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UK Column News Podcast 24th April 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty fourth of April twenty twenty four,
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just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Colin News. I'm your host
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Mike Robinson joining me by video link. Today we have Vanessa Bailey and Charles
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Mallett. Welcome to the program. Both. We're going to get started today
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with defense spending and well, this is the latest report from the Stockholm International
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Peace Research Institute, which is having a look at defense spending across the world.
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And of course the timing of this is quite appropriate, as we'll come
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on to in a second with Richie Sunak in Poland yesterday. But they're saying
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that the global defense spending has reached two four hundred and forty three billion dollars
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in twenty twenty three, and that's an overall increase of six point eight percent.
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We'll look at the country spending and the second this is a comment from
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Nan Tian saying states are prioritizing military strength, but they risk an action reaction
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spiral in the increasingly volatile geopolitical and security landscape. So this is the first
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time since two thousand and nine that's spending has been up right across the globe.
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So let's just have a look at some of the details of this.
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The United States is up to. These figures are the total that they're spending,
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that's not the amount that it's gone up by. So it's up to
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nine hundred and sixteen billion dollars, and so that's two point three percent up
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in twenty twenty three. More spending this year of course already. But in
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twenty twenty three across all the NATO, if you take NATO as a whole,
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all thirty one member states accounted for one three hundred and forty one billion
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of that four hundred and forty three so that's over fifty five percent. Russia
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is up to one hundred and nine billion dollars, so that's a twenty four
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percent increase, hardly surprising. What I find really amusing, of course,
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is that the Administry Defense continues to about propaganda, telling us on their Twitter
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feed telling us that Russia is no longer an exporter of defense equipment. Hardly
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surprising under the circumstances. China up to two hundred and ninety six billion dollars,
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and that is a six percent increase, and Japan in the same region
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has increased theirs by eleven percent, but Ukraine is now one of the major
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spenders in terms of GDP anyway, so they're up to sixty four point eight
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billion pounds that is thirty seven percent of its GDP, which makes the two
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and a half percent that Rishi Sunak announced for the UK yesterday look a bit
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silly perhaps in one sense. But of course Ukraine is starting to get more
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money from abroad, as they could have been for quite some time. But
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the stalemate over US funding seems to be broken and I think ninety eight billion
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another ninety eight billion heading over to Ukraine as a result of that. So
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there he is our glory leader with Pauland's glorious leader Donald Tusk yesterday with flowers
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on the table, that all looks very nice while they're talking about death instructure
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across the world. So let's just have a little look from Rishi or listen
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to what he had to say yesterday. We did not choose this moment,
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but it falls to us to meet it. In a world of increasing threats,
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we must show our enemies that we are resolute and determined that their attempts
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to destabilize our world or redraw its borders by force will fail that. With
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our friends and our allies, will be at the forefront of the defense of
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the free, democratic world, and under my leadership, the United Kingdom will
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always stand up for our interests, deter our enemies, and defend our values.
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So hopefully that didn't make people feel too physically well, it certainly did
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me one earlier on. I want to watch it for the first time.
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But let's see what they we're pumping out on Twitter this morning, because great
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propaganda here seventy five billion pounds new funding secured to fund the greatest strengthening of
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our national defense since the Cold War, to defend the UK and help Ukraine
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defend Freedom's front line with a record three billion this year, to lead in
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a more dangerous world from Native's Eastern flag to the Pacific with our Aucus allies.
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To modernize our armed forces to be able to fight and win against an
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enemy, to support service personnel at the dawn of a dangerous era when we
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need them more, and which we'll put our defense industry on a war footing
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with at least ten billion pounds to extra for munitions, and to ensure that
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we have the conventional forces we need to deter rising threats. So of course
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while he was in Poland he also met Jen Stottenberg and they of course were
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extremely excited with this extra spending. Charles, what are your thoughts on this?
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Good afternoon all, And I think this is just a sort of gigantic
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exercise and spin really, because of course there's so much more to it than
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money, which I will come onto it in a bit, but it's I
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think completely nonsensical would be the word I'd choose. Yes, yes, indeed,
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so let's come to your segment then, Charles, and more tanks running
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off the production line in the UK as a result of this money. Well,
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yes, the announcement that the Challenger three, the latest iteration in the
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UK's main battle tank, has rolled off the production line, although not yet
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of course operational. But here we see the Army advertising the soon to be
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capability or at least relatively soon run metal be a systems building the tank.
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And of course there's much made about the prosperity in securing jobs and all the
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rest of it, and critically, and this is the important part, that
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the mods buying one hundred and forty eight of these vehicles at a cost of
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eight hundred million pounds, so it is a lot of money. But I'd
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like to look back to nineteen eighty three. This is my copy of the
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presentation document at the release of the original Challenger tank, and it's worth noting
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then that the MOD bought four hundred and twenty main battle tanks, So as
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Popular Mechanics asks, or rather points out, at one hundred and forty eight,
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Whilst it is a new tank and it may be quite a capability,
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there are not going to be very many of them, And indeed, to
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set it within the context of the situation in Ukraine and Russia at the moment,
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the Defense of Ukraine Twitter profile posted that they claim to have destroyed six
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seven hundred and thirty nine Russian tanks since February twenty twenty two. Now that
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may well be a work of fiction, but nonetheless, one hundred and forty
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eight main battle tank set against that total, whichever way you look at it
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is a very very small number. So the other thing to point out on
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the actual capability of it, And again to do with the situation that the
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United Kingdom and the MOD and of course the Armed Forces are involved in,
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it's worth pointing out the Challenger three will be fitted with an Israeli capability,
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the Active Protection System, which effectively is designed to just bring that on screen.
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It's designed to be able to repel and incoming projectiles. We just look
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at the text here which describes it as being the Trophy Envy Medium variant currently
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in service with the Israeli Defense Force, and basically the point of it is
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that when something's fired towards the tank, this activates itself and is supposed to
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effectively counteract the projectile the text at the bottom there, so there's a final
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decision. Trophy APS is not planned to be taken until twenty twenty three.
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This in fact has been taken, so we are definitely locked into that with
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Israel. And it's just a point that's worth mentioning because of course it means
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in effect that the most intelligent part of the technology of this machine is owned
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by another country, or indeed an organization from outside of this country, which
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might not be necessarily a new thing, but I think is worth noting.
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And I'll then just come on to what Mike's been talking about, which is
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the sort of disconnect between the equipment and indeed the money. So we got
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the mod equipment plan report from the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts from
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March of this year, in which they state that there's a sixteen point nine
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billion pound deficit between the mod's capability requirement and its budget. In effect,
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there's been a series of sort of disconnects and perhaps book cooking exercises that haven't
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quite turned out as they should have done. And they conclude in this paragraph
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by saying the Army, for example, could need around twelve billion more to
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fund all the capabilities the government seeks. And finally they go on to say
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the MOD has not had the discipline to balance its budget by making the difficult
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choices about which equipment programs it can and cannot afford, So of course they
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talk about suspend two point five percent of GDP on defense, and finally they
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say that the MOD has not credibly demonstrated to Parliament how it will manage its
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funding to deliver the military capability to capabilities that government wants. And just to
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reinforce Mike's earlier message, of course, Prime Minister on a visit to Poland
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announcing that five hundred million additional funding to Ukraine, taking the UK military aid
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to three billion. So really, whilst the Challenger three development is in some
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ways a significant one actually in the overall context of armoured warfare as it's intended
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to be. If we're talking about some kind of direct conflict with Russia,
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it's a meaningless gesture, and that the financial side of the course is well
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a confused picture to say the least. Yes, And in the meantime,
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of course, the old Challenger tanks that we sent over to Ukraine just to
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become scrap once again over there, because that's seems to be the scrap yard
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of the West at the moment. But anyway, in the meantime then Germany
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and the UK have signed another defense partnership. So we already have various agreements
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in the Act and Treaty and other things involved here, but they've decided that
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they have deepened their defense and security cooperation as the words that they used,
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and an initial step the UK and Germany will announce plans for a joint endeavor
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to develop remote controlled howitzer one five to five millimeter wheels, artillery systems and
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so on continues. Here's Rishi getting off the plane in Germany, so an
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impressive figury cuts there. But in the meantime foreign Affairs magazine has reckons that
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Europe, but not NATO, should be sending troops to Ukraine. This is
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a pretty sick article, really. The sub headline here is to halt Russia's
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advanced Kiev needs more boots on the ground. In other words, there's an
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acknowledgment here that significant numbers of boots on the ground have already been decimated in
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this war, that Ukraine is running out of boots on the ground to have
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decimated in the war, and therefore Europe needs to provide boots on the ground
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to fill the gap, because otherwise Russia is going to win this war.
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It is a pretty horrible comment from Foreign Affairs here, and well, I
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suggest people read it and comment on it themselves, but I wanted to end
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on this note. Here's Barbara Woodward. She's the UK's permanent representative to the
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UN, and she had this to say yesterday, President, Conflict related sexual
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violence is not an inevitable consequence of war. The UK remains committed to tackling
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conflict related sexual violence. And maybe if you look like Barbara Woodward that's the
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case. But otherwise I think this is a pretty reprehensible position to be taking
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because what she's basically saying is that murder is fine, don't worry about that,
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will continue to pursue the murder and so on. It's the rip and
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the pillage that maybe we want to deal with that somehow can be excluded or
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removed from the picture, just as long as we keep the murder going.
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Vanessa, I just wanted to get your thoughts on this because it seems to
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me that the way that you stop sexual violence in warfare is to stop the
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warfare absolutely. But also, of course there is absolutely total emission of Ukraine's
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part in child trafficking and sexual prostitution trafficking, which is inevitable and it's becoming
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a pattern, of course, but still it's disgusting hypocrisy as usual, one
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hundred percent. Okay, well, let's move on then from war hypocrisy here,
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because of course I can't remember how long ago we were talking about this,
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but the narrative, the captain and the drug is now Syria is the
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main source of this drug in the world. There has been an update on
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this story, yes, there has. Indeed, we reported a little while
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back on a BBC documentary that was in collaboration with three other media related outlets
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funded by the UK foreign offers by the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID,
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in other words, the IA and American intelligence agencies and Katari and Saudi Arabian
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media outlets based in the south of Syria. Now, one interesting point that
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I want to make here I was looking into this in the last few days,
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is that Syria was largely drug free finally en up until the regime change
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war began in twenty eleven and twelve, and al Qaeda and ISIS and various
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derivatives were using the drug to carry out suicide bombing and also just to ensure
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their ability to continue fighting even when they were injured. So the captacan to
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bill is on its way to the Senate as part of an urgent legislative package.
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This was a report yesterday, and the media is full of reports on
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Syria being a narco state. It was voted across both parties three hundred and
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sixty four and fifty eight against headlines like this a flooding the media in the
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UK and the US so ISIS terrorists which are proxies of the UK US cartel
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in Syria intent on regime change. They're taking captive on superhuman drug that makes
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them charge at tanks. Yes, that's a real headline. But what is
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quite extraordinary here is that the argument is that President has said is going to
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personally produce a drug which enables isis to carry out attacks against Syrian forces and
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civilians inside Syria, just as we're supposed to believe the President had has said
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would launch chemical weapon attacks against his own civilians when his own forces are about
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to liberate those civilians. So again we have this sort of mass suspension of
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disbelief across the media. Who's one of the people responsible for the sponsorship of
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this bill and others that I'm going to mention US Congressman Republican French Hill,
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second District of Arkansas, And he's basically brought in a law package called peace
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through Strength. I would replace that with force in the twenty first century.
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So let's have a look at what those bills include. Provisions included in a
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package fighting against foreign adversaries and strengthening national security of course, and who are
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their allies, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. No guesses over why they
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are their allies, but let's have a look here what he says basically Syria
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and President Basharlasad is a transnational drug kingpin. The hyperbole is getting more and
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more extreme. Who exploits his dangerous drug captagon to generate billions in illicit funding
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and devastate families in Syria and the region. Now, what's interesting, they're
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claiming that the income from captigun in Syria is fifty seven billions. The GDP,
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the entire GTB GDP sorry of Jordan is less than fifty billion. So
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I'll let people work that out for themselves. And in twenty twenty one it
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was described as five point seven billion. So he's brought in the illicit capta
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Gun Trafficking Suppression Act. He's also brought in the holding Iranian sorry, you
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never mind, holding Iranians accountable for their global terrorism. However, Frenchchill has
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effectively skin in the game. In August twenty twenty three, he visited northwest
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Syria in the presence of the Syrian Emergency Passporce, who also facilitated the smuggling
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end of John McCain in twenty thirteen, to meet with ISIS and other terrorist
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leaders, and in the same way, Frenchchill met with Al Qaeda operatives,
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including the White Helmets in Northwest Syria when he came in illegally. He's also
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been reported to have been supporting the separatist movement on the Netlide in Suedo in
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Southern Syria, reportedly calling the Druze leader of the separatist movement that's backed by
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Israel and the United States in Southern Syria. And then if we move on,
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I just want to point this out, so let's have a look.
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This was on an article that I was reading, so these are headlines.
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Now comes the Taliban narco state. Well, that's interesting because opium was not
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a problem under the Taliban. It became a problem of course after the US
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invasion. With China's helped Mexico is on the verge of becoming a narco state.
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Maya and Ma emergence of a narco state on India's eastern borders, Guinea
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Bissau micro states in narco state, and Syria has become a narco state.
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Is this becoming a pattern? Mike, Well, let's go back to nineteen
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seventy one and Nixon's war on drugs. Just play this very short introduction.
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I began the meeting by making this statement which I think needs to be made
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to the nation. America's public enemy Number one in the United States is drug
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abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to
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wage a new all out offensive. I have asked the Congress to provide the
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legislative authority and the funds to fuel this kind of an offensive. This will
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be a worldwide offensive, dealing with the problems of sources of supply as well
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as Americans who may be stationed abroad wherever they are in the world. It
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will be government wide, pulling together the nine different fragmented areas within the government
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in which this problem is now being handled. Does this time familiar? So
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you have the war on drugs, what happens, of course, exponentially drug
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trade increases. The war on terror. What happens is terrorism increases exponentially worldwide.
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And of course what this was used to do by the Nixon administration was
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to isolate economically and politically Latin American states back then and not forgetting, of
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course, that the US could potentially be described as an arco state. It
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has a five hundred billion income from the drug trade into the US economy,
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which is almost equivalent to their defense spending, and it's renowned for funding both
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sides of the drug trade, and of course laundering money from the drug trade,
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riding money and arms to both the security forces that are fighting the drug
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trade, while supplying weapons and support to the actual drug cartels that are running
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the drug trafficking, and of course the US is I think the number one
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in opioid use globally. So very interesting here in the fact that they were
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responsible for the introduction of the drug captagon in the first place through the terrorist
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proxies and again echoes of the cost of a liberation army that run its forces,
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ran its forces, amongst other things, on drug trafficking, drug manufacturer
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and drug trade while being supported of course by the West and KLA were effectively
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predominantly al KAEDA. So I just want to give one example. So in
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twenty twenty one in Saudi Arabia they came up with a story that millions of
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captiicon pills if you just move on like these had been brought into Saudi Arabia
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in a consignment of pomegranates from Lebanon, and as a result they basically shut
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down all imports from Lebanon. Bearing in mind that this was months after the
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dis Astro's catastrophic Beirute blast in late twenty twenty, so they effectively cut back
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one of the few areas of trade with Lebanon while increasing trade for the same
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products from Israel. And this was designed effectively to politically isolate and undermine hes
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Blar inside Lebanon, because, of course hes Blar, as is president as
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SAD and Syria are blamed for the production of this particular drug. Now,
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what is this war on drugs which appears to be re emerging since nineteen seventy
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one. Of course, it's designed to stigmatize target nations, to isolate them
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politically and economically, and to enable and facilitate further sanctions on an already unprecedentedly
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sanctioned country, which is Syria. In reality, increases drug field violence is
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the US as we've seen in Mexico. Is Mexico is funding both sides of
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the drug war potential to orchestrate a failed state, in other words, to
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bring an already weakened state which has resisted regime change to its nees. And
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of course it prevents peaceful resolution and facilitates further Western military intervention once the drug
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field violence has reached a pitch. So cynical marketing here by the West and
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yet another attempt to completely destabilize Syria. And I mean, you're talking about
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Syria, You've talked about much brought many other countries there, Vanessa. But
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but we've got to understand the scale, the skill, and the scope of
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this. It's not just about Syria or the other countries that you've mentioned.
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It is a global thing and we should remember that. You know, George
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W. R. George Bush Senior was accused of using the drug trade to
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fund CIA black operations when he was working for the CIA prior to him becoming
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President of the United States. So you know, as you say, the
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drugs trade is a major driver for a lot of the wrongs that we see
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in the world these days and for the last for the last hundred years or
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so, the war on drugs has not solved anything. And I mean,
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the fentanyl situation in the United States is off the charts, it's the same.
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It's increasingly a problem in Scotland as well. So that problem is coming
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to this country as well. But people often sort of dismiss this as being
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irrelevant because it's it's happening in Syria, or it's happening in Lebanon, or
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it's happening in Saudi Arabia. This affects us on a daily basis, absolutely,
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And if you look at a number of articles actually on the war on
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drugs under Nixon, what it was weaponized to do was to actually attack the
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kind of anti anti more left wing back then organizations and to target them as
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being affiliates of drug trade or being in support of Narco states, et cetera.
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So you're absolutely right, just as everything that we protest against can be
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used against us if it's fun in the right way, then this is very
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much also what is coming. And plus, as you said, the introduction
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of these drugs that even when it was production was stopped in nineteen eighty six
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but continued in Bulgaria and was then smuggled into the Arab Peninsula by Turkish and
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Vulkan drug trafficking cartels. So you know the fact is that who is moving
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all of these drugs around the world and using them against populations to destabilize and
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to stigmatize these populations. Yeah, indeed, okay, and so thank you
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a search for that now. On Monday this week we put out the premiere
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of Playing God, Unbelievably gret documentary with on a very very dark topic.
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Nonetheless, I'm delighted to say that Jackie Duvoi the producer is with me again
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today, Jackie. Welcome to the program. What's the response been like to
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the premiere which went out on UK column but also Children's Health Defense in the
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United States. Yeah, it's been pretty amazing. Actually, I've got some
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really good comments on social media. People are still watching it every day,
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so yeah, I'm not sure how many people have seen it on UK column.
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I haven't actually checked. I don't know. Can you see the figures
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on there? I don't have the figures to hand. But the response in
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the forums has been extremely positive. As I say, very dark topic of
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course, we're talking about deaths in the National Health Service, but nonetheless people
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very appreciative of the work you've done here. Yeah. I haven't had any
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negative comments at all, which is quite unusual. And when you put something
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out that you've made, they've all been very positive, mostly very shocked.
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You know. I think a lot of people have a rough idea that demicide
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is a thing and then it is happening, especially after the first film that
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I made, A Good Death with Iconic. You know, we've talked a
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lot about euthanasia, were mainly about euthanasia in that so but this film is
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a much broader look at demoside death by government policy, all different types of
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deaths, people who've died in trials for untested drugs, people who've died from
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the JAB, people who've died from euthanasia, drug overdoses, in hospital malpractice
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and negligence, as well as a more deliberate kind of culling and killing which
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we've been seeing more so as the years go by. Have you had any
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response from mainstream media or piece yet? And I wonder how long it's going
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to be before the fact checkers attempt to come along. Well, I've brought
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it to Andrew Bridgin's attention, but I haven't heard back from him yet.
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As you know, we had a meeting in the House of Commons with him
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last June. So he's very very much on side and very supportive and has
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been supportive to me and some of my support group over the last nine months
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or so. And yeah, I'm sure once he has a look at the
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film he'll be able to comment on it as well. But no, no
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other MP's have commented and they won't. A lot of MPs have blocked me,
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so so I don't with no explanation. Obviously, I haven't done anything
30:47
directly to upset them, let's put it that way. Yeah, so we're
30:51
hoping to do more more screenings all over the UK as well in cinemas.
30:56
It's quite hard to get cinemas to run these kind of films, but we
30:59
are going to be doing that. Obviously, that's going to cost a bit
31:03
to organize, but we're keeping the crowd funder running for a little bit longer.
31:07
That's at crowdfunder Playing God Final Phase if people can donate there. We're
31:14
trying to help the contributors as well. A lot of them are still fighting
31:18
for justice for their loved ones and need some help. And we're also,
31:22
as I said, doing screenings and also I'd like to kind of pay some
31:26
other people who work for cheap or free on the film to help get it
31:29
finished in that quite short timeframe. Yeah, so if anybody would like to
31:34
help with that, if you go to the Playing God video on the UK
31:37
column website, the link is in the description, so please do that.
31:42
And I mean, what are the participants themselves? Has this been helpful to
31:48
them? Yes, that they're actually really appreciative art. I mean, I
31:52
appreciate them for doing it because it's a very brave thing to do to come
31:56
out and tell these stories. But it's also they appreciate the film being made
32:01
because it's finally given them that voice and that platform to get their stories heard.
32:07
So I think it's very important. They're actually going to be on Children's
32:10
Health Defense tomorrow night. Some of the people who told their stories in the
32:14
film, they're actually on the Doctor Brian Hooker Show tomorrow on HD so people
32:19
can hear what they have to say about their stories and about the film there.
32:22
And then also there's an interview with me and the director, one of
32:27
the director's name My Mood on CHD as well and on my show tomorrow night
32:32
on Unity News Network. I'll be talking to some other people involved in the
32:37
film too, Okay, So we would just ask everybody to share the film,
32:44
contribute if you can if you haven't done so already, but also share
32:47
those programs as well. So Jackie, I'm going to say thank you very
32:51
much for joining us, Thanks for having me, Mike, thank you Oka,
32:53
brilliant, Thank you Jackie, No Charles back to you then. And
32:58
food specifically the slow march towards food scarcity and the direct result of national and
33:09
supernational policy and the rather obvious but neglected response, or rather reaction to it.
33:17
So we look at the Sustainable Farming Initiative, which is already in its
33:21
sixth version since it was announced in January of this year. Essentially set out
33:25
as an unlimited scheme, DEPHRA have now conceded that they do have to limit
33:30
it, even though they still espouse that it is to have the explicit purpose
33:36
of taking land out of food production. And they say that now it's restricted
33:39
to twenty five percent of anybody's land. Specifically, they refer to actions unlikely
33:46
to deliver their intended aims, but of course they were not clear about that
33:50
in the first instance, which is why we are where we are. So
33:52
they say that if you applied since the twenty sixth of March, there are
33:55
six actions which must only be done on a proportion. Essentially, these are
34:00
the ones that just wholesale take land out of production. But the critical part
34:04
here is that it does not apply to existing agreements or applications submitted before the
34:09
twenty sixth of March. And the question is, therefore, how many people
34:13
went into these schemes one hundred percent or thereabouts, and therefore I'm not producing
34:19
food at all this year. So we'll just have a look at a clip
34:22
from a popular YouTube video, Harry's Farm, in which he talks about this
34:28
very issue. Ah, so that is why they've gone for this greening,
34:36
and I'm going to get improved soil structure from I'm doing this so long term,
34:42
the soil structure on our farm will benefit from me entering these schemes and
34:46
the legging mixes that we're doing, and they're replacing breake crops. But it
34:51
also means as a country, we're going to produce less food than we were
34:55
And when this document was written I don't think they took into account also the
35:01
rise in the population in the UK. It is incredible how quickly the population
35:07
rises. The UK population between nineteen ninety six and twenty twenty one went up
35:13
eight point nine million, that's fifteen percent rise, about sixty seven sixty eight
35:19
million. If you go forward the number now for twenty thirty six seventy three
35:25
point seven million people. It's rising at an alarming rate. And we have
35:31
to feed all these people, and all this land coming out of production and
35:37
going into these environmental schemes means there's less land being farn and I think we're
35:44
heading by twenty twenty seven when these schemes, everybody signed up to these schemes
35:50
and the reality hits We might even hit it in twenty twenty five, but
35:53
there was an awful lot less food being grown in the UK. So he's
36:02
bothered to look into these schemes and where they've come from. But his view,
36:07
which is to take the risk out of his farming practices, is going
36:09
to have been shared by many of his contemporaries, and indeed he talks about
36:15
his neighbors having gone into these schemes wholesale. He's only producing a third of
36:20
his arable crop from previous years. So we line this up against the open
36:25
goals that Deprah are missing, and one of them, of course, is
36:29
food waste. Not discussed at all, but clearly a very significant factor when
36:35
we confront the possibility of food shortages. So most recent publication in the House
36:39
of Commons Library says that most food waste comes from the household sixty percent,
36:44
and this equates to ten point seven million tons per annum, which is equivalent
36:51
to two hundred and fifty pounds per person per year or one thousand pounds for
36:55
a family. You'd think therefore that the government would find it easy to communicate
37:00
this, and here is their Communication Plan twenty twenty four to five, in
37:05
which they state that the purpose of it is to change behaviors for the public
37:10
good. So you'd think they might indeed have started talking about food waste and
37:15
indeed how to deal with it, but of course they haven't. Instead,
37:19
this is something that came through my letter box the other day, and I'm
37:22
sure everybody's seen similar things. Instead, what they're doing is normalizing the waste
37:27
of food, and an actual fact, they're going step further by talking about
37:31
recycling it. And although they suggest that there is a high quantity of it,
37:37
the emphasis of course is on what you do with it and how green
37:40
your response to your food waste is, rather than not actually wasting food.
37:45
So, as I say, a massively open goal that's being missed. The
37:51
other thing I've talked about in terms of land use is solar farmed, and
37:57
we see the map here showing the green dots are where existing for solar farms
38:01
are and the ever increasing purple splodges are where proposed solar farms are, and
38:07
what's cropped up now is an amazing illustration of the hypocrisy of the government and
38:14
those that are within it. Just a reminder here that Defra, of course,
38:17
do not collect specific data on the amount of land that's generating renewable energy
38:22
as they say, but that they will start doing it in June as a
38:25
result of persistent questioning by UK column. But we've got here Michelle Donnellan MP
38:31
in Wiltshire, and she is actively campaigning against a solar farm proposed in her
38:38
constituency Linedown Solar, So we've got She's put put up a text there and
38:45
I've just taken a little bit of it to illustrate to the hypocrisy. She
38:49
says that she's a big supporter of our climate change ambitions, but the proposals
38:52
put forward by Island Green Power are completely unacceptable in this location. So she
39:00
doesn't want to confront the underlying issue, but she wants to talk specifically about
39:05
the site. Then talks about a ginormous battery storage site size of two hundred
39:08
shipping containers and indeed saying that it's unsuitable to the specific location. Of course,
39:14
she's entirely missing the point here. We see going back to her campaign
39:21
twenty nineteen, it's unclear as to what that chap is gesticulating, but he
39:24
might be suggesting where she could go. But she talks specifically about wanting to
39:31
continue to push for us to promote more and support green energy, and indeed
39:37
a Facebook post going back to the prior to the last general election, green
39:42
technology is undoubtedly the future and she supported the net zero by twenty fifty target
39:46
going into law, she says she'll be voting to implement the green Revolution plan.
39:52
Well, the thing is she can't have it both ways, and indeed
39:54
nor can her constituents, so it's worth pointing out. And what I would
40:00
really go back to is the comment that was made on a planning application I
40:04
reported on in January by the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority. And the
40:08
critical issue here is not just that the solar farms themselves are taking up the
40:15
best and most versatile farmland, or indeed that the whole net zero agenda is
40:21
a con of gigantic proportions. But there is a real safety issue here and
40:27
it is the batteries. And we see here that within an application that was
40:30
made to Wakefield, the Fire Service pointed out that control measures and verification of
40:36
standards the tender of the battery installation has not taken place, but they find
40:40
it concerning that no specific information in relation to fire risk and explosion has been
40:45
incorporated into the application, and of course that's still the case, it's not
40:49
required in the application. They go on and talk about regulatory reform. They
40:52
find it concerning that no specific information in relation to fire safety management has been
40:58
provided. Unable to make any comment, but then they finish up by talking
41:04
about the risks of vapor cloud, thermal runway and explosion are very real risks
41:10
and are becoming more common as we see an increase in the number of best
41:15
battery energy storage systems rise. And here we are, so going back to
41:21
Wiltshire and Donalan's constituency. There's no definitive or preferred way of putting out a
41:27
lithium iron or a lithium iron or fire. There are in effect two main
41:30
options, one being to let it burn or the other being to use significant
41:35
amounts of water for a protracted period. Sorry to be looking away from the
41:37
screen, but the point is that Donlin is absolutely refusing to concede that the
41:44
push for net zero, of course, is having the exactly opposite consequences from
41:49
those that are supposed to be intended by it, and indeed is demonstrating a
41:53
personal hypocrisy of gigantic or she might say, ginormous proportions. Yes, thanks
42:00
Charles, thank you for that. Vanessa. Let's come back to you.
42:05
And we've been hearing in the mainstream press in recent days and weeks that members
42:09
of the Jewish community feeling unsafe in the UK. Yes, and this was
42:15
an extraordinary article in the Telegraph following an incident with the Metropolitan Police at a
42:22
Palestinian protest which will come onto Britain's do is fear for their lives because Sir
42:29
Mark Rowley is a weak, cowered while other nations show strength and resolve in
42:35
the face of the Islamist menace, our police have shamed themselves. So I
42:40
picked that. I mean the article. I do recommend reading it. It's
42:44
quite extraordinary. It doubles down on the propaganda and hyperbole that is effectively pretext
42:52
for the genocide that has now been ongoing against Palestinians for two hundred days.
43:00
But this was an interesting section of the article. So apparently the author joined
43:06
a Zoom conference where she states that the Jewish group were deciding whether to ride
43:14
out the present troubles and hope for the best, or to make Alia,
43:16
which of course is to take up residents, or to settle in Israel,
43:22
an offer available to every Jew, while, of course Phialestinians have no right
43:25
to return to their homeland. She then says, the younger bearded guy who
43:30
lived in Manchester had already made up his mind. He'd witnessed several recent attacks
43:36
on Jews, and his family's bags were packed. Look at the demographics,
43:39
he said bluntly. The Muslim population is growing. It's not safe for us,
43:45
but this is our home. One woman protested, her voice quavering.
43:49
A second said she was joining us from Tel Aviv. She advised the rest
43:52
of the group to get out while they still could. Even faced with the
43:57
prospect of rocket attacks from Hezbela and the threat of war with Iran, that
44:01
lady and her husband still felt safer in Israel then in Hampstead Garden suburbs.
44:07
This is quite extraordinary. This is actually effectively spin to promote settlement in Israel,
44:17
while perhaps many settlers are actually fleeing the security situation or lack of it
44:23
in Israel. And this was back in mid March an Ali affair in London
44:30
saw hundreds from the British Jewish community attend, and since the start of the
44:34
God's War their claiming this is in Jerusalem Post a forty percent increase in new
44:39
immigrants from Britain to Israel. So let's have a look at the incident that
44:45
sparked this article. Sunak appalled by officer's threats to arrest Jewish man at pro
44:53
Palestine rally as calls mount from Metcross to quit. So let's see what was
44:59
actually in the exchange. The officer can be heard saying to him you are
45:04
quite openly Jewish, while of course there were one hundreds, if not thousands
45:08
of Jews actually on the march in defense of Palestine and against a genocide that's
45:15
being committed by Israel. This is a pro Palestinian march. I'm not accusing
45:20
you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.
45:23
No mention of arrest there now, Mike and Charles, I don't know what
45:30
you think, but this strikes me as let's say, a staged event to
45:36
further fuel the claims that Jews are at risk. But let's hear from some
45:40
of the Jews that were actually on the march. Well, I'm Jewish and
45:46
I'm here and I feel very safe. I actually feel very at home in
45:50
this crowd of people, just one piece as a Jewish person in London at
45:53
weekends. I don't believe these statements, but it's unsafe. Absolute Robbish in
46:00
here every Shabbat with my kipan On, I've had nothing but love, nothing
46:05
but welcome from everyone. I've spoken to. The Idea that London is a
46:08
no go zone for Jews is just for the birds. It's rubbish. These
46:14
Jews will come out, specially there were five hundred of us meeting outside Belgrave
46:17
Square. We've all come here on purpose to show that that's rubbish. Politicians
46:22
are pushing it as just basically propaganda and to push their own narrative, to
46:27
pretend that there isn't another voice that opposes the genocide going on in Gaza,
46:30
to try and weaponize anti Semitism to a degree. We've been sold the false
46:35
narrative. And I think it's really important for shoes everywhere to stand up and
46:39
say I'm not okay with this, and this is not it's not being done
46:43
for me. Jewish people are not a monolith that all think are same.
46:45
There's thousands of Jewish people who feel very comfortable in London and oppose the events
46:51
in Gaza. It seems that they don't agree with the media. Headlines.
46:58
Also over in the US, concerned over anti Semitism rise as Jews begin observing
47:05
Passover. And then this article in The Guardian not like other passovers, hundreds
47:10
of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protests that are about three hundred people were
47:16
detained near a Senate Majority leader Schummer's Brooklyn home. So let's see what the
47:23
article says. Hundreds of Jewish anti war demonstrators have been arrested during Passover.
47:31
Three hundred or so arrest took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza.
47:36
So again it appears that also in the US, Jews are effectively on the
47:42
side of humanity against the genocide of Palestinians. And then let's have a look
47:47
at an article in Weina. Again Israeli media number of Westerners seeking to make
47:52
alier surges. Since October the seventh, Israel has apparently received twelve seven hundred
48:00
and forty five new immigrants, three thousand and seventy four of them in March,
48:04
quadrupling totals for October twenty twenty three. Amid escalating global anti semitism,
48:10
there has been a significant rise in immigration request from France, Canada, the
48:15
US, South Africa, Ukraine and Australia. So are we seeing again the
48:22
the Zionists orchestrating anti semitism in order to increase illegal settlement in the state of
48:30
Israel? And I would question whether the anti Semitism is actually taking place Vanessa
48:36
at all, or whether it's a media media campaign. But Charles, let's
48:40
come on to the issue of the idea of right wing extremism and Telegram seems
48:46
to be a target. N Now it does, Mike, yes, as
48:52
the window that supposedly brackets extremism or any form of it expands enormously. We
49:02
see now that the latest group apparently to fall out of it is called Terragram,
49:08
and the Home Office have just announced that Terogram has been added to the
49:13
list of prescribed terrorist organizations under the Terrorism Act two thousand. If you're scratching
49:20
your head wondering what that's all about, you're not the only one. But
49:23
the UK is the first country in the world to prescribe the Terogram Collective after
49:30
draft prescription. Basically this will be laid before the Ice of Commons on Friday,
49:35
and they describe the Terrogram Collective as an online network of neo fascist terrorists.
49:40
This is critical language because they go on to say that the government's commitment
49:45
to tackle extream right wing terrorism and online radicalization in all forms is what's brought
49:51
this about, and that it's the first time it's been used in this way,
49:53
so they're calling it an online terrorist network. This is not something that's
49:58
been done before, so the background it is deeply relevant. However, what
50:01
they do is they clarify here. They say, following an internal review,
50:06
the term extreme right wing terrorism was adopted as the umbrella term to make it
50:10
clear that those who hold mainstream right wing views will not be in scope of
50:15
any action by counter terrorism authorities. Well, it'll be interesting to see how
50:21
far and how quickly that drift, because of course, the moment you set
50:24
up such a mechanism for capturing people who are apparently far right wing extremists,
50:32
it's very easy for other people to drift into this. Anyway, the prescribed
50:36
organization, obviously any association with them carries all sorts of penalties, but specifically
50:44
they talk about it disrupting terrorism, and particularly here we see the encouraging or
50:47
removal of online materials. There's very clear focus here on the online side of
50:53
it. But a couple of things that, as I say, when we
50:55
consider the drift offenses under this proscription, would be to express an opinion or
51:00
belief that's supportive of a prescribed organization, to wear clothing, or carry or
51:06
display articles in public in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse
51:09
reasonable suspicion that the individual is a member or supporter of a prescribed organization.
51:15
So I just remind you of the case of sam Melia, who's been imprisoned
51:19
for what we're referred to as far right activities by the Crime Prosecution Service.
51:24
Anyway, nonetheless, this has been banded about the place. We see the
51:28
Telegraph here, just reporting it without question that terrorist group Telegram and to be
51:32
banned in the UK. There is a bit of a pedigree to this.
51:36
This is as far back as twenty seventeen saying that terrorists love Telegram in particular,
51:40
So it's the Telegram app that's in effect the sort of target for all
51:45
of this, and I point you to peace in Politico from the twenty eighth
51:50
of March, in which we're told that Pavel Durov, the chap that started
51:57
Telegram, has been warned off by saying that terrorists are using it, so
52:02
he's getting it from all sides. But he was asked specifically about the Kremlin's
52:07
war in Ukraine, and he said let's not go there, adding that it's
52:09
very important for the world to retain telegram as a neutral platform. We'll just
52:14
play a very short clip now of You're off speaking to Tucker Carlson about the
52:19
pressures that he feels on his Telegram app largest pressure towards Telegram he is not
52:28
coming from governments. It's coming from Apple and Google. Huh. So when
52:32
it comes to freedom of speech, those two platforms they could basically censor whatever
52:38
is you can read access on your smartphone. So I mean, do you
52:46
run the risk of being thrown out of their stores? Exactly? That's what
52:51
they make very clear that if we fail to comply with the guidelines, so
52:57
they call it, Telegram could be from the stores. I wouldn't mean to
53:07
characterize Pavel Durov as a beacon of virtue and therefore different from competitors in that
53:14
marketplace. But it's very significant that he does specifically make that distinction between the
53:17
state and these big corporations. But what we should come on too is the
53:27
fact that whilst we hear a lot now about this Terogram organization, it's almost
53:36
invisible online. Now it's an unfair comparison. I do conceede, but I'm
53:40
showing now references in Hansard recorded by the UK Parliament of any time Hamas has
53:47
been mentioned or written about, and there are fifteen hundred and fifty seven such
53:52
references in the last five years. Now when you look at the same thing
53:57
for Terogram zero, there are no results. It has never ever been mentioned
54:02
or written about in any sort of sort of parliamentary debate, written paper,
54:07
anything, And an actual fact, there's so confident it won't be. They've
54:09
projected out to October twenty twenty six. But so for an online terrorist collective,
54:16
it does seem quite extraordinary that they appear to have absolutely no online presence
54:22
whatsoever. So awaren earth does it come from? While we look at a
54:25
sort of pseudo charitable organization called Hope Not Hate, which produces an annual report
54:31
called State of Hate, And here we find the sort of kernel of the
54:37
suggestion of Terogram, in which they talk about contemporary far right terrorism and having
54:43
an awareness of the labyrinthine and hard to monitor world of pro terrorism online spaces,
54:47
and they talk about exploring the so called Terragram network. So essentially it's
54:52
really just a term that's been applied to denote a collection of a few dozen
54:58
public channels and private chat groups on the messaging app Telegram. Of course,
55:01
they're not specific at all. They say telegrams extended the reach of an array
55:07
of international terroristic organizations, and they talk about whereas, and then they talk
55:12
about committing hate crimes and threatening public officials. Now, of course all this
55:15
is ringing a bell because this relates to what Tom Touganda's talking about the other
55:19
day. Again, there's some very flimsy academic background to this. Under this
55:23
article here militant acceleration Coalitions, in which they also talk about the Terogram community,
55:31
but they don't really define exactly what that means. So essentially it looks
55:37
very much like Terragram has been put out there, not least because it sounds
55:40
exactly like Telegram, but essentially to be able to capture anybody who's doing anything
55:45
online that may either now or in the future be described as extremist, and
55:51
because it's been prescribed, it therefore goes one up to being a terrorist offense.
55:55
So I'll just leave you with a reminder that an actual fact, things
56:00
are a little bit mrkied, and they seem because, of course, the
56:02
Ministry of Defense has a telegram channel and they specifically have it here. They
56:07
broadcast in Russian as well, and they've set here in their most recent message,
56:10
even amongst Russian officials there is likely a low level of understanding about total
56:15
casualty figures because of a long established culture of dishonest reporting within the military.
56:21
Well, how interesting, I wouldn't say that the military of Russia is the
56:24
only place that there's been a culture of dishonest reporting. Well indeed, okay,
56:30
we'll change topics here and move on to sort of medical stuff and Crisper.
56:35
Of course, gene editing. Crisper is the technology for that. We
56:38
have a great article here from the New York Times talking about or telling us
56:44
that generative AI has arrived in the gene editing world of crisper, and what
56:50
could possibly go wrong, because anybody that's used generative AI to produce an image
56:55
of somebody, they usually have two heads or six things on their hands and
57:00
so on. So if we put that back on screen for a second,
57:01
this is what they say. Generative AI technologies can write poetry and computer programs,
57:07
or create images of Teddy Bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like
57:12
something from a Hollywood movie. Now AI technology is generating blueprints from microscopic biological
57:19
mechanisms can edit your DNA, pointing to a future when scientists can battle illness
57:23
and diseases with even greater precision and speed than they can today. Much as
57:29
Chad GBT learns to generate language by analyzing Wikipedia articles, books, and chat
57:34
logs, profluent technology creates a new gene editors after analyzing enormous amounts of biological
57:40
data, including microscopic mechanisms and scientists already used to edit human DNA. Generative
57:46
AI technologies are driven by what scientists called a neural network, a mathematical system
57:52
learns skills by analyzing fast amounts of data. Profluenced technology is driven by a
57:57
similar AI model that learns from sequences amino acids and nuclear nucleic acids, the
58:02
chemical compounds that define the microscopic biological mechanisms, and scientists us to edit genes.
58:08
Essentially, it analyzes the behavior of crisper gene editors pooled from nature and
58:13
learns how to generate entirely new gene editors. As I say, what could
58:16
possibly go wrong? So this is the organization Profluent suggests people go and look
58:22
at them very closely. They are supported by five venture capital organizations inside Partners,
58:30
Air Street Capital, AIX Ventures, Convergent Ventures, and Spark Capital.
58:35
So this is a hedge fund backed technology company with a bunch of people working
58:39
for it that have no background whatsoever. If we can put that on for
58:45
no background whatsoever in genetics or anything, I mean that even their chief geneticist
58:53
has got a very tenuous connection to genetic research or any kind of scientific background.
58:59
These role AI people that are messing about and things they don't understand,
59:04
and it looks to me to be extremely dangerous. And if governments are looking
59:07
at regulating AI, maybe this is one place they might want to start.
59:13
Now. In the meantime, back in the UK, here Andrew Neil has
59:19
been appearing in front of the House of lords Media Committee, and he was
59:22
well, let's just listen to what he was asked and what his response was.
59:29
I'd like to take you to the role of government in the sort of
59:31
news sector and looking forward over the next few years. How interventionist do you
59:38
think government should be in supporting the news sector, if at all? And
59:44
what do you think would constitute our government overreach? You still the hell out
59:49
of it. You don't know anything about it. You're only trouble. We're
59:53
not on your side, you're not on outside. We're different. I mean
59:58
relations between journalists, journalists, media and government should always be bad. I
1:00:06
never, in any account be allowed to get better. A major industrial ut
1:00:09
people, a major technological revolution, and we've come through the other side.
1:00:16
We've lost people by the wayside. At times it seemed like the better and
1:00:21
death march, but we've come through and we now know what we're doing and
1:00:27
we just want to be allowed to get on with it. So I'm going
1:00:34
to say I agree with the first sentiment, the express there. I disagree
1:00:37
with the second sentiment express there. We'll talk a lot more about this with
1:00:42
Vanessa and Charles an extra. But government interference with the media isn't going away
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anytime soon. And of course, as we saw through COVID, government funding
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of the media became an extremely concerning conflict of interest. Let's just leave it
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at that for now. We'll talk about a little bit more about this in
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Extra in a few minutes if you're a UK column member, but we've got
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to leave it there for today. So I'm going to say thank you very
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much to Charles and Vanessa and to Jackie Duvoi for joining us today. Thank
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you all for watching. We'll see you in a few minutes if you're a
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UK column member on Extra. Otherwise, enjoy the interview at one pm tomorrow
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and we'll see you on Friday for another news Bye bye.