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

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the sixth of September twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Colin News. I'm
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your host, Mike Robinson joining me today. We have Mark
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Anderson from the United States and Debbie Evans. Now we're
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going to get kicked off with a consultation which is
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going on in Northern Ireland at the moment. This is
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entitled Public Policy Proposals to inform the development of a
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new Public Health Bill for Northern Ireland. The consultation opened
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on the fifth of July this year and it closes
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on the twenty seventh of September. And so thank you
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to the person who sent us through this asking for
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a little bit more coverage of it. So let's have
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a look at some of the text from the actual
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consultation document itself. Now, this is the second consultation on
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public health legislation. The first happened in twenty fifteen, before
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the so called pandemic, of course, but they are taking
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sort of what they say, they're taking lessons learned from
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the pandemic to inform this consultation, and it says domestic
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regulations may be made for the purposes of preventing, protecting against, controlling,
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or providing a public health response to the incidents or
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spread of infection or other or contamination in Northern Ireland,
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whether from risks originating there or elsewhere. Now this is
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on page forty seven. It begins of this document. There's
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a whole host of other material here which we're not
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going to get time to cover today. So I do
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suggest that anybody in Northern Ireland has it. Looks at it.
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Look at this, But it says they regulations may impose
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restrictions or requirements honor in relation to persons, things, or premises,
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in the event of, or in response to a threat
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to public health, and in relation to a person. So
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we'll just look at what they say about persons. The
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regulations may impose a special restriction or requirement, such as
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requiring a person to submit to meet examination. Sorry, we'll
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go back there one second. To submit to an examination,
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be detained in a hospital or other suitable establishment, keep
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a person in isolation or quarantine. Require person to be
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vaccinated or to receive other prophylactic treatment. A person to
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be disinfected or decontaminated. Require person to be vaccinated. Sorry,
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that's a duplication there, That the person provide information or
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answer questions about the person's health or other circumstances. That
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the person's health be monitored and the results reported. That
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the person attend training or advice sessions on how to
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reduce the risk of infecting or contaminating others. That the
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person be subjected to restrictions as to where the person
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may go or with whom the person has contact, That
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the person abstained from working or training, and as I say,
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a whole host of others about places and about organizations
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as well. And then at the end of that section
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that asks the question, this is question twenty eight do
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you agree or disagree with the proposed restrictions and requirements
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that may be included in health protection regulations? Please give
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the reasons for your answer. So that is just one
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aspect of this particular document, and this is the Policy
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Proposals Consultation page itself. They say that the overarching principle
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of the draft bill is to protect the population against
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various forms of infection and contamination, including biological, chemical, and radiological,
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in addition to infection diseases, which is the focus of
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the earlier Act. The nineteen sixty seven act on this
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all Hazards approach will enable broader surveillance support and more
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timely and effect of intervention controlling the spreading of infection
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and contamination generally and if needs be in an emergency. Now,
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of course, the emergency legislation which was imposed during the
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COVID period itself contains very similar restrictions, but that was
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temporary legislation, emergency legislation put in place for a restrictive
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period of time, and it is true that in Northern
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Ireland that was longer than for the rest of the UK.
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But nonetheless, what this seems to be doing is putting
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this in place at a time when there is no
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public health emergency and therefore this is not emergency legislation.
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It enables emergency restrictions without having to put through any
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kind of emergency legislation at the time, and it's being
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consulted on, so as we would urge people to get
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involved in that consultation DEBI very briefly, what are your
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thoughts on this?
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Speaker 2: Well, my thoughts, Good afternoon, everybody. My thoughts are that
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the COVID emergency restrictions, which were meant to be temporary,
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are now obviously going to be translated into permanence, and
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of course Brian was mentioned New Zealand as well. We
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need to keep an eye on New Zealand, but we
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look at a permanence of emergency regulations where they can
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do what they want when they want.
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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for that. So let's move on to
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health in general. And so what have you got for us?
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Speaker 2: Right, well, yeah, let's look at the NHS, because we're
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in a bit of a mess, aren't we. So NHS
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Networks have brought out this article Internationally Educated Nursing Staff.
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So they're saying that many migrant nursing staff two thirds
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actually a huge proportion are thinking of leaving the UK
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due to cost of living pressures and they don't have
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any recourse to public funds, so they have to get
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they have to rely on temporary visas and pay tax,
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but they don't get any indefinite leave to remain. And
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that's what's important here. So when I went to look
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at the Royal College of Nurses, the RCN also have
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said to scrap unfair benefit rules because migrant nursing stuff.
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They're saying, they're calling it a max mass exodus. And
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then as we go further on, into the report. It
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highlights this indefinite leave to remain because somebody in the
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health profession, and of course Professor Dian Rasmus and mcaddie's
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mentioned this before as well. If you are in this
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country you have to apply for leave to stay and
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this is costing twenty eight hundred and eighty five pounds
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And we've got forty thousand vacancies in the NHS at
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the moment. But apparently one in five on the register
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are educated outside of the UK. But if anybody wants
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to read the report, there was a little thumbnail of
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the report on that slide without a safety net. But
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let's look at some risks coming forward, because we've got
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more risks, empos, you name it. But who's heard of
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sloth fever? So sloth fever apparently it doesn't involve sloths.
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Apparently sloths can get it. But it comes from Mosquitos
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and originates from Cuba, but apparently it's heading for Europe.
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In the USA, if you go to the next slide,
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it tells you quite clearly that this is a mysterious threat.
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The Lancet call it a mysterious threat. But what's a
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little bit more concerning is they're saying it's an emerging
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disease which particularly affects pregnant women, and the symptoms you
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might actually find these quite familiar. Fever, headache, muscle ache,
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stiff joints, nausea, vomiting, chills, sensitivity to light, and also
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just note meningitis and then caphalitis. You'll see why in
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a minute. But the fears are that it could be
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potentially very dangerous to babies, birth defects, still births, etc.
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So that's another one to be looking out for. And
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then of course the government are urging students to protect
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themselves from meningitis. They want them all to go and
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get jabbed for meningitis, measles and HPV. So that's for students,
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and then we can go to antibiotic resistance. I'm just
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going to go through a few little stories that I
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think you should be keeping an eye on. So antibiotic
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resistance in goneria cases are on the rise. In twenty
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twenty three, there were eighty five thousand goneria diagnosis. That's
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the highest since records began in nineteen eighteen. I wonder
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why that could be happening. But let's go back to school,
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because of course, we're off back to school today, many
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kids going back, including my grandson first day at school,
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and the UKHSA are warning of back to school a
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measles surge where you get a first dose offered at
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one year and a second dose at three, three years,
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four months. Please, it says urgent call to parents, and
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in the next slide you'll see that again they're going
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for parents. Please parents, go and get your children vaccinated,
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not only the UKHSA but also the NHS. The NHS
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are putting out an ad promo which has got kids
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on it actually, and I think we have shown this
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promo video before, but here's a slide shot just to
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show you. If we're not vaccinated, we're not protected. So
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that's the messaging for children. And of course we're coming
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up to it's the whole vaccination scheme now, isn't it
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coming up to autumn? And now we've got the new
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RSV vaccine and it says here the RSV usually gets
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better by itself, which it does, but they are still
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promoting and pushing a vaccine. So who gets it. Pregnant
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mums of course twenty eight weeks onwards. But if you're
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over eighty you don't get it, so you're not deemed
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vulnerable enough at eighty to get it. But the vaccine
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drive is on full pelt now and what concerned me
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was this put out by the uk HSA, which are
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calling it a marketing campaign. Now doesn't that just say
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at all a marketing campaign launches to drive up childhood vaccinations.
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They're really going for the kids. So let's have a
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look at the NHS vaccinations, especially for children, and by
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my reckoning, babies under a year are due to have
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eight jabs from eight weeks to sixteen weeks. That's eight
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jabs in eight weeks. And some of those are the
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six in one which is called a hex surveillant. Let's
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not forget hex means a curse, but they're called six
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in one hex survaillent with diphtheria, het b, hip polio,
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tetanus and hoopinkov combo. So they get all of and
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at one year they get a further forward abs, so
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by the time they're one year old, they've had twelve.
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So please keep an eye on your child's immunization program,
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on what you're being expected to give to your child.
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Staying on vaccines, many of you might remember this interview
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that we did with Peter Todd, consultant solicitor and Alex Kelly.
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They were both talking about vaccine injuries and the vaccine
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damage payments and Alex set up a COVID Vaccine Injured
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and Bereave Legal Fund, which you'll see on the next slide,
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and please do go and have a look at that
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and if you are able to donate, they would be
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incredibly grateful. And that's Peter Todd, the solicitor. Now he's
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just put out an announcement and thank you to Alex
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for sending me this. I'll leave it for you to
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freeze the screen and read. But basically, there have been
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fourteen thousand claims. Six one hundred and thirty four the
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initial decision have had an initial decision, but there's been
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less than fifty percent success rate. Ninety seven percent have
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been initially declined. Three hundred and fifty eight claims had
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the causation accepted, however no award was made due to
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the disablement being considered insufficiently severe. Sixty five awards where
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the applicant had died at one thy Twelve requests on
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reversal of consideration have been filed and in summary, really
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Peter Todd says, this scheme is completely unfair, huge unfairness,
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and a total lack of justice. So that's where we
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are with regards to vaccine injuries. But let's stay on
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vaccines because PISA are still very much in the news
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and they are pushing stuff down the pipeline. But they're
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in trouble. They've been in trouble many times before, but
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here we've got they're being sued by Texas over misleading marketing.
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So they're calling for deceptive marketing, saying that there was
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no ninety five percent efficacy based on the two's clinical
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trial data. And it's not just Texas, it's Kansas as well.
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Only Kansas are suing Phiser with regards to their vaccine
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and myocarditis. So this is really important, a really really
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interesting case, and please want to keep an eye out.
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But despite that, despite all of that and the damage
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that we know that these injections have done, and the
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book of risks that I have, the PHISA and analysis
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documents which many of you have as well, we still
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have got approval. So the FDA have just approved Maderna
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and Phisis bioenttex They're updated COVID nineteen vaccine, So they're
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still rolling it out and they're also rolling out the propaganda.
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So PHISA is actually coming to school. You don't have
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to go to PHISA anymore. Phisis coming to school. And
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this is the video that they've just released on school.
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Speaker 3: The future of Science requires us to be more creative.
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Speaker 1: Clives.
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Speaker 4: A School of Science Mobile Experience is a fantastic interactive
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escape room like experience for school students to come through
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and get excited about science, technology, engineering, mathematics. And this
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experience really brings out their inner scientists and helps solve
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a mystery along with our pizer.
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Speaker 3: College ahead and.
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Speaker 5: Get your lab coat. This right here.
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Speaker 6: That's basically play. They're having fun with it.
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Speaker 1: What is our breaking news right now?
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Speaker 5: Science lizard Skin.
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Speaker 4: They can leave their classrooms with their teachers that come
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to this great environment and they get to actually experience
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the science through the work they do, the problem solving,
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their team building versus through a lecture the task.
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Speaker 6: That they have to complete for each film.
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Speaker 1: They're actually learning different skills.
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Speaker 2: So phiz is coming to school. And if you stay
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tuned for extra, I'm going to be showing you some
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magic moments from Faiza as well. And also they're one
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for all apps, so come back to us for extra
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and you'll see why I'm so concerned about apps in general.
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Speaker 1: Over to you, Mike, Thanks, Debbie, thanks, and Mark, let's
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welcome you to the program. We've been talking about birth
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rates in recent weeks, but you have an update on
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that for us.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Good morning from Texas, A very early morning. Yes,
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in the fairly recent past, I've talked about Japan, the
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government there being quite nervous and quite scared about the
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future for their aging population and nothing to replace them with.
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And they're not the only country. Italy as has also
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seen small villages virtually disappear from the lack of birth
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rate at any rate. Steven Moser with the Population Research
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Institute recently wrote for LifeNews dot com this our go,
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the headline being the world is running out of children
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as global birth rates collapse, and the implications are far reaching.
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Social security systems that need more young workers to pay
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into the system could very well collapse as well. This
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is particularly prevalent in the United States, but also elsewhere.
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Some of what Mosure had to say is as follows
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the collapse in birth rates that began in post war
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Europe has in the decades since, spread to every single
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corner of the globe. He says. Many nations are already
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feeling what he calls a death spiral, filling more coffins
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than cradles each year, a rather jolting consideration. Just this
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past year, Mosure rites, Japan lost nearly a million people,
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Poland lost one hundred and thirty thousand. However, the big
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story comes from China, home to one sixth of the
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world's population. China finally admitted that its population was in
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fact shrinking, but demographers, including mosureoms, we believe that the
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numbers have actually been falling for almost a decade. I'll
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briefly note that Moser is formerly an atheist, pro choice guy,
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and when he went to China himself and saw their
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policies and actions, he converted to Christianity, he says. The
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average Indian woman, Moser goes on to say, has been
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having only two children over her reproductive lifetime. The Indian
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government reported in twenty twenty one, well below the two
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point twenty five or so needed to sustain the current population.
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Moser went on to say, and there's a little bit
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more to share. The same stories being repeated all over
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the world, as birth rates in Latin America and Middle
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East and even Africa are reportedly collapsing. The current total
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fertility of Tunisian women, for example, is estimated at one
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point ninety three. That's one point nine three. The result
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of all these empty wombs is that humanity just passed
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a major milestone, but not necessarily want to celebrate. And
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in Moser's estimation, he goes on to say, for the
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first time in the sixty thousand or so years that
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human beings first arrive on the planet, and of course
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there are different theories of the age of the Earth
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and all that we are not having enough babies to
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replace ourselves. And he goes on to say, because of
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ever lengthening life spans, the population will continue to grow
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until mid century. But when this demographic momentum ends, and
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it will end, we'll reach a second grim milestone on
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humanity's downwards trajectory. So this is a very strong consideration
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to take into account and to summarize A Moser, president
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of the Population Research Institute, a nonprofit in the United States.
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That organization has pledged to, among other things, debunk the
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overpopulation myth which cheapens human life, expose the relentless promotion
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of abortion, abortifaci, contraception, and chemical and surgical sterilization in
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what he calls misleadingly labeled population stabilization, family planning, and
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reproductive health programs. Kamala Harris goes on to say, reproductive
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rights defund these programs by exposing coercion, deception, and racism
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inherent in them. Emphasize that people are the most valuable
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resource on the planet, and promote pro natal and pro
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family attitudes, laws and policies worldwide. So that might is
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a summation of what mister Moser has to say, and
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the worldwide implications, again are very, very wide ranging and
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have a lot of impact. Social support systems like social security,
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healthcare systems that depend on young workers coming up, and
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myriad other things are at stake here. So when people
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talk about social security funding social security, for example of
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the United States, this is a perspective that needs to
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be kept on the table, and it's something you don't
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often hear about. And we'll talk about it more in
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the not too distant future to see what some of
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these individual nations might be doing about it. But I
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think that's good for now, Mike at this point, so
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back to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mark. I mean, we have this problem in
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every Western country in particular that's particularly stark here with
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aging populations. And at the same time, we're seeing material
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in the being increasingly published in the press about how
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in the not to dis in future, it's going to
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be seen as a sort of an act that is
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going to be necessary for people to consider ending their
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lives early. Massive pressure that aging populations are putting on,
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as you say, health systems and social care systems, and
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no younger workforce to pay for these things. This doesn't
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begin to look good for anybody that's maybe fifty or younger. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'll only add that you make a good point there, Mike.
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It's not just the birth rate and issues like abortion,
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issues like people simply not wanting to have children. It's
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not just the abortion industry and people that are migrants
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and are always on the move and having a family
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just doesn't work out. It's also at the other end
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of life, the elderly. So yeah, major impacts health systems,
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social security systems, pension systems, you name it. So yeah,
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glad to think about date.
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Join us for that if you possibly can. And Brian
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and I will be speaking at the Heritage Party conference
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interested in that, details at Heritageparty dot org. So where
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does that take us? Then? It takes us to prisons.
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And this amazing article I've chosen sky News, but it
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was all over the mainstream press this morning. Offenders could
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serve sentence in Estonian prisons to ease overcrowding. So the
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labor regime in this country talking about sending prisoners overseas
23:38
because the prison system here completely overcrowded. Sky News here
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saying the government is not ruling out sending offenders to
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Estonia as a means of alleviating severe overcrowding and UK
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prisoner state. Sky News understands that having offenders serve out
23:52
their sentence in the Baltic State is one of the
23:55
many options being considered to address overcrowding on the prison
23:58
of state, and the latest government figures showing there were
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only one thousand and ninety eight three spaces in prisons
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across England and Wales. So here is libors Boris Johnson
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Angela Eagle saying the new Liberal government has inherited an
24:14
absolute crisis in our prison system, with very few places
24:17
remaining there. I think that colleagues in the Ministry of
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Justice will be considering anything that they can to alleviate
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the problem. What we cannot have is people who are
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convicted of perhaps violent or serious crimes not being able
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to be in jail. So that's what Eagle had to say.
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Of course, is the Home Office Minister, I should say,
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Dame Angela Eagle, perhaps, but I just want to remind
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you of this peace of legislation from the previous regime.
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This is the Tory government's Criminal Justice Bill and this
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was from twenty twenty three. It didn't go through in
24:52
time before the general election. But let's just highlight a
24:56
couple of aspects of this. First of all they were
24:58
determined that they were going to mix is longer for
25:00
the most dangerous criminals, included by making rapists serve every
25:05
day of their sentence behind bars. Well, as we know,
25:08
at the moment, the UK government is busy emptying the
25:12
prisons in order to make room for those nasty fart
25:15
riders that are complaining about immigration and so on social
25:19
media and whatnot. But the time there carrying an article
25:23
headlined risky offenders will go free when Warren's Prisons Watchdog
25:29
almost two thousand inmates will be released next week amid
25:33
concerns about housing and possibility of reoffending. So he's talking
25:38
about risky offenders. That doesn't seem to fit with the
25:42
policy expressed in that previous legislation. But let's bring that
25:46
back on screen because the other part that I want
25:48
to highlight was that that legislation was designed to, amongst
25:52
other things, establish pars the transfer prisoners in and out
25:56
of England and Wales to serve their sentences abroad. In
25:59
other words, the UK has no such part at this
26:02
point in time, and so without legislation it becomes very
26:07
unclear how the UK regime could export prisoners to Estonia
26:14
until legislation goes through. So I'm going to suggest that
26:17
the coverage of that in the mainstream media is a
26:20
bit of fake news at this stage in the sense
26:22
that it is designed to encourage a response from the public.
26:27
They are pushing those headlines out of the mainstream press
26:30
to see what kind of response they see across social
26:34
media and so on, and they will then decide whether
26:38
to include that in any upcoming legislation that they have
26:41
on this. But in the meantime, more people being sentenced
26:45
every week as a result of the recent so called
26:48
violent protest and the beginning of the release of prisoners
26:54
in order to in order to make space for those mark,
26:59
let's bring it on screen then, and we're talking about
27:02
foreign policy and a recent conference in the States.
27:07
Speaker 3: Yes on September four, I covered a speech by Walter
27:12
Russell Mead through the American Enterprise Institute and covered it virtually.
27:17
And Walter Russell Mead is among the more noted foreign
27:21
policy commentators, considered something of a guru in foreign policy circles,
27:27
so I decided to cover it much like covering CFR
27:31
or Chicago Council on Global Affairs, pretty much the same
27:34
Ideology the American Dream lecture series Walter Russell Mead on
27:38
American foreign policy in the next presidency. He had some
27:41
interesting things to say. I'll do a slight rebuttal at
27:44
the end, but anyway, this is some of what it
27:48
was about. He kind of steered it a different way,
27:50
but this is some of it. As we approach the
27:52
twenty twenty four presidential election, foreign policy concerns loom large.
27:57
China continues to strengthen its military and challenge American influence
28:01
around the globe. A regional war threatens to break out
28:04
in the Middle East. Russia shows no sign of relenting
28:07
in its invasion of Ukraine. How would a returning President
28:11
Trump or ascendant President Kamala Harris confront these threats? Should
28:15
we expect major foreign policy changes from either of the
28:19
major parties? Obviously they are into the duopoly. There's no
28:22
other possibilities for president and what impending crises are on
28:27
the horizon, and from there we'll just keep going. This
28:30
is all my writing, and I took all these photos
28:33
through the screenshot option. There's Walter Russell Mead. He's with
28:37
the Hudson Institute, which is Bildeberg connected, a widely cited analyst.
28:41
Walter Russell Mead is a foreign affairs professor at Bard College,
28:45
formerly taught foreign policy at Yale. Writes for the Wall
28:48
Street Journal, also contri contributes to the CFR Journal Foreign Affairs.
28:53
And he's a former Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow at the CFR,
28:57
A former and moving on, and this is my own writing,
29:01
not taken from any press release. By the way. He's
29:05
also co founder of the New America Foundation, and that
29:08
includes some Bildeberg luminaries like Reid Hoffman and Anne Marine Slaughter.
29:13
Anne Marie Slaughter, pardon me a quick footnote there, But
29:18
the main planks that Walter Russell Mead had to say
29:21
are as follows America, he says, has been presiding over
29:25
a packs Americana, not the so called rules based order.
29:30
He kind of shafed at that. He doesn't really believe
29:33
a rules based order is even the right way to
29:35
describe it. He believes it's been a Pax American all along,
29:38
which you don't hear real often, meaning he feels that
29:41
the world arrangement over the decade since World War Two
29:44
has not been based on these rules so much as
29:47
it's been based on American power, and this Packs Americana,
29:51
he says, is in a state of steep decline. The US,
29:55
he went on to say, was once alone as a
29:57
world power. Other nations would abstain from challenging US predominance,
30:02
but now America's unipolar moment is over quote unquote, And
30:07
the year twenty twenty four, he went on to say,
30:09
is nothing like the good old days of nineteen ninety.
30:12
Why did we fail? He's asking did President Clinton make
30:16
trade and economic errors? Did George W. Bush make the
30:19
wrong nine to eleven decisions? Was Obama two week in Syria?
30:23
Was Trump too brash? He asked all these questions, why
30:26
did we fail? And going on from there, he went
30:31
on to say Team Harris seems generally oriented toward restoring
30:34
and saving the packs of Americana, but may fail to act.
30:38
Team Trump is not so sure that the Pax Americana
30:41
was a good idea in the first place. Whoever becomes
30:44
president will face the rise of China in the Indo Pacific,
30:48
and China's potential actions could seriously challenge a return to
30:53
a Pax Americana, So he believe it's something virtually lost
30:57
that we should return too. Mead feels that much centers
31:02
on Taiwan. He says Japan and South Korea would likely
31:05
cozy up to China and shy away from the US
31:09
if China gets into a conflict with the US over
31:12
the control of Taiwan, thereby weakening the US position. Historically,
31:16
the US sought to prevent written Russia and Japan from
31:20
becoming dominant powers, but now it's China to deal with,
31:23
and concerns also extend to challenges from Russia, challenges from
31:28
Iran and possibly even North Korea in a sort of
31:32
subordinate way or a lesser way. And some of the
31:36
main quotes the takeaways from mister Mead, this is one
31:39
of them. Geo political competition is driving a wave of
31:43
conflict and wars, so he is pushing the fear button
31:46
a bit that he believes is logically grounded. He went
31:50
on to say, quote China understands the stakes and what
31:54
the seizure of Taiwan would mean. And mister Mead went
31:57
on to say that goods from that region, goods from
32:01
that great region's nations, that the greater regions nations may
32:05
stop flowing in the event of a US conflict with China,
32:09
over Taiwan. Interesting stuff and getting into a little bit
32:14
more of the meat of what he had to say
32:16
and what I wrote here, Mike, is only a main
32:20
slice or the main stuff. There's a lot more I
32:22
could have put down, but I wanted to keep it
32:25
well focused. Mister Mead went on to say, talking about
32:29
Iran in pretty bleak terms, Iran was cited as a
32:33
major ongoing threat, even equal to or beyond any threat
32:37
posed by China or Russia, at least at this time.
32:41
Iran as an unrelenting foe of Israel is seeking to
32:44
become a dominant regional power. Meanwhile, Israel's other enemies, such
32:48
as Hesbola, also won't relent. He called Iran the run
32:52
to the litter and says he claims it's dominating Syria,
32:56
Iraq and Lemanon. The next US president will likely face
32:59
a nuclear Iran, he predicted. Yet, the core supporters of
33:03
both Harris and Trump are inward looking, which is code
33:07
speak among globalists who are worried about domestic populations becoming
33:11
more focused on their own countries and becoming more isolationist,
33:16
one of the dreaded words among globalists anyway. Meanwhile, both
33:19
Obama regarding Crimea and George W. Bush regarding the Russian
33:24
invasion of Georgia. In Mead's opinion, they both appeased and
33:28
excused Russian aggressions. In the present time, Americans will grow
33:32
wary of supporting Ukraine, and that would perhaps further strengthening,
33:37
perhaps further strengthen Russia even more. Forgive the slight misspelling
33:42
of strengthening there. And to summarize, mister Mead made some
33:49
pretty blanket statements really engaging the audience. He said, the
33:54
American unipolar moment is over, and there's no agreed upon
33:59
consensus on what should replace it. And I believe from
34:03
there in the time a lot We've got a little
34:05
bit from the Hudson Institute itself. This is by Arthur
34:08
Herman for a New packs Americana and what I found,
34:14
and the subtitle is a new arsenal of democracy is
34:17
needed to secure American power in the twenty first century.
34:20
What I found, Mike is despite the rather insightful although
34:26
we may not agree with him totally, but the rather
34:28
insightful comments of mister Walter Russell Meade, what I found
34:32
was that a lot of it came kind of out
34:34
of the boilerplate writings of the Hudson Institute itself. It
34:38
wasn't really as in terms of his presentation, It wasn't
34:43
really so much his unique statements, although there were some,
34:46
but again kind of Hudson Institute boilerplate. And this shows
34:50
that this notes that the packs Americana that has prevailed
34:55
over world affairs since the end of World War Two,
34:57
they're claiming is dead, not just ale, but dead, if
35:01
not actually buried, it must now be replaced. The two
35:05
remaining questions are with what and how? And this is
35:08
where it gets interesting, and this is where I have
35:10
a slight rebuttal. The term Pax americana American peace refers
35:14
to the international order of the US constructed after World
35:17
War Two and the decades of relative peace and prosperity
35:20
that followed under US economic and military leadership of the
35:24
free world quote unquote. That's a challengeable concept there, notwithstanding
35:29
the context of a Cold War with the threat of
35:31
the Soviet Union, and since nineteen forty eight, that order
35:35
has proved remarkably resilient and flexible in the face of
35:39
multiple challenges. These included rapid changes in America's own economic
35:44
fortunes and the periodic commitment of America's formidable military to
35:49
large scale wars in Asia, including Korea and Vietnam, and
35:53
the Middle East, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Afghanistan being
35:57
the longest war that America was ever involved in about
36:00
twenty years, not to mention the collapse of that order's
36:03
principal antagon as the USSR, and the rise of its
36:07
latest antagonists, the People's Republic of China. And my brief
36:11
rebuttal on this mike or observation is that packs americanomy,
36:16
meaning American peace since about nineteen forty eight really never happened.
36:21
America has been the global cop now. It's the country
36:25
on which the sun never sets in terms of its
36:28
military assets and its reach, and it actually has fostered
36:33
again the longest war on record Afghanistan, a massive killing
36:37
in Iraq starting in March of two thousand and three
36:40
with a shotgun awe bombing, unprecedented lengthy wars with no
36:46
real objectives like in Desert Storm, and really all it
36:50
is is war and violence. On another footing, yes, there
36:54
haven't been any declared wars by the US since World
36:57
War Two, but the undeclared wars and the globelobal policing
37:01
is simply another kind of warfare system. So to say,
37:05
American peace packs Americana. I think it's questionable as to
37:09
whether that really ever happened. So it throws into question
37:14
the whole premise of citing the death of this Pax
37:18
Americana and what they're going to replace it with. So
37:23
I'll do some follow ups on this to see exactly
37:25
what the globalists are thinking in terms of their premises
37:28
and in terms of what they would replace it with.
37:31
And is it true that this is really dead? I
37:34
think that's what it boils down to, is the premises
37:37
they use and the conclusions they make, and are they
37:39
really true. But still this gives some insight into the
37:43
current thinking in foreign policy circles.
37:45
Speaker 1: So back to you, Mike, Yeah, I mean Mark, I'm
37:48
just going to throw this pockete a little bit because
37:51
as far as I can see, what he's saying is
37:55
what he's asking the question, what's going to replace paks Americana.
37:58
He doesn't have any answer about that, but he's busy
38:01
making sure that everybody's focused on the more recent enemies
38:05
like Iran and China, so right words their only answer.
38:09
So far is to have more of the same of
38:11
this kind of undeclared war through proxies and perpetual warfare
38:16
that we've got through this absolute hybrid operation we have
38:18
against Russia, China and Iran at the moment.
38:22
Speaker 3: Exactly perpetual war for perpetual peace, which is a phrase
38:27
coined when the Carnegie and DAMA was investigated for actually
38:31
fostering war. So yeah, it's going to be more perpetual
38:35
war for a perpetual peace as far as we can tell,
38:37
unless we hear otherwise.
38:38
Speaker 1: Yes, well, thanks Mark. So let's just very briefly look
38:42
at Ukraine. And this is going to be very brief
38:44
because I just wanted to highlight one particular incident recently.
38:47
So this is the BBC saying that Ukraine says soldiers
38:51
among fifty one killed in Pultava missile attack. So this
38:55
was a hypersonic missile hit this building. Basically it came
38:59
in that they literally only got the error rid Saren
39:04
up a few seconds before it hit. Various discussion of
39:09
how many people have been killed by this fifty one
39:12
mentioned in the BBC article here, but other sources suggesting
39:18
as many as six hundred people killed in this incident,
39:21
but most importantly suggestions suggestions that Swedish personnel have been
39:26
involved in this. So let's bring the fact checkers on screen,
39:30
because of course we need to know whether it's true
39:33
or not, and this is logically facts. And they claim
39:37
that Russian newslet's news outlets have been falsely Claimingish Swedish
39:42
military instructors were killed in the paul Tava military strike.
39:47
So the fact checkers have been straight away to make
39:50
sure that we understand that this claim that Swedish have
39:53
been involved is false. The problem is that almost immediately
39:59
after this, the Swedish Foreign minister has resigned and he's
40:04
not saying why he's resigned. So this is Sweden's top diplomat,
40:08
Bill Strum, who led NATO talk so that he led
40:11
the talks to bring Sweden into NATO in recent months,
40:15
has resigned and as I say, nobody's saying why. The
40:19
fact checkers again absolutely denying or claiming to know that
40:23
despite he had there's been no public statement about why
40:25
he's resigned. They're claiming to know that he did not
40:28
resign because of any Swedish personnel involved in this structs
40:32
Poltava strike. So this is a developing story and we'll
40:36
keep an eye on it. But it looks like foreign instructors,
40:41
let's say, have been involved and have died as a result.
40:46
We'll keep you posted, Debbie. Let's move on now, and
40:50
what's back to the UK and the issue of net
40:53
zero and driving?
40:56
Speaker 2: Yes, well we've got I think I wor. It's at
40:59
fifty four days now to the budget, so not long
41:02
to wait. And it's interesting actually because our the government
41:06
pushing out more to see the social media reaction again,
41:11
So twenty thirty petrol diesel cars will go. And thank
41:16
you so much to at Nick Walker seventy two Mixed
41:20
Master Mirage who did this graphic for me and has
41:23
done lots of graphics, especially if you come back for
41:25
extra you'll see another lovely graphic. Thank you so much
41:28
to him for this graphic because do you remember he
41:31
also reminded me do you remember back in lock up
41:35
Cheshire Constabulary and Wiltshire Police. I've just got two examples
41:39
really of screenshots to tell you that you weren't allowed
41:42
to drive. Do you remember in lockup? You couldn't travel
41:45
to exercise, you couldn't take your car out anywhere? Was
41:48
this one big nudge for what we've got coming up,
41:51
because just want to give you a little bit of brief,
41:54
very brief history. Back in two thousand and seven there
41:58
was a road price petition and now the pay as
42:01
you drive road tolls debate really hotted up then. But
42:04
a huge one point seven million rejected the plan to
42:08
charge drivers one pound thirty four a mile at peak time.
42:13
Motorists feel really strongly, and they did mention actually that
42:15
Blair had been caught off guard at the fuel price
42:19
protests in two thousand, which actually brought Britain to a standstill.
42:23
So is this a shot across the bows they know
42:25
that drivers are going to react or are they trying
42:28
to engineer more outrage, more upset for more protests That
42:34
I don't know. But if we leap forward to twenty nineteen,
42:37
the RAC were reminding us, reminding everybody of this outrage
42:43
and the fact that the public didn't want it. However,
42:46
in October twenty and nineteen, MPs didn't seem to have listened,
42:52
and the RAC said, no, they need to listen to more.
42:56
We want a national road pricing debate. So Transport Committee
43:01
again in October twenty nineteen, decided to kick start the
43:05
conversation again for pay per mile. And here we are
43:09
today in September in the Telegraph is now reporting that
43:14
Rachel Reeves is about to hit petrol car drivers with
43:17
a pay per mile tax, and even the rac are
43:22
actually pushing for this. But interestingly the Express just came
43:26
out with an article to say that actually many are
43:29
going to ditch their petrol cars and stop driving completely.
43:32
And isn't that the aim we're thinking moving forward? In fact,
43:36
they're predicting a huge thirty eight percent would you believe
43:39
are going to ditch their cars? And I just have
43:42
to say the caveat fifteen minute cities. Does that ring
43:45
any bells? So I went to Cinch to see what
43:47
pay per mile would actually mean. And basically, because electric
43:52
cars at the moment don't pay any tax or very little,
43:57
we seem to have taken all the governments say they
43:59
seem to have taken a hit. So in order to
44:02
make up the difference and to replace vehicle excise duty,
44:06
you have told petrol car drivers will have to pay
44:09
a tax on annual mileage. What can possibly go wrong?
44:15
But on the next shot, I just want to show
44:17
you a picture of a camera because cameras are very
44:19
important in this. They're going to be using number plate recognition,
44:23
just like Sadiq Khan uses for you, les, So is
44:27
he thinking about rolling this out in London perhaps where
44:30
the infrastructure is because we're seeing cameras popping up all
44:34
over the place and we'll talk about those in a minute.
44:36
But I went to fact check, as you do, to
44:39
see is Sadik Khan playing about with this idea and
44:42
apparently no he's not. He's not thinking about paper mile.
44:47
But they put a very interesting caveat in in the
44:50
next slide which said that FactCheck can't fact check the future,
44:55
so basically anything's on the table. I would say, So
44:59
let's go look at the government's end of sale of
45:01
petrol diesel cars in two thirty because that's they've taken
45:05
this historic step and apparently they've done it through a consultation,
45:10
and the consultation outcome in the next slide will say
45:14
that petrol and diesel cars now it's been brought forward
45:17
to a ban to two thirty and all new cars
45:21
and vans will have to be fully zero emission at
45:24
the tailpipe by twenty thirty five, and they include some hybrids,
45:29
which is interesting and for that I'll show you why.
45:33
But let's just look at evs, because we've done loads
45:35
of work on evs on the column, and the BBC
45:38
are reporting is the move to electric cars running out
45:41
of power? Well, I would say it probably is. And
45:44
why Well, the BBC say that it's because we need
45:47
to buy loads more in order to hit the climate target.
45:51
We need eight hundred million by twenty thirty five, and
45:54
at the moment we've only got fifty million, so we're
45:58
well short, and people aren't sure that they're worth it.
46:02
They don't like electric cars. They say it's a high cost.
46:06
And most of the electric cars that you see on
46:08
the roads at the moment are company cars. They're fleet
46:11
cars who have been given generous tax breaks. And you
46:15
can see there that even in twenty twenty four, testless
46:18
sales are going down. But the cost of an average
46:21
EV in the USA is sixty thousand dollars, so they're
46:24
very highly priced. But what a manufacturer is saying, Well,
46:28
Volvo apparently has turned around and said nope, they're not
46:31
going to do it. They are going to carry on
46:34
selling hybrids, so it's they're not going to get rids
46:38
of petrol cars completely, they're going to have hybrids. This
46:41
is going to be interesting to see where this fits
46:43
in with legislation. But why is electric vehicle apathy forcing
46:49
carmakers to take desperate measures? And they are taking desperate measures.
46:53
And further on in the article, it says that many
46:56
distributors actually are going to be closing and are being
47:00
put off because of the price. But the parity between
47:03
second hand market now is starting to narrow, so you
47:07
can actually get a second hand EV for the same
47:11
price as a petrol. But I have to say that
47:13
if you get a second hand EV which is probably
47:16
five years old, that battery is going to be five
47:18
years old. And we'll come on too batteries in a minute.
47:21
So why have we been looking at EV's for so long? Well,
47:24
obviously we've been looking at EV fires, haven't we. We've
47:26
been looking at a huge amount of fires. This is
47:30
a CE Safety published this in twenty twenty two, but
47:34
it was over the last five years, going back to
47:36
twenty seventeen, and they were saying that they're very dangerous,
47:41
difficult to extinguish the fires, and they've caused serious damage.
47:45
And we know that already because of previous articles that
47:48
we've covered on the column, but so far London ninety
47:52
three vehicles, they were reporting seventy eight injuries. It goes
47:55
on and on forever. If we go on to the
47:59
next slide two, it talks about huge amounts of callouts
48:04
the London fires caused by electric batteries, and you can
48:08
see there that the graph screenshot is forty three point
48:12
seven percent our cars. But surprisingly I didn't realize mobility
48:17
scooters are included in this as well, so three point
48:21
one percent of fires are happening with mobility scooters. When
48:25
we look at the RAC, the RAC are talking about batteries,
48:29
which we know, of course are the lithium batteries, and
48:32
they talk further on in the article about the cost
48:34
of them and how often they need charging. So they
48:37
say they last ten to twenty years on average, although
48:40
I have known people say that they last a lot less.
48:43
It's eight pounds for a new Tesla battery, although they
48:48
say those prices are coming down, and not all manufacturers
48:52
specify a state of health replacement before you're eligible for
48:57
a replacement. So if you are thinking of buying an
49:00
electric car, which I'm sure none of you are, you
49:02
need to check these kinds of things. But you know
49:05
what where to go. But jeff bys cars And if
49:08
you're listening Jeff bys Cars amazing videos you put out
49:12
and you've been highlighting that there's been cameras popping up
49:16
all over the place. I'm sure you've seen them wherever
49:18
you're living. But he's done a lot of videos on
49:21
cameras and lots of videos on cars. And this is
49:25
a little bit of what he had to say about
49:27
paper mile.
49:29
Speaker 6: A government announcement is expected in due course. All right,
49:33
I was banging on about pay per mile and road
49:36
user charging eighteen months ago. The goal is for them
49:39
to put the cameras up so that they could switch
49:42
you off when they introduced the fifteen minute cities, when
49:45
they introduce all of these neighborhoods that you're not allowed
49:47
to leave. If they've got the pay per mile cameras
49:51
up and active, and if the system is running, it's
49:53
going to be a lot easier for them to lock
49:55
you in your house and to prevent you from going anywhere.
49:58
That's what all of this is about. It's got nothing
50:01
to do with a black hole in the budget, because
50:03
they created the black hole in the budget, and anyone
50:06
with a brain could have predicted that the black hole
50:09
in the budget was going to happen. So don't incentivize
50:12
business users into buying electric cars and then pretend that
50:15
you didn't realize that those business users when they're not
50:18
going to be paying for their fuel and you were
50:20
going to lose out on the money. They knew all along.
50:23
They are lying to us time and time again. Understand
50:28
where these agendas come from. Understand what the end goal is.
50:32
It's got nothing to do with money and everything to
50:34
do with you losing your freedom. Miss the camera.
50:49
Speaker 2: I feel like that too. Thank you so much, Jeff,
50:51
I thought that was brilliant. But you know what I
50:53
picked up Jacob rees mog talking about his hybrid on
50:58
GB News. This is a very short clip of what
51:01
happened to Jacob Rie Smock. Listen carefully what happened to
51:04
his hybrid.
51:06
Speaker 7: Well, now we've got billions of miles of data, global
51:09
data that shows that these batteries are not degrading as
51:13
we've been told. So I drove a Tesla the other day,
51:15
two thousand and eighteen, car with a quarter of a
51:19
million miles on it, and it was as flash as
51:21
paint and the battery was just doing really, really well.
51:24
So there is no data to say anywhere that batteries
51:28
are failing prematurely or causing issues your lexus.
51:33
Speaker 8: Obviously, the battery blew up and it wouldn't move an inch.
51:36
I can only apologize. It's not your personal fault. But
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you see, I don't descript, particularly with anything you're saying.
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I'm just thinking the market should decide and if people
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want to buy petrol cars allowed to do so.
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Speaker 2: So his battery blew up. Do I need to say
51:52
more back to you, Mike.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Debbie. Okay, let's move on to the issue
51:58
of censorship and misinformation, and well a bit of news
52:03
from the United States here two RT employees indicted for
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covertly funding and directing US company that published thousands of
52:12
videos and furtherance of Russian issues, so says the Office
52:15
of Published Affairs, sorry, the Office of Public Affairs at
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the US Department of Justice. So employees of Russian state
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controlled media outlet deployed nearly ten million dollars to publish
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art curated content which garnered millions of views through a
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Tennessee based online content creation company, is what they're saying.
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This was covered in The Guardian, which is now apparently
52:38
news provider of the year. I thought the Telegraph was
52:40
claiming the same thing. But anyway, they have said their
52:44
headline here as US conservative influencers say they are victims
52:48
of Russian disinformation campaigns. Tim Poole, Dave Rubin and Benny
52:53
Johnson addressed allegations that a company they were associated with
52:57
had been paid to publish videos with message is in
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favor of Russia. Now this is all a bit silly.
53:03
That's silly that our tea has done this in a
53:06
sense because they have undoubtedly been pushing money in the
53:09
direction of so called influencers online, and of course that
53:13
leaves everybody concerned open to allegations of pushing Russian disinformation
53:19
and pushing Russian narratives, even when in fact the Russian
53:25
narratives may be true. But that never mind the factual
53:29
aspect of this, the allegations there. But the point that
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I really wanted to make here and remind everybody, of course,
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is that while we are told that we need this
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censorship regime because of Russian disinformation appearing in the Western
53:44
media or in the Western alternative media rather and so on,
53:48
the West and Britain have been doing this for years.
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Everybody does this, there's nothing unusual about it in any way,
53:56
no matter how is being pushed by the people that
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want to push this censorship regime. So let's just remind
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ourselves about Juliette Harkin, formerly a BBC Media Action, talking
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about how they were doing exactly this in Syria in
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two thousand and four, so seven years before the outbreak
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of the Civil War. We BBC Media Action worked in
54:17
two thousand and four with the individuals within the Syrian
54:20
ministry who wanted change and tried to get them to
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be drivers of that. But they were also of course
54:25
training journalists in these countries, in many countries around the
54:28
world to push Western narratives into those countries. And this
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is something that we've been highlighting for many years. Have
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a look at this article entitled abusing the system through
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NGOs and CSOs non governmental organizations and civil society organizations
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increasingly being banned in countries like Russia and other countries
54:51
for bringing Western ideas and Western narratives into those countries. Now,
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Marie had Able's article here actually talking about their activities domestically,
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but we have other content on the UK column talking
55:06
about how these organizations are pushing foreign policy into other countries.
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So to suggest that Russia is in somehow doing something
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different or unusual here is a bit silly, but that's
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what's driving the censorship regime. And just very briefly, Pavel Durov,
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of course, were arrested recently. The CEO of Telegrams I
55:28
published a statement on this, saying that he was interviewed
55:31
by police for four days a few days ago last month.
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He was told he may be personally responsible for other
55:38
people's illegal use of telegram and so on, and explaining
55:42
how Telegram is cooperating with the EU and making a
55:47
few points on this, the fact that the French authorities
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had numerous ways to reach him, and so on. So
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you can read the full content of this on his
55:56
telegram channel, But it was this last point here that
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I really wanted to highlight. That's why he's made it
56:03
his personal goal to ensure that Telegram significantly improves things
56:07
in regard to the use of telegram by criminals as
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he's describing it. So I'm going to be very interesting
56:16
to see how the censorship and the moderation regime changes
56:20
on Telegram. If it does in the coming weeks and months.
56:24
And then finally just briefly mentioned follow up on what
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we were talking about on Wednesday with respect to digital
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ID because one of the main digital ID providers in
56:34
the UK is company called YOTE, and they have made
56:38
some recommendations for the forthcoming Digital Information and Smart Data Bill,
56:43
and basically they're saying the specific contents of the bill
56:47
are still to be are still undisclosed and so it's
56:50
unknown at the stage. It will take a different approach
56:53
to the previous Tory regimes attempted to this legislation, which
56:57
also didn't pass before the general election. But they say
57:00
that YOT would like to see that most of the
57:02
provisions of Data Protection and Digital Information Bill return. We
57:07
are particularly supportive, they say, of the Digital Verification Service,
57:11
and of course they are because they are a provider
57:14
of digital ID products. This is ce FIT. This is
57:19
the government's or the government backed Center for Finance, Innovation
57:22
and Technology, and they've teamed up with leading banks in
57:25
order to push digital ID verification in the UK. So
57:29
they have teamed up with Amazon Web Services A and O,
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Sherman Barclay's c crif DONE and Bradstreet, Ernst and Young Experience,
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g L e I, f HSBC, Lexus, Nexus, Lloyd's Bank, MasterCard, Revolute,
57:47
Santander and Yote of course taking part in this because
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digital ID is needed in order to prevent scams online,
57:56
so we permit the scams generating the problem, and then
57:59
we provide this but just a brief look around the
58:02
world at this Mauritius launchest digital idea as part of
58:06
digital transformation strategy. We've got Brazil strengthening digital ID push.
58:12
We've got Alzerbaijan planning a rapid digital ID adoption. We've
58:16
got Kenya digital ID rollout. We've got France with Hyperion acquisition.
58:24
We've got India pushing digital ID, We've got Ethiopia pushing
58:28
digital idea. Has happened all those headlines just within the
58:31
last few days or a week and a half or so.
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It is incredible how rapidly this particular agenda is developing.
58:39
We'll obviously been covering it a lot more, but I
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think we need to be seeing a lot more pushback
58:46
from general population on this. Debbie. Let's come back to
58:50
you then for a final comment.
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Speaker 2: A final comment, Well, you've first up with doing the housework,
58:58
do you need somebody to give you a high. I
59:00
want to introduce you to Neo Beta. This is the
59:04
new humanoid robot prototype and it's launching for home use.
59:10
I know you're already with your order pads because you
59:13
can't wait a little bit more. Have I got another
59:16
slide there with a little bit more information? Yes, there
59:19
you go, five foot five, weighs sixty six pounds. Interesting,
59:26
interesting weight there, and it can lift double its weight.
59:29
But you know what, don't take my word for it.
59:32
We've got a very short piece of video. And do
59:34
you fancy having this in your home? I don't.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a robot hug with a difference.
1:00:10
Speaker 2: What more can I say?
1:00:11
Speaker 3: Mike?
1:00:12
Speaker 1: Well, what workould you want? I don't know. I mean
1:00:14
that's spectacular. I place my order straight away. Right, We've
1:00:19
got to leave it there for today. Thank you very
1:00:21
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