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UK Column News Podcast 13th November 2024

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Whether you're planning for a family get together or celebrating on the go this year, why stress when you can shop for less at Family Dollar? Family Dollar, helping you do more! Good afternoon, it's Wednesday the 13th of November 2024, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm your host Mike Robinson joining me today. We have Vanessa Bealy from Damascus as usual and Charles Mallard who's still in Hong Kong. Welcome to the program both and Charles. We're going to get started off with farming and we're talking about the upcoming well can we call them protests next week but what have you got? Thanks Mike. Good afternoon, good afternoon all. Yes indeed farming and the recurring themes of funding and food security but we'll start with a clip from GB News recently which we've been doing the rounds on social media. Patrick Chris is interviewing somebody called John Mckternan and we'll hear what he says that has caused quite so much outrage. Personally in favor of doing to you know farmer want to go on the street so we can do to them what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners? So just to be clear Johnny you would what beat them up? No, of course there's an industry we could do with that. Okay all right it's just got weird. So you would do to farmers what Margaret Thatcher did to miners which was and you know very heavy handed police tactics followed by what? Putting them out of business. If people are so upset that they want to go on the streets to spray slurry on them then we don't need the small farmers. Now before we examine what it is that he said let's just look at who John Mckternan is and the Institute for Government page here describes him as a senior fellow with extensive experience in government advising prime ministers around the world. He was Tony Blair's director of political operations. Now that should give people a clue as to why he said what he did say and of course I think the point to be made here is that within the context that he speaks he is absolutely right. On screen now is a diagram showing all the major players in the food industry in the United Kingdom and the only reason that they are able to do what they do is because we continue to buy this stuff. So people who are up in arms or opposing the globalist agenda need to consider this aspect of it probably in slightly more detail before the comments of people like John Mckternan can be rejected. Of course the point he makes is that small farms are indeed entirely dispensable because there are bigger players there who will conform to the model that suits not just their industry but also the government that is deciding whether or not to work with them and for people still to be laboring under the misapprehension that the government is there to support small farms I think need to think again. Now just by way of a case study we'll just look at Cargill one of the big players well actually worldwide but really an American food business and I've highlighted the word successful there. They make no mention of the fact that it would be beneficial if the food that was produced was healthy for people but also for the environment and just by to sort of reinforce that point the ingredients that they provide the other food producers that they talk about proteins based on wheat and corn so not actually wheat and corn and therefore not actually food as to the type of player that we're dealing with we go to worldgrain.com who report in 2023 that they were turning over 177 billion dollars which is almost equivalent to the budget the entire year's worth of budget for the National Health Service that went down for the current fiscal year to about 160 billion but the point here or at least the question to ask is why on earth given those statistics would government be paying attention to small farmers rather than these big industry players with their absolutely enormous lobbying capability so to consider this in light of what's happened on the other side of the Atlantic there's been much speculation about whether or not there's going to be any kind of pushback against these big corporate players and we look at the words of congressman Thomas Massey who has been touted as perhaps a section of state for agriculture in the United States he sent out a tweet in which he says I stand ready and willing to help the president with any part of his bold agenda to focus on the health and well-being of Americans but I have received no commitment or offers from president Trump's team and any discussion of the transition are premature now the reason I called Thomas Massey into this is because he has been going to something called the rogue food conference for many years he's tweeted about it here and he says today I'm coming out to the pantry albeit Joel Salatin's farm in swoop Virginia on May 17th and 18th that was this year and Joel Salatin to those of you who follow the UK column interviews is somebody that I spoke to a couple of months ago here with an interview called let the animals do the work and Salatin's philosophy is one in which effectively the sort of the four tenets are all addressed with the same model in that farming can work well for the business or at least that farming can work as a profitable business it can work for the community and it can provide healthy and nutritious food for the consumer but also benefit the environment and this is not something that governments typically are choosing to embrace sprite sorry despite the protestations that they are going down the regenerative agriculture route now all of these will be in the show notes but in addition to the Salatin interview there is a range of others from the UK column stable which indicates exactly how well this can be done we've got John Cook here talking about his raw milk business dealing directly with the consumer Angus McIntosh and Salafger doing effectively the same thing whilst regenerating the landscape as well as Sejullian Rose who effectively pioneered many years ago the early organic movement whilst it was still being done effectively in a sort of legitimate sense and then more recently bi-furred at Suffolk farmer who again deals directly with the consumer and arranges his business so that he has a direct relationship with the community but of course this is not what John Mpturnan is talking about and it speaks for looms that he was quite so closely involved with Taney Blair then and indeed the philosophy not just of Blair but all those who have been within his orbit over these years now as my reference at the beginning there have been rumblings in the United Kingdom across the farming community over the course of 2024 which of course has been a very difficult year for farmers not just because of the weather but also because of the changing nature of the environmental land management schemes the government has started and then changed and left a great deal of uncertainty as Julian Rose says subsidy creates slaves nonetheless there are a couple of events planned for next Tuesday the 19th of November in London so we'll just have a quick look at what those are and hope to resolve some of the confusion that may have arisen we've got the National Farmers Union describing what is called a mass lobby event which requires prior contact with your MP if you are a farmer or a grower and this has been orchestrated by the interview to meet with their MPs in Parliament and as they say here urging them to ask the Chancellor to reconsider the changes to inheritance tax of course I spoke about this last week the changes to the agricultural property relief and a point worth making here is that the business property relief was rather sort of left out because there was so much focus on farmers but of course this does affect people who run businesses as well and with so little time to prepare of course it is possible to mitigate against this with the seven-year rule but because this is due to take effect in 2026 there is in effect a point beyond which farmers are left powerless to avoid or at least not incur a tax that was previously not there in their path so as I said there's a farmers there's a mass lobby in London on 2017 as well as that there's there's due to be a rally now the organizers of each event insist that there's to be effectively sort of cooperation between two and if you are going to the mass lobby event you can also turn up to the rally you do need to register to do that and this seems to be because the Metropolitan Police have either given the organizers the impression or the organizers have sort of effectively deduced that there are anti-terror considerations here that they need to address so those are the two events that you can consider going to and supporting but ultimately I think the message here is really one of trust and why on earth should small farmers trust the government what is it that they really do expect the government to do given their track record yes yeah thank you Charles for that thank you very much we'll talk much more about that in extra now let's come on to military affairs and defense and so on but I want to put this on screen first of all because of course the UK column has been talking about European defense union for a number of years and as we'll see in a minute the election of Donald Trump has reinvigorated this whole discussion now it's a topic which hasn't really managed to gain engagement widely and certainly people within our audience have been interested in it but it hasn't got much wider engagement because one of the reasons is it has got absolutely zero coverage in the mainstream press but it should motivate us because as we can see here on screen Britain is 100 percent or has been up to this point 100 engaged with it even in 2017 or so wearing the EU flag on their arms no union flags as far as I can see on the uniforms here so the question is you know why would this be something that we need to be worried about well if we consider who would be in charge of an EU military and ask ourselves the question do we want this woman to be holding the keys to French nuclear deterrence for example because that's really what we're looking at here and say the British government 100 percent behind this as we will see in a minute now over the years with the full complicity of NATO there has been an effort to drive forward this European defense union project it has it has not gained a huge amount of traction because there's lots of friction against this because of course national governments member states even member states that are of a super national organization like the EU are reluctant to see control over their own militaries that was until Trump came along and this was 2017 when Trump was president and was opening the new NATO headquarters in Brussels and there he is with Jens Stolberg standing beside a large chunk of the World Trade Center now as I say Britain was and still is 100 percent supportive of this initiative and as because of Trump's sort of aggressive attitude towards the Europeans with respect to the funding of NATO and funding a defense in Europe in 2017 Roussey and a bunch of other think tanks defense think tanks pushed forward to try to gain some momentum on this European defense thing here so this was March 2019 Jeremy Wimbledon from Roussey saying in March 2019 Roussey and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung brought together leading UK and German parliamentarians and leading security and defense experts the subject of a European army just dominated most of the discussion with the goal of achieving strategic autonomy for Europe European states should seek to form a joint command structure that would allow the EU to deploy forces both within and beyond Europe's borders it was strongly suggested that the US can no longer be regarded as a reliable partner and that Europe ought to take responsibility for its own defense mechanisms and of course once Biden became president legitimately or not a lot of the momentum fell out of this that has changed again but just to keep on the thread here also in 2019 the European Council of the European Union published this document from the European External Action Services the European Foreign Service Effectively and the subject was EU concept for military command and control this is the document and this is basically a couple of excerpts from it so the EU led military operational chain of command is based on vertical top to bottom responsibility so we should not forget that Ursula von der Leyen being at the top would be in charge of this this implies that each level of command is responsible for establishing the necessary links to the immediate subordinate level a single identifiable and clear military chain of command is imperative the exact command and control arrangements for any EU led military CSDP that is the defense policy in the EU operations admissions are mission dependent the chain of command for EU led military CSDP operations admissions will encompass three levels of command below the political strategic level so we should not ignore the fact that the political strategic level is at the top now when Ursula was attempting to get her role as president of the European Commission for the first term she made this statement now i'm going to jump right forward now to the present day and i'd like to talk about four different components which we introduced back then which i believe are the important structural elements for setting up a European defense union first of all just two three weeks ago we were able to for the first time we were able to give the red light for a European commando command capacity in Brussels that's for the first time that civil and military instruments would actually be commanded together and where these commands would actually come from one single central command office that's that's an essential step forward it was unthinkable a short while ago but it's precisely the right approach to have if we want a European flavor to our defense policy so we need to ask ourselves again do we really want this lady in charge of European defense and Britain involved in that as you'll see in one second now Trump has been elected the momentum is back and Andreas Kabilius has been made the new EU commissioner for defense and space so effectively the EU all of a sudden now has a defense what they call a defense department defense secretary effectively and now he is the former head of his former prime minister Lithuania he served as that from 1999 to 2000 and then from 2008 to 2012 he's described as a political heavyweight his political background is described as being shipped by global crises and by the presence on the border of a hostile Russia so we see exactly what he represents and so on but as I say Britain 100 percent behind this starmer headed over to Paris for the Remembrance Day or the day after Remembrance Day for more commemorations and this was absolutely part of the discussions there it was very interesting that the British readout on this didn't mention defense i've just put that back on screen for a second because but the French readout on this did so the French said that during the meeting the two leaders discussed the major international issues following on from the messages conveyed at the European political community summit in Hungary president Macron stressed the need to assert Europeans own interests and capabilities in terms of security and defense this wasn't in the UK readout so again we're back in this situation as far as the UK is concerned they don't want to mention this publicly and they don't want to certainly isn't going to get any major UK media coverage now having said that it has had some and so the telegraph here starting to make noises in promotion of this idea the hard choices on defense lie before us and then they were also saying that Macron and Schultz call for EU to unite on defense after Trump victory and but it doesn't end there because actually we can't remember whether we covered this on the UK column or not but Roussey back in July talking asking what can the new government's proposed UK EU security pact achieve and for example just to take one quote from this article they say foreign secretary David Lamy has designated the EU's is his number one foreign policy priority including structure structured foreign policy dialogues that could lead to an ambitious UK EU security pact and when they talk about security they also include defense so Charles I'll be interested in your thoughts on this because particularly the wearing of EU badges on British military uniforms I appreciate that was the year before the Brexit referendum but nonetheless the UK has been 100 percent behind this common security and defense policy from the beginning and continues to be and now they want a pact to security and defense pact with the EU and what we've got to keep in mind of course if we consider NATO as being whatever number of countries it is at the moment that NATO would effectively become the United States, Canada, Britain, the EU and all those other member states effectively disappear from NATO under those circumstances. Well that's really what I was sort of considering is that the layers I mean we've talked about the layers of bureaucracy or what they're calling commanding controls of hierarchical structure but really I think one of the questions is well what does happen to NATO specifically with regard to the United Kingdom and as you say that was some time ago but yes the wearing of the EU flag does seem extraordinarily strange but then of course I suppose we consider something that I was reporting on a little while ago which was the rules of engagement and the doctrines surrounding that job services publication 398 which of course is very clear to describe the rules of engagement as in effect being the translation of the political will so to see as much as we might not like it I sort of want to end speaking as she is in effect it's no different from what we see at the national level I think the huge amount of confusion though is to suggest that under the same structure or at least side by side a civil military arrangement could be made sort of seamlessly and that there would be as far as she seems to describe it no one lead there would be balance or parity between the civil and the military which seems extraordinarily complicated and very hard to practice but ultimately something that I think the United Kingdom should should stay well out of but of course that doesn't seem to be the direction that we're heading in indeed we will talk more about this later as well Vanessa let me welcome you to the program and of course questions over who Donald Trump is going to choose in his administration and what effect that is going to have on Middle East policy yeah not so many questions if we look at the names that are being touted through mainstream media in the US of course those may change I'm not saying they're written in stone but it is looking very much as if he's heading towards a Zionist heavy and Christian Zionist heavy administration now since Trump's election Israel has grown in its boldness in conducting genocide in Gaza Balazel smoterech who's the finance minister tells authorities to prepare for the West by annexation saying that now that Trump is elected they feel that they can go forward this the intensity of bombing in Lebanon has increased exponentially since Trump's election so it's very clear that the Zionist feel emboldened by his election so I want to focus a little bit on the Syria and this was an interview with Robert Kennedy Jr not so long ago with Tucker Carlson and I just want to thank he sat Trump and his policies so let's for them when I was on the plane the other day with President Trump he we were talking about the mitties and he took a piece of paper and he drew on a map of the mitties with all the nations on it which most Americans couldn't kill now and then he wrote in each country the troop strength and he was he was particularly looking at the border between Syria and Turkey and he said we have 500 men on the border of Syria and Turkey and a little you know encampment that was bombed and he said there's 750,000 troops in Turkey there's 250,000 in Syria if they go up against each other we're in the middle and what and he said to his generals what's going to happen to those 500 men and his generals said to them they're going to be cannon fodder and he said get them out so we want a president who has that knowledge he can ask those rational questions and then it's going to make good decisions for the American public now there are 28 US military bases in the northeast so Kennedy was slightly downplaying that 900 US military forces but a number of private contractors in fact more than 1,000 private contractors like Dainkom so this is Kevin Gostola on ex a journalist who came up with Trump will reportedly name Senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state on Tucker Carlson to show JD Vance that Trump won't hire Neocons that refuse to withdraw US troops from Syria but Rubio obviously oh absolutely opposed Trump's withdrawal plan and is a Neocon warhawk like Liz Cheney and he goes on in the thread that he put on ex so if we just move to the next slide so he talks about waltz who who also opposed Trump's plan to withdraw US troops from Syria calling the plan a Pandora's box for the return of ISIS, ISIS of course is a US proxy in Syria and waltz co-sponsored legislation with none other than fellow warhawk Liz Cheney to help continue the US military's role in Syria in defiance of Trump and reportedly Trump plans to name Republican Mike waltz as his national security adviser he's a Neocon warhawk who was part of foundation for defensive democracies John Bolton's think tank and then so how I'm looking at how this is playing up at the moment I believe if we go on to the next slide we're looking at basically the Trump administration offering a carrot to president Assad saying if you behave we might withdraw troops from inside Syria and at the same time Israel is producing the stick so I mentioned two weeks ago Minister Gideon Sa the message that Israel should convey to the Assad regime in Syria that he should drop Iran and Hezbollah and more recently in a report that was picked up by a number of local media in this case if we just move on to the Islamic Republic news agency Zionist regime threatens to assassinate Assad so what were they actually talking about according to Palestinian media Israel high on newspaper quoted regime officials are saying that Assad was informed that if he did not cooperate with Israel in preventing the transfer of weapons from Syria to Lebanon he will suffer the same fate of side has sent in Australia. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while at the UN in New York had ordered the assassination of Nasrallah who was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut and Avigdor Lieberman also issued a similar warning to president Assad all of them pushing him to drop Iran and Hezbollah and of course as I said Trump now coming in with potentially the carrot to say if you do this you comply we might withdraw our troops from inside Syria and then various other titles in media Israel squeeze on Hezbollah puts pressure on Syria is Assad to pivot away from Iran this was um after Nasrallah's assassination Israeli media has been pushing the line that there is division between uh president Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad Iran's man in Damascus and there was actually a drone strike on what was considered to be a villa um very much connected to Maher al-Assad back in late um september um and of course we have to remember that while he initially denied that he wanted to have Trump killed I think it was in 2019 in an interview he admitted that he had wanted to assassinate it Assad so this is Trump making that admission to Fox News you take to get Soleimani it is it true that after Assad gas children for the second time that it was you the ones that take out Assad that you had a good side on him and there was General Mattis who talked you out of it and if it is true do you regret not taking him out being that he's not because he is a mass murderer I would have rather taken him out I had a ball set Mattis didn't want to do it Mattis was a highly overrated general and I let him go he worked for Obama he got fired by Obama and in addition of course the US has been building its air force capability in Qatar in Bahrain for some time and most recently in addition to deploying dozens of fighter jets from various types and six B-52 strategic bombers in the Middle East region the US Air Force has deployed F-15A strike eagles from the 492nd fighter squadron RAF Laconnays in England in the Middle East so are we seeing UK getting involved as we've been talking about and then of course so you have the carrot and the stick putting pressure on President Assad to do as he's told then the chief of staff of the Saudi forces has been in Iran for talks with officials Saudi Arabia is often used as a kind of negotiating instrument by Israel and the US what is President Assad's response to all of this I mean absolutely what his response was when they were trying to put him prior to the regime James war that began in 2011 he appeared at the special extraordinary summit of the Arab League to discuss the situation in Palestine so what he says is what what we need is decision to use the tools we possess to stop the Zionist massacres and I'm just going to play a section of his speech [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] So effectively that was the beginning of the very strong message from President Assad not only to the Arab League summit where he berated them for literally for literally having done nothing for one year but he then continued without any direct action we encouraged the continuation of the genocide and become indirect partners in it as we are not dealing with a state in the legal sense but rather with an outlaw colonial entity we are not dealing with people in the civilized sense but rather with herds of settlers who are closer to barbarism than to humanity he added that it is not correct to say that the problem is the current mindless extremist government and a people terrified of what happened on October the 7th of last year they are all working with one ideological mind a mind sick with bloodshed sick with the illusion of superiority afflicted with schizophrenia between hating Nazism allegedly and loving it as an organic part of themselves is what he meant so an incredibly powerful message from President Assad as I said not only in response to what is happening in Palestine and Lebanon in support of the people of those two countries but also a message to Israel that has been threatening his life to the US that is trying to encourage him or incentivize him to comply with their agenda in quite extraordinary times in Syria right now thank you Vanessa just want to clarify one thing and that is that RAF Legan Heath although it does have the RAF on the front it's effectively a US military base in the United Kingdom so this is where we are going to be seeing we're going to be seeing US nuclear weapons back in on UK soil in the not too distant future as part of the F 35 deployment there but yeah that that is sorry we will will continue to report on that now if you like what the UK column does you'd like to support us and we do need your support please go to support.uk column.org you can make help aside in various ways there you can make a donation you could join as a member and there are various membership levels you could support us by picking up something at the UK column shop and that helps greatly and also if you buy something of 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Now a little bit of news for you US Congress is holding another UFO hearing this week in fact it's happening today so this since I took the screenshot has been updated that congressional hearing will be happening today and just by coincidence tomorrow at 1 p.m. I will be speaking to Matt Eret on the issue of the UFO agenda how that's being used to drive global governance the people that are behind it he has been producing a fantastic documentary series on that he is now at episode three and he's starting to look at MKUltra CIA and the types of people that have been pushing the agenda through those programs let's just listen to a couple of minutes of it. So Elrond Hubbard was that in charge of the California auto-temply orientis that Crowley led and Elrond Hubbard created a school of thought of a religion called Scientology a UFO cult and his students became very close to Jacques Valet within the Stanford Research Institute they are the ones who also were very much working with the CIA Ingo Swan and others at trying to utilize MKUltra techniques as you alluded to Psilocybin DMT other forms of LSD research that were all developed by the military industrial complex and British intelligence they were all developed by these institutions and then they were using them to create different forms of deep patterning psychological trauma to help people tap into controlled schizophrenia that was believed to give people access to higher paranormal powers of telepathy astral plane projection pretty much everything that's what they were doing under Jacques Valet's lead with this team at SRI in the 70s under what became the Stargate project is fed directly into the changing images of man operation with Willis Hartmann and Willis Hartmann by the way his assistant was the woman who wrote Age of Aquarian conspiracy which was a direct take from H2L's earlier open conspiracy directly so this is what was all done to try to change the idea of what human beings thought we were utilizing a variety of techniques of hypnosis matters of union and Freudian psychology they bury in sociology a little mix of all of these things to then bring about a new Age of sorcerers with a highly superstitious population that would perhaps believe that the religions that they thought they were a part of were actually the constructs of UFOs from or aliens from either other galaxies or maybe even other dimensions so if you'd like to see a bit more of that 1 p.m. tomorrow in the usual places to encourage you to watch this extremely interesting conversation yesterday Brian was speaking to Justin Walker on the treasury letter if you want to know a bit more about that it's on the UK column website at the moment and just a final or another reminder that the ongoing petition in Wales ensure diagnosis and treatment for people suffering from adverse COVID-19 vaccine side effects we absolutely encourage everybody to support this it needs 10,000 signatures to get a debate I appreciate that nobody is going to particularly value petitions as such because petitioning the government is never productive but this is a perfect organizing tool a perfect way of getting a message out so please help and of course whenever this does get to be debated in the Welsh parliament and nothing gets done about it that's another opportunity to promote what's been going on around it so it is worthwhile doing this whether or not you agree with with the idea of petitions Charles let's come back to you and what's been going on in Hong Kong thanks Mike yeah one o'clock back a little bit to may of this year to a story that captured much of public attention in Hong Kong but far less so in the United Kingdom and I think it might be time to have another look at it and it concerns the allegation at least of spying in the United Kingdom on people who have moved away from Hong Kong ostensibly in response to legislation passed by the Chinese administration in 2021 sorry my apologies 2020 which meant that people could be pursued for all sorts of crimes and in this particular instance a lady called Monica Kwong who was being effectively chased on claims of fraud or allegations of fraud and in the United Kingdom out of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office a three-man team apparently was run to surveil her one of whom was Matthew Tricket who after having been arrested and released on court bail by Metropolitan Police was found dead a few days later in a park in Maidenhead as far as I'm aware the cause of his death has has not been released by Thames Valley Police but nonetheless what this brings out is a couple of things first of all from the migration observatory very important in light of what's going on in the United Kingdom it's just a reminder really that in 2021 the rules were changed by the British government for British nationals overseas which has paved the way for potentially up to 5.4 million people from Hong Kong being able to assume nationality in the United Kingdom and therefore move into the UK and the other thing that we are able to look at which is what these men were arrested under is the National Security Act 2023 which has received remarkably little coverage given its provisions there's certainly not time to go into a huge amount of detail today given the time but nonetheless the foreign influence registration scheme FIRS is one of the things that is worth looking at that on the government's website they ask how does it compare to the National Security and Investment Act 2021 and effectively this is the British government trying to cover all bases where the 2021 Act gives the government power to scrutinize and intervene in business transactions apparently to protect national security whereas FIRS the registration scheme requires the registration of particular activities or arrangement in order to strengthen the integrity of UK politics and institutions and protect the country from state threats yes I did just say the integrity of UK politics and they go on to clarify and this is this is a bit where it becomes sort of murkier but of course there can be situations in which arrangements with foreign powers to carry out political influence activities in that some of this may be deemed legitimate but of course it's for the government and or the police to decide what is legitimate what is not and who may fall foul of such legislation but they go on to say activities by specified entities in the UK or arrangements with specified foreign powers or entities to carry out activities in the UK and this effectively suggests that the remit of this legislation is terrifically broad of course it talks about terrorism as well and indeed special powers that are granted by those that would be dealing with such legislation so I think this is this is worth considering but the the other reason for looking at it is that in the government's note they ask will it affect freedom of expression and they say that it will have no impact on people's right to express their views nor will it prevent anyone from engaging in political influence activities now this seems remarkably unlikely it simply requires openness and transparency around such activities where undertaken at the direction of a foreign power now if you do have time to go into at least government documents explaining what the act does then I would recommend it because it is beyond doubt a tool that may be used for the purposes of censorship and this is therefore the moment to highlight the campaign being run by UK column at the moment we had a new special on this a couple of weeks ago taking the fight to the censors also involving willsy of resistance gb so I would encourage you to listen to that but also to look at the fight against censorship campaign and if this is relevant to you and you fulfill the criteria of section 56 of the online safety action that you can be recognized as a recognized news publisher please get in touch at online safety at uk column dot org charles thank you and of course we should mention that at the moment youtube has taken the uk columns youtube channel backdine again uh we will uh keep you updated on uh on how that goes um so yeah more later more an extra perhaps uh Vanessa um let's me bring you back on and uh you've just paid a visit to bay route you were talking about uh the bombing of bay route uh increasing what did you see when you were there well I am first of all I mean people can go to my sub stack to read the full report um but basically if we just have a look at the map where I just show like how before the the blue dotted line at the bottom there from Damascus to bay route is the old route and through the border that israel has now bombed um several times reducing much of the road to craters and rubble although I've heard that the Syrians are now using golf carts to bring people from one side to the other in defiance of israel's closure of the road so now basically I had to go north from Damascus up to homs then to tortoise on the eastern coast and where you can see the no entry sign is where israel has bombed the old western route from homs to the border so in other words you have to go further north and and further west to come south um following the uh Tripoli kind of bartrune coastal road down to bay route I'll just show I mean this is just a video showing the coastal route um once you enter Lebanon from the Syrian side um really a pretty route and and not particularly busy it was busier on the way back I guess with um um food trucks and humanitarian aid trucks and and refugee cars coming into Syria 300 000 children have entered Syria since um Israel from Lebanon since Israel started bombing and um basically I didn't have much time because um I was told I should get back to Syria as soon as possible um in case Israel bombed again and uh but I did manage to go to dah here with some friends uh who were going to check out their house so this was just a couple of the videos that I managed to take of the devastation um my friend actually said to me the apartment block that was shown there was 10 story um they were horrified by the number of kind of familiar landmarks that they had grown up with that had been um destroyed or heavily damaged we saw from a distance the crater that had um Merk web site in Australia had been assassinated it was vast and incredibly deep and of course when we entered this area there was 11 an army checkpoint um who told us that we shouldn't get out of the car we should wear masks and we shouldn't open the windows because of the possible risk of depleted uranium dust from many of the strikes in this area and actually speaking to locals they did tell me that initially after National Earth's assassination they had suffered with the ill effects of the dust so nausea, diarrhea um and bad stomachs they drank milk and after a few days um the effects went away but the smell is pretty horrible and literally I think the day after I left um this was just one of the bombing raids by the Israeli on that area we can watch that um somebody asked me what the guy was saying when he's basically just saying oh god I'm not sure what Zara is um but uh even on my way back there were three attacks on Israel sorry on uh Syria one in Homs one in eastern southern uh Damascus and one on Aleppo so even in those three days that I was away um the attacks against Syria by Israel continued Vanessa thank you very much for that uh yes we will obviously continue reporting as as events progress now let's come back to the UK um now Politico a while ago had this article Tony Blair admits UK will need a little persuading to embrace digital ID so the question is then what kind of persuading do we need and what we get an idea of what kind of persuading this particular regime is going to continue to impose with this you give your service says the graphic with digital veteran cards you will get the government service you need quicker so the veteran card is something that Charles has covered a couple of times and in fact we believe the last time he covered this he predicted or suggested that this was on its way it has now happened and they they decided to announce this um on Remembrance Day so the veteran card they claim is currently used by 250,000 former service personnel across the country uh and a new digital version will make people make sure people can prove their veteran status as easily as possible convenience is always important the digital veteran card uh digital veteran card planned to come in next year will speed up this process and mean they're able to access the support available to them more quickly harnessing the part of technology it will be crucial to support the government in achieving its mission of making public services work for all working people grow the economy and make everyone across the country better off specifically the digital veteran card will help former forces personnel approach a military charity to quickly prove their veteran status and speed up access to support they need this includes housing support through operation fortitude health services through the NHS or employment through job centers it will also help veterans confirm their service to the going forward into employment scheme which helps them join the civil service NHS or work in justice additional veterans can use the card to apply for the defense defense discount card offering hundreds of retail offers uh and their veteran real card getting a third of real travel from most journeys so this is what uh uh this is what uh Peter Kyle the science secretary had to say our veterans have sacrificed so much for this country and we must make every effort to ensure veterans get the help and support their entitled to that's why we're working with the office for veterans affairs to speed up access to essential services whether it's housing or employment support by offering our heroes digital veterans cards which will be with them in a matter of minutes so uh that is great isn't it in the meantime the government uh has continuing to roll out the one login system which means that you can easily identify yourself to all kinds of government services uh so faster easier access more convenience to 50 government services with one login and in this case it's the apprenticeship service uh which is now fully transitioned into one platform uh and one login simplifying the way employers apprentices and training providers interact with the government uh making process more efficient and removing the need for numerous logins uh so that's good stuff so the question is how is this being covered in the press well not much in the mainstream press but sort of the the uh the house here saying with digital ID we can take back control uh the time has come for government to fully embrace digital ID to reform public services in part of the citizen and fuel economic growth and then here we have uh biometric update dot com saying uk did it and digital ID bill lauded ahead of parliamentary debate and of course this i think is the key area of focus we've got all this uh push towards digital identity it's all being enabled by this piece of legislation which if we have to remember is just a rehash of what the Tories were attempting to do just a few months ago but couldn't get it through before the general election uh but the new name for it is the digital use and access bill now we've mentioned many times that when it comes to digital ID we're talking about having a digital wallet and inside that wallet you will have various attributes might be your name it might be your date of birth it might be your employment status it might be your right to work in this country uh and a whole host of other uh information held in your digital wallet and of course third party companies uh will be there to provide this service to act as a trusted source of authority for your identity anytime you interact with government or with anybody else but if we just put that back on screen for second we just need to look at a couple of the attributes of this of this bill uh so creates a framework for digital ID that we've we've just spoken about that but the other uh one that i want to really focus on here is the enabling easier data sharing uh and i want to illustrate this just by uh looking at this article from the atlantic uh which is entitled genetic discrimination is coming for us all insurers this is health insurers in the united states are refusing to cover americans whose dna reveals health risks it's perfectly legal and of course this type of uh situation is coming to the uk it doesn't matter that we've got a national health service it won't make any difference uh this is coming to the uk now just looking at a couple of the quotes from this for decades they say researchers have feared that people might be targeted over their dna but they weren't sure how often it was happening now at least a handful of americans are experiencing what they argue is a form of discrimination it goes on to say that even employers might soon be able to hire or fire based on certain genetic risk factors uh all of us have glitches somewhere in our genome the article says the question is who will take advantage of that information and of course what they're talking about here in this case is health information uh and health insurance in the united states uh insurance companies traditionally provide insurance in the basis that the risk is shared amongst all the people that buy a particular insurance policy so some people will be high risk some will people will be very low risk and they set they do a risk assessment of that and they set the premiums for people uh based on an average perhaps uh there's some scope for change in that depending on uh perceived risk and so on but nonetheless it's it's not very specific but this piece of legislation makes it very specific because it allows for exactly this type of thing the sharing of genetic information the sharing of all kinds of data uh and the sharing of data across borders so i'm going to say to everybody that if you're not actively involved in campaigning against this piece of legislation you need to be actively involved you might like to start with the hashtag scrap the app uh and getting involved in Debbie's efforts to get people to not install the NHS app and other apps and if you are using it to get rid of it and to demand other ways to access services instead of this continual drive for digitization but this piece of legislation needs to be stopped uh and really everybody i feel should be getting uh involved in that very very quickly uh Charles let me uh welcome you back and uh talk about uh COP 16 and climate issues thanks Mike yeah actually the second follow yours rather more closely than people might imagine this refers to not COP 29 but COP 16 which is somewhat confusing but this is a conference of the parties specifically with regard to biodiversity and interestingly coming from the literature there's very little reference to climate which suggests perhaps that uh it has been overused to an extent and that a more traditional approach concerning species decline may be on the horizon nonetheless they talk they say that attendees at the summit in karly and columbia which included steve read environment secretary nature ministry sorry nature minister mary korea and natural England chair tony june pirth agreed a deal on digital sequence information whereby genetic information that has been sequenced from the natural world can be made available online now if you've not heard of dsi digital sequence information you will certainly not be alone but it's described as being a genetic information that has been sequenced from the natural world with the dna code then made available online for use in research well is that really the case is it just for research because they go on to say that research can be applied to medicine agriculture conservation and public health with benefits such as the development of vaccines or adapting plants to be more resilient to climate change now as i said at the start they have actually made an agreement on this but should they necessarily have done so well the cultural survival would say absolutely not with a piece just predating the meeting saying digital sequence information poses risks to indigenous people's rights and biodiversity and the point they make is that in effect the parameters of this process have not been defined and therefore as a consequence nor has the regulation surrounding it so in effect we're in a position where people don't really even know what they're actually dealing with yet a message that's reinforced by an article in nature again just before the meeting started saying don't rush rules for showing digital genetic sequence information in effect the suggestion is that the situation is anything but certain but of course this is another instance of the precautionary principle being cast of the wind when it suits the powers that be to do so and of course nobody seems to really mind what consequences might be also the other things to fall out of this meeting are that the united kingdom has now declared two new special representatives in this area one being for nature Ruth Davis and she answers to or reports to the foreign commonwealth and development office as well as defra and then we have Rachel Kite who is to be the UK's special representative on climate now of course it's hard to know this stage what the purpose is of denoting such special representatives are they there in order to effectively harness power that wasn't there previously and therefore wield it or are they being set up in effect for a fall if they're unable to achieve a particular mission that given or are they simply being handed too much power but we'll have a little bit more of a look at Rachel Kite who was previously special representative of the UN secretary general and the chief executive officer of sustainable energy for all of course it's worth making the point that Guterres was the first man I think to talk about the era of global boiling so slightly alarming she might be in a position to be imprinting government policy but really let's get to the point and what is it actually about she is to support ministers to increase senior international diplomatic engagement on climate and clean energy something that we've seen David Lamy apparently doing in recent weeks but she is also to strengthen coordination and mobilisation of finance for climate action and to increase the strategic impact of the UK international climate finance programmes and intervention so in effect here we have a couple of new representatives coming out of a conference supposedly on biodiversity but of course if you've been watching UK column over the last few months and years you'll know that biodiversity is in effect a control mechanism for extorting money out of people with the supposed benefit of an improvement for nature by means that are certainly not within our control although we are being asked to front up the money and in due course we may find that our access to the advantages conferred by increasing biodiversity may not actually be granted to us so there's no real change of direction but the certainly the digital sequence part of it is something that we will continue to look at and indeed how that may be used or indeed abused in the coming months and years thank you Charles we've got to leave it on that note and we'll be back in a few minutes if you are a UK column member for some extra otherwise don't forget the interview at 1pm tomorrow we'll see you on Friday at 1pm as usual for another news program do get involved in dealing with the upcoming data legislation if you possibly can but we'll see in a few minutes for extra see you then bye-bye Feeling under the weather family dollar has you covered battle every sneeze and sniffle this coffin cold season with great deals on over-the-counter cold flu and allergy remedies for the whole family family dollar helping you do more