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UK Column News Podcast 12th March 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, the twelfth of March twenty twenty five, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock and welcome to the UK Colin News.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host Matt Grumson joining me today in the studio,
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Speaker 2: Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program, Charles by video link.
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Speaker 2: We have Vanessa Billy and Sandy Adam Sny. Later in
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Speaker 2: the program we're going to be covering the White Helmets,
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Speaker 2: geoengineering and CBDC. But let's begin with Ukraine. Because a
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Speaker 2: deal for a thirty day seas far has apparently been done,
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Speaker 2: at least on the Ukraine US side of the argument.
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Speaker 2: Ker Starmer here has been keen to take credit for
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Speaker 2: getting it over the line in this lovely note that
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Speaker 2: he warmly welcomes the agreement. But as a result of
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Speaker 2: this deal, US military and intelligence support has been restarted,
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Speaker 2: so no surprises there perhaps Now for his part, as
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Speaker 2: Zelenski said, he received a report from our delegation on
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Speaker 2: the with the American team in Saudi Arabia. The discussion
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Speaker 2: lasted most of the day and was good and constructive.
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Speaker 2: Our teams were able to discuss many important details. Our
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Speaker 2: position remains absolutely clear. Ukraine has been seeking peace from
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Speaker 2: the very first second of this war, and we want
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Speaker 2: to do everything to achieve it as soon as possible
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Speaker 2: in a reliable way. Were they seeking peace from the
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Speaker 2: very first second? I don't think so, or at least
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Speaker 2: maybe they were, But then, of course Boris Johnson headed
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Speaker 2: over and sorted that problem out for them. He went
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Speaker 2: on to say that during today's talks, the US side
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Speaker 2: proposed taking an even bigger first step, a thirty day
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Speaker 2: full interim sees far and not only stopping missile, drone
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Speaker 2: and bomb attacks not only in the Black Sea, but
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Speaker 2: also along the entire front line. Ukraine, he said, is
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Speaker 2: ready to accept this proposal. Now Russia hasn't commented so far,
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Speaker 2: but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he
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Speaker 2: would present the offer to Russia and that the ball
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Speaker 2: is in their court, which, strange enough, is exactly the
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Speaker 2: phrase that John Healey, Secretarist It for War used the
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Speaker 2: ball is now in Russia's court, as did David Lammy.
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Speaker 2: The ball, according to him, is firmly in Russia's court.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that's all coincidence and nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: the rapid response mechanism. But the ball is in Russia's court,
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Speaker 2: and what Rubio has and what Rubio said and what
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Speaker 2: Trump has said for that matter, is that if Russia
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Speaker 2: refuses a deal, then it will be Russia's fault. That
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Speaker 2: piece hasn't happened. So I wonder if Russia being set
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Speaker 2: up here. And as I said earlier, US military intelligence
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Speaker 2: support is being restarted. But in the meantime, if you've
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Speaker 2: noticed on the John Healey tweet there he was talking
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Speaker 2: about the E five and the question is what is
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Speaker 2: the five Well, it's the five largest European war spenders
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Speaker 2: uk France, Germany, Italy and Poland, and they have set
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Speaker 2: up a parl ill political infrastructure to counter the perceived
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Speaker 2: threat of Donald Trump. Donald Trump being used to push
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Speaker 2: forward all kinds of things. At the moment, the war
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Speaker 2: budget of the five group is two and a half
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Speaker 2: times larger than that of Russia. And yet Russia has
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Speaker 2: weapons systems that the West can't compete with, like a
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Speaker 2: Rushnik for example. So I think there's some questions to
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Speaker 2: be asked there with that. But anyway, the upshot of
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Speaker 2: all this is that as far as Ukraine, Britain and
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Speaker 2: the EU are concerned, nothing has changed. Despite this deal.
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Speaker 2: We have a deal for thirty days cease far and
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Speaker 2: you know that time probably going to be used to
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Speaker 2: consolidate the so called Coalition of the willing and driven
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Speaker 2: as I say, as it has been from nineteen ninety
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Speaker 2: one by Britain and France. So that here's a Ministry
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Speaker 2: Defense tweet making that point. The defense partnership between the
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Speaker 2: UK and France is stronger than ever as John Heay
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Speaker 2: met his French counterpart in Paris. Now, if you'd like
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Speaker 2: more background and context for this, do have a look
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Speaker 2: at the EU Military Unification page on the UK column website,
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Speaker 2: because we've been making the point that Britain and France
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Speaker 2: has been behind this really from the beginning, this whole
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Speaker 2: EU defense union business, and specifically to highlight here in
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Speaker 2: twenty sorry twenty ten, the second Franco British Council round
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Speaker 2: Table which led to the Lancaster House Treatment Treaties, which
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Speaker 2: was a fifty year defense pack between Britain and France.
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Speaker 2: And that was followed up in twenty eighteen with the
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Speaker 2: Sandhurst Treaties which reinforced that that deal. So that's really
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Speaker 2: what's driving the UK EU effort on this using Trump
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Speaker 2: and Trump's so called appeasement of Russia as the excuse
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Speaker 2: to drive forward with this. Have you got any thoughts?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's it's so well set up as
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Speaker 3: a perfect and sort of eternal thread of contradictions and
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Speaker 3: confusions and being able to persistently go to either Russia
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Speaker 3: or Ukraine and say right, well, now it's up to
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Speaker 3: you the other side, to decide what you're going to do,
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Speaker 3: and say that Russia has been pursuing peace and Ukraine's
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Speaker 3: been pursuing peace, but in actual fact never quite reconciling
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Speaker 3: the situation, which of course is a gift for the
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Speaker 3: defense industry, which is really what so much of this
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Speaker 3: is about the perpetual state of either war or the
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Speaker 3: readiness the preparation for war, and this absurd idea of
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Speaker 3: strength or rather sorry, peace through strength, and the best
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Speaker 3: way to be to avoid war is to be prepared
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Speaker 3: for it, and this kind of thing, which is entirely
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Speaker 3: from financial point of view, one of the main drivers
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Speaker 3: for it. So this is just another example of it
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Speaker 3: with a specific sort of clause or you know, thirty
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Speaker 3: day cs far attached to it. But I dare say
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Speaker 3: this is one of many things, and also just perhaps
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Speaker 3: slightly flippantly, but I can't help thinking that the ball
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Speaker 3: in your co Russia is a bit of a reference
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Speaker 3: to Wimbledon being so quick to ban Russian players back
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. It seems remarkably childish. Absolutely, and
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Speaker 3: that's quite possibly the case. Let me welcome Vanessa to
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Speaker 3: the program and we'll move on to Syria and and
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Speaker 3: the first thing to say here Vanessa is that we
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Speaker 3: have an episode six of the Syria Podcast up on
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Speaker 3: the UK column website covering recent events there.
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Speaker 4: Yes, people might enjoy listening to that because we do
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Speaker 4: go into a lot of detail about the various regional
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Speaker 4: players for genders in Syria on the back of what
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Speaker 4: is a hideous ethnic cleansing operation being carried out by the.
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Speaker 5: Tech Theory Project, which of course.
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Speaker 4: Is funded and supported by the UK government among others. Now,
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Speaker 4: there have been horrendous videos circulating.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to show some of the worst.
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Speaker 4: They are available on the links that Mike and I
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Speaker 4: shared at the podcast, but I just want to show
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Speaker 4: this one, which is in Jablet on the coastal region,
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Speaker 4: showing the sheer number of bodies in one very small
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Speaker 4: area of the Jable countryside bodies that have effectively been
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Speaker 4: dumped there. Many of them are being burned or buried
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Speaker 4: in mass graves. Again, there are videos depicting.
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Speaker 5: That, or they're being thrown off the mountainside in an attempt.
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Speaker 4: To basically cover up the atrocities that are being committed
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Speaker 4: by the Al Kaeda HTS so called security forces, and
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Speaker 4: they're various foreign mercenary affiliates that are operating in the
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Speaker 4: region with of course the endorsement of Western countries Israel,
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Speaker 4: Turkey and the various Huron agencies that are not investigating
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Speaker 4: these crimes correctly.
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Speaker 5: And then I.
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Speaker 4: Also wanted to talk about this, which is a killing
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Speaker 4: of children in a village called Alcelato in Latakia, again
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Speaker 4: on the coast.
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Speaker 5: I apologize for the distressing image.
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Speaker 4: There are hundreds, if not tens of hundreds of these
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Speaker 4: photos children that are presumably going to be called regime
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Speaker 4: remnants by outlets like the BBC and Channel four. There
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Speaker 4: are innocent civilian children that simply belong to the wrong
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Speaker 4: minority group in Syria. Now, yesterday I managed to get
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Speaker 4: to Accard, which is you can just see the two
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Speaker 4: points there in the north of Lebanon. The massacres are
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Speaker 4: taking place within that red circle, so you can see
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Speaker 4: that it's a fairly vast area of Syrian territory in
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Speaker 4: the coastal Central.
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Speaker 5: Region also includes Latakia there in the top left corner.
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Speaker 5: I just couldn't get the circle to.
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Speaker 6: Fit.
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Speaker 4: And basically people from all that region and crossing the
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Speaker 4: border with Lebanon into the Aco region, which is where
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Speaker 4: we visited yesterday.
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Speaker 5: They're not crossing by the official.
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Speaker 4: Border because they would be shot by al Gada that
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Speaker 4: are gathered around there. They're crossing by various former suddling routes.
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Speaker 5: In the river.
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Speaker 4: And this image shows very clearly how these people are
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Speaker 4: arriving on foot having escaped through the forest and mountains
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Speaker 4: into the smuggling route areas, and they're basically being able
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Speaker 4: to cross the river and find shelter in the various
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Speaker 4: municipalities in the area of Aco in northern Lubanon, where
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Speaker 4: they are being well taken care of. I have to
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Speaker 4: note that the Lebanese state is not involving itself in
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Speaker 4: any way in taking care of them. It's that they're
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Speaker 4: reliant upon Western NGOs, EU.
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Speaker 5: Andngo's predominant and un agencies.
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Speaker 4: And basically from conversations that I had with the families
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Speaker 4: that had arrived in the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 5: I couldn't film them.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't share their names because they're terrified that family
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Speaker 4: members that are still inside Syria are going to get
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Speaker 4: eliminated if they're seen in any way to have escaped,
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Speaker 4: even if they're putting likes on Facebook posts showing the slaughterers,
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Speaker 4: their family is being targeted.
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Speaker 5: So that's the degree to which they're being surveiled. So
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Speaker 5: I've done a short report so far on.
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Speaker 4: X and basically what I was told and estimated eight
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Speaker 4: thousand Syrians have made it into so called safety in Lebanon.
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Speaker 4: Two thousand families more are pouring in on a daily basis.
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Speaker 4: We were told by recently arrived Syrians that the numbers
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Speaker 4: have slaughtered in Syria is probably closer to.
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Speaker 5: Off thousand, with entire villagers wiped up. Secret internet is
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Speaker 5: being cut, no food and water has been.
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Speaker 4: Sent to those particularly to those areas in the last
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Speaker 4: couple of months.
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Speaker 5: Water supplies are being poisoned.
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Speaker 4: According to reports, which, as I've pointed out, it's very
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Speaker 4: similar to Zionist tactics used in the nac Are in
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Speaker 4: nineteen forty eight onwards. These people arrived with nothing, eu U,
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Speaker 4: n NGOs and Lebanon providing less than two percent of their.
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Speaker 5: Needs, having already closed their.
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Speaker 4: Borders to prosecuted minorities fleeing EU backed al Qaeda security
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Speaker 4: terrorist forces. Then I basically took a couple of images
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Speaker 4: in one of the shelters that we went to, showing
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Speaker 4: this is basically at school which is being rapidly converted
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Speaker 4: into a refugee shelter, and I wanted just to basically
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Speaker 4: share with you what some of those people said to me.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 4: They told me that tatous Is, which is on the coast,
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Speaker 4: is apparently now currently surround them by four hundred hts
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Speaker 4: and foreign mercenary suicide bombers, so they're expecting further slaughters
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Speaker 4: in the coming days and weeks in that area. Basically,
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Speaker 4: they told me that their farms and their houses had
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Speaker 4: been burned down, that they had been targeted when they fled,
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Speaker 4: they were shot at, and they're being hunted down by drones,
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Speaker 4: which is a horrifying aspect of this slaughter. One young
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Speaker 4: man that had basically arrived the morning that we managed
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Speaker 4: to speak to him, said that he and his friends
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Speaker 4: had managed to escape through the forest.
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Speaker 5: They were basically covering themselves.
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Speaker 4: With leaves and branches at various points when they could
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Speaker 4: hear the drone to try and stop them being detected.
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Speaker 5: He spent five.
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Speaker 4: Days by the river, hiding from the drums and the
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Speaker 4: HDS forces that were on the banks trying to shoot
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Speaker 4: one trying to flee, and at one point he had
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Speaker 4: to submerge himself in the water so that the drone.
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Speaker 4: This is what he told me. Technically, I don't know
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Speaker 4: if it's correct, but this is obviously what he believed
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Speaker 4: and what he did. He submerged himself in the water
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Speaker 4: so that the drone couldn't detect body heat from him.
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Speaker 5: He was completely traumatized.
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Speaker 4: And I have to say just seeing these people we
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Speaker 4: saw one thousand miles stare from victims and gazo that
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Speaker 4: had been taken into Siginus prisons and tortured. I saw
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Speaker 4: exactly the same stair in about the fifteen twenty people,
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Speaker 4: including children, that I was talking to, and I did
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Speaker 4: record the conversations. I just haven't had time yet to
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Speaker 4: go through and edit and to remove background.
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Speaker 5: Noise, etc.
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Speaker 4: But I saw exactly the same trauma in their eyes
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Speaker 4: and to see it in the eyes of children, many
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Speaker 4: of them from sort of ten years down, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Horrified, traumatized.
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Speaker 4: They'd seen children burned alive, They'd seen children executed on
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Speaker 4: the spot.
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Speaker 5: Children were asked if a group of children was.
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Speaker 4: Being lined up, they were asked who should be executed first.
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Speaker 5: Young women are being raped traffic.
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Speaker 4: Children are also being trafficked for organ extraction, which I'll
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Speaker 4: talk about.
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Speaker 5: In the next section.
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Speaker 4: But the horrors that were being described to me were
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Speaker 4: absolutely off the scale. And these refugee centers are all
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Speaker 4: they have, most of them, if we can just show
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Speaker 4: the next phroto most of them arrived with nothing, literally nothing,
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Speaker 4: just the clothes on their backs, and the only support
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Speaker 4: they have are from the local municipalities.
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Speaker 5: And finally, I just wanted to.
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Speaker 4: Show because this was an emotional moment for me in
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Speaker 4: a way, a video that we took on the way.
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Speaker 5: To the crossings, the river crossings.
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Speaker 4: This is basically Syria that you were seeing beyond the
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Speaker 4: ridge where I'm filming from. And to see Syria like
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Speaker 4: this beautiful Syria, looking calm and serene, but knowing what
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Speaker 4: is going on there is very difficult and also of
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Speaker 4: course not to be able to return myself only to
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Speaker 4: be able to see it from the Lebanese side.
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Speaker 5: And it's worth mentioning that all of these people that.
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Speaker 4: Have left Syria under threat of ethnic cleansing have said
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Speaker 4: that they don't see themselves with the future in.
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Speaker 5: Syria unless Jolani is removed.
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Speaker 4: And of course what they are now pushing for is
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Speaker 4: foreign intervention and the partitioning of Syria to create a
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Speaker 4: safe state for them on the coast, with anyone but
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Speaker 4: Jolani in charge. And this of course is part of
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Speaker 4: the Western managed, it really managed tach theory project to
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Speaker 4: end with the partitioning of Syria.
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Speaker 2: Vanessa. I'm not going to say thank you for that
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Speaker 2: because that was horrendous, but that was a fantastic report.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we we watch to see how this
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Speaker 2: develops and we will of course report more on this.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's move on to Sandy and welcome you to
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Speaker 2: the program, and we're looking at the continuing land grab
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Speaker 2: back here in the UK.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean three things prompted me to look at
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Speaker 6: look at this today. Firstly, there was a celebration in
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Speaker 6: the Somerset village of Kingston Seymour where they actually won
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Speaker 6: a battle against the French company d F who are
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Speaker 6: building Hinckley Point. I'll be getting back to that later
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Speaker 6: if that slide can come down. For the moment, the
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Speaker 6: Wildlands map, I don't need that right now.
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Speaker 2: It's not on Sanday.
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Speaker 6: That's okay, So sorry, so sorry, I'm just looking at
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Speaker 6: the on screen. Uh yeah. And I'll be talking about
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Speaker 6: Kingston Seymour in in depth later. But the second reason
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Speaker 6: really we're I got a text from someone in New
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Speaker 6: South Wales who contacted me saying that seventy three state
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Speaker 6: forests had been restricted or closed off to the public
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Speaker 6: for safety and conservation. I did look it up on
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Speaker 6: the New South Wales Forestry website in Australia and sure,
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Speaker 6: in our funeral to my horror, that was the case.
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Speaker 6: So and finally, you know, there's been this week Somerset
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Speaker 6: alone have proposed to build seventeen thousand new homes across
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Speaker 6: the rural areas of this county. It just seems that
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Speaker 6: everything we hold dear is to start for grabs.
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Speaker 5: It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 6: Now, I just want to cast my mind back to, yeah,
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Speaker 6: to thirteen years ago, when I used to do talk
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Speaker 6: about Agenda twenty thirty bus he'll do. But it was
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Speaker 6: only twenty one then, and I used to have this
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Speaker 6: picture of the wildness. I'm so sorry, and I hope
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Speaker 6: that this would be the dream of a sort of madman.
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Speaker 6: You know that it would never happen, and that madman
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Speaker 6: was David Foreman, a radical environmentalist and co founder of
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Speaker 6: First and support of Global Warming theory. Foreman's Wildlans Project
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Speaker 6: was really a vision with vast tracts of land across
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Speaker 6: North America and potentially worldwide designated for conservation with strict
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Speaker 6: human exclusion zones and controlled human settlement zones or smart
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Speaker 6: cities as we as we know them now. The resemblance
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Speaker 6: between this concept and the modern smart city fifteen minute
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Speaker 6: cities are stark, and one has to beg the question
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Speaker 6: is this plan becoming a reality to engineer global land
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Speaker 6: and resource grub under the guise of sustainability, The Wild
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Speaker 6: Project aimed to restore fifty percent of North America to
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Speaker 6: a wild state with limited or no human access and
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Speaker 6: established core wilderness areas you know, buffer zones corridors which
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Speaker 6: in these areas and they're removed, and to remove rural
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Speaker 6: populations to to you know, and restrict human activity to
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Speaker 6: specific sort of sustainable urban centers. You know, you know
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Speaker 6: that core core issue is that this vision seems to
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Speaker 6: align really closely with what we're seeing now. You know,
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Speaker 6: smart cities, fifteen minute cities, see forty Cities Agenda where
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Speaker 6: human activity is confined to dense urban zones. And since
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Speaker 6: nineteen ninety two, when the Wildness Project was established, many
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Speaker 6: areas of the globe have been incrementally restricted to human activity.
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Speaker 6: And that's what I'm looking at today. The UN's Agenda
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Speaker 6: twenty thirty framework of the Sustainable Development Goals is used
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Speaker 6: to justify the large largest shift in land ownership and
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Speaker 6: control in modern history. So I'm looking here at the
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Speaker 6: three specific slides that are really pushing this forward. First
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Speaker 6: of all, we've got the Sustainable Development gold Life on
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Speaker 6: Land Now. The idea of this is to protect, restore
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Speaker 6: and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainability, manage forests,
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Speaker 6: combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.
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Speaker 6: And then the next one is Sustainable Development Goald thirteen
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Speaker 6: Climate action, take urgent action to combat climate change and
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Speaker 6: its impacts. And the last one is sustainable Development eleven
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Speaker 6: Sustainable Cities and Communities, which is to make cities and
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Speaker 6: human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. And they do
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Speaker 6: use the word human settlements meaning smart cities. Now, the
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Speaker 6: Goal fifteen is expanding conservation zones and restricting human activity.
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Speaker 6: This is what it's really doing. Goal thirteen is justifying
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Speaker 6: netzeria and land restrictions, tree planting, carbon offsets, rewilding, and
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Speaker 6: number eleven the Sustainable Cities and Communities is really pushing
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Speaker 6: rural depopulation and moving people into urban areas. Now there's
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Speaker 6: various NGOs and government backed, government sponsored bodies that are
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Speaker 6: actually pushing all this. I mean, we've got Natural England,
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Speaker 6: who I'm going to be concentrating mainly on today. You've
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Speaker 6: got the RSPB, various wildlife trusts and private NGOs who
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Speaker 6: are controlling vast tracts of farmland and rewilding them under
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Speaker 6: the banner of biodiversity and conservation. And they're using the
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Speaker 6: environment Mental Land Management scheme to do this. Now, this
21:45
Speaker 6: has happened on Dartmoor where grazing restrictions of long standing rights,
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Speaker 6: I mean hundreds and hundreds of year old rights for
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Speaker 6: farmers to graze their livestock, cattle, horses, sheep on the
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Speaker 6: land have been restricted, putting big restrictions on due to
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Speaker 6: conservation Wales. Twenty percent of Welsh farm land is to
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Speaker 6: be rewilded by twenty thirty. They've agreed to that. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: they've This is under these goals, is these three particular goals,
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Speaker 6: you know, you know, farmers are being forced to allocate
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Speaker 6: ten percent of their land to tree planting and other
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Speaker 6: ten percent to biodiversity. The UN's framework is really being
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Speaker 6: used to justify the largest shift in land ownership and
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Speaker 6: control in modern history. So well, that's what we're that's
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Speaker 6: what we're looking at. And you know, this affects everything.
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Speaker 6: It affects you know, rights, rome laws, you know, all
22:44
Speaker 6: all of that kind of freedom of movement that we've
22:47
Speaker 6: always had. That they're beginning to really take hold of
22:51
Speaker 6: these policies. We can national food security and consolidate land
22:54
Speaker 6: ownership in the hands of government and corporate interests. Making
22:58
Speaker 6: it easier for these global acts is to actually control
23:01
Speaker 6: the food supply. So yeah, this isn't just happening here.
23:05
Speaker 6: It's happening all because it's a global agenda. It's happening,
23:09
Speaker 6: you know, in New Zealand and Australia. They've got managed retreat,
23:12
Speaker 6: which is where coastal areas are being compulsorily purchased at
23:17
Speaker 6: a knockdown price because of sea level rise, for instance,
23:21
Speaker 6: and we've got wildfires and you know all that kind
23:24
Speaker 6: of land grab that's occurring. You know, I've been talking
23:30
Speaker 6: to farmers about Natural England because one big problem is
23:34
Speaker 6: these sites of Special Scientific Interest, which is what Natural
23:41
Speaker 6: England are really pushing.
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Speaker 1: Now.
23:43
Speaker 6: Natural England are not an NGO. They're a private corporation
23:47
Speaker 6: sponsored by the UK government and they've linked with the
23:50
Speaker 6: French waste management company Viola. I don't quite get Natural
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Speaker 6: England because the power that DEPHRA had has now been
23:59
Speaker 6: transferred to Natural England and they are really pushing. I'm
24:03
Speaker 6: hearing from farmers now whose land is being designated as
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Speaker 6: a Site of Special Scientific Interest and being taken out
24:12
Speaker 6: of production. So that's you know, that's the problem, and
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Speaker 6: they call it a triple triple SI and these areas
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Speaker 6: really are are just being taken out of production and
24:26
Speaker 6: this There's a Cornish MP called Mark Thomas and he's
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Speaker 6: tabled a been in March twenty twenty four to remove
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Speaker 6: Natural England's powers to designate triple s i's and return
24:39
Speaker 6: them back to Dephrah because he felt it was a
24:41
Speaker 6: blatant over each and it is. I mean, I'm getting
24:46
Speaker 6: stories from one particular farmer, a story last week where
24:50
Speaker 6: he said that the Natural England had taken his his
24:54
Speaker 6: land away and rented it back to him at half
24:58
Speaker 6: the cost taken is livestock off it because there was
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Speaker 6: some spider, some really really rare spider that they'd found
25:06
Speaker 6: and they were very excited about this spider. Well after
25:10
Speaker 6: you know, about a year, this spider had disappeared because
25:13
Speaker 6: actually it was enjoying the biodiversity of the livestock. So yeah,
25:17
Speaker 6: so this is this is what we're finding and really
25:21
Speaker 6: the only way we can fight this is by doing
25:24
Speaker 6: what the people of Kingston said. More did it. I'll
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Speaker 6: be talking a bit later and Kingston Seymour sorry and
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Speaker 6: really pushing this and making a big noise about this
25:34
Speaker 6: is all wrong. This land grab is wrong and we
25:36
Speaker 6: have to fight back.
25:39
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Sandy, thank you. And related matters.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do continue in a similar vein with news
25:46
Speaker 3: that the government has been boasting about the amounts of
25:49
Speaker 3: money that it will be handing over to farmers whilst
25:51
Speaker 3: of course in no way being honest about the amounts
25:54
Speaker 3: it is taking away from them. And this tweet shows
25:58
Speaker 3: the spin being put on the changes being made to
26:01
Speaker 3: the Sustainable Farming Incentive SFI. The SFI scheme which cab
26:05
Speaker 3: in last year used the word inherited, almost seems to
26:09
Speaker 3: be a dig at farmers in relation to the proposed
26:11
Speaker 3: changes to agricultural property relief. And the statement tells the
26:15
Speaker 3: lie and tries to cash in on it that they
26:18
Speaker 3: are doing something different from the previous government. They say
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Speaker 3: they inherited an uncapped scheme despite a finite farming budget.
26:26
Speaker 3: This is simply not true, as discovered at the time
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Speaker 3: by UK columns questioning of Dephra. SFI was uncapped initially,
26:34
Speaker 3: which led to a massive increase of one hundred and
26:36
Speaker 3: some percent of uncropped arable land, and then in a
26:39
Speaker 3: panic the Conservative government. The then Conservative government restricted its availability.
26:44
Speaker 3: But it had done its job, which was to take
26:46
Speaker 3: land out of production and to prevent farmers from using
26:50
Speaker 3: it in any other way or indeed earning any income
26:53
Speaker 3: from it other than that provided by the government. So
26:56
Speaker 3: claims of putting money back in farmer's pockets seemed rather hollow,
26:59
Speaker 3: especially when run alongside news that funding for more robots
27:04
Speaker 3: and drones is seen as the future. Here an announcement
27:09
Speaker 3: amazingly from the Armed Forces in which the Defense Science
27:13
Speaker 3: and Technology Laboratory DSTL with DEFRA a further promoting automated
27:18
Speaker 3: interaction within agricultural practices. They say that a golf bag
27:22
Speaker 3: of robotics and autonomy could soon be protecting lives by
27:27
Speaker 3: replacing people in dangerous situations where there are chemical, biological,
27:31
Speaker 3: radiological or nuclear threats. So one might ask why hazards
27:35
Speaker 3: face by Armed Forces personnel should be deemed similar to
27:38
Speaker 3: those involved in the growing of food. Whatever the answer,
27:43
Speaker 3: it hardly suggests the production of food in a manner
27:45
Speaker 3: conducive to health would be forthcoming. Now, in the statement
27:50
Speaker 3: about this, they say DEPHA will use these tools for
27:53
Speaker 3: environment remediation and recovery work, so it seems they might
27:57
Speaker 3: know something that we don't now. This might create a
28:01
Speaker 3: dystopian image of the future, in an anti human future, certainly,
28:05
Speaker 3: but we're not there yet. And here's an image of
28:08
Speaker 3: an example robot which somewhat reminiscent of the kit used
28:11
Speaker 3: in the Moon landing photographs appears to be held together
28:14
Speaker 3: with a plastic bag. But drones and the use of
28:21
Speaker 3: drones becoming increasingly prominent in the talk the future and
28:24
Speaker 3: the present agricultural practices. Here we see the operations of
28:28
Speaker 3: farm drones UK. Now the most important thing here is
28:31
Speaker 3: at the bottom of the page the license for spraying
28:34
Speaker 3: pesticides is pending approval. I'm sure it will be granted
28:38
Speaker 3: with absolutely no regard given to the risks posed. And
28:42
Speaker 3: this massive surgeon proposed drone use asked many questions about
28:45
Speaker 3: the use of airspace which I think are not being
28:48
Speaker 3: answered sufficiently. And now we come on to further government action.
28:53
Speaker 3: A massive challenge to the Royal environment was set out
28:55
Speaker 3: yesterday in the form of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill,
28:58
Speaker 3: which was laid before the House of Commons by Angela Rayner.
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Speaker 3: And common with legislation of this age, it has a
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Speaker 3: high likelihood of dangerous and negative outcomes and to obfuscate
29:12
Speaker 3: it's therefore very long and unnecessarily detailed. But it seems
29:15
Speaker 3: to prioritize what's called critical infrastructure and planning question being
29:20
Speaker 3: critical to whom and at what cost. I think there
29:24
Speaker 3: are very many areas of concern for far too many
29:26
Speaker 3: to draw out today, so we'll just take a look
29:28
Speaker 3: at a few. The government insists that it doesn't undermine
29:32
Speaker 3: local democracy, if such thing even exists, and that the
29:35
Speaker 3: bill is by demonstration and artifact of the post COVID
29:39
Speaker 3: tyranny era. Now, when specifying what must be done with
29:43
Speaker 3: regard to consultations and representations, it stated that quote the
29:47
Speaker 3: Strategic Planning Authority end quote must consider notifying, among others, quote,
29:53
Speaker 3: bodies which represent the interests of different racial, ethnic or
29:57
Speaker 3: national groups in the strategy A. And they go on
30:01
Speaker 3: to make similar comments about religious groups rather than simply
30:05
Speaker 3: saying people in the strategy area. There's also provision for
30:09
Speaker 3: schemes which are designed for the purpose of encouraging the
30:13
Speaker 3: development and use of long duration electricity storage installations. Now
30:20
Speaker 3: they mention hydro projects, but this is really double speak
30:22
Speaker 3: for what are called battery energy storage systems or BEST,
30:26
Speaker 3: which I've reported on previously, and they're massive areas of
30:29
Speaker 3: containers filled with lithium ion batteries which should store energy
30:33
Speaker 3: produced by the extremely unreliable and inefficient solar and wind technologies.
30:37
Speaker 3: And the point to make here is that with BEST,
30:39
Speaker 3: there's no safety data, and so far the only recommendations
30:42
Speaker 3: made by fire services are that they are an unmanageable
30:45
Speaker 3: fire hazard with horrific ecological and environmental consequences should anything
30:50
Speaker 3: go wrong. Now, as though soften the blow, the bill
30:53
Speaker 3: proposes to subsidize those people living near the development sites
30:57
Speaker 3: for electricity infrastructure, which completely prediction undermines the argument for
31:01
Speaker 3: not burying cables. So instead the government proposes to carry
31:05
Speaker 3: electricity overground in order to save money and then pay
31:08
Speaker 3: money to those who live nearby, a bill, of course,
31:11
Speaker 3: that can only go up as the population goes up.
31:14
Speaker 3: Natural England, Sandy's just been talking about, will be given
31:16
Speaker 3: new powers for compulsory acquisition and the land will go
31:20
Speaker 3: to Natural England if they require the land for purposes
31:24
Speaker 3: connected with the taking of a conservation measure. Note if
31:28
Speaker 3: they require and not us, this rewrites the law. The
31:32
Speaker 3: bill rewrites the law on compulsory purchase and invokes communism
31:35
Speaker 3: in the process, whilst preparing the ground for corporatism quote.
31:39
Speaker 3: The reforms reinforce the principle that landowners should not receive
31:44
Speaker 3: excessive compensation. Where compulsory purchase powers are used to assemble
31:48
Speaker 3: land and deliver schemes in the public interest. So what's
31:54
Speaker 3: being asked here, and to illustrate the unfairness and indeed
31:58
Speaker 3: the likelihood of its abuse, it should be noted, but
32:01
Speaker 3: the average value of agricultural lands about eight thousand pounds
32:04
Speaker 3: an acre at the moment, but perhaps one million pounds
32:07
Speaker 3: an acre or more with planning permission. But there's no
32:10
Speaker 3: scope for the use of an overage clause Shanand's green here,
32:14
Speaker 3: which would benefit the vendor if the land goes up
32:16
Speaker 3: in value. But of course a lot of money will
32:19
Speaker 3: be made, but just not by small landowners or farmers.
32:23
Speaker 3: So this is just continuing the theme of not just
32:25
Speaker 3: an assault on food security but of those that are
32:28
Speaker 3: there in position to produce it. And this needs to
32:33
Speaker 3: be fought in the strongest possible terms as it progresses,
32:36
Speaker 3: or she really shouldn't progress through parliament.
32:39
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Speaker 3: And then on Sunday in Well just outside Cheltenham supporting
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Speaker 3: Sorry, it's on swallow Lane resist okay, and so lots
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Speaker 2: I'm quite sure that get along to that. Details will
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Speaker 2: be in the show notes of course as usual. Now, Charles,
35:12
Speaker 2: let's move on then to the National En Diamond for Democracy.
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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, something that doesn't get spoken about very much.
35:19
Speaker 3: But the Trump musk pinball machine continues to surprise many,
35:23
Speaker 3: and most recently with the announcements on steel and aluminium tariffs.
35:28
Speaker 3: But the resultant behavior of the market shows that there
35:30
Speaker 3: will be a huge amount of money to be made
35:32
Speaker 3: off the back of the presidential rhetoric now with America
35:35
Speaker 3: first in mind, one of the Deep States organizations which
35:38
Speaker 3: has simultaneously fallen foul off and been resuscitated by the
35:42
Speaker 3: Trump regime is the National Endowment for Democracy, which took
35:46
Speaker 3: legal action against the restriction of its funding, fulfilling a
35:50
Speaker 3: similar role to that of BBC Media Action in the UK.
35:53
Speaker 3: Its espoused remit is to bring liberal democracy to those
35:57
Speaker 3: parts of the world which are crying out for it. Now, realistically,
36:03
Speaker 3: it's a software outfit which changed to subvert governments which
36:06
Speaker 3: with ideals and practices which do not accord with those
36:10
Speaker 3: of the USA. As a slew of funding cuts took
36:14
Speaker 3: effect those most publicized with the US Agency for International
36:18
Speaker 3: Development USAID and of course Ukraine. So critics of Trump
36:22
Speaker 3: have described him showing his hand too early and giving
36:24
Speaker 3: too much away, especially when it comes to attempting to
36:27
Speaker 3: secure peace between Ukraine and Russia. However, this is to
36:30
Speaker 3: comment without reflecting on the enormous power which is granted
36:33
Speaker 3: to Trump on account of his apparent unpredictability with regard
36:37
Speaker 3: to the NED. This is how Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow
36:40
Speaker 3: in the Global Democracy at the Freeman Spoggi Institute for
36:43
Speaker 3: International Studies, describes the universal appeal of the NED.
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Speaker 1: Some elements of the Trump administration have quietly decided that
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Speaker 1: the National Dowman for Democracy is something they don't like.
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Speaker 1: They think it's partisan. It isn't. It's a very bipartisan
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Speaker 1: and non partisan organization. There are two different party institutes,
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Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats, and if you look what they support ideologically,
37:24
Speaker 1: it's very broad and a lot of it is work
37:29
Speaker 1: that I think many conservative Republicans and small government Republicans
37:35
Speaker 1: and people who are worried about the expansion of Chinese
37:40
Speaker 1: influence in the world would love that exposes China's malign
37:46
Speaker 1: activities around the world. Is supporting people who are trying
37:52
Speaker 1: to bring about change in governments that are America's most
37:59
Speaker 1: dedicated adversaries in China, in Cuba, in Iran, in North Korea,
38:06
Speaker 1: and so on.
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Speaker 3: What's not to like a conversation about this between men
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Speaker 3: involved with the NED for a long period of time
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Speaker 3: shows how such an organization may have appeal for those
38:20
Speaker 3: occupying all spaces along the political spectrum. Whilst the left
38:23
Speaker 3: may choose to believe that freedom and democracy is being
38:25
Speaker 3: ignited around the world, the right may choose to believe
38:28
Speaker 3: that America's interests in trade and defense are being rightly prosecuted.
38:32
Speaker 3: So in cutting off and then restoring the funding, Trump
38:35
Speaker 3: made well have accrued further capital by bringing attention to
38:38
Speaker 3: a little known entity and appearing to bat for the
38:40
Speaker 3: good of America. This follows my report from last week
38:43
Speaker 3: in which it was very purposefully released into the public
38:46
Speaker 3: domain that USAID had been funding terrorism, something which had
38:49
Speaker 3: hitherto not been in the mainstream. NED statement says that
38:54
Speaker 3: these actions have severely sorry common on wonderfar severely disrupted
38:59
Speaker 3: the These operations impacted its workforce and jeopardized its ability
39:04
Speaker 3: to support democracy organizations resisting authoritarian regimes. And as this
39:09
Speaker 3: tweet shows, propaganda and setting the conditions for war is
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Speaker 3: what the NED does best. So it's small wonder that
39:15
Speaker 3: it's had its funding reinstated. I would say I would
39:18
Speaker 3: completely agree with that Vanessa. Let's welcome you back to
39:23
Speaker 3: the program, and let's talk about the White Helmets.
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Speaker 4: Yes, well, I would first of all direct people to
39:31
Speaker 4: the UK column White Helmets archive where you can see
39:34
Speaker 4: the work that we've done in collaboration since I think
39:38
Speaker 4: it was twenty sixteen, perhaps correctly if I'm wrong. Basically
39:43
Speaker 4: primarily UK Foreign Office for a UK FDO project back
39:50
Speaker 4: by British Military Intelligence and the MI six to establish
39:55
Speaker 4: an organization first response organization in Turkey and Jordan, was
40:00
Speaker 4: later embedded with al Qaeda and used to basically collaborate
40:06
Speaker 4: or corroborate let's say UK Foreign Office policy in Syria,
40:10
Speaker 4: which was regime changed since twenty eleven, and that includes
40:16
Speaker 4: the staging of the alleged chemical weapon events that of
40:19
Speaker 4: course have been debunked by the OPCW, the Organization for
40:25
Speaker 4: the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons inspectors themselves, particularly in.
40:29
Speaker 5: Twenty eighteen in Duma, east of Damascus. Now, this is
40:35
Speaker 5: a treat that I put out.
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Speaker 4: A couple of years ago in twenty twenty that their
40:40
Speaker 4: primary role, I would say, it's one of their primary
40:42
Speaker 4: answers to mop up after al Kaeda war crimes. This
40:47
Speaker 4: is a video from Jisharel Shagora in May twenty fifteen,
40:51
Speaker 4: when al Qaeda hds just for a front all the
40:54
Speaker 4: same thing, massacre Syrian Arab army and civilians with a
40:59
Speaker 4: suicide truck, bombing of a hospital and surrounding areas in
41:05
Speaker 4: Disherel's regards. So let's just play the video basically. Here
41:09
Speaker 4: you'll see the first suicide truck, which I think is
41:13
Speaker 4: followed by a second one. But the point here is
41:16
Speaker 4: that the White Helmets have consistently been filmed coming in
41:20
Speaker 4: after nursurfront hts terrorist operations, including beheadings, dismembment of prisoner
41:30
Speaker 4: corpses attending executions. If we can just go back to
41:35
Speaker 4: the video, you can clearly see here the White Helmets
41:37
Speaker 4: in the front. There there's an Alkaeda fighter on the
41:40
Speaker 4: right that you've just gone past, covering his face. The
41:44
Speaker 4: White Helmets are seen here carting out the bodies that
41:49
Speaker 4: were a result of the suicide bombing, and of.
41:52
Speaker 5: Course those bodies very often.
41:55
Speaker 4: According to the accusations levied against the White Helmets, were
41:58
Speaker 4: being taken immediately into Turkey and were being used for
42:02
Speaker 4: organ extraction.
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Speaker 5: This is in the last few days, so this is the.
42:07
Speaker 4: White Helmets film began presumably taking part in the cover
42:13
Speaker 4: up for Nusra front Al Qaeda dumping off bodies off
42:18
Speaker 4: cliffs and off mountain sides. As we've talked about mass
42:22
Speaker 4: burial site. This is I'm not sure who's actually filming this,
42:26
Speaker 4: but they go past the kind of the White Helmets
42:30
Speaker 4: that you can see there clearly with vans and vehicles
42:36
Speaker 4: that probably do contain the bodies that have been filmed
42:40
Speaker 4: being thrown off the mountains by Russian surveillance equipment.
42:44
Speaker 5: Actually there's another video kind of running.
42:47
Speaker 4: In tandem to this, but you can clearly see the
42:50
Speaker 4: White Helmets operating in an area where HTS and Refront
42:54
Speaker 4: are carrying out atrocities against the Syrian people. And this
42:58
Speaker 4: has been widely report on various telegram channels on social media,
43:02
Speaker 4: and it was also confirmed by the people that I
43:06
Speaker 4: spoke to, the Syrian refugees that I spoke to yesterday
43:09
Speaker 4: and at.
43:10
Speaker 5: Corona, Lubanon.
43:11
Speaker 4: Unconfirmed reports from local Syrian channels claiming that organ trafficking
43:15
Speaker 4: gangs are operating alongside HTS militias on the coast.
43:20
Speaker 5: According to these.
43:21
Speaker 4: Reports, specialized doctors allegedly extract hearts, eyes, kidneys, and other
43:26
Speaker 4: organs immediately after executions, preparing them for sale and transfer
43:31
Speaker 4: to Turkey. And again this is really nothing new when
43:37
Speaker 4: we look at the White Helmet history. This was a
43:39
Speaker 4: panel that I actually participated in twenty eighteen at the
43:44
Speaker 4: UN and panel discussion on the White Helmets organization in Syria.
43:48
Speaker 4: I gave testimony to that based on the witness reports
43:54
Speaker 4: that I had taken inside Syria of the White Helmets
43:57
Speaker 4: being involved in.
43:58
Speaker 5: Organ trafficking, and mentioning that.
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Speaker 4: The BBC actually produced a fifteen episode series.
44:06
Speaker 5: Called may Day Rescue and in one episode of.
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Speaker 4: That they spent the entire episode trying to depart my
44:13
Speaker 4: reports on the White Helmets involvement in Ubun trafficking.
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Speaker 5: The best they could.
44:17
Speaker 4: Come up with with a witness that had actually participated
44:22
Speaker 4: in the crimes of a group called Nouran den Zinki
44:25
Speaker 4: in Aleppo, particularly the.
44:26
Speaker 5: Beheading of a twelve year old child back in twenty.
44:30
Speaker 4: Sixteen, was that the bodies were being transported to carry
44:34
Speaker 4: out autoxies, which is absolutely insane when you think about it.
44:40
Speaker 4: It's not even a valid excuse or justification for what
44:43
Speaker 4: has been going on. And this is a slide basically
44:47
Speaker 4: from the presentation made by Maxine Gregoria from the Foundation
44:52
Speaker 4: of the Study of Democracy, who spent I think more
44:54
Speaker 4: than a year inside Syria collating testimony from in Syria
45:01
Speaker 4: that had either witnessed or been on the receiving and
45:05
Speaker 4: of lightly injured children and adults that had been taken
45:10
Speaker 4: into Turkey and were basically returned with organs missing. You
45:14
Speaker 4: can frees frame and read the actual testimony and you
45:18
Speaker 4: can watch the panel the link to which will be
45:22
Speaker 4: shown in the show notes. And this is you know,
45:26
Speaker 4: this is one of the regular harvests of war. Sadly
45:30
Speaker 4: we see it in Ukraine.
45:32
Speaker 5: We saw it of course in Costpo.
45:34
Speaker 4: The British military intelligence officer James the Missouri or the Measurer,
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Speaker 4: however you want to pronounce it, was involved in Costvo
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Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety nine and the transformation of the Costfo
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Speaker 4: Liberation Army, which of course again was al Qaeda and
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Speaker 4: Albanian warlords into the Costco Security Corps while they were
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Speaker 4: running cross border operations taking Serbian civilians for organ extraction
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Speaker 4: and the infamous Yellow Houses. He then went on to
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Speaker 4: form the White Helmets that are now acute of similar operations.
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Speaker 2: And Vanessa just just quick correction. I think the BBC
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Speaker 2: series was just called may Day right.
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Speaker 5: Potentially, yes, yes, rescue. What's the organization?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Now let's uh, let's move on. A week or so ago,
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Speaker 2: Christine Legard announced the next steps in the EU implementation
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Speaker 2: of central back digital currency. Let's have a listen to
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Speaker 2: how she announced this to the public.
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Speaker 7: The digital euro is on the move. Yesterday the Governing
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Speaker 7: Council of the ECB approved the opening of.
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Speaker 5: The preparation phase.
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Speaker 7: It will be a journey and we will walk the
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Speaker 7: journey together with the legislator. All European institutions will be
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Speaker 7: involve to make sure that Europe is equipped with the
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Speaker 7: currency of the future. Cash is here to stay. You
47:10
Speaker 7: will have all options cash and digital cash. So what
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Speaker 7: does it mean for you? For consumers? It would be
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Speaker 7: free and easy to use everywhere in the euro Area.
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Speaker 7: All of that, of course, is subject to the legislative process.
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Speaker 7: Cash or digital. The choice will be yours, you euro
47:36
Speaker 7: your choice.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, what is her to complain about it? It's
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Speaker 2: our choice, no problem now. At the actual launch event, though,
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Speaker 2: this is what she had to say.
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Speaker 7: Hopefully campaigning enough with all the stakeholders, meaning European Parliament,
47:59
Speaker 7: meaning European Council, meaning European Commission, so that we can
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Speaker 7: eventually not put to bed, but put to reality this
48:10
Speaker 7: digital Euro. The deadline for US is going to be
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Speaker 7: October of twenty five, and we are getting ready for
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Speaker 7: that deadline. But we will not be able to move
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Speaker 7: unless the other parties, the stakeholders as I call them, Commission,
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Speaker 7: Council and Parliament, actually complete the legislative process, without which
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Speaker 7: we will not be able to move.
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Speaker 2: Now, once again, what we have here is a reaction
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Speaker 2: to Trump, or at least Trump is being used as
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Speaker 2: a driver for this, and Trump's suspension of all CBDC
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Speaker 2: related activity by the Federal Reserve in favor of his
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Speaker 2: stable coin alternative project. It should be noticed that there's
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Speaker 2: no real difference in the policy between the EU and
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Speaker 2: the US. All Trump is doing is effectively privatizing the
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Speaker 2: digital currency. Downsides are the same in both cases, because
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Speaker 2: although he has virtue signal support for Bitcoin, that's not
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Speaker 2: the platform he's going to use actually for his digital currency.
49:10
Speaker 2: But getting back to the guard, there's still a long
49:12
Speaker 2: way to go for the digital euro, and plenty of
49:15
Speaker 2: time for getting organized against it. If you're in the EU,
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Speaker 2: the October deadline is going to see the ECB preparing
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Speaker 2: an outreach plan, procurement standards and also engaging with technology providers.
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Speaker 2: And in fact they've already started spending that money. Contract's
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Speaker 2: worth over a billion euros have already been signed to
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Speaker 2: source private vendors to help build the system up. So
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Speaker 2: this follows publication at the start of the year of
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Speaker 2: the Bank of England's blueprint for digital currency, alongside an
49:48
Speaker 2: announcement of a Digital Pond Lab, which is there describing
49:53
Speaker 2: as a technology sundbox environment that's going to enable hands
49:56
Speaker 2: on experimentation of innovative center back digital currency use cases,
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Speaker 2: potential business models for payment interface providers and external service
50:05
Speaker 2: interface providers, and API functionality testing. It is brilliant. The
50:10
Speaker 2: plan to launch the Digital pod Lab is included in
50:14
Speaker 2: their latest progress Update report and they say a digital
50:18
Speaker 2: point issued by the Bank of England would be seamlessly
50:21
Speaker 2: in exchangeable with cash and bank deposits, ensuring continuity of
50:25
Speaker 2: a trusted, uniform and accessible means of payment. So you know,
50:30
Speaker 2: we've got nothing to worry about it all, do we?
50:33
Speaker 2: For more on CBDC. Have a look at the International
50:37
Speaker 2: Monetary Funders published on this, as they've published their Virtual Handbook,
50:42
Speaker 2: which they describe as a reference guide for policy makers
50:45
Speaker 2: and experts at central banks and ministries of finance. So
50:50
Speaker 2: a lots more information on the topic there.
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Speaker 3: As the House of Lords report said, a solution in
50:56
Speaker 3: search for problem. Yes, yeah, I'm sad, anyway to move
51:01
Speaker 3: on to something else entirely. A document has been produced
51:05
Speaker 3: by Exeter University in fact back in January and the
51:07
Speaker 3: institution and Faculty of actuaries and it foretels catastrophic societal
51:12
Speaker 3: and economic impacts if climate policies are not upgraded. So
51:15
Speaker 3: this is of course alarmism of the very highest order,
51:18
Speaker 3: filed under the title of planetary solvency. So we'll listen
51:22
Speaker 3: to a video explaining how that is described.
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Speaker 6: So the new Planetary Solvency Report is what you're referring to.
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Speaker 6: Can you explain the concept behind that and what's the
51:34
Speaker 6: main message from it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Sure, So we sort of define planetary solvency as managing
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Speaker 8: human activity to minimize the loss of societal disruption from
51:46
Speaker 8: the loss of critical support services from nature. So in
51:50
Speaker 8: sort of plain English, it's framing the concept of solvency,
51:54
Speaker 8: so that ability to meet one's liabilities from their assets
52:00
Speaker 8: in and we frame that in the sense of our planet.
52:04
Speaker 8: So nature is our asset and the benefits we get
52:07
Speaker 8: from nature, So those ecosystem services are the liabilities that
52:10
Speaker 8: we benefit from. And as we erode nature through things
52:14
Speaker 8: like climate change and by diversity loss, but also the
52:17
Speaker 8: breakdown of the social relationships, we undermine the solvency of
52:21
Speaker 8: our planets.
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Speaker 3: Did you follow that the language you suggest that she
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Speaker 3: has no idea what she's talking about, and whether one
52:30
Speaker 3: listens to the actual aerial or the layman's translation, but
52:34
Speaker 3: what she is describing as a consequence of having or
52:37
Speaker 3: adhering to the destructive zero policies in the first place,
52:40
Speaker 3: and should really be evident this is a desperate regard
52:43
Speaker 3: action to preserve that particular scam apocalyptic predictions are set out,
52:47
Speaker 3: such as the global economy could face a fifty percent
52:50
Speaker 3: loss in GDP between twenty seventy and twenty ninety. That
52:56
Speaker 3: we look at the slide. We just put that one
52:58
Speaker 3: on screen now, Pistephanie. It's very dangerous looking red background
53:02
Speaker 3: and a dead tree and a dry landscapes to reinforce it.
53:06
Speaker 3: Of course, the position we're in is that academics are
53:09
Speaker 3: vulnerable because funding for this specific area is available in
53:12
Speaker 3: the same way that no funding exists to investigate the opposite.
53:17
Speaker 3: And we see here the Climate Repair Center. And as
53:22
Speaker 3: the rhetoric becomes more and more alarmist, so the proposed
53:25
Speaker 3: solutions become more outlandish and indeed more available to the public,
53:29
Speaker 3: shown here by this subset of the University of Cambridge. Now,
53:34
Speaker 3: despite stating categorically in two thousand and nine the government
53:37
Speaker 3: would not be employing any geoengineering or weather modification measures,
53:42
Speaker 3: this Center for Climate Repair starts a series of solutions
53:46
Speaker 3: for a warming world tomorrow, including seminars on how to
53:50
Speaker 3: produce cloud which will best reflect the Sun's rays. So
53:54
Speaker 3: it's somewhat ironic that Cambridge itself should restrict the use
53:58
Speaker 3: of motor cars in it under its clean zone, but
54:00
Speaker 3: the idea that creating clouds is not considered as a
54:04
Speaker 3: form of air pollution. So we'll see how that progresses.
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Speaker 3: And they've got more seminars coming up as the year
54:09
Speaker 3: goes on.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Charles. Now. The Daily Mail yesterday was carrying
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Speaker 2: an article claiming that anyone watching live streams on Netflix
54:18
Speaker 2: would require a TV license to watch, and it says
54:21
Speaker 2: in this article millions of Brits are at risk of
54:23
Speaker 2: being slapped with an eye watering one thousand pounds fine
54:26
Speaker 2: for watching Netflix's ground breaking show at bro ground breaking
54:31
Speaker 2: news show. Over the past few years, it says, Netflix
54:34
Speaker 2: has started airing live shows for fans to watch. In
54:37
Speaker 2: the latest innovation from the nation's most popular streaming service,
54:42
Speaker 2: they say the subscription sites Glossy and You offering Everybody's
54:45
Speaker 2: Lives with John Muliney season venture into the well trodden
54:50
Speaker 2: world of late night chat shows. Now, the problem here
54:52
Speaker 2: is that there's no such requirement the legislator. The legislation
54:56
Speaker 2: covering this is section three six three of the Communications
54:59
Speaker 2: Act two thousand and three, and that makes no mention
55:02
Speaker 2: of Netflix for obvious reasons. But the way that sorry,
55:05
Speaker 2: the way that TV licensing themselves states their case, is
55:09
Speaker 2: that it's an offense under section three sixty three of
55:12
Speaker 2: the Communitification's Act two thousand and three to watch TV
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Speaker 2: channels on any TV service, watch live TV on streaming services,
55:20
Speaker 2: or use bbciplayer or any device without a valid TV license.
55:24
Speaker 2: And the issue here is the definition of live TV,
55:27
Speaker 2: and until now that has meant anything which is streamed
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Speaker 2: live on any streaming platform but which is also streamed
55:34
Speaker 2: live or is also live on broadcast television at the
55:37
Speaker 2: same time. But Netflix is not a broadcast television channel.
55:41
Speaker 2: It can't be watched on Freeview or on Sky, so
55:45
Speaker 2: it can only be watched on the Netflix app app.
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Speaker 2: And so this appears to us to be massive overreach
55:52
Speaker 2: by TV Licensing if the mail article is correct. Of course,
55:56
Speaker 2: another direction of travel here is clear the requirement for
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Speaker 2: everyone in the country to fund the BBC, and I'm
56:02
Speaker 2: going to suggest good luck with that. But I have
56:05
Speaker 2: asked TV Licensing for comment. They haven't come back to
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Speaker 2: me yet, although they did acknowledge receipt and said they
56:11
Speaker 2: would be coming back to me today. And I've also
56:14
Speaker 2: invited Chili John Carney, who runs a YouTube channel covering
56:17
Speaker 2: these types of topics, to comment. So, as I say,
56:19
Speaker 2: neither of them's got back to me yet, but I'm
56:21
Speaker 2: sure Chili John Carney will be covering this at some point.
56:25
Speaker 2: To keep an eye on his YouTube channel for more.
56:29
Speaker 2: Where does that take us?
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Speaker 1: Excellently?
56:32
Speaker 2: Back to Sandy and EDF Sandy.
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Speaker 6: A bit of good news don't we need it a
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Speaker 6: planned to Basically, the EDF had planned to flood hundreds
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Speaker 6: of acres of Somerset coastline with seawater in order to
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Speaker 6: mitigate their reactors cooling system because it was sucking it
56:56
Speaker 6: will be sucking in apparently forty four tons of fish
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Speaker 6: per year if if, if you know, if they don't
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Speaker 6: flood the flood the land, that's their mitigation is flooding
57:09
Speaker 6: the land. Well, luckily the people of Somerset rose up
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Speaker 6: and said, hang on a minute, you should have thought
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Speaker 6: this through. We you know, you can't flood our land
57:19
Speaker 6: because you you know, basically you don't. You can't work
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Speaker 6: out how the fish, you know, get can't get sucked
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Speaker 6: into the reactor for the cooling system of the reactors.
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Speaker 6: So they set up a big, big campaign and yes,
57:30
Speaker 6: they they've won it. It's now been it's now been shelved.
57:34
Speaker 6: It will possibly go back. But I've got a quote
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Speaker 6: here from Tessa Munt, who's who said bless her. She
57:43
Speaker 6: she was the MP that helped them with this. She said,
57:48
Speaker 6: at first they the way they're going to mitigate it
57:50
Speaker 6: now is what Michael go called a fish disco. It's
57:54
Speaker 6: actually sound sonar that deters the fish, which I thought
57:59
Speaker 6: was a bit The whole thing sounds really, really bizarre.
58:02
Speaker 6: They clearly hadn't thought it through and they thought it
58:06
Speaker 6: was okay to flood the land. Instead, they've gone back
58:12
Speaker 6: to this the original idea of having the fish. So basically,
58:16
Speaker 6: Tessa Munt has said, finally there seems to be a
58:20
Speaker 6: wave of common sense from EDF. I will, however, keep
58:23
Speaker 6: a close eye on developments, as they have described this
58:27
Speaker 6: as a pause to development work, not a cancelation. Destroying
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Speaker 6: hundreds of acres of biodiverse landscape in the name of
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Speaker 6: environmental mitigation is nothing less than completely bonkers. And she's
58:41
Speaker 6: absolutely right, you know, it doesn't make any sense. And
58:45
Speaker 6: thank goodness for now they've won that one. And you
58:49
Speaker 6: can't underestimate the power of the people. And we have
58:53
Speaker 6: to fight all of these plans to take our land,
58:57
Speaker 6: particularly prime grazing farm now and which this was, and
59:01
Speaker 6: people's businesses.
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Speaker 5: So that's it.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Yeah, thank you, Sally. That's a really good point.
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Speaker 3: Thoughts well only, I mean, how did it even get
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Speaker 3: to that stage? I mean, how either Fisher being sucked
59:14
Speaker 3: into these kinds of things all over the world and
59:16
Speaker 3: we haven't heard about it, or they just came up
59:18
Speaker 3: with an idiotic scheme right at the start and nobody
59:21
Speaker 3: said it was not worth pursuing. So absolutely has to
59:25
Speaker 3: be kept nie on because it clearly has not disappeared,
59:29
Speaker 3: so the challenge needs to be maintained. No, I mean,
59:34
Speaker 3: for all the reasons that Sandy says, absolutely crazy. Yeah, absolutely, Okay,
59:37
Speaker 3: Well look, thank you very much everybody. We will leave
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Speaker 3: it there for today, thanks to everybody that's been watching.
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Speaker 2: See you there by, Bye bye bye.
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