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UK Column News Podcast 24th July 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty fourth of July, just twenty twenty
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four, in fact, just after one to talk. Welcome to UK Colin
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News. I'm your host. Mike Grumson joined me in the studio today.
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Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program, Charles, very very much, Mike,
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and by video link from Damascus of Vanessa Billy, we're going to get
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kicked off with digital ID and well. This article in the Times has been
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motivating quite a lot of people on social media and so on. The headline
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is government backed digital IDs to let people open bank accounts. The verification technology
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will let people use one method for everything from paying tax and buying alcohol to
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opening a bank account. And of course, as you might expect, the
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thrust of this article is convenience. It's all about the convenience of it and
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so on. But you know, frankly, anybody that's been paying attention shouldn't
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be surprised that, in fact, cars care starmer who ran as can pain
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on changes. We've mentioned this several times. There's no change here at all.
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So let's just look at how there's no change, because we'll go back
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to the King's speech in November twenty twenty three, and this was a graphic
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we showed at the time the main points of it, and close to the
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bottom there we've got Data Protection and Digital Information Bill and the Tories we're talking
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about x being able to export data abroad. They were talking about a whole
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host of different supposedly data protection really related things. But if we put that
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back on screen, we'll look at the new name for it, because it's
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exactly the same. It's now called the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill.
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This was in the King's speech just last week and so this is the new
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name for it, and it's pretty much dealing with the same sort of situation.
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So they are talking there is one new aspect to this. They're talking
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about a new National Underground Asset Register that will give planners and excavators access to
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data. Now this is interesting because this is something that Debbie's been talking about
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in recent weeks, the fact that the water companies don't have a clue whether
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und underground infrastructure is. And then it also is talking about smart data schemes,
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which allows sharing of customer data with authorized third party providers. And this
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is key, particularly with medical information and so on, and as they developed
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the DNA databases. This is key. But if we look at digital identity
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itself and just remind ourselves what this was looked like under the government's of the
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previous government's documentation, and this won't have changed. One type of digital identity,
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they said, which could be developed under the Trust framework, is similar
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to a wallet, but created securely on your device. It lets you store
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various trusted pieces of information about yourself. We call these pieces of personal information
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attributes, and you can choose when and with whom you share them, but
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probably never your whole wallet of information. And on the right hand side there
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you can see the graphic that they includ which includes things like your age,
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your qualifications, whether you've got a driving license, where you're resident, whether
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you're a pensioner or not, whether you're qualified to work in the country or
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not. This could include disclosing details from the government, they said, such
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as an illegal name, date of birth, right to reside, to work
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or to study, as well as details from other organizations such as your professional
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qualifications or employment history. And so this is of course not going to be
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run by the government themselves, but it's going to be run by private sector
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organizations. This is another public private partnership here, and a whole host of
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organizations queuing up to get involved. So here's one digital ID and let's look
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at another one, the Post Office. And I bearing in mind what's going
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on with the inquiry into the horizon it scandal, is anybody likely to use
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the Post Office to provide a digital ID service, even if you were in
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agreement that this was a good idea, I don't think so. And then
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of course we've got yo D and yo D is particularly interesting because this is
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already something which is being sold heavily to the younger generations in order to get
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ID for entering pubs, clubs and so on. But the YOD citizen card
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has got to be well up on the you know, in terms of the
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likelihood of them being chosen for the final contract. Maybe quite a number of
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these will be chosen at the end of the day, and there'll be some
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competition in the market. It's not just in the UK, of course,
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because this is a global agenda, as we all know, and the EU
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talking about exactly the same thing that a digital idea and personal digital wallet for
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EU citizens, residents and businesses. It makes all kinds of things possible according
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to the EU, And of course the story that's coming from the British government
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and from most people that are commenting on this from the establishment side are saying,
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of course, this will never be mandatory, You'll still be able to
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do things without digital ID. But I think anybody that's been paying attention over
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the last number of years knows that they will make life very very difficult for
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anybody that wants to continue to do things the old way. And I mean
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one example of that is HMRC and their claims that they will maintain their telephone
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lines for people that want to use traditional methods of communication, but in fact
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they have systematically increased the way times on their telephone service to make it so
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unpleasant and impossible for people to use it that they're forced into the digital way
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of doing things. And of course it's not mandatory, except it sort of
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is because here's gov dot UK and their one login system and the idea of
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this is that you have a single login for every government service that you might
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use. And we shouldn't forget to mention online safety because this is of worth
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justifying digital ID checks, because if children have to be protected from or online
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pornography. Then, of course you've got to build identify the person who's visiting
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your porn website, and that means you've got to be able to identify what
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age they are. They've got to be able to identify who they are.
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So this graphic from the from Ofcom saying children first see online porn at age
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thirteen on average, ten percent of seen it by age nine, seventy nine
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percent of seen violent porn by the age of eighteen, and so age assurance
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checks might include photo ID matching, facial age estimation, credit card checks,
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and the next one is digital identity wallets, which is exactly what we're talking
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about. So just to remind everybody what the government's position was on this,
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here is their comments from their FAQ. This is the previous government. Of
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course, I'm sure the new government will update this and it won't look any
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different to the old one. But anyway, the claim that the UK government
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at the time was making was that them, or at least the claim that
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people were making about the UK government, was that the government was creating a
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mandatory ID card. The UK government at the time said the proposed legislation does
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not include any proposal to create either a digital or physical ID card. The
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government is committed to making it as easy as possible for people to prove who
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they are online and access as services they need without creating mandatory ID cards.
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But as we've just the point of just made is that it will be effectively
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mandatory because it will be so difficult for people to get access to services without
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it that although they claim it won't be mandatory, in practice, it will
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be. So we're saying that that's at the very least misleading. The next
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claim that they were worried about on the Internet is that this will make it
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easier for hackers to get hold of people's data, and the fact that they
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were claiming was it cybersecurity is a critical priority for the government. That the
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government recognizes how important it is to protect you and their data and have robust
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measured in place to ensure the security and integrity of online government services and systems,
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which is pretty ironic bearing in mind the consistent efforts that the government has
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made to make it easy for hackers to get access to data and to publish
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it online, as we saw recently with the NHS hack in London and millions
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of records appearing online. As a result. So we're going to say,
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at the very least this is misleading and finally then claim that sharing data in
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this way will erode my privacy rights and the government then claiming that this is
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not true because the government has stringent data protection processes in place, all data
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sharing is compliant with data protection legislation and guidance published by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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This will remain the case for any and all data sharing subsequent to the
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proposed legislation, which is why they're completely reorganizing the Information commission Commissioner's Office.
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They were under the previous legislation, they will continue to do so under this
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legislation. And part and parcel of this will be the ability for companies to
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export that data to other countries. So again we're saying that at the very
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least this is misleading, no change, because it's just continuation with the agenda
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that we were seeing up until now. Yeah. Absolutely, I think the
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vulnerability of the groups that already targeted exactly like you say, with the youth
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who was specifically on the yot front for access to cinemas. They said in
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twenty twenty when people were finally allowed to go out of their houses. And
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of course the other thing for the government to try and offer any kind of
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guarantee when everything is being conducted by third parties is absurd. Yes, no,
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Edessa, let me welcome you to the program, and well, kind
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of in a sense staying in sam Vinn because we're talking about did a collection
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bulk did a collection in the broad sense, but actually looking in a bit
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more detail what we were talking about on Monday with respect to anti Semitism or
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anti Semitism Unit eight two hundred and censorship and thought control basically by Israeli organizations.
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So this was an article that did actually appear in The Guardian. I
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think it was first published at the end of June and then was updated.
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Exclusive Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around the guards of
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war. So let's have a look at what it actually says. The authors
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of this article are Le Fang and Mike Paulson. I think so last November,
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just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amateuri, particularly Brash, forty
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two year old liquod minister. So the same party as is led by Natani
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Yahu was called into the Kanesse to brief lawmakers and what could be done about
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rising anti war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite
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universities. He's since led a targeted push to counter critics of Israel, and
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The Guardian has uncovered evidence showing how Israel has relaunched a controversial entity as part
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of a broader public relations campaign to target said protests at the US college campuses.
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So let's have the concert, which is basically this nexus of organizations that
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are also described as a pr commando unit referred to a sprawling relaunch of a
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controversial Israeli government program initially known as Killer Shlomo, designed to carry out or
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Israel called very Sinister mass consciousness activities targeted largely at the US and Europe.
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Concert is now known as the Voices of Israel, previously worked with groups spearheading
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a campaign to pass so called antibds state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in
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boycotts or any other nonviolent protests of Israel. So then let's have a look
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at what they then say. So they then it's worth reading this whole article
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because it is very detailed. Another group, Cyberwell, a pro Israel anti
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disinformation group led by former Israeli military intelligence and Voices officials. The Voices of
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Israel has established itself as an official trusted partner to TikTok Meta, helping both
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social platform screen and edit content. A recent Cyberwell report called for Meta to
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suppress the popular slogan from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,
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unfortunately not explaining that that was actually a statement put out by the Liquid
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Party originally. A spokesperson for Cyberwell responded that it receives no government funding whatsoever
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from any country, and the organization's leadership is neither affiliated with nor compensated by
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Voices for Israel. The spokesperson added that Cyberwell's funding comes from private donors from
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across spectrum of political, religious, and communal interests committed to combating digital anti
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Semitism. Well, that's very interesting because what I actually discovered when I started
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looking into this, when Mike pointed me towards this labyrinth bonny hole, was
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that the original authors had actually written a follow up article on Leefang's private substack
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pro Israel groups censoring social media led by former Israeli intelligence officers. Again,
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I really recommend reading this, it's full of details that were not in the
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Guardian original article. So what does he then say? He basically points out
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that when CyberWorld was reached for comment regarding why the biographies of its staff and
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advisors were removed or were scrubbed from their website after the Guardian article, they
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said, highlighting the danger of generating false and misleading information, we were forced
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to remove our team page for safety reasons. Following the publication of your story.
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Our analysts were attacked and identified by name on x. Users shared your
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article and our employees' names with a wider network, and we became concerned for
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our staff's safety. Despite Cyberwell's denial of ties to Voices of Israel, the
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organization's twenty twenty two annual report listed is chief financial officer as Sagi Balasha,
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the first CEO of the organization now known as Voices of Israel. The list
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of CyberWorld advisors in the report also included IDF Forces or Sorry, Israeli Defense
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Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, who was is who sorry Israeli corporate records
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revealed to be a director of the Research and Intelligence arm of Voices known as
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Keshut David, which is Hebrew for David's both h David was initially headed by
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Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of Research in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate widely
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known as Arman and an ext Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
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Another advisor to cyber Well, Amos Yadden, previously led Arman. Now in
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the article, they also then go on to point out, so the chief
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executive of Cyberwell and two board members worked at the same private intel spinoff from
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Voices for Israel, and the director of this spinoff is an advisor to cyber
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Well. The CEO of Voices for Israel became effectively the CFO of CyberWorld.
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So Cyberwell was lying in their statements to the Guardian. So you have the
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executive director and founder tell Or Prohen Montemeyer, and Zarhar Gorgol, a decorated
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IDF intelligence officer with over a decade of experience in various cyber and technology roles.
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Zoha spearheaded the effort against incitement terror on social media platforms during the twenty
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fifteen twenty sixteen wave of terrorism in Israel, and Zohar is a social and
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tech entrepreneur running fintech startup. So there you have immediately the connection to eight
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two hundred. But it goes on if we look at our story. So
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basically here it states that it was established between Talor and Sohar Gorgle. And
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then if we go on and look at other employees within the organization, so
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you have here Jonathan has Rony the digital policy and compliance analyst. He holds
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an MA in Government SWIMMA cum Lyle Day and an LLB with distinction in Law
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from Reichman University. Jonathan was admitted into the Israeli Bar Association in twenty twenty
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two. As a former analyst and analyst team leader in the research department of
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the IDF Military Intelligence. He has extensive experience. And then if we look
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at the advisor, which was mentioned in the Lifang subsequent article to the Guardian
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article, Major General Amos Yadlin, with over forty years of service in the
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IDF. Yadlin served as the former chief of the IDF's Military Intelligence. Prior
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so he was the chief basically we assume of at least of one of the
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units, including perhaps the eight two hundred. Prior to that, he served
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as Defense attach show to the United States. Recently, Amos completed his position
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as the director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
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And then when I basically went to the cyber World website, if you look
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at the bottom right hand corner, Mike and I had a slight disagreement of
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this. I fear that it is being basically slightly hidden from view. They
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are proudly funded. If I then blow up what it says in that bottom
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right hand corner, proudly funded by the uga JA Federation New York United Jewish
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Appeal, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in New York, which is clearly part
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of the Zionist movement nexus, which is encouraging operations like the birthright voyages to
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Israel. In other words, the indoctrination of young Jewish teenagers and even younger
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in the United States. Then I started to look into the board of the
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UJA New York and you hear have Linda Morrell's you can freeze frame those to
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read about her on the website. But what was really interesting when I went
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to her linked in profile, guess who she used to work for for fifteen
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years? And four months she was at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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board member, so from January twenty seventeen until fairly recently April twenty twenty three,
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and prior to that she was a board member at the Tony Blair Faith
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Foundation. Isn't that bizarre that Tony Blair's name crops up in you know what
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is effectively a Zionist nexus. So, coming back to Cyberwell, this was
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part of their recommendations to the Meta Oversight Board. So Cyberwell suggests the following
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content moderation measures be applied from the militarized group's approached to the phrase from the
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river to the sea due to the real world harm being committed under the slogan.
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So they're talking basically about posts on x and Facebook, on Instagram,
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all of the meta complex based. So reduce ranking in the news feed,
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reduce in search reviewing related hashtags that are sparking or mobilizing real world harm,
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prohibit use of ads, fundraisers, commerce surfaces and monetization tools when using this
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phrase, and then from their website itself. These are basically quick Facts twenty
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twenty three, So it's saying it was founded in twenty twenty two. It
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monitors five platforms ex TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube in two languages
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Arabic and English. Location in Tel Aviv, six thousand pieces of content vetted
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and counting one hundred and fifty thousand pieces of content flagged as highly likely to
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be anti submitting, submitted waiting for review. And what is their success rate
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on getting this content removed? Thirty two point one percent average rate of removal
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across all platforms in twenty twenty three. There it says data speaks louder than
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words. So here we have Unit eight two hundred effectively Israeli military spy unit
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censoring posts on all of the meta platforms and getting them removed. And I
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recommend, I can't recommend again and again highly enough to listen to the interview
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that Mike and I did with David Miller on the Zionist movement in Britain,
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but he does also include the United States. But I think the more we
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go into this might more really sinister this entire movement is, and how it's
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affecting every sector of our daily lives basically and our freedom of speech absolutely,
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And it's a huge infrastructure, a huge network with huge amounts of money.
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And of course when we've got companies that are spawned through Unity to two hundred
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doing this kind of work. At the same time, they're doing it so
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called cybersecurity work and therefore getting everybody requires to cybersecurity software. So they're getting
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paid a huge amount of money every month in subscription fees and so on.
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This is a good business model for them and hugely influential. So keep watching
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for more on this. But Charles, where does that take us? It
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takes us to the recurring theme, the theoretical construct in the UK, at
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least of geo engineering, which we've been talking about for a long time now,
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and since the last cop meeting last year it's been pushed further and further
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towards the front of the queue, and now the BBC has taken it up.
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So we'll talk in a bit about the apparent or at least the science
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that's put forward, but also the language that's being used. And i've highlighted
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the text there or at least put a box round conspiracy theory swirl about geoengineering
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but could it help save the planet? So the conspiracy theory part is the
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significant detail here, and we have Simon King, a lead weather presenter with
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the BBC, saying, if we can't control rising global temperatures by drastically cutting
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carbon emissions, could something called geoengineering be a way to cool the planet?
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So from what he says that the interesting detail, of course is to point
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out that if he's saying rising global temperatures, which course is highly debatable in
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the first place, but if that can't be controlled by drastically cutting carbon emissions,
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then how is he suggesting that anthropogenic activity in the first place is indeed
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increasing the world's temperatures. But nonetheless he goes on at least the article goes
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on with yet another rather childish diagram of how geoengineering could cool the atmosphere.
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And I would say that the purpose of this is just to cement in the
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brains of those that watch this the idea that this could be done with technologies
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with infrastructure that already exist. So we see an aircraft and a ship.
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We talk about strasopheric aerosol injection releasing tiny particles to reflect solar radiation back to
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space, and again marine cloud writening, which we talked about in the past.
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So the idea, sorry, we shouldn't worry because it's not to scale.
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Indeed, it's not to scale, no, so I'm not sure which
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it should be bigger or smaller. But since the entire scientific construct there's a
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lot of closer scrutiny, it could take a while to work that out.
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So the idea here seems to be very much to propagandize the notion that first
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of all the planet needs saving, but secondly that it could be done in
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a relatively straightforward manner, and of course that it is entirely necessary. But
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we come back to this idea of conspiracy theory. So here we see some
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dury engineering ideas include reflecting sunlight back out to space to cool the Earth,
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of course in the right way, and then to demonstrate the absolute futility of
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some of these projects, which of course suck up enormous of money and public
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attention. The most advanced area of this is direct air carbon capture, with
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small scale facilities in operation across Europe, US and Canada. And just to
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highlight the insignificance of this, they say that they currently remove around ten thousand
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tons of carbon dioxide a year, meaning it would need to massively scale up
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to make any difference to the roughly thirty five billion tons we emit globally.
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So without the assistance of a calculator, I think we can see that it's
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utterly pointless, and yet people are having it round down their throats to something
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they must believe is possible and worth doing. They go on. The Natural
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Environment Research Council has invited applications for ten point five million fund and this is
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to assess whether the negative impacts of the technique are greater than the damage that
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would be caused by climate change. Of course, hypothesis upon shaky hypothesis,
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and in particular solar radiation management being treated with caution. The UK government hasn't
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deployed the techniques and has no plans to do so. However, they are
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investing, which begs the question how much longer are they going to continue to
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tell us that they are investing in various forms of technology that they have absolutely
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no intention of deploying. Why would they do that? So we look at
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something that the University of Exeter was involved in last year, the Department of
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Atmospheric and Climate Sites the University of Washington marine cloud brightening, which I spoke
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about the seventeenth of April on the news then, and just to confirm the
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UKRII grant of over three and rund three and a half million pounds to model
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environmental responses to solar radiation management, of course modeling being the key word,
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so it could be wildly inaccurate, like a lot of them have been.
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If you want to keep an idea on an eye on this sort of thing,
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I could point you towards Geoengineering monitor dot org, which has a mapping
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tool that shows you all the live, theoretical and indeed practical projects that are
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going on all over the world. And we should make a point that that
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website is a pro climate change exactly, it absolutely is. And so this
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is the fundamental difference, particularly within the United Kingdom, is that this is
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being talked about as though it is purely hypothetical, whereas, of course there
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are other parts of the world where they openly declare that they are trying to
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modify the weather. So we'll just go back to the side that I put
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on screen and we talk about the language. So you may remember that UK
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column attended the Science Beautiful Festival in Dorset a few weeks ago and this was
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written up by a journalist in The Times as being Glastonbury for conspiracy theorists.
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And the reason I use this language is that it recurs and it brings one
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back to the Prevent guidance, which is the sort of anti extremism, anti
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terrorism project, and they say the aim of Prevent is to stop people from
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becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. And within that text they talk about terrorist ideology
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being a set of beliefs which has several concepts or tools that include narrative,
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propaganda, grievances, and conspiracy theory. So there's a link here between people
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who might dismiss either climate change or geoengineering as a conspiracy theory being linked to
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terrorism. And this indeed come back to what the United Nations were teaching in
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a module in twenty eighteen on international terrorism. And it's a very significant detail
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because it goes back to the coining of the term terrorism, going back to
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the Reign of Terror in France and the French Revolution between seventeen ninety three to
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ninety four, during which the revolutionary government directed violence and harsh measures against citizens
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suspected of being enemies of the revolution. And here we are again with the
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updated definition of extremism, particularly their Item two talking about undermining or overturning or
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replacing the UK's system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights. So it looks
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very much like we are getting ever closer to the original definition of terrorism,
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and in fact, I would encourage you to go and read the definition of
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terrorism as per the Terrorism Act two thousand and consider what the government did in
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twenty twenty and what they're trying to do now. It's seems to me that
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the fallout from the hypothesis that, first of all, climate change is actually
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a genuine thing and that is being affected by the activities of mankind and not
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indeed just a natural process. If indeed it is occurring a natural process that
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the world will undergo constantly, but it's really to suggest that people who don't
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believe the narrative version of events are conspiracy theorists and that they are wrong,
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and therefore to use the trigger terminology of conspiracy theorist is at once separating people
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along that line, but also it's bouncing people into a position of knowing that
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they have to believe a certain thing because they've been told that the opposite is
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a conspiracy theory, which is why geoengineering is such a sort of a volatile
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subject to be dealing with because it does, if carried out, of course,
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it does affect the way in which the climate could be affected in a
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very very negative way. Mike, I'm sure you've got many a thought on
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this which perhaps might come out in extra. All. Now, well we'll
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you did the interview with Edward Bartlett on SIEV. Yes, exactly, and
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Edward is a fascinating person to listen to because his knowledge is very deep on
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the effectively the sort of neo Marxism, but also the legal and medical side
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very very soon. And we've got an exhibition called Died Suddenly, an art
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Hfern at yahoo dot co dot uk, or indeed to look at his website
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Jakefern dot co dot uk. But it's to be in London in November,
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of excess death. So please get in touch with j about that. Okay,
33:00
thank you, Vanessa. Let's speak to you again, and this time
33:05
Middle East and well, the expansion of the conflict into Yemen, YEP,
33:10
the expansion of the conflict into Yemen by Israel directly in other words, Israel
33:15
attacks Yemen directly, not through proxies as it has been doing since twenty fifteen,
33:22
working through Saudi Arabia and the UAE, with of course also US and
33:27
UK backing to try and decimate the country of Yemen. So basically, on
33:32
Saturday, Israel struck the Yemen port of Hadaida after Ruller resistance movement always described
33:39
as Foti rebels in Western media attacked Tel Aviv. So what happened with the
33:45
attack on Tel Aviv? Here I just point out that all Israelis, this
33:51
was from an article in Haret quite recently, all Israelis instinctively understand that a
33:55
strike on Tel Aviv represents the strike on Israel's ability to lead a normal life
34:00
in wartime. We can do without Elats, there are Matira Bloom, but
34:06
we can't without Tel Aviv. And I would also point out, I mean
34:10
the Yemeni drone which traveled over twenty three hundred miles, traversing Libya and Sudan
34:16
to reach its target an area very close to the US embassy that in fact,
34:22
the Harkiria Central Military Base, which is a huge area, is in
34:27
the center of Tel Aviv. So when Israel is claiming that Hamas is basically
34:32
leading to the death of civilians in Gaza, which is a concentration camp Israeli
34:38
military is placed in the center of Tel Aviv in civilian areas. CNN and
34:45
virtually every single Western media outlet echoing, of course the Israeli line that basically
34:52
who Daido had been used to attack international shipping in the Red Sea, but
34:58
also to receive weapons from Iran. And this is basically not true because her
35:02
Diada was the only humanitarian aid entry into Yemen for the twenty three million starving
35:12
Yemeny people that have been under a blockade enforced by the UN since twenty fifteen.
35:17
So a quick look at where Hordaida is on the map of Yemen.
35:22
It's over to the west there on the Red Sea coast. An image of
35:29
the flames that rose after the targeting of the Hoodaida port area and the oil
35:36
company which led to the death of six Yemeny oil company employees and the injury
35:42
of perhaps more than eighty three civilians. This was done. These were satellite
35:49
images sorry put together by Maxill Technologies, just showing pre the attack and then
35:55
the various stages of damage to her dieda port. During the Israeli attack,
36:01
twelve f thirty five's took off from the Never Team air base. I believe
36:07
were refueled in the air and traveled one eight hundred kilometers to carry out this
36:15
fairly devastating attack. However, the Yemenis the officials did put out a statement
36:22
within six hours to say that in fact electricity had been restored to most areas
36:28
that depend on supply from Herdaida itself. And as I said, what is
36:34
interesting, and yes, this is an escalation because this is a direct attack
36:38
by Israel from Israel, not basically apparently condoned by the US or the UK.
36:49
And what this will do, as the Mens have stated very clearly,
36:52
it will lead to an expansion of their attacks on Israel. And of course
36:57
the attack from Tel Aviv was a demonstration of their ability to do so and
37:00
to bypass the Israeli air defense. So, first of all, there is
37:06
recent years that Yemen and Trulla the resistance movement have opened a military coordination office
37:13
in Iraq to collaborate with the Iraqi Resistance, which of course regularly carry out
37:17
attacks against Israeli targets from inside Syria. And none you have in Almadin and
37:25
Soriulla warn swift and unprecedented retaliation to Israel, and within that article we can
37:32
see Hazim al Asad had added that the Zionist enemy, who's opened the gates
37:38
of hell by targeting Yemen's who died a port and the port's military and security
37:44
centers deep inside they occupied Palestinian territories, will be under the fire of the
37:47
Yemeni army. He stressed that certain Arab countries have crossed the red lines by
37:52
supporting the Zionist enemy, opening land corridors in you of the Red Sea,
37:57
which is the United Arab Emirates, and opening their airspace which is Jordan,
38:01
and I believe Saudi Arabia, which provided intelligence previously, and calling the Hamas
38:07
movement terrorists. We warn them that their answer is on the way. So
38:10
very clearly we're seeing an expansion and an escalation in the region. Thank you,
38:17
Vanessa and Charles. Let's stick in with the international first, let's look
38:22
at Rwanda. We will. Yes, there's a very small country in the
38:24
Great Lakes region of Africa, one that very few British people have ever been
38:30
to, and yet one that occupies quite a fair amount of parliamentary time,
38:34
but also is in the headlines at the moment. So well, quick look
38:37
at a recent speech by Evat Cooper speaking about Rwanda for volunteers. The incent
38:46
to Rwanda isn't a deterrent to anyone for anything at all, and the idea
38:54
that he would spend ten billion pounds on this fantasy, this fit should this
39:00
gimmick rather than ever do the hard graft. I think seven hundred million pounds
39:06
has already been spent on sending just four volunteers in two and a half years
39:12
now. We had often warned that it would frankly be cheaper to put them
39:16
up in the Paris Ritz. Frankly it would now returns out it would actually
39:20
be cheaper to buy the Paris Ritz. So there we are straight back into
39:27
it, trying to score political capital from an issue that really has been confected
39:30
from nowhere and is in effect a charade and a smokescreen, because of course
39:35
it distracts from the very real issue of legal migration Rwanda of course being an
39:39
apparent deterrent to those who would come illegally and migrate into the United Kingdom,
39:45
but also it distracts from what's been going on in Rwanda, which had a
39:49
ill put forward to deem It as a safe place to be able to in
39:52
effect deport people. Now, Paul Kagami, the long standing president of Rwanda,
39:59
has just been real acted last week with a ninety nine percent share of
40:04
the vote, which should set on or to alarm bells ringing. And of
40:08
course, by the time the election campaign reached its conclusion, there were only
40:13
three candidates standing, one of which was him. And this is what the
40:16
chair of the Electoral Commission in Rwanda had to say about the process by which
40:22
the candidates were streamlined. They feel that National Electoral Commission has purposely or intentional
40:35
removed some of the candidates. I think this is not true, and I
40:37
would want to say that in the process of informing the citizens on the procedure,
40:49
we mentioned all those details, so maybe briefly would say that there's no
40:52
one who has ever been removed by NICK intentionally. The only thing is that
41:00
some of them don't follow the laws and the guidrance set for them to be
41:07
on the list of the car So that's how that gets brushed under the carpet
41:13
there. And of course that in itself is a further distraction from what Rwanda
41:16
has been doing in other parts of Africa with the assistance of other agencies,
41:22
and the focus now is the Cava Delgado region of northeastern Mozambique. An article
41:30
in the Financial Times recently telling us that the energy company Total has handled a
41:35
security contract for twenty billion dollar gas reserve to the Rwandan state linked business.
41:42
So we just go through the timeline that has led to this. Of course,
41:45
there is not enough to there's not enough time unfortunately to cover all aspects
41:51
of this, but in effect, there was a discovery of oil and gas
41:54
in twenty ten which has been deemed to be worth extract and of course it's
42:00
worth pointing out also that that region of Mozambik is very rich in graphite and
42:05
rubies. Now there's there's been an Islamist insurgency of effectively unknown or indetermined origins
42:13
from about twenty seventeen onwards, creating a perilous state affairs for those that live
42:19
in the region, but it's not clear quite where it's being funded from or
42:22
who the insurgents exactly are. But nonetheless it's drawn in the Sadak Mission in
42:27
Mozambique, Samim Sadak being the Southern African Development Community and at the same time
42:32
the Ruanda Defense Force came in. Of course, there was very little communication
42:37
and cooperation between the two, which has led to the withdrawal this year of
42:42
SAMIM. But in the interim the EU among others, have funded the RDF
42:46
Ruanda Defense Force to the tune of twenty million euros and now with the withdrawal
42:52
of SAMIM, the TOTAL has awarded the security contract to Isco Sagaranza and welcome
42:59
to have a look at exactly who they are. In a minute, here's
43:01
the European Council announcing the funding to the Rwanda Defense Force of twenty million pounds
43:08
and as the French Institute of International Relations points out, Rwanda expects economic rewards
43:15
after the success of its army in Mozambique, which suggests very much the motivation
43:21
for wanting to offer assistance to Mozambique in the first place from Rwanda was of
43:27
course because of such a benefit to them, at least financially. Now,
43:31
the background to this is that the Isco Sagaranza Company is in effect an offshoot
43:37
of Crystal Ventures, which was set up in nineteen ninety five just after the
43:45
so called one hundred day genocide against the Tutsi people, which was, according
43:52
to the narrative, ended by Paul Kagami leading the RPF the Rwandan Patriotic Front
43:58
back into Garli. But nonetheless this has effectively been the platform by which the
44:04
RPF have continued to invest both within and without Rwanda. It was formerly known
44:08
as Tristarle Investments. It's reckoned to be worth in the region of five hundred
44:13
million dollars and of course it owns the security company ISCO, which is shown
44:17
here on screen. So really a brief segment on Rwanda, which of course
44:22
has many, many complexities, and it just goes to show that whilst we
44:27
hear about it a lot in Parliament, that is in effect complete distraction.
44:30
But what it does demonstrate is the absolute coincidence, of course, of creating
44:37
or the illusion of instability and money being drawn in from all quarters, particularly
44:43
the EU, but from other governments and indeed from the huge corporate entities like
44:47
Total Energy. So we'll keep an eye on exactly which direction this goes in,
44:52
but also how this might set a precedent for other countries doing similar things.
44:58
And indeed what the UK, if at all pays any attention to Okay,
45:02
thank you for that. Now let's come back to the UK and online
45:07
safety, and we'll begin with ofcom's announcement that they have fined TikTok one point
45:12
eight seventy five million pounds for providing inaccurate data on safety controls. So what
45:15
are they saying here? This is because TikTok failed to accurately respond to a
45:21
formal request for information about its parental controls safety feature, and so Ofcom's saying,
45:27
gathering accurate information from regulated companies is fundamental to our job as a regulator.
45:31
Firms are required by law to respond to all statued re information requests from
45:36
OFCOM in an accurate, complete and timely way. This includes providing accurate and
45:39
complete information. In this case, OFCOME sought information from video sharing platforms to
45:46
inform a planned report highlighting the safety measures they have in place to protect children
45:52
from harmful content. That report was published in December, but TikTok took too
45:57
long about it, and so OFCOM has find them one point it's seventy five
46:00
million, but that includes a twenty five percent off deal that they did because
46:08
they decided TikTok decided to cooperate, so they got a special twenty five percent
46:14
off vuture and they used it. So in the meantime, then Virgin and
46:20
O two today have been announced their collaboration with Internet Matters, which is a
46:23
pressure group that they're part of, to spotlight online safety harms in what they're
46:29
describing as a powerful new film. No I'm not going to show you the
46:31
film because it's not really that powerful, it's not that really that interesting,
46:35
but this is all about children and making sure that children are safe online,
46:39
and so they've set up a website for it. Here it is. It's
46:43
called find the Right Words, So if you search to find the right words,
46:46
you'll be able to watch the film and see what they're talking about.
46:50
Now of course, oh to being a mobile operator part of owned by Virgin
46:54
Media. Now they have a section on their website on age restricted content and
47:00
age verification and this comes back to the digital ID stuff that we were talking
47:05
about at the very beginning, but it's also about parental controls and of course
47:09
if you switch on parental controls, you can restrict children or anybody using the
47:16
particular mobile phone from access in content they claim which is listed as being over
47:23
eighteen content by the British Board of Film Certification. So the BBFC is now
47:31
providing ratings for content that's online as well, and that's feeding into offcom and
47:37
into the various providers and so on. But the point here is that there
47:42
are no solutions to this issue of Internet safety for children from a technology point
47:49
of view, because in five minutes, any half aware child or teenager can
47:54
get round these I mean, for example, here's just one example, the
47:58
free app from cloud Flare, which is called one one one dot one,
48:02
which effectively creates a VPN which will subvert any of these protections that the mobile
48:09
operations are providing. That's just one example of many. It's not hard if
48:15
kids want to get around these types of limitations for them to get around these
48:19
limitations. That everybody knows this, and therefore we've got a question what the
48:23
actual motivation for these types of initiatives is. Is it really about protecting children
48:30
or is it about censorship and preventing access to certain or at least trying to
48:34
prevent access to certain types of content for the rest of us in the guise
48:38
of protecting children. Many many more questions to ask about that. But in
48:44
the meantime, in a related issue, then we've got the Telegraph newspaper,
48:47
and the question is whether the Telegraph is going to exist for too much longer
48:52
or what the deal is going to be done? What deal is going to
48:54
be done. At the end of the day, Sky News has an update
48:58
for us, and that is at Anton LeVay, otherwise known as the Namesahawi,
49:02
the former vaccines Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, is pulling together a
49:08
deal. He's believed to be pulling a six hundred million pound deal together in
49:15
order to buy the Telegraph, which is still under a lot of debt at
49:20
the moment and not really sure how it's going to survive unless somebody buys it.
49:24
He's apparently got backers, billionaire backers, including the Ruben family, but
49:30
many others as well, including this group Red Bird. Now Red Bird was
49:37
involved in the previous effort to buy the Telegraph up until a few months ago
49:42
when the government stepped in and said no, well, actually, because Redbird's
49:45
main backers are the United Arab Emirates, we can't have a foreign nation owning
49:52
a press organ in the UK, and so they set out that they stopped
49:57
that particular deal going ahead, but nonetheless how he seems to have this same
50:01
group involved in his initiative. So it'd be very interesting to see what happens
50:07
here, whether the Telegraph is actually bought under this deal or not, and
50:13
whether the new British government is perhaps more sympathetic to the idea of UE money
50:19
coming in and buying up the Telegraph. I mean, just to give an
50:22
idea of how it determined Redbird was to get hold of it. They paid
50:25
off half of the one point two billion pounds of debt that the Telegraph owes
50:30
to Lloyd's Bank, and they effectively got nothing for it other than a note
50:38
saying that they are not owed money because the government stepped in and said no,
50:44
you can't have it. So this is clearly why they're trying to pull
50:46
together a new deal to buy this newspaper, and we'll see where that goes
50:51
absolutely and how they're going to convince people to read it, well, that's
50:54
another question big one. Now land use agriculture, which we've talked about a
51:00
lot this year. The government have finally and relatively recently released statistics from twenty
51:07
twenty three. As you can see, no expense spared with the cover of
51:09
the publication, but just a few of the details from it, and bearing
51:14
in mind this is for twenty twenty three, so even though there has been
51:19
a much greater shock to the system through weather and the environmental schemes that we've
51:22
seen in twenty twenty four, from twenty twenty three, the utilized agricultural area
51:28
is reckoned to be about seventy percent of the total land area, which is
51:30
down from it being seventy one percent previously. The horticultural area is down five
51:36
percent, the uncropped arable area is up thirteen point five percent, beef herds
51:42
down nearly four percent, lambs down just over six percent, pigs down ten
51:47
percent, poultry down two point nine percent, and of course the population of
51:52
the United Kingdom up by approximately six hundred and fifty thousand in the year according
51:58
to the Office of National Statistics. And I thought we just have a look
52:00
at that in graphic form, because this is from the Migration Observatory and it
52:06
shows data only in fact up until twenty twenty two, but of course with
52:08
the predominantly enormous influx of Ukrainians. Shown that on the right hand side,
52:14
but it differently, it shows the differential between net migration and natural change.
52:19
Natural change. I'm not exactly sure how that's defined for the purposes of this
52:22
graph, but that represents only the very very small navy blue piece at the
52:28
top of the chart. Now all of this falls within the context of the
52:31
new government and exactly what are they going to be doing in this area?
52:36
Is there going to be changed or not? And this is from their manifesto.
52:39
Effectively, they're banging the same old drum. They talk about championing British
52:43
farming whilst protecting the environment, even tho they they't tell the public exactly how
52:47
they're going to be able to do it, but they do want to set
52:50
a target for half of all food purchase to be purchased locally. They're going
52:54
to say that they're making the environment land management schemes work for farmers and nature.
52:59
Even that seemed to be something that the Conservative government got mostly back to
53:02
front. Significantly, they talk about eradicating bovine TB and ending what they described
53:08
as the ineffective badger cull So that will fit in with all the forthcoming and
53:15
anticipated biosecurity measures. And we have to consider particularly the push towards the supposition
53:22
that bird flu will be affecting humans later this year. Now I've entitled this
53:28
bit unchanged because the other bit in terms of land use, of course,
53:31
relates to the NPPF, the National Policy Planning Framework, and in actual fact
53:38
they're not really going to change it at all, but they say they're going
53:40
to strengthen, strengthen the presumption in favor of sustainable development, which comes directly
53:46
from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And indeed they go on and say,
53:52
without changing its purpose or general extent, label will take a more strategic
53:55
approach and they will release greenbelt lad But of course they've a cook in the
54:00
book slightly by referring to it as lower quality gray belt land, even though
54:05
of course it is the same thing, and it will be prioritized for development,
54:08
but there will be golden rules. We'll see how that plays out.
54:10
But of course we should consider that this is on top of the enormous tracts
54:15
of land that are now being used for solar as it's being regarded as critical
54:21
infrastructure, and indeed the relaxation of rules on onshore wind but also for the
54:28
change in the growth of crops, particularly with biofuels, bio energy in mind,
54:32
but just to show that it's a good business. Some the Crown Estate
54:37
has delivered a record one point one billion net revenue profit for it says for
54:43
the public finances, I think that's a bit questionable, but that's double.
54:45
They've effectively doubled their income on the basis that so much has been thrown offshore
54:51
wind. Now, the other thing that comes up in terms of planning follows
54:55
a segment that Mike did on Monday which concerned the Holocaust Memorial Bill in Victoria
55:01
Tower Garden, just south of the Palace of Westminster. And I want to
55:05
go back to this because it is very significant that this bill has carried over
55:08
from the previous Parliament into this one, and the text there shows, first
55:13
of all host common briefing paper. But I've crossed out the abolition of slavery,
55:16
votes for women and democracy, because of course those have existing monuments to
55:22
them in Victoria Tower Garden. And yet the Holocaust, which did not occur
55:25
in this country, is deemed to be of such significance that it assumed precedent
55:30
over all of those things, and it would therefore threaten the Buxton Memorial,
55:35
the statue to emline Pankhurst and indeed the Burghers of Calais, but specifically when
55:42
planning permission was refused previously by Westminster Council, the Government appealed and the decision
55:49
was upheld. And here's the critical part. The appeal judge said that primary
55:52
legislation would be required to amend the nineteen hundred Acts so that planning permission could
55:58
be given. And that is what we have the Holocaust Memorial Bill. It
56:01
is not necessarily to enshrine the significance of the Holocaust itself. It is to
56:07
be able to turn over the planning restriction that is on that land currently.
56:12
And if you wonder which direction this is going to go in, I should
56:15
just like to point out from Holocaust Educational Trust that according to this in England,
56:22
by law, children are to be taught about the Holocaust as part of
56:27
the key Stage three history curriculum. In fact, the Holocaust is the only
56:31
historical event whose study is compulsory on the national curriculum. So that is a
56:37
significant detail upon which to conclude a section that started about land use. But
56:44
in effect this is all tied up in the same thing. And as Mike
56:46
has said consistently throughout this program many others. The agenda that Labour has is
56:52
not in fact a change. It is purely an extension of the policies of
56:55
the last government and they are going to be pushing exactly the same things in
56:59
the same direct And we will see specifically where this Holocaust Memorial Bill goes,
57:04
but it seems very likely that it will just be going ahead and all restrictions
57:08
will just be ignored. Now as we know, when asked Kiir Starmer decided
57:14
that Davos is better than Parliament. He doesn't like democracy very much, and
57:16
we start to get a clue about how much he doesn't like democracy. So
57:22
let's put this tweet on screen. This is from Jessica Algott and many many,
57:24
many other people have been talking about this on x over the last twenty
57:30
four hours. Seven Labor rebels on the s NFP amendment on two child benefits.
57:37
So this is about child benefit being denied anybody that has more, you
57:42
know, for the third child or above. So seven people Aspana, I'm
57:49
sorry, Ipsana, begum Imren Hussin, Rebecca Long, billy In Burne,
57:53
Richard Bergen, Zarah Sultana and John McDonald voted against this and voted against Ker
58:00
Starmer and the Liver Party last night. They are considered rebels and so they've
58:05
been suspended. Now. The response on Twitter has been perhaps as you would
58:08
expect. Here is somebody saying responsible adults don't punish innocent kids for what's rightly
58:15
or wrongly seen as the irresponsibility of other adults. Responsible adults realize not reducing
58:21
childhood poverty is more expensive long term. Responsible adults do not include care Starmer,
58:27
so the left wing of Twitter Addie are not happy with them. Here's
58:31
another example. Sir kar Starver actually whips Liver MPIs to vote against lifting five
58:37
hundred thousand children out of poverty suspense. The MPs have voted to feed them,
58:43
happy to hand out three billion pounds to buy bombs. Though scum doesn't
58:46
even begin to describe the Stalinist dictator. We did say so his own support
58:52
base absolutely or at least the Liver support base, absolutely unhappy with this situation.
59:00
But of course the question has to be asked, you know, bearing
59:02
in mind he has such a majority at four hundred and fifty MP's I'm not
59:07
sure what, I can't remember what his majority is must be two hundred or
59:09
something, and he's worried about seven MP's voting against the whip. It's clear
59:16
that he is not interested in any MP representing their constituents or their view of
59:22
what their constituents think. They must only follow what the whips say. And
59:29
of course this is why the whipping system is so disastrous in the first place.
59:34
I'm just going to end with a quick reminder of what Keir Starmer tweeted
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in twenty twenty. He said, we must scrap the inhuman work capability assessments
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in private provisions of disability assessments, scrap unit of sanctions, scrap to child
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limit and benefits cap So it is perhaps unsurprising because basically, as far as
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I can see here, Starmer doesn't believe in anything. He ever says that.
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Just a few years ago he was saying we've got to scrap the two
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chanl limit, and then he is whipping his entire party to make sure that
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they vote to continue the two channel limit and suspending anybody that thinks differently.
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I think we could see where this is going. I think we're going.
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Yes, okay, well, look we've got to leave it there for today.
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