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

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty seventh of March twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Call Him News. I'm your host,
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Mack Robinson. Joining me today Vanessa Billy and Charles Mallett. We're going
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to get started with Assange and of course the High Court care Sorry, the
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High Court hearing was yesterday and the two judges decided that they would adjourn their
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final judgment until the twentieth of May while they went back to the United States
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looking for assurances. They were looking for assurances that a Sange would maintain his
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First Amendment freedom of speech rights while he was in the US, that he
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wouldn't be subject to the death penalty and so on. So really this looks
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like the situation that they are minded to send them back, to send them
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to the United States extra item, as the US has asked. Here is
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a comment from Shield midden Io saying the British courts are pretty much just given
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the US administration practically a free pass. And a quote from Stella Signs saying
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Julian is a political prisoner. He's a journalist and he's being persecuted because they
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exposed the true cost of war and human lives. This case is a retribution.
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It's a signal to all of you that if you expose the interests in
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the driving war, they will come after you. They will put you in
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prison and try to kill you. So, Vanessa, I don't know if
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you've got any thoughts on this, but it looks like assuming the United States
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says what the High Court wants it to say on the twentieth of May,
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they will refuse the right to appeal and then the extradition will take another step
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forward. But I mean, we can't believe anything the United States is going
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to say in this case anyway, can we? No? And according to
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a report that I read by Craig Murray, who was in the court,
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of course, they basically changed the charges completely and then didn't allow the defense
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lawyers to present new witnesses or to have any time to consider the new charges.
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So this just seems to be a completely trumped up manuever to keep as
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Songe incarcerated for as long as possible in the UK and to make it impossible
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to defend the new charges. Presumably. Yeah, well, I mean they
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have been kicking the can down the road as much as they possibly can.
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I'm not sure how much further now they could kick it down the road.
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Charge If you got any thoughts on this topic, well, I think that
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those words of Stellar Assungs are absolutely right on the money. And I mean,
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obviously Julian Sanders's case rightly is the most high profile of this, but
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there are plenty of other examples, not just here but across the world where
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spreading the word of truth, shall we say, is smashed down upon it
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in you know, ironically hardest by those countries that tell the rest of the
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world that they are liberal democracies. Indeed, absolutely so. We will report
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obviously on this as time goes on. But the next did for your daries
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is the twentieth of May. It looks like, no, Vanessa, let
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me welcome you properly to the program and head over to Moscow and the terrorist
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attack or is it a terrorist attack that happened there? Yeah, I mean
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it's definitely a terrorist attack. Who was behind that terrorist attack is still not
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completely concluded, although the head of the FSB put out a statement I believe
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Alex Botnikov in the last twenty four hours that Moscow now believes or the FSB
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believes that US, UK and Ukraine are behind the monster attack. They don't
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mention Turkey, which is interesting because apparently the terrorists were actually trained in Turkey.
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Now, this was a statement put out by the US and the UK
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embassies in Russia on I think it was the seventh of March, warning British
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citizens US citizens to avoid large gatherings over the next forty eight hours and to
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include obviously crowded places, et cetera. A bit strange that they put in
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the wording to include concerts. Now, why is this strange? A lot
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of people have highlighted this on social media, but basically at the same time,
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there was this report in Forbes the US Embassy warns of imminent extremist attack
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in Moscow, and this was apparently based on an FSB boiling of an extremist
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attack against a Jewish synagogue in Moscow. The report is up on the FSB
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website that you can translate it into English. But interesting that the FSB report,
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which talks about preventing a terrorist act during which the terrorists were actually eliminated,
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did not mention any danger to concerts or even to crowded places. And
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then if we remember that there was the Russian security forces have mentioned that the
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original attack should have taken place in their opinion on the eighth of March that
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that would tie in with the us UK warning. But again, how do
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they know that it was going to be an attack on a concert and that
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attack was delayed because the oligarch that owns the concert hall turned up to see
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a concert by a Russian patriotic singer called Shaman and he was surrounded by bodyguards.
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In theory, the terrorists pulled back because it was clearly too dangerous for
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them to carry out the attack at that time. Now, let's see John
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Kirby after the Crocus attack. What he said, I'm not aware of any
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advanced knowledge that we had of this, this terrible attack on March eighth.
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The NBASC awards of him and at tagging mask away extremements, Yeah, I
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think that. I'll let the State Deforment speak to that, I think,
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but I don't think that was related to this specific attack. Well, I
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mean, if they had information of any kind, why wasn't it passed on
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through official channels to the Russian security forces? Right, So that is a
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question that has to be asked, And why was he so quick to deny
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that they had any fore knowledge when they clearly did on March the eighth.
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Then, of course other contexts. The NATO ally could command a sixty thousand
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strong force in Ukraine, so this is the French leading the charge, with
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a number of other countries going along with this to basically put NATO troops on
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the ground. So a handful of NATO nations discussing sending Allied forces into Ukraine
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and training and advisory roles, though not as combat troops. Allegedly the Baltic
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states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia and Poland have expressed support of Paris's position,
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although the US and Germany are opposed. So that is another context prior
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to the attack on the Crocus. And then here we go, Barack Obama
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drops in for a coppa with uk Rishisunac. What do they discuss for an
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hour When Obama is sitting with his coppa with Rieschi Sunac, he was allegedly
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in town for a meeting of the Obama Foundation, and Downing Street later said
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that the pair spoke for around an hour sorry over cups of tea. They
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discussed a range of subjects, including artificial intelligence. Well, they could also
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have discussed many other intelligence issues. And then we have Vicky Cookies Newland who
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put out this statement about two weeks before she actually resigned her position, where
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she mentioned the upcoming asymmetric warfare against Russia. So let's roll that video.
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With the sixty billion dollars supplemental that the administration has requested of Congress, we
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can ensure that Ukraine not only survives, but she thrives. With this support
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in twenty twenty four, we can help ensure Ukraine can continue to fight,
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to build, to recover, and to reform. With this money, Ukraine
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will be able to fight back in the East, but it will also be
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able to accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield.
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And as I said in Kiev three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure
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Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year. I mean interesting wording
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there. Also, immediately after the attack of Alexei Danel, all through war
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ahead of a Security and Defense council in Kiev put out an extraordinary statement mocking
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the Russians after the attack and stating, maybe we should visit you more often,
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which is an implied threat. It came. Also, the attack came
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immediately after I think it was the same night that Russia and China had vetoed
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the US led UN resolution on the Gaza cease fire, which of course,
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basically the US LED resolution was demanding the surrender of Hamas in order to achieve
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a ceasefire that was vetoed by Russia and China, and the attack came on
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the same night. And then just a sort of a bit of a kickback
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to the twentieth of October last year, when we showed a video interview with
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Amir Weitman, the founder of the Likud Party, one of the most far
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right extremist parties in and let's hear what he said back then, Well,
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we're gonna win because we're stronger after this. Russia will pay the price.
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Believe me, Russia will Russia the price. Russia is supporting the enemies of
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Israel, Russia is supporting Nazi people who want to commit genocide on us,
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and just Russia will pay the price. Russia also, now let me listen
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to me very carefully, we are gonna finish with the Nazis. We're gonna
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win this war. It's gonna take the time it's gonna take, but we're
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gonna win this war. Afterwards. We're not forgetting what you are doing.
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We're not forgetting. We will come. We will make sure that Ukraine wins.
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We will make sure that you pay the price for what you have done.
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You as Russia, and you and as all the enemies of Israel,
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and you as all the people who are now making everything they can to support
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genoside of the Jews in Israel. We are not forgetting. We are not
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forgetting. Remember exactly what I'm saying now, you will be the price and
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interesting declaration then and then this is going back to twenty nineteen, but actually
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you can find reports from as far back as twenty fourteen how Ukraine became the
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unlikely home for ISIS leaders escaping the color fate. So basically, ISIS terrorists
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that were let's say incubated and Iraq emerged from al Qaeda, created by President
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Obama, funded and equipped by under Obama's administration inside Syria, fled to Ukraine,
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where in my view they were again incubated and let's say adopted by the
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CIA. Because here they talk about the facts that the ones that made it
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to Ukraine are the dangerous ones because once they get to Turkey, it's a
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fairly difficult route to get into Ukraine. And it then talks about the fact
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that this particular guy, Albadashishani, it's not the original Shishani, leader of
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the original ISIS. This was another guy from Georgia. Also, so another
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Chechen. There are a large amount of Chechen ISIS fighters inside Ukraine right now.
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He was picked up by the SBU and the CIA, and it mentions
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in the report it's unclear why they chose not to arrest him earlier. Now
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we know that the CIA has a hand in the recruiting and the training of
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many of these ISIS members. Now, I would say that although the attack
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has been claimed immediately by the UK and the US, with very little time
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to make that conclusion, the attack was carried out by ISIS, these were
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not ideology wise, These were not ISIS fighters. ISIS fighters would not allow
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themselves to be captured. They would die fighting because martyrdom is a major ethos
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of the ISIS organization. So I don't think these were pure ISIS. I
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think they were mercenaries. Now, where were they recruited from? We know
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that they were picked up in Tajakhstan. Of course, what does this do
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create racial divisions potentially in Russia. That could be another cause and effect of
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the attack itself. But this is another interesting piece of information that I have
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confirmed here in Syria. This was taken from a Russian telegram channel. A
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few weeks before Cracus, the delegation of Ukrainian officers arrived at the Alshadhadi base
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and the Syrian countryside of Alhaska aboard an American cargo plane. Sorry in the
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northeast of Syria, so where US is occupying with the Kurdish country proxies.
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The Ukrainian delegation held several meetings with American officers at the base and meetings with
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Kurdish SDF leaders. The media of the SDF didn't officially announce the visit.
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Coordination between Ukraine and armed groups in Syria is carried out on the direct control
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of the US. Ukrainian intelligence previously maintained contact with Turkmen leaders in EdLab to
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conduct military operations against Russian forces on Syrian territory. Now I have, as
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I said, confirmed this with numerous sources here. So what is Ukraine and
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the US trying to do. Are they trying to expend the war across borders
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so combine the war in Ukraine and the war in Syria? Or are they
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trying to recruit more ISIS fighters from Syria to bring to Ukraine to make up
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for the meat grinder that they're putting their own conscripts into. Yeah, good
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questions. Okay, we'll talk about a little bit more about this in extranal
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diet. And I, Charles, I think it was last week I was
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covering the fact that the first batch of ten pilots allegedly to go into F
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sixteen's at some point in the future, had received their basic training from the
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RAF, and that they were heading off to France. You have an update
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on this, Mike, And I should have said earlier. Good afternoon.
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All, Yes, you covered it on Friday. In brief and in military
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parlance, all actions are committed to having an effect, and so I thought
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i'd look a bit further into the potential effects of this. But exactly as
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you say, the government have given a press release saying that they've put ten
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pilots Ukrainian pilots through a basic training program with the RAF. Now what does
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that mean? They've gone on and said that they've received basic flying grons called
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and language training in the UK and will one day form the first line of
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defensive protecting Ukraine's skies. And specifically they say they're going to go on to
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France now before learning to fly F sixteen fighter jets. So, whilst that
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seems slightly confusing for the pilot's concerned, I thought I'd just harked back to
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role United Services Institute last year an article published by Professor Justin Bronkly this is
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about typhoons, but the point he's making is the applicability of fast jets to
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that environment and specifically referring to such a deployment. The former task is extremely
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challenging due to the fact that Russia deploys a highly effective and multi layered ground
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based air defense system in Ukraine. Long range surface air to air sorry surface
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to air missile systems like the infamous S four hundred and the S three hundred
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V four, supported by long range radars like the Podlet, can threaten fighter
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aircraft distances of well over one hundred kilometers behind the front lines, even at
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low altitudes. So to reinforce the point put forward by Russi which seems to
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have been completely forgotten and in effect. To contextualize what this means, I
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spoke to Tim Davis, who is a veteran of both the Royal Navy and
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Royal Air Force, having flown fast jets for them over a twenty year period
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and trained and worked as an electronic warfare officer. So we'll just have a
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listen to a clip of him speaking to me yesterday. Someone coming through this
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airplane here in the Royal Air Force is probably taking about If we do it
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properly, it should take three and a half years. It's never been done.
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Even when I went through, I took about four for a bit.
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Now it's about seven because the holes they've got to do in between, because
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we just you're backlogged on courses. The Ukrainians will be any different. Of
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course, British pilots don't have that language problem that Ukrainians have, and it
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is a language problem still. I've trained Katari's, Saudi's, I've trained Indian
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pilots, I've trained all sorts. Language is a huge issue. When you
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get into a cockpit like this, which is loud, it's hot, there's
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a lot of vibration. You need to be able to hear what's going on.
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I understand the language. So we've got to put someone Even when they
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finish on this course here, it's still going to go onto this aircraft here
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like the Tornado which we don't fly, and him also typhoon F thirty five.
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That's going to take you a year, possibly six months to a year
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to train up on that, and then you're not combat ready. You're limited
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combat ready. No one's going to throw you into a fight. You're gonna
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get killed. So we still need to train you up. We still need
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another six months, maybe even more than that, where you then progress through
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onto different leadership aspects where then you can be taken into some kind of combat
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zone. So it's not as if we know the reason F six things aren't
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in theater. Is it going to get shot down? Full stop? There's
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no to ways about it. I was an electronic warfare instructor, so I'm
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very familiar with the surface to a missile strategies that the Russians use. I
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didn't speak out of turn about it, of course, but you could read
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about it on any kind of decent website. Now they are masters at ground
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based their defense. That's why we don't have the permissive air environment over there.
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You see the Ukraine aircraft flying at treetop height. Of course they are.
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They flew any higher, they're going to get shot down. This is
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why we have Royal Airport's aircraft over the Black Sea, targeting into Ukraine and
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telling the Russian sorry, telling the Ukrainians where everything is, all the Russian
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stuff is. We have that there because they can't be over Ukraine, the
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RF cannot be over it. They be shot down. They're almost shot down
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over the Black Sea. Remember weren't they in the aircraft they were using there.
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So Tim Davis putting a point of view forward that you won't hear coming
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out of the government nor in any of the echo chambers surrounding the government.
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But the other thing, going back to sort of military parlams and considerations or
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rather, is the question what if at every stage of a planning process you
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ask what if such and such a thing happens? So my question is,
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what if there is a threat from Russia or from anywhere else, Why would
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the United Kingdom be committing their resources to the training of pilots that are not
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British at a time like this. It makes no sense at all. Very
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good question. Of course, Russia not the only target of the propaganda from
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the UK, China increasingly as well. So let's bring this on screen because
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the issue no is that we've been on the receiving end, allegedly of Chinese
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steerdbacked cyber attacks. Now we've got a little bit of clip of the wonderful
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Foreign Secretary David Cameron giving a short briefing on this. Attacks on our democracy
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are unacceptable. Yet that is what organizations backed by China have done today.
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We are publicly calling them out, and we've taken action. We've summoned the
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Chinese ambassador, and we are putting sanctions, travel bands, asset freezes on
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the individuals and the group responsible. Such action from China will not be tolerated.
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We will always seek to defend ourselves from those that threaten our values and
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our democracy, and we encourage other countries to do the same. So there
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you go with the wonderful David Cameron. Now that his words, of course,
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weren't his own. They came from information from the National Cybersecurity Center,
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part of GCHQ. So let's have a look and see what they said.
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Here. They said GCHQ's National Cybersecurity Center assesses China's state affiliated actor APP to
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thirty one was most certainly responsible for targeting UK parliamentarian's emails in twenty twenty one.
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Now APP thirty one stands for Advanced Persistent Threat Group thirty one. It's
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got a number of other names, as we will see on this graphic from
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the US the Department of State. So these hackers, they say have helped
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Chinese Ministry of State Security conduct conduct malicious cyber operations against US critical infrastructure through
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its front company Wuhan XRZ. Wuhan must be at the most amazing place in
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China because not only do they release bioweapons on the world, and neither it's
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the center of cyber attacks as well. It's quite amazing. So anyway,
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they are, these seven people on screen are part of a Chinese state sponsored
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intelligence officers, a group of Chinese state sponsored intelligence officers and contract hackers known
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in the cybersecurity communities APP thirty one, otherwise known as Zirconium, Violet,
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Typhoon, Judgment, Panda, and Alta. That's what they look like.
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The NCSC report went on to say to bring in the whole electoral process because
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we've got to know that no matter what the outcome of the election this year,
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it's going to be interfered with by external bodies, and China is going
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to be a key one. So the compromise of the UK Electoral Commission systems
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has also been attributed to China state affiliated actor in a separate instance of malicious
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activity, they said, and as a result of this, they have updated
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their advice to anybody taking part in the coming elections. So they've provided an
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extra page on their Defending Democracy page guidance for political organizations. So go and
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have a look at that if you want to see what they're talking about.
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But let's have a look at a quote from Paul Chichester, who is the
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NCSC Director of Operations, saying that the malicious activities we've exposed today are indicative
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of a wider pattern of unacceptable behavior we're seeing from China state affiliated actor against
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the UK and around the world. The targeting of our democratic system is unacceptable
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and the NCSC will continue to call out cyber actors who oppose a threat to
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the institutions and values to underpin our society. And then, going back to
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their report, it says that the cyber campaign against the parliamentary email accounts of
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members across both houses of Parliament was identified and successfully mitigated by Parliament's Security Department
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before any accounts could be compromised. Well, I find that very interesting because
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the Parliament's Security Department seemed to be able to mitigate the Chinese activity, but
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they weren't able to mitigate the British activity. So let's just remind ourselves of
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Big brother Watch's Ministry of Truth exposed report. We had covered some of this
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in the past, but let's just remind ourselves what this said. Secretive Whitehall
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units have been monitoring government critics speech online, including MP's academics, journalists,
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human rights campaigners and the public under the guise of combating disinformation. Our report,
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that's Big brother Watches report Ministry of Truth, the secret of government units
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spying on your speech, revealed for the first time the truth behind the government's
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five anti fake news units and how their mission of countering disinformation quickly turned to
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countering descent across the UK. And no, I would dispute the first time
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bit because we'll bring the graphic that we produced back on screen in a minute.
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But let's just remind ourselves what they went on to say. They pointed
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out that Caroline Lucas Green Party MP was included in an election disinformation report for
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calling the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson a liar. They said that Labor leader
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Secure Starmer, Conservative MP's David Davis and Chris Green, high profile academics from
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the University of Oxford, University College London, and journalists including Peter Hitchins and
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Julia Hartley Brewer all had comments critical of the government analyzed by anti misinformation units
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within the government, and that soldiers from the Army seventy seventh Brigade, tasks
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with non lethal psychological warfare, collected tweets from British citizens posting about COVID nine
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nineteen and passed them to central government, despite claiming operations were directed strictly overseas.
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So let's just bring on the UK column graphic which demonstrates the skill and
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this is frankly a fraction of what is there of the government censorship network.
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This is the key point. This is the level of surveillances going on not
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just of the citizenry or the public in the United Kingdom, but also of
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MPs, of activists, of anybody that's pursuing a different narrative to the government
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or attempting to hold the government to account in any way, And with respect
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to the issue of seventy seven Brigade and its behavior, I'd put in a
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freedom of information request to the Ministry of Defense on this in January, because
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if you remember, as we reported at the time, Ben Wallace, the
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Defense Secretary, had got up in Parliament and said that he had instructed that
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not only that the government not only looks into the story of the surveillance of
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the MP's and so on, but checks the instructions that he had issued to
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seventy seven brigate about how they were supposed to behave were carried out. So
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I was asking for the documentation around these instructions. Now, not only has
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the Ministry defense, they're not even bothering to reply at this point. So
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at least the Foreign Office stalls and office skates and tries to refuse to answer
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freedom information requests. The Ministry Defense on this issue is absolutely in breach of
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the law because they are not even responding or acknowledging receipt of the freedom information
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request from me at this point. It's quite impressive how they seem to be
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quite happy to ignore the law in this case. Now, moving from China
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just for a second, we'll come back to China in a minute, and
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looking at Russia. The BBC was carrying this article earlier kit rumors linked to
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Russian disinformation and this is all about the forraor over the Princess of Wales and
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the BBC in this report saying security researchers believe a Russian based disinformation group amplified
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and added to the frenzy of social media conspiracies about the Princess of Prince of
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Will's health. Researchers found many new accounts on Twitter and other platforms sharing identically
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worded messages. But hold on a second. Just as it's the UK that
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are doing the majority of the surveillance on the UK public and on MPs and
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so on, and not China, it's the UK and others are Western BacT
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interests that are doing most of this behavior on Twitter. So let's remind ourselves
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about NEFO, for example, who behave in exactly this way. We should
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also mention the Mutton crew as well, who seem to behave in this way.
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And of course we should remind ourselves that Integrity Initiative was a British exercise
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in order to build an anti Russian, a erusophobic narrative. Didn't end with
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Integrity Initiative, which is a private organization within Parliament itself. The Intelligence and
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Security Committee of Parliament published their Russia Report absolutely to build up Russophobic narrative,
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and the same committee published their China Report in order to build exactly the same
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type of narrative. So I'm going to say at this point this is these
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are my words. Russia and China are no threats to the British people.
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The real threat to the British people is the British government, the media industrial
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complex and the NGO slash CSO industrial complex. And just to highlight that last
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point to begin with, you know what do we have in terms of soft
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power projection from China? We have the Confucius Institute on one hand, and
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what does the West have. We have all these foundations, all these taxes
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exemp foundations that are operating both domestically and abroad. And this is just a
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fraction of the tax exempt foundations that push certain types of policy agendas in the
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West. And then coming back to my comment from a second ago. If
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we just highlight the British government part, the real threat to the British people
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is the British government. Let me just remind everybody of the integrated operating concept.
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Go and look for this document and read it. I'm just going to
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take one particular quote from it. The old distinction between foreign and domestic defense
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is increasingly irrelevant. Home is no longer a secure sanctuary, whence we may
29:23
choose to launch interventions unhindered. Away is no longer a regional horizon, but
29:29
a global one. Similarly, the front it no longer lies in some distant
29:33
theater operations of operations, but is within the port, airfield or barracks.
29:38
Charles. The British Government and their poodles in the British mainstream media, and
29:45
the various NGOs and CSOs that are assisting the British government, none of these
29:52
organizations hold the British government to account. The level of surveillance on the UK
29:57
public and even on MPs by the British government and its intelligence agencies vastly outstrips
30:06
any behavior by Russia or China. So therefore my feeling on this is they
30:11
are our enemy, perhaps, but certainly we should be holding them to account
30:17
first before we start looking abroad. I quite agree it's an enormous distraction or
30:25
deflection. And just thinking about the text from seventy seven Brigade talking about non
30:32
lethal psychological warfare, people might be wondering what lethal psychological warfare could be,
30:37
and I would say that would be the creation of the state of emergency around
30:42
a fabricated pandemic which caused people to behave in such a way that lives were
30:48
unquestionably lost, particularly among the LdB community, who were dealt with in an
30:52
absolutely appalling fashion by people who for the most part panicked of course egged on
30:57
by exactly those that describes. So yes, I mean that's that's very sinister.
31:03
Then you know. A lot of it's in plain sight. Are reported
31:07
last year on the activities of His Majesty's Government Communications Center, the HMGCC,
31:14
which is developing openly with the private sector a device to effectively clone sim cards
31:22
in order, it says, to be able to safely track its own employees.
31:26
But I don't think it takes much of a mental leap to consider it
31:30
could have other applications. So this continues all the time. On sanctions David
31:37
Cameron. I mean, it's frankly just waffle. We spoke last week about
31:42
the effect that sanctions have not had on Russia, so talk about cutting off
31:48
your nose to spite your face. I mean he's got to decide, really,
31:52
what's the what's the goal of that? Who's it going to hurt more
31:55
China or the United Kingdom or at least the people who are paying his salary
32:00
in the United Kingdom specifically. So I mean, you know, this is
32:02
a mindfil I'm sure we could go on talking about it for a long time,
32:06
but no, I mean I absolutely agree with you, Mike, I
32:07
really do. Yes, Okay, thank you, Charles. We'll talk about
32:10
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dot coll at UK Now. Charles already mentioned his interview with Morgan Lourette that
32:45
is, or maybe actually maybe mentioned that during the during the pre show discussion
32:50
that we were all having. So Charles just very briefly give everybody an overview
32:54
of this, thanks Mike. Yes, Morgan Lorette serve as initially as an
33:00
airman in Iraq in the early two thousands. He then went into Blackwater at
33:06
the height of its activities in Baghdad as a private military contractor, about which
33:12
he's written a very very entertaining and philosophical book called Guns, Girls and Greed.
33:17
And I spoke to him for an hour. He was very candid,
33:21
very humorous, and he has a lot of very profound thoughts on the nature
33:24
and conduct of warfare. Thank you for that. So have a look at
33:30
that if you possibly can tomorrow at one pm. The third part of The
33:35
Green King. There's a snowsmoke with our Fires series with Brian and Debbie,
33:38
but this is the third part looking at the Green King, which of course,
33:43
of course King Charles, do have a look at that one pm if
33:46
you possibly can tomorrow, And Debbie's blog is up if anybody would have a
33:52
look at that. More on the MHRA and the MR Board meeting and so
33:57
on, so do have a look at that if you can. And finally,
34:00
just a very quick reminder that we are taking an Easter break this weekend,
34:06
so there'll be no UK Column news on Friday or on Monday. We
34:09
will see it at one pm on Tuesday for the interview that was right then,
34:14
and then the next news program will be on Wednesday next week. Okay,
34:19
where does that take us? Bird flu? Charles back to bird flu.
34:27
Indeed, the specter of yet another terrifying disease looms over US and UK
34:34
Column has been reporting on this for some time, prompted now by the announcement
34:38
last week that the government is introducing new measures to combat bird flu, essentially
34:45
to invite or rather order, everybody that keeps poultry to register their birds.
34:53
Now, before you tune out, because you don't keep poultry, I would
34:58
put it to you this has absolutely nothing to do with poultry, nothing to
35:01
do with health, everything to do with fear control, surveillance and compliance as
35:08
well as big farmer. So you see here the information on the register will
35:14
also be used to identify all bird keepers in disease control zones, allowing for
35:17
more effective surveillance. Of course they're putting it forward as though it's efficiency.
35:24
Now this has come from a recommendation from a twenty eighteen document put together by
35:29
Dame Glennis Stacey. Here it is the Farm Inspection and Regulation Review and the
35:34
most standout sentence from her forward is here, which exemplifies the lack of trust
35:40
that our government has for its populace. Regulation is really all about getting people
35:47
to act in ways they would not otherwise choose for the best. So this
35:54
sets the tone for the when in which people are to be treated with regard
35:59
to the keeping of poultry, although as I say, this is actually not
36:02
really the subject matter of it. Or go back and have a look to
36:06
see how this has come back, because of course the government did run a
36:08
consultation last year in twenty twenty three, and they produced or published a summary
36:13
of responses to go alongside the announcement of the new measures. The options if
36:19
you're unable to see the screen were baseline, which is to do nothing.
36:22
In effect, the situation at the moment is that if you have fifty birds
36:25
or fewer, you don't have to register them, and that was the baseline.
36:30
Therefore, you could opt to keep the status quote or Option one,
36:36
the government's preferred option, which is to extend the requirement in order that everybody
36:39
who keeps any birds at all should not only register, but have to provide
36:45
a mandatory and your update or option for the keepers of ten birds or more,
36:52
or you don't have a preferred option. Now, it will probably not
36:55
surprise you to learn that the overwhelming majority seventy five percent of the three hundred
37:00
sorry three four hundred and nineteen respondents said that they did not want any change
37:07
to the status quo, and Option one, the preferred option by government,
37:10
which is effectively to surveil everybody all the time, was only selected by thirteen
37:15
percent of people. And to anybody who's ever signed a government petition, you
37:20
will know therefore that the government have gone ahead and done it anyway. Now,
37:24
where's this come from? The Chief Veess at the moment is a lady
37:28
called Christine Middlemiss. She's been imposed since twenty eighteen. But what I want
37:32
to draw your attention to is her work in New South Wales, Australia,
37:36
which is where she was before, and specifically the introduction of risk based bi
37:40
security legislation and risk based disease control approaches. The new South Wales bi Security
37:46
Act, which came out in twenty fifteen was effectively implemented her under her tenure
37:53
in Australia. Will look at a video of that in extra to see exactly
37:59
where it comes from. But what they're doing here is pushing the narrative to
38:06
capture effectively everything. So they say here the change to bird registration is required
38:13
in order to protect the health poultry and other captive birds and also public health.
38:17
But of course that's just stated without qualification. Now the reason for that
38:22
is what they want you to believe is that bird flu is not only present,
38:27
but also can be caught by things other than birds and maybe humans.
38:32
Now that's why I make the reference specifically to this being relevant to all of
38:37
us. So let's just have an examination of the sort of bisecurity background to
38:44
it. This is from November twenty twenty one, what's called the latest situation,
38:49
in which they say that it's in no way connected to the COVID pandemic,
38:52
which is caused by SARS CoV two virus and not carried in poultry.
38:55
Now, my contention is that this is exactly like the COVID panda in that
39:00
it's entirely fabricated, overstated, and without any kind of scientific background whatsoever.
39:07
The reason I'm able to say that is because we first of all look at
39:09
the situation on the ground updated on the twenty first of March. Now,
39:15
according to the APHA, the Plants Health Agency, there are at any one
39:22
time in the UK approximately four hundred million birds poultry birds live in the country
39:30
and on the screen here since in the last six months, since first of
39:34
October twenty twenty three, there have been four cases of bird flow in England,
39:38
two cases in Scotland and zero in Wales and Northern Ireland. Are quite
39:45
astonishing statistic, and yet they are able to declare an emergency. Of course
39:51
they are. Now I went into the scientific side of it. You may
39:54
remember from a previous update that I submitted a freedom of information request in March
39:59
last to find out what Apart from the PCR test, which I should remind
40:04
you is not a diagnostic tool and may not diagnose a condition. It cannot
40:08
tell you if you are ill, or if you're going to be ill,
40:12
or what effect any of that may cause. Nonetheless, the answers to the
40:16
questions were as such. I asked whether they tested the bird's water and feed.
40:23
The answer was APHA do not carry out tests on water or feed.
40:28
I asked if they tested the bird's blood to detect any toxicity in the blood.
40:32
They do not perform toxicity tests on the bird's blood. I also asked
40:37
about environmental toxicity, and they do not carry out tests on the environment.
40:42
So, in effect, bird flu is little more than a concept, but
40:47
it's a very very useful concept. And indeed it's one, as I say,
40:52
that is the essentially the sort of kernel of a narrative that can be
40:55
expanded and expanded, and it's exactly what they're doing here. So we see
41:00
the announcement on screen now of bird flood being found in mammals in the sub
41:06
Antarctic, which was a couple of months ago, and on it goes.
41:10
Now, of course, where's it going. Vaccines? The European Medicines Agency
41:15
here talking about pandemic influenza. And there's just a few bits I want to
41:19
draw your attention to here, specifically, because not only are they're using the
41:25
bird flu, they're talking about strains of bird flu. Again, this is
41:29
all hypothestical because of the sort of closed loop science behind it. But they're
41:35
talking about strains of bird food being used in vaccines, and here we go
41:38
the highlighted texts that could potentially cause a pandemic. They then go on to
41:43
say that they can be authorized but not marketed before an influenza pandemic, and
41:50
this is called we're talking here specifically about affluentov which was a medicine that withdrawn
41:57
back in two thousand and eight, but nonetheless it's the language that's in again
42:00
highlight a text. It's intended to protect against a strain of flu that may
42:04
cause a future pandemic, and I think you can see where this is going.
42:08
They go on to say that the next flu pandemic could be caused by
42:13
the H five N one strain of the virus. We'll learn behold, that
42:15
is exactly what they're talking about when they refer to bird flu in this country
42:17
at the moment, and critically, finally they say it could be used before
42:22
or during a flu pandemic. So there's a lot to sort of unpack from
42:30
that, but I think really the takeaway point, as I said, is
42:31
the absolute lack of trust, the complete abandonment of the democratic process or indeed
42:39
any heed being paid to the responses from people who've decided that they want to
42:45
keep poultry for reasons of their own. And this is just you know,
42:52
follows the last segment. Really, the level of government interference and arrogance,
42:57
frankly is perfectly astonishing and it will be interesting to see what the response to
43:02
this, any action going to be taken by the public will be. Charles,
43:07
thank you for that. Now we're going to move on to online safety
43:09
and OFCOM has launched a consultation or at least a call for evidence, and
43:15
this is about this is all about the third phase of online safety regulation.
43:20
So they're seeking evidence to inform our codes of practice and guidance on the additional
43:23
duties that will apply to some of the most widely used online services and apps
43:30
designated as categorized services under the Online Safety Act. So they say that under
43:36
the new laws, all in scope tech firms must put in place appropriate safety
43:39
measures to protect users from online harms. In additions, some online services will
43:44
have to comply with extra requirements if they fall into one of three categories.
43:49
So I just wanted to highlight this, suggest that people have a look at
43:52
it and maybe respond if they wish. But if we put that back on
43:55
screen for a second. Let's just look at the definitions of the category.
43:59
So category one has two conditions for you to become a Category one app or
44:06
site. So Condition one is that it uses a content recommender system, so
44:09
that would be the likes of Twitter or Facebook or whatever that has algorithms or
44:13
YouTube and has more than thirty four million UK users on the user to user
44:17
part of its service, representing around fifty percent of the UK population. Condition
44:22
two is that it allows users to forward to reshare user regenerated content and uses
44:27
a content recommender system and has more than seven million UK users in the user
44:32
to user part of its service, representing around ten percent of its UK population.
44:37
So either those two conditions is met, then that is a Category one.
44:42
This is the first time we've seen these definitions. Category two A is
44:45
a search service, but not a vertical search service, so in other words,
44:50
not restricted to a single topic, but you know, basically a search
44:54
service for everything. So that would be Google or Bang or one of these
44:58
types of platforms has more than seven million UK users on the search engine part
45:02
of its service. And category to B, which is a service which meets
45:07
both of these criteria that allows users to send direct messages and has more than
45:12
three million UK users on the user the user part of the service, representing
45:16
five percent of the UK population. So those are the service providers that are
45:22
in scope of this call for evidence and basically the main social media companies and
45:28
search engines, and so they're looking for feedback from people that might be something
45:34
we want to get involved with. Vanessa, let me welcome you back at
45:37
this point, and of course, the UN Security Council held a vote on
45:44
whether there should be a ceasefire in Gaza, yes, and finally a successful
45:49
resolution to adopt a somewhat limited SEASPI. Russia of course wanted a total seaspire
45:58
that has been consistently vetoed. So let's just watch the watch the video of
46:04
the actual vote with those in favor of the draft resolution contained in document s
46:12
RUSH twenty twenty four, Rush two hundred and fifty four preach there raise their
46:16
hand. Those against aubstention. The result of the voting is as for US
46:46
fourteen votes in favor, zero vote against, one abstention. The draft resolution
46:54
has been adopted at Revolution twenty seven, twenty eight. Since than it would
47:00
be too quite extraordinary, report in CNN yesterday which stated that the US had
47:13
allowed the ceasefire, which gives some idea of how people perceive the rule of
47:20
the UN Security Council with an abstention. Now interesting that there was a US
47:25
substantion. There was a UK vote yes by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, who put
47:32
out a statement I think yesterday might be sentenced me. And basically she makes
47:39
very sort of typical comments. She talks about the fact that she would have
47:44
preferred if they had condemned her mask for the October seventh attacks. She does
47:49
talk about the suffering of the Palestinian people, but almost as if it's happening
47:54
in isolation from Israel and not attributing any of those as ideal campaigns to Israel
48:02
itself. And I wanted to actually play one video from inside Gaza that has
48:07
appeared in the last week. Basically, these are Palestinians pushing dead bodies on
48:15
a cart which has been pulled by a horse, and it is distressing viewing.
48:20
It's from a distance, but it's still distressing. But let's roll this
48:24
video. Why I'm sure I'm saying you simmer half nights. Do you look
49:10
at you? And all I have to say, So that's pretty sick,
49:15
too bad about the horse? They said, yeah, I know, yeah.
49:20
So these are the crimes that Barbara Woodward has literally never referred to as
49:24
far as I'm aware now. I also think that the reason for this abstention
49:30
and yes vote by the UK are looming elections because they're aware of the damage
49:36
to their election chances because of backlash about their support or Biden's and Rishie Schunak
49:45
support for Israel and its genocidal campaign. Obviously genocidal campaign. And what that
49:52
bombing reminds me of, actually, Mike is the wiki leak's footage of the
49:57
US forces in Iraq, if you remember, and I think basically, I
50:02
mean Biden has been seeing a real pushback in swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin.
50:10
So I think both the UK and the US have decided purely on political
50:16
reasons to make this change in their voting right now, it has nothing to
50:22
do with protection of Palestinians, and of course the ceasefire is non binding.
50:27
Who's going to actually enforce it? But what happens Netanyahu throws his toys out
50:32
of the cop basically because he perceives the abstention as a betrayal by Washington,
50:38
and he cancels a major delegation to Washington immediately after the Seaspire vote, which
50:45
causes some turmoil inside Israel itself. If we look at the next slide,
50:51
there's an IDF the retired IDF Major General Amos Gilad. What happening is crazy?
51:00
How did we get to this situation and how did we reach confrontation and
51:04
friction with the United States. This is an attack on Israeli national security.
51:08
It's unbelievable, and there have been many such comments. He goes on to
51:14
say, our strategic strength is built on the strength of the army, most
51:16
of whose weapons come from the United States. A lot of admissions coming through
51:22
at this point. In short, the alliance with the United States is one
51:24
of the guarantees of our existence. What, of course, we've all been
51:29
saying for some time now. And then we actually had an interview with Israeli
51:37
media with former Israeli ambassador Washington, doctor Michael orn and in it he actually
51:44
pointed out that he doesn't believe there is any real pro Israel candidate in the
51:50
US, neither Trump nor Biden. The Americans believe that this is a war
51:54
for Benjamin Netanyahu are not for the state of Israel. He mentions the operation
52:01
to enter Rafa. Now, I think many in Israel are terrified of the
52:05
operation in Rafa because they understand that they've lost control of the iOS forces inside
52:12
Gaza that are committing atrocities on an almost hourly basis, with no control over
52:17
them whatsoever. And on the next slide he actually goes on to say,
52:22
so he claimed the fight with sticks and stones, which of they can't He
52:28
referred to Defense Minister Yoav Gallants visit to Washington, they will talk about ammunition.
52:34
And this comes against the backdrop of a global shortage of ammunition due to
52:37
the war in Ukraine. Another very interesting omission admission. In the next slide,
52:44
we'll see who Michael Orn was to Syria. So in September twenty thirteen,
52:50
he made very clear that Israel wanted as Sad gone since the start of
52:54
the Syria so called civil war. What does he go on to say,
52:58
though, bad guys back Viron are worse for Israel than bad guys who are
53:02
not supported by the Islamic Republic. He basically says, we prefer al Kaeda
53:09
or Isis. The presidents of that and of course we know that Israel has
53:14
effectively supported both groups since the beginning of the regime change war, providing weapons,
53:21
hospital treatments, et cetera. This is particularly ironic in view of the
53:27
very put out Israeli ambassador's statement. Even over the Krokus attacks. Let's just
53:32
roll that at least one hundred and thirty seven people were murdered at Krokers City
53:39
Concert Hall in Russia on Friday by radical jihadist and yes, almost six months
53:45
ago, nearly four hundred people were murdered at the Nova Music Festival in Israel
53:52
by the radical Jihadis of Hamas. Why does the Security Council discriminate? This?
54:00
Criminate between the Russians murdered at a concert and Israelis murdered at the music
54:06
festival. Civilians, dear colleagues, no matter where they live, deserve to
54:12
enjoy music in safety and security, and the Security Council should have the moral
54:17
clarity to condemn such acts of terror equally without discrimination. Perhaps because you supported
54:28
those terough groups inside Syria, that's a guess. Yes, okay, thank
54:32
you, Charles. Let's come back to the UK and food security. Thanks
54:39
Mary. Yes, another one that sounds like it might be agriculturally heavy,
54:44
but does concern everybody. Yes, the government have just announced that, contrary
54:49
to their statements back in January, they are in fact going to be limiting
54:52
the amount of land farmers can take out of productive actions. What they cor
54:57
productive actions, they mean producing food. They say, while there has been
55:01
only limited evidence to date of farmers entering large amounts of their land into actions
55:07
that take away food production, some of these actions were being used more than
55:10
intended in a small number of cases, and so on. They still maintain
55:15
the line that they can encourage farmers to produce food sustainably alongside improving the environment.
55:22
So this is rather disingenerous from the start because of course there were no
55:27
limits put in place. They didn't set out an intent, and therefore it
55:30
was perfectly understandable, given the nature of farming and the incredible cost of inputs
55:37
and the uncertainties and especially the uncertainty of around subsidy, for farmers to choose
55:42
en mass or rather sort of as a whole for their land, to take
55:45
it out of production and de risk the entire business by securing guaranteed income.
55:51
It's hot, It's it's very easy to see how that could have happened,
55:53
or at least how that has happened now. DEFRA go on to say exactly
55:59
what it means in future under the changes, the Sustainable Farming Incentive applicants will
56:04
only be able to put twenty five percent of their land into six SFI actions
56:08
that take land out of direct food production. Well, that's actually a huge
56:13
change from what they said. First of all, the other thing they're going
56:16
to be doing is specifically that to protect food security and ensure we continue to
56:22
produce at least sixty percent of the food we consume here in the UK,
56:28
to include a new annual UK wide Food Security Index to capture and present the
56:34
data needed to monitor levels of food security. So this was pointed out to
56:42
DEFRA back in January. It seemed clear to UK column at least that this
56:47
risk lay ahead, and I got in touch with them and I asked them
56:52
specifically, highlighted down in the red box, what is the minimum permitted area
56:57
by hectare of the utilized agricate cultural area and as a percentage of that the
57:02
croppable area, so that the area that's actually using use to produce food.
57:07
What measures does DEFRA have in place to avoid a significant reduction. DEFRA replied
57:12
at the time to clarify that there was no upper limit on the funding available
57:15
for any of those schemes, not all that land is likely to be suitable
57:21
and so on. So quite clearly, as I said, you know,
57:22
disengenuous from the start, they didn't qualify that at the outset, and then
57:28
they went on to say that they do not expect this to change as more
57:34
farmers sign up to our farming schemes. So DEFRA in effects have been massively
57:38
caught out by this, and not least by the original issue of land going
57:45
out of food production, but also any kind of plan in place to monitor
57:51
the situation. And quite clearly they've been phone wanting, which leaves us with
57:54
the very real question about food security. So farmers weakly publishing a headline they're
58:00
saying MP slam for dismal turnout at food security debate. It's not quite clear
58:06
who's actually doing the slamming or what effect that would have had. But I
58:07
should point out that in the three years since March twenty twenty, there've been
58:15
thirty one debates entitled food security, whereas in the previous ten years only twenty
58:21
one debates on food security, so that gives a bit of a background to
58:24
the situation as it's felt by Parliament, even if they're not really actually doing
58:29
anything about it. The debate which did occur last week was led by the
58:34
Conservative MP Philip Dunn, and I've highlighted some of the text here because I
58:37
think that it's worth noting. He says, we know all too well,
58:40
but the global food system does not exist in a vacuum. Health crises such
58:45
as the COVID pandemic or Avian flu, geopolitical crises such as Russia's invasion of
58:50
Ukraine, global supply pinch points such as the blockage in the series Canal can
58:54
compound the effects of environmental change, and we've seen all those things. The
58:58
reason I highlight those techs is that they are all man made, They all
59:04
absolutely avoidable consequences, and yet he is putting them forward as though they are
59:09
things that just happen and that they're beyond our control. So now we get
59:14
into the specifics and we'll look at how much land is in fact under cultivation.
59:21
The Deffer is very slow to produce statistics, so these go back to
59:23
twenty twenty two. We can be sure, given what's happened just yesterday,
59:29
that the crop of area is less than this, but they say it's six
59:30
point one million hectes. And I thought, since we're continually told that everything
59:36
we do is sort of in effect a response to the situation in Russia,
59:40
or in some ways that Russia should be demonized, and so forth, I
59:46
found a government meeting took place on twenty first of March, and the spring
59:51
planting was discussed at this meeting. Text from that shows that their crop land
59:57
will hit eighty five, sorry, eighty four points five million hectares through this
1:00:00
year, which has gone up by three hundred thousand hectares as opposed to down
1:00:05
like as in the United Kingdom. And also at the bottom there I highlight
1:00:08
that eight million hectares are under perennial grasses. That means, despite the push
1:00:13
in the United Kingdom for net zero eat bugs stay off meat, they have
1:00:17
more land being grazed by livestock than we do. As a total measure of
1:00:22
our agricultural area, you might say, well, Russia's an absolutely enormous land
1:00:27
mass with a larger population, which it is. So I will contextualize that
1:00:31
by sharing these figures here which give the respective propable areas, which are UK
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six point one million Russia eighty four point five population ours is sixty seven million
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Russian one hundred and forty five. And now that works out as meaning that
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we have nort point nine one hectares in cultivation per person, whereas Russia has
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zero point five to eight seven hectares of agricultural land in production. Okay,
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again not going to be a like for light comparison, but it is worth
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noting that Russia uses six point nearly six and a half times as much land
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per head for food production. Now, my bet would be that food security
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in Russia might be less of an issue than it is in the United Kingdom.
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So the question that drops out of this is what do DEFRA do all
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day? And also why is it that we still have schemes going forward to
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use land for things like solar panels and battery installations. Yes, very good
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questions, and we will talk more about that and extra as well. FINESSA,
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let's just finish in Syria and what's the Neather state's been up to?
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Well? Yeah, just very quickly, almost immediately after the Moscow attack,
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only a few days I think dawn yesterday, US and Israel that's been also
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confirmed to me by resistance factions here inside Syria carried out an attack with more
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than sixty missiles from the Altana US illegal military based on the border with Jordan,
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the Red Circle in the Triangle area in the northeast, hitting De Resource
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City and areas that were really basis for the Syrian National Defense Forces, the
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Islamic Resistance IRAQ, some IRGC, the Iranian forces that are there basically securing
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safety for civilians and also of course fighting isis that the US is using and
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maneuvering as a proxy. So I just have a very quick video, the
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only one that I could find that wasn't terribly shaky of at least a couple
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of the missiles falling in that De Resort area and the statement from the Syrian
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Ministry of Defense. The US occupy forces they didn't mention Israel for some reason,
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but that has been confirmed, launched an air aggression with military aircraft and
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drones, targeting a number of towns, villages and military sites and De Rezoor.
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It resulted in the martyrdom of seven military personnel one civilian, the injury
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of nineteen military personnel and thirteen civilians which included women and children, and significant
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material losses public and private property. Of course, this is illegal. Also,
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what we've seen is an optic in aggression from the EdLib al Qaeda forces
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and affiliates against western Aleppo and against northern the Takia, and an optic in
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ISIS attacks against Syrian Arabami positions and civilians in central Syria, emanating also from
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Alphanev. Yes, okay, thank you, Vanessa, thank you very much
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for that. We're going to add there for today. I would say thank
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you to Fidessa and Charles, and thank you to everybody that's been watching.
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We will be by back in a few minutes for some extra if you UK
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call a member, but either way, if you join us at one pm
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reminder, we're not doing a news program on Friday or Monday, so we
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will see you next week. I hope everybody has a great Easter and we'll
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see then. Bye bye.