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UK Column News Podcast 4th October 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the fourth of October twenty twenty four, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Colin News and your
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Speaker 2: host Mike Robinson joining me today by video link. We
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Speaker 2: have Mark Anderson from the United States and Debbie Evans
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Speaker 2: from Conwall, so welcome both. We're going to get started
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Speaker 2: with the war. We'll start off in the Middle East
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Speaker 2: here and well, the main crossing between Syria between Syria
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Speaker 2: and Lebanon has been bombed by Israel. So Israeli warplanes
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Speaker 2: carried out three air strikes targeting the Masnaw border crossing.
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Speaker 2: Of course, this is a main road between Lebanon and
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Speaker 2: between bay Rout and Damascus. So this is the map
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Speaker 2: showing Beaute there on the left, Damascus on the right,
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Speaker 2: and Nazna checkpoint in the middle. We had heard yesterday,
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Speaker 2: thanks to Vanessa for sending it through, that that was
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Speaker 2: likely to happen. It has now happened, and of course
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Speaker 2: this is because Israel is justifying this by saying that
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Speaker 2: that crossing was being used to bring weapons from Syria
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Speaker 2: into Lebanon. So the military spokesperson from the IDEF said
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Speaker 2: the IDEAF will not allow the smuggling of these weapons
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Speaker 2: and will not hesitate to act if forced to do so,
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Speaker 2: as it is done throughout this war. So that was
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Speaker 2: what he was saying there on X, but then also
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Speaker 2: on X he was posted this post. Will just do
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Speaker 2: a quick translation of this, issuing a warning to the
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Speaker 2: residence of a whole sway of the different villages in
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Speaker 2: South Lebanon, saying that Hesbela's activities forced the IDEF to
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Speaker 2: act against it forcefully. The IDEF does not intend to
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Speaker 2: harm you, so for your own safety, you must evacuate
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Speaker 2: your homes immediately and head north of the Awali River.
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Speaker 1: Save your lives.
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Speaker 2: Anyone who is near hesbela elements, installations and combat equipment
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Speaker 2: is putting his life at risk, and he has used
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Speaker 2: by Hesbela for his military needs.
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Speaker 1: Will be is expected to be targeted. Evacuate your homes immediately.
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Speaker 2: Be careful. You must not go south. Any southward movement
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Speaker 2: may put you in danger. We will let you know
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Speaker 2: when it's safe to return home. And of course these
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Speaker 2: are exactly the same types of messages that were sent
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Speaker 2: to people in Gaza. So what was the reason for
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Speaker 2: attacking this particular border crossing? Was it because as they
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Speaker 2: claim weapons were coming into Lebanon Vissyria or was it
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Speaker 2: because people escaping the continuing bombardment of South Lebanon. We're
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Speaker 2: leaving the country Indosyria through that route. This is exactly
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Speaker 2: what we saw in Gaza over the last number of weeks.
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Speaker 2: So I'm extremely skeptical about any Israeli claims on this one.
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Speaker 2: In the meantime, of course, the ground war continues. This
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Speaker 2: is the Guardian saying that it Israelly soldiers have been
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Speaker 2: killed in clashes with Hesbola in Lebanon. What's of note
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Speaker 2: is that German media in particular was carrying the photographs
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Speaker 2: on the front page. I think was built on the
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Speaker 2: front page of that newspaper, the photographs of the eight
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Speaker 2: soldiers killed. In fact, the number has gone up to
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Speaker 2: nine now. But of course they have not carried any
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Speaker 2: photographs of anybody killed as a result of the Israeli
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Speaker 2: action in this Israeli media has been pretty quiet about
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Speaker 2: the number of casualties on the Israeli side. They have
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Speaker 2: been determined to say that one hundred HASBEL operatives have
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Speaker 2: been killed in South Lebanon operation in the past day.
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Speaker 2: Some one hundred hasbela operative has been killed during Israeli
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Speaker 2: operations in southern Lebanon in the past day, according to
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Speaker 2: IDF assessments, but a lot of commentary on social media
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Speaker 2: showing this video clip of Israeli helicopters arriving in south Lebanon.
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Speaker 2: This is just over the Lebanese border from Israel in
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Speaker 2: order to remove casualties from the battlefield.
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Speaker 1: Striking imagery here.
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Speaker 2: And it's not clear just how many people have been
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Speaker 2: killed on the Israeli side or injured, but certainly the
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Speaker 2: commentary from the Hasbala side is very clear that there's
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Speaker 2: been significantly higher numbers than the Western media is presenting
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Speaker 2: at the moment. And so the question is then, why
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Speaker 2: would is Really a media be saying very little over
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Speaker 2: the Western media be saying very little about this. Maybe
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Speaker 2: we get a hint about that from this. The Cridle
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Speaker 2: pushed out this tweet a few days ago saying the
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Speaker 2: Associated Press has withdrawn a video is Really forces taken
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Speaker 2: on the thirtieth of September after it was ordered to
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Speaker 2: buy the military So the kill notification from Associated Press
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Speaker 2: says that the reason for killing the story the Israeli
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Speaker 2: military censor has ordered the Associated Press to remove this video,
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Speaker 2: please delete from all platforms. And so if we've got
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Speaker 2: that kind of control of the narrative coming from the
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Speaker 2: Israeli side, Okay, this was before the incursion across the
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Speaker 2: border into Lebanon, and they would argue that they were wanting.
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Speaker 1: To protect their troops and so on.
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Speaker 2: Who were sitting on the Lebanese border from has block
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Speaker 2: getting any foresight of where they were. That's neither here
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Speaker 2: nor there. This level of control of what is published
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Speaker 2: in the Western media is quite incredible.
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Speaker 1: It seems to me.
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Speaker 2: The Russians, though, have been also evacuating people from Beirut.
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Speaker 2: The Russian aircraft arrived at Beirut airport yesterday. But in
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Speaker 2: the meantime, vastly Nebenzia, who's the permanent representative of the
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Speaker 2: United Nations this issued a statement on Israel's invasion of
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Speaker 2: Lebanon pretty hard words. He was saying that he was
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Speaker 2: warning against what he described as a dangerous illusion. It's
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Speaker 2: becoming increasingly clear that the Israeli leadership is looking to
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Speaker 2: trigger a direct conflict between its main regional adversary, Iran
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Speaker 2: and the United States, and will spare no effort to
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 1: So, amongst other things.
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Speaker 2: That's what he was saying, and so that's a pretty
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Speaker 2: dangerous situation in the meantime Germany. If we move on
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine, the German Chancellor Schultz is now demanding a
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Speaker 2: peace conference on Ukraine, and that's again not particularly being
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Speaker 2: reported in Western media as far as I can see
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Speaker 2: the Russian media. If we just put that back on
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Speaker 2: screen for a second, Russian media talking about this is
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Speaker 2: his task and saying according Schultz is saying, we now
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Speaker 2: need a conference in which Ukraine and Russia will take part,
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Speaker 2: and we need to take create the conditions for that.
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Speaker 2: So some people starting to get cold feet, it seems.
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Speaker 2: But bearing in mind the peace conferences that we've had
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Speaker 2: over the last couple of months haven't involved Russia at all,
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Speaker 2: which is particularly ridiculous. But just quickly, then the Spectator
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Speaker 2: here with the headline Britain's half hearted support for Israel
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Speaker 2: helps no one. Well, this is talking about the capability
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Speaker 2: of Britain to arm Israel or to take part or
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Speaker 2: assist in the Israeli efforts. But this follows on from
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Speaker 2: an article in the Telegraph with according Ben Wallace talking
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Speaker 2: about the level of weapons and the fact that neither
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Speaker 2: the raf Nor the type forty five destroyers that are
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Speaker 2: in the region were actually able to deal with the
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Speaker 2: Iranian attack the other day. We just wanted to point
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Speaker 2: out that we have been informed at HMS Diamond in
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Speaker 2: fact is so ill equipped that the forward arsenal has
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Speaker 2: been converted into a gym at the moment, so they
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Speaker 2: do not have any weapons in the forward arsenal at
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Speaker 2: all at this moment, So perhaps Ben.
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Speaker 1: Wallace is correct.
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Speaker 2: Just to end this little segment, Ben Wallace himself has
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Speaker 2: now decided that he is going to go and work
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Speaker 2: for Boca Group, which is an American British arms investment company.
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Speaker 2: He said he can bring a doser reality that this
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Speaker 2: is not about lobbying the government for defense contracts. It's
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Speaker 2: about picking companies that will be in demand by somebody
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Speaker 2: in the defense sector. So he's going to use his
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Speaker 2: inside information of effectively creating the wars that we're seeing
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Speaker 2: at the moment to now go and work for an
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Speaker 2: investment company and tell them where they best invest their money.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't make it up, could you, Debbie.
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Speaker 2: Let's come over to you and move on from the
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Speaker 2: subject of warfare and talk about well net zero. I
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Speaker 2: guess to a certain degree, but our future homes.
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Speaker 3: Yes, good afternoon everyone, lovely to be here. And if
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Speaker 3: my voice sounds a bit croaky, I do apologize, So
8:50
Speaker 3: I've had a bit of a cold this week. But yeah,
8:52
Speaker 3: let's look at homes. And of course we've got twenty
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Speaker 3: six days to the budget and this is money. We're
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Speaker 3: warning that the budget is going to be painful and
9:02
Speaker 3: secure Starmer has laid the groundwork and also not just
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Speaker 3: this is money, but the financial times they've also said
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Speaker 3: this is going to be very painful. So if we
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Speaker 3: go further on and look at the BBC, they're telling
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Speaker 3: everybody to take your energy readings, take your meter readings,
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Speaker 3: because of course we've got a hike in tariffs and
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Speaker 3: then end fuel Poverty. Of course they're very worried about
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Speaker 3: the pensioners as we all are, because they're not going
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Speaker 3: to get their winter allowance and according to End Fuel Poverty,
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Speaker 3: it's going to cost the NHS one point five billion
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Speaker 3: a year to look after pensioners who are cold and
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Speaker 3: living in cold homes. Two point three are living in
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Speaker 3: poor housing. And if we go to the Government UK
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one plan to drive down the cost of
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Speaker 3: clean heat. We can see that what they actually want
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Speaker 3: to do is to replace the old boilers and this
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Speaker 3: is in collaboration with the Department of Business and Energy.
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Speaker 3: So what do they want to do. Well, they want
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Speaker 3: to reduce the cost of heat pumps, and we'll talk
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Speaker 3: about heat pumps. This is really setting the scene for
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Speaker 3: later in the news. So they want to help install
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Speaker 3: low carbon heating systems. A total of three point nine
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Speaker 3: million in the scheme with sixty million in an innovation fund,
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Speaker 3: and I have to say that Ed Milliband has just
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Speaker 3: announced another fifty million to keep this heating pump fund
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Speaker 3: topped up. So a lot of money going into this
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Speaker 3: for low carbon. So if we look at the future
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Speaker 3: Homes delivery plan, and there is one when we start
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Speaker 3: to look at this actually is the delivery plan from industry.
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Speaker 3: So let's look at who they are supported with because
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Speaker 3: this is the delivery hub that's going to be a
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Speaker 3: focal point, so everything's going to go through this hub.
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Speaker 3: And because it's industry led, you can expect to see
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Speaker 3: a lot of names. So let's just have a look
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Speaker 3: at some of the names. We've got Barrett Energy UK,
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Speaker 3: We've got the Environment Agency there, Imperial off gem Off,
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Speaker 3: what RSPB water UK and they are all going to
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Speaker 3: collaborate with a load of other very familiar names. And
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Speaker 3: I've got two slides here because there are so many
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Speaker 3: of them, I won't name them all, but you can
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Speaker 3: see Redro and Wimpy and Wayne Holmes and Taylor, Wimpy
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Speaker 3: and Barrett and pretty much everyone. And I think there's
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Speaker 3: even another slide there. Yeah, I'm not going to read
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Speaker 3: all the names on there because there's loads. And the
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Speaker 3: Energy Saving Trust are talking about retrofitting the UK's housing stock.
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Speaker 3: Now how appealing does that sound. We're going to have
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Speaker 3: to refit every single home and in order to do this,
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Speaker 3: the government are going to make it attractive. They're going
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Speaker 3: to give grants. But more about this a little bit
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Speaker 3: later in the news and we'll see the cunning plan
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Speaker 3: that they've all got lined up for us.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Debbie.
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Speaker 2: And of course this whole heat pomp idea isn't a
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Speaker 2: liver Party idea, it's a to Tory Party idea. So
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Speaker 2: this was being pushed by the Tories in the previous
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Speaker 2: regime and so we've got a unique party as usual.
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Speaker 2: There's no change here, just acceleration. So Mark let's move
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Speaker 2: on then, and well, a Coalition for a Prosperous America.
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Speaker 4: Well, this is a quick review of last week, Mike,
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Speaker 4: the Coalition for a Prosperous America. I reported on near
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Speaker 4: shoring and that coalition's concerned about near sharing. And the
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Speaker 4: headline then was Mexico is growing as a new China
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Speaker 4: hub twenty twenty four, exports already breaking records. And what
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Speaker 4: I found is near sharing, which involves large countries transplanting
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Speaker 4: their industry to other countries to avoid tariffs, among other goals.
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Speaker 4: I found that near sharing is connected to the global
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Speaker 4: cities scheme, and of course one of the main hubs
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Speaker 4: of the global city scheme is in Chicago. And accordingly,
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Speaker 4: the partnership of the Chicago Consol on Global Affairs, which
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Speaker 4: is the former CFR there and Crane's Chicago Business, a
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Speaker 4: long time weekly publication, and World Business Chicago, a public
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Speaker 4: private economic development outfit. Their collaboration came up with this
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Speaker 4: logo chicag go Global, very witty. And we'll move on
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Speaker 4: from there, and I'll describe this connection between near shoring
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Speaker 4: and global cities. First of all, a quick review, what
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Speaker 4: is a global city? A global city is a city
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Speaker 4: that has a significant influence on the global economic, culture,
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Speaker 4: and political landscape. These cities are typically centers of international finance,
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Speaker 4: business and trade very important that's the focus today, and
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Speaker 4: they often serve as hubs for transportation and communication networks.
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Speaker 4: Global cities are also known for cultural diversity, the ability
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Speaker 4: to attract talent from around the world, etc. There's no
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Speaker 4: definitive list of global cities, but common ones New York, London, Tokyo, Paris,
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Speaker 4: Hong Kong, sal Paulo, Dubai. Of course, Chicago is a
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Speaker 4: rising star in the global cities movement. As I've often
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Speaker 4: reported on UKC will continue. What we have next is
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Speaker 4: five features that define Chicago's role in global trade. This
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Speaker 4: is from the Chicago Council and Global Affairs. Illinois and
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Speaker 4: its largest city, which is Chicago, play crucial parts in
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Speaker 4: the worldwide trade landscape. To understand what those parts entail,
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Speaker 4: we spoke to World Business Chicago and so World Business
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Speaker 4: Chicago is sort of at the helm on this, and
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Speaker 4: an important point to make at this point before I
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Speaker 4: go on is that the global cities movement and the
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Speaker 4: connection with trade sees individual cities and individual states within
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Speaker 4: the US as equal partners making negotiations with foreign countries.
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Speaker 4: There's a longstanding constitutional rule in the US Constitution itself
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Speaker 4: that says no state shall enter into compacts with other
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Speaker 4: countries without the express permission of Congress, And in fact,
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Speaker 4: Congress many in Congress are very skeptical of these kind
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Speaker 4: of things, as Reuters, as recently reported. So these organizations
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Speaker 4: in Chicago and elsewhere are basically advocating that cities, which
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Speaker 4: are subdivisions of the States themselves enter into these foreign
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Speaker 4: compacts on very shaky constitutional ground. Now that being said,
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Speaker 4: on this slide, it notes when the pandemic snarled foreign
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Speaker 4: imports of everything from semiconductors to strawberries, shoppers and businesses
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Speaker 4: in Chicago and beyond learn the hard way how complex
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Speaker 4: and interdependent global supply chains are. Making sense of international
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Speaker 4: trade issues can feel like doing a five thousand piece
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Speaker 4: puzzle in the dark without the box and all this stuff.
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Speaker 4: But another important point here, Mike, is that these interdependent
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Speaker 4: global supply chains have been made intentionally complex. They're complex
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Speaker 4: by their very nature. So they established these complex supply chains,
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Speaker 4: and then they expect us to navigate our ways, our
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Speaker 4: way out of these things. Of course, with these globalist
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Speaker 4: groups at the hell so they basically create the problem,
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Speaker 4: then they want to create the solution. But solving that
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Speaker 4: puzzle is part of Carla Erasco's job as head of
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Speaker 4: Foreign direct Investment at World Business at World Business Chicago,
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Speaker 4: where she works to attract foreign companies to the city.
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Speaker 4: And we'll wind up with some important quotes from Carla
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Speaker 4: Erosco of World Business Chicago and note some of the
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Speaker 4: things in here. Here's what she said. Trade in the
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Speaker 4: Chicago area looks a little bit different than the rest
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Speaker 4: of the state. Japan was Chicago's largest trade partner in
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. Again kind of strange that individual cities
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Speaker 4: are negotiating with entire foreign nations, with nearly eight billion
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Speaker 4: imported through O'Hare International Airport, followed by China and Germany,
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Speaker 4: which imported roughly five point five billion and five billion, respectively.
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Speaker 4: Canada is fourth on the list with four billion in
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Speaker 4: imports at O'Hare, and Mexico doesn't crack the top five.
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Speaker 4: And will continue to expound on this. I won't read
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Speaker 4: this whole thing, but it notes that in the first
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Speaker 4: six months of this year, O'Hare International Airport, a single
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Speaker 4: airport in Illinois and the outskirts of Chicago, was the
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Speaker 4: country's third largest trading port by trade value, accounting for
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Speaker 4: five point three percent of the nation's trade. Only the
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Speaker 4: ports of Los Angeles, which is huge I've been there,
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Speaker 4: and the port of Laredo on the border with Mexico
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Speaker 4: ranked higher, with each handling about six percent. The data
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Speaker 4: bears that out smartphones, medicine, and vaccines were among the
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Speaker 4: largest categories of imports at O'Hare, and on the export side,
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Speaker 4: life sciences were key, with products like medicines, vaccines, medical instruments,
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Speaker 4: and pharmacological regions comprised over a quarter of O'Hare's export value.
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Speaker 4: What's interesting there is we're putting vaccines on long distance
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Speaker 4: travels each direction, rather than each nation in the country
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Speaker 4: in the world producing its own vaccines if they're really
17:58
Speaker 4: all that necessary. And so these vaccines are put on
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Speaker 4: long supply change, which makes them prone to spoilage if
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Speaker 4: they need to be refrigerated, and all sorts of unnecessarily
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Speaker 4: long distances involved in this trade. But to wind up,
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Speaker 4: Chicago remains excuse me, China, get this. China remains one
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Speaker 4: of Illinois's largest training partners, but the trade ballots is
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Speaker 4: shifting in an Illinois favor. It's saying, But the most
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Speaker 4: important part is the final quote. After the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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Speaker 4: surface vulnerabilities and supply changed, especially for high tech goods
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Speaker 4: like semic conductors and so on. After that, policymakers started
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Speaker 4: talking about friend shoring, onshoing, and near shoring, in other words,
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Speaker 4: moving supply change out of China and into the US
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Speaker 4: or friendly country. So in order to shorten the supply chage,
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Speaker 4: they're basically just going to take Chinese industry and begin
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Speaker 4: moving it into the United States. And I believe I
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Speaker 4: have one final slide. Here's what Carla said in summary
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Speaker 4: Open for Business. These Chinese companies are looking to manufacture
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Speaker 4: now in Chicago. They understand the power of the US
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Speaker 4: market and they'll keep their products in the market. So
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Speaker 4: rather than creating factories might in terms of the global
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Speaker 4: ass outlook in Britain or in the United States for
19:17
Speaker 4: American workers, American owned factories, for American workers to own
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Speaker 4: good wages, They're going to move Chinese companies into the
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Speaker 4: US to shorten the supply chains. A typical globalist solution
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Speaker 4: for globalist creative problems. There'll be more on this, of
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Speaker 4: course in the weeks to come and in the months
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Speaker 4: to come, because it's an ongoing issue, but that'll do
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Speaker 4: it for now.
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Speaker 2: Well, thanks Mark, and maybe be an extra we can
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Speaker 2: talk a little bit about why it is that, you know,
19:44
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21:40
Speaker 2: Bob Moran, Amed Malak, Katie Joe Murphin, Claire Wills, Harrison,
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Speaker 2: Sonia Paulton, Rachel Matthews and the UK column team, with
21:49
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Speaker 1: It's meeting at.
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Speaker 2: George Square twelve thirty. Sorry, that's on Sunday, the thirteenth
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Speaker 2: of October, and so join them. Their apologies, got that
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Speaker 2: did wrong. So that's Sunday, the thirteenth of October George
22:31
Speaker 2: Square for that. And also we just wanted to highlight
22:36
Speaker 2: mark the Alternativeview live stream, which is the second or
22:39
Speaker 2: the follow up to the Smart Seas and Surveillance agenda.
22:43
Speaker 2: So this is the update and you will be taking
22:45
Speaker 2: part in that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and some of what I've reported today, a small
22:51
Speaker 4: part of it will be part of the overall report.
22:53
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Mark for that. Now let's come on
22:57
Speaker 2: then to assist dying. Now you have noticed it away.
23:00
Speaker 2: So ago, the circle pod, as it's described, was used
23:04
Speaker 2: for the first time in Switzerland to remove somebody from
23:09
Speaker 2: this planet and Now this works by flooding the chamber
23:12
Speaker 2: the person lies inside this. It floods the chamber with
23:14
Speaker 2: nitrogen and it causes your oxygen levels to collapse very
23:19
Speaker 2: very quickly, all at the push of a button. So
23:23
Speaker 2: it makes, as I say, killing yourself pretty easy, and
23:27
Speaker 2: probably a lot easier than drinking the concoction that dignitask gives.
23:32
Speaker 2: But nonetheless that was used for the first time. The
23:35
Speaker 2: people that facilitated this assisted death were subsequently arrested by
23:40
Speaker 2: the Swiss authorities and there hasn't really been any update
23:44
Speaker 2: on that since then, so as far as we know,
23:47
Speaker 2: they're still arrested. But why are we mentioning this now,
23:51
Speaker 2: Well because the Simon Kiss, the Cabinet Secretary, has issued
23:56
Speaker 2: a letter here.
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Speaker 1: It is about a four.
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Speaker 2: Coming Private Member's bill which is going into Parliament on
24:04
Speaker 2: the issue of assistant dying dying. Sorry, so let's just
24:07
Speaker 2: have a look at what he said in this As
24:09
Speaker 2: a long standing convention for such issues of conscience, the
24:12
Speaker 2: Prime Minister has decided to set aside collective responsibility on
24:16
Speaker 2: the merits of this bill, and he said on any
24:19
Speaker 2: others covering the same subject matter. That means that ministers
24:23
Speaker 2: can vote or not however they wish, so they don't.
24:26
Speaker 2: Nobody will be whipped for this particular vote.
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Speaker 1: He said in the letter.
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Speaker 2: The government will therefore remain neutral on the passage of
24:32
Speaker 2: this bill and on the matter of assistant dying. And
24:35
Speaker 2: he also went on to say that however, that ministers
24:38
Speaker 2: should not be commenting on this publicly, that although they
24:42
Speaker 2: don't have to disavy anything that they've said in the past,
24:45
Speaker 2: basically they shouldn't be making any statement and they need
24:49
Speaker 2: to be very firmly reiterating the idea that anybody that
24:55
Speaker 2: any vote on this is done purely on a personal
24:59
Speaker 2: basis and has got nothing to do with the government.
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Speaker 1: So there we go.
25:04
Speaker 2: Question is why is this coming back? We've mentioned this before,
25:07
Speaker 2: just run through it very briefly again because this is
25:09
Speaker 2: really an important issue. The Officer for Budget Responsibility a
25:13
Speaker 2: few weeks ago publish this Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report
25:18
Speaker 2: in which they were making the point that by twenty
25:20
Speaker 2: seventy or so the UK was likely to have a
25:23
Speaker 2: government debt reaching something around the region of three hundred
25:26
Speaker 2: percent of GDP. It's currently at one hundred percent of GDP,
25:30
Speaker 2: so massive pressure in an aging population, with not enough
25:34
Speaker 2: people of younger age generating income for the government, they
25:40
Speaker 2: are going to be borrowing more and more and more
25:42
Speaker 2: in order to support the social care and the healthcare
25:45
Speaker 2: that's needed for this aging population. And of course, as
25:49
Speaker 2: we've mentioned before, we've seen so many comments and narratives
25:54
Speaker 2: in the mainstream press, and I keep highlighting Matthew Paris
25:58
Speaker 2: because this was the most egregious example that we are
26:01
Speaker 2: with our question, going to be coming under a lot
26:04
Speaker 2: of pressure to end our lives as quickly as possible.
26:08
Speaker 2: So if you remember he said in his comment piece
26:12
Speaker 2: that within a decade or more, assisted suicide will be
26:16
Speaker 2: seen as a normal road for many to take and
26:18
Speaker 2: will be considered socially responsible and even finally urged upond people.
26:22
Speaker 2: And of course, with the use of the likes of
26:24
Speaker 2: the circle pod, this becomes a very easy thing to do.
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Speaker 1: Wie.
26:29
Speaker 2: We might be commenting a little bit more about this
26:31
Speaker 2: in a minute, but in the meantime, you've got a
26:33
Speaker 2: health update for us.
26:35
Speaker 3: Yes, I have a little health update. And you know
26:38
Speaker 3: we've all been very concerned about children's mental health, and
26:40
Speaker 3: I just want to refer you to this report The
26:42
Speaker 3: Mental Health of Children and young people in England twenty
26:45
Speaker 3: twenty three. Way for follow up to the two seventeen report. Now,
26:49
Speaker 3: I've just taken a couple of quotes from this report.
26:52
Speaker 3: Please go and look at it in its entirety, but
26:54
Speaker 3: it says in twenty twenty three, one in five children
26:57
Speaker 3: and young people aged eight to twenty five had a
27:00
Speaker 3: probable mental disorder. That was twenty point three percent of
27:04
Speaker 3: eight to sixteen year olds, twenty three point three percent
27:07
Speaker 3: of seventeen to nineteen year olds, and twenty one point
27:10
Speaker 3: seven percent of twenty to twenty five year olds. On
27:13
Speaker 3: the next quote, it attributes a lot of these mental
27:16
Speaker 3: health issues to climate. So just over half fifty four
27:20
Speaker 3: point eight percent of young people age seventeen to twenty
27:23
Speaker 3: five years reported being worried about the impact of climate change.
27:27
Speaker 3: Now we know that there is a condition now that's
27:29
Speaker 3: called climate anxiety. But I am concerned that we are
27:34
Speaker 3: over prescribing and prescribing children anyway antidepressants and antipsychotics, And
27:39
Speaker 3: in this report here from ABC, you can see that
27:42
Speaker 3: we're prescribing them more and more. And this is this
27:45
Speaker 3: is not to be something to be proud of. Children
27:47
Speaker 3: should not in my opinion, be taking antidepressants and antipsychotics
27:51
Speaker 3: at all, and in Australia the figures have doubled in
27:55
Speaker 3: ten years. So when I saw Dame June Rain talking
27:59
Speaker 3: on Nice's twenty fifth birthday, when Nice is actually quite nasty,
28:04
Speaker 3: when I heard her gloating over children's antidepressants, I thought
28:08
Speaker 3: you might like to listen. Have listened, Dame Jim Rain.
28:13
Speaker 5: Over the last twenty five years, NICE has unquestionably had
28:18
Speaker 5: a game changing impact on health and care, not only
28:22
Speaker 5: in England and Wales, but much more widely. Looking back
28:27
Speaker 5: from the very first review of sanamavir, to the work
28:30
Speaker 5: on therapeutics during the COVID pandemic, and then today's challenges
28:35
Speaker 5: of new medicines for obesity and dementia coming along. NICE
28:39
Speaker 5: has applied its rigorous methodology independently to review effectiveness and value,
28:45
Speaker 5: and the clinical professions have followed NICE guidance with ultimate
28:50
Speaker 5: benefit to patience and care. From the regulatory perspective, we
28:55
Speaker 5: know that the alignment of a NICE guideline with our
28:59
Speaker 5: statutory in information for health professionals and for patients, it's
29:04
Speaker 5: essential to achieving the maximum benefit and minimum risk, and
29:08
Speaker 5: a great example here would be the use of antidepressants
29:12
Speaker 5: in children, and who could possibly forget the impact of
29:17
Speaker 5: NICE guidance on use of dexamethasone in people with severe
29:21
Speaker 5: COVID infection, that change of clinical standard of care on
29:26
Speaker 5: the same day as the evidence from the Recovery trial
29:30
Speaker 5: became available. The evidence of nice's impact on health and
29:35
Speaker 5: care is itself gold standard. What is most to be
29:39
Speaker 5: celebrated now as we look back is the way in
29:42
Speaker 5: which NICE has changed thinking not only here but worldwide
29:47
Speaker 5: about the importance of robust, independent health technology assessment.
29:56
Speaker 3: So there you go. You've got the gold standard. If
29:58
Speaker 3: you've got the MHRA and you've gotten NICE on your side,
30:01
Speaker 3: what more do you want but to finish off this segment. Interestingly,
30:04
Speaker 3: after Mike's segment and assisted dying, I caught Professor Christopher
30:08
Speaker 3: Witty talking in a lecture. Let's see what you think
30:14
Speaker 3: of it, because I know that Mike and I might
30:16
Speaker 3: have slightly differing views. So here's Professor Christopher Witty about
30:20
Speaker 3: talking about quality of life over quantity. What do you think.
30:25
Speaker 6: Our optimistic point is. I think there's also often an assumption,
30:28
Speaker 6: including a kind of popular narrative, that once it gets
30:31
Speaker 6: your rates you can't have you can have dementia and
30:33
Speaker 6: you're going to be living in social care, and that's
30:34
Speaker 6: the wor it is. The data do not back that up.
30:37
Speaker 6: Most people in their late eighties and nineties do not
30:40
Speaker 6: have dementia, are living independently and have good qualities of
30:44
Speaker 6: life and are very happy they're on this this planet,
30:46
Speaker 6: and everyone around us very up in on this planet.
30:48
Speaker 6: But there are people who also are living in pain
30:52
Speaker 6: disability and can see no back way backwards from that.
30:56
Speaker 6: So my sort of general point on this is certainly
31:00
Speaker 6: my experience as a clinician, and I think I'm very
31:03
Speaker 6: confident if you ask most people up most high streets,
31:05
Speaker 6: if you say to most people, if you're now eighty,
31:08
Speaker 6: I can give you three years of life in disability
31:11
Speaker 6: with poor quality of life a lot of indignity, or
31:15
Speaker 6: two years in good quality of life. Which do you want.
31:19
Speaker 6: People should make their own choices, but I'm very confident
31:22
Speaker 6: based on polling another data, most people would go for
31:24
Speaker 6: the former. What does that tell us, Well, that tells
31:26
Speaker 6: us what we should be doing is going for quality
31:29
Speaker 6: of life over quantity. Once you get to a per
31:31
Speaker 6: certain point, allowing independent choice for individuals absolutely should be
31:35
Speaker 6: their choice surrounded by their family. But actually, for most
31:38
Speaker 6: people and much of medicine, if you do more, you
31:41
Speaker 6: will extend life but potentially make life less high quality.
31:46
Speaker 6: That does not conform with where most people actually are
31:49
Speaker 6: in terms of what they wish. And I think we
31:50
Speaker 6: should be honest about this and say this very clearly
31:53
Speaker 6: to the public. Do you want us to go for
31:56
Speaker 6: always extending life at all costs or do you want
31:58
Speaker 6: us to be principally aiming at quality of life? Because
32:01
Speaker 6: I'm very confident most people, not all, would choose the latter.
32:08
Speaker 3: So what would you decide? Maybe we'll discuss it in extra.
32:12
Speaker 2: Yes, I think we will. I think we will discuss
32:14
Speaker 2: that a little bit an extra. Now, let's come on
32:16
Speaker 2: to the issue of censorship, because well, Kenny and I
32:20
Speaker 2: were somewhat surprised this morning to find that, no, maybe
32:24
Speaker 2: we weren't that surprised, Okay, but we were surprised at
32:27
Speaker 2: least to find that all our YouTube channels were shut
32:30
Speaker 2: down on this at the same time. And so this
32:33
Speaker 2: was clearly more than just a piece of content that
32:37
Speaker 2: had been identified on our channels. You know, this was
32:41
Speaker 2: a coordinated action. So we've just been playing with YouTube
32:44
Speaker 2: recently to see what's possible, what causes strikes, what causes
32:49
Speaker 2: various sanctions from them, But neither channel had been in
32:56
Speaker 2: a poor state that way at the moment those strikes
32:59
Speaker 2: on the channels, and certainly his channel, his extract channel,
33:05
Speaker 2: had just been approved for monetization, and then within a
33:08
Speaker 2: day or two of that it's all gone. So that's
33:11
Speaker 2: clearly coordinated action, and well, we just wanted to let
33:17
Speaker 2: everybody know that that was going on. We find it
33:20
Speaker 2: slightly amusing in some respects, but maybe we've got something
33:23
Speaker 2: we can do about it, and we'll talk about that
33:25
Speaker 2: more in the not to distant future. But the other
33:29
Speaker 2: thing that's happened this week is that we've had our
33:31
Speaker 2: annual communication from the wonderful folks over at NewsGuard and everybody.
33:36
Speaker 1: We talked about news Guard.
33:37
Speaker 2: The other day, but I wanted to highlight one particular
33:39
Speaker 2: aspect of this because in the email that we received
33:43
Speaker 2: from NewsGuard, they said, this our review find this is
33:48
Speaker 2: a review of the UK column website. Our review find
33:50
Speaker 2: examples of content on the site that appears to be
33:53
Speaker 2: egregiously false or misleading. And one of the things that
33:57
Speaker 2: they highlighted was this symposium that we ran in February
34:01
Speaker 2: this year on entitled the Medazolam Murders Exposing State sanctioned
34:05
Speaker 2: involuntary Euthanasia, and in their email, news Guard said to this,
34:10
Speaker 2: in fact, there's no evidence to support claims that medazlam
34:13
Speaker 2: or any other drug has been used to euthanize elderly
34:16
Speaker 2: patients in the UK. Moreover, there's no evidence that the
34:19
Speaker 2: UK government undertook systematic euthansia during the pandemic. This symposium
34:27
Speaker 2: was a group of people who had been adversely affected.
34:31
Speaker 2: In other words, they had loved ones they say, murdered
34:35
Speaker 2: by the National Health Service using morphine and madazlam. Right,
34:39
Speaker 2: These were witness witness testimonies. These were lived experiences that
34:44
Speaker 2: were being expressed. This was not, you know, a piece
34:48
Speaker 2: of journalism or third party information. This was people who
34:52
Speaker 2: had gone through something which was truly horrendous for them
34:57
Speaker 2: in the sense that they lost a loved one loved
34:59
Speaker 2: one through the use of medaslam and warphine, and that
35:04
Speaker 2: there were irregularities in the medical notes in some cases.
35:08
Speaker 2: And so for this crowd to come along and say
35:11
Speaker 2: that this was somehow egregiously false or misleading is in
35:15
Speaker 2: itself gregiously false and misleading and hypocritical. So just wanted
35:22
Speaker 2: to highlight we've got to remember that NewsGuard is one
35:25
Speaker 2: of the organizations that social media companies use to make
35:29
Speaker 2: a decision on whether they're going to target a particular
35:32
Speaker 2: channel or a particular content creator. And so you know,
35:37
Speaker 2: the ratings that these organizations give to people like the
35:42
Speaker 2: UK column or the other individuals out there are important
35:46
Speaker 2: in that sense and that sense only. But don't worry,
35:49
Speaker 2: because Melanie does, Dame Melanie Dowes is going to is
35:54
Speaker 2: writ into the rescue, at least as far as the
35:57
Speaker 2: continuing censorship agenda is concerned. She's interviewed by the Financial
36:01
Speaker 2: Times in the last couple of days and she's absolutely
36:06
Speaker 2: determined that the Online Safety Act is going to give
36:09
Speaker 2: the opportunity for strong action against tech giants. Now this
36:13
Speaker 2: isn't strong action against tech giants who are shutting down
36:16
Speaker 2: channels that the UK government doesn't like. This is strong
36:19
Speaker 2: actions against tech companies that break new rules on content moderation. So,
36:25
Speaker 2: in other words, she's absolutely determined that an even stronger
36:28
Speaker 2: content moderation regime comes in the force. So she said,
36:32
Speaker 2: we've got some pretty strong parts here under the Online
36:35
Speaker 2: Safety Act, there will be some websites who we need
36:38
Speaker 2: to take strong action against, and we're gearing up for
36:40
Speaker 2: that now so we can be really fast. So they're
36:44
Speaker 2: basically planning for twenty twenty five, which is when the
36:47
Speaker 2: main regime or under Online Safety Act comes in the force.
36:54
Speaker 2: And so, but we don't need to worry because maybe
36:57
Speaker 2: she's not going to be in the job for very
36:59
Speaker 2: much longer because Simon Case, who we mentioned earlier in
37:01
Speaker 2: the program, has resigned and will be leaving his role
37:05
Speaker 2: as Cabinet Secretary very soon. And apparently the word on
37:10
Speaker 2: the streets is that Dan Melanie Dawes is going to
37:12
Speaker 2: take over from him in that role as Cabinet secretary.
37:15
Speaker 1: So maybe she'll be.
37:16
Speaker 2: Moving to even bigger and better things as a reward
37:19
Speaker 2: for the great job she's done so far at offcom.
37:22
Speaker 2: We'll keep you posted, Okay, Mark, sticking with censorship or
37:26
Speaker 2: at least frame of speech, give us some good news.
37:31
Speaker 4: Exactly, Mike, that's what this is. Good news amid the chaos.
37:35
Speaker 4: We're all tired of the strangulation of the low agenda.
37:39
Speaker 4: While Peter vlaming a teacher in Virginia came out on
37:43
Speaker 4: top in a five year lawsuit. Virginia school Board to
37:46
Speaker 4: pay five hundred and seventy five grand quite a tidy sum.
37:50
Speaker 4: Change policies to end ADF lawsuit on behalf of Bronley
37:54
Speaker 4: fire teacher. The ADF is the Alliance for Defending Freedom,
37:58
Speaker 4: a legal advocate group that I'll be quoting somewhat today,
38:02
Speaker 4: and we'll move on to talk more about Lamming's victory.
38:06
Speaker 4: This happened in Richmond, Virginia. Here's a press release from
38:09
Speaker 4: the alliance dated thirty September. To subtle a lawsuit brought
38:13
Speaker 4: by the ADF attorneys representing a former Virginia high school
38:17
Speaker 4: teacher who has fired for avoiding the use of pronouns
38:21
Speaker 4: to refer to one of his students, the West Point
38:23
Speaker 4: School Board has agreed to pay the five hundred and
38:25
Speaker 4: seventy five grand in damages and attorney fees. In addition
38:29
Speaker 4: to school board cleared Peter Lamming's firing from his record
38:33
Speaker 4: and separate from the settlement agreement, changed its policies to
38:37
Speaker 4: conform to the new Virginia education policies established by conservative
38:42
Speaker 4: Governor Glenn Youngkin that respect fundamental free speech and parental
38:47
Speaker 4: rights very important. The Alliance for Defending Freedom, by the way,
38:51
Speaker 4: is an alliance building nonprofit legal organization committed it says
38:55
Speaker 4: to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the
38:59
Speaker 4: saying toy of life. And we'll move on and describe
39:03
Speaker 4: a little more in depth of what went down. The
39:06
Speaker 4: ADF is saying, as I noted, this concludes a five
39:08
Speaker 4: year lawsuit. Quite an onerous thing for mister Vlamming. Eighty
39:12
Speaker 4: f attorneys filed an initial one million dollar lawsuit. It
39:16
Speaker 4: was initially more against the school board. Back in September
39:19
Speaker 4: of twenty nineteen. Flaming taught French in the district for
39:22
Speaker 4: nearly seven years. The West Point school board fired him
39:26
Speaker 4: after he stated he couldn't in good conscious conscience comply
39:31
Speaker 4: with the superintendence demand that he referred to one of
39:33
Speaker 4: his students using he him pronouns inconsistent with the trans
39:38
Speaker 4: student sex. Lambing tried to accommodate the student by consistently
39:43
Speaker 4: using the student's new preferred name, but by avoiding the
39:47
Speaker 4: use of pronouns altogether, but school boards ordered him to
39:51
Speaker 4: stop avoiding the use of pronouns to refer to the student,
39:54
Speaker 4: even when the student wasn't present. In December, the Virginia
39:58
Speaker 4: Supreme Court ruled that it would re state Blaming's lawsuit
40:01
Speaker 4: after a lower court had dismissed his case. So this
40:04
Speaker 4: thing went up and down a little bit, But that
40:06
Speaker 4: describes the basic central core of what this was about. Now,
40:11
Speaker 4: those new education policies just referred to. Here's a headline
40:15
Speaker 4: from the ADF, Virginia's new education policies protect children and
40:19
Speaker 4: parental rights. And now we're going to quote one of
40:22
Speaker 4: the attorneys from that organization, Kate Anderson. No relation, of course,
40:28
Speaker 4: she's an attorney for the ADF. She said, this ADF
40:32
Speaker 4: supports Virginia's new education policies, which help ensure respect for
40:37
Speaker 4: parental rights. Parents are the primary caregivers of their children,
40:41
Speaker 4: who knew and are in the best position to know
40:44
Speaker 4: their own kids education and healthcare needs. Government officials and
40:48
Speaker 4: school administrators cannot usurp the role of parents in making
40:52
Speaker 4: those critical decisions. A very important thing here that's being
40:56
Speaker 4: established or reinforce, you might say, in this age of uncertainty.
41:03
Speaker 4: This report goes on to say from the ADF, Peter
41:06
Speaker 4: wasn't fired for something he said. He was fired for
41:09
Speaker 4: something he couldn't say the school board violated his First
41:12
Speaker 4: Amendment rights under the Virginia Constitution and Commonwealth law. And
41:17
Speaker 4: that's the quote from another ADF senior counsel. As a teacher,
41:21
Speaker 4: Peter was passionate about the subject he taught. He taught French,
41:25
Speaker 4: He was well liked by his students, and he did
41:27
Speaker 4: his best to accommodate their needs of request. But he
41:29
Speaker 4: couldn't in good conscious speak messages then he knew were untrue,
41:33
Speaker 4: and no school board or government official can punish someone
41:37
Speaker 4: for that reason. We're pleased to favorably settle this case
41:41
Speaker 4: on behalf of Peter Blamming and hope other government and
41:44
Speaker 4: school officials will get the message. Well, we hope they'll
41:47
Speaker 4: take note of the high cost involved in failing to
41:51
Speaker 4: respect an American's constitutionally protected freedoms. Many people hearing this
41:56
Speaker 4: will say, amen, that's for sure, and will conclude with
41:59
Speaker 4: a quote from mister Lamming himself, the victorious teacher in
42:02
Speaker 4: this long lawsuit. I was wrongfully fired from my teaching
42:06
Speaker 4: job because my religious beliefs put me on a collision
42:09
Speaker 4: course with school administrators who mandated that teachers ascribed to
42:14
Speaker 4: only one perspective on gender identity their preferred view. So
42:19
Speaker 4: that's how this pans out, Mike, And we don't hear
42:22
Speaker 4: a lot of positive news like this, We don't hear
42:25
Speaker 4: it often enough. But hopefully this will give rise to
42:29
Speaker 4: more victories and push back on the woke agenda that's
42:32
Speaker 4: been strangling us for way too long and really dampening
42:36
Speaker 4: free speech, and that truly is censorship.
42:39
Speaker 1: So back to you, I'm sorry, Mark. Who gets this money?
42:47
Speaker 4: Well, apparently it goes to mister Lamming for damages and
42:53
Speaker 4: attorneys fees. It is quite a large sum, even though
42:56
Speaker 4: they initially sued for a million. I guess taxpayers would
43:01
Speaker 4: end up paying that, and maybe one could argue that
43:04
Speaker 4: the sum being paid is a little high, but certainly
43:07
Speaker 4: the principle involved is very important. So I think that's
43:12
Speaker 4: sufficient for now.
43:14
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Mark, Debbie. Let's come back to the
43:17
Speaker 2: housing issue, and of course, one of the other things
43:20
Speaker 2: that the Tory government did a number of years ago
43:23
Speaker 2: was to demand that all properties in the UK reach
43:28
Speaker 2: an EPC raating of C or better. Now, this is
43:32
Speaker 2: the environmental ritting that all properties are given. And if
43:36
Speaker 2: you want to sell a property, of course you do
43:38
Speaker 2: much better if your property is a higher ading, because
43:41
Speaker 2: it means it's more efficient allegedly. But one of the
43:45
Speaker 2: problems that we have in the UK is that a
43:47
Speaker 2: lot of our housing stock is Victorian terrorist housing or
43:52
Speaker 2: of that age, and of course it's very very difficult
43:55
Speaker 2: to increase the environmental ritings that we have now. Tories
44:00
Speaker 2: have tried to do was to say that if heist
44:02
Speaker 2: didn't meet an EPC ridding of C or better, that
44:06
Speaker 2: you would not be allowed to rent. That there was
44:09
Speaker 2: quite a lot of pushback because of course that would
44:12
Speaker 2: have immediately taken a lot of property out of the
44:14
Speaker 2: rental market, and so that was kind of dropped by
44:17
Speaker 2: the Tories. But now we've got a liver regime who
44:20
Speaker 2: of course are all about change and when never says change,
44:23
Speaker 2: they mean we do exactly the same. So they are
44:25
Speaker 2: bringing this back, Debbie, they.
44:28
Speaker 3: Are indeed, and you know this segment is going to
44:30
Speaker 3: be if you own your own house out right and
44:33
Speaker 3: you're saying yes, or if you rent, or if you've
44:37
Speaker 3: got a mortgage, this is all going to be applicable
44:39
Speaker 3: to you because you know, when you look at the
44:43
Speaker 3: energy performance certificate and I mean, let's have a look at
44:45
Speaker 3: it because many people might recognize it more than have
44:49
Speaker 3: heard about it. So if you're buying a home, you're
44:52
Speaker 3: going to see an EPC rating, so it tells you
44:55
Speaker 3: how economic and how have cost rated your home is.
45:00
Speaker 3: But this is the problem, you see, This is where
45:02
Speaker 3: we're going to find the problems because you can see
45:05
Speaker 3: there you've got that tariff rating from between A and G. Now,
45:09
Speaker 3: most old homes, as you've just mentioned, Mike, most old
45:11
Speaker 3: homes will only get to the very best a D.
45:15
Speaker 3: They cannot comply to a C. So it's new homes
45:19
Speaker 3: that are getting a C. So let's look at the
45:22
Speaker 3: UK government Energy Performance certificates because you know, as Mike's
45:26
Speaker 3: just said, if you're selling a property, if you're renting
45:29
Speaker 3: out a property, or for you're building a new property,
45:32
Speaker 3: you have to have an EPC which is valid for
45:34
Speaker 3: ten years. How do you get one? Well, you have
45:37
Speaker 3: to get your own one, I'm afraid, and you do
45:39
Speaker 3: have to pay for one. And also if you don't
45:43
Speaker 3: get one, you can be fined. Now I understand that
45:46
Speaker 3: this fine is about five thousand pounds, so it's it's
45:49
Speaker 3: pretty severe. But are you exempt? Well, who is exempt?
45:53
Speaker 3: There are some people that are exempt. So if you've
45:56
Speaker 3: got a standalone building with floor space of less than
45:58
Speaker 3: fifty square meters, if you're due for demolishment, if it's
46:02
Speaker 3: a listed building, conservation or a place of worship, there's
46:05
Speaker 3: others there you could be exempt. But when I went
46:08
Speaker 3: to look at the House of Commons Library in July
46:12
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, the housing and net zero, they say
46:16
Speaker 3: that the EPC is not for purposes. The EPC's the
46:19
Speaker 3: Energy Performance Certificate is not fit for purpose because it's
46:23
Speaker 3: based on pricing. So normally a gas central heated house
46:29
Speaker 3: will cost less than an electrically heated house, so therefore
46:33
Speaker 3: the EPC rating is better on a gas heated house
46:37
Speaker 3: because it's cheaper. So they've decided that this isn't good
46:40
Speaker 3: enough and how can they decarbonize homes? And this is
46:44
Speaker 3: all about decarbonization. So the targets that they've got are
46:48
Speaker 3: pretty well, they're a little bit I think ambitious, but
46:53
Speaker 3: they want to get everybody that's old houses, new houses,
46:57
Speaker 3: everybody to an EPC band by twenty thirty five. The
47:00
Speaker 3: Scottish government are looking at twenty thirty three, and the
47:04
Speaker 3: Welsh government and the Northern Ireland government, they don't actually
47:09
Speaker 3: have they haven't published a strategy as yet, so how
47:12
Speaker 3: can we decarbonize homes? What are they actually going to do?
47:17
Speaker 4: Well?
47:17
Speaker 3: This is interesting because they've said, look, there is no
47:20
Speaker 3: legal requirement, but that big word there currently there is
47:24
Speaker 3: currently no legal requirement for existing homes to be retro
47:29
Speaker 3: fitted or for low carbon heating technologies such as heat
47:32
Speaker 3: pumps to be installed in existing homes. But in order
47:37
Speaker 3: to incentivize homeowners, and that's exactly what they're going to do.
47:40
Speaker 3: A bit like the scrappage system if you remember rightly
47:43
Speaker 3: for cars, they're going to provide homeowners with what they
47:47
Speaker 3: call financial support. So how is this financial support going
47:51
Speaker 3: to be seen? Well, according to the government, there's going
47:54
Speaker 3: to be an uplift. So the average semi detached house
47:57
Speaker 3: they want to have thirty percent low emissions a seventy
48:02
Speaker 3: five percent lower emissions sorry on an average semi detached house,
48:08
Speaker 3: and they say that heat pumps are going to become
48:10
Speaker 3: the primary heating technology. Now, if you're in Scotland, they're
48:14
Speaker 3: going to use this passive house standard, which is basically
48:18
Speaker 3: you're going to be heated by the sun. So let's
48:21
Speaker 3: look at a bit more of these, and what are
48:23
Speaker 3: they actually going to do will They say they're going
48:25
Speaker 3: to lower the cost of heat pumps between twenty five
48:28
Speaker 3: percent to fifty percent by twenty twenty five. Now currently
48:31
Speaker 3: the cost of heat pumps are around between ten and
48:34
Speaker 3: fourteen thousand pounds, but they want to deploy six hundred
48:37
Speaker 3: thousand a year by twenty twenty eight. They want to
48:41
Speaker 3: phase out gas boilers by twenty thirty five, so that
48:44
Speaker 3: all heating systems in all houses will be compatible with
48:49
Speaker 3: net zero by twenty to fifty. And as I said,
48:51
Speaker 3: Ed Milliband has just put millions more into the heat
48:55
Speaker 3: pump fund in order to keep this going. So I
48:58
Speaker 3: went to money saving expert to look at what kind
49:02
Speaker 3: of heat pumps. I mean, there's such an array. I
49:04
Speaker 3: think we'll have to do a separate news item just
49:07
Speaker 3: on heat pumps. But we've got air water heat pumps.
49:10
Speaker 3: We've got air air heat pumps, and some of these
49:13
Speaker 3: schemes you have to have your whole central heating system
49:15
Speaker 3: taken out. Now this is the scheme for the UK.
49:18
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on in other countries, but
49:20
Speaker 3: I'm sure in other countries will hear what your plans
49:24
Speaker 3: are so in some of these schemes you have to
49:25
Speaker 3: have your whole heating system taken out, so it gets
49:28
Speaker 3: very expensive. What's the life span? Well, actually they don't know.
49:33
Speaker 3: They haven't got a clue. They say it's difficult to say,
49:35
Speaker 3: but they say it's similar, similar to a gas boiler.
49:38
Speaker 3: But in extreme temperatures they are actually less efficient. Although
49:44
Speaker 3: they say they still work at minus fifteen, they say
49:48
Speaker 3: that they are actually less efficient. Now, Charles on Wednesday
49:52
Speaker 3: was talking about Jeff Bezos and his Earth Funds, and
49:55
Speaker 3: he was also talking about the fact that we were
49:57
Speaker 3: trying to electrify everything and we don't have enough electricity
50:00
Speaker 3: in the grid. Well, I want to point to this
50:02
Speaker 3: Financial Times article where the Bezos Fund has committed five
50:06
Speaker 3: hundred million to join IKEA and Rockefeller in renewable energy push. Now,
50:12
Speaker 3: not only have they done that, but we've got loads
50:14
Speaker 3: of money coming in from the World Bank and alto
50:16
Speaker 3: multilateral banks. But I also want to highlight this startup
50:20
Speaker 3: company now, as is, Microsoft and Jeff Bezos are backing
50:24
Speaker 3: this startup company called block Power. Now, block Power are
50:30
Speaker 3: operating out of New York and they've greened apparently more
50:34
Speaker 3: than one two hundred buildings by actually electrifying them all.
50:38
Speaker 3: So their ambition, if you go to the next slide,
50:42
Speaker 3: the ambition is actually to electrify every single building in
50:46
Speaker 3: the United States by leasing landlords the necessary equipment to
50:53
Speaker 3: make that transition. Now, I think we've probably going to
50:58
Speaker 3: We're going to hear from the CEO in a minute,
51:02
Speaker 3: but to actually electrify every single building seems incredible. But
51:07
Speaker 3: they've got loads of money, and this money has been
51:10
Speaker 3: coming in from pretty much everywhere. You can see their
51:12
Speaker 3: Microsoft Bezos again, you've got excellent American family insurance. And
51:20
Speaker 3: from their own website, from their own they're literally their
51:23
Speaker 3: own website, Blockpower's website. They say they're boasting of the
51:26
Speaker 3: bezos five point five million pound grant that they've had
51:30
Speaker 3: in this little startup company. And what are they Well,
51:33
Speaker 3: I've just taken a couple of screenshots from their websites.
51:36
Speaker 3: Smarter green are healthier upgrades, so it's time to upgrade.
51:41
Speaker 3: But you know what, let's listen to Donald Baird, the CEO,
51:46
Speaker 3: telling us about what he's intending to do, because you
51:49
Speaker 3: know what, this is the silver bullet to climate change.
51:53
Speaker 3: Have a listen.
51:56
Speaker 7: Here in New York city. Sixty seven percent of all
51:59
Speaker 7: the greenhouse gas us from the City of New York
52:01
Speaker 7: come from the buildings. So how do you turn a
52:03
Speaker 7: building into a tesla? A tesla is you're taking the
52:08
Speaker 7: oil and fossil fuel equipment out of a vehicle and
52:12
Speaker 7: you're replacing it with smart, computerized all electric equipment. That's
52:17
Speaker 7: what we want to do for buildings. We want to
52:19
Speaker 7: take out the oil and gas boilers and hot water heaters.
52:22
Speaker 7: You want to replace them with smart computerize all electric equipment.
52:27
Speaker 7: Heat pumps are like a silver bullet.
52:30
Speaker 1: To climate change.
52:31
Speaker 7: Well, what is an airstore's heat pump? If you think
52:33
Speaker 7: of a two part all electric air conditioner that can
52:37
Speaker 7: go backwards and forwards into reverse, meaning in the winter
52:41
Speaker 7: it provides heating for your home and in the summer
52:44
Speaker 7: it provides cooling for your home. But it's run entirely
52:47
Speaker 7: on all electric, clean energy.
52:50
Speaker 1: It will be economically better for us as well to
52:53
Speaker 1: not have to rely on oil.
52:55
Speaker 3: Not having to sweat through the heated parts of the house,
53:00
Speaker 3: and you know, getting a jacket for the cooler parts,
53:03
Speaker 3: and so it'll be healthier.
53:11
Speaker 7: Taking fossil fuels out of your building can be complicated,
53:15
Speaker 7: and expensive, but block Power is built software to make
53:18
Speaker 7: it simple. We help you save energy, we help you
53:21
Speaker 7: save money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and of course help
53:24
Speaker 7: your building combat climate chain.
53:26
Speaker 1: With the air and heating pumps.
53:29
Speaker 6: This will allow us to go green, but at the
53:32
Speaker 6: same time we will be.
53:34
Speaker 2: Able to effectively heat and cool.
53:36
Speaker 1: The house properly.
53:50
Speaker 7: So that is how block power turns buildings into teslas.
53:58
Speaker 3: So if you can't turn your house into a tesla,
54:01
Speaker 3: your old Georgian Victorian house perhaps, and you can't get
54:05
Speaker 3: it up to an epc C rating, my question has
54:09
Speaker 3: got to be what happens to your home in the future.
54:14
Speaker 3: And as you know, we've talked about carbon credits and
54:17
Speaker 3: we've talked about texts before. So if anybody wants to
54:20
Speaker 3: know more about the what I believe might be the
54:23
Speaker 3: new currency by stealth carbon credits, please go and have
54:26
Speaker 3: a look at UK column News thirtieth of August twenty
54:29
Speaker 3: twenty four, where we tell you a lot more about texts.
54:33
Speaker 1: Debbie, thank you very much.
54:35
Speaker 2: Ni let's come to the BBC and one of the
54:39
Speaker 2: first news is that Laura Consburg, who of course runs
54:43
Speaker 2: a Sunday morning program, has embarrassed herself because she's doing
54:49
Speaker 2: an interview with Boris Johnson yesterday, and unfortunately, while she
54:53
Speaker 2: was preparing for that, she instead of sending briefing notes
54:58
Speaker 2: to her team, she said to her b notes to
55:00
Speaker 2: Boris Johnson instead by email, which made the interview completely
55:04
Speaker 2: untenable and so they had to drop the whole idea.
55:08
Speaker 2: One of the questions that she might have been asking
55:11
Speaker 2: Boris may have been about his attitude to COVID, to
55:16
Speaker 2: SARS CoV two and to where it came from, because
55:19
Speaker 2: of course Boris has published an old biography and in
55:22
Speaker 2: that he has now changed his mind because he definitely
55:26
Speaker 2: was saying previously that it was nothing to do with
55:29
Speaker 2: a certain Chinese lab, but now he is apparently convinced
55:34
Speaker 2: that the COVID was made in a Chinese lab in
55:37
Speaker 2: his explosive memoir, says the Daily Mail here former PM
55:40
Speaker 2: Rejet's theory it started in Wuhan market and says it's
55:44
Speaker 2: likely to be the virus was the result of a
55:46
Speaker 2: botched experiment. So this memoir is being serialized in the
55:51
Speaker 2: Meal if anybody wants to become ill by going to.
55:54
Speaker 1: Look at it.
55:55
Speaker 2: But let's just have a look at his latest comments
55:58
Speaker 2: on this, we said, the awful thing about the whole
56:02
Speaker 2: COVID catastrophe, as it appears to have been entirely man
56:04
Speaker 2: made in all its aspects. I would agree with this
56:07
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, because, of course, we would argue that
56:11
Speaker 2: the evidence shows very strongly that there was no virus,
56:14
Speaker 2: that it was entirely a man made catastrophe in the
56:18
Speaker 2: sense that people were hood winked into believing that something
56:23
Speaker 2: was something else, And of course, as a result, we
56:26
Speaker 2: had all kinds of psychological experiments being run on the population,
56:31
Speaker 2: behavioral experiments and so on. He went on to say
56:35
Speaker 2: this it now looks overwhelmingly like the mutation was the
56:39
Speaker 2: result of a botch's experiment in a Chinese lab. He said,
56:44
Speaker 2: some scientists were clearly splicing bits of varus together like
56:47
Speaker 2: witches and macbeth. I have bat and toe of frog
56:50
Speaker 2: and oops of frisky little critter jumped out of test
56:53
Speaker 2: tube and started replicating all over the world. So, assuming
56:57
Speaker 2: you've stopped laughing, I really just wanted to remind everybody
57:02
Speaker 2: who it is that has been pushing this narrative for
57:05
Speaker 2: so long. So let's start with the telegraph here. No
57:08
Speaker 2: one believed the COVID Wuhan Lake theory.
57:12
Speaker 1: Then the world.
57:13
Speaker 2: Changed its tune and Matt Hancock pushing this idea, pushing
57:20
Speaker 2: the idea that they couldn't admit that it was caused
57:23
Speaker 2: by Wuhan labling because they were terrified of upsetting China.
57:27
Speaker 2: Mike Pompeo pushing this idea, but probably the biggest voice
57:32
Speaker 2: pushing this idea from the beginning has been Richard Dearlove,
57:36
Speaker 2: the former head of mi I six, who has been
57:39
Speaker 2: claiming to subscribe to the theory that it's an engineered
57:41
Speaker 2: to escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Now, I
57:44
Speaker 2: just want to remind everybody who Richard Dearlove is, because
57:48
Speaker 2: of course, he is the man who created the yellow
57:51
Speaker 2: Cake narrative that brought us to war in Iraq in
57:55
Speaker 2: two thousand and three. So he's so called intelligence gave
58:01
Speaker 2: Tony Blair the justification that he needed. He is the
58:05
Speaker 2: man that is ultimately behind the script all affair, because
58:11
Speaker 2: you know, he was effectively, through Christopher Steele and Pablo Miller,
58:16
Speaker 2: running SERGEI script at the time. He was very delighted
58:21
Speaker 2: to go to Ukraine in the not too distant future,
58:24
Speaker 2: where he met a whole host of different people and
58:26
Speaker 2: pushed the idea that Ukraine needed to continue with its
58:29
Speaker 2: war and not go to consider any kind of peace
58:33
Speaker 2: plan or negotiation with the Russians. Richard Dearlove has been
58:37
Speaker 2: pushing a war narrative against Russia and against China for
58:41
Speaker 2: a very long time.
58:43
Speaker 1: But prior to.
58:44
Speaker 2: That, of course, pushed the war narrative in the Middle
58:46
Speaker 2: East that resulted in our invasion of Iraq and so on.
58:50
Speaker 2: And so I would suggest very strongly that if anybody
58:54
Speaker 2: is looking at this narrative about Wuhan Labligs, that you
58:59
Speaker 2: consider who's pushing this idea the hardest, why they might
59:03
Speaker 2: push it be pushing that idea the hardest, and then
59:07
Speaker 2: draw some conclusions from that. But Debbie, let's and with
59:12
Speaker 2: some final news.
59:16
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59:25
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Debbie.
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Speaker 2: And I would just end by saying that, of course,
1:00:47
Speaker 2: if NewsGuard is watching, this is not fake news. These
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Speaker 2: are people that are giving their own lived testimony. And
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Speaker 2: you know, really how dare you suggest that that is
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Speaker 2: in any way egregiously disinformation. I think what you are
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Speaker 2: for today and say thank you very much to Debbie
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Speaker 2: and Mark. Thanks everybody for watching. Do join us in
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