Good afternoon, today is Monday, the twenty 24th of June 2024.
That's quite a mouthful. Welcome to today's UK column
news. I'm your host, Brian Gerrish,
and I'm delighted to have with me today Alex Thompson from the
Netherlands and also Mark Anderson speaking from the USA.
No, I'll just say that it's a little bit of a gloomy day, June
day here in Plymouth, England, as you might be able to see from
the the weather out the window behind me.
But never mind. We're going to get on with a
busy UK column, news for our viewers and listeners today.
So let's start off with Alex. Welcome.
Great to have you back with us. And you've got something to
report here. While many people were looking
at what was happening in Crimea, Sebastopol, attacks by the
Ukrainians in the last couple of days, there was something pretty
dark and nasty happening in other parts of Russia.
Ed Brian In fact, along the whole southern fringe of Russia
in the Caucasus, this is the mountain range between the Black
Sea and the Caspian Sea. And there have been attacks at
the western end, where the separatist Georgian Republic of
Abkhazia suffered attacks in two places reportedly yesterday.
But first we will look at what happened at the other end, the
Caspian coast. This is the Russian Autonomous
Republic of Dagestan, an extremely complicated,
overwhelmingly Muslim Republic with dozens of nationalities and
languages in it, located just north of Azerbaijan along the
Caspian coast. Over the last quarter century it
has experienced many over spills of the Chechen conflicts, the
two wars at least that have come out of there.
That has been kept a little under tabs recently.
But just yesterday afternoon, a lady in the historic city of
Derbent, not the capital of the Dagestani Republic, but the most
historic town there, filmed this out of her window.
What she managed to capture there was, unfortunately enough,
the opening salvos of several attacks in the two biggest
cities of Dagestan, not only there in Derbent, where a
synagogue was attacked, but also in Mahachkala, the
unpronounceable capital, administrative capital of
Dagestan, which, as I say, is run autonomously.
So it's local, overwhelmingly Muslim people in the government
there facing attacks from their militants of their own area,
their own nationalities, who've often spent time in the Gulf or
the West. Many people allege that they're
being trained by interests in the West and reignited, possibly
with a Ukrainian dimension in there as well, if you look at
the spread of attacks in coordination in time with
Sevastopol. But here we'll see what happened
in Makhachkala at the same time. An attack on a police station.
Now we could get a lot more gory than that, but it would be
gratuitous and we will not. But there is plenty of footage
proving that when the Russian security forces managed to move
in to both of these urban attack environments, they pumped a
number of bullets into the already recumbent, if not
lifeless figures of the attackers.
People may say this is not fair play and not Queensbury rules,
but over the last 25 years the Russians in the North Caucasus
have found booby trapped bodies and men playing dead and all
kinds of other horrors, so I will not be the first to judge
their response. At the end of the day it turned
out that there had been attacks not only on synagogues in these
two towns. And here's one of silent footage
of the synagogue in Derbent burning, but also an Orthodox
cathedral in one of the districts of Maharaj Khaladi,
administrative capital, had also been surrounded.
There were reports of dozens of hostages being kept.
By nightfall, a 66 year old priest apparently had his throat
slit. It's very difficult to get
confirmations out of these these zones, particularly Dagestan.
And a guard in the other city there Bent, guarding a church
and only with a gas pistol, was reportedly killed.
So here we have the last of the footage with sound from there,
which is as night fell, the Russian security forces had
surrounded the Cathedral of the Assumption in a suburb of
Makhachkala and there was a general shootout going on.
So people are often quick to say false flag when they see such
attacks. It has a long prior history in
Dagestan of being real attacks. Whoever was orchestrating them,
I, I do not for one minute believe that these were staged
by the Russians. And I think there is some
preponderance of suspicion here. That's, I wouldn't say people in
Kiev, but people aligned with the Kiev war effort in other
parts of the world may have pulled on some old strings that
they keep alive there in order to set these men in motion.
A very bloody day. And the next morning, this
morning, we were seeing this kind of aftermath.
So we'll just roll that as as silent footage.
I think if I need to click that again to start rolling it.
And you will see there that there's been some blurring out
of the corpses, but there's completely burnt out and shot up
vehicles rusting away there in the streets of Makhachkala and
Dagestan. And this really could have the
potential to reignite a civil war that the Russians thought
several times over the last 25 years they had managed to put to
bed with a combination of amnesties and hard actions.
Here we see the interior of the cathedral after the siege was
apparently relieved overnight. So reportedly a priest murdered
in cold blood on the scene, as well as attacks on synagogues
and reportedly even a school satellite.
I haven't seen much reporting on this and we'll just close the
segment by showing what happened At the other end of that
mountain chain, the border between Russia and the not
internationally recognised Abkhazia is the river.
So and there was a shootout on that border.
You can see the bullet hole in the vehicle reportedly from
there. According to Mash, that attack
suggests one dead and one injured, and there was in the
interior of Abkhazia in Norway afon a separate attack.
The death total in the Dagestani attacks between those two cities
I mentioned is reportedly 4 civilians and 15 police,
including the police chief of one of the districts of
Dagestan. Alex, thank you very much.
Is it a coincidence that that trouble has exploded on the
scene at such a sensitive in time in Ukraine, I wonder.
But of course, we don't know the exact facts behind the incident
and we'll wait and see. Now on the subject to Ukraine, I
thought today I would give you an update, an overview in the
limited time that we've got available.
I started with the BBCI, find it very well.
I was going to use the word amusing, but of course we can't
be amused because this is about war.
But Ukraine of course is now dropped to 6th place with
occasional articles for the BBC. There's no comprehensive
reporting of the progress of the battle, and I believe that this
is because all the evidence shows that Ukraine is continuing
to lose and the BBC is unable to produce the propaganda material
to counter that. But if we look in other
directions, the information is constantly having us believe
that all is going well on the battlefield for Ukraine.
So the Kiev post here, with Ukraine's use of Western weapons
on Russian soil, becomes a game changer within hours of US
approval. This is talking about the
relaxations or the supposed relaxation of rules on Western
weapons and particularly American weapons to allow them
to be used on Russian territory. But of course, this is not a
game changer at all. It achieves us a tactical
success, but at the end of the day, it's not going to slow the
strategic defeat which Ukraine is suffering.
Here's another article from the Kiev Post.
Ukrainian drone swarms swamp Russian air defences, oil
refineries and airfield hits. Now this is of course blatant
propaganda again, although the Ukrainians didn't did indeed
achieve hits, what it hasn't done is destroyed strategic
Russian infrastructure and it certainly hasn't swamped Russian
air defences. So this is a tactical success,
but it's again, not going to slow the strategic defeat.
Now, this is something else that's been reported here.
We've got Russian troops cede ground and strike back,
frustrating Ukraine's counter offensives.
And it says military analysts say the Russian commanders have
been using tactic known as elastic defence to prevent
Ukraine from holding villages and other positions and staging
grounds for future attacks. So basically, the Russians, when
they come under attack, move back, allow the Ukrainians to
move in. And then before the Ukrainians
are settled, the Russians attack them.
And this has been proving very effective here.
We've got another headline from RBC Ukraine.
And this is now claiming that it's the Ukrainian military
using the elastic band strategy to buy time before arms arrive.
But the difference here is that this is actually this is retreat
in action. The Ukrainians are retreating
from positions into supposedly pre prepared stronger positions.
But the reality on the ground is often those rear defenses have
not been produced properly and therefore the Russians,
correction, the Ukrainians are ultimately being beaten.
So if we look at Ukraine at the moment and the elastic band
defence as it were, we can say at the moment Ukraine is
outgunned at least 5 to one across the total front and in
many places it's well in excess of five to one.
Ukraine's Air Force largely destroyed.
Ukraine's air defence is very weak resupply of Patriot, which
the Americans are now saying they're going to concentrate on
pulling in all their Patriot supplies and making sure they go
to Ukraine. But this is actually going to be
too few too late. We've got Western ammunition and
munitions in general resupply efforts are just not enough.
And the Ukraine, Ukraine at the moment has unsustainable
casualties, which have reached up to 2000 killed and injured
per day. And although they still have an
army of about 6 to 700,000, this has been largely weakened by the
large number of older and poorly trained troops, many of whom
don't want to be fighting so low.
Low morale is a feature. If we we sorry, we can also add
in here that of course Ukraine has sustained massive
infrastructure damage which is preventing the production of in
house armour and weapons and of course repair of damaged
vehicles. If we look at the Russian side,
Russian is operating a meat grinder and Ukraine is losing
ground across the front. That is a fact.
Trained Russian forces now about 100,000 in Belarus plus 700,000
committed to Ukraine. The Russian military production
is increasing and outstripping the collective W Russian drone
production outstrips Ukraine, as does the electronic warfare
weapons deployed and Russia in the last two years has sustained
missile attacks at about 4000 strikes per year, which is truly
astonishing. Russia can hit any target
anywhere in UK in Ukraine and the Russian big bombs, this is
the 500, the 1500 and the 3000 kilogram weapons are wreaking
havoc in the areas that they're being used.
And Russian continues to smash Ukrainian strategic
infrastructure, including the electricity generation,
production bridges and assembly areas.
Let's just have a look at this very short clip of former U.S.
Marine and Nuclear Inspector Scott Rita talking about F
Sixteens coming to Ukraine. Promised F sixteens from day one
and none have arrived. After last night, it's unlikely
none will ever arrive. The Russians attacked 2
airfields that were being set aside for F16 deployment just to
thus today the news is coming out.
There's just not that many Ukrainian pilots trained in F
sixteens and there's hardly anybody trained to maintain
them. The hero of the day is the
squadron maintenance officer. He's the one that keeps the
airplanes up and running together with the maintenance
crews. And the Ukrainians don't have
them. And the bottom line is there's
just, I don't believe there's going to be any F sixteens going
to Ukraine at all ever. I think the war will end before
a single F16 gets off the ground.
So I think they're going to just slow roll this thing.
Their hope is that Russia will, you know, negotiated into this
conflict in a manner which allows Ukraine to retain its
military and its government. And once that ceasefire kicks
in, then, then the F sixteens will flood in so that they
become a reality. Russia's not playing that game.
So it's not looking too good on the F16 front.
Let's have a look at this Russian weapon.
Very large bomb, 3000 kilogram FAB bomb, and I've used a report
from the Military summary channel because it's really
excellent report on the power of this weapon.
Let's have a look. Going to talk about Harker
direction because the most important updates are coming
from this territory. Today the Russians used Fab 3
thousandths for the second time. In this video, for example, we
can see the former school that according to the Russians decree
and we're using as the let's in base or temporary deployment
point. And as a result of fab strike,
the building was heavily damaged.
Most likely, if there was somebody inside of the building,
probably nobody is already inside of the building.
This is the second strike. I'll remind you that yesterday
the Russian sources published the 1st strike in the same area,
a little bit in the north and direction in the central part of
Lip C. Let's take a look at this video
and this video. We can see another building.
According to information we have, this is the former
hospital and some sources reported they managed even to
discover some military tracks in the area.
And as a result of FAB strike, the building was also heavily
damaged. Today, this morning we got
another video from the same area.
Let's take a look at this, the last video from this direction
about FAB. In this video we can see the
movement of some soldiers in the area or some civilians who were
filming the consequences of a 53000 attack.
And and exactly in on this second we see a very big hole
inside of the building, which confirms that most likely the
building was completely reduced to the ruins from inside.
So the key part of that report is even though there wasn't a
direct hit, the sheer power of that weapon destroyed what would
be for the Ukrainians, a fortified building with a very
strong concrete structure. So not looking good on the
battlefield at the moment. Alex, before we finish on
Ukraine or subject to the war in Ukraine, you've got a little bit
here on the Slovak Defence Minister.
Slovakia is one of the countries that has a direct border with
Ukraine, albeit a very short one, and until very recently,
early 2023, it had a government which was more akin to the
Polish line. There was agreement among the
Visigrad neighbours on the West of Ukraine that Ukraine must be
given everything in the arsenal of those countries and duly that
government decided to give to grant the Ukrainians its entire
fighter jet Air Force, not the whole Air Force, but all the
fighter jets. That was 13 Mig 20 nines.
Now under the government of Robert Fitzel, who is recovering
from the assassination attempt that we covered recently, we
have this development. Robert Cullinac, the defence
minister of Slovakia, and he's not just talking here, he's he's
launched proceedings as well, has said that his predecessor in
the previous government was a traitor for gifting the entire
fighter jet force of Slovakia to Ukraine.
So he's initiated a prosecution there and he says that there is
no other term than treason for weakening the armed forces in
such a way contrary to the constitution.
The Slovaks on the COVID front at the same time have, as we've
reported, uniquely instituted a permanent committee of inquiry
to find out what abuses were happening during COVID.
Sofito's government seems to be taking this place as they
already seem to have unearthed that the last government was
perhaps telling porkies when it said it had got legal advice on
the advisability of this move. OK, Alex, thank you very much.
Mark, let's welcome you on to today's news.
And do you think that a change in president in the States is
going to make a difference? That's always been the trillion
dollar question in these United States, Brian.
And good day, Alex, and listeners and viewers.
The first presidential debate sound the trumpets is gonna
become, excuse me, is coming up. This coming Thursday, the 27th
of June. There's gonna be another one I
understand September 10th, The first one by CNN, the second one
by ABC News, The New Yorker, which the East Coast cognoscenti
likes to read, and the United States had this report on it.
And it's basically saying, I won't get into a lot of the
details, but it's basically saying that who would have
expected these guys to be on the same stage again?
Trump has reportedly been convicted of all these counts,
supposedly paying hush money to a former porn star because they
supposedly had a tryst. A lot of pro Trumpers, of
course, don't believe that tryst ever existed or ever happened.
At any rate. The article tries to sort of dig
into the sensationalism of the whole thing and says, you know
what? What's gonna become of all this?
And viewers can freeze the slides if they want to get into
all the details on this. We can move on from there.
And The New Yorker goes on to say that, for example, in the
debate this coming Thursday, for the first time since 1960,
there's gonna be no studio audience.
And unless there's a direct question to either of the
prospective candidates, then the microphone will be muted.
To avoid all sorts of feuding and what what comes down to
verbal mud wrestling, you might say.
So they're they're bringing back some very old rules.
One time Donald Trump brought in some women that were accused of,
or rather former former President Clinton was accused of
having Tris with those women. And he brought some of those
women into the studio audience. So they don't want things like
that. And that played into when Trump
was running against Hillary. But the next slide is where we
really get into the important part of this.
And that is where is RFK Junior. And this speaks to the larger
picture of American politics. And today's report is kind of a
a good lesson for our our largely British audience, though
not completely British audience, to learn a little bit more about
the woes and strange tidings in American politics.
So RFK Junior, the question is asked here, but in this report,
why didn't he qualify for the first presidential debate?
While ABC News is saying the clock struck midnight on RFK
Kennedy Junior's window to qualify for CN NS June 27,
general debate and the network formally announced that RFK
Junior won't make the stage. He didn't meet CN NS
qualifications, which include, of course, being
constitutionally eligible to be president, which means you must
be at least 35 years of age, have at least 4 qualifying
national polls with at least 15% support that meets CN NS
guidelines, and having confirmed ballot access in enough states
to potentially win a majority in the Electoral College, which is
270 electoral votes under the Constitution.
Kennedy, ABC News noted, ultimately came up short on both
polls, they're saying, and ballot access, They're also
saying he lacked there in his bid to get a spot on stage
alongside Biden and former President Trump.
Now, there's an interesting twist here, ABC goes on to say.
But even though Kennedy didn't qualify, his legal challenge to
the debate is still ongoing. In late May, Kennedy's campaign
filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission
alleging that the CNN debate violates campaign finance law
because, in effect, the network colluded with Biden and Trump
their aims in planning the debate and is supposedly using
different ballot access rules for the two major major party
contenders. Compared with Kennedy, CNN has
said the Kennedy's complaint is unfound and as ABC News says in
its own volition, it's own nation.
All in all, it seems unlikely, although not impossible, that
the FEC will intervene on Kennedy's behalf.
But it gets deeper. We'll go from there.
This is Kennedy's own campaign website.
His exclusion from the CNN debate stage is what he says
undemocratic, UN American and cowardly.
And he was quoted as saying RFK, junior Presidents Biden, Trump,
excuse me, Presidents Biden and Trump do not want me on the
debate stage. And CNN illegally agreed to
their demand. RFK said my exclusion, get this,
by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is as we said,
undemocratic, UN American and cowardly Americans want an
independent leader who will break apart the two party
duopoly. And this is interesting in the
wake of the independence in Austin, TX, I covered a year
ago, and some of this is is the chickens are coming home to
roost. At that conference.
There was a lot of talk about why can't we get an independent
party to even have a chance at being a congressman, let alone
president and so on and so forth.
But what Kennedy, what Kennedy is basically saying in his
complaint is that a federal law has been flagrantly violated and
Kennedy is complaining that the media broadcasters are not using
pre established and objective criteria to to determine
candidate participation. Failure to use objective
criteria, I'm reading more from the campaign website, renders
the debate this a campaign contribution.
So RFK Junior is basically saying that by applying the
matter in this way, at least in the indirect sense, CNN is
making a campaign contribution to the two dominant party
candidates at the exclusion of the independent of Mr. Kennedy
and not using what Kennedy would call objective criteria.
And RFK Junior goes on to say in into the CN NS published debate.
Criteria required. Candidate's name must appear
sufficient ballots to reach 270 electoral vote threshold.
CNN is holding Kennedy to this requirement, but is not
requiring Presidents Biden and Trump to meet this requirement
by claiming they are each the presumptive nominee of a
political. He goes on to say CNN has
persisted in this approach after the FCFPC made clear, but the
phrase presumptive nominee is not in the F Fe CS debate
regulation and therefore it cannot exempt CNN from the
prohibition on excessive campaign contributions.
So what's going on here in the bigger picture, Brian is
technically speaking, and I can flesh this out on the next
slide, but speaking, Trump is not play the nominee of the
Republican Party and Biden is not officially the nominee of
the Democratic Party because their conventions, their
national conventions for their parties have not taken place
place yet. But because Kennedy is an
independent, he is the automatic nominee as an independent
candidate. So Kennedy is claiming that he's
going up against two guys that are not actually officially the
nominees to their party. So why should he be excluded?
That's what it boils down to. And a little bit on this slide
that's up now and we can begin to summarize this.
CNN and its staff RF KS campaign is is proclaiming are now on
clear notice, especially given the damning evidence that the
Biden campaign has openly demanded Kennedy be excluded
from the debates and Trump assurances from CNN that Kennedy
will be excluded into compliance.
RF KS campaign insists CNN must apply its criteria objectively.
Presidents Biden and Trump have not yet been nominated by their
parties and their names are not certified to appear on a single
state ballot. And I think Kennedy is right
about this. Kennedy, in contrast, has been
certified to appear on the ballot of numerous states,
including California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, Oklahoma,
South Carolina and Utah. See, these are the kind of
things that the mass media cartel, the the legacy mass
media doesn't really make clear. They'll just say that Kennedy
has filed a suit. But you have to read Kennedy's
own literature to really get this fleshed out and understand
what's going on. This Associated Press slide,
people can freeze this and read it for for more details.
But like ABC News, like CNN, Associated Press, which plays a
big role in assessing and publishing the vote counts
during major, major national elections and is not always
thought to be an objective party.
They're calling RF KS campaign a long shot bid.
They all want to call it a long shot bid.
But the paradox, Brian is always the same.
They, they don't want to give a lot of ample coverage to RFK in
terms of taking his campaign seriously.
So automatically they kind of get the result they want where
Kennedy doesn't quite have all the polling, he doesn't quite
get all the exposure which would affect the polling.
And, and so they, they try and dampen their coverage of RFK,
you know, whatever one may think of him.
And then they act as if he's a long shot bid when they rigged
the news to make sure he's a long shot bid.
And as I note here in summarizing this report, the
Republican National Convention isn't until mid-july in
Milwaukee and the Democrat National Convention even later
in latter August in Chicago, IL. Only then will Trump and Biden
become the official candidates for their parties again.
While RFK already is in essence and Lincoln Chaffee, the former
Rhode Island governor, had this to say.
And this ties into the biased news coverage that automatically
makes someone a long shot. And then the media wonders why
they're considered a long shot. Shafi had this to say.
If the American people could hear what all three candidates
had to say about the critical issues facing our country, the
choice between these men would be clear.
In Shafi's estimation, Kennedy would become the 47th president
of the US. And to to wind this up, Brian,
the real paradox is that traditionally the Democratic
Party would do whatever they could to get a Kennedy on the
ballot, given the Kennedy's legendary name in American
politics, and run with him rather than Joe Biden, who just
turned 81 years old recently. And there's a lot of questions
about Biden's mental and physical competence, let alone
his ideology and his policies. So you would think that the
Democratic Party would would embrace having a Kennedy given
the history and and legacy behind it.
But instead, Kennedy is relegated to you, you might say,
the political ghetto, which is created by the media of having
to be an independent candidate and having to scrape his way
through. So that's the huge paradox.
And we can talk a little bit more about it an extra Brian,
but that's how it's shaping up. OK.
Mark, thank you very much. And as you talked about
presidential elections, I was thinking about UK and
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Now let's move on to the subject really of the Daily Mail on
Saturday caught my attention and I decided, unusually, to buy
one. Here's the how the front page
looked. So a lovely childish picture of
the royal family, which is apparently a magical holiday
snap. But it was the headline about
Farage that caught my attention. Farage the West provoked Putin
and in the text this was what was being said.
The Reform leader was branded a danger to UK security over his
extraordinary claim that NATO and the EU had provoked Vladimir
Putin on the election campaign trail.
Reform has gained support from veterans for pledges such as
increased defence spending, a much bigger army and better
housing for soldiers. But last night's comments could
threaten that progress and provide a boost for the
Conservatives. So the inference here is that
all veterans are for war and they apparently want to go to
war with the Russians, which I don't believe for a moment, but
this is the thread through this whole Daily Mail article now.
When we got inside it got into double page spreads.
Some of it was electioneering, but further attacks on Farage
with this sort of commentary. If we bring it up, Farage said
that he stood up in the European Parliament in 2014 and he said
that he and he quoted that there will be a war in Ukraine.
He went on to say it was obvious to me that ever Eastwood's
expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this
man a reason to his Russian people to say they're coming for
us again and to go to war. Now I've I've that text is
perfect, perfectly accurate. It's what the Daily Mail said.
It is a bit strange, but that is the quote from Farage.
So the whole point of the article was that everybody had
to be supporting the war against Russia.
And when we got deep into the paper, this is what we came
across on page 10. But it's an article by Boris
Johnson himself. And it said unless Keir Starmer
revokes his endorsement of the Corbyn premiership, he's simply
not fit to be Prime Minister. And I took one quote out of the
article itself where Boris is saying, let us focus for a
moment on one issue alone, the Russian invasion, invasion of
Ukraine. This is the biggest and most
savage war in Europe since 1945, in which 10s of thousands of
totally innocent Ukrainians have been killed because the criminal
folly and miscalculation of one man, Vladimir Putin.
Well, let's just sorry to bring that in again.
Let's just pop in the label on that.
Putin certainly did miscalculated, miscalculate
because he trusted the West and in particular, he trusted at one
point Boris Johnson, or it appeared so.
Who was the man who destroyed peace talks?
Alex, very, very quickly. Let's just bring you in, if I
may, for a bit of comment here. But I just find this obscene
that the Daily Mail is focusing in on Boris Johnson, the man who
destroyed the opportunity for peace in Ukraine.
You would have expected that the Daily Mail, given its profile
and the target readership it goes for, would have more bones
to pick with Johnson, his dishevelled, immoral carryings
on in in many ways. But apparently what has trumped
that now is this attitude that no politician can warn of war
and no politician or public figure more broadly can say I
understand why our enemies felt provoked, and that if you've
crossed that bridge, then you might as well pack up shop and
stop having parliament and television and the newspapers.
But that's the the bridge that we seem to have crossed now,
that to express understanding is regarded as tantamount to
expressing undying support and sympathy for.
Indeed, thank you for that. And I'll just say, of course I I
have never been completely happy with Nigel Farage for a number
of reasons which I'm happy to talk about.
But in this case, what was the male doing?
The only view that you must have is the war against Russia and
Ukraine is what all of us should be supporting.
But I'd like to draw people's attention to the headline here,
where of course we've got Boris Johnson.
If we just play the little video clip here, what did the Daily
Mail do? Well, it scrubbed him up.
It tried to make him appear a respectable, trustworthy Tory
thought leader. To convince the Daily Mail
audience that Boris is a man whose opinion we should follow,
let's just listen to the actual clip and hear him speaking and
how he was speaking in that inset video.
Because if Ukraine falls, it will be a catastrophe for the
West. There will be end of Western
hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Well, I think we'll have Boris Johnson to blame and if you
really want to know why, have a look at him talking to the
Extreme Azov Battalion. We've had that up, we've had
this clip up on UK column before, but I think we need to
just pop it up on the screen again.
Thank you to the heroes from the Azov Brigade to the broadcast
about the death President tonight.
Give the Ukrainians what they need.
Give them the weapons. Give them the authorization to
use those weapons outside their own borders if they're not
absolutely unicrous. That Ukrainians should be
forbidden from doing what Putin is doing himself and attacking
Ukrainian forces. Why on earth shouldn't Ukrainian
Ukrainians be able to attack Russian forces mustering on
their borders? Give them those weapons, give
them the attack and give them the budget.
Give them the air defences that they need.
It's the single best investment that we can make in the defence
of the whole Euro. Atlantic Area is supporting
Ukrainian heroes. We rely homely on heroes such as
the people who are here tonight with us from the Yazov Brigade.
So Boris with the extreme Nazi as of brigade calling for
attacks on Russian territory, which we've now got and what is
he doing? He's ramping up more and more
war. It's just incredible.
Alex, let's let's get on to another subject for we really,
we really hit Boris and what he's up to.
Well, Brian, if the Daily Mail is acceptable opinion for, and I
don't mean this sneeringly, the lower middle class, that's how
it's conceived of the times is thought of as the the virtue
signal and message signalling for the upper middle class, the
managerialists and here in an opinion piece, and we know that
in quality papers, opinion pieces are important.
Robert Colville has laid his finger on a very important
issue. It's not just about the issue of
oil wells and the wider issue of fracking in Surrey, just South
of London. Nor is it about his partisan
support for the Conservatives, which is moderate.
But it is there, and you'd expect that of many times
opinion writers. No, it's the issue that he's
constitutionally identified and given the useful name of meta
laws. What does he mean by that?
Well, he gives us a definition. A meta law is an overriding
principle that becomes embedded within our system of government,
from which all sorts of consequences cascade.
So he's talking here about a parallel between the Strasbourg
ruling, this is the Council of Europe and it's caught there,
the ECHR, which was a Swiss motion by some grannies who said
we're being choked and and we'll die of heat stroke by climate
change and our government's to blame.
The ECR char ECHR upheld their case and the Swiss have said at
parliamentary level, nonsense. He's drawing a parallel between
that and the UK Supreme Court, as it's falsely so-called, which
has bowed with the wind coming from continental Europe.
And this will reach the USA in time.
And no doubt Canada already has, which is the idea that when
local government bodies, in this case Surrey County Council
licence, in this case an oil well, they not only have to go
by the secondary legislation and the principles of good
government and all the other stuff.
No, never mind what they're bound by by statute, they're
bound by great principles of international law such as not
causing harm in in undefined and nebulous ways by experts.
So future environmental harm should have been weighed up.
And Colville goes, he cited this.
So we'll just go sideways and see what this is about.
Reuters has covered this in the last week that the Swiss
Parliament, to the shock and horror of the right thinking
journalists of Reuters has actually bared its teeth at this
and said the European Court of Human Rights doesn't have a a
business telling us to, you know, to order our government to
change our environmental and energy policy as sees fit, you
know, as they see fit. And that will be an end of the
convention that member states of the Council of Europe always
follow Strasbourg rulings. By the way, Britain, if the
Tories do get back in, which is extremely unlikely in May
withdraw. We'll see what kind of stitch up
Labour does does in that regard. That's not the only one.
The original in this genre was five years ago, 2019 in fact, a
a case that went back longer than that.
But here is the equally badly named Supreme Court, or Hokharat
of the Netherlands. It isn't really one, but it
certainly had this ruling a few years ago with another group of
grannies calling themselves a gender, saying that they need
their government needed to be taken to task because they were
not stopping CO2 emissions quickly enough and curtailing
them quickly enough. And in this case, the Supreme
Court ordered the government to to attack the economy of the
country in order to bring about a a faster target.
So there's plenty of this going on.
Colville goes on to say that meta laws lead to judicial
activism because they force courts to make essentially
political decisions. That's the game here.
Of course, Brian. They also mean that government
becomes ever more hemmed in by judicial constraints.
So in other words, without changing our constitution and
what's left of it, the UK Supreme Courts, mirroring aping
what's being done in Strasbourg and Luxembourg, will go the
political route and tell governments to find reasons to
stop free trade and free freedom of business and commerce on the
basis that there is future environmental harm, much as
children are stolen uniquely in Britain on the excuse of risk of
future emotional harm. And I do mean that not
flippantly. I think that Britain is is
uniquely cynical in this regard. So he's pointing out a number of
problems that lead to meta laws over ruling and we'll just skip
through this quickly. He's he's foreseeing what it
means in party political terms when Labour gets in hint they
won't be able to build the houses they're pledging to buy
because that's unfair on the environment.
So written to the first common law country where we get these
rulings. Even if we do withdraw from
Strasbourg, our judicial class will no get now go this way.
And no doubt at the federal level, the US will in the end as
well. And just to show that this is
coming out in the United Nations as well, Antonio Gutierrez, the
secretary general of the United Nations, gave this speech.
That's the entirety of the speech on the screen.
I know it's too small to read, but a brief remark the other day
on hate speech. And here it is in the middle of
it. He says that states have an
obligation under international law, not divined, not defined,
to crush hate speech. They must, all member states of
the in the world must implement these commitments.
And then he pays lip service to freedom of speech and so on.
So these principles have seeped into the judiciary, regardless
of what clubs we're in as a country.
Yes, it's really worrying, Alex. This, this control from within
the courts. Mark, let's let's bring you back
on screen because what better place to start talking about the
Anti Defamation League? The Anti Defamation League,
along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Speaking of hate
crimes and hate speech. Good report there, Alex.
Those two organizations have for many years been very hegemonic,
you might say, in patrolling the airwaves, patrolling the news
pages, looking for anything, that it construes the ADL and
the Southern Property Law Center as hate speech.
They've taken it upon themselves to define hate speech for the
rest of us. And so it's all the more
interesting and all the more pivotal that now Wikipedia of
all places, politically correct, largely woke Wikipedia, is
declaring the Anti Defamation League as unreliable, as this
headline shows on both Israel Palestine issues and
anti-Semitism in general. And recall that we've had the
video clip of a lady Israeli official who has admitted
publicly that often times, probably more often than we
realized, the anti-Semitic specter is raised as a basically
mental and verbal trick to deflect any legitimate criticism
of the Israeli state, etcetera, etcetera.
So this is even being reported by I-24, an Israeli news agency.
As I'm showing here, Wikipedia's editors last week voted to
declare the Anti Defamation League, a New York based Jewish
advocacy advocacy group, as generally unreliable on the
Israeli Palestinian conflict. The word conflict, of course, is
a bit off base. An overwhelming majority.
This I-24 Israeli report goes on to say an overwhelming majority
of editors are also said to have voted to label the organization
unreliable in the topic of anti-Semitism, which is ADL core
focus. That's his bread and butter.
Dozens of Wikipedia editors stated that the ADL quote should
not be cited for factual factual information and anti-Semitism as
well because it acts primarily as a pro Israel organization and
tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as
anti-Semitism. And that's citing the Jewish
Telegraph Agency. So that's one Jewish news outlet
citing another. After formal declaration, the
decisions will add ADL to the list.
Banned and partially banned. Banned and partially banned
sources. ADL no longer appears to adhere
to a serious, mainstream and intellectually cogent definition
of anti-Semitism, but has instead given in to the
shameless political excuse me, it's early here.
Politic politicization, my goodness at at the very subject
that it was originally esteemed for being reliable on, wrote an
editor known as Iskander 323, whose request for a discussion
ultimately led to the ban. Anyway, we'll move on from there
and this gets into sort of a a side note that's relevant to
what I'm talking about. Both these CNN articles were
written by Kate Sullivan. The left one recently on the
20th of June and the right one on the 6th of October last year.
And this is an example of the ADL at work.
In one, Trump floats the Migrant League of fighters in his latest
dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants.
And then the other Trump's anti immigrant comments draw our
rebuke. And basically what the ADL and
similar critics have been saying about Trump is that everything
he says is nativist, white supremacist, and even
reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's racial purity and Aryan
theories. But in fact, that's not really
what Trump has been saying, even though it's it's a good example,
a textbook example of what the AD LS treachery is all about and
the way they mislabel people. And in fact, the critics of the
Anti Defamation League will say that the ADL is in the business
of defamation. Defamation is actually the core
of the so-called ADL. And this is what Trump was
criticized for saying. And this concludes my report for
today. Brian, Trump said this.
It's the poisoning. It's poisoning the blood of our
country. It's so bad.
And people are coming in with disease.
People are coming in with every possible thing that you could
have. Donald Trump, Republican
presidential candidate. But the ADL and similar critics
are saying that that comment is in league with Aryan and white
supremacist and nativist sensibilities, when in fact, an
objective look reveals that what Trump is talking about, even
though it might be a slightly crude way of saying it, what
he's talking about in terms of blood and and impure things,
he's talking about people coming over the border in large numbers
with communicable diseases. So, so you can in that dramatic
case, Brian, how someone can be misquoted by the ADL and it and
it shows how much they misrepresent the issues.
OK, troubled times Mark. And we've we've got a little bit
of video here, but just as an introduction, if we pop this one
one on screen when I was having a look at people who were
challenging the TV licence. And of course This is Money that
the BBC gets here in UK. Many people don't want to pay
because they don't think the BBC gives value for money.
They also think it's biased, but it was a really interesting clip
where two police women turned up at a man's doorstep to tell him
something. Let's have a look at this little
clip. Hello.
All right, I. Don't mind if I feel you there.
I don't know. Anyway, he is.
Yeah, we've. Got something to issue you?
Oh, OK, yeah, you want. Us to do it here or do you want
us to do it inside? I don't know what your main
issue mate. So basically we've had a call
from Thames Valley Police, so a different police force to us to
say that you've sent a letter to someone on the BBC.
That's right. Yeah, We've been corresponding
for quite a while. Yeah.
All right. OK.
So basically they've asked us to issue you the harassment warning
all. Right, OK.
Do you? Want us to do it here or do you
want to come in here? OK, so basically it's for you.
Your your name and address is on there and your date of birth you
sent a letter to which has been hand delivered either by
yourself or a third party. This letter is unwanted outside
of the official channels of the BBC and it's called all right
this conduct is contrary to protection from.
She's never, she's never said that before to me.
No, no. OK.
So basically this is a harassment morning, which means
the police have received an allegation of harassment against
you. I haven't harassment.
Of any behaviour on and at least to occasion which causes alarm
or district harassment is any behaviour on at least 2
occasions. I haven't.
I've been. There, at this stage, the police
are not commenting on the truth of the allegation.
Instead, this notice is being given to you in spirit of crime
prevention. Yeah.
That's fine, yeah, to make. You aware that if any kind of
behaviour described were to continue then you'd be liable to
arrest the prosecution. You should be aware that a
further such behaviour resulted in prosecution and the behaviour
complained of above could be referred to or relied upon in
any subsequent proceedings. These notice neither a court
order nor a criminal record, but will be kept by the police for
the purpose of any future investigations and retained in
accordance with national guidelines and the management of
police information. So on the basis of what one
letter there's, there's class in it as arrestment that's.
That's basically, basically it's not, it's not come from Essex
Police, it's Thames Valley Police have received the
information and they've asked us to issue it or not on their
behalf, but. It does say two or more, yeah.
So on on here it does, yeah. So I don't the moment.
I mean, I don't know a little bit about.
Harassment. And stuff because she.
Said that the contacts unwanted, we've just.
Got yeah, but she's never told me that.
We're here obviously just. To yeah, but if I could write to
her and say like, why didn't you say it before?
No, that's. Right, because obviously that's
the allegation that is causing her harassment.
So this is just us giving you. A so could I do the same thing
then? Because she, her agents have
been here a few times and I've said you're harassing me and,
and you're calls me concern and distress.
I've said that to her. Yeah, it's obviously she's made
the the complaints that we're just giving you a war.
Right, no, but I'm just, I'm just a bit confused.
It seems a bit one sided at the minute because this has been
going on for quite a while. Like we said, it's we're not
commenting on it. Yeah, but if I can just tell you
it's so you know the other side of it.
Yeah, she works for the BBC. Yeah, but she works from home.
So when iPhone up, they tell she's working from home, so
there's no other way of getting in touch with her, but as she's
saying that that's fine. Well, we have to stop there
because time limits on the news, but we'll bring that video into
extra time. And I think there's a lot to be
discussed. I was watching your face there,
Alex, as you listened in it. They don't know whether it's
true or not. And it's it's going to stop
crime happening in the future, but.
The the admission that it's nothing to do with law or the
duties of a constable is we're doing this in the spirit of
spirit of crime covet prevention and the failure to uphold the
law in accordance with the police oath, even the revised
one 2005, which is all human rights.
See the failure to uphold that standard or to to behave in that
way is when they did not respond to the gentleman's question.
Can I do the same? Of course you can and an officer
of the law has every duty to say it is entirely up to you Sir.
And until very recently, at least, constables in even in
Britain, in its depraved state would do that.
They would say it's up to you, Sir, to to make such a an order.
But no, they just have the patter to deliver.
Yeah. Not really interested.
Oh, really? Here you are.
OK, well, as I say, we'll have a look at the rest of the video
and discuss that more in extra time.
Now I think it's back to you. Alex here.
We're going to do a lightning tour around mostly Belgium as
I'm in that part of the world more often than not.
But we'll start with Germany Apollo News and we'll
immediately give an English translation offered by Life site
here. Both will be in the show notes
is reporting that Doctor Bianca Vichell, an old age pensioner,
she's 67, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in
jail in Germany and struck off the medical register for three
years and fined just under €50,000, about the same in
dollars or pounds because of the 1000 or so exemptions that she
issued from COVID jabs and from mask mandates.
And here's the shocker. In his explanation of the
ruling, the judge claimed quote we had, he's referring to COVID.
We had an epidemic that was comparable to the cholera of the
19th century. And journalist Stefan Magnet
replies, It's completely insane how this justice system acts
today. I could furnish, uh, enough
pieces to fill every UK for news episode with how mad the German
judiciary is. It's not mad.
It's deliberate, uh, insane as as, as Magnet says, but that's
the level of justice you're getting in Germany.
On to Belgium De Morgan, one of the main titles in the Flemish
part of the country, says that 1400 doctors, that is a lot for
this country of a small population, have written an open
letter warning that the collapse of Healthcare is just around the
corner. Even though, despite the horrors
of COVID and the and the, the, the, the number of deaths
Belgium had then, especially the care system, the Belgian
healthcare system is less far gone than most of its
neighbours, particularly less far gone than Britain.
What they're warning about is that people are presenting at
GPS surge, sorry, at accident and emergency or casualty or
emergency rooms more often than they used to instead of going to
primary healthcare via their GP or family doctor.
Interesting that that's happening even in the least
destroyed of the health systems in Western Europe.
The Stack diary and number of other sources have reported this
too have told us that Belgium didn't get the grand finale that
it wanted because it's just finishing its six month rotating
presidency of the Council of the European Union, which holds
power over the Commission and ultimately over Parliament as
well. This idea was put forward by
Belgium because the member state in the chair every six months
has to provide the initial draft of laws, but the member states
met in the ministerial council could not get a majority to
agree on it. What was the fuss about here?
Well, signals boss has written this will be in the show notes
to point out what's going on here.
That's Belgium. Wanted the EU to increase to
introduce upload moderation. A new fangled term for what used
to be called client side scanning, which is that when you
sign up with any communication app or platform, you agree that
it will be scanned by AI before it even gets uploaded to the
site. And Signal is pointing out, and
I know that EU civil servants are actually told to use Signal
because it's secure and they won't get hacked by the Russians
that way. Signal is saying there is no way
of introducing such a scan without fundamentally
compromising the security of our encryption.
So this has been thought out spectacularly poorly at the same
time. By the way, and this will be in
the show notes, though I don't have a slide for it, the
Belgians are shooting ahead with their intention of having
digital identity for citizens to communicate with their
government, even though 3/4 of the Belgians in surveyed on on
one of these things. So they didn't want it on their
phone. What they've done instead.
There will be another piece on the show notes in this regard is
provide people who are willing with what they call an ebox in
their living room. And people are finding out to
their horror that once you've got an ebox, you have to check
the emails that come in on it because that's the only way the
government will issue you with a fine.
The next thing you'll know is police will come to your door
saying you were fined and you didn't pay because you didn't
read what was in your ebox. So that may be coming to other
countries soon as well. And finishing up the Belgian
segment, This is from Headlabs, The news and more populist
title, certainly lower market, I'd say.
The Minister of Justice, Paul von Tychilt was interviewed by a
gentleman of Congolese extraction and he was asked
there, do you think that we can put an end to immigration in a
country like Belgium? And Fontichio got rather
personal. You can see him pointing towards
himself with his thumb in this, this still that I took saying if
we don't even want to, let alone whether we can ban immigration
now, because if we put up, if we stop immigration, who'll be
working in healthcare, then he gets personal who will be doing
my plumbing and who will be washing my windows at home to
the absolute unbelief, disbelief of the young black interviewer
who suggests is that all we're good for?
But so he's come out and said it now as this member of the
governing Liberal Party of Belgium, just finally in the
Belgian category, just for, you know, a snapshot of how far
things have gone. The sex union, the sex Workers
Union of Belgium, basically the prostitutes collective of
Belgium. UTSOPI trumpet in a press
release that it has come up with this.
It's gone through Belgian, the Belgian parliament with very
little opposition. It's a code of practice, a
labour law for prostitutes or sex workers as we are supposed
to call them. Now they boast that there are
all kinds of freedoms now so that a prostitute always can say
no to a client or a particular act that they are induced to do.
And then they don't don't have to sit in those windows in a red
light district if they feel threatened by anything.
But look at this. If they invoke any such rights,
if they say no to a punter or a John to our Americans viewers,
then if it's more than 10 times in a six month period, the
employer may seek governmental mediation.
The only trouble there, Brian, is that the employer of a
prostitute is actually a pimp. So this is a pimps charter.
Belgium has passed with very little opposition, an agreement
and a law which allows pimps to complain to the government that
the girls they are turning a profit on are saying no to
particular clients. You couldn't make it up.
But they're very proud of it because it shows that regulation
has has has won out and that sex workers are now fully protected
by law. Yeah, silence.
Every time we think we've heard crazy things, there's something
else comes along in the clan world.
So I think we're going to have to leave it there today.
Mark, I know you've got some border issues.
We'll bring those into extra time.
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