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UK Column News — 10th April 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the tenth of April twenty twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to you k Callum News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Mike Robinson joining me by videoing today
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Speaker 1: we have Patrick Hennison, Basil Valentine and Mark Anderson. A
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Speaker 1: Later in the program, we're going to be covering this
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Speaker 1: year's Builderberg conference, the intention to use five gen milimeter.
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Speaker 1: We have technology to scan for our emotions and what
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Speaker 1: are I six up to in Lebanon. But we'll begin
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Speaker 1: today with shifting war narratives because Britain is back on
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Speaker 1: Russia's case. The British secondary state for war, we might
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Speaker 1: call him that. John Healey took to the live stream
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Speaker 1: yesterday to tell us all about the horrible mister Putin
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Speaker 1: and how he's been sending his naughty submarines to look
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Speaker 1: at some undersea cables and pipes in the North Sea.
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Speaker 1: Let's have a listen to a few seconds of how
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Speaker 1: he began his presentation yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Today, I'm revealing details of a recent military operation undertaken
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Speaker 2: by Russia, and in doing so, I'm doing this to
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Speaker 2: expose the continuing Russian activity that threatens us in the
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Speaker 2: UK and to highlight our constant readiness to respond. In
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Speaker 2: the last few weeks, while the eyes of many were
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Speaker 2: trained on the Middle East, the UK, in partnership with
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Speaker 2: Norway and other allies, have responded to increase Russian activity
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Speaker 2: in the Atlantic north of the UK. This operation involved
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Speaker 2: a Russian Acula class attack submarine and a concurrent deployment
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Speaker 2: of two specialist submarines from GOOGI, that's Russia's main directorate
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Speaker 2: for deep sea research. And last November I outline how
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Speaker 2: these Googi units, including the spy ship Yantar, are vessels
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Speaker 2: directed by President Putin to conduct hybrid warfare activities against
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Speaker 2: the UK and our allies, specifically around critical undersea infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: And for the first time today we're releasing images of
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Speaker 2: the Googy base and of these vessels. They're designed to
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Speaker 2: survey underwater infrastructure during peacetime and sabotage it in conflict.
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Speaker 2: In response to the Russian submarines, I can confirm that
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Speaker 2: I deployed our armed forces to track and to deter
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Speaker 2: any malign activity by these vessels.
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Speaker 1: And if that wasn't silly enough for you, he went
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Speaker 1: on to say, how din we see you, We see
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Speaker 1: your activity over our cables and our pipelines, and you
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Speaker 1: should know that any attempt to damage them will not
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Speaker 1: be tolerated and will have serious consequences. And later interviews
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Speaker 1: any bit of clear that this was a line in
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Speaker 1: the sand and that any damaged any undersea infrastructure whatsoever
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Speaker 1: was absolutely Putin's work. No one else could possibly carry
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Speaker 1: out such an act, and we must certainly not think
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Speaker 1: for one second that Britain would do it ourselves as
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Speaker 1: a pretext for war. But back to the press conference
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Speaker 1: and during well, in fact we'll not show this, will
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Speaker 1: show that video an extra but look the focus is
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Speaker 1: on Russia once again. But that didn't stop Starmer from
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Speaker 1: taking to the Guardian here to use the Iran conflict
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Speaker 1: as an excuse for driving forward with his tutalitarian policies.
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Speaker 1: We should not be at the mercy of events abroad,
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Speaker 1: he said. That's why, from energy to defense, the key
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Speaker 1: social policies, we aim to remake our country. And of
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Speaker 1: course he doesn't say hi, he intends to remake it,
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Speaker 1: not at this stage, but whatever he does is going
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Speaker 1: to be in order to protect us from the Russians.
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Speaker 1: But we'll leave it to Vett Cooper. Our lovely Foreign
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Speaker 1: Secretary to some things up.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: You have to hold on to your hats when you
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Speaker 1: hear this, because she was speaking at the Mansion House
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Speaker 1: in the City of London, and so this is what
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Speaker 1: she said Vinil four.
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Speaker 4: Here we took a very different view from the United
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Speaker 4: States and Israel at the start of this conflict. When
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Speaker 4: their action got underway, we faced a choice and we
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Speaker 4: considered those issues carefully, the need for a clear plan,
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Speaker 4: the risks of escalation, the potential economic consequences, and the
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Speaker 4: lawful basis for any action, and we made the choice
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Speaker 4: not to provide support for the initial strikes or to
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Speaker 4: get drawn into offensive action. That was the decision Prime
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Speaker 4: Minister Kirstarmer took, calm and clear and guided by UK
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Speaker 4: interests and UK values. A different party in power, with
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Speaker 4: a different Prime Minister in Downing Street might have taken
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Speaker 4: a different decision. And governments are judged by the decisions
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Speaker 4: they make and the instincts that guide them in moments
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Speaker 4: of grave crisis, and so in those crucial hours on
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Speaker 4: the morning of the twenty eighth of February, when other
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Speaker 4: parties were demanding to know why we were not taking
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Speaker 4: part in the strikes on Iran. This government stayed calm
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Speaker 4: and health firm because we have learned the lessons from
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Speaker 4: the recent past, especially from Iraq, and no matter what
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Speaker 4: the pressure from other parties or other countries, we do
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Speaker 4: not believe it is right to outsource our foreign policy
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Speaker 4: to anyone.
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Speaker 1: So we're not ever outsourcing our foreign policy to anyone. Patrick,
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Speaker 1: just let me just get a brief comment from you
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Speaker 1: on this, because you know, they don't seem to quite
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Speaker 1: know who the enemy needs to be here. They are
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Speaker 1: now talking about Russia, and of course we are outsourcing
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Speaker 1: our foreign policy with respect to Russia because Ukraine is
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Speaker 1: prosecuting our war for us.
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Speaker 3: Well, quite right, Mike, it's another proxy with Ukraine. So
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Speaker 3: we're talking about a crisis that this government is absolutely
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Speaker 3: desperate to find and this is just another example of this.
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Speaker 3: Rather than intervene on an international law basis, which the
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Speaker 3: UK could have done diplomatically to restrain the United States,
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Speaker 3: instead they've basically waived the red Rag, the Matador or
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Speaker 3: the Red Cape from the Matador with the United States
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Speaker 3: and allow them straight through and then to ultimately drag
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Speaker 3: the UK into the war and allow Britain to be
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Speaker 3: used as a staging ground for bombing raids onto Iran.
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Speaker 3: So for her to make that statement credibly and just
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Speaker 3: ignore all of the sort of facilitating that Britain has done,
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Speaker 3: including civilian massacres which the US carried out in Iran,
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Speaker 3: is quite breathtaking.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Basil, let me welcome you to the program.
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Speaker 1: And the question is Israel bearing that October seventh basically
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Speaker 1: is what has started the Middle East conflict? At least
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Speaker 1: what has the question of what Israel actually you at
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Speaker 1: the time keeps coming back?
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Speaker 5: Yes, it does, Mike, and hello everybody. We've got a
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Speaker 5: big disconnect between what is in the public domain, particularly
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Speaker 5: by the Israeli press, and the received wisdom, the accepted
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Speaker 5: conventional reality that we have here, particularly in Britain, and
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Speaker 5: the emergence of the Green Party is a significant force
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Speaker 5: in UK politics has brought this into sharp focus. The
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Speaker 5: latest Lord Ashcroft poll shows the Greens actually leading nationally
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Speaker 5: for the first time, beating reform. They've got over thirty
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Speaker 5: one percent. That brings people like the chap in the
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Speaker 5: picture there, Bernard Mooney into the picture because he's holding
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Speaker 5: up a sign saying that Israel knew about October the
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Speaker 5: seventh in advance and used it to cover up the
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Speaker 5: subsequent evisceration of Gaza wor to that effect, and of
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Speaker 5: course for deviating from the official narrative, he has been
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Speaker 5: widely condemned, even though the Israelis themselves admit that they
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Speaker 5: were responsible for some of those killed on and after
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Speaker 5: October the seventh. Crucially, Major General Nitzan Alon, who's just
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Speaker 5: stepped down ashead of Israel's Hostages and Missing Persons Unit,
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Speaker 5: admitted not only that Israel knew it had killed the
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Speaker 5: Bibas family and others, but also Israel knew that Hamas
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Speaker 5: had not taken them. Plus, of course we have the
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Speaker 5: Hannibal directive from October the seventh itself, where Israeli forces
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Speaker 5: were ordered to kill anybody seen heading to warwards Gaza
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Speaker 5: so that they could not be used as hostages. That
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Speaker 5: had applied to Israelis as well as Hamas fighters. Yo
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Speaker 5: Av Gallant admitted that but these facts, of course, are
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Speaker 5: inconvenient for an establishment, and that I include the Labor Party,
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Speaker 5: who want to reinforce the idea that, of course Hamas
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Speaker 5: were the only people responsible for killing anyone on October
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Speaker 5: the seventh. This letter is from the Labor leader of
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Speaker 5: Lewisham Council condemning Bernard Mooney for what it calls conspiracy
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Speaker 5: theories relating to October the seventh, and demanding, of course,
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Speaker 5: that Zach Polanski and the Green Party disown him. I
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Speaker 5: think this is a foretaste of what's to come now
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Speaker 5: that the Green Party is a major force in British politics,
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Speaker 5: and of course is take an increasingly anti Zionist stance.
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Speaker 5: The motion at the Spring conference to state as party
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Speaker 5: policy that the Zionism is racism was filibusted the other day,
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Speaker 5: but it's bound to come back. And I shouldn't think
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Speaker 5: that Bernard Moodey is the only person who has discovered
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Speaker 5: more about October the seventh than the establishment would like
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Speaker 5: us to know. But it's really disgraceful of Labor Party
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Speaker 5: apparatchicks to be accusing him or anybody else for that matter,
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Speaker 5: of indulging in conspiracy theories regarding matters that the Israeli
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Speaker 5: government themselves admit and that are out in the open,
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Speaker 5: in the public domain. So we've got this disconnect between
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Speaker 5: what Israelis are willing to to admit to and what
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Speaker 5: is published in Israeli media and on the other hand,
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Speaker 5: the received wisdom, the consensus reality here in the UK,
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Speaker 5: which brooks absolutely no dissent at all from the official narrative,
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Speaker 5: which of course, as we know, has been used to
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Speaker 5: justify genocide.
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Speaker 1: So let's move on to you then, Patrick, and of
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Speaker 1: course bring us up to date on the war in Iran.
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Speaker 3: The latest is too much fanfare. There's allegedly a ceasefire,
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Speaker 3: and you know it's first I'm just going to say briefly,
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Speaker 3: I'll take you through where things are at and how
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Speaker 3: they got there might but the important thing here for
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Speaker 3: everyone to understand is it flip flops by the hour
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Speaker 3: with Donald Trump and with this White House. So it's just,
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Speaker 3: you know, going to be a fool's errand to try
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Speaker 3: to follow the bouncing ball with this White House, and
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Speaker 3: they'll be back and forth, they'll be up and down.
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Speaker 3: They'll be declaring war by breakfast tomorrow, and then another
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Speaker 3: pause by dinner, and then a deadline for the following evening,
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Speaker 3: and then so forth, then a week's deadline. It just
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Speaker 3: never ends here. And so the question is, you know, firstly,
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Speaker 3: did Israel spoil the ceasefire? And this is typical typical
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Speaker 3: story here from the Guardian, Did Israel attack Lebanon? Did
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Speaker 3: that spoil the ceasefire? And of course according to the
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Speaker 3: United States now JD. Vance, the Vice President's been thrown
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Speaker 3: into the fray here and he's saying no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: He says Lebanon was never part of the ceasefire. Well,
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Speaker 3: that contradicts the statements directly from the Pakistani Prime Minister's
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Speaker 3: own office and ex account, and it absolutely did. In fact,
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Speaker 3: the United States provided the text for the tweet, which
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Speaker 3: we discovered yesterday. So the United States absolutely was there,
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Speaker 3: but they didn't want to. Unfortunately for the US, they
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Speaker 3: don't want to admit that the Israel controls the total,
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Speaker 3: the pace, and the tenor of all of these events,
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Speaker 3: and so Israel will just decide when it's going to
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Speaker 3: attack Lebanon. It's sending a message to Washington saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: you don't dictate terms here. We're going to prosecute whatever
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Speaker 3: we want. And the United States will stick to the
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Speaker 3: point Lebanon's not connected to this war. They absolutely are.
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Speaker 3: So the first thing is to understand there is no ceasefire.
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Speaker 3: There's tool two competing dual proposals which may or may
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Speaker 3: not ever be agreed upon. And the US and Israel
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Speaker 3: needed a pause in order to re arm and reload.
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Speaker 3: And that's very clear by the president's statement. So if
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Speaker 3: there are negotiations, what are the chances of them, you know,
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Speaker 3: developing any sort of positive outcome. I don't know. Let's
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Speaker 3: look at the negotiation team here, will bring them on screen.
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Speaker 3: We've got the A team here that they're deploying. We've
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Speaker 3: the leaked image here, we've got from our sources of
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Speaker 3: the diplomatic vehicle here from Trotter's Unlimited Trotter's unlimited independent
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Speaker 3: diplomats New York, Tel Aviv and Islamabad. And of course
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Speaker 3: you've got the del boy of diplomacy himself, Steve Wickoff
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Speaker 3: and his sidekick Rodney Jared Kushner. So and JD Vance
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Speaker 3: is now being thrown in for extra cannon fodder with
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Speaker 3: extra eyeliner as you can see. So the question is
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Speaker 3: what are the chances of success? And we're going to
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Speaker 3: say with this team, just like every other negotiations, absolutely zero,
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Speaker 3: absolutely zeros. So there's no chance of success. And in fact,
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Speaker 3: if you look back at all of these situations, they've
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Speaker 3: only bought time for either the Israel or the US
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Speaker 3: to mount a sneak attack, and Israel did that immediately
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Speaker 3: after this was announced. It went in for a devastating
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Speaker 3: and brutal, savage attack on Lebanon. So all jokes aside,
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Speaker 3: what the Israelis did in Beirut is just unbelievable. They've
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Speaker 3: escalated things to another level here, so the President, and
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Speaker 3: just to just to reiterate what I said, here's a
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Speaker 3: tweet from Trump, one of many in the last twenty
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Speaker 3: four hours. Here there are reports that Iran is charging
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Speaker 3: fees to tankers going through the straits of WARMUS. Yeah, Donald,
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Speaker 3: they've been doing that for a few weeks now. They
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Speaker 3: better not be and if they are, they better stop now,
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Speaker 3: says Donald Trump. So he's already making the threats and
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Speaker 3: these maximalist positions. And Iran is basically proven that they're
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Speaker 3: not going to basically cowtow to the White House on this.
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Speaker 3: So in other words, there's going to be no we
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Speaker 3: were going to end up shooting it once again. And
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Speaker 3: so what caused this ceasefire to begin with? And just
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Speaker 3: briefly here this is on Press TV released this a
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Speaker 3: couple of days ago. Here, and here's this is from
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Speaker 3: the head of Press TV. Here and the information that
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Speaker 3: they released After special Forces, the US Special Forces realized
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Speaker 3: they had fallen into a trap, the White House Situation
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Speaker 3: Room made a crucial decision. The main operation to infiltrate
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Speaker 3: the nuclear site at Isfahan was changed into a desperate
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Speaker 3: rescue mission for the dozens of US commandos trapped under
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Speaker 3: Iranian fire. So this is a very different story than
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Speaker 3: the Jessica Lynch style gallant rescue of the pilot. Here
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Speaker 3: and PRESTV released this AI video which is actually quite brilliant,
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Speaker 3: but it details the situation on the ground in full
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Speaker 3: color and in three D of the USC one thirty
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Speaker 3: you know that allegedly got stuck in the mud, and
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Speaker 3: it really shows that there was another operation underway. And
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Speaker 3: this is what's become clear now. The US attempted a
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Speaker 3: snatch and grab of enriched uranium at Isfahan, at the
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Speaker 3: Isfahan facility, and it was a big operation that was
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Speaker 3: put together by Pete Hagseth, and the President was briefed
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Speaker 3: on this by the way prior, but the Washington Post
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Speaker 3: reported the briefing, but they didn't report the operation. So
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Speaker 3: Iran is saying that this was an operation and the
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Speaker 3: US fell into a trap. One second, one took fire
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Speaker 3: and a bunch of US forces were pinned down and
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Speaker 3: they had to basically do massive saturation bombing. Many Iranian
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Speaker 3: military and besieges were killed as US bombed the area
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Speaker 3: as well as bombed their own aircraft. The question is
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Speaker 3: how did they x filtrate the dozens of commandos. There
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Speaker 3: was probably another one thirty that was that landed to
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Speaker 3: xfiltrait the US forces, But whatever the case is here,
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Speaker 3: this was the Jimmy Carter moment for Donald Trump and
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Speaker 3: Pete Seth. This was a botched operation, much bigger in
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Speaker 3: scale than the botched hostage rescue by Jimmy Carter back
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Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty. Okay, so they've evaded any press or
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Speaker 3: coverage on this, but in this sort of alternative sphere,
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Speaker 3: the podcast sphere and shows like Andrew Neapolitano Judging Freedom
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Speaker 3: Ane of these big podcasts, a lot of the experts
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Speaker 3: have come on those programs and detail given details about
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Speaker 3: this what actually happened. So this was this is what
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Speaker 3: triggered Trump's fury of threatening civilizational annihilation of the Iranians here,
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Speaker 3: and so that outburst by Trump, it basically caused a
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Speaker 3: massive backlash in the United States and also internationally. Here's
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Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green will go to look at her former congresswoman,
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Speaker 3: Go look at her Twitter account. Here she's invoking the
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Speaker 3: twenty fifth Amendment saying, not a single bomb has dropped
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Speaker 3: on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is
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Speaker 3: evil and madness here. So there was a substantial backlash,
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Speaker 3: including from his own party here on the Democrat side,
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Speaker 3: as we can see next, they introduced articles of impeachment
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Speaker 3: in one hundred lawmakers, invoking the twenty fifth Amendment. That's
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Speaker 3: to remove the president on the basis that he's mentally unstable.
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Speaker 3: And I think there's a good argument that probably Trump
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Speaker 3: falls into that category. That's without saying. But in terms
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Speaker 3: of the political blowback here, and many of the main
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Speaker 3: media outlets are pointing this out, massive backlash us politically.
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Speaker 3: So he's already lost the independent voters, he's losing more Republicans.
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Speaker 3: He's also there's another important demographic which he has lost
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Speaker 3: as well as a result of his war with religious
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Speaker 3: institutions here. But this is key. You look at the
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Speaker 3: internationally MAGA allies like Georgia Maloney in Italy, well, his
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Speaker 3: going to war with the Pope and the Vatican is
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Speaker 3: a bridge too far for the Italians. And you can
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Speaker 3: see this is a massive headache for Georgia Maloney as well. So,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just the level of political suicide here
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Speaker 3: by the White House is quite extraordinary. Here, well, let's
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Speaker 3: look at Donald Trump's war with Pope Leo, and so
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Speaker 3: we'll show you how this began. But this is a
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Speaker 3: statement from the current pope. Bear in mind, this is
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Speaker 3: an American pope, and he's saying, I'm asking all people
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Speaker 3: of goodwill to search always for peace and not violence,
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Speaker 3: to reject war, especially war that many people have said
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Speaker 3: is an unjust war which is continuing to escalate, which
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Speaker 3: is not resolving anything. In fact, we have a worldwide
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Speaker 3: economic crisis, an energy crisis, situation in the Middle East
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Speaker 3: of great instability, which is only provoking more hatred throughout
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Speaker 3: the world. So come back to the table, let's talk,
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Speaker 3: let's look for solutions in a peaceful way. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'd love to hear that from a US official, but
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Speaker 3: unfortunately it's the Pope. It's the pope weighing in the
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Speaker 3: American Pope. So the White House has declared war on
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Speaker 3: the Vatican diplomatically and politically speaking, and the relations between
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Speaker 3: the two are at all time low. So what started
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Speaker 3: this holy war? Here is pete Hegseeth in March called
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Speaker 3: on Americans to pray for victory in a battle and
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Speaker 3: the safety of their troops quote in the name of
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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, and this prompted a response from Pope Leo
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Speaker 3: soon afterwards warned against invoking the name of Jesus for battle,
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Speaker 3: saying that Jesus quote does not listen to the prayers
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Speaker 3: of those who wage war, but rejects them. This created
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Speaker 3: an unholy backlash. You probably saw reports of the Pentagon
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Speaker 3: canceling Good Friday services for staff Catholic services and we'll
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Speaker 3: only be holding Protestant services. So you've got a little
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Speaker 3: sectarian division going on here. The Pentagon denies threatening the
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Speaker 3: Vatican during a January meeting with the Holy Seis diplomat.
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Speaker 3: Now look at this, just turned back the clock. This
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Speaker 3: isn't this didn't start just this month. It reports that
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Speaker 3: a US official raised the threat of the Avignng papacy,
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Speaker 3: referencing the period from thirteen oh nine to thirteen seventy
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Speaker 3: six when Francis King Philip the Fourth captured the pope
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Speaker 3: and subsequent popes which resided in Avignon instead of Rome.
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Speaker 3: So the sort of veiled threat that you could become
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Speaker 3: the next avign Young papacy there. And so look, that's
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Speaker 3: the war between the US and the Vatican. On this.
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Speaker 3: Trump will lose the Latino support that he got because
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Speaker 3: they will this is a bridge too far for Latino
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Speaker 3: supporters and Republicans. You don't go to war with the
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Speaker 3: Catholic Church. Not only that, a whole bunch of other
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Speaker 3: blocks that are included in that. This is just the
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Speaker 3: disaster politic for Trump just gets continues to get worse.
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Speaker 1: Patrick, just very briefly, do you think that will put
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Speaker 1: pressure on him to do something even more radical?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think I don't know. You know, we were
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Speaker 3: thinking it was Taco Tuesday when the when the ceasefire
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Speaker 3: announcement came, and then this was Trump checking out. But
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Speaker 3: it looks like a pause to rearm and reload. Mike, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean that's that's what Israel in the US needed
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Speaker 3: this ceasefire announcement. It needed a pause. Iran did not.
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Speaker 3: They're already rejected, uh, because they already Iran has already
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Speaker 3: been twice bitten or once bitten twice shy. They've already been,
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Speaker 3: have you know been? They've used experienced negotiations by the
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Speaker 3: US which have been used UH as a cover for
23:51
Speaker 3: a sneak attack and to send to send Kushner and
23:55
Speaker 3: wickoff again. The Ranians aren't going to take it seriously, Mike.
23:58
Speaker 3: What's happening here is exactly what Russia and the Ukraine negotiations.
24:03
Speaker 3: Russia realized this is all theater, so they're not doing
24:06
Speaker 3: serious negotiations. They're sending career dmitriof who's a businessman, who's
24:10
Speaker 3: a nice guy, to keep Kushner and Wickcough busy, and
24:13
Speaker 3: the same thing. The Iranians are not expecting anything from
24:16
Speaker 3: these negotiations. It's all theater. They've priced it in already,
24:20
Speaker 3: they're preparing for war and the same way Russia has
24:24
Speaker 3: done in Ukraine. So in fact, this will ultimately, I
24:27
Speaker 3: think benefit the Iranians down the long run, because the
24:30
Speaker 3: US has no more leverage in the region at all,
24:33
Speaker 3: with the situation with the Straits of Hormuz and the
24:36
Speaker 3: fact that their interceptors, their cruise missiles, and their jazz
24:39
Speaker 3: and missiles are all run down. The stocks are low.
24:42
Speaker 3: They will not replenish them probably until sometime later in
24:45
Speaker 3: the year. So I mean that's the situation for the US,
24:49
Speaker 3: isn't very good? Yeah?
24:51
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, thank you Patrick. No, Mark, that's walking
24:54
Speaker 1: back to the UK coll news and well do you
24:57
Speaker 1: give me a shot a couple of days ago because
25:00
Speaker 1: an announcement from NATO.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, it's great to be back on UK column. Hello
25:07
Speaker 6: everyone for this special report. Bilderberg meeting earlier than ever,
25:11
Speaker 6: very unexpected and very unusual overall considering their seventy two
25:16
Speaker 6: years of meetings. Anyway, Yes, this came out April third,
25:19
Speaker 6: the NATO Secretary General to visit the US, and it
25:23
Speaker 6: talked about sundry meetings with President Trump, Secretary of State Rubio,
25:28
Speaker 6: and Secretary of War Hegseth and then mister Ruti, the
25:32
Speaker 6: head of NATO Secretary General, a longtime Builderberg attendee, also
25:37
Speaker 6: attended a Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Institute event. He was
25:41
Speaker 6: asked to speak there and then oh, by the way,
25:44
Speaker 6: it said on this NATO press release before Bilderberg's media
25:47
Speaker 6: department released this is said, by the way, from the
25:51
Speaker 6: tenth till the twelfth of April route well or route
25:54
Speaker 6: however you say his name, the Secretary General will attend
25:57
Speaker 6: the Bilderberg meeting. So all Brooklos among the Builderberg network
26:02
Speaker 6: of alternative reporters through telegram and other means, and we've
26:06
Speaker 6: been communicating with one another. We've been doing our independent
26:09
Speaker 6: investigations at any rate. Finally, at the very last minute,
26:13
Speaker 6: they're waiting longer than ever, the Builderberg's obscure media department,
26:18
Speaker 6: which is based in the Netherlands. They have no letterhead,
26:22
Speaker 6: they have no phone number, they have no names to
26:24
Speaker 6: their media spokesman. But finally they released the topics and
26:28
Speaker 6: the attendees. And here's what we have. We have AI,
26:32
Speaker 6: Arctic security, China. Many of these are returning topics, Digital finance,
26:38
Speaker 6: energy diversification, Europe, global trade, the Middle East, Russia. We've
26:43
Speaker 6: been talking about these things today, Transatlantic defense, Industrial relationship, Ukraine, USA,
26:49
Speaker 6: future of warfare in the West. Some of these are
26:52
Speaker 6: one word topics, very broad, very vague, but that's not unusual.
26:57
Speaker 6: Now I broke this down. This is the hotel the
27:00
Speaker 6: way where they're meeting, the former Mandarin Oriental where I've
27:04
Speaker 6: been for some trilateral meetings. It's now called the salamander.
27:08
Speaker 6: Bilderberg met there very recently in DC in twenty twenty two,
27:11
Speaker 6: and the Trilaterals at a minimum have met there in
27:14
Speaker 6: twenty fourteen and twenty twenty five. A pretty palatial place
27:18
Speaker 6: along the Potomac, across from the Jefferson Memorial. Anyway, I
27:22
Speaker 6: broke this down a bit. We have a total of
27:24
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty nine attendees. We have initially thirty
27:28
Speaker 6: six US attendees. It's been it's down to thirty four.
27:33
Speaker 6: There was an initial leaked list of the attendees through wiki,
27:37
Speaker 6: spooks and other means, but then when the official Bildeberg
27:41
Speaker 6: press finally announced what's going on, then things were trimmed
27:45
Speaker 6: back and modified a little. Mark Kearney of Canada, the
27:48
Speaker 6: Prime Minister, evidently was going to be there and now
27:51
Speaker 6: they claim he's not, although you cannot you can never
27:54
Speaker 6: totally trust the list in terms of topic and the
27:57
Speaker 6: attendees in terms of being absolutely accurate. They fudget a bit.
28:02
Speaker 6: But anyway, we have ten from the UK, including David Lammy.
28:06
Speaker 6: So together the US and the UK comprise about thirty
28:10
Speaker 6: four percent of the one hundred and twenty nine attendees.
28:13
Speaker 6: We have four from Ireland, including Jack Chambers, who holds
28:17
Speaker 6: an important position with digitization, and one of the topies
28:22
Speaker 6: of course is digital finance, and there are strong indications
28:25
Speaker 6: that Central Bank digital currencies and digital IDs are among
28:29
Speaker 6: the topics. So Jack Chambers among the four people from
28:32
Speaker 6: Ireland is very likely chiming in on that. We have
28:36
Speaker 6: Spotify and Coinbase representatives. Another changes, You're not seeing any
28:41
Speaker 6: Council on Form Relations, no Brookings Institution, no American Enterprise Institute,
28:46
Speaker 6: and not even Chathamhouse being directly representative Builderberg this year.
28:51
Speaker 6: There's none of those. The main think tanks are the
28:54
Speaker 6: Hoover and Hudson Institutes, and there's a stronger and stronger
28:57
Speaker 6: emphasis on Stanford University, including Neil Ferguson who's not American
29:03
Speaker 6: born but is considered a US citizen, and so many
29:07
Speaker 6: many interesting things we can talk about more. Of course,
29:10
Speaker 6: in extra we have others like Albert Borola of Pfizer
29:14
Speaker 6: returning the media, the bought off media that covers it,
29:20
Speaker 6: that takes part rather but does not cover it. Is
29:23
Speaker 6: about ten representatives of the news media of the one
29:26
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty nine total people that are there, and
29:29
Speaker 6: another one who's there and we can show this slide
29:31
Speaker 6: is Alexander Stubb of he's the President of Finland. And
29:37
Speaker 6: what's significant about Alexander Stubb He just brought out this book.
29:40
Speaker 6: This is a slide from a report I did in
29:43
Speaker 6: the latter part of last year, and he wrote The
29:46
Speaker 6: West Last Chance, How to Build a New Global Order
29:49
Speaker 6: before It's too late. Since then that book has come out,
29:53
Speaker 6: and this is a topic that he's really passionate about.
29:56
Speaker 6: He's wondering whether the global South will go more with
30:00
Speaker 6: China and Russia and countries in the Middle East, or
30:03
Speaker 6: will the global South go more the Western way. And
30:07
Speaker 6: that's a big question in his mind. But that's just
30:10
Speaker 6: some of the reportaja on this gentleman, and we'll talk
30:13
Speaker 6: about it and break it down a bit more and
30:16
Speaker 6: look at the topics and the meaning of it all
30:18
Speaker 6: in extra So again, this is the earliest Bilderberg has
30:22
Speaker 6: met in the year, probably since the nineteen nineties or
30:25
Speaker 6: even the nineteen eighties. So it caught a lot of
30:27
Speaker 6: people off guard. A couple of weeks later, I probably
30:30
Speaker 6: could have been there physically, But there you go.
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Speaker 1: For now. Thank you, Mark, thank you for that. And
30:35
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that an extra I have no doubt,
30:38
Speaker 1: Patrick Glen. Back to you and NATO and the potential
30:44
Speaker 1: expansion of the war into Turkey.
30:47
Speaker 3: Actually, well, look the question is, you know, what is
30:51
Speaker 3: the status of NATO with this president and there's all
30:54
Speaker 3: sorts of threats from the US. Trump's not happy because
30:58
Speaker 3: NATO hasn't come in to like prove i'd you know,
31:01
Speaker 3: naval assets, countries, members haven't come in to help him
31:04
Speaker 3: open the straits of Hormouse and so you know, it's
31:07
Speaker 3: just a weird flip on the Article five dynamic that
31:11
Speaker 3: the Trump is basically, we'll start a war, but you
31:13
Speaker 3: have to come and join us to help us get
31:16
Speaker 3: you know, clean up our mess kind of thing. But so,
31:19
Speaker 3: what is the stats with NATO, why all these threats?
31:21
Speaker 3: And some clues have actually emerged, very important clues here
31:26
Speaker 3: and if we look at just the role of Mark
31:30
Speaker 3: Ruta as a facilitator for what looks like it's about
31:34
Speaker 3: to happen here. And he was asked multiple times, it
31:37
Speaker 3: is a report here at Euronews if Trump had said
31:39
Speaker 3: whether he would leave the alliance. Ruta did not answer directly.
31:43
Speaker 3: That is shocking to me because they've they've done so
31:47
Speaker 3: many joint press commers is they're supposedly friends, but nothing so.
31:51
Speaker 3: The White House Press Secretary Karen Levitt told reporters ahead
31:54
Speaker 3: of the meeting that possible withdraw is quote something the
31:58
Speaker 3: President has discussed, and I think it's something the President
32:01
Speaker 3: will be discussing in a couple of hours with Secretary
32:05
Speaker 3: General Rute. So there is definitely a crisis brewing. Is
32:09
Speaker 3: this the reason for a snap Builderberg meeting? Is there
32:13
Speaker 3: more behind this than when we're looking at I think
32:16
Speaker 3: the clue is coming here from the whistleblower Joe Kent.
32:19
Speaker 3: This is the former counter terrorism chief under Trump that
32:22
Speaker 3: resigned recently over Israel dragging the US into the Iran war.
32:27
Speaker 3: And here is the answer. Unfortunately, it says Joe Kent
32:30
Speaker 3: leaving NATO, and we go a little bit closer here
32:34
Speaker 3: we can zoom in a little bit on that there
32:36
Speaker 3: we are. Unfortunately, leaving NATO won't be to avoid foreign entanglements.
32:42
Speaker 3: We'll be leaving NATO so that we can side with
32:44
Speaker 3: Israel when Turkey and Israel eventually clash in Syria. This
32:49
Speaker 3: is after we help topple the secular Syrian government and
32:52
Speaker 3: install a former al Kada Isis leader as president. Time
32:57
Speaker 3: to stop playing arsonist and fireman in the Middle East.
33:00
Speaker 3: It's just not worth it. Here and this is above
33:03
Speaker 3: a typical Trump tweet from yesterday. Here, NATO wasn't there
33:07
Speaker 3: when we needed them, and they won't be there if
33:10
Speaker 3: we need them again. Remember Greenland, that big, poorly run
33:14
Speaker 3: piece of ice. So he's still harping on about Greenland here.
33:17
Speaker 3: But this is the point, Mike is this is the
33:20
Speaker 3: big reveal that they're already positioning Turkey as the next
33:26
Speaker 3: demon in the region, the next to run. So here's
33:29
Speaker 3: enough Tally Bennett, the former Israeli Prime minister making this
33:33
Speaker 3: statement recently, and pay attention because this is the harbinger
33:39
Speaker 3: of things to come. We'll play this a brief clip.
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Speaker 7: A new Turkish threat is emerging. I want to be
33:47
Speaker 7: very clear. Turkey and Qatar have gained influence in Syria,
33:52
Speaker 7: are seeking influence elsewhere and everywhere throughout the region. And
33:56
Speaker 7: from here I warn Turkey is the new Iran. Ardoon
34:07
Speaker 7: is sophisticated, dangerous, and he seeks to encircle Israel. And
34:13
Speaker 7: while some senior Israelis we're on Qatar's payroll. Qatar and
34:20
Speaker 7: Turkey are nourishing the Islamic Brotherhood monster that is growing
34:28
Speaker 7: and eventually might become as dangerous as the one created
34:33
Speaker 7: by Iran, Turkey and Qatar gaining influence not only in
34:37
Speaker 7: Syria but also in Gaza through the front door and everyone,
34:43
Speaker 7: and trying to create a new choke rink. Turkey is
34:47
Speaker 7: trying to flip Saudi Arabia against US and establish a
34:50
Speaker 7: hostile Sunni access with nuclear Pakistan.
34:58
Speaker 3: So it's it's the plan is being laid out right
35:01
Speaker 3: in front of US here, And so it begins to
35:04
Speaker 3: make sense now because NATO is how the US projects
35:08
Speaker 3: power in Europe, It's how the US projects power in
35:12
Speaker 3: the Mediterranean. Why would the US want to lose all that?
35:16
Speaker 3: I mean, that would be a huge downgrade for US Empire.
35:19
Speaker 3: But if they're doing it for Israel and for Israel's
35:22
Speaker 3: security ambitions or Israel's greater Israel ambitions, then it makes
35:26
Speaker 3: perfect sense. Then it doesn't have to be in the
35:29
Speaker 3: US interest because and that follows a familiar pattern here.
35:33
Speaker 3: So Mike, you know, I really look, I'm really looking
35:35
Speaker 3: at this as the Joe can't potentially pulled the rug
35:39
Speaker 3: out from under this agenda. If this is indeed the case.
35:44
Speaker 3: I think this is a credible argument.
35:47
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35:52
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Speaker 1: on then to the question of our emotions. And well,
37:47
Speaker 1: I just want to bring this article on screen first
37:50
Speaker 1: of all, because apparently your car is learning to read
37:53
Speaker 1: your face or will be very soon. So researchers are
37:56
Speaker 1: wanting to scan our heartbeats from across the room, and
37:59
Speaker 1: EU already decided that this technology is too dangerous to
38:02
Speaker 1: allow into the workplace. So what's going on? Why is
38:06
Speaker 1: it happening so quickly. Well, let's start with the science.
38:10
Speaker 1: A teament researchers has just published what they're calling the
38:13
Speaker 1: first publicly available emotion recognition data set, built using a
38:18
Speaker 1: millimeter with radar, no cameras, no microphones, no wearable devices.
38:23
Speaker 1: The radar bounds to signals off your chest, picks up
38:26
Speaker 1: the tiny movements caused by your heartbeat and breathing, and
38:29
Speaker 1: from that they say it can tell how you're feeling.
38:33
Speaker 1: Now they've it's been tested in China already, perhaps on
38:36
Speaker 1: surprising the Shawshank Redemption movie was shown to people to
38:43
Speaker 1: induce sadness, Wally was shown to people to induce happiness,
38:47
Speaker 1: and then they measured the signals. But the problem is
38:51
Speaker 1: with this that of course they don't actually know whether
38:54
Speaker 1: watching a particular film clip makes you feel what the
38:57
Speaker 1: researchers say they're feeling, so they can't be sure about that.
39:01
Speaker 1: And so the question is what exactly is the dataset
39:04
Speaker 1: capturing And that question matters because, of course it's it's
39:08
Speaker 1: at the heart of the entire field, because emotion recognition
39:12
Speaker 1: technology has been around for years, using face scanning, using
39:16
Speaker 1: voice analysis, using gate detection, all of it operating on
39:20
Speaker 1: the same claim that your body reliably signals your inner
39:24
Speaker 1: emotional state and that the machine can read those signals accurately.
39:29
Speaker 1: The scientific evidence for that claim is, to put it mildly,
39:33
Speaker 1: pretty thin, which is why the EU has moved to
39:37
Speaker 1: ban this idea. So on go under Article five to
39:40
Speaker 1: one f of the EU AI Act, which came into
39:43
Speaker 1: force in February last year, emotion recognition systems are prohibited
39:47
Speaker 1: in workplaces and educational institutions across Europe. But it cites
39:54
Speaker 1: that the technology has limited reliability. It says it has
39:58
Speaker 1: lack of specificity. But it doesn't of course prevent the
40:01
Speaker 1: technology being used in a corporate environment at all, just
40:05
Speaker 1: in education and so on. So in the commercial world
40:10
Speaker 1: this is plying ahead. And the opening story was talking
40:13
Speaker 1: about cars because Ford has filed this patent here. Sorry,
40:19
Speaker 1: I'll go back. Sorry I have missed the graphic out
40:22
Speaker 1: for that anyway, So Ford has filed a patent on
40:25
Speaker 1: an in car system that's going to use cameras to
40:28
Speaker 1: lip read drivers on open top vehicles and to monitor
40:33
Speaker 1: of facial expressions and body language in real time. The
40:38
Speaker 1: patent notes that it'll run through cloud servers, meaning that
40:41
Speaker 1: you face, your expressions you're in fair and emotional state
40:44
Speaker 1: are likely to be transmitted and stored somewhere that you
40:47
Speaker 1: won't really know about.
40:49
Speaker 7: Now.
40:49
Speaker 1: Ford already uses driver facing cameras in its Blue Cruise system,
40:54
Speaker 1: but the patent that they've registered extends that infrastructure from
40:58
Speaker 1: safety monitoring in some thing very different, a system that
41:02
Speaker 1: watches you and feel how you feel and responds to it.
41:06
Speaker 1: And of course, since all cars are connected now with
41:09
Speaker 1: various mobile sim cards, there's just a huge amount of
41:13
Speaker 1: data going onto the cloud and nobody really knows what
41:16
Speaker 1: it's being used for. But it's not just cars and
41:21
Speaker 1: so on, it is the mobile network. So you've got
41:23
Speaker 1: a quick preview of this. Let's put this one back
41:26
Speaker 1: on screen because a millimeter with frequencies that are being
41:29
Speaker 1: used in five G are currently being researched for the
41:35
Speaker 1: question of whether it can be result in monetization opportunities.
41:41
Speaker 1: So this is more data connection collection. The idea is
41:45
Speaker 1: that the mobile network doesn't just carry your data, it
41:48
Speaker 1: watches you while it does it. So Ericson and Huawei
41:51
Speaker 1: both have both published technical road maps describing the targeted
41:55
Speaker 1: use case, which is human activity recognition vital sign monitoring,
41:59
Speaker 1: gest capture, crowd tracking and so on. So this really
42:03
Speaker 1: is the Panopticon at work here, And well, what can
42:08
Speaker 1: we say about that? I don't know, Patrick, have you
42:11
Speaker 1: got any thoughts on this?
42:13
Speaker 3: First of all, I mean, not particularly other than this
42:18
Speaker 3: is just another sort of layer of Google tech that's
42:23
Speaker 3: being put in. It's the self licking ice cream cone.
42:26
Speaker 3: That is big tech and applied behavioral psychology. It's absolutely endless.
42:33
Speaker 3: I've got a very cynical view on this, Mike. Is
42:35
Speaker 3: just another way to milk money out of the system
42:40
Speaker 3: and get people to believe that this is something you need.
42:44
Speaker 1: Out of us as human beings. Yes, indeed, well, thank
42:46
Speaker 1: you for that the basil. Let's come on to you then,
42:49
Speaker 1: And I suppose, in a slightly related topic, the question
42:53
Speaker 1: of because you know, the surveillance and so on is
42:56
Speaker 1: heavily linked to the question of censorship and whatnot. But
43:00
Speaker 1: obviously everybody will be awareby an eye of the whole
43:02
Speaker 1: CanYa West story. But give us your take.
43:05
Speaker 5: On that, yes, Mike, Well, very quickly, on the forward
43:10
Speaker 5: monitoring system for cars, you will at some point in
43:12
Speaker 5: the future when you get in the car, will the
43:15
Speaker 5: system ascertain whether or not you're in a fit state
43:18
Speaker 5: emotionally to drive and perhaps disable the car if these
43:22
Speaker 5: monitors decide that you're too emotional at that moment to
43:25
Speaker 5: actually turn on the key. But yeah, now this Canyon
43:29
Speaker 5: West can cancelation of the Wireless Festival story. Actually it
43:33
Speaker 5: has much deeper undertones. People often talk about falling numbers
43:38
Speaker 5: at church to indicate that Britain is perhaps no longer
43:41
Speaker 5: a Christian country. But please bear with me because I
43:45
Speaker 5: would venture to suggest that there's a current in this
43:48
Speaker 5: story that highlights the same point. First of all, as
43:53
Speaker 5: we saw there, the Wireless Festival, which is a three
43:56
Speaker 5: day event held andy Lee and Finsbury, part focusing on
44:00
Speaker 5: rap and that sort of music, was due to happen
44:04
Speaker 5: this year in July, with Kenya West headlining all three nights,
44:09
Speaker 5: but he was refused a visa to enter the UK
44:14
Speaker 5: by the Home Secretary Shabana Mamood, resulting in the cancelation
44:19
Speaker 5: of the whole event thirty pounds lost by festival Republic
44:23
Speaker 5: the organizers. As we saw now, the Home Secretary, of course,
44:27
Speaker 5: has tremendous discretionary powers when deciding who to admit to
44:32
Speaker 5: the UK and who not to Immigration law in the
44:35
Speaker 5: UK is based on indicative rather than exhaustive God guidance,
44:40
Speaker 5: meaning that the Home Secretary can do what they like basically,
44:44
Speaker 5: and in Kenya's case, they decided that his presence would
44:48
Speaker 5: not be conducive to the public good, relying on the
44:53
Speaker 5: claim that he's producing, publishing, or distributing material expressing views
44:58
Speaker 5: which foster hatred and which might lead to intercommunity violence
45:03
Speaker 5: in the UK. Of course, Kanye famously made all sorts
45:06
Speaker 5: of remarks about the Jewish community. He did also t
45:13
Speaker 5: shirts with swastikas on it on them at one point
45:16
Speaker 5: on his website, various other offenses like this, But he
45:19
Speaker 5: has rowed back a long way from those sentiments, and
45:25
Speaker 5: we've got a clip here of him apologizing profusely to
45:30
Speaker 5: Rabbi Yoshahiu Joseph Pinto. This was in December of November
45:38
Speaker 5: of last year, and he followed that up in January
45:44
Speaker 5: with a full page in the Wall Street Journal Believe
45:47
Speaker 5: it or not, writing I'm not an anser on anti semides,
45:53
Speaker 5: I love Jewish people, this published by the American Jewish Committee,
45:58
Speaker 5: adding that he was deeply mortified by his past behavior,
46:02
Speaker 5: committed to accountability, treatment and meaningful and change. He attributed
46:07
Speaker 5: his conduct to an undisdiagnosed brain injury and severe mental
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Speaker 5: health crisis, saying he had lost touch with reality and
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Speaker 5: experienced a manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior
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Speaker 5: and was now seeking stability through treatment and asked only
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Speaker 5: for patients and understanding as I find my way home.
46:32
Speaker 5: Further to that, after the release of his twelfth and album, Bully,
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Speaker 5: which erased all mentions of any such ideology, he was
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Speaker 5: then announced of as the headliner at Wireless in July
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Speaker 5: this year, but of course there was an immediate backlash,
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Speaker 5: particularly from the Jewish community, resulting in not just his
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Speaker 5: cancelation you know at the festival, but shabanam Mood refusing
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Speaker 5: to allow him to enter Britain, even though Kenya had said,
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Speaker 5: I know words aren't enough. I'll have to show change
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Speaker 5: through my actions. If you're open, I'm here now. He
47:16
Speaker 5: offered to meet representatives of the UK Jewish community in
47:21
Speaker 5: order to mend fences, and the Board of Deputies of
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Speaker 5: British Juth said it was willing to meet him on
47:28
Speaker 5: the condition that he pulled out of his planned performances. Well,
47:35
Speaker 5: he didn't need to do that because he wasn't allowed
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Speaker 5: into Britain at all, whether to mend fences, perform, or
47:42
Speaker 5: for any other reason. Melvin Ben is the the CEO
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Speaker 5: of Festival Republic, the organizers of the event, and he
47:55
Speaker 5: defended the original decision to invite Yeay as he's now called,
48:01
Speaker 5: saying that he was being given a platform not to
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Speaker 5: extol opinion of any nature, but only to perform the
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Speaker 5: songs that are currently paid on the radio stations in
48:11
Speaker 5: our country and the streaming platforms and listen to and
48:15
Speaker 5: enjoyed by millions. And Yea himself made a statement on
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Speaker 5: the sixth of this month saying, I've been following the
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Speaker 5: conversation around wireless and want to address it directly. My
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Speaker 5: only goal is to come to London and present a
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Speaker 5: show of change, bringing unity, peace and love through my music.
48:38
Speaker 5: I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with
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Speaker 5: members of the Jewish community in the UK in person.
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Speaker 5: I know words aren't enough. I'll have to show change
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Speaker 5: through my actions. If you're open, I'm here. Well, he's
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Speaker 5: not here and he's not going to be here. But
48:57
Speaker 5: what has all this got to do with no longer
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Speaker 5: being a Christian country? Here in Britain, and I would
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Speaker 5: refer to the closing remarks by Melvin Ben, the organizer
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Speaker 5: of the festival, who said forgiveness and giving people a
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Speaker 5: second chance are becoming a lost virtue in this ever
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Speaker 5: increasingly divisive world. And I would ask people to reflect
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Speaker 5: on their instant comments of disgust at the likelihood of
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Speaker 5: him performing and offers some forgiveness and hope to him,
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Speaker 5: as I have decided to do so. Yes, it seems
49:36
Speaker 5: these days forgiveness is in very short supply, even when
49:39
Speaker 5: in Yeay's case, he's made in profuse apologies, he's done
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Speaker 5: everything he can verbally to retract his previous statements. But
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Speaker 5: it seems not enough and he's not to be given
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Speaker 5: a second chance, certainly, not now, probably not ever, certainly
49:56
Speaker 5: under the current arrangements. As a coda to this particular story,
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Speaker 5: the Have I Got News for You TV show tweeted
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Speaker 5: out a picture of Yay alongside former Labor leader Jeremy
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Speaker 5: Corbyn with the words can you West has been banned
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Speaker 5: from entering the UK to play Wireless Festival as it
50:19
Speaker 5: would have been terrible to have a prominent public figure
50:21
Speaker 5: going around Finsbury Park, condoning anti Semitism. Of course, Jeremy
50:26
Speaker 5: represents constituency in Islington which includes Finsbury Park, to which
50:33
Speaker 5: Corbyn has replied, this is disgraceful, baseless and irresponsible. You
50:37
Speaker 5: should delete this immediately. They haven't done so, certainly not
50:42
Speaker 5: of lunchtime today. Corbyn is being encouraged to sue. But
50:47
Speaker 5: Corbyn being Corbyn, I very much doubt he will do so.
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Speaker 5: He will allow it to stand.
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Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, thank you, Basil. Okay, lots to talk about
50:56
Speaker 1: it next for today, Patrick, let me welcome you back
50:59
Speaker 1: and let's go back to the Middle East for a
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Speaker 1: moment and ask what is MI I six doing in Lebanon?
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Speaker 3: Well, quite a lot. In fact, the British are deeply,
51:09
Speaker 3: deeply embedded in Lebanese politics here. This is a pretty
51:14
Speaker 3: stunning piece here by Freddie Ponton. We've got this up
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Speaker 3: at twenty first century where I put a link in
51:20
Speaker 3: the show notes for this for today's UK column two
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Speaker 3: Occupations one Lebanon. What's he talking about? Well, we know
51:26
Speaker 3: about the Israeli occupation, right, what about the British occupation? Well,
51:30
Speaker 3: as it turns out here and here's an organization to
51:32
Speaker 3: look into the Westminster Foundation for Democracy is no benign
51:39
Speaker 3: NGO handing out civic education pamphlets about democracy and good governance.
51:44
Speaker 3: It is a Foreign Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office controlled
51:49
Speaker 3: instrument whose board was handpicked by Foreign Secretary David Lammy himself,
51:54
Speaker 3: a parliamentary supporter of Labor. Friends of Israel, was accepted
51:59
Speaker 3: no less than thirty two thousand pounds from pro Israel
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Speaker 3: lobbyists to embed British strategic priorities into Lebanon's parliament, while
52:09
Speaker 3: the IDF burns villages enforces hundreds of thousands from their homes. Now,
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Speaker 3: the question here, Mike is what are the British strategic
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Speaker 3: priorities in Lebanon? Could they be by chance Israeli strategic
52:23
Speaker 3: priorities in Lebanon. I just wonder about that, considering all
52:27
Speaker 3: of the connections here. So Freddy's kind of really laid
52:31
Speaker 3: it all out, and it's pretty a damning case. He
52:34
Speaker 3: also references in here another great journalist, Kit Clarenberg. And
52:40
Speaker 3: we'll throw this article which is linked in Freddie's piece,
52:43
Speaker 3: how six have laid Iran the Iran Wars foundations, And
52:49
Speaker 3: it just gives a historical rundown here of a timeline
52:53
Speaker 3: that goes right back to the early two thousands to
52:55
Speaker 3: the present. You can see at every juncture how Britain
52:59
Speaker 3: has positioned itself very very adeptly and diplomatically as a
53:04
Speaker 3: type of a nudging exercise with the United States. And
53:08
Speaker 3: who would be the ultimate beneficiary of this, of course,
53:10
Speaker 3: it's going to be Israel at the end of the day.
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Speaker 3: So while the US plays a more prominent role in
53:18
Speaker 3: this relationship in the geopolitics there, Britain is very much involved.
53:23
Speaker 3: But the way it positions itself and this situation in
53:26
Speaker 3: Lebanon is kind of unbelievable that you would allow this organization.
53:31
Speaker 3: Look into this organization, you'll see it's got tentacles that
53:35
Speaker 3: reach out to so many different things, including influencers and
53:39
Speaker 3: so called conservative influencers and other people that are just
53:43
Speaker 3: all over our social media feeds as well. All the
53:46
Speaker 3: details are in this report by Freddie Ponton.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Patrick, thanks for that. Let's move on to
53:53
Speaker 1: Burkina Faso and I want to thank Brian for passing
53:57
Speaker 1: through this article. So let's bring it on screen because
54:02
Speaker 1: I want to highlight it. It's from Sky News. It's
54:05
Speaker 1: a typical regime change hit piece with all the usual attributes,
54:09
Speaker 1: as we'll see in a moment. Now, Boukina Faso, for
54:11
Speaker 1: those who don't know, is a former French colony right
54:15
Speaker 1: in the heart of the Sahell in North Africa. It
54:18
Speaker 1: has seen its fair share of conflict over the years.
54:21
Speaker 1: Formerly known as Upper Volta, it got independence from France
54:24
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty and went through two decades of upheaval
54:28
Speaker 1: and coups until Thomas Sankara took over and yet another
54:33
Speaker 1: coup in nineteen eighty three. Now Sankara was different. He
54:36
Speaker 1: was at Shee Guavara type Marxist revolutionary, but he rejected
54:42
Speaker 1: for an aid. He promoted self reliance, He imparted women,
54:46
Speaker 1: he promoted literacy, He spoke openly against neo colonialism, and
54:49
Speaker 1: he was absolutely working to remove weapons from Burkina Faso
54:56
Speaker 1: and from Africa as a whole. In fact, he was
54:58
Speaker 1: campaigning hard for that, but then rejecting foreign aid. He
55:02
Speaker 1: spoke openly about the need for all of Africa to
55:05
Speaker 1: come together and refuse to repay the dead trap they
55:08
Speaker 1: were in. And it was a speech that he gave
55:11
Speaker 1: to the African Union in nineteen eighty three that resulted
55:14
Speaker 1: in his subsequent assassination. So let's just have a listen
55:17
Speaker 1: to a few words here from that. Now it isn't French,
55:20
Speaker 1: but it's subtitleda.
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Speaker 8: Not to confidence adopts like necessity, the declare.
55:44
Speaker 9: Bompa very good and still looking up a.
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Speaker 8: Defence barrio.
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Speaker 1: So he absolutely understood the implications of what he was
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Speaker 1: doing there because he said if he didn't get the
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Speaker 1: support that he needed, he wouldn't be there for the
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Speaker 1: next conference. And indeed he was not there for the
56:31
Speaker 1: next conference, and then for the following twenty seven years,
56:35
Speaker 1: Perkina Faso was run by Blizz Compare, the man who
56:39
Speaker 1: ordered Sankara's assassination, although the ultimate order probably came from France.
56:45
Speaker 1: Now Campare was the post finally in twenty fourteen, and
56:49
Speaker 1: next came democracy, and with democracy came the insurgency, Islamic insurgency. Naturally,
56:56
Speaker 1: morcups followed. And now the subject of the Sky News
56:59
Speaker 1: hit we'll just bring back on screen here is Abraham Truary,
57:03
Speaker 1: who has been in control for the last three years. Now,
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Speaker 1: Frari positions himself as being the ideological successor to Sankara.
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Speaker 1: He's openly anti colonial. He rejects foreign aid as a
57:15
Speaker 1: general rule. And so the question is why are they
57:18
Speaker 1: running this hit piece. Well, almost the first thing he
57:21
Speaker 1: did was to pivot to Russia, and the next thing
57:24
Speaker 1: that he did was to kick out the French. So
57:26
Speaker 1: no more access to military basis for the French foreign
57:29
Speaker 1: Legion and the no diplomacy in France either, no diplomatic
57:33
Speaker 1: efforts to control the situation. And looking at the article,
57:37
Speaker 1: if we just put it back on screen for a
57:38
Speaker 1: second and look at the quote on screen, he says,
57:40
Speaker 1: but as it says, but as he pushes for sovereignty
57:43
Speaker 1: and freedom from the West, his junta benefits from a
57:46
Speaker 1: three hundred million dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund
57:50
Speaker 1: and a four point one billion dollar in credit loans
57:52
Speaker 1: and grants from the World Bank, while actively eroding civil
57:56
Speaker 1: liberties internally. Now, at the very best, this is leading.
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Speaker 1: At worst, it's an outright lie. The intention is simply
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Speaker 1: to imply that Trollery is a hypocrite for claiming to
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Speaker 1: be Sankara's successor while doing business with the World Bank
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Speaker 1: and the IMF. Now, on September the twenty first, twenty
58:14
Speaker 1: twenty three, the IMF Executive Board did approve a forty
58:17
Speaker 1: eight month extended Credit Facility arrangement for Bikina Fassil worth
58:21
Speaker 1: approximately three hundred million dollars. It's been dispersed in tranches
58:25
Speaker 1: of three of thirty million dollars so far. But this
58:29
Speaker 1: is peanuts for comparison, Gana's IMF B allot it approved
58:33
Speaker 1: in twenty to twenty three was three billion dollars. But
58:37
Speaker 1: it's the characterizing of the four point one billion dollars
58:41
Speaker 1: as credit loans and grants from the World Bank which
58:43
Speaker 1: is particularly egregious. So first of all, here we've got
58:46
Speaker 1: the IMF approval of the loan, but the four point
58:50
Speaker 1: one billion dollar figure doesn't refer. It's not talking about
58:56
Speaker 1: World Bank loan or to a grant to Berkina FASOL.
58:59
Speaker 1: It is the annual budget of the government's own action
59:02
Speaker 1: Plan for Development and Stabilization, which totals twelve point four
59:06
Speaker 1: billion over three years and has financed through a combination
59:10
Speaker 1: of domestic resources, domestic loans and grants, and the Trialy
59:16
Speaker 1: government's National Development Plan. As I say, partly self funded,
59:20
Speaker 1: and the loans and grants that come to are from
59:22
Speaker 1: multiple sources, not from the World Bank. What the World
59:26
Speaker 1: Bank has actually approved for Bukina Faso. The under this
59:30
Speaker 1: current government comprises a series of project level grants and
59:33
Speaker 1: credits and they're around one hundred billion dollars one hundred million,
59:37
Speaker 1: not billion, one hundred million dollars each. So you know,
59:40
Speaker 1: this is small beans and for the for the Sky
59:46
Speaker 1: News to present this in the way that they had
59:48
Speaker 1: is utterly egregious. So let's just briefly look at what
59:51
Speaker 1: they did in one article, which we might describe as
59:54
Speaker 1: regime change features. So they just you know, describing Burkina
59:58
Speaker 1: Fado Fasois and authoritary in regime, highlighting the disappeared. This
1:00:03
Speaker 1: is always a feature of regime change media coverage that
1:00:07
Speaker 1: the authoritarian regime is making their opponents disappear, implications of
1:00:12
Speaker 1: strange behavior. Now sky News sent a woman to interview
1:00:17
Speaker 1: this guy who didn't speak French fluently, and so part
1:00:21
Speaker 1: of the argument here was that he wouldn't speak English. Well,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: this is completely ridiculous. Regime change is anti lg sorry
1:00:31
Speaker 1: that the regime is anti LGBT is another narrative in
1:00:34
Speaker 1: this piece. And then of course the insurgency is another thing,
1:00:39
Speaker 1: because they're trying to present this as being something that's
1:00:41
Speaker 1: going to require foreign intervention, but of course the Islamists
1:00:45
Speaker 1: are all Western bank backed as usual. Just very briefly, Patrick,
1:00:50
Speaker 1: this is absolutely a regime change hit piece from Sky
1:00:53
Speaker 1: News here and something that we've seen so many times
1:00:56
Speaker 1: from the same kinds of media outlets for so many trees.
1:01:00
Speaker 3: Now. I like how you you've laid out the bullet
1:01:03
Speaker 3: points there, Mike, these red flags that we look for.
1:01:06
Speaker 3: This is definitely a methodology that we should start everyone
1:01:10
Speaker 3: should start applying to all of these situations. The one
1:01:12
Speaker 3: that sticks out from me there, Mike is the all
1:01:14
Speaker 3: too familiar the weaponization of the LGBT issue. And there's
1:01:19
Speaker 3: only one reason why they do that, and that is
1:01:21
Speaker 3: to mobilize activists and mobilize the sort of liberal left
1:01:26
Speaker 3: in the West to basically take this up as they
1:01:30
Speaker 3: as a sort of caused azure. And they've they've done
1:01:33
Speaker 3: this exact same tactic with Syria, They've done it with Russia.
1:01:37
Speaker 3: They do it, they're doing it with Iran as well,
1:01:39
Speaker 3: and this is how you get people to support the war.
1:01:43
Speaker 3: So these are liberal bombs that we will drop on Bukini,
1:01:47
Speaker 3: Fassor to liberate the people so that they're more feminist
1:01:51
Speaker 3: or more LGBT friendly and this is just a tactic,
1:01:54
Speaker 3: that's all it is. It's to get to get Western consensus,
1:01:58
Speaker 3: to get Western buy in from the Guardian and some
1:02:01
Speaker 3: of these types of institutions, to create a consensus that
1:02:05
Speaker 3: this is something that we need to prioritize in the West.
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Speaker 1: So incredible, absolutely, thank you for that, Hi Basil. Let's
1:02:13
Speaker 1: just finish the program then with your usual Friday slot
1:02:17
Speaker 1: in case you missed it.
1:02:20
Speaker 5: Yes, well, good news. Really, it seems that government ministers
1:02:23
Speaker 5: and civil servants are seriously considering dropping pallenteer, certainly from
1:02:30
Speaker 5: the NHS. That has prompted the UK boss Louis Moseley
1:02:35
Speaker 5: to come out complaining about ideologues undermining the wonderful work
1:02:40
Speaker 5: that his company does. So the break clause in the
1:02:44
Speaker 5: contracts becomes optional in the near future, so we must
1:02:50
Speaker 5: all keep the pressure up. There's the petition to sign
1:02:52
Speaker 5: remember Kokoo's campaign. It's something we've focused on considerably here
1:02:56
Speaker 5: on UK column and we'll continue to do so. Also,
1:03:01
Speaker 5: the crisis in the Middle East, the war looks like
1:03:04
Speaker 5: it's going to push food prices up. Unfortunately, the cost
1:03:09
Speaker 5: of fertilizer and red diesel used by Farmers has already
1:03:15
Speaker 5: got up one hundred percent on red diesel and thirty
1:03:18
Speaker 5: percent on fertilizer apparently, so we can all expect higher
1:03:24
Speaker 5: food prices at the till, but don't expect cod to
1:03:28
Speaker 5: be part of your fish and chips, because it seems
1:03:32
Speaker 5: God's stocks are dangerously low. Believe it or not. I
1:03:35
Speaker 5: can remember the cod Wars with Iceland in the nineteen seventies,
1:03:40
Speaker 5: fighting over fishing boundary limits. Well, it seems there isn't
1:03:44
Speaker 5: any for them, and there isn't any for us either.
1:03:47
Speaker 5: And finally some good news, Wiki leagues could be on
1:03:50
Speaker 5: the way back. Unconfirmed yet, but this tweet, this post
1:03:55
Speaker 5: on x seems to indicate that Dulian is planning a comeback,
1:04:00
Speaker 5: and he's going to be looking in particular at the
1:04:02
Speaker 5: machinations of the Democratic National Committee and the United States
1:04:07
Speaker 5: National Security State. So let's hope here he does come back.
1:04:12
Speaker 5: I don't think they'll try and extradite him from Australia again,
1:04:16
Speaker 5: will they for saying the wrong thing? Who knows we're
1:04:19
Speaker 5: living in a changed world, aren't we, gentlemen?
1:04:22
Speaker 1: Absolutely? What's the space? Okay, thank you very much for
1:04:25
Speaker 1: that Basil. Look, we've got to leave it there for today.
1:04:27
Speaker 1: Thank you, Basil Patrick and Mark. Thanks to everybody who's
1:04:31
Speaker 1: been watching today. If your UK Cale member stay on
1:04:33
Speaker 1: the live stream, we'll be back for extra in a
1:04:36
Speaker 1: few minutes time. Otherwise, don't forget jerm and Carl tonight,
1:04:39
Speaker 1: have a great weekend and we will see at one
1:04:41
Speaker 1: pm as usual on Monday. See you then, Bye bye,