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UK Column News - 25th June 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 25th of June
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just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Mike Robinson and my Co host today is Charles
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Mallett. Welcome to programme Charles.
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Thank you, Mike. And joining us via live link, we
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have researcher and activist Sandy Adams and journalist and
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peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey. Now we must, quote, actively
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prepare for the possibility of the UK coming under direct
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threat, potentially in a wartime scenario, according to the
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Starmer regime. The statement was made alongside
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the launch of the shiny new National Security Strategy.
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And right on cue, Charles, the legacy media is wrapping up the
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fear agenda once again. For example, the Telegraph here.
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Yes, it is. And the joint state, sorry, the
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Joint State Threats Assessment Team has the risk of an attack
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to the UK at substantial, in other words, unchanged.
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But this has not stopped the government and the media from
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encouraging the population to enter into a state of full blown
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panic. And as Mike says, this article
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from the Telegraph is case in point, referring to plans for
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annual drills relating to an attack on this country and
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indeed the recirculation of the Protect and survive literature
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from the 1970s and 80s. And quite deliberately, this
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coincides with the publication of the new National Security
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Strategy, linked also with the messaging coming from the NATO
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summit. The central theme here to this
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document is that we're all going to war.
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Which makes it the government's version of the recently
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published Strategic Defence Review for Civies that the Prime
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Minister writes forward to the document based on the faulty
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premise that the world has become more dangerous.
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A passive statement without an active plan.
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Sorry about an active plan, but of course, what it means is that
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the actions taken by his government and their strategic
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partners have created enough chaos to suggest that war is
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imminent. And to that End Quote, We must
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also now mobilise every element of society towards a collective
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national effort. Persistent themes are might as
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much as you might expect, the sense of peril conjured by
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allusions to the threats presented by Russia and Iran,
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among others. The strategy posits that, quote,
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national security today means so much more than it used to.
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From the health of our economy to food prices to supply chains,
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from safety on the streets to the online world.
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End Quote. Describing this as a strategy
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should raise a trade descriptions flag because the
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one thing it fails to do is to set out any sort of definitive
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plan. Language used might be described
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as woolly and conceptual. And exactly like the defence
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review, the key takeaway from this paper is that the United
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Kingdom is in absolutely no way prepared for any kind of shock
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or pressure on it, supply chains or lines of communication.
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Now, at the same time as creating the spectre of a deadly
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enemy with which to justify such a strategy, it does at the same
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time confirmed that enemy, that country is in a parlour state,
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which one might describe as an interesting strategy.
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Now the NATO summit, which might we'll cover next, has
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predictably seen much focus on the technological side of things
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with Zelensky continuing to go on about drones and their
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funding. And this coincides with a piece
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in the latest greatest issue of Soldier magazine about the
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compatibility of the deployment of autonomous drones and the
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laws of armed conflict. Now this is prompted by the
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recent launch of the American Red Dragon suicide drone, which
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is built by Aero Vironment and their promotional video is
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playing at the moment. The key feature of the
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development, as referred to in the article is the quote AI
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brain, which means that it can be configured to take on a fully
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autonomous mission where it selects and eliminates an enemy
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target on its own with no human operator in the decision making
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loop. And it goes on to say that the
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use of such technology is quote difficult to foresee End Quote,
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which really means it's a question of when.
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And for context, these systems are widely used already.
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Here's another manufacturer's promotional video, Elbit.
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Elbit, of course, an Israeli firm supplying a lot of
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technology into the British defence infrastructure already
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and a key enabler of the destruction in Gaza, which
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further raises the fundamental issues of autonomy in the
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overall context of command and control.
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Now Mike will speak about the Americans retaining control of
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nuclear weapons carried by British F35 airframes.
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But purchasing kit from nations which take a particular view on
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the interpretation of the laws of armed conflict must by
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definition expose A tremendous vulnerability in that area.
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And the last thing to consider is the potential fallout from
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overblowing the confected threat.
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Now, as I said at the outset, the government, under the false
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pretext of intelligence, is trying to convince the public
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that there really is an existential threat to the UK.
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Now, in addition to stocking the nuclear fear, they determine
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there to be a specific threat of a drone attack from Russia or
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Iran in particular. Now, the National Security
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Strategy says in specific reference to such a drone attack
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that some of these technologies will be available to a wider
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range of threat actors, posing new challenges to the
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traditional concepts of deterrence and escalation.
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Now, the Telegraph again is happy to do the state's bidding.
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And here's a headline from earlier in the week.
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The question for Joe Public then is how to determine what is or
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is not a threat. Now all of this drone threat
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signalling sites with Amazon's plan to launch their Prime Air
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capability, and this is really not meant to be a flippant
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point, but if you tell the public to be terrified of
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everything, then you have to own the consequences.
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Well, thank you, Charles. Let's move on then to the NATO
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summit and that kicked off yesterday in The Hague.
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Just like the G7, it has a shortened format and there'll be
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no communique. The summit was supposed to be 3
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days in meetings. These have been replaced with 2
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1/2 hours during the course of today.
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The rest of the time is is being spent in informal discussions.
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As we'll see in a minute. It's US against the world was
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the key message with Margaret as saying quote.
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We meet at a truly historic moment with significant and
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growing challenges to our security as the world becomes
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more dangerous. The language is consistent right
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across the board. Here, Ally leaders will take
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bold decisions to strengthen our collective defence, making the
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other way stronger, a fairer and a more lethal alliance.
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This will include a major new defence investment plan, raising
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the benchmark for defence investment to 5% of GDP, said a
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concerted effort to wrap up defence industry across the
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alliance, bringing not only greater security but also more
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jobs and a continued focus on support for Ukraine, alongside
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the pursuit of a just and lasting end to Russia's war of
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aggression. The language from him is
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incredible, he went on to say. And once again, I was, well, I,
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I'm saying this in fact. And what?
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Once again, he couldn't help himself because he said all of
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this is essential to keeping our 1 billion citizens safe.
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Citizens safe. Because remember, that's the
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first role of government, right? This was a theme repeated
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several times in his opening remarks.
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And another key theme was the threat of a Russian invasion of
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NATO within five years or so. That's the claim anyway.
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Now, try not to laugh. But he said quotes.
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There's widespread agreement within NATO that at this moment
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today, if Russia would attack us, our reaction would be
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devastating. And the Russians know this.
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There you go. Now.
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Keir Starmer then during the this went on to speak to French
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President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich
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Mertz on the sidelines of the NATO summit.
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This was yesterday evening. The readout that they published
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says that they agreed that now is the time for diplomacy for
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and for Iran to come to the negotiating table.
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I'm sure Vanessa have something to say about that in a second.
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On Gaza, Starmer demonstrated once again the lack of an
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original thought and he said that the situation on Gaza is
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intolerable, that all sides need to work towards an urgent
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ceasefire. And on Ukraine they were again
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banging the same old drum. No innovative ideas from these
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three stooges. More pressure on the Kremlin is
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what they said, including through further sanctions.
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There'll be no discussion between the three of the sorry.
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There'll be more discussion between the three of them this
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evening and I'm certain with equally riveting results now
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Also at the summit, Starmer announced that Britain, as
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Charles has alluded to, will be purchasing 12 new F35A fighter
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jets which can carry both nuclear and conventional
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weapons, and that Britain will join NATO's dual capable
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aircraft nuclear mission. This decision is going to
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support, they said, 20,000 jobs in the F35 programme in in the
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UK, with 15% of the global supply chain.
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The Jets based in Britain, they said, supporting highly skilled
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jobs and opportunities for working people and delivering A
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defence dividend across the country.
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So what more could we ask for? But in other words, what they're
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saying is that jobs are reliant on killing people in perpetual
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war. So these new fast jets, as
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they're described, are going to be based in RAF Marum, with the
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government expected to procure 138-F30 fives over the lifetime
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of the programme. But, and again try not to laugh,
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they said that the procurement of these 12F35A's, rather than
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choosing 1230F35B's as part of this current procurement
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package, will deliver a saving of up to 25% per aircraft for
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the taxpayer. So yes.
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But here's the rub, as again, as Charles mentioned, the nuclear
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weapons to be used on these aircraft are controlled by the
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United States. So how does that work, Charles?
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Well, I think this is this is one of the very many big
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questions about all of this stuff that's being put out.
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I have absolutely no idea. And especially when one
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considers what's been happening in the Middle East over the last
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week or so, it's it's a, it should be a massive point of
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contention. And and yet this is, you know,
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apparently just gone straight, straight over the hurdle and
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everybody seems to accept it. Yes, Sweden moving on a little
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bit, but also related to the NATO conference, Sweden has now
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announced that starting on the 1st of July, its Navy will stop,
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inspect and potentially seize all suspected vessels transiting
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its exclusive economic zone and is deploying the Swedish Air
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Force to back this up. Since the combined maritime
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economic zones of Sweden and three Baltic states cover the
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whole of the central Baltic Sea, this amounts to a virtual threat
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to cut off all Russian trade exiting via the Baltic.
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This is according to Matt Nielsen on X Now.
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He goes on to say that that would indeed be a very serious
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economic blow to Moscow. Just to put this into a bit of
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context, here's the map of the area.
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And so I guess what we're talking about here is this
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particular region here. And of course, the biggest
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threat here as far as Russia is concerned, aside from the fact
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they can't get into the North Sea, is the IT would cut off
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potentially Russia's enclave of Kaliningrad, which as you can
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see from the map there, has Poland, but also the Baltic
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states around it. It's effectively landlocked, so
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any attempt to restrict or stop Russia accessing that from the
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sea would mean that they're cut off from all resources.
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But just point out Kiliningrad there with the arrow if you just
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put that back on screen for a second.
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Thanks, Stephanie. So, so there we go.
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That's the situation. Now.
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This has been reported in non mainstream news outlets like
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Energy News but also here in Euro Maidan Press.
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In Nielsen's comments he went on to say this is the kind of
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action that's traditionally led to war.
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The Swedish assumption seems to be that the Russian Navy and Air
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Force in the Baltic are now so weak and so surrounded by NATO
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territory that there's nothing Moscow can do about this.
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However, it's very unlikely that the Swedes would take this step
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unless they also believe in that in the event of a clash,
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Washington would come to Sweden's defence, even though
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the EU and Swedish decisions are made without US approval and are
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not strictly covered by NATO's Article 5.
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But Vanessa, surely This is why Sweden was bullied into becoming
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a NATO member in the 1st place? I don't know if you've got any
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thoughts on this. No, I mean, it is extraordinary.
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But yes, I I would agree that that this is one of the reasons
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that Sweden was forced to join the the cartel, Yeah.
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Yes, OK, well, let's let's come to you then and give us an
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update on what's been going on between Israel and Iran.
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Everybody knows that the bombing has apparently stopped in the
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last 24 hours, but where actually are we at the moment?
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Well, I mean, there was a lot of confusion over the ceasefire
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and, and there are many complexities to this conflict
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that I'm not going to be able to cover in their entirety today or
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on the news. But we can continue an extra.
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I think I'm going to highlight some of the most important
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failures in the narratives from the West, particularly from
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Trump and his administration. But first of all, the news came
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in this morning that Iranian parliament has voted to suspend
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cooperation with the International Atomic Energy
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Agency. The bill prohibits entry of IAEA
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inspectors unless security of facilities is guaranteed.
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Of course, as the Foreign minister in Iran did point out,
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the bombing of the nuclear facilities is effectively a
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violation of UN Resolution 487 that was established after the
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bombing of the Australic, the alleged nuclear reactor in Iraq
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back in 1981, and is really a violation of the IAEA itself.
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222 votes in favour and no votes against and one extension.
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So clearly very, very sort of decisive vote.
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Now, if we have a look at what Donald Trump was saying, he
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basically claimed that the US strikes over the weekend have
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completely and totally obliterated Iran's three
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flagship nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.
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So let's have a look and see how correct that is.
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So this was in I-24, which of course is Israeli linked media
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experts are questioning the extent of damage to the Iranian
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nuclear sites following the US strikes.
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And then on I-24 Hebrew TV, there was an interview with a
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specialist whose name I haven't been able to identify because it
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was all in Hebrew and and on the meet on video, not on
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transcript. But he said the Iranian photo
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nuclear facility can only be destroyed from the inside.
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Let's stop with the illusions and fantasies.
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It can only be done from within or with hundreds of bombs
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dropped one after the other. So very interesting.
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Totally countering Trump's claims at the weekend.
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And then this was interesting. This was published yesterday by
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Alistair Crook, of course, former MI Six with connections.
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He worked extensively in Israel itself, but he basically makes
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the point that the key nuclear allegation that started the war
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was coaxed from a Palantir counterintelligence algorithm.
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So let's have a look at what he points out in the article
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itself. Since 2015, the IAEA has relied
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on Palantir's Mosaic platform, a 50 million AI system that sifts
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through millions of Datapoint satellite imagery, social media,
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personnel logs to predict nuclear threats.
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He goes on to say that Mosaic is not a passive system.
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It's trained to infer from its algorithm hostile intent.
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When repurposed for nuclear oversight, its equations risk
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translating simple correlation into malicious intent.
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Now, now I just want to play because what I've been noticing
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since Israel began the aggression against Iran, there
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have been a lot of Iranians going on to social media to make
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points and to stand in solidarity with their
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government, their army, and the Republican God.
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And this is just one of them very intelligent points being
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made here. We can just.
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Play. Oh yeah.
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I. Think very pertinent points made
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there. And I think one of the the
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general consensus since the so called ceasefire has been that
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Iran has largely been victorious in this war, both from a
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propaganda perspective or from APR perspective and from a
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military deterrence perspective. And this is from an Iranian
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professor who's a very well known commentator on X in
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particular. So she's basically saying they
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haven't won or lost the war. It's she sees it only as a a
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temporary pause. And she talks basically about
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how the war itself has demonstrated Iran's ability to
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defend itself and to develop its military infrastructure despite
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40 years of sanctions. She also talks extensively, not
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only in this post, about the cohesion, the national cohesion
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across the population of Iran. And we've certainly seen
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demonstrations of millions of people out on the streets,
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including those that that before might have been against some of
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the policies in Iran itself. And she goes on to say, and
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again, I've actually also highlighted those in some of the
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writing that I've done, we are now aware of our shortcomings
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more than ever and in dire need of some changes.
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So this is a realistic analysis of what the war has reveal to
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Iranians. Iran's biggest achievement or
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gift wasn't on the battlefield, but at home among the people
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becoming as one. This is a very important point.
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The younger generations who had not experienced that during the
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revolution or the eight Years War, which is the Iran Iraq war,
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now tasted something beyond themselves.
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It gave them the identity they were longing for.
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I know Iranians won't get her profound, that is non Iranian,
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sorry. But the enemy understood this
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very well and planned accordingly.
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Our biggest challenges will be inside the borders from now on.
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But it's still hybrid warfare and there are many open fronts.
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And I'll talk about that in my next section.
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But this is another video from a journalist at German channel
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ARD, Sophie von der Tan. Speaking about the Israeli
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censorship on the Iranian strikes inside the occupied
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territory. So let's have a look at what she
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had to say then. There are restrictions, military
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censorship, and according to these rules, we are only allowed
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to film and report if civilian targets were hit, residential
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buildings, for example. But if military or strategic
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targets were hit, we are not allowed to film and report
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unless we get the approval of the censor.
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The military censor says that's because that sensitive
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information that Iran is not supposed to get.
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But the problem is that that can create the impression that only
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civilian and no military targets are being aimed at and hit.
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And with regards to Gaza, the problem is that we've been
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barred by Israel from entering Gaza independently since October
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7th, 2023. Then, sorry, extraordinary
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levels of censorship inside Israel and it's now sort of
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going to probably slowly be revealed the number of
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intelligence personnel, military personnel that may have been hit
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in the multiple strikes across the occupied territory.
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It's also worth pointing out, she mentions that independent
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journalists can't go into Gaza. There is a recent Harvard study
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that has been published in the last couple of days that is now
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saying that more than three, sorry 377,000 Palestinians are
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now unaccounted for inside Gaza. That's 17% of the population
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before the 7th of October 2023. On the contrary, from Iran,
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we've seen very sort of detailed coverage of the deaths of both
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scientists, paramedics and military personnel, particularly
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the command of the IRGC. If we can just have a look at
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this slide, this was in about 24 hours before the ceasefire came
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into effect. A martyred Iranian scientist,
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Doctor Sayed Mustafa Siddharthi, and Makshi and his entire family
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were killed in an Israeli strike on Iran.
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So that was very shortly before the ceasefire.
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And there was another, a nuclear scientist, Mohammad Reza
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Siddiqui, who was also killed in in the period just before the
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ceasefire. Now, this is an interesting
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point. It comes from Wall Street
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Journal, but it's something that I've also been saying Israel
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seeks to wrap up fighting with Iran soon.
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But my argument is that Israel is only going to accept a
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ceasefire, and the US is only going to accept a ceasefire
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because it's of advantage to them.
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And many analysts are basically saying that Israel was basically
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starting to run out of its interceptor missiles.
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Many of its different systems were seen to be failing on the
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videos that were coming out of Israel itself.
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And it's, I, I would say it's worth saying that there may be a
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point, just as when Israel signed the ceasefire with
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Hezbollah in Lebanon, they pivoted to Syria.
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So it's there is potential that we're going to see, for example,
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a pivot towards Lebanon, the potential for triggering Takfiri
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attacks on Lebanese soil to occupy Hezbollah before they
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restart the conflict with Iran. And finally, I just wanted to
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say this summarises really the consensus on social media that
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really people have gone from believing in the negative
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propaganda against Iran into really considering Iran with a
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great deal of admiration, respect and or as a result of
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their ability to both deter Israel and to do serious damage
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to Israel. Thank you very much for that,
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Vanessa. Lots to unpack an extra on that
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report. So thank you for that.
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Let's welcome Sandy to the programme.
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And Sandy, you know, we are witnessing this continuing
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ramping up in fear in the UK, the justification for war in
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other countries. And we have to just keep the
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pressure on the idea of in people's minds, or at least keep
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the idea in people's minds that this regime that we are
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experiencing in this country may have an ideology that we're not
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altogether familiar with. Absolutely, Mike.
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I mean I've just been looking really this week because last
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week was a very dark week. As we, as we mentioned, with the
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passing of the assisted dying bill and the decriminalisation
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of full term abortions, you know, all of this can lead to
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blurred lines between legislation and potential use
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sort of abuse of, of, of power. And Liz Evans gave an excellent
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presentation of this last week about, you know, what, what the
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abuses could, could be with these, with the, with these new
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bills that have come in. I've been looking at history and
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it's always a good marker for what's happening now as a hidden
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hand always kind of bounces back to take control.
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And this time it's under Agenda 2030 depopulation and genomic
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data gathering. And I see a pattern emerging
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with what's happening in the Fabian and Eugenics Society in
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the early part of the century. Umm and bearing in mind we have
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141 members of the Fabian Society in Parliament right now,
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including Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.
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Uh, and uh, I've got, you know, a slide here with Kim
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Leadbetter, who led the assisting dying bill.
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She's a member of the Fabian Society now.
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Their emblem is the wolf in sheep's clothing, as we saw
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earlier. And their method is slow
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infiltration and propaganda by incrementalism.
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And you know, when they strike hard, when they strike, they
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strike hard. They've got the tortoise emblem
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as well, which I think Ben has mentioned.
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You know, we've got tortoise media.
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It's all in there. So later on in the show I'll be
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drawing parallels to what happened then and what's
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happening now, because there are massive parallels and history
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does teach us and it always bounces back.
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And let's see what George Bernard Shaw, the founder of the
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Fabians and the members of the British eugenics movement, said
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about the right of disabled and mentally infirmed people to life
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in the 1930s. Now Ben showed this last year on
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UKC and it's even more relevant now in the light of the recently
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passed bills. So if we can just show that
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video of George Bernard Shaw. You must all know half a dozen
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people at least who are no use in this world, who are more
27:09
trouble than they are worth. Just put in there and say Sir or
27:13
Madam. Now, will you be kind enough to
27:16
justify your existence? If you can't justify your
27:19
existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social world,
27:24
if you're not producing as much as you consume but perhaps a
27:27
little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organisation
27:33
of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive.
27:37
Because your life does not benefit us and it can't be a
27:41
very much used to yourself. Yeah, it's quite shocking
27:47
really, isn't it? I mean, this is this is the kind
27:49
of ideology that we're seeing almost being reborn in the UK at
27:53
the moment. And it's, it's really
27:55
disturbing. And yeah, I just wanted to just
27:58
point that one out, really. Thank you, Sandy.
28:02
Thank you for that. And it is a good point.
28:05
We've got to look at history and see where these policy agendas
28:09
are coming from. And you know, assisted dying,
28:12
the full term abortion warfare, it's all the same kind of
28:16
expression of the same kind of policy.
28:18
Yes, and and on the Fabians, there's a very good article by
28:21
Gloria Moss on the UK column website about exactly this.
28:23
So do have a look at that. OK, If you like what the UK
28:27
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consider it. A quick reminder of Brian's
28:56
interview with Debbie Richards yesterday, Parental alienation
29:00
that is on the website at the moment.
29:03
And tomorrow, Brian was speaking to an anonymous voice from
29:08
Israel about some of what's going on over there.
29:12
Now, if you'd like, if you'd like to join us on Saturday the
29:16
18th of October 2025 in New York for the next on location event.
29:20
The topic is going to be health, and we suspect we're going to be
29:24
announcing A keynote speaker in the not too distant future.
29:27
Tickets will be on sale at the end of July, and so we're going
29:32
to be asking you to wait until then for those, but there's some
29:35
reason for that which we'll announce shortly as well.
29:39
Now this weekend, of course, we'll all be at the Sounds
29:42
Beautiful Festival in Wimborne and Dorset.
29:45
So if you can get to that, I think there's still tickets
29:48
available. Do get along to that.
29:50
Hopefully the weather will be good and Sandy very, very
29:54
briefly celebrating freedom of speech in Glastonbury.
30:00
Sorry, sorry, Could you say that again?
30:02
It's celebrating freedom of speech event.
30:04
Yeah, yeah, we're doing the freedom of speech event.
30:06
It's finally happening because we we got banned from from every
30:12
venue in Glastonbury because we're speaking about, we're
30:17
speaking about land grab and particularly the West, the World
30:21
Heritage status pitch for, for Glastonbury.
30:25
And they don't like that being being said and they're finding
30:27
every reason to ban me, calling me all sorts of names.
30:31
But we're going ahead with it. OK, super.
30:33
So that's Friday the 4th of July and at 7:00 to 10:00 PM in the
30:38
Village Hall in Glas, Glastonbury.
30:41
And also regional sovereignty versus devolution.
30:44
On Sunday, the 20th of July, Sandy will also be speaking at
30:47
that and the details on screen and will be in the show notes.
30:52
Andrew Bridging will also be speaking at that event as well.
30:55
But Charles, let's move on then to energy.
30:59
Yes indeed, and another day, another clean energy plan.
31:03
Despite the misleading vocab, the government is determined to
31:05
unleash what it describes as a tidal wave of jobs in the
31:09
sector, which sounds rather alarming.
31:11
Much of this is to rubber stamp the so called spending review,
31:14
but in reality it represents the reworking of the Net 0 zero
31:19
plan. Now though Ed Miliband continues
31:21
to bang the drum for his solar panels and wind turbines, it's
31:24
increasingly clear that nuclear power is to be given a more
31:27
central role as the government finally concedes that it cannot
31:30
force the sun to shine at night or indeed make winds wind
31:34
turbines turn without wind. Now one of the beneficiaries in
31:37
terms of funding is Tokamak Energy shown here, which is to
31:42
embark on a joint venture with the Japanese firm Furukawa
31:45
Electric Group and they will take a slice of the £2.5 billion
31:51
being thrown at fusion energy, Fusion Energy Technology.
31:57
On the on the nuclear fission front, Sizewell C has been
32:02
pushed on but with limited fanfare.
32:04
And the reason for the muted announcement are because they
32:07
show up the so called the sorry the push for so called green,
32:12
green or clean renewable energy as totally absurd by any metric.
32:16
Now it's reckoned that Sizewell will make a grid contribution of
32:20
around 3.2 gigawatts, which would be equal to around 7% of
32:26
the U KS current demand. And a few weeks ago I spoke
32:29
about the creation of another of Miliband's brainchildren, GB
32:33
Energy, which is hoped to deliver 5% of the UK's energy by
32:37
20-30 at a cost of over £8 billion.
32:40
Now the comparison could hardly be more stark.
32:43
Sizewell should cover an area of less than 1000 acres and it will
32:48
deliver a stable supply of energy around the clock, whereas
32:51
GB Energy conversely may require more than 100,000 acres to
32:55
deliver an intermittent supply of energy which at its peak will
32:59
still be less than that delivered by nuclear at
33:02
Sizewell. Now this all indicates the
33:05
narrative is collapsing and in a mark of desperation, Emma
33:09
Pinchbeck of the Climate Change Committee is adamant that a
33:12
financial nudge is needed to move people onto clean
33:15
technologies by artificially dropping the prices of energy
33:19
from such sources and then loading taxes and tariffs onto
33:22
so called fossil fuels. Now Pinchbeck's proclamation is
33:26
set against what might be regarded as a record breaking
33:30
calculation from the world weather attribution of the
33:35
recent summer weather in summer. They've said that due to man
33:40
made climate change has made such events about 100 times, as
33:45
likely occurring in June only once every two and a half
33:49
thousand years before industrialisation.
33:52
And to reinforce the point about the desperation, the government
33:56
has rather sheepishly backed down from the much vaunted
34:00
foisting of smart metres upon the population.
34:02
This month marked the cut off for the old style RTS metres,
34:06
but this has been quietly extended with no deadline.
34:10
The announcement says that they will, quote, pursue A phased
34:13
approach, beginning with a very small number of homes and
34:16
businesses in carefully targeted local areas.
34:20
And I would say all of this just goes to show that resistance,
34:22
these sorts of meritless and controlling schemes does work,
34:25
and that you, the people, hold the power, literally.
34:29
Yes, OK. Well, Sandy alluded to this
34:32
earlier, but every baby is going to have their DNA mapped under
34:37
an NHS revolution to predict and prevent diseases.
34:41
And this is according to the Daily Telegraph.
34:43
And since Health Secretary Westrating retweeted their
34:47
tweet, I guess that's confirmation now.
34:49
Strating said the advances in genomics would allow people to
34:54
quote, leapfrog killer illnesses and receive personalised
34:58
healthcare. And within a decade, every
35:01
newborn will undergo whole genomic sequencing, according to
35:05
the Telegraph, which assesses the risk of of hundreds of
35:07
diseases. Now that's the claim.
35:09
And the Telegraph reports that this proposal will be part of a
35:12
10 year health plan which is expected to be launched in the
35:16
first week of July and will be funded by a £650 million boost
35:20
to the to into genomics as part of the government's life
35:23
sciences sector plan. But since we don't live in a
35:26
democracy, but are rather run by a uni party, David Cameron was
35:29
straight out to applaud here in this tweet.
35:33
Fantastic news, he said. Now the 10 year health plan will
35:37
define how so called Healthcare is delivered in the future with
35:43
sorry, from hospital to community, from analogue to
35:46
digital and from treating sickness to prevention of
35:49
illness. Of course this has nothing to do
35:52
with preventing disease before it happens as is claimed.
35:55
It's everything to do with looking for markers which will
35:57
get people into a life, a lifetime of big pharma
36:00
intervention from the age of 0. But it doesn't end there.
36:04
It's also about digital ID. Your genomic sequence will be
36:08
used to generate a unique identifier which will follow you
36:11
from cradle to grave. This is where digital ID ends
36:14
up. And there's a trust report here
36:16
says we're entering the age of DNAIDS.
36:19
So don't forget, we warned that the Data Use and Access Bill was
36:25
the enabler for all this. So if you're unhappy about it,
36:28
it could have been prevented with an organised campaign
36:31
perhaps. But this legislation has now
36:33
received Royal assent as of five days ago, and so the brakes are
36:37
off. And let's not forget who's right
36:40
at the centre of all this. It's Palantir, already mentioned
36:43
on this programme and already fully embedded in the National
36:46
Health Service. Palantir is in a prime position
36:49
to benefit now. Does anybody on this discussion
36:54
today or on this news programme believe that Palantir is doing
36:56
this to save lives? Do you believe Palantir is doing
36:58
this to save lives? I don't think so.
37:00
And I don't think this should be regarded as separate from all
37:03
the sort of war NATO fear narrative as well.
37:06
I mean, it's it's very, very reminiscent of the way the COVID
37:10
system charade, whatever one wants to call it was driven,
37:13
everybody now speaking the same language and doesn't really
37:16
matter whether it's war or health, it all is all tantamount
37:19
to the same thing, a control mechanism which yields enormous
37:22
financial dividends for those who are controlling it.
37:25
And Sandy related again, remind us of a little bit of history.
37:30
And this time, Hollerith. Yeah, yeah, I mean the eugenics
37:34
movement goes back a long way, originating really in the UK and
37:39
the US before, before it happened in Nazi Germany.
37:41
But Herman Hollerith was was an engineer and he developed a
37:46
tabulating system, a sort of punch card system, which was it
37:50
was like an almost like an early computer, which eventually was
37:54
acquired in advance by IBM and it was instrumental in the
37:58
categorisation and processing of health and racial data. 1830s,
38:04
particularly in the census of 1933.
38:07
And now Edwin Black's extension extensively research book IBM
38:13
and the Holocaust. He documents how IBM, through
38:17
the company D Homag, provided tabulation machines and
38:21
technical assistance to the Nazi regime.
38:24
This helped the government sought census data, including
38:27
religion, ancestry and health data, and enabled the
38:31
identification of racial demographics and the disabled
38:35
and mentally ill and others who were targeted, targeted under
38:38
eugenics laws. IBM New York maintained control
38:43
over this company, Dehomag and approving leases and punch card
38:47
customization and upgrades. Now there's a distinct parallel
38:51
to what's happening now with NHS Digital, NHS Improvement and
38:56
Genomics England, Palantir, all of that stuff, and as a means of
39:00
collecting health data on the population.
39:03
And this links up with Mike's, you know what Mike said about
39:07
the baby DNA harvesting of newborns and Ben's article on
39:11
Monday about the company Illumina and Netanyahu's
39:16
involvement with Israeli genomic secrecy and just sequencing
39:19
industries. Now in 19 in sorry.
39:22
In 2022, the Health Secretary, she and social of Social Care
39:27
announced that NHSXNHS Digital will merge with NHS England and
39:32
NHS Improvement. This new technology is
39:35
predictive, preventative and personalised and participatory
39:39
medicine. The NHS as it core will be
39:42
working around genetics in disease, reaching into the DNA
39:45
of every man and woman in the UK.
39:48
The use of this app has the ability to monitor every aspect
39:51
of your life, your shopping habits, financial and social
39:54
status, education, hereditary genomics, fitness and more.
39:58
Feeding into the corporate superstate created by COVID-19,
40:02
that crisis and the powered and it's powered by mass
40:04
surveillance. According to NHSX, from 2020 to
40:09
2025, genomic medicine will be embedded into routine care.
40:14
When we look at the new legislation for assisted dying
40:17
and abortion. We see that was what was once a
40:20
covert operation in the 1930s has become overt and acceptable.
40:26
Now I want to look at Acteon 4. This is the Nazi programme in
40:29
the 1930s and 40s for the euthanasia of people not deemed
40:33
to benefit society. So the question is, is history
40:37
repeating itself? That is a good question.
40:42
And Vanessa, I don't know if you've got any thoughts on that
40:45
before you, before you move on, but do you want to talk about
40:47
bio defence? Yeah, absolutely.
40:51
Yeah. I mean, I think I'll just go
40:52
straight into the BIOT defence because it's all connected.
40:55
And it's quite amazing how Trump is effectively handing over the
40:58
management of the United States of America to Palantir across
41:03
all sectors of security and and military and health and so on.
41:08
But this is something that a friend of mine pointed out to me
41:12
in the last couple of days. So this is the bipartisan
41:16
Commission on, sorry, I can't actually read that of bio
41:21
defence. I think helping to defend the
41:24
United States against biological threats.
41:27
Now, this is quite an extraordinary subject once
41:31
looking into it very deeply. And of course, what I've said,
41:33
there's a reason for the ceasefire between Iran and
41:36
Israel. And of course, we always have to
41:39
be looking at the next step on the road map.
41:41
And what exactly are they going to, to put into effect to
41:45
restart the war or to somehow change the direction of their
41:51
strategy. But their strategy remains the
41:52
same in my opinion, which is to effect regime change in Iran.
41:58
So this is 170 page document, the national blueprint for Diet
42:02
Bio Defence. The link will be in the show
42:05
notes. Immediate action needed to
42:07
defend against biological threats.
42:10
And So what does it identify exactly as those biological
42:13
threats? This is something that Charles
42:16
will be very interested in seeing on this.
42:18
So this is the Bio Defence blueprint.
42:21
The world stands in a partial state of vigilance, reeling from
42:24
COVID-19, struggling with mpox, fighting malaria, acknowledging
42:30
the possibility of biological terrorism.
42:33
By implementing this national blueprint for Bio defence,
42:36
American can once again rise to the challenge and save lives.
42:40
It's not over extremely dramatic and not forgetting of course
42:48
that the year end budget for 2025 for the bio defence
42:53
programme is 52 billion. That's the proposal that Trump
42:56
has put through under his administration.
43:00
And so basically this is part of a of a conference that was held
43:05
in May 2025. It's the first annual State of
43:10
National Bio Defence Address. And this doctor, Asha M George,
43:17
is basically talking about the State Department records on
43:23
countries that present a threat of biological terrorism.
43:26
So let's just have a quick listen to what she has to say.
43:30
We've gone from one or two sentences about China and Iran
43:35
now to entire paragraphs about China and Iran, Russia and North
43:42
Korea. They have not yet come out to
43:45
say that China and Iran also have offensive biological
43:49
weapons programmes. They have, however, talked about
43:52
everything else they can talk about.
43:53
They have said that they have no proof now that the historic
43:57
offensive biological weapons programmes that those two
44:00
countries had, that we knew they had ever ceased.
44:03
Now if you think about it that particularly with China, that's
44:07
a long time programme that goes all the way back to World War 2
44:11
and probably before then. So I mean, what you have here is
44:18
the framing of a potential for a false flag attack, of course,
44:22
probably on American soil if it's going to happen anywhere.
44:25
You have July the 4th coming up, which might be a little bit too
44:28
obvious. I think people might spot that
44:30
one. But it's interesting, the four
44:33
countries that are mentioned, of course China first, then Iran,
44:38
and then suddenly North Korea and Russia are inserted into the
44:42
dialogue without any evidence whatsoever that they have an
44:47
offensive biological terrorism strategy anywhere in the world.
44:53
Neither has Iran. I mean Iran.
44:54
This has not been mentioned before, but it's very
44:56
interesting that one month ago it was being brought up at this
45:01
first session of the Bio defence address.
45:06
Yeah. I mean, what are your thoughts
45:08
on that? I mean, we were sort of wearing
45:10
ourselves. During Yeah, I mean, well, it's
45:12
a gift. It's it's like a ghost story.
45:14
The, the, the less you see, the more scared you're liable to be.
45:17
And I think that's the that's the remarkable thing about the
45:19
suggestion of any biological threat, bioterrorism or whatever
45:23
it is. And if you do need to
45:24
demonstrate it, and Ben pointed this out on Monday, it only
45:27
needs to exist on a computer, exactly like in the way that the
45:30
genomic sequencing of what's called COVID-19 was run.
45:34
So, so once that exists, people believe that it's there.
45:38
And it doesn't really matter whether there's any tangible
45:41
effect on the ground that that's utterly beside the point.
45:44
But the the ability to drive the narrative forward based on
45:46
absolutely nothing is is always there, which is remarkable but
45:50
true. OK, let's let's change the topic
45:53
then and look at what the City of London has been up to.
45:56
Yes indeed, because yesterday the was the 24th of June and
46:00
that was the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the
46:03
Baptist, observed by very many denominations of Christians and
46:07
also referred to as Midsummer's Day, which is of great
46:10
significance to Freemasons. Now in 1717, the Grand Lodge of
46:14
London and Westminster, which is now the United Grand Lodge of
46:18
England, was formed by Freemasons on John's day.
46:22
Now this remains the date upon which the two sheriffs of the
46:26
Corporation of the City of London are elected each year, a
46:29
timely reminder of the tangled web woven across the
46:32
architecture of the state. Now.
46:34
The Corporation's website explains that the City of London
46:38
Sheriffs play an important role both in promoting and enhancing
46:43
the rule of law and links between the City of London
46:46
Corporation and the judiciary at the Old Bailey.
46:50
Now this year's sheriff's elect are Robert Hughes Penny and
46:54
Keith Bottomley, both with very long standing links to the
46:57
machinations of the City at home and abroad.
47:00
And as the press release notes, they act as quote ambassadors
47:04
for the UK based financial and professional services industry
47:08
by promoting the UK as a place in which to do business.
47:12
End Quote. So exactly what sort of
47:14
enhancements is the rule of law benefiting from one might ask?
47:18
Now with regard to the Old Bailey or the Central Criminal
47:21
Court quote, the City of London Corporation owns and administers
47:25
the building. The department also handles
47:28
security maintenance and deals with the administration of the
47:31
shrivelty which includes execution of writs and warrants.
47:35
Now the sheriffs are presented with their warrants and the
47:39
Sovereign's writ of approbation by the King's Remembrance are
47:42
shown here on screen with the Lord Mayor, current Lord Mayor
47:45
Alice the King, and it is here that the interplay between these
47:49
characters becomes highly questionable.
47:51
Now the King's remembrance acts as convuit between city, the
47:55
Lord Mayor in particular, Royal Household and Parliament.
47:59
And in order to fulfil some of these duties, and as you I'm
48:02
sure may already know, the remembrance, a post currently
48:05
held by Paul Wright, sits directly behind the Speaker of
48:08
the House of Commons from where he is said to have no influence
48:12
on proceedings due to the fact that he's not permitted to
48:14
access the floor of the House. He is, however, there to keep a
48:17
record of proceedings which may have a bearing on the
48:20
Corporation of the City of London privilege not afforded to
48:23
any other body or organisation. However, since he's also able to
48:28
give evidence to committees when there are matters concerning the
48:31
City, it's clear that this line is blurred to say the least.
48:34
Now, the Remembrancer has the ears of the Lord Mayor of
48:37
London, the Corporation of the City of London, the Speaker of
48:40
the House of Commons and the Sovereign all at the same time.
48:43
And on top of all of this, the Remembrancer sits on the
48:45
executive leadership board of the Corporation, which is,
48:49
quote, responsible for aligning strategy and connecting plans
48:53
across all the organisations which make up the City of London
48:57
Corporation. Now also on the board are, among
49:01
many others, the private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, but
49:03
particularly the Director of the City of London Police Authority
49:07
and the City of London Police Commissioner.
49:10
Now this is hardly a new problem.
49:12
Disraeli saw it in 1875 and he certainly hasn't been the only
49:15
one. But he said back then, during a
49:17
debate in regard to the office of the Queen's Remembrance, the
49:21
House is aware that the Judicature Commission
49:23
recommended that the Office of Queen's Remembrance should be
49:26
abolished, and afterwards there was a Treasury Minute on the
49:29
same subject which bound the Government to take some steps in
49:33
the matter. I Needless to say, 150 years on,
49:36
nothing was done and the corruption persists.
49:40
OK, thank you, Charles. So let's move on then.
49:44
Sat back to you, Sandy and you were talking a couple of weeks
49:48
ago about the festivals that are going on.
49:50
Of course, Glastonbury starts immediately.
49:53
And what is going on with festivals around the country?
49:58
Well, it's, it's interesting, um, at the moment, uh, there's,
50:02
there's a lot of festivals going on in, uh, in London.
50:05
Obviously we've got, we've got Glastonbury Festival this week,
50:08
which has doubled its profits from last year.
50:13
And it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's always been a bit of
50:16
a contentious thing because it's becoming more and more
50:18
corporate. And it's, you know, Evis has
50:22
entered his 90th year and he's, he's handing the baton over to
50:27
his daughter, Emily Evis. But they've come under a bit of
50:31
criticism from Neil Young. I mean, he, he's, he's been very
50:36
vocal about it being corporatized over court.
50:39
And he said, we, we were told the BBC was now a, um, uh, a
50:44
sort of a partner in, in, uh, in, in Glastonbury.
50:47
And he wanted us, um, they wanted us to do a lot of things
50:50
in a way we were not interested in.
50:52
It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and not
50:56
the way I remember it. So that's, that's Neil Young's
51:00
take on Glastonbury and I think it's probably about right.
51:03
But we do have this thing where in in London, a lot of the local
51:08
councils in London are taking over parks for, for, for the
51:14
benefit of, of putting on big large events for profit.
51:19
And over over the last few few years this has been expanding
51:22
steadily. And they're there.
51:24
There's an accumulative total of about 140 days of ticketed music
51:28
festivals and concerts planned across London parks for 2025, up
51:33
nearly 14% since last year, according to analysis by the
51:36
Financial Times. Now this is really councils, you
51:41
know, bankrupt councils trying to make money because they
51:46
haven't got enough to maintain the parks apparently.
51:49
So those festivals and councils, you know, revenue generating
51:54
strategies are on on steady footing.
51:56
After a High Court ruling last week by Planning Judge Tim Mould
52:01
Casey found that Lambeth Council's decision to grant
52:04
permission for events hosted in Brockwell Park was unlawful
52:08
after a legal challenge was brought about by local
52:11
residents. The project, the Pro Protect
52:14
Brockwell Park campaign, argues that the council has been
52:18
prioritising for profit events that reduce local access to the
52:22
parks. And this, you know, it causes
52:25
damage to the ecology and contributes to neighbourhood
52:28
noise and pollution. But despite the ruling, the
52:31
festivals in the park are going ahead.
52:33
Of course, you know, nobody takes any notice of the people.
52:36
So Lambeth Council announced late on Thursday that it had
52:39
approved the certificate submitted by the organisers.
52:45
They've refused to say how much they'll gain from festivals this
52:48
year, but an FOI request revealed that the park generated
52:53
more than 500,000 of revenue in 2023.
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London Councils, A governing body that represents the
53:00
capital's local authorities, has estimated the total funding
53:03
shortfall for all 32 is 500 million this year.
53:09
So, uh, I think, I think Victoria Parker are making
53:13
revenue of about 1.6 million and similar events at Alexandra
53:19
Palace and Finsbury Park and many, many other local parks in
53:23
London. As access to parks and green
53:27
spaces is not considered a statutory requirement, councils
53:31
are under no legal obligation to provide park services.
53:34
So people simply, you know, that's what they're looking at.
53:37
They're looking at a sort of, you know, a wall of, of green
53:41
fencing if they want to go to their park.
53:44
So this is quite interesting and it, it, it shows the, the, the
53:48
kind of, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the
53:51
ridiculousness of, of a lot of the sustainability stuff that,
53:55
that local councils put out, but they don't adhere to it when it
53:58
comes to making money. But Sandy, I think the main
54:01
problem for the councils at the moment is that they're basically
54:04
all bankrupt. They're scrambling around trying
54:07
to find every penny that they possibly can because they've
54:10
been asset stripping the councils for so many years now.
54:14
And this is the reason that this is well, one of the reasons this
54:17
is massively important, apart from the impact that it has on
54:19
the ground in local communities, is because this is part of the
54:23
restructuring, the constitutional restructuring of
54:25
this country and, and the the changing in the nature of of
54:30
councils. But of course, when once we
54:33
start seeing the likes of Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham appearing
54:36
on the scene, the chances of local voices being heard becomes
54:41
that much smaller. Yeah, exactly.
54:44
And it'll only get worse with devolution, Yeah.
54:47
Yes, absolutely. OK, Thank you, Sandy.
54:49
OK, let's move on to this then. The UK column has been
54:56
publishing a website on spending by the UK Foreign Commonwealth
55:01
and Development Office for a little bit of time now and the
55:05
latest spending data has been added to that website.
55:09
Now the reason that this website was created in the 1st place is
55:12
because the FCDO produces documentation on its spending of
55:18
in amounts over 25,000 lbs, but it comes in a spreadsheet form
55:21
which is pretty inaccessible to people.
55:23
You can't search it and you can't search historically and so
55:26
on. So we decided we would make that
55:29
data available in a much more accessible way.
55:32
So the data on that website is now up to date as far as far as
55:36
the latest statistics are going and that brings it up to January
55:39
of this year. Now if you haven't looked at the
55:43
site yet, please do so. And as I've made the point
55:46
before, it does do a great job of highlighting how much money
55:49
is going to a host of organisations, but it doesn't
55:52
give any indication of what the money is actually being spent on
55:55
because the FCDO doesn't provide that information because it's
55:59
completely opaque. But if you, if we look at the
56:02
front page again, just for the final time here, you'll see
56:05
there most of the way down that front page the top 20
56:08
beneficiaries of FCDO money. And if you have a look at some
56:13
of these, we find that vaccinations are clearly a key
56:16
priority. So let's look at three of the
56:18
line items here. We've got £1 billion going to
56:22
the has gone to the Global Fund to fight AIDS and TBA, billion
56:26
pounds has gone to the GAVI Vaccine Alliance and £350
56:31
million going to an organisation called IFFIM.
56:37
Now I'm quite sure most people won't have heard of that.
56:39
So what is it? Well, it's a vaccine Ponzi
56:42
scheme run through the World Bank.
56:45
It was created as a department, I'm sorry, as a development
56:49
financing tool to help the international community achieve
56:52
the Millennium Development Goals.
56:54
To quote from the paragraph that's on screen at the moment,
56:57
money is pledged by governments, in this case France, Italy,
57:00
Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the UK, and is used
57:04
as a basis for vaccine bonds which are then sold on the
57:09
markets to raise private funds which are given over to Gavi.
57:14
So that's the situation with that.
57:16
If we come back to the FCDO spending website and have a look
57:21
at how much money is being spent by them on a monthly basis, we
57:26
can just see how much more of the spending has ramped up since
57:29
the start of the Ukraine war. I find this graph quite amazing,
57:35
Charles, because you know, for the, the data begins in August,
57:39
20, I think July 2016. And you know, still quite large
57:44
amounts of money, 200, four, 100 billion million being spent per
57:48
month. But as we've got to the the last
57:51
couple of years we've seen a couple of months we're we're
57:55
well over 1 1/2 billion per month being spent and one one
57:59
month actually approaching 2 billion.
58:01
So it is quite incredible how much money is being used, is
58:06
being spent through the Foreign Office, but we've no right to
58:09
know specifically what it's being used for.
58:11
Absolutely. And I, and I would say,
58:12
particularly with the NATO summit in mind, it's probably
58:14
set to continue because of course Mark Root are making the
58:16
distinction in order to hit the 5% target between the 3.5%
58:21
requirement for core, what they were describing as core defence
58:23
spending, and then the 1.5 on sort of other stuff.
58:27
Undefined. And, and it's not beyond the
58:30
bounds of possibility that the FCDA might be shouldering some
58:33
of that. But also this comes with, well,
58:37
hot on the heels of that report that I'd mentioned earlier in
58:40
The Lancet, which suggests that there is a, a decline in vaccine
58:44
uptake across the world, particularly since 2020.
58:47
So no doubt some serious lobbying has gone on behind the
58:49
scenes in order to to get these handouts through the system.
58:55
Finally. So yes, finally, now if you were
58:58
in any doubt about the role of Hollywood and the entertainment
59:01
industry in the shaping of public consciousness, we'll
59:04
finish the programme with a look at Tom Cruise shaping the recent
59:07
strike operation in Iran from his mass media vehicle Top Gun
59:11
Maverick from 2022. The target is an unsanctioned
59:21
uranium enrichment plant built in violation of a multilateral
59:24
NATO treaty. The uranium produced there
59:26
represents a direct threat to our allies in the region.
59:30
The Pentagon has tasked us with assembling a strike team and
59:33
taking it out before it becomes fully operational.
59:37
The plant sits in an underground bunker at the end of this
59:39
valley. Said Valley is GPS jammed and
59:43
defended by an extensive surface to air missile array serving a
59:46
limited number of fifth generation fighters, which in
59:48
turn are backed up by a plentiful reserve of surplus
59:51
aircraft, even a few old F fourteens.
59:54
Seems like we're not the only ones holding on to old relics.
59:59
What's your read, Captain? Well Sir, normally this would be
1:00:05
a cakewalk for the F35 stealth, but the GPS jamming negates
1:00:08
that. The surface to air threat
1:00:10
necessitates a low level laser guided strike tailor made for
1:00:13
the F18. I figure 2 precision bombs
1:00:17
minimum makes it 4 aircraft flying in pairs.
1:00:21
That is 1 hell of a steep climb out of there, exposing it all
1:00:24
the surface to air missiles where you survived that it's a
1:00:29
dogfight all the way home. There we are no doubt he's on
1:00:34
Pete Hagseth's Signal messaging group.
1:00:38
Must be we will be talking about that an extra as well.
1:00:41
So join us if you're UK call member in a few a few minutes.
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But we've got to leave the news there for today.
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Thanks for everybody that's watched.
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Join us for extra if you can, but otherwise see you Friday,
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