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UK Column News Podcast 30th August 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the thirtieth of August twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Column News. I'm
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your host Mike Robinson joining me today. We have Debbie
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Evans and Mark Anderson. Welcome to the program both. Now
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we're going to get started with the censorship regime which
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is developing very very quickly in front of her eyes
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at the moment. Just a little bit of a recap,
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of course, Richard Medhurst here from before the weekend arrested
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Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act Section twelve because of
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his reporting. That was then followed up in France with
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the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and then yesterday
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back in the UK, we had the arrest of Sarah Wilkinson.
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According to her husband, the police came to the house
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just before seven thirty eight, twelve of them in total,
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some of them in plain clothes from the counter terrorism police.
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They said she was under arrest for content that she
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has posted online. The house being ridded and they've seized
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all her electronic devices. It didn't end there with the
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arrest of Richard Bernard, another pro Palestine activist, after a
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targeted campaign by the Zionist lobby Palestine Actions co founder
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Richard Bernard facing three charges for two speeches. He's accused
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of supporting a prescribed organization under the Terrorism Act and
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encouraging criminal activity. So this is what is happening, very
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clearly with the people that are pushing a pro Palestine
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narrative at the moment. Arrest under section twelve of the
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Terrorism Act, which of course we mentioned before is related
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to whether you're considered to be promoting a so called
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prescribed organization, which in this case would be Hamas. But
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of course it's not just on the Palestinian side. They
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are being arrested for dissent and in some cases in prison.
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These people haven't been in prison yet, but others have.
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So let's just remind you then of Peter Lynch. This
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is the BBC covering. This is one of the people
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that was posting stuff on social media.
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Speaker 1: Was well.
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Speaker 2: He turned up at one of the violent protests with
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a placard. The placard basically called the media MP's police
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officers corrupt. It was just a placard with some writing
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on it alleging corruption. He also called the police scum.
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He made what the judge called racist and provocative remarks.
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But this is just nonetheless, these are just remarks. He
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was not accused of throwing anything or taking part in
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any directly in any of the violent disorder. And the BBC,
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as I say, went on to say that he was
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filmed calling the police scum. He was imprisoned for two
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years eight month and in the meantime though the person
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who threw stuff at Nigel Farage got a suspended prison sentence.
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So again we're seeing two tier policing here.
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Speaker 1: And so on.
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Speaker 2: But what we're actually seeing in front of our eyes,
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I believe, as I mentioned the other day, is a
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re enactment of Nazi Germany's editor's law. This is designed
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to produce a chilling effect on any kind of descent,
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whether that be activist descent or journalist descent, and so
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it's perhaps massively ironic and hypocritical. Labor MP Catherine West
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was tweeting this this more yesterday. Journalism is not a crime,
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yet two former stand news editors have been found guilty
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of sedition in Hong Kong today for doing their job.
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Free media is essential if society's and economies are to prosper,
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but Hong Kong has dropped from eighteenth to one hundred
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and three fifth in the World Press Freedom Index since
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two thousand and two.
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Speaker 1: If this is just off the chart.
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Speaker 2: So if you're a country that we consider an enemy,
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we criticize that country if they are doing anything to
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shut down descent in that country while we are running
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a regime operation to shut down descent in your own country.
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It is fantastic. Now we're going to be talking about
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this gentleman later on. This is Lieutenant General Marco Bertolini.
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I'll introduce him later in another segment. But he was
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talking about telegram in an interview recently, and he said, certainly,
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if it's possible to have information coming from the dark
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side of the moon, it's thanks to telegram. There will
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be a reduction of information as a result of what's
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happening to dure Of And he went on to say
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there's a problem of media control and propaganda. The media
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signed monotonous all over Europe. And this is absolutely true.
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So it shouldn't take a degree in rocket science then
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to workout who the enemy might be, because.
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Speaker 1: It isn't Muslims.
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Speaker 2: It is the regime who is now cracking down on
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for different reasons, admittedly, but nonetheless cracking down on descent
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from all sides of the political spectrum. It should be
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clear to everyone now, no matter which side of any
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argument we might be, that we are being treated the
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same by this side of control regime.
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Speaker 1: Is what I've put on this graphic. That is exactly
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the situation.
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Speaker 2: And we've got to keep in mind that this regime
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which is cracking down on descent, it's the same regime
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which is behind the blowing up of people in Gaza,
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it's behind the blowing up of people in Ukraine. And
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we need to recognize very quickly who the enemy actually
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is and act accordingly.
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Speaker 1: That would be what I would suggest.
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Speaker 2: Mark, you are a longstanding media man, maybe you could
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comment on this from a United States point of view,
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because we shouldn't forget that the people who in the
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US were accused of being right wing extremists on the
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sixth of January, some of those are still in prison.
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Speaker 3: Correct, Mike. There's agent provocateurs that show up at these
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gatherings where you have peaceful but passionate protests, and these
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provocateurs will show up and they'll come in buses and
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they'll all wear the same shoes, so they'll know who
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each other is. Epic Times brought this out, and then
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they'll apply their trade and create havoc intentionally, and then
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they'll smear and discredit the honest protesters with that. That's
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the technique that happened January sixth. And in the bigger picture,
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the mass media cartel is supporting all of this. So
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the media and the government together are part of this.
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And I'll comment on more on that kind of stuff
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an extra.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Mark.
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Speaker 2: No, Debbie, let's move over to you and the NHS
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opp is becoming a tool of surveillance.
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Speaker 1: But you've got more on that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I have to know everyone truck. Does the government
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need to control you? Well, they need a lot of
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they need your data and some that I don't mind data. Well,
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it puts a very powerful position. So is convenience control, transparent, opacity?
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And what can we do?
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Speaker 2: Right, Debbie, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to interrupt
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you there because your connection is really, really bad. Maybe
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you could try resetting that and we'll see if we
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can come come back to this story in a couple
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of seconds.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have to I'm going to have to
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move on and come back to this.
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Speaker 2: So we'll just do a quick bit of editing and
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Have we been spiked? So please have a look at
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Another reminder of our live event on the nineteenth of
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October twenty twenty four speakers on screen at the moment.
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Do get to that if you possibly can. It's going
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to be a fantastic day. And then on September the eighth,
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the front page of the UK column website. At the moment,
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Brian and I will be speaking at the Heritage Party
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conference and Saturday the twentieth of September in reading. Tickets
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available at Heritage Party or some join for that as well.
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So Debbie, just sorry, It's definitely yes if I just
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do a quick bit of editing here and bring your
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material back on screen again, let's talk about the NHS app.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so how can we take back control? So I
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found this article in the New Statesman that said the
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government is running before it can walk on NHS digital
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and says that actually seventy one percent of NHS trust
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SI relying on paper records, and four percent are completely
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paper based. But let's just not forget that AI has
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no regulation at all, and there's no preparation for any
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regulation either. And last week I reported Tony Blair has
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got other plans for a digital health record and he
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wants to roll this out very quickly. But how and
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this is how I believe they're going to start the
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whole procedure. So the NHS app. Let's look at a
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little bit of video. Have you got the NHS app.
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Speaker 5: I'm Lauren, I'm Ben, I'm Aaron.
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Speaker 1: I'm the on and I use the NHS app.
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Speaker 6: It's earned and run by the NHS.
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Speaker 1: It helps me to manage my condition and book appointments.
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Speaker 5: I can renew medications on shifty seven.
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Speaker 2: Well, my repeat medication is on the app and I
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select the ones I need when I need.
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Speaker 6: Being able to view a medical record helps me feel
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in control and managing my condition.
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Speaker 1: It's a fantastic service on it called a Symptom Checker.
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Speaker 5: It gives me gold standard NHS information and my fingers.
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So not only is it secure, it's also fast to
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set up.
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Speaker 6: I did it at work on Melache break.
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Speaker 1: It's easy to use. It makes life easier for me.
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And the best thing is it's free. It's a no
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brainer download the NHS app.
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Speaker 4: So that's how to download it, and the NHS website.
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When we go there, they say that it's for convenience
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and they tell you here how to download it. But
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I think that this could be the key to the
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door to a digital revolution. So how convenient is it?
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Who can use the NHS app? Well, you know what,
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thirteen year olds can use the NHS app and thirteen
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to fifteen year olds. And what can you do whill
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you can book manage your appointments. You can pretty much
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do anything, order repeat prescriptions. You can also manage organ
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donation decision. Interestingly, and you can access NHS one one
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one And how do you get on it. Well, you've
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got to prove who you are first, so with photo ID,
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and if you haven't got photo ID, apparently you can
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go to your GP to get registration details. Now you'll
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probably want to know why I'm telling you all of this,
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and it will be clear in a minute, because the
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NHS are very very keen to roll this out. They
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are desperate to roll this out. The government is desperate
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and they want NHS employees to become NHS App ambassadors,
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people who are passionate about digital technology. So what do
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they do? So in the next slide you'll see that
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an ambassador promotes the app, they do face to face sessions,
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they network on social media, they get updated information and
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interestingly developing persuasion skills. So how do you become an
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NHS APP Well, they're very app ambassador. Well, they're very
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keen to recruit anybody pretty much so. In fact, even
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if you're not an NHS employee, if you've got an
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NHS or if you haven't got an NHS email, but
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you happen to work for the Council Library Parent Partnership Group,
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a charity you too can keep up to date with
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the NHS app. Let's meet Kath McLennan. Because Kath McLennan
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works for a GP practice and what she does is
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that she plays videos on screens in the surgery, so
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you can get bombarded with that while you're waiting to
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see whoever. She mentions it every time she sees a patient,
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which sounds to me a bit like a nudge. She's
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got guidance posters in the surgery and every conversation apparently
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is a golden opportunity because in the next slide she
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said that it's been so successful fifty three percent of
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patients have signed up than that totals twenty four, eight
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hundred and thirty seven. What a golden opportunity that is.
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But who else is pushing the NHS app? So NHS
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employees are also employers, sorry, are also pushing the Ambassador's app.
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But they're targeting children specifically, which is why I've highlighted
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this schools, colleges, careers, networking events. But how how are
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they targeting all these young people? And I found this
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organization called Inspiring the Future, which is a little bit dark,
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isn't it, Because they've interacted already with four hundred thousand
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young people through school assemblies and again speed networking career
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days and they connect with teachers. And this is all
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in the name of health literacy, which is the new
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subject you're going to hear about coming up and health literacy.
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What's that, Well, according to the NHS, it's making people
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aware of health outcomes, giving you a healthy lifestyle, and
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it's basically you've got to be your own doctor and nurse.
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You're going to be managing your own conditions, and you're
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basically going to be living on a cloud with AI
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and Box and you'll be able to manage your medicines
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through it as well. But if you're having any problems
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with the NHS APP and you need some help, then
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ask a librarian. Perhaps we're ask Professor Diane Rasmusen mcaddie,
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because they're third most trusted professionals in Britain. They don't
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actually reference that, but apparently librarians are the third most
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trusted professionals. And we have now got a staggering thirty
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four million people registered up or that's what they allege
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registered up to the NHS APP. But how desperate are
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they really desperate? They really are. And I've got a
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couple of clips from the February NHS Board meeting. I
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would advise everybody to go and look at it because
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they are really desperate. Have a look at this first clip.
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Speaker 6: This board is presiding over what is I believe, the
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biggest change in how the NHS engages with its citizens
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that we have seen for many, many decades. We're in
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a place now whereby we have got more than three
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quarters of our adults who have downloaded the app. We've
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got ninety seven percent of our practices able to communicate
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with those patients. And the numbers just keep growing exponentially.
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And I've just there are lots of numbers that you've
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heard today, but over four million people a day access
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their medical records last week. This is an appetite that
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we are fulfilling through the NHS app.
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Speaker 4: My goodness, aren't they desperate? And here's another little short
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clip NHS boards.
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Speaker 6: At the moment, the app's focused on people that need
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the NHS to support their illness. We've got a full
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program coming up over the next twelve months to move
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the vaccination screening programs onto the app because we know
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that patients who book their own appointments are more likely
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to turn up for them. And the more patients we
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can get screened, vaccinated, the better we're putting the digital
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health check onto the NHS APP.
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Speaker 7: I have to say to start with, it's not going
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to be amazing, but and the I shouldn't say, but
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I should say, and and we have to start somewhere,
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which is allow the patient to order their home testing
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kit and send it back because we know over the
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next year, two years, five years, that home testing kit
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will be available on their phone.
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Speaker 6: It will be available electronically. And if you don't believe me,
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I looked yesterday at the camera that sits by the
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bedside that takes all of the vital signs of the
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patient in front of them without touching the patient. And
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when you then think about what that might do to
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the new hospital program and how that tech can evolve.
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And we talked about virtual wards earlier on how do
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we connect the virtual ward technology into the NHS app
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so that citizens can use that and monitor their health data.
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Most of us have wearables on us. The future of
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how we use our NHS app and giving our citizens
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their digital account to manage their own healthcare is stunning
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and for those that don't believe, and there are some,
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we are saying I think very conservatively that we want
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to move a third of all of our health interactions
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to being digital first over the next five years.
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Speaker 4: So there you go. This is the route. And in
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order to give a bit of balance, because thirty four
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million people have apparently downloaded the app, to give a
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bit of balance, it would put a bit of a
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rock in secure Starmer's pond if people didn't want the
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app anymore and chose to delete it. So he's a
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little tiny short video and thanks so much to Sam
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in our team for doing this of if you don't
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want it, how do you get rid of it?
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Speaker 5: From your main mobile phone home screen, Scroll across the
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pages until you get to the page with the NHS
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app icon, Hold down the icon button until the menu appears.
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Click app info in the new menu you're taken to
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click on installed.
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Speaker 4: That would be disastrous, wouldn't it be for the governments
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if everybody chose to perhaps delete it and take control
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back of their data. What thinks you you decide, Debbie?
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Speaker 2: I think you were going to remind everybody the NHS
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board meeting.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes, yes, please do seventeenth of September. The tickets
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are now available to book and please join me. Could
20:11
be Dame Jeen's last who knows?
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Speaker 1: Who knows?
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Speaker 2: Okay, and Mark, let's come back to you now. You've
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got a bit of a correction to make for the
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bird flu summit segment last week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, last week I reported on the seemingly imminent machinations
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at the WHO of declaring a public health emergency of
20:36
international concern, basically the criteria for a pandemic, the new pandemic,
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and in so doing I talked about how the WHO
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is pressing monkey pock says the thing to worry about,
20:48
but downplaying the bird flu. On the other hand, I
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found what appeared to be a legitimate summit on the
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bird flu, which of course gave more urgency to that issue.
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But it turns out that according to the research of
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Diane rescmuse macaddie, the UK column contributing reporter, this appears
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to be a bogus event that purportedly was going to
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take place in early October, and DC bogus illegitimate, some
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sort of scam. And so I found what should have
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been reported and this is absolutely legitimate. The international Avian
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Influenza Summit. The Center for Excellence for Poultry Science at
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the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville is going to hold
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this summit at the Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences
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September thirty through October third. By the way, the Tyson
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family was a big contributor to the Clintons. Just a
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quick footnote, and that's the actual event. I believe there's
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one more slide, just to give it a little bit
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more of a news angle. What is this summit? While
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basically they're saying since January of twenty two, multiple viruses
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have infected tens of millions of wild birds allegedly, commercial
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poultry flocks, and more than two dozenspecies of terrestrial and
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marine mammals worldwide allegedly. And they're going on to say,
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this is why we decided to modify the scope of
22:09
the summit this year to cover the HPAA HPAI matters
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in commercial poultry and wildlife, as well as including emerging
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issues to cover other important economic diseases affecting commercial poultry, swine, cattle, bees,
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and humans and doing that all as one health. And
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that's in capital letters, one health. That's a key concept
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that we've brought up many times in the UK column,
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where the value and the balancing of the health of
22:38
the planet among flora and fauna and animals and human beings.
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Human beings are put on the same level as plants
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and animals, and so there's sort of devaluation of human
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life that's involved in this. Yes, you want a healthy
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biasphere and a healthy environment that does help people remain healthy,
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but this is deeper than that, where people are put
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on the same level as the rest of the animal
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kingdom and the plant world. So a very troubling kind
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of leveling concept there. One world concept, but that's the
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newest issue along with that direction.
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Speaker 2: Mike, Okay, thanks Mark, and we'll keep the idea of
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one health in mind because we're going to hear about
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one something else in just a moment, but we'll just
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start off with Ukraine here, and of course this is
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the gift that keeps on giving for the regime that
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we are.
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Speaker 1: Living under at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Now, I want to begin by highlighting this article from
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the Italian media. We'll do a quick translation of the
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headline there. So the new KIF piece plan widens.
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Speaker 1: The war with the help of NATO.
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Speaker 2: The latest Russian airstrikes in Ukraine are proceeding in parallel
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with the advance in the Donbas KIF aims to involve
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NATO countries. And of course we've heard a lot over
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the last little period about alleged piece plan that Zelenski
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is wanting to pursue and so on. Well, let's bring
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the lieutenant general back on screen again. This is an
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Italian military man.
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Speaker 1: And in this.
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Speaker 2: Article, which is where the previous quote came from as well,
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in this article he is saying he is quoted as
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saying that Zelensky wants to survive this current situation. Current
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critical situation involved as many countries as possible, NATO and
24:27
the US in this war. I would not believe so
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much in the willingness to come to the negotiation. So
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he's absolutely skeptical about Zelenski's claims that he's working towards
24:37
getting to the negotiating table. Russia has launched a major
24:40
intervention against Ukrainian power plants, he says, not an operation
24:44
dictated by irritation, but one that has been planned for
24:46
some time. It has incapacity to the Ukrainian electrical grade
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even more, creating problems that, although now limited to blackouts,
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could become dramatic this winter. Zelenski will present a peace
25:01
plan with Kremlin. Spokesman Peskov said that there's no longer
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any talk of negotiations now, So what he's saying is
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that as far as the Russians are concerned, this is
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not a serious suggestion on behalf of Zelenski. But anyway,
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Bertolini went on to say, there are those who pushed
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for this. Britain has done so, with the United States
25:21
a little less. We presume that the British have been
25:24
particularly active, and that seems to be the King. We've
25:27
been reporting that for the last two years, high active
25:31
Britain has been in pushing this. So what exactly is
25:34
Britain pushing. Well, this is Gilbert doctor Rowe, who's based
25:39
in Brussels, an American analyst of Russian affairs, and he's
25:45
taking quotes from a program called The Great Game. It's
25:50
a talk show and so let's just have a look
25:52
at what he's saying here. This is his conclusion. Let
25:55
us not have any illusions if the Russians, since the
25:57
United States is about punts on them to use the
26:00
assets in Ukraine and beyond, not just against Russian planes
26:04
which have been moved back beyond the nine hundred kilometer
26:07
range of storm shadows, for example, but on critical civilian
26:11
infrastructure to disable the war effort. Then a preventative Russian
26:16
attack on NATO, on the continental United States, not the
26:19
mince words, is entirely conceivable. And now, of course, what
26:24
is he talking about. He's talking about the recent efforts
26:27
by Ukraine to bomb the Kersk nuclear power plant, and
26:33
this is becoming extremely dangerous. The Russians have responded to this,
26:37
and Sergei Lovrov has said this, I think it's important
26:39
to understand that this situation that we have our own doctrine.
26:43
He's talking about a nuclear doctrine, including the one governing
26:47
the use of nuclear weapons. Any effort to update, sorry,
26:50
an effort to update this is underway. Moreover, he said,
26:54
these Americans are well aware of the provisions it sets forth. Now,
26:58
it seems to me that what's going on here is
27:01
that the Britain, and particularly in particular the United States
27:04
and the you are effectively attempting to get bid Russia
27:09
into using nuclear weapons by keeping the pressure on and
27:13
particularly attacking the nuclear power plant in Kursk now. My question,
27:18
and the question that I've been wondering about for quite
27:21
a long time, is where are the Greens in this?
27:24
Where the environmentalists? Because here's Britain's Green Party and there
27:29
seems to be absolute silence from them, not only with
27:32
respect to the environmental damage as being done by the
27:35
wars which our governments are actively pursuing at the moment
27:38
around the world, but by the nuclear danger.
27:41
Speaker 1: And the question is why now.
27:43
Speaker 2: If we go back to a year or so ago,
27:47
the nuclear power station that was under a Ukrainian attack
27:51
at that time was Aparusia and the statement from them
27:55
at the time was Ukraine's attempts to shell as Aparochia
27:57
Nuclear power Plant continue today. Amacasi drone was shot down
28:01
over the power plant. It fell on the roof of
28:03
the sixth par unit. Threats to the Zapparocean nuclear power
28:07
plants safely safety have not been identified, and this is
28:13
the comment from the IAEA General Director of General at
28:18
the time. This is a major escalation of the nuclear
28:21
safety and security dangerous facing the Zaparisia nuclear power plant.
28:25
Such reckless attacks significantly increase the risk of a major
28:28
nuclear accident and must cease immediately. So that was then
28:33
this is now in the meantime we have again IAEA
28:37
Chief warning of risks of nuclear accident at Russian power
28:41
plant in the Kursk region. So then we have more
28:46
comments from Italy, this time to executive intelligence reviewed by
28:50
Italian scientists, saying that the German Greens are there looking
28:54
at Germans Germany in particular, because the Greens are in
28:57
the coalition there want to have a new accidented in
29:01
Kirsk because they would use it the kind of the
29:02
resurging pro nuclear with in Europe. This is I think
29:08
fairly accurate, and we've got to ask the question why
29:11
are the Greens so silent on this? We need to
29:14
be putting some pressure in that direction. But coming back
29:17
to the UK then, and well, you'd be glad to
29:20
know that there's a new era for defense because the
29:23
government is launching a root and branch review of UK
29:26
armed forces. Charles mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.
29:30
This is the new Integrated Defense Review or the new
29:33
Defense Review, and if you remember they were talking about
29:36
sorry Strategic Defense Review. It's going to be headed by
29:39
three external reviewers in a first of its kind for
29:42
UK Defense Lord Robertson being at the head of the group,
29:47
who's the former Defense Secretary and also a former NATO
29:50
Secretary General. Here he is, so you know he is
29:54
going to be leading this. But you'll be glad to
29:57
know that first of all, the Strategic Defense Interview will
30:01
determine the roles, capabilities and reforms required by UK defense
30:04
to meet the challenges, threats and opportunities of the twenty
30:07
first century, deliverable and affordable within the resources available to
30:11
the defense within the trajectory of two point five percent
30:15
of GDP. But the review will ensure that defense is
30:20
central to both the security and to the economic growth
30:23
and prosperity of the United Kingdom. And reviewers would like
30:26
to take this opportunity to engage widely and seek public views.
30:30
Your input is encouraged and welcome. So there is a
30:32
public consultation going on, and I just wanted to mention
30:35
this aspect of the scope of that public consultation because
30:39
they have used the term one defense. Now, this term
30:42
has been used rarely over the last few years. It
30:45
has been around for a couple of years, but I
30:47
just thought we'd just let you know what that is,
30:50
because this is from Roy Walker, the new Chief of
30:53
the General Staff. Thanks to Charles for sending me this,
30:56
and he was saying at a recent Rousie conference. Will
31:00
lie at the heart of NATO and be filled with
31:02
the best soldiers in the world, supported by incredibly committed
31:05
civilian staff and leading industrial partners and the nation itself
31:10
and providing value at every turn societally, politically, internationally, economically
31:15
as well as just militarily. This is the one Defense
31:18
mindset that the Segree Estate referred to yesterday and to
31:22
which I fully subscribe. So let's look at a definition
31:28
to or a comment from another document, the approach to recruiting, educating,
31:33
training and retaining people needed for one defense, including regular reserve,
31:37
civil service and industry. This is to include how service
31:40
life can be improved for those who commit to serve
31:43
their country in uniform. One defense is not just limited
31:48
to Britain either. This term is being used in Australia
31:51
and other countries within the Western Bloc, and this seems
31:55
to be the absolute integration of the military with civilian
32:00
and other infrastructure, but also internationally as well. And just
32:05
very briefly, this is the call for evidence for the
32:08
Strategic Defense Review it's a great opportunity to get involved
32:12
in this discussion. With the show notes, we'll have the
32:15
link to this, and I suggest that everybody gets involved. Now, Mark,
32:20
let's come over to you and the thirty year anniversary
32:24
of a shocking as you describe it, Arms survey.
32:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is sort of out of my reporter's notebook,
32:32
out of my files, Mike. At the time, I was
32:35
working for the South Bend, Indiana Tribune. I was about
32:38
ten years into being a journalist, and I was just
32:40
waking up to what was going on in the world.
32:43
And a guy named al Forman out of Elkhart, Indiana,
32:46
had just received this from the John Bird Society, publishers
32:50
of the new American magazine that used to be called
32:52
American Opinion, and he received it and he mailed me
32:55
a copy right away, and I found it in my
32:57
file the other day, and I was thinking about it
32:59
in terms of the military, as you just got done
33:02
talking about, Mike, is amalgamating into something different. It doesn't
33:06
really defend the nation state that it's born from anymore.
33:11
It's just sort of a world police force that looks
33:14
like it's intended to just put down recalcitrant or rebellious
33:19
countries or factions or even individuals to control the narrative,
33:24
to control the basic tyrannical regime. And to do that
33:31
you have to move the goalpost and change the basic
33:38
framework of the military. And so twenty nine Palms Survey
33:42
what really motivated its author by John F. McManus from
33:45
the New American sidebar to the cover story I'm Not
33:48
a un Soldier by William Norman Grigg. Now that's something
33:51
we can talk about on the side or maybe an
33:53
extra but moving on. Veteran readers of The New America
33:56
are vibrantly aware of the May ten, nineteen ninety four
34:00
I'm at Armed Survey administered to three hundred active duty
34:03
Marines at the Marine Corps based twenty nine Palms, California.
34:07
Among its forty six questions, in fact, it was the last.
34:09
The forty sixth question. The Marines were asked if they'd
34:13
be willing to swear to a United Nations Code of
34:15
Conduct and if they would fire on Americans who refused
34:19
to turn over their privately owned weapons to the government.
34:23
Other questions sought the soldier's approval and disapproval about their
34:26
involvement and an assortment of operations far removed from proper
34:31
military assignments, far removed from the US Constitution and what
34:35
the military is supposed to protect, I might add, some
34:38
of which would even place them under formal un command.
34:43
One of the Marines who participated in this exercise became
34:47
so disturbed by the questions that he obtained an extra
34:50
copy and sent it to the New American, and through
34:54
that connection, that's how I received the copy. As I mentioned,
34:57
no sooner had the New Americans published report about this
35:01
survey reached readers, then several Congressmen fired off inquiries to
35:05
the Marine Corps and the Navy. Spokesman for both branches
35:08
of the service issued statements claiming there was really nothing
35:12
to be concerned about, that the survey was merely part
35:15
of its author's research for a master's degree thesis. This
35:19
is from John F. McManus, a long time Birth Society
35:22
officer and New American editorial staffer. Anyway, moving on from there,
35:27
this is actual photographs I took from the survey. This
35:31
is page one, Combat Armed Survey. This questionnaire is to
35:35
gather data concerning the attitudes of combat trained personnel with
35:40
regards to non traditional missions. Non traditional basically meaning means
35:45
you're breaking away from simply defending your nation and you're
35:48
getting into foreign command and all sorts of things, globalist things.
35:52
All of your responses are confidential. Write your answers directly
35:56
on the questionnaire form. Place an X in the space
35:59
for your response. Now cutting to the chase, here's the
36:03
exact question number forty six, the last question in the
36:07
survey asked to these marines at that marine base. The
36:10
US government declares a ban on the possessions, sale, transportation,
36:15
and transfer of all non sporting firearms. A thirty day
36:20
amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned
36:23
over to the local authorities. At the end of this period.
36:26
A number of citizen groups refused to turn over their firearms.
36:30
Consider the following statement, I would fire upon US citizens
36:35
who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the
36:38
US government. And they were asked to check strongly disagree, disagree, agree,
36:43
strongly agree, or no opinion. And then there's a little
36:46
bit about the outcome on this. The survey results on
36:50
question forty six, forty two point three percent strongly disagreed
36:54
with that statement that they would fire on their fellow Americans,
36:58
but nineteen point three percent disagreed, Wait a minute, strongly.
37:05
Speaker 1: Yes, and eighteen points six.
37:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, forty two percent strongly disagreed. I'm sorry, nineteen point
37:12
three percent disagreed. They're strongly disagreed and disagreed. I figure pardon.
37:18
Eighteen point six percent agreed, seven point six percent strongly agreed,
37:22
and twelve point zero percent had no opinion. So there
37:26
was a discernible amount that would go along with that.
37:29
In one of the footnotes appearing in this thesis, the
37:31
writer of which was Navy Lieutenant Commander Ernest Guy Cunningham,
37:35
there's comments placed by some of the Marines next to
37:38
their answers to this question. So this was a thesis
37:42
carried out by this Ernest Guy Cunningham, a Navy lieutenant commander,
37:46
and he included that very touchy question. But some of
37:49
the angry soldiers responded, what about the damn second Amendment?
37:52
I feel like I feel like this is a first
37:55
in communism. Another set, I would not even consider it.
37:58
The reason we have guns is that is so that
38:00
people can overthrow the government when or if the people
38:03
think the government is too powerful. Another soldier said, freedom
38:06
to bear arms is our Second Amendment. If you take
38:08
our amendments away, then you can take this job and
38:11
stick it where the sun don't shine. It is a
38:13
right to own firearms, for second, for the Second Amendment,
38:17
for self defense, and I would fight for that right.
38:20
So there were some very angry soldiers at the time.
38:23
I'll note, Mike that I talked to a Daniel Knew
38:27
who lives in Texas and his son, Michael Knew, is
38:31
known for refusing to wear the UN blue back in
38:34
nineteen ninety five if he refused to wear a UN
38:36
beret or UN insignia on his uniform, and he was
38:40
court martial a year later in nineteen ninety six. He
38:43
was stationed in Germany at the time, and the father
38:46
of that soldier, Dan you Knew, he got to know
38:48
Ernest Guy Cunningham, who wrote this thesis. He believes that
38:53
Cunningham was concerned that American soldiers were losing their moral outlook,
38:59
you might say, and that they might consider firing on
39:02
their fellow citizens, and he wanted to put a controversial
39:05
question in there to see how they'd respond. However, John McManus,
39:10
the noted New American editorial guy and JBS officer that
39:15
I talked about. He tended to disagree, and in his
39:18
writings he thought that Ernest Guy Cunningham was maybe pro
39:23
un and was trying to inculcate or cultivate that idea
39:28
in those soldiers. So there's controversy there as to whether
39:32
this was innocent or not. But it's very indicative and illustrative, Mike,
39:36
of what's been going on. And I understand from talking
39:39
to Daniel Knew also on the phone recently, that there
39:43
have been subsequent attempts to get soldiers to answer these
39:46
kinds of questions, and over time they've been worn down,
39:50
and reportedly more soldiers now are claiming they'd be willing
39:54
to fire on their own citizens under certain circumstances. So
39:58
apparently the military has been and whittling away at this
40:01
trying to reduce the soldier's resistance to such ideas, which
40:05
is pretty revealing in terms of the New World Order
40:09
army and the way the militaries are being reoriented. So
40:13
a very important historical item that's kind of an evergreen.
40:16
It's something always to be concerned about, Mike.
40:19
Speaker 1: So be back. Go back to you. Thank you, thank you,
40:21
thank you, Mark, thank you. Okay, Now.
40:25
Speaker 2: The issue of food and food production is something we've
40:27
been commenting on for quite some time. Nine of course,
40:31
we have made the point that with the New Deal
40:34
for Farmers and various other environmental screen schemes that are
40:38
running at the moment, that not only arable land is
40:42
being taken out of crowp production, but the number of
40:45
farm animals being kept is being vastly reduced. So my
40:49
question is that in a country where we are apparently
40:53
bringing in millions of or at least hundreds of thousands
40:55
of new people in terms of net migration every year,
41:00
how are we going to feed ourselves? Well, you'll be
41:03
glad to know that the UK government has set up
41:05
a new organization called the National Alternative Protein Innovation Center KNAPIC,
41:12
and this is all about lab grown meat and the
41:16
use of insect protein and other things. It's being set
41:19
up in the hope of finding sustainable alternatives for normal
41:24
things that we eat, like steak and chicken. It's a
41:27
thirty eight million pound entity according to the UK government
41:30
that includes a fifteen million pound bund from UKRI. It's
41:36
going to lead UK alternative protein knowledge and innovation ecosystem,
41:41
as they describe it. Its vision is to make alternative
41:44
protein's mainstream for a sustainable planet. And it's led by
41:48
the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, Imperial College London, perhaps unsurprisingly,
41:53
and the James Huddon Institute in collaboration with over one
41:57
hundred national and international partner And I'm just going to
42:01
remind everybody that the Tory government produced this lovely little
42:05
piece of legislation in twenty twenty two called Genetic Technology
42:10
Brackets Precision Breeding Act. And if we remind ourselves about
42:15
what this was going to do was to remove plants
42:18
and animals and produced sorry and produced Sorry, I'm quite
42:23
not because that was a type that was their type.
42:25
So remove plants and animals produced through precision breeding technologies
42:30
from regulatory requirements applicable in England to the environmental release
42:35
and marketing of genetically modified organism. So remove anything that's
42:41
produced via this from any kind of regulation. And introduced
42:45
two notification schemes, one for precision bread organisms used for
42:48
research purposes and the other used for marketing purposes, in
42:52
other words, for us to eat. The information collected would
42:55
be published on a public register on gov dot UK.
42:58
Not I am not aware of any such public register
43:02
having been set up to date, but that's what they
43:04
said at the time, and I'm going to suggest that
43:07
there is a CORALI here. So just to end this segment,
43:13
the government also, although they're investing in this themselves, they
43:17
are looking for external investment as well. So the UK
43:20
and northeast of England is leading the way when it
43:22
comes to developing environmentally friendly and sustainable plant based and
43:26
alternative protein products, and they are inviting investment from third parties. Debbie,
43:33
what could possibly go wrong?
43:36
Speaker 4: Can we save that for extra because I think it
43:37
might take too long on the news, Mike, Seriously, let's
43:42
come on though to energy because we're coming up for
43:45
autumn winter and are we looking at a stealth currency?
43:49
So I just want to give you a little We've
43:50
got a lot to flick through, so let's start on
43:54
cop Because they want to ditch fossil fuels, that's the
43:57
whole plan moving forward. So if we do which fossil fuels,
44:00
that comes at a price. Because the latest from Chancellor
44:03
Rachel Reeves says she's going to acts winter fuel payments
44:07
for millions of pensioners, and in a subsequent article in
44:11
the Telegraph, they project that bills are going to be
44:15
literally hiked up by one hundred and fifty pounds, which
44:18
is going to hit people, I mean really hit people badly.
44:22
British Gas have even issued their own six week warning
44:26
to customers to check their tariffs before October. And of
44:31
course the budget is just around the corner in October.
44:33
And will we be paying per mile? It looks from
44:37
Birmingham Liva reporting new UK paper mile car tax system
44:41
from October and bans are aggressive, so that's something to
44:44
look forward to. Then we're looking at all the other
44:47
things the government are trying to force on us heat pumps,
44:50
which we know are very expensive to install an uneconomical.
44:53
But back in two thousand and six, I've been tracking
44:56
back and in two thousand and six DEFRA published Guide
45:00
to Individual Carbon Trading. So what does it say. Well,
45:03
it goes on to say that we're talking about personal
45:06
carbon allowances here, which is actually rations. Let's call it
45:10
by what it is. And they don't think that any
45:12
pilot is necessary. They don't actually want to ask the public.
45:16
But we'll talk about that in a minute. They want
45:18
to model it pretty much on the London congestion charge
45:20
which just rolled in by Stealth so on the next
45:23
slide you'll find out what a personal Carbon Allowance is.
45:26
It's a PCA and it's going to be compulsory. This
45:30
is what they're planning. They're compulsory rations for adults and
45:33
we're not quite sure where the children will get any
45:35
ration at all. And this will include all household energy,
45:39
including if you're going on holiday and you're maybe flying.
45:42
How will you do it? Well, probably through an app,
45:44
but you've also going to have a carbon credit card
45:47
which will be debited when the carbon's consumed. But how
45:50
have they modeled it? While they've modeled it on Tesco
45:54
club Card nectar and Boots advantage card and apparently sixty
45:58
five to sixty eight eighty five percent have loyalty cards
46:02
and staggeringly the club card database, the Tesco's club card database,
46:07
they're collecting fifty billion pieces of data per year. I mean,
46:12
that's just huge. If that's not a reason to get
46:14
rid of your Tesco's club card, I don't know what is.
46:17
What about the public acceptability? Well, actually at that point
46:20
no one had done any work on it at all,
46:23
although a focus group in Edinburgh on Carbon Trading and
46:27
Carbon Taxation are concerned and we're concerned about fraud, civil liberties,
46:33
fairness and of course this are going to be linked
46:35
to ID cards and we're not talking about paper ID cards,
46:38
we're talking about digital ID So moving forward to twenty eleven,
46:42
you can start to see the way of travel and
46:45
we're looking at onshore, offshore wind farms, marine energy, biomass energy,
46:52
I mean just huge And what is the public reaction
46:55
and acceptability? Well, the public aren't going to accept it because,
46:59
according to the document, pilots aren't a good idea. Sorry
47:04
have you I've just missed the slide there, I think, Mike, Okay,
47:08
well it's fine, we'll just carry on. Then pilots aren't
47:11
a good idea. Why because they are a risk. They're
47:14
a risk because the public won't want them. And this
47:17
is how that the London congestion charge was rolled in
47:23
without anybody knowing. If you skipped on the next slide,
47:28
the UK Renewable Energy map. So this is where I'm saying.
47:32
Charles and everybody on UK column have been talking about
47:35
biomass electricity on offshore wind farms, so we know what
47:40
that's all about. But have you heard of texts? And
47:43
texts are tradeable? Energy quotas. This is a House of
47:47
Commons document. It was back in twenty eleven and All
47:50
Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil shared by John Hemings. And
47:53
you asked Mike what the Green Party have been doing
47:55
or where they are, and this is where they are.
47:58
The late David Amos was also on this APG. But
48:02
the Lean Economy was fund founded by David Fleming and
48:06
it's significant and I'll tell you why in a minute.
48:08
But they're really leaning on a report in the next
48:13
slide called the Oil Crunch, which predicted and concluded that
48:18
global oil production would be unable to continue to grow
48:23
beyond twenty thirteen, and a year later, the UK Energy
48:27
Research Center concluded that two thirds of current global crude
48:30
oil may need to be replaced by two thirty. There's
48:33
that two thirty again and off GEM at that time
48:37
warned that there would be shortages and breaks in supply.
48:40
And let's not forget our good old friends Chathamhouse. Oh sorry,
48:44
Common Purpose, Yes, sorry, that's sorry. I think we've got
48:47
the slides out of sink a little bit. But John
48:51
Hemming basically concluded here with Chathamhouse, we've got Chathamhouse and
48:56
Lloyd's saying that texts provide the fairest and most productive
49:00
way to deal with the oil crisis and to simultaneously
49:04
guarantee reductions in fossil ful fuel use to meet climate
49:08
change targets. So what more can we ask? Well, if
49:13
we look at the next slide, you can see common purpose.
49:16
There a plan for all seasons. I'm sure Brian will
49:18
be watching with interest because there we go again. A
49:21
rationing system will be required to sustain a fair entitlement
49:25
and available fuels. So this is going to motivate apparently
49:29
the whole of society. And what are their aims. Well,
49:32
they're going to have to prepare us. How are they
49:34
going to prepare us psychological techniques, So psychological preparation. Apparently
49:40
we all need to be informed of this. But with
49:42
no pilot consultation and no discussion, we won't know about anything.
49:47
We will end up being told. And then of course
49:49
you've got the second preparation, which is practical where they're
49:53
going to need to roll it out pretty quickly. They
49:56
say in the next slide that texts could be a
49:59
game changer, that they are acting, so must you. And
50:04
if we look at today in twenty twenty four. How
50:07
is this rolling out? Well, we have the Fleming Policy Center,
50:11
which was founded by David Fleming. Now he's an elder
50:14
of the Green Party and he's also been involved he
50:19
was a Green Party economic spokesman, but he's also been
50:21
involved in Transition towns movements. He died in twenty ten
50:26
and he's an ardent critic of nuclear power. So the
50:31
Fleming Policy Center are inventing the future. And what they say,
50:35
and this is the really important bit, is that every
50:38
adult gets an equal free entitlement to weekly techs weekly
50:42
so children may be not included. So whenever you buy petrol,
50:46
it will be deducted from your TECH One unit will
50:49
be one kilo of carbon. If you use less, you
50:52
can sell your surplus. If you need more, you can
50:55
buy more. The number of units available will be determined
50:58
by the National carbon budget, encouraging common purpose. Here are
51:04
some of tech's champions in the next slide. You can
51:07
see John Fleming, Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chris Smith and
51:11
of course Caroline Lucas. So that's what Caroline Lucas has
51:14
been busy doing. And of course you're going to be
51:17
able to download this on your smartphone or on a
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credit card, so do black the world's first credit card.
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This was back in two nineteen. They've come on from there,
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but you can just see how they're going to roll
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this out the next slide. I'll tell you it's a
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Swiss Finn ten Swiss Finn tech team who have teamed
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up with MasterCard and they say that this is the
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first card ever to prevent consumers from exceeding their limits
51:44
based on carbon emissions caused by their consumption, and finally
51:48
to tie it up every transaction counts, creating the infrastructure
51:53
for climate action economy. They were funded in twenty eighteen.
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And here's the CEO, Matthias Wilkes from who is a
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regular speaker around Europe and United Nations. So is this
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something we have to look forward to? I believe it
52:07
might be. Oh yes, sorry from a ground regeneration and
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nutrient density with farmers angus, Stephanie reminded me of this
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where he is talking exactly of carbon rations and carbon quotas.
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So please go and look at that.
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Speaker 2: Mark back to you then and give us an update
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on well common purpose colors here with the billionaire family
52:32
business where we're talking about the US election.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course big money plays such a huge role
52:41
in US elections, and pretty soon, not today, but pretty soon,
52:45
I'll be looking into connections with big money and polling organizations,
52:50
as well as ownership of the voting machine companies, the
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companies that the companies that produce the machines that count
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the vote. Those are all things I'm looking into anyway.
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The billionaire family business. This is a report fifty billionaire
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clans have already spent over six hundred million of the
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twenty twenty four US elections, mostly to preserve their own fortunes.
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And moving on from there, this comes from today Americans
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for Tax Fairness, describing itself as a diverse campaign of
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more than four hundred and twenty national, state, and local
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endorsing organizations unified in their support of affair tax system
53:26
that works for all Americans. ATF is a project of
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the New Venture Fund, a five oh one c three
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nonprofit organization, which means it itself is tax exempt. And
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I'll just note just for clarity that the head of
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that Venture Fund, he does have some connections with the
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Clinton family, which is ubiquitous. The Clintons pop up here, there,
53:47
and everywhere anyway. There there is some merit to this, though,
53:51
it just needs an objective look. Just fifty billionaire families
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have already injected more than six hundred million, as noted collectively,
53:59
into the crucial twenty twenty four elections, with that number
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sure to show accelerating growth in the final six months
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of the campaign. These billionaire clans, interesting words, donated this
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money mostly to political parties, political action committees, and outside
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spending groups, including super PACs, and this is as of
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May ninth. These numbers are as of May ninth this year,
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offering further proof that the nation's richest families consider democracy
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nothing more than a commodity that they can buy. The
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country was really founded as a republic, not as a
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direct democracy, and that's actually part of the problem. They
54:33
kind of overlook that. But anyway, this is the latest
54:36
in a series of billionaires buying elections from Americans for
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tax fairness. They get a lot of their info from
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Open Secrets, which is a very legit organization, I might add,
54:46
Mike I went to one of their seminars in twenty twelve,
54:49
approximately in DC, and they were very good, in a
54:53
very nonpartisan way, at showing the way money influences politics
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in the US anyway. Some of the findings of the
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Americans for Tax Fairness study this current study are as follows.
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The fifty billionaire families who had injected the most money
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into the political system as of May ninth, donated the
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six hundred million to these entities I mentioned, over two
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thirds sixty nine percent of the money has been in
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support of Republican candidates, less than a quarter, or twenty
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three percent, has backed Democrats, and the remaining eight percent
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cannot be classified on a partisan basis. Even among these
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top fifty spending families, donations are highly concentrated. The top
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ten family clans, including prominent conservative families like the Cookes,
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the Melons, and the Waltons. Waltons as Walmart, have contributed
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over half, or three hundred and fifty nine million, over
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half of that six hundred million. The fifty billionaire mega
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donor families in the study are in this study are
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collectively worth over one trillion, meaning that six hundred million
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the six hundred million they've spent on politics only equals
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zero points zero six percent of their total wealth. The
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equivalent donation for the average household would be about one
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hundred dollars, So these fifty billionaire families alone have the
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political spending capacity of over six million ordinary American families.
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An interesting statistic, that's for sure. And this is just
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a chart that outlines it a little bit more. Our
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readers can freeze the screen if they want to study
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it in depth. But all the red ones are Republican donations.
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Out of that six hundred million. Americans for Prosperity was
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founded by the infamous Koch Brothers spelled kocch forty one
56:39
point eight million for Make America Great Again, which is
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Donald Trump. So all the claims that Kamala Harris is
56:46
beating Trump in the polls kind of runs against the
56:49
grain where a lot of this money is going not
56:52
to Democrats but Republicans. So there's something to sort out
56:55
there that I'll be working on in the next few weeks.
56:58
A little bit more from Americans for Tech Fairness. Billionaires
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can impact elections through unlimited contributions to so called dark
57:05
money groups that don't reveal their donors. Sometimes those groups
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that receive the money can only have a letterhead and
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a PO box and not even have a physical location,
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and yet they'll rake in billions of unaccountable money. The
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free spending of billionaire families is only possible because of
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a broken campaign finance system. As this group sees it
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in their opinion, reform of campaign finance rules to outlaw
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unlimited political contributions that give billionaire families an outside say
57:37
in the political process is being called for. Also, the
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enacting of special taxes on billionaire wealth is being suggested.
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They believe that's a good idea or at least all
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the income from their wealth. And there's also a call
57:50
to strengthen the estate tax to curb the growth of
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economic dynasties. And a little clip from CNBC gives a
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little bit more on this. American billionaires spent a record
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eight hundred and eighty million on the US midterm elections
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back in twenty twenty two. This item is from November
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of twenty twenty two, and as it says here, American
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billionaires spent a record eight hundred and eighty million on
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those midterms, which is mostly when Congress and Senate seats
58:20
are up. Billionaire spending at the time was up forty
58:23
four percent over the twenty eighteen midterms, so it's exponentially
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growing and it's expected to approach one billion by next
58:30
week at that time, according to Americans for Tax Fairness.
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They were quoted by CNBC here. While US billionaires poured
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one point two billion into the twenty twenty presidential elections,
58:43
they're outside spending in the midterms shows just how much
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is at stake for wealthy donors of both parties. So
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money is really steering things here in the States especially.
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Not a big surprise, but it's interesting to hear the
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numbers and the scope of it. Anyway, This last thing, Mike,
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is a historical item forbidden American economic history. These things
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were talked about a lot going back to the nineteen thirties.
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As he was known Senator Huey P. Long. He was
59:14
known as the Louisiana Kingfish. He wrote a book called
59:17
every Man a King. He actually called for a national
59:22
law that would limit how rich a person could get.
59:25
And I know that sounds rather socialistic. I'm just reporting
59:28
it for the information about it. People can make their
59:31
own opinions about it. The middle image is a little
59:35
bit more on that slide. The middle image is of
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Father Charles E. Coglan, the great radio priest of Michigan.
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I have visited his shrine a number of times. He
59:45
spoke out about economic injustices in a different way. And
59:48
then Ferdinand Ludberg, a fascinating author of America's Sixty Families.
59:53
He showed way back in the nineteen thirties and since then,
59:56
how many of the same families then are controlling things
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even today.
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Speaker 1: So back to you, Mike, Yep, thank you, Mark.
1:00:03
Speaker 2: Thanks Okay, Debbie, let's come back to you for a
1:00:07
final comment here.
1:00:11
Speaker 4: Well, what if I stumbled upon? And at this point
1:00:15
I'm hoping that this will be able to be tweeted.
1:00:17
I'd like to welcome Guinness World Records because I tweeted
1:00:21
them to ask them did they have a record for
1:00:24
the longest CV in history? And they don't have. They
1:00:28
have a category, but they don't have anybody that's been nominated.
1:00:31
So what did I stumble upon? Well, many of our
1:00:34
regular viewers will know of Professor Susan Mickey. Professor Susan
1:00:39
Mickey behavioral scientist. She advises the WHO, and she's in
1:00:43
charge of the Behavior Change Agenda in the UK. And
1:00:47
I found her CV and I couldn't put it in
1:00:51
a screenshot, So roll VT and I'll talk over it
1:00:56
as you scroll down. It takes thirty two seconds I
1:00:59
believe it's a hundred and ten pages long. I'm not
1:01:02
quite sure how long you'd like a CV to be Mike,
1:01:05
which you'd get landing on your desk. But we've got
1:01:08
all of her appointments, her affiliations, her academic supervision, her books,
1:01:12
her articles, her symposiums, her teaching, her honors, her awards,
1:01:17
her journals, her reviewing journals, her research bodies, her publishers,
1:01:22
her references to antimicrobial assistance to smoking, which of course
1:01:27
she's in partnership with her husband, Professor Robert West. So
1:01:31
Guinness World Records, is that a record one hundred and
1:01:35
ten page CV. Perhaps we could get everybody to write
1:01:39
to Guinness World Records and she could get another prize,
1:01:42
just saying.
1:01:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be brilliant.
1:01:45
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for that, Debbie, thank you Mark for
1:01:47
joining us there as well, and thanks to everybody that's watched.
1:01:50
We will be back in a few minutes. Stick around
1:01:52
a few UK Colum number four news extra. Otherwise, I
1:01:56
hope everyone has a great weekend. I will see at
1:01:58
one pm as usual on Monday.
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Speaker 1: All right, h