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UK Column News Podcast 16th October 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the sixteenth of October twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Colin News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Mike Robinson joining me in the studio today.
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Speaker 1: Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program, Charles, thank you, Mike.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and from Damascus with Vanessa Billy as usual
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. The Don Sturgis Inquiry got kicked off
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Speaker 1: on Monday as we suggested it would, and well a
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Speaker 1: couple of interesting things about it. But first we should
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Speaker 1: make the point that the script ales were not there
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Speaker 1: as expected. There was a short statement read out and
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Speaker 1: opening remarks on their behalf. But let's just have a
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Speaker 1: look at what the inquiry itself says about disclosure of
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Speaker 1: sensitive information, or rather the protocol on Measures to prevent
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Speaker 1: Disclosure sensitive information. Because some of the hearings are the
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Speaker 1: majority of them will be in public, some of them
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Speaker 1: will be closed. But what they've said here is that
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Speaker 1: there will be two video links to afford those not
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Speaker 1: present in the hearing room with access to the hearing,
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Speaker 1: a live link and a delayed link which will be
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Speaker 1: delayed by five minutes. Now that has since this document
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Speaker 1: was published has been upgraded to ten minutes, so there's
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Speaker 1: a ten minute delay on the YouTube feed, and that's
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Speaker 1: sort of if somebody says something inadvertently during the open sessions,
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Speaker 1: they can quickly shut the YouTube feed off and make
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Speaker 1: sure that doesn't go out if we put that back
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Speaker 1: on screen. Then it goes on to say the public
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Speaker 1: and media attending the hearing remotely will do so by
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Speaker 1: means of the delayed link. And they say that members
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Speaker 1: of the public and the media who are present in
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Speaker 1: the hearing room may not communicate outside the hearing room
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Speaker 1: for the duration of the hearing by phone, email, instant message,
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Speaker 1: or other means. But here's the real clincher for you.
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Speaker 1: This is the media operational note. No audio or video
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Speaker 1: recordings may be made of the hearing. This include screenshots
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Speaker 1: if you're watching proceedings on the YouTube channel. So I
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Speaker 1: haven't come across this type of thing in an inquiry
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Speaker 1: of this type before. I don't know if you've got
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Speaker 1: any thoughts of that.
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Speaker 2: Charles, Well, it's almost as though there might be something
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Speaker 2: to hide, but that couldn't be the case because it's
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Speaker 2: an inquiry.
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Speaker 1: Well, the question is what kind of inquiry is it
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Speaker 1: anyway if you want to follow along, since we're not
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Speaker 1: allowed to show you any video clips or footage from it.
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Speaker 1: There is a YouTube channel which is called the Dance
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Speaker 1: Sturgis Inquiry. There are three videos there so far, but
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Speaker 1: you've got to click on the live tab on the
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Speaker 1: menu at the top. There. There's nothing if when you
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Speaker 1: arrive at the homepage for that, so do follow along
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Speaker 1: if you wish. Now what we should say here is
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Speaker 1: here is an ex a tweet from Channel five News
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Speaker 1: saying Dan Sturgis, who died after being poisoned in Msbury,
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Speaker 1: was described today as an intelligent and kind woman. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure she was. Her death, of course, was tragic, but
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Speaker 1: it's clear from the opening statements of all the barristers
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Speaker 1: involved in this that this is not an inquiry into
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Speaker 1: her death. This is a propaganda exercise, so the decision
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Speaker 1: is already made about who's responsible. It was, of course putin.
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Speaker 1: None of the anomalies in the script al kiss itself
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Speaker 1: nor during Don Sturge's death are being or actually being investigated.
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Speaker 1: They are presuming that it's already established that it was novichok.
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Speaker 1: They're presuming it's already established that it was the Russians
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Speaker 1: that did it, and so it becomes a bit unclear
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Speaker 1: as to what the actual outcome of this or what
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Speaker 1: the purpose of this is other than to reinforce the
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Speaker 1: narrative that Russia has carried out a chemical weapons attack
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Speaker 1: on the streets of the UK. But there are still
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Speaker 1: many many questions. So this is the original Wilchair Police
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Speaker 1: statement on a major incident declared following ongoing instant in Inmesbury.
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Speaker 1: And if we just highlight a little bit of text here,
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Speaker 1: it was initially believed that the two patients fell ill
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Speaker 1: after using possibly heroin or crack oukain from a contaminated
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Speaker 1: batch of drugs. Now, of course they go on to
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Speaker 1: say that the further testing is now on going to
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Speaker 1: establish a substance which led to these patients becoming ill.
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Speaker 1: This was the statement from the police. We'll see what
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Speaker 1: the latest on the police position on this statement is
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Speaker 1: in a minute, but before we get to that, let's
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Speaker 1: just look at this article from the website of the
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Speaker 1: Clinical Services Journal. This is response unit called a Salisbury
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Speaker 1: Hospital declares major incident And if we look at the
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Speaker 1: text of this down here highlighted, it's small, I appreciate,
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Speaker 1: but it says it followed an incident ours earlier in
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Speaker 1: which a man and a woman were exposed to a
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Speaker 1: substance in the city center. But that wasn't the original
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Speaker 1: version of this document, because if we go back to
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Speaker 1: the wayback machine and we look at what that paragraph
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Speaker 1: said in an earlier version of the docum, it said
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Speaker 1: it followed an incident earlier in which a man and
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Speaker 1: a woman were exposed to the drug fentanyl in the
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Speaker 1: city center. The opioid is ten thousand times stronger than that, sorry,
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Speaker 1: stronger than heroin, And that around the same time was
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Speaker 1: sort of echoed in various news reports. So this is
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Speaker 1: Sky News Amesbury poisoning. Here's what we know about the
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Speaker 1: novelch Ark victims. And they quoted a friend of Charlie
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Speaker 1: Rowley and Don Sturgis who did not want to be identified, saying,
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Speaker 1: we're all pretty serious drug addicts and if they were
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Speaker 1: withdrawing and it looked like heroin, they would have injected
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Speaker 1: it straight away without a second thought. Now I have
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Speaker 1: no knowledge of what actually happened that day, of course,
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Speaker 1: because I wasn't there. But my point is that none
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Speaker 1: of this is being considered in the inquiry at least
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Speaker 1: based on what was being said in the opening statements.
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Speaker 1: And just to bring the Salisbury Journal on here, this
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Speaker 1: is from today or yesterday yesterday sorry Don Sturgis inquiry
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Speaker 1: police apologized for overdose claim. So the police are now
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Speaker 1: apologizing for that original statement. So, as I say, many
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Speaker 1: many questions still to be asked and answered here, but
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Speaker 1: this inquiry doesn't seem to want to do that. The
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Speaker 1: question is what is the role of porton Dyne and
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Speaker 1: all this, Because, of course, as they had to acknowledge
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Speaker 1: in the opening comments and the inquiry, Porton done only
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Speaker 1: a few miles up up the road from both these incidents.
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Speaker 1: And let's just consider the type of things that happened
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Speaker 1: at Porton Dyne. So this is from the Mirror. This
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Speaker 1: is from twenty nineteen. Almost fifty thousand animals killed during
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Speaker 1: military testing at secret UK research base. So scientists have
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Speaker 1: blown up pigs, infected monkeys with biological weapons, and poisoned
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Speaker 1: guinea pigs with nerve gas. And so this article goes
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Speaker 1: on to say fifty thousand animals killed between ten twenty
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Speaker 1: ten and twenty seventeen, an average rate of twenty animals
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Speaker 1: per day for seven years straight and they quote to
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Speaker 1: deliberately expose live animals to compounds, simulated blasts and biological
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Speaker 1: pathogens which are known and indeed developed to cause extreme
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Speaker 1: suffering and death. Guinea pigs had a nerve agent called
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Speaker 1: VX applied to their backs to see how another chemical
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Speaker 1: known as Bioscavenger would alter the effects. Also used anthrax,
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Speaker 1: mustard gas and other chemical weapons. The article went on
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Speaker 1: the same the beasts were shot in different parts of
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Speaker 1: the body with rifles. Army medics then fought to keep
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Speaker 1: them alive. Ministry of Defense defense the practice, claiming it
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Speaker 1: provides doctors with vital training which has helped save the
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Speaker 1: lives of British troops injured in battle. Pigs were also
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Speaker 1: killed in explosive tests at port and done as part
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Speaker 1: of a research program to develop more effective body armour
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Speaker 1: for troops serving in Iraq and afghan And so my
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Speaker 1: question is what are the limits that Porton Dyne staff
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Speaker 1: are prepared to go to and is this inquiry going
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Speaker 1: to investigate the possibility that the Navichok, if there was Novachok,
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Speaker 1: didn't come from Russia but in fact him from Porton Dying.
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Speaker 1: There are many many questions to be asked around the
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Speaker 1: scripp All poisoning, alleged poisoning and the alleged poisoning of
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Speaker 1: Don Sturgis, And if you want to get more background
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Speaker 1: to this, we mentioned it before, but we'll keep suggesting
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Speaker 1: that people read this. The Day of the script All.
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Speaker 1: This is by Tim Norman. Tim will be at our
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Speaker 1: event on Saturday, I'm glad to say, but the Day
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Speaker 1: of the script All is listing basically a timeline of
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Speaker 1: all the mainstream media reports around the script All affair,
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Speaker 1: with a view to you getting an idea of the inconsistencies,
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Speaker 1: the gaps, the problems with the whole narrative, and if
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Speaker 1: we put that back then and then the other article
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Speaker 1: that I would encourage you one other article I would
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Speaker 1: encourage you to read a scripp All in Russian web
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Speaker 1: or Russie Webb and Alex Thompson here asking about port
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Speaker 1: and Downe and asking some serious questions about it. And
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Speaker 1: also you might like to have a look at Pablo
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Speaker 1: Miller the people working alongside the real James Bond, a
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Speaker 1: fantastic article by Johnny Fadmore on the man the m
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Speaker 1: I six man who was in charge of the scripp
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Speaker 1: Ales or at least of Sergey Scripple while he was here,
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Speaker 1: and so we will continue to watch this inquiry with interest.
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Speaker 1: But just to finish it off, I was interested to
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Speaker 1: notice when the all the barristers were sitting in the
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Speaker 1: inquiry room this man so this is Jason beer Case
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Speaker 1: and it was this you know not that this is
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Speaker 1: This photograph is not from the don Sturgis inquiry, by
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Speaker 1: the way, this is from the Post Office Horizon It inquiry.
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Speaker 1: And I was just fascinated by this man because he
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Speaker 1: must have he's either a robot, or he's AI, or
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Speaker 1: he's got the brain, a brain the size of the planet.
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Speaker 1: Because just staggered by the number of inquiries that he
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Speaker 1: is currently involved with. So aside from being the lead
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Speaker 1: consul at the Post Office Horizon it It inquiry, he's
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Speaker 1: also lead Consul for NHS England at the COVID nineteen inquiry.
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Speaker 1: He's Leading Council for the Secretary State for Leveling Up
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Speaker 1: Housing and Communities at the Groundfel Tower Inquiry. He's a
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Speaker 1: leading Consul for NHS England at the Thirlwall Inquiry. He's
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Speaker 1: the leading Council for Greater Manchester Police at the Andrew
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Speaker 1: Malcolmson Inquiry, he's leading consul for kind of Terrorism Policing
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Speaker 1: Southeast at the Don Sturgis Inquiry. He's leading counsul to
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Speaker 1: the inquiry for the jalal Udden Inquiry. And he's a
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Speaker 1: leading consul for a group of undercover police officers at
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Speaker 1: the Undercover Policing Inquiry. And if anybody's been watching any
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Speaker 1: of these, if you've been following the Post Office Horizon
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Speaker 1: inquiry in particular, you see the scale of the amount
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Speaker 1: of paperwork that they've got. These guys have got to
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Speaker 1: actually understand in order to ask the questions they're asking.
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Speaker 1: You get an impression of the kind of quantity of
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Speaker 1: material that you've got to know off the back of
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Speaker 1: your hand if you're running or at least taking part
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Speaker 1: in that number of inquiries.
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Speaker 2: It's quite incredible, very very remarkable in this day and age,
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Speaker 2: and what a credit amazing that people's brains do still
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Speaker 2: function some people.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, let's move on to the issue of war
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Speaker 1: and nuclear war here and well. Back in March, we
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Speaker 1: were highlighting that Royal Air Force Lake and Heath is
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Speaker 1: hosting a bunch of New f thirty five from the
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Speaker 1: United States, and we were asking the question in March
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Speaker 1: whether that would include the return of nuclear weapons, and
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Speaker 1: it certainly looks like it's heading that way. So I
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Speaker 1: want to highlight this article from the Federation of American
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Speaker 1: Scientists and the headline is NATO Tactical and Nuclear webs
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Speaker 1: exercise and Base upgrades. So basically, there is a nuclear
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Speaker 1: weapons exercise going on at the moment. The Russians are
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Speaker 1: particularly unhappy about it, as you can imagine, and it's
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Speaker 1: co hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands. It includes Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
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Speaker 1: the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The exercise coincides with
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Speaker 1: major upgrades underway at most of the nuclear basis in Europe.
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Speaker 1: Says the author of this article. This modernization involves security upgrades,
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Speaker 1: the underground vaults store the US nuclear weapons, underground cables,
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Speaker 1: and nuclear command and control systems and facilities needed for
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Speaker 1: the new F thirty five, a nuclear capable fighter bomber.
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Speaker 1: He says that several of the nuclear bases in Europe
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Speaker 1: have recently seen construction of a special loading pad for
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Speaker 1: use by the USC seventeen aircraft that transport nuclear weapons
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Speaker 1: and service equipment, and he says that absolutely these silos
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Speaker 1: are being or these silos movie is the right word.
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Speaker 3: Story vaults.
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Speaker 1: Vaults are being upgraded at Lake and Heath as well,
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Speaker 1: So it looks very much likely if we're not there already,
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Speaker 1: they're coming very soon. Okay, let's move over to the
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Speaker 1: Middle East and Vanessa and well, the latest atrocities.
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Speaker 4: Yes, this is the latest a trusty which happened in
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Speaker 4: central Garza in an area called Darryl Blow, which has
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Speaker 4: been receiving multiple refugees.
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Speaker 5: Sorry, just needs to plug in from other areas of Garza.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, what's wrong.
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Speaker 5: It's can you still see me?
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Speaker 1: Yes, we can still see you. We can still hear you.
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Speaker 5: Okay, I'll try to keep going.
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Speaker 1: We can't hear you anymore. I'm afraid and that has okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I'm afraid that has completely frozen. So we do apologize
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Speaker 1: so that we will come back to that in a
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Speaker 1: minute if we can. But let's let go on, just
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Speaker 1: go on through.
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Speaker 2: We'll go on to a segment about the latest update
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Speaker 2: on the armored vehicle capability from the Ministry of Defense,
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Speaker 2: and indeed a recent announcement by Defense Infrastructure Organization that
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Speaker 2: they've had a fit out for a training facility, and
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Speaker 2: I would venture that when you're going so far as
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Speaker 2: to mention how much the building weighs at two hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty six tons, you might be skipping past some
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Speaker 2: information that might be a bit more pertinent and more relevant.
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Speaker 2: So this is put out by General Dynamics who rewarded
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Speaker 2: the contract for the Ajax family of armored vehicles, which
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Speaker 2: has been in the making for a considerable period of
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Speaker 2: time since twenty ten, being developed at their site at
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Speaker 2: Merth of Tydville in Wales, and effectively there are going
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Speaker 2: to be six variants of it at a cost of
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Speaker 2: five point five billion pounds to the taxpayer. They're going
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Speaker 2: to be the split across five hundred and eighty nine vehicles,
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Speaker 2: and you see here the different capabilities for different combat operations.
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Speaker 2: One of the things to note, of course, is that
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Speaker 2: the fighting vehicle has a forty milimeter cannon with new ammunition.
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Speaker 2: Therefore will not be able to use any of the
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Speaker 2: ammunition that warrior. The previous infantry fighting vehicle, or at
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Speaker 2: least that that's still in service, was firing thirty milimeter canon.
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Speaker 2: But it does have sort of compressed ammunition, so that
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Speaker 2: should be a space safing initiative.
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Speaker 3: But this has been.
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Speaker 2: Going for an awfully long time now, and it's such
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Speaker 2: a protracted period of time that in fact, the effectively
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Speaker 2: the scheme against which AJAX was drawn up is now
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Speaker 2: actively outmoded. We go back to twenty twenty one to
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Speaker 2: look at the UK Defense Journal talking about warnings being
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Speaker 2: ignored over safety issues, and this was something that Jeremy Quinn,
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Speaker 2: then Procurement Minister, reported to the House of Commons about
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Speaker 2: describing it as a vital, vital investment. But he's been
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Speaker 2: deeply concerned about progress on this troubled project, which has
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Speaker 2: been running for already eleven years. At that point, he
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Speaker 2: goes on to say that a review into it from
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Speaker 2: a cultural perspective suggests that the Army did not believe
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Speaker 2: it was potentially causing harm to people, especially from vibration,
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Speaker 2: as it was tacitly expected that soldiers can and should
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Speaker 2: endure such issues, which is a damning verdict on the
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Speaker 2: Administry of Defense and the British Army's treatment of its personnel.
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Speaker 2: We've now got defense equipment and support talking about the
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Speaker 2: innovative threat detection system for AJAX. They ARECAJY on the
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Speaker 2: detail of this, exactly where it's come from and who
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Speaker 2: has made it. But it's called ACU Sonic and it's
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Speaker 2: meant to be able to detect. Whether it will still
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Speaker 2: be able to do that by the time it's actually
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Speaker 2: rolled out remains to be seen. But they talk about
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Speaker 2: the six variants I referred to earlier, and this again
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Speaker 2: going back to twenty eighteen. They're due to come into
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Speaker 2: service in twenty twenty. Already we're way behind that. This
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Speaker 2: is reinforced by the House of Commons document on it
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Speaker 2: last year twenty twenty three, again referring to the troubled
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Speaker 2: armored vehicle program. So when will AJAX be in service?
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Speaker 2: They asked at that point, and the then Minister for Procurement,
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Speaker 2: Alex Chalk set a new timeline. We'll see if this
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Speaker 2: gets stuck to. But initial operating capability between July and
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Speaker 2: December next year twenty twenty five, and full operating capability
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Speaker 2: between October twenty twenty eight and September twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: And just to put this in context in terms of
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Speaker 2: the value of the contract, as I say, at five
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Speaker 2: point five billion, I think it bears significance to look
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Speaker 2: at Ukraine and indeed the military and non military assistance
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Speaker 2: being given in the form.
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Speaker 3: Of what's called support UK support to.
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Speaker 2: Ukraine, and of the enormous figures involved in that. We
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Speaker 2: see that we are committed militarily to sustain a three
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Speaker 2: billion a year aid commitment military aid until twenty thirty
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Speaker 2: to twenty thirty one, and for as long as it takes.
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Speaker 2: Now it's not clear at all how long that will
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Speaker 2: turn out to be or indeed what relevance if any
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Speaker 2: AJAX and all its variants will have on the battlefield
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Speaker 2: wherever they may be by that point. So this is
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Speaker 2: where investment in our own defense capabilities are going, but
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Speaker 2: effectively at what cost when we set that against the
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Speaker 2: enormous sums of money that will be being committed to Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: And of course there are that the safety issues with
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Speaker 2: the personnel that have been involved in the testing over
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Speaker 2: not a prolonged period of time, so particularly in relation
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Speaker 2: to the sound and vibration and the effects thereof. There
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Speaker 2: seems to be a lot of other teething issues to
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Speaker 2: be brought out with regard to this AJAX program.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, thank you Charles and Vanessa, welcome back. Let's
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Speaker 1: add to the middle East.
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Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 4: Israel does seem to be interfering with our communications here
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Speaker 4: and in Lebanon. So this was the latest Keeness massacre.
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Speaker 4: As I mentioned, it was in the center of Garza
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Speaker 4: and Daryl Balla, right outside a hospital where many refugees
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Speaker 4: had gathered for shelter but also for treatment. Many of
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Speaker 4: them were on beds on iv Israel bond the entire
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Speaker 4: area and the videos that have been circulating are horrific.
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Speaker 4: You can see literally people being burned alive. Nobody could
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Speaker 4: get close to them to try and help rescue them.
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Speaker 4: Of course, there's no real civil defense capability in Gaza
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Speaker 4: amongst the Palestinians, and one of the bodies that you
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Speaker 4: can see in the multiple videos is of Aldlu, twenty
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Speaker 4: years old, died along with his mother after burning alive
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Speaker 4: following Israel's attacks on the tents next door to the hospital.
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Speaker 4: He was a software engineering student who continued studying and
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Speaker 4: working hard throughout Israel's brutal war in Gaza, and he
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Speaker 4: had memorized the whole Quran, so hardly what can be
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Speaker 4: described as a Hamas fighter or a terrorist. He was
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Speaker 4: one of the victims caught on video in the flames
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Speaker 4: with his ivy still attached to his arm, and I
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Speaker 4: just want to play a video that was put out
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Speaker 4: by a young Palestinian journalist in Gaza expressing how she
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Speaker 4: felt about the latest.
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Speaker 4: And there was very little reaction from Western regimes. And
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Speaker 4: in fact, this statement was put out by the US
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Speaker 4: Department of Defense on the deployment of a Thad battery
22:26
Speaker 4: to Israel. So effectively. Now, what the United States is
22:30
Speaker 4: doing is continuing in its iron plaid guarantee of the
22:34
Speaker 4: security of Israel, even while Israel is of course clearly
22:38
Speaker 4: committing a genocide.
22:39
Speaker 5: So let's just have a look at what this means.
22:42
Speaker 4: So you can see they're the key defenses, that Iron Dome,
22:45
Speaker 4: the ro III, the Patriot, David Sling, and now the
22:49
Speaker 4: third which has a three thousand kilometer range. But if
22:52
Speaker 4: someone pointed out and he wasn't the only one on X,
22:56
Speaker 4: the meetable this is that there are just seventy two inceptors.
23:00
Speaker 4: And if you do the usual math of two interceptors
23:04
Speaker 4: pro missile and around eighty percent success rate, then it
23:08
Speaker 4: means that it will take to overcome this is twenty
23:11
Speaker 4: eight missiles and they don't even have to be real ones.
23:15
Speaker 5: Decoys will do pathetic.
23:18
Speaker 4: So you know, one has to actually ask, there's one
23:20
Speaker 4: hundred US military personnel, are they acting as human shields
23:26
Speaker 4: for Israel in the case of an attack from Iran?
23:30
Speaker 4: If Israel attacks Iran, so effectively they're there as human
23:36
Speaker 4: shields for Israel. At the same time, on the question
23:40
Speaker 4: of Israeli's expansionist policy, Balazeal Smotrach, who's the finance minister,
23:49
Speaker 4: provocatively claims the future of Israel involves expansion as far
23:53
Speaker 4: as Damascus. During an interview for a French documentary israel
23:58
Speaker 4: Extremists in power ed Arte, Israeli finance minister basically sad
24:04
Speaker 4: that Israel has the right under religious pretexts to expand
24:10
Speaker 4: its territory not only towards Damascus, but also of course
24:13
Speaker 4: into other countries in the region. And as if echoing this,
24:18
Speaker 4: Lord Peter Ricketts, who was a former national security advisor
24:24
Speaker 4: to the British government, went on the BBC.
24:27
Speaker 9: And said this, I think Israel has got to the
24:31
Speaker 9: point now where they feel there are no constraints on them.
24:35
Speaker 9: They have spent a year, They've still not done the
24:37
Speaker 9: job in Gaza. They've had to go back into the
24:40
Speaker 9: north of Gaza around the Jabalia refugee camp there, I
24:43
Speaker 9: think for the third time, and I think they're feeling
24:46
Speaker 9: that they're effectively no American pressure.
24:49
Speaker 1: On them anymore.
24:50
Speaker 9: I think the Americans gave up pushing for a cease
24:52
Speaker 9: foreign Gaza, which is still nowhere happening. They've accepted the
24:57
Speaker 9: fact that Israel is now in South Lebanon, and trying
25:00
Speaker 9: to destroy his bodic's capability, and the Americans are reinforcing
25:05
Speaker 9: Israel against the possibility of another Iranian strike as and
25:09
Speaker 9: when the Israeli retaliation against Iran comes. So I don't
25:13
Speaker 9: think that Natanya who thinks that as any limit now
25:15
Speaker 9: as far as what he can do in terms of
25:17
Speaker 9: political constraints. I mean, the terrible casualty toll suggests that
25:23
Speaker 9: they are really not prioritizing protection of civilians either, and
25:27
Speaker 9: that while he's got momentum and he's doing is in Lebanon,
25:30
Speaker 9: he's got to go as far as he can.
25:34
Speaker 4: What's the British government is also not doing anything to
25:37
Speaker 4: stop it or prevent it. And another shocking statistic that
25:42
Speaker 4: came out this week from the UN Human Rights OCHA,
25:47
Speaker 4: Gaza is home to the largest number of amputee children
25:50
Speaker 4: in modern history. Just let that sink in and let's
25:53
Speaker 4: listen to the representative of cher at the un.
25:58
Speaker 10: H Managering Partners report that women and children are hard
26:01
Speaker 10: hit by the trauma of this war. Each day, according
26:04
Speaker 10: to UNRA, ten children are losing one or both of
26:08
Speaker 10: their legs. Gaza is home to the largest cohort of
26:11
Speaker 10: child amputees in modern history, women are three times more
26:16
Speaker 10: likely to miscarry and three times more likely to die
26:20
Speaker 10: from childbirth, and yet humanitarians are not giving up, Madame President.
26:25
Speaker 10: We also remain deeply concerned about the worsting situation in
26:29
Speaker 10: the West Bank. Over the past year, Israeli military operations,
26:33
Speaker 10: along with the rampant settler violence and house demolitions, have
26:36
Speaker 10: led to sharp rise and fatalities, widespread destruction and force displacement.
26:45
Speaker 5: So yes, dreadful situation.
26:49
Speaker 1: Yes, Vanessa. In the meantime, we have more war drums,
26:53
Speaker 1: been buying for war with ron Man. You wouldalk about
26:57
Speaker 1: that a second ago, but more and more voices sort
27:00
Speaker 1: of trying to push for this.
27:03
Speaker 8: Yeah.
27:03
Speaker 4: Absolutely, This was something that I picked up on and
27:06
Speaker 4: wrote about on my substacks that people can go there.
27:10
Speaker 5: But this was an article published in for Chatham House.
27:14
Speaker 5: Lasting Israel Palestine peace.
27:16
Speaker 4: Will not be possible without a new policy to neutralize
27:19
Speaker 4: the Iranian threat.
27:20
Speaker 5: So who was this written by?
27:22
Speaker 4: He's a former British diplomat, a head of mission in Berner, Jerusalem, Syria, Iraq,
27:31
Speaker 4: Libya and Saudi Arabia. Sir John Jenkins described as a
27:35
Speaker 4: Tehran focused policy.
27:37
Speaker 5: He lays out the potential.
27:38
Speaker 4: Hybrid warfare plan, explaining that a new paradigm is needed
27:43
Speaker 4: which centers on Tehran and its malign influence.
27:46
Speaker 5: Ideally, this would mean a change in Iran itself.
27:49
Speaker 4: An extension of the current conflict to the country could
27:52
Speaker 4: destabilize the regime, something the leadership fears in the light
27:56
Speaker 4: of its massive domestic unpopularity, which.
27:58
Speaker 5: Of course is not true.
28:01
Speaker 4: But let's have a look at how Peter Ford, who's
28:03
Speaker 4: a speaker on Saturday, responded to this with some sting
28:11
Speaker 4: in his commentary because he knows Jenkins, of course, from
28:15
Speaker 4: his time himself in Syria.
28:17
Speaker 5: Peter Ford was ambassador to Syria.
28:20
Speaker 4: He basically says Jenkins comes from a long line of
28:22
Speaker 4: British diplomats who simply could not abide the idea of
28:25
Speaker 4: a strong independent Iran. Iranians will never forget the British
28:29
Speaker 4: role in the overthrow of the Upper te mosdec and
28:32
Speaker 4: the installation of the brutal Shark. Nor for nothing is
28:35
Speaker 4: Britain known as the little Satan to Iranians that a
28:39
Speaker 4: former British ambassador could write a piece like this without
28:42
Speaker 4: even pretending to be dismayed by the appalling human suffering
28:46
Speaker 4: being inflicted on Palestinians and Lebanese, and whose only glimmer
28:50
Speaker 4: of humanity comes in a reference to October the seventh
28:54
Speaker 4: is numbingly shocking in the Westminster, Tel Aviv, Abu Dhabi,
28:58
Speaker 4: Washington World in Strenking Smooves. However, he will get a
29:02
Speaker 4: pat on the back for helping to condition British public
29:05
Speaker 4: opinion for the coming war with Iran, because that is
29:08
Speaker 4: what is article is really about and why it was commissioned.
29:13
Speaker 5: So chilling words there.
29:15
Speaker 1: From Peter absolutely, and as you say, Peter will be
29:18
Speaker 1: speaking as part of the media on trial segment of
29:22
Speaker 1: the event on Saturday, so looking forward to that. Sticking
29:26
Speaker 1: with Iran in a sense, here we have the fantastic
29:30
Speaker 1: David Lammy and Joseph Barrell his sidekick from the European
29:35
Speaker 1: Union because as we know, we have left the European
29:37
Speaker 1: Union and we don't have anything more to do with them.
29:40
Speaker 1: While they were in their statement, their joint statement talking
29:44
Speaker 1: about Iran, we condemn her in in attacks on Israel
29:47
Speaker 1: and supply of ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine,
29:50
Speaker 1: and we're committed to sanction Iran's regime on that account,
29:53
Speaker 1: because we've got to make sure that everybody understands that
29:55
Speaker 1: Iran is involved in both these conflicts and therefore is
30:00
Speaker 1: a target for the future. But the other thing that
30:03
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention very briefly with these two was,
30:06
Speaker 1: of course Britain's ongoing determination to support the idea of
30:11
Speaker 1: European defense and the reason for this, of course, is
30:15
Speaker 1: because the specter of a potential Trump presidency and Trump's
30:21
Speaker 1: attitude to NATO is making everybody on the European continent
30:26
Speaker 1: a bit worried, shall we say, and it's they're attempting
30:31
Speaker 1: to use this possibility as momentum to continue with their
30:36
Speaker 1: European defense project, which really it doesn't seem like anybody
30:40
Speaker 1: in Europe particularly wants because they keep trying to push forward.
30:44
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the European Commission here keeps trying to
30:46
Speaker 1: push push it forward, and the Member States themselves seem
30:51
Speaker 1: to be a little reluctant. But anyway, if you want
30:54
Speaker 1: the context for this again, go back to the UK
30:58
Speaker 1: column website and have a look for the EU Military
31:02
Speaker 1: Unification page and well you'll get a timeline there of
31:06
Speaker 1: how this has built up over the years. Okay, and
31:10
Speaker 1: Vanessa back to you then and Syria now you're mud.
31:16
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I have my fault.
31:18
Speaker 5: It's my fault.
31:19
Speaker 8: Go for it, okay.
31:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were talking about the closure of the border
31:24
Speaker 4: road between Lebanon and Syria, and you and I, Mike,
31:28
Speaker 4: were talking about the fact if we can just play
31:30
Speaker 4: the video, we can see the damage.
31:33
Speaker 5: That is still there.
31:37
Speaker 8: Lebanon, Syria, and you'll.
31:50
Speaker 5: Be glad to know that I was actually going to
31:52
Speaker 5: try and walk from one side of the crater to
31:54
Speaker 5: the other.
31:55
Speaker 4: I was planning it all and then the US influenced
31:58
Speaker 4: officials in Lebanon shut it entirely. So clearly they don't
32:03
Speaker 4: want us to be able to get out of Syria
32:05
Speaker 4: or for Lebanese to find.
32:07
Speaker 5: Refuge in Syria.
32:09
Speaker 4: So I want to come on to an update on
32:11
Speaker 4: what's going on in Syria. This is the director of
32:13
Speaker 4: the Russian Intelligence Service, Sergei Narushkin, who's been speaking about
32:19
Speaker 4: the agreements between Ukraine and the armed terrorist groups in
32:21
Speaker 4: the Syrian.
32:22
Speaker 5: Arab Republic, which are being made with the help.
32:25
Speaker 4: And blessing of the American and British intelligence and with
32:28
Speaker 4: the tacit approval of the Turks.
32:30
Speaker 5: He's talking predominantly about the Northwest.
32:33
Speaker 4: The Kiev regim is supplying terrorist organizations and extremist groups
32:36
Speaker 4: with attack and reconnaissance drones in addition to ammunition, in
32:41
Speaker 4: exchange for recruiting its militants and sending them to fight
32:44
Speaker 4: in Ukraine. Russian intelligence has also monitored numerous communications between
32:49
Speaker 4: Ukrainian military intelligence envoys and leaders of the armed terrorist
32:53
Speaker 4: groups pre dominated by Al Qaeda active in the Syrian
32:58
Speaker 4: Idlab Governorate, which represents a fertile environment and a large
33:02
Speaker 4: incubator for them, and who target on an almost daily basis,
33:05
Speaker 4: the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian forces operating on
33:10
Speaker 4: Syrian territory. So I just want to He also mentioned
33:13
Speaker 4: the training by the US of terrorist forces and the
33:16
Speaker 4: altanav base.
33:19
Speaker 5: On the border with Jordan. But let's just have a
33:21
Speaker 5: look at the video of the forces training in ed.
33:59
Speaker 4: The fact that their face is a cupboard in the
34:01
Speaker 4: uniforms they're wearing, despite their wearing the headbands of various
34:06
Speaker 4: armed groups, would actually suggest to me, and this is
34:09
Speaker 4: only speculation, that these are foreign mercenaries or even special
34:13
Speaker 4: forces from the regime change cartel.
34:17
Speaker 5: But I just again wanted to show this map.
34:19
Speaker 4: So the front line now is extending in that northwest corner.
34:24
Speaker 4: The Syrian Arabami has been moving heavy equipment and artillery
34:29
Speaker 4: and tanks to that area, so clearly starting a new
34:31
Speaker 4: front line. What that does to some extent is leave
34:35
Speaker 4: vulnerable the southern area, which I'd already talked about last
34:38
Speaker 4: week for a ground invasion by Israel.
34:42
Speaker 5: And in fact, if we look at recent reports both.
34:45
Speaker 4: From Israeli press and from Reuters, so Jerusalem Post was
34:50
Speaker 4: claiming that IDF tanks had crossed into Syria. That has
34:54
Speaker 4: been denied by the various governors in that area. Syrian
34:59
Speaker 4: governors that area. But Reutter has reported that Israel's d
35:03
Speaker 4: mining near the Goland signals wider front against hasblog, but also,
35:07
Speaker 4: in my opinion, signals the possibility of an attempt at
35:12
Speaker 4: some kind of land crab in the south in the
35:14
Speaker 4: near future.
35:16
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Vanessa, thank you very much. Now let's
35:20
Speaker 1: talk about gender. This is related to warfare, as you'll
35:22
Speaker 1: see in a second, but let's talk about gender because
35:25
Speaker 1: in Germany earlier in the year, they passed a piece
35:29
Speaker 1: of legislation which is called the Act of Self Determination.
35:34
Speaker 1: This replaces the transsexual Act of nineteen eighty on the
35:38
Speaker 1: first November twenty twenty four, so it comes in the
35:40
Speaker 1: full force in a couple of weeks time. The change
35:44
Speaker 1: of gender entry doesn't have to be permanent, so basically
35:49
Speaker 1: you can decide if you're a male, you can decide
35:51
Speaker 1: you're going to be a female today, but you're only
35:54
Speaker 1: allowed to make that decision once per year, so after
35:56
Speaker 1: a year you can you can decide to switch back
36:00
Speaker 1: if you want. If you are a parent, well, basically
36:05
Speaker 1: your child cannot make their own decision until they're fourteen
36:07
Speaker 1: years old, but if you want to make a decision
36:10
Speaker 1: for them at a younger age, then you can do that.
36:14
Speaker 1: But once they're aged five then they have to be
36:17
Speaker 1: able to say that they are happy for that change
36:19
Speaker 1: to be made, and when you go to register that change,
36:22
Speaker 1: you've got to bring the child with you. But as
36:25
Speaker 1: to say, from the age of fourteen, young people allowed
36:27
Speaker 1: to determine their own gender. If parents decide to oppose
36:32
Speaker 1: a fourteen or fifteen year old changing their own gender,
36:35
Speaker 1: then that can be taken to the family courts for decision,
36:38
Speaker 1: And in the case of people that are under eighteen,
36:42
Speaker 1: then they don't have to wait the year for if
36:44
Speaker 1: they want to change back, they can change as many
36:46
Speaker 1: times as they like at any time. But what's this
36:49
Speaker 1: got to do with warfare? Well, the issue for the
36:52
Speaker 1: German government is whether somebody who is born a male
36:56
Speaker 1: and who may be subject to conscription in the not
36:59
Speaker 1: to do this in future, would be able to simply
37:00
Speaker 1: change their gender as a result of this legislation and
37:04
Speaker 1: avoid the draft. And well, unfortunately that is not going
37:07
Speaker 1: to be the case. So basically, if you're born male
37:11
Speaker 1: and you decide you want to be a female, then
37:14
Speaker 1: you need to be making that decision at least two
37:17
Speaker 1: months before there would be any conscription, because once you
37:22
Speaker 1: pass that two month threshold, any attempt to change gender
37:27
Speaker 1: would not be considered and you would be in fact
37:31
Speaker 1: conscripted as a male and forced to join the military.
37:34
Speaker 1: So there you go.
37:35
Speaker 3: What do you think?
37:37
Speaker 2: I think the positive I would draw from this is
37:40
Speaker 2: that it is so absurd that it does at least
37:43
Speaker 2: effectively turn the whole idea of changing gender into a
37:47
Speaker 2: complete mockery, and I think that is a step in
37:50
Speaker 2: the right direction.
37:51
Speaker 3: The rest of it's complete nonsense.
37:53
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39:58
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42:15
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42:20
Speaker 2: the harvest across the United Kingdom this season has been abominable,
42:24
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42:26
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42:29
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42:32
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42:36
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42:41
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42:44
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42:47
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42:50
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42:54
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42:57
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43:00
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43:04
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43:06
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43:10
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43:14
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43:19
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43:24
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43:29
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43:33
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43:36
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43:38
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43:43
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43:50
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43:55
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43:58
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44:02
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44:10
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44:13
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44:18
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44:22
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44:27
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44:31
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44:34
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44:38
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Speaker 2: So Grantham, they're on effectively one side of the fence
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Speaker 2: with regard to population. His belief therefore following that of
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Speaker 2: Malthus that an increase in food production will lead in
44:56
Speaker 2: some ways to a sort of depopulation event via famine
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Speaker 2: or similar catastrophe. Also providing funding to this organization which
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Speaker 2: is informing these sort of catastrophic predictions in terms of
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Speaker 2: climate and how they'll affect harvest is Jeff Bezos and
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Speaker 2: his Bezos Earth Fund. Unlike Grantham, Bezos believes that the
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Speaker 2: human population should be increased, but his solution to that
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Speaker 2: is to create fake food. His Center for Sustainable Protein
45:26
Speaker 2: and obviously not launched today, but when this was announced.
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Speaker 2: Will develop innovative and evidence based solutions through design, delivery
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Speaker 2: and commercialization of alternative food products. As I say, fake food.
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Speaker 2: These are not food stuff in the true sense of
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Speaker 2: the word. They are not therefore full of nutrients that
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Speaker 2: are available to human beings insofar as a bioability is concerned.
45:48
Speaker 2: But he says that they're economically and environmentally friendly. I
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Speaker 2: think that's highly questionable. Nutritious, almost certainly not affordable. World
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Speaker 2: will see and tasty no comment. But this is how
45:59
Speaker 2: you can column considered the other factors at play here
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Speaker 2: as opposed to just climate change and indeed just a
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Speaker 2: poor weather outcome. This is the twenty seventh of March
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Speaker 2: of this year. Well, that's actually a huge change from
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Speaker 2: what they said. First of all, the other thing they're
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Speaker 2: going to be doing is specifically that to protect food
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Speaker 2: security and ensure we continue to produce at least sixty
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Speaker 2: percent of the food we consume here in the UK,
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Speaker 2: to include a new annual UK wide Food Security Index
46:34
Speaker 2: to capture and present the data needed to monitor levels
46:38
Speaker 2: of food security. So this was pointed out to DEFRA
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Speaker 2: back in January. It seemed clear to UK column at
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Speaker 2: least that this risk lay ahead, and I got in
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Speaker 2: touch with them and I asked them specifically, highlighted down
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Speaker 2: the red box, what is the minimum permitted area hecta
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Speaker 2: of the utilized agricultural area and as a percentage of
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Speaker 2: that the croppable area, so that the area that's actually
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Speaker 2: using use to produce food. What measures does DEFRA have
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Speaker 2: in place to avoid a significant reduction? DEFRA replied at
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Speaker 2: the time to clarify that there was no upper limit
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Speaker 2: on the funding available for any of those schemes, not
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Speaker 2: all that land is likely to be suitable and so on,
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Speaker 2: So quite clearly, as I said, you know, disengenuous from
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Speaker 2: the start, they didn't qualify that at the outset, and
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Speaker 2: then they went on to say that they do not
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Speaker 2: expect this to change as more farmers sign up to
47:37
Speaker 2: our farming schemes. So DEFRA in effect have been massively
47:41
Speaker 2: caught out by this, and indeed that does seem to
47:46
Speaker 2: be the case. I will just reinforce effectively what's turned
47:49
Speaker 2: out to be not altogether impossible prediction to make from
47:52
Speaker 2: the agricultural land use statistics most recently provided on the
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Speaker 2: twenty sex of September of this year, in which the
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Speaker 2: DEFRA reports that the utilized agricultural area which I was
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Speaker 2: just talking about, has decreased by one percent, but that's
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Speaker 2: of course a misleading figure. I should state that this
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Speaker 2: is for England and not the whole of the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 2: Arable crops within that down by six point four percent,
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Speaker 2: and underlined here the uncropped arable area has increased by
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Speaker 2: one hundred and seven percent. It's gone up five hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty one thousand hectares. That means that all that
48:23
Speaker 2: area is now not being cropped. And this is a
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Speaker 2: direct result of the environmental schemes that I was referring
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Speaker 2: to back in late March. Wheat yield down by or sorry,
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Speaker 2: wheat yield down by eleven percent, oil seed down by
48:36
Speaker 2: twenty six percent, and horticultural crops down by three point
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Speaker 2: two percent. This was entirely manufactured by the environmental land
48:44
Speaker 2: management schemes that were made available to farmers who decided
48:47
Speaker 2: that they would rather de risk their business. So here
48:50
Speaker 2: we see that the area of uncropped arable land has
48:52
Speaker 2: increased by one hundred and seven percent to five hundred
48:56
Speaker 2: and eighty one thousand hectares. Of this area, two hundred
48:59
Speaker 2: six thousand hectares were left as bare follow and the
49:02
Speaker 2: remaining three hundred and five thousand hectares were left for
49:05
Speaker 2: environmental benefit. Well, I think again that's highly questionable and
49:09
Speaker 2: at what cost. And I just leave you with the
49:11
Speaker 2: consideration that the red arrow there pointing at the massive
49:15
Speaker 2: population increase that the United Kingdom has seen over the
49:19
Speaker 2: last two years in particular, and indeed, of course its
49:22
Speaker 2: projections which are never ever mentioned in any of these
49:25
Speaker 2: statistics provided by government. So food shortage, as I say,
49:29
Speaker 2: in some way or other, seem extremely likely in the
49:33
Speaker 2: near future.
49:34
Speaker 1: Now, a topic we've been covering for many, many years
49:37
Speaker 1: is constitutional issues, and the House of Lords is a
49:41
Speaker 1: very key part of that.
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Speaker 3: Now.
49:43
Speaker 1: Of course, in nineteen ninety nine, Tony Blair decided to
49:48
Speaker 1: enact a piece of constitutional vandalism and removed the majority
49:53
Speaker 1: of peditory peers from the Heus of Lords. And of
49:55
Speaker 1: course many people think that this is a good thing
49:57
Speaker 1: because the Heights of Lords, they say, is completely undemocratic,
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Speaker 1: particularly when you've got hereditary peers in there. They're unelected
50:05
Speaker 1: and so on. But that's misunderstanding the role of the
50:08
Speaker 1: House of Lords, which is there to hold the House
50:10
Speaker 1: of Commons to account to some degree. And when you
50:13
Speaker 1: pack the House of Lords instead of hereditary peers, you
50:16
Speaker 1: pack them with party representatives. Then, of course who is
50:19
Speaker 1: actually getting held to account And the answer is no one.
50:22
Speaker 1: And just to make sure everybody understands the situation with
50:25
Speaker 1: respect to the House of Lords, the House of Lords
50:28
Speaker 1: since the Parliament Act nineteen eleven, I'll just read the
50:31
Speaker 1: text from the Parliament website here. The Parliament Act nineteen
50:34
Speaker 1: eleven effectively abolished the part of the House of Lords
50:37
Speaker 1: to reject legislation or to amend it in a way
50:40
Speaker 1: unacceptable to the House of Commons. And most bills could
50:43
Speaker 1: be delayed by no more than three parliamentary sessions or
50:46
Speaker 1: two calendar years. And so the best that the House
50:49
Speaker 1: of Lords can do as it stands at the moment
50:51
Speaker 1: is to delay things. But the whole point of the
50:53
Speaker 1: House of Lords is to amend or make suggestions and
50:58
Speaker 1: to place limitation on the power of the House of Commons.
51:02
Speaker 1: And of course that, as I say, is impossible if
51:04
Speaker 1: you don't have people that are actually independent in it.
51:07
Speaker 1: So having hereditary peers in there was not necessarily a
51:11
Speaker 1: bad thing. But if you put this back up on screen.
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Speaker 1: The work of Tony Blair from nineteen ninety nine is
51:17
Speaker 1: now being completed by Keir Starmer with the House of
51:21
Speaker 1: Lord's Hereditary Peers Bill, which is now getting its second reading,
51:24
Speaker 1: which will get the rest of them out and will
51:27
Speaker 1: only leave the Parliament the party stooges in place.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think well on the new extension of
51:36
Speaker 2: the blasts Holly, as you say, and proper instance of
51:39
Speaker 2: throwing the baby out with the bath water. But also
51:41
Speaker 2: I think that another thing that's lost hugely in this
51:44
Speaker 2: is of course, for hereditary peer to sit in the
51:47
Speaker 2: House of Lords, they have to have gone through a
51:49
Speaker 2: process of election, which does put them in a different
51:52
Speaker 2: category from all the people who are stuffed in there,
51:54
Speaker 2: whether or not they want to be and indeed are
51:56
Speaker 2: there to effectively perpetuate the narrative. And the other thing,
51:59
Speaker 2: of course, is that in reducing or at least eliminating
52:02
Speaker 2: hereditary peers, the likelihood of getting a proper geographical spread
52:06
Speaker 2: of people represented is further reduced. And also there's the
52:10
Speaker 2: by extension, the consideration of what place the monarchy has
52:14
Speaker 2: in this country. If the House of Lords or at
52:17
Speaker 2: least hereditary peers being described as indefensible on the basis
52:22
Speaker 2: of having had an accident of birth which has put
52:24
Speaker 2: them there. The next subject on the agenda surely is
52:27
Speaker 2: why do we have a monarchy? Good question, yes, anyway
52:31
Speaker 2: that will take us into effectively yet another instance in
52:36
Speaker 2: which net zero must be challenged or questioned. And this
52:41
Speaker 2: is with the announcement today or that possibly yesterday, of
52:44
Speaker 2: my apologies, that Google have gone into a plan to
52:49
Speaker 2: put a nuclear clean energy agreement in with Chiros power.
52:53
Speaker 2: Always worth looking at the words chiros, of course, being
52:55
Speaker 2: the ancient Greek word for seizing a critical mode. Indeed,
53:01
Speaker 2: I think they probably have done. But we go on
53:04
Speaker 2: to have a look at what they say, which is
53:06
Speaker 2: that the grid needs new electricity sources to support AI
53:10
Speaker 2: technologies that empowering major scientific advantages. The agreement helps a
53:16
Speaker 2: new technology to meet energy needs cleanly and reliably. So
53:20
Speaker 2: note it's for AI technologies. Is absolutely no mention that
53:23
Speaker 2: nuclear might be used to provide power for people, but
53:27
Speaker 2: they offer a clean, round the clock power source that
53:29
Speaker 2: can help us reliably meet electricity demands with carbon free
53:33
Speaker 2: energy every hour of every day. Advancing these power sources
53:37
Speaker 2: in close partnership with supportive local communities will rapidly drive
53:42
Speaker 2: the decarbonization of electricity grids around the world. And I've
53:44
Speaker 2: highlighted or rather put involved the particular text there, because
53:48
Speaker 2: of course the undertone is very much that the supposed
53:53
Speaker 2: push for renewable energy in the form of particularly solar
53:56
Speaker 2: and wind power is for naught because of course it
53:59
Speaker 2: cannot be reliable around the clock, which has been pointed
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Speaker 2: out from the start, and that will never change regardless
54:04
Speaker 2: of how many battery energy storage systems are put in
54:08
Speaker 2: place in all the wrong sorts of areas. And again
54:10
Speaker 2: the idea they're going to be supportive communities, well maybe,
54:14
Speaker 2: but why would they be supporting such a thing without
54:16
Speaker 2: some sort of financial incentive. Also, this is effectively possibly
54:22
Speaker 2: in line to compete with Bill Gates's fora into providing
54:28
Speaker 2: small scale nuclear power. I spoke about this back in
54:32
Speaker 2: twenty sixth June and his initiative terror Power. But of
54:35
Speaker 2: course Gates is seeking to derive, as with many of
54:38
Speaker 2: his projects, are sort of health initiative from this using
54:41
Speaker 2: isotopic advances in cancer treatments. And then the other thing,
54:45
Speaker 2: which pertains in some ways to Mike's peace earlier about
54:50
Speaker 2: Lake and Heath and storage. With regard to nuclear substances,
54:55
Speaker 2: we have the issue of geological disposal which is sort
54:58
Speaker 2: of rearing its head again, which involves placing radioactive wastes
55:02
Speaker 2: deep underground within a suitable rock formation. The rock formation
55:06
Speaker 2: provides long term protection by acting as a barrier against
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Speaker 2: escape of radioactivity and by isolating the waste from effects
55:13
Speaker 2: at the surface such as climate change. Of course, now
55:16
Speaker 2: I've spoken on a number of occasions about things going
55:19
Speaker 2: on underground and the government's apparent obsession with this. We
55:23
Speaker 2: had the tunnel equipment by His Majesty's Government Communications Center
55:27
Speaker 2: and partnership with DSDL. We've had focus on tunnels being
55:31
Speaker 2: used in Lebanon and Died the mod providing training for
55:35
Speaker 2: tunneling of one sort or another. So as well as,
55:40
Speaker 2: of course the Future Cities documents suggesting that we might
55:43
Speaker 2: all be living there one day. And now we have,
55:45
Speaker 2: going back to June of this year, the future of
55:47
Speaker 2: what's called the subsurface and the ironic subtitle there, what
55:51
Speaker 2: would happen if we turn planning upside down? Apparently exactly
55:54
Speaker 2: what the Newday Government has just done in the last
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Speaker 2: few weeks.
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Speaker 3: This is the vision for use.
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Speaker 2: Of the subservice subsurface, which looks extraordinarily complicated, confusing, and disorganized,
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Speaker 2: but they say that the report sets out available evidence
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Speaker 2: on current challenges and trend related to the subsurface, and
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Speaker 2: explores how we might evolve in future and what we
56:17
Speaker 2: need to do now to prepare.
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Speaker 3: So all somewhat ominous.
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Speaker 2: They look at the twenty forty scenarios and they say
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Speaker 2: that they are a tool to help policymakers, but they
56:28
Speaker 2: are not predictions.
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Speaker 3: However, they can't help themselves from.
56:32
Speaker 2: Looking towards worst outcomes, which they identify as being threefold.
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Speaker 2: First of all net zero targets being at risk, and
56:41
Speaker 2: of course the inference here is this will be only
56:44
Speaker 2: because of planning barriers, that there will be climate change
56:48
Speaker 2: adaptation under pressure, and also that technological change will have
56:53
Speaker 2: fallen behind due to regulatory barriers. So effectively, what they're
56:57
Speaker 2: advocating for is a free for all in WIS which
57:00
Speaker 2: anyone can do anything they like in the name of
57:04
Speaker 2: preserving the net zero goals. However, their AI machine has
57:10
Speaker 2: generated some dystopian images of what happens if things do
57:14
Speaker 2: not turn out as expected, which is effectively looking very
57:18
Speaker 2: much like things today, but with the extraordinary addition of
57:21
Speaker 2: what one assumes to be electric vehicle charging points that
57:25
Speaker 2: no vehicles can.
57:25
Speaker 3: Actually get to. So a world that does not look
57:29
Speaker 3: at all to be better.
57:31
Speaker 2: And I know where my virtual money would be going
57:34
Speaker 2: if I had to predict from this side here, which
57:36
Speaker 2: outcome is more likely if we are to pursue this
57:39
Speaker 2: underground agenda looking towards twenty forty or twenty fifty.
57:43
Speaker 1: Okay, for Essa, let's finish with you. We began with war,
57:48
Speaker 1: and well let's end with war.
57:53
Speaker 4: I think a very important point this is from Eugene Dabs,
57:57
Speaker 4: whom is a presidential candidate back in my Team eighteen
58:01
Speaker 4: in the United States, and who gave a speech called
58:04
Speaker 4: the subject class always fights the battles for which he
58:08
Speaker 4: received a ten year prison sentence under the Espionage Act,
58:12
Speaker 4: which sounds very familiar.
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Speaker 5: So what does he say here?
58:16
Speaker 4: Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their
58:19
Speaker 4: own corpses, and there will never be another war on
58:22
Speaker 4: the face of the birth. I think very sage advice there.
58:26
Speaker 4: But let's have a look at his speech where he says,
58:30
Speaker 4: wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.
58:33
Speaker 4: In the Middle Ages, when the federal lords who inhabited
58:37
Speaker 4: the castles whose towers may still be seen along the Rhine,
58:42
Speaker 4: concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige,
58:46
Speaker 4: and their wealth.
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Speaker 5: They declared war upon one another.
58:49
Speaker 4: But they themselves did not go to war more than
58:52
Speaker 4: the modern feudal lords.
58:54
Speaker 5: The barons of Wall Street go to war. The federal
58:57
Speaker 5: barons of.
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Speaker 4: Sorry of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the
59:04
Speaker 4: capitalists of our day, declared all wars, and their miserable
59:08
Speaker 4: serfs fought all the battles. The poor, ignorant serfs have
59:11
Speaker 4: been taught to revere their masters, to believe that when
59:15
Speaker 4: another's their masters declared war upon one another, it was
59:19
Speaker 4: their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to
59:21
Speaker 4: cut one another's throats. He goes on to say, they
59:25
Speaker 4: have always taught and trained you to believe to be
59:28
Speaker 4: it's your patriotic duty to go to war and to
59:31
Speaker 4: have yourself.
59:32
Speaker 5: Slaughtered at their command.
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Speaker 4: But in all the history of the world, you the people,
59:38
Speaker 4: have never had a voice in declaring war. And strange
59:42
Speaker 4: as it suddenly appears, no war by any nation in
59:46
Speaker 4: any age has ever been declared by the people. And
59:50
Speaker 4: here let me emphasize the fact, and it cannot be
59:52
Speaker 4: repeated too often, that the working class who fight all
59:56
Speaker 4: the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices,
1:00:00
Speaker 4: the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish
1:00:03
Speaker 4: their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either
1:00:07
Speaker 4: declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class
1:00:11
Speaker 4: that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they
1:00:15
Speaker 4: alone make peace.
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Speaker 5: Yours. Not to reason why yours.
1:00:20
Speaker 2: But to do and die.
1:00:21
Speaker 5: This is their motto. And we object on part of
1:00:23
Speaker 5: the awakening workers of this nation. This was from nineteen eighteen.
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Speaker 4: He was arrested and imprisoned, but I think very prescient words.
1:00:33
Speaker 4: And just to add to that, this is from Masenkumseya,
1:00:36
Speaker 4: who's a Palestinian environmentalist.
1:00:39
Speaker 5: Factoid.
1:00:40
Speaker 4: The Jewish state was seven point two million. Jews received
1:00:43
Speaker 4: seventeen point eight billion dollars in one year in military
1:00:47
Speaker 4: aid from the United States taxpayers via the federal government
1:00:51
Speaker 4: to support genocide. That is twenty four hundred and seventy
1:00:55
Speaker 4: two dollars per person per year. Triple that if you
1:00:58
Speaker 4: count the other usaid. Florida, now with two hurricanes, received
1:01:02
Speaker 4: in federal Grant's twenty two billion per year for its
1:01:06
Speaker 4: twenty three million residents. That is nine hundred and fifty
1:01:09
Speaker 4: six dollars per person per year. Let that sink in
1:01:13
Speaker 4: those voting for either side of the same point, the
1:01:16
Speaker 4: Guopoli serving lobbies in US elections. So I think two
1:01:20
Speaker 4: very pertinent points for us to end on.
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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you Essa. We will talk more about that
1:01:26
Speaker 1: and extra in a few minutes. If you're a UK
1:01:28
Speaker 1: column member, join us for that. But we have to
1:01:31
Speaker 1: finish there for today. So thanks very much everybody that's watched,
1:01:34
Speaker 1: Thanks to charge of Vanessa for taking part, and we'll
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Speaker 1: see you in a few minutes for extra.
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Speaker 3: Bye bye BYEI