Good afternoon, today is Monday the 26th of May 2025, just after
1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host Brian Garish with me in the studio, Ben Rubin, and
we're delighted to have Diane Rasmussen Buccari joining us
from the North of England. Now, if the general public in UK
were not aware, it was a weekend of major strife and upheaval
with a national strike which hit a number of cities.
This was really incredible stuff and major events happened in
Plymouth and Ben, you were there.
Indeed I was, yes, great to be here.
So police reported a tense, challenging, insensitive day
over the weekend on Saturday as a wave of anti government
protests and counter protests were staged in towns and cities
around the UK. And I think staged is probably a
good way to describe it. I went down to Plymouth to take
a look for myself. Hello, it's Ben Rubin from UK
column in Plymouth. And a few days ago Devon Live
shared a story about an upcoming protest which is happening today
being organised by a national strike movement protesting
against the Labour government. It's got a bunch of demands,
it's got an agenda, a bit of a manifesto and they're going to
be out on the street protesting. Interestingly, there is a
counter protest which just happens to have been organised
for the exact same time and the counter protest is coming out,
one would have to guess, on the side of the government and that
one's been organised by a bunch of unions including Unison.
Organisations like Stand Up to Racism I've spoken about
previously on the column which is headed up by people like
Diane Abbott, the long time Labour MP.
And I think there's something a little bit fishy going on here.
Where are these protests come from, what are they actually
for? Who's behind them and what's
going to happen on the ground today in Plymouth?
Let's find out. Interesting observations, Ben,
and I think you're spot on. Something very strange.
What did you discover? Something very strange going on.
A protest and the counter protest all conveniently
organised at the same time. This Devon Live article that I
mentioned in that little piece there is how I came across this,
but it's been all across social media.
Police prepare for national strike in Plymouth this
Saturday. Concerns have been raised of a
repeat of last summer's disorder.
That's referring to some low level violence and a few arrests
that were made on August the 5th last year, which is in the
immediate aftermath of the Southport killings.
There were lots of protests all around the country, including
the Walthamstow protests, which are reported on, which was acted
probably if not arranged by then, certainly led by stand up
to racism, as I'm going to get into a little bit later on in in
the piece. But let's have a look here at
back to the article. There's a bit of description
about this national strike. A quote from the organisers.
The people of the UK are under attack from the very people
elected to service. I have to say that I agree with
that. They say let our government,
local councils and judiciary know that we are Great Britain,
so this is a patriotic message. There is discussion of illegal
immigration, demands to leave the European Court of Human
Rights, the cancellation of Net 0, the scrapping of inheritance
tax, the demand for the government to release all
documentation with regards to the Pakistani rape gang.
Gang inquiry calls for freedom of speech provisions for the UK
to prevent beliefs and opinions being criminalised.
I think a lot of this stuff is, it's fairly reasonable to be
honest with you. It also says by coincidence
these are consistently the talking points by MPs and
councillors belonging to Reform and previously UKIP as well as
Conservative MPs. This is very much been
positioned on the right wing. This is the national strike anti
government protest. Can I be a bit tougher, Ben, and
say to me this is anybody who's actually challenging the
government quite rightly in these areas is now going to be
smeared with activities by this unknown group of people?
That's my take. That's certainly what it feels
like. There's also some quite
inflammatory language in there. So actually it talks about
justice for an estimated 1,000,000 plus little girls with
the Pakistani rape gangs. I think that's probably
overestimating it. I think it's certainly 10s,
maybe hundreds of thousands. And I'm not diminishing that at
all, right? But actually they've they've
they've over engineered that statistic a little bit, I think.
And also there's again, just this focus on the Pakistani rape
gang issue, which certainly is an issue, but actually this is a
much broader problem, right? So there's a lot of stuff in
here that actually I think that I would agree with, but then
actually it feels like they've overdone it in certain areas.
And actually, I, I'm a little bit suspicious about my why they
might want to do that, to be honest with you.
We'll come back to that as we go along.
Who's behind this? So is this organization, the
Great British National Strike, which is run by a former soldier
called Richard Donaldson. And this just popped up in
August last year, right? So we got this relatively new,
relatively unknown organization which has just somehow managed
to organise a network of protests all around the UK.
So there were three in in Devon and Cornwall alone.
I think we had Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth, and then these have
been going on all around the country, Lincoln, Norwich,
Swansea, Manchester, Edinburgh and actually apparently there's
some stuff we're going on internationally as well.
So places like Amsterdam I've heard talk there was a similar
thing happening on the same day based around the same issues.
Not saying that all the international stuff was
necessarily organised by this organization, but there does
appear to be quite a lot of coordination happening here
around the supposedly organic St. protests.
Anyway, let's head back to the article because as I said, there
is a counter protest as well. Really importantly, the counter
protest, as I mentioned in the film comes from Unison.
So this is a union backed thing, National National Education
Union, the RMT, Plymouth Women's Network.
So we're getting this kind of gender based intersectional
perspective coming into this and importantly groups such as Stand
Up to Racism, who we spoke about again last year, Diane Abbott
was the president. This is very closely linked into
the top levels of the Labour government, right up to cabinet.
Also the kind of historical anti fascist movement.
Hope not hate these kinds of organisations right?
And this sort of anti fascist message was absolutely
essential. As you can see again here on the
piece No fascists in Plymouth. Join the counter demo.
Far right groups online have called for demonstrations in
cities across the UK under the farcical banner of a national
strike, even though they're not backed by a unions.
Apparently it's only unions you can strike.
And apparently this strike is in favour of attacks on immigrants
and Asian communities, tax exemptions for millionaire
farmers and climate change denying conspiracy theories.
So I've got to say, Ben, this agenda to me is being wound up
by Devon Live. I wonder whether this is a
democracy reporter who's actually put this together.
So we've got unknown people who establish a supposedly
nationwide demonstration, then they're supported by bona fide
organisations. How does that work?
And then they get massive coverage in Devon Live.
If this was, if this was just an event which had been created by
some of the, let's say, reform, would it have the the coverage
in Devon Live that this event has got?
And I would suggest no. No, certainly not.
And, and, and there was an ITV crew down there and it's been on
the BBC and it's been pretty much blanket coverage actually.
Right. So call me suspicious, but
anyway, the counter protest interestingly kicked off first.
So I went down to the city centre and I had a little look
at what was going on. You can see quite a bit of
police presence there. This is just after 11:00 in the
in the morning on Saturday and lots of people who are sort of
not quite coppers. So the community people and
private security and you can see all the flags are there.
So unites there unison the refugees welcome stop the far
right banners from stand up to racism and the there's there's a
lot of people, about 100 people and this crowd grew to about 152
hundred. A lot of people like this fella
here with a mask on, really not wanting to to to have anyone see
who he is actually right. There were quite a few people
like that. And I spoke to someone in the
crowd. He said that they had spoken to
some people who were masked up who'd come from out of town.
All right. So actually I get the sense that
quite a few of these people are not from Plymouth, although they
are interestingly, given that this is a counter protest to the
anti government protest, they are actually quiet down on Keir
Starmer's. There's a little sign you can
see there which says Starmer has blood on his hands, which is
absolutely correct. Might be a little bit small on
the screen for some people, but down the bottom in the centre
there, you can see that. And that's obviously to do with
this. And, and these were the two
largest flags flying on the day. So you've got the the
Palestinian flag on the left hand side there.
And then what I'd see is essentially the globalist flag,
right? That's what that flag is to me,
that transgender LGBTQ flag. That's about globalism
ultimately. And the the key thing for me
here is that you're not going to unite the British people under
those two flags. Those aren't our flags, right?
It's not to say that we don't care about Gaza, we don't care
about Palestine. But if you're going to try to
create a united national movement to fix the country,
you've got to do it under your own flag ultimately, right?
Really important then that's not what these people do.
Who else was there? So this was the the TUC,
Plymouth Trade Union Council. They were actually were
established in 1897. I know I said a minute ago that
I think quite a lot of these people were from out of town or
their students or that kind of thing.
There were some routes here, right?
So to give them their due, this is an organization that's been
in Plymouth, no doubt looking out for the welfare of of
working people for for a long time, right?
So it wasn't just the case, but there were also some of these
kind of not quite paramilitary groups, but but but certainly
activist anti fascist types and the the sorts of people that you
get along with that, right? So there's a lot of young men in
groups with masks looking quite uncomfortable, to be honest with
you, right. And then you get a real sense
with this law. And I'll get into a bit more in
a moment that they're actually they're quite intimidated.
They're quite, they're scared of this sort of far right bogeyman
basically. And I think that's driving a
lot. A lot of the behaviour, the,
the, all the messaging was being driven by, by essentially A
ringleader. So there's this guy here, I
don't know who this is, but I'd certainly like to found out,
find out. And he was leading chance
through the day. They were handing out these
leaflets. You know, this is all very, very
well organised to pull a few of these out so we can have a look
at them. The top one was repeated a lot
saying we are many, you are few, we are Plymouth, who are you?
And that was all being directed to the opposition side, right?
And actually I see that as a provocation because actually, as
we'll come on to it a little bit later, the people on the other
side of the square that were in the, in the protest were
Plymothians. You just go and talk to them and
you can hear it, right? Their accent was, was a local
accent. They're local people.
They're concerned about the future of the country.
So I see this as a provocation, not just that chart, but really
a lot of the behaviour on the ground as well.
Health and housing degradation is not caused by immigration.
BSI won't say the word, but you know what I'm saying?
Come off it. The enemy is profit.
So there's a lot of this sort of it's, it's, it's illogical,
right? Health and housing degradation
is not caused by immigration. Well, it might not be the only
thing that causes it, but actually, if you load in
millions of additional people into the country, then the
health system is going to suffer, housing is going to
suffer, it's going to degrade. So you're you're chanting things
which just aren't true and then a really, really heavy anti
nationalist globalist message. No borders, no nations.
Yeah. They're going to.
They want to destroy the nation state brick by brick, wall by
wall. Racist.
Borders have to fall. Borders are racist.
Yeah. This is the position that we're
we're being presented with. That is a totally radical
position. Yeah.
There is nothing mainstream about that, really, when you get
into it. Right.
But we're being told that this is supposedly the voice of
Plymouth, the voice of the people of the Southwest, and I'm
not sure I buy it. I think there's a good way of
putting it, Ben. This demonstration orchestrated
by unknown people is to tell us something.
It's to tell us how we should think.
So highly manipulative event, not only manipulating the people
who attended but also the people who received the message via the
wider mainstream press. There's something very devious
going on. Indeed there is.
Yeah. Now let's just have a little
listen to the chants. We've got a quick video for you.
We are many. You are you.
We are. Many you are.
You. We are many.
You are. You, we are many.
You. Are you there?
So there you go. We are Plymouth.
Who are you? You're the fascists.
You're the Nazis. And who's he actually talking
about? Well, you look on the other side
of the square when that was happening, you basically got
about 20 older ladies, grandmothers, grandmothers who
are concerned about what's going on in the country.
Basically they're talking about the boats, they're talking about
two tier justice. They're talking about the issue
of Net 0. Lucy Connolly was the name that
came up a lot. And the left wing, the counter
protesters are basically standing there screaming at
these people from the other side of the square at 11:00 in the
morning. You know, the tone of it was
remarkable as I go on to describe in this this next
little clip. So this is kind of mad actually.
You got, it's basically what we've got is the anti fascists
over there who are fairly numerous and very clearly quite
well organized. Lots of banners, those are
leaflets going a microphone. Who's leading this charm?
And there's probably, I don't know, a couple of 100 people
tops. And then on the other side of
the fountain you got this. The main protest, it doesn't
start yet. So this slot started at 11, and
the actual protest is starting at midday supposedly.
And over this side of the fountain we've got, it's
basically about 20 people and they're still standing there
looking quite bemused by the whole thing, to be honest with
you. And the guy leading the chanting
over there, I don't know who that is, but basically he's
spent about 5 minutes explaining to all of his people in his
crowd that they should be scared of the fascists and that they
need to stay together so they don't get attacked.
And then to follow him 30 feet over there so that they can
basically stand there and shout at these other people.
And that's what they've been doing for the past sort of 5 or
10 minutes. So the crowd did did get
significantly larger actually on the other side of the fountain
and a lot more men turned up. The ladies were there early and
but it was, it was a really interesting mix of people or it
wasn't an organised group particularly.
They heard about this on social media.
They wanted to come out and basically, I would imagine have
a bit of a discussion and a debate about what's going on in
the country, but they were being prevented from doing that.
I just this racket coming from the counter protest on the other
side of the square and I had some great conversations.
A couple of people who recognise me, a couple of UK column
viewers came up to say hi. It was fantastic.
One of the things that I was slightly concerned about, you
can just see here the, the lady policeman, is that what I'm
going to say that the police ladies just walking around, they
were wearing cameras, right? And so it was always in the back
of my mind, actually, a lot of this is a day to gathering
access exercise, right? And, and I think the, the, the
people who've set this thing up essentially want to see who
comes out, how they behave and, and, and get a load of
information about what's happening in the city
ultimately, and this will be going on all around the UK.
Now that was that was just 5 minutes into the start of the
the protest. They carried on going with their
chanting for the next hour and a half, as I described in this
last little clip. So it's now cool past one and
the anti fascists team Murphy is anti fascist.
Sit. They're still going.
They've just been, they've been chanted for about an hour and a
half now and you've got a bunch of people on the other side of
the fountain there. A lot of them are just, they're
just normal people, you know, concerned about the direction of
the country. Had some very interesting
conversations, people basically saying we're.
Being governed by an international crime syndicate,
which I completely agree with and we got a lot of concerns
about what that international crime syndicate is doing in the
country and that's all. Seems perfectly reasonable, but
there's no actual discussion going on because the anti
fascists, if they stand up to racism banners and they're
socialist worker banners and all the kind of usual suspects.
I just shouting at people. Which actually seems to be the
tone of national debate more broadly, doesn't it?
People just shouting at each other and and and in the volume,
no appreciation for shared shared heritage, shared
objectives, you know, any of the things that would actually lead
to, you know, useful progress in the country.
Now, obviously this has been presented by stand up to racism
as some kind of great victory against the the far right.
We can see here from the website the the far right Great British
strike has been seen off by determined anti racist
resistance who just happened to want to destroy the nation
state. That is their literal stated
position. That's what they're out there
talking about. And what about the national
strike movement? Well, UNN pulled this out from
Twitter, which I think speaks volumes.
Actually. This is a bit of interaction
here between an account called Neki.
Another one of these nationalist accounts has popped up in the
last year or two saying when do you think we will reach the
stage of civil war in the UK? The Great British National
Strike Group saying I feel like it's imminent, right?
So actually, it strikes me that this is part of this narrative
and this attempt to spark off civil conflict and UNN.
Good on them. So these people are going to
March the Tommy Tars to the top of the hill and then run off.
Just watch. And I think that that's probably
fair to say, screams of psychological operation being
run by the establishment. And it's basically a direct
attack on patriotic working class men and women.
That's the way that I took it. And interestingly, as a final
point, the Great British National Strike Twitter page has
just been taken down and we don't know what's going on
there, but I'm sure we'll find out more as the week goes on.
Ben, thank you very much for that excellent summary of events
in Plymouth. We've taken quite a long time to
cover this because we think it's so important, because of course
it wasn't just happening and hasn't happened, just happened
in Plymouth. It's happened in other cities as
well. It's happened in Northern
Ireland and as many people are now beginning to think, is this
type of event designed to not only demoralise people in the in
the country, but to destabilise communities.
And meanwhile we get the globalist agenda pushed through
and if you dare challenge it, you'll some sort of right wing
extremist. So, so we regard this as a very,
very dangerous precedence on the streets of UK and we're
certainly going to be digging in into it more.
If any of our viewers and listeners have information about
who was behind, who is behind these sorts of events, then
please do let us know. Well, we're going to move on by
going to another hotspot with this, this time on the global
stage, and that's Ukraine. And surprisingly or not,
emotions very high around Ukraine as well.
So over the weekend, we've had Trump supposedly calling Putin
absolutely crazy as a result of the fact the Russians unleashed
another massive drone strike across Ukraine as a whole over
the last couple of days and the Kremlin looking at the West and
saying everything. Everybody's very emotional.
So we've got bloodshed on a truly horrific scale in Ukraine
continuing, but the West is deeply unhappy because their
narrative is falling apart. Let's have a look at this
interview clip with Colonel Douglas McGregor talking on how
he sees Ukraine. My point is the Niepa River is a
natural barrier. And I've said over and over and
over again, I'm sure the Russian general staff, these are
competent men. I'm sure they've said to the
president, Mr. President, let's March to the river.
Whatever we do, let us control everything east of the river.
That gives us a buffer zone against any future threats that
may emanate from what remains of Ukraine.
And, and let the rest of it go. After all, the Poles, Romanians,
the Hungarians, probably the Lithuanians, the Moldavans,
everybody is making claims on portions of western Ukraine.
The Romanians would like to have Bess Arabia back.
Most of the people listening to us today don't even know what
that is. My point is, this is a very old
part of the world. We need to get out of it.
It's not us. We know nothing about it.
But everybody who lives in it and around it does know about
it. They need to sort this out, and
I can guarantee you that there's very little enthusiasm for
crossing that, the upper river and moving further W.
They don't want to do it. It's more trouble than it's
worth. You end up with lots of people
under your administrative control that hate you and always
have because of that boundary that I just discussed, which has
been valid for hundreds of years.
So the bottom line is, let's stop the nonsense.
President Trump, suspend all further aid to this Ukrainian
disaster, get out and offer to host a conference.
We can host it in Europe. We can host it anywhere they
would like. Let them all come without us.
By the way, we can have a representative that sits in and
listens, but let the people that live in it and around it make
the decision on where the new boundaries will be drawn and let
it go. It's not us.
It's not our country. Well, I wonder whether any
reasonable person could disagree with what General McGregor had
to say on that. I certainly couldn't disagree
with anything but the interview that that clip was part of.
There were some other things which we discussed.
Let's have a listen. Yeah, it it could be that Trump
is moving in that direction because he did say that that the
two sides are going to be the ones who are going to figure
this part out. We are not going to.
So apparently he is out of the mediating business.
We'll see if that continues to be the case.
But what could be? And that a stress could be
motivating him and hopefully to make the very decision you just
articulated is because he's taking a look and things are
literally starting to crumble on the battlefield.
We've been talking about the possibility of this for a long
time. But there are more signs that
something is is afoot here. First of all, a week or so ago,
The New York Times real reported from the Institute for the Study
of War, which sometimes has good numbers, even if their analysis
is just hideous. But they said over the previous
16 months, the Russians had taken 1800 square kilometers
from Ukraine. They don't even talk about in
there how many troops that they, the Ukraine side had lost.
But then they point out that in wars of attrition, incremental
gains can presage A breakthrough if the losing side runs out of
troops, ammunition and its defensive lines collapse.
Now then we have in the last just few days here, the
commander of the 47th Mechanized Brigade was resigned and this is
their premier mechanized brigade 47th because he said I these
stupid decisions that these guys keep making to get us killed and
don't even have a chance of success.
He finally resigned and discussed.
Then right after that, the commander of the 59th Brigade
was fired because and, and and then when you read down into the
details, it's not just that he didn't do a good job.
It's that in the Pacrosk area that Julian Rico was showing
just a second ago, he had a tactical redeployment of his
troops from an unfavorable position to a favorable
position. But it was a little bit further
back. And so almost like a, a Hitler
type deal. The Ukraine leadership with
Sirsky. And then of course Zelensky says
not one inch. No, you can't re employ anywhere
even if it makes sense. So more detail there.
Disaster on the battlefield for Ukraine.
And this, this is, is this is the correct situation on the
battlefield at the moment. And this is the reason why the
West at the moment is so uncertain in reporting.
They didn't report what is actually happening on the
battlefield. Are the Russians taking losses?
Absolutely. Are they continuing to move
forward? Absolutely.
So let's contrast that opinion with how the West likes to
project what's happening on the battlefield.
And we've got a little clip here with General Ben Hodges and
Times Radio. Hello, and welcome to FRONTLINE
for Times Radio with me, KHFO. And we are joined today by
senior retired American general, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.
After 11 years of this war with Russia having every advantage.
They still only control about 18% of Ukraine and it's not
getting any better. They do not have the ability to
knock Ukraine out of the war. They don't have any massive
breakthrough capabilities or some force that could exploit
any penetration along the front lines.
In fact, what we're seeing the Russians is just continuation of
these meet what the Ukrainians refer to as meet assaults people
on mopeds and and motorcycles and E scooters and golf carts
and they're and they're getting slaughtered.
I mean they lost, according to British intelligence, almost
400,000 casualties last year for a gain of almost 0.
But Putin's never said that he wants to control Ukraine, right?
Absolutely a key point. So the West continually talking
about Putin wanting to invade and take over the whole of
Ukraine when clearly that's not the reality.
But this is the opinion that's consistently put across to the
UK public and the American public.
So we've got to get to the bottom of what's going on here.
But the fact is that Russia is moving forward on the
battlefield. These are some more reports from
the Kiev Independent Russian troops have upped the intensity
of their Donetsk or blast offensive in recent weeks,
increasing increasingly pressure, pressurising A
relatively large Ukrainian pocket between some of the last
cities in the region. But these pockets are forming
all over the Ukraine front at the moment.
Russian troops have been pushing forward to towards
Konstanzinivka from 2 directions, slowly closing in on
the Ukrainian pocket West of Tourette.
This is not a stalled battlefield.
This is a battlefield which is moving and the Russians are
moving forward, but the West doesn't want to report it.
Ukrainian soldiers who spoke to the Kiev Independent often
criticize their commands to hold until the end, even if the
positions would soon be overrun by Russian troops and the
Ukrainians would be left without proper evacuation or orderly
withdrawal. And this is the situation that's
repeated. And of course, when the
withdrawal is not orderly, this is when the Ukrainians take such
huge losses. But who's reporting in any case
from Ukraine? Well, he's the Kiev Independent.
And if we have a look at the young journalist who wrote the
article, I've just read those excerpts from Asami Terajima.
Now, this young lady says that originally she was living in
Russia with her family. They then moved to Ukraine.
Her mum and dad now can't be in Ukraine, so they've moved to
Poland, but she's still there reporting.
She's very, very young. And I was fascinated that when I
have a look at her, she was apparently featured in the Media
Development Foundations 25 Under 25 Young and Bold list from
2023. And that's a list of emerging
media makers in Ukraine. So let's have a look at her in a
bit more detail. So there's a photo, you can see
how young she is, 21 year old college student who's apparently
now reporting factually on the war on the battlefield, but
who's in the background providing the support for these
kind of young journalists that are spewing out the Western
desired media. Well, this one you know Ben,
you've come across before. The cigarette rousing trust.
Absolutely, yeah. Tetra Pack, the people who make
the milk cartoons, It's that family.
Just a family. Well, that's a very interesting
point, as we'll see in a minute. So it's saying here that the
Rousing Trust has given the Media Development Foundation
120,000 in March 2022 in response to the crisis in
Ukraine. And if we have a look at the
Rousing Trust, we notice that it's got a strong open societies
flavour. But this is where it gets
fascinating for a Family Foundation, they've put out 900
plus grants since 1995. Look at the sum of money they're
dealing with, over a half a billion pounds available to help
shape the media in Ukraine. So is this free media?
I don't think so. There's something else going on.
And if you also want to a little take on the situation in
Ukraine, this is the Kiev Post from back in April, the end of
April, and they were reporting that Mike Waltz was saying
information about Ukraine that wasn't true, so they'd fact
checked it. US National Security advisor at
the time, Waltz pushes alternative facts on Ukraine.
He said Ukraine is a disastrously corrupt country and
the oversight of US resources given to Ukraine is poorly
tracked. He went on to say that Ukraine
was one of and is one of the most corrupt countries in the
world. Well, this was fact checked by
the Kiev Post. It said the part about Ukraine
being one of the world's most corrupt countries is false.
And they went on to then say that according to Transparency
International's 2024 Corruptions Perceptions Index, corruption in
Ukraine is mid range on a worldwide standard.
And Ukraine has achieved the 105th place from amongst 180
countries, along with Serbia, sandwich between Dominique and
Republic and Algeria. So if you want to see the site
that came from here, it is with a list of countries on the left.
Apparently Denmark came top of the squeaky clean list, but
you'll have to look way down for UK here at #20.
So is it? Is it all OK that we're
providing all this help and support for a corrupt country to
run a war where millions of men on both sides are being killed
and maimed? It's pretty despicable, I think.
Don't know whether you've got any comments on that
organization, Ben, but I found it quite incredible that a
family organization has got half a billion to hand out to help
shape global journalism. Absolutely yes.
And also what else are they into?
We're going to have to come back to that another time.
I'm also quite struck that the UK is only 20th.
I think we're more corrupt than that, but we do a good job of
convincing people we aren't. Yes, that's absolutely true.
Well, on that unhappy note, I think we need a little bit more
concentration on who is doing what to try and help the
country. So Diane, let's bring you in
with us. You have been starting to really
pay attention to who's out there in UK trying to do the right
things. What have you got for us today?
Thanks, Brian. Hello, Ben.
It's really great to be here today.
And, and I absolutely believe that if we don't start to act
locally, we're not going to be able to fight against this
larger agenda, which I've said several times and I will say
again, yesterday I went out to a Stand in the Park event in
County Durham. It's a beautiful place until it
started raining and we all left. But if anyone remembers stand in
the Park events that started back when they locked us up a
few years ago. This particular group in County
Durham has been quite strong and has been going since August of
2021. And they meet every Sunday.
And so they were there. They were making breakfasts,
having they offered me a cup of coffee as soon as it showed up.
There were several. You could call them members who
were there, they were wearing UK column hats.
And later in the day, based on an invitation I received while I
was there in the morning, I went to one of the houses, one of the
members for coffee and it was really nice to see a copy of
your Life in their hands right there on his coffee table.
So it was really great to see that they were so involved in UK
column. And so I recorded an interview
with one of the gentleman. He was at the the meeting
yesterday morning and his name is Tim Coulter.
And what he had been doing was he wrote letters to to MPs
asking about the issue of informed consent, or obviously
lack thereof, regarding the COVID jabs and what happened to
him. So here's just a short clip of
that interview. But he really didn't have
ability to make the claims. And of course, the whole
business of the COVID debacle has been a lot of people making
ludicrous claims and then not being able to.
Back it up with any actual real fart and so I I then.
There are similar notice to the MP and in fact 2 notices after
that he didn't want to speak to me.
So that sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it?
Within this group, there's another group called We the
People NE and they handed me a business card.
They have a Rumble channel and the link to their channel will
be in the show notes. They do what they call seeking
the truth through insightful interviews.
And so I looked at this channel and chose a clip of one of our
favorite journalists. Let's see what he had to say to
this group. Can I ask you both individually
if you think there's one particular direction we should
be concentrating on to actually get the message across to the
public about wars? About any of these SOPS?
Which SOP? Or which direction should we
come from? Me The key one we should be
talking about is the government's use of applied
psychology on us because this is where the whole distortion of
perception start. In their document dated 2010,
the Cabinet Office said we can change the way people behave,
that means think and behave, and they will not necessarily know
this has been done to them. Right.
Now, it's scary if they use that type of applied psychology on an
ordinary member of the public. But what happens when they use
that psychology on somebody they're going to use to train
other people? Then you end up with a trainer
who has themselves been affected by the technology, subjecting
other people to another dose of psychology, but by a person
who's not even the normal self. Right.
So at each iteration the thing gets worse.
And if if I was just having a guess this, I'm not guessing
this is going on because the government's own documents said
it was going on. And during lockdown, the
behavioral insights team was working inside the Spy B system
for the government advising on the COVID, saying we need to
make the public more frightened in order to increase lockdown.
Right. So the one to go for is, is the
attack on our minds. And I know, Brian, we heard this
from you quite often and I think you're absolutely spot on.
But I think it's really important to see that UK column
team members as well as people who pay for memberships and
watch the UK column. But we're all getting it out and
doing things and sharing the messages and more that we do
this, the more it will spread. And I believe this is one of the
ways that we can fight back. And I don't know what you think,
Brian. Well, it's, it's knowing what
you're fighting against is the key thing.
Unless you know what you're fighting against and you can see
it and identify it, you cannot fight.
It's that simple. And what we have been pushing
for for so many years is that it's not a simple battle between
good and bad people. We've got manipulation of
perceptions as well. And as we're seeing with the
protests that we've just started, today's news with, was
that a genuine protest created by people with genuine reasons
to protest, or is this something that's actually been created in
order to change public perception of not only
individual but viewpoints? And I would say it's the latter.
So we've got to keep educating people as to what they're
actually fighting and calling out people who are doing the
wrong thing. And what is really dangerous is
where we get lured into believing that a label of a
group of people means that everybody under that label is
bad. If you're right wing, you're
bad. So that is never true for
everybody. Similarly for left wing, it's
not true for those supporting Israel, it's not true of people
supporting Gaza. We have to look at what they are
actually saying at any particular time and we have to
break out of this, this intense drive to lock us into the fact
that you've got a label and therefore everybody put under
that label that is bad and is doing the wrong thing.
I don't know how else to explain that, Ben, but I think it's a
critical thing for. Us, that is the critical point,
right? It's the it's the divide and
rule, left V right, men V women, black V white.
That's what they're trying to embed and entrench, and that's
what would stop us from from being successful.
Right. But people, people have got to
get out, They've got to be doing their very best to challenge
what's going on. And that means in every
reasonable way they can. Violence locks you into the
state system. They want the violence.
So non violent protest in every possible way is the right way to
go. And, and if I might add
discussion, because the the overriding sense that I got from
the event on Saturday was the people over there who were
shouting at these people, actually, they should just go
and talk to them and they'd find they had a lot of a lot in
common actually. Lot more to talk about this we
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O clock, we've got another germ, germ warfare episode.
What is what is German new medicine?
And we've also got a very interesting that I'm sure will
be a very interesting session from germ warfare.
But Ben, you've also recently completed this interview with
Doctor David Miller and Vanessa Bailey.
What have you been looking at here?
Ukraine and Israel? Looking at the historical and
contemporary links between Israel and Ukraine, and
questioning as to whether they may actually be more closely
aligned than most people realise, that's what they are
coming up tomorrow. OK, So a teaser there, Ben,
thank you for that. But this is a really, really
interesting subject. The more you delve into Ukraine,
the more you're coming up against the power and influence
of Israel. And I think this is something
that we need to lift the stone on if there's if we're going to
help the path to peace in Ukraine.
We'll see what you have to say there.
Now, Diane, you've also got defensive libraries here, which
is another group working to challenge what's happening,
what's happening for these events.
Well, this is actually sponsored by the Buckingham Branch of
Academics for Academic Freedom through Professor Dennis Hayes
and I will be speaking at this event.
It says there why we need to challenge woke approaches if we
are to preserve our libraries. This will be a talk that I've
been invited to give on the 12th of June at 6:00 PM.
If you can get down to Buckingham, Milton Keynes area,
I'd love to see you there. Tickets are free.
OK. Thank you for that.
And we've also got an objection to the geoengineering experiment
experiments. Yes, this is just a protest
that's happening on the 21st of June down in London, if you can
get down there. And I thought this one was
particularly worth of noticing because of friends of ours at
the UK column, Sonia Poulton as well as Mark Devlin will be two
of the speakers there. And we've been digging into
quite a bit of geoengineering topics recently, which we will
do later in the news as well. So just get down to Hyde Park if
you can, the 21st of June. OK, thank you for that.
And as we've been reporting, we've got the Sounds Beautiful
Festival June the 26th to the 29th in Wimbourne, Dorset.
We've got the Thetford Truth and Freedom Beer Festival, Friday
the 18th, the 19th of July, and we've also got the Bank Holiday
Weekend Freedom Music Festival that's the 22nd to the 25th of
August. And if you are going to that, we
will see you there, which will be really good.
Now very, very quickly of an eye on the time.
At the moment we have this reports that the BBC has picked
up from France. Now I will have to come back to
this because there's so much in this report.
It's a report about a court case around a particularly vile
paedophile who was operating through the medical system in
France. And the interesting thing is
that the headline starts to ask a question.
Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't
want to know. And I was very interested in
this. And I've got to say an
interesting article from Andrew Harding.
And if we look into some of the detail that he's written, he
says that basically the trial of the trial of France's most
prolific paedophile, Joel Le Skranek, a retired surgeon who
was admitted in court to raping or sexually assaulting 299
people, almost all of them children, is coming to an end
this Wednesday amid widespread frustration.
And he go, he goes on to quote that this particular lady, one
of the victims of this horrible man, she said, I'm exhausted,
I'm angry right now. I don't have much hope.
Society seems totally indifferent.
It's frightening to think that the rapes could happen again.
And why is this? Well, we get an appreciation
because we've got another lady here, Miss Lemoyne, who says
that that some that that herself and some of the 50 other victims
have been stung by an apparent lack of public interest in the
trial. And they've formed their own
campaign group to pressure the French authorities, accusing the
government of ignoring what they say is a landmark case which
exposed a true laboratory of institutional failures.
Now, this is very, very similar to what we hear in UK.
So we just go on here. It says the issue is that this
trial is about the sexual abuse of children.
There's a virtual or meritor on this topic globally, but
particularly in France, we simply don't want to acknowledge
it, said the lawyer representing several of the victims.
Now what she's talking about there is the mafia code of
silence. And this is being picked up by
people in this in this case. And the lawyer who reported on
the case, who's been supporting the the victim says there's a
very important stand off between those who want to denounce child
sexual violence and those who want to cover it up.
And this stand off is taking place today in this trial.
Who Will Win, she wondered? Well, if we go and have a look
at the BBC article and see whether we can bring this up,
Stephanie, you'll have to advance the slide for me,
please. Can we do that?
Can you advance the slide, please?
OK. All right.
We seem to be there. We've small technical issue.
I'm sorry about that. So here's the BBC article.
Now we should be able to actually run through this and
you will see how long it is, how extensive, how much information
there is in this BBC article. Now remember this is about a
paedophile in France, albeit a high profile court case but the
BBC is really into this although they haven't challenged the
French government at all. Now I want to remind viewers
that UK column has been reporting on what is a massive
abuse of children case for Neffy in Scotland.
But within UK we've been reporting now for quite some
time on this. And what has the B, what has the
BBC been doing? Well, I think it's that wall of
silence that the French people can also talking about because
if we compare the BBC's report to the case here, let's have a
look at the length of their article.
So this was as a result of the court case coming up.
But we know that over the years that Fernethi was operating,
thousands of little girls went through it and clearly hundreds,
possibly thousands were abused. But the BBC simply not dealing
with this, but giving us a demonstration of this wall of
silence. Ben it's remarkable when you get
into this very harrowing subject, how the BBC does not
want to engage with reporting anything around child abuse in
the UK. Hard to explain, Brian.
It is hard to explain, Diane, Let's bring you back with us and
tell us more about the petition against geoengineering.
Yeah, thanks. So the UK government petition
that had been filed to make all forms of geoengineering
affecting the environment illegal, which did get passed
around quite a bit. It took a while to gain some
traction, but it's finally got there.
It now has around 150, just under 156,000 signatures as of
this morning, last time I checked.
So that means that of course, the Parliament will debate this.
The debate in Parliament will take place in later on in June
and it's open to dig a little bit into the written response
and kind of what this means for how they've responded so far.
So the written response, I've, I've quoted it, part of it here
on this slide, which is sort of repeating, you know, the, the
clean energy 20-30 net zero agenda.
They say the priority of course is to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions from human activities and to adapt to climate change.
And they put new engineering to two categories, 1 is the solar
radiation modification, which is the dimming of the sun etcetera.
And one is the greenhouse gas removals.
So what does that mean? That means that they are
admitting that they are going to be looking at doing greenhouse
gas removals and it says this will be important for reaching
net zero. Now what do we know about
greenhouse gas removals and who is sort of supporting this
agenda? There is a particular professor
down in Oxford, he's the professor of Earth Sciences
University College at Oxford. His name is Professor Gideon
Henderson. He is only 20% at Oxford this at
of his time, at the particular particular moment, 80% of his
time, as we'll see on the next slide is spent working for the
government. He is the Director General for
Science Analysis and DEF and Defra.
He is the chief scientific advisor for that particular part
of the government. And I have a video from here
from him explaining to us, and this was from six years ago,
explaining what what this means about the greenhouse gas
reductions. To avoid dangerous climate
change, the UK needs to reduce its emission of greenhouse gases
to 0. We can reduce our emissions a
lot, but we still can't get rid of all.
Of the emissions from the industries that we rely on.
So to compensate, we also need to actively remove greenhouse
gases from the atmosphere. The Royal Society and the Royal
Academy of Engineering have just published a report which
describes the various ways that we can use to achieve that
removal. Some of them seem like common
sense. We can plant more trees, we can
change farming practices to store more carbon and soils, or
we can use more wood in our buildings.
But there's only so much space for trees and for buildings.
So we also need to explore other routes to removal of greenhouse
gases. If we're going to reach net 01
of these is to use more biofuel in our power stations and
capture the resulting CO2 and bury it underground in rocks.
An alternative is to actively suck carbon out of the
atmosphere for storage. It will be challenging and we'll
need research and investment starting now, but if we combine.
All available approaches the UK can reach net 0 by 2050.
If we do so, it maintains EU KS leading global position in
tackling climate change. And ensures that we play our
part in stewarding the planet for future generations.
So that goes back, goes back to what I've reported a few weeks
ago as using seaweed to suck the carbon out of the Seas, though
not only do we need to be thinking about what's going on
in the skies, but also what they're doing underwater.
And I would like to recommend to the audience that they take a
look at this and submit to it, if they can, that they're, the
government is currently doing an independent review with asking
for evidence related to greenhouse gas removals.
And they want to hear from members of the public.
So anyone can go through, click through this form, share what
they think. And I know it's easy to think
that it doesn't matter. They won't listen to us.
But if enough of us do it, again, it's strengthened
numbers. So I would encourage everyone to
go in and submit and say what they what they have to think
about this greenhouse gas removal agenda that's going on
right now. Diane, if, if, yeah, if I can
just come in there and say that this is something a lot of
people have trouble with. It won't make any difference.
Well, one of the things that UK columns been reporting over
recent weeks is the fact that clearly the rules based
international order is desperately worried that their
plans are running behind time. And why are they running slow?
Because of the pushback from the wider population, not only in UK
but worldwide. So it does make a difference.
And of course, if 10 people send a a comment back in to that
request for information from the public, it's not going to have
much effect. If 10 million pushed back, it's
going to have a huge effect. So don't sit there and say we
can't do anything. Take the opportunity to gather
some people together to tackle it.
And Ben, beg your pardon? More good news with respect to
people who are saying no library should be for a a proper
purpose. Yeah, so the I would like to
talk about the World Library Association because they have
just asked me to join their team and I'm really, I was really
happy to accept it. They are really focused on the
basic topic which I've been reporting on as well on age
appropriateness in libraries and they are all based so far in
America at this point. So they were joking with me that
even though I have an American passport, I'm the first
international member, making it a truly world Library
Association. The executive director of the
World Library Association is Dan Kleinman, who I have interviewed
previously on UK column back in December.
You can watch an hour long interview with us talking about
specific actions that they have been taking in America to fight
the books and the content of some of the terribly graphic
sexual materials, violent materials that are showing up in
school libraries and public libraries around Western
countries. The mission of the World Library
Association is what they just say is your library your way.
We make best practice suggestions.
You decide whether to use them to help you improve your local
library services. And this basically means in the
in America, it means they're going into library board
meetings or going into school board meetings in their local
areas. And these are people that are
speaking out, making a difference by doing things like
reading directly from the content of some of these books.
And in some cases the content is so violent and so sexualized.
Putting this in front of children that the people get
banned and thrown out of the meetings because they're
exposing things that are so graphic.
So I want to talk here particular about a member of the
World Library Association. Her name is Julie Gebharts and I
had an interview with her over the weekend and this is I'm
going to play this part of our discussion and then I'll talk a
little bit more about it. She's made some major
breakthroughs recently, but this is her story right here of how
she got started and being active in the World Library Association
and pushing against it. This photo that I'll be showing
along with the audio is a picture of of Julie actually
going to a board meeting and speaking up.
So about four years ago I had a 15 year old daughter in a public
high school here, just obviously the local public high school.
And she came home, asked me to get a book for her and I just
popped online and did a quick. Search and the.
Review that I. Found said this book contains
graphic ancestuous rape of AI think my 11 year old by her
father. It contains thotomy, bestiality,
pedophilia, like on and on, masturbation, prostitution, I
mean everything you can even imagine in detail in this book.
And so I was stunned because I had not really experienced
anything like it in the public school than my kids have been in
public schools. Even in California, I've never
seen anything like it. But that was like my moment of
reality check and started digging at that point into what
was going on in our schools. So Julie told me is that she's
very aware of the battle between the light and the dark and she
is a Christian. She quoted from Ephesians 511,
which seems to motivate a lot of what she's doing so that the
King James version of that verse of the Bible is have nothing to
do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose
them. She believes that we're starting
to make progress because she thinks that people are waking up
and the light is starting to wind over the dark, but we have
to keep fighting. This is going to happen.
I asked her for some examples of some of the books that she's
been fighting against and the one that she mentioned in that
audio clip that her daughter was asked to read for school is
called The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Some other authors that she mentioned are Ellen Hopkins who
writes for young adults at a reading level for young adults
and children, but the content is not at all for young adults and
children. Another one is Craig Thompson is
another author some books that they have found in their local
middle schools, which in America is for sort of ages 11 to 14.
This book is gay, which contains basically a sex manual of all
types of sex of very deviant sexual behaviors and telling
children whoever is reading this how to do them.
When I I read the book myself, I have was not even familiar with
a lot of what I was talking about myself.
There's a book called All Boys Aren't Blue, which is another
one that is frequently challenged and in the US in
particular, that the reason that they're getting away with these
books in the libraries is because the definition of
obscenity is based on what something's called.
The three pronged Miller test and prong three says that if the
work taken as an entire whole lacks serious literary,
artistic, political, scientific value, then it can be defined as
obscene. But if they can say that somehow
it has a literary or scientific value as a part of a novel, then
it's not considered to be obscene and therefore allowable
to be in libraries for anyone of all ages.
And just a quick note about how this all happened was that she
lives in Hillsborough County, Florida, and she's been fighting
about this. And eventually the commissioner
of education got word of what was going on because this
there's a legislator in Florida, Dana Traci, who was in the
Florida House of Representatives.
Julie was sending information about the content of some of
these books to Dana, and she started posting on social media
about how disgusting and deviant this all was.
And then eventually the attorney general in Florida saw what she
was sharing. The Superintendent responded by
asking the to be asking to come to the meeting at the state
level to explain why he wasn't doing anything about it.
And so essentially what's happened now is that the
attorney general of Florida has spoken up.
So we have a short clip from him from a a press conference that
he gave last week saying what he's doing.
I will tell you that Office of Parental Rights, while we're
only a couple weeks open, we are already busy already receiving
input from the public and taking action.
Just last week we sent a letter to Hillsborough County notifying
them that there's harmful sexualized content in the school
system there pornographic in nature.
We were delighted that it only took a day for them to get that
harmful content out of the the schools and a couple counties
have quickly followed suit. So this is just one amazing
example I take of one woman who's who's a mother who was
just concerned about what her children were required to read
at school. And she's made a difference at
county levels and it's spreading to more counties throughout the
state. Now the attorney general has
stepped in to sort of push this forward.
So we have just a last screenshot here of a tweet that
she posted so you can follow her on X seeing that, you know, OK,
this is great that they're taking these actions, but she's
still expecting to want to see more.
And she hopes that it continues in this direction.
But this is just one mother doing something incredible.
And I'm very proud now to be a member of the board of the World
Library Association, Brian. So I hope I can do even more.
Very much and what a brilliant place to end on.
We've got to shine light into the darkness and we've got to
take the top off this terrible grooming of children.
Children are our future. So this is clearly an area which
we've got to focus on. But overall the good news is
that that rules based international order is telling
us they're running late with their plans and that is because
of increasing push back. And if we can stay discerning,
we can work out when we're watching planned demonstrations
in order to put pit one side against the other so that
ultimately the government and the powers behind it rule, then
we're doing extremely well. So be kind to your fellow man
and let's be really discerning about who the bad people are and
who the good people are. And we should test one another
as to what direction we're going in.
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