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