Latest / The Bolt Report / The Bolt Report | 21 May

Transcript

The Bolt Report | 21 May · The Bolt Report

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Goodness is the gold reform it. Tonight, Iran prepares US
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: people for a new war with the US, with moths
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: holding classes on how to shoot an Americans. Also tonight
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: in Israeli minister towards Australians who try to break into Gaza.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Our government goes nuclear, but one activist meanwhile apologizers for
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: throwing chocolates into the sea for the children of Gaza
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: to go. Find plenty more coming up, including Barnaby Joyce
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: and the Great Passion of Prince William. But first, this
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: alban is the government's got to go and got to
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: go soon, I mean must. And this is so imperative
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: that the nationals may have to make the ultimate sacrifice
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: to make it happen, give in to one nation. And
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: that may explain the panic today of National Center to
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Bridge McKenzie that I'll show you later. Let's set the scene.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's not muck around about how disastrous this
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: covermany is. Today there was another sign of its bundling
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: of our economy, figures showing unemployment last month went up
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: higher than expected, up from four point three percent the
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: month before to four point five Now that's no longer
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: low employment, really unemployment even if our treasure of Jim
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: chumps yet again sounding deluded, really, and yet again blaming foreigners.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Have unemployment in the mid furs. In the context of
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: all of this global economic volatility, in the context of
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: our interest rate rises playing out in our economy, our
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: labor market remains a very considerable source of strength. Even
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: with the tick up that we've seen in the numbers today.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Now this jump and unemployment is actually worse than it sounds. Now.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: For one, the latest rise means unemployment is now by
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: nearly half a percent from January. And that's anonymous trend, really,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: isn't it. And more, the government's budget just last week
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: now already seems built on sand. That's because the budget
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: assumed unemployment this financial year would be four and a
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: quarter percent, but it's already now higher. That means fewer
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: people earning the government taxes and more people wanting benefits
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: and all that. Of course, when the governments already so
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: deep in debt that it's gone after entrepreneurs and the
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: budget with higher taxes on coupital gains, and then you
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: add the rest of the government's failings. Of course, you know,
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: the more division we've got, the madnet zero crusede, the
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: mass immigration, the housing crisis, and really labor has to
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: go for the sake of the country. Yet every pole
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: now still says Labor will win the next election because
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: the right of politics is now bitterly divided. There's the Liberals,
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: there's the Nationals, and now a rampaging One Nation under
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: paul In Hansen, One Nation now beating the Liberals and
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: Nationals combined in every poll. And at that rate the
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Nationals could be almost totally destroyed at the next election,
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: even under new leader Matt Canavan, who is one of
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: the smartest, most articulate, hardest working of our politicians. Already,
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: of course One Nation has more senators than the Nationals,
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: and now Hanson is going after Matt Canavan himself. Now,
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: when I say it's just going after him, obviously she'd
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: love him to join One Nation, just as former Nationals
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: leader Barnaby Joyce has. Canavan is a true conservative. Canavan
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: has real economic smarts, which of course, you know One
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Nation desperately needs. And Canavan now must tow the liberal line,
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: which must be frustrating. It's got to toe it because
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: he's the Nationals leader now and he can't upset the
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: Liberals too much, so he's got to change his tune
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: on some issues that it's been passionate about. For instance,
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: on my show last year, Canavan was very clear Australia
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: should dump the Paris Agreement that commits us the slashing emissions.
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: Why would we stay in this agreement when China, India
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: and Indonesia are ignoring it now the United States as well.
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: It makes absolutely no sense. It is going to do
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: nothing for the environment if we met at zero targets,
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: which is unlikely anyway. It's just going to cost Australian
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: people more in their power prices and is going to
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: continue the d industrialization of our nation.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: But this week Canavan, now that is the Nationals leader.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: It has to be a team player with the Liberals
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: who don't own as hardcore on this stuff as him.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: He came on the show to say, through gritted teeth, well,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: actually the Paris Agreement should stay.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: We've got to get rid of this labor government and
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: if we want to, as I say, pursue these side quests,
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: we won't do that.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: My nation, though, is very clear, of course, and it's
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: zero the Paris Agreement, the whole catashphree must go. So
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Canavan would be a perfect fit for One Nation and
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: getting him on board would end the battle and the
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: right one Nation with Canavan and Joyce and Pauline Hansen,
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: that would be unstoppable and the clear option for Conservative voters,
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: and I suggest it would probably win the next election.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: But Canavan refuses to switch parties as a loyal man,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: so One Nation looks like going for him in another way,
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: like you know, destroying him. Canavan has got to move
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: down from the Senate to the lower House to be
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: more effective as the National's leader, and his plan seems
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: to be the next election to replace the National's MP
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Michelle Landry in the central Queensland seed of Capricornia, where
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: Canavan actually lives. But now Hanson is opening an officer
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: right there in Yapoon, encouraging rumors of course that Hanson
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: will also run there, and as I showed last night,
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: she won't yet say if she will or won't, but
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: the way the polls are running, if she did, she'd
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: beat Canavan if he stands, and then knock him out
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: of Parliament, which will be a huge loss to the Nationals.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: But then you've got to ask will any Nationals be
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: left by then, so you can feel now the panic
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: in the National's Party. National Senator Bridget Mackenzie on Sky
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: today was almost begging Hanson to stand in almost any
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: other seat, even promising three times to campaign for Hanson
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: unbelievably if Hans has stood for a Labor seat instead,
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: like the seed of Blair, which is such.
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: Way Pauline for Blair has a really nice ring to it.
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: It's a seat she knows well, community, she knows well,
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: and she'll be actually taking a seat off Labor. Because
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: if you want to change the government in this country,
• 7:08
  Speaker 4: if you want to kick Elbow out of the lodge, Pauline,
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: you're going to have to start winning Labor seats. I'll
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: even come and help your campaign. You'll help Pauline campaign
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: in the seat of absolutely in its switch. Let's go.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Well, that extraordinary offer and she repeated another time, tells
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: you how brittle the Nationals and even the whole Coalition
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: really are. They cannot afford to lose Canavan and if
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: just this one man actually joined one Nation, it'd be
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: game over for them all. But again the argument that
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Mackenzie and others Canavan two have been putting, Yes, Conservatives
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: should focus on finding for Labour seats. But while they're divided,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: they've still struggled to win. Because Labor wins in every
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: poll against whether it's Liberals or one Nation nationally, it
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: would win. Someone has to drop out, step of the
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: out of the way. But why should that be one
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: nation when it is now much more popular than Liberals
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: and infinitely more popular than the Nationals. Why should the
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: stronger parties step aside for the week in a battle
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: for save Australia. Now I know I'm you know, asking
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: for the impossible, fantasizing, maybe maybe even angering some of you.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: But and the Nationals, by the way, you see, they're
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: still hoping against hope that something will turn up. And
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: there are many very good people in that party and
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: you don't want to consign them all to doom, you know.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: But the logic is clear. If the Nationals make way
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: for one Nation, if Matt Canavan joins it, Labor will
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: almost certainly lose. To be told that one nation had
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: no policies, well that's not true, and especially not after
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: today when Paul and Hanson announced their radical new gas policy.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: It's a bit like Norway's, with the government actually helping
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: to pay for gas exploration, pay companies for it in return,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: of course, for the share of the production and taking
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: a risk for the exploration then but cleaning up if
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: it strikes lucky.
• 9:28
  Speaker 5: We will provide a thirty percent rebate on general oil
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: and gas exploration in Commonwealth waters. In exchange, the Commonwealth
• 9:38
  Speaker 5: may take up to thirty percent equity in issued production licenses.
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: The Commonwealth would be responsible for its costs as an
• 9:48
  Speaker 5: equity owner and in turn be entitled to a proportionate
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: share of the production. These costs will include participation in decommissioning,
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: ensuring responsible end of life management is planned from the
• 10:03
  Speaker 5: outset to protect the environment and tax payers. These ownership
• 10:10
  Speaker 5: rights would be one hundred percent owned by a new
• 10:13
  Speaker 5: Commonwealth Special investment vehicle, the Australian National Wealth Investment Corporation
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: or COOLED and wik.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: Now. Even before Hanson announced these details, the Government was
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: against it, so was the Opposition and the Minerals Council.
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: I'm personally very skeptical about effectively government owned oil and
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: gas companies or nationalization of the oil and gas industry.
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: I mean that is a policy borrowed from Venezuela and
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: Higo Chavez, not Australia. I don't think now is a
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: good time to be increasing tax on oil and gas.
• 10:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is such a critical export for US.
• 10:53
  Speaker 7: Everyone forgets that. Norway in getting their industries up and going,
• 10:58
  Speaker 7: they created a fledgling in industry with the oil and
• 11:01
  Speaker 7: gas industry, and they spent twenty years before they were
• 11:05
  Speaker 7: seeing returns into their sovereign wealth fund.
• 11:07
  Speaker 8: We've got a very.
• 11:08
  Speaker 7: Mature set of industries on oil, gas coal in Australia.
• 11:13
  Speaker 7: You don't want to start these things halfway.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Well, Answering the critics is our regular Thursday commentator, a
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, the former Deputy Prime Minister. Barnaby,
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: great to see you again. Now you heard Patterson. Their
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: governments should not be owning energy projects, although I did
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: do point out the Liberals did go to the last
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: selection talking about owning nuclear power plants. But whatever, doesn't
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: this sound a bit socialist?
• 11:44
  Speaker 9: Well, and not only that, I think they're handing love
• 11:46
  Speaker 9: with the capacity investment schemes where your listeners tip out
• 11:50
  Speaker 9: for interimendent power precincts, the renewaball, the swindle factories, the
• 11:56
  Speaker 9: soul panels.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: And the wind turbines.
• 11:58
  Speaker 9: For which they decide to pay eighty percent of their income,
• 12:02
  Speaker 9: even if they don't produce an electron, and for which
• 12:05
  Speaker 9: your listeners don't see a cent, not a one percent
• 12:09
  Speaker 9: of equity, which is an interesting way to do business.
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: I'd have to also say, mister Patterson, at the time,
• 12:16
  Speaker 9: me too. I made a big mistake. They were part
• 12:19
  Speaker 9: of a government that paid two.
• 12:21
  Speaker 10: Thousand million dollars two thousand million dollars to Quadis and
• 12:26
  Speaker 10: never got a percent of equity in that company. It's
• 12:30
  Speaker 10: that is the coalitional way. That's a liberal way right
• 12:33
  Speaker 10: across business, aren't they. Now, what we're saying is you
• 12:36
  Speaker 10: can choose to be part of this, or you can
• 12:40
  Speaker 10: choose not to.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: It's up to you.
• 12:44
  Speaker 9: But if you choose to be part, then the government
• 12:47
  Speaker 9: pays thirty percent of your costs in exploration and later
• 12:52
  Speaker 9: on in development. And if it's a bonanza, your people,
• 12:57
  Speaker 9: the listeners, your watchers, are part of that bonanza.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: You make the money.
• 13:02
  Speaker 9: But if it's a dud, well you don't. But it
• 13:06
  Speaker 9: is the company's choice. So this hregosha Ver's venezuela rhetoric
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: is emanating from people who obviously have no idea what
• 13:14
  Speaker 9: we're doing. And what this shows is that one nation
• 13:18
  Speaker 9: is actually developing policies. I haven't actually heard how the
• 13:23
  Speaker 9: others are going to deal with the issue that the
• 13:26
  Speaker 9: Australian people feel they're not getting a fair return for
• 13:30
  Speaker 9: the resources which inherently are part of the sovereignty of Australia.
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: This is after negotiating with the industry.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: We did that for which.
• 13:39
  Speaker 9: They are happy.
• 13:41
  Speaker 10: They are happy, we are happy.
• 13:43
  Speaker 9: Nobody's perfect, but we've got a path forward to continue
• 13:47
  Speaker 9: on with the social license, which is so incredibly important
• 13:50
  Speaker 9: for the development of our resources, to keep Australia well,
• 13:56
  Speaker 9: develop it as strong as possible, as quickly as possible.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: How about that, Well, you've got to hope that, you know,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the government is putting its money in exploration and development
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: that turns out to be profitable, because otherwise we'll lose
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. But I aims to think it.
• 14:14
  Speaker 9: But can I can I just deal with the head
• 14:18
  Speaker 9: like okay, so let's talk about the Andrew Bolt Exploration Company.
• 14:22
  Speaker 9: So so the government says, okay, and Andrew Bold Exploration Company,
• 14:26
  Speaker 9: we will cover you for thirty percent, but we're thirty
• 14:28
  Speaker 9: percent owner now all the way through all the way through.
• 14:32
  Speaker 9: But that means Andrew Bolt has to be prepared to
• 14:34
  Speaker 9: lose seventy percent if it's a dud deal.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think Andrew Bolt's that done.
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: I think Andrew Bold will have done the geotech work
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: and said, well, I'm not going in at all if
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: I don't think Andrew Bolt's going to win, because I'm
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: going to do my shirt. And this is the whole thing.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: We let industry drive it. They've done the geotech work,
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: they know what they're doing. They control the board of
• 14:56
  Speaker 9: the company. They're stilled as seventy percent owner. The Australian
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: people are in there for thirty percent. But that means
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: when hipps bonanza, not only do we get a return
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: back to the Australian people by a return from the profits,
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: but we have a substantial asset on our nation's balance sheet.
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: And what's wrong with that? You already have one AARTC.
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: We have substantial assets in our balance sheet and we
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: have complete other dogs snow Hydro two point zero the
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: top of the dog list.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: No, absolutely, don't remind me of that. Bataby though. If
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the aim is to get more fossil fuels for Australia,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: why did one Nation in South Australia this week vote
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: to keep banning fracking for gas and oil in southeast
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: South Australia.
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: Well, there's two parts of that. First of all, that's
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: South Australia. We are talking about a Commonwealth policy. Commonwealth
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: policy starts off the coast. We are not within the
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: realms of the state. The state owns state resources and
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: the state parliaments will have state debates about state reserve.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not going no, that's a distraction. I want to know.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I want to focus on fracking. Fracking is a safe, proven,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: safe thing. Americas may use it to become an oil
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: exporter instead of an importer. It has unlocked massive resources.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And there's one nation banning it.
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: Well, it's One Nation Party and the Liberal Party, and
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: that the nation One Nation and the Liberal Party. The
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: Liberal Party also don't believe in it. Why would this
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: be the case, because first of all, it's on agricultural land,
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: it's not out in the.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Desert to use that fur fee. But it's true.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: And one the other issue, of course, no, no, And
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: the other issue is even the Labor Party never came
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: up with this play until One Nation held a seat
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: and then all of a sudden epiphany.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: That's why I kept yelling at them. I kept yelling
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: at Labor for banning it. Look, we've had Alan Finkley,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the former Chief Scientist at the time, and you know
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: it's a global warming maniac. Really, but this bloke said,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: he did a big survey. He said it is safe
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: to use if properly regulated. But now it seems to
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: me you're feeding the conspiracy nutters. Why think, Oh no,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: it's going to ruin the aquifers and you know, pollute
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: water and the farmland will be ruined. It's not true.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: And I was hoping that the One Nation was the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: voice of reasoning. But anyway, look, I just want to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: move on.
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: We'll let me have them argue the case in South
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: South Australia. Let them argue the case there in South Australia.
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's if Peter Malons and he's a handsome guy,
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: he's a good looking guy, he's tall, he's athletic, he's great.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: But if he.
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: Can't dispel the concerns that are held by the Liberal
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: Party and One Nation, then why is that my problem?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Because it's a one nation brand and I think it
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: makes people think, wait a minute, what are we actually
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: getting there with one nation? Does it or not? Fossil
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: fuels or not? And here you get this, we are.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: We are where it is on a federal level. We
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: are quite happy to do for the exploratory process to
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: continue tomorrow in the Great Australian Vibe.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Remember that is not the position of the Labor Party.
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: We're quite happy for it to start tomorrow.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the position is of the Liberal Party.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: Maybe they like doing formulon quite a bit lost maybe,
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: and the National Party will obviously have to conform with
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: a Liberal Party. But we are quite happy to start
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: tomorrow in the Great Australian Byte off South Australia, because
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: that is actually where we have a remit, that is
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: actually the Commonwealth's remit.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I am a Commonwealth member, now I've got that. But honestly,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the couple of decision of the Safe Department, your state
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: branch there, started to worry me. Barnaby Joyce, thank you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: so much for your time, really appreciated. After the break
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that Iran is preparing for war again with America, with
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: even gun classes in mosques. The top general tells us
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what he knows is about to hit them Donald Trump
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: said he called off a massive new bombing attack in
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Iran that it planned for Tuesday. Last Tuesday, he claimed
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: he delayed it for as little as two or three
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: days to see if reports that he got from Gulf
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: State allies were right that Iran was serious about a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: peace deal that would mean an end to its nuclear
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: weapons program and clear the strait or for muz now,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I just don't believe it, and time I think is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: now running out and inside Iran this week, in fact,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: there are many signs of the regime preparing for war
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: uh showing now Iranians on TV how to assemble and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: fire guns in the country's defense.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: About and.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: State TV is also showing its Revolutionary Guard Core training
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Iranian citizens and get this in dozens of mosques as
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: well as schools how to fight Americans and Israelis now. This,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of course is one more reason why mosques are often military.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: Targets and Albertial.
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: Beginna Ha.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: Mudeship and beginning.
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: Of Taliban and Nati corbon. You going to give bad.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Islam in Iran? Sure is different, not just in his Iran.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: People are there even getting married in armed vehicles. The
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: giant year Moham you start. I spoke earlier to General
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Jack Keane, a former Vice Chief of Staff the United
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: States Army, is now chairman of the Institute of the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Study of War. He has also been consulted on the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: US war plans. General kan great to catch up with
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you again. Iran under this terrorist regime, it does not
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: look to me at all like a country keen on peace.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: There's no doubt about that. I mean, the Ilians are
• 22:00
  Speaker 13: ironical and diabolical, and certainly they imposed a cease fire
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: on the United States in a sense because what did
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: they do. They strike, shut down the straights and the moves,
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: and they offered to open it up. We opened up
• 22:14
  Speaker 13: discussions with them and supposed to take place and complete
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: it in the deadline in two weeks. Here we are
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: six weeks into that two week deadline, and they have
• 22:24
  Speaker 13: submitted one proposal after another with the promise that the
• 22:27
  Speaker 13: proposal will really have the ingredients necessary for a deal,
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: and when you actually get the final document, it does not.
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: And we're continuing to persist. I think somewhat of this
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: fiction that somehow Ron is going to make a deal
• 22:45
  Speaker 13: that would meet the objectives of President Trump. I don't
• 22:49
  Speaker 13: think it's going to happen. Their motivation here is just
• 22:53
  Speaker 13: to drag this out, put more political economic pressure on
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: our president so that at the end of the day
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: there's no deal. But yet there's no reattack, there's no
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: return to combat operation. He just washes his hands of
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: it and declares victory. I think that is what their
• 23:12
  Speaker 13: objective is. I believe what we must do is realize
• 23:17
  Speaker 13: no deal is going to be had here and return
• 23:20
  Speaker 13: to full throttle combat operations. Our intelligence has increased significantly
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: over these last six weeks. We are flushed with magazine depth.
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: On the Israeli side, we have moved more capability into
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: the region. On the United States side, we have a
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: very comprehensive plan to weaken this regime very significantly and
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: also increase the economic peril that they have in addition
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: to the blockade. Eventually, of course, we would open the
• 23:48
  Speaker 13: straits of a moves itself. I'm absolutely convinced that would
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: achieve the objectives we started out at the beginning. I
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: don't think any deal will achieve those objectives. US military
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: confrontation will weaken the regime and put it on the
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: road to economic collapse and make it very vulnerable to
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: the people of Iran at some point down the road.
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: I do think that's a much preferable and realistic option
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: as opposed to a deal that is likely never going
• 24:20
  Speaker 13: to take place.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Well, that's your judgment. What do you think the president, though,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: will do and win.
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: I think he's going to pursue the deal a little
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: while longer. But he's told the Israelis and certainly has
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: told our Central Command Admiral Cooper to stand by to
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: be ready at a moment's notice to return to combat operations,
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: and they certainly have done that. They are prepared and
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: ready to do that. I think that option is still
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: out there.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just wondering what you think will be achieved.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a in the first round of bombings, because
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it seems from the intelligence leaks that have been briefed out,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: leaked out whatever from the US that the damage done
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to it runs, missile stocks, it's launchers, etc. Was not
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: as extensive as first thought. What can be done?
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: Well, first of all, those are inaccurate. I can say
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: that because I've been briefed there was significant damage done
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: to those launchers and as well as the missile stocks,
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: and we contained those missile stocks. In other words, the
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: missiles were in storage sites deeply varied. As one of
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: the reasons why this operation had to be conducted, because
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: they were accumulating vast numbers of missiles and storing them
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: at a depth that we couldn't get to with our bombers.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: But we blow those entrances up. For sure, they've been
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: taking them out of there, the launchers out and the missiles.
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: And let me just say that we're of what they
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: have done and leave it at that. They're going to
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: be very vulnerable to what we're doing, not just the
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: weapons capability, but clearly we're going to take down any
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: economic target that contributes to the revenue of this regime,
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: and that is in the offing here. It's a very
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: comprehensive plan to take away their military capability but also
• 26:25
  Speaker 13: to devastate them economically.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, General Axios has reported that Donald Trump's advisors have
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: worn the president that China could exploit all this by
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: attacking Taiwan. The Democratic islander has been claiming, and do
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that within the next five years. And of course, you
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: know you're going to take some years to restore all
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the armaments you're using in this war. In Iran. How
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: real is this threat?
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: Well, if you recall President She said he directed his
• 27:06
  Speaker 13: military to be prepared to take Taiwan by force in
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: twenty twenty seven. I took this for two reasons. That's
• 27:15
  Speaker 13: obviously an update to talk about confront and conflict operations
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: in the next five years over Taiwan. But I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: his real objective in issuing that warning he truly wants
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: to separate President Trump somewhat from supporting Taiwan. In other words,
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: week in the US position when it comes to Taiwan.
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: Right now, the weapons that Taiwan has already purchased another
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: fourteen billion dollar tranch that's been approved by the Congress
• 27:47
  Speaker 13: is sitting on the President's desk for approval, and certainly
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: President She does not want him to sign that paper,
• 27:56
  Speaker 13: which would actually be in violation of the nineteen seventy
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: nine Taiwan Accords that the Congress of the United States passed,
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: where an obligated the United States government, regardless of Democrat
• 28:08
  Speaker 13: or Republican, to provide military assistance to Taiwan when they
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: were able to pay for it, and they are able
• 28:15
  Speaker 13: to pay for it. I kind of think he's likely
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: going to sign that it makes the most sense to
• 28:20
  Speaker 13: do something like that, after all, the defense of Taiwan itself.
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: Certainly it's in the US interest and in our allies interest,
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: but it begins with Taiwan itself and having its own
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: capability to impose some cost on an adversary in denying
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: them for what they're trying to achieve. I do think
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: that was really his number one objective of the meeting
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: on President chese part is to weaken the United States
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: support for.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Taiwan well more in five years. In our region generally,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you can imagine how we feel with a depleted military
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: with no nuclear subs yet not for years to come,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: even if they do, provided they do arrive. In the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: first post, General Keen sober and stuff. Thank you so
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: much for your time.
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: Great talking to you, Andrew and your audience.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you. After the break, Foreign Minister Penny One gets
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: stuck into Israel again after a minister they have taunted
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: left wing Australian activists who have stopped from reaching Gaza
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the panel. After this, our arts industry, there's such a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: clear pattern now in the prizes that are being handed
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: out for best book, usually with taxpayer money. It's become
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a club of the hard left. Obviously, with books increasingly
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: being promoted, it seems to me for their propaganda at
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: least as much as their art. See for yourself a
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Monday clear right when the top New Southwest literary a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: would for a book on bark petitions by Abridgell, which
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Wright said demonstrate how a strong and sovereign Indigenous people
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: resisted the Australian government's opposed attempt to erasure and silencing
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of their voice. Last week, the Stellar Prize, originally created
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to honor the writing of women, went to someone who
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: says she's not one. Lelai now presents as male and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: calls herself transgender, and her book really isn't a novel either,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: it's in fact a big cartoon strip. Now. Before that,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the Victorian Premier's Award for Best Book went to a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: poet wearing a Palestinian kevia and identifying as Aboriginal, who
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: says she needed a write so quote I could remind
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: myself of my own humanity in a colony determined to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: deny and violate the humanity of my people, in a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: colony economically and politically complicit in the genocide of Palestinians
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: in Gaza in the West Bank. Her poetry is obviously
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: as political and left wingers all get out. I mean,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: for instance, I'll read you this Whatever time is Left
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: was ransomed from drowning islands in the Pacific. On it
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: goes this cultural self hatred. The People's choice winner of
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Victorian Premiers Award this year as well was another
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Kefea Wara, this one identifying as Palestinian Randa abdel Fattah,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: notorious for accusing Israel of genocide as well claiming that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: zion Is here have no right to cultural safety and
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: posting a poster on a social media of female terrorists,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: one in particular who slaughtered Jewish children on a bus,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: A poster calling this one her one of the Palestinian
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: women who have inspired us. A child killing terrorist joined
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: me the Sky News host James McPherson and communications consultant
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Christi McSweeney, who's worked for coalition prime ministers and premiers.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: James that list, what does that take you?
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: Well, Andrew sadly, it tells me that I, as a white,
• 32:04
  Speaker 14: heterosexual male who believes in Israel's right to defend itself,
• 32:07
  Speaker 14: no chance never going to win a literary award. In
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: this country, no matter how well never, I could write
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: Shakespearean pros and it still would not be enough, not
• 32:15
  Speaker 14: because my writing was no good, but my politics was
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: not considered good enough. So that's the first point. The
• 32:21
  Speaker 14: second point you've already made, and that is that the
• 32:24
  Speaker 14: left they never invent anything. They simply take over existing institutions,
• 32:28
  Speaker 14: hollow them out, and then bend them toward their own
• 32:31
  Speaker 14: ideological purposes, which means we'll still be complaining about this
• 32:36
  Speaker 14: ten years from now. The answer for conservatives is to
• 32:39
  Speaker 14: start our own literary awards, arts awards, movies, etc. And
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: isolate these other awards that have been taken over by
• 32:50
  Speaker 14: the leftists. It's no good sitting around waiting for them
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: to give them back, because unlike the United Kingdom, when
• 32:56
  Speaker 14: the left colonized, they never hand anything back. So we've
• 33:00
  Speaker 14: got enough very wealthy conservatives in this country who I
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: think could start their own awards and we could pretty
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: much isolate and make irrelevant those awards that you've alluded
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: to this evening, and maybe you and I would have
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: a chance of winning one.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: As if Christie, what does this tell you about the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: state of Australian literature.
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: Well, I just heard James's comments, Sarah, I hate to
• 33:24
  Speaker 15: break it to you both. I don't think I would
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: qualify to win one either. But I also I'm really
• 33:30
  Speaker 15: disappointed in this. Australia has a really long history, particularly
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: the Stellar Prize, of supporting amazing female literary novels, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 15: it's really sad that it's actually recognized not even just
• 33:45
  Speaker 15: a novel, but has really taken it beyond that category
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: of the great Australian female novel. It's not a novel,
• 33:52
  Speaker 15: and it's not written by someone who is biologically female either.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And that's she is biologically female. She is, she is
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: biologically female, but she says she doesn't want to be
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: identified as female. So I'm not quite sure what the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: point is, but there you go. She qualifies.
• 34:10
  Speaker 15: That's okay. But at the same time, there is you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: there is certainly a criteria that they are kind of
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: looking at, and I'm really most upset that it's a
• 34:19
  Speaker 15: cartoon strip. You know, it's such a great literary brain.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I know, that's the biggest.
• 34:24
  Speaker 15: We've had this, We've had this huge spite of writers
• 34:27
  Speaker 15: festivals across Australia, haven't wait trying to suggest that people
• 34:33
  Speaker 15: who support certain political views can't participate. We've seen it
• 34:37
  Speaker 15: with Sydney Theater. We've seen it with some of our
• 34:39
  Speaker 15: great Australian artists who are Jewish. I mean, it's really
• 34:42
  Speaker 15: getting beyond the pale of this cabal that seems to
• 34:47
  Speaker 15: want to exist within itself in the Australian arts community.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I've got to point out too that Lila reportedly
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: accepted her award also wearing a kaffea. I mean, gush, See,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it's amazing incident they're all independent, free thinkers. Yet instantly
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and incollectively, they all adopt exactly the same cause at
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: exactly the right time, dropping the previous one, and like
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: you know those flocks of birds and instantly change direction
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in mid air. They'll figure out a new cause the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: other day. And they all think that they're independent thinkers.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It's extraordinary, isn't it. James Watt, how do you explain.
• 35:26
  Speaker 14: That maybe wearing a kafir improves your writing ability.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I'll think about that as I try to consider great
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Palasinian novels I have never heard of. But I'll think
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: about that. I'm not sure that's the case. It might
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: affect your fighting ability and might reflect that Foreign Minister
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Pennywong James, she's again furious with Israel, and this time
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: because far right Israeli minister Itamar ben Vere posted a
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: video of himself stupidly taunting activists, including eleven Australia is
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: captured well on the supposed AID flotilla, trying to say
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: south through an Israeli blockade to reach Gaza.
• 36:06
  Speaker 16: Here is welcome to Israel. We are the landlords. They
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: came with much pride as big heroes. Look look at
• 36:14
  Speaker 16: how they look now, not heroes and not anything terror supporters.
• 36:20
  Speaker 16: I tell Prime Minister in net Yahoo, give them to
• 36:22
  Speaker 16: me for much more time. Give them to us for
• 36:25
  Speaker 16: the terrorist's prisons. This is how it should look.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Now. Israel's Prime minister has criticized this clown who carries
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: on like I'm pretty sure he would have been bullied
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: as a kid the way he carries on now. But
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Wong said she condemned that bloke and also what you
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: called the degrading actions of Israeli authorities towards those attained,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: called for the release of detained Australians and for Israel
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to ensure no ill treatment of any detainees, even called
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: in the Israeli ambassador for a lecture which at least
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: gave him the chance to say what I pointed out
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: earlier this week that Israelis is actually led in plenty
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of aid and plenty of food, which means this flotilla
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: is pushing a lie by suggesting Garz has being starved.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Here he's the Ambassida.
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: Six hundred trucks going on a daily basis into Gaza.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: There's no problem of transferring humanitarian aid into Gaza.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, James Pennywong's hard reaction fair enough.
• 37:23
  Speaker 14: No, I find it very difficult to get on board
• 37:25
  Speaker 14: with Pennywong. I will never forget after the October seven attacks,
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: Pennywong went to Israel but did not have time to
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: travel a short distance to the scene of the massacre. Yes,
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: she gets all upset because the Israeli security Minister sledges
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: a few Aussies who were playing chicken on the Mediterranean
• 37:47
  Speaker 14: with the IDF with the intention of being picked up
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: by the IDF and trying to embarrass Israel. What does
• 37:53
  Speaker 14: she expect him to do? I mean, you know, give
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: foot massages and hand out tea and coffee. These people
• 37:59
  Speaker 14: were deliberately provocative they were spreading blood libels about Israel,
• 38:04
  Speaker 14: talking about a genocide that is not happening, and Penny
• 38:08
  Speaker 14: Wong's upset because a clearly infuriated Israeli security minister sledged them,
• 38:15
  Speaker 14: where Ossie's we should be used to a bit of sledging.
• 38:17
  Speaker 14: And by the way, Israel did them a favor by
• 38:19
  Speaker 14: preventing them from getting to Gaza were at best they
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: would have been used as propaganda for terrorists and at
• 38:26
  Speaker 14: worse used as human shields. So they're going to get
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: on a plane, they'll come back to Australia. They should
• 38:31
  Speaker 14: be embarrassed, not supported by our Foreign Minister.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Chrissy. But on the other hand, they'll think they've had
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a great success by making this Israeli minister look like
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: an idiot.
• 38:46
  Speaker 15: Well, the Australian government has sanctioned that Israeli minister. So
• 38:50
  Speaker 15: these statements that we've seen from the government today and
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: calling in the Australian ambassador, the Israeli ambassador to defact
• 38:58
  Speaker 15: where I'm still not sure what exactly the outcome they're
• 39:01
  Speaker 15: looking for in doing that is. I'm not sure what
• 39:05
  Speaker 15: he's going to be able to do about it. We
• 39:07
  Speaker 15: have sanctioned that minister, So there is really nothing for
• 39:10
  Speaker 15: the Israeli ambassador to do it. It could have been
• 39:13
  Speaker 15: something managed far more diplomatically than this media attention. That
• 39:18
  Speaker 15: the issue is garnered by the government going out and
• 39:21
  Speaker 15: sending out two ministers. And I've seen Minister this Althwaite
• 39:25
  Speaker 15: out today as well as Minister Wong, so they're obviously
• 39:29
  Speaker 15: seeking to make a point of it. There is some
• 39:31
  Speaker 15: validity in what James says about Minister Wong traveling and
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: deliberately by a mission, not including a visit to the
• 39:38
  Speaker 15: site of the October seventh massacre. But at the same time,
• 39:42
  Speaker 15: do we have to believe that these people were doing
• 39:44
  Speaker 15: it for altruistic reasons and not for a media stunt
• 39:48
  Speaker 15: to draw the attention of the world's media. We can
• 39:51
  Speaker 15: believe that and also believe at the same time that
• 39:54
  Speaker 15: the Israeli minister has not operated in keeping with the
• 39:58
  Speaker 15: character of the values that we come to expect from
• 40:01
  Speaker 15: a democratic ally such as Israel. So that's my view too.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: You yeah, look, I think that's time. Yes, I think
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: you are spot on, but talking about a purely performative stunts, James. Meanwhile,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: one of the activists on that flutilla has had to
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: apologize for throwing chocolate surfboard thinking that I don't know,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: magically float to the children of Gaza over the horizon,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like I say, purely performative activism. Mirias three brother now
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: is apologized because critics said, oh, but think of the fish.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You'll choke them with their rap these chocolate rappers, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: what about the litter. What will gret Dunberg say? I mean,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: what does all this tell you?
• 40:53
  Speaker 14: My favorite part about this story, Andrew, was that they
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: interviewed the guy who'd thrown the chocolates into the Mediterranean,
• 40:58
  Speaker 14: which had has much chance of what she the shore
• 41:00
  Speaker 14: in Italy as they do in Gaza, and he told
• 41:03
  Speaker 14: the journalists quote unquote, I understand that I'm not a
• 41:07
  Speaker 14: very smart person, and I think he summed up the
• 41:09
  Speaker 14: situation perfectly. I mean, to throw chocolates into the ocean,
• 41:13
  Speaker 14: and that's your way of taking humanitarian aid to children
• 41:17
  Speaker 14: in Gaza. Give me a break. This whole thing, as
• 41:19
  Speaker 14: Christy said earlier, was performative and that demonstrates the point perfectly.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: James First and Christophigsweeney, thank you very much to you both.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: After the break, this is now a meeting of the
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: council of a major English city.
• 41:38
  Speaker 13: What are one.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Reale? Isn't it nice? Sweet? How Britain keeps these ancient traditions,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: like the prayers said before council meetings. For instance, here's
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the prayers this week at the meeting of the Birmingham
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: City Council.
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: What are on?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Rewant join me from London is Thursday? Regular Patrick Christie's
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: the presenter at gb News. Just in case it made
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a mistake, Patrick, that was England we were looking at,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: wasn't it.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: It's hard to sell, Andrew, but yes it was.
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: And that was Birmingham City Council, which is the council
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: in our second largest city, a council, by the way,
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: where they have not been collecting people's bins rubbish bins
• 42:38
  Speaker 12: for over a year, so maybe it was Maybe it
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: was a prayer to try and collect people's rubbish bins.
• 42:45
  Speaker 12: I don't know what Brown says about that, but anyway,
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: what you don't see from that is that it's followed
• 42:50
  Speaker 12: up by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham City Council, who,
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: in case you're wondering, yes, does struggle to speak English
• 42:57
  Speaker 12: as well.
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: So that's great.
• 42:59
  Speaker 12: It follows a sectarian brawl between two rival aspects of
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: the Islamic community in a different area in London.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous this.
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, but it comes after we have been lectured
• 43:13
  Speaker 12: very recently time and time again now over patriotism and
• 43:18
  Speaker 12: what it means to be British and what it means
• 43:20
  Speaker 12: to love your country, and as far as I can tell,
• 43:23
  Speaker 12: our politicians, especially in the Labor Party, think that that
• 43:26
  Speaker 12: means being welcoming and open to the point where we
• 43:29
  Speaker 12: are basically just a plot of land now where everyone
• 43:31
  Speaker 12: can come and live and not feel the need to integrate.
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: But yes, there you go.
• 43:37
  Speaker 12: That was the council in Britain's second biggest city.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's interesting just north of your studio
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: in London as IgE We're road. I went there when
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: I last dropped in on you, and I have to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: say it felt like a street maybe in Beirut or
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: something like that was just so extraorinal hookah shops and
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: all that. And I'm thinking, I'm not in Islamic Islamophobia.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: But when you go to England, I kind of like
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to see, how, you know, sort of traditional England, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I don't see it in some of those major cities anymore. Yeah.
• 44:20
  Speaker 12: And what's quite interesting, especially about that road that you
• 44:22
  Speaker 12: mentioned there, the Edgeware Road, is that you have to
• 44:24
  Speaker 12: drive down the Edgeware Road to get to the mouth,
• 44:26
  Speaker 12: to get.
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: To Buckingham Palace.
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: So I do often wonder what the King thinks when
• 44:30
  Speaker 12: he gives us another one of his lectures on diversity
• 44:33
  Speaker 12: and inclusion and all of that kind of stuff. I
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: do wonder does he ever, does he get taken down
• 44:38
  Speaker 12: that road on his way home or not? I wonder
• 44:40
  Speaker 12: if they're taking maybe somewhere else. But look, you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: or all for a little bit of difference and vibrancy
• 44:45
  Speaker 12: and all of that, there's no problem there.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: But when it comes to starting.
• 44:49
  Speaker 12: To look a little bit a little bit like some
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: kind of takeover in a sense, which I think when
• 44:54
  Speaker 12: you start to see Islamic calls, the prayers and then
• 44:55
  Speaker 12: Islamic readings at council meetings and all of that stuff,
• 44:58
  Speaker 12: you do start to think, at what point does this
• 45:01
  Speaker 12: start to look a little bit like domination or shift away.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: From certainly national traditional British values.
• 45:07
  Speaker 12: And we are a Christian country and there is a
• 45:09
  Speaker 12: big problem here that we're seeing another big problem here
• 45:11
  Speaker 12: is is as well because in a lot of the
• 45:13
  Speaker 12: kind of back rooms that you're seeing at local levels
• 45:15
  Speaker 12: of politics now that is now dominated in some past
• 45:18
  Speaker 12: by more fundamentalists Muslim men.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: It is just the men. You don't see the women
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: there taking part in it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 12: And I wonder when some people on the left who
• 45:26
  Speaker 12: are you know, big for women's rights as we all
• 45:29
  Speaker 12: should be, are going to wake up to that aspects
• 45:31
  Speaker 12: of it and start to make this more of a
• 45:32
  Speaker 12: women's rights issue in certain areas.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I would list call the domination and more colonization.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I thought the lift was against colonizations a form of
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: cultural colonization to me, and it's turning a country from
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: a home into a hotel. Everyone you know, brings around
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: a bit of culture to their room and there's not
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: one that binds them all. Meanwhile, Russias has got very
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: aggressive with a British surveillance plane over the Black Sea,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: sending JITs which didn't just cross right in front of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: that plane, I mean dangerously close, absurdly dangerously. It also
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: got side to side again much much too close for safety.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: What's the reaction in Britain bean to this?
• 46:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, well, look this is infuriating Russia is buzzing our
• 46:24
  Speaker 12: RAF planes over international waters. They came within twenty feet
• 46:27
  Speaker 12: of causing World War III. That's the headline on one
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: of our national newspapers today. They've also been doing things
• 46:33
  Speaker 12: like monitoring our underwater cables and they've sent sixty three
• 46:37
  Speaker 12: Shadow Fleet ship into English waters since March, transporting things
• 46:42
  Speaker 12: like dodgy Russian oil, arms, etc. Well, the response to
• 46:45
  Speaker 12: this is performative outrage, but in practical reality, Andrew, our
• 46:50
  Speaker 12: Prime minister, has just lifted sanctions on Russian oil that
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: is sent to third country. So basically that means we
• 46:55
  Speaker 12: could import Russian oil but from countries like India. And
• 46:59
  Speaker 12: this is going to Make've got him in pootin billions
• 47:01
  Speaker 12: of powers. He will use it for his war chest
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: and fundamentally, when you take it to his natural conclusion,
• 47:06
  Speaker 12: it means that the British taxpayer is now funding both
• 47:09
  Speaker 12: sides of the war in Ukraine. And that is you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: a bit of a sticks in the crawl, a little
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: bit to be honest with you, when we look at
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: the cost of living crisis that we've got here at
• 47:19
  Speaker 12: the moment, fifty eight tax rises or new taxes, we've
• 47:22
  Speaker 12: had since Labour came to power. You look at all
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: of that and then you think, well, hang on a minute,
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: we are now funding both sides of a conflict on
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: our continent. I mean, it just seems a little bit
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: in nept really, and it all seems a bit weak.
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: They said that we were going.
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: To start boarding and stopping these Russian shadow fleet vessels
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: as they sail down the English Channel.
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: We've not done that.
• 47:39
  Speaker 12: Why because they are concerned that it might contravene international
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: law or the Russians on board the ship might claim
• 47:45
  Speaker 12: asylum in Britain.
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: Well, Russia does not.
• 47:48
  Speaker 12: Care about law, does it. They don't care about international law.
• 47:51
  Speaker 12: It is no, it doesn't suicidal empathy.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I'm more most out of time, but I've got to
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: show people this. So it was really good to see
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Prince William real man of passion, well at lea when
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: it comes to football soccer. He was in assemble this morning,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: our time to watch his beloved Esson Villa win the
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: europe Europa League, and he celebrated like a real fan,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: hugging everyone near him. You don't usually see this passion
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: from a royal, do you? And when did it be
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: hugging a Crown Prince become Okay, well look.
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: You can't fake it. You're either a football funding you're not.
• 48:27
  Speaker 12: A lot of politicians, a lot of big figures they
• 48:29
  Speaker 12: tried to put it on and you can always see
• 48:31
  Speaker 12: through it. But Prince William really is an aston Villa fan,
• 48:33
  Speaker 12: really is a football
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: That is the genuine Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Patrick, Christie's lovely
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: to talk to you again, See you next week Cup
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: next Sherry maxon good Night