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UK Column News Podcast 18th October 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the eighteenth of October twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Call Him News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Mike Robinson joining me today by videolink.
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Speaker 1: We have Mark Anderson from the United States and Debbie
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Speaker 1: Evans from Cornwell. Of course, now we're going to get
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Speaker 1: straight on with the situation globally, with war and so on.
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Speaker 1: So let's look at the Middle East first, and of
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Speaker 1: course the news yesterday of the death of the Hamas
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Speaker 1: leader sin War as a result of Israeli military activity.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, their US Central Command very excited
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Speaker 1: about that. But the narrative from people in the meantime
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Speaker 1: has been well, maybe this event will finally require or
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Speaker 1: encourage Israel to call a cease far because they've achieved
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Speaker 1: that goal. Natannia who very clear that he is not
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Speaker 1: going to be stopping anytime soon. In the meantime, but
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Speaker 1: as we head back to Europe and over the Brussels,
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Speaker 1: the NATO Defense Minister's meeting is going on because of
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Speaker 1: course they are trying to busy trying to work out
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Speaker 1: how to keep the Ukraine war going as Ukraine is
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Speaker 1: systematically losing so this is to be taking place yesterday
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Speaker 1: and today, and of course yesterday President Zelenski was there
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Speaker 1: on the podium with Mark Rudder.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon and a war on. Welcome to President Zelenski.
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Speaker 2: Dear for loaning beer. It is great to welcome you
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Speaker 2: here in Brussels. We last met in London after my
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Speaker 2: visit two weeks ago to Kiev, and of course we
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Speaker 2: spoke about Ukraine's most urgent needs and how best NATO
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Speaker 2: can continue to support you.
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Speaker 1: So, as he mentioned he was in Kiev a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago, then he and Zelensky were both in
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Speaker 1: London a few days ago. We mentioned that last week
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Speaker 1: and at that which the press did get the chance
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Speaker 1: to ask a couple of questions. At not very much
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Speaker 1: though Zielenski was giving a briefing to Starmer and to
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Speaker 1: Ruta about his great new plan for how Ukraine is
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Speaker 1: going to win the war. And these are the main points,
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Speaker 1: and this again is being discussed at the Defense Minister's
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Speaker 1: meeting today and yesterday. Ukraine to join NATO permission to
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Speaker 1: use long range weapons on Russian territory, a continment of
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Speaker 1: Russia using what they describe as non nuclear strategic deterrents
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Speaker 1: from within Ukraine's borders, joint protection by the United States
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Speaker 1: and the European Union of Ukraine's natural resources. I do
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Speaker 1: wonder whether they would extend that to maybe elocrocy supply
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Speaker 1: and so on. And then finally, and most interesting this
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Speaker 1: last point is when the war is finished, they are
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Speaker 1: saying that they want to replace some of the US
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Speaker 1: the United States troops stationed across Europe with Ukrainian soldiers,
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Speaker 1: and I think that should give people pause really ask
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Speaker 1: why would people want Ukrainian soldiers to be stationed in
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Speaker 1: their countries in Europe. We can talk about that maybe
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Speaker 1: a bit an extra Markro had more to say.
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Speaker 2: It was the first meeting when we had Australia, Japan,
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Speaker 2: Korea and New Zealand participating in this format, a clear
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Speaker 2: sign of our deepening corporation in the phase of our
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Speaker 2: shared challenges. The war in Ukraine has showing that instability
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Speaker 2: in Europe can have fire reaching consequences across the world,
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Speaker 2: and that countries thousands of miles of Ay as far
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Speaker 2: away as Iran, China and even North Korea can become
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Speaker 2: security spoilers in our own backyard. Our world is closely
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Speaker 2: linked and so is our security.
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Speaker 1: So there we go, we get to see who the
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Speaker 1: enemy is as far as NATO is concerned anyway around China,
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Speaker 1: North Korea, so that they have brought Japan, Australia and
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Speaker 1: so on this Defense Minister's meeting in order to continue
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Speaker 1: building a sort of dialogue with them, in order to
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Speaker 1: keep trying to increase the pressure on China in particular.
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Speaker 1: But clearly the war drums, the rhetoric is not dying
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Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, and that again is
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Speaker 1: echoed by our own Defense Minister John Haley, who if
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Speaker 1: we just put them on screen, there is over there
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Speaker 1: speaking to his Estonian counterpart. Because Britain has signed a
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Speaker 1: new defense roadmap as they describe it, with Estonia. This
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Speaker 1: involves cooperation on missile defense but on other things as well.
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Speaker 1: So they're going to station the British Army's fourth Brigade
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Speaker 1: held a high readiness ready to defend NATO's eastern flank,
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Speaker 1: as they say, in addition to those deployed in Estonia.
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Speaker 1: And so they are going to lead what they're describing
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Speaker 1: as the New Diamond Initiative to integrate NATO's missile defenses
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Speaker 1: while also pledging to develop new long range cutting IT missiles,
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Speaker 1: improving the alliance's collective air defense and offering opportunities to
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Speaker 1: the UK defense industry. So we keep building the war
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Speaker 1: narrative and this is starting to have an impact on
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Speaker 1: the minds of the young in Europe. And so this
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Speaker 1: from Germany. This is a survey run by SHELL I believe,
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Speaker 1: asking for particularly young Germans attitudes to various things, and
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Speaker 1: what they've discovered is that the fear of a wide
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Speaker 1: ranging war is at the top of the priority list.
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Speaker 1: Eighty one percent consider that to be the most serious
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Speaker 1: threat that they see at the moment. That's followed by
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Speaker 1: economic concerns, with sixty seven percent describing a fear of poverty,
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Speaker 1: and way down the list actually are things like climate
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Speaker 1: and migration. So the war agenda on people's minds, but
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Speaker 1: the leadership absolutely determined to press ahead with it. Debbie,
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Speaker 1: let's move on then to energy in the UK, and
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Speaker 1: in some ways this is related to war, or at
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Speaker 1: least to the various excuses for war, a climate being
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Speaker 1: one of them.
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, good afternoon, everyone, lovely to be here, and
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Speaker 3: we're facing perhaps a winter of uncertainty and we've got
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Speaker 3: what is it twelve days to the budget, Rachel reeves.
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Speaker 3: We've got energy costs soaring, so not a good mix.
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Speaker 3: But for you youngsters, this wasn't this long ago, and
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Speaker 3: for many of you, how many of you remember this?
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Speaker 3: Have a look, I want you to soccer coal now?
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Speaker 3: Then how much you's a soccer coal now?
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Speaker 4: Then?
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Speaker 5: Fifteen?
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Speaker 3: No, that's all right, good that the Coleman always on
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Speaker 3: the streets, remember, But not anymore because as we know,
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Speaker 3: and as Charles Mallett has been talking about recently, we've
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Speaker 3: seen the early phase out of unabated coal generation in
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Speaker 3: Great Britain. This was the response of the consultation back
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, the Industrial Strategy, and it goes
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Speaker 3: on to say that basically they were bringing forward from
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Speaker 3: the first of October twenty twenty four linking out or
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Speaker 3: phasing out coal and also they mentioned they're an enforcement
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Speaker 3: authority which will be designated to verify compliance. And all
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Speaker 3: of this of course has been confirmed by the BBC
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Speaker 3: as they confirmed that the country's last coal power station,
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Speaker 3: Ratcliffe on Saw, has closed. And again Charles's has reported
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Speaker 3: on this. But what next? So the national grid, well,
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Speaker 3: the national grid's gone green and this is a little
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Speaker 3: video to show you who the national grid are.
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Speaker 6: For the whole shows the SASSO.
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Speaker 3: So there we've got the national grid. And I think
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Speaker 3: my question is is will renewable energy sustain us in winter?
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Speaker 3: So how sustainable are renewable energies? And blink if you
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Speaker 3: miss it. But in September this was announced that the
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Speaker 3: new publicly owned National Energy System Operator is going to
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Speaker 3: pave the way to a clean new energy future. And
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Speaker 3: this in essence, I mean, we'll be talking about it
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Speaker 3: a bit later in the news, but this in essence
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Speaker 3: is going to bring all well everybody together. The electricity
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Speaker 3: and gas network are going to be under one roof.
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Speaker 3: This is launched just on the first of October, and
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Speaker 3: I wanted to look more into this, but as I say,
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Speaker 3: we'll come on to it more in the news, but
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Speaker 3: for now, I wanted to see how sustainable we are.
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Speaker 3: So I went back to twenty nineteen to look at
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Speaker 3: the electricity supply emergency codes. So what if we don't
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Speaker 3: have enough electricity? What powers do the government have? Well,
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Speaker 3: what they say is that they can deal with an emergency,
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Speaker 3: or they can call an emergency code in the case
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Speaker 3: of a civil emergency, any natural disaster or actually any emergency,
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Speaker 3: and they say that they could go on to look
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Speaker 3: at unpredictability in the fact that the public may be
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Speaker 3: required to take measures, but what electricity codes can be used,
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Speaker 3: and if we go on to look at in the
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Speaker 3: document a bit more, it says that they will make
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Speaker 3: a public appeal to the members of the public. Please,
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Speaker 3: you know, can you restrain on your electricity supply if
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Speaker 3: there is an emergency or if we can't supply you
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Speaker 3: for whatever reason. So I'm going to just highlight the
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Speaker 3: fact that these emergency codes are in place, and if
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Speaker 3: you just jump to the next slide, I want to
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Speaker 3: just highlight this because if anybody is looking for the
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Speaker 3: future and prepping, and I must admit I am a
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Speaker 3: bit of a prepper, you can go to this website
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Speaker 3: which is powercuponeho five dot com. You can put your
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Speaker 3: postcode in, you can see what availability you have in
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Speaker 3: your area and it tells you to prepare. So please prepare,
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Speaker 3: to care for other people around you, and to share
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Speaker 3: any information you've got. But we'll come on to a
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Speaker 3: bit more about it later in the news you'll see why.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Thanks Debbie and Mark Sticking with climate in a sense,
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Speaker 1: but particularly the media's continuing propagandizing.
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Speaker 4: I suppose, oh, absolutely, Mike. In terms of getting rid
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Speaker 4: of call in the UK. The question, of course is
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Speaker 4: why well, our passive emissions were told time and time
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Speaker 4: again to blame for heating the planet. So this segment
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Speaker 4: I call mass media cartel alarmism. One oh one The
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Speaker 4: Guardian everybody's favorite paper, fourteen October trees and land absorbed
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Speaker 4: almost no CO two were told last year. Is nature's
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Speaker 4: carbon sync failing? Oh no, oh no, interesting. I'm not
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Speaker 4: sure how you can even measure that. Continuing with that,
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Speaker 4: just touching on a bit of this. It begins each
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Speaker 4: day at nightfall, as the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, crustaceans,
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Speaker 4: and other marine organisms rise to the ocean surface, the
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Speaker 4: feed on microscopic algae, then returning to the depths at sunrise.
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Speaker 4: The waste from this frenzy, Earth's largest migration of creatures,
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Speaker 4: they say, sinks to the ocean floor. The waste does,
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Speaker 4: removing millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year.
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Speaker 4: Who knew in twenty twenty three the hottest year ever recorded.
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Speaker 4: Preliminary findings by an international team of researchers show the
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Speaker 4: amount of carbon absorbed by land has temporarily collapsed. The
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Speaker 4: final result was that forest, plants and soil as a
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Speaker 4: net category absorbed almost no carbon, which seems to me
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Speaker 4: at least at first blush to be impossible. But we
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Speaker 4: can comment more on extra if we want to get
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Speaker 4: into that anyway. The twenty twenty three breakdown, the Guardian
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Speaker 4: continues of the land carbon sink could be temporary without
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Speaker 4: the pressures of drought or wildfires. That's very important to
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Speaker 4: keep in mind. Without those pressures, land would return, they say,
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Speaker 4: to absorbing carbon again. But it demonstrates the fragility of
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Speaker 4: these ecosystems with massive implications for the climate crisis. Reaching
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Speaker 4: that zero is impossible without nature, et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: We'll keep going from there. And Andrew Watson at the
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Speaker 4: University of Executor or Exeter in the UK, however you
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Speaker 4: say it, he had this to say, none of these models.
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Speaker 4: Of course, models, computer models are used in a lot
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Speaker 4: of this to measure these things. None of these models
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Speaker 4: have factored in losses such as the wildfires in Canada
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Speaker 4: last year that amounted to six months of US fossil emissions.
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Speaker 4: But what's missing in all these arguments. Well, let's move
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Speaker 4: on and explore it a little more. Reuters is hopping
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Speaker 4: on board with the Guardian World's forests failed to curb
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty three climate emissions study fines, and again they're
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Speaker 4: not really very generous on describing how they know how
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Speaker 4: they can measure such things. But the other angle another
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Speaker 4: kind of fresh line of inquiry in all of this.
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Speaker 4: Here's the Arab News, or rather obscure publication. Saudi Arabia,
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Speaker 4: one of the driest places on Earth, takes major strides
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Speaker 4: in cloud seating to combat water scarcity. And there's a
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Speaker 4: link there that people can utilize to read more about
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Speaker 4: these things. Now this is out of Global News in Canada.
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Speaker 4: Could cloud seating help Canada fight wildfires? We just heard
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Speaker 4: from the Guardian and so on that wildfires are a
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Speaker 4: problem and that reduces carbon absorption even more. But now
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Speaker 4: we see that there's a technology that could fight such wildfires.
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Speaker 4: But you never hear a peep about that from the Guardian.
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Speaker 4: You never hear a peep about that from Reuters. And
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Speaker 4: this is also from Global News. Cloud seating, which can
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Speaker 4: cause precipitation by human intervention is an old method but
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Speaker 4: one that continues to be developed and explored. Some experts
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Speaker 4: say it has the potential to mitigate these wildfires that
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Speaker 4: are reducing carbon absorption by the way, but more research
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Speaker 4: is needed, which is fair to evaluate how viable and
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Speaker 4: effective it can be in the future. Interesting as we
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Speaker 4: move along this becomes more clear. The Guardian's reporting MIC
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Speaker 4: is being done under the banner of a long term
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Speaker 4: reporting project called the Age of Extinction. How's that for subtlety, right?
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Speaker 4: It's not like the cloud challenges before us, or environmental challenges.
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Speaker 4: There's something more where we can all get involved. No,
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Speaker 4: it's the Age of Extinction. To cause fear, to cause uncertainty.
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Speaker 4: Another thing for the youth to worry about in Germany,
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Speaker 4: another thing for our youth to worry about around the world.
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Speaker 4: A little bit more about the Guardian's Age of Extinction projects.
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Speaker 4: Here's some other headline samples. Collapsing wildlife population near the
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Speaker 4: point of no return. Report warns again, you wonder very
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Speaker 4: much about the accuracy and you see very little about
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Speaker 4: how they measure these things. Another headline under the Age
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Speaker 4: of Extinction project, Europe was a leader on saving nature,
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Speaker 4: but now Europe's backsliding and that could threaten global progress
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Speaker 4: and will continue. This is from the Desert Research Institute
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Speaker 4: in Nevada, and it has some interesting things to say.
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Speaker 4: Making it Snow a brief I want to keep on
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Speaker 4: that slide there. Sorry, Making it snow a brief history
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Speaker 4: and review of the science behind cloud seating. Clouds those
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Speaker 4: enigmatic formations of condensed water vapor which drift above our
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Speaker 4: heads and form rivers in the sky. They can take
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Speaker 4: many forms. We tend to think of them as beyond
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Speaker 4: human reach, but now scientists regularly harness their moisture and
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Speaker 4: pull it to Earth, bringing water to parch communities and
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Speaker 4: landscapes around the world. And I've also learned in recent times, Mike,
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Speaker 4: that you can even harvest fog, such as in northern Africa.
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Speaker 4: I believe that's where it's been done, And fog can
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Speaker 4: be brought to condensation and put in pipes and the
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Speaker 4: water can be transferred to communities. It's actually called fog harvesting.
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Speaker 4: But anyway, the main point is these mitigation efforts to
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Speaker 4: cut down on drought, to cut down on wildfires are
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Speaker 4: not being reported under the rubric of this extinction project
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Speaker 4: by The Guardian that other papers are kind of aping
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Speaker 4: and echoing. Anyway, all of this reporting, this ongoing project
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Speaker 4: about the age of extinction is happening as the UN
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Speaker 4: Climate Change Conference is going to happen in Azerbijan next month,
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Speaker 4: and I plan on tuning in Mike to cover that virtually.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to sign up hopefully they won't kick me off.
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Speaker 4: And there's also two Brookings Institution events coming up, one
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Speaker 4: today later today and another next week and I plan
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Speaker 4: on covering those as well as best I can. But
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Speaker 4: there's a little more we can talk about, an extra
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Speaker 4: that goes beyond cloud seating, coming from a former CIA
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Speaker 4: chief in the United States. Hopefully we can get to
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Speaker 4: that today. But back to you, Mike at this point.
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Speaker 4: That'll do it.
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Speaker 1: very very briefly, because we mentioned this on Wednesday, your
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Speaker 4: New Yeah, it's a really interesting interview. It really zeros
20:35
Speaker 4: in on what globalism means and how the way your
20:39
Speaker 4: military is structured can tell you a lot about what
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Speaker 4: direction your country is going in. And it also established
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Speaker 4: It explores many dimensions and it kind of ties in
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Speaker 4: indirectly with a WHO reporter guy coming in today in
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Speaker 4: a very general sense.
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Speaker 1: Okay, brilliant, Thank you Mark. And also the interview that
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Speaker 1: went out at one pm yesterday and the excellence What's
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Speaker 1: Wrong with Scottish Education with Kid E Deeming that's up
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Speaker 1: on the website now. So Diane was speaking to Kid
21:17
Speaker 1: about the Scotland's new curriculum for excellence, which she says
21:21
Speaker 1: is neither a curriculum nor is it excellent. Now she
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Speaker 1: runs a parents group for the Scottish Union for Education.
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Speaker 1: So if that's of interest, go and have a look
21:30
Speaker 1: on the UK column website. Now let's move on to
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Speaker 1: censorship and online safety because OFCOM has published their progress
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Speaker 1: update on implementing the Online Safety Act. This is their
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Speaker 1: countdown to online safety as they describe it, and they
21:45
Speaker 1: say two months out from online safety laws coming into force,
21:49
Speaker 1: because although the Act was passed a year ago, it's
21:52
Speaker 1: just coming into force now because OFCOM has been going
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Speaker 1: through a range of consultations and recommendations and so on.
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Speaker 1: So they say OFCOM has warned tech firms they could
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Speaker 1: face enforcement action if they don't comply with new duties
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Speaker 1: when the time comes. So what are they talking about.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, in the space of six months, we consulted
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Speaker 1: on our codes and guidance for illegal harms, pornography, age
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Speaker 1: verification and children's safety, and submitted our advice to government
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Speaker 1: on the thresholds will determine which services would be categorized
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Speaker 1: and subject to additional duties. And I've highlighted age verification
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Speaker 1: there because this is a key part of what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: They are along with the United States, so we will
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Speaker 1: see in a minute, using children's safety as the main
22:37
Speaker 1: sort of clarion call for this whole thing. They went
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Speaker 1: on to say Ofcom has already secured better protections from
22:44
Speaker 1: UK based video sharing platforms, including Only Fans and other
22:48
Speaker 1: adult sites introducing age verification. So I thought we should
22:52
Speaker 1: have a look at what only Fans has done just
22:54
Speaker 1: to give you an idea of what is expected in
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Speaker 1: terms of age verification and where this is likely to go.
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Speaker 1: So OnlyFans says that they use a combination of technology
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Speaker 1: and human moderation teams to verify age and identity of
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Speaker 1: creators and fans. The tools, policies and procedures we use
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Speaker 1: to verify age and identity are always evolving to reflect
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Speaker 1: best practices, and they're looking for things like a full name,
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Speaker 1: verified email address, postal address, did a birth, valid government
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Speaker 1: photo ID, standalone selfie, selfie while holding their photo ID,
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Speaker 1: social media account handles bank account information and in the
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Speaker 1: United States W nine and social Security number. Now those
23:33
Speaker 1: if that's what's required if you want to be a
23:35
Speaker 1: so called creator on only Fans, but if you want
23:39
Speaker 1: to be a fan on Only Fans, you still have
23:41
Speaker 1: to provide much of that information. But then the question
23:45
Speaker 1: if we just put that back on screen for a second,
23:47
Speaker 1: then the question of how easy is it to do this? Well,
23:51
Speaker 1: aside from whether you would be willing to hand over
23:54
Speaker 1: all that information to this organization. This is just one
23:57
Speaker 1: typical comment from Reddit. It's so difficult getting it verified.
24:02
Speaker 1: I rarely use xt or insta. I'm not the kind
24:05
Speaker 1: of person to post selfies every five minutes on Facebook.
24:08
Speaker 1: Unless I find a way to levity my passport in
24:10
Speaker 1: front of me, they'll have to put up with my
24:12
Speaker 1: fingertips covering the edges seventh attempt field And so where
24:16
Speaker 1: does that take us if people are why people are
24:18
Speaker 1: putting this amount of effort into getting onto that website
24:21
Speaker 1: in the first place, I leave up to you. But nonetheless,
24:24
Speaker 1: if people are having to try seven ten times to
24:27
Speaker 1: try to get verified for this, where do we end up. Well,
24:30
Speaker 1: of course we end up with a convenient digital government
24:33
Speaker 1: issued digital ID, which is really what the end goal
24:36
Speaker 1: for this is. And then coming back onto the issue
24:40
Speaker 1: of ofcommon the report and categorized services, they say that
24:44
Speaker 1: categorized services will have extra obligations under the Act, such
24:47
Speaker 1: as giving users more tools to control what they see,
24:50
Speaker 1: because we've got to educate people on misinformation and disinformation
24:54
Speaker 1: and make sure that they can then implement that so
24:57
Speaker 1: they don't see inappropriate content. And then they go on
25:00
Speaker 1: to say that categorized services will need to be ensuring
25:04
Speaker 1: protections for news publishers and journalistic content. We'll be talking
25:08
Speaker 1: more about that at the Bristol event tomorrow. And the
25:11
Speaker 1: other thing that they mentioned is that these categorized companies
25:16
Speaker 1: will have to produce transparency reports and consistently apply their
25:20
Speaker 1: terms of service. And of course there could be a
25:23
Speaker 1: problem between ensuring protections for news publishers and consistently applying
25:28
Speaker 1: terms of service, so we have to see how that
25:30
Speaker 1: will work out in the end. But in the meantime,
25:34
Speaker 1: as we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the pressure
25:36
Speaker 1: starting to build on the idea of these categorized services
25:39
Speaker 1: only being the bigger services Ofcom's recommendation so far is
25:44
Speaker 1: that Category one services, for example, are really only the
25:46
Speaker 1: biggest with more than four million users on a daily basiness.
25:51
Speaker 1: But a bunch of charity sorry if we put this
25:58
Speaker 1: on a have written to care starmer really begging for
26:02
Speaker 1: this limit or this size to be reduced to much
26:07
Speaker 1: much smaller providers of services. They're saying, we've got to
26:10
Speaker 1: protect children by making sure we capture smaller forums where
26:15
Speaker 1: children might be coming into contact with content that is
26:19
Speaker 1: not appropriate and as I say, children being used. As
26:22
Speaker 1: we've mentioned for many years now, children being used to
26:25
Speaker 1: the excuse for that, The UK and the United States
26:28
Speaker 1: have just signed a new online Safety agreement, a new
26:31
Speaker 1: joint government working group to protect children online. So this
26:35
Speaker 1: is bringing the British model into the United States. Now,
26:38
Speaker 1: how this is going to go, how this is going
26:40
Speaker 1: to work with the constitutional protections on freedom of speech,
26:43
Speaker 1: we have to wait and see. But in the meantime
26:46
Speaker 1: in the US they are continuing to push this idea
26:49
Speaker 1: that children need to be protected from bad material online
26:53
Speaker 1: and in order to do that, we've got to pursue
26:56
Speaker 1: things like age verification and all the other protect actions
27:00
Speaker 1: that are provided under the online safety legislation in the
27:04
Speaker 1: UK and.
27:05
Speaker 4: In the EU.
27:08
Speaker 1: Debbie, let's come back on to the issue of electricity
27:11
Speaker 1: and whether blackouts are likely.
27:15
Speaker 3: Well, yes, you know, we've got rising energy prices like
27:19
Speaker 3: soaring across the board, and we've also got there saying that,
27:24
Speaker 3: you know, rising energy prices, people are self rationing. They're
27:26
Speaker 3: turning their heating off, maybe they're not even putting their
27:28
Speaker 3: heating on. They're not having hot meals. This is going
27:31
Speaker 3: to have an impact on the NHS and I happened
27:33
Speaker 3: to pick up this story in the Telegraph this this
27:36
Speaker 3: week which says blackout prevention system mobilized as Britain battles
27:39
Speaker 3: low wins. This was a surprise notice and it was
27:42
Speaker 3: issued by NISO, which will come on again to in
27:45
Speaker 3: a minute, and it was aimed at the capacity market.
27:48
Speaker 3: Now they say that it was triggered automatically, but it
27:51
Speaker 3: was warning that actually people may need to switch things
27:55
Speaker 3: off early and there may not be enough supply because
27:58
Speaker 3: basically we've got not enough wind, can you believe it?
28:02
Speaker 3: But will come on to not enough wind. So NISO,
28:05
Speaker 3: who are these people that issued this cautionary notice that
28:10
Speaker 3: got a little bit misinterpreted. So they're the National Energy
28:12
Speaker 3: System Operator. They used to be the Electricity Supply Operator ESO,
28:17
Speaker 3: and they call themselves a planner and operator. And if
28:21
Speaker 3: we look more at NISO, we can see that they're
28:24
Speaker 3: apparently say that they're independent to government. They're a whole system.
28:28
Speaker 3: They take on a whole system approach. They give impartial
28:32
Speaker 3: decisions and advice to government and regulator. Sounds to me
28:36
Speaker 3: like a private public park partnership, right, So yeah, let's
28:39
Speaker 3: have a look at the shareholders. So this is the
28:41
Speaker 3: Department for Energy Security and net Zero with together with
28:46
Speaker 3: off gem and what are their primary duties? So their
28:49
Speaker 3: primary duties are effectively threefold net zero, efficiency in economy
28:55
Speaker 3: and security of supply. But they also have secondary duties
28:58
Speaker 3: which are facilitating competition, consumer impact which is a little
29:04
Speaker 3: bit of word soup to be honest, but are we
29:06
Speaker 3: going to have to turn things off whole system impacts?
29:09
Speaker 3: Are we going to have enough to supply us and
29:12
Speaker 3: facilitating innovation which they're very keen to do. So here's
29:16
Speaker 3: the leadership team. We've got the board, we've got the
29:19
Speaker 3: independent NISO board. But we've also got a nice screenshot
29:23
Speaker 3: of the leadership team. And there's a lot of people
29:25
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to go through them all, please
29:28
Speaker 3: do go and have a look at the NISO website.
29:30
Speaker 3: But we've got Finton Sly who's at the HELM, and
29:34
Speaker 3: we've got Katya O'Neil who's the Chief operating officer. So
29:39
Speaker 3: Fint and Sly he's been in the business, so he's
29:42
Speaker 3: been in the trade in the industry for a very
29:44
Speaker 3: long time. He was the director of the National Grid ESO.
29:48
Speaker 3: Prior to that, he was CEO of air Grid Group.
29:51
Speaker 3: So he is industry and he's an engineer. But here's
29:55
Speaker 3: a little bit of video to introduce you to NISO.
30:01
Speaker 7: We're undertaking the biggest change in energy for about one
30:05
Speaker 7: hundred years to.
30:07
Speaker 8: Ensure that Britain contrive and that its economy can go
30:09
Speaker 8: from strength to strength. We need to make sure that
30:11
Speaker 8: we transform our energy system to deliver clean power.
30:15
Speaker 7: What we need is a single collaborative plan across the
30:18
Speaker 7: industry and to stop thinking in siloed way across different
30:23
Speaker 7: industry groups or different types of factors.
30:25
Speaker 8: The heart of NISO's mission is ensuring that we are
30:29
Speaker 8: delivering for people, for communities, for the economy and for society.
30:33
Speaker 8: Right across the business. There's a team of really capable,
30:37
Speaker 8: innovative people who are hugely excited about the opportunity that
30:41
Speaker 8: NISO presents at this inflection point in tackling climate change,
30:46
Speaker 8: which truly is the challenge of the generation.
30:49
Speaker 7: Fundamental to NISO is the ability to bring an impartial,
30:53
Speaker 7: independent voice into the mix that can really take a
30:57
Speaker 7: whole system's view on the transition, the challenges, the trade
31:02
Speaker 7: offics that need to be made, and ultimately how do
31:04
Speaker 7: we get an optimal outcome for consumers.
31:07
Speaker 9: So looking at the whole system together, we'll create the
31:10
Speaker 9: opportunity for us to have an efficient transition and a
31:13
Speaker 9: speedy transition. That's why NISO is so important. The local
31:18
Speaker 9: environment will be cleaner with less air pollution. It'll mean
31:23
Speaker 9: jobs and the opportunity for people to see the benefits
31:28
Speaker 9: of a decarbonized energy system in their locality.
31:32
Speaker 5: Now, what's going to be important is that industry and
31:35
Speaker 5: government and other stakeholders collaborate really closely as we move
31:39
Speaker 5: down these paths, because the answer today won't necessarily be
31:44
Speaker 5: the answer tomorrow.
31:45
Speaker 8: It's about ensuring that whole ecosystem comes together to deliver
31:48
Speaker 8: for the country.
31:52
Speaker 3: I hope we get a lot of wind and sun.
31:54
Speaker 3: But also on the boards at NISO is Dr Paul Goldbi.
31:58
Speaker 3: Now Dr Paul Golbie was the chair of and that's
32:00
Speaker 3: such air Traffic Control. He was a CEO of Eon,
32:03
Speaker 3: non executive director of National Grid. He was a chair
32:06
Speaker 3: of Costain Group. That's a builder's quite a history there,
32:10
Speaker 3: a part of the Channel Tunnel, I believe, and he's
32:12
Speaker 3: also a member of the Prime Minister's Science and Technology
32:16
Speaker 3: Committee and the stakeholders of NISSO as well they go
32:20
Speaker 3: on forever too, off GM, government, Crown estate, offshore wind developers,
32:25
Speaker 3: nature conservation bodies, political representatives, technology providers, trade organizations, and
32:31
Speaker 3: they've also got a lot of publications on their website,
32:34
Speaker 3: so please do go and look. But what are they
32:36
Speaker 3: dealing in, Well, they're dealing in a changing energy landscape,
32:40
Speaker 3: and how they describe this is how are we the
32:43
Speaker 3: United Kingdom going to store, source and protect our energy
32:48
Speaker 3: and our environment to make it all affordable because we're
32:52
Speaker 3: paying so many prices. So yesterday we were relying on
32:57
Speaker 3: fossil fuels, power stations, coal, oh oil, natural gas, the
33:02
Speaker 3: Coleman basically, and today we are continuing apparently to rely
33:06
Speaker 3: on fossil fuels, which is giving us higher prices, which
33:09
Speaker 3: is why we have to look to tomorrow where we're
33:13
Speaker 3: going to pay lower prices if we have renewable energy,
33:17
Speaker 3: so we'll be looking at wind, solar, biogas, hydrogen, hydropower.
33:23
Speaker 3: This is all going to be intentionally smarter and flexible.
33:27
Speaker 3: Perhaps maybe you're not as cynical as as perhaps I am,
33:31
Speaker 3: but they also NISO have got a lot of roles
33:33
Speaker 3: because they're also looking beyond twenty thirty. So they've got
33:37
Speaker 3: a national blueprint for a decarbonized electricity system in Great Britain,
33:41
Speaker 3: and looking further into the blueprint, you can see that
33:44
Speaker 3: the world is, according to them, going to look very
33:46
Speaker 3: different now. The graph on the right, although there isn't
33:49
Speaker 3: a very big distinction between the bold and slightly lighter colors,
33:53
Speaker 3: the bold colors are basically twenty twenty three and the
33:57
Speaker 3: light colors are twenty thirty five. So you can see
34:00
Speaker 3: that the reliance on fossil fuels is shrinking. Storage is
34:03
Speaker 3: going to expand, onshore wind expansion, solar expansion. So with
34:09
Speaker 3: all of this in mind, Nisso also forecasts for the
34:12
Speaker 3: winter ahead, which is what we're looking at right now.
34:15
Speaker 3: So they publish the Outlook for the Winter ahead, and
34:19
Speaker 3: they're key messages that they look at. Katia Oneil very
34:23
Speaker 3: very generously gave a welcome and said that she was
34:27
Speaker 3: fairly sure that they could cope this winter. However, if
34:30
Speaker 3: we look at the key messages that they put out,
34:33
Speaker 3: they say they're confident they can meet demand. They expect
34:37
Speaker 3: sufficient operational surplus, although they do note that there's going
34:42
Speaker 3: to be low wind and that there will be tight days.
34:46
Speaker 3: If we look at the preparations that they're making for
34:48
Speaker 3: winter twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. They'll say
34:52
Speaker 3: that they're continuing to work with government, with the regulator,
34:55
Speaker 3: off GEM, national gas stakeholders to make sure that we've
34:59
Speaker 3: actually got enough to go around. But have we? And
35:02
Speaker 3: when we look at the generator availability on the NISO website,
35:06
Speaker 3: then they're hinting there that late October to mid December
35:10
Speaker 3: there's going to be the lowest available generator capacity and
35:13
Speaker 3: we're going to get low winds and they're expecting high breakdowns.
35:19
Speaker 3: So that's really filling us with a lot of confidence, right,
35:22
Speaker 3: But also NISSO control what comes through what's called the interconnectors.
35:27
Speaker 3: So there's a whole big website. Please do go and
35:29
Speaker 3: look at it. Here's the map on the right, just
35:31
Speaker 3: to tell you where we're working with our neighbors and
35:34
Speaker 3: where the pipelines are. But if we're looking at low
35:37
Speaker 3: wind how are we going to be relying on renewable energies?
35:40
Speaker 3: So if anybody does believe the Met Office, I'm just
35:43
Speaker 3: putting it up for reference. They are actually forecasting that
35:47
Speaker 3: we get a cold winter frost and fog, which obviously
35:51
Speaker 3: a cold winter is going to mean you increase your
35:54
Speaker 3: energy supplies because you're going to want to put the
35:56
Speaker 3: heating on otherwise you're going to get sick or get hyper. Third, Yeah,
36:00
Speaker 3: but they're not forecasting winds. And just to tie up
36:03
Speaker 3: this segment, also, NISSO are very interested in the up
36:08
Speaker 3: and coming hydrogen strategy, which is a whole news of
36:11
Speaker 3: its own, And if you want to go and look
36:13
Speaker 3: at more of that, please do. Here's the road map.
36:16
Speaker 3: It will take you right through to the mid twenty
36:19
Speaker 3: thirties onwards. So a bigger gender. And should we be
36:23
Speaker 3: prepared for a cold winter and perhaps a dark winter? Possibly?
36:28
Speaker 4: Yes.
36:28
Speaker 1: I think there's quite a few things to unpack in
36:31
Speaker 1: that for extra so I'm looking forward to that a.
36:34
Speaker 4: Little bit later.
36:34
Speaker 1: Debbie and I let's move on to health issues, and
36:37
Speaker 1: I'm going to start off with this story from the
36:39
Speaker 1: United States. It's quite horrific. So this is from NPR
36:43
Speaker 1: and the headline is horrifying mistake to take organs from
36:46
Speaker 1: a living person was averted. Witnesses say, so, this is
36:49
Speaker 1: what they say. They're quoting a nurse. He was moving around,
36:54
Speaker 1: kind of thrashing, like moving thrashing around on the bed
36:58
Speaker 1: and then when we went over there, you could see
37:00
Speaker 1: tears coming down. He was crying visibly. So this is
37:02
Speaker 1: somebody that the wheeled into the operating theater in order
37:06
Speaker 1: to remove his organs for transplantation. So just keep in
37:13
Speaker 1: mind this. He was crying visibly because I'm going to
37:16
Speaker 1: show you an article from the UK column website and
37:18
Speaker 1: a few minutes later, in a few minutes which will
37:21
Speaker 1: come back to this point. This article goes on to
37:24
Speaker 1: say the procuring surgeon he was like, I'm out of it.
37:27
Speaker 1: I don't want have anything to do with it. It
37:28
Speaker 1: was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset. So the
37:33
Speaker 1: coordinator calls the supervisor at the time and she was
37:35
Speaker 1: saying that he was telling her that she needed to
37:37
Speaker 1: find another doctor to do it, that we were going
37:40
Speaker 1: to do this case. She needs to find somewhere else,
37:43
Speaker 1: and she's like, there's no one else. She's crying talking
37:46
Speaker 1: about the coordinator because she's getting yelled at. So the
37:49
Speaker 1: article that we published on this topic was back in
37:52
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It was by doctor Mike Williams. It was
37:55
Speaker 1: entitled no Time to Die. And I just wanted to
37:57
Speaker 1: pick a couple of bits out of this because he
37:59
Speaker 1: said saying fresh organs are good, the dead ones are bad. That,
38:03
Speaker 1: of course, is a problem for those in the medical
38:05
Speaker 1: profession that want to remove organs as fresh as possible.
38:08
Speaker 1: How can they justify that. The solution to that problem
38:11
Speaker 1: came partly from advanced procedures to artificially maintain a breathing
38:14
Speaker 1: body once pronounced dead. The other part of the problem
38:18
Speaker 1: was solved by defining a new criterion for death brain death.
38:23
Speaker 1: He mentions that a quite gruesome part that I hadn't
38:27
Speaker 1: understood was well, at least sorry, at least an anesthetic
38:32
Speaker 1: as administered to the organ donor prior to removal of
38:35
Speaker 1: their organs, right just in case, And he says well.
38:39
Speaker 1: He then shows a screenshot of a discussion on a
38:42
Speaker 1: nurse's forum, and he goes on to say, in case
38:45
Speaker 1: you missed that, no anesthetic is given, only drugs to
38:48
Speaker 1: maintain the body, and one other a paralyzing drug called
38:52
Speaker 1: a non depolarizing blocking agent. He has a drug to
38:55
Speaker 1: paralyze you while you take the organs with no anesthetic.
38:59
Speaker 1: And the point is that sometimes that paralyzing drug isn't
39:02
Speaker 1: fully effective, and sometimes people are still flilling around. As
39:08
Speaker 1: described in the article from the United States. I just
39:12
Speaker 1: want to highlight this paper which Mike Williams sits in
39:15
Speaker 1: his article entitled brain death should have been considered because
39:19
Speaker 1: a large part of what Mike Williams is talking about
39:22
Speaker 1: is this definition of death, and so just wanted to
39:28
Speaker 1: highlight one part of this because it says also during
39:31
Speaker 1: the early stages of organ removal lachrymation effectively crying, it's tears.
39:38
Speaker 1: Basically obviously there's other things involved in crying, but nonetheless
39:42
Speaker 1: is a common phenomenon. So what this scientific paper saying,
39:45
Speaker 1: it's common for tiers to be coming from the body
39:49
Speaker 1: as the organs are being removed. And so the point
39:53
Speaker 1: that Mike Williams was making in twenty eighteen, and the
39:55
Speaker 1: point which is again being reiterated by this article from
39:58
Speaker 1: the United States is our definition of death correct. And
40:03
Speaker 1: I think there are lots and lots of questions to
40:05
Speaker 1: be asked around dot. Sticking with health, then Mark bring
40:09
Speaker 1: us up to date with what's going on with the
40:11
Speaker 1: World Health Organization's pandemic treaty.
40:15
Speaker 4: Well, that massive treaty is not done yet and their
40:19
Speaker 4: meeting next month to continue on that. It's been kind
40:22
Speaker 4: of lingering amid their bureaucracy anyway. James Ruguski, the noted
40:26
Speaker 4: researcher on WHO and the treaty and the international health rags,
40:31
Speaker 4: he got with me recently. He sent me this. I
40:33
Speaker 4: condensed it down a bit. It's an announcement WHO action
40:36
Speaker 4: it him on the pandemic Treaty. The WHO seeks to
40:39
Speaker 4: reach an agreement regarding the proposed pandemic Treaty by November eleventh.
40:44
Speaker 4: I encourage you, as anybody reading and hearing this, to
40:46
Speaker 4: speak out against the treaty asap. He's even suggesting, please
40:51
Speaker 4: record a video expressing your opposition to the who's proposed
40:54
Speaker 4: Pandemic Treaty agreement. If you're so inclined, feel free to
40:58
Speaker 4: record whatever you wish to say, speak your mind. There's
41:00
Speaker 4: no time limit to your video. Post the video on
41:04
Speaker 4: on the video hosting platform of your choice, and send
41:07
Speaker 4: Roguski the link so he can include your video in
41:10
Speaker 4: an upcoming article. Anybody either side of the pond that
41:13
Speaker 4: wants to do this can do that. There's the link there,
41:17
Speaker 4: a substack link to Roguski's website and his phone number.
41:21
Speaker 4: He doesn't mind me giving this out, and he asks
41:23
Speaker 4: He asks that people text him first three one zero, six,
41:27
Speaker 4: one nine three ozho five to five is Skype handle
41:31
Speaker 4: is there? James Roguski dot substack dot com. That's his column.
41:36
Speaker 4: So that's how people can get a hold of him.
41:38
Speaker 4: But what's he talking about? What's the WHO actually up to? Well,
41:41
Speaker 4: this is it. Back on twenty September twenty twenty four,
41:44
Speaker 4: the WHO announced government's progress on negotiations for the Pandemic
41:48
Speaker 4: Agreement to boost global preparedness for future emergencies, and they
41:52
Speaker 4: basically laid it out here substantive progress of the draft agreement,
41:57
Speaker 4: increased involvement of civil society and nonstate actors, and a
42:00
Speaker 4: commitment by all parties to sustain momentum towards a Pandemic
42:04
Speaker 4: Agreement where the hallmarks of the eleventh meeting of the
42:07
Speaker 4: Inner Governmental Negotiating Body which comprises the one hundred and
42:11
Speaker 4: ninety four member governments of the WHO, and that eleventh
42:15
Speaker 4: meeting ran in September in Geneva. But now the twelfth round,
42:18
Speaker 4: which is what Gruguski's talking about, Mike, the negotiators will
42:22
Speaker 4: resume discussions at that twelfth round between the fourth and
42:26
Speaker 4: the fifteenth of November. Raguskie fields that will be around
42:29
Speaker 4: the eleventh of November, possibly that they'll finalize this treaty
42:33
Speaker 4: that we've been watching for such a long time. I
42:36
Speaker 4: won't get into all of these. There's a couple of
42:38
Speaker 4: quick quotes from whose sources? This is from Nina Jamal,
42:41
Speaker 4: head of pandemics at a global animal welfare organization. There's
42:46
Speaker 4: a growing urgency, she says, for an effective pandemic agreement
42:50
Speaker 4: that does not only prepare us for the next pandemic,
42:53
Speaker 4: but helps prevent it, including the One Health approach that
42:56
Speaker 4: we've learned so much about, not all of it positive.
43:00
Speaker 4: And there's one other thing I believe this is Precious Metsoso,
43:06
Speaker 4: an African lady, the inter Governmental Negotiating Body co chair
43:11
Speaker 4: from South Africa. She said there was progress on the
43:14
Speaker 4: fundamental areas of the draft agreement between these eleventh and
43:17
Speaker 4: twelve rounds or yeah, these rounds that they're going through,
43:22
Speaker 4: including research and development, regulatory system strengthening one Health, pandemic
43:27
Speaker 4: prevention technologies, supply chain networks, and a new system for
43:32
Speaker 4: increased access to pathogens of pandemic potential and sharing of
43:36
Speaker 4: benefits such as vaccines, diagnostics and treatments. Following nearly three
43:41
Speaker 4: years of negotiations, countries are now focused on the remaining
43:44
Speaker 4: and most critical elements of the draft Treaty Agreement to
43:47
Speaker 4: protect the world from future pandemics. And she even goes
43:51
Speaker 4: on to say that every country will maintain its sovereignty
43:54
Speaker 4: and will maintain their control over national health decision making
43:58
Speaker 4: under the UN system. That is something that we have
44:02
Speaker 4: to watch very carefully. It's very easy to say, but
44:05
Speaker 4: according to the UN philosophy and the overall way that
44:08
Speaker 4: the US system works, that's something that they can slip
44:12
Speaker 4: out of pretty easily. So there's a lot of lip
44:15
Speaker 4: service toward national sovereignty. It's not necessarily real, but that's
44:18
Speaker 4: the latest mic. People can get involved through Rogussi's suggestions
44:24
Speaker 4: and that treaty that many of us haven't heard about
44:26
Speaker 4: in a while. This is what they're trying to do
44:29
Speaker 4: by the fifteenth of November, no later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Mark, Thanks for that. Debbie, You've got
44:34
Speaker 1: some health news as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so many health stories to cover. I thought
44:39
Speaker 3: I just cover a few today on the news. So
44:42
Speaker 3: let's look at the government pledging further, say, action to
44:45
Speaker 3: strengthen patient safety, because we do definitely need that. Apparently
44:49
Speaker 3: Patient safety is at the heart of the government's plans
44:51
Speaker 3: for healthcare form, and Dr Penny Dash has done a report,
44:55
Speaker 3: has written a report into c QC and how she's
44:58
Speaker 3: identified that they had significant failings which hampered its ability
45:02
Speaker 3: to identify poor performance in hospitals, care homes and GP practices.
45:07
Speaker 3: What they're wanting to do is to restore public confidence. However,
45:11
Speaker 3: the report was so bad that doctor Dash has been
45:14
Speaker 3: asked to conduct two more reviews to look at patient
45:19
Speaker 3: safety and she's going to be looking at also the
45:22
Speaker 3: Care Quality Commission maternity program. She's going to be speaking
45:25
Speaker 3: and looking into the National Guardian's Office, Health Watch England
45:29
Speaker 3: a very own Henrietta Hughes Patient Safety Commissioner, Health Services
45:33
Speaker 3: Safety Investigation Body. I didn't know there was one of those.
45:36
Speaker 3: Watched this space and NHS resolution, So not good news,
45:41
Speaker 3: but we knew that all along, right, And then another
45:44
Speaker 3: news another news from Sky who have conducted their own
45:49
Speaker 3: investigation and are reporting sexual misconduct. Now this article is
45:53
Speaker 3: really quite troubling. It goes on to say that with
45:56
Speaker 3: paramedics there seems to be a culture of growthing misappropriate jokes.
46:02
Speaker 3: Some have been threatened with rape, pressured into sexual acts.
46:06
Speaker 3: One even attempted to take their own life after being
46:09
Speaker 3: locked in an ambulance and sexually assaulted by a colleague.
46:14
Speaker 3: And shockingly, a third of female surgeons are saying they've
46:17
Speaker 3: been sexually assaulted by a colleague and two thirds sexual harassed.
46:22
Speaker 3: So this is not good when it comes to whatever
46:25
Speaker 3: we're seeing in the NHS. It's bad enough with patients,
46:28
Speaker 3: but we see what's going on with staff too. Moving
46:31
Speaker 3: on to COVID very quickly, because there's a new XEC
46:36
Speaker 3: variant that seems to be causing great concern. It's a
46:39
Speaker 3: hybrid of two existing variants. I say that in inverted commerce.
46:43
Speaker 3: But of course it gives the authorities a really good
46:46
Speaker 3: excuse to tell you to grab a jab. And let's
46:50
Speaker 3: stay on jabs for a minute. Thank you to at
46:52
Speaker 3: Kiran russ On X who sent me this asking if
46:56
Speaker 3: Bedford Hospital has violated the Neuroberg Code one by financially
47:01
Speaker 3: incentivizing people via methods of coercion. Please go and have
47:05
Speaker 3: a look at his ex But let's blow that image
47:07
Speaker 3: up because it says it's true. Do you know you
47:11
Speaker 3: can win two hundred and fifty pounds because if you've
47:14
Speaker 3: had your flu JAB. You'll get put into a draw
47:17
Speaker 3: where you could win your two hundred and fifty pounds.
47:20
Speaker 3: But don't worry because if you've already had the jab,
47:23
Speaker 3: if you can prove that you've had it, show your evidence,
47:26
Speaker 3: you can still enter it into an email. I'll leave
47:30
Speaker 3: that for our audience to decide what they think of that.
47:33
Speaker 3: And then anybody would think that Eli Lilly are doing
47:35
Speaker 3: the United Kingdom a favor because they're launching a real
47:39
Speaker 3: world study, which basically means an experiment on the on
47:43
Speaker 3: the British public to see how I was dreading saying this.
47:47
Speaker 3: I've been practicing it, but it's obviously not worked. Tursipad tied.
47:52
Speaker 3: I'm terribly sorry. I have honestly been practicing it, which
47:55
Speaker 3: is a medication that was designed for diabetics, diabetes too.
47:59
Speaker 3: In again, it's been proved by the MH, it's been
48:02
Speaker 3: approved by the MHRA, and now they want to use
48:05
Speaker 3: it on benefit claimants because they say that because Britain
48:09
Speaker 3: has become a lazy place and people have got fat.
48:12
Speaker 3: It's it's the Sickness Bill, the PIP the disability rates
48:17
Speaker 3: have gone shooting up, and here you can see economic
48:20
Speaker 3: activity and we're streeting getting his getting his two bed
48:25
Speaker 3: peneth in saying that basically it's a significant burden obesity.
48:30
Speaker 3: Nobody is giving any credence to the fact that there
48:34
Speaker 3: are a huge number and increasing of vaccine injured. And
48:37
Speaker 3: if you're interested, please do go and look at the
48:39
Speaker 3: Ed Dowd interview that we had on the column, who
48:42
Speaker 3: says that, you know, when he analyzed the PIP and
48:45
Speaker 3: disability claimants and we've looked at it before, soaring because
48:50
Speaker 3: of vaccine injuries. But now we're going to give an
48:52
Speaker 3: injection for obesity when we abe talk about that on
48:55
Speaker 3: Extra too, so and quickly onto the World Health Summit.
49:00
Speaker 3: Because the World Health Summit has taken place, it's just finished.
49:03
Speaker 3: They're very proud of it. Three thousand, five hundred participants,
49:06
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty countries, three hundred and eighty speakers,
49:09
Speaker 3: and they're ever so proud of themselves because they've had
49:11
Speaker 3: loads of views on social media as well. They've had
49:14
Speaker 3: sixty five thousand views on the WHO website, twenty one
49:18
Speaker 3: thousand views on the WHS. But it was a donor event.
49:24
Speaker 3: This was a donor event, So let's actually use the
49:27
Speaker 3: correct language because as you'll see, this was a WHO
49:31
Speaker 3: investment round. In fact, it was a begging bowl. So
49:34
Speaker 3: here's a few of the speakers who said what. Navin
49:37
Speaker 3: Raw from Rockefellers he wants to transform global health water Surprise.
49:42
Speaker 3: We've got Jeremy Farrer, who Chief Scientists, formerly of Sage,
49:46
Speaker 3: author of Spiked and of course Welcome. He's been in
49:50
Speaker 3: a CEO of Welcome. He's talking of the importance of trust.
49:54
Speaker 3: I think that might be a bit difficult, Jeremy, if
49:56
Speaker 3: you're listening. And Bill Gates he wants to bring together
49:59
Speaker 3: f everyone's expertise who can poor resources to beat global challenges.
50:04
Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm just going to flip through
50:06
Speaker 3: the next few slides, Mike, because I'm probably going to
50:08
Speaker 3: get breathless telling you the amount of names, So do
50:12
Speaker 3: go through them quickly. So we're looking at all of
50:14
Speaker 3: the WHA's partners. We've got strategic partners, we've got general partners,
50:19
Speaker 3: we've got premier partners, we've got supporting partners, we've got
50:23
Speaker 3: Seppie Siemens, Welcome, gsk Roach. I mean, honestly, just flip
50:27
Speaker 3: through the slides because it goes on and on and on,
50:30
Speaker 3: Rockefellers Who. We've got the Club of Rome, we've got
50:34
Speaker 3: civil society, academia involved, we've got mckins's involved, there's their press,
50:40
Speaker 3: their media partners.
50:41
Speaker 4: This is just one.
50:43
Speaker 3: Huge, big begging bowl for the WHO. And just to
50:46
Speaker 3: prove my point, here's an article from Reuter's saying that
50:49
Speaker 3: the World Health Organization are absolutely delighted because they've now
50:54
Speaker 3: received one billion in pledges for their next budget. And
50:58
Speaker 3: of course this is going to be memip for all
51:01
Speaker 3: the countries participating in the WHO. So that's what we've
51:06
Speaker 3: got to look forward to. And on a final note,
51:08
Speaker 3: I'm sure many people have seen this story Blue Nose Day.
51:11
Speaker 3: So whilst the WHO are raking in the money and
51:14
Speaker 3: telling us all that energy is going to cost a
51:16
Speaker 3: fortune and making us rely on renewables, this school was
51:20
Speaker 3: planning to turn off the heating to teach children about
51:23
Speaker 3: climate change. So they were saying to parents, ever so sorry,
51:26
Speaker 3: we're going to turn off the heating. I'm very glad
51:28
Speaker 3: to say that they've now decided to do this in
51:31
Speaker 3: the summer term, not in the winter term, because of
51:34
Speaker 3: parents backlash. Over to you, thank you.
51:37
Speaker 1: Wie, thank you, very very briefly the government has decided
51:41
Speaker 1: that because the presents are too full, and because a
51:44
Speaker 1: lot of the pressure on the number of prison places
51:47
Speaker 1: that are available is being caused by people that are
51:50
Speaker 1: on remand then the best thing to do is to
51:52
Speaker 1: give magistrates the part of increased sentences. So in the past,
51:59
Speaker 1: magistrates have only been allowed to give custodial sentences for
52:04
Speaker 1: up to six months, and from now on they will
52:06
Speaker 1: be able to give custodial sentences for up to a year.
52:10
Speaker 1: And what that means is that the lesser cases that
52:13
Speaker 1: are where people are sitting in remand in prisons, they
52:16
Speaker 1: can be taken out of the prisons, sent to the
52:17
Speaker 1: magistrate's court in order to get their custodial sentence to
52:20
Speaker 1: be sent back to prison again. And that's apparently going
52:23
Speaker 1: to reduce the pressure on the prison. So if somebody
52:26
Speaker 1: could explain to me how that works, please do right
52:29
Speaker 1: in Where does that take us? Then, Debbie, we've got
52:33
Speaker 1: a final video clip we have.
52:36
Speaker 3: Indeed, and finally, so for those of you abroad in
52:39
Speaker 3: the United Kingdom, in the late sixties and early seventies,
52:42
Speaker 3: we had a situation comedy called Till Death Fostu Part
52:44
Speaker 3: which featured a family in the East end of London
52:47
Speaker 3: called the Garnet Family. I'm going to show you a
52:49
Speaker 3: little clip of Dandy Nichols talking to Unis Stubs. Those
52:53
Speaker 3: are the actresses that took play. It took part talking
52:57
Speaker 3: back into death Fostu part. And I just remind mind
53:00
Speaker 3: you actually that Tony Booth, Lord Blair's father in law,
53:04
Speaker 3: also was an actor until deathsty part. But for now
53:07
Speaker 3: and finally it's over to Dandy Nichols and Una Stubbs.
53:13
Speaker 10: Ain't what it used to be. Nothing is as it's me.
53:18
Speaker 10: Getting older. Things was cheaper, though not cheaper. You could
53:24
Speaker 10: get five cigarettes for tottens.
53:26
Speaker 3: Then they didn't make them in five anymore, do they?
53:29
Speaker 10: You never see them?
53:30
Speaker 7: People smoked more?
53:31
Speaker 10: Spose? Yeah, people do seem to be smoking more since
53:35
Speaker 10: the cancer scare worry. I suppose there were none of
53:42
Speaker 10: that then either what cancer was all tb Then.
53:47
Speaker 7: They can cure that now, could they?
53:49
Speaker 6: Yeah?
53:50
Speaker 10: I suppose as soon as they can cure cancer, I'll
53:53
Speaker 10: think of something else to worry us with. My uncle
53:57
Speaker 10: Wilf used to say he reckoned it was a government
54:02
Speaker 10: used to give us all these diseases tone they put
54:07
Speaker 10: them in our food that's what he used to say.
54:11
Speaker 10: You can taste it in the water. Sometimes that's clue rid.
54:15
Speaker 3: Well they were.
54:17
Speaker 4: They put that in to improve the water.
54:19
Speaker 10: We don't improve the taste. My uncle Wilf used to say,
54:24
Speaker 10: the only town they've got any use for us, the
54:27
Speaker 10: only time the government's got any use for us. Who's
54:30
Speaker 10: in the war. Rest of the time, he used to say,
54:33
Speaker 10: we're an embarrassment to him. Yeah, he used to say
54:38
Speaker 10: that they only need so many of us to do
54:40
Speaker 10: the things that need doing, and the rest they'd rather
54:43
Speaker 10: be without. So they spray our food, put things in
54:47
Speaker 10: the water to keep us down. Well, they do it
54:52
Speaker 10: to rabbits. He used to grow all his own food everything,
54:59
Speaker 10: well he could. And you had a window box.
55:06
Speaker 3: Over to you, Mike.
55:08
Speaker 1: Well, there's nothing I can say. I mean, it's amazing
55:11
Speaker 1: how where people were even then of what's going on
55:15
Speaker 1: and it Yes, you bring it back and it's more
55:18
Speaker 1: appropriate than ever. But anyway, we'll leave it there for now.
55:22
Speaker 1: Stick around for extra. We're going to be a little
55:23
Speaker 1: bit short on extra today because we've got to get
55:26
Speaker 1: up to Bristol, so but stick around for extra. We'll
55:29
Speaker 1: be back at a couple of minutes see then bye
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Speaker 1: bye