UK Column News - 1st August 2025

Good afternoon. It's just gone 1:00 on Friday the 1st of August 2025. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host, Charles Mallett. I'm joined in the studio today by Patrick Henningson. Welcome to the program, Patrick. Great to be with you, Charles. And on the live link, we have Mark Anderson from the United States and Mike Robinson from Northern Ireland. Now, there'll be a lot to get

through today, as always. And we're going to be looking at the possible nuclear capabilities of Iran as described over in Chicago. We're going to be looking at the latest tariff theatrics at the Uks, plans for food strategy and food security, the BBC and indeed particularly how they're dealing with the Paloma Shamarani inquest, as well as mass media consolidation in the United States concerning Paramount. But you'll remember from

Wednesday's programme that I was reporting fire Patrick, who'd sent in some footage of an event he attended in London on Monday to do with the summit flotilla. And summit, of course, we should point out, meaning the Arabic word for perseverance. Now, I'm pleased to say that Patrick has a lot more on this for today's programme. So that's where we're going to where we're going to begin today, Patrick. Thanks, Charles. Yeah, it's just really a rally for well, the the Handela had just been.

This was the Gaza flotilla just been seized by the Israel, Israelis. We'll bring that up on screens. People see the boat again. But the part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, they had the Madeline, which was also apprehended a few months ago, the crew was kidnapped and abused by the Israelis. They were all released. The, the whole crew of the Handela I think is safe now as far as I'm concerned. There might be one or two other exceptions to that, but we'll, we'll get clarification on that.

But they had a press conference in London and it was really kind of A to to bring the press in to give them more information about what's coming. And also just to hear some of the testimonies of one of the members of the the hand dollar was there. Tiago had a chance to speak to him as well. But some of the other people who there Human Rights Watch and also an MEP from Dublin. So this was very revealing. So we have a video report which

will show you from this event. And we'll have some of the statements in there and we'll we'll speak a little bit about what what the content of that is afterwards. But let's go ahead and watch this. The governments must end all complicity, must stop arms and in fact must impose an arms embargo, A comprehensive arms embargo on Israel immediately. The situation that we are seeing unfolding in Gaza is, is the extermination of the Palestinian

people. What makes this specific and unique is the fact that this is being carried out by an ally of Western governments. It's being carried out by a state that calls the United Kingdom, the EU, Canada, Australia, a friend. And that is what one of the things that clearly distinguishes this situation from others. But obviously the fact that it is extermination of a people raises it to the level of one of the greatest atrocities that can be committed by a state and by

its officials. We were in the meddling on a mission with. 12 people with food with medicine with. Crutches with baby formula with a lot of things like water filters to try to do the obvious things when we see a genocide that 8 billion people that see. Children. Being starved. To death. They know that is wrong. They want to have, they want to bring them food. When they see hospitals, shelters, schools being bombed, children being burned alive, they want to stop that. And that's.

Why we went, I think that the the swift action you've seen as you, as you say rightly illegal occupation by Russia, but it's two militaries against each other and we seen very quick action by the EU. And I think that that's where now the people across Europe are saying what, like the double standards is so blatant and the level of frustration from U.S. politicians who are all we're asking for is international law

to be upheld. Like that's the bare minimum we're asking for is that the same standard is applied to Israel, is applied to any other country in the world. And it's not going to happen at the EU. I've been back in the European Parliament a year now and the chair of the Delegation for Relations to Palestine and I've repeatedly said you will not get a consensus at the EU, at the EU

level. So therefore it is not just the legal thing that a member state does, but it's also the morally right thing to do, that they take unilateral action. So Ireland has had this bill called the Occupy Territories Bill since 2018. It passed all stages in our parliament, but it was blocked by the Irish government for years. The campaign to to reignite that bill obviously since 2023 has now gotten to the point where we're almost ready now for the government to to enact it.

But I really do believe that if Ireland shows that courage, and let's not forget this is just to enact the ICJ ruling of July 2024, that the proceeds of crime from a legal settlement should not be sold, that if we do that, it'll be the first domino that will fall. We know other member states are watching very closely what Ireland is doing. They then hopefully would follow suit.

And then what happens is that the House of Cards comes down in terms of Israel's impunity because first we go after the the illegal settlements, then we go after the preferential trade, the arms embargo, the sanctions, all of the tools that politicians have that could be they could be doing today. But I honestly believe that that first that happens, other countries will be emboldened to take action as well.

So that I was really the question I had for Lynn Boylan there was, you know, how come no EU countries can be stepping forward to sanction Israel and Ireland was the closest. But what what's holding Ireland back? That's an interesting question. And her answer to that surprised me. What's holding Ireland back? The pressure coming on Ireland not to sanction Israel is not coming from Brussels, Charles. It's coming from somewhere else.

Listen to this. And that's why you see such pressure coming on Ireland, particularly from the US because of our long standing relationship with the US. IPAC are pumping huge amounts of money into taking out op eds in very high profile newspapers. They are ramping up their politicians that are IPAQ support, are supported by IPAQ, sponsored by IPAQ and and getting them to call Ireland anti-Semitic to challenge Ireland's bill. But the reason why they're doing that is because they know this

would be the downfall. The House of Cards will collapse if Ireland takes this action and that's why we have to hold fast. So I mean, we have a lot of foreign direct investments, investment in Ireland, a lot of major companies. This bill though would only affect two or three companies. But it's the Israel or no fools. They know the consequences of this bill passing means there's a domino effect and that's why

they're ramping up the pressure. They know Ireland's weak point is the the link between the US, our long standing relationship with the US and that's why they are getting U.S. politicians to do their dirty work and to try and keep the pressure on the Irish government. We know under the administration that the Ambassador to Ireland contacted our Government and warned them of consequences if this Bill was enacted.

We know that our former finance minister and now again current finance minister, he also gave commitments to Israel that this bill would never see the light of day. So this pressure is real. It's not imagined. And I think that for the government, they tried to withstand it for so long, withstand enacting the bill with the people power and the pressure they're under now from the public means they have to do the right thing.

Because we're being told that if we do this bill, that American companies will have to comply with America's anti boycott, anti sanctions laws. Our argument back is, well, one, there's only two or three companies that are involved that are because most companies don't actually do business and occupied territories because they know it's toxic. But two, that this is not Israeli land, so it can't be a boycott of Israeli products because this is a Palestinian

land. This is the proceeds of crime that Israel are committing by illegally occupying Palestinian land and therefore it cannot be called a boycott of Israeli products. So the legal arguments are on our side. We know that, but the pressure was is very real. It is coming from the US predominantly, but it's people power that have forced this bill to the point where it is now where we've got a committee to recommend full ban on trade. So it's very close.

It's just a question, like she said, like Lynn said, the domino needs to fall. And the first domino is the Occupied Territories Bill, which has been like held up forever there. But Yasmin Ahmed, the UK director of Human Rights Watch, made an important point. We didn't include because of time, but she said 1982 Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, she put a full arms embargo on the state of Israel for their aggression in Lebanon.

So if Margaret Thatcher can do it, why can't Keir Starmer do it, Charles? I think this is it, this is this is the question that will have bamboozled absolutely anybody, certainly anybody that's been watching UK column over the last couple of years. But but it's, you know, it's very interesting you watch a a meeting like this. It is quite clearly it's not a it's not a fringe issue, There's not a it's not a minority concern.

And you listen to the language that's used by people who in fact don't have this agency, the, the words like must, you know, governments must do this. And of course, on the other side, I mean, only this morning the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office were tweeting out about aid that must get in, that they must be given access to it. And yet they in effect, have it within their gift to enforce

that and don't. And we hear about the prospect of using military intervention, military force here, there and everywhere, but not in this particular situation. I'm not of course, advocating for throwing more volatile content into that kind of an environment, but it is quite pathetic to hear people commentating from the sidelines. It all be it that they are actually at the epicenter in the in the political arena, but they will do nothing. Yeah, they'll do nothing, so we'll wait and see.

Now some people are doing something, Charles, and one of those countries is Slovenia. Just briefly, we'll bring this up on screen here. This is the latest in Europe and this is Slovenia becoming the first EU country to ban arms trade with Israel. That is a full arms embargo against Israel. So just as we speak, this story breaks really over the last couple of days.

So that's interesting. This comes on the heels of this also from Slovenia. Slovenia bans Bengavir and Smoltrich to the most not so savory people walking the earth at the moment from entering their genocidal for the statements that they made against Gaza. So they, that's interesting. So Slovenia is really has broken the door down here. And just on that note as well, Canada, Canada who's been, you know, virtue signalling about recognizing A Palestinian state this week.

Well, as we revealed here in this report just filed yesterday, Canada's uninterrupted flow of arms deliveries to Israel through various third parties and back channels. So all of the details are there and but here, here's the real, this is the real scam that is going to take place now. Take a look at this. This is very important to realize here.

This is the new 2 state solution push OK, everybody's on board now with the two state solution finally after so long of just abandoning any anything because Israel didn't want it. But if you look at the details in here, it's quite damning and we go into all the the basic plans and what they're trying to do is turn the Gaza into the West Bank. They're trying to West bankify the Gaza Strip. And this is really the most important part It's in the headline here from Frustration magazine.

Love the title of that magazine here. Why does France want to recognize a demilitarized Palestine? So it's again have a trustee police force like the PA, the Palestinian Authority under a puppet leader like Abbas ruling over Gaza. So Israel still, in fact, Israel retains bigger control over Gaza in this new 2 state solution that they're proposing. So it's basically you can have a state in name, but 0 sovereignty. And what this does is it, it brings negotiations back to square one again.

And Israel's perfected this negotiation strategy for the last 40 years. They're brilliant at it. They know exactly. They run rings around the Western politicians. They've been doing this for a long time. You know exactly how to bring it back to 0 while they change facts on the ground. And this is what this is how we got to this point in the 1st

place. And I, I do not see anybody willing to basically put their foot down and call this for what it is. And that's my fear is that this, all this push for a Palestinian state, I think is just completely hollow. And this could actually get canned at some point in the next couple of months because they'll say, well, the facts on the grounds have changed. Yeah, we can't do that anymore. And that'll buy them another year. That's kind of where we're at.

I'm sure you're right and certainly there'll be no interrogation of what you've just been describing by the mainstream media, so. And you covered this amazing whistleblower from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Mr. I think Anthony Aguilar is his name. He did another interview with an American podcaster here or a gentleman here, which has gone viral on X and the opening gambit. Charles is quite something.

Listen to this. Very explicitly, directly to my face that our client is the IDF, your client is the IDF, our client is the IDF. And this came out of discussion once where I was in the control room. I was on operation, I was on control room duty that day. We had shifted responsibilities on a rotational lace, so I was in there that day with the radio observing site #2 distribution.

A Palestinian man had picked up some children to let them step on his shoulders to get onto a berm because they were being crushed in the crowd. Site 2 is very small smallest of all four sites, and these children are being crushed and you pick them up there and put them up on the on the berm. And the Israeli Defense Forces liaison officer in the main Control Center with us comes up to the screen that I'm watching. He says, tell your men to get them down.

I was like, we got this under control. I was like, I know they they know what they're doing. Nope. No, they're children. Let's calm down. Get them down now or I will. Well, there's no IDF on the site, so I didn't take it as much of, like, much more than just being, you know, bombastic and like, OK, like, hey, we got this. He leaves and goes to his desk in the operation center. And he gets on the radio and he speaks something on the radio. It was in Hebrew. I don't speak Hebrew.

One of the contractors that was there was American that did speak Hebrew and he notifies me. He said, hey, he just told the snipers at the IDF position because the site #2 is Co located with an Israeli base. Said he just told the snipers to to take these kids out. I was like on the radio. He's like, yeah. I mean, do you need to hear anymore? So Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, one of the mercenaries there, a decorated Green Beret and probably who was pro Israel before this assignment, not

anymore. And what he said there, his client was the IDF. His client was the IDF. That mean that to me was quite a bombshell. And it really just kind of takes the mask off this whole fraudulent humanitarian operation that they're trying to pass off as trying to feed the Palestinians. It's just unbelievable. Absolutely. I mean, there's been plenty of whispering about that, but to hit, but to hear it said out loud like that is, is perfectly staggering. Patrick, thank you very much

indeed for that. And we will, of course, discuss further what what you've been dealing with in in extra.

Now we'll go across to Mark, who's been looking at what's being discussed at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, specifically with regard to Iran's nuclear capability. Hello, guys, and hello, viewers. Yeah, the Chicago Council, the former Chicago CFR. I've been following them for about 15 years. They're one of the busiest think tanks in the US, as I've mentioned, and I covered this in real time virtually last Tuesday. So these are all original photos and it's first hand coverage.

The name of the program, the Middle East on Edge. What's next for Iran, Israel and the region? Of course, US interests were mentioned, and one thing I'll mention right up front is Leslie Benjamuri, shown to the left there. She's the new Chicago Council president. She took over for Evil Dalder. She's fresh out of Chatham House and I'm already detecting a little bit of more of a bias in favor of Israel, a little bit of a harder line tone for the programs here.

It's a little early to tell for sure, but I'm detecting that a little bit. She's shown here with Rachel Bronson, one of the three speakers, Rachel's senior advisor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, previously its president and CEO overseeing its programming and its iconic Doomsday Clock. And we'll move forward from there. The Doomsday Clock, that's just a quick reminder of what it looks like that's been with us a long time. Part propaganda, part reality.

Perhaps it's from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, kind of a famous thing. But here's the other two speakers, all original photo screenshots shown here. We have left Robert Pape will be focusing on him in a minute. University of Chicago political side, professor, he direction of the Chicago project on security and terrorism, focusing on air power, etcetera. Then we have Ali Vaez who directs the Iran project and he's senior advisor to the President at the International Crisis Group.

What is the Iran project? Very briefly, it supports principal democracy to prevent Iran, they say, from acquiring a nuclear weapon and avert military conflict in the Middle East. So the the overall panel was pretty biased against Iran, pretty much looking out mainly for Israel's interests. Here's a summary. I have a summary of what they had to say. Robert Pape spoke of the big four O 8. He referred to Iran allegedly having 408kg of 60% enriched uranium. Not quite what weapons grade,

we're told. And he's key claimed Iran's only weeks away from 90% allegedly worth 10 nuclear weapons, about 10 nuclear weapons worth allegedly. But he asked, where's the 408 kilograms now? It's not known. Mr. Baez, he he said Iran has a victory narrative. Israel has a victory narrative. And in a way, so does the US. He said Iran responded with the most destruction in Israel since 1973. The damage is worse than assumed, he said.

And he also announced that AUN resolution that endorsed the formerly US supported Iran nuclear deal expires in October. So that that UN nuclear deal expires in October. The UN resolution that endorsed it, that is. And then Rachel Bronson claimed the ceasefire will hold because Israel's attack was so, quote, so consequential. And she said that Iran, in her view, is trying to find intelligent gaps, intelligence gaps, that is, that it can

exploit. But from there, Euro news has picked up on this in recent times, claiming that Iran has amassed 408kg of uranium enriched up to 60%. And this is according to the International Atomic Energy Energy Agency, a branch of the UN, the UN watchdog. But of course, Iran claims it's it's for peaceful uses. And we haven't heard that much about the 408 kilograms. It's, it's something that's kept kind of hush hush, more or less. But here's Mr. Pape from the University of Chicago

elaborating on that point. I think the big number folks you should focus on is the #4-O84-O8. Iran had at the end of May, 408kg of 60% enriched uranium. That was the core concern. They had 20%, they had 5%, but that four O 8 is what they need. What the 60%, they were only weeks away of moving that up to 90%. That four O 8 was the equivalent of 10 nuclear bombs. 10. And the estimates were they were somewhere between 5:00 and eight

months away. You'd have to enrich, you'd have to formulate that in to assemble the bombs and so forth. Well, where is that four O 8 today? We don't know. And that was always the core conclusion of every single one of those hypothetical bombing scenarios that we did to take out with exquisite precision every building standing above ground. Well, we pretty much did that. We would also take out through what I called double tap attacks.

That was my name for it. Wasn't even called a name in 20 years ago. Where GPS. The thing you need to know about GPS folks is it's 3 dimensional. It's not just two-dimensional the way it is on your phone. So if the first bomb creates a crater, the second bomb can target that depth another and the third can maybe penetrate all the way through into those into those halls.

Well, the fundamental problem we were always going to face that word futile was we would never be able to find verify that four O 8. And in this case, it's actually worse because in the intervening time between the time Israel started the bombing and United States bombed Bordeaux and Natanz, we know through satellite imagery, civilian satellite imagery, which is now exquisite, that there were trucks taking stuff out from Bordeaux.

So those are. Mr. Pape's claims he's, by the way, the author of a book called Bombing to Win from 1996. A curious title to say the least, but the only mention of Israel's arsenal or anything like that was very, very brief, just a passing comment at the end. So it seems like while there could be some truth to this, on the other hand, it could be largely or completely for peaceful uses. And at any rate, Israel always gets a pass on its arsenal and any inspections there, which

never happened. So this was a kind of an unexpected thing to hear for me, at least at this program, but an important thing to get out on the news. So back to you guys. Thanks very much, Mark. I think important to point out that absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence as it were. And I think those two things are very easily confused and conflated. I'm going to have a bit more on Iran later in the programme. But now what we're going to do

is take a report from Will Coleshill which concerns the Paloma Shemarani inquest. And he has been at that inquest over the past week. And he's going to present his findings now in recorded video, which deal exclusively with the sort of medical malpractice and medical ethics side of it, as well as possible breach of their own editorial guidelines by the BBC. Hello this is Will. Coleshill reporting for UK column.

I'm here down at Kent and Midway Coroner's Court where I'm reporting on the 5th day of the inquest into the death of Paloma Shamrani. Now the court case is not done yet, but we've heard a significant amount of evidence. This case of course has been propelled into the spotlight because of the mother of Paloma, Kate Shamrani, who is of course

a famous freedom activist. Considering the BBC pieces in terms of an article, a Panorama episode and also a podcast series by Mariana Spring where they were framed to allege, especially in terms of accusations by Paloma's brother Gabriel, that is Kate's son, that Kate Shimrani had killed her own daughter. We've heard a significant amount of evidence from a number of doctors.

And the key focus for much of this case so far has actually been whether Paloma had the competence to be able to make her own decisions informed to choose alternative therapies rather than the mainstream conventional medical therapies. A lot of the original few days covered the inciting incident when Paloma first found a mediastinal mass in her chest and went to the hospital where a number of things happened which seemed to undermine any trust Paloma would have had in

conventional medicine. Now Paloma obviously did have a background in alternative therapy, but there seemed to have been a number of alleged errors and malpractices that, at least in Paloma's views, according to her statements, have led her to distrust the NHS and conventional medicine and fear them and feel like she was being bullied.

These include being denied A wristband and being administered drugs without consent and then being pressured into signing a consent form for chemotherapy by doctors. Now, obviously this is alleged at the moment, but backing this up was Paloma's own statements to the High Court. Indeed, it's quite a complex but very interesting case because this is one of the few cases where we actually have the statements very categorically of the person in question into whom

this inquest is being conducted. Paloma, despite this original incident happening in late 2023 around the end of the year, died in summer 2024 while she was currently in a battle with her brother over her medical autonomy and her capacity. During this time, she's spending some of the last of her money in order to fight her brother in court to maintain her medical autonomy and stay with her mother pursuing alternative

therapies. What's quite interesting is despite multiple hours of coverage, an article, a piece by Panorama and A5 part podcast series, the BBC chose to omit Palomas signed statements from their coverage. Now why do I say that they chose to admit this coverage was quite interesting. The other day I was here and I spoke to one of the BBC employees who told me they were aware when they made them. Now I was given an e-mail.

I've then submitted a line of questions to one of the producers at the BB CS BBC e-mail address and I've also forwarded this over to the BBC press office in order to have these questions answered. As of yet, at the time of recording I've received no response to these questions, which do seem like the BBC has acted in a bias nature and breached their editorial guidelines as well as the BBC charter. During this case we've heard from a number of doctors who were in contact with Paloma who

have confirmed her competence. Not only the initial doctor against whom much is alleged, Dr. Mohan, who confirmed Paloma's competence, but also her psychologist. And we saw many, many hours, I believe it may have been 5 or 6 hours of questioning who again completely asserted Paloma's competence. We saw questioning of a hyperbaric oxygen therapist, and we also saw questioning of AGP.

Now, all four of these doctors confirmed Paloma was competent, intelligent, and able to make her own decisions about her medical treatment. And that's what a lot of this comes down to, whether Paloma had the right to choose her medical treatment and choose alternative therapy over conventional therapy, or whether because she chose that alternative treatment, it is highly likely she was being coerced. There have been some very interesting actions by the coroner presiding over the case.

We've seen the coroner mute Kate a number of times. We've seen fireworks. We've seen mother and son essentially interrogating each other. One significant factor is we've actually seen some malicious action within this case. For one, I had a malicious allegation against me that I was somehow filming in the court when it would have been effectively impossible for me to do so. I'm considering I was sat right at the front of the press room in front of a camera live link

to the main courtroom. Somehow I was meant to a film there. Obviously this is a spurious allegation, but clearly someone was trying to prevent alternative media coverage of the court case. I have reported this as a malicious accusation to the coroner and this has been noted and accepted, but I'm waiting to see what comes of it because clearly there is a huge amount of mainstream media interest here, but very little by the

alternative media. A lot of what has happened so far has been determined by Paloma's competence, investigating it and whether she was able to make her own decision. However, in the coming weeks, when we'll be back here again at this court, we're going to look at the days leading up to Paloma's death. We've already heard from a Doctor Who was there with Paloma

at the end when she died. However, we're going to hear from the ambulance crew and we're going to look at the administration of adrenaline which Kate Shimrani is alleging killed Paloma by overloading her as she collapsed on that fateful day on July the 19th, 2024. We're yet to hear. From the ambulance crews, Kate Cave a very, very emotional but very strong statement condemning their action and the amount of time that they spent waiting around before going down to the

hospital to try and treat her. And that is likely what these last few days is going to focus upon, on the actual events directly leading up to her death rather than her competence. However, what I think we've seen from these five days in court is a refutation of what the BBC has put out, at least in terms of the evidence that has been seen so far.

The evidence overwhelmingly points to the competence of Paloma. So I believe there's a question to ask as to the BBC coverage as to Marianna Spring. And as to. Whether? Anybody. Else. Who chose to take? In natural treatment and happened to die would ever have this sort of coverage or whether there are further agendas at play.

Thank you. I'm Will Coleshill, reporting for UK column News from Kent. Well, Cole Sylvan, very Many thanks to him for a really comprehensive report and I'm sure you will have all formed your own view as to whether there are further agendas at play. But seems completely remarkable that the censorship that we experience so much in what we do is actually playing out even in the coroner's court. In real time. Completely extraordinary, but well done.

Home for challenging to the BBC now to follow what he says.

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Now on Thursday, yesterday, a sensational interview between Ben Rubin and all Goth centred on George Orwells 1942 SA England your England. It's gone out being very well received. So so please do listen back to that going out tonight. We've got the weekly banter session, Mike and I talking to Germ on the germ warfare

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And then upcoming events, we had Katie Jo on the programme on Wednesday on Extra that is promoting her Freedom Music Festival coming up over the August bank holiday weekend. Now there is a discount code UKC 20 which get your 20% discount if you are going to book for that through hearing information I've just given you. So please go to that. It would be absolutely sensational. And indeed in October we have our own event coming up UK column on location in the beautiful City of York.

We are yet to announce our heavy of speakers, but we will start to do so fairly shortly and I can tell you that you are in for a sensational day if you're going to be there. If you can't make it, then of course live stream tickets are already available on the website, but if you're after an in person ticket, I must remind you that nearly half of them are gone already, so they're selling fast.

Please do not tarry. Kenny has helpfully put together a small video which you're looking at now, which will describe how to buy your ticket via shop. So we'll very much hope to see you there or indeed have you on the end of the live stream and that's coming up in October. But as I say, tickets on the website now. Now I did say that I was going to be looking a little bit more

at Iran. This is only a brief update. And of course, as Patrick's been articulating at the beginning of the programme, Gaza is quite rightly dominating most of the headlines. So the anti Iran propaganda, in the United Kingdom at least, has been been slightly muted recently. Until yesterday, that is, when Hamish Faulkner, the minister for the Middle East and North Africa, took to Twitter to promote a statement about state threats from Iranian intelligence services.

And he's referring to a joint statement issued by a number of European countries as well as the United States, which suggests that the Iranians are attempting to kill and kidnap people across Europe and North America. Now, the language used is loose as the word threat conveys the sense that there is a declared intent by Iran and indeed that such activities have actually taken place. But of course, no evidence of any such thing is provided.

Now, tellingly is a short statement, but there is a specific reference to the threat to quote Jewish citizens. End Quote. As opposed to Jewish people suggesting that being Jewish supersedes the confines of nationality which portrays, one might think, the influences upon this statement being made in the 1st place.

And this is also the time to remind you that Hamish Faulkner was the man responsible for preparing the ground so busily for the American Top Gun style bunker busting attack on Irans nuclear programme as it's being described. Despite, as I mentioned at the end of Marx report report, the complete absence of evidence that the enrichment of uranium was for any purpose other than energy for the civil

infrastructure. Now watch this space as the rhetoric builds for what might be called a false flag attack. Very briefly, Patrick, what are your thoughts on this, this side of this side of the, I mean, are you? Insinuating Charles, that a Western government might cook up a weapons of mass destruction plot in order to give a pretext for another military act of aggression. Yes, I think it's probably. Stronger than an insinuation.

Actually, I think that's exactly what I'm doing and, and I think we will wait to see. Obviously we've got the the aircraft carrier, the Nimitz in a, let's say, a vulnerable position as well. So where any of these things are going to happen or could happen remains to be seen, but it's a possibility, I think. Yeah. And the the. Kidnapping plot.

I mean, this is just there's so been so many of these over the years, but the fact that they're trying to elevate these to sort of like national security, like 5 star threat level is just kind of beyond the pale. But in a way it's an act of desperation. But it where is this going to end? Are we going to have a Russia style hysterical moment in the West? But with Iran, like everything Iranian or linked to Iran or you know, Iranian restaurants, the food is suspect.

That's how it was during Russiagate, Yeah, absolutely no. I think we should expect all of that and more. But anyway, insofar as nefarious dealings with media reporting is

concerned, we're going to go now over to Northern Ireland to hear from Mike about what the BBC has been putting out and this time in relation to air turbulence. Thank you, Charles. And welcome to sunny Northern Ireland. I'm just going to cover one very short topic today, and that is ABBC article. This is the second time that I'm aware of that they've done this thing. So let's just have a look at this.

This is the article they published why plane turbulence is really becoming more frequent and more severe. So in the headline, they're absolutely clear that plane turbulence much more common, much more severe than it's ever been in the past. And they put a graph on here and you'll notice that the headline of the graph is turbulence related passenger plane accidents in the US 2009 to 2018. Now the definition of an accident with respect to turbulence is when somebody is

injured in some way. So that might be because they've flown out of their seat and hit a luggage bin, for example, or have fallen while they've been walking up the aisle or whatever. So that's the definition of accident. It doesn't mean that an aircraft has crashed at all. But if you look at the graph there, you'll see first of all, that they aren't listing years at all. They're listing months. So that isn't from 2009 to 2018 apparently. And well. That they claim that this

information is from the NTSB. If we look in the article itself, and this is kind of indicative of the language that they're using, we can expect maybe in the future perhaps this is based on models, is based on assessments by so-called experts and so on. And they say if turbulence does get more intense. So this is not definitive. The headline suggests that it is, but actually the article is very, very clear that it isn't. So at the very least the the

headline is a lie. The graph is perhaps a lie in certainly in the way that it's presented. So let's just remind ourselves of what the NTSB, this is the National Transportation Safety Board in the United States says about turbulence in this. This, as you'll see there, we've labeled as UKC Verify. Because. This article or this report is called Preventing Turbulence related in injuries in Air Carrier Operations conducted under Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 121.

And if we look at the graph that they produce there, well, the dark blue line at the at the bottom is the one which is referred as accidents with respect to turbulence. And you can see that line since in fact 1980 nine there is pretty much flat right the way across. There's been no increase in incidents of turbulence related accidents. That's despite, as the BBC says in their article, the increase in air travel and the much more likely. Potential.

For coming across turbulence just by the fact that people are flying much more often. So that's it. I just couldn't let that particular report pass even though I'm over in Northern Ireland today. So that's, that's that for now. Back to you, Charles. Thanks very much, Mike. And indeed, nor should it be let to pass by unquestioned, unscrutinised and on the subject of propaganda and just I'm. Disappointed in the findings of that report, Charles. I thought it was going to be

climate change. Well, Patrick? You know, let's just wait. I mean, there's plenty of time for that. I feel empty inside. Right now. Yeah. All right. Let's see, though, on the subject of propaganda, what's been happening in Slovakia.

Well. There's another organization, an NGO that might sound familiar if you've been watching the UK column news. We'll bring this up on screen here. The Zinc Network. What are they up to? British propaganda machine and its influence peddling in Slovakia's elections. Well, Declassified UK did a very good investigative report on Zinc's role in hiring and paying influencers to defame and try to influence and also to kind of derail the campaign of Robert

Fizzo, this Slovakian leader. Obviously he's against the war in Ukraine. That's all always going to put him on the bad list as far as Western NATO goes. But yeah, Zinc as as Mike Rumson and others have pointed out, well, if you look at the funding from the FCO and so forth, that's a very well funded organization and this is what they get up to with the money, surprise, surprise. So that's something to to look at. And then just over to quickly to the to the economic topic here.

Donald Trump is a continuing to weaponize tariffs, OK, He's now threatening the BRICS countries. He's he's accusing them of enacting an anti US agenda. So this is a bit like a vicious cycle for the US here. I mean, the reason there is a BRICS is because of U.S. sanctions and Donald Trump is again continuing to use tariffs as sanctions. And so you this, this problem is just going to get worse and

worse. And I don't really know if there's an exit door for this administration on this issue, but they don't seem to have anything else in the toolbox, so it's not looking good, No, and. I suppose, you know, we just wait for the next installment because it'll change in a few minutes presumably, possibly even by the time we've finished

the programme. Now sticking in the United States, we're going to go across to Mark because one of the reasons or at least perhaps the main reason that the COVID

vaccines in particular were rolled out quite so widely with Gay abandoned was because there was a state of indemnity for the manufacturers. And Thomas Massey is trying to deal with this in the United States. Mark, what exactly is happening? Well, call this. A spotlight on Congress for today. Of course, Ronald Reagan gave protection to Big Pharma back in 1986 with some things that he passed and signed.

But Thomas Massie, the gutsy backbencher that still makes his voice heard despite all the pressure on him to shut up and to turn tail and run. He's pushing forward now. Not really a lone wolf, but he's doing this largely on his own steam. He doesn't have a whole lot of support yet, but this is him announcing the introduction of the Prep Repeal Act. It's noted as HR4388 to repeal sections 319-F3 and 319-F4 of the Public Health Service Act.

These targeted sections are commonly referred to as the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness or PREP Act and currently provides sweeping liability protections to pharmaceutical companies for pandemic related products. And here's some of the main things that it does. I'll only touch on 2. Let's put that up. It fully repeals the liability Shields and the compensation fund provisions under this PREP Act and it restores civil remedy

rights. That is civil remedy rights, excuse me, under federal and state law for those harmed by pandemic products. So right now, according to congress.gov, which is the Library of Congress, the main site for for Congress, it doesn't have any Co sponsors yet. It was just introduced, but it's important to get this out there. Those overseas need to be aware of it. And American viewers, of course, need to take action if they're so inclined.

Thomas Massie's personal website, well, his official website that is for Congress is very open to people calling. He has a very open policy, whether it's media or his constituents. And of course non constituents can call. It's not forbidden or anything like that to call and, and voice their support. And to learn more about his call for repeal of the PREP Act, here's a couple of his most important quotes.

He had this to. Say, and this is interesting, I put emphasis on this, the PREP Act is medical malpractice, martial law. Interesting choice of words there. The 2005 PREP Act prevents people from holding corporations accountable for the pain and suffering they caused during presidentially declared emergencies. An important caveat there. And moving on from there, one other quote from Mr. Massey,

again, I added some emphasis. Americans deserve the right to seek justice when injured by government mandated products. The Prep Repeal Act will restore that right, says the Kentucky Republican District 4. So he's putting it out there.

Very important stuff. It kind of supplements some of the other things going on that I've reported where even Israel, as well as Italy, the United States, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and even Iran have signed letters that they're not taking part in. The amendments to the International Health Regulations And the actual pandemic treaty due to certain elements within the treaty itself, as I've noted, cannot be fully enacted until a little bit less than a

year from now because of that, because of those provisions. And that's when the final signatures would be put into that thing and only then would it be official. So it we've got some time on the treaty. The regulations are wrapping up that that is they're they're kind of drawing to a close where they're going to be pretty solidified and yet they're still more and more opposition or questions about the international health regulations themselves. So I'll keep following this.

It's very important to keep tabs on it over the long haul. So back to you guys. Thanks very much, Mark. Yeah, it is indeed very important to keep that in mind and good for Thomas Massie having a go. There will be monumental corporate pressure pushing back the other way against any efforts to repeal that act. 11 would imagine Thomas Massie noticeable, of course, because he was also behind the prime bill, which concerned regulation for slaughter on a small scale for the the sort of smaller

American farmer. And that leads into a report.

I'm going to start now about food because just a couple of weeks ago the government put out abrasive documents about food which are designed to give the impression that there is a central plan to improve the health of the nation. At the same time as improving economic conditions for food producers and deriving A restored environment from the

process. Labour's so-called plan for change is deployed yet again to make it sound like the pursuit or achievement of any of these things is both a novel idea and indeed within the gift of the government to give. Now this is a crucial point because the good food cycle shown here refers to the quote amazing businesses, End Quote,

making this happen. And of course, the reality is that the big food and big agricultural businesses are able to drive the agenda, partly due to their corporate strength and lobbying power, but also because the government schemes, policies and subsidies are all designed to favour them above others. Now, the Food Strategy document put out on the same day makes the same sort of woolly claims, suggesting that food security and national security are inextricably linked.

Now that may well be the case, but as reported many times, the recent publication of the National Security Strategy, the Strategic Defence Review, as well as last year's just in case report for the National Preparedness Commission demonstrates beyond all reasonable doubt that the UK is not in any way prepared for any of the types of shocks that it describes in any of these these documents. Now before going into more detail, there are two things to

point out. Firstly, the term food security, which is bandied around all the time only occurs 3 times on the statute book and never in a binding sense. It's only ever written down as a consideration when evaluating environmental schemes and I think that makes the priorities here very clear. Secondly, the budget for agriculture in the UK this year, which has been described as the

largest ever, is £5 billion. Now, it would take the National Health Service just 10 days to spend this much money. So I think you can decide whether you think the government is actually sincere on this issue. As to the content, it's been pointed out by many, including Farmers Weekly, this plan does not involve animals, and having read the document, that is really the case.

There are precisely 0 mentions of dairy or meat, but instead a reshaping of a diet in order that we all eat the same thing. Regardless of the vast quantities of evidence suggesting that animals benefit the environment and of course that animal products are in fact vital for human health. The anti nature agenda is covered on all sides as evidenced by one of the latest emergencies.

But to just draw out from the document, they're, they're suggesting that we have the foundations of the economy at heart with this new food strategy and that our diet should be higher in fruit, vegetables and whole grains. And of course that it supports our net 0 commitments. But on the subject of emergencies, we are dealing yet again with blue tongue, or at least in this instance, and I've

covered it many times. But just a reminder that the restrictions on movement are of course specifically crafted in order to encourage vaccination, even though, and as usual, the vaccines in question given under emergency authorisation. And it should also be pointed out, the people investing in fake meat grown in laboratories are exactly the same people investing in pharmaceutical products for animals.

And further, that the volume of these products is that goes to animals far outstrips that to humans. So I mean, it's, it's, it's pretty obvious what the direction of travel is. Now the other big issue which of course will not go away is population.

And as recent statistics from the ONS suggest, and they are in the estimates, but the natural population, as you can see on screen, dipping down relatively sharply to the right, whereas the migrant population is surging upwards with a with a estimated net inflow of nearly 700,000 for the previous year. So considering these factors, how the land is used could not really be more important. And I cite here the consultation live at the moment called multifunctional land use.

And they say that there's going to be a document produced from this consultation in October of this year. They cite the Royal Society's 2023 Multifunctional Land Use Document, which reckons on quote, an additional 4.4 million hectares of land, which is 18% of the total land mass of the UK, being needed to deliver net 0 biodiversity and development objectives by 2050. So we're about to chime in with it. Well, I'm just going to ask you.

Charles, with this few security agenda, how does that square with paying farmers not to grow food in the rewilding schemes that the government has been undertaking for, what, the last decade? How do those two things well, Patrick? I mean, neither you nor I works for the government, so we couldn't possibly comprehend such a thing. Exactly.

This is the central question. And, and, and to qualify exactly what you're asking and what people will be thinking that what's called the utilised agricultural area in the UK is just under 17,000,000 hectares. And so the croppable, what's described as the croppable area of that is around 6,000,000 hectares. I've just said that confirmed by Defra this morning and the area covered by arable crops from last. Year's. Statistics is not quite as large as the Royal Society is

suggesting. And don't forget that the the word they used was additional. So basically what they're saying is that there will be were this to be rolled out and were croppable area to be used, which I know is a is a hypothetical that would leave precisely no land left upon which to produce crops in the way that they are now.

Now I don't mean that to to sound alarmist of course, but of course worth pointing out also that Defra has delayed the publication of this year's statistics on land use. But last year there was a 107% increase in uncropped arable land as a direct result of the unlimited offering from the sustainable farming incentive. So it could well turn out to be the case that a lot less land is actually in production this

year. Now the the answer for the countryside as far as the government appears to be concerned is to destroy it. And to pick out one example, we'll look at the way in which lithium battery technology has been deployed across the country. This is the mapping from Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. And first, we're looking at the figures as they were from 1990, with no developments in

existence now. They're deemed hazardous by virtue of the fact they're unproven, and in the event of fire or an explosion, nothing be done to mitigate, leading to real environmental catastrophe. But this is what the map now looks like today, and indeed the last image includes the proposed sites. If you're unable to see the screen, I've got a map of the UK with hotspots shown all over the place, with only exceptions really for Mid Wales, the Highlands of Scotland and the Pennine area.

So to reinforce the point about the sheer recklessness of doing this, I would point to the recent statement from Mattson Shipping at Large Logistics Company based in Hawaii, which has said in a statement that due to increasing concern for the safety of transporting vehicles powered by large lithium ion batteries, Matson is suspending acceptance of used or new electric vehicles and plug in hybrid vehicles for transport aboard its vessels. That's the end of the quote from

that statement. I would say this really can't be brushed off. It's, it's not a conspiracy theory. And this is at a time when, as reported on Wednesday, the government is now spending your money to subsidise the purchase of those very vehicles. So there's loads more to go into in terms of detail.

And of course, we've set it alongside the NHS statistics, sorry the ONS statistics that that nearly 7000 farming businesses reported to have closed down in, in the the year that we're currently in and on that blue. Tongue issue. I was speaking with an organic farmer local in Devon that specializes in livestock and they try to stay organic. But if, if, if the government says there's blue tongue in the area, they have to vaccinate their animals. Otherwise they get the risk of

being shut down. Exactly. So that's what's actually happening behind the scenes. So even though they want to stay organic and they don't vaccinate their animals, the blue tongue scare has has opened the door for government to lean on. And obviously I don't want to say the name of the the farmer, but this is the conversation that's that's happening on the countryside.

No, the pressure is intense. And, and it is in effect, they're, they're rolling out now exactly what they tried to do with human beings during the COVID period, which was to say that there can be free movement on the condition that everybody has received a pharmaceutical product. And it's exactly what they've done. So the the blue tongue restriction zone has been expanded to cover the whole of the UK, which means that free movement has in effect been granted.

But under that that those very conditions, you're absolutely right. Now, what I would say in terms of, as a member of the audience, your relationship and with regard to food and all the rest of it, is that the farming section on the UK column website is absolutely full of interviews with people who have a vision, but that's founded on reality and a way to achieve of what the government pretends to be doing, but without destroying anything in the process.

So that concludes the food sort of report for today. And we're now going to go back to Mark because you're going to

tell us about what's been going on in terms of mass media power and sort of further consolidation and how that presents a threat to all the smaller players. Yes, time is tight, so I might make this kind of a cliffhanger, but Sun Valley, ID each year is where the Bilderberg Junior, you might say confab, takes place. I have a slide from one of the

more gossipy news organizations. In fact, the gossip news organizations provide the main coverage and ironically, often do a better job than what any mainstream media coverage might. Come along this one from deadline dated July 9th, right when Sun Valley was taking place. Touching down in Sun Valley. Can moguls find answers to media's pressing questions amid the Ponderosa Pines?

It shows Warner Brothers discoveries, David Zasloff and Disney's Bob Iger. Disney owns ABC, of course. They're arriving there now. What's interesting is in the next slide. And like I say, I'll probably have kind of a cliffhanger that we can talk about in in extra. But what happened at Sun Valley 2025 by Fast Company and another sort of gossip rag A14 July as this thing was really kicking

into into high gear. Likely acquisition of the Free Press, an online media source by Skydance Media and David Ellison, who's Skydance's CEO David Ellison and yes, he is the son of Oracle's Larry Ellison. He attended Sun Valley along alongside Miss Barry Weiss. That's the lady Miss Barry Weiss who's a center left pro Israel Free Press Co founder.

But the New York Times learned that if Skydance purchases the Free Press, and Skydance wants to purchase Paramount, which owns CBS in in a huge deal, $8 billion. So there's two purchases going on. And yet the Times is saying that if Skydance purchases the Free Press as well as Paramount, then Miss Weiss could take a major role in shaping the CBS News editorial direction. And she's very pro Israel, very interesting there. So that's some of the goings on that.

There's another kind of juicy item. I'll save that for extra in the interest of time by having to do with more details about Skydance buying Paramount, which on CBS and some of the machinations there. So that should do for now. Super thanks very much Mark and a rare cliffhanger there for the UK column audience.

So look forward to that an extra now we're just going to close out the programme by looking at what's going on in the civil service because the BBC have announced that they are going to be looking at working class people for interns. However exactly the BBC or when do the civil service describe such thing. This seems to come from the 2016 document socio economic diversity in the fast stream.

So I thought we would go to a place where we can wind the clock back a little bit as to exactly what the the purpose of a civil servant really is or should be. Makes me feel rather. Downcast. If it's our job to carry out government policies, shouldn't we believe in them? What an extraordinary idea. Why? Bernard. I have served 11 governments in the past 30 years.

If I believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the common market and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalizing steel and of denationalizing it and renationalizing it and capital punishment. I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent

abolitionist. I would have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, A nationalization freak and a privatization maniac. But above all, I would be in a stark staring, raving schizophrenic. So I don't know that it necessarily matters which socio economic group you believe you belong to. But that's a good note to end on. I think. So very Many thanks to Mark and to Mike for joining us on the live link and indeed for Patrick joining me in the studio.

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