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UK Column News - 23rd January 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, it's Friday the 23rd of January 2026, just after
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1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Mike Robinson, my Co host in the studio today,
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Patrick Henickson welcomes the program.
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Patrick. Great to be with you, Mike.
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And we'll be joined today once again by Basil Valentine.
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Now later in the program, we're going to be covering the latest
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on the Holocaust Memorial, local elections, more from Davos,
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including Trump's Board of Peace and the situation with ICE in
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the United States. But we're going to begin today
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with the NHS and Palantir Patrick.
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Well, this is a really important story for for people in the UK
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and I think we are going to be able to lay out the facts here.
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And I want to get comment from from both you and Basil
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Valentine on this. But the NHS and Palantir, this
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is a relationship that is now inextricably linked and we're
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going to point to an excellent report here by an independent
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media called the People's Dispatch.
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The British government pressures NHS institutions to adopt the
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quote Palantir plan and it's getting a lot of pushback from
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independent advocates, civil liberties people, people
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concerned with rights and using people's data.
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And what's going to happen to that data?
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The dangers of which of allowing Palantir to access all NHS data
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And Keir * what, what is his position on this?
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What is the Starmer government's position on this?
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Let's look at a couple of takeaways from this issue right
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here. First of all, the government
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officials have attempted to reassure patients and staff that
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safeguards would prevent misuse of NHS data, claiming that data
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would be anonymized or pseudo. This is a tongue twister right
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there, however, that such assurances can be misleaded.
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The nature of health data is that it's so personal that it's
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actually very difficult to fully anonymize.
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And we'll go on here. The analysis continues
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Palantir's business strategy, offering new users initial
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access at minimal cost. Users were talking about
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governments and institutions here, then raises the prices
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while locking them into dependence by retaining
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intellectual property rights and limiting compatibility with
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other systems. Government and public services
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are a favorite target under the strategy.
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Mike that can only be described as rent seeking.
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Rent seeking. Now I want to bring Basil Valley
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Valentine on for this. Basil, this is a incredible
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story. This issue seems to have
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advanced down the road and a lot of people just aren't even aware
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that this has already happened. Give us your your thoughts on
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this important story. Yes, thank you, Patrick.
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Well, this contract was initially awarded by the
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Conservative government in 2023, although Palantia is also known
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to have close ties to the Labour Party, and it's been reported
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that they hired Peter Mandelson to lobby the Labour government
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to help it win more government contracts.
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This particular contract is up for renewal in February of next
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year. And last year, in 2025, the
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British Medical Association passed a formal resolution
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calling for the cancellation of the contract.
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The BMA of course, the organization that represents
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British doctors. The resolution said the
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involvement in Palantir in the NHS threatens to undermine
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public trust in NHS data systems due to a lack of transparency in
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how the data will be stored and processed, a track record of
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creating discriminatory policing software in the US.
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That of course is Palantir's other speciality and close links
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to AUS government, which shows little regard for international
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law. The British doctors, they're
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making a sideways reference to Palantir's involvement in the
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Gaza genocide. Now I'm pleased to say there is
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increasing push back here in the UK against it.
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Zach Polanski wrote to Alex Karp of CEO of Palantir earlier this
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week putting the company on notice and saying that should
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the Greens form any part of a future British government, they
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would be terminating the contract forthwith.
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And meanwhile, there's resistance from within side the
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NH chess. Although the government are
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trying to force this down everybody's throats, it does
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require the cooperation of patients and staff and that
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cooperation is being withheld. Duncan McCann of a good law
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project, Stretch the patients, healthcare workers and policy
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Lakers. We must understand that this
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deal has real impacts on NHS functioning.
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It's not just esoteric concerns. So if we choose to opt out then
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I hope and believe we can. But why is the British
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government so dead set on working with Palantir?
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There are dozens of companies that provide the same services.
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Why pick Palantir? That's, that's a good question,
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Basil, but but I want to put this to you as well because it's
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at the end of the day, Palantir, a US based company with close
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ties to Israel. Other data, other similar types
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of companies exist, of course. But none of this would have been
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possible if if the UK Parliament had not passed the Data Use and
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Access Bill as the Data Use and Access Act, because that was the
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legislation which amended the data protection legislation to
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allow this data to be exported. And well, the UK column, amongst
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others, were highlighting the dangers of this right the way
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through its process through Parliament.
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Nobody seemed to notice. So what is it?
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What actually does it take to get people to notice this stuff?
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And, you know, it's at this point it's already too late
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because that legislation is on the statute books, as it were.
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Well, you make a very good point, Mike.
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There's so much of this that goes on behind closed doors in
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the corridors of Whitehall, but I just want to make reference as
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well to the sort of tangential situation with the Home Office.
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Shabana Mahmoud, Panopticon of surveillance This is a white
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paper on policing expected next week, which will dramatically
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expand the use of artificial intelligence with the aim of
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keeping the eyes of the state on offenders at all times.
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Police could soon be stopping criminals before they even
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commit offences, and the sweeping reforms to be unveiled
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next week. Now the reason I mention it is
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because it's all part of this privatisation of data and it's
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subsequent potential for misuse by the authorities.
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You never know something in your NHS record might identify you as
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a potential criminal. The that then ends up with you
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being arrested before you've committed any crime.
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This is Minority Report. And Patrick, the other question
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is, will it will it remain with crime or will it be, will these
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people of interest, let's call them, include people that are
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speaking out in ways that government doesn't like?
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Well, there's that, Mike, but not, not just the targeting
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aspect, which becomes incredibly easy with this system, but in
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what I said at the digital ID protest a couple of weeks ago
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before Christmas, I said that it's already too late.
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The data sets are already being shared across departments.
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It's it's it's already happened. The only thing that hasn't been
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implemented is the front end in our interaction officially with
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it via the digital ID for instance, but that system is
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already constructed. The back end is already done.
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The data is already ubiquitous and who knows who has access to
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it. It could be being processed in
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U.S. data centers certainly would be, you know, US cloud
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power that's going to drive this with with Palantir.
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That's absolutely the case, yes. So is this is just rent seeking,
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really just incredibly entrapment, corporate entrapment
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and rent seeking because as it said, it gets you hooked on it
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dependent. And this is what's happened in
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the US. This is that that's their
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business model. It's a predatory, very
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manipulative, manipulative business model.
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And they'll they'll have you in perpetuity.
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It's impossible to migrate out of that system once you once you
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start, turn the key and start that down that road.
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Yeah. When you say that it's not
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technically impossible, it is absolutely financially
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impossible because once you're stuck in that, it is extremely
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expensive to try to get out of it, take a very long time.
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In the meantime, of course that you have to continue the service
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with that company and and they're they're not going to
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cooperate with, with the migration process either.
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So it it is, you know, very, very difficult.
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And politics are involved and money is involved in the back
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end. Now there's a petition which
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we'll bring up on screen right now.
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This is a petition which was created by Jemma Smith in the UK
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and it's about introducing an NHS data opt out and requiring A
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consultation for system expansion.
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So introducing a clear national opt out for your NHS data which
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is being processed on the Federated data platform, as well
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as the national data integration tenant, the ND IT.
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So have a look at this. We've got the links to this in
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the show description. It doesn't have a lot of
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signatures now, but it I've seen the argument for this as well as
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by the creator of this and it seems to make sense.
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I mean, these are things that are just not even available
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through this whole process. They've completely might bypass
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the public at every turn. And this is just one of a number
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of efforts here to try to claw back some accountability or some
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data sovereignty terms of the individual.
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I think Mike, this is just paving the way for the
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privatization or the automation of the NHS, whereby AI will be
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your doctor in the future and your access to actual real
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people in the system will be severely restricted 100%.
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Absolutely, 100%. But I think I think if there's
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going to be some kind of data opt out, it can't be left as a
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matter of trust. It's got to have a statutory
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basis and and some kind of legal accountability in the event that
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perhaps you take the opt out box and that gets ignored.
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Because at the end of the day, do we trust any of these people
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to to absolutely actually adhere to any wish to opt out?
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I don't. Is that a trick question?
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Well. Indeed, yeah.
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OK, well, we move on. We shall now let's move on then
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to the Holocaust Memorial Bill. Now it's received.
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It has now received royal assent, which the UK government
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says helps pave the way for a memorial and a Learning Center
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in Victoria Tower Gardens. Now, this has been extremely
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controversial, as Charles in particular has been reporting on
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for quite some time now. This was done, they say, just in
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time for Holocaust Memorial Day, which is on the 27th of January.
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And they're saying that once built, the memorial will stand
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at the heart of our democracy. That's their words.
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It's going to stand at the heart of our democracy.
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Now. The bill was first introduced in
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2023 and it recommitted that the government, it was, it was a
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recommitment by the by the Starmer regime from something
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that the previous Tories government had decided to to run
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with. It removes a legal blockage
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caused by historic legislation which was preventing this being
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built in Victoria Tower Gardens because of of planning
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permission limitations. So those planning permission
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limitations have been removed. So let's just have a look at
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what Keir Starmer had to say before we get some comments here
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from from Patrick and and Basil. He said we must do everything
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possible to advance Holocaust education while we still have
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survivors able to guide us, located at the heart of our
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democracy. So he repeated that again.
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It will strengthen our national commitment to challenge
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prejudice wherever it appears and defend the values that bind
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us together. Does it do those things?
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I mean, no, irony is an irony proof zone we're going into
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here. Well exactly Basil, what are
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your thoughts on this? Because this has been highly
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controversial and quite a number of people don't want it, bearing
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in mind we already have a Holocaust Memorial in the
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country. Well, I take it he's referring
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to the Gaza Holocaust, and that's what this memorial is
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for, surely? Yeah.
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Well, that's that is a good question.
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I'll just. That's a good idea by Basil.
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Maybe there should be two side by side.
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I would support that. We have a memorial for the
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tragedy and the the genocide in Gaza and a Holocaust Memorial.
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That's fair. And then people can learn about
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both and learn the lessons from history from both tragedies.
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What do you think? Well, you know, the mantra is
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never again. But as number of Israeli
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spokespersons and associated assorted talking heads have
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said, as far as they're concerned, it's never again.
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Only for them, but not for thee, you know.
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So it's the most appalling double standards being exhibited
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here by Starmer, those utterly weasel words, while he himself
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has been not just complicit but, as we know through the spy
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flights over Gaza, actively involved in a genocide.
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I mean, we'll come on later to the moral atavism of Trump.
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Starmer is no better. Yeah.
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And not only that, Mike, the the whole Elbit Systems controversy,
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I mean, the government could have stepped in at any point,
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absolutely, and just restricted arms sales and that type of
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activity, while the case is in the ICC and the ICJI mean most
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people would look at that as a no brainer, especially with the
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Prime Minister that has a background as a human rights
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lawyer as well. That's the shocking part about
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it. Well, yes, but he's got other,
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other loyalties, let's put it that way.
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But let's just bring this on screen quickly because as I
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said, there has been some pushback against this and the
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main campaign as far as I know is St.
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Victoria, Victoria Tower Gardens, preventing building in
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this precious London park. The details of this campaign
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group will be in the show notes as well.
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So go and have a look at that if you want to find out more.
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OK, let's move on then to local elections.
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And of course the UK government has confirmed now that it's
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going to bring forward legislation to postpone
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elections for 29 councils. So if we just bring this on
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screen, this this for 29 councils have provided
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sufficient evidence on how postponement would would release
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capacity to help deliver local government reorganization.
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That's how they they were talking about it.
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So 202429 government, sorry, 29 local authorities are postponing
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elections, 34 councils are going to go ahead with elections and
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that means, according to the government, they're very pleased
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for us all to know that that means a majority of local
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elections will go ahead as planned.
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That should make us all feel a lot better.
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Now what they say is that where elections are postponed,
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existing councillors will have their terms extended.
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And they're saying that elections to the new unitary
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councils are expected to take place in May 2027, with the new
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councils expected to be up and running in April 2028.
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But this was a bit, Basil, I really want to get your thoughts
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on this because this was a bit that almost made me fall off my
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chair because I'm going to quote what they said here.
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They said these decisions follow precedent between 2019 and 2022.
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The previous government postponed local local council
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elections to protect local government reorganization work.
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So postponement then, as now, they said, is to enable focused
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work on implementing proposals. Now that had me in stitches
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because this here's a man who is Prime Minister on the basis of
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campaigning on the idea of change, that he was going to do
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something different to the Tory government.
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And here we are with him, actually, without a sense of a
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thread of irony, using the Tory government as president for this
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bad behavior. Well, as Thomas said, the heart
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of our democracy, Mike, is the Holocaust Memorial, not
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elections. What on earth makes you think
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that elections at regular intervals should have anything
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to do with democracy? Our democracy is defined by that
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Holocaust Memorial and nothing more.
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Yes, I'm not sure where to go after.
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That there's nothing more democratic than postponing
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elections. What do you think?
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No, I think that's. That's a very Democratic thing
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to do extremely Democrat, just like Zelensky in Ukraine.
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He's he's, he's postponing now what he's over a year in 18
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months in, yes, out of mandate. I mean, and that's the paragon
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of democracy for Europe. We need to defend that, right,
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Defend Zelensky because he's not having elections.
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I can see where this is going by the way.
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Seems to be a pattern emerging, not a good one.
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No, indeed. OK, well that's local elections.
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We will keep you posted as as that develops as well.
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And of course that legislation will be coming forward very
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soon. But let's move back across to
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Switzerland and Davos Patrick. Well, yeah, this is this is the
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great confab, isn't it, Mike? This is when the great and the
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good get together. And this is quite prestigious.
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It's now they're no longer calling it Davos.
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It's now called the WEF and a lot of people are using this
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term now. So they've really graduated
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right up to the up the cultural ladder.
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They've now got their own sort of quick nickname, if you will,
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almost a hashtag the WEF. And so what's going on at the
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WEF? All is not well at the WEF.
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This has become the biggest slugfest at Davos in living
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memory. And a lot of that's to do with
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Donald Trump and his entourage that have descended onto the
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slopes of Davos, once the pristine and serene liberal
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neoliberal enclave in the Swiss Alps.
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And here is the big controversy. And this is pretty, I, I think,
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pretty significant. Christina Lagarde, she is the
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central banker of Europe and she walked out after Howard
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Lutnick's speech. Howard Lutnick is Donald Trump's
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commerce secretary and we'll we'll look at him in a moment.
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But apparently, and she left the Davos dinner.
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I think she may have left the event full stop.
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She was completely taken aback and offended by the comments
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from Trump. Now, this is interesting too
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because, you know, bankers are usually politically agnostic.
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It wasn't the politics, though, that she was offended by.
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It was the almost imposition of monetary policy coming from the
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United States in terms of what Europe needs to do in terms of
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accommodating American financial interests.
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And that goes really flies in the face of everything that I
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think any European bureaucrat, civil service or even technocrat
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is willing to swallow. And we'll talk about that in a
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moment. Now, here is the Howard Lutnick
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railing against globalization. I want to comment on this
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afterwards. Let's roll this.
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And the Trump administration and myself, we are here to make a
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very clear point. Globalization has failed the
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West and the United States of America.
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It's a failed policy. It is what the WEP has stood
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for, which is export offshore, far shore, find the cheapest
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labour in the world and the world is a better place for it.
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The fact is it has left America behind.
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It has left the American workers behind.
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That is a bit rich coming from an investment banker from Wall
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Street. Wall Street are the ones that
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drove globalization and they all got filthy rich out of it by
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financializing the American economy and they did the same in
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Britain. Mike.
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So Howard Lutnick in the City of London made out like bandits for
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the last 30 years, and he has the temerity to then come and
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pivot and say, oh, this globalization is hurting
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Americans. It is really unbelievable.
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These people are absolute shape shifters.
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Playing psychological games, of course, because that that that
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sentiment that he's expressed is going to be very, very popular
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with, with the market base, of course, and, and all the other
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people that are Trump supporters around the world.
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And but he doesn't mean a word of it.
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To to the uninformed and the the the neophytes in terms of
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politics, economics and geopolitics, that might sound
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like a good sound bite. Or to JD Vance, you know, people
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who aren't that well steeped in such things.
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But to educated people, he's not fooling anybody.
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Now here he is. This is the thing that really
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offended Christine Lagarde, we're told.
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Roll this next one. And what we are here to say is
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that America First is a different model, one that we
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encourage other countries to consider, which is that our
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workers come first. We can have policies that impact
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our workers. Sovereignty is your borders.
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You're entitled to have borders. You shouldn't offshore your
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medicine. You shouldn't offshore your
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semiconductors. You shouldn't offshore your
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entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you.
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You should not be dependent for that, which is fundamental to
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your sovereignty on any other nation.
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And if you're going to be dependent on someone, it darn
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well better be your best allies, OK.
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And so that is a different way of thinking.
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And of course, he's absolutely right in what he says there.
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I can't argue with anything that he said, but of course he is one
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of the people that's implemented this offshoring policy over the
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last decades. He is, but you know, if the US
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is, is so self-sufficient, why do they need to steal a country
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like Venezuela's oil and go and kidnap the president?
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I mean, the, the hypocrisy and just the balderdash that's
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coming out of these people is unprecedented.
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And then why, why is he, why is the United States need to go and
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grab Greenland if it's so self-sufficient?
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And it's on short everything. They haven't on short
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everything. This is a globalized economy and
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you really can't get out of the fact that countries need to
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trade. And then at the same time, he is
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threatening the Trump administration's threatening
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punitive tariffs against European countries.
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So he's instrumentalized the whole purpose of the tariffs and
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turned it into sanctions. Basically, there's no
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credibility from any of these people.
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And we don't know where to start, Howard.
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Howard Lutnick is a fanatic, is a political fanatic.
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He is absolutely an Israeli pick.
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Let's take a look at him for a moment.
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So who is Howard Lutnick? That is the question.
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An absolute Israeli lobby pick. And a lot of people are saying,
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Mike, that he is Trump's handler.
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You always see Howard Lutnick everywhere Donald Trump goes.
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He's scanning every word that Trump says to the press.
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You do you rarely see Trump without Lutnick present.
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So that's why people are calling the him Trump's handler.
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And he's just always around, like lurking in the background,
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these sort of creepy pictures. This is from Air Force One here.
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He's almost become a mem in his own right here.
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And that's not the his endless creepy pictures.
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Here he is again, but you might not be able to see him, but
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believe it or not, there he is right behind Lindsey Graham.
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I mean, so this is Trump's handler.
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So this is basically Israel's eyes and ears in the White House
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is effectively Howard Lutnick of Cantor Fitzgerald investment
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banks who coincidentally had offices in the Twin Towers on
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9/11. So among other.
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But he wasn't there that day. No, he wasn't.
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He, he was lucky. He I think he was no, I was told
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to picking or taking his kid to school that morning.
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So extremely fortunate in that regard.
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Not everybody was a sadly on 9/11.
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But the not to change the subject.
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That's something people need to pay attention to.
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You know, who is steering Donald Trump, who is Trump's handler.
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And we believe, a lot of people now believe it's Howard Lutnick,
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and it's kind of becoming obvious at this point.
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OK, thank you for that, Patrick. OK, let's move on then.
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well. OK, let's move on then to the
26:17
Board of Peace. And of course, yesterday at
26:21
Davos, Trump, well, he's, he announced it or he formally
26:26
formalized it and signed the document and created the Board
26:30
of Peace formally. This, of course, is to remind
26:33
you of the technocratic corporate body, which he clearly
26:36
envisages is going to replace the United Nations to some
26:39
extent. Now, his son-in-law and special
26:42
advisor, Jared Kushner unveiled a $30 billion plan for
26:47
rebuilding Gaza. And he was talking about amazing
26:51
investment opportunities so we can all buy shares in that.
26:56
The plan, he said, was going to begin with rebuilding the
26:59
southern city of Rafa within as little as two to three years.
27:02
And well, let's just get an idea of how this was presented.
27:10
So quickly I'll go through this 2 year war, 90,000 tons of
27:13
munitions, there's over 60 million tons of rubble there and
27:17
10s of thousands of fatalities. So on the aid I mentioned the
27:21
UN. So now people are talking about
27:23
famine, 100% of the, of the, of the food needs are are met and
27:27
that's been over abundance. The the cost of goods have gone
27:30
down tremendously. Over 55,000 trucks have gone in
27:34
and over 1.4 million pallets. So it's been the largest
27:37
humanitarian effort done into a war zone that anyone's been able
27:41
to tell us about. This really has been a great
27:42
joint effort that everyone's been able to do and and so it's
27:46
a great thing. So first of all, Patrick, do you
27:50
buy that this claim that 100% of of Gazan's food needs are met,
27:55
that this is the greatest humanitarian effort going into
27:59
and you notice he used the term war zone when in fact this in
28:02
fact is a genocide. So you know, what are your
28:05
thoughts on on his comments? He's absolutely lying.
28:08
He's lying right to the camera, he's lying to the world.
28:10
But these people have proven that they don't have really have
28:13
any conscious left when it comes to this area.
28:17
Besides being the president's son-in-law, the president in
28:19
law, he's also lifetime close friends with the Netanyahu
28:23
family. This is the last person you want
28:26
running point on such a a gaudy project.
28:29
And the problem, Mike, here is like the Abraham Accords, this
28:33
maneuver by Kushner basically leaves out any dialogue with the
28:39
Palestine, the native Palestinian population.
28:42
And that's why the Abraham Accords failed.
28:45
And that's why this is going to fail, because they haven't
28:47
learned a lesson from the past. Well, I mean, I, I don't know
28:50
how you can be right about that because it was all about the, it
28:52
was license lines as we saw there.
28:54
But he went, he went on to talk about the rebuilding and we've
28:58
got to be very clear because he was very clear that this was all
29:02
about the aspirations of the people of Gaza and nothing else.
29:05
Let's just have a listen. Rothful, we'll start with this
29:09
will show a lot of workforce housing.
29:11
We think this could be done in 2-3 years.
29:12
We've already started removing the rubble and doing some of the
29:15
demolition. And then new Gaza, it could be a
29:17
hope, It could be a destination, have a lot of industry and
29:20
really be a place that that the people there can thrive, have
29:22
great employment. Once this starts going, we think
29:25
there should be 100% full employment and opportunity for
29:27
everybody there. And we have a lot of data on
29:30
what can be. But we think that this really
29:32
gives the Gazan people an opportunity to to live their
29:34
aspiration. So it's not it's an opportunity
29:38
for the Gazan people to live their aspirations.
29:40
But as you're as you say, he's never spoken to any Gazan, so
29:44
how does he know what their aspirations are?
29:46
Just be clear, everybody, Jared Kushner, the Trump
29:50
administration, Steve Witkoff, the Israelis, Netanyahu, they
29:54
have no intention of allowing any Palestinians to live in
29:59
those pictures, which they are imagining they're going to build
30:02
in Gaza. They're going to continue to
30:04
push them out. When he says three years, he
30:07
means what every Israeli parliamentarian and ministerial
30:11
head have said and all the Hawks in Israel.
30:13
We need to get rid of the Palestinians from Gaza.
30:18
We need to exterminate them. They say we need to push them
30:21
out. We need to ethnically cleanse
30:22
them. And whoever is left are going to
30:24
be killed, quite frankly. And they'll, they'll have
30:27
hopefully they in their mind, some cheap labor by Palestinians
30:31
would still push into camps, into like concentration camps or
30:35
labor housing or labor camps. And they'll, they believe that
30:38
they'll voluntarily or want to rebuild Gaza as a new Dubai for
30:44
foreigners with tons of money and for Israelis to move in and
30:48
Americans. And they believe that somehow
30:50
that Palestinians are going to be OK with building this new
30:53
Dubai on top of the dead bodies and remains of potentially
30:57
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including women
31:01
and children. That's basically the gaudy,
31:04
audacious move that's going on here.
31:07
And you know, Mike, it's going to fail for a number of reasons
31:10
which I could talk about afterwards, but.
31:12
Well, we'll talk about that in Extra.
31:14
But then Kushner went on to say that the plan assumes that Hamas
31:18
has agreed to demilitarize. So let's see what he said on
31:21
that point. So demilitarization, this is
31:25
something we're starting now. We have a new government in
31:27
Gaza. This government will be working
31:29
with Hamas on the demilitarization to really take
31:32
the principles that were agreed to in the document to the next
31:34
phase, and hopefully that will be successful.
31:37
Without that, we can't rebuild. So if Hamas does not
31:40
demilitarize, that will be what holds back Gaza and the people
31:43
of Gaza from achieving their aspiration.
31:47
So, again, more aspirations there.
31:49
He went on to say that Hamas had signed a deal to demilitarize.
31:53
Well, that's the first I've heard about that.
31:55
And he then went on to say that that is what that the United
31:59
States is going to enforce. So he's implying that if there's
32:02
no demilitarization, that in fact we'll not only see Israeli,
32:06
direct Israeli activity in Gaza, but we're going to see United
32:09
States activity in Gaza. That's an absolute lie, what he
32:12
said there, there is no deal. There's no new government.
32:15
They haven't. The US and Israel have installed
32:18
a new government in Gaza. Hamas has not signed anything to
32:22
disarm. It hasn't happened.
32:23
So this, the level of lying here and and gaslighting is quite
32:29
extraordinary. And where, how come our
32:32
governments and the mainstream media aren't pushing back on
32:35
this? Not that I'm surprised.
32:37
Because they basically agree with it.
32:39
It's, it's really, I mean this, this is really amazing.
32:43
Well then, then the question is who's in and who's out?
32:46
And of course, the big question is, is Russia in?
32:49
Oh, before, before we go to Russia.
32:51
Yeah. So, so Belgium, they they
32:53
claimed Belgium was in and Belgian leader just said, whoa,
32:56
whoa, whoa, we're not in. And they rejected it.
32:58
So the, the, the Trump administration's making up
33:01
people, they're, they're telling us people who have joined that
33:05
haven't never joined. So there's no credibility at all
33:08
with this. So Belgium's out, Britain's out.
33:11
Well, we're going to currently, we'll talk about that.
33:13
Canada's out. It looks like the France is out,
33:16
Germany's out. Now China has basically said
33:20
we're looking at it, we're reviewing it.
33:22
But they said, they warned the Chinese.
33:24
This has major implications for international law, and Russia
33:28
has said more or less the same thing, but you have more.
33:30
On Well, let's have a look at what Putin said because this is
33:33
what he said yesterday, he said. As for the peace council, yes,
33:37
we really did receive a personal message from the president of
33:40
the United States, Donald Trump, inviting us to join a new
33:43
international body he's setting up.
33:45
As for whether Russia will take part in this peace council, the
33:49
Foreign Ministry has been instructed to carefully review
33:51
the documents we've been sent, same, same as as China at this
33:55
point. And he said and to consult with
33:58
our strategic partners. And then he said then here's the
34:02
main point, whatever process is launched must actually help move
34:06
things forward, sorry, towards a long term settlement of the
34:10
Israeli Palestinian conflict based on relevant UN decisions.
34:14
So in other words, he's very clear this is not going to
34:16
replace the United Nations. And all the resolutions that
34:19
have ruled on Palestine, OK, dozens of them.
34:22
Yeah, but he ended his comments with a bit of a Barb because he
34:25
said so. Even before we decide whether to
34:27
formally take part in the Peace Council, we could, I believe
34:30
send 1 billion U.S. dollars to the council were frozen under
34:33
the previous US administration. So that's that's pretty clear.
34:38
But then finally, Britain's position as expressed by our
34:42
wonderful Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.
34:44
Let's have a listen we. Want to be part?
34:48
Of the second phase of the peace plan for Gaza, we've strongly
34:53
supported the 20 point plan. We won't be one of the
34:57
signatories for what is a a legally binding treaty today
35:01
that raises other constitutional issues, but also are concerned
35:05
about suggestions that President Putin might be part of this
35:09
because, frankly, we need pressure on President Putin to
35:13
deliver peace in Ukraine, which so far he is refusing to do.
35:19
So Britain not wanting to. Get in So Britain's not going to
35:22
join the. New Doral on the Med Country
35:25
Club with the $1 billion joining fee.
35:28
That's it's the Golf Club model and he wants to franchise it to
35:31
other conflict zones around the world.
35:33
Maybe we don't have a billion dollars to give.
35:35
I don't know. But anyway, OK, look, let's move
35:38
on then because over the last couple of weeks we have been
35:41
talking quite a bit about ICE and the immigration situation in
35:45
the United States and the way that ICE is behaving as a
35:47
federal agency. What have you got on this,
35:50
Patrick? I had the pleasure of sitting.
35:52
Down recently, Mike and talking to the founder and director of
35:56
Mint Press news in the United States, Minar Adley.
35:59
A lot of people are familiar with Mint Press and she she's
36:03
been very busy covering this invasion in Minneapolis.
36:06
She's based in Minneapolis. As luck would have it, the story
36:09
came to her and her team are there and they've been covering
36:12
it doing an incredible job. This is a a very moving and
36:15
powerful discussion, a part of that discussion I had with Minar
36:19
just yesterday, Minar Addley. And we're going to, we're going
36:22
to play this now and we'll come back with more details on this
36:25
story in just a few minutes. Well, it's.
36:28
Really just a horrific. Scene here on the streets of
36:31
Minneapolis. Trump has unleashed his Gestapo
36:35
federal agents onto our city here and what we would describe
36:39
accurately as an ICE invasion. We're witnessing massive and
36:45
horrific domestic police repression.
36:48
I mean, for whatever it's worth, whatever police state we have
36:51
witnessed in the past, we are seeing it put on steroids right
36:55
here in Minneapolis with these domestic police, federal agents
37:01
that are going literally door to door and walking up to people
37:04
asking them to show them their papers to prove their
37:07
citizenship. I mean, this is unlike anything
37:10
that we've seen before here in the US, at least not in my time
37:14
in my generation. I was born and raised here in
37:17
Minneapolis, and this is the first time I've heard or seen
37:20
anything like this in the United States.
37:24
Right now we have over, not even a minimum, but over 2000,
37:27
perhaps 3000 federal agents with ICE that are here on the ground
37:33
supposedly targeting, you know, criminals, undocumented
37:37
immigrants. But the truth is is that they
37:40
are kidnapping and abducting in many.
37:45
Cases American. Citizens, we just saw them, you
37:48
know, live with Jonathan Ross, the federal ICE agent, shooting
37:52
an American citizen, Renee Good, on the streets of Minneapolis.
37:56
And they are kidnapping and abducting immigrants that have
38:01
lived here for decades who might be, who might have work visas,
38:05
who might be here on refugee status.
38:07
And they're very specifically targeting brown people.
38:12
I mean, they're not targeting like Ukrainians, for example, or
38:15
Irish immigrants that are living here.
38:18
Minneapolis holds the largest refugee population from the
38:22
Somali community. And many of these people are
38:25
here because the United States history is, you know, operating
38:30
its War on Terror in their country for decades has
38:34
destroyed their country. And so they get refugee status.
38:38
And many people are, many of the Somalis are here.
38:41
Many of them are American citizens.
38:44
And just to share a a story, I mean my friend Segundo, a good
38:48
friend of mine, his name is Segundo.
38:49
He's from Ecuador and his wife Maria were on their way to
38:53
church about a month and a half ago.
38:55
They are Ecuadorian immigrants on a work visa here with their
38:58
eight-year old son in their car. And they were abducted or the
39:03
husband Segundo was abducted in his car as they were pulling up
39:08
to their church to go to church. These are law abiding people.
39:12
And just how devastating and traumatic for that wife and for
39:17
their son to witness ICE federal agents pull up, surround their
39:22
vehicle with their masks on, burying their guns, pulling
39:25
Segundo out of his car. He didn't even get to say
39:29
goodbye to his family and his wife and his son are just
39:33
looking at what's happening to their father, to their to her
39:36
husband. An absolute horror.
39:39
And he disappeared for over 2 weeks.
39:41
They had no idea where Ice had taken him.
39:43
They didn't hear anything from him.
39:45
And several weeks later, Segundo finally called them from a
39:49
holding center and I believe it was in Texas to let them know
39:53
that he was being deported back to to Ecuador, where he was from
39:59
originally from. But as you know, Ecuador as well
40:03
as a nation that has been completely destroyed by U.S.
40:06
economic policies and that country is strife with crime and
40:10
corruption. And Segundo and his wife, Maria,
40:14
and their eight-year old son, they have another daughter here
40:16
who's going to college. They've now been separated from
40:19
their families, from their dad. And this is the story of so many
40:24
of these people that are being abducted and taken.
40:29
By ICE, they're being kidnapped, they're being disappeared.
40:31
And in many cases, the people that they're kidnapping are not
40:35
even being sent to their home, you know, their home country.
40:38
They're being sent to a prison holding cell in El Salvador.
40:42
And a lot of times these people have committed no crimes.
40:46
And so for Trump to go on this rampage to send in these federal
40:50
agents and its crackdown against, you know, criminals and
40:55
illegal immigration, this is clearly rooted in white
40:59
supremacy and racism. Because as they abducted Segundo
41:04
in that church parking lot, he was on his way to church right
41:08
now. Nikima Levy Armstrong was just
41:13
arrested by the DOJ because she LED a protest in a church here
41:18
in St. Paul, MN.
41:20
By the way, she is a reverend herself, OK?
41:24
And she is a civil rights attorney, an African American
41:29
sister who led a protest inside the Saint Paul church against a
41:34
pastor who's also the regional director of ICE.
41:38
And she was arrested for disrupting a church service.
41:42
And the right, right now, the far right is going absolutely
41:46
insane saying that she went too far by disrupting, you know,
41:51
Christians, right, to be, you know, sitting in their service
41:55
peacefully without being disrupted while they are
42:00
literally abducting other Christians who just happened to
42:03
be brown skinned and Hispanic and Latino.
42:06
And that's OK. Segundo was abducted in a church
42:09
parking lot and he was sent back and, you know, completely
42:13
terrorizing his family. And now they just arrested
42:17
Nikima because she LED that protest inside of a church.
42:21
And they're quoting the Bible. That's what they're doing.
42:24
They're quoting the Bible. People on the far right are
42:26
quoting the Bible like this isn't Christianity.
42:29
Well, what's not Christianity is prevent is, is having an ice
42:34
pasture connected with ice terrorizing our communities.
42:39
And many times they're also Christian, just like Segundo's
42:41
story. And you know, that story's on my
42:43
mind, Patrick, because it's a good friend of mine.
42:45
Every single person here in Minneapolis knows somebody who
42:48
has been kidnapped and deported by ICE.
42:50
And something that's really interesting that interesting
42:53
that has happened is that ICE federal agents have actually
42:57
stopped off duty police officers here in Minneapolis and asked
43:01
them to show them their papers. And this has triggered the
43:06
police departments to kind of say like, what is going on?
43:11
And this is not OK, you've gone too far.
43:14
Because now they're seeing that it's it's affecting even their
43:17
off duty police officers. And there's just one story where
43:20
one of the police officers from the city of Brooklyn Park was
43:23
stopped. And I believe she was Latina,
43:27
you know, American Latina, And she was off duty.
43:30
She was just in her regular clothes.
43:32
And a federal ICE agent stopped her and asked her to show her
43:34
her papers. Well, most people don't walk
43:36
around with their birth certificate or their passport.
43:39
Like, that's like, not a thing. And so she didn't have anything
43:43
to show him except for her driver's license.
43:46
And she pulled out the camera to start recording her because
43:50
recording him because he became aggressive with her and he
43:54
actually knocked that phone out of her hand and detained her.
43:58
And so this is a perfect example of how for.
44:02
Even for those who might support.
44:04
What ICE is doing in this, you know, their so-called crackdown,
44:08
it's not just going to affect immigrants or undocumented
44:12
immigrants or people who are here as residents or, you know,
44:15
visas. It's going to affect U.S.
44:18
citizens. And we already saw that from the
44:20
first day when a few weeks ago Renee Goode was killed.
44:25
She was shot by a federal agent. And they are being extremely
44:30
aggressive, extremely aggressive.
44:32
And this is absolutely overreach.
44:35
And it's really scary for people who are living here.
44:38
There are many people who are afraid to leave their house in
44:42
the state of Minnesota. Even American citizens now feel
44:46
that they're afraid to leave their house because they don't
44:48
want to be detained by ICE. So yesterday I went actually to
44:52
the Somali Mall to join a press conference.
44:56
Literally one block down from US, ICE had abducted two
45:02
teenagers, slammed them to the ground on the ice here because
45:06
it is very cold here in Minneapolis.
45:09
It's like -10°. Today they slammed them both on
45:11
on ice. We have video footage of this.
45:37
None. Great reporting by Men Press.
45:54
News that's Menorah Addley she's an award-winning journalist and
45:58
I would say in terms of independent media men press is
46:01
probably one of the best organizations in the world and
46:05
has been been like that really for like over 10 years.
46:08
So she's an incredible reporter and that's just a few she
46:12
provide me with a lot of footage, Mike.
46:14
And that was there was stuff even more shocking than what we
46:18
showed there. I mean, that was pretty light.
46:20
But you know, perhaps we'll you know, we'll there's some other
46:23
clips from this interview on future programs.
46:26
But suffice to say, Mike, that's that's about as good of a clear
46:31
account as you can get on the ground there from Minneapolis.
46:34
And we'll we'll be getting more like that as well.
46:37
We'll undoubtedly be talking about.
46:38
This an extra. Now I want to bring this on
46:41
screen. This is whistleblower aid.
46:42
Now. They describe themselves as a
46:44
pioneering nonprofit legal organization that helps public
46:47
and private sector workers report and expose wrongdoing.
46:51
It was founded in 2017, and they say they've supported and
46:55
advocated for whistleblowers across government.
46:57
This is in the United States, big tech and other parts of the
46:59
private sector and so on. Right now, the organization does
47:04
seem to be primarily funded just for transparency here by
47:08
individuals. But they have also received in
47:10
the past funding from the Omadire Network and from
47:13
Democracy Fund Voice. But foundation funding doesn't
47:16
seem to be routine for them, though.
47:19
Now they've published a document, which is a report.
47:22
So let's bring it on screen by two anonymous whistleblowers.
47:26
And they say whistleblower is represents 2 anonymous United
47:30
States government officials disclosing a secretive and a
47:33
seemingly unconstitutional policy directive.
47:35
This policy directive authorizes Immigration and Customs
47:38
Enforcement agents to enter homes and residences without
47:41
consent in order to conduct arrests and removals without a
47:44
warrant issued by a federal judge.
47:47
And it's the without a warrant, but which is the important
47:49
thing. Now the memo was was dated May
47:52
the 12th, 2025 and was signed by the then acting ICE Director
47:58
Todd Lyons. And that was recently determined
48:02
that the the Constitution and immigration law do not prohibit
48:05
using administrative warrants to enter, resist to enter a
48:09
residence. So that's their position.
48:11
And the memo instructs officers to knock, identify themselves
48:15
and give occupants a reasonable chance to comply, but allows all
48:19
necessary and reasonable force if entry is refused.
48:22
So that's what the memo was alleged to have said.
48:25
Now, the assistant secretary of Homeland Defense, Tricia
48:29
McLaughlin, took the X, and she said in every case that DHS uses
48:35
an administrative warrant to enter a residence, an illegal
48:37
alien has already had their full due process and final order of
48:41
removal by a federal immigration judge.
48:43
That's their claim. The officer also has probable
48:46
cause. And then the official Homeland
48:49
Security X account posted that in every case we serve an
48:53
administrative warrant, there's probable cause and the illegal
48:56
alien has had full full due process and a final order of
48:59
removal. So that's the claim from them.
49:02
But that's strange because according to the whistleblowers,
49:05
it appears that the acting ICE director has authorized the
49:08
very, the very conduct, sorry, the very conduct that the DHS in
49:12
2025 legal training materials has called the chief evil
49:16
against which the wording of the 4th Amendment is directed.
49:21
Physical entry of the home without consent or a proper
49:23
warrant and administrative warrant doesn't cut it.
49:27
But in the meantime, as Patrick was highlighting last week, ICE
49:30
has become a major employer in the United States with a with
49:34
apparently no particular restrictions on who can apply.
49:37
And we should also recall the press release from Homeland
49:40
Security Secretary Christy Nob last year, which not only
49:43
removed its restrictions on who could apply, but also all
49:47
ordered, sorry, offered all kinds of incentives.
49:51
So it including a maximum $50,000 signing bonus, a student
49:56
loan repayment and forgiveness opportunity, 25% law enforcement
50:00
availability, pay uncontrollable overtime for enforcement removal
50:06
operations, so basically unlimited overtime and enhanced
50:10
retirement benefits. And Patrick, the question then
50:14
is where, where is this coming from?
50:16
Where has it come from? And the source seems to be the
50:19
Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.
50:23
And the key objectives in this document include clarifying and
50:27
expanding ICE authority, removing restrictions on ICE
50:31
operations, expanding expedited removal, reorganizing
50:35
immigration functions, pushing for aggressive interior
50:38
enforcement. This is all the the key features
50:42
of this. And we're seeing that on the
50:44
streets of the United States at the moment.
50:46
And, and, you know, I would just, we're going to talk about
50:49
this more an extra, but just for those that are sort of saying,
50:52
well, these people shouldn't be there there anyway and
50:55
abductions equals arrests. I'm just going to make the point
50:59
once again, once you start removing the rule of law and you
51:03
start get working your way around the regulations and the
51:07
the, the workflows that you're supposed to follow in the US
51:11
Constitution and the. Constitution you are.
51:13
In a lawless state, the people that are accepting this because
51:17
they happen to not like the levels of immigration in a
51:20
country or because they happen to support the.
51:23
Current president occupying the White House or party right that
51:28
powers will be retained. By whoever.
51:29
It follows follows them in office in fact will get worse.
51:32
This is a slippery. Slope.
51:34
It's a direction of travel you've got to be looking at and
51:36
you've got to be considering where this ends up and, and, and
51:39
accepting this kind of behavior just because you don't like
51:42
immigrants is being in your country is not.
51:45
That's not the way to think about it.
51:47
Yeah, that's that's a very jingoistic.
51:49
Xenophobic way of looking at it, Mike.
51:51
And I will add, when they say illegal aliens, as Minar showed
51:55
us in her interview, they're not illegal aliens.
51:58
Some of the people being kidnapped, they're legal.
52:00
So that shows you right there that there was no due process.
52:04
And that's why and a lot of civil liberties attorneys now
52:06
are being flooded, Mike, with this is this is going to the
52:10
Supreme Court and the 4th Amendment will be upheld on all
52:14
of these cases because this is just reckless what's going on
52:17
here. And it's taking the rights away
52:19
from all Americans, American citizens, not just quote
52:22
illegals. And that's the sort of short
52:25
sighted ignorant viewpoint that unfortunately a lot of people
52:28
have because there is a lot of ignorance out there on this
52:32
issue. Because people are consuming
52:34
really low IQ mega media and following bots on social media
52:39
and being gaslit 24/7 on their favorite channels when in fact
52:43
there's a real world out there that I should remind people that
52:46
exists. Absolutely.
52:48
Okay, where does that take us then?
52:50
Filtered. Let's let's come back to the UK
52:53
and the filtered jury. We'll get a quick a quick.
52:56
Update on this and again, we're going to point to this excellent
52:59
Instagram channel. He'll free the Filton 24.
53:03
They've got already 40,000 followers, jury updates.
53:06
And also I want to give a shout out to this excellent website.
53:09
If you want a real time like trial summaries from court
53:14
reporting here, Real media has just done an excellent job here.
53:17
And you can go down and just Scroll down from each week right
53:20
down to week #8 on this trial coverage.
53:24
Now, there's been some delays with regards to what's happening
53:28
this week. And this is happening over at
53:30
Willage Crown Court, which is adjacent to Belmarsh Prison.
53:32
I want to bring Basil Valentine on the line right now.
53:35
Basil, can you just give us an update?
53:37
There's been some problems with the jury.
53:39
Deliberation of major issues have come up.
53:43
Just fill us in on the details. Basil.
53:46
Yes, unfortunately. Up to the middle of this week,
53:49
the jury had had only been able to deliberate the two days out
53:53
of a possible 7. Now it's worth remembering, of
53:56
course, the The defendants are held under terrorism
54:00
legislation, which means that conditions are particularly
54:03
harsh. They're woken up at 5:00 AM.
54:06
The women spend around six hours a day travelling in a prison van
54:10
to and from HMP Bronze Field. The men face extensive security
54:16
at Belmarsh, where they're X-rayed and strip searched twice
54:19
a day, and then at court they're held in filthy holding cells
54:24
with nothing but a bench. They've also been denied food by
54:28
Serco, the privatised prison supplier, and they aren't
54:33
allowed to shower because they get back to prison too late.
54:36
So, as was the case with Julian Assange, the process is very
54:41
much part of the punishment. Last week, as a result of family
54:48
commitments, illness amongst members of the jury, the
54:52
deliberations were cancelled on more than one occasion.
54:56
It's to be hoped that they can come to conclusions sooner
54:59
rather than later. Of course, this goes back to why
55:03
the hunger strikes took place in the 1st place, which was to get
55:06
bail. Some of these people have been
55:09
on remand, held in these appalling conditions for two
55:12
years and the jury may find them guilty of no offence at all.
55:18
Will they ever get any compensation for two years, not
55:21
just of imprisonment, but imprisonment in very harsh
55:24
conditions as terrorists and. Also Basil on.
55:29
This on this update as well. What about the the timeline on
55:34
this? We also have the judicial review
55:36
which is simmering off to the side with regards to the
55:40
prescription of Palestine action.
55:42
These two are politically linked.
55:44
One could influence the other your your thoughts and just
55:47
briefly, Basil. Well, strictly speaking.
55:50
The judicial review shouldn't draw its conclusions conclusions
55:53
entirely from what the jury decide at Bullish Crown Court,
55:57
although it's likely that it will play a part.
56:00
The Filton 24 were prosecuted under terrorism legislation in
56:04
advance of the prescription of Palestine action because the
56:07
British government wanted to see if it could use terrorism powers
56:11
to quash people who take direct action against the genocide.
56:19
Thank you. Very much Basil.
56:20
Valentine. Now, just briefly, finally,
56:22
Basil, this is an incredible story.
56:25
We'll bring this up on screen right now.
56:27
Israel pays for UK adverts attacking Doctors Without
56:32
Borders. This is an international charity
56:34
that provides free medical services in war zones.
56:39
Explain to us what's happening here.
56:41
Great report by Declassified UK. Basil, what do you what do you
56:45
know about this? Well.
56:48
If you type Medicine Sol Frontier into Google, you'll
56:52
find a link directly to an Israeli government website which
56:57
accuses the the organization which does terrific work for
57:02
gardens. By the way, you can find out
57:04
about more about what they've been doing over the last few
57:07
months. It claims that they failed to
57:10
adequately adequately condemn the war crimes of October the
57:14
7th 2023 and that the pronouncements, public
57:19
pronouncements have become too politicised, too critical of
57:22
Israel. At the moment they only have a
57:26
licence to continue practicing until the 1st of March.
57:29
After that they may be kicked out.
57:31
This of course comes after the Israelis demolished the United
57:35
Nations Relief and Works Agency building in East Jerusalem this
57:39
week and also denied access to dozens of other humanitarian
57:42
organisations. So the plan obviously is to
57:47
punish the Palestinians by denying them healthcare because
57:52
one of the few organisations have been able to help people
57:55
injured by Israeli action, of course by gunfire, by shells.
58:00
Punish the Palestinians because they mentioned some Fontiere.
58:05
Have the temerity to offer some milk toast criticism of what the
58:11
Israelis describe as defensive operations.
58:15
This is really the agenda. Thank you, Basil.
58:17
This is the agenda, Mike, is to restrict any outsiders going
58:20
into Gaza, journalists, NGOs, Doctors Without Borders, because
58:25
of what they'll say to the world about the true or the images
58:28
they might beam to the world about the true state of affairs
58:31
in Gaza, which is really been met.
58:34
We've seen a lot. But that's only a fraction of
58:36
what we could see if there were major media organizations there.
58:40
But of course, Israel wouldn't be bombing, would they, if there
58:43
were BBC crews running around and and ABC and CBS crews
58:47
running around, right? Very likely they would not be
58:51
able to, but of course the other thing that they can then do is
58:55
stand up at a Board of Peace event and make claims about the
58:59
humanitarian response. Well, in fact, nobody has been
59:03
in Gaza to see the humanitarian response, so nobody can.
59:08
Nobody in the mainstream media is going to criticize that
59:10
comment because they've had nobody there to look.
59:12
And we saw the Gaza humanitarian.
59:14
Foundation and what they did with their rap runs.
59:17
Exactly. And concentration camps.
59:19
But lastly, my Israel's buying up ads on YouTube and running
59:23
the worst propaganda you can imagine, demonizing Palestinians
59:29
and also attacking different people.
59:32
And even there was a report about Israelis who ran ads to
59:37
collect donations, pretending to be Palestinian to collect
59:42
donations for a fake charity for Gaza.
59:45
So literally running scams trying to take advantage of
59:49
Palestinian suffering. And YouTube is running these ads
59:52
and all these social media platforms have a hard time
59:54
policing this stuff. We have seen so many reports of
59:57
this since October 7th and it's but of course we have to go back
1:00:01
to that to. Netanyahu meeting with the
1:00:03
young, the youth in the United Nations and explaining how they
1:00:06
were going to be funding thousands of influencers, never
1:00:10
mind the ads, influencers as well on with, you know, host of
1:00:14
YouTube channels and so on. And we saw those influencers.
1:00:18
Mobilized and kicked into action with the Iran riots and they've
1:00:23
been flooding social media being paid $7000 per post.
1:00:28
Good work if you can get it anyway.
1:00:30
It is indeed. Well, look, we have to.
1:00:32
Leave it there for today. I'm going to say thank you very
1:00:34
much to Basil and Patrick and for everybody that's watched.
1:00:37
We'll be back in a few minutes. If you're UK column member for
1:00:40
some news extra, we'll see you then with Basil Valentine.
1:00:43
Absolutely. Yes.
1:00:45
We'll see you then. Thanks for joining.
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US bye bye.