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UK Column News - 16th July 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 16th of July
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just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Mike Robinson. My Co host in the studio today
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is Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program, Charles.
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Thank you, Mike. And joining us via Live Link, we
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have researcher and activist Sandy Adams and journalist and
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peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey. Now, later in the program,
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Vanessa is going to be talking about Tony Blair's connection to
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the Ham Accords. Charles's going to be covering
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the situation in Darfur, which is a forgotten war mainly, and
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and famine also, and also the ongoing drought situation here
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in the UK. And Sandy will be bringing us
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more on the devolution agenda and also the Royal Foundation.
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But we're going to begin today with the month of July, because
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July is an auspicious month, month for the Intelligence and
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Security Committee of the British Parliament.
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July is the month that they released their most important
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reports. And by important, I mean
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propagandist. The Intelligence and Security
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Committee says it overseas the policies, expenditure,
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administration and operations at MI5MI6, GCHQ, Defence
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Intelligence, the National Cyber Force, the Joint Intelligence
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Organization, the National Security, Security at Sorry
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Secretariat and Homeland Security Group.
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That's quite a a security and intelligence infrastructure
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there, Charles it. Absolutely is.
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Isn't it? Anyway, why is July important?
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Well, if we put this on screen, July 2020 they released their
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report entitled Russia. In July 2023 it was China and
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just a few days ago it was Iran. Now, to get an idea of the
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standard of these reports, let's just remind ourselves of the
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Russia report. Uh, the main thrust of the
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report was the claim that Russia has been interfering in British
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democratic processes, uh, and that as a result, social media
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companies needed to remove covert hostile state material
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from their platforms and said, and they said the government
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must name and shame those platforms that failed act, uh,
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to quote them, they said at the time, the government must now
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seek to establish a protocol with the social media companies
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to ensure that they take covert hostile state use of their
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platform seriously and have clear time skills within which
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they commit to removing such material.
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Now, Intelligence and Security Committee member Stuart Hosey
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said the committee found it astonishing that no one in
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government had sought beforehand to protect the referendum.
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That's the EU referendum that he was referring to because Britain
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left the EU because of Russia. So the narrative goes now they
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the report itself went on to say open source studies have pointed
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to the preponderance of pro Brexit or anti EU stories on RT
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and Sputnik and the use of bots and trolls as evidence of
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Russian attempts to influence the process.
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It went on to say the written evidence provided to us, that's
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the committee appeared, appeared to suggest that Her Majesty's
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Government had not seen or sought evidence of successful
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interference in UK democratic processes or any activity that's
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had a material impact on an election, for example,
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influencing results. The report also said that GCHQ
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has also said that Russian intelligence service actors have
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orchestrated phishing attempts against government departments.
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To take one example, there were attempts against redacted.
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That's the, the, the name was redacted.
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So we've no idea of knowing who it was actually against.
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But also against, they said, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory during the
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early stages of the investigation into the Salisbury
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attacks. They also claimed that the
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Scottish independence referendum was a Russian target.
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And they cited Ben Nemo. And of course Ben Nemo, if we
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remember, was an agent of the Integrity Initiative, which was
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a program to run this information campaigns against
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Russia. And that wasn't the only
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integrity in the report, because the report went on to say we're
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grateful to those outside the intelligence community in
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particular, who did they name Anne Applebaum?
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Edward Lucas? Well, not Edward Lucas, of
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course, always denied involvement with the Integrity
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Integrity Initiative, but that was hiddenly false.
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William Browder, Christopher Donnelly, who ran the thing, and
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Christopher Steele for volunteering, they're very
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substantially. So they were thanking these
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people all for volunteering their very substantial expertise
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on Russia, which they said provided them with an invaluable
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foundation for the classified evidence sessions.
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Uh, so this was absolutely plenty of integrity initiatives.
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There wasn't an intelligence committee report.
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In fact, it was an integrity initiative report.
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Uh, so coming back to the Iran report, the newest uh, report,
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let's have a look and see what Lord Beamish, the current chair
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of the committee, had to say. He said Iran poses a
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wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat to the UKUK
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nationals and UK interests. Iran has a high appetite for
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risk when conducting offensive activity and it's intelligence
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services are ferociously well resourced with significant areas
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of asymmetric strength. It supplements this with it's
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use of proxy groups including criminal networks, militants and
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terrorist organizations and private cyber actors to provide
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it with deniable means of attacking its adversaries with
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minimal risk of retaliation. We highlight in particular, he
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said are concerned that at the sharp increase in the physical
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threat posed to dissidents and other opponents of the regime
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who are in the UK. Given Iran's willingness to use
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assassination as an instrument of state policy.
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The significant threat of Iranian espionage in support of
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potential future lethal activity.
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The importance of negotiating a form of de escalation between
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Iran and the international community to deal with the
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Iranian nuclear threat. And the need to both raise the
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resilience bar and improve cybersecurity in the UK and to
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raise the cost to Iran of launching cyber attacks on the
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UK so as to deter them from doing so.
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Uh, so my question then is, is this some grand conspiracy to
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take us to war? Well, in my opinion, the answer
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to that is yes and no. Uh, the committee claims that it
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sets it's own agenda and work programme, but to suggest that
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there's no steering by the intelligence agency is just not
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credible. And of course they choose their
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experts very carefully. As they say, they take evidence
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from ministers, the heads of the intelligence and security
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agencies, senior officials, experts and academics as it
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considers necessary. So the evidence they receive is
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potentially highly biased. And so it's inevitable that this
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group of useful idiots will end up producing suitable
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propaganda, which then informs the media agenda where other
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useful idiots idiots unquestionably regurgitate the
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same propaganda. And here's a perfect example of
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what I mean. The Times claim that Iran poses
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a higher risk to our security than Russia.
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And if you see the highlighted quote there, it says the threat
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of assassination and other violence from Iran is now at the
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level posed by Russia, which is exactly the narrative straight
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out of the report itself uncritically repeated.
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Charles, I don't where do we start with this?
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It they have a history of producing these reports and we
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now have all three of the main targets of warfare that we've
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been hearing about for so long from the from the one
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organization. Yeah.
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Well, I think that's it. I think predominantly it's the
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note of incredible familiarity that this is the tactic deployed
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and simply the name of the country is changed.
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But also it sets up two things. First of all, in terms of the
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game batch of Russia, you know, election interference or all the
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rest of it, it provides A smokescreen and covers or
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obscures the activities of the state, the British state, in
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terms of meddling in areas that frankly it shouldn't.
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And also it is absolutely queuing up the possibility of a
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false flag and therefore turning this into what might be regarded
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as a a self fulfilling prophecy. So I think this is, you know,
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it, it harks back to sort of 2005, six period where the line
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from the Minister of Defence was changed from dealing with
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matters overseas to keeping our streets safer and and that
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continued narrative and you see exactly that this is the same
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thing happening now. So Vanessa, lots of integrity
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there, but the the sort of MO doesn't change.
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They don't really have any any new way of approaching these
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problems. No, absolutely not.
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And I would say one of the steering factors in this report
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is of course, Israel and the Zionist movement lobby in the
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UK, which we know increasingly how powerful it is and how many
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sectors of British governance, it's infiltrated from all
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directions. Quite extraordinary.
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I mean, they don't talk about the threat to British democracy
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from the state capture by Israel.
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And it's it's similar to before when they were raising alarms
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about Huawei interfering with mobile phone technology in the
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UK, but failing to point out the Israeli infiltration of cyber
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surveillance, etcetera in the UK.
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It's, it's just, it's extraordinary, really.
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And just to finish Charles, they always do this with a straight
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face. How is that possible?
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I don't know. We can be but continually amazed
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and the the but the regrettable truth is that this will be
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absolutely absorbed and taken as fact by by people who read
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publications like the Times. And if you cast your mind back
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to late 2024 when as if reading off exactly the same script,
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Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, and indeed
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Ken McCullum, chief of MI five were from nowhere plucking out
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the state threat from Iran story.
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And it was never substantiated and they were never they were
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never asked where they had got that specific intelligence from.
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And of course that there is no evidence of any being there, but
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it doesn't stop them from saying it.
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Indeed. OK, well, Vanessa, let's move to
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Tony Blair then another British. Well, not quite sure what
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whether I should say any more about Tony Blair, but but what?
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What have you got? Because you've discovered
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connections to the Abraham Accords.
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Yeah, of course. I mean, Tony Blair's influence
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in in events in the Middle East has been ongoing for decades,
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including, of course, most notoriously the war against
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Iraq, which set up the regime change war against Syria, which
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we've discussed many times on UK column.
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But I want to start with this very short clip, which
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demonstrates exactly the agenda behind Tony Blair and and the
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the collective that he represents in the summer Davos
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in China, when he's asked the following question by the
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interviewer. 1st for hearing your perspective on the
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geopolitical and Geo economic situation, could it have been
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more complicated the geopolitical situation that
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we're seeing today? Well, we'd be kind of out of
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business if it if it wasn't so. I mean, I have to say the, the
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interviewer also asked him about the complex situation in the
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Middle East. And again, he, he giggles.
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I, I really, it's very hard to, to watch this guy now.
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But interestingly, yes, I did find out in the last few days
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that actually Tony Blair was largely responsible for setting
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off or initiating the Abraham Accords discussions.
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This is in the Jewish News, which is based in London, the
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London genesis of the Abraham Accords.
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And what does it actually say that in 2015 in an interview?
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Sorry, interview in the Israeli media last weekend.
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It was Tony Blair who revealed that back in 2015.
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So this was before President Trump was elected for his first
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term. He first introduced Prime
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Minister Netanyahu's trusted conciliary Yitzhak Molcho to an
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Emirati cabinet minister in London.
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It then goes on to show that by the end of 2016.
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So that was the very beginning of Trump's first administration.
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The same UAE minister met Netanyahu who was then
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introduced to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. 2018.
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Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi twice on an Israeli flight that
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crossed Saudi airspace. So it does appear that Tony
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Blair set the OR or created the groundwork ready for Trump's
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first administration that brought in the Abraham Accords
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through Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Blair also in the same article, points out that bin Zayed, in
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his opinion, showed exceptional political and leadership talent.
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And Netanyahu is a remarkable politician, of course,
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conducting genocide in Gaza and the West Bank as we speak.
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So in 2020, basically the UAE, which was a former British
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protectorate. Protectorate, which perhaps
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explains Tony Blair's focus on the UAE, the Abraham Accords
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unlocking a sustainable and inclusive growth across the
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Middle East. But what does this actually
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mean? This is Tony Blair's statement
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on the actual signing, which was published up at his Tony Blair
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Institute for Global Change. And if we actually look at what
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his statement said, for many years I and my institute team
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have worked on deepening relationships between Israel and
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the Arab world. Of course, the Arab world
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basically means the Arab Gulf state, Jordan and Egypt.
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I had long come to the conclusion that if we want to
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see a fair resolution of the Israeli Palestinian issue on the
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basis of two states, there had to be a complete reversal of the
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idea that the Arab world should refuse contact with Israel until
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the peace agreement was made. So apparently the the resistance
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should desist and boycotting, boycotts and divestment should
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also not be allowed. He then goes on in the again
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published up at the Tony Blair Institute, how the Abraham
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Accords are shaping a new technological covenant.
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Now this is where it does get slightly interesting.
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It's very clear that the collaboration with UAE in
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particular is focused very much on on a digital authoritarian
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global dictatorship. So UAE is concentrating on
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becoming a front runner in more secure smart cities, driverless
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taxis, smart pods and eco houses, networks of sensors and
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camera data gathering services and in very strong
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cybersecurity. All of this, of course, created
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in collaboration with Israel but also with China, He then goes on
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to point out again in the same statement or article up at the
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Tony Blair Institute. So the next chapters will tell
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stories of the possibilities of turning the region into a global
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powerhouse of fintech capability through uniting Israeli tech
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innovation with the UAE financial expertise.
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I'll leave you to translate that leading the way in a new
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Abrahamic Covenant for the technological area.
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So of course that means central bank, digital currency,
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etcetera. But let's have another look at
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the UAE that was involved in the Saudi, Israeli, US and UK war
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against Yemen since 2015. And in fact, I've written
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numerous times about the UAE black sites in southern Yemen
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using US style torture against Yemeni civilians, quite horrific
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reports from that for at least the last five years.
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And of course they were involved in the targeting of the Yemeni
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civilians in in partnership with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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But then also I, I looked into the digital authoritarianism in
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the UAE and across the board. This is an article linked to
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Chatham House, but almost all of the Western elite linked think
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tanks have written about the the danger of UAE's digital
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authoritarianism, which includes of course, the use of elements
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like the Pegasus spyware which was developed by Israel and the
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spy unit 8200 to spy on dissidents, gather information,
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which of course in the UAE then immediately leads to their
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arrest. There's a lot of information
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about this online, but the Abraham of CORDS, of course,
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then led to the Abraham Shield plan, which again, we've covered
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here on UK column. It's a coalition basically to
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ensure the genocide and the extermination of Palestinians,
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the creation of the dystopian state that again, we've talked
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about Palestinians being confined to ever reduced land
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mass, concentration camps, the sale of their land or, or giving
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of their land into a trust and, and then basically their
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displacement from Palestinian land into neighboring countries.
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And last week, of course, we talked about Tony, Tony Blair's
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staff who took part in the Gaza Riviera project with BC GB.
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CG, of course, is the company that was managing the Gaza
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humanitarian funds, American private military contractors who
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were running the humanitarian aid for Palestinians.
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That, of course, is being used by Israel to to effectively
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massacre more Palestinians coming into smaller and smaller
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areas together. And I remind everybody to have a
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look at the Blair Bush project in Syria that brought al Qaeda
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to power because this connects everything.
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So it shows very clearly that what Tony Blair is tasked with
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is, is creating a digital surveillance oppressive bloc
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using the Gulf countries, the Arab Gulf countries, and
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basically harnessing the countries that are prepared to
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normalize with Israel to, to create what I think is a very
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dangerous development block of all of these concepts to enslave
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humanity now and in the future. And of course, who are deeply
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connected, as we've said before, to the British state, to the US
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and to EU states. So I want to end with another
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section, and I apologise for inflicting this upon all of you,
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but this is Tony Blair still at the summer Davos China event,
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talking about his view of governance.
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So let's have a look at this. You know, you do a poll in the
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Middle East by the way of of young people across the whole of
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the Middle East. And ask them which country do
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you want your country to be most like?
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The answer is I think virtually every year comes back the UAE.
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So you know, this is and that's not a coincidence, by the way.
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It's because of the way the governance has been.
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And one of the reasons why, you know, my institute works in
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almost 50 countries across across the world today.
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And one of the fascinating things is that everyone always
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thinks. Their their situation is unique
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and of course in a in a way it is.
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But whichever country you go to. Most of all, what people want is
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the opportunity to do well, right, if they work hard to have
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peace and stability, to raise their family with some chance of
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a decent future. And that's the same wherever you
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go. And the key to it is good
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governance that is open minded itself, that is effective in
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providing opportunity for people and is connected to the world.
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Do we have that kind of governance in the UKI wonder?
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But it's also I think very interesting that the UAE is
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being set up as the flagship of this new digital
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totalitarianism. And the fact that the countries
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that are being targeted, which are effectively Iran, Syria, of
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course, that we know is already fallen into organised chaos and
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Lebanon OR at least the Lebanese resistance will have or had
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independent financial systems, independent from the World Bank,
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independent from Western influence and interference.
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We've talked about Hezbollah having the non usury bank where
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people bring their gold, leave their gold for a period of time
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until they pay back the loan and then they can collect their
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gold. Iran has independent banking.
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Syria had independent banking. Of course, now it's being sold
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by Tom Barrack, the economic hitman for Trump into debt
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enslavement through the IMF, etcetera, and various monetary
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funds, just as Egypt and Jordan have been sold previously.
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So it's for me very interesting. And I think what it demonstrates
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very clearly is that the war is not only against the resistance
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in the West Asia region and in Iran, it's a, it is literally
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against all of us. Because if Tony Blair is
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harnessing the Arab Gulf state to to basically bring in this
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kind of digital tyranny, then it's certainly going to affect
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us. And Israel is already part of of
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that complex and is already embedded in our own state
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structure. Vanessa, thank you very much for
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that. Any thoughts Charles?
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Well, I mean, I think it absolutely hits the nail on the
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head, but. But I say you're quite right.
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And yeah, I mean, in a way, always a difficult person to
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talk about. He sort of seems to be
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everywhere and people still seem to listen to him, which I think
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to anybody who's followed his career over the last 30 or 40
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years could be and should be completely mystified by.
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OK, well, let's move on then to Africa and Darfur.
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Yeah, indeed. And in fact, that we'll link
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back to Vanessa's report rather closely.
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But we start with the British High Commission who in Nairobi
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have been busy tweeting about increasing the exports from
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Africa into the UK market with a load of footage here showing the
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President of Kenya, William Ruto, smiling in London with
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Keir Starmer, presumably because he's managed to get away from
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the rioting and discontent in his own country.
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Now, Ruto himself has used the same surveillance platform to
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remind the public of the, quote, areas of mutual interest between
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Israel and Kenya. And that links obliquely to the
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concurrent reporting from New York on the activities of the
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United Nations Security Council. Now, first of all, we have James
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Karaoke, the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, who
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made a statement about humanitarian access to those in
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need in Sudan. This was back on 27th of June.
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He said little of note and absolutely nothing that could
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constitute action, action on the matter.
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But I would say his remarks are perhaps best characterized by
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his encouragement of others to do something.
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Quote, we welcome continued efforts by the UN, the African
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Union and countries of the region to advance an inclusive
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political process. And then on Thursday, 10th of
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July, the Council met to discuss the situation in Darfur.
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And this was prompted by a report from the Deputy
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Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Nazat Khan on.
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Now, before considering what it is that she did say, I should
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just point out the remit of the ICC, as shown here on the banner
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at the top of their website says trying individuals for genocide,
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war crime, crimes against humanity and aggression.
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Now, she was keen to begin by thanking the president of Sudan
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for attending a point of significance which I'll come
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back to. Khan's opening gambit was to
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state that, quote, the humanitarian position has
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reached an intolerable state, which makes it significant that
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her statement, which was nearly 2000 words long, should not
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mention a single date. Now, the reference to the
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humanitarian position could describe any point over the last
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several decades, making this just another demonstration of
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the international community's sustained ability to preserve
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and protect vested interests. While talking as though
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something will happen and to pick out an example with which
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to illustrate the point, Nazad Khan said, quote and I wish to
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be clear on a key priority in this respect.
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We must work together with seriousness and focus to secure
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the arrest of those individuals subject to ICC arrest warrants
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presently in Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, Ahmad Harun and
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Abdel Rahim Mohammad Hussain. Now she's referring here to a
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process which has already been going on for 20 years and still
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no sanctions have been brought against any of those three men.
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UK Column has covered the extraordinarily ineffectual
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record of the ICC and I refer back to Khan's opening remarks
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about Sudan's President Abdel Fattah Al Bahan in 2008, when
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delivering a similar report, the then ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno
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Ocampo said, quote, my office has a duty not to intervene when
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national authorities are conducting national proceedings.
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This is the principle of complementarity.
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The Sudan claimed that it would investigate and prosecute
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perpetrators of crimes. Well, obviously it did not.
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Now as to whether there is any sincere desire for or
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expectation of change. This clip examines the
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effectiveness of the UN set alongside the remarks of Kieran
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Prendergast, the former Under Secretary for Political Affairs
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at the UN, as recorded for PBS Frontline documentary from 2007.
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At the summit, world leaders toasted a final agreement that
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covered a great deal of ground. Within It was a section on the
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responsibility to protect. It was an endorsement of an
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emerging legal norm that gave the UN authority to intervene
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and, if necessary, even invade a country to protect the civilian
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population. It seemed to offer hope.
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But once again, the principles the UN put on paper would not
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translate into concrete action to save the people of Darfur.
27:31
Veteran UN officials were candid in their skepticism.
27:34
We don't mean it when we when we say that we're not going to
27:37
accept other Rwanda's, further Rwanda's.
27:41
But I, I never thought we did mean it.
27:44
And that's a very, it's a very sad conclusion.
27:46
But I don't think there's any evidence to, to sustain the view
27:49
that we did mean it. We may have meant it as a kind
27:52
of, you know, at a level of generalised, generalised
27:56
indignation, but but when it comes to accepting the
28:01
consequences of that, we don't pretty girls there, I think,
28:09
telling you really everything you need to know.
28:10
And of course, it should be pointed out that UNAMID, the UN
28:13
mission to Darfur, was shut down in 2020 and there's none running
28:17
there currently. Now, of course, given the very
28:19
short memory that the public is permitted to have by the
28:22
mainstream media and the various national and supranational
28:25
governments of the world, it's no surprise to see follow up
28:29
statements such as that from Colin McIntyre.
28:32
The ICC, Sorry. In response to the ICC report,
28:37
McIntyre said that he was, quote, gravely concerned and
28:41
that there are reasonable grounds to believe that war
28:44
crimes and crimes against humanity may have been committed
28:47
and indeed are continuing to be committed in Darfur.
28:51
He even tried to turn the failed arrests of the three men as a
28:55
warning to perpetrators who still believe themselves beyond
28:58
the reach of international law. And of course, it is quite the
29:03
opposite. Now, as to why and how this
29:05
situation is allowed to perpetuate, there is of course
29:08
not enough time in this report to go into sufficient detail,
29:12
but the activities of the government of the United Arab
29:16
Emirates, as Vanessa has just been articulating, should be
29:19
scrutinised to a much greater degree.
29:22
And under the auspices of humanitarian aid from
29:25
neighboring Chad, UAE has been accused of supplying weapons to
29:29
the Rapid Support Force RSF, the latest incarnation of the
29:34
Janjaweed militia for the continued conflict in Darfur, as
29:38
referenced by this Guardian article from April.
29:41
Certainly the UAE is the largest purchaser of Sudanese gold as
29:46
shown here by the OEC statistics from 2023, making them the
29:51
largest single contributor to the Sudanese economy and
29:54
therefore have a huge amount of influence.
29:56
The UAE has made no secret of its plan to control an enormous
30:00
number of deep water ports all over the world via the state
30:03
controlled DP World. And as reported by UK Column,
30:08
the UK itself is partnered by DP World via British International
30:12
Investment, most notably at the controversial port of Berbra in
30:16
Somaliland. And moving on to this piece in
30:20
the cradle, which describes this as a covert empire across the
30:24
Red Sea. It's certainly worth reading and
30:27
there'll be a link to it in the show notes.
30:29
Now the other factor deserving equal consideration, though it's
30:33
most certainly not exclusive to the UAE, is the outsourcing of
30:36
agriculture to Sudan. And here we have grain, a non
30:40
profit, which has examined this reckoning that UAE now controls
30:44
more than a million hectares of Sudanese farmland during what is
30:48
described as a famine in Sudan by the United Nations.
30:51
And perhaps most critically, the UAE is seen as a key strategic
30:56
partner in the alliance against Iran, most notably, as Vanessa
31:00
has just been describing, via the Abraham Accords and indeed
31:04
her relationship with Israel. So sorry, UAE rather than
31:08
Vanessa. It is an enduring and complex
31:11
picture and one that strongly suggests that none of the actors
31:14
involved have any interest in improving.
31:18
Now, I don't know if we've got time to have a few thoughts from
31:20
Vanessa on on that situation, but perhaps particularly the
31:25
role of UAE in Sudan's, you know, degenerate state of
31:30
affairs. Well, I mean, it's just
31:34
terrific. But I think what is equally
31:36
scary is the clear involvement. I mean, I haven't checked on the
31:40
Tony Blair Institute of the connections to Sudan, but I'm
31:43
sure they will be there because Tony Blair is clearly partnering
31:47
with the UAE in this Israel linked expansionist project.
31:53
And of course, it's all related to to water largely for Israel
31:58
in particular and UAE that don't have access to water resources
32:03
at all. I think, I think you're hitting
32:07
the nail on the head there. Tony Blair, as we've mentioned
32:09
many times in this programme, is interested in the whole Sahel
32:12
region, which is that whole region South of the Sahara
32:15
Desert. So I think he's absolutely
32:18
active in the area. OK.
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fact censors. This was Diane's discussion with
32:46
Doctor Judith Brown went out at 1:00 PM yesterday.
32:49
It's now available on demand on the website.
32:51
Please do watch that if you haven't seen it.
32:54
Judith knows what she's talking about and it's another hugely
32:57
interesting conversation. Tonight Jerem will be asking the
33:01
question, do we really have free will with Todd Highen?
33:05
So that's 7:00 PM in the usual live stream places.
33:08
Ukcolumn.org/live and so on and tomorrow at 1:00 PM Joy Warren
33:15
is the guest. So yeah, her third interview
33:18
with the UK column talking about the massive concern around fluid
33:22
fluoridation of water by water companies and the effectively
33:27
indiscriminate medication of the population by doing it.
33:32
On demand UK, sorry on location UK Call them on location
33:36
Saturday the 18th of October 2025 in New York.
33:38
Tickets go on sale on the 20th of July.
33:40
We're looking forward to Charles.
33:42
Yeah, we are. We're very much looking forward
33:43
to it. And there will be tickets
33:45
available for both the in person event and indeed the live stream
33:49
from the 28th of July. So we'll be announcing speakers
33:51
very soon. And this weekend, then the
33:54
Theatford Truth and Festival taking place in the Angel Ills
33:58
in Swallow Lane in Larling. And Diane will be speaking at
34:02
that. So get along to that if you
34:04
possibly can. And the the Question of
34:08
Devolution Sunday, which we're about to talk about, we're going
34:12
to be speaking on this on Sunday.
34:15
Yes, I am indeed. Yeah.
34:17
The distance meeting in the southwest at Gough, inland in in
34:21
Devon, in Exeter. And yeah, you know, I think
34:25
Andrew Bridges speaking as well. I don't know what he's speaking
34:27
on, but he usually pulls it out of a hat.
34:30
And I'm just going to be really focusing on devolution because
34:34
it is really something that I'll be speaking about later and so
34:38
will you. And it's a really important
34:40
topic because it it is all about our, our democracy, or lack of
34:46
at the moment. Yeah.
34:48
Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you, Sandy.
34:50
And Speaking of Andrew Bridgen, he will be speaking in the Seven
34:54
Stars Hotel in Totnes on Friday the 25th of July.
34:58
Patrick Anixon will be introducing that and there'll be
35:00
AQ and A afterwards. The details for all these events
35:03
will be in the show notes. So have a look at the Today's
35:06
news programme on the UK column website for more on these
35:10
things. Now let's then come straight on
35:13
to the question of devolution and the fantastic news that
35:17
Plymouth is going to hold a referendum tomorrow on the issue
35:21
of whether or not to have a directly elected mayor.
35:24
And as is typical for Plymouth, this is a very stupid thing to
35:27
do because no matter the outcome, there won't be a
35:31
directed electric directly elected mayor.
35:33
And this is because three weeks ago the Starmer regime announced
35:36
that metro mayors are the only way to go, so there will be no
35:40
city mayors. So the outcome of this
35:41
referendum makes no difference. Now, the most widely recognized
35:46
metro mayors are, of course, Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham, but
35:50
there are quite a number of so-called regions which have
35:53
elected mayors. Now, according to the Institute
35:55
of Governance, sorry, the Institute for Government,
35:58
regional mayors are directly elected leaders who chair
36:02
mayoral strategic authorities Brackets, also known as combined
36:05
authorities, to which specified functions and budgets have been
36:10
devolved from Whitehall. Mayoral strategic authorities
36:13
are formed by a group of local authorities at a city, regional
36:18
or regional level, as the Institute for Government says.
36:21
And they go on to say that the specifics of the powers of Msas
36:24
vary from place to place, but typically include aspects of
36:27
transport skills, housing and local infrastructure investment,
36:31
and in some cases special special planning, policing,
36:35
health and employment support. Now the government's Devolution
36:39
Bill will establish A3 tier devolution framework.
36:42
They say that applies by default to all places, bringing a
36:45
greater consistency of what is devolved each MSA.
36:48
Now what they're talking about there is the English Devolution
36:51
and Community Empowerment Bill, which Sandy's going to talk
36:53
about in a second, introduced a few days ago by Angela Rayner,
36:57
and which Ben spoke about on Monday's programme, and which
37:00
will bring centralised control to the local level.
37:03
But as we've been, we've been highlighting this for years in
37:06
article after article. These people are about as
37:10
democratic as Stalin and you know, just lots of articles on
37:15
this topic. So Sandy, let's hear more from
37:18
you on this. Yeah, sure.
37:21
I mean, my first, my first slide is really from the, it's, it's
37:26
saying, you know, are, are these mayors, are they, are they going
37:30
to fix our regions? Well, uh, no, I don't think they
37:34
are. They're going to fix it for
37:35
themselves, surely, um, and for the, for global governance, but
37:40
they're not going to fix it for the people of the UK.
37:42
And, um, and that The thing is that this is, you know, this is
37:47
a kind of problem reaction solution thing because, you
37:51
know, the regions, if you like, if you want to call them the
37:53
regions, the UK has been hollowed out from inside out.
37:57
The infrastructure's been decimated.
38:00
And so they're coming in, they're flying in as the
38:02
saviours. And it's the same thing.
38:04
It's problem reaction solution. And, you know, really it's the
38:08
remedy for, to bring in the, the full technocratic control
38:12
agenda. And you know, this isn't by
38:15
anything, you know, all of this is, is very because it all feeds
38:19
into the, the 20-30 sustainable development goals run by, you
38:24
know, obviously by the UN and, and the WEF.
38:26
So do we really want, you know, that kind of that kind of
38:32
fascist fascism actually? And The thing is that what we
38:36
have to remember is that this is a, this new bill that we've got
38:41
coming in is really about, I'm just going to get actually the
38:46
first, the first, the next slide is, is about a short recent
38:50
history of, of devolution. I'll just go into that first
38:53
because it's been a long term plan.
38:55
And I think people have to realise that this is really long
38:57
term plan from 1988, I believe. And then, you know, Tony Blair
39:03
really tried to push it in the early 2000s and it was voted out
39:06
in 2004. And then in 2016, the biggest
39:10
shift was the Communities and cities, Cities and Communities
39:15
Act that came in, in 2016. And that kind of laid the
39:20
pathway really for what we're finding now with the devolution
39:24
white papers, the next thing that came up.
39:26
And then, of course, we've now got the, the, the, this cities
39:31
and communities, um, in power, you know, sort of empowerment
39:35
act. But The thing is that it is, it
39:38
is not going to empower the people.
39:41
It's going to empower the agenda.
39:43
And that's, that's the problem. That's the problem, because
39:47
under this act, mayors gain really control over trans.
39:53
We're talking about the, the smart city mayors or the metro
39:56
mayors, whatever you want to call them, the trans, the, the,
39:59
the, the shift, the power shift is coming away from Westminster
40:03
to these. These people that haven't really
40:07
been elected by us and they're being put in positions of
40:11
ultimate power. They're being given the power
40:13
over transport, housing and planning, net zero
40:17
infrastructure, energy systems, economic development, skills and
40:22
innovation and police and crime commissioning and fire services
40:27
in some in some cases. So this is really quite, I mean,
40:33
it's, it's, it's really worrying.
40:34
And as much as these, these mayors, their sole aim is to, to
40:39
hit the net 0 targets. So they don't really care what
40:43
you think. They, they want to hit their net
40:46
0 targets. And they're, I mean, as we've
40:48
seen with, with Andy Burnham in, in Manchester, you know, he's
40:51
completely changed the whole transport system there and he's
40:55
got all the electric buses and cycle lanes.
40:59
And it is turning into that, you know, a smart city in, in, in
41:03
every single way. And what we need to realise is
41:07
that also the system is changing from government policy.
41:11
The biggest take away from this bill is that the system is
41:14
changing from government policy to global framework really.
41:20
And so these global frameworks are all integrated with Agenda
41:25
2030 and the St. GS.
41:28
And so we've, we've just got to realise that this everything is
41:32
is influenced. You've got local authorities
41:36
under these global covenant of mayors and the Global Covenant
41:40
of Mayors are, is, is part of the C40 Cities Plan.
41:46
And the C40 Cities plan is the, it's a group, it's a leadership
41:52
group of global network of about 100 major cities committed to
41:56
addressing climate change and advancing the goals of the UN
42:00
Agenda 2030 and the Paris Agreement.
42:03
It was founded in 2005. So it's gone, you know, it's
42:06
come from quite a way back. And it brings together both
42:09
mayors and city leaders to collaborate on cutting urban
42:12
carbon emissions and promoting sustainability and implementing
42:16
net 0 policies across transportation, energy,
42:19
buildings and waste systems. It's heavily backed by the
42:22
global institutions like the Bloomberg Philanthropies, World
42:26
Bank Italy, which is the International Committee for
42:29
Local and Environmental Initiatives that was brought in
42:33
from Agenda 21 into every town council in the UK.
42:37
And it works closely with the World Economic Forum and the UN
42:41
bodies. The C40 Cities pledges to
42:43
implement policies that align with global climate targets,
42:47
often pushing beyond national governments in ambition.
42:50
You see critics argue that it bypasses democratic
42:54
accountability, and I think it does.
42:57
It's really giving unelected global actors the influence over
43:01
our our policies and promotes A technocratic control under the
43:06
guise of climate action. And so the climate thing is the
43:09
biggest thing because as we know, there are plans for
43:13
climate lockdowns. We've got plans for, you know,
43:16
our cities are heavily surveilled.
43:18
We've got geofencing in place, you know, this could actually
43:22
become a, a real worry and that, you know, the fact that we're,
43:28
we're bypassing parliament, Parliament is being the powers
43:32
of parliament are being literally shifted over to these
43:36
global mayors. So I, I really feel that we've
43:39
got to somehow understand that the, the, the, the way things
43:45
are going, our, our democracy is, is being further eroded
43:50
because at least at the moment, I know we, we are town councils,
43:54
some of them are pretty bad. Our parliament is bad.
43:57
But at least at the moment we can change things.
44:01
Once these guys get in, we can't, we don't have any choice.
44:05
They will just do what they want.
44:07
And at the moment we, we, you know, with the C40 cities, I'm
44:10
thinking about the farmers. You've got, can I go back to the
44:13
foot the, the last slide, please, which was the yeah,
44:16
you've got think tanks like the London, London University and
44:21
they're, they're looking at food and how food could be sort of
44:25
woven into devolution. And then on the next slide,
44:29
please, we've got the planetary diet that was put forward by the
44:33
C40 cities. And really the planetary diet is
44:37
about cutting out meat from your diet.
44:39
And so they want to just control every aspect of our lives.
44:44
And if we look at the, obviously Mike put this slide up, This is
44:49
the, and this is how devolution is, is progressing throughout
44:54
the UK. Then mainly the, the devolved
44:57
areas are up north. And what you'll find is in your
45:00
local council, you might be first of all going unitary,
45:03
which is you, you join up with another couple of councils and
45:07
then it goes into a combined authority, which is slightly
45:11
bigger. And then after that they want
45:13
you to go regional. Now I'm looking here at Tony
45:16
Blair's regional federal map of what he, he wanted the, the
45:23
federal map to look like by 2020.
45:26
And he, he produced this in the early 2000s.
45:29
So more and more Tony Blair's idea of how we should be is
45:36
playing out now. And, and, and that's, that's
45:39
what I'm seeing. And unfortunately, you know,
45:42
this the, the, the way things are going, we, we, we've got
45:46
these mayors that they're using this as a, as a, as a way.
45:50
For. Bringing, yeah, bringing in
45:52
global control and we don't have a say at the moment and we need
45:56
to. So that's that's kind of it.
45:59
Thank you, Sandy. Thank you, Charles.
46:02
Let's stick again in the UK. Move on to the question of
46:05
drought. Yes.
46:07
I mean, all these things are of course related, but we are now
46:10
in a situation where we have more warm weather, more hose
46:13
pipe bands, more finger pointing and more climate alarmism.
46:17
It must be summer. And the Environment Agency,
46:20
which behaves as though it has assumed overall responsibility
46:23
for all water within the United Kingdom, has announced another
46:27
meeting of the National Drought Group.
46:30
Their plan it would appear, is to ask everyone to use less
46:33
water, but their ability to either influence or monitor this
46:38
is seriously compromised. I Just like farmers and other
46:42
businesses, water companies are theoretically limited by their
46:47
abstraction license as to the amount of water they can take
46:50
from natural supplies and this is controlled by the Environment
46:54
Agency. As we know, all water companies
46:57
have an appalling and well recognised track record of
47:00
wasting water through leakage, something which is never
47:03
properly addressed and results, as now in farmers and members of
47:08
the public, being blamed for the amount or predicted shortages.
47:13
Now the National Framework for Water Resources published
47:17
recently makes many references to the forthcoming deficit and
47:21
to all the various and competing demands on the water supply.
47:25
What they most certainly do not do is make any suggestion that
47:28
there should be a hierarchy of priorities when it comes to what
47:32
they describe as an increasingly scarce resource.
47:36
There are any references to the burgeoning thirst of data
47:39
centres and artificial intelligence hubs, but a
47:42
consistent failure to attach any figures to this requirement.
47:46
The framework does suggest, somewhat hopefully, that data
47:49
centres should look to other supplies of water beyond using
47:53
public water supply, for example using recycled water.
47:58
I submitted a Freedom of Information request to the
48:01
Department for Energy Security and Net 0 in order to establish
48:05
the current and projected consumption of both water and
48:09
electricity where AI and data centres were concerned.
48:13
The reply was underwhelming, though predictable.
48:15
They have no idea as they do not keep records and strangely they
48:19
do not use modelling to guess what will happen next.
48:22
Also claiming not to use modelling is the annual State of
48:26
the UK Climate Report 2020 4 published on Monday.
48:30
So for the year in retrospect, this is written by the Met
48:33
Office and the Royal Meteorological Society.
48:36
Merely A lengthy reminder that according to their very
48:39
obviously manipulated statistics and records that the country is
48:43
getting warmer and drier and wetter but not windier though,
48:47
which may present a problem for the storm loving weather
48:49
forecasters in the mainstream. The other key assertion is that
48:53
the sea level is rising. And of course all of this is
48:57
written with two things in mind. Firstly, it's your fault and
49:00
secondly it is all dangerous. Now, though, the report is
49:05
explicit in stating that it should not be used to predict
49:08
the future. That is precisely what Liz
49:10
Bentley, the chief executive of the role Meteorological Society,
49:14
has done in her interview about the report with the BBC.
49:16
But no challenge was issued by the BBC when she did so.
49:20
Concurrent with the doom mongering has been the belief
49:24
that this year's harvest will be a disaster, which of course
49:27
provides the perfect nudge into consuming lab grown
49:31
indigestibles. It's too early to give much of
49:34
an indication, but Farmers Weekly suggest that the wheat
49:36
harvest so far is actually better than expected.
49:39
And on a related note, you may recall that back in April UK
49:43
column reported on what appeared to be an I'll considered
49:46
encouragement to farmers to withhold milling wheat in order
49:50
to create a bread shortage so that the public would be made
49:53
aware that the government is not looking after farmers now.
49:58
This initiative, published by Sorry, pushed by Olly Harrison
50:03
and Clive Bailey, does not appear to have taken market
50:06
forces into account. And the Agricultural and
50:10
Horticultural Development Board was already predicting back then
50:13
that there would be a 13% increase in wheat imports for
50:17
this year, and that was as far back as March.
50:19
Agri trade news we've just seen on screen suggesting that this
50:23
strike made absolutely no difference, although there may
50:25
have been some unintended and negative consequences for any
50:29
farmers who were convinced to take this sort of action.
50:31
So imagining that the government will ever have farmers interests
50:34
at heart is made to look like a fool's errand.
50:36
And anyone listening who does produce food, please do go to
50:40
the farming section on the UK column website for inspiration
50:43
in terms of establishing local markets.
50:46
Finally, the Bill which absolutely refuses to die.
50:50
There would be a strong chance that the era of global boiling
50:53
will have petered out by the time the Climate and Nature Bill
50:56
is debated again in Parliament and its second reading already,
50:59
which, back to the 11th of July this year, has now been further
51:03
deferred to Friday the 29th of May 2026.
51:07
That's a shame. Well, yes, I suppose it depends
51:10
which way you look at it. OK, back to Sandy then.
51:14
And Sandy, tell us about the Royal Foundation.
51:18
Well, it, it's really part of the, the, the Royal Foundation
51:23
is a, is a, is a mixture of of obviously William and, and Kate
51:27
getting together and he's, he's kind of doing the conservation
51:30
and the earth shot thing. And she seems to have taken a
51:33
very keen interest in, in early years development for children.
51:38
And she set up the Royal Foundation Centre for early
51:42
childhood. And I, I think I've got a, a
51:48
video here of her and how she's, how she's, well, what she's
51:54
doing. So listen to this and, and
51:56
we'll, we'll go on from there. Earlier this year, we asked you
52:00
5 big questions about raising our under fives.
52:04
We wanted to hear what you think about the importance of the
52:07
earliest years of our children's lives.
52:10
More than half a million of you answered that call.
52:13
So we've taken your input and combined it with even more
52:16
public research to produce the Uks biggest ever study on the
52:20
early years. This year has been a hugely
52:23
challenging time for us all and there hasn't been a more
52:25
important moment to talk about families.
52:29
Later on this week we'll share 5 big insights that we've
52:32
discovered and I will take your questions.
52:35
This is just the beginning and I want to thank you for starting a
52:39
conversation because we're all on this journey together, right?
52:46
Well, it's interesting. She, she's the, the, the, the,
52:50
the foundation have teamed up with the, the Lego Foundation,
52:55
Unilever. And yeah, there's NatWest and
53:00
Ernst and Young and Deloitte and these, these big corporations
53:06
are heavily invested in early child development.
53:10
Now I wonder why? And we can see now that because
53:14
of the AI in schools now they can monitor those children's
53:18
outcomes. And as we know, outcomes for
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children are being sold, you know, to, to third parties on
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the blockchain and sort of like, almost like betted as futures.
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And there there's children are being commodified in school and
53:34
these early years things. It's really quite, I, I find it
53:37
really concerning because, you know, this is a, a, a there is
53:42
another video, but it was too long to put on, but on.
53:44
Can I have that slide back? Yeah, this slide, umm, it shows
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you that it's all about feelings and empathy and understanding
53:52
each other and working alongside each other and collaborating and
53:57
being in, in children being in community and how all of their
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feelings and, and, and everything are very important.
54:04
Well, of course they are because they are monitoring them with
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SEL learning, which is social and emotional learning through
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the devices in their schools. And all this information is
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being sold onto third parties. It's being harvested and used as
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a commodity. And unfortunately, children that
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they're, they're saying that, you know, the, the, the teachers
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are going along with this because they're saying, Oh well,
54:30
isn't it great that the children are being, are, are
54:33
understanding their own feelings, their own emotions,
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their own empathy, their own, the way they, they deal with
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their emotions. But all of that is being, being
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filtered to use. And it could be that they're
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using them because they're, they're trying to work out which
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ones are new or diverse, which ones aren't, because money can
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be made on children either way, whatever, whatever their,
54:55
whatever their cases are. So the Lego group I found quite,
55:00
quite, quite weird, really. Well, not weird, but they, they,
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they're very, they're very close to The Who and UNICEF.
55:07
They're working in, in conjunction with them.
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And, you know, they, they've got play futures labs and they've
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got global ties with the, with they're an advocate of the SDG
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4. They're, they're aligned with
55:20
globalist reform initiatives And they, they, they've on their
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website, they've got policies and it all aligns, it all aligns
55:30
with the, with the WEF and all the whole agenda.
55:34
And what I thought was really strange is in the next slide,
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they actually have a, a policy of snitching in their, in their,
55:42
in their corporation that if you find somebody that is, is not
55:45
actually going along with their narrative, then you can snitch
55:49
them and get them the sack, which I thought was quite
55:51
interesting. So all of this is, is aligned to
55:55
a bigger, bigger picture of umm, data harvesting children in the
56:00
early years, which is really, really, it's technocratic
56:04
framing of childhood. Umm, it promotes, the centre
56:07
promotes the idea that early childhood birth to age 5, it's
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not just a family or community matter.
56:13
So they're taking the responsibility from the families
56:16
and the parents because it really is a national investment
56:20
issue. They say while supported by
56:23
neuroscience, this language is also a gateway to, you know, to
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literally sort of reading children's emotions and, and
56:32
framing them in into this into this kind of data set that they
56:38
can use really for for, for making money.
56:42
So yeah, it it, it mirrors a broader global strategy to frame
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human beings as assets to be optimised.
56:49
Really. Yeah, certainly with sustainable
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development. 3. Now I've got an SEL learning
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video so we can put that up and you can understand what SEL
57:00
learning is. There's a lot of talk these days
57:03
about SEL social emotional learning, but what exactly is
57:08
it? Social Emotional learning is the
57:11
process of learning social and emotional skills, and it's just
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as important as learning reading or math.
57:18
This learning process is most effective when it begins early
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and continues through high school.
57:25
Social emotional skills are essential for success in school,
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work, and life. With SEL, students learn to
57:33
manage their own emotions and behaviors, have empathy and show
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caring concern for others, solve problems effectively, make
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responsible decisions, and maintain healthy relationships.
57:46
Students learn to recognize what's happening inside them and
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to be aware of their emotions, which helps them deal with
57:53
strong emotions and impulsive behaviors.
57:57
It helps them stop, take a breath, and think about a
58:01
situation before acting. Students learn to identify
58:06
others emotions and perspectives, which helps them
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empathize and show compassion no matter who they are or what
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their background is. It's not difficult to imagine
58:16
how this is important in the classroom and in life.
58:20
Students learn to solve problems in peaceful ways and communicate
58:24
assertively about what they need or want.
58:27
This helps them get along with other students and get the help
58:30
they need from adults. Yeah, the adults.
58:36
So it just, it just shows you that this supports long term
58:40
psychological compliance. Really, they want the perfect
58:42
global citizens and you know, it all aligns with the ESG values
58:48
and it takes the, the responsibility of the of the
58:51
parents away. And I, I think it's a form of
58:55
child abuse actually, but that's probably going a bit far, but I
58:59
don't think so. Any thoughts?
59:03
The outsourcing of everything, where, where does it end?
59:05
It's it's totally absurd. We have a final video clip.
59:10
Charles, why don't you introduce us?
59:11
We do. We've taken a bit of a battering
59:14
from the climate change narrative today.
59:16
So to lighten the boon, the mood, we're going to cast our
59:19
eye back to a Foscho sketch from, I think, 2011, where they
59:24
imagined the weather forecast in foreign, in the days when you
59:28
could still laugh about stuff. Nick Iteros.
59:33
Fosso Tipio. Fiteros Weekend.
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Meteorological. Smith, Paula.
59:38
Hello classy Costa paratos miatrochi a valley Portos
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scorchio Miya cuna Tera. Interior scorchio.
59:48
Miya cuna Tera Exterior scorchio.
59:52
Montablanco scorchio. Costa scorchio.
59:57
Metrologic is Manana Oh Scorchio.
1:00:05
Scorchio. There we go.
1:00:11
Seems they knew what was coming. Sadly they haven't looked out
1:00:14
the window here, so we're not quite scorching.
1:00:17
Today. Anyway, we're going to leave it
1:00:19
there for today. Thank you very much Sandy and
1:00:21
Vanessa for joining us and Charles, of course everybody
1:00:24
that's watched. If you're a UK column member,
1:00:26
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1:00:32
Otherwise, don't forget Germ tonight, the interview tomorrow,
1:00:35
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See you then. Bye bye.
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Bye bye.