1 00:00:08,299 --> 00:00:11,700 Good afternoon. Today is Monday the 29th of 2 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,400 April 2024, just after one o 'clock. Welcome 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,140 to UK Column News. I'm your host, Brian Garrish, 4 00:00:17,420 --> 00:00:20,880 and I'm delighted today to be joined by Diane McCaddy, 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,060 speaking from Scotland, and Mark Anderson, speaking from 6 00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:28,800 the United States. Welcome to you both. So, 7 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,260 Diane, we're going to bring you in straight away 8 00:00:31,260 --> 00:00:34,040 because we've got some really interesting events 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,020 unfolding north of the border, and it looks as 10 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:42,080 though Humza is a little bit wobbly. It 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,880 looks like he has finally fallen off his scooter once 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:46,620 and for all, Brian. I'm really happy to say that. 13 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:49,180 So, just to summarize how we 14 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:52,480 got to this point, just an hour ago, he officially 15 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,680 announced Invute House, which is the official 16 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,200 residence of the First Minister of Scotland, that 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,580 he is stepping down as First Minister and will 18 00:00:59,580 --> 00:01:02,160 only remain in post until his replacement is found. 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,500 It's been an interesting several 20 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:06,720 days in Scottish politics, and I've been watching it 21 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,180 very closely. It started out with their 22 00:01:09,180 --> 00:01:11,480 fallout with the Scottish Greens, where they were 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,120 looking at the climate issues. So, 24 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:16,380 the Greens were saying they wanted this net zero agenda 25 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:18,840 to go on, and S &P were saying it's not possible. 26 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,260 So, S &P pulled out of that 27 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:23,360 agreement, which made them a majority coalition 28 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,420 government in Scotland. But it seems as though the 29 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:29,660 issue with the climate has not been the only thing. 30 00:01:29,780 --> 00:01:30,780 There's also been the gender 31 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:33,240 identity issues, which again, the Greens and the 32 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,400 S &P were having some issues around agreeing on, 33 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:39,360 but really they should have been a nationalist party, 34 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,540 but they were putting all of these identity politics 35 00:01:41,540 --> 00:01:44,460 in front of the idea of nationalism and in Scottish 36 00:01:44,460 --> 00:01:47,000 independence. So, there have been two 37 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,260 confidence votes that were supposed to be coming up 38 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:51,740 this week in Scotland. One started by the Tories, 39 00:01:51,940 --> 00:01:54,340 which was no confidence in the First Minister himself. 40 00:01:55,020 --> 00:01:56,540 The second one was the 41 00:01:56,540 --> 00:01:58,600 government in general, which is going to be brought 42 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,140 forth by Labour. The Greens said over the 43 00:02:01,140 --> 00:02:03,700 weekend that they would vote against any vote of 44 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:06,580 confidence in favour of Hamza or in favour of 45 00:02:06,580 --> 00:02:09,199 anything that he's supporting. And 46 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,100 because of the way the mathematics works out, 47 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,300 there's no way that he could get enough votes 48 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:15,360 needed. There was the possibility of 49 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,280 Ashregan who defected to the Alba Party, which is 50 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,920 Alex Simmons also nationalist party a while 51 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,000 ago, but she did not also agree with what he was 52 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,420 doing. He certainly wasn't on the 53 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:29,120 side of the Tories because they all said that, you 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,140 know, why should we support him when he's been calling 55 00:02:31,140 --> 00:02:35,200 in the last several months to get all Tory MSPs out 56 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,260 of Scotland, kind of forgetting that we are 57 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:39,260 still part of the UK up here. So, 58 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,700 it seems as though he just doesn't have enough friends 59 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:44,260 or anyone backing him. So, he really didn't have any 60 00:02:44,260 --> 00:02:47,840 choice, Brian, but to step down. Incredible 61 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,740 events and I'm going to be watching it with interest 62 00:02:50,740 --> 00:02:53,960 because I felt for a great many years that the aim of 63 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,500 politics inside UK was to break the union apart. And 64 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:02,560 so, further trouble inside Scotland itself, I think is 65 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,180 welcomed by many people who are following the globalist 66 00:03:06,180 --> 00:03:09,280 agenda. That's my personal opinion. And 67 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,260 let's move on to the subject of universities and 68 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:17,860 academics because some of his policies been impinging 69 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:21,080 on that, I believe. Yeah, absolutely. And 70 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,680 just as a bit of a segue into that, I was watching 71 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,960 the resignation speech that he just gave leading up to 72 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,400 coming under the news. And what he was straight into 73 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,640 what I'm going to talk about, quote, people who 74 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:38,460 looked like me, so not white, were not in 75 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:40,880 positions of political influence, let alone leading 76 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,080 governments when I was younger. But 77 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,180 we now live in a UK that has a British Hindu Prime 78 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:50,200 Minister, a Black Welsh First Minister, and for a 79 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,400 little while longer, a Scottish Asian First 80 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,660 Minister of this country. So, 81 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,500 for those who decry that multiculturalism has failed 82 00:03:57,500 --> 00:03:59,700 across the UK, I would suggest the evidence is 83 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:02,260 quite the contrary. And that is something we should 84 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:06,300 all celebrate. So what happened recently is 85 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:08,640 this was in the Daily Mail just over the weekend. 86 00:04:09,820 --> 00:04:11,500 What's happening is that academics 87 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:13,960 across the UK are getting cut, their jobs are getting 88 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,240 cut, including people like me, saying that they are 89 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,760 in favour of hiring DEI consultants, executives, with 90 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,780 their salaries exceeding, you know, up to 100 ,000 91 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:30,200 pounds a year, which is even more than a professor 92 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,120 like me makes. And so the vice chancellors are 93 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,380 doing this in favour of subject -based academics and 94 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:41,200 subject -based teaching. And so this is really difficult 95 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,800 for a lot of reasons. We don't really know what 96 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,800 universities are prioritising, but what I 97 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,520 want to talk about in relation to that is what's 98 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,020 happening in the schools at lower levels in the UK and 99 00:04:53,020 --> 00:04:54,660 what students are going to be learning in schools and 100 00:04:54,660 --> 00:04:56,580 what they reach university level. So 101 00:04:56,580 --> 00:04:59,100 as a result of all this with the departments being 102 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,060 shut down with academics who have subject expertise 103 00:05:02,060 --> 00:05:06,700 being cancelled or losing their jobs completely, the 104 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,600 EDI, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Workforce 105 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,360 seems to be increasing while those of us with 106 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,500 subject expertise appear to be going away. So 107 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,080 here I would like to bring in Dr. Alka 108 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,220 Kuthbert. She is, her family is from 109 00:05:21,220 --> 00:05:24,280 India originally. She's British. She 110 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:28,260 has been cancelled several times for making people 111 00:05:28,260 --> 00:05:32,240 feel unsafe because she doesn't believe in 112 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:34,940 discrimination one way or the other. In 113 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:36,620 fact, she can see that she's the director of this 114 00:05:36,620 --> 00:05:39,060 organisation based in London, Club Dome, Dividus, 115 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,760 which is really, truly based on equality and let's 116 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,020 all work together. Everyone has something important to 117 00:05:46,020 --> 00:05:47,700 say. Everyone has value. We 118 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,820 don't need to be prioritising one way or the 119 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:52,000 other on issues of race. So 120 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,060 next I'd like to show a video that, thankfully, my 121 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:57,580 husband John McCathey recorded and edited. I 122 00:05:57,580 --> 00:06:00,800 was presenting with her in March at a Scottish Union 123 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,180 for Education event and I'd just like to play first a 124 00:06:04,180 --> 00:06:06,560 short clip of what she said in our session and 125 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,800 then I'd like to talk about that a bit. They 126 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,800 sat and listened. They sat and allowed themselves 127 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,040 to be lectured in the head for two hours and then all 128 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,700 the primary school teachers were given boxes to go to 129 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:22,760 their classrooms and remove every book that was not 130 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,260 racially representative. So, which they did and the 131 00:06:28,260 --> 00:06:30,040 fact that the friend that told me this, who was a 132 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,080 teacher there, was almost tears as she was taking 133 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:34,380 about. So ashamed. She 134 00:06:34,380 --> 00:06:37,520 said she felt violated because she had spent so 135 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,040 many years working up lesson plans and schemes of 136 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,300 work and she knew the books that she had were 137 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:47,460 traditional fairy tales and stories of the kind of 138 00:06:47,460 --> 00:06:51,500 books that Cambridge and Oxbridge neuroscientists are 139 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:54,960 now saying helps children read and they were going 140 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:57,300 to get moved in. They had to think of other 141 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:58,760 books to replace them with. That 142 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,460 was the afternoon session once they got rid of their 143 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:03,920 books. And of course, you know, there 144 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,020 isn't, you know, probably there may well be books of 145 00:07:07,020 --> 00:07:10,240 authors by of color which are brilliant, which are 146 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,000 lovely, but the work hasn't been done to look for 147 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,480 them. There's been no actual research or 148 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,340 scholarly work done on looking for them. It's 149 00:07:19,340 --> 00:07:23,160 just find anybody with the right skin color and the 150 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,580 right mongingly Western name. And 151 00:07:25,580 --> 00:07:28,660 you get Laura, what's the name? Alan 152 00:07:28,660 --> 00:07:34,120 Henry Allen type books in there? Like 153 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,440 Stuart said, you cannot educate if this belief 154 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:45,620 system is allowed to continue. And 155 00:07:45,620 --> 00:07:48,500 that's my concern is that, you know, we're replacing 156 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:51,560 education, subject -based education, actually teaching 157 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,640 students to be able to do things with these ideologies 158 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,960 and these beliefs. And so as a discussant in that 159 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,180 panel, what I did was I replied with an academic 160 00:08:02,180 --> 00:08:04,340 paper that I have known for several years, which 161 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:06,860 comes out of cognitive psychology in the 1970s, 162 00:08:06,860 --> 00:08:10,360 which found it's been cited maybe 10 ,000 times in the 163 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,220 academic literature, very well tested. And 164 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:16,000 what they found was that children describe things 165 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,980 with natural categories. So somebody sees a person as 166 00:08:19,980 --> 00:08:22,780 a child who hasn't learned that, you know, people are 167 00:08:22,780 --> 00:08:24,720 supposed to have different labels or go into different 168 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,000 categories. You see a person, you say 169 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,400 that's a person, you don't say that's a black person 170 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,480 or a white person, you don't say it's a mammal, 171 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,440 you say it's somewhere that is the most recognizable 172 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,780 category. And so from that, we can see 173 00:08:36,780 --> 00:08:39,500 that it just doesn't make any sense, even from a 174 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:41,940 learning or cognition perspective, to be able to 175 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:44,360 teach students or to be able to tell them, this 176 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,080 person is black, this person is white, this 177 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,880 person is this other thing. But 178 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,020 what is the literature saying in more recent times 179 00:08:50,020 --> 00:08:54,140 from education and from my field of informatics? Well, 180 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,680 we're looking at how to teach children to be anti 181 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:00,460 -racist, which of course is racist in itself, because 182 00:09:00,460 --> 00:09:02,620 we're saying that people are different for different 183 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:05,380 reasons, and mainly because of their skin color. So 184 00:09:05,380 --> 00:09:08,000 we're talking here about how to use books to teach 185 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,780 black children that they are different or different 186 00:09:11,780 --> 00:09:13,380 people of different races are different. And 187 00:09:13,380 --> 00:09:16,340 here's why. This one was a particularly 188 00:09:16,340 --> 00:09:22,220 interesting paper using anti -racism educational methods 189 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:25,640 during COVID, right? So everything was bad enough 190 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,060 during COVID for education. And 191 00:09:27,060 --> 00:09:30,520 now we've got to put anti -racism on top of teaching 192 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,660 students that were all dying from this apparently 193 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:35,820 raging pandemic. So the layers of 194 00:09:35,820 --> 00:09:39,020 interestingness, I guess you could say, just get worse 195 00:09:39,020 --> 00:09:41,360 and worse. I have a couple of these 196 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,940 books that I actually have here in print next to me. 197 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,200 This one is one from Laura 198 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,760 Henry Allen, who was the author that Dr. Cufford 199 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,860 mentioned in the segment I showed, called My Skin Your 200 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:54,780 Skin. And I'm not sure how well you 201 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:56,740 can see the picture I've taken from one of those 202 00:09:56,740 --> 00:09:59,240 pages. But what you can see is that 203 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,260 the word white, my cousin is white, is a lowercase 204 00:10:02,260 --> 00:10:05,040 w. And you can see my friend is 205 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,080 black is an uppercase and the same with Chinese and 206 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,180 the same with Ghanaian. So we can see here the agenda 207 00:10:12,180 --> 00:10:15,800 going back to Hans's point around multiculturalism and 208 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,020 different people of different races being in 209 00:10:18,020 --> 00:10:19,560 charge. And we can see what's happening 210 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:22,180 to what is traditionally a white country here in the 211 00:10:22,180 --> 00:10:25,280 UK. The next one I have here is a 212 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,880 lift the flap questions and answers about racism. So 213 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,220 we're talking about children who are reading picture 214 00:10:31,220 --> 00:10:33,940 books young enough to have things like pop -ups and 215 00:10:33,940 --> 00:10:36,000 lift -ups and things where we would expect children to 216 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,840 be learning about, you know, what were the 217 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:39,940 dinosaurs? What are the seasons of the 218 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:41,140 year? The things that we expect 219 00:10:41,140 --> 00:10:44,160 children to need to learn at very young ages. Now 220 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,740 we're teaching them how to be activists. And 221 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:48,500 it says there how to become part of the 222 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,020 situation. So again, we're teaching them 223 00:10:52,020 --> 00:10:53,820 once again that they have to show that they're 224 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:55,300 different. They have to do these different 225 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:58,180 things. Here's one from children who are 226 00:10:58,180 --> 00:11:02,280 maybe a few years older about how to do art 227 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:07,040 projects that allow us to explore anti -racism. And 228 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,140 this is from a chapter on advocacy from the book. So 229 00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:15,220 we see here that it's not just about anti -racism. 230 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:16,940 It's about all of the social 231 00:11:16,940 --> 00:11:19,080 justice issues that they're supposed to be concerned 232 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,980 with. So instead of making, you 233 00:11:21,980 --> 00:11:24,740 know, creative art projects that express whatever it is 234 00:11:24,740 --> 00:11:27,360 that they're interested in, there's a whole list of 235 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,700 all of the things that adults don't even know what 236 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,880 to do with addiction, ageism, animal oil for 237 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,500 bullying, censorship, guidance, civil rights, it 238 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:37,600 goes on and on. And so these are all the 239 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,900 things that these kids are encouraged to do art 240 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:42,860 projects about including a specific set of instructions 241 00:11:42,860 --> 00:11:46,860 about how to make that black fist fighting for 242 00:11:46,860 --> 00:11:49,380 equity. And remember equity and equality 243 00:11:49,380 --> 00:11:52,240 are different things. We are teaching equity, not 244 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,560 equality. And this is what our children 245 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:58,440 are expected to be exposed to as they grow up 246 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,760 nowadays. So, Brian, I don't know about 247 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,640 you, but I'm happy that I grew up in a different 248 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,020 generation. Diane, thank you very much. Well, 249 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,620 yes, I think I could say that as well as we see 250 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:10,280 things unfold around us. But 251 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,020 it's very interesting as you were talking through in 252 00:12:14,020 --> 00:12:17,060 detail about what you're seeing and what's in the 253 00:12:17,060 --> 00:12:19,500 books for very young children. Somebody 254 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,620 commented in our chat box and said it's cultural 255 00:12:22,620 --> 00:12:26,560 revolution unfolding right in front of our eyes. And 256 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:29,020 that is exactly what it is. And 257 00:12:29,020 --> 00:12:31,500 I'll say I'm very encouraged that here we are 258 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,720 in 2024. And it's obvious that many, 259 00:12:35,020 --> 00:12:37,900 many people are seeing that something's wrong and many 260 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,680 people are starting to see exactly what it is. But 261 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:46,420 what is situation north of the border that we've now 262 00:12:46,420 --> 00:12:50,260 got the friction between the identity of people is 263 00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:54,280 dominating politics, not solving everyday problems of 264 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,120 who's got a job, who's got a house to live in, who 265 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,400 can feed themselves. This has all been overtaken by 266 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,360 the woke agenda. And at the same time, we're 267 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,740 now starting to get rid of academics from the 268 00:13:06,740 --> 00:13:10,780 institutions which should be providing the best education 269 00:13:10,780 --> 00:13:15,120 for our children. It's pretty extraordinary. Dianne, 270 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,680 a quick question for you. Are 271 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:20,340 there other professionals around you who are also 272 00:13:20,340 --> 00:13:22,360 seeing this? So I know that you've said 273 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,600 before you're feeling quite isolated, but are there any 274 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,300 other academics standing up? Not 275 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:33,200 that I've seen. Obviously, a friend of the column 276 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,620 like Norman Benton, but he's retired. He 277 00:13:35,620 --> 00:13:37,840 has the freedom to do this. I 278 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,640 do belong to a couple of organizations one is called 279 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,820 the Academics for Academic Freedom. So 280 00:13:42,820 --> 00:13:44,360 I'm on the member of the steering committee of the 281 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:46,760 Edinburgh branch up here. I'm 282 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:48,040 also a member of the Scottish Union for 283 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,440 Education, but of course, that entails all levels of 284 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,060 education, not just universities. So 285 00:13:53,060 --> 00:13:54,820 those of us in the Academics for Academic 286 00:13:54,820 --> 00:13:56,880 Freedom group are doing what we can, but we are a 287 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,880 very, very small minority and a big sea of people 288 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,520 that are just going right along with the agenda. And 289 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,560 I don't think that they're seeing what's coming for 290 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:08,140 them, unfortunately. Okay, Dianne, thank you very much 291 00:14:08,140 --> 00:14:11,880 for that report. Keep going. Now, 292 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,440 we're just going to move over to Ukraine, which is 293 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,580 obviously a horrific war ongoing minute by minute, 294 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,280 hour by hour, day by day. But 295 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,080 of course, in the West, in general, the legacy media 296 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,080 simply not reporting reality. But 297 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,900 unfortunately, this is also the case by the Ukrainians 298 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:34,640 own internal media. So let's have a look at a 299 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,960 couple of reports. The Kiev independent we've used 300 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,780 before. So if you have a look at the 301 00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:44,060 sidebar, it's talking about Latvia donating energy 302 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:47,380 equipment to Ukraine. After Russian attacks on 303 00:14:47,380 --> 00:14:50,840 infrastructure, it's talking about military intelligence 304 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,180 where telegram is blocking several Ukrainian government 305 00:14:54,180 --> 00:14:58,620 chatbots. It's got general staff telling 306 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:04,560 or claiming that Russia has lost 467 ,000 plus troops 307 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,180 in Ukraine since February the 24th, 2022. And 308 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:12,240 it goes on to talk about the actual number of 309 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,680 Russians killed in Ukraine. But 310 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,540 of course, the reality is that Ukraine is suffering 311 00:15:17,540 --> 00:15:20,500 very badly on the front. Because 312 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:25,400 of the huge excess of Russian artillery over 313 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,560 Ukrainian artillery, and the fact that Ukraine is now 314 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,140 short of munitions, casualties on the Ukrainian 315 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:34,360 side, much higher than the Russians. Here's 316 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,520 the Kiev post just come on screen. Russia 317 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,340 must withdraw from Ukraine plain and simple. And 318 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:45,300 this is based on a statement by Zelensky. So 319 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:49,660 even in the Ukrainian media itself, we're not seeing 320 00:15:49,660 --> 00:15:52,900 realistic reporting about what's actually happening on 321 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:57,140 the battlefield. All of the reports are as if 322 00:15:57,140 --> 00:16:01,320 the war is continuing largely in Ukraine's favor. 323 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:03,160 And if it's not entirely in 324 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,020 their favor, it will be all right at some stage in 325 00:16:06,020 --> 00:16:09,960 the future. And Ukraine will retake Crimea, 326 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,140 complete nonsense. If we have a look at Western 327 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:16,740 reports, I've just taken one newspaper article here. 328 00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:18,700 If we can pop that one on 329 00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:22,980 screen, please. Ukraine, Russia, war live. Putin's 330 00:16:22,980 --> 00:16:26,480 troops advance as Kiev's commander -in -chief says the 331 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,240 frontline situation is worsening. Well, 332 00:16:29,260 --> 00:16:31,700 this is the independent, they've virtually got it 333 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,100 there. But if we compare it with the 334 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:36,960 really accurate reports that have been coming in from 335 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,560 social media, so this is military summary channel, 336 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,940 we've got Weeb Union. What are they talking about 337 00:16:43,940 --> 00:16:48,220 Russian breakthroughs on key areas of the front? And 338 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:50,700 of course, the Russians are managing to do this by the 339 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:53,760 fact that they can use an extraordinary amount of 340 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,840 artillery to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions 341 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,980 before they move forward. But 342 00:17:00,980 --> 00:17:04,400 also it's now very clear that Russians are able to 343 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,520 deploy large numbers of very large guided aerial 344 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,119 bombs, which are simply destroying the Ukrainian 345 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:15,740 strongpoints. So massive Ukrainian casualties. 346 00:17:16,380 --> 00:17:18,380 But this is not being reported 347 00:17:18,380 --> 00:17:21,920 at all in Western media, or it appears in Ukrainian 348 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,500 media. If we have a look at the 349 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:29,480 UK's Ministry of Defence, really just pure propaganda, 350 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,300 I've chosen a little bit from the Twitter or X as 351 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,500 it's now called. But what are they talking 352 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,400 about? Since 2023, there's been a record 353 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,880 30 % increase in Russian men, aged 31 to 59, with 354 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,180 disabilities. So the British Ministry of 355 00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:51,760 Defence crowing about injuries to Russian 356 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,820 servicemen and women, the one that's just come in on 357 00:17:56,820 --> 00:18:01,500 screen, we've now got reports on the number of 358 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:04,740 civilians that have been killed in Ukrainian areas. 359 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:06,880 So there's nothing which is a 360 00:18:07,699 --> 00:18:10,800 substance about the war on the ground. There 361 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,440 is nothing talking about the advances of the 362 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,520 Russians, which is now happening on an hour by 363 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:21,060 hour, day by day basis. So we pour in the weapons and 364 00:18:21,060 --> 00:18:24,800 munitions, we extend the war, but the outcome is 365 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,680 clear. Ukraine is going to lose, and 366 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,400 Ukraine is being devastated as this happens. Now, 367 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,000 something that's been occurring over the last 368 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,560 couple of days that's caused the West immense 369 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:42,420 embarrassment is the fact that captured Western 370 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:45,280 equipment has now been taken to Russia. So 371 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:50,360 let's just play this little clip from the mail. I'll 372 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,160 talk you through it. But essentially, here is Western 373 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,100 equipment, which Russia has taken off the battlefield, 374 00:18:56,780 --> 00:19:00,800 cleaned it up, and has now put it on display for 375 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,300 Russians to see that the Western wonder weapons, 376 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:09,020 including the German and the American main battle 377 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:12,560 tanks have simply failed to make any difference at all. 378 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:16,480 Abraham's on screen, and, sorry, 379 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,520 Leopard on screen, but also the Abraham's tanks have 380 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,600 completely failed to deliver the successes, which the 381 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,060 West and the US in particular, as said, would 382 00:19:27,060 --> 00:19:30,400 come with the weapons. So as long as the war goes 383 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,520 on, and as long as the West, the UK, the US, and 384 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,900 the EU pump in the weapons, the more Ukrainians 385 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:40,780 are going to die, and the less is going to be left 386 00:19:40,780 --> 00:19:43,940 to that country. Mark, I'm going to bring you in 387 00:19:43,940 --> 00:19:45,780 at this point because you've been having a look 388 00:19:45,780 --> 00:19:49,720 at really the emergence of a new Cold War. But 389 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,160 this one is a hot Cold War, if that's not too 390 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,040 confusing a statement. Thanks, 391 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:59,440 Brian. Good day to everyone. Yes, 392 00:19:59,540 --> 00:20:01,760 the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, as I've 393 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,160 noted, is among the busiest, if not the 394 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,260 busiest, globalist think tanks in the entire world, 395 00:20:07,260 --> 00:20:09,300 let alone in the United States. So 396 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,540 I follow them very closely. In 397 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:15,120 real time, I covered it firsthand last Thursday, I 398 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,680 believe it was, it was April 24, if memory serves. 399 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:19,820 But New Cold War is a 400 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:22,060 conversation with David Sanger, that's a referral 401 00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:25,140 to a veteran New York Times reporter. New 402 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:29,060 Cold Wars in the plural means, as he explained to 403 00:20:29,060 --> 00:20:33,160 Eval Dalder, the CEO of the Chicago Council, the 404 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,220 old Cold War was basically binary. The 405 00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:41,620 US versus the USSR, and it was the arms race and that 406 00:20:41,620 --> 00:20:47,800 big strategic standoff. The New Cold Wars is plural, 407 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,460 where the US is, or the West, you might say, led 408 00:20:51,460 --> 00:20:55,640 by the US, is facing not just Russia, but China, and 409 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,200 now Iran is aligned with Russia and China. So 410 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,360 without going into too much geopolitical shuffling, 411 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,460 that's what David Sanger explained. This 412 00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:07,360 slide here explains a little bit about David 413 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:10,140 Sanger himself. He's the White House and 414 00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:12,420 national security correspondent for the Times, 415 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,880 reporting on President Biden and his administration with 416 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,660 a particular focus on foreign policy, and that 417 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:21,400 intersects with technology politics and superpower 418 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,440 conflict. He is a rather candid 419 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,920 reporter, and he had some things to say, Brian, that 420 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,080 underscore the idea that actually Russia is doing 421 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,260 quite well in this conflict and Ukraine is losing. He 422 00:21:37,260 --> 00:21:39,660 didn't say Ukraine is absolutely losing, but he 423 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,920 did concede that they're not on the winning side. 424 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,940 This is a photo I took here, a 425 00:21:44,940 --> 00:21:48,240 couple original photos through the screenshot 426 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,140 function of the program that's Sanger on the left 427 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:54,000 with Eval Dalder. Now moving on from there, I'll 428 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,200 just explain a couple things before we get into 429 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,140 a couple quick video clips. Another 430 00:21:59,140 --> 00:22:02,860 thing that Mr. Sanger mentioned of interest, 431 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,560 you've reflected back to the George W. Bush 432 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,580 years of 2002, Brian, and mentioned that at that time 433 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:13,100 there was even a NATO Russia Council, which later 434 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,280 became the NATO Ukraine Council, no surprise there, 435 00:22:16,540 --> 00:22:21,140 and there was US Russia counterterrorism coordination 436 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:25,160 meetings just after 9 -11, and Sanger was covering and 437 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:29,960 Russia was considering joining NATO back then. Mr. 438 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,220 Sanger reminded the audience, and 439 00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:35,240 Russia was considering joining the European Union. 440 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,400 He's saying how quickly we 441 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,520 forget these strange geopolitical circumstances, 442 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,940 and he said that the West misread Putin, thinking that 443 00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:48,940 he would not be aggressive militarily, that he would 444 00:22:48,940 --> 00:22:52,140 not want to risk the oil and gas revenues that are 445 00:22:52,140 --> 00:22:56,220 such an important part of the Russian economy. And 446 00:22:56,220 --> 00:22:59,280 he also claimed that the US failed to understand 447 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,020 that China would act like it's democratizing its 448 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:06,080 country by allowing more local elections through 449 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,720 different means, but it was really just a steam valve, 450 00:23:08,980 --> 00:23:12,680 and China was acting as if it's democratizing, but the 451 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,940 Chinese Communist Party actually isn't. That's 452 00:23:14,940 --> 00:23:18,240 another point Mr. Sanger made, an interesting one 453 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,440 to consider. And now we'll play the video 454 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,620 clips, and then I'll have some commentary from there. 455 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:28,380 Bush and Putin were talking 456 00:23:28,380 --> 00:23:31,920 about Putin joining the European Union. You 457 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,340 remember the discussions about whether Russia would 458 00:23:34,340 --> 00:23:37,960 join NATO? There was a NATO -Russia Council 459 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,100 inside the gate of NATO. It's 460 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:44,240 now the NATO -Ukrainian Council, but at that time 461 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,480 it did not seem out of the realm of possibility 462 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,320 that they would join NATO. There's 463 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,420 a similar and parallel story we'll get to later 464 00:23:52,420 --> 00:24:00,900 about China, but we went from that 22 years ago to 465 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,860 Putin warning in 2007 at the Munich Security 466 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:08,280 Conference that there were parts of Peter the Great's 467 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,580 Russia that had been separated from the 468 00:24:11,580 --> 00:24:15,040 motherland and had to come back, and we ignored it. 469 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,680 And seven years later, this 470 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,760 chapter called the Seven -Year Itch with apologies to 471 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:26,680 Marilyn Monroe, he takes Crimea, and there are no 472 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,460 sanctions for a year. And then after there are a few 473 00:24:31,460 --> 00:24:34,580 mild ones, the Germans immediately sign up, 474 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,220 Chancellor Merkel signs the Nord Stream 2 agreement to 475 00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:43,060 bring gas directly from Russia into Germany, going 476 00:24:43,060 --> 00:24:47,040 around Ukraine, so they got none of the revenue, and 477 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,140 she calls Putin a reliable supplier. So 478 00:24:51,140 --> 00:24:54,440 what was he supposed to conclude if he tried to 479 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:59,640 take all of Ukraine? That the US would kind of roll 480 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,200 over with NATO? They complain a lot, they do a 481 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,980 few sanctions, and they'd go away. He 482 00:25:04,980 --> 00:25:11,760 was not taking a wild bet. Some 483 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,040 interesting remarks there. It's 484 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,840 interesting on the one hand, Brian, that he 485 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,600 admitted that there's a historical reason, going 486 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,720 back to Peter the Great, that Russia might want to 487 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,520 acquire or reacquire parts of Ukraine. We've 488 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,340 often said that whether you agree with Putin or not, 489 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,840 he does have matters of state and statecraft to 490 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,340 consider in this, but it's also interesting that he 491 00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:40,340 just says while they invaded Crimea, the Russian 492 00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:43,640 story is that there was, of course, Russian -leaning 493 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,740 people in Crimea, just like in eastern Ukraine, that 494 00:25:46,740 --> 00:25:50,000 really desired to be back with Mother Russia, and 495 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,440 that Ukraine, the Kiev government, was basically a 496 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,240 criminal imposter regime. So that's some things that we 497 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,540 could counter or offer as counterpoint to that video 498 00:26:00,540 --> 00:26:02,000 clip. Now we have one other video 499 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,980 clip of particular interests. We 500 00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:09,720 sent last year a bunch of American -made drones and 501 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,700 gave them to the Ukrainians for both surveillance and 502 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,320 delivering ordnance. By that time, the Russians who 503 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,160 had terrible electronic warfare at the beginning of 504 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,760 the war had figured out what they were doing wrong. 505 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,640 They took every American drone 506 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,860 down in about 90 minutes. This 507 00:26:29,860 --> 00:26:32,420 was one of those programs where some good contractor 508 00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:35,360 from Silicon Valley had come along and said, Dad, 509 00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:37,640 don't worry, these things are invulnerable. This 510 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,300 is going to work. It didn't last from two hours. 511 00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:45,300 That's a lesson. It's 512 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,100 a lesson. I mean, part of the lesson 513 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:52,220 is the US is getting a lot of good information on 514 00:26:52,220 --> 00:26:54,440 the cheap, including the destruction of much of the 515 00:26:54,440 --> 00:27:01,960 Russian army. Yeah. So there again, it shows 516 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,380 the US failure on the technological realm. Much 517 00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:08,260 could be said about this. The 518 00:27:08,260 --> 00:27:11,560 speaker, Mr. Sanger, lastly, just for this 519 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,080 segment, Brian mentioned that Google had a project 520 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,200 for drone targeting, but it ultimately rejected it 521 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,680 called Project MAVEN, MAVEN. That 522 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,800 was moved to Palantir in about 12 to 15 other 523 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,620 contractors. Palantir, Alex Carp, attends 524 00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:32,320 Bilderberg every year. He's the head of Palantir. By 525 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,600 the time the Ukrainian war breaks out, they've got 526 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,440 this incredible picture of how troops are laid out. 527 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:41,120 Anyway, Project MAVEN is all about 528 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:44,780 less human involvement in drone targeting and more AI 529 00:27:44,780 --> 00:27:49,000 targeting. That's precisely what failed versus 530 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,560 the Russian army. So there'll probably be more 531 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,520 on this that I can unpack for maybe one more report 532 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,660 next week, Brian, but that's sufficient for now. 533 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,060 Thank you very much for that, 534 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,680 Mark. And the other thing that came 535 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,460 into my mind as you were talking is that some people 536 00:28:04,460 --> 00:28:09,600 have always felt that Putin and the West were all 537 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,640 working together. That the war in Ukraine even 538 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,280 was something that the Russians wanted to happen. 539 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,200 And Russia is really working 540 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,940 with the West. But when you start to dig into 541 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:24,940 it and you see this massive change from Russia 542 00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:28,860 coming on board with NATO and the European Union to 543 00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:34,840 Russia at war in the Eastern part of Europe, we 544 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,760 start to see that things are by no means as simple 545 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,940 as that. So a lot more to discuss, but 546 00:28:39,940 --> 00:28:42,660 I just wanted to make that quick point. 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So we'll leave that there. 570 00:29:49,740 --> 00:29:51,640 Now, I just wanted to say once 571 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,600 again that we've got the playing God video, Jackie 572 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,340 Devois and our team and investigation into medical 573 00:29:58,340 --> 00:30:02,200 democide in the UK. That's now being seen by a very 574 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,860 large number of people worldwide. But 575 00:30:04,860 --> 00:30:07,900 you can still click on the UK column website and have 576 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:12,640 a look at that. Tomorrow at one o 'clock, I've got 577 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,000 an interview which is in my gutsy women's series. 578 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,460 It's with a lady called Rosie. 579 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,800 And she's going to be talking 580 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,120 about the White Rose Organization, which is doing 581 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,640 some really excellent work in educating people about 582 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,460 what is happening in the UK and indeed worldwide, 583 00:30:33,220 --> 00:30:36,740 where our society is being attacked and broken down. 584 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,860 And ultimately, what can we do 585 00:30:39,860 --> 00:30:42,140 about it? So this is one lady's story 586 00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:46,160 about how she went from watching to standing up and 587 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,500 be counted. So please join me for that. 588 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:50,820 Now, where does that bring us? 589 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,520 It brings us on to the topic 590 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,800 of mainstream media, legacy media. And 591 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,420 a big thank you to one of our viewers who sent me 592 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:03,080 over the weekend, a link through to a Times article. 593 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,580 Let's bring it up on screen. So 594 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:08,040 here we are. It had it's a long article. 595 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:09,480 It's got a lot of images in 596 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,600 it. The headline is exposed to the 597 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,040 illegal school teaching children conspiracy theories. 598 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,340 At a grimy former nightclub, 599 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,060 pupils are told how to survive a plot against 600 00:31:23,060 --> 00:31:26,260 humanity. This is what our undercover 601 00:31:26,260 --> 00:31:29,980 reporter saw. So let's start off by having 602 00:31:29,980 --> 00:31:32,260 a look at the embedded video. I've 603 00:31:32,260 --> 00:31:34,320 broken it into two clips. Let's 604 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,600 have a look at the first one. This 605 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,480 is not a playgroup. If you're not learning, there's 606 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,360 no point in us doing this. And 607 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,700 at the end of the day, we're bringing up a 608 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:54,240 generation of children that do know the truth. They 609 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,600 won't have to be woken up because they've never been 610 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,740 asleep. An undercover investigation by 611 00:32:00,740 --> 00:32:03,280 the Times has discovered a school in Manchester being 612 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,720 run by a group of conspiracy theorists under 613 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,820 the radar of the authorities. I 614 00:32:08,820 --> 00:32:11,900 applied for a teaching post at Universal Kids via an 615 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:14,980 advert I saw in the light, a newspaper that peddled 616 00:32:14,980 --> 00:32:18,520 conspiracies and misinformation. I 617 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,120 was invited for an interview by LaDanne 618 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,840 Ratcliffe, a former teacher who set up the school in 619 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,320 2020. Hello, I'm Tong. I'm 620 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,760 here to meet LaDanne. I was out. I 621 00:32:28,768 --> 00:32:31,120 was in the city. Love me to meet you. Ratcliffe 622 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,540 told me that the purpose of the school was to de 623 00:32:33,540 --> 00:32:36,460 -inductrinate pupils from all of the lies that they were 624 00:32:36,460 --> 00:32:39,200 taught by the system. After two interviews and a trial 625 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,560 lesson, I was then offered a position. So, 626 00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:43,120 does it the plague it, aunt? Any 627 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,240 of the both one that side as well? She 628 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,160 helped parents to withdraw their children from 629 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,960 mainstream education, register as home educated, 630 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,180 then send them to Universal Kids. Parents 631 00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:57,600 pay £30 a day for tuition at her school. Teachers 632 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,860 at the school adhere to the Great Reset Theory, a 633 00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:03,300 conspiracy which claims that a shadowy cabal of 634 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:06,120 bureaucrats and financiers are trying to depopulate 635 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,440 and enslave the earth. Well, 636 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,980 it was pretty clear there because he's straight into 637 00:33:12,980 --> 00:33:16,300 the subject of the Great Reset and as far as he's 638 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:19,600 concerned, it's all conspiracy theory. Now, 639 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,740 one of my big criticisms of this piece of work by 640 00:33:22,740 --> 00:33:26,260 the times is, of course, they never get into proper 641 00:33:26,260 --> 00:33:29,200 discussion with the people about why they're doing 642 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,640 what they're doing and what they're seeing worldwide 643 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,600 that means that we should be doing these sorts of 644 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,800 things. So, it's a hit piece. There's 645 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,780 no question of that, but I just wanted to flag up for 646 00:33:41,780 --> 00:33:45,620 our audience that the Great Reset is apparently just a 647 00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:50,800 big conspiracy theory as according to the Times and 648 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,140 the journalists there, Tom Ball. Let's 649 00:33:53,140 --> 00:33:55,520 have a look at the second little clip from the video. 650 00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,540 Headteacher Ackliffe advertised the 651 00:33:59,540 --> 00:34:02,360 school primarily by word of mouth, but also through 652 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,820 social media groups for like -minded conspiracists. 653 00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:24,699 There were 13 children aged 654 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,080 between 8 and 14 whilst I was working at the school 655 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,659 in January, though there have been as many as 28 656 00:34:29,659 --> 00:34:34,100 in the past. Despite this, universal kids have 657 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,100 been able to operate for more than three years 658 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:38,800 without any supervision or intervention from local 659 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,040 authorities or Ofsted, the school's inspectorate. Have 660 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,300 you had much trouble with Ofsted's here? Oh, 661 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,659 no, no. No, I've just told them we're 662 00:34:46,659 --> 00:34:52,380 not, we're not in, we're not doing things that 663 00:34:52,380 --> 00:34:55,820 Ofsted would want. Ofsted inspectors don't have the 664 00:34:55,820 --> 00:34:58,100 power to force their way onto the premises of 665 00:34:58,100 --> 00:35:00,560 suspected legal schools, war -sees and criminating 666 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,200 materials. The inspectorate believes that 667 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,960 there are hundreds of illegal schools in England 668 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,120 exploiting the fact that there is very little 669 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,640 oversight of home -educated children under current 670 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,360 legislation. The vast majority of 671 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,880 institutions prosecuted by Ofsted are religious 672 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,600 schools, but in recent years inspectors have found 673 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,360 a growing number of non -religious schools that have 674 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,460 been set up by individuals radicalized by the COVID -19 675 00:35:24,460 --> 00:35:28,960 pandemic into an anti -state and sometimes conspiratorial 676 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:34,160 ideology. Well, he gets there ultimately 677 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,300 because this is all about regulation of anybody who's 678 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,120 trying to provide an alternative education for 679 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,920 their children and notice how he's now talking about 680 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,460 people who've been radicalized during COVID and 681 00:35:47,460 --> 00:35:49,860 have become anti -state. Diane, 682 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,380 I'll just give you few seconds to come in and 683 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:55,420 comment if there's anything you'd like to say, having 684 00:35:55,420 --> 00:35:57,500 watched those clips. And of course, that's not the 685 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:01,720 full video that the time shown, it is two clips. So 686 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:04,040 there were other points, but what do you think? 687 00:36:05,140 --> 00:36:07,120 Well, Brian, I was just sitting 688 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,420 here laughing partially because I'm about to debunk 689 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:13,260 what they've said here just a few minutes later in the 690 00:36:13,260 --> 00:36:15,220 news. I think it's just absolutely 691 00:36:15,220 --> 00:36:18,460 hilarious. This time's broadcast, whatever 692 00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:20,940 this was, was just absolutely off the mark 693 00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:23,580 when it comes to facts. Absolutely. 694 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,960 Okay. Well, of course, the music in 695 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,800 that report was one of the things that I couldn't help 696 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,720 reacting to because it's that mind -numbing music in 697 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:38,820 the background to allow the propaganda, as far as I'm 698 00:36:38,820 --> 00:36:40,580 concerned, to sink in. Mark, 699 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,340 I'm watching your face. I'll 700 00:36:42,340 --> 00:36:44,700 send to you just a couple of seconds if you'd like 701 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:48,940 to respond. The best thing to say is that 702 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:51,220 they always use this technique of stating 703 00:36:51,220 --> 00:36:55,060 something as if it's self -evidently false. Like 704 00:36:55,060 --> 00:36:58,240 one day, you'll be eating cockroaches if Claus Schwab 705 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,660 has his way. They don't ever look to see 706 00:37:00,660 --> 00:37:02,740 what Claus Schwab had to say. They 707 00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:05,580 just state this, attribute it to the so -called 708 00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:07,940 conspiracy theorists, and make the reader believe 709 00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:12,340 that by definition, what these conspiracy theorists 710 00:37:12,340 --> 00:37:15,920 are saying is false, rather than exploring the issue to 711 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,840 see whether it might have some truth to it. That's 712 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,240 a common technique. Okay, Mark. Thank 713 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:23,360 you very much for that. We're 714 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,940 a good team because you were spot on the point 715 00:37:25,940 --> 00:37:28,440 that I'd lined up. Let's put the slide on screen. 716 00:37:29,140 --> 00:37:31,000 So here's Tom Ball. I 717 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,060 know he does look a bit like Harry Potter, but I 718 00:37:34,060 --> 00:37:36,700 think he is the Times journalist. He 719 00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:39,540 said in a history lesson, I saw the children being 720 00:37:39,540 --> 00:37:42,240 told by their teacher just in that they would one day 721 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:46,640 be eating cockroaches if Claus Schwab, head of the 722 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,220 World Economic Forum and Bill Gates have their way. 723 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,220 So your point is absolutely 724 00:37:51,220 --> 00:37:56,800 correct, Mark, that no investigation into this by 725 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,920 him at all, he simply states things as if it is 726 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,080 fact. He goes on to say, in recent 727 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,060 years, inspectors have found a growing number of non 728 00:38:05,060 --> 00:38:08,440 -religious schools set up by people radicalised during 729 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,900 the COVID -19 pandemic into, and here's the key 730 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:16,420 expression, anti -state and sometimes conspiratorial 731 00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:18,940 ideology. Now, I'm sure if Mike Robinson 732 00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:21,780 was with us, we'd be saying, you've got to watch 733 00:38:21,780 --> 00:38:25,560 out for this anti -state label because more and more 734 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,380 legislation is coming in place to close down anybody 735 00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:31,620 who challenges the state. But 736 00:38:31,620 --> 00:38:33,620 he flags up the real problem. They're 737 00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:35,740 worried about the increase. At 738 00:38:35,740 --> 00:38:38,280 the same time, the number of homeschool children has 739 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:43,060 increased rapidly from 60 ,000 in 2018 to 86 ,000 in 740 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:46,660 2023, according to the most recent figures published by 741 00:38:46,660 --> 00:38:49,260 the government. But he doesn't investigate why 742 00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:52,540 more and more parents are pulling their children out 743 00:38:52,540 --> 00:38:55,680 of school. He simply ignores that. And 744 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,860 if we go on, he then reinforces his attack on 745 00:38:58,860 --> 00:39:02,880 homeschooling. Sorry, come back to the slide you 746 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,800 just put on screen, please, Stephanie. That's 747 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,120 the one. He reinforces it by quoting 748 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,060 Samartin Oliver, the off -stead chief inspector, who 749 00:39:13,060 --> 00:39:15,860 said in the article, the quotas of him in the 750 00:39:15,860 --> 00:39:19,380 article, the 2022 schools bill would have given us 751 00:39:19,380 --> 00:39:21,680 additional powers to investigate and close down 752 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,380 illegal schools. But that legislation was 753 00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:26,860 dropped. Without those powers, I remain 754 00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:30,360 concerned that thousands of children across England are 755 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,000 still attending illegal schools. So 756 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,220 the state is getting very worried it can't control 757 00:39:36,220 --> 00:39:40,300 education of children. The point reinforced here by a 758 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:43,420 quote in the article from Bridget Phillipson, who's 759 00:39:43,420 --> 00:39:46,040 the shadow education secretary. It's 760 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,480 frankly shocking that this school has been operating 761 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,040 with impunity for so long and poisoning the minds of 762 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,760 these young people. A labour government would 763 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,140 legislate without delay for a register of children not 764 00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:01,880 in school. So vote labour, you're going 765 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,540 to get more state control and more focus on your 766 00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:07,940 children and what's happening to your children. 767 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:10,360 So if we bring Tom Ball back 768 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,800 on screen, he was crowing the article the last year, 769 00:40:14,940 --> 00:40:17,700 the Times exposed another what it said was suspected 770 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:22,540 illegal school set up in Sussex by anti -vaccine 771 00:40:22,540 --> 00:40:24,680 activists and members. Here's 772 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,140 the dig of the far right. What's 773 00:40:27,140 --> 00:40:29,540 he talking about? Well, he's talking about hope 774 00:40:29,540 --> 00:40:32,340 Sussex. So this is very close to home 775 00:40:32,340 --> 00:40:35,860 for the UK column. But oh my goodness, they're 776 00:40:35,860 --> 00:40:39,520 teaching people how to use tiny crossbows. He 777 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,900 doesn't seem to want to comment on the fact that 778 00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:45,240 we've got relatively young children being used to 779 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:48,880 being trained to use real weapons before they're put 780 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:54,060 into the early days of the armed forces in a lot of 781 00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:57,920 schools. So no proper investigation by 782 00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,980 this man. Let's bring in the next quote 783 00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:02,900 here. He said, if schools like Eaton 784 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,140 and Winchester were established to educate the 785 00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:09,800 future administrators of state, universal kids were 786 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,480 set up with a very opposite purpose. It's 787 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,120 a training ground for a resistance movement where 788 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,640 children are instructed in foraging self -defense and 789 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,120 natural remedies to survive and defy this supposed plot 790 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,660 against humanity. But of course, he doesn't 791 00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:28,900 investigate the plot. If we have a look at him in 792 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:33,980 more detail, this is his LinkedIn page here. He's 793 00:41:33,980 --> 00:41:36,120 a specialist in the Russian language. He 794 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,460 spent, I think, time in Russia. But 795 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:42,840 basically, this appears to be the best that the Times 796 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,020 can do. And if you have a look at his 797 00:41:45,020 --> 00:41:49,100 Twitter account, well, he's bringing in stories which 798 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:51,200 are hit pieces on Russia. And 799 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,440 he's also bringing in stories which are hit 800 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:59,360 pieces on Andrew Bridgen by Callasley using comments by 801 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,780 Andrew Bridgen's wife in order to undermine that 802 00:42:02,780 --> 00:42:06,700 Andrew Bridgen himself. So I'm not impressed. But 803 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:09,800 did Tom Ball do any investigation? Clearly 804 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,080 no. Let's pop on the screen evidence 805 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,560 that's in front of our eyes. This 806 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,720 one here says, in an effort to be more 807 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:21,140 sustainable, elementary schools are serving insects 808 00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:24,340 during lunch. These issues are important. So 809 00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:26,720 this is not conspiracy theory. And 810 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,780 the time knows it. Let's pop the times on screen. 811 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:31,680 Here we are. Their 812 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:35,420 headline is eating insects, my creepy, crawly breakfast 813 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:37,960 bowl. But apparently Tom Ball is 814 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,320 completely unaware of this stuff. He's 815 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,220 also unaware of the real fears that parents have got 816 00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:47,660 of their children being groomed within the very 817 00:42:47,660 --> 00:42:51,640 education system controlled by Ofsted. And 818 00:42:51,647 --> 00:42:55,220 for our audience, we'd encourage you to get back 819 00:42:55,220 --> 00:42:58,100 onto the UK Column website and have a look at our 820 00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:01,120 interviews with Kim Isherwood from Public Child 821 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,980 Protection Wales, where she's been talking about 822 00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:07,420 how the minds of our children are being attacked, 823 00:43:07,420 --> 00:43:10,860 how they're doing that inside schools. Now, 824 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,060 before I leave the times, I just wanted to highlight 825 00:43:14,060 --> 00:43:18,060 that a little while ago, 2022, we were under attack 826 00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:21,340 by the Times, COVID conspiracy theories run wild 827 00:43:21,340 --> 00:43:24,740 on the channel for lockdown skeptics. This 828 00:43:24,740 --> 00:43:27,760 was a truly disgusting piece of journalism, which 829 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,300 was just designed to smear. If 830 00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:33,080 we bring in a little bit more text, we can see the 831 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,600 sort of stirring music plays as images of Boris 832 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,760 Johnson presidency and laboratory appear on screen. 833 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,060 Two news presenters sit at a 834 00:43:43,060 --> 00:43:45,820 desk with papers in front of them, while a ticker 835 00:43:45,820 --> 00:43:49,740 tape scrolls below. Now, we did challenge the Times 836 00:43:49,740 --> 00:43:53,840 at the time over this disgraceful article, and 837 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,260 we'll share a little bit of the comment that we 838 00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:58,500 made. This was their headline, if we 839 00:43:58,500 --> 00:44:01,900 bring that in. UK Column conspiracy conspiracy 840 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:05,200 theories run wild on the channel for lockdown 841 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,440 skeptics. An ex Tory councillor is 842 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,580 behind an online news service that spreads 843 00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:15,840 misleading information. Now, part of our response to 844 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,940 the Times was this, Brian Garrish is not and has 845 00:44:18,940 --> 00:44:21,400 never been a Conservative Tory councillor or member 846 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,460 of the Conservative Party. More 847 00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:26,500 ever, he's never been a Conservative Party candidate. 848 00:44:27,140 --> 00:44:29,100 William Colesill, creator of 849 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:32,720 Resistance GB, the ex Tory councillor mentioned in the 850 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,980 article, has no operational control or commercial 851 00:44:35,980 --> 00:44:38,560 relationship with the UK Column. The 852 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,040 UK Column and its directors did not incite the alleged 853 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,900 accosting of BBC reporter Nick Watts on the 14th of 854 00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:49,400 June, 2021, and the UK Column and its directors 855 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,160 were not present during the alleged accosting of Nick 856 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,240 Watts. And finally, the UK Column and 857 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,820 its directors did not organise or attend the 858 00:44:58,820 --> 00:45:02,420 Clapham Common protest. We raised a lot more points, 859 00:45:02,620 --> 00:45:04,800 but really showing our audience today is to 860 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,520 underline the fact that the Times is capable of some 861 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,300 pretty appalling reporting. And 862 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:14,480 in the case of the articles, I've just, the 863 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,040 article I'm just showing you, this was the 864 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,700 journalist, Ben Ellery. We'll 865 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:22,660 leave it there. My advice, don't bother buying 866 00:45:22,660 --> 00:45:25,200 a Times because you're not going to get facts and the 867 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,100 truth about what's happening. But 868 00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:29,980 that's just my personal opinion. So, 869 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,260 Diane, I think that brings us back to you and you're 870 00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:36,840 going to come in on some of these points from your 871 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,540 own experience. Absolutely, Brian. Yes, 872 00:45:40,700 --> 00:45:43,360 I'm looking, well, not looking forward to the news 873 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,940 that is within this, but what I want to go through 874 00:45:45,940 --> 00:45:49,140 is it's sort of an exercise in truly fighting 875 00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:51,600 misinformation and finding correct facts. And 876 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,800 I'd like to introduce this firstly by reminding people 877 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,080 about the webinar that happened on Friday evening 878 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,800 that was sponsored by Andrew Bridgen and Pee 879 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,960 around COVID vaccines, the devastating health crisis in 880 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,440 the Channel Islands and around the world. And 881 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,720 I have, it was an hour and a half long, it's 882 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:11,980 Unrumble and other channels if you want to look it 883 00:46:11,980 --> 00:46:13,160 up. I'm sure it's not on YouTube. 884 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:14,940 But if you want to see the 885 00:46:14,940 --> 00:46:17,100 whole hour and a half webinar, it's available for 886 00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:18,740 you. But I'd like to highlight just 887 00:46:18,740 --> 00:46:20,880 three short clips from three very prominent 888 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,440 speakers who I've been following since 2020, 2021. 889 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,260 The first one is Professor 890 00:46:26,260 --> 00:46:30,580 Angus Dalglish, who is a Professor of Oncology at 891 00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:34,140 St. George's University of London. I 892 00:46:34,140 --> 00:46:36,880 was just all over the world from Australia, from 893 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:40,860 South Africa, from America, from Canada, South America, 894 00:46:41,420 --> 00:46:43,880 Europe. They all said the same thing. 895 00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:45,760 And they all said that they 896 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,140 were told it was just coincidence or a selection 897 00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:52,480 of anecdotes and to be quiet. Now, 898 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:54,240 this is what the problem has been with this 899 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:57,340 pandemic. It is being Orwellian control 900 00:46:57,340 --> 00:47:02,520 and denial of the facts and total prevention of 901 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,720 debate. Science is debate till you come to 902 00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:08,680 the right conclusion. So following the science or 903 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:13,600 scientific consensus, these are complete misnomers. They 904 00:47:13,607 --> 00:47:16,920 are incredible that we've had to put up with this. 905 00:47:17,420 --> 00:47:18,760 I've had plenty of doctors come 906 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,020 up to me and said, I would love to do what 907 00:47:21,020 --> 00:47:22,920 you're doing. I would love to join you, 908 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,700 but I've got a mortgage and two kids at school I 909 00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:28,380 have to put through. That's what's been going on. 910 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,100 They've been going for the doctors 911 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:37,320 that speak out. That's definitely been my personal 912 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,240 experience as well. So next we have Dr. Ryan 913 00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:43,720 Cole, who is an American pathologist. So 914 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:45,780 first we've heard from the cancer expert. Now 915 00:47:45,780 --> 00:47:49,000 we'll hear from pathology. We 916 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,040 need to change this. Synthetic 917 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,680 DNA and modified RNA injections are not vaccines, 918 00:47:53,940 --> 00:47:55,820 never have been, never will be. They 919 00:47:55,820 --> 00:47:58,800 are genetic transfection agents and therapies 920 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,020 according to the filings of Moderna and Pfizer. They 921 00:48:03,020 --> 00:48:05,100 know this. We don't know the long -term 922 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:07,280 consequences of these, and they're still being 923 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,700 developed for hundreds of other conditions. It's 924 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:11,580 not just these COVID shots. I 925 00:48:11,580 --> 00:48:13,040 know everybody has COVID fatigue. I 926 00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,360 understand that. What we need to do is stop 927 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,760 this platform. It's not meant for human use. 928 00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:19,400 It's not ripe for human use. 929 00:48:20,220 --> 00:48:21,640 For a successful technology, 930 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:27,340 reality must take precedence over public relations for 931 00:48:27,340 --> 00:48:30,560 nature cannot be fooled. We are fooling ourselves and 932 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,400 we're fooling nature. More injections, plain and 933 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,020 simple, equals more infections due to immune 934 00:48:36,020 --> 00:48:37,460 suppression. The Dr. DeGleish 935 00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:41,320 covered. Cleveland Clinic showed this in a 936 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,580 very straightforward study on their 50 ,000 employees. 937 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:46,680 I'm not here to judge anyone 938 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,120 that did or didn't get a shot. I'm 939 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:53,759 just saying no more genetic shots. And 940 00:48:53,759 --> 00:48:55,720 finally, I'd like to show a short clip from Dr. 941 00:48:55,820 --> 00:48:57,600 Peter McCulloch, who is one of 942 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,460 the most highly -sighted cardiologists in the world, 943 00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,980 Easton, Texas. In Unconvinced is the tip of 944 00:49:05,980 --> 00:49:11,460 the iceberg, the tip of the iceberg. The 945 00:49:11,460 --> 00:49:15,580 biggest published series of myocarditis before the 946 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:20,380 pandemic, across decades and decades of accumulating 947 00:49:20,380 --> 00:49:24,820 data, was 500 cases. In my practice before the 948 00:49:24,820 --> 00:49:27,740 pandemic, I had only seen two cases of myocarditis 949 00:49:27,740 --> 00:49:30,380 and one of them was fatal. Now 950 00:49:30,380 --> 00:49:33,660 there are papers laying at all in the British Medical 951 00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:39,500 Journal Open, 18 ,000 cases in a single manuscript. I 952 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:42,680 am seeing dozens and dozens of cases. In 953 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,500 my practice, I have well more than several hundred 954 00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:50,380 cases with myocarditis. That is how common it is. And 955 00:49:50,380 --> 00:49:53,060 it's sad to say I don't have a chance to see all 956 00:49:53,060 --> 00:49:56,960 of those who've died of a cardiac arrest. In 957 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,140 the Holstcher paper that I've quoted, the cause of 958 00:50:00,140 --> 00:50:03,760 sudden adult death syndrome is very likely to be 959 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,900 vaccine -induced myocarditis. And 960 00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:09,620 it may be so sufficiently subtle it couldn't be 961 00:50:09,620 --> 00:50:17,380 detected on an MRI even if we got one. Right. 962 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,920 So with those quotes in mind, I'd like to think 963 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,160 that the UK column audience has been on top of this 964 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,720 for the last three or four years. So 965 00:50:26,727 --> 00:50:29,480 these are things that maybe we saw coming, we already 966 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,320 knew. But I'm really happy to see 967 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,640 that the rest of the world is starting to wake up and 968 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,600 starting to see what's going on. So 969 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:40,000 going back to the times and the great reset so 970 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,520 -called theory, this was a published book called COVID 971 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,400 -19, The Great Reset. I do not quite understand how 972 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,100 Klaus Schwab and his colleague managed to have 973 00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:54,100 an entire book published in July 2020 about something 974 00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:58,220 that had apparently only happened in March 2020. So 975 00:50:58,220 --> 00:51:00,400 a quote from that book, which is published, the 976 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,940 most recent biotechnology techniques using RNA and 977 00:51:03,940 --> 00:51:07,580 DNA platforms make it possible to develop vaccines 978 00:51:07,580 --> 00:51:10,520 faster than ever. They might also help with the 979 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,720 development of new bioengineered treatments. So 980 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:15,520 what did we see at the end of last week? We 981 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,800 saw MNRA injections for cancer being rolled out. 982 00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:21,500 And so this is something from 983 00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:24,600 the World Economic Forum's website, a global risk 984 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,480 report, which was done in collaboration with two 985 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,100 insurance companies. So they're saying a variety of 986 00:51:31,100 --> 00:51:34,340 things here based on global risks both for the next 987 00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:36,160 two years and the next 10 years. Now, 988 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,400 first of all, the next two years, the highest global 989 00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,360 risk is misinformation and disinformation. And 990 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,340 we see all these other horrible things that can 991 00:51:45,340 --> 00:51:48,260 happen to us the next two years. The 992 00:51:48,260 --> 00:51:51,860 next 10 years, you know, as you can see that the 993 00:51:51,860 --> 00:51:55,660 top major risks the next 10 years mean that weather 994 00:51:55,660 --> 00:51:59,220 and climate and biodiversity loss is going to make the 995 00:51:59,220 --> 00:52:01,660 world blow up and fall apart anyway. So 996 00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:03,960 I'm not quite sure why misinformation information 997 00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,080 will matter when it's number five, when the rest 998 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:07,280 of the world has blown up. But 999 00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,080 there we go. So when we look at what's 1000 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,640 going to happen from here, I want to take the viewers 1001 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:18,000 through an exercise in truly fighting misinformation 1002 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,860 and truly finding what is fact and what is not. So 1003 00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:23,840 something that we've all been wondering about if 1004 00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,360 you've been watching Twitter in the last couple of 1005 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,860 weeks is where is Klaus Schwab himself? Well, 1006 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,440 it was first published a couple of weeks ago on 1007 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,620 this website called The Weekly Cryer, which is the 1008 00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:36,940 first website that I can find that mentioned Klaus 1009 00:52:36,940 --> 00:52:39,760 was hospitalized and maybe died. But 1010 00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,320 we also see that they issued a retraction of that 1011 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,800 story, which you can see it on the right. You 1012 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,560 can also see another clue when you're looking for the 1013 00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,220 validity and credibility of websites is that they 1014 00:52:51,220 --> 00:52:53,440 usually have bad grammar and spelling. So 1015 00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,160 you can see in their correction or their 1016 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,620 retraction, they spelled Klaus as KALS K -A -L -I -S. 1017 00:53:00,380 --> 00:53:01,480 If you look at The Weekly 1018 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,520 Cryers About Us page, it says there very clearly 1019 00:53:05,140 --> 00:53:09,340 that they also feature satire and comedic opinion 1020 00:53:09,340 --> 00:53:12,660 pieces and editorials. So from this, we can see this 1021 00:53:12,660 --> 00:53:14,960 is maybe something more like the Babylon bee or 1022 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,260 the onion or something that is not meant to be taken 1023 00:53:17,260 --> 00:53:21,700 100 % seriously. So this spreads to a couple 1024 00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:24,640 of other websites, some other Twitter accounts, 1025 00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:26,460 things like that. So of course, all the fact 1026 00:53:26,460 --> 00:53:28,480 checkers came in. So here's one from the 1027 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,720 Associated Press who said that it is not true that 1028 00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:35,400 he was hospitalized and might have died. And 1029 00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,460 they quote here, as they say, satire, comedic opinion 1030 00:53:38,460 --> 00:53:41,560 pieces and editorials, where they didn't directly mention 1031 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,500 the name of the website that started spreading this, 1032 00:53:44,540 --> 00:53:47,780 but they did say that the WF spokesperson told the AP 1033 00:53:47,780 --> 00:53:50,740 that the claims are untrue. But 1034 00:53:50,740 --> 00:53:53,100 if we go down to the bottom of their claim here, 1035 00:53:53,140 --> 00:53:55,880 and they said the word bug, so going back to your 1036 00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,020 point in your segment, Brian, appears to be 1037 00:53:58,020 --> 00:54:00,760 emphasized in reference to another false claim that 1038 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,880 the WF wants to replace meat with bugs. And 1039 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:09,380 we see here on a Twitter feed, which was, we had 1040 00:54:09,380 --> 00:54:11,340 two million views talking about clouds being seriously 1041 00:54:11,340 --> 00:54:14,280 ill on other accounts. But if we go on from there, 1042 00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:18,180 and we look at a previous fact check, the next slide 1043 00:54:18,180 --> 00:54:22,320 from the AP, this was from, I think it was the 1044 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:27,420 2023, I believe, January meeting in Davos, where 1045 00:54:27,420 --> 00:54:29,720 they said all the conspiracy theories are 1046 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:32,220 circulating because all the elites are arriving in 1047 00:54:32,220 --> 00:54:34,460 Davos, and everyone else is talking about this. And 1048 00:54:34,468 --> 00:54:36,520 then they said, well, meanwhile, the popular claim 1049 00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,780 that the forum wants people to replace meat with bugs 1050 00:54:38,780 --> 00:54:41,820 is a distorted reference to an article once published 1051 00:54:41,820 --> 00:54:44,420 on the organization's website, which is mentioned 1052 00:54:44,420 --> 00:54:47,500 in the text of that so -called fact check. But 1053 00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:49,260 if you go to the World Economic Forum website 1054 00:54:49,260 --> 00:54:51,340 itself, and the point that I want to make is to go 1055 00:54:51,340 --> 00:54:54,120 back to the original source as closely as possible to 1056 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,640 get the closest to whatever the truth actually is. And 1057 00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,280 I just did a quick search for eating insects. And 1058 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,740 we get there almost 300 results in the WEF search 1059 00:55:03,740 --> 00:55:06,800 engine about eating insects and why it can reduce 1060 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,500 climate change and so on and so forth. So 1061 00:55:09,500 --> 00:55:10,980 it's really, really important to go back to 1062 00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:14,400 our sources. And so from here, when I was 1063 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,320 fact checking, I just happened to see that the 1064 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,500 WEF is in the progress of, I think the special meeting 1065 00:55:21,500 --> 00:55:23,720 ends today. So it was a special meeting 1066 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:26,240 in Saudi Arabia around energy. And 1067 00:55:26,247 --> 00:55:28,320 so there are three themes that were going, I was 1068 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,640 looking to see if maybe Klaus was on the agenda, 1069 00:55:30,740 --> 00:55:32,940 but I couldn't find his name. Unfortunately, 1070 00:55:33,300 --> 00:55:35,760 I was hoping that would be one, one of the ways to 1071 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,440 verify whether or not he is still alive. But 1072 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,860 we do have three themes that are important to look 1073 00:55:40,860 --> 00:55:43,960 at apparently. One is a compact for inclusive 1074 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,320 growth. Not quite sure what that means. 1075 00:55:46,980 --> 00:55:48,920 Revitalizing global corporation and the 1076 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,840 one that catalyzing action energy for development, I 1077 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,540 want to say that catalyzing that misspelling was the 1078 00:55:54,540 --> 00:55:58,620 WEF's not mine. And here we can see once again 1079 00:55:58,620 --> 00:56:02,060 that they are trying to affect the livelihood and 1080 00:56:02,060 --> 00:56:05,140 lives of people, quote, the number of people without 1081 00:56:05,140 --> 00:56:08,760 access to energy, without access to energy is not 1082 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,420 decreasing at the pace needed to achieve the 1083 00:56:12,420 --> 00:56:15,380 sustainable development goals, particularly in 1084 00:56:15,380 --> 00:56:18,660 developing economies. So we need poor people to 1085 00:56:18,660 --> 00:56:21,600 have less access to energy to meet the sustainable 1086 00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:24,520 development goals. So once again, language is is 1087 00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,120 inverted sustainable means unsustainable, at least when 1088 00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,060 it comes to human life. The 1089 00:56:30,060 --> 00:56:32,760 closing plenary, which I think might have just gone 1090 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:36,160 on just recently today, features among other 1091 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,060 prominent speakers, the CEO of Moderna, David Cameron, 1092 00:56:40,260 --> 00:56:43,000 and the president of the World Economic Forum. So 1093 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,660 all those recordings from the meeting over the 1094 00:56:46,660 --> 00:56:49,400 weekend and today are available online if you 1095 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,300 should so wish to direct yourself to them, Brian. 1096 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,120 Diane, thank you very much for 1097 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,280 that. I'm wondering whether I should 1098 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,700 phone the Times up and say, do you want a proper 1099 00:56:58,700 --> 00:57:01,640 investigative reporter to look at information because 1100 00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,180 clearly Harry Potter, sorry, Tom Ball from the Times 1101 00:57:05,180 --> 00:57:09,240 needs replacing. But the Times can't do this 1102 00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:12,180 investigation. You're able to do it. And 1103 00:57:12,180 --> 00:57:14,480 thank you very much for providing that through the 1104 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,220 UK column. Mark, we've got to an appropriate 1105 00:57:18,220 --> 00:57:21,200 point to bring you back in because, of course, if 1106 00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,820 we're talking about these matters and health, we need 1107 00:57:23,820 --> 00:57:28,880 to be looking at the World Health Organization. Thank 1108 00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:33,580 you, Brian. The WHO pre pandemic treaty, of 1109 00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:36,480 course, they want to negotiate that May 27 1110 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,960 through June 1 at the 77th World Health Assembly. As 1111 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,540 that approaches, they're getting very strident. You 1112 00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:45,800 might even say militant about worldwide vaccinations 1113 00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:49,440 with all inclusive language, vaccinate everyone 1114 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,380 everywhere. So I learned this this past 1115 00:57:53,380 --> 00:57:56,520 Wednesday, the 24th of April, covering in real 1116 00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,260 time a WHO press conference UK column is a registered 1117 00:58:00,260 --> 00:58:04,720 media there. And we'll just go on from 1118 00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,160 there. We'll get right into the meat of 1119 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,740 it in the interest of time. The 1120 00:58:08,740 --> 00:58:11,820 big thing, the big takeaway, global partners 1121 00:58:11,820 --> 00:58:14,340 are now say new effort, the big catch up to 1122 00:58:14,340 --> 00:58:16,700 vaccinate millions of children and restore 1123 00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:20,400 immunization progress lost during the pandemic. The 1124 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,080 clip you're looking at from the WHO is from one year 1125 00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:24,700 ago. But when they had the press 1126 00:58:24,700 --> 00:58:27,520 conference last week, that's when they really put it 1127 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,560 into motion. Now, this is from that press 1128 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,400 release of a year ago. And I'll just hit the 1129 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,120 highlights. The pandemic saw essential 1130 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,980 immunization levels decrease in over 100 countries. Oh, 1131 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,300 you know, perish the thought, the big catch up 1132 00:58:43,300 --> 00:58:46,440 is an extended effort to lift vaccination levels 1133 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,480 among children to at least pre pandemic levels and 1134 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,960 endeavors to exceed those led by a broad range of 1135 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,660 national and global health partners, much of it big 1136 00:58:56,660 --> 00:58:59,320 pharma. The big catch up also aims to 1137 00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,540 ensure stronger primary health care services for 1138 00:59:02,540 --> 00:59:05,520 essential immunization in the future. It 1139 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,680 involves Gabby UNICEF, the WHO, the Gates Foundation 1140 00:59:09,259 --> 00:59:13,380 going on pushing toward agenda 2030, the strategic 1141 00:59:13,380 --> 00:59:16,280 or sustainable development goals rather and so on. 1142 00:59:17,380 --> 00:59:18,980 The effort aims as it says in 1143 00:59:18,980 --> 00:59:21,620 this next slide to reverse the declines in childhood 1144 00:59:21,620 --> 00:59:25,240 vaccination recorded in over 100 countries since the 1145 00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,520 pandemic. And bumping down to the bottom 1146 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:33,160 of that, well, in the top part, it mentions vaccine 1147 00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,680 hesitancy as another problem. People 1148 00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:37,200 aren't even supposed to hesitate. They're 1149 00:59:37,207 --> 00:59:40,020 just supposed to put that mRNA needle in their arm 1150 00:59:40,020 --> 00:59:42,420 without even thinking. And then they mentioned with 1151 00:59:42,420 --> 00:59:45,020 over 25 million children missing at least one 1152 00:59:45,020 --> 00:59:47,700 vaccination in 2021 alone. Oh, 1153 00:59:47,940 --> 00:59:49,960 oh, the humanity, right? Outbreaks 1154 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:52,040 of preventable disease, including measles, 1155 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,880 diphtheria, polio and yellow fever are already becoming 1156 00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,140 more prevalent. Now, that can be a problem, 1157 00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,320 true. But the narrative is that 1158 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,820 vaccines are the only answer and we'll move on 1159 01:00:01,820 --> 01:00:04,200 from there. This is Dr. Moaz 1160 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,640 Sana. He spoke, these are original 1161 01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,880 photos I took. And he spoke at that press 1162 01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:13,180 conference last week. And this is representative of 1163 01:00:13,180 --> 01:00:16,100 what was said as our other quotes that are coming up 1164 01:00:16,100 --> 01:00:18,720 in a minute, Brian. He said this, we're launching 1165 01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:23,880 the big catch up with 290 million from the GAVI board 1166 01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:26,640 in support of wanting to achieve the big catch up 1167 01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:32,140 by 2024, 2025, moving on from there. GAVI, 1168 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:34,760 of course, is the vaccine alliance. This 1169 01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,000 explains a little bit more about what he was talking 1170 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,040 about. The successful start to 1171 01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:43,300 Nigeria's HPV vaccine introduction in November and 1172 01:00:43,300 --> 01:00:45,520 other introductions in Bangladesh, Cambodia, 1173 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,200 Indonesia, Togo and other countries are crucial steps 1174 01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,740 toward our target of reaching over 86 million 1175 01:00:52,740 --> 01:00:57,260 girls by 2025 with HPV, with those vaccines, so 1176 01:00:57,260 --> 01:00:59,940 -called vaccines. These efforts will be further 1177 01:00:59,940 --> 01:01:02,080 boosted by the board's approval. That's 1178 01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:06,040 the GAVI board of an initial US 290 million 1179 01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:10,520 drawn from covax savings that can now be reinvested 1180 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,420 to fully fund doses for children to catch up on 1181 01:01:14,420 --> 01:01:16,940 routine vaccinations that were missed during COVID 1182 01:01:16,940 --> 01:01:18,840 -19. So that's a little bit more 1183 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,440 about that 290 million dollars and we'll go from 1184 01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,560 there. And these are other quotes to 1185 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,220 round out what was said at that press conference. This 1186 01:01:27,220 --> 01:01:31,540 is Violane Michelle of the Gates Foundation itself. We 1187 01:01:31,540 --> 01:01:35,080 are truly on course for a world of vaccination for 1188 01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,180 all, she said, parenthetically, while 1189 01:01:38,180 --> 01:01:42,000 recognizing field workers who work to vaccinate all 1190 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,580 children everywhere. She wanted that to be 1191 01:01:44,580 --> 01:01:48,060 recognized and we'll go from there. And 1192 01:01:48,060 --> 01:01:51,120 here's Tadros himself, the director general. He's 1193 01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,040 really on a messianic mission as the pandemic 1194 01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,600 tree, a World Health Assembly comes up where 1195 01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:00,300 they also want to talk about the IHR regs. He 1196 01:02:00,300 --> 01:02:03,800 said, more support is needed from donors, the who 1197 01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:07,600 is dedicated to the life -saving nature of vaccinating 1198 01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:12,860 everyone everywhere. Quote, end quote. And 1199 01:02:12,860 --> 01:02:16,160 this is Dr. Kate O 'Brien on another apiracic 1200 01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:19,760 at the WHO. This is more of a paraphrasing. 1201 01:02:20,260 --> 01:02:22,460 She spoke on misinformation as 1202 01:02:22,460 --> 01:02:24,780 Diane mentioned a minute ago. On 1203 01:02:24,780 --> 01:02:27,920 the measles vaccine, she called it a safe vaccine, 1204 01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,020 countering the misinformationist and said 1205 01:02:31,020 --> 01:02:34,000 the measles are highly infectious. Vaccines 1206 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,580 she stressed are the only way to go, while 1207 01:02:36,580 --> 01:02:40,880 complaining that backsliding by the public has curbed 1208 01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:45,600 widespread vaccinations. And we'll move on from there. 1209 01:02:45,820 --> 01:02:49,400 Dr. Michael Ryan, who's the WHO Health 1210 01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,360 Emergencies Program Director, also spoke at the press 1211 01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,100 conference. Again, these are all photos I 1212 01:02:54,100 --> 01:02:55,980 took. We must have a candidate 1213 01:02:55,980 --> 01:02:59,520 vaccine ready at all times and be ready to act 1214 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,920 really, really quickly. A candidate vaccine, which 1215 01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,580 makes it sound like it's something tentative that 1216 01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:08,180 perhaps hasn't been tested much. Meanwhile, 1217 01:03:08,180 --> 01:03:13,240 I received this while it was still embargoed. On 1218 01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:17,060 the 26th of April, the WHO held its first high -level 1219 01:03:17,060 --> 01:03:20,220 meningitis meeting hosted by the government of France. 1220 01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:22,260 And as it says in the headline 1221 01:03:22,260 --> 01:03:24,380 there, it's a joint news release. The 1222 01:03:24,380 --> 01:03:27,940 WHO and France convene high -level meeting to defeat 1223 01:03:27,940 --> 01:03:31,040 meningitis, and that's primarily a vaccine 1224 01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:34,940 -preventable way of doing that, they're claiming. And 1225 01:03:34,940 --> 01:03:38,380 then lastly, although I've got an announcement about 1226 01:03:38,380 --> 01:03:45,520 the World Health Assembly, the joint FAO -WHO 1227 01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:50,680 Preliminary Assessment of Recent Influenza H5N1 1228 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,760 Viruses. And what this says without 1229 01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,960 getting into the details too much, Brian, is that 1230 01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:00,220 for now, the candidate for the next pandemic repeatedly 1231 01:04:00,220 --> 01:04:03,420 is H5N1 or the bird flu. And 1232 01:04:03,420 --> 01:04:06,840 what was stated was that it's not contagious at all. 1233 01:04:07,060 --> 01:04:08,780 It has a very low contagious 1234 01:04:08,780 --> 01:04:11,580 factor. But if a human catches it, 1235 01:04:11,820 --> 01:04:15,060 it's now being claimed by the WHO that this would be 1236 01:04:15,060 --> 01:04:18,740 more deadly than COVID -19, and they're keeping a close 1237 01:04:18,740 --> 01:04:21,800 watch on it, don't you worry. So 1238 01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,500 Brian, you might have a point. Mark, 1239 01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,340 thank you very much for that. I 1240 01:04:26,340 --> 01:04:28,020 know you've got an extra update. What 1241 01:04:28,020 --> 01:04:30,860 I'd like to do is cover that update in UK column 1242 01:04:30,860 --> 01:04:34,200 extra after the news. We've run over just a little 1243 01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,900 bit, if you're happy to do that. But 1244 01:04:36,900 --> 01:04:39,280 I'm going to say thank you for an excellent update, 1245 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,980 and we can see the power coming into play from the 1246 01:04:42,980 --> 01:04:45,580 World Health Organization and of course our own 1247 01:04:45,580 --> 01:04:49,200 governments simply denying that there is this global 1248 01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,280 power base under the control of the World Health 1249 01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,060 Organization. So lots more warnings to be 1250 01:04:55,060 --> 01:04:57,900 given. We must end there. So 1251 01:04:57,900 --> 01:05:00,500 Diane, Mark, thank you both very much for joining me 1252 01:05:00,500 --> 01:05:01,960 today. It's been a really interesting 1253 01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:05,380 news. Great to have you both here on 1254 01:05:05,380 --> 01:05:07,840 UK Column News today. Biggest 1255 01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,620 thanks goes to our wonderful audience, wherever 1256 01:05:10,620 --> 01:05:11,960 you are in the world. Thank 1257 01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,220 you very much for joining us. Please 1258 01:05:14,220 --> 01:05:17,140 share the information, as I said. And 1259 01:05:17,140 --> 01:05:20,540 if you're not a subscriber, consider joining us and 1260 01:05:20,540 --> 01:05:24,100 being part of the team to make UK Column happen. 1261 01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,120 Thanks for joining us. We'll 1262 01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:30,580 be back in a few minutes for UK Column Extra. Bye 1263 01:05:30,580 --> 01:05:30,720 -bye.