Good afternoon. Today is the 11th of August
2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
I'm your host Brian Gerrish, delighted to have Ben Rubin with
me in the studio and we'll be joined by Diane Rasmussen
Mccallie via link from the North East of England.
And I will just say if you look out to the window behind me, you
can see we've got a very grey day in Plymouth.
There's a bit of drizzle, there's certainly full cloud
cover, not particularly hot. So we're surviving here.
We'll say a little bit more about climate at the end of the
today's news, but let's start with some serious events.
And that was really over the weekend, on Saturday, Palestine
action, when, of course, we saw some pretty incredible scenes
between the police and the general public, many of whom
were arrested on the basis that they've now become terrorists,
no matter what their age or background.
Let's have a look at how the Guardian portrayed things.
Arrest the people complicit in the genocide.
Arrest the people that are selling arms that are bombing,
killing, allowing the starving of the whole nation.
Well, there we are, Ben. That's how the Guardian
portrayed things. So lots of noise.
You got the impression that this was a a pretty brutal reaction
with the police and not a lot of information apart from the
Guardian being keen to warn people at the end of the video
that you dare support Palestine action, you are going to be
branded a terrorist and you can face up to 14 years in prison.
Well, luckily UK column was able to report from the scenes.
Let's have a look at this alternative clip, which has
kindly been shot for the UK column by Will.
Excuse me, Madam, What's happened to you, Madam?
They're. Arresting me for protesting.
No protesting genocide. They should be arresting the
genociders on the arms and the politicians.
Hello, this is Will Cole Silver, boarding for UK column.
We're down here today in Parliament Square.
You can see Big Ben behind me and the police are one by one
picking off members or supporters at least of the group
Palestine Action which has been prohibited as a so called
terrorist group for throwing paint on a crane on a plane
which many think is criminal damage.
The police are grabbing the people 1 by 1 and it looks like
these people are going to be tried, charged and possibly
imprisoned as terrorists for holding up signs saying they
support an organisation which commits criminal damage.
To exercise my fundamental human.
Rights Are you willing to go to prison?
Absolutely. What do?
You think about being labelled as a terrorist, Sir.
It's snortingly ridiculous. It's it's gonna be the thin end
of the Wed, Sir. We we're on the way down to a
totalitarian state. Shame on you.
What do you think of what's happening?
I I think it's the death of democracy, the death of freedom,
the death of free speech. And it's frightening, completely
frightening to see this in the 21st century.
We've had it. Did you want to overturn?
What do you think of this, Sir? I think it's shameful.
I think it's absolutely disgusting.
This is our democratic right to stand here and protest, and the
policemen are stopping something that is no crime.
I was shocking. It's absolutely shocking.
I've never seen anything like this in this country.
This is a disgrace. This will go down in history
like. Shame on you.
I am you. Know.
Almost speechless. They shouldn't be arresting
people that are just trying to protest.
Most of them are retirees. We've seen retired vicars, we've
seen doctors, we've seen grandparents, peaceful people
just protesting against the genocide of being arrested by
the Met Police who don't have the brains to think for
themselves. They're just foot soldiers for a
genocide. They're following orders.
They're orders of a genocidal government that is committing
genocide right now in Israel. Ron's commander.
Is this a proportion of response?
We're enforcing people that are breaching legislation, Sir, do
people not have a right to free speech?
What do you think about this terrorist classification for
criminal damage? It's absolutely absurd.
Palestine Action are a group that peacefully protested about
a genocide that's killed. Depending on who you hear.
400,000 official #60,000 odd, but it's probably going to be.
Far more than that. And at the end of the day, they
were doing the work that other people.
Wanted them to do. Now they've been prescribed as
terrorists because they threw paint on rented aircraft.
Nah, not my cup of tea. This isn't Britain, this is a
fascist state. It's really simple.
UN experts have called for for the UK government to rescind the
prescription of Palestine Action.
The UN experts have said there is no internationally agreed
definition of terrorism, but consensus is that it is damage,
an intentional damage or harm to civilians for political gains,
not property. Palestine Action have only ever
gone for property. They've made that very clear
there. There's already existing
legislation to cover that. There's criminal damage, there's
trespassing, you know, all sorts of legislation they could draw
and it's politically motivated because they were so shamed by
some people getting into the RAF site and spray painting a plane.
They were so humiliated that they prescribed the organisation
doing it. As you can see, the people are
against it and we will keep coming.
It makes a mockery. Of the Lord.
And it's very selective because the Quakers have been doing
action like that for years. And he gets ignored.
They're not arrested. So other organisations have done
this, but it's only because it's Palestine that all of a sudden
that's labelled as terrorism. Yet other organisations have
done this in the past. I know the Quakers have.
So they're standing by the principles and doing the right
thing. It's just piece by piece eroding
away our our rights to demonstrate, to protest the
democracy, and it's just piece by piece, it's slipping away
from us. I can do what you have to do.
I think that we are now on such a dangerous position that we are
in trouble of losing all freedom.
Do you think that many people are going to be acquitted by
juries? Yes.
Yeah. The public opinion is on the
side of the people and do you think that more people are going
to come out and do this as they continue locking people up?
Yes. I don't think this will stop
now. They need to be exonerated by a
jury and Starmer and his government need to apologise for
getting this so very badly wrong.
You want other people who may not even agree with you on
Palestine to stand up for these people upon principle of free
speech. Absolutely, absolutely.
Free speech is for everyone, you know, and there might be people
that I disagree with their opinion fundamentally, but I
will definitely stand up for their right to have free speech.
Yeah, no, agree completely. They're not doing anything
wrong. We've seen arrests for this
before but now this seems to be the biggest that we've seen so
far and it seems like this is an issue which isn't going away and
more and more people are going to be ending up in prison or on
trial for stating the words I support Palestine action.
This is Will Coleshill reporting the UK column there's special
support for. So excellent report by Wills,
Will Coleshill there and of course the contrast with the
Guardian report where no substance, no interaction with
the public are obviously deeply concerned.
It really shows the manipulation of the mainstream media.
Now towards the end of Will's report there, a member of the
public was talking about the power of the jury to do
something. And I think this is the time
when we need to flag up the government's other attack at the
moment which is on just that, juries.
And the man in question is retired Judge Brian Leveson, who
the UK column has reported on many occasions.
But centre screen, you've got his independent review of the
Criminal courts Part 1. We just wanted to make sure
people knew that aside from attacking the jury system, it's
quite clear, and many people are commenting on this, that he
seems determined to get rid of more and more opportunities for
people to be tried by a jury of their peers.
We noticed that on the front cover he's also promoting the
Talmud uniquely, amongst other neutral comments about justice.
So make your own mind up. But of course, if we have a look
at what Keir Starmer is talking about at the moment, then he is
pushing heavily of course, for things to go in Israel's favour
in Gaza. Let's have a listen to this
little clip from the 29th of July.
On the 7th of October 2023, Hamas perpetrated the worst
massacre in Israel's history. Every day since then, the horror
has continued. The hostages are still being
held today. The Palestinian people have
endured terrible suffering. Now in Gaza, because of a
catastrophic failure of aid, we see starving babies, children
too weak to stand, images that will stay with us for a
lifetime. Our goal remains a safe and
secure Israel alongside A viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
Well, there we are. Obviously that's a section of
his full speech was edited, but the meaning of what he had to
say was not changed. It's clear that the priority is
Israel, and all the troubles in Gaza are simply the result of
not being able to get food in. No mention of bombing and
indiscriminate killing at all. It's simply a problem in getting
food in. Now.
He has also made a recent statement and this was pushed
out on Defence HQ, the government's MOD propaganda
machine. And here he's saying that the
Israeli government's decision to further escalate it's offensive
and Gaza is wrong and we urge it to reconsider immediately.
Then again, he's talking about humanitarian aid, but he goes on
to say that together with our allies, we're working on a long
term plan to secure peace in the region as part of a 2 state
solution and ultimately achieve a brighter future for
Palestinians and Israelis. Well, that's putting a lot of
gloss over it. But the key thing is, while he's
supposedly talking peace, UK, the US and indeed many countries
in the EU are going to pump in the weapons to keep that
slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza going.
So the hypocrisy, truly breathtaking.
But now we've reached the stage where ordinary British people on
the streets protesting about this genocide and brutality have
become the terrorists. And not only that, of course, we
are seeing attack on Jewish people themselves.
Thank you very much for the viewer who picked up this Oxford
Mail report. This is Miriam Margols, who was
one of the Harry Potter stars as as an actress.
And what's the attack about? Well, she said this.
She's Jewish herself. She spoke to the big issue about
Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
She said it reminded her of the Holocaust and added, the
terrible thing I face is that Hitler won.
He changed us. He made us like him.
So this lady clearly very upset and disturbed at what she was
seeing happen. But what was the result?
Well, the result was a massive attack on a by the campaign
against anti semitism. Now I've attributed the marks of
the remarks in the paper which came from the organisation to
the chief executive, Gideon Falter.
He said, well, the organisation said the remarks are repugnant.
The fact she was born Jewish does not give her licence to use
her immense platform to spread, quote, anti Jewish venom.
It went on to say this has to be the end of the road.
She must be shunned by the showbiz world that has formed
and bowed until now. So there you have it.
You can be Jewish, you can criticise the Israeli government
for its policy of killing in Gaza.
You will then be attacked by organisations which as we'll see
from this next image, boasts that they are working alongside
the police, CPS and regulatory bodies and government in order
to enforce rules and regulations against anybody they deemed to
be anti Semitic. But I'm going to say to you, I
found this really a dangerous situation where even Jewish
people themselves are now being silenced in talking out about
these horrors in the Middle East by the Israeli government and
their agents which are operating in UK alongside the police,
government agencies and the British government.
It's almost like everybody who dares speak out for peace is
going to be labelled a a terrorist inside this country,
whether you're Jewish or non Jewish.
Seems to be the playbook, yes. Indeed Diane, let's welcome you
in at this point because of course, whilst there's plenty of
money for the weapons and the bombs and the ammunition going
into Israel to help it perpetuate its attack on Gaza,
we've got an NHS that is in absolute chaos in UK.
Yes, very much. Thanks, Brian, and hello,
everyone. It's good to be here today.
I wanted to follow up on a couple of things from first of
all, from May of 2024, it was the first time that UK column
covered this issue of the new hospitals that are meant to be
put around the country. But this took off recently, came
from a viewer in Concert, County Durham.
Up here where I am in the northeast of England, concerns
about the local hospital that is going to be replaced in his
town, or that at least that's the plan apparently, to do so.
The existing hospital in concert is called Shotley Bridge
Community Hospital, which opened in 1912.
The NHS says the problem is that it leaks heat.
Now the new hospital is meant to be built near the site of this
sculpture called the Terrace Navales In Concert.
This consists of two measuring instruments at Theo Delight and
an engineer's level. It's very, very large and it's
meant to work the watershed between the upland, the moorland
landscape and the extremes of the industrial age.
The significance of this is that concept as an old steel town was
once actually once Europe's largest steelworks and this
landmark is very important. Another concern is that in
addition to the corruption and, and the waste that might be
happening with this hospital, which we're going to look at,
this is happening around England by the way, is that it's
possible that this landmark could be in danger as well as
the beautiful land that surrounds it.
So after I received this tip off, I went to do a little bit
of a little photojournalism myself.
This report comes from this photograph which is part of the
new hospital site, apparently, which has been confirmed last
month by the BBC now that the construction of the new hospital
will be taking place. It's near a big retail park area
where the old steel factory used to be.
So here's a couple of photos, both from the different areas of
the engineering site where they're basically doing testing
the ground. The council has previously said
that the ground is not satisfactory for building, but I
guess they're doing it anyway. So what's happening with the
overall story of the hospitals around the country is a
particular concern. This in particular is Project
Genesis, which took over concerts years ago, I think it
was in the 90s when the steel factory closed and the Genesis
project took over to try to do something with the city.
So this is 1945 when the steel factory was still in operation.
You can sort of see the area kind of in the middle, sort of
off to the left of the town where the houses are.
And if we go forward to the next few that Project Genesis
provides in 2024, we can see that there's more housing that's
taking over most of the steel factory.
You can see the big the big buildings there that are the
retail park. And the new hospital is set to
take place, to be built over the the green space to the sort of
the left of it. Project Genesis has taken over,
as I said, a lot of the city. But the problem is that when we
look at this from a wider perspective around England, we
start to see the problems and, and how this might be taking
place. If you go back to 2019, the
general election was part of the manifesto for Boris Johnson to
think about, you know, what we're going to do with the with
the hospitals. There he is in October of 2020
with buildback better of course, in the background because we're
going back to this time. And he was saying that this
would be built as a package worth £3.7 billion for 40
hospitals. At the time this was called the
health infrastructure plan, said to be the biggest hospital
building programme in a generation.
And the Shotley Bridge Hospital and concept was going to be part
of this at the time, just to quote Boris Johnson, to see
where we were in the timeline saying this.
The dedication and tireless efforts of our nurses, doctors
and all healthcare workers have kept the NHS open through this
pandemic. But no matter what this virus
throws at us, we are determined to build back better and deliver
the biggest hospital building programme in a generation.
And then Matt Hancock, of course, came in and supported
him to say that. So we can see that there's lots
of policy documents and so on from the UK government which can
be available in the show notes. So I won't go into too much
detail, but by the time we get into further into 2020, he says
that we're going ahead with the hospitals and there were lots of
things around health boards around the country, different
trusts talking about this. So I believe we now have a video
from AGP speaking from the Lancashire area and he was
talking about this new hospital programme.
I'm Jeff Jolliffe, I'm AGP here in Barrow, in Furness, part of
Lancashire and S Cumbria and I'm also the chair of the CCG in
Morecambe Bay. I sit on the clinical oversight
group for the New Hospitals programme.
What is it? The new hospitals programme?
It's, it's a great opportunity isn't it?
It's a big lump of money to redevelop our hospitals.
It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We can't miss this. It's going to be great for the
population. New hospitals programme might
seem to not mean much to primary care but it's actually vital
isn't it, because we care for our patients and our patients
need good hospital care as part of the whole pathway.
So there will be a huge knock on benefit to our patients and
therefore to the way primary care works a night to the future
with more care closer to the patient's home, more care and
community services. And we need to focus on doing in
hospital only what we need to do.
In addition, they provide an environment that is better for
staff, better for patients and an environment that patients
flow better, so you end up with better outcomes.
But assuming we get the money, and I'm hopeful of that, we
could then start the process of identifying which is the best
solution to spending that money. There's a big process, so it
can't happen overnight, but we'll get there and we'll have
them. So that all sounds nice and
lovely. So that was 2021.
If we go forward a bit to 2023, we start to see the reporting
coming from the government saying that this is now £20
billion. It was just, I think just a few
billion previously. So now we're talking about it,
prioritising the rebuilding of five hospitals that were using
reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete rebuilt by 2030 as part
of the new hospital programme, because they're saying that this
material was not basically fit for purpose and that it was
going to fall apart. So they identified 5 hospitals
as well as many other hospitals around the country that need to
be built. So this new building, which
again is going to include this hospital in here in the County
Durham and many others, is using what they call standardised
design that will harness digital transformation, making the use
of latest technology for the benefit of staff and patients.
And it's sustainable, contributing to net 0 carbon
across the NHS. So that's fabulous news,
incorporating learning from the pandemic and ensuring hospitals
can adapt to changing health needs.
So this is how they're selling it in 2023 under something that
they call Hospital 2 Point O, which is a standardised design
for future hospitals, which will benefit patients and staff
through digital solutions and optimise hospital layouts.
This will decrease the time needed to develop and build
hospitals, as well as reducing the cost through economies of
scale. So what we're seeing is what
we've reported before in UK column that there's a trend
towards digital management of health, less focus on physical
space, less focus on human connection and the nurses and
the doctors who support people. So going forward now to 2025, we
are now seeing with Labour and Power.
And what we're seeing is a report that came out basically
they did a review of what the Conservatives did at looking at
the new hospital programme. So we have a quote from this
policy paper that was published in January this year from West
Streeting, our health secretary, saying the NHS is quite
literally crumbling. And that's just one of the
sentences. I just wanted to highlight that
the, the report itself, basically what they did is an
evaluation of where we were with the hospital situation in, in
England to make it sort of prioritise what needed to be
rebuilt, what was the most important thing to do, using
something a multi criteria decision support analysis tool
to look at which hospitals need to be prioritised and what, what
could wait. So it's a map here again, you
can see this again in the policy documents yourself if you can't
see it well on the screen showing which hospitals had been
highlighted to be part of the scheme and which ones were not
and which ones were going to be prioritised because of this
concrete problem we see in this list, there was a list of
different waves through what, whether we're going to be
prioritising which hospitals. And so Shotley Bridge Community
Hospital in concept is in table two, wave one, as you can see in
the report to start construction between 2025 and 2030.
And as we saw with my photos at the start of the segment, they
are starting to look at the land underneath it.
I went to also take some photos of the existing Shotley Bridge
Community Hospital in concert. These are my photos.
Can't really see the signs because the the the trees and
the the bushes haven't been trimmed too well.
But that's the sign to the entrance to the hospital, the
outside of the hospital. I didn't go inside.
I didn't want to draw any attention to myself.
But that's the outside. The hospital still look like
it's in place, but they say it's leaky and the heating needs
fixed. Apparently that's the problem
and there's a sign here of the different services that they
offer. There are some people in the
community who, from what I've heard, are concerned that some
of these services will be going away.
The new hospital, even though it's meant to cost about £500
million to build, I believe is only going to have 16 beds in
it. And they're so they're concerned
that because of the size of the community that it serves, there
will be a decrease in services. And I want to also highlight
here the BBC reporting of the process of this hospital over
time where there was a lot of back and forth about what was
going to happen. So first we see here September
2023, the replacement is going to be delayed.
They they talk about issues with funding, issues with resources.
October 2023. I've got several links here too.
These are all BBC articles. Many millions of pounds over
budget. A hospital plan reviewed over
spiralling costs. This was in September 2024.
Just reading the headlines here. There was a home skiing that was
put on hold as the new hospital has been put under review where
they were talking about building homes for elderly people.
Calling it a health village. Sounds a little bit concerning
to be built next to this new hospital.
November 2024 again, new hospital project will never
happen. So we are hearing from Labour
and Lib Dems essentially at this point worrying about what's
happening. And now in January 2025, the
build is to go ahead following a review, and that's the most
recent from the BBC. We have a quote from West Stream
who actually came out to see the new site in concept.
So if we could put that up on the screen if we have it here.
He was saying we have secured the funding, producing a
realistic timetable with Spades in the ground for a new hospital
site in concert in 20/26/2027. It was great to see the site
myself and hear from Labour counsellors how important the
investment will be to regenerating concept.
Labour will deliver this new hospital building so patients
and concept get the care they deserve.
Now originally when it, when they reported on their report
regarding what they were going to do or not do, they criticised
the Conservative government for not putting enough money in
place. And then but you know, as we've
seen here has been off and on and off and on.
So now they're saying they're going to do it.
The local MP called Liz Twist, whose Labour for Blatant
Concept, said when Wes visited the site a few months ago.
She said having the health secretary here is a clear
indication that Labour is delivering for Concept and the
surrounding communities. The new site will have state of
the art facilities and much improved transport links.
I'm keen to keep working with all the relevant stakeholders to
ensure this project is built and delivered within the time frame
and to improve healthcare within our communities.
So the local magazine called Concert Magazine covered this as
well as we. So they were showing when they
came out to visit and basically saying, well, all right, this is
what's happening. And so now we we'll just wait to
see what happens. Brian, I don't know if it will
get built or not or how much it will cost, but this is happening
around the country. So check your local areas if
you're in England to see what's going on with your hospital.
Diane, thank you very much for that report.
Well, the words are there, aren't they?
It's always jam tomorrow, utopia tomorrow, everything will be OK
tomorrow. But what we constantly see is
that when tomorrow comes, there's more of the shambles.
So I have no confidence in what is happening here.
And I think the chaos that you are seeing is part of the
overall chaos to destroy the NHS as this massive privatisation
coming in. Ben, I'm going to look at you
and say, so is AI going to solve the problem?
No, it's not. It's certainly not going to
solve the problem, although they're going to make good use
of the chaos in the NHS at Trafalgar Squares.
We heard earlier that was an excellent report Diane and also
that report by Willsey was top notch.
That was that was brilliant. And last week we had chaos
outside of migrant hotels in Epping and further afield.
So there's chaos going on all over the place.
And in the background an invasion is happening.
And I don't mean an invasion of illegal immigrants, I mean
something quite different actually, as I'll get into.
And I'm going to start this in the Oval Office on January 21st
this year, day one of the second Trump administration, the
announcement of Project Stargate, half a trillion
dollars to build AI data centres across the whole of the US,
essentially mass surveillance and genetic engineering
infrastructure, Really nightmare stuff.
Delivered through a public private partnership commissioned
by the state, represented here by Donald Trump, and delivered
by the private sector, by corporate corporations,
represented by Massasan from SoftBank.
On the left there, Larry Ellison from Oracle, basically Tony
Blair's top funder over the past 20-30 years.
And importantly, Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI, one of the
top minds in artificial intelligence, also
affectionately named by the Washington Post.
King of the cannibals. That's quite a name, isn't it?
Yeah. King of the king of the
cannibals, Sam Altman. Maybe I'll come back to that a
little bit later on. So this is rumbling on, as you'd
expect. In fact, it's not rumbling.
They've gone right out of the gate.
Trump's AI vision takes shape as Oracle and Open AI expand a
massive Stargate infrastructure project in Texas.
So they have broken ground. They are making headway.
This is the Abilene, TX site just a few weeks ago.
Provide a link to this article. You can go and have a look at
it. So it's all all guns blazing in
the US, but also importantly, they're moving internationally
as well. And they announced at the end of
May the UAE Stargate project. So this is in Abu Dhabi and the
World Economic Forum, interestingly, very excited
about this. Remember those people that Trump
is the enemy of? Well, they really like this
policy. It's interesting that, isn't it?
So the UAE Stargate project hints at how AI can be
integrated international infrastructure crucially, right?
And let's have a little listen to Chris Lehane, Chief Global
Affairs Officer from Open AI talking about this project to
Fox News a few days ago. Open AI is also launching
Stargate UAE. It's the first international
deployment of Open AIS infrastructure platform.
Joining me now, Chris Lehane, the Chief Global Affairs Officer
at Open AI. Chris, let me see if I've got
this right. You are.
Open AI is working directly with other countries, in this case
UAE, to help their AI capacity, working in conjunction with the
United States. Have I got that right?
You, you got that right. We think of this as open AI for
countries, but in this particular case, it really
follows on President Trump's visit to the UAE, really the
Mideast last week. And I think this partnership
really is going to accomplish 2 really important things.
First of all, it's going to help advance making sure that US LED
Democratic AI is being built around the world here in the UAE
case. And then secondly, this
partnership also involves bringing money back into the US,
investment back into the US, into US infrastructure.
So really a win win, a win for making sure we're building the
AI system on Democratic. US LED Rails.
And a win, bringing money back into the US to build
infrastructure for AI in the US, jobs, economic development that
comes with that. You may get that, Brian.
Well, I was wincing a bit. The idea of democratic AI coming
from the US, that it can sell in order to bring more money back
into the US Yeah, right. We're looking at global
governance here. This is clear that we're now
seeing the absolute end of the nation state.
But it's so it's sovereign AI though, importantly, but you
have to buy it from open AI, right?
So it's sovereign because they're going to build these
data centres in your country, but you can only buy it from a
handful of very carefully selected technology companies.
All them, all of them aligned to US imperialism.
But it's not just US imperialism, it's something
that's got hold of the United States.
Actually, I think that's probably a bit more like it, but
I love that idea. You picked up on it.
US LED democratic AI. It's a little bit like when the
US would go and invade countries to deliver freedom to people,
isn't it? It's a similar kind of thing,
but they're just doing it by stealth now rather than by
bombing people, although they are doing some bombing too.
Let's, let's give them credit for that.
Yeah, exactly. Yes.
And the use of the term US LED rails, right.
So if you're on rails, if you're on a train, you can only go in
One Direction or back or forth, right?
There's no way you can get off those rails.
That's quite telling. Anyway, let's have a little
listen to the second half of that clip.
Is there a worldwide contest between the United States and
China? But not for dominance of AI, but
for control of AI. Have I got that right?
Yes, it's a, it's a great, it's a great way to put it.
Like right now in the world, there's two countries that can
build AI at scale that says, you're saying the US and the
communist LED People's Republic of China.
Those are the only two countries that can build this at scale.
And in this moment, the US does have the innovation lead.
We want to leverage that lead so that we're bringing as many
countries as possible into the US rails, the US system.
And I think what, you know, the president did last week, I think
the way the administration is thinking about it, I think the
way we at Open AI are thinking about this in the context of
Stargate International, in this case, Stargate UAE, is really
how can we take advantage, How can we leverage the innovation
lead we currently have to bring these countries in onto our
rails, into our system. And I think that really then
sets up arguably the next 100 years as we go forward.
So as a contest, it's a grand battle between capitalist
America and communist China and and we've got to compete with
each other to get as much of the world as possible onto our
platform. Onto US rails.
So this is the synthesis, isn't it?
This is the final synthesis towards One World control,
because whoever controls this AI system is ultimately going to
control each nation state. Exactly.
That's exactly. That's exactly correct.
And we've just been heard about Abu Dhabi since the UAE Middle
East, but it's also just in the past few days hit continental
Europe. Let's hear from Jensen Huang
from NVIDIA. Congratulations to everyone
gathered in Oslo today and to Prime Minister Storr and the
Government of Norway on this important milestone.
The launch of Stargate Norway marks a new chapter for AI
infrastructure in Europe. We're entering a new industrial
era. Just as electricity and the
Internet became foundational to modern life, AI will become
essential infrastructure. Every country will build it.
Every industry will depend on it.
AI is no longer hand coded. It is trained.
It is refined with massive compute.
It is deployed into factories, research labs and digital
services. Stargate Norway will be powered
by GB 300 Super chips and connect it with NB Link.
It is designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of GPUs
and support the most advanced models in training, reasoning
and real time inference. Congratulations to N Scale and
to Josh Payne and the teams who helped make this possible.
And congratulations to Sam and Open AI on being part of this
important first for the region. We're proud to support this
effort to send talk. To some tack.
What came into my mind, mind then was I think this this
story, this quote is right that the man who produced the first
Gatling gun, machine gun said, well, this is going to be the
weapon that stops all the war. So this gushing enthusiasm for
what they've created without any concept what this is actually
going to do to humanity and mankind.
I don't know, I think he probably has some concepts of
it. Yeah, I think I think these
people at the top know exactly what it's going to do.
But essentially what they're saying is this is this is going
to first of all, I've got a real that that one hits me deep
because I'm caught in Norwegian. That's where my my mother's
mother was from Norway. And he says to some tack at the
end there and that means 1000 thanks in Norwegian and I just
that really got to me. But he's talking about a total
transformation of everything, right?
So AI apparently is going to become foundational
infrastructure, like electricity, like the Internet.
Every country will build it, as we talked about, but all and all
industries will depend on it. Yeah, everything is going to run
on these platforms built by these companies.
And he mentioned got a little bit of a bit of video here we
can see. So this is in the north of
Norway, Narvik, this is Open AIS, the European Gigafactory,
but that was introduced by Jensen from NVIDIA who makes the
micro, the microchips, Open Eye makes the software, but they're
also working with a bunch of other companies to build the
physical infrastructure. Importantly, the the of course,
for the PR perspective, this is all on sustainable energy is
going to create valuable new jobs.
It's going to transform the Norwegian economy, political
system, absolutely. Everything is touches on every
part of society. And it's called Stargate.
So again, this is the it's the same name.
Yeah. So, so I, I it's almost like
Operation Stargate, right? You think about the way that,
you know, Operation does installment Operation Stargate.
It feels like that kind of that kind of programme to me.
And he also mentioned a guy by name, a young man called Josh
Payne. And Josh Payne is the founder
and chief executive officer of an organisation called N Scale.
I got this from his from his LinkedIn profile.
He was also, from 2020 to 24, the founder and executive
chairman of something called Archon Energy.
And it's a really fascinating name because in the Babylonian
mystery religions, Archons were the rulers of the World of
Darkness. But I think that's probably just
a coincidence. Absolutely.
And then the final role that he had was the Co founder and Chief
executive officer, sorry, Chief Operating Officer of Battery
Future Acquisition Corp in Sydney, which focuses on raw
materials for infrastructure. So this guy basically in the
past four years has founded and run.
Businesses across the entire what they call the value chain
for artificial intelligence from the raw materials used to build
the technology to it being deployed across industries in
Northern Europe in this instance.
But before this, he's got absolutely no personal history.
He's got no track record. So if you look start, I don't
know was he, look late 30s, early 40s, young guy.
If you've got his LinkedIn profile, it stops there at 2021.
We don't know who this guy is, who is Josh Payne?
And this is really crucial, right, because he's building
foundational infrastructure in the north of Europe, but also
from AUK perspective, he's building in in England too.
Because back in January they announced N Scale announced the
investment of $2.5 billion in the UK data centre industry over
the next three years. And they are actually, they've
already broken ground on another one of these data centres in
Loughton, in East London, in Epping Forest.
And Peter Kyle, the Science, Innovation and Technology
secretary, said that their support N scale support will
serve as a catalyst for innovation.
Sending a clear message to Britain is the perfect home from
home to drive growth home from home.
Home from home suggests people that don't live here, right?
This is international investors coming in and using this
infrastructure. This guy who's only just turned
up four years ago has been given hundreds of 1,000,000 billions
of dollars to build this infrastructure.
He's doing joint press releases with the Secretary of State.
The BBC is running puff pieces saying that this is going to
deliver jobs into East London. And we've got absolutely no idea
where this has come from. But we do know that there's an
organisation called Open AI at the centre of it all, with a
logo that when you flip it around and turn it back on,
itself looks a little bit like that.
That's a coincidence I'm sure, Ben, of course.
Thank you very much. Well, this is important stuff
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We have one that we'll be talking about a little bit later
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which is impossible to cover in the time that we have in the
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OK. Thank you very much for that.
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us into the realms of of farmer and farming, which sounds to me
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Say that again. Yes, we're going to have a look
at Big Farm, so I'm calling it. This is where farming and the
pharmaceutical industries meet. Let's hear from Henry Dimbleby.
We're going to get that. Is that 1 going to come up?
I've been thinking a lot about appetite suppressing drugs
recently, and I don't think food companies are even close to
being prepared for the kind of change that they might bring to
bear in our food system, both in terms of what people eat, but
also in terms of what we grow. What do we know so far?
We know, for example, that in this country 1.5 million people
are taking them. It took SSR is and statins 1013
years to get to that level of consumption and people are
paying 2000 lbs + a year for these drugs.
We also know that the price is going to come down.
We know that they're going to be available in pill form.
We know that people. Eat.
Differently, not just less volume when they're on them, but
different quality of food, more fruit and veg, less junk food,
less doughnuts, more fibre. And so if you play that forward,
what happens? Well, we have a situation where
convenience shops, supermarkets, restaurants are selling a very
different mix of food and less food, but also our supply which
has grown up basically being built on refined calorie base of
refined carbohydrates, refined vegetable oils and refined
sugar. It could change that as well.
So it might not just change what's on your High Street, it
could also change what you see when on our land, how our land
is used. It's going to be a pretty wild
ride. And if you aren't thinking about
this in terms of your business 5.
Years from now, it's probably time you should start because
it's going to be a pretty crazy. Transition I think.
That's encouraging crazy transition.
That's what we need to help run our lives.
Chaos and crazy transitions. Exactly that, right?
And, and the regular viewers will remember Doctor Liz Evans
did a segment about two months ago, I think it was talking
about Ozempic and these weight loss drugs and the fact that
they're causing cancers and there's been no proper oversight
in terms of the regulator. And actually they're destroying
people's bones. And we've got no idea of the
long term health effects of these things.
And yet we've got Henry Dimbleby here saying that we need to
transform the food system in response to those drugs because
essentially they are here to stay now, right?
That doesn't strike me as a reasonable strategy.
Someone in position of influence in the food system, and he does
have significant influence in the food system.
He launched a fund last year, we reported it at the time, to
transform the global food system, to disrupt it and
commercialise it for his own benefit.
Ultimately starting here in the UK.
It's called Bramble Partners and we go there on a mission to fix
what they call the broken food system with investments in
intelligence to create impact at scale.
And that's all about tackling climate change, obviously
restoring the environment, improving health and well being,
increasing food security, all of the the kind of buzzwords, quite
a lot of occult symbolism on the website, to be honest with you.
There's the Masonic B on there and also the Hermetic seed of
life. So make of that what you will.
And that actually carries through to Mr Dimbleby's
LinkedIn profile. You can see the bumblebee on the
left hand side there where we discover that a few years ago he
was actually the author of the National Food Strategy between
2019 and 22. And I'll come back to that in a
moment. While at the same time working
as the lead non executive director at Defra and also
working as an external advisor to Bain.
So there was an overlap between working at Defra and working
with Bain. And Bain is one of the big three
strategy firms alongside McKinsey and BCG, who are the
the basically dictate policy for global corporate and
increasingly for international governments as well.
And they are strategic partners of the World Economic Forum.
So you want to understand how WEF policy gets inserted into
the UK government. It's through people like this
doing dual roles between public and private sector, all right,
and being fascinatingly 1 of notoriously one of the most
ruthless, commercially ruthless consulting firms in the world.
And in 2022 when Mr Denbleby was working with them, they actually
got banned from working in South Africa for 10 years for for
orchestrating what is called a state capture.
It's essentially they repurposed state institutions to the
advantage of the firm, the government and its private
sector allies, right? So I can't imagine that anything
like that was happening in the UK at the same time.
Although it did actually lead to a three year ban on delivering
UK government work, which was overturned after just six
months. Apparently they really want to
work with Bain. Obviously Mr Dimbleby has now
gone off to Bain, so, you know, I'm sure that there's nothing
going on here. Nothing.
Nothing, nothing, nothing untoward.
Yeah, absolutely. They also interestingly Bane
provided, and again, I reported on quite a lot of this last
year, but it's useful to just restate this in the context of
how this is developing. Bane also provided supplementary
evidence to the development of the National Food Strategy.
So actually these are the people who are inputting into what's
going to happen next in in our food supply.
Also Dave Halpin from Behavioural Insights team is in
the mix as well. And in there they talk about the
food system as a series of interconnected industrial
processes. It's a value chain essentially,
from left to right, all the different component parts, lots
and lots of big corporates in there.
You can see a Tesco logo, Mars, Tate and Lyle, all those kinds
of people. They're particularly interested
in this bit though, produce. This is the farms basically, and
the big weakness apparently in UK food system is that there are
too many independently owned farms and we need to consolidate
those into corporate entities that can trade more effectively
with the other big corporate component parts of the supply
chain. And interestingly, what are
Bramble Partners, Henry Dimbleby's firm up to?
They just launched a few months ago the 1,000,000 hectares
coalition and new national movement to regenerate a million
hectares of UK farmland in the next decade.
And it's about 5:00 percent of our total farmland.
And that will very neatly align with the interest of the
Pharmaceutical industry and international capital, as Mr
Dimbleby was talking about in the video we shared at the
start. Yeah, incredible.
Regenerate million hectares and at the same time we destroy
farming land to put in the renewal renewable energy system.
So complete madness and chaos, but deliberate.
But I noticed that the people taking control of the food
supply were already embedded in it are regarded as players.
That's how they were labelled in your diagram.
They're merely players in the food system.
Indeed. OK, well, a quick change of
subject here and really I'm going to pray see this.
We'll discuss it more in extra time, but last Monday's news I
did report that A the gentleman had been had his home invaded,
rested by South Yorkshire Police, his computers taken and
this was all because he'd done 30 years worth of research into
the cover up of child abuse. Really incredible research.
I'm going to say this individual is well known to the UK column.
His work is exceptionally good and over the years he's been
able to show that the cover up of child abuse has run through
the very systems and organisations that say they're
there to protect children such as the police, but also into the
government systems itself such as the Crown Prosecution Service
and the higher levels of government.
Now just to give you a flavour, South Yorkshire Police have now
said, well because we know that some police officers were
involved in what was going on, we were going to originally let
ICPO investigate and that's now been passed on to the National
Crime Agency. But just to set the scene with
one of the slides, we'll make sure that all this information
is available in the show notes. This is Hayley Barnett, the
assistant chief consul of South Yorkshire Police.
She said, well, this is a very sensitive investigation and the
victim survives, have steadfastly remained our number
one priority of our number one priority over many months.
I've had conversations at the highest level with IOPC and the
National Crime Agency to ensure these courageous women truly
remain at the heart of our work and that the mode of
investigation remains appropriate.
So it seems an extraordinary coincidence at the very time
that South Yorkshire Police is very nervous about it's
implication and indeed that of other forces in not only child
abuse but the cover up of that abuse.
That suddenly somebody who's investigated this subject for 30
years using primary public sources is raided by the police.
All of his computers and information is taken and he goes
through what he felt was a pretty brutal interrogation in
the police station where he was held in a pretty cold cell,
denied food and medication at one point, all because he has
pulled together public information which demonstrates
this cover up. So I'm going to say that UK
column will actually cover more of this report in due course.
But if we just say put this slide slide up here, we
basically got the comment from Hayley Barnett.
She says it's For these reasons and a mutual agreement with our
partners that I've asked the National Crime Agency to take
ownership of this operational work.
But a lot of questions need to be asked as to whether the
arrest of this man and his 30 years of data about the cover up
of child abuse is to enable South Yorkshire Police and its
partners to whitewash government failures to protect children or
indeed to actually protect people in the system who were
abusing children themselves. So this is quite a story.
We're going to stick with it and we will give you more detail.
We'll discuss more in extra today.
Diane, let's come back to you and I beg your pardon?
Let's just finish this, this one and I should be able to bring up
your section and you're going to talk to us about the subject of
wildfires and really some of this amazing fear factor around
super hot summers. Clearly we haven't got that in
Plymouth today. But be fearful of the
temperature. Stay locked in your house.
There's going to be fires, there's going to be plagues.
This is terrible fear mongering. Oh, absolutely, Brian.
I'm seeing it all over these so called local papers on social
media talking about, you know, lock your windows, don't go
outside because it's burning global boiling out there.
But I want to bring you back to yesterday.
There was a fire that broke out on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.
If we have, I think we have some video of this to show what it
looked like yesterday before they started to fight the fires.
Basically what happened was in Edinburgh, of course, in the
August, I was there last weekend.
This is the, you know, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the
International Festival, lots of things going on in Edinburgh
over the summer in August. And it unfortunately Arthur
Seat, which is the big extinct volcano that sort of overlooks
the city, broke out in the terrible fire yesterday.
And this is also happening when Oasis concerts are happening all
at the same time with the festivals going on.
So 140,000 fans over the first two nights sold out at
Murrayfield Stadium by Oasis as well as a third one that will be
coming on Tuesday. According to Scottish and Fire
Rescue Service. This has been a terrible summer
for wildfires across Scotland, including at the Highlands.
And it says the the Highland wildfires are considered so far
the biggest Scotland has ever seen.
And so we're seeing in in Edinburgh and in Scotland where,
you know, you would not assume that there was a would have been
a problem with water in Scotland because it's kind of everywhere.
That's just a joke. But anyway, so tied to this, we
look, we're seeing wildfires in the South of France.
And I last got a very quick act, quick article sent to me by Neil
Harrison late last week, on Friday actually.
And we decided to prioritise this editorially because he's a
frequent contributor to UK column, I'm happy to say.
And because the wildfires were going as he basically wrote this
article and sent it to us for publication.
And what he said at the start of this article, you can read the
full thing. But just to understand the scope
of this fire in the South of France, he was writing this on
day four, close to where he has a house, he said at the moment,
17. 2000 hectares of land in the department have been burnt, many
villages completely gutted, transport and electricity cut
over a vast area and a flame front that yesterday took up a
length of 80 kilometres. So he goes on to talk about how
desperately the firefighters have been working very hard to
stop the fire, but it has not been happening.
He talked to some locals there and one, one person said, quote,
all of our children here are taught that the best way of
controlling fires is our vineyards.
Their natural fire breaks. Vineyards are watered, the vines
are covered in green, wet leaves, weeds and dried grasses
are cut. But unfortunately, it has been
government and EU policy to RIP up the vineyards and return the
land to the wild. And as he pointed on the
article, the scientific justification for destroying
vineyards to satisfy Agenda 2030 requirements is based on soil
degradation, loss of organic matter, erosion, low carbon
sequestration compared to natural vegetation or
agroforestry. So I think there are some
important questions for us to ask here.
We're seeing breakouts of wildfires because it's
apparently global boiling everywhere.
What is causing these fires? Are there reasons for this that
are related to Agenda 2030 and Sustainable development goals?
Or is it just because it's so terribly hot, the fires are
breaking out everywhere? Are there arsons involved?
There have been a lot of questions around this, but I
think it's just important for us to maybe think about this and
ask the question about why it is that so much is happening around
wildfires for the summer. Thank.
You very much for that and apologies about the footage
there from Scotland, but I'm sure many people have seen the
film clips on wider media. With regard to the wildfires,
I'll just add that of course one of the things we were told by
firefighters in America when some of the really big woodland
fires were burning there, forest fires were burning, was that in
many areas the firefighting teams had not been allowed to
create fire breaks or indeed deal with debris, very dry
debris on the forest floors. And this was helping to create
very, very intense fires with rolling fireballs going over the
tree canopy and jump jumping considerable distances.
So firefighters in America, some of them at least blaming the
authorities on on saying that they were preventing the
firefighters from actually doing pre emptive work to stop the
fires. Let's just end on a positive
note, Diane. And you've got a, a very lush
green picture of UK here. I don't think it's very likely
fires are going to break off, break out in this environment.
What is your message for us? Well, I just wanted to say to
get out and enjoy it while we can.
Don't forget it is summer, it is summer holidays still for
children and and we all should be just getting out and enjoying
the beautiful weather. This was me a couple of days ago
going to Court Bridge, which is a beautiful village up here in
the northeast of England in Northumbria.
And as we can see that what you can't see in the photo, but the,
the village car park was completely packed.
And we can see people there walking to and from the, the car
park across the bridge, across the river, enjoying the cafes
and the, the shops and everything.
And I spent a few hours there and just enjoying it.
So feel free to do the same because the the warm weather is
what we're supposed to be experiencing here in August,
even if it is the UK. Yeah, I think it's called the
summer, Diane. And yes, wonderful weekend, lots
of people having a very good time outside in the sunshine.
And we say to our audience, do the same.
Get out there, fresh air, sunshine, relax and enjoy some
normal life with your friends and family and good normal
people. We must end it there.
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Huge thank you to everybody. Thank you, Ben and Diane.
We'll be back for UK Column Extra in a few minutes and we'll
look deeper into that story about South Yorkshire Police and
the cover up of child abuse. Thanks very much for joining us.
Bye bye.