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UK Column News Podcast 6th May 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday the sixth and May twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host Broman Gerrishe
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I'm delighted to have with me Diane mcaddie. We'll be speaking from Scotland.
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We've got Mark Anderson speaking from the United States, and we've got Alex Thompson
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US talking to us from Georgia in the former Soviet Republic. Well, let's
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get straight off because we've got a lot in today's news, a lot of
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very interesting topics, and of course I hope that our viewers and listeners appreciate
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the dedication. We're here on a holiday, a public holiday in UK to
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serve your needs. Alex, it's good to see you. You're looking very
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relaxed. Tell us where you are and what have you got for us.
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Greetings Brian and Diana and Mark and the viewers from sunny to Billy c the
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capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, a long banana shaped city in
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a beautiful location on the river and Takuari by far the biggest city in the
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country. I come here about once a year on average. My former specialist
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domain I landed on Saturday, and this is the scene that greeted me at
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the airport as I was picking my baggage off. The carousel will play this
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silently as I continue to talk. So the carousel shows, or the screens
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on the carouseelle show Georgia's pride that all of their sporting teams are doing brilliantly.
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The first one you saw there was Georgia has qualified for the ua for
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Cup for the first time in its history, and we'll be playing Turkey at
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Dortmund Stadium on the eighteenth of June. And look at all these excellent sportsmen
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in the various domains. It all looks very hunky dory. But Brian,
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this is more tense Georgia than I have ever seen. And this is having
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covered, although not lived here through, but having covered several relutions and wars
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in Georgia, I haven't seen society this divided even this morning. I mean.
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The usual measure is, of course, the taxi drivers and the younger
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ones, the ones that look more Western in their styling, shall we say,
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have a particular intolerance now towards anything associated with the Georgian Orthodox Church or
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Christian culture in general, and anything that they don't like. They spit on
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as being Russian with a hardness that I didn't see even in the previous revolutionary
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period, the Rose Revolution of twenty years ago, Ader Michel Sakashvili. However,
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the point of them the matter, and I won't show any footage of
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riots today because everyone's away for Orthodox Easter over this long weekend, so that
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would not be current. But in a couple of days time, and certainly
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by my next appearance next Wednesday, God willing that I'm afraid there probably will
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be more gory footage of police laying in with tearcas and water cannons. The
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issue of contention is a draft bill tabled by the government and put through to
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Parliament on the requirement to register foreign non government organizations for short. This is
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being called the Foreign Agents Registration Bill and is being compared with the Kremlins already
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enactive bill of the same name, which went through the Duma. And you
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will hear in the moment a BBC interview with a member of Parliament for the
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ruling party, the Georgian Dream Party, called Nicolas sam Carradze, where he
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defends this position and he gets laid into by the BBC. We'll discuss that
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in a moment, but before this point in the interview, mister sam Karadze
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has laid out fairly even handedly that Georgia does face massive territorial challenges from the
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Russia occupying Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and from the various wars around the periphery
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between Armenia and Azerbaijant just down the road from here. That's fair enough.
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And then he gets to the point we'll be listening to now for about a
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minute and a half where he explains the necessity of the law. So let's
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roll that we have twenty five thousand active non governmental organizations working in Georgia,
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which is one of the highest per capita index in the world, given the
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fact that Georgia is three point seven million Georgia's population and that makes almost one
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engine upper one hundred and forty eight Georgian citizen and ninety percent of those non
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governmental organizations get their funding from foreign sources, and there is no accountability,
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There is no transparency of where the funds come from and for what purposes these
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funds are spent for. Therefore, for us, this is important to ensure
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the transparency of foreign funding. But law, so if I may interrupt,
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this law would go even further than Russia's similar law does. For example Russia,
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the Russian law exempt religious organizations from this act. It doesn't call them
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foreign agents. The proposal that you are putting forward would classify religious organizations who
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receive level of funding from abroad as foreign agent. So why do you feel
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the need to include, for example, religious groups in this ah That may
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be clear, there is no word agent mentioned in the draft legislation. Now,
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with the possible exception of that very last sentence, which is disputed by
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those who've read the text in Georgian closely that they say there is reference to
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foreign agents. Georgia doesn't quite have a word for agent, but similar wording.
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The rest of what mister san Parazi says I have to say is fairly
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unobjectionable in my view, And Sara cannot be pigeonholed as a Russian stooge.
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True, he belongs to the Georgian Dream ruling party, which is often accused
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of being affront for the pro Russian oligarch Zina IV Shweli. But on the
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other hand, if you look at his career, which will be in the
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show notes, although I'm told by Kenny, interestingly enough, that Western ISP's
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block the Georgian Parliament web server, so you can't read the biography. I
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don't know why, but if you look at his biography, he spent the
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last twenty years, including during the sarkash Philly period, being a pro Western
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reformer and advisor on security, and he's an academic on defense policy and security
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issues, territorial integrity of Georgia, which is such a hot topic here.
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So you could say that the middle section of Georgian society, perhaps the middle
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class and the early middle age like him, are thinking this way, but
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the radicalism starts just a few years below him down the road in Armenia.
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They're both probably more on this as well. Next week we'll see that it's
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behind a paywall, but I'll read a bit. In the moment. Intelligence
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Online is reporting that Yerevan, which is swinging very much towards France, NATO
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and the West, the capital of Armenia, that government has now hired none
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other than General Sir Richard Dannatt, the former chief of Staff of the British
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Army what's left of it, who's now taken up with the successor to the
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defunct and ill reputed PR firm Bell Pottinger, responsible for many ethnic issues around
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the world in here, in the Focuses and elsewhere. Danet apparently is going
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to be advising the government of kulplash In Yanda, the Prime Minister of Armenia,
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on burnishing his image, particularly with reference to the military. And he'll
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be working alongside another former cameraon adviser at Sanctuary Council, the new front for
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Bell Pottinger, and that will be Andrew Cooper who's now Baron Cooper of wind
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Rush. Australian spin doctor Linton Crosby, known to our viewers, is also
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in the mix, and The Times of London reported on the fifteenth of April
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that the British and Armenian governments are already discussing turning Armenia into a second Rwanda,
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making it a pro Western client government to the extent that it gets British
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applicants for British asylum dumped there because it's supposedly a low cost country difficult to
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get out of. And a final slide from me in this segment, one
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of our viewers has spotted that this small US air force VIP type plane has
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been flying from Twilc to as a vaijourney capital of Baku. Both pro NATO
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and EU countries that may be members of both soon possibly shuttling State department diplomats
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back and forth. By next Wednesday, they'll probably be a lot more to
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report in regard to both of these things. Alex, thank you very much,
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very interesting reports. Sad though we've got yet more angst and stress occurring
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in Georgia, we've already got enough problems with Ukraine. Let's have a look
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at what's happening on the ground in Ukraine. But I'm going to start with
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this appalling tweet from the British Ministry of Defense. I've just put a little
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bit of text to go with that if we can pop that on screen.
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So the fact is that Ukraine is losing the war at the moment. There's
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no question for this. But let's have a look at how the UK Ministry
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Defense responds. I'm calling this hype and propaganda. Let's look at this dreadful
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clip that they've put out Zahalm. Yeah. Student student Harkisk Academy Design.
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My name is Sophia and a combat medic in the Ukrainian Army. And first
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of all, I'm a student. I'm still a student studying painting at the
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university, like different kind of painting and painting techniques. And when the full
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scale invasions started, I joined the Granian Army and now I'm serving in the
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Ukrainian Army and I'm gonna do this and deil it ends. I will be
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in the army until it ends. It that it's for sure. So I
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I like all these tactics and everything. I want to explore this to understand
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more. But when the war ends, maybe I will do the scene I
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I started doing before the war. I will restore pieces of art, and
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maybe I will restore everything which Russians destroyed during this war. It's my small
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dream. So that young lady has a dream, Let's have a look at
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the battle into which she is going to go. She's been trained how to
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use a rifle. Let's see what she's really going to be up against.
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Now I've got some video clips, I'm going to talk through this. This
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is Chassiva, the suburbs. This is the next key city for the Russians
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because it's on high ground. And of course what we're seeing in the picture,
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as always is that it's the concrete built high rise buildings that form defensive
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positions for the forces Ukrainians or the Russians to that effect, but you will
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see that the surrounding land is very flat, there's very little cover apart from
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the tree lines. And what is the result. The Russians are bombing the
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Ukrainians out of any defensive position, so rifles effectively useless in the first instance
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due to the heavy pressure of the Russian bombing. But if we look at
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the destruction here, it's massive, and then ultimately each one of these buildings
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has to be taken by foot soldiers on the ground, and if we look
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on to the horizon, we can see the tree areas which form other defensive
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positions. So if we have a look in detail at the types of weapons
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being used, this shows the power of the Russian guided bombs, where they
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simply take out a building the moment they know what it's used for and you
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can see the size of the explosion here. I'm going to suggest that young
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Lady is one of many thousands of Ukrainians being trained to die because they're not
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being trained for the warfare that they're going to experience. The size of the
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bombs is absolutely massive, five hundred kilograms, one thousand and fifteen hundred or
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even three thousand, and extremely accurate. If we move on to the next
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little clip, we start to well, let's let's need this one running this
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one, I think we're seeing thermobaric weapons being used, and these are absolutely
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targeted at Ukrainians in the tree lines. But we've got more here showing the
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accuracy of these weapons, and very often the Russians are targeting the bases of
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the Ukrainian drone operators, so they're not wasting a few shells, they're simply
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obliterating the whole building and infrastructure around it with these immensely powerful and very accurate
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weapons. When it comes to air defenses, the Russians are still putting out
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incredible equipment onto the battlefield. So we've got a picture here of the tour
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system which is coming into an open area where admittedly they are vulnerable and many
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have been taken out by the Ukrainians, but nevertheless we are seeing weapons systems
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that the NATO in particular at the moment, is having trouble keeping up with
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for their speed and accuracy, and of course We've now got the situation where
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the Russians are fully combat trained in their use. So this piece of footage
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claims that the missile was taking out a drone. I can't see a larger
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target, so I'm going to take that at face value. But what's also
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happening on the battlefield is the Russians are hunting for the Abraham's tanks and this
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is a film clip showing the destruction of one such tank. Let's let this
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one play. What are we going to see here? While the missile comes
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in and strikes the tank very hard in this particular image, the tank isn't
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fully destroyed. I think I said missile should have said drone. But what
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then happens is that this particular tank is tracked and it's followed, and it's
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attacked multiple times until it is finally destroyed. And we can see here the
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effect of the final destruction. The tragedy is some of the men get out.
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You can see them moving to the right of your screen, but I
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believe at least one of the crew members didn't. And if it comes to
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anti tank weapons, then the Russian cornt is achieving remarkable success on the battlefield.
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So Okay, this is a promotional film by the Russians themselves, but
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nevertheless, this shows the type of combat that's going on where small numbers of
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vehicles are being used and those are being attacked by drones and all these anti
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tank guided weapons, and usually with a guided weapon, the destruction is complete
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with the crew, all the soldiers who are traveling in the armored vehicle.
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This is another Abraham's tank taking a hit. And of course this is completely
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removing the myth of the invincibility of Western weapons systems. And another picture of
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a destroyed vehicle here which simply shows us that what we were told that the
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Leopards and the Challengers and the abraham tanks were going to win the war for
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Ukraine simply not true. And as we speak, the Russians are making considerable
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progress on the battlefield and the Ukrainians are having trouble re establishing defensive lines.
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Now I just put this on screen. This is part of a document that
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went to the US Committee of Congress. An it's saying that the American Excalibur
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precision artillery rounds initially had a seventy percent efficiency rate hitting targets when first used
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in Ukraine. However, after a mere six weeks, efficiency declined to only
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six percent as the Russians adopted their electronic warfare system to counter it. So
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this is a very important statement and it shows the reality on the battlefield with
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the Ukrainians now under immense pressure because they're shorter weapons and they're short of men.
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And on that topic, what is the Ukrainian response. Well, in
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this video we'll see how they're desperately trying to drag more men off the street.
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I don't know the location of this footage, but it's symptomatic in many
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of the eastern Ukrainian city urban areas where the squads are out in order to
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grab any young or indeed older man. And this clip here shows the sheer
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brutality of people being put into vehicles taken away given minimum training, and the
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reality is they're probably going to die on the battlefield. And what does that
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death look like. Well, I'm not going to show you the pictures,
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they're too harrowing. But in the next clip, if we put that on
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screen, we can see just the sheer scale of just one milliary cemetery in
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Ukraine, and of course the scale of the Ukrainian casualty simply not talked about
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in the Western media because we must believe the illusion that the Ukrainians are winning
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this terrible war as puppets of NATO and the West. But the scale of
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this cemetery you can see for yourselves, and this is one of just many
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that are now there in Ukraine. Well, if we move on to Zelensky,
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he's been talking to the press, and if we just press the button
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on this one, play him in the background and have a look at the
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text, will bring in what is he saying. He's saying, really,
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trust me, Ukraine is going to fight to the last Ukrainian, and that
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last Ukrainian will be Zelenski. Two armies have already gone, the third is
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falling apart on the battlefield at the moment, but he needs another five hundred
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thousand men. And he's also saying that his European friends are helping control his
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passport renewals to force Ukrainians out of hiding in European countries and back onto the
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battlefield where they're almost certainly going to die. If we just that's just an
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article of r OWNBC news talking about the much needed conscripts. But if we
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go to this image, from Handelsbad short headline, but it says it all
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yes, dead, but with a new passport. And what this is getting
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at is that Ukrainians overseas are being forced to declare themselves because their passports are
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ineffective or they need renewing, and at that point they're grabbed by the Ukrainian
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military. So if we just look at a bit more that's come from Zelenski
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himself. Now let's bring the text on screen. He's working hard, he
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says, with a peace summit in Switzerland, they're going to create a common
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understanding. It's the participating states with a view to achieving a comprehensive, just
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and lasting peace in Ukraine. But note Russia is not involved, sorry,
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is not invited. And he says we expect eighty to one hundred countries to
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be able at least to try to quote force Russia to a fair peace.
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But the reality is at the moment that Russia has had no invitation. This
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is the formal reports here from Switzerland. All you need to know about Ukraine
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peace Summit. I won't read it all, but it's busily quoting international law
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of the UN Charter, and it aims to create a common understanding of a
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framework favorable to this objective and a concrete roadmap for Russia's participation in the peace
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process. Here's the Guardian, and I threw this into the mix because it's
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very clear that the West sees that support for Ukraine is the same as support
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for Israel. For Israel is the same as Ukraine. But here's the journalist,
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Nathalie Toka, and she is described as a Guardian europe columnist. But
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if we get into the detail, she's been to Oxford, she's been to
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London School of Economics, she's worked with the European University Policy Studies, the
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Transatlantic Academy Washington, and the European Council of Foreign Relations. And she's also
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acted as a counselor in international strategic matters for Frederica Margarini. So I'm suggesting
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this lady is not just an ordinary journalist, she's something rather more. Now,
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Alex against that pretty appalling background of what's happening on the battlefield, it
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looks as though there's worse in store from the West and NATO. It does,
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Brian, but the matter is controversial. In particular, Finnish and French
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groups are now said by some sources, although unverified as far as I'm concerned,
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to be stationed in Ukraine, and not just in the rear in the
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west of the country, but according to some accounts, near that front line
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in the Donbas and around Chassifyard, which seems to be about to fall.
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So Stephen Bryan, whose substack is called Weapons and Strategy, has an overview
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of the current situation entitled NATO is starting to deploy troops in Ukraine, although
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he means individual NATO member states, of course, not NATO as a block,
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and he says Russia is racing to win. That is well worth a
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read. Embedded in that piece is this graphic from Raibar. Everyone will know,
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I think who follows this that Raibar is an unashamedly pro Russian telegram channel.
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There's no claim of impartiality here, but look, Raibar has what it's
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prima facia says, is photographic evidence of men with Finnish army and Finnish national
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patches, not just in the right bank or the west of the country,
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but way over in Kharkiv in the northeast, the second city of the country,
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around airfield. And it gets even more interesting. First of all the
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aerial support. So this is from the middle of last month, but as
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of the eighteenth of April twenty fourteen, three Dutch F sixteens were delivered to
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Ukraine and there was a publicity stunt where people including the Dutch Defense minister Kaiser
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Olongren the lady you see second from right here dressed up as if they were
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F sixteen pilots and did the strut out to the three airframes, as tweeted
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by Sonia Fondnende, a dissident the Asia Times, a legacy and quite mainstream
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and major Hong Kong based title which I admit has been pro Russian in the
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past, and the claims here are contested to my knowledge also including by a
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Ukrainian defense attache a Ukrainian embassy abroad. But the claim is that Makran has
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sidestepped a sort of gentlemen's understanding not to deploy French citizens as a NATO member
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state troops to Ukraine by a leg using French Foreign Legion troops. The name
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and the reputation can go before it. The Foreign Legion only recruits non Frenchmen,
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and I do say it in the French men because it doesn't take women.
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The claim here in the Asia Times is that these men have been sent
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to support the Ukrainian fifty fourth Independent Mechanized Brigade, So the guys who drive
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around at greater speed but who are also able to fight as infantry men right
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over in Slovyansk in the Don Bass. It's allegedly the third infantry regiment of
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the Free the Legion that's involved. The officers of Frenchmen, the men under
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arms men at arms are foreign, so we don't know whether that's confirmed or
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not. Reuters has egg on its face because people will be aware that there
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was a lot of talk about camera and getting ahead of the curve which we
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reported on and giving away too much detail before the time. But now Reuters
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as of last week, was obliged to retract its reporting, which it doesn't
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like doing often, but they had the integrity do it to do it.
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The Placeholder simply says, as of the second of May, four days ago,
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that their previous story, their previous wire saying that Cameron had promised aid
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to Ukraine on behalf of Britain, had been withdrawn because they wanted to fact
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check certain some of the details. This may or may not have to do
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with the Latvian Foreign Minister's recent claim that there was a list of NATO donor
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countries which had tacitly under the table told Ukraine that they were free to use
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the donated weapons directly against the Russians in Russian territory. May or may not.
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A lot of these things have to be taken with suspended judgment. I'm
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afraid because much as people might think, well, they would deny it,
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wouldn't they. The Ukrainians are denying a lot of what's on here. This
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photographic evidence, again has come from social media from Vexa by a very reputable
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and reliable viewer of mine, and it purports to show no doubt that it
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does US troops being photographed using Korean one FI fives, the big caliber shells
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that are the hardest to restock, that have the longest lead in time,
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as people know who follow this, So it may be that South Korea is
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filling up Uncle Sam's empty war chest in that regard because of the well known
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problems with stocking. The viewer comments by the viewer who sent me not the
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previous photo, but the Asia Times piece before that said this military summary a
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channel he trusts well is reporting a heavy bombing attack in Nikolaovka on the coast.
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He says, most channels are reporting an energy facility to be the target,
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so that's a blackout strategy against the Ukrainians. However, he had a
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reliable Russian source is insisting that the first French contingent of one hundred to one
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hundred and fifty artillery specialists the standard rules of having a foreign and NATO man
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standing alongside the Ukrainians training them so that you can plausibly deny thinly deny that
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they are firing at the Russians. He says that these French specialists were deployed
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to that very area i e. The Russians were having to go directly at
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them. On the next slide, which I won't read out in full,
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he reminds us so we've played the Guiltra Tolstoi clip on French new where he
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said we will kill your men that come to Ukraine. The Russia has warned
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that they would do exactly that, whether it's Odessa or up in the front.
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If it sees NATO men, it will go for them. And of
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course that's happened in the past in Herson and in other places Karkiv two,
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where the French have lost men. The viewer asks, what the heck does
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Macron think he's doing if confirmed. Finally, he says, this is an
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important claim because Macron has made statements on strategic ambiguity, making overtures to put
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in, whether sincere or not. And he alludes to this reported list of
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nations who have said the Ukrainians sub rosa, go ahead and bash the Russians
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directly with our staff, including on their own territory. And he notes,
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and this the same happened with Libya with naval contretant. There is an Italian
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Franco Italian split. The Italian Foreign Minister seems to have departed from the Macronian
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line in this regard. The viewer also reminded us of this, and it's
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just a quick snapshot I made because it's completely fresh. It will be in
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show notes. The leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, so
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the majority leader in the lower House of Congress has already said, mister Jeffries
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that US will have to send troops to Ukraine, whether they're called NATO troops
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or not. That's supposedly a high probability. And I'll just round off this
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segment by reminding people that Rodney Atkinson, well known to our long term viewers
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for Histeopolitical Commentary, notes that Jussevr is about to fall and has a lot
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of detail which you can see. I won't read it out on what's going
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on with Russians going very targetedly for warehouses and NATO troop locations if they are
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now present around the south and east of the country. And he notes that
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there are big problems with runaways, with discipline, desertion, corruption, the
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internal energy. And he's quoting a retired Spook colonel is to Starikoff as saying
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that we don't have a regular army in Ukraine anymore. The NATO trained army
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of just under half a million has largely been destroyed by the Russians. You've
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reported on that before, Brian. And finally this is picking up on a
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desh eagle piece behind a paywall. I'm sorry that it's German, but the
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commander of the Black Sea Fleet that has been sent out to support the Ukrainians
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has said that he now has too few frigates at his disposal in order to
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guarantee the safety of merchant marine traffic, and he says that there's two or
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three. This may exclude about another two or three French and Italian frigates,
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but even if we're generous, there's half a dozen frigates available. Now,
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Alex, thank you very much. Well, it's a confused situation where the
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Ukrainians are definitely suffering on the battlefield. I'll just put this meme up.
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I think this is so sad because it's an astute view of what's happening.
28:41
So we've we've got American, British and European politicians laughing and saying and then
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we told Celenski, if you beat Russia, we'll let you join NATO.
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Democracy Service broadens the mass media cartels monopolistic Network. This is just a reminder
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that this is up and it's an ongoing series. I've had two posts so
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far and the third one is coming up. And what I'm may be looking
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at, Brian, is think tanks creating their own news organizations and pushing them
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as legitimate news, but coming directly from think tanks, not just reporters that
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have been affiliated with think tanks like you mentioned, but actually directly from think
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tanks. So look for that fairly soon here at UKC. Okay, well,
30:33
thank you very much, and we'll just have this on screen. A
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very nice letter. This is People's Assembly Somerset, who sent us a night
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letter saying what they're doing but also saying that they're hoping to advertise the UK
30:45
column. So people taking action in an appropriate way against local councils and sustainable
30:56
twenty thirty sustainable development goals and they're doing that. Boy, getting together now,
31:00
Alex, just bring you back in very briefly, and the subject is
31:06
net and Yahoo and funding of the mass. I'm not a Middle East specialist,
31:11
so I'll be very brief. But it is particularly notable because this has
31:15
been broken by Wynette News, which to my mind is one of the three
31:18
top mainstream or legacy Israeli news site online that Israeli's consult Now they're admitting in
31:26
a piece published yesterday that in a letter of twenty and eighteen, Benjamin Netanyahu
31:32
asked Cutar to fund Hamas and that wasn't the first time they'd done it.
31:34
They'd been doing so from two thousand and seven to twenty fourteen, starting from
31:38
about the time of that Garzare war. But it was done sporadically and off
31:42
the books at first. And now it's come out that a handful of people
31:45
in Tel Aviv knew that this was happening, and it was being tacitly accepted
31:51
and nodded through by the Israelis, and then, according to Wynette, the
31:55
war in Gaza in twenty fourteen, the second of these gars A wars,
31:57
was the turning point all the Western has decided, together with the Cutter,
32:01
is that if you bunked thirty million dollars at Hamas to buy stuff off the
32:07
West and Israel, then they would give up on their plans militarily. So
32:12
an act of sheer folly, whichever way you look at it, and something
32:15
that has been very hotly denied by Israeli propaganda. But that's not credible anymore.
32:20
Ale, Thank you. Things get more and more curious as to what
32:23
is really going on. And let's bring you in, Diane, because you're
32:27
having a look at the subject of decolonization. And if people think that's a
32:31
strange term, it is, but let's have a look at what is happening
32:36
in the world around that particular term. Thanks Brian. I'm happy to be
32:40
here, even though it is a bank holiday. So as a review a
32:45
few weeks ago, I covered the topic of decolonization and in universities and essentially
32:51
part of the agenda in universities, and it's spreading to other things as we'll
32:55
see you here in just a minute. The idea that there are in our
32:59
situations oppressors and oppressed groups, and it should, according to the traditional definition
33:05
of decolonization, anyone who is on the oppressed side of the equation is anyone
33:09
who is not white. But we're seeing now that this is starting to spread
33:14
into other areas and potentially I'm just going to throw it out there if it
33:17
really just as a question and discussion. So we'll bring this back to Gaza
33:22
here in just a minute. But first, here's something that I saw over
33:24
the weekend which prompted me to want to talk about this. We are now
33:29
paying, well, if you are in this particular council in the northeast of
33:31
England, you are now funding four hundred and seventy five pounds a day expert
33:37
to decolonize Hadrian's Wall itself. I don't know how you decolonize an actual wall,
33:42
but the idea here is, you know, and just to verify that
33:45
I knew that I knew my history correctly, the Romans actually came and colonized
33:50
here and they built this wall. So the idea of decolonizing the wall,
33:55
because somehow the British Empire is somehow guilty of something is basically the idea behind
34:01
this particular person being hired. We also see in the Britt Museum and Archive,
34:07
which is in London, they are hiring a decolonization consultant for five thousand
34:12
pounds for a short term project. So we're seeing these kinds of efforts all
34:15
over the UK and the US and Western societies in general. And this morning
34:22
there was I just happened to see something on Sky News which I didn't include
34:25
in my slides. I can provide a link to it though, if you'd
34:28
like to see it. Around the Joe Biden's administration that is going into northern
34:34
Nevada, into a Native American area to mine lithium from the mountains up in
34:40
northern Nevada. Now, in my mind, that is true colonization. In
34:45
the meantime, we're worried about words and what we call things and library catalogs
34:49
and what we call walls and things, and the parities are just a little
34:52
bit strange to me. So taking this back to Gaza here, we have
34:57
a video and I've got a few videos from a few different perspectives, because
35:00
this is a complicated situation of the Palestine, pro Palestine, pro Israel,
35:06
whatever you want to call it, basically against Jaza genocide going around universities,
35:12
which started in the United States and is now spreading to UK and Australia.
35:15
So let's play this first one. This is from the thirtieth of April at
35:19
the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. So there's a lot going on there.
35:52
Just in that first clip, we see a group of students protecting the
35:54
American flag on American soil. We see Palestine protesters throwing things at some one
36:00
holding an Israeli flag. But there are several different perspectives to this. If
36:04
we look at this next tweek here, this is a video which I won't
36:07
show, but it's basically showing Jewish gangs attacking American students. And the video
36:10
is saying that the Zionists were launching projectiles and beating people that sticks, and
36:15
it's a video of an injured student. This is from u c l A.
36:20
And next we have another video where we see a Jewish student who is
36:27
supporting Palestine. If we have that video available as well, would you feel
36:32
safe with a child, a Jewish child attending a university like this right now?
36:44
Who has heard the cat it is raw hatred towards Jews. A student
36:58
Star of David necklace was ripped off her neck as she walked to class.
37:02
One of my friends was physically held against the wall by hateful demonstrators because he
37:06
was wearing an item that identified him as Jewish. Unchecked anti semitism has become
37:10
commonplace on Columbia's campus. The university's inaction has left Jewish students abandoned. There's
37:17
actually quite a broad base of society which has self sympathy for the terrorists that
37:22
some of these events, the chants have been f the Jews. The protest
37:27
was not labeled as an anti Jewish protest. I'm not asking what it was
37:30
labeled, and the Israeli government the question wasn't what it was labeled. Colombia's
37:34
leadership refuses to enforce their own policies and condemn Jewish hatred on campus, creating
37:39
a breeding ground for anti Semitism and a hotbed of support for terrorism from radicalized
37:45
faculty in students. So Murphy might have had a bit of a mix up
37:54
there in the videos, but that was one from a last sefanik who's a
37:59
leader the Republican side, when the US House of Representatives, who's been doing
38:02
a lot in favor of the Jewish side of the sort of argument. I
38:07
guess you could say, but where is this all coming from? I want
38:12
to make a couple of suggestions. I don't know if there's I don't know
38:15
the right answers, but I think that some of it, from some perspectives,
38:19
has to do with the push for decolonization in our universities. This organization
38:24
called the National Students for Justice in Palestine. If you read into some of
38:29
they've been around for quite a while, and if you read their mission and
38:32
values, they talk a lot not only about the issue around the Hamas War,
38:38
but they also talk about sustainability. They talk about gender freedom, black
38:44
liberation, black the capital be all of these other things that some students are
38:51
supporting. When it comes to this side of the argument and these ideologies,
38:55
I don't think that the war is as simple, but it's interesting to see
38:59
how some of these groups put these things together. We see on the next
39:02
slide this was this group has been around since at least two thousand and six,
39:08
where they were talking about Israeli occupation and they interviewed people from two sides
39:14
of one from the israel side and one from the Palestinian side. These were
39:19
former reporters that were covering their thoughts on the occupation. But this is not
39:24
just limited to the United States. It's also happening here in the UK.
39:30
This is US talking about back to decolonization again. And actually yesterday was the
39:37
first day that I learned that some Native communities call the US and Canada what
39:42
we call North America Turtle Island, and I was a little bit confused.
39:45
I had to go do my research to see what that meant, because of
39:50
the trend towards declonization and saying well, we live on stolen land in North
39:53
America, that we're there now going back to calling things the original traditional names
39:59
that that native communities called it, And so I didn't really know what that
40:02
meant. But we see a lot here. This is an article from Al
40:05
Jazeera talking about the comparison between Palestine and Turtle Island. We see a woman
40:09
there who's from Panama's holding a sign in Spanish total Somas Palestina libre, which
40:14
means free Palestine in Spanish. So we see again here that there's a lot
40:17
of solidarity growing between anyone who feels that they've been colonized and that settlers came
40:22
in and took their land away. So again these parallels are starting to come
40:25
out a little bit more. This is a group in the UK that is
40:29
similar to the Students for Palestine group in the States. It's called Youth Demand.
40:34
If you look at the background, you see that it was actually started
40:37
with this used to be just Stop Oil students and they are now taking action
40:43
against the Gazagenis side. But they also talk about their support for resisting new
40:49
oil and gas drilling. So again we see sort of the convergence of some
40:52
of these topics that maybe some of us wouldn't put together. And here's one
40:57
of their actions when they spray painted the min Strey of Defense and the marks
41:00
through London. This was just a couple of weeks ago earlier in April,
41:05
and we're gone from here to see this. What is the reason behind all
41:08
of this, Well, there's a couple of things going on here. I
41:12
think the University Buttonborogh talks about they started their encampment over the weekend. So
41:16
we see here the link to the Edinburgh University Communist Society and so this is
41:22
linked to the Edinburgh Justice for Palestine and what is the relationship between these two
41:28
Well, I'm not entirely sure, but they are definitely working together. If
41:32
we watch this video, this is from this weekend at the University of Budenborogh
41:37
here. So what is particularly striking to me in that video is that it's
42:10
being led by a very young child who's leading the chance and probably what maybe
42:15
five years old. So they talked about in these links to the Communist Party
42:20
of branch at Edburg University. They talked about their links to the British Communist
42:23
Party and I went to that website just to see if there was any digit
42:28
of decolonization and I did find a couple of results in my search talking about
42:31
decolonization in the former British Empire and how that was some progress, but that
42:35
we have more progress to meet. As well, you can also find there's
42:37
a whole subcommittee on decolonization in the United Nations and so then we can look
42:44
at, well where does that take us to If we go back to our
42:45
old friend, Professor Susan Mitchie, our friend from the COVID days, the
42:50
Spybee psychologist, who is also a member as we know of the British Communist
42:53
Party, and so there's an article from a few years ago on the UK
42:57
column about a psychological attack on the UK. And I'm not necessarily saying that
43:02
this is exactly what's happening now, but I just think it's an interesting question
43:07
for us to think about what does this mean for the West and this war
43:10
that continues to kill far, far too many people. So I'm just going
43:15
to ask the question based on this tweet that said, you know the problem
43:19
with extreme left governments seizing power is they cause the total breakdown of social cohesion,
43:23
including this quote, a global pandemic of hate infecting our universities must end.
43:29
So just to ask the question, is one consequence of this war in
43:32
the West a total breakdown of social cohesion? Ran Dane. Dane, thank
43:37
you very much. Really interesting look at what's what's happening there, Mike Godness,
43:43
so many questions, so little time today in the news, but we'll
43:46
certainly come back to that. What I was very encouraged about is in our
43:50
chat box as you were talking, several people were saying it is all about
43:54
division, and I think this is the key thing that wherever we see one
44:00
group of people being encouraged to be hateful towards another group of people. But
44:05
the chances are that we've got organizations in the background stirring the pot. And
44:09
I think you've opened a very interesting debate here about who those people might be
44:15
and what their objectives are. But the more chaos and confusion worldwide, the
44:20
easier it is for a globalist hand to control people of whatever nationality, color,
44:27
or religion. So I think we've got a lot more to do on
44:30
that. But before we leave the subject, I'll just bring Mark Anderson in,
44:35
because Mark, you discovered a particular protester who is a little bit more
44:39
than he seems. Indeed, Brian, we have a violent Columbia University protester
44:49
who's, according to the New York Post, one of the few papers that
44:52
digs behind the headlines, he's an heir to an advertising empire, lives in
44:58
a mansion model baby mama. I guess he lives with a hot chick or
45:02
something and a long rap sheet of all things A trusted viewer. His view
45:08
that he sent me in an email is there's nothing sincere about these so called
45:13
college protests against Israel and for the Palestinians. At the top, according to
45:17
my friend, is organized Jewish interests, as he calls them, who have
45:22
an anti American bias and are feeding off the sympathies that some have for the
45:28
Palestinians and feeding off the animosity that others have for certain Jewish interests, including
45:32
the state of Israel, and they're aggregating these energies for their own agenda.
45:37
So he believes that organized Jewish interests are infiltrating what's going on at Columbia and
45:45
making it look worse for the pro Palestinian people, to discredit them, to
45:49
blackwash them, and so much could be said about this violence. This heir
45:58
to the fortune that we're talking about, one of the most violent leaders of
46:01
the Columbia University riots. He's being called is allegedly a professional agitator and a
46:07
limousine liberal. These are other words. The New York Post is using a
46:10
scion of million millionaire ad execs who owns a three point four million dollar Brooklyn
46:15
townhouse and a stepmom dating John Cougar Mellencamp, a native of Indiana and well
46:22
known rock singer in America. And this guy's name is said to be James
46:27
Carlson. So he's also called Brian a longtime anarchist, according to a high
46:34
ranking police source quoted by the New York Post. But it's just more proof
46:37
positive that protests are not what they seem, and they're often often loaded to
46:44
discredit the very people that are putting them on. So back to back to
46:47
you, Brian, and we'll continue. Okay, Mark, thank you very
46:52
much for that. Well, I think that's telling us that we need to
46:53
be very discerning when we see these things, because we know that in the
47:00
Palestinian protests there have often been many Jewish people expressing solidarity with the Palestinian viewpoint,
47:07
and we can determine from that it will be in the best interest of
47:14
powerful players to try and break that bond apart. But let's leave that subject
47:19
and let's move on to health. We can't protect people's health by stopping the
47:24
wars, but we can vaccinate people to become healthy. Yes, I managed
47:32
to become part of the stakeholder listening session preparation for the seventy seventh World Health
47:38
Assembly, which is taking place as we know May twenty seventh through June first
47:43
in Geneva. And this slide here shows the moderator might beer the chief of
47:49
Staff of the Office of Global Affairs of the US Department of Health and Human
47:52
Services, and curiously Manuel Claros of USAID, which many have defined as CIA
48:00
front. I'll let the viewers decide that. And these are some of the
48:04
speakers in this next slide, just to give a fair and balanced overview,
48:08
justin bryce of the interest of justice. On the left, he questioned the
48:13
lack of debate on both health and climate issues, particularly the way climate issues
48:17
feed into health issues. We've seen that coming up lately in many first hand
48:22
reports I've been doing for UK column on the World Health Organization and the Treaty
48:25
and the IHR regulations. Rachel Cohen of a basically NGO named DNDI, formerly
48:34
of Doctors Without Borders she was a unremitting treaty advocate, and Liz Marcy of
48:39
Water ad America more of a neutral party. Washing and sanitation are sorely lacking
48:45
in the world, she says, and that needs much more attention, not
48:49
just vaccines. And we'll move on from there. There's my mug. As
48:53
I gave comments to the listening session, I was only given ninety seconds because
48:58
I only chose one item from the provisional Agenda Brian and you were given ninety
49:02
seconds per item, and I gave my two cents here, and I believe
49:07
we have a ninety second video clip of me speaking to the listening session.
49:14
Next up, Mark Anderson, can you hear me? Yes? Sorry,
49:22
good day, Thanks for this speaking opportunity on Immunization Agenda twenty thirty. You
49:27
are not going into the May twenty seven World Health Assembly with both eyes open
49:31
as you embark on provisional Agenda item eleven point four. Who has made it
49:37
crystal clear that it wants to vaccinate everyone everywhere its own words, thus indicating
49:42
mass vaccinations have become a monopolistic centerpiece of global health, with painfully little said
49:47
about real alternatives. Yet we've reached a point to where we know that the
49:52
novel mRNA injections have caused widespread harm and more deaths than media and government care
49:58
to admit. Or as eleven point four is discussed, don't forget that the
50:02
kind of highly experimental injections rolled out in twenty twenty twenty twenty one. Evidently
50:07
we'll return during the next pandemic, turning people potentially into objects of experimentation.
50:13
Once again. We must look at global health through a much more holistic and
50:16
humane framework. Meanwhile, amid so many unexplored vaccination questions, I suggest that
50:22
the current eleven point four backs plan that will go hand in hand with the
50:27
Pandemic Treaty and the IHR be put on hold indefinitely. We're told to trust
50:31
the science, but any so called science that simply comports with big pharmact profiteering
50:37
plans is simply pseudoscientific corporatism, not impartial science. So please cease and desist
50:43
at this juncture on vastly overblown, highly experimental vaccine development for all our ills.
50:49
Thank you, and that Brian was exactly what I had to say.
50:55
An interesting side note is that the WHO and the DHHS and other affiliates have
51:02
been talking a lot about disinformation and comments like mine and others made by James
51:08
Ruguski, etc. At this listening session. That This listening session was held
51:14
this past Thursday, May second. There was another one held further back on
51:16
April eleventh. But this is the kind of disinformation they don't want to hear.
51:21
It's the kind of disinformation they're always protesting and saying. Is you know,
51:25
a very damaging and corrosive influence on their utopian health plans, while they
51:30
had to listen to a large chunk of the very disinformation that they loathe,
51:36
which is a little bit of justice, you might say. And so that's
51:38
a worthy footnote and moving on from there, Brian. This next slide is
51:43
another speaker. I don't have his actual visual video clip. It would have
51:49
been audio only, so I took just a quote from it. This is
51:52
Paul g remarks to the same listening session this past Thursday. No new mRNA
51:59
injection be considered, Paul said without full double blind clinical testing lasting eight to
52:05
ten years for each new proposed therapy. Emergency youth use authorization, he continued,
52:10
for medical countermeasures was not justified for COVID nineteen and should not be considered
52:16
for future medical events. The HHS Office of Global Affairs should therefore cease and
52:22
assist all negotiations on the WHO Pandemic Treaty and on any amendments to the two
52:29
thousand and five International Health Regulations. That's what Paul G had to say in
52:32
part. The overall link, not just my comments, but the overall link
52:37
to the listening session will be in the show notes and listeners can listen to
52:42
the entire thing and watch it, Brian. These are some other slides that
52:46
round out what's going on. Because right after that, Brian, the very
52:51
next day, on Friday, May third, they held a press conference and
52:58
it was in the wake of the listening session the day before, and I
53:02
won't comment much about it. There's a photo all the photos are original that
53:06
I took with the screenshot function at the press conference. Here's a shot of
53:10
the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body that's working on the treaty, the co chairs of it,
53:16
roland Riese and doctor Precious Metsoso, And they gave a lot of comments
53:22
Brian, very general for the most part, that the treaty is generally coming
53:27
along. They've got till May tenth to kind of get things square and get
53:30
their ducks in a row. Yes, there's points of contention, they admitted,
53:35
particularly around trade, and they didn't admit much else about the points of
53:40
contention other than to say that they exist. So there's a little bit of
53:45
a question as to how smooth things are really going. They don't really want
53:47
to talk about it. They keep the cards close to their chest on that
53:52
one. Anyway, I'll just conclude with this comment here. This is something
53:58
I wrote as sort of a news brief at the May third press conference after
54:01
the May II listening session. WHO Treaty negotiators announced that if and when the
54:07
treaty is consummated during the WHA World Health Assembly May twenty seventh through June first,
54:15
but then the process begins to seek the agreement's national level ratification. Thus
54:20
UK column viewers need to ring their lawmaker's phone steadily to make sure that viewers
54:25
that would call the US Senate, viewers that would call UK Parliament to make
54:30
sure they seriously and proper conduct their constitutional duties. What I'm understanding, Brian,
54:35
is only sixty nations need to adopt the treaty in the preliminary sense before
54:40
the treaty is sent to Congress and parliaments. And remember there are one hundred
54:45
and ninety four member states involved here. And here's what Roland Reef, that
54:50
co chair of the I and B said, Adoption is the beginning of the
54:53
process, not the end. So that's a little bit of a glimpse as
54:58
to what might become. But the main thing right now is that if they
55:01
don't have their ducks in a row by May tenth. Then that could possibly
55:06
delay the treaty beyond the WHA starting May twenty seven. We don't know that
55:10
for sure yet, and these are just some reminders of how serious this is.
55:15
This is a slide from last week. Back in April twenty four,
55:19
they held an expanded program on immunization program that I covered, and they're saying
55:23
that everyone needs to be vaccinated everywhere. Vaccines are the only answer, or
55:29
pretty much the only answer, and I believe we might have one more slide.
55:34
I'm not sure for now. So that's how it's shaping up, Brian.
55:42
Some things are known, some things are about to be known, and
55:45
there'll be more in the in the weeks ahead, of course, as the
55:47
World Health Assembly, and that may ten deadline as those things come up.
55:52
Okay, Mark, thank you very much. Excellent report. Let's bring Alex
55:57
Thompson back on, and you've got something to tell us about the vaccine scene.
56:04
I don't wish to detract much from Diane's important final segment, so a
56:07
brief mention of two instances where the local level of government is saying no to
56:13
globalization in health and health scares and threats, respectively. So a blogger in
56:17
North Carolina. Tara Niebaum is reporting in Herstsabstak, and the links are well
56:23
worth following there. Within the show notes that a majority of the local parties
56:29
at the congressional districts the equivalent of parliamentary constituencies in the state of North Carolina,
56:35
decided to ask their party, which is important, of course, because
56:37
the Republicans are the natural governing party in a state like North Carolina, they
56:40
have the majority, so the battle is within that governing party. So a
56:45
majority of the local parties said they wanted the Republican Party more widely at state
56:51
level and ultimately nationally to prevent a recurrence of medical tyranny. And this is
56:57
the meat of it that's been found. There has been a resolution, it's
57:00
only been so far submitted by one county Republican Party, Scotland County on the
57:06
state line with South Carolina. But it says we reject yielding any authority to
57:12
unaccountable and unelected agencies such as the World Health Organization as being a threat to
57:16
state and national sovereignty and personal liberty. And the call to action in tire
57:22
Nbaum's post is well worth following to see what kind of tortuous route this is
57:25
going to follow in America's three or four layers of political authorities, just a
57:30
nix illustration of not having to give up on corrupt governing parties even if you
57:35
are as the Republicans have said in North Carolina the dissenting minority, make sure
57:38
you get your minority report in because it then has to be considered and it
57:43
will be embarrassing to reject it too, obviously if it's democratic. Meanwhile,
57:46
in Italy, in the northwest of the country, in the region of Liguria
57:50
around Genoa, two of the local authorities there, Lavagna and now Santa Margherite
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Margherita Ligore, have decided at mayoral level to dec that there's the translation that
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five D is going to be switched off. They have set sensible thresholds to
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the electromagnetic radiation that people should be exposed to. And there again, even
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within an EU context, and with Italy being only a lightly federalized country,
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usually it's central and the EU authority that matters. Even there, the mayors
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have said that, and that they don't have as much power as US state
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and counties, but they are saying we will not have five G radiation in
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our area if we have an essay over it, so people have no excuse
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in Britain or wherever else they're watching from not to put pressure on their local
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authorities. Okay, thank you very much for that. Well, let's end
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the news, bring Diane back, and you're just going to take us through
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some important things concerning immigration which people might not be aware of, right Brian
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thinks that I will be brief. So I was in Sheffield last week for
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examining a PhD student at the University of Sheffield and I was walking around the
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city center during a break and I saw this poster here. It made me
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think about the issue of going on with Rwanda, with people but potentially being
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removed to Rwanda if they are here illegally. And so this was something that
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was posted in a sort of a shelter area, I guess you would say.
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And I found it was through an organization called Migrants Organize, which is
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for refugees and migrants to organize for what they call power, dignity and justice.
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And you know, at the same time, I remember seeing this in
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the Unsky News a couple of weeks ago around a sex offender who was allowed
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to stay in the UK regardless of you know, they're letting people stay whether
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or not they are refused or granted asylum, because they think because of their
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behavior, that it's dangerous for them to go back to their own country.
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We also hear a lot about people seeking asylum and what they are entitled to
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when they get here. They get money, they get housing, they get
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medical care, all of that covered. They get free prescriptions, free dental
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care, free eye test, helping for glasses. That's more than British people
1:00:02
get who are in this country. And you know, just from my own
1:00:06
personal perspective, I am a margaret worker in this country, even though I'm
1:00:10
here illegally and I've been here for several years. But when I look at
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what happened when I had to come here, and I had to pay a
1:00:15
lot of my own money to be here. And let's just go through the
1:00:19
cost. Now. If I were to come here as a black twenty twenty
1:00:23
to say that I had three dependents, which includes your spouse. So let's
1:00:27
say that I was going to be here for five years with three dependents,
1:00:30
two children and a spouse. The application fee for the four of us would
1:00:32
be five six hundred and eighty pounds. The immigration health surcharge, which is
1:00:37
new and they've brought that in since I've been here, would be twenty six
1:00:40
three hundred and eighty pounds. So that is the total between the application fee
1:00:45
and the immigration churcharge, between the two twenty thousand for health. After five
1:00:51
years, you have to apply for un definite leave to remain, which is
1:00:54
settled SATOS status, which means you can stay here permanently for the for four
1:00:59
people, that would cost to eleven thousand, five hundred and forty pounds.
1:01:01
You can pay more if you want add ons like an extra Fast Decision which
1:01:05
you can pay up to one thousand pounds to get super priority service, just
1:01:08
to if you didn't feel like you're paying enough money already. After having a
1:01:13
definitely leaves to remain for a year, you can then apply for citizenship.
1:01:16
In my case, I can have dual citizenship and for four people that would
1:01:20
be six five hundred and twenty pounds for a grand total over six years of
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over forty four thousand pounds, And that comes out of our own money,
1:01:28
out of the wages that we earn, and meanwhile we watch all these asylum
1:01:31
seekers basically get in for basically nothing. And also when you come in legally,
1:01:37
you have to take a test called Life in the UK, which is
1:01:39
a very difficult exam to pass. You have twenty four questions you have to
1:01:44
get at least eighteen correct to pass, and if you don't pass it,
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you can't stay in the country. You have to memorize useless facts you know
1:01:51
not about how to actually live in the UK, and you can't take this
1:01:53
until you've been here five years. Anywhere, you have to memorize things like
1:01:57
the six wives of King Henry the eighth and how they died or how he
1:02:00
divorced them, or how many children they have whatever. You also have to
1:02:04
learn the values and responsibilities of Britain, which includes are being in respecting the
1:02:07
law, treating others with fairness, things that I would call common decency.
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But at the same time we're letting sex offenders stay here whether or not their
1:02:15
applications for asylum are considered. And so I really think that we have a
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very flawed, teared system here as a migrant worker in the UK. And
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thank you very much again. A lot of questions in that section will come
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on to it in future UK column news editions. But I think we can
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be confident in saying that the crazy system is not accidental. This is orchestrated
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breakdown in UK for people to be able to take control and power to which
1:02:46
they're not entitled. Let's leave it with that comment there. I'm afraid we
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got to the end of the news today, so we must finish. But
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my goodness, a lot of material in today's news, a lot of things
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to be discussed, and I think it is beholden on all of us to
1:03:02
watch what's happening and to be discerning as to what is really happening, why
1:03:07
it's happening, and who is pulling the strings of the puppets. We'll leave
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our audience to think about that. Thank you very much for joining us today.
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