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UK Column News Podcast 8th July 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the eighth of July twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. Your host today Mike
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Robinson and myself Brian Gerrish. We're delighted to be joined by Mark Anderson and
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Diane Rasmussen mccaddey from Scotland. It's gray and raining here in Plymouth. I
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don't know whether that's connected with the election result. Possibly. What depressing you
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mean? Depressing? Gray, cold, wet, right, Well, well
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let's talk about that for a second and see how depressed we get. So
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here is Keir Starmer. This was said when he was giving his opening speech
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before the weekend, and no change there because we've got the Double Cross behind
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him as usual, so just as long as we understand what the situation is.
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On Saturday morning, then he held a meeting and this apparently is practically
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a unique thing because cabinet meetings never get held on Saturday mornings. The last
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time, I think was for the Falklands War. But anyway, I thought
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we were happy, Mike. Well, yes, the double Cross there as
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well, as you'll see, specially set up for this particular cabinet meeting.
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But I thought we would just listen to a few seconds of his opening sort
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of address to the mission. Afternoon, and thank you very much for coming.
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Yesterday the work of change began. We're a change labor party, and
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yesterday we started the work of changing the country. And as the dust settles
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on Thursday's result, what is becoming clear I think all to see is the
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mood of the nation, of the country, what is expected of us,
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and the mandate that we have to deliver change. It's a mandate not just
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to govern, although it is certainly that, but it's a mandate that has
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put trust in us to change the country and to deliver. And it's a
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mandate to do politics differently. And that change started yesterday as well. So
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I don't know how many times you use the word change in the first forty
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five seconds there, but plenty of times. Plenty of times. So let's
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have a look and see how much is actually changing here. So if we
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bring David Lammy on screen, he's the new Foreign Secretary. This government will
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reconnect Britain to build a better future, he said on Twitter. Great to
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have my first calls today with and I wonder who the first person he was
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speaking to. Well, as Dmitri Kaleba, of course. And I believe
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that Starmer's first call, aside from Biden, if you could have a conversation
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with Biden these days, was to Zelenski. So it's pretty clear what's going
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on there. So that's foreign policy sort of died. So let's have a
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look at defense. And here is our new Defense Secretary, John Healy.
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He was giving address on Friday afternoon to the Armed Forces personnel and MLD civilian
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staff, which is very exciting for them. I'm sure there he is with
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Radigan, our Chief of the Defense Staff, looking good together. But the
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question is is there going to be any change in defense policy. Well,
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this is a statement that John Heally made to the House of Commons just before
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the Election's w speak of the share of Foreign Secretary. And I had one
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simple message on our visit, and that is the uk continues to be united
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for Ukraine. If there is a change of government after the election this year,
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there will be no change in Britain's resolve to stand with Ukraine, confront
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Russian aggression and to pursue Putin for his war crimes. And we told the
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Defense Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Chief of staff to Presidents Lensky,
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the parliamentarians we met, this is our labor guarantee to Ukraine and that's why
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we've fully backed the government's increased military aid to Ukraine this year and for the
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years ahead. So no change there. And that was a speech that he
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made in Parliament having just visited Ukraine just before the election, and as soon
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as he's elected and made defense secretaries back to Ukraine to go and meet Silenski
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and so on, So no change there. Then we've got, of course,
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the wonderful event Cooper is our Home Secretary. I wonder what she was
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talking about on Twitter. Let's have a look. Well seven seven attacks anniversary
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was yesterday, so well we'll talk a little bit about that and extra and
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she's also talking about border security, so they're going to ramp up border security.
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What this is all about is keeping everybody focused on illegal or regular migration
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as opposed to regular migration, you know, because the smaller number is the
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one you've got to focus on, right and loud carts absolutely absolutely. Then
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we've got our new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. She's been appointed.
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Now, what's her history was as soon as she left university, she
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headed off to join the Bank of England, as you do, and then
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after that she went to work for Itch Boss. She was a proponent of
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quantut aviasing in two thousand and nine. But her big gambit is what she's
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calling Secureomics. Does that make you feel secure? Well? Secure in Noomics
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is heavily inspired by Joe Biden's economic policy is particularly his inflation Reduction Act.
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That should make us all feel very good. But they have guaranteed twenty six
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billion pounds a year, sorry, twenty eight billion pounds a year for climate
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investment, so climate change policy is going to stay. But in the meantime
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if she's Bank of England and so on. Open Democracy highlighting this is back
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in September last year, how big business took over the Labor Party. This
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is the change Labor Party of course, from at least from Corbyn days,
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back to the Blair days, I would suggest. And they reported that Reeves,
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alongside Peter Kyle, well Strading and a Vette Cooper received large private donations
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from wealthy financiers. But they do go on to say that there's no suggestion
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of impropriety, so you don't need to worry. No suggestion they think that
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these wealthy proprietor financiers genuinely believe in policies that are good for their banker backers.
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So then of course we've got the whole Israel issue. Is it going
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to be any change there? Well, no, because in fact, if
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we go back to twenty eleven, like ed, we should all be friends
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of Israel. And making the point here that Rachel Reeves and a bunch of
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others friends of libor friends of Visrael. In fact, if we go to
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the electronic into Fada, they're pointing out that Labor Friends of Visrael hid the
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list of supporters just prior to the election because they didn't want this to be
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an election issue. But the are saying here is no less than seventeen of
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Starmer's thirty one shadow cabinet members now cabinet members. The Labor MPs most likely
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to form the next government if their party wins the election, which they did,
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are on the most recent Alifi supporters' list. These include Starmer himself,
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as well as Richel Reeves, VT Cooper and David Lammy, all three potential
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candidates for the so called Great Officers of State Finance, Home and foreign affairs
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respectively. So Starmer may be planning lots of change for the country, but
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in the key areas of war and support for Israel there'll be no change and
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support from Ukraine as well. Yes, well, let's have a little look
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or remind ourselves at the power behind the throne and what better place to go
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than the Tony Blair Institute and the Vision for the future. So this was
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a little while ago. I hope they've done there. Hi, what's one
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of you among fantastic? Well, this is a first, so thank you
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very much, indeed for coming. I'm really really grateful. Thank you so
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much for for for the speech. And before we get onto the substance,
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how you enjoying Prime Minister's questions? I'm a better out of practice. He's
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not turning out him for three weeks. We got one tomorrow and then I
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think only two more before conference. So yeah, I think I'm anyone else.
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Yeah, that's something I really don't miss, you know, Yeah,
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even now whenever wherever I am in the world. So the midday Wednesday,
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I think it's an easy feeling, that's what it was. I think at
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least you moved it from twice a week into once a week yep, so
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that's only on a Wednesday at twelve. It's a small number of people who
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should be grateful to me, but they should be very grateful. I keep
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reminding the Shadow Cabinet that back in the day the Primeister used to sit on
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the front bench and choose which of his ministers would answer the question yes,
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So we could go back to that model. Yeah, I mean we never
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know what they're going to say though, that's the thing. So when I
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watched that clip, the two comedians were absolutely mocking Parliament, mocking their fellow
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MPs, and of course Tony Blair very frightened of Prime Minister's questions because of
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course people were asking him why he went to war on a pack of lies.
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But aside from that, they don't value their MPs, so they're not
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credible and they can't speak and answer a question for the for the Prime Minister,
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so just mocking the whole institution in Westminster. Let's have a look at
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the second clip. We have to get the mood of the country right,
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because we have to speak to the country where it is now and not where
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we'd like it to be, and therefore it's a mistake to us to speak
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to the country as if it's nineteen ninety six. We've got to speak to
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the country as is in twenty twenty three, right, And they want a
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sense of realism, yeah, reassurance. They want hope, of course,
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but the reassurance has to come first. Do you get it? Do you
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know how bad things are? Do you know how much I'm struggling? Can
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you fix the immediate problem and can you deal with the longer term fundamentals?
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Yeah, we need to fix I mean, I think, I mean,
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I'm really a fan of the of the five missions. So that we are.
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He said he's going to judge the mood of the country. Now he's
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come straight in and told the country that he's going to change the country in
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all aspects. This man, in my opinion, is an extremely dangerous change
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agent. And of course he's got Blair as his mentor in the background,
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so anything is possible. But let's have a look at a little bit more
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that's coming to the four in the press at the moment. So this is
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I news hy. Keir Starmer and the King are the new power duo.
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King Charles and his new Labour Prime. Excuse me, labor Prime minister have
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common causes. That's an interesting expression, common causes close to their hearts.
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Is this the start of a strong coalition? Well, if we get into
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a little bit of the detail on this, basically they pick up that Sakira
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has been talking to Clive Alderton, the principal private secretary to King Charles,
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and widely seen as part of a growing body of evidence that the monarch and
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the latest occupant and Number ten enjoy an unusually close relationship. So that will
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be of great interest. And if you haven't seen the Green King series on
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the UK column, have a look about it. Have a look at it.
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Starmer has made clear Labour wants a green reindustrialization policy and that dovetails with
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that which the King has been saying that's not my typo since the late six
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nineteen sixty So there does appear to be a meeting of minds on this.
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Now, what was interesting with this article is that it was based on this
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organization, an interview with Limit which I'd never heard of, and surprisingly for
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a lot of the information I have to go in the direction of Israel and
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the media in Israel. So this is the Times of Israel. UK Labor
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leader Starmer opens up about his family's Jewish traditions. Starmant claims that he did
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go to the Church of England when he was younger, but he now attends
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a synagogue, so I believe that he's Jewish, but I'm not sure his
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wife is. But if we have a look at Limod and see what that's
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about. We strive to create individual, collective and communal experiences through which we
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develop and strengthen our Jewish identity. So this is simply about the Jewish community,
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and what it is is the setting up a little cell of volunteers who
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helped spread the Jewish message through their own and other communities. This is one
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gentleman here that I just happened to notice that he's currently president of been A
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breath Cheshire And this is of interest because that is another extremely powerful lobbying group
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and they've been getting very unhappy that people are criticizing Zionism, because you mustn't
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criticize Zionism in any form, because that apparently makes you anti Semitic. And
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this is the statement here of the president of the organization. If you don't
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know what it's about, I'm going to encourage you to have a look,
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do your own research and you'll understand why that's a significant comment in a minute.
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But it's an it's not a religious organization, but one that exists to
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unite all Jews for the common good. And it's from the Children of the
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Covenant. It was formed in New York in eighteen four three by twelve German
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Jewish immigrants. But now it operates in the fifty nine countries and has official
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status of the UN as an NNGO and represented at the EU in Brussels.
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So immensely powerful. What can it do well? It can send pretty strong
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letters to kir Starmer himself in order to tell him how to deal with anybody
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they dean is anti Semitic within Parliament. So this is huge pressure and being
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put onto the Prime Minister himself. Now this is another organization, the Anti
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Defamation League, exposing the inherent anti Semitism. Sorry, there's a couple of
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quotes from their website to just show what they're up to. So in his
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book he's talking about in Israel lobby. They say it doesn't exist, but
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everything we are showing today demonstrates in my mind at least that it does exist.
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And so the ADL also educates American on the security challenges confronting Israel.
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So this is all about lobbying, and it goes on. They're talking about
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Iran and stopping the stopping nuclear Iran, and they're also here to address anti
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Semitic and anti Israel intimidations and schools. And of course this is not just
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being done in the US, It's happening across the world. Let's look at
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this though. They operate a database and I spent some time having a look
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at it. If you are talking about any of these subjects, according to
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the ADL, then you are part of the hate and extremist agenda. So
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don't talk about the World Economic Forum. That makes you an extremist. Even
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to use your expression do your own research is apparently a proof that you're connected
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with QAnon and extremists. It goes on here. Let's bring some more in.
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So people are identified Gilad Atsman, David Iike Can, Free Press,
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London Forum, even the whole of Telegram, and anyone who mentions USS liberty.
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So Mark, just very quickly, what's your response to American free press
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being identified as hate speech? I guess I stand guilty because I just did
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a report on USS Liberty and American Free Press had that as a long time
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tradition, guilty has charged in the ironic sense. It's absolutely ridiculous. And
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I'll go and do it more if you'd like during extra excellent thank you very
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much for that. Well, certainly a lot to talk about, but let's
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have a look at this. If you dare to talk about these subjects,
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you're an extremist according to the ADL, turbo cancer plandemic, scamdemic, or
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even mentioning that somebody died suddenly. And why should we really pay attention to
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this, Well, because ADL set up a conference never is now this is
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the twenty twenty four agenda. And if you're going to have a look at
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speakers, well, surprise, surprise, we've got doctor Albert Buller from a
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chief executive from Pfizer, as well as Hillary Clinton. So don't talk about
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these subjects otherwise you identify yourself as an extremist in the eyes of the Anti
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Defamation League. It seems to me, Mike, that a small number of
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people are gaining great power by being able to bully and lobby the UK government
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to follow their policies and not the policies of the electorate, but we'll discuss
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that more in due course. Yes, so let's welcome Dan the program.
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Dan, what's the situation in Scotland with respect to the election? Then,
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yeah, thanks Mike and Brian Mark happy to be here today. So in
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Scotland, an interesting thing happened which I think maybe has become a little bit
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ignored or maybe not noticed in the overall results of the election, which is
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that the S and P has basically been thrown out. Thirty six SMPS seats
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have been changed to Labor, which you can see there in a couple of
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graphics that we've got displayed. You can see it was quite a significant difference.
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SMP is basically out. There's now thirty nine seats of SMP. And
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an interesting comment that I heard from someone else on Friday when we were discussing
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election results is that the failures of the Scottish government can no longer blame Westminster
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for the failures because it's all gone to Labor now. So I thought it
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would as well look a little bit around education as kind of the educator here
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at the UK column team, and look a little bit at what Labor has
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said they would do. Which actually is not that much. It was certainly
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not a priority in the manifesto, but I think I will look at this
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as well as the new Education Secretary. So you see the couple of the
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top priorities here according to the manifesto. One at the bottom is that they
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are going to recruit six five hundred more teachers, which they plan to do
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by basically putting VAT back onto private schools, and that they're going to introduce
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free breakfast schools at every primary school in England. Not entirely clear how they're
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going to fund that. We also see some other issues with education that they
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talked about qualification levels, reforming osted, improving maths and nursery in primary schools,
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reviewing the curriculum to make it proader and give more children more opportunities,
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and turn further education colleges into what they call technical excellence colleges, and approve
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apprenticeships. And that's actually something that I want to look into some more because
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I don't know at this point what that is. So of course who's going
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to lead all this, Well, it was the shadow Education Secretary now the
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Education Secretary, Bridget Phillips, and so I thought it was worth looking at
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her a little bit and who she is and what she stands for. She
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is an MP for the City of Sunderland. She's relatively young. I think
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she's forty years old. She read history at Oxford and she's been in office
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since twenty ten, first as an opposition whip and has been on various committees.
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So if you look at what else she's been doing during this time so
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far, going back to Israel again, we see that there were some issues
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with her potentially having an advisor visiting Israel as part of this organization called ELNET,
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which is the European Leadership Network, which is supposedly nonpartisan. But what
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we see is that Keure Starmer has potentially been involved in this. Gareth Thomas
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west streeting the new shadow Health Secretary, which was somebody mentioned on DEMI mentioned
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on Friday around the health issues related to west streeting that they have all had
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potentially had connections with this organization where they got introduced to the Iron Dome,
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they got introduced to it IDEAF briefing, and there were Israel politicians that told
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these delegations. For example, quote and this was from the article that was
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just showed, which will be in the show notes what the Arabs need to
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understand is that we're here now and they need to get over it. And
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so there's questions around are they really nonpartisan, and why were they there?
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And what is the funding going on. There's apparently very rich people behind American
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millionaires and billionaires sort of helping to fund this Israeli organization and so on,
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So that needs some more investigation. In terms of her globalist perspective, I
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thought I would look into that a bit so Bridget and Climate. She signed
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up to the UN Climate Change Pledge several years ago, so again just going
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along with the climate issue that un sustainable goes and so on. Also the
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Great British Energy which is another part of the Labor Manifesto. She is strongly
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in support of that. Again, I don't know how that's going to work.
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Again, we need some more investigation into how all those clean power is
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actually going to power the nation. Bridget and women, this is something as
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a woman, of course, that I want to focus on. So she's
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said that she has in the past supported You and Women Agency, which I
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think historically at least was set up supposedly to support women and girls in equality
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and access to education and so on, which of course I completely support,
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But the question is what is you and women really doing. So one of
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the things that they did during Pride Month, which thankfully is over now in
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July. In June they posted about lgbt IQ plus people on the move,
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So regardless of your sexual preferences or anything else, I don't see what this
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has to do specifically with women. But this was about migrants and lgbt i
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Q plus people and what that meant for the migrants, So I'm not sure
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how that relates to women. And I have a video clip here, please
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bear with us. It's both funny and people at the same time. When
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we had Bridgid interviewed about trans women and toilets, if we could play that
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clip please, Brian right, the trans woman with a penis would use?
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Which laboratory? Well, look, I think it's important that all people feel
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safe and have dignity, and she needs to go to the laboratory. Which
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one does she use? I think there are a range of options that she
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hasn't got a range of options, respectfully, She's got she's got a door
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with a woman on it, she's got a door with a bloke on it.
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Which one does she go? In? Bridget Phillipson. Many businesses and
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many public buildings also also provide the option. Yes, Sadly, this restaurant
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only has one with a picture of a woman and a picture of a man.
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So which which which door does she go through? Well, I would
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expect they would have a range of different This restaurant doesn't. It's just got
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the two. So which one does she use? I would want people to
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treat one another with she needs to use the laboratory to use? I would
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hope that that person, whoever they would happen to be trans person of you
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know, it's not clear, would well it is it's a trans woman with
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a penis, and she's desperate to go to the loo, and she's really
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getting desperate. Now I wouldn't. I wouldn't want that person to feel at
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risk. Equally, I wouldn't want biological women to feel intimidated where they go.
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It's about seeking common sense solutions and being practical about it. I would
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hope that they might be able to, for example, try and find a
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compromise when no one so you've got to leave the restaurant to find somewhere else.
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Is what we're saying I would expect that a business would provide a range
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of different options so that people, all people, women and trans women can
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find a way so that no one feels that their safety or dignity is compromised.
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And I do think where it comes to track, where it comes to
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trans p people within our society, I understand the challenge is that the long
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process that many people will have gone through in order to be recognized an a
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gender different to the biological sex into which they were born. That is not
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a short process. That is an extensive But you seem to have checked earlier
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this week you said she should use the female toilet, didn't you? So
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welcome to our new education secretary. I don't know if you, gentlemen,
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have any comments from that. Well, we were commenting on it while the
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video was playing, saying would you allow women like this to run education?
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And my answer would be no, because she's devious, disingenuous, she doesn't
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want to answer the question, and that's because the policy agenda is more powerful
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than common sense. So I wouldn't want this woman near any child of any
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27:29
to come out and about, and we think this will be a really fantastic
27:33
event. Now how can I get you smiling? Well, this made me
27:37
smile first thing this morning. It's a little video telling the truth about NATO.
27:44
It plays out. I had to play it out with the music,
27:47
but I'll tell viewers who are listening what it had to say in just a
27:49
moment. So there we are a little video. It's basically saying it's a
28:26
myth that NATO is at war with Russia because NATO is a defensive organization and
28:32
it only works with its members to keep everyone safe. But of course the
28:37
reality is it's pumping in arms and weapons to fight Russia in a proxy war.
28:42
Yes, that is a real war where over half a million men have
28:47
been slaughtered and the arms are still going in. And of course our Prime
28:52
Minister, Keir Starmer is very pleased that Labor is Labor Party is going to
28:56
pump in more arms. So you Ukrane not a member of NATO. We'll
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have a little bit more about that later in the news, but not proxy
29:07
Wall, being via the Ukrainian So a little bit of fun to see,
29:11
which I enjoyed with my morning cup of tea. Just crafts. Well,
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let's bring you home because you're going to take us through a bit more detail
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on the twenty twenty four NATO summit. Yes, indeed, gentlemen and Diane,
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it starts this week. Oh boy, the twenty twenty four NATO Summit,
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marking seventy five years of the alliance. Seventy five years ago, just
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twelve countries signed that North Atlantic Treaty in Washington to ensure their collective defense in
29:41
an unpredictable world. Now it's thirty two allies meeting again in Washington. So
29:45
that's the meaning of doing this in DC again. And we'll move on from
29:49
there and kind of paint a general preview and overview of NATO pretty not a
29:56
lot of depth but mostly breadth. But we'll look at a couple of the
29:59
sins of NATO you might say, along the way, which don't exactly speak
30:03
to it being a purely defensive organization. While who NATO has a state where
30:08
DC is going to be nine through eleven July, So that starts tomorrow and
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they're going to address the challenges facing the alliance and further strengthens NATO deterrence and
30:18
defense. That's what they say are the main goals. And we'll keep going
30:22
from there. Here's the en Stoltenberg of course, a Buildeberg perennial at the
30:26
Washington somebody says, we will demonstrate NATO's unity and strength once again in support
30:32
of Ukraine and to keep all our people and values safe. One wonders about
30:37
values in this context, going on collective defense and Article five, and this
30:45
gets into the basic principle of collective defense and says it's at the very heart
30:49
of NATO's founding treaty. This is from NATO itself. It remains a unique
30:53
and enduring principle that binds its members together, committing them to protect each other
30:59
and setting a period of solidarity within the alliance. And we'll keep going.
31:03
And that is basically the same thing here. It gets into a little more
31:08
details. Collective defense means that an attack against one ally is considered an attack
31:14
against all allies within the NATO Alliance. The principle of collective defense is enshrine
31:19
in Article five in that North Atlantic Treaty NATO invoked Article five for the first
31:25
and only time in its history. After the nine to eleven terrorist attacks against
31:29
the US, NATO took part in operations in Afghanistan which did result in atrocities
31:34
against civilians there that made quite a few headlines at the time. NATO has
31:38
taken collective defence measures on several occasions, including in response to the situation in
31:44
Syria and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, of course, and it has standing
31:48
forces on active duty that contribute to the alliance's collective defense efforts permanently. And
31:55
we'll continue to go the North Atlantic Treaty itself here it is. I'll just
32:00
get into the highlights just a little. The parties to this treaty reaffirm their
32:04
faith and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
32:08
their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments. Now,
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what's interesting, there is a lot of people forget that NATO is a direct
32:16
offshoot of the UN. The UN Charter provided a regional arrangements mechanism, and
32:23
out of that sprung NATO. And in Article one itself, it says the
32:28
parties undertake as set forth in the UN Charter, to settle any international dispute
32:34
in which they may be involved by peaceful means, in such a manner that
32:37
international peace and security and justice are not endangered. And to refrain in their
32:44
international relations from the threat or use of force in any matter inconsistent with the
32:49
purposes of the UN. That's a qualification that is important. We'll get into
32:54
that. Maybe an extra But oops, along came NATO's Op Unified Protector,
33:01
which in its core existence ran from the thirty first of March to the thirty
33:06
first of October back in twenty eleven. This is AMNI Amnesty International's take on
33:10
it Libya the Forgotten Victims of NATO strikes. The stated purpose of NATO's military
33:16
operation in Libya, which were carried out at the request of and with the
33:21
full support of a transition committee, was to protect a civilian population from grave
33:27
human rights violations which were being perpetrated by the former Libyan regime Gaddafi with the
33:31
impunity. But that's not really the case. I won't get into all of
33:37
this. But before it became the official Operation Unified Protector on the twenty third
33:44
of March in twenty eleven, Allied forces announced they were in control of Libyan
33:49
airspace after they disabled Libya's air force, and it goes on to say that
33:52
according to NATO, the seven month air and sea military campaign in Libya comprised
34:00
more than ninety seven hundred strike sorties and destroyed over fifty nine hundred military targets,
34:07
a very massive bombing campaign. There were air strikes on homes that were
34:12
documented documented excuse me, not only by Amnesty International guys, but by other
34:17
organizations. Dozens of civilians had been killed in NATO air strikes on private homes
34:22
in residential and rural areas where Amnesty International UN experts that's ironic since they fight
34:29
under the UN AGIS. Other NGOs and journalists found no evidence get that,
34:35
they found no evidence of military objectives at the strike locations at the time of
34:40
the strikes in these residential areas. So NATO's not exactly looking purely defensive here
34:47
to say the least. Now, the Great Man Made River projects some of
34:52
us may recall, and you can see the picture I inset there a massive
34:57
water transport system. You can see how small all that man is compared to
35:00
the pipeline and the Great Man Made River project Gaddafi created to transport enormous amounts
35:07
of water to Libya because Libya was and I think still is, considered one
35:12
of the most arid places on Earth, or at least among the most arid,
35:15
and according to the United Nations Children's Fund, four million of Libya's estimated
35:22
population of six point five million faced serious water shortages in the wake of NATO
35:29
having largely destroyed or at least significantly damaged this major water transport system, which
35:37
many people saw as a really dirty pool and even possibly a war crime.
35:43
And according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, which is where this
35:47
came from, eleven years after Gaddafi's assassination, his main legacies, including the
35:52
Great Man Made River Project, are suffering the many consequences of NATO's supported rebellion
36:00
that ended his rule, and the entire project's infrastructure is under threat, etc.
36:06
Etc. And what NATO did is it supported a faction there that was
36:10
said to be a rebellion against Gaddafi's rules, So NATO allied itself with those
36:16
that were seeking to overthrow Gaddafi. This is what we're told. According to
36:21
the ecologist dot Org, NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure, and that publication
36:29
called it a war crime, noting the military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially
36:34
of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. That's what
36:38
this outlet alleged. And we'll keep going from there and start to summarize this
36:45
a bit some of the other sins of NATO. This year, guys,
36:50
is the twenty fifth anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. So we're leaving
36:54
Libya now we're getting into Yugoslavia as well as Serbia. And as I noted
36:59
here this is my own writing, NATO bombs Bosnia from August thirtieth to September
37:06
twentieth of nineteen ninety five. That happened, and then in another case,
37:10
NATO bomb Serbia slash Yugoslavia for seventy eight days from the twenty fourth of March
37:16
to the tenth of June in nineteen ninety nine, So that's nineteen ninety five
37:21
Bosnia and nineteen ninety nine Yugoslavia. In Bosnia, NATO via Operation Deliberate Force
37:28
used four hundred aircraft and five thousand personnel from fifteen nations. Oney Twenty six
37:34
bombs were dropped on three hundred and thirty eight targets, and in Yugoslavia and
37:37
that other In that other instance, Serbia was then part of Yugoslavia, NATO
37:43
bombs killed roughly two thousand civilian excuse me, NATO bombs killed roughly two thousand
37:49
civilians, and material damages were between thirty and fifty billion. And in that
37:57
latter case, the seventy eight day bombing Camp PA reportedly there were TV stations
38:02
completely destroyed, schools were damaged and hit, and many other civilian targets were
38:08
completely or partially destroyed. So again you look at NATO's history, especially its
38:15
recent history, and you wonder about this cool collective, purely defensive posture that
38:20
it tries to sell everyone at any rate. I did sign up as a
38:25
UK column reporter for the NATO Public Forum that's going to take place a little
38:30
bit later this week, the tenth and eleventh of July, and I understand
38:35
that we're encouraging UK column viewers and members to also sign up. It's very
38:40
easy so we can have a little bit more of a presence at that event.
38:45
Apparently you can raise your hand digitally or virtually, that is, to
38:49
ask questions, much like when I cover a WHO press conference, hopefully it'll
38:53
be that user friendly. Briefly, it describes it here. The NATO Public
39:00
Forum is a public event jointly organized by NATO and the host government with civil
39:07
excuse me will civil society organizations also involved, taking place during the summit meetings
39:13
of NATO's heads of state and government. And I won't get into all the
39:16
details there. It's fairly self explanatory. And we can look a little bit
39:21
at the sponsors, and it includes Google, Microsoft, Atlantic Council, and
39:29
so there's a lot of Builderberg connections through those organizations and others even SAB Motors,
39:35
Boeing, Lockheed Martin. Of course not real unexpected there the German Marshall
39:39
Fund if you look through it, our friends at the Chicago Council on Global
39:44
Affairs, the former Chicago CFR, the McCain Institute named after the warmonger John
39:50
McCain, the former Arizona senator, the late senator there, and the Clinton
39:55
Presidential Library is even among the sponsors and Coastpond. So lots of names there
40:01
and organizations that viewers can peruse if they want to freeze those slides. But
40:07
that's basically a gentlemen, and I'll be covering it this week, not only
40:10
the public Forum, but other matters as best I can to glean more from
40:15
what they're having to say. So back to you, okay, thank you
40:20
very much for that. Well, if NATO's heavy into war, let's just
40:23
come back to Ukraine for a moment. And I was just intrigued to see
40:28
this with the Ukraine News Agency. This was Zelenski essentially crowing that Kia Stormer
40:37
had been on the phone to him. But this is in relation to a
40:39
one hundred year agreement between Ukraine under UK one hundred year We can't sort out
40:46
the potholes in the road in UK, but apparently we can plan for one
40:51
hundred years when it comes to Ukraine. Now, what interested me about a
40:55
one hundred year agreement with the UK and Ukraine was I had previously just seen
41:01
this headline and I thought it was an interesting contrast Ukraine to be told it
41:07
is too corrupt to join NATO. So apparently Ukraine is not corrupt enough for
41:14
Kiir Starmer to want to halt a one hundred year agreement, and there's something
41:20
very wrong. This should result in questions being asked in Parliament, and I'm
41:23
going to encourage our audience to get right in get emailing, challenge those new
41:29
labor MPs to ask what on earth they're doing with UK taxpayers money. But
41:35
this is what Zelensky had to say. He said that he'd had a phone
41:37
conversation with k Starmer on Friday, the day Starmer was appointed as the new
41:44
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Joe Biden was first, Selenski was second
41:49
for the phone call, and Netanyahu third. Zelenski went on say that during
41:54
the call they discussed the UK's support and the preparation of a quote unpredented one
42:00
hundred year partnership agreement between the two countries. This is incredible, Mike,
42:06
when you think about it, utterly incredible. He said. He congratulated Sekir
42:12
Starmer on his election victory and wished him success and fulfilling the British people's expectations
42:17
of the new government. I'm grateful to Prime Minister Starmer for reaffirming the UK's
42:22
principled and unwavering support for Ukraine. That unwavering means that Ukraine can do as
42:30
it pleases. He also said that we coordinated positions ahead of the NATO Summit
42:35
in Washington and other international events, as well as discuss ways to strengthen our
42:39
partnership, including the preparation of unprecedented one hundred year partnership agreement between the Ukraine
42:47
and the uk Now, if that is not bad enough, I was just
42:53
tweaked, I think is the word. To have a little look back at
42:57
the Anti Defamation League because they'd been talking about the sorts of symbology used in
43:02
Ukraine and the Nazi symbols, the swastika and the run symbology used by the
43:08
Ukrainian armed forces. But surprisingly, although they commented on Ukraine, there was
43:15
absolutely no criticism of right wing extremism, Nazi, the Nazis, or Nazi
43:22
symbolism in Ukraine. And I was very puzzled about this. Why is it
43:25
that Ukraine is allowed to be extremist and brutally violent in this way and that
43:31
is not going to cause comment by ADL, but anybody else, including people
43:37
who are talking about the Great Reset, are branded as extremists, right wing
43:43
extremists. I'll leave our audience to answer that. But let's just come back
43:47
to the database of extremism and hate that I mentioned earlier, because here is
43:52
some of the things that the ADL is very excited about. And you can
43:58
see why I've made the comment I just have because they particularly relate to symbologies
44:04
being used by for example, the as of Italian in Ukraine. But they
44:08
also talk about the Celtic Cross, and they also talk about the biblical phrase
44:14
the Synagogue of Satan. So rather disturbing here that the ADL is clearly attacking
44:20
Christians and trying to brand them as being right wing extremists due to historical artifacts
44:27
such as the Celtic Cross, for example. But apparently even the Bible is
44:31
something we shouldn't read. They even given a reference to Revelation two point two
44:39
nine and three nine in the Bible, and this is where the term Synagogue
44:45
of Satan is used. But of course if you go and have a look
44:47
at that, the warning is about people who can't call themselves Jewish and are
44:53
not. So I don't know what the problem with ADL is if the biblical
45:00
statement is about fraudulent Jewish people and what have we got here? Well,
45:06
even if you're Jewish, you're going to be attacked because ADL being particularly unpleasant
45:12
with the Jewish voice for Peace, which is a Jewish group standing up for
45:15
peace in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. So a lot of questions to
45:22
be answered about these powerful lobbying groups and their extreme power now within the UK
45:30
Cabinet and around our Prime Minister kir Stormer. And I'm going to say that
45:35
UK column is not frightened to ask these questions. They're questions that need to
45:39
be asked and answers obtained. Dan, let's come back to you then and
45:45
well. At the Science Beautiful Festival my presentation there, I was talking about
45:50
the neatest effort to reinstead the variance of COVID. But you've got an update
45:55
for us, I do, yeah, thanks Mike. Unfortunately, So yeah,
46:00
we've got some more new variants coming out, and I've been seeing a
46:04
lot on Twitter recently around new variants and the people who are still very,
46:08
very worried about COVID. Oh yeah, thanks. We have a fourth guy.
46:12
Hello there, new guy. We're talking about the Fluke variant today.
46:15
And what I did last week was I put out a quick pull on my
46:19
Twitter, So if you don't follow me on Twitter, it's actually Da n
46:22
E UKC and I ask people if you have not had any COVID jobs,
46:25
assuming that a large portion of our audience would not be having jobs. How
46:30
many times have you quote unquote had COVID? And I put that in inverted
46:32
commas for a reason. So we've got sixty eight percent said never, twenty
46:37
seven percent said once, five and a half percent said twice or more.
46:40
It could be skewed, of course, or maybe the results are slightly different
46:44
because of people who have been jabbed and are just answering the question anyway,
46:49
But however, that's still pretty significant to see that, and we're going to
46:52
talk about Australia because we'll see why. So first let's play this clip from
46:57
the NHS England Board meeting from exactly to years ago, on the seventh of
47:00
July twenty twenty two. Once we get through this wave, we will have
47:07
to see how we fare in August and September. But we are expecting as
47:10
we go into the winter, and of course there could be new variants that
47:14
come along before, but we are expecting as we get into the winter months
47:16
that we will see increasing pressures through COVID again, and as Amanda said earlier,
47:21
we're also expecting to see flu this year. We haven't seen significant incidence
47:27
of flu in the last two winters. We're keeping a very close eye on
47:30
Australia, where there's been a perhaps more severe than usual and perhaps more earlier
47:35
than usual flu season in the southern hemisphere, and so that can be a
47:42
signal for the northern hemisphere. But I think irrespective of that, we would
47:45
be very concerned about flu coming back this winter, and so we are taking
47:49
that into account in our planning for winter, as we will hear in a
47:52
minute, So let's talk about why this is important. So Australia, of
47:59
course it's their winter, now it's our summer here will be here in a
48:01
few months, and we're already seeing reports from Australia with hospitals being overwhelmed through
48:07
COVID and flu if they want to differentiate still obviously, but we have staff
48:12
shortages, we have hospitals being overwhelmed, they're out of hospital beds, we
48:16
have a lot going on. Surgeries are being paused, elective surgeries because they
48:21
can't cope with a number of people who are coming in who are really unwell
48:23
and going to A and E. So getting into this new variant, as
48:28
I said, we're no longer flirting with flirt. We are now losing our
48:32
flirting to fluke f l u q E. And I'm not making it up,
48:37
but they're saying that fluke is contributing to a sickred the normal winter season
48:42
in Australia. So you can see the article there from the Daily Mail.
48:44
This is covered in many sources in Australia. And let's see a video next
48:49
from one of those mainstream media sources about fluke from Australia. COVID. Yeah,
48:54
that thing. We don't want to think about it, but it's still
48:58
at daymiking people sick. Now we've got a new sub variant, embrace Fall.
49:01
The fluke sub variant has been ripping through the US and is also making
49:06
its presence felt in Australia. Fluke mutated from the flirt variant that hit Australia
49:09
at the end of last year, and both are descendants of omicron. So
49:14
is there anything unique or especially worrisome about fluke? Not really. Scientists say
49:20
it's better at dodging our immune system and is more transmissible, but the severity
49:22
of symptoms is about the same as past variants, and while current COVID vaccines
49:28
will offer some protection from Fluke. There should be a better one available in
49:30
Australia at the end of the year. So that's Fluke. Welcome to Fluke,
49:37
Goodbye Flirting. So if we look at orald and data, which is
49:42
again I've referred to this in the past around vaccinations and so on, we
49:45
see that the curve has gone straight up from vaccinated people in Australia. As
49:49
we know, they were one of the heaviest vaccinated countries, just like the
49:52
UK. So we have disover eighty percent who have had at least one does
49:55
by the end of twenty twenty two. And then we'll look at access depths
49:59
in Australia from twenty twenty to twenty twenty three it was actually below normal and
50:04
twenty twenty we're like no excess deaths or and then we go up into December
50:08
twenty twenty three and we see again, just like the vaccination rate, the
50:13
number of excess debts has gone straight up by a cumulative number of deaths.
50:16
So what does this mean for the UK? As I said, and as
50:20
they said in the NHS Board meeting, whatever happens in the Southern Hemisphere eventually
50:23
comes up here when it comes to be our winter time, and now they're
50:28
blaming euro twenty twenty four is creating more infections. It was, you know,
50:31
the flirt. So the KP three is the scientific term for fluke,
50:36
but the flirt and the other variants quality or KP one and KP two and
50:38
so on, and that's what UKHSA is currently blaming on the number of the
50:44
so called infections that are here. So what exactly is going on? So
50:47
I decided to go into I started to think about why are we coming up
50:51
with these names. We have flirt, we have fluke, we have Ama
50:53
crown, we have all these crazy names. And so I would deep sort
50:57
of deeply into this and not to explain this diagram at all. We can
51:00
see here that the it was originally sluke and now it's fluke, and flirt
51:04
is off into the corner, and there's also deflirt. I guess that's what
51:07
you do when you don't want to flirt with the virus. I don't know,
51:09
but we have all these names and all of these sort of biochemists and
51:14
upting all just so called experts that are looking at how all these variants match
51:19
up with one another. So we won't go into those details, but just
51:22
to show you that they have a basis. We have the WHO Coronavirus Network,
51:27
which has a very cute name cobe net. I like that kobe net
51:30
sounds very cute. They were talking about in twenty twenty four that they met
51:35
in March of twenty twenty four in Geneva to discuss what they were going to
51:37
do, and their core objectives can be listed there. It goes into the
51:42
One Health approach, which is about monitoring. We're doing all these monitoring of
51:45
you know, what's happening in the One Health approach from the WHO and the
51:49
human has of course leaked to how the entire world is links to each other.
51:52
So we now are seeing possibilities of infections spreading from humans to animals,
51:57
so it's called reverse zoonosis. We see lots of things go on here,
52:00
and you can go and get these detailed epidemological updates from COVID from the last
52:06
few years. This is the most recent one from the seventeenth of June with
52:09
the COVID vaccination insights and so on, and so we see here the variants
52:14
coming up and different things happening. So if you want to really get into
52:17
the depth of what's going on. And the thing that really scares me about
52:21
this is what's called genomic surveillance, and they're sharing our most personal data,
52:24
which is our genetic data, and they're collecting it. But whatever means possible,
52:30
apparently that they're both things that they find from people and things that we
52:36
can purchase that are created and laboratories. So this is an official documentation that
52:40
they are creating these sequences of infections and they're getting on into the public and
52:45
it seems to be leaked a lot through people who are vaccinated. Unfortunately for
52:50
those who have been vaccinated. So an important update on Gear van der Bosch
52:54
and rabbles at the end here of the segment, but just to say that
52:58
he has announced that he stepping back from the COVID arena because he's really disappointed
53:02
in the fact that all these continuous break for infections, which he's talked about
53:07
previously. He's been on the UK column before saying that basically the immune systems
53:12
of people who are vaccinated are going to be high enough to trigger the predicted
53:15
tsunami. And so we see here that the shot in every armor approach is
53:20
causing this and that vaccinated populations is creating this immunistame escape pandemic. So that
53:27
means that the so called long COVID which has been the chronic you know,
53:30
the sort of infection, is now going to be the thing that's going to
53:34
kind of come to an end for a lot of people, very unfortunately.
53:37
But of course NIJE England is now already ramping up for its autumn vaccination campaign
53:43
guidance for all suppliers that was just published at the end of May, and
53:45
this will be the COVID vaccination program from September of twenty twenty four to March
53:51
twenty twenty six. So that is what we have to look forward to,
53:54
you guys. Good stuff, pretty incredible. More to be said and all
54:00
of that, and I'm sure Debbie Evans will have something to say on the
54:02
Freyda Okay, Mark, let's come back to you then. And what's been
54:08
going on with the Roman Catholic Church. Well, a fairly unprecedented thing,
54:17
a pretty shocking thing in conservative traditional Catholic circles. The defiant Archbishop Vigano another
54:25
blow to Pope Francis in the New World Order. According to this headline from
54:29
the New American magazine by an acquaintance of mine, William F. Jasper and
54:34
Jasper did a great job, but this was written prior to July five.
54:37
July five, Vigano was officially excommunicated by the pontiff, Pope Francis, and
54:45
it's the first time since two thousand and six. The last time there was
54:47
an ex communication of an archbishop was that year in six of a Archbishop Malingo
54:54
of Zambia. Anyway, as William F. Jasper wrote in The New American,
55:00
going back to June twentieth, Archbishop Carlo Vigano, a former Vatican insider
55:08
turned whistleblower, revealed that he had been summoned to Rome to respond to accusations
55:15
and evidence concerning the crime of schism, of which he had been excused.
55:20
Excuse me, accused, Pardon me. He is charged with denying the legitimacy
55:24
of Pope Francis or Brogoglio, breaking union with him, and rejecting the Second
55:30
Vatican Counsul or Vatican two, which is pretty significant. The extra judicial penal
55:37
trial at the time was likely to result in the archbishop's excommunication and dismissal from
55:42
the priesthood, which it did, and at that time Archbishop Vigano posted the
55:46
official decree from the Holy Sees Diecastre for the Doctrine of the Faith and went
55:52
on to say that he regarded the accusations against him by the Pope as an
56:00
honor quote unquote, and Vigano himself went on to note, and I'll just
56:05
hit the highlights, referring to Pope Francis, that the globalism that Pope Francis
56:09
supports calls for ethnic substitution. Brigoglio a Vigano wanted to call the Pope by
56:16
his actual name, promotes uncontrolled immigration and calls for the integration of cultures and
56:22
religions, and Vegano went on to say that the globalism that the Pope supports
56:28
includes LGBTQ plus ideology, and Vigano noted that Brigoglio authorizes the blessing of same
56:35
sex couples and imposes on the faithful the acceptance of homosexualism. And Vegano also
56:42
noted that the Pope's globalism imposes the Green Agenda, and he went on to
56:46
make a lot of other comments. He said that the Pope goes beyond his
56:52
role in matters that strictly pertained to science, but always and only in one
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direction, a direction that is diametrically opposed to what the Catholic Church has always
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taught. So what Vegano was basically saying, guys, is the real schism
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is being caused by Pope Francis himself. And so there's a lot of fallout
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from this. E. Michael Jones, the noted pro Catholic author out of
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South Bend, Indiana, is really busy on his Twitter feed and so it's
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a pretty significant thing. And looking at the ideology of it, though,
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I think a lot of people UK Colin viewers would come down on the side
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of Vegano because Pope Francis truly has and I'm speaking objectively, truly has really
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broken away from almost all traditional Catholicism altogether. So it really paints a clear
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picture of what the Pope is really about, in my view, a brave
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man, and of course he's breached a lot of the no go areas for
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adl In talking about in even mentioning some of those issues. Now, what
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about a Deputy Prime Minister. Well, she's a bit of a snappy dresser
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and apparently this is the key to new New labor It is to wear the
58:07
right clothes. I looked at this and I thought, Angela Rayner apparently now
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one of the most powerful women in the country. I shouldn't underestimate her,
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apparently, but she looks like something out of a Christmas panto here, Mike,
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I thought of a Laddin in the lamp, and I think the genie
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was wearing something similar to this. But what interested me is under this picture
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it said that Deputy Prime Minister Rayner has in the past said of herself,
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I'm John Prescott in a skirt me. So that didn't fill me with a
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lot of happiness, because I remember John Prescott all very well for what he
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got up to in Westminster. I decided a little video of the Daily Mail
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articles necessary here because here's the infamous picture of him canoodling with his fluozy,
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which of course he was doing whilst he was on duty in Westminster. But
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no problem for mister two Jags at the time. And good to see that
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our latest Deputy Bryn Minister is going to follow in his footsteps. Okay,
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so there we go, Yes, okay, Don, let's come back to
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you know, and well, the question is about some of these conferences that
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are taking place that appear to be sort of academic in nature. Yeah,
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I just thought I would do a little bit of an introduction here to determining
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what we should be relying on when we see conferences coming out about controversial topics
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that will affect us. So there is a whole sort of system of industry
59:37
out there of predatory or fake conferences. So scholarly conferences, which would be
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the type that scientists or academics would be attending, regardless of what you think
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of them, are there to bring scholars together. But you can see when
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you read the details about the conference are they really Are they really scholars behind
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it? Is a universities behind it? Is it different? Maybe hospitals,
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healthware organizations? What is going on? And with the fake conferences, they're
1:00:04
normally run by a for profit company. They don't that they're very very expensive.
1:00:08
They don't have any sort of guidelines in terms of do they have peer
1:00:13
review, do they have an editorial board? Do they know where they they
1:00:16
announced the location of the conference. I get a lot of spam in my
1:00:21
email, which I call academic spam, which will say things like dearest imminent
1:00:24
scholar, mister Mcatty, which is wrong on a number of levels, So
1:00:28
I just delete those. But if you're a new scholar and you see this,
1:00:30
you might be flattered. I've had students who think, oh, look,
1:00:32
they want me to come to this conference, when actually it's a fake
1:00:36
conference. And so we have to be careful of these, and we have
1:00:38
to look at the aim and the scope. So let's look at one example
1:00:42
of a predatory or fake conference. This one is one that has been circulating
1:00:46
on Twitter quite a bit called the International Bird Flue Summit. They're all worried
1:00:50
about bird flu? Is it real? Is it fake? It's got a
1:00:52
few speakers on it, But once we look a little bit about what's going
1:00:57
on behind it, there's really not a whole lot of content. There's a
1:01:00
couple of speakers, as I said, who are listed as speakers, but
1:01:01
this is taking place in October. But we don't see anything else about it.
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We don't see a committee, we don't see any peer review process,
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we don't see any any sort of oversight of what's going on. If we
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look into the brochure, which is a PDF which is also on the website
1:01:16
for the bird Flu Summit, we see here, you know, scary tactics,
1:01:22
masspitality, Management planning. Oh, I better go to that Surveillance and
1:01:24
data management. Just a list of like very broad topics that don't have speakers
1:01:30
next to them. There's no actual agenda, there's no there's nothing affiliated with
1:01:34
these, so you know, obviously that's going to be something that's going to
1:01:37
get people's attention. And oh, we better learned about masspuitality management planning.
1:01:43
The conference website which is from the conference brochure from the PDF. If you
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click on that link, it goes to a company called syllabus X. Syllabis
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x has a furrow four error page not found when you click on the link
1:01:54
to that. It's meant to go to the conference, but the that's a
1:01:58
syllabus dot com forward slash bird Flu Summit or something like that. If you
1:02:02
go to the Birdflu summit dot com website, which people have been talking about,
1:02:07
that's when you see those previous slides. So I looked into SYLLABUSX a
1:02:09
bit. I'd never heard of it. As an academic of twenty five years.
1:02:14
Syllabusx's social media says our podiums are Buddy campfire. Does that sound very
1:02:17
academic of Scarlet to you or does it even make any sense I don't know.
1:02:22
It says they're based in rest in Virginia, and so I decided to
1:02:25
look at their website a little bit more for any other information. Their twitter
1:02:30
is right there, It's got some followers. Their ting tweet is from twenty
1:02:34
twenty three. If you go to the health section of their own website,
1:02:38
their most recent conference is the Coronavirus Summit and Workshop twenty twenty from June twenty
1:02:44
twenty. And the coovs dot com email address doesn't exist. That is like
1:02:51
a dead website again, a dead email address. And so then I also
1:02:54
looked a little bit more into any further details of where is this located,
1:02:59
whereas what is it doing? The phone number doesn't exist. I looked at
1:03:02
the phone number, and I look as and I also looked at the address.
1:03:07
The address is actually a virtual address. One hundred or nineteen hundred Campus
1:03:10
Commons drives Sweet one hundred in western Virginia is a virtual address where several lots
1:03:16
of several companies seem to use it. And including it's also says, well,
1:03:20
there's a this doesn't exactually exist because it's a virtual office that you can
1:03:23
say that you rent. And the University of Arizona has a fishing alert from
1:03:28
it. So a real bird flu conference, unfortunately, is taking place also
1:03:34
around the same time period in October this year. That's at the University of
1:03:37
Arkansas. It's in the Department of Poultry Science, and it's pushing the one
1:03:40
Health agenda, which we've just talked about earlier. So we can see that
1:03:44
this is a real conference. There are speakers, there are presentations, there
1:03:47
sponsors, it's at a university, and of course, unfortunately, a World
1:03:52
Economic Forum on its most one of its recent blog post tent a few days
1:03:55
ago, says that the CDC Centers for Disease Control is monitoring the US bird
1:04:00
flu spread, so of course we can always get our w updates and one
1:04:04
Health. So unfortunately I have to say these are real sources, and so
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expert Flu Summit dot com is not, so please beware when you are circulating
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links or looking at sources. Great Diane, thank you very much for that.
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That brings us to the end of today's news. I'll just say that
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a lot of people have contacted UK columns saying how depressed they are as a
1:04:28
result of the election result and Kea Stormers policies I say, don't be depressed.
1:04:32
You've got a wonderful opportunity to get active and tackle those new MPs before
1:04:39
the whips get hold of them. And of course you've also got the independence
1:04:44
and even some of the reform candidates who are trying to do something to counter
1:04:48
the system. So overall, in this timescale, tremendous opportunity to actually step
1:04:57
up and challenge these people, educate, hate them, and help them see
1:05:00
that maybe they aren't connected with the right people. So let's leave it there
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on a positive note. Big thank you to the team for today's news.
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