Met Office last within the last
39:51
couple of weeks saying, how do we at the Met Office use name Atmospheric
39:55
Dispersion Model outputs to help APHA Animal and Plant Health AG and the Purbid Institute
40:01
to conduct surveillance and control of blue tongue disease? Well, how indeed and
40:10
what really should we be making of all of this is something that we will
40:15
continue to follow. As Mike says, Debbie Evans is very much highlighting the
40:21
issue of what's being described as antimicrobial resistance. I think I would put it
40:24
that it doesn't have to be one, you know, effectively a sort of
40:29
single focus show. I think there are many things waiting in the wings that
40:31
we will have to be very very aware of, and of course this is
40:35
something that we'll continue to report on. Thanks Charles, Okay and Vanessa.
40:38
Let's go back to the Middle East, and there's been some movement on Syria
40:43
but also Turkey. Yeah, so just a very quick update on Syria rather
40:49
neglect that because of what's going on obviously pallaspying and having and et cetera.
40:55
There is a lot of movement suddenly in Syria which does indicate a degree of
41:01
weakness perhaps of the United States of course again leading up to elections, but
41:07
also with their investment in the genocide in Palestine and obviously in Ukraine also,
41:15
so there is currently the Blue Arrow is a current escalated military campaign, ground
41:22
campaign and artillery campaign in all of central Syria, so that entire area of
41:28
what is effectively desert against isis cells, tero cyles and factions that are sort
41:36
of set up home in that area, of course enabled and facilitated to do
41:39
so by the Alphanef circles in red the Alphine f Us illegal military base on
41:45
the border there with Jordan. At the same time, there is a push
41:51
to send troops down to the south where Israel and the US have been fermenting
41:58
a separatist movement around Dada in sweder Interestingly, there have been reports in Russian
42:07
telegram channels of Ukrainian soldiers being present in Dada. We haven't had that confirm
42:12
yet, but that would again suggest this sort of expansion of walls under the
42:16
control of NATO. And sorry, if I can just go back to the
42:21
map for one second, mic and then the yellow triangle in the northwest in
42:25
an escalation and activity against the Turkish BacT and NATO backed Al Qaeda, various
42:35
groups and organizations in Edeleb in order to liberate the territory to the north of
42:40
the main arterial road that goes from Aleppo to Latakia on the coast. So
42:45
quite a lot of activity in Syria, and that is coinciding with the fact
42:51
that Iraq now has stepped into mediate broker peace and normalization between Turkey and Syria.
42:58
There is claims in Arab media in Alava of a meeting in Baghdad soon.
43:06
Of course, presidents are Sad has always made it perfectly clear that there
43:08
will only be normalization when Turkey ceases its annexation of Syrian territory and basically with
43:16
draws from Syria entirely now interesting. At the same time, Turkey is requested
43:22
to join BRICKS, So let's have a look at the reasons that they state
43:27
in this Middle East by article. Turkey's interest in an economic platform led by
43:32
China and Russia has raised eyebrows in European capitals. Of course, it has
43:37
a second Turkish official toll mee That Turkey is attracted to BRICKS because it does
43:42
not require political or economic commitments or agreements. But the center stage there,
43:47
I think is very typical of Turkish policy. In a sense, it's blackmailing
43:53
the EU. We don't see BRICKS as an alternative to NATO or the EU.
43:58
However, the school accession process to the European Union encourages us to explore
44:04
other economic platforms. At the same time, Turkey and NATO member state is
44:08
looking also towards the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. So looking again in the article text,
44:19
what's interesting here is that Turkish officials are focusing on the Middle Corridor trade
44:23
initiative to transport goods from China to Europe through Turkish states such as Kazakhstan and
44:30
Azerbaijan, where of course Turkey really holds power with Israel. Israel provides up
44:36
to seventy percent of Azerbaijani weapons, So this is very interesting in the context,
44:42
and this is where I would would suggest that Turkey is starting to feel
44:46
very isolated, having really allied itself with NATO, but at the same time
44:52
keeping a foot in the Russian China camp. You'll remember in September twenty twenty
45:00
three Natan Yahoo going to the UNNGA with his new Middle East, which of
45:04
course is the India Middle East Europe Economic Corridor, which completely bypasses Turkeys,
45:12
so bringing supplies from India through the Gulf States, through occupied Palestine, using
45:19
some of the ports in Egypt potentially, but it could also isolate the Sewis
45:24
Canal into Europe. And let's have a look in the same article, the
45:29
India Middle East Europe condadact what we've been selling for some time. It's a
45:34
counter to China's bri it challenges China's Middle East influences from Middle East ability.
45:40
We can argue counter to that, normalized diplomatic relations could lead to improved relations
45:46
between regional nations, which of course includes Israel and Saudi Arabia, where the
45:52
US is pushing hard for normalization, reduced dependence on the Sewis Canal, which
45:58
again is fort pressure on Egypt to on board with native member states and Israel
46:04
and expand the D twenties goal. But let's also have a look at the
46:07
fact that Turkey perceives the Belton Road initiative, the Chinese initiative as a definite
46:15
threat to the Turkish economy and in this article, China aims to deliver products
46:21
to the rich markets faster, with the European market being one of them.
46:25
He said, this is the expert that was talking to it and a lou
46:29
agency. Today, an average delivery time from China to the European market takes
46:34
forty to four to five days. In the Belton Road project, China's goal
46:37
is to deliver its goods to Europe within a week. What does this mean
46:40
for us? Our biggest advantage today is logistics. A product leaving GASIANEP can
46:46
be delivered to any city in Europe within forty eight hours. Forty eight hours
46:51
is a very serious advantage compared to forty five days, but when it decreases
46:54
to one week, our logistic advantage drops to five days. And of course
47:00
that is one of the reasons that Turkey was trying to take control of northern
47:05
areas of Syria in Duan's Neo Ottoman Empire ambitions, because of course that's where
47:13
the Bolton Road initiative will run through Erch into northern Syria to East Mediterranean coast
47:20
and then the Europe. So very much, I think Turkey is feeling extremely
47:24
isolated right now, and we're going to potentially see a change in policy,
47:30
but I will always not entirely trust Erduwan's agenda. Thank you, Vanessa.
47:38
Now let's come on to Ukraine and well, first of all, the issue
47:42
of so called disinformation and yet another website has been set up with a hitlist
47:46
on it, so let's bring it on screen here. This is a text
47:50
e dot org dot Ua. It is in Ukrainian, but it also is
47:53
in English, and they're talking about a roller coaster from trumpet Communist the forces
48:00
in the US impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it, and they've
48:05
got all kinds of nice level graphics. They're highlighting three hundred idiot individuals seventy
48:08
six organizations on their list. They say these include politicians, political movements and
48:14
groups, media and journalists, experts and think tanks. Some individuals appear in
48:20
multiple categories. And as you scroll down through this has got lots of little
48:22
graphics and network diagrams and so on. Jordan Peterson's on the list, so
48:28
he leads he's the first photograph on the list. But we have here's one
48:31
of their diagrams. Tucker Carson, his fans and interviewees. So they've got
48:37
a network diagram showing all those and as you, however, your mouse over
48:39
each of those dots, you get a name and who is next Code Pink
48:45
and other piece activists are on here, so all kinds of people there.
48:52
Then the next lot on the list is rt and the Gray Zone contributors and
48:55
partners. Ron Paul is on there, so they've got a nice pick Ron
49:00
Pol's you don't make sure you know who he is. Ron Paul is a
49:02
frequent guest on Russian state TV channel RTI, where he comments on events in
49:07
the USA, Ukraine and the world from a pro Russian perspective is what they're
49:12
claiming. And then we have what's next, conservatives and isolationists Donald Trump of
49:17
course in this Charles Cock, the American conservative kid, who institute all these
49:22
types of people. And then we have a conspiracy theorists, propagandists and Russians.
49:28
So conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, propagandists and so on, like veterans
49:34
today is how they're describing it. But I alsought we did put a quote
49:37
on here. Another contributor, Patrick Hennison, is an assistant editor at info
49:43
Wars. Well that's a lie for a start. Patrick was at info wars
49:46
for all of about two weeks. It was a little bit longer than that,
49:50
but it wasn't very long at all, and it was many many years
49:52
ago. He is now the editor in chief, they say, of twenty
49:54
first Century wire dot com. The website described itself as an independent hyperblog that
49:59
delivers bold It publishes numerous conspiracy theories about the new World order, quotes Russian
50:05
ideologue Alexander Dugan, denies the Holocaust pretty sure, it doesn't do that,
50:08
and of course spreads almost all the craziest Russian fakes about Ukraine such as no
50:14
Ukraine exists before nineteen ninety one and Ukraine organized genocide in Dombas, So that
50:20
is the latest. Now there's a list which is just another list to go
50:24
with the other two or three Ukrainian hit lists out there. But in the
50:29
meantime, the United States and Poland have announced a new Ukraine Communications Group also
50:35
did this deal with disinformation from Russia and from Russian operatives, and this has
50:44
resulted in a report on how Ukraine fights disinformation. They're calling this beehive versus
50:51
mammoth. So this is NATO's European Center of Excellence for cantering hybrid Threats has
50:57
published this document to go alongside with the ANNI with Poland and So this is
51:02
all about dealing with Russian disinformation. So looking at the State Department comment here,
51:08
they're saying representatives from participating countries will begin collaborating in person to support Ukraine's
51:15
independent sovereignty and territory integrity through collaborative efforts to counter disinformation and support fact based
51:21
reporting. They say the UCG is designed to counter these deceptive narratives and reinforce
51:27
honest coverage of Ukraine's resilience and bravery in the face of Russia's aggression. I'm
51:32
sure everybody can see the irony in all of that which brings us onto this.
51:38
And so let's look at this in Ukrainian first and then look at a
51:44
translation of it also in AA. So EU should begin membership talks with Ukraine
51:49
in June. According to Ushula vonder Lean, they are very worried at the
51:53
potential that Urban takes the presidency of the European Council, and so they need
52:00
to get this moving before that happens in July. So you're EU commissioned President
52:07
Vanderleyan says, Ukraine has fulfilled all the steps to join the European Union.
52:13
So that's good news, isn't it. And then finally, on this issue,
52:17
the US has lifted its weapons ban according to the Washington Post on the
52:22
Azov Brigade. So the as Of Brigades have been brought into the mainstream Ukrainian
52:28
military. So this is the decision was made, they say, following a
52:32
State Department review of the as Of Brigade, a one time militia now part
52:37
of Ukraine's National Guard. No mention of the word Nazi in this particular piece
52:43
of journalism. But there you go. They are now entitled to use US
52:46
weapons along with everybody else in the Ukrainian military. I don't know if you've
52:51
got any thoughts on that. Briefly, well, I mean, like a
52:54
lot of what's been reported up here, I mean it just sort of smacks
52:57
of desperation and narrative that's completely adrift. But I mean, like we continue
53:01
to say all the time, this is an information war and what information is
53:07
put out that does matter because the vast majority of people do believe what they're
53:09
told. Yes, okay, well, charge, let's come on to we
53:13
were talking about farming earlier on let's come out of the sea. Yeah.
53:15
Absolutely, we have spent a lot of time discussing land land use, but
53:20
we will look at the sea today and we'll start with news from the government
53:23
of Iceland from yesterday. But they've issued license for the hunting of finn Wales.
53:29
And I don't put this up with necessarily a judgment on the particular story
53:34
itself, but I do use it to highlight the incredible contradictions that exist within
53:38
the sort of European sphere and the Western power block. So hunting of fin
53:44
Wales. The license is valid for the twenty four hunting season, permitting the
53:46
hunting of ninety nine whales in Greenland, West Iceland, totally one hundred and
53:51
twenty eight whales. But they talk about this which obviously was sort of unexpected
53:55
because it was predicted that Iceland would not renew this license. But they say
54:00
that it aligns with the Marine and fresh Water Research Institutes twenty seventeen advice and
54:05
considers the conservative ecosystem factors of the International Whaling Commission. Worth pointing out,
54:09
of course, that Iceland is not actually a member of the International Whaling Commission.
54:13
But nonetheless they then rather extraordinarily go on say it is based on a
54:16
precautionary approach and reflects the government's increased emphasis on the sustainable use of resources.
54:23
They don't make it clear at all how the hunting of one hundred and twenty
54:27
eight whales does that, but an interesting application of the precautionary approach or the
54:32
precautionary principle, which of course we have spoken about with regard to so many
54:37
other things in recent times. So we look at now the European Commission.
54:39
Of course, Iceland is not a member of the European Union, and therefore
54:44
does not fall under the sort of auspices of the European Commission. Nonetheless,
54:46
they have a policy on international whaling to do with the protection of such creatures,
54:52
so use adopted measures to protect citations against hunting, capture and captivity and
54:58
also against deliberate at disturbance. Now, at a time where Europe is very
55:02
much pushing for Ukrainian membership of the European Union, where NATO and in the
55:08
European Union are pushing for war with Russia, it is pertinent to mention Exercise
55:14
Joint Warrior, which happens in British waters almost exclusively twice a year. And
55:20
here we have from the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust a piece about Exercise Joint
55:23
Warrior and their long standing concerns about the impact that the exercise has on cetaceans,
55:30
and we question how Europe's largest military exercises are allowed to take place within
55:35
and near to protected areas specifically designated to protect Scottish cetaceans and well known,
55:40
sorry unknown cetacean hotspots. And they go on specifically talk about sonar. Military
55:45
sonar used during these operations produces an intense loud noise that can cause injury,
55:50
death and mass strandings of cetaceans, as well as widespread disturbance, of course,
55:54
exactly the disturbance that the European Commission is trying to void. Apparently this
56:01
can be sort of confirmed to a certain extent by Forces net which from twenty
56:07
twenty talk about whales beginning to be herded back to the sea the head of
56:10
Exercise Joint Warrior. Exactly how that's going to be done is sightly unclear,
56:15
but nonetheless there are these raft of contradictions, and of course this is set
56:20
against the backdrop of the sustainable Market's initiative and the Terrakata putting forward that thirty
56:25
by thirty, meaning that thirty percent of the not just the land but also
56:30
coastal areas will be in nature recovery by the year twenty thirty. So that's
56:32
worth mentioning, particularly when we look at how the government are sort of spinning
56:37
the fisheries story at the moment, and in April they announced that there are
56:42
fishing opportunities worth over nine hundred and seventy million pounds secured for this year.
56:47
They go on to effectively paint a picture that since leaving the European Union things
56:52
have looked up, and they talked about securing an increase of sixty one thousand
56:57
tons, which is an increase of nine percent and approximately fifty three million pounds
57:01
in fishing opportunities. Now use the word opportunities is a course somewhat disingenuous because
57:07
in actual fact, the reality of it seems that things for fisheries and those
57:10
involved in the economy and the fishing trade have not been good. Here we
57:16
have from Fishing Daily the recent, very recent announcement that Plymouth drawler agents announced
57:22
the cessation of trading, and that means that people who were bringing fish into
57:27
Plymouth, which of course it had to do certainly after the closure of other
57:30
fish markets, are now forced to either go to Newlyn or Bricksim which puts
57:37
a massive strain on the infrastructure, but also has a very very obvious effect
57:42
of increasing the cost for those doing this, but also therefore for the purchaser
57:46
of the fish in the in the sort of last instance, and then we
57:52
look at the fisheries and seafood scheme, which does gives us an indication of
57:55
the sort of perhaps the desperation within the industry within the economy. So their
58:00
update from Monday is that the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme, which was there to
58:06
support fisheries, has closed for applications and they say that since reopening, the
58:09
scheme has once again proven popular with industry generating a record breaking number of applications
58:15
in just three months. Given the number and value of applications we have received,
58:20
scheme is now closed to new applications. So we've talked quite a lot
58:25
about food security, but of course we mustn't forget that, especially for an
58:30
island nation, food security does not just involve the activities on the land,
58:34
but also in the seas, and I think this is something that we should
58:37
concentrate on more. If you, as a viewer or listener, have greater
58:42
insight into what is going on in fisheries near you, please do get in
58:45
touch and provide us with any more information or leads that you can. Thank
58:51
you Charles. Now we will end them with a couple of stories. First
58:53
of all from one from the BBC here from their weather reporterer Simon King UK.
59:00
Whether where is summer is the question, and clearly they're getting upset about
59:04
the fact that global warming isn't happening in the UK this year. We've basically
59:08
had it raining since when September or something more or less. And even when
59:13
the sun is shining, if it hides behind a cloud at all, at
59:16
the underlying temperature is clearly very cool. And so people already noticing that summer
59:22
doesn't seem to be happening this year, and well they're getting very upset about
59:27
that and offering all kinds of suggestions as to why that might be head of
59:32
desperation there perhaps. But anyway, look, I just wanted to end by
59:37
highlighting ned pamphlon and he has a substock. It's called Ned's Substack. Ned,
59:45
of course was drawing and painting lots of illustrations for the UK column News
59:53
for quite some time a number of years ago. He has a substock where
59:58
he continues to put his artwork, and I just thought everybody should get a
1:00:05
heads up on that and go and have a look at it and offer Ned
1:00:07
a little bit of support if you possibly can. We'll have a little bit
1:00:10
more where I'm going to show a couple of the things that Ned produced.
1:00:15
While I think this one of the ones that we're going to use is from
1:00:19
twenty eighteen in Extra and features a very fetching Boris Johnson, so we'll have
1:00:25
a bit of fun with that during Extra. If your a UK called member,
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join us for that in a couple of minutes on the Members live stream.
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Otherwise we'll see you at one pm as usual on Friday. Don't forget
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the Andrew Bridge interview at one pm tomorrow in the usual places, and we
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will see you then. Thanks for joining us. Bye bye, bye bye