Good afternoon. Today is Friday the 3rd of
October 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host, Brian Garish. Delighted to be joined today by
Patrick Henningson. Patrick is in France.
He'll be coming in on Livelink. And also we have Mark Anderson
who will be joining us on Livelink from Texas.
So welcome to both my guest presenters.
Now, as you can see, the weather is decidedly poor here in UK,
but not to worry about that because we've got lots of hot
political news for you. We're going to be covering the
Manchester Synagogue attacks. We're going to be having a look
at the Greta Thunberg flotilla and Israel.
We'll be, of course, covering the banks and the international
banking system because nothing happens without big money.
We're also going to be looking at the Paloma Shimarani inquest
and the some of the more hidden fallout from the tragic inquest
that's just trade taken place. We'll be also covering Trump's
loving with FOIA. We're going to be having a
little look at the French, Ukrainian relations and and
indeed politics around Moldova. We'll be taking a look about
what Prince William is talking about, which is change in the
monarchy. And also we've got some
interesting footage of people actually now starting to really
get out to say we are going to change and stop what is
happening with regard to Keir Starmer's UK politics.
So let's kick off with a little bit of background to where Keir
Starmer was before he was pulled back to UK for his emergency
COBRA meeting and he was present in Copenhagen.
This is just part of the the media release, the 7th meeting
of the European Political community.
It looks fairly dull from a media sense, but actually if we
bring in one of the photographs, we can see that there were some
extraordinary images and a lot of body language between some
pretty powerful people. So in the picture on screen,
we've got what we're describing is the EU head teacher Ursula
von der Leyen, who's admonishing a rather petulant trainee,
Italian Prime Minister Georgie Maloney.
So just have a look at the expression on the faces of those
two women. And of course, whilst we might
be laughing, this is where the deep power politics gets played
out. But let's bring in our very own
Keir Starmer. No, he isn't wearing some sort
of flowery headdress, that's just a trick of the camera.
But we've got we've got some interesting expressions here
with Queen Mary of Denmark sitting as the Rose between the
two poisonous thorns, which is Starmer there to her right and
Macron to her left. But yeah, trick of the camera.
We should also pay attention to the fact, of course, this was
banqueting. This was fine wine and dining
while the rest of the mayhem goes on in the world.
Now Keir Starmer had to cut his little visit short because of
the synagogue attack and he came straight back for a cobra
meeting. Now tragic events that have
taken place in Manchester. The latest is that we've got one
victim that is now being apparently sorry, it's now being
said about 1 victim that they were hit by police gunfire.
So we'll wait to see what information comes out about
that. We've got 2 Jewish men killed by
being hit by a car. We've got three people in
hospital and we've got three people arrested.
Now this is just a little clip that was taken as the event was
taking place. It's it's widely available on
the media, but we'll just bring it in to set the scene 1
casualty on the ground and the police armed and very
aggressive. Let's have a look we've.
Killed him. Everybody else, get back.
If you're not involved, move back.
Get away. Somebody.
Everybody else, you have to fall.
Go. Away so we'll say dangerous
situation but also at the time the police claiming that one of
the man prostate on the ground was also had explosives with
him. So that warm warning.
Let's just have a little look at this clip of Keir Starmer.
The attack in Master this morning is absolutely shocking
and all of our thoughts with those affected.
I'm on my way back to London. When I arrive I will chair an
emergency COBRA meeting. I'm already able to say that
additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues
across the country and we will do everything to keep our Jewish
community safe. I spoke to Mark Gardner of the
CST and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester and and I want to
thank the emergency services for the speed of their response.
So we'll say a tragic attack on the Jewish community there.
But Keir Starmer adamant he's going to do everything possible.
Remember David Cameron saying that his belief in Israel was
unshakeable? Israel appears to come first,
but Stormer then started quite a chain of media announcements
about this attack, so we've got another clip.
Good evening. Earlier today, on Yom Kippur,
the holiest day for the Jewish community, a vile individual
committed a terrorist attack that attacked Jews because they
are Jews and attacked Britain because of our values.
So many Jewish families first came to this country as a place
of refuge, fleeing the greatest evil ever inflicted.
Honour people and Britain welcomed them.
Communities like the one attacked in Manchester provided
safety but also the security. That comes from a promise that
this is a country that stands up to hatred and that we don't just
provide refuge, we provide a home for so many Jewish
families. That is the story of Britain.
But Britain is also a country where Jewish buildings,
synagogues, even schools require round the clock protection where
dedicated specialist security is necessary because of the daily
threat of anti-Semitic hatred. Today's horrific incident shows
why. So my personal reply to that is
I've never heard Keir Starmer with this level of passion about
defending the rest of the people in the UK.
So as far as I'm concerned, this is highly biased reporting and
that doesn't detract from the seriousness of the attack or the
suffering of the Jewish community in Manchester.
Patrick, just bring you in with us very quickly because Keir
Starmer is clearly very, very motivated by this.
We haven't seen this passion in relation to the 10s of thousands
of people killed in Gaza or the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine,
for example. Sure.
I think it's personally I'm looking at the forensic side of
the case. It's too early, there's not a
lot of details and certainly would want to know more about
the assailant, the suspect, the motivation, the background that
that will all be very interesting and perhaps
revealing as to what we're actually looking at here.
So that's what that's where my eyes are.
That's where my concern is. But, you know, considering
what's happening right now in the Middle East and the world's
eyes are on the Gaza Strip, there's an ongoing genocide
happening as we speak right now in 2025.
And, you know, some world leaders are paying attention to
this and, you know, trying to intervene to stop Israel, slow
them down. Colombian President Gustav
Petrov, for instance, is talking about deploying armed military
personnel to act as peacekeepers.
They're talking about sanctioning Israel.
So 100 / 150 countries in the in the UN actually condemning
Israel's actions and voting to recognize a Palestinian state.
So certainly that's worthy of a press conference, I would think
from any world leader, especially AG 7 leader or a, a
leading NATO country. So yes, it's it, it's, it's
certainly Keir Starmer's wheelhouse, if you will,
politically, he's there. He's, he's always reiterated his
support, his unflinching support for the Jewish community and
concerns for the, the Jewish community in Israel and so
forth. So no one's really surprised by
the press coverage and and the reaction after this.
Patrick, thank you very much. We'll bring you back in again
shortly. But just to finish this segment
to the news, in the first clip with Starmer, he mentioned CST.
Now many people will be unaware of what that that is.
Let's just have a look at this still from the BBC clip.
If you look in the background, you can see a man with CST on
his jacket. And what we're talking about is
this organization, which is essentially a private security
force protecting solely Jewish interests, are very, very
powerful and working closely with the UK police and
intelligence services. And apparently they are working
to assist the police in tackling hate crime across the board and
preventing terrorism. They operate a database where I
went to have a look and see if I could find out how many Jewish
people have actually died in UK as a result of terror attacks.
And whilst this organization does have databases so it talks
about a methodical insight into chronology, sequence and details
of UK terror attacks and plots. It talks about UK
counterterrorism policing and the UK Security Service
providing updated figures. But but it's all a bit woolly.
It says the absence of a public record makes it difficult for
researchers to look for information on terrorism.
And then it boasts that CSTS databases should help stimulate
A constructive discussion on terrorism trends.
So this is not just logging what's happening to the Jewish
community. This is about driving public
opinion. And if you have a look at the
databases, I tried just to search for the number of Jewish
people who've who have unfortunately died as a result
of terror attacks. I tried a number of combinations
of information, but as the as the database works, what you
find is it doesn't bring up specific information about the
Jewish community. It spreads it over jihadist and
other terrorism, right wing terrorism, etcetera.
So this blurs your ability to be able to get detail out and I was
unable to establish how many Jewish individuals have died as
a result of terrorism in UK from 2013 to 20 to 2025.
So I'm just going to post over this that it does seem that
these databases are blurring the lines between attacks on the
Jewish community and other so-called terrorist or extremist
attacks. Why this is, I think a lot more
questions need to be asked. But of course, across the board,
we're seeing now wall to wall coverage about the Manchester
attack almost blanking out other events in the world.
Well, if that's what's been happening here in UK, Patrick,
let's bring you back in with us because you've been having a
look at the the flotilla, Greta Thunberg's flotilla.
What's been happening around that?
Yeah, thanks, Brian. It it's not actually Greta
Thunberg's flotilla, it's the global Sumud flotilla.
There's over 500 humanitarians and activists from around the
world, one of which is Greta Thunberg, along with many
others, including many from the UK and Ireland as well.
We'll talk about some of those individuals in a moment.
But global Sumud, Sumud in Arabic means perseverance, it
means steadfastness. So it's interesting that they've
used that term. But what's interesting, Brian,
about this is the mainstream coverage.
And here, this is Reuters. So CNN, Reuters, they they've
all finally covered the even covered the fact that Israel was
launching drone attacks in international waters and even in
Greek territorial waters, if I'm not mistaken, against some of
the flotilla ships over the last week or so.
And there's Greta giving her final one of her final video
just there. All of the activists uploaded
kind of, if you will, last words before they were apprehended.
So those were already ready to go.
Some of them actually did it with their life jackets on as
the IDF we're boarding their ships.
So Israel interdicted, seized, you know, kidnapped, abducted
all of the people on board all of the ships, taking all the
ships, I think in total 40 boats.
We'll look at the numbers in a moment here, but here are some
of the details we'll bring up on screen.
Israel faced international condemnation and protests on
Thursday after its military intercepted almost all of the 40
boats in this wave of the flotilla.
And they're carrying aid to Gaza.
And they took captive more than 450 foreign activists,
humanitarians, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.
So I think because Greta was on board, that's probably one of
the reasons why this got so much mainstream coverage and because
she's by far the most high profile activist individual on
there. So from that point of view, from
there, from the organization and the effort of the campaign's
point of view, I think that was probably the a positive thing
here. Now we've broken down some of
the details and granular analysis of this at 21st Century
Wire, the headline Israel, the Pirates of the Mediterranean.
It's going to only be described as a massive act of piracy on
the high seas and we'll look at the international law in a
moment. But here, here's a video clip.
We'll bring this up on on screen.
And this is interesting. So this here's here we have
footage of which I'll I'll speak over the top of, but here we
have footage of the idea of actually boarding, actually
boarding one one of the ships. So they all had CCTV cameras
that were live streaming. The boats were very well
prepared as you can see the idea for coming up here on this
particular vessel. And so this is how it kind of
went. And so over the course of 14
hours, IDF forces seized, illegally seized the boats,
impounded all the humanitarian aid on board, including baby
formula and things like this, you know, just things that you
can't get, including fresh water in Gaza here.
And you can see this is one of the the parts where they're
actually boarding. What you'll find here towards
the end of this clip is interesting.
They basically stormed the boats and held the humanitarians at
gunpoint. They had their weapons drawn and
fingers more almost on the trigger.
I, I didn't take a close enough look, but as you can see on this
footage here, it'll sort of advance in a moment towards
that, that point where you can see with the, with the actual
weapons drawn as they get onto the ship, pointing the barrels
of their, the muscles of their guns, automatic weapons in the
faces, in the backs of the heads in some cases of some of the
humanitarians and people on board this ship.
Now these are people from European countries, South
America, from Asia, from the United States, from Northern
Ireland, from the Republic of Ireland, from from Great Britain
and from North Africa as well, including Arabic Arab members as
well from Arab countries. So it's, it's, that's, that's
what's happening. It's absolutely incredible.
Now there is an amazing piece of footage, Brian Tiago Avila, who
is from Brazil, He was on one of the earlier individual boats
that basically got got seized, I think the Magdalene.
And he was incarcerated and cap captive in the Israeli gulag was
released, went back home and he came back on the global Sumud
with many more boats. And this is when the IDF are
hailing his boat and this the you'll hear his reply to the
Israeli person, the Israeli person at the other end with an
American suburbian accent, which is something in itself.
But listen to his. I mean, it's a powerful,
powerful statement he made to the Israelis.
Here we've got the audio clip which we can watch an.
Active war zone If you could an attempt to breach the naval
blockade, we will stop your vessel and act to confiscate it
through legal proceedings in court bear full responsibility
for your actions. Say that we are entering an
active war zone. You're saying that we're
entering a place where you're committing war crimes.
This is against international law.
Once again, the International Court of Justice made a
provisional ruling that any attempt to hinder humanitarian
mission to Gaza, it's prohibited by international law and is
complying with the request to make you accountable for the
crime of genocide. The International Criminal Court
has your Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under an arrest
warrant for the crime of starving children and starving
people to death, using starvation as and famine as a
weapon of war. Therefore, it's a moral duty to
continue sailing. It's our moral duty to refuse
any attempt of an occupying force to control humanitarian
aid for the Palestinian people in Gaza who have the right of
their sovereignty, who have the right of their self
determination and to control their own borders.
Therefore, we do not recognize you as a legitimate agent to
control any attempt to bring aid to the Palestinian people in
Gaza. We request you to stand down, to
do not commit another war crime among so many that you've been
committing, and to stand down, do not engage with our peaceful,
nonviolent, humanitarian solidarity mission for the
Palestinian people in Gaza. I advise you again.
So as you can see, I mean, a powerful statement there I that
will go down in history and in my book anyway, as one of the
greatest sort of confrontations. They're really telling the
Israelis where things are at now.
We just do just for prudence jurisprudence, Brian here, we'll
pull up the United Nations Convention as a law of the sea.
So people know they can go to that's page seven of the table
of contents and that will link you to this documents available
online. Just a Google search there and
also just on terms of the territory waters, these boats,
most of them were, were were seized about 70 to 100 nautical
miles off the coast of Israeli controlled waters of occupied
Palestine here. And we'll just blow up this,
this point here, territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12
nautical miles. So clearly Israel's in violation
of all international law and the law of the sea.
And I, I will add as well. And this was relayed to us.
We were in touch and talking to two of the boats and three
members of the flotilla, including Doctor Frank Romano
and also the the journalist Yader Madarelli.
She is an Italian journalist who's also a contributor at 21st
Century wire.com. She was on the Metech boat along
with the Irish comedian and performing artist Tag Hickey.
And so they were able to relay some of this information to us.
Israel had sent a message to all of these boats to go to the port
of Ashkelon and they said you will not be harmed.
We will take your humanitarian aid and distribute it to the
people of Gaza. But because certain people had
had had a very violent experience with the Israelis
before, they said they didn't trust them and the made a
decision not to take the Israeli offer to go to the Israeli port
of Ashkelon. And they said, no, we're
bringing humanitarian aid, we're within international law, we're
going to Gaza. And so they did.
So that was an interesting detail here.
And we'll this is a press release here.
And this was from the flotilla. This is from their legal
representative in the UK. And they're saying Global Sumot
flotilla is urging UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to take
immediate steps to ensure their safety and security in the face
of attacks. And they add it is urgent that
the UK government joins Spain and Italy and ensuring the
security of the flotilla. Now, that came just a few days
ago. Obviously, things have changed
now. And this is quite extraordinary
here. One boat nearly made it through.
And you can see people on the beach here, Brian, in Gaza, on
the Strip. And the boat called the Makino.
The Makino made it 9 miles off the coast before it.
It was eventually seized by the IDF, by the Israeli forces.
It nearly made it through. So they nearly overwhelmed the
Israeli naval assets. And this the people were just
hoping that some of this aid would make it through.
And we have a video, one of the young girls, her name is Shaheed
Shaheed on on shore. And she she she released this
video of her drawing a picture of the flotilla coming is quite
a moving video. We just thought we'd share it
with you because it's just extraordinary.
But go ahead and roll that. None.
So it's pretty extraordinary. And also we're going to add here
that there is another wave of flotilla ships coming from
another sister organization, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition here.
Reuters is running the live stream from these boats, which
to me is incredible that that's actually happening.
So they're on the way. There's a number of ships in
there. And there's other flotillas that
are being launched from Turkey as well.
They're heading to Gaza. So we'll see what happens.
They've got a list here of some of the new ships.
We'll put that up on screen. People can go to the Global
Summit of Flotilla account. We've got the the the X account
here. We'll bring their account page
up on screen next. But that's where people go for
updates. You can go and find all of their
stuff there. And yeah, I thought I'd just add
here, we'll bring this up on screen.
Israeli Navy seizes flotilla ships.
That was a previous slide anyway.
But while they're while they're pounding, while they're pounding
Gaza and basically destroying whole blocks, residential
blocks, that's what's actually happening.
So it's, it's an incredible situation there.
And we we gave a live stream interview here where we'll put
up on screen on the Sunday wire on Sunday.
We spoke to Yara Madarelli and Tag Hickey on the live via
Starlink. And you can look at the, you
can, you can look at the, the, the, the full interview up at
21st Century wire.com. It's just advance one more.
And you can see their faces there.
There they are. And so that was a great
conversation. That's the last live stream
interview they did before they were seized.
They're currently and incarcerated in Israel.
So that's where that story is at the moment.
It's an, it's an extraordinary story, but we'll, we'll find out
more hopefully by the end of today and by Monday.
Patrick, thank you very much for that report.
There's a lot to discuss there. We'll save some of it for UK
column extra after today's news. But yeah, lots of questions to
be asked about actions in territory, in international
waters. Mark, let's bring you on.
Welcome to UK column news today. I'll just say that one thing is
for sure that as the wars go on in the Middle East, as in
Ukraine and in Ukraine, it's the international banking system
rubbing their hands with Glee as more and more profits are
accrued from the war, the violence, the ammunition, the
munitions. And not surprising, I think that
you focused in on Mark Carney today.
Indeed, keeping my eye on the think tanks like usual, they
again kind of cement the relationship between the
plutocratic class and the political class, Always an
important thing to watch. This time I went to the good old
Council on Foreign Relations itself, not its Chicago cousin
and not Chatham House and Mark Carney, your friend and mine,
the neoliberal banker, the emblematic face of international
banking, formerly Bank of Canada, formerly Bank of
England. He's now PM of Canada, replacing
Trudeau of course, and he spoke with Michael Froman very
recently this past week about the foreign policy of Canada.
And briefly I'll before I get into the fact that they talked
about the two state solution and Carney's apparent support of it.
They got into a little bit more about the big trade deals and
some of the trade intentions. And let's put this on the on the
screen in terms of Canada's foreign policy economically.
Mr. Carney touched on the existing comprehensive and
progressive agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership, the CPTPP.
It's an existing thing, but it it took all the way from 2006 up
to the relative present to get it all buttoned together back
and forth over the years. And it's focusing like
digitally, like the digitally foundation, they're focusing on
the Indo Pacific. Now the world's leading region
of economic growth is offering big opportunities for trade and
expansion, things like that. And the the UK is reaching the
one year mark. Let's put that on the screen.
And as of December 15th this year, the UK will will have
reached a one year mark. If it was a little less than a
year ago that the UK officially became a member of this trade
partnership, that's 11 or so nations, counting Canada and
Brunei and Japan and several others.
People can read that from the show notes and this is marking a
significant achievement for the UK as the first non founding and
1st European country to join this trade partnership.
The UK is now the second largest economy in this group after
Japan. And I'll mention too that this
ties into last week. We'll show this just as a
reminder when I did an update on the Ditchley Foundation having
just concluded another one of their meetings.
They're also focusing in a slightly more military strategy
context on the Indo Pacific area.
So there's there's a lot of focus on on the Indo Pacific
area in terms of trade, in terms of policing the globe, things
like that. Now I have some video clips
because the conversation quickly turned to Gaza and Mr. Carney
briefly mentioned that they're going to expand trade within
Canada and reduce trade barriers and improve the regulatory
framework among the Canadian provinces.
And also the Canada, because of friction with the United States
is going to reach out to the European Union much more in
terms of trade and investments. Although Canada recognizes it
still needs to be in good standing with the US, US,
Mexico, Canada agreement that replaced NAFTA a few years ago
and that that tripartite or or trilateral agreement rather is
going to be reviewed again in 2026.
So Kearney does want to stay with good relations with the US
and Mexico for purposes of that agreement, even though he's
going to do more in in trade within Canada and with the
European Union. And the European Union is
actually looking at joining that Trans Pacific partnership that I
just described. So that that's still in the in
the making. But Mr. Carney then told Michael
Froman of the CFR that he and Canada support A2 state
solution. Now how sincere and how
meaningful this is remains to be seen.
But let's listen to a little bit about what Mr. Carney had to say
about it had to say, excuse me about a two state solution.
I believe yesterday Canada joined some European countries
in recognizing Palestinian statehood.
What do you expect that to accomplish?
Well, I think the first thing to say is this is consistent with
our policy. Since 1947, since 19, every
Canadian government, whether of whatever political stripe, has
supported A2 state solution as as many other countries have
what we have been seeing. 1st. Because of the acts of these
Highness acts of Hamas. But then other in, in terms of
response is that that prospect is receding before our eyes.
OK, So the idea of waiting until all the conditions are in place
for a, a free and viable Palestinian state committed to
peace and security side by side with the state of Israel.
What what I've called a Zionist Palestinian state, which is what
we want those conditions being in place, keeping the concept
there on the shelf when it is the avowed policy of the Israeli
government that there will never be a Palestinian state.
That is the policy of the current Israeli government and
their actions are consistent with with that policy.
And I can just concentrate on what's going on in the West Bank
without touching Gaza. So what we, what we're looking
to accomplish is to, is to keep that front and center to be with
a host of influential but not decisive countries.
So we're alongside the Kingdom of Saudi, not in the
recognition, but as part of this process, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, France, UK, Australia, Qatar, Egypt, others, Norway,
you know, actively trying to create conditions at a minimum
for a ceasefire obviously, and then a peace process.
That's that's part of that. Yeah, interestingly enough, and
it's worth mentioning, Michael Froman, the host, he happens to
be Jewish. There's a lot of Jewish
influence at the CFR. David Rubenstein is the head of
the board of directors, the chairman of the board of the
CFR. And so the the neoliberal wing
of of certain Jewish interests and the CFR in general, which is
globalist, generally speaking, is obviously much more
sympathetic to Gaza. Now, whether it's too little too
late or whether this is just for optics, just just for, you know,
public relations and maybe they're not real sincere or
maybe they're not real hopeful that it'll ever happen.
The two state solution, some of that remains to be seen.
We have one other, I believe shorter clip from Mark Carney
that sort of rounds out what he just got done saying, however.
We're under no illusions that this is any sort of panacea, but
it's necessary in our judgement. It's and the judgement of most
other countries in the world that we have to push on this now
because as I say, the the, the possibility in absolute
violation of the UN Charter, in an absolute violation of
international law of self determination for the
Palestinian peoples is, is is being erased.
So he is saying that the the window of opportunity is quickly
closing. Now moving on, we have the
president emeritus of the CFR who also just happened to, you
know, grow up in in a Jewish heritage.
And he once considered being a Rabbi Richard Haass on foreign
affairs. He posted this article with a
rather interesting headline. A Palestinian state would be
good for Israel, but that had a pay pay window on it.
And so I found another article that was very similar in tone
and I got a couple quotes from the former president of the CFR
about this issue. The first one he said the
following regarding France, the UK, Canada and Australia
recognizing the state of Palestine.
Behind this move is deep frustration with what Israel is
doing in Gaza and the West Bank, with their own inability to
influence Israeli actions, those that want statehood for
Palestine, and with what is seen as US passivity and
unwillingness to reign in Israel, Mr. House went on to
say, and he also had this to say.
One problem is that, at least for the time being, the shift
towards statehood A2 state solution is just rhetorical.
The decision to recognize a Palestinian state does not
improve the prospect of ending the war in Gaza or actually
creating a viable Palestinian state.
So Mr. Haas is sounding a more pessimistic note on this, Brian.
But nevertheless, the the globalist community that usually
is somewhat pro Israel or kind of silent on the matter is being
a little more outspoken and we'll we'll see where that goes.
Meanwhile, of course, they're trying to juice up that
worldwide trade deal that is a ongoing holiday for the bankers
and those in the banking community.
So back to you. Mark, thank you very much.
My opinion on that Mark Carney speaking there was that he was
terrified that he might say the wrong thing and what came out
was effectively woeful, but he was very frightened of saying
the wrong thing and criticizing the very Zionist state which he
says needs to needs to be formed again.
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Well, let's move on to the subject of the Paloma Shimrani
inquests Now. I'm going to label this straight
away a highly dangerous inquest for the nation in respect to
free will and justice. And with regard to today's news
headlines in the UK, personally I think that this was the most
important news. Now, in the first instance, it's
not in relation to what many have described as a very strange
inquest. Some people have said they've
regarded as being manipulated. This is for discussion on
another time, but I wanted to draw people's attention to what
Kate, sorry with sorry, Marianna Spring had to say about this
inquest. She's talking, of course, about
Kate Chemerani and her daughter Paloma.
And this is a big BBC article which is entitled Why We
Struggle to Protect the Young from Conspiracy Theorist
Parents. My goodness, this is an
extremely dangerous article by Marianna Spring, and it's
dangerous. It's very offensive still in the
way that she is used for the suffering as a family in order
to get her political points across.
Why am I saying this? Well let's just have a look at 2
quotes here. This is the first one.
She's talking about the case. This has raised broader
questions around the influence and impact the conspiracy
theories held by parents, where beliefs stretch far beyond
genuine concerns can have on children, including adult
children, and in order to help protect children in the most
extreme cases, where should the line be drawn between child
protection and a parent's freedom to raise their child
according to their own beliefs? This is immensely dangerous and
people should remember that a few years ago children's
services were used in UK to attack a family because of their
political beliefs in supporting UKIP.
Kate Chemerani goes on. There's a sub headline trusting
parents. I beg your pardon?
Mariana Spring goes on to say trusting parents versus the
state. In theory children should be
protected. Any adult can raise concerns
about a child's well-being with a local authority, including if
there's a worry a child is being harmed by parental beliefs.
If it's then decided the child is at risk of harm, an
application can be made to the family court for orders to
protect them. But in reality, legal experts
tell me this is Marianna Spring. The threshold for intervention
is high. Well, of course, she knows
nothing about the so-called child protection system.
And I believe that what's happening here is an immensely
dangerous attack on parents for their beliefs, with the
implication that children will be taken from you as a family if
you do not have the correct political and social beliefs.
So I'll leave people to take that, to take that on board.
And let's just move on now with the subject of pharmaceuticals
and Bach. Let's bring you back.
And the subject is Trump and Pfizer's loving.
Well, I'm not altogether sure if it's 11, but there's a lot of
questions being asked now. This first slide is from the
Defender, the Children's Health Defense, which of course is RFK.
The current HHSHHS heads former outfit.
So RFK now being part of Trump's cabinet, his own former outfit
is asking a lot of questions. The headline being secrecy over
the Trump Pfizer deal sparks a FOIA, sparks FOIA demands,
Freedom of Information demands and some public outcry.
Pfizer stock jumped Tuesday after CEO of Pfizer Albert Borla
and President Trump announced a deal to lower US drug prices and
invest 70 billion in domestic manufacturing.
And then Pfizer, at least for a time, would be relieved of any
tariff charges. So I'll also go on to share this
slide. It's very important.
I mark the important part in red.
No tariffs and Medicaid ready. Trump held a press conference
with Borla 30 September. Under the deal, Trump will
refrain from imposing tariffs. It'll be Pfizer in turn, will
boost its domestic manufacturing, excuse me, make
its drugs available to Medicaid at a discounted rate and sell
its products directly to US patients at a discounted rate
via the yet to be launched government website Trump RX.
A rather curious development to say the least.
And this is from the same day. Just just so we can see what
they're saying. This is Pfizer's own press
release about the same deal Pfizer reaches landmark
agreement. They're calling it landmark and
historic. Those two words are being used
with the US government to lower drug costs for American
patients. Now I'll mention here, Brian,
that I I talked to a a long time American Free Press reader and
Blogger last night and a couple other people whose views are in
fact they're mostly MAGA people to a degree Trump supporters.
And they feel there's a lot of benefits here in terms of a
lowering drug prices because the idea is to make the Medicaid,
the Medicaid linked drug prices in the states comparable with
what what the drug prices that are paid in Europe.
Trump is seating seeking kind of an equilibrium or inequality
there. And they feel that's tantamount
or similar to giving a Social Security increase to some of
these senior citizens in the states.
If you lower their drug cost, that's similar to raising their
Social Security payments that that kind of indirect benefit.
There was also talk about that it is helpful that more jobs
will be created, that the drug companies, like them or not, are
part of the overall industrial base of any given nation.
So improving the job prospects in the states, better paying
jobs can be a plus that they see as well.
But there's also other questions, of course, in terms
of how this will affect vaccine policy.
Now on this press, this is drawn from the Pfizer press release.
Let's just show these quick bulleted items.
This historic landmark agreement provides certainty from tariffs
and clarity on pricing, which furthers Pfizer's ability to
expand investment in US based innovation and return
manufacturing to the US. And Pfizer will fully focus on
delivering the next generation of cures, especially in cancer,
obesity, vaccines and inflammation and immunology.
So that's a little more from Pfizer.
Now I have a little bit more from the Children's Health
Defense. And this rounds out this report,
Brian. State Medicaid programs will be
able to access Pfizer's products at prices similar to what the
car company charges other wealthy nations.
As I mentioned, Pfizer has agreed to increase its drug
prices in other countries a little bit while lowering them
in the USA little bit. So that it's fair, Trump was
quoted as saying. Kind of an equaling effect.
However, Pfizer did not agree to cut the prices it currently
offers to employers, private insurers and Medicare.
Medicare being purely a federal medical coverage.
Medicaid is combination state and federal medical coverage.
The White House has not released details about the 70 billion
that Pfizer agreed to spend on US domestic manufacturing
facilities. Those details, at the very
least, are not available yet. So there's a lot of unanswered
questions amid some practical benefits perhaps, but with big
Pharma, of course, any advantages it would get right
when The Who is wrapping up the pandemic treaty, right when
another pandemic could conceivably be declared.
Will this be particularly advantageous for Pfizer even
even over and above other pharmaceutical companies?
That and many other questions have yet to be asked or
answered, Brian. But this initial report shows
that they're very important questions to ask amid whatever
benefits there may be. So, so back to you at this
point. Mark, thank you very much.
Absolutely, we must keep our eye firmly on the global
pharmaceutical system and the immense power of these
pharmaceutical companies. And as you say, many more
questions to ask. Patrick, let's bring you back.
And the subject is France and Ukraine.
I think you're surely going to be bringing Macron back on
screen. So, fresh from his dinner
alongside Keir Starmer and Queen Mary of Denmark, what's Macron
been up to in this field? That's right, the testosterone
is teaming through his veins. As you can imagine, he is poised
to take a tough leading role here in showing the Russians who
is boss in Europe. And a major move has been made,
a major escalation actually. So he's been giving his orders
to take the lead on the escalation with Russia.
Just look at this headline. This is the thing that we all
feared. Macron leads a charge against
Russia's so-called shadow fleet. These are oil tankers, other
trade vessels that are reflagged, common practice
around the world and throughout history.
But but Russia, it's being framed in nefarious terms.
Keir Starmer himself a few months ago, which we reported
on, he said we need to do something.
We need to stop all these ships in the Baltic.
We need to make it untenable for the Russians.
So here it is. We'll bring this up on screen on
Wednesday, Brian. October 1st, Paris announced
that on the 27th September it had detained a, quote,
suspicious vessel off the French coast and the ship was under
investigation for maritime offenses.
It was operating under a false flag, says the president of
France. But it it was exactly the same
vessel that had been checked by Estonian March for the same
reasons. So nefarious Russian vessels
with false flags, but they're boarding ships.
How long before they start impounding them here?
And so this is what it's all about.
We'll go to the statements of intent.
It is extremely important, says Macron, to increase pressure on
the shadow fleet because it clearly reduces Russia's ability
to fund this war effort. So this is their back to the old
Kennard from from February 2022. We need to stop Russia from
selling oil because it's funding the war in Ukraine.
I mean, it's just kind of a spurious claim, an excuse to
declare economic warfare. But there's more to it here.
And we'll go back to this statement.
And this is what the game that's being laid out looks like,
Brian, in the coming days, our chiefs of staff in coordination
with NATO and within the framework of the, quote,
coalition of the willing. I remember that that was the one
they used in Iraq. But we digress.
Macron continues. A group of some 35 countries
have had to come together to provide security guarantees for
Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
And we'll meet to create joint actions in the coming weeks.
So this is the sort of escalation we start impounding
ships on the high sea and preventing Russia from trading
with other countries, physically preventing them.
This is usually a prelude to war.
It has been historically. So I think that's kind of what
we're looking at here, Brian. I think it's usually disturbing
and we'll be reporting on this going forward.
Thank you. Thank you, Patrick, absolutely
agree with your concerns. We can see that, yes, the next
thing could well be that these Russian ships were actually
stopped and boarded on the international seas and that
would take things into a new area very, very quickly.
Now let's come back to the subject of the UK and Prince
William has been speaking to, not least to the BBC.
He's talking about changing the monarchy when he's king, but
he's also talking about stress around the, excuse me, the
family overwhelming him. Let's just have a little look at
this video clip. If history doesn't overwhelm
you, is there anything that does?
Yeah, I think stuff to do with family overwhelms me quite a
bit. You know, worry or stress around
family side of things that does overwhelm me quite a bit.
But in terms of, you know, doing the job and things like that, I
I don't feel too overwhelmed by that.
Not now anyway. When I was younger.
Yeah, there are bits that overwhelm you a bit like, whoa,
are we actually doing this? This is sort of happening, but
with with time and age, I think you feel a bit more settled in
that side of things and you go, actually I could do that and
even a few curveballs come in. That doesn't necessarily well,
me when it's to do with family and things like that.
Then that's why I start getting a bit overwhelmed, as I think
most people would. Well, I've got to say that I
didn't interview didn't fill me with confidence.
This man seems to have so many personal and family problems, I
begin to question whether he's actually capable of doing the
job of being an effective monarch in UK.
This is some of the quotes that have come out today.
Change is coming is effectively what he's saying.
I think it's safe to say that change is on my agenda, change
for good and I embrace that. I enjoy that change, I don't
fear it. That's the bit that excites me,
the idea of being able to bring some change, he went on.
Sorry, I'll repeat there. I don't fear it.
That's the bit that excites me. I think if you're not careful,
history can be a real weight and an anchor around you, and you
can feel suffocated by it and restricted by it too much.
So history is coming into the sites as far as Williams
concerned. There are points when you look
at tradition and go is that still fit for purpose today?
Is that still the right thing to do?
Are we still doing and having the most impact we could be
having? So I'm going to ask a question
on today's UK column news. And that is, it seems to me from
what he's saying in very vague, veiled terms, that UK's
Christian history and traditions are going to be out.
And what we're going to get from William is more woke
multicultural history and traditions.
That's what will be coming in. But we'll wait and see how
accurate I am on that little prediction.
So Patrick as well, can you back again?
And the subject is Moldova. Yes, I just want to point
people, we showed this a couple weeks ago, this situation that's
been brewing, we're warning it's coming and the elections have
happened this past week. Here's the headline.
Moldova pro EU party wins majority in election dominated
by quote Russian interference. So there's a lot of reports and
accusations about Russian interference in the Moldovan
elections. It's a very, very key territory
strategically right alongside Ukraine is likely that this is
going to he uses another front. But we'll bring up the the
leader here who just recently did a state visit to the UK and
met King Charles. So where our headline is EU NATO
win Moldovan election because that's really the take away
here. And so if we look at some of the
interesting details to pay attention to, they talk about
Russian interference in the mainstream media.
But 22 pro Russian parties, the heart of Moldova and Moldova,
Maher, were barred from the vote on Friday over allegations of
illegal financing and vote buying.
So again, allegations they were barred.
So they took away some significant electoral blocks
there. But this is 1.6 million voted.
That's approximately 52% of the eligible electorate in that
country. But this is the interesting part
288,000 that's 17.5% of the total coming from overseas
diaspora polling sites. Now how you can't break that
down because the Moldovan government's not giving
statistics on who voted which way on all of these overseas
polling sites. So it's tiny little country, but
with a huge diaspora around the world.
Now which which way that diaspora is leaning, pro
European or pro Russian? It's not altogether clear.
Now the the ones in Transnistria, this is the
autonomous pro Russian breakaway Republic.
There were bomb scares at their polling sites.
They had to leave Transnistria and travel 20 miles or so to
vote in a Moldovan poll site because they still have Moldovan
passports. Ostensibly they can still vote,
but there were bomb scares at some of these polling sites.
That's interesting out. There's also reported bomb
scares at some of the overseas, certain overseas polling sites
as well. So that's kind of interesting,
but the the bottom line here, and we warned about this a
couple weeks ago, we'll bring this up on screen.
You can see that map, why it's so important strategically.
But what we're warning is destabilizing Moldova, Europe
and Zelensky's plan to thwart Trump, Putin peace efforts with
provocations in Transnistria. So this could be opening up a
new front to draw Ukraine into Transnistria.
Transnistria and which is pro Russian is a 1500 Russian
peacekeepers there. And Zalenski would immediately
go to Trump and say, Donald, look, the the the Russians have
it will be a false flag attack. That's my prediction.
But they'll be the Russians. We need more cash, more weapons.
Please give us more weapons. And then we'll give the
Europeans something to rally around.
You know, so that's how I see the whole Ukraine gambit is
stalled so badly at the moment. This would provide them with
something fresh, something new and shiny for the media and the
political elites in Europe and for Trump, too, to rally around
this new sort of front. That's that could open up here.
That's what we're afraid of. We hope that doesn't happen, but
it's certainly lining up that way, especially with these
election results. Patrick, thank you very much for
that report. And yeah, it certainly seems
that what we are not seeing is Western politicians, US,
European, UK politicians really being passionate on the world
stage for peace and obtaining peace, whether it's in Ukraine
or or Eastern Europe or or into Gaza.
This is something they simply will not do.
Now let's have a look at a little bit of good news for the
end of today's UK column News. And we're back on the subject
about what ordinary people are now starting to do.
And a big thank you to Will Coleshill, who's been out on the
streets looking at the Labour conference and also talking to
some local people. Let's have a look.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
This is Will Coleshill reporting today.
I'm down outside the Labour Conference and the Farmers to
Action and together and veterans and bikers protests against Keir
Starmer, his policies, his death tax and everything else.
Today we have a united front, so we're going to be going around
speaking to people and seeing what their views are on a range
of different issues, but they've all united today and I think
it's going to be quite interesting.
Anything that's brought you out here today?
Support, isn't it? Support, Support for the
farmers. You've got to do much speaking,
but I support the farmers, you know what I mean?
But the shouting, what everything you've heard before
over there, it's fact in it. So pick up the farmers, come
with farmers. To action.
Support them and just get the message across.
But the inheritance tax needs to be abolished for all, not just
for farmers. And if you want food, you've got
to look after a farmer basically.
I don't want to be like China. Simple as.
Keir Starmer is trying to override the Bill of Rights.
They tried to use the Supreme Court to override the mandate of
the British public multiple times.
Now the latest move by the communist regime is to enforce
the digital ID. It's fantastic.
We heard today outside the Labour conference, as many of
you know, Labour have let this country know miserably and we
heard to send a message to Keir Starmer we will not accept
mandatory digital ID. It's something to do with the
fact that Keir Starmer is putting veterans at risk again.
They restarting the vexatious prosecutions of Northern Ireland
veterans. The new legislation that he is
purporting to do in in the command paper is absolutely
useless. It will just reopen old wounds
and put us back in the dock. I'm Rob and we're together.
We're here protesting against digital ID and also in support
of the farmers today, so really excellent to see people not only
out on. The streets brave enough to
stand up and give their view, but extremely well informed in
the subjects that they're interested in.
And this means that they're putting across a very coherent
argument to pull apart these pernicious globalist policies.
Now, if that were protesters, if that was protesters outside the
Labour conference, let's have a little look about how wills he
got on when he went to speak to some of the advance political
party supporters immigration is. One that's clearly become an
urgent problem and needs need to get on top of that.
I've worked for the council on my life.
We were told to. Watch out for grooming gangs.
Well, yet nothing's ever been done about them.
Well, obviously immigration is a big one.
You know that's that's. The topic everybody wants to
talk about, me personally though, I'm, I'm into defence
and I don't like the way Labour are doing their strategic
defence review. So that's, that's a big one for
me personally. And obviously the, the other
major issue that we've got at the moment is freedom.
It's been eroded in every sense of the word.
And freedom of speech in particular is one of the big,
big things that seems to be going in this country.
Democracy really. And we're not, we're not getting
that. The economy, the people who are
running the finances of this country are messing it up.
And I would say some are even deliberately wanting to do so.
There's some really dark stuff going on.
The lower middle classes are being forced out of owning land.
Whether you believe in the conspiracies or not, I am
worried about things like and economic communism, for example,
coming from the WEAI mean. I worked in schools for a long
time. Teachers actually have.
Food in their drawers for children.
That shouldn't be happening in the UK, Sorry.
Not when we're we're actually feeding other people.
Who've never paid a penny in the.
System. We've got a couple of things in
common and those things in common.
Are we want freedom of speech and we love Britain, we love our
country, the culture, the fabric of society.
So family values, our beliefs, our values, what we the the
unwritten intangible things that hold the glue that holds society
tightly together in bringing back their Christian values to
to Great Britain so. Really excellent.
To see those people, they know. They're subject, they're not
going to sit quietly and idly by while these pernicious globalist
policies come in. And of course, these are the
very people not only to get local councillors elected in the
future, to get their own MPs elected.
These are the people able to stop these policies as they come
through to local level via the city councils and the local
councils. So we'll end there.
Well done to all those people who are saying no, we're not
having these terrible policies. From Keir Starmer, Patrick,
thank you very much for joining me.
Beautiful location there in France.
And big thank you to Mark Anderson for coming into today's
news as well. We will have auk column extra
for our members in a few moments, so if you can join us
then for everybody else, a huge thank you for joining today's UK
column news. We will see you next Monday.
Bye bye.