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UK Column News — 1st May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the first of May twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Colin News. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Make Robinson joining me by video link. Today
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Speaker 1: we have Patrick Henningson and Basil Valentine. A later in
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Speaker 1: the program, we're hoping to be joined by Hakoku, who
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Speaker 1: once again is going to be a Vickerson update on
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Speaker 1: pot Here. Patrick is going to have more on King
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Speaker 1: Charles's visit to the United States and also an update
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Speaker 1: on Iran, and Basil will be reporting on the appeal
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Speaker 1: into the lifting the prescription of Palestine action and the
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Speaker 1: situation with the Global Summer Flotilla. Where we're going to
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Speaker 1: begin with the Golders Green stabbings because the alleged perpetrator, A. S. A.
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Speaker 1: Suliman has been charged with attempted murder following the stabbing
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Speaker 1: of two Jewish men in Golders Green, and just bring
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Speaker 1: him on screen here. The story is fascinating, not so
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Speaker 1: much for the fact that two men were stabbed in London,
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Speaker 1: because that happened practically every day of the week, but
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Speaker 1: how this has been framed by the police, politicians and
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Speaker 1: the media as an anti Semitic attack and now Sullivan
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Speaker 1: is described by the Met Police as a British national
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Speaker 1: born in Somalia, so he's most likely Sunni Muslim and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that a little bit later. But the
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Speaker 1: response from the Starmer regime has been immediate. It was
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Speaker 1: labeled as an active terror straight away. Starmer made an
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Speaker 1: immediate statement which he said, yesterday Britain's Jewish community suffered
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Speaker 1: yet another vile terrorist attack. Two men stabbed in broad
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Speaker 1: daylight in the streets of Golders Green because they were Jews.
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Speaker 1: That's my emphasis on the graphic there. But he can't
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Speaker 1: possibly have known what the motivation was when he made
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Speaker 1: the statement, and I'm pretty sure he still doesn't actually
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Speaker 1: know what the motivation was. But then yesterday Shabana Mahmood
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Speaker 1: raised the terror threat level too severe. The statement said
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Speaker 1: that the Joint Terrorism and Analysis Center JA attack was today.
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Speaker 1: That was the thirtieth April yesterday, raising the UK national
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Speaker 1: security threat from substantial meaning an attack is likely to
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Speaker 1: severe meaning an attack is highly likely in the next
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Speaker 1: six months. We can maybe discuss how they might know
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Speaker 1: that a little bit later or an extra but anyway,
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Speaker 1: the increase in threat comes following the stabbing in North London,
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Speaker 1: but it's not solely the result of that attack, they said.
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Speaker 1: They said that the terrorist threat level in the UK
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Speaker 1: has been rising for some time, driven by an increase
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Speaker 1: in the broader Islamic and extreme right wing terrorist threat
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Speaker 1: from individuals and small groups based in the UK, and
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Speaker 1: they said that while the UK national threat level set
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Speaker 1: independently by j attack reflects the terrorist threat in the UK,
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Speaker 1: it comes against a backdrop of increased state linked physical threats,
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Speaker 1: which is encouraging acts of violence, including against the Jewish community.
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Speaker 1: Mahmood also announced twenty five million pounds funding for Jewish security,
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Speaker 1: which brings the total this year to fifty eight million pounds,
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Speaker 1: and that was confirmed by Starmer following a meeting with Mahmoud,
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Speaker 1: Lammy and Mark Rowley, amongst others, yesterday, Mark Rowley being
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Speaker 1: head of the Metropolitan Police, of course, and on top
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Speaker 1: of that, West Treating has announced that the government will
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Speaker 1: provide a cash grant to the Azola charity to buy
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Speaker 1: top of the range electric ambulances to replace the fleet
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Speaker 1: that was destroyed in the so called anti Semitic Arsen
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Speaker 1: attack earlier this year. They say that new high tech
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Speaker 1: ambulances will be able to serve the local community. Which
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Speaker 1: local community, though, might be the question to ask, which
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Speaker 1: has been the victim of repeated appalling hate attacks in
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Speaker 1: recent months and follows the latest utterly appalling stabbings in
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Speaker 1: Golders Green yesterday, said the statement. And then on top
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Speaker 1: of that is the announcement of a call for evidence
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Speaker 1: by the newly instituted independent Review into Anti Semitism in
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Speaker 1: Schools and Colleges in England, which is led by Sir
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Speaker 1: David Bell. This was in March and for the avoidance
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Speaker 1: of diet. This is not the common purpose affiliated David
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Speaker 1: Bill we might reported on in the past, but career
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Speaker 1: civil servant who's currently the vice chair of Skills England,
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Speaker 1: which is an executive agency being set up within the
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Speaker 1: Department of Education. So I'm going to leave it to
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Speaker 1: you to decide how this can be described as an
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Speaker 1: independent process a basil. I'm going to ask you for
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Speaker 1: comment here, but I want to make it clear of
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Speaker 1: course that I and I'm sure we condemn any physical
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Speaker 1: attack on anyone on the basis of race or religion
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Speaker 1: or any other kind of thing. But this looks to
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Speaker 1: me like a massive psychological operation in the sense that well,
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Speaker 1: in fact, it's not just on the general public, but
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Speaker 1: on the Jewish community themselves as well, because naturally any
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Speaker 1: if any minority is told that they're being attacked because
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Speaker 1: they are a minority, this is going to only going
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Speaker 1: to amplify any ideas that they have that they are
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Speaker 1: under that kind of attack. But of course for the
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Speaker 1: wider British community, of course, we are being told at
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Speaker 1: pretty much everything in this case that this kiss we've
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Speaker 1: had a stabbing. As you know, there are many many
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Speaker 1: stabbings in London every day, but this has been frimmed
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Speaker 1: in a particular way which is clearly intended to lead
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Speaker 1: people in a particular direction.
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Speaker 2: Hello Mike, Yes, greetings everybody. Really extraordinary events have come
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Speaker 2: to pass this week. The attack itself obviously is appalling
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Speaker 2: to people were injured but not killed. I'm pleased to
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Speaker 2: say there are fifteen and a half thousand odd incidents
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Speaker 2: of knife crime in London alone every year, and yet
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Speaker 2: this one incident has been amplified out of all proportion.
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Speaker 2: It was initially claimed that the individual that carried it
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Speaker 2: out was somehow linked to Haya, the supposedly Ran backed
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Speaker 2: terror group, but he's actually a Somalian ethnic individual who
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Speaker 2: was known to prevent as early back as twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: and who has a long history of severe mental health
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Speaker 2: issues and violent disorder. Now claim, of course, would be
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Speaker 2: that he was somehow recruited by Rartho. Of course, that's
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Speaker 2: denied by the Iranian It seems an extremely unlikely turn
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Speaker 2: of events. He was also possibly linked to another NIP
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Speaker 2: altercation earlier in the day, which may or may not
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Speaker 2: have involved Jewish people. Today he has appeared in court.
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Speaker 2: The whole thing has been blown up out of all
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Speaker 2: proportion and is of course being used for overtly political ends.
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Speaker 2: Very soon after what happened, a crowd appeared on the
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Speaker 2: streets of Golders Green with Israeli flags and displaying freshly
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Speaker 2: minted banners saying anti Zionism equals terrorism. I'm not quite
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Speaker 2: sure how they work that one out. And you know,
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Speaker 2: Netta Yahoo has attacked Kir Starmer. People are chanting Kir Starmerjwharmer.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm no fan of Kir Starmer, but I've
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Speaker 2: got absolutely no idea what he's done to deserve that
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Speaker 2: particular label. It absolutely dominated the new cycle for forty
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Speaker 2: eight hours, even in Australia. Perhaps we can put up
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Speaker 2: the slide of a tweet by Caitlin Johnston, the Australian
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Speaker 2: journalist who was actually an expletive, which has been I
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Speaker 2: cut off the bottom of that slide for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 2: But as she says, too juristory. We've got stabbed by
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Speaker 2: a mentally ill guy in the UK. No one died,
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Speaker 2: there's no evidence that it was a hate crime, or
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Speaker 2: that it has any political relevance whatsoever, and it's still
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Speaker 2: dominated the new cycle way down here in Australia for
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Speaker 2: a full day. Now, if you were a biracy theorist,
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Speaker 2: you would say, well, perhaps the whole thing had been
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Speaker 2: staged in some way in order to produce this fallout.
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Speaker 2: It looks like the phrase globalized the Intifada is going
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Speaker 2: to be made illegal under hate speech laws. We know
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Speaker 2: that the Israel lobby and its supporters in the UK
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Speaker 2: have long since wanted to see Palestine's solidarity and anti
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Speaker 2: genocide marches, symbols all expressions of opposition to the Israeli
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Speaker 2: government outlawed for Clay with the specious claim that they
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Speaker 2: cause people like this idiot to do what he did.
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Speaker 2: But there's no connection between the two to any sane
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Speaker 2: or rational person might but the fact that it's dominated
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Speaker 2: the news in Australia, you know, raises some very serious
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Speaker 2: questions about our priorities. As a chap stabbed to death
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Speaker 2: finnbar Sullivan not far from Golden Green in Primrose Hill,
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Speaker 2: North London a couple of weeks ago, and crickets, you know,
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Speaker 2: that isn't treated as a terror attack. He was killed,
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Speaker 2: you know, horrendous, thirty one year old. So we've got
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Speaker 2: very very strange goings on here.
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Speaker 1: Min absolutely. Do you think that there'll be some kind
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Speaker 1: of opportunist opportunity here to because you're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about the Palestine Action thing in a minute. Do
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Speaker 1: you think there's any opportunist opportunity effort to Yeah, sorry
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Speaker 1: for that effort to, you know, somehow use this to
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Speaker 1: influence the outcome of that case.
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Speaker 2: Well, it shouldn't do. I've been thinking about that. Strictly speaking.
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Speaker 2: One nutter going berserk with a knife in Golden's Green
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Speaker 2: has got nothing whatsoever to do with the prescription of
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Speaker 2: a direct action group. There's no meeting point on the
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Speaker 2: Venn diagram, as it were, but there's a very concerted attempt,
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Speaker 2: you know, across the UK media, sky News saying that
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Speaker 2: the rot of anti Semitism started with Jeremy Corbyn's elevation
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Speaker 2: to leader of the Labor Party. He should sue, but
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Speaker 2: he probably won't. And this claim that somehow opposing genocide
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Speaker 2: puts the Jewish community in London in harm's way is
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Speaker 2: total nonsense. But it is opportunistic to try and conflate
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Speaker 2: the two, as you point out.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Patrick, let me welcome you to the program. Any
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Speaker 1: thoughts on this before we move on.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the first thing, we've covered so many
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Speaker 3: of these mass shootings or I call him high profile
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Speaker 3: politically charged events, be they shooting, stabbings and so forth
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Speaker 3: in the UK. This is nothing new. I mean, you
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Speaker 3: could put under the general rubric of high profile Muslims
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Speaker 3: with knives. The London Bridge attack is one example. There's
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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of others. And what we found is
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Speaker 3: if you just wait and then the actual facts come
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Speaker 3: out later, you find that there's quite a lot of
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Speaker 3: things that you might ask questions like was the assailant
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Speaker 3: on SSRIs, were they under the influence of drugs? Were
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Speaker 3: they a known wolf? In other words, were they on
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Speaker 3: the radar of the Security Services Special branch or m
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Speaker 3: I five and the Anti Terror Squad, and that's often
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Speaker 3: been the case with some of these high profile what
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Speaker 3: they call terror attacks in the UK. And we could
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Speaker 3: go into examples of that. Which mosque are they attending?
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Speaker 3: Is that a mosque like for instance, Finsbury Park that
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Speaker 3: have traditional ties to police informants, m I five etc.
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Speaker 3: Could it be a radical preacher who's also tangential to
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Speaker 3: those stores of efforts with childry affiliated mosques and so forth,
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Speaker 3: like we've seen in the past. So I would always
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Speaker 3: be looking for these these clues and asking those types
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Speaker 3: of questions. But for the media, for the Prime Minister,
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Speaker 3: for the government, everyone seem to be rushing with a
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Speaker 3: narrative immediately that this is a terror attack and it's
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Speaker 3: because of people protesting Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, the
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Speaker 3: West Bank and now South Lebanon genocide on three fronts.
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Speaker 3: So certainly there's should be a conversation to have there
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Speaker 3: as well alongside of this conversation. That's something I think
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Speaker 3: people would like to see.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Patrick, thank you for that. Now let's change
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Speaker 1: topics and move on to volunteer and Patrick, we're starting
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Speaker 1: off with this twenty first century war article, the Empire's
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Speaker 1: Operating System, Volunteer AI War and the Privatization of sovereign power.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is a fantastic analysis to really
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Speaker 3: get into this subject. And of course we'll hear more
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Speaker 3: about this in a minute from our colleagues as well
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Speaker 3: as our guest. But what this is, basically, this is
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Speaker 3: an unapologetic declaration, if you will, that by Alex Karp
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Speaker 3: that Silicon Valley now needs to reprioritize. So it's not
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Speaker 3: about apps, it's now about defending the Western world, to
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Speaker 3: defend the country. This needs to be the new purpose
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Speaker 3: of the new muscular, muscular Silicon Valley. It's got some
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Speaker 3: interesting overtones to it, comparable to other sort of muscular
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Speaker 3: political extremist movements as well. So the other thing they're
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Speaker 3: saying this is now an obligation. This is now an
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Speaker 3: obligation and it really forms pallenteer as this sort of
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Speaker 3: arm of Western power. And it's absolutely shortinard. So I
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Speaker 3: mean I encourage people to look at this deep dive.
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Speaker 3: We'll put a link in the show notes here. Another
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Speaker 3: fantastic piece of work. By Freddie Ponton on this topic.
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Speaker 3: But and you know, this goes into a whole bunch
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Speaker 3: of other companies as well that kind of fall under
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Speaker 3: this category. But we can discuss more more details on
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Speaker 3: this with our colleagues and our guests.
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Speaker 1: Basil, let me ask if you've got any comments us now.
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Speaker 1: I've been watching high go making and tempt to connect
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Speaker 1: and he hasn't succeeded so far, So we'll just give
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Speaker 1: him an opportunity here for Basil, what are your thoughts?
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Speaker 2: Well, Palentiners seem determined to hoist themselves with their own petard.
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Speaker 2: You know, a few months ago what Patrick is outlined,
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Speaker 2: there was a conspiracy theory, but they determined to lay
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Speaker 2: out in front of us the extent to which they
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Speaker 2: want to not only control our lives but also determine
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Speaker 2: who lives and who dies. You know, perhaps this, you know,
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Speaker 2: same logic will be extended to the National Health Service.
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Speaker 2: You know, will Palenteer make be involved in the death
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Speaker 2: panel decisions that Bill Gates has championed in the past.
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Speaker 2: This stuff only really needs to be brought to light
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Speaker 2: for any sane, rational person to want to say that
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Speaker 2: there's no place for this organization anywhere in UK government
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Speaker 2: public life, and that campaign, I'm pleased to say, is
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Speaker 2: growing not just in Britain but in other countries in Europe. Well,
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Speaker 2: when they produce material like this, it's hardly surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately, Patrick, it looks like the technologies let us
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Speaker 1: down on this one. But let's just move on to
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Speaker 1: this article here.
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Speaker 2: Then.
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Speaker 1: In futurism, Polunteer se also as legalizing war crimes could
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Speaker 1: be good for business. Is he really doing that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: he has said some pretty outragious things in the last
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Speaker 1: few months or so, but this has got to be
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Speaker 1: the top of the pile, is.
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Speaker 3: What he is saying. This is where they're positioning the
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Speaker 3: argument and what this is part of. You have to
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Speaker 3: look at this as part of a much bigger, wider
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Speaker 3: trend right now in the kind of defense tech. And
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Speaker 3: if you look at all the new IPOs, if you
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Speaker 3: look at you know where the money is being allocated
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Speaker 3: for I can speak for the Pentagon for instance. In
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Speaker 3: the United States, it's all about military, military defense, defense,
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Speaker 3: AI AI defense, et cetera, securing critical mineral supply chains
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Speaker 3: and then being able to So war is about capacity.
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Speaker 3: So it's now about it's quantified. Now it's about capacity.
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Speaker 3: It's about being able to sustain a long campaign and
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Speaker 3: overwhelm your opponent with drone tech, for instance. It's about swarming.
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Speaker 3: So this is how the industry is now positioning itself.
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Speaker 3: But what's the most disturbing part of this manifesto is
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Speaker 3: this absolute overt merger of state and corporate interests. And
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Speaker 3: these will be a few corporations that are going to
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Speaker 3: rise to the pot, to the top of the pile,
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Speaker 3: who are going to become very profitable and wealthy off
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Speaker 3: the back of what is effectively I'll speak for the
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Speaker 3: US and you can maybe comment on Britain, but it's
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Speaker 3: effectively deficit spending. It's the government going into debt to
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Speaker 3: build out all of these massive new military technology arms
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Speaker 3: and that are specifically designed for constant conflict. So it's
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Speaker 3: you know, there's not this sort of reciprocal conversation about
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Speaker 3: world peace, about diplomacy, about dialing down the tension. Instead
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Speaker 3: it's about accelerating and we see this across politics, and
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Speaker 3: I would say that this has taken over academia. I
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Speaker 3: can speak for my alma maters, both of them, including
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Speaker 3: Plymouth University, very much ensconced now into defense into war applications,
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Speaker 3: and this is right across the country in the UK
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Speaker 3: as well, so that's where the money is flowing. So
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Speaker 3: of course this is where the politics and the sort
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Speaker 3: of political belief structures to justify this are being constructed,
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Speaker 3: and that includes you know, the Army of the Arctic
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Speaker 3: that we talked about before, Mike. But in terms of
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Speaker 3: the Russia, Ukraine, European or Britain versus Russia, Europe versus Russia,
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Speaker 3: this is absolutely front and center. They believe that they
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Speaker 3: will be able to eventually, through technology, overwhelm the Russian
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Speaker 3: Federation and ultimately be victorious in a longer war of attrition,
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Speaker 3: and that would include massive amounts of drone technology, sabotage,
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Speaker 3: target assassinations, trying to bring the Russian government to a paralysis,
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Speaker 3: if you will, by overwhelming it. And we're seeing this
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Speaker 3: is what Ukraine has been tasked to do on behalf
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Speaker 3: of the West. And then this is only the beginning.
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Speaker 3: So it is very disturbing when you when you read
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Speaker 3: into the fact that these are now these companies are
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Speaker 3: not front and center. In fact, they've become they've made
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Speaker 3: themselves indispensable to our governments in the West.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well Patrick, I'll just echo that because the First
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Speaker 1: Sea Lord was giving a speech to Russy yesterday the
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Speaker 1: day before and he was basically saying, well, we don't
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Speaker 1: need an ivy anymore. This is supposed to be the
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Speaker 1: man that represents the navy in this country because really
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Speaker 1: the warfare has changed and we need to be building
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Speaker 1: lots of drones. Hiko has just appeared, Basil. Do you
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Speaker 1: just want to introduce Higo and and ask whatever questions
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Speaker 1: you have.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Hiko is a longstanding human rights campaign and activists
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Speaker 2: always to be found at Speaker's corner, and I'm pleased
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Speaker 2: to say he's championing the anti Palenteer cause and has
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Speaker 2: a petition online for us to sign. So, Hiko, can
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Speaker 2: you hear me now? Welcome to the program.
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Speaker 4: Just about here.
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Speaker 2: You can you hear me?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can hear you loud and clear. Just tell
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Speaker 2: us that's okay. We're a little short of time now.
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Speaker 2: We just tell us quickly where you are and what
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Speaker 2: people can do to support your campaign to end Palenteer's
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Speaker 2: involvement in UK government contracts.
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Speaker 4: I'm out of I'm at the back of palent He
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Speaker 4: because I couldn't gain internet connections. I had to come
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Speaker 4: to get Wi Fi off someone else. Basically, what we're
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Speaker 4: asking people to do is assigned petition in the campaign.
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Speaker 4: Campaign should really be extended. What we're doing is Thursday
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Speaker 4: afternoons four o'clock outside palid corners. But they got used
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Speaker 4: to that, so they based apper owned people in and
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Speaker 4: out and I just noticed that side they're a minute
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Speaker 4: ago that there's quite a flurry of activity for people
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Speaker 4: going in and out of there. They are extremely camera shy,
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Speaker 4: despite the proclamations they make about being very keen on
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Speaker 4: town square debates or the internal debates, is what they're
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Speaker 4: talking about really, So we need is a more regular campaign. Basically,
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Speaker 4: even just a couple of people filming for going in
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Speaker 4: and out of palent Here. I think that would serve
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Speaker 4: a very useful purpose because they're very shy. They're unwilling
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Speaker 4: to be if you like, even their friends and family.
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Speaker 4: A lot of these people don't know they work up
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Speaker 4: palent Here, and there has been some internals insane but
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Speaker 4: Why magazine this week there's the citations from various internal
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Speaker 4: correspondence networks where some of them are asking did we
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Speaker 4: participate in the mid ab massacre, how do we stop
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Speaker 4: this in future? And others are questioning their goal in
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Speaker 4: the rare in the surveillance state, and so there is
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Speaker 4: all we really need is some proper internal resistance inside Palenteer,
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Speaker 4: like has happening in a number of a number of
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Speaker 4: other AI companies. On the other side, we should also
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Speaker 4: note that Google this morning have stated they've entered into
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Speaker 4: agreement ministry events. So we shouldn't, of course just focus
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Speaker 4: on Palenteer, but Palenteer is the center of the global
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Speaker 4: If you demonic operation to seize control of the world's
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Speaker 4: data for nefarious and evil purposes.
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Speaker 2: Well put haiku now, where can people find your petition.
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Speaker 4: Stoppalenteer dot org. We put it for the can find
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Speaker 4: out of parliamentary website stoppalenteer dot August just got the
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Speaker 4: position on it at the moment. Later we'll be adding
22:47
Speaker 4: more material from various resources to allow people to access
22:51
Speaker 4: and access information and understand what's happening with Palenteer and
22:55
Speaker 4: with the AI tech companies in general. I think there
22:59
Speaker 4: is a need now to extend this sort of focal
23:02
Speaker 4: point deep Mind as well, because deep Mind there is
23:06
Speaker 4: some three out of people who joined the Great Union
23:08
Speaker 4: at deep Mind out of one thousand, three hundred stuff.
23:11
Speaker 4: So there's quite a lot of people who deep Mind
23:13
Speaker 4: obviously decided they want to push the parameters of this
23:16
Speaker 4: and force through must submit themselves to this defense. AI
23:22
Speaker 4: related next established, but Palenteer remains the core focus because
23:27
Speaker 4: it is the center of the whole evil operation.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Hiko for joining us from London. Stoppalenteer dot
23:36
Speaker 2: org is the place.
23:37
Speaker 1: To go, Basil Haku, thank you, thank you very much
23:42
Speaker 1: for that. All the details will be in the show
23:44
Speaker 1: notes for Haku's campaign, of course, and we would absolutely
23:49
Speaker 1: encourage everybody to get involved with that. Now, Basil, let's
23:52
Speaker 1: come on them to the issue of Palestine action. Everybody
23:56
Speaker 1: will know from our previous reporting and your previous reporting
23:59
Speaker 1: that the prescription of Palestine action was lifted, but the
24:04
Speaker 1: government wanted to appeal that, and that appeal is my
24:07
Speaker 1: being heard.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. The Court of Appeal is listening to
24:12
Speaker 2: the government's attempt to turn over the lifting of the
24:17
Speaker 2: ban on Palestine action, and the presiding judge at the
24:21
Speaker 2: Court of Appeal is the Lady Chief Justice of the
24:24
Speaker 2: United Kingdom, Baroness Sioux car there she is the first
24:29
Speaker 2: woman to hold that highest office, the number one judge
24:34
Speaker 2: in the whole of the UK. At the beginning of
24:38
Speaker 2: the trial, and polased to say she referenced the letter
24:41
Speaker 2: signed by an increasing number. I think the latest counts
24:43
Speaker 2: about seventeen hundred famous people's scholars, university professor, celebrities of
24:50
Speaker 2: one sort or another who signed a letter rather than
24:54
Speaker 2: held up a placard saying I oppose genocide, I support
24:57
Speaker 2: Palestine action. Now, she didn't have to do that at
25:01
Speaker 2: the beginning of this hearing, and the fact that she
25:04
Speaker 2: did would seem to indicate that she's aware of public
25:10
Speaker 2: opinion around this issue. Put it that way, she will
25:12
Speaker 2: doubtless also be influenced by if we can see the
25:16
Speaker 2: next slide by the report which appears to be entirely
25:19
Speaker 2: coincidental from the government's own watchdog, which says that the
25:24
Speaker 2: ban is a risk to free speech. If we can
25:28
Speaker 2: cycle through these slides, Britain's Terrorism watchdog on Wednesday of
25:33
Speaker 2: this week said the government risk stretching counterialism laws beyond
25:37
Speaker 2: their original purpose. In his annual report examining the use
25:43
Speaker 2: of Britain's terrorism legislation in twenty twenty four, Independent reviewer
25:47
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hall said the subsequent banning of Paris Steine Action
25:50
Speaker 2: had exposed real uncertainty over whether serious damaged a property
25:56
Speaker 2: alone should qualify as terrorism. And here's the kicker. While
26:02
Speaker 2: he said it was unthinkable to remove property damage entirely
26:07
Speaker 2: from the legal definition of terrorism, he suggested lawmakers could
26:11
Speaker 2: narrow the test, for example by requiring a risk to life,
26:16
Speaker 2: a national security deed dimension or exclusion for non violent protest.
26:24
Speaker 2: Now lawmakers in this case, of course, refers to baroness
26:28
Speaker 2: Car because her decision I think will be final. I think,
26:31
Speaker 2: having lost originally in the High Court, I think if
26:33
Speaker 2: they lose in the Court of Appeal, it will be
26:36
Speaker 2: difficult for the government to go to the Supreme Court,
26:38
Speaker 2: where doubtless they will face baroness Car again. But I
26:43
Speaker 2: just want to draw attention to this a national security
26:46
Speaker 2: dimension that may be what the government tried to use
26:53
Speaker 2: against Palestine Action and its supporters, But there's no UK
26:57
Speaker 2: national security dimension to what Palestine Action do. There is, conceivably,
27:04
Speaker 2: if you want to stretch the definition, a national security
27:07
Speaker 2: dimension for Israel. So whether or not the government try
27:13
Speaker 2: and claim that Britain's and Israel's national security are so
27:17
Speaker 2: inextricably linked that that requires the upholding of the ban
27:23
Speaker 2: on Palestine action, and whether or not Baroness Carr agrees
27:27
Speaker 2: with that opinion will be revealed in the coming days
27:30
Speaker 2: and weeks.
27:32
Speaker 1: Thank you Buzl for that. Patrick. Let's move on then
27:36
Speaker 1: to international affairs and Ran.
27:40
Speaker 3: Well, sure, the conversation right now, of course, is are
27:47
Speaker 3: there is there going to be a resumption of hostilities
27:50
Speaker 3: or not. That's the big question that you know everybody
27:54
Speaker 3: is waiting for. In fact, by the end of this program,
27:57
Speaker 3: we could be the West or the United States or
28:00
Speaker 3: Israel could be commencing attacks resuming attacks on Iran. So
28:05
Speaker 3: you know that could happen at any time from now
28:08
Speaker 3: in the coming days or weeks. So that's that's the
28:12
Speaker 3: main that's the main thing. So we're going to be
28:14
Speaker 3: looking at some quickly some data points one way or
28:18
Speaker 3: another that might indicate what is likely to happen, and
28:22
Speaker 3: maybe if we have time for a discussion. But one
28:25
Speaker 3: of the data points I think here to pay attention
28:28
Speaker 3: to is the President has been briefed by Scentcom and
28:33
Speaker 3: we will put this tweet up on screen about a
28:36
Speaker 3: short and powerful strike on Iran. So this court this
28:42
Speaker 3: coincides with reports in statements from the Israeli Minister of
28:47
Speaker 3: Defense Israel cats as well that Israel stands ready and
28:52
Speaker 3: resolute and they're waiting for the signal from the United States.
28:55
Speaker 3: That's what the Israelis are saying, literally, we're waiting for
29:00
Speaker 3: the green light from Washington. So we have a pattern
29:03
Speaker 3: of behavior here, which is that the last time, the
29:08
Speaker 3: justification was that Israel struck first in the United States
29:10
Speaker 3: automatically had to follow behind them in order to you know,
29:14
Speaker 3: make sure that you know, US troops weren't at risk,
29:17
Speaker 3: so they had to go in behind Israel. So that's
29:20
Speaker 3: basically a repeat of this situation. So we're literally back
29:23
Speaker 3: to square one here. So you know, I've raised some
29:27
Speaker 3: points here. We'll bring those up on screen. Escalation signs. Firstly,
29:32
Speaker 3: one is military assets are being moved into position to
29:35
Speaker 3: the region. That is an expensive maneuver from the United States.
29:40
Speaker 3: Would they be doing this? Look at benng Garen Airport.
29:44
Speaker 3: There are dozens of C one thirties as well as
29:47
Speaker 3: you know, there were as we reported last week, three
29:50
Speaker 3: carrier strike groups in the region. Now there's only two.
29:53
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that in the moment. But next is
29:56
Speaker 3: Israel's issuing threats to Iran. That is a indicator that
30:02
Speaker 3: is very likely we're going to see a resumption of hostilities.
30:05
Speaker 3: The question is when and in what form that's going
30:08
Speaker 3: to take. And then after that, we'll say Iran meeting
30:12
Speaker 3: with Putin in Saint Petersburg. Now, that's you could look
30:17
Speaker 3: at that as a sign that Iran is expecting escalation
30:20
Speaker 3: and that Russia now wants to get involved in the conversation,
30:24
Speaker 3: possibly as a mitigating factor, knowing that that that the
30:28
Speaker 3: Trump administration in the Israelis are ready to basically unload
30:33
Speaker 3: on Iran if the threats from the US and Israel
30:36
Speaker 3: are to be taken seriously. So you can look at
30:39
Speaker 3: that two ways, and so as a kind of I
30:41
Speaker 3: put an asterisk on the end of that. It's a
30:43
Speaker 3: two way data point there. The other is Trump lobbying
30:49
Speaker 3: Hertzog to part in Netanyahu. Now, again that could go
30:52
Speaker 3: both ways as well. One of them you can look
30:54
Speaker 3: at that is that you know Netanyahu needs this war,
30:58
Speaker 3: he needs this war to serve politically. That's that's the
31:02
Speaker 3: one way you can look at the other way, you
31:03
Speaker 3: can look at that that latest development is that, you know,
31:07
Speaker 3: if Netanyahu's pardoned, then the pressure's off him, uh in
31:12
Speaker 3: terms politically anyway, and that kind of relieves him a
31:14
Speaker 3: little bit and gives him a little more breathing space.
31:17
Speaker 3: Possibly that there could that could be a de escalation,
31:21
Speaker 3: but Israel's very much locked into I think, uh, you know,
31:24
Speaker 3: eliminating Ron is a potential threat either now or somewhere
31:28
Speaker 3: later down the road. Now there's there's some de escalation
31:31
Speaker 3: signs that could be interpreted as such. One is Trump.
31:35
Speaker 3: Immediately there's a phone call with Putin. This is after
31:39
Speaker 3: the Iranian meeting with the Russians in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
31:44
Speaker 3: Now that prompted the question is who initiated this call?
31:48
Speaker 3: Was it was it Trump that initiated the call or
31:50
Speaker 3: was it Putin? Okay, certainly you could look at that
31:54
Speaker 3: as a panic phone call from Trump wanting to kind
31:58
Speaker 3: of move in and create leverage the Ukraine negotiations in
32:02
Speaker 3: order to somehow get a better concession or position from
32:07
Speaker 3: Russia vis a vis what they're planning to do with
32:09
Speaker 3: Iran intelligence sharing, military coordination, etc. So there's two ways
32:14
Speaker 3: you can look at it. Now, this next data point
32:16
Speaker 3: is very interesting. At the report of the USS gerald
32:19
Speaker 3: Ford was parked in the northern red a very strategic
32:23
Speaker 3: important position if there's going to be an attack on Iran.
32:27
Speaker 3: That aircraft carry that's the most advanced aircraft carrier it's
32:30
Speaker 3: been at the three hundred and nine days, a new
32:33
Speaker 3: record has been recalled to Norfolk, Virginia. So it's very
32:37
Speaker 3: expensive to have put it into the Red Sea to
32:39
Speaker 3: begin with, and then only to recall it a few
32:43
Speaker 3: days later for a long journey back to the United States.
32:45
Speaker 3: That leaves only two carrier groups. Is that enough to
32:49
Speaker 3: mount a major shock in all campaign against the Iranians?
32:54
Speaker 3: And the other data point after that is interesting. German
32:57
Speaker 3: jibes at Trump over this war. Artz is taking pot
33:01
Speaker 3: shots at Trump about how this has been a humiliation
33:04
Speaker 3: for the United States, how Iran has humiliated the US.
33:09
Speaker 3: So does that mean the Europeans are confident that they're
33:12
Speaker 3: looking at a potential climb down the here and they're
33:15
Speaker 3: seeing weakness and trying to get, you know, an opportunistic
33:18
Speaker 3: political shot at Trump after all the the criticism and
33:23
Speaker 3: insults that have been hurled at Europe from this administration.
33:27
Speaker 3: We'll see, especially over NATO. And then the last one
33:31
Speaker 3: is the United Arab Emirates leaving Opek or the announcing
33:35
Speaker 3: they want to leave Opek. That that could be seen,
33:38
Speaker 3: of course as a death knell to the Petro dollar,
33:41
Speaker 3: but it also means that they're wanting to get a
33:44
Speaker 3: hold of some foreign currency. They need cash, and how
33:48
Speaker 3: they you know, is that's going to be in Chinese
33:50
Speaker 3: one if if Iran still controls the Straits of Horn Moose,
33:54
Speaker 3: so that's kind of alluding to a new economic reality
33:58
Speaker 3: in the Persian Gulf. That's one way you can look
34:01
Speaker 3: at that. So there's a lot of interesting clues here.
34:04
Speaker 3: Now I just want to point out if we can here,
34:08
Speaker 3: this is a map. These are the US military bases
34:11
Speaker 3: used to attack Iran, and so we have the basis
34:16
Speaker 3: the blue or in the Middle East, in and around
34:19
Speaker 3: the Middle East, as well as mobile assets, and then
34:21
Speaker 3: the red are European and then outside of the Middle
34:24
Speaker 3: East the red thoughts here. But if we zoom in
34:26
Speaker 3: a little bit closer, what I want to pay attention
34:30
Speaker 3: to is this these ones and I'm just going to
34:34
Speaker 3: throw this out because you know, Germany, the UK, Portugal, Greece, Kosovo.
34:41
Speaker 3: I'll put in that category as well as Cyprus. But
34:44
Speaker 3: these are EU countries or within Europe or within NATO.
34:49
Speaker 3: For the most part, Kosovo is not really a real country.
34:52
Speaker 3: But no, we digress. So the question is is anybody
34:58
Speaker 3: really attacking Iran seriously over the retaliatory strikes against the
35:03
Speaker 3: Golf States that housed US bases. And their answer is no,
35:08
Speaker 3: because they really don't have a leg to stand on
35:10
Speaker 3: because those Arab countries in the Gulf States allowed their
35:13
Speaker 3: countries to be used as launch pads for an attack,
35:16
Speaker 3: an illegal war of aggression against Iran. So how is
35:20
Speaker 3: Europe any different? Germany specifically Romstein and Stuttgart, and I'll
35:27
Speaker 3: just add tier. We'll just look at these. These are
35:30
Speaker 3: the again, these are the three bases. We'll bring these
35:33
Speaker 3: up on screen here. Romstein very key in terms of
35:36
Speaker 3: attacks on Iran. Romstein in Germany, also Sigonelle in Italy
35:42
Speaker 3: and Suda Bay in Greece. Okay, US could not have
35:47
Speaker 3: engineered this war, could not have run operations without the
35:51
Speaker 3: European basis, including the UK for the bombers, the B
35:57
Speaker 3: one B two bombers that we reported. So if the
36:00
Speaker 3: Iran retaliated against these European countries to hit US bases,
36:05
Speaker 3: whether they're NATO or not. What exactly could Germany, Britain
36:09
Speaker 3: or any of these European countries do in response, And
36:12
Speaker 3: the answer is almost nothing, because the United States is
36:16
Speaker 3: NATO and they've already they're already unleashing the full power
36:19
Speaker 3: of the US military on Iran. So what I'm saying
36:23
Speaker 3: is that European countries are putting their own populations at risk.
36:26
Speaker 3: This is only a question of missile capability being able
36:29
Speaker 3: to go a few more thousand kilometers, that's it. The
36:34
Speaker 3: European countries are not so they're a party to this war.
36:37
Speaker 3: They're co belligerents and enabling an illegal war against Iran,
36:41
Speaker 3: and they're they're they're putting their own In the future,
36:44
Speaker 3: they could be putting their own populations at risk. They
36:47
Speaker 3: might be getting away with it now because of the
36:50
Speaker 3: level or range of Iranian missiles, but not forever. So
36:55
Speaker 3: I think that's just a point I want to make, Mike,
36:57
Speaker 3: that is a conversation that we should have on this topic.
37:04
Speaker 3: Maybe we can discuss that further. But just to add quickly,
37:09
Speaker 3: the US is the Trump administration's really under stressed right
37:12
Speaker 3: now trying to defend this. The longer they sit and
37:16
Speaker 3: waiting for response to the longer they sit idle, the
37:20
Speaker 3: more political flak that's coming in Washington. Here's a clip
37:24
Speaker 3: from the self styled Secretary of War really getting grilled
37:29
Speaker 3: on the pretext the justification for this war to begin with.
37:33
Speaker 3: It's absolutely amazing what's happened.
37:38
Speaker 5: Who's hell bent on getting a nuclear weapon and get
37:40
Speaker 5: them to a point where they're at the table giving
37:42
Speaker 5: it up in a way that.
37:44
Speaker 6: So they haven't have it, So they haven't broken yet. Okay,
37:48
Speaker 6: we haven't gotten there yet.
37:49
Speaker 5: For all of the well, their nuclear facilities have been
37:51
Speaker 5: obliterated underground, they're buried and four step so we know
37:56
Speaker 5: where any nuclear material.
37:58
Speaker 6: Be claimbing my time, we're watching second here. We had
38:02
Speaker 6: to start this war, you just said sixty days ago
38:06
Speaker 6: because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're
38:10
Speaker 6: saying that it was completely obliterately.
38:12
Speaker 5: It had not given up their nuclear ambitions, and they
38:15
Speaker 5: had a conventional shield of thousands.
38:17
Speaker 6: Of operation midnight and weak moment, nothing of substance, missing
38:22
Speaker 6: the point place we were before.
38:24
Speaker 7: So much so.
38:25
Speaker 5: Their facilities are bombed and obliterated, their their ambitions continued
38:30
Speaker 5: and they're building a conventional shield.
38:32
Speaker 6: Let me try again.
38:33
Speaker 5: It's the North Korea strategy. You know this very well.
38:35
Speaker 5: The North Korea strategy was used conventional missiles to prevent
38:38
Speaker 5: anybody from challenging them, so they could slow walk their
38:41
Speaker 5: way to a weapon. President Trump saw Iran it its
38:44
Speaker 5: weakest moment, took an action to ensure in a way
38:47
Speaker 5: that only the United States of America could do with
38:49
Speaker 5: our Israeli partners. And yet to ensure the shield was
38:54
Speaker 5: brought one of.
38:54
Speaker 6: The questions, we've done, if I could get to it?
38:56
Speaker 3: So on, So just panic, panic, from heg Steth. Meanwhile,
39:05
Speaker 3: Trump is tweeting out things like this and literally putting
39:10
Speaker 3: out QAnon mems. That's the President the United States putting
39:13
Speaker 3: out QAnon memes. That's where the trumpminstruation is at. But
39:18
Speaker 3: if you look at the polls right now, in terms
39:21
Speaker 3: of the economy, it's just all bad news. I mean,
39:24
Speaker 3: one after the other. Here, his numbers on inflation worse
39:27
Speaker 3: than Jimmy Carter's. In terms of public approval, the national
39:31
Speaker 3: debt has exceeded one hundred percent of the GDP for
39:35
Speaker 3: the first time since nineteen forty six. Down there, Frank Lunz,
39:39
Speaker 3: the guru of American polling, saying here on the bottom
39:43
Speaker 3: left hand corner of the share of Americans who say
39:46
Speaker 3: their financial situation is getting worse, fifty five percent is
39:49
Speaker 3: higher now than any point last twenty five years. And
39:52
Speaker 3: then finally, the US GDP grew only two percent. That's
39:57
Speaker 3: way below the two point two or two point five rejections.
40:01
Speaker 3: And that's from last quarter at the end of February,
40:03
Speaker 3: first week of March. It's the next quarter when those
40:06
Speaker 3: numbers come out at the end of May, they're going
40:08
Speaker 3: to be much worse. We could see reports of less
40:11
Speaker 3: than two percent GDP in the US. So this is
40:15
Speaker 3: the conversation right now in America, going in the run
40:19
Speaker 3: up to the midterm elections. It's just going from bad
40:22
Speaker 3: to worse for this White House.
40:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you for that. Patrick. We will I'll doubtedly
40:29
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41:24
Speaker 1: come back to you then. And the flotilla.
41:30
Speaker 2: Yes, I had arranged to speak to doctor Frank Romano
41:34
Speaker 2: at this point in today's program. We had a very
41:37
Speaker 2: amicable conversation on Wednesday, but unfortunately Frank, one of the
41:42
Speaker 2: organizers of the Global Flotilla, which has been taking medical equipment, drugs,
41:50
Speaker 2: water which is in very short supply and food of
41:54
Speaker 2: course to Gaza, has been intercepted by the Israelis off Greece.
41:58
Speaker 2: We heard from Vanessa on Wednesday about how appalling the
42:02
Speaker 2: conditions in Gaza are, with rat infested tents, nothing to eat,
42:07
Speaker 2: not enough water, and so this humanitarian mission set out
42:11
Speaker 2: from Barcelona last week with the intention of breaking the
42:15
Speaker 2: siege of Gaza, but unfortunately it was intercepted by the
42:22
Speaker 2: Israeli Navy in international waters off the coast of Crete,
42:27
Speaker 2: I believe it or not, a long way away from Palestine.
42:32
Speaker 2: And if we can go to the next slide that
42:34
Speaker 2: shows oh, actually we'll do. First of all, let's see
42:37
Speaker 2: we've got some footage from Al Jazeera of the boats
42:42
Speaker 2: being raided in the middle of the night.
43:08
Speaker 8: Because this is just a straight up attack on civilians
43:11
Speaker 8: and international waters, on armed civilian boats hundreds of miles
43:16
Speaker 8: from Israel are being surrounded and threatened at gunpoint. That's
43:22
Speaker 8: not security, it's the use of military force against civilians
43:27
Speaker 8: in international waters. This is illegal under international law. Israel
43:33
Speaker 8: has no jurisdiction in these waters. Intercepting our boat or
43:38
Speaker 8: boarding these vessels would amount to illegal detention, potentially kidnapping
43:43
Speaker 8: on the high seas.
44:05
Speaker 7: Further plea, if you're thinking risk and leave the idea,
44:10
Speaker 7: no choice, the law booking up the guy that's trim
44:20
Speaker 7: the lesion or international law. If you Grada, you may
44:26
Speaker 7: do so. They're established and recognized channels origin to vote
44:32
Speaker 7: of origin.
44:38
Speaker 2: So thanks to out Zerra for that. If we can
44:40
Speaker 2: go to the next slide, we can see exactly where
44:43
Speaker 2: they were intercepted, which is off the coast of Crete
44:47
Speaker 2: in international waters. There's no disputing the fact that this,
44:51
Speaker 2: inspite of what the id F bloke was saying on
44:54
Speaker 2: his radio, there is a violation of international law. We
44:58
Speaker 2: go to the next slide that you lose. Huslim post
45:00
Speaker 2: here reporting that ma'm Darni is one of the few
45:05
Speaker 2: politicians in Europe or the United States to openly state
45:11
Speaker 2: that this is a bracien violation of international law. And
45:14
Speaker 2: for all that he's best buddies with Donald Trump. Now,
45:16
Speaker 2: the Trump administration have condemned the flotilla, calling it a
45:20
Speaker 2: pro har mass initiative and a baseless, counterproductive effort to
45:24
Speaker 2: undermine President Trump's peace plan, believe it or not. Now
45:29
Speaker 2: six Australian citizens are being deported to Greece as I speak.
45:35
Speaker 2: Amongst them Annie Macotau, who said her vote had been
45:40
Speaker 2: forced to participate the search and rescue effort to find
45:43
Speaker 2: stranded boats and passengers after the fortilla was intercepted. Many
45:47
Speaker 2: have been broken, engines destroyed and rigging cut. She said,
45:51
Speaker 2: Some like the Tam Tam one of the boats and passengers.
45:55
Speaker 2: Political pressure needs to be put on the US, Australia,
45:57
Speaker 2: Greece and the rest of the world. But I'm fortunately
46:01
Speaker 2: I can't see that happening because you know, anti Semitism
46:05
Speaker 2: and all that.
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Speaker 1: Indeed basil Indeed, okay, let's move on then to the OPCW,
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Speaker 1: because well Britain's sorry, Let's move on to doctor Brandon
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Speaker 1: Willen here, one of the OPCW whistleblowers that Pierce Robinson
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Speaker 1: been writing about on the UK column website, has won
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Speaker 1: his six year legal battle against the OPCW, that's the
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Speaker 1: Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and this was after
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Speaker 1: challenging the manipulation of the investigation into the so called
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Speaker 1: chemical weapons attack in Duma in twenty eighteen in Syria. Now,
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Speaker 1: the full story is on Ara Matte Substack here and
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Speaker 1: I absolutely encourage everyone to read the article there. It's
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Speaker 1: published under his own name. Now, Brandon Willan took the
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Speaker 1: case the International Labor Organization's Administrative Tribunal, which is the
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Speaker 1: independent judicial body that's based in Geneva that resolves employment
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Speaker 1: disputes between International Organization officials and employers, such as the OPCW.
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Speaker 1: The tribunal has ordered the OPCW to lift sanctions against
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Speaker 1: Whalen reversus lifetime employment ban and pay them damages and
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Speaker 1: legal costs. Now Brendan Whalen, for those who don't know,
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Speaker 1: as an organic chemist who served with the OPCW for
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Speaker 1: world in sixteen years. He was part of the advanced
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Speaker 1: team that was sent to Duma in Syria in April
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and he was the chief author of the
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Speaker 1: investigation report. The OPC's w's official report, which came out
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Speaker 1: in March twenty nineteen, concluded that there were reasonable grants
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Speaker 1: to believe quote, a chemical attack had taken place. The
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Speaker 1: US State Department then cited that reporters vindication for missile
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Speaker 1: strikes that was in the first Trump administration. And then
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Speaker 1: later in twenty nineteen, an internal engineering study was leaked
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Speaker 1: which contradicted the official findings, and so Brendan Willan absolutely
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Speaker 1: was not in agreement with what the OPCW had finally
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Speaker 1: put out, so he and a colleague were placed under
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Speaker 1: suspicion for having leaked the engineering report. And that was
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that Willan had already left the organization.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, the OPCW Director General briefed Member States the
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Speaker 1: investigation had cleared both inspectors of leaking the document, and
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Speaker 1: yet the chief of the OPCW said that they had
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Speaker 1: delivered deliberately enabled the league. He described their concerns as erroneous,
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Speaker 1: uninformed and wrong, and then Brandon Willen received a letter
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Speaker 1: of censure and a lifetime ban from OPCW. Employment. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the usual suspects, the Guardian, Reuters, Bellen, Kat and so on.
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Speaker 1: They all came out and said that the official narrative
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Speaker 1: was absolutely definitive, and they described the inspector's concerns, Brandan
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Speaker 1: Whelim's concerns as Russian disinformation. Brandan Whalim took the case
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Speaker 1: to the tribunal and during the proceedings the OPCW abandoned
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Speaker 1: its original charges and substituted new ones. They accused him
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Speaker 1: of breaching confidentiality by writing to the Director General and
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Speaker 1: forwarding an internal email to a senior director, but in
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Speaker 1: doing so, the OPCW made the first official acknowledgment of
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Speaker 1: a June twenty eighteen meeting in which German toxicologists had
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Speaker 1: ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of the victim's
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Speaker 1: death and deaths and DUMA, and that expert evidence had
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Speaker 1: been omitted from the final report as just one example.
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Speaker 1: The tribunal, as I say, ruled that the OPCW had
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Speaker 1: failed to notify doctor Whalon of the charges, denied him
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Speaker 1: the full investigation report, and committed a manifest error and
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Speaker 1: violating due pop process. And so after six years Brandon
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Speaker 1: Wheeling seems to be vindicated. Now the OPCW has to
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Speaker 1: now lift the sanctions. In the article he does say
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Speaker 1: that it probably is going to be going back to
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Speaker 1: work for them, but nonetheless they are required to lift
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Speaker 1: the sanctions, including the lifetime ban on him working for
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Speaker 1: them again, and of course the questions into the official
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Speaker 1: reports still remain. The judgment is available and the link
50:32
Speaker 1: to that will be on the show notes. And for
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Speaker 1: more on the background to this case, do read Pierce
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Speaker 1: Robinson's articles on the UK column website and also take
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Speaker 1: a look at the Berlin Group twenty one website which
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Speaker 1: appears set up a number of years ago with others.
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Speaker 1: This includes letters written to the United Nations Security Council
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Speaker 1: and the OPCW Executive Committee highlighting the allegations that the
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Speaker 1: OPCW still need to answer including that they falsify the report.
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Speaker 1: I doubted they. We'll talk more about that an extra
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Speaker 1: as well. But Patrick, let me come back to you again,
51:07
Speaker 1: and a little bit more on King Charles' visit to
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Speaker 1: the United States.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of symbolism here, and we'll delve
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Speaker 3: into some of this, but I kind of put this
51:18
Speaker 3: under the general heading of, you know, looking in on
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Speaker 3: the colonies. The King has come to check up on
51:23
Speaker 3: this special relationship which is wavering a bit, or is
51:28
Speaker 3: a little bit shaky. There you can see him, Charles
51:31
Speaker 3: and Camilla there holding court at the US Congress. Not
51:35
Speaker 3: as many standing innovations, however, as Benjamin and Yahoo got.
51:39
Speaker 3: But this is Trump taking the opportunity control the opposition. Here.
51:43
Speaker 3: Two kings the White House are putting out there. So
51:47
Speaker 3: that's just fueling the fire for the opposition here. But
51:51
Speaker 3: watch this clip and this major violation of protocol here.
51:56
Speaker 3: We'll discuss this more an extra, but go ahead and
51:59
Speaker 3: watch how basically runs right in front of Camilla in
52:04
Speaker 3: order to shake hands with all of Jeffrey Epstein's friends.
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Speaker 3: I mean, so we'll leave that, We'll leave the replay.
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Speaker 3: We have a replay slide for that We'll leave that
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Speaker 3: for extra because I would love to hear Basil's comment
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Speaker 3: on this extraordinary scene here. But let's get down to
52:41
Speaker 3: the real points. These are the sticking points that Charles
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Speaker 3: basically identified and leveled quite a bit of criticism against Trump,
52:48
Speaker 3: much of it veiled here. Obviously, the importance of NATO.
52:52
Speaker 3: This is something this administration seems to be degrading NATO,
52:59
Speaker 3: you know, insults at the Europeans. Charles has come to
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Speaker 3: try to steady that ship a little bit more standing
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Speaker 3: with Ukraine. Donald Trump's not doing enough to stand with Ukraine.
53:10
Speaker 3: This is something that the King and of course written
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Speaker 3: are very dedicated to standing with Selenski and Ukraine. And
53:19
Speaker 3: this was the one here which is warning on executive power.
53:25
Speaker 3: And we have this clip in this, I think is
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Speaker 3: the most important bit. He's basically really taking a jibe
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Speaker 3: at Trump, but getting a massive reaction from the Congress
53:37
Speaker 3: in Charles's favor on this. Apparently, Donald Trump's reportedly very
53:41
Speaker 3: jealous about the wit and the success of the speech
53:45
Speaker 3: by King Charles. If we have this, let's play that.
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Speaker 9: The Founding Fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a
53:55
Speaker 9: cause to two hundred and fifty years ago, or as
54:05
Speaker 9: we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day,
54:17
Speaker 9: they declared independence. By balancing contending forces and drawing strength
54:23
Speaker 9: into diversity. They united thirteen disparate colonies to forge a
54:29
Speaker 9: nation on the revolutionary idea of life, liberty, and the
54:34
Speaker 9: pursuit of happiness. They carried with them and carried forward
54:40
Speaker 9: the great inheritance of the British Enlightenment, as well as
54:45
Speaker 9: the ideals which had an even deeper history in English
54:49
Speaker 9: common law and Magna Carta. These routes run deep, and
55:03
Speaker 9: they are still vital. Our Declaration of Rights of sixteen
55:07
Speaker 9: eighty nine was not only the foundation of our constitutional monarchy,
55:13
Speaker 9: but also provided the source of so many of the
55:16
Speaker 9: principles reiterated often verbatim in the American Bill of Rights
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Speaker 9: of seventeen ninety one, and those routes go even further
55:27
Speaker 9: back in history. The US Supreme Court Historical Society has
55:33
Speaker 9: calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least one
55:38
Speaker 9: hundred and sixty Supreme Court cases in seventeen eighty nine,
55:43
Speaker 9: not least as the foundation of the principle that executive
55:47
Speaker 9: power is subject to checks and balances.
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Speaker 3: The President has not got a reaction like that from
56:12
Speaker 3: both sides of the House, so extremely jealous of what
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Speaker 3: King Charles was able to pull off. There we'll talk
56:20
Speaker 3: about that more an extra, But the other is protecting
56:23
Speaker 3: the environment, and Trump has basically deregulated and opened the
56:28
Speaker 3: doors for a massive corporate rampage in terms of allowing
56:32
Speaker 3: monsanto and round up and all these sort of things
56:36
Speaker 3: that were previously basically scheduled for extinction. Trump has breathed
56:41
Speaker 3: new life into the sort of chemical industry and environmental
56:45
Speaker 3: degradation and so forth, and lifting moratoriums on drilling in
56:52
Speaker 3: protected areas and so forth. So they're clashing on that,
56:55
Speaker 3: and of course at the end, the last is the
56:57
Speaker 3: special relationship statements made by the President against Britain, or
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Speaker 3: not supporting the British government in the way that previous
57:08
Speaker 3: administrations had done. This is disturbing and worrying for the King,
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Speaker 3: and he's again wanting to write the ship on that
57:17
Speaker 3: issue as well. So again, we can talk more about
57:20
Speaker 3: some of these points during the extra, and I'm sure
57:23
Speaker 3: we will, but to me, it was just an incredible
57:25
Speaker 3: scene of the symbolism of having the British King come
57:29
Speaker 3: in and basically upstage the president in the anglosphere like
57:34
Speaker 3: that is to me, very very significant, brilliant.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Patrick, Thank you, Basil. Let's end
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Speaker 1: the program, then take your time with it in case
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Speaker 1: you missed it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, thanks Mike. Few stories, some funny, some not so funny.
57:51
Speaker 2: Ma'am Downey's or and ma'm Downey. The Mayor of New
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Speaker 2: York was asked what he would say to King Charles
57:58
Speaker 2: when Charles came to New York, and he said he
58:00
Speaker 2: was going to ask him to return the core cohed
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Speaker 2: knew a diamond. I don't know whether he did or not.
58:05
Speaker 2: It's supposedly worth about a billion quid forms part of
58:08
Speaker 2: the Crown Jewels. I can't see the British Royals giving
58:12
Speaker 2: that one up anytime soon. Of course, it comes originally
58:16
Speaker 2: from India, from the subcontinent. Next. Now, this is one
58:22
Speaker 2: of the well perhaps expected ramifications of the attack on
58:28
Speaker 2: Iran and the war, which is that Saudi Arabia looks
58:31
Speaker 2: like pulling the funding from the Live Golf Tour. Star
58:37
Speaker 2: players are going to have a difficult road back to
58:39
Speaker 2: the PGA with the no Saudi funding. The whole thing
58:43
Speaker 2: was built on Saudi funding. So I wonder whether these
58:47
Speaker 2: some of the most privileged people on the planet, really
58:50
Speaker 2: professional golfers and naturally conservative. I wonder whether it will
58:55
Speaker 2: cause them to furrow their brows with respect to the
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Speaker 2: Trump administration, because this is all as a result of
59:03
Speaker 2: the attack on Iran, where in some sectors of Saudi
59:08
Speaker 2: society anyway, including the upper Rachelos, there is considerable sympathy
59:13
Speaker 2: for the Muslim neighbors, in spite of the traditionally entrensed
59:18
Speaker 2: positions both countries hold. They did, after all, Striker a
59:22
Speaker 2: peace agreement a couple of years ago. So looks like
59:26
Speaker 2: Live is going to be dead and buried. And Trump
59:29
Speaker 2: himself had been quite invested in Live, you know, he
59:34
Speaker 2: was all in favro Jans golf courses around the world,
59:37
Speaker 2: as you know. So quite an interesting story that now
59:41
Speaker 2: Sophie Corker and not everybody's cup of tea. She appears
59:45
Speaker 2: regularly on gb News. She is suing a charity, the
59:50
Speaker 2: Interns Foundation, which works with people from underrepresented groups, because
59:57
Speaker 2: they don't offer internships to white people. She thinks she's
1:00:01
Speaker 2: got a strong case, but that our council has said
1:00:04
Speaker 2: the scheme is lawful positive action under sections one five
1:00:09
Speaker 2: eight and one five to nine of the Equality Act
1:00:11
Speaker 2: based on evidence of underrepresentation in relation to access to
1:00:15
Speaker 2: the profession. So it remains to be seen how that
1:00:21
Speaker 2: one goes. Perhaps that will end up before Baroness Carr
1:00:25
Speaker 2: as well before long. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by
1:00:29
Speaker 2: the next story. The poorest areas in Britain have seen
1:00:32
Speaker 2: the healthy life expectancy dropped by a whopping twenty years
1:00:37
Speaker 2: over the last quarter of a century, successive governments being
1:00:42
Speaker 2: blamed for England's declining health. Throughout the period since the
1:00:46
Speaker 2: Second World War, life expectancy had increased the population generally
1:00:52
Speaker 2: got healthier, but not anymore. It seems. All sorts of
1:00:58
Speaker 2: reasons for this obesity, being one huge spike in cancer
1:01:04
Speaker 2: rates compared to our parents' generation. Wonder what that's all about,
1:01:09
Speaker 2: And of course, income and living standards directly linked to
1:01:15
Speaker 2: how long you're likely to have to live. Blackpool apparently
1:01:20
Speaker 2: is where your life is likely to be at its shortest,
1:01:24
Speaker 2: and unsurprisingly it's down in leafy Surrey where you're likely
1:01:29
Speaker 2: to live the longest. Next up, a couple of books
1:01:32
Speaker 2: which I recommend. I'm going to buy them myself. How
1:01:36
Speaker 2: to sell a genocide, the media's complicity in the destruction
1:01:39
Speaker 2: of Gaza by Adam Johnson and covering what appears to
1:01:43
Speaker 2: be much the same ground. Don't say Palestine, how the
1:01:46
Speaker 2: media manufacturer can sent for genocide by Assl rad And
1:01:52
Speaker 2: as I say, I'm going to get those I think
1:01:54
Speaker 2: it's there's an enormous amount of genocide denial amongst Israel
1:02:00
Speaker 2: supporters on social media, amongst the chattering classes wherever they
1:02:05
Speaker 2: get the chance, the likes of Julia Hartley Brewer, all
1:02:09
Speaker 2: the usual suspects, Douglas Murray, all the shields say there's
1:02:12
Speaker 2: no genocide. There's no genocide. So I think it's important
1:02:16
Speaker 2: to be well informed about the events of the last
1:02:19
Speaker 2: few years in order to counter such narrative effectively. And
1:02:25
Speaker 2: I hope that those books will help. And interesting that
1:02:30
Speaker 2: both are talking about the media and the media so
1:02:34
Speaker 2: quick to amplify the gold as green but silent about genocide.
1:02:40
Speaker 2: Now this is extraordinary stuff. The Times of Israel reporting
1:02:43
Speaker 2: that to see Jews as equals is anti Semitic because
1:02:48
Speaker 2: they're the only people based on assignment, people with a
1:02:50
Speaker 2: capital P, and they're divinely with a capital D ordained
1:02:54
Speaker 2: tasked is to be exemplary to all of humanity, to
1:02:59
Speaker 2: be God Zamba as on Earth, fighting for the good
1:03:02
Speaker 2: of everyone. And the idea that Jews should be no
1:03:06
Speaker 2: different than Gentiles already implies opposing Jews as if Jews
1:03:11
Speaker 2: should adjust the majority norms, integrate and assimilate a way.
1:03:16
Speaker 2: That's an opinion piece in the Times of Israel published
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Speaker 2: recently and finally this week, Donald Trump is being urged
1:03:26
Speaker 2: to declare American and not English, the official language of
1:03:30
Speaker 2: the United States ahead of the two hundred and fiftieth
1:03:33
Speaker 2: anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I wonder what King
1:03:37
Speaker 2: Charles would make of this. Writer Rob Lockwood, former advisors
1:03:43
Speaker 2: Doug Bergham, joined Fox and Friends to discuss is Washington
1:03:46
Speaker 2: post op ed calling for the US to adopt its
1:03:48
Speaker 2: own language. Enough with English, Enough with American English. Let's
1:03:53
Speaker 2: call it what it is, American, Lockwood said, And judging
1:03:57
Speaker 2: by the garbage that comes out of a lot of
1:03:59
Speaker 2: Americans mouths President company, except of course Patrick, he might
1:04:04
Speaker 2: have a point.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's much more likely if he's going
1:04:08
Speaker 1: to rename the language, he's going to call it Trumpian
1:04:10
Speaker 1: or something. But anyway, we'll talk about that an extra
1:04:12
Speaker 1: as well. We're going to leave it there. Thank you Basil,
1:04:15
Speaker 1: thank you Patrick, and thanks to everybody that's been watching.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget German Carl's discussions tonight, A thousand Words podcasts
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