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UK Column News Podcast 10th January 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the tenth of January twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host Mike Rubinson joining me today. We have Mark
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Speaker 1: Anderson and Debbie Evans. Welcome to the program both. Now
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Speaker 1: we're going to get started off with the California FIS
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Speaker 1: and so let's just bring this headline on screen. This
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Speaker 1: is from the Hollywood Reporter how the La wildfires are
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Speaker 1: becoming a conspiracy theorist haven and a political weapon. The
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Speaker 1: fires are causing massive physical devastation, the social media response
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Speaker 1: to them could be destroying democracy. We'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: that later, I'm quite sure, but of course the fires
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Speaker 1: are becoming a conspiracy theorist haven. Let's have a look
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Speaker 1: at a typical set of conspiracy theorists here. There's a
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Speaker 1: BBC climate whiplash linked to ridging LA fires. And of course,
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Speaker 1: the narrative that is running through all the mainstream media
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Speaker 1: average on this is that this is all the result
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Speaker 1: of anthropogenic climate change. And so we're going to see
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Speaker 1: much more of this kind of devastation. Fires in the
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Speaker 1: United States, floods in the United Kingdom. We're going to
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Speaker 1: see much much more of it, and it's all to
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Speaker 1: do with climate change. Now, this particular BBC article talking
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Speaker 1: about this climate which Whiplash is citing this scientific paper
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Speaker 1: hydro climate volatility on a warming Earth. So there's an
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Speaker 1: immediate presumption that the Earth is warming in this paper.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, let's just have a look at a little
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Speaker 1: bit of the text from the abstract here it says
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Speaker 1: hydro climate volatility refers to sudden, large, and or frequent
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Speaker 1: transitions between very dry and very wet conditions. In this review,
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Speaker 1: we examine how hydro climate volatility is anticipated to evolve
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Speaker 1: with anthropogenic warming using a metric of hydroclimate whiplash based
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Speaker 1: on the standardized precipitation of apple transpiration index. Global averaged
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Speaker 1: sub season or three month and intra annual twelve month
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Speaker 1: whiplash have increased by thirty one to sixty six percent
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Speaker 1: and it to thirty one percent, respectively since the mid
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Speaker 1: twentieth century. And of course, if we're looking at these
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Speaker 1: kinds of time skills, we're not looking at climate at all.
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Speaker 1: Are we We're looking at weather because climate change happens
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Speaker 1: over a much longer time frame, and of course correlation
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Speaker 1: does not equal causation, So they're a plant trying to
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Speaker 1: imply that modern human activity has caused this, and of
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Speaker 1: course there are many many questions around that which make
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Speaker 1: that whole position untenable and no more than a conspiracy theory.
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Speaker 1: So this is what the scene looks like. It's pretty
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Speaker 1: grim for the people there. I'm quite sure there have
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Speaker 1: been three intense fires that Palisades, Kenneth and Eton As
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Speaker 1: the areas that they are in. They now cover something
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Speaker 1: like forty five square miles, and the total number of
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Speaker 1: injuries and deaths, of course, isn't quite known yet, although
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Speaker 1: I've seen figures in double figures of ten or more.
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Speaker 1: The issue here is that, of course there's no water,
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Speaker 1: and the fire service ran out of water very very quickly.
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Speaker 1: Within seven hours of the Palisades far taking hold. The
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Speaker 1: chief executive of the Los Angeles Apartment of Water and
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Speaker 1: Parer had said that one of the three million gallon
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Speaker 1: tankers available which fills the fire hydrants in the area,
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Speaker 1: had run out. The next one, about the same size,
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Speaker 1: also ran out later the same evening, and the final
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Speaker 1: one was empty by the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 1: So we have a recognition of this from one Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Consul member. But in general the narrative is climate change,
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Speaker 1: climate change, climate change. So Tracy Park, she represents parts
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Speaker 1: of the Palisades neighborhood. She said that the fires were
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Speaker 1: the damage from the fires was caused by chronic under
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Speaker 1: investment in the City of Los Angeles in the public infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: The circumstances of the last forty eight hours were one
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Speaker 1: percent predictable. The other thing is, of course, that brush
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Speaker 1: has been allowed to grow, which would normally have been
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Speaker 1: dealt with by the naturally otherwise naturally occurring for forest
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Speaker 1: fires that take place every year. But because in fact
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Speaker 1: the fire department in California has been pretty efficient and
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Speaker 1: putting these forest fires out, then the natural removal of
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Speaker 1: the undergrowth and the brush has not happened, and of
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Speaker 1: course hasn't made this situation even worse and so on.
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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to say the question is, then
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Speaker 1: the unanswered question still is how these fires started in
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Speaker 1: the first place. If we go back to two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four, and I'm going to openly admit this is
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Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory that I'm about to say to you
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Speaker 1: and I but it's something that we should not sort
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Speaker 1: of dismiss out of hand as being unlikely or not
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Speaker 1: the case. But if we go back to two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four, Michael Crichton published this book State of Fear,
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Speaker 1: And you know, the sort of premise of the novel,
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Speaker 1: which it is a fictional novel, is that an organization
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Speaker 1: called the Environmental Liberation Front, and that was modeled on
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Speaker 1: a real organization called the Earth Liberation Front, but in
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Speaker 1: this book he calls the Environmental Liberation Front, and they
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Speaker 1: were attempting to create so called natural disasters to convince
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Speaker 1: the public of the dangers of global warming and of
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Speaker 1: climate change. And the question then is is that what
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Speaker 1: has happened here? No way to know. I just throw
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Speaker 1: it out as something that we might want to consider.
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Speaker 1: But we have had this statement from the Los Angeles Police.
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Speaker 2: What we know right now is that the incident occurred
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Speaker 2: started here and about twenty minutes three minutes later, suspect
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Speaker 2: was detained over Woolen Hill's area by citizens. So someone
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Speaker 2: purposely set the Kenneth fire at this time, that's what
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Speaker 2: we believe.
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Speaker 3: Yes, do you know how or why they did that?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: He's a crime scene right now, yes, So everything's being.
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Speaker 2: Lost off, it's being good.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's being investigated as a crime.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's one situation. Lease Mark, I'll be interested
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Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on this, because, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: know people that have been through this kind of situation
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Speaker 1: in the past. But do you think I'm being perhaps
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Speaker 1: misrepresenting situations by suggesting that that that these fires were
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Speaker 1: deliberately said? Oh no, not at all.
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Speaker 3: This needs to be as much a complete, a complete
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Speaker 3: police investigation as it would be the fire authorities. For example,
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Speaker 3: Orlean Kurla, who heads up the Eagle Forum for Calnia,
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Speaker 3: a conservative organization. She's president of Egle Forum out there.
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Speaker 3: She went through a fire in Santa Rosa, California, and
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Speaker 3: talked about the anomalies, the way that the fire would
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Speaker 3: spread across highways and concrete intervening structures, almost jumping. A strange,
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Speaker 3: strange phenomenon where houses were surgically burned, houses all burned
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Speaker 3: to the exact same degree, and things like that even
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Speaker 3: when the structure was slightly different. You know, the houses
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Speaker 3: weren't all alike, and just anomalies that need to be investigated.
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Speaker 3: I often suggested that people that experience these house fires
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Speaker 3: need to take ash and metal and wood and soil
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Speaker 3: samples in and around where the fire was and have
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Speaker 3: those checked by a lab. And if there are individual
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Speaker 3: or group arsonists, of course they need to be brought
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Speaker 3: to justice because it is possible, however far out it
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Speaker 3: may seem to someone, it is possible that people are
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Speaker 3: agitating and trying to cause a thesis anti thesis synthesis
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Speaker 3: kind of dialectic here. If you can convince people through
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Speaker 3: arson that climate change appears to be real but they
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Speaker 3: don't know about the arson, then you're achieving a political goal.
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Speaker 3: And that kind of destruction with a political goal would
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Speaker 3: be technically defined as terrorism. That's the actual definition of terrorism.
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Speaker 3: And then the other thing I would quickly add is
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Speaker 3: that in terms of anthropogenic global warming, where they say
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Speaker 3: it's passive human activity that's causing it, while there's active
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Speaker 3: human activity that can also douse it, and that's called
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Speaker 3: cloud seating. Cloud seating is almost one hundred year old technology.
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Speaker 3: I've talked about that on the column. They can use
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Speaker 3: it in desert countries like UAE and Saudi Arabia. They
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Speaker 3: can make it rain, and they can make it rain
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Speaker 3: even in anticipate pation of fires coming not to mention
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Speaker 3: other policies in federal forests and state forests where they
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Speaker 3: deliberately don't clear out the underbrush. So there's all those
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Speaker 3: factors involved.
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Speaker 1: Mike brilliant, Thank you, Mark, thank you very much for that.
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Speaker 1: I just want to finish this segment just by mentioning
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Speaker 1: this because actually before the program, Debbie was mentioning this
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Speaker 1: problem in the UK with respect to flooding. But in
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Speaker 1: the United States the home insurance situation is reaching what
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Speaker 1: many are describing as crisis point. This is the Senate
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Speaker 1: report next to fall. The climate driven insurance crisis is
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Speaker 1: here and getting worse. Of course, climate being used as
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Speaker 1: the excuse for this. Nothing to do with profit from
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Speaker 1: the insurance industry and the insurance industry wanting to find
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Speaker 1: excuses for refusing to pay out on more and more
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Speaker 1: sort of causes for claims. But anyway, this says the
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Speaker 1: committee focused on non renewal data, in other words, people
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Speaker 1: that aren't renewing their policies. As insurance industry experts had
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Speaker 1: indicated that spiking non renewal rates, even if still low
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Speaker 1: and absolute terms, are often an early warning sign of
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Speaker 1: market destabilization. Higher non renewal rates are also correlated with
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Speaker 1: higher premiums because people can't afford to renew their insurance
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Speaker 1: because the companies are putting such premiums on for far
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Speaker 1: risk or flood risk or whatever it happens to be.
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Speaker 1: This report says the data confirmed that it is climate
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Speaker 1: change that is driving increasing non renewal rates, as the
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Speaker 1: counties that are most exposed to climate related risks such
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Speaker 1: as wildfires or hurricanes are the counties saying the highest
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Speaker 1: non renewal rates, So they're completely ignoring the fact that
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Speaker 1: the possibility that what we might be seeing is infrastructure
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Speaker 1: collapse and systemic collapse of the support that's given by
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Speaker 1: local authorities and so on. The data revealed that Florida, Louisiana, California,
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Speaker 1: and Texas are not the only places experiencing spiking non
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Speaker 1: renewal rates and increasing premiums. Southern New England, the Carolinas,
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Speaker 1: New Mexico, and Caudies in Northern Rockies, Oklahoma and Hawaii
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Speaker 1: all suffer from high non renewal rates. So this is
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Speaker 1: a widespread problem, and of course the insurance companies wanting
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Speaker 1: to make the most of the excuse for not paying out.
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Speaker 1: I just remind everybody that Actually, this situation is building
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Speaker 1: for a number of years now. So this is Financial
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Speaker 1: Times from April last year, the crippling home insurance crisis
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Speaker 1: hitting America and again pushing the idea that climate change
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Speaker 1: is the reason for it. So we'll watch this as
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Speaker 1: it continues. But Mark, let's continue with you, and we're
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Speaker 1: starting off here with the whole saga with Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: and his statements with respect to the Panama Canal and
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Speaker 1: Greenland and so on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is an interesting one. Trump is making some
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Speaker 3: very bold and broad statements, as many a hearing it
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Speaker 3: has to do with possibly buying Greenland from Denmark, that
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Speaker 3: crown country, but Denmark is saying it doesn't want to sell.
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Speaker 3: Not a lot of people live there, but as many
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Speaker 3: of us suspect, it is absolutely loaded with raw materials
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Speaker 3: and energy sources. And we do have a video that
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Speaker 3: gets into just a little bit of it. But Trump
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Speaker 3: is also branching out into the Panama Canal. There's something
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Speaker 3: interesting there about China that I just found out, and
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Speaker 3: other key issues as well, something to do with the
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Speaker 3: border that I'll mention in a few minutes. But first
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Speaker 3: I believe we have a video clip from his January
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Speaker 3: seventh press conference at mar A Largo in Florida.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, please, thank you.
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Speaker 6: I wanted to touch on the world on fire that
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Speaker 6: you mentioned, but let's start, if we could, with your
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Speaker 6: references to Greenland and Alanama Canal. So for can you
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Speaker 6: assure the world that as you try to get control
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Speaker 6: of these areas, you are not going to use military
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Speaker 6: or economic coercion. No, can you tell us a little
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Speaker 6: bit about what your plan is. Are you going to negotiate.
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Speaker 7: A new treaty?
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Speaker 6: Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?
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Speaker 8: What is the strategy?
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Speaker 5: I can't assure you. You're talking about Panama and Greenland. No,
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Speaker 5: I can't assure you either of those two. But I
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Speaker 5: can say this, we need them for economic security. The
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Speaker 5: Panama Canal was built for our military. I'm not going
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Speaker 5: to commit to that now. It might be that you'll
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Speaker 5: have to do something. Look, the Panama Canal is vital
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Speaker 5: to our country. It's being operated by China. China, and
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Speaker 5: we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give
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Speaker 5: it to China, and they've abused it. They've abused that
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Speaker 5: gift that should have never been made by the way
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Speaker 5: giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the
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Speaker 5: elect in my opinion, more so maybe than the hostages.
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Speaker 5: The hostages were a big deal. But if you remember,
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Speaker 5: and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal because
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Speaker 5: you know it's inappropriate, I guess, but because it's a
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Speaker 5: bad part of the Carter legacy. But he was a
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Speaker 5: good man. Look, he was a good man. I knew
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Speaker 5: him a little bit and he was a very fine person.
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Speaker 5: But that was a big mistake. Giving the Panama Canal
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Speaker 5: to Panama was a very big mistake. We lost thirty
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Speaker 5: eight thousand people. It cost us the equivalent of a
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Speaker 5: trillion dollars, maybe more than probably the most expensive they
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Speaker 5: say it was the most expensive structure if we call
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Speaker 5: it a structure, which I.
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Speaker 8: Guess you can ever built.
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Speaker 5: And giving that away was a horrible thing. And I
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Speaker 5: believe that's why Jimmy Carter lost the election, even more
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Speaker 5: so than the hostage. Is those two things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting, Mike. One of the things that I
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Speaker 3: just found out I was reading up on this a
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Speaker 3: little bit more, and China is talking about putting another
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Speaker 3: canal through that same isthmus through that same connecting land
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Speaker 3: between North and South America. So exactly what China's designs
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Speaker 3: are there is not altogether clear, but that's interesting. Of course,
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Speaker 3: this comes in the wake of Jimmy Carter's passing at
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Speaker 3: the National Cathedral. There was a very solemn funeral there.
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Speaker 3: He was, in many ways one of the more honest
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Speaker 3: presidents in recent times. But it's uncomfortable for people to
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Speaker 3: remember that he was somewhat under the control of Zibigna
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Speaker 3: Brazinski and David Rockefeller when in nineteen seventy three they
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Speaker 3: created the Trilateral Commission, and they began courting Carter when
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Speaker 3: he was Governor of Georgia around that time, and they
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Speaker 3: did help groom him to some extent, although I think
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Speaker 3: Carter maintained some of his autonomy, but they did, to
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Speaker 3: some extent helped groom Carter for the presidency. And I
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Speaker 3: believe that that trial Lateral Outfit and other associated interests,
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Speaker 3: and there's evidence to believe that they prodded him to
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Speaker 3: give the Panama Canal away to Panama, and the idea
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Speaker 3: of China running it was probably already in the works.
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Speaker 3: So that's an interesting little segue there, the part about
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Speaker 3: Trump saying that the US would literally absorb Canada would
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Speaker 3: definitely be the most unlikely of the things being talked about.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Great Britain I would assume would be involved
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Speaker 3: in that. I mean Canada being a crown dependency that
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Speaker 3: I don't see that happening. I think that there's definitely
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Speaker 3: some bravado going on there in terms of the greenland again,
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Speaker 3: so lots of natural resources there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, there aren't a bit. Sorry, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: to ask you because I mean, he was he was
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Speaker 1: unequivocal that he was not going to make any guarantees
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Speaker 1: that there was not going to be economic pressure. Almost
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Speaker 1: most economic warfare used in order to get control of
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Speaker 1: these And that's quite a strong position to be taken.
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Speaker 3: It is, especially when he hasn't sworn in as president yet.
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Speaker 3: He's president elect, and you know he's talked about getting
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Speaker 3: things done even before he's sworn in. I just don't
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Speaker 3: see how that's legal. That's very strange in that sense.
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Speaker 3: The thing is that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Speaker 3: wrote an article that just came out that and I'm
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Speaker 3: not making this up. I literally said to myself, is
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Speaker 3: Trump trying to revive or reawaken the Monroe doctrine, where
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Speaker 3: the US would establish a more hegemonic Western hemisphere, but
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Speaker 3: it'd be more nationalistic in character, and it would supposedly
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Speaker 3: cut down on meddling and interventionism and shenanigans in in
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Speaker 3: the US part of the world, named after James Monroe,
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Speaker 3: the president. And sure enough I found the Carnegie and
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Speaker 3: Domino article and they said the same thing. I was
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Speaker 3: thinking that it appears to be he appears to be
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Speaker 3: reviving the Monroe doctrine. Others such as Brian maclain on
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Speaker 3: the boiler Room at Alternate Current Radio dot com. I
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Speaker 3: was just talking to him and he was wondering if
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Speaker 3: this might be a way to segue into a North
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Speaker 3: American union, not unlike the European Union, to make Canada
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Speaker 3: and the US and Mexico more alike economically, bring Greenland
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Speaker 3: into the fold, and then therefore this would be a
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Speaker 3: more globalist thing rather than a more nationalistic thing like
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Speaker 3: the Monroe doctrine.
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Speaker 1: The appearing sorry, Marcus, that not the trilateral model.
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Speaker 3: It could very well be. It could very well be,
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Speaker 3: And why China would want to put another canal through there?
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Speaker 3: And this is according to the New American magazine is
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Speaker 3: a little bit puzzling, even with today's technology. That's a
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Speaker 3: vast and onerous undertaking. But all things told, this is
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Speaker 3: shaping up to be very interesting, and it's going to
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Speaker 3: be very interesting indeed to see what happens on and
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Speaker 3: just after January twentieth when Trump is sworn in with
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Speaker 3: his inauguration. So I think that's probably sufficient for now, Mike.
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Speaker 3: But Trump is making all sorts of bold claims. There's
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Speaker 3: one other quick thing. They want to literally move the
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Speaker 3: headquarters of US Customs and Border Protection out of Washington,
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Speaker 3: d C. And literally move it here to Texas. And
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Speaker 3: so we'll see if that happens too. But Trump's going
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Speaker 3: to have to try and live up to all these
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Speaker 3: bold claims. He's making it sound like he's Superman, and
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Speaker 3: even his opponents as well as his supporters are watching.
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Speaker 3: Will he own up to this? Will he live up
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Speaker 3: to this stuff or not?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Thanks Mark. And in the meantime, of course, Elon
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Speaker 1: Musk has been making all kinds of noises about making
19:57
Speaker 1: himself persona non grada and many parts of the world
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Speaker 1: outside the United States, but he has the job of
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Speaker 1: dealing with government whiz apparently. But Ron Pohl's been talking
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Speaker 1: about this as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Ran Paul, I had heard of the Festivus Report.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't sure he was still doing it, and all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden he comes out with the tenth one.
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Speaker 3: This slide here, doctor Paul, he's, of course Ron Paul's
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Speaker 3: son releases the twenty twenty four Festivus Report and government waste,
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Speaker 3: and the waste, just for the record, is in dollars
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Speaker 3: one trillion, eight billion, three hundred and thirteen million, three
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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty nine, six hundred and twenty six dollars
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Speaker 3: and twelve cents. Don't forget those twelve cents. And there
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Speaker 3: it is. That's the cover of it right there. And
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Speaker 3: moving on from there, I just have some highlights. This
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Speaker 3: marks the tenth edition, so there's something of a milestone here.
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Speaker 3: The National Odama for the Arts funded ice skating drag queens.
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Speaker 3: Good use for money there. Department the Interior excuse me
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Speaker 3: invested in the construction of a brand new twelve million
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Speaker 3: dollar Las Vegas pickleball complex. What everybody wants to have.
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Speaker 3: Department of States expenditures include four point eight million on
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Speaker 3: Ukrainian influencers, two point one million for Paraguayan border security
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Speaker 3: nevermind US and three million for girls centered climate action
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Speaker 3: in Brazil, another good use of tax dollars, of course,
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Speaker 3: and the sickening and shocking part of the Festivus report, though,
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Speaker 3: begins around page thirty Spinning kittens for science and motion sickness.
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Speaker 3: The National Institutes of Health spent one point five million
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Speaker 3: and some change on what the study describes as waste
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Speaker 3: and cruelty of The report describes it in an experiment
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Speaker 3: that can only be described as medieval. Some of these
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Speaker 3: kittens have holes drilled in their skulls, allowing the researchers
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Speaker 3: to lock their heads into place during spinning and shocking.
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Speaker 3: But these cats are, as the report says, zombified before
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Speaker 3: the real tournament begins. Through de cerebrate de crebration. The
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Speaker 3: researchers sever or completely remove part of the kitten's brains
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Speaker 3: while they're still alive, and this leaves the kittens alive
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Speaker 3: but devoid of any cognitive function, so they don't resist
22:18
Speaker 3: to what's being done to them. And cats were tortured
22:22
Speaker 3: even more, as the report goes on to say, But
22:25
Speaker 3: what's the scientific goal here? According to the NIH, the
22:28
Speaker 3: purpose of these experiments is to study how different species
22:32
Speaker 3: such as cats and monkeys respond to motion sickness. And
22:37
Speaker 3: I guess this is related to helping human beings with
22:40
Speaker 3: space travel and things like that. And we'll continue a
22:44
Speaker 3: little bit more on this cat stipaidd that of course
22:49
Speaker 3: is cat constipation. As we all know, the Department of
22:54
Speaker 3: Defense is involved in this over ten million dollars on
22:57
Speaker 3: an Orwellian cat experiment. As Rampaul's report describes it in
23:02
Speaker 3: a scene more fitting for a horror movie than for
23:04
Speaker 3: the real world, the DoD under DARPA, the infamous Defense
23:08
Speaker 3: Advanced Research Projects Agency, funnel this ten million plus of
23:13
Speaker 3: tax dollars into grotesque and extremely invasive experiments on Katz
23:18
Speaker 3: at the University of Pittsburgh. The researchers there sliced open
23:22
Speaker 3: the backs of mail casts to expose their spinal cores,
23:25
Speaker 3: and then inserted electrodes which fired off electric shocks while
23:29
Speaker 3: the incision was still open. Get this, I hate to
23:32
Speaker 3: say this to make cats have an erection, as we
23:37
Speaker 3: all need to find out with ten million dollars of
23:40
Speaker 3: tax money. Now moving on, of course, you can't leave
23:43
Speaker 3: disinformation out of the equation. News we wish was fake
23:48
Speaker 3: in the rand Paul study. Here the Department of State
23:51
Speaker 3: now spent over a quarter of a million to Bosnia.
23:54
Speaker 3: They sent that money to Bosnia to fight misinformation. As
23:58
Speaker 3: we all need to do, we should roll our eyes.
24:01
Speaker 3: Ran Paul's report said, when this year alone, the Department
24:04
Speaker 3: of State is sending sixty six million, sixty six eight
24:09
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty excuse me to Bosnia to quote develop
24:12
Speaker 3: online resources such as videos, interactive games and quizes to
24:17
Speaker 3: engage young people in detecting and countering misinformation. Apparently that
24:21
Speaker 3: sixty six thousand was part of the larger amount, and
24:26
Speaker 3: Britain is involved in this part. Mike, taxpayers fund a
24:30
Speaker 3: disinformation index, but the real fake news is that it's useful.
24:34
Speaker 3: The Department of State wasted three hundred and thirty thousand
24:38
Speaker 3: to fund censorship of non liberal and conservative media, and
24:42
Speaker 3: the details are through the National Endowment for Democracy, a
24:46
Speaker 3: think tank we've heard about before, a private foundation that
24:50
Speaker 3: is bankrolled by the State Department. Three hundred and thirty
24:52
Speaker 3: thousand was handed over to the British Global Disinformation Index
24:57
Speaker 3: Take note. UK column viewers therefore created a Disinformation Index blacklist,
25:04
Speaker 3: and in it they listed the New York Post, American Spectator, Newsmax,
25:09
Speaker 3: the American Conservative, the Blaze, won American News, the Daily Wire,
25:13
Speaker 3: Reason which is a libertarian magazine, Real Clear Politics, and
25:17
Speaker 3: The Federalist. But I asked the question in yellow print,
25:21
Speaker 3: is this a little bit of misdirection, because actually, as
25:25
Speaker 3: we know, the New York Post, maybe to a lesser extent,
25:27
Speaker 3: but American Spectator, which is neo conservative, Newsmax, Americanservative, and
25:33
Speaker 3: many of these are really part of the mainstream media,
25:37
Speaker 3: the media cartel, and they're being portrayed here as dissident
25:41
Speaker 3: media or alternative media of a very distinct kind, and
25:45
Speaker 3: really they're not. So that I think leaves leaves the
25:50
Speaker 3: reader of Rand Paul's study a little bit wanting. I
25:54
Speaker 3: don't think that's altogether accurate. But that's the sum and
25:58
Speaker 3: substance of it so far, Mike. There's more, of course,
26:01
Speaker 3: that I could say about it. It does say in
26:04
Speaker 3: passing that the US national debt, the interest alone, is
26:08
Speaker 3: reaching the one trillion mark every year, and therefore they're
26:13
Speaker 3: that much more concerned about not just the amount of
26:15
Speaker 3: money being wasted, but more importantly what is being spent on. Yeah,
26:19
Speaker 3: but that's the key elements of this report for today.
26:22
Speaker 1: Mike, thank you.
26:24
Speaker 9: Mark.
26:25
Speaker 1: Very interesting. We'll see whether Elon Musk decides to read
26:28
Speaker 1: that before he gets started. Debbie, let's welcome you to
26:32
Speaker 1: the program and say happy New Year. Now, you had
26:35
Speaker 1: a sad time over the last couple of weeks with
26:37
Speaker 1: the flu yourself, so let's talk about the flu.
26:41
Speaker 8: Yes, Happy new Year everyone. It's really great to be back.
26:44
Speaker 8: And I hope you've missed us, because I've certainly missed you.
26:47
Speaker 8: And yeah, so much going on on the health front.
26:50
Speaker 8: I don't know where to start, so let's just go
26:52
Speaker 8: back to twenty twenty when flu flew away. Do you
26:57
Speaker 8: remember this warning Professor Christopher Witty coming right.
27:01
Speaker 7: Up COVID nineteen especially the new variant is spreading quickly
27:07
Speaker 7: across the country. This puts many people at risk of
27:10
Speaker 7: serious disease and is pacing a lot of pressure on
27:13
Speaker 7: our NHS. Once more, we must all stay home. If
27:18
Speaker 7: it is essential to go out, remember wash your hands,
27:21
Speaker 7: cover your face indoors, and keep your distance from others.
27:25
Speaker 7: Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now
27:28
Speaker 7: you must all stay home. Protect the NHS, save lives.
27:39
Speaker 8: Well, stay at home, protect the NHS, Save lives. Wait
27:43
Speaker 8: for the vaccine. Well, we've got a flu vaccine, but
27:46
Speaker 8: let's take ourselves back again, because it got worse than that.
27:49
Speaker 8: Do you remember asymptomatic COVID? What should you do if
27:53
Speaker 8: you have asymptomatic COVID? Well the article goes on to
27:57
Speaker 8: tell you that what you should do is that you
27:59
Speaker 8: should te and we all know how effective and reliable
28:03
Speaker 8: the tests aren't, don't we. So you've got to stay
28:07
Speaker 8: at home and isolate, even if you haven't got any symptoms.
28:10
Speaker 8: And even if you didn't have any symptoms, you've still
28:12
Speaker 8: got to wear a mask if you're in the house,
28:14
Speaker 8: and you'd still have to use a different bathroom. And
28:17
Speaker 8: yet this Christmas in twenty twenty four and now in
28:21
Speaker 8: twenty twenty five, the hospitals are full. We are facing
28:25
Speaker 8: crisis in the NHS, as we do every winter with flu.
28:28
Speaker 8: I might add, but A and E are in crisis.
28:31
Speaker 8: In fact, the corridors are full, The trusts are declaring
28:36
Speaker 8: major incidents. Why is this linked to the flu? Jab
28:40
Speaker 8: is this linked to a lot of staff being off sick?
28:43
Speaker 8: I don't know, but over the Christmas holiday I went
28:47
Speaker 8: down with I don't know what you would call it flu.
28:51
Speaker 8: Perhaps I did go out in the fog, and my
28:53
Speaker 8: grandmother always told me never to go out in the
28:55
Speaker 8: fog because it was dirty air. However, it's not just me,
28:59
Speaker 8: thousands of us down ill and I made a message. Well,
29:02
Speaker 8: I was asking a question as a Christopher Witty. I'm
29:05
Speaker 8: sorry I wasn't terribly well at the time, but it
29:08
Speaker 8: stands to make a point. Have a listen to what
29:10
Speaker 8: I said. Today's message is for Sir Chris Witty. Sir Chris,
29:17
Speaker 8: I have a question.
29:19
Speaker 10: Four years ago, you asked us to stay at home,
29:22
Speaker 10: even if we didn't have any symptoms of anything, but
29:26
Speaker 10: we had to protect the NHS to stay at home,
29:32
Speaker 10: and everybody did so. How come in twenty twenty four,
29:38
Speaker 10: with the temperature, coughs, sniffles, aches, pains, people are being
29:47
Speaker 10: asked to attend their GP surgery in person, no matter
29:52
Speaker 10: what they've got, Come on down.
29:54
Speaker 11: Bring us your bugs. No need to protect the NHS. Now,
30:00
Speaker 11: what's different, mister Christopher? Four years ago, I'd have been
30:07
Speaker 11: arrested if I'd have walked out of the door. Yesterday
30:11
Speaker 11: it was insisted I walked out of the door. Sure memories,
30:19
Speaker 11: reasonable question, Just need a reasonable answer. Won't hold my breath, and.
30:28
Speaker 8: So far, of course I haven't gotten an answer. But
30:30
Speaker 8: it's just to make a point because I was asked
30:32
Speaker 8: by the GP surgery to go down for a face
30:35
Speaker 8: to face and I was told there was loads of
30:36
Speaker 8: people in the waiting room copying and sneezing, and then
30:39
Speaker 8: I was made to go to the chemist twice to
30:41
Speaker 8: pick up a prescription of antibiotics, which by the way,
30:44
Speaker 8: the GPS are very happy to hand out over to you, Mike.
30:48
Speaker 1: Thank you, Debbie. Well, we'd be talking much more about
30:51
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31:44
Speaker 3: Very quickly.
31:44
Speaker 1: Then a petition on MHRA.
31:50
Speaker 8: Slow boat to China this one, Mike, can we know
31:52
Speaker 8: why it's being sensored to review how to turn the
31:55
Speaker 8: MHRA into a fully transparent patient first regulator. There should
31:59
Speaker 8: be hundreds of thousands of signatures on this. The MHRI
32:03
Speaker 8: affects everyone. It is crawling. Please go to the link
32:07
Speaker 8: in the show notes. Please sign it's desperate we get
32:10
Speaker 8: this petition over the line.
32:12
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Debbie. Okay, now let's
32:16
Speaker 1: come on to the issue of Well, the issue of
32:19
Speaker 1: the week was of course the rape gangs and so on,
32:22
Speaker 1: and the government response to it. In an effort to
32:25
Speaker 1: try to divert attention from that, Keir Starmer has been
32:29
Speaker 1: very keen to tell us what he's doing about people smuggling,
32:33
Speaker 1: and I thought that we should have a look and
32:35
Speaker 1: remind ourselves what the situation is with respect to people
32:37
Speaker 1: smuggling here. So here he is with the City of
32:40
Speaker 1: London Police and so Starmer of course, making sure that
32:46
Speaker 1: no new national rap gang inquiry can happen in order
32:51
Speaker 1: to create outrage, I believe, and enrage the population. He
32:55
Speaker 1: is still trying to be trying to purchaseing on this topic,
32:59
Speaker 1: but as we'll see in a moment, it is a
33:01
Speaker 1: closely related topic. So he is. From the press release,
33:06
Speaker 1: said that he's bringing together partners who specialized in organized crime.
33:10
Speaker 1: He's saying that the UK will develop a new sanctions
33:12
Speaker 1: regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them
33:16
Speaker 1: with illicit finance fueling their operations. Also from the press release,
33:20
Speaker 1: it says this is the world's first stand alone sanctions
33:23
Speaker 1: regime dedicated to targeting a regular migration an organized immigration
33:28
Speaker 1: crime and it's going to allow the UK to target
33:30
Speaker 1: individuals and entities enabling dangerous journeys. The regime, which is
33:35
Speaker 1: expected to come into force within a year, will target
33:38
Speaker 1: organized immigration networks. So very excited to be doing this.
33:43
Speaker 1: Let's see what mister Lammy had to say on it.
33:47
Speaker 1: He said it's completely unrealistic to combat regular migration without
33:51
Speaker 1: a role for the Foreign Come, Wealth and Development Office.
33:53
Speaker 1: So he's very pleased to be front and center of this,
33:57
Speaker 1: he said, I'm proud to announce the UK is said
33:59
Speaker 1: to be the first country in the world to develop
34:01
Speaker 1: legislation for a new sanctions regime specifically targeting irregular migration
34:07
Speaker 1: and organized immigration crime. Well, I just thought we should
34:12
Speaker 1: remind ourselves what the situation is with respect to this
34:16
Speaker 1: and the way and how people are ending up in
34:19
Speaker 1: modern slavery as a result of this people smuggling or
34:22
Speaker 1: these types of people smuggling operations. So the source of
34:26
Speaker 1: this information is the International Labor Organization, who seem to
34:32
Speaker 1: be the only people that carry statistics on this kind
34:34
Speaker 1: of thing, and they're basically saying that globally, the profit
34:37
Speaker 1: that is made from modern slavery and people smuggling is
34:40
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five billion pounds. That's the profit,
34:44
Speaker 1: not the turnover. And of course, as you can see
34:47
Speaker 1: on the right hand side of this graph, and you
34:49
Speaker 1: look at the relative amount of money that's being spent
34:52
Speaker 1: on tackling this product this problem, basically it doesn't appear
34:57
Speaker 1: on the graph because there's so little money. The money
34:59
Speaker 1: that government is spending on this should be viewed as
35:02
Speaker 1: the cost of doing business. This is something which is
35:06
Speaker 1: absolutely supported as far as I can see, by governments
35:11
Speaker 1: around the world, because otherwise they would be putting significantly
35:14
Speaker 1: more resource into tackling it. Now, why is this related
35:19
Speaker 1: to the rip gangs and so on, Because if we
35:21
Speaker 1: look at the amount of money that's being made through
35:25
Speaker 1: sexual exploitation, through people smuggling and people being brought into
35:30
Speaker 1: countries to deal with this, well, these statistics are from
35:33
Speaker 1: UK gov. They're not very recent statistics because they don't
35:37
Speaker 1: publish this information very often. But we're talking just shy
35:42
Speaker 1: of nine hundred million pounds a year in profit on
35:46
Speaker 1: sexual exploitation in the UK. And just to give an idea,
35:49
Speaker 1: I'm not putting figures on this, but just to give
35:50
Speaker 1: an idea of the relative amounts of or the relative
35:55
Speaker 1: areas that modern slavery goes into. The sort of labor
36:01
Speaker 1: domestic servitude is what most people think about when they
36:05
Speaker 1: think about modern slavery, but actually it's sexual slavery that
36:08
Speaker 1: is by far and away the most significant aspect of this.
36:12
Speaker 1: And you know, it is absolutely disgraceful that governments are
36:17
Speaker 1: not doing more to tackle it. So organ harvesting is
36:22
Speaker 1: also on this list, by the way as well. The
36:25
Speaker 1: source for this is the National Crime Agency. So you know,
36:29
Speaker 1: when we have fairly cynical efforts by the likes of
36:32
Speaker 1: Andy Burnham to call you know, breaking with Starmer and
36:36
Speaker 1: calling for a national inquiry into the rip gang scandal,
36:41
Speaker 1: my view it is a national inquiry. It is a
36:43
Speaker 1: national scandal that this type of abuse has been going
36:48
Speaker 1: on forever in this country. I was saying this on Wednesday.
36:51
Speaker 1: If you didn't see wed Wednesday's program on this, please
36:54
Speaker 1: have a look. But you know that we've been talking
36:57
Speaker 1: about on UK column News, the people smuggling operations, the
37:01
Speaker 1: amount of money that's being made and the relative little
37:04
Speaker 1: money being spent by governments in order to tackle it.
37:08
Speaker 1: I haven't seen how much money Starmer is intending to
37:13
Speaker 1: ply into this latest effort, but it will be just
37:16
Speaker 1: as the war on drugs, or the War and terror,
37:18
Speaker 1: or the war and any other thing that governments run.
37:21
Speaker 1: This is just a pr exercise as far as I
37:24
Speaker 1: can see, and they will not be successful in dealing
37:28
Speaker 1: with the problem. So let's move on from there and
37:32
Speaker 1: back to U Debbie and the NHS app.
37:37
Speaker 8: Yes, let's talk let's talk the NHS. And there's a
37:41
Speaker 8: lot to say here, but first of all, I want
37:43
Speaker 8: to just say that the uk Biobank, according to the
37:46
Speaker 8: Department of Science Innovation, and this is just an introduction
37:49
Speaker 8: to this segment, because the uk Biobank is the world's
37:54
Speaker 8: most important and biggest research database. Right. So next year
37:59
Speaker 8: before Christmas, pulled out a video and they said that
38:02
Speaker 8: next year youngsters are going to need digital ID to
38:04
Speaker 8: go and get a pint, would you believe? At the
38:07
Speaker 8: pub So digital data is the lifeblood of the United Kingdom,
38:13
Speaker 8: and I want to introduce you, first of all to
38:15
Speaker 8: this paper, which I'm not sure if we've talked about before.
38:19
Speaker 8: It's Evidence and Scenarios for Global Data Systems the Future
38:23
Speaker 8: of Citizens' Data Systems, and this is the ministerial forward
38:29
Speaker 8: by John Whittington. He was talking about the importance of
38:32
Speaker 8: harnessing data and in conjunction with that, he was talking
38:36
Speaker 8: about scientific research. And who better to go and look
38:39
Speaker 8: at for scientific research then none other than Patrick Balance
38:43
Speaker 8: because he wrote the preface to this. Of course, now
38:47
Speaker 8: sorry Lord Balance, but he wants your data, especially your
38:51
Speaker 8: medical data. This document is one hundred and twenty seven
38:54
Speaker 8: pages long. I am literally only it's the tip of
38:57
Speaker 8: the iceberg. But I want to show you this diagram,
38:59
Speaker 8: which is what is citizens data. And you'll see the
39:03
Speaker 8: four circles. They're all they're all named and titled there.
39:08
Speaker 8: So you've got citizens it's a bit small for me
39:13
Speaker 8: to read, but citizens observed data, citizens generated data. And
39:17
Speaker 8: in the middle, right in the middle, you've got citizens
39:19
Speaker 8: individual identity data. And look what's included there, your DNA,
39:23
Speaker 8: your date of birth, educational identification and let's not forget
39:28
Speaker 8: homeschool children are going to get an identification number attached
39:31
Speaker 8: to them. We've got biometric data. Every detail of your
39:36
Speaker 8: life is citizens data. And another part of this paper,
39:40
Speaker 8: and it's a big chapter, and this is just one
39:42
Speaker 8: page just to show you that the agenda seems to
39:46
Speaker 8: be or appears to be following China, So we seem
39:49
Speaker 8: to be following the Chinese social credit systems and China
39:53
Speaker 8: national social and economic security. But that is just literally
39:58
Speaker 8: a tip of the iceber. So how does this play
40:02
Speaker 8: into today? While Keir Starmer this week just announced that
40:06
Speaker 8: he's going to being in loads of changes to end
40:08
Speaker 8: the waiting list backlogs, because of course we've got seven
40:11
Speaker 8: million on the waiting list. But how we know that
40:14
Speaker 8: the NHS has got priceless data and according to the
40:18
Speaker 8: Financial Times, don't forget that we've got a pal Andeer
40:23
Speaker 8: involved in this. Three hundred and thirty million pounds for
40:26
Speaker 8: a private company to develop a federated data platform your data.
40:30
Speaker 8: This is the future of the NHS. This is what
40:33
Speaker 8: protect the NHS is all about. And when we go
40:36
Speaker 8: to Digital NHS Digital and look at the public attitudes,
40:40
Speaker 8: it gets a little bit worrying actually, because according to
40:43
Speaker 8: NHS Digital, the NHS was the most trusted organization. Seventy
40:48
Speaker 8: two percent of respondents said yes that they eighty three
40:52
Speaker 8: percent trusted the NHS to keep their data secure. And
40:56
Speaker 8: people are happy that their data is going to the NHS.
40:59
Speaker 8: It's in a good cause, right, it's medical information. So
41:03
Speaker 8: here we go back to let's download the app, and
41:07
Speaker 8: we've got this big push to download the app and
41:10
Speaker 8: secures plan. What does that involve? It involves upgrading the app.
41:15
Speaker 8: The Independent talk about it here. What does this upgrading mean. Well,
41:20
Speaker 8: if we go on into the article, it'll tell you
41:22
Speaker 8: it's going to reduce waiting times from eighteen months to
41:25
Speaker 8: eighteen weeks. Now that eighteen weeks is very important. You'll
41:28
Speaker 8: see why in a minute. And by the way, eighteen
41:30
Speaker 8: weeks is only four and a half months only, that's
41:33
Speaker 8: still four and a half months wait. They're going to
41:35
Speaker 8: move the NHS app into the digital age. They're going
41:38
Speaker 8: to put patients in the driving seat, and as the
41:41
Speaker 8: article goes on again, they're gonna order tests. You're going
41:46
Speaker 8: to order your own tests. Now, what a waste of
41:48
Speaker 8: money that might be because you don't know what tests
41:50
Speaker 8: to order. Let's face it, you're going to manage your appointments.
41:52
Speaker 8: You're going to book your tests. You're going to check
41:55
Speaker 8: your results. Well, I don't know how you're going to
41:57
Speaker 8: understand perhaps what the results mean, but you're going to
42:00
Speaker 8: be able to see your results. You're going to have
42:02
Speaker 8: remote consultations. The NHS is going to contact you twenty
42:07
Speaker 8: four to seven, seven days a week. But how else
42:09
Speaker 8: will it benefit you from the overhaul? Well, apparently some
42:14
Speaker 8: gps are going to refer you direct without the need
42:17
Speaker 8: for any senior medical consultation. They'll just refer you where
42:21
Speaker 8: to a community diagnostic center of course, which is going
42:24
Speaker 8: to be on your high street, open twelve hours a day,
42:27
Speaker 8: seven days a week. Doesn't that reassure you? But if
42:31
Speaker 8: you don't want to go to the NHS, sorry you're
42:33
Speaker 8: a bit reluctant. Don't worry. There's an AI pilot program
42:37
Speaker 8: who are going to help find you. So if you're
42:40
Speaker 8: likely to miss an appointment, then they're going to give
42:42
Speaker 8: you extra support. In fact, they're even going to pay
42:45
Speaker 8: for you to go to your appointments. Now does this
42:49
Speaker 8: mean that we're all going to be asked to go
42:51
Speaker 8: yearly for a mandatory check? I don't know the answers
42:55
Speaker 8: to that question. But what happens if you don't want
42:58
Speaker 8: to go for your mandatory and you check your mot check?
43:01
Speaker 8: Will they come and look for you?
43:02
Speaker 9: Then?
43:03
Speaker 8: I'm not sure when is this going to start. Well,
43:05
Speaker 8: it's going to start in March. So by March this
43:10
Speaker 8: year they're going to bring in plenty of changes. But
43:12
Speaker 8: by March twenty twenty seven, parents and careers will be
43:15
Speaker 8: able to use the app to manage appointments and treatment
43:18
Speaker 8: plans on behalf of others. So what will your family
43:21
Speaker 8: decide on behalf of you? But hey, you know what,
43:24
Speaker 8: don't take my word for it. Let's have a listen
43:26
Speaker 8: to what Amanda Pritchard, CEO of NHS England, has had
43:30
Speaker 8: to say just this.
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Speaker 4: Week today we're launching the NHS Elective Reform Plan and
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Speaker 4: I want to take a minute of your time to
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Speaker 4: share what it will actually mean for patients. NHS staff
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Speaker 4: has been working incredibly hard to tackle long waiting times
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Speaker 4: for planned care. We're delivering more tests, more appointments and
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Speaker 4: more procedures than ever before, and really long waits are
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Speaker 4: coming down, but too many people are still waiting too
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Speaker 4: long for treatment. So getting on track with getting back
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Speaker 4: to eighteen weeks and significantly reducing the waiting list is
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Speaker 4: a big task, but we're committed to doing exactly that.
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Speaker 4: We'll continue to deliver more tests, more appointments, more operations,
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Speaker 4: but we'll also do things differently and put more power
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Speaker 4: in your, the patient's hands. We'll give GPS better access
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Speaker 4: to specialist advice and tests so you don't get passed
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Speaker 4: from pillar to post. Will give you more options for
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Speaker 4: where you can get the care you need, moving more
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Speaker 4: services closer to home in convenient locations, not just hospitals,
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Speaker 4: and we'll put more information and services at your fingertips
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Speaker 4: through the NHS app so you can plan your care
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Speaker 4: around your life. There's lots more important work being done too,
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Speaker 4: So if you want to learn more about how care
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Speaker 4: has been transformed, click the link in this post to
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Speaker 4: check out a full plan.
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Speaker 8: Now, how reassuring, Amanda. Isn't that reassuring? Because what it
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Speaker 8: actually does mean because we're going to translate what that means.
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Speaker 8: What it means is that they're going to control you.
45:16
Speaker 8: So you're going to lose your control and for your convenience,
45:21
Speaker 8: they're going to take over control, says conditional care. Let's
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Speaker 8: have a look at the NHS website for the major
45:26
Speaker 8: plan to cut waiting lists, because they're going to cut
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Speaker 8: waiting lists from eighteen weeks, from eighteen months to eighteen weeks.
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Speaker 8: But what does that mean? That means more tests, That
45:36
Speaker 8: means more procedures, But who which procedure? With who? Where?
45:41
Speaker 8: Where will you go? Patients are going to be referred
45:44
Speaker 8: for tests before seeing a consultant. Well, who are they
45:47
Speaker 8: going to see? Where are they going to go? And
45:50
Speaker 8: all of these diagnosis and treatment dates apparently going to
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Speaker 8: be within a single day, which is going to give
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Speaker 8: you peace of mind. But this is conditional healthcare because
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Speaker 8: you've got to be fit, so for those eighteen weeks
46:01
Speaker 8: or four and a half months that you're going to
46:03
Speaker 8: be on the waiting list, you are going to have
46:05
Speaker 8: to if you're overweight, you're going to have to lose weight,
46:08
Speaker 8: and you're going to have to show evidence of it,
46:13
Speaker 8: and you're going to have to show evidence of that
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Speaker 8: as well. And we'll talk about smoking perhaps next week,
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Speaker 8: but this week, I just want to focus on what
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Speaker 8: they're doing with regards to weight, because they're telling you
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Speaker 8: that you have to lose weight in order to get
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Speaker 8: care well. The BBC report that there are proposals to
46:30
Speaker 8: give weight loss jabs to unemployed people to get them
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Speaker 8: back to work. However, the BBC also reports in another
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Speaker 8: article that doctors are alarmed at the weight loss drug
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Speaker 8: abuse and the serious adverse reactions like with drugs like
46:45
Speaker 8: with with govy you've probably heard about with gov many
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Speaker 8: people are suffering life threatening, serious adverse reactions from this
46:54
Speaker 8: drug and this is an injection. Many are hospitalized and
46:57
Speaker 8: I just want to remind everybody that this drug was
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Speaker 8: originally designed for diabetes, right, but it is being overused
47:06
Speaker 8: and it's not available on the NHS. And a Sky
47:09
Speaker 8: News report here obesity rates may start to fall this
47:14
Speaker 8: year due to the weight loss jabs. However, what I
47:17
Speaker 8: want to say about this is that whilst demand is
47:20
Speaker 8: outstripping supply, pharmacists are opening up walk in fridges in
47:27
Speaker 8: order to keep up with stock. This drug is not
47:30
Speaker 8: available on the NHS. It's seventy pounds a week to
47:35
Speaker 8: keep going on it and it's an injection. Anybody with
47:38
Speaker 8: thyroid cancer in their family should be extremely alarmed because
47:43
Speaker 8: this drug and these weight loss jabs have been linked
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Speaker 8: to tumors. So on that note, I will be saying,
47:51
Speaker 8: what will you do if you're told to lose weight
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Speaker 8: prior to surgery? Will you calorie counts, will you eat healthily?
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Speaker 8: Will you exercise more? Or will you be tempted to
48:01
Speaker 8: take a weight loss jab? So what is the reforming
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Speaker 8: elective care for patients? Because this big plan that Amanda
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Speaker 8: Richard is rolling out, when we go to look at
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Speaker 8: it in further detail, we can see it all comes
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Speaker 8: back to the app. It comes back to expanding it,
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Speaker 8: improving it, transforming it. How long before you need to
48:24
Speaker 8: use your biometric data to access the app, to access
48:27
Speaker 8: an ambulance, to access emergency care, to access an old
48:32
Speaker 8: people's home, a care home, to access your mum, to
48:35
Speaker 8: access well pretty much anything school. But on top of that,
48:41
Speaker 8: of course for GPS, if we go to our GP,
48:43
Speaker 8: they were being incentivized for giving out the vaccines. Remember
48:48
Speaker 8: now we're going to get GPS are going to be
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Speaker 8: paid twenty pounds every time they make a phone call.
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Speaker 8: That's right, pulse of reporting it here, GPS will be
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Speaker 8: paid twenty pounds per A and G request. What's an
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Speaker 8: A ANDNG request you ask yourself. Well, ANG stands for
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Speaker 8: advice and guidance. So the GPS are going to be
49:06
Speaker 8: paid twenty pounds to ring or zoom your specialist to
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Speaker 8: see if you deserve a referral? Do you need a referral? Well,
49:15
Speaker 8: if you don't need a referral, you're going to get refused,
49:17
Speaker 8: and then you won't be on a waiting list, will you?
49:18
Speaker 8: And that will bring waiting lists down. But how will
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Speaker 8: we know who has been refused because according to the
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Speaker 8: article Impulse, this has actually been happening. So Professor Camilla
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Speaker 8: Hawthorne has said here GPS have reported issues with using
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Speaker 8: advice and guidance services that they can shift care into
49:37
Speaker 8: general practice without appropriate resource and they can be used
49:41
Speaker 8: to reject necessary referrals. Now, I just want to put
49:44
Speaker 8: this into context, because if you've got a GP surgery
49:48
Speaker 8: with four partners who are referring five patients a day,
49:52
Speaker 8: that's four hundred pounds a day, and that's eight thousand
49:56
Speaker 8: pounds a week, sorry a month, eight thousand pounds a
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Speaker 8: month that ge can earn from just picking up the
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Speaker 8: phone to ask if you should deserve a referral. And
50:06
Speaker 8: maybe you've got pre existing medical conditions, maybe you're elderly,
50:10
Speaker 8: maybe you're more vulnerable. How do you know if you're
50:13
Speaker 8: going to get that treatment? So in summary, here the
50:15
Speaker 8: reforms to bring down waiting lists. They're going to use
50:18
Speaker 8: community diagnostic centers, Hospitals basically are going to be out
50:22
Speaker 8: of bounds, test test test all the way, make care
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Speaker 8: conditional depending on your weight, depending on your smoking status,
50:30
Speaker 8: and probably alcohol consumption as well. You're going to turn everyone,
50:33
Speaker 8: in my opinion, into paranoid hypochondriacs. And next year there's
50:38
Speaker 8: even going to be a spray you can spray up
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Speaker 8: your nose to prevent you getting a virus in the
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Speaker 8: first place. So my message is scrap the app. It
50:47
Speaker 8: is the key to a digital help back to you. Mike.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Debbie. We'll be talking more about that an
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Speaker 1: extra as well. I have no diet and now mark
50:57
Speaker 1: related to health than we have a kid of Tristan Franklin,
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Speaker 1: your muted Mark, I beg your pardon.
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Speaker 3: As bad as it is, Mike, I wish it were
51:13
Speaker 3: just the case of Tristan Franklin, the fifteen year old
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Speaker 3: that died last August. While running my research yesterday, I
51:20
Speaker 3: decided to get past the holidays and look at this again.
51:23
Speaker 3: I found out that at least two more cross country
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Speaker 3: runners in the prime of their life died while running.
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Speaker 3: Tristan fifteen years old, another sixteen year old, and then
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Speaker 3: another who's eighteen years old. Anyway, in this one, the
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Speaker 3: accidental death, that's the ruling now of Tristan Franklin. I've
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Speaker 3: been waiting for the coroner's report, reportedly from Brady cardia,
51:45
Speaker 3: a condition where the heart beats too slowly, usually less
51:49
Speaker 3: than sixty beats per minute while at rest, and they
51:52
Speaker 3: were saying that he ran and did his practice running
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Speaker 3: on a very hot day August twenty seventh, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: and there was some heat advisories from the Athletic Department
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Speaker 3: that the runners didn't have to make up all their
52:05
Speaker 3: running that day, but he decided to run that day,
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Speaker 3: and they claim as this next slide shows here Mike
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Speaker 3: from the Tennesseean newspaper, the Sycamore cross country runner's death
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Speaker 3: rule accidental. That's Tristan his body. They say the body
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Speaker 3: temperature reached one hundred and five degrees. But here's the
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Speaker 3: extra details in this very same slide, the death of
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Speaker 3: Sycamore cross country runner Tristan Franklin August twenty seventh last
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Speaker 3: year was rule accidental, as the boys exterior body temp
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Speaker 3: reached one hundred and five degrees that's fahrenheit. Tristan, however,
52:36
Speaker 3: I found out, was one of three Nashville area cross
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Speaker 3: country runners who have died since August of last year.
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Speaker 3: Thompson Stationed Middle School's Kate rust thirteen died while running
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Speaker 3: on September eighteenth of last year, while Good Past Year
52:53
Speaker 3: Tennessee's Janey Grace Moss died during a running event last
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Speaker 3: October sixteenth. She was eighteen. For Kate Russ. The official
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Speaker 3: cause of death according to the Tennesseean, this was November nineteenth.
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Speaker 3: This was published was quote anomaloust aortic origin of a
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Speaker 3: coronary artery what's known as AAOCA and a dilated heart.
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Speaker 3: Her death was ruled natural. That's my emphasis added there,
53:19
Speaker 3: and we'll move on there. However, the Knoxville Sentinel, another newspaper,
53:24
Speaker 3: said that Kate Russ died of something apparently quite different,
53:27
Speaker 3: cardiac dysrhythmia, where the heart beats irregularly due to arterial stenosis.
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Speaker 3: To the best of my understanding, the newspapers are reporting
53:37
Speaker 3: contradictory information there. Maybe it's just sloppiness, maybe it's something worse. Anyway.
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Speaker 3: The Tennesseean then on Janey Grace Moss situation. This is
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Speaker 3: a twenty four of October article from last year. They
53:52
Speaker 3: said that Moss died three days after collapsing during a
53:56
Speaker 3: recreational run at Mosswright Park, about sixteen miles north of Nashville.
54:01
Speaker 3: She experienced what's known as several cerebral edema, which is
54:06
Speaker 3: spelled differently in British literature, or brain swelling, after being
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Speaker 3: hospitalized and was put on life support before she died.
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Speaker 3: According to a fundraiser page. But the part I put
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Speaker 3: at the top of this slide mic is from go
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Speaker 3: let's go back to That is from a natural National
54:23
Speaker 3: Institute of Health study in the US. It does use
54:26
Speaker 3: the British spelling for edema severe hypo nitremia with cerebral
54:33
Speaker 3: edema after the Pheiser BNT one six two B two
54:38
Speaker 3: mRNA vaccination against COVID nineteen. So I'm not saying that
54:43
Speaker 3: cerebral edema is what killed that young lady, but the
54:47
Speaker 3: nih has found a link between that specific Pfiser COVID
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Speaker 3: nineteen vaccine and cerebral edema. They have found a link.
54:57
Speaker 3: Correlation doesn't always mean, like you said earlier, Mike, but
55:02
Speaker 3: this is a very curious situation, and I continued looking
55:05
Speaker 3: into this all important story. This could be a very
55:08
Speaker 3: bell weather set of events in Tennessee where if these
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Speaker 3: three kids, if I'll stress the word if, if they
55:15
Speaker 3: were found to be the victims of the COVID vaccines,
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Speaker 3: this could spell a very heavy chapter, a very damaging
55:25
Speaker 3: chapter of publicity for the vaccine industry, particularly Feizer. It
55:29
Speaker 3: appears now I got curious yesterday and I kept trying
55:33
Speaker 3: to figure out what was going on, and I found
55:36
Speaker 3: this from the Nashville, Tennessee Banner newspaper. Right as the
55:41
Speaker 3: school year was warming up last year, A new batch
55:44
Speaker 3: of COVID vaccines arrived in Middle Tennessee, where Nashville is. Again,
55:50
Speaker 3: causation and correlation can be two different things, but sometimes
55:54
Speaker 3: they align. So this is something else I'm looking into, Mike,
55:58
Speaker 3: and what I'm seeing as an ongoing investigation. A new
56:01
Speaker 3: batch of vaccines arrived as the school year began, we
56:05
Speaker 3: had these three deaths, and what's happening in Tennessee right
56:08
Speaker 3: now is concerns about the COVID nineteen vaccine possibly being
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Speaker 3: a culprit here, Mike, are beginning to roll off the
56:15
Speaker 3: tongues of physicians to be spoken about by parents. You
56:20
Speaker 3: can sense the reluctance. You can sense the different form
56:24
Speaker 3: of vaccine hesitancy here, if you will. Nobody really quite
56:28
Speaker 3: wants to face it. Nobody really quite wants to say it,
56:31
Speaker 3: but they're beginning to talk about it. And there's some
56:34
Speaker 3: other miscellaneous matters. These three runners, according to medical authorities,
56:41
Speaker 3: do not fit the national trend for sudden deaths of athletes.
56:45
Speaker 3: Usually sudden deaths of athletes while on the field happened
56:49
Speaker 3: to football and basketball players. That's US football. Most fatal
56:53
Speaker 3: deaths of cross country runners involve the runners being hit
56:57
Speaker 3: by cars, not anything metic. And it's also notable that
57:03
Speaker 3: there was only one sport related high school cross country
57:06
Speaker 3: death in all of the US in the twenty twenty
57:10
Speaker 3: three twenty twenty four school year on a national basis.
57:13
Speaker 3: That's of course not counting these three deaths. And there's
57:17
Speaker 3: many other things going on. There's a pediatrician named doctor
57:21
Speaker 3: English Flak, a lady doctor and a doctor Frank Fish.
57:25
Speaker 3: They're both out of Vanderbilt University Medical School MIC, and
57:28
Speaker 3: they're looking more into this, and they are looking at
57:31
Speaker 3: the COVID nineteen vaccine as a possible culprit. And another
57:34
Speaker 3: troubling thing is I just learned this morning that there's
57:37
Speaker 3: possibly been a fourth young victim cross country runner who
57:41
Speaker 3: died while running. So the unusual statistical matters that are
57:48
Speaker 3: involved here, the emotional turmoil, the concern is reaching a
57:52
Speaker 3: fever pitch MIC. And so I'll just continue to look
57:55
Speaker 3: into this and see what happens. But so far it's
57:57
Speaker 3: very intriguing and very troubling.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, Thank you Debbie. Let's finish with you.
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Speaker 8: Ah well, let's finish with the MHR, shall we. Because
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Speaker 8: Professor Anthony harm Hahn, his name's Hahn, but everybody's now
58:13
Speaker 8: told me to call him. Harm Handen has arrived as
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Speaker 8: CEO of the MHRA. Will show you him in a minute,
58:19
Speaker 8: but just before I do, I just want to show
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Speaker 8: you who he is. So he was authored to this
58:24
Speaker 8: paper from Cochrane Library, Death Audits and Reviews for reducing Maternal,
58:28
Speaker 8: Perinatal and Child Mortality. That's reassuring, isn't it, especially as
58:33
Speaker 8: we know what Cheryl Granger is currently looking into with
58:36
Speaker 8: regards to pregnancy in the COVID vaccines. And let's not
58:39
Speaker 8: forget Professor Anthony Handen. He's a GP by the way,
58:43
Speaker 8: and he suffers with long COVID just saying, but also
58:47
Speaker 8: this paper from the NIH moving forward on strengthening and
58:50
Speaker 8: sustaining the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group. So he's really
58:56
Speaker 8: very pro immunization. And if we go on and look
59:00
Speaker 8: at another little example of who he is, we'll see,
59:03
Speaker 8: Oh yes, he's also on the council at the General
59:07
Speaker 8: Medical Council. There we have him, Professor Anthony Harden. And
59:11
Speaker 8: not just that, he was also advising the JCVII of
59:16
Speaker 8: we know had got plenty of conflicts of interests, although
59:20
Speaker 8: as of yet I'm not sure of Anthony Harden's conflicts
59:24
Speaker 8: of interest. I'm going to be very very interested to
59:28
Speaker 8: find out. But I think we've got a little bit
59:30
Speaker 8: of video because he very kindly released a little bit
59:32
Speaker 8: video to introduce that he's the new chair and he's landed.
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Speaker 8: Have a look at this.
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Speaker 9: Hi, I'm Professor Anthony Harden, and I'm really pleased to
59:49
Speaker 9: introduce myself as the new Chair of the MHRA. Having
59:53
Speaker 9: worked for the NHS for forty years as a GP
59:57
Speaker 9: and a researcher, I've seen first hand and how access
1:00:00
Speaker 9: to medicines approved by the MHR can change lives.
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Speaker 12: It's an exciting time to join the agency. Personalized medicines,
1:00:11
Speaker 12: artificial intelligence, and stronger international partnerships are changing the way
1:00:16
Speaker 12: that we regulate medical products. I'm looking forward to using
1:00:22
Speaker 12: my experience to help the MHRO navigate these new and
1:00:25
Speaker 12: exciting challenges, embrace innovation, and most importantly, protect public health
1:00:32
Speaker 12: and patient safety, a big priority for me. During my
1:00:37
Speaker 12: first hundred days, we'll be talking and listening to the
1:00:40
Speaker 12: people who make up the agency, and from the conversations
1:00:44
Speaker 12: I've already had, it's clear that their focus is on
1:00:48
Speaker 12: patience and public health and that's unwavery and that the
1:00:52
Speaker 12: dedication reflects the values we.
1:00:54
Speaker 8: All share, protecting public health before public safety. I'll say
1:01:08
Speaker 8: no more indeed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Debbie, thank you very much, thank you
1:01:12
Speaker 1: Mark as well, and thanks for everybody that's watched today.
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Speaker 1: We are out of time. We'll be back in a
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Speaker 1: few minutes on the member's live stream. If you are
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Speaker 1: a UK call member, join us for extra plenty to
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Speaker 1: talk about, including the Biden's sorry Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Speaker 1: I think we should talk about that a little bit
1:01:32
Speaker 1: since Mark is here today, and a number of other topics,
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Speaker 1: So join us for that if you can. If you're
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Speaker 1: not joining us, have a great weekend and we'll see
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Speaker 1: one pm as usual on Monday.
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Speaker 3: See you then, Bye bye,