UK Column News - 30th May 2025

Good afternoon. It's Friday the 30th of May 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host, Mike Robinson, joining me in the studio today, Patrick Henningson. Welcome to the program, Patrick. Great to be with you, Mike. And by video link, we have Mark Anderson. Now later in the program, Patrick's going to be covering Gaza and the Trump crackdown on visas against anyone criticizing Israel.

Marked for his part is going to be reporting on a documentary about vaccine injured called silenced and RF KS announcement on COVID jabs. We're going to begin today with the kill web. Now the UK Secretary of State for war here, John Healey, has announced the kill web and well, what do we think about that? It's part of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, which is about to be launched in a couple of weeks time, having already been announced by Starmer in

July last year. And he said that that was to consider the threats Britain faces, the capabilities needed to meet them, the state of the UK armed forces and the resources available. So, but this defence review is different. These are normally run by the government, but this time it's being led by Lord Robertson. And while he was once a Labour defence secretary, he was also

once secretary general for NATO. And so he's considered, although Labour, an outsider nonetheless and perhaps perfectly aligned with the NATO agenda. Patrick. But look, the Killweb is going to cost the British taxpayer £1 billion. They don't call it a Killweb, of course the British government doesn't. They use the softer sounding digital targeting web. That's the term they use and they say it will enable enable quick fire targeting of enemy assets, including through

offensive cyber operations. Now Killweb is going to be based at a new cyber and electromagnetic command which they are establishing at the same time and this is going to lead defensive cyber operations and coordinate coordinate offensive offensive cyber operations with the National Cyber Force. So we are going to war in that

sense without doubt. Healy says that ways of warfare are rapidly changing with the UK facing with the UK facing daily cyber attacks on this new frontline and according to the Ministry of Defence, more than 90,000 sub threshold attacks were recorded in the last two years. No evidence for this statistic was provided. Naturally, Healy described Britain as a country under attack, increasing attacks. And this is the nerve centre of the UK's military that helps us defend against these attacks.

The keyboard has become a weapon of war. Let's just put that on screen. So ways of warfare are rapidly changing, with the UK facing daily cyber attacks, as they say. But the keyboard has become the weapon of war. That's great news, isn't it? The command, the Cyber Command will be. This new group will be headed by General Sir James Hockenhall, who succeeded General Sir Patrick Sanders as the commander of UK Strategic Command in May 2022.

And he also serves as aide de Camp General to the monarch. So currently King Charles, but previously Queen Elizabeth as well. He's been doing that since 2022. So the question is, what is Killweb? Well, the idea originated with DARPA and Admiral William Owens wrote a paper about a system of systems. He was talking about integrating command and control, the intelligence from centres, censors, sorry and weapons together. And he was talking about this in

the mid 1990s. But by mid, sorry, by 1998, Vice Admiral Arthur Chbrowski took the next step and wrote a paper that explained how to link 6 systems together and he invented the term Network centric warfare. Then in March, we'll come forward to March 2023 here with this report. This is the US Naval Institute publishing an article with the headline Enter the Kill Kill Web, a concept for drone warfare.

And they said the potential applications of loitering munitions, artificial intelligence, machine learning and semi autonomy in a battlefield setting are extensive. Now, if you don't know what loitering munitions are, another term for that is kamikaze drones. Umm, so this article goes to on to explain that, uh, kamikaze. Kamikaze drones are launched with an explosive payload. They circle the battlefield, they identify a target, and then they fly into that target and

detonate on impact. And in the future, command and control of these types of weapons, well, which is typically managed by a soldier on the ground, is going to expand to medium or high altitude, long endurance drones as well. So what we're seeing here is a destination and that destination is autonomous AI controlled weapon systems. As Laura Nolan is pointing out in this article that she on her blog on Medium, this Patrick,

this is extremely dangerous. Once we start seeing either remotely controlled or autonomous drone swarms, anybody's a target and these are very hard to deal with. Very hard to defend an AI driven autonomous swarm of drones. Mike can be deployed to let's say decapitate a government, surround government buildings, kill presidents and prime ministers. We already have our governments involved in a lot of these activities anyway by other

means. So this just gives them another tool for disruption, hit and run attacks, assassinations, or what they call decapitation strikes. Now what? What's the response going to be from another power? This seems to me, if I'm not mistaken, like this is all predicated towards state actors, right? Yes. So this is targeting Russia basically. So is this the policy? Because below the military rhetoric, there is political beliefs and political policies. So is the policy permanent war?

We must destroy Russia. We must have regime change in Russia. We must break up Russia into 10 different countries. Is that is, are we married to that policy? Because I don't know anybody that actually voted on that. And I don't know anybody that I've met that wants that. They don't want to be in a constant state of war, but who wants to be in a constant state of war? Well, the the deep state wants to be in a constant state of. And the companies involved.

Involved in producing these products. In producing these products. The AI companies want to be certainly. So imagine what we could do together between Britain in Europe, Russia, China for humanity. What if there's no limit to the potential? But imagine what would happen if these types of plants are allowed to continue going forward. They're going to end in tears because rather than be subject to this type of loitering and its decapitation strikes, what's a country like Russia bound to

do? Do. Maybe they should spend as much money on defending against Arushnik missiles because that's where they're pushing things to. An all out confrontation between nuclear powers. This is no joke. No, indeed, and and there is no defense for Arashnik missiles at this point, and they can be armed with nuclear, tactical, nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons. So it it'd be one thing, Mike, and I don't want to belabor this point.

It'd be one thing to have this conversation, look at this development while there's diplomacy going on, on parallel tracks, just to put us, the public at ease. But there's no diplomacy. There's only talk of more war. Right. Extremely dangerous. Well, look, let's move on to Gaza and Patrick.

The atrocities there just seem to get worse as the starvation begins to really bite. Yeah, we're going to show you a video clip. I mean, there's just so much shocking material. We are only, you know, showing you a very small sample of this. But go ahead and watch the scene right now in Gaza. I. So what for people who don't know what happened there?

So Israel basically struck people who were put into place, Palestinians it looks like, probably from the World Food programmers, Unruh or something, who are guarding the aid so they could be distributed. They killed them basically. Now you have mercenaries firing on the crowds. The idea of firing on hungry crowds, that's what's going on. They're shooting. People are dying. Let's bring this up on a screen here. This is the story. US, Israeli Gaza humanitarian

scam. I can't think of a better word to call this because that's exactly what it is. And we're going to lay out to you how exactly this scam has unfolded. And this is the company here or the foundation, the charity, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. We're going to dig a dig into that organization and take a look at it. But so funny enough, the CEO of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation resigned just a few days ago, the head of this controversial organization here.

Basically, this is a quote from Jake Wood, the former CEO. The Foundation could not adhere to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality and partiality and independence, which I will not abandoned What? What? We got a bit of integrity here, do we? Well, if this is a former Special Forces US for Special Force, I believe it was a sniper and Special Forces. So, you know, he he, he seems like he wants to do the right thing, even it comes from the military side.

I think, you know, when some people like this are jumping ship, Mike, it's not a good sign. And so we'll go on and take a look. Look at this organization here. This is the organization. And you know, it all looks good on the surface, doesn't it? But let's take a look at who's involved. Look at this on the board, leadership and governance. Nate Mook, former CEO of the World Central Kitchen. Now that's a familiar name, isn't it? You remember that pier that the US military built?

The one that floated away in the storm you made. That one, the one that cost half a billion dollars, Yeah, he was the CEO of World Central Kitchen that was using that to deliver these ready made meals that people in Palestine don't actually need ready made meals. They actually have aid and they have kitchen set up with Unruh. We'll show that in a moment there. And there's a few other characters in there that are interesting. We'll take a look at who exactly they are.

And let's take a look at the organization here. And so here is Nate Mook. So this guy is an operative that just bounces from 1 bad show to another. So he's in charge of this. Chairman of the board Jake Wood looks like has some integrity. He has resigned. Probably the right thing to do John Burke, former CEO, former CEO, he's gone. So who's taking over? There's the interim CEO, Mike. It is John Acree, former senior manager at USAIDA, notorious CIA front.

So again, adding to the Spooks there. And then you've got David Papazian. There is the founder. Now this is controversial in Switzerland. The Swiss authorities are now basically oversight over Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is founded and listed in Switzerland there. They've now come into legal trouble there. This whole thing is falling apart. Let's take a look at that as well. Now, this is the security company attached to this Safe Reach Solutions. There's Philip Riley.

What's his background? Well, let's take a look. Oh, career CIA. OK, so more Spooks. Is this looking suspicious to you? It certainly is to me, Mike. And so we'll go on here. We've got, we've got a, a video we're going to show you. Now this is pretty shocking. So people are basically trying to get around to the, the, the, the, the barricades where they

have the food stored. And these mercenaries and Israeli soldiers inside are doing incredible things like chucking grenades into the crowd. Watch this. Hey, how you are you too mad? Hey, how you Are? You too mad? So were those stun grenades because it because you know, it, obviously people weren't being killed directly by the by the grenades, but the natural reaction for people is going to Stampede, right? Yeah, yeah. And so those are stun grenades. Now.

Those are the type of things you remember reported on the yellow vests in France that were taking off hands and people losing eyes. Those are grenades. So they're just throwing them into the crowd. These are people that have been intentionally starved by the Israelis, by the Americans. They're begging for food. Some people haven't eaten in days or had a substantial meal in months. And these these people are basically throwing grenades at the at the hungry people.

Insane. But this is the whole scam of the Gaza humanitarian relief operation here. Now, this is a great report. And I'm going to point people to this here. Biometrics for food, a dangerous shift from humanitarian relief to coercive surveillance. Now, this is the safe and secure solutions that we showed you run by the spook, Mr. O'Reilly. And this is the the report is a damning report by Skyline International Human Rights.

The use of biometric surveillance as a condition for receiving food and humanitarian aid is a blatant violation of the Palestinians right to privacy, fundamental human rights guaranteed under international law. Why are the Israelis doing this? Why are the Americans doing this? They say it's to prevent Hamas from getting food. So again, using the Hamas card to impose what is clearly quite a, an incredible system of data

gathering and so forth here. And they go on just finally, Other than alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, this plan institutionalizes surveillance and control over aid access, using rations as a means of enforcing compliance, hurting people. We'll show you where they're hurting them to because it's a very interesting story indeed. But this is the whole point, Mike. This is what this whole thing is about. We'll bring this up on screen.

This is UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency now, this has been providing aid in Gaza since the mid 1950s to refugees, people displaced from the Nakba, people in occupied territories. They have 400 mini kitchens. They have a network of suppliers. They, the aid was flowing before October 7th, 400 trucks a day, Mike. So they had enough to look after people, medical supplies, they even provide counseling, education, education. They're providing for the kids.

All of that stuff was taken care of. Israel destroyed it by accusing Unruh of harboring Hamas. You remember that story? So the United States got on board with that fraud, Joe Biden. And they've, they've now destroyed Unruh. They've killed a lot of their staff. Israel has targeted Unruh facilities, UN refugee facilities in their bombing. And this is, here's an Unruh facility right now look at, look at it just completely turned to rubble. That's what this is all about.

Israel and the US are trying to replace Unruh with their own aid delivery, which is designed to do something very specific. Now take a look at this scene from a World Food Program central warehouse in central Gaza. Watch this riot that ensued here. Two people were killed, 60 plus people injured and I believe there was firing on the crowd. I'll go ahead and watch this. Yeah. George. George. Yeah, George, George.

So U.S. government directly responsible for this, the UK government, Germany, France, the United, the European Union, and of course Israel has been dragging their feet to create this very situation. What is the end game though, when we continue to ask ourselves that question? Let's take a look at this, bring this up on screen. Here's the end game. Take a look at this map. You see the red dots there? There's one in the middle and three at the bottom. Autumn.

OK. These are the so-called distribution facilities through this Gaza humanitarian front organization. That's an intelligence front. And by the way, the Israeli parliamentarians, Avigdor Lieberman himself said, he said he was upset Mossad was funding this operation. He let the cat out of the bag. So this is the CIA and Mossad now. What are they trying to do? They're literally trying to bait people. Take a closer look at this. Take a closer look at this. This is what it's about.

Kill zones, concentration camps, and ethnic cleansing. That's exactly what this plan is. Take a closer look though, okay, pay attention. This is the point pushing people S from the north down to the bottom section. And what happens to them at that point? They get bombed. And what pushed into the Sinai desert? Whoever is still alive? This is the Israeli objective. This has been articulated by Israeli ministers over the last couple of months. This is not a secret.

So like we, we're done guessing about what the situation is. You, you're watching the operation live. We're showing you how it's done. Just bring that back up on screen so people can see. OK? That's it. That's what's happening, folks. There's no doubt about it. You've seen the pictures, you've seen it. The whole 90% of the housing has been obliterated. The hospitals are gone.

They're trying to make it unlivable to do the final solution, Israel's final solution, Netanyahu's final solution, Donald Trump's final solution, because Trump is absolutely on board with this. Now, who's the chief envoy for for Donald Trump? It's Steve Witkoff, right? So we'll take that graphic away for a moment. But Steve, so Steve Witkoff is the chief envoy. Who does Steve Witkoff work for? Steve Witkoff does not work for the American people. He does not work for the US

government. He doesn't have an official position with the US government. He was not confirmed by Congress or Senate. He works for the Israelis. Steve Witkoff works for the Israelis. Look at the results. Look at what's happened since Trump has come in and put this person, Steve Witkoff, A billionaire from New York, very close to the Israeli lobby.

He is working for the Israelis to help them achieve their objectives, to help them towards the final solution, which we showed you in the map just previously. And here it for any other further questions. If you want to see how really dark this is getting, take a look at this is from the Palestine Chronicle, ISIS, CIA and the GHF. Israel's new frontier of control through hunger. And what are the Israelis doing? If you thought it couldn't get any worse, the plot again

thickens. Israel's now backing ISIS linked criminals, drug Lords pilfering aid and food, in some cases dumping food. Out in the Negev desert and murderers who have they've been working alongside in southern Gaza in the so-called buffer zone after their invasion of the area in 2024. This is documented. That's where we're at and this is intentional. This policy is to disrupt and to create all kinds of chaos and ultimately shortage and make it so Israel and the US have to

control all the aid. That's exactly what this is. For anybody who hasn't worked this out yet, you know I don't know what to tell you. OK, thank you, Patrick. Let's move on then. And let's say if you would like

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Tell us what has been described by the film makers as the hidden story of the human cost of censorship. Good day, gentlemen and UK column viewers. Yeah, good news here, although there's somber elements to it, of course, but very good news. And that there's a new documentary out called Follow the Silenced. And here is the basic cover of it. You know, the the movie poster, you might say it already won a Santa Monica International Film Festival Festival award.

The woman there with her mouth covered with the word silenced is mentioned in an article I recently did for UK column. I'll make that note. And so All in all, this is a very positive development. There's a little bit of information that goes with it, of course, from a press release.

I'm citing that slightly here. After winning the Best of Festival and Best Director at the 2202025 Santa Monica International Film Festival, this powerful film is ready to be ready to debut on the global stage. It reveals the heartbreaking journey that many of many of us have heard of. Of course, in this case, focusing on Americans who trusted the science only to have their lives forever changed when they were chosen to be in the

first COVID vaccine trial. So it focuses on those that were Guinea pigs in the trials, but they refused to be silenced. And the documentary follows those who were smeared, slandered and the, as they say, pushed into the shadows when Big Pharma and the government wouldn't, wouldn't cover for them or wouldn't help them. They found strength in each other. And I watched about 9/10 of it. It's a very emotional and yet information packed presentation,

guys. And here it shows that it's based on 3600 peer reviewed publications on COVID vaccine adverse events. So there's a lot of data behind it, they're saying. So it's not just an emotional outpouring. They they've gathered a lot of information for it. Evidently they've done a lot of research and so on and so forth. And this is the article I did not long ago that appears on UK column.

And of course, it focuses on not just vaccines, but going beyond vax dangers and looking at other big pharma products that are generating endless lawsuits alleging alleged to have caused cancer and a number of things. And in that article, I mentioned Brianne Dressen, who Co chairs a group called React 19. It's an interest group for people saying they've been

injured by the COVID-19 jabs. She sued AstraZeneca over medical expenses and much more, arguing that she's still disabled, unable to work, unable to carry on with her life. And I had mentioned her in the article at UK column. And it turns out that she's the main protagonist in Follow the

Silence in this documentary. So her life is featured a lot in this and we'll, I don't know if we'll see her in this clip, but we do have a a small clip from Follow the Silence to give you a flavor of it. So let's check that out. I did my part, I got it. I got mine because I wanted to protect myself and my family. I can no longer cook, clean, or even pick up and hold my baby for too long before my body

begins to shake uncontrollably. I have been called a liar and a fake and have even been told by the ER doctors that this is all in my head. More companies have spent 4 1/2 billion dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions. In today's world, Big Pharma decides whether you live or die, and that makes them dangerously powerful. Mr. Chairman, is a sad fact that we regulate industries such as machinery and automobile far better than we do those?

That affect what we may be placed in our bodies Pfizer. Received. The biggest criminal fine in U.S. history for mis promoting medicines and for paying kickbacks to compliant doctors. They're getting paid by the Pharmaceutical industry, by the very companies that they're supposed to oversee and to protect us from. That captures the flavor of the documentary quite well.

And it Harkins back to some other reports I've made, gentlemen, about Pfizer, for example, being mired in lawsuits going back to 2009 and before and being the what were verdicts decided and and concluded that Pfizer had committed some of the most egregious acts in Department of Justice history. The largest payouts by Pfizer, they were the largest in in Department of Justice history in terms of the court decisions and what Pfizer had to pay in fines and things like that.

Now, another piece of the puzzle or another part of the story here is that Texans for Vaccine Choice went to a recent U.S. Senate May 21 hearing, a committee hearing, and it was attended by the president of that group, Rebecca Hardy. And the hearing was hosted by one of America's most outspoken critics of the US COVID response, Senator Ron Johnson.

The Wisconsin senator was also calling for a renewed probe into 911. And there were other important witnesses there at that hearing, including Doctor Peter McCullough were familiar with that Texas based cardiologist Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Doctor James Thorpe and an attorney, Aaron Siri, all of whom delivered data-driven testimonies to that Senate committee. And from there, this is the

hearing that Rebecca attended. It was called the corruption of science and Federal Health agencies, how health officials downplayed and hid myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. And that was the Homeland Security Government Affairs

Committee that Rebecca attended. The another part of the good news of this is the hearing was followed by a congressional screening of this documentary, Follow the silence, Follow the silenced Excuse Me, which is about an hour and 10 minutes long in total. And the film reportedly received a standing ovation from that committee room filled with high level executive, congressional and senatorial staffers. And I did get a quote back from Rebecca Hardy.

I contacted her and I believe we have that quote we can show. I'm not sure. Not, not just here, Mark, sorry. Oh, oh, that's OK. Well, I, I contacted Rebecca Hardy and she came back and, and said that things went very well with that and she was pleased to, to attend that and things are looking very good. She thinks there's a real change in the direction with the powers of Big Pharma that, that we're seeing much brighter, brighter, a much brighter future right

now. At any rate, that's sufficient for now. I'll have I'll have more related stuff later about RFK and some of his changes. Thank you for that, Mike. Now, Patrick, you've been

reporting on the Trump crackdown on freedom of speech around criticism of Israel or protest for Gaza on behalf of Gaza. It looks like things are beginning to wrap up even further. There they are. And the first thing we're going to point to is a somewhat encouraging on the free speech front, if that is if you support free speech and the First Amendment, and not everybody does in America is certainly not the Trump administration or Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State.

But this is a legal breakthrough here. Federal judge has said that the law used to detain Mahmoud Khalil, this is the Columbia graduate student who is being deported by the US government. It's likely unconstitutional. So this is is very interesting. So it does look, there's two, there's two court cases with this particular person. And here it is the so-called foreign policy law.

This is what they've invoked in the US saying that Mahmoud Khalil as a student was a danger to US National Security or foreign policy because he was criticizing Israel or opposing A genocide. They're saying that the law is unconstitutionally as applied to Mr. Khalil who acted solely within the United States. So this argument that somehow it's affected in the US internationally or whatever, it's just not standing up to reality.

The judge further said it's Marco Rubio has failed to affirmatively determine that Khalil's actions had affected US relations. So this is unprecedent. So I think this is encouraging. This is he's very likely to win on constitutional grounds, exactly as we said when the story broke. But there you are. So I hate to be right about that, but it's nonetheless. So let's bring up this development here.

So Marco Rubio is on a tear. You notice he's not doing much internationally, Mike. He's really just chasing students and Chinese students. That's Marco Rubio's main remit. So the State Department is now halting interviews with students and exchange visas. So the war against Harvard University, which is over speech against Israel, the US is saying that Harvard shouldn't be allowed to have international students, which is obscene if you think about it.

So he's basically saying, and they get real specific here, we use all available information in our visa and screening and vetting, says State Department here in a statement without specifying what could flag an applicant for rejection under the new quote social media policy. They're checking your social media. The statement noted that visa applicants have been asked to provide social media get account information for since 2019.

So if you want to apply as an international student, and this could be extended to tourists, by the way, using probably AI systems provided by Israel, of course. So if you have anything negative about Israel, you can say what you want about the United States. You can say America's the worst country in the world, Donald Trump's a demon, the great Satan. That's not no problem there. But say anything bad about Israel and you will no pass go, you'll be rejected from entry.

So it gets even stranger. Look at this. Rubio's order comes under President Trump is trying to coerce Harvard University and other institutions to restrict what can be said on campuses, particularly with regards to anti Israel speech. So it's kind of obvious where this policy is coming from. But this is where Mike, this is where things are really headed. Take a look at this. the US will aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, says Marco Rubio. What's the basis for this?

Like, how are they going to pick and choose which Chinese students are good or bad? Well, here it is. The Trump administration would work to aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, including those with quote ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in quote,

critical fields. So if a Chinese person is studying in stems engineering technology, and if maybe they have somebody in their family who might be hi to the Chinese Communist Party, they're not allowed to come and study in the US. Now, I will be talking about this before the show, Mike. And, you know, Chinese students provide 20% of all US foreign students internationally. They provide probably a huge chunk of financial aid and help to all universities in America. That's just a reality.

And it's really been like that for 30 years. So they want to shut this down. That's the sort of thing you do before you declare war against the country. But you were saying, Mike, that it's not easy to get top university places in China? Absolutely. It's extremely competitive and that's why there's such a diaspora of people coming to to foreign countries, Britain and the United States in particular for for education. I'm sure we're going to talk about this much more in Extra.

And I'll add, in Silicon Valley, a lot of the startups are basically founded by young Chinese. San Francisco has the biggest and California is the biggest Chinese population outside of China in the world. And it has been like that for the whole duration of the existing of that state. So they obviously family connections, people coming over, they've they've done a massive amount of innovation and brain power into our big tech industry and they want to shut it down. So there you are.

OK, well, well, look, let's come back on to the topic of COVID

jobs and Mark RFK Junior has made an announcement with respect to children. What has he said? Well, it's interesting. As we know he had a less than stellar confirmation hearing. He made a couple points worthy of, of remembering, you know, noteworthy things. But it seemed at the time, as Patrick pointed out, that he was largely bowing to the pressure of the deep state he was about to enter and that there looked to be a lot of compromise.

The good news is that he is laying down some planks of good policy, evidently. And so one of the things is that he says no COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. On the 27th of May, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy junior, of course, made another sweeping change to the US vaccine landscape.

I'm citing different sources, including from the University of Minnesota. And Kennedy said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have removed its recommendation to give the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women. And an exact quote is I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule.

That's what RFK Junior said, flanked by Martin Mccary, who's with the FDA and other officials. Another one who's a director of the National Institutes of Health. One thing I would note that's interesting is it says the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women. And one one would wonder from hearing that if you're not altogether healthy as a child or you're not altogether healthy as a pregnant woman, arguably you might be more vulnerable to vaccine adverse effects.

So what's with the language there? Probably we'll find out in the days and weeks ahead. But here's the official announcement from HHS. Hi, everybody. I'm Robert F Kennedy Junior, your HHS Secretary, and I'm here today with NIH Director Doctor Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Mccary. I couldn't be more pleased to announce that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC recommended immunization

schedule. Last year, the Biden administration urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data to support the repeat booster strategy in children that ends today. It's common sense and it's good science. There's no evidence healthy kids need it today, and most countries have stopped recommending it for children. We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America healthy again.

So on the surface at least to a degree that that's good news and probably they'll go further with this. So we're going to wait and see on some of those qualifying words. Healthy, healthy children, healthy pregnant women. But I also got a response from Rebecca Hardy on this particular item and when I contacted her and she said the following. She's with, of course, Texans for Vaccine Choice. She's the president. And this was directly to UK column.

This wasn't a blanket statement. We welcome the announcement. The CDC is re evaluating its recommendation of the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and pregnant women, given the growing number of reported injuries and adverse reactions associated with these vaccines. This is, she said, a much needed step toward prioritizing safety, enhancing transparency and restoring trust in public health.

A much needed step. And I think we sense that other steps may be needed, but that's the way it stands as of today, gentlemen. Mike, just a quick comment. I mean, Mark, Mark really nailed it there on the healthy qualification because that why was that language inserted in there? And always with RFK, there's always some kind of fly in the ointment. You know, it's just common sense. If your child's healthy, of course, you're not going to strap them down for an experimental gene job.

OK, Common sense, obviously. So he's there's nothing really, I think valuable or novel here other than, oh, the government's not going to lean on you basically. But but if you are healthy, if a pregnant woman is healthy, does that mean they need to get the COVID vaccine? The fact that this is not being explained that RFK injected, no pun intended, that in there is extremely worrying. And I'm wondering who is where's the wizard behind the curtain on

this? Because I it seems like a puppet show with the the 3-3 stooges there. Yes, but you've got some vaccine news as well here, Patrick, with respect to Moderna. Yeah, some, some potentially good news here. And again, we'll bring in RFKUS cancels more than 700 million in funding for Moderna to develop the bird flu vaccine. So Biden chucked in 590 million and they had another 176,000,000 with Trump year. And so the bird flu vaccine is basically for Moderna has been

cancelled. Huge shareholder uproar at Moderna. They don't know what to do. They need to find some free cash. And of course, the bird population is very upset because they have been demonized for carrying this virus that nobody can basically find under a microscope, but only in cell culture and all sorts of complicated processes to claim that something's happening that might be or might not be contagious, that is not deadly for humans.

It doesn't even make humans sick, but nonetheless, if there's one or two cases that they claim are around, it's enough to vaccinate the world. And of course, again, you know, the birds are being unfairly demonized. All the chickens, the Roosters who are laying eggs for us, they're all in jeopardy because of this diabolical plot, it seems. Yeah. But OK, we're not at risk for bird flu, but are we at risk for

yet another COVID variant? Well, big announcement today, folks, and we didn't tell you this at the beginning of the program because we didn't want to. We don't want to spoil surprise or or you scare anybody, quite frankly. But lo and behold, Mike, a new COVID variant has been launched. A new COVID variant is here and it's more transmissible. Here are the signs and symptoms. Big press event here. And you know what that means, folks? That means Caroni once back onto

the mainstage. So again, the special thing about the NB .1 dot 8.1 is that they think it's possible it comes from China. It comes from China. So this is particularly dangerous, especially because they claim it comes from China. How did they claim this? How did they find they did what's called bio surveillance through sequencing. So sequencing and PCR tests. They've got this idea that they put the day together and there's

a new variants on the loose. This is extremely disturbing announcement and we are just so shocked and I hope everybody is not scared. It's OK to go out obviously and socialize with your friends and family and just go ahead with your daily lives. Act like nothing is is happening. But be careful and you know,

stay safe out there. Well, look in extra, I'm going to be talking about mentioning the fact that I was in the United States over the weekend and well, actually there quite a number of people wearing masks again and. Oh no, that's never stopped, right? On the subways in New York and Boston, particularly bad. Philadelphia, East Coast, basically from Washington, DC, The further you get up the Eastern seaboard, the more masks

on public transport. So there's just a lot of people are still traumatized and they've learned to love the mask, much like was it Aldous Huxley's brother in that famous interview. They learned to love their servitude. Yes, indeed, right.

Well, look at this top of the programme. We were talking about the Killweb, we were talking about the potential of AI drone swarms and so on. The UK government is absolutely doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on AI and so many policy areas at the moment. So let's talk a little bit more about that. And we're kicking off with Defence yet again because the largest ever UK Defence AI trial has been conducted.

These are their words and, and many of their words here across land, sea and era, building on previous trials known as Wintermute. I don't know where they get that

name from. This trial involved around 200 scientists from the Defence Science Technology Laboratory and military personnel from the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, industry representatives and international partners collaborating at Portland Harbour to to develop what they describe as critical AI systems for automatic target detection

and recognition. So this took to place over A5 day period using all kinds of technology and data was recorded from Royal Naval vessels, ground vehicles, manned and unmanned aircraft and they were operating what is described as mission based scenarios. It also included participation from Australia and from New Zealand. Sorry, it's from Australia and from the United States. So this was done within the August framework. The Ministry of Defence claims that the AI technology is under

development. You'll be glad to know they're not intended to replace human decision making, but rather to support it. Yeah. The systems will, quote, reduce cognitive burdens, burden on military personnel by filtering information and providing clear battlefield intelligence, ensuring more timely and effective responses in dynamic situations. So it. But it doesn't end there. So it. Can kill faster.

Basically very good. The Foreign Office is also using AI, and this time it's to detect hostile state activity. And the hostile state they're referring to is Russia, and the theater of operations is the Arctic. So here's David Lammy in the Arctic a couple of days ago. That's a hostile actor right there. Indeed it is, Lammy said. It's more important than ever that we work with our allies in the High N, like Norway and Iceland, to enhance our ability to patrol and protect these

waters. That's why we have today announced new UK funding to work more closely with Iceland and using AI to bolster our ability to monitor and detect hostile state activity in the Arctic. Now, the FCDO didn't go into any more detail about what they're specifically doing with AI as of yet, but in the meantime, the Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson gave a speech at the recent Education World Forum 2025 in which she was drawing attention

to the Open Innovation team and their efforts to bring more AI into schools. And she said working with the Open Innovation team will be engaging the sector to understand what works. And we'll look at how tools, including AI can improve things like staff workload, pupil outcomes and inclusivity. So yes, OK, we, we won't even comment on that. Evidence must be at the heart of all we do. And Ed tech at Ed tech and right

across education. Now the Open Innovation team is a cross government unit that sits in the Cabinet Office. It's all about fusion because they're working to bring policy from vested interests outside government right into the heart of government that they said they've worked already with 2 1/2 thousand experts from 930 organisations to to help craft their policy work. And it's yet another AI related

announcement. The government has also announced that the Border Force wants to expand its use of artificial intelligence to help with searching and screening of freight at all UK seaports by automating anomaly detection. They're saying that this automation is going to speed up screening times, it's also going to increase the volume of goods protest, sorry processed, and it will free up officers to focus

on critical tasks. It's going to reduce false alarms and it's going to minimise unnecessary secondary inspections. So there we go. They, they're using the accelerated capability environment that we've talked about before on this programme to support all this and well, what more can we say? If only they could make international trade more quicker and efficient and less bureaucratically burdensome, Well, great, for the economy wouldn't.

It well, the best way that you can do that is to imposing tariffs which stop the trade altogether. That would because obviously if you, if you reduce the amount of trade going through the ports and you're reducing the work workload on the Border Force. So, you know, we've got to applaud Trump's tariffs in this regard. Yeah, and the balls up of Brexit, but we won't go there. It's legit. It absolutely is. Now, Nigel Farage has been speaking recently about the

efforts if he were to become Prime Minister, he would be pushing forward with efforts to cut wasteful spending in the British government and so on. He's basically echoing everything that Elon Musk has been saying for the last few months. How's that going, Patrick? Yeah, that'll be great. Let's do what Elon Musk did with the Trump administration. Not going so well. Well, actually let's take a look at this report here. This is an article. This is a devastating article by

the way. It written by somebody on the right, just so people know, but Musk is fleeing the Trump administration after doge failure, white genocide hoax and X meltdown. X melted down as a platform the last two weeks totally dysfunctional. People were just losing their DMS and timelines. But the big thing here is doge. So let's take a look at this. So that was the remember, that was the battle cry, right? We're cutting waste, fraud and abuse, said Elon Musk.

And he made some big, big claims and big promises and pledges at the beginning of this. So let's take a look at where things actually ended up. Musk is out of government. And this is the receipts here. Back in March, just remember, Musk made the wild claim that Doge was on track to save the US federal government a whopping $1 trillion by the month of May without providing getting any actual evidence to back up the big headline grabbing sound bite.

Well, May Mike has come and gone, and so has Elon Musk, unfortunately, and we'll go on here now. Take a look In April, Musk was then forced to admit Dodge May only cut 150 billion dollars in spending 15% of his original pledge of a trillion dollars. So already not doing too well there. I'm, I'm, I'm afraid to say it actually gets worse, believe it or not. And by the end we'll see how much DOGE actually saved here. In February, DOGE claimed it had achieved 55 billion in annual

spending reductions. However, it's wall of receipts detailed only 16 1/2 billion in this total. Half of that figure came from a typo claiming that 8 billion in savings was terminating an $8 million contract. So they they rounded up 8 million to 8 billion. That helped to inflate the total. There's so many examples of this, which are all catalogued in this article, which is a brilliant takedown of DOGE.

And the New York Times reported here about other such accounting errors, including claims of cancelled contracts that had already been cancelled during the previous administration and so forth. He claimed that they were saving 4 billion in a day, so that would have been 260 billion by now and there's nothing near that. So, so verified budget savings etcetera, etcetera, not much to report there. So it total collapse in that one and the mass firing. Now you cut a lot of staff,

right, that was in the news. Now the rehiring of those public sector workers could cost up to 135 billion during the end of this before the end of this fiscal year in 2025. Also the IRS, he's done massive cuts there. This is ultimately going to result in less revenue collected by the Internal Revenue Service. And a lot of people aren't are probably happy about that certain people. But in terms of getting the but the government, it's bottom

line, it's a disaster. So the whole thing with DOGE, it's going to end up costing and increasing the federal budget. And here we're looking at the actual results. By the way, DOGE is subject to 30 lawsuits out of the 200 related to the Trump administration's sort of agenda, if you will, for, you know, cutting waste, fraud and abuse and so forth. So that's all going to get tied up into the courts afterwards. So here's the Mia culpa from Elon Musk. Watch this in this interview

just yesterday. So, you know, I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it. And our minds, the work that the Dodge team is doing. I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along, I mean like everything he's done on Dodge gets wiped out in the first year. I think. I think a bill can be, can be can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if it could be both.

My personal opinion? So he doesn't seem to be in any way embarrassed or ashamed by the fact that it's been a massive failure. It's a giant this is this doge was a giant sigh up. As I said from the beginning, I predicted that the budget for this year, the first year the Trump administration will exceed Biden's last year and they're on track to do that and really surpass it by leaps and bounds with the new inflatable defense budget over a trillion dollars.

So that's the main thing that we need to pay attention to. So go to all, all the details are here up at this article at 21st Century wire.com and the receipts are there, all the links. So it's a well researched piece and it's really incredible. Absolutely no benefit from Dodge at all. In fact, it's costing the government massive amounts of money. Mark, did you have some thoughts about this?

Not much. I thought I read, and this may not be a very pivotal thing, but I thought I read where the Dodge mission was given a timeline and that he reached the time limit at any rate, to say nothing of the spending matters. I don't have time to get into that. Is that true? There was sort of a deadline beyond which Doge wouldn't exist. Yeah, 2 years. I think it's it's it's a non governmental Commission effectively it's not a government department and it's remit is I think 2 years, so 24.

Months, I thought it I thought it was less than that, but at any rate able to talk about it's. Two years, Yeah, two years. And they have to issue a report at the end of that two years as well, much like the Grace Commission did during the Reagan administration. Oh, OK. Well, J Peter Grace, right? Yeah, Mark, let's come back on to RFK Junior because it wasn't

just the the jobs that he was talking about. He was also talking about food additives. Yeah, this is important and this is an ongoing problem, glyphosate coming out of Monsanto's products, which isn't hasn't been mentioned yet, but RFK, to his credit, is doing some other good things. This is an extension of what I reported about earlier today. RFK Junior pushes to close a food additive loophole, but is a gutted FDA up to the task. This is food print, a health research organization.

I tend to rely on those more than regular media for these sorts of things especially. And there's a interesting statistic that comes from food print. 98% of additives in our food, especially in the United States, were introduced through what's called the grass pathway between 2000 and 2022. Secretary RFK Junior has directed the FDA footprint is saying to explore rulemaking with an eye toward eliminating the generally recognized as safe pathway.

That's grass that allows food companies to self regulate and affirm the safety of their products, including chemical additives, many of them harmful without notifying the notifying the FDA. So under this grass companies can introduce new food ingredients without AFDA pre

market review. It includes things like red dye #3 sodium benzoate, titanium dioxide, canola, corn and soybean oils which are all GMOBPAS, and food packaging which is a liner used in cans to prevent canned foods from spoiling and BHA and other preservative. But it's interesting that the FDA out of one side of its mouth has I'd BHA since 1978 knowing that it causes some harm. But since 78 they're still allowing that that additive in

our foods. And so that's one of the things that's kind of odd here, guys, is that the FDA has long known that a lot of these things were problems and nothing was ever done about it. Hopefully, RFK Junior is serious and he'll pull the trigger and get some of these dangerous additives out of our foods. But again, no mention of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, which permeates everywhere in our grains.

You name it. If we see that, that would mean it's becoming a much more positive step forward. You're you're, you're showing a graphic here. I don't know if you want to show it here. This is just a comic I picked up on. One superhero says trust the science and the indignant other superhero answers questioning science is how you do science and slaps the other one across the face. Kind of humorous, but that's the latest on that.

RFK seems to be making some positive efforts, but it all bears very careful watching at the same time. Thank you for that, Mark. Thank you. Now back in the UK here then. Well, we have had no rain in the

last period of time. And that of course is having an impact on the the crops that are growing this year. And we're looking at absolutely looking at a reduced harvest this year. But in the meantime, in the the Environment Agency has declared A drought for the northwest of England following the driest start to spring in 69 years. So they're saying that river flows have been declining along with groundwater levels due to the dry March, April and May.

And they're saying that reservoir storage levels in the region are also receding and are currently lower than they were at this time during the 19841995 and 2022 drought years. They're saying that the rain that has been in the last couple of weeks is not enough to reverse this dry start of the year. And they're expecting hotter weather in the coming weeks. To make the situation even

worse. In parallel with that announcement, the Starmer regime has announced that the Environment Secretary, Steve Reed, has seized control of the planning process to build two major reservoirs for the first time since the 1990s. These two projects, one in East Anglia and the other in Lincolnshire, have been awarded the status of nationally significant.

And that means that the project is so crucial to the that the planning process is escalated from a local level to to the Secretary of State and he gets to make that decision. And so it's interesting in their press release, they're talking about rapid population growth, crumbling infrastructure that's been left to decline and a warming climate mean that the UK could run the risk of clean drinking water running out by the middle of the next decade without a major infrastructure

overhaul. And I'm going to say that we should note that all of those issues are regime created issues that are regime created crises. And you'll understand what I mean by climate change being a regime credit crisis, because it's imagined. But anyway, that's another discussion. The question is, is now the time to be building massive data centres for AI projects with massive cooling water requirements?

And since the government's AI projects are seen as national security issues, who's going to get the priority? Is it going to be the AI or is it going to be the human population? I think I know the answer to that. But look, Mark, let's end with

you and the World Health Organization. Sorry, the World Health Assembly has now concluded. How did that go in the end? Well, actually it didn't go as well as the Eurocrats and The Who Akrats wanted it to, despite their headlines. This, of course, this headline is from the conclusion from The Who itself. The 78th World Health Assembly concludes historic outcomes, consequential highlights. They're saying it's a lot of highfalutin language guys. It's a lot of bromides and

bragging in a way. They're saying in the press release, I'm just citing some of it so we get their own, their own words for it. The 78th World Health Assembly of The Who, the highest decision making body in the UN system in terms of health, convened from 19 May through the 27th. So it just ended under the theme One World for Health. It would have been more accurate had they said one Health for the world, the one health system we talked about.

Member states, they say, considered approximately 75 items and sub items at this health assembly across health engaging, lively debate, adopting consequential Rev resolutions to improve health for all. See, it's a lot of beaming but largely empty language. And here's what our friend Tadros, The Who Director

General, had to say. The words historic and landmark are overused, but they are perfectly apartment to describe this year's WHA, the adoption of the pandemic agreement and the approval of the next increase in assessed contributions. Along with the numerous other resolutions that member states adopted are a sign to the world that we we can achieve cooperation in the face of conflict and unity amid

division. But what they're not really saying, and that's because it's not true, is that they really didn't finalize the agreement, as James Roguski is pointing out repeatedly. And he was just interviewed again on unredacted news. He's pointed out repeatedly that there is an annex within the treaty text that requires that they wait about one year to actually sign this thing.

So it's going to get to WHA #79 or very close to it before they can actually officially sign it. So the good news is all sorts of petitioning and other activities can take place. And I've, I'm, I'm very inclined to submit to UK column very soon an article that assesses the whole situation. That's what I'm starting to work on a little bit and gives people what actions they can take. Some urgency, yes, but we've got about a year to work with as I understand it.

And there is, as a reminder, also a petition, and that is posted by James Rogowski to repeal the PREP Act. And that will be in the show notes. People can text him at any time. He doesn't mind it, 310-619-3055. And he can direct you on signing the petition to repeal the PREP Act, which is a law that protects Big Pharma from liability for their products. And you don't have to be an American to do it. He can instruct you on how to do it no matter where you live.

There's also a July 19 deadline for when the International Health Regulations will be finalized. That deadline is a little more imminent, but that's noteworthy as well. So a lot of good news in that there's a lot of big beaming language, but not as much substance as The Who would like you to believe. So some good news there. Yeah, thank you very much for that, Mark. And and as you say, the details of how to sign that petition will be in the show notes on the

UK Column website. So, so do have a look at that. Thank you, Mark. We're going to have to leave it there for today. I'm going to say thank you to you and to Patrick for your contribution. So thank you everybody that's been watching today. Join us in a few minutes if you're UK Column member for UK Column News Extra, just stay on the live stream. If you're not AUK column member, we do need your support.

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