1 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:14,320 Good afternoon, today is Monday, the twenty 24th of June 2024. 2 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:18,600 That's quite a mouthful. Welcome to today's UK column 3 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,920 news. I'm your host, Brian Gerrish, 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,720 and I'm delighted to have with me today Alex Thompson from the 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,960 Netherlands and also Mark Anderson speaking from the USA. 6 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,560 No, I'll just say that it's a little bit of a gloomy day, June 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,720 day here in Plymouth, England, as you might be able to see from 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:38,560 the the weather out the window behind me. 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,120 But never mind. We're going to get on with a 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,440 busy UK column, news for our viewers and listeners today. 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,560 So let's start off with Alex. Welcome. 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,360 Great to have you back with us. And you've got something to 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,520 report here. While many people were looking 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:01,560 at what was happening in Crimea, Sebastopol, attacks by the 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,440 Ukrainians in the last couple of days, there was something pretty 16 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,240 dark and nasty happening in other parts of Russia. 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,960 Ed Brian In fact, along the whole southern fringe of Russia 18 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:17,720 in the Caucasus, this is the mountain range between the Black 19 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,280 Sea and the Caspian Sea. And there have been attacks at 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,040 the western end, where the separatist Georgian Republic of 21 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,960 Abkhazia suffered attacks in two places reportedly yesterday. 22 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,440 But first we will look at what happened at the other end, the 23 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:35,080 Caspian coast. This is the Russian Autonomous 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,040 Republic of Dagestan, an extremely complicated, 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,000 overwhelmingly Muslim Republic with dozens of nationalities and 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,920 languages in it, located just north of Azerbaijan along the 27 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,000 Caspian coast. Over the last quarter century it 28 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,320 has experienced many over spills of the Chechen conflicts, the 29 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,680 two wars at least that have come out of there. 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,240 That has been kept a little under tabs recently. 31 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,680 But just yesterday afternoon, a lady in the historic city of 32 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,960 Derbent, not the capital of the Dagestani Republic, but the most 33 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,759 historic town there, filmed this out of her window. 34 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,640 What she managed to capture there was, unfortunately enough, 35 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,680 the opening salvos of several attacks in the two biggest 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,480 cities of Dagestan, not only there in Derbent, where a 37 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,440 synagogue was attacked, but also in Mahachkala, the 38 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,440 unpronounceable capital, administrative capital of 39 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,920 Dagestan, which, as I say, is run autonomously. 40 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:06,120 So it's local, overwhelmingly Muslim people in the government 41 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,560 there facing attacks from their militants of their own area, 42 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,160 their own nationalities, who've often spent time in the Gulf or 43 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,640 the West. Many people allege that they're 44 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:18,160 being trained by interests in the West and reignited, possibly 45 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,520 with a Ukrainian dimension in there as well, if you look at 46 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,440 the spread of attacks in coordination in time with 47 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,120 Sevastopol. But here we'll see what happened 48 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,680 in Makhachkala at the same time. An attack on a police station. 49 00:03:59,810 --> 00:04:02,290 Now we could get a lot more gory than that, but it would be 50 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:05,010 gratuitous and we will not. But there is plenty of footage 51 00:04:05,010 --> 00:04:08,290 proving that when the Russian security forces managed to move 52 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:12,530 in to both of these urban attack environments, they pumped a 53 00:04:12,530 --> 00:04:15,320 number of bullets into the already recumbent, if not 54 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,320 lifeless figures of the attackers. 55 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,720 People may say this is not fair play and not Queensbury rules, 56 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,000 but over the last 25 years the Russians in the North Caucasus 57 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,960 have found booby trapped bodies and men playing dead and all 58 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,280 kinds of other horrors, so I will not be the first to judge 59 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,680 their response. At the end of the day it turned 60 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,480 out that there had been attacks not only on synagogues in these 61 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,640 two towns. And here's one of silent footage 62 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,520 of the synagogue in Derbent burning, but also an Orthodox 63 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,120 cathedral in one of the districts of Maharaj Khaladi, 64 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:50,880 administrative capital, had also been surrounded. 65 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,120 There were reports of dozens of hostages being kept. 66 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,560 By nightfall, a 66 year old priest apparently had his throat 67 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,720 slit. It's very difficult to get 68 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,720 confirmations out of these these zones, particularly Dagestan. 69 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,240 And a guard in the other city there Bent, guarding a church 70 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,560 and only with a gas pistol, was reportedly killed. 71 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:16,080 So here we have the last of the footage with sound from there, 72 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:19,800 which is as night fell, the Russian security forces had 73 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,840 surrounded the Cathedral of the Assumption in a suburb of 74 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,280 Makhachkala and there was a general shootout going on. 75 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,160 So people are often quick to say false flag when they see such 76 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:51,040 attacks. It has a long prior history in 77 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,440 Dagestan of being real attacks. Whoever was orchestrating them, 78 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,760 I, I do not for one minute believe that these were staged 79 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,600 by the Russians. And I think there is some 80 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,600 preponderance of suspicion here. That's, I wouldn't say people in 81 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,680 Kiev, but people aligned with the Kiev war effort in other 82 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,840 parts of the world may have pulled on some old strings that 83 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:16,480 they keep alive there in order to set these men in motion. 84 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,440 A very bloody day. And the next morning, this 85 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,240 morning, we were seeing this kind of aftermath. 86 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,920 So we'll just roll that as as silent footage. 87 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,480 I think if I need to click that again to start rolling it. 88 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,720 And you will see there that there's been some blurring out 89 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,720 of the corpses, but there's completely burnt out and shot up 90 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,080 vehicles rusting away there in the streets of Makhachkala and 91 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,840 Dagestan. And this really could have the 92 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,760 potential to reignite a civil war that the Russians thought 93 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,720 several times over the last 25 years they had managed to put to 94 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:53,960 bed with a combination of amnesties and hard actions. 95 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,440 Here we see the interior of the cathedral after the siege was 96 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,680 apparently relieved overnight. So reportedly a priest murdered 97 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,680 in cold blood on the scene, as well as attacks on synagogues 98 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,480 and reportedly even a school satellite. 99 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:08,560 I haven't seen much reporting on this and we'll just close the 100 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,960 segment by showing what happened At the other end of that 101 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,560 mountain chain, the border between Russia and the not 102 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,720 internationally recognised Abkhazia is the river. 103 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,120 So and there was a shootout on that border. 104 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,920 You can see the bullet hole in the vehicle reportedly from 105 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,160 there. According to Mash, that attack 106 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,960 suggests one dead and one injured, and there was in the 107 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,000 interior of Abkhazia in Norway afon a separate attack. 108 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,400 The death total in the Dagestani attacks between those two cities 109 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,560 I mentioned is reportedly 4 civilians and 15 police, 110 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,680 including the police chief of one of the districts of 111 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,440 Dagestan. Alex, thank you very much. 112 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:50,400 Is it a coincidence that that trouble has exploded on the 113 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,200 scene at such a sensitive in time in Ukraine, I wonder. 114 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,120 But of course, we don't know the exact facts behind the incident 115 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,960 and we'll wait and see. Now on the subject to Ukraine, I 116 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,280 thought today I would give you an update, an overview in the 117 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,080 limited time that we've got available. 118 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,480 I started with the BBCI, find it very well. 119 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,760 I was going to use the word amusing, but of course we can't 120 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:16,800 be amused because this is about war. 121 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,320 But Ukraine of course is now dropped to 6th place with 122 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,920 occasional articles for the BBC. There's no comprehensive 123 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,160 reporting of the progress of the battle, and I believe that this 124 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,480 is because all the evidence shows that Ukraine is continuing 125 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:36,480 to lose and the BBC is unable to produce the propaganda material 126 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,320 to counter that. But if we look in other 127 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:44,400 directions, the information is constantly having us believe 128 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,000 that all is going well on the battlefield for Ukraine. 129 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,080 So the Kiev post here, with Ukraine's use of Western weapons 130 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,440 on Russian soil, becomes a game changer within hours of US 131 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,520 approval. This is talking about the 132 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,120 relaxations or the supposed relaxation of rules on Western 133 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,680 weapons and particularly American weapons to allow them 134 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:11,520 to be used on Russian territory. But of course, this is not a 135 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,920 game changer at all. It achieves us a tactical 136 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,560 success, but at the end of the day, it's not going to slow the 137 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:21,480 strategic defeat which Ukraine is suffering. 138 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,640 Here's another article from the Kiev Post. 139 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,680 Ukrainian drone swarms swamp Russian air defences, oil 140 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,560 refineries and airfield hits. Now this is of course blatant 141 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:38,080 propaganda again, although the Ukrainians didn't did indeed 142 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:43,920 achieve hits, what it hasn't done is destroyed strategic 143 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,640 Russian infrastructure and it certainly hasn't swamped Russian 144 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,560 air defences. So this is a tactical success, 145 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,240 but it's again, not going to slow the strategic defeat. 146 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,960 Now, this is something else that's been reported here. 147 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,840 We've got Russian troops cede ground and strike back, 148 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,800 frustrating Ukraine's counter offensives. 149 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,000 And it says military analysts say the Russian commanders have 150 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,920 been using tactic known as elastic defence to prevent 151 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,520 Ukraine from holding villages and other positions and staging 152 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,280 grounds for future attacks. So basically, the Russians, when 153 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,200 they come under attack, move back, allow the Ukrainians to 154 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,600 move in. And then before the Ukrainians 155 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,600 are settled, the Russians attack them. 156 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,080 And this has been proving very effective here. 157 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,000 We've got another headline from RBC Ukraine. 158 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,400 And this is now claiming that it's the Ukrainian military 159 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:43,520 using the elastic band strategy to buy time before arms arrive. 160 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,080 But the difference here is that this is actually this is retreat 161 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,800 in action. The Ukrainians are retreating 162 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:56,520 from positions into supposedly pre prepared stronger positions. 163 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,920 But the reality on the ground is often those rear defenses have 164 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,080 not been produced properly and therefore the Russians, 165 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,800 correction, the Ukrainians are ultimately being beaten. 166 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,520 So if we look at Ukraine at the moment and the elastic band 167 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,800 defence as it were, we can say at the moment Ukraine is 168 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,680 outgunned at least 5 to one across the total front and in 169 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:22,720 many places it's well in excess of five to one. 170 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,720 Ukraine's Air Force largely destroyed. 171 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:32,320 Ukraine's air defence is very weak resupply of Patriot, which 172 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,040 the Americans are now saying they're going to concentrate on 173 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,920 pulling in all their Patriot supplies and making sure they go 174 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,120 to Ukraine. But this is actually going to be 175 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,040 too few too late. We've got Western ammunition and 176 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:49,480 munitions in general resupply efforts are just not enough. 177 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,960 And the Ukraine, Ukraine at the moment has unsustainable 178 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:58,040 casualties, which have reached up to 2000 killed and injured 179 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,920 per day. And although they still have an 180 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:08,280 army of about 6 to 700,000, this has been largely weakened by the 181 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:13,640 large number of older and poorly trained troops, many of whom 182 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,480 don't want to be fighting so low. 183 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,080 Low morale is a feature. If we we sorry, we can also add 184 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,440 in here that of course Ukraine has sustained massive 185 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:29,040 infrastructure damage which is preventing the production of in 186 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,360 house armour and weapons and of course repair of damaged 187 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,320 vehicles. If we look at the Russian side, 188 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,520 Russian is operating a meat grinder and Ukraine is losing 189 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,720 ground across the front. That is a fact. 190 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:48,440 Trained Russian forces now about 100,000 in Belarus plus 700,000 191 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,640 committed to Ukraine. The Russian military production 192 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,240 is increasing and outstripping the collective W Russian drone 193 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,440 production outstrips Ukraine, as does the electronic warfare 194 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:07,400 weapons deployed and Russia in the last two years has sustained 195 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:12,040 missile attacks at about 4000 strikes per year, which is truly 196 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,040 astonishing. Russia can hit any target 197 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:21,200 anywhere in UK in Ukraine and the Russian big bombs, this is 198 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:27,160 the 500, the 1500 and the 3000 kilogram weapons are wreaking 199 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,800 havoc in the areas that they're being used. 200 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,400 And Russian continues to smash Ukrainian strategic 201 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,080 infrastructure, including the electricity generation, 202 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,840 production bridges and assembly areas. 203 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,800 Let's just have a look at this very short clip of former U.S. 204 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:51,680 Marine and Nuclear Inspector Scott Rita talking about F 205 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:56,840 Sixteens coming to Ukraine. Promised F sixteens from day one 206 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,720 and none have arrived. After last night, it's unlikely 207 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:04,280 none will ever arrive. The Russians attacked 2 208 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:08,680 airfields that were being set aside for F16 deployment just to 209 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,440 thus today the news is coming out. 210 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,600 There's just not that many Ukrainian pilots trained in F 211 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,120 sixteens and there's hardly anybody trained to maintain 212 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,960 them. The hero of the day is the 213 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,680 squadron maintenance officer. He's the one that keeps the 214 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,760 airplanes up and running together with the maintenance 215 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,120 crews. And the Ukrainians don't have 216 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,920 them. And the bottom line is there's 217 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,360 just, I don't believe there's going to be any F sixteens going 218 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,760 to Ukraine at all ever. I think the war will end before 219 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:38,280 a single F16 gets off the ground. 220 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,920 So I think they're going to just slow roll this thing. 221 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,520 Their hope is that Russia will, you know, negotiated into this 222 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,800 conflict in a manner which allows Ukraine to retain its 223 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,760 military and its government. And once that ceasefire kicks 224 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,440 in, then, then the F sixteens will flood in so that they 225 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,440 become a reality. Russia's not playing that game. 226 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,360 So it's not looking too good on the F16 front. 227 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,560 Let's have a look at this Russian weapon. 228 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:14,840 Very large bomb, 3000 kilogram FAB bomb, and I've used a report 229 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,320 from the Military summary channel because it's really 230 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,240 excellent report on the power of this weapon. 231 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,760 Let's have a look. Going to talk about Harker 232 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,920 direction because the most important updates are coming 233 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,080 from this territory. Today the Russians used Fab 3 234 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,280 thousandths for the second time. In this video, for example, we 235 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,600 can see the former school that according to the Russians decree 236 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,880 and we're using as the let's in base or temporary deployment 237 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,240 point. And as a result of fab strike, 238 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,120 the building was heavily damaged. 239 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,120 Most likely, if there was somebody inside of the building, 240 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,000 probably nobody is already inside of the building. 241 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,000 This is the second strike. I'll remind you that yesterday 242 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,160 the Russian sources published the 1st strike in the same area, 243 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,960 a little bit in the north and direction in the central part of 244 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:02,160 Lip C. Let's take a look at this video 245 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,360 and this video. We can see another building. 246 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,800 According to information we have, this is the former 247 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,040 hospital and some sources reported they managed even to 248 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,120 discover some military tracks in the area. 249 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,560 And as a result of FAB strike, the building was also heavily 250 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,840 damaged. Today, this morning we got 251 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,520 another video from the same area. 252 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,720 Let's take a look at this, the last video from this direction 253 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,200 about FAB. In this video we can see the 254 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,080 movement of some soldiers in the area or some civilians who were 255 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,920 filming the consequences of a 53000 attack. 256 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:36,160 And and exactly in on this second we see a very big hole 257 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,000 inside of the building, which confirms that most likely the 258 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,760 building was completely reduced to the ruins from inside. 259 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,120 So the key part of that report is even though there wasn't a 260 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,400 direct hit, the sheer power of that weapon destroyed what would 261 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,840 be for the Ukrainians, a fortified building with a very 262 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,720 strong concrete structure. So not looking good on the 263 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,120 battlefield at the moment. Alex, before we finish on 264 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,599 Ukraine or subject to the war in Ukraine, you've got a little bit 265 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,400 here on the Slovak Defence Minister. 266 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,280 Slovakia is one of the countries that has a direct border with 267 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,960 Ukraine, albeit a very short one, and until very recently, 268 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:21,119 early 2023, it had a government which was more akin to the 269 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,520 Polish line. There was agreement among the 270 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,760 Visigrad neighbours on the West of Ukraine that Ukraine must be 271 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,000 given everything in the arsenal of those countries and duly that 272 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,880 government decided to give to grant the Ukrainians its entire 273 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,800 fighter jet Air Force, not the whole Air Force, but all the 274 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,000 fighter jets. That was 13 Mig 20 nines. 275 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,520 Now under the government of Robert Fitzel, who is recovering 276 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,560 from the assassination attempt that we covered recently, we 277 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,120 have this development. Robert Cullinac, the defence 278 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,880 minister of Slovakia, and he's not just talking here, he's he's 279 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,120 launched proceedings as well, has said that his predecessor in 280 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:03,480 the previous government was a traitor for gifting the entire 281 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,400 fighter jet force of Slovakia to Ukraine. 282 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,520 So he's initiated a prosecution there and he says that there is 283 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,760 no other term than treason for weakening the armed forces in 284 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,640 such a way contrary to the constitution. 285 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,040 The Slovaks on the COVID front at the same time have, as we've 286 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:23,520 reported, uniquely instituted a permanent committee of inquiry 287 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,800 to find out what abuses were happening during COVID. 288 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,480 Sofito's government seems to be taking this place as they 289 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,360 already seem to have unearthed that the last government was 290 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:34,280 perhaps telling porkies when it said it had got legal advice on 291 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,920 the advisability of this move. OK, Alex, thank you very much. 292 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,760 Mark, let's welcome you on to today's news. 293 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,200 And do you think that a change in president in the States is 294 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,320 going to make a difference? That's always been the trillion 295 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,080 dollar question in these United States, Brian. 296 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,480 And good day, Alex, and listeners and viewers. 297 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:01,200 The first presidential debate sound the trumpets is gonna 298 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,520 become, excuse me, is coming up. This coming Thursday, the 27th 299 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,080 of June. There's gonna be another one I 300 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,360 understand September 10th, The first one by CNN, the second one 301 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:15,800 by ABC News, The New Yorker, which the East Coast cognoscenti 302 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,880 likes to read, and the United States had this report on it. 303 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,160 And it's basically saying, I won't get into a lot of the 304 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,400 details, but it's basically saying that who would have 305 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,080 expected these guys to be on the same stage again? 306 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:33,040 Trump has reportedly been convicted of all these counts, 307 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,440 supposedly paying hush money to a former porn star because they 308 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,000 supposedly had a tryst. A lot of pro Trumpers, of 309 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,920 course, don't believe that tryst ever existed or ever happened. 310 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:49,080 At any rate. The article tries to sort of dig 311 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,960 into the sensationalism of the whole thing and says, you know 312 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:54,840 what? What's gonna become of all this? 313 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,520 And viewers can freeze the slides if they want to get into 314 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,120 all the details on this. We can move on from there. 315 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:09,360 And The New Yorker goes on to say that, for example, in the 316 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:13,720 debate this coming Thursday, for the first time since 1960, 317 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,440 there's gonna be no studio audience. 318 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,520 And unless there's a direct question to either of the 319 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,600 prospective candidates, then the microphone will be muted. 320 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,160 To avoid all sorts of feuding and what what comes down to 321 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,080 verbal mud wrestling, you might say. 322 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,280 So they're they're bringing back some very old rules. 323 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:40,240 One time Donald Trump brought in some women that were accused of, 324 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,760 or rather former former President Clinton was accused of 325 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,840 having Tris with those women. And he brought some of those 326 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,640 women into the studio audience. So they don't want things like 327 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,640 that. And that played into when Trump 328 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,200 was running against Hillary. But the next slide is where we 329 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,200 really get into the important part of this. 330 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:02,360 And that is where is RFK Junior. And this speaks to the larger 331 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:06,160 picture of American politics. And today's report is kind of a 332 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,520 a good lesson for our our largely British audience, though 333 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,920 not completely British audience, to learn a little bit more about 334 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:18,120 the woes and strange tidings in American politics. 335 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:24,480 So RFK Junior, the question is asked here, but in this report, 336 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,040 why didn't he qualify for the first presidential debate? 337 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:34,400 While ABC News is saying the clock struck midnight on RFK 338 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,760 Kennedy Junior's window to qualify for CN NS June 27, 339 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,680 general debate and the network formally announced that RFK 340 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:48,200 Junior won't make the stage. He didn't meet CN NS 341 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,720 qualifications, which include, of course, being 342 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,600 constitutionally eligible to be president, which means you must 343 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,200 be at least 35 years of age, have at least 4 qualifying 344 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:02,400 national polls with at least 15% support that meets CN NS 345 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,040 guidelines, and having confirmed ballot access in enough states 346 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,680 to potentially win a majority in the Electoral College, which is 347 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,480 270 electoral votes under the Constitution. 348 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:16,960 Kennedy, ABC News noted, ultimately came up short on both 349 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,760 polls, they're saying, and ballot access, They're also 350 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,280 saying he lacked there in his bid to get a spot on stage 351 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,320 alongside Biden and former President Trump. 352 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,840 Now, there's an interesting twist here, ABC goes on to say. 353 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,640 But even though Kennedy didn't qualify, his legal challenge to 354 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,840 the debate is still ongoing. In late May, Kennedy's campaign 355 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,080 filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission 356 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,320 alleging that the CNN debate violates campaign finance law 357 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,720 because, in effect, the network colluded with Biden and Trump 358 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,680 their aims in planning the debate and is supposedly using 359 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,200 different ballot access rules for the two major major party 360 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,440 contenders. Compared with Kennedy, CNN has 361 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,240 said the Kennedy's complaint is unfound and as ABC News says in 362 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,920 its own volition, it's own nation. 363 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,760 All in all, it seems unlikely, although not impossible, that 364 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,240 the FEC will intervene on Kennedy's behalf. 365 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,760 But it gets deeper. We'll go from there. 366 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,600 This is Kennedy's own campaign website. 367 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,760 His exclusion from the CNN debate stage is what he says 368 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,480 undemocratic, UN American and cowardly. 369 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:41,080 And he was quoted as saying RFK, junior Presidents Biden, Trump, 370 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,840 excuse me, Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me on the 371 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,960 debate stage. And CNN illegally agreed to 372 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,280 their demand. RFK said my exclusion, get this, 373 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,960 by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is as we said, 374 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,520 undemocratic, UN American and cowardly Americans want an 375 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,640 independent leader who will break apart the two party 376 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,240 duopoly. And this is interesting in the 377 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,800 wake of the independence in Austin, TX, I covered a year 378 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,200 ago, and some of this is is the chickens are coming home to 379 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,040 roost. At that conference. 380 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,080 There was a lot of talk about why can't we get an independent 381 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,920 party to even have a chance at being a congressman, let alone 382 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,360 president and so on and so forth. 383 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:30,200 But what Kennedy, what Kennedy is basically saying in his 384 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:37,000 complaint is that a federal law has been flagrantly violated and 385 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,520 Kennedy is complaining that the media broadcasters are not using 386 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,720 pre established and objective criteria to to determine 387 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,240 candidate participation. Failure to use objective 388 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,760 criteria, I'm reading more from the campaign website, renders 389 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,480 the debate this a campaign contribution. 390 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,960 So RFK Junior is basically saying that by applying the 391 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,600 matter in this way, at least in the indirect sense, CNN is 392 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,240 making a campaign contribution to the two dominant party 393 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:14,960 candidates at the exclusion of the independent of Mr. Kennedy 394 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,840 and not using what Kennedy would call objective criteria. 395 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:26,280 And RFK Junior goes on to say in into the CN NS published debate. 396 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,000 Criteria required. Candidate's name must appear 397 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,920 sufficient ballots to reach 270 electoral vote threshold. 398 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,480 CNN is holding Kennedy to this requirement, but is not 399 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,920 requiring Presidents Biden and Trump to meet this requirement 400 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,200 by claiming they are each the presumptive nominee of a 401 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,680 political. He goes on to say CNN has 402 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,240 persisted in this approach after the FCFPC made clear, but the 403 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,960 phrase presumptive nominee is not in the F Fe CS debate 404 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,040 regulation and therefore it cannot exempt CNN from the 405 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,320 prohibition on excessive campaign contributions. 406 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,160 So what's going on here in the bigger picture, Brian is 407 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,200 technically speaking, and I can flesh this out on the next 408 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,680 slide, but speaking, Trump is not play the nominee of the 409 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,720 Republican Party and Biden is not officially the nominee of 410 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,720 the Democratic Party because their conventions, their 411 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,640 national conventions for their parties have not taken place 412 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,160 place yet. But because Kennedy is an 413 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:38,920 independent, he is the automatic nominee as an independent 414 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,320 candidate. So Kennedy is claiming that he's 415 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,400 going up against two guys that are not actually officially the 416 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,480 nominees to their party. So why should he be excluded? 417 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:53,160 That's what it boils down to. And a little bit on this slide 418 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,840 that's up now and we can begin to summarize this. 419 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:02,480 CNN and its staff RF KS campaign is is proclaiming are now on 420 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,760 clear notice, especially given the damning evidence that the 421 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,360 Biden campaign has openly demanded Kennedy be excluded 422 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:14,000 from the debates and Trump assurances from CNN that Kennedy 423 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,080 will be excluded into compliance. 424 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:22,520 RF KS campaign insists CNN must apply its criteria objectively. 425 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,160 Presidents Biden and Trump have not yet been nominated by their 426 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,160 parties and their names are not certified to appear on a single 427 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,280 state ballot. And I think Kennedy is right 428 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,240 about this. Kennedy, in contrast, has been 429 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,400 certified to appear on the ballot of numerous states, 430 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,840 including California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, Oklahoma, 431 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,000 South Carolina and Utah. See, these are the kind of 432 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,760 things that the mass media cartel, the the legacy mass 433 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,960 media doesn't really make clear. They'll just say that Kennedy 434 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,640 has filed a suit. But you have to read Kennedy's 435 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,320 own literature to really get this fleshed out and understand 436 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,320 what's going on. This Associated Press slide, 437 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,640 people can freeze this and read it for for more details. 438 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:16,160 But like ABC News, like CNN, Associated Press, which plays a 439 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,760 big role in assessing and publishing the vote counts 440 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,200 during major, major national elections and is not always 441 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:25,840 thought to be an objective party. 442 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,880 They're calling RF KS campaign a long shot bid. 443 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,840 They all want to call it a long shot bid. 444 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,840 But the paradox, Brian is always the same. 445 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,680 They, they don't want to give a lot of ample coverage to RFK in 446 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,560 terms of taking his campaign seriously. 447 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,280 So automatically they kind of get the result they want where 448 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,760 Kennedy doesn't quite have all the polling, he doesn't quite 449 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,440 get all the exposure which would affect the polling. 450 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,960 And, and so they, they try and dampen their coverage of RFK, 451 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,960 you know, whatever one may think of him. 452 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,680 And then they act as if he's a long shot bid when they rigged 453 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,120 the news to make sure he's a long shot bid. 454 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,920 And as I note here in summarizing this report, the 455 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,520 Republican National Convention isn't until mid-july in 456 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,040 Milwaukee and the Democrat National Convention even later 457 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,320 in latter August in Chicago, IL. Only then will Trump and Biden 458 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,920 become the official candidates for their parties again. 459 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:32,040 While RFK already is in essence and Lincoln Chaffee, the former 460 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,080 Rhode Island governor, had this to say. 461 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,320 And this ties into the biased news coverage that automatically 462 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,040 makes someone a long shot. And then the media wonders why 463 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,560 they're considered a long shot. Shafi had this to say. 464 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,880 If the American people could hear what all three candidates 465 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,000 had to say about the critical issues facing our country, the 466 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,200 choice between these men would be clear. 467 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,200 In Shafi's estimation, Kennedy would become the 47th president 468 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,160 of the US. And to to wind this up, Brian, 469 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,720 the real paradox is that traditionally the Democratic 470 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:09,760 Party would do whatever they could to get a Kennedy on the 471 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,680 ballot, given the Kennedy's legendary name in American 472 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,760 politics, and run with him rather than Joe Biden, who just 473 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,920 turned 81 years old recently. And there's a lot of questions 474 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,680 about Biden's mental and physical competence, let alone 475 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,000 his ideology and his policies. So you would think that the 476 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,880 Democratic Party would would embrace having a Kennedy given 477 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,160 the history and and legacy behind it. 478 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,320 But instead, Kennedy is relegated to you, you might say, 479 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,160 the political ghetto, which is created by the media of having 480 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,640 to be an independent candidate and having to scrape his way 481 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,400 through. So that's the huge paradox. 482 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,760 And we can talk a little bit more about it an extra Brian, 483 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,440 but that's how it's shaping up. OK. 484 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,680 Mark, thank you very much. 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Column team as a whole. 540 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,480 It's going to be your opportunity to meet us in person 541 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,639 and listen to some really good talk, so watch out for that one. 542 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,800 We'll tell you more in due course. 543 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,520 Now let's move on to the subject really of the Daily Mail on 544 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,560 Saturday caught my attention and I decided, unusually, to buy 545 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,320 one. Here's the how the front page 546 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,440 looked. So a lovely childish picture of 547 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,160 the royal family, which is apparently a magical holiday 548 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,480 snap. But it was the headline about 549 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:11,440 Farage that caught my attention. Farage the West provoked Putin 550 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,160 and in the text this was what was being said. 551 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,680 The Reform leader was branded a danger to UK security over his 552 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:24,320 extraordinary claim that NATO and the EU had provoked Vladimir 553 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,080 Putin on the election campaign trail. 554 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:32,440 Reform has gained support from veterans for pledges such as 555 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,840 increased defence spending, a much bigger army and better 556 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,400 housing for soldiers. But last night's comments could 557 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,480 threaten that progress and provide a boost for the 558 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,680 Conservatives. So the inference here is that 559 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,760 all veterans are for war and they apparently want to go to 560 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,520 war with the Russians, which I don't believe for a moment, but 561 00:35:54,520 --> 00:36:00,320 this is the thread through this whole Daily Mail article now. 562 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,520 When we got inside it got into double page spreads. 563 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,840 Some of it was electioneering, but further attacks on Farage 564 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,640 with this sort of commentary. If we bring it up, Farage said 565 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:17,520 that he stood up in the European Parliament in 2014 and he said 566 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:22,560 that he and he quoted that there will be a war in Ukraine. 567 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,080 He went on to say it was obvious to me that ever Eastwood's 568 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,960 expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this 569 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,800 man a reason to his Russian people to say they're coming for 570 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:41,160 us again and to go to war. Now I've I've that text is 571 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,120 perfect, perfectly accurate. It's what the Daily Mail said. 572 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,640 It is a bit strange, but that is the quote from Farage. 573 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:52,520 So the whole point of the article was that everybody had 574 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,440 to be supporting the war against Russia. 575 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,480 And when we got deep into the paper, this is what we came 576 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,960 across on page 10. But it's an article by Boris 577 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,200 Johnson himself. And it said unless Keir Starmer 578 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,760 revokes his endorsement of the Corbyn premiership, he's simply 579 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,960 not fit to be Prime Minister. And I took one quote out of the 580 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,600 article itself where Boris is saying, let us focus for a 581 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,640 moment on one issue alone, the Russian invasion, invasion of 582 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,080 Ukraine. This is the biggest and most 583 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,800 savage war in Europe since 1945, in which 10s of thousands of 584 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,440 totally innocent Ukrainians have been killed because the criminal 585 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,280 folly and miscalculation of one man, Vladimir Putin. 586 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,360 Well, let's just sorry to bring that in again. 587 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,680 Let's just pop in the label on that. 588 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,680 Putin certainly did miscalculated, miscalculate 589 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,360 because he trusted the West and in particular, he trusted at one 590 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,840 point Boris Johnson, or it appeared so. 591 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,640 Who was the man who destroyed peace talks? 592 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:01,400 Alex, very, very quickly. Let's just bring you in, if I 593 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,640 may, for a bit of comment here. But I just find this obscene 594 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,040 that the Daily Mail is focusing in on Boris Johnson, the man who 595 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,680 destroyed the opportunity for peace in Ukraine. 596 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:18,360 You would have expected that the Daily Mail, given its profile 597 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,920 and the target readership it goes for, would have more bones 598 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:25,880 to pick with Johnson, his dishevelled, immoral carryings 599 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,320 on in in many ways. But apparently what has trumped 600 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,160 that now is this attitude that no politician can warn of war 601 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,440 and no politician or public figure more broadly can say I 602 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,160 understand why our enemies felt provoked, and that if you've 603 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,640 crossed that bridge, then you might as well pack up shop and 604 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,640 stop having parliament and television and the newspapers. 605 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,760 But that's the the bridge that we seem to have crossed now, 606 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,960 that to express understanding is regarded as tantamount to 607 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,240 expressing undying support and sympathy for. 608 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,720 Indeed, thank you for that. And I'll just say, of course I I 609 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:04,640 have never been completely happy with Nigel Farage for a number 610 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,600 of reasons which I'm happy to talk about. 611 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,480 But in this case, what was the male doing? 612 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:15,200 The only view that you must have is the war against Russia and 613 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,160 Ukraine is what all of us should be supporting. 614 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,960 But I'd like to draw people's attention to the headline here, 615 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,000 where of course we've got Boris Johnson. 616 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:29,040 If we just play the little video clip here, what did the Daily 617 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,760 Mail do? Well, it scrubbed him up. 618 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:37,320 It tried to make him appear a respectable, trustworthy Tory 619 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,800 thought leader. To convince the Daily Mail 620 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,280 audience that Boris is a man whose opinion we should follow, 621 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,640 let's just listen to the actual clip and hear him speaking and 622 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,920 how he was speaking in that inset video. 623 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,720 Because if Ukraine falls, it will be a catastrophe for the 624 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:00,000 West. There will be end of Western 625 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:06,240 hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves. 626 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,760 Well, I think we'll have Boris Johnson to blame and if you 627 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,080 really want to know why, have a look at him talking to the 628 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,680 Extreme Azov Battalion. We've had that up, we've had 629 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,720 this clip up on UK column before, but I think we need to 630 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,400 just pop it up on the screen again. 631 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:31,720 Thank you to the heroes from the Azov Brigade to the broadcast 632 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:32,920 about the death President tonight. 633 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,560 Give the Ukrainians what they need. 634 00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:41,240 Give them the weapons. Give them the authorization to 635 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,400 use those weapons outside their own borders if they're not 636 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,760 absolutely unicrous. That Ukrainians should be 637 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:53,200 forbidden from doing what Putin is doing himself and attacking 638 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,000 Ukrainian forces. Why on earth shouldn't Ukrainian 639 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:01,120 Ukrainians be able to attack Russian forces mustering on 640 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,160 their borders? Give them those weapons, give 641 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,560 them the attack and give them the budget. 642 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,120 Give them the air defences that they need. 643 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,000 It's the single best investment that we can make in the defence 644 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,240 of the whole Euro. Atlantic Area is supporting 645 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:19,560 Ukrainian heroes. We rely homely on heroes such as 646 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,720 the people who are here tonight with us from the Yazov Brigade. 647 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,360 So Boris with the extreme Nazi as of brigade calling for 648 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,040 attacks on Russian territory, which we've now got and what is 649 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,680 he doing? He's ramping up more and more 650 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,920 war. It's just incredible. 651 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,560 Alex, let's let's get on to another subject for we really, 652 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,760 we really hit Boris and what he's up to. 653 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,120 Well, Brian, if the Daily Mail is acceptable opinion for, and I 654 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,000 don't mean this sneeringly, the lower middle class, that's how 655 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,040 it's conceived of the times is thought of as the the virtue 656 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,680 signal and message signalling for the upper middle class, the 657 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,120 managerialists and here in an opinion piece, and we know that 658 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,720 in quality papers, opinion pieces are important. 659 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,480 Robert Colville has laid his finger on a very important 660 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,760 issue. It's not just about the issue of 661 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,680 oil wells and the wider issue of fracking in Surrey, just South 662 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,160 of London. Nor is it about his partisan 663 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,160 support for the Conservatives, which is moderate. 664 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520 But it is there, and you'd expect that of many times 665 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,720 opinion writers. No, it's the issue that he's 666 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:35,280 constitutionally identified and given the useful name of meta 667 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,600 laws. What does he mean by that? 668 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,640 Well, he gives us a definition. A meta law is an overriding 669 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,840 principle that becomes embedded within our system of government, 670 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,520 from which all sorts of consequences cascade. 671 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,720 So he's talking here about a parallel between the Strasbourg 672 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,120 ruling, this is the Council of Europe and it's caught there, 673 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:59,640 the ECHR, which was a Swiss motion by some grannies who said 674 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:03,040 we're being choked and and we'll die of heat stroke by climate 675 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,320 change and our government's to blame. 676 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,400 The ECR char ECHR upheld their case and the Swiss have said at 677 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,360 parliamentary level, nonsense. He's drawing a parallel between 678 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,160 that and the UK Supreme Court, as it's falsely so-called, which 679 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,600 has bowed with the wind coming from continental Europe. 680 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,200 And this will reach the USA in time. 681 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,320 And no doubt Canada already has, which is the idea that when 682 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,160 local government bodies, in this case Surrey County Council 683 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,920 licence, in this case an oil well, they not only have to go 684 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,120 by the secondary legislation and the principles of good 685 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:34,240 government and all the other stuff. 686 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,200 No, never mind what they're bound by by statute, they're 687 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,640 bound by great principles of international law such as not 688 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,920 causing harm in in undefined and nebulous ways by experts. 689 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,800 So future environmental harm should have been weighed up. 690 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,760 And Colville goes, he cited this. 691 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,800 So we'll just go sideways and see what this is about. 692 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,920 Reuters has covered this in the last week that the Swiss 693 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,200 Parliament, to the shock and horror of the right thinking 694 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,000 journalists of Reuters has actually bared its teeth at this 695 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,760 and said the European Court of Human Rights doesn't have a a 696 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:11,320 business telling us to, you know, to order our government to 697 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,320 change our environmental and energy policy as sees fit, you 698 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,240 know, as they see fit. And that will be an end of the 699 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,240 convention that member states of the Council of Europe always 700 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:23,560 follow Strasbourg rulings. By the way, Britain, if the 701 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,400 Tories do get back in, which is extremely unlikely in May 702 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,160 withdraw. We'll see what kind of stitch up 703 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,920 Labour does does in that regard. That's not the only one. 704 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:35,200 The original in this genre was five years ago, 2019 in fact, a 705 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:36,720 a case that went back longer than that. 706 00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:40,360 But here is the equally badly named Supreme Court, or Hokharat 707 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,040 of the Netherlands. It isn't really one, but it 708 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,760 certainly had this ruling a few years ago with another group of 709 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,080 grannies calling themselves a gender, saying that they need 710 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,960 their government needed to be taken to task because they were 711 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:56,240 not stopping CO2 emissions quickly enough and curtailing 712 00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:58,040 them quickly enough. And in this case, the Supreme 713 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:03,200 Court ordered the government to to attack the economy of the 714 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,080 country in order to bring about a a faster target. 715 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,000 So there's plenty of this going on. 716 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,680 Colville goes on to say that meta laws lead to judicial 717 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,400 activism because they force courts to make essentially 718 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,720 political decisions. That's the game here. 719 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,040 Of course, Brian. They also mean that government 720 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,560 becomes ever more hemmed in by judicial constraints. 721 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,520 So in other words, without changing our constitution and 722 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,960 what's left of it, the UK Supreme Courts, mirroring aping 723 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,520 what's being done in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, will go the 724 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,760 political route and tell governments to find reasons to 725 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,800 stop free trade and free freedom of business and commerce on the 726 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,000 basis that there is future environmental harm, much as 727 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,360 children are stolen uniquely in Britain on the excuse of risk of 728 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,000 future emotional harm. And I do mean that not 729 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,400 flippantly. I think that Britain is is 730 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:56,680 uniquely cynical in this regard. So he's pointing out a number of 731 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,160 problems that lead to meta laws over ruling and we'll just skip 732 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,880 through this quickly. He's he's foreseeing what it 733 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,360 means in party political terms when Labour gets in hint they 734 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,400 won't be able to build the houses they're pledging to buy 735 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,000 because that's unfair on the environment. 736 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,640 So written to the first common law country where we get these 737 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,280 rulings. Even if we do withdraw from 738 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,480 Strasbourg, our judicial class will no get now go this way. 739 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,720 And no doubt at the federal level, the US will in the end as 740 00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:24,400 well. And just to show that this is 741 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,400 coming out in the United Nations as well, Antonio Gutierrez, the 742 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,240 secretary general of the United Nations, gave this speech. 743 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:31,920 That's the entirety of the speech on the screen. 744 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,760 I know it's too small to read, but a brief remark the other day 745 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,000 on hate speech. And here it is in the middle of 746 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,280 it. He says that states have an 747 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,000 obligation under international law, not divined, not defined, 748 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:45,440 to crush hate speech. They must, all member states of 749 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,400 the in the world must implement these commitments. 750 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,040 And then he pays lip service to freedom of speech and so on. 751 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:53,200 So these principles have seeped into the judiciary, regardless 752 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:54,800 of what clubs we're in as a country. 753 00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:01,440 Yes, it's really worrying, Alex. This, this control from within 754 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,760 the courts. Mark, let's let's bring you back 755 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,720 on screen because what better place to start talking about the 756 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:17,120 Anti Defamation League? The Anti Defamation League, 757 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,120 along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Speaking of hate 758 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,480 crimes and hate speech. Good report there, Alex. 759 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,760 Those two organizations have for many years been very hegemonic, 760 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:32,320 you might say, in patrolling the airwaves, patrolling the news 761 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,120 pages, looking for anything, that it construes the ADL and 762 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,720 the Southern Property Law Center as hate speech. 763 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,640 They've taken it upon themselves to define hate speech for the 764 00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,280 rest of us. And so it's all the more 765 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:50,040 interesting and all the more pivotal that now Wikipedia of 766 00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,320 all places, politically correct, largely woke Wikipedia, is 767 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,600 declaring the Anti Defamation League as unreliable, as this 768 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,120 headline shows on both Israel Palestine issues and 769 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:07,080 anti-Semitism in general. And recall that we've had the 770 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:11,240 video clip of a lady Israeli official who has admitted 771 00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,720 publicly that often times, probably more often than we 772 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:20,960 realized, the anti-Semitic specter is raised as a basically 773 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:26,680 mental and verbal trick to deflect any legitimate criticism 774 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,920 of the Israeli state, etcetera, etcetera. 775 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:35,480 So this is even being reported by I-24, an Israeli news agency. 776 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:39,240 As I'm showing here, Wikipedia's editors last week voted to 777 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:42,800 declare the Anti Defamation League, a New York based Jewish 778 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,040 advocacy advocacy group, as generally unreliable on the 779 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,120 Israeli Palestinian conflict. The word conflict, of course, is 780 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,320 a bit off base. An overwhelming majority. 781 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,880 This I-24 Israeli report goes on to say an overwhelming majority 782 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:03,640 of editors are also said to have voted to label the organization 783 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:08,400 unreliable in the topic of anti-Semitism, which is ADL core 784 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,120 focus. That's his bread and butter. 785 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,800 Dozens of Wikipedia editors stated that the ADL quote should 786 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:19,720 not be cited for factual factual information and anti-Semitism as 787 00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:24,000 well because it acts primarily as a pro Israel organization and 788 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,920 tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as 789 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,000 anti-Semitism. And that's citing the Jewish 790 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:35,040 Telegraph Agency. So that's one Jewish news outlet 791 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,400 citing another. After formal declaration, the 792 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,200 decisions will add ADL to the list. 793 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,560 Banned and partially banned. Banned and partially banned 794 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,200 sources. ADL no longer appears to adhere 795 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:53,520 to a serious, mainstream and intellectually cogent definition 796 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,240 of anti-Semitism, but has instead given in to the 797 00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:01,320 shameless political excuse me, it's early here. 798 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,920 Politic politicization, my goodness at at the very subject 799 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,680 that it was originally esteemed for being reliable on, wrote an 800 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:15,200 editor known as Iskander 323, whose request for a discussion 801 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,520 ultimately led to the ban. Anyway, we'll move on from there 802 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:26,600 and this gets into sort of a a side note that's relevant to 803 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,800 what I'm talking about. Both these CNN articles were 804 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,880 written by Kate Sullivan. The left one recently on the 805 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,320 20th of June and the right one on the 6th of October last year. 806 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,520 And this is an example of the ADL at work. 807 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,840 In one, Trump floats the Migrant League of fighters in his latest 808 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,200 dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants. 809 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,840 And then the other Trump's anti immigrant comments draw our 810 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:55,320 rebuke. And basically what the ADL and 811 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:59,000 similar critics have been saying about Trump is that everything 812 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,760 he says is nativist, white supremacist, and even 813 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,680 reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's racial purity and Aryan 814 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,760 theories. But in fact, that's not really 815 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,960 what Trump has been saying, even though it's it's a good example, 816 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,080 a textbook example of what the AD LS treachery is all about and 817 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:23,200 the way they mislabel people. And in fact, the critics of the 818 00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:27,720 Anti Defamation League will say that the ADL is in the business 819 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:30,520 of defamation. Defamation is actually the core 820 00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:34,360 of the so-called ADL. And this is what Trump was 821 00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:37,080 criticized for saying. And this concludes my report for 822 00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,280 today. Brian, Trump said this. 823 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:43,160 It's the poisoning. It's poisoning the blood of our 824 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,840 country. It's so bad. 825 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,240 And people are coming in with disease. 826 00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,600 People are coming in with every possible thing that you could 827 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,120 have. Donald Trump, Republican 828 00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,240 presidential candidate. But the ADL and similar critics 829 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:01,120 are saying that that comment is in league with Aryan and white 830 00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,520 supremacist and nativist sensibilities, when in fact, an 831 00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,400 objective look reveals that what Trump is talking about, even 832 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,320 though it might be a slightly crude way of saying it, what 833 00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:18,280 he's talking about in terms of blood and and impure things, 834 00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,280 he's talking about people coming over the border in large numbers 835 00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:26,960 with communicable diseases. So, so you can in that dramatic 836 00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:32,160 case, Brian, how someone can be misquoted by the ADL and it and 837 00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,880 it shows how much they misrepresent the issues. 838 00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,680 OK, troubled times Mark. And we've we've got a little bit 839 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,600 of video here, but just as an introduction, if we pop this one 840 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,080 one on screen when I was having a look at people who were 841 00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,880 challenging the TV licence. And of course This is Money that 842 00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,880 the BBC gets here in UK. Many people don't want to pay 843 00:52:55,880 --> 00:53:01,480 because they don't think the BBC gives value for money. 844 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:05,680 They also think it's biased, but it was a really interesting clip 845 00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,560 where two police women turned up at a man's doorstep to tell him 846 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,200 something. Let's have a look at this little 847 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,760 clip. Hello. 848 00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,960 All right, I. Don't mind if I feel you there. 849 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:19,800 I don't know. Anyway, he is. 850 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,320 Yeah, we've. Got something to issue you? 851 00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,640 Oh, OK, yeah, you want. Us to do it here or do you want 852 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,600 us to do it inside? I don't know what your main 853 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,960 issue mate. So basically we've had a call 854 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:36,360 from Thames Valley Police, so a different police force to us to 855 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,480 say that you've sent a letter to someone on the BBC. 856 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:40,520 That's right. Yeah, We've been corresponding 857 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:41,600 for quite a while. Yeah. 858 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:42,080 All right. OK. 859 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,840 So basically they've asked us to issue you the harassment warning 860 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:45,800 all. Right, OK. 861 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,560 Do you? Want us to do it here or do you 862 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,600 want to come in here? OK, so basically it's for you. 863 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,160 Your your name and address is on there and your date of birth you 864 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,880 sent a letter to which has been hand delivered either by 865 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,200 yourself or a third party. This letter is unwanted outside 866 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,240 of the official channels of the BBC and it's called all right 867 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,320 this conduct is contrary to protection from. 868 00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,640 She's never, she's never said that before to me. 869 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:09,560 No, no. OK. 870 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:16,040 So basically this is a harassment morning, which means 871 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,920 the police have received an allegation of harassment against 872 00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:20,400 you. I haven't harassment. 873 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,360 Of any behaviour on and at least to occasion which causes alarm 874 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,000 or district harassment is any behaviour on at least 2 875 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:27,800 occasions. I haven't. 876 00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,640 I've been. There, at this stage, the police 877 00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,360 are not commenting on the truth of the allegation. 878 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,720 Instead, this notice is being given to you in spirit of crime 879 00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:35,360 prevention. Yeah. 880 00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:37,840 That's fine, yeah, to make. You aware that if any kind of 881 00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,600 behaviour described were to continue then you'd be liable to 882 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,800 arrest the prosecution. You should be aware that a 883 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,320 further such behaviour resulted in prosecution and the behaviour 884 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:49,080 complained of above could be referred to or relied upon in 885 00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,800 any subsequent proceedings. These notice neither a court 886 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,160 order nor a criminal record, but will be kept by the police for 887 00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,400 the purpose of any future investigations and retained in 888 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,800 accordance with national guidelines and the management of 889 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,520 police information. So on the basis of what one 890 00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,040 letter there's, there's class in it as arrestment that's. 891 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,080 That's basically, basically it's not, it's not come from Essex 892 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,040 Police, it's Thames Valley Police have received the 893 00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,280 information and they've asked us to issue it or not on their 894 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,840 behalf, but. It does say two or more, yeah. 895 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,160 So on on here it does, yeah. So I don't the moment. 896 00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:18,120 I mean, I don't know a little bit about. 897 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,880 Harassment. And stuff because she. 898 00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,120 Said that the contacts unwanted, we've just. 899 00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:23,840 Got yeah, but she's never told me that. 900 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,920 We're here obviously just. To yeah, but if I could write to 901 00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,200 her and say like, why didn't you say it before? 902 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:30,840 No, that's. Right, because obviously that's 903 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,400 the allegation that is causing her harassment. 904 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,520 So this is just us giving you. A so could I do the same thing 905 00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,320 then? Because she, her agents have 906 00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,320 been here a few times and I've said you're harassing me and, 907 00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,080 and you're calls me concern and distress. 908 00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,920 I've said that to her. Yeah, it's obviously she's made 909 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:50,880 the the complaints that we're just giving you a war. 910 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,480 Right, no, but I'm just, I'm just a bit confused. 911 00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,920 It seems a bit one sided at the minute because this has been 912 00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,440 going on for quite a while. Like we said, it's we're not 913 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,720 commenting on it. Yeah, but if I can just tell you 914 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:04,960 it's so you know the other side of it. 915 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,280 Yeah, she works for the BBC. Yeah, but she works from home. 916 00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:11,920 So when iPhone up, they tell she's working from home, so 917 00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,560 there's no other way of getting in touch with her, but as she's 918 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:20,520 saying that that's fine. Well, we have to stop there 919 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,640 because time limits on the news, but we'll bring that video into 920 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:27,320 extra time. And I think there's a lot to be 921 00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,400 discussed. I was watching your face there, 922 00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,040 Alex, as you listened in it. They don't know whether it's 923 00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:36,120 true or not. And it's it's going to stop 924 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,000 crime happening in the future, but. 925 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,680 The the admission that it's nothing to do with law or the 926 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,280 duties of a constable is we're doing this in the spirit of 927 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,880 spirit of crime covet prevention and the failure to uphold the 928 00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,120 law in accordance with the police oath, even the revised 929 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,120 one 2005, which is all human rights. 930 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,760 See the failure to uphold that standard or to to behave in that 931 00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,720 way is when they did not respond to the gentleman's question. 932 00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:03,520 Can I do the same? Of course you can and an officer 933 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,520 of the law has every duty to say it is entirely up to you Sir. 934 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,440 And until very recently, at least, constables in even in 935 00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:11,520 Britain, in its depraved state would do that. 936 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,040 They would say it's up to you, Sir, to to make such a an order. 937 00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:15,880 But no, they just have the patter to deliver. 938 00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,320 Yeah. Not really interested. 939 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,280 Oh, really? Here you are. 940 00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:23,680 OK, well, as I say, we'll have a look at the rest of the video 941 00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:25,960 and discuss that more in extra time. 942 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:30,000 Now I think it's back to you. Alex here. 943 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,680 We're going to do a lightning tour around mostly Belgium as 944 00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,280 I'm in that part of the world more often than not. 945 00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,920 But we'll start with Germany Apollo News and we'll 946 00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,920 immediately give an English translation offered by Life site 947 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,440 here. Both will be in the show notes 948 00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,280 is reporting that Doctor Bianca Vichell, an old age pensioner, 949 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,520 she's 67, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in 950 00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,640 jail in Germany and struck off the medical register for three 951 00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,960 years and fined just under €50,000, about the same in 952 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:04,160 dollars or pounds because of the 1000 or so exemptions that she 953 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,680 issued from COVID jabs and from mask mandates. 954 00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:11,120 And here's the shocker. In his explanation of the 955 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,560 ruling, the judge claimed quote we had, he's referring to COVID. 956 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,440 We had an epidemic that was comparable to the cholera of the 957 00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,200 19th century. And journalist Stefan Magnet 958 00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,320 replies, It's completely insane how this justice system acts 959 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,320 today. I could furnish, uh, enough 960 00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,680 pieces to fill every UK for news episode with how mad the German 961 00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:30,720 judiciary is. It's not mad. 962 00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,920 It's deliberate, uh, insane as as, as Magnet says, but that's 963 00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:35,920 the level of justice you're getting in Germany. 964 00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,640 On to Belgium De Morgan, one of the main titles in the Flemish 965 00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,840 part of the country, says that 1400 doctors, that is a lot for 966 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,600 this country of a small population, have written an open 967 00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,360 letter warning that the collapse of Healthcare is just around the 968 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,920 corner. Even though, despite the horrors 969 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,280 of COVID and the and the, the, the, the number of deaths 970 00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,480 Belgium had then, especially the care system, the Belgian 971 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,040 healthcare system is less far gone than most of its 972 00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,280 neighbours, particularly less far gone than Britain. 973 00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,800 What they're warning about is that people are presenting at 974 00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:11,240 GPS surge, sorry, at accident and emergency or casualty or 975 00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,200 emergency rooms more often than they used to instead of going to 976 00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,280 primary healthcare via their GP or family doctor. 977 00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,720 Interesting that that's happening even in the least 978 00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,840 destroyed of the health systems in Western Europe. 979 00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,200 The Stack diary and number of other sources have reported this 980 00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:31,040 too have told us that Belgium didn't get the grand finale that 981 00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,200 it wanted because it's just finishing its six month rotating 982 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,120 presidency of the Council of the European Union, which holds 983 00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:39,800 power over the Commission and ultimately over Parliament as 984 00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,840 well. This idea was put forward by 985 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,320 Belgium because the member state in the chair every six months 986 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,560 has to provide the initial draft of laws, but the member states 987 00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,200 met in the ministerial council could not get a majority to 988 00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,200 agree on it. What was the fuss about here? 989 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,560 Well, signals boss has written this will be in the show notes 990 00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,200 to point out what's going on here. 991 00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,520 That's Belgium. Wanted the EU to increase to 992 01:00:02,520 --> 01:00:06,600 introduce upload moderation. A new fangled term for what used 993 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,120 to be called client side scanning, which is that when you 994 01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:13,360 sign up with any communication app or platform, you agree that 995 01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:19,320 it will be scanned by AI before it even gets uploaded to the 996 01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,520 site. And Signal is pointing out, and 997 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,040 I know that EU civil servants are actually told to use Signal 998 01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,480 because it's secure and they won't get hacked by the Russians 999 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,360 that way. Signal is saying there is no way 1000 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,080 of introducing such a scan without fundamentally 1001 01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:36,760 compromising the security of our encryption. 1002 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,080 So this has been thought out spectacularly poorly at the same 1003 01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:41,360 time. By the way, and this will be in 1004 01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:43,400 the show notes, though I don't have a slide for it, the 1005 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,600 Belgians are shooting ahead with their intention of having 1006 01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:50,240 digital identity for citizens to communicate with their 1007 01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,640 government, even though 3/4 of the Belgians in surveyed on on 1008 01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,360 one of these things. So they didn't want it on their 1009 01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:56,680 phone. What they've done instead. 1010 01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,880 There will be another piece on the show notes in this regard is 1011 01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:02,120 provide people who are willing with what they call an ebox in 1012 01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,560 their living room. And people are finding out to 1013 01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:07,240 their horror that once you've got an ebox, you have to check 1014 01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,200 the emails that come in on it because that's the only way the 1015 01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:11,680 government will issue you with a fine. 1016 01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:13,480 The next thing you'll know is police will come to your door 1017 01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,840 saying you were fined and you didn't pay because you didn't 1018 01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,400 read what was in your ebox. So that may be coming to other 1019 01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:22,400 countries soon as well. And finishing up the Belgian 1020 01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:26,200 segment, This is from Headlabs, The news and more populist 1021 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,960 title, certainly lower market, I'd say. 1022 01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,440 The Minister of Justice, Paul von Tychilt was interviewed by a 1023 01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,080 gentleman of Congolese extraction and he was asked 1024 01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,200 there, do you think that we can put an end to immigration in a 1025 01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,320 country like Belgium? And Fontichio got rather 1026 01:01:41,640 --> 01:01:43,200 personal. You can see him pointing towards 1027 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,720 himself with his thumb in this, this still that I took saying if 1028 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,840 we don't even want to, let alone whether we can ban immigration 1029 01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,240 now, because if we put up, if we stop immigration, who'll be 1030 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:56,160 working in healthcare, then he gets personal who will be doing 1031 01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,680 my plumbing and who will be washing my windows at home to 1032 01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:03,040 the absolute unbelief, disbelief of the young black interviewer 1033 01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,040 who suggests is that all we're good for? 1034 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,320 But so he's come out and said it now as this member of the 1035 01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:11,760 governing Liberal Party of Belgium, just finally in the 1036 01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:16,360 Belgian category, just for, you know, a snapshot of how far 1037 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,600 things have gone. The sex union, the sex Workers 1038 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,960 Union of Belgium, basically the prostitutes collective of 1039 01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,120 Belgium. UTSOPI trumpet in a press 1040 01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,040 release that it has come up with this. 1041 01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,000 It's gone through Belgian, the Belgian parliament with very 1042 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,520 little opposition. It's a code of practice, a 1043 01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:35,040 labour law for prostitutes or sex workers as we are supposed 1044 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:37,080 to call them. Now they boast that there are 1045 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,920 all kinds of freedoms now so that a prostitute always can say 1046 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,960 no to a client or a particular act that they are induced to do. 1047 01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,000 And then they don't don't have to sit in those windows in a red 1048 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,960 light district if they feel threatened by anything. 1049 01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,440 But look at this. If they invoke any such rights, 1050 01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,080 if they say no to a punter or a John to our Americans viewers, 1051 01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,920 then if it's more than 10 times in a six month period, the 1052 01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,000 employer may seek governmental mediation. 1053 01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,320 The only trouble there, Brian, is that the employer of a 1054 01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:08,320 prostitute is actually a pimp. So this is a pimps charter. 1055 01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:12,000 Belgium has passed with very little opposition, an agreement 1056 01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:16,200 and a law which allows pimps to complain to the government that 1057 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,680 the girls they are turning a profit on are saying no to 1058 01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:21,800 particular clients. You couldn't make it up. 1059 01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,920 But they're very proud of it because it shows that regulation 1060 01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:29,080 has has has won out and that sex workers are now fully protected 1061 01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:32,760 by law. Yeah, silence. 1062 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:37,280 Every time we think we've heard crazy things, there's something 1063 01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,560 else comes along in the clan world. 1064 01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,520 So I think we're going to have to leave it there today. 1065 01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,520 Mark, I know you've got some border issues. 1066 01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:47,040 We'll bring those into extra time. 1067 01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,280 So we'll say a huge thank you to the UK Column audience. 1068 01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,160 Thank you very much for joining us today. 1069 01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:56,840 And if you're a signed up member of UK Column, please have a look 1070 01:03:56,880 --> 01:04:02,240 at the at the pamphlet book Your Life in Their Hands and see 1071 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,360 whether you can buy one of these. 1072 01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,760 It would be wonderful if every single one of the UK Column 1073 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,320 members would buy one of these leaflets. 1074 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:15,160 And that will be a tremendous boost for the column in what we 1075 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,640 can do from here on. So over to you on that. 1076 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,640 We'll be back in a few moments for UK Column Extra, aside from 1077 01:04:23,640 --> 01:04:26,520 that UK called News. We'll be back at 1:00 on 1078 01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,320 Wednesday. See you then. 1079 01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:28,960 Bye bye.