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UK Column News Podcast 20th May 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the twentieth of May twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I am your host,
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Brian Gerrish. I'm delighted to be joined by Alex Thompson and Mark Anderson.
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Well, just as we were settling into the studio today, some really
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quite extraordinary news came through, and that is that the International Criminal Court has
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apparently issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of Hamas. I don't
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have any further information on that, but we're going to bring Alex Thompson in
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straight away because Alex, you've got a little bit of a premonition that something
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was afoot. All the linguists, Brian, who are following the advertisements on
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the International Criminal Court's website, the Hague knew something was afoot. Let's bring
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that up on screen now. A couple of days ago, this was doing
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the rounds among professional interpreters and translators and transcribers, and I've done all three
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professions, all of these three branches of Hebrew to English assistance were required to
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apply to that with that reference number to the Hague, which could only mean
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that they were about to go for bib. It doesn't always end up that
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way. When the prosecutor was Fatu Bensuda from the Gambia, I was one
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of those who have Georgian who applied because I knew that they were interested indicting
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Michael Sakashvili after the South Ossetia War similarly, but that never went anywhere.
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But there you are. It has happened and we will see where it leads.
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Extraordinary times, it absolutely is, and we may as well go straight
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on to Georgian news because we have a lot to say about that. Now
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here's just one example of press cartoons giving an impression of what is going to
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happen now that the Georgian Dream Party, which has its majority in Parliament,
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has managed to pass the Foreign Agents Registration bill, so it has now become
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an act. President Salome Zurabishili, who is originally from France, although Georgian
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by ethnicity, is against it, but cannot veto indefinitely. So here we
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see mop top Prime Minister Irapli Koba Hitze maliciously diverting the bus of Georgians who
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apparently with one voice, wanted to go to the European Union and sending them
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to the Kremlin instead. Is this all that can be said about It's well,
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no, it's rather more complex than that. Here we see one take
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from Nick Griffin, formerly the most important British nationalist politician, now quite a
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following on telegram, but a divisive figure even within the nationalist scene. But
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his particular take on this is that every day brings a new blow to the
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Washington slash Wall Street Empire. And he points out that is not the only
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country wishing to regulate and scrutinize foreign paid persons and organizations by law, because
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Turkey is doing the same, he says. And he says it's all about
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reducing the influence of so called Western because he thinks they're not really Western but
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a financial cabal liberal non governmental organizations. If you want the detail on this,
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and let's just translate this because most of our viewers don't even know what
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script that is. That's George and script. There is a site which will
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be in the show notes whose name translates as Illuminate ganteh in Georgia, and
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they have put the very basic bair bones in here. And I think the
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point here is that this explainer, which is for the non specialist Georgians who
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are ranging from clueless to outrage it's telling them really the bare bones of this
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law, and what it is devoid of is the scare reporting which has been
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featured in other channels. There is no mention in this bare bones analysis which
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is being passed round Jewish, the mainstream pro Western youth in Georgian society.
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There's no indication here of people having to be obliged to disclose their sexuality or
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individuals being gone after by this law rather than organizations, and that I think
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is significant. So you can read that. You will when you load it
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from the show notes, give it a couple of seconds depending on your device
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type and browser for the translation to load into English a bit. Otherwise you
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will be disappointed and think that it's just Georgian. But it's not as controversial
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and outrageous as people think. I hesitate even to mention Reddit as an Internet
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source, but occasionally there are gems there and in the Reddit sub thread a
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subreddit called Suckardfellow, the Georgian name for Georgia. Earlier this week, somebody
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it's the usual caveat. It's an anonymous person calling themselves a potential scholar.
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So a young academic is giving an explainer on the law on transparency of foreign
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influence. I cannot vouch for who this is, but they have had the
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time to go through the contrasts and comparisons between this and the best known existing
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Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is the United States original of the genre from
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nineteen thirty eight, and they've contrasted the two in the following a few slides
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which we will I will not read out in full but because people can freeze
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the screen and read the whole lot. But look, this is obviously somebody
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who is negatively inclined towards the new law and who would go along with the
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Western media talking points and the Georgian media talking points and opposition talking points that
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this is a way of chilling and freezing dissent in Georgia, having a chilling
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effect. The first of the five slides of contrasts says that while the Georgian
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law broadly targets the NGOs and scattergun approach, FARA applies because it was enacted
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on the eve of the Second World War to agents of foreign principles and excludesngos
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which weren't really such a big deal back in the era of Roosevelt, unless
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they're acting as agents of a foreign government. May be that as it may.
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That's the first claim. The second contrast is that while the Georgian law
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will stifle civil society, it's always such a buzzword in emerging democracies like this
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civil society. FARA provides transparency. So to my mind, just giving my
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own opinion, this is a verging towards just being an apologist for America good.
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Anyone else who tries the same thing bad because it's taking America's word for
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it. And people who watched last week will know that Canada in the process
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of doing similarly. So has Britain and several continental European countries. But there
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are differences between all these Turkey's law, Russia's law, and Georgia's law.
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But everyone in the geopolitical space really is enacting such a thing now. The
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third of the five contrasts offered by mister or miss potential scholar on Reddit is
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that the Georgian version is equipped with teeth fines. If you don't comply,
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you can even be criminally prosecuted for failure to tell the Georgian government what they
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want to know about your organization if it's more than twenty percent foreign funded.
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In the US, the Foreign Agents Registration Act can, if infringed, result
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in the same penalties. But the law is, it says, primarily focused
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on transparency. This is fluffy language, right, This is not reassuring to
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me that America's law really is better. This is just you know what America
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does is better because I say so, I don't see any primary sources in
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here. Fourthly, far Our targets individuals and organizations who are politically active.
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But Georgia and we heard this talking point two weeks ago from the BBC as
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if you watched that episode, you will know that the BBC went for mister
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Samjaradze, a governing party MP, on this very point. Allegedly the Georgians
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version is indiscriminate and goes for religious and humanitarian and charitable organizations, etc.
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Well, people can make of that what they do. And let's go on
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from there. And for the final one, which is that FARA requires registration
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statements. In other words, you can say to the US government, don't
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touch me with this law. I'm a bona fide a journalist or academic and
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Georgia doesn't allegedly. Now, I don't have the time to go further into
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the depths of these laws, and I don't want to give legal analysis as
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if I were qualified to do so. But I do not find much reassurance
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in this much banded about term that America really has a better law than Georgia,
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let alone the other Western countries and Turkey and Russia. Speaking of Russia,
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OCCRP, a well known website for those who are interested in corruption in
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countries, is now reporting that Russia is going further than ever with it original
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law, the one which prompted the media and the Georgian opposition to call this
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Georgian law a Russia style bill, as in the cartoon that you saw at
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the start of the segment. Because Russia is now going to exclude what it
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regards as foreign agents from participating in elections. You might say high time,
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actually, but this is enough for people to lose their heads in the West.
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Russian opposition Politico, which is based in both Brussels and Washington these days,
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is reporting and I've had an earlier iteration of this last week that US
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senators, particularly I think some of the more liberal inclient ones are now going
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to push for Congress to go beyond the White House in foreign policy and to
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make sure that the named politicians who are responsible for this act as it now
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has become could be sanctioned. And I mentioned last week this is some of
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the expected fallout. The White House spokeswoman, who we often see making outrageous
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and ill qualified statements but not always, has said this time that she Curran
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and John Pierre, this is going to cause a fundamental reassessment of America's relationship
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with Georgia. That's not the American deep state talking. That's the more liberally
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minded politicians. We will see how this goes. Just a couple of images
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to indicate to you this is not represent still the whole protest. I tried
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to give a painter that that picture last week from witnessing. It's fairly close
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up, deliberately not in amongst the protesters, but around the edges. But
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look at the youth of these people and the bandana wearing and the alternative face
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and hair. Obviously people will go for photogenic shots and this They shouldn't take
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this as being all of those who are protesting. But there's a very strong
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teenage vibe, and it gets a bit more otherworldly than that, because here
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we have a young lady of perhaps fifteen holding up a bilingual sign English and
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Georgian based on the Harry Potter law or mythological universe. So expecto patronum of
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well, actually Latin, not English. I'm waiting for the remedy. And
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then in Georgian dementorebot so you dementors. So anyone she doesn't like in politics
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so she's been induced not to like is a dementor. One of the top
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categories of villain from Harry Potter. That wasn't a one off. Here we
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have some gentlemen who look a bit older enough to no better in one young
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lady carrying two mugshots each one of a Georgian government politician and alongside it a
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Harry Potter character. So you know, it's getting a bit facile, juvenile
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to June, whatever you wish to call it. Just to end this segment,
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people of course don't speak Georgian. I think ninety nine percent of them
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who watched this news so I will not put at the video in we don't
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have permission anyway. But there is an interesting rapper who goes by the name
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of Master or the Master who has got a huge number of views for a
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small country like Georgia. For this rap from just before the protests began,
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a couple of weeks ago, when the mood was hotting up. The rap
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is called chemi droscha jer, which is idiomatically translated I now reclaimed the flag.
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And I'll just read my gist of what he was saying in that rap,
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because I think he represents the thinking part of the middle part of Georgian
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society that is neither very enamored of the governing Georgian Dream Party nor a fanatic
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of the EU. And it ain't the scene, but what's happening in many
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such countries. On the eve of the real tensions beginning. The rapper Master
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says, I posted the Georgian flag, and the liberal pseudo patriots called me
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a Russian stooge who can fail to see through them. It's my flag now.
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I don't give a stuff what footballers and pundits and fashion models yelled about
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being a Russian stooge. I was brought up with basic decency in the nineties.
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I mentioned Christ and you made me out to be a putin fanboy your
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democracy is double standards. Who is afraid of the cross, which of course
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is on the Georgian flag. There's a lot of anti Christian sentiment among these
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young protestors. The rapper goes on, I tell you that the bankers are
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playing us, play a dirty spook game. Yet called a loser. This
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lot, meaning the extreme agitators, cannot stand anything that's truly Georgian. Their
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facade is as fake as they're sloganeering. We see you running around with all
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those NGOs on your CV. You can't make a single point without swearing.
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Music is all I have. I am asked but to go to and live
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in Russia and being told that I'll be a social media or I'm a European,
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that I'm now reclaiming this flag. That's one guy's attitude, but I
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think it shows that a lot of Georgian society is now thoroughly fed up of
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the extreme tensions that have been brought into Georgian society here. Alex, thank
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you very much for that excellent report and insight into what's been happening on the
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ground. Amazing things happening all around the world. We need to be very
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careful in analysis Politico was of interest to me, as our viewers and listeners
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will see when I get onto my own segment in the News. But before
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we get there, Mark, let's bring you on and the topic is Carnegie,
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who we could say is one of those very influencing organizations that we're never
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too sure what they're doing or whose side they are on. Correct, Brian,
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Good day, guys. The Currnegie Endowment for International Piece is a constituent
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attendee, a Bildeberg. That's the first footnote. And I'll also preface my
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remarks by mentioning that the foundation associated with Carnegie. Of course, that's founded
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by the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who built libraries across the United States to
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kind of reassure Americans that he wasn't a total robber baron at any rate.
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Back around nineteen seventeen and before that, in the wake of the Federal Reserve
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Act, the Techs Exempt Foundation was created, and that gave the financial Coterie,
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the financial consortium that runs much of the world, huge tax shelters,
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and with that they would found all sorts of think tanks and even art and
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culture pursuits. And we'll talk about that a little bit later. So the
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Carnegie Endowment is a big player, along with the Rockefeller Foundation in that kind
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of that segment rather of American history and the outcome of that. Anyway,
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looking at the first slide, the Carnegie Endowment is now going to tell us
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what disinformation is, and according to this report, they're going to counter disinformation
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effectively. It's actually called countering disinformation effectively. And here's some of the key
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takeaways from countering disinformation effectively. I'm so glad the Carnegie Endowment is batten for
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regular Americans here. And it's an evidence based policy guide, they say,
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put together by two guys, and John Bateman and Dean Jackson will look at
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them individually in a moment, basically, without getting into all the details here,
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it says disinformation is widely seen as a pressing challenge for democracies worldwide,
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but it has proven difficult to define, understand, and measure, let alone
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address it. A new Carnegie report, however, runs to the rescue and
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offers evidence based assessments of ten major policy interventions get that word, Drawing up
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on hundreds of academic papers and consultations with many leading scholars and practitioners, Each
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case case study describes real world uses, provides a resource list, and answers
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three fundamental questions. How much is known about the intervention, how effective does
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it seem? And how scalable is it? That was an important one to
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read. And now we'll move on from there. I won't get into all
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this. I'll just read the highlights. This is a summary of the overall
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findings. The actual report is one hundred and thirty pages. I got this
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out of the summary and it says, for one thing, there is no
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silver bullet or best policy option. It also says democracy should diversify their policy
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portfolios. Additionally, policy makers should set realistic expectations. Then, countering disinformation
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is not always a political Moving on, pervasive research gaps will last for generations,
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and generative AI might not be a disinformation game changer, even though they
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say it has some potential to intervene. One of their tools to intervene.
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Moving on from there, this is a chart that's in there. It offers
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public information, government action, and platform action. And they're kind of trying
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to sort out the different aspects of this Brian and assess what might work and
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what might not. And the top one no surprise here and We've seen this
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before, is supporting local journalism. Here we go again. There's this idea
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that newspapers and other types of media outlets are drying up across Canada, across
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the United States. In this case, they're worried about America mainly, and
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if we could just get more local news coverage with the conventional worldview, all
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will be well. And so this is a recurring theme, not just with
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Carnegie. You're showing now this next slide here is the second of the two
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categorization slides. This one, for example, gets into cybersecurity for elections and
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campaigns. Note number seven state craft, deterrence and disruption. Interesting words,
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and note number eight removing inauthentic asset networks. Let me repeat that one,
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removing inauthentic, inauthentic asset networks. And I read up on that one a
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little bit, Brian, and that mainly appears to concern outlets or sources on
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social media that misidentify themselves, that misrepresent themselves. But the wording of that
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suggests that it might go further. Anyway. We'll move on from there and
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come through this. The next part is about the authors. John Bateman is
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a senior Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at Carnegie and Dean Jackson
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is principle of Public Circle Research and Consulting and a specialist in democracy, media,
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and technology. We'll learn a little bit more about them in the next
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slide. And Dean Jackson, we can pick this apart a little bit is
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a principle of Public Circle Research and Consulting, as noted, and a specialist
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in democracy, media, and technology. In twenty twenty three, he was
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named an inaugural Tech Policy Press Reporting Fellow and an Affiliate Fellow with the Propaganda
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Research Lab here at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, get this,
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he was an investigative and now excuse me, an investigative analyst with a
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select committee to investigate the January sixth attack on the US Capitol. So that's
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a rather interesting note. He's been looking at Trump supporters and whatnot in viewing
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them as quasi criminals and going on from there. We'll get into the next
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one. And this is John Bateman. A little bit about him, folks
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on global technology challenges at the intersection of national security, economics, politics,
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and society. His research areas include techno nationalism, an interesting concept cyber operations,
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disinformation and AI he did. He's an author of US China Technological Decoupling,
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a Strategy and Policy Framework twenty twenty two and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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longtime Builderberger in his forward in that publication called it a major achievement that stands
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out for his ambition, clarity, and rigor, and will remain a touchstone
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for years to come. So the authors of this Carnegie report have interesting an
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interesting CV to consider here. Winding this up. The interesting thing, though,
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Brian, is that for all the effort in this Countering Disinformation Effectively report,
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there's a lot of admissions several in fact, that show that while they're
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trying very hard to intervene and get what they consider disinformation countered and dealt with
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and perhaps even removed, they're still admitting that it's a very tough hill to
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climb, and that the job is by any mean is by no means going
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to be easy, rather and it's going to be an uphill battle to achieve
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and may take a long time. In this section from page eleven in Conceptual
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Challenges, it gets into that this is a good example of what I'm talking
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about, that they admit that this is going to be quite difficult. Identifying
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disinformation presents several puzzles, it says, for one thing, labeling any claim
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as false requires invoking an authoritative truth. Yet the institutions and professions most capable
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of discerning the truth, such as science, journalism and the courts, are
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sometimes wrong and often distrusted. Moreover, truth can be selectively assembled to create
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an overall narrative that is arguably misleading, but not necessarily false in the objective
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sense. So what it boils down to, Brian is they want to weed
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out polarization, extremism, and hate and have this hunky dory world from the
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viewpoint of the globalists. But they're admitting that it's a very difficult thing to
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achieve. Oh and this last thing, and I'll just mention it in passing.
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The Carnegie Endowment and the Carnegie Foundation was part of a nineteen fifty three
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investigation by Congress of Radical and Subversive Organizations, and they found that the Carnegie
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Endowment had been exploiting world wars and the concept of world wars to help exert
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political control. And that was found out or revealed by what was known as
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the Race Committee. Right after the Korean War, right around nineteen fifty three.
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And the left part of this slide is showing that the CIA did not
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declassify the final report of that committee, the Race Committee. They didn't declassify
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it until the year two thousand and one, I believe, so it was
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pretty sensitive material in its day. But the Carnegie Endowment was amongst several tax
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exemp foundations Brian that, according to that committee, was engaging in subversive and
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unconstitutional activities. Thank you very much, Mark. And of course Carnegie would
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say they only exist to look after us all and do the best for mankind.
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So I think we're right to be suspicious. But you made a key
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point there that they're finding it difficult to counter disinformation and misinformation if the authorities
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are not necessarily putting out the truth themselves. So what better place to go
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than the BBC? And this caught my eye over the weekend. It's BBC
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Sounds Ukraine cast. I'd never listened into this before, but I started to
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listen to this clip and I was struck by something. Let's just play it
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for you and we can discuss what they said. BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
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Hello, it's seven hundred and ninety three days since Russia began its full
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scale invasion of Ukraine. In the last episode, we asked for your ideas
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of people we should invite onto Ukraine Cast to answer your questions, and Jane
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in North Yorkshire here in England got in touch. Hello Ukraine Cast. In
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a recent episode you asked listeners to suggest people for your podcast. I'm very
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impressed with General Ben Hodges, the former head of the US Army in Europe.
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Can you get him on? Thank you, Jane. Your wish is
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our command. Ben Hodges, welcome to Ukraine Cast. Well, thank you
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very much. I'm very happy to be here. Tell us more about yourself.
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Well, I was Commander US Army Europe from to fourteen through twenty seventeen
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and then retired from the Army. I stayed in Europe after I retired,
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and now I serve as a senior mentor for NATO Logistics, and I do
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everything I can to help explain why Europe and NATO and Ukraine are so important
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to the United States as well as to the rest of US. So I'm
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interested in helping Ukraine defeat Russia and explaining how we can do that. Well,
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excuse me. Perhaps it was just me, but I was fascinated that
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the idea that a lady called Jane in North Yorkshire would select former General Ben
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Hodges as somebody who the BBC should promote. Was it just a coincidence that
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this elderly lady's been focused on this man? Or could it possibly be that
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the BBC did a little bit of help to get the person they wanted.
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I'm not too sure, but let's look at Ben Hodges and I went to
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his Twitter page noticed that he said on that recording that he was there working
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for the United States, and then it was like he suddenly realized that he
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was in front of a British or a European audience and he corrected it to
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say, well, I'm here for you all, but really he's not.
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He's here for the USA and a very bland headed on his Twitter page.
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But if you go down the tweets you rapidly see what this man is.
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This was a pin tweet Ukraine making crimea untenable for Russian sources, denying Russia
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the use of the decisive terign of the war. This was a promotion of
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an earlier tweet where somebody was posting about the then recent attacks on Russian military
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sites in Crimea. And what did General ben Hodges say, Well, he
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said this well done. Indeed, unfortunate that the US had to do this,
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but full credit to US Sentcom and the US Army logisticians who have accomplished
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their mission. So to me, it was very clear that what's going on
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here is that the US is now fighting the Russians without too much cover.
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And Ben Hodges, the BBC spokesman, is going to push this to the
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British public, but he's coming in from a very biased position. Let's have
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a look at another of his tweets. It was this particular young lady.
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Sorry, let's bring this on screen for you, and it's Jessica Berlin and
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she had some really extraordinary things to say. Look at the age of this
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woman and consider what she says. Let's have a look at the video clip.
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Russia needs to lose, and lose badly. Russia needs to crawl out
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of Ukraine on their knees, begging for mercy. That's what the Chinese need
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to see, That's what the Saudis need to see, what every dictator on
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the planet needs to see to ensure that they don't get any ideas themselves,
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because if what they see is oh Russia is allowed to invade a democratic European
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country, literally on the borders of NATO, to butcher senselessly tens of thousands
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of people, to threaten global food security, to cause refugee crises, to
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cause the kind of destruction we haven't seen on this continent since World War Two.
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If they're allowed to get away with this in the twenty twenties and then
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get back to business, well then nothing's going to stop the Chinese from attacking
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Taiwan, or from pressing forward in the South China Sea, etc. Because
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NATO will have shown that we cannot even keep the peace in our own front
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garden, and that is much more dangerous than internal political chaos in Russia.
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The implications of this war are truly global. This war, this conflict,
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shapes our century, and what we do or don't do, will determine the
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rest of our geopolitical arrangement for the next generations. Well, Alex, if
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I may just a very quick your thoughts on that I find this young lady.
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I find it scary. She is so naive and she is dabbling in
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very, very dangerous international politics. What's your thoughts. I don't know her
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exact age, but I know that from the next slide you've queued up she's
29:33
under forty because she's in the forty under forty list of right young things.
29:37
I found her eyes rather glazed over in the fanatic sense, and that is
29:41
not a good profile for somebody to be involved in this level of discussion of
29:47
defense and security. But I will get some brick bats for this, but
29:49
I'll say it. There's a particular move to get gutsy young women around the
29:53
world, particularly the Western world, talking tough in these jobs, and the
29:57
feeling is that this is balancing out the patriarchy of old. She hasn't got
30:02
a clue, Thank you for that. Well. My key point, of
30:06
course is that this is a woman being promoted by General Ben Hodges that the
30:10
BBC wants us to believe and follow. But you're absolutely right. If we
30:15
have a look at her own Twitter page, there is the detail. But
30:18
who is she really? Who is she working for? What? You've got
30:21
to look at the small print because she's a senior fellow of Sepper and if
30:26
we bring them on screen here we are the Center for European Policy Analysis Its
30:33
nonprofit is non partisan. It's a public policy institution based in Washington, d
30:38
C. Focused on quote, strengthening the Transatlantic Alliance through cutting edge research,
30:45
analysis and programs. And then it's dealing with issues of democracy, security,
30:52
defense to government officials and agencies, and it's helping Transatlantic businesses navigate strategy landscapes.
31:00
So this is all about America and promoting America's interests. But of course,
31:06
yet this lady has put across as if she was just somebody who's got
31:11
an interesting opinion that we should pay attention to. She's much more than that.
31:15
And if we follow this organization through here, we've got leadership in action,
31:22
six priorities for the Transatlantic Alliance in twenty twenty four. And if I
31:26
just bring in the key ones on screen here, we've got secure Europe,
31:32
contain Russia, and constrained China. So it's pretty obvious that this is an
31:37
organization in the best interests of America. But you should always look at the
31:42
small print. I went to look at the International Leadership Council and then nestled
31:48
amongst the very small, very faint names, I came up with this man,
31:53
Boris Johnson Prime Minister United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and also
32:00
Matthew Kaminski, Editor at large Politico. So when we're looking at stuff from
32:05
Politico, we still need to know who they are really aligned with. And
32:09
remember that this is a blatantly pro American organization. If we have a look
32:15
at the team, that's the next good place to go. I went straight
32:20
to the board of directors. They sounded to be people who were powerful and
32:25
in charge. And then if we bring names on screen, you don't really
32:30
have to go very far. Larry Hirsh is the chairman. I called up
32:35
his profile. Let's spring that winning if I can. And what you find
32:39
is he's also the chairman of Highlander Partners LP, a private equity firm,
32:45
and that sets the scene because what you've got in this organization, which it
32:51
says it's there for the best interests of man kind, of course, is
32:53
a powerful mix of hedge funds, big business politicians and change agents, very
33:00
change agents that perhaps Georgia would want to restrict. And if I just take
33:05
one more here, we've got as Mitchell. Why should we be interested in
33:12
him? Well, just bring in a marker here. He served as Assistant
33:15
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen,
33:22
and he was responsible for diplomatic relations with the fifty countries of Europe and Eurasia.
33:28
But he's also involved with NATO, THEEU and OSCE. This is a
33:35
State department man, So this is pure America. This is nothing to do
33:38
with the benefit of nation states of the world. And if we go on
33:43
through, it says that prior to joining the State Department, Mitchell co founded
33:47
and served as president CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis. So I'll
33:53
leave it there. But really this was just following through on who the BBC
33:59
was promoting, as if they're just some innocent retired American general. Know,
34:05
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34:10
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tomorrow and see the wisdom that this young man brings. Now we've got this
36:08
one here, bring in the noise. This is starting to promote the good
36:14
work going on north of the border in Scotland in relation to vaccine damage and
36:20
people who have vaccine injured. Beggy pardon. So this is Sunday June the
36:24
second. I've lost that one, thank you. This is Sunday June the
36:30
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because of course there's much good work going on in Scotland on this particul Killar
37:00
topic. There is and a lot of commentators Brian are now confessing Neil Oliver
37:07
is but one of them quite honestly, that they didn't pay enough attention whether
37:13
they have a connection to Scotland or not to the Edinburgh based COVID inquiry.
37:17
Some shockers are coming out of it. Scotland pursued perhaps the most rigorous COVID
37:22
policies across the board of any United Kingdom nation, due not least to the
37:27
Clinton Night Devi Sridar in charge of public health policy at the time, but
37:30
that is now being redressed. And I have particular praise for occasional UK column
37:37
author David Tate Tait who as well as writing for us and we will have
37:40
more of his excellent pieces looking at regional COVID issues from freedom of information requests.
37:47
David Tait also runs a substack blog. Here it is and sorry for
37:52
leaning on the button too early when you were just talking about the previous piece.
37:54
So David Tate blog on substack is called Biology Phenom. It'll be in
38:00
the show notes for those who can't find it easily. And there are two
38:04
parts now to his highlights real He's gone through previous iterations and the first was
38:08
a quarter of an hour. The second is an extended one to nearly half
38:12
an hour. It's a bit obscure for people to go to substack and find
38:15
embedded videos because of course, as you just mentioned, the big players Facebook,
38:20
YouTube, Vimeo don't like us anymore. So in order to counteract that,
38:23
he has provided direct download links which will be in the show notes,
38:28
so that you can, if you have the ability to send the file transfer
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or something of that nature, send the two versions the quarter hour or the
38:37
half hour to anyone you want, so that they can put them on their
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own platforms or play them to whoever may need to see them. There are
38:44
many shockers that will leave people scunnered, as they say, not of the
38:47
Border about the policy that was being pursued during COVID and David Tait Biology for
38:52
non also here on UK Colum dot org. I think is the finest of
38:57
anyone who's following this, so from me praise on our recent piece. The
39:02
popular Heather Haying, a big hitter on Twitter, who was also mentioned in
39:07
the piece in question, has drawn particular attention and praise to Dr Petra Buskin's
39:13
last essay, part one of three, which went up in our comment section
39:17
last week on the spat that developed between the advocates of mass formation and those
39:27
opposed to them, as explainers theories for why we all obeyed mostly during COVID
39:34
and Heather Haying is signposting people to the essay which is here. The Paradigm
39:38
War was Part one two should go up tomorrow if I am able to fit
39:44
that in with the other things I'm doing in Georgia and keep with this series,
39:47
because although the events in question and even the lawsuit between the protagonists are
39:52
now behind us, this is now I think time for us to take stop
39:54
and say, should we be spending so much energy on accusing other people in
40:00
the dissident scene of having a traitor theory or should we be looking at what
40:04
was done to our minds? We should certainly be looking at what was done
40:07
to our minds, Alex, There's no question because it affects how we see
40:13
so much in the world, and there clearly is a massive campaign to attack
40:17
our minds. Now you've got more international news for us here. This is
40:24
a busy neighborhood. Brian Georgia is itself very troubled. To the south is
40:30
Armenia, which has been pummeled by Azerbaijan, which is to the east of
40:35
Georgia and Armenia. To the south of that is Iran. It has now
40:38
been confirmed this morning that the Iranian President Ibrahim Rightisi and his foreign minister of
40:45
the Lahayan were among those who were killed in this sorry scene, not the
40:50
bra sharpest of pictures, but that is what happened to President Rightisi's helicopter as
40:54
he was returning from the border between the Iranian province of Azerbaijan and the nation
41:01
of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It's confusing because that territory called Azerbaijan was split
41:06
between the Tsarist era Russians and the Persians, so there are places in Iran
41:12
now called Azerbaijam. What was going on was that President Raisi and his party
41:16
were attending the launch of a dam on the border between Iran and Azerbaijan,
41:21
and on the way back, for inexplicable reasons which may or may not have
41:25
to do with the mist in those notoriously remote hills, the helicopter was downed
41:31
or crashed. Extremely sensitive timing because Azerbaijan is a close ally of Israel,
41:37
and because Armenia, in retaliation, has formed strong ties with Iran, which
41:45
is confusing to people because Armenia is the Christian nation and you'd expect it to
41:51
be against Iran. But that's the way things go in this region that people
41:54
have thought that perhaps there was some tampering with the helicopter by the as Arias
42:00
from north of the border from the Independent Republic of Azerbaijan, the Israel allied
42:05
nation, when Raisi was on the ground. Nobody knows at this juncture,
42:08
but following so hot on the heels of the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister
42:13
Robert Fitzop, this is really something. This is Republic of Iran broadcasting with
42:19
a reporter up in the misty hills at the scene. There was no sign
42:22
of life there. They took hours to get up to the site and then
42:25
took another twelve hours combing over it. Here is Reuter's confirming this morning that
42:30
Rayisi has been killed. That's the scene of the crash, and you can
42:35
see that the very thin nation of Armenia is just to the northwest. And
42:38
what's either side of Armenia so not highlighted, but the grade out country both
42:45
to the west and to the east of Armenia there, so north and northwest
42:47
of the helicopter crash scene, that is Azerbaijan, which is closely allied with
42:52
israel I. Don't need to say more to our UDAP audience as to the
42:57
reasons why may people people may think that this was in this retaliation because they
43:00
will be following Vanessa Bile's contributions here and other people's contributions elsewhere. The Georgia
43:07
based blogger Money Circus thinks that something is off with this. I am not
43:12
a helicopter, communications or navigation expert by any stretch of the imagination, but
43:15
he points out that there were three helicopters and therefore the nature of the crash
43:21
and its location was known, but it took a time took time to reach
43:23
it. He suggests it's possible communications were jammed, and he doesn't think that
43:29
the idea of a hard landing is a sensible description of what happened, because
43:34
you don't land if you fly into the side of a mountain. So it
43:37
really went off the rails bang and in reality, as an Iranian official told
43:42
Reuters, the president's plane, well helicopter was completely burned in the crash incident,
43:46
so he calls it a manipulation of perceptions. Meanwhile, there is this
43:53
also regarding just what one month ago. John Helmer Dances with Bears is a
43:59
very good primer resource for a lot of Russian news, and he points out
44:02
that just a month ago they were very conflicting, contradictory readoubts between Moscow and
44:07
Tehran on a phone call perhaps the last, between Putin and Raisi on what
44:13
to do with regards to Israel's aggression against Iran in the region along and the
44:17
short of it is that the Iranians were possibly putting words into Putin's mouth that
44:23
he wanted Israel and punished more or alternatively, the Russians didn't want it to
44:28
be known in their communicate just quite how much a support there was for Iran
44:31
in there. So we don't know what's going to come of that, but
44:35
it's a possible explanation of what could have induced people to want to get him
44:40
off the scene. Just this morning, and this is unconfirmed and from Twitter,
44:45
so high caveats on this, but it's self self explanatory. Whose signed
44:50
this Twitter handle takes Mossad commentary. They were reporting this morning that they were
44:54
unconfirmed reports of the assassination of the commander in chief of the Iranian police,
44:59
who was seven times twice as much twice as many shots as were landed in
45:04
mister Fico in Slovakia, so it's getting pretty hot. Indeed, now this
45:09
tension in the region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which involves Iran in it,
45:15
is getting some extraordinary geographical lengths. Here on the other side of the world,
45:21
off the coast of Australia, in the French self governing colony of New
45:24
Caledonia Noubil Caledoni, there have been some serious riots recently because the French Parliament
45:32
modified the constitution with regard to this overseas territory of France, so that not
45:37
only the native Canaks the Autocthamous people could vote on who governs the island,
45:43
but also French citizens or anyone else suitably qualified who lived there for ten years.
45:47
Lots of rioting, and you might think, what on earth has a
45:51
south sea island got to do with the Caucasus. You couldn't get more time
45:53
zoned apart than that. Well, there is an apparent connection. So first
46:00
of all, we see that the French Interior Minister Darmana has come out and
46:06
suggested in terms that the Azerbaijanis decided to adopt the cause of the native Kanaks,
46:13
the disgruntled natives, so that we see here in lifingago that Damana is
46:17
accusing Azerbaijan of interference in the riots and stoking them, and Baku, the
46:22
capital of Azerbaijan, called this unfounded. But yet look at this. Here
46:28
is a photojournalist snapping what's going on down in New Caledonia and you can see
46:34
the second flag pole from the right is topped by the New Caledonian flag with
46:37
the yellow circle containing the traditional arrow. But below that is the flag of
46:42
Azerbaijan. Now that could be somebody laughing as they see these days, but
46:45
it could be something rather more serious than that. Finally, from me in
46:50
this segment, Russia related but not CAUCUSUS related in the Sahel, that region
46:54
of West Africa between the Arab countries and the Black African coastal country. Further
47:00
down in that zone that is so contested between America, Russia, China and
47:06
the European Union. At the moment, as we've covered for many years,
47:07
something remarkable has happened. First of all, to cover it is a Hong
47:12
Kong law student reporting for Jurist News, obviously, as we say, a
47:16
Western mindset site for law students who believe in the rules based international order.
47:23
For short and Shihuai who here is reporting that the countries in question, Quina,
47:28
Fasso, Mali and Nigier, which have all had problems, ex huge
47:31
problems with Islamists doing horrible things in their country and who haven't been able to
47:37
get much help from their former colonial overlord France, have decided to leave the
47:43
equivalent of NATO in the region ecowas well sult of an equivalent of the EU
47:45
or NATO, which was always dominated by France and Nigeria, and have formed
47:51
a new alliance instead. This took some people by surprise, although it was
47:54
pretty well trailed by those who should have been following it. And the Hindu
48:00
here reporting from India. It's good to get other perspectives. This will all
48:02
be in the show notes. Report that this they're calling it an alliance,
48:06
they're less keen to call it what it actually is, which is a confederation.
48:09
This is the last step before you become a single country. Huge news
48:14
also given that many countries in that part of West Africa had a currency tied
48:17
to the French franc for a long time. They are forming a new alliance
48:22
called the Alliance of Sahel States the AEES. So that's actually a new block
48:28
there, and they're undertaking as part of this agreement that they're the alliance i
48:32
should say confederation that they're forming. That there will be no French or American
48:37
military assistance, that's what that will be banned in. Instead, they'll be
48:39
Russian military guarantees. A great coup for Russia. However, you look at
48:44
it and I'm left wondering why France allowed this to happen if it was within
48:47
its power to stop it, because this leaves France without its uranium mind.
48:52
Alex, thank you very much for that comprehensive report. There's a lot of
48:55
thought necessary when we look at what's happening in these areas and whether parties are
49:01
working together behind the scenes or not. We'll wait to see. Excuse me,
49:07
let's bring in a quote and see what you make of it. So
49:12
we'll pop this up on screen. Here's the quote. No one is safe
49:16
anywhere until everyone is safe everywhere. Well, what an astonishing statement. There's
49:23
a bit more to it. The world needs agreement on the pandemic accord,
49:30
and who came out with this I'm going to call it utter nonsense, well
49:35
the first sentence, but it's our very own Gordon Brown, ex Prime Minister
49:39
of UK. So what we need is a video, isn't it. Let's
49:45
have a look at the video. COVID claims seven million lives and infected seven
49:52
hundred million people, and last year the International Manager Funder estimated that the costs
49:57
of the pandemic could go beyond twelve and a half trillion dollars. An influenza
50:02
pandemic could well be worse, particularly as it could strike at the young just
50:07
as well as the old, and this would deepen the human and the economic
50:13
impacts. Member states of the World Health Organization are currently negotiating a pandemic treaty
50:20
and revisions to the international health regulations. Success that this will come if countries
50:24
are able to agree a wide ranging and strong deal that creates incentives to cooperate
50:30
between countries and companies. So the agreements between countries have to come first.
50:36
We already have an idea of what might be useful. The current strategy to
50:42
donate influenza vaccines in real time could be extended to all pandemic vaccines and to
50:46
diagnostics and to medicines such as antiviruls. A binding treaty would make it harder,
50:53
but not impossible for countries to halt the export of vaccines and medicines during
50:58
pandemics. Vaccine nationalism is unfortunately impossible to eliminate. But with an international deal
51:05
that regional production helps, the dynamics of vaccine supply during a pandemic would improve
51:10
dramatically. Some outreks can be halted, others can be delayed, but we
51:15
don't know when the next outrate will start. It may even have done so
51:20
already, So the world urgently needs to have a plan. The potential cost
51:24
of preparing a tiny in comparison to the scale of these pandemics. And this
51:30
is the right way of thinking about it. Now. The economists get it,
51:34
so maybe it's time for the politicians to get on board. The world
51:37
does not know how big or how dangerous the next pandemic is going to be,
51:42
nor what pathogen will cause it, nor do we know when it will
51:45
happen, but there is going to be one, so we must act and
51:50
we must act together. Now. Well, I can tell from our chat
51:59
box that people were really enamored with that appalling video by Gordon Brown trying to
52:04
lureus into a full sense of security. But what a statement we don't know
52:08
how big or dangerous it is. We don't know the pathogen, we don't
52:14
know when, but we can tell you it's coming. I would say there's
52:17
some weaknesses in that particular scientific argument. But if we go back to his
52:22
Twitter page where this was posted, this is what it looked like. I'm
52:27
just going to say the good news is, if you haven't looked at the
52:30
comments that came up underneath it, they were brilliant. The man that sold
52:34
all the UK gold reserves enabled the mass immigration that's ruined UK. If I
52:39
ever needed a sign that who treaty is a bad thing for the UK,
52:45
it's this statement by Gordon Brown, this one saying bought and paid for.
52:51
Gordon Brown calls labor support a bigoted woman. The Guardian report some time ago.
52:57
This one here, Gordon Brown, the man who sold most of the
53:00
UK's gold at a poor price, drove the economy to the brink and beyond,
53:05
supported endless wars and essentially a blair. Right here, we've got no
53:12
one is safe anywhere until everyone is safe everywhere. How trite, how manipulative,
53:16
how very wrong. We just popped this last one on not a chance
53:22
the people have woken up who is a racket controlled by vested interests and you
53:25
are but a bag carrier for them. Gordon, you are better than this.
53:30
Well I disagree with the final statement. He clearly isn't better than that.
53:36
But what UK column picked up from the video is that Gordon Brown was
53:40
working alongside this man, regok Shale, who is a strategic communications consultant at
53:49
the World Health Organization, and one of his specialist areas data driven strategies to
53:54
develop effective social media communication campaigns identifying batting misinformation and disinformation. That ties in
54:04
nicely with Mark Anderson's earlier segment, but Gordon Brown fully in bed with this
54:09
whole pandemic scam. And just to thank you to Lucy who forded this one,
54:16
pointing out that Dr Vanessa excuse me, Dr Vanessa Kerry has been appointed
54:22
as the WHO Director General Special Envoyd for Climate Change and Health. She can
54:27
do both, wonder woman. And of course this is John Kerry's daughter.
54:31
So I'll leave that segment there and leave you to think about that. And
54:37
I think this brings you back on Alex with some more local news. Yes,
54:45
Brian, I've been taking people to far away climbs for most of this
54:47
news. So let's bring it right back to the West Country. But the
54:52
other side of the peninsula from where you're sitting. Thanks to our own Kenny,
54:55
we know that. BUTWD in North Cornwall has not one, but two
55:00
juries to sit in judgment over their peers. But these are not juries of
55:05
a crown court, much less of a district court. No, they are
55:10
a youth mini jury and an area community jury. Now this is sortician alias
55:19
aliatory democracy because seven, sorry eighteen miners aged under sixteen, sixteen and under
55:28
were chosen at random. That's what sortician or aliatory democracy means, to sit
55:31
on a jury, cheapening the word by twisting its definition to share their own
55:37
lived expertise. According to journalists James Davies here, they were also briefed by
55:40
seven so called experts, and rather laughably, expert was put in inverted commas
55:45
by mister Davis by mistake, so that he's almost giving the game away that
55:51
these people are just one side of the argument. Professor Mark Baldwin, professor
55:55
of climate science at Exeter University and sky Neville Campaigner Against Kids campaigner with Kids
56:04
against Plastic Tat were two of those seven experts who told the teenagers, it's
56:09
awful, we should be doing more for the climate, etc. So that
56:14
is reported by the viewed and Stratton post. If you don't know what all
56:16
the fuss is about, just type in democracy into UK column dot org's search
56:21
function, the magnifying glass or the search bar and you will see that we've
56:24
gone into this in a lot of detail. Of the many kinds of appalling
56:28
false versions of democracy, I think this aliatory one is the worst because it
56:32
involves people being told by hand picked briefers for one side what they should be
56:37
thinking, a bit like a courtroom which is briefed only by one side.
56:42
It wouldn't fly in a court of law, but apparently it's good enough to
56:45
rule over us. A viewer has sent this The link will be in the
56:49
show notes as well. UK one hundred, an organization which propagandizes and has
56:54
signed up almost all of our local councils now is sending this out times running
57:00
out to have your say on the future. Apparently, climate change, as
57:05
in the interests of all these well paid organizations, must be put at the
57:07
heart of the devolution agenda. In other words, we must be getting the
57:10
counselors and the council staff's head in every part of the United Kingdom full of
57:15
climate emergency before more money and power is somewhat unlawfully in many cases, devolved
57:21
from His Majesty's government in Westminster to various regions of England as well as Scotland,
57:24
Wales and Northern Ireland. Now follow this link through if you would like
57:28
to from the show notes, because look, it's all panic questions. What
57:31
do you think is the problem? Why aren't we doing enough about this climate
57:35
emergency? But look, there is a facility called other at the bottom of
57:39
each of these questions where you can give them, in polite and factual and
57:44
reason terms what for their nonsense if you so desire, and you don't have
57:49
to put your name in either, So do that before the deadline, which
57:52
is quite soon. North Yorkshire, we've mentioned already in the news, has
57:55
something even worse. Open north Yorkshire to a long term viewer whom we have
58:00
quoted here before, who tells us that he found out by chance that his
58:05
local council there were running a scheme called Open North Yorkshire, which they described
58:08
as behavioral change, about climate change and net zero nonsense. So he took
58:14
it upon himself to ask them with a Freedom of information request which we'll see
58:16
in a moment what else they were doing in regard to behavioral change. And
58:20
you will recall, Brian, that we have covered similar from the West Midlands
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before one of the local councils there had an FOI served on them by a
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local resident in this particular regard. So there are several, perhaps most of
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our municipal bodies by this stage, who have behavioral change units. And if
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you are a regular viewer who knows about this, why aren't you asking and
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trawling for what your own council has on this and sending it in to us,
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because it is quite telling. So here is a document which will be
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in the show notes too, which was produced by North Yorkshire in the first
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year of Coronavirus HUBBUB towards the end of twenty twenty, the final report on
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using behavior science to support communication campaigns. It's the more milk toast than some
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of the things we've seen. Certainly nothing compared with this spy be equivalent at
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national government level, but the graphics tell us a thing or two. I
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don't know, Brian, whether you would be interested in having healthy thinking patterns
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courtesy of your local authority. But that is something that North Yorkshire Council can
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help with. And perhaps you're not altruistic enough, but you would be if
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your local council in Devn appealed to your sense of altruism. Well, if
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you live in the North York Dales or Mores, you can benefit already from
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this beauty. But the problem is, and this will be in the show
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notes too, the FOI in question by the viewer asked the council to provide
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to him all details of behavioral change programs as per the points which I won't
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read, and they omitted to send him the document which I have just shown
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you. They did not put that into their FOI response, perhaps a bona
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fidee omission or something else. Who knows this is likely to repeated in your
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own in the case, so you know, go go ahead and find out
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what's happening in your own area. And in the West of Wales we find
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the same, not the same, but in a similar area of concern,
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which is grooming sex education going into the content of the curriculum. Wales,
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as we've covered, does not have opt outs so that children can be pulled
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out by their parents from unsuitable materials. The Western Telegraph reports and look it's
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the local Democracy reporter, a BBC funded person, Rus Sinclair in this case
1:00:31
who's reporting this that parents have now been saying to the council we have concerns
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about our children being grooming. There's plenty more to go on there, but
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wherever you are in the United Kingdom you should be of course following this up
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actively with your council. Alex, thank you very much. Troubled times and
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a lot of people in the chat box talking about the sheer k or some
1:00:53
mayhem that's clearly being orchestrated in UK. That that to me very well with
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the idea we have a satanic agenda over to you Mark Well anyway, at
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this point in time, do you want me to do the full report given
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the time, Given the time, if you just cut it down a little
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bit and we'll certainly discuss this more in UK column Extra after the news.
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I just want to frame that out. I'll give a very basic report and
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we'll do some commentary on the way modern governments, particularly globalist governments, view
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art as another avenue of culture that can be so easily degraded through status regimes
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anyway to give it the basic reporting, This is out of charisma, a
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Christian publication saying that up front. And we're talking, of course, mainly
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about the so called official portrait released about King Charles, showing him that is
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the portrait of him, and this article the headline is Satanic claims eyes over
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King Charles portrait. With the recent unveiling of the first official portrait of King
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Charles, the third, much of the world recoiled in horror at the blood
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red side of it. Commissioned by British artist Jonathan Yo, the monarch is
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surrounded by red except for his hands and face, which retained their flesh tones,
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I would say barely. Yo said it as the red of the Welsh
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Guards uniform that inspired such a polarizing portrait, and he was quoted as saying
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the vivid color of the glazes in the background echo the uniform's bright red tunic,
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not only resonating with the royal heritage found in many historical portraits, but
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also injecting a dynamic, contemporary jolt into the genre, with its uniformly powerful
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hue, providing a modern contrast to more traditional depictions. Yo's website states and
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here we have just a kind of a random view of interpretation, you might
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say, of this official portrait to the left, which came out of Twitter
1:03:05
from a location in England, and they say, they claim that if you
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take a mirror image of the portrait and put the two sides together, what
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meets in the middle looks something like a goatshead or some sort of demonic figure.
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That may be a subjective interpretation. I'm not saying it's right. I'm
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not saying it's wrong, but this is what's out there in Cyberland. And
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of course to the right here in this slide you saw King Charles's face and
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that kind of ruddy, sort of pop marked look it has, even though
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that's supposed to be the most realistic and genuine part of the overall so called
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work of art. Moving on from there we have Tim yo a picture from
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him in twenty fourteen, and to the right is Jonathan Yoe, the artist
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himself. I won't go into a lot of detail here in the interest of
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time, but the artist is politically connected somewhat. Tim Yoh was a rather
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significant member of Parliament, also scandal ridden in some respects, and he worked
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with Tony Blair among others, and served in the shadow cabinet as John Major's
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Minister of the Environment and so on and so forth. I may not have
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all those associations exactly correct. And a lot of the news you see out
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there Brian about the King's portrait don't talk about mister Yo's other work. Here
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we have from Wikipedia some information and an image of Jonathan Joe's portrait of Tony
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Blair, and people can read the show notes about the particular details of that.
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But it's just it gives you a better idea of what this artist is
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about. Is he really a painter or is he more of an illustrator?
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And this you don't often hear about too in this slide. Jonathan Joe also
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did a so called masterpiece of George W. Bush, and this was said
1:05:04
to have been done from porn clippings from a pornographic magazines put together to form
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George W. Bush's face. And US Republicans, that says here from the
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Register of Publication, are none too pleased with British artists. British artist Jonathanio,
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who's just completed a fetching portrait of George Bush constructed from Grumble mag clippings
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it says, but many sources say from porn clips, not that George W.
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Bush deserves a lot of praise or anything. He's often seen as the
1:05:38
architect of terrible military policies against Iraq that really gave America even more of a
1:05:45
black eye. But here, at least we see a little bit more about
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the artist and some of the other work he's done. We'll move on from
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there and wind up for today, and yeah, we can just talking just
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on this last one lot, Yeah, because there's more to talk about with
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the Rockefeller Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art, and I would invite viewers
1:06:09
seeing the main show now to stay tuned for extra we'll talk about the Rockefellers
1:06:14
in art and the deep state and art and cultural values, things like that.
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But this last one is something else we're not seeing much of. All
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the hype is about King Charles portraits shown to the right. Here we see
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Jonathan Jo's portrait of David Cameron, and you see the same ruddy face,
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kind of a stained look, nothing edifying, nothing uplifting at all. And
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it's just a snapshot of modernism's view of art, which is more degradation than
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it is uplifting. But we'll talk about those kind of things much more.
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An extra much to say here, and I'm sure that you guys want to
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comment to Okay, Mark, thank you very much for that. Well.
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I think it's an appalling picture, but of course in the Green King Bie
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Evans myself been exposing more this man's been up to and I think it fits.
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It fits in quite nicely. We must end there, so I'm going
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to say Mark, thank you very much for joining us today and you will
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be with us for extra time. Alex, thank you very much for your
1:07:15
comprehensive segments today and we look forward to talking to you more in extra time
1:07:20
as well. We must leave it there. Big thank you to the audience
1:07:25
wherever you are in the world, and a huge thank you for those generous
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people that support UK column with a monthly subscription. We can only do what
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we do with your financial support, so thank you very much. We must
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end there. Bye Bye,