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UK Column News — 16th March 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the sixteenth of March twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Brian Gerrish. Delighted to have Ben Rubin
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Speaker 1: with me at the studio.
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Speaker 2: Delighted to be here, Brian.
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Speaker 1: Well, we have a packed news today. Of course, much
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Speaker 1: going on in the world and a lot of people
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Speaker 1: I think really beginning to just think to themselves what
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Speaker 1: is unfolding. Everything is genuinely chaotic. So in today's news
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Speaker 1: we are going to have a gentle work through what's
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Speaker 1: happening and try and get in under the surface of
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Speaker 1: the stone to really analyze what's driving what so Iran
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Speaker 1: is going to be our starting point, because of course
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Speaker 1: it's going from bad to worse. Ben to be having
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Speaker 1: a look at sustainable markets and the work of our
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Speaker 1: Green King that should be fascinating. We're going to be
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Speaker 1: having a look at the British Army and makeup for men,
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Speaker 1: and yes that's exactly what I said. This has been
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Speaker 1: a small article in the UK press, but actually I
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Speaker 1: think it has much much bigger impact as we will
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Speaker 1: have a look. We're going to be taking a look
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Speaker 1: into disruptive change agents. This is something Ben you've been
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Speaker 1: warning about for a very long time. And of course,
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Speaker 1: while people's minds are focused on the terrible things happening overseas,
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Speaker 1: so that's the war in Ukraine and events in Iran.
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Speaker 1: At the moment, it's quite clear to the UK column
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Speaker 1: News team at least that we are being attacked, and
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Speaker 1: that attack is not only on the pillars of the
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Speaker 1: nation state here in the United Kingdom, but it's also
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Speaker 1: on communities and families themselves. Now, company's house is not
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Speaker 1: something we talk about a great deal, but I can
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Speaker 1: tell you that company's house now requires the most intimate
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Speaker 1: details from directors. It's not enough just to give your
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Speaker 1: name and general identity and banking details. It's now into
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Speaker 1: full digital ID. But then apparently company's house is not
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Speaker 1: keeping our information secure.
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Speaker 2: We've had a bit of a snaffhoo.
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Speaker 1: They've had a bit of a snaffoo. Well, we'll have
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Speaker 1: a look into that. We're going to make a little
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Speaker 1: bit of comment about AI and in particular chat GPT
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Speaker 1: and some of its failings, and we're also going to
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Speaker 1: be having a look at Public Interest News and then
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Speaker 1: it's going to be digging into the failings of those organizations.
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Speaker 1: So let's get started. No better place to start than
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Speaker 1: with our loved, beloved Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Let's have
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Speaker 1: a look at what has been saying.
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Speaker 3: The conflict in Iran and across the Middle East is
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Speaker 3: now entering its third week, so I want to take
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Speaker 3: a moment to set out how we're responding to this
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Speaker 3: crisis and standing up for the British people. Our priority
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Speaker 3: is always the national interest, and so we have been
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Speaker 3: clear and consistent in our objectives throughout this conflict. First,
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Speaker 3: we will protect our people in the region. Second, while
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Speaker 3: taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies,
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Speaker 3: we will not be drawn into the wider war. And third,
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Speaker 3: we will keep working towards a swift resolution that brings
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Speaker 3: security and stability back to the region and stops the
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Speaker 3: Iranian threat to its neighbors. I want to see an
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Speaker 3: end to this war as quickly as possible, because the
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Speaker 3: longer it goes on, the more dangerous the situation becomes,
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Speaker 3: and the worse it is for the cost of living
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Speaker 3: back here at home.
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Speaker 1: Well, there we are. Keir Starmer made those remarks not
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Speaker 1: long ago, a couple of hours ago. Now I wasn't
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Speaker 1: able to see more of what he said, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to comment on what he did say. And the
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Speaker 1: interesting thing, of course, is that he's stressing he's standing
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Speaker 1: up for people in Britain. He then says, but it's
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Speaker 1: in the national interest. So I can't help thinking Ben
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Speaker 1: that actually this is where the problem lies, because when
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Speaker 1: he says the national interest, people think he's talking about
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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, but in actual fact, I think he
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Speaker 1: is talking about his global elite, the Devil's elite, the
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Speaker 1: people connected with Epstein. That's who he's actually talking about
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Speaker 1: as being in the national interest. So these people defending themselves,
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Speaker 1: and he wants to bring a swift end to the war.
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Speaker 1: I think there's two reasons for that. One is that
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Speaker 1: it's clearly not going as well as it should and
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Speaker 1: straight of hormones shut off, so big impact on oil
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Speaker 1: prices in the world, but also things not going well
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Speaker 1: for Israel and certainly not going well for the US.
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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, the switch has got to
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Speaker 1: be turned. It's no longer those nasty Iranians. We've got
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Speaker 1: to stop the war as soon as possible. Cynicism is
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Speaker 1: the key thing here, bent with this man, what he's.
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Speaker 4: Talking, absolutely yeah, and he should just to be flapping
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Speaker 4: in the breeze a bit at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Kearstarm at the flapper. This is probably a good description. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's just focus for a few seconds on the BBC,
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Speaker 1: because of course the BBC specializes in bread and circuses,
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Speaker 1: and in these very dangerous, troubled times, the BBC of
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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours has been wall to wall
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Speaker 1: with the oscars and six oscars one. It's also been
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Speaker 1: looking at the dresses, or the lack of them, so basically,
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Speaker 1: more and more nudity creeping into the oscars. And what
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Speaker 1: is all this designed to do, of course, is designed
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Speaker 1: to keep people's minds off the really serious issue. So
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Speaker 1: bread and circuses a well known tactic dating back to
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Speaker 1: Roman times. Now let's also have a look at another
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Speaker 1: angle of how news compilation gets misused and abused. And
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Speaker 1: I've just chosen here to have a look at the
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Speaker 1: Kiev Post and here's the headline, Russia's war driving global
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Speaker 1: instability UK statement by the UK Jeges del Fair who's
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Speaker 1: been speaking at the OS So what an incredible statement.
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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to highlight here that the article
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Speaker 1: is by a gentleman called Adam Smith. He's a professional
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Speaker 1: social researcher, managing projects and producing reports for UK government
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Speaker 1: departments and agencies. So I'm going to guess pretty close
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Speaker 1: to the UK government and is he going to make
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Speaker 1: sure that his articles meet the government's overarching agenda? I
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Speaker 1: would suspect years or probably is not going to get
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Speaker 1: paid ben But what a remarkable statement, as this war
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Speaker 1: with Iran continues, unlawful war with Iran, that we're pointing
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Speaker 1: a finger back at Russia and accusing Russia the one
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Speaker 1: creating the world instability. Now say this one tongue in cheap.
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Speaker 1: This is a UK column exclusive, so don't take this
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Speaker 1: too seriously. But we're trying to make a point here.
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Speaker 1: So what is happening at the moment, Well, of course,
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Speaker 1: the Uranians have successfully closed the Strait of Emos, so
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Speaker 1: this is shutting the straight to international oil traffic. About
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Speaker 1: twenty percent of the world's oil movements are now locked
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Speaker 1: because they can't move through. And we just want to
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Speaker 1: say this has caused huge problems for the Americans. So
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Speaker 1: mister Trump's had to send an email Dear Jeev Vladimir
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Speaker 1: Ursula and NATO please help me police the Straits of Almos. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we need to open it up from those nasty Iranians first,
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Speaker 1: from those nasty Iranians first. But that's just a minor
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Speaker 1: problem Donald, it's the real Trump. We're just bringing a
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Speaker 1: little bit of black humor over this and making this
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Speaker 1: a UK column exclusive. But why is Donald Trump in
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Speaker 1: such a fix? Well, there's a number of reasons. But
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Speaker 1: one of the key reasons, as is being widely reported
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Speaker 1: on social media, is it's very clear at the moment
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Speaker 1: that both the Chinese and indeed the Russians are now
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Speaker 1: using their full satellite surveillance capability in order to share
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Speaker 1: information about the movement of US vessels that includes the
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Speaker 1: aircraft carriers and other military vessels surrounding Iran. But here
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Speaker 1: we've got a view and the claim I'm going to say,
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Speaker 1: it's a claim that this is a satellite reconnaissance picture
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Speaker 1: of the USS Tripoli bringing in the thirty first Marine
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Speaker 1: Expeditionary Unit heading for the Golf Region with three thousand
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Speaker 1: American Marines on board. Now, of course this advanced notice
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Speaker 1: and positional information of great help to the Iranians, but
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Speaker 1: of course it's also undermining the whole of the American
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Speaker 1: military effort because they're being watched, reported and targeted on
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Speaker 1: a twenty four hour day basis. So I just highlight
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Speaker 1: this is the sort of accuracy a lot more detailed
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Speaker 1: than this, in fact, that can be achieved from space.
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Speaker 1: So not surprisingly Donald's is looking a bit panicky and
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Speaker 1: he's desperate for friends. Let's have listened to what he
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Speaker 1: said as he was on board across one.
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Speaker 5: We are talking to their countries about working with us
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Speaker 5: and the policing the vegan strength, and I think we're
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Speaker 5: getting good in his path. If we do, that's great,
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Speaker 5: and we don't be fright. Remember as an example of
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Speaker 5: many cases, the NAT opens.
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Speaker 2: We're always there for Nano.
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Speaker 5: We're helping them with Ukraine, and many has records had
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Speaker 5: a notion that between us doesn't affect us, that we've
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Speaker 5: helped them. They'd be interesting to see what country would
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Speaker 5: help us when they very small and never which is
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Speaker 5: just keeping this straight open and make comparison is as well.
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Speaker 5: It's all because it's very little fire barrel. So whether
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Speaker 5: it's whether we get or not, but I can say
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Speaker 5: this and I said, we will remember.
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Speaker 1: Well there we are fascinating little clip I'll apologize for
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Speaker 1: the noise, but of course that was the ambient noise
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Speaker 1: in the backgraft in the background on the aircraft, and
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Speaker 1: it wasn't possible to clean it up anymore. In fact,
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Speaker 1: it's gone out worldwide with the major media channels with
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Speaker 1: that sort of quality, So that's not down to the
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Speaker 1: UK column. But you could hear what he said. What
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Speaker 1: was your take?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 4: I think he's out of his debt. That was my
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Speaker 4: impression of that little exchange there. You know, he sounds
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Speaker 4: like he's talking. What did he say. It's just a
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Speaker 4: small endeavor. It's like just a small million dollar loan
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Speaker 4: that he got.
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Speaker 3: It's just a.
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Speaker 4: Small thing, just a small thing. It's not a small thing.
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Speaker 4: It's not property down in New York. This is a war.
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Speaker 4: This is a completely different order of issue. And he
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Speaker 4: seems flustered.
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Speaker 1: He seems very flustered. And of course the reality is,
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Speaker 1: even with a third American carrier coming into the theater,
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Speaker 1: he's not doing the job. He's not crushing the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: The street is closed. Trump is in deep trouble, and
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Speaker 1: now he's effectively begging for people who previously been very
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Speaker 1: rude about his allies to come and actually help him.
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Speaker 1: Now there's another problem. Let's just jump back to this
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Speaker 1: video over a couple of weeks ago. I think this
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Speaker 1: is the White House talking about problems in the war
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Speaker 1: theater with Iran and elsewhere.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, however, the President in that post was pointing out
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Speaker 6: that unfortunately, we had a very stupid and incompetent leader
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Speaker 6: in this White House for four years who gave away
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Speaker 6: many of our best weapons for nothing, for free to
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Speaker 6: another country very far away, by the name of Ukraine.
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Speaker 6: So the President was pointing out how that was an
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Speaker 6: unwise decision, but nevertheless, doubt the strength in the might
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Speaker 6: of the American military.
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Speaker 1: So there we are. What does Trump need, Well, he
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Speaker 1: needs somebody else to blame. Previous president gave all his
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Speaker 1: weapons away, so unfortunately he's not been able to hammer
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Speaker 1: the Iranians into submission, and he's not been able to
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Speaker 1: win the war in Ukraine. So that's how it's done.
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Speaker 1: But if we really want to get a feel for
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Speaker 1: how serious things are for the West due to this
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Speaker 1: atrocious and unlawful war against Iran, let's have a look
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Speaker 1: at Ed Miliban being interviewed on the BBC.
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Speaker 7: Well, it is very important as you've explained, that we
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Speaker 7: get the straight of hall moves reopened. And we have
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Speaker 7: been already been talking with our allies, including the US
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Speaker 7: about this, the Promeinis, We spoke to European leaders about
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Speaker 7: it last week. The Foreign Secretary was in Saudi Araba
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Speaker 7: talking to Gulf countries. So it obviously is something that
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Speaker 7: we're looking at. We want to work with our partners
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Speaker 7: on this.
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Speaker 8: So you are considering sending ships, what about drone?
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Speaker 7: I'm not going to get into the obviously operational details
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Speaker 7: of what might or might not happen. I think it's
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Speaker 7: a priority for the world that the strait is reopened. Obviously,
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Speaker 7: the best and simplest way to do that is to
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Speaker 7: de escalate the conflict, and I think it's important to
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Speaker 7: underline that, as you imply in your question, there are
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Speaker 7: different ways that we could contribute, including with mind hunting drones.
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Speaker 7: All of these things are being looked at with that
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Speaker 7: but in concert with our allies.
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Speaker 1: So lots of unhappiness and stuttering there. Because he knows
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Speaker 1: that the Americans and therefore the West are in deep
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Speaker 1: trouble here. He doesn't want to talk about sending ships
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Speaker 1: because that's now and impossible. He's talking about trying to
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Speaker 1: clear minds. That's also nearly impossible, as we'll see. But
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Speaker 1: let's get a bit of comment. Let's get a little
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Speaker 1: bit of comment from Vice Admiral Duncan Bots king about
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Speaker 1: could we put a carrier in theater. It should be
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Speaker 1: video one.
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Speaker 2: YEP.
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Speaker 9: To deploy usefully, it will by definition need an air
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Speaker 9: group which will be a mixture of capabilities, including rotary
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Speaker 9: wing very much adding to the force protection, especially in
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Speaker 9: surface surveillance, anti submarine warfare, contributing to anti small you know,
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Speaker 9: insure fast attack craft. But the main thing against the
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Speaker 9: type of threat, especially we're talking about in the Gulf
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Speaker 9: and possibly even the Eastern Mediterranean scenario is a short
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Speaker 9: force protection against air threats.
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Speaker 2: So that is what it will need.
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Speaker 9: It will need the logistics to go with it. You know,
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Speaker 9: the great advantage of an aircraft carrier is that it
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Speaker 9: can move in time and space, but it needs fuel
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Speaker 9: and other stores to be able to do that. So
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Speaker 9: to give it its unique operating quality of going where
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Speaker 9: it wants when it wants to do what it wants
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Speaker 9: in a time and place of its choice, it does
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Speaker 9: need a wider battle group around it. Which provides everything
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Speaker 9: from the prosaics of logistics but also the wider power
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Speaker 9: projection capabilities and force protection capabilities as well. So the
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Speaker 9: Admiral using quite a bit of military language there. But
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Speaker 9: if we pull it apart, he's saying that the carrier
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Speaker 9: obviously needs fuel with it, it needs a tanker, it
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Speaker 9: needs stores, it needs supply ships as well, and to
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Speaker 9: go into theater, he says it very quietly, the aircraft
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Speaker 9: carrier needs a battle group that is a whole cluster
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Speaker 9: of other ships, air defense ships and a submarine warfare
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Speaker 9: ships and others around it in order to protect the carrier.
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Speaker 9: And of course the UK's Royal Navy does not have
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Speaker 9: these assets. So the expectation would be that if the
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Speaker 9: carrier went into theater, the Americans would have that additional burden.
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Speaker 9: And Trump has now said very categorically, We're not interested
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Speaker 9: in your carrier, and the reason is because it is
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Speaker 9: no help to the Americans because it comes as a
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Speaker 9: vulnerable asset. It doesn't come as that battle group. Now,
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Speaker 9: the other thing we need to consider is the mining aspect,
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Speaker 9: which has now really come to the fore. And the
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Speaker 9: key point is that the UK that did have one
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Speaker 9: of the most capable mining fleets in the world or
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Speaker 9: mine countermeasures warfare fleets, that has basically gone. It's been
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Speaker 9: slashed by fifty percent. Minehunters have been withdrawn from the Gulf,
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Speaker 9: and so the sorts of assets that you see in
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Speaker 9: this picture, these little ships that would be sending outas
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Speaker 9: and underwater drones in order to do destroy mines, these
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Speaker 9: are simply not available. If you want a really excellent
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Speaker 9: overview of Raw Navy mine hunting operations and how the
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Speaker 9: thing has been devastated, have a look at Navy Lookout.
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Speaker 9: But here it's saying that just six of the original
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Speaker 9: thirteen Hunt class mine hunters are left in service. And
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Speaker 9: also the sand Down class, which are even smaller than
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Speaker 9: the Hunts, there's only seven of those left in service
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Speaker 9: of the original twelve built for the Raw Navy. So
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Speaker 9: the fleet decimated, and the UK cannot put these assets
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Speaker 9: in the Golf into the Golf because it has no
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Speaker 9: means of protecting these little ships. It has no means
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Speaker 9: of protecting motherships if they're using those to do autonomous
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Speaker 9: mine warfare mine clearance in the Golf. At the moment,
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Speaker 9: the West is completely paralyzed. The Americans can't move their
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Speaker 9: fleet because of risks from shore based attacks. We can't
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Speaker 9: move the tankers through because of risks from mining, and
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Speaker 9: the West simply hasn't got the capability to deal with
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Speaker 9: these threats. Now some of this you can see coming
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Speaker 9: to the surface. This is BBC's the Security Brief and
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Speaker 9: their military and security expert Mickey Kay was on the
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Speaker 9: Security Brief show a little while ago, really struggling because
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Speaker 9: obviously he could not say what the truth was. He
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Speaker 9: intimated that the West and the Americans weren't capable of
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Speaker 9: dealing with the threat from Iran, but he couldn't say
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Speaker 9: it because of course he was on the BBC and
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Speaker 9: presumably being paid by the BBC. Now, if we get
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Speaker 9: to the end of this segment, what is the one thing,
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Speaker 9: of course, that everybody is be beginning to worry about.
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Speaker 9: It's the unpredictability and instability of Israel. And David Sachs
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Speaker 9: here AOI and Cryptotes are to the Trump administration as
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Speaker 9: on record as saying Israel could get seriously destroyed and
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Speaker 9: you then have to worry about Israel escalating the war
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Speaker 9: by contemplating using a nuclear weapon. And he went on
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Speaker 9: talking about the danger of the web being being used,
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Speaker 9: saying it truly catastropic, catastrophic, adding that there are a
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Speaker 9: lot of really frightening scenarios about where escalation could lead.
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Speaker 9: And I'll just end to this segment by saying one
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Speaker 9: of the key problems for US in the West is that,
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Speaker 9: of course Israel is absolutely censoring all in every reports
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Speaker 9: of the damage it's suffering, almost nothing coming out about
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Speaker 9: the immense damage to Israel and facilities and also the
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Speaker 9: US facilities in the Gulf region, not only aircraft and drones,
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Speaker 9: American aircraft and drones that have been shot down, but
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Speaker 9: also key bases in each and every one of the
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Speaker 9: key states ordering the Golf bordering Iran and the Golf area.
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Speaker 9: So America has suffered devastating loss of shore facilities. But
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Speaker 9: of course we're not going to be told about this,
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Speaker 9: so it's difficult to understand the actual situation on the
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Speaker 9: ground and at sea. And of course that is reflective
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Speaker 9: of the fact it's not going well for Israel and America.
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Speaker 1: Been really bad times. But while people are focused on
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Speaker 1: Iran and indeed Ukraine and those big global events, it's
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Speaker 1: at home that we should really stay focused.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, yes, at home for the British anyway, because a
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Speaker 4: lot of the global agenda is being coordinated from here.
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Speaker 4: Last week we talked about it being Commonwealth wee. And
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Speaker 4: in parallel with that we were also treated to the
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Speaker 4: prospects of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which took place at
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Speaker 4: Hampton Court Palace, inspired by the Great Exhibition of eighteen
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Speaker 4: fifty one. This is a great showcase of all of
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Speaker 4: the new technology, the new products and new services that
22:20
Speaker 4: are going to be rolled out into the economic system
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Speaker 4: as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative. We've talked about
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Speaker 4: this many times previously on the column. The SMI, as
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Speaker 4: I'll call it for brevity, was launched in twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: by Charles the Third, then Prince of Wales as his
22:37
Speaker 4: contribution to the Great Reset. Ultimately, this is the World
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Speaker 4: Economic Forum Agenda and it is vast in scope. Last
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Speaker 4: count there were twenty seven separate workstreams covering all major industries.
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Speaker 4: The financial, markets, insurance really touches on every single part
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Speaker 4: of the economic system. And the SMI itself is a
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Speaker 4: grand convening of the top chief executives from the world's
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Speaker 4: biggest companies, all aligned around this idea. Of directing capital
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Speaker 4: and capability towards the top down transformation of the global
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Speaker 4: economic system in order to deliver something that is sustainable.
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Speaker 4: And if we can get that just back on screen quickly,
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Speaker 4: I want to just hone in on that word at
23:25
Speaker 4: the top there, sustainable, because people think that that means
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Speaker 4: good for the environment. That's what we're told, that's how
23:32
Speaker 4: these people speak about this stuff. It's good for the environment.
23:35
Speaker 4: But my view is that that actually means very profitable
23:39
Speaker 4: on an ongoing basis for the people participating in it,
23:43
Speaker 4: so they can sustain profits indefinitely. And to understand that,
23:47
Speaker 4: you just need to go and read their own documentation.
23:49
Speaker 4: So again, so if we can get that on screen,
23:52
Speaker 4: we can see that the Terra Carta that was issued
23:55
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one as the first cigul on the
23:58
Speaker 4: left hand side there. And essentially what that relates to is,
24:03
Speaker 4: amongst other things, the financialization of nature, this idea that
24:06
Speaker 4: nature only has value if it exists on a balance
24:09
Speaker 4: sheet of a corporation. It also essentially usurps magna carta
24:16
Speaker 4: as well. Obviously we talk about Magna carta, the great
24:19
Speaker 4: bit of rights that enshrines our inalienable rights as citizens
24:23
Speaker 4: of this country essentially pushed aside by Terra Carta, and
24:27
Speaker 4: then a couple of years after that Astracarta, within which
24:31
Speaker 4: the king essentially claimed dominion over outer space. So he
24:34
Speaker 4: owns the astral realm, the earthly realm, everything.
24:38
Speaker 2: In and around it.
24:40
Speaker 4: And this is all playing out in the background while
24:43
Speaker 4: these wars are kicking off around the place.
24:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the key thing. This is not something
24:47
Speaker 1: that sort of comes and goes and it's a little
24:50
Speaker 1: bit of an initiative, it's stupid and then it dies away.
24:54
Speaker 1: This is a sustained initiative. While anything else, everything and
24:58
Speaker 1: anything else is going on, this initiative is being rammed
25:02
Speaker 1: through not only in UK into UK society, but societies
25:08
Speaker 1: in the West and indeed the US.
25:10
Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:11
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And what this does is it is twofold. Ultimately,
25:14
Speaker 4: it's about concentration of wealth. And we talked about the
25:16
Speaker 4: fact that this is about the financialization of nature and
25:19
Speaker 4: turning nature into an asset class that can be traded.
25:22
Speaker 4: But at the same time that these new technological systems
25:25
Speaker 4: are being implemented, they're being used to create the apparasis
25:28
Speaker 4: for a twenty four to seven surveillance state. So this
25:31
Speaker 4: is smart cities, digital surveillance, and from space even actually,
25:35
Speaker 4: which I'll come back to in a moment, but for now,
25:38
Speaker 4: let's just have a little listen to Jennifer Jordan Safi,
25:41
Speaker 4: chief Executive of SMI, talking a.
25:44
Speaker 2: Little bit about what they've been up to over the
25:46
Speaker 2: past few years.
25:48
Speaker 10: Six years ago, his Majesty King Charles the Third, then
25:51
Speaker 10: the Prince of Wales, launched the Sustainable Markeus Initiative along
25:56
Speaker 10: with the Terrakatta and Astra Karta mandates. Today, the SMI
26:00
Speaker 10: is the world's go to private sector platform for turning
26:03
Speaker 10: sustainability into scalable, profitable growth. In twenty twenty five, we
26:08
Speaker 10: pivoted facing a shifting global narrative, we launched pragmatic, commercially
26:13
Speaker 10: driven pathfinders that build real markets, achieve rapid scale, and
26:17
Speaker 10: deliver measurable economic benefit. The year ago, at the midpoint
26:27
Speaker 10: of our journey, we brought over four hundred of the
26:30
Speaker 10: world's top CEOs, innovators and global leaders to Hampden Core
26:34
Speaker 10: Palace for the inaugural SMI Roundtables and exhibition. The message
26:39
Speaker 10: that emerged was clear, stay the course, but execute faster,
26:43
Speaker 10: smarter and with sharper commercial focus. In twenty twenty five,
26:48
Speaker 10: we took the moment of global. In June we attended
26:51
Speaker 10: North Shipping in Norway, the Blue Economy and Finance Forum
26:54
Speaker 10: in Monaco, and the Eulen Ocean Conference in France. In
26:58
Speaker 10: July we held our inaugural China Plant alongside the China
27:02
Speaker 10: International Supply Chain Expert were global and Chinese CEOs discovered
27:07
Speaker 10: powerful synergies already reshaping supply chains worldwide.
27:14
Speaker 4: I had to cut it there because she said synergies
27:16
Speaker 4: and I couldn't take any more. But the music was
27:18
Speaker 4: quite staring, wasn't it. Do you feel excited about the
27:20
Speaker 4: potential for economic growth?
27:22
Speaker 2: Brian?
27:23
Speaker 1: The music is always designed to be uplifting, relaxing as
27:27
Speaker 1: well for people. It's all part of the psychology for
27:31
Speaker 1: this sort of policy.
27:32
Speaker 5: It is. Yeah.
27:33
Speaker 4: But she's actually quite honest in the intro there because
27:36
Speaker 4: she says SMI is the go to private sector platform
27:40
Speaker 4: to turn sustainability into profitable growth. So order to talk
27:44
Speaker 4: about sustainability, it's actually it's about it's about it's about money.
27:48
Speaker 4: And also she said that when they got together, I
27:50
Speaker 4: think it was last year, they said that they've got
27:52
Speaker 4: to stay the course.
27:53
Speaker 2: But execute faster. So actually again it's revealing that things.
27:57
Speaker 4: Aren't going quite to plan and they don't have any alternatives,
28:01
Speaker 4: so they just got to keep on going, but do
28:03
Speaker 4: it more quickly, and I think the wheels are starting
28:06
Speaker 4: to fall off this whole thing. To be honest with you, also,
28:10
Speaker 4: you know, we talked a bit about what sustainable actually means.
28:13
Speaker 2: You just have a little look at some of.
28:15
Speaker 4: The individuals and the organizations who are participating in this,
28:18
Speaker 4: which I think speaks volumes beyond the headlines that we're
28:21
Speaker 4: presented with. First one is this roundtables comes from last
28:25
Speaker 4: week which was run around the issue of sustainable transport
28:29
Speaker 4: and logistics. They had two companies there. One was byd
28:32
Speaker 4: which is driving the electric vehicle transition, but then an
28:36
Speaker 4: important one is Fortescu, which is an Australian mining company
28:40
Speaker 4: which is now moving into high value electrical products essentially
28:45
Speaker 4: and particularly in transportation, and it builds huge electric diggers
28:50
Speaker 4: for use in its mining facilities and that kind of thing.
28:53
Speaker 4: And for me, this is a perfect example of the
28:55
Speaker 4: hipocrisy at play in this organization and this entire sustainability agenda.
28:59
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, right, because Fortescue is here
29:02
Speaker 4: as part of the SMI, but then it.
29:05
Speaker 2: Also is.
29:07
Speaker 4: Undergoing legal action at the moment for what appears to
29:12
Speaker 4: be illegal mining in the Pilboro region, and this relates
29:16
Speaker 4: to the Solomon Mine, which from which it's seeking to
29:20
Speaker 4: extract up to eighty.
29:22
Speaker 2: Million tons of iron ore a year.
29:25
Speaker 4: And in the process of establishing that, they destroyed a
29:29
Speaker 4: whole series of Aboriginal cultural assets and so not very sustainable,
29:36
Speaker 4: not very sustainable, not very nice and cuddly. Right, And
29:40
Speaker 4: this is just one example, right, So this is not
29:42
Speaker 4: and it's not just Fortescue, it's all of these mining
29:45
Speaker 4: companies in Australia, but this is a particularly good example
29:48
Speaker 4: because of their involvement with SMI. So apparently we've got
29:52
Speaker 4: to trust these people around sustainability. But then actually they're
29:56
Speaker 4: perfectly happy to destroy the natural world, destroying the genous
30:00
Speaker 4: culture so that the chairman of FORTESQW can be one
30:05
Speaker 4: of the richest Australians. And they turned three billion pound
30:08
Speaker 4: profit last year. You know, you know, it's it's it's
30:12
Speaker 4: extraordinary when you see this stuff. And then another just
30:16
Speaker 4: one more clip from SMI last week, because I think
30:18
Speaker 4: it's important to understand the level that they're going to
30:22
Speaker 4: in terms of their ambition for the type of infrastructure
30:27
Speaker 4: they're building, but also its capabilities. And this relates to
30:32
Speaker 4: the satellite networks that are going up around up in
30:35
Speaker 4: space right now.
30:37
Speaker 8: Space is going to be incredibly useful to us in
30:41
Speaker 8: the future as it is now, but we're really just
30:43
Speaker 8: scratching the surface. We're already using satellite navigation systems, communication systems,
30:48
Speaker 8: for example Earth observation that's helping us understand climate change.
30:52
Speaker 8: But in the future, space could be, for example, providing
30:55
Speaker 8: limitless solar based power. It could be providing a place
30:59
Speaker 8: to put all of our orbital data centers, which are
31:02
Speaker 8: huge energy consumers and thermal producers. So we're just scratching
31:06
Speaker 8: the surface of what can space can do to benefit
31:08
Speaker 8: everybody back here on Earth. But it's an environment that
31:11
Speaker 8: will become useless if it becomes contaminated by debris. And
31:15
Speaker 8: also we need to be very aware that every launch
31:17
Speaker 8: into space obviously is producing pollutants into the atmosphere, and
31:21
Speaker 8: every re entry vehicle is also burning up producing pollutants
31:25
Speaker 8: into the atmosphere. So we need to work together to
31:28
Speaker 8: work out how we can use space in a sustainable way.
31:36
Speaker 1: Well, just incredible. You said to me while that video
31:40
Speaker 1: was playing. They're mad, And to me, this is exactly right.
31:43
Speaker 1: Highly intelligent people, but utterly mad, as if we would
31:47
Speaker 1: want to be surrounded by all of their pieces of
31:51
Speaker 1: mechanical and AI satellites.
31:55
Speaker 4: That will govern us, which will govern us, going to
31:57
Speaker 4: govern us from space, and all based on a full
32:03
Speaker 4: global surveillance network that they've already built. And one of
32:10
Speaker 4: the most important things to understand about this, I think
32:12
Speaker 4: we talked about Epstein earlier and talked about the idea
32:15
Speaker 4: of the wars that are happening in the Middle East,
32:18
Speaker 4: particularly the current war in Iran, has been a distraction
32:22
Speaker 4: from the information that's come out over recent months regarding
32:25
Speaker 4: Jeffrey Epstein in his network. Is the actually all of this,
32:29
Speaker 4: the entire global economic agenda around the transition to a
32:35
Speaker 4: new economy, this idea of greening the economic system, the
32:39
Speaker 4: institutional narratives that have been built up around this, the
32:44
Speaker 4: way that it's been embedded into compliance within central banking
32:49
Speaker 4: and elsewhere in the financial markets, the propaganda push to
32:52
Speaker 4: make this something that is supposedly desirable to the holy humanity,
32:57
Speaker 4: and the enforcement mechanism that is going to make us
33:01
Speaker 4: comply with this stuff through central bank digital currency. All
33:04
Speaker 4: of it has its roots in the network surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
33:10
Speaker 4: And we've directed your attention towards these articles previously from
33:14
Speaker 4: escape Key. I'll do so again because they are absolutely excellent.
33:18
Speaker 4: Brian and I attempted to sit down last week to
33:21
Speaker 4: have a conversation about these, but the level of detail
33:23
Speaker 4: in them is.
33:24
Speaker 2: So much that we need we need to have another
33:26
Speaker 2: crack at it.
33:27
Speaker 4: But essentially what it reveals is that this entire agenda,
33:31
Speaker 4: the greening agenda, the sustainable development agenda, comes from Epstein.
33:36
Speaker 4: So actually the headlines that we hear about Trump or
33:39
Speaker 4: Mandelsson or Prince Andrew as he was formerly known, or
33:42
Speaker 4: any of these other people is really little more than
33:45
Speaker 4: a distraction from the fact that the whole system has
33:49
Speaker 4: been set up and designed and funded by people within
33:53
Speaker 4: this network, and that's what we see him playing out
33:55
Speaker 4: around us on a daily basis.
33:58
Speaker 1: Truly remarkable, of course, we understand, and the horrors of
34:00
Speaker 1: the children and the young women who were abused, the
34:04
Speaker 1: people doing that were building something absolutely devastated in parallel
34:10
Speaker 1: with it, and this is to my mind why we
34:13
Speaker 1: now have the situation where of course with the war
34:16
Speaker 1: or the attack on it ran absolutely perfect for undermining
34:21
Speaker 1: the release of more Epstein files and more data as
34:24
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34:27
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34:31
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34:35
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34:41
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34:46
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34:49
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Speaker 1: org dot UK. Well, let's move on to key headline
36:53
Speaker 1: and this is it the Daily Mail. As war rages
36:57
Speaker 1: in Iran, woke MD ask troops guys, do you want
37:01
Speaker 1: to wear makeup and nail polish?
37:03
Speaker 2: Now?
37:04
Speaker 1: I believe that this is one of the most significant
37:07
Speaker 1: headlines that's popped up in the last couple of weeks,
37:10
Speaker 1: certainly while the war against Iran has been raging. But
37:14
Speaker 1: why do I think it's so significant. It comes down
37:17
Speaker 1: to little details in the article itself and a whole
37:21
Speaker 1: lot of information which Mark Nicol, the Defense editor for
37:25
Speaker 1: The Daily Mail, either couldn't or wouldn't get involved with.
37:30
Speaker 1: So this is one of the key comments that the
37:32
Speaker 1: article made, and it's from Mark francois that shadow Defense Minister,
37:37
Speaker 1: and he said this upgrading to mascara from camouflage cream
37:42
Speaker 1: is highly likely to putin. And now I'm got to say, Ben,
37:47
Speaker 1: this is one of the classic comments that MPs love
37:51
Speaker 1: because it's dismissive. Well, it's a whole range of things.
37:54
Speaker 1: It's flippant, it's dismissive and dangerous, and it ignores the
37:59
Speaker 1: reality of what the Wok agender has done, the damage
38:04
Speaker 1: it has done to the armed forces. So if we
38:08
Speaker 1: dig into this deeper, the article also has from an
38:12
Speaker 1: Army spokesman, apparently the comment made by Sir Rowland Walker,
38:16
Speaker 1: chief of the General Staff, and what did he have
38:19
Speaker 1: to say? He said, the Army is focused on enhancing
38:22
Speaker 1: our lethality and fighting readiness. There are no plans to
38:27
Speaker 1: change policy and this was not an official army survey.
38:33
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to come straight back in here with
38:35
Speaker 1: the question it wasn't an army survey. There's something wrong here.
38:40
Speaker 1: He's either ignorant to what was happening, or he's involved
38:44
Speaker 1: in deception, or this is a slope shoulders, it wasn't me, Gav.
38:50
Speaker 1: Before we dig in a little bit deeper to what's
38:52
Speaker 1: really been happening here, let's have a listen to the
38:56
Speaker 1: General talking about what he is going.
38:59
Speaker 9: To do with the.
39:02
Speaker 11: As I prepare to take responsibility for the British Army,
39:05
Speaker 11: I recognize that the thinking and design of the fifth
39:07
Speaker 11: gen British Army has largely been done and is in delivery.
39:13
Speaker 11: This will continue. I absolutely recognize the importance of continuity
39:19
Speaker 11: when it comes to our program of record. The only
39:23
Speaker 11: real measurement of an army is its fighting power. It's
39:26
Speaker 11: lethality in the face of very real and converging threats
39:31
Speaker 11: in the near term. My challenge to the British Army
39:34
Speaker 11: is to double that lethality in three years and trouble
39:38
Speaker 11: it by the end of the decade. Now, the major
39:40
Speaker 11: hardware systems are in train, and I want to make
39:43
Speaker 11: it clear that the four plus one of electronic warfare,
39:48
Speaker 11: uncruded systems, air defense, long range fires, plus logistics and
39:54
Speaker 11: stockpiles remain the stars to steer by. My focus in
40:00
Speaker 11: the near term will be on making what we've got
40:03
Speaker 11: work even better, essentially the software that exploits the data
40:07
Speaker 11: to turbocharge our modernization. And in this way I think
40:11
Speaker 11: we can make huge gains in our ability to sense threats,
40:16
Speaker 11: make decisions and change the facts on the ground to
40:19
Speaker 11: our advantage. We cannot do this alone. We need a
40:23
Speaker 11: new partnership with you for us, a partnering mindset and
40:28
Speaker 11: roll for healthy challenge. Therein not least as we try
40:32
Speaker 11: to move from exhaustive requirement setting towards a software first,
40:37
Speaker 11: model based systems engineering approach to modernization. We must get
40:42
Speaker 11: our tacticians alongside your technicians to drive spiral development. And
40:49
Speaker 11: there is a need for everyone at all levels to
40:52
Speaker 11: track backwards and forwards from the foxholes to the factory flaws.
40:56
Speaker 11: And I can assure you that I will lead by example.
41:00
Speaker 11: I am committed to driving UK prosperity through our land
41:03
Speaker 11: industrial strategy.
41:07
Speaker 1: So I don't know whether our audience picked up on
41:09
Speaker 1: everything he was talking about, because he said some quite
41:12
Speaker 1: amazing things. But he ended there saying that part of
41:14
Speaker 1: his job was the prosperity of UK, not only defense,
41:19
Speaker 1: but he's apparently involved in helping the prosperity of UK.
41:23
Speaker 1: And then he's already mentioned the fact that logistics and
41:28
Speaker 1: stockpiles are very important. Well he was saying that way
41:31
Speaker 1: back then, but we now know they're absolutely vital, because
41:35
Speaker 1: this is what has absolutely hammered and hampered the ability
41:40
Speaker 1: of the UK to get involved in war overseas because
41:43
Speaker 1: we do not have the weapons and monitions and stockpiles
41:47
Speaker 1: in order to do that. Never mind the rights and
41:49
Speaker 1: wrongs whether we should be getting involved. We're talking about
41:52
Speaker 1: what is being done behind the scenes with our military.
41:56
Speaker 1: So this man focusing on a spiral pro she says,
42:01
Speaker 1: and that we're going to be looking at unmanned vehicles. Well,
42:04
Speaker 1: we can't use unmanned mind hunting vehicles in the golf
42:08
Speaker 1: because they simply can't be got into theater because there's
42:12
Speaker 1: no weapons systems in order to secure air defense in
42:17
Speaker 1: order to move into theater. So although this man is Army.
42:23
Speaker 1: What he is saying is coming unraveled because it's very
42:26
Speaker 1: clear that UK doesn't have the power to do it. Now,
42:30
Speaker 1: let's come back on the subject of hair brushes at dawn,
42:34
Speaker 1: as a few of our viewers have commented on today,
42:39
Speaker 1: and this is the key topic. He says that the
42:42
Speaker 1: diversity and Inclusion questionnaire was nothing to do with him.
42:46
Speaker 1: But if we look on the Army's website, we will
42:49
Speaker 1: find that it's absolutely plastered with information about diversity and inclusion,
42:54
Speaker 1: and if we bring a little bit of it on screen,
42:57
Speaker 1: we can see here that the Army's D and I
43:02
Speaker 1: N state here an army that is justifiably recognized as
43:05
Speaker 1: demonstrably inclusive employer. The respects difference, attracts talents from all
43:11
Speaker 1: areas of society, overtly embraces equality of opportunity, and always
43:16
Speaker 1: challenges unacceptable behavior. The Army must stand out as an
43:21
Speaker 1: inclusive employer, one that values diversity, attracts talent from all
43:25
Speaker 1: areas of society, overtly embraces equality of opportunity, and consistently
43:31
Speaker 1: challenges unacceptable behavior. So this is embedded in the Army.
43:38
Speaker 1: It's equivalent to a military woke industry. We've got unit
43:43
Speaker 1: level diversity and inclusion strategy advisors unit level. We've also
43:49
Speaker 1: got speak out and mediation services connected with this. So
43:54
Speaker 1: if we bring in a bit more detail, it tells
43:57
Speaker 1: you that speak Out Signpost service per and now to
44:00
Speaker 1: suitable contacts in their units to enable the problem to
44:04
Speaker 1: be addressed. And we've also got this one here, which
44:08
Speaker 1: is the Army Mediation Service. And the whole of this
44:12
Speaker 1: system is throughout the Army structure. So the idea that
44:17
Speaker 1: a survey asking whether men should be able to wear
44:21
Speaker 1: makeup or an equivalent basis to women to meet the
44:25
Speaker 1: transagender that he doesn't know about it, this simply can't
44:28
Speaker 1: be true. And if we have a look at the
44:31
Speaker 1: structure through the military, and I'll say I took a
44:34
Speaker 1: little bit of help here from AI because it's so
44:38
Speaker 1: difficult to see what is actually happening, we can summarize
44:42
Speaker 1: it for you on screen now. So diversity in inclusion
44:47
Speaker 1: is embedded in the Army. It's at unit level. We've
44:52
Speaker 1: got Army personnel attending Defense Academy courses to serve as
44:58
Speaker 1: diversity in incline advisors and practitioners. We've got a mod
45:03
Speaker 1: strategy to Conduct Equity and Justice, the Conduct Equity and
45:09
Speaker 1: Justice Directorate, which gives diversity and inclusion policy across defense
45:15
Speaker 1: and supports staff networks. And we've also got the networks themselves,
45:21
Speaker 1: an internal diversity network system covering race, gender, disability, which
45:28
Speaker 1: feeds into policy discussion. So I'm going to say one
45:32
Speaker 1: once again, the idea that the commander in chief, effectively
45:39
Speaker 1: the boss of the army, didn't know what was happening.
45:42
Speaker 1: This is plainly ridiculous. So this is layered through the
45:48
Speaker 1: British Army and it is resulting in such mad things
45:52
Speaker 1: as the survey we've mentioned at the start of this segment.
45:57
Speaker 1: But here's the detail this layered system. It's both strategic
46:01
Speaker 1: and operational support for diversity and inclusion, shaping culture and
46:06
Speaker 1: advising commanders while separating formal regulatory authority from policy influence
46:14
Speaker 1: and behavioral change work. So let's reinforce what we're actually
46:19
Speaker 1: learning here that basically this is set out so they
46:24
Speaker 1: can shape the culture in the army to become more woke.
46:29
Speaker 1: They can advise commanders to allow them to push the
46:33
Speaker 1: policy through, but at the same time it separates proper
46:38
Speaker 1: discipline and control in the army from the mechanism that
46:44
Speaker 1: is producing the policy influence and behavioral change work. Ben
46:50
Speaker 1: it took me a little bit of time to get
46:52
Speaker 1: my head around it. But what we're actually seeing is
46:55
Speaker 1: that the destructive policy men and women are to become
46:59
Speaker 1: like each other. They can wear the same clothes, they
47:01
Speaker 1: can use the same toilet facilities or showers. That's where
47:06
Speaker 1: it's going. This is being driven in under the noses
47:11
Speaker 1: of the people controlling the military or the army. They
47:15
Speaker 1: are not fully aware of what's happening because it's deliberately
47:19
Speaker 1: set up where there's a separation in powers. And if
47:23
Speaker 1: we follow this through earlier I mentioned the Defense Academy
47:27
Speaker 1: as training people, so here we are noticed the photograph.
47:31
Speaker 1: I have been cynical in the labeling here because I've
47:34
Speaker 1: said meet the boys and girls from the Defense Academy
47:37
Speaker 1: of the United Kingdom. The photograph is significant because you've
47:41
Speaker 1: got four women and three men, which of course does
47:45
Speaker 1: not recognize the ratio of men and women in the
47:49
Speaker 1: armed forces. So this photograph itself is part of the
47:53
Speaker 1: reframing towards the new woke agenda. If we have a
47:57
Speaker 1: little bit more detail on the Defense Academy, it's offering
48:01
Speaker 1: short and long range courses consistent of face to face,
48:05
Speaker 1: digital and blended learning. It's also talking about English language
48:11
Speaker 1: instruction export courses in leadership, building integrity and reducing the
48:17
Speaker 1: risk of corruption. That sounds interesting from the UK government,
48:22
Speaker 1: but then they say this, our purpose is to help
48:25
Speaker 1: those who study with us and their nations to develop
48:29
Speaker 1: the intellectual ledge needed to run successful government departments and
48:33
Speaker 1: military operations. But the point is the UK cannot run
48:37
Speaker 1: its own armed forces and military supply chains, and yet
48:41
Speaker 1: we had the British government paying in order to be
48:45
Speaker 1: training other nation states to do this. When you put
48:50
Speaker 1: it apart, Ben, it is mind it's mind blowing. What's
48:55
Speaker 1: actually happening here. The country is being ripped apart, but
48:59
Speaker 1: our is being used supposedly to train people in other
49:04
Speaker 1: nations to be what better than we are in a
49:07
Speaker 1: military sense? Think it through. This is another academy linked
49:12
Speaker 1: into leadership and woke agenda for the armed forces, this
49:17
Speaker 1: time linked to the Royal Air Force. This particular lady
49:21
Speaker 1: is shown as the Commandant Group Captain Emma Keith ba
49:25
Speaker 1: MSCRAF and if we look at her in a little
49:29
Speaker 1: bit more detail, we find something very interesting because apparently
49:33
Speaker 1: she won a national award as an Agent of change
49:37
Speaker 1: for her work at the college, which brings us back
49:40
Speaker 1: to you, Ben, because of course, this is absolutely what
49:43
Speaker 1: you've been warning about. The placed agents of change are
49:49
Speaker 1: actually destroying the institutional foundations, in this case the armed forces,
49:55
Speaker 1: and this is being done under the noses of the
49:58
Speaker 1: men and women who are trying to make a functioning
50:01
Speaker 1: military system. And this isn't just happening in the military.
50:05
Speaker 1: It's also happening through other elements of the country, including
50:11
Speaker 1: the court system, including the NHS, including the police, the.
50:16
Speaker 4: Whole society, all of society. Absolutely, yes, change agents everywhere.
50:21
Speaker 4: Everyone a change maker. There's a charity that has that
50:24
Speaker 4: as their charity charity exactly, they want everyone to be
50:29
Speaker 4: a change maker.
50:31
Speaker 10: You know.
50:31
Speaker 4: The overriding impression I got from that section, Brian, was
50:35
Speaker 4: that this is not a fighting force, This is this
50:37
Speaker 4: a bureaucracy.
50:39
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's absolutely true, true. And if you look
50:43
Speaker 1: at the language of senior military personnel, their whole language
50:47
Speaker 1: has changed from what it was twenty years ago. There
50:50
Speaker 1: used to be very they used to be very factual
50:53
Speaker 1: and precise in the language they use. But now you're
50:57
Speaker 1: hearing them more and more using this sort of it's
51:01
Speaker 1: sort of like a futuristic business development speech, yes, instead
51:08
Speaker 1: of language that absolutely represented the military and what the
51:13
Speaker 1: military was trying to do.
51:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
51:14
Speaker 4: Absolutely all approved by the Conduct, Equity and Justice Directorate,
51:19
Speaker 4: no doubt.
51:20
Speaker 2: I quite enjoyed that.
51:22
Speaker 4: And as we said, many more of these across Any
51:25
Speaker 4: large organization in the country, not just in this country,
51:29
Speaker 4: but certainly in this country is absolutely riddled with this
51:32
Speaker 4: stuff and they're pushing it out more broadly into society
51:35
Speaker 4: as well. One of the mechanisms for that is this organization.
51:39
Speaker 4: And I talked about UK Community Foundations over the past
51:43
Speaker 4: two weeks as it relates to their involvement with what's
51:47
Speaker 4: happening in the farming system right now that just a
51:50
Speaker 4: few days ago they announced the launch of this new program,
51:55
Speaker 4: Lead the Change. So this is a collaboration, as these
52:00
Speaker 4: things always are. It's never one organization, it's always a
52:04
Speaker 4: network of them. I think it's about spreading their influence
52:07
Speaker 4: and also avoiding accountability for what they're doing. But you've
52:10
Speaker 4: got the BBC in there via Children of Need, You've
52:13
Speaker 4: got d DCMS, the Departure for Culture and Media and
52:17
Speaker 4: or on the right hand side at the top. There
52:19
Speaker 4: you've got Esme Fairburn Foundation, who we talk about quite
52:23
Speaker 4: a lot. They're very active in Plymouth amongst other places.
52:26
Speaker 4: And because their chairman is directly linked to the Rothschild Foundation,
52:30
Speaker 4: so you can can get a sense of the types
52:33
Speaker 4: of people and organizations that we're dealing with here and
52:35
Speaker 4: what are they up to and what's this fund all about.
52:38
Speaker 4: So it's a three point four million pound three year
52:41
Speaker 4: initiative to support young people to build stronger communities across
52:46
Speaker 4: the UK. It's very much like what you just described
52:49
Speaker 4: happening at a unit level in the army.
52:52
Speaker 1: And the stronger communities doesn't mean communities in the sense
52:56
Speaker 1: that most people would imagine that. It means communities that
53:00
Speaker 1: are running to the policy agenda of this sustainable, sustainable,
53:06
Speaker 1: overarching policy that we've been talking about. So this isn't
53:10
Speaker 1: going to help communities. This is just going to stamp
53:13
Speaker 1: control through those communities.
53:15
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and destabilize the existing community so they can
53:19
Speaker 4: be replaced with something else. I think it seems to
53:22
Speaker 4: be what's a play here? Just to continue with the
53:25
Speaker 4: quote from the release, it says a growing body of
53:27
Speaker 4: research shows that many young people feel disconnected, less heard
53:32
Speaker 4: by decision makers. This idea that young people should always
53:36
Speaker 4: be heard by decision makers. This is a new thing
53:39
Speaker 4: and increasingly cautious about expressing themselves, especially online where exposure
53:44
Speaker 4: to polarizing or harmful content can be widespread, it continues saying.
53:51
Speaker 4: Combined with financial pressures facing families and communities, these factors
53:55
Speaker 4: can deepen isolation and weaken young people's sense of belonging.
53:59
Speaker 4: Our commission and research by More in Common with thirteen
54:03
Speaker 4: to eighteen year olds across the UK living in communities
54:05
Speaker 4: experiencing polarization and division confirmed these insights. So the country's divided.
54:11
Speaker 4: The only reason that we know that is because we
54:13
Speaker 4: commissioned More in Common to do some research for us.
54:16
Speaker 4: More in Common is run by Brendan Cox, who's a
54:19
Speaker 4: young global leader of the World Economic Forum, and I
54:21
Speaker 4: spoke about him a few weeks ago because he's involved
54:24
Speaker 4: in these social transformation programs across the board written large,
54:29
Speaker 4: I sually just yet another example of it. And this
54:31
Speaker 4: program has got five key objectives that they're pursuing. One
54:35
Speaker 4: is to strengthen community connection and safety. In power too
54:39
Speaker 4: is empower young people as leaders, storytellers, and change makers.
54:44
Speaker 4: So acially, they're going to recruit young people into this program,
54:48
Speaker 4: fill them full of ideas and self confidence so that
54:52
Speaker 4: they can go out and tell different stories about the
54:55
Speaker 4: society that we all live in and.
54:58
Speaker 1: The past to change will have been already put into
55:01
Speaker 1: their minds. Yeah, by the people who train them in
55:04
Speaker 1: the first place. So this is where this becomes so insidious.
55:08
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
55:09
Speaker 4: And the third point is support young people to build
55:12
Speaker 4: digital literacy and challenge harmful narratives. So you've got to
55:15
Speaker 4: challenge harmful narratives, right, so probably things that we sell
55:19
Speaker 4: on the UK column those would be harmful narratives. So
55:21
Speaker 4: we've got to train these young people to basically operate
55:24
Speaker 4: like little stars, the agents go around correcting everyone who's
55:27
Speaker 4: engaging in wrongthink. Now before is to increase opportunity for
55:31
Speaker 4: young people through skills and leadership pathways. So we've got
55:34
Speaker 4: to accelerate these young people in our program into positions
55:38
Speaker 4: of authority in companies or in politics, wherever it might be.
55:41
Speaker 4: And then the fifth point, which is a really critical one,
55:44
Speaker 4: is to build a national movement for youth led connection
55:47
Speaker 4: and change. I actually think that this and this is
55:50
Speaker 4: just an example of what I'm seeing across the whole
55:54
Speaker 4: system at the moment is probably going to ladder up
55:56
Speaker 4: to some kind of astroturfed, supposedly youth led color revolution
56:05
Speaker 4: in the next year or two. I think that's where
56:08
Speaker 4: things are heading to.
56:09
Speaker 1: To have everybody at each other's throats, and then of
56:12
Speaker 1: course the proper regime or the desired regime is stamped
56:17
Speaker 1: in over the top of that exactly.
56:18
Speaker 4: And these networks have been established, funded, trained, put all
56:23
Speaker 4: around the country in this instance, in seventeen different locations,
56:28
Speaker 4: including we can just get that up on screen in Plymouth.
56:32
Speaker 4: So Devin Community Foundation's part of this, yes, so no
56:35
Speaker 4: doubt we'll see some action here. So over the coming
56:38
Speaker 4: months and years.
56:39
Speaker 1: People focused overseas on all these horrific events and the wars,
56:43
Speaker 1: but actually what's happening in UK is we're being attacked
56:46
Speaker 1: by our own government, which is dismantling the country, dismantling
56:51
Speaker 1: the constitution, dismantling the main supports for that constitution, the police,
56:58
Speaker 1: the armed forces, the HS, the court system. All of
57:02
Speaker 1: this is big, undermined and destroyed. And then the intention
57:06
Speaker 1: is to bring in this new sustainable system of government
57:10
Speaker 1: which is sold as being nice and for the for
57:14
Speaker 1: the benefit of mankind, saving the planet. It's just becoming
57:20
Speaker 1: more and more obvious how this attack is working.
57:24
Speaker 2: To deliver justice use this terminal time.
57:27
Speaker 4: Just in inclusive means that we're certainly not Just an
57:31
Speaker 4: inclusive means you can't escape it.
57:35
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I thought we had one here before we
57:40
Speaker 1: got on to let me just have a look where
57:42
Speaker 1: we are in Slight. Well, we're into companies out here, Ben,
57:46
Speaker 1: So do you want to just take us through that one?
57:48
Speaker 9: Yeah?
57:48
Speaker 4: Sure, so we'll crack on with This was a part
57:50
Speaker 4: of the new sustainable inclusive system that was being migrated
57:53
Speaker 4: towards is that it's all built on digital digital technology
57:56
Speaker 4: and the system those absolutely everything about us. And apparently
58:00
Speaker 4: this is all fine, but it seems that the UK
58:03
Speaker 4: government can't even run a fairly simple website without experiencing
58:07
Speaker 4: a major security breach, and Company's house actually had to
58:10
Speaker 4: take its website offline over the weekend because of its
58:16
Speaker 4: online finding service. Is Coming from the Ft was closed
58:21
Speaker 4: after a glitch allowed members of the public to view
58:24
Speaker 4: and change director's personal details, potentially exposing them to fraud
58:27
Speaker 4: or other criminal activity. There are more than five million
58:31
Speaker 4: companies on the UK's official corporate register, including those of
58:34
Speaker 4: the largest foot to one hundred companies such as Astrozeneka,
58:37
Speaker 4: Shell and Tesco. So basically what this means is if
58:40
Speaker 4: you were on the company's House website, there was an
58:43
Speaker 4: issue which meant that I could log in as a
58:45
Speaker 4: director or any other company and make changes and have
58:48
Speaker 4: access to all of the personal information on their extraordinary.
58:52
Speaker 1: Ben The reason this is so incredible, of course, over
58:55
Speaker 1: the last year, Company's House has bullied every director company
59:01
Speaker 1: and the country to sign up digitally with them. I mean,
59:05
Speaker 1: this is more or less full fingerprint and IRIS scan.
59:08
Speaker 1: This is to do with your digital identity and driving license,
59:12
Speaker 1: your passport. Company's House has hoovered up all of that
59:17
Speaker 1: detailed personal data on the basis that they need it
59:23
Speaker 1: in order to keep the public in the UK safe
59:27
Speaker 1: from fraud and criminal activity. So they took all the
59:33
Speaker 1: data and then the next thing is they've demonstrated they're
59:36
Speaker 1: not capable of conducting the security of that data and
59:40
Speaker 1: there's been this massive breach. It's truly incredible.
59:43
Speaker 4: It is incredible, just an on time. We've got a
59:46
Speaker 4: couple of minute video. I've already described it, but we
59:50
Speaker 4: can show it in action. Let's just have a little
59:52
Speaker 4: look at this clip and show you exactly what we're
59:55
Speaker 4: talking about.
59:58
Speaker 12: This is the company's house dashboard. Lets you see the
1:00:00
Speaker 12: dealers of a company.
1:00:01
Speaker 6: Edit.
1:00:02
Speaker 12: He does with a company. This is tax policy associates.
1:00:05
Speaker 12: Of course it's a company I own, so no surprise,
1:00:07
Speaker 12: I can see it here. Here's the trick. Can a
1:00:12
Speaker 12: click file for a different company? Now at this point
1:00:15
Speaker 12: I could end to any company in the UK. I'd
1:00:19
Speaker 12: love to demonstrate this with Tesco or Marx suspenses. I'm
1:00:22
Speaker 12: worried I'd be committing an offense and to keeping a
1:00:24
Speaker 12: misuse act. So I'm using a company which I have
1:00:27
Speaker 12: nothing to do with, but it's owned by a friend.
1:00:29
Speaker 12: He's given me his permission to do this, so this
1:00:31
Speaker 12: is authorized. Oh nine two two ninety six. The most
1:00:36
Speaker 12: difficult part is type in the number continue this is
1:00:40
Speaker 12: the company my friend's company. Confirm and continue. Now at
1:00:46
Speaker 12: this point, obviously I don't have the company authentication code
1:00:49
Speaker 12: because I'm not nothing to do with this company, so
1:00:51
Speaker 12: I can't possibly go forwards. Why as if I go
1:00:54
Speaker 12: back and back and back, and now I'm seeing the
1:01:03
Speaker 12: dashboard for my friend's company, I can see his personal
1:01:08
Speaker 12: email address. I can see his address. It's even worse
1:01:17
Speaker 12: because what I can do. I could file accounts, I
1:01:20
Speaker 12: can change things here. I can actually update his address
1:01:27
Speaker 12: if I wanted to. And we've tested this. We actually
1:01:30
Speaker 12: in another video, the person who discovered the vulnerability, with
1:01:35
Speaker 12: my permission, changed my address a companies out I needed
1:01:38
Speaker 12: to update it anyway. It was actually handy, but he
1:01:41
Speaker 12: should not have been able to do that. I think
1:01:46
Speaker 12: you can probably file company accounts here. I could get
1:01:49
Speaker 12: in here, I could change his details. That's insane. And
1:01:57
Speaker 12: all I did to do this is I went back twice.
1:02:00
Speaker 12: There was no preparation, no setup, no hacking at all.
1:02:03
Speaker 12: I just pressed the back button twice.
1:02:10
Speaker 1: Pretty incredible stuff, Ben, And what comes into my mind,
1:02:13
Speaker 1: of course, is that we've got the same vulnerabilities to
1:02:18
Speaker 1: all of our medical data, but with the added danger,
1:02:21
Speaker 1: of course, that a lot of NHS data has now
1:02:24
Speaker 1: been handed to Israel with its preponderance of the use
1:02:28
Speaker 1: of its own security services in order to monitor and
1:02:33
Speaker 1: process data on people outside of Israel. Truly worrying.
1:02:38
Speaker 4: It is truly worrying, and I do wonder whether this
1:02:42
Speaker 4: event is actually going to have any impact tool on
1:02:45
Speaker 4: the narrative that we're constantly being fed that digital idea
1:02:49
Speaker 4: is going to be fine, and people like Alexander Ayer said,
1:02:53
Speaker 4: we can see here from the Blair Institute constantly putting
1:02:57
Speaker 4: out these little video clips saying how often there's nothing
1:03:01
Speaker 4: to worry about. Actually it's the opposite. It's more secure
1:03:06
Speaker 4: to do things this way. I wonder if they're going
1:03:09
Speaker 4: to change tack on the back of this real world
1:03:12
Speaker 4: evidence that what they're pushing into doesn't really work.
1:03:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. Probably not.
1:03:17
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to watch it very closely. But of
1:03:19
Speaker 1: course forewarned is forearmed. So this is the main thing
1:03:23
Speaker 1: for people, not only in UK but worldwide. If you
1:03:27
Speaker 1: know what's happening, if you can see how it's being done,
1:03:30
Speaker 1: that gives you the best chance of countering it. Let's
1:03:34
Speaker 1: just end on the subject of chat GPT. This is serious,
1:03:40
Speaker 1: but of course it's a little bit of black humor.
1:03:43
Speaker 1: Over the weekend I had calls to challenge chat GPT
1:03:46
Speaker 1: because it was giving me answers that I eventually said,
1:03:50
Speaker 1: what you're giving me is not fact, it's propaganda. And
1:03:54
Speaker 1: this is what chat GPT had to say to me.
1:03:58
Speaker 1: Was this the real limits of systems like me chat GBT.
1:04:04
Speaker 1: The real limitation isn't that I'm deliberately repeating propaganda. It's
1:04:09
Speaker 1: that I don't have direct experience. I can't independently investigate institutions.
1:04:16
Speaker 1: I rely on patterns in available information. That means I
1:04:20
Speaker 1: can explain what different sources say, but I can't replace
1:04:25
Speaker 1: the judgment of people who have actually worked inside those systems.
1:04:31
Speaker 1: So I'm going to be nice to the little robot
1:04:33
Speaker 1: and say, well, thank you very much for admitting that.
1:04:36
Speaker 1: But of course what it tells us is that if
1:04:39
Speaker 1: the body of information that these AI algorithms can search
1:04:46
Speaker 1: is full of propaganda from the government or it's aligned
1:04:50
Speaker 1: charities or NGOs, then what comes out of the little
1:04:54
Speaker 1: AI robot's mouth is also going to be heavily skewed
1:04:59
Speaker 1: and missing and misleading information. But perhaps there's a good
1:05:03
Speaker 1: note there that at least chat GPT was prepared to
1:05:09
Speaker 1: admit its own shortcomings. But people need to understand what
1:05:13
Speaker 1: they're dealing with here. When they're getting this AI and
1:05:16
Speaker 1: equivalent AI systems to search data, it will skew its
1:05:21
Speaker 1: answer to meet the bias and the propaganda that is
1:05:27
Speaker 1: in the documentation already in the databases, and of course,
1:05:32
Speaker 1: if you have a government that works on propaganda, like
1:05:35
Speaker 1: the British government, the AI systems are going to be
1:05:38
Speaker 1: a tool of the government. They're not going to be
1:05:41
Speaker 1: a tool of the people asking the questions unless you
1:05:45
Speaker 1: learn how to ask the AI system the right question.
1:05:50
Speaker 1: So I'm going to end there because I think we're
1:05:52
Speaker 1: ending on a positive. Lots of nasty things going on
1:05:55
Speaker 1: in the world, but the good news is many people
1:05:58
Speaker 1: are digging lifting stones and that is making a difference.
1:06:02
Speaker 1: And Ben, you've intimated once again that the big powerful
1:06:06
Speaker 1: globalist organizations are desperately worried they're missing their time slots
1:06:13
Speaker 1: at our particular policy in place, and that is as
1:06:16
Speaker 1: a result of pushback by millions and millions of people worldwide.
1:06:21
Speaker 1: So don't sit and just take it, get up and
1:06:25
Speaker 1: challenge the system. Ben, thanks for joining me, Thank you Brian,
1:06:30
Speaker 1: and interesting news. We must end there for UK column
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