UK Column News - 15th April 2024

Brian Gerrish, Mike Robinson and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.

00:20 Israel-Iran Long Segment
37:28 Mahyar Tousi, The Shirion Collective And Israel’s Unit 8200
42:45 Policy Exchange: Tehran Calling
52:05 The Fornethy Survivors’ Battle Continues With New Committee Hearing On 17 April 2024 Concerning Redress
55:54 What Is Palliative Care ‘Currency’?
59:53 And Finally: A Simple Request For Analysis To Help Public Safety

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

Israel-Iran Long Segment - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Financial Times: The night Iran's missile spectacle rattled Israel
- Al Mayadeen English: IRGC launches 'unprecedented' retaliatory attack on 'Israel'
- The Telegraph: Rishi Sunak condemns Iran's 'reckless' drone attack and says UK stands with Israel
- Evening Standard (YouTube): Sunak condemns Iran’s ‘reckless attack’ on Israel in ‘strongest terms’ as RAF jets shoot down drones
- US Embassy: Statement from President Joe Biden on Iran's Attacks against the State of Israel
- Islamic World News: Operation True Promise; Which Of The Israeli Bases Targeted In The Retaliatory Missile And Drone Attack By Iran?
- The Times of Israel: IDF: 99% of the 300 or so projectiles fired by Iran at Israel overnight were intercepted
- Press TV: All hypersonic missiles used in Iran's strikes against Israel hit targets 
- Middle East Monitor: Countering Iran's overnight attack costs Israel $1.35bn
- The Times of Israel: Young girl seriously hurt in Iran attack remains in life-threatening condition
- BBC: Israel on high alert after unprecedented Iranian attack
- The Times: Iran missile attack was 'total failure', says Lord Cameron
- TASS: Iran sent 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles towards Israel
- King's College London: Professor Michael Clarke
- Daily Mail: ANDREW NEIL: If 300 missiles and drones hit Britain, would we be sitting on our hands? Israel has a right to retaliate... and loose talk about World War III is designed to intimidate it into doing nothing
“As we saw with the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands all those years ago, there would be an overwhelming national demand for a robust response to show we cannot be attacked with impunity […]”
- The Falkland Islands Association: Argentina: Military Support From Israel in 1982
- The Telegraph (2016): Israel sold weapons to Argentina at height of Falklands War, reveal declassified Foreign Office files

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

Mahyar Tousi, The Shirion Collective And Israel’s Unit 8200 - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Mahyar Tousi (on X): 
“The shocking level of damage after Iran’s attack last night “
[image of a solitary fallen garden chair]
- Shirion Collective (on X): Surveillance Network
- The Guardian: Pro-Israel ‘surveillance’ group turning attention to Australia, leaked posts show
- The Independent: GCHQ's 'spook first' programme to train Britain's most talented tech entrepreneurs
- Financial Times: Unit 8200: Israel's cyber spy agency

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

Policy Exchange: Tehran Calling - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Policy Exchange: Tehran Calling
“The United Kingdom has now experienced over three decades of Iranian influence and power projection within its borders: from the Rushdie fatwa in 1989, the 2022 cinema protests against the ‘blasphemous’ Lady of Heaven movie, to the current threats to Iranian dissidents and journalists based in the United Kingdom.”
- Amnesty UK: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Monique Villa (LinkedIn, 2017): My statement on the new charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Consortium News (2021): Reuters, BBC in Covert UK Program to Push Western Agenda
- UK Column article: BBC Media Action: Subversion From Broadcasting House To Kazakhstan
- MI5: Threat of subversion
- MI5: Counter State Threats
- TRT World Now (YouTube): Julian Assange on Afghan war in a 2011 video
“The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

The Fornethy Survivors’ Battle Continues With New Committee Hearing On 17 April 2024 Concerning Redress - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Event: What actually is 5G? A talk on the pros and cons of 5G and the implications of AI by Ian Jarvis, IT and Systems Analyst Specialist. Location: St. Luke's, 61 Aylsham Road, Norwich NR3 2HF—Date: Saturday April 20th Time: 2pm to 5pm Contact: talksatnorfolklight@proton.me
Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column
- Please Join Us: Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community
- UK Column interview: Conformity Colleges: the Occupation and Destruction of the Academy by the Radical Left—Prof. David Barnhizer
- Forthcoming UK Column interview: Dr Charles Hoffe—Tuesday 16th April at 1 pm
- GiveSendGo: Dr Charles Hoffe Legal Defence Fund
- UK Column discussion: No Smoke Without Fire: The Green King (Part 4)
- UK Column content: Debi Evans Blog: 11th April 2024
- Film showing on UK Column: Playing God: An Investigation Into Medical Democide In The UK—Première: 2 pm, Monday 22 April 2024
- Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival 2024—27–30 June (Promo code: UKCOLUMN)
- Event: Stand In The Light Music Festival—24–27 May (Promo code: UKC10)
 - Thompsons Solicitors Scotland (on X): 
“Thompsons Solicitors came out today to support the survivors of historic sexual abuse at Fornethy House. We really wanted their protest against Glasgow City Council to be heard and will continue the fight for answers.”
- Crowdfunder UK: Fornethy Survivors’ Group—Campaign for Justice

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

What Is Palliative Care ‘Currency’? - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Film showing on UK Column: Playing God: An Investigation Into Medical Democide In The UK—Première: 2 pm, Monday 22 April 2024
- National Review: Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die
- GOV.UK (2011): Creating a Fair and Transparent Funding System; the Final Report of the Palliative Care Funding Review
- NHS England: Developing a new approach to Palliative Care Funding
- eHospice (2014): Have your say in developing a palliative care 'currency'

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

And Finally: A Simple Request For Analysis To Help Public Safety - UK Column News - 15th April 2024

- Andrew Bridgen MP (On X): 
“Yesterday, all MPs and Peers received a summary of the NHS’ own data, which indicates huge increases in illness from Spring 2021 following the experimental Covid–19 vaccine rollout.
None of them can now say they didn’t know or were not told. It’s all in the NHS data itself.”
- Steve Kirsch's newsletter (Substack): UK ONS denies request from 7 MPs by claiming that the vaccines are safe so there is no need to do any analysis that might show otherwise

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-15th-april-2024

I do thoroughly recommend watching this UK Column News in full as 90% is in-depth analysis of the Iranian retaliation against Israel’s egregious attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus more than ten days ago. https://beeley.substack.com/p/irans-true-promise-operation

Part 1

In UK Column yesterday they were discussing palliative care “currency” & asked for help on just what this is. If anyone would like to send this post to UK column please do so, as it is a first toe dip into looking into this, upon which others can build. Reference to, & some commentary is taken from “The Adult Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) Currency Guidance Document” linked below.

Apparently, health Commissioners are already familiar with the concept of “currencies” & their use but most specialist palliative care providers have little or no prior experience of currency models and their use in commissioning and paying for health services.

The currency project for palliative care started as a result of the Palliative Care Funding Review which published its final report in 2011, with 3 key aims being “to create a fair & transparent funding system”, “to deliver better outcomes for patients”, & “to provide better value for the NHS”

These aims were to be achieved by developing:

• A funding system based on need
• A funding system which incentivised good outcomes for patients irrespective of both time & setting
• The commissioning of integrated care packages to stimulate community services.

It was widely recognised that there was a general lack of good data about the palliative care sector. Therefore, a data mining exercise was authorised to help “achieve the above aims”. Data was collected from the sector to develop “currencies”, with a target to collect information about 7,000 specialist palliative spells of care. The data collection pilot ran from 2012 & was completed in May 2014. It therefore seems like a lot of modelling has gone into this program, from data collected from patients. There is no mention as to whether patients gave their consent to this.

Analysis on the data led to the design of a “development currency”. This eventually led to the publication of “A New Approach to Palliative Care Funding” in March 2015 which set out the proposed development currencies, (which I see as nothing more than a cost benefit analysis), for adult, children & young people’s specialist palliative care.

Currency consists of two elements, case mix, & the resources needed to deliver that case mix. “For many providers collecting information about the resources associated with particular activities can be more challenging & will depend to some extent on whether your accounting practices allow you to collect costs at a patient level. The data collection templates discussed in the section ennoscriptd, “How to Use the Currency - a Practical Guide” is supported by further detail in Annex 2 & will help you to formulate an approach appropriate to your organisations circumstances”.

The above is very troubling to me. It is an exercise in “average cost per phase for acute hospital in-patients, or hospice in-patients; & an average daily cost for community settings”. Therefore, I see it as an exercise in determining the costs of looking after extremely sick & vulnerable people and whether "this is worth it". This is dangerous, as it reduces a person to a number & the cost to society at large, for their care. I will go out on a limb here & say this kind of attitude is what is driving the push towards legalising euthanasia. It seems clear that there is a pervasive belief at some level, that when someone can no longer work or contribute to a system hell bent on punitive taxation measures, they are regarded as a drain on society.

I personally feel this currency for care is nothing other than a social score given to you by the government. (interesting in light of social credit system – maybe this is the precursor to it, based on health & contribution to society). The higher your score the more useful to society and/or compliant you are, the lower the score, the less useful to society and/or compliant you are.

Page 9 of the attached document evidences this very well with relative costs for the care of those of “unstable health” being of course higher, that those that are of “stable health”.

Part 2 of post here

Is The UK Government Leading Us Into Food Shortages? - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- NFUonline [National Farmers' Union]: Farming Recovery Fund—Defra [agriculture ministry for England] lifts 150m eligibility rule
- GOV.UK: Government opens fund to support farmers affected by flooding
- GOV.UK: Land use statistics: England 2022
- GOV.UK: Find out what's available in SFI
- Legislation: The Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024
- AHDB: UK wheat imports rise with crops looking poor: Analyst Insight

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

UK Parliament: Misinformation And Trusted Voices, Also Known As Censorship - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- UK Parliament: Misinformation and trusted voices
- House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee—Trusted voices Sixth Report of Session 2023–24 (PDF)
“It impacts a range of issues, such as climate change, 5G, water fluoridation, elections and those claiming UK terror attacks have been staged.”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Conference Shutdown: Turkish Mayor Of A Brussels Borough Gets NAT-C On NAT-Cs - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- National Conservatism: National Conservatism Conference, Brussels 2024
- Gladden Pappin (on X): 
“So this is what the rule of law looks like in Brussels! Living in Hungary where intellectual/political events occur freely, I’d forgotten.”
- Sky News (YouTube): Braverman: 'It's a real shame the 'Thought Police' shut down conference'

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

World Health Day Instrumentalised For Migration - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- University of Chicago: World Health Day: Migration, Climate Change, and Global Health
(Image of an inflatable globe being injected with a syringe)
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs: World Health Day: Migration, Climate Change, and Global Health past events
- World Bank: Groundswell Report
“By 2050, Sub-Saharan Africa could see as many as 86 million internal climate migrants; East Asia and the Pacific, 49 million; South Asia, 40 million; North Africa, 19 million; Latin America, 17 million; and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 5 million”
- UNICEF: Children displaced in a changing climate

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Updates And Announcements - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- Event: What actually is 5G? A talk on the pros and cons of 5G and the implications of AI by Ian Jarvis, IT and Systems Analyst Specialist
Location: St. Luke's Church Centre, 61 Aylsham Road, Norwich NR3 2HF
Date: Saturday 20 April
Time: 2 pm to 5 pm
Contact: talksatnorfolklight@proton.me
- Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column
- Please Join Us: Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community
- YouTube Premiere: Walking The Dog - Episode 3–11am Sunday 21st April
- UK Column interview: Conformity Colleges: the Occupation and Destruction of the Academy by the Radical Left—Prof. David Barnhizer
- Forthcoming UK Column interview: Nicola Lund: From School Teacher to Active Journalist
- GiveSendGo: Dr Charles Hoffe Legal Defence Fund
- Crowdfunder UK: Fornethy Survivors’ Group—Campaign for Justice
- Film showing on UK Column: Playing God: An Investigation Into Medical Democide In The UK—Première: 2pm, Monday 22 April 2024
- Event: Sounds Beautiful Festival 2024—27–30 June (Promo code: UKCOLUMN)
- Event: Stand In The Light Music Festival—24–27 May (Promo code: UKC10)

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Geoengineering: Marine Cloud Brightening, Sun-Blocking—Who Permits This To Go Ahead? - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- Department of Atmospheric Sciences: Marine Cloud Brightening Program
“The Program also collaborates with researchers at a range of other institutions, including the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Victoria (Canada), the Desert Research Institute, and the University of Exeter (UK)”
- University of Exeter: Cloud engineering could be more effective ‘painkiller’ for global warming than previously thought
- SilverLining: Ensuring a Safe Climate
- University of Cambridge (Department of Engineering): Cambridge at COP28
“There are various ideas for Refreezing the Arctic including Marine Cloud Brightening, Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and even pumping of sea water onto the top of sea ice.”
- Royal Society: UK-Norway bilateral workshop on science and the law of the environment
“In the summer of 2022 there was a Gordon Research Conference on Climate Engineering. One reflection after the conference is that there is actually now a very large body of research being carried out in the US on solar radiation management, and particularly marine cloud brightening (MCB) and stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI).”
- British Antarctic Survey: Clouds formed with sea salt contribute to Arctic warming

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

DragonFire Gets Press Coverage Whilst Ukraine Casualties Are Continually Ignored - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- War Secretary Grant Shapps (YouTube): DragonFire and Reforming Military Procurement
- Euractiv: EU sets out plan for lasting Ukraine security commitments
- Politico: Ukraine strikes deal to get two Royal Navy minehunters from UK
- BBC: Russia's meat grinder soldiers—50,000 confirmed dead

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024DragonFire Gets Press Coverage Whilst Ukraine Casualties Are Continually Ignored - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- War Secretary Grant Shapps (YouTube): DragonFire and Reforming Military Procurement
- Euractiv: EU sets out plan for lasting Ukraine security commitments
- Politico: Ukraine strikes deal to get two Royal Navy minehunters from UK
- BBC: Russia's meat grinder soldiers—50,000 confirmed dead

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Rebuilding Ukraine Is Big Business - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- President of Ukraine: Ukraine Will Request a Meeting of the Ukraine NATO Council—Address of the President of Ukraine
“China can really help us restore the just peace for Ukraine and the stability in international relations. The Summit in Switzerland gives us all a real chance to make the Charter of the United Nations, its goals and principles, really work.”
- GOV.UK: UK reaffirms support for Ukrainian efforts to seek justice for Russia’s illegal invasion 
- GOV.UK: Attorney General [of England and Wales] marks two-year anniversary of Ukraine conflict
- GOV.UK (2023): Attorney General [of England and Wales] presents UK intervention in Ukraine case against Russia at International Court of Justice 
- European Union: Commission co-hosts international conference on restoring justice for Ukraine in The Hague
- Council of Europe: Council of Europe Summit creates register of damage for Ukraine as first step towards an international compensation mechanism for victims of Russian aggression 
- GOV.UK: Support for UK businesses helping to rebuild Ukraine
- VEON: VEON and Kyivstar set in motion their 600m USD investment plan with Kyiv visit, Mike Pompeo joins the delegation
“Digital identity is one of the great challenges of our time, states Kaan Terzioğlu, CEO of the VEON Group. […] MobileID will enable mobile operators to be the trusted authority for both consumers and retailers with the reassurance that the operator is based in their home country and licensed by local data protection laws.”
- VEON (2021): VEON Rolls Out New Industry Standard for Digital Identity Validation

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Mark Anderson Updates In Preparation For WHO's Geneva Assembly - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- Federal Register: Stakeholder Listening Session in Preparation for the 77th World Health Assembly
- WHO: Provisional agenda of the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

Suitable Constables: The Question Of Police Discipline - UK Column News - 17th April 2024

- GOV.UK: Chief constables given powers to sack unfit officers
“The Home Office has also committed to providing funding to develop an automated and continuous integrity screening system of the police workforce to ensure that officers are continuously vetted throughout their career.”

Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-17th-april-2024

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