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UK Column News Podcast 31st July 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, the thirty one July twenty twenty four, just
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after Worldlock. Welcome to the UK column News. I mean
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it's Mike Robinson joining me by video link. Today we
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have Vanessa, Billy and Damascus and Charles Mallett. Charles, welcome
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to the program and we'll get kicked off with use
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of force by the police, but with Southport and the
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Manchester situation in mind.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Rich and good afternoon all. Yes, it's been a
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week full of turmoil and grief for police and a
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lot of communities around the country, and I think it's
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brought out a number of issues that people have either
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not perhaps understood fully or have been led towards a
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particular point of view, perhaps by influences from elsewhere. And
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I thought the first thing to look at would be
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the use of force. And this pertains particularly to the
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incident that was filmed at Manchester Airport just over a
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week ago, in which it was apparently put out that
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an authorized firearms officer had used what appeared to be
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a gratuitous force. There was then further context in that
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a bungled the rest attempt had effectively gone wrong and
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sort of a few frenzy of violence had had been
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dealt out by two suspects against police, culminating eventually in
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their arrest. But the point is that the definition here,
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or at least the application of force specified by the
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College of Policing states very clearly that it may only
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be used to the extent that it is necessary, proportionate,
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and reasonable in all the circumstances. And that being the case,
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I just want to examine very briefly the Manchester Airport situation,
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in particular the necessity, because of course we know now
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that the intent aim of police there was to detain
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the men that were there in front of them, therefore
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to affect an arrest by means of handcuffing. So We're
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just gonna look at a very short video and I'd
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like you to make up your own mind as to
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whether you think that this does fall within the category
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of being necessarily reasonable and proportionate. So, with apologies for
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some of the language used in that, it should have
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been fairly clear that, first of all, there wasn't any
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obvious or indeed, I don't believe hidden threat to the
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police officer there who used their paver spray, their pepper
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spray in order to well, in order to do what
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exactly I mean, I think this is the question. And
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then to go in and try to put the suspect
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or if that indeed is who he was, into a headlock,
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rather than trying to grab him by the arm in
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which would have, of course been the most obvious way
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to go about handcuffing. So I think questions around the
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use of force, and also to qualify the particular kick
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that was the one that sort of went viral in
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terms of the video footage, and to consider that at
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that point, regardless of what happened before, there was not
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a threat that merited the use of force. Not use
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of force, it was not going to help that police
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officer in affecting the arrest, and that is effectively what
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was seen, So I think people should be mindful of that.
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The next thing to consider is the presence of firearms
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officers in the first place, and we'll just have a
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quick look at some of the statistics of that come
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from the government produced earlier this month eleventh of July,
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and this is across the whole including Scotland, is nearly
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seven thousand authorized firearms officers in the UK ninety one
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percent of which are deployable, meaning that there are nine
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percent of them who are unfit to serve at the
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time of reporting. Through the course of the year, there
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were over eighteen thousand firearms deployments, which might sound like
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a lot. To explain exactly what that means in a second,
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there were two intentional discharges, so that means that of
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those seven thousand firearms officers, only two live rounds were
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actually fired ten in the previous year, and you would
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have worked it out that that means there are fewer
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than three deployments per authorized firearms officer per year. Now,
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the point of drawing those statistics out is that it
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means that situations like the one that unfolded at Manchester
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Airport often look like there is a requirement for firearms,
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and that's not the case. The firearms deployment is one
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in which there is deemed the necessity for an armed response,
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and yet because they are in effect enormously underemployed, because
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by per officer they're only actually demanded on average three
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times in an entire year, it means they get drawn
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into other incidents, which means that it immediately changes the
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dynamic because they're armed, so the point of highlighting this
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is just to make people sort of cognizant of the
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fact that it does alter the dynamics of the situation,
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and it does alter the optics in terms of how
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the public perceived the police, which is something that we're
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going to come back to in a minute. The next
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thing to look at, of course, bearing in mind what's
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happened first of all in Kent and in Surfport, is
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knife crime statistics, and I have some of those from
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the most recent publication from the House of Commons October
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last year. And the main thing to point out really
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is that these sorts of well this is the homicide statistics,
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but particularly that knife crime or indeed sharp objects account
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for the greatest proportion of homicide. So they're on average
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over two hundred homicides by stabbing every year, and we
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can see that thirty eight percent of them are made
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up by sharp objects. The urban areas, which course are
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the places we're all being pushed towards us there's a
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drive to move people out of the countryside, but there's
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much greater concentration per capita of stabbing offenses in urban areas,
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and the statistics on possession offenses so possession of a
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sharp or bladed object has now increased to over one
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year for twenty percent of those offenses. Now, the other
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thing that we should be mindful of is how people
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are initially perhaps receptive to the idea of implementing controls.
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But I want to make clear that this leads down
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a dangerous path. And I would cite the SVRA, the
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Serious Violence Reduction Orders, which were implemented well in effect
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last year, but from legislation that went out in twenty
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twenty two, and I wrote an article about this for
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the UK column last year, Search without Suspace, which I
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would recommend that you do have a look at because
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it does contextualize the really unfounded basis upon which people
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have orders placed upon them, which means that they can
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be searched without suspicion. And of course this opens the
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door for similar pieces of legislation or similar orders being
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imposed on people for all manner of reasons in order
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apparently to protect the public. So people have to be
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very careful what it is they actually wish for.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: To come on to what's happened in Southport, which obviously
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has been completely and utterly tragic, distressing and an awful
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lot of other things for the families involved, the people
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that had anything to do with it, and indeed the community. However,
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the question is has the response to this been appropriate,
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has it been respectful? Has it actually helped those who
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are going through a grieving process? And I would just
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like to take a look at somebody that Brian was
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mentioning in the news on Monday. This is a post
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on telegram from Tommy Robinson News in which she describes
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the violent disorder there as being justified anger. He says
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after reports of a man wearing a balaclava in possession
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of a knife near a vigil in the town center,
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locals are venting their anger and frustration at the police
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in the aftermath three children being murdered by an unknown assailant.
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So these are the same people who are effectively cheering
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on the armed police officer for kicking dark skinned person
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in the head last week, are now saying that police
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should actually be attacked by those that are apparently in
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a state of grief. And we'll just have a quick
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look at a video to highlight exactly what it is
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that I mean in terms of the response in Southport
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last night.
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Speaker 2: Charles, I think it's just important to say that, of
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course those generally were not local people. In fact, the
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local community has been quite upset about what happened last night,
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and some of the comments I've seen this morning saying
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we're community and grief. We don't deserve to have the
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memory of the children besmirched? What have the police done?
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Why take it out on the police? And I saw
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posts on social media sort of calling for people to
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attend last night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, and I think this is absolutely the
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critical point. And the reason I led into that piece
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of video with the Telegram quote from the Tommy Robinson News,
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of course that being his stage name, he's really Stephen
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Yaxley Lennon, is to highlight the type of rhetoric that's
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being put out by people like that, and how in
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effect it will draw people in and it will provoke
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a response which I would say is absolutely objectively, completely
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inappropriate and counter productive. But also it distracts from the
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main issue, which is that at the heart of this,
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so is being said the issue. One of the issues,
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of course, is to do with migration and ethnicity within
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the United Kingdom. But of course what this actually does
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is to act as a complete distraction from dealing with
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the government itself and with any of the policies that
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might be concerning, you know, concerning this. And so the
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reason to focus on Yaxley Lenin is because he has
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very very strong influences that mean that his behavior and
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his effective incitement is put into context by articles like
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this from The Times of Israel, which very reasonably asked
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the question, why are US pro Israel groups boosting a
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far right, anti Muslim UK extremist And some of this
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goes back for a few years, but we have here
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the Middle East Forum, which said that he they supported
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him back in twenty eighteen by a means of funding
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and other activities. They describe themselves rather euphemistically as being
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focused on ways to defeat radical Islam, to work with sorry,
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to work for Palestinian acceptance of Israel, and to develop
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strategies to contain Iran. Now, obviously I think we know
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from Vanessa's reporting in particular what exactly that really does mean,
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but also pointing out their mission is to promote American
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interests in the Middle East, and yet this is exactly
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who actually Lenin is affiliated with. We've also got the
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Gatestone Institute, which has supported him again back in twenty eighteen.
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But the Gatestone Institute, of course, funded by Nina Rosenwald,
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who has used her millions here it says written by
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Max Blumenthalbert has used her millions to cement the alliance
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between the pro Israel lobby and the Islamophobic fringe. So
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the point of all this really is police. Of course,
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damned if they do, damned if they don't, caught in
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the middle of absolutely everything. But the wider point is
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the relationship that communities have with each other, whether or
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not they're being distracted by particular issues, and in effect,
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people are being programmed to respond to a certain thing
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in a certain way, which detracts from the real issue
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at hand. And I know that Mike's got more to
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introduce on this topic now, but the fundamental basis it
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is the relationship between the police and the public.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to do that, and I will
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do that an extra but so we'll move on for night.
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So thank you very much for that, Charles and Vanessa,
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let's bring you onto the program. And of course, in
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the meantime, over the last couple of days we've seen
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Israel expanding the conflict in the Middle East and well
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other countries beginning to be targeted in order to achieve
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Israel's objectives.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well in the last twenty four hours actually, but yes,
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beginning with the direct confrontation with Yemen, which we talked
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about last week.
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Speaker 5: So this is a photograph of.
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Speaker 4: An area called Majdal Chant, which is actually a town
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or village that is divided between Surrian territory and illegally
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occupied Israeli territory, the occupied Goland territories which were illegally
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annexed in nineteen six seven and are recognized by the
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UNNGA as being illegally annexed. And there a couple of
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days ago there was an attack or there was an
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incident in a playground in Majdol al Shams which killed
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twelve children and youth members of the local Druze community.
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And basically what happened is, if we just have a
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quick look at the context inside that article, basically there
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were as I said, twelve children in the town and
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the occupied Syrian Golan heights on July the twenty seventh
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put Hesbella in Israel on the brink of a wider
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confrontation once again. After the attack, Israel announced that the
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explosion that killed the twelve children was caused by an
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Iranian made rocket fired by Hesblah. The Lebanese group denied
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vociferously the accusation and said the explosion was caused by
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an Israeli iron zone round that malfunction, and which is
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the far more likely incident, because you know there would
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be no point and has Blard targeting what is effectively
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a Syrian town occupied by the Israelis. And in fact,
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when various Israeli officials tried to attend the funerals in
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Majdal Shams, they were booed and told to leave in
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no uncertain terms. And this is just a short video
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of Netanyahu's reception when he tried to attend the funeral
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ceremony in Marjdal Shams. So not exactly a warm reception
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for the Israeli administration officials.
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Speaker 5: Interesting that.
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Speaker 4: The Biden administration is now claiming that the Golan Heights
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is part of Northern Israel. Now where does that come from?
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Twenty nineteen, so that was the Trump administration, which, if
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people remember, Trump recognized the occupied Golan territories as being
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Israeli and in fact Netagnan who promised to name an
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area of the territory after Trump, calling it Trump Heights,
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but then was led onto ministers within the Israeli regime,
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authorizing Netanyahu and Gallant to order retaliation for the deadly
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Goland strike, which of course was still being blamed on
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Hezblad despite there being no evidence to that effect. Netanyahu
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broke away from his meeting in the US to return
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to Israel, and then basically what happened. At nine pm
17:29
last night, there was a blast or a targeting, an
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assassination in the southern area of Beirut, which of course
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was targeted a few months ago, killing a Hezbollah commander,
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sorry a Hamas commander in a similar area. But this
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blast was actually in a heavily populated residential area and
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directly behind one of the biggest hospitals in the area.
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So I just put together some of the video that
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was taken of the targeting.
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Speaker 6: Hey, y'all, I busy, busy had a lot of them, I.
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Speaker 7: Had as.
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Speaker 4: There were in fact eighty injuries, three deaths, one woman
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and two children. This was the scene later on that
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night of the completely destroyed building. Israel is claiming that
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the targeting was of basically number two commander in Hesbla
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for Shukra and their claiming that they eliminated him. However,
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there has been no official statement from Hesbella. It is
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believed that he was found alive in the rebel, badly
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injured and taken to hospitals. Everyone is still waiting for
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an official announcement for from Hesbular, and until that moment
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we can't acknowledge that he was assassinated. The children that
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were killed, Hassan and Amira fad Lala ten and six
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years old, and a young woman by Sila Bedun also
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killed in that attack, all three obviously civilians. The reaction
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immediately from particularly foreign officials. This is David Lami telling
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UK citizens to leave Lebanon immediately and not to travel
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to northern Israel. At almost the same time, I'm not
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sure of the exact time, but the US carried out
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a strike in Iraq against the kadip Has Bolara in
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the PMU based south of Baghdad, assassinating those that they
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claimed had been responsible for drone attacks on the illegal
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US occupation basis in Syria in particular, but also in Iraq.
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And then at about two am, the leader of Hamas
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Ismail Hanye was assassinated in Tehran by an Israeli air strike,
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which we believe came from outside Iran, So it came
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from a third country's territory that hasn't been revealed as
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to which country it was. Yet Hanye was basically in
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Tehran to attend the inauguration of President Pezzersyan. So effectively, Israel,
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while negotiating with Hamas, has just eliminate the chief negotiator.
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So now what has happened is Radi airspace is closed
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from Hadeat or Haifu line northward State run broadcasting Authority.
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Deputy head of Russian Foreign Ministry calls the killing of
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Hamas Politburo chief unacceptable political murder that will escalate regional tensions.
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In this first statement on Israel's strike in Beirut's southern suburbs,
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his belower confirms as I said that Shakrav was in
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the building hit by Israeli air strike, but his fate
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is still unknown. Iran has bowed revenge and retaliation for
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Hanye's assassination, inevitably because he was a guest in Iran
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when he was killed, and his bodyguard was killed with him.
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There are reports that the US is shifting its assaults
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ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the
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Israel Lebanon conflict. The Amphibis assault ship USS was entered
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the Eastern Mediterranean this week as the US position's warships
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to try to keep fighting between Israel and Hezbolla and
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Lebanon from escalating into a wider war. And allegedly those
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boats are there to evacuate civilians if necessary, but I'm
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sure people can imagine what else they may be there for.
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So I think we're facing really an inevitable expansion of
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the war.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're there to escalate the war, not
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to prevent escalations. Yeah, but we can talk about that
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a little bit more later on as well.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, if they're moving.
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Speaker 2: Ships in the Mediterranean for the Middle Eastern conflict, they're
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moving aircraft in the theater for the Ukrainian conflict.
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Speaker 1: So let's bring.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, if this works, there we go. So let's bring
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a little bit video on screen. And so for the
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first time, NIA was extremely happy.
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Speaker 1: So this is their words.
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Speaker 2: For the first time, US strategic bomber aircraft have been
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deployed to two US Air Force B fifty two eh
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Strata Fortress aircraft have arrived at a Remedian Air base.
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They'll be undertaking flying missions with NATO allies and partners
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to synchronize capabilities, tactics, and procedures. The B fifty twos
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have deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana in
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the United States. Apparently, the US routinely demonstrates his commitment
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to NATO allies and partners through Bomber Task Force missions
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providing assurance and contributing to the terrence, particularly along NATO's
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eastern flank.
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Speaker 1: So there you go.
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Speaker 2: That's more saber rattling right on the borders of Russia
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and so on, because we've got to keep the pressure on.
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But we have a little bit of video from well
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from the NATO representative here. He said, Lieutenant colonel can't
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remember his name off the top of the head. Let's
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have a listen to what he had to say.
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Speaker 8: The twentieth Expeditionary Bomb Squadron is out here at Mka
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Air Base supporting a Bomber Task Force deployment in the
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European theater. We're working with our NATO allies and partners
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to conduct training, improve interoperability and work on the fundamentals
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of securing the Black Sea region.
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Speaker 2: So very eloquently put, I couldn't have put it better himself,
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but I just wanted to have a look at him
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instill here. So here's a photograph of him, because of course,
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if we zoom in on here and look at the
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microphone that he's using, and the question is is this
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not a national security risk? Because this is Chinese tat
24:30
right here. This is a Chinese wireless microphone system that's
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used commonly by videographers and so on. But I'm very
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surprised to see it being used by NATO troops in
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the field as it were, because we're told that we
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can't have Chinese infrastructure in are involved with US because
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that would be a national security risk. So I just
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wanted to ask that question in passing now in the meantime,
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Victor Orban, of course, who's the only European leader who's
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been at empty to sue for peace here is continuing
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to be heavily criticized, and yesterday and today one of
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the main hashtags that was trending on Twitter was out
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of EU and NATO. So let's just have a look
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at a couple of the tweets that have been doing
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the rounds here, when what we remove Hungary from EU
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and NATO seriously, either people of Hungary will wake up
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and seriously should leave those organizations. Here's another one with
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well urban being perhaps a little unfavorably represented. Take your
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place next to the fascist puddler and leave the EU
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and NATO you sellable skin is what somebody very pleasantly
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posted yesterday. And here's another one. The Hungarian government today
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blocks Ukraine's succession to the EU and NATO, blocks financially
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aid to Ukraine, accuses the USA and Poland of sabotage,
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invites the Chinese police to control the country, opens borders
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for citizens of the RF and Belarus that's Russian Federation
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is this country of EU and NATO. And so this
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is just three examples of some of the really vitriolic
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comments on Twitter over the last two days about this.
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So let's have a look at what Orband has been saying.
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But he's been particularly critical of Poland recently, and justifiably so.
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So he's saying here the polls pursuing the most sanctimonious
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and the most hypocritical policy in the whole of Europe.
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They're lecturing us morally, criticizing us for economic relations with Russia,
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and at the same time they're doing business with the
26:35
Russians and buying oil indirectly and running the Polish economy
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with it. Well, the Polish didn't like that bit of
26:42
truth very much. So here is to full part of Bardoshevsky. Sorry,
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I did have that done earlier on, but anyway, we
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do not do business in Russia, he said, unlike the
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Prime Minister or band who is on the margins of
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international society, both in the European Union and NATO. He said,
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if you don't want to be a member of the club,
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you can always leave.
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Speaker 1: I don't really.
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Speaker 2: Understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations
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that doesn't like so much and which supposedly treats it
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so badly. Well, maybe they want to try to influence
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the organization to be a little bit more peaceful instead
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of continuing the saber rattling. In the meantime, in Polish radio,
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Hungarian PM's selfish actions lead to isolation, and so they're
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basically continuing this same narrative. And here is well, the
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other narrative that's going on at the same time that
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we should always mention, and that is the fact that
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Russia is being blamed for everything that's going on in
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Europe at the moment. So mobile phone and internet cables
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cut in several areas of France, said connection, and of
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course that was all that nasty Vladimir Putin that did
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it personally, and well, I'm sure we can talk about
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that later an extra as well. The narrative is ridiculous.
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But in the meantime, anybody that's attempting to take a
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peaceful path is absolutely being vilified for it, and well,
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calls for the country to be removed.
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Speaker 1: From the you and from NATO, and war, calls for war.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Vanessa, if you've got any thoughts on
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that briefly, just before we move on.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, we just seem to
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be hurtling towards an expanded war scenario on all fronts,
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and nobody's capable of putting the brakes on it.
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Speaker 2: As how it appears, well, there's I think one or
28:39
two are capable. I think everybody else has absolutely determined
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that they don't succeed, and that.
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Speaker 1: That is yeah, exactly, that is the danger. Okay, okay, okay,
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thank you for that. Now let's move on.
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seal this afternoon. Okay, where does that take us? Then
31:41
we're just calling this legal manipulation, Charles.
31:48
Speaker 3: We are And it follows a segment that I did
31:50
last week which actually started on the subject of geoengineering,
31:53
but it was really to plot the course between the
31:55
idea that people hold views that are counted to the
31:58
narrative or indeed dissenting views, and how they may become
32:02
entangled in a web but laid by both legislation and
32:06
the entirety of the criminal justice system. So really just
32:11
go through a couple of examples now to have a
32:12
look at how the system is in effect loaded against
32:16
the dissenting voice, whether it be a sincere dissenting voice
32:19
or not. And for the first example, we do, in
32:21
fact go back to Tommy Robinson Stephen Yaxley Lenin because
32:26
within the last week he has been arrested in a
32:29
very well publicized sense for what we're called terror offenses,
32:33
or at least under terrorism legislation. And I just wanted
32:36
to clarify the situation because in actual fact this was
32:39
under the Terrorism at two thousand, but specifically under Schedule seven,
32:44
which bears looking at in closer detail because of what
32:47
it actually enables.
32:48
Speaker 4: Now.
32:49
Speaker 3: Schedule seven provides police officers with unique powers to examine
32:53
people who passed through the UK's borders. It allows them
32:56
to stop, question, and when necessary, search and detain individuals
32:59
and goods traveling through the UK's borders to determine whether
33:04
they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation
33:08
or instigation of acts of terrorism. So, as you can
33:11
see from that first bit of text, it's quite wide open.
33:14
It goes on to say the examination of an individual
33:16
Underschedule seven is not conditional upon having grounds to suspect
33:21
that a person, sorry to suspect that person of being
33:24
engaged in terrorism, but the decision must not be arbitrary.
33:29
There are a range of safeguards and measures in place
33:31
to ensure appropriate use of the powers. So quite clearly
33:36
it can be used as a fishing expedition because there
33:40
doesn't need to be any evidential basis for detaining somebody
33:43
under Schedule seven. And this is exactly what the Robinson
33:48
situation brought out, because in actual fact he was arrested
33:52
for breach of an injunction on a totally separate and
33:55
unrelated matter, and yet this was the power invoked. And
33:58
of course the message here is to be sending it
34:01
across to people that anybody could in effect be ensnared
34:05
by this. The next thing to look at is effectively
34:11
a misrepresentation by him, whether intentionally or not, of his
34:16
right to silence. He released a video after this in
34:19
which he spoke about having been compelled by police to
34:24
answer questions. Now that is not actually the case, and
34:27
we look at the rights under the Terrorism Act two
34:30
thousand that you have whilst detained, your right to remain silent.
34:34
If you are asked questions about your suspected involvement in
34:36
the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, you
34:41
do not have to say anything. However, it may harm
34:44
your defense if you do not mention when question something
34:46
which he later aly on in court. Anything you do
34:48
so you do say may be given an evidence, which
34:51
in effect is the standard caution, just with a little
34:54
bit of additional text for the Schedule seven preparation and
35:02
commission of acts of terrorism. So whilst clarifying that that
35:07
there is still the right to silence, what he I
35:10
think was actually referring to is the compulsion under the
35:14
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act two thousand was the compulsion
35:19
under section forty nine of a notice to disclose, And
35:22
in effect this means that if there's information the police
35:25
say that they absolutely require, then you are compelled, effectively
35:30
at pains of a criminal sanction, to give up that
35:34
password or whatever it is to allow somebody to access
35:37
the particular piece of information. So we'll just look at
35:42
the Ripper Power Act of two thousand, but within it
35:47
here the power to require disclosure. A disclosure requirement in
35:52
respect of any protected information is necessary on grounds falling
35:56
within this subsection, if it is necessary in the interest
35:59
of national security, for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,
36:03
or in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the
36:06
United Kingdom. So again it's perfectly easy to see that
36:09
these criteria here are so wide open as to allow
36:15
for what might be called a fishing expedition. And police
36:18
in instances like this are supposed to be very particular
36:21
as to what information they suspect may be there and
36:24
therefore what they will actually look at. But of course
36:27
this allows, by manipulation of the system, for police to
36:31
not only look at something in the first place, perhaps
36:33
under on spurious grounds, but then to find things which
36:37
they weren't actually looking for, but can then act upon.
36:40
So this is a manipulation of the process, and indeed
36:45
people should be very mindful of this. The other thing
36:48
that we should look at now is the new government's
36:52
adherence to the old government's pursuit of what's being called
36:56
Martin's Law, which relates back to the Manchester Arena attack
37:01
or alleged attack. Perhaps I should say, to strengthen the
37:05
security of public events and venues. Now that has a
37:09
very familiar ring to it if you've cast your mind
37:11
back to the vaccine passport legislation of late twenty twenty one.
37:16
But nonetheless, we will update the rules around counter extremism,
37:21
including online, to stop people being radicalized and drawn towards
37:25
hateful ideologies. Labor will also ensure the police and intelligence
37:28
services have the powers and resources they need to protect
37:31
the British people from terrorism and hostile espionage. Now there's
37:35
no greater detail given on that. One does wonder what
37:38
exactly is meant by powers and resources needed. But having
37:42
mentioned Manchester, it is also worth pointing to the case
37:46
of Richard D. Hall, which has re emerged effectively last week,
37:52
so he's been back in court again. I've got on
37:54
screen now the trial going back to February of this
37:58
year in front of Master Davison, and there's been a
38:03
lot of talk about this with regard to freedom of expression.
38:06
But I should just remind people that in actual fact,
38:09
the specifics of this case, which is a civil case,
38:12
are set out quite clearly here, which was on the
38:14
seventeenth of April twenty twenty three, the claimant's commence proceedings
38:17
against the defendant for harassment, misuse of private information and
38:21
data protection breaches. Essentially, the claimants complain that in his book,
38:26
in videos published on his website and on YouTube, and
38:28
in public lectures, the defendant has accused them of lies
38:31
and deception and has misused personal data, including their names, images,
38:37
and medical information. Now, the reason to make this clear
38:41
in the eyes of the court is, as I say,
38:44
to demonstrate how set up the system is set up
38:48
in order that Richard Hall's case in this, as I say,
38:51
in the civil court, hangs on the balance of probability.
38:55
And so again, this is from the same document, from
38:57
what the judges effectively summarized, and this was Hall's effort
39:01
to put forward what he regarded as evidence of something
39:05
having not happened. But the judgment was that the important
39:09
and governing principle is whether there are reasonable grounds for
39:12
believing that further evidence or investigation would affect the outcome
39:15
of the case, and he says there are no such
39:18
reasonable grounds. He goes on to say, further evidence in
39:22
investigation will increase the volume of material that a trial
39:24
judge would have to consider and time required to do so,
39:28
but it is clear that the material will not affect
39:31
the outcome. So the reason for pointing that out is
39:35
to say that because the threshold within a civil court
39:40
is on the balance of probability, the judge was in
39:42
effect able to say that Hall's evidence was inadmissible. It
39:46
was pointless to look at it because on the balance
39:49
of probability, the narrative version of events in that an
39:52
explosion did occur and people were wounded in the way
39:55
that they described themselves as being wounded is on the
39:58
balance of probability. So to clear that obstacle, with that
40:04
being the case, is an absolutely monumental task, which explains
40:09
the predicament to a certain extent of Richard Hall. Now
40:12
what I also want to go on and deal with
40:14
because since we're talking about terror, and we introduced the
40:17
idea last week of government in fact being the genesis
40:21
of the word or the description of terrorism, in that
40:25
it was acts by government. We've seen this many times before.
40:28
We go back to twenty third of March twenty twenty
40:30
where the Behavioral Insights Team offered advice to SAGE and
40:35
we see here the perceived threat with regard to COVID.
40:37
A substantial number of people still do not feel personally threatened.
40:42
The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased
40:45
among those who are complacent using hard hitting emotional messaging.
40:50
And I'd like to set that within the context of
40:52
the Terrorism at two thousand and in particular the definition
40:55
of terrorism, which specifically says that and means the use
41:01
or threat of action where the use or threat is
41:04
designed to intimidate the public or a section of the public,
41:08
and the use of the threat is made for the
41:10
purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause. So,
41:16
rather than get caught up in exactly what the government
41:19
is suggesting maybe qualified as a terrorist attack or terrorist activity,
41:27
should really be looking at the government itself and the
41:29
way in which it's dealing with its citizens.
41:33
Speaker 2: Charles, thank you very much for that. And sticking on
41:36
a related topic, which of course, of censorship. I want
41:39
to bring this on screen because we've been talking about
41:43
AI quite a lot over the last number of months,
41:46
and a number of mainstream news outlets have been highlighting
41:51
the problems with AI, and so this is the BBC
41:54
with their headline why Google AI problem won't be an
41:58
easy fix. They're talking about the fact that these large
42:01
language models are hovering up all kinds of data from
42:03
the Internet, and of course most of that data is biased.
42:07
We've got another article here from Rolling Stone. The right
42:10
is absolutely terrified of woke AI, and so I thought
42:15
this was quite ironic because the right is absolutely terrified
42:18
of what's being described as woke AI. So it's perhaps
42:22
ironic that Fox News has published this article mastering the
42:26
art of Britain Washing. China intensifies AI censorship. China sees
42:31
AI as a means by which to change people's minds.
42:34
Leading experts says, I'm going to suggest another scenario. It's
42:38
not just the right that is worried about woke AI
42:41
and certain ideologies being promoted through AI. It's also the left,
42:46
and China represents that left perhaps, and so maybe China
42:51
is more worried about the fact that unrestricted AI is
42:57
going to be bringing ideologies from outside in the China
43:01
that may not be the best for Chinese society, never
43:04
mind the Chinese government itself.
43:06
Speaker 1: We can talk a.
43:07
Speaker 2: Little bit more about that later as well. But sticking
43:11
with censorship, then GB News was publishing this yesterday, end
43:14
of free speech in Wheels. GB News permanently banned in
43:17
Senate after major censorship. And this is about the internal
43:22
television networks, So inside the Senate building and the various
43:25
offices and so on their televisions there and they receive
43:28
television signals, and the Senate has decided that GB news
43:32
is broadcasts will no longer welcome on the internal television network.
43:36
And so they've kicked it off. They did this last November, actually,
43:39
but they've decided to make this a permanent thing. So
43:42
this was a petition which apparently didn't seem to get
43:45
any traction, but nonetheless stop the ban on GB News
43:49
in the Senate from last November.
43:51
Speaker 1: And this is what the.
43:54
Speaker 2: Presiding officer said, Allen Jones, please understand and respect my
43:58
attempt to protect women and men working in the Senate
44:00
from having the witness in this case. She was talking
44:03
about Lawrence Fox's offensive and misogynistic comments on our internal
44:07
Senate system. So I leave it to you to decide
44:11
whether this is appropriate. I would have some very serious
44:14
questions about this, but just sticking with censorship. Then here's
44:19
The Hill, which is a US publications. Everybody knows, but
44:24
their headline here is the most chilling words today. I'm
44:26
from NewsGuard and I'm here to rate you. And so
44:31
this is Jonathan Turley. This is not bad and he's
44:35
talking about NewsGuard and their efforts to decide who is
44:39
legitimate speech and who isn't.
44:42
Speaker 1: And so if we just.
44:43
Speaker 2: Put that back for a second, let's look at a NewsGuard.
44:46
They say that they're transparent, accountable trust ratings for thousands
44:49
of news outlets. We've talked about them before because of
44:52
course we at the UK column have also received this
44:55
particular call from them. So this is our trust rating
44:59
from news Guard. We get twenty seven point five out
45:01
of one hundred. Proceed with maximum caution. This website is
45:05
unreliable because it's severely violate its basic journalistic standards. Well,
45:10
quite honestly, perhaps we need to be violating a few
45:14
more journalistic standards.
45:15
Speaker 1: But let's have a look and see. Apparently we do not.
45:18
Speaker 2: Repeatedly publish false or egregiously misleading content, so we got
45:22
twenty two points for that. We do gather and present
45:25
information responsibly.
45:26
Speaker 1: Oh No'm sorry, we don't.
45:27
Speaker 2: That's right because there's access beside that, aren't there. So
45:30
I'm completely completely wrong. They're regularly correct or clarify errors,
45:35
and we don't do that except I just did do that,
45:37
didn't it.
45:38
Speaker 1: So they've got that wrong too.
45:39
Speaker 2: But anyway handles the difference between news and opinion responsibly
45:43
avoids deceptive headlines. Well, apparently we do avoid deceptive headlights,
45:47
so that's one thing. The website discloses ownership and financing.
45:50
We don't do enough of that clearly labels advertising where
45:54
we don't have any advertising, so that's fine, and so on.
45:56
Speaker 1: So you can see there.
45:57
Speaker 2: But I'm just going to end by saying, you know,
45:59
if if you want to understand everything we just talked about,
46:04
have a look at the center page on the UK
46:06
column website. We have one of our timelines on there
46:09
that shows the building of this infrastructure. If you haven't
46:13
seen this yet, please have a look at it and
46:15
most importantly share it.
46:18
Speaker 4: Now.
46:18
Speaker 2: Vanessa, let's bring you back on screen here and back
46:21
to international affairs and Israel.
46:25
Speaker 4: Yes, another example of the absolute moral depravity of the
46:30
Zionist regime entity and the forces.
46:35
Speaker 5: So people may have seen that there have been riots.
46:40
Speaker 4: In fact, there's potentially been the start of a civil
46:42
war in Israel itself, not quite for the reasons that
46:46
people might expect. So Israeli soldiers this was in Haretz
46:51
suspected of raping Palestinian prisoner arrested sparking for right riot
46:58
minister among Israelis that were rioting, not in favor of
47:03
stopping this appalling basically anal rape of detainees with blunt objects,
47:13
but in favor of defending the military the nine Israeli
47:17
soldiers in Thetayment detention center.
47:23
Speaker 5: Claiming that they were raping.
47:25
Speaker 4: A Palestinian detainee in self defense because they felt threatened
47:29
by that detainee. Israeli military police raided state Tamen, but
47:35
were met with resistance by soldiers who reportedly barricaded themselves
47:40
into the facility and used pepper spray to defend themselves
47:44
before eventually being taken into custody. They were suspected of
47:49
abusing a Palestinian detainee who, according to Arab forty eight,
47:53
is suffering from a serious wound in his rectum area.
47:57
This is not an isolated incident of according to multiple
48:02
testimonies from former detainees and so then this was put
48:07
out by Afshan Ratansio going underground Israel as to sending
48:12
into civil war on the right of Israeli soldiers to
48:16
rape Palestinians. The moderate wing rape is wrong and commit
48:21
genocide by bombing, shooting, and ethnically tlensing them instead the
48:26
extreme wing, which is the majority of the current administration
48:30
and actually the majority of Israelis. According to many analysts,
48:35
Israeli soldiers should be allowed to rape Palestinians. Another headline
48:41
in Israeli media bordering on anarchy, IDF chief stands alarm
48:46
after right wing mob overruns a second base, also apparently
48:52
accused of carrying out the same appalling torture.
48:56
Speaker 5: And then I just wanted to show this.
48:58
Speaker 4: This is a video of two Canessa members arguing with
49:02
each other in the Canasse over whether rector rape should
49:08
be allowed or not.
49:09
Speaker 9: Let's just roll this.
49:12
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Speaker 4: Then in.
49:49
Speaker 7: Kality Tobasu Comoni and gil direction.
49:56
Speaker 9: Look, damn, I'm not quite sure how I follow up
50:16
after that.
50:17
Speaker 4: But then let's have a look at US State Department
50:22
spokesperson Vedant Patel try to argue or justify the same crime.
50:31
Speaker 6: Israeli please detained soldiers yesterday by the day fore yesterday's
50:35
a speculative of raping the Palestinian sparking Protestant so on. Apparently,
50:40
you know, rape and killing and torture and all this
50:43
thing that happens regularly and is radio detention. Can that
50:47
that constituted all crime to you?
50:49
Speaker 10: So the reports of abuse are deeply concerning, and we've
50:53
been clear and consistent with Israel and the id F
50:55
that they need to treat all detainees humanely and with dignity,
51:00
in accordance with humanitarian law. We also, I spoke a
51:03
little bit about this earlier in the week side. We
51:05
reiterate the support that an IDF, that the IDEF is
51:09
investigating some of these allegations of serious abuse of Palestinian detainees,
51:14
and that is the news that we welcome, and we're
51:17
going to let that process, and we believe in due process,
51:19
and we're going to let that process plan.
51:21
Speaker 6: Two quick points. Now, it's proven to be true that
51:25
that's constitute a walk point.
51:27
Speaker 10: I'm not a legal expert site it certainly I imagine
51:30
it would be inconsistent with Israeli law, and so of
51:35
course that is why we are we have been clear
51:39
that the treatment of any detainee needs to be consistent
51:43
with international humanitarian law.
51:49
Speaker 4: Also quite extraordinary. But I suppose they have Untanamo to
51:54
fall back on. But now let's finally just have a
51:58
little clip.
51:59
Speaker 9: Of Robert F.
52:00
Speaker 4: Kennedy Junior arguing the morality of the Zionist armed forces.
52:08
Speaker 11: So they've achieved it better. They protected in the hostchology
52:12
conditions the Israeli got man had the idea has protected
52:17
civilians better than any any army in history. John Spencer said,
52:22
it is the It has done more to protect civilians
52:27
under more difficult circumstances than any army in history.
52:35
Speaker 4: I mean, I have actually written extensively at my substick
52:39
about Israel's culture of rape and child abuse, and that
52:43
includes offering refuge to multiple accused and prosecuted pedophiles, particularly
52:51
from the United States, that are given access to Israel
52:55
without any issue whatsoever the rate of their own refugee,
53:00
particularly settlers from the North that have come into temporary
53:04
accommodation in the south.
53:06
Speaker 5: Of the occupied territories.
53:08
Speaker 4: It is a systemic issue within the Israeli armed forces,
53:15
both rape and sexual harassment and rape of boys, girls
53:20
and adults within the detention system there in the occupied
53:25
territory is quite extraordinary what we're watching at the moment.
53:29
Speaker 2: Absolutely and absolutely extraordinary that there's even an argument about it.
53:33
But anyway, Charles, let's move on then back to the
53:38
UK and the Ministry of Defense, and they apparently want
53:41
to build some tunnels.
53:44
Speaker 3: They do, it's not entirely clear where, and it does
53:46
seem like a bizarre story. I spoke last year about HMGCC,
53:49
His Majesty's Government Communications Center, which effectively sort of came
53:53
out of the shadows. But they make gadgets largely concerned
53:55
with espionage that are for the use of other government departments,
53:59
or so they said. They launched last year, or at
54:01
least in the public eye, with a co creation project
54:04
to create a device which could read an electronic sim
54:08
which they said was to keep their employees safe and secure.
54:11
But it did happen to coincide with the widespread roy
54:14
LIFs or of electronic sims across across the digital spectrum.
54:18
And of course this looks just like an IMSI grabber,
54:21
which sort of has questionable uses in terms of legitimacy,
54:25
but noneless. Yes, they're talking about tunnels and they've launched
54:28
another co creation project here seen on the Catapult website,
54:32
which is in conjunction with DSTL Defense Science and Technology Laboratory,
54:37
and specifically what they say about this is that the
54:39
challenge is to demonstrate ways of producing subterranean pathways preferably
54:44
greater than two feet diameter with minimal chants of being detected.
54:47
And will come back to that bit. They'd say that
54:50
underground tunneling presents an array of opportunities and challenges, so
54:53
the MD would like to know how technologies and capabilities
54:55
could be better harnessed for future operations. What exactly do
54:59
they mean by that? In particular, there is an interest
55:02
in how to better access hostile and constrained subterranean environments.
55:07
Now that's no coincidence that they are referring back to
55:11
a document here called Future Cities, which conveniently enough came
55:15
out in February twenty twenty, just before everything changed, and
55:20
they have a piece on underground cities in which they
55:22
say future cities are like to make likely to make
55:25
increased use of underused and underground spaces. So I referred
55:30
earlier to being pushed out of the countryside, it appears
55:33
that there might be a push underground the subterranean environment
55:36
can also host tunnels which can be used to transport
55:39
material goods and people without being observed by surveillance systems
55:43
or passing through choke points on the surface. And in
55:47
terms of the infrastructure, they talk about accommodating growing population
55:52
densities and that these cities will see a sharp increase
55:56
in the amount of occupied vertical buildings. And they've finish
56:00
the slightly strange sentence verticality will all to hierarchies and
56:04
territorial boundaries. I must admit to being not completely certain
56:09
what they mean by that, but they go on to
56:12
say that the desire to mistigate pollution and congestion will
56:16
lead to increasingly controlled traffic management. So we go back
56:20
to the idea that fifteen minute cities are at least
56:23
we're told by the government not to stop people from
56:26
doing certain things. And yet here we are in the
56:27
Future Cities documents they continue with and in many cities
56:31
cycling and walking will be encouraged by physically constraining vehicular movements.
56:36
Autonomous forms of transport will become more common, becoming part
56:39
of the smart city infrastructure. Likewise, many other routine functions
56:43
of cities will become automated. Now we get to the
56:46
key bit here with regard to DsCl and HMGCC, which
56:49
is the military aspect, and they're anticipating that the future
56:52
operating environment will increasingly become urbanized and Africa and Asia
56:57
are developing most rapidly in thatartment, so that's where the
57:01
focus will be. They suggest the database of urban areas
57:03
for potential military operations. The UK military has to be
57:07
optimized for urban areas. Presumably tunneling will be part of that,
57:11
and using tunnels smart city represent sorry presents risks and opportunities,
57:17
but again they're not specific exactly as to what they.
57:19
Speaker 5: Mean by that.
57:20
Speaker 3: And then again thinking about the new government and their
57:22
energy policy, we talk about the altered definition of critical infrastructure,
57:26
and of course it was Ed Miliband who recently declared
57:29
that solar would be regarded as critical infrastructure. I should
57:32
also point out that within this document tunnels in Syria,
57:36
Lebanon and Gaza are all cited, as are tunnels in
57:41
China and Mexico, so they do appear to be sort
57:45
of telegraphing the future intent. And then also just going
57:49
back a little bit further to last year, we've got
57:51
the Defense and Security Accelerator. We're going deeper underground and
57:56
this one is sort of the other side of it
57:58
is to do with detecting movement in tunnel. So it
58:00
does look very much like they do want to have
58:02
a military, if not other capability within tunnels. And just
58:06
to confirm that this has been sort of going ahead
58:08
here we've got seven brigades, seven on Brigade the Desert
58:11
rat going tunneling back in July twenty twenty two. So
58:15
quite what's going to happen next, I'm not quite sure
58:17
that I will report as and when there's any further information.
58:20
Speaker 1: Brilliant, Thank you, Charles.
58:21
Speaker 2: Okay, and well, the last thing we'll just mention here
58:25
is CBDC because the Bank of England has been publishing
58:29
more information. So here is their new report, Innovation on Money.
58:34
I'm not going to read all this, but basically they're
58:36
talking about financial stability. They're talking about preserving central bank money,
58:41
the role of central backed money, including a wholesale central
58:44
bank digital currency, and that they are also looking at
58:48
setting out objectives in retail payments as well. So this
58:51
is retail central bank digital currency. It just remind everybody
58:55
of the response of the Government to the House of
58:59
Commons Treasury Committee's report on this in January this year,
59:03
where they had said that they had they were actually
59:07
referencing the House of Lords reports saying there was no
59:10
clear and convincing case for a UK to need a
59:13
retail CBDC and they were highlighting the privacy issues and
59:17
they had said to address privacy concerns. Today's publication confirms
59:23
that if a digital pound were to be implemented, primary
59:25
legislation would be introduced and this would guarantee users privacy
59:28
and control. And if you believe that that isn't a lie,
59:31
then maybe you shouldn't be watching this program. But anyway,
59:34
that is the previous government's comment. The previous government's comment
59:39
goes on to say that a digital punt would complement
59:42
the role of cash and that ten pounds of a
59:45
digital punt will always be worth the same as ten
59:48
pounds in banknotes and nothing in other words, and it
59:50
would be issued by the Bank of England, and it
59:53
would be easily exchangeable with other forms of money, and
59:56
it would be accessed through digital wallets, and it would
59:59
be intended for payments made online in store in between
1:00:02
individuals and there would be restrictions at least initially on
1:00:06
how much an individual or business could hold, and like banknotes,
1:00:10
it would be a claim on the Bank of England
1:00:12
and have intrinsic value. Another lie perhaps, so anyway, that
1:00:17
was the previous government saying that. But as we all
1:00:19
know from Clear Starmer's change agenda, nothing will change and
1:00:24
this will be the policy of this government as well.
1:00:28
The Bank of England publishing their latest moves on CBDC
1:00:32
and we watch it with interest. I just wanted to
1:00:35
We mentioned in the ad break that we were playing
1:00:38
with YouTube a little bit and they had taken down
1:00:42
the John Bodwin video already. I just wanted to highlight
1:00:47
this because it did make me laugh yesterday because when
1:00:50
I got the opportunity to appeal the decision, which of
1:00:53
course there's no opportunity at all, But anyway, when I
1:00:55
got the opportunity to appeal the decision, the question that
1:00:58
I was asked was what want to do? And one
1:01:01
option was to appeal the decision. The other option was
1:01:04
to take policy training. So they were offering me training
1:01:07
and how to identify whether my video clips constituted medical
1:01:11
misinformation or not for the future and well, naturally I
1:01:15
didn't press up button unfortunately. I think that for the
1:01:18
sake of a laugh and also for reporting what actually happens.
1:01:22
If I choose the training, the next time the video
1:01:24
comes down, I will do that and I'll report back
1:01:26
to you to let you know what it is that
1:01:28
YouTube wants to shove into my brain whenever they next
1:01:32
time they take the video.
1:01:34
Speaker 1: A video done, So what's the space and we'll let
1:01:36
you know about that.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: We will be back in a few minutes for some
1:01:40
extra Thanks very much to everybody for joining us, and
1:01:43
for Vanessa and Charles for being with us.
1:01:45
Speaker 1: Don't forget Katie.
1:01:46
Speaker 2: Joe'll be on with us in a couple of minutes,
1:01:47
so join us then if you're a UK column member.
1:01:50
If you're not, please join us. But we'll see it
1:01:52
next time.
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Speaker 1: Bye bye, Fie.