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UK Column News — 24th April 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the twenty fourth April, just after
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Speaker 1: one o'clock. Welcome to UK Colin News. I'm host Mike
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Speaker 1: Rohnson joining me by video link. Today we have Patrick
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Speaker 1: Hennison and Basil Valentine. Later in the program, Patrick's going
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Speaker 1: to have an update on the Iran situation and a
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Speaker 1: look at AI driven job losses. Basil is reporting on
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Speaker 1: the state of the Starmer government, and I'll be asking
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Speaker 1: if we can trust the British government to look after
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Speaker 1: our personal data following the uk Biobank data leak. And
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Speaker 1: also I'll also be looking at the stabbing of a
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Speaker 1: man outside Dining Street, which apparently hasn't been reported at
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Speaker 1: all in the midstream press. But we're going to begin
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Speaker 1: today with Jeffrey Epstein because the BBC News website was
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Speaker 1: leading today with this story headlined Epstein hased abuse victims
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Speaker 1: in London flats. BBC reveals they're pretty much claiming this
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Speaker 1: as an exclusive. It says in the article that sex
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Speaker 1: criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein housed women who say he abused
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Speaker 1: them in several London flats in the years after police
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Speaker 1: decided not to investigate them. The BBC can reveal, and
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Speaker 1: they're very determined to sort of place blame on the police.
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Speaker 1: Here we find evidence of four flats rented in the
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Speaker 1: affluent era of Kensington and Chelsea. In receipts, emails and
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Speaker 1: back records contained within the Epstein files. Six of the
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Speaker 1: women housed in them have since come forward as victims
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Speaker 1: of Epstein's abuse, and they say many of them from Russia,
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Speaker 1: Eastern Europe and elsewhere, were brought to the UK after
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Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Police decided not to investigate Virginia Cuffrey's twenty
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Speaker 1: fifteen allegation that she had been a victim of international
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Speaker 1: trafficking to London. So they're very much trying to put
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Speaker 1: the blame on the met Police for what occurred. And
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Speaker 1: I have to ask why, because of course the BBC
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Speaker 1: has such a history of systematic cover up of these
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Speaker 1: kinds of store. I watched one such story which, in
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Speaker 1: my personal opinion, was an absolute cover up, with the
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Speaker 1: Hampstead Satanic abuse case. Two children made allegations of ritual
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Speaker 1: abuse taking place in their school in Hampstead in North London,
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Speaker 1: and the UK column covered this case at the time,
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Speaker 1: but the BBC came writing to the rescue alongside Tortoise
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Speaker 1: Media with the likes of this that's currently on the
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Speaker 1: BBC website, and they entitled it hoaxed because they were
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Speaker 1: absolutely claiming that this case was a hoax. So that
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Speaker 1: was with Tortoise Media. They also produced another piece on
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Speaker 1: their own, and then of course they even went so
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Speaker 1: far as to give one of the accused a major
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Speaker 1: platform to make his case, while offering the children or
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Speaker 1: the family no such opportunity. So, just to summarize what
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Speaker 1: happened here, the two children made a video testimony or
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Speaker 1: made video testimony alleging abuse. There was medical evidence whenness
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Speaker 1: by two consultants which absolutely demonstrated physical injury from sexual
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Speaker 1: abuse or at least indicating sexual abuse, strongly indicating sexual abuse.
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Speaker 1: Yet there was no police investigation, and the entire mainstream media,
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Speaker 1: led by the BBC and its offshoot toward US Media,
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Speaker 1: systematically claimed that there was nothing to see here. But
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Speaker 1: the medical evidence was clear and that at the very
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Speaker 1: least warranted investigation by the police. So my question again
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Speaker 1: is why is the BBC running this Epstein story today.
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Speaker 1: Is it because they're determined to get the lid off
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Speaker 1: the Epstein case, or is it because more and more
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Speaker 1: of the survivors of Epstein's trafficking and abuse operation, as
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Speaker 1: they note in this article, are bravely stepping forward, and
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Speaker 1: the BBC there is there to minimize the damage. Based
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Speaker 1: on what I've seenified the BBC deals with this topic,
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Speaker 1: it's well and truly the ladder of those and I
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Speaker 1: may be willing to reassess my opinion if they ever
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Speaker 1: properly addressed their complicity in Jimmy Savall's activities also systematically
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Speaker 1: covered up and also surrounded by allegations of trafficking and
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Speaker 1: establishment abuse. Patrick, I don't know if you've got any
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Speaker 1: thoughts on this, but it seems to me that the
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Speaker 1: BBC is at the very least utterly hypocritical to be
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Speaker 1: running this story in the way that they are trying
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Speaker 1: to a portion blame on the police when they were
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Speaker 1: absolutely comfortable with the fact that the police didn't investigate
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Speaker 1: other cases that deserved and certainly had merit for investigation.
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Speaker 2: Certainly that you can make an argument and a number
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Speaker 2: of different directions on this mic. Obviously, I was somewhat
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Speaker 2: traumatized when you say you should tortous media is somehow
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Speaker 2: affiliated with the BBC. That is just a train wreck
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Speaker 2: of an overpriced media project that's burned through hundreds of thousands,
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Speaker 2: if not millions of pounds initially from a crowdfunder, but
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Speaker 2: they haven't really produced anything of any serious journalistic value.
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Speaker 2: In many people's opinions, they become a kind of gatekeeper
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Speaker 2: sarahgate for the mainstream establishment, and I think that might
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Speaker 2: be the case with the story that you showed previously.
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Speaker 2: But I think I think the bottom line here, Mike,
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Speaker 2: is that there's an effort underway by the establishment to
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Speaker 2: close ranks and protect their own and namely to somehow
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Speaker 2: minimize the Peter Mandelssohn scandal because it reaches right to
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Speaker 2: the top echellance of the government and is challenging the
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Speaker 2: legitimacy of the current leader in Ker Starmer. That's the
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Speaker 2: way I'm looking at it in terms of like the
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Speaker 2: BBC's overarching role in all of this with this particular story.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and just to clarify the links between the BBC
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Speaker 1: and Tortoise Media. Of course, that has man the Jim's Harding,
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Speaker 1: who's a very significant figure within BBCUS who went off
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Speaker 1: to create Tortoise Media in the first place. But Patrick
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Speaker 1: Let's move on, change topics, and move on to the
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Speaker 1: round situation. What is the latest here?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's hard to keep up, there's so
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Speaker 2: much flip flopping going on here. But here we are
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Speaker 2: in day fifty six of this conflict that was only
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Speaker 2: really supposed to take a few days. We're told at
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Speaker 2: the time it was going to be in and out,
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Speaker 2: over and done with in a week. That certainly hasn't
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Speaker 2: been the case, and with regards to following Trump, it's
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Speaker 2: literally impossible. So we're going to try to give you
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Speaker 2: a condensed synopsis here of what's going on. Again, this
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Speaker 2: is all subject to change by the minute with this
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Speaker 2: particular president, but basically there is a dueling effort here.
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Speaker 2: One is the US has put a blockade on Iranian
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Speaker 2: ships and blockade effectively using a military to blockade Iranian
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Speaker 2: cargo and travel ships affiliated with Iran imports. And at
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Speaker 2: the same time, the Iranians have effectively closed the straits
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Speaker 2: or moose. Well they're not actually closed, they're open and
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Speaker 2: closed simultaneously. They're open for countries that are dealing with Iran,
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Speaker 2: that are paying the tolls that Iran is charging because
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Speaker 2: they're regulating traffic going through that part of the world,
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Speaker 2: but they're so they're open to those countries and they're
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Speaker 2: closed to countries that aren't. The United States has tried
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Speaker 2: to impinge on the straits and tried to create provocations
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Speaker 2: repeatedly over the last few weeks. And there are attacks
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Speaker 2: happening on ships that aren't properly going through Iran's channels
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Speaker 2: by Iran, and then there's attacks by the United States
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Speaker 2: against ships that are seen to be affiliated with Iran.
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Speaker 2: So you have that, Plus there's been a second extension
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Speaker 2: of these so called ceasefire by the Trump administration, and
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Speaker 2: also that extends to the seasfire between Lebanon and Israel.
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Speaker 2: But Israel has not observed the ceasefires, so that you know,
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Speaker 2: they're still detonating and blowing up buildings and killing journalists
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Speaker 2: as we'll talk about later. So Israel has already broken
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Speaker 2: that ceasefire many times. So it's all in name only
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Speaker 2: in terms of the US who asks for ceasefires, Well,
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Speaker 2: it's usually the party that's losing that asks for the
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Speaker 2: ceasefire there. So the big controversy, however, is that Larry Johnson,
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Speaker 2: former CIA analyst and operative, basically made a public statement
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Speaker 2: that shocked. A lot of people will play this right now.
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Speaker 3: They had an emergency meeting Saturday night and apparently well,
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Speaker 3: one report coming out of that meeting at the White
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Speaker 3: House is that Trump wanted to use the nuclear so
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Speaker 3: called use the nuclear codes, and General dan Kine stood
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Speaker 3: up and said no. He invoked his his privilege as
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Speaker 3: the head of the military, so to speak. It was
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Speaker 3: apparently quite a blow up. There are pictures of Caine
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Speaker 3: coming out of that meeting with his head down to
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Speaker 3: the ground.
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Speaker 2: So you can imagine this has gone viral. This has
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Speaker 2: made it to the British tabloid mainstream press. This has
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Speaker 2: also been syndicated and on a number of other media outlets,
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Speaker 2: and so it raises a lot of concerns a did
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Speaker 2: it happen? Is Larry Johnson's sources here? Is the reporting accurate?
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Speaker 2: It does very much correspond with other reports about tantrums
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Speaker 2: and Trump kind of emotionally unstable, losing shouting at people
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Speaker 2: during this particular meeting, So there might be some truth
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Speaker 2: in that. As far as the nuclear codes go. It
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Speaker 2: has prompted a denial by the president. As we know
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Speaker 2: in politics, what denials usually indicate here is Trump's reaction
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Speaker 2: to the question of using nukes here immediately after Larry
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Speaker 2: Johnson had stated this the previous day, but roll.
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Speaker 4: This so they would have opened it up three days ago.
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Speaker 4: They came to us and they said, we will agree
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Speaker 4: to open the Straight and all my people are happy.
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Speaker 4: Everybody was happy except me. I said, wait a minute.
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Speaker 4: If we opened the strait, that means they're going to
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Speaker 4: make five hundred million dollars a day. I don't want
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Speaker 4: them to make five hundred million dollars a day until
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Speaker 4: they settle this thing. So I'm the one that kept
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Speaker 4: it clothes. We have total control of it, and it'll
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Speaker 4: open when they make a deal or something else happens.
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Speaker 4: It's very possitive.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that wasn't Actually, that wasn't actually the clip of
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Speaker 2: Trump denying the nukes. That was a clip about Trump
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Speaker 2: reopening the straits foremost. But I'll comment on what he
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Speaker 2: just said there. He seemed to be upset that he's
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Speaker 2: not getting his cut. Basically, it seems like he wants
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Speaker 2: to get a cut, or he just upset that Iran
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Speaker 2: is being allowed to get that money. All the indications
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Speaker 2: are is that we're looking at war resuming this weekend.
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Speaker 2: So that's what all indications show. So the President is
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Speaker 2: currently vacillating between you know, the Iran nuclear weapons issue,
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Speaker 2: the reports of eight women being executed which do not
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Speaker 2: seem to be credible from the White House, and he's
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Speaker 2: claiming that he saved these eight women, and then he's
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Speaker 2: saying he's going to make Iran great again if they're
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Speaker 2: just going to be changing leadership and so forth. Then
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Speaker 2: he's also threatening obliteration at the same time, So just
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Speaker 2: vacillating between all of those different positions there. So, so
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Speaker 2: there is a lot of pressure on the president right
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Speaker 2: now with regards to mental stability, so that's become a
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Speaker 2: big issue as well. And I just want to comment
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Speaker 2: before we move on on the Straits of Hormus. From
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Speaker 2: an international law point of view, you know, the United
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Speaker 2: States is not a signatory to the International Convention on
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Speaker 2: the Law of the Seas in nineteen eighty two, they
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Speaker 2: did not ratify that, neither did Iran. Funny enough, so
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Speaker 2: the United States cannot really make a claim that Iran
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Speaker 2: is somehow in violation of international law. So Iranian and
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Speaker 2: Omani territorial waters extend to the point where they touch
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Speaker 2: each other, so that is basically a closed issue, so
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Speaker 2: there is no really case the US can make, and
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Speaker 2: it's a state of war. So under the laws of war,
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Speaker 2: Iran is well within its rights to close the straits
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Speaker 2: until that is resolved, until there's an accord or a treaty.
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Speaker 2: So if the United States can't make a deal to
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Speaker 2: bring this war to an end, which it started at
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Speaker 2: Israel and the US started, then Iran as well within
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Speaker 2: its rights to do what they're doing right now. So
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Speaker 2: I just want to make that issue very clear from
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Speaker 2: international law point of view. Scholars may argue fair enough,
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Speaker 2: that's where it is right now. So if we move
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Speaker 2: on to the next part here, So the indications are
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Speaker 2: that there is going to be a war, and a
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Speaker 2: third aircraft carrier has arrived in the region, so that's
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Speaker 2: also something that's in motion right now, and we'll move
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Speaker 2: on to show that if we can. But this is
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Speaker 2: a Wall Street Journal story which is on a slide. Here,
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Speaker 2: a third US aircraft carrier arrives in the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: The USS George H. W. Bush arrives in the ocean,
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Speaker 2: according to US Sentcom, alongside several guided missile destroyers. So
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Speaker 2: that's clearly for air defense, right there, and then USS
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Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group operating in the Abianca. And
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Speaker 2: then we have the USS gerald Ford Strike Group in
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Speaker 2: the Northern Red Sea. So if we just bring up
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Speaker 2: a map to take a look at where these are,
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Speaker 2: so you can see up by Greece right now, that's
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Speaker 2: the USS gerald Ford up in the upper left hand
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Speaker 2: corner there, and it had been going for repairs and refurbishment.
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Speaker 2: They had fires on board, a lot of controversy regarding that.
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Speaker 2: And then in the lower right hand corner, if we
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Speaker 2: just advanced one move on those slides, you'll see the
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Speaker 2: names of those carriers there. And then we have the
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Speaker 2: USS Abraham Lincoln right there. And then of course up
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Speaker 2: from the around the Cape of Good Hope in South
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Speaker 2: Africa arrives at the USS George hw Bush also down
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Speaker 2: there in the Indian Ocean impinging on the Arabian Sea.
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Speaker 2: And if we just go advance one more on the slide,
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Speaker 2: you'll see the position of the USS gerald Ford in
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Speaker 2: the Northern Red Sea. That's the one to pay attention to,
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Speaker 2: because that looks like it's clearly there for two reasons.
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Speaker 2: To defend Yan Boo, that is the Petro line overland pipeline.
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Speaker 2: This is what Saudi Arabia and its other neighbors are
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Speaker 2: potentially using, but especially Saudi Arabia to bypass the closure
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Speaker 2: of the straits of Formers to get oil loaded at
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Speaker 2: the port of Yanboo. So that would be a target
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Speaker 2: if hostilities resumed this weekend, and so if an Iranian
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Speaker 2: missile hits there, they would need more additional defense and
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Speaker 2: that's potentially what that carrier strike group can provide there
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Speaker 2: in the Northern Red Sea. But more than that, they
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Speaker 2: do have to mind the fact that if they pursue
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Speaker 2: down the Babe Mendeb Straits, they will basically come in
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Speaker 2: the firing line of the Answer aka the houthis in Yemen.
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Speaker 2: So that's a big concern for that US carrier, as
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Speaker 2: we've known from the past. So that's kind of what
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Speaker 2: things are shaping up there. So it's very interesting. At
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Speaker 2: the same time, here we move on. The US has
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Speaker 2: basically fired or resigned, depending on who you believe. The
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Speaker 2: Secretary of the Navy. This is US Secretary of the Navy,
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Speaker 2: John C. Fallon. He is out and suddenly and nobody
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Speaker 2: knows quite why. They claim it's over a controversy over
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Speaker 2: his inability to you know, build ships for the Golden Navy,
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Speaker 2: Trump's Golden Navy project or something like this. I think
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Speaker 2: it's more than that, but there is very possible. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of problems over the rules of engagement, orders
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Speaker 2: to violate US law or international law regarding you know,
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Speaker 2: killing people, firing at will, and so forth, and so
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Speaker 2: it is very interesting. At the same time this happens,
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Speaker 2: we see this story emerge. Here we move over to PBS.
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Speaker 2: Trump orders US military to shoot and kill Iranian small
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Speaker 2: boats choking the Straits of Horror Moose. That would be
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Speaker 2: obviously in violation of the laws of war, and that's
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Speaker 2: that's US law as well. And we might remind people
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Speaker 2: that international law, if it's ratified by the US legislature,
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Speaker 2: that becomes the supreme law of the land. That's the
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Speaker 2: supremacy clause, treaties as law of the land, supremacy clause,
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Speaker 2: and judicial enforcement of treaties. That's US law. So when
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Speaker 2: Trump says I don't do international law, well he should,
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Speaker 2: because that is US law. Treaties that have been ratified
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Speaker 2: like the like the Geneva Convention and so forth, all
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Speaker 2: of the things that the US has ratified. So that's
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Speaker 2: that seems to me. There's a big problem within the military.
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Speaker 2: There's a big clash in terms of people breaking ranks
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Speaker 2: and then challenging this lethality that's being pushed by the
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Speaker 2: Secretary of War so called Secretary of warpete Hexseth. And
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Speaker 2: you're starting to see a purge in the military as well.
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Speaker 2: So what is this leading to? Obviously the inevitable choke
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Speaker 2: that's coming in the global economy, and so you have
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Speaker 2: a issue where the paper markets are now converging with
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Speaker 2: the material physical world. And I'll put this excellent analysis
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Speaker 2: by RT which British viewers aren't allowed to see because
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Speaker 2: according to the British government, this analysis where RT collates
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Speaker 2: all the data from around the world is about the
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Speaker 2: global economy is too dangerous for the British public because
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Speaker 2: it's on RT dot com. So you're not allowed to
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Speaker 2: see this and get informed about what's happening around the
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Speaker 2: world with the global economy, which will affect Britain because
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Speaker 2: our tea is just too dangerous for British audiences here.
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Speaker 2: So there is a jet fuel crisis. Theftanza has already
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Speaker 2: canceled thousands of air flights ninety two thousand flights have
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Speaker 2: been canceled over the course of this conflict, and so
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Speaker 2: there's shortages already. This is beginning to take hold. So
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Speaker 2: now the futures market, all the oil that's on floating
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Speaker 2: storage is now depleted. So now you will see calls
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Speaker 2: four one hundred and fifty upwards of two hundred dollars
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Speaker 2: per barrel in the coming weeks. You already have in
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Speaker 2: some cases, and it just means that that's the way
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Speaker 2: the market is eventually going to go. So we're now
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Speaker 2: into that really point of irreversible damage in the global economy.
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Speaker 2: Even if the war stopped today, we will get an
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Speaker 2: inflationary surge which will happen and continue and persist beyond
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Speaker 2: six months from now. There's nothing that can be done
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Speaker 2: about it other than a giant stimulus or bank or
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Speaker 2: bailout or something like this in the fall. Is that
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Speaker 2: what's on the cards before the midterms. We can talk
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Speaker 2: about that on a future report.
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Speaker 1: And maybe we'll discuss it during EXTRA. Thanks very much
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Speaker 1: for that, Patrick. Sorry for the technical issues. We'll deal
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Speaker 1: with that a little bit later. Maybe we'll see a
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Speaker 1: couple of these videos in EXTRA. But look, let's move
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Speaker 1: back to the UK then and Basel and bring us
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Speaker 1: up to date then with the Starmer government, because obviously
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Speaker 1: he is on his last legs as a leader potentially, well.
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Speaker 5: Let's hope, so Mike, he's demonstrating remarkable non stick capacity
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Speaker 5: at the moment or really just sort of ignoring all
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Speaker 5: the calls for him to resign and the obvious ways
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Speaker 5: in which he's misled the House of Commons not once
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Speaker 5: but at least twice. But really there are all sorts
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Speaker 5: of other ways in which this government is demonstrating not
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Speaker 5: only it's incompetence but also its venality is sub serbians
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Speaker 5: to Israel, of course, and just generally following in the
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Speaker 5: pattern of the last forty five years of what I
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Speaker 5: call Britain's awful government. Particularly egregious example came to light
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Speaker 5: yesterday with the closure at the Foreign Office of the
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Speaker 5: unit that deals with recording crimes against humanity. That's this
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Speaker 5: first slide here. The tracking unit of breaches of international
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Speaker 5: law is being closed, surprise, surprise, due to cuts, cuts
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Speaker 5: recommended by the bloke that was sacked last week. So
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Speaker 5: this of course comes after Vet Cooper, the woman masquerading
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Speaker 5: as Foreign Secretary, said only last week that humanitarian law
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Speaker 5: would be at my heart at the center of Britain's
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Speaker 5: foreign policy. Twenty six thousand verified examples, twenty six thousand
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Speaker 5: verified examples of breaches of international law buy Israel since
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Speaker 5: October the twenty since October the seventh, twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 5: and the unit is being closed. So we don't know,
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Speaker 5: we're not party to what conversations take place behind closed
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Speaker 5: doors as to exactly what the UK government's priorities are
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Speaker 5: where what it chooses to keep open and not choose open.
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Speaker 5: But remember Kirs Starmer is very keen to ramp up
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Speaker 5: war spending as quickly as he can, while at the
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Speaker 5: same time, as we see, they're shutting down the unit
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Speaker 5: that molicist preaches of international law.
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Speaker 4: So all the.
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Speaker 5: Arrows pointing in the wrong direction. Now, one reason why
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Speaker 5: Stalmer may not have gone yet is that he's going
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Speaker 5: to be made to carry the can for what looked
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Speaker 5: like being the worst local election results in Labour's history.
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Speaker 5: So the you know, more of the Epstein stuff and
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Speaker 5: Mandelson if we can see the next slide, the files
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Speaker 5: are being withheld until after the election. That may be,
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Speaker 5: of course, because Labour know that it'll tank their numbers
23:21
Speaker 5: even worse. Maybe the sequence of event will be disastrous
23:26
Speaker 5: election results, then the release of the files, and then
23:31
Speaker 5: Starmer goes. Who knows. But one report I've seen this
23:35
Speaker 5: morning says that it's Angela Rayner who is now the
23:39
Speaker 5: front runner to replace Keir Starmer as and when he goes,
23:44
Speaker 5: if he goes. But there are people, believe it or not,
23:48
Speaker 5: in the media saying what a wonderful job he's doing
23:50
Speaker 5: in such difficult circumstances, believe it or not. The next
23:54
Speaker 5: example is that apparently our met police are being hindered
24:01
Speaker 5: by the US Department of Justice. This is a coda
24:04
Speaker 5: to the previous story in their bid to prosecute Peter Mandelsson.
24:09
Speaker 5: Of course, he's accused us of very serious offenses. Has
24:13
Speaker 5: been in an enormous amount of talk over the last
24:16
Speaker 5: two two or three weeks about who said what to
24:19
Speaker 5: who in terms of the vetting process. But at the
24:23
Speaker 5: heart of it, Mandelson is accused of passing important secret
24:30
Speaker 5: government information to convicted Peter phile Jeffrey Epstein, various serious charges. Indeed,
24:38
Speaker 5: and the Department of Justice they're not necessarily cooperating. It
24:43
Speaker 5: gets better. I've seen it reported that this next example
24:48
Speaker 5: labor activists charged with alleged vote Regin claims, this really
24:53
Speaker 5: should be a bigger story than the Mandelson case, because
24:58
Speaker 5: if we don't have and fair elections in this country,
25:02
Speaker 5: then we don't have anything at all. These are very
25:06
Speaker 5: serious charges. The accused will appear before magistrates on May
25:12
Speaker 5: the nineteenth, and it relates to Croydon in particular, and well,
25:22
Speaker 5: as I say, just another example really of labor bending
25:26
Speaker 5: the rules to suit itself, which it did with labor
25:29
Speaker 5: together of course the undeclared donations there. We really do
25:34
Speaker 5: have a particularly corrupt and incompetent cabal in charge at
25:41
Speaker 5: the moment. And finally, I think the last case here
25:47
Speaker 5: is a dear old Margaret Hodge. There's a well touted
25:50
Speaker 5: picture of her floating around with Peter Mandelson with her
25:55
Speaker 5: arm around her. Of course, she's a staunch style lot
26:00
Speaker 5: of labor friends of Israel and has visited the Zionist
26:05
Speaker 5: colony during the guards of genocide. And she's due to
26:10
Speaker 5: become the new boss of Offcom at the grand old
26:14
Speaker 5: age of eighty. And here she is on news Night
26:17
Speaker 5: this week saying there's nothing wrong in government in giving
26:21
Speaker 5: jobs to your friends.
26:24
Speaker 6: Can't hard to ask the anti corruption champion what you
26:29
Speaker 6: make of this, Sir Olli Robbins revelation regarding Matthew Dole,
26:32
Speaker 6: who I understand knew nothing about it and you know
26:35
Speaker 6: obviously didn't take up any post.
26:37
Speaker 7: Well, let me say the first thing is Matthew Dole
26:39
Speaker 7: has said clearly to me, and I hope he has
26:40
Speaker 7: to you, that he didn't know what was happening. She
26:43
Speaker 7: didn't want a career in the what I make of it,
26:47
Speaker 7: Let's take Matthew Dora was about to lose his job.
26:50
Speaker 7: Is somebody you're working with is about to lose your job?
26:53
Speaker 7: There's nothing wrong I think in saying are there any
26:56
Speaker 7: other jobs available? As long as you know that he
26:59
Speaker 7: could apply for going through due process. It's got to
27:02
Speaker 7: get those jobs. No experience and it doesn't matter. But
27:05
Speaker 7: there's nothing wrong with friends saying are there any jobs around?
27:08
Speaker 7: What I do think was wrong. What I do think
27:10
Speaker 7: was wrong was saying that that they should they shouldn't
27:15
Speaker 7: have told the Foreign Secretary. I think that was wrong.
27:19
Speaker 6: Is that not cronyism?
27:22
Speaker 7: Asking whether jobs are available? Just think about in your
27:24
Speaker 7: own life. Think about it here at the BBC if
27:26
Speaker 7: people lose their jobs in the BBC, you may say,
27:29
Speaker 7: have you thought of looking there for a job? Have
27:30
Speaker 7: you thought of looking there? As long as the process
27:33
Speaker 7: then for appointment is fair and justin open and proper,
27:37
Speaker 7: that's all right. But I do think can I just
27:39
Speaker 7: say this final thing that I think the whole issue
27:41
Speaker 7: of appointments is up for reform, should be up for
27:45
Speaker 7: reform so that we get much better transparency, so there
27:48
Speaker 7: are clear rules and you can don't get the political
27:51
Speaker 7: interference that there has been grossly under the Tories from
27:55
Speaker 7: the Johnson era onwards.
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Speaker 5: Apologies for some projecting you to so much of that
28:01
Speaker 5: woman there. That's our anti corruption Zarina Margaret Hodge. Jobs
28:06
Speaker 5: for the boys, certainly for the but not for me.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it offcom Basil. That is
28:15
Speaker 1: going to be fun, no doubt.
28:17
Speaker 4: No.
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29:07
Speaker 1: Za again to this time talk about the US having
29:10
Speaker 1: lost Iran and China knows it And for members only,
29:14
Speaker 1: the third part of Bran's Thousand Words podcast with Jake
29:17
Speaker 1: Fern is going out on Sunday at seven now. Earlier today,
29:23
Speaker 1: I typed the words Dining Street stabbing into a Google
29:27
Speaker 1: news search. This is what came up and as you
29:31
Speaker 1: can see, there is only one news report this is
29:36
Speaker 1: in the Canary. Zero mainstream media coverage whatsoever. So what
29:40
Speaker 1: am I talking about?
29:40
Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, a British Iranian Muhammad Reza was protesting, amongst
29:45
Speaker 1: others against the Iran war and was stabbed outside Dining
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Speaker 1: Street allegedly by two men who were taking part in
29:52
Speaker 1: a counter protest. Now, this was David Miller's comment on
29:56
Speaker 1: this on it yesterday on x he said, disgriss scenes
30:00
Speaker 1: outside Downing Street yesterday when an Iranian patriot was stabbed
30:03
Speaker 1: by Zionist flagwaving Iranian monarchists. Read this thread to meet
30:08
Speaker 1: the victim of the stabbing, Mohammed Reza, and to find
30:11
Speaker 1: out about the perpetrators. What we see here is a
30:14
Speaker 1: moharphing of Plavism from groups of elderly nostalgic monarchists, many
30:18
Speaker 1: of them who had stolen assets or participated in Savak
30:22
Speaker 1: torture but had come to terms with exile, turning them
30:26
Speaker 1: into a violent regime changed terror group trained and ideologically
30:30
Speaker 1: directed towards Zionist Islamophobia by the Zionist regime. So this
30:35
Speaker 1: is his point. I'm going to show the video here
30:39
Speaker 1: because I think people need to see it, but if
30:41
Speaker 1: it is quite difficult to watch, so I suggest that
30:45
Speaker 1: you if you don't want to watch it, you don't
30:48
Speaker 1: watch it. It definitely needs a warning. So clearly a
30:53
Speaker 1: very serious wound there, and he is currently in hospital
30:57
Speaker 1: with what are being described as very very serious injuries,
31:01
Speaker 1: and we'll see hopefully he makes a full recovery.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: I urge everyone to read David Miller's full thread on
31:09
Speaker 1: X because it seems that the people alleged to have
31:11
Speaker 1: carried out the attack are close to pro Israeli pro
31:15
Speaker 1: regime change members of the British Iranian community. Our crowdfunder
31:20
Speaker 1: has been set up in supportive Reza because his home
31:22
Speaker 1: address was then subsequently released to the public and his
31:26
Speaker 1: wife and children are no longer safe there, or at
31:29
Speaker 1: least they certainly don't feel safe under the circumstances, so
31:31
Speaker 1: they are asking for support to find alternative accommodation. There's
31:36
Speaker 1: a lot to do unpack here and undireedly we'll talk
31:39
Speaker 1: more about it in the extra. The link to David
31:41
Speaker 1: Miller's thread on X will be in the show notes,
31:45
Speaker 1: and of course you'll find that on the UK Column website,
31:49
Speaker 1: so do have a look at that if you want
31:51
Speaker 1: to find out more. Let's move back to you, Basil
31:56
Speaker 1: and what's happening with the IDF at the moment.
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Speaker 5: Well, we pick up from where we left off with
32:05
Speaker 5: the Labor Party and in this case a Labor Party
32:08
Speaker 5: counselor in Camden inga Lenga who we can see here
32:14
Speaker 5: draped in the Israeli flag with rifle or machine gun
32:19
Speaker 5: under her arm, and she has served in the IDF,
32:22
Speaker 5: So you have to ask whether such people should really
32:26
Speaker 5: be serving in local government, let alone national government in
32:30
Speaker 5: this country. Why is she not being investigated by the police.
32:33
Speaker 5: And for that matter, we do have to ask Mark Mike,
32:37
Speaker 5: just with reference to the previous story as well, would
32:41
Speaker 5: that stabbing incident have received more coverage if the victim
32:46
Speaker 5: had been a pro Israel person of Jewish descent. Well,
32:51
Speaker 5: I think we all know the answer to that. There's
32:54
Speaker 5: all sorts of hysteria on the social media, in particular
32:59
Speaker 5: about how the Jewish community feel threatened, But I haven't
33:03
Speaker 5: seen any of them being stabbed yet, I'm pleased to say.
33:07
Speaker 5: But moving back to the IDF, a lot was made
33:11
Speaker 5: over the last ten days of an Israeli soldiers smashing
33:15
Speaker 5: the head off an inverted statue of Jesus Christ, and
33:20
Speaker 5: Israeli pr went the great lengths to say that this
33:23
Speaker 5: was not their policy and replace the statue. But it
33:27
Speaker 5: seems it is because here's another one. This was also
33:31
Speaker 5: in southern Lebanon. I think Patrick's going to mention how
33:36
Speaker 5: the IDF have been looting homes across southern Lebanon of
33:41
Speaker 5: works of art, television, motorbikes, furniture, absolutely anything they can
33:47
Speaker 5: get their hands on. And there is a black market
33:50
Speaker 5: for stolen stolen goods from southern Lebanon amongst Israeli soldiers.
33:59
Speaker 5: But they don't just not the heads off statues. They
34:02
Speaker 5: knocked the heads off people as well, and in this case,
34:05
Speaker 5: a courageous journalist Lebanese woman who was deliberately targeted. This
34:12
Speaker 5: is the whole point, Zana Farhak. They knew where she was,
34:17
Speaker 5: she was sent what's that messages, she was threatened online
34:21
Speaker 5: by Zionist propagandists ahead of her murder, and yeah, she
34:26
Speaker 5: was then murdered. And not only that, but rescuers trying
34:31
Speaker 5: to get to her were prevented from doing so by
34:36
Speaker 5: the IDEF, so she bled out. It might have been
34:39
Speaker 5: possible for her to survive had she received medical attention
34:42
Speaker 5: in time, but they made sure that she didn't. But
34:47
Speaker 5: remember this is very important to you to remember that
34:50
Speaker 5: we share the Judeo Christian values of the Talmud with Israel,
34:55
Speaker 5: and for that reason, the European Union can't possibly, for example,
35:01
Speaker 5: even impose the mildest sanction on Israel by suspending the
35:06
Speaker 5: Favored Nation trading status. At a meeting of European foreign
35:11
Speaker 5: ministers this week, they decided not to do so. Spain,
35:14
Speaker 5: Slovenia and Ireland had proposed this mildest mildest review, but
35:21
Speaker 5: even that was too much. So no wonder way being
35:25
Speaker 5: in a.
35:26
Speaker 1: Cesspit, absolutely basil, absolutely no. Patrick, let me welcome you back.
35:31
Speaker 1: And of course, one of the other stories that has
35:35
Speaker 1: had some coverage but not perhaps enough, is how much
35:38
Speaker 1: money has been made by certain people so far largely
35:43
Speaker 1: unidentified as far as I know, maybe you can tell
35:45
Speaker 1: me more as a result of insider trading or alleged
35:48
Speaker 1: insider trading with respect to the Iran war.
35:54
Speaker 2: Certainly, Mike, Well, let's just point out a lot of
35:57
Speaker 2: people unaware of the eminence greed behind the notorious avatar
36:03
Speaker 2: of Pete Heigsath, the self styled Secretary of War. Is
36:07
Speaker 2: this man. His name is Stephen Feinberg. Who is Stephen Feinberg.
36:12
Speaker 2: He is a billionaire. He's a billionaire private equity fund
36:18
Speaker 2: chief who made his way into the Trump camp through
36:24
Speaker 2: donations and fundraising in the twenty sixteen election, and from
36:29
Speaker 2: that he was gifted the position of Assistant Secretary of
36:34
Speaker 2: Defense now Secretary of War. And he is the former
36:38
Speaker 2: or the founder of Cerberus Capital Management. This is a
36:44
Speaker 2: major private equity concern investing in guess what defense aerospace,
36:51
Speaker 2: critical supply chain technologies, ETCA, National security, over seventy billion
36:57
Speaker 2: assets under management. That is the man. So this is
37:01
Speaker 2: also somebody who was not only I think benefiting or
37:07
Speaker 2: continues to benefit as well. But there's a whole range
37:11
Speaker 2: of corruption and inside your trading going on. This latest
37:15
Speaker 2: story really just is something else here, and this is
37:19
Speaker 2: absolute insider trading. A US soldier charged with fraud after
37:24
Speaker 2: pocketing four hundred thousand through bets on Maduro's capture. So
37:29
Speaker 2: the implication here is somebody involved in the actual military
37:33
Speaker 2: operation put a bet I believe on polymarket here and
37:37
Speaker 2: cashed in with nearly half a million dollars by putting
37:42
Speaker 2: on a bet here regarding the demise of Nicholas Maduro.
37:47
Speaker 2: And yet the details of this pretty clear. Prosecutors accusing
37:51
Speaker 2: Gannon Ken van Dyk, an active duty soldier involved in
37:55
Speaker 2: the planning and execution of this US military operation, of
38:00
Speaker 2: using his access to classified information to play series of
38:03
Speaker 2: bets on poly market regarding the Venezuela operation. These are
38:09
Speaker 2: the Brave Seal Team six or Delta Force people or whatever.
38:13
Speaker 2: The level of criminality in this government is incredible, But
38:16
Speaker 2: you'd be surprised or maybe not to know that Donald
38:21
Speaker 2: Trump Junior is appointed as an advisor to the non
38:25
Speaker 2: executive advisor to the board of poly Market. So this
38:29
Speaker 2: is his seventeen eighty nine capital is Patriotic Capital Funtier.
38:34
Speaker 2: So that's the president's son who ostensibly is an advisor
38:39
Speaker 2: to the president involved with poly Market. And there's just
38:44
Speaker 2: we're just showing you one of I don't know, countless
38:48
Speaker 2: situations here are people betting, either politicians or people in
38:52
Speaker 2: the military or who knows, people in the White House.
38:55
Speaker 2: This is all eventually going to get investigated. Here the
39:00
Speaker 2: inside trading has now reached finally, has tripped the radar
39:05
Speaker 2: of the various investigative committees, and it's also tripped the
39:10
Speaker 2: radar the media finally. So I think this is just
39:14
Speaker 2: going to go on and on. I don't see the
39:16
Speaker 2: long term viability of websites like Kushi and Polymarket in
39:21
Speaker 2: the United States, and I think so whoever's made the
39:25
Speaker 2: money has has got their money out of this, they've
39:29
Speaker 2: extracted the benefit, they've taken advantage. But these are probably
39:34
Speaker 2: in the US anyway, they're going to probably be regulated
39:37
Speaker 2: going forward, certainly after this administration or after the mid terms,
39:41
Speaker 2: You're going to see moves in that direction because it's
39:44
Speaker 2: just the level of corruption. I think that the country
39:46
Speaker 2: in the world can't really withstand Patrick.
39:50
Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong. But Trump is the first
39:53
Speaker 1: in the queue to criticize Biden and Tunter Biden and
39:56
Speaker 1: the corruption around Ukraine. This seems to be in order
40:00
Speaker 1: of magnitude worse.
40:02
Speaker 2: Well, Trump was challenged on this very issue and his
40:07
Speaker 2: response was, I quote, the whole world's at casino. It
40:11
Speaker 2: is what it is. End of quote. That's what Donald
40:14
Speaker 2: Trump's response was to this story when pushed directly by
40:18
Speaker 2: the press just yesterday. So that's his general attitude. So
40:24
Speaker 2: no moral leadership coming from this US president who is
40:28
Speaker 2: just completely off the rails on so many other issues.
40:31
Speaker 2: But yeah, interesting.
40:34
Speaker 1: Very yeah and date, Okay, thank you for that. Okay,
40:37
Speaker 1: let's come back to the UK then, and well, here
40:39
Speaker 1: is the website for the UK Biobank. It's headlined health
40:43
Speaker 1: research data for the world. But what is the UK Biobank,
40:48
Speaker 1: let's just have a listen to this video clip.
40:53
Speaker 8: Starting in two thousand and six, half a million people
40:57
Speaker 8: chose to share their health data for the rest of
40:59
Speaker 8: their life lives so that researchers could help us all
41:02
Speaker 8: have better health. Since then, these volunteers have continued to
41:07
Speaker 8: complete surveys and undergo scans, all while their health records
41:11
Speaker 8: are shared and their blood samples are used for protein analysis,
41:14
Speaker 8: genetic sequencing, and much more. The information they provide has
41:19
Speaker 8: their name, address and other identifying data such as scans
41:23
Speaker 8: with facial features stripped out before researchers can access it.
41:28
Speaker 8: They do this altruistically so that scientists around the world
41:31
Speaker 8: can transform our understanding of health. Combined, these contributions form
41:37
Speaker 8: uk biobank, a unique collection of deidentified information about health
41:43
Speaker 8: and lifestyle.
41:46
Speaker 1: Well, yesterday a statement had to be made in the
41:50
Speaker 1: Heisercommons by Technology Minister In Murray MPs let's bring them
41:54
Speaker 1: on screen, who had to apologize that patient Ditta was
41:58
Speaker 1: found to be for sale on the Ali Baba website
42:01
Speaker 1: in China. This was a massive data breach, not by hackers,
42:05
Speaker 1: but by uk biobank themselves, apparently, and I Murray told
42:08
Speaker 1: the House of Commons yesterday, bio Bank told us that
42:11
Speaker 1: three listings that appear to sell uk biobank participant data
42:15
Speaker 1: had been identified. At least one of these three data
42:18
Speaker 1: sets appears to contain data from all five hundred thousand
42:21
Speaker 1: uk Biobank volunteers. Additional listings offered support for applying for
42:26
Speaker 1: legitimate access to uk Biobank or analytical support for researchers
42:30
Speaker 1: who already have access to the data. But he said,
42:33
Speaker 1: I want to reassure the House up front, however, that
42:38
Speaker 1: bio Bank have advised us that this data did not
42:41
Speaker 1: contain participants names, addresses, contact details, or telephone numbers, as
42:46
Speaker 1: we heard in that little video clip there. So I'm
42:48
Speaker 1: going to say to that, so what this statement is
42:51
Speaker 1: disingenuous at best. And let me just give you an
42:54
Speaker 1: example of just a few of so called kisses of
42:58
Speaker 1: so called anonymized or data sets that are were clearly
43:02
Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. So we'll go back to two
43:05
Speaker 1: thousand and six. Here AOL released twenty million anonymized search queries.
43:10
Speaker 1: The New York Times was able to identify one particular searcher,
43:14
Speaker 1: number four million, four hundred and seventeen seven hundred and
43:17
Speaker 1: forty nine as Thelma Arnold of Lilburn, Georgia. Within a
43:21
Speaker 1: few days we had Netflix Prize users identified by cross
43:27
Speaker 1: referencing the anonymised ratings with public IMDb reviews. With Anthony
43:33
Speaker 1: Talker cracking the NYC the New York City taxi data
43:37
Speaker 1: set in twenty fourteen because the well it was also
43:41
Speaker 1: anonymized data. He reversed all one hundred and ninety three
43:45
Speaker 1: million records on a laptop and then identified celebrities and
43:49
Speaker 1: stalk visitors to Strip Club. Then we had in twenty
43:54
Speaker 1: eighteen Strava their global heat map built from aggregated fitness data,
43:59
Speaker 1: revealing the layout and forward operating business basis and intelligence
44:03
Speaker 1: facilities worldwide. And now these are just four examples. These
44:07
Speaker 1: are all from pre aid days, and times have changed.
44:12
Speaker 1: The fact is that there's no such thing as anonymised
44:14
Speaker 1: data sets because the techniques required to properly anonymized data
44:18
Speaker 1: destroys the data sets utility. So it's no good. It
44:22
Speaker 1: has to be at best, it's pseudonymized, pseudononymized. It's you know,
44:28
Speaker 1: not quite fully anonymized, and it's therefore easily reversible. Now
44:35
Speaker 1: sudonymized data is still personal data. It should be treated
44:39
Speaker 1: as such, and so probably we should be considering this
44:42
Speaker 1: when deciding whether or not to take part in trials
44:45
Speaker 1: in the UK like Biobank, or for that matter, whether
44:48
Speaker 1: or not to respond to Starmer's Digital ID consultation. I
44:53
Speaker 1: think it's probably a good idea to be saying no
44:55
Speaker 1: now before it's made mandatory, because these people cannot be
44:59
Speaker 1: trusted to p TechEd our data. And as if there
45:02
Speaker 1: was a need to reinforce this point, tech crunch s
45:05
Speaker 1: heare reporting that the French government agency that handles the
45:08
Speaker 1: issuing and management of citizens identity documents, including national ideas,
45:12
Speaker 1: passports and immigration document documents, confirmed on Wednesday this week
45:16
Speaker 1: that had experienced the data breach. They said the data
45:20
Speaker 1: stolen in the breach could include full names, dates of birth,
45:23
Speaker 1: places of birth, mailing and email addresses, phone numbers, and
45:29
Speaker 1: they're not identifying how many people have been affected by it.
45:32
Speaker 1: Private companies know better. Another new story from this week
45:36
Speaker 1: from the last week or two, Basic Fit, which is
45:38
Speaker 1: Europe's largest gym and fitness chain, disclosed to the data breach,
45:43
Speaker 1: affecting the personal information of around a million members, and
45:47
Speaker 1: they said that well, they have five million members in
45:50
Speaker 1: total and fifteen hundred clubs around Europe. They said that
45:54
Speaker 1: they detected unauthorized access to their systems and although the
45:58
Speaker 1: intrusion was blocked within minutes, they found that data belonging
46:02
Speaker 1: to active members in multiple countries had been downloaded. And again,
46:06
Speaker 1: the compromised information included names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers,
46:11
Speaker 1: dates of birth, bank account details and so on. So
46:15
Speaker 1: there we are. We are in the situation of increasing
46:19
Speaker 1: qualities of data either being taken as a result of
46:23
Speaker 1: normal Internet use or handed over as a result of
46:25
Speaker 1: mandatory using mandatorily using digital access services for government and
46:33
Speaker 1: other agencies. None of it is safe and so you know,
46:38
Speaker 1: we really should be pushing back on the national the
46:41
Speaker 1: digital ID plans by Starmer. At this point, let's come
46:47
Speaker 1: back to you Patrick, And of course the suppose in
46:50
Speaker 1: a sense related issue of job losses and AI.
46:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of talk, a lot of announcements
46:59
Speaker 2: coming on. I mean, the announcement by Meta is probably
47:03
Speaker 2: one that's everyone seen this week. Massive job cuts at Meta.
47:07
Speaker 2: That's Facebook, that's Mark Zuckerberg's virtual empire there. And the
47:13
Speaker 2: implication is that a lot of these jobs are being
47:16
Speaker 2: replaced by AI. So there there's a lot of stories
47:21
Speaker 2: abound and a lot of discussion, a lot of debates
47:23
Speaker 2: of how we're going to manage this tumultuous shock to
47:28
Speaker 2: the labor market. Here, this is from the New York magazine.
47:31
Speaker 2: Is a typical thought piece here, AI job loss are coming.
47:35
Speaker 2: Does anybody have a plan? Well, clearly there is no plan,
47:39
Speaker 2: but the solutions being basically floated out by the companies
47:46
Speaker 2: at the top of this AI hierarchy. And so what's
47:50
Speaker 2: interesting here is another one anthropic being one of the
47:54
Speaker 2: leading generators here, as this Fortune magazine just mapped out
47:57
Speaker 2: which AI jobs could potentially be replaced. Here, a great
48:02
Speaker 2: recession for the white collar worker is absolutely possible. To
48:06
Speaker 2: zoom in on that a little bit. Here, this is
48:08
Speaker 2: a very interesting graph which you'll be able to make
48:10
Speaker 2: out hopefully it's large enough, but so you can see
48:14
Speaker 2: the blue areas and the red areas. These are the
48:17
Speaker 2: areas that will be intensely affected by AI job losses.
48:21
Speaker 2: So you can look at the job titles, their business
48:24
Speaker 2: and finance, office and admin, even social services here, computer
48:30
Speaker 2: and math, legal, that's a big one as well, Art
48:33
Speaker 2: and media, a lot of video editors and people doing
48:36
Speaker 2: CGI graphics are now just being made redundant. I'm talking
48:40
Speaker 2: to people in the industry and a lot of these
48:43
Speaker 2: people are having to learn AI, but they're now competing
48:47
Speaker 2: with a whole other group of people as well. As
48:49
Speaker 2: sales is going to be affected as well, So right
48:52
Speaker 2: across the board, I mean, it's going to have sweeping
48:55
Speaker 2: implications on the job market. You can get into a
48:58
Speaker 2: couple of other interesting amowns regarding what the reactions are
49:02
Speaker 2: on LinkedIn to jobs being posted. There's huge amounts of
49:06
Speaker 2: applications proportionally anyway for jobs that are just pretty much
49:12
Speaker 2: mid range now, and people have a better chance of
49:15
Speaker 2: getting into Harvard Law School than they do getting some
49:18
Speaker 2: of these jobs on LinkedIn. And you have to go
49:21
Speaker 2: all drill all the way down to the barista jobs
49:24
Speaker 2: in order to find less applicants or stuff. In terms
49:28
Speaker 2: of supermarket stocking in storerooms and stuff like that, those
49:33
Speaker 2: jobs have less competition on LinkedIn. But that's for another
49:39
Speaker 2: report here. So where are the answer is coming from here? Well,
49:44
Speaker 2: it seems Elon Musk has weighed in on this great
49:47
Speaker 2: problem of doge fame. Of doge fame, there he is
49:51
Speaker 2: there supporting the black eye that he received after getting
49:55
Speaker 2: in a brawl with Scott Bessont. So his what he's saying.
49:58
Speaker 2: He tweeted this out. A lot of people missed this week.
50:00
Speaker 2: So Elon Musk is saying universal high income. He's talking
50:04
Speaker 2: about UBI, but he's claiming it's going to be high
50:07
Speaker 2: income UBI via checks issued by the federal government is
50:12
Speaker 2: the best way to deal with the unemployment caused by AI.
50:17
Speaker 2: Robotics will produce goods and services far in excess of
50:21
Speaker 2: the increase in the money supply, so there will be
50:25
Speaker 2: no inflation. Now, who is Elon Musk to make the
50:27
Speaker 2: claim that massive UBI high income is he's calling it.
50:32
Speaker 2: UBI is not going to create inflation. That's just a
50:36
Speaker 2: ridiculous statement. I could use another pejorative that's much more
50:39
Speaker 2: cutting than ridiculous for that statement. If you hand out
50:44
Speaker 2: large amounts of money where he's talking about one hundred
50:46
Speaker 2: and twenty thousand per year to every person who's not
50:52
Speaker 2: working now, is also going to create an incentive for
50:55
Speaker 2: a lot of people not to want to work if
50:57
Speaker 2: they're making less than one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
51:01
Speaker 2: per year. What world is this person living in? And
51:05
Speaker 2: so this is the the world Elon Musk believes that
51:08
Speaker 2: he's going to create through his robotic revolution with Tesla
51:13
Speaker 2: and Tesla AI and so forth. And just so, I mean,
51:18
Speaker 2: it is going to default to fully automated communism. And
51:22
Speaker 2: if so, you know, what's that UBI check really going
51:25
Speaker 2: to look like? What's the actual spending power of that?
51:28
Speaker 2: There's an economic analysis here that Elon Musk is not
51:33
Speaker 2: applying to this. So what he's saying there breaks all
51:36
Speaker 2: kinds of rules of of of economics and in terms
51:40
Speaker 2: of what causes inflationary pressures. Not to mention, there's the
51:44
Speaker 2: CBDC issue that's really going to be driving this from
51:48
Speaker 2: from the rear, and that's not being talked about. That's
51:51
Speaker 2: also going to have profound effects. And we could talk
51:54
Speaker 2: more about that perhaps in another segment. But at CBDC issue,
51:59
Speaker 2: stable coin issues, the thing that they're the United States
52:02
Speaker 2: and a lot of people, it looks like they're going
52:03
Speaker 2: to use to string out the value of the US
52:05
Speaker 2: dollar in its in its death pangs basically. And so
52:10
Speaker 2: that's that's what the you know, the great and the
52:12
Speaker 2: good have planned for us.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Patrick, of course, CBDC digital I D it's all
52:20
Speaker 1: AI driven at the end of the day, and this
52:23
Speaker 1: is going to be a AI driven as well. But
52:27
Speaker 1: where does where does the likes of a universal high
52:30
Speaker 1: income leave anybody or any opposition to government policy or
52:36
Speaker 1: narratives or actions in foreign countries for example, when if
52:40
Speaker 1: people are reliant on the state for their income, that
52:44
Speaker 1: is that is a threat to the very foundations of
52:48
Speaker 1: all our nations.
52:51
Speaker 2: Well, well it is, it is. But you know, I
52:53
Speaker 2: think the more fundamental question is here, you know, is
52:57
Speaker 2: that really realistic? He's Elon Musk is somebody who is
53:01
Speaker 2: you know who. Basically, his his stumping speech for Trump
53:04
Speaker 2: with him in the administration was He's going to take
53:06
Speaker 2: us to Mars. In a couple of years. He can
53:08
Speaker 2: be building cities on Mars. That's clear not gonna happen.
53:12
Speaker 2: He's blowing smoke. He's selling a dream. This is what
53:15
Speaker 2: Elon Musk the whole purpose in life and in businesses is.
53:19
Speaker 2: He's just He's just a pitch man, He's a front man.
53:23
Speaker 2: So if universal high income UBI is what they're proposing there,
53:29
Speaker 2: that means that a lot of people are you know,
53:31
Speaker 2: just just basic labor jobs. We're talking about transportation, we're
53:35
Speaker 2: talking about production, installation, repair, plumbing, agriculture, things that robots
53:42
Speaker 2: can't do or won't be doing for the Verzebo future,
53:45
Speaker 2: and other jobs. People are going to be demanding huge
53:50
Speaker 2: wages because the wage has to be higher than the
53:53
Speaker 2: UBI wage. That's the problem. He can have a paralyzing
53:59
Speaker 2: effect on society. This is cataclysmic in the extreme, that's
54:04
Speaker 2: what they're not talking about. And the fact that we
54:07
Speaker 2: can't get people to intelligently debate this at a government
54:11
Speaker 2: policy level at this moment in time, to me is
54:14
Speaker 2: quite frightening. It just shows you the ineptness and just
54:18
Speaker 2: the low standard intellectually of the people we do have
54:21
Speaker 2: in government that seem to be hoping that this is
54:24
Speaker 2: all just going to go away, but it's not. It's
54:27
Speaker 2: happening absolutely. Thank you for that, Patrick Basil. Let's finish
54:31
Speaker 2: the program today with another in case you missed it segment.
54:37
Speaker 5: Yes, thanks. Make so many to choose from this week,
54:41
Speaker 5: but first of all, the trio of what we can
54:44
Speaker 5: only call the madness of King Donald. First of all,
54:49
Speaker 5: earlier this week it was mooted that he wanted Italy
54:53
Speaker 5: to replace Iran at the World Cup. Italy didn't qualify
54:58
Speaker 5: four times winners, of course, and Paolo Zampoli, one of
55:03
Speaker 5: his closest days, said that he had actually spoken to FIFA,
55:07
Speaker 5: and apparently FIFA didn't rule it out. But now it
55:10
Speaker 5: seems Georgia Maloney's government has ruled it out, with the
55:15
Speaker 5: Sports Minister of Italy Andrea Abodi saying it wouldn't be
55:19
Speaker 5: appropriate for the Azuri to replace the Iranians. Of course,
55:23
Speaker 5: Trump previously said he couldn't guarantee their safety, but that
55:28
Speaker 5: says nothing compared to the next story, which is the
55:34
Speaker 5: AI protesters. Trump was gaining credit earlier in the week,
55:40
Speaker 5: claiming credit for having saved eight Iranian women from the gallows.
55:47
Speaker 5: They were supposedly scheduled to be executed for their part
55:52
Speaker 5: in the protests earlier this year. But it turns out
55:57
Speaker 5: only one of them actually exists. The others are all
56:02
Speaker 5: AI generated. And I'm sure you can all guess where
56:07
Speaker 5: the original story about the impending execution of these women
56:11
Speaker 5: came from. Yes, it came from the propaganda network of
56:17
Speaker 5: the country that started the illegal war against Iran. But
56:24
Speaker 5: this one's arguably the most bonkers of the lot. The
56:26
Speaker 5: same idiot Zampoli is also Trump's envoy to Africa, and
56:33
Speaker 5: apparently he's lobbying Tanzania to rename Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Trump.
56:41
Speaker 5: Now you know you think these are three stories, Surely
56:47
Speaker 5: this is satire, this stuff belongs on a Scout show.
56:50
Speaker 5: But I'm afraid to say all three are genuine news
56:55
Speaker 5: stories from this week. Let's have the next one out please,
57:01
Speaker 5: And this, of course is Shabana man Mood swearing using
57:07
Speaker 5: the F word at a meeting earlier this week when
57:11
Speaker 5: people were raising objections to some of her policies. It's indicative,
57:17
Speaker 5: if you ask me, of the very low standards in
57:20
Speaker 5: public life we have these days. And she wasn't the
57:24
Speaker 5: only senior labor figure to use the F word, because
57:29
Speaker 5: Emily Thornbury also did in committee. So to senior labor
57:35
Speaker 5: women swearing their heads off. But finally, if we've got
57:40
Speaker 5: the slide, in spite of as Emily Thornbury put that
57:45
Speaker 5: one up quickly, then there's Emily Thornbury, this guy news
57:48
Speaker 5: how to issue an apology after she was caught on
57:51
Speaker 5: camera swearing. This time the Mamood incident occurred behind closed doors,
57:56
Speaker 5: so to speak. But finally, if we've got the slide,
58:00
Speaker 5: I Center as an attachment. One or two people have
58:05
Speaker 5: managed to pass the Labor government's stringent vetting procedures for
58:13
Speaker 5: government appointments, and you can find on the internet a
58:20
Speaker 5: couple of means posted this week. Hugh Edwards is going
58:24
Speaker 5: to replace Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to Washington, and our
58:30
Speaker 5: old friend Gary Glitter is the new Education Secretary.
58:35
Speaker 1: Yes, Basil, it has to be a comedy, but unfortunately
58:40
Speaker 1: it's reality. The world is becoming increasingly insane and undoubtedly
58:45
Speaker 1: we will be discussing much more of that on Extra
58:48
Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Thank you very much to Patrick
58:50
Speaker 1: and Basil for today's program, and for everybody that's watched.
58:54
Speaker 1: Don't forget Jerem at seven pm tonight and Carsa at
58:58
Speaker 1: nine and also Brian and Jake Fern at seven pm
59:03
Speaker 1: on Sunday. If you are a UK column member, have
59:06
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