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UK Column News Podcast 24th June 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the twenty twenty fourth of June twenty twenty
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four. That's quite a mouthful. Welcome to today's UK column News. I'm
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your host Brian Gerrish, and I'm delighted to have with me today Alex Thompson
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from the Netherlands and also Mark Anderson speaking from the USA. Now I'll just
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say that it's a little bit of a gloomy day June day here in Plymouth,
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England, as you might be able to see from the weather out the
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window behind me. But never mind, we're going to get on with a
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busy UK column news for our views and listeners today. So let's start off
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with Alex. Welcome, great to have you back with us, and you've
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got something to report here. What many people were looking at what was happening
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in Crimea all attacks by the Ukrainians in the last couple of days. There
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was something pretty dark and nasty happening in other parts of Russia. Id Bryan
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in fact, along the whole southern fringe of Russia in the Caucasus. This
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is the mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and there
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have been attacks at the western end where the separatist Georgian Republic of Abkhazia suffered
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attacks in two places, reportedly yesterday. But first we will look at what
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happened at the other end the Caspian coast. This is the Russian Autonomous Republic
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of Dagistan, an extremely complicated, overwhelmingly Muslim republic with dozens of nationalities and
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languages in it, located just north of Azerbaijan along the Caspian Coast. Over
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the last quarter century, it has experienced many overspills of the Chechen conflicts,
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the two wars at least that have come out of there. That has been
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kept a little under tabs recently. But just yesterday afternoon, a lady in
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the historic city of Derbent, not the capital of the Dagistani Republic, but
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the most historic town there filmed this out of her window, and it's nice
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to comprise hol Pramo is nice to what she managed to capture. There was,
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unfortunately enough, the opening salvos of several attacks in the two biggest cities
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of Dagistan, not only there in der Bent, where a synagogue was attacked,
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but also in mahach Kala, the unpronounceable capital administrative capital of Dagistan,
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which as I say, is run autonomously, so it's local, overwhelmingly Muslim
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people in the government. They're facing attacks from their militants of their own area,
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their own nationalities, who've often spent time in the Gulf or the West.
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Many people allege that they are being trained by interests in the West and
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reignited, possibly with a Ukrainian dimension in there as well. If you look
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at the spread of attacks in the coordination in time with Sevastopol. But here
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we'll see what happened in mahach Kala at the same time, an attack on
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a police station. Hi, we could get a lot more gory than that,
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but it would be gratuitous and we will not. But there is plenty
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of footage proving that when the Russian security forces managed to move in to both
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of these urban attack environments, they pumped a number of bullets into the already
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recumbent, if not lifeless, figures of the attackers. People may say this
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is not fair play and not Queensberry rules, but over the last twenty five
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years, the Russians in the North Porcasus have found booby trapped bodies and men
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playing dead and all kinds of other horror, so I will not be the
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first to judge their response. At the end of the day, it turned
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out that there had been attacked not only on synagogues in these two towns and
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here's one silent footage of the synagogue in Derbent burning, but also an Orthodox
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cathedral in one of the districts of mahaj Kalai administrative capital had also been surrounded.
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There were reports of dozens of hostages being kept By nightfall, a sixty
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six year old priest apparently had his throat slit. It's very difficult to get
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confirmations out of these zones, particularly Dagistan, and a guard in the other
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city they're bent guarding a church, aren't only with a gas pistol was reportedly
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killed. So here we have the last of the footage with sound from there,
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which is as night fell. The Russian security forces had surrounded the cathedral
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of the Assumption in a suburb of Makatchkala and there was a general shootout going
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on. So people are often quick to say false flag when they see such
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attacks. It has a long prior history in Dagistan a being real attacks.
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Whoever was orchestrating them, I do not for one minute believe that these were
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staged by the Russians. And I think there is some preponderance of suspicion here
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that I wouldn't say people in Kiev, but people aligned with the kiv War
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effort in other parts of the world may have pulled on some old strings that
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they keep alive there in order to set these men in motion. A very
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bloody day and the next morning. This morning, we were seeing this kind
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of aftermath. So we'll just roll that as a silent footage. I think
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if I need to click that again to start rolling it, and you will
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see there that there's been some blurring out of the corpses, but there's completely
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burnt out and shot up vehicles rusting away there in the streets of Mahachkala and
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Dagistan. And this really could have the potential to re ignite a civil war
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that the Russians thought several times over the last twenty five years they had managed
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to put to bed with a combination of amnestis and hard actions. Here we
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see the interior of the cathedral after the siege was apparently relieved overnight, so
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reportedly least murdered in cold blood on the scene as well as attacks on synagogue's
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and it reportedly even a school set of light. I haven't seen much reporting
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on this, and we'll just close the segment by showing what happened at the
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other end of that mountain chain. The border between Russia and then not internationally
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recognized Abkhazia is the River Psoul, and there was a shootout on that border.
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You can see the bullet hole in the vehicle reportedly from there. According
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to mash that attack suggests one dead and one injured, and there was in
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the interior of Abkhazia in norwy afon a separate attack. The death total in
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the Dagistani attacks between those two cities I mentioned is reportedly four civilians and fifteen
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police, including the police chief of one of the districts of Dagistan. Well,
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lex, thank you very much. Is it a coincidence that that trouble
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has exploded on the scene at such a sensitive in time in Ukraine? I
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wonder, But of course we don't know the exact facts behind the incident,
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and we'll wait and see. Now on the subject to Ukraine, I thought
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today I would give you an update, an overview in the limited time that
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we've got available. I started with the BBC. I find it very well.
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I was going to use the word of musing, but of course we
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can't be amused because this is about war. But Ukraine, of course is
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now dropped to sixth place with occasional articles for the BBC, there's no comprehensive
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reporting of the progress of the battle, and I believe that this is because
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all the evidence shows that Ukraine is continuing to lose and the BBC is unable
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to produce the propaganda material to counter that. But if we look in other
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directions, the information is constantly having us believe that all is going well on
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the battlefield for Ukraine. So the Kiev post here with Ukraine's use of Western
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weapons on Russian soil becomes a game changer within hours of US approval. This
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is talking about the relaxations or the posed relaxation of rules on Western weapons and
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particularly American weapons, to allow them to be used on Russian territory. But
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of course this is not a game change or at all. It achieves a
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tactical success, but at the end of the day, it's not going to
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slow the strategic defeat which Ukraine is suffering. Here's another article from the Kiev
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Post. Ukrainian drone swarms swamp Russian air defenses, oil refineries and airfield hit.
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Now, this is of course blatant propaganda. Again, although the Ukrainians
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it did indeed achieve hits, what it hasn't done is destroyed strategic Russian infrastructure
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and it certainly hasn't swamped Russian air defenses. So this is a tactical success,
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but it's again not going to slow the strategic defeat. Now, this
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is something else that's being reported here. We've got Russian troops seed ground and
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strike backed frustrating Ukraine's counter offensives, and it says military analysts say the Russian
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commanders have been using a tactic known as elastic defense to prevent Ukraine from holding
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villages and other positions and staging grounds for future attacks. So basically, the
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Russians, when they come under attack, move back, allowed the Ukrainians to
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move in, and then before the Ukrainians are settled, the Russians attack them
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and this has been proving very effective. Here we've got another headline from RBC
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Ukraine and this is now claiming that it's the Ukrainian military using the elastic band
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strategy to by time before arms arrive. But the difference here is that this
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is actually this is retreat in action. The Ukrainians are retreating from positions into
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supposedly pre prepared, stronger positions, but the reality on the ground is often
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those defenses have not been produced properly, and therefore the Russians the correction,
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the Ukrainians are ultimately being beaten. So if we look at Ukraine at the
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moment and the elastic band defense as it were, we can say at the
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moment Ukraine is outgunned at least five to one across the total front, and
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in many places it's well in excess of five to one. Ukraine's air force
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largely destroyed. Ukraine's air defense is very weak. Resupply of Patriot which the
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Americans are now saying they're going to concentrate on pulling in all their Patriot supplies
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and making sure they go to Ukraine, but this is actually going to be
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too few, too late. We've got Western ammunition and munitions. In general,
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resupply efforts are just not enough. The Ukraine at the moment has unsustainable
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casualties which have reached up to two thousand killed and injured per day, and
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although they still have an army of about six to seven hundred thousand, this
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has been largely weakened by the large number of older and poorly trained troops,
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many of whom don't want to be fighting, so low morale is a feature
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we sorry. We can also add in here that of course Ukraine has sustained
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massive infrastructure damage which is preventing the production of in house armor and weapons,
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and of course repair of damaged vehicles. If we look at the Russian side,
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Russian is operating a meat grinder and Ukraine is losing ground across the front.
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That is a fact trained Russian forces now but one hundred thousand in Belarus
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plus seven hundred thousand committed to Ukraine. The Russian military production is increasing and
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outstripping the collective West. Russian drone production outstrips Ukraine, as does the electronic
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warfare weapons deployed, and Russia in the last two years has sustained missile attacks
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at about four thousand strikes per year, which is truly astonishing. Russia can
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hit any target anywhere in Ukraine, in Ukraine and the Russian big bombs.
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This is the five hundred to fifteen hundred and three thousand kilogram weapons are wreaking
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havoc in the areas that they're being used, and Russian continues to smash Ukrainian
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strategic infrastructure, including the electricity generation production bridges and assembly areas. Let's just
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have a look at this very short clip of former US Marine and Nuclear Inspector
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Scott Ritter talking about F sixteen's coming to Ukraine Parma sixteen from day one,
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and none have arrived after last night. It's unlikely none will ever arrive.
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The Russians attacked two airfields that were being set aside for F sixteen deployment.
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Just to us today the news is coming out there's just not that many Ukrainian
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pilots trained in F sixteens, and there's hardly anybody trained to maintain them.
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The hero of the day is the squadron maintenance officer. He's the one that
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keeps the airplanes up and running together with the maintenance cruise, and the Ukrainians
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don't have them. And the bottom line is there's just I don't believe there's
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going to be at any F sixteens going to Ukraine at all. Ever,
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I think the war will end before a single F sixteen gets off the ground,
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so I think they're going to just slow roll this thing. Their hope
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is that Russia will negotiated into this conflict in a manner which allows Ukraine to
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retain its military and its government. And once that ceasfire kicks in, then
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then the F sixteens will flood in so that they become a reality. Russia's
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not playing that game, so it's not looking too good on the F sixteen
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front. Let's have a look at this Russian weapon, very large bomb three
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thousand kilog FAB bomb, and I've used a report from the Military Summary Channel
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because it's really excellent report on the power of this weapon. Let's have a
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look. I'm going to talk about hart Cave direction because the most important updates
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are coming from this territory. Today. The Russians used FAB three thousands for
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the second time in this video. For example, we consider the former school
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that, according to the Russians decree, we're using as the let's see base
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or temporary diplomat point. And as a result of FAB strike, the building
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was heavily damaged. Most likely if there was somebody inside of the building.
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Probably nobody is already inside of the building. This is the second strike.
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I reminded that yesterday the Russian sources published the first strike in the same area
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a little bit in the north, in the direction in the central part of
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see Let's take a look at this video and this video we can see another
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building. According to information we have, this is the former hospital and some
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sources reported they manage and to discover similitary tracks in the area and as a
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result of FABS track, the building was also heavily damaged. Today this morning
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we got another video from the same area. Let's take a look at the
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last video from this direction about FAB and this video we can see the movement
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of some soldiers in the area or some civilians who were filming the consequences of
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a FAB three thousand attack. And exactly on this second we see a very
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big hole inside of the building, which confirms that most likely the building was
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completely reduced to ruins from inside. So the key part of that report is
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even though there wasn't a direct hit, the shape power of that weapon destroyed
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what would be for the Ukrainians of fortified building with a very strong concrete structure.
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So not looking good on the battlefield at the moment. Alex before we
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finish on Ukraine or subject to the war in Ukraine. You've got a little
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bit here on the Slovak defense minister. Slovakia is one of the countries that
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has a direct border with Ukraine, albeit a very short one, and until
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very recently, early twenty twenty three, it had a government which was smukin
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to the Polish line. There was agreement among the Vishigrad neighbors on the west
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of Ukraine that Ukraine must be given everything in the arsenal of those countries,
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and duly that government decided to give to grant the Ukrainians its entire fighter jet
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air force, not the whole air force, but all the fighter jets.
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That was thirteen mid twenty Nine's now under the government of Robert Fitzo, who
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is recovering from the assassination attempt that we covered recently. We have this development.
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Robert Kalignyak, the Defense Minister of Slovakia, and he's not just talking
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here, he's a launched proceedings as well, has said that his predecessor in
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the previous government was a treat traitor for gifting the entire fighter jet force of
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Slovakia to Ukraine. So he's initiated a prosecution there, and he says that
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there is no other term than treason for weakening the armed forces in such a
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way contrary to the constitution. The Slovaks on the COVID front, at the
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same time, have, as we've reported, uniquely instituted a permanent committee of
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inquiry to find out what abuses were happening during COVID. So Fito's government seems
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to be taking this place. Is they already seem to have unearthed that the
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last government was perhaps telling porky Is when it said it had got legal advice
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on the advisability of this move. Okay, Lex, thank you very much.
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Mark, Let's welcome you on to today's news. And do you think
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that a change in president in the States is going to make a difference.
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That's always been the trion dollar question in these United States? Brian, and
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good day, Alex and listeners and viewers. The first presidential debate saw the
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trial bits is going to become excuse me, is coming up this coming Thursday,
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twenty seventh of June. There's going to be another one, I understand
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September tenth, the first one by CNN, the second one by ABC News.
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The New Yorker, which the East Coast cognizanti likes to read in the
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United States, had this report on it and it's basically saying I won't get
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into a lot of the details, but it's basically saying that who would have
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expected these guys to be on the same stage. Again, Trump has reportedly
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been convicted of all these counts, supposedly paying hush money to a former porn
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star because they supposedly had a tryst. A lot of pro Trumpers, of
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course, don't believe that trist ever existed or ever happened at any rate.
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The article tries to sort of dig into the sensationalism of the whole thing and
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says, you know what's going to become of all this, and our viewers
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can freeze the slides if they want to get into all the d details on
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this. We can move on from there. And the New Yorker goes on
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to say that, for example, in the debate this coming Thursday, for
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the first time since nineteen sixty, there's going to be no studio audience,
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and unless there's a direct question to either of the prospective candidates, then the
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microphone will be muted to avoid all sorts of feuding and what comes down to
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verbal mud wrestling, you might say. So they're bringing back some very old
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rules. One time, Donald Trump brought in some women that were accused of
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or rather former President Clinton was accused of having trysts with those women, and
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he brought some of those women into the studio audience. So they don't want
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things like that, and that played into when Trump was running against Hillary.
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But the next slide is where we really get into the important part of this,
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and that is where is our FK jor And this speaks to the larger
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picture of American politics, and today's report is kind of a good lesson for
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our largely British audience, though not completely British audience, to learn a little
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bit more about the woes and strange tidings in American politics. So RFK Junior,
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the question is asked here in this report why didn't he qualify for the
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first presidential debate? While ABC News is saying the clock strike struck midnight on
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Rfkate Kennedy Junior's window to qualify for CNN's June twenty seventh General or eight,
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and the network formally announced that RFK Junior won't make the stage. He didn't
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meet CNN's qualifications, which include, of course, being constitutionally eligible to be
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president, which means you must be at least thirty five years of age,
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have at least four qualifying national polls with at least fifteen percent support that meets
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CNN's guidelines, and having confirmed ballot access in enough states to potentially win a
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majority in the electoral College, which is two hundred and seventy electoral votes under
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the constitution. Kennedy, ABC News noted ultimately came up short on both polls,
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they're saying, and ballid access. They're also saying, he lacked there
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in his bid to get a spot out stage alongside Biden and former President Trump.
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Now there's an interesting twist here. ABC goes on to say, But
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even though Kennedy didn't qualify, his legal challenge to the debate is still ongoing.
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In late May, Kennedy's campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission,
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alleging that the CNN debate violates campaign finance law because, in effect,
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the network colluded with Biden and Trump their aims in planning the debate and is
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supposedly using different ballid access rules for the two major parts already contenders compared with
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Kennedy. CNN has said that Kennedy's complaint is unfounded, and as ABC News
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says in its own volition, it's a donation. All in all, it
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seems unlikely, although not impossible, that the FEC will intervene on Kennedy's behalf.
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But it gets deeper. We'll go from there. Missus Kennedy's own campaign
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website he his exclusion from the CNN debate stage is what he says, undemocratic
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on American and cowardly. And he was quoted as saying, RFK junior President's
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Biden Trump excuse me. Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me on the
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debate stage, and CNN illegally agreed to their demand. RFK said, my
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exclusion get this by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is as we said,
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undemocratic on American and cowardly. Americans want an independent leader who will break
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apart the two party and this is interesting. In the wake of the Independence
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con Austin, Texas I covered a year ago, and some of this is
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the chickens are coming home to roost. At that conference, there was a
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lot of talk about why can't we get an independent party to even have a
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chance at being a congressman, let alone president, and so on and so
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forth. But what Kennedy is basically saying in his complaint is that a federal
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law has been flagrantly violated. And Kennedy is complaining that the media broadcasters are
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not using pre established and objective criteria to determine candidate participation. Failure to use
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criteria, I'm reading more from the campaign website renders the debate this a campaign
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contribution. So R. Junior is basically saying that by applying the matter in
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this way, at least in the indirect sense, CNN is making a campaign
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contribution to the two dominant party candidates at the exclusion of the independent of mister
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Kennedy and not using what Kennedy would call objective criteria. And rfk Junior goes
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on to say, into the CNN's published debate criteria require candidates' name, most
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piece of efficient ballots to three hundred and seventy electoral vote threshold. CNN is
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holding Kennedy to this requirement, but is not requiring Presidents Biden and Trump to
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meet this requirement By claiming they are each the presumptive nominee of a political He
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goes on to say CNN has persisted in this approach after the FEC made clear
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that the phrase presumptive nominee is not in the FEC's debate regulation and there for
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it cannot exempt CNN from the prohibition on excessive campaign contributions. So what's going
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on here in the bigger picture? Brian is technically speaking, and I can
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flesh this out on the next slide, but speaking, Trump is not actually
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the nominee of the Republican Party and is not officially the nominee of the Democratic
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Party because they're conventions. They're national conventions for their parties have not taken place
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yet. But because Kennedy is an independent, he is the automatic nominee as
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an independent candidate. So Kennedy is claiming that he's going up against two guys
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that are not actually officially the nominees of their party, So why should he
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be excluded? That's what it boils down to. And a little bit on
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this slide. This up now and we can begin to summarize this. CNN
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and its staff RFKSE campaign is proclaiming are now on clear notice, especially given
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the damning evidence that the Biden campaign has openly demanded Kennedy be excluded from the
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debates and trump assurances from CNN that Kennedy will be excluded. Into compliance,
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rfk's campaign insists CNN must apply as criteria objectively. Presidents Biden and Trump have
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not yet been nominated by their parties, and their names are not certified to
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appear on a single state ballot, and I think Kennedy is right about this.
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Kennedy, in contrast, has been certified to appear on the ballot of
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numerous states, including California, Delaware, Hawaiian, Michigan, Oklahoma, South
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Carolina, and Utah. See. These are the kind of things that the
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mass media cartel that the legacy mass media doesn't really make clear. They'll just
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say that Kennedy has filed a suit, But you have to read Kennedy's own
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literature to really get this fleshed out and understand what's going on this associated press
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slide. People can freeze this and read it for more details. But like
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ABC News, like CNN, associated press, which plays a big role in
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assessing and publishing the vote counts during major national elections and is not always thought
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to be an objective party. They're calling rfk's campaign a long shot bid.
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They all want to call it a long shot bid. But the paradox Brian
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is always the same. They don't want to give a lot of ample coverage
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to RFK in terms of taking his campaign seriously, so automatically they kind of
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get the result they want. Where Kennedy doesn't quite have all the polling,
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he doesn't quite get all the exposure which would affect the polling, and so
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they try and dampen their coverage of RFK, you know, whatever one may
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think of him, and then they act as if he's a long shot bid
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when they rig the news to make sure he's a long shot bid. And
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as I note here in summarizing this report, the Republican National Convention isn't until
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mid July and Milwaukee, and the Democrat National Convention even later in latter August
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and Chicago, Illinois. Only then will Trump and Biden become the official candidates
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for their parties again, while RFK already is in essence. And Lincoln Schaffee,
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the former Rhode Island governor, had this to say, and this ties
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into the biased news coverage that automatically makes someone a long shot, and then
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the media wonders why they're considered a long shot. Chaffee had this to say,
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if the American people could hear what all three candidates had to say about
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the critical issues facing our country, the choice between these men would be clear.
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In Chaffee's estimation, Kennedy would become the forty seventh president of the US.
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And to to wind this up, Brian, the real paradox is that
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traditionally the Democratic Party would do whatever they could to get a Kennedy on the
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ballot, given the Kennedy's legendary name in American politics, and run with him
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rather than Joe Biden, who just turned eighty one years old recently. And
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there's a lot of questions about Biden's mental and physical competence, let alone his
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ideology and his policies. So you would think that the Democratic Party would embrace
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having a Kennedy given the history and legacy behind it. But instead Kennedy is
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relegated to you, you might say, the political ghetto, which is created
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by the media, of having to be an independent candidate and having to scrape
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his way through. So that's the huge paradox and we can talk a little
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bit more about it and extra Brian, but that's how it's shaping up.
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Okay, Well, thank you very much. And as you talked about presidential
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elections, I was thinking about UK and independence in the smaller parties already telling
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us that they can't get into the hustings alongside the bigger party. So exactly
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the same control over the election process is happening here in UK. Well,
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more in due course. Now let's move on to the subject. Really of
34:49
the Daily Mail on Saturday caught my attention and I decided, unusually to buy
34:54
one. Here's how the front page looked, so a lovely, childish picture
35:00
of the Rawal family, which is apparently a magical holiday snap. But it
35:05
was the headline about frage that caught my attention. Forrage, the West provoked
35:09
Putin and in the text this was what was being said. The reform leader
35:15
was branded a danger to UK security over his extraordinary claim that NATO and the
35:22
EU had provoked Vladimir Putin. On the election campaign trail, reformers gained support
35:29
from veterans for pledges such as increased defense spending, a much bigger army and
35:35
better housing for soldiers. But last night's comments could threaten that progress and provide
35:40
a boost for the Conservatives. So the inference here is that all veterans are
35:46
for war and they apparently want to go to war with the Russians, which
35:52
I don't believe for a moment. But this is the thread through this whole
35:58
Daily Mail article. Now, when we got inside it got into double page
36:01
spreads. Some of it was electioneering, but further attacks on Farrage with this
36:08
sort of commentary. If we bring it up, Frage said that he stood
36:13
up in the European Parliament in twenty fourteen and he said that, and he
36:17
quoted that there will be a war in Ukraine. He went on to say
36:23
it was obvious to me that ever Eastwood's expansion of NATO and the European Union
36:30
was giving this man a reason to his Russian people to say they're coming for
36:35
us again and to go to war. Now that text is perfect, perfectly
36:43
accurate. It's what the Daily Mail said. It is a bit strange,
36:45
but that is the quote from Farage. So the whole point of the article
36:51
was that everybody had to be supporting the war against Russia. And when we
36:55
got deep into the paper, this is what we came across page ten.
37:00
But it's an article by Boris Johnson himself, and it said unless Keir Starmer
37:06
evokes his endorsement of a Corbyn premiership, he's simply not fit to be Prime
37:10
minister. And I took one quote out of the article itself, where Boris
37:15
is saying, let us focus for a moment on one issue alone, the
37:19
Russian invasion. Invasion of Ukraine. This is the biggest and most savage war
37:23
in Europe since nineteen forty five, in which tens of thousands of totally innocent
37:29
Ukrainians have been killed because the criminal folly and miscalculation of one man, Vladimir
37:36
Putin. Well, and just sorry to bring that in again. Let's just
37:42
pop in the label on that Peutin certainly did miscalculated, miscalculate because he trusted
37:47
the West, and in particular he trusted at one point Boris Johnson, or
37:52
it appeared, so who was the man who destroyed peace talks? Alex,
37:58
very very quickly, just bring you in if I may, for a bit
38:01
of comment here. But I just find this obscene that the Daily Mail is
38:07
focusing on Boris Johnson, the man who destroyed the opportunity for for peace in
38:13
Ukraine. You would have expected that the Daily Mail, given its profile and
38:17
the target readership it goes for, would have more bones to pick with Johnson,
38:22
his disheveled, immoral carryings on in many ways. But apparently what has
38:28
trumped that now is this attitude that no politician can warn of war, and
38:34
no politician or public figure more broadly can say I understand why our enemies felt
38:39
provoked. And if you've crossed that bridge, then you might as well pack
38:43
up shop and stop having parliament and television and the newspapers. But that's the
38:47
bridge that we seem to have crossed now that to express understanding is regarded as
38:52
tantamounts to expressing undying support and sympathy for indeed, thank you for that,
38:57
And I'll just say, of course, never been completely happy with Nigels for
39:04
a number of reasons which I'm happy to talk about. But in this case,
39:07
what was the male doing. The only view that you must have is
39:13
that war against Russia in Ukraine is what all of us should be supporting.
39:17
But I'd like to draw people's attention to the headline here, where, of
39:22
course we've got Boris Johnson. If we just play the little video clip here,
39:27
what did the Daily Mail do well? It scrubbed him up. It
39:31
tried to make him appear a respectable, trustworthy Tory thought leader, to convince
39:38
the Daily Mail audience that Boris is a man whose opinion we should follow.
39:45
Let's just listen to the actual clip and hear him speaking and how he was
39:50
speaking in that in set video. Because if Ukraine fools. It will be
39:54
a catastrophe for the West. It will be ending the Western geminy and we
40:01
will have no one to blame but ourselves. Well I think we'll have Boris
40:09
Johnson to blame. And if you really want to know why, have a
40:14
look at him talking to the extreme as of Battalion. We've had that,
40:19
We've had this clip up on the UK column before, but I think we
40:22
need to just pop it up on screen again. Thank you to the heroes
40:30
from the as obligator one of us about levels to give the Ukrainians what they
40:36
give them their weapons, give them the authoriza is to use those weapons outside
40:43
their own. Absolutely, the Ukrainians should be forbidden from doing what he's doing
40:51
himself and attacking Ukrainian forces Wight on Earth. Shouldn't Ukrainian Ukraine's be able to
40:58
attack Russian forces that they need. The case of the whole Euroland area is
41:13
supporting UK heroes. We rely home on heroes such as the people who are
41:21
hitting like with us from the arrow read so Boris with the extreme Nazi as
41:30
of brigade calling for attacks on Russian territory, which we've now got and what
41:36
is he doing? He's ramping up more and more war. It's just incredible,
41:42
Alex. Let's let's get on to another subject for we really, we
41:46
really hit Boris and what he's up to. M Well, Brian. If
41:52
the Daily Mail is acceptable opinion for and I don't mean this nearingly the lower
41:58
middle class, that's how it's conceived of The Times is thought of as the
42:01
virtue signal and message signaling for the upper middle class, the menagerialists. And
42:07
here in an opinion piece. And we know that in quality papers, opinion
42:10
pieces are important. Robert Colville has laid his finger on a very important issue.
42:16
It's not just about the issue of oil wells and the wider issue of
42:20
fracking in Surrey, just south of London. Nor is it about his partisan
42:24
support for the Conservatives, which is moderate, but it is there, and
42:28
you'd expect that of many Times opinion writers. No, it's the issue that
42:30
he's constitutionally identified and given the useful name of meta laws, what does he
42:36
mean by that, Well, he gives us a definition. A meta law
42:39
is an overriding principle that becomes embedded within our system of government from which all
42:45
sorts of consequences cascade. So he's talking here about a parallel between the Strasbourg
42:51
ruling. This is the Council of Europe and it's court there the ECCHR,
42:54
which was a Swiss motion by some granny's who said being choked and will die
43:01
of heat stroke by climate change and our governments to blame. The AChR upheld
43:06
their case and the Swiss have said at parliamentary level nonsense. He's drawing the
43:09
parallel between that and the UK Supreme Court, as it's falsely so called,
43:15
which has bowed with the wind coming from continental Europe. And this will reach
43:19
the USA in time, and no doubt Canada already has. Which is the
43:22
idea that when local government bodies in this case Surrey County Council license in this
43:27
case and oil, well, they not only have to go by the secondary
43:30
legislation and the principles of good government and all the other stuff. No,
43:35
never mind what they're bound by by statute, they're bound by great principles of
43:37
international law, such as not causing harm in undefined and nebulous ways by experts.
43:44
So future environmental harm should have been weighed up. And colvill goes as
43:49
he cited this, so we'll just go sideways and see what this is about.
43:52
Reuters has covered this in the last week that the Swiss Parliament, to
43:54
the shock and horror of the right thinking journalists of writers, has actually bared
44:00
its teeth at this and said the European Court of Human Rights doesn't have a
44:04
business telling us to order our government to change our environmental and energy policy as
44:14
sees fits, as they see fit, and that will be an end of
44:16
the convention. That's Member states of the Council of Europe always follows Strasbourg rulings.
44:21
By the way, Britain, if the Tories do get back in,
44:23
which is extremely unlikely, in May withdraw, we'll see what kind of stitch
44:28
up labor does in that regard. That's not the only one. The original
44:30
in this genre was five years ago, twenty nineteen. In fact, a
44:35
case that went back longer than that. But here is the equally badly named
44:37
Supreme Court or Jokarat of the Netherlands. It isn't really one, but it
44:43
certainly had this ruling a few years ago, with another group of Grannis calling
44:45
themselves a gender saying that they need their government needed to be taken to task
44:51
because they were not stopping co two emissions quickly enough and curtailing them quickly enough.
44:57
And in this case the Supreme Court ordered the government to attack the economy
45:02
of the country in order to bring about a faster target. So there's plenty
45:07
of this going on. Colville goes on to say that meta laws lead to
45:10
judicial activism because they force courts to make essentially political decisions. That's the game
45:15
here, of course, Brian. They also mean that government becomes ever more
45:20
hemmed in by judicial constraints. So, in other words, without changing our
45:22
constitution and what's left of it, the UK Supreme Court, mirroring aping what's
45:29
being done in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, will go the political route and tell governments
45:34
to find reasons to stop free trade and freedom of business and commerce on the
45:39
basis that there is future environmental harm, much as children are stolen uniquely in
45:45
Britain on the excuse of risk of future emotional harm. And I do mean
45:50
that not flippantly. I think that Britain is uniquely cynical in this regard.
45:53
So he's pointing out a number of problems that lead to meta laws over ruling,
46:00
and we'll just skip through this quickly. He's foreseeing what it means in
46:02
party political terms when Labour gets in hint, they won't be able to build
46:07
the houses they're pledging to buy because that's unfair on the environment. So written
46:09
to first common law country where we get these rulings, even if we do
46:13
withdraw from Strasbourg, our judicial class will now go this way, and no
46:16
doubt at the federal level the US will in the end as well. And
46:22
just to show that this is coming out in the United Nations as well,
46:25
Antonio Gutirosi, so Secretary General of the United Nations, gave this speech.
46:30
That's the entirety of the speech on the screen. I know it's too small
46:31
to read, but a brief remark the other day on hate speech, and
46:36
here it is. In the middle of it. He says that states have
46:37
an obligation under international law, not divined, not defined, to crush hate
46:43
speech. They must all member states in the world must implement these commitments.
46:46
And then he pays lip service to freedom of speech and so on. So
46:50
these principles have seeped into the judiciary, regardless of what clubs we're in as
46:53
a country. Yes, it's really worrying, alex this this control from within
47:00
the courts Mark, Let's bring you back on screen, because what better place
47:07
to start talking about the Anti Defamation League. The Anti Defamation League, along
47:16
with the Southern Poverty Law Center speaking of hate crimes and hate speech. Good
47:21
report there, Alex. Those two organizations have for many years been very hegemonic,
47:27
you might say, in patrolling the airwaves, patrolling the newspages, looking
47:32
for anything that it construes the ADL and the Southern Property Law Center as hate
47:37
speech. They've taken it upon themselves to define hate speech for the rest of
47:43
us. And so it's all the more interesting and all the more pivotal that
47:47
now Wikipedia, of all places politically correct, largely woke, Wikipedia is declaring
47:54
the Anti Defamation League as unreliable as this headline shows on both Israel Palestine issues
48:01
and anti Semitism in general. And recall that we've had the video clip of
48:07
a lady Israeli official who has admitted publicly that oftentimes, probably more often than
48:14
we realize, the anti Semitic specter is raised as a basically mental and verbal
48:22
trick to deflect any legitimate criticism of the Israeli state, etc. Et cera.
48:29
So this is even being reported by I twenty four, an Israeli news
48:35
agency, as I'm showing here, Wikipedia's editors last week voted to declare the
48:38
Anti Defamation League, a New York based Jewish advocacy group, as generally unreliable
48:45
on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The word conflict, of course, is a
48:50
bit off base. An overwhelming majority. This I twenty four Israeli report goes
48:54
on to say an overwhelming majority of editors are also said to have voted to
49:01
label the organization unreliable in the topic of anti Semitism, which is ADL's core
49:07
focus. That's its bread and butter. Dozens of Wikipedia editors stated that the
49:13
ADL quote should not be cited for factual, factual information and anti semitism as
49:19
well, because it acts primarily as a pro Israel organization and tends to label
49:24
legitimate criticism of Israel as anti Semitism. And that's citing the Jewish Telegraph Agency.
49:31
So that's one Jewish news outlet citing another. After formal declaration, the
49:37
decisions will add ADL to the list banned and partially banned of band and partially
49:45
banned sources. ADL no longer appears to adhere to a serious, mainstream and
49:51
intellectually cogent definition of anti Semitism, but has instead given into the shameless political
50:00
excuse me, it's earlier political politicization, my goodness, at the very subject
50:05
that it was originally esteemed for being reliable on, wrote an editor known as
50:12
iscandor three to twenty three, whose requests for a discussion ultimately led to the
50:15
band. Anyway, we'll move on from there. And this gets into sort
50:22
of a side note that's relevant to what I'm talking about. Both these CNN
50:29
articles were written by Kate Sullivan, the left one recently on the twentieth of
50:32
June and the right one on the sixth of October last year, and this
50:37
is an example of the ADL at work. In one, Trump floats the
50:42
Migrant League of Fighters in his latest dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants, and then the
50:47
other Trump's anti immigrant comments draw rebuke. And basically, what the ADL and
50:54
similar critics have been saying about Trump is that everything he says is nativist,
51:00
white supremacists and even reminiscent of Adolph Hitler's racial purity and aryan theories. But
51:08
in fact that's not really what Trump has been saying even though it's a good
51:14
example, a textbook example of what the ADL's treachery is all about and the
51:19
way they mislabel people. And in fact, the critics of the Anti Defamation
51:23
League will say that the ADL is in the business of defamation. Defamation is
51:29
actually the core of the so called ADL. And this is what Trump was
51:34
criticized for saying. And this concludes my report for today. Brian. Trump
51:37
said this, it's the poisoning. It's poisoning the blood of our country.
51:43
It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease, people are coming
51:47
in with every possible thing that you could have. Donald Trump, Republican presidential
51:52
candidate. But the ADL and similar critics are saying that comment is in league
52:00
aryan and white supremacists and nativist sensibilities. One impact, an objective look reveals
52:07
that what Trump is talking about, even though it might be a slightly crude
52:09
way of saying it, what he's talking about in terms of blood and impure
52:16
things. He's talking about people coming over the border in large numbers with communicable
52:22
diseases. So you can, in that dramatic case, Brian, how someone
52:29
can be misquoted by the ADL and it shows how much they misrepresent the issues.
52:36
Okay, troubled times mark and we've got a little bit of video here,
52:42
but just as an introduction, if we put this one on screen,
52:45
we're I was having a look at people who were challenging the TV license and
52:50
of course this is money that the BBC gets here in UK. Many people
52:53
don't want to pay because they don't think the BBC gives a value for money.
53:00
They also think it's biased. But it was a really interesting clip where
53:06
two police women turned up at a man's doorstep to tell him something. Let's
53:10
have a look at this little clip. Michael, I don't mind if I
53:16
film you there? Don't we've got something to issue you? Oh okay,
53:25
you want us to do it here? Do you want us to do it
53:27
inside? I don't know what issue made. So basically we've had a call
53:31
from Thames Valley Police Police BOLLS to us to say that you've sent a letter
53:37
to someone in the BBC. That's right, Yeah, we've been corresponding for
53:39
quite a while. Yeah all right, okay, So basically they've asked us
53:43
to issue you the harassment warning. Who you want us to do it here?
53:46
Or here. Okay, So basically it's for your your name and addresses
53:52
on there in your date of birth. You've sent a letter to people which
53:54
has been hand delivered even by yourself at the third party. This letter is
53:59
unwanted side of the official channels of the BBC and causing mistress this conduct is
54:05
contrary to the protection from it she said that before to me. No.
54:10
So basically this is an harassment morning, which means the police have received an
54:16
allegation of harassment against you. Any behavior in the least two occasion which causes
54:22
alarm modistrate. Harassment is any behavior on at least two occasions. At this
54:30
stage the police are not commented on the truth of the allegation. Instead,
54:31
this notice has been given to you in spirit of crime prevention. That's fine
54:36
to make it. If any kind of behavior described were to continue, then
54:38
you'd be liable to arrest the prosecution. You should be aware that if further
54:43
such behavior resulted in prosecution, then the behavior complained of above could be referred
54:47
to or relied upon in any subsequent proceedings. This notice is neither a court
54:51
order nor a criminal record, but will be kept by the police. Are
54:53
the purpose of any future investigations and retained in accordance with national guidelines and the
54:58
management of police information. So on the basis of one letter, they're classing
55:02
it as arrassment. Basically, it's not. It's not come from Essex Polices.
55:06
Chem's value. Police have received the information and never asked us to issue
55:08
it or not on their behalf. But it does say two or more.
55:12
Yeah, so on here it does yet So I don't at the moment,
55:15
I mean, I don't know a little bit about it. Because she said
55:20
that the contacts are wanted. Yeah, but she's never told me that we're
55:23
here just yeah, someone. But if I could like her and say,
55:28
why didn't you say it before? No? Right, because obviously that's the
55:30
allegation that it's causing her harassment, So this is just us giving you all.
55:35
So could I do the same thing then, because she's not Our agents
55:38
have been here a few times and I've said, you're arresting me and you're
55:44
causing me concern and distress. I've said that to her. Yeah, she's
55:47
made the complaints that we're just giving you a wall. Right. No,
55:51
But I'm just I'm just a bit confused. It sounds a bit one sided
55:53
at the minute because this has been going on for quite a while. Like
55:58
we said, we're not coming to a Yeah, I f I can just
56:01
tell you so you know the other side of it. Yeah, she works
56:06
at the baby so yeah, but she works from home. So when our
56:08
phone up, they so she's working from home and there's not a way of
56:12
getting in touch with us. But is she saying that that's fine. Well,
56:19
we have to stop there because time limits on the news, but we'll
56:22
bring that video into extra time. And I think there's a lot to be
56:27
discussed. So I was watching your face there, Alex as you listened in
56:30
it. They don't know whether it's true or not. And it's going to
56:35
stop crime happening in the future. But yeah, the admission that it's nothing
56:40
to do with law or the duties of a constable is we're doing this in
56:44
the spirit of spirit of crime cavet prevention and the failure to uphold the law
56:49
in accordance with the Police Oath, even the revised one two thousand and five,
56:52
which is all human rights see. The failure to uphold that standard or
56:54
to behave in that way is when they did not respond to the Generalman's question
57:00
can I do the same. Of course you can, and an officer of
57:02
the law has every duty to say it is entirely up to user, and
57:06
until very recently police constables in evening Britain, in its depraved state, would
57:10
do that. They would say it's up to you to make such an order.
57:14
But no, they just have the patter to deliver. Yeah, not
57:15
really interested? Oh really here you are? Okay? Well, as I
57:21
say, we'll have a look at the rest of the video and discuss that
57:23
more in extra time. Now I think it's back to you, Alex.
57:29
Here, we're going to do a lightning tour around mostly Belgium, as I'm
57:34
in that part of the world more often than not. But we'll start with
57:37
Germany Apollo News and we're immediately given English translation offered by Life Site here.
57:44
Both will be in the show. Notes is reporting that doctor Bianca Vitchel,
57:47
an old age Pansiener she's sixty seven, has been sentenced to two years and
57:52
eight months in jail in Germany and struck off the medical register for three years
57:54
and find just under fifty thousand euros about the same in dollars or pounds because
58:00
of the one thousand or so exemptions that she issued from COVID jabs and from
58:06
MASK mandates. And here's the shocker. In his explanation of the ruling,
58:10
the judge claimed, quote we had he's referring to COVID. We had an
58:14
epidemic that was comparable to the cholera of the nineteenth century. And journalist Stefan
58:20
Magnet replies, it's completely insane how this justice system acts today. I could
58:24
furnish enough pieces to fill every uk On News episode with how mad the German
58:29
judiciary is. It's not mad as deliberate insane, as Magnet says, but
58:32
that's the level of justice you're getting in Germany. Onto Belgium de Mordican,
58:37
one of the main titles in the Flemish part of the country, says that
58:42
fourteen hundred doctors, that is a lot for this country of a small population.
58:45
Have written an open letter warning that the collapse of healthcare is just around
58:50
the corner. Even though despite the horrors of COVID and the number of deaths
58:55
Belgium had been especially the care system, the Belgian healthcare system is less far
59:00
gone than most of its neighbors, particularly less far gone than Britain. What
59:04
they're warning about is that people are presenting at GPS surge, sorry, at
59:07
accident and emergency or casualty or emergency rooms more often than they used to instead
59:14
of going to primary healthcare via their GP or family doctor. Interesting that that's
59:19
happening even in the least destroyed of the health systems in Western Europe. Stack
59:23
Diary and a number of other sources have reported this too. Have sold us
59:29
that Belgium didn't get the Grand Finale that it wanted because it's just finishing its
59:32
six month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, which holds power
59:37
over the Commission and ultimately over Parliament as well. This idea was put forward
59:42
by Belgium because the member state in the chair every six months has to provide
59:45
the initial draft of laws, but the Member states met in the Ministerial Council
59:50
could not get a majority to agree on it. What was the fuss about
59:52
here, Well, Signal's boss has written this will be in the show notes
59:57
to point out what's going on here. Belgium wanted the EU to introduce upload
1:00:02
moderation, a new fangled term for what used to be called client side scanning,
1:00:07
which is that when you sign up with any communication at or platform,
1:00:12
you agree that it will be scanned by AI before it even gets uploaded to
1:00:19
the site. And Signal is pointing out and I know that EU civil servants
1:00:22
are actually told to use Signal because it's secure and they won't get hacked by
1:00:27
the Russians. That way, Signal is saying, there is no way of
1:00:30
introducing such a scan without fundamentally compromising the security of our encryption. So this
1:00:37
has been thought out spectacularly poorly at the same time, by the way,
1:00:39
and this will be in the show notes, though I don't have a slide
1:00:42
for it. The Belgians are shooting ahead with their intention of having digital identity
1:00:47
for citizens to communicate with their government, even though three quarters of the Belgians
1:00:52
in surveyed on one of these things, so they didn't want it on their
1:00:54
phone. What they've done instead, there will be another piece on the show
1:00:57
notes in this regard is provide people who are willing with what they call an
1:01:00
EBox in their living room. And people are finding out to their horror that
1:01:05
once you've got an EBox, you have to check the emails that come in
1:01:07
on it, because that's the only way, the government will issue you with
1:01:10
a fine. The next thing you will know is police will come to your
1:01:13
door saying you were fined and you didn't pay because you didn't read what was
1:01:15
in your EBox. So that may be coming to other countries soon as well.
1:01:20
And finishing up the Belgian segment. This is from head Lats the New
1:01:24
some more populist, a title certainly lower market, i'd say. The Minister
1:01:30
of Justice, Paul Fontichildt, was interviewed by a gentleman of Congolese extraction and
1:01:35
he was asked, there do you think that we can put an end to
1:01:37
immigration in a country like Belgium, and fon Tikhilt got rather personal. You
1:01:42
can see him pointing towards himself with his thumb in this still that I took,
1:01:45
saying if we don't even want to let alone, whether we can ban
1:01:49
immigration now? Because if we put up, if we stop immigration, who'll
1:01:52
be working in healthcare? Then he gets personal, who will be doing my
1:01:55
plumbing and who will be washing my windows at home? To the abs unbelief,
1:02:00
disbelief of the young black interviewer who suggests is that all we're good for?
1:02:05
But no, he's come out and said it now as this member of
1:02:07
the governing Liberal Party of Belgium, just finally in the Belgian category. Just
1:02:13
for a snapshot of how far things have gone. The sex Union, the
1:02:17
Sex Workers' Union of Belgium, basically the Prostitute's Collective of Belgium UTSOPI, trumpets
1:02:23
in a press release that it has come up with this. It's gone through
1:02:27
Belgium, the Belgian Parliament with very little opposition. It's a code of practice,
1:02:30
a labor law for prostitutes or sex workers as we are supposed to call
1:02:35
them. Now. They boast that there are all kinds of freedoms now,
1:02:37
so that a prostitute always can say no to a client or a particular act
1:02:40
that they are induced to do, and that don't have to sit in those
1:02:45
windows in a red light district if they feel threatened by anything. But look
1:02:47
at this, if they invoke any such rights, if they say no to
1:02:52
a punter or a john to our Americans viewers, then if it's more than
1:02:57
ten times in a six month period, the employer may seek governmental mediation.
1:03:01
The only trouble there, Brian, is that the employer of a prostitute is
1:03:05
actually a pimp. So this is a pimps Charter Belgium has passed with very
1:03:08
little opposition, an agreement and a law which allows pimps to complain to the
1:03:15
government that the girls they are turning a prophet on are saying no to particular
1:03:20
clients. You couldn't make it up. But they're very proud of it because
1:03:22
it shows that regulation has won out and that sex workers are now fully protected
1:03:29
by law. Yeah, silence. Every time we think we've heard crazy things,
1:03:36
there's something else comes along in the clown world. So I think we're
1:03:39
going to have to leave it there today. Mark. I know you've got
1:03:43
some border issues. We'll bring those into extra time. So we'll say a
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