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UK Column News Podcast 15th July 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Monday, the fifteenth of July twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host today Brian
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Gerrish with me in the studio, whit Robinson. We're delighted to have Mark
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Hanson joining us from the United States. Well, it's a bit gray.
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We lost the football well England did anyway? Yeah you did? I did?
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You didn't. Okay, it's a bit gloomy, but bad things happening
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in the US. Mark tell us about the Trump incident. Well, no
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sooner did I finish more or less writing up and reflecting on the NATO summit,
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thinking that life was simple. That I got a call from a pastor
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friend. Hey, did you hear somebody took a shot at Trump? We
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don't know what condition he's in. It was Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally.
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And this first slide is from the Associated Press, that font of Wisdom wire
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service in the United States base there anyway, authorities hunt for clues, but
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motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive. Since then,
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there's been some other speculations on the so called Shuirter. We'll talk about that
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later. This is from the same AP article. The twenty year old man
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who tried to assassinate former President Trump first came to law enforcement's attention as Saturday's
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rally when spectators, they're saying, noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event.
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The tip sparked a frantic search, but officers were unable to find him
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before he managed to get on a roof where he opened fire and so on
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and so forth. I won't read that whole thing they're saying. His name
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is Thomas Matthew Crooks, a rather interesting last name in this context. Thomas
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Matthew Cook's only twenty years old. And of course it's strange to consider that
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they already knew he acted strangely, and then he was able to get on
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a roof with all the king's horses and all the king's men in the form
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of the Secret Service, the Praetorian Guard, you might say, being right
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there, you would think a roof vantage point would be something they would have
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automatically closed off after somebody reported that he was acting strangely. Anyway, we
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have a video of the event from Fox News that then went to YouTube,
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so we can look at that to get a sense of what evidently happened.
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Oh that's a little bit old. That charts a couple of months old.
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And if you want to really see something that said, take a look at
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what happened right about to spare there? Are you ready? I'm you ready?
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Boom? How comes here? Stare? Body? Slady? You ready?
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Shot? Good? Shoots down. I'm gonna good to know clear,
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we're put it, We're clay, We're going. Come on, let me
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get my shoe. Let me get my shoes, sir, I got to
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let me get my shoes. Hold on your head, body, so we
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gotta go to bun. Let me get my s Okay, what's up?
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Let's olla. And as you can see there, gentlemen, Trump was acting
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defiant, put the fist in the air, indicating he's going to fight,
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fight, fight, And I would observe maybe you guys want to comment at
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this point a little bit. It's a little weird that they didn't turn the
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podium mic off so as to avoid giving away any other plans, protocols,
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immediate intentions of what they were going to do with Trump, because at that
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point they couldn't have known exactly how many shooters there could have been and what
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the risk factor was. So it's a little strange they didn't turn the mic
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off so they would keep their intentions private in that immediate aftermath. I don't
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know if you guys want to comment, I can. I can, of
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course keep going. Uh yeah, I mean, I don't say I don't
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know that the mic switched on or off would have been in their control,
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first of all, But I mean there are many many questions to ask about
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the activities of the so called Secret Service because you know, as you may
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be coming on to in a second, mark the police and the Secret Service
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where their attention was drawn to the guy on the roof and they apparently did
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nothing. And then there's this whole issue of why was he even given the
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opportunity to act defiant, as you say, because that certainly is not protocol.
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His head was completely exposed at that point, and I appreciated he said
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he told them to wit, but nonetheless, in that circumstance they should have
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been in control. So many many questions to be asked about the behavior of
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Secret Service there, and I'll just stand to that. And yes, I
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also found it astonishing that you had the sniper squored up on the roof,
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who would have been tasked to surveil to watch the whole area and particularly likely
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sniper position. And yet even when the crowd was shouting really quite loudly that
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they could see a man on the other roof off to Trump's right, there
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appeared to be no reaction from that sniper security team on the roof behind him.
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Yeah, I'm sure the oddities will keep piling up, and of course
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this issue can linger around. We can talk about some things in Extra today
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and probably next week there'll be some follow up. But continuing with this essential
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report in the immediate wake of the event, this next slide shows what they're
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saying is the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks, again a kind of weird name,
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suspect that it says here came within inches of killing Trump, but left
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few clues as to why. And they're saying it's a high school yearbook photo
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of this young man, and in this particular photo he looks even younger than
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twenty one. Is reminded a little bit of ad Amlanza, the purported shooter
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in the very strange Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut. I believe that was
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in Ladder twenty twelve. I won't go any further than that on that analogy,
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but there is that basic similarity this improbable looking shooter in terms of the
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person. Anyway, this is Mary, Sorry, just come in to come
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in there. I was intrigue because very quickly online a photograph of this young
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man, mister Crooks, appeared taken from the school, but it was tied
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in with a black Rock advert video. But it showed him presumably pretty close
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to his age now, whereas the photo that's been used in that article does
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seem to have him as effectively a little boy. But online you can see
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video where you can see him as he really is, which is a young
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man. Yeah, you would think that they would use a better photo than
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that for any reports. I mean, you might do an ad on is
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here's how he looked when he was younger, but the main photo to tell
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the story, you would think they would use the most up to date photo
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possible. Anyway, continuing on, we'll walk through this, covering not all
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the ground but some essential things. This is from the Atlanta Journal Constitution,
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a major newspaper in southeast US. The photographer who captured this iconic image recounts
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the moment shots were fired at Donald Trump. As the FBI investigates the attack
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on former Donald Trump's campaign rally as an attempted assassination and an active domestic terror,
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they're making that allegation now. The Associated Press photojournalists who capture the image
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of a defiant Trump raising his fist after being targeted, described the moment's shots
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were fired. The photojournalist said quote, I was right in front of the
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stage, directly in front of the stage. It was a normal rally,
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you know, I've done it a hundred times, and overmail lef shoulder,
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I heard several pops and I knew immediately. He says it was gunfire.
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And this is Evan Vucci, the AP photo journalist. This is what he
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said. The former president, his ear covered in blood from what he said
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was a gunshot, was quickly pulled away by Secret Service agents. And of
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course Mike made a good point. It's strange that they let him raise his
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head the way they did, and at that point, not knowing exactly what
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the overall scenario was that would subject Trump to additional danger. And these are
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some other observations. I started getting a lot of phone calls, as you
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might imagine, and I also placed a lot of phone calls. And Brian
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McClain a good contact of mine, a TNT radio host that's based in Australia.
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It has a lot of US hosts. Brian's based in Temple, Texas.
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He's an I expert, and he has some reasonable knowledge of firearms.
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He understands there reportedly was no external security perimeter established and possibly a lack of
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three designated marksman security teams. And it appears he heard there was no quote
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intel surveillance recon drone overhead. Evidently drones are fairly commonly used, and maybe
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this one did not include that, among other oddities, including the advanced threat
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assessment seemed to be lacking. Then a friend of mine, Alan Knutsen,
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out of the Greater Dallas area, kind of a Trump aficionado, a talented
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writer in his own right, kind of a blogger. He says, was
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this a massive secret service failure? The agenda not to give Trump good protection
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seems evident and I didn't write this in there, guys. But he also
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added, could this have been drug induced on the part of the shoot or
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maybe even kind of a Manchurian candidate triggered kind of thing where he's placed under
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hypnosis, triggered by an image or a phrase or a word, he then
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acts out a shooting and then if he wasn't shot dead like he reportedly was,
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then he wouldn't remember actually doing the event. People have even ascribed that
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to Lee Harvey Oswald way back in the JFK days in Dallas. That's been
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speculated on at any rate. Sheriff Joe or Pyle called me back. He
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was at the Republican National Convention. In fact, he's there all this week
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in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He told me, I'm angry, it says here,
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I'm very sad. I think he'll be okay. He kept saying,
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fight, fight, fight, He's a fighter, And he says that he's
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really anticipating, as is many in the Republican Party Trump's presidential acceptance speech.
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Excuse me, that's supposed to be given at the Milwaukee National Convention this coming
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Thursday. So evidently that's when Trump will accept the GOP nomination for president.
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And we could go on, like I say, there's plenty of room in
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extra and next week and follow ups as things are fleshed out and as I
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study it more. But there were so many things that were going on since
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that debate where Biden really bombed out versus Trump back on June twenty seventh on
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CNN, and many many nasty things said by the Biden campaign against Trump,
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including that he's another Hitler. But as as is reported here by Zero Hedge,
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Biden is now haunt halting excuse me, his Trump is hilter. Excuse
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me, Trump is Hitler. Excuse me. Ad campaign after the assassination attempt
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and other enemies of Trump announced are now toning down their rhetoric. So there
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you go, guys. What a way to start the day on the report
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here. Okay, thank you very much for that. Well, I'll just
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say I picked up on the similar images from the BBC. Let's pop the
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first one up, which is the one you show, but note the headline
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from the BBC bullets blood and a raised fist. So it's almost like branding
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Trump, who's just been through this event, branding him in the way that
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the BBC does dramatic images from the Trump rally. But when you scroll down
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through these very very high resolution images, this is one that caught my attention,
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complete with the circle. This was on the BBC's website with no explanation.
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But of course for most people, they're going to look at this and
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think that this is a shot of the bullet passing his head. The weapons
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expert has already pointed out that basically this shot is too low for the shot
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that clipped his ear. But nevertheless, I was puzzled about this because essentially,
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what is this image? The BBC didn't explain it. I believe they're
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just a lowing an idea to come into the public mind. Is the BBC
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suggesting a bullet in flight has been captured? Well, I think that's exactly
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what they're doing. If this is the case, then I need to ask
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how it was captured, because photographing a bullet in flight is extremely difficult,
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and we might ask, or I asked earlier this morning, was the bullet
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captured? Because it was expected. You challenged me on that, Mike,
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and we had a very very interesting discussion, and that's then produced this article
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for us which we found. So can Doug Mills photo of a bullet and
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President Trump be real? Yes? Here as how so, if we take
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out a little bit of the key stuff from this. According to Politico,
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Mills, the photographer was taking photos with a sunny camera capable of up to
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thirty frames per second one eight thousandth of a second, though they didn't say
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which one or what setting it was using. Mills is known to have spoken
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about why he switched to this Sony camera in the past. We now think
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he's using a Sonny A nine, a camera we actually covered last year with
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the heading this camera can literally stop bullets and it's a fascinating little sentence.
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But it goes on to say that in that case he might have been shooting
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one eight thousandth of the second as it was a bright day, But the
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camera offers up to one hundred and twenty frames per second burst and one eighty
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thousandth of the second, not that anyone would choose that setting unless actually planning
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for a bullet. So this was quite an extraordinary article. What's your thoughts?
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Well, I think that last quote sums it up. How was this
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image captured? Was? I mean, somebody, I'll have to work out
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what the actual odds of capturing it under normal circumstances are. It's so unlikely
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as to be possible. Really, So was he using this special high frequency
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mode in order to get this image? And if so you know, anytime,
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as you said earlier today, anytime these types of images have been caught
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in the past, it's very carefully staged and very carefully set up. And
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so was he expecting this to happen. These are the questions that need to
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be asked, right, So to be clear to our audience, we're not
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saying this isn't a photograph of one bullet passing Trump's head. But at the
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moment there is no formal analysis and it would appear that the BBC is just
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completely skated over this really important question. So we'll continue to dig and see
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what we get. Now with regard to Trump and Biden, as have a
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little listen to a clip of Victorian Newland speaking, then I cannot not ask
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you that question. If Trump is elected, yes, we'll happen to your
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brain. Well he agreed to give put in his demanded territories. Well,
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first of all, I don't believe Donald Trump will be elected by the American
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people. This man is a felon, He is a liar, He is
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not a supporter of basic US democratic freedoms and principles. He's talking about locking
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up Americans, locking up immigrants, hurting our economy, et cetera. So
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I don't think that Donald Trump is going to be president. So if that's
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what Putin's betting on, he's going to get a unhappy surprise. I think
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that's that is number one. Well, we don't know what the unhappy surprise
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was meant to be in her mind, but she's clear she wants Boyden in
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order to keep the war and the killing and the carnage in Ukraine going.
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Let's have a little cat Boyden and see what he had to say about himself
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to leave for the next four years. George, I'm a guy to putt
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NATO together, the future thought that experided. I'm the guy that shut put
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down no one thought could happen. I'm the guy that put together South Pacific
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Initiative with ARCUS. I'm the guy that got fifty nations not only in Europe,
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outside of Europe as well to help Ukraine. I'm the guy that got
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Japanese to expand their budget. So I mean these For example, when I
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decided we used to have forty percent of the computer chip and we invented the
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chip a little ship, the computer chip scenithing from cell phone or weapons.
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Well, there we are he's the man that did everything. He's got the
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whole world on side, trust Joe Biden. He's thinking clearly as a cause.
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Kir Stormer is trying to intimate and where are we going to go?
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I predict more war and more war if Boyden comes back into power, well
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one hundred percent. But my question would be will the narrative really change that
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much if Trump gets back in the party. I think he demonstrated in this
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first term he wasn't able to deal with the US defense industry, defense,
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the Pentagon, and so on. So I'm not sure anything would particularly change
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if he manages to win this election, But we shall see. Maybe we
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can talk to Mark about that a little bit more an extra now, last
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week we were talking about Orban's trip to Kiev first and then to Moscow and
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then to Beijing. Well, Chatham House, the Role Institute for International Affairs,
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is going nuts over this. We were talking about how the European leaders
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were going nuts over this. So I'm just going to run through this article
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which is published by our major Van Reege. If that's how you pronounce her
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name, Orban is using Hungary's EU Council presidency. The bulldogs EU norm.
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She says, less than two weeks in the Hungary's EU Council presidency, Orban
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is clearly shown he will not play by the rules. The EU must come
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up with a response. So let's have a look and see what she is
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saying. The role of the member state holding the presidency is to drive the
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legislative agenda by sharing Council meetings, ensuring good cooperation with other EU institutions,
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and ensure continuation of EU policy agenda. So don't do anything to stop the
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war. Make sure you only reinforce that idea. She goes on to say,
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while these trips, these are Orban's trips are technically all bilateral trips.
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Orban has tried to create confusion by displaying EU flags in Kiev and using the
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Hungarian presidency logo on promotional material for his trip to China. How dare he
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while these trips are technical, Sorry, that's a repeat. So traveling to
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Russia to meet the head of a government under EU sanctions which has disregarded the
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territorial integrity of another state is unprecedented, she says, perhaps more importantly,
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enabling confusion over whether he represents Hungary or also the EU on his trips is
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potentially breaching EU law to address the challenge of Hungary's democratic backsliding, with holding
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funds remains perhaps the most effective lever the European Commission has so got stop giving
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Hungry any money from the EU and for dealing with a transactional realist like orbit,
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even though it has impacted has a limited impact in the past. But
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instead of withholding funds on an ac ad hoc basis, she said, the
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European Commission should make a concerned, long term and planned effort and focusing on
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media freedom, civil liberties and strengthening and independent judiciary with cohesion or agricultural fund
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funds used as leverage. So this is really the response that she thinks that
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EU should be pursuing. She goes on Orban is a realist too only response
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to hard power expressions of anger on social media by other heads of government or
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leaders of the EU institutions will not bother them in the slightest, especially now
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as gaining allies and is no longer as isolated in Europe or on the world
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stage as he once was. The EU needs a long term approach for deterearing
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and correcting behaviors by member states that undermind the European Project. So I don't
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know what you think about that, Brian, but I just thought that the
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rhetoric and this was absolutely staggering from this British thing tank telling the EU what
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to do because at all costs, we've got to make sure we continue and
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build the war rather than I mean, peace is not something we should be
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looking at at all. No. I thought it was really excellent that you're
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going to use agricultural funds, which presumably in the first instance, are there
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to help people grow crops and feed themselves. You're going to use food as
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a weapon for further war within the EU. But this is the European Union
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project, Mike. We've been warning about the viciousness of the European Union for
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a great many years, so I'm really not surprised at all. It's the
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iron fist in the velvet glove approach and somebody who's stood up for peace.
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They've made a journey to talk to the Russians on the basis of peace,
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and they've got to be stamped out of existence. This is utterly brutal.
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Molok, welcome to your European colleagues. I don't know what your response would
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be, well, what is the European project? Would be one basic question?
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Right that? Orbon is so, you know, breaking with such impunity,
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you know, what's he supposed to do? Actually, to meet with
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Putin and to go to Kiev and everything he's doing sounds like much more of
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a logical approach to try and get a handle on the overall situation and bring
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a ceasefire about I would think that they should take a more objective look at
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what he's doing. I suspect they don't want to look deeper because they might
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find he's actually doing the right thing. But there we go. Well,
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of course the war is what they want, and the vicious war in Ukraine
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continues utterly sickening if you get into the detail of what's happening on the ground.
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I've chosen some video clips so that our audience at least understands the basic
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of what's happening, and this first one demonstrates two things. We've got an
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attack on a train, but also there's the clarity of the surveillance video from
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the drone, and Russia is able to do this ever deeper into Ukraine,
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So a military train with armored vehicles and Russia strikes this with a massive missile
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strike, of of course, very precise accuracy. So this is the reality.
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Russia is now able to look deeper into Ukraine and to target this sort
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of thing. And this is the second big military convoy train that the Russians
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have hit, destroying a large number of people and also a large number of
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Ukrainian military with it. Secondary explosions going on in this clip. But then
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also we've got the change in Russian weapons and these incredibly large Russian bombs up
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to three thousand kilograms, and this shows you what almost looks like a nuclear
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cloud. This is such a huge explosion, and using these immensely accurate weapons,
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the Russians can simply remove Ukrainian supply bases or ammunition depots in one strike.
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But smaller bombs are also being used to kill flush out Ukrainian troops in
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the hedgerows that form the defense lines. In many cases when the fighting has
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moved to countryside areas, the only places that the Ukrainians and indeed the Russians
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can hide are these tree lines. But it's the Russians that have got these
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immensely powerful weapons to deal with the Ukrainian positions, so the Ukrainian casualties you
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can just watch happening on screen. This is another example of what happens when
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these sorts of weapons hit these very narrow tree lines, and there's no doubt
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that the majority of the Ukrainians are going to be dead rather than injured.
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But we've also got precision artillery on the Russian side, and throughout the battle
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the Russians have demonstrated a great advantage in numbers. So if we just play
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this clip here, this shows what happens with a precise strike on a building.
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This is in a small urban area where of course the Russians are looking
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to take out again concentrations of Ukrainians, but also the military supplies. And
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if we bring this one in, some of our viewers may find this one
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disturbing. This is happening to both sides, both the Ukrainians and the Russians,
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but this is the use of drones to hunt individual soldiers on the battlefield
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very cruel and callous, and particularly with the idea that Western nations are watching
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this happen in order to increase their own performance in this field. So we
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see here video taken with I would guess infra red camera at night. But
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these are troops being killed by distant observer operating the drone. And this is
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why NATO and the Western countries at the moment are so desperate to get in
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amongst this conflict, because it is so utterly horrific and brutal. But the
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power of the drones, of course, isn't just against troops. We've also
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got a fine example here of what happens with a Russian drone attack on a
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Ukrainian tank, and of course we are seeing complete destruction of this particular tank
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with no survivors whatsoever. The Russians are also using cluster munitions. Remember it
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was the Ukrainians that first used these munitions within the rockets supplied by the West,
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but the Russian have been particularly using this sort of weapon or wooded areas
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to flush out the Ukrainian defenders, and in many parts of the Eastern Dombas
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Front, extremely large areas of woodland have now been decimated as a result of
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the use of these types of cluster munitions. And if that shot is taken
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from some distance, then this clip shows what happens when these sorts of weapons
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are used on the forest strips. Which, as I've already said, often
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form strong defensive positions and the resulting fires and carnage is truly horrific. So
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this is the reality of the situation on the front, and of course none
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of this is being reported either by the media in UK, especially the BBC
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or the British Ministry of Defense. We are simply told that the Ukrainians continue
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to win when the reality is the exact opposite. But Ministry of Defense Twitter
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site x came up with a new plan because we're back on really Russians eating
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babies. This is extremely unpleasant little clip because I regard it as pure propaganda,
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but let's have a look at it. Rape for cries, no training,
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no armory, no financial backing. It is as devastating as bullets and
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bombs. So depressing, miserable music by the British Ministry of Defense as it
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attempts to pin sexual war crimes on the Russians. These are, of course
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just reports that have been made through the Ukrainian government system. But if we
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bring up on screen the real level of casualties, now we can't be absolutely
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sure where we've got to, but we're pretty confident these are somewhere in the
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region because of the number of channels reporting it. Ukrainian dead possibly up to
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around half a million, and daily casualties certainly over the last few weeks,
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as that fighting is now erupting right the way across the front as Russians move
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forward, up to two thousand Ukrainian casualties per day for the Russians possibly dead
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at one hundred thousand, and casualties possibly up to one thousand a day.
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But the reality over the course of the war so far rapidly approaching nine hundred
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days, is that the Ukrainian casualties in dead and wounded greatly greatly outweigh the
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Russians because of the Russian strength of equipment. And if I just bring in
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this truly horrible little bit of propaganda by the Ministry of Defense against those casualties
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of men and women on the battlefield, the important thing for the Ministry of
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Defense is two hundred eighty seven claimed conflict related sexual assaults or violence in Ukraine
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pointed at the Russian side. So I just want to say, Mike,
32:10
the cynicism of the uk at the moment in keeping this war going and keeping
32:17
fighting until the last Ukrainian is truly appalling, and I'm sure there's many old
32:23
labor supporters who are now deeply shocked to see that kir Stormer wants to keep
32:30
this carnage going. And we should just make the point again as we made
32:35
last week and in previous programs. You know, sexual violence is a weapon
32:38
of war. Can't be a weapon of war if there is in the war,
32:43
So surely the first thing to do is to stop the war instead of
32:46
trying to use it to justify the continuation of a war, which is really
32:51
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the UK Column. Just on the subject of Trump, I think that some
34:02
people might be unaware that J. Michael Waller did some two really good interviews
34:07
with me, specifically talking about problems with the security services in the United States
34:15
and that includes the CIA and the FBI, and he's talking about the breakdown
34:20
in performance. So if you haven't seen that those interviews, get online and
34:24
have a look because I think they're highly pertinent to the assassination attempt on Trump.
34:31
And coming out tomorrow the sixteenth, one o'clock, we've got my interview,
34:37
second interview with doctor Michael Nells where he's talking about Alzheimer's and what people
34:44
can do in order to stay fit and healthy and keep their mental capacity until
34:51
mature years. So this is something which will be of value to all of
34:54
us. And I'd also like to say that John Bowdwin, who is an
35:01
American who's produced essentially an algorithm which is able to post death data in the
35:09
States, has obtained one point four million death certificates which is now able to
35:16
process. And at one o'clock on Thursday, that's this coming Thursday, there's
35:22
an interview with John and Debbie Evans where he's talking about the amazing work he's
35:25
doing to expose what is really happening to people's health in America. And i'd
35:31
also like to say make sure you get that Saturday Octo, sorry, Saturday
35:37
the nineteenth of October this year in your diary for a location in Bristol still
35:43
to be announced, which will be UK column appearing really really live and we'll
35:49
look forward to meeting you all there. Okay, now, in a minute,
35:53
Mark will be talking about more on NTO and what's been following from last
35:58
week's events. But just before get to that, one of the things that
36:00
Needle published following their major event last week was their Industrial Capacity Expansion Pledge.
36:08
It's a fantastic document. Everybody will appreciate it absolutely, and you'll particularly appreciate
36:14
it if you've been paying attention to the UK Calumn for a number of years,
36:16
because we've been talking about this for a lot of years. Now here's
36:21
a key quote. We will leverage the Alliance's role as convener, standard SETER
36:27
requirement SETER and aggregator and delivery enabler to expand defense industrial capacity. So when
36:34
we've been talking about EU Defense Union, we've been talking about its connections to
36:37
NATO, we've been talking about the industrial aspect of this, which is absolutely
36:44
key. So if we bring it back on screen again, they have issued
36:46
a pledge and they pledge to strengthen defense industry across the Alliance, to increase
36:53
large scale multinational procurement, to accelerate adoption of new technology, and to enhance
37:01
interoperability and interchangeability. This is amongst several other things that they're pledging. And
37:07
the key thing here, Brian, is what we're looking at a single point
37:09
command and control. This is the term that David Ellis used to use.
37:14
It's a really key point aspect of this and of the European Defense Union,
37:19
so called single point command and control and single point procurement. So a centralized
37:24
organization decides effectively controls what each member state is able to do, what they're
37:30
able to purchase, and where they're able to purchase it from. And of
37:35
course this is the tying in of the military and the industrial complex to these
37:40
supranational structures, whether it's an EU level or NATO level, and it's extremely
37:45
dangerous because it's effectively corporatizing everything that they do. Indeed, and the lid
37:52
has got to come off this at some state to the R and E.
37:54
Is that becoals Russia producing its own ammunition and equipment, military vehicles is easily
38:01
outstripping the West combined. And of course the problem with the European and the
38:07
NATO system is that you've got too many disparate producers of equipment, and you've
38:14
got this constant coordination problem which is now demonstrating that it's full of holes.
38:20
But yes, they keep pushing. So to just give you an impression of
38:22
this, each nation will be permitted to follow its own national plan, but
38:27
the plans will be shared and coordinated through needle. Could you explain to me
38:30
how that works? How are you permitted to follow a national plan if the
38:35
national plan has to be coordinated through needle. Well, as we said last
38:38
week from the mod document from twenty eighteen, we are looking for the nation
38:45
state to disappear in about thirty years time, so I think they're preparing for
38:51
it might yes, all the way through this by the way, probably no
38:54
need to mention it though you know it's sorry Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and
39:00
Ukraine is a justification for this merging and creation of this what is it,
39:07
well, embryonic one world military infrastructure. Indeed, and it's going to be
39:14
interesting to see how close the Americans decide to be with this chaos and mayhem
39:20
in European NATO. But as I've said many times that in years gone by
39:27
Cold War, the power within NATO was invariably the US as the overwhelming power,
39:35
followed by UK followed by the Germans and the Dutch, and after that
39:39
it was people came in on a very ad hoc basis where the French at
39:43
the bottom, Well, the French were always off to one side because they
39:46
didn't want to play by anybody else's rules. Yes, but Mark, let's
39:52
get a little bit more from you on the NATO summerd Yes, I managed
39:59
to sit through a two hours of it July ten, and about six or
40:02
seven hours of it July eleven. Challenging to stay awake at times, but
40:07
there were a number of interesting points. Of course, seventy five years for
40:10
the Alliance. I mentioned this last week. The twelve initial countries that signed
40:15
the North Atlantic Treaty, it's now thirty two countries. So since the initial
40:20
country or initial treaty was signed in DC way back when nineteen forty nine,
40:24
now they wanted to meet in DC again. That was the whole meaning of
40:27
it. And we'll comb through this. The next couple slides are simply the
40:32
daily schedule, Day one and day two. I'm not going to read them.
40:36
They're just there for those that want to reference them and freeze those slides.
40:40
Viewers can do that, so that's just kind of a convenience there.
40:45
We'll move on. Day two. In the public forum featured this Congressman Gerald
40:52
Connolly from Virginia, a Democrat, and he announced that thirty one of the
40:57
thirty two NATO countries now support already relatively new thing called the Center for Democratic
41:02
Resistance. So they're looking at NATO not just being a military thing, but
41:07
supporting democracy being more of a political thing, and he is a member of
41:14
the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, mister Connolly, which is a body within Congress that
41:19
I didn't happen to know existed. Now I traced it back. Here's a
41:22
press release from April of twenty twenty two, and that's when this thing was
41:27
sired. House passes Connolly Turner resolution in support of establishing a NATO Center for
41:35
Democratic Resilience. Today, the House passed House Resolution eight thirty one, a
41:40
resolution is support of the establishment of a Center for Democratic Resilience within NATO to
41:46
help member, partner and aspirant states strengthen their democratic institutions and to preserve democracy
41:53
around the globe. That's what they're saying is for. The resolution was introduced
41:58
by Congressmen Connelly, president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Congress like I mentioned,
42:05
and Congressman Michael Turner, an Ohio Republican and a former NATO president in
42:12
that same organization. The Assembly passage of the resolution comes ahead of the natos
42:19
PAS Standing Committee meeting in Athens, Greece. That was at the time,
42:22
nothing real important there specifically, and we'll keep moving. Connley first proposed the
42:27
creation of a Center for Democratic resilience within NATO, going as far back as
42:30
twenty nineteen, a recommendation then endorsed by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly as a whole.
42:37
In twenty twenty. The Independent Group of Experts on NATO twenty thirty supported
42:40
the concept in their recommendations to the NATO Secretary General. In April of twenty
42:45
twenty one, the Assembly established a working group to advanced the proposal concept for
42:51
the center. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaker at that time, anyway, endorsed
42:54
the proposal in October of twenty twenty one while in Lisbon, Portugal, for
42:59
her acceptance of the NATO PA's inaugural Women in Peace and Security Award. The
43:05
bipartisan US delegation to the NATO PA has also encouraged Secretary of State Blincoln he's
43:12
still the Secretary of State and Secretary Defense Austin to build support among allies for
43:16
this center. So that was a US congressman's role at the NATO public forum
43:23
covering this. I couldn't, of course, cover this summit directly. That's
43:28
behind closed doors. NATO rolled out this public forum for the seventy fifth anniversary
43:32
largely as a pr thing. Here's what Conley had to say anyway to summarize
43:37
his part in this. Our commitment to share democratic values is what distinguishes NATO
43:43
from other military alliances. He says. Without it, NATO is just another
43:46
military block spelled block wrong in this case that opposes Russia. But this commitment
43:53
cannot remain purely aspirational or rhetorical. It must be operationalized. And I think
44:00
he had a little more to say. There are divisions and units within NATO
44:04
dedicated to collective defense, terrorism, hybrid warfare, cyber climate change, and
44:09
all these other security challenges. But after seventy two years, this is going
44:15
back to twenty twenty two when this resolution was passed, So this is I'm
44:22
using somewhat older quotes, even though he reiterated this stuff in Washington this past
44:27
week. But after seventy two years, at that time, there's not even
44:30
a broom closet in NATO headquarters dedicated to democratic institution building. So this center,
44:37
he says, is long overdue. So that was among the major announcements
44:40
guys this past week. And we also have the Political Scene Center keynote by
44:49
Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor for the Biden administration. These are all
44:55
original photos I took through the Wonders of screenshots, no borrowed photos for this
45:01
presentation, and I have a little bit of what Sullivan had to say.
45:06
My notes were a little sketchy, so I hunted down the actual transcript.
45:09
Here's his remarks in part an excerpt. Allies have committed to collectively provide Ukraine
45:17
with at least forty billion euros worth of security assistance over the next year.
45:22
And that's not just a dollar sign. That is equipment, tanks, armored
45:27
fighting vehicles, artillery, missiles, the whole range of capabilities that Ukraine needs
45:32
in this case to effectively fight and win. He's saying, think of that
45:37
in the context of your earlier report. Next in partnership with our allies,
45:42
Sullivan also announced we will provide Ukraine with five strategic air defense systems and dozens
45:49
of tactical systems that are especially relevant to help protect Ukrainian forces on the front
45:53
lines. Sullivan added the strategic air systems will help Ukraine as it endures.
46:00
It continued pounding by Russia of its energy grid with Russian missiles and drones,
46:06
and it continued assault on its front lines by Russian planes. So these were
46:12
some, not all, but some of the main things that mister Sullivan announced
46:15
and will continue. He also said, from our own production, we'll deliver
46:22
hundreds of critical air defense systems to Ukraine over the next year as well.
46:27
There was a point earlier this year when it looked like Ukraine might run out
46:30
of interceptors, but thanks to decisions that Biden has taken, we're working with
46:35
allies and partners will ensure that Ukraine remains supplied with the air defense missiles it
46:40
needs for all of the batteries that we and our allies are now providing together
46:45
the US, Denmark and the Netherlands have begun also the transfer of F sixteens
46:51
to Ukrainian forces, and Ukrainian pilots will be operating in theater with those with
46:57
those F sixteens. He says, this coming some the both the summer that
47:00
we're the Mond's deluted mark. They haven't got a chance. Well be I'm
47:08
just a reporter here, and it's interesting in light of what we were showing
47:15
earlier, the actual battle scenes, the overhead shots we also have assessing the
47:22
evolving threat of terrorism. I won't go into extravagant detail. The Trump assassination
47:28
attempt that we reportedly heard about kind of knocked me off course a little bit.
47:34
I was going to go a little bit deeper into NATO for this report.
47:37
So I'm calling this NATO Part one of the summit this past week.
47:42
Next week I'll do part two. So I don't have all the details I
47:45
otherwise would have had because of the Trump event. But here we have Nicholas
47:50
Rasmussen, he is with Department of Homeland Security, and a NATAL official,
47:55
Thomas Goffis. I don't have his immediate to fill handy, but they were
48:02
talking about non kinetic threats to NATO primarily guys, and by non kinetic threats
48:09
that means malinformation, disinformation, misinformation, non state actors as well as state
48:17
actors that would disrupt NATO's operations, that would threaten Western democracy by threatened NATO
48:23
threatening NATO. And one thing that came up, and they were more like
48:28
oblique references. They weren't real concrete, but there were these oblique references to
48:34
colonizers and alternative news sources online that are upsetting the democratic system, knocking it
48:44
out of whack. These kind of comments, and so one wonders which news
48:47
colonizers online they might be talking about, but that came up in the terrorism
48:53
context in that slide that was just shown. And here we also have just
49:00
some photos that I also took to show sort of a montage of what took
49:05
place. We have the Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson, the Canadian Defense Minister
49:10
William Blair, and Finland's defense minister is shown below there. I'm not going
49:16
to take a stab at maybe pronouncing his name. But there was a lot
49:22
of discussion about Sweden and Finland just joining NATO and some of the ramifications of
49:29
that. I'll talk a little bit more about that next week. And this
49:32
was an interesting one, the NATO EU partnership, and I've got a little
49:37
bit more detail on that. One of the things that came up between Joseph
49:43
Borrow, who is a High Commissioner of the EU two NATO, I believe
49:50
that's his position, correct me if I'm wrong, And between him and the
49:55
moderator they were saying the mind is the battlefield. So some of this discussion
50:00
was similar to the evolving terrorist threats, the non kinetic threats, the mail
50:06
information disinformation. Some similar themes came up. People are invading the networks,
50:12
colonizing the minds of others, quote unquote, and this gentleman, mister Borrow
50:20
said, it's absurd that Russia has saved the people of the don Bass region.
50:25
He was the only person that even alluded to what Putin might be up,
50:30
to what Putin's motivations might be, but he no sooner brought it up
50:36
than he shot it down. Putin couldn't possibly be defending the Donbass region.
50:39
He's simply an aggressor these sorts of things. And Borough also mentioned one hundred
50:46
and ten billion euro was recently expended for Ukraine, of which forty percent is
50:52
direct military assistance. And here's the thing. He claimed that in Ukraine there
50:57
are some two hundred factories making thousands of pizza sized drones, producing thousands of
51:02
them a day, and each one holds four kilograms of explosives that can kill
51:07
a tank. And my question would be, wouldn't those be among the very
51:12
first things that Russian forces would destroy? So that was a little bit difficult
51:15
to believe if you think about it tactically from the Russian standpoint. Now much
51:21
more could be said. We can talk a little bit more. Of course,
51:22
an extra about this and the Trump affair. This next slide just to
51:27
wind up or just some notes. They said there was Q and A.
51:30
I kept sending questions from time to time. I didn't get a single question
51:35
answered. They even told me that there's only certain times that questions would be
51:39
answered, But I didn't see hardly anyone else's questions addressed either. So the
51:45
public forums promises of addressing public questions was sorely lacking, and the public was
51:52
largely just a spectator. So we'll leave it there for now and we can
51:55
talk more next week and an extra today. Thank you very much for that.
52:00
Well, I find that a really interesting combination. A defensive inverted commas
52:07
military organization, NATO is now going to be working for peace and democracy in
52:12
the world. Does that make you feel comfortable? Absolutely? Absolutely not?
52:17
Okay, Well, should we trust British politicians? Now? Previously last week
52:23
we mentioned that the Foreign Secretary David Lammy, I'm going to bring him back
52:29
on screen because he's been getting some press as the peacemaker with regard to Israel
52:34
and Gaza. What's he been talking about? Well, apparently he stated to
52:39
Netsan Yahoo that the war in Gaza is intolerable. Well, I think I'd
52:44
agree with that one. Apparently Britain is calling for a cease fire deal and
52:49
the space for a credible and irreversible pathway towards a two state solution. I
52:54
think I believe that when I actually see it. But this is the claim
52:59
that's being made in the article around Lammy. What else can we bring in?
53:04
Well, apparently he's called for the release of all hostages. He's also
53:08
calls for a halt to settlement expansion in the israady occupied West Bank, and
53:15
he's called for a dramatic increase in aid for Gaza. So we might believe
53:21
that we've got a politician here who's at least got the strength of character to
53:25
stand up to Israel and say some things have got to be put right.
53:30
But is this man true to his word? Well, we're going to come
53:34
back to some tweets that he's previously made. This is twenty seventeen, and
53:39
this is in relation to Trump, it says read the Daily Mail story today.
53:45
Yes, if Trump comes to the UK, I will be out protesting
53:49
on the streets. He's a racist, KKK and Nazi sympathizer. Mike,
53:54
is this the language suitable language for somebody to get into government in a sea
54:00
post to deal with other nations. I think you've got to answer that when
54:04
you put the next well, okay, we'll bring it in. I think
54:07
that this is hate speech and it's got immensely dangerous implications. Of course we've
54:13
seen what's just happened to Trump, but it'll get worse. Let's have a
54:16
look at this one, Tim. I don't know who the tim is.
54:21
Tim, you are, so you are clear. I would pour whatever I
54:25
can get my hands on an avowed white supremacist. My ancestors died fighting for
54:31
this sh one. T. I don't give two bloody hoots what your apologist
54:37
bottom thinks about it. That's me being polite. You lay down with dogs,
54:42
you get fleas. So there's some really, really nasty stuff inside this
54:46
man, but he's apparently the peacemaker on the national stage. This was an
54:52
MPR report saying that British parliament member David Lammy discusses why he opposed Trump's visit.
54:59
This is back in twenty eighteen, and when we come to this one,
55:02
it really takes the biscuit because this is twenty nineteen. Donald Trump has
55:08
tweeted out that there has been no president in the history of our company who
55:12
has been treated so badly as I have. The Democrats are frozen with hatred
55:17
and fear they get nothing done. This should never be allowed to happen to
55:22
another president. It's a witch hunt. And Lammy has said four US presidents
55:28
have been assassinated, snowflake, So think about that comment in relation to the
55:34
assassination attempt that we have just seen. And I'm going to suggest that this
55:38
man is not fit to be in post and there's going to be major problems.
55:43
I think we just have to watch him for long enough. Indeed,
55:46
now the election is over, thank goodness, and that means that Ofcom gets
55:52
back to work because they weren't able to do anything apparently during the election,
55:55
all kinds of special rules and so on. So online safety is on the
56:00
agenda once again, so they're switching that back on. And I wanted to
56:06
just quickly have remind everybody what Labor's position is on online safety. Of course,
56:10
the Online Safety Act has passed, the legislation is in place, and
56:15
Offcome is back to work to start implementing it. But if we look at
56:19
the Labor Party's manifesto. They said this Labor will build on the Online Safety
56:24
Act, bringing forward provisions as quickly as possible, and explore further measures to
56:30
keep everyone safe online, particularly when usual using social media. So they are
56:35
talking about the Online Safety Act as being only in the beginning, and if
56:38
we go back to pre the election, in fact we go back to pre
56:43
the passing of the Act, we should make the point that Labor was absolutely
56:49
behind the idea of legal but harmful. This concept was dropped from the final
56:52
legislation because it was so controversial and soldra conein and so totalitarian that nobody was
56:59
prepared to accept it. So when they say they're going to build on the
57:01
Online Safety Act, many people, including myself, believe that this means the
57:07
return of this type of idea, the idea that content which is absolutely legal
57:15
but which they happen to not agree with should be systematically censored from the Internet.
57:21
Now, as I say, Offcom back in business and they are continuing
57:25
to build their infrastructure in order to protect children, they claim from harmful content
57:31
online. And so in order to protect children, I just wan remind everybody
57:37
what companies, this is the tech companies will have to do first of all,
57:40
they'll have to impose robust age checks. Now, of course, this
57:45
isn't about checking the age of children. This is about checking the age of
57:47
everyone. So this is all about digital id because of course, in order
57:52
to check the age of anyone on the Internet, they've got to identify them
57:55
and absolutely establish their age to decide whether they're a child or not. They're
58:00
going to bring about companies are going to have to bring about safer algorithms to
58:04
make sure that children don't get access to certain types of content. But again,
58:07
if you want to browse these platforms anonymously, or you don't want to
58:10
identify yourself, then you're going to get the presumption will be that you're a
58:15
child, and you will get the safer algorithms and effective moderation will have to
58:22
be imposed as well. And well is the difference that offcom claims is going
58:27
to be made. So children will not normally be able to access pornography,
58:30
they say, So it's not going to stop them accessing it at all,
58:34
It's just going to be not normal. There you go. Children will be
58:37
protected from saying and being recommended potentially harmful content, not harmful content, potentially
58:44
harmful content. So we've got to be sure that we understand what that means.
58:49
Children will not be added to group chats without their consent. But surely
58:52
the problem here is that children are being groomed to take part in group chats.
58:55
So I'm not sure how that works. And it will be easier for
59:00
children to complain when they see harmful content, and they'll be more confident that
59:02
their complaints will be acted on. Apparently, So that's all good stuff,
59:07
isn't it. Oh? Right, A, not the speechless stage, Mike,
59:12
because this is such nonsense. Yes, So I'm mentioning this again because
59:16
the consultation ends on the seventeenth of July, so on a few days time,
59:22
a couple of days time. This is a consultation on protecting Children from
59:27
Harms Online. If you search for consultation protecting Children from Harms Online, you
59:31
will get to see that and maybe you might add to the consultation. And
59:37
we're just going to end this section on online safety with a clip from Marianna
59:43
Spring, who's been talking about the shocking discussions that have been going on social
59:47
media with respect to the Trump assassination attempt. Who's being said, I think
59:53
perhaps it didn't come as much of a surprise that there was a huge wave
59:57
of disinformation, conspiracy theories, hate, mainly because this is the first attempted
1:00:01
assassination of a former US president that we've ever witnessed in the social media age.
1:00:07
It was coming from all sides of the political spectrum. But I think
1:00:08
what surprised me was just how mainstream a lot of the conspiracy theory rhetoric became.
1:00:14
It was being recommended to people's feeds on x and the average person was
1:00:17
really getting involved in terms of what was being shared. There were lots of
1:00:21
people suggesting building on kind of legitimate concerns about alleged security failings and suggesting,
1:00:28
hang on, something's not right here. But then they took it that step
1:00:30
further, saying maybe this is stage. They'd point at the extraordinary real pictures
1:00:34
and say there's something not right here. This must be a bit of a
1:00:36
setup. Lots of those people were anti Trump supporters. Their post reached millions.
1:00:40
There were then also some committed Trump supporters who suggested that this was part
1:00:44
of some kind of shady cabal, this group of people, the deep state,
1:00:49
they often refer to them as who did this on purpose, that the
1:00:51
CIA ordered it there's no evidence to support any of these ideas, but that
1:00:54
didn't stop them spreading so quickly across X in particular, and it was on
1:00:59
X it felt a bit like an earthquake, where political supporters on either side
1:01:02
were doubling down in their echo chambers pushing out this kinds of content, and
1:01:07
the rest of us were left kind of scrabbling around trying to work out what
1:01:09
was going on at the BBC contacted X and they didn't get back to us.
1:01:14
Okay, Marianna. So anyway, we always like to be leaving a
1:01:17
bit of comedy to the end of the program, and that hopefully got many
1:01:22
of you laughing. Laughing they did. I wonder how many times I've contacted
1:01:28
the BBC over the years and they never get back to me. They never
1:01:30
answer the question. But be fair, what a lovely dress? Okay,
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