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UK Column News — 12th June 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the twelfth June twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK colum News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Back Rumson. Joining me in the studio
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Speaker 1: today is Patrick Kennison. Welcome to the program. Patrick, great
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Speaker 1: to be with you, Mike, and by video link we're
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Speaker 1: joined once again by Basil Valentine.
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Speaker 2: My letter.
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Speaker 1: In the program, we're going to be reporting on the
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Speaker 1: World Cup and the US visa Shenanigan's there. We'll have
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Speaker 1: follow ups on the situation at Belfast and in Albinia,
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Speaker 1: and a look at the UK's so called Sovereign AI
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Speaker 1: plans which will enable next generation surveillance and censorship. But
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Speaker 1: we're going to begin today with Starmer's rapidly collapsing government
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Speaker 1: because the fight over defense spending continues. This is all
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Speaker 1: about the so called Defense Investment Plan, which is supposed
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Speaker 1: to provide funding for the policies introduced by the Strategic
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Speaker 1: Defense Review that was published last year. The Starmer government
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Speaker 1: has delayed the Defense Investment Plans publication and his brand
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Speaker 1: was highlighting on Monday's news program, and yesterday then Defense
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Speaker 1: Secretary John Healey decided that enough was enough. And he
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Speaker 1: wrote care Starmer a letter. So this is basically what
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Speaker 1: he said. The new era for defense required further investment
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Speaker 1: through the Defense Investment Plan. He referred to work done
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Speaker 1: in January on defense funding, and he went on to
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Speaker 1: say that since then, you have been unable and the
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Speaker 1: Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources that the
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Speaker 1: nation needs to defend the country at this time of
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Speaker 1: rising threats. By the way, that's him walking out the
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Speaker 1: door in case you're wondering the idea of an increasing
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Speaker 1: threat from Russia in particular, is a thread that runs
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Speaker 1: right the way through the letter, and also a lot
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Speaker 1: of complaining about how not meeting NATLE commitments and also
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Speaker 1: complaining that even EU member states are starting to spend
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Speaker 1: or doing a much better job of meeting those NATTLE commitment. Now,
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Speaker 1: he did acknowledge the funding challenges, but he claimed that
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Speaker 1: there are solutions for the mid term funding challenges. But
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Speaker 1: then he went on to say that, however, your Defense
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Speaker 1: Investment Plan financial settlement, which I was given first given
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Speaker 1: full in full on Monday afternoon this week, falls well
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Speaker 1: short of what is required for defense and the country
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Speaker 1: at this dangerous time. And he said that after explaining
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Speaker 1: to you that I would not be able to accept
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Speaker 1: a dip settlement that does not give our forces the
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Speaker 1: resources they need. I'm now left with no other option
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Speaker 1: than to submit, right my resignation as your Defense Secretary.
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Speaker 1: And so he is no longer Defense Secretary now. He
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Speaker 1: was quickly followed up, we'll just bring that back on
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Speaker 1: screen by Al Karnes here and sorry. He was followed
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Speaker 1: by Al Carnes at the door. And of course all
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Speaker 1: Carns everybody will know, are parliamentary Undersecretary of State for
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Speaker 1: the Armed Forces. But Dan Jarvis has now been a
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Speaker 1: point as the Secretary of State for War in this country.
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Speaker 1: And so the question is what do we know about Jarvis? Well,
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Speaker 1: he's former parachute Regiment officer. He was the first elected
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Speaker 1: mayor for South Yorkshire. He was then Minister of State
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Speaker 1: at the Home Office for Security and then became Minister
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Speaker 1: of State in the Cabinet Office. He has had long
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Speaker 1: term financial backing from recruitment sector millionaire Peter Hearn. Now
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Speaker 1: Hearn controls the vehicle known as MPM Connect and has
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Speaker 1: given Jarvis one hundred thousand pounds. Evat Cooper has also
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Speaker 1: received one hundred and eighty four thousand pounds from this organization,
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Speaker 1: and West Trading has received sixty nine hundred pounds, so
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Speaker 1: this is a big labor donor. He is also a
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Speaker 1: Labor Friends of Israel member. He visited Israel in twenty
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Speaker 1: eleven as part of Libor Friends of Israel led delegation.
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Speaker 1: And this Patrick I thought was the most interesting aspect
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Speaker 1: of him, and that is that he personally moved the
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Speaker 1: prescription of Palestine action in the House of Commons in
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Speaker 1: July twenty twenty five. So the question is what are
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Speaker 1: the commitments that Starmer has made. Well, let's just bring
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Speaker 1: this on screen and we'll show you, because of course
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Speaker 1: we've seen the fall of defense spending over recent decades.
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Speaker 1: But he was supposed to be Starmer was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be aiming for two point six percent of GDP next year,
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Speaker 1: rising to two point six eight percent by twenty thirty
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Speaker 1: and three percent in the next parliament. But this is
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Speaker 1: all still well below the natal target of three and
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Speaker 1: a half percent, as you can see on screen. And
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Speaker 1: so the question that Starmer faced was where was the
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Speaker 1: money going to come from? He could borrow more, in
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Speaker 1: other words, much more deficit spending, except the markets aren't
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Speaker 1: really open to this one, and that makes it extremely
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Speaker 1: expensive for Britain to borrow at the moment. He could
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Speaker 1: steal money from the budgets of other departments, but that's
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Speaker 1: clearly not something that he thinks that he can get
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Speaker 1: away with, or they could raise taxes. So it looks
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Speaker 1: like none of those was an option that he particularly
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Speaker 1: wanted to go with, and Heley, being the warhawk that
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Speaker 1: he is who wanted more toys, decided to throw the
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Speaker 1: ones that he has out of the pram and off
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Speaker 1: he goes. And just as by the way, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: mention this article in the BBC, this is their live
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Speaker 1: coverage of this whole thing, and they reported this morning
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Speaker 1: that Heley had warned in his resignation letter that Russia
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Speaker 1: could attack NATO within four years. But that's not what
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Speaker 1: Haley did. What Heley did was to quote Starmer saying this.
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Speaker 1: Now that might seem like I'm splitting hairs, but the
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Speaker 1: fact is it's important. Haley was throwing Starmer's own comments
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Speaker 1: back in his face. He wasn't making the claim himself,
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Speaker 1: although I've got no doubt that he agrees. But that's
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Speaker 1: how it seems Patrick. He has thrown his toys out
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Speaker 1: the PRAM because it's not enough money. He wanted to
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Speaker 1: be able to support Ukraine and part can a lot
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Speaker 1: stronger than we are at the moment, and he wanted
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Speaker 1: to see much more money being spent in the near term.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's just an important point here. He's talking about,
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Speaker 2: how do they know that Russia is going to attack
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Speaker 2: NATO and they just making that up. Well, they're not
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Speaker 2: making it up because Britain is involved in supplying weapons
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Speaker 2: and drones and water underwater vehicles and overwater. There was
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Speaker 2: a false flag attempt in Romania recently that could have
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Speaker 2: blown the war up to another level that got caught.
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Speaker 2: That was Ukraine. Britain is supplying and involved in storm
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Speaker 2: shadow missiles hitting Russia in Russian territory, killing Russian civilians.
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Speaker 2: So if Russia responds, they're not telling you the whole story.
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Speaker 2: He's talking about this threat from Russia and he's saying, well,
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Speaker 2: we don't have a financial settlement for our defense spending.
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Speaker 2: What about what's Britain doing to make a negotiated settlement
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Speaker 2: happen with Russian Ukraine, a peaceful negotiated settlement. Nothing. Instead,
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Speaker 2: they're egging Ukrainians on with our weapons, our technology, our
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Speaker 2: military advisors on the ground in Ukraine to hit Russia
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Speaker 2: and kill Russians in Russia. So they're asking for a war,
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Speaker 2: and then they're turning around and telling you, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: NATO expects that Russia is going to attack NATO. No,
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Speaker 2: they're going to retaliate if you keep killing them and
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Speaker 2: keep attacking them and keep trying to paralyze their state
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Speaker 2: or their government or hit their oil refineries so that
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Speaker 2: they can't trade or export fuel. That's an act of war.
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Speaker 2: Britain is involved, as well as other NATO countries in
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Speaker 2: egging Russia on to retaliate, so they can turn around
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Speaker 2: and say we were right all along. Russia's the aggressor.
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Speaker 2: This is utterly insane what they're doing, and it's total
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Speaker 2: deception on the part of the government.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely no, Patrick, let's move on over to Iran then,
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Speaker 1: and well in the United States as well, because it
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Speaker 1: seems like it's on off constantly. Trump's going to that
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Speaker 1: he isn't going to attack. What on earth is going on.
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Speaker 2: He's flip flopped about four times in the last forty
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Speaker 2: eight hours, so this is the latest. But again, caveat everybody.
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Speaker 2: This could change by after till the program ends, and
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Speaker 2: it could change again in the evening, and then again
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Speaker 2: and when he wakes up in the morning. Here as
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Speaker 2: of today, as of now, Trump calls off a military
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Speaker 2: strike on Iran, hours after threatening a total escalation. And
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Speaker 2: so that's the story you're getting from the White House
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Speaker 2: and on again, off again. Oh, Iran, it's not going
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Speaker 2: to sign a deal. Now, We're going to attack them
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Speaker 2: until they signed the deal. But now that looks like
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Speaker 2: Uron wants to make a deal, so we're going to
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Speaker 2: back off. What's actually going on here, Well, let's just
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Speaker 2: cut through all of the static and the noise. Here
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Speaker 2: is said Professor Mohammed Mirandi. Sayed Mohammed Mirandi here explaining
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Speaker 2: exactly what happened. This is from Tehran. He's a professor
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Speaker 2: at the University of Tehran and an expert in international relations.
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Speaker 2: A very popular pune on Western media. While the US
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Speaker 2: made a noticeable concession in the text of the agreement
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Speaker 2: on Wednesday and presented it to Iran through the Qatari mediator,
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Speaker 2: it also launched a media and intimidation campaign to suggest
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Speaker 2: that Iran had back down under the threat of bombardment.
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Speaker 2: But now in the real world, Trump has back down,
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Speaker 2: accepted the same text from two weeks ago and is
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Speaker 2: awaiting final approval from Iranian officials. The problem, Mike, is
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Speaker 2: that Trump keeps changing the deal. So, in other words,
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Speaker 2: I don't really believe that Washington has any interest in
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Speaker 2: a deal. But what is a deal? How do you
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Speaker 2: define a deal. It's not in accord, it's not a treaty,
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Speaker 2: it's not any kind of binding agreement. It's not even
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Speaker 2: a memorandum and understanding. Trump is trying to redefine international
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Speaker 2: relations and diplomacy by doing no diplomacy, and that is
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Speaker 2: the source of all of the problems here. I think
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Speaker 2: it's by design. I don't think the US has any
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Speaker 2: intention having any kind of settlement. They want to long
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Speaker 2: earn on this war along with Israel. So just to
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Speaker 2: remind people, so here's Trump. How many times as he said,
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Speaker 2: we're close to a deal, We're going to have a deal.
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Speaker 2: They want to have a deal. I want to have
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Speaker 2: a deal. They want to have a deal. Here is
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Speaker 2: a good summary of all of that.
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Speaker 1: Since March, we have points of major points of agreement.
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Speaker 2: They want to make a deal, and we are very
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Speaker 2: willing to make a deal. Well, I think we're going
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Speaker 2: to end it. I can't tell you for sure.
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Speaker 3: When they want to make a deal so badly, you
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Speaker 3: have no idea how badly they want to make a deal.
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Speaker 3: They want to make a deal so badly.
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Speaker 1: I do see a deal and around we were very
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Speaker 1: close to a deal.
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Speaker 2: I think it's close to over here.
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Speaker 1: I mean I view it as very close to Oliver.
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Speaker 4: It's looking very good that we're going to make a
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Speaker 4: deal with the Ran and it's going to be a
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Speaker 4: good deal.
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Speaker 2: This process should go very quickly.
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Speaker 1: We're going to end that war very quickly.
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Speaker 2: They want to make a deal so badly.
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Speaker 5: We think we're close to a deal, and that's okay.
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Speaker 2: We're in the final throes of what will be a
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Speaker 2: very very good deal.
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Speaker 6: Today makes thirty nine times that he has said something
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Speaker 6: like that.
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Speaker 2: When you're getting lamb basted by Anderson Cooper over Warmonger,
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Speaker 2: you know, things are just not going well for the
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Speaker 2: Trump minstration. Just to remind people lastly, Mike, just yesterday
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Speaker 2: he said that we're going to put troops on carg Island,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to take Iran's oil, and we're going
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Speaker 2: to take control of Iran's oil and how it's sold
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Speaker 2: on the global market like we did with Venezuela because
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Speaker 2: it was such a resounding success. That's what he said yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and then this flip flop happened, so like what to believe?
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Speaker 2: Who knows there's no deal. Trump doesn't even have any
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Speaker 2: communication with the Iranians that're working through mediators, and Iran
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Speaker 2: has not agreed to anything of these maximust terms that
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Speaker 2: the US is trying to to continue to keep imposing.
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Speaker 2: When they get close to some kind of agreement, Trump
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Speaker 2: comes in with some Maximus deal and you see a
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Speaker 2: Sarrogates on Fox saying Lindsay Graham, General Keane, General Keith
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Speaker 2: Kellogg all saying the same thing, some extremist demands, and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden he's repeating that. And then they're
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Speaker 2: playing the oil markets in the stock market at the
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Speaker 2: same time. So that's a lot of what's going on.
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Speaker 2: They're making tons of money off all this flip flopping.
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Speaker 1: It's around going to lose patients at some point.
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Speaker 2: No, No, Iran is locked in to their position. They
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Speaker 2: haven't changed, just like the Russians haven't changed with Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: The United States is kafoffling around. So Donald Trump, the
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Speaker 2: Trump Trump can't make deals. He's not a good deal maker,
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Speaker 2: despite his supposed reputation. They've failed in Ukraine to do anything.
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Speaker 2: They've failed in Gaza to do anything. They've failed in Lebanon,
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Speaker 2: and they're failing with Iran on every single major geopolitical flashpoint.
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Speaker 2: Trump has been an abysmal failure and he'll continue to
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Speaker 2: fail because they don't have the personnel or the political
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Speaker 2: will to do what it takes to get any kind
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Speaker 2: of negotiate someone anywhere in the world. I think of that.
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Speaker 2: Receives are in already.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, thank you for that, Bazel. Let me
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Speaker 1: welcome you to the program. And well, of course, the
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Speaker 1: other news this week is that the World Cup has started.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's finally underway, Mike, with wins for Mexico in
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Speaker 3: the Azteca in Mexico City, and also a win for
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Speaker 3: South Korea last night in their match against what's now
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Speaker 3: called Chechia, which we always knew, of course as the
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Speaker 3: Czech Republic. But the whole thing has been beset by
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Speaker 3: one disaster after another over the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 3: with incredible price gouging by everybody from the Chicago Transit
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Speaker 3: Authority to of course FIFA themselves, and enormous controversy as
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Speaker 3: well over the allocation and validation of visas, not just
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Speaker 3: for for fans and teams, but also for officials. The
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Speaker 3: task Force, of course, everything has to start with. A
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Speaker 3: task force these days, is headed up by none other
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Speaker 3: than Andrew Giuliani, the son of the former mayor of
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Speaker 3: New York, and he was indeed appointed by Trump as
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Speaker 3: the head of the FIFA World Cup twenty six task Force,
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Speaker 3: and one of his first acts was to bar Omar Bartan,
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Speaker 3: regarded as the best referee in Africa, a Somalian national,
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Speaker 3: He was interrogated for eleven hours at the airport before
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Speaker 3: being denied entry. He spoke to Talk Sport just a
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Speaker 3: few hours ago and Giuliani said that Bartan had been
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Speaker 3: talking to some bad people and that was why he
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Speaker 3: wasn't allowed in quite extraordinary stuff. I have no idea
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Speaker 3: who these bad people were. Its the usual sort of
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Speaker 3: Trumpian type response, isn't it no specifics. Artan was then
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Speaker 3: greeted as a hero back in his native Somalia at
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Speaker 3: a football match when he got back there. And YUIFA
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Speaker 3: have made him the referee for the upcoming UEFA Super
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Speaker 3: Cup match between Parasagemar and aston Villa, so some compensation
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Speaker 3: for him after being thrown out of the country. He
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Speaker 3: didn't go into the trouble of getting a diplomatic passport,
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Speaker 3: but that didn't cut any ice. Obviously, now also banned
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Speaker 3: have been some of the Some of the Iraqi players
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Speaker 3: have had a lot of difficulty. I meant Hussein the
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Speaker 3: face of the Iraqi World Cup team. He was detained
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Speaker 3: and given a seven hour grilling, and the official photographer
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Speaker 3: from the Iraqi team he wasn't allowed in at all,
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Speaker 3: a great shame. Ten hours he was grilled for before
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Speaker 3: being told he was persona non grata Talal Salah. He
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Speaker 3: was denied entry after being subjected to additional screening checks. No,
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Speaker 3: you may think, well, you know, hardly surprising. We all
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Speaker 3: know that Trump hates Muslims and people from Muslim countries.
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Speaker 3: They could all be terrorists, of course, so this is unsurprising.
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Speaker 3: But certainly a lot more surprising is the fact that
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Speaker 3: Scotland fans have also been barred from entry.
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Speaker 2: This chap was told just.
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Speaker 3: An hour before boarding his flight that his electronic visa
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Speaker 3: waiver which had been approved. A lot of these fans
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Speaker 3: didn't spend a penny on flights, tickets or accommodation until
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Speaker 3: they knew they would be able to go, suddenly discovered
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Speaker 3: that they weren't allowed to go. That visa waiver that
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Speaker 3: had been granted suddenly disappeared. Michael Wright had been due
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Speaker 3: to head off the United States for a dream thirtieth
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Speaker 3: birthday trip with his brother and had tickets for the
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Speaker 3: group stage games against Haiti and Morocco. In the end,
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Speaker 3: his brother went through security gates on his own when
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Speaker 3: his VITA status was switched from approved to pending and
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Speaker 3: then finally to travel not authorized. Now, unsurprisingly this has
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Speaker 3: prompted MPs to start raising the matter with the Foreign Office.
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Speaker 3: As we can see now in this clip, this is
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Speaker 3: Jamie Stone, one of the Scottish members of Parliament.
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Speaker 5: I would have thought, in terms of representing the interest
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Speaker 5: of Scotland, a broad football is right there was to speaker,
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Speaker 5: my constituent, mister Kenny Smith Mischelle thought well over ten
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Speaker 5: booking his tickets to go to the States.
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Speaker 7: He had a visa clers. He actually had UK sc cleers,
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Speaker 7: which is pretty high powered and yet last Wednesday, his
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Speaker 7: visa was revoked. This poor chap is in a very
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Speaker 7: very bad situation. Can I appeal at the Sector State
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Speaker 7: to give him and me any assistance that he can
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Speaker 7: to sort this out?
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Speaker 8: Just a speaker, can I? I thank the honorable Gentleman
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Speaker 8: for his concern. I can assure him that on Monday
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Speaker 8: morning from my desk in the Scotland Office, I met
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Speaker 8: with officials from the Foreign Office when I first had
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Speaker 8: word that there were concerns in relation to the ESDA
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Speaker 8: and the visa requirements. On Monday afternoon I met with
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Speaker 8: the Minister for North America in the Foreign Office to
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Speaker 8: raise this concern. Of course, they were at pains to
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Speaker 8: recognize that visa and entry requirements are a matter for
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Speaker 8: the country concerned in this case the United States, but
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Speaker 8: they have already and will continue to make representations on
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Speaker 8: behavior of cases such as his constituents. So if he
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Speaker 8: would be happy to share details after this discussion today,
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Speaker 8: I will immediately taken up with the formal physicals.
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Speaker 3: You go, Jamie Stone, the Noiberal Democrat MP for case
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Speaker 3: Neths and Sutherland. There many of these cases, of course
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Speaker 3: remain in abeyance, outcome pending, but people have already spent
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Speaker 3: money on flights and hotels and indeed matches that they
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Speaker 3: won't get back. Here's the response of the American official
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Speaker 3: task with issuing these visas.
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Speaker 2: This is the next clisson.
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Speaker 6: We're not going to allow people that have criminal or
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Speaker 6: maybe proceed to be have criminal tithes to come into
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Speaker 6: this country. I don't care what your situation is. We
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Speaker 6: work closely with FIFA and the administration on a regular basis.
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Speaker 6: We talked to a FIFA and their directors constantly. Anybody
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Speaker 6: that was denied, we made the case for and showed
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Speaker 6: them why they were denied. Now to get into specifics
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Speaker 6: of it, I'm not getting in the specifics of it.
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Speaker 6: But Iran chose a that was a difficult path. If
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Speaker 6: there was any country we wasn't going to allow in here,
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Speaker 6: Iron would probably be the reason why we would't allow
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Speaker 6: them in here. But we did, and we worked closely
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Speaker 6: with the individuals with restrictions and so there was multiple
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Speaker 6: more than this these too, There was multiple individuals throughout.
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Speaker 6: I mean, we have a World Cup here, we got
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Speaker 6: a lot of countries that doesn't exactly have access to
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Speaker 6: the United States, and we did a phenomenal job on
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Speaker 6: getting as many people cleared as we could, but some
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Speaker 6: people just can't clear. And that's just the way it works.
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Speaker 6: With getting a visa to come in this great country.
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Speaker 3: Town, yeah, and to this great country. Well, even if
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Speaker 3: you do make it through, you've then of course got
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Speaker 3: a shell out for the price of a ticket if
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Speaker 3: you want to go and see a live match, and
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Speaker 3: FIFA have been accused of price gouging. As we can
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Speaker 3: see here, prices have gone up enormously. If you want
20:53
Speaker 3: a ticket to a qualifying round match, it can cost
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Speaker 3: you as much as two thousand and seven one hundred dollars,
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Speaker 3: and the final will cost you six thousand dollars, believe
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Speaker 3: it or not, up from fourteen hundred in Qatar. Prices
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Speaker 3: have multiplied because beaver are applying so called dynamic pricing,
21:16
Speaker 3: as when you're buying a railway ticket on train line
21:20
Speaker 3: or booking a hotel room to one of the websites.
21:25
Speaker 3: Apparently it's all according to demand, but as we could
21:28
Speaker 3: see on that previous slide, the result is about two
21:31
Speaker 3: hundred thousand tickets are unsold and there were vast empty
21:35
Speaker 3: spaces at the South Korea match yesterday, which of course
21:40
Speaker 3: deprives fans of the atmosphere that they would expect, and
21:43
Speaker 3: indeed they've paid thousands of dollars for so even if
21:49
Speaker 3: you get inside the stadium, well then you might want
21:52
Speaker 3: to have a beer or even a glass of water,
21:56
Speaker 3: and I'm afraid you're going to have to pay through
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Speaker 3: the nose for it. The beer in the stadium's eighteen
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Speaker 3: dollars for an American beer and apparently that's for a
22:05
Speaker 3: lukewarm can, and the same applies for nineteen dollars for
22:10
Speaker 3: a craft beer. Beverages, water, ten and a half dollars
22:15
Speaker 3: and nine dollars. That's about six and a half quid
22:18
Speaker 3: for a bag of nuts, now, as we saw on
22:21
Speaker 3: that slide there as well. On top of that, FIFA
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Speaker 3: imposed a ban on people taking their own water into
22:28
Speaker 3: the stadium. Medics worn fans could die in forty celsi
22:31
Speaker 3: as World CuPy after Greedy fy for Chief's Band reusable
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Speaker 3: bottles from stadiums, Well, they relented on the ban on
22:39
Speaker 3: soft water bottles, soft plastic bottles, but those metal water
22:45
Speaker 3: bottles that people are fond of using and hard plastic bottles,
22:48
Speaker 3: well they are still banned. Will be taken off you
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Speaker 3: on your way into the stadium, and on we go
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Speaker 3: with the night Mayor's really one after the other, they
23:01
Speaker 3: keep coming.
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Speaker 1: Here we are.
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Speaker 3: BDP for Chiefs of band Water Bottles. Football's fat Cats
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Speaker 3: already set to drake in millions. Well, it's actually about
23:12
Speaker 3: eleven billion, a third of which is going to come
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Speaker 3: from ticket sales. I've sent a special message to all
23:17
Speaker 3: ticket holders expressly banning water containers. How petty can you get?
23:23
Speaker 3: But if it's all too expensive, well you can always
23:26
Speaker 3: make your own World Cup for one hundred and sixty
23:29
Speaker 3: quid out of lego.
23:34
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you for that bazzle. This is the littus
23:37
Speaker 1: criers apparently making all kinds of things out a lego.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, Patrick, let's come back to the UK then
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Speaker 1: and follow up on the Belfast Riots.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll talk more about the World Cup and extra time.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot to talk about, just so people know,
23:52
Speaker 2: but just to kind of revisit this incredible situation in
23:57
Speaker 2: Northern Ireland here the Belfast it's anti immigrant protests after
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Speaker 2: knife attack. Now we have covered this on the UK
24:05
Speaker 2: column Neis earlier this week. But you know, in terms
24:09
Speaker 2: of putting this into perspective, I think I think it
24:13
Speaker 2: deserves a little bit of reflection on what has actually happened,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people are looking at the situation
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Speaker 2: and looking at it and saying, is this a pogram?
24:23
Speaker 2: In other words, when you have politicians and you know,
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Speaker 2: big high profile influencers egging on mobs, in some cases
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Speaker 2: masked mobs to go out and go door to door
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Speaker 2: or to look for you know, black people or immigrants
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Speaker 2: in neighborhoods, is that does that classify as a program? Now?
24:42
Speaker 2: I want to direct people to this video, which we
24:45
Speaker 2: found on Instagram, is from an academic. I believe she's
24:48
Speaker 2: from Manchester. Her name is Louisa Munch and I think
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Speaker 2: her presentation is very informative and speaks for itself.
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Speaker 9: Tho you cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
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Speaker 9: What we're seeing in Belfast, what we've seen in London
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Speaker 9: in the last few weeks, are far right riots. They
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Speaker 9: are people who are using the violent crime of somebody
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Speaker 9: who's not why to stage a pogrom. If you are
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Speaker 9: confused why we are calling this far right, I wrote
25:15
Speaker 9: my PhD on the rise of fascism in contemporary politics,
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Speaker 9: and yes, history does not repeat, but it does rhyme.
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Speaker 9: And if you have not heard of Crystal Knact that
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Speaker 9: happened in Germany in nineteen thirty eight, let me read
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Speaker 9: an excerpt from Gerbel's diary Fire. People's anger is raging.
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Speaker 9: We cannot do anything, nor do I want to do anything.
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Speaker 9: Let it run, windowpanes fly to pieces. Bravo, bravo. Crystal
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Speaker 9: Nact translates as the night of broken glass. And this
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Speaker 9: was the night of a series of riots that would
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Speaker 9: smash up Jewish shops, that would take Jewish lives because
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Speaker 9: a Jewish man committed a violent crime against a German official.
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Speaker 9: In that diary entry, Gerbels is relishing in the violence
25:56
Speaker 9: and look, this rage, this discontent, this anger has not
25:59
Speaker 9: come out of no where. Obviously we have reason to
26:02
Speaker 9: be enraged at the current system. We have reason to
26:05
Speaker 9: be angry, but these emotions are not given language that
26:09
Speaker 9: is useful or empowering to people. One of the best
26:12
Speaker 9: scholars of fascism, Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism if
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Speaker 9: you want to read the book, states that fascism was
26:17
Speaker 9: an affair of the gut more than the brain, and
26:19
Speaker 9: a study of roots of fascism that treats only the
26:22
Speaker 9: thinkers and writers misses the most powerful impulses of all. Look,
26:25
Speaker 9: we have lost our communities. We have lost the conditions
26:29
Speaker 9: that allow us to feel safe, that allow us to
26:31
Speaker 9: feel secure, that allow us to access resources we literally
26:34
Speaker 9: need for survival. In my town where I live, there
26:37
Speaker 9: is a fifteen year waiting list for social housing. We
26:40
Speaker 9: have a so called cost of living crisis where people
26:42
Speaker 9: cannot afford to buy food. So many young people are
26:45
Speaker 9: out of jobs, out of training, out of education. Because
26:48
Speaker 9: there's such nihilism, people don't even believe in the current
26:51
Speaker 9: system anymore. They don't believe that tomorrow will be better
26:54
Speaker 9: than yesterday. And that's why all this nostalgic language in
26:57
Speaker 9: politics is so appealing to people. Think about make America great,
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Speaker 9: a gear, take back our borders, but instead of promising
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Speaker 9: to do anything about these material conditions in people's lives,
27:06
Speaker 9: Robert Paxton says, fascist need a demonized enemy against which
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Speaker 9: to mobilize followers. If you are confused why we're calling
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Speaker 9: this situation far eye, these are the foundations of fascism,
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Speaker 9: noted by arguably the best scholar in the world on fascism.
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Speaker 9: A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any
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Speaker 9: traditional solutions, dread of the group's decline under the corrosive
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Speaker 9: effects of alien influences, the beauty of violence and the
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Speaker 9: efficacy of will when they are devoted to the group's success,
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Speaker 9: the need for closer integration of a purer community by
27:38
Speaker 9: exclusionary violence if necessary. We should be angry, but we
27:41
Speaker 9: don't have to unite overrage. We can unite over the
27:45
Speaker 9: demand for better conditions for people to live. And it
27:47
Speaker 9: starts by giving people the language to name their emotions
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Speaker 9: and name this feeling and not manipulate it and channel
27:53
Speaker 9: it towards escapegoat.
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Speaker 2: A good, good summary from her, and we'll share her
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Speaker 2: social media in just a moment. But what she was
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Speaker 2: referring to there, historically, we're talking about the Krystal knock
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Speaker 2: in nineteen thirty eight, and again this is the quote
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Speaker 2: from Gerbel's diary. Now that people's anger is raging, we
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Speaker 2: cannot do anything about it during the night, and I
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Speaker 2: do not want to do anything. Let it run, said
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Speaker 2: Joseph Gerbels here and again the book that she is
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Speaker 2: referring to, the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton here
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Speaker 2: and a salient part of the quote that she mentioned.
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Speaker 2: Fascist need a demonized enemy against which to mobilize followers.
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Speaker 2: Now that's exactly what's happening here in the wake of
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Speaker 2: the Belfast riots who took to social media none other
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Speaker 2: than the leading right wing influencers or whatever you want
28:46
Speaker 2: to call these what passes for influencers these days. Here
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Speaker 2: they are Tommy Robinson aka or Steven Yaxley Landin pardon
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Speaker 2: me aka Tommy Robinson, the richest man in the world,
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk, who is directing things. There is Nick Fuentes
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Speaker 2: and one of many we just picked out Jack bisoviiac
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Speaker 2: here among the Magot camp, and all of these people
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Speaker 2: were really egging on the rights, applauding the violence and
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Speaker 2: saying this is what we need, we need this to happen,
29:15
Speaker 2: and all congregating mainly on x that's the main platform
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Speaker 2: for this. The problem here, ladies and gentlemen, is that
29:22
Speaker 2: Elon Musk owns the platform, so whatever he puts out
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Speaker 2: gets boosted like millions and millions of times, and it's
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Speaker 2: an outsized impact that his tweets have. And here is
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk coming in via weblink at one of the
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Speaker 2: recent Tommy Robinson Unite the Kingdom. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: they're called, but and look at just look at what
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Speaker 2: Musk is saying here and look at his demeanor.
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Speaker 10: This is this is You're in a fundamental situation here,
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Speaker 10: whether you where what do you choose by or not,
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Speaker 10: fans is coming to you. You either fight back or
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Speaker 10: you die. You either fight back or you back. And
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Speaker 10: that's the truth.
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Speaker 1: Today even to think were I think the British public
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Speaker 1: are telling the world that they're ready to fight back.
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Speaker 2: Good. Yes, I mean, is the richest man in the world, who,
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Speaker 2: by all reports is whacked out on ketamine half the time,
30:32
Speaker 2: can't even put a sentence together. He's stammering through that,
30:35
Speaker 2: and he's basically pumping his money into these rallies, bank
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Speaker 2: rolling Tommy Robinson and then calling for violence on British streets.
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Speaker 2: Has Elon Musk ever been to Britain? That's the question.
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Speaker 2: What is his interest in being so involved in meddling
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Speaker 2: in British politics. This is the richest man in the world,
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Speaker 2: a trillionaire practically, and he's there he's calling for He's saying,
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Speaker 2: if you don't choose violent, violence will come to you.
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Speaker 2: Basically is that incitement? Is that incitement? I mean it's incredible.
31:06
Speaker 2: So people really need to wake up and realize the
31:08
Speaker 2: amount of manipulation coming from the oligarch class. Elon Musk
31:13
Speaker 2: is a globalist. He wants to put a chip in
31:15
Speaker 2: your brain. He backed net zero climate change for years
31:19
Speaker 2: and then when that thing fizzled out and he sucked
31:21
Speaker 2: everything he could in government subsidies, he shifted over to
31:24
Speaker 2: become a conservative to back Trump. He backed Biden, he
31:28
Speaker 2: backed Hillary, he backed Obama. Elon Musk, So understand what
31:34
Speaker 2: you're dealing with here a rank opportunists trying to get
31:37
Speaker 2: leverage over the British government for commercial reasons. SpaceX ipo
31:42
Speaker 2: watched this space anyway. Here is Louisa Munch's instagram if
31:47
Speaker 2: you want to follow her, she would be considered on
31:51
Speaker 2: the left quote unquote, but her presentations and some of
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Speaker 2: her takes and she has a PhD. So we'll leave
31:58
Speaker 2: a link to her social media in the show notes.
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32:45
Speaker 1: for that, Noi Basil, let me welcome you back to
32:48
Speaker 1: the program. On Wednesday, Vanessa was covering the issue of
32:52
Speaker 1: Palestinian land being sold in London. Just some development since then,
32:58
Speaker 1: what's the latest on it?
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Speaker 3: Yes, in a moment we'll be joined by doctor ramech
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Speaker 3: Alradwan to talk about these issues. The genocide in Gaza,
33:10
Speaker 3: of course, continues unabated, and a new UN report says
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Speaker 3: that Israeli authorities are now behind the so called settler
33:21
Speaker 3: violence rampaging through the West Bank. That was a dreadful pogrom,
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Speaker 3: not the first on the Christian village of Taibey, which
33:31
Speaker 3: is home to the Church of Saint George. Now you
33:35
Speaker 3: would think that an attack on a Christian village bearing
33:39
Speaker 3: the name of England's patrons Saint would have those same
33:43
Speaker 3: so called far right patriots up in arms. But none
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Speaker 3: of it, of course, because they've all been brainwashed, hoodwinked
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Speaker 3: by the likes of Tommy Robinson into demonizing all Palestinians
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Speaker 3: on the basis that they are co religionists, with the
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Speaker 3: Pakistani gangs in the UK joining us. Now, I'm very
34:07
Speaker 3: pleased to say, is in my view one of the
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Speaker 3: most courageous and possibly, depending on your point of view,
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Speaker 3: most most controversial people in Britain. Doctr rame Ala Duan,
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Speaker 3: please welcome.
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Speaker 4: To the program. Rame Hi, thank you very much for
34:24
Speaker 4: having me.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a euphemism, ram that we still call
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Speaker 3: the Zionist terrorists in the West Bank settlers when they've
34:37
Speaker 3: been burning people out of their homes, destroying cars. As
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Speaker 3: seven month old baby was shot in the head earlier
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Speaker 3: this week. Hardly a day goes by without a Palestinian
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Speaker 3: being murdered, and yet the British government appears willing to
34:54
Speaker 3: let the sale of Palestinian land in the West Bank,
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Speaker 3: which is very much part of the same situation, go
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Speaker 3: ahead this weekend.
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Speaker 4: Totally. I agree with you there. The hypocrisy is so glaring.
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Speaker 4: I think it's almost blinding us into this state of disbelief.
35:17
Speaker 4: But I'm not sure if you've seen the latest on this.
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Speaker 4: I believe there's been an update today. The International Center
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Speaker 4: of Justice for Palestinians, the ICJP and the Public Interest
35:30
Speaker 4: Law Center have formally applied to the Met Police for
35:34
Speaker 4: a serious Crime Prevention order to be deployed against this
35:38
Speaker 4: event on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: I'm very pleased to hear it. I hope it's granted.
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Speaker 3: The land that's being sold in the West Bank. Of course,
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Speaker 3: all the settlements, as was reconfirmed by the International Court
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Speaker 3: of Justice the summer before last, all of them are illegal.
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Speaker 3: The British government have finally taken some steps, along with
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Speaker 3: some other Western governments, to impose sanctions on the settlements
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Speaker 3: in E one because they say that makes the contiguous
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Speaker 3: Palestinian state of physical impossibility. I mean it's a physical
36:15
Speaker 3: impossibility anyway, isn't it. And the fact that the ICJP
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Speaker 3: are taking out a court order like this to prevent
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Speaker 3: the sale when the British government refused to do so themselves,
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Speaker 3: just illustrates the hypocrisy of the West really.
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Speaker 4: Of course, I think the more that these kinds of
36:35
Speaker 4: things happen, the more the British public is aware of
36:39
Speaker 4: just how controlled or a lot of people say they
36:42
Speaker 4: wants to say occupied our government, our nation is. Unfortunately,
36:46
Speaker 4: I think if it was any other so called state
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Speaker 4: carrying out these you know, terrorist attacks on natives and
36:57
Speaker 4: clearing land to be sold to just one group, one
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Speaker 4: religious group, which in this case are Jews, and then
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Speaker 4: coming to Britain to sell that land after those terrorist
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Speaker 4: attacks and the murder, the dispossession, the theft, and you know,
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Speaker 4: I think any yeah, if anybody was doing that, of
37:19
Speaker 4: course the government do something about it. But it seems
37:22
Speaker 4: that there is just this barrier or when it comes
37:26
Speaker 4: to this entity of israel.
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Speaker 3: I fear. You're right, the Israel exception runs through well,
37:36
Speaker 3: not just the British government, but unfortunately it would appear
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Speaker 3: the judiciary as well. Now just today four of the
37:45
Speaker 3: Filton twenty four defendants are due to be sentenced by
37:50
Speaker 3: the man dubbed Mister Injustice Johnson. Now, earlier this week
37:56
Speaker 3: there was a petition to have him recused because he's
38:00
Speaker 3: been so biased in his handling of the case in
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Speaker 3: referring Rajiv men On the barrister to the High Court
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Speaker 3: for contempt of court merely for pointing out that the
38:12
Speaker 3: jury had the right to acquit if they wanted. He
38:16
Speaker 3: didn't allow the defendants to explain why they'd taken the
38:20
Speaker 3: actions that they did. All sorts of instances, but arguably
38:24
Speaker 3: the most egregious was that he didn't tell the jury
38:29
Speaker 3: that if found guilty of criminal damaged the defendants could
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Speaker 3: be sentenced as terrorists. Now that is going on today,
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Speaker 3: as I say, outside Woodage Crown Court. Have you got
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Speaker 3: an update on that at all?
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Speaker 4: No, I actually don't have an update yet. I believe
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Speaker 4: they were No, do you have any updates on that?
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Speaker 3: Well, there's hundreds of people protesting. I can tell you
38:57
Speaker 3: there's hundreds of people protesting outside the court, you know,
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Speaker 3: very very big demonstration there. And apparently one of the
39:08
Speaker 3: barrister's assistants was quizzed harassed by security guards and police
39:13
Speaker 3: on their way into the court. You know, really quite
39:18
Speaker 3: extraordinary stuff. But so far, the sentences have not been passed.
39:22
Speaker 3: There was a statement from Andrew Feinstein, who represents an
39:34
Speaker 3: organization called Shadow World Investigations. He of course ran against
39:38
Speaker 3: Keir Starmer at the last general election. As he points out,
39:44
Speaker 3: the quad crop the drones that some of the defendants destroyed,
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Speaker 3: the key instruments of genocide used by the Israeli forces
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Speaker 3: in Gaza for surveillance, targeting and to kill. I believe
39:53
Speaker 3: they're the same quad cop drones that have recently been
39:56
Speaker 3: deployed in Lebanon as well, where once again they've been
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Speaker 3: playing the sound of crying babies in order to lure
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Speaker 3: civilians out of their houses and then murder them. And
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Speaker 3: yet explaining that that is the reason why you broke
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Speaker 3: into the factory to destroy those weapons, that was not
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Speaker 3: allowed by Justice Johnson. Extraordinary stuff from me.
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Speaker 4: Very extraordinary. I think it's really important to continuously highlight
40:26
Speaker 4: that Albert Systems is not a British company. This is
40:30
Speaker 4: not this doesn't have anything to do with us. This
40:32
Speaker 4: is the largest private weapons manufacture of Israel. What is
40:37
Speaker 4: it doing well? Israel basically exploits the fact that they
40:42
Speaker 4: can get contracts with our Ministry of Defense and therefore
40:46
Speaker 4: our taxes can then be subsidized through that contract in
40:51
Speaker 4: order to help with the R and R the research,
40:54
Speaker 4: then develop the research and development apologies, and then the
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Speaker 4: manu factoring of these weapons on British soil. It doesn't
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Speaker 4: mean that Israel doesn't produce actually a lot of its
41:06
Speaker 4: weaponry in occupied Palestine so called Israel. But if those
41:12
Speaker 4: on these factories on the outside of Israel stopped, what
41:19
Speaker 4: would happen actually is that Israel would have a just
41:23
Speaker 4: the minimum that it would be able to carry out
41:27
Speaker 4: the minimum amount of weapons it would have to be
41:30
Speaker 4: able to carry out this this violence and this terrorism
41:32
Speaker 4: against the Palestinians and Lebono would be quite restricted. And
41:35
Speaker 4: also most of its exports come from these factories abroad,
41:38
Speaker 4: so we would be hitting the economy. And obviously the
41:42
Speaker 4: glaring information that we always need to double down on
41:45
Speaker 4: is that you know, this is the largest manufacturer of drones,
41:49
Speaker 4: and you're right, these are the drones whenever we see.
41:52
Speaker 4: Yesterday there was a video in Raza of a man
41:55
Speaker 4: who was completely dismembered. It was the man who was
41:58
Speaker 4: filming was running down the the alleyway and there was
42:01
Speaker 4: just children, just young boys, running past him. Screaming. Some
42:06
Speaker 4: of them were totally shocked. They've just seen a family member,
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Speaker 4: a friend, or a neighbor completely dismembered on the floor
42:12
Speaker 4: and that was a drone strike. These are the drones
42:15
Speaker 4: that are being made quite literally on British soil by
42:18
Speaker 4: this private company with the help of our taxes. So
42:23
Speaker 4: of course these defendants try to stop that from happening.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the link is glaringly obvious. The British
42:31
Speaker 4: state is stretching the terror laws to basically the absolute
42:36
Speaker 4: limit to jail these young Brits who tried to stop
42:39
Speaker 4: these weapons being sent. And this Sunday, the same British
42:43
Speaker 4: state is like rolling out the red carpet for this
42:47
Speaker 4: corporate road show to sell the literal very land that
42:51
Speaker 4: these weapons are clearing out. What they're doing is criminalizing
42:57
Speaker 4: resistance and protecting the subsequent real estate transactions after the
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Speaker 4: Jewish terrorism in the West. Blank and Rasa.
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Speaker 3: Patrick, I know you wanted to speak to Reme as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, doctor Rame. First, first of all, you know,
43:17
Speaker 2: we commend your personal campaign fighting for free speech and
43:24
Speaker 2: for your rights as a British citizen, holding up the
43:28
Speaker 2: banner of all these freedoms. But on your personal battle
43:32
Speaker 2: regarding the NHS and the attempt by the government to
43:36
Speaker 2: silence you. Do you have any updates on your personal situation.
43:40
Speaker 2: How is that going?
43:43
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. I obviously I've been arrested five
43:48
Speaker 4: times now for speech for words, mostly online posts. I
43:52
Speaker 4: can't really talk about that because now that I've been
43:55
Speaker 4: charged and that's an open criminal investigation and the trial
43:59
Speaker 4: is set to be next March twenty twenty seven. As
44:04
Speaker 4: for the General Medical Council, my medical license side I
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Speaker 4: was suspended in November for fifteen months. I had my
44:13
Speaker 4: review a few weeks ago and obviously I gave it
44:18
Speaker 4: my all. It was a full day review, but they
44:21
Speaker 4: practically use the fact that there is an open criminal
44:24
Speaker 4: investigation to continue with the suspension. So the next step
44:29
Speaker 4: really that it's the only option that I have, is
44:32
Speaker 4: to go to the High Court to challenge the suspension.
44:35
Speaker 4: Because I'm sure you're aware that when I was referred
44:38
Speaker 4: to the tribunal in September, I successfully defended myself and
44:44
Speaker 4: then I was referred a mere eight days later and
44:48
Speaker 4: then I was suspended. Obviously also following threats from the
44:52
Speaker 4: previous Health Secretary Wesley Streeting and the campaign against anti summitism.
44:58
Speaker 4: So at the moment is just planning to go to
45:01
Speaker 4: the High Court and prepare for the criminal investigation.
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Speaker 2: It's really a case of double jeopardy, much like David Miller,
45:09
Speaker 2: that she wins her case and then it's not good
45:11
Speaker 2: enough they have to do quickly try her again because
45:14
Speaker 2: they're not happy with the result. How many times have
45:16
Speaker 2: we seen this? But further than that, doctor Rame, we
45:23
Speaker 2: want to say, you know, keep up the fight. You
45:27
Speaker 2: are absolutely inspiring to a lot of people, and we
45:29
Speaker 2: really appreciate all of your efforts on all of these
45:32
Speaker 2: issues across the board.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, thank you, thank you very much.
45:37
Speaker 4: I think, just very quickly, you know you said the
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Speaker 4: double jeopardy. I think that that is an ongoing, clear
45:43
Speaker 4: pattern of the Zionist lobby. The trial today is a
45:47
Speaker 4: case of that. They are using every means, all of
45:50
Speaker 4: our so called independent British establishment and roots like the
45:57
Speaker 4: regulators and the judiciary, and they're bringing us back if
46:01
Speaker 4: they don't get the required outcome. So I think there
46:04
Speaker 4: has to be pushed back on that because I mean,
46:06
Speaker 4: usually those activists really shouldn't be there, let alone being
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Speaker 4: being sentenced on terrorism.
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Speaker 2: Charges, and thank you doctor Rahme and Mike. I think
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Speaker 2: it's pretty clear there's pressure on government, on government institutions
46:24
Speaker 2: by a lobby, as we know which lobby that is, Yes,
46:27
Speaker 2: and that's what's forcing all of these sort of abrogations
46:30
Speaker 2: of due process and all these things like what she's
46:34
Speaker 2: describing their double jeopardy. So it's not only a government issue,
46:38
Speaker 2: it's what's happening outside of government, putting pressure in from
46:41
Speaker 2: the from the Israel lobby and those sort of interests. Yeah,
46:46
Speaker 2: and that's that's the issue. This is a universal issue.
46:48
Speaker 2: People should defend her on principle, just like you would
46:53
Speaker 2: be defending the barrister who is up for contempt for
46:57
Speaker 2: nearly wanting to uphold the Magna Carta. Quite frankly, it's
47:00
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. So any patriots and common law advocates out there,
47:04
Speaker 2: these are the people you want to be defending on principle.
47:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So thanks everyone for that, Simon and I Patrick.
47:12
Speaker 1: Let's move on then to Blackhore, and you've got an
47:15
Speaker 1: update on that.
47:16
Speaker 2: Well, we did cover this previously. This is an incredible story.
47:19
Speaker 2: This is an Israeli firm that had been caught meddling
47:23
Speaker 2: in the French local elections in Marseille, trying to smear
47:27
Speaker 2: what can only be described as pro Palestinian local council
47:30
Speaker 2: members in a local election. Now, this is a joint
47:33
Speaker 2: investigation here and Haratz and also Liberal Chon in France
47:38
Speaker 2: has reported on this. This doesn't stop in France. Mike,
47:42
Speaker 2: this is incredible. We'll take a look at where this heads.
47:45
Speaker 2: Look at this Israeli firm, Black Corps. This is a
47:47
Speaker 2: secretive cyber firm that's been involved in all sorts of
47:51
Speaker 2: activities around the world. Suspected of meddling in elections in
47:54
Speaker 2: New York City, the Mamdani election, recent New York mayor election,
47:58
Speaker 2: in Scotland, so in Angola and Togo. They have evidence here,
48:02
Speaker 2: says the head of France is cyber Disinformation Detection Service
48:08
Speaker 2: Virginium and it goes on here. A joint investigation by
48:12
Speaker 2: the Brecheon and Heretz analyze the digital footprint and uncovered
48:16
Speaker 2: a toolkit of influence operations. These are AI generated autonomous
48:21
Speaker 2: systems fake profiles. All of this stuff rooted through servers
48:25
Speaker 2: in Britain, in Germany, Finland and Lithuania. All of those
48:30
Speaker 2: countries have one thing in common. All NATO States. Isn't
48:34
Speaker 2: that interesting? And so I think there's more this going
48:38
Speaker 2: on here. Who is Black Core working with behind the scenes?
48:42
Speaker 2: Are they working with any Western intelligence services? That's what
48:45
Speaker 2: we would like to know, This Israeli operation that is
48:48
Speaker 2: absolutely an arm of Israeli intelligence here and the French
48:52
Speaker 2: are It's incredible that this is happening in France, that
48:54
Speaker 2: they're actually cracking this case open because there's so much
48:58
Speaker 2: Israeli influence the top of government in France. But if
49:02
Speaker 2: you want more information on this, we reported on this previously,
49:06
Speaker 2: a great in depth investigative article by Freddie ponton this
49:10
Speaker 2: is up at twenty first century Why Black Core Israel's
49:13
Speaker 2: cyber hitmen in French elections? And I think if you
49:17
Speaker 2: really go through the evidence, Mike, you might find there's
49:21
Speaker 2: quite a lot of activity here, even in England, Wales
49:26
Speaker 2: as well as Scotland and maybe even northern Ireland. Here
49:28
Speaker 2: where does it end?
49:30
Speaker 1: Good question? So let's sa get a quick update on Albinia.
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Speaker 2: Patrick Again, we spoke about this last week and this
49:38
Speaker 2: thing is now it's seventh day the protests in Albania.
49:42
Speaker 2: As you can see on screen here, they thought this
49:45
Speaker 2: would die down, but it hasn't. And you know this
49:48
Speaker 2: started over Jared and Ivanka taking you know, dominion over
49:53
Speaker 2: a private island or it was really government property off
49:56
Speaker 2: the coast of southwestern Albania. There's Erama, the Prime Minister,
50:01
Speaker 2: calls for his resignation. Now this isn't going away. It
50:05
Speaker 2: is supposed to fade away. Hasn't done a lot of
50:08
Speaker 2: pressure on Rama. Now the assets have been frozen of
50:11
Speaker 2: Jared Kushner AND's business associates, Saudi and Katari associates, as
50:16
Speaker 2: well as others. So this project looks like it's hit
50:19
Speaker 2: the wall for the moment here. So that's what's going
50:23
Speaker 2: on here is Rama. If we go and watch, he
50:27
Speaker 2: is basically doubling down. He's claiming all of this is
50:29
Speaker 2: an Iranian plot to defame him and his government. Here's
50:34
Speaker 2: doubling down, saying this is all Iranian cyber terrorism. I mean,
50:38
Speaker 2: can you believe this guy? He is Tony Blair's protege,
50:42
Speaker 2: by the way, and he's also been mentored by Jacob Rothschild,
50:46
Speaker 2: the late Jacob Rothchild, as well as friends of Nat Rothchild.
50:50
Speaker 2: So that's Eddie Rama the president there. Now, I did
50:53
Speaker 2: an interview on Sunday here we'll bring this up on
50:56
Speaker 2: screen with Albanian dissident who spoke it av years ago, Alci,
51:02
Speaker 2: and he basically blew the whistle on all of the
51:06
Speaker 2: Israeli influence and is really takeover of all the different
51:09
Speaker 2: sectors in Albania as well as a massive landgrab one
51:14
Speaker 2: I don't know how many thousands of hectors gifted to
51:18
Speaker 2: what can only be described as Israeli settlements and the
51:21
Speaker 2: first kubbutz opened in Albania. So this is also part
51:25
Speaker 2: of what the protests are about. But you're not seeing
51:28
Speaker 2: this covered in Western media. But if you go to
51:31
Speaker 2: our YouTube channel here, we'll drop a link to this
51:34
Speaker 2: interview in the show notes with ULC, but really breaks
51:37
Speaker 2: it all down in a very long and comprehensive way,
51:42
Speaker 2: so all the receipts are provided in that interview.
51:45
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for that. Let's come back to the
51:48
Speaker 1: UK and this week Kerri Starmer gave a speech Tech week.
51:54
Speaker 1: Let's just have a quick listen to part of what
51:56
Speaker 1: he said.
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Speaker 11: The way I see it, on artificial intelligence, Britain has
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Speaker 11: three options. One we could stick our head in the sand,
52:11
Speaker 11: pretend it isn't happening. And hope for the best. Well,
52:16
Speaker 11: I won't accept that. Option two, you can remove the
52:22
Speaker 11: guardrails completely and ignore the consequences, no matter that some
52:27
Speaker 11: communities might be left behind, that wealth and power might
52:30
Speaker 11: become concentrated in fewer hands, that our children might face
52:35
Speaker 11: an increasingly unsafe world online. Well I can tell you
52:41
Speaker 11: I won't accept that either. Or we can take a
52:44
Speaker 11: third path, the labor path, where we back the British
52:49
Speaker 11: businesses creating the jobs and technologies of the future. If
52:53
Speaker 11: government wants innovation to flourish, it must be a regulator, yes,
53:00
Speaker 11: but it must be more than that.
53:03
Speaker 2: It must be a partner.
53:05
Speaker 11: So we will use the power of public procurement to
53:09
Speaker 11: support British ingenuity and give our innovators the best chance
53:13
Speaker 11: to compete for public contracts. That is why today I'm
53:17
Speaker 11: really pleased to announce a new strategy to develop sovereign
53:21
Speaker 11: compute capability. It includes a major new commitment to purchase
53:28
Speaker 11: specialist AI chips worth about four hundred million pounds, providing
53:34
Speaker 11: a generational opportunity to some of our most promising startups,
53:39
Speaker 11: and alongside that Government will scale our test bed for
53:44
Speaker 11: AI compute systems, turning it into a national capability supporting
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Speaker 11: them British startups with our multi billion pound infrastructure program.
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Speaker 1: So while some are complaining that he won't spare and
54:00
Speaker 1: on war, they aren't complaining about what he will spend
54:04
Speaker 1: on this and that of course leads to the surveillance state. Now,
54:08
Speaker 1: alongside Starmer's speech, Tech Secretary Liz Kendal announced a landmark
54:13
Speaker 1: one point one billion pound plan to boost Britain's ability
54:18
Speaker 1: to develop, deploy and scale AI technologies and chips that
54:23
Speaker 1: she said all about pouring investment into to back the
54:28
Speaker 1: next generation of British chip companies to support growth and jobs,
54:32
Speaker 1: strength and national security and boost the UK's competitiveness. So
54:37
Speaker 1: she announced THEAI Hardware Plan, which they say sets out
54:42
Speaker 1: how the government will back British companies developing the chips
54:44
Speaker 1: and semiconductor of technologies behind AI, whilst also investing in
54:49
Speaker 1: the scientists, engineers technicians needed to turn new ideas into
54:52
Speaker 1: products and good jobs in the UK. This is all
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Speaker 1: coming just a few weeks after she gave a speech
54:58
Speaker 1: at Russie in which she announced the acceleration of the
55:01
Speaker 1: UK's sovereign sovereign AI plans. But the question is what
55:05
Speaker 1: is sovereign AI. Well, it's theoretically the idea that nations
55:10
Speaker 1: should have their own AI capability, separate from the likes
55:13
Speaker 1: of the commercial operators like Anthropic and Open AI. But
55:17
Speaker 1: one of the biggest proponents of sovereign AI is Jensen Hwang,
55:21
Speaker 1: who's CEO of n Video, because of course he sees
55:25
Speaker 1: taxpayer funded dollar signs, and Starmer alluded to this in
55:28
Speaker 1: his speech there. But that definition of sovereign AI might
55:33
Speaker 1: not be quite accurate because we live in an age
55:36
Speaker 1: of word manipulations. Everybody knows, so considered the possibly that
55:39
Speaker 1: Starmer's use of the term is not referring to sovereignty
55:42
Speaker 1: over AI, in other words, owning the stack. That's largely
55:46
Speaker 1: what he was talking about in the video clip that
55:48
Speaker 1: we're talking about, but he's also meaning sovereignty through AI.
55:53
Speaker 1: And we're talking about here the state using I for
55:55
Speaker 1: governance and security. And this is driven by a desire
56:00
Speaker 1: that has been expressed by the Home Secretary, as we
56:03
Speaker 1: all know, to build the Panopticon, alongside the desire that's
56:08
Speaker 1: been expressed on multiple occasions for a narrative control or
56:11
Speaker 1: as they like to put it, dealing with misinformation and
56:14
Speaker 1: disinformation and this process has already begun, with Stormer also
56:18
Speaker 1: announcing this week that he's asked Apple and Google to
56:21
Speaker 1: start scanning content on people's phones to look for nude images.
56:24
Speaker 1: Now Signal has decided to respond to that. They have
56:28
Speaker 1: issued an open letter and Signal, as people may know,
56:32
Speaker 1: is the end to end encrypted app. Now they've fisued
56:36
Speaker 1: this statement. They're saying children deserve to be safe, protected
56:38
Speaker 1: and nurtured. They do not deserve surveillance funding cuts and
56:42
Speaker 1: cover ups. Children also deserve their human rights to privacy,
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Speaker 1: as does everyone in the UK. Government demand that all
56:48
Speaker 1: content on all devices sold or used in the UK
56:51
Speaker 1: scanned on the presumption of nudity using a dystopian combination
56:55
Speaker 1: of age verification and content scanning will not safeguard children
57:00
Speaker 1: in dangerous as all. And I think I could not
57:03
Speaker 1: agree with that more Patrick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just a quick comment Mike and Chips, British Chips,
57:09
Speaker 2: how long is that going to take to develop a
57:11
Speaker 2: semiconductor industry from nothing in Britain? Maybe thirty years? And
57:16
Speaker 2: how much government subsidies will be required to compete with
57:19
Speaker 2: the likes of China in the US that are maybe
57:22
Speaker 2: what fifty years ahead? That can do things at scale.
57:28
Speaker 2: So I mean, I think what about the chips factory
57:32
Speaker 2: up in where is it Peterborough? Is that McCain chips?
57:36
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the one you've got to be worrying about.
57:38
Speaker 2: There's no way Britain's going to I mean, it's a
57:41
Speaker 2: pipe dream, but.
57:41
Speaker 1: It is a pipe dream. But as well as that,
57:43
Speaker 1: of course it's not going to provide the kind of
57:45
Speaker 1: jobs that he's implying that it is going to imply
57:47
Speaker 1: it's going to provide. So anyway, we'll talk more about
57:50
Speaker 1: this and extra but Basil, let's come back to you
57:53
Speaker 1: now and with some in case you missed it.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Mike. Yes, let's have a look at one or
58:00
Speaker 3: two stories this week that may have escaped your notice.
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Speaker 2: Restore Britain.
58:06
Speaker 3: Yes, they're up to about fourteen percent in the make
58:10
Speaker 3: Afield by election. They appear to be taking votes almost
58:15
Speaker 3: equally from Andy Burnham and from Reform and the result
58:20
Speaker 3: is that Burnham remains in front and the heavy odds
58:24
Speaker 3: on favorite to win that seat, much to the irritation
58:28
Speaker 3: of Nigel Farage. No doubt some of the Restore people
58:31
Speaker 3: think that they can actually win the seat, Believe it
58:34
Speaker 3: or not. They are the real insurgents. Let's see. Next up,
58:39
Speaker 3: We've got Next up, We've got Carol Cadwaller. I think
58:44
Speaker 3: talking about the invasion of Pallenteer and its insidious contracts
58:53
Speaker 3: with the British government.
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Speaker 12: It is absurd and insane that we have a rogue
59:00
Speaker 12: US military contractor handling our most sensitive personal data. Your
59:06
Speaker 12: devices are going to be monitored twenty four hours a day.
59:11
Speaker 12: Pallenteers had a very secretive contract with GCHQ. Palenteer has
59:18
Speaker 12: a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no
59:22
Speaker 12: national security. This company should be nowhere near the NHS.
59:27
Speaker 12: We have entered into a kind of colonial contracts with
59:32
Speaker 12: this superpower. Peter Teel is an incredibly dangerous individual.
59:39
Speaker 8: The slogan of the Antichrist is peace and safety.
59:43
Speaker 12: JD Vance is a sort of wholly owned product of
59:46
Speaker 12: Peter tel Jeffrey Epstein, who was a co investor in
59:50
Speaker 12: an Israeli surveillance company. The thing I find most alarming
59:54
Speaker 12: about this and most worrisome is that, and of.
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Speaker 3: Course let's not forget that Peter Mandelson himself was instrumental
1:00:05
Speaker 3: in introducing the British government to Pallenteer. Now arguably the
1:00:11
Speaker 3: best thing he's done since becoming London Mayor. Sadik Khan
1:00:15
Speaker 3: has nevertheless kicked a pallenteer out of a contract with
1:00:21
Speaker 3: the Metropolitan Police, meaning that they now want to sue him.
1:00:26
Speaker 3: They're very annoyed about this, as you can imagine, and
1:00:30
Speaker 3: they've decided they're going to take the Greater London Authority
1:00:34
Speaker 3: the Mayor's office to court over it. Uless spy tech
1:00:38
Speaker 3: company to challenge London Mayor's intervention after he raised concerns
1:00:42
Speaker 3: over breach of procurement rules. Apparently they were the only
1:00:45
Speaker 3: bidder for the contract. That's his objection. Of course, the
1:00:49
Speaker 3: NHS contract comes up for renewed in February of next
1:00:54
Speaker 3: year and we have to keep up the campaign to
1:00:57
Speaker 3: get them kicked out. Next up this of course particularly
1:01:02
Speaker 3: relevant Lammy is forcing through the scrapping of jury trials.
1:01:08
Speaker 3: Well we all knew this was happening, but in particular
1:01:11
Speaker 3: MPs on the Commons Justice Committee have said that Lammy
1:01:15
Speaker 3: has failed to seek a broader consensus for the proposals
1:01:19
Speaker 3: before introducing a bill that enact them in Parliament, and
1:01:23
Speaker 3: of course, with Labour's huge majority in the House of Commons,
1:01:28
Speaker 3: Parliament is effectively acting as a rubber stamp. If you
1:01:32
Speaker 3: can just imagine how the built in twenty four would
1:01:36
Speaker 3: have gone on if they had been forced to rely
1:01:39
Speaker 3: solely on mister Justice Johnson. Next up, further to the
1:01:47
Speaker 3: legal situation with Lammy, of course, he's also now planning
1:01:51
Speaker 3: for AI legal assistance to replace human beings. A trial
1:01:58
Speaker 3: of AI assistance in Crown courts is going to be
1:02:01
Speaker 3: brought in in an effort as with with the abolition
1:02:05
Speaker 3: of jury trials, the pretext is to clear the backlog
1:02:10
Speaker 3: of cases. You see, it's all just for simple practical
1:02:14
Speaker 3: and logistical reasons, and that you're going to be tried
1:02:17
Speaker 3: by a single judge who has an AI assistant, a
1:02:22
Speaker 3: far cry from a jury and a human beings working
1:02:26
Speaker 3: in the court. Goodness me, whereas this going to end up?
1:02:30
Speaker 3: And they say we have the best justice system in Britain?
1:02:33
Speaker 3: Next up, the British food scene was booming. Why has
1:02:39
Speaker 3: it suddenly gone bust? Asks Anita Chowdery. While I would
1:02:44
Speaker 3: have thought the reason for that was obvious. It's because
1:02:48
Speaker 3: people cannot afford to eat out. Costs are spiraling, National
1:02:53
Speaker 3: insurance contributions by employers have gone up at the same
1:02:57
Speaker 3: time as disposable income has gone down. That's no doubt
1:03:02
Speaker 3: why top chef Tom Kerriage is amongst those cheerleading for
1:03:07
Speaker 3: Andy Burnham.
1:03:08
Speaker 2: Yes him again.
1:03:10
Speaker 3: Apparently he's promising to cut V eighty on hospitality and carriage.
1:03:15
Speaker 3: The Michelin starred chef is saying the whole of the
1:03:17
Speaker 3: hospitality industry should get behind Burnham, who's called for a
1:03:22
Speaker 3: cup in V eighty from twenty percent to ten percent.
1:03:28
Speaker 3: Our old friend Ben Gavie, well, he's finally being investigated,
1:03:32
Speaker 3: this time by the Italian authorities for alleged torture kidnapping
1:03:36
Speaker 3: over the Gaza flotilla video. But he hasn't had enough
1:03:41
Speaker 3: kidnapping yet, because who wants to kidnap Lebanese women and
1:03:46
Speaker 3: children in order to pressure hes Bola open call for
1:03:52
Speaker 3: war crimes? There with appear extraordinary stuff And finally I
1:03:59
Speaker 3: believe it is. And finally this week, well, the World
1:04:02
Speaker 3: Cup is finally underway and some world leaders were spotted
1:04:06
Speaker 3: in the stands at the opening matches with their national
1:04:11
Speaker 3: mascots as we can see.
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Speaker 1: Now, brilliant Basil, thank you for leaving it on a
1:04:48
Speaker 1: light note. Thank you very much. Thank you Patrick as
1:04:51
Speaker 1: well thanks everybody this watching. We will be back in
1:04:54
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Speaker 1: back one pm as usual Monday. We'll see you then.
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, Abe
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