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UK Column News — 9 January 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Friday the 9th of January
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2026, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Mike Robinson. My Co host today in the studio
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is Patrick Hennigson. Welcome to the program, Patrick.
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It's great to be with you, Mike. And we'll be joined today by
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Basil Valentine. Later in the program, we're
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going to be covering the ongoing Palestine action hunger strike,
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the killing in Minneapolis by an ICE officer and the sanctioning
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of EU former military personnel and the ongoing destabilisation
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of countries in the Sahel. But we're going to begin with
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the taking of an oil tanker by the United States, supported by
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the United Kingdom. Because on Wednesday I was
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reporting that the US was going to going to go after the
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marinera. This was CBS News was covering
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this, if you remember, and this ship previously known as Bella
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One and they were going after this with a view to seizing it.
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And we also reported that the UK was to be involved.
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If you hadn't seen what we covered on Wednesday, go on,
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please go and have a look. The risks were clear because the
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Baron era was at that time a Russian flagged tanker and so
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Russia was making moves to counter the US action.
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Well, about the same time that the UK column news went out on
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Wednesday. In fact, the United States and
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the UK and well, Patrick, you tell me if you think I'm wrong
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in this, but what I could would only want to describe as an
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active piracy seized the ship about halfway between the UK and
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Iceland. So here's here's where the ship
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was when it was attacked. Now.
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It's nowhere near Venezuela. That's a no.
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Struck me, Mike. No, indeed.
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Now you won't. Sorry.
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Just put that back on the screen for one second, William, please.
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Because you'll notice that the line begins Mid-Atlantic there.
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And the claim from the UK and the United States is that this
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is because the ship, having left Venezuela already decided to to
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re flag itself halfway across the Atlantic and rename itself.
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And so they're claiming that this was in fact a stateless
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vessel. Look, before we we comment on
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this a bit more, let's just look at what John Healey said in the
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House of Commons yesterday. Today, the US conducted a
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military operation to intercept the M motor vessel Bella One in
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the North Atlantic on its way to Russia.
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The UK, at the request of the US, supported this operation as
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part of global efforts to crack down on sanctions busting and
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shadow shipping activity. The Bella 1 was falsely flagged.
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It was falsely flagged and subject to US counter Iran
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sanctions. The vessel refused to comply
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with the USS exercise of its sanctioned jurisdiction on the
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20th of December, after which the US Coast Guard vessel Monroe
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pursued the ship across the Atlantic.
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This is a sanctioned stateless vessel which carries a long
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history of nefarious activity and shares close links with both
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Iran and Russia. Following a request from the USI
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authorised the use of UK bases and the deployment of Royal Navy
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and RAF assets to support the operation, including airborne
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surveillance and the RFA ship Tide Force.
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A stateless vessel, Mr. Speaker, may be lawfully intercepted and
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subjected to the law of the interdicting state.
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EU s s enforcement action was based upon counter Iran
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sanctions aimed at stopping Iran from fuelling instability
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through the profits of illegal oil sales.
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The UK supported this action to achieve 3 objectives.
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First, to enforce counter Iran sanctions.
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Second, to tackle the global security threat posed by
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expanding shadowy maritime activity.
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And 3rd, to reinforce British homeland defence and security in
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this era of rising threats. So Homeland Security is clearly
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top of the agenda both in the United States and the United
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Kingdom, but we'll come back to Homeland Security a little bit
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later. It's quite incredible what
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they're, what they're arguing here, that they're talking about
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deterring and disrupting the Russian shadow fleet being a
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priority for the UK. They're trying to bring Iran
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sanctions into it as well. It's quite amazing.
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Well, at the end of that statement we didn't have that
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part. We said we are, we are.
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By doing this we are keeping the British people safe.
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How exactly is apprehending an empty tanker keeping, well,
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keeping the British people safe? I mean, Britain wasn't actually
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involved in the operation. They were just there from a
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distance assisting, assisting or going out and doing a kind of a
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drill on top of the United States's pirate activities
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there. So fueling instability by
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illegal oil sales. So what he's saying is that
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Iran's not allowed to sell oil to or Russia's not allowed to
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give oil to or take oil from Venezuela, Give oil to
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Venezuela. That's what really what this is
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about, right? It's about isolating and
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controlling the flow of goods and services to certain
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countries controlled by the US. And Britain's just there to
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assist, basically. And of course, they're, they
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keep building this narrative of the Shadow fleet.
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And, and we know that part of the part of this narrative is
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the idea that captains of Shadow fleet vessels are dropping
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anchors and dragging them across the seabed in order to disrupt
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undersea cables and all this kind of stuff.
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And put our pipelines at risk in the Baltic Sea, they say.
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Yeah, I can't imagine who puts pipelines at risk in the Baltic
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Sea. More than NATO, Nord Stream,
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just saying. Sorry to point that out guys,
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but. Yes.
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So anyway, following the seizure of the tiger, then Starmer gave
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President Trump a call on the phone and they said that they
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discussed the joint operation to set intercept Bella one and they
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keep insisting on calling at the Bella one rather than the the
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the new name. But anyway, that's that's.
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And so he phoned Trump once and then phoned him again because of
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course he also wanted to discuss Greenland and and other stuff.
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He also wanted to discuss Euro Atlantic security and he also
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wanted to describe, discuss and increasingly this is, quote, an
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increasingly aggressive Russia in the High North.
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Starmer also yesterday called NATO Secretary General Mark
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Ruta, not sure what he called them, but he phoned them anyway.
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They began apparently by paying tribute to UK personnel involved
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in the operations in the North Atlantic, but also in operations
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in Syria. In recent days, they also spoke
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about Euro Atlantic security and apparently they agreed that much
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more needed to be done to deter Russia in the High North and
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welcome discussions on how allies would further protect the
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region from increasing Russian threats.
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So that that's the way it's gone and and so that's where we are
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with with that so. FAR 11 quick point on this,
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Mike. He said that they're trying to
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deter sanctions busting countries that are not using the
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US dollar or the British pound and they're trading with each
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other. Britain or the US has no
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business physically interdicting.
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The moment they go to physically interdict and to steal people
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that are trading outside of the dollar, that's an act of war.
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That's an act of war. That's not sanctions busting
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because they're not using dollars.
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So what they're doing is saying, Oh my God, they're trading
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outside of our ability to sanction, which is financial
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sanctions, and then they're using hard military power.
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That is war. That is not sanctions busting,
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just to be clear that that is illegal under international law.
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They have no business interdicting that ship and
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there's no justification to say this is a global security
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threat. It's just complete.
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Nonsense I. Don't know what to say.
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Really. Yeah, Basil, let me welcome you
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to the program. Have you got any thoughts on
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what happened yesterday? Well, the rhetoric keeps getting
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ramped up. Pat McFadden, who's a, if I may
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say so, gentlemen, particularly odious member of the cabinet,
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was speaking to Times Radio and he said we have to be able to
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exert hard power as well as soft power.
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And very much echoing what Stephen Miller told CN NS, Jake
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Passer, Jake Tapper a couple of days ago, we live in a world
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that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that
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is governed by power. McFadden specifically made
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reference to the changed world that we live in, which we've
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seen in many dimensions this week.
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So obviously referring to Venezuela as well as the seized
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oil tanker and McFadden effectively giving nod of
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approval to the abandonment of international law by Donald
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Trump and the new might is right doctrine which Miller has
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articulated. Will to power.
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We've heard that before. It reminds me of the that German
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government. When was that?
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The 19. 30s yeah. They thieves that term a lot.
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But, but look, obviously, as I mentioned, Starmer speaking to
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Trump and to Ruda and very concerned about Russia in the
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High North and of course, Greenland is the next potential
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target. I guess what's what's going on
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there? Well, Marco Rubio is set to meet
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the Danish Prime Minister, Mattie Frederickson and the
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Danish delegation to discuss the terms and conditions the United
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States is interested in taking Greenland.
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There's Rubio there, the Secretary of State who double S
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as national security advisor. Little bit of a conflict of
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interest with those two job descriptions, but a, where are
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we to point out things like that?
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He's also got a third title, Mike.
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He is crowned himself viceroy of Caracas.
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Marco Rubio, he's a busy man and he's got a busy cabinet
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portfolio there. So the lot of pushback from the
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Europeans, Mike, already. I want to get Basil Valentine's
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comment and yours as well, Mike. But we'll go to Bloomberg here
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and now because of the pushback, Trump, whenever there's
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pushback, Donald Trump always backpedals.
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And so here he is backpedaling. Bloomberg's pushing it out.
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Why would Trump buy Greenland? Why would he take it?
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And then he would buy it? Now it's rented.
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So they're talking about leasing it for 100 years here, and he's
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saying a mutually beneficial deal that avoids antagonizing
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the local population can be struck with relative ease, as,
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geez, Playbook for Africa shows. So Bloomberg got their own
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agenda there, Mike, basically accusing China of colonialism in
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Africa when it's probably more like the opposite. the United
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States and France and the European countries, which we'll
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talk about later. But about Basil on the Greenland
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front. I mean, what do you make of
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this? And also Trump's constantly
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modulating his positions based on the pushback, the press, what
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Europe's doing. It's it's a tough front he puts
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on. But then once The thing is put
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out, the big ideas put out, then all sudden it it changes with
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Trump. What what?
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What are your thoughts on this? Well, people, commentators in
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America are saying Trump is increasingly unstable and
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unpredictable, you know, vacillating somewhere between
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dementia and narcissism and that he needs sort of endlessly
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bigger thrills to keep going. That he's actually become rather
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bored of the presidency and the sycophants that he's surrounded
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himself by, and that only by sort of ramping up the
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international scene is he able to continue to sort of engage
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with the job. But, you know, sort of era of
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somebody approaching Nero or Caligula, he's been likened to,
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you know, Venezuela gave him a thrill.
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The idea of taking Greenland gives him an even bigger thrill.
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There's no real strategic need. People are talking about the
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need for a strong NATO presence in Greenland.
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That obviously feeds into the whole bellicose rhetoric as
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regards Russia. But when it comes to threatening
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an existing member of NATO, this is absolutely off the charts.
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It's never been seen before that we've been saying it would be
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the end of NATO, the end of the whole post war security pact, if
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ever a thing such a thing existed.
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Halley Thorning Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Greenland, has
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described it as an act of aggression that Denmark is being
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bullied. The Interestingly though, the
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opposition leader in Greenland itself has said that the
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Americans couldn't be any worse than the days in terms of being
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an imperial power. But, you know, we always hear
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about the right of self determination, you know,
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spreading democracy. Well, surely therefore, it
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should be up to the people of the Greenland to decide their
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future. And I don't think when they want
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to have anything to do with the Americans at all.
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So the, the BBC this morning on on the Radio 4 Today program had
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a representative phone from Greenland who was basically
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saying, well, you know, there are deals to be done here.
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We can give access to allow the United States to place its
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military bases in Greenland soil.
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We can give them access to rare earths and the mining
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opportunities to come. So, so they clearly the rhetoric
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from Greenland itself is recognizing Trump as being the
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man of the deal. And so they're now offering
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deals and so well, we'll see where that.
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Goes US offered to buy Greenland Mike after World War 2 for the
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princely sum of $100 million that would have been a steal
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right, right. Not as bad, not as good as the
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Alaska deal, but, you know, pretty good deal there.
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And so it's always been there. the US has always kind of had
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its eye on this. But it's so funny.
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The Republican talking point is on this, the Rubio.
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And so they're saying we need to rescue Greenland from the
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colonial clutches of Denmark by by taking agreement.
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The irony is something I don't think these people are capable.
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No, they don't get it. Of detecting anyway well.
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OK. Well, well, look, since you've
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mentioned Venezuela, let's just come up to date with what's
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going on there. Sure.
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Now as people know, since since the all the fireworks over the
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weekend have have happened, these have been the new
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revelations which we'll share with you right now.
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First of all, it's it's now confirmed, Mike, that there are
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at least 80 dead, 80 Venezuelans have been killed during this
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USUS bombing run and this abduction, this kidnapping of
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the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro.
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And including in that are 60 security forces, including
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Maduro's, a close protection team, many of whom were Cuban
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nationals. And this is a long running
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arrangement between the country of Cuba and the Bolivarian
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Republic, Mike. So that that sort of undercuts
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this conspiracy talk that's going on through the media that
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there was a stand down order in Venezuela and that Maduro was
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betrayed by treasonous members of his government because quite
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a few people have been killed. Now what we what we do know is
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the United States unleashed a pretty hardcore electronic
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warfare wave technological wave to basically render the radar
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systems basically off and disable many of their air
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defense systems, their computer networks and their electrical
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grid. OK.
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So we know that this capability exists.
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Well, Trump is bragging about that during the original press
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conference. So I think the, the, I think
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there is ACIA agenda to plant the story of betrayal within the
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Venezuelan government in order to try to create a rift or a
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civil war, if you will, with inside the Chavista movement.
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So I I think that's worth pointing out my including in the
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targets, the United States hit two medical research centers,
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one of which is the kidney dialysis Center for Venezuela.
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Why on earth would they want to do that?
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Well, if you look at what happened in Gaza over the last
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two years, I think that probably doesn't need to be explained.
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Also, two residential buildings, apartment buildings were also
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destroyed. Many Venezuelans have been
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injured. The numbers we do not have in
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front of us. But to say this was bloodless
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and also many US, there are a number of U.S. soldiers who were
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injured as well. There's no details forthcoming
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on that. The Cuban security detail died
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protecting Maduro. This is what the, the, the, the
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Venezuelan media are saying here.
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So this is interesting. Now, let's just be clear.
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I want to just debunk a few things because I think this is
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important to do. First of all, this was not a
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regime change. It was not a successful regime
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change. The government is still in
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place. The the duly elected vice
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president has been sworn in Adelci Rodriguez.
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So and the government is there. This the whole apparatus of the
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Chavista government is in place. So the Trump hasn't achieved
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regime change. The other thing is the narco
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trafficking. This is the lead accusation on
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the indictment. The US has withdrawn it from the
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indictment because it's it's now been admitted that it was
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completely fictitious. Imagine something this high
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profile, the lead accusation that the Trump's backed off it.
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So there's no, there's no drugs or there's no narco trafficking
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here. And Trump's own intelligence
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assessment of his own intelligence agency say there's
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no link between Maduro and Trendella Ague, the supposed
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Venezuelan gang that they claim is ravaging the streets of the
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United States. So again, it's looking tenuous
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on that basis alone. That could be a call for
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dismissal for the trial because that was the basis of their
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arrest warrant, which they say is legal.
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But the international law says it's not legal.
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But anyway, it's illegal under international law.
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It's unconstitutional. You violated the 1973 War Powers
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Act. He did not get any permission
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from Congress before this. Also, it violates and undercuts
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US treaty law regarding extradition and law enforcement
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cooperation with all countries, not just Venezuela.
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That's why this is a very dangerous precedent.
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And then the justification for this is that Maduro is an
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illegitimate government. He's an illegitimate government.
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And so we're told that British officials, U.S. officials say
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all US allies agree that they don't recognize Maduro is
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legitimate. So that's their justification,
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that all allies agree. And they based that on the 2024
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elections. They say that they were
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illegitimate. He didn't win.
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They weren't transparent. But Mike, we've been speaking to
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election monitors from Venezuela, and we will probably
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have one of them on the program next week, who was there during
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the 2024 election working with independent international
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election monitoring organizations.
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And they're saying it was absolutely legitimate and one of
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the most transparent in South America, according to
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independent assessors. So we'll speak to them next week
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with more details on that. Human rights violations, these,
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they're all an Amnesty International, Human Rights
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Watch, all these NGOs, they all emanate from one single western
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backed opposition NGO. This reminds us of something,
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doesn't it? The Syrian Observatory for Human
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Rights, exactly the same and the Caesar report all used as the
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basis for sanctions. And that leads us to the main
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accusation, which is Maduro has ruined the economy.
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He's run the oil industry into the ground.
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Well, I I don't think so. Was it him or was it the
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sanctions? It was the sanctions under
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Donald Trump in front starting from 2016.
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And when they dropped the hammer, it dropped oil sales by
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75% and average GDP per capita went down 65%.
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It was an economic disaster for Venezuela and they're blaming
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it, the US media, our politicians blame it on Maduro
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and his mismanagement. And so this is a, a total psyop.
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They do with all these target countries.
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No mention of sanctions in any of.
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These critiques of Venezuela and Maduro and his legitimacy and
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the last one, Mike, is the most beautiful of all. 8 million
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people left the fled the Maduro regime.
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Trump's Under Secretary for political Affairs, Tom Shannon
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and John Bolton both admitted under Trump's first term it was
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their policy to make sanctions create out migration.
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They are both on record out migration.
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They wanted our people to flee Venezuela to the United States
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where they gave them automatic asylum if they were anti Maduro.
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Reminds us of something else, doesn't it?
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When you show up at Lesbos or fleeing from Syria and you say
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down with Bashar al-Assad, immediate asylum straight
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through to the UK, to Europe, to Canada, to the United States.
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So I mean, I could go on and on, but I think it's important to
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point these things out. We can talk about this more an
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extra. I mean, this is, this is
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critical. Well, how many regime change
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operations have we seen run by the United States, United
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Kingdom over the last 30-40 years?
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And it's always the same. I will cut the hot head off.
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Sanctions. Sanctions but but a propaganda
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campaign against the head of state for a long time claiming
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they're this, that and the other thing.
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Get rid of them and then move your.
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Own and why is this important Mike because that justifies the
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regime change it moderate like before say center right, center
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left. You say I don't support the war,
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but at least Maduro is gone. I don't support the Iraqi
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invasion, but at least Saddam is gone.
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I don't support the bombing of Yugoslavia, but Milosevic had to
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go, Gaddafi had to go, Assad have to go.
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We don't like Al Qaeda ruling of the Black Flag over Damascus,
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but Assad's gone, so that's a good thing.
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This is a way to get moderates in the West to back regime
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change through a propaganda campaign that was repeated every
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single time. We have so many examples of
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this, but anyway we can discuss more.
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Yeah, well, OK. Well, in the meantime, then,
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Trump has announced an increase in war spending.
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I just wanted to to play Tucker Carlson's take on this.
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Have a listen. Well, today, about an hour and a
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half ago, the President announced that he is hiking the
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Pentagon budget from 1 trillion to 1.5 trillion.
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Just announce that. Why?
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Well, it's hard to know without asking him.
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He'll explain. But big picture, obviously,
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that's the kind of budget that a country that anticipates a
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global or regional war has for its military.
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There's no other reason to do that.
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That's not a peacekeeping budget.
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That's a war budget, a big war budget.
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So I think it's fair to expect, and all the signs suggest that
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we're going to have a big war soon.
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It's hard to argue with that, Patrick.
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It is. And look at Venezuela.
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What's that about? Securing a fuel source in the
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Western Hemisphere in advance of a third World War when
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everything is going to be shut down, the Straits of Hormuz,
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everything but the United States and its allies, like Israel,
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still have a supply of heavy crude, which is needed for jet
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fuel, naval vessels, might power plants, heavy lubricants for
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heavy machinery, all the things that you need to run a military
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machine. So that really speaks to
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Tucker's point. Absolutely.
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Well, Chinese press then is asking will China boost spending
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too? And of course they will because
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this is going to start an arms race.
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But my question, Patrick, for you just very briefly is how is
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this different to COVID, for example?
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So we had the great enemy came along the the virus and that
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resulted in what? That resulted in limitations on
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freedoms that resulted in billions being pumped into
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Pharmaceutical industry. It resulted in surveillance and
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narrative control while the general public was destabilised
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through fear. Here, here we are.
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The stakes are higher this time for sure, but we keep the fair
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narrative or a fair narrative going and we pump billions into
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so-called defense companies rather than pharma companies.
24:15
We continue to build a surveillance in the censorship
24:18
states. It looks like the same kind of
24:21
MO to me. That's what I said at the
24:23
Digital ID rally Mike on Whitehall a couple weeks ago.
24:26
I said Kovid was the warm up, COVID was the warm up.
24:29
Imagine the lockdowns during World War three, all planes
24:33
grounded, borders shut. You can't have this or do that
24:36
without your digital ID. And if you don't comply, then
24:39
you're a threat to national security, right?
24:41
Do I need to explain any further how this works?
24:44
And the company's providing the digital ID and doing the back
24:47
end databases, the Elon Musk's, the Larry Ellison's, the Peter
24:51
Thiel's of the world, the Alex Carbs of the world.
24:54
These are the people they're going to profit from this
24:56
globalist system. All of Trump's backers are the
25:00
globalists. How do I get it through to
25:02
peoples heads? And these same people who are
25:05
going to benefit from this lockdown, who are all invested
25:09
in military firms as well. These are the people paying
25:14
paying to to drive the right wing anti immigration movement
25:20
in Europe in the UK which is now being used by the government in
25:25
the UK to justify digital IDs. Isn't that amazing how it all
25:30
comes full circle? Absolutely.
25:33
Well, the question then, is Trump going to get his own way
25:36
with respect to war budgets? Because five Republican
25:39
senators, led by Rand Paul voted yesterday to enact a War Powers
25:44
Resolution. This resulted in a bill passing
25:48
52 votes to 47. So is Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski,
25:52
Todd Young, Susan Collins and Josh Hawley.
25:57
So where does that leave Trump? Listen, I, I think this is a
26:02
very positive development. Then it's too early to
26:06
celebrate, Mike. There's a lot of work to be
26:07
done, but at least it tells us, at least in the Senate, that
26:11
there are people that do not want to escalate.
26:14
And this is a good thing. And I'll tell you what, if you
26:17
look at the polling now, before and after Christmas, Trump was
26:20
underwater on independence before Christmas.
26:23
Now he is even worse in terms of the Republican Party.
26:27
So as the polling stands out, we can look at more data perhaps
26:30
next week. But the Democrats will carry the
26:34
midterms and I don't think he'll ever get the independence back
26:38
because he's gone against all of his core principles that he ran
26:41
on for 2024, which is for MAGA. So I don't think he's going to
26:45
get us back. And that's bad news for the 2028
26:47
presidential election as well. So while the Empire might have
26:50
got a short term win, Mike, for Trump and maybe for the Empire,
26:55
we don't know. This could be a major setback.
26:59
So we'll give you more, hopefully more information on
27:02
that polling. I'll make a note.
27:03
We'll get some of that information together for next
27:05
time. Okay, super well, let's come on
27:07
to the Palestine action situation, which continues to go
27:12
on. The hunger strikers are still
27:15
striking. Yes, they are.
27:17
I mean, we, we talked about this before Christmas on the, the UK
27:19
column Christmas edition and these were the original 8 here.
27:23
But right now this situation we're in and again, it's, it's
27:27
important to recognize these people because what they're
27:29
doing is very brave. But two of them in particular,
27:32
two of them in particular are in critical condition.
27:36
These are Cameron Ahmed and Heba Moreisi and we'll go to the
27:41
update here. They're now in their sixty 67th
27:45
and 60th days respectively as part of a rolling protest at
27:49
which began in November. So we're we're getting to the
27:53
point of organ failure now. So this is getting quite
27:56
serious. So I don't know what to say
27:58
beyond this, but I know Basil Valentine has been following
28:01
this story extremely closely from the beginning.
28:04
So where are we at right now with these two hunger strikers
28:09
and just with this issue in general?
28:11
Is the government going to give any ground on this?
28:14
Well, the government aren't even commenting on it at the moment.
28:17
There's no indication that there are any talks between the hunger
28:21
strikers, lawyers or representatives and the
28:24
Department of Justice for just get standard statements from the
28:28
prisoner state about how the hunger strikers are being
28:31
treated no differently to anybody else with respect to
28:34
their immediate physical condition.
28:36
Well, we could hear at any moment that one of them has
28:39
died. The most likely candidate is
28:42
probably Kamran Ahmed, who's gone 60 days without food.
28:46
He was hospitalized for the sixth time on Wednesday of this
28:50
week. He's experiencing shrinkage to
28:53
the muscle of the heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia,
28:57
with his heart rate dropping to 40 beats per minute, according
29:01
to his sister, who is a pharmacist.
29:03
She was speaking through Novara Media.
29:06
There are significant changes in his ECG putting him at risk of
29:09
sudden cardiac arrest. He said the government must act
29:12
now. Now, of course, amongst their
29:15
demands is the deep prescription of Palestine action, something
29:19
that's under judicial review and the result of that we should
29:24
know before the end of this month or certainly before the
29:27
end of next month. There's no way the government
29:31
are going to give ground on that issue in the interim because
29:34
somebody is hunger striking and Ahmed's representatives and
29:40
advisers would be advised to tell him that because the UK
29:43
government will let him die. But before they overturn the ban
29:48
on Palestine action, before the result of the judicial review.
29:53
So, you know, there's a collision course here at the
29:56
moment. They they have been given
29:59
vitamins, niacin and things like that, vitamin B, which do help
30:05
sustain life. But it's highly likely that the
30:08
next major news we hear is of somebody's death.
30:12
Mike, this is incredible. I mean, what, what would you
30:15
think that the fallout would be, Mike?
30:16
If if one of them did die, I mean, it's horrible even to
30:21
imagine it, but would that change the government's position
30:25
at all on this issue? No, I don't think so.
30:27
They will they will stand on their decision that Palestine
30:30
Action is a terrorist organization.
30:33
They they have form on this in the past.
30:37
So I don't I don't think this is going to change their position
30:39
at all. If if that if the worst should
30:41
happen. Basil, it's extraordinary.
30:44
Just a brief comment. We just got a minute left, but
30:47
you know, we've seen hunger strikers in the past, Bobby
30:50
Sands, etcetera, in history in Britain.
30:52
It's it, these have been big political events in the past.
30:55
This is different though, isn't it Basil?
30:56
It's got a global scope to this story, which makes it very
31:01
different. Your your final thoughts
31:03
briefly. I mean, the UK government were
31:05
equally intransigent when it came to the H bloc hunger
31:08
strikers in the 1980s. And Bobby Sands, of course,
31:11
famously died. That sparked rioting.
31:14
You can claim that his death did ultimately lead to the process
31:18
that bore fruit in the Good Friday Agreement.
31:21
And, you know, obviously the situation in Northern Ireland is
31:24
vastly better than it was during the Troubles in terms of
31:28
changing the government. But Mike's perfectly right.
31:31
They're not, they're not going to change their position at all.
31:33
But in terms of changing public opinion and mood towards the
31:37
government on this issue, that's another matter.
31:39
It's a shame if somebody has to be martyred.
31:42
I mean, really there should be a conversation between the hunger
31:45
strikers, representatives and lawyers and the government.
31:48
I'm sure that if the government agreed that they would abide by
31:53
the result of the judicial review, the other demands,
31:56
immediate bail and a fair trial, well, they're perfectly
32:02
reasonable. They've already been held for 13
32:04
months, which is far longer than the government's own
32:06
recommendations for detention prior to a trial.
32:10
Mike, what Basil said I think is crucial.
32:12
He said if, if the government or if they could convince the
32:16
government that took state that they would abide by the results
32:19
of the judicial review, would that not apply some additional
32:22
pressure on the judiciary for that judicial review?
32:26
But that's normal, isn't it, because this is a political
32:28
process at the end of the day. What are your thoughts briefly?
32:32
I mean, I do, I agree completely.
32:34
I don't really have anything else to add to that.
32:36
I mean, I really think that that that could be a potential yeah
32:39
solution. And it would show good faith on
32:42
the part of the government to at least take some kind of a
32:45
principled position, even if it's.
32:47
I don't believe this government understands the word principle
32:50
so. Even if it's saying they're
32:51
going to respect due process, right?
32:53
I mean, I don't know. We're not left with many options
32:57
here. And that's that's the sad part
32:58
now on on on the back end of this, this story here at the
33:03
Canary judicial review launched against the NHS adoption of the
33:07
IHRA anti-Semitism definition. And this is from the Canary
33:12
Mike. And they're saying the right to
33:13
protest group has instructed lawyers to begin judicial review
33:17
proceedings against NHS England for adopting the unfit.
33:21
They say International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, IHRA
33:25
working definition of anti-Semitism that suppresses
33:28
freedom of speech of Israel. Now, this isn't just about
33:33
policing NHS staff, Mike. As we've reported previously,
33:36
they're talking about applying this to NHS patients.
33:40
Basil Valentine, have you been following this story and is this
33:43
how deep it goes? Yes, it's Imran Khan and
33:48
partners that have launched this on behalf of a right to protest
33:52
group. Very much welcomed.
33:55
It's yet to be discovered whether or not they are granted
33:58
A judicial review. Lawyers have said that they're
34:01
going to petition for one. It's a different matter whether
34:03
they get one, of course. I I think they should, because
34:07
the key thing about the IHRA definition is it's only ever
34:11
supposed to be a working definition.
34:13
It was never supposed to be set in stone.
34:15
Even it's author would say that. So given Israel's actions over
34:21
the last two years, widely perceived by all sorts of
34:24
international organisations to be genocide, therefore some of
34:28
the examples in the IHRA definition, such as singling out
34:32
Israel for criticism, surely that needs to be updated if the
34:37
country, any country has been committing what is the ultimate
34:41
crime. So you know, the government are
34:44
trying to impose it in a monolithic way and a way that I
34:49
mean excludes even patients being admitted to hospital with
34:55
a 3 coloured watermelon type in or badge or something that would
35:00
be beyond the pale apparent. I mean, absolutely extraordinary
35:04
stuff as well, of course, as the attacks on staff, you know,
35:10
Rehana Ali, Rami Alidwan, Dr. Krisles as well, who've been
35:15
hauled up before the GMC for opposing genocide, so.
35:19
We're going to continue this, we're going to continue this in
35:21
the extra time because we're we're just going to we're
35:24
running on on it interest of time, but that's extraordinary
35:28
issue and we're going to we're going to expand on that with
35:30
Basil during the extra. Yeah, OK.
35:33
So thank you. Thank you for that, Basil.
35:34
Now, OK, we should go back to the United States at this point.
35:39
And of course, the shooting of an armed, an unarmed white U.S.
35:44
citizen by an ICE officer in Minneapolis has shocked many,
35:48
many people. Now, I'm going to suggest that
35:50
it was the result of placing mass paramilitaries on the
35:53
streets. And I find it really shocking
35:55
that anyone finds that the pretence of mass paramilitaries
36:00
acceptable, actually. But it's Trump's response that I
36:04
want to focus on here. In order to to do that, we've
36:08
got to actually, unfortunately watch what happened.
36:10
So let's look at the at the event itself.
36:27
No, no. Shame, shame.
36:32
Oh my fucking God, what the fuck?
36:36
What the fuck? You just fucking what the fuck
36:39
did you do? OK, so for anybody that's just
36:45
listening to this, what happened was that he literally shot
36:49
through the driver's side window of the car at head height.
36:53
The window was down. The window was down, absolutely,
36:56
but I wanted to, I wanted to highlight Trump's response to
36:59
this. So, so put this.
37:00
If we put this on screen, this is what he said on True Social.
37:04
I've just viewed the clip of the event which took place in
37:06
Minneapolis, MN. It is a horrible thing to watch,
37:10
that much is true. The woman screaming was
37:13
obviously a professional agitator.
37:15
I, I just, I mean, I just, I don't even know where to start
37:18
with this. A woman screaming was a
37:19
professional agitator and the woman driving the car was very
37:22
disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently,
37:27
wilfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer who seems to
37:30
have shot her in self defence. This is just an outright lie.
37:33
The video shows very, very clearly that she did not run
37:37
over anybody. Just put that back up again,
37:40
please. And he then went on to say based
37:43
on the attached clip, it's hard to believe he is alive.
37:46
That's the ICE officer, but is now recovering in hospital.
37:49
Now to be absolutely clear about this, if you're watching closely
37:53
as as she was shot, the car continued to move off and then
37:57
crashed into a a car further on down the street.
38:00
He walked calmly towards the car in towards the the road accident
38:05
that that he had created. So there was no question of him
38:09
being in hospital or requiring to go in hospital and putting
38:13
Trump back on screen again. Then he said the situation is
38:16
being studied in its entirety. But the reason these incidents
38:20
are happening is because the radical left is threatening,
38:22
assaulting and targeting our law enforcement officers and ICE
38:25
agents on a daily basis. And so first of all, we have
38:30
what can only be considered an execution here because that was
38:36
that was beyond incompetence. What happened was beyond
38:39
incompetence. But now we have a president who
38:42
simply lies blatantly on his true social account and then
38:47
tries to turn this into something which is killing by
38:51
law enforcement and inverted commas and turn it into
38:54
something which is right, left immigration issue.
38:58
And, and I just think that's that is pretty despicable.
39:01
It's so lowbrow. I mean, we're going to spare you
39:03
JD Vance's comments, which were equally as reprehensible, but
39:07
basically blaming the victim. So and basically an unarmed
39:10
woman, a mother of 337 year old white American citizen.
39:15
I just thought I'd throw that out there because if if she was,
39:20
if she wasn't white, this would have a completely different
39:23
political scope to it, a la George Floyd.
39:26
I'm just putting that out there. But she was She was shot at
39:30
point blank range by a masked federal agent who's effectively
39:35
A paramilitary. Donald Trump deployed 2000 of
39:39
these masked troops into Minneapolis as a political show
39:44
of force as he did in Los Angeles, which caused riots.
39:49
So guess what's happening now this week there's big protests
39:52
which will likely careen into riots.
39:55
So again, it starts from a spark and becomes a brush fire.
40:00
So that's what it is. So they're blaming the victim,
40:03
the mega media, the supporters of Trump.
40:06
It's just so incredible. It's almost statistic,
40:09
nihilistic, sadistic and just completely bereft of any morals.
40:13
This is the state of. Part of America, I'm not going
40:16
to say all Americans are this insensitive, but but generally
40:21
it's I don't know. I never thought I would see the
40:23
day, especially these are the conservatives that were crying
40:28
after January 6th about the dash death of Ashley Babbitt.
40:32
Well, that was during a protest that, you know, got inside the
40:36
Capitol building. And, you know, I didn't, I
40:38
thought that was a very wrong unlawful assassination, if you
40:42
will, of a protester, Ashley Babbitt.
40:44
I was against it. But this is a totally different
40:47
situation. This is the federal government
40:49
deploying armed people who are drawing their weapons on
40:53
civilians in in a public setting where they have no jurisdiction
40:57
to draw their weapons because they're not in the process of
41:00
apprehending any illegal person in the case of this woman in the
41:03
car. So I mean, it's just kind of
41:06
unbelievable and it's a very dangerous precedent.
41:08
So now the the person in question has been named, and
41:12
this is by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
41:14
We'll bring this up here. His name is Jonathan Ross.
41:17
This is the masked ICE agent. So he will probably be in hiding
41:23
for a very long time and he may, very well may or may not be
41:26
disciplined. And this is the thing the Trump
41:29
administration, even if he was to, you know, be held
41:32
accountable through a federal legal process, maybe if he was
41:38
sentenced to on any federal charges, Mike, he would most
41:41
likely be pardoned by Donald Trump.
41:42
I'm just guessing because Trump in advance are doubling down on
41:46
this and again, blaming the the woman who's dead.
41:49
I mean, this is if if you want to a recipe for mass protests
41:53
and social unrest. Donald Trump has just whipped up
41:57
a souffle here. They couldn't be engineering it,
41:59
could they? Well, it's it will engineer
42:02
itself, let's put it that way. But how did we get here?
42:04
Let's take a look at this. So this is Trump's Gestapo is
42:08
really what we're talking about here.
42:09
This is a very strange individual who is Donald Trump's
42:14
White House deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland
42:17
Security. His name is Stephen Miller, and
42:20
this is what Stephen Miller had to say.
42:21
He set the groundwork for this when he publicly stated that he
42:26
declared that ICE agents are legally protected from
42:28
prosecution and local officials cannot arrest them.
42:32
So they could kill somebody, according to Stephen Miller, and
42:35
they have total immunity, total federal immunity.
42:38
That's not exactly true. They, they are, they do, they do
42:43
have a code and they would be held accountable under a federal
42:46
due process on this. So he's, but he's basically
42:49
saying we can invade the Gestapo can invade your community and
42:53
you can't do anything about it. And this is really the key
42:55
point, isn't it? Because we're seeing the United
42:58
States, the UK behaving in the way that they're behaving with
43:00
respect to Venezuela and the oil tigers.
43:03
They're behaving exactly the same way against their own
43:05
population. It's attack on the rule of law
43:07
internationally and it's attack and on the US Constitution as
43:11
well. So to all ICE officers, says
43:13
Miller, you have federal immunity in your, in the conduct
43:17
of your duties. So that is a statement of
43:20
intent. So if you were to take this to
43:22
trial, I would take Stephen Millers.
43:24
If I was the, the, the, the, the prosecution, I would take
43:29
Stephen Miller's comments there straight at the ICE agent here.
43:34
So where does this lead us here? Well, this is the reality of it,
43:36
Mike. ICE has offered $280 million to
43:40
immigrant tracking bounty hunter firms.
43:43
So some of these ICE agents, Mike, are mercenaries.
43:46
OK. And some of these mercenaries,
43:48
as has been reported, we're still tracking the details, but
43:51
they're circulating on social media right now.
43:53
But there are people who are former, according to reports.
43:58
ID EF soldiers as well who are, you know, for hire security
44:03
bounty hunters not uncommon you would find such people from
44:06
different militaries there. But this shows you this is the
44:09
privatization of this process here.
44:12
These aren't public servants. These are mercenaries here.
44:16
So where does that lead us? Let's take a look.
44:18
So inside ISIS tool to monitor phones in entire neighborhoods.
44:23
Absolutely. So this is the headline in Four
44:25
O 4 Media, if we just put it back on screen there.
44:28
So Four O 4 Media has obtained material that explains how
44:31
tangles and weblock 2 surveillance systems, ICE
44:35
recently purchased work weblock and track phones without a
44:39
warrant and follow their owner's home or to their employer.
44:42
So this is the the what Four O 4 Media is saying.
44:47
And they're saying that a social media and phone surveillance
44:49
system that ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city,
44:52
neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of
44:55
those devices and their owners over time and follow them from
44:58
their places of work or home to other locations.
45:01
According to material that describes how the system works
45:04
obtained by four O 4 media Links to this will be in the show
45:07
notes. Of course, now they're saying
45:10
that that this technology is owned by a company called
45:13
Penlink. But the issue is that Penlink
45:16
only obtained this technology a couple of years ago.
45:20
They bought it via an organization called Spire
45:22
Capital. So this is from Globes Spire
45:25
Capital buys is really web intelligence firm Cobwebs.
45:30
So Cobwebs was an Israeli. Now, although it's not directly
45:34
declared that it was linked to Unity 200 as such, it's saying
45:37
that it was absolutely linked to or formed by IDF intelligence
45:43
agency staff. So this is the type of
45:46
technology that we're seeing deployed for these types of
45:50
operations. No surprise there.
45:52
Well, let's take a look at how deep this goes here.
45:55
And this is ICE and U.S. Department of Homeland
45:59
Security's long standing operational technological ties
46:03
with Israel. First of all, since the early
46:05
2000s, DHS has maintained A liaison presence inside Israel.
46:10
That's the US Department of Homeland Security.
46:12
They've even got their investigations offices inside
46:15
Israel working with Shin Bet, Israelis, MOD on technology and
46:20
data transfers. All of this stuff is pretty much
46:22
open between these two countries here.
46:26
And so it goes. In 2022, DHS signed a bilateral
46:30
security agreement. Biometric data sharing, cyber
46:33
intelligence, border surveillance technology, all of
46:36
this agreements between ICE, the DHS and the Israelis.
46:40
So I mean, does that worry you? Well, this is make going to make
46:43
you even a little more worried here.
46:46
They've they've been Paragon solutions spy Ware, surveillance
46:50
Ware, all of this stuff, location tracking, cell phone
46:53
communication monitoring, data scraping, all has been Rd.
46:57
tested in the West Bank and Gaza and Elbit systems.
47:01
Mike is this name that people are familiar with here.
47:04
They've built a large portion of the US Mexican border
47:07
surveillance infrastructure, radar towers, drones, remote
47:10
sensors, all again, Rd. tested in Gaza, Rd. tested in the West
47:14
Bank. Oh, and it doesn't end there.
47:16
If only it did they their joint research program is called Bird.
47:21
This is for new technologies right across the board.
47:23
And to hide this, these programs are being organized outside
47:27
through nonprofits and universities.
47:30
This is how they're laundering these joint ventures, Mike,
47:32
because obviously there would be a lot of protests that people
47:35
knew they should. Now, key programs include the
47:38
Anti Defamation League's National Counterterrorism
47:41
Seminar and and so on. You can see all the data here.
47:44
We'll put the links to this, by the way, in our show notes.
47:47
But here is a whistleblower who was in Gaza.
47:50
Listen to what he has to say. Anthony Aguilera, former U.S.
47:55
special forces and military person.
47:59
The IDF trains American police officers and ICE officers in
48:04
Israel. They train with US, ICE with US,
48:09
Homeland Security, NYPD and that's what's called through SME
48:16
program, subject matter exchange where our police etcetera
48:21
trained with them. So these National Guard soldiers
48:24
that will soon be in or are in Chicago have trained with and
48:28
trained with Israel habitually for years.
48:31
So when you look at all of these pieces of who do we have
48:34
operating on the streets of Portland, in the streets of New
48:36
York and on in DC and who's going into Chicago, all
48:43
components and elements that have trained hand in hand with
48:46
the IDF or the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, Jean de Marie
48:50
paramilitary police, that's absolutely amazing.
48:54
That's not a coincidence. They do anti-Semitism training,
48:57
not just physical training but brainwash training basically for
49:01
them too. When we entered Israel, they
49:04
took us on the hospital tour, they took us to Kibbutz Bierity,
49:11
they took us to the Nova Film Festival site, and they also
49:15
took us to Stared Out, which is the overlook just outside of
49:20
northern Gaza City and Bait Hanoon.
49:23
It's on the Israeli. Side of the border that
49:25
overlooks all of Gaza City. They've turned that into a
49:28
spectacle. It's a picnic site.
49:31
You can go up there. There's vending machines,
49:33
there's an area to park, there's an area where you can get your
49:36
panoramic view with Gaza in the background.
49:38
And if you time it just right, there might be a bomb that drops
49:40
for your photo I. Mean.
49:45
That's pretty cynical. It's pretty shocking, but you
49:47
know, we've got the receipts for this and again, we'll drop the
49:49
links in the show notes here. But just so people know, DHS
49:53
increasing cooperation with Israel.
49:55
That's our source. Our source is the Department of
49:57
Homeland Security. All the documents you'll be able
49:59
to access through the links in your show notes here.
50:02
This is another one of our sources, Deadly Exchange.
50:05
This is a not-for-profit. These are Jewish Americans who
50:09
run this organization who are against this use of cooperation
50:13
between the IDF and the US law enforcement and ICE.
50:17
So again, a Jewish American group, liberal group is coming
50:20
out to oppose this here. And we track some of the
50:23
contracts, Mike, on this. It's very interesting with
50:25
regarding ICE and Paragon here. And so they're using AI,
50:29
Palantir's involved. And so this is coordinating all
50:33
of these software to integrate social media monitoring always
50:38
on surveillance pipelines. It never switches off.
50:41
This is what these big data centers are being used for.
50:44
And when you combine that with the digital ID, you can see
50:47
where this is part of the police state, the high tech police
50:51
state. And here's Whitney Webb
50:52
explaining the really uncomfortable connections here
50:56
with Palantir. Go ahead and roll this.
51:00
But Palantir, you know, also works extensively now in the
51:03
private sector as well. They're a major AI engine for
51:07
Wall Street banks, for example. And they have different programs
51:10
that are sold to different entities.
51:13
But ultimately, they are a massive contractor to
51:16
essentially every U.S. intelligence agency.
51:19
And that includes DHS and ICE, which a lot of the reporting,
51:22
critical reporting on Palantir focuses on their contracts with
51:25
ICE specifically. But all of that is intended to
51:28
also be used against people that are not illegal immigrants.
51:31
It's a meant to be an entire dragnet of basically pre crime.
51:35
And Palantir, in concordance with Poindexter's ambitions, has
51:40
been a major piloter of pre crime technology in the United
51:43
States. I think they began doing that in
51:46
New Orleans initially. They call it predictive policing
51:49
is the term that that they use. But a lot of other companies
51:52
have attempted to also get in on this.
51:55
One of the most notorious being Pred Pol.
51:57
That was a partnership, I believe with UCLA, an LAPD or
52:01
something to that effect. And they're notoriously
52:03
inaccurate. And they're almost always
52:05
piloted in low income minority neighborhoods.
52:08
In essence, what happens because the accuracy rate is so low is
52:12
that you're creating this pipeline of people basically
52:15
being sent to prison or, you know, being caught up in crimes
52:19
that are very petty. But I mean, you're just sending
52:21
police to all these areas in a relatively, you know,
52:24
discriminatory way. And then in in some of these
52:27
areas where Palantir ended up leaving another Peter Thiel
52:31
backed entity called Carbine also has a predictive policing
52:35
component, but has been sort of taking over 9911 emergency call
52:39
systems throughout the United States, which is, you know,
52:42
generally at the county level. But this is a company that that
52:45
wasn't just found, you know, funded by Peter Thiel.
52:48
It was funded by Jeffrey Epstein and was led for a significant
52:51
amount of time by Ehud Barack, the former Israeli Prime
52:54
Minister as well and has sort of expanded outwards.
52:58
So a lot of Poindexter's, the ambitions and unfortunately have
53:01
been becoming true at a really rapid pace.
53:09
So again, Whitney Webb, a great researcher on these topics here.
53:13
So that leads us just on the Palantir issue.
53:15
So knowing what we know now about Palantir and does this
53:19
bother anybody here, They just landed the biggest ever UK
53:22
defense deal, 240 million contract with the UKMOD.
53:27
So they're really in bed with Palantir here.
53:29
And we just go to the UK's government website.
53:32
These are the details of a £1.5 billion cooperation deal here
53:39
that's going to feature Palantir as one of the biggest central
53:43
players in this. And of course, we have a photo
53:45
there that is John Healey smiles from ear to ear there with Alex
53:50
Karp, the CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp being also a major
53:54
Bilderberg member now, as we saw during the last Bilderberg
53:58
meeting here. So I mean, people should start
54:01
connecting the dots really quickly before it's too late.
54:05
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54:37
That's on German Warfare at 7:00 PM.
54:40
And on Sunday at 7:00 PM Abby Roberts is the guest for Jake
54:45
Fern for the 1000 Words Podcast. And Abby will be having her
54:49
portrait painted by Jake while they have an in depth discussion
54:52
about a whole host of topics. Now let's move on to a gentleman
55:00
called Colonel Jacques Bode. Now a number of years ago, in
55:03
fact three years ago this month, Jacques, we published an article
55:08
by Jacques Bode on the UK column entitled Ukraine the Search for
55:11
Peace. If you haven't read that
55:12
article, please do. The link will be in the show
55:14
notes. Why am I mentioning him?
55:17
Well, because he has now been sanctioned by the EU, because
55:23
he's an outspoken critic of EU policy with respect to Ukraine
55:26
and Russia Since the war began, a petition has been set up to
55:31
raise awareness of the sanctions and to demand their removal.
55:35
So here it is. The text of the petition makes
55:37
the point that Bode and others have been sanctioned not for
55:40
criminal acts, but for engaging in lawful activities such as
55:44
journalism, academic analysis, political commentary that are
55:48
explicitly, they say, protected under European fundamental
55:51
rights frameworks, including freedom of expression and
55:54
freedom of thought. Increasingly, of course, that's
55:56
being ignored by the EU, the UK, the United States.
56:00
Now the sanctions being applied are being applied in the
56:04
context, in the following context.
56:06
They say that they lack judicial due process, that they have a
56:10
punitive effect despite being officially framed as foreign
56:13
policy measures, that they lead to severe personal and economic
56:16
hardship tantamount to civil death, and that they're
56:19
incompatible with values and legal principles enshrined in EU
56:22
treaties to Charter fundamental rights and the European
56:25
Convention on Human Rights. And they say that they call on
56:28
the Council to immediately delist Mr. Bode and similar
56:31
affected citizens and to refrain from using foreign policy
56:35
sanctions to regulate lawful internal speech or dissent.
56:38
And this again, this is now the third time in this program that
56:42
we've had to highlight that what these governments are doing on
56:45
an international basis, they're applying on a domestic basis as
56:48
well. And you know, this is the
56:51
integrated operating concept that the British military claims
56:56
to have got rid of in June this year.
56:58
The idea that the the front in this war that we're experiencing
57:03
at the moment is as much at home as it is abroad.
57:07
And it's absolutely clear that our that our own populations are
57:09
under massive attack now, Patrick.
57:11
You know, they're accusing Jump Boat of, of being a Russian
57:14
disinformation agent when he's totally objective.
57:17
He doesn't use Russian sources. He doesn't appear on Russian
57:20
media, yet he has still been sanctioned by the European
57:23
Commission. And what's important, just to
57:25
note here, Mike, is that he's done nothing illegal.
57:29
He's done nothing illegal. This is an administrative
57:31
measure designed to quote, change the behavior.
57:33
I'm quoting the paraphrasing the E the EU Commission's own
57:36
website to change the behavior of the individual.
57:39
But it basically it's punishing them.
57:41
They can't. He can't even buy food.
57:43
He can't even pay his rent without asking permission.
57:47
No, you can't give him anything as a donation.
57:49
That's a that would be a violation of sanctions.
57:51
Some of the other people have been sanctioned.
57:53
They've sanctioned their wife's bank accounts, their whole
57:55
family. They can't come and help them.
57:57
He can't travel. He can't fly over European
58:00
airspace. So this is something that has
58:02
been used against foreign targets.
58:05
So this that that's what this tool is.
58:07
It's used against as Natalie Yam from Switzerland as well.
58:10
She said they've been doing this to African politicians for
58:13
years. And now they're using the same
58:15
tools to target foreign targets against European citizens.
58:20
Jacques Boud is a decorated intelligence officer with the
58:24
Swiss government, has worked with NATO and the OSCE.
58:27
And that's why of course, because, because he is that that
58:32
standing within the, within the establishment as it were, that's
58:36
of course why they're targeting him and others of that type.
58:39
And there's something else quickly, Mike, I know we got to
58:41
move on, but this is coming from the French government.
58:44
They hand walk this to the European Commission and
58:48
Caliacalis and so forth. It's coming from France and
58:51
they've targeted. So France is worried about the
58:54
French language political ecosystem that they're really
58:58
panicking because they're losing control of Switzerland falls
59:01
within that French language sort of area of information.
59:06
They're really concerned about this.
59:07
Why would that be? Shows you how important France
59:10
is in Europe as as as A to either have on board or not have
59:15
on board with this wider agenda to go to war with Russia for
59:20
example. Absolutely.
59:21
Well, we'll, we'll stick with France knowledge just very, very
59:24
quickly because as Finnas and I were talking about yesterday on
59:27
on the discussion that we had, Burkina Faso and Niger, who are
59:32
both members of the Confederation of Sahel states
59:36
have apparently stopped major destabilisation operations to
59:40
overthrow their governments. Tuesday, Burkina Faso Security
59:43
Minister Sana released a video message, as you can see on
59:48
screen here on X what he exposing what he described as an
59:52
attempt to destabilise the country.
59:54
He said that the operation was planned for the 3rd of January
59:57
and that the intention was to assassinate President Triore and
1:00:02
several military and civilian officials and to disable a drone
1:00:06
base and follow up with the ground military intervention by
1:00:09
foreign forces. The coup was to be led by Paul
1:00:13
Henri d'amiba, the former transitional president who was
1:00:17
ousted by Triori on September the 30th, 2022 and who's now
1:00:23
exiled in Togo. And he he said a significant
1:00:26
portion of the funding came from Cote d'Ivoire, with latest
1:00:30
contribution reportedly amounting to 70 million CFA
1:00:34
francs. So the the sorry SANA said that
1:00:42
authorities have been arrested, numerous civilians will be
1:00:46
brought before the prosecutor of Burkina Faso, the full force of
1:00:49
the law will be applied. And then, of course, Niger on
1:00:53
the 1st of January declared that the first advisor of the Embassy
1:00:57
of Benin should be removed from the country as persona non
1:01:02
grata. They ordered him to leave the
1:01:04
country. But this is just part and parcel
1:01:06
of a number of operations that are going on in the Sahel.
1:01:10
So we've got Associated Press here talking about Mali, Burkina
1:01:13
Faso, amnesia, calling for joint large scale operations against
1:01:17
extremists. There is there are insurgencies
1:01:20
at work right across the Sahel at the moment of why would this
1:01:24
be? Well, we got to go back to a
1:01:26
couple of years ago when the wonderful yen Stoltenberg was in
1:01:30
charge of NATO. And of course he was talking
1:01:33
about the expansion of NATO towards China.
1:01:35
But he was saying this is not about NATO moving NATO into the
1:01:37
South China Sea. It's about taking into account
1:01:40
that China is coming closer to us in the Arctic, in Africa,
1:01:44
investing heavily in infrastructure.
1:01:47
The EU sees the Sahel region as being it's external
1:01:51
neighborhood, it's southern neighborhood that's it's
1:01:54
particularly interested. But so is the United Kingdom and
1:01:57
Tony Blair Institute absolutely 100% active in that region.
1:02:01
So when we're seeing in Niger and Burkina Faso, in Nigeria, in
1:02:07
the Horn of Africa, we're seeing these types of insurgencies
1:02:09
taking place. It's again the same MO that we
1:02:12
saw in Syria and other places. We fund the insurgency, we arm
1:02:17
the insurgency, we're even prepared to kill the insurgency
1:02:19
when it suits us to do so. But it's our effort to
1:02:23
destabilize the region for our control interests.
1:02:26
And you notice the the words in here, Mike, the verbage, if you
1:02:28
look close, it's about providing women and girls with the freedom
1:02:32
they need to succeed and getting them on board with climate
1:02:35
change in those countries, precisely so forth.
1:02:38
And by the way, it's South America.
1:02:39
Also, China is one of the sort of big reasons the United States
1:02:43
is saying it's a big threat to their hemispheres.
1:02:46
So there there is an agenda to evict China from Africa, from
1:02:50
South America, from the Western Hemisphere.
1:02:52
But if from Europe, how's Europe going to pull that one off?
1:02:55
Exports from China into Europe have reached record highs, Mike,
1:02:59
this past year. So that's going to be tough for
1:03:02
old Europe, isn't it? But this is part of the paradox.
1:03:04
Of course, Europe still buying Russian oil as well.
1:03:06
So you know, it is part of the paradox.
1:03:09
We'll talk about that more in UK called News Extra, which will be
1:03:12
on this live stream in a few minutes if you're if that.
1:03:14
Basil Valentine will be joining us as well.
1:03:16
Joining us, absolutely. So if you are AUK column member,
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Thanks for joining us in any case today.
1:03:27
Have a great weekend. Don't forget German warfare
1:03:29
tonight, but we'll see you 1:00 PM as usual on Monday.
1:03:32
See you then. Bye bye.