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Good afternoon. 
It's Friday the 9th of January 

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2026, just after 1:00. 
Welcome to UK column News. 

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I'm your host Mike Robinson. 
My Co host today in the studio 

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is Patrick Hennigson. 
Welcome to the program, Patrick.

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It's great to be with you, Mike.
And we'll be joined today by 

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Basil Valentine. 
Later in the program, we're 

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going to be covering the ongoing
Palestine action hunger strike, 

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the killing in Minneapolis by an
ICE officer and the sanctioning 

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of EU former military personnel 
and the ongoing destabilisation 

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of countries in the Sahel. 
But we're going to begin with 

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the taking of an oil tanker by 
the United States, supported by 

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the United Kingdom. 
Because on Wednesday I was 

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reporting that the US was going 
to going to go after the 

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marinera. 
This was CBS News was covering 

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this, if you remember, and this 
ship previously known as Bella 

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One and they were going after 
this with a view to seizing it. 

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And we also reported that the UK
was to be involved. 

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If you hadn't seen what we 
covered on Wednesday, go on, 

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please go and have a look. 
The risks were clear because the

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Baron era was at that time a 
Russian flagged tanker and so 

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Russia was making moves to 
counter the US action. 

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Well, about the same time that 
the UK column news went out on 

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Wednesday. 
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the UK and well, Patrick, you 
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in this, but what I could would 
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active piracy seized the ship 
about halfway between the UK and

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Iceland. 
So here's here's where the ship 

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was when it was attacked. 
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It's nowhere near Venezuela. 
That's a no. 

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Struck me, Mike. 
No, indeed. 

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Now you won't. 
Sorry. 

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Just put that back on the screen
for one second, William, please.

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Because you'll notice that the 
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And the claim from the UK and 
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is because the ship, having left
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re flag itself halfway across 
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And so they're claiming that 
this was in fact a stateless 

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vessel. 
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this a bit more, let's just look
at what John Healey said in the 

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House of Commons yesterday. 
Today, the US conducted a 

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military operation to intercept 
the M motor vessel Bella One in 

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the North Atlantic on its way to
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The UK, at the request of the 
US, supported this operation as 

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part of global efforts to crack 
down on sanctions busting and 

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shadow shipping activity. 
The Bella 1 was falsely flagged.

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It was falsely flagged and 
subject to US counter Iran 

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sanctions. 
The vessel refused to comply 

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with the USS exercise of its 
sanctioned jurisdiction on the 

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20th of December, after which 
the US Coast Guard vessel Monroe

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pursued the ship across the 
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This is a sanctioned stateless 
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history of nefarious activity 
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Iran and Russia. 
Following a request from the USI

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authorised the use of UK bases 
and the deployment of Royal Navy

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and RAF assets to support the 
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surveillance and the RFA ship 
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A stateless vessel, Mr. Speaker,
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subjected to the law of the 
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EU s s enforcement action was 
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sanctions aimed at stopping Iran
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through the profits of illegal 
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The UK supported this action to 
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First, to enforce counter Iran 
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Second, to tackle the global 
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expanding shadowy maritime 
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And 3rd, to reinforce British 
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this era of rising threats. 
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top of the agenda both in the 
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Kingdom, but we'll come back to 
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later. 
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they're, what they're arguing 
here, that they're talking about

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deterring and disrupting the 
Russian shadow fleet being a 

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priority for the UK. 
They're trying to bring Iran 

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sanctions into it as well. 
It's quite amazing. 

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Well, at the end of that 
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part. 
We said we are, we are. 

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By doing this we are keeping the
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How exactly is apprehending an 
empty tanker keeping, well, 

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keeping the British people safe?
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involved in the operation. 
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distance assisting, assisting or
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drill on top of the United 
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there. 
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illegal oil sales. 
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Iran's not allowed to sell oil 
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give oil to or take oil from 
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Venezuela. 
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about, right? 
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controlling the flow of goods 
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countries controlled by the US. 
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assist, basically. 
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keep building this narrative of 
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And, and we know that part of 
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the idea that captains of Shadow
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anchors and dragging them across
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undersea cables and all this 
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And put our pipelines at risk in
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Yeah, I can't imagine who puts 
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Sea. 
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just saying. 
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but. 
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So anyway, following the seizure
of the tiger, then Starmer gave 

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President Trump a call on the 
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discussed the joint operation to
set intercept Bella one and they

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keep insisting on calling at the
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the new name. 
But anyway, that's that's. 

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And so he phoned Trump once and 
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course he also wanted to discuss
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He also wanted to discuss Euro 
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wanted to describe, discuss and 
increasingly this is, quote, an 

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increasingly aggressive Russia 
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Starmer also yesterday called 
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Ruta, not sure what he called 
them, but he phoned them anyway.

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They began apparently by paying 
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in the operations in the North 
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in Syria. 
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about Euro Atlantic security and
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more needed to be done to deter 
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welcome discussions on how 
allies would further protect the

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region from increasing Russian 
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So that that's the way it's gone
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with with that so. 
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Mike. 
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deter sanctions busting 
countries that are not using the

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US dollar or the British pound 
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other. 
Britain or the US has no 

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business physically 
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The moment they go to physically
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that are trading outside of the 
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That's an act of war. 
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because they're not using 
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So what they're doing is saying,
Oh my God, they're trading 

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outside of our ability to 
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sanctions, and then they're 
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That is war. 
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just to be clear that that is 
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They have no business 
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there's no justification to say 
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threat. 
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Nonsense I. 
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Really. 
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to the program. 
Have you got any thoughts on 

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what happened yesterday? 
Well, the rhetoric keeps getting

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ramped up. 
Pat McFadden, who's a, if I may 

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say so, gentlemen, particularly 
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was speaking to Times Radio and 
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exert hard power as well as soft
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And very much echoing what 
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Passer, Jake Tapper a couple of 
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that is governed by strength, 
that is governed by force, that 

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is governed by power. 
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reference to the changed world 
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seen in many dimensions this 
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So obviously referring to 
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oil tanker and McFadden 
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approval to the abandonment of 
international law by Donald 

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Trump and the new might is right
doctrine which Miller has 

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articulated. 
Will to power. 

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We've heard that before. 
It reminds me of the that German

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government. 
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The 19. 30s yeah. 
They thieves that term a lot. 

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But, but look, obviously, as I 
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Trump and to Ruda and very 
concerned about Russia in the 

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High North and of course, 
Greenland is the next potential 

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target. 
I guess what's what's going on 

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there? 
Well, Marco Rubio is set to meet

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the Danish Prime Minister, 
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Danish delegation to discuss the
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States is interested in taking 
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There's Rubio there, the 
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as national security advisor. 
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interest with those two job 
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we to point out things like 
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He's also got a third title, 
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He is crowned himself viceroy of
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Marco Rubio, he's a busy man and
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portfolio there. 
So the lot of pushback from the 

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Europeans, Mike, already. 
I want to get Basil Valentine's 

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comment and yours as well, Mike.
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and now because of the pushback,
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pushback, Donald Trump always 
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And so here he is backpedaling. 
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Why would Trump buy Greenland? 
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And then he would buy it? 
Now it's rented. 

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So they're talking about leasing
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saying a mutually beneficial 
deal that avoids antagonizing 

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the local population can be 
struck with relative ease, as, 

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geez, Playbook for Africa shows.
So Bloomberg got their own 

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agenda there, Mike, basically 
accusing China of colonialism in

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Africa when it's probably more 
like the opposite. the United 

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States and France and the 
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talk about later. 
But about Basil on the Greenland

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front. 
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this? 
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modulating his positions based 
on the pushback, the press, what

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Europe's doing. 
It's it's a tough front he puts 

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on. 
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out, the big ideas put out, then
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Trump. 
What what? 

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What are your thoughts on this? 
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America are saying Trump is 
increasingly unstable and 

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unpredictable, you know, 
vacillating somewhere between 

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dementia and narcissism and that
he needs sort of endlessly 

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bigger thrills to keep going. 
That he's actually become rather

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bored of the presidency and the 
sycophants that he's surrounded 

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himself by, and that only by 
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international scene is he able 
to continue to sort of engage 

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with the job. 
But, you know, sort of era of 

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somebody approaching Nero or 
Caligula, he's been likened to, 

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you know, Venezuela gave him a 
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The idea of taking Greenland 
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There's no real strategic need. 
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need for a strong NATO presence 
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That obviously feeds into the 
whole bellicose rhetoric as 

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regards Russia. 
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an existing member of NATO, this
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It's never been seen before that
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the end of NATO, the end of the 
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ever a thing such a thing 
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Halley Thorning Schmidt, former 
Prime Minister of Greenland, has

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described it as an act of 
aggression that Denmark is being

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bullied. 
The Interestingly though, the 

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opposition leader in Greenland 
itself has said that the 

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Americans couldn't be any worse 
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an imperial power. 
But, you know, we always hear 

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about the right of self 
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spreading democracy. 
Well, surely therefore, it 

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should be up to the people of 
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So the, the BBC this morning on 
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a representative phone from 
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saying, well, you know, there 
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military bases in Greenland 
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opportunities to come. 
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from Greenland itself is 
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man of the deal. 
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deals and so well, we'll see 
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Goes US offered to buy Greenland
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princely sum of $100 million 
that would have been a steal 

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right, right. 
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Alaska deal, but, you know, 
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And so it's always been there. 
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its eye on this. 
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The Republican talking point is 
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And so they're saying we need to
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colonial clutches of Denmark by 
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The irony is something I don't 
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No, they don't get it. 
Of detecting anyway well. 

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mentioned Venezuela, let's just 
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going on there. 
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Now as people know, since since 
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weekend have have happened, 
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revelations which we'll share 
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First of all, it's it's now 
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at least 80 dead, 80 Venezuelans
have been killed during this 

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USUS bombing run and this 
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the Venezuelan president, 
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And including in that are 60 
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Maduro's, a close protection 
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nationals. 
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arrangement between the country 
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Republic, Mike. 
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this conspiracy talk that's 
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there was a stand down order in 
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betrayed by treasonous members 
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a few people have been killed. 
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the United States unleashed a 
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warfare wave technological wave 
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systems basically off and 
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defense systems, their computer 
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grid. 
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So we know that this capability 
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Well, Trump is bragging about 
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conference. 
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there is ACIA agenda to plant 
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Venezuelan government in order 
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civil war, if you will, with 
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So I I think that's worth 
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targets, the United States hit 
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one of which is the kidney 
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Why on earth would they want to 
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Well, if you look at what 
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two years, I think that probably
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Also, two residential buildings,
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destroyed. 
Many Venezuelans have been 

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injured. 
The numbers we do not have in 

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front of us. 
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and also many US, there are a 
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injured as well. 
There's no details forthcoming 

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on that. 
The Cuban security detail died 

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protecting Maduro. 
This is what the, the, the, the 

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Venezuelan media are saying 
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So this is interesting. 
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I want to just debunk a few 
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important to do. 
First of all, this was not a 

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regime change. 
It was not a successful regime 

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change. 
The government is still in 

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place. 
The the duly elected vice 

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president has been sworn in 
Adelci Rodriguez. 

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So and the government is there. 
This the whole apparatus of the 

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Chavista government is in place.
So the Trump hasn't achieved 

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regime change. 
The other thing is the narco 

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trafficking. 
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the indictment. 
The US has withdrawn it from the

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indictment because it's it's now
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completely fictitious. 
Imagine something this high 

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profile, the lead accusation 
that the Trump's backed off it. 

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So there's no, there's no drugs 
or there's no narco trafficking 

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here. 
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assessment of his own 
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no link between Maduro and 
Trendella Ague, the supposed 

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Venezuelan gang that they claim 
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United States. 
So again, it's looking tenuous 

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on that basis alone. 
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dismissal for the trial because 
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arrest warrant, which they say 
is legal. 

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But the international law says 
it's not legal. 

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But anyway, it's illegal under 
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It's unconstitutional. 
You violated the 1973 War Powers

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Act. 
He did not get any permission 

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from Congress before this. 
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US treaty law regarding 
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cooperation with all countries, 
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That's why this is a very 
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illegitimate government. 
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all US allies agree that they 
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legitimate. 
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that all allies agree. 
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elections. 
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illegitimate. 
He didn't win. 

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They weren't transparent. 
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election monitors from 
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have one of them on the program 
next week, who was there during 

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the 2024 election working with 
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election monitoring 
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And they're saying it was 
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the most transparent in South 
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independent assessors. 
So we'll speak to them next week

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with more details on that. 
Human rights violations, these, 

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they're all an Amnesty 
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Watch, all these NGOs, they all 
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backed opposition NGO. 
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doesn't it? 
The Syrian Observatory for Human

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Rights, exactly the same and the
Caesar report all used as the 

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basis for sanctions. 
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accusation, which is Maduro has 
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He's run the oil industry into 
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Well, I I don't think so. 
Was it him or was it the 

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sanctions? 
It was the sanctions under 

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Donald Trump in front starting 
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And when they dropped the 
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75% and average GDP per capita 
went down 65%. 

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It was an economic disaster for 
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it, the US media, our 
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and his mismanagement. 
And so this is a, a total psyop.

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They do with all these target 
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No mention of sanctions in any 
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These critiques of Venezuela and
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the last one, Mike, is the most 
beautiful of all. 8 million 

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people left the fled the Maduro 
regime. 

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Trump's Under Secretary for 
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and John Bolton both admitted 
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their policy to make sanctions 
create out migration. 

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They are both on record out 
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They wanted our people to flee 
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where they gave them automatic 
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Reminds us of something else, 
doesn't it? 

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When you show up at Lesbos or 
fleeing from Syria and you say 

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down with Bashar al-Assad, 
immediate asylum straight 

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through to the UK, to Europe, to
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So I mean, I could go on and on,
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point these things out. 
We can talk about this more an 

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extra. 
I mean, this is, this is 

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critical. 
Well, how many regime change 

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operations have we seen run by 
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Kingdom over the last 30-40 
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And it's always the same. 
I will cut the hot head off. 

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Sanctions. 
Sanctions but but a propaganda 

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campaign against the head of 
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they're this, that and the other
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Get rid of them and then move 
your. 

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Own and why is this important 
Mike because that justifies the 

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regime change it moderate like 
before say center right, center 

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left. 
You say I don't support the war,

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but at least Maduro is gone. 
I don't support the Iraqi 

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invasion, but at least Saddam is
gone. 

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I don't support the bombing of 
Yugoslavia, but Milosevic had to

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go, Gaddafi had to go, Assad 
have to go. 

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We don't like Al Qaeda ruling of
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but Assad's gone, so that's a 
good thing. 

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This is a way to get moderates 
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change through a propaganda 
campaign that was repeated every

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single time. 
We have so many examples of 

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this, but anyway we can discuss 
more. 

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Yeah, well, OK. 
Well, in the meantime, then, 

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Trump has announced an increase 
in war spending. 

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I just wanted to to play Tucker 
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Have a listen. 
Well, today, about an hour and a

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half ago, the President 
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Pentagon budget from 1 trillion 
to 1.5 trillion. 

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Just announce that. 
Why? 

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Well, it's hard to know without 
asking him. 

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He'll explain. 
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that's the kind of budget that a
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global or regional war has for 
its military. 

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There's no other reason to do 
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That's not a peacekeeping 
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That's a war budget, a big war 
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So I think it's fair to expect, 
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we're going to have a big war 
soon. 

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It's hard to argue with that, 
Patrick. 

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It is. 
And look at Venezuela. 

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What's that about? 
Securing a fuel source in the 

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Western Hemisphere in advance of
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everything is going to be shut 
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everything but the United States
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still have a supply of heavy 
crude, which is needed for jet 

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fuel, naval vessels, might power
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heavy machinery, all the things 
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machine. 
So that really speaks to 

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Tucker's point. 
Absolutely. 

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Well, Chinese press then is 
asking will China boost spending

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too? 
And of course they will because 

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this is going to start an arms 
race. 

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But my question, Patrick, for 
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this different to COVID, for 
example? 

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So we had the great enemy came 
along the the virus and that 

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resulted in what? 
That resulted in limitations on 

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freedoms that resulted in 
billions being pumped into 

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Pharmaceutical industry. 
It resulted in surveillance and 

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narrative control while the 
general public was destabilised 

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through fear. 
Here, here we are. 

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The stakes are higher this time 
for sure, but we keep the fair 

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narrative or a fair narrative 
going and we pump billions into 

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so-called defense companies 
rather than pharma companies. 

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We continue to build a 
surveillance in the censorship 

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states. 
It looks like the same kind of 

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MO to me. 
That's what I said at the 

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Digital ID rally Mike on 
Whitehall a couple weeks ago. 

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I said Kovid was the warm up, 
COVID was the warm up. 

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Imagine the lockdowns during 
World War three, all planes 

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grounded, borders shut. 
You can't have this or do that 

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without your digital ID. 
And if you don't comply, then 

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you're a threat to national 
security, right? 

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Do I need to explain any further
how this works? 

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And the company's providing the 
digital ID and doing the back 

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end databases, the Elon Musk's, 
the Larry Ellison's, the Peter 

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Thiel's of the world, the Alex 
Carbs of the world. 

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These are the people they're 
going to profit from this 

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globalist system. 
All of Trump's backers are the 

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globalists. 
How do I get it through to 

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peoples heads? 
And these same people who are 

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00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,560
going to benefit from this 
lockdown, who are all invested 

460
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,160
in military firms as well. 
These are the people paying 

461
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:20,360
paying to to drive the right 
wing anti immigration movement 

462
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,240
in Europe in the UK which is now
being used by the government in 

463
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:30,240
the UK to justify digital IDs. 
Isn't that amazing how it all 

464
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,600
comes full circle? 
Absolutely. 

465
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,480
Well, the question then, is 
Trump going to get his own way 

466
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,520
with respect to war budgets? 
Because five Republican 

467
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,360
senators, led by Rand Paul voted
yesterday to enact a War Powers 

468
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:48,120
Resolution. 
This resulted in a bill passing 

469
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,760
52 votes to 47. 
So is Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski,

470
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,120
Todd Young, Susan Collins and 
Josh Hawley. 

471
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:02,280
So where does that leave Trump? 
Listen, I, I think this is a 

472
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,040
very positive development. 
Then it's too early to 

473
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,840
celebrate, Mike. 
There's a lot of work to be 

474
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,680
done, but at least it tells us, 
at least in the Senate, that 

475
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,160
there are people that do not 
want to escalate. 

476
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,280
And this is a good thing. 
And I'll tell you what, if you 

477
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,560
look at the polling now, before 
and after Christmas, Trump was 

478
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,920
underwater on independence 
before Christmas. 

479
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,000
Now he is even worse in terms of
the Republican Party. 

480
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,920
So as the polling stands out, we
can look at more data perhaps 

481
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,480
next week. 
But the Democrats will carry the

482
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,280
midterms and I don't think he'll
ever get the independence back 

483
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,720
because he's gone against all of
his core principles that he ran 

484
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,520
on for 2024, which is for MAGA. 
So I don't think he's going to 

485
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,800
get us back. 
And that's bad news for the 2028

486
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,840
presidential election as well. 
So while the Empire might have 

487
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,560
got a short term win, Mike, for 
Trump and maybe for the Empire, 

488
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,040
we don't know. 
This could be a major setback. 

489
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,240
So we'll give you more, 
hopefully more information on 

490
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,520
that polling. 
I'll make a note. 

491
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,640
We'll get some of that 
information together for next 

492
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,800
time. 
Okay, super well, let's come on 

493
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,080
to the Palestine action 
situation, which continues to go

494
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:14,400
on. 
The hunger strikers are still 

495
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,000
striking. 
Yes, they are. 

496
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,880
I mean, we, we talked about this
before Christmas on the, the UK 

497
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,440
column Christmas edition and 
these were the original 8 here. 

498
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:27,040
But right now this situation 
we're in and again, it's, it's 

499
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,640
important to recognize these 
people because what they're 

500
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,480
doing is very brave. 
But two of them in particular, 

501
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,880
two of them in particular are in
critical condition. 

502
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:41,680
These are Cameron Ahmed and Heba
Moreisi and we'll go to the 

503
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,720
update here. 
They're now in their sixty 67th 

504
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,880
and 60th days respectively as 
part of a rolling protest at 

505
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,040
which began in November. 
So we're we're getting to the 

506
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,160
point of organ failure now. 
So this is getting quite 

507
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,400
serious. 
So I don't know what to say 

508
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,160
beyond this, but I know Basil 
Valentine has been following 

509
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,040
this story extremely closely 
from the beginning. 

510
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:09,120
So where are we at right now 
with these two hunger strikers 

511
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:11,000
and just with this issue in 
general? 

512
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,520
Is the government going to give 
any ground on this? 

513
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,720
Well, the government aren't even
commenting on it at the moment. 

514
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,560
There's no indication that there
are any talks between the hunger

515
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,000
strikers, lawyers or 
representatives and the 

516
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,040
Department of Justice for just 
get standard statements from the

517
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,680
prisoner state about how the 
hunger strikers are being 

518
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,480
treated no differently to 
anybody else with respect to 

519
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,520
their immediate physical 
condition. 

520
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,960
Well, we could hear at any 
moment that one of them has 

521
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,440
died. 
The most likely candidate is 

522
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,760
probably Kamran Ahmed, who's 
gone 60 days without food. 

523
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,280
He was hospitalized for the 
sixth time on Wednesday of this 

524
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,000
week. 
He's experiencing shrinkage to 

525
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,960
the muscle of the heart and has 
been diagnosed with bradycardia,

526
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,240
with his heart rate dropping to 
40 beats per minute, according 

527
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,960
to his sister, who is a 
pharmacist. 

528
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,840
She was speaking through Novara 
Media. 

529
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,480
There are significant changes in
his ECG putting him at risk of 

530
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,440
sudden cardiac arrest. 
He said the government must act 

531
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,000
now. 
Now, of course, amongst their 

532
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,760
demands is the deep prescription
of Palestine action, something 

533
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,680
that's under judicial review and
the result of that we should 

534
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,640
know before the end of this 
month or certainly before the 

535
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,720
end of next month. 
There's no way the government 

536
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,800
are going to give ground on that
issue in the interim because 

537
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:40,200
somebody is hunger striking and 
Ahmed's representatives and 

538
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,960
advisers would be advised to 
tell him that because the UK 

539
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,280
government will let him die. 
But before they overturn the ban

540
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,840
on Palestine action, before the 
result of the judicial review. 

541
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,840
So, you know, there's a 
collision course here at the 

542
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,400
moment. 
They they have been given 

543
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:05,360
vitamins, niacin and things like
that, vitamin B, which do help 

544
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,440
sustain life. 
But it's highly likely that the 

545
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,360
next major news we hear is of 
somebody's death. 

546
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,200
Mike, this is incredible. 
I mean, what, what would you 

547
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,760
think that the fallout would be,
Mike? 

548
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,720
If if one of them did die, I 
mean, it's horrible even to 

549
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,400
imagine it, but would that 
change the government's position

550
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,440
at all on this issue? 
No, I don't think so. 

551
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,400
They will they will stand on 
their decision that Palestine 

552
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,240
Action is a terrorist 
organization. 

553
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,640
They they have form on this in 
the past. 

554
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,840
So I don't I don't think this is
going to change their position 

555
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,560
at all. 
If if that if the worst should 

556
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,680
happen. 
Basil, it's extraordinary. 

557
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,800
Just a brief comment. 
We just got a minute left, but 

558
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,000
you know, we've seen hunger 
strikers in the past, Bobby 

559
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,240
Sands, etcetera, in history in 
Britain. 

560
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,880
It's it, these have been big 
political events in the past. 

561
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,760
This is different though, isn't 
it Basil? 

562
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,040
It's got a global scope to this 
story, which makes it very 

563
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,040
different. 
Your your final thoughts 

564
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,760
briefly. 
I mean, the UK government were 

565
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,960
equally intransigent when it 
came to the H bloc hunger 

566
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,600
strikers in the 1980s. 
And Bobby Sands, of course, 

567
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,160
famously died. 
That sparked rioting. 

568
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,480
You can claim that his death did
ultimately lead to the process 

569
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,320
that bore fruit in the Good 
Friday Agreement. 

570
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,080
And, you know, obviously the 
situation in Northern Ireland is

571
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,560
vastly better than it was during
the Troubles in terms of 

572
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,080
changing the government. 
But Mike's perfectly right. 

573
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,720
They're not, they're not going 
to change their position at all.

574
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,440
But in terms of changing public 
opinion and mood towards the 

575
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,560
government on this issue, that's
another matter. 

576
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,960
It's a shame if somebody has to 
be martyred. 

577
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,360
I mean, really there should be a
conversation between the hunger 

578
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,120
strikers, representatives and 
lawyers and the government. 

579
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,040
I'm sure that if the government 
agreed that they would abide by 

580
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,480
the result of the judicial 
review, the other demands, 

581
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:02,800
immediate bail and a fair trial,
well, they're perfectly 

582
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,680
reasonable. 
They've already been held for 13

583
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,480
months, which is far longer than
the government's own 

584
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,120
recommendations for detention 
prior to a trial. 

585
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,960
Mike, what Basil said I think is
crucial. 

586
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,120
He said if, if the government or
if they could convince the 

587
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,440
government that took state that 
they would abide by the results 

588
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,720
of the judicial review, would 
that not apply some additional 

589
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,040
pressure on the judiciary for 
that judicial review? 

590
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,800
But that's normal, isn't it, 
because this is a political 

591
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,640
process at the end of the day. 
What are your thoughts briefly? 

592
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,640
I mean, I do, I agree 
completely. 

593
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,280
I don't really have anything 
else to add to that. 

594
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,680
I mean, I really think that that
that could be a potential yeah 

595
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,200
solution. 
And it would show good faith on 

596
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,600
the part of the government to at
least take some kind of a 

597
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,880
principled position, even if 
it's. 

598
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,640
I don't believe this government 
understands the word principle 

599
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:51,920
so. 
Even if it's saying they're 

600
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,800
going to respect due process, 
right? 

601
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,800
I mean, I don't know. 
We're not left with many options

602
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,960
here. 
And that's that's the sad part 

603
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,280
now on on on the back end of 
this, this story here at the 

604
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,320
Canary judicial review launched 
against the NHS adoption of the 

605
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:12,120
IHRA anti-Semitism definition. 
And this is from the Canary 

606
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,800
Mike. 
And they're saying the right to 

607
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,720
protest group has instructed 
lawyers to begin judicial review

608
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,360
proceedings against NHS England 
for adopting the unfit. 

609
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,600
They say International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance, IHRA 

610
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,480
working definition of 
anti-Semitism that suppresses 

611
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,680
freedom of speech of Israel. 
Now, this isn't just about 

612
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,440
policing NHS staff, Mike. 
As we've reported previously, 

613
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,960
they're talking about applying 
this to NHS patients. 

614
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,960
Basil Valentine, have you been 
following this story and is this

615
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,000
how deep it goes? 
Yes, it's Imran Khan and 

616
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,520
partners that have launched this
on behalf of a right to protest 

617
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,960
group. 
Very much welcomed. 

618
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,800
It's yet to be discovered 
whether or not they are granted 

619
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,280
A judicial review. 
Lawyers have said that they're 

620
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,520
going to petition for one. 
It's a different matter whether 

621
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,800
they get one, of course. 
I I think they should, because 

622
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,239
the key thing about the IHRA 
definition is it's only ever 

623
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,560
supposed to be a working 
definition. 

624
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,639
It was never supposed to be set 
in stone. 

625
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:21,159
Even it's author would say that.
So given Israel's actions over 

626
00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:24,440
the last two years, widely 
perceived by all sorts of 

627
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,120
international organisations to 
be genocide, therefore some of 

628
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,560
the examples in the IHRA 
definition, such as singling out

629
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:37,760
Israel for criticism, surely 
that needs to be updated if the 

630
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,040
country, any country has been 
committing what is the ultimate 

631
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,320
crime. 
So you know, the government are 

632
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:49,080
trying to impose it in a 
monolithic way and a way that I 

633
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,800
mean excludes even patients 
being admitted to hospital with 

634
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,720
a 3 coloured watermelon type in 
or badge or something that would

635
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:04,720
be beyond the pale apparent. 
I mean, absolutely extraordinary

636
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:10,040
stuff as well, of course, as the
attacks on staff, you know, 

637
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:15,600
Rehana Ali, Rami Alidwan, Dr. 
Krisles as well, who've been 

638
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,000
hauled up before the GMC for 
opposing genocide, so. 

639
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,600
We're going to continue this, 
we're going to continue this in 

640
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,440
the extra time because we're 
we're just going to we're 

641
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,960
running on on it interest of 
time, but that's extraordinary 

642
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,960
issue and we're going to we're 
going to expand on that with 

643
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,160
Basil during the extra. 
Yeah, OK. 

644
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,560
So thank you. 
Thank you for that, Basil. 

645
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,360
Now, OK, we should go back to 
the United States at this point.

646
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,160
And of course, the shooting of 
an armed, an unarmed white U.S. 

647
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,080
citizen by an ICE officer in 
Minneapolis has shocked many, 

648
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,840
many people. 
Now, I'm going to suggest that 

649
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,400
it was the result of placing 
mass paramilitaries on the 

650
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,400
streets. 
And I find it really shocking 

651
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,280
that anyone finds that the 
pretence of mass paramilitaries 

652
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,400
acceptable, actually. 
But it's Trump's response that I

653
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,480
want to focus on here. 
In order to to do that, we've 

654
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,400
got to actually, unfortunately 
watch what happened. 

655
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,720
So let's look at the at the 
event itself. 

656
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,960
No, no. 
Shame, shame. 

657
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,960
Oh my fucking God, what the 
fuck? 

658
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,200
What the fuck? 
You just fucking what the fuck 

659
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:45,040
did you do? 
OK, so for anybody that's just 

660
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:49,560
listening to this, what happened
was that he literally shot 

661
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,840
through the driver's side window
of the car at head height. 

662
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,520
The window was down. 
The window was down, absolutely,

663
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,160
but I wanted to, I wanted to 
highlight Trump's response to 

664
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,160
this. 
So, so put this. 

665
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,280
If we put this on screen, this 
is what he said on True Social. 

666
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,600
I've just viewed the clip of the
event which took place in 

667
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,840
Minneapolis, MN. 
It is a horrible thing to watch,

668
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,480
that much is true. 
The woman screaming was 

669
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,080
obviously a professional 
agitator. 

670
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,040
I, I just, I mean, I just, I 
don't even know where to start 

671
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,880
with this. 
A woman screaming was a 

672
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,680
professional agitator and the 
woman driving the car was very 

673
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:27,120
disorderly, obstructing and 
resisting, who then violently, 

674
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,520
wilfully and viciously ran over 
the ICE officer who seems to 

675
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,640
have shot her in self defence. 
This is just an outright lie. 

676
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,760
The video shows very, very 
clearly that she did not run 

677
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,720
over anybody. 
Just put that back up again, 

678
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,160
please. 
And he then went on to say based

679
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,040
on the attached clip, it's hard 
to believe he is alive. 

680
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,080
That's the ICE officer, but is 
now recovering in hospital. 

681
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,760
Now to be absolutely clear about
this, if you're watching closely

682
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,240
as as she was shot, the car 
continued to move off and then 

683
00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,440
crashed into a a car further on 
down the street. 

684
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:05,760
He walked calmly towards the car
in towards the the road accident

685
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,440
that that he had created. 
So there was no question of him 

686
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,880
being in hospital or requiring 
to go in hospital and putting 

687
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,720
Trump back on screen again. 
Then he said the situation is 

688
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:20,000
being studied in its entirety. 
But the reason these incidents 

689
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,440
are happening is because the 
radical left is threatening, 

690
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,680
assaulting and targeting our law
enforcement officers and ICE 

691
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:30,920
agents on a daily basis. 
And so first of all, we have 

692
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,920
what can only be considered an 
execution here because that was 

693
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:39,560
that was beyond incompetence. 
What happened was beyond 

694
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,640
incompetence. 
But now we have a president who 

695
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:47,120
simply lies blatantly on his 
true social account and then 

696
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,360
tries to turn this into 
something which is killing by 

697
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,520
law enforcement and inverted 
commas and turn it into 

698
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,040
something which is right, left 
immigration issue. 

699
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,960
And, and I just think that's 
that is pretty despicable. 

700
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
It's so lowbrow. 
I mean, we're going to spare you

701
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,080
JD Vance's comments, which were 
equally as reprehensible, but 

702
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,920
basically blaming the victim. 
So and basically an unarmed 

703
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,720
woman, a mother of 337 year old 
white American citizen. 

704
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:19,880
I just thought I'd throw that 
out there because if if she was,

705
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:23,560
if she wasn't white, this would 
have a completely different 

706
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,960
political scope to it, a la 
George Floyd. 

707
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,640
I'm just putting that out there.
But she was She was shot at 

708
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,920
point blank range by a masked 
federal agent who's effectively 

709
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,200
A paramilitary. 
Donald Trump deployed 2000 of 

710
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,360
these masked troops into 
Minneapolis as a political show 

711
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,880
of force as he did in Los 
Angeles, which caused riots. 

712
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,440
So guess what's happening now 
this week there's big protests 

713
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,680
which will likely careen into 
riots. 

714
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,480
So again, it starts from a spark
and becomes a brush fire. 

715
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,520
So that's what it is. 
So they're blaming the victim, 

716
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,120
the mega media, the supporters 
of Trump. 

717
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,960
It's just so incredible. 
It's almost statistic, 

718
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,160
nihilistic, sadistic and just 
completely bereft of any morals.

719
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,880
This is the state of. 
Part of America, I'm not going 

720
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,160
to say all Americans are this 
insensitive, but but generally 

721
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,720
it's I don't know. 
I never thought I would see the 

722
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:28,160
day, especially these are the 
conservatives that were crying 

723
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,320
after January 6th about the dash
death of Ashley Babbitt. 

724
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,120
Well, that was during a protest 
that, you know, got inside the 

725
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,520
Capitol building. 
And, you know, I didn't, I 

726
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,720
thought that was a very wrong 
unlawful assassination, if you 

727
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,640
will, of a protester, Ashley 
Babbitt. 

728
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,200
I was against it. 
But this is a totally different 

729
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,200
situation. 
This is the federal government 

730
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,960
deploying armed people who are 
drawing their weapons on 

731
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,360
civilians in in a public setting
where they have no jurisdiction 

732
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,440
to draw their weapons because 
they're not in the process of 

733
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,880
apprehending any illegal person 
in the case of this woman in the

734
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,000
car. 
So I mean, it's just kind of 

735
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,360
unbelievable and it's a very 
dangerous precedent. 

736
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,360
So now the the person in 
question has been named, and 

737
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,640
this is by the Minnesota Star 
Tribune. 

738
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,520
We'll bring this up here. 
His name is Jonathan Ross. 

739
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,560
This is the masked ICE agent. 
So he will probably be in hiding

740
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,960
for a very long time and he may,
very well may or may not be 

741
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,080
disciplined. 
And this is the thing the Trump 

742
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,920
administration, even if he was 
to, you know, be held 

743
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:38,120
accountable through a federal 
legal process, maybe if he was 

744
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,080
sentenced to on any federal 
charges, Mike, he would most 

745
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,880
likely be pardoned by Donald 
Trump. 

746
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,480
I'm just guessing because Trump 
in advance are doubling down on 

747
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,000
this and again, blaming the the 
woman who's dead. 

748
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,760
I mean, this is if if you want 
to a recipe for mass protests 

749
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,960
and social unrest. 
Donald Trump has just whipped up

750
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,520
a souffle here. 
They couldn't be engineering it,

751
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,080
could they? 
Well, it's it will engineer 

752
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,520
itself, let's put it that way. 
But how did we get here? 

753
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,840
Let's take a look at this. 
So this is Trump's Gestapo is 

754
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:09,840
really what we're talking about 
here. 

755
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,640
This is a very strange 
individual who is Donald Trump's

756
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,720
White House deputy chief of 
staff for policy and Homeland 

757
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,240
Security. 
His name is Stephen Miller, and 

758
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:21,760
this is what Stephen Miller had 
to say. 

759
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,200
He set the groundwork for this 
when he publicly stated that he 

760
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,880
declared that ICE agents are 
legally protected from 

761
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,240
prosecution and local officials 
cannot arrest them. 

762
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,800
So they could kill somebody, 
according to Stephen Miller, and

763
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,800
they have total immunity, total 
federal immunity. 

764
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:43,240
That's not exactly true. 
They, they are, they do, they do

765
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:45,960
have a code and they would be 
held accountable under a federal

766
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,040
due process on this. 
So he's, but he's basically 

767
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,080
saying we can invade the Gestapo
can invade your community and 

768
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,760
you can't do anything about it. 
And this is really the key 

769
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,120
point, isn't it? 
Because we're seeing the United 

770
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,560
States, the UK behaving in the 
way that they're behaving with 

771
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,120
respect to Venezuela and the oil
tigers. 

772
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,800
They're behaving exactly the 
same way against their own 

773
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,960
population. 
It's attack on the rule of law 

774
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,480
internationally and it's attack 
and on the US Constitution as 

775
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,720
well. 
So to all ICE officers, says 

776
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,480
Miller, you have federal 
immunity in your, in the conduct

777
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,320
of your duties. 
So that is a statement of 

778
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,320
intent. 
So if you were to take this to 

779
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,400
trial, I would take Stephen 
Millers. 

780
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:29,040
If I was the, the, the, the, the
prosecution, I would take 

781
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:33,880
Stephen Miller's comments there 
straight at the ICE agent here. 

782
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,920
So where does this lead us here?
Well, this is the reality of it,

783
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,840
Mike. 
ICE has offered $280 million to 

784
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,200
immigrant tracking bounty hunter
firms. 

785
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,800
So some of these ICE agents, 
Mike, are mercenaries. 

786
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,640
OK. 
And some of these mercenaries, 

787
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,760
as has been reported, we're 
still tracking the details, but 

788
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,840
they're circulating on social 
media right now. 

789
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,000
But there are people who are 
former, according to reports. 

790
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:03,120
ID EF soldiers as well who are, 
you know, for hire security 

791
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,920
bounty hunters not uncommon you 
would find such people from 

792
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,680
different militaries there. 
But this shows you this is the 

793
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,520
privatization of this process 
here. 

794
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,040
These aren't public servants. 
These are mercenaries here. 

795
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,360
So where does that lead us? 
Let's take a look. 

796
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,880
So inside ISIS tool to monitor 
phones in entire neighborhoods. 

797
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,520
Absolutely. 
So this is the headline in Four 

798
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,520
O 4 Media, if we just put it 
back on screen there. 

799
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,440
So Four O 4 Media has obtained 
material that explains how 

800
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,120
tangles and weblock 2 
surveillance systems, ICE 

801
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:39,040
recently purchased work weblock 
and track phones without a 

802
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,160
warrant and follow their owner's
home or to their employer. 

803
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,800
So this is the the what Four O 4
Media is saying. 

804
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,480
And they're saying that a social
media and phone surveillance 

805
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,680
system that ICE bought access to
is designed to monitor a city, 

806
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,200
neighborhood or block for mobile
phones, track the movements of 

807
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,760
those devices and their owners 
over time and follow them from 

808
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,160
their places of work or home to 
other locations. 

809
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,040
According to material that 
describes how the system works 

810
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,320
obtained by four O 4 media Links
to this will be in the show 

811
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,080
notes. 
Of course, now they're saying 

812
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,360
that that this technology is 
owned by a company called 

813
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,600
Penlink. 
But the issue is that Penlink 

814
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,640
only obtained this technology a 
couple of years ago. 

815
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,920
They bought it via an 
organization called Spire 

816
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,040
Capital. 
So this is from Globes Spire 

817
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:30,280
Capital buys is really web 
intelligence firm Cobwebs. 

818
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,760
So Cobwebs was an Israeli. 
Now, although it's not directly 

819
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,960
declared that it was linked to 
Unity 200 as such, it's saying 

820
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:43,120
that it was absolutely linked to
or formed by IDF intelligence 

821
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,760
agency staff. 
So this is the type of 

822
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,560
technology that we're seeing 
deployed for these types of 

823
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,680
operations. 
No surprise there. 

824
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,840
Well, let's take a look at how 
deep this goes here. 

825
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,560
And this is ICE and U.S. 
Department of Homeland 

826
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,000
Security's long standing 
operational technological ties 

827
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:05,760
with Israel. 
First of all, since the early 

828
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:10,280
2000s, DHS has maintained A 
liaison presence inside Israel. 

829
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,760
That's the US Department of 
Homeland Security. 

830
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,840
They've even got their 
investigations offices inside 

831
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:20,160
Israel working with Shin Bet, 
Israelis, MOD on technology and 

832
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,920
data transfers. 
All of this stuff is pretty much

833
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,760
open between these two countries
here. 

834
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:30,200
And so it goes. 
In 2022, DHS signed a bilateral 

835
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,440
security agreement. 
Biometric data sharing, cyber 

836
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,640
intelligence, border 
surveillance technology, all of 

837
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,240
this agreements between ICE, the
DHS and the Israelis. 

838
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,880
So I mean, does that worry you? 
Well, this is make going to make

839
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,800
you even a little more worried 
here. 

840
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,360
They've they've been Paragon 
solutions spy Ware, surveillance

841
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,600
Ware, all of this stuff, 
location tracking, cell phone 

842
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,120
communication monitoring, data 
scraping, all has been Rd. 

843
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,360
tested in the West Bank and Gaza
and Elbit systems. 

844
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,960
Mike is this name that people 
are familiar with here. 

845
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,240
They've built a large portion of
the US Mexican border 

846
00:47:07,240 --> 00:47:10,760
surveillance infrastructure, 
radar towers, drones, remote 

847
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,960
sensors, all again, Rd. tested 
in Gaza, Rd. tested in the West 

848
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,760
Bank. 
Oh, and it doesn't end there. 

849
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,960
If only it did they their joint 
research program is called Bird.

850
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,720
This is for new technologies 
right across the board. 

851
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,240
And to hide this, these programs
are being organized outside 

852
00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:29,920
through nonprofits and 
universities. 

853
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,720
This is how they're laundering 
these joint ventures, Mike, 

854
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:35,240
because obviously there would be
a lot of protests that people 

855
00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:38,160
knew they should. 
Now, key programs include the 

856
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,160
Anti Defamation League's 
National Counterterrorism 

857
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,600
Seminar and and so on. 
You can see all the data here. 

858
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,720
We'll put the links to this, by 
the way, in our show notes. 

859
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:50,480
But here is a whistleblower who 
was in Gaza. 

860
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,040
Listen to what he has to say. 
Anthony Aguilera, former U.S. 

861
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,000
special forces and military 
person. 

862
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:04,200
The IDF trains American police 
officers and ICE officers in 

863
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:09,120
Israel. 
They train with US, ICE with US,

864
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:16,240
Homeland Security, NYPD and 
that's what's called through SME

865
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:21,640
program, subject matter exchange
where our police etcetera 

866
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,440
trained with them. 
So these National Guard soldiers

867
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,160
that will soon be in or are in 
Chicago have trained with and 

868
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,000
trained with Israel habitually 
for years. 

869
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,360
So when you look at all of these
pieces of who do we have 

870
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,280
operating on the streets of 
Portland, in the streets of New 

871
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:43,040
York and on in DC and who's 
going into Chicago, all 

872
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,880
components and elements that 
have trained hand in hand with 

873
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,680
the IDF or the Israeli Ministry 
of the Interior, Jean de Marie 

874
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,680
paramilitary police, that's 
absolutely amazing. 

875
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,640
That's not a coincidence. 
They do anti-Semitism training, 

876
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,960
not just physical training but 
brainwash training basically for

877
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,200
them too. 
When we entered Israel, they 

878
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:10,560
took us on the hospital tour, 
they took us to Kibbutz Bierity,

879
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,080
they took us to the Nova Film 
Festival site, and they also 

880
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:20,240
took us to Stared Out, which is 
the overlook just outside of 

881
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,080
northern Gaza City and Bait 
Hanoon. 

882
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,280
It's on the Israeli. 
Side of the border that 

883
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:28,880
overlooks all of Gaza City. 
They've turned that into a 

884
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,800
spectacle. 
It's a picnic site. 

885
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,720
You can go up there. 
There's vending machines, 

886
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,400
there's an area to park, there's
an area where you can get your 

887
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,320
panoramic view with Gaza in the 
background. 

888
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,920
And if you time it just right, 
there might be a bomb that drops

889
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,680
for your photo I. 
Mean. 

890
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,520
That's pretty cynical. 
It's pretty shocking, but you 

891
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,600
know, we've got the receipts for
this and again, we'll drop the 

892
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,160
links in the show notes here. 
But just so people know, DHS 

893
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,000
increasing cooperation with 
Israel. 

894
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,480
That's our source. 
Our source is the Department of 

895
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,680
Homeland Security. 
All the documents you'll be able

896
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,880
to access through the links in 
your show notes here. 

897
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,640
This is another one of our 
sources, Deadly Exchange. 

898
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,240
This is a not-for-profit. 
These are Jewish Americans who 

899
00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:13,560
run this organization who are 
against this use of cooperation 

900
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,160
between the IDF and the US law 
enforcement and ICE. 

901
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,760
So again, a Jewish American 
group, liberal group is coming 

902
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,400
out to oppose this here. 
And we track some of the 

903
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,600
contracts, Mike, on this. 
It's very interesting with 

904
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,760
regarding ICE and Paragon here. 
And so they're using AI, 

905
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,960
Palantir's involved. 
And so this is coordinating all 

906
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,040
of these software to integrate 
social media monitoring always 

907
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,160
on surveillance pipelines. 
It never switches off. 

908
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,200
This is what these big data 
centers are being used for. 

909
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,600
And when you combine that with 
the digital ID, you can see 

910
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:51,120
where this is part of the police
state, the high tech police 

911
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,360
state. 
And here's Whitney Webb 

912
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:56,600
explaining the really 
uncomfortable connections here 

913
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,360
with Palantir. 
Go ahead and roll this. 

914
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,800
But Palantir, you know, also 
works extensively now in the 

915
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,200
private sector as well. 
They're a major AI engine for 

916
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,840
Wall Street banks, for example. 
And they have different programs

917
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,960
that are sold to different 
entities. 

918
00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:16,200
But ultimately, they are a 
massive contractor to 

919
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,080
essentially every U.S. 
intelligence agency. 

920
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,400
And that includes DHS and ICE, 
which a lot of the reporting, 

921
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,960
critical reporting on Palantir 
focuses on their contracts with 

922
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,600
ICE specifically. 
But all of that is intended to 

923
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,760
also be used against people that
are not illegal immigrants. 

924
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,760
It's a meant to be an entire 
dragnet of basically pre crime. 

925
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:40,360
And Palantir, in concordance 
with Poindexter's ambitions, has

926
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,720
been a major piloter of pre 
crime technology in the United 

927
00:51:43,720 --> 00:51:46,160
States. 
I think they began doing that in

928
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,320
New Orleans initially. 
They call it predictive policing

929
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,560
is the term that that they use. 
But a lot of other companies 

930
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,040
have attempted to also get in on
this. 

931
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,280
One of the most notorious being 
Pred Pol. 

932
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,560
That was a partnership, I 
believe with UCLA, an LAPD or 

933
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,920
something to that effect. 
And they're notoriously 

934
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:05,720
inaccurate. 
And they're almost always 

935
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:08,440
piloted in low income minority 
neighborhoods. 

936
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:12,120
In essence, what happens because
the accuracy rate is so low is 

937
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,000
that you're creating this 
pipeline of people basically 

938
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:19,240
being sent to prison or, you 
know, being caught up in crimes 

939
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:21,600
that are very petty. 
But I mean, you're just sending 

940
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,560
police to all these areas in a 
relatively, you know, 

941
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,920
discriminatory way. 
And then in in some of these 

942
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,360
areas where Palantir ended up 
leaving another Peter Thiel 

943
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:35,800
backed entity called Carbine 
also has a predictive policing 

944
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,800
component, but has been sort of 
taking over 9911 emergency call 

945
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,960
systems throughout the United 
States, which is, you know, 

946
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,840
generally at the county level. 
But this is a company that that 

947
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,560
wasn't just found, you know, 
funded by Peter Thiel. 

948
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,640
It was funded by Jeffrey Epstein
and was led for a significant 

949
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,520
amount of time by Ehud Barack, 
the former Israeli Prime 

950
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:58,360
Minister as well and has sort of
expanded outwards. 

951
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,720
So a lot of Poindexter's, the 
ambitions and unfortunately have

952
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:04,600
been becoming true at a really 
rapid pace. 

953
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,200
So again, Whitney Webb, a great 
researcher on these topics here.

954
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,840
So that leads us just on the 
Palantir issue. 

955
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:19,280
So knowing what we know now 
about Palantir and does this 

956
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,560
bother anybody here, They just 
landed the biggest ever UK 

957
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:27,040
defense deal, 240 million 
contract with the UKMOD. 

958
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,840
So they're really in bed with 
Palantir here. 

959
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,160
And we just go to the UK's 
government website. 

960
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:39,360
These are the details of a £1.5 
billion cooperation deal here 

961
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:43,600
that's going to feature Palantir
as one of the biggest central 

962
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,720
players in this. 
And of course, we have a photo 

963
00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:50,440
there that is John Healey smiles
from ear to ear there with Alex 

964
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:54,880
Karp, the CEO of Palantir, Alex 
Karp being also a major 

965
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,800
Bilderberg member now, as we saw
during the last Bilderberg 

966
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,320
meeting here. 
So I mean, people should start 

967
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,720
connecting the dots really 
quickly before it's too late. 

968
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,560
Absolutely. 
Now, if you like what the UK 

969
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,240
column does, if you'd like to 
support us, please have a look 

970
00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:14,240
at the website and on the front 
page there you'll see a link 

971
00:54:14,240 --> 00:54:16,680
that takes you to a page that 
explains how you can't support 

972
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:17,840
us. 
We do need your ongoing 

973
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,560
financial support and we would 
like to say thank you once again

974
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,640
to everybody that does support 
us. 

975
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,960
That way. 
If you can't support us 

976
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:28,680
financially, do share this 
program and everything else that

977
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,640
we put out if you possibly can 
because that helps us beat the 

978
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,240
censorship. 
Now tonight, the overwhelming 

979
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:37,920
majority of Jews support 
genocide, says Zachary Foster. 

980
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,000
That's on German Warfare at 7:00
PM. 

981
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:45,880
And on Sunday at 7:00 PM Abby 
Roberts is the guest for Jake 

982
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,760
Fern for the 1000 Words Podcast.
And Abby will be having her 

983
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,640
portrait painted by Jake while 
they have an in depth discussion

984
00:54:52,640 --> 00:55:00,560
about a whole host of topics. 
Now let's move on to a gentleman

985
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,920
called Colonel Jacques Bode. 
Now a number of years ago, in 

986
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:08,040
fact three years ago this month,
Jacques, we published an article

987
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,520
by Jacques Bode on the UK column
entitled Ukraine the Search for 

988
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:12,680
Peace. 
If you haven't read that 

989
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,760
article, please do. 
The link will be in the show 

990
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,120
notes. 
Why am I mentioning him? 

991
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:23,240
Well, because he has now been 
sanctioned by the EU, because 

992
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:26,720
he's an outspoken critic of EU 
policy with respect to Ukraine 

993
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:31,400
and Russia Since the war began, 
a petition has been set up to 

994
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,600
raise awareness of the sanctions
and to demand their removal. 

995
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,920
So here it is. 
The text of the petition makes 

996
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,800
the point that Bode and others 
have been sanctioned not for 

997
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,240
criminal acts, but for engaging 
in lawful activities such as 

998
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:48,440
journalism, academic analysis, 
political commentary that are 

999
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,400
explicitly, they say, protected 
under European fundamental 

1000
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,080
rights frameworks, including 
freedom of expression and 

1001
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,680
freedom of thought. 
Increasingly, of course, that's 

1002
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:59,880
being ignored by the EU, the UK,
the United States. 

1003
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:04,080
Now the sanctions being applied 
are being applied in the 

1004
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,960
context, in the following 
context. 

1005
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,080
They say that they lack judicial
due process, that they have a 

1006
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,320
punitive effect despite being 
officially framed as foreign 

1007
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,560
policy measures, that they lead 
to severe personal and economic 

1008
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,160
hardship tantamount to civil 
death, and that they're 

1009
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,520
incompatible with values and 
legal principles enshrined in EU

1010
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,600
treaties to Charter fundamental 
rights and the European 

1011
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,440
Convention on Human Rights. 
And they say that they call on 

1012
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,360
the Council to immediately 
delist Mr. Bode and similar 

1013
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,760
affected citizens and to refrain
from using foreign policy 

1014
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,920
sanctions to regulate lawful 
internal speech or dissent. 

1015
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,000
And this again, this is now the 
third time in this program that 

1016
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,080
we've had to highlight that what
these governments are doing on 

1017
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,760
an international basis, they're 
applying on a domestic basis as 

1018
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,080
well. 
And you know, this is the 

1019
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:56,280
integrated operating concept 
that the British military claims

1020
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:57,960
to have got rid of in June this 
year. 

1021
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:03,600
The idea that the the front in 
this war that we're experiencing

1022
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,120
at the moment is as much at home
as it is abroad. 

1023
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,880
And it's absolutely clear that 
our that our own populations are

1024
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:11,400
under massive attack now, 
Patrick. 

1025
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,720
You know, they're accusing Jump 
Boat of, of being a Russian 

1026
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,440
disinformation agent when he's 
totally objective. 

1027
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,440
He doesn't use Russian sources. 
He doesn't appear on Russian 

1028
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,760
media, yet he has still been 
sanctioned by the European 

1029
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,680
Commission. 
And what's important, just to 

1030
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,280
note here, Mike, is that he's 
done nothing illegal. 

1031
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,000
He's done nothing illegal. 
This is an administrative 

1032
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,720
measure designed to quote, 
change the behavior. 

1033
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,720
I'm quoting the paraphrasing the
E the EU Commission's own 

1034
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,440
website to change the behavior 
of the individual. 

1035
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,240
But it basically it's punishing 
them. 

1036
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,240
They can't. 
He can't even buy food. 

1037
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,080
He can't even pay his rent 
without asking permission. 

1038
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,720
No, you can't give him anything 
as a donation. 

1039
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,600
That's a that would be a 
violation of sanctions. 

1040
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,200
Some of the other people have 
been sanctioned. 

1041
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,760
They've sanctioned their wife's 
bank accounts, their whole 

1042
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,520
family. 
They can't come and help them. 

1043
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,280
He can't travel. 
He can't fly over European 

1044
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,400
airspace. 
So this is something that has 

1045
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,760
been used against foreign 
targets. 

1046
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:07,040
So this that that's what this 
tool is. 

1047
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,320
It's used against as Natalie Yam
from Switzerland as well. 

1048
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,720
She said they've been doing this
to African politicians for 

1049
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,200
years. 
And now they're using the same 

1050
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:20,680
tools to target foreign targets 
against European citizens. 

1051
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,240
Jacques Boud is a decorated 
intelligence officer with the 

1052
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,040
Swiss government, has worked 
with NATO and the OSCE. 

1053
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:32,000
And that's why of course, 
because, because he is that that

1054
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,480
standing within the, within the 
establishment as it were, that's

1055
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,440
of course why they're targeting 
him and others of that type. 

1056
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,560
And there's something else 
quickly, Mike, I know we got to 

1057
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,600
move on, but this is coming from
the French government. 

1058
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,640
They hand walk this to the 
European Commission and 

1059
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,760
Caliacalis and so forth. 
It's coming from France and 

1060
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,040
they've targeted. 
So France is worried about the 

1061
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:58,920
French language political 
ecosystem that they're really 

1062
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,960
panicking because they're losing
control of Switzerland falls 

1063
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:06,000
within that French language sort
of area of information. 

1064
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:07,720
They're really concerned about 
this. 

1065
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,480
Why would that be? 
Shows you how important France 

1066
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:15,400
is in Europe as as as A to 
either have on board or not have

1067
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:20,440
on board with this wider agenda 
to go to war with Russia for 

1068
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:21,960
example. 
Absolutely. 

1069
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,480
Well, we'll, we'll stick with 
France knowledge just very, very

1070
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,880
quickly because as Finnas and I 
were talking about yesterday on 

1071
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:32,840
on the discussion that we had, 
Burkina Faso and Niger, who are 

1072
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,160
both members of the 
Confederation of Sahel states 

1073
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,160
have apparently stopped major 
destabilisation operations to 

1074
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,600
overthrow their governments. 
Tuesday, Burkina Faso Security 

1075
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:48,080
Minister Sana released a video 
message, as you can see on 

1076
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:52,080
screen here on X what he 
exposing what he described as an

1077
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:53,760
attempt to destabilise the 
country. 

1078
00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:57,240
He said that the operation was 
planned for the 3rd of January 

1079
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:02,480
and that the intention was to 
assassinate President Triore and

1080
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:06,480
several military and civilian 
officials and to disable a drone

1081
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,480
base and follow up with the 
ground military intervention by 

1082
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:13,000
foreign forces. 
The coup was to be led by Paul 

1083
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,400
Henri d'amiba, the former 
transitional president who was 

1084
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:22,920
ousted by Triori on September 
the 30th, 2022 and who's now 

1085
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,840
exiled in Togo. 
And he he said a significant 

1086
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,960
portion of the funding came from
Cote d'Ivoire, with latest 

1087
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,160
contribution reportedly 
amounting to 70 million CFA 

1088
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:42,000
francs. 
So the the sorry SANA said that 

1089
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:46,040
authorities have been arrested, 
numerous civilians will be 

1090
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:49,640
brought before the prosecutor of
Burkina Faso, the full force of 

1091
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:53,640
the law will be applied. 
And then, of course, Niger on 

1092
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:57,840
the 1st of January declared that
the first advisor of the Embassy

1093
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:02,680
of Benin should be removed from 
the country as persona non 

1094
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:04,600
grata. 
They ordered him to leave the 

1095
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,720
country. 
But this is just part and parcel

1096
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:10,040
of a number of operations that 
are going on in the Sahel. 

1097
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,720
So we've got Associated Press 
here talking about Mali, Burkina

1098
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:17,880
Faso, amnesia, calling for joint
large scale operations against 

1099
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,800
extremists. 
There is there are insurgencies 

1100
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,080
at work right across the Sahel 
at the moment of why would this 

1101
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,080
be? 
Well, we got to go back to a 

1102
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:30,160
couple of years ago when the 
wonderful yen Stoltenberg was in

1103
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:33,120
charge of NATO. 
And of course he was talking 

1104
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,000
about the expansion of NATO 
towards China. 

1105
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,880
But he was saying this is not 
about NATO moving NATO into the 

1106
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,760
South China Sea. 
It's about taking into account 

1107
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:44,800
that China is coming closer to 
us in the Arctic, in Africa, 

1108
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,840
investing heavily in 
infrastructure. 

1109
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:51,360
The EU sees the Sahel region as 
being it's external 

1110
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,000
neighborhood, it's southern 
neighborhood that's it's 

1111
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,320
particularly interested. 
But so is the United Kingdom and

1112
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:01,600
Tony Blair Institute absolutely 
100% active in that region. 

1113
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:06,520
So when we're seeing in Niger 
and Burkina Faso, in Nigeria, in

1114
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,880
the Horn of Africa, we're seeing
these types of insurgencies 

1115
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,400
taking place. 
It's again the same MO that we 

1116
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:17,080
saw in Syria and other places. 
We fund the insurgency, we arm 

1117
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:19,960
the insurgency, we're even 
prepared to kill the insurgency 

1118
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,800
when it suits us to do so. 
But it's our effort to 

1119
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,640
destabilize the region for our 
control interests. 

1120
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:28,920
And you notice the the words in 
here, Mike, the verbage, if you 

1121
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,240
look close, it's about providing
women and girls with the freedom

1122
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:35,600
they need to succeed and getting
them on board with climate 

1123
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,120
change in those countries, 
precisely so forth. 

1124
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:39,760
And by the way, it's South 
America. 

1125
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,840
Also, China is one of the sort 
of big reasons the United States

1126
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,080
is saying it's a big threat to 
their hemispheres. 

1127
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:49,880
So there there is an agenda to 
evict China from Africa, from 

1128
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,000
South America, from the Western 
Hemisphere. 

1129
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,360
But if from Europe, how's Europe
going to pull that one off? 

1130
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:59,400
Exports from China into Europe 
have reached record highs, Mike,

1131
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,080
this past year. 
So that's going to be tough for 

1132
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,240
old Europe, isn't it? 
But this is part of the paradox.

1133
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,360
Of course, Europe still buying 
Russian oil as well. 

1134
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:09,000
So you know, it is part of the 
paradox. 

1135
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:12,800
We'll talk about that more in UK
called News Extra, which will be

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on this live stream in a few 
minutes if you're if that. 

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Basil Valentine will be joining 
us as well. 

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Joining us, absolutely. 
So if you are AUK column member,

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stick around for that. 
If you're not, well, maybe you'd

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like to join and then you can 
join us for extra as well. 

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Thanks for joining us in any 
case today. 

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Have a great weekend. 
Don't forget German warfare 

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tonight, but we'll see you 1:00 
PM as usual on Monday. 

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See you then. 
Bye bye.