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UK Column News — 15th May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the fifteenth of May twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK column News
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Speaker 1: I mean host Mike Robinson joining me in the studio
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Speaker 1: today Patrick Henningson, Welcome to the program. Patrick. Great to
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Speaker 1: be with you, Mike, and by video link we're joined
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Speaker 1: by Basil Valentine. Now in the midst of the chaos
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Speaker 1: within this starmer regime, which we'll be discussing an extra
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Speaker 1: Today's News war on a weekend of major protest upcoming.
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Speaker 1: Trump's visit to China is really threats to sue the
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Speaker 1: New York Times and the increasing militarization of Britain. But
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Speaker 1: of course we're going to begin with the fallout from
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Speaker 1: the King's speech. So here he is, and there has
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Speaker 1: been some reaction on social media, quite a lot of reaction.
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Speaker 1: It was pretty immediate and it was extremely negative towards
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Speaker 1: the King himself. And here's why.
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Speaker 2: Ministers will also proceed with the introduction of digital ID
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Speaker 2: that will modernize how citizens interact with public services.
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Speaker 1: So we mentioned the fact that that was going to
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Speaker 1: be part of the thing on Wednesday's program, but we
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Speaker 1: thought we should hear hear from the horse's mouth, so
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Speaker 1: to speak. But I want to focus on a comment
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Speaker 1: on Instagram from someone with the handle Western Order Underscore
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Speaker 1: who wrote this. He said, I'm seeing a great and sorry,
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Speaker 1: a great many negative reactions to the king speech today.
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Speaker 1: His speech outlined a lot of the things that common
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Speaker 1: British subject literally voted against. Closer ties with the EU
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Speaker 1: and digital ID is another big one. I'm seeing comments
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Speaker 1: of people calling the king a traitor, saying to abolish
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Speaker 1: the monarchy. We are again seeing the inherent weaknesses of
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Speaker 1: a constitutional monarchy where the king in practice is a
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Speaker 1: mouthpiece of the government, regardless of how unpopular it is.
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Speaker 1: The average person is seeing the king as a silent
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Speaker 1: bystander to the cultural, military, and economic subjugation and destruction
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Speaker 1: of the United Kingdom. The King is parless to actively
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Speaker 1: do anything against this, as his hands are tied. Many
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Speaker 1: call for the king to protect subjects from their politicians. Well,
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Speaker 1: how can he do that when you the people wanted
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Speaker 1: a constitution that prevented this. I'm just going to comment
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Speaker 1: on this because it's not entirely true what's just been said.
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Speaker 1: There's the comments that there are well made, but it's
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Speaker 1: not quite correct. The constitution of this country absolutely permits
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Speaker 1: the monarch to step in. In fact, the Coronation oath
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Speaker 1: demands it. Now, it's true that the Bill of Rights
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Speaker 1: sixteen to eighty nine established the so called parliamentary sovereignty,
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Speaker 1: but it did not abolish the formal power of the
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Speaker 1: monarch to withhold royal assent from any bill passed by Parliament.
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Speaker 1: No statute since then prevents the king refusing royal assent.
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Speaker 1: What blocks refusal is, first of all, a convention since
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Speaker 1: seventeen o eight, which is the last time the monarch
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Speaker 1: actually did it. But George the fourth and George the
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Speaker 1: fifth came very close and they were persuaded at the
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Speaker 1: last minute not to withhold royal assent from various bills.
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Speaker 1: There's also the dominant academic opinion that the convention has
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Speaker 1: hardened it to duty because of the length of time
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Speaker 1: since it was actually actively used. But that's just opinion
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Speaker 1: without any formal legal basis. And then there's the practical.
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Speaker 1: The practical certainly that a refusal would trigger an immediate
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Speaker 1: constitutional crisis and that could possibly end the monarchy in
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Speaker 1: its current form. So the issue for the king here
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Speaker 1: is that it's looking like his unpopularity continues to grow
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Speaker 1: and the calls to abolish the monarchy are already gaining steam.
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Speaker 1: And the issue for us the general public is that
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Speaker 1: there's no statuary restriction on him taking the action with
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Speaker 1: whole royal assent, whether it's against the digital ID bill
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Speaker 1: or whatever it happens to be. The monarchy is ripe
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Speaker 1: for a campaign, I would argue, and just in other words,
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Speaker 1: people should be making clear what's expected of them. Make
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Speaker 1: clear the consequences to him of giving royal assent to
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Speaker 1: whatever legislation Starm or whoever the Prime Minister happens to
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Speaker 1: be brings forward on digital ID, make it clear that
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Speaker 1: that might possibly mean the end of the monarchy. And
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Speaker 1: under those circumstances, perhaps there's a chance of him actually
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Speaker 1: upholding his coronation oath. That seems like the only option
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Speaker 1: to be patrick, because it seems to me that a
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Speaker 1: campaign against targeting one individual is much more likely to
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Speaker 1: succeed in one that's targeting six hundred and fifty MPs. Right.
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Speaker 3: The core issue that the commentator who you highlighted earlier
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Speaker 3: was getting at was that the monarchs being used as
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Speaker 3: a sort of public relations mouth piece for a continuity
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Speaker 3: of a gender correct specifically agenda that's just not popular.
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Speaker 3: Look at the size of the petition against the digital ID.
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Speaker 3: If there was a referendum on this, what do you
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Speaker 3: think the result was. I think it'd be overwhelmingly against
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Speaker 3: right if there was a referend But yet they're using
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Speaker 3: the monarchy to basically promote and kind of normalize what
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Speaker 3: is ultimately a very unpopular technocratic agenda being pushed rammed
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Speaker 3: down the public's throat by the government.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely basil briefly, if you got any thoughts on this.
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Speaker 4: Well, Charles looked rather displeased with the whole process, didn't they.
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Speaker 4: Apparently he wanted to do the King's Speech by zoom,
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Speaker 4: but that wasn't allowed. Yeah, it's a uniquely unpopular agenda.
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Speaker 4: It was supposed to be saving Starmer's premiership. It was
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Speaker 4: his final role of the dice after his disastrous speech previously,
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Speaker 4: and again it's.
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Speaker 1: Back and fired.
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Speaker 4: It hasn't worked at all, of course, and there's nothing
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Speaker 4: in it that people voted for that people want, and
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Speaker 4: hence the rolling crisis in his leadership, which looks increasingly
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Speaker 4: likely to see him going within the next couple of months.
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Speaker 4: As soon as any Burnham gets a seat.
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Speaker 1: If he gets a seat, but we'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: that an extra Okay, Patrick, Let's move on to international
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Speaker 1: affairs for a moment then, and well, of course, the
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Speaker 1: big international event that's taking place or has just finished,
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Speaker 1: is Trump's visit to China.
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Speaker 3: That's right, this is what is dominating the international headlines
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Speaker 3: right now. Let's take a look at this. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the thing I'm looking at straight away here is the entourage.
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Speaker 3: Trump arrived with this massive entourage that included all of
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Speaker 3: the captains of industry, big tech, all of the bankers,
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Speaker 3: Larry Fink from black Rock, the CEO Blackstone, also Jensen Huang,
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Speaker 3: the CEO of Nvidia, and it was a real show
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Speaker 3: of force. And you know, the thing that struck me
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Speaker 3: about this, Mike, was that why would you bring a
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Speaker 3: show of force if you're a US president? I mean,
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Speaker 3: isn't your office enough? So this is a president at
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Speaker 3: his absolutely weakest EBB maybe in history of the US president,
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Speaker 3: having to arrive that insecure. And what are those all
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Speaker 3: those tech CEOs and Tim Cook and Elon Musk, what
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Speaker 3: are they really there for? It's they're not there to
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Speaker 3: entice China to come to the US. They're there to
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Speaker 3: beg China for access to the Chinese market. It's pretty clear.
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Speaker 1: Because China has restricted access to some.
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Speaker 3: Of those participants increasingly so and in response to tariff
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Speaker 3: wars by Trump and other sanctions by the US, so
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Speaker 3: they have the nerve to bring in this. Not only
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Speaker 3: that some of the Cabot members here. We'll just show
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Speaker 3: you a scene here. Some of the Cabot members that
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Speaker 3: did show up to this are. You know, here's Mark
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Speaker 3: or Rubio. This is quite amusing here, but you can
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Speaker 3: see Rubio, heg Seth, Scott Bessett, some of these, Steve
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Speaker 3: Miller and Rubio seems to be enthralled here with the ceiling.
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Speaker 3: It's like his first visit to civilization. Here, he says, look,
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Speaker 3: doing a sort of Kim Jong Un impression. They're pointing
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Speaker 3: at things there. He is talking to having a little
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Speaker 3: chin wag there with his fraternity brother, the Secretary of
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Speaker 3: War Pete hag Seth. I mean's really embarrassing. And you know,
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Speaker 3: why would you bring the Secretary of War to a
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Speaker 3: Chinese state visit. That's just uncalled for. And Scott Bessett,
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Speaker 3: the Secretary of Economic Warfare, i e. The Treasury. He
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Speaker 3: just laid sanctions against China, so that's totally inappropriate to
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Speaker 3: bring these types of cabinet people to a state visit.
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Speaker 3: It shows you hound security. Now look at this here,
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Speaker 3: we'll bring this up on screen. This is Trump. Watched
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Speaker 3: the handshake. You see that Trump's trying to pull G's
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Speaker 3: hand and she is resisting. The trick to power handshake
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Speaker 3: Trump always pulls. He puts his hand palm up and
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Speaker 3: then pulls his hand towards him. G basically pushed back,
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Speaker 3: you can see.
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Speaker 1: So that was me.
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Speaker 3: I mean, imagine that the US president trying to pull
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Speaker 3: one a power move, a Tony Robbins handshake, power move
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Speaker 3: on Jiji. I mean that kind of shows you where
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Speaker 3: Trump is just in general here, but you can see
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Speaker 3: just the back to the clip here, there's the whole
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Speaker 3: pageantry of it. And that's really what Trump got out of.
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Speaker 3: This is a photo op, because that's all there is
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Speaker 3: to get out of this is the photo op. It
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Speaker 3: is a fantastic photo op. It's a state visit. Everyone
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Speaker 3: he brought with him in his entourage is owing him
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Speaker 3: a favor in perpetuity because he introduced them to the
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Speaker 3: Chinese government. Basically, so that's big political capital for Trump here.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, bottom line, Mike is Straits of Hormuz. Trump
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Speaker 3: was hoping for something, didn't get anything. He came out
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Speaker 3: claiming that China wants the straits open. But the straits
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Speaker 3: are open for China, that's the thing. They're just not
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Speaker 3: open for the US. And it's proxies. It's golfare of proxies.
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Speaker 3: The other thing he said is China doesn't want Iran
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Speaker 3: to avenuke. Trump is relaying private conversations. We don't know
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Speaker 3: what the context of that is. Position with Visa vit
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Speaker 3: Iran is pretty clear. Everything is in line with international law,
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Speaker 3: and everything in the US is doing with Israel is
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Speaker 3: outside of international law. That's the bottom line.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 3: Rare earth minerals, no announcements on that, no trade deals,
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Speaker 3: no promises of Chinese investment into the US economy, none
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Speaker 3: of that. So really there's not a lot there. And
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Speaker 3: the last thing I'll say, Mike is that you know,
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Speaker 3: you look at the Trump administration's US government's orientation towards China.
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Speaker 3: Since Trump's first term, it's been about decoupling from China.
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Speaker 3: It's been about anti globalization. And here he is basically
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Speaker 3: saying we want to be partners. Let's be partners. So
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Speaker 3: there's two There's a huge contradiction there. So one says,
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Speaker 3: one wonders if this is just rhetoric for optics, is
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Speaker 3: any sincerity there. But China's Jiji Ping said something. He said,
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Speaker 3: we don't want to be caught in Thucididi's trap. Now
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Speaker 3: that is very sophisticated geopolitical discussion going on there, and
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Speaker 3: I dare say that went right over the head of
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Speaker 3: Trump and heg Seth and company. They don't even know
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Speaker 3: what through cdity's trap is. It's when it's the theory
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Speaker 3: and realist international relations where a rising power threatens the hedgemon,
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Speaker 3: and the hedgemon will attack the rising power to maintain
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Speaker 3: their hegemonic status. And that's what Jijiping was trying to
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Speaker 3: sit warn against. He said, we don't need to go.
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Speaker 1: Down the Trump Excuse me that Trump has been threatening effectively.
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Speaker 3: Constantly and everybody in his administration. So Marco Rubio said
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Speaker 3: on the plane on the way there, on an interview,
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Speaker 3: he said, well, a China can rise, but not at
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Speaker 3: the expense of US national interests. We can't fall. If
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Speaker 3: China our fall can't be a result of China's rise.
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Speaker 3: US is going to fall regardless of whether China rises
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Speaker 3: or not because the thirty nine trillion dollars in debt.
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Speaker 3: And that's because of all the bankers that Trump brought
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Speaker 3: with him on the Air Force one. They've sucked the
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Speaker 3: American economy dry. Right, there's nothing left. It's a carcass.
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Speaker 3: So if America falls, it's it's America's own fault. It's
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Speaker 3: not China's fault. I can tell you that right now.
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Speaker 1: But we have one video clip here.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, yes, yes, this is almost forgotten, Mike. So
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Speaker 3: here's this was a huge takeaway. So Fox sent there
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Speaker 3: on tourage to interview Trump. This is what Trump said
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Speaker 3: in the interview in Beijing.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this. We don't we don't need it at all.
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Speaker 5: We don't need it at all.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough.
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Speaker 5: So I mean you could make the case, you know,
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Speaker 5: like why are we even We're doing it to help
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Speaker 5: Israel and to help Saudi Arabia and to help Qatar
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Speaker 5: and UAE and you know, Kuwait and other countries Bahrain.
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Speaker 1: It also helps China.
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Speaker 5: We're actually I told him today, I said, you know,
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Speaker 5: we're helping you and we're helping you in another way
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Speaker 5: because I don't think they want I don't think China
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Speaker 5: wants a ran to have a nuclear weapon either. I said, this,
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Speaker 5: don't go crazy. You don't need them having a nuclear weapon. Say, well,
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Speaker 5: he's not going to respond to my he's a pretty
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Speaker 5: cool guy. He's not going to say, oh gee, that's
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Speaker 5: a good point, I think.
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Speaker 1: Do you think he agreed? Yeah? I think I was.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he wants him there. No, he would
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Speaker 1: like to see an end.
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Speaker 5: But he's been good about it.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's been good about it.
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Speaker 3: So you don't know what if this is all in
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Speaker 3: Trump's head or if this conversation actually happened. But the
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Speaker 3: key point there is he said, we did it to
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Speaker 3: help Israel. We waged a war against Iran to help
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Speaker 3: Israel and the Gulf States. That's on record. I would say,
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Speaker 3: if the US President says that on record, let's just
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Speaker 3: say that's part of historical record. So that's admission right
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Speaker 3: there from the US President that they went to war
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Speaker 3: against Iran, all of the economic damage that's come with
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Speaker 3: it for us around the world as well as people
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Speaker 3: in America, to help Israel. Pretty clear. Any any arguments
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Speaker 3: or is Benjamin att Yahoo would say class any questions class,
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Speaker 3: So anyway.
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Speaker 1: No questions here, right, Okay, let's let's move back to
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Speaker 1: the UK. Then come back to the UK. And of
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Speaker 1: course tomorrow is going to be a significant day for
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Speaker 1: London with the opportunity for serious civil unrest, so that
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Speaker 1: the on the one hand we have the Tommy Robinson
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Speaker 1: led United the Kingdom March, but if we just bring
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Speaker 1: this on screen, we've got a massive policing operation. We've
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Speaker 1: got the two marches going on Unite the Kingdom on
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Speaker 1: one hand. We've got Palestine solidarity campaigns KNACBAS seventy eight
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Speaker 1: March from Palestine on the other hand, and that's being
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Speaker 1: billed as you know, united against Tommy Robinson in the
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Speaker 1: far right. Now, the respect of roots that the marches
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Speaker 1: will take are designed to keep the two events separate,
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Speaker 1: but they'll end up less than a mile apart. So
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Speaker 1: there's got to be some opportunity there for anybody that
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Speaker 1: wants to kick anything off. The United Kingdom March has
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Speaker 1: stages set up in Parliament Square and the NACBAS seventy
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Speaker 1: eight March ends in Waterloo Loo Places Saint James. Where
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Speaker 1: are lots of monuments to the British Empire, and of
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Speaker 1: course that has been something that Tommy Robinson in particular
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Speaker 1: has attempted to organize people around, you know, Palestinian flags
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Speaker 1: on statues and so on. This is something that he's
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Speaker 1: attempted to incite people about in the past. But the
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Speaker 1: police response then leaves no room for doubt about their
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Speaker 1: attitude to it all. They rolled out Deputy Assistant Commissioner
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Speaker 1: James Harmon, who said, our plan involves the most assertive
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Speaker 1: possible use of our powers, including strict conditions. Thousands of
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Speaker 1: officers will be deployed taking a zero tolerance approach, supported
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Speaker 1: by specialist resources including live facial recognition, helicopters, drones, dog units,
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Speaker 1: police forces, armored vehicles and dedicated investigative teams. Will be
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Speaker 1: policing two significant and potentially challenging protests in the center
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Speaker 1: of the city, as well as the FA Cup final,
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Speaker 1: which takes place at Wembley on the same day. The
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Speaker 1: terrorism threat level, he said, has been raised to severe
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Speaker 1: and in recent weeks and months we've seen terrorist attack
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Speaker 1: and a sustained campaign of arsons targeting Jewish Londoners against
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Speaker 1: the backdrop of increasing hit crime in particular an anti Semitism,
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Speaker 1: so that has been the main commentary from the Metropolitan Police.
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Speaker 1: But they're clearly getting tooled up.
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Speaker 3: That's a lot of personnel, five thousand to be equivalent
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Speaker 3: of what they would have for a million man march
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Speaker 3: for instance.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely significant. Buzzle. What are your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: the police response and to the events, the two events
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Speaker 1: taking place in the same place at the same time
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Speaker 1: more or less, well.
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure how wise it was to give permission
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Speaker 4: for both marches on the same day in central London
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Speaker 4: and the Nacbus seventy eight march goes from South Kensington
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Speaker 4: up to paw Mau, while Tommy Robinson has what is
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Speaker 4: considered the more favorable route, assembling outside Houston. But it
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Speaker 4: must take exception to what the Assistant Commissioners said there
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Speaker 4: because the implication is that there is something anti Semitic
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Speaker 4: about the pro Palestine, the anti genocide marches. There are
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Speaker 4: huge numbers of Jewish people on those marches. They were
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Speaker 4: deliberately mischaracterized by Suela Braveman in her time as Home
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Speaker 4: Secretary and then by others since as so called hate marches,
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Speaker 4: which is really sinister people are calling for the end
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Speaker 4: of the mass slaughter of women, children, men for that matter,
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Speaker 4: and they had nothing to do with hatred for Jewish
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Speaker 4: people per se. But that narrative has seeped into the
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Speaker 4: police's thinking. And we'll look at what Mark Rowley said
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Speaker 4: a little bit later on in the pushback against that
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Speaker 4: calls for him to resign, which I'll be covering surely.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I just want to finish off with this,
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Speaker 1: so if we bring Jim's Harmon back on screen for
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Speaker 1: a second. I thought it was quite interesting that he
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Speaker 1: said this. He said, there've been more than thirty three
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Speaker 1: large protests organized by the groups that make up the
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Speaker 1: Palistine Coalition since twenty twenty three, and I just thought
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Speaker 1: that there is more than thirty three. Does he mean
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Speaker 1: thirty four? Does he mean thirty five? If that's what
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Speaker 1: he meant, why didn't you just say that, Why did
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Speaker 1: he use make the use of a masonically significant number?
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Speaker 1: What was that meant to signal there? Patrick? I just
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Speaker 1: I just thought that was really a music.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's just an opportunity to promote good old thirty
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Speaker 3: three once again.
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Speaker 1: They just get that out into the ether. It could be,
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Speaker 1: but Basil, let's let's come on to you then. Oh sorry,
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Speaker 1: before we come on to Basil, we've got the bands
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Speaker 1: of people because of course Patrick in the in the
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Speaker 1: lead up to this, a number of people have been
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Speaker 1: banned from entry into the country.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, luckily Basil brought this to our attention. Basil,
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Speaker 3: here you have the Polish MEP. What exactly has taken
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Speaker 3: place here?
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Speaker 4: A number of people have been banned from entering the
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Speaker 4: UK when quite unprecedented, both to attend and address the
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Speaker 4: Nakbar rally and also Tommy Robinson's so called Unite the Kingdom,
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Speaker 4: which actually intends to do nothing of the kind. Polish
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Speaker 4: MEP Bar Dusky I believe his name is, he's been
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Speaker 4: banned from entering the country. The you know, the rhetoric
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Speaker 4: coming out of Westminster is that these people would be
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Speaker 4: harmful to the common good. Now, I may not be
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Speaker 4: a fan of him or many others, but we're seeing
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Speaker 4: a considerable rollback here from the so called home of
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Speaker 4: free speech. This is, as I said, we've never seen
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Speaker 4: this many people banned on a single weekend before.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, now one of the names on the list was.
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Speaker 3: Gomez Valentina Gomes she's running for Congress in Texas. A
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Speaker 3: couple of failed campaigns, I think she's trying again. She's
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Speaker 3: not very popular with the general population, you can see why,
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Speaker 3: but she's very popular with Elon Musk, very popular with
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Speaker 3: Tommy Robinson, and very popular with the extreme far right. Well, how,
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Speaker 3: how and why would that be? Well, we've got to clip.
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Speaker 3: The reason she was banned, apparently, Mike is because of
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Speaker 3: a speech she gave in London in September, just this
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Speaker 3: past fall. We have a clip from that speech which
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Speaker 3: we'll show now. Here is Valentina Gomez. She's a Colombian
20:10
Speaker 3: immigrant to the United States. Just so you know who's
20:13
Speaker 3: been running for office unsuccessfully in the United States.
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Speaker 1: Here she is.
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Speaker 6: England belongs to the English. It's either now or never,
20:25
Speaker 6: because if these rapists Muslims take over, they will not
20:29
Speaker 6: only rape your women, they won't be ahead of your sons,
20:32
Speaker 6: just like they did on October seventeen Israel. So we
20:35
Speaker 6: either fight now or we die. And we're fighters. We
20:39
Speaker 6: are warriors of Jesus Christ. And in the words of
20:46
Speaker 6: the Great Charlie Kirk is let me is the sword
20:50
Speaker 6: that the left is using to destroy Christian nations. And
20:54
Speaker 6: to destroy every Christian nation across the world. So do
20:59
Speaker 6: not make's with evil, destroy it. And we need a
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Speaker 6: new prime minister that has guts and that's going to
21:07
Speaker 6: stand up for the British and said, all these rapist
21:10
Speaker 6: Muslim Muslims and dirty rubs back to their Sharia nations.
21:19
Speaker 6: And after what they did to Charlie Kirk, the Bay
21:22
Speaker 6: time is over. So I will get to the United
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Speaker 6: States Congress and we will finish what Charlie Kirk started.
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Speaker 1: So help me God, I shouldn't say right well, I
21:35
Speaker 1: mean my first reaction to that is that I would
21:37
Speaker 1: echo what Baslo's just said about, you know, as a
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Speaker 1: principal for free speech and the fact that people have
21:43
Speaker 1: been refused entry I think is wrong. But I think
21:47
Speaker 1: at her kiss it comes pretty close to the line.
21:49
Speaker 1: It has to be said.
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Speaker 3: Let me rephrase that. If she was there, and she
21:53
Speaker 3: was let's say, a Muslim man saying that we need
21:56
Speaker 3: to deport all the Jews because they're raping our women
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Speaker 3: and we need to I don't know if she said
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Speaker 3: kill them or defeat evil, and I mean it's really
22:08
Speaker 3: would you be shocked or would you oppose a travel
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Speaker 3: band for her to come and speak an event. If
22:14
Speaker 3: the tables were turned right, uh, you know, I would
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Speaker 3: say or she's saying that about killing Christians or you know,
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Speaker 3: we need to defeat the evil Christians because they're raping
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Speaker 3: our women. I think most people would probably agree right
22:28
Speaker 3: that you could probably justify a travel band there because
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Speaker 3: of potential incitement potentially. Now, I'm all for free speech
22:36
Speaker 3: as well, but when you're talking about thousands of people.
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Speaker 1: And are very children as well.
22:44
Speaker 3: In an inflamed environment that's driven by a lot of
22:47
Speaker 3: propaganda and media hype, then you're you're veering into a
22:52
Speaker 3: different sort of place there. So let's just say there's
22:56
Speaker 3: a debate that could be that could could happen there, right, well,
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Speaker 3: the other side that let's show the other side. So
23:03
Speaker 3: not only are the far right being banned by the government,
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Speaker 3: but also all of the Palestinian artists, poets, filmmakers that
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Speaker 3: were due to speak at the Nakba Day of festival
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Speaker 3: and events.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Nakba is the.
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Speaker 3: Nineteen forty eight the expulsion of Palestinians by the invading
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Speaker 3: Jewish colonial settlers from Europe and the massacres, the genocide
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Speaker 3: that took place in nineteen forty eight's called the Nakba
23:32
Speaker 3: means disaster in Arabic roughly translated, so this is Khalid Abdalah.
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Speaker 3: He played Dodi al Fayeed in the Netflix film on
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Speaker 3: Princess Diana. This is what he had to say about
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Speaker 3: the banning of Palestinians by the UK Foreign Office here.
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Speaker 7: In artists, especially during the Nakaba time to come and
23:57
Speaker 7: perform whatever they want. It was a real painful shock
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Speaker 7: to receive news that every Palestinian artist that we applied
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Speaker 7: for visas for to come to the event commemorating the
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Speaker 7: Nagaba on the fourteenth of May at the Troxy, every
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Speaker 7: single Palestinian artist was.
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Speaker 8: Denied their visa.
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Speaker 9: That was a huge shock, painful one and one that
24:30
Speaker 9: for me smacks of the.
24:35
Speaker 8: Depth of the lack.
24:35
Speaker 9: Of acknowledgment of Britain's role in what has happened to
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Speaker 9: Palestinians over the last eighty years. In my humble belief,
24:46
Speaker 9: the Palaestinian artists should be fast tracked, specifically when they
24:50
Speaker 9: come to commemorate the Nagaba in this country and particularly
24:54
Speaker 9: in this moment, if Britain wants to play any role
24:57
Speaker 9: whatsoever in the healing that needs to happen after the
25:03
Speaker 9: genocide and to promote a better future for everyone. And
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Speaker 9: so the shortsighted blindness of the Home Office's decision is
25:13
Speaker 9: absolutely shocking to me. We are not canceling the event.
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Speaker 9: We are postponing the event. We haven't confirmed exactly what
25:24
Speaker 9: the date will be, who the artists will be, but
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Speaker 9: that's something that we are working on and I'm certain
25:31
Speaker 9: going to be an even greater, better event.
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Speaker 3: So that's showing both sides of that issue here. And
25:43
Speaker 3: we'll just bring this up on screen as well. And
25:45
Speaker 3: just to remind people, there is a documentary called Gaza
25:48
Speaker 3: Doctors under Attack. This was basically canceled by the BBC.
25:53
Speaker 3: They refuse to air it. But guess what might it want?
25:55
Speaker 3: A Bathter Award, and so the thing that the BBC
25:59
Speaker 3: would not air bath To Award. So you can see
26:03
Speaker 3: just the industry they're kind of outraged by this. A
26:05
Speaker 3: lot of filmmakers, documentary filmmakers, people working in the industry.
26:09
Speaker 3: But not just that. We'll bring this back up on
26:11
Speaker 3: screen again. Yeah, you can see there's some footage from
26:14
Speaker 3: the film below. It's regarded as an incredible documentary film.
26:19
Speaker 3: I mean, this should be prime time on every British
26:22
Speaker 3: television set, just for the basis of how great of
26:25
Speaker 3: a film it is, just technically and journalistically. But it's
26:30
Speaker 3: been canceled by the BBC. Why because it offended Apparently
26:33
Speaker 3: there Israeli lobby interests in the UK that claimed that
26:38
Speaker 3: this film was antisemitic or it cast Israel in a
26:42
Speaker 3: negative light. Well, at some point it's really hard to
26:46
Speaker 3: sort of bury the truth. So why are we highlighting
26:49
Speaker 3: all these cases and they just happened to be connected
26:52
Speaker 3: with Palestine because that issue is being used by the
26:56
Speaker 3: state to censor, to deny rights of free speech, to cancel,
27:00
Speaker 3: to close borders, to deny entry, or to protect what
27:05
Speaker 3: it appears to be Israeli interests on this issue, and
27:08
Speaker 3: the government is towing a very strict line on this
27:11
Speaker 3: and eroding away a lot of our basic rights as
27:14
Speaker 3: a result. That Palestine just happens to be the touchstone issue.
27:18
Speaker 3: Could be another issue, could be another group of people,
27:21
Speaker 3: but at this moment in time, it's Palestine at the center.
27:24
Speaker 3: That's why we have all these examples that were constantly
27:27
Speaker 3: showing it's because that's what's driving the agenda, the authoritarian agenda.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, thank you for that, Patrick Basil. Let's come
27:36
Speaker 1: on to Alista and Action and the ongoing legal issues
27:41
Speaker 1: around that.
27:43
Speaker 4: Well, these are very much related to what Patrick was
27:45
Speaker 4: talking about, the UK national security state targeting all forms
27:50
Speaker 4: of Palestine's solidarity. I mean, we've got the new bill
27:53
Speaker 4: coming in talking about cumulative protest, which is what Assistant
27:58
Speaker 4: Commissioner Harmon was taught talking about when he said more
28:01
Speaker 4: than thirty three, I agree, rather suspicious number. But this
28:05
Speaker 4: whole idea of cumulative protest needs to be clamped down upon.
28:09
Speaker 4: But protest has to be cumulative in order to get anywhere.
28:12
Speaker 4: That's the whole point of it. And yeah, the VISal refusals,
28:18
Speaker 4: that's another aspect of that. And of course we're now
28:22
Speaker 4: going to look at the case of Rajiv Menon, who
28:25
Speaker 4: made an absolutely exemplary speech, one described by Greig Murray
28:29
Speaker 4: as the best legal speech he'd heard by a barrister
28:32
Speaker 4: pretty much in his lifetime. Well, I'm pleased to say
28:36
Speaker 4: he has won his case, but on a procedural matter,
28:40
Speaker 4: Justice Johnson refused to allow him to direct the jury
28:46
Speaker 4: to quit according to their conscience, and so as a
28:50
Speaker 4: result of disregarding the Judge's instruction. He was charged with
28:54
Speaker 4: contempt of court and immediately referred to the High Court. Now,
28:59
Speaker 4: what the High Court of decided is that Justice Johnston
29:03
Speaker 4: did not have the authority to do that, that he
29:05
Speaker 4: needs approval from the Attorney General himself. If we can
29:09
Speaker 4: go to the next slide. This is part of a
29:13
Speaker 4: wider pattern, as we say, of targeting, using the legal
29:19
Speaker 4: system as well as the police to target all forms
29:22
Speaker 4: of opposition to genocide. Rajiv Menon won his appeal saying
29:29
Speaker 4: that the divisional Court had no jurisdiction to consider the
29:33
Speaker 4: contempt allegation in the absence of an application by the
29:36
Speaker 4: Attorney General.
29:37
Speaker 1: Lext slide.
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Speaker 4: Please, this is Devonshire's barristers. The case is unusual, but
29:42
Speaker 4: the principle is wider. Contemproceedings are serious. They can engage
29:45
Speaker 4: liberty in other words, resulting in custodial sentences. Obviously professional
29:49
Speaker 4: representation and the administration of justice. The Court of Appeal
29:56
Speaker 4: was not deciding whether the underlying contact amounted to contect.
30:00
Speaker 4: That's the key point, deciding merely whether the procedures needed
30:04
Speaker 4: to bring the matter before the High Court had been lawful,
30:08
Speaker 4: and they weren't if we go to the next slide,
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Speaker 4: please Joshua Rosenberg, I believe is the former legal correspondent
30:15
Speaker 4: of the BBC. He makes the point that the judge
30:20
Speaker 4: can only refer it back to the bar standards boards
30:25
Speaker 4: as an alleged breach of the barrister's Code of conduct.
30:30
Speaker 4: But the Bar Council, if we go to the next slide,
30:35
Speaker 4: have said that they don't want to take any further action.
30:39
Speaker 4: They're not recommending that any further action is taken, and
30:43
Speaker 4: that could be crucial in this case because let's not
30:47
Speaker 4: forget judges are all former barristers themselves, and if the
30:51
Speaker 4: Bar Council, which represents all barristers all cases, say that
30:56
Speaker 4: they don't want the matter to go any further, then
30:58
Speaker 4: it's unlikely to do so. But we haven't heard yet
31:02
Speaker 4: from Justice Johnson whether or not he does intend to
31:05
Speaker 4: appeal to the Attorney General directly. Anyway, we'll get a
31:09
Speaker 4: sympathetic hearing if he does so, given the way the
31:12
Speaker 4: UK national security state is completely captured. On we go
31:16
Speaker 4: to the next side, please, yeah, there we are. Kirsty Brismolow,
31:23
Speaker 4: or Chair of the Bar Council, said the Court of
31:27
Speaker 4: Appeal judgment is welcomed and it is hoped that this
31:30
Speaker 4: is now an end to this troubling episode. Michael Mansfield QC,
31:35
Speaker 4: the most prominent human rights lawyer in Britain, even more
31:40
Speaker 4: so than Keir Starmer. He joined the chorus of disapproval
31:45
Speaker 4: of this measure, first time in living memory that a
31:48
Speaker 4: barrister had been referred to the High Court for contempt
31:52
Speaker 4: of court. Now moving swiftly on another aspect of this
31:57
Speaker 4: malfeasans it's the only way to describe Cage International have
32:01
Speaker 4: got the best take on this. Earlier this week, State
32:04
Speaker 4: exploited terror powers to manipulate Filton jury to secure a conviction.
32:09
Speaker 4: Let's remember there were reporting restrictions on this particular matter,
32:13
Speaker 4: which meant that it wasn't in the public domain, and
32:17
Speaker 4: that was basically that the Filton twenty four retrial of
32:23
Speaker 4: six defendants who if you remember back in February, the
32:27
Speaker 4: jury couldn't agree with verdict on well the judge had
32:33
Speaker 4: not allowed their barristers to mention the fact that they
32:38
Speaker 4: were acting out of their own conscience in order to
32:42
Speaker 4: destroy weapons manufacturers used in the commission of genocide, and
32:49
Speaker 4: nor were the jury allowed to know that if they
32:52
Speaker 4: found the defendants guilty that they would be sentence under
32:58
Speaker 4: terrorism legislation, even though the charge was only for criminal damage. Okay,
33:04
Speaker 4: so you know the jury they're thinking, oh, well, here
33:06
Speaker 4: we've got some defendants charged with criminal damage. We merely
33:10
Speaker 4: have to decide whether or not we think they're guilty
33:13
Speaker 4: of criminal damage. But actually no, if you find them guilty,
33:17
Speaker 4: the judge is going to sentence them under terrorism legislation,
33:21
Speaker 4: which results, of course in harsher conditions in prison, longer sentences,
33:27
Speaker 4: loss of parole, etc. We can go to the next
33:29
Speaker 4: slide please, Yeah. The riginal judge was removed after granting
33:36
Speaker 4: a defendant bail. In his replacement, mister Justice Johnson, the
33:39
Speaker 4: same judge that brought the case against Rajiv Menon, is
33:43
Speaker 4: a career long defender of the British state, having previously
33:48
Speaker 4: represented the police force and intelligence agencies, including talking in
33:56
Speaker 4: favor of police officers engaging in sex relations with people
34:03
Speaker 4: in protest groups that appalling scandal, women even father children
34:08
Speaker 4: with men who were masquerading as authentic activists but were
34:12
Speaker 4: in fact police officers undercover. Well, Justice Johnson thought all
34:17
Speaker 4: that was okay. He's also represented MI five on we
34:21
Speaker 4: go to the next slide. Please yeah.
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Speaker 1: This is the.
34:25
Speaker 4: Cajun International's position the status stress testing new machinery of
34:31
Speaker 4: legislation introduced in twenty twenty one that allows a terrorism
34:35
Speaker 4: connection to be added to any offense carrying a two
34:39
Speaker 4: year minimum sentence without a terrorism charge, without the jury's
34:43
Speaker 4: knowledge and at the sole discussion of the judge. The
34:47
Speaker 4: filt and four are the first people in British legal
34:50
Speaker 4: history to face this mechanism for direct action. If it stands,
34:55
Speaker 4: it will be used to gain in similar cases. If
34:58
Speaker 4: this stands, the defendants could be given significantly longer prison
35:02
Speaker 4: sentences and face severe restrictions on their lives following their
35:07
Speaker 4: release as well. Last slide please in this sequence onto
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Speaker 4: the next one. It should be clear now to everyone
35:19
Speaker 4: that terrorism laws are a weapon for the security state
35:23
Speaker 4: to take over the judicial process and overturn tradition and
35:27
Speaker 4: liberties acquired through citizens struggles over centuries. This is why
35:34
Speaker 4: Cage has called for them to be abolished and for
35:37
Speaker 4: there to be a return to due process and fair
35:41
Speaker 4: trials procedures. Extraordinary really that we need to say those
35:45
Speaker 4: things in the twenty first century, but we do. We
35:47
Speaker 4: can put that slide up again very quickly, please, I
35:50
Speaker 4: just want to read the statement from the head of
35:53
Speaker 4: Public Advocacy at CAGE who said the terrorism sentencing connection
35:58
Speaker 4: must be dropped ban on Palestine and actually must be lifted,
36:01
Speaker 4: and the terror laws being used to reframe conscience as criminality.
36:07
Speaker 1: Must be abolished.
36:08
Speaker 4: What is being built here is a legal architecture designed
36:12
Speaker 4: to make resistance through any means possible to mind, to
36:17
Speaker 4: make resistance impossible and worth remembering of course that can
36:21
Speaker 4: commitant with this. In the King's speech he announced tailing
36:26
Speaker 4: of jury trials. Well, we can all see where this
36:30
Speaker 4: is heading towards Kafka esque situation. If you put all
36:34
Speaker 4: these various things together, you could be tried in court
36:39
Speaker 4: in Britain by a judge not allowed to know, not
36:43
Speaker 4: allowed to know the charges being brought against.
36:46
Speaker 10: You, and.
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Speaker 4: You know, no jury. You know we're going to a
36:52
Speaker 4: very dark place.
36:53
Speaker 8: With all this.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Barsel for that. Yes, absolutely agree. Now let's
36:58
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Speaker 8: Well. I spent many hours in the simulator with the
38:33
Speaker 8: pilots doing these exercises, so people can dig into the
38:38
Speaker 8: details in the report. But the basic overall findings, intuitive
38:42
Speaker 8: and readily accomplishable bline routes were available to pilots on
38:46
Speaker 8: nine to eleven, they weren't taken. Those are the routes
38:48
Speaker 8: you'd expect to see these things were being manly flying.
38:52
Speaker 8: The actual routes you see were from what we found
38:54
Speaker 8: in the similar to study, they were demanding, counterintuitive and
38:58
Speaker 8: you know, first time trying the first attempt likely to
39:01
Speaker 8: have ended in mission failure. So we have, okay, an
39:06
Speaker 8: easy way of doing it in a hard way of
39:08
Speaker 8: doing it, and a hard way of doing it was
39:10
Speaker 8: apparently chosen and that doesn't fit with manual controls. So
39:14
Speaker 8: why from an automated control point of view would they
39:16
Speaker 8: have been with those as it were difficult routes being flown.
39:21
Speaker 8: When we look at the tracks, we can see as
39:23
Speaker 8: we saw with the towers we have, we can see
39:26
Speaker 8: clear evidence of the aircraft being maneuvered to reach particular
39:29
Speaker 8: impact angles and with the pentagon and all that fits
39:32
Speaker 8: not with a manual control scenario, but it does fit
39:35
Speaker 8: with an automated control scenario. Just in my final second,
39:43
Speaker 8: this is how I summarize everything and where we are
39:45
Speaker 8: now in terms of what we understand about the flights
39:49
Speaker 8: on nine to eleven is you know, what appears to
39:51
Speaker 8: be a chaotic, difficult to execute and counterintuitive manual control
39:56
Speaker 8: is in fact maneuvering that is consistent with carefully and
40:01
Speaker 8: time wise coordinated and ultimately very precise targeting, which fits
40:05
Speaker 8: with automated stroke remote controls a combinations of two, certainly
40:10
Speaker 8: in the final stages automated guidance, perhaps some degree of
40:13
Speaker 8: remote input at earlier stages in the flight, but it
40:16
Speaker 8: points towards that and not towards manual controller. And that's
40:19
Speaker 8: what we've learned from this study.
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Speaker 1: So I'd encourage everybody to watch the full thing. It's
40:26
Speaker 1: it was an interesting, an interesting presentation to say the least,
40:30
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40:33
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's for Monday's program. Now let's move on
42:38
Speaker 1: Patrick then to quite an amazing situation where a foreign
42:44
Speaker 1: nation is threatening to sue a media organization in another nation.
42:52
Speaker 3: Not just any media organization, the New York Times. So
42:54
Speaker 3: the Israeli governments threatening the New York Times with a
42:57
Speaker 3: massive lawsuit. That's the big story over the last couple
43:01
Speaker 3: of days. And this is extraordinary. This is I don't
43:04
Speaker 3: think this has ever happened before. But this is a
43:06
Speaker 3: very special situation. So let's look at the offending article
43:11
Speaker 3: to begin with. Here, this is the probably one of
43:14
Speaker 3: the most explosive articles in New York Times history. This
43:17
Speaker 3: is written by veteran journalist Nicholas Christoph. I have a
43:21
Speaker 3: lot of disagreements with Nicholas over the years, personally on
43:25
Speaker 3: Twitter as well. We've had our spats, but this is
43:29
Speaker 3: his article here. Now, this is the silence that meets
43:32
Speaker 3: the rape of Palestinians. And this is what he is unveiling.
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Speaker 3: Among other things in this Christoph documents testimonies from Palestinian men, women,
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Speaker 3: children describing widespread sexual abuse, rape humiliation by Israeli soldiers,
43:48
Speaker 3: prison guards, settlers brought in to abuse the prisoners, as
43:52
Speaker 3: well as various interrogators. Here and you know, the final
43:56
Speaker 3: conclusion that Israel's a legal prison system has been transformed
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Speaker 3: into a state protected criminal network of torture camps and
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Speaker 3: organized sadistic and sexual abuse. There So all the details
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Speaker 3: are there and that I do encourage people to go
44:15
Speaker 3: read that now. It also includes allegations of I think
44:21
Speaker 3: we probably covered some of this on your past programs,
44:24
Speaker 3: but that dogs were being trained to sexually abuse male
44:29
Speaker 3: prisoners as well. So these types of allegations have created
44:34
Speaker 3: a massive backlash, huge denials by Israel, and Israel's gone
44:38
Speaker 3: on the attack.
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Speaker 1: As we can see. So this is where.
44:41
Speaker 3: Now what's interesting about this, Mike, is the media coin
44:45
Speaker 3: to react to this. It's clearly a reaction to this story.
44:48
Speaker 3: Israel has reinvigorated the October seventh narrative, which the timing
44:54
Speaker 3: of this is not coincidental, so I think a they
44:57
Speaker 3: knew this story was coming out because it was a
45:00
Speaker 3: of headline story by one of their big, big features writers.
45:04
Speaker 3: Was published in the opinion section, which is a little
45:07
Speaker 3: bit odd. It's not in the normal featured section. But
45:11
Speaker 3: here's the other mainstream media reactions to this, and we'll
45:14
Speaker 3: bring this up on screen here. This is a BBC
45:18
Speaker 3: hamas weaponized sexual violence in October seventh attacks Israeli Investigations says,
45:24
Speaker 3: So there's apparently this is new report that's out, an
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Speaker 3: Israeli report, and the media. This is right across the CNN, ABC, BBC,
45:34
Speaker 3: Washington Post.
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Speaker 1: We'll show you the Daily Mail in a minute.
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Speaker 6: Now.
45:37
Speaker 3: What was interesting, micause Nicholas Christoph, among his criticisms of
45:40
Speaker 3: the Israelis, included the forty b headed babies claim and
45:44
Speaker 3: almost validated it. So Christoph himself has come up under
45:50
Speaker 3: a lot of criticism from people that are challenging that claim, which.
45:55
Speaker 1: Has never been proven.
45:56
Speaker 3: There's no evidence to ever suggest it, yet it's been
45:59
Speaker 3: repeated Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Benjamin and Yahoo and certain
46:04
Speaker 3: other world leaders here. So let's go back and just
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Speaker 3: and examine this a little closer. So as a reaction
46:10
Speaker 3: to Christoph, will bring this back on screen now, that
46:14
Speaker 3: you see the mainstream media pushing this October seventh new report.
46:18
Speaker 3: Let's take a look though at this report here. Now
46:20
Speaker 3: here's the Daily Mail taking things a little further. Depravity
46:23
Speaker 3: of October seventh. Here the barbarism is beyond all imagination
46:27
Speaker 3: and so forth. So but take a look closely at
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Speaker 3: the subhead, and you know this very inflammatory here. Then
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Speaker 3: this is the author of this report. Levy's report reveals
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Speaker 3: for the quote for the first time, the full depravity
46:40
Speaker 3: and quote unimaginable sexual horror is committed by Hamas, which
46:45
Speaker 3: some on the left still cast down on. I'm highlighting
46:48
Speaker 3: that mic because that shows you there's a sort of
46:50
Speaker 3: partisan agenda that's at play here. So my question is,
46:55
Speaker 3: and we're going to ask, is this just mere propaganda
46:58
Speaker 3: whenever you're introducing the left as part of your argument,
47:01
Speaker 3: or the right or the left, particularly in something like this,
47:04
Speaker 3: that should be a forensic investigation. I'm going to say,
47:08
Speaker 3: we're into the realms of propaganda here. So let's look
47:11
Speaker 3: at the woman herself. This is coachev El kaim Lev,
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Speaker 3: and she is head of the quote civil Commission. She's
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Speaker 3: calling it the Civil Commission report on October seventh, Sexual violence.
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Speaker 1: There she is.
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Speaker 3: But let's take a look at some of the problems
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Speaker 3: with her report and we'll back this up, of course
47:32
Speaker 3: with receipts. But first off the bat, she's been caught here,
47:37
Speaker 3: as we will show, fabricating evidence of quote, mass rape
47:41
Speaker 3: in her report. Now, the BBC didn't push back on
47:44
Speaker 3: any of this, neither did any of these mainstream media,
47:47
Speaker 3: so it's like the journalists didn't do their job fact
47:49
Speaker 3: checking this story they're running with. Anyway, we'll show you
47:52
Speaker 3: some of those problems. So she's presented an old photo
47:56
Speaker 3: of a female Kurdish fighter killed in combat and used
48:00
Speaker 3: that as images of an quote Israeli woman at the
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Speaker 3: Nova Music festival. And she's claimed that fetuses were cut
48:07
Speaker 3: from the wombs of pregnant mothers by Hamas fighters. And
48:11
Speaker 3: also here Elkaiam Levy's self styled quote civil commission has
48:17
Speaker 3: been exposed by Israeli media, some of the Israeli press
48:20
Speaker 3: as a corrupt fundraising mechanism with herself as the beneficiary.
48:25
Speaker 3: So those are their actual criticisms here. So I'm asking Mike,
48:28
Speaker 3: has the Western mainstream media done any of their due
48:31
Speaker 3: diligence They've just run with this report the Daily Mail
48:34
Speaker 3: being probably the most egregious here. So let's look at
48:37
Speaker 3: the claim here fake evidence of October seventh. Well, here's
48:41
Speaker 3: the photos she included. Now, this is under the igius here.
48:46
Speaker 3: This is on an Israeli website called the Hamas Massacre Website,
48:49
Speaker 3: and that's the saying it's a Nova party victim. Well,
48:53
Speaker 3: we did a little searching, Mike, doing a reverse image
48:55
Speaker 3: search on the internet, as one does, and found the
48:58
Speaker 3: original here from twenty two that is a Kurdish female fighter. Okay,
49:04
Speaker 3: first published online. We'll provide the links to this in
49:08
Speaker 3: the show notes, of course, but just just to return
49:11
Speaker 3: back to that image. So that's one of the centerpieces there.
49:15
Speaker 3: So if this has been faked and fabricated, what else
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Speaker 3: in this report? We don't have time to go through
49:20
Speaker 3: all of the exhibits, but I'm sure we could find
49:23
Speaker 3: quite a few others. Now, all of this is basically
49:25
Speaker 3: backstopped by this, and you'll see a lot of people
49:29
Speaker 3: who are pushing the October seventh mass rate narrative will
49:32
Speaker 3: point to this UN report from twenty twenty four. This
49:35
Speaker 3: is Primilla Patten from the UN that spent sent a
49:39
Speaker 3: special team to look into this and this is the
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Speaker 3: headline United Nations, clear and convincing information that hostage is
49:47
Speaker 3: held in Gaza was subject to sexual violence, says UN
49:51
Speaker 3: special representative. That's what the headline says, Mike. But this
49:55
Speaker 3: is a mixed there's mixed messaging going on here. And
49:58
Speaker 3: this is the problem with this UN. The media will
50:01
Speaker 3: run with this headline and who has the power to
50:04
Speaker 3: make the headline. But we actually looked into the contents
50:07
Speaker 3: of this report and here's what we found. So the
50:09
Speaker 3: mission was led by Pramila Patten. She is the UN
50:13
Speaker 3: rappertoire as it were, on sexual violence. She was assigned
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Speaker 3: to this along with nine other experts.
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Speaker 1: This was not an.
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Speaker 3: Investigative trip in nature, but designed to gather and verify
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Speaker 3: quote allegations, says the UN. Thirty three meetings were held
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Speaker 3: with Israeli representatives, not Palestinian and more than five thousand
50:31
Speaker 3: photographic images were supplied to Patent by the Israelis and examined,
50:36
Speaker 3: and fifty hours of video footage supplied by the Israeli
50:39
Speaker 3: government to the UN team. So already we see problems
50:43
Speaker 3: here and we go further and here's now this is
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Speaker 3: the actual text from the report. Reasonable grounds the reasonab
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Speaker 3: grounds to believe that sexual violence, including gang rig took place.
50:55
Speaker 3: So there's this language in there reasonable grounds to believe,
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Speaker 3: and despite concerted efforts to encourage quote victims to come forward,
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Speaker 3: the team was unable to interview any of them. So
51:08
Speaker 3: this is all secondhand, basically hearsay, So clear and convincing information,
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Speaker 3: that's the headline. Here's the report's conclusions after reviewing thousands
51:18
Speaker 3: of photos and videos provided by the Israeli government and
51:21
Speaker 3: concluded that in the medical legal assessment of available photos
51:27
Speaker 3: and videos, no tangible indications of rape could be identified.
51:31
Speaker 3: That's from the actual same UN report, and they go
51:34
Speaker 3: on to say despite extensive searches, no digital evidence specifically
51:39
Speaker 3: depicting acts of sexual violence was found in open sources.
51:43
Speaker 3: The UN report added here, so again no digital actual
51:47
Speaker 3: evidence there. So the good analysis of this is here
51:51
Speaker 3: an electronic intfada is Israel's seventh of October rape polks
51:56
Speaker 3: gets a three hundred page reboot. They're talk talking about
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Speaker 3: the Civil Committee investigation report that the BBC that.
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Speaker 1: We showed you was pushing there this week.
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Speaker 3: So as you can see, the controversy was baked in
52:11
Speaker 3: to the double speak of this UN report that ran
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Speaker 3: with one headline, but the contents showed something else, which
52:18
Speaker 3: was there was no evidence that the UN team had
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Speaker 3: or could say that could validate any of these claims
52:25
Speaker 3: of mass rape on October seventh, and and of course
52:28
Speaker 3: the forty b head at Baby's claim completely fictitious. There's
52:32
Speaker 3: never been any evidence supplied to validate that as well.
52:36
Speaker 3: But everything's been kept in private by the Israeli government
52:39
Speaker 3: and they'll bring journalists in to look at a curated
52:42
Speaker 3: set of images, photos and videos, watch curated films, but
52:46
Speaker 3: they won't release any of this stuff publicly. And the
52:49
Speaker 3: stuff they have released, we've already debunked it, which we
52:51
Speaker 3: just showed you there from their website. So again, Mike,
52:55
Speaker 3: there's just so much, so many lies and deceptions going
53:01
Speaker 3: on with this propaganda. This is a trosty propaganda. It's
53:05
Speaker 3: being pushed by the State of Israel, by their government
53:08
Speaker 3: constantly since October seventh to deflect away from a clear
53:12
Speaker 3: ongoing genocide which is now by now undeniable, and which
53:16
Speaker 3: is now also being carried out in South Lebanon against
53:18
Speaker 3: the Lebanese.
53:21
Speaker 1: So let's move on to some more hypocrisy here. So
53:24
Speaker 1: in this case, more Starma regime hypocrisy, this time from
53:27
Speaker 1: Colonel Joby Rimmer at the USSE. So let's bring him
53:31
Speaker 1: on screen. So here he is and what was he saying.
53:35
Speaker 1: He gave a speech warning that Russia's selective cease far
53:38
Speaker 1: as mask bad faith engagement, a war dependent economy and
53:43
Speaker 1: growing militarization making Moscow more conservative, coercive, sorry, and risk tolerant.
53:49
Speaker 1: Now Russia's actions, not as rhetoric, demonstrate the absence of
53:54
Speaker 1: any genuine commitment to a lasting peace in Europe. That
53:56
Speaker 1: was the headline on the press release that led into
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Speaker 1: his speech. I'm not going to go into the details
54:01
Speaker 1: of the speech itself, but you know this speech and
54:06
Speaker 1: the language that goes around it is coming from a
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Speaker 1: regime which is doing exactly what they're accusing Russia of doing.
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Speaker 1: So Britain is absolutely militarizing the British economy at the
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Speaker 1: moment and demonstrating the complete absence of any genuine commitment
54:21
Speaker 1: to lasting peace in Europe. And just to run through
54:24
Speaker 1: a couple of the key events since Starmar's becoming Prime
54:27
Speaker 1: Minister in February twenty twenty five, the commitment of two
54:31
Speaker 1: point five percent GDP spent on defense. But since then
54:34
Speaker 1: we've seen that being ramped up and move forward. But
54:38
Speaker 1: June twenty twenty five, that's from trating Defense Review. Also
54:41
Speaker 1: in June twenty twenty five the National Security Strategy, in
54:44
Speaker 1: September twenty twenty five the Defense Industrial Strategy, which they
54:49
Speaker 1: sub headlined making defense an engine for growth. And on
54:53
Speaker 1: the eleventh September twenty twenty five the Defense Dividend was launched.
54:58
Speaker 1: And then of course they are talking about the numbers
55:02
Speaker 1: of factories that they were opening and so on to
55:04
Speaker 1: build drones and all the rest. So you know, we've
55:08
Speaker 1: seen language over the last period of months that the
55:12
Speaker 1: UK column has absolutely been reporting patrick on this reorientation,
55:18
Speaker 1: this whole economy, whole of government reorientation towards a war agenda.
55:24
Speaker 1: And at the same time we're pushing out yet another
55:26
Speaker 1: speech in the USC and other international forums where we're
55:30
Speaker 1: accusing Russia of doing this and saying that this is
55:34
Speaker 1: something horrendous that no country should be basically doing, and
55:37
Speaker 1: accusing Russia of all kinds of things. Again, it's the
55:42
Speaker 1: UK projecting its own bad behavior onto other countries, and
55:46
Speaker 1: somehow it's never challenged. There's no accountability and the mainstream
55:50
Speaker 1: media and not asking any questions.
55:52
Speaker 3: And as we reported previously Mike, in terms of like
55:55
Speaker 3: arming the Arctic, how they've co opted academia into this drive.
56:00
Speaker 3: The big contracts and research grants and things funding come
56:03
Speaker 3: from government for drone technology, for targeting technology, new and
56:07
Speaker 3: innovative ways to kill people, to kill Russians, as the
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Speaker 3: British Army like to say to their soldiers they're training
56:15
Speaker 3: from Ukraine, We're training them to kill Russians. And so
56:20
Speaker 3: this is this the state of the new economy. You
56:22
Speaker 3: remember the good green jobs, you remember those, bring back
56:26
Speaker 3: the good old days. Either are going to be good
56:27
Speaker 3: green jobs. No more green jobs. Now it's good defense jobs,
56:31
Speaker 3: war jobs, war jobs. If you want to continue the
56:33
Speaker 3: US transformation of the Department of Defense to the Department
56:37
Speaker 3: of War, and John Healey is going to say more
56:39
Speaker 3: war jobs, we're going to be to be strong war economy.
56:43
Speaker 3: How many people signed up for that in the last election.
56:46
Speaker 3: Imagine if they ran with that on their party platform,
56:48
Speaker 3: we're going to transform our economy to a war economy.
56:51
Speaker 3: Who would get elected Nobody? But yet they're pushing this agenda.
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Speaker 1: Basil, let's come back to you. Then to finish off
57:00
Speaker 1: more in case you missed.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thanks Mike. Another selection of stories that may have
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Speaker 4: passed you by this week. First off, this is rather sad.
57:12
Speaker 4: I must admit the NSPCC rewording a sharp rise in
57:16
Speaker 4: children being blackmailed over sexual images, particularly when they've sent
57:23
Speaker 4: explicit photos to people with whom they are flirting online
57:28
Speaker 4: and then it turns out the person they were flirting
57:31
Speaker 4: with is in fact the catfish, and they then are
57:35
Speaker 4: threatened with these photos being exposed unless they transfer money.
57:40
Speaker 4: It's not just children, adults to get catfished in this
57:43
Speaker 4: way and subsequently blackmailed. This is an important story which
57:48
Speaker 4: is related to the subjects we were talking about earlier.
57:52
Speaker 4: Former senior police officer says the Metropolitan Police chief should
57:56
Speaker 4: resign over his comments about the Palestine's solidarity marches deliberately
58:03
Speaker 4: going near synagogue's Nustrit Meta, who was one of the
58:08
Speaker 4: UK's top female ethnic minority police officers, told Declassified that
58:12
Speaker 4: some mark roley is blurring the lines of operational policing
58:17
Speaker 4: and political positioning. Now there's something called the Nolan Protocols
58:22
Speaker 4: that the police are supposed to abide by, and there's
58:25
Speaker 4: no doubt Roly has deviated from them, and she speculates
58:31
Speaker 4: whether he is planning on getting involved in politics. On
58:35
Speaker 4: we Go The Guardian now this week, Christopher Harborne. This
58:41
Speaker 4: is something we were going to talk about today more detail.
58:43
Speaker 4: Unfortunately we've ran out of time. The controversial billionaire who
58:48
Speaker 4: gave Nigel Farage five million pounds. He's been named in
58:52
Speaker 4: the list of the UK's wealthiest people for the first time,
58:57
Speaker 4: along with the Gallagher, others of Oasis and Emily Evis.
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Speaker 4: So Christopher Harborne, they're making it to the rich list.
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Speaker 4: On we Go, next one, please.
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Speaker 1: Here we are.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes, a couple of lovely Palenteer stories. First one,
59:15
Speaker 4: millions of pounds have been saved by replacing Palenteer in
59:21
Speaker 4: a system which allocates accommodation to refugees. The Ministry of Housing,
59:28
Speaker 4: Communities and Local Government said its new system was more
59:31
Speaker 4: flexible and could meet the high standards of security. This
59:36
Speaker 4: is the homes for Ukraine, screen matching people fleeing the
59:40
Speaker 4: conflict with offers of accommodation, a complex task initially supported
59:45
Speaker 4: for free, but which grew to cost millions millions for Palenteer. Well,
59:50
Speaker 4: they're out of that contract. So hopefully they'll be out
59:52
Speaker 4: of more. Because the Financial Times reported this week and
59:56
Speaker 4: that has been this has been extensively taken up on
59:59
Speaker 4: social media as well well, that Palenteer have now been
1:00:02
Speaker 4: granted almost universal access to our health records, Palenteer to
1:00:07
Speaker 4: be granted unlimited access to NHS patent patient data, and
1:00:14
Speaker 4: obviously we want we want to Palenteer out of the NHS.
1:00:19
Speaker 4: We've had Haikoku who's leading a campaign against that. There
1:00:24
Speaker 4: are petitions to sign. I think Stoppalenteer dot org is
1:00:27
Speaker 4: his organization. So there we go. And finally this week,
1:00:33
Speaker 4: some footage this morning from Downing Streets Keir Starmer apparently
1:00:39
Speaker 4: somewhat reluctant to step down as premiere, and we can see.
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Speaker 1: That now.
1:00:52
Speaker 4: To get him out, but he won't go. He won't
1:00:55
Speaker 4: go while we'll be talking about that and his prospects
1:00:58
Speaker 4: which looks increasingly gloomy in the extra program.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Basil, and yes, just good work getting down
1:01:07
Speaker 3: there to number ten to get that that shot, Basle.
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Speaker 1: That's that was very impressed. That was the money shot
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Speaker 1: of the week. Absolutely well, look we've got to leave
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Speaker 1: it there for today. Thank you very much, Patrick and
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Speaker 1: Basil for joining me today and for everybody that's watching.
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Speaker 1: out tonight and on Sunday, and we will see you
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