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UK Column News - 30th July 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, it's just gone. 1:00 on Wednesday the 30th of
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July 2025. Welcome to UK Column News.
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I'm your host Charles Mallett, and I'm joined by a number of
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other presenters by Live Link. Today we have Vanessa Bailey
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from Lebanon, Carl Zarr from Bali, Mike Robinson from
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Northern Ireland and Sandy Adams from Somerset.
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Now, because of that, we've got a very full programme and we'll
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be covering topics ranging from the battle between online safety
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and free speech to Net 0 restrictions in Oxford,
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adherence to the gunning principles, air turbulence as
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well as the border clashes in Southeast Asia, and a number of
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other topics to boot. But bearing in mind the
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statements that have been coming out from Downing St recently
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will be beginning the programme by going to Vanessa for an
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update on the situation in and around Gaza.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. Sadly, the people of Gaza are
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still being deliberately starved, not only, of course, by
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Israel, but by the international community that is not stepping
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up to actually prevent what is happening.
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And I just want to show one photo of the hundreds that are
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flooding social media of children starving of of what
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Western media is describing as malnutrition, as if this is some
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kind of unrelated syndrome, nothing to do with Israel.
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And what I want to show now is a interview actually with an
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Israeli social media channel, with a member of the mercenary
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Gaza humanitarian foundation, Mossad Linked, that has been
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collaborating with the Israeli forces occupying Gaza to target
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the crowds of people coming to try and secure some kind of aid
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for their family at the four distribution centres that now
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exist in Gaza. So let's just play this section
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of the interview. And when he got there, he
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thanked us for the remnants and the small crumbs that he got.
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And he sets them down on the ground because I was kneeling at
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this point. And he sets his food down and he
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places his hands on my face, on the side of my face, on my
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cheeks, these frail skeleton, emaciated hands, dirty.
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And he puts them on my face. And he kissed me.
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He kissed me. And he said thank you in
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English, thank you. And he collected his items and
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he walked back to the group and then he was shot at with pepper
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spray and tear gas and stun grenades and bullets shot at his
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feet and in the air. And he runs away scared.
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And the IDF, we're, we're shooting at the crowd.
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So they're shooting to control the population that's along the
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Moran corridor. And as they're doing that,
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they're shooting into this crowd, shooting into this crowd.
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And Palestinians, civilians human.
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Beings are dropping to the ground.
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Now bear in mind this guy supports Israel and yet and even
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he is unable to remain silent when he's witnessed the
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dehumanisation of Palestinian children, women, whole families,
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then we're what we're saying right now is is sort of a
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political cosmetic move by a number of countries led by
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France, but including Saudi Arabia seeking support for a
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declaration on A2 state solution between Israel and Palestinians.
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Of course, this is ridiculously late after the genocide began in
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earnest on October the 7th and the two state solution is a
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completely non viable solution, always has been.
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Even the 1936 peer, Sorry I've gone blank Commission deemed it
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as such. And what has it actually done?
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What it's done is to generate moves by the Knesset, Israeli
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parliament that have recently voted 71 to 13 for a non binding
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motion to annex the entire West Bank.
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And of course, this is basically what many members of Netanyahu's
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administration have been talking about or calling for since the
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beginning of the genocide of Palestinians that began back on
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October the 7th, but of course began back in 1917.
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And then this is an interview on Hebrew TV with Ben Gavir, who's
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the minister for national security, ironically.
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So let's have a look at what he's saying once France has
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called for the recognition of a Palestinian state. 9.
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So as always, when the West starts calling for the
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recognition of a Palestinian state, we actually see an
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increase in the ethnic cleansing and genocidal tendencies of the
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Israeli administration. Then we have the fake claims by
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Israel of allowing humanitarian aid.
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And this is from suppressed news, but it's all over the
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media and social media. 10 trucks entered the Gaza Strip
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today. Their contents were completely
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seized. This is the same number that
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entered during the previous two days.
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So this was the 27th of July without any tactical truce or
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media hype. So basically, rather than
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actually allowing the humanitarian aid and Israel is
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inspecting it and then turning it away, UAE has been running a
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propaganda campaign to show its trucks entering Gaza.
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But what has actually happened? If we look again on social
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media, multiple reports empty trucks bearing the UAE flag
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enter Gaza, coinciding with Israel's announcement that it
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would allow aid. And the trucks were empty.
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UAE claimed that it was bringing equipment in.
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I'm not quite sure what equipment would be useful to a
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starving population. And then finally, let's see Keir
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Starmer stammer his way through a statement on recognising
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Palestinian statehood. Very late again, he was had
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pressure put on him by Macron, by the French to do so.
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But let's have a look at what he actually says.
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In relation to the two state solution and the recognition of
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Palestine, that this has been long standing Labor Party
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policy. It was in our manifesto we
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talked about the right of the Palestinians to recognition and
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we've always said that would be part of the process and that it
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would be an important part of the point that we thought it
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would have maximum impact. It's driven today by two things.
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Firstly, the context in the intolerable situation in Gaza,
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which is getting worse by the day, but also because of the
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concern that the very possibility of A2 state solution
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is reducing. And therefore it is very
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important to be seen in that context as a very important
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contribution to what I hope will be an alleviation of the
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situation on the ground, because I'm acutely aware that what
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needs to happen urgently is that aid into Gaza at speed and at
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volume. At speed and at volume, of
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course, we're not seeing that. And there was Karastama, oozing
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sincerity about a Palestinian state.
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And then finally, I want to also draw attention, although I lay
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the majority of the blame at the door of Western regimes that
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are, of course, supporting the Zionist entity.
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However, I'm disappointed to say that a BRICS member state
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leader, President Putin, had a call with Netanyahu yesterday.
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He discussed Syria and Iran in a phone call, but no mention of
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stopping the genocide against Palestinians.
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Vanessa, thanks very much. A complicated picture and
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there's evidently a huge amount more to to come out on this.
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And I'm glad to say that we've got another report from you
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later on in the programme. But thanks very much indeed for
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that. For now.
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Now today, as I say, it's the 30th of July and yesterday the
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29th marked a year since the events in Southport for which
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Axel Rudiqabala was convicted and which the government has
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made continued use of in order to justify the Online Safety Act
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2023 coming into effect of the central theme of government
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communications regarding this Act as being the protection of
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children from harmful content online.
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Which is really to wilfully obfuscate the very many
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depressive and disproportionate provisions which are contained
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within it. And the other nut with which the
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online safety sledgehammer is said to crack is that of
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misinformation which is described as being spread on
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social media leading to violent protest.
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Recent events in Epping appear to have been agitated by police
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in order that the Online Safety Act can be further justified and
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indeed that the case can be made for digital ID in order to main
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maximum order security. Now for context on this please
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see our censored section shown on screen.
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Brian was speaking on Mondays News about a plan to create a
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new police unit with a remit for monitoring social media for what
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may lead to unrest and other sorts of problems.
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This followed A correspondence between Karen Bradley, the Chair
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of the Home Affairs Select Committee, and Diana Johnson,
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the Minister for Policing and Crime.
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On the 1st of July, Bradley wrote to Johnson inquiring about
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government plans to gather open source intelligence from social
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media. End Quote.
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And in her reply, Dana Johnson said that she's considering
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recommendations, which of course were made by the committee
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itself, to stand up what's been called a National Internet
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Intelligence Investigations Team, which will form part of
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the National Police Coordination Centre, which is situated at the
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heart of Westminster. Oddly enough, its offices are at
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50 Broadway, which covers the site previously known as 54
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Broadway, which was a former headquarters of the Secret
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Intelligence Service. That's by the by Johnson went on
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to say that this will monitor social media intelligence and
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advise on its use to inform local operational police
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decision making. End Quote.
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Given that this will be coordinated from the seat of
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political power in the country, it seems extraordinarily
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unlikely that it will not be used to interfere with the
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operational independence of police.
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But also because was the NPOCC is set up as a quote central
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point for mobilisation of mutual aid across forces.
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Donna Johnson's letter also makes reference to the Online
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Safety Act. And of course she toes the party
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line in that she ensures she only mentions protecting
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children rather than the many oppressive measures which are
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set out by the ACT. Now, when the subject of
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censorship came up during yet another awkward press conference
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with Keir Starmer and Donald Trump, this time at Turnberry,
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Trump's own golf course, Starmer walked the same line.
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The American was asked about having his Truth Social platform
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censored in the UK and this was how the response was handled.
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There are new powers here to censor your site, state mandate
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to to censor your site and Twitter and Facebook.
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I mean, truth. Is that OK?
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I don't think he's gonna censor my site because I say only good
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things that will you please uncensor my site.
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Yeah, we're not. We're not censoring anyone.
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We've got some measures which are there to protect children in
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particular from sites like suicide sites.
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We've had too many cases in the United Kingdom of young children
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taking their own lives. And when you look through their
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social media, they've been accessing sites which talk about
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suicide and, you know, encouraging, if you like
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children down that road. And that is what we want to
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stop. Nothing about censoring, but
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that's free speech. But that treats all adults like
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children. But that can treat all adults.
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Free speech in this country has been for a very long time.
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We're very, very proud of it. We will protect it forever, but
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at the same time I personally feel very strongly that we
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should protect our young teenagers, and that's what it
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usually is from things like suicide sites.
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I don't see that as a free speech issue.
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I see that as a child protection.
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We actually passed a bill in Congress headed up by my wife
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actually, which was to pull bad stuff out having to do with
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children because it is a problem.
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But I cannot imagine him censoring Truth Social.
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This is more of a very political and and you know, it's been a
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very big success. No gonna happen.
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And I only say good things about him and his country, so if they
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censor me, you're making a mistake.
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So all a bit of a joke as far as they're concerned.
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And even the bits that are not funny are really only concerning
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children. And I would say this is a
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distortion and there is some indication of the public
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awareness of this thanks to a petition which has been started
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by Alex Baynham running till October of this year and it
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requests that the Online Safety Act be repealed.
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It's now attracted over 420,000 signatures and there'll be a
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link in the show notes. The government has already
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responded with a lengthy statement crafted with the
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apparent intent to obfuscate, and of course the response is
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predicated on preventing harm to children.
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They say that they have no plans to repeal the Act and that the
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measures taken by Ofcom are proportionate, which is really
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almost all you need to know and certainly nowhere near the
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truth. The specific point made by Alex
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Bainham is that what is described as user to user
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content is subject to the provisions of the ACT, forcing
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host of any platform to moderate in a very active sense, all
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traffic on that site, something which is plainly an untenable
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burden for the smaller operators.
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Now if this sounds confusing, it would be the equivalent of
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making the landlord of a pub responsible for every single
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conversation which took place in that pub, something which of
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course has never been suggested. Now, just like Diana Johnson,
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the government response hangs its hat on prevention of harm to
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children and ignores the very many ways in which the ACT
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interferes with free speech. What the petition has also done,
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though, is to create a bandwagon for opportunists to jump on,
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most notably the Reform Party. Having said absolutely nothing
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about censorship in the UK, Reform are now reverse
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engineering their position in order to try to ride the Crest
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of this particular way. If Nigel Farage has said that
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Reform will repeal the Act. And here is a piece by Zia Yusuf
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written on the same subject in the Telegraph, a blatant attempt
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to wrestle ownership of the repeal petition.
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On the subject of seizing a moment though, Jeremy Corbyn and
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Zara Sultana appear to be running the largest political
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party in the country already, which in addition to the
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petition response, could be considered as a barometer of
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resistance to the Starmer regime.
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It's called Your Party and it claims to have over 500,000
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members, which would mean that it already dwarfs all of the
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other parties. And as they say, the system is
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rigged and they're campaigning on a free and independent
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Palestine ticket. So it should be expected that
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they gain a lot more traction over the coming months.
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And with the recent prescription of Palestine action and the raft
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of unwarranted arrests last year, there is no doubt that the
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link between censorship and sponsorship of genocide in the
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Middle East is something that is covered, been sorry, been
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covered many times by UK columns.
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So we'll certainly be following, following up on that particular
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story. Now what we're going to do in a
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minute is go over to Bali. But but first of all, we're
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going to be considering a story that's been pushed off the front
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pages of the news by the earthquake on the Kamchatka
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Peninsula. And of course, that is the
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situation on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, which has
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been highly volatile over the past week with both civilians
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and soldiers being killed. And there's now confused
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reporting on the state of the ceasefire.
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So I'm pleased to welcome Karl Tsar to the programme.
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Karl, obviously I've I've given a very bland summary of of what
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has been going on. Can you just give a bit more
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detail as you see it into what has actually happened?
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Carl, we can't hear you at the moment.
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Yeah, OK. I just saw him myself.
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OK. It's always OK to back on.
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It's always OK to blame the French in all situations.
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And in this case you will be correct because this what
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happened between Thailand and Cambodia is a case of legacy
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colonial borders driving the dispute between modern nation
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States and the particular dispute centres around a
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collection of ancient Hindu temples left by the ancient
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Kameh Empire. For people who are not aware
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commit the the Cambodia the the the Camet is an ethnic name for
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Cambodians and the ancient Camet empire used to cover much of
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Southeast Asia, including modern Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, South
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Vietnam. But as Mongol conquest of China
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happened, a lot of the Thai speaking people were driven out
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of southern China, migrating to Southeast Asia, and this
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coincided with the decline of Camet empire.
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The Thai speaking people then they founded their own state and
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this is eventually this give rise to the modern the state of
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Cyan and later the modern state of Thailand.
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And before the Europeans came to Southeast Asia, Cyan was a quite
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powerful state. He actually managed to subjugate
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Cambodia and turn it into a feudal overlord vassal
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relationship. But Cambodia still maintain its
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independence and then entered the French in the 19th century
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and French established a colony over what they call French
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Indochina, which covers Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and in and and
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you would left a case with Thailand, which has been
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sandwiched between French Indochina on the east and the
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British Myanmar on the West. And Cyan desperately try to
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maintain independence. So to do so, they had to give up
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a lot of territorial concession to the French.
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You know, one thing they have to give up is their overlord
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relationship to Cambodia. And France said, OK, you know,
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recognise that Cambodia is our territory now we'll give you a
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couple provinces, you know, as consolation price.
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But then just French Rene couple years later said, OK, well,
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actually we're kidding. We're taking back those
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provinces. And then French, French France
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further proposed, let's demarcate our border according
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to the water so called watershed principle.
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Look at those natural mountains don't make the perfect natural
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border. Thailand had no choice but to
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accept this because French France was much stronger power.
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And but when French authority finally start to survey the map,
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they decide to unilaterally alter the the the the actual
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border. They say, OK, these these sites
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are ancient Kimai Hindu temples, that's important cultural
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heritage to the Cambodian people.
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So we have to include that in our map.
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And they did it without informing the Thailand side.
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And you know, Thai was not very happy about it when they finally
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find out what's going on the race.
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But the Europeans told the Thailand, sorry it took you 20
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years to complain. That means for 20 years you
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recognise France possession of this territory and then in in 19
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in during the World War 2, Thailand actually joined the
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Imperial Japanese in order to recover this disputed territory
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from France. But they have to when the the
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tide turn against the Japanese, Thailand had to give that
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territory back to not get on the allies back that side so they
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don't be labelled as a Co belligerent.
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But when France get defeated by the Vietnamese in the DNBM Foo
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and as a result of 1954 Geneva Convention, French troops had to
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leave French Indochina, including Cambodia.
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Thailand took that opportunity to occupy the disputed territory
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and then Cambodia took Thailand to court to the International
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Court of Justice in 1962, which ruled those temple belong to
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Cambodia. But the court never ruled where
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there's a land around the temple belong to Cambodia.
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So the the the the the dispute went on and then IN200008 the
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the dispute flare up and there was a border skirmish because
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Cambodia applied for UNESCO UNESCO Heritage Site status for
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this Priya Bahir temple and Thailand objected that led to
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the border clash. Then later in 2011, Cambodia
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site file another petition to International Court of Justice
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to ask for ruling around the land around the temple and to
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another fresh round of clash the the ICJ actually ruled up.
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Yes, those land around the temple should also go to
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Cambodia, but Thailand was not happy about this.
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And this led to the latest fresh round of fighting in May and
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what and as a result of May fighting that the Thai Prime
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Minister actually made a phone call to the to the the Cambodian
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leadership tried to count things down a little bit, but then the
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audio tape was leaked. And you raise a huge uproar in
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Thailand because in the phone call, she she called the whom
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said the the leader of Cambodia who said uncle and said, we're
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sorry, we don't mean for this to happen.
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It's a Thai general that made a mistake.
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Now I will fix this. And this, this audio recording
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cause a huge uproar in Thailand because they feel she was being
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unpatriotic. She's been, you know, too, too
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nice to to the enemy. And so that led to the Thai
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Supreme Court to actually suspend the the Thai Prime
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Minister. So, so right now she's suspended
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now that they have an acting Prime Minister and this, they're
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going to make a ruling, final ruling on whether she can stay
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on as a Thai Prime Minister now. And, and at this critical
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juncture, the, the, the conflict broke out again and, and, and,
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and then we saw this is the most deadliest conflict, this, of
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this border dispute since it started 1 century ago.
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And this, this obviously is very concerning for all the countries
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involved, especially in ASEAN and, and China as well, because
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China has a lot of investment in both Thailand and Cambodia.
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What happened? You, you, you got Donald Trump,
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who is desperate for his Nobel Peace Prize, also got involved
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by threatening to level tariffs on both nations seats.
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They don't come to, to, to set down.
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So now we have a ASEAN brokered ceasefire by Malaysian Prime
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Minister Anwar and the both sides agreed to have the
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ceasefire on Monday, midnight Monday.
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But us of right now Thailand is accusing Cambodia of violating
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the peace ceasefire twice. Cambodia denies it.
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They invite international observers and the two side
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defence minister actually going to meet again next week on
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Monday to discuss this border dispute issue.
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But I don't expect the border to blow up into a general war
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because you know, this conflict, we have seen this conflict
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happen before. It's a border skirmish.
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There's no reason the two countries should really fight a
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war over this. We're talking about very sliver
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piece of land in like very remote area with tropical
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jungles. And what more likely was there
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some behind the scene political horse trading that it's not, you
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know, might not become clear much later.
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Because, you know, on the Thai side, obviously the Thai
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military is not very happy with their Prime Minister.
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They're trying to get rid of her.
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And on the Cambodian side, Cambodia just have a leadership
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transition. Hunsen, who have been ruling
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Cambodia since 1980s, is now giving the post to the top post
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to his son who Manette, who does not have the experience or the
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prestige yet. So this is the opportunity for
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him to show him solve as a tough leader who can defend Cambodian
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sovereignty and national honour. And so this is very likely both
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side will make any meaningful concessions in the border
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dispute. But what most likely scenario is
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this will be another frozen conflict and hopefully both side
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will go back to do what's actually most important.
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The top priority for both countries is actually investing
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infrastructure, education and quality life for for their
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citizens. There's no really no need for
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these two country to be engaged in a war right now.
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The two country are very similar culturally your cultural
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religion and in fact at the disputed border on both sides
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they're essentially the same people on the Thailand side.
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The the people who live there are ethnic command who who are
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are the same ethnic stock as the Cambodians on their side.
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So let's hope the the ceasefire last.
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We'll have to follow the story very closely in the coming
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weeks. Yeah, Carl, I mean, as you say,
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given that it's been going on for such a long time, it seems
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reasonable to wonder who would be benefiting from the
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militarisation both sides of the border.
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And and of course, 1 wonders to what extent the creation of the
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conflict in the 1st place could have been deliberate.
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Unfortunately, we don't have time to cover that now, but
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perhaps we can move on and discuss that a little bit in
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extra. But thank you very much indeed.
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That was very comprehensive and I think we'll have given a huge
26:59
insight to the audience. Now we're going to move on to
27:02
Oxford, a frequent hotbed of controversy surrounding net
27:06
zero. It's been the victim or perhaps
27:09
host of a number of schemes which have gone down variously
27:13
very well and very badly with the people that live there.
27:15
So we're going to go to Sandy now for an update on the way
27:18
that she sees things in Oxford. Thank you, Charles.
27:22
Well, you know, as if Oxford hadn't been under the cosh for
27:25
the last two years or so with the low traffic neighbourhood
27:28
restrictions since I think February 2023, which is part of
27:32
the 15 minute city traffic philtres plan.
27:35
These philtres will now be in place by 2026 they've announced.
27:39
And this was delayed by renovations to the railway
27:41
station. So in the interim Oxford City
27:44
Council have decided to impose a temporary daily 5 LB congestion
27:49
charge and this has been put in in place.
27:52
Now this hasn't gone down well obviously with the people there.
27:56
It means that the residents must pay apply for 100 day annual
28:01
pass, while Oxfordshire Oxfordshire residents just get a
28:05
25 day pass and that's the the wider Oxfordshire residents just
28:10
get a 25 day pass to avoid a £60 fine.
28:13
And once your quota is used, a daily payment of £5 is required.
28:18
This will impact businesses around Oxford even more than it
28:21
has in the last two years and this is what people are fearing.
28:24
It's really causing a lot of poverty as people will choose to
28:28
go elsewhere. It's the final nail in the
28:30
coffin for business owners and that's the point, you know,
28:33
small and medium sized businesses, SMEs have to go for
28:38
the fulfilment of the corporate technocratic takeover of the UK.
28:42
And this sudden announcement was made only 8 weeks ago stating
28:45
that the congestion was extensive and that the bus
28:48
companies complained about the length of journeys.
28:51
People had only 6 weeks to respond to this consultation
28:55
which ran from the 23rd of July to the 3rd of August, which it
28:58
will finish on the 3rd of August, overlapping the school
29:02
holidays when many people are away.
29:05
Councillor. Now I've got a quote here from
29:07
Councillor Saj Malik and he said if the council want to cut
29:11
congestion, all they have to do is take out the low traffic
29:15
neighbourhoods, the LTNS. They've manufactured this, you
29:18
know, it's a, it's a manufactured thing.
29:21
They've manufactured this extra traffic themselves and caused
29:24
journey times to be slower. So let's take a look at the
29:28
campaign flyer. So access to the railway station
29:32
and shopping centre will require a daily charge of 5 lbs.
29:36
Key workers, self employed people, teachers, doctors,
29:38
nurses and hospital staff are not exempt.
29:41
I mean, it's a university town and there's two big hospitals.
29:45
Parents of school aged children will be greatly impacted when
29:48
driving their children to and from school.
29:50
There's no exemption for electric cars, strangely so will
29:54
it be temporary? These restrictions could
29:56
increase in the future and change to include commercial
30:00
vehicles. In order to get an exemption,
30:03
self employed drivers will have to get business insurance on
30:06
their cars. That's really costly.
30:08
And people who look after the elderly relatives will only get
30:11
an exemption if they fill in details of their parents or
30:14
their relatives health data via a registered GP, where normally
30:20
they would just go and look after their parents.
30:22
So you know, there's a bit of a data mining issue here in my
30:26
opinion. Ironically, it's clear that the
30:28
congestion is due to the traffic neighbourhoods that have been in
30:32
place for over 2 years and it's causing mayhem and increased
30:35
traffic around the Ring Rd. As Saj Malik said, it's a
30:39
manufactured problem. A classic case of problem
30:42
reaction solution. Now this consultation ends on
30:46
the 3rd of August and over 12,000 people have already
30:50
signed the, the, the, the consultation, you know, the, the
30:58
application to, to stop it. So if you live in Oxfordshire,
31:01
do sign it, but obviously only if you live in Oxfordshire.
31:06
Now I'm pretty sure that due to the short consultation in a
31:09
holiday period, this could be overturned under the gunning
31:11
principles and I'll be speaking about those later on.
31:14
Now this is happening everywhere.
31:15
It's an assault on the British people.
31:18
Independent businesses are buckling under the strain of
31:20
unnecessary climate policy. And for example, there's a shop
31:24
called Marcus. It's a business in hot wells of
31:27
Bristol. This is happening all over the
31:29
place, trading in outdoors equipment for over 60 years.
31:33
And it's set to close their business, You know, having got
31:37
through COVID, they just can't continue under the clean air
31:41
zone that's been imposed in in Bristol.
31:44
And these clear, you know, clean air restrictions will be putting
31:47
people off coming in. So they'll be closing their
31:50
doors and it's, it's a very sad thing.
31:53
So, you know, this really does seem to be an assault on the
31:57
people of the UK. And you know, what do you think,
32:02
Charles? Well, I Sandy, thanks very much.
32:06
I think I was interested to, you know, in the suggestion that the
32:09
traffic had been created. And of course that one that puts
32:11
one in mind of what happened in London when the original
32:14
congestion charge was introduced.
32:15
Because Ken Livingstone was certainly accused then of
32:19
extending the times of traffic lights and then coinciding the
32:23
start of the congestion charge with the beginning of the school
32:26
half term in order to make it look like it had worked and that
32:30
there was no traffic. So I think the cynicism required
32:33
to create such a scheme that requires manipulation like this
32:37
is something that really should be seen through.
32:39
I mean, in in terms of sort of campaigning in and around
32:43
Oxford. What, what sense do you get that
32:45
of the activity that's going on? Well, I, I think people are
32:50
beginning to, to, to really get out and campaign against this.
32:55
And I think the tide is turning. I mean, there's certainly been
32:59
changes and I'll mention this at the end of the show because
33:02
there are some wins happening where in certain areas these
33:07
restrictions are being lifted, particularly the charges on
33:11
people. And that's very important.
33:13
I mean, sometimes the, the actual clean air ban are still
33:18
there, but the, the charges, the the fines are being lifted.
33:22
So I think that's, that's it. That's a partial win.
33:25
And I think we need to hang on to those, Yeah.
33:28
Absolutely, Sandy, thank you very much.
33:29
And as you say, you will be dealing with the gunning
33:31
principles, which is very important later on in the
33:33
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34:04
Morgoth, who, if you haven't heard of Morgoth, he is an
34:08
online commentator, effectively providing intellectual
34:12
commentary on the state of the country.
34:14
And this specific conversation is with Ben Rubin, and it's
34:18
based on a 1942 essay that George Orwell wrote entitled
34:23
England Your England. And he and Ben are looking at
34:26
the way in which the current state the United Kingdom relates
34:30
to what Orwell was writing back in the 1940s.
34:33
So that's at 1:00 tomorrow, Thursday.
34:36
Please do tune in for that. Now, this evening, the German
34:40
warfare programme is with John Loughlin.
34:42
And that will be very interesting.
34:44
John himself a presenter and interviewer who has an awful lot
34:48
to contribute in terms of his opinions and expertise.
34:52
So please do TuneIn to that. And then as far as events are
34:56
concerned, I must remind you again that Hope Freedom Music
35:01
Festival will be over the August bank holiday weekend between the
35:04
22nd and the 25th. And also for those of you who
35:08
are members and will be joining for Extra, I'm very pleased to
35:11
say that we have Katie Jo Murphy who's running the event, joining
35:14
us for Extra. So please do come back for extra
35:17
to find out all about the festival itself if you haven't
35:20
yet got your ticket now. And on the subject of tickets,
35:24
another reminder that our tickets for our next on location
35:28
event in York, which is going to be on Saturday the 18th of
35:32
October of this year, went on sale on Monday to great fanfare
35:37
and indeed were very well received.
35:39
So the message I have to add to this slide is that tickets are
35:44
selling fast, so please do get yours.
35:46
I mean, I think having done a couple of these things now over
35:49
the last year, there was absolutely no substitute for
35:52
being in the same place with other people and sharing that
35:55
information, having those conversations, and indeed
35:58
listening to a range of speakers who really do know what they're
36:00
talking about. Of course, they are to be
36:02
announced. So we're going to keep the
36:04
excitement building on that. I should also remind you that if
36:07
for any reason you're unable to get to York, there are live
36:11
stream tickets available and they are selling on the website
36:14
now. And we are so keen to promote
36:17
this that actually Kenny has devised a small video here
36:22
showing you how to go about the process of getting a ticket by
36:27
going to shop.ukcolumn.org. So please do get amongst it.
36:31
But I wasn't joking about the tickets selling fast.
36:34
They really are. We've sold over a third already
36:36
and it only went on sale on Monday.
36:38
So please get to it and make sure that we're not going to
36:42
miss out on seeing you in October.
36:46
Now that takes us back to Vanessa.
36:48
And as I said at the start of the programme, we were going to
36:51
have time to have more input from Vanessa on the situation in
36:55
Gaza. So Vanessa, we'll go back to you
36:57
now. Yeah, well, it's just a
37:01
continuation of the rank hypocrisy from the supporters of
37:06
Israel in the in the West. And this was in the last 11
37:11
hours aboard Air Force One. Trump says Israel will preside
37:17
over US aid distribution in Gaza after the disaster of of sending
37:21
in American mercenaries who were filmed actually taking part in
37:27
the shooting of Palestinians trying to get to the aid
37:31
centres. So what does he actually say?
37:33
He suggested that Israel will now run the food distribution
37:37
centres, a move that critics say would further entrench the
37:40
Israeli occupation and endanger the safety of aid seekers.
37:44
Well, that's a very euphemistic statement.
37:47
Speaking to reporters aboard his presidential jet, Trump stressed
37:50
the Israeli talking point that Hamas steals food assistance
37:54
distributed in Gaza, a claim that has been denied and United
37:59
Nations official. So this is how Zionist hazbara,
38:02
or propaganda, works. It just simply keeps repeating
38:06
itself until it exhausts the evidence that is piling up to to
38:12
discredit it. And here is a report in Reuters
38:16
in the last few days about the US aid analysis.
38:20
Of course, US aid is the sector or the outreach agency for the
38:27
American intelligence agencies that Trump has very recently
38:31
also shut down. That does lead to speculation
38:35
that perhaps they're getting their own back.
38:37
But basically, their analysts found no evidence of massive
38:41
Hamas theft of Gaza aid. And let's say again, what they
38:45
say. And who was involved in the
38:47
investigation? It was conducted by the Bureau
38:50
of Humanitarian Assistance, which was the largest funder of
38:54
assistance to Gaza before the Trump administration froze all
38:58
US foreign aid in January, terminating thousands of
39:02
programmes. It has also begun dismantling
39:05
USAID, as I said, whose functions have been folded into
39:08
the State Department. Again, a very interesting way of
39:10
of saying exactly what they are. The analysis found that at least
39:14
44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported
39:18
stolen or lost were either directly or indirectly due to
39:22
Israeli military action, according to the briefing
39:27
slides. And again, we've we've had great
39:30
fanfare over the fact that air drops have returned.
39:33
And this is a report almost immediately by Euromed human
39:37
rights monitor Gaza. The air drops are a humiliating
39:41
and a tool of starvation. Only the opening of the land
39:45
corridors, which of course the main one is through the Rafa
39:49
border connecting with Egypt, which has been closed since
39:52
October the 7th. And within the article itself
39:55
they point out that the air drop of aid into the Gaza Strip is
39:58
yet another act of humiliation and degradation against
40:02
Palestinians. It endangers the civilians
40:05
crowded into less than 15% of the Englave and serves A graver
40:10
purpose which is enabling Israel's policy of mass
40:13
starvation deliberately used as a tool of genocide and it's
40:17
systematic effort to eliminate Palestinians.
40:20
In Gaza and there's been a video circulating of a little boy
40:24
explaining as he's trying to reach 1 of the 8 drops that
40:28
they've been dropped into an area that is actually a
40:30
militarised area, so it's infested by the Israeli troops
40:34
and impossible for the people to enter safely.
40:38
And finally, I really wanted to address something that I'm
40:42
constantly coming up against when I'm discussing what Israel
40:47
is doing to the Palestinians, not only in Gaza, but also in
40:50
the West Bank. And I'm told, well, there are
40:53
good Israelis. There are Israelis surely, that
40:55
are opposed to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians or the
40:59
extermination of Palestinian presence on their own land,
41:04
which has been ongoing, as I said before, since 1917 and and
41:09
the giving of the territory to Rothschilds with the Balfour
41:15
Treaty. It's not a treaty, sorry.
41:18
But yes, Balfour Treaty. And I found this this morning.
41:22
It's a young activist. I haven't yet been able to
41:25
locate her actual channel, but this came to me through Eyes on
41:29
Palestine on Telegram. And I just want to play this to
41:33
push back a little bit against those that claim not all
41:36
Israelis are behind what is happening in Gaza.
41:39
So let's just play her video everyday.
41:44
I realise how many people were not taught that lying is bad as
41:48
a child. This is from an Israeli
41:51
newspaper so you can't even pull the New York Times is inflating
41:55
line. This is literally from their own
41:59
statistics in their own newspapers. 82% of Israelis
42:02
support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
42:06
Nearly half of the Israeli population supports killing
42:11
Palestinians in the Gaza. So not just like ethnically
42:13
cleansing them as in like just physically removing them from
42:16
the land, but like literally murdering them.
42:18
Half of the country supports this.
42:20
Oh, by the way, since the rest of Palestine is always left out
42:23
of the conversation. From that same poll where 82% of
42:26
Israelis said that they supported ethnically cleansing
42:28
Palestinians from Gaza, 56% said that they were on board to
42:32
ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the West Bank.
42:35
So while you might be forgetting that the rest of Palestine
42:38
exists, they're certainly not, and they're pretty fixated on
42:41
clearing it of Palestinians. If you're going to lie, at least
42:45
be good at it. Very classic phrase at the end.
42:52
Because the majority of Zionist lies are nothing more than
42:55
projection of their own crimes against humanity and against
42:59
Palestinians. Thank you very much, Vanessa.
43:04
Depressing yet necessary that we are informed about all of this.
43:08
And I'm now going to pursue a similar theme due to a report
43:12
provided with Many thanks to Patrick Henningson, who was at
43:15
an event in London on Monday where there was an announcement
43:19
about a global Sumud flotilla announcing civilian action to
43:25
end the siege. Basically the delivery of
43:27
humanitarian aid by sea. And this is a photograph Patrick
43:32
took from the event. Obviously we've reported on
43:35
these sorts of things happening in the past, and indeed how
43:38
they've been interdicted by the IDF when it's been perfectly
43:42
clear they've only been civilians involved, and indeed
43:46
the only goods carried on such vessels have been constituted by
43:52
humanitarian aid. Nonetheless, we've got playing
43:55
on screen now interdiction of exactly that sort that has taken
43:59
place. And of course this was
44:01
discussed. But nonetheless there is a,
44:02
there is a plan to push this forward and to keep trying to
44:06
deliver aid by sea. Now the vessel that was referred
44:11
to on Monday whilst Patrick was at the event was the Handala
44:15
humanitarian boat and crew which was captured by the IDF and, and
44:19
that's indeed what we were looking at the footage of.
44:23
No, sorry, my mistake. Patrick also had the opportunity
44:29
to talk to a number of people whilst he was at the event and I
44:34
think what's interesting, particularly bearing in mind
44:36
what Vanessa has just been saying about people effectively
44:40
being conditioned mentally to believe one thing or the other
44:43
according to what colour, creed, nationality or religion they may
44:47
belong to. Patrick spent some time talking
44:50
to somebody who self described as a Christian evangelist and of
44:53
course he recognises very much that the community that he
44:56
belongs to has been in effect providing a totally unqualified
45:01
level of support to Israel. And here we have a man speaking
45:08
about his experiences and the way in which his mind was
45:10
changed. My background as an entrepreneur
45:14
in financial technology, I've been in that space for a couple
45:17
of decades actually. And and in a in a time of
45:22
changing my life where I've discovered that a lot of the
45:25
values and the society that I was operating in doesn't
45:30
actually represent my underlying values my my family's values and
45:34
the values. That I was brought up with as an
45:37
evangelical Christian. And my focus at the moment is
45:42
helping the church come to a point where it recognises the
45:45
words of its own scripture, its own faith that attributes basic
45:53
humanity to every human on the planet and that focuses on
45:57
mercy, justice, compassion. And when we see those.
46:02
Values being betrayed so deeply as they are in Palestine right
46:06
now in my name as a human. I can't have things done in my
46:12
name and stay. Silent about it, especially when
46:15
what is being done in my name is the worst genocide of our
46:18
generation. Starvation inflicted on 2
46:22
million people in an open air concentration camp with no means
46:26
to support life and we're even the smallest man of aid is
46:30
blocked so much as baby formula. This is unacceptable and to see
46:35
that so much of it is being funded by organisations such as
46:38
Christians United for Israel, who will support the political
46:42
agendas that fund this genocide, that's distressing for me
46:47
because I grew. Up.
46:49
Going to Sunday schools, living in the US, living in the UK,
46:54
living in Australia. I grew up in all these places.
46:56
Being told that Jesus loves children, being told that human
47:01
life matters, being told that we are to turn the other cheek,
47:05
that we're to love our enemies, we're to do good to those that
47:08
who. These are the values that I was
47:09
taught. But what I see in reality is a
47:13
is a global church who's afraid to stand up for the values that
47:19
it professes to believe. And so this is the dissonance,
47:22
This is my grief personally. And this is it something that
47:25
I'm working through. And I want to spend some time
47:28
focusing over the next few years and saying, how do we bring the
47:32
church back to its roots? How do we start praying for
47:36
Gaza? How do we start saying the word
47:37
Gaza? How do we how do we rescue
47:40
ourselves from ourselves? Because if the status quo is
47:44
allowed to continue, if we just continue in our apathy and our
47:46
complicity and our silence, future generations are going to
47:50
judge us. We're going to lose an entire
47:52
generation of people who will reject every single message and
47:55
every single word that was said by the older generation who
48:00
stood by not only just watch this happen, but actually
48:04
contributed to it through silence, through tax dollars,
48:07
through political lobbying and support.
48:11
Robert Lincoln now giving a very good account of himself and
48:14
presumably by being calm and rational about it, he will be
48:17
able to exert influence on those around him who have been brought
48:20
up to have beliefs that run contrary to what his now are.
48:23
Now in terms of the press release from the event, there's
48:26
a little bit more detail which I will just read out to you in
48:30
terms of their the intent to break the siege on Gaza.
48:33
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition say that several international
48:35
organisations have expressed their willingness to cooperate
48:38
with the coalition to send dozens of ships to Gaza in the
48:42
coming months. So we, presumably via Patrick,
48:45
will be able to keep you up to speed with this.
48:47
And I'm pleased to say that Patrick will be filling in the
48:50
gaps and providing much more detail on that event in Friday's
48:54
news. So please tune in for an update
48:55
on that. Now, Sandy, I said earlier in
48:57
the programme that we're going to hear more about the gunning
49:00
principles and how they may be successfully deployed.
49:03
And indeed, you've recently been to an event in Langport where
49:06
you've learnt much more about this.
49:09
Yes, um, I, I, I, I spoke at the Hacienda in Alang Port in
49:14
Somerset. And it was the, the, the final,
49:17
the actual, you know, celebrating freedom of speech
49:20
event that we've been not been able to put on for a very long
49:24
time because basically the town council where I live don't like
49:28
who I work for and don't like what I do so that I've been
49:31
banned. But anyway, so we, we managed to
49:34
do it because it's private land, lovely, lovely off grid
49:37
community there. It's run as ACIC and it was very
49:41
well attended with people eager to take action.
49:44
I really feel that people are at the stage now where they're,
49:47
they're understanding how important it is to, to act, umm,
49:51
when there's tyranny going on in your own country, uh, nuanced as
49:55
it is, it is still tyranny. Umm, others, other speakers were
49:59
Clive de Carle, umm, he was speaking on health and well
50:02
being and Richard Vobes, who, as usual, lightened up the day,
50:05
making everyone laugh. And he promoted his soon to be
50:08
launched fictional book Biggleswick, which is a, a
50:11
fictional town that stood up against the global tyranny.
50:14
So, umm, all of that was very, very nice.
50:18
Umm my talk focused on the planned gradual destruction of
50:21
the UK over decades under a systematic land grab various
50:26
means. I mean I spoke of the
50:27
destruction of farming and food sovereignty in the UK.
50:31
Net 0 legislation with environmental and social
50:36
governance contracts and biodiversity net gain contracts
50:42
on land, corporate buyout of common land.
50:46
The global framework law over local national sovereignty,
50:49
which is going going on the technocratic governance over
50:52
democracy, The World Heritage status worldwide, which is
50:56
bringing tourism versus natural local habitat.
51:00
So we've got a lot going on here.
51:03
The talk also encompassed the latest plans for devolution
51:06
under the English Devolution in Communities Empowerment Act,
51:10
which is due to go through Parliament after the summer
51:13
recess, Which is anything but empowerment for the people.
51:17
It's exactly the reverse. So the full talk will be up on
51:21
my website, soonsadiaadams.uk. So this is me speaking a little
51:26
bit about devolution. If we could play that real, the
51:30
net zeroes restrictions such as more Eulers, more LTNS, more 15
51:34
minute cities, 20 mile an hour zones, increased surveillance.
51:38
This is in these big regions that we've got because what they
51:41
intend to do is dissolve parliament.
51:44
Now I know this sounds crazy, but you can see this all in the
51:47
Cities and Communities Act of 2016.
51:50
Look it up. I've got a picture of it here.
51:53
And it was something that it was an action that went through in
51:56
2016 laying out the powers of these, what they call directly
52:02
elected mayors, covenant, smart city mayors.
52:06
So what they'll do is they'll, they'll transfer the pound power
52:10
of these mayors from Westminster that will become powerless it
52:15
onto these mayor, these covenant of smart city mayors.
52:19
So eventually you'll have a smart city mayor in each region
52:23
and there'll be only 8 regions in the UK and it's exact copy of
52:28
Tony Blair's federal Europe, federal federal England that he
52:32
put up in 1997, which failed. So it's the same map and I'll
52:36
show you a picture of that map in a minute.
52:38
So what will happen? And now in Somerset we, we
52:43
joined up with, I think it was Sedgemoor Council and Mendip and
52:48
became unitary. And now they're joining up with,
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they've got a plan to join up with.
52:54
So Somerset will join with Dorset and Wiltshire and become
52:59
a region and they're going to call it the heart of Wessex.
53:02
Now all of these old fashioned names for these regions were the
53:06
same ones that Tony Blair had in 1997 for his map of federal
53:12
England to be executed by 2020. So.
53:19
So if you imagine what Sadiq Khan is in London, you will have
53:22
a mini Sadiq Khan in every region and their only focus is
53:28
on net 0. So, yeah, thank you that it was,
53:36
it was, it was just a short clip really about about devolution
53:39
and, and what, what what we have coming now.
53:42
Ian Jarvis came and he gave us a very comprehensive talk on the
53:46
gunning principles and how in his view, they could well be our
53:49
salvation. And by reverse engineering the
53:53
infrastructure for the digital prisons we're that are being
53:56
created for us. I can't stress enough how
53:59
powerful these principles are. They overturned a low traffic
54:02
neighbourhood in West Dulwich recently and all the technology
54:06
had to come out and the fines have been paid back to the
54:09
people and the council have to pay the court costs costs.
54:12
So it's a, it's an enormous win really.
54:16
It was 1 without judicial review because it's already in case law
54:19
from 1984. So it went straight to the High
54:22
Court and was one on the fact that the consultation procedure
54:26
had been inadequate. Therein lies the key.
54:29
It's about consultation procedures.
54:32
So I'd like to just play Ian Jarvis summing up the power of
54:36
the gunning principles in this little clip where he says it's
54:40
the salvation of the UK. I just want to say thank you for
54:45
all your work you've been doing for all those years.
54:47
And, and I think the gunning principles are really powerful,
54:51
aren't they, if you use them correctly, I think the gunning
54:54
principles. Could be.
54:56
Our part of our salvation, yeah. Thank you.
55:01
Yeah. And he did a really good talk.
55:04
And I've got the the gist of the gunning principles here.
55:08
And so the first one is the consultation must be at a time
55:12
when proposals are still at a formative stage.
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This means the decision has not already been made and there's
55:18
still genuine opportunity to influence the outcome.
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And #2 Sufficient reasons must be put forward for the proposal
55:26
to allow for intelligent consideration and response.
55:30
The public or stakeholders must be given enough information to
55:33
understand the issue and respond meaningfully #3 Adequate time
55:39
must be given for consideration and response.
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The consultation process must allow enough time for people to
55:45
absorb the information, reflect and submit their views and #4
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there's only four of them. The four the the product of
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consultation must be conscientiously taken into
55:56
account by the decision makers. Responses received during the
56:00
consultation must be considered with an open mind before the
56:04
final decision is made. Now, in my view, most of these
56:08
consultations are going on throughout the UK, whether it's
56:12
on 5G towers, 15 minute cities, net 0 low emission zones,
56:18
whatever. None of this is being done and
56:21
this is where it has to be challenged.
56:24
It absolutely does. And now at least we do know more
56:27
about how certainly a theme that we will persist with.
56:30
Thank you very much indeed, Sandy.
56:31
Now, to continue on a vaguely related theme, I'm going to use
56:36
the upcoming state visit and indeed the press conference I
56:39
referred to earlier between Trump and Stalmer as a vehicle
56:41
with which to highlight the absurdity of many of the
56:44
policies concerning land use and environmental schemes and all
56:47
the rest of it. But this is what the American
56:50
president had to say about the inheritance tax that's to be
56:54
imposed upon farmers. And of course, just before we
56:57
watch the clip, I should remind you that the projection was that
57:00
it would yield £500 million in a year, which is as much as the
57:03
National Health Service spends in one Sunday.
57:06
So we'll have a look at this clip now.
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We've got to fix that problem. We can't simply live with that
57:12
problem. So it's a very different
57:14
situation. Well, we ended the estate tax.
57:17
There is no estate tax on farmers.
57:20
So, so when a, when a parent leaves their farm, because
57:23
again, a lot of these farms, they don't make a lot of money,
57:25
but they, it's a way of life and they love their way of life and
57:28
they love that, that dirt, that dirt is the most beautiful thing
57:32
they've ever seen. They love it.
57:33
I mean, they're farmers. They love to it.
57:34
They, they don't know how to do anything else, but they don't
57:37
want to do anything else. I speak to farmers.
57:40
I say, would you like to live in my penthouse in Manhattan is
57:42
always beautiful. No, Sir.
57:45
I want this farm. Now what happens is, I mean, we
57:49
were losing a lot of people to suicide.
57:51
They'd buy, they'd borrow money to pay the estate tax and they
57:56
wouldn't were not able to pay it.
57:57
And some banks are ruthless. They wouldn't do anything and
58:00
they would end up committing suicide.
58:03
We have totally ended the estate tax of those situations.
58:08
So there's no estate tax. So when a parent leaves the farm
58:11
to the kids, they don't have to worry about their local,
58:14
possibly unfriendly banker coming in and stealing their
58:18
farm. So I think the important thing
58:22
to pull out there is that this is just being discussed in the
58:25
mainstream at that level, not necessarily the fact that Trump
58:28
is either right or wrong, but at least it is being discussed.
58:31
And on that note, I have pulled out a piece from Spiked in which
58:36
Matt Ridley, the Times columnist, has been speaking
58:40
about net zero, saying it could destroy civilization.
58:43
Of course, he's he's perhaps echoing what Tony Blair's saying
58:45
to do with the cost. But he's also making exactly the
58:49
point that despite these apocalyptic predictions, in fact
58:53
doesn't seem to be coming to pass.
58:56
And he described Ed Miliband's terrifying vision vision of
59:00
climate change by saying there are a few more days when you
59:03
might have to cut your lawn, but a few less days when you might
59:05
have to heat your house. And it did not sound very
59:08
frightening, frankly. And I think it would be fair to
59:11
say that he is absolutely onto something there.
59:14
And and I reinforce the point that it's just important this is
59:17
discussed in the mainstream. Now returning to Trump and
59:20
Starmer, the other area, of course, which is highly
59:24
contentious is the renewable power agenda.
59:27
And indeed, this is what Trump had to say about wind in.
59:32
Scotland wind is a disaster. But in Scotland and across the
59:35
UK, wind farms. No, it's a shame.
59:36
Is that his fault? I used to.
59:39
I used to tell Alex. Have you spoken to the Prime
59:42
Minister and will you speak? To the first.
59:43
One I just all I can do is give my wind is the most expensive
59:48
form of energy and it destroys the beauty of your fields and
59:53
your planes and your and your waterways and look, look out
59:58
there, there's no windmills. But if you look in another
1:00:01
direction, you see windmills. If when we go to Aberdeen.
1:00:06
You'll see some of the ugliest windmills you've ever seen near
1:00:09
the height of A50 story building, and you can take 1000
1:00:16
times more energy out of a hole in the ground.
1:00:19
This big, this big, it's called oil and gas and you have it
1:00:24
there. The North Sea this big that
1:00:26
nobody would even see. You can take 1000 times more
1:00:31
power because the wind is intermittent.
1:00:34
It doesn't work. It's extremely expensive.
1:00:36
All the windmills are made in China.
1:00:38
They used to be Germany and China.
1:00:39
Now they're mostly in China. They all come out of China.
1:00:43
They say that the blades, which are carbon, carbon fibre, you
1:00:47
can't bury. Oh, OK, you can't bury.
1:00:49
What are you going to do? Dump them in the ocean someplace
1:00:52
because they only last a certain period of time.
1:00:54
And remember a windmill has a life of eight years, especially
1:00:58
when they're out in the salty sea and they start to rot and to
1:01:02
rust. You have to replace them.
1:01:04
It's very hard to replace them. Wind needs massive subsidy and
1:01:12
you are paying in Scotland and in UK and all over the place
1:01:16
where they have a massive subsidies to have these ugly
1:01:19
monsters all over the place. It's very hard to disagree with
1:01:24
anything that he says there, and one can't help but wonder how
1:01:27
the conversation will go when it comes up at dinner with the King
1:01:30
and Queen during this visit. But the points he makes,
1:01:33
specifically about subsidy and the destruction of the natural
1:01:37
environment do seem to reinforce the sense of panic at trying to
1:01:41
get all this stuff over the line before everybody realises what's
1:01:44
going on. And we've had a recent
1:01:45
announcement about incentives buying electric vehicles and
1:01:49
indeed an upgrade apparently of 27% of charging points for all
1:01:55
the electric vehicles that the government is absolutely
1:01:57
desperate for people to buy. Trump, having referred to Truth
1:02:01
Social earlier in the censorship clip, has been again outspoken
1:02:05
and saying with regard to oil that a vast fortune is to be
1:02:08
made for the UK and far lower energy costs for the people.
1:02:13
So I'm not predicating this by saying that we need to hang on
1:02:19
his every word. But I think the point to take
1:02:21
away from this is that this is being broadcast on the
1:02:23
mainstream. People will be hearing about
1:02:25
this and one would hope that public opinion can be swayed by
1:02:29
these sorts of outbursts and indeed transmissions of
1:02:33
relatively reliable information. Now, on that note, we're going
1:02:36
to end the programme on what we consider to be a high.
1:02:39
We hope you all agree and we're going to go to Sandy now for a
1:02:43
little bit, bit of an update from Manchester.
1:02:46
Yes, there was there was a a bit of a win in Manchester where the
1:02:51
clean owned saga finally was put to bed as more than 1300 C you
1:02:58
know, CAS it's clear air zone signs were actually ditched and
1:03:02
taken down, marking the end of the controversial scheme.
1:03:06
It was, it was the project faced opposition because these, when
1:03:10
these signs were installed, local businesses began to really
1:03:15
realise the financial implications and that is what
1:03:18
happened. That was the the main driver of
1:03:20
this was the, the local businesses all got together and
1:03:24
said, look, we're going to lose our businesses.
1:03:27
And so even Andy Burnham, who is a very, very green mayor in, in,
1:03:34
in Manchester, Greater Manchester, he agreed and he's,
1:03:38
he, he said that the, the, the motorists should not be charged.
1:03:42
They're still keeping some of the, the targets there for
1:03:46
clean, you know, air emissions and what have you, clean
1:03:48
emissions. But they are not going to charge
1:03:51
motorists. So all the, all the fines are
1:03:53
going to go, which is a huge win.
1:03:55
The scheme reportedly cost more than 100 million, including
1:04:00
installation contracts and enforcement measures, even as it
1:04:03
was never never became active. So, you know, they're still
1:04:07
spending 86 million on it, but it means that the, the, the
1:04:11
people won't, won't be charged fines.
1:04:14
So it's a partial win, but it's a, it's a win nevertheless.
1:04:17
And it's, it's part way to make to, to see that people are
1:04:20
beginning to question really the, the implications and the
1:04:24
financial implications of Net 0. Indeed, Sandy, thank you very
1:04:28
much indeed. And it's only with that pressure
1:04:30
being applied continually that these sorts of things are
1:04:32
possible in the 1st place. Now that brings the programme to
1:04:35
a close. But before we go, don't forget,
1:04:37
of course, that we've got John Loughlin talking to Germ tonight
1:04:41
at 7:00. Ben will be speaking with
1:04:43
Morgoth. England, your England tomorrow
1:04:47
at 1:00 PM. And in extra, we've got Katie J
1:04:50
Murphy and joining us to talk about the Hope Freedom event.
1:04:53
So with Many thanks to Vanessa, Carl, Mike and Sandy for joining
1:04:57
me. We will look forward to seeing
1:04:59
you on the news on Friday. Thank you very much.
1:05:02
Bye. Bye.