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UK Column News Podcast 27th September 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Friday, the twenty seventh of September
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK
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Speaker 1: column News. I'm your host, Brian Geresh, delighted to be
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Speaker 1: joined by Debbie Evans and Mark Anderson from the States.
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Speaker 1: Now the backdrop looks sunny, blue sky, but I can
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Speaker 1: assure our view as it's getting a little bit chilly
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Speaker 1: here is clearly autumn is settling on Plymouth in the
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Speaker 1: southern part of England. At least we're going to get
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Speaker 1: into the news and the initial bit of focus is
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Speaker 1: really of the madness in the world that's clearly evident
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East, but also in Ukraine. But let's
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Speaker 1: have a little bit of a commentary on Ukraine, which
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Speaker 1: will lead us into the fact that our so called leaders,
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Speaker 1: national leaders, global leaders seem to be leading us home
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Speaker 1: into one place and that's a dystopian future. But reports
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Speaker 1: from the battlefield, I've just taken one because this is
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Speaker 1: a critical report. It's about the imminent fortress, sorry, the
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Speaker 1: imminent falling of the Ukrainian fortress at Uglidhar. And what
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Speaker 1: is so significant about this city? If I just try
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Speaker 1: and arrow it here is that it has a very
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Speaker 1: large number of very strongly built high rise buildings which
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Speaker 1: have dominated the view over a very very flat terrain.
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Speaker 1: The this is in the Zaporosia sector, a little bit
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Speaker 1: further to the east of the front line, so you
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Speaker 1: have high rise buildings which have been strongly fortified and
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Speaker 1: defended by the Ukrainians. This has dominated this part of
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Speaker 1: the front. But the Russians have now finally moved into
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Speaker 1: the outer edge of this city, and it's assess that
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Speaker 1: it will fall very soon. And the really sad and
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Speaker 1: terrible thing is that Zelenzi pulled out his high level troops,
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Speaker 1: his experienced troops from the defense of Uglidar, replaced them
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Speaker 1: with a lot of conscripts, and told those conscripts they
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Speaker 1: could not withdraw, they could not retreat until he had
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Speaker 1: finished his dialogue in America, because obviously the fall of
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Speaker 1: this stronghold would damage his reputation while he was involved
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Speaker 1: in talks in America. So very very callous, huge numbers,
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Speaker 1: huge losses. Let's just have a little look of a
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Speaker 1: little bit of video on screen. We'll just play it
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Speaker 1: on screen, and these are some of the massive explosions
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Speaker 1: as the Russians have been hammering these high rise buildings
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Speaker 1: in Uglidar. This is probably their air launched fab weapons,
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Speaker 1: very very big gliding bombs. But if we look at
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Speaker 1: what's happening in other areas, this could be anywhere across
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Speaker 1: the front. I believe it's up in the Curse sector.
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Speaker 1: But we can see the sheer horrors of what happens
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Speaker 1: when the Ukrainians are in forest areas or the hedgerow
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Speaker 1: areas at the edge of the big fields. So we
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Speaker 1: can be sure that it doesn't matter how well trained
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Speaker 1: the troops are, they are going to die under this
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Speaker 1: sort of bombardment. And of course, the Russians absolutely plentiful
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Speaker 1: in ammunition, contrary to every single lie that the BBC
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Speaker 1: and Western media has put out that they're running out
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Speaker 1: of ammunition. Now, let's have a little look at a
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Speaker 1: clip with Tony Blair. This is the Milken Institute. Thank
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Speaker 1: you to Debbie for pointing this one out to me.
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Speaker 1: But this is getting to the sheer horrors of our
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Speaker 1: so called world leaders and how they approach life. Let's
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Speaker 1: look at Tony Blair in action.
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Speaker 2: I mean the we're not off.
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Speaker 3: The record here, but we're talking to a journalist. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, what am I thinking of?
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Speaker 2: I don't wake up.
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Speaker 3: But I actually remember having a conversation with with Boutin
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Speaker 3: about Ukraine and when when I was still in office
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Speaker 3: and saying, look, we've got no strategic interest in pulling
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Speaker 3: Ukraine towards us. So just to reassure you, you know,
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Speaker 3: if Ukraine wants to go with you, guys, that's fine.
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Speaker 3: And his view was very very clear. I mean, I'll
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Speaker 3: never forget the conversation. He said, no, they're coming with us.
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Speaker 3: I said, yeah, obviously if they choose to come with you,
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Speaker 3: that's fine, and no, not if they choose And I'm
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Speaker 3: afraid that's that's where the problem is. It's it shows.
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Speaker 1: The in this clip particularly offensive because the idea that
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Speaker 1: Tony Blair didn't know about the plans for the proxy
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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine or what was actually taking place prior
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Speaker 1: to the start of the violence in Ukraine. I find
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable. This is the man the lies of weapons
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Speaker 1: of mass destruction, and yet supposedly we are to take
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Speaker 1: his side on how Putin is and how he acts.
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Speaker 1: Let's have a look at US Secretary at State blink
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Speaker 1: and see what he has to say.
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Speaker 4: Months in particularly getting through the winner. We have once again,
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Speaker 4: not just the prospect but the reality of Putin weaponizing winter,
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Speaker 4: weaponizing the weather to use energy as a weapon in
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Speaker 4: his efforts to subjugate Ukraine. And we know that the
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Speaker 4: upcoming winter will be challenging.
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Speaker 1: So what is it the face of a false concern there?
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Speaker 1: But of course, in every major war that the Americans
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Speaker 1: have been involved in, whether it's been in Iraq or
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Speaker 1: it's been in other areas, they've always taken out infrastructure
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Speaker 1: in exactly the same way that the Russians are doing.
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Speaker 1: But now, of course it's the Russians, and that's bad.
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Speaker 1: If the US was doing it, or indeed if Israel
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Speaker 1: was doing it in the present day, that is perfectly acceptable.
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Speaker 1: So sheer hypocrisy by these individuals. Now, let's have a
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Speaker 1: little look at Trump on stage, and he was clearly
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Speaker 1: not happy with what had taken place with Celensky on
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Speaker 1: US soil, and indeed the whole relationship with Camilla.
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Speaker 5: Harris, Biden and Harris cause this situation by the stupidity
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Speaker 5: of what they said, by every move they make. But
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Speaker 5: they caused the situation, and now they're locked in. They're
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Speaker 5: locked in. I watched this poor guy yesterday at the
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Speaker 5: United Nations. He didn't know what he was saying. They
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Speaker 5: just don't know what to do. They're locked into a situation.
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Speaker 5: It's said, they just don't know what to do because.
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Speaker 2: Ukraine is gone.
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Speaker 5: It's not Ukraine anymore. You can never replace those cities
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Speaker 5: in towns, and you can never replace the dead people,
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Speaker 5: so many dead people. Any deal, even the worst deal,
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Speaker 5: would have been better than what.
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Speaker 2: We have right now.
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Speaker 5: If they made a bad deal, it would have been
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Speaker 5: much better.
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Speaker 2: They would have given up a little.
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Speaker 5: Bit and everybody would be living, and every building would
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Speaker 5: be built. Then every tower would be aging for another
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Speaker 5: two thousand years and will only get worse with these
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Speaker 5: people with Kamala doesn't even here's an what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's correct in one sense. I think that they're
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Speaker 1: locked in. They don't know what they're doing. The war
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Speaker 1: has to go on because they're locked on the war
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine, that is. But on the other hand, Trump
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Speaker 1: seems perfectly happy to allow an equally violent and unpleasant
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Speaker 1: war to go on in the Middle East, where he's
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Speaker 1: not actually making the same observations about the US and
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Speaker 1: indeed Israel being locked into the same conflict. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know what it is, whether it's a blind eye
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Speaker 1: or it's sheer hypocrisy, but this is the state of
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Speaker 1: the world leaders that we are supposed to follow. Let's
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Speaker 1: contrast them with some mature discussion. And I've got a
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Speaker 1: little clip here from the interview that I facilitated on
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Speaker 1: Sunday with Scott Ritter and Major General gd backsheet from
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Speaker 1: the Indian Army retired. Now we're just going to play
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Speaker 1: a little clip of that just to give a feel
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Speaker 1: for what was said between these two individuals at the
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Speaker 1: very end of the interview.
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Speaker 6: So India is in a very unique position today. Indian
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Speaker 6: Prime Minister Modi was just in the United States meeting
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Speaker 6: with the President. I know he was there as part
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Speaker 6: of the quad form. But the point is America trusts India.
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Speaker 6: They want good relations with Idiot Mody was in Moscow
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Speaker 6: embracing Vladimir Putin. We have a leader of a nation
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Speaker 6: that is welcomed in both capitals, capitals that today aren't
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Speaker 6: talking to one another. It's absolutely imperative. I believe that
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Speaker 6: India take advantage of this to try and recreate the
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Speaker 6: role that Sweden played in the nineteen eighties to facilitate
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Speaker 6: dialogue between the United States and Russia on strategic arms control. General,
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Speaker 6: if there's anything you could do to advise your government
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Speaker 6: to assume this role of facilitator of dialogue.
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Speaker 2: Scott, I like to thank you for that, but I
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Speaker 2: do think that is the way we are going.
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Speaker 7: The very razor are of the Prime Minister Mouri going
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Speaker 7: to going to Moscow having detailed interactions with Putin. Then
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Speaker 7: he went to immediately six weeks after that to Crave
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Speaker 7: he had detailed interactions with the Zelenski and now he's
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Speaker 7: coming to the United States.
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Speaker 2: Is precisely I think the beginning of such a role.
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Speaker 7: The swedge, as you put it, reducts in terms of
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Speaker 7: which we would be able to convey if the two
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Speaker 7: sides are not talking directly, we'd be able to you know,
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Speaker 7: convey each other's views to the next party and there
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Speaker 7: why try and develop off ramps very specifically, I think
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Speaker 7: after the November elections, these off ramps would be needed
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Speaker 7: not just by the country involved, but by the world.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 7: It's it is like the we have in India as
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Speaker 7: a very profound statement, so they have Aubkam treat the
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Speaker 7: world as a family, and I don't think we will
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Speaker 7: go very wrong, because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 7: I find the differences between us are far less substantial
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Speaker 7: than what is common, and I can make.
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Speaker 2: That out in this dialogue trial up today.
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Speaker 1: So I'll just say to our audience that that interview,
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Speaker 1: which is now up and available on the UK Column website,
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Speaker 1: is two hours long. Encourage people to watch it, to
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Speaker 1: listen to some very interesting, informative and mature discussion between
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Speaker 1: these two gentlemen in stark contrast to the sheer madness
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Speaker 1: of our so called chosen world leaders. Debbie, let's bring
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Speaker 1: you in. And I'm smiling because I think you're going
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Speaker 1: to take us into open government. But I'm not quite
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Speaker 1: so convinced that our government has been open at all
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Speaker 1: in the fomenting of the wars that it's taken us
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Speaker 1: into around the world, particularly in Ukraine, and with the
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Speaker 1: horrors out in the Middle East. What have you got
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Speaker 1: for us?
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, you're quite right, and good afternoon everybody. Well
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Speaker 8: it's almost like we're in watching a magic show here,
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Speaker 8: and there's a lot of distraction going on. Magicians use distraction,
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Speaker 8: right slight of hand, and today I want to introduce
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Speaker 8: you to what I believe is one of the biggest
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Speaker 8: public private philanthropic partnerships in the Western world that you
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Speaker 8: probably haven't heard of. And bearing in mind that kir
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Speaker 8: Starmer has just said at the Labor Party conference the
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Speaker 8: state will take more control in people's lives, I think
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Speaker 8: that this is going to be a segment where everybody
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Speaker 8: in the Western world needs to be listening. So let
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Speaker 8: me introduce you to the Open Government and here's the
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Speaker 8: UK National Action Plan twenty twenty three. This is an
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Speaker 8: increased transparency, accountability and these are the key words public
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Speaker 8: participation in government, in government. So it goes on to
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Speaker 8: talk about the UK Multi Stakeholder Forum for Open Government,
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Speaker 8: which is basically announcing their action plan for what they're
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Speaker 8: going to do. So let's look at the action plan.
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Speaker 8: So this is the next slide you'll see is the
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Speaker 8: UK sixth National Action Plan twenty four to twenty five
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Speaker 8: and you can see this is in collaboration with the
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Speaker 8: Cabinet Office and the UK Open Government Civil Society Network
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Speaker 8: through a multi Stakeholder Forum. I'll come back to that
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Speaker 8: in a minute. But what is the action plan? Well,
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Speaker 8: Alex Burkhart MP started all of this off and here's
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Speaker 8: the action plan here. And they're talking about they talk
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Speaker 8: about the Procurement Act in this open contracting which is
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Speaker 8: basically digitization, and the Procurement Act actually has just gone through.
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Speaker 8: They talk about civil society engagement, anti corruption, they talk
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Speaker 8: about the United Nations Convention of Anti Corruption. I think
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Speaker 8: every time we mention anti corruption, perhaps maybe we should
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Speaker 8: talk about this as being handled by what, in my opinion,
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Speaker 8: is corrupt people in charge. So let's look at the
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Speaker 8: UK Multi Stakeholder Forum, because I believe this is the
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Speaker 8: engine room. This oversees everything in the United Kingdom and
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Speaker 8: you can see that they've got four goals there and
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Speaker 8: they meet very often. And I'm literally only skirting the
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Speaker 8: surface with this segment. Trust me, there's so much to it.
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Speaker 8: But the next meeting, if anybody's interested, is going to
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Speaker 8: be on Wednesday, the twenty third of October, And if
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Speaker 8: anyone wants more information, I suggest we email Dr Matt
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Speaker 8: Donnelley and Dr Ben Getting, who are very kindly given
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Speaker 8: their email addresses there, because I think we will have
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Speaker 8: a lot of questions because this is all going on
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Speaker 8: behind closed doors and it started off. Actually, the Open
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Speaker 8: Government Partnership started off in twenty eleven, so this has
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Speaker 8: been going on a long time. But I bet nobody,
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Speaker 8: well nobody I've spoken to, has certainly heard about it.
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Speaker 8: And who does it involve. Well, seventy five countries are
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Speaker 8: involved in this, with one hundred and fifty local governments.
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Speaker 8: So who are they? Well, these are This is where
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Speaker 8: I say it's a public private philanthropic partnership. We've got
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Speaker 8: partners government, civil society, businesses, nonprofit organizations and more, and
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Speaker 8: they're overseen by a board of directors. So this is
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Speaker 8: I'm not going to go into each one of them individually,
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Speaker 8: because that's a whole new segment of its own. So
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Speaker 8: let's just look at Maria Baron, who's the chair, and
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Speaker 8: she is basically an Argentinian journalist and she's been very
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Speaker 8: much involved in civic innovator projects. She's received prizes, she's
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Speaker 8: got lots of involvement on it. So she oversees the members.
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Speaker 8: So the members then have to submit a two year
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Speaker 8: action plan. So again they're saying, you know, we've got
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Speaker 8: seventy five countries, one hundred and five governments, and now
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Speaker 8: we're going to submit an action plan. But is your
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Speaker 8: country a member? So here's a screenshot. You can search
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Speaker 8: for your country and I can tell you if you
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Speaker 8: are watching in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South America,
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Speaker 8: in the USA, yes you are included, but no, India, China,
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Speaker 8: Russia are not included. So what do they look at? Well,
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Speaker 8: these are their policy areas. They cover much everything except
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Speaker 8: I think you're going to notice they don't cover military.
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Speaker 8: There's no mention of military in this at all. So
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Speaker 8: we've got inclusion, anti corruption and integrity. And then it
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Speaker 8: goes on to digital governance, civic space, justice, open parliaments, environment,
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Speaker 8: climate health, and I've just highlighted one thing that I'm
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Speaker 8: particularly concerned about because the word protest seems to have
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Speaker 8: disappeared and protest has been replaced by freedom of assemblies.
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Speaker 8: So these are going to be peaceful assemblies that are
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Speaker 8: basically going to be policed by you, because this is
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Speaker 8: all about you in government. So they've got a strategy
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Speaker 8: of twenty twenty three to twenty twenty eight strategy in
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Speaker 8: Open Government Partnership. And what does this mean, Well, it
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Speaker 8: means we're going to get more trusted messengers we're going
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Speaker 8: to get more influencers. And on the next slide you'll
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Speaker 8: see that they're talking about an interconnected community. They're talking
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Speaker 8: about making open government central, expanding civic spaces to cultivate
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Speaker 8: champions and influencers. They're going to accelerate progress on reforms,
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Speaker 8: they're going to launch partnerships. They're even going to become
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Speaker 8: places where you can and share your inspirational stories. And
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Speaker 8: we have a number of countries to thank for experiments here.
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Speaker 8: So I just want to just show you a number
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Speaker 8: of current countries because they've all made recommendations and what
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Speaker 8: kind of recommendations have they made? Well, thank you very
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Speaker 8: much Indonesia. But we are now going to be engaging
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Speaker 8: people's access to justice and decriminalizing assembly activities. Again, this
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Speaker 8: is protests. So let's look at the next country. Who
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Speaker 8: can we thank next? Well, we can thank Nigeria because
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Speaker 8: we're going to be looking at regulating the role of
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Speaker 8: the police. This is basically about citizens police right citizens police.
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Speaker 8: So when we go to Italy next, we can thank
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Speaker 8: Italy because they're going to give unobstructed access to Internet
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Speaker 8: platforms and they've been working on a Charter of Internet rights.
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Speaker 8: So what these experiments have been going on in all
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Speaker 8: these different countries, and let's go to Ukraine because Ukraine
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Speaker 8: are included too, considering they're a country of war. They've
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Speaker 8: been experimenting with planned assemblies of peaceful events, and the USA,
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Speaker 8: not to be outdone by of course, they're looking at
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Speaker 8: publishing data of law enforcement data in open data formats.
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Speaker 8: Now I've seen this happen in China where people have
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Speaker 8: their names, addresses, their phone numbers put up in public
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Speaker 8: if they haven't complied to whatever. So all of these
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Speaker 8: countries involved, who are the partners. Well I'm not even
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Speaker 8: going to go into them, but I'm just going to
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Speaker 8: highlight a few CIVICUS article nineteen Carnegie. We've got OXFAM,
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Speaker 8: and we've got published What You Pay and Community Democracies,
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Speaker 8: Well who are they? So I've just got one slide
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Speaker 8: very quickly to show you, because again this is a
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Speaker 8: whole new news. No one else is talking about this.
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Speaker 8: We've got published What you Pay, which is Energy Transition
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Speaker 8: net zero carbon, and the Community of Democracies the Global
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Speaker 8: inter Governmental Coalition, and you've got Madeline Obra named there.
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Speaker 8: So this is all going on behind the scenes. And
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Speaker 8: I've got just to finish the segment of a little
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Speaker 8: bit of video to talk about open government.
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Speaker 9: Look at the wide ranging, wicked problems we're facing right now,
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Speaker 9: the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, worst humanitarian refugee crisis
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Speaker 9: since the Second World War.
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Speaker 10: The cs WOIS was.
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Speaker 11: Longer, and.
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Speaker 12: It is essential to the resilience of democracy for citizens
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Speaker 12: to be engaged, for them to be invited. The time
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Speaker 12: to act is now, and the Open Government Partnership has
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Speaker 12: a unique possibility because of the networks it has already
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Speaker 12: put in place.
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Speaker 8: So this is your government act now. The networks are
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Speaker 8: already in place.
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Speaker 1: Over to you, Brian, Thank you very much. Debbie, Yes,
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Speaker 1: well you picked up that key thing. Many people think
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Speaker 1: that what we're showing is just talk. It represents sort
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Speaker 1: of hubbub and noise. No, this is policy being enacted,
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Speaker 1: and it's being enacted really quickly. It's going to drag
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Speaker 1: us into I've used the word a dystopian future. Mark,
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Speaker 1: Let's bring you in because of course, as far as
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Speaker 1: these organizations are concerned, everything in the future will be better.
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Speaker 1: We will live in utopia.
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Speaker 8: What have you got.
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Speaker 13: Well, last Friday, Brian, you might recall, was the first
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Speaker 13: day of the Summer of the Future of the United Nations,
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Speaker 13: and this summit actually was broken into two segments, the
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Speaker 13: twentieth and twenty first is Action Days, which is largely
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Speaker 13: youth oriented, and then the next two days was the
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Speaker 13: summit itself. Let's go back to that first slide, please,
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Speaker 13: and this some of the future Action Days began with
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Speaker 13: this crucial information. First by putting in place new international
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Speaker 13: norms and mechanisms to both manage and harness the potential
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Speaker 13: of emerging areas of innovation. Second, by doubling down on
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Speaker 13: our efforts to achieve the world envisaged by the UN Charter,
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Speaker 13: the Sustainable Development Goals and our commitments to address climate change,
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Speaker 13: with a particular focus on making sure we have the
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Speaker 13: necessary resources and fit for purpose institutions to deliver. Finally,
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Speaker 13: the goal and the objective of all this will challenge
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Speaker 13: us to take a fresh look at the UN itself
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Speaker 13: its institutions, which includes the who and ways of working
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Speaker 13: to be more networked, inclusive and effective by engaging all stakeholders. So,
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Speaker 13: in focusing today just on those first two days the
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Speaker 13: Action Days, this illustration to the left here was curious
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Speaker 13: and it shows that global cities associated artwork has in
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Speaker 13: its center local and regional government and the key role
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Speaker 13: of cities and mayors. So the Global Cities movement is
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Speaker 13: tying into this something I'll be covering October tenth for
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Speaker 13: an av program, and I covered it a couple of
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Speaker 13: years ago as well, so Global cities do plug into this.
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Speaker 13: Over seven thousand people came to u N headquarters for
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Speaker 13: the two days of Action days, again a lot of
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Speaker 13: youth involved, to get them marinated in un principles and
24:24
Speaker 13: we'll move on from there. And I believe we have
24:25
Speaker 13: a video coming up and it kind of gives an
24:28
Speaker 13: overview and a feel for what they're going after.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 11: I see world leaders, I see mayors and legislators, civil society,
24:39
Speaker 11: the private sector, academics, artists, activists, and young people. We
24:49
Speaker 11: will not solve today's global problems without contributions from all
24:54
Speaker 11: of society.
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Speaker 6: Speaking to the youth is like speaking to the future.
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Speaker 2: You are the toy bearers.
25:25
Speaker 3: The Summit of the Future is a once in a
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Speaker 3: generation opportunity to reshap with the lateral system and to
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Speaker 3: put young people at the center.
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Speaker 10: Give them the space and the freedom to participate meaningfully
25:40
Speaker 10: and finding the solutions.
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Speaker 9: We need to decentralize and localize financing so the communities
25:46
Speaker 9: can step up and take action for themselves.
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Speaker 11: If you are not including persons with disabilities, you are
25:51
Speaker 11: missing one point three billion people around the world.
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Speaker 1: It's going to take transformer to change systemic change underpin
25:58
Speaker 1: by feminist principles to make sure that young people, especially
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Speaker 1: young women and girls, are the center of multilateralism.
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Speaker 2: The smart bit is always on the years.
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Speaker 9: Not just youth consultations or youth informed decisions, but young
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Speaker 9: people at the table.
26:18
Speaker 2: And agreement is nothing before.
26:19
Speaker 8: Action to recommit to multilateralism through the United Nations, to
26:24
Speaker 8: resolve disputes peacefully.
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Speaker 12: Action must be taken now to safeguard the SDGs and
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Speaker 12: sustainable futures for all.
26:33
Speaker 8: None of this is possible without innovative, inclusive and multi
26:39
Speaker 8: stakeholder partnerships.
26:41
Speaker 2: I believe that it is possible for us to have
26:44
Speaker 2: a win win.
26:45
Speaker 10: What I can promise you is that we will carry
26:47
Speaker 10: your insights and ideas forward into the Summit of the Future.
26:51
Speaker 2: Friends.
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Speaker 11: This is what effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism must look.
26:59
Speaker 1: Like, yet shape our future together.
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Speaker 13: As you can see, Brian, the whole thing is really
27:12
Speaker 13: heavy with the language of globalize, lots of terminology that
27:17
Speaker 13: can mean different things to different people. The use of
27:20
Speaker 13: the word multilateralism, i'll mention briefly, is rather curious. In geopolitics,
27:25
Speaker 13: that basically means like, if you have unilateralism, United States
27:29
Speaker 13: will work with another country directly, but multilateralism involves coalitions
27:35
Speaker 13: of countries working together or sometimes in conflict, and so
27:40
Speaker 13: in this context it's not altogether clear what they mean
27:43
Speaker 13: by multilateralism. But that's just one term among many that
27:47
Speaker 13: is used in the language of globalize. Anyway, moving forward
27:52
Speaker 13: more on the Action Days. It gets into bringing together
27:55
Speaker 13: representatives from member states, civil society, private sector, academia, local
27:59
Speaker 13: and authorities, youth, and many more. The Action Days provided
28:03
Speaker 13: an opportunity for broad engagement. These stakeholders have all played
28:06
Speaker 13: a key role in shaping the pack for the future,
28:09
Speaker 13: which is very important. And it's two nxes and will
28:12
Speaker 13: be critical to implementation. And we'll describe that a little
28:16
Speaker 13: more what those axes are as we go along. These
28:19
Speaker 13: are some of the elements out of the report that's
28:23
Speaker 13: posted and available about the Action Days. And I won't
28:28
Speaker 13: read all this content, of course, but there's lots of
28:31
Speaker 13: email addresses in here, and they put this out as
28:34
Speaker 13: public information, so UK column viewers are free to write
28:38
Speaker 13: to these people and ask questions just as we may
28:42
Speaker 13: as reporters. A Digital Future for All was part of
28:46
Speaker 13: the first two days of the overall four day event,
28:50
Speaker 13: and so that's interesting, a digital future for all, and
28:53
Speaker 13: it's almost like they're pushing us into digitization in sort
28:59
Speaker 13: of an arbitrary as if we all absolutely need it.
29:03
Speaker 13: Another one, how can parliaments help close the sustainable development
29:07
Speaker 13: goals financing gap? And it mentions in here the Agenda
29:11
Speaker 13: twenty thirty cannot be achieved unless financing of sustainable sustainable
29:16
Speaker 13: development is massively scaled up, So that means taxpayers of
29:20
Speaker 13: individual nations must massively scale up the taxes to try
29:24
Speaker 13: and get this to happen. And we'll move on for
29:28
Speaker 13: some other planks of the Action days. Another one was inclusive, inclusive,
29:34
Speaker 13: Digital Future for All. We might have had a duplication
29:38
Speaker 13: there on that one at anyway, at any rate. The
29:42
Speaker 13: one after that is fair, inclusive and anti racist economies
29:46
Speaker 13: to leave no one behind, which has sort of a
29:51
Speaker 13: left wing bent to it in terms of the terminology there,
29:54
Speaker 13: and we'll keep going from there. We'll get into the
29:59
Speaker 13: Global Digital Compact, which is a very important part of this, Brian.
30:03
Speaker 13: It's a comprehensive framework for global governance of digital technology
30:07
Speaker 13: and AI twenty years after the World Summit on the
30:11
Speaker 13: Information Society, which happened quite some time ago. Of course,
30:14
Speaker 13: it charts a roadmap for global digital cooperation to harness
30:18
Speaker 13: the immense potential of digital technology and close digital divides.
30:23
Speaker 13: On September twenty second, the first day of the actual
30:27
Speaker 13: summit itself, after the two action days, the world leaders
30:31
Speaker 13: convene to New York for the Summit of the Future,
30:33
Speaker 13: the official Summit, where they adopted a Pack for the
30:36
Speaker 13: Future that includes a Global Digital Compact. The source of that,
30:40
Speaker 13: of course is the UN itself, and this basically just
30:46
Speaker 13: lays out the very general structure. You have the Pack
30:48
Speaker 13: for the Future and one of the nxes. One of
30:52
Speaker 13: the two nxes is the Global Digital Compact and the
30:55
Speaker 13: other is the Declaration on Future Generations. But what this
30:58
Speaker 13: boils down to, Brian, is that the UN is really
31:02
Speaker 13: involving the youth, as they did in the first two
31:05
Speaker 13: days of this overall four day soret and getting them
31:09
Speaker 13: marinated in UN principles to get them to carry the
31:12
Speaker 13: torch for a digitized future for the Declaration and future generations,
31:17
Speaker 13: and it really boils down to maintaining and sustaining and
31:20
Speaker 13: implementing the twenty thirty Sustainable Development Goals. If you had
31:24
Speaker 13: to boil it down to anything, that's what it's all about.
31:27
Speaker 13: Because without the SDGs, the UN loses a major part
31:31
Speaker 13: of its mission. That's central to the UN mission right now.
31:34
Speaker 13: So back to you, Brian.
31:36
Speaker 1: Mark, thank you very much for that, and I'll just
31:38
Speaker 1: add to that. Of course, these policies are off to
31:42
Speaker 1: one side. That's how we the public perceive them, but
31:46
Speaker 1: the reality is they're being enacted through national government. So
31:50
Speaker 1: if you want to know what Keir Stormer and his
31:52
Speaker 1: team are up to, they're not creating individual policies for
31:57
Speaker 1: the nation's state of the United Kingdom. What they're doing
32:01
Speaker 1: is bringing in these policies that we've just been describing
32:04
Speaker 1: by stealth. It's a very very devious system and the
32:09
Speaker 1: only way we're going to fight it properly is by
32:11
Speaker 1: understanding what these policies are and where they come from. Debbie,
32:15
Speaker 1: let's bring you back in because you've been looking a
32:18
Speaker 1: bit more into this particular future aspect.
32:24
Speaker 8: I just wanted to say, you know, the Summit of
32:25
Speaker 8: the Future is something that UK column have been talking
32:28
Speaker 8: about for over six months, and I just want to
32:30
Speaker 8: highlight that we were talking about this on the fourteenth
32:32
Speaker 8: of February. So if anybody out there is saying that
32:35
Speaker 8: we haven't been talking about it, we certainly have and
32:39
Speaker 8: we seem to be coming to an inflection point. This
32:41
Speaker 8: was the general wordage that was going on at the
32:45
Speaker 8: United Nations. But not only have UK column been talking
32:48
Speaker 8: about this for over six months, I've also been writing
32:50
Speaker 8: about it in my blog. And this is why we
32:53
Speaker 8: say please come to the column first, because we are
32:56
Speaker 8: ahead of the curve on so many things. But my
33:00
Speaker 8: observations on the Summit of the Future are basically that
33:04
Speaker 8: Africa is going to be a big deal. So we're
33:07
Speaker 8: going to give it like a robin hood. We're going
33:08
Speaker 8: to give all of our money to Africa. We're going to,
33:11
Speaker 8: as Mark said, accelerate the sustainable goals. This is basically
33:14
Speaker 8: a rehash of the United Nations. This is the United
33:18
Speaker 8: Nation saying, you know what, Model one is now gone.
33:21
Speaker 8: We are now going to launch the New World Order.
33:24
Speaker 8: This is what it's all about. The Pact for the
33:26
Speaker 8: Future is the New World Order, and peace and security
33:31
Speaker 8: was mentioned over forty times in the Pact for the Future,
33:35
Speaker 8: and the word strengthen was mentioned over one hundred times.
33:37
Speaker 8: I think so that's where we're going. This is the
33:39
Speaker 8: launch of the New World Order. But let's look at
33:42
Speaker 8: a very short clip of the Secretary General in his
33:45
Speaker 8: opening remarks. Because the future is not bright at all.
33:49
Speaker 8: It seems we're sitting on a powder keg.
33:51
Speaker 11: Have a listen, mister President of the General Assembly. Excellency is,
33:59
Speaker 11: ladies and gentlemen. Our world is in a willwind. We
34:06
Speaker 11: are in an era at epic transformation, facing challenges unlike
34:12
Speaker 11: any we have ever seen, challenges that demand global solutions.
34:19
Speaker 11: Yet geopolitical divisions keep deepening, the planet keeps hitting, wars
34:27
Speaker 11: rage with no clue how they will end, and nuclear
34:32
Speaker 11: posting and new weapons cast a dark shadow. We are
34:37
Speaker 11: edging towards the unimaginable, a power keg that risks engulfing
34:43
Speaker 11: the world. Meanwhile, twenty twenty four is the year that
34:49
Speaker 11: Alpha Humanity goes to the polls, and alph.
34:52
Speaker 2: Of humanity will be affected.
34:57
Speaker 11: I stand before you in these willwinds, convinced of two
35:01
Speaker 11: overriving truth. First, the state of our world is unsustainable.
35:08
Speaker 11: We can't go on like these. And second, the challenges
35:14
Speaker 11: we face are solvable, but that requires us to make
35:19
Speaker 11: sure the mechanisms of international problem solving actually solve problems.
35:27
Speaker 11: The Summit of the Future was a first step.
35:31
Speaker 2: But we have a long way to go, long way
35:37
Speaker 2: to go.
35:37
Speaker 8: Well, the next place to go is the UN Climate
35:40
Speaker 8: Change Conference in Bacco and Azur Bijan. This is going
35:43
Speaker 8: to be held between the eleventh and twenty second of November,
35:47
Speaker 8: and for anybody that's interested, you can go now and
35:49
Speaker 8: get the Observer handbook which has been published online. And
35:52
Speaker 8: let's not forget what COP stands for. It's the Conference
35:57
Speaker 8: of Parties, a supreme decision making body. So if we
36:00
Speaker 8: just returned very quickly to the World Economic Forum, I
36:03
Speaker 8: just want to bring your attention to this report that
36:06
Speaker 8: was my carbon that was published in twenty twenty two,
36:09
Speaker 8: an Approach for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities. But I want
36:13
Speaker 8: to draw your attention to a paragraph that has been
36:16
Speaker 8: going around on social media because it actually says COVID
36:20
Speaker 8: nineteen was the test of social responsibility. A huge number
36:23
Speaker 8: of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions
36:28
Speaker 8: of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally
36:31
Speaker 8: of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations, and acceptance
36:36
Speaker 8: of contact dracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the
36:41
Speaker 8: core of individual social responsibility. So there you go. They're
36:44
Speaker 8: admitting that this was one big experiment, as we all said,
36:48
Speaker 8: and looking forward to Davos already it's not long twenty
36:52
Speaker 8: to the twenty fourth of January for the WEF annual meeting.
36:57
Speaker 8: They're going to be discussing geopolitical shop, stimulating growth to
37:01
Speaker 8: improve living standards and of course energy transition. And if
37:05
Speaker 8: you want to know more, you can go to Davos,
37:07
Speaker 8: to the website and you can get more information there.
37:10
Speaker 1: Not long to wait, Debi, Debbie, thank you very much.
37:16
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that, Debbie. It's just pouring
37:19
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37:22
Speaker 1: is actually these are the pieces of the new world
37:25
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37:29
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37:32
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37:37
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37:41
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37:45
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37:48
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40:51
Speaker 1: Now where does that take us? I think we should
40:53
Speaker 1: be into a video here actually, so as I prepared
40:57
Speaker 1: for the news today. Oh no, sorry, before we get
41:01
Speaker 1: to that, We've got this one, which is a tweet
41:04
Speaker 1: which I put out with some help from Debbie, where
41:07
Speaker 1: I made a comment about what was happening in the world.
41:10
Speaker 1: It's really been astonishing. But this thing has been shared
41:14
Speaker 1: thousands of time, so I just thought i'd play it
41:16
Speaker 1: back to our audience today to say that a few
41:19
Speaker 1: words can sometimes seemingly make a big difference. Let's have
41:23
Speaker 1: a look at what I said to the audience is
41:27
Speaker 1: if there's anybody out there that thinks that UK is
41:30
Speaker 1: still run by an elected government, they're sadly mistaken because
41:35
Speaker 1: the government is simply the puppet of the world agender,
41:38
Speaker 1: and it's that it's those global policies which are doing
41:42
Speaker 1: the damage today. In my opinion, we're being attacked by
41:46
Speaker 1: our own government well, and I absolutely stand by that
41:51
Speaker 1: comment and a big thank you to everybody who's taken
41:54
Speaker 1: the trouble to share that. Now. As I was preparing
41:57
Speaker 1: for today's news, it's funny how things unfold, but I
42:02
Speaker 1: started to get drawn into material around AI. Let's have
42:06
Speaker 1: a look at this first little video clip.
42:10
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42:14
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42:18
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42:21
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42:25
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42:30
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42:35
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42:38
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42:47
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42:52
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42:55
Speaker 9: looking for bad behavior, ERIC looks for anomalies in good behavior.
43:00
Speaker 9: It then recognizes the importance of subtle anomalies, indicating when
43:03
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43:07
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43:11
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43:14
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43:18
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43:21
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43:44
Speaker 1: So I'm just going to say that if you do
43:46
Speaker 1: something simple like trying buy a trained ticket, it will
43:49
Speaker 1: be software like this that's been analyzing you and what
43:53
Speaker 1: you're doing in the world immense detail, sucking in the
43:56
Speaker 1: data from many, many different sources in ordered to check
44:01
Speaker 1: you and see whether you're straight or whether you're some
44:04
Speaker 1: sort of criminal attempting to defraud the train company. This
44:08
Speaker 1: is very, very dangerous stuff it's pouring in. But let's
44:12
Speaker 1: see where the government is going. And a big thanks
44:15
Speaker 1: to Kenny for pointing this out to me this morning.
44:19
Speaker 1: He stumbled across this on the governmentgov dot uk website
44:24
Speaker 1: fair Now AI Governance Platform and AI Governance Program Implementation.
44:29
Speaker 1: But this was the real kicker. It says that the
44:32
Speaker 1: Governance Platform serves as a quote single source of truth
44:37
Speaker 1: for managing AI governance risk and compliance. How outrageous is
44:43
Speaker 1: this that the government is saying it's a source of truth.
44:46
Speaker 1: If we're going to have a look at the detail
44:48
Speaker 1: about what they're talking about. It says that organizations are
44:52
Speaker 1: leveraging AI and they need help from a platform to
44:56
Speaker 1: make sure that they're behaving themselves respect of governance, risk
45:01
Speaker 1: and compliance, and this is an automated system to help
45:05
Speaker 1: them do this. But actually what the government is doing
45:08
Speaker 1: here is advertising, because this is not the government talking
45:11
Speaker 1: to you. This is them simply quoting from what the
45:14
Speaker 1: company itself has to say. And of course if you
45:18
Speaker 1: do some simple research you can find more about it.
45:22
Speaker 1: But here's the chief executive Guru Stethopathy and he's saying, well,
45:27
Speaker 1: the potential of AI technology is exciting. The number one
45:30
Speaker 1: factor holding back adoption is business and regulatory risk. And
45:35
Speaker 1: he goes on say, our platform helps customers understand and
45:38
Speaker 1: mitigate their AI risk, ensuring compliance with rapidly involving regulations
45:45
Speaker 1: in a centralized and simplified way. Now that's probably fair enough,
45:50
Speaker 1: But can you claim this is a single source of truth.
45:53
Speaker 1: This is nonsense and very dangerous, and yet it's being
45:56
Speaker 1: put out. But the government contrasts truth in this direction
46:01
Speaker 1: with a member of the public trying to get truth
46:03
Speaker 1: out of Sheffield City Council by freedom of information on
46:07
Speaker 1: the key subject of child abuse. And essentially, once freedom
46:14
Speaker 1: of information requests was sent in you can freeze the
46:18
Speaker 1: screen to see this, or will help you out with
46:20
Speaker 1: the show notes. But just to make the point that
46:24
Speaker 1: when a member of the public was asking Sheffield City
46:27
Speaker 1: Council about very strange things that have happened which prevented
46:33
Speaker 1: the truth coming out about child sexual exploitation in Rotherham
46:36
Speaker 1: and Sheffield, what did Sheffield City Council do well? They
46:41
Speaker 1: obfuscated the freedom of information requests and so between the
46:46
Speaker 1: sixteenth of April twenty twenty four to the twenty sixth
46:50
Speaker 1: September this year, they have absolutely stalled the whole process
46:55
Speaker 1: of giving the public the information on that cover up.
46:58
Speaker 1: So there we are a little bit of a contrast
47:01
Speaker 1: between what's happening in the so called AI field truth
47:05
Speaker 1: absolute truth. But if you ask for basic truth about
47:09
Speaker 1: the abuse of children, then the local authorities at least
47:13
Speaker 1: are lying and covering up. Debbie, I think that brings
47:17
Speaker 1: you back to global citizenship, which is where they're trying
47:20
Speaker 1: to push us where we haven't got a think at
47:23
Speaker 1: all because these systems will do it for us.
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Speaker 8: Well, yeah, that's exactly it. And you know, going back
47:29
Speaker 8: just very quickly to AI in Extra, stay tuned if
47:33
Speaker 8: you remember for Extra, because I'll be shedding some light
47:36
Speaker 8: on AC. I bet you haven't heard of AC, you'll
47:38
Speaker 8: hear about it in Extra. So yeah, global citizens Well,
47:41
Speaker 8: we've been talking about open government, we've been talking about sortition,
47:43
Speaker 8: we've been talking about you're going to be responsible for
47:46
Speaker 8: all the decisions. So what is a global citizen? Well,
47:49
Speaker 8: if we look at the World Economic Forum and the
47:52
Speaker 8: United Nations, it is very much an agenda. This is
47:56
Speaker 8: the United Nations talking about global citizenship a new vital force.
48:02
Speaker 8: But somebody else is involved in the global citizenship scheme.
48:05
Speaker 8: Now who could that be? I wonder well? The Global
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Speaker 8: Citizenship Commission is chaired by none other than our very
48:11
Speaker 8: own Gordon Brown, who seems to have rewritten or partly
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Speaker 8: rewritten some of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with
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Speaker 8: a living document. So if you go to the next slide,
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Speaker 8: you'll see this living document and you'll see the pictures
48:26
Speaker 8: a bit small. I'm afraid for those of you that
48:29
Speaker 8: are watching on a phone, you might not be able
48:30
Speaker 8: to see that. But Gordon Brown is right in the
48:33
Speaker 8: middle there with the United Nations and he's talking about
48:38
Speaker 8: changing the world. How's he going to do it? Well,
48:40
Speaker 8: he's talking about environment, nuclear proliferation, he's talking about education,
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Speaker 8: global inequality, global, I mean pretty much everything. He's an
48:48
Speaker 8: expert on everything. And I've just been reading his latest book,
48:53
Speaker 8: which is called Seven Ways to Change the World, and
48:57
Speaker 8: it's a very interesting book and it seems as likes
49:00
Speaker 8: everything about everything. Gordon Brown has been very busy in
49:03
Speaker 8: the background again, doing things that the mainstream media aren't
49:08
Speaker 8: telling you about. But what are you doing tomorrow? Well,
49:11
Speaker 8: if you're in New York, and if you're in Central
49:14
Speaker 8: Park at two o'clock, you too can go to the
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Speaker 8: Global Citizenship Festival. Have a look at this tomorrow Central Park.
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Speaker 2: But what do they do?
49:55
Speaker 8: What is a global citizen? They're changing the movement, changing
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Speaker 8: the WORL. They've got campaigns, they've got collaborations, they've got events,
50:03
Speaker 8: they've got broadcasts. It's all very exciting. But how do
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Speaker 8: they themselves define a global citizen. Well, they define it
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Speaker 8: as social influencers. So they're impact makers, they're action takers.
50:15
Speaker 8: This is all about tweeting or exing. This is all
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Speaker 8: about posting your stories, as we just said in Open Government.
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Speaker 8: And we've got great ambassadors too, celebrities like Chris Martin
50:28
Speaker 8: from Coldplay, who seems to head it up. And then
50:31
Speaker 8: we've got a few more screenshots. And I've just mentioned
50:33
Speaker 8: a few of the names because I don't know all
50:35
Speaker 8: of them. Maybe I'm a bit too old to know
50:37
Speaker 8: some of them, but I do know a few of them,
50:39
Speaker 8: Hugh Jackman, John Legend and Usher there. And then in
50:43
Speaker 8: the next slide you'll see Adam Lambert of course, who's
50:45
Speaker 8: the lead singer with Queen. And you've got Idris Elbert
50:48
Speaker 8: Ettal and not to be outdone. Drum roll please, because
50:54
Speaker 8: now we're going to introduce you to a member of
50:56
Speaker 8: the royal family who's also very involved in Global citizens
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Speaker 8: So who else than the Duchess of York at Cisco
51:05
Speaker 8: Youth Leadership Award Global Citizen Prize enjoy.
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Speaker 10: Rock you lot, you really rock and past winner's fantastic,
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Speaker 10: amazing and Global Citizen. Can I just say thank you
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Speaker 10: so much for giving them this platform in order to
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Speaker 10: be able to speak their voices.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Good, Come on, come on, come on, fella.
51:34
Speaker 10: And I want to say, I want to say I'm
51:38
Speaker 10: the generational bridge because I'm still very young in case
51:41
Speaker 10: you hadn't realized, Yeah, exactly. And I believe in no
51:45
Speaker 10: judgment and I believe everyone.
51:47
Speaker 2: Has the right to be themselves.
51:48
Speaker 10: I'm redheaded, I'm completely strange and I'm fine. Just to
51:54
Speaker 10: let you know that I'm never more proud of all
51:58
Speaker 10: of you today, right and on behalf of the entire
52:02
Speaker 10: world of us grown ups. I'm not a grown up,
52:04
Speaker 10: but on behalf of grown ups. Can I just say,
52:08
Speaker 10: I'm so deeply sorry we have ruined your planet. I know,
52:13
Speaker 10: but it's the truth, right, okay, But however, good news
52:18
Speaker 10: is we're going to do something about it, and global
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Speaker 10: citizen is doing it. We're all doing it. We take
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Speaker 10: many steps, but we are doing it.
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Speaker 9: Are you doing it?
52:29
Speaker 8: Are you going to be a global citizen? Well, if
52:31
Speaker 8: you want to know more, with a global assembly. So
52:33
Speaker 8: we've got a global assembly Climate and Ecological emergency to
52:38
Speaker 8: influence cops. Now, this is where this is all very
52:40
Speaker 8: interesting because it's to influence cop So let's look at
52:44
Speaker 8: a statement that Antonio Guitaris made here. The Global Citizens
52:47
Speaker 8: Assembly for COP twenty six is a practical way of
52:51
Speaker 8: showing how we can accelerate action through solidarity and people power.
52:56
Speaker 8: And it goes on to say the talking about the
52:58
Speaker 8: People's Declaration for the Sustainable Future of Planet Earth. This
53:03
Speaker 8: is a global assembly, first of its kind. Members have
53:06
Speaker 8: been selected by a lottery. Doesn't that remind you of
53:09
Speaker 8: something that we talked about last week's sortition. This lottery
53:13
Speaker 8: will bring people together to represent interests of others, uniting
53:17
Speaker 8: and rallying citizens. Well what citizens, Well, all I can
53:21
Speaker 8: show you, I'm afraid is a zoom shop because this
53:24
Speaker 8: is what they show you on their website, and these
53:26
Speaker 8: are the citizens that you can thank for making all
53:29
Speaker 8: of these decisions for you. And I just want to
53:33
Speaker 8: highlight just lastly to finish this segment off, is that
53:36
Speaker 8: the Delphi method, because Brian and the column have been
53:39
Speaker 8: talking about the Delphi technique for many, many years. The
53:42
Speaker 8: Delphi method was developed by the Rand the Rand in
53:46
Speaker 8: nineteen fifties and this is where groups of experts or
53:49
Speaker 8: stakeholders use online tools such as expert Lens that's another
53:53
Speaker 8: news on its own, anonymously answer questionnaires, receive feedback, represents
54:00
Speaker 8: the group's response, and then they all reach a consensus.
54:03
Speaker 2: And you'll be.
54:04
Speaker 8: Relieved to know that Delphie is alive and well in
54:07
Speaker 8: the UK government. And here's just a couple of examples.
54:11
Speaker 8: You can see that they're here in the Food Standards
54:13
Speaker 8: Agency and they're using the future tookit now, this future talkit.
54:17
Speaker 8: I know, Brian, we're going to be doing much more
54:19
Speaker 8: work on this because you can see it includes methods
54:22
Speaker 8: like Delphi seven questions, horizon scanning, three horizons, driver mapping,
54:28
Speaker 8: and this is all about the Future Thinking or the
54:31
Speaker 8: Future Thinking Project, and this is also involved in the
54:35
Speaker 8: Science Department as well. So Delphi is alive and well
54:40
Speaker 8: in the UK government, and I just want to finish
54:42
Speaker 8: to say that the Clinton Foundation are involved as well.
54:46
Speaker 8: I haven't got slides for those. But I also noticed
54:48
Speaker 8: that Albert Buller PFISA CEO. He's involved in it. Everyone's
54:52
Speaker 8: involved in it. But did you know about it? I didn't.
54:57
Speaker 1: W This is the key thing. Everybody is involved in it,
55:00
Speaker 1: apart from the wide to public, most of whom have
55:03
Speaker 1: no idea this is going on. Mark in some areas though,
55:08
Speaker 1: people are beginning to see that something's happening and they
55:11
Speaker 1: don't like it. And you've picked up on China or Mexico.
55:15
Speaker 13: Here, Yes, I may have to give a slightly abbreviated
55:20
Speaker 13: version of this report. This is pretty astounding. It's not unknown,
55:26
Speaker 13: but it's been underreported. And the Coalition for a Prosperous America,
55:30
Speaker 13: the CPA, a pretty good thing tank in Washington, DC,
55:36
Speaker 13: has been sounding the alarm, especially throughout twenty twenty four.
55:39
Speaker 13: This first segment or first slide, China's auto sector is
55:43
Speaker 13: moving to Mexico twelve new manufacturing plants set up since
55:46
Speaker 13: twenty nineteen, and we'll keep moving on from there. Another
55:50
Speaker 13: report from CPA Mexico is growing as new China Hub
55:55
Speaker 13: twenty twenty four exports already breaking records. A couple of
55:59
Speaker 13: very vital reports. People can look up the Coalition for
56:03
Speaker 13: a Prosperous America for more on that. This is a
56:05
Speaker 13: news bulletin I wrote about this. US Senator Josh Holly,
56:10
Speaker 13: the Coalition for a Prosperous America, among other sources, have
56:13
Speaker 13: been raising serious concerns about China's setting up shop in
56:16
Speaker 13: Mexico to manufacture huge quantities of automobiles and heavy equipment
56:21
Speaker 13: in order to export the finished products into the US market,
56:24
Speaker 13: thereby avoiding the tariffs set up under President Trump in
56:27
Speaker 13: twenty eighteen against vehicles set directly from China to the US.
56:32
Speaker 13: This was leaked a little bit at the recent Chicago
56:36
Speaker 13: Council and Global Affairs program that I covered for the column,
56:39
Speaker 13: so I continued it for today. Congress so far has
56:42
Speaker 13: not budged on this issue, however, with many members behold
56:45
Speaker 13: in the big business. However, mister Holly, the Republican out
56:49
Speaker 13: of Missouri, the former Missouri Attorney General, is looking positively
56:53
Speaker 13: populist here, and he introduced to Protecting American Auto Workers
56:57
Speaker 13: from China Act a law Poe's Law. Back on February
57:02
Speaker 13: twenty eighth of this year. That's the day that it
57:04
Speaker 13: was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
57:07
Speaker 13: in the Senate. But there's been zero Senate or House
57:10
Speaker 13: overall action ever since. Congress seems to be frozen on this.
57:15
Speaker 13: This is mister Holly's press release.
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Speaker 2: I won't read it.
57:18
Speaker 13: The link is there for those that want to read
57:20
Speaker 13: that and learn more about mister Holly. One of the
57:23
Speaker 13: better senators arguably in the US. But you got a
57:26
Speaker 13: upgrade with a curve, and we'll keep going from there.
57:31
Speaker 13: This is mister Holly to the left and Maine Democrat
57:34
Speaker 13: Jared Golden, Jared gold excuse me, to the right. There's
57:38
Speaker 13: a House version of that bill that mister Holly mentioned.
57:41
Speaker 13: That House version is HR. Eighty three fifty one, sponsored
57:44
Speaker 13: by Jared Golden out of Maine, and it was introduced
57:47
Speaker 13: May ten and referred that day to the Ways and
57:49
Speaker 13: Means Committee. According to the Library of Congress, however, as
57:53
Speaker 13: of September twenty second, there wasn't a single that is,
57:57
Speaker 13: there was not a single co sponsor of that bill
58:00
Speaker 13: in either chamber for what's clearly a bipartisan bill worthy
58:03
Speaker 13: of serious consideration. Mister Holly was quoted in that press release.
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Speaker 13: I quoted him from the press release as saying, if
58:11
Speaker 13: Joe Biden wants to support American auto workers, he should
58:14
Speaker 13: start by protecting them from the existential threat posed by China.
58:18
Speaker 13: As mister Holly sees it, we must put American workers first,
58:22
Speaker 13: bring jobs back to American soil, and reject radical climate
58:26
Speaker 13: mandates that make China rich and America poor. And I'll
58:31
Speaker 13: mention Brian that it appears that electric vehicles are a
58:34
Speaker 13: major thing. And this may be I can't say for sure,
58:37
Speaker 13: but this Chinese production on Mexican soil may be Joe
58:41
Speaker 13: Biden's way of making elect electric vehicles the wave of
58:46
Speaker 13: the future and making it seem inevitable. So therefore we
58:50
Speaker 13: could actually make the transition to electric vehicles, which would
58:54
Speaker 13: be a major part of a segment of the sustainable
58:58
Speaker 13: development goals of the UN. But anyway, Holly's legislation comes
59:03
Speaker 13: in the wake of Joe Biden's sweeping mandates on the
59:05
Speaker 13: American auto industry to force a transition to electric vehicles.
59:09
Speaker 13: As Holly sees it, under these radical Green New Deal rules,
59:13
Speaker 13: as many as many as two thirds of all autos
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Speaker 13: sold in the US would be electric vehicles by the
59:19
Speaker 13: twenty thirties. And Holly's legislation would, if ever enacted, increase
59:25
Speaker 13: the base tariff on auto imports from China to one
59:28
Speaker 13: hundred percent for a total tariff of one hundred and
59:31
Speaker 13: twenty five percent on all autos imported directly from China,
59:36
Speaker 13: but also apply the higher tariffs to all imported vehicles
59:40
Speaker 13: manufactured by Chinese automakers, irrespective of where the autos are manufactured.
59:46
Speaker 13: So that's the sum and substance of what mister Holly
59:50
Speaker 13: is up to and what this is all about. Brian
59:52
Speaker 13: as the Coalition for a Prosperous for America as outlining
59:55
Speaker 13: here is a concept called near sharing. We've heard of outsourcing,
1:00:00
Speaker 13: We've heard of insourcing. Now what we're learning about here
1:00:03
Speaker 13: with this issue is near shoring. And I won't read
1:00:07
Speaker 13: this slide. People can look up the Coalition for a
1:00:10
Speaker 13: Prosperous America online. The only thing I mentioned here at
1:00:14
Speaker 13: the bottom of the slide is a Morgan Stanley quote.
1:00:17
Speaker 13: Near shoring has the potential to boost the growth of
1:00:20
Speaker 13: Mexican manufacturing exports to the US to an estimated six
1:00:26
Speaker 13: hundred and nine billion in the next five years. That's
1:00:29
Speaker 13: a June twenty twenty three Morgan Stanley report entitled Mexico
1:00:33
Speaker 13: is poised to ride the near shoring wave. The only
1:00:37
Speaker 13: upside I can think of this, Brian, and this is
1:00:39
Speaker 13: highly speculative, is there might be higher paying jobs created
1:00:43
Speaker 13: in Mexico that might help Central America and that might
1:00:47
Speaker 13: cut back on the illegal immigration coming into the US.
1:00:52
Speaker 13: There is a possibility of that as sort of an
1:00:54
Speaker 13: inadvertent silver lining. And this last slide here that we
1:00:59
Speaker 13: need to go into is more of what I wrote.
1:01:02
Speaker 13: The four bullet points are what mattered the most. A
1:01:05
Speaker 13: dozen new autoparts makers have set up shop in Mexico
1:01:08
Speaker 13: since the Section three oh one tariffs were imposed in
1:01:11
Speaker 13: twenty eighteen. Some of those auto parts makers were invited
1:01:15
Speaker 13: by Ford and Tesla. Since June of twenty twenty two,
1:01:18
Speaker 13: more than twenty Chinese autoparts makers and carmakers have announced
1:01:21
Speaker 13: the combined seven hundred seven point oh six billion in
1:01:24
Speaker 13: investments in Mexico. In February twenty twenty three, Tesla announced
1:01:29
Speaker 13: a five billion dollars assembly line in Nuevo Leoned state,
1:01:33
Speaker 13: roughly a four hour drive from the Texas border, that
1:01:36
Speaker 13: factory will have the production capacity to build roughly one
1:01:40
Speaker 13: million Tesla's, that's electronic vehicles annually, many of them US
1:01:44
Speaker 13: found and Chinese automakers and parts companies have actually been
1:01:48
Speaker 13: operating from Mexico since joining the World Trade Organization way
1:01:52
Speaker 13: back in two thousand and one, and eight autoparts companies
1:01:56
Speaker 13: were already in Mexico prior to the US enactment of
1:01:59
Speaker 13: the twenty eight teen Section three oh one tariffs. And
1:02:02
Speaker 13: I believe the last slide is just a chart of
1:02:05
Speaker 13: the twelve or so companies already operating in Mexico that
1:02:11
Speaker 13: are directed directly connected to China, and viewers can freeze
1:02:15
Speaker 13: that and look at that in more detail. So under
1:02:18
Speaker 13: the circumstances, Brian, that's all I've got for now, but
1:02:20
Speaker 13: a very very interesting and rather troubling in some ways development,
1:02:25
Speaker 13: and this is something we'll keep a very close eye
1:02:28
Speaker 13: I over extended periods of time.
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Speaker 2: So there we go.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much for that. And of course
1:02:35
Speaker 1: one of the things it demonstrates is the power of
1:02:37
Speaker 1: global companies such as Ford Tesla coming into the picture
1:02:42
Speaker 1: where their decisions can be forced through fall through governments
1:02:49
Speaker 1: without any direct engagement in any form of democracy with
1:02:53
Speaker 1: the public. So yeah, we'll be fascinating to see what
1:02:57
Speaker 1: see how that goes. Now, Debbie, I'm just going to
1:03:00
Speaker 1: skip through a little bit here and we'll bring you
1:03:02
Speaker 1: into your Finally, two plus two doesn't equal four apparently, Well,
1:03:11
Speaker 1: you know what.
1:03:11
Speaker 2: I saw this.
1:03:13
Speaker 8: What I say always is go back to the UK
1:03:15
Speaker 8: column website because we have stood the test of time.
1:03:17
Speaker 8: I mean, honestly, some of the stuff on the website
1:03:20
Speaker 8: is extraordinary. And this article caught my eye by Malcolm Massey.
1:03:24
Speaker 8: He wrote this in June twenty thirteen and two two
1:03:28
Speaker 8: five almost could be twenty twenty five, couldn't it. And
1:03:32
Speaker 8: when you look in the it's entitled nineteen eighty four
1:03:34
Speaker 8: in the twenty first century. How appropriate. But when you
1:03:37
Speaker 8: look in the article and the next slide will just
1:03:40
Speaker 8: give you a little tiny flavor of what the article's about.
1:03:43
Speaker 8: It's talking about the feminization of men, is talking about
1:03:48
Speaker 8: children being bombarded with sexual content in school. So everything
1:03:52
Speaker 8: that we are seeing now Martin was talking about. So
1:03:56
Speaker 8: it was well impressed. But you know what, finally, and finally,
1:04:00
Speaker 8: I want to introduce you to Gwen Waltz. This is
1:04:04
Speaker 8: Tim Waltz, the us VP nomination. His wife who is
1:04:09
Speaker 8: a teacher, and she's into criminal justice too, and she
1:04:13
Speaker 8: was talking at one of their rallies. And if I
1:04:16
Speaker 8: was American, and I am half American, I'd be embarrassed
1:04:20
Speaker 8: if I was watching this watching her turn the page,
1:04:24
Speaker 8: have a look at this. But I kind of liked
1:04:28
Speaker 8: it when she did this. Turn the page.
1:04:32
Speaker 1: You like that?
1:04:33
Speaker 8: Okay, So I need you to be with me and.
1:04:36
Speaker 10: Practice with me.
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Speaker 14: What are we gonna do.
1:04:38
Speaker 8: We're gonna turn the bay. Oh, pretty good, join again.
1:04:41
Speaker 14: We're gonna turn the bay and we're gonna turn Hey,
1:04:46
Speaker 14: all right, I'm gonna be watching you because when I
1:04:50
Speaker 14: see Wisconsin and I'm one watching National and TV because
1:04:54
Speaker 14: it's in pretty important place in Minnesota.
1:04:56
Speaker 8: Help you practice it with this.
1:04:58
Speaker 9: You just show me this.
1:05:00
Speaker 8: Turn the page right, turn the page, and you know
1:05:03
Speaker 8: what else that looks like? Bye bye bye.
1:05:09
Speaker 5: Bye.
1:05:09
Speaker 11: Now, I'll drunk.
1:05:13
Speaker 13: Turn it away.
1:05:20
Speaker 14: If we are turned away.
1:05:25
Speaker 1: Bye bye, down, I'll drunk.
1:05:30
Speaker 8: Maybe it's time for us to stay Bye bye, Brian.
1:05:33
Speaker 8: I don't know what to say after that.
1:05:36
Speaker 1: It's definitely time to say bye bye to our audience today.
1:05:39
Speaker 1: We'll just leave you to think about the news. Look
1:05:43
Speaker 1: at the UK Column website go to the show notes
1:05:45
Speaker 1: for the detail. Please share this information because this mad
1:05:50
Speaker 1: society is being built very quickly around us, and it's
1:05:54
Speaker 1: up to all of us to speak out and stop
1:05:56
Speaker 1: it as fast as possible. Debbie, thank you very much
1:05:59
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
1:06:01
Speaker 2: Mark. Thank you.
1:06:02
Speaker 1: Also, we will be in UK Column Extra. If you're
1:06:06
Speaker 1: a member, you'll be able to join us there. We're
1:06:07
Speaker 1: going to talk through some of the content of the
1:06:10
Speaker 1: news in a bit more detail. But if you're not
1:06:13
Speaker 1: yet a member, we will see you on Monday at
1:06:16
Speaker 1: one o'clock and I'll just say that Mike unfortunately is
1:06:20
Speaker 1: away for a few days due to some personal issues,
1:06:23
Speaker 1: but he will be back next week. We will end there.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Bye bye.