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Good afternoon. It's just gone 1:00 on Wednesday
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the 27th of August 2025. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Charles Mallett and I'm joined in the studio
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today by Mike Robinson. Welcome to the programme, Mike.
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Pleasure, Charles. Good and we have our live links,
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Sandy Adams from Somerset. Now in today's programme we'll
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be looking at the relationship between the Online Safety Act
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and digital identity, a closer dive into the surveillance state
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as it is, how the 2030 Agenda is wielded as a control mechanism
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and a well, I suppose another look at the very questionable
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decisions being made in the energy sector as well as the
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relationship between so called public health propaganda and
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celebrity. But we are going to get started
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today with the issue of deportation, and the past
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fortnight has seen the issue of mass deportation as being the
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key political and social battleground, with opportunists
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crawling out of the woodwork at every turn.
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Just yesterday, Nigel Farage and Zia Youssef took to the stage to
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give speeches under what they're calling Operation Restoring
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Justice, including saying that they would do away with not just
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the European Convention on Human Rights but also the Human Rights
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Act 1998. Now they in fairness then, they
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did take a a large number of questions from the press, which
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they answered in varying degrees of well, they were varyingly
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convincing, let's say to be perhaps generous to them.
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There seem to be exceptions to every rule when they were
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actually pushed, especially concerning the rights of
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Afghanistan residents to remain. Farage qualifying saying that
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yes, absolutely those who fought with the Brits and Americans.
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Which of course is slightly contradictory considering that
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the most recent statistics show that Afghans are among the
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greatest numbers of those that he is suggesting that he would
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deport in the 1st place. It's all a bit contradictory and
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confusing, but nonetheless, everybody is weighing in.
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Yvette Cooper, of course, saying that she will overhaul the
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system after inheriting. She's very clear to to make the
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point that she's inherited the problem.
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And from the government statement, she's promising to
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end hotel use under some of the most significant changes to the
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asylum system in decades. And she concedes that whilst
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there is a backlog of 106,000 cases waiting to be heard, but
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wait times are increasing, with an average wait time of 53
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weeks. Now, just like Nigel Farage, the
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government appears to have no real idea of how it's going to
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actually achieve any of this. It's a point of political
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expediency at the moment. And just to confirm what I mean
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by that, just have a quick listen to what Dan Dan Jarvis
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said to the BBC recently. No commentators on this
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particular issue think that hotels are the appropriate
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setting. No, no, I think, I think you
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made that point falsely. So what is the appropriate
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setting? You are a minister from the Home
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Office? Yeah.
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So. The appropriate setting will be
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a range of other different sort of sets of arrangements.
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Can you name some? Parts of the country, well we,
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we are working through the options of what they might look
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we. Had a yeah.
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We've had a year and during that time we've returned 35,000
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people who didn't have a right to be here and we've increased
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asylum decision making by 116%. You you you have to do more than
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one figure. You know this is a.
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Issue a live issue now. We've had somebody on the
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programme this morning saying the first council, Broxburn
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Council, saying they're going to seek legal advice, whether they
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can now do the same. This problem's going to get
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bigger. It's a headache for your
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government. Could you at least answer just
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so specifically? If it's not hotels as security
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minister, what is it? It won't be hotels because of
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the commitment that we've made and therefore it will have to be
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a range of other more appropriate accommodation.
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Dan Jarvis there taking the hit for the government.
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In fairness, the BBC, the the correct question is being asked
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and there's an absolute failure to answer it.
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Now. The the catalyst for all of this
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coming into the news has been the High Court ruling on the
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case brought by Epping Forest District Council and on their
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website Chris Whitbread, the leader of the council has
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written, and this I should remind you, concerns the Bell
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Hotel. He's written, so far as the
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council is aware, there is no criminal record checking of
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individuals who might only have been in the country a matter of
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days before being housed at the hotel.
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The use by the Home Office of the premises for asylum seekers
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poses a clear risk of further escalating community tensions
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already at a high and the risk of irreparable harm to the local
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community. Then he says we are frustrated
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that the Home Office continues not to listen.
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And then he explains how planning permission is being
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brought to bear. He says it is not in use as a
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hotel and it doesn't function as a hotel.
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As I said, this is the Bell Hotel.
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The establishment of a centre to accommodate asylum seekers is
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not appropriate in planning terms.
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Asylum seekers have been at the Bell Hotel since early April
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this year, but the council has only just been moved to act by
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the protest. So it would appear that direct
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action can yield results, but there is nuance in how they're
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interpreted. Now Mr Justice Eyre, in summing
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up at the High Court, makes a few important things clear.
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He take he takes heed of the planning issue but completely
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dismisses all other concerns. And This is why the sorry.
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It is this precedent which should be considered, especially
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since so many other councils are proposing similar action now.
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Eyre said the questions to be answered are whether there has
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been a change in the use of the bell and if there has, whether
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that change is material in planning terms.
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He then goes on to say that the claimant has submitted that
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there was a risk of irredeemable harm, that prolonged
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continuation of the use of the bell could result in community
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tensions which would not heal. That amounted essentially to
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speculation and I take no account of it.
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And then he said, the defendant contends that the current
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application has been triggered by unlawful activity to which no
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weight should be attached and by unjustified speculation.
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I have explained above the limited weight to be given to
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the fear of crime and the consequences of the reactions,
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both lawful and unlawful, to the use of the bell.
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So whilst this may be held as a victory, as I say for direct
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action, it's very much qualified by the manner in which the legal
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system has actually addressed it and in fact the specific
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concerns raised have very much not been addressed.
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More than that, in listening to what Air said, they've actually
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been substantively dismissed, which shows both the government
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and the judiciary which refuses to respond to the issue at hand.
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Now whilst there is no doubt that Community Action has
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prompted the Council to act, though one may ask what was
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right about the planning situation back in April, since
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when they've failed to do anything now, as the Jarvis
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interview demonstrates, it further begs the question of
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what now? And of course, is there the
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potential for even less suitable accommodation being found for
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young men who are already here? So the public imagination in
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relation to this has been captured and as you may be
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aware, in what appears to be an organic campaign to fly the
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flags of Saint George and of the Union all over the place.
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And this is well underway, well supported.
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But I would say that we would do well to consider how the use of
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flags has been weaponized in recent years.
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And here are just some of those which have split communities
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right down in the middle. And if you're only listening,
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I've shown the NHS rainbow, Black Lives Matter, Pride,
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Progress and the Palestinian flag, of course, before the
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Union Flag and the Cross of Saint George.
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Now they're described as an initiative of national fervour
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and patriotism. There is huge potential for
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divisive action and serious manipulation of the emotions of
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the population and, as this video shows, running silently in
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the background, the aggressive removal of Palestinian flags in
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order that they be seen to be replaced with British ones.
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So the very public order issue that Nigel Farage has been
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speaking about can absolutely be triggered by the conflation of a
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sense of national pride with apparent anger at communities
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which are perceived to be not British.
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Now also, just as the case, just as was the case in the wake of
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Southport, this will pit people against the police rather than
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against those manipulating the system in the 1st place.
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And here's an example of exactly that taking effect.
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Hey, they're throwing digs. Hey, he's going up that that
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flag is going to the top of that lamp post.
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Go on. He's getting up here.
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He's going. He's got up.
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Yay, yay. Go on, Bellai.
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Fucking running the soulful boys.
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Go on, Bellai. Yeah.
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My apologies, I think there was a certain amount of colourful
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language in the background there, but it just illustrates
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that this is already a situation of aggro with the police.
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And here we have Robert Jenrick committing criminal damage, of
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course, as he perhaps unwittingly Stokes racial
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tensions here, hanging the Union flag on a lamppost.
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Now whilst he might be considered at best naive,
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there's no doubt that others know exactly what they're doing.
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And the reason I describe it in this way is that the flag
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campaign is called Operation Raise the Colours and has been
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started, or at least claimed to be by this man Andy Saxon as you
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see in the top left. He's supported by Urban Scoop, a
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pro Israel and very much anti Islam film production company.
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And they're here promoting a campaign to save Tommy, Tommy
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Robinson of course with Rebel News and known Zionist
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affiliated organisation. So some of the response to this
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campaign has been alive to the dangers of the manipulation and
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the unfortunate likelihood of this demonising in particular
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anyone perceived as Muslim or Asian.
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This tweet there saying this is raise the colours in practise.
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It's not pride, not heritage, it's intimidation, racism and
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hatred dressed up as patriotism. And this video, in effect,
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proves the point that this person is trying to make.
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It's not a country. Yeah, for your future, for your.
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Future. Sweetheart, all these ragged
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Palestinians. Get up.
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It's very easy to see how a campaign that may be perceived
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by many as a as a noble and and indeed fairly straightforward
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campaign could actually very easily be subverted.
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Now, Urban Scoop further promotes the idea that the Quran
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is in fact condoning acts of violence.
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And it's at this point that I would cite David Miller's most
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recent article on the UK column website.
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And I am pleased to say that David joins us on the news
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programme today now. So David, welcome to UK Column
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News. Just to get started with what
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I've just said in mind in a way in in the way in which Islam may
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be regarded by some and indeed how it's been manipulated on the
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shores. If you could just tell us a
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little bit about your article please.
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Well, I mean, the article is an in depth investigation based on
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leaked internal government documents, which tries to look
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at the way in which the British government, in particular the
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Home Office and its Homeland Security Group, which is an
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intelligence agency within the Home Office, has engaged in
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effectively astroturfing a whole number of different Muslim
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groups as part of their effort to effectively domesticate Islam
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and especially to respond to the threat which they perceived as
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coming from Islam. After the success or the the the
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the size of the anti Iraq war demonstrations in 2002 and three
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and four. So the government's response to
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that was to try and say, well, we want to change Islam.
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Islam shouldn't be engaged in, Muslim shouldn't be engaged in
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criticising government or foreign policy, especially over
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the war in Iraq, but also in relation to the question of
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Palestine. And so that the, the reason that
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they've done this and they've asked reserved a huge number of
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Muslim groups is to try and suggest that that Muslims are
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British patriots and that it's wrong and indeed extremist for
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Muslims to oppose Western wars. So of course that's been a long
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term campaign of affairs. And what they've done
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effectively is that the the commissioned APR firm to set up
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a whole number of different Muslim organisations or to work
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with existing non Muslim organisations whereby the
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government would write the messages that these Muslim
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organisations would give out. And and these these messages
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would be given to the PR firm and the PR firm given to the
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Muslim organisations. So that sometimes the Muslim
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organisations didn't even know that it was British intelligence
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officials who were actually writing their key messages.
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So the investigation really is an intent to show how that
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process worked and how the government was able to keep this
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secret, keep secret the idea that that what's usually secret
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their their involvement in it. And so of course what they did
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there was they wrote a whole series of contracts with the PR
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firm which which in very great detail showed that the how the
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operation worked such that they would be create this new office
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which was called the Hub. And Muslim organisations would
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be brought into the Hub as if it was a pro bono free a community
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relations organisation. Actually it was run directly by
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this PR firm. And secretly in the Hub, this
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this office there would be PR firm staff.
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And secretly there were also 2 British intelligence officers
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sitting in the backroom making sure that they checked and and
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cleared every message which went out.
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So this is a quite elaborate attempt to manipulate the Muslim
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community and to and actually to also manipulate non Muslims in
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this country into effectively not supporting the anti war
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movement and the movement for Palestinian rights.
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That's that's the purpose of it. David, I suppose my first
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question would be, is there any evidence to suggest that aside
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from not supporting the anti war movement that there's been any
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effort to manipulate opinions about each demographic as it
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were, so Muslims versus other communities in the UK and
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particularly the white community versus Muslims?
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Well the the idea is to try and destroy the possibility of white
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people and non white people coming together to oppose UK
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foreign policy. And the reason that they wanted
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to do that was of course they saw that there was a unity in
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2002 three and four between aspects of the conscious Muslim
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community and the left and the anti war movement and that
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frightened elements of British intelligence.
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So this whole effort has been to try and split that asunder and
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to make it clear that that Muslims should first of all,
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Muslims shouldn't support the anti war movement, they
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shouldn't oppose Western wars. They should be, they should
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adorn themselves with the Union flag, which is one of the key
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themes of one of these campaigns.
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And also that they wanted to split the Muslims apart from,
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from from white left groups, if you like.
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And part of part of the effort, therefore, was to say that there
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are these good Muslims who are the community groups working
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with them, although they didn't say they were with them.
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And there are these bad Muslims and these are the Muslim
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extremists. And so they try to show that
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people, the Muslims who were, who are conscious and who are
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saying we don't want to kill a million Iraqis, We don't want to
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participate in the genocide in Palestine.
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They were tried, they tried to smear them as being extremists,
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as being what they were called jihadis, etcetera.
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Now, of course, this is at the same time, exactly the same time
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as, as actually the British government was supporting Al
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Qaeda and similar groups in Syria.
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And we've seen of course, the effects of that in the coming to
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power of the Jwani government in Syria in in recent months.
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So there's like there's a deep malaise inside the intelligence
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services such that they are both, on the one hand,
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supporting people they call extremists, on the other hand
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smearing honest Muslims who oppose Western government policy
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as being extremists. And 3rd, thirdly, trying to wrap
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some elements of the Muslim community in the Union flag.
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And I think that's a profoundly mistaken approach.
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And David, you know, when we look at the, the types of types
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of organisations that you talk about in your, in your article,
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we've obviously got the research information Communications unit.
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We've got, you know, reference to the, the old information
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research department within the Foreign Office, which of course
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we know has been succeeded by the counter disinformation media
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development programme in the Foreign Office.
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And then later on in the article you, you are talking about
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Breakthrough Media Network, now known as the Zinc Network
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Limited. And so we've got parallels here
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between what's going on with the manipulation of the Islamic
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narrative, but also the manipulation of the Russian
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narrative. And, and so it's it's pretty
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cynical in both cases. Well, yes, I mean, the, the the
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stuff that you're talking about, the counter disinformation unit,
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of course is run by MR6 and by a guy called and the Andy Price.
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And of course he he was involved in running the the integrity
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initiative, which you've covered on your show before, which of
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course was an anti Russian thing, part of the whole Russia
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gate furago of nonsense, which was created and which has now
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actually been exposed by the Trump administration just in the
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last few days by Tulsi Gabbard. So, yeah, that's part of the
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same thing. This is the anti Russian stuff
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which of course is in favour of the the adventures in Ukraine
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and of supporting Zelensky and indeed the the neo Nazis who
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support Zelensky at the same time as trying to to target
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those who who were against the Iraq war or who are are against
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the genocide in Gaza. Now this is a set a set of
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organisations which are closely related to the intelligence
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agencies. As I mentioned, Riku, the
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organisation you you mentioned there which is effective with
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today's Information Research Department, is part of the
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Homeland Security Group, which is a British intelligence agency
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inside the Home Office and comes under effectively the rubric of
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MI 5. The organisation you refer to
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Counter Disinformation Unit comes under the aegis of MI 6,
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which of course was key to the the propaganda operations in
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Syria where they've employed a whole number of people to
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promote effectively Al Qaeda in Syria against the government of
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Bashar al Assad. So this is a deep cynicism
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inside. British intelligence and inside,
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inside the strategy of British government.
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And what we're trying to do here is to show how that works, to
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illustrate to people that that these people are not honest and
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that they are engaged in a, in a huge apparatus of deception.
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And we should point out that this is Part 1 of 2.
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Is that right? Yes.
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So in Part 2 what I will do is I mean this.
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The first part is a long article and it goes into great detail
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from the leaked documents with all the contracts, etcetera.
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And in Part 2, what I will go on to do is to look at the specific
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organisations that work very closely with British
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intelligence, and there's quite, quite a number of them, but I'll
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look in depth about four or five of them.
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David, thank you very much. Just to just to finish off, have
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you got any thoughts on on the general situation in the UK at
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the moment and how you think this might pan out?
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Well, I think it's extremely worrying.
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We having a huge escalation in Islamophobia.
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You mentioned Tommy Robinson and Rebel Media.
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They are. And of course I've done
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investigations of Robinson's background and his alliance with
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the science movement and the funding that he's had from the
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very beginning of the English Defence League from the Zionist
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movement. I think there's a great need to
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disinter some of what's happening with just in the way
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that you started to do there with the flag.
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I mean, the whole question of of remigration as a concept, where
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does that come from? It clearly is linked to earlier
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Zionist themes about, for example, the concept of Arabia,
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which was popularised by a woman called using a pen name Bat your
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her real name is as she say, a Lipman who is a former Mossad
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operative. Her and her husband operated in
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Morocco for the Mossad. And so there's a need to look at
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look at the links there are between the, the Zionist
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movement and this current activity.
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Like in the film that you just played.
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Of course, one of the key indications that there's a, a
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Zionist connection is the fact that they're taking down what
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was it. They called it Islamic terrorist
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flags, like the flag of Palestine.
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Now as an indication of the way in which the the Zionists are
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involved, deeply involved with the far right in this country in
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a way which people haven't understood, perhaps they
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understand that this is are involved with the neo con think
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tanks and with the pushing Islamophobia and all of that.
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But they're deeply involved in the far right, as we've shown
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with, for example, Tommy Robinson.
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And that's something I think which requires much more
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research work. And I'm glad to see that you've
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started to do some of that. David, thank you very much for
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joining us today. That's been that's been really
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useful and we'll look forward to the second part and having you
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back on in the very near future. Thank you.
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Thanks David. And of course, there'll be a
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link to the article referenced in the show notes.
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Now with David in mind and indeed the legal situation that
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he's been through with Bristol University, just to finish off
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this piece, it is perfectly remarkable that the Wall Street
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Journal has printed an an open letter from Charles Kushner, who
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is father of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son in And this
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is particularly to suggest that France has reached a tipping
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point in terms of anti Semitism. And it actually concerns the
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phrase in today's world, anti Zionism is anti semitism, plain
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and simple. So this is the the United States
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ambassador to France has been in the chair but a month telling
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France how it is. So one wonders whether there is
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to be some sort of a split, at least cosmetically between the
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United States and European countries.
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But we won't hold our breath necessarily.
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And I would just finish off this report by reminding you that
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ultimately the goal of the migration or indeed anti
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migration narrative is digital identity.
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And this is where the Labour Together Ritz card idea will
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come to into its own. Which leads us on to Mike taking
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us into the next report. As I say, the Brit card here
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saying that it's concerning people without permission to
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live here and there should be a mandatory universal national
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identity credential. So there we have it.
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OK, let's just have a look then changing topics slightly on the
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censorship narrative because the legacy media continues to show
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for censorship and digital ID. And this Sky article then is
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typical. Digital ID is great, they say,
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because a pornography viewing has plummeted in the UK.
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And well, we talked a little bit about this last week as well.
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But the narrative continues, the headlines continue.
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Sky attempts to lower the success of the online safety Axe
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Edge verification roll out by speak.
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Speaking to some teenagers at the Youth club in Warrington,
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you seem to be suggesting they feel much cleaner since the new
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regime was put in place. And to quote Ryan, who's 17,
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we're told he said that the Internet was a very, very
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malicious place and described frequently seeing inappropriate
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content. Just one month on, he says this
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algorithm now seems to be tamed, although he still describes the
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Internet as malicious. And they published this graph to
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show what has happened. And although they do pay lip
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service to VPN use, there's no analysis of whether or not
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there's any real decline in pornography use in the UK or
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whether it's just masked by VPN use, at which it is, of course.
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Now here is Proton VPN, and they've published one graph here
26:01
which shows exactly what's going on.
26:04
And other VPN providers are reporting similar increases, and
26:10
these increases have continued since July.
26:13
So clearly, you know, the VPN use is masking activity as
26:17
people recognise what the government has actually done
26:20
here and they're wanting to therefore hide what they're
26:24
doing on the Internet. The fact that the investigators
26:28
investigatory powers legislation requires Internet service
26:31
providers to maintain metadata and records of every website
26:35
that we visit seems to have passed most people by over the
26:38
last few years. And it's taken this piece of
26:40
legislation to get to get the point across.
26:43
And I'm going to be talking a bit more about that in Extra.
26:46
But in the meantime, in the United States, the FTC, the
26:50
Federal Trade Commission, has written to platform chief
26:55
executives to warn them that compliance with the Online
26:58
Safety Act may leave them open to prosecution in the US.
27:02
So FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said that restricting access to
27:05
content for American users to comply with foreign legal
27:08
requirements might amount to a violation of Section 5 of the
27:11
Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or
27:15
deceptive commercial practises. He cited the E US Digital
27:18
Services Act and the U KS Online Safety Act, as well as reports
27:22
of British efforts to gain access to encrypted Apple iCloud
27:26
data, as examples of measures that could put companies at risk
27:29
under U.S. law. He invited company leaders to
27:34
meet with his office to discuss how they intend to balance
27:38
demands from international regulators while continuing, he
27:42
says, to fulfil their legal obligations in the United
27:44
States. And on the digital ID front
27:46
itself, the global roll out continues.
27:50
So biometric update here is reporting that Nigeria's
27:54
National Identity Management Commission must make sure it
27:57
issues at least 59 million national identification numbers
28:01
by December the 31st, 2026. Now, this is an objective of the
28:05
the ID Authority is pursuing in line with revised terms for the
28:09
Nigerian Identity for Development project.
28:12
It's an initiative funded by the World Bank alongside the French
28:15
Development Agency and the European Investment Bank to the
28:19
tune of around $430 million. Now, Barometric Biometric Update
28:24
cites a report by Tech Cabal which says that they need to
28:27
issue at least 3.3 million of these new identification numbers
28:32
every month between now and the end of the project, which is 3
28:36
times the current rollout rate. And so that is probably unlikely
28:40
to happen. But Biometric Update also
28:42
reports that Sri Lanka is in a similar boat.
28:45
In this case, they intend to integrate the Sri Lanka Unique
28:48
Digital ID project with the Electronic National Identity
28:52
Card project, assigning unique ID numbers, centralising various
28:56
types of IDs and capturing data like birth certificates and tax
29:00
identification. And finally on this topic for
29:03
today, the future Marketing Insights website takes a look at
29:07
the size of digital of the digital ID market over the next
29:10
few years. The digital identity services
29:13
market is predicted to grow from 28 1/2 billion U.S. dollars in
29:18
2025 to 86 1/2 billion U.S. dollars by 2035.
29:23
And they provide us with a nice graph for that.
29:26
The leading segment in digital identity services market in 2025
29:30
is identity verification and so called know your customer, which
29:34
of course is related to the banks.
29:35
It's something that we're all subject to.
29:37
And the top key players in this, they consider the the likes of
29:42
Nexus, LEXIS, Nexus Risk Solutions, Experian, Truly,
29:47
Trulio, Jumio, Onfido, Mitac Systems, IDEMIA, Thalas, I prove
29:55
GBG and so a mixture of social credit companies in the West
29:59
here and military industrial complex in there.
30:02
So I don't know what else to say about that.
30:04
But this agenda rolls on a pace, and it looks like it's, you
30:09
know, it's clearly a global effort.
30:11
It is, but I think we would be well advised to cast our eyes
30:15
towards Nigeria in six months time and see how they're doing
30:18
because if uptake has been anything like it was for the
30:21
central bank digital currency, it's going to be a disaster.
30:23
So I think that's what we have to hope for.
30:25
Now moving on, last week you'll recall that Sandy gave a report
30:29
on still birth and indeed still what we were called stillborn
30:32
baby payments in Australia. Now, the situation has evolved
30:37
somewhat since then, but just before we have a look at that,
30:39
we'll go to Sandy for a very brief synopsis as to what she
30:43
was reporting last week. Thanks, Charles.
30:47
Yes, I, I came across this last week and the, it looks as though
30:53
the, the Australian government are kind of covertly encouraging
30:58
incentivising women to have abortions, late term abortions
31:03
20 weeks plus. And they, they're giving them an
31:07
initial payment of 4200 or $300. And then after that, because the
31:13
baby is killed in utero, they are given birth to a stillborn
31:18
child. And because it's a stillborn
31:21
child, there is another payment that they can get, which is
31:24
$22,000 for a parental leave, um, payment so that they can,
31:31
uh, for, for grieving for, for up to 18 months.
31:34
So that is the, the, the way that it's, it's and, and
31:39
services Australia are encouraging women to, to take
31:43
these payments and giving them all the apparatus to do so, all
31:46
the forms to fill in. And what's happened really is
31:49
that midwives are getting very, midwives and doctors and nurses
31:52
are getting very, very stressed because they have to, because
31:56
the paperwork is crucial. It is literally saying, yes, you
32:00
have got a stillborn child, you're entitled to this, even
32:04
though they have who willingly aborted their child.
32:07
So all the it's down to the paperwork basically is if the
32:10
paperwork is there and it's been signed off by, by the by the
32:15
medical profession who are having to do that.
32:17
Otherwise they lose their jobs and they're traumatised by it,
32:20
then the payments go through. Thanks Andy.
32:24
And and this has caused sufficient stink, quite rightly,
32:26
for a question to have been asked in the Australian
32:28
Parliament, which we'll just have a look at.
32:30
This is from Pauline Hanson. Why is it made to women who
32:34
deliberately abort a baby, Minister?
32:37
This policy risks creating a financial incentive for late
32:41
term abortion where Australian women can terminate a pregnancy
32:46
order to the day before birth, they can terminate a pregnancy
32:51
up to the day before birth, allowing women to receive a lump
32:54
sum payment and access to paid parental leave of up to $22,754.
33:01
Why is the Albanese government funding the murder of healthy
33:04
babies, some left to die in a kidney ditch for up to five
33:07
hours, so that. Was the question and the
33:12
minister, who had the unenviable task of responding, said this.
33:18
The Gallagher Well, the answer to that question is the same as
33:22
to my earlier question. There are laws in this country
33:29
around termination of pregnancy. They are laws that are regulated
33:33
by the States and territories, and I support those laws.
33:37
I one of the reasons I got into politics was to ensure that
33:39
women had the right to make choices about their own
33:42
reproductive health. I accept that some people
33:45
disagree with with my views on that and with laws in States and
33:49
territories that that provide the regulatory arrangements
33:54
around that. Now, in relation to the
33:56
stillborn baby payment, as I said, and as it relates to other
34:00
payments including PPL, evidence is required.
34:04
Documentation is required before those payments are made in the
34:08
relationship. In relation to the stillborn
34:11
baby payment, that includes certification from someone
34:15
attending the birth, a health professional attending the
34:18
birth, that the birth was of a stillborn child.
34:22
That is the documentation that's made or required in order to
34:28
receive that payment. She was absolutely trying to
34:33
evade the question and UK column got in touch with Services
34:37
Australia directly and they too absolutely tried to evade the
34:41
question. They sent a statement saying it
34:43
was attributable and in that text said that government
34:46
recognises the tragic loss and trauma of still birth.
34:49
They said a medical professional is responsible for determining
34:52
if the definition of a stillborn baby is met for the purposes of
34:56
the stillborn baby payment. And that is at the crux of this
34:58
because of course, if the the way in which a foetus is
35:03
extracted after being terminated constitutes still still birth as
35:07
far as the medical professional is concerned, then indeed the
35:10
system may be manipulated. Then Services Australia go on to
35:14
say that claims are assessed on the basis of evidence and
35:16
documented documentation provided by a medical
35:19
professional. A medical professional is
35:21
responsible for considering the cause of death.
35:24
So in other words, Services Australia, they're washing their
35:26
hands of any further investigation into the matter as
35:29
to exactly what it was that the medical professional had written
35:32
up and why. And then they go on to say, as
35:35
though to cast one's attention elsewhere, they say for
35:38
circumstances that are not a still birth, such as termination
35:42
of pregnancy supports are available through Services
35:45
Australia, including counselling and support to connect with
35:47
local services. By which they mean if it's been
35:50
written up as a termination rather than an abortion, sorry
35:55
than a than a still birth. So Services Australia very much
35:59
avoiding the question here. And indeed they refused on a
36:03
follow up enquiry, they absolutely refused to answer any
36:05
further questions about this. They exactly as Sandy reports,
36:09
they are without doubt incentivising late term
36:12
abortions by the waving of money for exactly this this type of
36:19
procedure. Now moving on UK column is a
36:23
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yesterday was Diane Rasmussen Mcaddy speaking to Louise Payton
36:53
on holistic health. So please do go back and listen
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to that's gone, that's gone out Well, and just up now is an
37:00
article by Jobst at Land Group, which is on evil power and
37:04
artificial intelligence. You may have read Jobst articles
37:07
to date on AI and Indeed. This is very, very incisive, but
37:11
of course makes that distinction between what is or is not
37:15
possible in relation to the human programming side of it.
37:19
And then we've got coming up tonight, Germ talking to Carl
37:22
Zarr on Trump making India great again this time.
37:25
And then going out tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon.
37:28
I am speaking to Alex Thompson on a question of faith.
37:31
And in particular, why did the Church of England go wrong?
37:35
We only had 60 minutes, but we covered a fair amount of
37:39
grounds. I really would encourage you to
37:40
listen to that. And in terms of in terms of
37:42
what's coming up, we are still very much looking forward to
37:47
seeing you in person, we hope at our event in York where we have
37:52
Andrew Wakefield speaking. And indeed you will have access
37:54
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37:58
via the live stream now, as well as Andrew Wakefield, test lorry
38:04
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38:10
in committing to that. And just a reminder, there will
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38:16
So we really hope to see you there.
38:17
And if you can't make it, do please join us on the live
38:20
stream to that. Now this takes us up to the the
38:23
subject of biosurveillance, which Mike is going to describe
38:27
a bit more about. Yes, indeed.
38:29
So a new programme to evaluate wastewater monitoring could be
38:34
used to detect a wider range of dangerous pathogens was launched
38:38
today by the UK Health Security Agency.
38:42
Sorry, their words, not mine. They say they will assess the
38:47
use of cutting edge technologies to improve the U KS ability to
38:51
detect and identify the genetic material of various viruses in
38:55
wastewater, tracking how the amount of virus detected changes
38:58
over time. And they say that this builds on
39:00
the U KS existing wastewater surveillance for polio and if
39:04
successful, could develop the U KS capability to detect
39:08
dangerous diseases such as Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever,
39:11
a severe disease. These are their words, pandemic
39:15
in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and parts of Asia
39:18
that has never before been targeted in wastewater testing.
39:22
So I'm sure you're impressed. It goes on.
39:24
The programme will also explore the potential of these
39:27
technologies to create an early warning system for pathogens
39:29
such as mpox, West Nile virus and Lhasa, which could in future
39:34
enable the UK to detect and take faster action on outbreaks which
39:39
their words, as we saw in the COVID-19 pandemic, is vital for
39:43
an effective response. So try not to laugh.
39:46
I appreciate this is a comedy section of the programme.
39:48
But anyway, if we remember back to 2020, the exact same story
39:54
was coming out of the British regime then, this time from
39:59
Defra, the Environment Agency and Joint Bio Security Centre,
40:03
because the UKHSA didn't exist yet.
40:07
So what did they say? They said the project has
40:09
already worked successfully in an area in the southwest of
40:12
England where sewage sampling data showed a spike in
40:15
coronavirus material despite relatively low numbers of people
40:18
seeking tests. And then we got a quote here
40:21
from George Eustice, who said at the time, this is a significant
40:26
step forward in giving us a clear idea of infection rates
40:29
both nationally and locally, particularly in areas where
40:32
there may be large numbers of people who aren't showing any
40:35
symptoms and therefore aren't seeking tests.
40:38
And then the report at the time said that the programme was
40:41
first announced in June. This would be 20/20/2020 has now
40:46
proven that fragments of genetic material from the virus can be
40:50
detected in wastewater. So Charles, I, I don't know what
40:53
you think of that, but but I find it highly impressive.
40:56
I'm afraid to say I really don't think very much of it.
40:59
Yeah, sarcasm over. Yeah, I'm sorry.
41:02
It is. I'm all out.
41:03
But yes, I mean, no doubt they'll keep banging that
41:05
particular drum or splashing it or whatever one does with it.
41:08
But yes, it sounds like complete nonsense.
41:10
Sandy, on that theme, I suppose considering all these things are
41:15
related and the control mechanism that is Agenda 2030,
41:19
what are your thoughts on that right now?
41:22
Well, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm just about to speak really about
41:26
how 2030 is really the, the nub of everything.
41:29
Everything really radiates out from from 2030.
41:34
And I, I did a talk at a festival a few weeks ago called
41:39
the Dirt Girt Dog Festival in, in Somerset.
41:43
Girt means big. So it's a big dog festival.
41:46
It's on some, it's on, it's anyway, it's on the the Gert dog
41:49
of Langport, which is a, an effigy in the land.
41:52
And, and anyway, a lot of people enjoyed seeing this and the way
41:59
I broke it down and said, oh, you know, this actually makes
42:02
sense because it's like joining the dots.
42:05
There's so many things going wrong in our world and it kind
42:09
of brings it all back. And you know, you see where it's
42:13
all radiating from. So my first slide is really a
42:18
kind of a visual of that. Now you can't see it very well
42:22
here because it's quite small. But in the, in the centre is
42:25
Agenda 2030. And I will explain all these
42:28
other ones radiating dating out because all of it is linked.
42:31
And 2030 Agenda 2030, which was, which was brought about in 2015
42:37
by, uh, it originated from Agenda 21.
42:40
It became 20/13/2015 at the Vatican, uh, by President Obama
42:45
where the 17 goals were launched.
42:47
So umm, the next slide is umm, really about the, the control
42:51
framework and how that, that works.
42:54
We've got umm, one of the branches is DEI mandates
42:59
enforcing ideological compliance in workplaces, education and
43:02
government, undermining meritocracy and creating
43:05
division. And then we've got net 0
43:07
policies, costly energy transitions that dismantle
43:10
rebar, reliable infrastructure, raise living costs and energy
43:15
costs and give over the energy control to global actors.
43:20
And then we've got mass migration, overloading housing
43:22
and services, changing demographics rapidly and eroding
43:27
national cohesion. Yeah, we, we've got a lot of
43:31
these that are tax on farming land, rewilding, carbon offsets
43:36
that drive farmers out of business and reduce domestic
43:39
food security, ESG. We've got environmental and
43:42
social governance contracts for businesses which will dictate
43:47
corporate policy via environmental and social
43:50
scorecards and the sidelines profit and market choice.
43:55
We've got BNG which is, you know, biodiversity net gain,
44:00
which is a really big one on scoring and literally
44:04
commodifying agriculture and nature.
44:07
So the next one is digital ID systems, again, centralised
44:12
databases, you know, enable surveillance and control.
44:16
We've got the C40 cities with devolution, with the transfer of
44:18
power from Westminster to the the smart cities and what that
44:22
means bypassing local democracy. We've got CBDC's and financial
44:26
centralisation, programmable money and education reform and
44:31
indoctrination, replacing knowledge with ideology, global
44:34
citizenship, training and climate and social activism.
44:37
And the next one is obviously the NHS.
44:40
That's another arm of it. Digitising and centralising
44:43
health data, enabling predictive surveillance and global health
44:47
governance. Property rights, erosion, 15
44:50
minute cities, mobility restrictions and surveillance,
44:53
infrastructure, facial recognition, AI monitoring,
44:56
predictive policing. And then there's the last one is
45:02
I think it's the water resource one.
45:05
Anyway, we've got yeah, water resource control, privatising
45:08
and rationalising resources under environmental quotas,
45:11
which is what you were talking about earlier.
45:14
Charles banning private collection in some cases.
45:17
International treaty overrides, cultural deconstruction,
45:22
monopoly consolidation, destroying small and medium
45:25
sized businesses again, umm, and data mining, umm, uh, you know,
45:31
and, and data mining in schools and impact investing all the,
45:35
you know, the, the children in schools, data mining them.
45:38
So this all comes back to the 17 sustainable goals.
45:41
And uh, though each one of those is, is, is instrumental in the
45:47
destruction of everything as we know it.
45:49
Umm, and I just sort of go into it a little bit deeper just with
45:52
two of those goals, umm, what they really mean.
45:56
And I'm going to take two that are really related to food.
45:59
We've got no, no poverty and 0 hunger.
46:02
So let's start with no poverty. Yeah, it's, it's gold #1 poverty
46:09
alleviation and social protection.
46:11
So the UN solution is AI enabled digital footprints for credit
46:15
and mobile money access, blockchain identity solutions to
46:18
enable economic identities for all.
46:20
And it's a like a levelling up of the, of communities.
46:23
And really what it means is to make everyone equally poor Ubi
46:28
with all with fixed amounts of carbon credits and digital
46:32
footprints that are all sort of feeding into this data mining
46:37
facility that they're creating. And the next one is I think
46:42
we've got, yeah, end hunger, UN access to food, improved
46:48
nutrition and food production, low cost GMO mass produce, food
46:52
production by Monsanto, which is now Bayer synthetic food
46:56
proteins, insect proteins, no meat, AI sensors and blockchain
47:00
to eliminate waste loss in food value, everything that we, we
47:04
really have. But the real meaning of that is
47:06
to push everything into into fake meat in mass food
47:12
production and all that kind of stuff that we we know is
47:15
happening. But this is where it puts it all
47:17
into one place. These are the two goals that
47:19
cover that. And that's, that's really, I
47:22
just wanted to put it all in one place.
47:24
Agenda 2030 is really the the nub of everything that that is
47:28
is happening to us right now. Yes.
47:31
And I think to the UK column audience that's extremely clear,
47:34
but it is extraordinary the degree to which the perhaps the
47:38
majority of people are still not alive to this.
47:41
So of course, this is very much a message that we do need to
47:43
continue to put out there. Now with those two last points
47:46
in mind in terms of apparently ending poverty and apparently
47:49
ending hunger, although of course not energy is very
47:53
relevant to this because increasingly it takes up ground
47:55
that could otherwise produce food.
47:57
But what is the latest? Well, the latest is that today
48:01
the energy regulator Ofgem has announced a 2% rise of the
48:09
energy price cap for the period covering October to December
48:12
2025. Now this is more than expected
48:15
and it means a household using a typical amount of energy will
48:19
pay £1755 a year, which is £35 more than the current cost cap.
48:27
But if we look how the energy price cap has changed over time,
48:33
we can see that energy prices have been pretty much normalised
48:36
or high energy prices, sorry have been pretty much normalised
48:38
since the so called pandemic. And although the so called
48:44
energy price guarantee made it seem like government stepped in
48:48
to protect people from the excesses of the wholesale energy
48:51
markets, in reality they did no such thing because while we
48:54
didn't end up paying directly in our bills, the energy company
48:58
still got paid and every taxpayer footed the bill.
49:02
So remember that the energy cap sets the maximum price for each
49:08
unit of energy, but not the total bill, which depends very
49:11
much on how much energy we use. So this I quoted figure of 1755
49:16
per year is only indicative. The question remains, why are
49:21
energy prices so high in the UK? Could it perhaps be to do with
49:25
renewables and net zero? So let's bring this on screen
49:30
then. This is Deidre Helm because he's
49:32
saying yes in a comment piece that he published yesterday.
49:36
Why is the price of electricity so high, he asks.
49:40
It's a puzzle, he says, because excessive successive
49:42
politicians, Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson and now Starmer and
49:45
Miliband, lots of lobbyists have told us we should have expected
49:48
quite the opposite, cheap energy to be achieved by getting out of
49:52
fossil fuels first exit coal, then bear down in gas.
49:56
And a new year of cheap wind and solar would give the UK low
49:59
absolute and relative electricity prices.
50:02
And he concludes by saying quotes.
50:04
It's hard to sorry. It's hard to conclude other than
50:08
the Secretary of State is deluded when he champions the
50:10
2030 net zero target as a route to lower cost of energy through
50:15
ever cheaper renewables. It's time to be honest about the
50:18
costs of the net zero target. Now Charles, I don't know what
50:21
your thoughts are, but I would say diluted is not the word I
50:24
would use wilfully. Lying is much more likely I
50:27
think. Absolutely, and and this is
50:29
borne out in fact, in that the, there are demands both within
50:34
and without the sector for further subsidisation of this
50:38
very form of energy in order that the price is artificially
50:42
reduced in order to create the impression that exactly this is
50:45
happening, that it is becoming cheaper to use and cheaper than
50:49
the more reliable traditional alternatives.
50:52
So yes, absolutely. I, I think, you know, you're
50:56
totally right. And the other point I would make
50:58
is actually in terms of the cost.
51:00
The other side of it of course is industry.
51:02
And this is something that's come up or flared up a few times
51:04
this year, specifically with regard to steel, where the
51:06
government again is making out as though it's trying to
51:10
preserve the steel industry in the United Kingdom.
51:13
And this is not exclusive to steel, of course, but industry
51:15
in general is absolutely penalised on the enormous costs
51:18
of energy that it is having to pay directly as a result result
51:20
of what you're what you're talking about right now.
51:23
We'll, we'll go directly to a specific example now because
51:26
Sandy, you have news for us on the development in Somerset.
51:31
Yes, I this came to me, I read a magazine called The Leveller,
51:35
which is a, a Somerset magazine. And this isn't an isolated
51:40
thing. I mean the unfortunately this is
51:43
happening all over our country. An 80 acre solar farm is planned
51:48
to be put up near Somerton. And you know it's Sam, it says
51:52
here after it, you know it. It will apparently provide 40
51:56
years of power. And they said after 40 years,
51:59
the site will be decommissioned and returned to its current
52:02
state and arable use. Now, interestingly, I mean,
52:06
that's, that's the extent of it. The, the, the, the map there,
52:10
it's a huge, I mean, it's 80 acres and this is happening all
52:14
over our country and it's taking the land out of food production
52:18
for 30 to 40 years. And a lot of it, I mean, we've,
52:22
we're talking thousands and thousands of acres and we're
52:25
talking livestock here. Most of the land that, that the
52:27
solar farm, they call them farms, which is funny because
52:30
they're not farms at all. They're anti farms and they're
52:33
being taken out. Food production is being taken
52:36
out Now. I looked at the, the, the, the,
52:40
oh, there's another, another issue that it, it says it will
52:43
be restored to, to its former, former state, but that it also
52:48
is questionable because I did some, some work on on risk
52:53
assessments. And if solar panels are damaged
52:55
in fire or severe storms or landfill crushing, the toxic
53:00
compounds like cadmium and other trace minerals do leach into the
53:03
ground. And even, you know, beyond
53:06
chemistry, you've got soil compaction, loss of farmland,
53:11
habitat changes and herbicides used to control, you know,
53:16
herbicides used to control vegetation underneath.
53:18
And actually, you cannot graze animals alongside the panels
53:23
because the farmers can't get insurance because the animals
53:26
nibble the wires. So that is not an option.
53:29
So it's taking out a lot of livestock grazing.
53:32
That's what I'm trying, the point I'm trying to make now, I
53:35
looked at the National Planning Policy Framework document, which
53:38
is really quite comprehensive. And what I've realised is, is if
53:44
you actually put a search into that and you look at, you look
53:48
at the word food, food does not come up up into it.
53:53
Food production is simply not there.
53:56
And well, there's 4, but they're talking about all sorts of food
53:59
takeaways and food outlets. There's no food security
54:03
mentioned in this document. So it's it's quite interesting
54:08
that food security hasn't is not in the equation.
54:11
It's all about in they talk about environmentalism.
54:14
It's not even environmentalism. It's anti environmentalism
54:17
because it destroys, uh, landscapes.
54:20
So, umm, int interesting, uh, you know, interesting stuff
54:24
there. Now the, the next slide, please,
54:27
is all about, yeah, umm, the infrastructure, the, this, this
54:33
is the, the 13 protective security infrastructures that we
54:38
have in this country. And food is one of them.
54:40
And so this needs to be protected.
54:43
We've got energy, water, food, transport, health, emergency
54:46
services, government, defence, finance, telecommunications,
54:49
space, nuclear, civil, nuclear and chemicals.
54:53
So food is, is to be protected, but in no way is it in any of
54:58
these documents from, from the government.
55:01
We've got the UK Food security report, but if you open that up,
55:06
there's nothing really much about food security for, for,
55:11
for the yeah, it's, it's global food production they're talking
55:14
about. Most of the time it's all about
55:17
global. It's not about UK food security.
55:20
So I did look at things like, you know, meat production.
55:25
They did have a little bit on that, which was interesting
55:27
because beef production, it's the top one and that went down
55:31
very slightly because of obviously various animal health
55:36
food scares, you know, and health scares like BSE and foot
55:40
and mouth and all those things. And then you've got 2, two other
55:44
diagrams there, which is I think that's chicken and and pork,
55:47
which went down because of the same thing.
55:50
And also decarbonisation of meat processing plants.
55:54
Lambs tended to stay pretty stable, but and eggs went down
55:58
as well. So we're everything as far as
56:01
meat and dairy is going down very slowly, but this will
56:06
impact more the more solar farms we have because they'll be taken
56:09
out of production and that's the whole idea.
56:12
And the next slide I think is the C40 cities.
56:14
Yeah, the C40 cities slide which actually says that, you know,
56:19
they're the progressive target for 2030 is 16 kilogrammes of
56:23
meat per person per year. And actually the ambitious
56:27
target is 0 kilogrammes meat consumption.
56:31
Now we, no, they're not hitting their targets because you know,
56:34
20-30 is, you know, we've got five years.
56:37
Are they going to make that happen?
56:39
Five years, no meat production at all, probably their try and
56:43
that's what they're doing. So at the moment farmers are
56:46
being incentivized to give up their land to renewable energy
56:49
such as solar, wind and housing, rewilding non food production
56:53
businesses and this will reduce production significantly.
56:57
So there's consideration for food security, which is
57:00
currently at only about 60% and it's declining.
57:03
Our food production is declining.
57:06
So if we weren't able to access imports, what will we do?
57:10
We've got loads of solar panels that are making money for big,
57:13
big investors, but and, and, and wind farms, but not, not, not
57:19
the people. So if you do want to oppose this
57:22
planning application, do try, I, I think you, you can go on to
57:26
planning application. That is the I'll put this in the
57:29
show notes and there's a planning application number or
57:34
or or code and, and unfortunately Somerset have
57:38
spent 12 weeks now they're not answering their phones, they're
57:41
not answering emails because they've got a backlog of
57:44
planning applications. What a surprise.
57:46
And so they've closed down shop. So whether this will be slid in
57:50
under the radar without people being able to oppose it, I don't
57:54
know Now I'm going to look at quickly biodiversity net gain
57:57
because a lot of people don't understand what it is.
58:00
And again, there's another, there's another UK government
58:04
guidance on it by diversity net gain.
58:07
And this is a way of creating a financial instrument for Land
58:13
Management people, big corporations to make money out
58:17
as a financial instrument out of the land, financialisation of
58:20
nature and all the banks and the corporations make the money, not
58:23
us. So here, here's a sort of
58:25
idiot's guide to it if you like. And so long as you, you actually
58:29
there's a net loss if you just you, you, you just build and
58:33
then there's a, there's no net loss if you build and you add a
58:38
few trees. And then with this one, you get
58:41
net gain because you, you're not depleting the countryside and
58:44
you're building and you're putting more trees up.
58:46
So it's all about building and trees, not about food.
58:51
And that's, that's really quite interesting in that, uh, so who
58:55
needs to think about BNG? And we're looking at BNG really,
59:00
uh, it refers to the core groups and BNG, its developers,
59:04
developers will be, umm, required to submit BIOS
59:09
biodiversity net gain, umm, so that it, it creates a, a, an
59:14
income and that's all it is. It's a big income for, for
59:17
various sectors like land managers, big corporations and,
59:22
and, and banks basically. So all of those make loads of
59:26
money out of biodiversity net gain.
59:29
It is a financial instrument and we don't we, you know, it takes
59:32
away our food production. It doesn't do it Andy.
59:36
Many scams running concurrently though.
59:38
And you're quite right on the biodiversity net gain.
59:40
Of course, the other thing to point out is that there's no
59:41
requirement to have replaced before you destroy.
59:45
So in fact, there's in effect there's always an enormous lag
59:48
which has never really taken into account because it really
59:50
concerns intent, which of course it shouldn't.
59:53
I think the other thing to point out is the, as you quite rightly
59:56
did, the absolute con about suggestion that livestock would
59:59
be able to graze in areas that there are solar panels, which of
1:00:02
course might in certain situations be feasible.
1:00:05
But you can't cut the grass if you want to in order to keep it
1:00:08
for hay or any of those sorts of things.
1:00:10
And again, the food security report that you refer.
1:00:13
Referred to is something that the Labour government have
1:00:14
absolutely put the brakes on, having had a commitment written
1:00:17
down in law to continue to update it.
1:00:19
They have absolutely failed in that department, one assumes,
1:00:22
because they do not want to report the true state of
1:00:26
affairs, even if they know what that is.
1:00:29
Now we are going to move on to deal with what I've described as
1:00:34
the relationship between public health, or at least as it's
1:00:36
described, propaganda and media, especially film.
1:00:40
Now, the drought situation as reported by the Environment
1:00:45
Agency is shown on the screen now.
1:00:47
But in effect, this suggests that almost half of England is
1:00:53
in what is called drought, with the large quantity of it in a
1:00:58
situation of prolonged dry weather, with only a few
1:01:01
regions, interestingly the Southeast and the Southwest,
1:01:05
regarded as being normal. So the alarmist rhetoric is not
1:01:09
exactly borne out by the latest data from the Environment
1:01:13
Agency. But that hasn't stopped certain
1:01:16
individuals, or indeed organisations, from capitalising
1:01:19
on the the sort of feeling of panic.
1:01:24
And this is the London, the Mayor of London's organisation
1:01:28
here talking about London cool spaces.
1:01:31
So suggesting that due to climate issues and the necessity
1:01:36
for water in hot weather and all the rest of it, they have set up
1:01:38
London Cool spaces, which no doubt you can access via an app
1:01:42
or something similar. The reason I cite this is
1:01:45
because Sadiq Khan has a form where this is concerned.
1:01:49
This is him on stage with Matt Damon, the founder of what's
1:01:55
called water.org can't therefore making a pledge to connect
1:02:00
London's activities to those of Damon and his worldwide sort of
1:02:05
campaign and organisation front page.
1:02:07
The website here described as advancing the global
1:02:11
conversation. Of course, that means that among
1:02:14
the global partners are of course, UN, Water, Water Aid,
1:02:18
World Economic Forum and a number of other usual suspects.
1:02:22
Now, the reason I cite Damon in particular andwater.org is
1:02:28
because he too has form where propaganda is concerned and
1:02:34
indeed especially the leveraging of celebrity.
1:02:37
So we're going to look back to 2011 now.
1:02:40
And an interview with Matt Damon after he had released the film
1:02:44
Contagion among them. But right now, our best defence
1:02:50
has been social distancing, no handshaking, staying home when
1:02:54
you're sick, washing your hands frequently.
1:02:56
Let me bring in Alan Crumwood into this debate as well.
1:02:59
Alan's a freelance journalist. He was the first to track the
1:03:02
Schinkel Busman video. Alan, today on Twitter you wrote
1:03:06
that the truth about this virus is being kept from the world by
1:03:09
the CDC, by the World Health Organisation, to allow friends
1:03:13
of the current administration to benefit from it both financially
1:03:16
and physically. There are therapies we know are
1:03:20
effective right now, like forsythia, and they don't even
1:03:23
appear on the CDC website. On your blog you also wrote that
1:03:27
the World Health Organisation is somehow in bed with
1:03:30
pharmaceutical. Companies, because they are.
1:03:33
That just stands to gain from this.
1:03:35
They're working hand in glove. What do you think?
1:03:38
About the politics behind contagion and other pathogens,
1:03:41
where the government might, on the side of caution, not tell
1:03:45
everybody till, you know, maybe it's too late.
1:03:47
Like it could be. Going on right now, we don't
1:03:48
know. Well, I mean, I think the media
1:03:50
would be a big part too, because because how that was framed to
1:03:55
people would would dictate really what what the outcome
1:04:01
might be. I mean, because it's not really
1:04:03
about necessarily the virus itself.
1:04:06
It's about our reaction to it. And, you know, if you look at
1:04:09
like anthrax, like, what, two people died and we shut down the
1:04:12
airline industry, you know, that that panic is potentially a lot
1:04:19
more lethal than than than the actual virus or could be all
1:04:23
right now. So just to clarify that first of
1:04:27
all, that was 2011 and secondly, the first part of that clip was
1:04:31
actually film. Now we go back to look at
1:04:35
Londons cool spaces because we need to have a look at the all
1:04:38
important message which pops up after you've accessed the page
1:04:42
and it says when the weather is hot you can take simple actions
1:04:45
to protect your health and the health of others.
1:04:51
Of course the NHS luckily has tips for how to achieve this.
1:04:54
But now we're going to go back to Matt Damon, who spoke there
1:04:58
in 2011, and this is what he had to say at the behest of Columbia
1:05:01
University in 2020. And if you know anybody over the
1:05:08
age of 55 or anyone who has any kind of pre existing conditions,
1:05:12
this is a lot more serious for them.
1:05:14
So you can literally save their life just by staying away from
1:05:19
each other. You can actually sit on the
1:05:22
couch or in a chair like I'm doing and watch TV and save a
1:05:26
life at the same time. You can work from home.
1:05:29
You can use social media to communicate.
1:05:31
You can save a few more. Now is the time to spend all the
1:05:34
time you want staring at your phone or your tablet.
1:05:37
And if anybody gives you a hard time about it, tell them not to
1:05:40
bother you because you are saving lives.
1:05:42
Just make sure that you tell them that from six feet away.
1:05:48
So there we go, the the incredible symbiotic
1:05:50
relationship between the propaganda and the film
1:05:53
industries. I don't know whether you have
1:05:55
any comment in particular on Matt Damon or what he said.
1:05:58
We'll keep it for extra. Yeah, we'll keep it for extra.
1:06:00
OK, Well, in which case what we'll do is we'll finish off on
1:06:02
very much related topic. But it would appear that the the
1:06:05
latest news is that the Monty Python team appear to have been
1:06:09
hired by the UK Health Security Agency in order to manage their
1:06:14
heat health alert programme. So I will read it out because it
1:06:18
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System, which is managed by UKHSA in partnership with the
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peril if it gets too hot, too cold, or none of the above.
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