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UK Column News Podcast 8th April 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the eighth of April twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host,
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Brian Gerrish. I'm joined by Mark Anderson. I'm joined by Professor Diane mcaddie,
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and I'm also joined by our all standing guests James Riguski, who will
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be giving us an update on what's happening with the WHO treaty. But we're
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going to get kicked off today with an update, a general look at what's
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happening in Ukraine, and we'll also touch on a little bit of what's been
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happening in Israel. But of course Ukraine as a war zone which is causing
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major pushback around the world. Let's have a little look at what Zelensky's been
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saying, because more or less he's taken as the spokesman for the whole event.
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The headline here, which I've taken from the Kiev Post, is Ukraine
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to lose the war if uk Congress with hold's aid. But if we think
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about it, this war's already been lost by Ukraine. It can only function
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due to the financial support and the munitions being put in by the US.
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The UK and the EU, And of course all that is doing by dragging
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the war on is creating more and more casualties, particularly on the Ukrainian side
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because they're taking heavier casualties, but also, of course the Russians are suffering
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casualties as a result. So the war is over, or it would be
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if the West would stop pouring gasoline on the fire. Now he excuse me,
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here's what Zelenski had to say. He said, it's necessary to specifically
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tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war.
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And this, of course is Selenski getting very distressed because he knows that
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the vote for more money is not having an easy passage on the American side
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of the pond, and without that money, his war effort is simply going
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to collapse overnight. But of course he also comes out with a warning.
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This is the scare tactics which Zelensky is constantly being used. If Ukraine loses
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the war, other states will be attacked. And it's quite remarkable, but
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it almost appears that in the US and in the UK and the EU,
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within NATO, this is just being taken as is that if Ukraine falls,
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the Russians are going to sweep westward and conquer the rest of Western Europe.
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This is back to Cold War type fear factor and it's being ramped up,
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particularly by the West and by NATO. Now, what is happening in the
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background, Well, we have retired senior, retired military people who are simply
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telling us that we've got to now beef up Britain's military in particular in order
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to be able to take on the Russians. Let's just have a look at
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sorry, let's have a little look at this short clip by General Barons.
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We should all be concerned about NATO really for three reasons. The first is
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it's absolutely clear now and it's been developing since in my view twenty fourteen when
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Russia invaded Crimea, that we as part of NATO are once again in a
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confrontation with Russia which is really serious and might turn into conflict. And the
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most visible sentiment of that, but not the only one, is the war
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in Ukraine. And we should be clear that as of today, that war
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is going in Russia's favor. Now, well, there was a key statement
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right at the end of that little clip that the war is going in Russia's
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favor. That is Ukraine is losing this war. This is very clear.
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But what did the retired general go on to say that UK needed to really
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beef up its military in order effectively to give Putin a beating. This to
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me is just extraordinary language, because in no way is the UK going to
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be capable of doing that, because it hasn't got the industrial base to support
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what he's claiming, and also the military having huge difficulty recruiting the number of
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people, particularly into the army. But not te talks about confrontation turning into
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conflict. But the reality is that the military support from the UK, the
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US and other European countries is enabling Ukraine to keep fighting and the munitions going
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in, ammunition munitions going in on the ground are also helping keep that war
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running. Now in the background, Ukraine has also been asking for more air
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defense systems. They want some twenty nine Patriot systems. This is because they've
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lost the existing systems that they've been given, they've been destroyed by the Russians.
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But what does this whole saga prove? That the Russians can target Ukrainian
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infrastructure at will, and the reality is that even if they were given more
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Western anti anti missile systems, they're not capable of stopping the Russian assault on
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their infrastructure. The other thing that's been happening, very rarely reported in UK
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the West, is that the Ukrainians are clearly up to the old tricks of
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burying military equipment inside civilian areas, and the Russians have now been using long
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range missile attacks to take out this sort of this sort of a gender.
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And the shot that we just had on screen was a destroyed shopping mall which
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had been used for the storage of ammunition. And this image which will just
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pop up on screen is showing one of the Heimar's type rockets that's been thrown
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from the explosion as the Russians targeted that particular ammunition depot. But this is
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demonstrating the type of weapons that the Ukrainians have held in that type of environment.
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So within dombas, this has been reported on many occasions that tanks and
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artillery have been hidden amongst civilian areas, but of course in the Western media
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this is a subject which is always pinned against the Russians, but the reality
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seems to be rather different. Now. The other thing that we know is
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that inside, Zelenski and his generals are desperate for more manpower. This is
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due to the losses today and the tragedy is that they're going forever younger,
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ever, older peop people. And I chose this little video clip here because
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it's quite poignant when you look at the youth of the individuals concerned in this
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bus. This is where the Ukrainians have now got, so I can't call
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them boys, young men, but also women are being drawn into this proxy
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war. And of course this is not going to do the Ukrainian any good,
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or it's not going to keep Ukraine operating as a nation state. It
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is destroying the future of Ukraine for the proxy war which the US and the
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UK are so keen to wage in order to try and drive regime change in
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Russia. Now, if we have a look at some of the reporting from
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within Ukraine, the Kiev Post here, Ukraine's global Voice, it calls itself.
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I've marked with red arrow that we've got We've just moved that a little
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bit quickly. But the blue box is showing the Ministry of Defense reports from
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uk This is their Twitter and my point here is that it's alongside completely different
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opinion and we're going to have a look at some of this opinion and try
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and explain what's happening. But here is the article the Unseen if we can
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just okay, sorry, we've switched slides a bit quickly. Here is the
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Unseen Crisis. Russian soldiers desperation on the Ukrainian front lines. And basically,
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in this article, which has no evidence shown to the reader at all,
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Russian soldiers are holding grenades to their heads and if they think they're going to
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be hit by a Ukrainian drone strike, they're apparently going to kill themselves using
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that those grenades. Now, this is the story that's been brought forward by
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this gentleman, Casey Christie, but no actual evidence. He just says that
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he's been watching a lot of videos from the battlefield and this is his opinion.
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But a very interesting gentleman, because if we look at the next article
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that he's got, he's talking about this it's time for an African solution to
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Russian mercenaries in Africa. And what the article talks about is Ukrainian is Ukrainian
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mercenaries actually standing up against the wagoner forces in the Russian forces in Africa,
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And he says the Ukrainian should be commended for recognizing the importance of countering Russia
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in Africa, a position that seems to be uniquely theirs. So what's the
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solution. So his solution is this, while the Expeditionary Corps entices with the
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illusionary promise of quick fixes or sales pitches touting regime survival packages, a far
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more sustainable and legitimate approach lies in the establishment of an African private military company.
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So it's quite remarkable that this man is clearly what advertising for mercenaries in
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order to get Ukrainians to join up in order to go and join a private
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military company in Africa. This sounds like deep state spook work. But it's
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very difficult to get a grip of this man because who is he exactly?
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If we have a look at what he says in the article, it's this,
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having spent the first twenty five years my life in Africa, dictating dedicating
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over four thousand hours to protecting and serving on the streets of Johannesburg as an
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unpaid police officer, and having invested significantly in writing about the continents criminals,
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terrorists and pirates. My convictions are firmly routed. So what is the solution
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and if we go on through experience, he says reinforced a belief that crystallized
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over a decade ago during a quote security conference in Portsmouth, England. There
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the pressing issue was how to address Somali pilot pirates off the Horn of Africa
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who were hijacking entire ships and securing millions of dollars in ransom. So this
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man appears to be a unpaid police officer for the bulk of his career,
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but he's having meetings discussing prioracy in UK and at the time those meetings were
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taking place, the UK column was informed that that was absolutely with British Ministry
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of Defense. They were there in the Backgroundish Special Forces and so were some
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mercenaries. Now that is what we were told. That's an allegation, but
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interesting that he's recounting that type of meeting in Portsmouth as triggering his present comments.
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And if we follow through on this, gentleman, we quickly have this
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report mark on World's urgently urgent advisory for close protection services. And if we
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have a look at who's initiated that Christie and associates, and if we bring
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on the next part of it. This appears to be the gentleman's own website,
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and this is all about protection and military services. So the point that
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we're making here is who exactly is ramping up the angst in Ukraine And is
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it really the case that the agenda is to get more Ukrainians to fight another
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proxy war by joining private military corporations companies in Africa. I'll leave our audience
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to think about that, but clearly we're seeing that events in Ukraine are not
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as simple as perhaps the BBC would have us think that it's just that the
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Ukrainians have been attacked by those nasty Russians and they are busy trying to defend
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their country. There is something else at work, and if we move across
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to Israel. This was from a few days ago, but the Washington Post
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here with a headline US signs off on more bombs wallplanes for Israel. Despite
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a widening rift with the Israeli government, the Biden administration continues to authorize the
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transfer of two thousand pound bombs and other weapons. This, of course,
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is widely known, but the Americans are continuing to put in the weapons into
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Israel, even though at the moment, there appears to be some disagreement between
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the US and Israel as a result of the attacks on the aid workers.
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What isn't being widely reported is the scale of unrest inside Israel itself, and
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we've had massive protests taking place in Israel. The crowds seemed to be unfazed
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by the idea that they would be a target for the Iranians. Let's just
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have a look at this little film clip and see what's being said about those
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demonstrations. So a large demonstration, clearly some violence. The what were the
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crowd after? They wanted the hostages returned, which is completely understandable. But
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they were also protesting about the conduct of the war by Netta Yahoo and many
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of them were calling for him to step down. So protest in Israel at
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what has happened following those Guarza attacks. Now, let's have a look at
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this clip from David Cameron. Of course is supposed to be doing good ambassadorial
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work in order to calm things down and obtain peace. Let's hear what he
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had to say. On October the seventh, Harmas carried out the deadliest attack
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a on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. One hundred and eighty three days
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later, her Mass still holds over a hundred hostages. Today our appeal is
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as strong as on the day they were taken. Her Mass must release them,
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every one of them. Right now we know little about the conditions of
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their captivity. We cannot even be sure who is still alive, but we
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know who they are. Two British nationals and the citizens of many other nations,
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students and festival goers, construction workers and a historian of the Holocaust,
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parents, children, loved ones. The Prime Minister and I have met the
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family members of many hostages. They are showing incredible courage in the most unimaginably
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difficult circumstances. It is inhumane to extend their agony. And so today,
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sixth months on from October the seventh, we renew our solidarity with the victims.
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We stand with the families, we condemn the terrorists, and we call
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again send the hostages home. I always have great difficulty looking at David Cameron
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speaking in his very measured way, where he's being sincere in an insincere way.
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But the point I really want our audience to think about is that way
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back in twenty eleven, and onwards David Cameron was expressing his unbreakable support for
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Israel. So when we see David Cameron talking about Israel, who is he
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actually talking for? Who does he represent? Does he represent the people of
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UK or is his priority the people of Israel? And our point is we
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don't mind. We just like him to be honest about which side it really
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is, because no man can have two masters. And we covered this issue
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in the UK Column article at the time and encourage people to have a read
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and see why we believe that this is an impossible situation that we have such
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a powerful Israeli lobby within UK changing agenda as we have a conflict, a
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major conflict in Gaza. Well let's move on from that and bring in our
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guests, James Raguski, And I'm just going to say to the audience,
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just prior to the news, we were having a little chat and I said,
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the trouble is, James, we haven't got much good news, but
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you said to me instantly, I've got some good news. So welcome to
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UK Column. What have you got for us? Well, you know I
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have way too much information for the time that we have, so if you
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would be kind enough to give me notice half way through. What I want
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to do is partition what we talk about between the two instruments that are being
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negotiated, the treaty and the amendments. So I'll start off with what most
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people call the Pandemic Treaty. They had in their negotiations, what was supposed
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to be their last two weeks of negotiations at the end of the last month,
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and they failed to reach an agreement, so they've had to schedule more
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meetings from April twenty ninth to May the tenth. About a year ago,
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I published an article about our ambassador Hamimoto agreeing with the Chinese delegate that they
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wanted to keep all of the details of which nation made what proposal secret from
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everyone in the public. Well, I published a leaked document, right,
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I should say I republished. A leaked document was first published by ki Online
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and Politico, which is one hundred and ten page document that details what each
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nation has suggested as text edits to what they did in their last negotiations.
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Is they had a twenty nine page document. They were hoping to end the
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negotiations after two weeks, but instead the nation's made over five thousand text edits
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and the document ballooned from twenty nine up to one hundred and ten pages.
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They're having a little bit of difficulty reaching agreement, and I want people to
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understand that the treaty is really not what most people think it is. In
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my view, it's a trade agreement that has gone really in the wrong direction.
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They want to invest billions of dollars to go looking for pathogens with pandemic
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potential, can bring them into a WHO coordinated laboratory network, hand them over
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with the contracts so that the pathogen access that would then proliferate these dangerous pathogens
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all around the world with all the different laboratories would only be given in return
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for benefit sharing the pathogen access benefit sharing system. This is a money making
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venture that would end up resulting in speeded up regulatory approval by the WHO to
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determine whether or not jabs and tests and things are acceptable, and then the
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WHO would be in charge of a distribution and logistics network. This is a
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business deal that I feel is akin to any kind of corrupt cartel. I've
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dubbed it the new Opek. Opek is the oil producing and exporting countries,
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but this is really the the organization of Pandemic Emergency Corporations. What they're doing
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is trying to build out the fear mongering mechanisms the infrastructure so that they can
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always be telling people there's an emergency. There's an emergency. And so it's
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the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, your good friend David Cameron, who is
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really in charge of this, because what this really is is taking billions of
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dollars from the wealthier nations of the global North to invest in the pharmaceutical hospital
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emergency industrial complex in the Global South so that they can distribute the manufacturing geographically
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and oligarchs in poor nations can turn a profit by scaring the daylights out of
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people in their nations because there's a lot of black and brown people that they
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didn't jab the first time around. Now that's a summary of what's going on
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with the treaty. That's excellent. Let's keep going. Well, i'll just
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give you the introduction to do it. So that's that's what they're up to.
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But you're finding that they're not meeting all their time scales, and you've
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now been able to look at information which they prefer to have hidden. Is
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that correct? That's correct? Everyone can view that information at Stopthtreaty dot org
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and if you like, I'll keep going with the other negotiations the amendments.
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Four weeks ago, actually a little bit more than that, I obtained a
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similar document for what is being negotiated with the amendments. Now, for me,
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that was kind of like the Holy Grail. I was actually looking for
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a new version of the treaty and I stumbled upon this document on one of
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the Geneva organizations that's part of the Inner Circle. They get access to the
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things that we're not allowed to see, and so you can find that docum
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on reject the Amendments dot com. So the first one was stop the Treaty
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dot org. This is reject the Amendments dot com. And again, what's
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in the document is dramatically different than what was presented originally a year ago.
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And I want everyone to understand all of the information that we've ever been allowed
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to see is a year old. And so after a year's worth of negotiations,
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I got lucky and I found the February ninth negotiating text. Now,
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I know we don't have time to really get into this discussion, but the
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difference in terminology between the word isolation and quarantine. The common language understanding of
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those words. If you read the two thousand and five definition of those words,
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it's exactly the opposite of what most people think. Isolation is what most
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people think, well, I'm going to go hide in my room somewhere,
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and quarantine most people think, well, you know, if someone's sick,
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they put them in quarantine. But the legal definition in the two thousand and
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five IHR is exactly the opposite. And so what they have added quietly that's
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not in the original documents is they want to add strengthening language to enable nations
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to quarantine international travelers as appropriate. Now I think the terms as appropriate are
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a little too vague for my liking. But even with that, what would
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they be using as a criteria to determine whether or not an entire vessel an
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entire They call it a conveyance, a cruise ship, an airplane, you
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know, a train, bus, you know, any kind of vehicle.
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Isolation in their language is what they do to people who are ill. Quarantine
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is what they seek to be able to do to people who maybe have passed
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by or on the same ship with someone who is ill. It is an
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exponential strengthening. And this is where everybody gets it backwards. That is not
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an attack on national sovereignty. That is a ridiculous strengthening of national sovereignty that
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would enable each nation to abuse the rights and freedoms of foreign travelers. So
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if you want to go on holiday, you take a cruise or a flight
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or whatever, and for some appropriate reason as determined by the officials in the
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foreign country where you may be landing. This is a gentleman's international agreement where
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all of the nations. It's not coming from the WHO. It's not that
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the WHO is saying they have to do anything. The double speaker is amazing.
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The IHR says, no, don't do that unless you want to.
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I mean, you have to read it to actually believe it. And so
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the concern about adding in the ability to quarantine. And now quarantine doesn't mean
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you're sick. Quarantine means somebody said, you know, we're going to lock
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up this airplane or boat or whatever it may be. This is very disturbing.
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It was not in the original documents. It is in the documents that
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were leaked. And I encourage everyone to go to the websites that I mentioned
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or you can just go to James Rugsky dot substack dot com or call me
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at three one zero six' one nine three zero five to five. I'm
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in the US. You can text me or use any of the apps.
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That is absolutely unacceptable to give government more power to just lock people up as
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they deem appropriate. Now, so James is fear first of all, followed
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by more power. But you did mention that they'd also had comments in from
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countries which clearly had embarrassed them, and they didn't want to make that available
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very quickly. You've been able to see some of those comments. Is that
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correct? In the document you know, for the treaty on stopdidtreaty dot org
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and the document for the amendments Reject the Amendments dot com. You can just
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download and type in UK if you want to search to see all of the
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text edits that were submitted to either remove or add language, and you know,
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any nation, they have abbreviations for each nation. I published an article
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a couple of days ago for the United States, who had submitted five hundred
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and some proposed text amendments. I think the UK had two hundred and some
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or thereabouts. So you can see what they don't want you to see what
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they have been submitting as text languages from the United States, and I believe
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it's similar for the UK and the EU, very very very much of it
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is in support of protections for the pharmaceutical companies, you know, just basically
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in short, to protect their profits in these negotiations. It's not about health
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for the people. This is a transfer of wealth, you know, from
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poor people and orich nations to rich people in poor nations. James, thank
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you very much. Well, let's bring Mark and Anderson in here, because
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Mark's got a segment on the WHO. So Mark, welcome to UK column
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News. Fascinating update from James the what's your thoughts? I say, maybe
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Jim could share some contact info with the Office of Global Affairs of d HHS,
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and I'll have some contact info for the US Senate, etc. Coming
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up here momentarily. But as a registered reporter with the who's press conferences,
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I've been following what Tadros in particular has been saying. I covered a March
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twenty one press conference that I reported last time I was on here two weeks
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ago. Well March twenty fifth, the Director General of the WHO Tadros addressed
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the Inter Parliamentary Union, a rather obscure organization founded in eighteen eighty nine.
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And I would note that inter parliamentary. Of course, the prefix inter means
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between or among, So he's trying to insinuate himself among national parliaments that are
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members of the IPU. So it's very strategic and tactical what he's doing.
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And here's some of what he had to say to the IPU March twenty fifth.
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On this one, he said, we cannot forget the painful lessons the
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pandemic taught us, and the scars that left more than seven million people lost
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their lives to COVID nineteen allegedly, and those are just the reported desks.
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We know the crew numbers much higher. The pandemic also caused, as you
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know, significant social, economic and political upheaval. Of course, so much
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with many power brokers Tabris included is in what they don't say. He doesn't
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mention. He never mentions any hint that the jabs, the injections MHRA,
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injections of mRNA rather injections could have caused any harm or illness or deaths.
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That is completely off the page. It's never spoken of so that's cause for
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alarm right there, the hubris or the misdirection there that only COVID nineteen brought
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about deaths and the jabs could not possibly have had anything to do with that.
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And then he goes on to say, on that same slide, the
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key issue now is whether we will learn the lessons the pandemic has taught us
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so we don't repeat them the next time. Again, notice the irony in
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what he's saying. The lessons of the pandemic included, of course, the
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dangers of these injections, and that's still being largely covered up. And of
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course he always says this, and there will be a next time. The
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next pandemic is a matter of when not if so. Very interesting there.
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Moving on from there, he had this to say, the Pandemic Agreement aims
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to address the gaps and challenges all countries face and to ensure we're better prepared
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for future pandemics. Of course, the new agreement would be an instrument of
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international laws, similar to the many other records and treaties the Nations have agreed,
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the Geneva Conventions, the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, and the Paris Agreement
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on climate change and so on the mention of the Paris Agreement is rather interesting.
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However, there are two major obstacles. He mentioned this at the press
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conference and to the IPU obstacles to meeting that deadline of approving the Pandemic Agreement.
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The first, he says, is the group of issues on which countries
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have not reached consensus. James just alluded to that there's been some snags and
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some delays and that buys time for those that are very skeptical of this treaty
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and the IHR, and then this he went on to say this, The
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second major barrier is the litany of lies and conspiracy theories about the agreement,
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that it's a power grab by the WHO that will see national sovereignty to WHO
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and give it the power to impose lockdowns or vaccine mandates on countries. Unfortunately,
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he added, some of these lives have been spread even by members of
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Parliament and in some cases heads of governments. Let me to be clear,
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for these claims are completely and categorically false. The agreement is being written by
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countries for countries, and will be implemented by countries in according with their own
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national laws, in accordance rather, and moving on from there, he even
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goes on to say, in fact, it says the exact opposite. Let
33:46
me read let me read you Article twenty four, paragraph three of the negotiating
33:51
texts of the Pandemic Agreement, and it shows that quote from the text.
33:57
I'm not sure if that's exactly how it is right now, but it says
34:00
nothing in the WHO Pandemic Agreement shall be interpreted as providing the WHO Secretariat,
34:06
including the WHO DG, any authority to direct, order, alter, or
34:10
otherwise prescribe the domestic laws or policies of any party, or to mandate or
34:15
otherwise impose any requirements that parties take specific actions, such as a ban or
34:22
acceptance of travelers, imposing vaccination mandates, or therapeutic or diagnostic measures, or
34:28
implement lockdowns. Now, of course, you have to look at the superanational
34:34
framework that the UN fits into, and then the WHO, of course is
34:38
a child of the UN system. All supernational arrangements are a threat to sovereignty
34:46
one degree or another, one way or another. A lot of this is
34:51
very disingenuous. The way that this would work would be like any UN covenant
35:00
that we've seen. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, where human
35:05
rights are recognized unless they go against the grain of the principles of the United
35:08
Nations. There's always those sort of exceptions. And you'll notice here this is
35:14
the next statement in this slide, right after he quoted that treaty section.
35:19
He says, we urge parliaments to be aware of these issues and to support
35:22
the ongoing negotiations. The Pandemic Agreement. Listen to this closely is the cornerstone
35:28
of a new stronger architecture for global health security that the WHO and Member states
35:34
are building. This includes key actions for stronger governments, stronger financing, stronger
35:39
systems and tools, and a stronger WHO. So the WHO is seen as
35:46
gaining power from this. So this is very typical of the shifting language you
35:52
find that is replete in UN covenants and even in the UN Charter itself.
35:58
And if you think about the International Organization for Migration, which I cited recently
36:01
on WHO and also a UN report going back to the year two thousand,
36:07
we found quite recently that those documents are instrumental in the migration invasion at the
36:15
US southern border, and that the presence of personnel and UN documents was found
36:27
along the route going all the way from Ecuador up to the southern border.
36:30
So the UN is notoriously found to be involved in actions that tend to diminish
36:39
US sovereignty, and the Southern Border is a great example of that. Another
36:44
was the Korean War, the first UN war that was fought from nineteen fifty
36:47
to nineteen fifty three, and since then the US has not declared through Congress
36:52
wars at all. And by the time we got to Desert Storm and Desert
36:57
Shield Security Council was pretty much in charge of the coalition against Iraq and the
37:06
movement of military forces, so a lot of sovereignty was lost there as well
37:09
within the UN system. And this last slide, among the last slides,
37:14
anyway, is something that some people find ineffectual and maybe just symbolic, but
37:20
it's just something I discovered in listening to some other videos on this matter.
37:24
Louisiana is balking at the WHO, the UN, and the World Economic Forum,
37:30
saying that those organizations don't have rather that the state of Louisiana is how
37:37
would I say this, Those organizations don't have any jurisdiction over the state of
37:42
Louisiana and things like that, and supposedly the state of Tennessee is doing the
37:45
same thing. Brian, There's a lot to unpack here, but these are
37:49
just some of the latest developments. People can go to. As this next
37:52
slide shows, you can go to the parliament dot UK website to contact the
37:58
House of Lords and House of Common to share your concerns about the treaty and
38:01
the REGs. Of course, Jim's got a more direct route through the DHHS.
38:06
And then here you've got the US Senate. The main number is two
38:09
two two two four three one two one. You can ask for any senator
38:13
by name, but the main thing here is Senate Bill four four four by
38:16
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. That bill has been dormant, strangely for over
38:22
a year, and it called for recognizing the WHO Pandemic Accord as a treaty
38:28
and then the Senate would exercise its constitutional duties to have its advice and consent
38:34
on that treaty. And that's a very important act of sovereignty to play out
38:37
or to apply that constitutional principle. And I also included here and people can
38:43
see this in the slides later. How to contact members of the EU Parliament
38:47
as well as I said, the UK Parliament and the US Senate. So
38:51
that's pretty much what I have for now. Brian in the time provided.
38:54
Okay, well, thank you very much for that excellent run through. James
39:00
over at the moment, but just twenty seconds. Is there anything that you'd
39:04
like to specifically comment on that Mark's covered there. The local tyrants that abused
39:14
your rights over the last four and a half years didn't need any amendments or
39:19
didn't need any treaty to do what they did over the last four and a
39:22
half years. So the core battle is still local. You know, whatever
39:28
they did to you in the past, they did by confusion and such.
39:32
The amendments you have to be concerned about, expanded quarantine of international travelers.
39:38
And the treaty is a trade deal to take money away from your country to
39:44
give to oligarchs in poor nations so that they can make more biological weapons to
39:49
jab the people they missed the first time around. Okay, thank you.
39:52
Sything that's going to prevent the next pandemic is they're going to try to profit
39:57
from it. Okay, thank you very much. Change Raguski. Let's move
40:01
on to the subject of the abuse of children and put a comment here that
40:06
if we have governments that can't protect our own children, those governments are capable
40:10
of doing anything anywhere in the world. That's my personal opinion. Let's bring
40:15
on Professor Diane rasmuson mcaddie. Diane, pleasure to have you back with us,
40:21
and you've got an update on the for Nethe women for us. Thanks
40:25
Brian. Yeah, it's great to be here with you today. So just
40:29
as a reminder for anyone who may not have been following the for Netty case
40:32
since UK columns started covering it early last year, there are a group of
40:37
women who were abused in care in residential school care from around nineteen sixty to
40:42
eighteen ninety one. There is an ongoing petition that's very active, lots going
40:45
on. So just as a bit of an update, let's play the short
40:49
video from STV News which captures some highlights from the petition's committee meaning emerged.
40:55
Why are you guys here today? You have obviously been campaigning for justice away,
41:00
so what is it that brings you to today? We just want to
41:02
be heard again and again. We've been here before and we'll keep coming and
41:07
tell we heal us and take some action. So the more politicians we can
41:09
get on board the strong cases. So that's really why we're here to be
41:15
heard and seen and we will not go away. So that is actually a
41:22
clip from the podcast that the four of the leaders of the Fineppe group did
41:25
on the day of the petition's committee meeting. They're obviously very angry and as
41:30
they said, they really just want to be seen and heard. The petition
41:34
is for the purpose of being able to apply for the read Risk scheme with
41:37
the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, which to date has spent over seventy two million
41:42
pounds. Mostly I think i'm legal fees to protect the Scottish government. So
41:45
here we have the official report which is available. The link will be in
41:49
the show notes covering the transcript of that meeting, and you can also see
41:53
here just out of interest as a side note, that two of the other
41:57
petitions in your consideration is one thrombosis and one on sudden cardiac death. So,
42:01
referring back to James's and Mark segments, I wonder why that might be
42:07
After this, we have had a lot of media participation immediately following the petition's
42:13
committing meeting. So in addition to this transcript, as you'll see here on
42:15
the next sledge, we've got a couple of just screenshots of some issues around
42:22
what we keep being called for Nettie House instead of for Nephew Residential School.
42:29
The issue here is that it was never called for Nettie House when the women
42:30
were there in attendance. It was always called for Nehew Residential School from the
42:36
time that it was from a residental school to the end. And we also
42:38
see a lot of inaccuracies around reporting why the women were there were sent there.
42:44
They were there because for different reasons that we have a lot of different
42:47
reasons why we think it happened, but the inaccuracies reported in the media committee
42:57
meeting was that is for convalescent care or rest but care or holiday camp was
43:00
actually none of those at all whatsoever. There are different reasons why when we
43:05
were sent there. So what we've been trying to do is work to correct
43:09
the messages that get sent out, and some of these media outlets have corrected
43:15
their coverage immediately when we've asked them to do so, and it's so saying
43:20
please don't call it for Neette House. Anymore. Please don't say it was
43:22
for convalescent care. Let's to say what it was. It was a residential
43:25
school where the teachers were there and the children were in charge of people by
43:30
the state when they were there, which is what Scottish law calls for.
43:35
So next we'll see an example of this here if we can go to the
43:38
next slide. We see here that we've had some changes from removing for Nettie
43:45
House to Nephew residential School and saying they were from disadvantaged backgrounds, which tends
43:51
to be the closest to what we seem to be able to say that it
43:53
is definitely not convalescedent, definitely not for us, but definitely not a holiday
43:59
home. They were there for six weeks of horrific abuse. So Diane,
44:04
if I, if I can just come on, we just need to move
44:07
on to the to the next slide, because this is this is the key
44:10
issue here that the government has been trying to cool the call for Nephie something
44:17
which is not So just give us this one again. What we've got the
44:22
screen or the slide on screen? Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah,
44:24
So this was from Glasgow Live, which was the They very quickly corrected it.
44:30
So we will see here it doesn't say for Nati House, it doesn't
44:34
say for Nati Residential School. The problem here, as we have been able
44:38
to isolate, is Sean Robinson and the S and P, and I would
44:42
imagine how the US off as well, because they keep saying, well,
44:45
the abuse was only short term, so they were only there for four to
44:49
six weeks at a time, so therefore they don't qualify to apply for their
44:52
dress scheme because you know what is six weeks of abuse right and it's absolutely
44:57
absolutely despicable. So again here we see the corrections that have been made for
45:01
Neti Residential School and girls from disadvantaged backgrounds rather than Fineti House convalescent and those
45:09
are the messages that the government has been pushing which has not been helpful at
45:13
all for the case. We can go to the next slide. So this
45:20
is my article that was published on UK column a few weeks ago, which
45:23
goes into the detail that I found when I visited the archives for several months
45:28
from last autumn going into the first part of this year as well as if
45:32
you look at the UK column news from two weeks ago about the coverage on
45:36
there what we're seeing now because there's been a press released by the Forti Ladies
45:42
that UK column has assisted with. We're seeing Yahoo News here as an example
45:46
of an aggregator that is sort of resharing these older articles from a few weeks
45:52
ago and I just stoppened to see these over the weekend. There's one from
45:55
February when we had a Fineti conference where we shared some of these findings of
45:59
what found in the archives as well as issues around human rights and the legal
46:05
case that is undergoing, as well as the protest from November. That was
46:08
when we were at George Square protesting outside of Glasgow City Chambers. And that's
46:14
me and the yellow rain coat looking like as my husband called it, a
46:16
waterproof banana. But I did not provide that that was from the one the
46:20
Ladies. So if we go on next here to the next slide. This
46:25
was from the Sunday Mail from last Sunday, so it's the biggest newspaper in
46:29
Scotland. We had a full page of coverage about what was going on with
46:35
the case. Most of this article was directly quoted from the press release that
46:39
the Ladies put out, so we sent it out to multiple media sources.
46:44
And this next piece here is from the Bryan Wittel, who's one of the
46:50
MSPs who is in support of the women. Hus been from the very beginning
46:55
along with some of the other MSPs, so we can see here that his
46:59
office especially submitted evidence and support of the petition. Says that the Education Bill
47:06
and a lot of legislation before this throughout Scotland, in the acts before this
47:09
as well as when the women were sent there is that they do act in
47:15
local prentice in place of the parent, which basically means that anything that happens
47:17
to the children when they are in school is the responsibility of the state,
47:22
the teachers, the staff, whoever was there. And so therefore Brian Wittle's
47:28
conclusion is that because of this, they are potentially the government's potentially violating the
47:35
laws from the You and Convention of the Rights of Children by excluding abuse victims
47:39
because they were abused just the same as anyone in long term care or any
47:43
other sort of school situation. Just because they were in short term care doesn't
47:46
necessarily mean that they should be excluded. Actually they shouldn't be. So we
47:52
have some activity going on social media. If you want to follow our Twitter
47:54
account we are at for netthew Ladies on Twitter slash x, so we've been
48:00
reposting a lot of the media and trying to target some activity towards Humta Yusaf
48:07
from Shona Robinson. Brian has done an excellent job of contacting Shona Robinson and
48:12
the SMP and Humsa Yusaf through several tweets as well, and as you can
48:15
see there, he's retweeted some of these articles and this one post for example,
48:20
has had over four and a half thousand views as of when I took
48:24
the screenshot, so we're getting a lot of good coverage there as well.
48:29
If you want to get involved, and I hope people can if you are
48:31
in Scotland or can get to Scotland. We will have the next Petitions Commeding
48:35
meeting on the seventeenth of April at nine thirty am here in Edinburgh at Holyrood.
48:40
We are planning a large protest and you can also sign this petition here
48:45
to allow them to access through dress scheme which is directly through the Scottish Parliament
48:50
Scottish Government website, and we have a changed up org Position petition as well
48:55
that you can sign that one also has well, we've already met our goal
49:00
of five hundred signatures, but we want more obviously, and we have just
49:04
started a crowdfund that will go directly to the ladies that they can use for
49:08
passive transportation and so on, So please donate if you can. Thinks Okay,
49:15
thank you very much for that update. It's good to see that things
49:17
are starting to move, and it's particularly good to see that some of the
49:22
members of the Scottish Parliament getting properly involved there, including the gentleman you've mentioned,
49:28
who's also pointed out he thinks that a lot of the stalling is due
49:30
to the fact that the government's getting worried about how much money it would have
49:35
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Let's bring you back in because you are here to report a bit more
51:55
on the Council of Foreign Relations and what they've been updated. Yeah. This
52:01
is of course the former Chicago CFRs, now called the Chicago Council and Global
52:06
Affairs. And there's a couple of things upcoming that I'll be covering virtually in
52:10
real time as I've been doing with the WHL press conferences to keep the first
52:16
hand news flowing for UK Column as a general assignment reporter. This one is
52:21
coming up tomorrow World Health Day, and they're combining migration, climate change,
52:27
and global health. What global health might have to do directly with the treaty
52:31
and all that, I'm not sure, but it's an interesting illustration that goes
52:35
along with the advertisement for this upcoming program, a needle going into the entire
52:40
globe. Rather interesting right there. And there's one other one. Well,
52:45
this is a little bit more about the first one. Excuse me. I'll
52:50
just briefly mention that Ibraham A. Bubakar boy I hope I don't butcher,
52:55
that he is with the University College London, the provost there, and he
53:01
has a guest, Maya Prabhu, who's a clinical associate professor of law Yale
53:07
Law School. They'll be discussing that program and I'll be covering that tomorrow and
53:13
reporting on that next week. It says here, just to describe it briefly,
53:17
a critical nexus exists between migration, climate change of global health. Escalating
53:22
conflicts and climate crises have caused displacement to become a harsh reality for millions,
53:28
exacerbating global health challenges. The only thing I'll mention there, of course,
53:31
is that it's interesting that the Biden administration wants a completely open border and did
53:37
everything it could to get rid of Title forty two, while at the same
53:39
time claiming that COVID is a great viral threat. How you square that with
53:45
a totally open border policy is beyond me. Anyway, the other program is
53:51
going to be the twenty fourth of April. This is an interesting one,
53:53
New Cold Wars. A conversation with David Sanger. He's with the New York
53:59
Times. We'll get a lot into Russia, China and probably Ukrainian matters.
54:04
Brian and I'll be covering that as well. I think there's a little something
54:07
about David Sanger. He of course is with the Times White House and National
54:12
Security correspondent, and his name has also popped up at Bilderberg on occasion.
54:17
So we'll see what they have to say and be reporting later. Brian.
54:21
Okay, thank you very much for that. Yes, what are they up
54:25
to? It's difficult to tell, isn't it now? I think this brings
54:29
us back onto the subject of education. And Diane, you're going to tell
54:35
us what's been happening big protest in Holyroot up in Scotland. What's actually been
54:40
happening? Have we lost you on sand Well? Have we lost you all
54:53
together? Are you there? Diane? Can't hear you? We're having a
55:05
few little issues today. Hello, Yes you're here, Well done? Sorry
55:15
about that. Must have been a blip in the internet. So that is
55:17
actually the that's the slide for the protest at Hollywood. We had a lot
55:22
of protests going on over here in Edinburgh on Saturday. Actually, so for
55:27
those of you who follow Posey Parker or Kelly J. Keen as her real
55:30
name, who speaks for let Women Speak, we had to Let Women Speak
55:35
Edinburgh event and the whole point was for women to be able to come and
55:39
speak right so as we should be able to do. And what actually happened
55:44
was a lot of the coverage that we saw on Twitter was some of the
55:47
peaceful part of the women just coming and sharing their thoughts on being an actual
55:52
woman. Some of it, unfortunately, got really violent, which I think
55:55
is unfortunate considering what's going on with the hate speech situation here in Scotland with
56:01
the crime bill that came in over the hate crime bill that came in on
56:05
April Fool's Day. So here's one example of the transactivists seeing you better use
56:10
my pronouns, darlin or I'm going to have to make your pronouns w was
56:14
were. Now that's a death threat. Why that is not hate speech?
56:17
I don't understand. We have some other ones as well that you can go
56:24
on and look at. Twitter. If you look at hashtag let them Speak
56:27
Edinburgh, there's a whole bunch of them of some videos that you can look
56:30
at. But this leads me to what is actually hate speech and what is
56:35
actually hate full speech. And as someone that comes into the UK column as
56:39
a librarian, as an an academic, one thing that I'm concerned about is
56:45
why are we giving UK degrees to students who are from other countries who are
56:51
not necessarily qualified to study an English speaking country. And this was an article
56:55
from last week from The Times Higher Education which covers this very issue around what's
57:00
going on why it's difficult for us as staff that basically we're doing this for
57:06
the benefit of the universities to bring in as much money as possible, because
57:08
overseas students pay more money to be at university. And he goes on this
57:15
article to say, in the West we talk about decolonizing the curriculum, but
57:19
we invariably regard our educative model at superior when we export it to new overseas
57:22
ventures, meaning that the students that we bring in from other parts of the
57:28
world are very different from here, and we don't necessarily work as much as
57:30
we could to make them feel like they are able to complete versus well in
57:36
the UK, and he calls us colonizers. We force students who come to
57:39
the UK at their own will to spend their own money as colonizers. So
57:44
we are now colonizing these students coming here who want one of the best educations
57:49
that they can get, and we force them and the students and apparently the
57:52
academics that we hire from other countries to teach and learn in English inviting this
57:57
communication now, in my opinion here because we have a great reputation in the
58:01
UK and the US for having amazing education opportunities. So I am a member
58:07
of the editorial team of the Scottish Union for Education and you can read my
58:10
full article on decolonization if you go back to our newsletter from January. And
58:15
a lot of people want to know what is decolonization, what exactly does that
58:20
mean? So it operates on the belief that everyone who was not white is
58:23
disadvantaged because they are not white, imitating comes the use of white, that
58:29
white people violently colonize non white societies and force them to become westernized, and
58:34
that white people, the colonizers, are the oppressors or the settlers and non
58:38
white people are the oppressed. So going on from there, the former British
58:45
Empire is presented as a prime example of colonization. Some left leaning academics,
58:51
myself not included, believe that white people must acknowledge their white guilt and compensate
58:55
non whites for their white privilege by de coluonn decolonization does not involve other characteristics
59:02
that some academics identify as marginalized, such as gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status,
59:08
or disability. Only whiteness. So where do we go from there?
59:15
You have a name. So here's a short video from the UK Education the
59:21
Student's Union for Education, talking about decolonization. And I apologize in advance I
59:25
should have a trigger warning on this video, but please go ahead. Hi,
59:34
what are you looking for? I'm looking for a library that teaches me
59:37
about decolonization, gives me resources to learn, and connects me with other keen
59:43
campaigners. You may not find that here, but I know a place.
1:00:05
Was that the library you're looking for? Oh my god, Yes, let's
1:00:12
decolonize education. So that is just the best resource ever, Ryan. So
1:00:22
if we go to the next page here, this is what is now the
1:00:28
N US Liberation Library. And you can see here that we have, as
1:00:31
we do in this type of environment, different categories of people because we like
1:00:36
to categorize people by labels. So we have black resources, trans resources,
1:00:40
LGBT plus and at the very bottom of the pyramid disabled and women. And
1:00:46
here we see here Sarah Khan again, who we just saw in that brilliant
1:00:50
TikTok video. If anybody knows what this means, please let me know.
1:00:53
Because I have studied decolonization, I still don't know what this means. Divestment
1:00:58
campaigns are a way of showing institutions that we are not fooled by their co
1:01:01
option of the term decolonize. We say no to their material complicity in colonial
1:01:07
violence. So if you read James Lindsay's work on New Discourses, he talks
1:01:13
about deconization being violence being violent. But let's look at what deconization means to
1:01:17
professional libraries. This is from the University of Liverpool Libraries. However, historical
1:01:24
material contains language and illustrative depictions of people that are offensive and outdated. These
1:01:31
instances may be racist, homophobic, sexist, or ableist, and more broadly,
1:01:38
a significant part of the systematic marginalization of people throughout history. Therefore,
1:01:45
the archivists at the University of Liverpool are currently working to identify offensive or outdated
1:01:51
language that is used within the metadata on the dedicated archives catalog. So that
1:02:00
was from a one hour long webinar on the issue how to decolonize the library
1:02:05
catalog at the University of Liverpool. So here is the example that she follows
1:02:07
that with. We have an article or an item called Chinese paintings from the
1:02:13
archives. The original term was costumes male and female Chinese costumes, so that
1:02:20
was offensive, so we changed it to big reveal here traditional dress, which
1:02:29
is less offensive or not offensive compared to the word costumes. And we include
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a note at the bottom explaining that it has been edited to remove historic information
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and or terminology that is offensive and or outdated. So that is what's being
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considered offensive or non offensive under the rules of decolonization in universities. However,
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and also in the library profession, we have the Rainbow book List, which
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is not offensive. In fact, it is highly promoted. This is from
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the American Library Association's Rainbow LGBT. He loved. The Rainbow booklist is something
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that they produce every year. One of the numbers from twenty twenty four to
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the top ten for young readers is a picture book so it's meant for children
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before primary school called Granddad's Pride. Granddad's Pride is created by an author called
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Harry Woodburn, who is of course ababm. And we see here they go
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to a pride festival and we see two men kissing, one of them wearing
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leather bondage gear. So this is what Libruans are using as an argument against
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censorship. But we can't be censoring what people read. But at the same
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time we're censoring the word costume and replacing it with traditional dress to avoid being
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offensive. So in my opinion, Brian on behalf of my entire profession,
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I apologize, well, Diane, you didn't do that, because you're doing
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a sterling job trying to expose what's actually happening. But if we sum up
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what we've had in our news today, of course we've got the immense fear
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that the conflict in Ukraine and also in Israel girls is causing in many people.
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We've got dictatorial bodies such as the World Health Organization telling us how they're
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going to take control in a pandemic. And if somebody thinks that they're going
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to be standing up to speak out about what's going to happen, well they're
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going to change your language so that you can't, or in fact, the
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Online Holmes Bill, we're going to be saying no, you can't speak out
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because that's an attack on another person. So it's pretty obvious what's going on.
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It's got different facets, but of course what is the best way to
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start to deal with what's happening. It's to expose it and talk about it.
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We're going to have to end the News there. We did have some
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other material, but I'm going to keep that for another day. And I'd
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just like to thank James Ruguski very much coming onto the News today to give
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us an up debt. I'm not sure whether you can join us for extra.
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If you can, James, that would be very welcome. So we'll
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end the news there. Thank you all for joining us wherever you are in
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the world, and if you're a member of UK column, we'll have extra
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for you in a few minutes. Thank you, Bye bye.