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UK Column News - 23rd June 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the 23rd of
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June 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Brian Garris, delighted to have Ben Rubin with
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me in the studio. And we're joined by Diane
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Rasmussen. Mccaddy, my live video link.
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Well, it's winter drawing all now.
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Summer stalls. This is over Ben and nearly
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Christmas. Brian.
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We, we won't take it that far. It's, it's a lovely day in
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Plymouth and of course we had very mixed weather over much of
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UK over the weekend. We did have the longest day, but
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we're going to look forward to more summer.
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So let's stick with that lovely theme in our head now.
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Our regular viewers will know that UK column often comes in at
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a different angle from other reports.
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And what are the things that certainly better myself and
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Diane have been looking at over quite a few weeks is what is
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going on in this country. And we're going to encourage our
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audience today to stay calm, carry on and have a look at
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what's happening in this country before you start to judge what's
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happening overseas. And there's no other place to
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start, unfortunately, than with Keir Starmer.
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Now, probably I should have had a bigger photo of him, but here
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he is spewing words and wisdom about what's happening in the
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Middle East. And how can we describe this
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man? I don't trust him at all.
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Flacid is another term I would use to describe him.
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But the key point is that this man is running a death cult.
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Now, some of this has been up on the UK column over the last few
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days, but of course we've got the Assisted Dying Bill that is
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about death, and we've also got the decriminalisation of
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abortion that is also about death of babies.
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We have a massive censorship campaign running under the
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surface and the UK column has been warning and warning and
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warning about this for a great many years.
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We've also got unlimited propaganda.
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I asked Ben to suggest me an image before the before as we
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were compiling the news today and Ben said, well, the only
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thing you should choose is BBC and he's absolutely correct.
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But a massive propaganda campaign running 24 hours a day
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in the UK? We've got the grooming gang
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smokescreen. And I'm going to say to the
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audience today, if you think that I am banging on about this
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particular subject, I can tell you, you are going to hear more
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and more and more about child abuse because this is a subject
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the government knows it can use in order to distract the public
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from what is going on in other key areas.
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People are going to get more and more passionate about this as
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more and more violent stuff comes to the surface.
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But of course, the government can also inflamed one group of
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the community against another. So grooming gangs, exceptionally
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dangerous. Diane is going to be talking
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about this a little bit more. But of course we've also got
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this happening and Ben in particular has been delving into
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this subject, the destruction of our constitution.
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And where is this all leading at the moment?
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Well, not only the demise of UK, but the fact we've now got these
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horrific war zones, which UK Keir Starmer's government now we
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can see very clearly have helped to ferment.
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And what does it look like on the frontline?
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Well, if we just move forward and have a look at some of the
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images from the Middle East, we will see that there are some
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really bad things happening. And Kier Starmer's involved.
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Who's he working for? Is it for the World Economic
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Forum, is it for UK or is it for Israel?
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We don't know. Let's have a look at some of the
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images here. I have not chosen anything too
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horrific, but nevertheless, we're going to have a look at at
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what is represented here as this, sorry, as this conflict
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unfolds, not only in Israel and Gaza and with Iran, but also in
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other parts of the world such as Ukraine.
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We've got some shots here of Iranian drones and missiles
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coming in over Israel. This is a direct hit on one of
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the Iron Dome sites with a missile cooking off.
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So there is no doubt that Iran is doing tremendous damage in
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Israel at the moment, although the BBC doesn't want to report
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it. And conversely, of course, we've
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still got horrific damage in Iran by the Israeli forces.
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Now, I don't know what this location is, but by the colour
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of the smoke there is something industrial, whether that's fuel
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or chemicals burning off. And then we get to the bizarre
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situation where of course we have this message.
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Thank you, Mr. President Trump posted up in Tel Aviv.
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Childish behaviour by Israel as a nation state and apparently we
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should be grateful to Trump. I don't think so.
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Diane, let's bring you in because of course you've picked
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up that across UK. If you go into a hotel, if you
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go into a pub or a club, you're very likely to see ATV screen,
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which will be the BBC simply rolling and rolling propaganda
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about what's happening in in the world.
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And you've picked up on this particular image.
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Tell us a bit more about it. Yeah, thanks, friend.
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Hello, Ben. Happy to be here today.
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I was just watching the BBC yesterday morning just so that
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the audience doesn't have to, and this particular image was up
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on the screen for a couple of minutes and I just took a photo
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of it from my own television. There's a number of things going
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on here. I think in this photo 1 is that
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we see that BBC verify and Mariana Spring and the rest of
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her team were obviously being kind enough to tell us exactly
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where the US bombed the nuclear sites in Iran.
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So it's really good to know that they've got our best interest at
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heart so that we see the actual Google Earth image or whatever
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it is. You also have the convenience of
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picking up your phone and scanning the QR code to find out
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even more, which is wonderful news because then they know that
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you've got your phone on you at all times and that you're
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looking at the right things at the right times.
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Which is really interesting as well, is that the ticker at the
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bottom says that you and Secretary General Antonio
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Gutierrez is gravely alarmed by the use of force by the US
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against Iran, which is all part of the confusion that I believe
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we'll be covering a little bit later than the news, Brian.
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Yes, 24 hour a day propaganda by the BBC and certainly the UK
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column audience is noticing that what they don't, what they don't
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want to cover is the destruction in either Ukraine.
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We don't talk about the real damage to the Ukrainian and
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common economy or the people or the Ukrainian military don't
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want to give the UK public the truth there.
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And the same is now happening with regard to Israel and Iran,
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that we are not to be told the suffering going on inside Israel
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as a result of clearly very large Iranian attacks hitting
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home. So the UK public treated its
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children, particularly by the BBC, and it's up to alternative
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media channels such as the UK column to get the top off this.
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But aside from that propaganda, Diane, you've also been having a
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look at what it's going to cost to set up some of these
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inquiries. Yeah, the inquiries as well as
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the the outcomes of them, including the redress schemes.
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So if we go back quickly to October of 2022, when we first
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saw the release of the report of the Independent Inquiry into
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Child sex sexual abuse in England, there were several
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recommendations that came out of that report.
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Of course, this cost millions of pounds and cost many of years to
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complete. It was released in October of
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2022. One of the main recommendations
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from the report was to set up a redress scheme.
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What we're now hearing is, of course, we don't have the money
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to cover the redress scheme because there have been so many
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children who suffered sexual abuse that it could hit up to
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£10 billion to pay for the redress scheme in England, £10
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billion. And we see, you know, Scotland
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has a redress scheme, of course. But as we're seeing with the
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residential school ladies, of course, that we've been covering
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for years, they're currently not eligible for redress despite
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having the scheme in Scotland because they weren't abused for
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long enough. Apparently six weeks of abuse is
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not enough to be able to apply for redress and also because
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they were not in the correct setting, of course, which is a
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lie. But anyways, Keir Starmer is now
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criticizing the previous Conservative government,
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although the Conservative government was the one that was
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in power when this was released for failing to implement what is
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called the J Review recommendations, and that
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includes the redress scheme. So even though Cure Stormers in
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charge and the Conservative government put it in place, he's
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now blaming them for not having this available and implementing
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the 20 recommendations. Just last month we had released
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the National Audit on group based Child Exploitation and
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abuse, which is the grooming games that we've been talking
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about. This report was led by Baroness
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Casey of Blackstock DBECB. She's had a number of high level
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government roles over the years. She is now the UK government's
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lead non executive director as of January this year I believe.
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And so she was in charge of this particular audit and we've got a
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quote from here that she provided in the forward to the
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report saying we have seen state and church institutions,
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residential care and medical settings all pressure to hold
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inquiries into historic failings.
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It cost £5,000,000 for one local inquiry and that took almost
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five years. If we got this right years ago,
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which of course we didn't, seeing these girls as children
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raped rather than quote, wayward teenagers or collaborators and
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their abuse, collecting ethnicity data and acknowledging
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as a system that we did not do a good enough job then I doubt
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that we would be in this place now.
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She goes on to say in the executive summary that there
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were around 500,000 children a year have been likely to
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experience sexual abuse as children of any kind and for the
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vast majority of them, of course, their abuse has not been
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identified, has not been reported to the police.
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So the police data is much lower than that.
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According to the police recorded data, there were just over
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100,000 offenses of child sexual abuse and exploitation recorded
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in 2024. So that's about 1/5 of what they
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think actually happens with around 60% of them being what
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they call contact offenses and the rest are online offenses.
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Of the contact offenses, an estimated around 17,000 are
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flagged by the police as child sexual exploitation in the
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recorded data. The problem is that we do not
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have reliable data. The only data that is available
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comes from a new police data set on child sexual exploitation,
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which is called the Complex and Organized Child Abuse Seven data
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set if you want to look it up. And although this has many
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limitations, it identified only around 700 recorded offenses of
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group based child sexual exploitation.
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So the agreement gang behavior in 2023.
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There was an excellent sub stack post that came out from Roger
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Mia last week. So I'd like to show some of what
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he said about this. Of course Ben has interviewed
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Raja in the past and we had him as a speaker and our live events
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on location Cheltenham and he has said here if this is truly
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about the survivors then each and every child betrayed by the
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authorities must be entitled to compensation.
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We now know that such a compensation she schemes should
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cost up to could cost up to £10 billion, as I've just said, and
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he went on to say as well in this article that he basically
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says that he doesn't think that anything will ever really come
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out of this. Unfortunately, stealing seems to
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be quite scurched about it. He did say, of course, that this
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national redress scheme was one of those 24 recommendations, as
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I said, but now he's identifying once again that this proposal
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has been scrapped because of the cost.
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As we all know, Raj and Mia has done an incredible job over the
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years for UK column and everywhere else on, on
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identifying this and has paid the price for it.
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So I think we should continue to support him and we need to also
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continue to make sure that we can put pressure on the
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government wherever possible to to make them accountable for
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what has happened and and protect these 500,000 children
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per year that are being abused sexually across the country.
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Brian. So thank you very much for that.
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And just to reinforce our opening statement on this
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horrific what has been going on over a great many years to do
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with children in UK can only happen with the full connivance
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of the establishment and the government.
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There's no question of that. But what we are saying is watch
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out because you're now going to see the government pushing
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everything to do with child safety, child abuse, because
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that's the smokescreen to help cover up what it is doing
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elsewhere. Do we need to stay on the case
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with children? Yes, would be aware of that
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smokescreen. And Ben, let's bring you in
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because propaganda, censorship that is unfolding very, very
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quickly in UK. Indeed it is.
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Yes. Hello everybody.
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And we're going to head over to Demos, the think tank led by
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Polly Curtis, the Chief executive.
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And we've actually had some messages over the past few weeks
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asking why we covered them. Not so much.
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Hopefully this will shed some light on that.
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And ultimately it's because they are playmaking the censorship
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industrial complex here in the UK.
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Let's hear now from Polly Curtis about the launch of the
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Epistemic Security Network. So I'm your chair tonight, and
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tonight we are launching a new network, the Epistemic Security
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Network, and the aim of this network is to provide a home for
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the. Collective efforts to protect
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democracy by cleaning up our information supply chains.
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Together, we hope this network, spanning civil society, politics
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and government will mobilise evidence and design strategies
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to protect our democratic supply chains and our future.
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Really, we aim for this network to be a platform for everyone in
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this room to use, to come together, to find the
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connections, to find the ideas and to progress this agenda
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together. And we have the most.
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Before I even get to the panel, we have the most extraordinary
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group of people here. I know everyone of you in the
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audience and where you're from, and you really bring such
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expertise to this conversation. We're very keen that you're part
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of this conversation going forward.
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Well, there we have it, Ben. Information supply chains.
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These people are desperate because they know the lid's
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coming off what they're doing, and anybody who's working for
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that is a direct threat to them. But that's quite a statement,
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isn't it? Information supply chain.
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It is yes, absolutely. It comes from this report that
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we we talked about earlier in the year.
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This demo support epistemic security 2029 still focused on
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the 29 next general election, fortifying the UK's information
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supply chain and they to find epistemic security as keeping
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our knowledge safe. Knowledge.
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Well, quite exactly the official narrative, ultimately, and as
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we've just heard, the official narrative was telling us that
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there was no issue with grooming gangs across the north of
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England. Turns out there was an issue
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with grooming gangs across the north of England.
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But apparently these people are the people who should be
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protecting knowledge and telling us what isn't, isn't true.
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Who's in the network? Wow, right, She said.
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Look at the people who are in the room.
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I'll pick a few names out. Hope not hate, full factor we've
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spoken about recently they would potentially do.
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They've got a guy in there running Ofsted at the moment.
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DCMS are in the room. So you've got civil service and
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politicians, civil society foundations like the Jo Cox
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Foundation, Public Interest News Foundation I've spoken about
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previously, which is run by a guy that was exec director of
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the Fabian Society. Polly Curtis is on the board
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there, Ofcom. Yeah.
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The arbiters of truth. The British Library is a few
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people there from the library system.
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Diane, we'll have to talk about that later.
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The Royal Society, because they have to own science, right?
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And they actually talk about that in the video.
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You should go and watch the whole thing.
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By the way, we'll provide a link.
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It's about an hour and 20 minutes.
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Highly recommend it. Right.
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So an extremely powerful network.
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What are they there to do? That's there to protect, protect
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liberal democracy. And as I define that regular
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viewers will know is we can do whatever we want if enough
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people go along with it. And they're also extremely
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concerned about defending the country against populism.
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This term has been used quite a bit in recently and also in in
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that video, which you can go and watch.
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And the BBC defines this as the idea that society is separated
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into two groups at odds with one another, the pure people and the
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corrupt elite. And I think the corrupt elite
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were probably in that room at demos last week.
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And what were they saying up on stage?
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SO3 panelists will just give you a quick glimpse into the
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discussion. So this is Sir John
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Whittingdale, Conservative MP from Malden since 1992, formerly
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at DCMS. He actually created the BBC
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local democracy reporter scheme. He was happy to let us know.
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And he says one of the challenges is striking the
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balance between free speech and disinformation.
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Obviously people like him get to decide that.
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Who else was there? Gina Neff from Cambridge
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University, she essentially saying that we can't media
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literacy our way out of this. The plebs are revolting, Brian.
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The narrative is falling to paces.
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And and they're very worried. They're they're very worried.
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If the audience wants good news, the good news is you can see the
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narrative of this team coming apart.
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Are people always saying to us, what's the good news?
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Well, the good news is you can see they're having trouble.
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What are they having trouble countering?
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The truth? Basically, yes.
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Facts and the truth. Exactly.
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Exactly. So she says we can't media,
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media literacy our way out of the problem.
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The guy at the BBC on the end there, he actually thinks that
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you can. He's Ian Bundrid, director of
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public policy at the BBC, who has just arrived there from
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YouTube. He's been at YouTube for five
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years. So he probably booed us off
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YouTube. Actually that might have been
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him. And he said, can we work on a
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disinformation GCSE? He actually wants to manipulate
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the the education system and actually even revealed in this
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presentation that the BBC News round, their kind of kids news
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program is actually shown in to 3,000,000 young people in their
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classroom every week at the moment.
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I had no idea they were doing that.
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Didn't used to happen when I was at school.
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So anyway, who's behind this? 2 crew?
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Social figures. So this guy, William Perry, and
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who actually funded the original Demos report, former top policy
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adviser to Blair, instrumental in creating Ofcom, actually
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received an OBE for his work on the Online Safety Act.
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Also, he's married into the Sainsbury's family,
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interestingly, and he's also funding a lot of other things as
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well. This guy's fascinating,
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including the Future Governance Forum.
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Go and check that out. We'll talk about it more over
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the next couple of weeks. And then finally, also in the
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mix, funding this. Network is the Quadrature
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Climate Foundation, who are the people that Bund 4,000,000 lbs
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to Labour just ahead of the general election last year, are
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also funding the retraining of the UK civil service, fire a
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political foundation and have shelled over a billion dollars
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into 187 organisations in 17 countries.
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These are the people that are controlling what isn't isn't
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true in the UK right now. Control, controlling the
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narrative. So what?
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People get heavily focused on what's happening in the Middle
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East or Ukraine inside UK. This society is being taken
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apart, it's being controlled and free speech is being wiped out
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by these teams. And of course they can only do
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it with the help of vast amounts of money.
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So the banking system's got to be in there somewhere.
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But we are going to say whatever you're looking at worldwide,
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whatever you're worried about, stay focused on what's actually
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eating away of the constitutional structure of UK.
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Now we have to do it. We have to do some comments on
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what's happening in the Middle East at the moment.
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And the best starting point is to have a look at what President
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Trump had to say after his attacks on the Iranian nuclear
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facility. A short time ago, the US
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military carried out massive precision strikes on the three
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key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime for Doe, Natanz
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and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for
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years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise
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of was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and
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a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one
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state sponsor of terror. Tonight I can report to the
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world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
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Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely
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and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle
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East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks
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will be far greater and a lot easier.
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Well, Ben, I don't know if that fills you with confidence.
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And the question is who is the terrorist or the bully operating
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in the Middle East? Certainly, Americans got the
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weight of the military power in that area.
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But Trump being very upbeat, we don't yet know what the strikes
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actually did. And there's now more debate over
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whether they were successful or not.
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But nevertheless, that's how he announced it.
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Now, what was he talking about? This little video clip does
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explain the use of the American bunker busting bombs, but also
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we have got we've got mainstream reports being confused with
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films. This is truly, this is a truly
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scary report as it is, it shows us how pitiful American
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mainstream media has got. Let's have a look at this Fox
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report. Yeah, So what we're looking at
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here is we're being told this is, I think anywhere from just
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shop 200 to 300 feet in depth. There are all kind of reports
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out there of 1000 foot, but I think that's more propaganda.
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So what you end up doing is if you saw the movie, the latest
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Top Gun movie, eerily enough, this is that plot kind of coming
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to fruition in real life. It's not just one bomb.
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It'll be a bomb after a bomb to get through that penetration.
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And just lastly, that's what you're talking about, penetrate
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up to 200 feet below the surface and then of course we'll see it.
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Try and put the second one in there and go down in there.
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Let's bring in David Burke, our Top Gun and former.
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Top Gun. Instructor retired, yes, Marine
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Corps officer now, David, I don't know how well we did that,
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but you know this better than anybody.
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Talk to us about, you know, questions over whether or not
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this can successfully be done. Joey Jones just crushed that
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explanation. You guys hit the nail on the
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head. So really well done.
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This absolutely can be done. There is not a cave in the world
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deep enough to defend itself against the American military if
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it needs to hit it. And you describe the weapons
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system and the aircraft and the mating of that exactly.
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Right now this is a hard problem to solve, but it is absolutely a
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solvable problem with this system.
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Well, there was a comment in our chat box.
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Pathetic, pathetic, but highly dangerous.
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We're mixing films. We seem to regard this as a fun
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report. It's exciting, these bunker
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busting bombs. But we've seen other reports
24:59
where in the media people have been saying, well, it was a bit
25:01
disappointed because we didn't detect any radiation links.
25:06
We are dealing with mad people here.
25:08
They don't know whether they're living a film or real life.
25:12
Well, against that backdrop, what did Keir Starmer have to
25:15
say? Let's look at our flaccid Prime
25:18
Minister in action. President Trump has said future
25:22
attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.
25:25
There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran,
25:28
greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.
25:31
Iran has said the events overnight will have everlasting
25:34
consequences. Do you agree escalation seems
25:37
very real? And are you prepared to offer
25:40
military support, UK military support if needed?
25:44
Well, my focus is on de escalating the situation.
25:47
I accept your challenge that there is a risk of escalation.
25:51
That's a risk to the region. It's a risk beyond the region
25:55
and that's why all our focus has been on de escalating, getting
25:57
people back around to negotiate what is a very real threat in
26:02
relation to the nuclear program, in relation to the UK.
26:06
We were not involved in the attack.
26:08
We were given due notice, as we would expect as close allies to
26:12
the US and we have been moving assets to the region to make
26:16
sure that we're in a position to protect our own interests, our
26:20
personnel and our assets and of course, those of our allies.
26:26
Well, there we are, Ben, Prime Minister peace, He's been doing
26:29
everything he can to wind down the wars, whether it's Ukraine
26:34
or with Israel and the Middle East.
26:36
He's simply been there pushing for peace, didn't get involved
26:40
in the American attacks. The British intelligence
26:43
services not involved. I'm very sure they would have
26:46
been because the Americans would have actually appreciated some
26:50
advice. And but there he is.
26:53
This is what he says to the public.
26:55
It's truly outrageous that he can say these sorts of things.
26:59
I don't know whether you want to comment on that.
27:02
Ineffectual and out of the loop I think I would say with
27:05
Starmer. Looks like he's had his hair
27:06
done though. Maybe he was with his stylist
27:08
over the weekend. I I'm also going to repeat
27:11
again, when he makes these statements, you don't know
27:13
whether he's speaking as Prime Minister of, of the UK or he's
27:17
talking on behalf of the World Economic Forum or he's giving
27:20
the line required by Israel. We simply do not know who this
27:24
man works for. Now let's get into the serious
27:27
reports. And this is the Iranian foreign
27:30
minister talking about the attack.
27:34
Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States brutal
27:40
military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear
27:44
facilities. It is an outrageous, grave and
27:48
unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the
27:53
Charter of the United Nations and international law.
27:57
Well, I think it is irrelevant to ask Iran to return to
28:01
diplomacy because we were in the middle of diplomacy.
28:06
We were in the middle of talks with with the United States when
28:11
Israelis blew it up. And again, we were in the middle
28:17
of talks and negotiations with Europeans happened only two days
28:23
ago in Geneva, when this time Americans decided to blow it up.
28:31
So what are you saying? They're absolutely accurate.
28:34
Iranian at the peace negotiations when they were
28:38
attacked. No ifs or buts.
28:40
Now, the following or the next piece of video clip is from
28:44
Scott Ritter. An absolutely fantastic
28:47
statement and analysis of what's actually just taken place.
28:52
Let's see what Scott Ritter has to say.
28:55
This marking the anniversary of German perfidy, the world was
29:00
experiencing American perfidy, that America was involved in
29:04
engaging in a illegal act of aggression against Iran.
29:09
And the question is, is this the kind of new threat that we are
29:14
talking about? And as an American, this new
29:18
threat doesn't manifest itself from Iran.
29:22
It manifests itself from within. What are the traditional values
29:28
of the United States? We are a nation defined by the
29:31
rule of law as established by the Constitution.
29:35
And when we speak of how we apply on the global scene,
29:39
understand that the Constitution, you know, has in
29:42
it a clause that says when the United States Senate has
29:46
ratified A treaty that has been signed by the president, that
29:50
becomes the law of the land. And I want to remind people that
29:53
the United Nations Charter is a de facto treaty that has been
29:58
ratified by the Senate of the United States, signed by the
30:01
President of the United States. And therefore the United States
30:04
is constitutionally obliged to comply with the laws that are
30:09
set forth in the Charter. And one of the principal things
30:13
is that you will not carry out. There's only two conditions
30:16
under which a nation can go to war.
30:18
A nation could go to war if the Security Council of the United
30:22
Nations has enacted a Chapter 7 resolution under the charter
30:26
authorizing military force to be used to resolve a specific
30:30
threat to international peace and security.
30:33
No such resolution exists today regarding Iran.
30:36
The other one is that a nation can carry out legitimate
30:40
self-defense that they have been attacked, or if they are
30:44
confronted with the imminent threat of violence, they are
30:47
allowed to preemptively act to eliminate the imminent threat.
30:51
But then they are obligated to go to the Security Council to
30:54
once again turn the situation over to the international body
30:58
for alternate resolution. the United States has not been
31:01
attacked by Iran, and there's nobody that can articulate the
31:04
potential of such an attack. People who seek to do so by
31:07
talking about Iran's emergence as a nuclear threshold state
31:13
forget that at the time of the Israeli attack and the American
31:16
attack, Iran was at the negotiating table, negotiating a
31:22
resolution to this issue that eliminated any notion of them
31:27
not only being a threat, but an imminent threat.
31:32
Lot to discuss in that clip but the key thing is he's saying we
31:35
need to look inside America for the problem and of course the
31:39
same situation here in UK. We need to look inside UK to
31:44
understand what is really happening the decay inside UK
31:48
that is then fermenting these overseas wars.
31:51
We'll talk about this more in UK column extra but let's have a
31:55
look at this last clip. This is Senator Bernie Sanders,
31:58
who was speaking at a rally when he heard the news about the
32:02
American strike. Listen to what he has to say and
32:06
listen to the reaction of the audience.
32:11
This is a statement, statement from Donald Trump, quote, We
32:15
have completed our very successful attack on the three
32:18
nuclear sites in Iran. Etcetera.
32:50
I agree. And I want to tell you
32:53
something. Not only is this news that I've
32:57
just heard, the second alarming that all of you have just heard,
33:02
but it is so grossly unconstitutional.
33:06
All of you know that the only entity that can take this
33:13
country to. War is the US Congress.
33:16
The president does not have the right.
33:24
So a senator here picking up on the key point, Trump is out of
33:28
control, Keir Starmer is out of control.
33:31
We're going to deal with the situation overseas.
33:33
We've got to deal with what is going wrong inside our own
33:37
countries and we must not lose sight of that.
33:40
We'll discuss these points a lot more in UK Column Extra, which
33:45
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34:42
And I have to say this lady's doing some really, really good
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Debbie, Diane, apologies bring you in here because you're going
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Yes, thanks Brian. Now there's two new written
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35:17
weeks ago, she's now doing a three-part series for us on Post
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truth in different contexts. So this is part one of three.
35:25
This one is about science and medicine and post truth.
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36:13
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36:22
Now people are saying when will you tell us about the tickets?
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Very soon there will be an announcement about when tickets
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But we're really looking forward to meeting people at that event
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I'm told the weather is going to be good, so we look forward to
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We will see you there. Now we've also got a celebrating
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37:44
Adams will be there with Clive de Carl.
37:47
So that's very exciting. Richard Vogue's also speaking.
37:51
But if you can get along to that event, I'm sure it'd be very
37:54
good. And here we've got regional
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sovereignty and devolution. Dissident meet up Southwest
38:00
region, that's Exeter Sunday the 20th of July and Sandy will also
38:07
be a speaker at that. So if that's people getting out
38:12
and about to spread the word on what's happening and to warn
38:16
people and support people in these very strange times, we
38:20
certainly need to be looking after our children, Ben, because
38:24
they simply will not leave the babies and young children alone.
38:29
They certainly won't. They certainly won't.
38:31
The the vulnerable and the infirm.
38:34
Yeah, the unborn children and the old.
38:37
Last week we saw news from the death cult that runs the country
38:41
that they're going to decriminalise full term
38:43
abortion. The Assisted Dying Bill went
38:47
through on Friday. We had an excellent report on
38:49
the news on Wednesday from Doctor Liz Evans about Ozempic
38:53
and the damage it's been causing to people across the UK and
38:57
further afield. And then on Saturday we had this
39:00
revelation, this news come up that the NHS is planning to DNA
39:05
test all babies to supposedly assess their disease risk.
39:11
And this is the news that DNA sequencing will now take place
39:17
at birth. Blood will be taken from the
39:19
umbilical. Cord.
39:21
Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA maps to
39:24
assess their risk of hundreds of diseases.
39:27
It's all about preventative healthcare.
39:29
When you hear about prevention, this is what they're talking
39:32
about. Genomics and genetic engineering
39:34
under NHS plans for the next 10 years.
39:37
This 10 year plan hasn't come out yet.
39:39
We're Streeting still working on it, but they're just, they're
39:42
previewing stuff into the media already.
39:45
The Streeting has said that gene technology would enable the
39:49
health service to leapfrog disease.
39:51
So we're in front of it rather than reacting to it.
39:55
OK, so the article also says that this was first reported on
39:59
by the Daily Telegraph. Not strictly true actually,
40:02
because it was first reported on by me quite a while back now,
40:07
just over 2 years ago. This is an interview that I did
40:09
with James Denning Polls, the first time I ever stuck my head
40:12
above the parapet publicly and started talking about what I was
40:15
seeing in the health system. So go and have a listen to that.
40:18
And actually it says in there that they're looking to
40:20
introduce this into the neonatal pathway.
40:23
And lo and behold, 2 years down the track.
40:25
Exactly what they've done. Brian and Debbie have also
40:27
spoken about this previously and will provide some links to that
40:31
so you can go and look at those interviews.
40:33
Lots of information on the UK column website.
40:36
Who's excited about it? All the wrong people.
40:38
David Cameron most notably saying this is fantastic news.
40:43
It has his full backing when I first launched Genomics England.
40:46
So this is a Cameron government initiative.
40:49
Actually was a part of the legacy of the 2012 Olympic
40:52
Games, interestingly enough. Bizarre legacy for an Olympic
40:55
Games basically says the idea of sequencing the genome of every
40:59
newborn was a long way off. And it proves how much science
41:02
has come on and cost down in order to make this is possible.
41:06
It's very excited about it. He does warn that there's still
41:10
lots of issues to get to grips with.
41:12
Permissions for data use, big problems actually getting people
41:15
to sign up for it, ensuring we start with all children, yeah,
41:19
everywhere in the country, not restricting to only some areas
41:23
or some conditions, etcetera. So they want all children into
41:27
the database. No child left behind, it's the
41:30
phrase. Exactly, exactly.
41:33
This is inclusive, Brian, really importantly, and they're talking
41:37
about this as being transformational for
41:40
preventative and personalized healthcare.
41:42
It's all about you. It's all about saving the NHS,
41:45
you know, all these kind of wonderful things.
41:47
Well, Cameron doesn't mention, though, in his tweet is the fact
41:49
that actually he got into a bit of bother back in 2021 because
41:55
he helped the American genomics firm Illumina secure a £123
42:02
million uncontested government contract via Matt Hancock,
42:06
because he personally invited Hancock along to the
42:09
International Summit on Population Genomics, which is
42:12
run by Illumina. That you can see Hancock and
42:14
Cameron on stage there on the right.
42:16
That's Jay Flatley, who is the chair of Illumina, which is an
42:21
American technology company founded in 1998.
42:25
Interesting name. Are they trying to tell us
42:27
something? I don't know.
42:29
But they make the machines that do genomic sequencing, right?
42:33
So this entire industry runs on the back of technology produced
42:37
by this country. Who runs it?
42:39
So straight off the bat, the new chairman, Scott Gottlieb, MD's
42:43
chair since February, sorry, March this year, He's also on
42:50
the board of Pfizer. And before that, he was the
42:52
chair of the FDA, the 23rd commissioner of the FDA.
42:56
Yeah. And so one of the key people
42:58
actually during COVID who basically spun out of the
43:01
regulator and then straight into industry.
43:03
And I would imagine he was being handsomely remunerated for his
43:06
role there. One would think so.
43:08
The other thing I'd need to remind the audience about, of
43:11
course, David Cameron, who said his belief in Israel was
43:15
unshakeable UK column then said, well, which comes first Mr.
43:19
Cameron? Is it the UK or is it Israel?
43:22
And then we have this enormous penetration of the NHS and our,
43:27
our health schemes across the, or our health industry across
43:31
the country by Israel. Was that accidental or was that
43:35
some backdoor dealing? We don't know, of course,
43:38
because Cameron never really put his cards on the table.
43:41
But I think we're entitled to ask the question as we've now
43:45
got Israeli health firms coming in alongside Israeli
43:52
intelligence. I'm talking military
43:54
intelligence, state security intelligence, mixing it with the
43:58
UK government and then coming alongside our health system.
44:02
Particularly, particularly in the NHS for Nicole Junckermann
44:06
and Matt Hancock and actually a guy called Park and Moss who was
44:11
on the board of Genomics England, who was involved in
44:14
that whole situation as well. So yeah, they're they're very
44:16
much in the mixed now. What's Illumina about?
44:21
Let's just hear a little bit from Francis de Souza, the
44:24
former chief executive of Illumina, speaking about the
44:27
role of the company in COVID-19, speaking at the World Economic
44:31
Forum, I believe it was in 2023. Let's have a listen.
44:35
During COVID, so we were called into China in the fall of 2020,
44:39
late 20/20/2019 to help them diagnose.
44:42
Was then a flu of unknown origin.
44:44
And so we did the first sequence of the SARS COVID 2 genome that
44:47
was published on January 10th. And around the world, what
44:51
happened was a couple of companies, so Moderna in
44:53
Cambridge and and Biontech in Germany took that data and
44:57
started working on their vaccine.
44:58
Now, what's interesting is that Moderna, for example, has never
45:01
had the live virus on their site.
45:03
It was all a software problem from there.
45:05
I remember talking to Stefan and he was saying, look, we're
45:08
basing our entire vaccine program on that data you
45:11
published it better be good data because that's it.
45:13
That's all we're using. And, and you can get a sense of
45:16
Moderna is 1, arguably, you know, one of the most, you know,
45:20
one of more important companies in biology right now.
45:22
And yet it's all a software problem for them.
45:25
And so that's a use case of once you digitize biology, you can
45:28
solve profound biological problems.
45:30
It's good. Thing you got it right.
45:31
It's a good thing. It's a good thing.
45:35
It's a good thing. It's a good thing.
45:37
So he was actually in China in 2019.
45:41
So he was invited to China in 2019 by the Chinese government
45:45
to digitize the COVID virus, which was then used, the
45:49
software that created was then used by Moderna and Biontech to
45:52
generate their their their vaccines.
45:54
These are the people that are behind the technology, this
45:57
entire paradigm that is being ushered into the NHS, embedded
46:01
into the NHS from birthright. And what can this potentially
46:06
do? So let's have a little look here
46:07
at this quote from Amy Webb's fantastic quote.
46:12
We're talking about improving biology and redesigning
46:16
organisms for beneficial purposes.
46:19
It's going to allow us to not just edit genomes, but also and
46:23
importantly write a new code for life.
46:28
We will have right level permissions for life.
46:32
That's what this technology they believe that allows them to do.
46:37
Look at her. They're throwing up the the
46:38
devil horns. Very rock'n'roll, Miss Webb.
46:42
Fascinating. That's pretty terrifying.
46:46
How else could this potentially be abused?
46:48
Let's have a little listen to Nita Farahani at the World
46:51
Economic Forum. But once you can
46:54
probabilistically and through modeling, be able to much better
46:58
see what's going to happen. Take, for example, the fact that
47:01
we already can start to see signs of Alzheimer's many, many
47:05
decades potentially before a person starts to manifest the
47:08
condition. Do they want to know?
47:10
And if they don't want to know, should other people have the
47:14
ability to know? Should an insurance company be
47:17
able to make choices about whether to cover them?
47:19
Should an employer have access to that information to make
47:22
decisions about whether or not they are somebody that they
47:26
ought to ought to employ? So a few few members, a few
47:32
members of our chat box said that I've been looking serious
47:35
during today's news and I think I've got every reason to hear we
47:39
see the absolute danger of these individuals.
47:43
They are so deluded in their own power to rewrite life.
47:48
And she mentions Alzheimer's. Maybe, maybe the insurance
47:51
companies need to know that you're gonna become a bit.
47:53
Even if you decide not to. Even if you decide not.
47:56
They need to know because you might be a risk.
47:58
No compassion. You're gonna suffer from
48:00
Alzheimer's. You're gone.
48:02
You're out the job. You're on the bin.
48:04
Yeah. End of life programme for you.
48:06
These are dangerous individuals and if I remember correctly it
48:10
was David Cameron that soon into his premiership as Prime
48:16
Minister suddenly announced that by a particular date so many
48:22
people in UK would have Alzheimer's.
48:24
I think it was Alzheimer's and I think the figure he was talking
48:28
about was 2 million. And at the time I was thinking
48:30
to myself, where do where are you getting that from?
48:33
Where's the data that's telling you this?
48:36
So we know that the seeds for this stuff have been sold, have
48:40
sown many, many years ago. But this is the mindset.
48:44
So if you wonder how they can bomb Gaza flat and destroy
48:48
thousands of men, women, children in Gaza or destroy
48:52
millions of Ukrainians, you are now getting into their mindset.
48:57
We need to get into their minds. We need to expose what's in our
49:01
mind, in their minds. And we need to warn as many
49:04
people as possible. So yeah, it's serious.
49:07
Extremely serious, and not just in the UK, also importantly, all
49:12
around the world, but as we're about to find out, in particular
49:16
from Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
49:20
We came out of COVID first. I described that in my book, My
49:23
Conversations with Albert Bourla, Pfizer and I persuaded
49:26
him to give tiny Israel the the necessary vaccines to get us out
49:31
first from the COVID. And the reason I could do that
49:34
is because we have a database, 98%, a medical database, 98% of
49:40
our population has digitized medical records and little card
49:44
and anywhere you go in any hospital in Israel, NS doesn't
49:47
make any difference. Boom, you punch it in and you
49:50
know everything about this patient for the last 20 years.
49:53
I said we'll use that to tell you whether these vaccines, what
49:57
do they do to people, not individual people, not with
50:00
their individual identities, but statistically, what does it do
50:03
to people with the, you know, with the meningitis?
50:07
What does it do to people with high blood pressure?
50:09
What is it, you know, you want to know that?
50:11
So Israel became, if you will, the, the lab for Pfizer and
50:16
that's how we did it. We got it out and we gave the
50:18
information to the world not only been published in medical
50:21
magazines and so on. That's a database we have.
50:26
I intend to bring on that base database of medical, personal
50:31
medical records for entire population, A genetic database,
50:35
genomes. OK, give me a saliva sample,
50:37
volunteer. But I'm sure most people would
50:40
do it. Maybe we'll pay them.
50:42
Now we have a genetic record on a medical record of a robust
50:48
population. It's got you have to have
50:49
diversified populations. We have people from 100 lands.
50:53
This is a very powerful engine now.
50:55
Now let pharma companies, let medical companies, let them run
51:01
algorithms on this database. OK, I'm telling you right away
51:05
that I'll give preference for a few years to Israeli firms, but
51:09
you can create. And then to the world, but you
51:11
can create, you know, a biotechnological industry that
51:16
is unheard of right now, unheard of, unimagined even.
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A biotechnological industry and the raw materials are humans and
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importantly this week, newborn babies.
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So the the man responsible for the slaughter in Gaza is using
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his own population as Lab Rats? Debbie, this needs to be
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exposed. You would have thought that good
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place to get information flowing would be universities and
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academia, but is that true? Well, I'm not Debbie, but I can
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answer. It's Diane, Brian.
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I'm having a bad day today on time that's.
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OK, that's OK. She's in the room with us.
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Well, it depends. It's.
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The interview tomorrow, it's everything, right?
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So just some updates on the academic freedom situation,
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which on the surface looks good, but I'd like to provide some
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some thoughts on this. If you don't know, if you
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haven't seen my reporting on this previously, there is
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something called the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act
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2023, which was of course passed under the previous government as
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soon as Labor got in. Essentially the the new
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education secretary Bridget Phillipson decided to halt it
52:36
because she had concerns that the law was potentially damaging
52:39
to student welfare. She was talking about
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anti-Semitism and and other things like this that she
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thought of hate speech would be hurting people's feelings.
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So the Office for Students that now that they've kind of worked
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this out and, and most of this act is now going into place on
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1st of August. That the Office for Students,
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which is an independent public body but does report to
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Parliament through the Department of Education, whilst
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not being part of central government, has provided some
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guidance and published some survey results.
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And so I would like to go into this a little bit just to see
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what they have to say in support of the Act and how to put this
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all into place at universities. So first let's hear this short
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video clip that I have. Well, actually let's first look
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at this BBC article that I should mention first, BBC
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telling us that students are ready to be shocked or should be
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ready to be shocked, not saying that they are and offended at
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university as as I know through my own process of losing my
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academic career as a full professor, they do not handle
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well anything that is considered to be offensive.
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But so let's look at now what this Office for Students video
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had to say about its new guidance.
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Free speech and academic freedom are vital to higher education.
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In fact, they're vital to society.
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Without them, there are no new ideas, no productive debate, no
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challenge to conventional wisdom, and no social progress.
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Our new free speech guidance illustrates how universities and
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colleges can protect these rights.
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It's designed to help universities and colleges
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navigate their new duties to secure free speech and have a
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free speech code of practice. These duties will come into
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force on the 1st of. August this year Right now
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universities and colleges need to look at their policies that
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we know that some of you are already doing this.
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These could include things relating to personnel, so
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appointments, promotions, disciplinary processes,
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governance and decision making. Where it affects free speech
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research ethics, your existing free speech statement and code
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of practice, and student and staff training materials should
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include freedom of speech as set out in the guidance, and you
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should provide induction to ensure that your students and
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staff understand their own free speech rights.
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You can see the guidance and find out more about free speech
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and academic freedom on our website.
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So we'll put a link in the show notes to the complete guidance
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if you want to look at all the detail.
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But basically what I would like to say of the, I guess really
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important part of the guidance is that they have a framework
55:14
now that they have recommended for determining whether or not
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there is an issue or not with free speech and whether or not
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it should be something that gets pursued and investigated with
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three steps. The first step is asking whether
55:27
the speech is within the law. And that's that's another
55:31
question entirely about unlawful speech.
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There are people like myself and Professor Dennis Hayes, the
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director of Academics for Academic Freedom, who believe
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that all free speech, all speech is just speech.
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And there's, there shouldn't be anything lawful about any words
55:45
because there's no actual violence or anything taking
55:47
place. But there's that's another
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debate. Step 2 is asking if there are
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any reasonably practical practicable, that's a difficult
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word to say, steps to secure the speech and if yes, take those
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steps and do not restrict the speech.
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The guidance illustrates other factors that may affect or not
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affect what is reasonably practicable.
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So we need to read the guidance for that.
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And step three are any restrictions prescribed by law
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and proportionate under the European Convention on Human
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Rights. And I would have to say that
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this is one of the things that happened to me was because I
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have my own views on sex and gender, for example, that those
56:23
were one of the reasons that I lost my academic career.
56:27
So let's look separately a bit at both students and academics
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and how this will affect them. Here's another video from the
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Office for Students explaining to students that they do have
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the right to free speech after all.
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Music. So that's all good to see and
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and good to hear, but I'm terribly not concerned after,
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you know, working for 20 years in the university system and
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especially the past few years that students are not going to
58:20
be able to cope with us very well because they're coming in
58:23
with a lot of mental health problems.
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An idea about well-being and what that means, especially
58:27
those that survived through the lockdowns and weren't able to
58:31
actually learn social skills. Universities are sort of
58:35
coddling these students as well, providing these so-called safe
58:38
spaces on campus where students can go and cry and have someone
58:42
make a cup of tea and have a therapy dog, as they call them.
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And so I'm not terribly concerned that this, I'm
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actually quite concerned that students will not be able to
58:52
handle this if it actually comes into place.
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On the side of the academics, there was a survey that was
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released last week as well by the office for students talking
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about how they have perceived academic and free speech on
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campus. This was conducted last year in
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March and April of 2024. The interesting thing to note
59:12
here is that 77% of the academics who responded identify
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as left wing, with only 9% being in the center, 14% being right
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wing. Now I don't believe in left and
59:24
right dichotomies anymore when it comes to politics, but that
59:27
just kind of kind of goes to show where they're coming from
59:31
in terms of their positioning. The other thing as well to note
59:35
is that there was around, according to the survey, around
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1/5 of them do not. Feel free to discuss challenging
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our controversial topics in their teaching and their
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research. That increased up to 34% of them
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who come from ethnic minority backgrounds, which I also
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thought was interesting. These were similar scores in
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terms of research and teaching, public speaking, social media.
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Worth noting for me as a female academic who is no longer a
1:00:04
female academic is that a fifth of the female academics say that
1:00:08
they did not feel free to discuss their ideas and their
1:00:12
research as I was counselled for doing so, compared to one in 10
1:00:17
or 11% of male academics saying the same things.
1:00:20
So the risk seems to be higher for female academics, including
1:00:24
me, because I was very senior for the majority of them who did
1:00:28
experience negative treatment, investigations, disciplinary
1:00:32
procedures and so on. 38% of this was due to views on sex and
1:00:37
gender such as mine, and 27% based on international politics,
1:00:42
which again, was one of my situations that I talked about
1:00:45
as well. So we can see here that these
1:00:48
things are happening. I'm not entirely convinced that
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having that many 77% of people who are identified as left wing
1:00:56
is not really going to benefit those of us who did not have
1:00:59
left wing ideas. So I would imagine that these
1:01:01
scores would be even higher for those of us who are not
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so-called left wing. Brian.
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Diane, thank you very much for that.
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And I've just picked up on, of course, people listening in will
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have only heard the music in the video.
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So we'll say a discussion on what free speech is and why it's
1:01:19
important in academia and for for students.
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And one of the key things is because you need free speech in
1:01:26
order to generate new ideas, which that's a pretty powerful
1:01:30
argument in its own right. So encouraging from you that we
1:01:34
are starting to see a bit of a backlash out happened but a lot
1:01:38
more work to be done. But take us somewhere brighter
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to end today's UK column News with Diane.
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Yes, brighter, assuming that we still have the sun in the
1:01:53
future. And I say that because I I
1:01:57
watched the live stream that Sonia Poulton provided of the
1:02:00
geoengineering rally in London on Saturday, which we have been
1:02:05
advertising and mentioning on the news for the past few weeks.
1:02:07
And unfortunately, none of us from UK column were able to make
1:02:10
it to London for the event. But watching the live stream, it
1:02:14
seemed like there was a pretty high vibration sort of
1:02:17
atmosphere, kind of similar to what you would experience if you
1:02:20
came to one of our on location events or like in the freedom
1:02:23
rallies that we had in 2020 and 2021 when people were protesting
1:02:27
the lockdowns and the mandates. I heard from a lot of members on
1:02:32
Saturday and Sunday because I was posting about watching the
1:02:36
the live stream and from my home here and I got some photos sent
1:02:41
to me directly that they they gave me their express permission
1:02:44
to provide on the news. Here's one from Mark wearing his
1:02:49
UK column T-shirt, which he said got some compliments.
1:02:52
So that was really good to hear. So I guess we were actually
1:02:55
represented by some T-shirts and so on, even though none of us
1:02:59
were able to make it. So that was really good to see
1:03:02
it. And it was good to see that that
1:03:03
there's such a good environment for sort of such a discussion of
1:03:07
what is of course a serious topic to many of our members.
1:03:09
So, but really good to see that. Joanne, thank you very much.
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Yes, huge thank you to everybody supporting the column.
1:03:18
We're here because of you. And we do remember that every
1:03:21
day. We must finish today's news.
1:03:24
A lot of heavy material today. It needs to be put on the table.
1:03:28
Don't get distracted with everything happening overseas.
1:03:32
The biggest danger we believe, is in this country, and it's
1:03:36
unfolding really quickly. Let's get it exposed.
1:03:40
Joanne, thank you for joining me.
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Ben, thank you for joining me. Stay with us if you're AUK
1:03:44
column member. Extra time in a few minutes and
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we will see you then. In the meantime, bye bye UK
1:03:52
column news. We'll be back on Wednesday at
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1:00.