Good afternoon. Today is Monday the 29th of January 2024, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK Column News. Your host today myself, Brian Gerrish, and I'm delighted to be joined by Alex Thompson and also Mark Anderson from the USA. And we are delighted to have a special guest who will be joining us for UK Column Extra. And we'll be having a look at some low traffic neighbourhoods in Oxford and what people are
doing to stand up against those. But let's kick off with the serious stuff and that is we appear to have a world full of politicians that want nothing but war. Alex, welcome. What have you got to tell us? Brian The war fever against Russia has reached as far as it could get. Geographically, it's reached Australia. So a deputy professor in Australia, Alexei Muraviev, who's in the realm of national security and strategy studies, suggests that it is time to
consider conscription. And he reminds his readers that over half a century ago, when Australia was going through a constitutional crisis which eventually led to the Crown deposing of Whitlam, the then Prime Minister, that he progressively, as it was thought, abolished national service, the English speaking countries did so earlier than
the continent. Britain had already done so in 1960. But some more RBF is saying it's time to have these conscripts back because as far as he can see in Perth, WA, the Russians are about to cause Australia a problem. I doubt it somehow, but there we go, continuing the northern European shock and awe campaign which has been reported already with the the Swedes, the Dutch in the form of Admiral Rob Bauer of NATO and the British getting in on the ACT. Sir Patrick Sanders.
We now have a Norwegian equivalent so Eric Christopherson who is the chief of staff of the Norwegian Armed Forces has said we don't have much time. And a couple of highlights, which Doug Blood, it's in his interview has brought out, suggest that we don't know whether we will be at war with Russia within one, two or three years. It's been written up by others as though he was saying we will certainly be at war in that time, which is not quite what he said, but it's getting pretty
desperate now. Of course, NATO and its hangers on like Australia expect Uncle Sam to ride or sail to the rescue. The trouble is, as reported to military.com, that the United States Marines don't sail their own craft. Unless you know different of course, with your Old Navy service. They require the US Navy. It's a separate service branch in America, unlike the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines being the same branch, they require them to carry them to the fields
of deployment and battle. And Lieutenant General Carsten Heckel who is the commander of the combat that development command at the US Marine Corps has told military.com so it's on the record now we are simply where we are. There's no immediate fix. War is a come as you game and going into more detail the general says that there is considerable considerable, considerable.
I take that as military panic. Big large by months gaps between the ME, US. Now these are the units which combine the US Navy and the military sorry. And the Marines in order to deploy. And there have already been cases in Africa where citizens were at risk and the marines were already raring to go and
storm the beaches. But because of the lack of amphibious craft, because of the Navy trying to scrimp and save on the number of vessels in the fleet, even in the biggest Navy in the world supposedly they weren't able to. So mutual recriminations going on there. Meanwhile, the United States wants its allies to help Ukraine because they can't do so itself anymore.
So the Defence Secretary, Mr. Blinken, has offered his counterpart in Greece, Mr. Mittal Takis $200 million to send weapons to Ukraine. And the actually it's not his counterpart, it's the Greek Prime Minister Blinken, in his own right, is quoted in Athens News as saying. We remain interested in the defence potential that Greece can transfer or sell to Ukraine if these capabilities are of interest to Ukraine and pending the US government's assessment
of their status. So they'll be in some inspectors centre warehouse. We, the US Pentagon, may explore the potential for additional foreign military financing funds of up to $200 million. Meanwhile, in an extra link which will be in the show notes, the main Greek daily Ekathidimini has suggested that Greece is now ready to do battle
with Turkey if necessary. There's been A1 upmanship in the in having a squadron of F35 fighters on both sides, because Turkey has extracted from the US that as the price of dropping its veto on Swedish NATO membership, that Turkey would
have an F35 squadron. Meanwhile, floppy rifles in Germany. Dash Spiegel, which will feature in a more nefarious role later in this news, reports that the German Audit Chamber has wrapped the German forces, the Bundeswehr over the knuckles for deliberately softening the rigour of the shooting tests that were brought in for the new weapon of choice, the G95-A1, which supposedly didn't meet up to its shooting tests before being brought into regular
service as the main rifle. As I understand it. And the there are plenty of documents available to their Spiegel investigative team which indicate that this was well known and that the German armed forces just went back to the drawing board and said let's have less demanding tests so that this weapon can be rolled out because we've already decided it will be the next one in service. Meanwhile in Britain, the constitutional aspects of declaring war continue to gain attention.
At the University College London Constitution Unit, which, together with Kings in London, poses as the mainstream commentator in academia on the British constitution. They're asking the rhetorical question, how might Keir Starmer for our overseas viewers? That's the likely next Prime Minister codify his intended Prevention of Military Intervention Act with some blurb.
Well, rather than read that turgid stuff, how about this response, which has been tweeted or exed, as we might now have to say, by the Western Aid Price Foundation? That is Philip Ridley and author regularly writing the UK column and soon to feature in audio content of ours as well. He's tweeting back in reply to that the tweet of that piece, an article of his which is still in editors choice on the front page of our website entitled War Powers.
Is the UK a military dictatorship or is it a legal limited monarchy? That latter phrase comes from the claim of Right of Scotland 1689 and is a constitutional treaty. And he replies that both Sir Keir Starmer and the the Constitution Unit at UCL should know that the Crown already has no prerogative to engage in war to defend place which is not belonging to it without consent of the British Parliament. See the 1700 Act of Settlement.
No new legislation is required, as set out in my article more pithily from the Ethno Nationalists side of the spectrum, I think as often Morgoth is fearless from the North East of England. He has a piece on the looming spectre of conscription. And I'll just read this paragraph because it's too good to miss. It is a bit in your face, but it has to be at this point, he says It would be enjoyable to think that chickens were coming home
to roost. He's referring to the fact that people are realising the millennials won't fight and will actually fight against the government if someone tries to conscript them. But he says the chickens can't walk anymore. He then says white boys. And of course their recruitment is down in America. Significantly, white boys don't want to have a giggling Russian girl sitting in an office in Bobrovka fly grenade laden drones into their gonads as they cower in a bog.
He's referring to what happens in Ukraine. Everyone knows, right? Why? Says Morkov. Our leaders can't admit. Why, of course, Because to do so would reveal them as some of the stupidest people in all of world history ever to hold power. He's not the only one who thinks that way. This meme from the cobbled together from The Old Fast Show shows a yokel stumbling out of his garden shed, as he used to do every week in British TV comedy.
And he says this week I have been mostly war mongering, so I think Mark has a bit of comment there on the internationalization of the war. Yeah, Good day, gentlemen. In Foreign Affairs magazine, as advertised in a Brookings Institution e-mail, there's a new article. I didn't have a paywall. It's just called The Next Global War, written by Hal Brands. There's no question mark at the end. The Next Global War, A real
quick little snippet. the US isn't facing a formalized alliance of adversaries as it did during WW2. It probably won't see a replay of a scenario in which autocratic powers conquered giant swaths of Eurasia and its
littoral regions. Yet with wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East already raging, and ties between revisionist states becoming more pronounced, all it would take is a clash in the contested Western Pacific to bring about another awful scenario, one in which intense interrelated regional struggles overwhelmed the international system and create a crisis of global security unlike anything since 1945.
What's interesting there is they're positing the idea that the international system is what's holding the line and will only have war if the international system is overwhelmed, when others would argue, probably myself, that the international system is actually a failure and exacerbates things and may very well be the engine of war. Ultimately it it's a long read, like many ponderous foreign affairs articles are, but it's just another example of how
they're upping the anti wars. Rumours of wars and the psychological effect of rumours of wars. Is the ongoing war a shooting war? We'd have to wait and see. Thank you very much for that Mark, and it just reinforces why Morgoth, in his blog on refusing conscription, describes what we're being called to fight or the younger among us are being called to fight. He describes it as Globo homo. Alex, thank you. Thank you very, very much for that report. And Mark for your comments there.
Alex, from your section, very interesting. The American military got similar problems to UK. They can't get ships where they need to be. They've got manning problems. And we've also got the other question over who is creating these wars and are they actually legitimate wars since nobody is declaring war?
Well, let's listen to some of the politicians and senior military people talking and we're kick off here with David Cameron. Last night, 4 RAF Typhoons took part in military action together with the Americans to further degrade the Houthi capacity to carry out these attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. What the Houthis are doing is unacceptable, it's illegal and it's threatening the freedom of navigation. That's why we've taken the
action. Alongside that action is a whole set of measures we'll be taking, including sanctions and other pressure to put on the Houthis. Combined, of course, with the action the Royal Navy is taking with others in the Red Sea, and we'll be building the strongest coalition of support to back the steps that we've been. Well, there we are.
Truly horrible. I wonder how many people remember Cameron speaking as Prime Minister, putting on his very posh, very serious voice as he tells the audience and the world what is actually happening. Those nasty Houthis, Of course we United Kingdom, the US, NATO, we have not done anything out of the ordinary. All of this trouble has simply come out of nowhere. But there he is on the word world stage saying what he and the British military are going to do about it.
All of this, of course is a smokescreen and a lie, because at the moment Britain's military are in Polaris situation with a lack of equipment and men. And well, let's hear some further comment from a retired Colonel, Tim Collins. When you first came to prominence, obviously as a military leader, the biggest challenge that you might face were you still in the forces today would be what's happening in the eastern border of NATO, Russia.
Do you think that we are ready, fit to play, play our part in the defence of Europe? We are in this country absolutely not ready our our military as a shadow itself or two of our biggest assets. The the two aircraft carriers are tied up alongside in Portsmouth when we have a crisis in the Red Sea. So it gets interesting when we hear Cameron speaking and then we get the reality of the situation about the UK on forces. The carriers can't operate in the our Red Sea.
We simply can't get them out there. We haven't got the supply and the support ships and also the army is getting smaller and less effective, less credible by the day. So that retired Colonel pointing it out. But let's go to the boss and General Sanders himself. General Sanders has made no secret of the fact he thinks the British Army is too small.
The current Conservative government has cut it to its smallest size in more than 300 years, and General Sanders made the point that over the last 30 years the British Army has halved in size. He's made the point that he sees the current generation of soldiers as a pre war generation. So we're in a pre war generation, but by some strange events the armed forces have got
smaller and smaller. Many of the media reports are talking about the British Army shrinking as if it had been put on the the wrong wash cycle in the washing machine. But the reality is deliberate calculated policy has been destroying Britain's military to make it smaller, less effective and of course weakening it with the woke agenda. So let's listen to General Sir Patrick Sanders talking about Future Soldier and something he's discovered.
Well, Future Soldier is a response to the strategic context we're in. And that was captured I think pretty well in the integrated review in 2021. But of course what we've had since then is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And so although we we characterize Russia as a threat, I think the threat the, the speed at which that's accelerated towards us has taken
everyone by surprise. And So what we've done is to adapt at real pace what future soldier set out because we know that we could be required to fight and certainly we need to be able to deter the threats in Europe this decade future Soldier is incredibly exciting. So at it's heart, it's the most radical transformation of the British Army that I've experienced in the 40 years that I've been in uniform. This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining the army.
And if you're in the army now, you're joined now. The army you join will look radically different in the course of the next six or seven years. And just to give you a sense of of the pace of that, we've now got a really clear sense of our purpose. So the Army's purpose is to fight and win wars on land. Well, Alex, I'm going to ask you for a little bit of help here because by the time we got to that final statement, he's been
in the Army for 40 years. But apparently it's only now recently that he's understood what the purpose of the Army was. I want to say that this man does not have the mental acumen to do the job he's doing, but there's something else. It is like he has the mind of a child. He's trying to tell us that with all of the intelligence systems in UK and the West, we didn't see the threat from the Russians.
And Oh my goodness, now we've got a problem because we don't have an army capable of doing anything effective in the field overseas. But he's only just learned the purpose of why we have an army. What is? What's your explanation for the mindset of this man? Brain scramble of some kind. I'm glad you gave me a bit of a bridge there before bringing the camera on to me, because I had to suppress quite a hearty laugh at that last sentence. As usual, I go for linguistic analysis.
I don't think that somebody as well bred as Sir Patrick really speaks as casually and sloppily as that, with the dropped consonants between vowels. People might for short call it American speech, where of course there's no, there's no association of register with it. But in Britain, certainly in his upbringing, that would have been a no go for anyone of class and
reading. So I think he's deliberately like Tony Blair in his early years of premiership when he pretended to pronounce football as football. I think what he's doing here is showing that he's a man of the people and and putting things in oversimplified terms that looking up, and if I'm not mistaken to the right as well, suggests to me a kind of panic or brain freeze moment.
Well, if we've got the senior man having brain freezes, I don't have any confidence in his ability to defend the nation. But the second point I want to make is that history shows us a deliberate policy to destroy Britain's military, and the UK column has been warning and warning over a great many years on this issue. So let's have a look at some previous reports this this one is up to date.
So this is Sky News. RAF jets flying 3000 miles for Houthi strikes as flagship aircraft carriers remained in the UK, and we've talked about that it's partly manning and partly the sport ships. Here's the male aircraft carrier fiasco, as the UK refuses to deploy either of its 3.5 billion warships to help tackle Yemen's Houthis. And then we can go back here and have a look at old reports. RAF cuts could make Britain's airspace vulnerable to attack
competition. To give retired HMS Illustrious and new home, here's HMSR Royals being cut up in a Turkish scrap yard, scrapping of the RAF Nimrods. British Army cuts are one hell of a risk after Crimea, says General. And we said at the time to destroy Britain. Vote Conservative 2015.
So none of this is accidental. This was planned policy by the political parties labouring on it as well, but other things going on, the wokeness of the military and this was army fitness test being rewritten to make sure the women could cope with what was happening. But if you look at the reality everywhere, women are coming into frontline of the military. That is a man lost to the frontline and that is a weakening of the military and maybe contentious with some of
our women. Audience today, but that is the harsh reality of it. Meanwhile we've got big money for jobs which are more akin to sitting in an office than being in uniform for an army. So looking for a new career? Cybersecurity Here we've got Forces TV from 2016 talking
about the sell off of MOD assets in order to build homes. 10 military sites to be sold for 7000 homes and apparently every pound we make by disposing of excess land will be reinvested into a defence budget that keeps Britain safe. So that's the reality. Planned destruction.
Let's very quickly have a look at what what Boris Johnson had to say to the idea of recruiting youngsters to fight the Russians. Lance Corporal Johnson reporting for duty and responding to the appeal from General Sanders for a citizen army and encouraging young people across the country to think of the attractions advantages of some kind of military training or service. Because at the moment they think
it's either uncool or unethical. Or perhaps they're not following General Sanders. They're following Colonel Sanders to find out what we need to do about it, read my column in the Daily Mail. So I just say to the audience, we I have to include myself. I wasn't able to stop him, but we allowed this person to become a politician who ultimately destroyed any peace between Ukraine and the Russians.
And this is the idiot now talking to the public on the lines of getting young people involved to die on the battlefield. Well, I'll just reiterate what Alex has shown, which is that the Telegraph here, why it's maybe too late for the West to avoid war. And on the right we've got Peter Hitchens, who quite rightly is pointing out we need to do something to stop this madness. But I'm going to say even Peter Hitchens doesn't seem able to put the pieces together of what we're faced with.
And there's a little video clip here from AUS man who's now living in the Donbass warning us. And I think this is a very, very pertinent track which many people should pay attention to, he tells us what is coming. Let's have a listen. You know, I've been saying for 10 years that people in the United States should take a lesson from what's happened in Ukraine and understand that, you know, what the US, who controls the Ukrainian government has
done to Ukraine? Destroyed the economy, you know, caused the death of millions of their citizens, you know, made them, you know, a pariah and a disgrace on the world political stage, all these things that they have done in Ukraine. And I've been telling people in America this for 10 years now,
you know, what? The US government and the people who own and control the US government and the European governments, what they have done to people in other countries around the world, they will do to their own citizens too. So a very simple but very powerful statement. I'm just going to reinforce it as fast as I can by saying just have a look back at what was happening.
Here's 2013 and we have Prince Charles who said he's going to be working with David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Cleggg to recruit an army of 2 million to save a lost generation, a so-called community army. If we have a look at what David Cameron and others got up to, of course getting the fear factor going with constant commentary on the risks of terrorism and how terrible terrorist attacks would be.
But this was ramping up the fear, bringing in Prevent targeting children at school channel, so protecting vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. This was in fact more fear, more spying and leading us through to MAPPA where we have groups across UK spying on individuals supposedly to keep us safe. And if I just end on this, we should also remember that Eric Pickles, former community Minister, said we're going to shake up the balance of power in
this country. We're going to change the nature of the Constitution, being no doubt about our commitment to localism. I know I look like an unlikely revolutionary, but the revolution starts here. And if people still don't get what the real intent of these people is, I'll just end here with Michael Gove.
And he was quoted in 2014 as saying so if the right candidate for any public appointment happens to be a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party or someone who has been generous enough to support a political party with their hard earned cash, if they are the right person, then he or she will be appointed. That's the end of it. And on that note, let's come across to Mark.
We can clearly show that people in my mind, with a strong communist agenda were working to destroy Britain back in the 2013, two 1014 period and I'm sure that they're still at the treasonous work today. But of course it's the big globalist organisations that are creating many of the policies and you've been having a look at the World Economic Forum. Yeah. Good day again, gentlemen.
The World Economic Forum, of course, conducts that annual meeting in Davos, and I've got a few slides to show, not too many. And I had to focus on AI. There's a lot you can look at. So breaking it down, the rapid growth of artificial intelligence has raised critical questions and they have asked some good questions at WEF and we'll move on from there. Given that AI will impact our societies and industries, what solutions, dialogue and education are needed? All generally good questions,
good things to explore. And we do have a video clip coming up. This is Alexandra Reeve, given. She does make some good points, but then I've got some other context to share that will paint a broader picture. A second area that we need to think about is surveillance. How much easier it becomes for governments to surveil their populations, particularly in regimes that have poor human rights records or authoritarian regimes face recognition technology, we all know. What that is, that is AI
powered, right? The way that that system is trained and it learns, we've seen that deployed to surveil protests to identify suspects in a protest so they can be pulled out. To caution people against protesting and participating in those public spaces. So you can see that there are some good points raised there, but if you look at it contextually, you can pick out some things, especially things that aren't shown on the video.
For example, she said that those other regimes, those authoritarian regimes, they might misuse AI. She's making that initial bias, that fundamental bias that's very common at the WEF, that it's only the other guys, Viktor Orban's Hungary, Vladimir Putin's Russia, and so on, that will abuse these things. It could never be the EU, it could never be the United States. It could never be Britain. And so those are valid concerns. But the context is very important.
Some of the other comments, briefly there was a futurist and black investor. Will I am, he goes by that name. Will I am. And he he said things like the AI will be a whole new way to unearth tomorrow's industries. Because we know AI is going to topple, that is topple today's industries. And there's other questions. You know, Uber drivers, bean counters at financial institutions, various clerks, their jobs will be gone under AI. There's different ramifications
for that. AI mimics, but it does not really futurize. It can't imagine. So they're calling on the young of the world, the youth of the world, to combine their inherent innate imagination with AI. Things like that. Mister Gupta talked about this is to Manchu Gupta. He's an Indian AI expert. Kim Manchu Gupta. He talked about farmers being able to get a drought resistance seeds cheaper and faster with the use of AI. There may see may be some advantages there, and so on many other things.
There's concern that people whose financial benefits and eligibility is based on AI may lose their benefits because AI will misread their background. So there's there is a palpable and maybe sufficient concern being expressed at the World Economic Forum about the pitfalls of AI.
But on the other hand, there's this kind of mindset that AI has to be adopted in all it in its entirety, and that we simply have to navigate the choppy waters of dealing with all the ramifications, especially the negatives, of course. So it's a full embrace of AI, and the inherent bias that I talked about creates a lot of problems because only those other countries, only those authoritarian regimes would would abuse it. And the EU couldn't possibly be
authoritarian. Neither could the US nor Britain, and we have another slide here. This is an aspect of AI that's perhaps being overlooked in the movie War Games, released in June 1983. In the US, the lead character, a skilled teen computer hacker played by Matthew Broderick, inadvertently hacks into Joshua, an AI computer trained to fight nuclear war games. But Joshua thinks the games are real.
So when the character in the movie begins to engage with Joshua, Joshua actually starts a scenario that all the nuclear powers on their surveillance screens, on their monitoring screens, thinks is real. And I wrote an article a few years back, Brian, and I'm going to get this for next week.
I believe there's already been a lot of studies and contemplation and developments of prototypes of computers that would fight war automatically, that would fight war without much human intervention other than the initial input of data, which is a lot like Joshua and the war games movie. So the war games fiction could become fact if these developments keep going and computers are developed to fight
wars on autopilot. And so that's that's another dimension of this that wasn't really mentioned at the World Economic Forum. And just to wind up and maybe you guys want to comment, I'll be trying to cover, as best I can, artificial intelligence and climate change coming up at what's known as the South by Southwest Austin, TX annual event. Some people call it World Economic Forum Junior in some aspects.
That true, that's true. Not in all aspects, but as you can see, artificial intelligence is part of it. They're spending like five or six days on it and almost as many days on climate change. So there is sort of a similar WEF on my side of the pond, but I don't know if you guys have any comment or questions either you guys.
Mark, the only thing I'll I'll say is that the key point you made there, of course isn't The World Economic Forum and these other global powerhouses always regard themselves as being the good guys and anybody who disagrees with them as being the bad guys. I think that was a very key point that you've made there. And of course it's their policy which is controlling a lot of the politicians worldwide.
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That's an audio in the Gutsy Women series with Moira Dundee, the very brave lady that took on the establishment by skipping and warning the public that something was badly wrong during the horrible time of lockdown. So join me for this very amusing and interesting interview and I'll also say that Moira strongly stood up for the men, even though she's a gutsy woman herself, so you might like to see that Now.
I did mention a guest and I'm delighted to say that Chaka Artwell is going to join us for extra time at the end of the news and he has been very outspoken against the low traffic neighbourhoods which are being implemented in Oxford. So if you're a member of UK column, you'll be able to join us for that interview after. Sorry for that discussion after the news. Now I'd also like to say that several people have pointed out that Anthony Carling needs some
financial help. He's been fighting the banks for many years and he's now in the horrible situation where his own home is in danger of being repossessed. There is a GoFundMe, which you can find here, Santander versus Carlin, urgent funding required, and I believe that he needs another 6000 lbs to help his campaign against the banks effectively stealing property from people and selling mortgages they're not entitled to sell. This is a very big battle, and he's at risk of losing his own
home as a result of his courage. Now, good news, we've got a lot of people starting to step forward to take on the system. This one was sent in to us. The time has come. Calling all men and women of Kernow and basically these are the groups meeting up at St. Austell Rugby Football Club that Sunday, the 4th of February 2 to 4, to think about what practical steps people can take to protect themselves and challenge the system. And we've got another one here.
This is West Somerset Safety Committee. They've produced a constitution, but essentially they're taking on everything they consider to be dangerous, from 5G to potholes. More on potholes later in the news. Education, LED weapons, housing, elderly support and local crime. And you can see a telephone number and contact details at the bottom bottom of that report. Now Alex, let's bring you back on screen because you've got a little video clip for us here.
Let's just start that playing. This has been spotted at Headgate and then 10 S Way in Colchester in Essex. Someone eagle eyed has noticed that if you look at Google Earth's mapping of that street, you'll find a series of natty yellow boards and protesters holding them along the side of the road. That is of course the yellow board movement and they have now been immortalised in Google Earth. So well done to them for that. It's interesting how Google Earth manages to get some of the
the real world in there. But moving on to a segment I now have on immigration on the European continent to set the scene. Although it is from last summer,
not brand new. There is a Dutch paper out called Borderless Welfare State the Consequences of Immigration or Public Finances and it's authored by From the Bait Hartock and Rodenberg. And here is the table which is really proven to be the the heart of this that there has been a costing now put positive and negative on different kinds of immigrants to the Netherlands. This has been done on Dutch budgetary figures against the opposition of Dutch local and national government figures.
Who said how dare you put a price on people. Well they have because it's scientific research. This has been written up among others by defuncal 2 Point O who has said Dutch research has revealed the true cost of mass immigration. And the spoiler alert is westerners bring money in and people from other parts of the world are bottomless sinks. Not a value judgement on the people, but a necessary thing to note.
Les Echo in France, the equivalent of the Financial Times reports that the right wing parties in the French Assange de Nacional have attempted to bring in a number of articles amending the immigration law in France.
Sadly for them, the Constitutional Council, which French patriots have long accused of being a captured body, has struck out in the way that continental bodies of state do. 32 of these articles informing in a in a tone of hoteur the parties that these articles don't reach the desired objective. They consider things like putting a brake on family reunion visas, particular monitoring of foreign students, lessening the numbers allowed in
for health reasons. The response to that is that the two right wing parties, including Mrs. Le Pen's party, which we'll be talking about in a moment, are requiring a revision of that so that it's clear that the French state has got on its high horse, this time in Germany.
The mainstream news in the form of the target show here is reporting, and this is taxpayer funded, that Mrs. Le Pen of the Rasam de Monacional formerly the the National Front in France is threatening to break with Alternativa for Deutschland at the European Union level where at the moment they are united in an identitarian block. And the wording of this will be in the, if you speak French, will be in the video of the press conference which is in the show notes, in essence Madame Le
Pen instead. And there'll be some explanation of what this is about in a moment. But I'm not at all in agreement with the suggestions which were many made in Potsdam in November by the Afd, her party or her fraction colleagues at EU level. We will have to see whether there's any scope for further collaboration between the parties. As a result, uh, we are going to have to talk about these extremely serious differences of
opinion. What has gone on here to fracture the unity of the identitarian parties? Well, the first hint comes in Dash Spiegel. All of these links of course are in German, but you will be able to use show notes and then use a translation translation service online to render them into English or your native language. DASH Spiegel. Which really has to be quoted a lot because it sets the tenor of German public opinion, certainly
the the ruling classes. Repeats that it's reports now in an opinion piece, uh, that it's time UH, that patients ran out with Afd. And we've been reporting for quite a time that Afd and the Dutch Forum for Democracy are on the point of being banned by the establishment.
And So what has prompted this? Well, a journalist's collective called Coric Teeve, which makes great shakes about its vaunted independence, came out with this that the new right wing had a secret plan against Germany in what seems to have been classic Cloak and Daggerstuff. The BFV, the German Interior Security Ministry, officially called the Constitutional Protection Agency, put bugs in a clock on the wall when there was a meeting in Potsdam on the 25th of November.
And we are told that this included a call or a presentation being made by the Austrian Identitarian Martin Zelner, married to Brittany Pettibone, to give her her maiden name. Some of our views will know that she was banned from Britain a while ago. We covered that at the time well, Zelner supposedly said. I have a plan to get rid of people to North Africa, even if they have a German passport already. If they're of foreign origin, particularly North African,
we'll get rid of them. This is what has prompted these not at all spontaneous looking protests which we see here reported on by Der Spiegel. They're carrying the dubious headline 10s of thousands demonstrate against Afd. They're rather jubilant about this spontaneous demonstration
of public disgust. Meanwhile, they also carry a column by Susanna Baya, another startlingly young writer, who says, contrary to what the plebs think, Germany's being very well governed by its coalition and it's all exaggerated criticism. She even goes on to say, I know that we journalists are not supposed to praise the government, but I'm going to
defend them anyway. I'm going to do it because it's a column, so I can give my opinion, and because critical distance, which is the basis of journalism, also allows me to know a lot more than the plebs. Now that that last bit is paraphrase, what she actually says is that I am able to question widely accepted truisms, how how wise and clever of her. So Zelner has put out this newsletter that's in a red move, which is extremely rare in the
Schengen group of countries. He may actually be blocked from entering Germany by an individually targeted order such as usually are given to gangsters as a result of what was printed entered at this meeting. Some pictures quite recently of what the Antifa people who made-up quite quite a bulk of the protesters against the Afd, what kind of banners they carry, show things like kill the cops, send the unjabbed into the gas chambers. This is a bit of a couple of years ago.
Obviously. Kill the Afd. Kill those who think differently. This is all the kinds of people who were whipped up by the German BFV, the German equivalent of MI 5 or FBI, to attend these not at all spontaneous protests. And the curious thing about it is that this corrective collective of, you know, something like Bellingcat in its formation, somehow managed to get the transcripts of the bug from the German equivalent to MI 5 from Mr. Selmers meeting.
And we're therefore able to present it as though it was another Vanze conference leading to a final solution of a racial problem. Uh, so serious questions to be asked there. Um, if people want more detail than we can put in this segment, there are uh two particularly good pieces or writers I should say Tikis Eindlich and right Schuster. The links will be in the show notes in German. You can find a chapter and verse on there on who funds corrective, which has always
been the big question. But just to end this segment Ogupios the Plague Chronicle has this piece. Resistance is not futile and people might be thinking it is at this point. And he stares into the in the face the real prospect that the FT will be banned and the same might happen in other countries in the West. But he says that actually there's there's there's nothing to worry about here because the every ounce of effort that the establishment is spending on banning parties like Afd is
actually doing two things. It's causing them to not be able to push forward their digital ID or what other other plans they have because they have to concentrate on lockdown or the war with Russia or banning the far right or whatever is there be in their bonnet. But it also means that the Liberal Democratic facade, the mask which as they've been wearing, slips little by little and can't be put back. And he says that as a result of this, you know that they will.
Here's the sentence. There are a limited number of moves available to the authorities here, and sooner or later they will run out of them. We, on the other hand, will always be here. Every step towards a more, more overtly authoritarian politics is a backhanded victory for us. Alex, thank you very much. It's. Incredible, isn't it? We've got chaos and breakdown angst happening in in all the countries across the European Union. It's also here in UK.
It's happening in the US. This can't be accidental. This has got to be policy which is coming out of the geopolitical powerhouses like the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization. Mark, let's bring you back in because if if there's problems with migration in Europe, we've also got it in the States at the moment. Oh, absolutely on. Steroids like never before in this first slide. I can be relatively concise on this report. Representative Henry Cuellar.
He's from here in Texas and colleagues, they visited Mexico on a bipartisan congressional delegation. A Cuellar is a Democrat. He went with three Republicans. We'll move on from there. He had this to say. This is quite a clever quote. I have long said that the United States cannot continue playing defense on the 1 yard line known as the US Mexico border. We must work with Mexico to address the historic surge of migration before migrants arrive
at the US border. I'm pleased to when able to erase. I'm pleased to have been able to raise these topics with President Lopez Obrador and Foreign Minister Barcena. And I look forward to working with our ally, that's Mexico to address this crisis. But all is not well, as we'll see. We'll move on. This is me recently, this past June, with Joe Arpaio, a good friend of Donald Trump's.
He's of course that legendary Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff, a man of high integrity, a real lawman, and there aren't many left. He had something very
interesting to say. I talked to him last night on the phone, Brian for about 1/2 hour, and he reminded me that when he was a federal DEA agent back in the 70s, he arranged it so Mexico's military would work with the US military and they would nip in the bud the cartel, shipments of drugs, guns, trafficking of people and other contraband. They would nip it in the bud long before it reached the US border. And that's how you effectively
fight this. But what Representative Henry Cuellar was told by Mexico as we spend more money on patrolling our southern border than the US does, we have more men and material material out there to defend our Mexican southern border than the US. However, Mr. Arpaio, Sheriff Arpaio agreed with me that you can't really trust what Mexico
says. When Donald Trump was in as president, he brought Mexico to the table by threatening a lot of tariffs and other financial penalties on them if they didn't cooperate and the border was a lot more secure. Now this next slide will segue into one other major item for
today. This is the migration and the 2030 Agenda by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations. And what's significant here is that two young citizen journalists, Anthony and Joshua Rubin, recently brought out a video where they embedded themselves in the migrate migratory caravans and they start in Quito, Ecuador. And they embedded themselves in this long trek all the way through the Darien Gap jungle, very dangerous all the way through Panama, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, on up to Guatemala, across the Mexican border. And when they got to the Mexican border and went across other borders, there were no border agents visible, especially in Mexico, where they say they're out spending the US on their southern border security. There was no sign of any border security being enacted by Mexico.
Therefore, it appears that Mexico is just allowing these caravans to traverse Mexico up toward Texas and other areas along the US southern border without any intervention
whatsoever. So Representative Henry Cuellar and his delegation, apparently, apparently, I'll stress that word was lied to based on what we know now and along the way, The IOM, the International Organization for Migration, Brian, they had posters and advertisements all along that long trek from Ecuador to the Texas border. And the European Union had posters and Doctors Without Borders had advertisements and all of that.
All of those organizations, Brian, help set up supply chains and supply depots and stations where the migrants, as they're called, can get food, water, clothing, other supplies. So even the EU as as as well as the UN associated IOM are actually physically and tangibly helping this invasion to the US even. Why? Even while Mexico apparently is exaggerating or completely misrepresenting its own border security measures, and to wind up for today's report, I have just a couple more slides.
This also comes from the report from those citizen journalists. Meanwhile, New York City becomes the largest municipality in the US to allow non citizens to vote in local elections. That's from the Washington Post and a paper called the Eagle. Non citizens will be able to vote in DC starting next year. A couple other things here and that'll be concluding. The Illinois legislation would allow US non citizens to become
police officers. Imagine that they break the law to get here and that these illegals then could become police officers. Conceivably states look to hire illegal immigrants to fatten struggling police departments there. It's more blunt and new. California allow new California law, excuse me, allows non-us citizens to become police officers. So this is the insanity that is the insult to injury and everything I've described, Brian. And one other thing, this is just an announcement.
Meanwhile, Eagle Pass, about 300 miles from where I'm sitting in Texas. Yuma, AZ and a location along the California border are going to be locations where a convoy now on route starting today is going to converge. And they're going to have rallies and speakers at these locations. It's called take our borderback.com. And they're going to protest the lack of effectiveness, really, the betrayal by U.S. Federal border officials and border agents.
And also they're skeptical of whether Texas Governor Greg Abbott is really serious about Operation Lone Star to control the border. So lots of very urgent and dramatic matters going on. Brian, I don't know if you guys have any comments, but that's what's that's what's shaping up.
I just have one quick one. Mark and that is that there's only one reason that you would want non nationals coming into posters, police officers or being able to vote and that is to dilute and the national identity with the incomers. And So what we're talking about here is revolution. I've already mentioned that word in today's UK column news and I think it's it's this is a correct application.
This is about destroying society, American Society in this case in order to create a revolution where there is going to be a new system of government and the influx of the migrants is to help for that process. They are being used and abused of course to make this happen. Well, let's come on to the subject of potholes in the road and thanks to Motorcycle News for this one, well illustrated with this photograph a headline No hope for fast fixes on potholed UK roads.
And what they're really saying is that across UK and 10s of thousands of miles of UK roads, they're getting worse and worse. And even where some pothole fixing programs are happening, in many places the roads are continuing to become worse because there is no money apparently, to repair and maintain our roads. Now why am I putting this to the audience today? Well, there's not much money
apparently, for anything. We haven't got money in the Treasury to pay nurses or NHS workers more money. This suggestion was that a one off payment of 1000 each for a million NHS nurses. That's certainly a lot of money and there's a debate to be had. But the point I'm making is the government saying no money. I could bring up this 190% of schools in England will run out of money next year. Heads born, No money to run schools.
We can bring in this one. At least 26 English councils at risk of bankruptcy in the next two years. There's no money to run local authorities, but Oh dear, there is money for war. So here is the House of Commons library report saying that UK is one of the leading donors to Ukraine, alongside the US and Germany.
And the UK has pledged almost 12 billion in overall support to Ukraine since February 2022. So we're just pointing out the fact that there's no money for we'll call them the good necessary things in life, but if there's war, then magically the chess open and outcomes the bullion in order to keep the war
and the killing going. But of course we should remember that This is Money created from nothing by the banking industry of the world, and UK column will be commenting on that angle much more in the coming days and weeks. But here's the rub. The money isn't given to Ukraine, of course it's loaned. World Bank's new $1.5 billion loan will provide relief to households what it might do initially. But of course the debt trap will
pull those families down. Here we've got the IMF approving $12.6 billion in a Ukraine loans. More deaths around the neck necks of the Ukrainians. The ones that do survive the war. Here's CNN, where the Americans are finally questioning where their money has gone. 113 billion is the is the figure in this case. Where has that money gone in
Ukraine? Well, nobody's too sure, yeah, but this particular article by CNN did put up the graph on the right, showing the huge amount of money that US has poured into this war, but also showing the amounts that other countries have put in. Germany at $20.58 billion and UK at 7.38. Now up to £12 billion. So this is pretty amazing, Plenty of money for war. Now where does that take us? I think that's back to you, Alex. A closing. Segment on overreach by national and supranational bodies.
And they're getting their comeuppance, in some cases the legacy title. The National Post in Toronto reports that the Emergencies Act was invoked by Justin Trudeau's administration unlawfully. Unconstitutionally, that's the ruling of the Federal Court. Not a but in Canada, they have the Federal Court, which is a Superior Court.
It's not the court of highest instance, but the governing Liberal Party will face a steep hurdle in appealing against this because the whole point of this judgement, which was also covered by True North here, is that the Emergencies Act should only be invoked in a democracy as a measure of last resort. The usual proportionality tests were not carried out is what the
court has found. Consequently, as embedded in tweets in that True North article, if you go through it and look at the segments of the the judgement which have been pulled out, in particular what was also unlawful and unconstitutional, more particularly, well, the bank freezes on the truckers, the recommend, the what you could call it the the commandeering or the requisitioning. You could even call it the conscription of tow truck owners in the Toronto area, which did happen.
So we've been talking about conscription earlier, but for those with tow trucks, it was already carried out a couple of years ago by Canadian government bodies. That was also unlawful. As a result, all the unpersoning of the Canadian truckers which shocked the world during COVID, as the first time that those fangs were bared anywhere in the world, has now been overturned, even just on the basis of human rights, flavoured legislation and the proportionality test.
Meanwhile, a committee of the European Parliament, the Committee on Culture and Education, has successfully got through the European Parliament this resolution. This was actually before Christmas. It's a report on European historical consciousness and what's important here is Resolution 12 that the committee, and hence also the Parliament. Now, since the adoption stresses the vital role of education,
skip a bit. And here you see in the fourth of the seventh line, 7 lines of the paragraph to allow for more emphasis on a supranational historical understanding. And you're not going to have National History, you're going to have multiple perspectives on history, which is your ancestors were evil and fostering corresponding teaching styles that favour reflection and discussion over knowledge
transfer. So never mind whether you're wrong about slavery, just Rage Against the machine in the class and then you'll get your points, info BAE reports. And this is interesting given Mark's comments a moment ago. That's under the rotating chairmanship of Paraguay. Mercosur, the Latin American EU or NAFTA has entered some fairly advanced negotiations now with the European Union to form a
trade bloc. Javier Garcia de Viedma is the European Union diplomat in Paraguay who's been following this and reporting that there is a will on behalf of these two blocks, that supranational body will talk to supranational body to form a supranational or maybe supra supranational trading bloc. Yes, it's got that far. And you know, the stumbling block here is only that Mercosur doesn't like the E U.S. economic sanctions because it wants to be in half in bed with Russia and China as well.
But it's got to that point. And just on another point, in Strasbourg, the separate body of the European Court of Human Rights, not product of the EU but an arm of the Council of Europe, has. Finally, only four years after the ECLJ and an NGO in Strasbourg started reporting on these abuses, has finally got a mechanism in place for judges to report conflicts of interest. And for those whose trials are coming up to be told, who is likely to judge their case.
So that they can say, would you mind recusing yourself because you're in Soros pocket and here are the receipts. It's taken that long, actually, to get even such a basic measure in that court. The Financial Times as picked up by Reuters has now taken to naked threat. Sorry, the is reporting that the EU, the Commission is taking to naked threats against Hungary. So it's reports that Brussels has got a strategy to target Hungary's economic weaknesses. Imperil the foreign it's currency.
Hungary's one of the few EU members that still has its own currency and collapse investor confidence in order to hurt jobs and growth. Those bits are in quote. So the European Union is planning to hurt jobs and growth of one of its member states if Budapest refuses to lift its veto on military supplies to Kiev and monetary support. To that end, the Financial Times has seen that confidential agreement. The deadline is the 1st of February and perhaps we see a little more about what's going
on in Brussels now. But just to close things off, Thomas Sheridan in Ireland, and you might think this is a bit advanced conversation to over here, but Ireland being Ireland, it's probably true. He reports that he heard a passerby say the more culturally entrenched the rainbow flag and multiculturalism become, the more emphasis is placed upon the human rights of imported religious extremists, refugees, sexual psychotics and illegal immigrants.
But at the same time the human rights of the native and traditional people are diametrically abused accordingly. And for more on that this, this show notes will have a couple of links on the hate speech, the crime of hate speech now being an EU level crime as promulgated or at least recommended by the European Parliament to the Council, which will have to legislate on the matter.
So there's a piece there by Brussels signal as well which gives chapter and verse on that a couple of and finalists as well. Here's the well known meme of the red buttons that are all bad options. Usually it shows nuclear war and something else.
This time, the four buttons in in in light of text and secessionism, which is coming up now as an agenda, is the poor Uncle Joe who's sweating a bucket is faced with the options of war with Russia, war with Iran, war with China, and war with Texas. And just a final one from me. I beg your pardon? That's not the right one. I'll go back. OK, Alex, we'll. End there. We did have a couple of other means that we'll save those. Thank you very much for that.
Well, a pretty packed UK column news, so much happening, but it's very clear that we are being attacked by our own governments and they are implementing A globalist agenda which does not have our best interests at heart. It's up to us to stand up and be counted. And I'm just going to say thank you for a person in the chat box that's just pointed out that as we speak, Richard D Hall will be starting his court case and my goodness, he needs some support.
Because of course, if Richard D Hall goes down, we can be sure that Mariana Spring and the BBC will be challenging anybody, anybody who dares to stand up and criticize the UK government or indeed the BBC over its reporting of matters in UK and worldwide. We'll leave it there. Don't just take it, stand up and do something, find a friend. Because two people are a lot stronger than one. Alex and Mark, thank you very much for joining me.
We'll be back in a few minutes for UK column Extra and we'll be talking to Artwell from Oxford on those low traffic neighbourhoods. So if you're a member, join us then. Thank you. Bye, bye.