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Good afternoon, it's Friday the 
24th of October 2025, just after

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1:00 and welcome to UK Column 
News. 

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I'm your host, Mike Robinson, my
Co host in studio today, Patrick

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Henningson welcomes the 
programme. 

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Patrick. 
Great to be with you, Mike. 

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And we'll be joined today by 
Basil Valentine and David 

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Miller. 
Now, later in the programme, 

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we're going to be covering the 
acquittal of Soldier F over the 

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killings on Bloody Bloody Sunday
in Northern Ireland. 

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And we'll be looking at the 
increasing tensions between the 

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US and Russia. 
And in fact, we'll have a little

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bit at the end about the on the 
latest from Starmer on digital 

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ID. 
But we're going to begin with 

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censorship and medical 
censorship, Patrick, and really 

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censorship of anyone speaking 
out about Gaza. 

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Well, this year, three really 
important stories, huge 

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precedent, potentially precedent
cases here and it's a really a 

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trifector Mike this week. 
The 1st is the story of doctor 

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Ramey Aladwan and she was 
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ago and then she's being put on 
double jeopardy with the General

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Medical Council trying to 
basically, well the the Israeli 

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lobby and pressure groups want 
to take away her medical 

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licence, her ability to practise
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The other is the lawyer for 
Hamas who is representing Hamas 

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to regarding the prescription 
label of the group in the UK 

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courts. 
His name is Fahad Ansari. 

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He has also been arrested under 
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We'll look at his case as well 
as the fast, we call them fast 

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jury trials or no jury trials, 
speed trials with no jury for 

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all the Palestine action 
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that's going through right now. 
Let's take a look at all three 

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of those real briefly, and then 
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Basil Valentine for some 
analysis on this. 

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But first and foremost here, and
by the way, I could only find 

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this article that had a fair 
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The main mainstream is just out 
to destroy this doctor Ramey 

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Aladwan and this headline 
British Palestinian NHS doctor 

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silenced by UK Medical Council 
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comments. 
But this is the thing, Mike, 

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when you go to Google here, I 
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looking for this is what pops 
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They're making the whole stories
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She had a #7 around her neck. 
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everybody's all over that. 
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and it's anti Semite calling for
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They're going on about her #7 
charm or terror charm around her

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neck. 
You can't. 

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There's the the presser not 
interested in the issue of free 

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speech and due process and her 
basic rights and the fact she's 

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been put through double jeopardy
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She had a hearing yesterday, 
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We thought there was going to be
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kicked the can down the road a 
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have to be put on trial for the 
exact same thing she was 

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acquitted for just a few weeks 
ago and with no new evidence 

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presented, here she is right 
outside the steps of the of the 

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hearing. 
I'm, I'm basically here again 4 

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weeks later for the exact same 
speech that a panel here, an 

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independent panel said was fine.
Just because the Israeli Jewish 

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lobby has an issue with what I 
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they don't want the movement. 
They don't want people to be 

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able to make the same arguments,
to be able to have that freedom 

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of speech. 
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Council to make sure that we're 
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to make sure that what we say 
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Israeli lobby. 
We're here. 

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This is not how our medical 
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shocked that the MPs have 
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I mean, the MPs have today 
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ruling that they made only four 
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cannot push back against the GMC
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Israel. 
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That should worry every single 
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citizen. 
This is independent regulation 

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being influenced by a foreign 
hostile entity that just 

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murdered hundreds of thousands 
of Palestinians and bond 

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hospitals, raped doctors to 
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them. 
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there. 
So they're trying to prevent her

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from doing her job because of 
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at a, a, a previous rally 
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Palestine action or something 
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So the other case here, Mike, is
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We'll bring this up on screen. 
This is the lawyer who is UK 

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lawyer representing Hamas over 
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His name is Fahad Ansari and 
this is his his page up at Cage 

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International. 
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his behalf. 
He's been detained under the 

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Terrorism Act and digitally 
strip searched and he's not 

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given proper due process or 
rights in defending himself as 

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auk qualified lawyer. 
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But to kick me out of court, to 
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this point and say we now need 
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Clothes and we're going to 
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with the judge that you will 
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You'll never know the 
justification, you'll never see 

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material that is simply unfair. 
And you ask any child whether 

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this is fair, they will say this
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How could that be fair? 
You didn't hear my side of the 

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story. 
But we've. 

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Become conditioned to accept 
unfair. 

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The last 25 years of war and 
terror has conditioned the 

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British public to accept secret 
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accept the an abandonment of the
rule of law, to accept people 

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being arrested for terrorism for
holding up placards. 

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So we have been fighting this 
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Now is not the time to back off.
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guys are here today really 
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It's not about me. 
It's not the fact that I'm a 

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solicitor, I'm a lawyer. 
The principle is greater than 

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this. 
Nobody should be allowed take 

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your phone at a border without 
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I need to stress that. 
And do a digital strip search on

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you. 
Under the compulsion that if you

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don't comply, you will be 
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That is not what should be 
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I need to stress this. 
It is about all of us and most 

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fundamentally, it is about 
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And he does have a fundraiser 
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We'll put that up on screen. 
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And he is raising money for his 
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Obviously, Mike, it's such an 
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We're talking about basic rights
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everybody, including some of our
journalistic colleagues who have

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been subject to this type of 
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And the third story will bring 
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This is from Craig Murray's 
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And I just remind people, Craig 
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court reporters probably in 
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the years, doing the hard work, 
the yeoman's labour from the 

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gallery of courtrooms. 
But here he has 36 minute trials

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and no jury. 
Starmer's fascist mass courts. 

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What's he talking about here? 
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the people who've been arrested 
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Palestine Action, a direct 
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And this is from Murray. 
The plans are devised by Justice

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Michael Snow. 
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prejudice. 
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before Snow in the first hearing
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embassy, Snow called Assange A 
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had said nothing but to confirm 
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that had been led to that 
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So, and he goes on here. 
This is describing the situation

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they've Snow's decree 2000 
people charged under Section 13 

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of the Terrorism Act for 
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who's just been recently 
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the British government to be 
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rate of 10 people per day, 
giving 36 court minutes for each

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defendant. 
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spectacle, a mass show trial. 
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Pretty incredible, isn't it? 
So with that, I want to bring on

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our guest, Basil Valentine. 
He is a political analyst based 

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in the UK. 
Basil, welcome to the programme.

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Let's start in order here, 
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Well, the first one is the case 
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Your your thoughts on how this 
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what the implications are. 
Go ahead, Basil. 

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Well, after Rami was acquitted 
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last month, Wes Streeting 
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disagreed with the decision. 
He has no business to do so 

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because it's an independent 
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And then only last week, Keir 
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about changing legislation to 
interfere with these independent

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professional bodies and their 
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doctors, lawyers or anybody 
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It so happens that Ramey is a 
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But the same may apply to 
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other regulated sector or 
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unionists across the employment 
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Now, the tribunal found last 
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protected under the European 
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She'd said nothing illegal at 
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Medical Council claimed that 
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what she was saying, which is an
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And she was silenced when she 
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as well. 
Silence there. 

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And of course Rama is silenced 
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Never allowed to present her 
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anything because of course her 
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reasonable, humane and 
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She's a British of Palestinian 
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genocide. 
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That's why she's in Britain in 
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medicine in Palestine. 
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been heard again is because the 
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semitism lobby the government 
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go for this retrial. 
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time. 
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do is alter the terms of 
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she said was interpreted to 
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find her guilty when the next 
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It's absolutely disgraceful and 
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sort of claim to represent the 
rule of law are in fact doing 

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the quite opposite. 
They're undermining the rule of 

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law by undermining due process 
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Medical Practitioners Tribunal 
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Incidentally, this video, which 
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arrest, the police informed the 
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Council, about this, gave them 
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Even though that the GMC 
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in May, in reference to a 
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supporter of the now prescribed 
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GMC, were not interested in mere
arrests, only if she was charged

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and convicted. 
And yet that seems now to change

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and there is collusion between 
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theory being that, you know, 
it's grist to the mill, isn't 

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it, to say, you know, we've got 
a wrong in here. 

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Look, we had to arrest her only 
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So, you know, no smoke without 
fire and all that sort of thing.

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Even though, of course, the 
arrest was on grounds that were 

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largely spurious. 
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designed just to change the 
optics in advance of this week's

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hearing. 
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A lot of people are suspecting 
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And on the case of Fahad Ansari,
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quote here. 
This is amazing, he says. 

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I refuse to participate in a 
fundamentally unfair process. 

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He's not going to comply in this
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I cannot trust the system where 
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quote, evidence is kept secret 
from me, kept secret from my 

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lawyers and members of the 
public, and where any attempts 

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to defend myself would only 
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apparatus. 
This is targeting both me and my

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clients. 
This is not about national 

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security. 
It's about using a rigged system

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to harass lawyers like me who 
represent clients the state 

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dislikes and who would prefer 
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representation whatsoever. 
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This is so important, Basil, 
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core of due process and 
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Go ahead. 
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at the Port of Holyhead on his 
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Ireland and was questioned by 
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about his views on Palestine, 
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And they took his phone off him,
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worth of confidential 
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And he, because of this, you 
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terrorism legislation is due to 
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Kafkaesque 1984 type procedure 
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evidence to a judge entirely in 
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Mr Ans neither Mr Ansari nor his
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what that evidence is, nor any 
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Now, as a counterweight to that 
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represent Mr Ansari's interests.
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he's not allowed to speak to Mr 
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after the evidence has been 
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I mean, this is absolutely off 
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thing went on in Soviet Russia, 
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how ludicrous it was this kind 
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How on earth is somebody 
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themselves if the evidence 
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they're not, they're not made 
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But of course, Mr Ansari's real 
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barrister Frank McGinnis, they 
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of Hamas, including the 
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legitimate either the legitimate
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elected, or at least at the very
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organisation. 
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the Israel lobby in the UK, it 
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is also in the cross hairs of 
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Yes, and just briefly, we just 
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bring this Justice Snow 
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Basil, bring this up on screen. 
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sufficient. 36 minutes per case 
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I am. 
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Your only remedy is the High 

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Basil? 
I mean to say the least. 

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Well this is absolutely 
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trifecta of miscarriages of 
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Palestine action protests who 
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oppose genocide, I support 
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Yes, the 70 something clergyman,
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campaigners and the rest are to 
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time, each defendant given no 
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crucially only in front of a 
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So this is a mass show trial. 
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be seen whether or not there's a
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of the prescription of Palestine
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after the government was 
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It's challenge to the judicial 
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The idea is that they want to 
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before the ban is overturned 
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will be overturned because it is
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once again. 
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Basil Valentine, thank you for 
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the programme. 
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Thank you very much Basil for 
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OK, now let's move on then to 
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Now he's defending an ongoing 
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campaign against anti Semitism 
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were menacing. 
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crowdfunder on screen here. 
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major platforms, but we'll come 
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David posted on XA couple of 
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I've just won a significant 
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named Campaign Against Anti 
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Magistrates Court. 
The CIA is attempting to mount a

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private prosecution against me 
for sending 4 supposedly 

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menacing posts on X. 
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the CIA had withheld significant
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they had originally applied for 
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Then I have 28 days to comply 
with an order to disclose all 

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relevant communications between 
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staff on the question of whether
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or to undermine my Employment 
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scheduled for next month. 
So David joins us now to discuss

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this. 
Welcome to the programme, David.

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Just give us some more detail on
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So in my specific case, the the 
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Anti Semitism, which is acting 
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me to court for these 4 posts on
X which are said to be menacing.

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Now I should say, because it's 
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Communications Act of 2003, 
Section 127, and that's the 

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exactly the same section which 
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charged or are going to charge a
Rama. 

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I'll add one with with some of 
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So that's a very interesting 
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think the police are more 
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pressured by the CAA and taking 
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obscure legal powers in an 
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speaking out about the genocide.
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note. 
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suggesting that what although I 
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accountability under the law. 
Of Zionists in this country and 

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in other countries that what I 
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mind or what I intended to 
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that people should find Zionists
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Now, of course, that, that 
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wasn't what I said. 
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when we, when or if we get to an
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But the, the, the slight 
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they have been, as they've 
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many years, trying to have me 
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University of Bristol. 
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They, they paid for students to 
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legal action and many other 
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including, of course, reportedly
to the police for alleged 

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crimes, which the police 
declined to pursue because they 

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were obviously ludicrous. 
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wasn't given to the court when 
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against me. 
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determined that they were. 
They ought to go back and look 

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at their files for the extent to
which their staff and their 

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trustees and their directors 
have been colluding against me. 

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And we should, we should remark 
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their trustees and their 
directors are not a matter of 

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public record. 
Unusually for a charity, they 

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have a dispensation not to 
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trustees. 
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for Companies House, they have a
a similar dispensation for their

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director. 
So I don't know who it is that's

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prosecuting me. 
I don't know who the relevant 

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control in mind and the campaign
against anti semitism is. 

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And so that's all part of our 
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So we, we now have a 28 days for
them to release this information

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and for us to then go back to 
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December, which would have been 
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But the trial has now been 
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December. 
We will deter, we will hear the 

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case being put by the CAA and by
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The CAA are putting in a case 
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disreputable character. 
I believe that's the technical 

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legal term in order they can 
bring in extra evidence against 

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me, which is not relevant to the
the specific tweets and we are 

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applying for the case to be 
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travesty and a joke. 
Now, the, the reason that I've 

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said said said some of that at 
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part when, when you're talking 
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Patrick referred to as the 
trifecta to the, the case 

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against Farhad Ansari, the case 
against the people who've been 

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arrested for supporting power 
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Rama's case. 
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of other cases as we know. 
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just how seriously the British 
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pressuring them, IE the the 
regime in Tel Aviv, take 

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Palestine solidarity activities 
in this country. 

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They are deliberately trying to 
decapitate the anti Zionist 

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movement in this country and to 
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acting, for example, to de de 
prescribe Hamas or Palestine 

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action to stop people like me 
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speaking out. 
Just the other day, I believe on

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Monday this week, we had the 
case of Sarah Wilkinson, who had

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been held under draconian house 
arrest conditions from months 

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and months. 
The police had stolen her 

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passport and I had not even 
admitted that they had it. 

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And she was concerned that they 
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But as it happened, what 
happened was that she her bail 

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conditions were lifted, which is
good, and her passport was 

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ordered to be returned to her by
the police. 

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So the judge didn't take any 
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that. 
So that was a victory. 

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My case was a victory. 
Also on Friday, the same day as 

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my case, we had the the other 
two victories, which was one the

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the decision that the government
was not able to appeal the the 

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digital review application by 
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So that will go forward. 
And we also had the case of the 

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Instra Precision 10. 
That's the people who vandalised

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the Instra Precision factory, 
which of course is a subsidiary 

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of Albert and they won a down 
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So what we're seeing here is a 
massive push by the Israelis and

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the Zionists and that they're 
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And we're seeing the courts 
starting to, to throw out quite 

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a lot of the ridiculous charges 
which are being brought, not all

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of them. 
And, but, and that's a process 

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which will continue. 
But I think we're starting to 

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see of the anti Zionist case 
winning much more effectively. 

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And I think that's the, that's 
we will see that with, with 

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Doctor AMA. 
Although of course the GMC have 

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acted atrociously and their 
attempts to get to stop her 

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speaking, the fact that they put
in some 2 pages of the police's 

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charges against Doctor AMA 
entirely irrelevant. 

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And also, of course, the fact 
that they're effectively trying 

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to retry her on the same things 
which which she was cleared of 

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just four weeks ago, that that I
think will probably will not go 

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well for them in the end because
there's such outrage about them.

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And of course, it's all a 
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the law protects freedom of 
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Convention. 
And, and of course, like when we

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look at that, that legislation, 
we know that it does protect it 

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quite significantly. 
And many of these cases will 

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fall. 
But nevertheless, the Zionists 

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will keep trying to push again 
and again to have people 

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silenced and to have them to 
struck off or taken from their 

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jobs, like for example, Farhad 
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So that's the, that's the, the 
position we're in at the moment.

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We're starting to win but it's 
not going to be an easy Rd. 

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And, and David there there's a 
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practise called the vexatious 
litigant. 

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And often cases are thrown out 
if the litigant is deemed to be 

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vexatious. 
Other words, they're constantly 

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badgering the court and stove 
piping cases into the court. 

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And, and normally the practise 
would be just to dismiss. 

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It doesn't have standing it. 
It is these, these Zionist cases

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and the ones that you're being 
targeted by, are they, are they 

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in danger of coming under this 
term, vexatious litigant now? 

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They are in danger of coming 
under that. 

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The question is whether the 
courts have the the backbone and

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the wherewithal to simply reject
the nonsense that which they are

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being bombarded with. 
I mean the the, the 

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organisations which are doing 
this, the campaign against anti 

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Semitism, the UK lawyers for 
Israel, both of them involved in

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Doctor Al Adwan's case. 
I mean, in her case, the the GM 

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CS legal submissions yesterday 
pushed back against her defence 

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team saying that they had been 
bounced into this by the 

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Zionists and they said Oh well 
no, that that's not true. 

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Our decision to do this was 
taken before the CAA lodged its 

456
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,400
letter before action. 
So therefore we'd already taken 

457
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,760
the decision and they go on to 
say on the basis of complaints 

458
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,440
made by the CAA and the UK 
lawyers for Israel. 

459
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,200
So they were, you know, on the 
one hand, slight trying to deny 

460
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,520
what they actually admitted in 
the rest of the paragraph. 

461
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,440
They have been assaulted by 
Zionist groups and indeed by the

462
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,960
Zionist assets in government. 
I'm talking in particular about 

463
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:34,440
where Streeting, who has 
disgracefully helped to bounce 

464
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,840
that this case along. 
So yeah, we're facing the 

465
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,640
possibility of a collapse of 
these Zionist actions, but but 

466
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,680
we're not going to get it just 
in a very straightforward way. 

467
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,400
It's going to be a question of 
multiple cases of defeat for 

468
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,040
them, at which point it will 
become clear how ridiculous and 

469
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,920
overreaching they have been. 
Yeah. 

470
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,880
And that's certainly your 
comment on that. 

471
00:27:58,880 --> 00:27:59,880
Yeah. 
I mean, yeah. 

472
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,480
So, so you know, final question,
David, I'm just interested to 

473
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,840
know why you think that the 
courts are willing to, to reject

474
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,800
these claims? 
Because with the with the state 

475
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:18,240
being so pro Zionist and so pro 
Israel at the moment, is, is the

476
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,280
judiciary really attempting to 
show some kind of independence 

477
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,640
here? 
Well, I think that that's that's

478
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,840
the case though. 
I mean, what you've see with 

479
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,800
many of these cases is that 
they're so outrageous that it's,

480
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,440
they're only, they're only got 
to the stage that they have by 

481
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,400
the fact that the police are 
effectively in the pockets of 

482
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,800
the Zionists. 
And indeed, as we saw with the, 

483
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,560
the GMC case, the, the, the, the
person who's made this decision 

484
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:51,000
to refer Doctor Al Adwan to the,
the tribunal has, has just 

485
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,480
parroted Zionist talking points.
But when you get to the, the 

486
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,640
level of of the judiciary, even 
the senior judiciary who may be 

487
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:05,600
sympathetic to Zionism more 
generally, the it's, it's such a

488
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,640
breach of the the usual 
procedures that they feel in 

489
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,680
some, some cases they have to 
reject some of these 

490
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,480
overreaches. 
David, thank you very much for 

491
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,360
joining us today. 
It's been a very interesting 

492
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,400
conversation, but then thanks to
Basil as well. 

493
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,800
So, so look, just just to to end
this, I just want to show your 

494
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,120
crowdfunding page again here. 
And so let's have a look at this

495
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,520
and I'll just bring the, the 
amount of money raised so far. 

496
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,160
So you're what about 40% towards
the goal of 50,000 lbs. 

497
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,880
So the the link to this will be 
in the show notes. 

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00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,560
If anybody's able to offer David
some support there, that would 

499
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,560
be massively appreciated. 
But thank you very much, David, 

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00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,920
for joining us. 
OK, look, we've got to, we've 

501
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,440
got to move on. 
And so I'm just going to say, 

502
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,840
first of all, thank you very 
much to everybody who is 

503
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,080
supporting the UK column and the
work that we do. 

504
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,440
We do need your support. 
If you have a look on the front 

505
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:04,600
page of the UK column website 
here, there is an option to head

506
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,800
over to the support page and the
various opportunities or options

507
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,160
to to help us out. 
If you can't help us 

508
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,000
financially, please do help us 
by sharing any of the material 

509
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,880
you find on the website on 
social media because that helps 

510
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,160
us deal with the censorship 
regime that we are under as 

511
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,520
well. 
Now tonight at 7:00 PM, Charles 

512
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and I are speaking the germ once
again for our weekly banter 

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session. 
I think this is absolutely 18 

514
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,240
already. 
It's quite amazing how quickly 

515
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,000
this is going by. 
So join us for that at 7:00 PM 

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00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,560
tonight. 
ESA Bloomy I was speaking to 

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00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,040
earlier in the week and this 
went out on the live stream at 

518
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,240
1:00 PM yesterday. 
So Dan, another forgotten war. 

519
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,240
Very interesting conversation 
with ESA. 

520
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,600
And please, if you haven't seen 
that yet, do have a look at that

521
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,520
and and let's see and share it 
if you possibly can as well. 

522
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,160
And finally, sticking with the 
digital ID issue here, another 

523
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:02,400
week in Glasgow and another 
demonstration tomorrow at 

524
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,480
midday, meeting at midday at the
bottom of Jamaica St by the 

525
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,720
River Clyde near the Crystal 
Palace pub and Central station. 

526
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,720
If you'd like to go and support 
this group of people that are 

527
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,760
out every weekend now to to draw
attention to this issue and 

528
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:20,440
please do so. 
OK now let's move on then to the

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00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,680
the Bloody Sunday issue because 
yesterday Soldier F was found 

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00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:29,160
not guilty of murder as a result
of the killings of civilians in 

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00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,360
the Barkside in Londonderry on 
the 30th of January 1972. 

532
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,760
Now we'll just put on screen 
some an idea of what happened on

533
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:42,360
the day there was a civil rights
March. 

534
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,800
But British soldiers of the 
First Battalion of the Parachute

535
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,080
Regiment opened fire on 
apparently unarmed civilians 

536
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,760
taking part in this civil rights
March on the Bogside. 

537
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,760
And of course, that's 
predominantly Catholic area of 

538
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,480
Derry. 
And the March had, as you can 

539
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,800
see on screen, well, as you will
see in the second, it turned 

540
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,880
into a bit of a riot at some 
point. 

541
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,600
Now the parish shot a total of 
26 people on the day, thirteen 

542
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,000
of whom died. 
A 14th person died several 

543
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,440
months later. 
This was the highest number of 

544
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
people killed in a single 
incident during the 30 years of 

545
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,880
the Troubles. 
But The thing is that the 

546
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,720
marchers killed and injured, 
they were unarmed, but there 

547
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,880
were others there as well, 
including Martin McGuinness and 

548
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,360
now the Savile inquiry. 
And that's not anything to do 

549
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,640
with Jimmy Savile. 
That was the the judicial 

550
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,520
inquiry into the Bloody Sunday 
incident. 

551
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,120
They found that McGuinness had 
been armed with a Thompson 

552
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,440
machine gun on the day and 
though they could not say 

553
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,960
definitively that McGuinness had
fired the first shot, there had 

554
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,560
been witness testimony given to 
the Savile inquiry that 

555
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,040
McGuinness had himself said that
he had fired the first shot. 

556
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,240
But he who when the Savile 
Inquiry was taking place, he was

557
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,840
education secretary in Northern 
Ireland at the time, he 

558
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,600
vehemently denied having said 
that. 

559
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,320
The Colonel in charge of the 
British operation that day said 

560
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,560
on the day as part of this ITN 
report that you're seeing on 

561
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:11,040
screen at the moment that there 
were three shooters and that 

562
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,720
that's why the Paris opened 
fire. 

563
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,800
The Salvo inquiry rejected that 
account when it was repeated at 

564
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,800
the inquiry because of lack of 
evidence. 

565
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,000
But just to give an idea of of 
what happened, we have a little 

566
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,920
another little bit of video here
that we want to just show. 

567
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:44,200
So let's have a look at this. 
The organisers of this civil 

568
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,120
rights March promised that they 
would be non violent. 

569
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,680
The army have said throughout 
the day that they hope to use 

570
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,760
minimum force. 
But three hours after the 

571
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,600
procession began, this has ended
up as dusk comes onto the 

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00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,120
Bogside as the worst ever 
confrontation between the army 

573
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,560
and the Catholic people of the 
Kragen and Bogside We. 

574
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,239
Do not tie back for the moment 
unless you identify politics. 

575
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,080
Don't know what your thoughts 
are so far. 

576
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,719
Well, and just obviously the 
amount of time that's passed and

577
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,880
how long this has been litigated
is quite an extraordinary thing 

578
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,840
in itself. 
Absolutely. 

579
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,719
But I want to direct your 
attention to two articles 

580
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,120
published by John Waters on his 
sub stack. 

581
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:36,960
He didn't write these, but he 
has published them. 

582
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,679
And the first one is this one. 
Sorry, we'll go back to that 

583
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:44,320
one. 
The I've mentioned this one 

584
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,320
before how British intelligence 
planned the Irish Troubles of 

585
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,280
1968 to 1998 and used Provo fake
patriots to achieve the 

586
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,159
ruination of Ireland. 
The conclusion of this article 

587
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:59,360
says that Curious Facts includes
an Englishman and probably MI 5 

588
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,200
+ 6 agent becoming the first 
Provisional IRA Chief of Staff 

589
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,600
in 1969 to 73 and Martin 
McGuinness being the Provisional

590
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,920
IRA second in command in Derry 
on Bloody Sunday, aged only 21 

591
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,760
in January 1972. 
Goes on to say that in May 2006,

592
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,880
about eight years after the Good
Friday Agreement, ex British FRU

593
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,680
agent Ian Hurst alleged that 
McGinnis was, was and remained a

594
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,040
British MI 6 agent code named J 
118. 

595
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,320
And he goes on to say that the 
only logical explanation is that

596
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:36,200
MI 5, MI 6 created the 
Provisional IRA in December 

597
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,320
1969. 
It's a civilian targeting 

598
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,440
offshoot from the more sensible 
strictly military official IRA 

599
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,440
and deployed it as a controlled 
opposition to study new 

600
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,280
terrorist warfare methods and 
better prepare it's Zionist War 

601
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,960
on Terror already planned from 
circa 1960. 

602
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,880
I Part 2 of this article has now
been published, headlined. 

603
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,360
Well you can see on screen the 
Para MI 6 Conspiracy Part 2 and 

604
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,600
it. 
In it the writer talks about the

605
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,640
compartmentalised cell structure
of the Provisional IRA, which 

606
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,320
quotes made it semi hierarchical
or semi autonomous. 

607
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,200
But this only made the British 
regime more intent on 

608
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:19,480
infiltrating all levels of Para,
not just the top as shown below.

609
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,080
They he goes on to say that 
you're afraid of view the 

610
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,080
Provisional IRA as either just 
extensively penetrated by MI 5 

611
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,440
and MI 6 or else as a full 
agency of MI 5 or MI 6. 

612
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560
The power was linked to drug 
running and the Bank of England 

613
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,640
was its main vehicle to launder 
drug profits over 1 billion of 

614
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,160
over £1 billion. 
All the evidence proves beyond 

615
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,280
doubt that MI 5 and 6 ran both 
sides of the Irish trouble 

616
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,520
troubles in of 1968 to 98 and 
kept them going for an 

617
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,960
incredible 30 years. 
Today the Irish people are split

618
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,920
into two main factions or 
schools of thought, but 70% of 

619
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,200
people believe that power was a 
full agency of MI five and six 

620
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,440
since its inception in December 
1969. 

621
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,640
About 30% believe that PARA and 
Sinn Fein were merely undermined

622
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,600
by MI 5 and 6 blackmail spies 
and agents. 

623
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,960
And so just it's a great example
I think of of how gangs and 

624
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,880
counter gangs are created, how 
they're used, how they're 

625
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,440
manipulated and so on. 
I'm just going to bring on 

626
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,640
screen Kitson's book again. 
We've mentioned it the last time

627
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,360
we talked about this, gangs and 
counter gangs. 

628
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,960
And you know the the in this 
he's arguing that when 

629
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,840
insurgents enjoy the support or 
at least acquiescence of 

630
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,880
population, that conventional 
military tactics aren't 

631
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,880
sufficient. 
And therefore he's talking about

632
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,360
a system of intelligence 
gathering, infiltration, 

633
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,840
deception, turning insurgents or
sympathisers into trackers and 

634
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,240
informers, creating pseudo gangs
and insurgent groups, and 

635
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:56,720
conducting psychological and 
covert operations on 

636
00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:59,520
populations. 
That book is quite historical in

637
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,200
context because it's talking 
about Mau. 

638
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,920
Activities. 
And rebellion and so on. 

639
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,760
There was another book, Kenya, 
yes, if we just bring this back 

640
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,000
on screen. 
The other book which is more 

641
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,600
analytical about the actual 
techniques themselves is this 

642
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,880
one, Low Intensity Operations, 
Subversion, Insurgency and 

643
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,840
Peacekeeping. 
I just strongly recommend that 

644
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,040
people read both of those. 
Well, these many will argue, 

645
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,000
Mike, these are the blueprints 
for al Qaeda, for how to design 

646
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,640
and operate al Qaeda cells. 
False flags are a big part of 

647
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,240
that deception and a big part of
those stage provocation. 

648
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:37,000
So false flags, propaganda, all 
of these things, spreading lies 

649
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,320
about 40 beheaded babies, that 
sort of thing. 

650
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,040
This is all part of that 
practise. 

651
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,720
So it required reading gangs and
counter gangs and low intensity 

652
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:48,480
operations. 
You know, if you, you look at 

653
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,120
history and you discount the 
Mike, the role of the state in 

654
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,400
covert operations and 
subterfuge, it's a totally 

655
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,720
different version of history. 
And, and constantly our 

656
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:01,400
establishment, our education 
system, our media, our 

657
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,200
politicians want to strip out 
the role of clandestine agencies

658
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,160
in Western countries. 
And if you do that, you get a 

659
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,560
completely different narrative. 
And that's the narrative that's 

660
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:15,440
foisted upon us constantly. 
But you you'll be more well 

661
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,800
equipped to understand these 
things if you read books like 

662
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,480
this. 
Absolutely. 

663
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,800
Now let's move on to Israel. 
And well, they held a vote in 

664
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,960
the Knesset. 
What was the vote about Patrick?

665
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,160
No press coverage for this one, 
Mike. 

666
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,160
We'll bring this up on screen. 
Surprise, surprise, you probably

667
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,800
haven't heard about it because 
everybody's blanked it in the 

668
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,960
Western mainstream media. 
Israeli parliament advances bill

669
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:43,200
to annex the occupied West Bank.
Isn't this the same occupied 

670
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,120
West Bank? 
Trump said. 

671
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,400
That'll never happen. 
It's never going to happen. 

672
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,160
I won't let it happen. 
Well, it's looks like it's 

673
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,080
happening, but JD Vance is 
basically caught on his back 

674
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,080
heels here, and I think people 
should look in and see if he's 

675
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,600
doing OK this week. 
Here's Vance responding to this.

676
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,640
When I asked about it, somebody 
told me that it was a political 

677
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,600
stunt, that it had no practical 
significance. 

678
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,960
It was purely symbolic. 
I mean, look, if it was a 

679
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,280
political stunt, it was a very 
stupid political stunt, and I 

680
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,080
personally take some insult to 
it. 

681
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,880
The West Bank is not going to be
annexed by Israel. 

682
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,520
The policy of the Trump 
administration is that the West 

683
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,400
Bank will not be annexed by 
Israel. 

684
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,280
That will continue to be our 
policy. 

685
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,000
And if people want to take 
symbolic votes, they can do 

686
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,080
that. 
But but we certainly weren't 

687
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,280
happy about it. 
Do you think Israel cares what 

688
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,120
JD Vance thinks about annexing 
the West Bank? 

689
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,400
Or Trump, for that matter. 
Or carpet bombing Gaza or 

690
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,840
ethnically cleansing Gaza. 
They don't care, obviously. 

691
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,960
So they're living in a 
delusional fantasy land there in

692
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,000
Washington. 
But we'll keep an eye on that 

693
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,440
story. 
Yes, indeed. 

694
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,440
OK, let's move on to Trump and 
Putin and Ukraine and so on. 

695
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,840
So Donald Trump announced on the
16th of October that he and 

696
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,560
Vladimir Putin would meet in 
Budapest in Hungary within two 

697
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,120
weeks or so for his second 
summit. 

698
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,240
That's following the summit that
we reported on a few weeks ago. 

699
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,240
The announcement came the same 
day he met with Zelensky in 

700
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,440
Washington. 
And Trump claimed that that 

701
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,080
meeting was very cordial. 
Was it Patrick? 

702
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,320
Well, I don't know. 
I don't know, but certainly it 

703
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,240
hasn't been a follow up meeting.
So maybe it wasn't, maybe it 

704
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:24,000
was. 
Who knows? 

705
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Right. 
Well, indeed. 

706
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,960
So anyway, this appears to have 
created immediate panic amongst 

707
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,800
European leaders and within a 
couple of days NATO Secretary 

708
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,920
General Mark Ruta appeared in 
Washington to discuss quotes 

709
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:41,320
NATO's support for securing an 
end to the war in Ukraine and a 

710
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,440
just and lasting peace. 
Well, we know that that's a lie.

711
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,400
But anyway, it sort of 
highlighted the role that NATO 

712
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,560
plays in providing, or at least 
he was attempting to highlight 

713
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,120
the role that NATO plays in 
providing military assistance to

714
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,640
Ukraine that supports the 
Ukraine's ability to defend 

715
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,920
itself and deter against future,
future aggression. 

716
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:01,440
This is the kind of language 
that they use. 

717
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,560
And so this includes, of course,
aid through the prioritised 

718
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,840
Ukraine requirements list, 
through which US equipment 

719
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,040
funded by NATO is supplied to 
Ukraine. 

720
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,640
I Rudder said that his NATO 
colleagues, quote, want to help 

721
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:22,960
Trump bring peace between 
Ukraine and Russia. 

722
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,760
I suspect that's another lie, 
But let's just have a quick look

723
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,440
at how he wanted to help. 
Mr. President. 

724
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:33,680
Can you tell us a little bit 
about? 

725
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,320
Why you're elevating? 
Sanctions against Russia right 

726
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,200
now? 
What's the? 

727
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,760
I just felt it was time. 
Waited a long time. 

728
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,760
I thought that we'd go long 
before the Middle East. 

729
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,840
Would you have a timeline? 
For. 

730
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,600
When you think the. 
Story is going to be over. 

731
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,720
Because of your leadership, you 
can't have it in war. 

732
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,000
It's hard to have a timeline, 
you know? 

733
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,160
What the president is doing 
today with the sanctions is 

734
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,040
putting more pressure, of 
course, on both parts, in this 

735
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,560
case on Russia. 
It's all about changing the 

736
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,480
calculus. 
Making sure that Putin 

737
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,000
understands that the president's
vision this weekend of having a 

738
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,680
ceasefire stop where they are, 
as you literally said, that this

739
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:10,880
has to be. 
Step one now. 

740
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,040
And for him to really accept 
that vision and to come to the 

741
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:22,600
table. 
Yeah, OK. 

742
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:27,200
Well, look, we, we, we've got a 
bit of a pre emptive comment 

743
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,760
there about sanctions. 
We'll come on to that in a 

744
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,680
second. 
But no sooner had that meeting 

745
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,880
happened with Ruta absolutely 
encouraging more support for 

746
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,840
Ukraine and the continuation of 
the war, effectively no sooner 

747
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,440
at that meeting happened and 
Trump announced we cancelled the

748
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,960
meeting with President Putin. 
It just didn't feel right to me.

749
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,600
It didn't feel like we were 
going to get to the place we 

750
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,400
wanted to get. 
So I cancelled it. 

751
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,400
And then he said a bit under, 
you know, a bit less 

752
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,560
convincingly, but we'll do it in
the future. 

753
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,000
Well, will they? 
That remains to be seen. 

754
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,720
So this was despite telling the 
press just 24 hours previously 

755
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:06,880
that he had not cancelled his 
plan to meet with Putin but 

756
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,800
would announce something in the 
next two days. 

757
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,240
So he certainly announced 
something, but it wasn't what he

758
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:12,480
was suggesting he was going to 
announce. 

759
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,640
Well, I didn't check the press 
releases this morning, Mike. 

760
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,480
He could have changed his mind 
by this morning, but maybe by 

761
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,760
Monday he'll flip flop again. 
This is how Trump is working. 

762
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:22,760
Absolutely. 
But as we just heard in the 

763
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,880
video clip, also announced while
Ruto was there are the new 

764
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,360
sanctions against Russia. 
Now, it's true that sanctions, 

765
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,840
excuse me, the sanctions that 
have been, that are basically 

766
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:37,240
announced almost daily now have 
been pretty ineffective so far. 

767
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,880
But Patrick, maybe these have 
teeth because they're 

768
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,280
sanctioning Russia's two largest
oil producers directly, that's 

769
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,680
Rosneft and Lukoil. 
And between them, they export 

770
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,960
3.1 million barrels of oil per 
day. 

771
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,040
And the biggest customers of 
these companies are China and 

772
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,360
India. 
So what are your thoughts on? 

773
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,720
That well, this is serious. 
That's that's between Rosneft 

774
00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,640
and Luko. 
That's 5% of the global oil 

775
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,080
output. 
This is a huge amount and prices

776
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,520
also, well as you as we'll show 
on screen here, prices have 

777
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,560
spiked immediately on the 
announcement of sanctions. 

778
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,400
So that's a significant 5% rise 
that's running around $5 a 

779
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,560
barrel or something, who knows. 
But, but I think right now it's 

780
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,520
interesting like we look at the 
oil markets that Brent crude 

781
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:27,280
even with this price spike is 
trading at $66 per barrel. 

782
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,800
This is not particularly high in
in comparison to previous years,

783
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,360
but it's interesting. 
Well, we'll come back to what 

784
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,680
Russia thinks about this in a 
moment. 

785
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,120
But well, President Putin, his 
defiant, this is Reuters here, 

786
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,680
defiant after Trump sanctions 
Russian oil companies over 

787
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,920
Ukraine. 
And yes, he's talking, as you 

788
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,280
mentioned, Mike, Luke oil and 
Rosneft here. 

789
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,080
These are the big hitters in the
Russian oil industry. 

790
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,560
And here's what Putin said, 
particularly regarding Trump's 

791
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,320
threats and the sanctions. 
He's saying this is of course an

792
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,160
attempt to put pressure on 
Russia, but no self respecting 

793
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,360
country and no self respecting 
people ever decides anything 

794
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,000
under pressure. 
And we've spoken about this game

795
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,080
theory and sanctions previously,
haven't we? 

796
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,680
It never works. 
You cannot, you cannot get, you 

797
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,520
cannot change the behaviour of a
target country if there is an 

798
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,840
implicit threat of aggression 
down the road. 

799
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,720
So there's no good faith in 
negotiation so that you're not 

800
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:25,960
going to change Russia's 
behaviour. 

801
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,240
What it will do probably might 
just cause turmoil in the global

802
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,680
economy. 
It might even further raise the 

803
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,480
price of oil and I'll show you 
who benefits from that in a 

804
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,160
minute. 
But this is serious though. 

805
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,080
Look at this. 
This is China, China's state oil

806
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,040
major suspend purchases of 
Russian oil due to sanctions. 

807
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,320
Now this is a major thing for 
Russia. 

808
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,120
It's definitely going to cause 
tightening in the short term and

809
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,120
it doesn't end there. 
Russia at war faces double 

810
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,440
trade, Trump ultimatum and a hit
to oil sales to India. 

811
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,560
So if the big players, as you 
said, Mike, China and India. 

812
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,520
But what's interesting, and 
Russia says, Mike, that, you 

813
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,480
know, experts are saying that 
the the rise in oil prices is 

814
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,040
expected, that guess who said 
this? 

815
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,880
Amos Huxstein said that Russia 
will recover its losses because 

816
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,600
of the rise in global price. 
So it's they're going to end up 

817
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,160
with the same amount of money 
potentially by the end of this. 

818
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,880
That's Amos Huxstein, Biden's 
oil advisor and Middle East 

819
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,480
envoy for Trump saying that. 
So, you know, be that as it may.

820
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,720
Well, look, Trump was asked 
about you talked about Putin's 

821
00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:32,920
response there a second ago. 
Trump was asked about that. 

822
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,440
So let's just have a listen to 
his response, President. 

823
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,800
Thank you, President. 
President Putin basically said 

824
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,000
today that Russia is immune from
U.S. sanctions. 

825
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,520
He said that it would not impact
the Russian economy in any 

826
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,640
serious way. 
Is he? 

827
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,360
Wrong. 
I'm glad he feels that way. 

828
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,360
That's good. 
I'll let you know about it in 

829
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,200
six months from now. 
OK, let's see. 

830
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:58,920
Let's see how it all works out. 
So how do you think it's all 

831
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,160
going to work out? 
Well, Trump's confident that 

832
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,680
it's all going to fall apart in 
six months and he can do a 

833
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:07,320
victory lap and declare that 
he's a he is a stable genius 

834
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,880
that we all suspect that he was.
We'll see. 

835
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,760
We'll see how how sanctions done
against Russia over the last. 

836
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,120
Well, they they've done very 
well for Russia. 

837
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,680
It hasn't hurt Russia in the 
least, has it? 

838
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,280
So I don't know, would you bet 
against Russia with their record

839
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,120
of busting sanctions in the last
four years? 

840
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,520
I wouldn't. 
Well, yeah, indeed. 

841
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,280
Well, to to make matters worse 
and, and what I know you, you're

842
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,760
probably going to describe as a 
Nord Stream moment in a second, 

843
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:35,000
Patrick, in parallel with all of
this, oil refineries in Romania 

844
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,640
and Hungary were blown up, 
apparently by saboteurs because 

845
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,720
both of them process Russian 
oil. 

846
00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:46,000
That's Hungary and Romania. 
Ukraine is being blamed just 

847
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,400
like Nord Stream. 
But remember, Trump and Putin's 

848
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,200
meeting were supposed to be in 
Budapest. 

849
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,680
But I'm sure that's all just a 
coincidence. 

850
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:57,520
Well, certainly Carol Dmitriev 
here is suggesting that it's not

851
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,280
a coincidence. 
He was tweeting this out a 

852
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,760
couple of days ago. 
Hungary under the attack for 

853
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,640
working on a peace summit. 
Question mark. 

854
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,320
I think that is a good question 
to ask. 

855
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:06,840
Yeah. 
And it's just coming. 

856
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,280
This is also coming on the heels
of the attack on the DRSBA 

857
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,800
pipelines, which were attacked 
just what, last month or the 

858
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:19,080
weeks before And those were 
those, the pipelines carrying 

859
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:24,080
oil product to to Hungary and to
Slovakia and of course, Ukraine 

860
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,400
being the culprit here. 
The details of this are in the 

861
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,400
stunning analysis here by 
Freddie Ponton at 21st Century 

862
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,840
Wire. 
Hungary and Romania refinery 

863
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,360
fires. 
Sabotage or negligence? 

864
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,160
Well, it looks like it's 
pointing towards negligence and 

865
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,680
he's saying that this is 
basically like the Nordstrom 

866
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,040
sabotage. 
Pretty much the same play there.

867
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,240
And is it Ukraine, is it NATO, 
Is it British special forces? 

868
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,520
We don't know. 
We might find out at some point.

869
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:55,360
But on the Nord Stream, it's so 
convenient that this happens 

870
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:00,320
exactly the moment that Germany 
raises an an Interpol, probably 

871
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,520
an Interpol or Red Notice for 
this Ukrainian saboteur of Nord 

872
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,880
Stream, allegedly in Poland. 
And Poland basically does 

873
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,080
doesn't want to extradite him to
Germany. 

874
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,680
Those are two EU countries. 
So Poland's basically said stuff

875
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,400
it to Germany and letting this 
guy go. 

876
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,800
So I personally, Mike, my 
feeling is this is the Ukrainian

877
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,840
divers story is a red herring 
story of four bow tops that the 

878
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,520
fact that NATO did the Nordstrom
sabotage over the course of 

879
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:33,440
three drills that that summer 
and fall of 2022. 

880
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:37,800
But this conveniently puts this 
one right under the rug. 

881
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,360
It's just incredible how they 
have managed to engineer this 

882
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,760
one. 
So it's it just as Nordstrom is 

883
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,640
just being completely deep sixed
right now on ice, then they go 

884
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,640
and hit all these other 
refineries and pipelines. 

885
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,400
So I mean, come on, there's 
there's, there's a lot more 

886
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:56,160
going on here. 
We'll get to the bottom of it 

887
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,840
eventually. 
It'll be a shame if some damning

888
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,280
evidence surfaced about 
Nordstrom over the next six 

889
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,120
months. 
So that would be so unfortunate.

890
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,560
But anyway, we'll keep our eyes 
on it. 

891
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,960
Okay, where does that take us 
then? 

892
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,360
Well, well, this takes us back 
to Hungary. 

893
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,680
And look at this, Victor Orbans 
coming out swinging on this. 

894
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,680
He tweeted this out here 
yesterday, the day of the 

895
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:20,000
Budapest Peace March, Largest 
peace March in Europe, right 

896
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,880
right there in Hungary today we 
send a message to the whole 

897
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,840
world. 
Hungary says no to war. 

898
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,640
We will not die for Ukraine. 
Wow, strong words. 

899
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,680
We're not send our children to 
the slaughterhouse at Brussels 

900
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:34,840
command. 
And just this is one of the 

901
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:40,080
images that came up there 
translated here is we won't die 

902
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,960
for Ukraine. 
That's from that peace rally 

903
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:45,440
right there. 
Here's Viktor Orban giving a 

904
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,920
speech afterwards at the at the 
rallying point. 

905
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,040
Listen closely. 
He is evoking very strong 

906
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,760
historic European themes. 
Watch. 

907
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,120
The largest political force of 
Hungary. 

908
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:12,320
My name what you claim at 
Mexala, Charlotte, Brucelle, 

909
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:33,920
Edignam, Tuta, El Fogloni, 
Budapest that most name of the 

910
00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:56,560
as a Marshall Emilio Ember Odo 
ES mega chair. 

911
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,720
It's very strong words, yes. 
So he's evoking World War One 

912
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,880
and World War 2, and basically, 
do you see any other European 

913
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,360
leaders making that sort of 
strong statement against a war? 

914
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,280
He's right on the front line as 
well. 

915
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:23,600
Isn't it interesting? 
All of the hawkish voices are 

916
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,120
coming from far afield. 
Find that interest. 

917
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,200
He won't be baking any friends 
in Brussels, as he said in that 

918
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,360
you know it's. 
It's he doesn't have any left 

919
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:32,360
anyway. 
Well, that's true. 

920
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:35,120
He's got nothing to lose. 
So Viktor Orban and I have to 

921
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:36,920
give him credit for taking the 
lead on this. 

922
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,560
It's quite, quite an amazing 
story. 

923
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,120
Well, look, we've mentioned 
earlier that the potential of 

924
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,680
Trump meeting Putin for a second
time was causing panic in 

925
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,440
Europe. 
Well, here's another example of 

926
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,160
it. 
But, well, admittedly, this is a

927
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:51,360
Bloomberg report and they're 
citing the usual unnamed sources

928
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,240
or at least people familiar with
the matter. 

929
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,760
So they said that Ukraine and 
Europe have prepared a 12 point 

930
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:02,600
peace plan that's going to roll 
out any territorial concessions 

931
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:07,400
to Russia. 
It is imitating to some degree 

932
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,360
Trump's board of peace for Gaza 
because they're calling it a 

933
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:14,840
peace board. 
And it'll include a peace board,

934
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,960
which they expect Trump to also 
chair, by the way. 

935
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:24,240
And they plan on sending a 
contingent to Washington this 

936
00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:26,120
week, I guess, to meet with 
Trump. 

937
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:31,480
And it's it's apparently 
includes A ceasefire along the 

938
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,520
current front lines. 
Ukraine would get security 

939
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,200
guarantees. 
We're back to the security 

940
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:37,920
guarantee. 
Boots on the ground thing. 

941
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:42,120
European military providing 
peacekeeper role of some kind 

942
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:47,320
and fast tracked EU accession. 
Wasn't EU accession one of the 

943
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:51,080
problems that Russia had? 
Not well, not necessarily. 

944
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,360
I mean it, it probably would be 
now, but it was mainly the NATO 

945
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,560
issue. 
But, you know, does the EU want 

946
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:02,920
to inherit this basket case, 
this, this orphaned, truncated, 

947
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,400
orphaned rump state? 
I don't know. 

948
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,520
I'm not sure. 
Peace Board, Mike, this, this 

949
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,400
sounds like this kind of in 
absentia. 

950
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:13,840
They've just formalised the 
propaganda talking points into a

951
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,560
new board organisation. 
Hey, look, they might put Tony 

952
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,240
Blair in charge of it. 
How could it go wrong? 

953
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,400
Yeah. 
Then it'll really be successful.

954
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,720
Yeah, I'd say put Blair in 
charge of this peace board. 

955
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,720
Yeah, Anyway, they're saying 
that that Russia, Crimea, the 

956
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,760
the area of Crimea that that 
Russia is, is considered itself 

957
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,640
Russian since 2014. 
Also, Lukansk, Donetsk, Kirsten 

958
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,800
and Zapor, Asia would not be 
recognised as Russian under this

959
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,040
and Russia and Ukraine would 
have to negotiate quotes, the 

960
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,960
governance of occupied 
territories. 

961
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:49,080
And so they're attempting to 
bring this term in. 

962
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:51,360
Where have we heard that before?
So they're attempting to sort of

963
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,560
demonise this in some way, it 
seems by using language like 

964
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,880
occupied territories. 
There's been hypocrisy in that, 

965
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,760
I I think. 
There is, but you know, the 

966
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:03,200
international law that it, it 
depends how many countries 

967
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,880
recognise the new state. 
So they're they're trying to 

968
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,600
basically put it into the same 
category as Kosovozen. 

969
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:13,160
Kosovo is not recognised by 
Serbia as a state. 

970
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,360
It's a NATO created state that 
was created at the barrel of a 

971
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,720
gun. 
OK, it's a, it's a pseudo state 

972
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,280
created by NATO, but it's not 
recognised by all its neighbours

973
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,320
and not recognised by all 
countries in the world. 

974
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,720
But I think probably more people
will recognise eventually Crimea

975
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,440
and the new territories. 
Well, Russia recognises it. 

976
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,960
That's probably the most 
consequential, you know, because

977
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:35,520
it's part of the Russian 
Federation. 

978
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,120
But Russian allies will may end 
up recognising them as well. 

979
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,680
But they have the right to self 
determination under a UN Article

980
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,480
1 I believe, and the right to 
self defence when they were 

981
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:50,280
being attacked by the Ukrainian 
military under Petro Poroshenko 

982
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,240
and Zelensky. 
And that's UN Article 51. 

983
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,240
So does the UN Charter apply to 
everybody on this planet or only

984
00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:00,280
people the US and NATO wanted to
apply to? 

985
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,080
That's that's kind of a 
fundamental question. 

986
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:05,360
I think it's supposed to be the 
former and in reality it's it's 

987
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,080
the latter. 
But look, this this so called 

988
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,480
peace plan, it's, it's designed 
to fail. 

989
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,240
It seems to me it's designed to 
fail. 

990
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:16,360
But of course, it's just like is
going on in Gaza at the moment, 

991
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,160
also designed to feel 
ultimately. 

992
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,960
When they have a new Gaza 
humanitarian organisation coming

993
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,120
in that they wanted to, which is
the same as the old one, right, 

994
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:30,080
basically, and and Trump wants 
to put boots on the ground and 

995
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,240
in Gaza that that I can't 
imagine what could possibly go 

996
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,720
wrong there. 
Sounds like such a great idea. 

997
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,040
Yeah, indeed. 
OK, well, look, let's let's 

998
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,520
finish today on the issue of 
digital ID, because earlier 

999
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,960
today the our illustrious lovely
leader, Keir Starmer, the man 

1000
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,960
that we all love to respect and 
and we'll really be enthusiastic

1001
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,360
vote for him next time around. 
He pushed out a little video 

1002
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,800
clip this morning to tell us how
great it is. 

1003
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:04,320
Let's let's have a look at this.
So I'm in Brighton today, this 

1004
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,320
is Barclays Bank and I've been 
talking to customers about 

1005
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:09,880
Digital ID and they're really 
enthusiastic. 

1006
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,320
It'll have your basic 
information on it for everything

1007
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,960
other than proving you've got a 
right to work. 

1008
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,280
It won't be mandatory. 
You don't have to have it, but 

1009
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,160
you can't have it. 
You can use it for anything that

1010
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,600
requires identification and 
there are lots of things if you 

1011
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:24,960
want to rent, for example, if 
you want to apply for a 

1012
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:29,360
mortgage, if you want to get 
your child into primary school, 

1013
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,320
there's a catchment area and 
you've got to show where you 

1014
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,560
live. 
Proving who you are, what your 

1015
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,840
date of birth is. 
We'll just be able to be done 

1016
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,160
with Du Kaleidic. 
They're really up for it. 

1017
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,480
I think once you understand just
how much easier it'll make life,

1018
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:48,000
so many more people will be too.
So Patrick, I don't know if you 

1019
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,560
noticed, but what was missing 
from that little video clip? 

1020
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,520
Well, anybody that he was 
speaking to, there was no 

1021
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,200
comment from any. 
They didn't get any comment from

1022
00:58:58,200 --> 00:58:59,880
anybody telling us how great 
this was. 

1023
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,400
We have to take his word for it 
that everybody in there thought 

1024
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,080
it was a great, a great thing. 
But I thought it was interesting

1025
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,840
they held it at Barclays Bank 
because Barclays, the most pro 

1026
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,880
Zionist bank with close links to
Israel in the UK. 

1027
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:16,240
So that may be just a 
coincidence, but I don't know if

1028
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:17,760
you noticed the lie there as 
well. 

1029
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:23,000
Or at least someone was lying 
because when when he pushed Lisa

1030
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,800
Nandy out to promote this thing 
on the day that it was 

1031
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,240
announced, she said it would be 
mandatory for everyone in the UK

1032
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,280
to have. 
It wouldn't be mandatory for 

1033
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,880
them to show it if they were a 
British citizen. 

1034
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,240
It was only if you're a foreign 
national that would be mandatory

1035
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,400
to show it in the event that you
were being asked for employment 

1036
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,080
status and so on. 
But in that little video clip, 

1037
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,200
he said it wouldn't be mandatory
if you're a British citizen. 

1038
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,840
So is it that he just doesn't 
know what's going on, or are 

1039
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,040
they just not really certain 
what the policy is? 

1040
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,400
Playing fast and loose, really, 
with the policy, Mike being a 

1041
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,720
little bit vague and arbitrary. 
He said something interesting 

1042
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:58,560
though. 
You need it to. 

1043
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,640
It'll be great if you're going 
from neighbourhood to 

1044
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,360
neighbourhood to prove that you 
live somewhere. 

1045
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,840
Kind of reminds. 
Me of letting me see your 

1046
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,520
papers? 
Yes, it really does, and that's 

1047
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,840
why people are against it. 
What happened to British common 

1048
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,320
law? 
Is that no longer a thing? 

1049
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,720
That has not been a thing for 
quite some time now. 

1050
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,720
I think the fact that juries are
not being allowed on the 26 

1051
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:22,840
minute trials is is a perfect 
example of how common law is 

1052
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:25,120
thrown in the bin quite some 
time ago. 

1053
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:27,440
Sending a precedent there we'll 
talk about that with Basil 

1054
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:32,320
Valentine after during extra 
about you know about this model 

1055
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,480
of these speed speed dating show
trials yes that they're they're 

1056
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,080
trying to without juries that 
they're trying to pioneer here 

1057
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:42,280
that's what it looks like to me 
a a beta test for for. 

1058
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:44,560
Bigger dissent, Absolutely. 
Absolutely. 

1059
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,520
I mean, not that if they put 
them in prison, they've got 

1060
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:48,720
anywhere to put them, but that's
a whole other issue that I'm 

1061
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,200
sure they'll resolve some other 
way. 

1062
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,240
But look, we're going to leave 
it there for today. 

1063
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,520
I'm going to say thank you very 
much to everybody that's been 

1064
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,680
watching. 
Thanks to David Miller, the 

1065
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,560
Basil Valentine to Patrick. 
Of course, we will be back in a 

1066
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:04,040
couple of minutes here for UK 
column, member for UK column 

1067
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,920
News Extra. 
Otherwise, Germ tonight at 7:00 

1068
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,000
PM. 
Don't miss it and have a great 

1069
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:10,920
weekend. 
We'll see you 1:00 PM as usual 

1070
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,200
on Monday. 
See you then. 

1071
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:12,720
Bye bye.
