Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 24th of
September, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host Mike Robinson, joining me live by Livelink.
Today we have the UK columns, Charles Mallett and journalist
and peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey.
Welcome to the program, both Now, later in the program,
Vanessa's going to have the latest from Lebanon.
I'm going to covering the recognition of Palestine by the
United Kingdom and others. And Charles is going to be
reporting on connections between the migrant issue in the UK and
digital ID. But we're sadly going to have to
begin with the United Nations General Assembly, because
yesterday Donald Trump spoke at the UNGA.
It was mostly pretty obscene, actually.
He began by blowing his own trumpet, if you know what I
mean. And he was basically telling us
all what a wonderful person he is.
He stopped 7 wars, you know, and personally he stopped them.
He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, but that's not why he's doing
it. He's doing it.
He's stopping all the wars to save lives, except in Gaza, of
course. He's heavily, he heavily
criticized the United Nations. And we can discuss this later,
but perhaps with some justification.
But he didn't mention systematic breaches of international law by
the US, the UK, the EU and Israel over the years.
He was, however, very upset that the United Nations didn't give
him $500 million to rebuild the UN building a number of years
ago. That was very upsetting to him.
He would have provided marble floors for that money.
Instead, they spent billions and only got Toronto.
So there you go. The speech lasted 57 minutes.
It could have been delivered in five to seven minutes instead,
because he was constantly repeating himself and migration
in net zero policy was the crux of it.
Now in in fairness to him, he did make a couple of valid
points. And the net zero point I think
Charles will be covering in a minute was pretty much on the
money as far as I was concerned at least.
But there was also this on on Ukraine and specifically on the
EU, which I think is is going to be an interesting, it's an
interesting comment that he makes here.
Let's have a listen to this. This war would never have
started if I were president. This was a war that should have
never happened. It shows you what leadership is,
what bad leadership can do to a country.
Look what happened to the United States and look where we are
right now in just a short period of time.
The only question now is how many more lives will be
needlessly lost on both sides. China and India are the primary
funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian
oil. But inexcusably, even NATO
countries have not cut off much Russian energy and Russian
energy products, which, as you know, I found out about two
weeks ago and I wasn't happy. Think of it.
They're funding the war against themselves.
Who the hell ever heard of that one?
In the event that Russia is not ready to make a deal to end the
war, then the United States is fully prepared to impose a very
strong round of powerful tariffs, which would stop the
bloodshed, I believe, very quickly.
But for those tariffs to be effective, European nations, all
of you are gathered here right now, would have to join us in
adopting the exact same measures.
I mean, you're much closer to the city.
We have an ocean in between. You're right there.
And Europe has to step it up. They can't be doing what they're
doing. They're buying oil and gas from
Russia while they're fighting Russia.
It's embarrassing to them. And it was very embarrassing to
them when I found out about it, I can tell you that.
But they have to immediately cease all energy purchases from
Russia, otherwise we're all wasting a lot of time.
So Vanessa, maybe I could get a comment from you on that.
What? What did you what did you think
of that particular comment from him?
I can't, I mean, I don't know, I'm just speechless.
I, you were better than me and the fact that you sat through
the entire speech, but I mean, he's, he's just borderline
insane. I, I don't know.
I really, I honestly don't know what to say other than life has
just become a theatre of the ridiculous as far as I'm
concerned. Is that would you, would you
agree with that, Charles? Good afternoon, Mike and
Vanessa, and good afternoon all to a point.
Although what I would say, and this is not necessarily to slap
him on the back, but it is to acknowledge that he is an
absolute master at scoring points where they are readily
there to be taken. And I think that's really what
he demonstrates. OK, as you say, he certainly
took his time to do it. An awful lot of repetition and
congratulating himself for stuff that he probably hasn't achieved
and won't achieve, but never let that get in the way of a good
story. So I I think insofar as he fires
the popular imagination, this in in some ways is a masterstroke
because he has so many of these sorts of catchphrases that can
be pulled out and shoved around the world on the Internet,
social media and all the rest of it for time immemorial.
Yeah, well, absolutely. But what was he talking about?
He was talking about energy and net zero policy.
He was and and in a way, this was a a revisit of what he was
bashing Keir Starmer over the head with on his previous visit.
So not the state visit, but when he was in the UK in the summer,
he had a very awkward press conference with Keir Starmer up
in Scotland, in fact, on one of his own golf courses.
And one of the things that he likes to talk about.
And again, going back to your point of finding it hard to
disagree with this sort of thing, he puts out just enough
truth to engage a certain percentage of the population,
but also to set absolutely an equal and opposite force against
him. But we'll just listen to what he
had to say specifically on the idea of renewable.
We're getting rid of the falsely named renewables, by the way.
They're a joke. They don't work.
They're too expensive. They're not strong enough to
fire up the plants that you need to make your country great.
The wind doesn't blow. Those big windmills are so
pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they
have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot.
Most expensive energy ever conceived.
And it's actually energy. You're supposed to make money
with energy, not lose money. You lose money.
The governments have to subsidize.
You can't put them out without massive subsidies and most of
them are built in China. And I give China a lot of
credit. They build them, but they very
few wind farms. So why is it that they build
them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use
them? You know what they use?
Coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they don't
like wind. But they sure as hell like
selling the windmills. Europe, on the other hand, is a
long way to go, with many countries being on the brink of
destruction because of the green energy agenda, and I give.
So again, what he said can absolutely be found with the
basis in fact. But the point is that it's
Donald Trump saying it. And since the the climate
alarmism lobby is well set against him for a whole host of
other ideological reasons, this in in some ways does actually
play into the renewable scam as he describes it.
So one has to be very careful when considering any information
that's put out by Donald Trump in particular, because he is
such a divisive figure. And with that in mind, we'll
just go now to what he said about the the supposed basis,
the scientific basis for the pursuit of renewable and indeed
net zero in the first place, IE climate change.
And I hope the Prime Minister is listening because I told it to
him three days in a row, that's all he heard.
North Sea oil. North Sea.
Because I want to see them do well.
I want to stop seeing them ruining that beautiful Scottish
and English countryside with windmills and massive solar
panels that go 7 miles by 7 miles, taking away farmland.
But we're not letting this happen in America.
In 1982, the executive director of the United Nations
Environmental Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate
change would cause a global catastrophe.
He said that it will be irreversible, as any nuclear
Holocaust would be. This is what they said at the
United Nations. What happened?
Here we are. Another UN official stated in
1989 that within a decade, entire nations could be wiped
off the map by global warming. Not happening.
You know, it used to be global cooling.
If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they
said global cooling will kill the world.
We have to do something. Then they said global warming
will kill the world. But then it started getting
cooler. So now they could just call it
climate change because that way they can't miss climate change
because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell
happens. This climate change, it's the
greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my
opinion. Climate change, no matter what
happens, you're involved in that.
Now whether those are his actual thoughts or not is beside the
point, but they do do exactly what they're designed to do,
which is to polarize and give people exactly as he
articulates. Give people the feeling of
helplessness because of this fundamental problem.
Either because you believe that the climate is boiling or
whatever it's supposed to be doing, or you know that it's
complete nonsense and you're seeing all the taxpayers money
go into destroying the landscape in the name of apparently
protecting it. But with that in mind, we should
consider an announcement, for example, by Defra, which has
just gone out about the water consumption and we see, you
know, a way to apparently reduce bills.
But of course, actually it doesn't deal with the
possibility that one might take control of 1's own water supply.
And this is something I've talked about with regard to
mosquitoes and how colonial administrations dealt with it.
And from the erstwhile Public Health England, we go back to
2018 to look at their policy on mosquitoes in the garden and
indeed a specific bit about the storage of water and how that
presents a hazard. And of course, in these days of
bio security, it's very easy to see how that could be jacked up
into something that creates much more fear.
And just to draw this out and conclude it, I will just remind
you that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which is
going through Parliament at contains absolutely no provision
whatsoever for the harvesting of water in the new development or
development of housing, either individually or collectively.
Which means that there will be a constant push to surrender water
for AI and data centres, but never ever to take control of it
yourself. Yeah, Charles, thank you very
much for that. Now, Vanessa, Trump obviously
was grabbing the headlines yesterday at the UNGA, but he
wasn't the only thing that was going on there.
And for the last couple of days, Gilani, in fact, was making an
appearance. So what happened there?
Yes, well, apparently the first Syrian President to attend the
UNGA in New York for almost 6 decades.
The fact that he's an unelected president, he's formerly ISIS
and Al Qaeda had a bounty of 10 million on his head and
according to the establishment narratives, his group was
responsible for the twin towers. So quite extraordinary that he's
seen arriving and receiving red carpet treatment while in fact
back in Syria, the massacres continue.
The following video is of the current wildfires that have been
raging for the last three days across Wadi Nasara, which is
basically translated as the Valley of the Christians, which
is an area to the South of Homs. Beautiful area where historic
churches and and cultural edifices and and infrastructure
are now in danger of being destroyed.
And of course, what we're hearing are reports from inside
Syria that HDS themselves started the fires by dropping
the thermal incendiary bombs by drones, just as they've done
previously in Latakia, according to reports from people on the
coast, of course, majority Alawites that have been
ethnically cleansed since Geolani came to power.
And here we have some pretty dreadful footage of Geolani
arriving at the UNGA, the bustle of bodyguards around all of them
looking extremely tack fairy like to me.
And he arrives with full pomp and ceremony, you know, touching
his hand to his heart as if he has one.
While he enters the UNGA. He met with Marco Rubio, of
course, Trump's point man in the Middle East, along with many
others, of course, and one of the priorities of their
discussion is the security agreement between Israel and
Syria. That, of course, is one of the
tasks that Jolani was given once he came to power by the US and
the entire Zionist bloc. A special event which I haven't
had the stomach to watch yet but I will do was for the Middle
East Institute to host Jolani and none other than Charles
Lister. Of course.
Charles Lister, a member of the Mei who invented the 70,000
moderate rebels. The the the narrative that was
picked up at the time by David Cameron to excuse the funding of
the terrorist groups in Syria to bring down the former Syrian
government. And then of course, he had an A
very friendly chat with ex CIA chief General Petraeus, who
hails the former al Qaeda leader for clear vision in Syria.
I'm not quite sure how these people can utter such phrases
when an ongoing massacre of the Syrian people is occurring from
north to South under Jolani's unelected Takfiri regime.
But let's have a reminder also of Petraeus's role himself in
the downfall of Syria. Seymour Hersh Petraeus
established a rat line between Libya and Syria to send weapons
to the Nusra Front, which of course, is al Qaeda.
The the group that was founded not only by Jelani, but also by
Asad al Shabani, who's the foreign minister also at the
UNGA and other extremist groups seeking to topple the government
of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
They mentioned Timber Sycamore, of course, which was a budget of
over 1 billion per year to given to around 500 moderate rebels,
but ended up in the hands of ISIS by accident, of course.
According to former French intelligence officer Thierry
Maison, Petraeus continued to help fund al Qaeda groups,
including ISIS, after he was forced to resign from the CIA in
2012 after a sex scandal. I just want to show Petraeus
introduction to Jolani, which is kind of, we were talking this
morning, Mike, about the fact that these figures like
Ambassador Robert Ford, who was responsible for much of the
creation of the death squads, the Free Syrian Army in Syria,
who was kind of squealing in delight over meeting with Jelani
over the last few years, both in Adlib and then in Damascus in
2025. And here we have Petraeus
literally introducing him. But a reminder to people that
rumours are that it was Petraeus himself who led the
radicalization and and the indoctrination of Jelani while
he was in prison in Iraq. So an interesting introduction
from Petraeus here. Because the fact is that we were
on different sides when I was commanding the surge in Iraq.
You were, of course detained by U.S. forces for some five years,
including again when I was the four-star there.
And here you are now as the president of Syria.
I'm not going to show anything of what Joelani actually says
because it's total MI 6 Tony Blair speak.
I mean, he says nothing different to the script that
he's been given since December 2024.
But in case people are worried here, Petraeus asks Joelani
about his own personal mental health.
So this next one is about you personally.
How are you holding up under all this pressure?
Are you getting time to do some thinking?
Are you getting enough sleep at night again?
I've been there and it is so very, very hard.
And you're many fans and I am one of them.
We do have worries. I mean, this is just grotesque.
This man has was responsible for mass beheadings, executions,
terrorist attacks in Iraq even before he came to Syria.
And now he's responsible for the mass ethnic cleansing of
minorities in Syria that are not meant, that are barely mentioned
in the entire interview. And, and I don't know, I mean, I
would love people's comments, but I just find this absolutely
abhorrent that he's being fated to such a degree and that
allegedly he's in among friends and allies.
Well, what does that tell you about the US regime, successive
regimes that have supported the breakdown of Syria and the
destruction of the people of Syria?
Charles, let's ask for your thoughts on that.
I think that engagement between Gilani and Petraeus has to be
one of the most extraordinary things that I've seen in recent
times, and it should cause anybody believing themselves to
be on either side to call into question absolutely everything
they thought they believed or stood for it.
It makes a total mockery of everything Petraeus has
supposedly done in his career or what he should have done it for.
And exactly the same should be said of Jelani.
I mean, it dispels any sense of doubt that this entire narrative
and situation is driven by forces out of sight that we are.
Apparently never told about Absolutely extraordinary.
The only thing I would add on UK column content is there's a very
good interview on the website with Michael Yon.
Ben Rubin interviewing Michael Yon, it's called Who Runs the
Jungle and Yon gives a very interesting anecdote about
bumping into Petraeus who he knows at an airport.
So please go and listen to that interview.
Thank you, Charles. OK, let's move on.
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So tonight we're rerunning the interview that he did with
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Very briefly, Just tell us a little bit about this.
Well, I think it's just a very open discussion that we had,
Mike, about the way that the sectarian divisions are going to
be weaponized against Western populations, having historically
been used, of course, to divide and conquer the countries,
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Yes, thank you for that. And so that will go out at 1:00
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I just want to remind everybody of the interview that went out
yesterday at 1:00 PM with Andrea Clarich.
So I was speaking to Andrea about engagement with people in
Croatia on issues as such as such as migration, digital
IDCDBC, censorship, attitudes to the war narrative.
And we also discuss what appeared to be attempts to
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Please do join us for that or get on the website and watch
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will also be there, and it will be a very wide-ranging day
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food and health. And Charles, just remind us of
the 1000 Words podcast just before we show the little
trailer trailer. The yeah, Thousand Word Podcast
is something that's coming to UK column.
We're absolutely delighted that it is.
It involves Jake Fern, the portrait artist, interviewing
whilst he paints the portrait of the subject.
And he's had tremendous success with it to date.
And it just gives a fascinating insight into somebody that a
different interview technique doesn't quite capture.
And it's it's a really, really interesting way of engaging with
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on UK column. And Charles, correct me if I'm
wrong, that's 7:00 PM on Sunday. Correct.
Absolutely it is. Yeah, OK.
Thank you. OK, let's come back to the UN
General Assembly and well, Yvette Cooper, our illustrious
new foreign Secretary, was speaking.
Let's have a listen to what she said.
I stand before you today, beneath the emblem of the United
Nations, to confirm the historic decision of the British
Government to recognise the state of Palestine.
This step, alongside friends and partners, reflects a long
standing truth that statehood is the inalienable right of the
Palestinian people and the two states is the only path to
security and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
But recognition must be a spur, not a substitute for urgent
action, A ceasefire now, the release of all hostages, the
restoration of aid and a lasting framework for peace.
Recognition is about the future, but it is rooted in our past. 75
years ago, Britain was rightly proud to recognize the state of
Israel, but the promise of upholding Palestinian rights has
gone unfulfilled. For decades, my country
supported A2 state solution, but only recognized one state.
That changes now as we join more than 150 Member States in
recognizing the State of Palestine and protecting the
pathway to peace. Now I'm sure we can talk about
this in extra and so on, but for me that whole thing was complete
nonsense. It changes nothing.
The Starmer regime has not made any statement or taken any
action to actually pressure Israel into stopping the
genocide. They haven't prevented a single
bullet from being shipped from to Israel from this country.
Now also on Monday Keir Starmer put out an ex post wishing the
Jewish people, the Jewish community a happy new year.
This was the the tweet that he pushed out and well this
resulted in over 4000 comments. Now let's just have a look at a
few of those. So to go gaslight someone else.
Hypocrite, He was told you don't get to bless us for the new year
after embracing the Palestinian Authority that pays the salaries
of Jews murders and then he's more and more commentary on
this. You're quite literally the
second coming of Neville Chamberlain is in this new year.
May the Lord strike you and you're disgusting, inept and
corrupt party and call the general strike down you and
you're disgusting inept party and corrupt party and call any
general election. Sorry.
The the strong language started coming out at that point.
The insults against the Islamic community started coming out the
from the river to the sea, but this time with the Israeli flag
really sort of suggesting the Greater Israel project and more
unpleasantness in the form of artwork and so on appearing on
here. So this was pretty unpleasant.
So the question is what did the recognition of Palestine achieve
in the meantime then Armed Forces Minister Alastair Cairns
has posted an opinion piece in the Daily Mail headlined British
veterans fought to bring peace and security to Northern
Ireland. Now they deserve a fair deal.
Now this is about the return of the investigations into British
military activity, British Army activity in Northern Ireland
during the so-called Troubles. This entire process, of course,
this investigation, the historical investigation is a
travesty because people on the Republican side were released
from prison under the so-called Good Friday Agreement with
letters of amnesty from Tony Blair.
While people serving in the British Army were have had to
endure decades of inquiry, criminal investigation and so
on. Now he currents attempts to wrap
this all up in words of reassurance for anyone that on
the receiving end of it, but the question then is what has been
the response to this in the comments?
So this is typical of it. The courts wouldn't allow an
asylum seeker to be deported to Kenya, but it's OK for soldiers
because of course part of this is them having to go back to
Belfast for hearings. 2 tier care don't care about our
heroes. He's a terrorist lover and so
on. So more of the same.
In other words, two tier care supporting terrorists and
etcetera. This is all both of these
situations in my opinion, and Vanessa might critique what I'm
saying here in a second, but this, in my opinion, is designed
to stir up these kinds of sentiments.
Everyone is supposed to feel outrage at it because Starmer
knows it. Aside from a few memes on X with
unpleasant words on them, none of the outrage is going to be
directed at him personally or even at his government when it
comes to the crunch. It's going to be directed at
people perceived to be on the left because the left right
split is something which is absolutely being amplified at
the moment. Or else some people who have
different coloured skin. But if we go back to his ex post
that we saw earlier and look at this this comment.
Sorry. So the comments section isn't
going as you hoped, said Arthur. Well, in fact, I believe it is
going exactly as he hoped. Because they say.
I believe that this was a pretty cynical attempt just to 'cause
this kind of outrage. Now, two weeks ago, around
1,000,000 people came out on Britain's streets, funded and
promoted by largely the Zionist lobby.
There was a counter demonstration, as Ben was
pointing out, on a previous news program which also seems to have
had Zionist interest behind it to a certain degree.
It's is it a surprise then that the same interests would be
supporting both sides of an engineered argument And, and the
question is, has this ever happened before now?
This is an article on John Waters sub Stack headlined how
British intelligence planned the Irish troubles of 68 to 98 and
used Provisional IRA fake patriots to achieve the
ruination of Ireland. I think this is important
because the ruination of England is exactly where this country is
at at the moment. And I would just ask the
question, what would happen if instead of coming out on the
streets and waving some flags that the million people or so
that were out a couple of weeks ago made a commitment instead to
stop paying tax? Would the regime take notice
then? Vanessa, this is obviously this
segment has been a bit of an opinion piece, but I'd just be
interested in your thoughts on it.
Well, I mean, it's kind of interesting.
I mean, Tom Barrack, who will get onto Trump's sort of envoy
to the Middle East, describe the whole operation of recognizing A
Palestinian state as useless. Those were his words and I was
thinking it was to appease the anti genocide protesters and and
so on after they've been victimizing Palestine action and
and all day pensioners who are coming out to to protest in
support of Palestine action, for example.
But now I'm actually wondering when you're showing those
responses to Starmer, if it's not also giving oxygen to the
Zionist victimhood, which is also something that they need to
be able to reinforce their 'cause as they further expand
their violence and their slaughter and their genocide,
not only of Palestinians, but also Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis,
Yemenis, etcetera. So I think there's two roles, as
you've rightly said. But I think on a local, national
level, yeah, it's all about stirring up hatred, sectarian
hatred again. Charles, just before we come on
to to your main segment here, have you got anything to add to
that? Well, I would, I mean, I would
absolutely agree with with what Vanessa says.
I think listening to Yvette Cooper, I mean, first of all,
sounds like she had taken elocution lessons before
delivering that speech and sort of searching for gravitas that
she never quite found. But it's it's as though she's
sort of saying that something was so clearly the case that the
unanswered question is, well, So what?
Why is it taken until now? Why, why now?
And also like a curve which needs flattening, A pathway to
peace remains incredibly sort of ill defined that, you know, what
is the end state and indeed what are the obstacles along the way
and how much does it cost in human life and money to actually
tread that apparent pathway to peace?
So it's just the latest confection in a in a sort of
barrage of nonsense, I'd say. Well, we were just talking about
the million people on the streets, of course, migration
being a key driver to encourage that activity.
So what are your thoughts on on that issue at the moment?
Well, I think specifically migration is only pushed out as
a problem in order that a solution may be divined.
And the the latest in the sort of summer narrative.
The latest chapter concerns the migrant arrested in Epping and
he has now just been convicted by Chelmsford Magistrates Court
and this is put up by the BBC who say that Epping Hotel asylum
seeker jailed for sex assaults. Now the point of the BBC article
really is to continue to fan the flames of division, helpless and
confusion and particularly they they go a bundle on confirming
the worst fears of people who do have concerns about this in that
it's the suggestion is that people who do come from other
countries have different standards and that that is
absolutely a well founded concern.
As though because he's Ethiopian, he didn't have any
understanding of how things work here.
In actual fact, of course, the age of consent in Ethiopia is 18
and he is reported as being a Christian.
So further confusion here about, you know, is this another sort
of dig at Christianity or a lot of language used deliberately to
confuse and conflate As to the trial itself.
And indeed the ruling handed down which has come from
Chelmsford Magistrates Court, point to note first of all that
these offences which are now shown on screen, attempted
sexual assault on a child aged 14 to incite or cause a child to
engage in sexual activity, sexual sexual assault on a
female twice two different people and harassment without
violence. Now they're all what's called
either way, tribal either way, which means they could have gone
to Crown Court, but actually they were retained by the
Magistrates Court, which means there was a maximum of 12 month
sentence. And a lot of people therefore
have been provoked into outcry saying was not, you know, not
nearly a strong enough sentence should have been much greater
and all the rest of it. Now, I can understand exactly
why those concerns would be there, but of course by limiting
it to the magistrate's court, meaning that the sentence was
only going to be that. And what one has to look at
really are the sentencing guidelines from the Sentencing
Council and they're shown on screen now.
And one has to determine the offence category, which of
course is done by two different categories, looking at the harms
and the culpability. And it's almost as though this
story has been cherry picked in order specifically to make it
look like nothing has been done because the threshold in every
single circumstance is not quite met.
Essex Police, of course, have reported on this as well, and
they bring out the points that there's also a five year sexual
harm prevention order being set against the man Hadosh Kabatou,
and also that he'd be on the sexual offences register for 10
years Now. The the point being missed here,
of course, is that because the UK, the Border Act 2007 has
qualifying criteria for automatic deportation.
The the length of the sentence and indeed any of the other
things that Essex Police are mentioning are should be
academic. And this is further reinforced
by the announcement made by the government just last month
concerning what they're calling immediate deportation.
He is now to be regarded as a foreign criminal stipulated by
the Border Act 2007, and indeed he has a sentence of at least 12
months. However, the Daily Mail
reporting here, of course, that now there might be a
counterclaim, effectively engaging the European Convention
on Human Rights in order that this is not going to lead to
deportation. Again, something that seems to
be deliberately put out in order to inflamed tensions.
And as a banner across the top of the Daily Mail piece, it's
shown on screen now it says breaking news, foreign criminals
are being given 2000 lbs when they leave the United Kingdom.
So there are just so many elements of this particular
story to suggest that the problem is in effect
insurmountable. And then we cast our mind back
to Operation Restoring Justice, which was something put on by
reform a short while ago in which they proposed to have a
plan for mass deportations. And part of that was to get out
of the European Convention on Human Rights and indeed to
repeal the Human Rights Act in 1988, which in effect would head
off exactly the situation that the male is forecasting.
So they're attempting to look strong, attempting to make the
case for there being a political solution to this has become a
key political background. But what's not to be forgotten
is that this always leads to exactly the same place.
And here we have Sarah Pochin, the Reform MP, talking about
where that place is. About what Chris Philp is now
saying the Shadow Home Secretary on ID cards.
What do you feel about ID cards, digital ID cards?
Is that something that Reform UK would support?
Well, look, I personally don't have a problem with an ID card.
You know, I, I don't see what the issue is.
Most of our ID, most of our information now is is is on our
smartphones anyway. Can.
We cross the system though. Well, what's more, how, how much
more could we be at risk? As I say, all of our information
is out there in a cloud, in the ether, whatever you want to call
it. So I can't sit here and say that
that is absolutely reform policy.
But what I can say is that of course, as a as one of the few
MPs at a time where Danny Krueger has just joined the
party and said that they're preparing for government and
there isn't of course an enormous public swing towards
reform. A political solution looks very
likely to include a digital ID. And of course, I just remind you
finally about Brit Card, which is the solution proposed by the
Labour Together think tank. And just to quote from that,
this is exactly matching the problem.
A million people live in the UK without permission to do so,
undermining the sense of Fair play.
And this is how Brit Card is, how mandatory universal national
identity credential can help Britain control illegal
migration and secure its borders.
Because of course we got the question of, well, what if
Kibatu is deported back to Ethiopia?
Well, lo and behold, we don't have an agreement with Ethiopia.
So there's another stumbling block.
But of course, if we had a digital identity, then we'd know
whether or not he was trying to come back or whether he was
still in the system. So what's being done about this?
Well, one thing just to point out is Big Brother's Big Brother
Watches campaign. Which they're entitling
Checkpoint Britain and they've just conduct had a survey
conducted by you Gov which was admittedly fairly small, only
just over 2000 respondents, all online, but overwhelmingly 63%
of people absolutely rejecting wholesale the idea of digital
ID. And finally they point you to a
petition they've started which has only attracted 100,000
signatures so far. But there'll be a link in the
show notes for you to take a look at that.
Charles, thank you very much for that.
Vanessa, let's come back to you and back to the Middle East.
Now you're obviously based in Lebanon, but what's how is the
pressure building there? Because obviously Lebanon still
has, you know, effectively Syria to the north and Israel to the
South. Yeah, to the east and the north
for Syria, of course, and Israel to the South.
And Israel in reality has increased its number of
occupation points in southern Lebanon to seven rather than 5
previously. And it conducts daily, if not
sort of morning, afternoon, evening attacks, either by drone
or by air strike on areas of southern Lebanon, but also the
eastern and northeastern areas of Lebanon perceived by them to
be Hezbollah strongholds. And on Sunday, I wanted to draw
attention to this attack, which was a drone attack on civilians
in Binchabel in the South. These are the children, Hadi and
Celine Shirora, who were killed in the attack, including their
father and their sister. And their mother and their other
sister are hospitalized in critical condition.
And a bystander, Mohammad Moore, was also killed in the strike.
This is the mother, Armani Bazi, here with the two children that
were murdered by Israel on Sunday in the attack.
And this is the mother at the funeral of the two children.
She was brought actually in her hospital bed to bid farewell to
to the children that were slaughtered by Israel
indiscriminately. And this is happening on a daily
basis. But interestingly, there was an
interview with Thomas Barack, who I've said is Trump's
basically his main man in the Middle East trying to push
through the normalization between Syria and Israel and in
Lebanon to dismantle and destroy the resistance against Israel.
What was extraordinary for me about this interview, and that's
why I've included a number of clips, is that he was incredibly
frank and honest whether he felt disarmed by the interviewer, who
I think was extremely good. But let's just hear what he how
he first of all describes himself.
And I'm, if you look at diplomacy and all of them are
much better than me because I'm not really a diplomat, right?
I'm like an event driven mercenary to get things done for
this president. Well, I couldn't really say it
better myself. I mean, he's an economic hitman.
He has links to corruption in the first Trump administration,
links to Epstein and and so on and so forth.
So he's certainly not a trustworthy individual, but
let's hear what he says about the end game in the region.
Trump's end game in the region. Through what exactly is the
Trump Doctrine in the Middle East?
So President Trump brilliantly said, look, I'm not going to
lose any more American lives. We've been there.
I'm not going to take over any more countries and try and teach
them the colonial method. It never worked.
So we're worried about counterterrorism.
We'll cooperate with our neighbors and that's it.
And that's basically what he's done.
Israel, a different story. Israel is a a valued ally.
We subsidized them four or $5 billion a year and has a special
place in America's heart. And we're living with the
confusion of what's happening in this transition.
So it's it's complicated. So it's a really difficult zip
code. What's the end game?
I was hoping you weren't going to ask that because I don't
know. I don't think anybody knows.
Of course, that's absolute nonsense.
They know exactly what the end game is.
And actually he goes on to describe it.
But what I find interesting in in this particular response from
him, he talks about the reason why the Zionist bloc policy has
not been successful to basically bring our peoples under their
control. So let's have a listen to this
I. Don't think anybody knows.
At the end game, when we say peace, it's an illusion.
There's never been peace. There will probably never be
peace because everybody's fighting for legitimacy.
So people say, well, they're fighting over borders and
boundaries. It's not what they're fighting
over. A border or boundary is the
currency of a negotiation. The end result is somebody wants
dominance, which means somebody has to submit in that part of
the world. Submit.
There's no Arabic word for submit.
They can't wrap their head around submit, so eventually
prosperity is the only answer. So he's very clearly saying
there that submission is not an option from the Arab resistance.
And someone pointed out to me that the word Islam means
submission to, to the word of God for Muslims.
But of course, the Middle East is not only made-up of Muslims,
there's Christians, there's, there's all manner of minorities
and minority faiths in the Middle East and Lebanon, Syria
and Iraq and so on. But what for me is, is this
arrogance that damn it, you know, the Arabs won't submit to
doing what we want. But he then brings in the idea
of prosperity, which is effectively, well, if we can't
get them to submit through what we're doing, for example, in
Palestine, then we'll offer them, we'll incentivize them
with prosperity, which is, of course, exactly what they've
done with the Arab Gulf state. So then he goes on to talk about
the role of Hezbollah. And again, this is very
interesting. He actually admits that the
American policy or the Israeli policy in Lebanon is effectively
increasing the popularity of Hezbollah.
So let's have a look at this. So until Hezbollah, which is
70,000 troops, we don't recognize Hezbollah is a foreign
terrorist organization in American parlance.
I get in trouble every time we go into this discussion because
in Lebanon it's not right. In Lebanon, it's a political
party. It has 27 parliamentary seats
out of 166 or so in parliament. But Hezbollah is an armed
militia separate from the Lebanese Armed Forces, bigger
than the Lebanese Armed Forces. Lebanese Armed Forces has been a
stable influence. And what incentive do they have
to put their weapons down? 0 Zero.
I mean, this is the problem, especially when Israel is
attacking everybody. So if Israel, Israel is
attacking Syria, Israel is attacking Lebanon, Israel is
attacking Tunisia, as as it goes on, their argument gets better
and better as we're here to protect the Lebanese from
Israel. Now, we'll talk more about this
an extra, but what's very interesting there is that he
appears to admit that Israel did conduct the attack against the
Samud flotilla heading to Gaza in Tunisia.
And the last two clips, first of all, he's talking about the
Lebanese Armed Forces, which he calls LAF, LAF.
So let's just see what he says about them.
Being mostly Sunnis, there are Shias and it's a good
organization. It's it's well meaning, but it's
not well equipped because who are they going to fight, right?
We don't want to arm. We're going to arm them so they
can fight Israel. I don't think so.
So you're arming them so they can fight their own people, The
Hezbollah. Hezbollah is our enemy.
Iran is our enemy. We need to cut the heads off of
those snakes and chop the full of funds.
That's the only way you're going to stop Hezbollah.
So this is quite extraordinary. He's actually admitting that
America is keeping the Lebanese Armed Forces at a level where
they can't defend the country against Israel, but they can be
used to turn against their own people, IE the the resistance.
And then the final comment that he was not the final comment.
I recommend everybody watches the whole interview.
But this comment he makes about if you don't come into line in
Lebanon, what he will do. So let's just play this.
And I don't mean it's in a disrespectful way because all
they do is talk. There's never been one act.
We've told them, do you want our help?
We'll give you our help. We gave them a playbook.
They can't get there. They can't execute.
No, absolutely not. So we said fine, we're not going
to execute. You know who's going to execute?
Walk across that board. Do you see where Jerusalem is?
Jerusalem is going to take care of the Hezbollah for you.
And that's what's happening right now.
Absolutely. So that's very clear.
Lebanon won't come into line with the US playbook.
So now Israel is being triggered to carry out the USS or
Washington's dirty work by attacking the resistance and the
civilians in the South to bring Lebanon in line with the US
playbook. Yes, indeed.
Thank you, Vanessa. We will talk more about this an
extra now coming back to Europe then in a sense, but
unfortunately beginning with another picture of Trump.
I just want to highlight this because the war hysteria
continues to heat up this week LED of course by the mainstream
media. This is Fox News here.
Sorry. We'll go back.
One President Donald Trump, they say, on Thursday said the US
could end up in World War Three over Russia's war in Ukraine and
conceded that Russian President Vladimir Putin has let him down
over his refusal to end his military campaign.
And this is at the time that Trump is doubling down on the
idea or the narrative that he was putting forward with Starmer
at the press release, the press conference the other day.
Fox follows this. You got a bit of a preview of it
with an outright lie. They said that one day later,
Russia sent 3 fighter jets over Estonia's capital city of
Tallinn in a direct and clear violation of its airspace,
prompting another NATO member to spark Article 4 for the second
time as many weeks. So.
But the point here is the the Russian Migs were not sent over
Talon, and even the map published by the Estonian
Defence Forces show that they stayed over the Baltic Sea, not
coming closer than was at about 20 miles or so from the coast,
even if the route was questionable.
I mean, this is still being argued over.
The Associated Press then in this article claims that a
senior Estonian military official alleges that the pilots
of the Migs ignore signals from Italian F35 pilots who were sent
to investigate the presence in allegedly in Estonian airspace.
And in fact, this article makes the point that it still needs to
be confirmed if the border violation, the alleged border
violation was deliberate or not. And the commander of Estonia's
military intelligence centre is reported by AP here as saying
that the Russian jets must have known they were in Estonian
airspace. So the Russian pilots didn't
pose a military threat, this article goes on to say.
But although they said or acknowledged that communication
from the Italian pilots flying the F30 fives, the Russians,
they say, ignored it and didn't actually follow the signs, which
is I'm not sure what signs they're talking about, which is
partly why they were in in Estonian airspace for so long,
he said. Why they didn't do it, that's a
question for the Russian pilots. So this this hysteria continues
to build. This of course, began with the
alleged drone attacks in in Poland.
And with all this hysteria over Estonia and Poland, it the
flight of a Russian IL 20 intelligent aircraft over the
Baltic Sea yesterday may have gone unnoticed by the corporate
media, but not quite because two Swedish gripping jets and two
German Eurofighter jets were sent to go and escort this
aircraft as well. So again, this is an Associated
Press article that we can see on screen here.
And they were just trying to hype this situation up once
again. But the rhetoric from, if that's
the media, the rhetoric from various MPs and other European
leaders continues to ramp up as well.
So let's have a look at that. Here is the Lithuanian defence
minister. Russia is testing NATO again.
Dozens of drones in Poland last week, drones in Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia and now fighter jets in Estonian skies.
These are deliberate provocations.
They're deliberate tests, tests of her readiness or resolve and
of the limits of her deterrence. The latest in an escalating
pattern of pressure by Russia. And she went on safer Estonia
for Poland, for Lithia and for all of NATO's eastern flank.
This is a direct threat, not just the territorial integrity,
but the citizen safety. And of course the idea of
keeping your citizens safe is really the, the core sort of
narrative that we're hearing from MPs and other leaders right
across Europe and the UK at the moment.
And she finished by, or she went on to say here, our biggest risk
currently is miscalculation by Russia.
Does Russia believe that NATO will not allow violations of its
territory? Does Russia believe that Europe
is going to strike back together with the United States?
That's now the last line of defence between if and when a
war with Russia happens. And then we had comments from
the German. For German foreign policy
adviser Jurgen Hart, only a clear message to Russia that any
military border violation will be sorry, will be met with, will
be met with force. These propagations are tested by
Russia. Again.
Ray's ring is basically exactly the same words and will only end
if we respond clearly to all military border violations.
The alternative would be for Russian war logic to continue to
escalate. Now it is airspace violations,
so it would be the bombing of individual targets.
Then Russian soldiers will come. It's the the narrative is just
incredible. And then Donald Trump yesterday
was asked whether NATO countries should shoot down Russian
aircraft if they violate NATO airspace.
And he replied, yes, I do. And so just very quickly,
Charles thought. Well, in the language of the
Strategic Defence Review published this year, it looks
like the defence dividend is going to pay out because this is
exactly what people have been itching for.
The defence or war industry in particular who stand to make
absolutely billions from this and already are because of the
apparent requirement to mobilize and put 3% of sorry, 5% of GDP
towards spending on war. So that, you know, it's looking
good for the for the reassurance force who must be beginning to
think about what they're going to pack and all that kind of
thing. So this is exactly where it was
always looking like it was going to go.
I think the only difficulty for us, perhaps as a sort of
analysts and commentators, was see exactly what steps were
going to be taken in order that delivered the conflict that's
been so much desired. Indeed.
OK, we will move on then. And of course we've got Andrew
Wakefield speaking at our event in a in a few weeks time.
But what's been going over on in the United States over the
question of what causes autism? Yes.
Well, I'm not actually intending to deal very specifically with
the issue at hand. It's rather more the tsunami of
propaganda which has come out in the wake of this.
And, and I'll go on to refer to exactly how that pertains to
Andrew Wakefield and indeed another speaker at our at our
York event. But let's just, I'm afraid to
say it is Donald Trump again. But but this is actually going
to pertain to what's happened in the United Kingdom.
Let's just listen to what he said.
And there are other parts of the world where they don't have
Tylenol, where they don't have autism.
That tells you a lot. And I want to say it right now.
And you know, the way I look at it, don't take it.
Don't take it. There's there's no downside in
not taking it. So I'd like to ask Bobby to come
up and say a few words. I hope I didn't ruin his day.
But that's the way I feel. I've been very strong on the
subject for a long time. You know, life is common sense
too, and there's a lot of common sense in this.
And I wish things like this were brought up and this group has
worked so hard on it. But I'd like to be a little bit
more, a little speedier in the process of a recommendation
because there's no harm in going quicker.
There's absolutely no harm. At worst, there's no harm.
Thank you very much, Bobby, please.
No, of course this has prompted a response from every single
medical organization in the world apparently saying that
there is absolutely no evidence to support what Trump is saying.
Here we've got the World Health Organization issuing a statement
on autism relation related issues, something that's backed
up by the Department of Health and Social Care saying
paracetamol and pregnancy what you need to know.
And they say there's no evidence that taking paracetamol during
pregnancy causes autism in children.
Now that's either a straight lie or it's a manipulation regarding
the specifics around the conditions that are actually
referred to because the Dean of the Faculty of Public Health at
Harvard, Andrea Baccarelli, has cited 46 studies.
It was it was his paper that has effectively inflamed this.
Now of course, one of the fundamental things that come out
of this are that at no point has anybody suggested that taking
painkillers in the 1st place might not necessarily be an
appropriate thing to do when considering the state of the
human body. And that is not medical advice,
by the way. It's just a consideration.
And the other thing, the coincidence, which absolutely
cannot be ignored considering this is relating to pregnancy,
is the astonishing campaign that's just being started with
autumn vaccination in mind in the United Kingdom.
We'll just have a look at the video that they've put out now.
Good morning. If you're pregnant, you can help
protect your baby from RSV, whooping cough and flu, which
can cause serious illness. Vaccines give you both the best
protection against these diseases.
Vaccinated. Yeah.
During pregnancy and in your baby's first months of life,
stay strong, get vaccinated, speak to your midwife or GP
practice. Now one of the very interesting
points to note is that something that's been particularly
hammered by the NHS is the idea that a pregnant woman getting
vaccinated means that delivery of that vaccination through the
placenta will benefit the newborn baby.
And the idea, the campaign sort of tagline is, is stay strong,
get vaccinated. Now with that, we've got all
sorts of. Associated imagery which
infantilises the entire situation.
You'll note that the there is no opportunity missed with regard
to wrapping more than one agenda into this story.
Of course every single couple or parent and child shown is of
some sort of ethnic minority, but then we are given the white
mother with child to reinforce the point.
So there we go, stay strong and get vaccinated.
The the other thing to point out is that the the wording used is
vaccines help protect what matters most.
Not forgetting that what matters most are the profits of the
pharmaceutical companies and indeed the benefit to the people
that invest in them. That's the key take away from
this, hence the propaganda, hence the backlash against what
Donald Trump was saying in the 1st place.
And yes, I should just finish off by saying that please do
join us on the live stream for our event in New York because
not only do we have Andrew Wakefield speaking, going over
some of the points in his career which relate to this very topic,
but also is Evans, who will be specialising on medical ethics.
And that brings my report on propaganda to a close.
Yeah, brilliant. Thank you.
It also brings the news programme to a close because we
are out of time for now. So thank you very much to
Charles and Vanessa for joining me.
Thank you all for watching. We'll be back in a couple of
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