Good afternoon. It's just gone 1:00 on Friday
the 1st of August 2025. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host, Charles Mallett. I'm joined in the studio today
by Patrick Henningson. Welcome to the program, Patrick.
Great to be with you, Charles. And on the live link, we have
Mark Anderson from the United States and Mike Robinson from
Northern Ireland. Now, there'll be a lot to get
through today, as always. And we're going to be looking at
the possible nuclear capabilities of Iran as
described over in Chicago. We're going to be looking at the
latest tariff theatrics at the Uks, plans for food strategy and
food security, the BBC and indeed particularly how they're
dealing with the Paloma Shamarani inquest, as well as
mass media consolidation in the United States concerning
Paramount. But you'll remember from
Wednesday's programme that I was reporting fire Patrick, who'd
sent in some footage of an event he attended in London on Monday
to do with the summit flotilla. And summit, of course, we should
point out, meaning the Arabic word for perseverance.
Now, I'm pleased to say that Patrick has a lot more on this
for today's programme. So that's where we're going to
where we're going to begin today, Patrick.
Thanks, Charles. Yeah, it's just really a rally
for well, the the Handela had just been.
This was the Gaza flotilla just been seized by the Israel,
Israelis. We'll bring that up on screens.
People see the boat again. But the part of the Gaza Freedom
Flotilla, they had the Madeline, which was also apprehended a few
months ago, the crew was kidnapped and abused by the
Israelis. They were all released.
The, the whole crew of the Handela I think is safe now as
far as I'm concerned. There might be one or two other
exceptions to that, but we'll, we'll get clarification on that.
But they had a press conference in London and it was really kind
of A to to bring the press in to give them more information about
what's coming. And also just to hear some of
the testimonies of one of the members of the the hand dollar
was there. Tiago had a chance to speak to
him as well. But some of the other people who
there Human Rights Watch and also an MEP from Dublin.
So this was very revealing. So we have a video report which
will show you from this event. And we'll have some of the
statements in there and we'll we'll speak a little bit about
what what the content of that is afterwards.
But let's go ahead and watch this.
The governments must end all complicity, must stop arms and
in fact must impose an arms embargo, A comprehensive arms
embargo on Israel immediately. The situation that we are seeing
unfolding in Gaza is, is the extermination of the Palestinian
people. What makes this specific and
unique is the fact that this is being carried out by an ally of
Western governments. It's being carried out by a
state that calls the United Kingdom, the EU, Canada,
Australia, a friend. And that is what one of the
things that clearly distinguishes this situation
from others. But obviously the fact that it
is extermination of a people raises it to the level of one of
the greatest atrocities that can be committed by a state and by
its officials. We were in the meddling on a
mission with. 12 people with food with medicine with.
Crutches with baby formula with a lot of things like water
filters to try to do the obvious things when we see a genocide
that 8 billion people that see. Children.
Being starved. To death.
They know that is wrong. They want to have, they want to
bring them food. When they see hospitals,
shelters, schools being bombed, children being burned alive,
they want to stop that. And that's.
Why we went, I think that the the swift action you've seen as
you, as you say rightly illegal occupation by Russia, but it's
two militaries against each other and we seen very quick
action by the EU. And I think that that's where
now the people across Europe are saying what, like the double
standards is so blatant and the level of frustration from U.S.
politicians who are all we're asking for is international law
to be upheld. Like that's the bare minimum
we're asking for is that the same standard is applied to
Israel, is applied to any other country in the world.
And it's not going to happen at the EU.
I've been back in the European Parliament a year now and the
chair of the Delegation for Relations to Palestine and I've
repeatedly said you will not get a consensus at the EU, at the EU
level. So therefore it is not just the
legal thing that a member state does, but it's also the morally
right thing to do, that they take unilateral action.
So Ireland has had this bill called the Occupy Territories
Bill since 2018. It passed all stages in our
parliament, but it was blocked by the Irish government for
years. The campaign to to reignite that
bill obviously since 2023 has now gotten to the point where
we're almost ready now for the government to to enact it.
But I really do believe that if Ireland shows that courage, and
let's not forget this is just to enact the ICJ ruling of July
2024, that the proceeds of crime from a legal settlement should
not be sold, that if we do that, it'll be the first domino that
will fall. We know other member states are
watching very closely what Ireland is doing.
They then hopefully would follow suit.
And then what happens is that the House of Cards comes down in
terms of Israel's impunity because first we go after the
the illegal settlements, then we go after the preferential trade,
the arms embargo, the sanctions, all of the tools that
politicians have that could be they could be doing today.
But I honestly believe that that first that happens, other
countries will be emboldened to take action as well.
So that I was really the question I had for Lynn Boylan
there was, you know, how come no EU countries can be stepping
forward to sanction Israel and Ireland was the closest.
But what what's holding Ireland back?
That's an interesting question. And her answer to that surprised
me. What's holding Ireland back?
The pressure coming on Ireland not to sanction Israel is not
coming from Brussels, Charles. It's coming from somewhere else.
Listen to this. And that's why you see such
pressure coming on Ireland, particularly from the US because
of our long standing relationship with the US.
IPAC are pumping huge amounts of money into taking out op eds in
very high profile newspapers. They are ramping up their
politicians that are IPAQ support, are supported by IPAQ,
sponsored by IPAQ and and getting them to call Ireland
anti-Semitic to challenge Ireland's bill.
But the reason why they're doing that is because they know this
would be the downfall. The House of Cards will collapse
if Ireland takes this action and that's why we have to hold fast.
So I mean, we have a lot of foreign direct investments,
investment in Ireland, a lot of major companies.
This bill though would only affect two or three companies.
But it's the Israel or no fools. They know the consequences of
this bill passing means there's a domino effect and that's why
they're ramping up the pressure. They know Ireland's weak point
is the the link between the US, our long standing relationship
with the US and that's why they are getting U.S. politicians to
do their dirty work and to try and keep the pressure on the
Irish government. We know under the administration
that the Ambassador to Ireland contacted our Government and
warned them of consequences if this Bill was enacted.
We know that our former finance minister and now again current
finance minister, he also gave commitments to Israel that this
bill would never see the light of day.
So this pressure is real. It's not imagined.
And I think that for the government, they tried to
withstand it for so long, withstand enacting the bill with
the people power and the pressure they're under now from
the public means they have to do the right thing.
Because we're being told that if we do this bill, that American
companies will have to comply with America's anti boycott,
anti sanctions laws. Our argument back is, well, one,
there's only two or three companies that are involved that
are because most companies don't actually do business and
occupied territories because they know it's toxic.
But two, that this is not Israeli land, so it can't be a
boycott of Israeli products because this is a Palestinian
land. This is the proceeds of crime
that Israel are committing by illegally occupying Palestinian
land and therefore it cannot be called a boycott of Israeli
products. So the legal arguments are on
our side. We know that, but the pressure
was is very real. It is coming from the US
predominantly, but it's people power that have forced this bill
to the point where it is now where we've got a committee to
recommend full ban on trade. So it's very close.
It's just a question, like she said, like Lynn said, the domino
needs to fall. And the first domino is the
Occupied Territories Bill, which has been like held up forever
there. But Yasmin Ahmed, the UK
director of Human Rights Watch, made an important point.
We didn't include because of time, but she said 1982 Margaret
Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, she put a full arms embargo on the
state of Israel for their aggression in Lebanon.
So if Margaret Thatcher can do it, why can't Keir Starmer do
it, Charles? I think this is it, this is this
is the question that will have bamboozled absolutely anybody,
certainly anybody that's been watching UK column over the last
couple of years. But but it's, you know, it's
very interesting you watch a a meeting like this.
It is quite clearly it's not a it's not a fringe issue, There's
not a it's not a minority concern.
And you listen to the language that's used by people who in
fact don't have this agency, the, the words like must, you
know, governments must do this. And of course, on the other
side, I mean, only this morning the Foreign Commonwealth and
Development Office were tweeting out about aid that must get in,
that they must be given access to it.
And yet they in effect, have it within their gift to enforce
that and don't. And we hear about the prospect
of using military intervention, military force here, there and
everywhere, but not in this particular situation.
I'm not of course, advocating for throwing more volatile
content into that kind of an environment, but it is quite
pathetic to hear people commentating from the sidelines.
It all be it that they are actually at the epicenter in the
in the political arena, but they will do nothing.
Yeah, they'll do nothing, so we'll wait and see.
Now some people are doing something, Charles, and one of
those countries is Slovenia. Just briefly, we'll bring this
up on screen here. This is the latest in Europe and
this is Slovenia becoming the first EU country to ban arms
trade with Israel. That is a full arms embargo
against Israel. So just as we speak, this story
breaks really over the last couple of days.
So that's interesting. This comes on the heels of this
also from Slovenia. Slovenia bans Bengavir and
Smoltrich to the most not so savory people walking the earth
at the moment from entering their genocidal for the
statements that they made against Gaza.
So they, that's interesting. So Slovenia is really has broken
the door down here. And just on that note as well,
Canada, Canada who's been, you know, virtue signalling about
recognizing A Palestinian state this week.
Well, as we revealed here in this report just filed
yesterday, Canada's uninterrupted flow of arms
deliveries to Israel through various third parties and back
channels. So all of the details are there
and but here, here's the real, this is the real scam that is
going to take place now. Take a look at this.
This is very important to realize here.
This is the new 2 state solution push OK, everybody's on board
now with the two state solution finally after so long of just
abandoning any anything because Israel didn't want it.
But if you look at the details in here, it's quite damning and
we go into all the the basic plans and what they're trying to
do is turn the Gaza into the West Bank.
They're trying to West bankify the Gaza Strip.
And this is really the most important part It's in the
headline here from Frustration magazine.
Love the title of that magazine here.
Why does France want to recognize a demilitarized
Palestine? So it's again have a trustee
police force like the PA, the Palestinian Authority under a
puppet leader like Abbas ruling over Gaza.
So Israel still, in fact, Israel retains bigger control over Gaza
in this new 2 state solution that they're proposing.
So it's basically you can have a state in name, but 0
sovereignty. And what this does is it, it
brings negotiations back to square one again.
And Israel's perfected this negotiation strategy for the
last 40 years. They're brilliant at it.
They know exactly. They run rings around the
Western politicians. They've been doing this for a
long time. You know exactly how to bring it
back to 0 while they change facts on the ground.
And this is what this is how we got to this point in the 1st
place. And I, I do not see anybody
willing to basically put their foot down and call this for what
it is. And that's my fear is that this,
all this push for a Palestinian state, I think is just
completely hollow. And this could actually get
canned at some point in the next couple of months because they'll
say, well, the facts on the grounds have changed.
Yeah, we can't do that anymore. And that'll buy them another
year. That's kind of where we're at.
I'm sure you're right and certainly there'll be no
interrogation of what you've just been describing by the
mainstream media, so. And you covered this amazing
whistleblower from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Mr. I
think Anthony Aguilar is his name.
He did another interview with an American podcaster here or a
gentleman here, which has gone viral on X and the opening
gambit. Charles is quite something.
Listen to this. Very explicitly, directly to my
face that our client is the IDF, your client is the IDF, our
client is the IDF. And this came out of discussion
once where I was in the control room.
I was on operation, I was on control room duty that day.
We had shifted responsibilities on a rotational lace, so I was
in there that day with the radio observing site #2 distribution.
A Palestinian man had picked up some children to let them step
on his shoulders to get onto a berm because they were being
crushed in the crowd. Site 2 is very small smallest of
all four sites, and these children are being crushed and
you pick them up there and put them up on the on the berm.
And the Israeli Defense Forces liaison officer in the main
Control Center with us comes up to the screen that I'm watching.
He says, tell your men to get them down.
I was like, we got this under control.
I was like, I know they they know what they're doing.
Nope. No, they're children.
Let's calm down. Get them down now or I will.
Well, there's no IDF on the site, so I didn't take it as
much of, like, much more than just being, you know, bombastic
and like, OK, like, hey, we got this.
He leaves and goes to his desk in the operation center.
And he gets on the radio and he speaks something on the radio.
It was in Hebrew. I don't speak Hebrew.
One of the contractors that was there was American that did
speak Hebrew and he notifies me. He said, hey, he just told the
snipers at the IDF position because the site #2 is Co
located with an Israeli base. Said he just told the snipers to
to take these kids out. I was like on the radio.
He's like, yeah. I mean, do you need to hear
anymore? So Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,
one of the mercenaries there, a decorated Green Beret and
probably who was pro Israel before this assignment, not
anymore. And what he said there, his
client was the IDF. His client was the IDF.
That mean that to me was quite a bombshell.
And it really just kind of takes the mask off this whole
fraudulent humanitarian operation that they're trying to
pass off as trying to feed the Palestinians.
It's just unbelievable. Absolutely.
I mean, there's been plenty of whispering about that, but to
hit, but to hear it said out loud like that is, is perfectly
staggering. Patrick, thank you very much
indeed for that. And we will, of course, discuss
further what what you've been dealing with in in extra.
Now we'll go across to Mark, who's been looking at what's
being discussed at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,
specifically with regard to Iran's nuclear capability.
Hello, guys, and hello, viewers. Yeah, the Chicago Council, the
former Chicago CFR. I've been following them for
about 15 years. They're one of the busiest think
tanks in the US, as I've mentioned, and I covered this in
real time virtually last Tuesday.
So these are all original photos and it's first hand coverage.
The name of the program, the Middle East on Edge.
What's next for Iran, Israel and the region?
Of course, US interests were mentioned, and one thing I'll
mention right up front is Leslie Benjamuri, shown to the left
there. She's the new Chicago Council
president. She took over for Evil Dalder.
She's fresh out of Chatham House and I'm already detecting a
little bit of more of a bias in favor of Israel, a little bit of
a harder line tone for the programs here.
It's a little early to tell for sure, but I'm detecting that a
little bit. She's shown here with Rachel
Bronson, one of the three speakers, Rachel's senior
advisor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, previously its
president and CEO overseeing its programming and its iconic
Doomsday Clock. And we'll move forward from
there. The Doomsday Clock, that's just
a quick reminder of what it looks like that's been with us a
long time. Part propaganda, part reality.
Perhaps it's from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, kind of
a famous thing. But here's the other two
speakers, all original photo screenshots shown here.
We have left Robert Pape will be focusing on him in a minute.
University of Chicago political side, professor, he direction of
the Chicago project on security and terrorism, focusing on air
power, etcetera. Then we have Ali Vaez who
directs the Iran project and he's senior advisor to the
President at the International Crisis Group.
What is the Iran project? Very briefly, it supports
principal democracy to prevent Iran, they say, from acquiring a
nuclear weapon and avert military conflict in the Middle
East. So the the overall panel was
pretty biased against Iran, pretty much looking out mainly
for Israel's interests. Here's a summary.
I have a summary of what they had to say.
Robert Pape spoke of the big four O 8.
He referred to Iran allegedly having 408kg of 60% enriched
uranium. Not quite what weapons grade,
we're told. And he's key claimed Iran's only
weeks away from 90% allegedly worth 10 nuclear weapons, about
10 nuclear weapons worth allegedly.
But he asked, where's the 408 kilograms now?
It's not known. Mr. Baez, he he said Iran has a
victory narrative. Israel has a victory narrative.
And in a way, so does the US. He said Iran responded with the
most destruction in Israel since 1973.
The damage is worse than assumed, he said.
And he also announced that AUN resolution that endorsed the
formerly US supported Iran nuclear deal expires in October.
So that that UN nuclear deal expires in October.
The UN resolution that endorsed it, that is.
And then Rachel Bronson claimed the ceasefire will hold because
Israel's attack was so, quote, so consequential.
And she said that Iran, in her view, is trying to find
intelligent gaps, intelligence gaps, that is, that it can
exploit. But from there, Euro news has
picked up on this in recent times, claiming that Iran has
amassed 408kg of uranium enriched up to 60%.
And this is according to the International Atomic Energy
Energy Agency, a branch of the UN, the UN watchdog.
But of course, Iran claims it's it's for peaceful uses.
And we haven't heard that much about the 408 kilograms.
It's, it's something that's kept kind of hush hush, more or less.
But here's Mr. Pape from the University of Chicago
elaborating on that point. I think the big number folks you
should focus on is the #4-O84-O8.
Iran had at the end of May, 408kg of 60% enriched uranium.
That was the core concern. They had 20%, they had 5%, but
that four O 8 is what they need. What the 60%, they were only
weeks away of moving that up to 90%.
That four O 8 was the equivalent of 10 nuclear bombs. 10.
And the estimates were they were somewhere between 5:00 and eight
months away. You'd have to enrich, you'd have
to formulate that in to assemble the bombs and so forth.
Well, where is that four O 8 today?
We don't know. And that was always the core
conclusion of every single one of those hypothetical bombing
scenarios that we did to take out with exquisite precision
every building standing above ground.
Well, we pretty much did that. We would also take out through
what I called double tap attacks.
That was my name for it. Wasn't even called a name in 20
years ago. Where GPS.
The thing you need to know about GPS folks is it's 3 dimensional.
It's not just two-dimensional the way it is on your phone.
So if the first bomb creates a crater, the second bomb can
target that depth another and the third can maybe penetrate
all the way through into those into those halls.
Well, the fundamental problem we were always going to face that
word futile was we would never be able to find verify that four
O 8. And in this case, it's actually
worse because in the intervening time between the time Israel
started the bombing and United States bombed Bordeaux and
Natanz, we know through satellite imagery, civilian
satellite imagery, which is now exquisite, that there were
trucks taking stuff out from Bordeaux.
So those are. Mr. Pape's claims he's, by the
way, the author of a book called Bombing to Win from 1996.
A curious title to say the least, but the only mention of
Israel's arsenal or anything like that was very, very brief,
just a passing comment at the end.
So it seems like while there could be some truth to this, on
the other hand, it could be largely or completely for
peaceful uses. And at any rate, Israel always
gets a pass on its arsenal and any inspections there, which
never happened. So this was a kind of an
unexpected thing to hear for me, at least at this program, but an
important thing to get out on the news.
So back to you guys. Thanks very much, Mark.
I think important to point out that absence of evidence is not
the same as evidence of absence as it were.
And I think those two things are very easily confused and
conflated. I'm going to have a bit more on
Iran later in the programme. But now what we're going to do
is take a report from Will Coleshill which concerns the
Paloma Shemarani inquest. And he has been at that inquest
over the past week. And he's going to present his
findings now in recorded video, which deal exclusively with the
sort of medical malpractice and medical ethics side of it, as
well as possible breach of their own editorial guidelines by the
BBC. Hello this is Will.
Coleshill reporting for UK column.
I'm here down at Kent and Midway Coroner's Court where I'm
reporting on the 5th day of the inquest into the death of Paloma
Shamrani. Now the court case is not done
yet, but we've heard a significant amount of evidence.
This case of course has been propelled into the spotlight
because of the mother of Paloma, Kate Shamrani, who is of course
a famous freedom activist. Considering the BBC pieces in
terms of an article, a Panorama episode and also a podcast
series by Mariana Spring where they were framed to allege,
especially in terms of accusations by Paloma's brother
Gabriel, that is Kate's son, that Kate Shimrani had killed
her own daughter. We've heard a significant amount
of evidence from a number of doctors.
And the key focus for much of this case so far has actually
been whether Paloma had the competence to be able to make
her own decisions informed to choose alternative therapies
rather than the mainstream conventional medical therapies.
A lot of the original few days covered the inciting incident
when Paloma first found a mediastinal mass in her chest
and went to the hospital where a number of things happened which
seemed to undermine any trust Paloma would have had in
conventional medicine. Now Paloma obviously did have a
background in alternative therapy, but there seemed to
have been a number of alleged errors and malpractices that, at
least in Paloma's views, according to her statements,
have led her to distrust the NHS and conventional medicine and
fear them and feel like she was being bullied.
These include being denied A wristband and being administered
drugs without consent and then being pressured into signing a
consent form for chemotherapy by doctors.
Now, obviously this is alleged at the moment, but backing this
up was Paloma's own statements to the High Court.
Indeed, it's quite a complex but very interesting case because
this is one of the few cases where we actually have the
statements very categorically of the person in question into whom
this inquest is being conducted. Paloma, despite this original
incident happening in late 2023 around the end of the year, died
in summer 2024 while she was currently in a battle with her
brother over her medical autonomy and her capacity.
During this time, she's spending some of the last of her money in
order to fight her brother in court to maintain her medical
autonomy and stay with her mother pursuing alternative
therapies. What's quite interesting is
despite multiple hours of coverage, an article, a piece by
Panorama and A5 part podcast series, the BBC chose to omit
Palomas signed statements from their coverage.
Now why do I say that they chose to admit this coverage was quite
interesting. The other day I was here and I
spoke to one of the BBC employees who told me they were
aware when they made them. Now I was given an e-mail.
I've then submitted a line of questions to one of the
producers at the BB CS BBC e-mail address and I've also
forwarded this over to the BBC press office in order to have
these questions answered. As of yet, at the time of
recording I've received no response to these questions,
which do seem like the BBC has acted in a bias nature and
breached their editorial guidelines as well as the BBC
charter. During this case we've heard
from a number of doctors who were in contact with Paloma who
have confirmed her competence. Not only the initial doctor
against whom much is alleged, Dr. Mohan, who confirmed
Paloma's competence, but also her psychologist.
And we saw many, many hours, I believe it may have been 5 or 6
hours of questioning who again completely asserted Paloma's
competence. We saw questioning of a
hyperbaric oxygen therapist, and we also saw questioning of AGP.
Now, all four of these doctors confirmed Paloma was competent,
intelligent, and able to make her own decisions about her
medical treatment. And that's what a lot of this
comes down to, whether Paloma had the right to choose her
medical treatment and choose alternative therapy over
conventional therapy, or whether because she chose that
alternative treatment, it is highly likely she was being
coerced. There have been some very
interesting actions by the coroner presiding over the case.
We've seen the coroner mute Kate a number of times.
We've seen fireworks. We've seen mother and son
essentially interrogating each other.
One significant factor is we've actually seen some malicious
action within this case. For one, I had a malicious
allegation against me that I was somehow filming in the court
when it would have been effectively impossible for me to
do so. I'm considering I was sat right
at the front of the press room in front of a camera live link
to the main courtroom. Somehow I was meant to a film
there. Obviously this is a spurious
allegation, but clearly someone was trying to prevent
alternative media coverage of the court case.
I have reported this as a malicious accusation to the
coroner and this has been noted and accepted, but I'm waiting to
see what comes of it because clearly there is a huge amount
of mainstream media interest here, but very little by the
alternative media. A lot of what has happened so
far has been determined by Paloma's competence,
investigating it and whether she was able to make her own
decision. However, in the coming weeks,
when we'll be back here again at this court, we're going to look
at the days leading up to Paloma's death.
We've already heard from a Doctor Who was there with Paloma
at the end when she died. However, we're going to hear
from the ambulance crew and we're going to look at the
administration of adrenaline which Kate Shimrani is alleging
killed Paloma by overloading her as she collapsed on that fateful
day on July the 19th, 2024. We're yet to hear.
From the ambulance crews, Kate Cave a very, very emotional but
very strong statement condemning their action and the amount of
time that they spent waiting around before going down to the
hospital to try and treat her. And that is likely what these
last few days is going to focus upon, on the actual events
directly leading up to her death rather than her competence.
However, what I think we've seen from these five days in court is
a refutation of what the BBC has put out, at least in terms of
the evidence that has been seen so far.
The evidence overwhelmingly points to the competence of
Paloma. So I believe there's a question
to ask as to the BBC coverage as to Marianna Spring.
And as to. Whether?
Anybody. Else.
Who chose to take? In natural treatment and
happened to die would ever have this sort of coverage or whether
there are further agendas at play.
Thank you. I'm Will Coleshill, reporting
for UK column News from Kent. Well, Cole Sylvan, very Many
thanks to him for a really comprehensive report and I'm
sure you will have all formed your own view as to whether
there are further agendas at play.
But seems completely remarkable that the censorship that we
experience so much in what we do is actually playing out even in
the coroner's court. In real time.
Completely extraordinary, but well done.
Home for challenging to the BBC now to follow what he says.
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space outside of the mainstream media.
The petition, if you can't see it on screen, has now accrued
nearly 500,000 signatures. So please do put your weight
behind it because it does pertain to our very future as an
organization. And just the title.
Repeal the Online Safety Act petition that's available where
it is that will. Be in the show notes so there'll
be a link to it and please don't just sign it but send it on as
well. That would be terrific.
And then upcoming events, we had Katie Jo on the programme on
Wednesday on Extra that is promoting her Freedom Music
Festival coming up over the August bank holiday weekend.
Now there is a discount code UKC 20 which get your 20% discount
if you are going to book for that through hearing information
I've just given you. So please go to that.
It would be absolutely sensational.
And indeed in October we have our own event coming up UK
column on location in the beautiful City of York.
We are yet to announce our heavy of speakers, but we will start
to do so fairly shortly and I can tell you that you are in for
a sensational day if you're going to be there.
If you can't make it, then of course live stream tickets are
already available on the website, but if you're after an
in person ticket, I must remind you that nearly half of them are
gone already, so they're selling fast.
Please do not tarry. Kenny has helpfully put together
a small video which you're looking at now, which will
describe how to buy your ticket via shop.
So we'll very much hope to see you there or indeed have you on
the end of the live stream and that's coming up in October.
But as I say, tickets on the website now.
Now I did say that I was going to be looking a little bit more
at Iran. This is only a brief update.
And of course, as Patrick's been articulating at the beginning of
the programme, Gaza is quite rightly dominating most of the
headlines. So the anti Iran propaganda, in
the United Kingdom at least, has been been slightly muted
recently. Until yesterday, that is, when
Hamish Faulkner, the minister for the Middle East and North
Africa, took to Twitter to promote a statement about state
threats from Iranian intelligence services.
And he's referring to a joint statement issued by a number of
European countries as well as the United States, which
suggests that the Iranians are attempting to kill and kidnap
people across Europe and North America.
Now, the language used is loose as the word threat conveys the
sense that there is a declared intent by Iran and indeed that
such activities have actually taken place.
But of course, no evidence of any such thing is provided.
Now, tellingly is a short statement, but there is a
specific reference to the threat to quote Jewish citizens.
End Quote. As opposed to Jewish people
suggesting that being Jewish supersedes the confines of
nationality which portrays, one might think, the influences upon
this statement being made in the 1st place.
And this is also the time to remind you that Hamish Faulkner
was the man responsible for preparing the ground so busily
for the American Top Gun style bunker busting attack on Irans
nuclear programme as it's being described.
Despite, as I mentioned at the end of Marx report report, the
complete absence of evidence that the enrichment of uranium
was for any purpose other than energy for the civil
infrastructure. Now watch this space as the
rhetoric builds for what might be called a false flag attack.
Very briefly, Patrick, what are your thoughts on this, this side
of this side of the, I mean, are you?
Insinuating Charles, that a Western government might cook up
a weapons of mass destruction plot in order to give a pretext
for another military act of aggression.
Yes, I think it's probably. Stronger than an insinuation.
Actually, I think that's exactly what I'm doing and, and I think
we will wait to see. Obviously we've got the the
aircraft carrier, the Nimitz in a, let's say, a vulnerable
position as well. So where any of these things are
going to happen or could happen remains to be seen, but it's a
possibility, I think. Yeah.
And the the. Kidnapping plot.
I mean, this is just there's so been so many of these over the
years, but the fact that they're trying to elevate these to sort
of like national security, like 5 star threat level is just kind
of beyond the pale. But in a way it's an act of
desperation. But it where is this going to
end? Are we going to have a Russia
style hysterical moment in the West?
But with Iran, like everything Iranian or linked to Iran or you
know, Iranian restaurants, the food is suspect.
That's how it was during Russiagate, Yeah, absolutely no.
I think we should expect all of that and more.
But anyway, insofar as nefarious dealings with media reporting is
concerned, we're going to go now over to Northern Ireland to hear
from Mike about what the BBC has been putting out and this time
in relation to air turbulence. Thank you, Charles.
And welcome to sunny Northern Ireland.
I'm just going to cover one very short topic today, and that is
ABBC article. This is the second time that I'm
aware of that they've done this thing.
So let's just have a look at this.
This is the article they published why plane turbulence
is really becoming more frequent and more severe.
So in the headline, they're absolutely clear that plane
turbulence much more common, much more severe than it's ever
been in the past. And they put a graph on here and
you'll notice that the headline of the graph is turbulence
related passenger plane accidents in the US 2009 to
2018. Now the definition of an
accident with respect to turbulence is when somebody is
injured in some way. So that might be because they've
flown out of their seat and hit a luggage bin, for example, or
have fallen while they've been walking up the aisle or
whatever. So that's the definition of
accident. It doesn't mean that an aircraft
has crashed at all. But if you look at the graph
there, you'll see first of all, that they aren't listing years
at all. They're listing months.
So that isn't from 2009 to 2018 apparently.
And well. That they claim that this
information is from the NTSB. If we look in the article
itself, and this is kind of indicative of the language that
they're using, we can expect maybe in the future perhaps this
is based on models, is based on assessments by so-called experts
and so on. And they say if turbulence does
get more intense. So this is not definitive.
The headline suggests that it is, but actually the article is
very, very clear that it isn't. So at the very least the the
headline is a lie. The graph is perhaps a lie in
certainly in the way that it's presented.
So let's just remind ourselves of what the NTSB, this is the
National Transportation Safety Board in the United States says
about turbulence in this. This, as you'll see there, we've
labeled as UKC Verify. Because.
This article or this report is called Preventing Turbulence
related in injuries in Air Carrier Operations conducted
under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 121.
And if we look at the graph that they produce there, well, the
dark blue line at the at the bottom is the one which is
referred as accidents with respect to turbulence.
And you can see that line since in fact 1980 nine there is
pretty much flat right the way across.
There's been no increase in incidents of turbulence related
accidents. That's despite, as the BBC says
in their article, the increase in air travel and the much more
likely. Potential.
For coming across turbulence just by the fact that people are
flying much more often. So that's it.
I just couldn't let that particular report pass even
though I'm over in Northern Ireland today.
So that's, that's that for now. Back to you, Charles.
Thanks very much, Mike. And indeed, nor should it be let
to pass by unquestioned, unscrutinised and on the subject
of propaganda and just I'm. Disappointed in the findings of
that report, Charles. I thought it was going to be
climate change. Well, Patrick?
You know, let's just wait. I mean, there's plenty of time
for that. I feel empty inside.
Right now. Yeah.
All right. Let's see, though, on the
subject of propaganda, what's been happening in Slovakia.
Well. There's another organization, an
NGO that might sound familiar if you've been watching the UK
column news. We'll bring this up on screen
here. The Zinc Network.
What are they up to? British propaganda machine and
its influence peddling in Slovakia's elections.
Well, Declassified UK did a very good investigative report on
Zinc's role in hiring and paying influencers to defame and try to
influence and also to kind of derail the campaign of Robert
Fizzo, this Slovakian leader. Obviously he's against the war
in Ukraine. That's all always going to put
him on the bad list as far as Western NATO goes.
But yeah, Zinc as as Mike Rumson and others have pointed out,
well, if you look at the funding from the FCO and so forth,
that's a very well funded organization and this is what
they get up to with the money, surprise, surprise.
So that's something to to look at.
And then just over to quickly to the to the economic topic here.
Donald Trump is a continuing to weaponize tariffs, OK, He's now
threatening the BRICS countries. He's he's accusing them of
enacting an anti US agenda. So this is a bit like a vicious
cycle for the US here. I mean, the reason there is a
BRICS is because of U.S. sanctions and Donald Trump is
again continuing to use tariffs as sanctions.
And so you this, this problem is just going to get worse and
worse. And I don't really know if
there's an exit door for this administration on this issue,
but they don't seem to have anything else in the toolbox, so
it's not looking good, No, and. I suppose, you know, we just
wait for the next installment because it'll change in a few
minutes presumably, possibly even by the time we've finished
the programme. Now sticking in the United
States, we're going to go across to Mark because one of the
reasons or at least perhaps the main reason that the COVID
vaccines in particular were rolled out quite so widely with
Gay abandoned was because there was a state of indemnity for the
manufacturers. And Thomas Massey is trying to
deal with this in the United States.
Mark, what exactly is happening? Well, call this.
A spotlight on Congress for today.
Of course, Ronald Reagan gave protection to Big Pharma back in
1986 with some things that he passed and signed.
But Thomas Massie, the gutsy backbencher that still makes his
voice heard despite all the pressure on him to shut up and
to turn tail and run. He's pushing forward now.
Not really a lone wolf, but he's doing this largely on his own
steam. He doesn't have a whole lot of
support yet, but this is him announcing the introduction of
the Prep Repeal Act. It's noted as HR4388 to repeal
sections 319-F3 and 319-F4 of the Public Health Service Act.
These targeted sections are commonly referred to as the
Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness or PREP Act and
currently provides sweeping liability protections to
pharmaceutical companies for pandemic related products.
And here's some of the main things that it does.
I'll only touch on 2. Let's put that up.
It fully repeals the liability Shields and the compensation
fund provisions under this PREP Act and it restores civil remedy
rights. That is civil remedy rights,
excuse me, under federal and state law for those harmed by
pandemic products. So right now, according to
congress.gov, which is the Library of Congress, the main
site for for Congress, it doesn't have any Co sponsors
yet. It was just introduced, but it's
important to get this out there. Those overseas need to be aware
of it. And American viewers, of course,
need to take action if they're so inclined.
Thomas Massie's personal website, well, his official
website that is for Congress is very open to people calling.
He has a very open policy, whether it's media or his
constituents. And of course non constituents
can call. It's not forbidden or anything
like that to call and, and voice their support.
And to learn more about his call for repeal of the PREP Act,
here's a couple of his most important quotes.
He had this to. Say, and this is interesting, I
put emphasis on this, the PREP Act is medical malpractice,
martial law. Interesting choice of words
there. The 2005 PREP Act prevents
people from holding corporations accountable for the pain and
suffering they caused during presidentially declared
emergencies. An important caveat there.
And moving on from there, one other quote from Mr. Massey,
again, I added some emphasis. Americans deserve the right to
seek justice when injured by government mandated products.
The Prep Repeal Act will restore that right, says the Kentucky
Republican District 4. So he's putting it out there.
Very important stuff. It kind of supplements some of
the other things going on that I've reported where even Israel,
as well as Italy, the United States, the Netherlands,
Slovenia, and even Iran have signed letters that they're not
taking part in. The amendments to the
International Health Regulations And the actual pandemic treaty
due to certain elements within the treaty itself, as I've
noted, cannot be fully enacted until a little bit less than a
year from now because of that, because of those provisions.
And that's when the final signatures would be put into
that thing and only then would it be official.
So it we've got some time on the treaty.
The regulations are wrapping up that that is they're they're
kind of drawing to a close where they're going to be pretty
solidified and yet they're still more and more opposition or
questions about the international health regulations
themselves. So I'll keep following this.
It's very important to keep tabs on it over the long haul.
So back to you guys. Thanks very much, Mark.
Yeah, it is indeed very important to keep that in mind
and good for Thomas Massie having a go.
There will be monumental corporate pressure pushing back
the other way against any efforts to repeal that act. 11
would imagine Thomas Massie noticeable, of course, because
he was also behind the prime bill, which concerned regulation
for slaughter on a small scale for the the sort of smaller
American farmer. And that leads into a report.
I'm going to start now about food because just a couple of
weeks ago the government put out abrasive documents about food
which are designed to give the impression that there is a
central plan to improve the health of the nation.
At the same time as improving economic conditions for food
producers and deriving A restored environment from the
process. Labour's so-called plan for
change is deployed yet again to make it sound like the pursuit
or achievement of any of these things is both a novel idea and
indeed within the gift of the government to give.
Now this is a crucial point because the good food cycle
shown here refers to the quote amazing businesses, End Quote,
making this happen. And of course, the reality is
that the big food and big agricultural businesses are able
to drive the agenda, partly due to their corporate strength and
lobbying power, but also because the government schemes, policies
and subsidies are all designed to favour them above others.
Now, the Food Strategy document put out on the same day makes
the same sort of woolly claims, suggesting that food security
and national security are inextricably linked.
Now that may well be the case, but as reported many times, the
recent publication of the National Security Strategy, the
Strategic Defence Review, as well as last year's just in case
report for the National Preparedness Commission
demonstrates beyond all reasonable doubt that the UK is
not in any way prepared for any of the types of shocks that it
describes in any of these these documents.
Now before going into more detail, there are two things to
point out. Firstly, the term food security,
which is bandied around all the time only occurs 3 times on the
statute book and never in a binding sense.
It's only ever written down as a consideration when evaluating
environmental schemes and I think that makes the priorities
here very clear. Secondly, the budget for
agriculture in the UK this year, which has been described as the
largest ever, is £5 billion. Now, it would take the National
Health Service just 10 days to spend this much money.
So I think you can decide whether you think the government
is actually sincere on this issue.
As to the content, it's been pointed out by many, including
Farmers Weekly, this plan does not involve animals, and having
read the document, that is really the case.
There are precisely 0 mentions of dairy or meat, but instead a
reshaping of a diet in order that we all eat the same thing.
Regardless of the vast quantities of evidence
suggesting that animals benefit the environment and of course
that animal products are in fact vital for human health.
The anti nature agenda is covered on all sides as
evidenced by one of the latest emergencies.
But to just draw out from the document, they're, they're
suggesting that we have the foundations of the economy at
heart with this new food strategy and that our diet
should be higher in fruit, vegetables and whole grains.
And of course that it supports our net 0 commitments.
But on the subject of emergencies, we are dealing yet
again with blue tongue, or at least in this instance, and I've
covered it many times. But just a reminder that the
restrictions on movement are of course specifically crafted in
order to encourage vaccination, even though, and as usual, the
vaccines in question given under emergency authorisation.
And it should also be pointed out, the people investing in
fake meat grown in laboratories are exactly the same people
investing in pharmaceutical products for animals.
And further, that the volume of these products is that goes to
animals far outstrips that to humans.
So I mean, it's, it's, it's pretty obvious what the
direction of travel is. Now the other big issue which of
course will not go away is population.
And as recent statistics from the ONS suggest, and they are in
the estimates, but the natural population, as you can see on
screen, dipping down relatively sharply to the right, whereas
the migrant population is surging upwards with a with a
estimated net inflow of nearly 700,000 for the previous year.
So considering these factors, how the land is used could not
really be more important. And I cite here the consultation
live at the moment called multifunctional land use.
And they say that there's going to be a document produced from
this consultation in October of this year.
They cite the Royal Society's 2023 Multifunctional Land Use
Document, which reckons on quote, an additional 4.4 million
hectares of land, which is 18% of the total land mass of the
UK, being needed to deliver net 0 biodiversity and development
objectives by 2050. So we're about to chime in with
it. Well, I'm just going to ask you.
Charles, with this few security agenda, how does that square
with paying farmers not to grow food in the rewilding schemes
that the government has been undertaking for, what, the last
decade? How do those two things well,
Patrick? I mean, neither you nor I works
for the government, so we couldn't possibly comprehend
such a thing. Exactly.
This is the central question. And, and, and to qualify exactly
what you're asking and what people will be thinking that
what's called the utilised agricultural area in the UK is
just under 17,000,000 hectares. And so the croppable, what's
described as the croppable area of that is around 6,000,000
hectares. I've just said that confirmed by
Defra this morning and the area covered by arable crops from
last. Year's.
Statistics is not quite as large as the Royal Society is
suggesting. And don't forget that the the
word they used was additional. So basically what they're saying
is that there will be were this to be rolled out and were
croppable area to be used, which I know is a is a hypothetical
that would leave precisely no land left upon which to produce
crops in the way that they are now.
Now I don't mean that to to sound alarmist of course, but of
course worth pointing out also that Defra has delayed the
publication of this year's statistics on land use.
But last year there was a 107% increase in uncropped arable
land as a direct result of the unlimited offering from the
sustainable farming incentive. So it could well turn out to be
the case that a lot less land is actually in production this
year. Now the the answer for the
countryside as far as the government appears to be
concerned is to destroy it. And to pick out one example,
we'll look at the way in which lithium battery technology has
been deployed across the country.
This is the mapping from Department of Energy Security
and Net Zero. And first, we're looking at the
figures as they were from 1990, with no developments in
existence now. They're deemed hazardous by
virtue of the fact they're unproven, and in the event of
fire or an explosion, nothing be done to mitigate, leading to
real environmental catastrophe. But this is what the map now
looks like today, and indeed the last image includes the proposed
sites. If you're unable to see the
screen, I've got a map of the UK with hotspots shown all over the
place, with only exceptions really for Mid Wales, the
Highlands of Scotland and the Pennine area.
So to reinforce the point about the sheer recklessness of doing
this, I would point to the recent statement from Mattson
Shipping at Large Logistics Company based in Hawaii, which
has said in a statement that due to increasing concern for the
safety of transporting vehicles powered by large lithium ion
batteries, Matson is suspending acceptance of used or new
electric vehicles and plug in hybrid vehicles for transport
aboard its vessels. That's the end of the quote from
that statement. I would say this really can't be
brushed off. It's, it's not a conspiracy
theory. And this is at a time when, as
reported on Wednesday, the government is now spending your
money to subsidise the purchase of those very vehicles.
So there's loads more to go into in terms of detail.
And of course, we've set it alongside the NHS statistics,
sorry the ONS statistics that that nearly 7000 farming
businesses reported to have closed down in, in the the year
that we're currently in and on that blue.
Tongue issue. I was speaking with an organic
farmer local in Devon that specializes in livestock and
they try to stay organic. But if, if, if the government
says there's blue tongue in the area, they have to vaccinate
their animals. Otherwise they get the risk of
being shut down. Exactly.
So that's what's actually happening behind the scenes.
So even though they want to stay organic and they don't vaccinate
their animals, the blue tongue scare has has opened the door
for government to lean on. And obviously I don't want to
say the name of the the farmer, but this is the conversation
that's that's happening on the countryside.
No, the pressure is intense. And, and it is in effect,
they're, they're rolling out now exactly what they tried to do
with human beings during the COVID period, which was to say
that there can be free movement on the condition that everybody
has received a pharmaceutical product.
And it's exactly what they've done.
So the the blue tongue restriction zone has been
expanded to cover the whole of the UK, which means that free
movement has in effect been granted.
But under that that those very conditions, you're absolutely
right. Now, what I would say in terms
of, as a member of the audience, your relationship and with
regard to food and all the rest of it, is that the farming
section on the UK column website is absolutely full of interviews
with people who have a vision, but that's founded on reality
and a way to achieve of what the government pretends to be doing,
but without destroying anything in the process.
So that concludes the food sort of report for today.
And we're now going to go back to Mark because you're going to
tell us about what's been going on in terms of mass media power
and sort of further consolidation and how that
presents a threat to all the smaller players.
Yes, time is tight, so I might make this kind of a cliffhanger,
but Sun Valley, ID each year is where the Bilderberg Junior, you
might say confab, takes place. I have a slide from one of the
more gossipy news organizations. In fact, the gossip news
organizations provide the main coverage and ironically, often
do a better job than what any mainstream media coverage might.
Come along this one from deadline dated July 9th, right
when Sun Valley was taking place.
Touching down in Sun Valley. Can moguls find answers to
media's pressing questions amid the Ponderosa Pines?
It shows Warner Brothers discoveries, David Zasloff and
Disney's Bob Iger. Disney owns ABC, of course.
They're arriving there now. What's interesting is in the
next slide. And like I say, I'll probably
have kind of a cliffhanger that we can talk about in in extra.
But what happened at Sun Valley 2025 by Fast Company and another
sort of gossip rag A14 July as this thing was really kicking
into into high gear. Likely acquisition of the Free
Press, an online media source by Skydance Media and David
Ellison, who's Skydance's CEO David Ellison and yes, he is the
son of Oracle's Larry Ellison. He attended Sun Valley along
alongside Miss Barry Weiss. That's the lady Miss Barry Weiss
who's a center left pro Israel Free Press Co founder.
But the New York Times learned that if Skydance purchases the
Free Press, and Skydance wants to purchase Paramount, which
owns CBS in in a huge deal, $8 billion.
So there's two purchases going on.
And yet the Times is saying that if Skydance purchases the Free
Press as well as Paramount, then Miss Weiss could take a major
role in shaping the CBS News editorial direction.
And she's very pro Israel, very interesting there.
So that's some of the goings on that.
There's another kind of juicy item.
I'll save that for extra in the interest of time by having to do
with more details about Skydance buying Paramount, which on CBS
and some of the machinations there.
So that should do for now. Super thanks very much Mark and
a rare cliffhanger there for the UK column audience.
So look forward to that an extra now we're just going to close
out the programme by looking at what's going on in the civil
service because the BBC have announced that they are going to
be looking at working class people for interns.
However exactly the BBC or when do the civil service describe
such thing. This seems to come from the 2016
document socio economic diversity in the fast stream.
So I thought we would go to a place where we can wind the
clock back a little bit as to exactly what the the purpose of
a civil servant really is or should be.
Makes me feel rather. Downcast.
If it's our job to carry out government policies, shouldn't
we believe in them? What an extraordinary idea.
Why? Bernard.
I have served 11 governments in the past 30 years.
If I believed in all their policies, I would have been
passionately committed to keeping out of the common market
and passionately committed to going into it.
I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of
nationalizing steel and of denationalizing it and
renationalizing it and capital punishment.
I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent
abolitionist. I would have been a Keynesian
and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer,
A nationalization freak and a privatization maniac.
But above all, I would be in a stark staring, raving
schizophrenic. So I don't know that it
necessarily matters which socio economic group you believe you
belong to. But that's a good note to end
on. I think.
So very Many thanks to Mark and to Mike for joining us on the
live link and indeed for Patrick joining me in the studio.
Thanks very much. And please do make sure that you
spend the weekend thinking about getting your ticket for, first
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