War Fever Against Russia Reaches Australia; Floppy Rifles In Germany - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- Sky News (Australia): Are we ready for an all-out war with Russia? Australia must consider mandating national service to build our trained reserve ‘while we still have time’
- Dagbladet: “We're running out of time”: Norway only has a few years to build up a defense that can better meet an aggressive Russia, says Chief of Defense Eirik Kristoffersen
- Military News: Marines Can't Count on Navy Ships to Carry Them to Global Emergencies, One of the Service's Top Generals Says (Archived)
- Athens News: Blinken offered Mitsotakis $200 million to send weapons to Ukraine, the prime minister agreed
- Kathimerini (Greek): F-35: What capabilities it "unlocks" for the Armed Forces
- Spiegel (German): Court of Auditors criticizes firing tests for new assault rifle
- ZDFheute (German): New Bundeswehr rifle may not be suitable
- The Constitution Unit Blog: How might Keir Starmer codify his Prevention of Military Intervention Act?
- Weston A. Price Foundation, London Chapter (on X): 
“ConUnitUCL & Keir Starmer should know that the Crown already has no prerogative to engage in war to defend places not belonging to it without consent of UK Parliament, see 1700 Act of Settlement. No new legislation is required, as set out in my article.”
- UK Column article: War Powers: Is the UK a Military Dictatorship or is it a Legal Limited Monarchy?
- Morgoth’s Review (Substack): Connoscription?
- Foreign Affairs: The Next Global War

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

Weapons Of Mass Distraction As Warmongering Global Leaders Panic, A Decade After Destroying British Military - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- The Guardian: Fresh US/UK airstrikes ‘send clear message’ to Houthis, says Cameron
- The British Army (2023): Army chief sets out plan for next generation of war fighters
- Sky News: Sean Bell: RAF jets flying 3,000 miles for Houthi strikes as flagship aircraft carriers remain in UK—here's why
- Daily Mail: Aircraft carrier fiasco as the UK REFUSES to deploy either of its £3.5bn warships to help tackle Yemen's Houthis: RAF jets are forced to fly 3,000-mile sorties while vessels are anchored in Portsmouth
- Daily Mail (2016): Army fitness tests to be re-written to make sure female soldiers can qualify for front line duty
- Coursera: Ethical Hacker Salary (2024): What You'll Make and Why
- Forces Network (2016): MoD Announces £140 Million Land Sell-Off 
- Daily Mail (2013): "I'm going to recruit an army of two million to save our lost generation": Charles' revolutionary initiative announced in Mail on Sunday
- The Guardian (2014): A revolutionary communist could lead Ofsted, says Michael Gove
- The Telegraph: Why it may already be too late for the West to avoid war 
- Daily Mail: PETER HITCHENS: If we don't want death, blackouts, and busybodies in every corner of our lives, end this brainless march to war

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

AI, State Surveillance And War Games - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- World Economic Forum: Young Global Leaders' insights on artificial intelligence
- World Economic Forum: Open Forum: A Primer on AI
- Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs: Testimony of Alexandra Reeve Givens (PDF)
- IMDb: WarGames (1983)—Plot
- SXSW: South by Southwest Conference & Festivals | March 8-16, 2024

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

Updates And Announcements - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- Forthcoming UK Column Interview: Gutsy Women: Moira Dundee—Tuesday 30 January at 1 pm
- Please Join Us: UK Column Community
- UK Column Shop: https://shop.ukcolumn.org
- Oxford Mail: Former MP wannabe is victim of Oxford council's IT mix-up
- GoFundMe: Santander v. Carlin—URGENT FUNDING REQUIRED
- UK Column Community Groups: Cornwall Group: Calling all men and women of Kernow, whether you were born here or drawn here. Something's 'just not right' but haven't been able to answer the question 'what can I do?' Then come along to a launch meeting held on Sunday 4 February, 2–4 pm at St Austell Rugby Football Club, PL26 7FE

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

Immigration: Costly And Unmentionable - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- Die Fackel 2.0 (Substack): Dutch Researchers Reveal the True Cost of Mass Immigration
- Research Gate: Borderless Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration for Public Finances
- Les Echos (French): The Constitutional Council censors a large part of the immigration law
- Les Echos (French): Immigration law: LR and RN now demand a constitutional revision
- Tagesschau (German): Le Pen threatens AfD with end of EU parliamentary group
- BFMTV (YouTube): L'intégralité des vœux à la presse de Marine Le Pen (Full press statement by Marine Le Pen)
- Der Spiegel (German): The end of patience with the AfD
- Correctiv (German): Secret plan against Germany
- Spiegel (German): Tens of thousands demonstrate against the AfD
- Spiegel (German): Actually, Germany is well governed (Susanne Beyer)
- Stefan Homburg (on X): Nothing new either: the good guys threaten physical or social murder
- Reitschuster (German): Anyone who sings the national anthem is now apparently also a Nazi
- Reitschuster (YouTube): Our national anthem is now apparently also Nazi—strictly forbidden at “demonstrations against the right”
- Ostsee Zeitung (German): Stralsund teacher causes incident at demonstration: This is what he says about it
- Eugyppius: a plague chronicle (Substack): Did German domestic intelligence services collaborate with Correctiv journalists to smear Alternative für Deutschland and incite the current wave of protests "against the right"? 
- Tichys Einblick (German): Correctiv: With state aid and billionaire money “for society”
- Martin Sellner: Einreiseverbot? (Entry ban?)
- Eugyppius: a plague chronicle (Substack): Resistance Is Not Futile

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

Problems With Immigration On Steroids: 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- Henry Cuellar (American attorney and politician): Press Release: Rep. Cuellar and Colleagues Visit Mexico on Bipartisan Congressional Delegation
“I have long said that the United States cannot continue playing defense on the 1-yard line known as the US-Mexico border.”
- International Organization for Migration: Migration and the 2030 Agenda (PDF)
“In September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
- The New York Times: New York Moves to Allow 800,000 Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections
- The Eagle Online: Non-citizens will be able to vote in DC starting next year
- Take Our Border Back: Take our border back convoy, peaceful assembly & prayer

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

No Money—Unless For War - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- Motor Cycle News: No hope for fast fixes on potholed UK roads
- ITV: Why won't Treasury fund £1000 nurses payment?
- The Guardian (2022): 90% of schools in England will run out of money next year, heads warn
- The Guardian: At least 26 English councils ‘at risk of bankruptcy in next two years’
- World Bank: World Bank’s New $1.5 Billion Loan to Ukraine Will Provide Relief to Households, Mitigate Impacts of Russia’s Invasion
- House of Commons Library: Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion
“The UK is one of the leading donors to Ukraine, alongside the US and Germany. The UK has pledged almost £12 billion in overall support to Ukraine since February 2022.”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

Canadian Emergencies Act And Supranational Overreach - UK Column News - 29th January 2024

- National Post: Christine Van Geyn: Emergencies Act was clearly unjustified—Liberals face steep path to appeal
- True North: Federal Court declares Trudeau’s use of Emergencies Act unconstitutional
- InfoBAE (Spanish): Paraguay will host the next Mercosur meeting, which will have an agreement with the EU at the heart of the agenda
- European Parliament: Report on European historical consciousness—2023/2112(INI) (A9–0402/2023)
- Reclaim The Net: EU Votes on Resolution To List “Hate Speech” as a Crime
- Brussels Signal: The EU’s hate-speech bill is not simply about being tough on prejudice. But it is a crackdown on dissent and a restriction on democracy
- European Centre for Law and Justice: Conflicts of Interest Between Judges and NGOs: the ECHR Finally Establishes a Recusal Procedure
- Reuters: Brussels threatens to hit Hungary's economy if Orbán vetoes Ukraine aid—FT
- Thomas Sheridan (Substack): Overheard in Conversation

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-29th-january-2024

In a special UK Column Extra we are joined by Chaka Artwell, better known to his friends as Artwell, an enthusiastic activist from Oxford. Highly knowledgeable about his local council and their activities, Artwell has recently been challenging implementation of the Oxford LTN Low Traffic Neighbourhood. He describes this initiative as East Oxford’s road block and anti-car policy, and he highlights that by shutting off side road connections with the main arterial routes through the city, the council is creating mayhem for drivers and local people alike.

Artwell is also deeply concerned about the loss of wider freedoms in our Constitutional Monarchy and he sees that Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals are frequently to be found at the core of Oxford’s, and other councils’ policies. Supposedly designed to make the lives of local people better, in practice, they quickly seem to do the opposite.

Artwell’s upbeat and challenging approach to contentious matters within Oxford recently made him the focus of an Oxford Mail article, written by politics reporter Albert Tait. In what should have been an article recognising the importance of Artwell’s questions and challenges to unwelcome Oxford Council policies, Tait attempted to smear Artwell and his former hard work as a prospective parliamentary candidate, by dismissively calling him a ‘Former MP Wanabee.’

In fact Artwell had discovered that so sensitive was Oxford Council to his challenges, his emails, setting out questions that he had wanted to ask at formal council meetings, had been ’disappearing’ into an ‘un-monitored' council inbox. Without Council acknowledgement of his questions, Artwell was subsequently denied his rightful attendance and participation as a member of the public in those supposedly democratic meetings.

Please join Brian Gerrish, Alex Thomson, Mark Anderson and Artwell in our relaxed UKC News Extra conversation and learn more about Artwell and the importance of simple local activism in a uni-party world.

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-extra-29th-january-2024

Worth listening carefully to Nick Hudson. See what you think.

Best wishes
Mike

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[Charles Malet: “Hard as it is to believe that the cult of Covid still has any followers–four years on–the reality is that many remain under the spell.

This clip of Nick Hudson articulating the absurdity of the timeline is a very useful one. It may be employed to confirm that you have not gone mad.

Mostly, though, it serves as a powerful reminder of the deceit, corruption, complicity, collusion and inhumanity of those that served up, and went along with, the most diabolical and divisive falsehood.”]

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Online Safety Act: Put ‘Fake News’ Behind Bars - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- GOV.UK: Cyberflashing, epilepsy-trolling and fake news to put online abusers behind bars from today
- GOV.UK: Online Safety Act: new criminal offences circular
- UK Prime Minister (2020 on X):
“PM Boris Johnson gives an important update on #coronavirus #StayHomeSaveLives”
- UK Column article (2020): Covid Coercion: Boris Johnson's Psychological Attack on the UK Public
- RichPlanet Official (Telegram): 
“I appeared at a High Court hearing on Monday 29th January 2024. The hearing was to determine the outcome of the Claimant's application to accept without question the official narrative of the Manchester bombing, and thus prevent me from presenting any evidence which challenges the official narrative at a trial.”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

House Of Frauds, Court Of Contradictions - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- Crown Prosecution Service: Far-right organiser [Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative] found guilty of intent to stir up racial hatred through distribution of stickers
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (Wikipedia): In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote:
I” disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
- Legislation.gov: Public Order Act 1986—Chapter 64
“(5) A person who is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred is not guilty of an offence under this section if he did not intend his words or behaviour, or the written material, to be, and was not aware that it might be, threatening, abusive or insulting.”
- Sentencing Council: Racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage
- Political Merch: Save the NHS Stickers (200 stickers = £40): Our Story
“We made the ‘HTNF’ sticker way back in 2017, just for ourselves. It gained mass traction online and we decided to make more to spread the message just in time for the election.”
- GOV.UK: Companies House: Patriotic Alternative LTD
- UK Parliament: Main Lords debate of Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
- GiveSendGo: Supporting Sam & Laura at this Difficult Time

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

Iran: US Returning To The Middle East - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- The Guardian: Iran on high alert: Iran on high alert as Biden mulls response to killing of US servicemen
- Politico: The US pulled resources out of the Middle East. Now it is rethinking that decision
“The Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel caught Washington off guard.”
- Al Monitor: Kataib Hezbollah suspends attacks on US bases: Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah announces suspension of attacks against US forces
- The New York Times: Biden's options against Iran—to war or not to war? Biden’s Options Range From Unsatisfying to Risky After American Deaths (Archived)
- Mediaite: Oliver North on Fox News: Hannity Hits Biden on Iran with Guest Who Funneled Weapons to the Country

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

The Arctic: The Next Front In The Hybrid War With Russia - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- NATO’s ACT: NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024: Unprecedented Military Exercise Signals Alliance Unity and Preparedness
- UK Parliament: Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
- European Leadership Network: Countering Russia's hybrid threats in the Arctic
- UK Column series: Integrity Initiative

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

Vanessa Beeley With An Update On The ICJ Ruling - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- Vanessa Beeley (Substack): The ICJ ruling and the aftermath for Palestine
- Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications (Substack): Translation and Overview: Kata'ib Hezbollah Announces Suspension of Operations Against the U.S.
- Al Jazeera: UNRWA: Which countries have cut funding to UNRWA, and why?
- Human Rights Watch: Letter to the UK Government Calling for an Immediate Halt to UK Arms Transfers to the Government of Israel
- Lawyers of Light (Telegram): UK Government Support of Israel: withholding some of your income tax

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

Surveillance And Snooping—Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- Hansard: Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

Cameron In Palestine - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- The Guardian: Cameron to recognise Palestinian state: UK will consider recognising Palestinian state, says David Cameron
- Maariv (Hebrew): Zionist controlled Palestinian state: Provisional military government and international coalition: Israel's plan for the day after the war Ben Caspit

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

The Apparent Contradiction Between Nature Recovery And Food Security - UK Column News - 31st January 2024

- GOV.UK: Nature recovery to be accelerated as the government delivers on measures to protect land and sea
- National Trails: King Charles III England Coast Path
- Ramblers: Agricultural reform: The Ramblers’ position on changes to farming policy in England and Wales
- GOV.UK (2023): Environmental Land Management (ELM) update
- GOV.UK: Technical annex: The combined environmental land management offer
- Hansard: UK Parliament: Groceries Supply Code of Practice (Volume 744: debated on Monday 22 January 2024)
- No Farmers, No Food (on X): A campaign to save the farming industry. Our farms. Your food. Everyone’s future

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-31st-january-2024

In an environment segment on this afternoon’s UK Column News, I made reference to DEFRA’s pledge to 30by30 which, rather than being something a builder would use, is a pledge to commit 30% of the UK’s landmass to ‘nature recovery’ by 2030.

Quick as a whip, Debi Evans has pointed out that this has come from the then Prince Charles’s Terra Carta aims. Once all the food has run out, at least this sort of knowledge might get you over the line in a pub quiz. A virtual pub quiz, of course.

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https://www.sustainable-markets.org/TerraCarta_Charter_Jan11th2021.pdf