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UK Column News Podcast 26th July 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the twenty sixth of July twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK
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Speaker 1: Collin News. I'm your host Mac Robinson joining me by
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Speaker 1: video link. Today we have Mark Anderson, Debbie Evans and
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Granger. So welcome to the program everyone. We're going
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Speaker 1: to get started off with warfare and preparation for warfare.
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Speaker 1: And last week, as we may have mentioned, the Russie
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Speaker 1: Land Warfare Conference was taking place and they of course
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Speaker 1: they overview. They say, the difficult security situation in Europe
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Speaker 1: after Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine has made restoring
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Speaker 1: military readiness and capacity and imperative for the UK. So
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Speaker 1: they had a number of keynote speakers that will bring
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Speaker 1: Sir Admiral to Tony Radigan on screen, the Chief of
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Speaker 1: the Defense Staff. He said in his presentation, our role
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Speaker 1: as military leaders is to reassure the nation and stiffen
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Speaker 1: its resolve and are advanced. Our advice to ministers needs
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Speaker 1: to be granted in a thorough and honest assessment of
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Speaker 1: the threats we face. So let's just look at one
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Speaker 1: of the thorough and honest assessments of the threats we
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Speaker 1: face from earlier in the speech he said that Russia
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Speaker 1: has lost five hundred and fifty thousand men and our
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Speaker 1: assessments are that would take put in five years to
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Speaker 1: reconstitute the Russian arm Army to where it was in
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Speaker 1: February twenty twenty two, and another five years beyond that
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Speaker 1: directify the weaknesses which the war has revealed. Now, of
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Speaker 1: course Russia absolutely comprehensively winning the war in Ukraine at
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Speaker 1: the moment, but clearly plenty of weaknesses revealed there. These
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Speaker 1: people are delusional. The new Chief of the General Staff,
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Speaker 1: this is the head of the British Army, give presentation
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Speaker 1: as well. Let's just look at one clip from that.
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Speaker 2: And to that end, I have a bold ambition to
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Speaker 2: double the fighting power in three years and triple it
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Speaker 2: by the end of the decade. And I'll unpack that
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Speaker 2: in practical terms shortly. But the key point to make
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Speaker 2: is that the need is urgent. We have got to
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Speaker 2: pull the future of fighting power into the present faster
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Speaker 2: than we thought we could. We probably do have just
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Speaker 2: enough time, as Jack said yesterday, to prepare, act and
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Speaker 2: re establish credible landforces to support that strategy of deterrence.
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Speaker 1: He's talking, on one hand about a strategy of deterrence.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, he's talking about having to prepare
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Speaker 1: within three years. And most of the mainstream media headlines
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Speaker 1: in this over the last couple of days have been
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Speaker 1: quite definitive that he was saying that we are preparing
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Speaker 1: for war within the next three years. He went on
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Speaker 1: to say this, however.
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Speaker 2: You don't need me and I won't rehearse the urgency
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Speaker 2: of geopolitical threats. We are not, as the CDs reassured you,
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Speaker 2: on an inexorable path to war.
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Speaker 1: We're not on an inexorable path to the war. But
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Speaker 1: we are on a path to war. And the question
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Speaker 1: is why. And the other question is is he telling
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Speaker 1: the truth if he says that we are on and
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Speaker 1: anx we are not on anexorable path to war. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's have a look at the preparations for war here.
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Speaker 1: First of all, we've got MBDA. They've just signed a
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Speaker 1: new deal with the UK Ministry of Defense through a
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Speaker 1: new complex with their complex weapons partnership. And what they
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Speaker 1: say is at MBDA and the UK Ministry of Defense
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Speaker 1: have renewed their strategic partnership on complex weapons for a
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Speaker 1: further decade with a renewed Portfolio Management Agreement known as
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Speaker 1: PMA two and worth at least six point five billion pounds.
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Speaker 1: The agreement will deliver battle winning complex weapons in the
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Speaker 1: UK armed forces faster, at lower cost and with greater agility.
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Speaker 1: PMA two will also support British job skills and industrial investment.
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Speaker 1: The new agreement confirms MBA NBDA as the mld's preferred
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Speaker 1: supplier of complex weapons. Its framework will drive a further
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Speaker 1: two billion pounds and benefits and efficiencies while enhancing current capabilities.
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Speaker 1: So you know, the key point here is an NBDA
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Speaker 1: as a European project, so British Airspace is involved with it,
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Speaker 1: air Bus is involved with it, Leonardo, which is Italian,
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Speaker 1: is involved with it. So this is all being done
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Speaker 1: at the European level. And if you were watching the
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Speaker 1: UK colled news last week you'll understand the significance of that.
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Speaker 1: We'll come on to that in a little second, but
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Speaker 1: let's look at other preparations for four. Because John Healey,
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Speaker 1: our new Defense secretary, was a busy boy over the
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Speaker 1: last few days running around Europe. Let's have a listen
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Speaker 1: to what he said.
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Speaker 3: So we just finished a two day defense diplomacy drive
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Speaker 3: started in Paris ended here in Tapa on the Russian
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Speaker 3: border of Estonia. What are we achieved. Well, we've reset
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Speaker 3: relations with key European allies. We've signed a deep declaration
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Speaker 3: on defense cooperation with Germany. We've committed Royal engineers to
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Speaker 3: help WRECKI the problems Poland is facing on their border.
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Speaker 3: And we've started to deepen the cooperation between Estonia and
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Speaker 3: the UK to reinforce what is not just Estonia's border,
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Speaker 3: but NATO's eastern flank. It protects Estonia, it protects us all.
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Speaker 3: And this is just a government getting on with the job,
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Speaker 3: but much more to do.
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Speaker 1: So rising music preparation for dealing with NATO's eastern flank.
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Speaker 1: And again we're talking about NATO as if it was
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Speaker 1: a nation or a multi national body similar to the
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Speaker 1: European Union. So anyway, as I said, he went around Europe.
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Speaker 1: Here he is meeting the French defense minister, and he
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Speaker 1: met the Polish defence minister. Then he met the British
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Speaker 1: military that are based in Estonia and met the Estonian
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Speaker 1: defense minister. And then in amongst all this, he went
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Speaker 1: to Germany. So let's have a listen to his comments
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Speaker 1: about the German visit.
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Speaker 3: So I'm here in Germany our third week in office
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Speaker 3: as a new government. This is what we mean by
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Speaker 3: resetting relations with Europe. So today I've signed a declaration
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Speaker 3: of defense, a determination to deepen the relationship between the
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Speaker 3: UK and Germany. Together, we can reinforce the strength of NATO,
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Speaker 3: we can widen the industrial collaboration, and we can make
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Speaker 3: our militaries stronger. Together by working in the UK and
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Speaker 3: Germany in close alliance will make both our countries secure
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Speaker 3: at home and stronger goo.
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Speaker 1: So more rising music. I'm sure everybody's inspired by that.
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Speaker 1: Here he is signing the agreement with Germany, and of
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Speaker 1: course we should remember that this is one of a
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Speaker 1: whole patchwork of agreements between European nations, bilateral agreements between
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Speaker 1: European nations. Now, this of course is part and parcel
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Speaker 1: of the European Defense Union that we've been talking about
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Speaker 1: for so long. And we'll just remind ourselves that, of course,
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Speaker 1: key to this is the fact that France and the
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Speaker 1: UK are nuclear powers. This is why it's so important
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Speaker 1: for UK to be involved in this whole process. As
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Speaker 1: Christian Lindner, the German Finance minister was saying some time ago,
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Speaker 1: so this is a key part of this. We should
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Speaker 1: also just bring Erschela vander Lean on screen and remind
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Speaker 1: ourselves that she is talking about a one hundred billion
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Speaker 1: euro year defense industry, one of the most valuable and
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Speaker 1: strategic assets. This is why we're one of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why we're driving for war so strongly at the moment,
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Speaker 1: and we need to remember how this all fits into
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Speaker 1: the European vision of Defense Union. So the left hand
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Speaker 1: pillar there on screen that you can see bilateral and
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Speaker 1: multi lateral cooperation amongst member states. This is what we've
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Speaker 1: just done with Germany one of these deals. We've done
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Speaker 1: these deals with many other European countries and as the
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Speaker 1: graphic showed, many other countries doing similar deals with each other.
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Speaker 1: And the right hand pillar there, of course is NATO,
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Speaker 1: because that is part and parcel of this. And as
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Speaker 1: we've said before, if you haven't seen this page on
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Speaker 1: EU military unification on the UK column website, do have
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Speaker 1: a look at it because it explains this very clearly.
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Speaker 1: Now the question then is why. Well, before we get
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Speaker 1: to why, we'll just mention the fact that if we
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Speaker 1: look abroad, the United States has just published it's twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four Arctic Strategy, because this is going to be
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Speaker 1: one of the major battlefronts that they want to develop.
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Speaker 1: The UK also has an Arctic strategy, as does the EU.
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Speaker 1: So we've got a battlefront developing in the Arctic which
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Speaker 1: also involves space weaponry. We've got the Eastern Front, which
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Speaker 1: is in NATO's Eastern Orders. We've also got Africa as well.
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Speaker 1: Very interesting. But the question is why is this drive
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Speaker 1: for war? And we maybe get a clue from this website.
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Speaker 1: You smart talking about twenty twenty four US Treasury bond
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Speaker 1: holders and the way that this has changed over the
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Speaker 1: last several months, so well last several years. Rather so,
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Speaker 1: if we look in the past year, from May twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three to May twenty twenty four, China has reduced
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Speaker 1: its holdings, according to this of US Treasury debt from
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Speaker 1: eight hundred and forty six billion dollars to seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty eight billion dollars. In fact, if we look
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Speaker 1: at over the last decade or so, China has reduced
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Speaker 1: its holding in US Treasury securities from one point three
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Speaker 1: trillion dollars to seven hundred and sixty eight billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: This is all as China decides to get out of
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Speaker 1: the dollars, the divest holding dollars completely. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: the UK has increased its holding of US treasury debt
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Speaker 1: in the last twelve months from six one hundred and
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Speaker 1: six billion dollars to seven hundred and twenty three billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, if we look at Britain, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Ireland,
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Speaker 1: Belgium and the Cayman Islands, which of course is British
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Speaker 1: effectively City of London, they have that has increased its
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Speaker 1: holdings from seven hundred and twenty five billion about a
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Speaker 1: decade ago to two point four trillion dollars in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four. So we're saying China divest of dollars, and
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Speaker 1: we're saying a dollar at least dollar debt. And we're
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Speaker 1: saying the West, the Europe and the UK buying more
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Speaker 1: and more dollar debt as we attempt to bail out
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Speaker 1: the dollar system. And the fact that we require the
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Speaker 1: United States and its military infrastructure to prosecute this war
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Speaker 1: that we are so determined to go to, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to suggest that in fact, it is inevitable that
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Speaker 1: unless people stand up and argue against this very hard
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Speaker 1: and very soon, it is inevitable that we end.
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Speaker 4: Up in war.
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Speaker 1: That's the direction of travel, and we've got to start
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Speaker 1: speaking out about it. Mark, let me welcome you to
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Speaker 1: the program. Welcome to the first Friday I've done in
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Speaker 1: a very long time. And let's go to the United States.
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Speaker 1: And of course you've had a visitor there from the Middle.
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Speaker 5: East, indeed, for the fourth time of his career as
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Speaker 5: PM Benjamin Yah Yah Boy, it's Earli here Benjamin dat
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Speaker 5: and Yah, who the Prime Minister of Israel, spoke July
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Speaker 5: twenty four, the very day that Joe Biden announced he
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Speaker 5: would not seek reelection, which some say overshadowed BB to
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Speaker 5: a point. Anyway, he addressed Congress for the fourth time,
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Speaker 5: as I noticed, July twenty four. And this slide that
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Speaker 5: you're seeing here is not a composite that I made.
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Speaker 5: This is how Fox News showed it through YouTube. So
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Speaker 5: much of the speech, maybe half roughly, they were showing
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Speaker 5: images of protesters and their signage. While BB many would
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Speaker 5: say proudly, others would say arrogantly, russ Congress, and we
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Speaker 5: have some clips here. I believe too that gives us
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Speaker 5: a little flavor of what he had to say and
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Speaker 5: how he said it.
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Speaker 6: Mister speaker, I want to thank you for giving me
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Speaker 6: the profound honor of addressing this great citadel of democracy
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Speaker 6: for the fourth time. We meet today at a crossroads
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Speaker 6: of history. Our world is an upheaval in the Middle East,
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Speaker 6: Iran's access of terror confronts America, Israel, and our Arab friends.
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Speaker 6: This is not a clash of civilizations. It's a clash
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Speaker 6: between barbarism and civilization. It's a clash between those who
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Speaker 6: glorify death and those who sanctify life. For the forces
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Speaker 6: of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together,
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Speaker 6: because because when we stand together, something very simple happens.
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Speaker 5: We win, They lose.
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Speaker 7: As you can see, BB decidedly has a rather simplistic
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Speaker 7: view of the issues, the implication that Hamas and the
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Speaker 7: Palestinians Gosins you might say, glorify death and it's Israel
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Speaker 7: who knew that sanctifies life.
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Speaker 5: Of course, many on the ground observers, journalists who are
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Speaker 5: independent of both Palestine and Israel, would beg to differ
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Speaker 5: in terms of what they've witnessed. The IDF do particularly
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Speaker 5: it's air forces burying many gosins under tons of rubble,
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Speaker 5: children included, and oftentimes not even appearing to go after
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Speaker 5: military targets. And the nature of Hamas, of course, is
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Speaker 5: such where it's sort of a citizen group of fighters.
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Speaker 5: You might say, it's not a uniformed army. They have
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Speaker 5: no air force, they have no real ground army in
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Speaker 5: the formal sense. There's no navy, of course, So you
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Speaker 5: have a highly mechanized IDF against really a ragtag comparatively speaking,
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Speaker 5: force such as it is called Hamas. And at any rate,
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Speaker 5: I think we could move on from there in what
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Speaker 5: I have presented for today. Has Netanyah who finally lost America?
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Speaker 5: Vox put this out and I don't know. This article
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Speaker 5: takes a particular view of things that I don't necessarily
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Speaker 5: agree with. It's something to consider. BB got, I'm told,
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Speaker 5: at least I understand it fifty eight standing ovations. And
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Speaker 5: it's worth noting that E. Michael Jones, the noted Catholic
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Speaker 5: author and critic of Israel, to say the least, He
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Speaker 5: noted on his Twitter that the only congressman of the
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Speaker 5: Republican Party that did not attend BB's speech was Thomas
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Speaker 5: Massey of Kentucky, the noted backbencher that's becoming more prevalent
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Speaker 5: these days and earning more Notariah, and apparently about half
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Speaker 5: the Democrats or a significant part of the Democratics constituency
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Speaker 5: in Congress did not attend either. Going back to that
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Speaker 5: Vox article, briefly, it says here, according to the writer there, today,
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Speaker 5: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ya Yahu was back in a
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Speaker 5: very familiar building. Not only was he making his fourth
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Speaker 5: address to a joint session of Congress, breaking Winston Churchill's
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Speaker 5: record for foreign leaders who knew he is also a
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Speaker 5: presence in the building hall since he served as a
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Speaker 5: diplomat in the early eighties. I didn't have to know
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Speaker 5: that he used to be a diplomat since he made
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Speaker 5: his first speech in Congress in ninety six. That Yahoo
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Speaker 5: has been almost as much of a fixture in politics,
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Speaker 5: has been almost as much a fixture in politics in
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Speaker 5: America as in Israel. Excuse me, things felt differently today.
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Speaker 5: It's not just that dat Yahoo is a controversial figure,
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Speaker 5: one who drew thousands of protesters under the streets at
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Speaker 5: Washington that most in speech July twenty four, that's not new.
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Speaker 5: What is new is he's become an increasingly marginalized figure
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Speaker 5: this article is claiming. It goes on to say, and
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Speaker 5: I won't read the whole thing that even a few
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Speaker 5: weeks ago, when his speech was announced, it had the
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Speaker 5: makings of a marquee political event. Today, it was overshadowed
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Speaker 5: by President Joe Biden's highly anticipated Wednesday night speech to
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Speaker 5: address his decision to drop out of the presidential election.
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Speaker 5: Dozens of lawmakers, around half of Congress's Democrats, skipped Netanyahu's
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Speaker 5: speech altogether, and it's notable that among those skipping the
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Speaker 5: speech of all people was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,
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Speaker 5: who himself is Jewish, as is well known, even he
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Speaker 5: didn't attend. And I can only figure even though Schumer
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Speaker 5: himself is not seeking reelection, when I read that, I
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Speaker 5: thought maybe he was, I can only figure that a
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Speaker 5: lot of those Democrats on the House side are seeking
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Speaker 5: real election and net Yahoo is becoming a little bit
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Speaker 5: tougher to be in company with to explain things to voters,
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Speaker 5: because it's finally becoming more achingly and incredibly clear that
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Speaker 5: Israel is no longer necessarily on the side of write anymore, so,
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Speaker 5: at least on the Democratic side, he's becoming a little
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Speaker 5: too hot to handle for those seeking re election. And
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Speaker 5: also later on Mike and my report on the vice
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Speaker 5: presidential pick by Donald Trump jd Vance. I'll have some
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Speaker 5: connections and some reflections on Israel when I report on him,
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Speaker 5: so we can go back to you at this point.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Mark. I just wonder how much if
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schuber's position is because Dione Sarah is running a
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Speaker 1: pretty effective campaign in New York at the moment.
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Speaker 6: But we.
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Speaker 1: Can talk about that an extra perhaps. Okay, thank you
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Speaker 1: for that, Debbie. Let's come on to you and back
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Speaker 1: to the UK and health issues on the MHR.
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Speaker 8: Yes, it's good afternoon everyone. And you knew I couldn't
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Speaker 8: stay away from the MHRA for very long, didn't you.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, let's look at the MHRA because Dame June Rain,
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Speaker 8: where are you? She's left, Hashi. We're not quite sure
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Speaker 8: because the board meeting, of course didn't take place, and
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Speaker 8: we weren't allowed Well, it did take place, but we
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Speaker 8: weren't allowed to be there for the live stream. And
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Speaker 8: since looking on YouTube as of today, it would appear
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Speaker 8: that the may board meeting that Cheryl I and many
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Speaker 8: others have attended that one still isn't up on YouTube.
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Speaker 8: So I want to thank you wonderful UK column audience
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Speaker 8: because you've all been doing such a fantastic job. This
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Speaker 8: is from Roger, but I'd like to thank Wynn and
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Speaker 8: all the others also who wrote to the MHRA to
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Speaker 8: say why are we not allowed to see this live
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Speaker 8: stream and why are you using the election as an excuse?
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Speaker 8: And this was the reply they got. Basically, they did
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Speaker 8: schedule the MHRA board meeting for after the election, so
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Speaker 8: that was the question, why is there a problem? But
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Speaker 8: they said that they couldn't assume that any incoming government
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Speaker 8: would take the same as approach as the previous and
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Speaker 8: that there would be the next board meeting that would
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Speaker 8: be live streamed on Tuesday, seventeenth of September. I think
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Speaker 8: it's a whole load of nonsense, to be honest, but
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Speaker 8: I want to introduce you to Liz Booth. Liz Booth
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Speaker 8: is the People's officer, so you'd expect her to know
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Speaker 8: about the people. And when she was asked a question
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Speaker 8: at the that May board meeting that still isn't up
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Speaker 8: on YouTube, I've got a little bit of a sneaky
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Speaker 8: exclusive on how much does people's officer know about the
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Speaker 8: people that she's meant to be looking after, specifically pharmaceutical assessors.
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Speaker 8: She was only asked a simple question, but her memory
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Speaker 8: seems to have failed her. Have a look at this.
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Speaker 4: That means in proportion to what you have already, what
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Speaker 4: sort of change are were looking at in terms of
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Speaker 4: assess a number for this area.
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Speaker 9: Oh gosh, you're charging my memory for the numbers of
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Speaker 9: pharmaceutical assessors. I think it's late forties, early fifties in total.
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Speaker 9: So does that sound about right to you? Sorry?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's in the right ball part a
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Speaker 4: darms our check exact number. And then it sounds like
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to sort of understand where we are
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Speaker 4: with this sort of a different, slightly different emphasis from
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Speaker 4: workforce planning with in terms of the workforce allocation and
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Speaker 4: that piece of work, which I guess is relevant now
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Speaker 4: regardless of what the workforce is. So at some point
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Speaker 4: when you think about how to take that forward and
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Speaker 4: whether that's going to be something to prop us or not,
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Speaker 4: is that something already in your thinking about how that's.
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Speaker 9: Done, and it's in my thinking about how planning generally,
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Speaker 9: but obviously always very keen to seek the views and
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Speaker 9: advice of the board. And you know this is a
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Speaker 9: this is a specialist work. We need to treat it
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Speaker 9: as that. So very happy to discuss it further or
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Speaker 9: indeed to I'm always would like to seek wise counsel
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Speaker 9: about how to do this as well as we can
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Speaker 9: do it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well to say me something it might be
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Speaker 4: helpful to come back with at the right moment.
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Speaker 8: Well that was articulate, wasn't it. And for those of
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Speaker 8: you wondering, she said sixteen times. But I want to
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Speaker 8: highlight the situation room, which we've got on the column,
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Speaker 8: which is this is the risks. These are the risks
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Speaker 8: of the injections and these are updated regularly by Mike
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Speaker 8: and Cheryl. So thank you so much for putting up
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Speaker 8: the situation room. Please go to that for lots more.
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Speaker 8: And we've done an awful lot of work on the
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Speaker 8: MHRA and I just want to show you a little
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Speaker 8: bit of what we have done. So this is Cheryl's
22:49
Speaker 8: latest presentation. If you haven't seen it, please do go look.
22:52
Speaker 8: I've written some articles and then the next slide will
22:54
Speaker 8: show you even more articles that you can find on
22:57
Speaker 8: the MHRA. We've been really consistent. But on Sunday evening,
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Speaker 8: both Cheryl and I received some emails. Now I'm just
23:05
Speaker 8: going to literally flash the emails up on the screen.
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Speaker 8: The first one is regards to how safe is blood
23:11
Speaker 8: blood transfusions given the infected hepatitis scandal recently. That was
23:16
Speaker 8: sent to me and to Cheryl. And the second one
23:19
Speaker 8: that I'm going to show you, and I'm just showing
23:22
Speaker 8: you for reference because Cheryl is now going to explain everything.
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Speaker 8: But the second one was sent to Cheryl, and that
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Speaker 8: was with regards to safety and efficacy on the AstraZeneca injections.
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Speaker 8: So without further ado to dissect it all, especially when
23:38
Speaker 8: that came from Alison Cave, Cheryl, it's over to you.
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Speaker 10: Thanks, Debbie, Hello, everybody. Yeah, I need to just highlight
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Speaker 10: a few points to you. Can we have the first slide? Basically,
23:55
Speaker 10: these are the two questions that Debbie and I asked
23:58
Speaker 10: about the blood and they're basically talking about the MHRA
24:03
Speaker 10: are responsible for continually monitoring both medicines and quality book products,
24:09
Speaker 10: and they basically tell us that there's a thorough review
24:11
Speaker 10: and evaluation of the data. Well can I point out
24:14
Speaker 10: that by February mid February twenty one, they already knew
24:19
Speaker 10: through Yellow Card that two hundred and five people were
24:22
Speaker 10: dead and there was one severe adverse reaction in every
24:28
Speaker 10: seventy four doses at that point, Why did the MHRA
24:31
Speaker 10: do nothing. At this point we start getting Norway and
24:34
Speaker 10: Denmark and Iceland start to suspend Astrazenika for example. They
24:41
Speaker 10: also talk about the Pizer and Maderna public assessment reports,
24:47
Speaker 10: refer us back to those. Well, they were certainly not
24:50
Speaker 10: as detailed as what the EU put out the European
24:55
Speaker 10: Medicines Agency, who had sixteen pages of references that the
25:00
Speaker 10: end of their report. There was no references in the
25:02
Speaker 10: public assessment report. And the other thing that they throw
25:06
Speaker 10: of us at us in their email is that ninety
25:09
Speaker 10: three percent of the UK population had had one or
25:14
Speaker 10: more doses of the vaccines. But if you look at
25:17
Speaker 10: the UKHSA in April twenty two, nineteen point eight million
25:21
Speaker 10: had actually had no job that's around thirty percent of people.
25:25
Speaker 10: So we keep getting the same old things told us.
25:30
Speaker 10: It's as if the MHRA have had no increase in
25:33
Speaker 10: their understanding of the vaccines in the last three and
25:35
Speaker 10: a half years. So what points did they bring up?
25:39
Speaker 10: They talk about the delivery of genetic material into a
25:44
Speaker 10: muscle through the mRNA vaccinations. They actually say it's genetic material.
25:51
Speaker 10: They basically talk about the muscle still, so Dr Byron
25:55
Speaker 10: Brindle in mid twenty one he actually exposed to Japanese
26:01
Speaker 10: distribution study that all regulators would have seen that basically
26:05
Speaker 10: says that the injection actually leaves the site that is
26:11
Speaker 10: put into in the muscle and penetrates all tissues. They
26:14
Speaker 10: also talk about the harmless spike protein, and this obviously
26:22
Speaker 10: is not harmless. So this is the most toxic part
26:25
Speaker 10: of the virus that they've used. It's about five to
26:28
Speaker 10: ten percent of the virus we're talking about here. They
26:31
Speaker 10: could have used the other ninety percent, but no, they
26:33
Speaker 10: use the most toxic park And all vaccines were based
26:37
Speaker 10: on this same spike protein. And of course the spike
26:42
Speaker 10: is wrapped in a toxic catitionic LIBI nanoparticle, which tends
26:49
Speaker 10: to be highly inflammatory in the body. The license is
26:53
Speaker 10: to protect the recipient from the COVID nineteen infection, and
26:59
Speaker 10: they basically it has been shown that the vaccines don't
27:04
Speaker 10: stop transmission or infection. Hospitalization and death. They also talk
27:10
Speaker 10: about genetic material. We know that there are DNA plasma
27:13
Speaker 10: contaminants in there. It's rapidly degraded, is what they talk about.
27:20
Speaker 10: But of course we don't know how much spike is produced,
27:23
Speaker 10: we don't know how long it actually stays. Then this
27:26
Speaker 10: is all complicated by having multiple shots. And also they
27:30
Speaker 10: talk about the mRNA not entering the nucleus, and Dr
27:35
Speaker 10: Buckdee has shown that cells interact with the vaccines are
27:38
Speaker 10: becoming incorporated into the DNA, and on it goes. Talking
27:45
Speaker 10: about the blood, they're actually talking about evidence that it
27:51
Speaker 10: won't have any effect from being vaccinated blood, And I
27:55
Speaker 10: ask have they learned nothing from the contaminated blood scandal?
27:59
Speaker 10: And then just to quit Look at the other question
28:02
Speaker 10: that I asked regarding the astrosenica withdraw, and all I
28:09
Speaker 10: can point out here is that the study that had
28:14
Speaker 10: been done, the long term study, was about to be published,
28:20
Speaker 10: and this was supposed to be submitted in the November
28:24
Speaker 10: twenty three and what they found out that all the
28:28
Speaker 10: factors more than doubled in the vaccinated group compared with percebo.
28:34
Speaker 10: And I suggest that this is the reason for the
28:36
Speaker 10: withdrawal of the vaccine. So Thatsenica. We drew it before
28:44
Speaker 10: this long term study could be published. And so next
28:48
Speaker 10: time somebody tells you that something is safe and effective,
28:52
Speaker 10: remind them that this study showed that there's no long
28:56
Speaker 10: term safety data and what is the emas physician on
29:00
Speaker 10: the safety of ask Zenica. They don't need to tell
29:03
Speaker 10: us now because the study is being withdrawn.
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Speaker 8: Cheryl, thank you, and Dame June Rain where are you
29:10
Speaker 8: If you're listening, perhaps we might answer some of those questions.
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30:49
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the keyword that it wasn't used by either
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30:57
Speaker 1: and Mark, very briefly, please your article on the Builderberg
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is my second installment since just shy of
31:09
Speaker 5: a year ago, to get beyond the meetings, to look
31:12
Speaker 5: at the outreach and the consequences of the Builderberg meetings
31:16
Speaker 5: and not just stand outside the hotel and wonder who's there.
31:19
Speaker 5: And this one talks about AI and the big media
31:21
Speaker 5: really getting into a marriage, hitching to one another for
31:26
Speaker 5: the long term, probably mainly for the raw survival of
31:28
Speaker 5: the mass media cartel. But I did a lot of digging.
31:32
Speaker 5: I invite everyone to read it and it shows a
31:34
Speaker 5: lot of connections and gives a hint too many more.
31:38
Speaker 1: And thank you very much. And another reminder did for
31:40
Speaker 1: your dari which is Saturday, the nineteenth of October at
31:43
Speaker 1: a venue in Bristol, venue to be announced. We will
31:46
Speaker 1: be hosting an event there and hope to see everybody
31:50
Speaker 1: in person there. Now let's move on to the issue
31:54
Speaker 1: of assisted dying. And here is Lord Faulkner, and of
31:59
Speaker 1: course he's being competed on this issue for a very
32:01
Speaker 1: long time. He's a former Libor Party Justice Secretary, Lord
32:05
Speaker 1: Faulkner of Thoroton, and of course he wants to see
32:10
Speaker 1: dignity and dying. Now he's put a new bill into
32:13
Speaker 1: the House of Lords has been laid today, another bill
32:17
Speaker 1: on assisted dying. But of course the last time he
32:20
Speaker 1: did this was Friday, the eighteenth of July twenty twenty four.
32:23
Speaker 1: That will actually this was the second reading of his
32:25
Speaker 1: previous effort. Now, these are private members' bills, and normally
32:28
Speaker 1: private members' bills don't particularly progress because they don't have
32:32
Speaker 1: the support of the government of the day. But in fact,
32:35
Speaker 1: in this case, the indications are that he will have
32:38
Speaker 1: the support of the government of the day and there
32:40
Speaker 1: will be time made for this, and both West Treading
32:44
Speaker 1: and and others within the liber regime have made comments
32:51
Speaker 1: on it. So as I say, new Assistant Dying Bill
32:54
Speaker 1: in the House of Lord's Human as UK is supporting this,
32:57
Speaker 1: as we might expect, and here's a comment from there ahead.
33:01
Speaker 1: Allowing people to choose the manner and moment of their
33:03
Speaker 1: own death should be seen as the hallmark of a
33:05
Speaker 1: compassionate society and recognized as a basic human right. And
33:09
Speaker 1: my question is will people be allowed to choose the
33:13
Speaker 1: manner and moment of their own death if this legislation
33:16
Speaker 1: goes through, or in fact, are we going to be
33:18
Speaker 1: looking at something else. I want to bring back the
33:21
Speaker 1: article that Matthew Parris wrote for The Times in March.
33:26
Speaker 1: We can't afford a taboo on the system dying. This
33:28
Speaker 1: was an effort to push for this type of legislation,
33:33
Speaker 1: and so we'll take a few quotes out of this
33:36
Speaker 1: to remind ourselves what he said. He said, I can't
33:38
Speaker 1: dispute the objector's belief that once a sisted dying becomes normalized,
33:42
Speaker 1: we'll become more apt to ask ourselves for how much
33:45
Speaker 1: longer we can justify the struggle. If life is giving
33:50
Speaker 1: us more pleasure than pain, how much is all this
33:53
Speaker 1: costing relatives and the health service? Because how much is
33:56
Speaker 1: costing the health service is the most important question. How
34:00
Speaker 1: much of a burden are we placing on those who
34:02
Speaker 1: love us? How much of a burden are we placing
34:04
Speaker 1: on ourselves? So when we're making these decisions about what's
34:07
Speaker 1: best for us, we've really got to consider the cost
34:10
Speaker 1: to the health service In all that if assistant dying
34:13
Speaker 1: becomes common and widely accepted, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions,
34:17
Speaker 1: will consider choosing this road when the time comes, in
34:20
Speaker 1: some cases even asking themselves whether it would be selfish
34:23
Speaker 1: not to. And he went on to say, within a
34:26
Speaker 1: decade or more, assistant suicide will be seen as a
34:29
Speaker 1: normal road for many to take and be considered socially
34:32
Speaker 1: responsible and even finally urged upon people. So is it
34:36
Speaker 1: a free decision made or is this something that society
34:40
Speaker 1: is going to urge on everybody. So let's bring him back,
34:43
Speaker 1: and he said at route the reason for assistant dying
34:46
Speaker 1: is Darwinian tribes that handicap themselves will not prosper. As
34:50
Speaker 1: medical science advances, the cost of prolonging human life way
34:53
Speaker 1: past human usefulness will impose an ever heavier burden on
34:58
Speaker 1: the community for ever long proportion of its member lives
35:01
Speaker 1: and members' lives. And this question of being useful, it's
35:05
Speaker 1: maybe something that we saw in the nineteen thirties or something.
35:07
Speaker 1: But he went on, we may not be aware that
35:11
Speaker 1: our moral attitudes are being driven by the Darwinian struggle
35:14
Speaker 1: for survival, but in part they will be. I don't
35:17
Speaker 1: need to shout from the roofstops, and suicide can be
35:20
Speaker 1: a fine and noble thing or real against the ever
35:22
Speaker 1: growing cost of medical care and the final prolonged phase
35:26
Speaker 1: of people's lives. My opinions and my voice are incidental.
35:30
Speaker 1: This is a growing impulse which will grow nourished by
35:33
Speaker 1: forces larger than all of us. Well indeed, so let's
35:36
Speaker 1: look at one of those forces from history, and that's it.
35:39
Speaker 1: She Wells. We've shown this graphic before where he was
35:42
Speaker 1: saying the method that must in some cases be called
35:45
Speaker 1: on is death, the merciful obliteration of weak and silly
35:50
Speaker 1: and pointless things. And if we were watching Monday's program,
35:53
Speaker 1: the video clip that Ben showed of one of Wells's
35:56
Speaker 1: myths was absolutely clear expressing the same point of view.
36:01
Speaker 1: Wells went on to say, future humans will naturally regard
36:04
Speaker 1: the modest suicide of the incurably melancholy or diseased or
36:08
Speaker 1: helpless persons as a high and courageous act of duty,
36:11
Speaker 1: rather than the crime. So Matthew paris absolutely echoing the
36:16
Speaker 1: mindset of the likes of HG. Wells and Bertrand Russell
36:19
Speaker 1: and others from that period of British history. And Debbie
36:24
Speaker 1: very quickly on this. It'd be interested in review because
36:28
Speaker 1: you know, this is the start of a slippery slope.
36:31
Speaker 1: I understand if people are in pin they wanted to end,
36:34
Speaker 1: but once we put that into legislation, that's the beginning
36:38
Speaker 1: of something. And I keep talking about direction of travel,
36:41
Speaker 1: but this is important, But you took.
36:44
Speaker 8: The words right out of my mouth, Mike. It is
36:46
Speaker 8: a slippery slope, and it's almost indicating that assisted dying
36:49
Speaker 8: will become virtue signaling. And we know what's been going
36:53
Speaker 8: on in Canada with the MADE system and if we're
36:55
Speaker 8: to follow that, then yes, this is a very slippery slope.
36:59
Speaker 1: Okay, Well let's come to you then and talk about
37:01
Speaker 1: an organization. I haven't heard of HDR UK.
37:06
Speaker 8: No, I hadn't heard of HDR UK either, So who
37:10
Speaker 8: are HDRHDR UK? Well, they're the Health Data Research UK,
37:16
Speaker 8: So they're the UK's national Institute for Health Data science.
37:20
Speaker 8: Who knew that they existed? A So when I went
37:23
Speaker 8: to look a little bit more, what do they do? Well,
37:25
Speaker 8: apparently what they do is they're uniting the UK's health
37:29
Speaker 8: and care data to enable discoveries that will improve your life.
37:34
Speaker 8: But when I went to look at them, I saw
37:35
Speaker 8: that they're an independent charity supported by nine funders based
37:40
Speaker 8: at thirty one locations. Now I do apologize because I
37:43
Speaker 8: omitted to put a slide in of their funders, so
37:46
Speaker 8: I'm very quickly going to tell you who they are.
37:48
Speaker 8: The nine funders are the Medical Research Council, the National
37:52
Speaker 8: Institute for Health Research, the British Art Foundation, Cancer Research,
37:56
Speaker 8: the Economic and Social Research Council, the Engineering and Physical
38:00
Speaker 8: Sciences Research Council, the Chief Scientist's Office that's for Scotland,
38:05
Speaker 8: Public Health Agency that's for Northern Ireland, and the Health
38:08
Speaker 8: and Care Research and that's for Wales. So those are
38:12
Speaker 8: their funders. So is this a charity that is an
38:15
Speaker 8: arm of the state. Let's go and have a look
38:17
Speaker 8: at the board. And there are many people on the board,
38:19
Speaker 8: but I've just highlighted three in particular. So we've got
38:23
Speaker 8: Junei Bajois there and Mark Walport and we've also got
38:28
Speaker 8: Lord Azra Dazi. Now let's just start with Samark Walport.
38:32
Speaker 8: We'll take one by one. So Smart Warport used to
38:35
Speaker 8: be the CEO. Well, he is now the CEO of
38:38
Speaker 8: the UKRI, the UK Research Institute. He was Chief Scientific
38:43
Speaker 8: Officer for the UK until twenty seventeen and he was
38:46
Speaker 8: also in charge of the Welcome Trust. Do I need
38:49
Speaker 8: to say anymore? But he was also part of the
38:52
Speaker 8: expert panel for nhs X that's before it all became
38:57
Speaker 8: NHS Digital. And I found this photograph just here which
39:00
Speaker 8: is quite difficult to find online. But let's have a
39:02
Speaker 8: look at the photograph that will show you Mark Walport
39:06
Speaker 8: on the expert technology panel and there you can see
39:09
Speaker 8: Matt Hancock at the front, Mark Walport to the right,
39:13
Speaker 8: and in the middle there is Nicole Junkerman. So we
39:16
Speaker 8: can see the kind of company that smart Warport is keeping.
39:19
Speaker 8: Because if we go and look at Nicole Junkerman for example,
39:23
Speaker 8: oh sorry, yes, let's just I'll just focus on smart
39:27
Speaker 8: Warport just to remind everyone. It's Imperial College and government
39:31
Speaker 8: scientific officer, all the things that I just said, just
39:34
Speaker 8: to highlight that. So he keeps company with Nicole Yunkerman.
39:38
Speaker 8: And Nicole Junkerman has NJF Holdings, and she is a disruptor, entrepreneur,
39:45
Speaker 8: and she's also a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts,
39:48
Speaker 8: and in twenty twenty four she was appointed a trustee
39:51
Speaker 8: of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Yet again we see cancer.
39:55
Speaker 8: But our very good friend Johnny Edmore from TNT Radio
39:59
Speaker 8: has done so much work on Nicole Yunkerman. I just
40:02
Speaker 8: wanted to remind people. I mean, he's done a series,
40:04
Speaker 8: but basically he's saying that she has many connections with Mossad,
40:09
Speaker 8: Panama Papers and also Jeffrey Epstein, and she's known as
40:13
Speaker 8: the IT Bond girl. So that's the company that smart
40:16
Speaker 8: Warport is keeping. And then let's look at Janney Bouchoir,
40:19
Speaker 8: because when his face turned up, I thought I recognize him.
40:24
Speaker 8: He's a practicing physician, he's an NHSGP. He's also chief
40:28
Speaker 8: Medical Scientist for Microsoft. That says it all. He's worked
40:31
Speaker 8: for merk and he's got loads of global digital experience.
40:35
Speaker 8: But I'm not quite sure whether his memories having a
40:38
Speaker 8: bit of a lapse as well, because he seems to
40:40
Speaker 8: have omitted declaring hdr UK on his MH board declarations
40:48
Speaker 8: of interest. Yes, he is on the MHRA board. Well
40:53
Speaker 8: they do they know this because we said this is
40:55
Speaker 8: the second time it's happened. Because as if you might
40:58
Speaker 8: remember Professor Gray Cook, he seemed to forget to declare
41:03
Speaker 8: his Flowing Institute declaration of interest. So I'm kind of thinking, emititure,
41:07
Speaker 8: do you know that one of your declarations of interest
41:10
Speaker 8: is missing? So let's go to the third gentleman, and
41:13
Speaker 8: we've got Ara Darzi, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Health, Privy Council
41:19
Speaker 8: Life sciences acceleration, doesn't the accelerator say it or an
41:24
Speaker 8: imperial And he's a very very busy man. He's worked
41:28
Speaker 8: previously for the Blair and Brown government and you can
41:33
Speaker 8: see that he's been involved in the Tony Blair Future
41:36
Speaker 8: Britain conference. I think we've got a slide that's it,
41:40
Speaker 8: the Future of Britain event with Tony Blair. And he
41:44
Speaker 8: also published Better Health and Care for All and he
41:47
Speaker 8: made a lot of promises. This was back in twenty eighteen.
41:51
Speaker 8: So anybody that says that Labor doesn't know the agenda
41:54
Speaker 8: or didn't know the agenda, have a look at this,
41:56
Speaker 8: because there's a ten point investment and reform plan and
41:59
Speaker 8: I'm not going to go through it all. I'm just
42:01
Speaker 8: going to highlight a couple of things just so that
42:03
Speaker 8: you know that Labor have been on the same page
42:05
Speaker 8: as the Tory is the UNI Party for a very
42:08
Speaker 8: long time. They've been looking at digital infrastructure, obesity, smoking, alcohol.
42:12
Speaker 8: He wants to transform the healthcare into an NHS for
42:16
Speaker 8: the twenty first century. He wants to ring fence national
42:19
Speaker 8: insurance and a new deal for GPS and mental health,
42:23
Speaker 8: and on top of that, on top of his ten
42:26
Speaker 8: point investment he's made to ten point offered to citizens,
42:29
Speaker 8: would you believe, So you're all going to get a
42:30
Speaker 8: single named GP. And also he was highlighting personal budgets
42:35
Speaker 8: and that gets very complicated because some people actually need
42:38
Speaker 8: to be an accountant to work those out. He also
42:41
Speaker 8: said there'd be no delay in beds, no weights on trolleys,
42:44
Speaker 8: no understaffing, there'd be an increase in earnings from exports.
42:48
Speaker 8: So he's using the NHS as business obviously, So not
42:53
Speaker 8: many people have listened to that report, but I just
42:56
Speaker 8: wanted to highlight it and to remind you that also
42:59
Speaker 8: Lord Darzi is chair of the Flowing Center, which is
43:03
Speaker 8: anti microbi your resistance, and we all know that that's
43:06
Speaker 8: a big agenda moving forward. But just recently in the
43:10
Speaker 8: last few days, despite where Streeting saying the NHS is
43:15
Speaker 8: broken and ask me, I can tell you in five
43:18
Speaker 8: minutes the NHS is broken. But despite that, where Streeting
43:22
Speaker 8: thinks it's a good idea to employ because he'll get
43:24
Speaker 8: a lot of money Lord Darzy from this to employ
43:27
Speaker 8: Lord Darz to do a rapid assessment of the NHS.
43:31
Speaker 8: And this has got to be delivered by September, so
43:34
Speaker 8: Lord Darcy, if you want to come and ask us
43:36
Speaker 8: in the UK column audience, you won't need to look
43:39
Speaker 8: far before you get a very true picture of how
43:42
Speaker 8: the NHS has already collapsed. So keep a look out
43:46
Speaker 8: for HDR UK.
43:48
Speaker 1: Thank you, Debbie, thank you very much for that. I
43:50
Speaker 1: let's move on to online safety because offcarm has published
43:54
Speaker 1: some new information this morning. There's apparently nowhere to hide
43:58
Speaker 1: for tech firms on online safety. Offcom is Publishing has
44:02
Speaker 1: published draft Industry guidance on Transportence, transparency, reporting and Information gathering.
44:08
Speaker 1: So this is because they say that the user safety
44:11
Speaker 1: practices of tech firms will be put under the spotlight
44:14
Speaker 1: under draft transparency reporting plans announced by OFCOM today. Isn't
44:18
Speaker 1: that great. So they're saying that they're consulting on draft
44:22
Speaker 1: industry guidance, so they've got first of all, a first
44:26
Speaker 1: consultation going on here. This is all about transparency notices
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Speaker 1: to applicable online services and these notices will be issued
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Speaker 1: by Ofcom, they say, starting in twenty twenty five, subject
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Speaker 1: to a statutory instrument being laid in Parliament, they'll set
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Speaker 1: out the detailed safety information that providers must reveal in
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Speaker 1: their transparency reports, that the format it should take, and
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Speaker 1: the deadline by which they must make a public So
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Speaker 1: this is all about making sure that the MHRA has
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Speaker 1: all the data it needs to be able to say
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Speaker 1: that there been, you know, ten million posts about Trump
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Speaker 1: being shot or whatever it happens to be, so that
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Speaker 1: they can then justify the censorship regime as this goes forward. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is all going to begin in early twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and they are asking for this consultation to be responded
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Speaker 1: to by the fourth of October twenty twenty four. But
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Speaker 1: they have a second consultation going on. If we have
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Speaker 1: a look at that one. This is all about online
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Speaker 1: safety information guidance. So what they're saying here is that
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Speaker 1: complementing our transparency reporting parts, the Online Safety Act also
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Speaker 1: gives off wide ranging parts to assess information held by
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Speaker 1: regulated tech firms as well as a wide range of
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Speaker 1: third parties. This is fundamental to our role as a regulator.
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Speaker 1: These parts will help us to understand the effectiveness of
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Speaker 1: the safety measures tech firms have in place and to
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Speaker 1: gather evidence if we have specific compliance concerns. So they've
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Speaker 1: published this second consultation which sets out draft guidance for
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Speaker 1: industry on our general approach to online safety information gathering
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Speaker 1: pars and their duties to comply. So basically what we're
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Speaker 1: saying is that OFFCOM is already becoming this massive data
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Speaker 1: gathering organization as it hoovers up bulk data on how
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Speaker 1: we're using tech platforms and types of material that we're sharing,
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Speaker 1: how tech platforms are dealing with that material, how they're
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Speaker 1: labeling it as misinformation or disinformation, how they're censoring it,
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Speaker 1: and so that they can provide a guidance on how
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Speaker 1: better to center the types of information that are really
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Speaker 1: not suitable for you or I to see, because there's
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Speaker 1: plenty of that going about on social media, although as
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Speaker 1: we've been talking about for quite some time, less and
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Speaker 1: less of it coming from the UK column at the moment.
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Speaker 1: By the way, we should just mention to comply with
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Speaker 1: a transparency or information notice. So either one of these
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Speaker 1: two things from offcom could result in tech companies facing
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Speaker 1: fines of up to eighteen million pounds or ten percent
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Speaker 1: of a company's worldwide revenue, whichever is higher. And of course,
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Speaker 1: as we mentioned on when they's program, they have already
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Speaker 1: pushed out a fine to TikTok, which that fine, by
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Speaker 1: the way, was on the basis of legislation, which is
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Speaker 1: pre Online Safety Act. So they're going to be even
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Speaker 1: water coal in following this. So we'll see how that
47:22
Speaker 1: goes and will continue to report on that as it develops.
47:26
Speaker 1: Let's come back to you, Mark, and well, of course
47:29
Speaker 1: we've talked about Trump. We've mentioned jd. Vance as well,
47:32
Speaker 1: his pick for his deputy should have become the new
47:38
Speaker 1: president following the election. But you've got more insight into
47:42
Speaker 1: who Jdevance is.
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Speaker 5: Indeed, Mike, it is a bit ambiguous. On the one hand,
47:50
Speaker 5: he's just going to be turning forty. Trump probably would
47:54
Speaker 5: have one good term left in him if he's presumably elected,
47:59
Speaker 5: and given the events that have happened, it's all but
48:01
Speaker 5: inevitable that Trump will be elected. Therefore, sol will JD. Vance.
48:05
Speaker 5: So let's look at who he is. If Trump couldn't serve,
48:08
Speaker 5: this guy would be president of the United States just yesteryear.
48:12
Speaker 5: He is said to have led a hard scrabble life
48:15
Speaker 5: growing up in Appalachia. But let's take a look at him.
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Speaker 5: Who is JD Vance? Donald Trump's vice presidential pick. James
48:23
Speaker 5: David Vance born James Donald Bowman, who turns forty August second.
48:28
Speaker 5: As a lawyer, author, and marine veteran, he rose to
48:31
Speaker 5: the rank of a decorated colonel. Since twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 5: he's served as Ohio's junior US Senator Republican Party. His
48:39
Speaker 5: ba's out of Ohio state, but his jd. His law
48:42
Speaker 5: degree is out of Yale, one of the hardest law
48:45
Speaker 5: schools to get into. He served as a law clerk
48:49
Speaker 5: for very significant Supreme Court justices, and people can read
48:55
Speaker 5: the slides and freeze those to get some of those names.
48:58
Speaker 5: He wrote a best selling memoir are called Hillbilly Elogy,
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Speaker 5: about what he described as growing up poor in Appalachia
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Speaker 5: with a single mother. It got national hype during the
49:08
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen election, some seven years before he became a
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Speaker 5: US Senator, and it was adapted into a feature film
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Speaker 5: by Ron Howard in twenty twenty. People might know Ron
49:18
Speaker 5: Howard played Opie in The Andy Griffith Show when he
49:21
Speaker 5: was a child, and the conservative Christian mister Vance at
49:27
Speaker 5: one time said he was inspired by Barack Obama's personal
49:31
Speaker 5: struggles and that gave mister Vance a sense of hope.
49:35
Speaker 5: And we'll move on from there and kind of outline this.
49:38
Speaker 5: Now here comes George F. Will, the noted columnist surging
49:42
Speaker 5: GOP isolationism as a dreadful development of in a dangerous time.
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Speaker 5: Mister Will wrote back in twenty twenty three November. It
49:50
Speaker 5: appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader, and here we
49:53
Speaker 5: see a look at JD. Vance as being kind of
49:57
Speaker 5: a paleocon, a more populous kind Republican who is not
50:01
Speaker 5: going to be quick to go to war, who's going
50:04
Speaker 5: to be more of a non interventionist. Of course, people
50:07
Speaker 5: kind of vilify that and call it isolationists. But there's
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Speaker 5: no such thing as an absolutely isolationist nation. It doesn't exist.
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Speaker 5: And yet they use that superlative anyway, what mister Vance,
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Speaker 5: excuse me, mister Will wrote about mister Vance here is
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Speaker 5: explaining his support for US aid to Israel but not Ukraine.
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Speaker 5: Now that's notable. Senator JD. Vance, the shape shifting Ohio Republican,
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Speaker 5: not altogether inaccurate, wrote quote, Israel has an achievable objective,
50:37
Speaker 5: Ukraine does not. Many would argue, many would beg to differ.
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Speaker 5: Actually their objectives are identical. Mister Will wrote, National survival
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Speaker 5: while living in proximity to enemies whose objective is national annihilation.
50:50
Speaker 5: Vance's categorical conclusion that Ukraine's survivable is achievable unachievable makes
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Speaker 5: him a momentous symptom of Donald Trump's transformation of the
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Speaker 5: Republican Party. If Trump becomes the party's presidential candidate, which
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Speaker 5: he since did, one of our two major parties will
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Speaker 5: be more isolationists than either party was during the nineteen
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Speaker 5: thirties high tide of America First isolationism. So mister Will
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Speaker 5: is seeing JD. Vance as a populist, non interventionist, a different,
51:23
Speaker 5: different kind of Republican altogether, which many Americans would find refreshing,
51:28
Speaker 5: because if a third party can't get in, why not
51:31
Speaker 5: have a transformed Republican party that would behave something like
51:34
Speaker 5: a third party anyway. A little bit more that mister
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Speaker 5: Will wrote about mister Vance. He reflects a long lingering American,
51:44
Speaker 5: but especially Republican tendency, particularly in the Midwest, where another
51:48
Speaker 5: Ohioan once once exemplified it. Senator Robert Taft, who lived
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Speaker 5: from eighteen eighty ninety nineteen fifty three, the son of
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Speaker 5: a president, did not consider himself an isolation but early
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Speaker 5: in nineteen forty shortly before Hitler's bliss Kriegs and Advances,
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Speaker 5: Taff said, quote, it would be a great mistake for
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Speaker 5: us to participate in the European War. I do not
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Speaker 5: believe we could materially affect the outcome. He lost the
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Speaker 5: nineteen forty Republican presidential nomination to win to Wilkie. Wilkee
52:19
Speaker 5: was pro Roosevelt and things like that. Anyway, Taft greatly,
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Speaker 5: if inadvertently, contributed to the nation's security by voting against
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Speaker 5: the NATO treaty. So this is this tradition out of
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Speaker 5: Ohio that mister Will is citing, and it's also notable.
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Speaker 5: I want to stay on that slide one more moment.
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Speaker 5: It's very important the part I underlined at the bottom.
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Speaker 5: Senator Robert Taff's opposition to the NATO Treaty, combined with
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Speaker 5: his with his quest for the Republican nineteen fifty two
52:54
Speaker 5: presidential nomination, helped provoke Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of NATO
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Speaker 5: in nineteen fifty one fifty two that provoked Iken Do
53:04
Speaker 5: entering the presidential race. This brought the Republican Party into
53:08
Speaker 5: the bipartisan internationalist foreign policy that won the Cold War
53:13
Speaker 5: So that turn of events is what made the Republican Party,
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Speaker 5: formerly nationalist, into a globalist party to a large extent,
53:24
Speaker 5: that's a very pivotal time in history. So Vance is
53:27
Speaker 5: implicated in sort of a philosophical ideological sense in all
53:32
Speaker 5: of this. Now there's another twist, of course, CBS News,
53:35
Speaker 5: of all things, sounding strangely conspiratorial, wrote that the billionaire
53:40
Speaker 5: who fueled JD. Vance's rapid rise to the Trump BP
53:44
Speaker 5: spot this analysis, that billionaire was none other than Peter
53:48
Speaker 5: Thio of Bilderberg fame, or you might say infamy. What
53:53
Speaker 5: CBS News noted, among other things, former President Donald Trump's
53:57
Speaker 5: selection of Ohio GEOP Senator JD. Advance to be his
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Speaker 5: running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a
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Speaker 5: presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate
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Speaker 5: and doubts about whether the other one is fit to run.
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Speaker 5: Money above all is in presidential politics is still king Vance.
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Speaker 5: A relative newcomer to national politics, he is said to
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Speaker 5: have grown up poor. His very first office was US Senate.
54:25
Speaker 5: Has assiduously courted billionaires and Silicon Valley titans to bankroll
54:29
Speaker 5: his unlikely rise from best selling memoirist of a despair
54:34
Speaker 5: of despair, drugs, and generational poverty in Appalachia, all the
54:38
Speaker 5: way up to a ticket that not only gets him
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Speaker 5: into the Senate but a heart beat away from the presidency.
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Speaker 5: During his rapid rise, Vance has emerged as an ardent
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Speaker 5: and effective defender of Trump. He used to be a
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Speaker 5: critic of Trump, who is the real JD? Vance? Putting
54:54
Speaker 5: excuse me, an intellectual gloss on the former president's raw
54:58
Speaker 5: mega populism. But Vance may never have been in serious
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Speaker 5: consideration for the number two spot. He might not have
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Speaker 5: ever gotten there had he not won elective office in
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Speaker 5: a major ross belt state in the first place, that
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Speaker 5: being US Senate. So we'll go on from there and
55:13
Speaker 5: summarize this a bit. And big donors, particularly from the
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Speaker 5: tech sector, provided the rocket fuel that Vance needed to
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Speaker 5: advance in electro politics. Vance's most prominent benefactor over the
55:25
Speaker 5: years is Peter Thiel, the iconoclastic tech pioneer and investor,
55:31
Speaker 5: also a Builderberg steering committee member for a long time.
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Speaker 5: Theo hired Vance at his global investment firm in twenty
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Speaker 5: seventeen and then nurtured Vance's political rise, donating fifteen million
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Speaker 5: to Vance's twenty twenty two Ohio Senate campaign and helped
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Speaker 5: him win a closely fought GOP primary before recapturing that
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Speaker 5: seat the Ohio Senate seat in the general election. And
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Speaker 5: we'll go from there, moving on. I won't read all
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Speaker 5: of this, it does say. At Yale Law School, Vance
56:01
Speaker 5: attended a talk by Peter Theo about technological stagnation and
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Speaker 5: the decline of American elites. Quote CBS is saying this,
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Speaker 5: Vance saw two trends. No, Vance is saying this about
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Speaker 5: Peter Theo. He saw two trends as connected. Vance later
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Speaker 5: wrote about his first encounter with mister Theo in a
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Speaker 5: two thousand and twenty twenty blog post in the Catholic
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Speaker 5: Journal The Lamp magazine. And after Yale Law School and
56:31
Speaker 5: a short stint at corporate at a corporate law firm,
56:34
Speaker 5: Vance moved to San Francisco to work as a venture capitalist.
56:38
Speaker 5: Theo then hired him to join a tech fund, Ma
56:42
Speaker 5: Thrill I think it's pronounced Mathrill Capital, all while Vance
56:47
Speaker 5: continued to work on his memoir, The Hill Billy Elogy.
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Speaker 5: So we'll go on from there, just to kind of
56:53
Speaker 5: summarize and look at who Jdvance is So it turns
56:57
Speaker 5: out that JD. Vance is a Catholic. He converted from
57:01
Speaker 5: Evangelical Protestant to Catholic in twenty nineteen. It talks about
57:06
Speaker 5: it in the National Catholic Register here, and it says that,
57:11
Speaker 5: but the Ohio senator who's running alongside Donald Trump on
57:14
Speaker 5: the GOP GOP ticket is not your typical Catholic Conservative,
57:19
Speaker 5: at least not the kind that has been the Norman
57:21
Speaker 5: American politics. Instead, Vance is a self described member of
57:25
Speaker 5: the post liberal Right, an upstart political movement that flips
57:29
Speaker 5: the conventional conservative script and emphasizes the good of the
57:32
Speaker 5: community over individual liberty. This controversial approach, which is inspired
57:38
Speaker 5: by and contested with the Catholic within the Catholic Church,
57:42
Speaker 5: includes harnessing state power to secure its aims, another break
57:46
Speaker 5: from the standard operating procedure of the American right, and
57:51
Speaker 5: these other slides people can freeze to read more about it.
57:55
Speaker 5: But what this boils down to Mike is that many
57:59
Speaker 5: see Vans as a pro union and pro tariff and
58:04
Speaker 5: anti war Republican, which many will consider important because that's
58:09
Speaker 5: how the Republican Party largely was before Eisenhower transformed it.
58:13
Speaker 5: As I outlined, earlier, so that would be many would
58:16
Speaker 5: think a good view of Vance bringing something in a way,
58:20
Speaker 5: something old, something new to public office. But on the
58:25
Speaker 5: other hand, his connections with Peter tiel And who's a
58:28
Speaker 5: builderberg connected billionaire, raises some questions. So it's a little
58:33
Speaker 5: bit nebulous as to where exactly Jdvance is coming from.
58:37
Speaker 5: This last couple slides before It's news, one of the
58:41
Speaker 5: alternative websites out there speculated, well, he went to Yale
58:44
Speaker 5: Law School, he must be a Skull and Bonesman. Of course,
58:48
Speaker 5: that's the noted fraternity that has a very dark history
58:52
Speaker 5: to it, many would say, at Yale University. But I
58:55
Speaker 5: found no evidence so far yet that Jdvance actually was
58:58
Speaker 5: or is a Bonesman. And this is a picture of
59:05
Speaker 5: the meeting place at sixty four High Street that we
59:07
Speaker 5: just showed there in Yale, Connecticutton excuse me, new Haven,
59:13
Speaker 5: Connecticut where Yale is located. And this last slide is
59:18
Speaker 5: just a little outline of the Skull and Bones their
59:20
Speaker 5: emblem number three twenty two. Many of their famous members,
59:24
Speaker 5: George Bush Senior, his son George W. John Kerry, who
59:29
Speaker 5: ran against George W. In the two thousand and four election,
59:32
Speaker 5: two bonesmen running against each other, and William Howard Taft,
59:36
Speaker 5: the father of the Senator Taft that I mentioned earlier.
59:40
Speaker 5: So a very interesting fraternity there, but so far no
59:43
Speaker 5: evidence that JD. Vance belongs. But nevertheless his history is
59:48
Speaker 5: interesting and yet contains a lot of things that raise
59:52
Speaker 5: a lot of questions. So there's something there to watch
59:54
Speaker 5: very closely in the months ahead.
59:57
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark, Right, Wie, we've got something to end off
1:00:01
Speaker 1: with here.
1:00:03
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a happy birthday to my article two years
1:00:06
Speaker 8: old today, NHS Long Term Plan and Mental Health Implementation
1:00:10
Speaker 8: Plan Phoenix or Dinosaur. Now, this is the article I
1:00:13
Speaker 8: made forty seven predictions from the long Term Plan and
1:00:16
Speaker 8: it seems that pretty much of them have all come
1:00:17
Speaker 8: to pass. So that's two years today. And finally, finally,
1:00:22
Speaker 8: I've got a little bit of video. Given Mark's last segment,
1:00:25
Speaker 8: given the race for the presidency, I'd like you to
1:00:28
Speaker 8: look at a short little piece of video of Gerald
1:00:30
Speaker 8: Ford back in nineteen eighty nine. What did he say?
1:00:34
Speaker 8: What did he predict?
1:00:36
Speaker 5: Mister Ford?
1:00:37
Speaker 8: Word advice would you give a young lady wanting to
1:00:40
Speaker 8: become President of the United States?
1:00:42
Speaker 11: Well, I hope we do have a young lady at
1:00:46
Speaker 11: some point become president of the United States. I can
1:00:51
Speaker 11: tell you how I think it will happen, because it
1:00:54
Speaker 11: won't happen in the normal course of events. Either the
1:01:02
Speaker 11: Republican or Democrat political party will nominate a man for
1:01:08
Speaker 11: president and a woman for vice president, and the woman
1:01:12
Speaker 11: and man will win.
1:01:14
Speaker 5: So you'll end up with.
1:01:17
Speaker 11: President a male and a vice president a female, and
1:01:21
Speaker 11: in that term of office of the president, the president
1:01:25
Speaker 11: will die and the woman will become president under the
1:01:29
Speaker 11: law or constitution. And once that barrier is broken, from
1:01:35
Speaker 11: then on, men better be careful because they'll have a
1:01:41
Speaker 11: hard hard time ever even getting a nomination in the future.
1:01:47
Speaker 11: But that's the way it's going to happen, and I
1:01:50
Speaker 11: think it'll probably come sometime in the next four or
1:01:54
Speaker 11: eight years.
1:01:58
Speaker 1: Joel Ford, Well, he wasn't quite correct about the next
1:02:03
Speaker 1: four or eight years, but maybe that is the way
1:02:04
Speaker 1: it will happen. Biden hasn't seen it his presidential term yet,
1:02:09
Speaker 1: so let's let's see how it goes. Well, look, we've
1:02:11
Speaker 1: got to leave it for there no doubt we'll have
1:02:13
Speaker 1: more discussion on that and many of the other topics
1:02:15
Speaker 1: we've discussed today in extra If your UK caled members
1:02:18
Speaker 1: stay on the UK col Members stream and we will
1:02:22
Speaker 1: be back in a few minutes. Otherwise, have a great
1:02:25
Speaker 1: weekend and we will see at one pm as usual
1:02:28
Speaker 1: on Monday.