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- 0:08Hello and welcome. Today is Wednesday the 6th of
- 0:12August 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
- 0:16I'm your host, Brian Gerrish, delighted to be joined today by
- 0:21live video link by Vanessa Bailey and from Lebanon and also
- 0:27Sandy Adams. So welcome to both of you.
- 0:33Now we've got a very packed news today.
- 0:36We're going to stick on the theme of immigration.
- 0:39And it was clear from our broadcast on Monday that a lot
- 0:42of people are extremely interested in the subject.
- 0:46They're extremely concerned. They're also very concerned at
- 0:49the way they perceive that the British government is
- 0:52suppressing any reasonable commentary and debate on this
- 0:57subject. But we're certainly going to
- 1:00dive into the mix and report. Vanessa's also going to be
- 1:06having a look at what's happening in Cyprus with a very
- 1:09large influx of Israelis as a result of the conflict in Israel
- 1:15and possibly other reasons. We're going to have a look at a
- 1:18very interesting tribunal which took place some time ago when a
- 1:22man challenged the training that he was experiencing via the
- 1:26Ministry of Defence. And we're also going to be
- 1:29having a look at UAE and its dark roots into surveillance and
- 1:36surveillance companies. And finally, we're going to end
- 1:39on the subject of extremism. But we are going to try and
- 1:43lighten the mood before we leave you today.
- 1:46So let's get started by having a look at a video.
- 1:49The Home Secretary talking or not talking depends how you see
- 1:54it, on the subject of immigration, migration.
- 1:59Provide a safe. Route and then that's somehow
- 2:01going to stop people going on boats.
- 2:04I just think is not understanding the way in which
- 2:06these criminal gangs work. Whatever you do, you have to go
- 2:10after the criminal gangs and you have to tackle these dangerous
- 2:13boat crossings. That's what we're doing as part
- 2:15of the returns pilot that we've agreed with France.
- 2:18That's also what we're doing as part of the stronger law
- 2:20enforcement. It does mean that people who
- 2:23apply lawfully in France will be part of that exchange.
- 2:28So it's all down to criminal gangs.
- 2:31The government really doesn't know who's behind it.
- 2:33They've no idea that their own policies on mass migration
- 2:38throughout the world could possibly be helping the movement
- 2:42of people. Nor does she apparently
- 2:44recognise the UK, the US and the Westerns role in fermenting wars
- 2:49across the globe as pushing people from one country to
- 2:54another. It's simply, according to Yvette
- 2:56Cooper, to a few gangs, so she's barely believable.
- 3:02But let's have a look at Nigel Farage, who's been getting very,
- 3:06very hot under the collar about migration and other issues.
- 3:13Turning a blind eye, not telling the British public the truth.
- 3:17But when it comes to protecting children, we're not hiding
- 3:21behind a flawed piece of legislation.
- 3:23We genuinely intend to protect in particular women and
- 3:27children. And I made this .2 weeks ago but
- 3:30I'll make it again today. None of these young unidentified
- 3:35males that are coming into this country should be free to roam
- 3:40the streets. They should be detained ahead of
- 3:45them being deported and that is absolutely what we stand for as
- 3:50a party and we mean it. And we'll do that to protect the
- 3:54British people. We have simply had enough.
- 4:00OK, moving on. I have a list of questions.
- 4:05Let us start with. Henry Zeffman.
- 4:08BBC, thank you very much. Can I just take you back
- 4:14something you said right at the start you talking about?
- 4:16The government and the Online Safety Act and you said they
- 4:19claim that protecting children is the sole purpose of the
- 4:22Online Safety Act. So you seem to think there is a,
- 4:24a real hidden purpose. What is that?
- 4:26Well, if it was to protect children, why on earth would an
- 4:28elite police force be set up to monitor what people say online
- 4:33about events such as what's occurred in Warwickshire just
- 4:36last week? Why on earth are we seeing the
- 4:39extent to which online material has been censored, including, I
- 4:44was hearing this morning, even historical historical comments
- 4:48about Richard the Third? So the point I'd like to make
- 4:54here is that the focus back on individual men coming across in
- 4:59boats and these have got to be detained and deported when the
- 5:04real policy, mass migration, vast numbers of people is coming
- 5:09through successive governments and Nigel Farage has been well
- 5:13aware of this for years. To deal with the problem we need
- 5:17to deal with the government policies and not only are we
- 5:20talking about vast numbers of people on the move, many of them
- 5:24due to war in their own country, but huge amounts of money being
- 5:28wasted. This was reporting the national
- 5:32UK wasted 38 billion on migrant arrival programs and that was
- 5:38the cost over 10 years. And the actual report that that
- 5:42article is referring to is this one from Global Exchange, the
- 5:46Future of Welcoming in the UK. And note that it says that the
- 5:51UK policy on landscape, on integration has often been
- 5:54characterized by inertia. And what it says is a tangled
- 5:58web of responsibilities, in particular in relation to
- 6:02devolution, where local government has powers but few
- 6:06statutory responsibilities and where funding flows are limited
- 6:10and uncertain. So in this crass report, it's
- 6:13trying to get the public to believe that the problem to do
- 6:17with migration is the fact that we haven't done enough European
- 6:21backed devolution so that local regions can control the
- 6:26migration. No, no, no, the problem is the
- 6:30government's own migration policies in the first place,
- 6:35which is accepting huge numbers of people on one hand, which is
- 6:39unsustainable for the country, on the other hand, they are
- 6:43stirring up wars overseas to help promote the migration.
- 6:48Sandy, let's bring you in. And you've been hearing from
- 6:51some local people their concerns about migration and its effects
- 6:56in particular areas in UK. Yes, thanks Brian.
- 7:02Yes, I mean I've been I've been contacted by quite a few people
- 7:05this week about what's going on in the UK and particularly in in
- 7:10Weston Super Mare, which has been a a they they've got a
- 7:14council of sanctuary there. But I'm I'm I want to kind of
- 7:19focus at the moment I'll be coming back to that a bit later
- 7:22in the show. But what I want to focus on this
- 7:24morning is first of all is the I think people are worried about
- 7:30the speed and volume of the people coming in and the lack of
- 7:34public engagement and that that I will back up a bit later.
- 7:39But there, there is a, a problem within, within the migrant camps
- 7:44in France with a lot of infighting between sectarian
- 7:49groups of, of, of, of people. And I'm just going to there's a
- 7:55migrant who was shot dead amid, amid an increase in the violence
- 7:58in the camps in northern France this week.
- 8:01So I, I just want to sort of just have a little bit of a clip
- 8:05to, to, to let you see what, what is going on.
- 8:09They seem to be armed, and we don't want this here.
- 8:13And that's what this clip is all about.
- 8:18Worth noting here is these migrants often stay in groups.
- 8:21The Afghans, the Iraqis, the Eritreans and so on often stick
- 8:24together. It's certainly what we saw when
- 8:26we were there at the height of the crisis there in 2016.
- 8:29Sometimes there is tension between those groups.
- 8:32So this fight involved two groups, Eritreans and Afghans.
- 8:35Another brawl erupted later nearby couple, 100 people got
- 8:39involved. More than 20 people sent to
- 8:41hospital. Police were called in.
- 8:43And now the interior minister has announced today that he is
- 8:46sending in police reinforcements to the Calais area.
- 8:49At one point yesterday, someone pulled out a gun and started
- 8:52firing. At least 5 migrants are reported
- 8:55to have been shot. 4 remain in critical condition today.
- 8:59The victims are all said to be between the ages of 16 and 18.
- 9:04And this morning, French media reporting police are looking for
- 9:06one suspect, a 37 year old Afghan man who they believe was
- 9:11the gunman. There's always sort of ebb and
- 9:14flow of tensions in Calais, Michael.
- 9:16Right now it seems it is again at a high point now.
- 9:23You know, we, we, it's well documented that Western
- 9:26interventions, you know, in the Middle East have exacerbated
- 9:30under the banner of regime change.
- 9:31And we, we know that, that a lot of Western hegemony has caused a
- 9:36lot of the extreme Islamic stuff.
- 9:40And we've, we've just got to understand that there is a role
- 9:44that the, the United States and, and the British have played in
- 9:47this. But Even so, you know, we've,
- 9:51we've got to realise that there's a, there, there is a, a,
- 9:55a, a dichotomy of, of humanitarian help to these
- 9:58people as well as our national security.
- 10:01So that has to be looked at. And the next slide is there's a,
- 10:05there's the Jean Christophe Kuvi who was there in the, in the
- 10:10migrant camps and he said they are armed.
- 10:12It's, it's a real mafia with networks going all the way back
- 10:15to Iraq. And unfortunately this is the
- 10:19case and, and you know, we, we can't, we obviously it is, it is
- 10:24the West has a lot to blame for this.
- 10:26And when, when you look at, you know, who, who, how did these
- 10:29extreme groups, umm, appear? And a lot of it is to do with
- 10:33Western hegemony and umm, you know, going into these countries
- 10:37and causing dissent. So I think, you know, we, we, we
- 10:40can't be blameless in all that. But E equally, the people of
- 10:44Britain are genuinely worried about all of this and I think
- 10:47they have, you know, reason to be so.
- 10:51And, you know, you look at if Yvette Cooper, the police, you
- 10:55know, she's, she's now saying the police should reveal
- 10:58suspects nationality. And of course we've got the
- 11:00worry now of digital ID being brought in as a, as a reason.
- 11:04It's problem reaction solution yet again.
- 11:07So I, you know, I, where is this all going?
- 11:10Well, you know, we've got to, we've got to have this, this,
- 11:14this, this thing where we, we, we, we do welcome people, but
- 11:19this is a huge volume and it's happening very quickly.
- 11:22And we know that the government are pushing this agenda through
- 11:25the office of the International Office of Migration.
- 11:28And so, you know, we've got the, the, the, the, the worry also is
- 11:34that the, there's different factions here at play.
- 11:37You know, you've got the, the Sunnis, the, the Shias and the,
- 11:42the, the Afghan soldiers that came over here that were, that
- 11:47were, you know, we had, we had this, this whole data breach
- 11:51that, that happened in 2022. And they're, they, they've had
- 11:57threats, you know, in their own country, you know, in the UK,
- 12:00they've been these, these Afghan soldiers were brought over here
- 12:04and the data breach has really left them very vulnerable
- 12:09amongst extreme Sunni factions that we have here already.
- 12:15So I think they are a little bit, you know, worried.
- 12:18And I think I've got a slide about the, the spreadsheet of
- 12:21the umm, super injunction that the, with the relocation scheme
- 12:25of Afghan data, which, you know, is, has put them in a difficult
- 12:30position here. Umm, so, you know, where does
- 12:34this leave us? And I know people are really
- 12:36worried and that Afghan migrant cover up has cost the British
- 12:41taxpayers a massive amount of money, umm, because obviously
- 12:44compensation has had to be given.
- 12:46And you know, all of this we have to look at the cost, as you
- 12:49were saying, Brian, the cost of all of this and that there's
- 12:54another slide here. The UK spends a record 5.38
- 12:58billion on asylum system with bills up over 30%.
- 13:03So all of this, when we are in a cost of living crisis, is going
- 13:07to cause problems. I, you know, it, it's got to be
- 13:11said and people are genuinely worried and I think they have
- 13:15every reason to be worried. Sandy, Sandy, totally agree with
- 13:21that. I think the the other point that
- 13:23we have to keep gently working through is that you could say
- 13:28what is happening. Many people do say that what is
- 13:30happening is shearing competence by the government.
- 13:34But if you really dig, dig into the policies and you see the
- 13:38amount of money and effort that is going into not only stocking
- 13:45up the wars overseas but also then assisting these migrant
- 13:50throat flows through Europe and into the UK in particular.
- 13:55This is not accidental. This is deliberate policy in
- 14:00order to bring a very large number of people into the UK.
- 14:04And then any person with a modicum of common sense would
- 14:08say this is nothing to do about with the colour of people's
- 14:11skin, It's to do with the volume of people coming into the
- 14:14country and there is inevitably going to be problems due to the
- 14:20sheer volume. So to me it's obvious that this
- 14:24is calculated agenda by the by the government.
- 14:28And then you say why would they want to create fear and
- 14:32breakdown in UK? Well, the simple answer to that
- 14:35is they need the chaos and the breakdown in order to bring in
- 14:40the more draconian agenda and we can see that coming in across
- 14:45the board. So we are witnessing
- 14:48orchestrated breakdown and the migrants are being used as a key
- 14:53weapon to do that. So a lot of consideration and
- 14:56debate needed and certainly we need to hold the government to
- 15:00account. But Vanessa, welcome to the
- 15:03news. Of course, it isn't just UK
- 15:07that's experiencing problems with the influx of people and
- 15:11Cyprus has now come into the bracket in relation to Israel.
- 15:17Yes, it has, if we can just put this quote up on screen.
- 15:23This is from it's a speech from the Third Zionist Congress of
- 15:281899. David Treach, born in Germany, a
- 15:32founder of the Zionist movement, one of the founders, believed in
- 15:36practical colonisation, not negotiations with Palestine.
- 15:41In order to colonise Palestinian land from 1917 onwards, Jews
- 15:48shouldn't seek refuge in lands favourable for European
- 15:51settlement, as they would encounter resistance in every
- 15:55such country. They also won't be able to
- 15:57efficiently settle in tropical regions.
- 16:00Given these conditions, Cyprus is the most suitable location
- 16:04for Jewish settlement. While the island isn't a magnet
- 16:07for European settlers, it's climate is suitable for
- 16:10Europeans. And notably, it's in close
- 16:12proximity to Israel, serving as a gateway to it.
- 16:18And if we look at this looking back in history, this is from
- 16:21the New York Times in 1935. David Treach dies, they call him
- 16:27an outstanding Zionist. Of course that is not
- 16:29necessarily a compliment in the view of those who condemn what
- 16:33the Zionists are doing to Palestinians.
- 16:37And he urged practical colonisation of Palestine,
- 16:40agricultural and economic experts.
- 16:42So that brings us very rapidly to what's happening in the last
- 16:46few years. This is very recently an article
- 16:50in Al Mayadeen. Cyprus faces outcry over Israeli
- 16:54real estate surge and sovereignty fears.
- 16:58Let's have a look at what's 1 of the politicians in I think it's
- 17:02Greek Cyprus, said AKEL Leader warns of organized land
- 17:08acquisition At a recent conference of Cyprus's leftist
- 17:12Progressive Party of Working People, the Secretary General
- 17:15Stefano Stefano issued a stark warning.
- 17:19Lightning the patterning. Sorry, the pattern of Israeli
- 17:22real estate acquisitions in Cyprus to the early stages of
- 17:25settler expansion in historic Palestine.
- 17:29This is not just investment, it mirrors what happens in
- 17:32Palestine, gradual land takeover, he stated, adding that
- 17:36key purchases are being made in strategic areas that could
- 17:39eventually undermine Cypriot. National.
- 17:42Control, and this, as I said, is is not necessarily recent,
- 17:47although it seems to be ramping up.
- 17:48This is the President of Greek Cyprus. neighbors, friends,
- 17:55strategic partners. This was a tweet he put out very
- 17:58recently, a forward-looking discussion with my good friend
- 18:01President Isaac Herzog on addressing challenges and
- 18:05creating opportunities for our neighborhood.
- 18:09Cyprus is a reliable, stable, trustworthy partner committed to
- 18:13regional cooperation with the Israel.
- 18:16The Zionist flag on the on the post, and this was back from
- 18:212024 in Daily Subba. Zionism's grip on Northern
- 18:26Cyprus grows stronger each day. And what did they actually say
- 18:30within the article? A couple of very important
- 18:33points. First of all, they agreed with
- 18:35the idea that specific areas are being effectively occupied by
- 18:41Zionist, the individuals and corporations that have been
- 18:45increasingly investing in Northern Cyprus with a
- 18:48particular focus on the Escala region in close proximity to
- 18:52Israel, Jewish investors or even establishing their own housing
- 18:57projects and neighborhoods. And then basically the more
- 19:02disturbing article that's come out very recently in Hebrew
- 19:06media, this is in Israel. Hyom, Northern Cyprus is also an
- 19:11Israeli problem and if we look at the text within the article,
- 19:16I highly recommend people reading it because of course,
- 19:19what are they doing? They are raising the concerns.
- 19:23Cyprus recently marked the 51st anniversary of Turkey's 1974
- 19:28invasion, which of course was engineered by Kissinger at the
- 19:32time. The history on that is is very
- 19:35interesting. In practical terms, they say
- 19:39Northern Cyprus functions as an international no man's land,
- 19:43enabling Turkey and terrorist groups like Hamas and Iran's
- 19:47Quds Forces unrestricted operational freedom.
- 19:51So obviously now they're framing the entire subject as a
- 19:56potential for an Israeli need to conduct, as usual, pre emptive
- 20:02self defence for Israeli national security.
- 20:06And they go on to say within the article, they talk about the
- 20:09potential for an operation to liberate.
- 20:12Northern Cyprus. So if we could just have up the
- 20:15the next slide, it's there. Thank you.
- 20:22Threat reaches critical threshold.
- 20:24Israel, in coordination with Greece and Cyprus, must prepare
- 20:28a contingency operation to liberate the islands N eliminate
- 20:33air defence systems in Northern Cyprus, destroy intelligence and
- 20:36command centres and finally remove Turkish forces restoring
- 20:41internationally recognized Cypriot sovereignty.
- 20:44And they go on to describe how the operation would would be and
- 20:50have what they would call it. The contingency plan could be
- 20:53termed Poseidon's Roth after the Greek God of the sea,
- 20:57highlighting maritime dominance, which of course means trade
- 21:00dominance, effectively Turkey. And this is interesting because
- 21:05now they're they're effectively bringing in the framing of
- 21:08Turkish weapons of mass destruction.
- 21:10Of course, previously we saw them preemptively strike the
- 21:14Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 in Iraq and in 2007 they
- 21:21preemptively struck an alleged nuclear reactor project backed
- 21:28by North Korea in Syria. Now and of course Iran is the 30
- 21:32year gag on on nuclear production, Turkey currently
- 21:38constructing the problematic A Caillou nuclear plant on its
- 21:43Mediterranean coast. This should be internalised so
- 21:46here in this article. Effectively what they're doing
- 21:49is framing the potential for military intervention in Cyprus.
- 21:53Of course, Cyprus is very much occupied by by British military
- 21:59and Air Force. Air Force that has been used to
- 22:03sustain and assist the genocide in Gaza, allegedly surveilling
- 22:09Gaza for hostages, but of course providing equipment to the
- 22:14Zionist forces and surveilling Palestinian civilians inside
- 22:20Gaza that of course were then targeted by the IOF.
- 22:25So very disturbing times at the moment, the fact that they are
- 22:31declaring that Turkey has weapons of mass destruction.
- 22:35We know that Cyprus for a long time has been the money
- 22:40laundering Center for the region, for the Israelis, even
- 22:44for the Turks themselves. But also more recently, as I'll
- 22:48talk about in my next section, for the AL Qaeda elements now
- 22:53ruling and destroying Syria on behalf of the British, the UK,
- 22:58the UK, the US and Israel. But it's also about, in my
- 23:03opinion, the wider war of preventing Turkish hegemony in a
- 23:08region where Israel sees itself as being supremacist.
- 23:14It's already prevented near Ottoman expansion in Syria by
- 23:18Turkey. Now it is targeting effectively
- 23:21Turkish held territory in Cyprus, threatening to push
- 23:27Turkey out of a very strategic position in the Mediterranean,
- 23:32which of course is jam packed full of hydrocarbons and and oil
- 23:36resources and also challenging Turkey in the north of Lebanon.
- 23:41So we're seeing at the moment, in my opinion, a war between
- 23:44Greater Israel and Greater Turkey, if, if you like, which
- 23:48will take in Cyprus at some point, in my opinion.
- 23:53Vanessa, thank. Thank you very much for that
- 23:55comprehensive report. It, it is quite extraordinary,
- 23:58isn't it, that you would have thought reasonable people would
- 24:02be at least trying to deal with the, the chaos and the, the war
- 24:07in Gaza before unleashing another front.
- 24:11But here we are in Cyprus talking about effectively
- 24:15dealing with the with the north of the islands.
- 24:18Now Israel can only be making these policies and this type of
- 24:22rhetoric. They can only do it with the
- 24:27full support of particularly the UK because of EU KS military
- 24:31bases on the on the island but also the support of the
- 24:36international community. So what do you think we're
- 24:39seeing here? This is Israel, but I'd suggest
- 24:43Israel can only do this because it has the full backing of what
- 24:48we will call the rules based international order.
- 24:54Well, effectively what we're seeing now, and we've, we've
- 24:57touched on this in previous UK column news is almost
- 25:02overarching the regional conflicts.
- 25:04For example, in West Asia. I mean, you're talking about
- 25:07it's extending to Cyprus, but of course it's extended into
- 25:11Lebanon, into Syria, into Iraq, into Iran.
- 25:15Israel is bombing Yemen. So Israel appears to have
- 25:18absolutely no problem with overextending itself in the
- 25:21region to achieve its Greater Israel project.
- 25:24But also on behalf of the UK and the US to basically redraw the
- 25:30borders. The, the Sykes Picot borders
- 25:32from 1917, very dear to the British and the French are
- 25:36effectively being extended and redrawn to take in the global
- 25:42corridors. So the, the, the economic hubs,
- 25:46the transit routes through for example, Azerbaijan, we're
- 25:52seeing the US, Israeli, Turkish build up in the Zanguzur
- 25:55corridor that is now being challenged by Russia and Iran.
- 26:01Cyprus, of course, is, is a, is a very important route from West
- 26:06Asia into Europe. So it's incredibly strategic
- 26:10both for Turkey and for, for Israel in its run towards
- 26:16achieving regional hegemony with the help of the Arab Gulf
- 26:21states. And so I think, you know, it's,
- 26:24it's, it's really part of a much, much wider war that's
- 26:27ongoing at the moment. And it is all about redrawing
- 26:30the economic borders and securing and straddling
- 26:34territory that incorporates those economic corridors for the
- 26:39future, both to to compete with China, Russia and Iran and
- 26:44effectively to isolate Iran eventually, if you look at where
- 26:47the corridors are now being targeted.
- 26:52Vanessa, thank. Thank you very much.
- 26:54Really excellent and quite, quite extraordinary what's
- 26:58happening there in Cyprus. We'll definitely go into to this
- 27:01issue much deeper in UK column extra after the news.
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- 30:40the spring or summer of 2020 that there was a scam demic
- 30:44going on and she went searching for answers and came to the UK
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- 30:52is still a supporter of UK column and has taken the trouble
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- 31:00And again, I'm going to say a huge thank you to people
- 31:04wherever you are in the world. And we know there's now a huge
- 31:08number of countries watching UK column.
- 31:12Now just a little reminder that a week or so ago I put out this
- 31:18interview with Lynn Lopez Salzedo.
- 31:22From Zionist to anti Zionist memories, dreams and visions of
- 31:26peace. We've had a very good response
- 31:28to this interview and I'm looking forward to doing more
- 31:31with Lynn and also with other friends and colleagues and other
- 31:37people from the Jewish community that have contacted the UK
- 31:40column in order to give their views and concerns as to what's
- 31:45happening in Israel and Gaza. And just to reinforce that this
- 31:50is going back to 2016, but this is a collection of people's
- 31:55thoughts confronting Zionism, collection of personal stories.
- 32:00Excuse me. And this document was put out by
- 32:04Jewish Voice for Peace and we'll make sure there's a link for
- 32:09that in the show notes so that you can have a look at that
- 32:12downloadable copy. Now, we'd also remind people
- 32:16that weekend of the 22nd, 25th of August is the Hope Sussex
- 32:20event. This is camping, music, talks
- 32:25and people coming together to talk about serious matters in
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- 32:34If you use the UKC 20 code, you'll get a 20% discount on the
- 32:39ticket. And to press home, the Point UK
- 32:43column will be there to put a stake in the ground for free
- 32:47speech. And remember that this wonderful
- 32:49event has already been smeared by mainstream journalists.
- 32:54Clearly they don't like good people coming together.
- 32:59Now let's move on to the subject, excuse me, of the
- 33:02government playing with our minds.
- 33:05And I'm very grateful to AUK column viewer for sending me
- 33:09this article. Now, unfortunately, I haven't
- 33:11got a date on it. I think it was a a few weeks
- 33:14ago, possibly a month ago, but it's from Scottish Herald Daniel
- 33:19Powell. Tribunal Glasgow civil servant
- 33:23loses case. Interesting that the headline
- 33:26doesn't give any clue as to what's going on here, but if we
- 33:30delve into reports around this, all becomes clear very quickly.
- 33:35So Mr. Powell, a civilian based with the MOD in Glasgow, was
- 33:41forced to read a paper which suggested that white people are
- 33:46psychotic, cannot be reasoned with and must be destroyed.
- 33:51And as a result he sued the government to race
- 33:54discrimination and harassment, claiming the way that diversity
- 33:58and inclusion is being implemented within the MOD
- 34:01breaches the Civil Service Code as he considers that what's
- 34:05happening represents a left wing and Marxist political ideology.
- 34:11But his case was dismissed because while the tribunal found
- 34:15that the Psychosis of Whiteness paper had been part of the
- 34:19material given to managers within the MOD, Mr. Powell had
- 34:25apparently misread it. He was not bright enough to
- 34:28understand what it said and effectively the tribal tribunal
- 34:35concluded that the MOD had never directly disseminated the
- 34:39document to staff, had never used it in training and did not
- 34:44endorse it's contents. But effectively the the
- 34:49gentleman claimed the MOD had been taken over by subversives.
- 34:54But the judge said that basically it was important for
- 34:58democracy. The papers, like the one in the
- 35:01case, challenge people's views and as such its use by the MOD
- 35:06could not be found to be discriminatory against its
- 35:11staff. And I I think the final comment
- 35:15by this lawyer, Andrew Gibson, says it all.
- 35:19Representing the MOD, the lawyer said that the claimant simply
- 35:24had a skewed view and sees himself as a spokesperson for
- 35:29downtrodden white men. I'm just going to remind our
- 35:34audience that some time ago I've put here circa 2019.
- 35:38Apologies, this is not a good image, but this was a grid that
- 35:43the MOD circulated, which was apparently to get people to look
- 35:48for indicators and warnings against people who were right
- 35:52wing extremist within the military and the army in
- 35:56particular. And my point here is that this
- 36:01type of policy is not only alive and well, it's being accelerated
- 36:06by the government in order not only to capture our minds, but
- 36:10to control the way we think we speak and think and on the
- 36:17subject to manipulation of our minds.
- 36:19I'll add to this little section the fact that on the
- 36:23parliamentary website, fairly recently, the description as to
- 36:29the role of an MP was changed. Now, luckily, one of our
- 36:33supporters put in a Freedom of Information request asking why
- 36:38the description was changed and where the orders for that change
- 36:43had originally come from. And I have to say that the
- 36:46answer that came back was very dismissive.
- 36:50It says that the Freedom of Information Act 2000 only
- 36:55provides you with the public with access to recorded
- 36:59information held at the time of the request.
- 37:02It does not extend to providing confirmations or explanations
- 37:07which are not already held in recorded form, nor are we
- 37:11required by the ACT to create information.
- 37:15To answer your question. It goes on to say that that
- 37:19said, it may help the person asking the question to know that
- 37:24the web page they referred to is managed and updated by the
- 37:28Houses Inquiry service. So this is hugely important that
- 37:34the actual description as to the official role of an MP was
- 37:39changed on the website. But when a member of the public
- 37:43asks what this was about, who did this, the answer is
- 37:48effectively a wall of silence. Sandy, I'll just bring you here
- 37:53in here because this is really bringing home to us that we're
- 37:57now being governed not only by a cabal, but it's a cabal that's
- 38:02prepared to manipulate information and data in order to
- 38:07deny us knowledge and or to skew our views on particular
- 38:12subjects. Could be immigration or it could
- 38:15be politicians. What do you think?
- 38:19It yes, exactly. I mean, we, we've, we've noticed
- 38:23throughout the years for decades now, NGOs change agents coming
- 38:28into into communities with with that in mind, with, with this
- 38:33idea of actually changing and skewing people's minds to
- 38:37certain ideologies. And I think, you know, we this
- 38:41open infiltration, as you know, for common purpose.
- 38:44It's been happening for years and years.
- 38:46And what we see is a very pernicious almost.
- 38:50It is an attack on, on, on the UK and, and Europe, actually the
- 38:55whole of Europe. It's an attack on the West.
- 38:57It's to destroy the West. And we see this every single
- 39:01day, different policies that are destroying our, our, our
- 39:06infrastructure. I mean, you, you look at the
- 39:08climate stuff, it's destroying our farming.
- 39:11Farmers are not farming now because they, they're, they're
- 39:15being prevented to by climate change, you know, policy.
- 39:20So we see this with, with the immigration as well.
- 39:23And you know, I don't, I don't know whether we're, we're,
- 39:26we're, we're going into, into what's happening locally now.
- 39:30No, no, we'll come. We just we'll.
- 39:33Come back to that. I just wanted to reinforce this
- 39:36point that the manipulation of our minds is an attack on the
- 39:40public and we have to understand the government's attack US.
- 39:45Vanessa, let's bring you back in.
- 39:47Because if we're talking about an attack on our minds, part of
- 39:51that big attack comes through surveillance.
- 39:53And when we look into the Oddis that are involved in
- 39:57surveillance, we can often come straight back to the Israeli
- 40:01unit 8200, which I think forms part of your report here.
- 40:07Yeah, it does. But perhaps even more sinister
- 40:10than that, you're absolutely right, is to focus today on the
- 40:15UAE, the role of the UAE in furthering the Zionist agenda
- 40:21both regionally and in Cyprus. And of course, the normalization
- 40:26between Israel and the UAE was very much engineered by Tony
- 40:30Blair back in 2015, as we've reported on here, when he
- 40:35introduced various members of the UAE leadership to various
- 40:39members of Netanyahu's cabinet. And that relationship then
- 40:43developed into UAE being one of the first to normalize with
- 40:46Israel. And so this is an article when I
- 40:49was looking into the Cyprus issue and and for people to know
- 40:52that I will be writing a very in depth article on Cyprus for UK
- 40:57column, which we'll go into a lot more detail about what's
- 40:59going on. But this article which talks
- 41:02about the outsized role of surveillance technology in the
- 41:05Israel, UAE, Abraham Accords. And then if we look at what they
- 41:10actually talk about with reference to the Abraham
- 41:13Accords, far from a peace milestone, the Abraham Accords
- 41:17represent the public formalisation of a long standing
- 41:21covert partnership, as I said, very much begun by Tony Blair,
- 41:26between two governments with interests in population control
- 41:29and surveillance. We've been covering Unit 8200
- 41:33for some time. The UAE purchased and deployed
- 41:36Israeli surveillance technology well before the adoption of the
- 41:40Abraham Accords. Leaked emails in 2018 revealed
- 41:43that the UAE signed a contract with NSO, which of course is
- 41:47Pegasus, Sky Spyware and Israeli Cyber war company, to license
- 41:53surveillance software as early as August 2013, including the
- 41:58infamous Pegasus spyware. And then this is where it gets,
- 42:03in my opinion, very sinister. So effectively what the UA is
- 42:08doing is acting as an outreach settlement com country for for
- 42:16Israel, for Israeli expansion. One of the primary companies
- 42:21involved in in this very shadowy surveillance tech is the Dark
- 42:27matter group. If we can just put the slide up
- 42:31and Abu Abu Dhabi based cyber cybers, can we just go back one
- 42:35please, Brian, Thank you. Cybersecurity firm Doc Matter
- 42:43recruited some NSO staff and former Israeli operatives from
- 42:48Unit A200 offering $1 million salaries per year and luxury
- 42:53homes in Cyprus. So here is the UAE effectively
- 42:58enabling the settlement or the expansion of Israel into Cyprus.
- 43:04And of course Dark Matter Group, which I will write more about in
- 43:08the article, were responsible for or or linked to the
- 43:14assassination of Khashoggi. They were also linked to Project
- 43:20Raven, which in fact was established, including or
- 43:25employing NSA employees to spy not only on internal dissidents,
- 43:33which who were then arrested and subjected to torture, but also
- 43:37effectively on American individuals and on governments
- 43:43outside of the UAE. It was a massive scandal, yeah.
- 43:47And, and this is something that I think we're seeing now in in
- 43:52the Gulf States, but particularly with UAE, that they
- 43:55are effectively taking on the mantle of authoritarian AI
- 44:00development with the collaboration of Israel and the
- 44:05Unit 8200 and all of the other military linked spy agencies
- 44:11that are working and have been working to bring about the
- 44:14genocide of the Palestinians or or an intensified genocide from
- 44:18October the 7th, developing smart cities, for example, in
- 44:23Hebron. And now the UAE will be used
- 44:26along with other Gulf states to effectively extend that AI
- 44:31dictatorship influence that originates from the Zionist tech
- 44:36industry in in Israel. And as I mentioned in the in the
- 44:40previous report, also worryingly, the Cyprus
- 44:44connection to NATO's Syrian caliphate.
- 44:48Interesting that Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former
- 44:52security advisor and point man in the Middle East, is back in
- 44:56Damascus today speaking to Jolani's al Qaeda
- 45:00administration. Members of.
- 45:02And we know that he has an office, a permanent office in
- 45:06the presidential palace. But it's been reported, and I've
- 45:11heard it from various sources inside Syria, that Jolani, since
- 45:14he took control of Idlib in the northwest of Syria prior to the
- 45:19coup in December 2024, he was siphoning Syria's wealth and is
- 45:23continuing to do so through Turkey and into Cyprus, where
- 45:28the al Qaeda extremists have bank accounts and are basically
- 45:34coordinating to establish territorial presence there and
- 45:38to take gold and wealth out of Syria.
- 45:41Because, of course, Jelani understands that his role there
- 45:45will be temporary. Vanessa, thank you.
- 45:50We can see pieces of a very big jigsaw coming together.
- 45:54I will say to our audience that if they are, I'm still surprised
- 45:59at the power and influence of of Israel in this internationalist
- 46:03sense. Remember it was Francis Maude
- 46:06from the Conservative Party here in the UK many years ago that
- 46:11suddenly announced A partnership with Israel through security
- 46:16that was linking GCHQ Unit 8200, which is Vanessa's mentioned.
- 46:22So our intelligence and our security services were being
- 46:26directly linked with Israel. There was no debate in the House
- 46:30about this. And of course the other bodies
- 46:33that were brought into that agreement with the universities
- 46:36in UK. So all of this assembly of, of a
- 46:41joint power base with Israel was visible, hidden in plain sight
- 46:47in UK many years ago. And both Conservative and Labour
- 46:52governments have continued to push this amalgam of, of these
- 46:59very powerful globalist interests.
- 47:01Lot more to discuss, but thank you very much, Vanessa.
- 47:06Now we're going to return to UK and Sandy, this is the point at
- 47:11which you've been hearing concerns from local people and
- 47:14the subject is the creation of mosques.
- 47:18Yes, some people from Weston Super Mare got in touch with me
- 47:24because I know there's there's there's cities of sanctuary or
- 47:28towns of sanctuary or councils of sanctuary all over England
- 47:31now. But Weston Super Mare is a, is a
- 47:35council of sanctuary and they've received a planning permit.
- 47:40The people have have realised there's a planning application
- 47:43going through for a very large building, a very large mosque,
- 47:47which is occupying 3 three buildings in the centre of the
- 47:51town. And as you can see, and from the
- 47:54slide there there, you know, it's quite a big, it's a very
- 47:57big mosque. And actually it's, it's the
- 48:00biggest mosque between Bristol and and, and Bridgewater.
- 48:05And they're, they're, what's interesting is that they're
- 48:08talking about the expansion of the population of, of Weston
- 48:14Super So I don't believe that, that,
- 48:36that, that people are inherently racist here.
- 48:40Um, obviously there are some we've got, we've got Tommy
- 48:42Robinson whipping things up and Farage, but on, on average, I've
- 48:46looked at this, um, 7 page document which has been put
- 48:50through to oppose this mosque. Um, I'm just, uh, got the, the
- 48:54migration and, uh, of course it's all the 2030 agenda.
- 48:57As we know, uh, all of this is, is a, is a plan and it's rolling
- 49:02out and it's having the desired effect because actually what
- 49:05they want is civil unrest. So we've got to be so careful.
- 49:10We've got to be very measured. And what I was impressed with
- 49:13was these people from Weston super It's, they've, they've
- 49:25produced A7 page document to back up the petition that they,
- 49:29they raised of over 1000 people, um, against the planning
- 49:33application. Um, it's right in the Senate.
- 49:35It was the residents association that did this.
- 49:37And I have to say, looking at it, it was a really, really, um,
- 49:42considered and not inflammatory document.
- 49:47Um, but it was put, um, that the term in the terms of the
- 49:51planning application for the mosque.
- 49:52The key thing is that that North Somerset Council has removed all
- 49:57the comments about this planning application, um, because they
- 50:01consider them offensive. That is because people would
- 50:05voicing genuine concerns, but they won't let anybody see the
- 50:10comments. So where is this coming from?
- 50:13So who's deciding what can and cannot be said here and what is
- 50:17offensive? We, we don't know.
- 50:19The debate, you know, is in the conversation which nobody is
- 50:22allowed to have. Now, I don't believe that
- 50:25everyone in in in Weston Super So it does speak volumes and,
- 50:35and The thing is there should be dialogue on all this and there
- 50:37hasn't been. And that's the main problem.
- 50:40It's all about speed, volume and dialogue.
- 50:44There's been a lack of dialogue and this whole programme is
- 50:49happening. I mean, the, the, the immigrant
- 50:51programme has been happening at at great speed and at great
- 50:54volume. And that is the problem.
- 50:57You know, it's not people being uh, NIMBY or, or, or racist or
- 51:02anything else. It's people being genuinely
- 51:05concerned about what is happening in the UK and we have
- 51:08to emphasize this. Um, so they, they, the residents
- 51:12association got in touch with me because they knew that the UK
- 51:15column could voice their concerns, uh, in a measured way.
- 51:18And I hopefully this is what we're doing.
- 51:21Um, so there's, there's been a lack of transparency that it's
- 51:25all been rushed through. The people are reacting to this,
- 51:28this way, the way it's been handled.
- 51:31It's not that they're far right, You know, the Council of
- 51:34Sanctuaries, a national international network, but most
- 51:37people in Weston Super So let's look at the, the city
- 51:50of sanctuary charter. Um, now this was, this was
- 51:54brought in, you know, 2022 to 2025 and, and it's, it, it seems
- 52:00to be financed by lots of NGOs, the National Lottery, all sorts
- 52:05of, you know, it's very, very shady where it's all come from.
- 52:09And it's just kind of tipped up in, in, in, in all these cities
- 52:13of sanctuary, there's a, there's always an office for the, for
- 52:17the city of sanctuary charter. And that they, they, they, they
- 52:21bring people in and they, they talk about stuff, but it's all
- 52:25about, we've got to be more inclusive.
- 52:27We've got to do this. And it's a lot of DEI, but
- 52:30there's no real dialogue about what is really happening.
- 52:33And that's what people are concerned about.
- 52:36So let's have a look at this this the next slide.
- 52:41Yeah, a lot of it's been brought through through through the
- 52:44national planning policy framework.
- 52:46And again, it's it's all it was first that was first published
- 52:51in in March 2012. And it it really is if I could
- 52:56have the next slide up with with that it regard.
- 52:59It's, it's all about, I'm just trying to read this because it's
- 53:02a bit small, but it's all it, it says, you know, it's North
- 53:07Somerset has always been and always will continue to be a
- 53:10place that celebrates and welcomes ethnic and cultural
- 53:14diversity. Well, of course it is.
- 53:16But at the moment this mosque, they're, they're worried about
- 53:19it because it's going to be huge.
- 53:21It's going to be 24/7 with about, I think it's 341.
- 53:28You know, it's got the ability capacity of 341 men and that the
- 53:33men have, you know, a, a, a, a, a different entry to the women.
- 53:37The men are going to be occupying this mainly.
- 53:40And you know that the, as I, as it says on, on the, the, the
- 53:46planning application that they, they removed all the comments
- 53:50and people are worried also it will encompass a, a morgue, a
- 53:5424/7 morgue. But more than anything else, I
- 53:58think people are worried that this is a Sunni mosque and that
- 54:02with, with the tensions that are already firing up with the SEC,
- 54:07you know, the sex SEC, you know, the secular stuff that's going
- 54:10on in France, The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the troubles
- 54:14that they're having in the, in the migrant camps between
- 54:17different sectarian facts. We've just got to look at what
- 54:21is really going on here because people are worried because
- 54:24they've already taken in the Afghan population from from when
- 54:29Kabul was was very speedily evacuated and they brought the,
- 54:34the, the, the Afghan migrants here who were involved with,
- 54:38with obviously the, the western side.
- 54:40So you've got tension there and people are worried about that,
- 54:43very rightly worried about that. Now there's also the idea that
- 54:47this is, this is a bit like, I think the government are, are
- 54:52really pushing this through different NGOs and they're, I
- 54:56know Weston Super So you've got the the sanctuary
- 55:16awards and there's they, they mentioned within the sanctuary
- 55:21awards, they mentioned the theory this, this.
- 55:25Could I have the next slide, please?
- 55:27Oh, this is their values. They've got inclusivity, you
- 55:31know, openness, participation, inspire integrity.
- 55:35All of this sounds very, very good, but to to bring this into
- 55:40a very sleepy seaside town is going to cause tension between
- 55:46different factions there already within the UK of Islamic people,
- 55:51but also between the people that, that that live there.
- 55:55So this is the, I mean, This is why unfortunately we are a
- 56:01tolerant race. We always have been, but this is
- 56:04kind of pushing people to be really concerned.
- 56:08Now we've got the theory of change within that, that
- 56:13document of the, the of the one that I mentioned earlier.
- 56:18And it's the theory of change. They, they're pushing this whole
- 56:21theory of change. And the theory of change is
- 56:24really the NGO that's pushing a lot of this.
- 56:27It's a, it's a theory. And I'd like to just flag up
- 56:30this video which explains what the theory of change is.
- 56:35A theory of change is a powerful tool that helps an organization
- 56:39articulate the connection between their actions and their
- 56:41mission using the language of outcomes, a theory of change
- 56:45helps you define your intended outcomes and the connections
- 56:49between them. Identify the why and how of your
- 56:53organization. Create a foundation for
- 56:56evaluation, program development, organizational change, or
- 57:00strategic planning. Communicate more effectively
- 57:04with internal and external. Stakeholders.
- 57:09So what I'm seeing here is it, it is another sort of, if you
- 57:15like agents of change coming in to, to, to really push an
- 57:20ideology. And it's also heavily funded and
- 57:24we need to find out who. And of course, when you look at
- 57:26it all, it all goes back to Agenda 2030.
- 57:30And what we're seeing here is a roll out of the the, the
- 57:33infrastructure of Agenda 2030 within our communities that
- 57:38will, if we're not careful, end up being a bit of a disaster in
- 57:43my view. Sandy, thank you very much.
- 57:47Very emotive subject. The key thing is that we have to
- 57:51have dialogue in this country and we have to have
- 57:53understanding as to what's really going on.
- 57:56I'm going to end today's news by a very quick look at countering
- 58:00extremism, because of course we come back to this business that
- 58:03anybody who dares speak out about what's happening, not only
- 58:07here in UK, could be in Gaza or could be in Iraq or Iran, you
- 58:12are going to come under the network of extremism.
- 58:17So this is the government, the government's Commission
- 58:21Commissioner for countering extremism, Robin Simcox.
- 58:25And I just wanted to have a little look at what he said in
- 58:30part of the the commentary on the website, the government
- 58:34website itself. He says that the government's
- 58:36independent advisor on extremism.
- 58:39I have long observed A persistent debate around what
- 58:42motivates terrorism. Some point to the role, some
- 58:46point to the role of ideas. Others emphasize socio
- 58:50economics, personal trauma or mental illness.
- 58:54This debate matters enormously for how we shape our counter
- 58:58terrorism policies. And he goes on to say that to
- 59:02bring clarity to this question, I've commissioned Doctor Donald
- 59:05Holbrook to conduct forensic research examining the
- 59:09electronic content collected from 100 UK terrorists over
- 59:13several decades. His findings published today,
- 59:17are unequivocal and significant. Now, this is just one paragraph
- 59:23from the report, but I've decided to bring this to the
- 59:26fore. It says the evidence is clear.
- 59:29And he goes on to say that what Doctor Holbrooke discovered is
- 59:32striking. Terrorists do not merely dabble
- 59:35with extremist ideology. They immerse themselves in it.
- 59:39They actively seek it out. They consume, debate, and even
- 59:43produce ideological content that guides and justifies their
- 59:47actions. So, according to the
- 59:49Commissioner, it's all very clear.
- 59:51But let's remember what we discussed in Monday's news when
- 59:55Ben Rumid brought up this Policy Exchange document, which was
- 1:00:00entitled Extremely Confused. The government's new counter
- 1:00:04extremism review revealed and this is because the document was
- 1:00:08basically saying that the government just had no idea what
- 1:00:13behaviour was what. It was confused, it was chaotic.
- 1:00:17It's a really interesting report to read.
- 1:00:20But whilst this tells us the chaos in government, the the
- 1:00:26Commissioner himself is appointing a man linked to this
- 1:00:30organization, the international, sorry, that should say
- 1:00:33International Centre for Counterterrorism.
- 1:00:36And this is a think tank based in The Hague, Netherlands,
- 1:00:41providing research, policy advice, training and other
- 1:00:44solutions to support better counterterrorism policies.
- 1:00:48Well, here's if we just bring that, put that back on screen.
- 1:00:52Here's Donald, Donald Holbrook himself.
- 1:00:55And if you look at this organization, you quickly find
- 1:00:58that it's fully in bed with the European Union's own hub for the
- 1:01:03prevention of radicalisation. So we are not dealing with AUK
- 1:01:09generated policy. We are still locked into an EU
- 1:01:14based policy. And as UK Column has said for
- 1:01:17many years, this is the reality of Brexit without the exit.
- 1:01:22Now, to end on a lighter note, but still with some teaching
- 1:01:26content, let's have a look at Yes Minister talking about
- 1:01:30defence. I think we've shown this before,
- 1:01:33but I think it's an important one to review.
- 1:01:38Bernard, what is the purpose of our defence politics?
- 1:01:40To defend Britain is to make. People believe Britain is
- 1:01:43defended. The Russian.
- 1:01:46Not the Russians. The British Russians know it's
- 1:01:48not. For all our.
- 1:01:49Simple, ignorant people. The aim of the defense policy is
- 1:01:52to make them feel secure. Bernard, we have a magic wand.
- 1:01:55It is called Trident. Nobody understands anything
- 1:01:57about it except that it will cost £15 billion, which means it
- 1:02:02must be wonderful. All we have to do is write a
- 1:02:04check and then we can all relax. But if people in government
- 1:02:07start talking about it, in the end they'll start thinking about
- 1:02:09it. They will come to realize the
- 1:02:10problem, the flaws in the reasoning there.
- 1:02:12Is one thing there this TV broadcast is doing because he
- 1:02:15uses it to announce his new policy?
- 1:02:17Regard firstly to have to go through.
- 1:02:18Cabinet in the House? Well, you can do that if the
- 1:02:20Prime Minister's made-up his mind then.
- 1:02:21He must unmake it. He's the Prime Minister, his
- 1:02:25own. Car, nice house in London, place
- 1:02:27in the country, endless publicity and a pension for
- 1:02:29life. What more does he want?
- 1:02:30I. Think he wants to govern
- 1:02:32Britain? Well, stop him, Bernard.
- 1:02:37So comedy, humour, laughter, but a very strong message there that
- 1:02:41the people of Britain are to be deceived, they're be to be made
- 1:02:45to think what the power base wants and even the Prime
- 1:02:49Minister himself or herself is going to be controlled to do the
- 1:02:53bidding of those behind the scenes.
- 1:02:55So whilst we may laugh at that short clip, I think there's a
- 1:02:59lot of very serious comments and analysis has gone on in the
- 1:03:03background which reflects exactly on the position today.
- 1:03:08We will leave it at we will leave it there.
- 1:03:11Thank you very much for joining us, wherever you are in the
- 1:03:14world. And if you're Auk column member,
- 1:03:17we'll be back in a few moments for UK column extra.
- 1:03:21Vanessa and Sandy, I look forward to speaking in more
- 1:03:26detail about the subjects of today's news in our extra.
- 1:03:30And thank you also for joining me on the news today.
- 1:03:33We'll leave it there. Bye bye.