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

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Good afternoon. It's Monday, the fourth of March twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host, Brian
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Gerrish delighted to be joined by Alex Thompson from the Netherlands and also Mark Andson
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from the United States. Well, I'll just say that the weather here in
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Plymouth, England is appalling today, torrential rain. It's also very cold,
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so I'm dressed appropriately. Well, we're going to start off with Rishie Sunak,
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who spoke to the nation a couple of days ago. But a lot
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of people received this email from the Conservatives allowing sorry, alerting them to the
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fact that Rishi had been speaking on the steps of Downing Street about their country,
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and giving a link so that you could see the full message. But
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before we get into some of the things that he said, I just wanted
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to say this to our audience because many people are contact in the column and
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they're simply ask what on earth is going on? I don't understand it.
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I'm confused. Well, this is a little rule that's helped us over a
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number of years. So if we pop this up on screen, essentially come
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in from the angle that we're being attacked by our own government. But if
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you're not comfortable with that, let's start with this one. If you can't
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understand what political words or statements mean, try considering them in light of the
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concept that the words mean the opposite of what they appear to mean. This
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is a good starting point. But the reality is that if you can't understand
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the political words or statement, so you should understand that we are being attacked
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by our own government. And it's clear that society in UK is being ripped
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apart at an accelerating pace. Here's a little bit of a clip of the
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not so Big Man speaking. I stand here as our country's first non wide
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prime Minister, leading the most diverse government in our country's history, to tell
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people of all races, all faiths, and all backgrounds, it is not
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the color of your skin, the God you believe in, or where you
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were born that will determine your success, but just your own hard work and
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endeavor. I love this country, my family, and I owe it so
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much. The time has now come for us all to stand together to combat
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the forces of division and beat this poison. We must face down the extremists
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who would tear us apart. There must be leadership, not pandering or appeasement.
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When they tell their lies, we will tell the truth were they While
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there's only one person who make me feel more when I watch Rishie Sunak,
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and of course that's Tony Blair. Very quickly for a tiny bit of comment
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from you, Alex, he says very casually in there that it's not God
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that's going to help you achieve anything, it's simply what you do. So,
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as far as I can see, we've got a true humanist here.
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But he then adds, and it will be our leadership that keeps everything on
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track. What do you detect? Why his statement there on God? I
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detect Brian a new twist on an old tail. The Dutch idiom would say,
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it's an old message in a new jacket, and Rishi's jacket is the
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usual snazzy production. He comes from a very elitist form of Hinduism himself.
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He wouldn't like people to dwell on that, but core tenets of his ancestors
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are that he is superior to other Indians, let alone other nationalities. He
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perhaps wouldn't like that being discussed much, but no, he's ditched all that
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with his financial client to power in favor of the perfectibility of man is the
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old term from it from the French Enlightenment, which has now become universal in
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the West, the idea that we cannot leave our populations alone and they can
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believe in their piling gods if they want to, but really we have to
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interfere with and optimize them. Yeah, so it's the we which is the
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critical word him and his ilk. Well, if we move on through the
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speech, of course, if you go to gov dot UK you can see
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the banner here PM Address on Extremism, first of March twenty twenty four.
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But what was interesting there's also a note Please note political content has been redacted
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from this transcript. And why I'm so interested in this, of course is
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political content can drastically change the meaning of the transcript. But so we're going
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to deal with it redacted, but I'm giving the public a warning what was
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taken out and what impact did that really mean on understanding of the speech.
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This is some of the words, or trying to do this as quickly as
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possibly, he said. In recent weeks and months, we've seen a shocking
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increase in extreme misdisruption and criminality. What started as protests on our streets has
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descended into intimidation, threats and planned acts of violence. Jewish children fear to
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where their school uniform lest it reveal their identity. He goes on say,
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the Muslim women abused in the streets for the actions of a terrorist group they
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have no connection with. Now our democracy is itself a target. These are
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words, of course, there's no evidence or anything he's saying. He goes
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on to talk about council meetings and local events have been stormed, MPs do
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not feel safe in their homes. Longstanding parliamentary conventions have been upended because of
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safety concerns. My question is, Rishi, where is the evidence rule of
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these claims. We then get in the dialogue, which you find on the
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gov dot UK site, a note that political contact has been redacted. So
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this comes up once again, and I'm just going to keep pushing no evidence
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for all of the emotive claims that Rishi Sunak is making. These statements are
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designed to give the impression that the country is almost under attack. It to
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enable him to get the control in from the leadership that he mentioned in the
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video clip. So he said, I need to speak to you all this
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evening, because this situation has gone on long enough and demands a response not
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just from government, but from all of us. Who is he talking about
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when he's talking about us? He says, Britain's patriotic liberal, It's got
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a democratic society with a proud past, and our story is one of progress.
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He goes on then to home on October the seventh, if we just
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move on from that one. Since October the seventh, there have been those
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trying to take advantage of the very human acts that we all feel about,
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the terrible suffering that war brings to the innocent. So the war, it's
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all sort of some terrible accident, and well it's caused us a bit of
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anks, but we shouldn't really worry about the slaughter of men, women and
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children. It's all, well, it's all an accident. He goes on
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to say that you can criticize the actions of this government, or indeed any
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government. That's a fundamental democratic right, but no, you cannot use that
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as an excuse to call for the eradication of a state or any kind of
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hatred or anti semitism. So I was fascinated that he doesn't name the state.
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Why doesn't he name it, well, of course, the state is
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Israel, and this is a highly pro Israeli, a state of Israel speech.
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But he is manipulating his audience in every which way he can. So
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we'd like the audience of UK column to understand that this speech is not about
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a neutral position equal handedness, because of course the government has set up the
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Memorandum of Understanding with Israel and this is working in the background. So the
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Israeli state holds a special and favored place in Richie's UK politics. But he
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goes on and he's talking about Oh sorry, I asked the question here.
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I asked the question when he says those trying to take advantage since October the
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seventh, does Richie Sunac mean UK citizens, both Palestinian and other who have
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been protesting about the slaughter? Who are the people he says are trying to
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take advantage of the situation. I think that's anybody who's protesting against the war
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and the death. But he goes on say that on too many occasions our
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streets have been hijacked by small groups. So this is all mystery. Who
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are these groups? Who are these hostile people who have no respect for our
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democratic trans traditions, and I rather think that's his traditions. Islam comes in,
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but he's only talking about extremists and people feeding off each other with the
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right wing groups. And then he's saying that both of these groups want to
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war against the values in UK and we've got the weaponize a weaponizing the evils
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of anti Semitism and anti Muslim hatred for their own ends. And he goes
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on to say that you can be a practicing Hindu and a proud Britain as
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he is, or a devout Muslim or a committed Jewish person and the heart
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of your community and all this is underpinned but the tolerance of our established church.
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But what's interesting is if we go to our established church. And a
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big thanks to Art well from Oxford who pointed this out to me. Archbishop
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of Canterbury Wellby has had to apologize for refusing to meet the Palestinian Christian leader
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who actually did the Christmas ceremony in Bethlehem with Jesus amongst the devastation which represented
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Gaza. But in the background, the Church of England is also busily working
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on major change and here is another initiative. This is essentially about bringing in
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communities worldwide into a special church network. If we go just to the next
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insert there, right, So this is about the GMH and the uk EM
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Communications network. This is standing for Global Majority Heritage. And what we see
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here is this is not Christianity in the traditional sense, but we've got a
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highly politicized network coming in. And if that's not bad enough, last slide
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here, let's just show you that we've now got the church looking maybe to
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find a billion pounds to repair damage that is caused by getting involved in slavery
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many years ago. And the BBC text here tells us that this is relating
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to Queen Anne's bounty in the eighteenth century, where money was changing hand over
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slaves. But there's recently been an commissioner's report which says that although the church
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has said it will put one hundred million to repairing the damage of slavery,
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that amount should be increased to one billion. I've already over gone over step
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my time there, Alex, but I'm just going to say to you quite
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incredible. No money in the church for things which are really important, but
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maybe a billion pounds for redressing slavery. And that's not the worst of it
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because I'll put in the show notes. Another indication directly from a Church of
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England website that several of the Midlands dioceses, led by Birmingham but stretching across
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the Gloucester have decided to put out adverts on how well they are training children
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white children, that whiteness is a problem and that they are a problem.
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That long acronym you just showed about the clergy simply is a no white clerical
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group. It's in clean contradiction to Galatian six. Isn't it that there's no
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junior Greek in Christ? They're racializing everything in the church. Indeed, well
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there we are. That's one combination Rishie Sunak the Church of England. But
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think about it, the government and the Church of England is attacking this country.
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Mark, Let's bring you in because one of the key things that we
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are concerned about is the use of AI in helping frame propaganda. So welcome.
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What have you got? Well, this is a snappy news item.
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It's a good conversation piece, that's for sure. And there's just a couple
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Basically, you kind of expect the Rishie schunex of the world and others to
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have this built in bias that we've been talking about and that Alex so ably
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described, But it seems that Google's own biases are getting hard wound or hardwired
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into AI. This is an American pre press recent piece Scandal exposes liberal bias
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baked into artificial intelligence. Woke AI focuses on promoting new racial cultural stereotypes.
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And this of course has to do with the Gemini product, the Gemini branded
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AI. And there's one other item here that shows some law enforcement is involved,
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of all things. The Attorney General of Montana, Austin Knudsen, he's
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demanding answers from Google regarding the woke AI system, and he is looking into
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the legal aspects of this, and he's saying that the Gemini system may violate
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Montana law by providing inaccurate information to users to fall in line with the tech
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giants' political preferences without disclosing that back to consumers. So there's a disclosure and
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fraud problem here. People are buying the product, and in his case in
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Montana, he's the attorney general, and they're not being told ahead of time
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that there's a baked in bias. And I would add, ironically that's the
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same thing with the mass media cartel aka legacy media. We're told that that's
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a legitimate news, totally neutral, no agenda kind of news. But they
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also the mainstream mainstream media have a baked in bias that they don't really disclose.
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There's no disclaimer, and yet we have to pay tax dollars on both
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sides of the pond for that news product. So in a similar way,
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people feel the Gemini thing is is inherently biased and they're purchasing it and they're
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not being told. But the bias is so ridiculous that when you ask Ai
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to call up a picture of George Washington, he came out black that why
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okay, Mark, thank you. And of course if this is happening in
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America, we can be sure it's happening here. But more troubles on the
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way with what I see as an attack on juries. Let's bring you back
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on Alex. What have you got? What's happened? Brian is even Lord
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Sumption has lost his gumption. It's not the first time that the champion of
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our liberties within the retired judiciary during lockdown has shown that he's less libertarian and
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less pro common law. In other ways. If we go back a couple
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of years to January twenty twenty two, we see that in the wake of
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the Coast and four verdict, which is where some het up supposed anti slavery
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campaigners created criminal damage and were let off by the jury. Not like it,
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but it's the essence of jury nullification. In the wake of that,
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Lord Sumption already was telling LBC as a talk radio station in Britain that he
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didn't particularly admire the jury system. His most cogent point was jurists don't have
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to give their reasons. Now in the US, where Mark speaking from jurors
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can be interviewed about why they acquitted or condemned. That's forbidden under English law.
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That is supposed to be a safeguard so that nobody can browbeat the jurors
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post hawk and say what did you know? You're a bunch of idiots.
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This was a mistrial. But he's repeated his concerns. Now he's writing as
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a reviewer, this time of a piece on Channel four on British National Television.
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This piece, at least in one of the sub editing variants, has
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gone up under the comment headline and the Telegraph that the public are not aware
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of the high price we pay for jurism, and he makes it clear at
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the end of this piece he means financial and time price, and also he
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suggests a price of bad justice. Lord Sumption says, I won't read it
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all that jurists are too ready to convict those accused of terrorism and accused of
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the sexual abuse of children. He adds the rider probably He says that in
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adult rape cases they're probably ready, too ready to acquit the rapist. So
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he's going along, and I'll show you in the next extract as well.
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He's quoting Scotland in the middle there. He's going along with the Scottish government's
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nefarious bands which we've covered, to direct judges by statute to direct in turn
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the juries to convict rapists those accused of rape in certain ways. Lord Sumption
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correctly reviews that in the early nineteenth century Scotland and England decided to ditch civil
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juries, at least mandatory ones for civil trials. But he suggests that it's
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inexorable that in complex cases, and whenever it's the judge deigns to say that
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this is too complex for the jurist, pretty little heads a jury trial only
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can proceed. We'll go on later in the news to see an exam of
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how that goes wrong in Northern Ireland, or at least the jurisdiction of Northern
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Ireland having had the troubles during which with the Diplock Courts there were no juries
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trials. But if anyone's concerned about where this begins and ends, it's not
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just the twenty fourteen restriction of juris in libel trials or before that fraud trials
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in English law. It's not even the digital justice that Scotland and England brought
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in during COVID and haven't rolled back completely. It goes back fully forty years
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is the County Courts Act of nineteen eighty four, and in one of its
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sections, section sixty six, people can freeze the screen to look at this.
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There were already plenty of provisions that shall we say, minor proceedings that's
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not a technical legal term, but that the less serious ones shall be if
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you look at subsection two without a jury unless the court that's the judge sitting
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alone otherwise ordered. So if people aren't campaigning for the repeal of this Section
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sixty six of the County Courts Act nineteen eighty four. I don't regard them
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as champions of trial by jury anyway. If you're wondering what all the fuss
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is about, and we will be adding to this series soon, go to
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our podcast series. You can reach it from series on the homepage, A
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Dissipant's Guide to the Constitution, where you will see that we go into democracy,
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which we led with with rechishuin X definition of it and the assessment the
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necessity of jury law and indeed during nullification. Okay, Alex, thank you
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very much for that dangerous times mark. Well, if we're losing juries here
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or there's the effort to get rid of juries in UK apologies, we've got
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the World Health Organization trying to take control of the Nation states. In other
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ways, what have you got? Yes, the thing I did last week,
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the International Pathogen Surveillance Network Launchest Catalytic Grand Fund is just a one item
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in a long saga of things. Now. Now the UK columns on the
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mailing list for the press releases and taking part occasionally in press conferences. There's
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just a plethora of information. As we know, the inter governmental negotiating bodies
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working on the treaty their last session ended March first. The next session goes
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March eighteen through twenty eight, so they're really scaling things up, shooting for
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that May twenty four date to try and consummate the World Pandemic Treaty or instrument.
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But now they're really jacking up the one Health thing that I and others
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on UK column have talked about from time to time. Leaders call for scale
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up and implementing one Health approach and we'll move on from there. This is
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a major item that I read last night, and no amount of swinging the
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machete can get through the thicket of this thing. Talk about globalize global language
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that has many many meetings, and there are four UN agencies having to do
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with the WHO agriculture environment and one additional one that forms what they call the
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quadrapart type. And then in this slide here it talks about the Guide for
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One Health, the Guide to implementing One Health, what's called the Joint Plan
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of Action at the national level provides practical guidance on how nations can adopt and
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adapt this Joint Plan of Action to strengthen and support the national One Health Plan,
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the Action plan and building on the One Health joint plan of action theory
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of change, which is very important. This guide describes three pathways and five
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key steps. There's three pathways listed here. Listeners and viewers can get into
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more details, but basically it's governance, organizational development, and data and information
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systems. Those are the three pathways. We'll move on from there. And
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this is sort of the resetta stone of the whole thing, the underpinning of
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it, the One Health theory of change. It's the philosophy behind the policy
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which then gives rise to the actions and then what they're trying to consummate.
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And this high level body, the one Health High level body, that's what
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that oahh LDP stands for. That's a rough translation of the acronym. The
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theory of change is prefaced on a recognition that the effects of human activity on
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our environment and planetary boundaries have a profound effect on the health and well being
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of humans, animals, and the ecosystems we co and have it. That's
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a little bit of a snippet of the one health theory of change. What's
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strange is, as you read through all of this, they never quite get
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to fully explaining what that theory of change is. They sort of nibble around
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the edges again. As you try and get through this global eaze, this
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heavy global language where words and concept have multiple meanings, sometimes it's hard to
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even understand exactly what they're trying to say. Sometimes you read certain pages in
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this thing and you really don't know exactly what they're getting at. But one
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health just to recall in this slide, let's define that we've talked about it
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before. It's an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize
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the health of people, animals, and ecosystems. So the word balance,
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as Brian has brought out before, is very important because it doesn't really elevate
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people above animals and ecosystems. There's no more man being the crown of creation
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under a Christian worldview. This is a very collectivist, very humanistic worldview.
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It recognizes the healthy humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the
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wider environment are closely linked and interdependent. Of course, there's some truth to
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that you do need a healthy environment, but this goes further than that in
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terms of the relative value of human life and flora and fauna, and the
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approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities at varying levels of society to work
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together to foster well being and threats to human trackle, threats to health and
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ecosystems. Excuse me. So there's lots to unpack there, and there'll be
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plenty of links in the show notes for those that want to get into the
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heavy details. But here's what the WHO Director General is saying. As all
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this is churning along the Catalytic Fund, the negotiations for the treaty, and
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now the One Health thing being heavily integrated into all this. Taedros, the
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Director General of WHO, had this to say, we need sustain political will
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to ensure that these one Health principles are embedded in national and international policies,
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and he also added implementation in countries, resource mobilization, science and evidence and
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political will are all important. These are the four priorities that we must pursue
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together in the year ahead. So it shows Brian a very aggressive stance being
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taken by the WHO. They're unpacking and implementing everything they can. There's a
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lot of a lot of details. There's a lot of very nebulous language that
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can be interpreted many different ways. But it's all points bulletin here and it's
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all hands on deck for those concerned about human freedom and to keep a close
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eye on the WHO and to get involved in any way they can at the
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local council level on up, to make sure that everyone understands the kind of
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power and the kind of influence that the WHO is pursuing here and what it
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may consummate in because once that pandemic treaty is drawn up, there may be
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no turning back. So this is ultra important and it's really heating up.
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Excellent Mark, thank you very much for that, and Alex will bring you
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back on because if the World Health Organization is going for nation states across the
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world, we've also got powers under scrutiny in Northern Ireland. Yes, we
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report it to time ago that during Brexit's negotiations in the hottest and most controversial
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period, the Chef de Cabinet, the political fixer directly under Commissioner Yunker,
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who was then the chair the President of the European Commission, a gentleman called
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Martin Zelmyer, widely rumored to be ex German intelligence, said if Britain wishes
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to leave the European Union. Its price will be Northern Ireland. We see
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that the European Union does regard itself as owning Northern Ireland. Now it's half
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of the course that in treaties such as the treaty that got written out of
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the EU, the executives in question, the European Commission and His Majesty's government,
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they would regard that as sacrosanct. But as we've often said, treaties
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do not automatically bind because they don't involve the judiciaries and the parliaments, the
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other two branches of government in countries. But we see the extent of capture,
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certainly of the judiciary in Northern Ireland, because a matter has now come
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up to the High Court in Northern Ireland under Justice Colton regarding this piece of
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legislation, which is a Westminster Act. Stormont wasn't sitting last year and certainly
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didn't pass, can't pass anything like this. It hasn't got competencies. But
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this is perhaps the most significant thing that has come out of Westminster in the
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quarter century since the Belfast Agreement or Good for Idea Agreement of nineteen ninety eight.
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It's the Northern Ireland troubles Brackets, Legacy and Reconciliation Act of last year.
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It's pretty slap dash to call the troubles the troubles in statute. It's
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a very colloquial term. But this is the moment at which Westminster, having
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washed its hands of Northern Ireland many years ago, one thinks of Sir Paddy
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Mayhew in the Major administration in the nineties, saying we have no interest in
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Northern Ireland. This is the point at which his Magic's government goes a lot,
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proceeds to say, right, well, we can't be bothered prosecuting terrorists
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anymore, no matter how many murders they've committed and tortures they've done. No,
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we're going to the economic recovery job now now. Joshua Rosenberg, many
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people will recall him as the BBC's legal correspondent years ago, not always to
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my liking, but I have to admit his thoroughness perspicacity in some areas.
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He has blogged last week and substack under a lawyer rights this hold below the
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water line byline judge disapplies Northern Ireland Troubles legislation, the Westminster Act. I
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just showed you now. West Minster will always call from the rafters that it
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is parliamentary sovereign. We've often attacked that question principle in the Dissidance Guide to
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the Constitution, but here we see that they get their come upance because a
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judge in Northern Ireland has disapplied an Act of Parliament. Now it's pretty complicated
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and the links don't no longer work from that piece that you can see to
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the judiciary piece. So we'll go with Joshua Rosenberg's breakdown of what's happened Brexit
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included what's now known as the Windsor Accord. It was the withdrawal agreement at
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first, which is an undertaking not between US and the Irish government, but
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between His Majesty's government and the European Commission directly that certain EU legal standards will
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continue to apply. This is about parity of rights. This doesn't just apply
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with the continent or even just with the Irish Republic. It has domestic effect
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in Northern Ireland. Now. In particular, judicial review was taken. That's
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relatives challenging whether or not it was fit for Westminster to write off future punishment
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for torturers and murderers, and judicial review was taken on the standard grounds of
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incompatibility with human rights. We've had that in UK law since nineteen ninety eight.
29:23
But specifically and additionally for Northern Ireland only, there is a secondary route,
29:27
which is this infringes my right under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, part of
29:32
which was that EU law for this purpose and EU equality will continue to apply
29:36
in Northern Ireland. Justice Colton looked at that in some detail, and as
29:40
Rosenberg rightly summarizes, he concludes that all six of the tests were met.
29:45
Therefore he struck out the provisions of this supposedly sovereign Act of the Mother of
29:48
Parliaments. He did so even though this act post dated the Withdrawal Agreement and
29:55
the transposition of that through the Westminster Parliament. So it even called into question
30:00
this idea of implied repeal, which itself was a fudge that came out of
30:03
the Metric Martyr's case. You can see that when one lion fudge is invented,
30:07
more lies and fudge have to come along to cover them up. Well.
30:10
Now, this idea of implicit repeal, which is how the Government got
30:12
out of a tight spot over the Metric Martr's case. It didn't want to
30:15
admit that EU regulations and directors were supreme over UK law in parliament. That
30:22
has now caused more egg on the face because a judge can do this,
30:26
and if the UK had remained in the EU, he said, this law
30:29
would never have been passed. Therefore there was no competence for Parliament to pass
30:33
it anyway. There is no parliamentary sovereignty. Tony Blair and the IRA is
30:37
the book to read. I've given you the good Reads book and it'll be
30:40
in the show notes there if you want to know where this began. It
30:42
began with a personal pledge by Tony Blair, anxious for his place in history
30:45
and perhaps butttering up the Vatican before his conversion. You went on to issue
30:51
these comfort letters through his staff to many IRA murderers. And we've reached the
30:55
pitch now that it's not His Majesty's government that cannot countenance the idea of these
31:00
murderers and torture as being let off. Note it's the European Union acting through
31:03
its subsidiaries in Northern Ireland in the judiciary as well as the executive who were
31:07
saying, oh no, Westerminster can't do that, and I'm afraid in this
31:10
case they're right. They have less awful and abysmal legal and moral standards than
31:14
His Majesty's government which was planning just to let all of these prisoners off and
31:18
accuse people of Scot Free Alex. Thank you very much for that detailed analysis.
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to say that I'm very glad to mention this in passing. It's been sent
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false Parliament is the way, is the means we have to stand up to
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any supranational bullying. Parliament still has the ability in that Northern Ireland case to
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tell the judges where to get off, as it always does when they give
34:54
human rights castigations of the government, and in this case there's nothing to beat
35:01
pressure on our own parliamentary representatives to repeal their own acts, because supernational bodies
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35:10
So that petition will be in the show notes, which takes me to
35:15
Germany, where egg on face has reached new heights. Zero Hedge has reported
35:21
this, and I'm sorry that the headline is obscure. That's my fault with
35:23
the slide. But there has been an intercept published by the Russians and they've
35:29
admitted it was their own intercept as well as their own publication transcript of it
35:32
of high level German defense officials from the bundeswer discussing how to get Taurus missiles
35:40
to Ukraine, and they're actually talking in it about the possibility that the Ukrainians
35:47
will lose will use these missiles to attack the Kerch Straight Bridge, as you'll
35:54
see on screen there at the moment. Now, the incriminating thing here is
35:59
that during the call, the German defense officials admit that there is not any
36:04
legitimacy or urgency of making the Kerch Straight Bridge of Russia between what's now Russian
36:09
Crimea and Russian North CAUCUSUS there's no necessity for Ukraine to target that, and
36:15
they admit in the call it is a political long term goal of the Ukrainians
36:17
to bring it down, which is why they have started wanting Taurus missiles.
36:22
If we go to the transcript here, which has only been published by Sputnik
36:25
International, I would supply a Western source if anyone had bothered, but nobody
36:30
else has transcribed it, even in the native German, let alone in English
36:32
that I can see. I'll go through some of the detail in this in
36:37
the moment, but first we're just going to listen to a few seconds of
36:40
the intercept. Native speakers of German will recognize the words lucre and Brucker,
36:45
so a hole in the bridge is what they're talking about. And the gentleman
36:50
you're about to see in the inset top left of the slide graphic in the
36:53
moment is not a minor figure. He is actually General leeut nannt Airhearts,
37:00
who is the Air Chief Marshal. He is the commander or as they say
37:04
in Germany, the inspector of the Luftluffer and he's on the phone to his
37:07
J three, his head of operations, who's in Singapore, probably how the
37:10
Russians were able to intercept this piece, and also to two underlings who seemed
37:15
to be his missile boffins from the Space Command. Listen to a few seconds
37:19
of the intercept Skenon, I'm gonna say against the intan Platz scandriosign with a
37:34
Spanish old club to him quite calmly. There the commander of the loft Bluffer
37:50
is hearing from his underlings it would probably take ten or twenty of our tourist
37:53
missiles for the Ukrainians to blow up this Russian bridge. And in the call,
37:59
do read the transcript that I've just shown and which I'll link to,
38:01
there is plenty of detail about having how it would be better for Germany to
38:06
be sly and use a ruse like the French, rather than just be in
38:10
your face like the British, because the British and French supply Stormshadow and related
38:15
types of missile not too dissimilar from Taurus, and the head of the Loftuffer
38:19
and his underlings there are saying, we don't want to be like the Brits
38:21
and just send a troop carrier a ridgeback with these components, and they also
38:28
chuckle in an aside that we all know about the gentlemen in civilian attire and
38:30
American accents washing around Ukraine. Hoh no, No, we're going to be
38:35
like the French. We're going to do it through MBDA, the supposedly international
38:38
conglomerates, supposedly independent of the Ministries of Defense of the European countries. We're
38:44
going to supply German military staff through MBDA so that we have plausible deniability,
38:49
and we're going to keep chat testing where the German Chancellor or Prime Minister's red
38:54
lines are. We don't want to be more gutsy than the British in this.
39:00
The training we can just give to the British, because there's a big
39:01
political item in Germany at the moment about a couple of weeks of German training,
39:06
then hand it over to the British. The Chancellor has really irritated the
39:10
spokeswoman or the chairwoman of the Defense Committee in Parliament, sorry, the Foreign
39:15
Afairs Commitee in Parliament, Alisha Kerns, because Schultz's spokesman let slip that the
39:21
British already have people on the ground doing this no surprise to us, and
39:23
he got really castigated for this. In strong terms, so he's clearly the
39:27
junior partner here. But all the way through this call, where you can
39:30
read it's forty minutes long in the transcripts there in English on Sputnik, they're
39:32
saying, well, the British are already doing this, the French are doing
39:36
it more slyly. This is going to be a long term project. It's
39:37
a political goal. What are the repercussions in Russia? Constantin Kosachoff, the
39:44
Chairman of the or speaker of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament as has
39:47
been saying, this calls into question whether Germany is a belligerent party in this
39:52
war or not. Dmitiy Medvedev, who is often off the wall, you
39:55
know, the most extreme Russian prominent man, the former president and Prime Minister,
40:00
still in the National Security Council, is saying the crowds are up to
40:02
their old tricks. They're back to reverting to their type as the archetypal villains
40:07
got bashed. The crowd's death to the German fascists really lurid stuff, but
40:12
you can imagine understand why and while all this is happening. The German newspaper
40:16
of Record fazed the frankworter Algemina is reporting that the Health Minister No Less in
40:22
Germany is about to present a bill to the German Parliament and he's saying that
40:25
we need the health ministry to be ready for a war. He says it
40:30
will be naive to immediately imagine that we're not going to have a war.
40:35
Pretty incredible stuff. But of course the whole thing is proving that this indeed
40:39
is a proxy war. And there's no question that French, British and American
40:45
special forces have been on the ground for a very long time helping facilitate Ukrainian
40:51
attacks. So this is just consolidating information but taking a dangerous step forward with
40:59
the intent to destroy that bridge. Now where does that take us? So
41:02
I think it's back to you, Mark, and well what have you got
41:07
here? Thanks Brian. On a fairly regular basis, the Chicago Council on
41:15
Global Affairs, the former Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, does their Leicster Crown
41:21
Center on US Foreign Policy Survey. It used to go under another name until
41:25
twenty eighteen. I've been covering it intermittently over the last several years. Well,
41:30
this is the latest Leicester Crown Center on US Foreign Policy Survey, and
41:36
it says, in collaboration with the marketing firm and research firm IPSOS and the
41:40
Chicago Global Affairs Council itself, Americans continue to support military and economic aid to
41:49
Ukraine. But there's a lot of nuance in this. As we'll see,
41:52
let's move forward. Support for sending military aid to Ukraine is strongest among Democrats.
41:58
That's significant, and then set seventy five and fifty four percent respectively.
42:02
By contrast, these increasingly populous anti war Republicans, I'm elaborating a little bit,
42:08
fifty three percent of them in the survey were opposed. Overall public support
42:15
for the war, however, the Council is admitting, has steadily declined near
42:21
the start of the war. In March of twenty two Mars twenty twenty two,
42:24
excuse me, seventy nine percent of Americans surveyed supported sending military aid to
42:30
your to Ukraine. Excuse me. In September of twenty twenty three, that
42:36
support dropped all the way to sixty three percent. Today it's at fifty eight
42:40
percent, so a pretty precipitous drop. Nearly seventy percent of Americans are in
42:45
favor of the US supporting Ukraine's admission to NATO. However, the survey was
42:50
conducted notably February sixteen through February eighteen of one thousand and thirty nine American adults.
42:57
Just a little basic facts there. We'll move on from there. The
43:00
key findings, these, of course, will be available in the show notes.
43:04
It's about a ten page result of the survey. Six and ten Americans
43:08
favor providing both economic assistance to Ukraine and sending additional arms and military supplies.
43:16
That's fifty eight percent. Majorities of Democrats and Independence favor providing military aid to
43:24
Ukraine, which a majority of Republicans fifty three percent of post We've touched on
43:30
that. Similarly, majorities of Democrats and Independence support providing economic assistance to Ukraine
43:37
excuse me, while Republicans are opposed. Seven to ten. Americans sixty nine
43:42
percent, including majorities across party lines, favor the US supporting Ukraine's admission to
43:46
NATO, and a majority sixty percent say that the US security relationship with Ukraine
43:52
does more to strengthen US national security than it does to weaken it. I'll
43:57
note that on that last item, there's nothing provided in the overall survey and
44:02
the results that explains how this actually benefits the US and the taxpayers. What
44:07
I will note that Leicester Crown the namesake of the foreign policy outfit within the
44:14
Chicago Council on whose name this survey was conducted. Leicester Crown is the ninety
44:21
eight year old son of Henry Crown. Henry Crown Brian was the founder of
44:24
the major defense contractor to this day, General Dynamics. So conceivably, the
44:30
way that the US benefits with the economic aid and other aid to Ukraine,
44:36
in terms of any benefit, would be profits for defense contractors. Anyway,
44:40
we have one of many slides that were in the survey results. We'll just
44:45
show this one. Support for economic aid to Ukraine. Yes, there are
44:52
majorities that support this economic aid. However, since March of twenty twenty two
44:57
until February of this year, you can see that for Democrats, Republicans,
45:01
independents and overall that that support has declined. It's kind of edged its way
45:07
down. And the same thing is true for military aid Ukraine and so on
45:14
and so forth. And the most precipitous drop, the biggest drop, is
45:17
any idea Brian of using American troops in Ukraine. There's a major disagreement there.
45:25
The people surveyed don't want any part of that. The support for such
45:29
an idea is very low. But the contradiction that I caught, Brian,
45:32
and to its credit, the Chicago Council also caught this contradiction, was that
45:39
while there's lots of support for Ukraine entering NATO, if they did the NATO
45:47
setup, of course, is an attack on one Alliance member is an attack
45:52
on all so it would actually guarantee more military activity and potentially World War III.
45:58
If NATO made Ukraine a full official member, then the US would be
46:04
obliged to send troops in. So there's the contradiction. Those surveyed don't want
46:08
any part of sending American troops into Ukraine, yet they want Ukraine to join
46:15
NATO, and if it did, an attack on Ukraine would oblige those very
46:19
same US troops to go help Ukraine. So even the Chicago Council can't quite
46:24
fully figure out why there's that inherent inconsistency and contradiction. But overall, Brian,
46:30
the main lesson. The main takeaway from this is that while slim majorities
46:36
of Americans support the economic aid, the military aid, and those sorts of
46:39
things. That majority keeps shrinking, and the Democrats long thought to be the
46:45
party of peace, the anti war party traditionally over many decades, just like
46:50
Democrats were thought to be the pro labor the pro workingman party. In both
46:53
areas, the Democratic Party is proving itself to be a real loser. They're
46:58
no longer the party of the workingman, certainly not like they were. And
47:02
they're no longer the anti war party that the Republicans have. That mantiple ironically
47:07
went for years Republicans were called warmongers. So there's lots of paradigm shifts and
47:14
seismic shifts going on. But the bottom line again is that the majorities that
47:20
support these things in America keep slipping down and going down and down and down,
47:23
and pretty soon it could very well go the other way. So the
47:28
Chicago Council is obviously fishing Brian, hoping that they can somehow maintain a patina
47:35
of public support for what's going on in Ukraine and the American aid into that.
47:42
So it shows just how weak that support ultimately is from Americans, shows
47:47
how weak, and also i think shows how desperate they are in order to
47:52
get a case across that all is well. Certainly, Colonel Douglas McGregor over
47:58
the weekend was was saying that, in his opinion, support was dropping away,
48:04
support for Ukraine was dropping away very quickly in the United States. Well,
48:09
Alex, let's bring you in. Kriegsm Marine has got a few problems
48:15
from the Luftwaffer to the Creeks Marina. Brian. With the Luftwaffer, the
48:19
problem was they were knowingly are knowingly setting up a long term projects to help
48:23
the Ukrainians shoot down a bridge with up to twenty missiles as they themselves estimate
48:29
where they themselves acknowledge in the same call, it's not necessary because the Russians
48:32
have a thick land bridge on the Black Sea litter l now to supply Crimea
48:37
and southern Ukraine at the same time the Kreeks Marina. The German Navy has
48:42
a problem if sent out the Hessen, a rather clapped out frigate and the
48:46
Frankfurt Algerman. It is reporting here that the Hessen has inadvertently shot at an
48:51
Allied drone in the Red Sea out of the anti Husi operations going on here.
48:58
But there are other things going on in that theater of operation as well.
49:01
The problem here, as we'll see in the admission on screen now from
49:06
the German Defense Minister Street, is that well, it's Derschpiegel that found it
49:09
first. Faz has syndicated it that the Defense ministry has said that this was
49:15
not an enemy drone, but we only found out afterwards that it was there.
49:20
They stressed that the Germans had already asked all their NATO allies, have
49:23
you got any drones in this sector where we're sending the Hessen to shoot down
49:28
drones, and they weren't told about this drone, probably because it was on
49:31
a separate, perhaps unilateral or bilateral counter terrorism mission, so it wasn't identified.
49:37
Some observers have even suggested that the drone's iff its identification was turned off,
49:43
which some people think is an international legal crime, but countries will justify
49:47
it under CT operations. The worst bit though, on screen, is that
49:51
it's because of a technical defect to the missiles fired from the clapped out old
49:55
frig at the Hessen. Both of the interceptor missiles shot at it just went
50:00
PLoP back into the Red Sea and didn't hit the presumed US drone what we
50:05
know for sure is it's a reaper. It may not have been operated by
50:07
the US. It may have been a European country operating it. Now the
50:12
opposition has made hay with this, and that's on screen at the moment,
50:14
but I've translated it for you here it is flury aan Hahn, an MP
50:19
from Bavaria from the pseudo or quasi conservative opposition, has had this to say.
50:24
He said, with regard to pressing the government that when we pressed the
50:29
Bundesweher the Ministry of Defense, we found out that some of the Hessens weapons
50:32
systems seem not to be available to re order, as the industrial capacity isn't
50:37
there anymore. He goes on, so that when these components have been fired
50:42
off, and we've just seen that two of them failed anyway, the German
50:45
Navy won't be able to replenish them, so the frigate is going to have
50:47
to withdraw from theater. He concludes. Thus, Parliament, the Bundestag voted
50:53
on a deployment in ignorance of an apparent problem with the type one two four
50:59
frigates. I don't know whether it can get any more serious than that.
51:00
At this stage. The Germans seemed not to have a navy and they only
51:04
discover it in anger during wartime operations. While my comment on that is at
51:08
least Parliament voted on it. From what I see in UK, we have
51:13
more and more forces deployed overseas with no parliamentary vote. Did you have one
51:19
last yes, just very briefly to point out that develt and more conservative paper
51:23
has got a list, although it is behind a paywall, of everything missing
51:27
and broken and super annuated on this type one two four frigate to the Hessen.
51:34
Some reports claim that the radar was the targeting radar. This would be
51:37
was due to be replaced before she sailed off to the red seat, but
51:39
wasn't. That might be a big red clue as to why the firing at
51:44
the drone failed. Okay, thank you for that, Alex. Well,
51:47
just very quickly here this is something called my eye this morning. But what
51:52
does it signify? I think it signifies this child, this view of the
51:57
world that's creeping into so many places. So BBC with a headline working for
52:02
six more exciting than a James Bond film, says spy. And if we
52:07
just have a couple of the quotes working for six can be more exciting than
52:12
a James Bond film. A director for the agency has told the BBC,
52:16
well, this is apparently the Finance and Human resources director. He goes on
52:23
and say, I've also seen some of the coolest stuff, things that will
52:28
blow your mind. You have to be in it to see it. This
52:31
is the language of a youngster, a young teenager. But we're now to
52:37
trust somebody working in MI six. And then, of course the real agenda
52:40
going on is a big drive to bring in a different class of people.
52:45
So he says, I'm afraid it makes you think that everyone who works here
52:50
as a white, middle class male who's driving an Aston Martin, who likes
52:53
women and all that. But that's not true. We're very type for time
52:59
in this new so Alex will bring it into extra time for a bit of
53:02
discussion. But I just see a puerile attitude now being brought into MI six
53:09
and I'm sure this is dangerous. Mark. We're going to bring you back
53:14
in here because I mentioned Colonel McGregor over the weekend talking about the support for
53:21
Ukraine falling. But the other thing that he said is people in the States
53:25
are much more concerned about the southern border issue, and I think you'd agree
53:31
with that. Yes, they don't want to aid Ukraine at the expense of
53:37
the border. In other words, all those multi billion dollars, a record
53:42
number of dollars according to Rand Paul, as I've reported last week, with
53:45
all that money going to Ukraine, people are saying, what about the southern
53:49
border. While this past Thursday I had Joe Biden visiting Brownsville to the east
53:54
of me, and Donald Trump over an Eagle Pass to the west of me.
53:59
The weather was too a little but the inclement and the security too tight
54:01
to go see Biden. That'd be a real snoozer anyway. But anyway,
54:06
we have a video of a little bit of what Donald Trump had to say
54:08
at Eagle Pass this past Thursday, and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas was there,
54:15
so I think we can give that a Listen, three years ago,
54:19
we had the most secure border in history. Brandon was saying it, the
54:22
General was saying it. We had the most secure border, and people weren't
54:25
coming because they knew they weren't going to get in, and we weren't promising
54:30
free education, free medical, free everything. I mean, all the promises
54:34
that have made no wonder they come. I mean, you look at what
54:37
this governor Newscomb from California. Isn't that his name Newscomb? What he's done
54:43
to California is unbelievable. People are pouring in they think they're going to get
54:46
medical aid, and our soldiers, our Vetera aren't being taken care of.
54:51
But people that come into our country illegally are. We ended catch and release.
54:54
We built five hundred and seventy one miles of border wall, much more
54:58
than I promised i'd build. And in addition, we purchased another two hundred
55:02
miles and they sold that much of it for five cents of the dollar.
55:09
And it just so happens, Brian, that I found recently where some of
55:15
that sold off fence sold for pennies on the dollar, is stacked. And
55:19
that's only about six or seven miles from where I'm sitting. Back time,
55:23
the mainstream press had a story about it. One hundred million dollars in border
55:31
wall materials rusting away in Texas, according to a report, And this report
55:37
from the New York Post notably said that a lot of that fencing was in
55:42
Far Texas spelled Phaarr. Technically it's an Alamo right next to Farr and I
55:49
found that recently and made a video of my own of what I call Biden's
55:53
graveyard, his border fence graveyard, And so we'll see a short clip of
55:58
what I filmed there. This is the twenty third of February twenty twenty four
56:04
UK Colin News correspondent Mark Anderson in Alamo, Texas along Business eighty three,
56:09
just shy of Tower Road. These are multiple fence sections from the southern border
56:15
fence here in Hidago County that were never put up. They were ordered under
56:22
the Trump administration, as I understand it, but canceled by Biden once he
56:29
became president, and he forbade them to be put up and then sold it
56:35
off for pennies on the dollar. According to my best sources, it's a
56:42
vast field of border fence sections getting around the trash ben here and we'll see
56:54
it close up what they look like. Mark Anderson, UK Calum saying,
57:08
so there you go a little bit of field work to show what that unerected
57:13
border fence looks like. And as Trump noted, it would have covered something
57:17
like a couple hundred miles. And this isn't the only stack of unused fans.
57:22
There's some elsewhere, but this is the vast majority of it that he
57:27
actually referred to last Thursday. Okay, Mark, thank you for that.
57:30
Well, if you don't want to put the fence up, your policy must
57:34
be to allow people to come into these states in huge numbers. And question
57:39
is why, Well, I think we know why, to help break apart
57:43
American society. I've got an eye on the clock, Alex, So i'd
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say, would you like to give an introduction to matters around whole and we'll
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save the meat of the material for UK column Extra after the news. Well,
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let's keep the slides till Extra then, and I'll just say that we
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have had a very informative email in from Hull, an unglamorous but important British
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city. The council seems to be presented with a fit are complete from central
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government now, which is in order to get a poultry sum which is being
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presented as a great amount of money, but isn't I think thirteen million pounds.
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You must merge with the nearby and completely different rural area. So the
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city of Hull is left leaning an urban and you've got this conservative rural area
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behind it, now called the East, riding effectively a county formerly part of
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Yorkshire. They're being told you must merge and there's some very pressing questions.
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So I think that our more clued up viewers and committed ones who are in
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extra time will be able to help this viewer. But if you are going
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in ways like this in how to tackle local government abuses which turn out to
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have superanational routes. Okay, Alex, thank you very much for that.
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I was smiling, but it was a wry smile at what was going on.
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If we summarize our news today, we've got the assault on people worldwide.
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It often doesn't matter what country they live in, whether they're in UK,
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or they're in Germany or another country in the European Union, or of
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course they're over the Pond and they're in the United States. We are seeing
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breakdown accompanied with an ever more onerous system of government. And this cannot be
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accidental. This must be global policy that we're watching. How fascinating we are
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now suddenly coming back on something very local in Huole which gives us another another
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piece of evidence that this policy is real and seeks to do us harm.
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I'm just going to ask you as we end today, I put up the
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clip saying to people, if you want to understand things that seem difficult to
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understand, consider that you're being attacked. Am I being too harsh by suggesting
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this to people? Don't think William of Ockhan the medieval scholars would have said
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so because he coined the raider, didn't he The explanation that does least violence
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to common sense is probably the right one. And this is the one penny
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that, once it drops, seems to explain most of what our governments are
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