1 00:00:08,270 --> 00:00:11,270 Good afternoon, it's Friday the 4th of July 2025. 2 00:00:11,270 --> 00:00:14,590 Happy Independence Day, Patrick. Thanks for remembering, Mike. 3 00:00:14,590 --> 00:00:17,350 Yeah, just after 1:00. And welcome to UK Column News. 4 00:00:17,670 --> 00:00:20,430 I'm your host, Mike Robinson. My Co host today in the studio 5 00:00:20,430 --> 00:00:23,110 is Patrick Henningson. And journalist Mark Anderson 6 00:00:23,110 --> 00:00:25,670 joins us by video link from the United States. 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,440 Now let's get straight on Palestine. 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,000 Action is at the Royal Courts of Justice for what they describe 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,160 as the last opportunity to stop their prescription as 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:38,720 terrorists. This follows the agreement by 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,880 the House of Lords yesterday to prescribe the group. 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,400 Now, in an act of sheer hypocrisy, Yvette Cooper, 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,960 amongst others, attended the House of Commons on Wednesday 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,520 wearing a sash to celebrate the suffragettes who used even worse 15 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,960 tactics, including explosives, than Palestine Action to make 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,960 their point. So absolute hypocrisy because 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,200 most of the lot in that photograph there then went on to 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,640 vote to prescribe Palestine Action as a terrorist 19 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,480 organization. Now we are hoping at some point 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,760 during the course of the programme to have some life. 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,160 In fact, Willsey is just joining us as we speak. 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,800 Willsey, I don't know if you can hear us at the moment. 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,680 Hello. So we're just down near the 24 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:32,080 protest today at the High Court and we've got a massive crowd 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,680 down here and we've just been interviewing people. 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,960 A lot of people are extremely concerned that this is going to 27 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,160 be the thin end of the wedge in terms of protests in this 28 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,360 country. And as you can see, there's an 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,200 absolutely massive crowd here down at the High Court. 30 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,040 We weren't sure the turn out was going to be this big, but it's 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:54,560 absolutely massive. Well, let's, let's hold on one 32 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,200 second. Let's make a formal welcome to 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,160 the program. This is Willsey from Resistance 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,280 GB. As you say, a massive crowd 35 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,040 there, Willsey, And has it been well behaved so far? 36 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,720 How how are things going at the court? 37 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:17,680 Are the crowds protesting well? You can see there are a huge 38 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,400 amount of people. It's an absolutely massive 39 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,240 crowd. I'm sorry that it's slightly 40 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,320 harder to hear you down here, but you can see there's a huge 41 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,600 crowd. They've got speakers, they've 42 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,400 got a sound system and I'm estimating there might be. 43 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,560 It's maybe 1000 people down here. 44 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,760 It's a really big crowd. And is there any indication yet 45 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,400 as to what the likely outcome of this is going to be? 46 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,080 People are very unsure what the likely outcome is going to be. 47 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,560 People aren't certain, given that they've been talking 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,600 especially about Israeli infiltration and they say there 49 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,920 is a lot of Zionist control within the government. 50 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,560 And so they're worried that no matter how many numbers they 51 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,360 have down here that it will just be ignored. 52 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,640 But they do have hopes. They believe that there's a 53 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:12,880 human rights argument on this and I think hopefully, fingers 54 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,920 crossed, they can win, but no one really knows. 55 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,960 And does anybody know how long this is, this hearing is likely 56 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,360 to take? Are we going to get a result 57 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,360 today? You know, hoping to get a result 58 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,080 today, hoping to get a result today. 59 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,720 And a lot of people are very angry at the and the fact that 60 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,520 they're going to be designated terrorists. 61 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,920 And people have expressed to me that they're happy to continue 62 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,240 with Palestine action despite the terrorist designation A 63 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,680 potentially challenging that under human rights grounds. 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,000 Well, we'll see. I've got to say, thank you very 65 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,680 much for joining us today. That has been extremely 66 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,640 interesting. It's great to see that number of 67 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,480 people out on the streets. And we have, you have sent us a 68 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,480 little video report. We're going to put that out 69 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,360 during extra today and that'll go out alongside the news 70 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,680 program later on. So thank you for joining us 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:11,120 today. Thank you. 72 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,680 Very. Much. 73 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:15,880 OK. Thank you. 74 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:20,399 Now that is quite the situation there, Patrick. 75 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,280 The, the, the issue as I mentioned on Wednesday is aside 76 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:27,960 from the hypocrisy of Yvette Cooper and so on it went wearing 77 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,760 the, the sash, honouring the suffragettes at the same time 78 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,680 that they're making this vote. Of course, the action, the, the 79 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,600 actual activities of Palestine action no different to others, 80 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,480 including Just Stop Oil and others. 81 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,640 This this was not terrorism by any definition. 82 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,240 No. So the criminalization of what 83 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,520 used to be legal protest in the country. 84 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,720 And I think that's let's just underline the point here that 85 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,080 the government, the Yvette Cooper, the Starmer, the Israeli 86 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,120 lobby strong arming parliament, strong arming parliament in 87 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,000 order to criminalize protest on behalf of it looks like 88 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,320 according to their their involvement with the various 89 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,760 law, Israeli lobby actors Mike it on behalf of a foreign 90 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:17,760 government. Yes. 91 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,440 So, well, look, we are going to talk more about the context of 92 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,800 this in a little set in a little moment, but you've got more on 93 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,600 the Palestine action situation here. 94 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,320 As you can see, there's a shot here from the High Court, of 95 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,360 course. So as Wilsey was reporting, 96 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,920 there a lot more people. This was earlier from a previous 97 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,640 hearing, I believe. So this is the scene and there's 98 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,000 a lot going on here. There's a lot going on here. 99 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,920 And the government is is not looking good on all any of this. 100 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,280 Let's just look at chapter 1 here revealed how the Israel 101 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:56,560 lobby got Keir Starmer to ban Palestine action. 102 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:01,160 So clearly there is activity in the background here with regards 103 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:05,040 to the various Israeli lobby organizations and they're 104 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,360 playing a pivotal role, Mike, in pushing for the banning of 105 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,120 Palestine action or worse than banning, labeling them a 106 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,400 terrorist organization here. But here's what we spoke about 107 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,320 before and this is what you need to pay attention to. 108 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:23,520 And this is again from Yvette Cooper's statement here she is 109 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:28,280 the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Home Office 110 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,880 there. This the disgraceful attack on 111 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,520 Brize Nortney talking about RAF Brize Norton Air Base in the 112 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,280 early hours of the morning on Friday the 20th of June where I 113 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:40,280 guess they put red paint on one of the. 114 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,440 Yeah, I mean, to call it an attack, it's just ridiculous. 115 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,480 An attack. They broke in and they put some 116 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,880 red paint on a plane in the engine Bay and wait a minute, 117 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,400 what can we say? It's it's that used to be 118 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,080 considered legal and might be criminal damage. 119 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,800 We'll get to that in a minute. But back up on screen here is 120 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,280 saying that here we go this latest. 121 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,480 It is in a long history of unacceptable criminal damage 122 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,080 committed by Palestine action. So it's right there in the words 123 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,120 of the home Secretary, criminal damage. 124 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,200 It doesn't say terrorism. It's criminal damage, which is 125 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,680 legal is protected protest. OK, so and they go on here, and 126 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:26,440 this is also important, it says EU KS defense enterprise is 127 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,640 vital to the nation's national security and this government 128 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,520 will not tolerate those that put that security at risk. 129 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,160 So defense enterprise, What is the definition of enterprise? 130 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,160 Well, that's like industry. It's it's something productive. 131 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,360 It's profit driven industry enterprise. 132 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,920 So EU, KS, profit generating defense industry is vital to the 133 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,800 national security and anybody that touches it or disrupts it 134 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,080 for any reason is putting the national security at risk. 135 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,720 Or Mike, are they actually putting maybe that corporation's 136 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,560 profits or share prices at risk? Because are those two the same 137 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,000 thing? Now that's my question. 138 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,840 That's my question. So we're just looking at their 139 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:18,080 own statements and you know, you can draw your own conclusions 140 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,080 here and let's bring this in as well. 141 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,520 And of course, this one certainly is one for the books. 142 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,880 The UK High Court held back evidence whilst upholding the 143 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,440 F35 controversial exports to Israel. 144 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,840 So what exactly happened here? Let's take a look. 145 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,240 Well, it seems that the UK ignored its own spy footage when 146 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,159 assessing Israel's compliance with international law. 147 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:45,400 We're talking about human humanitarian law. 148 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,320 So are they guilty of war crimes or genocide? 149 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,400 Key documents withheld from court on Israel's shooting of 150 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,840 minors. That also happened. 151 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,480 And again, the Foreign Office paid according to documents that 152 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,560 are published. We'll show you in Declassified 153 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:08,480 UK, £750,000 for quote, independent analysis on Gaza. 154 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,240 And meanwhile, the firm contracted by the Foreign Office 155 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,960 happens to have been founded by a former UK embassy official in 156 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,320 Tel Aviv. So no conflict of interest 157 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,880 there. Nothing to see move along. 158 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,280 And here to the report by declassified UK withheld 159 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,520 evidence from court in Israel arms case and we'll take a 160 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,320 closer look here. This is just stunning, like 161 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,840 using data from Cir. and elsewhere, the Foreign Offices 162 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,720 IHL cell revealed over 400 incidents in Gaza, but found 163 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,720 only one attack to be impossible, breach of 164 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,200 international human rights law by Israel. 165 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,320 And that was Israel's airstrike on the World Central Kitchen 166 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,040 convoy, which killed 7 international aid workers, 167 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,000 including three Britons. That's the only one of all the 168 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,640 Israeli airstrikes that garnered any concern in this. 169 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,280 I can't believe I'm reading this. 170 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,200 But anyway, the other 412 incidents that were looked at, 171 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,000 those aren't the total Israeli incidents by the way. 172 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,400 Those are just the ones looked at were judged as, quote, 173 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,920 inconclusive. As such, the Foreign Office has 174 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,320 still not decided whether Israel has actually committed any 175 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,600 problems or, you know, is is not complying with international 176 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,760 human rights law in its general war conduct. 177 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,280 And here's the one obviously that was left out. 178 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:40,280 They refused to submit one of CIR's research reports, long 179 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,160 range shooting or shooting of minors, IE sniping at children, 180 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:49,920 to the court despite a duty to disclose and explicit requests 181 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,840 made for its disclosure. It didn't make it into the 182 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:57,680 evidence. So I mean, what kind of a legal 183 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,360 process is going on here? Sure, that's the question. 184 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,480 Here's low. Oh, go ahead. 185 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,040 No. I would say it's obviously a 186 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,160 fitted up legal process. I mean there is no legal 187 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,080 process. It completely subverts the legal 188 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:09,680 process. We've seen this in other areas 189 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:12,840 like the the fact that MI 5 was prepared to lie to court 190 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,000 recently. It doesn't matter what the 191 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,080 circumstances where they lied. And so we're just saying this, 192 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,200 you know, this is the the government or the regime that 193 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:25,720 has, no matter what color the the political party has said 194 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:27,480 we're standing for the rule of law. 195 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,320 Well, that's long out the window. 196 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,600 So they're they're willing to dismantle the rule of law, all 197 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,160 for Israel. They're willing to dismantle and 198 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,240 to destroy the international legal system, the international 199 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,560 post World War 2 legal system, the Genocide Convention, 200 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,160 international humanitarian law to protect Israel and to protect 201 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,520 the corporations supplying weapons to Israel as its 202 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,520 committing A genocide. Did I get any of that wrong? 203 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:59,320 Nope, I'm not sure that I did. Let's look at Loki, the great UK 204 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:04,520 based rapper and poet, entertainer and happens to be an 205 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,720 amazing journalist. This is just a clip of a report 206 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,040 he did recently for Double Down News. 207 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,200 Take a listen. In addition to that, we believe 208 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,360 in Israel has even boasted about being given access to classified 209 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,040 police information from a counter terror investigation 210 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,400 into Palestine action in 2022. Why would a lobby group for a 211 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,280 foreign power not only be so deeply involved in the security 212 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,080 state of this country, but why would it have access to 213 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,040 classified documents? We Believe in Israel came out of 214 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,160 Icon, Israel's largest lobby group in Britain, which is 215 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,560 currently led by Richard Pater, a reserve in the Israeli 216 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:53,320 military who previously was employed by the Israeli Prime 217 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,920 Minister's Office. We Believe in Israel campaigned 218 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:02,320 to remove my music from Spotify. At the time it was led by Luke 219 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,960 Acurst, now serving as a Labour MP. 220 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,520 Here is Israeli political officer from the embassy 221 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,920 discussing Luke Acurst. And We Believe in Israel. 222 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,160 So Lukas is the director of We Believe in Israel. 223 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:19,200 He's a great guy. He's. 224 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,320 One of the best of the inside. Why are we allowing a foreign 225 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:31,720 lobby group led by an alleged spy to dictate what is and isn't 226 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,200 acceptable protest in this country? 227 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,280 So the NGO he's talking about, We believe in Israel, are the 228 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,200 ones that look like they they pushed the initial push to ban 229 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,920 Palestine action. He's talking about an alleged 230 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,440 spy. Let's look at who that alleged 231 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,160 spy or who is referring to there. 232 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,880 And there's the organization we believe in Israel, it's trying 233 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:59,120 to ban Palestine action. This is a Israeli, clearly an 234 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,840 Israeli lobbying organization, whatever you want to call it 235 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,120 here. And this is the person, one of 236 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,440 the heads anyway, of this organization. 237 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:11,080 Her name is Catherine Shaktam. That name sounded familiar when 238 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,400 I first saw it. And lo and behold, it is this 239 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:19,560 woman, a woman of many faces who allegedly or apparently 240 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:24,200 converted to Shiite Islam and made her way onto Press TV and 241 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:30,520 RTV, RT International and other international networks posing as 242 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,320 a type of resistance journalist. And the allegations are that she 243 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:38,520 was an Israeli spy or British and Israeli spy infiltrated 244 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,080 those organizations. She on record has said, I 245 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,280 managed to infiltrate to the highest levels. 246 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,080 Quote. It's in Loki's report at Double 247 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,480 Down News. We'll give you the link to that 248 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,120 in a moment. But here she is there we are 249 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,360 executive director of We Believe in Israel. 250 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,800 So that's quite a jump from bring being a pro resistance 251 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,360 Shiite convert gallivanting around Tehran and returns to the 252 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,800 UK and is affiliated with the Henry Jackson Society and this 253 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,240 organization. I mean, that's just a little bit 254 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,720 fishy. I can see how the allegations of 255 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:17,040 her being a spy are certainly prevalent because it it it does 256 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,720 look very suspicious. So that's what's going on there. 257 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,000 If you want any more background on this story with her, this is 258 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,080 a great piece by Alan McLeod at MIN Press news entitled 259 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:34,920 Catherine Perez Shachtem, a French born UK, a Jewish French 260 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,920 Jewish and lives in the UK. Apparently here Israeli spy who 261 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,840 infiltrated Mint press so apparently made her way into 262 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,040 mint Press as well. So very effective. 263 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,040 And here's one of the people mentioned in Loki's report. 264 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,000 This is a former head of Labor Friends of Israel, John 265 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,640 Woodcock. He had to leave the party for 266 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:56,960 some reason, did he? He did. 267 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,000 There was a sexual harassment scandal as far as we could. 268 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,800 We could see apparently he left his his post after that, but he 269 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,560 he landed on his feet. Mike managed to get a, a title 270 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,120 there, a peerage, lifetime peerage there in the House of 271 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,600 Lords. Lord Walney, he is now known as, 272 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,440 so you know, there we are. But he, he's featured in this 273 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,000 report and it's quite damning actually. 274 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,240 And you can see the direct link with this gentleman and all of 275 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,720 these organizations and then the move to ban Palestine action. 276 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,000 So there we are. We see all these operatives 277 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,200 working pretty much in concert for the same ends. 278 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,600 There's Loki's report there. If you want to go look at this 279 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,360 double down news. He is just a fantastic 280 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,400 journalist. I I don't need to say any more 281 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,480 Mike, but all the receipts are there. 282 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,240 Yeah, OK. Thank you, Patrick. 283 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,640 Well, look, let's, let's just have a look at some of the 284 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,320 context behind this because of course, it shouldn't be really 285 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,000 surprising that the British government is behaving this way. 286 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:02,400 On Wednesday, we were discussing the fact that the inconveniences 287 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,359 of elections and representation of the electorate have been 288 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,000 removed from the MP's job description on the British 289 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,560 Parliament website. And this is just one of the 290 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,280 recent signs that we, in fact, do live in a dictatorship. 291 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,960 So let's just remind ourselves of where we're at. 292 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,640 So first of all, let's look, look, sorry, look at the 293 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,720 shutdown of any criticism of the state. 294 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,160 We have the Online Safety Act that everybody will be aware of. 295 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,200 We've got the new National Security Act, the Foreign 296 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,360 Influence Registration scheme, the Terrorism Act, as examples. 297 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,040 The Terrorism Act, as everybody knows, is increasingly used to 298 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,880 terrorize anyone who's speaking out through arrested borders 299 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,960 with interrogations, phone and laptop seizures and so on, and 300 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,440 of course, now with the prescription of organizations. 301 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,600 But it's the foreign influence and registration scheme that I 302 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,080 want to focus on for a second here because this is a subset of 303 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,800 the National Security Act that's just been made active yesterday. 304 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,000 The the land, Sorry, I'm just going to quote a little bit 305 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,520 here. This landmark measure introduces 306 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,840 an unprecedented enhanced tear protecting our economy and 307 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:13,400 society from covert, sorry activities by Iran and Russia. 308 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,240 That was from the Home Office. It is A2 tier scheme. 309 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,560 The political tier requires registration of any arrangements 310 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,440 to carry out political influence activities in the UK on behalf 311 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,520 of a foreign power, including political communications or 312 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,240 lobbying senior decision makers such as MPs and election 313 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,760 candidates. But a more straight stringent 314 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,640 enhanced tier applies to foreign powers considered to pose a risk 315 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,520 to UK safety of interests or interests. 316 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,080 The whole of the Russian and Iranian states have been placed 317 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,160 under this tier. Now there are limited exemptions 318 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,800 for journalists and so-called recognized news publishers. 319 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,240 But the Starmer regime says that quotes individuals and 320 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,120 organizations brackets, including news publishers and 321 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:59,760 journalists, who are required to register under the enhanced tier 322 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,920 if they are directed by a specified foreign power or 323 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,600 entity to carry out or arrange for others to carry out a 324 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:11,360 broader range of what are described as relevant activities 325 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:14,040 in the UK. Now, relevant activities in the 326 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,240 context of the media include, but they're not limited to 327 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,840 conducting or arranging interviews at the direction of a 328 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,040 specified foreign power or specified foreign power 329 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,520 controlled entity, publishing news reports at the direction of 330 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,000 a specified foreign power or specified foreign power 331 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,240 controlled entity, creating video reports at the direction 332 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,800 of a specified foreign power or specified foreign power 333 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,600 controlled entity, and investigative journalism 334 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,200 activities at the direction of a specified foreign power or 335 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,280 specified foreign power controlled entity. 336 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,960 Of course, they can make up what at the direction of a specified 337 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,560 power or specified foreign power controlled entity means. 338 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,320 But I've seen nothing which suggests that Russia Today or 339 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:59,080 Press TV are not foreign power controlled entities. 340 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,600 I'm certain they are. But then we're left with what 341 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,600 the what at the direction of means this is. 342 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,640 This is still absolutely unclear. 343 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,040 But coming back to the dictatorship, let's look at the 344 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,000 next group of statute and those are designed, sorry, those 345 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,760 designed to criminalize protest. And we have here the Police 346 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,200 Crime Courts and Sentencing Act and the Public Order Act, which 347 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,480 both place major limitations on the ability of the public to 348 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,520 protest government or regime actions. 349 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,560 And now as we've highlighted on Wednesday and today, the Terror 350 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,360 Terrorism Act is being used in this area as well as Palestine 351 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:42,160 action represents. And finally, surveillance that 352 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,560 we'll talk about here. The investigatory powers in this 353 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,680 country continue to be used to surveil us all and with the 354 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,000 ongoing row with Apple over the use of end to end encryption, 355 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,920 it's clear that the Starmer regime wants no limitations on 356 00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,720 bulk to the collection in this country. 357 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:05,880 Now in news related to this, then Brian Leveson has been 358 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,920 reappointed to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. 359 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,400 This is the body which is supposed to hold the use of 360 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,440 these powers to account. Leveson's been doing this job 361 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,200 for the past six years and has been appointed for a further 3 362 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,640 now. This is to a so-called 363 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,800 independent oversight tribunal, which has frankly at this point 364 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,800 upheld almost no cases brought against the state in recent 365 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,040 years. And even for the few cases that 366 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,960 they have found against the agencies, in fact, it turns out 367 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,200 there's nothing they can do about it anyway because they 368 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,440 apparently can't apply any kind of financial sanction or 369 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,680 anything like that. But coming back to this again, 370 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:48,440 the Data Use and Access Act recently passed is another 371 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,000 contribution to the dictatorship as well as it enables the 372 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,280 sharing of bulk data with private companies such as 373 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,600 Palantir and others that Patrick's already mentioned just 374 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,560 a few minutes ago, so that AI can be leveraged by the state. 375 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,160 So this is quite an incredible batch of legislation that we've 376 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,240 seen coming through in the last few years, although the 377 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,160 Terrorism Act goes back a bit further than that, but it's now 378 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,200 being used in a way that it was never intended. 379 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,800 But let's not forget the daddy of them all, and that is the 380 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,840 covert human intelligence sources brackets Criminal 381 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,000 Conduct Act. If you remember this, the short 382 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,720 text of this went on, it says a bill to make provision for and 383 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,040 in connection with the authorization of criminal 384 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,960 conduct in the course of or otherwise in connection with the 385 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,800 conduct of covert human intelligence sources. 386 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,960 Now, there are apparently no real restrictions on the types 387 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,920 of criminal conduct permitted by this act, and the range of 388 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,320 government agencies is virtually limited that can make use of 389 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,680 this as well. Now, it is true that there's an 390 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,440 undoubted decline in the use of covert human intelligence 391 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:55,800 sources, but they are still used. 392 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,440 And it's in this contact context that we, I think we should be 393 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,800 looking at the Palestine action issue because even if you 394 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,960 disagree with their aims, the fact that their right to protest 395 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,560 and express themselves is shut down in this way is as dangerous 396 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,160 as it gets for all of us. And anyone welcoming this regime 397 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,960 action, I think, does so at their own peril. 398 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,720 And to add to that, Mike, what Loki shared in that double down 399 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,360 report is Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems has their own 400 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:30,280 corporate intelligence cell which they used to surveil and 401 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,120 monitor members of Palestine Action and then report to the 402 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:36,840 government corporate intelligence. 403 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:43,560 So this is another layer to that whole thing that you just just 404 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,960 laid out there. So we we have got ourselves in 405 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,760 quite the pickle in this country with respect to the level of 406 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,120 power and the degree of power that the government has claimed 407 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,160 for itself just in the last few years. 408 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,760 And this isn't the labor thing. This is, this is cross party, 409 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,400 it's the UNI party in action and we really have to consider that 410 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,600 when we are making a judgement of whether whether we should be 411 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,000 supporting this court action on behalf of Palestine action or 412 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,840 not. And it is a dangerous situation 413 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,600 when I don't know how many judges are going to be involved 414 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,760 in making this decision. Probably 3 I suppose, but 415 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,320 nonetheless it comes down to those 3 individuals. 416 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,920 And it also the the the continued blurring of the line, 417 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:26,440 Mike, between national security and national interests and then 418 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,960 between national interests and corporate interests. 419 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:35,480 Ergo, corporate interests become national security because what 420 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,320 are we protecting here? What's all this surveillance 421 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:39,600 for? Why is the government need 422 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,480 license to break the law? Is anything in in in in 423 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,160 Palestine putting the UK at risk? 424 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,960 No. No, the danger is to the 425 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,760 entities that operate in this country. 426 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,760 To the corporations that are based here, as well as Leonardo 427 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,520 and other big defense contractors, which their stocks 428 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,840 are doing very well right now, OK, through the roof, European 429 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,440 defense stocks. And I wonder how many people in 430 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,720 government own those shares or have them indexed in their 431 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,200 various funds. So the performance of these 432 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,880 defense contractors that are killing people right now, let's 433 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,160 just kind of put it bluntly. Somehow, that's in the interest 434 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,960 of politicians in Britain, Europe and the United States to 435 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,640 keep the killing going. Sorry to be crude and blunt 436 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,640 about it, but that's what it looks like. 437 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,800 Right now, we were talking about foreign influence there a second 438 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:31,720 ago. Now, of course, when we're 439 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,080 looking at journalists who may be affected by this, there are a 440 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:40,400 number of British journalists who have worked with RT and with 441 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,440 Press TV, and those are the two countries sort of media outlets 442 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,880 which are absolutely on the list for foreign influence. 443 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,640 Now, one of the people who does is seen on Press TV from time to 444 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,080 time, if not actually regularly, is David Miller and of course, a 445 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,240 very outspoken critic of Zionism. 446 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,840 He's coming under increasing pressure, Patrick. 447 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,520 Yeah, and they're all going after David. 448 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,840 One of the reasons they're going after David Miller is because 449 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,560 he's stood up and he has fought them and won at least in the 450 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,400 tribunal earlier regarding his dismissal of Bristol University. 451 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,880 But this latest challenge is a whole another level. 452 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,320 We've got a video message which David posted on his ex account. 453 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,080 Everybody listen to this very closely and we'll tell you how 454 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,960 you can help. But go ahead and roll this. 455 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,080 So I'm here at Westminster Magistrates Court where I came 456 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,880 this morning for the first hearing in the case being 457 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,840 brought against me by the Campaign against anti-Semitism. 458 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,640 They have accused me of sending 3 menacing tweets under the 459 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,000 Communications Act of 2003. It was the case hearing today, 460 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,880 there was no pleading done and we will come back in a couple of 461 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,560 months for further discussions and hearings before a trial date 462 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,280 has been set for the 15th of December. 463 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,800 They will try and silence me. They'll try and silence me 464 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,240 through this whole procedure. And of course what we're doing 465 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,320 is fighting back against the Zionist attempt to completely 466 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,440 destroy any speeches, support of the Palestinians and against the 467 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,120 existence of the Zionist movement, which is of course a 468 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,760 fundamentally racist, genocidal movement. 469 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,080 Obviously this is yet another court case which I'm fighting, 470 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,400 which will have significant legal costs. 471 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,160 We have a great legal team from Bermberg Pierce and we need to 472 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,800 raise funds to support both the Bermberg Pierce team and the 473 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,800 barristers who are acting from the influential, well known and 474 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,400 high profile barrister. So I would appeal to everyone 475 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,000 who could afford it to supply us with anything they can afford to 476 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,600 support the legal fees in this case to the left, 477 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:48,560 legalfightingfunds@fightingfund.org. Yeah. 478 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,120 So just just to get some more details on this, we'll bring 479 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:53,920 this up on screen. This is the basis this is 480 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,240 attempted a private prosecution and it's a strategic lawsuit 481 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,160 against public participation or a slap. 482 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,440 Talk about an acronym there. And an act of desperation by the 483 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,280 state of Israel in a propaganda war it has already lost. 484 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,800 This is up on David Miller's crowdfunding site here and this 485 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,280 is what he says and this is basically the gist of it, that 486 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,040 they say that some of my posts on this platform X were quote 487 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,680 menacing against Jews and Zionists says David Miller. 488 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,920 Now if you want to help out in this legal challenge here, 489 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,960 there's his crowdfunding campaign right there, Left Legal 490 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,840 Fighting Fund, Stop the CAA. The campaign against 491 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,880 anti-Semitism is what's being used to try to skewer David 492 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,240 Miller here once again. And again, take a closer look at 493 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,840 the URL. We'll bring that up on screen. 494 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,440 That's the URL. If you want to get involved 495 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,720 fightingfund.org/stop the CAA and. 496 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,360 It'll be in the show notes. This will be on the show notes 497 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,160 as well. And for those of you who don't 498 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,960 want to use the online facility, think they have a facility. 499 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,640 If you want to send a check, if you prefer to send a check, 500 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,640 there's the address right there. Take a screenshot of this right 501 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,720 now on the program and that's in Darby, England. 502 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,240 That address there. Please indicate on the back of 503 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,280 the check what is for IE right David Miller on the back of the 504 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,920 check so they know when you send it to that address. 505 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,280 But of that was posted by David Miller himself on his ex 506 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,440 account. So we are just copying that 507 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,240 information and sharing it with you. 508 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,920 Very important precedent. Obviously, they're really going 509 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,080 after David. They lost in the tribunal. 510 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,560 They tried to take him down. He fought back and he won. 511 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,560 And now they're coming at him to try to shut down his free 512 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,120 speech, to deny him of his rights of freedom of expression 513 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,160 as an academic and also as a journalist as well. 514 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,760 Now, let's welcome Mark to the program. 515 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,120 And Mark, the protest against what's going on in Gaza isn't 516 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,600 restricted to the UK. Many other countries as well are 517 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,000 protesting what's been going on in the Netherlands. 518 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,400 Good day, gentlemen. I was looking into similar 519 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,240 things and I happened to find an item from NDTV World News out of 520 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,320 Holland and it's very poignant. It kind of speaks for speaks for 521 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,080 itself. There's a video clip we can roll 522 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,960 in a moment. It also comes as an Irish 523 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,360 politician who was falsely labeled as the Prime Minister 524 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,680 spoke out in the Irish parliament very emotionally 525 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,920 about Benjamin Netanyahu's targeting of children. 526 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,440 He believes in Palestine with, with basically murder, you know, 527 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,280 with all the, all the blunt force of the IDF. 528 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,880 Anyway, this, this is very poignant. 529 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,080 A lot of shoes were recently laid out, 10s of thousands of 530 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:47,320 pair of shoes in Holland to symbolize the deaths of children 531 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,320 in Palestine. So let's let that roll. 532 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,880 This is a 12th time that we are organizing a memorial protest in 533 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,760 the Netherlands. We are in Almira. 534 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,640 This time we are saying 18,000 shoes. 535 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,400 That's the official numbers right now. 536 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,760 But we know that more children and that way more children than 537 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,360 that have been murdered. They are under the rubble. 538 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:35,120 They have not been found yet or not been registered because the 539 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:41,920 system just can't do it anymore. I felt angry today coming here 540 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,920 that we have to do this again and again. 541 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,080 A year and a half and the genocide is not ending. 542 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,280 Actually our family today said to each other maybe we will not 543 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:56,320 wake up tomorrow when they went to sleep in Raza last night, 544 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,360 Hamdulillah, they are alive, but we don't know how many more 545 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,840 people we are going to be losing. 546 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,200 So I am devastated that we are commemorating all of these 547 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,280 children, shoes represent children and that it's not 548 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,360 stopping. So I am calling the anybody in 549 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,640 power, anybody who can do anything, but also normal 550 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,320 people, to keep raising attention and put pressure on 551 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:26,000 governments to end this genocide by Israel in Palestine. 552 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,960 So again, a very poignant reminder of the death toll in 553 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,920 Palestine, particularly against children as she mentioned so 554 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,200 many of them under the rubble. A truly devastating and tragic 555 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,560 outcome. But of course, you know, not 556 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,040 unexpected given the ID FS absolutely relentless and 557 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,280 barbaric approach to this. So that puts a lot of icing on 558 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,760 the cake of what we've already seen. 559 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,360 And the protests are in the United States as well, but 560 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,080 they're pretty scattered. And of course, we always have to 561 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,360 believe, believe or understand that agent provocateurs or 562 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,840 infiltrators will occasionally get into these protests and lead 563 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,080 people to do things they otherwise wouldn't do, maybe 564 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,440 acts of vandalism. So then they can be labeled as 565 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,160 terrorists. That does happen from time to 566 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,320 time, but that'll do it for now. Back to you guys. 567 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,440 Thank you, Mark Patrick. Sticking with the Gaza genocide 568 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:34,800 then. Yeah, I'll give you an update on 569 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,280 that. And just just to just to let you 570 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,200 know there are good people in Holland. 571 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,880 Don't, don't let the secretary general of NATO give you the 572 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,480 wrong impression in that country. 573 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,640 There's wonderful people in Holland and we just showed you 574 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,920 one of them there. Now, let's bring this up here. 575 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,600 And just just just so people are aware, this is no longer 576 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,240 speculation. It's not video tricks you're 577 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,720 seeing on social media. US contractors say their 578 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,080 colleagues are firing live munition at Palestinians seeking 579 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,720 food in Gaza. As you can see, they've created 580 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,199 a concentration camp here funded by the US government and the 581 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:10,800 Israelis. They're calling this 582 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,320 humanitarian aid. They're letting them loose to go 583 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,120 find and run to get food and then shooting them the number 584 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,679 dead. It's running at a clip, 585 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,960 including from these sites as well as the bombing raids by 586 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,679 Israel, around 100 Palestinians a day it seems, Mike, like it's 587 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:31,719 a quota by the IDF. They need to kill 100 per day 588 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,760 because that's what it's averaging out at over the last 589 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,000 few few weeks. Is that all Hamas? 590 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,880 I don't think it is. Of course it's not. 591 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,239 It's ridiculous to even say so. So the UN has issued a, the 592 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,400 Human Rights Council's issued a new report. 593 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,440 We've seen the draft of that. I think the final has been 594 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,560 published already. If it hasn't, it's probably up 595 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,360 on their website. But here's Francesca Albanese, 596 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,040 the UN special rapporteur for human rights, talking about 597 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,280 what's in this report and why it's so significant and why the 598 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,280 time for debate, discussion and trepidation of oh, is it a 599 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,960 genocide? Oh, is it not? 600 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,680 Oh, is Israel intending to kill civilians on an industrial 601 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,880 scale? Or is it just a mistake and it's 602 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:19,160 just all this collateral damage? That time for that debate has 603 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,920 long since passed. Listen. 604 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,880 My report exposes a system, something that is so structural 605 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,600 and so widespread and so systemic that there is no 606 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,120 possibility to fix it and redress it. 607 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:40,480 It is to be dismantled and you know, had businesses and had the 608 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,600 corporate sector observed due diligence, had it honored its 609 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:52,080 commitment to do due diligence even before October 7/20/23, he 610 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,400 would have disengaged completely and totally from its 611 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,200 entanglement with the with the Israeli economy. 612 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,600 Because first of all, it's a fiction that there is a line 613 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:10,080 dividing, separating the good Israel within Israel and the bad 614 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,240 Israel in the occupied territory. 615 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:17,160 No, the economy is 1. Israel's economy is 1 and one 616 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,800 only and encapsulates the colonies. 617 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,800 The colonies do not exist because some fringy part of the 618 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:31,040 Israeli society is pioneering into the wild, Wild West Bank. 619 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,760 No, it's because this is resolving the housing crisis in 620 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,400 Israel. These people live and trying 621 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,400 within a system that is so connected that it's part of the 622 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:47,480 Israeli state. That's the special rapporteur 623 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,480 for Palestine and the occupied Territories, Francesca Albanese 624 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,160 here. Let's take a look at the draft 625 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,560 edited version here. This is just the clips that I 626 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,480 took from it. We'll bring this up on screen. 627 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,360 The UNS Special Rapporteur's 27 page report shows in granular 628 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,560 detail how Israel's war economy has mutated from occupation to 629 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,680 an economy of genocide, powered by a tight knit web of global 630 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,720 corporations and investors. Well, let's take a look at that 631 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:17,800 tight knit web. They're right here. 632 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,920 The document names more than 60 firms among them. 633 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,600 Drum roll, please. Ladies and gentlemen, tech Bros, 634 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,240 stand by. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, 635 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,200 Palantir. Anybody own volunteer shares? 636 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,720 I had a chance to buy at 60. I passed. 637 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,000 I'm glad I did. Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, 638 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,880 well, we were just talking about them. 639 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:43,240 Caterpillar HD, Hyundai, Volvo. Good cars, but I'm not sure 640 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,120 about what they're doing with the Israelis. 641 00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,440 Chevron, Drummond and Glencore. Of course, Glencore is in there 642 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,400 as direct beneficiaries and enablers of the deconstruction 643 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,000 of Gaza and the entrenchment of West Bank settlements. 644 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,160 Well, there you have it. It's an economy. 645 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,080 So it's it's beyond debate. And what why there is not 646 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,400 sanctions already? Why there is not full blown 647 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,440 embargo on arms? They're in violation of the Arms 648 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,040 Trade Treaty UK signed to that right, the genocide treaty, 649 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,000 Genocide Convention UK assigned to that, as is the United 650 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,320 States. They're fully in violation of 651 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,400 all of that. So why are governments still 652 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,200 shipping weapons? What? 653 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,880 And shipping, Anything we did, we everyone sanctioned South 654 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,600 Africa for far less in comparison. 655 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:36,120 Although the apartheid regime was bad, although it was brutal, 656 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,600 but they weren't doing anything near to the level of violence 657 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,320 that Israel has been doing for the last 20 months. 658 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,160 So what are we waiting for? That's the question. 659 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,560 That's a good question. OK, let's leave that there now I 660 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,720 move on. If you like what the UK column 661 00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:54,240 does, we do need your support. I want to say thank you again to 662 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:56,840 everybody that does support us. And if you look on the front 663 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,560 page of the website, you'll find a link to the support page. 664 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,360 We do need your help. As I say, a reminder of the 665 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,360 interview that went out 1:00 PM yesterday with Professor Gloria 666 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,800 Moss. This is looking at the situation 667 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,320 in universities and so on. So do have a look at that 668 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,760 described as a higher education crisis. 669 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,320 And of course, that's exactly what it is tonight at 7:00 PM 670 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,520 with Jerome. Charles and I are with Germ for 671 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,960 our weekly banter. Uh, join us at 7:00 tonight. 672 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,960 Uh, a reminder of Vanessa's latest article on the UK column 673 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,800 website Iran on its Ring of Fire. 674 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,600 If you haven't read it yet, please do please share it. 675 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:39,000 Sharing it is absolutely sharing everything that's on the UK 676 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,800 column website is absolutely important for us as well. 677 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,400 And finally, an advertisement here for an event taking place 678 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,520 tomorrow in Scotland. This is taking place in Glasgow 679 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,520 at the end of Jamaica St. by the River Clyde on the digital 680 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,480 slavery, slavery. And so they are going to be out 681 00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,800 campaigning on that issue tomorrow. 682 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,800 Anybody in the area would like to join them. 683 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:03,120 The details on screen will be in the. 684 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,040 Notes as well. Keep cash alive. 685 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,280 Look at that sign. Absolutely. 686 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,560 We love that. Yeah, sorry. 687 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,760 And finally then a reminder of the date for your diary, 688 00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:16,480 Saturday 18th of October 2025. Next UK column on location 689 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,240 event. The subject will be health and 690 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:24,480 that's taking place in York venue to be organ well to be 691 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,040 notified later on so and speakers as well. 692 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,440 So keep that date in your Diaries for that. 693 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,160 OK? Let's move on then to Ukraine. 694 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,040 And what do we have here? Well, lots of bombing going on. 695 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,840 Trump was on the phone again to Putin yesterday. 696 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,680 He seems to have offered, well, not very much actually, in fact. 697 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,240 So the Western media is presenting this as Putin being 698 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:53,240 unwilling to do a deal. But in the early hours of this 699 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:55,560 morning, then Kiev was under bombardment again. 700 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,360 As we could see on screen at the moment, there were several waves 701 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,720 of attacks lasting for hours. And according to Ukrainian Air 702 00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:05,880 Force, his Telegram channel, Kiev was the main target of the 703 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,880 strikes. As the landscape, of course, 704 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,640 piped up, he condemned it. He said that this was one of the 705 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,400 most, quote, demonstratively significant and cynical attacks 706 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,160 of the war. He was very unhappy, in fact, 707 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,760 that the sleep was disrupted. He said it was a harsh, 708 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,440 sleepless night. So he also complained that the 709 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,040 attacks came directly following Putin's call with Trump. 710 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,480 And he wrote on his Telegram channel that Russia once again 711 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,600 demonstrates that it does not intend to end the war. 712 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,680 Now, in related news, Mark Rutte, secretary general, gave 713 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,360 an interview to interview to Fox News on Wednesday. 714 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:45,640 Now let's just get a feel for how unhinged he actually is. 715 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,800 And then to Lavrov, I mean, he's foreign minister of Russia, I 716 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,160 think, since the birth of Jesus Christ. 717 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:57,600 And since then, nothing, anything usual came out of his 718 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,320 mouth. So let's not pay too much 719 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,920 attention to Mr. Lavrov. This is just quite incredible to 720 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,080 be coming out of the mouth of Mark Ruta, the biggest 721 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,440 propagandist on the face of the earth as far as I can see. 722 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,920 I could also interpret that as he's basically inferring that 723 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,400 Sergey Lavrov is the Messiah. So if that's the case, we should 724 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,400 organize some prayer. Lavrov prayer candles. 725 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,960 They're coming to you by next week, so look out for those. 726 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,880 OK, well anyway, Rhoda's bad message for the United States 727 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,280 was around his continuing whingeing that Trump appears to 728 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,680 have withdrawn support for Ukraine. 729 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,120 In fact, the Department of Defense has only announced a 730 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,000 pause in deliveries of some weapon systems, including 731 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,240 Patriot missiles and precision guided artillery shells, 732 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:43,400 Hellfire missiles, and munitions compatible with F16. 733 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,000 I mean, there's the F16's been shot down, so it hardly matters. 734 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,720 But anyway, Ruda said. I totally understand that the US 735 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:53,120 always has to make sure it's interests are covered when it 736 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,440 comes to Ukraine. In the short term, Ukraine 737 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,000 cannot do without all the support it can get. 738 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,480 I understand the US has to take care of its stockpiles and at 739 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,240 the same time we have to allow for some flexibility here. 740 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,560 Europeans in the meantime are really stepping up. 741 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,520 Well, my question mark, if we can bring you back on screen is 742 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,880 are they stepping up? Well, that is certainly the 743 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:21,360 plan. There is a major move in Europe 744 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,280 and I mentioned it, but we can show this first slide. 745 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:30,080 I mentioned it in a couple of reports ago on the 20th of June 746 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:35,560 when I talked about a Bilderberg attendee citing the Savings and 747 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:41,040 Investment Union as part of a greater stockpile of cash and 748 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,640 credit to leverage or collateralize to completely 749 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,480 revolutionize and enlarge European defense. 750 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:53,200 And that is to be based on largely European production and 751 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,960 far less reliance, they say, on American weapons and American 752 00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,840 weapons systems. Let's go back to that first 753 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,040 slide, because that's the important report. 754 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,440 The Commission, European Commission unveils the White 755 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,920 Paper for European Defense and the Rearm Europe Plan and 756 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,760 Readiness 2030. The Commission and the High 757 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,160 Representative have presented a White Paper for European Defense 758 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,240 as part of the Rearm Europe Plan, an ambitious defense 759 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:24,120 package providing financial levers, including the Savings 760 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,400 and Investment Union to EU member states to drive an 761 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,440 investment surge in defense capabilities. 762 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:35,360 So this is about rumors of war, the possibility of war, real 763 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,280 war. It's it's about basically basing 764 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,000 the entire planned economic boost of Europe and basing it 765 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,040 all on defense and military. It it seems that we cannot have 766 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,760 peace and economic prosperity at the same time. 767 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,320 We have to put the entirety of Europe on a war footing, a war 768 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,000 production footing. Only then can we have that 769 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:02,840 military based, relatively good economic health, economic 770 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,600 vitality. Anyway, here's some key quotes 771 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,040 from that European Defence and Rearmament Plan Readiness 2030. 772 00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:14,920 This plan also relies on the European Investment Bank Group 773 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,920 to widen the scope if it's lending to defence and security 774 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,640 projects while safeguarding its financial capacity. 775 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:25,080 On top of unlocking substantial funding, this will send a 776 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:28,600 positive signal to the all important markets. 777 00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,120 And we have another call out, I believe, from that same plan. 778 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,840 And this relates again to that Savings and Investment Union, 779 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,480 providing further validation that that's happening. 780 00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:42,120 Public investment alone will not be sufficient to fill the 781 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,520 defense industry's investment needs from startups to large 782 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,120 established companies. For this, the Savings and 783 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,800 Investments Union strategy will make it easier to mobilize 784 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,440 private savings into more efficient capital markets and 785 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,400 channel investments into critical sectors of the economy 786 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,240 such as defense. And they're saying for now in 787 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:05,280 this report that the Savings and Investment Union would be 788 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,600 putting forth money voluntarily from European savers, you know, 789 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,600 everyday citizens and their savings accounts and their time 790 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,600 deposits and things like that. This next slide is basically 791 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,640 just a source that people can access from the show notes. 792 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,240 This is a very in depth report in a lot of ways the economic 793 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:26,760 impact of higher defense spending and it admits pretty 794 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,000 clearly here that Europe will go significantly into debt and 795 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:36,280 incur much more debt to do this European wide major defense 796 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,960 manufacturing rearmament plan. And so that's very significant 797 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,360 to keep in mind. The next slide also reiterates 798 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,920 from a couple of reports ago from me, the Bilderberg link 799 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,880 leveraging or collateralizing the savings of Europeans, which 800 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:56,000 numbers in the 10s of trillions in the amount that came up 801 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,680 initially in this European financial stability and 802 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:03,240 integration review plan that Maria Albuquerque, a Bilderberg 803 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,880 attendee this year in Sweden announced on the eve of 804 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,040 Bilderberg. So we've got solid proof that 805 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,520 they're going to leverage savings and it's just a matter 806 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,280 of how they'll do it. The next thing is just a basic 807 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,040 graph. I only have one of these. 808 00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:22,600 It shows from 2014 to 2024. That was the initial commitment 809 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:28,040 a little over 10 years ago for 2% of GDP to be spent on defense 810 00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,680 by European countries. And by the time you get to 2022 811 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,840 where Russia invades Ukraine, you see the speed up and 812 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,920 increase of defense landing from NATO countries. 813 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,800 And so another key point here is that it's pretty much all 814 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,320 predicated on Ukraine and Russia. 815 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:49,280 Russia's this big threat. They, they alone wore the black 816 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,600 hats when they invaded Ukraine. Therefore, that's kind of the 817 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,920 whole central motivating point of this is Ukraine wears the 818 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,520 white hats. They can do nothing wrong. 819 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,680 And so because of what happened to them, Europe must rearm in a 820 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:08,320 very broad and long term sense with with profiteering being at 821 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,240 the top of the game. Anyway, there's some other 822 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,800 important aspects to cover here on breaking Defense. 823 00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,680 This is a trade journal. Let's look at this. 824 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,160 There was a recent Paris Air show where a lot of these, of 825 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,000 course, weapons are put out like in an exhibit kind of way. 826 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,200 Europe is pouring money into defense, The headline says. 827 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:35,600 Can US firms reap the reward amid transatlantic tensions? 828 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,680 And so the US, of course, is chomping at the bit now that it 829 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,240 motivated Europe to spend not just 2%, but up to 5% of its 830 00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:47,720 GDP. European nations on defense. 831 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000 But that's a 10 year timeline. That's that's supposed to be up 832 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,160 to about 2035. They're giving them 10 years to 833 00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,960 read that reach that 5% percent threshold. 834 00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,520 Excuse me, but the Financial Post noted in this 27 June item, 835 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:06,400 European allies are wary of buying American as they plan 836 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:10,280 this defense build up. So the US may or may not totally 837 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,920 cash in on this rearming, rearming and remilitarizing of 838 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,240 Europe, where they're going to try and build the entire 839 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:20,880 economic prosperity of Europe pretty much on on military 840 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:26,320 matters, the armaments, AI systems, ammunition, you name 841 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,600 it. Now, Andreas Kabulius, the EU 842 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,560 Commissioner for Defense in space, had a couple interest 843 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,880 interesting things to say. And I'll mention that before I 844 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,760 quote him, that Ursula Vander Leyen, the president of the 845 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,840 European Commission, is saying the peace dividend is over. 846 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,680 The peace dividend is no more. In order for Europe to prosper, 847 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,400 we must be on a war footing, a war military production footing. 848 00:49:50,720 --> 00:49:52,840 But anyway, here's what Andreas had to say. 849 00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:56,640 The defense package, the white paper for European Defense and 850 00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:00,200 Rearmament of Europe plan that I mentioned marks a defining 851 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,560 moment for our Union, a defining moment Europe can no longer 852 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,360 afford to be a bystander in its own security. 853 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,480 And he also had this to say. We must take our defense into 854 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,800 our own hands, reinforcing our commitments to collective 855 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,200 security and standing firm against those who seek to 856 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,760 challenge our sovereignty. And a real irony of this, of 857 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,880 course, is the the very creation of the EU, which Bilderberg had 858 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,760 at least a small hand in, was a, in a lot of ways, the 859 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,040 overturning of individual European nations sovereignty. 860 00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,120 So the European Union really doesn't have a leg to stand on 861 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,640 in terms of talking about sovereignty because even for it 862 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,360 to exist, it had to at least lessen the sovereignty of its 863 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,800 member states. So that pretty much sums up 864 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,720 what's going on. The savings and Investment Union 865 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,600 has now been confirmed as one definite way that they'll 866 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,760 finance this and Europeans better hold tight on to their 867 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,840 money or at the at least they better get a lot more 868 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,800 information about how this is going to work. 869 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,560 There is one more slide if you want, Mike, we can save it for 870 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:10,320 extra. But at at the Paris Air Show, 871 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:16,800 they put baffling and, you know, opaque baffles around the 872 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:21,200 Israeli booths at that Paris Air Armament show in a move that 873 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,560 Israel called outrageous and unprecedented, evidently a 874 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,280 active protest in some respect against what the Israeli 875 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,080 military's been doing unless they were somehow protecting 876 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:34,840 them or maybe even a little bit of both. 877 00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,920 But Israel did protest about that. 878 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,400 But that's an interesting twist on the end of this story for 879 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,080 today. Just on the defense thing, Mike, 880 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,400 this, this 5% target, the likelihood that any of these 881 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,480 countries are going to actually meet that they're talking about 882 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,560 all these, as Mark said, all the bail insurance or you know, 883 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,280 stealing savings to find they're, they're looking for all 884 00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,280 these schemes because the cash isn't there. 885 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:04,320 Italy, Italy's doing about 1.5% at the moment. 886 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:08,000 And they're so desperate to add to the, to the NATO tally. 887 00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,800 There's a bridge that's planned to join the mainland Italy to 888 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:15,280 Sicily, and Maloney's trying to bundle that in as a NATO expense 889 00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,920 in order to get up closer to her 5%. 890 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:20,360 And Trump just threatens the Spanish. 891 00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,720 The Spanish said no way are we going to spend 5% of GDP on 892 00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:28,440 military, and Trump threatened them with tariffs. 893 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,240 So talk about an attack on sovereignty. 894 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,320 The United States is going to determine whether you're going 895 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,760 to go into massive debt to pay for this bloated 5% defense 896 00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,640 budget to fight a phantom menace, the beast from the East. 897 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:44,880 Talk about an attack on sovereignty. 898 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,200 So you can't decide what you spend your money on anymore. 899 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,040 Is this the new Europe? It absolutely is. 900 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:52,200 Yeah. Unbelievable. 901 00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,800 Unbelievable. No, it is the new Europe and you 902 00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,080 know, it's, it's absolutely clear Patrick, the UK claims to 903 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:04,160 to be spending 2 1/2% already 2.7% whatever it is at the 904 00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,400 moment. And there's, they say they're 905 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,560 going to go to 3 1/2% whatever in order to, to even come to 906 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,200 that number. They are including pensions in, 907 00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,640 in the, in the figure. So, so, and I'm sure all the 908 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,800 other European countries are doing something similar. 909 00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:25,120 So, you know, we are faced with Russia if Russia is our enemy, 910 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,480 which I absolutely say they are not. 911 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,280 But von der Leyen and the rest and Starmer claim that Russia is 912 00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,120 our enemy. Now Russia has weaponry with 913 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,240 much smaller defence budget than the weaponry that we can't even 914 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,400 get near. And so, you know, do do these 915 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:48,840 people really expect Russia to sit back and wait for the 20 916 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:52,040 years that it's going to take to get for the for the West to get 917 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:55,120 up to a level where they could actually seriously prosecute a 918 00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,000 war against them? Or are they just going to ignore 919 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,080 us? Or what are they going to do? 920 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,640 Well, if it takes 20 years, Mike, then that's just about 921 00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,880 right. Because every 100 years, Europe 922 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,120 decides they're going to try to invade Russia and it gets the 923 00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:09,080 same result every time they run back with their tail between 924 00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,480 their legs. So let's set our watches for 925 00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:17,320 2040 and let's do, let's do Operation Barbarossa again and 926 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,640 Napoleon trying to take Moscow. That went well, didn't it? 927 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:22,600 So I mean, this is just like ridiculous. 928 00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:26,640 What is the problem with Europe? What what is this obsession with 929 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,280 having to go to war with Russia constantly? 930 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,280 Why didn't they just rollback NATO? 931 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:35,120 And so this is just unbelievable. 932 00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:38,040 NATO's a joke, OK? This is all about 933 00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:41,360 interoperability. We know there it doesn't work. 934 00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,520 And how many tanks does NATO produce collectively in a year 935 00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,280 in Europe, the European side 100? 936 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,080 What is Europe we. Don't have the productive 937 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,080 capability. What does Russia produce in 938 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:58,800 terms of tanks in a year? About 15 hundred 1500 a year. 939 00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,640 The whole of Europe can't even do a tenth of the Russian 940 00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:04,800 production. Are you guys kidding? 941 00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,160 Seriously. Despite sanctions. 942 00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,080 Seriously. Just remind ourselves of that. 943 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:10,440 Like what world are you living in? 944 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,800 But your stocks are doing good, your portfolios are doing good, 945 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,840 index funds, you're making money. 946 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,440 You'll be able to buy the 3rd or 4th house and maybe buy the 947 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,240 yacht. So everybody's happy, right? 948 00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:22,440 Because that's what it's all about. 949 00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,080 Absolutely. Mark, let's come back to you 950 00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:26,200 now. Was it last week? 951 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,280 I think you were talking about Chatham House and the sudden 952 00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,480 interest in Korea in the Korean Peninsula? 953 00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:36,560 The event has since taken place. What happened? 954 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:42,400 While I was able to cover it July 2nd virtually and it was 955 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,760 called How should Britain build influence and impact on the 956 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,800 Korean Peninsula? It included Colin Crooks, 957 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,720 interesting, unfortunate surname, UK ambassador to South 958 00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:57,520 Korea, Edward Howell, Korean Foundation fellow, Karen Maddox, 959 00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,080 head of Northeast Asia Department, Foreign, 960 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,400 Commonwealth and Development Office, moderated by Simon Smith 961 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:07,480 of the British Korean Society. And I took some original photos 962 00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,320 with screenshots here. There's Colin Crooks to the 963 00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,680 left, Karen Maddox in the middle and Edward Howell to the right. 964 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:19,600 I didn't happen to include Simon in that, but there is some B 965 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,520 roll here that we can show if you'd like. 966 00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:24,040 And I can just give it a very brief outline for the time we 967 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,680 have left. Colin Crooks talked about a 968 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:31,240 bilateral free trade agreement with South Korea and said that 969 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:34,960 that's in the works. And he said that Russia has 970 00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,840 positioned itself as an enemy of South Korea. 971 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:42,440 Allegedly, South Korea to the Far East side of Russia is 972 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,520 geographically close, he mentioned to Russia. 973 00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:50,640 And he said South Korea has a good leader in place and has 974 00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:54,600 constitutional clarity now, even though it's previous president 975 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:59,040 declared martial law fairly recently in 2024, although that 976 00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:00,960 president was reportedly impeached. 977 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:05,960 So they believe South Korea is now stable and constitutionally 978 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,560 sound so it can enter into the free trade agreement with the UK 979 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,840 and so on. Another important point is that 980 00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:19,320 South Korea is sort of part of a apparent UK military and 981 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,760 diplomatic tilt, you might say, or outreach. 982 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,120 They're basically going to make South Korea sort of an adjunct 983 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:31,280 or add on to what they're calling the arsenal of democracy 984 00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,200 for Europe. And so in a strange way, it kind 985 00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,760 of fits into the report I just made about re arming and 986 00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,840 militarizing the economy of Europe there. 987 00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:46,360 There is that connection there. There's some other things, Colin 988 00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:50,200 said, the ambassador to the South Korea of the UK. 989 00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,880 Korean language is the fastest growing for study in the UK. 990 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:59,200 He called that a soft power connection and said 5000 youth 991 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,560 go both directions from UK to South Korea and vice versa in 992 00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:06,840 terms of cultural relations and British universities and schools 993 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,960 are actively recruiting South Korean students. 994 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:13,720 Karen Maddox mentioned a lot of things. 995 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,600 One of the highlights of Karen Maddox comments was that she 996 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,040 doesn't believe North Korea is in with both feet in the axis 997 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,440 with Iran, Russia and China. She believes it's more of a 998 00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,640 transactional opportunistic thing and that North Korea is 999 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,040 part of that axis only for its own benefit and it again, it's 1000 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,280 not in with both feet. That was Karen Maddox opinion on 1001 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,960 that. A number of other things could 1002 00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,920 be said. It was something of a dry 1003 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:46,240 discussion. But All in all, they are saying 1004 00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,040 that tensions are down in the Demilitarized Zone between North 1005 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:52,920 and South Korea. However, Karen Maddox said that 1006 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:57,280 the channels of de escalation have declined as has the number 1007 00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,160 of embassies. So they're trying to re 1008 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,440 establish the UK embassy in Pyongyang. 1009 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:08,760 But meanwhile, North Korea does have an embassy in Ealing, a 1010 00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:14,040 adjunct or suburb of London. And the HMS Prince of Wales, a 1011 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,720 naval ship of the UK, is supposed to visit Korea sometime 1012 00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,080 this summer. So that's some of the 1013 00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,360 highlights, guys. But they're trying to bring 1014 00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:29,600 Korea in as sort of a distant adjunct of free trade and some 1015 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,640 of the military activities and related matters. 1016 00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,520 I'm sure that they'll be more on this as time goes by and we can 1017 00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,480 refer back to this Chatham House meeting from July 2nd. 1018 00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,640 So that should suffice for now guys. 1019 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:43,840 Thank you, Mark. Looks like a barrel, laughs 1020 00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,080 there at the at the Royal Institute there. 1021 00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:50,880 Global Britain's back, Mike. Global Britain's back standing 1022 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:51,600 the empire. I will. 1023 00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:55,440 Be shocked if the HMS Prince wills makes it to Korea, but 1024 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:56,720 we'll see. We'll. 1025 00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,840 See how they have to go through warm water to get there. 1026 00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:01,800 So it might be some engine. Some engine trouble perhaps? 1027 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,240 Yes. Well, look, we've we've got to 1028 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,480 leave it there for today. I'm going to say thank you very 1029 01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:09,200 much to Mark and Patrick and a special thanks to Wilsey from 1030 01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:13,680 Resistance GB and we'll let everybody know what happens at 1031 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,200 that High Court hearing if we hear before the the end of 1032 01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,520 extra. If you're not AUK column member, 1033 01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,160 please consider joining because you can join us in a few minutes 1034 01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,760 for extra on this live stream. 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