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UK Column News — 5th June 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the fifth of June twenty twenty sixth, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock. Welcome the UK Called News. You your host,
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Speaker 2: Mike Robinson, join him in the studio once again. Patrick Hennison,
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. Patrick, great to be with you, Mike,
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Speaker 2: and by video link we're joined by Basil Valentine and
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Speaker 2: a Later in the program we'll be reporting on the
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Speaker 2: new DNA vaccine, which Cambridge University is excited about, the
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Speaker 2: ban on people critical of Israel from entering the UK,
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Speaker 2: and of COM's AI strategy, and we'll have some more
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Speaker 2: on Kushner's plans for Albania, where massive protests have begun
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Speaker 2: against his plans. But we're going to begin today with
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Speaker 2: Ukraine because we're being softened up for even more tax
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Speaker 2: money to be spent on profits for the so called
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Speaker 2: defense companies. So here we go. There they all are
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Speaker 2: queued up. The NATO Ukraine a Council meeting took place
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Speaker 2: at Kievan Wednesday. All thirty two NATO allies were represented.
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Speaker 2: They held top with Ukrainian officials on strengthening support for
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Speaker 2: Ukraine and European security. Of course, that's what it's all
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Speaker 2: about and now Zelenski and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutdik,
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Speaker 2: who shared the meeting. Kir Starmer didn't travel to Keiv,
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Speaker 2: but Selenski reported that he spoke today with Kerr because
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Speaker 2: he's on first name terms, the Prime Minister of the
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Speaker 2: United Kingdom, about the weapons needed for our joint diplomacy
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Speaker 2: with Europe. Weapons are needed for joint diplomacy, Patrick, how
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Speaker 2: does that work?
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure and a little bit confusing there, Yes,
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Speaker 1: and Zelensky's he's wearing normal flat footage shoes today, so that's.
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Speaker 2: Good well as oppose to the high heels you know
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Speaker 2: in that's right, yes, okay. Now, Otherwise they apparently looked
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Speaker 2: into what they'll discuss with Moscow once Russia realizes the
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Speaker 2: power of the Ukraine's position. At least that's how they're
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Speaker 2: presenting it. So to quote them, they said, Europe needs
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Speaker 2: its own voice, its own position, and its own contribution
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Speaker 2: to all diplomatic efforts that can help end this war.
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Speaker 2: The E three format the United Kingdom of France and
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Speaker 2: Germany is effective plus the Nordics, so there you go.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: The night before the meeting, of course, Ukraine launched drones
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Speaker 2: against Saint Petersburg, just as participants were arriving for the
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Speaker 2: Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. The drone attack was a
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Speaker 2: great opportunity for propaganda. Ruda made clear that the operation
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Speaker 2: was a follow up to the threats made against the
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Speaker 2: ninth and May Victory Day period in Moscow, where Russia was,
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Speaker 2: of course celebrating, as it usually does that day, the
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Speaker 2: nineteen forty five defeat of Nazi Germany. But anyway, the
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Speaker 2: main focus of the discussions was enhancing Ukraine's protection against
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Speaker 2: Russian ballistic missile attacks, including providing additional patriot air defenses
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Speaker 2: and Pack three interceptor missiles. Ukraine and its partners were
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Speaker 2: also discussing longer term efforts to develop stronger European anti
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Speaker 2: ballistic defense capabilities with further support through PEERL and the initiative. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: that's the initiative that enables European funding for purchase of
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Speaker 2: American weapons for Ukraine. So they were very excited about that.
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Speaker 2: Ukraine's Foreign minister hosted Natal representatives at Saint Sophia of
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Speaker 2: Kiev and more than one thousand euro cathedral that stands
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Speaker 2: in Ukraine in Kiev. Of course, part of the visit
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Speaker 2: also included witnessing the aftermath of one of Russia's recent
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Speaker 2: large scale attacks in Ukraine, and of course there was
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Speaker 2: significant damage there. And the quote from them at that
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Speaker 2: point was, Russia's ballistic terror can and must be stopped
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Speaker 2: because it's terrorism. It's not warfare. It's not a special
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Speaker 2: military operation either. Of course, this is our shared responsibility
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Speaker 2: together with our allies, said the Defense or the Foreign Minister.
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Speaker 4: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Now, Britain's involvement with the Ukraine war then has been
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Speaker 2: acknowledged quite a bit over recent months, but again being
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Speaker 2: noted by this article in Military Watch magazine, and they
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Speaker 2: point out that in January twenty twenty four, German Chancellor
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Speaker 2: then Chancellor will lab Schultz confirmed that British special forces
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Speaker 2: were on the ground in Ukraine providing sorry vital support
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Speaker 2: to facilitating launches of the storm Shadow cruise missiles against
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Speaker 2: Russian targets. They then went on to remind us that
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Speaker 2: in May twenty twenty four, the head of US Special
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Speaker 2: Operations CAPAN, General Brian Fenton, stated that the Pentagon had
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Speaker 2: been learning about the ongoing war mostly through the eyes
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Speaker 2: of our UK Special operations partners and so on, And
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Speaker 2: then they also mentioned that In December twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 2: the British Deputy Chief of Defense Staff, Lieutenant General Robert mcgoughan,
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Speaker 2: had revealed that Marines had been carrying out high risk
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Speaker 2: operations alongside Ukrainian government forces from April that year. But
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Speaker 2: the key point of this article was the fact that
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Speaker 2: the British military, the British Army has deployed thanks to
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Speaker 2: Estonia as part of a special Operations part Time Task
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Speaker 2: Group to simulate covert boarding operations against enemy ships and
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Speaker 2: so on. This was all about the challengers going to
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Speaker 2: Estonia for exercises, all about a war with Russia. And
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Speaker 2: of course why would they be exercising for a war
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Speaker 2: with Russia unless they're planning for a war with Russia.
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Speaker 1: Patrick, But anyway, I think you mean planning on starting
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Speaker 1: a war with Russia. Well, I think they've already done that.
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Speaker 1: But that's yea. They're baiting Russia to retaliate, is what
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Speaker 1: they're doing. Yes, And do the people in Britain or
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Speaker 1: you know, non EU countries like Britain understand that they
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Speaker 1: could be painting a target on themselves by doing that.
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Speaker 1: In addition to Germany and France others.
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Speaker 2: Well, precisely so anyway I mean, and and you know,
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Speaker 2: of course NATO hasn't been putting pressure on Russia at
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Speaker 2: all over the last several decades. They're building a narrative
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Speaker 2: here that Russia is going to for Russia'll retaliate, so
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Speaker 2: that that was an offensive, offensive narrative. But of course
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Speaker 2: the Warhawks have been coming out to complain about Starmar's
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Speaker 2: delay in publishing the Defense Investment Plan. Now a couple
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Speaker 2: of days ago, Defense Secretary John Healey said would it
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Speaker 2: would be published in time for the summit in July.
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Speaker 2: Starmar is reported to Toll cabinet ministers and Tuesday that
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Speaker 2: the government is working to finalize the plan and that
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Speaker 2: the threats faced by the UK were changing faster than
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Speaker 2: at any point in our lifetime, and that the Ukraine
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Speaker 2: conflict is neither it's in its fifth year, has no
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Speaker 2: clear exit strategy in peace talks or at an and
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Speaker 2: in pass. I wonder why that has happened.
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Speaker 1: What threats to the UK, what is does it have
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Speaker 1: anything to do with? What does that anything to do
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Speaker 1: with what the UK is doing? Debate and provoke Russia?
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Speaker 1: Precise those threats have any connection to that precise that
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Speaker 1: the fundamental question.
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Speaker 2: Starmer also claimed that the UK and Europe had to
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Speaker 2: face up to the Russian threat, which is increasingly hybrid
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Speaker 2: in nature, including cyber attacks, sabotage of undersea cables and
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Speaker 2: longer range missile capability, and a Dining Street spokesperson then
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Speaker 2: said it's the government's duty to provide the country with
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Speaker 2: the defense capability that it needs. But that's not enough
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Speaker 2: for some because let's bring the I newspaper on screen.
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Speaker 2: Because former House of Commons Defense Committee Chairman to Tobias
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Speaker 2: Alwood was rolled out the buying the war drums as
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Speaker 2: hard as he could, and he said that Europe is
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Speaker 2: staring at the foothills of a major conflict and Britain
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Speaker 2: and other NATO allies are waking up late. And he
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Speaker 2: said that while NATO allies are taking talking seriously about
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Speaker 2: preparations for war, this is not being followed through with action,
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Speaker 2: including clear budgets, procurement contracts and factory ORR books. And
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Speaker 2: he complained that the response to law week's drone attack
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Speaker 2: in Romania and the launching of fighter jets to try
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Speaker 2: to intercept wayward drones is a nineteen nineties response to
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Speaker 2: a twy twenty twenties challenge modern conflict. He said, moves
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Speaker 2: at machine space.
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Speaker 1: There was no Russian drone attack in Romania. That didn't
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Speaker 1: happen precisely, that was fake news. But MPs are talking
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Speaker 1: about it like it happened, and they're basing policy and
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Speaker 1: using that as evidence of a Russian threat. That Isn't
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Speaker 1: that just a little bit dangerous that type of disinformation.
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Speaker 1: One would think, well, are they doing fifth generation warfare
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Speaker 1: on the British public? That's exactly what is that? What's happening? It, sir,
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Speaker 1: seems like.
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Speaker 2: It absolutely, So let's see what else he said. He said,
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Speaker 2: by the time in traditional military responses assembled, the drone
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Speaker 2: has gone, the signal has been sent, and the strategic
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Speaker 2: effect achieved. And he said every month that passes delays contracts,
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Speaker 2: slows production lines, and postpones capabilities the armed forces they need.
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Speaker 2: Defense companies cannot invest, recruit and expand on the basis
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Speaker 2: of speeches alone. Industry requires certainty, the military requires capability.
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Speaker 2: Both require funding. So this is all in preparation for
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Speaker 2: this defense investment strategy that the government is going to
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Speaker 2: is going to push out. It's all money for the
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Speaker 2: defense contractors. But in response to all this, the Russian
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Speaker 2: Foreign Ministry has released a statement saying the provocative anti
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Speaker 2: Russian rhetoric of British officials, the spread of insinuations about
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Speaker 2: Russia and London's practical steps to pump the Kiev regime
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Speaker 2: with weapons and military equipment demonstrate and on wavering determination
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Speaker 2: of the UK leadership to continue the harsh systemic confrontation
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Speaker 2: with our country. And so in response to those to
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Speaker 2: these hostile actions, a decision was made to expand what
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Speaker 2: they're calling the stop list and to conclude that to
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Speaker 2: include a number of representatives of the journalistic community in
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Speaker 2: the UK and also experts involved in disseminating slanderous speculation
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Speaker 2: and false information about the policies of the Russian leadership
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Speaker 2: and social political events in our country and so on.
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Speaker 2: So they have decided to sanction five members of the
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Speaker 2: British journalist community and so called experts. And then just
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Speaker 2: to finish on this, I want to finish with this
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Speaker 2: report from the Action on Armed Violence and now this
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Speaker 2: is a charity which looks at the violence against civilians
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Speaker 2: in conflict zones and they're headlining their article here military
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Speaker 2: experts or arms industry insiders. UK media feels to disclose
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Speaker 2: defense sector links in nearly sixty percent of cases. And
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Speaker 2: so what they're saying is they were revealing how retired
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Speaker 2: British military figures are frequently presented to in the UK
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Speaker 2: media as purely independent experts on defense and security matters
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Speaker 2: without mention of their personal commercial, unemployment interests in the defense, technology,
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Speaker 2: intelligence and security sectors in those reports. And this is
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Speaker 2: a very valid point. The links to this will be
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Speaker 2: in the show notes, of course, but I recommend people
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Speaker 2: look at that full article because they list the people,
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Speaker 2: the individuals concerned and what their connections are to the
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Speaker 2: defense industry. And I think it's important to know that.
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Speaker 1: Same information has been presented in the United States as well.
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Speaker 1: We've got the same problem.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely so, Patrick, Let's move on to Lebanon now. Well,
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Speaker 2: and because do we have a cease fire or not?
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Speaker 2: This is the question.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the big news is that a ceasefire proposal
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Speaker 1: was presented to Hesbola and the United States, Israel and
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Speaker 1: the Lebanese government are involved. You know, when I read
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Speaker 1: this proposal, I'll show you the key sections in a moment,
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Speaker 1: but when I read it, I thought this couldn't possibly
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Speaker 1: be written by the Lebanese government because the level of
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Speaker 1: arrogance in the in the in the in the wording
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Speaker 1: is just clearly it came from outside the country. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: my suspicions, of course, were absolutely correct. But here's the
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Speaker 1: headline here. We'll bring this back up on screen. Hesbela
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Speaker 1: rejects the truth. Mind you, this is Al Jazeera's language.
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Speaker 1: I put deal in in parentheses there, but they're saying
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Speaker 1: they rejected a truth. So al Jazeera still has there's
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Speaker 1: they still haven't embraced Hezbollah as a sort of fellow
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Speaker 1: Muslim sort of effort of liberation. But but they're absolutely
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Speaker 1: you know, so that and also Iran as well, and
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Speaker 1: it's because of this there's still tension between Qatar, so
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Speaker 1: so anyway Israel. But Israel continues strikes and forced displacement
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Speaker 1: in Lebanon, as this headline shows here. So there's still
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Speaker 1: a little bias in the wording of this. But let's
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Speaker 1: look at the statement itself and what is this. Well,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to go far, didn't I. Then the
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Speaker 1: US State Department, or what pass for a state department,
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Speaker 1: I'm calling this an annex of the Israeli Embassy in Washington,
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Speaker 1: d C. The joint statement of the United States of America,
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Speaker 1: the Republic of Lebanon, and the State of Israel. I
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Speaker 1: didn't realize they're giving joint statements. Isn't it against the
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Speaker 1: Lebanese constitution to be even meeting with Israeli officials? But
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Speaker 1: nonetheless on the latest high level trilateral meeting. Here and
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Speaker 1: here's the bit that you need to pay attention to,
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Speaker 1: and this is basically the key wording from the so
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Speaker 1: called ceasefire. Israel and Lebanon reaffirm. Israel and Lebanon reaffirmed
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Speaker 1: that they have no hostile intent towards one another and
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Speaker 1: committed to continuing direct negotiations to build confidence. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: Israel has been massacring, massacring Lebanese civilians, leveling whole villages
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Speaker 1: and towns, bombing Beirut and major city in West Asia.
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Speaker 1: I think Israel has hostile intent. They've been killing Christians
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Speaker 1: sites and Sony's and destroying historic in World Heritage and
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Speaker 1: UNESCO protected areas, Christian holy sites, etc. And they've been
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Speaker 1: doing that at a rapid clip for the last two
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Speaker 1: and a half years. Excuse me, I think Israel has
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Speaker 1: hostile intent, So I knew this language couldn't be coming
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Speaker 1: from Lebanon because it's so treasonous you could possibly imagine.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, back up on screen, we'll look at this again,
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Speaker 1: and here's the other bit here, and of course this
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Speaker 1: is straight from Washington, and Israel reaffirmed that a security
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Speaker 1: and respect for the territorial integrity can only be achieved
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Speaker 1: through the disarmament of Hezbollah and the dismantlement of its
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Speaker 1: infrastructure throughout Lebanon. Okay. That's basically calling for an armed
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Speaker 1: civil war in Lebanon, Okay. So they're saying the Lebanese
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Speaker 1: army need to wage war against half the country to
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Speaker 1: disarm the Schiaite population or hesbelah. Meanwhile, Israel's ethnically cleansing
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Speaker 1: sites from the south and they're annexing a whole section
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Speaker 1: of the country, southern Lebanon up to the Litani River here.
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Speaker 1: So what's being done is the United States and Israel
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Speaker 1: have full control. This is a US occupied government. This
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Speaker 1: is effectively the same as a Vshi government in France.
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Speaker 1: So you know, use your World War two metaphor there,
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Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happening. They handed them as statement Joseph
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Speaker 1: Ajun the president and Nua Salamhure too, US and Israeli puppets,
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Speaker 1: it's without any argument at this point, and they said,
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Speaker 1: read that statement, thank you very much. And the Lebanese
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Speaker 1: president and Prime Minister, who are basically installed by the
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Speaker 1: United States by Israel, said yes, sir, I will read
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Speaker 1: that statement. So the US is very actively promoting and
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Speaker 1: pushing for a violent sectarian civil war in Lebanon. And
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Speaker 1: again they're using the exact same formula they did from
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Speaker 1: the previous civil war in the eighties and nineties, which was, oh,
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Speaker 1: we're only invading Lebanon to deal with the Palestinian terrorists. Well,
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Speaker 1: what we're doing the exact same thing here. We're going
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Speaker 1: to level this ancient city of tire To because there's
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Speaker 1: hesbola or hiding in Christian areas, So let's level the
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Speaker 1: historic Christian areas. And while we're at it, why don't
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Speaker 1: we just destroy the entire Byzantine, Alexander, the Great, Egyptian
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Speaker 1: and Roman historical lairs in the ancient city of tire
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Speaker 1: as well, because Israel really doesn't care about ancient history.
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Speaker 1: Apparently in the levant if they did, they would sort
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Speaker 1: of try to avoid bombing, carpet bombing these types of
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Speaker 1: areas and Holy Christian sites, but unfortunately that hasn't happened,
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Speaker 1: and it's created a lot of problems within Lebanon. Over
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Speaker 1: a million people force displaced within the country and many
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Speaker 1: people leaving the country. And who knows, if they're lucky,
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Speaker 1: they can make this so bad that we have a
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Speaker 1: wave of immigrants from Lebanon coming into Europe, and then
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Speaker 1: Israel can get Tommy Robinson fired up in the far
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Speaker 1: right to oppose those immigrants, and it all makes perfect sense.
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Speaker 2: Two things Patrick on my minds here. First of all,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Israel takes this
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Speaker 2: attitude towards the Stace Oracle sites, which was exactly the
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Speaker 2: same attitude that isis took in Syria and Palmyra and
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Speaker 2: so on. I'm sure that's just a coincidence that they
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Speaker 2: have the same kind of ideology there.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's about erasing anything that sort of predates your
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Speaker 1: own ideology, and because anything that exists is an uncomfortable
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Speaker 1: reminder that there are other historical contexts that exist on
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Speaker 1: the land. But above all, Mike, what it does is
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Speaker 1: it disenfranchises it and delegitimizes the native population. And this
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Speaker 1: is a this is a colonial tactic. It's not just
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Speaker 1: the Israelis. The Americans did it when they arrived in
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Speaker 1: North America. The British have done it, the French, the Germans,
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Speaker 1: the Belgiums in the Congo and South Africa, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's constant. It's a colonial theme. The Spanish,
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Speaker 1: the Portuguese, let's not leave them out. Okay, okay, fair point.
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Speaker 1: The The other thing that I just wanted to if
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Speaker 1: we just put that back on screen for a second.
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Speaker 1: The other thing that just wanted to very briefly note
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Speaker 1: was the spelling of Hespalah, because this is exactly the
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Speaker 1: same spelling that the British Foreign Office uses, but it's
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Speaker 1: not the spelling that I see from Middle Eastern that's right, press.
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Speaker 1: It uses an e instead of an eye for hesbler.
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Speaker 1: So I just wanted to point that out because that
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Speaker 1: seems to give a clue as to where the rhetoric
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Speaker 1: or the narrative has come from here. Yeah, that is interesting.
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Speaker 1: They also have like ten different spellings of Kadafi's name,
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Speaker 1: as well as Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda is ISO.
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Speaker 1: That's a big problem is the West can't decide how
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Speaker 1: to spell their enemies, which is interesting, very interesting.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, now, Basil, let me welcome you to the program
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Speaker 2: and let's let's talk about the issue of Zach Polanski
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Speaker 2: and the letters attack.
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Speaker 4: Hello Mike, Hello everyone.
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Speaker 3: Yes, well, first of all, I'm indebted to the campaigning
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Speaker 3: and news organization Declassified for bringing this to our attention.
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Speaker 4: It's that.
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Speaker 3: Bill is going before Parliament which may require the House
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Speaker 3: of Commons to vote on banning Israeli soldiers from the UK.
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Speaker 3: Jeremy Corbyn has tabled an amendment, and whether or not
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Speaker 3: that amendment is put upon the House of Commons is
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Speaker 3: now up to the Speaker Lindsay Hoyle. Of course, the
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Speaker 3: same Lindsay Hoyle who's double dealing around the ceasefire resolution
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Speaker 3: a year or two ago was well noted, as is
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Speaker 3: his continuing refusal to hand over emails that he has
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Speaker 3: sent to and from Israeli politicians. The reason why de
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Speaker 3: Classified are so hot on this is not surprisingly because
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Speaker 3: of the egregious behavior of Israeli soldiers, some of whom,
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Speaker 3: believe it or not, are British citizens and that's why
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Speaker 3: they've launched a campaign Nobody wants to Live next to
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Speaker 3: a war criminal. This is an open letter which you
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Speaker 3: can go and sign at the Declassified website and it's
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Speaker 3: been signed by, amongst others, Michael Mansfield QC, the eminent
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Speaker 3: human rights barrister, Jeremy Corbyn, one or two other MPs.
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Speaker 3: Individuals who have returned from committing war crim in Gaza
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Speaker 3: may now be living alongside us and working in public
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Speaker 3: institutions such as hospitals, the police and schools. Nobody wants
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Speaker 3: to live next door to a war criminal. Not least
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Speaker 3: members of the Palestinian community in the UK who have
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Speaker 3: family or friends who have been subjected to war crimes
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Speaker 3: are very good point. In the interests of transparency, public
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Speaker 3: safety and justice, The Classified and the International Center for
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Speaker 3: Justice for Palestinians have launched a major campaign to demand
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Speaker 3: that the UK government takes the following measures. One is
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Speaker 3: to track the movements of Brits who have served in
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Speaker 3: the IDF. Secondly, to subject them to secondary screening when
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Speaker 3: necessary at ports of entry, and third of course, to
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Speaker 3: support robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and
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Speaker 3: international law. Worth noting on that point that the initial
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Speaker 3: submission over two hundred pages of evidence presented against certain
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Speaker 3: individuals was rejected by the Metropolitan Police a couple of
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Speaker 3: weeks ago, claiming that there was no prospect of a
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Speaker 3: successful prosecution, and of course, disgracefully, the British government also
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Speaker 3: closed down the unit in the Foreign Office which was
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Speaker 3: longing these war crimes, once they'd reached about twenty five thousand,
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Speaker 3: I believe. So you can sign this letter. The campaign
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Speaker 3: has already been signed by over sixty prominent figures, Charlie Herbert,
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Speaker 3: the anti Aparthe campaigner, Andrew Feinstein, Charlie Harbard, of course,
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Speaker 3: former British Army general and crucially Green Party leader Zach Polanski.
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Speaker 3: Now he is the man in the crosshairs of the
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Speaker 3: lobby at the moment, even though of course he's Jewish.
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Speaker 3: Jonathan Purcell, the head of public affairs and Communications at
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Speaker 3: the International Center for Justice for Palestinian, said, it's possible
22:27
Speaker 3: the British people are taking part in genocide and returning
22:31
Speaker 3: home to live, work and socialized alongside us. A truly
22:35
Speaker 3: chilling prospect. So let's have a look at the response
22:39
Speaker 3: to Zach being involved in this campaign. First, of all,
22:45
Speaker 3: he put out a very clear statement on x The
22:49
Speaker 3: IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza
22:52
Speaker 3: by the UN Human Rights Council and Amnesty International. It
22:57
Speaker 3: is just common sense that those involved in war crimes
23:00
Speaker 3: should be held to account, A perfectly reasonable demand, and
23:05
Speaker 3: one in accordance with domestic and international law. But it
23:11
Speaker 3: seems well, we all know that international law has been
23:16
Speaker 3: well and truly trashed over the last couple of years.
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Speaker 3: And here's one of the typical responses from someone in
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Speaker 3: the Zionist lobby, in this case, the so called Lord
23:29
Speaker 3: Roberts Andrew Roberts, with whom I used to be personally acquainted.
23:33
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, Lord Roberts calls the author of
23:36
Speaker 3: The Greens Renaissance, Zach Polanski, a complete fraud who tells
23:41
Speaker 3: overt lies about his background and a classic self hating Jew.
23:46
Speaker 3: Now is that not anti Semitism? I mean, who is
23:49
Speaker 3: Lord Roberts a gentile to be so obviously anti Semitic?
23:55
Speaker 3: To put that back up again, he goes on to say,
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Speaker 3: Lord Roberts, who has analyzed British politics and for decades
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Speaker 3: extremely badly, I might add, marvels at the spectacle of
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Speaker 3: a Jewish homosexual leading an Islamist party. Talk about pejorative language,
24:19
Speaker 3: but that's the sort of language that, it appears, gets.
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Speaker 4: You in the House of Lords these days.
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Speaker 3: Zach Goldsmith, the failed Conservative candidate for London mayor a
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Speaker 3: few years ago, was even more vociferous, argues what a
24:35
Speaker 3: disgusting piece of human trash he is? How can he
24:39
Speaker 3: live with himself? Quoting Polanski's signing up to this letter.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we really are in a very strange place,
24:49
Speaker 3: are we, not where calling for domestic and international law
24:54
Speaker 3: to be adhered to means that you are a piece
24:57
Speaker 3: of human trash. I mean that's really really quite bizarre,
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Speaker 3: really rather inverted, isn't it.
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Speaker 4: We go on.
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Speaker 3: Sarah vine Is amongst the others. She said, does Zach
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Speaker 3: want them to wear yellow armbands?
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Speaker 5: Too?
25:13
Speaker 3: Of course worth remembering that she is married to Michael Gove,
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Speaker 3: that weird little creature who bizarrely thought that the IDF
25:23
Speaker 3: should be awarded the Nobel Priest Prize. I mean, arguably
25:29
Speaker 3: the stupidest and most sinister comment of all time, And
25:34
Speaker 3: not surprisingly, Zach has pushed back against some of these comments.
25:39
Speaker 3: We're going to have to repeat a lot that many
25:42
Speaker 3: people don't support. Many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.
25:47
Speaker 3: Criticism of the Israeli government and their war crimes has
25:51
Speaker 3: nothing to do with who is or is Jewish. To
25:55
Speaker 3: complate them like this is both harmful and semitic. So indeed,
26:01
Speaker 3: it is the likes of Sarah Vine, Zach Goldsmith, Graham
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Speaker 3: Lenihan and others attacking Zach and other people that matter
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Speaker 3: taking a.
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Speaker 4: Principled stand, who are themselves.
26:16
Speaker 3: The anti sea mates because they are conflating war criminals
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Speaker 3: with all Jewish people, a classic anti Semitic trope.
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26:33
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Speaker 2: banning basle of certain types of voices coming into this
27:37
Speaker 2: country because maybe they're a bit critical of what's going
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Speaker 2: on in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is, in my view anyway, the most illiberal
27:48
Speaker 3: and authoritarian decision of its kind in my lifetime. I'm
27:53
Speaker 3: talking about the banning of jenk Wiga and his nephew
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Speaker 3: Hassan Piker from the u UK this week in an
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Speaker 3: arbitrary decision by Shabana Mood, the Home Secretary, presumably obviously
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Speaker 3: with Keir Starmers, says Tribune here, pointing out the Hassan
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Speaker 3: Piker ban exposes the power of the Israel lobby. The
28:17
Speaker 3: decision to ban Hassan Piker and Jenkwiga from the UK
28:21
Speaker 3: mark's further escalation in the clampdown on critics of Israel,
28:27
Speaker 3: and there's no other way to describe it. The official
28:30
Speaker 3: reason given was that their presence was not conducive to
28:33
Speaker 3: the public good. But they haven't said anything that. I
28:37
Speaker 3: don't think thousands of people in Britain and millions around
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Speaker 3: the world. I think millions of people in Britain for
28:43
Speaker 3: that matter, wouldn't echo. So I'm not quite sure what
28:47
Speaker 3: the government are going to do about that. Are they
28:49
Speaker 3: going to ban millions and millions of people? Of course,
28:52
Speaker 3: both Assan Piker and Jenkwiga are quite high profile. They
28:57
Speaker 3: were due to speaking, among other places, south By south
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Speaker 3: West Festival in London, and Hassan was also due at
29:05
Speaker 3: the Oxford Union as well. But let's move on to
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Speaker 3: First of all, the first left wing US commentator caused
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Speaker 3: decision to ban him from UK kafka Esque and indeed
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Speaker 3: it is the decision of the Home Office to cancel
29:25
Speaker 3: their electronic travel authorizations because of their presence in the
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Speaker 3: UK may not be conducive to the public good. As
29:31
Speaker 3: letter questions over government censorship of free speech you don't
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Speaker 3: say has been criticized by the Green Party leader Zach
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Speaker 3: Polanski as grim and described by free speech advocates Index
29:44
Speaker 3: on Censorship as a worrying escalation. Let's hear from jenk himself,
29:51
Speaker 3: who was talking to.
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Speaker 4: Sheila Foggerty on LBC.
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Speaker 6: Described Israel as barbaric and savage. You've claimed Israel uses
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Speaker 6: Jews as human shields. Your critics claim that you're sitting
30:07
Speaker 6: dangerously close to the kind of language that is creating
30:12
Speaker 6: the kind of conspiratorial fever that's lead that's led to
30:15
Speaker 6: a huge amount of anti Semitism on our streets. Now,
30:18
Speaker 6: you know we cannot lay all that, We cannot lay
30:21
Speaker 6: all of that at your feet.
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Speaker 2: Of course we can't.
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Speaker 6: But do you ever question the language you use?
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Speaker 1: No, not at all.
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Speaker 5: I question whether it should be tougher. I mean, we're
30:31
Speaker 5: all going to ask ourselves later, what did we do
30:33
Speaker 5: to stop a genocide? And so, what people who are
30:36
Speaker 5: Zionists and fervent supporters of Israel do is they hide
30:41
Speaker 5: behind anti semitism and they use anti Semitism as a
30:45
Speaker 5: weaponized charge to defend the disgusting, immoral actions of a
30:51
Speaker 5: foreign government.
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Speaker 6: For what is worth, and I speak to the British
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Speaker 6: public every day for three hours of five days a week.
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Speaker 6: Nobody in this country thinks you can't criticize.
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Speaker 4: Israel to it, I just got banned for it.
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Speaker 6: Well, well we'll see, we'll see exactly what the reasons
31:05
Speaker 6: were given, and then you may you may be right
31:07
Speaker 6: that that has happened.
31:08
Speaker 4: But people, that is.
31:08
Speaker 1: The reason they give.
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Speaker 4: They gave them to the press.
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Speaker 6: That's the government I'm talking about the people of the country.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask the people of the country are beautiful?
31:14
Speaker 4: They agree with me?
31:15
Speaker 6: Can I Well, not all of them do, But can
31:17
Speaker 6: I ask, is that not the kind of inflammatory language
31:19
Speaker 6: that might have contributed to being banning? Because most let
31:23
Speaker 6: me let me finish my question, more disgusting than the Holocaust,
31:26
Speaker 6: more disgusting than companies in our lifetime. That's the kind
31:30
Speaker 6: of inflammatory stuff that does get people fired.
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Speaker 5: Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's insane.
31:36
Speaker 4: So wait a minute.
31:37
Speaker 5: You want me to just give it past this foreign government.
31:40
Speaker 5: That's so no no, no, no no no. These are
31:42
Speaker 5: all tricks. These are all tricks to say, don't criticize
31:45
Speaker 5: this way, don't criticize that way. No, you're immoral if
31:49
Speaker 5: you're not deeply criticizing the Israeli government.
31:55
Speaker 3: Ni poverty being taken to the cleaners there by a
31:58
Speaker 3: particularly vs siferous wiga. Hassan Piker, for his part, has,
32:04
Speaker 3: amongst other things, called out south By Southwest who who
32:09
Speaker 3: were very very weak in their defense of him. I mean,
32:14
Speaker 3: in fact, they didn't really defend him at all. He
32:18
Speaker 3: called them actual effing losers, and some speakers dropped out
32:22
Speaker 3: in protest at what they say was their failure to
32:26
Speaker 3: stand up for free speech. They made some pathetic statement
32:30
Speaker 3: about how whoever comes to the UK simply a matter
32:35
Speaker 3: for government and not for them to interfere with. It
32:37
Speaker 3: was really very very weak indeed, and Hassan has had
32:41
Speaker 3: his own things to say about his ban as well
32:45
Speaker 3: as we can hear now.
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Speaker 7: Okay, well I didn't want to talk about it, but
32:52
Speaker 7: my visa has also been revoked. We just found out.
32:55
Speaker 7: As it stands currently, I don't believe that I'll be
32:57
Speaker 7: able to go to the United Kingdom this upcome. I
33:00
Speaker 7: was supposed to do something with Theannis var Faucus, do
33:03
Speaker 7: something with Zach Polanski, do something with Jeremy Corbin, do
33:07
Speaker 7: something at the Oxford Union, and now the Labor government
33:10
Speaker 7: has revoked our visas a sad state of affairs where
33:14
Speaker 7: obviously the interests of Israel take the highest priority there.
33:17
Speaker 7: Hassan down Piker, your UK ETA has been canceled. This
33:21
Speaker 7: means you cannot travel to the UK without a visa.
33:23
Speaker 7: This is because your presence in the UK is not
33:25
Speaker 7: considered to be conducive to the public good. You cannot
33:27
Speaker 7: appeal this decision. This is a warning. I hope you
33:30
Speaker 7: guys understand the Western world and liberal democracy is a
33:33
Speaker 7: sham and all of the supposed things that they claim
33:36
Speaker 7: to care about they do not actually care about. We
33:38
Speaker 7: are moving into a very different timeline. This is why
33:41
Speaker 7: I constantly reiterate that fascism is here. Like the administration
33:44
Speaker 7: trying to deploy subpoenas against political dissidents in the United
33:47
Speaker 7: States of America or the UK, that's like completely captive
33:51
Speaker 7: to the interests of pro Israel advocacy organizations. And this
33:54
Speaker 7: is the liberal government, right the labor government is supposed
33:57
Speaker 7: to be the liberal government doing this, and the American
33:59
Speaker 7: government is the right wing government doing it like we
34:01
Speaker 7: are we are in the nineteen thirties Era. I was
34:03
Speaker 7: supposed to speak at the Oxford Union alongside Jenk. I
34:06
Speaker 7: was supposed to speak it south by Southwest and also
34:09
Speaker 7: do another interview with Janis vari Faucus. But Jewish groups
34:12
Speaker 7: call on UK to bar dangerous a sanpiker IMiD anti attacks,
34:15
Speaker 7: and they did because Israel advocacy organizations have unbelievable amounts
34:20
Speaker 7: of power over what even the United Kingdom has to
34:23
Speaker 7: say and do. It's totally fucking ridiculous, dude. I genuinely
34:27
Speaker 7: did not think this would happen. This is straight up,
34:29
Speaker 7: straight up fucking fascism.
34:31
Speaker 4: That's it.
34:31
Speaker 7: Israel is a fascist country and it gets to enforce
34:34
Speaker 7: its bidding upon other countries. The Western liberal democracies that
34:39
Speaker 7: are supposed to protect and preserve speech, even if they
34:43
Speaker 7: don't have a First Amendment like we do here in
34:45
Speaker 7: the United States of America, they're supposed to have reason,
34:48
Speaker 7: like good reason. This is not one of them. Being
34:50
Speaker 7: critical of Israel while effectively combating antiseism is not a
34:54
Speaker 7: good enough reason to bar someone entry into the country.
34:57
Speaker 7: Ironically enough, one of my famous speeches that I delivered
35:01
Speaker 7: was at Oxford Union, which is what I was supposed
35:03
Speaker 7: to attend. I warned the Western governments, and I warned
35:06
Speaker 7: those who were worried about anti theism that this dangerous
35:10
Speaker 7: association between anti theism and antiism, this conflation between Judaism andism,
35:15
Speaker 7: was going to create an environment where anti Sadism would manifest.
35:19
Speaker 7: We've already been living in that universe, and it is
35:22
Speaker 7: very clear to me that this is happening. Okay, well
35:30
Speaker 7: I didn't want to talk about.
35:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so I'm very eloquently pointing out there that
35:37
Speaker 3: we are in a uniquely dark place with these latest developments,
35:43
Speaker 3: and how long before dissidence in this country starting to
35:46
Speaker 3: be rounded up or prosecuted in some way? I believe
35:51
Speaker 3: Actually David Miller may even be in court this morning
35:55
Speaker 3: for some posts he's put on on social media. That's
35:59
Speaker 3: for all of the authorities. Finally, Jeremy Scarhill is the
36:05
Speaker 3: editor of drop site News, and he spelt things out
36:08
Speaker 3: in a particularly eloquent way this week when talking to
36:14
Speaker 3: Sky News.
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Speaker 8: I mean the British government, I have to say it
36:20
Speaker 8: quite plainly, has been waging a war against dissent and
36:23
Speaker 8: free speech, trying to stifle criticism of Israel, trying to
36:27
Speaker 8: criminalize pro Palestinian activism, the case of Palestine Action, the
36:32
Speaker 8: restrictions on speech internally, the banning of people purely on
36:36
Speaker 8: the grounds that they have been critics of Israel is
36:39
Speaker 8: a stunning contradiction to the notion that the British government
36:43
Speaker 8: believes in free speech or believes in a democratic society.
36:47
Speaker 8: It's reprehensible. Now I come from the United States. The
36:50
Speaker 8: United States is also doing this. For all Trump says about, Oh,
36:54
Speaker 8: we're going to end this woke culture. Oh We're going
36:56
Speaker 8: to end cancel culture. They're the greatest purveyors of cancel
36:59
Speaker 8: culture that we've had in American history. And it all
37:02
Speaker 8: goes back to Palestine. So, you know, the banning of
37:04
Speaker 8: Hassan Piker from entering in Chenkwiger from entering Britain is
37:09
Speaker 8: not surprising, but it's part of an unprecedented assault on
37:13
Speaker 8: basic liberties by the British Home.
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Speaker 9: Office, and the Home Secretary has said that the presence
37:19
Speaker 9: of these two was not conducive to the public good.
37:23
Speaker 9: Are they essentially shielding the public from words when you
37:27
Speaker 9: know it's this is I guess these powers are there
37:31
Speaker 9: to prevent anyone who's trying to incite violence, not using
37:35
Speaker 9: words and free speech.
37:37
Speaker 8: The fact that the British government takes that position and
37:40
Speaker 8: then continues to lend support to an open genocide being
37:44
Speaker 8: waged by an indicted war criminal, Benjamin Netanya, who tells
37:47
Speaker 8: you everything you need to know about this. These are
37:50
Speaker 8: actions that the British government is taking, ultimately, at the
37:54
Speaker 8: end of the day, on behalf of a foreign power
37:56
Speaker 8: that is right now as we speak, burning children alive,
37:59
Speaker 8: intens and Gaza scorched, earth bombing Lebanon, and continuing to
38:03
Speaker 8: try to agitate the United States to continue a war
38:05
Speaker 8: against Iran. I mean, the British government officials in charge
38:09
Speaker 8: of this policy should hold their heads in shame. This
38:11
Speaker 8: has nothing to do with protecting the average person in Britain.
38:16
Speaker 8: This has everything to do with defending the agenda of
38:19
Speaker 8: an openly genocidal regime run by literally an indicted war criminal.
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Speaker 2: It's a bit of a petty that we can't find
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Speaker 2: any British.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, find me one mainstream commentator on British media that
38:33
Speaker 1: will say what Jeremy Skahill just said, which is absolutely
38:37
Speaker 1: on true, objectively true. That is just you know, okay,
38:44
Speaker 1: that's true. Yes, absolutely. Let's move on then to Albania
38:48
Speaker 1: and put this on screen because of course, what we
38:52
Speaker 1: didn't mention on Wednesday's program when we were talking about
38:54
Speaker 1: this were the not Rothschild links. So Jared Kushner admitted
39:00
Speaker 1: this in the video clip that went out alongside the
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Speaker 1: one that we showed on Wednesday. This is International Business
39:07
Speaker 1: Times saying Jared Kushner admits not Rothschild helped him secure
39:11
Speaker 1: remote private island during yacht vacation. Of course, I'm just
39:14
Speaker 1: going to mention, you know, if we're talking about private islands,
39:17
Speaker 1: of course, somebody that's associated with one particular private island
39:20
Speaker 1: is Peter Mandelson. And of course he was also a
39:24
Speaker 1: regular visitor to not Roschild's yacht to do some of
39:28
Speaker 1: his dirty dealing with respect to Derek Pasca and others.
39:34
Speaker 1: George Osbourne and for this this became a scandal a
39:37
Speaker 1: number of years ago, if you remember, and actually ended
39:41
Speaker 1: up with a libel case where the Daily Mill had
39:45
Speaker 1: perhaps overstepped the mark slightly. But nonetheless, the connections between
39:48
Speaker 1: not Rothschild and some of these big international deals is
39:55
Speaker 1: absolutely there. And here we are again with his yacht
39:57
Speaker 1: being used. I thought you're going to say Richard and
40:00
Speaker 1: they're from there, but anyway, Yeah, so the Nott roth
40:03
Speaker 1: Child is an interesting shows you the elite networks that
40:07
Speaker 1: we're that we're operating with and not outside of the
40:10
Speaker 1: Epstein network either here. But let's take a look at
40:13
Speaker 1: what's happening. So this issue has absolutely blown up in Albania,
40:18
Speaker 1: and some people are saying this has potential to be
40:20
Speaker 1: the biggest protest movement in the country since the anti
40:24
Speaker 1: the anti lockdown movement during the COVID crisis here, so
40:28
Speaker 1: they're they're they're banging for unrest and a protest here
40:33
Speaker 1: in Toronto and Albania over this very issue. And it's
40:35
Speaker 1: very interesting, Mike, how this is escalated from being a
40:39
Speaker 1: you know, investment stroke property controversy into a national sovereignty controversy.
40:45
Speaker 1: And of course the environmental aspects of this are front
40:48
Speaker 1: and center. These are protected wetlands that they want to
40:51
Speaker 1: develop and turn into, you know, the next border piece
40:55
Speaker 1: on the med And so we've got some questions about
40:58
Speaker 1: the sort of financial structure behind this, and I want
41:02
Speaker 1: to say there's been some excellent journalistic work done here,
41:06
Speaker 1: once again by Freddie Ponton. Let's bring this up on
41:10
Speaker 1: screen here, exporting the Abraham Accords, the hidden network converging
41:15
Speaker 1: on Albania's shoreline, and this is really important. Let's look
41:19
Speaker 1: at where the money is flowing on this and people
41:21
Speaker 1: need to understand the details of it. And this is
41:24
Speaker 1: probably the only piece that we have seen anyway here
41:27
Speaker 1: that unveils this. And let's take a closer look at that. Here.
41:31
Speaker 1: The Abraham Accords important concept. It was founded as the
41:36
Speaker 1: Abraham Accords Peace Institute, later built to deepen trade, tourism
41:41
Speaker 1: and investment ties created by the normalization agreements. Tourism was
41:46
Speaker 1: one of the tools that turned quote diplomatic normalization into
41:50
Speaker 1: permanent economic interest. The UAE is the model. Note approximately
41:54
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty thousand Israeli tourists visited the United
41:59
Speaker 1: Arab Emirates in the first two years after the accords
42:02
Speaker 1: were signed. So you know, look at tourism as a
42:04
Speaker 1: type of a trojan horse. Here. Now here's Jared Kushner
42:08
Speaker 1: giving an idea of how he has corralled some of
42:12
Speaker 1: the billionaire class into backing this type of a project
42:16
Speaker 1: here and what it means. And we'll explain what the
42:19
Speaker 1: subtext of this is in the moment. But listen to
42:21
Speaker 1: Kushner himself.
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Speaker 10: And to promote the Abraham Accords to you know, make
42:26
Speaker 10: the ones that are existing stick, and then also to
42:29
Speaker 10: find new opportunities. So I have a partner, my partner, Asher,
42:32
Speaker 10: who I mentioned before. He's actually of Moroccan descent and
42:34
Speaker 10: actually of Syrian descent. So we've been looking maybe there's
42:37
Speaker 10: some opportunities to bring investment to Morocco, a country that
42:41
Speaker 10: I know you're very proud of, to really help them
42:44
Speaker 10: create dividends from the Abraham Accords and so to show
42:47
Speaker 10: the people there that there can be great rewards because
42:51
Speaker 10: leaders who joined the Abraham Accords, it shows that they're
42:53
Speaker 10: thinking about the future, they're pushing for stability.
42:56
Speaker 2: It shows a lot of wisdom and a.
42:57
Speaker 10: Lot of forward thinking. So those are the environments where
43:00
Speaker 10: I think investors.
43:01
Speaker 4: Would want to be in.
43:02
Speaker 10: And I have a lot of you know, American investors
43:04
Speaker 10: who are very who love the Abram Accords, who want
43:08
Speaker 10: to join us in that. So we're looking at opportunities
43:10
Speaker 10: to invest in countries who have joined the Abram Accords.
43:12
Speaker 10: But we're also looking at opportunities to invest in countries
43:15
Speaker 10: that might join the Abram Accords and to create economic
43:19
Speaker 10: packages to incentivize them. So another one of my partners
43:23
Speaker 10: is Syrian and he said, Jared, we should put together
43:25
Speaker 10: a big investment package. Maybe for Syria, so that if
43:28
Speaker 10: they joined the Abram Accords, they could have a big
43:31
Speaker 10: incentive to do it. How amazing would it be to
43:33
Speaker 10: have you know, a Muslim and Jewish firm working Jewish partners,
43:37
Speaker 10: you know, with American you know, working together to try
43:40
Speaker 10: to bring investment there. So something we're looking at. Obviously
43:43
Speaker 10: there are some complications, but I think there's a ton
43:45
Speaker 10: of potential there, and if they were to join the
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Speaker 10: Abraham Accords, I think that there's a lot of people
43:49
Speaker 10: who would want to invest there to help give them
43:51
Speaker 10: the best chance to achieve their full potential.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So you can see what the Abraham Accords is
44:00
Speaker 1: one of the big things. It's an investment corridor or pipeline,
44:04
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's an opportunity using Israeli businesses, Israeli
44:09
Speaker 1: tech firms including the like the likes of Palanteer are
44:12
Speaker 1: not outside of this, okay, to use them to kind
44:15
Speaker 1: of economic colonization, uh, and also to open segues for
44:20
Speaker 1: militarization as well. So it's about Israel expanding its footprint
44:25
Speaker 1: in the region and getting its tentacles uh into What
44:28
Speaker 1: did I say tentacles? Is that is that a Trope.
44:32
Speaker 1: I apologize. I'll have to rephrase that later. We'll do
44:36
Speaker 1: that later after the programming extra. So that's what the
44:39
Speaker 1: Abraham records. That's what normalization is. Okay, look at the
44:43
Speaker 1: UAE and look at the results of it. It's been
44:45
Speaker 1: a disaster for the United Arab Emirates, and a lot
44:49
Speaker 1: of people are saying it's a disaster for Morocco as well.
44:52
Speaker 1: But what are we talking about here in terms of
44:54
Speaker 1: this particular scandal. Here is Albania and the Valade region
45:00
Speaker 1: than the southwest of Albania. Let's take a look at
45:03
Speaker 1: that Zavernik and Sazen Island. So this isn't just a
45:08
Speaker 1: private island, it's also Zevernik. Okay, these are two areas
45:13
Speaker 1: very close to each other. We'll blow that up so
45:15
Speaker 1: you can have a closer look. Here. We're talking about
45:17
Speaker 1: these two sites very close to each other. One is
45:20
Speaker 1: protected wetlands environmental area that's partly privately owned, and the
45:26
Speaker 1: other is the island, which is government property. Here that
45:29
Speaker 1: is not just any island. That is a retired Cold
45:31
Speaker 1: war military installation with dozens of underground bunkers, an underground hospital,
45:38
Speaker 1: all sorts of facilities. There an underground submarine base as
45:41
Speaker 1: well that can be developed. Now, why would Israel be
45:43
Speaker 1: interested in Sazen Island? I just couldn't imagine. While they
45:47
Speaker 1: want to do this, it's a non EO country, heavily
45:50
Speaker 1: deregulated and very high on the corruption index list. I
45:53
Speaker 1: would say it's a very interesting location for investment. But
45:58
Speaker 1: let's look at the ownership structure here and here it is. Now,
46:01
Speaker 1: this is a great breakdown. It's been done by freddie
46:04
Speaker 1: It said twenty one wire. Nobody else has done this yet.
46:06
Speaker 1: But let's start from the bottom. Look, this is the
46:09
Speaker 1: government level. You need. This level, this is how you
46:12
Speaker 1: make this whole thing work. And let's work our way up.
46:16
Speaker 1: Atlantic Incubation Partners l S. That's Jared Kushner's investment vehicle.
46:22
Speaker 1: There Power International Holdings. Those are the Kataris. So it's
46:26
Speaker 1: Kushner and the Kataris. Let's go a little bit further. Oh,
46:29
Speaker 1: what's this five unnamed Albanian shareholders possibly straw Man in
46:34
Speaker 1: terms of investment below the twenty four percent threshold. That
46:38
Speaker 1: means they don't have to disclose the names as long
46:41
Speaker 1: as that combined investment in that group is under twenty
46:44
Speaker 1: four percent. They don't have to be visible in the
46:47
Speaker 1: public here, but this is what it is. On top
46:51
Speaker 1: of all that, here you have two private individuals, one
46:55
Speaker 1: Dutch national and another Bulgarian national. But below that is
46:59
Speaker 1: the Dutch shell companies, specifically Blue Industry investments, and so
47:05
Speaker 1: for both Sazen Island and the other Zevernik piece on
47:12
Speaker 1: their property, both of those have the same Dutch shell
47:16
Speaker 1: company investment map. And most of the media aren't paying
47:20
Speaker 1: attention to this. These two are linked. This is a
47:22
Speaker 1: massive project here with the same people behind it. But
47:26
Speaker 1: they're trying to hide these two things from being connected
47:29
Speaker 1: to each other. But we actually found out that and
47:32
Speaker 1: so one more details we'll put in the show notes
47:35
Speaker 1: of that link to Freddie Ponton's report. They're on the
47:38
Speaker 1: Abraham Accords and Albania and this scandal at twenty first
47:42
Speaker 1: Century Wire. Well done Freddy Ponton for that great piece
47:45
Speaker 1: of journalism. Thank you Patrick.
47:47
Speaker 2: Now let's come back to the UK and well, the
47:50
Speaker 2: BBC has published this article headlined world first voxing designed
47:55
Speaker 2: by artificial intelligence. They say that artificial intelligence has been
47:59
Speaker 2: used to develop a fundamentally new type of vaccine that
48:02
Speaker 2: could protect against large with viruses and prevent pandemics, say researchers.
48:08
Speaker 2: Now their search they're promoting in the article is this
48:11
Speaker 2: published in the Journal of Infection entitled a Phase one
48:15
Speaker 2: needle free DOCE escalation clinical trial of a candidate PAN
48:22
Speaker 2: sarbeca virus vaccine. Now, what the paper is actually claiming
48:26
Speaker 2: is that the that the team from Kimbridge University tested
48:30
Speaker 2: a new experimental vaccine design to products against. They say
48:33
Speaker 2: not just SARS coby two, but a whole family of
48:36
Speaker 2: related coronaviruses, including the original SARS virus and bat viruses
48:41
Speaker 2: that could potentially cause future pandemics. That's what they're claiming. Now,
48:46
Speaker 2: I just want to say that these are not my words,
48:48
Speaker 2: these are their words. And they say that the idea
48:52
Speaker 2: is to build a vaccine broad enough to work against
48:54
Speaker 2: threats that don't even exist yet. And they say that
48:57
Speaker 2: this is a DNA vaccine rather than m RNA one,
49:00
Speaker 2: which makes it an attractive vaccine for poorer countries with
49:03
Speaker 2: limited refrigeration. And here's the kicker. They say the antigen
49:07
Speaker 2: itself was computationally designed using a technology called diassine vax,
49:14
Speaker 2: which tries to identify the conserved parts of the virus
49:17
Speaker 2: byke protein that don't change between variants, so the immune
49:21
Speaker 2: system learns to recognize features common to the whole viral family.
49:25
Speaker 2: And they say that they were running this trial at
49:28
Speaker 2: the height of the so called pandemic, when people were
49:31
Speaker 2: having other things injected into them, So even by their standards,
49:36
Speaker 2: the question has to be raised, what does this paper
49:38
Speaker 2: actually show.
49:40
Speaker 4: They say that.
49:40
Speaker 2: What they describe as immune bias was unavoidable, and so
49:44
Speaker 2: they make no real claims about effectiveness, but they do
49:47
Speaker 2: of course claim that by testing it on thirty nine
49:50
Speaker 2: people that it is demonstrated to be safe, and so
49:55
Speaker 2: the effective part maybe comes later, but at the moment
49:58
Speaker 2: there's saying that's safe. Coming back to the BBC article,
50:02
Speaker 2: the question is it an objective analysis or of what
50:06
Speaker 2: happened of peace? And it has to be said it
50:08
Speaker 2: was a puff piece because the people that they quoted,
50:11
Speaker 2: three of them were either directly involved with the trial,
50:14
Speaker 2: one of them was involved with the company behind the
50:17
Speaker 2: trial as a shareholder, and they had one independent, supposedly
50:21
Speaker 2: independent voice on this. So I would argue that it
50:25
Speaker 2: was absolutely not asking the types of questions that needed
50:28
Speaker 2: to be asked. But Patrick, you know, what are your
50:31
Speaker 2: thoughts on this whole business of doing things in Silica
50:35
Speaker 2: in this way?
50:36
Speaker 1: Well, in Silico, yeah, means it's a fancy Latin word
50:40
Speaker 1: for on the computer, on the computer in Silico, Silicon chips,
50:45
Speaker 1: that's where that term comes from. Right, How many people
50:47
Speaker 1: know that? Probably not that many. The BBC certainly is
50:50
Speaker 1: not going to tell you that, so that it's kind
50:52
Speaker 1: of a scam okay in Silico and just well, we'll
50:57
Speaker 1: give you references for this. You can go and do
50:58
Speaker 1: your own research after this. But stars Cove two, Stars
51:03
Speaker 1: Cove two, how did they get this? This this genomic
51:07
Speaker 1: sequence for the original novel coronavirus from one disputem sample
51:11
Speaker 1: of one patient in Wuhn, a pneumonia patient, one patient,
51:16
Speaker 1: and they took with a PCR machine, took two segments,
51:19
Speaker 1: two little segments of that they the PCR claims it
51:23
Speaker 1: picked up from the sample, and oh, those two segments.
51:26
Speaker 1: They analyzed those in a digital software computer system that
51:31
Speaker 1: filled in the blanks and created woai la a genomic
51:35
Speaker 1: sequence of SARS Cove two and that was uploaded to
51:38
Speaker 1: the International Gene Bank. And that's where Christian Drawsten formulated
51:43
Speaker 1: his PCR test for Europe and later for America. At
51:47
Speaker 1: no point in this chain of events was there ever
51:50
Speaker 1: an actual virus that was seen or found in a
51:55
Speaker 1: biological environment. It all took place in silic co on
52:00
Speaker 1: the computer. So it's important that people understand that the
52:04
Speaker 1: computer spits out a digital representation of a virus genome
52:09
Speaker 1: and then named it SARS Cove two because it was
52:13
Speaker 1: ninety percent match to the digital representation of SARS Cove one.
52:18
Speaker 1: I kid you not, but that's the science, you know.
52:21
Speaker 1: And this goes for the spike protein as well. It
52:23
Speaker 1: only exists in silico. Okay. Now, there's a lot of
52:28
Speaker 1: people in the so called health freedom movement I will
52:31
Speaker 1: call them gatekeepers. They won't tell you this. And the
52:35
Speaker 1: reason the question is why many of them are just
52:38
Speaker 1: too lazy to actually look into the science of meta
52:41
Speaker 1: second generation metagenomic sequencing because it's too complicated. But the
52:45
Speaker 1: problem is if we don't ask these questions and leave
52:47
Speaker 1: it into the hands of the experts, the very few
52:50
Speaker 1: experts that can claim to decipher metagenomic sequencing on these
52:57
Speaker 1: complicated software programs. If you leave it to them and
53:00
Speaker 1: the politicians are liaising with them, well guess what. Nobody's
53:04
Speaker 1: going to ask any questions, and we're just going to
53:06
Speaker 1: end up with another pandemic or pseudo pandemic, fake pandemic.
53:11
Speaker 1: Who knows. But listen, well, two great explanations I'll bring
53:15
Speaker 1: up on screen here. Here's the first one. We have
53:18
Speaker 1: a very extensive archive on this topic. Unfortunately, at twenty
53:21
Speaker 1: first cent you are, for some people, the faux pandemic
53:24
Speaker 1: revealed once upon a Time in Warham. Great video presentation
53:28
Speaker 1: here by Sam Bailey with reference links below on this page,
53:31
Speaker 1: by the way, lots of reference links. And this one
53:34
Speaker 1: gaslighting the truth about gain of function. This is another
53:38
Speaker 1: hoax that exists in Silico. In Silico thanks to the
53:43
Speaker 1: wonderful PCR machine. I love this PCR machine because it
53:46
Speaker 1: does everything. You can't have a pandemic without a PCR machine.
53:50
Speaker 1: So there you go, folks. We'll let the germ and
53:53
Speaker 1: the terrain people battle it out in the comment threads.
53:58
Speaker 1: Go ahead, knock yourself out, folks. There we go.
54:01
Speaker 2: Right now, let's move on then to AI.
54:03
Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Ofcom published its strategic approach to AI twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six twenty twenty seven, framing its role as enabling safe
54:12
Speaker 2: and secure AI adoption across communications sectors and regulates now.
54:17
Speaker 2: They've written this in response to requests from the government
54:20
Speaker 2: as part of the AI Opportunity's action plan for regulators
54:24
Speaker 2: to demonstrate how they will support the UK's growth agenda.
54:28
Speaker 2: Offcom reports rapid AI uptake. They're saying that over half
54:32
Speaker 2: of adults report using AI tools such as Chat, GBT,
54:35
Speaker 2: copilotter Gemini, and that's up from thirty one percent twenty
54:39
Speaker 2: twenty four. And they also highlight risks that AI has
54:42
Speaker 2: become very capable from a cyber attack point of view,
54:45
Speaker 2: which in DAED it has. But Ofcom is claiming to
54:48
Speaker 2: take a technology neutral outcomes focused stance on regulation. In
54:53
Speaker 2: other words, their role, as I say, is as an
54:55
Speaker 2: enabler rather than a regulator. And they say that they
54:58
Speaker 2: will operate with a bias against intervention, but willing to
55:03
Speaker 2: act promptly where AI enabled harms arise, intervening only where
55:08
Speaker 2: there's a statute of duty, they say, and where markets
55:11
Speaker 2: cannot mitigate risks. So it's committing, they say, it says,
55:16
Speaker 2: to least intrusive, evidence based, proportionate methods and providing regulary
55:21
Speaker 2: clarity so to TEKET. So the sectors can innovate confidently,
55:26
Speaker 2: very much a different approach then, for example, to online safety,
55:31
Speaker 2: where they're absolutely not relying on markets to deal with
55:35
Speaker 2: the situation at all. So why would that be Could
55:38
Speaker 2: it be because online safety is something which the government
55:42
Speaker 2: is pushing very hard, as is the enabling of AI,
55:45
Speaker 2: So the regulatory approach to the two things is very different.
55:49
Speaker 5: Now.
55:50
Speaker 2: The strategy is structured around what they describe as four pillars,
55:54
Speaker 2: and that is applying regulary principles to AI, enabling safe
55:58
Speaker 2: and secure adoption approach in practice and what they're calling
56:02
Speaker 2: planned work. The report's talking about ofcom's Online Safety Technology
56:08
Speaker 2: lab for testing, water marketing and content moderation, and they're
56:12
Speaker 2: using AI for that. They're admitting to an increasing reliance
56:16
Speaker 2: on a small number of global AI providers, and they
56:21
Speaker 2: are admittedly highlighting the resulting competition in resilience concerns, but
56:26
Speaker 2: they're also talking about their own use and their own
56:29
Speaker 2: reliance on AI as being an increasing thing. So it's
56:34
Speaker 2: worth reading this report to see the direction that we're going.
56:39
Speaker 2: But they talk about upcoming legislation where for example, they
56:44
Speaker 2: will be taking a leading role in regulating the role
56:47
Speaker 2: out of data centers in the UK. Again, this is
56:51
Speaker 2: going to be an enabling role and that's why this
56:53
Speaker 2: report is important because this is going to be affecting
56:56
Speaker 2: people's local communities with as more of these AI more
57:01
Speaker 2: of this AI infrastructure is ruled eyed. Okay, well let's
57:06
Speaker 2: leave that there and Basil let me welcome you back.
57:09
Speaker 2: Then to finish off the program with more in case
57:12
Speaker 2: you missed.
57:12
Speaker 4: It, Yes, welcome to our weekly troll ConTroll troll.
57:20
Speaker 3: Through some of the stories you may have missed over
57:23
Speaker 3: the last seven days. Starting with our old friend Prince Andrew.
57:30
Speaker 3: He's in hot water once again. It seems he was
57:33
Speaker 3: subletting the cottages around the Royal Lodge where he used
57:38
Speaker 3: to live and pocketing the cash.
57:40
Speaker 4: Of course.
57:42
Speaker 3: Also last week this village idiot currently masquerading as the
57:48
Speaker 3: number one in the whole of the British military.
57:50
Speaker 4: Look at him there, Sir Richard.
57:51
Speaker 3: Knighton and what a gormleous expression.
57:56
Speaker 4: Idiot's great, isn't it? UK?
57:58
Speaker 3: In most dangerous period I've known? Military chief said this
58:02
Speaker 3: was speaking to Radio four. He said last year's Strategic
58:06
Speaker 3: Defense Review was a call to arms and while in
58:09
Speaker 3: recent decades the armed forces of focus John preparing for
58:12
Speaker 3: short contained conflicts, the UK now needs to be ready
58:17
Speaker 3: for longer wars like the one in Ukraine.
58:21
Speaker 4: World.
58:21
Speaker 3: Off you go, Richard, grab a gun and we'll give
58:26
Speaker 3: you a lift all the way to Saint Petersburg.
58:29
Speaker 4: What a cretin, my god? Okay.
58:32
Speaker 3: Next up, Gary Lineker's Goalhanger has been named as the
58:37
Speaker 3: UK's fastest growing business. This is his podcast company, which
58:43
Speaker 3: produces the rest Is series, The Rest Is History, The
58:47
Speaker 3: rest Is Entertainment and The Rest Is Politics, hosted by
58:53
Speaker 3: Rory Stewart and the dreaded Alistair Campbell. So linka that well,
58:58
Speaker 3: at least he's on the right side of history when
59:01
Speaker 3: it comes to Gaza, which of course forced him out
59:04
Speaker 3: of his previous sinecure at the BBC. He won't be
59:08
Speaker 3: there at the World Cup this year. Instead, the lead
59:12
Speaker 3: presenter is going to be Gabby Logan for what it's worth.
59:15
Speaker 3: But Gary seems to have landed very much on his
59:19
Speaker 3: feet with that new company. Next up, this is rather
59:26
Speaker 3: troubling story. Jess A Sarto was the victim of some
59:34
Speaker 3: sort of horrific images being created on Grock showing her
59:40
Speaker 3: having been chloroformed in preparation for a sexual assault, and
59:45
Speaker 3: now it seems that her lawyer is finding that other
59:48
Speaker 3: people are coming forward. A handful of complainants contacted Asato's
59:52
Speaker 3: lawyer in response to coverage of the MP's decision to
59:55
Speaker 3: sue Musk's company for damages over its creation of fake
1:00:00
Speaker 3: of her in a bikini and an AI created video
1:00:04
Speaker 3: that showed her being chloroformed and prepared for sexual assault.
1:00:09
Speaker 3: Rather grim stuff. Next up, in case you missed it,
1:00:13
Speaker 3: well you would have missed it. Three Lebanese hospitals hit
1:00:17
Speaker 3: by Israeli forces in under a week. Strikes in the
1:00:20
Speaker 3: south of the country have killed nine people and wounded
1:00:24
Speaker 3: another one hundred and fifty, most of the medical staff.
1:00:28
Speaker 3: Can you remember when back in October twenty twenty three,
1:00:33
Speaker 3: the Arab hospital in Gaza was bombed for the first time,
1:00:37
Speaker 3: and all the lobby defenders, all the Israel supporters said,
1:00:42
Speaker 3: oh no, no, this was a Hezboo missile that went astray. Well,
1:00:47
Speaker 3: since then, as we know, Israel has decimated the healthcare
1:00:50
Speaker 3: system of Gaza, and it's now decimating the healthcare system
1:00:53
Speaker 3: of Lebanon. And yet something that would have been a
1:00:58
Speaker 3: worldwide outrage fifteen years ago now is hardly recorded as
1:01:03
Speaker 3: even newsworthy. The Overton window on these horrors has shifted
1:01:08
Speaker 3: so far towards the hellish reality that we now find
1:01:12
Speaker 3: ourselves in. Next up, Yes, a clear case of white
1:01:20
Speaker 3: privilege here, because the supermarkets Sainsbury's have announced they're phasing
1:01:26
Speaker 3: out brown eggs on its own brand ranges, supposedly as
1:01:31
Speaker 3: part of a new sustainability initiative. It turns out that
1:01:35
Speaker 3: white eggs have a twelve point seven percent lower carbon
1:01:40
Speaker 3: footprint than brown eggs. This is due to the longevity
1:01:44
Speaker 3: of white hens. Believe it or not, and it's.
1:01:49
Speaker 4: Not April or first.
1:01:51
Speaker 3: This really is true. They say that Sainsbury's that the
1:01:55
Speaker 3: aim is to empower customers to make more sustainable dietary choices.
1:02:00
Speaker 3: Absolutely extraordinary stuff. And finally, there's been this much vaunted
1:02:05
Speaker 3: UFC circus descending on the White House. The only American
1:02:12
Speaker 3: UFC champion in a chap called Sean. He's been banned
1:02:15
Speaker 3: because of his criticism of Israel. He's not allowed to
1:02:19
Speaker 3: be there. But don't worry, Ring Master Trump is going
1:02:24
Speaker 3: to be in charge. As we can see.
1:02:26
Speaker 4: Now, Wow, this.
1:02:29
Speaker 11: Is so weird. What the hell is Trump doing? And
1:02:33
Speaker 11: look at Bibi. He's loving every second of this. I'm astonished.
1:02:38
Speaker 11: Sean Strickland was one hundred percent right. I might lose
1:02:43
Speaker 11: my job after this. But ladies and gentlemen, our nation
1:02:46
Speaker 11: has fallen.
1:02:51
Speaker 2: Well that's all that is.
1:02:54
Speaker 1: That an actual clip. It looks very realistic.
1:02:59
Speaker 3: Who knows these days? Who knows this? Perhaps Trump will sue,
1:03:03
Speaker 3: you know, perhaps he'll sue the creators.
1:03:05
Speaker 1: I don't think you should. That's the best that anyone's
1:03:07
Speaker 1: ever made Trump look physically anyway, anything I've seen in
1:03:11
Speaker 1: any media. So it took off about fifty pounds. Well
1:03:15
Speaker 1: maybe you should be paying them for that.
1:03:17
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll talk more about Trump's physique and extra at
1:03:19
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1:03:21
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