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UK Column News Podcast 25th March 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the twenty fifth of March twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. So I'm your
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host, Brian Irish, and I'm delighted to have with me today Alex Thompson
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from the Netherlands and Mark Anderson from the United States. Plus we have a
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guest, So Alex, we're going to get kicked straight off. With the
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sad reality of Ukraine, it seems to get ever more awful. The reports
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coming in, of course from the battlefield are simply horrific, as Russia is
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attempted to take more territory in the Special Military Operation and the Ukrainians, supposedly
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short of ammunition, are just throwing men at the front. But of course
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we've also had in Moscow Altogether, it's pretty horrific. What's going on?
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What have you got for us, Brian? We have been reporting for some
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weeks that Britain has already been telling its people that a war may be on
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the horizon direct involvement. Certain European continental countries, particularly in Northern Europe,
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have in following suit, but this has spread to France. Despite President Macran's
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previous aim really as long as he's been president, despite his being fully paid
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up to NATO, his aim until now of trying to play some kind of
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honest broker and standing up for Russia's geopolitical ambitions. However, insincerely, Makronk
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flipped the script last week and he said that French troops may be committed on
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the ground. He said it couldn't be ruled out anymore. So. You
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can see here on LCI, which is a French equivalent of CNN, a
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talking heads channel for the right thinkers, that newscasters propagandists are already looking at
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big maps of Ukraine with the red belt in the south and east of Russian
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occupied territory and envisaging what the scenarios would be for French troops on the ground.
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The right hand image there suggests that French troops visiting the country via Poland
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could be sent to the center of the country to defend the rivered Niprop line
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if the Russians intend to get that far. The left hand image suggests that
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Beyelus, Russia's ally would be held back. It's getting rather damaging for French
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reputation, and we see that particularly in the last forty eight hours with an
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interview conducted by BFM TV. Many people actually think that this is one of
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the less bad French legacy channels. It's certainly very popular in France for its
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direct style and less high for Lutin than you usually get in French talk TV.
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Here they're interviewing Pyotr Tolstoy. Yes, he is the great grandfather of
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the famous novelist. He's also a long term France watcher and has worked for
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Russian media in France. And here he has come straight out and says,
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we don't care a wit for what to say Napoleon, what a Freudian slip
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for what Macron has to say. If you send troops in, we will
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kill every last one of them. And as is the way with President Putin,
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another's in the Russian government. He then lists of how many mercenaries there
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are in the country, how many were French in how many of those roughly
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half about one hundred and forty seven I think, he says have already been
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dispatched, have been killed. So he's quite in your face about it.
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We do not care, and we're going to kill every last one that enters
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the country. Over in Germany, the vice Chancellor, the equivalent of a
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deputy prime minister at federal level. Mister Harbeck was giving a speech the other
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day to a speech to a conference called Europe twenty twenty four, and as
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reported by Tea Online, here he was saying Germany needs to be prepared for
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a land war, the same language as Macron, but here he's talking more
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economically as you would imagine the Germans do, and saying quite incredibly that Germany
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can afford it. He was asked, particularly in the question and answer of
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this session, if we have to spend a lot more on guns, does
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that mean less butter and he said not necessarily. Look at Wall Street,
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he said, they capitalize themselves a lot better than Europe, and we are
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a great go to go ahead economy, so we can manage. It's a
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repeat of twenty fifteen Angelo mercles via schaff and us we can manage to absorb
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it with countless people. So here he's saying the total amount of state indebtedness
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doesn't really matter. He says for raising capital, because he thinks it's about
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a German general driver as a kind of limited liability company to raise capital,
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he says it doesn't really matter. Whether we are sixty three or sixty four
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percent of our GDP in debt, we can manage it. And once we've
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produced these goods, he says, there'll be spin off benefits for the rest
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of the economy, the goods being tanks and rockets and so on, and
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they will sit there until they're needed up in this completes a Scandinavian triad now
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of countries Norway, Sweden, and Denmark that can script girls at the age
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of eighteen. Here in the Netherlands and in a couple of other countries in
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Europe, there is a nominal conscriptability of men and women at eighteen in the
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interests of gender equality, but there is no active draft. But you'll find
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the details on Politiko there that the Danes are getting quite serious about it.
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People might think an enlightened move. But if you consider which other countries actively
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conscript girls at eighteen rather than just send them a letter saying that they could
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be drafted, other than those Scandinavian three, it's Israel, and then North
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Korea, Burma, Chad Eritrea. It doesn't really seem like a good club
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to be in. A bit like how Sweden, Germany and North Korea and
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now France are the only countries in the world that absolutely mandate school attendants rather
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than homeschooling or education for children. Over in the States, Lindsay Graham,
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one of the most hawkish of all US senators, if not the most hawkish,
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was in Kiev in the middle of this month urging Ukraine to tighten up
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its own draft laws. And he had the goal to say that it's wrong
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that Ukraine has exempted its student age men from the draft. There's no question
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at the moment openly of drafting women. But he says that men under twenty
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seven must be conscriptable in Ukraine. So he's coming to the country and telling
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them that. He says, I can't believe that the threshold is twenty seven.
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You should be serving ie as soon as you're eighteen. We who's that
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senatogram. We need more people in the line. That's the meat grinder line
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you were just talking about. Brian looks to me like he wants young blood.
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Yes, it's terrific what these people are doing. And of course the
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one thing we don't see in Western pieces in Western press is the call for
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peace. Let's just have a look at the cruel reporting on the Moscow mall
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and conference hall attack. So this is the telegraph Britain warns Putin not to
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use Moscow attack to intensify war on Ukraine, as if it was needed,
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because of course that conflict has already intensified as the West, the US,
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UK, EU, NATO pumpin the little weapons they've got remaining, and the
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Ukrainians are being encouraged to send their young and elderly meant to the slaughter on
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the front. These are some of the comments from the article which will just
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put up. Apparently Putin's desperation to put all of this on Ukraine is unsurprising
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as he tries to further dupe the Russian people are pretending that there is no
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dissent within Russia. So we can't even say who the person is making this
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report to the telegraph, But of course it goes on picked up of the
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Male today where apparently the attack in Moscow is simply the fault of Putin because
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he's so incompetent as a leader he allowed it to happen. This is the
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madness of Western press. Here is one of Britain's politicians commenting Russia media channels
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are already circulating deep fake videos of Ukrainian officials in an attempt to blame Ukraine
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and provide Putin some defense for the war crimes he's committing in Ukraine, or
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worse, pretext for further atrocities. So we've just simply abandoned the truth and
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facts. This is just claims being made against Putin. What's happening. Alicia
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Kens goes on to say, there's no indication of any link to Ukraine nor
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any credible reason to suggest their involvement. Well, I can think of lots
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of reasons to suggest they could be involved, but yes, we do need
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to see the absolute facts of what's happened. And of course the Americans going
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the other way, so they're saying that they strongly condemn the heenious terrorist attacks
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in Moscow. We extend our deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones and
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to those who were injured or a fair by these unconscionable attacks against innocent civilians.
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Isis is a common terrorist enemy that must be defeated everywhere there that should
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be. There is no indication of any link to Ukraine nor any credible reason
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to suggest their involvement. Well, of course, the Americans haven't come up
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with any evidence themselves, but they are desperate to make sure that it's Ice
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is K, the Afghanistan version which is blamed for this attack, and the
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Americans keen to steer anything away from Ukraine, even though it does appear that
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those terrorists were trying to reach the safe haven of Ukraine when they were caught
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by Russian authorities. And I'm just going to play this little bit of video
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on screen. This is a little girl in Gaza. You can see the
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distress on this young lady's face. Words there are no words for what's going
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on at the moment in the world. But as I say a few moments
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ago, the key thing is that in the West, in UK we appear
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to have very very few politicians prepared to stand up and actually call for peace
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and to put an end to this massive and escalating bloodshed. So when viewers
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ask us what should they be doing, we will say, once again you
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should be on the back of your MPs asking why they are pushing for war
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and why they're not pushing for peace. Will break onto the new subject of
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child abuse in Scotland, and we have a guest today, Professor excuse me,
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Professor Diane Rasmuson mcaddie, who's going to give us an update on what's
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been happening around the for Nethi women. Just to put this image up on
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screen and this shows some of the women outside Glasgow Council with the banner release
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our records and then for Nei Nightmare. Now we've got a second image here
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which has actually called Professor Rasbuson McCatty herself with the for Nefi women and Diane.
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I'd like to welcome you on to UK column today where you're going to
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give us a little update as to what's been happening. Welcome, Thanks Brian,
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it's great to be here. Yeah, thanks very much for this.
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Those two photos were taken just last week at the meeting of the petition's committee.
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I will add that the first photo that you showed from outside because although
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we requested mainstream media sources to come and cover the story and reader press really
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is and make a statement, about twenty minutes before they were supposed to be
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there, they phoned and had last minute step absences and suddenly could not be
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coming to cover this important event. So I did what I could, So
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thanks. Thanks for showing that. Okay, yeah, Diane, sorry,
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just to come back in. I was going to say, we have several
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little film clips here. The first one is actually the Deputy First Minister from
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Scotland talking at the committee meeting. I was going to say, let's just
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watch this first clip to hear what she has to say, and then we'll
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bring you back in for a critique. The executive summary headline findings it just
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to summarize why the girls were sent for Nettie. The findings where that primary
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school girls from Glasgow were sent to convalescence after an illness and or so that
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they might benefit from what was termed a recuperative holiday. The school was one
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of a number of schemes of residential education which was aimed at improving the health
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of pupils. In terms of who sent them, it was head teachers and
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school medical staff could put forward girls that they thought might benefit from a stay.
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However, it was the school or prince medical officer who took the final
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decision. And even then on the girls whose parents are guarding a gritum going
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and who passed to medical examinations were allowed to go. Well, there we
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are. That was the key. Lady Robertson speaking, how do you feel
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about what she said, Diane, Well, just in those few seconds,
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there were a number of inaccuracies. First of all, there was one scheme
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of residential education which was set up by what was then Glasgow Corporation back in
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nineteen forty five, which was set up post war as an experiment within the
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city of Glasgow to see what would happen when different children were sent away for
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whatever amount of time. And there were a number of classifications that they assigned
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to these children. One happened to be convalescent, which if you actually look
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at what happened over time, the excuse was that they were sent for a
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recouperative holiday, as she said, but actually if you actually speak to the
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women, most of them were not unwell. They were sent there. In
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other paperwork it said it was because they were from deprived backgrounds, poor socionomic
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status, children with the parents of alcoholics, et cetera. Some said they
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came from perfectly fine backgrounds. So it's still a bit of a mystery as
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to why they were actually sent there. And the coercion is a really important
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thing because we see, as you'll see in some of the debates about in
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local parentice, which essentially meant that the parents really did not have a choice
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as to whether they were sent because there's legislation at the time that said in
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Scotland that children could be taken away from the custody of their parents and put
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into the custody of the state if the state decided that for whatever reason,
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the parents weren't fit to keep their children in the house. So there are
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a number of inaccuracies to here just in these first couple of seconds, which
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is from the opening statement. And I think we have some more that we
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can show as well. Yes, indeed we can say that if the girls
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weren't ill before they went to for neessy many any of them were afterwards as
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a result of the treatment. Let's say a little bit more about the records.
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It should be noted though, that for NETTI is not unique in having
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no surviving log books in terms of the records information for METI. That for
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NETTI that Glasgow City Council holds basically what doctor Foss found is it Glasgow City
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Council holds no school records for for NETI. The City Archives holds various series
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of Council Education Committee minutes, papers, reports and handbooks at talk of for
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Nehi and other schools in the schemes, but no individual records. In terms
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of what action Glasgow City Council has taken to find existing records, they have
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run their own internal searches and response to fy and subject access requests, and
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of course doctor Fosse and Diana McCardy had access to records in the archives,
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and Glasgow's chief archivists themselves has also carried out proactive searches for information on for
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Nathy. So I hope, convenor that gives you a sense of what the
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remat was and what the kind of key findings that have been found are.
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So, Diane, I'm sure you've got something to say on that. Of
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course, she dropped your professional title as one comment, which we should note,
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yes, that is something that Sean Robinson did herself, but the other
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MSPs who spoke with her did not. My title is actually a professor,
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which only ten percent of academics in the UK are assigning that title. Eventually,
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doctor Fassi got her title throughout and it was something that the women picked
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up on, especially in terms of the other idem that she mentioned with regarding
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records First of all, there are statues within Glasgow, and I was assumed
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without all of Scotland that said that there were limitations on when records could be
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released because of data protection issues. For example, pupil records were destroyed within
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five years at the latest from when children left school, which means that there
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are no records for anyone in Scotland if we were going by that particular legislation,
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regardless of the nature of the school that they were in. Logbooks are
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closed for fifty years, admissions registers are closed for seventy five years, and
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so it's pretty clear to me that these are just excuses because this is the
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legislation. The records wouldn't be in the archives, the records that she spoke
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of in terms of personal records or pupil records or teacher records, because archives
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in the Glasgow City Council. I know because I spent a lot of time
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there have things like committee minutes, committee reports, education committee handbooks which I've
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gone through great detail. But it wouldn't make any sense anyway to find personal
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records. And so regardless of the researcher that she put into place, those
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records wouldn't be found so that that is quite an unacceptable excuse on Shada Robson's
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part. Okay, thank you for that. Well, we can reinforce your
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comment there if we have a look at this clip. There were members of
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the Scottish Parliament that spoke up for the Finefi women. Let's have a listen
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to what Oliver Mundle had to say in response to the Deputy First Minister other
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than you've got supplemented to my question. Yeah, I'm just quite I mean,
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I'm to be honest appolled by that answer because I think it I understand
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why the report was commissioned, but I don't think it's consistent with what the
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previous Deputy First Minister and then Education Secretary said as a bill went through Parliament.
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I was on and off that committee through that time. But he acknowledged
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that that wouldn't be He said unlikely that documentary evidence would be available in every
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circumstance. He didn't talk about certainty. He talked about on the balance of
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probabilities. He offered repeat reassurance, reassurances that people would be believed that the
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principle would be that where survivors came forward and they offered testimony that would be
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taken as fact, not that it would be questioned. And the second thing
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I find pretty hard to swallow, given it was discussed through the passage of
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the bill, is this relationship that's been presented between parents and the local authority.
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It's not true. It is not true, it is not factually correct,
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and it's still not correct to this day. Local authorities, through social
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work through education, wield a huge amount of authority over families, where they
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suggest things and direct things, vulnerable families feel under pressure to accept them.
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It is not a relationship of equals and I think it is wrong to categorize
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the relationship in that way. Well, some pretty direct criticism there because he's
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effectively saying it's not true what's been put forward by the first minister, or
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that's how I take it. And of course the other thing is he said,
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at the end of the day, what's important is that people are believed.
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So Diane good to see that he was really prepared to stand up and
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be counted in his support for the finethe women. Absolutely, there are several
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MSPs that have been in their corner, starting with Colin Smith MSP from South
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of Scotland, who has kind of led the campaign through Scottish Parliament all the
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way. Another one that you'll see as Fergus Ewing, who is kind of
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become his SMP, but he's kind of left the sort of ranks of the
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S and P in recent years. He also spoke out widely in favor of
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the women and so this is coming from labor, from SMP and from Conservatives.
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So I can see that even though you know there's a pental action coming
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up of course this year and next year in Scottish Parliament, I think that
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I'm very, very proud to say that we do have some very strong political
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support on the side of the finepe ladies and I hope that we can all
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reach out and thank them and continue to do the winter work they're doing for
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them. Okay, thank you for that. And the last clip, which
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really pushes the whole thing home, is sort of a Mundle again, but
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he's talking about really the application process versus the evidence, which is the women
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themselves and the numbers two hundred at the moment in the group, but possibly
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thousands of women abused over the timescale that FINETI was operating. Let's listen to
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this last section, but in order for an application to be brought in front
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of Redress Scotland, evidence is required, so there has to be records showing
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doesn't have to be records. I know that from my own constituents. What
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you have to proof is on the balance of probabilities, something was more likely
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to have happened than not. And you know, I am aware of payments
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being made to people who haven't been able to find records, but have been
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able to put other circumstantial evidence together to support an application. And in this
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case, you know, we've got a great many people from from various parts
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of Scotland, you know, particularly in the Glasgo area, who are able
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to corroborate and confirm that the experiences other people are talking about are the same.
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As there's that starts to look to me like something that would meet that
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test. You are certainly that should get far enough through the process that Redressed
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Scotland could could make an analysis of the evidence. But because of the individual
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nature of the applications going forward, when we're not looking at that collective picture,
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and that to me isn't consistent with what the with with what your predecessor
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said when he recognized that this was a gray area, that these issues were
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very difficult and that they would have to be looked at in detail. But
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if they can even be looked at in detail, how do you work out
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whether or not it meets the balance of probabilities to an excellent summing up?
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I think by that, gentlemen, just to finish the segment, Diane,
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that meeting didn't reach a positive inclusion for the finette women, where do you
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see the whole thing going? Now? It will be reviewed again in the
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petition's committee, and I guess about three weeks from now. I believe it's
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the seventeenth of April. The committee will consider the evidence in private and at
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that next meeting we'll hopefully find out where it could go. It could go
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to full parliamentary debate. I have a feeling I wasn't so positive at all
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leaving the meeting because mostly all I could hear was John Robinson's side, and
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it was very stressful for me and for the survivors to hear it in the
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room. But after watching this video several times, I'm hoping that if we
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can encourage the other MSPs to continue to consider the evidence that I've submitted,
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which I believe is much more, tell them much more accurate than the official
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independent so called report that was submitted and paid for it by the Scottish government,
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that we can make some positive changes and really the petition is only for
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the women to be able to apply for the scheme resid of redress. Sorry
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not to get it, but the fact that they're being told by Sean Robinson
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that they're not even allowed to apply, making these assumptions that are incorrect about
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what records are needed just for an application is completely unacceptable in my opinion.
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So please fingers pross for all of the women as we go forward into this
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next month. Thank you, okay, Jan, thank you very much for
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that report. You will be staying with us for UK Column Extra and we
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will discuss the for Nefe case in more detail, and details of previous UK
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Column articles will go up in today's show notes. Alex. Let's bring you
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back with us and the subject is transgender children in France. Heartily recommend people
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read very carefully Professor mcaddie's piece, which is up in pride of place on
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the UK column dot org website at the moment. Long detailed and full of
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primary sources, will be hard to rebut so in France they were about to
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copy the National Health Service of Britain, which last month decided that you couldn't
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prescribe puberty blockers to the underage. And then this happened, as carried by
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the Daily Telegraph. Sex reassignment in minors maybe medical history's greatest ethical scandal.
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French reports says, and this is a report by a block of eighteen senators
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from the party which leads the billing in the upper house of the French Parliament,
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the Republicans. They're not the governing party, but they are the most
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important party in the Senate LR for short. And they have now as also
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covered now by French Genetique, described in great detail. Can follow the show
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notes to this and use and auto translate to find out more detail. They
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have really pleaded for the process of transgendering a minor to be unlawful. Here
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are the two reports in question. For those who read French and or can
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use auto translate, this will be in the subtype in the show notes as
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well, so it's something like a large minority report in the French Senate trans
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identification of Minors, dated March twenty twenty four, and also the conclusions and
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recommendations of that document. From the recommendations we find this, I won't read
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them all, but they're talking about anti a deer a lot so prohibiting.
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They want prohibiting puberty blockers being prescribed. Britain, Sweden, other countries have
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gone down this route to the shock of the trans movement recently, ensuring that
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the States is neutral in the matter. Basically, it's a bit shutting the
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stable door after the horse has bolted. But they're recognizing, as in other
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Western countries, that activists have infiltrated the system, stopping the administration and prescription
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of hormones to all minor citizens. These things, of course, you'd expect
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to be required de reguer in any serious Western country, but not anymore.
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The second part of their recommendations is in the domain of administration and education,
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and here they're demanding that national education authorities and civil servants respect the actual sex
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of children, not have these games that are played across the West now where
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the child comes to school, swaps clothing and SWAP's name, and it's all
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secret. So it's something that could be watched in times to come. Because
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this could potentially get through the French Senate Okay, thank you very much for
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that. Now where does that take us? I think this brings us into
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the World Health Organization and let's welcome Mark Anderson on screen. Good day everyone.
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The World Health Organization this past Thursday, the twenty first of March,
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how they press conference and in real time virtually, So that's an actual original
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photo of our friend Taedrose, the Director General there, and they were kindly
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enough to provide a transcript via email. So moving on from there, I
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can kind of outline and summarize this. They had different sections on the pandemic
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treaty, a little bit on the international health regulations, and a bit on
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Gaza and Haiti and who responses to those crises. Anyway, On the pandemic
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part, Taedrose had this to say, whose member states are meeting to negotiate
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and historic, legally binding agreement to protect future generations from the impact of pandemics.
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Moving on from there, he also added there's much agreement, he claimed,
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between the member states and the objectives of the agreement. Now they need
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to agree on how to achieve those objectives. But what I picked up on
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guys and our lady guest was that things aren't quite as stable, and they're
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not moving along quite as well as he'd like people to believe. You could
29:04
sense that in the way they answered questions and they avoided my raised hand through
29:11
the virtual system. I've tried to ask questions that several of their press conferences,
29:15
and I still haven't been called on yet. I won't take it personally
29:18
anyway. Tadros also said this. There's one more quote from him. Areas
29:23
of disagreement remain, but there is still enough time for countries to find common
29:29
ground and finalize a strong agreement in time for the World Health Assembly in nine
29:33
weeks. It's doable. However, if we keep going, we detect a
29:40
little bit of a little bit more of a tentative attitude about how things are
29:45
going. Robin Millard of AFP, not to be confused with the AFP I've
29:52
worked for, did get a question in It was a lot like the question
29:56
I wanted to ask, and the question was asked follows on the pandemic I
30:00
make accord negotiations. The letter from dozens of former world leaders get that suggests
30:06
that there is a concern that this treaty might not get done. What are
30:11
the key sticking points that remain I wanted to ask that too, what needs
30:15
to happen to get this over the line, and who needs the budget?
30:18
Thank you? And from there we get the answer from doctor Juad Major,
30:25
head of the Secretariat to both the inner governmental negotiating body that's working on the
30:30
treaty and the IHR, which is the International Health Regulations. He said,
30:37
and these are very general things. This was his reply to the reporter.
30:41
Prevention is extremely important for a pandemic preparedness and response, no kidding. Negotiators
30:48
agreed on importance of research and development, which is again very generic and very
30:53
milk toast. His third answer, or third part of his answer. They
30:57
agreed the Negotia siators on the treaty on the importance of having a global supply
31:03
chain to provide all the signatory countries with what they'd need for pandemic response,
31:08
which again seems like no achievement at all. That's a very easy thing to
31:12
agree on. And the fourth part of his answer to the reporter, we're
31:17
now discussing how to implement these things, although some issues are tougher to resolve
31:22
than others, so they kept giving very general kind of brush off answers,
31:29
and this reporter here was not the only one that asked that kind of question.
31:33
I wanted to do it. Robin Millard did, and there was another
31:37
reporter, and we kept getting these very general, almost brush off again kind
31:41
of replies. So things don't seem to be going quite as smoothly as the
31:47
WHO would like to. Who would like excuse me for them to approve the
31:52
treaty as they had planned at the seventy seventh World Health Assembly in Geneva,
31:56
and they're trying to achieve that treaty May twenty fourth. Anyway, to give
32:00
the WHO a little credit where credits due, they did give a brief report
32:04
on Gaza a bit on Haiti. They said only half of Haiti's health facilities
32:09
are functioning hospitals and whatnot. But on Gaza they did make some important revelations.
32:15
WHO and our partners have been conducting high risk missions to deliver medicines,
32:21
fuel, and food for health workers and their patients, and the Israeli authorities
32:27
keep getting in the way. WHO said they're particularly concerned about military operations inside
32:31
and around Al Shifa Hospital and Gaza City. Accessing Al Shifa is now impossible,
32:37
and there are reports of health workers being arrested and detained by Israeli forces
32:43
once again. WHO said, we asked Israel to be more open about crossings,
32:46
that is, roadways and transportation, and accelerate the entry and delivery of
32:52
water, food, medicine, and medical supplies. And they've been trying to
32:55
set up nutrition centers for children in hospitals. WHO did provide some helpful information
33:01
on that all important issue. And moving on from there, I believe that
33:08
might wrap it up for today. But there is one other breaking item.
33:14
I want to make sure I get this in and I just got this from
33:19
James Reguski, the noted WHO watchdog. His blog, of course, is
33:24
James Reguski dot substack dot com. I've got my desktop on it creates a
33:29
little more light. But anyway, on this past Friday, the House of
33:35
Representatives in the US, according to the Sovereignty Coalition, voted on a one
33:38
point two trillion dollar bill that included full funding for the WHO and allegedly no
33:45
requirement that the Senate consider the two treaties expected to be finalized and approved sixty
33:52
four days from now. By two treaties, I suspect that means the IHR
33:55
as well as the actual treaty. But anyway, the Sovereignty Coalition is saying
34:00
all hands on deck and there's a ZOOM meeting tonight at eight pm Eastern US
34:05
time. I'm gonna go ahead and take part on that in that and report
34:09
on that next week. Guys and those that want to take part in the
34:14
UK, it would be one in the morning if you want to be on
34:16
the live Zoom call, but for the show notes, I'll go ahead and
34:20
send in the link if that would be okay. If anyone anywhere in the
34:23
world wants to dial in on this Zoom meeting tonight about what's going on with
34:29
US funding of the WHO and the threats to sovereignty that the Who's Pandemic Treaty
34:37
poses. So that's a very important breaking item here from James Ruguski. And
34:44
that's about it guys for now. Okay, Mark, thank you very much
34:47
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Tomorrow should be of course, the twenty sixth of March. We've got
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one o'clock in order to listen into that. Now, what can we say
36:15
about UK and many other so called sovereign states in the world. It's very
36:21
hard to imagine that the UK government is running the country, or indeed the
36:25
national governments and many other European countries because we have so many think tanks operating
36:32
in the background. And I just want to say thank you to one of
36:37
UK columns very very long term supporters, viewers and researchers, Kate, who
36:44
sent me in some information over the weekend flagging up the Aspen Institute busy at
36:51
work in Ukraine. And the point being made was, for most people,
36:55
this is a totally unaccountable think tank which is up to I was going to
37:02
say, no, good. Well, of course we can't say that because
37:05
we have no idea really what they're doing. But they are certainly not accountable
37:09
to the voting public. So where do they link in? Well, the
37:15
link of the Aspen Institute led us through to a number of things, but
37:21
the Carlily Foundation came up fairly quickly. This forms global partnerships with the Commonwealth,
37:28
UNESCO, the Prince's Trust and the Aspen Institute that we've just mentioned,
37:35
And if we put up some detail here, it says that the Khalii Foundation
37:38
and the Prince's Trust, through the Mosaic Initiative, have launched an exciting new
37:45
social integration and youth leadership project LOOP Youth and the subject of youth and using
37:52
youth is a very common thing for these think tanks. It says the partnership
37:55
begins with a year long pilot program which will enable young people in young professionals
38:00
to co design and co delivered training and princes trust program Activity goes on to
38:07
talk more about the Mosaic initiative and it says it's serving to help young people
38:12
and young professionals to lead dialogue and discussion around global citizenship. So now we
38:17
see the meat of the thing. This is bringing in the idea of global
38:22
governance and global citizenship. But if we have a little bit look in a
38:27
little bit more depth. For the Khali Foundation, we've got this designing for
38:31
diversity cities and communities and this is the main gentleman concerned now that if we
38:38
pop the next one on screen, thank you. So we've got Professor Nazier
38:45
Kalily is a world renowned scholar, collector, and philanthropist. His mission is
38:49
to use the power of art and education to foster peace and unity worldwide.
38:53
This is all very well, but I personally don't really understand his values or
38:59
what he's trying to do. But I do know he's very influential and powerful
39:02
individual and here we see him with the right Honorable Patricia Scotland, who's the
39:12
Secondary General of the Commonwealth. We can bring that up on screen there,
39:15
thank you, and they are working together for a festival. This is what's
39:22
being promoted with this image, peace building through faith, round table discussions aimed
39:27
at identifying key focus areas and brainstorming solutions to today's most urgent challenges. So
39:35
let's have a look at a little piece of video to reinforce the good works
39:39
of these individuals and young people are the cornerstone of everything we intend to do.
39:49
Literally capsulate fifty years of my vision. I always said to myself that
39:55
every human being is born as a human being. First, everything is that's
40:01
given to you. Colored, religion, race, you didn't choose, you
40:07
were given, so that unity brings all of us together as a human being.
40:12
So it was my dream, Bundy, to look at all the differences,
40:17
build on the differences with the proper answers and bring them forge them.
40:24
So the point that I'm making is that this gentleman's dream is the power that's
40:29
coming into the Commonwealth to interface with all of the children within the Commonwealth worldwide,
40:36
and it's proper solutions, but what are those solutions and does the voting
40:40
public know, And of course we don't, So it's the power of of
40:46
these organizations behind the scenes. We don't really know what they're up to,
40:51
but we just get glimpses. Let's choose another one, the Franco British Council.
40:55
We've mentioned them before because they were working with the British government in order
41:00
to introduce supplied political psychology and that was a very big program. But again
41:07
we see that they are after local leaders and they're particularly targeting young people and
41:14
bringing them through a training process which is going to align them with both French
41:19
and British policy. But if we get into the Franco British Council, I
41:22
was alerted to the fact that at the end of last year, towards the
41:27
end of last year, they had another defense conference and decisions were being made
41:34
here and discussions were taking place which the British public was simply not privy to,
41:39
not least because they were holding the meetings under the Chatham House rules.
41:45
So here's some of the rules on screen. But of course, many glasses
41:50
of wine or champagne being drunk to help the deliberations, and we can also
41:55
see the support of major companies. We've the Ministry of Defense there, but
42:00
we've got MBDA missile systems and air Bus as well as the French military.
42:07
And if we move on one, of course we've got our very own grant
42:10
Chaps who was there. But remember that the discussions, apart from the main
42:15
headlines, were being held under Chathamhouse Rules and not Privy for the British public.
42:21
Here's Lord Peter Ricketts who was actually the chair of the organization, and
42:27
if we have a look at him we can see that he was the UK's
42:30
first National Security Advisor twenty ten twenty twelve. We're not too sure exactly what
42:37
he was doing in these meetings, but this is the whole point. Who
42:40
is making policy. We just leave you with the last comment on the Chatham
42:46
House Rules because it says here that local leaders are expected to abide by it
42:52
and strict implementation of the rule is crucial to its effectiveness. And lastly,
42:59
you should be respectful to guests and speakers, are mindful of the fact that
43:04
they've agreed to give their time. So at that point I think we've just
43:09
about covered it. But essentially we're saying, what is it that's enabling these
43:15
organizations to dictate policy both to the UK's national government but also to the French.
43:23
And when Macron suggested French troops on the ground in Ukraine, was that
43:29
as a result of a pre agreement with the British through the Franco British Council.
43:35
Alex, I've thrown a lot of questions into that little segment, but
43:37
I think there's a lot of things we need to ask. Well, Brian,
43:43
It's interesting you mentioned that because both the Harbek speech, the German Vice
43:46
Chancellor and the Macron announcement prompted our very keen regular viewer Terry Boordman, the
43:52
noted author and speaker, to message me the other day and say this very
43:58
much puts me in mind of Earl Gray speech of the third of August nineteen
44:01
fourteen, the most deceptive speech perhaps ever delivered to Parliament, saying Britain doesn't
44:06
want a world war. And then, as it were, behind his hat,
44:08
but we've already told the French that our navies in play for the coming
44:13
World war, and of course we were already eight years into negotiations with Belgium
44:15
then, while Belgium was pretending to Germany still to be a neutral country.
44:21
So lots of discussion there more in extra time if we can fit it in
44:23
about the deep state, because The New York Times has come up with a
44:27
puff peace commission from freelancers saying isn't the deep state wonderful? Nothing to worry
44:31
about? Those who were listening to Mark Anderson regarding this evening's zoom call,
44:37
this is one of the few weeks of the year where due to misalignment of
44:39
daylight savings time, it will only be midnight start, not a one am
44:44
start for those following from Britain, so perhaps a few more will be able
44:46
to join because of that. So with two Americans as guests today, one
44:52
of whom is half Canadian, this may interest the Toronto Globe and Mail,
44:55
one of the most important papers in the whole English speaking world. One of
45:00
its heavy hitters, Lawrence Martin, writing an opinion piece telling us that excessive
45:05
free speech, which of course south of the border from the Canadian perspective,
45:08
is a thing because of the First Amendment, that excessive free speech is a
45:13
breeding ground for more trumps. Mister Martin says, would the rise of the
45:16
hard right and mister Trump have been possible if the Internet had been given guard
45:21
rails, not a chance. The Internet undermined the established newspaper business model.
45:25
We hear him shriek, greatly reducing the number of papers and coverage and creating
45:30
a void. Oh dear, So it's actually something to do with the legacy
45:35
media. To be fair to mister Martin, he's not an extremist in legacy
45:39
media terms. He does say in this very opinion piece that Bill six C
45:43
sixty three, which is life in prison and for hate speech, may be
45:46
pushing it a bit too far. But if you look at his biography,
45:50
you will see that he's been based in Washington for years for Canada's leading newspaper
45:53
title, and that he is a recipient of many awards, including Master University's
45:58
Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award. So he's not a minor figure. There. We
46:02
see what's coming true North a fairly middle of the road, a Canadian outlet
46:08
is reporting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is going to spend eight point four million
46:13
Canadian dollars on research in the South, the global South, the third world
46:16
we used to call it. To understand quote how climate change interacts with democratic
46:21
decline, so the poor, dark skinned people of the world do not get
46:25
to choose their leaders freely and fairly because of climate change, it would seem.
46:30
Finally, in this mini Canadian segment, the National Post is reporting that
46:34
a secret report by the Mounts the RCMP, Canada's federal release this was a
46:38
five year hold of government review of threat horizon for Canada, says that Canadians
46:44
may revolt once they realize how broke they are, that under thirty fives will
46:47
never be able to buy a place to live in in Canada because the house
46:52
price is there even worse than the US and Europe. It's secret, but
46:55
it's a heavily redacted version was eked out through freedom of information, and ironically,
47:02
it says and will be more of There'll be more about this kind of
47:05
irony from Germany shortly. The reports, particularly heavily redacted sections, included one
47:10
carrying subtitled erosion of trust. Well, think of what we were just reading
47:15
in the opinion piece from the Globe and Mail. It's the plb's fault,
47:17
but apparently it's also the government's fault. Paranoid populism on the right Alex,
47:23
thank you very much for that. It gets crazy, doesn't it. Climate
47:28
change effects democracy. Well, the other group that the Global Governance Team is
47:32
worried about vaccine hesitant people and Mark, welcome back. Tell us what's happening
47:40
and how AI is going to be used to predict vaccine hesitancy. Thanks Brian.
47:49
Yeah, this is from the defender of the Children's Health Defense. Of
47:52
course, that's Robert f. R. Fk Jr. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
47:58
And AI is, of course worming its way into everything. I'll mention
48:01
the border in a minute, the southern border. But here we have from
48:06
the defender. The whole thing smacks of a brave new world. New AI
48:09
tool predicts vaccine hesitancy and we'll go from there. As this article notes,
48:17
a team of researchers and it's connected to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio has
48:22
developed a powerful new tool and artificial intelligence that can predict if someone is or
48:29
isn't likely to get a COVID nineteen vaccine or something like it. According to
48:35
the University of Cincinnati, the new AI tool quote uses a small set of
48:39
data from demographics and personal judgments such as aversion to risk or loss, end
48:45
quote to identify, quote reward, and aversion judgment patterns. Those kind of
48:52
patterns in humans that may help explain one's willingness or unwillingness to get vaccinated.
48:58
The researchers presented their findings in a study published recently in the Journal of Medical
49:04
Internet Research, Public Health, and Surveillance. The studies findings could have broad
49:08
applications for predicting mental health and result in more effective public health campaigns. The
49:15
university said. Now, someone from the Defender had a reply to that.
49:21
This is Brian Hooker, PhD. He's the Children's Health Defense Senior director of
49:27
Science and Research. He said the following. The whole implication here is that
49:30
nonconformity to the government propaganda machine standard of care makes someone makes one some type
49:38
of mental case or extreme outlier. And mister Hooker also had this to say.
49:45
In addition, he said, going back, the whole thing smacks of
49:49
a brave new world where a potentially non compliant individuals, where such individuals are
49:54
targeted with messaging based on fear and irrationality. So this is a relatively brief
50:00
report for today, but it's providing some insight on where AI is going.
50:07
Of course, it's going way too many places, way too fast. As
50:10
we've talked about recently in the Montana case, the fraud regarding Google's AI products
50:16
Gemini Montana is already raising the specter of suing Google because the Gemini product had
50:24
the wrong input, therefore it would give the wrong answers when asked. So
50:30
AI is only as good as the data put in in terms of the data
50:34
coming out. And then this other headline, I'll just brief briefly mention I
50:38
need not go into detail. This requires more research. But the Department of
50:43
Homeland Security, that wonderful post nine to eleven agency in the US government,
50:46
has announced the following and this is very recent. Department of Homeland Security unveils
50:52
AI roadmap and announces pilot projects to maximize the benefits of technology and advance the
50:58
homeland security. And we'll get into more details on that in another time,
51:04
guys. But it just shows how AI is being used in a really kind
51:08
of a very unregulated and careless manner, and it's threatening of course, medical
51:14
choice, which is also an issue with the WHO treaty that I talked about
51:17
today, and how that might affect sovereignty and individual medical choice. So back
51:22
to you, Brian. Okay, well it guts have a more bizarre Thank
51:27
you very much, Mark Alex. Where do we go with you? Well,
51:31
I suspect that Professor Mcatty will have something to say about this in extra
51:36
time the segment we've just heard being an information specialist. But we go to
51:38
Germany where another COVID leak has hit the big time. Professor Stefan Homburg,
51:44
a government advisor and a noted financial academic from Hanover who has endured a lot
51:51
of iron and flat through the COVID times from his government, is one of
51:54
the people who's tweeted this in English, so giving it a cover story for
51:59
us that the RKI files out. That's the Robert Cock Institute, German is
52:02
leading public health body equivalents to in some cases the CDC in its role in
52:08
Germany. Or it sounds like a charity, but it's the RKI really is
52:13
the heart of the German government in public health. And he brings out the
52:16
two highlights of this massive data leak, although this redactions in it, which
52:20
is one is that high health risk was not derived from data, but it
52:22
was a political decision and by the way, a federal decision in what is
52:25
supposed to be a competence for the individual states in Germany. And secondly,
52:30
herd immunity was a mere narrative. It was dropped, as the documents show,
52:35
once the JAB came along in the start of twenty twenty one. Multipolar
52:38
again USEDI legislation and a subsequent lawsuit. A lesson for us in there,
52:44
if you don't get everything you want through FI, then sue for more,
52:47
and he says that they're very important for English speaking countries too. In particular
52:52
this slide which he shared from the data dump. The bottom of it shows
52:58
that this is from the SIK steenth of March twenty twenty, when the whole
53:02
world, including Germany, was saying COVID was not a great shake in health
53:07
terms for humans. They're saying here that the risk evaluation, which in other
53:10
words, cranking it up to high health risk to humans, will be published
53:14
as soon as censored gives the signal. And that's probably the then Health Minister
53:19
Yence Spahn, the predecessor of mister Lauterbach, the even more of the one.
53:22
In my opinion, this is very ironic. Even what I was saying
53:27
earlier the section on communication completely blank. We only know that the BZgA,
53:31
which is the Federal Health Information Agency, was going to do a lot of
53:35
communication. Where's the British connection, Well, here it is. Eugipius comes
53:38
up to our top again, as he often does. This will all be
53:42
in the show notes. He says that on this very day, the sixteenth
53:45
of March, when you saw that mister Blank was going to say, it's
53:47
suddenly a high health risk to humans, guys, that very day Neil Ferguson
53:52
and his Imperial College team in Britain had just posted their notorious paper calling for
53:57
rolling lockdowns. So it's not a testing that Brittain steered Germany here, but
54:00
somebody steered them both. I would suggest I've viewers emailed just to round off
54:06
on Germany, asking in very erudyite terms, whether we're aware, and yes
54:09
I am, that Germany doesn't even have a constitution. I won't read the
54:13
whole text, but yes, what they do have is a basic law at
54:15
ground Gazette's and the allies we in Britain, the Britain, France and the
54:21
USA are responsible for that. We broke our promise and Germany has this very
54:24
terroristic organization that goes down, goes around, battering doors down now in the
54:29
name of constitution protection. They don't even have a constitution. Okay, Alex,
54:35
thank you very much. Constitutional Issues. Mark. That brings you straight
54:39
back in, I think with the Missing Constitutional Right. Yes, last week
54:46
I also covered another event in real time virtually online, and I reported about
54:52
it in advance. Last week, you might recall the Missing Constitutional Right.
54:57
At the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University in its Washington, d
55:00
C. Branch, Richard L. Hassen spoke. He was moderated by Wilfred
55:06
Codrington the third and it was an interesting, if not kind of puzzling presentation.
55:12
It need only be a brief report today. Here's a picture of the
55:15
two presenters, mainly mister Hassen on the right. He's a political science professor
55:21
at UCLA, which is in California. We'll move on from there. He
55:25
had this to say, and he's talking about the US system. Of course,
55:30
we have this highly decentralized election system. I'm advocating for a movement to
55:37
assure voting rights. Democracy isn't going to protect itself anyway. He has a
55:40
book out he wants to enshrine voting rights in the national Constitution of the United
55:45
States. There are a number of problems with that. I believe we have
55:50
another quote from him, if I'm not mistaken, Well, I'm not sure
55:54
what we do actually, perhaps not. Yeah, anyway, I'll just add
56:00
this. He went into this whole spiel about how we need to have voting
56:06
rights enshrine in the Constitution, and he's kind of impatient with the decentralized manner
56:12
of the US election system. But he overlooked the fact very important things he
56:19
believed. For instance, the seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a good thing.
56:22
What that did was provide in the year nineteen thirteen, that's the change.
56:30
When the change was made, the seventeenth Amendment was adopted, and it
56:32
provided for the direct election of US senators. But what mister Hassen't failed to
56:37
talk about was that the US Constitution was set up so the individual states would
56:43
appoint US senators, so state rights and state input would have higher standing in
56:49
the constitutional order. The popular election of US senators has actually been largely a
56:54
very bad thing. It's made senators lifelong in their their seats. Many of
57:00
the senior senators have been there forever Charles Schumer of New York and whatnot.
57:05
It becomes a virtual polet bureau in the upper Chamber in Washington, and Senate
57:10
races, which are statewide for US Senate have become extremely expensive, a lot
57:16
of influence peddling, and by and large, states rights were then suppressed within
57:22
the constitutional order. So the seventeenth Amendment, which mister Hassen totally ignored,
57:27
has been largely a boondoggle and not a good thing. He also talked as
57:31
if the Constitution is full of these huge problems Brian and that rights for voting
57:37
are not really recognized. But then he went ahead and mentioned that the fifteenth
57:42
Amendment to the Constitution in the year eighteen seventy that gave African American men the
57:47
right to vote. In nineteen twenty, the nineteenth Amendment gave women the right
57:52
to vote. So that's two amendments, and another amendment to the Constitution of
57:55
the twenty sixth Amendment in nineteen seventy one lowered the age of voting from twenty
58:00
one to eighteen. So actually it kind of contradicted his own argument as he
58:07
named off all these amendments that did expand voting rights. He kept maintaining the
58:12
argument that voting rights still are not properly represented in the US Constitution. But
58:16
anyway to sum it up, he's pushing for this difficult thing, a constitutional
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amendment, which requires two thirds of each House of Congress to approve it and
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three fourths of the states. So it's a very high bar to get any
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constitutional amendment passed. And I talked to Garland Favrito. We're familiar with him.
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I did an interview with him. It's still posted on the UK column
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website. He's from the Georgia group Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia,
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and I asked him his opinion, and he believes that this is just
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a serpentine way of trying to nationalize or federalize elections in the United States,
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in other words, centralized the process more and that would of course get rid
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of the current system which the founders put in place, and that's to have
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the states independently elect the federal government. So this is what's being seen behind
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the scenes, according to mister Fabrido of that Voter GA group. There'll be
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more down the road. This one has some shelf life but I followed through
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and found this guy's arguments to be rather weak. So back to you,
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Brian. Okay, thank you that, Thank you very much for that.
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Mark. Well, let's just end quickly, if we may Alex on the
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subject of wind farms in France. Yes, stop these things is the blog
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that reports this best in English. A top French court strikes down unlawful wind
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farm planning rules. It's actually even retroactive. This is a really powerful finding.
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I will not read all that, but look in the middle there you'll
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find an accurate and very welcome description of the French Council of State. It's
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something that really breaks the separation of powers, but sometimes it has its uses.
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It legally advises the executive and it's the Supreme Court for Administrative Justice,
1:00:01
which means people complaining about their government's actions towards them. And you'll see at
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the top there that there's two Australian rulings that this blog covers as well,
1:00:09
finding the same reason why wind farms are a bad thing and unlawful and unjust,
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namely that the measurement of noise, pollution, annoyance and distress to people
1:00:21
and animals is not properly done the Council of State here. This is described
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in Tischi's Einblick as well, you'll find it in the show notes, and
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the German piece basically struck out all of the noise pollution measurement protocols which the
1:00:36
French state has put in the place basically in the name of a minister,
1:00:38
and has said that this has not been tested properly. There's no comeback on
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it, there's no transparency, and being France, they've decided to go the
1:00:46
whole hog and say that if you build any wind farms from now on they
1:00:51
must be completely assessed for environment, and existing ones now have are found to
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have been based on illegal ministerial decrees. There was no proportionality or transparency,
1:01:01
so normally that in normal circumstances they will be banned from operating existing wind farms
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in a European member state. At European member state. Quite something there we
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are. There's the German Tiki's Einblick giving more detail which I won't read now,
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but it is a violation of the law. That's the key thing that
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the Council of State found. It's not just saying we wish that things were
1:01:22
done better. It's actually telling the government they've done wrong and as read the
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judgment itself, which is of course is in French, will be linked in
1:01:30
the show notes, telling people in governments you cannot get away with any more
1:01:36
wind farms on the basis of these unassessed decrees that the noise annoyance is within
1:01:40
tolerable limits. Alex, thank you very much for that. I'm fascinating report
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because many many years ago, when the wind farms were started to go up
1:01:51
in Cornwall, the UK Column was contacted by a number of people talking about
1:01:55
the noise problem and I found it interesting that when I read the environmental impact
1:02:00
reports such as there were at that stage, they were extremely weak on noise.
1:02:07
And my own experience in noise in the Royal Navy underwater noise but many
1:02:16
of the tributes are exactly the same told me that a lot more work was
1:02:22
needed in order to be able to be sure that there weren't noise problems associated
1:02:28
between particularly low frequency noise associated with the actual turbine blades rotating themselves as opposed
1:02:36
to the gearbox noise. But maybe more on that another time, Alex enders
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very quickly. You've got a couple of memes which we thought were worth showing
1:02:45
the audience today. Apologies that I don't know the source of this US cartoon,
1:02:51
but you can see America on fire, with crumbling infrastructure, total alcohol
1:02:54
and drug dependence. And there is wizard old senile Uncle Joe telling America's kids
1:03:00
that democracy is in danger, and he's holding up a hand puppet of Trump
1:03:04
as the devil incarnate. Well, apparently there's nothing to see wrong with the
1:03:07
current administration. We have a German meme here. Somebody is being swat raided
1:03:14
for some free speech in Germany and they're being yelled at the door to open
1:03:19
up its democracy calling. And finally, it's not even a comedy piece,
1:03:22
but it's certainly got something sweet about it. Glasgow City Council, much featured
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in today's news, is having a mutiny against its own low emission zone.
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Because it being Glasgow, people do as they please. They don't say shy
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away from authority figures. So many of the council's own workers, which is
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a huge number of people in Glasgow, are saying I am not paying these
1:03:44
penalties, so the council may be hoisted by its own petard. There what
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a world clown world. I think many people are starting to call it,
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but it's clown word. Some very darker tributes in the background. I'm going
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to thank you all, Alex and Mark and also Professor Rasmusmmagaddi. Thank you
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very much for joining us for the news. As I said, we will
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be talking about for Nehi in extra time, so if you're a member of
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UK column, join us. Then thank you to all the viewers and listeners
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who've come in today, wherever you are in the world. Bye bye,