UK Column News - 24th January 2025

Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today's UK Column News. Guest segment with Ruth O’Rafferty

00:00 Ukraine Negotiations: Are Peace Talks Happening or Not?
07:00 Trump’s Crypto Vision: Pardoning Ulbricht and Shaping the Future of Digital Currency
12:36 Is Trump Planning An American Expansion, or Better Yet, What Are They?
18:35 Covid Inquiry Barrister, Hugo Keith KC: Who Is He?
24:05 UK Column Is Member-Funded—Your Support Matters, Please Share
25:01 Ruth O’Rafferty Highlights the Challenges of Giving Evidence at the Covid-19 Inquiry
34:26 Ofcom’s Age Verification (Censorship) Crusade: It’s Not About Protection
39:42 Trump’s Executive Order on Free Speech: What’s Allowed Now and What’s Not?
52:31 Mark Anderson's Latest Updates on the US-Mexico Border
59:53 And Finally: Now Government Can Seize Your Money and Driving Licence via the DWP

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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-january-2025

On a very much related note, this struck me as a much more productive way to use confectionery than eating it:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6tSqGCfoCI

Israel’s Knesset has approved a bill criminalising denial of Israel’s version of events of October 7th, those who break this law could face 5 years in prison.

What is Israel’s version of events? That the militia of an open-air concentration camp with nothing but light arms, caused this level of destruction on October 7th.

Thanks to brave reporting from independent media in the West and some Israeli journalists, we know that Israel implemented the Hannibal Directive, where Israeli helicopter gunships unloaded their bullets and rockets on anything that moved in a mass application of the directive to prevent Israelis being taken hostage by Hamas, who would then be used in hostage negotiations to free the thousands of Palestinian prisoners.

The now debunked mass rape claims are also now enshrined in law, meaning questioning these debunked claims, or even saying that they have been debunked, could land you in prison in Israel.

Just in case you were wondering whether Elon Musk had come up with an original idea.

He hadn't.

If the work "grok" means nothing to you, it's probably best to keep it that way.

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grok

Katharine Gun setting the scene during a completely riveting UK Column interview.

A Defence of Necessity: Breaching the Official Secrets Act

Tune in at 1pm today (Tuesday 28 Jan 2025), or later at ukcolumn.org.

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Phenomenal Katharine Gun interview now up on UKC website.

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https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/a-defence-of-necessity-breaching-the-official-secrets-act-with-katharine-gun

Coming up on today's UK Column News.

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Bird Flu: PCR Testing Leads to More Slaughtered on Suspicion - UK Column News - 29th January 2025

- GOV.UK: Human case of avian flu detected in England
“Currently there is no evidence of onwards transmission from this case.”
- BBC iPlayer: Farming Today 29/01/25 - Avian flu in people, housing orders for birds and English farm payments

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Full news and all the source links: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2025

To accompany the above report from today's UKC News, this is the magnificent dollop of feathery propaganda offered up by the BBC Farming Today team.

Bird Flu: a most discerning "virus"

What you need to believe (at the moment):

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It can travel from a wild bird to a domesticated bird, and from a domesticated bird to a wild bird.

It can pass between fellow wild birds and fellow domesticated birds.

It can leap from a domesticated bird to a human being, and it has even been on its holidays to take hold on elephant seals in the South Atlantic.

But, try to convince it to wander from one human to another, and you're out of luck....for now!

How many responses should I anticipate?

https://x.com/UnboundToday/status/1884877802723217577

Travis Aaroe on some of the differences, either side of the Atlantic:

"Trumpism is an internally-consistent platform of domestic laissez-faire, tariffs, border control, and opportunism on the world stage. As others have said this is a variation on “McKinleyism”, or — in its more exalted moments, especially in its plans for a strengthened Presidency — Hamiltonianism.

Time and again the anti-populists have been invited to propose any material alternative to this, time and again they have declined to do so. They couldn’t, because they never even bothered to work one out.

Trump’s allies had twenty executive orders drawn up and ready to go on his first day in office; Keir Starmer arrived in Downing Street with “no plan”, has spent much of his premiership on trips abroad, and makes more lavish use of executive time than his American counterpart ever did."

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https://thecritic.co.uk/trump-is-the-real-technocrat/

Homs 2012 and the Genesis of Syria Chemical Weapons Narrative

Right from the start of the Syrian chemical weapons narrative we can observe documented attempts to deceive.
Read or listen here: www.ukcolumn.org/article/homs-2012-and-the-genesis-of-syria-chemical-weapons-narrative

Having thought that BBC comedy had died, it seems I must revise my opinion.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn938ze4yyeo

30 Jan 25: BBC reports that "Poultry farmers are appealing to the government to let them vaccinate their flocks against the "devastating" bird flu virus spreading across the UK."

17 Jan 24: UKC saw it coming.

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https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-january-2024

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Luckily, hardly anyone reads The Times these days.

However, here they are, doing Blair's bidding. Whilst reading this, it is worth bearing in mind that Blair himself has absolutely no idea about the technology which is required for all of this nonsense.

Far from being “an instrument of government control” he sees digital ID as a tool that “empowers the individual — it allows you to simplify your transactions with the government”. Some cabinet ministers are nervous about championing a compulsory scheme, but Blair says Starmer should relish a battle that would give his administration definition. “It brings it home to people and I think it’s a political debate the government will win."

And for those that do not wish to transact with the government?

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https://archive.ph/UG2UL#selection-1709.0-1709.436

Why do people keep posting this sort of guff?

(No need to answer (unless you'd like to (which would be fine))).

Would it have worked?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ5D_Am0liQ

If you've not yet found the time to watch this, I should recommend working hard to make some.

The grotesque reality of state-sponsored child abuse, as articulated--very clearly--by Raja Miah.

A truly excellent UK Column interview, conducted by Ben Rubin:

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https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/truth-about-grooming-gangs-raja-miah