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Today on UK Column News (1pm live UK) I will be talking about Hezbollah and the Litani River, Spielberg and the "atrocity" hoax, Metropolitan Police crack down on comparing Zionists to Nazis while ignoring genocide, the Zara debacle and the censorship of pro Palestinian voices, even among the medical profession.

The Safety Of Rwanda Bill Sees A Full House - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- The Institute for Government: What is in the government's new Rwanda asylum plan?
- GOV.UK: Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2023: legal position
- Sky News: MPs vote in favour of Sunak’s Rwanda policy
- Toby Young (on X): 
“The Government’s Climate Minister has been flown thousands of miles back from the COP28 environment conference in Dubai to vote for the Rwanda bill and will then be flown back again, it has emerged.”
- UK Ministry of Justice: Human Rights Act Reform: a Modern Bill of Rights
- Daily Mail: Rishi Sunak 'told Rwanda flight law will make it easier for migrants to stay in Britain' as Tory 'five families' go to war for soul of party amid 'insane' threats to replace PM as leader—as cost of project doubles to almost £300million
- International Labour Organization: Forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking
- GOV.UK: UK government modern slavery statement 2021 to 2022
- GOV.UK: Combatting child sexual abuse and exploitation
- National Crime Agency: Modern slavery and human trafficking
- UK Parliament: Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Hezbollah and Israel—Potential For Escalation - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- UN News: UN General Assembly votes by large majority for immediate humanitarian ceasefire during emergency session 
“Not only does this resolution fail to condemn Hamas for crimes against humanity, it does not mention Hamas at all. This will only prolong the death and destruction in the region, that is precisely what a ceasefire means.”
- Times Of Israel: Gallant: We’ll push Hezbollah beyond Litani River before residents of northern Israel return home
- Jerusalem Post: Netanyahu to Hezbollah: If you attack, we'll turn Beirut into Gaza
- Brookings: Debating UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Scientists Suggest It's Time To Engineer the Sky - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- Scientific American: It's Time to Engineer the Sky
- Climate Home News: The Overshoot Commission is talking about solar geoengineering. Not everyone thinks it should
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: COP28 Opens in Dubai with Calls for Accelerated Action, Higher Ambition Against the Escalating Climate Crisis
- The DEGREES Initiative: What is SRM?
- Climate Overshoot Commission: Report Booklets
- Nature Journal: Exposure to climate change information predicts public support for solar geoengineering in Singapore and the United States
- SRM Youth Watch: Comic Book: Solar Radiation Modification—Who’s Deciding Your Climate Future?
- SRM Youth Watch (on X): 
“Why is inclusion critical to effective governance on Solar Radiation Modification?
Joshua Amponsem sheds light on the critical role of inclusion at the SRM launch event in NYC. #COP28”
- United Nations Environment Programme: One Atmosphere: An Independent Expert Review on Solar Radiation Modification Research and Deployment
- Make Sunsets (on X): Deploying reflective clouds in the stratosphere to cool Earth until humanity transitions off fossil fuels and scales greenhouse gas removal
- Make Sunsets: We have launched 33 balloons and offset 5,596 ton-years of warming
- Met Office: Met Office position on geoengineering research

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

UN ‘Con’ 28 Climate Change and UK’s Net Zero Growth Plan - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- United Nations: Secretary-General's statement at the closing of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28
- GOV.UK: Powering Up Britain: Net Zero Growth Plan
“the practice of improving standards in one place, area of activity etc. so that they are the same as another place …”
- Reuters: UK economy shrinks, testing Bank of England's resolve on rates
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- UK Column Situation Room: Pfizer/Moderna Document Analysis
- UK Column interview: Dark Crusade: a look at the origins of Christian Zionism with Clifford Kiracofe
- UK Column article: Pablo Miller: The people working alongside the real James Bond

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Met Police Now Doxing People - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- Metropolitan Police (on X): 
“The pro-Palestinian protest has set off from Bank junction. The front of the march is passing St Paul’s. As the march formed up, officers identified a man with a placard making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. He has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence.”
- Holocaust Encyclopedia: Public Humiliation
- Mondoweiss: I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer
- Save the Children: Stripped, beaten and blindfolded: new research reveals ongoing violence and abuse of Palestinian children detained by Israeli military

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Strengthening Police In Numbers, But Not In Skill - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- Daily Mail: Suella Braverman axes requirement for all police officers to have degrees after backlash from chief constables
- IPLDP and Police Constable Entry Programme (PCEP): Joining the Police: 
“This will be available to all forces from April 2024. For this entry route you will undertake a two-year training programme and, on successful completion of your probation, you will be confirmed in post as a police constable.”
- GOV.UK: National campaign to recruit 20,000 police officers launches today 
- GOV.UK: Police workforce, England and Wales: 31 March 2023
“As at 31 March 2023, in England and Wales there were 53,080 female officers in post, accounting for 35.5% of officers, an increase on 35.1% as at 31 December 2022. This is the highest number and proportion of female officers in post since comparable records began. By comparison, as at 31 March 2019 (before the programme began) 31.7% of officers were female.”
- Police Superintendents' Association: PSA Publishes Annual Report for 2022–2023

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Israel’s Ex-Justice Minister Walks Out After Being Challenged on Gaza Slaughter - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- Jewish News: Shoah Foundation launches project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of 7 October
- Mondoweiss: CNN report claiming sexual violence on October 7 relied on non-credible witnesses, some with undisclosed ties to Israeli government
- Afshin Rattansi's Going Underground (Rumble): Israel’s Ex-Justice Minister WALKS OUT After Being Challenged on Gaza Slaughter, October 7th

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

HMGCC, Opening Doors For The Spy Tech - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- HMGCC: Home—We are His Majesty's Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK's national security
- BBC: Inside the secret complex making high-tech gadgets for UK spies
- GOV.UK: Government body behind secret tech opens doors to expand engineering excellence 
- HMGCC: First national security tech challenge launched as HMGCC Co-Creation
- Intelligence Online: Britain's HMGCC looks to serve as bulwark against Beijing

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

Boycotts Do Work - UK Column News - 13th December 2023

- Reuters: Zara pulls advert from website front page after Gaza boycott calls
- Middle East Monitor: Zara sparks outrage with disrespectful collection amid tragedy in Gaza
- Doc Malik Honest Health (Substack): My response to the latest hospital to suspend me

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-13th-december-2023

UK Column News Extra - 13th December 2023

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Funding For Ukraine: Budapest Blocks Bung—€50bn EU ‘Aid Package’ - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- Reuters: Hungary vetoes EU aid for Ukraine, bloc delays decision on funds for Budapest
- Alex Soros (on X): EU leaders approve Ukraine accession talks, bypassing Orbán
- The Irish Times: Hungarian PM Orbán blocks €50bn EU aid package for Ukraine
- ZeroHedge: Vista Outdoors Warns "Global Shortage Of Gunpowder" Will Set Ammo Prices On Fire
- Kyiv Post:  Donald Tusk: A Guide to Poland’s New PM Who Wants West’s ‘Full Mobilization' for Ukraine 
- Fox News (YouTube): Zelenskyy: We Only Have One Enemy and It’s Putin

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Demna, Questionable Georgian Creative Director Of Balenciaga, Is Shoring Up Ukraine - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- C-SPAN (2022): Senator Rubio Questions Undersecretary Nuland Over Biolabs in Ukraine
- Al Jazeera (2022): Profile: Who are Ukraine's far-right Azov regiment?
- Washington Examiner (2022): Zelensky calls for ‘preventative action’ from NATO to keep Russia from using nukes
- Daily Express (2022): NATO row breaks out as Zelensky savaged for 'destructive lies' over Poland missile
- U24: Demna is Selected as Ambassador for UNITED24
- UNITED24 (on X):
“Demna, artistic director of BALENCIAGA, is selected as ambassador for #united24.”
- Independent (2022): Balenciaga condemns child abuse in new statement addressing controversial ads

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Has Altruism Been Hijacked For Social Credit? - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- CBC (2020): A Covid–19 smackdown: why rule breakers need to be punished
“The reason: being selfish can be socially contagious.”
- King's College London (2021): Pandemic ‘triggered increase in altruism and reciprocity' across Europe
- Effective Altruism: What is effective altruism?
“Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice.”
- World Economic Forum: What is effective altruism? A philosopher explains
- Great Minds Official (YouTube): Effective Altruism: The Secret to Living a Good Life?
- The Org: Chief Executive Officer at Guide Dogs—Tom Wright
- UK Fundraising: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference
- Giving What We Can: Our pledge
“At Giving What We Can, we show you how to find those charities, so you can help solve some of the world's most pressing problems.”
- 80,000 Hours: Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs people
- Center For Global Development: The UK as an Effective Altruist
- National Institutes of Health: PubMed: Altruism towards the end of life
- Oxford Academic: Altruism and Physician Assisted Death (1993)
- The Guardian (2020): 'We did what we set out to achieve': the staff who moved into care homes
- Health Economics Review: The effect of altruism on Covid–19 vaccination rates
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): PubMed: Help Is in Your Blood-Incentive to "Double Altruism" Resolves the Plasma Donation Paradox 
- Nature Journal: These volunteers want to be infected with disease to aid research—will their altruism help?
- New Scientist: DNA vaccines coding for live viruses could soon be tested in people
- Global News: The virtuous few: How effective altruists are doing good better
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Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Davos, WEF, Chatham House, The NHS And Penny Mordaunt - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- Chatham House: COP28: What was achieved, and what needs to happen now
- Charlie Nunn (LinkedIn):
“Despite these clear benefits, and the importance of decarbonising UK homes in order to achieve Net Zero by 2050, our recent housing stocktake reveals we need to increase the pace and scale of progress.”
- Goals House: Davos—Goals House
- Goals House: Advisory Board
- Freud Communications: NHS 75 by Freuds Group
- Penny Mordaunt (2018 on Twitter): 
“Great lunch on delivering the #GlobalGoals with Matthew Rycroft, Bill Gates Melinda Gates, Mike Bloomberg, Stephen Fry […]”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Are Critical Mineral Wars Coming? - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- UK Parliament: A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience
“We urge the Government to define the UK's role in the critical minerals value chain and to set out a coherent 'Team UK' proposition to explain the UK's offer to global partners.”
- The Telegraph: China has 'weaponised' its dominance in critical minerals, say MPs

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Ultrasound Needle-Free Vaccines And Care Pods In The Streets? - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- Go Forward: Forward Raises $100M and Announces Forward CarePod™
“The World’s First AI Doctor’s Office”
- Forward (YouTube): Announcing the Forward CarePod™, the World's First AI Doctor's Office
- Evening Standard: Climate change could bring dengue fever to England by middle of the century, scientists warn
- Vigilant News: Italian Health Minister Under Investigation for Murder for Concealing Covid–19 Vaccine Deaths
- New Scientist: Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles
- Inside Pharma (Substack): MHRA resumes inspections of SARS–CoV–2 injection manufacturers—3 years too late!!!
- MHRAgovuk (YouTube): MHRA Board Meeting November 2023
- Daily Mail:  So much for the world-beating NHS! UK doesn't even rank in the top 20 for patient safety—and the US scores even lower
- The Guardian: Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

James Kariuki On Global Multilateralism - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- GOV.UK: The UK believes the Council must be reformed

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

AI To Fact-Check And Cherry-Pick - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- Sky News: Israel-Hamas war: Israeli ambassador dismisses notion of two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians 
- Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely (on X): 
“Hanukkah was celebrated for the first time in Westminster Hall’s nearly 1,000 year history today, marking a historic moment for UK Parliament
Today’s Hanukkah lighting reminds us, now more than ever, we’re following the Maccabees by defeating darkness through bringing light.
I thank the UK Parliament for standing with us during one of the darkest periods in our recent history.”
- Hollywood Reporter: This Startup Wants to Create an AI-Generated CNN

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023

Bloody Sunday: Soldier F Will Face Murder Trial - UK Column News - 15th December 2023

- BBC: Bloody Sunday: Soldier F will face murder trial
- The Times: Dennis Hutchings obituary
- Police Service of Northern Ireland: Legacy Investigation Branch | PSNI
- The Guardian (2015): Blair: without IRA letters, peace process would have collapsed
- UK Column video: David Ellis Report: Lawfare

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-december-2023