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UK Column News - 12th December 2022

00:31 More outsourcing of NHS services: The banned word is 'monopsony'
05:38 Covid: inverted reality, ongoing discrimination
19:58 Ukraine: How to frame Bakhmut bloodbath?
26:57 EU: Democracy without a demos
37:19 Oil price cap: G7 faces Asian blowback
40:04 The new world of funny money: All is changed, changed utterly
47:30 Announcements
51:57 Global Cities movement: NGOs are taking on global governance directly to modify us
1:01:57 UN's IPCC tells cities what "difficult choices" to make
1:07:47 #TwitterFiles: Second batch
1:10:19 Wokery costs poorest British cities dear: A compelling report

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

More outsourcing of NHS services: The banned word is 'monopsony' - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- NHS Confederation: Health leaders welcome new Elective Recovery Taskforce—but no guarantees
- Clip: Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting surprisingly agrees with the creeping privatisation, "as a short-term measure" to help the poor
- David Scott commentary: No real analysis of the problems going on here—coercing is not privatisation—this is monopsony (sole customer; in this case, government), so patients are the product, not the customer
- Duncan White—UK Column interview explains who is behind the incessant turmoil in the NHS
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (UK): Antibiotic Availability and Medicines Pricing
— Many contractors are paying inflated prices for antibiotics

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Covid: inverted reality, ongoing discrimination - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Christine Anderson MEP notices the medical gaslighting that blames fear of jab sceptics for adverse effects of Covid jabs
- David Scott commentary: Almost no words to describe the desperation of the lie
- Clip: Rangers FC AGM—board challenged on administration of government tyranny
“Did you honour your fellow human beings in 2021?”
- Brian Gerrish analysis: The board members couldn’t reply because government had got inside their heads with applied behavioural psychology
-Clark County Today: Unvaxxed 14-year-old rejected by top hospital for life-saving surgery
Guardian: Health officials gain guardianship of baby whose parents refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion
@BernieSpofforth: New Zealand—the State owns your children now
Guardian: Parents who refused ‘vaccinated blood’ transfusion speak out after court places Baby W in care
- David Scott commentary: Covid tyranny on all that is reasonable and right is unrelenting, which is why UK Column is still covering it—there is joy in the resistance
- Clip: Joyful resistance on the streets of Perth (soundtrack: Brad Skistimas)
- Vanessa Beeley: Canada’s expanding euthanasia laws
Mike Robinson commentary: A minimalist euthanasia law quickly expands to the liquidation of the disabled and homeless

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Ukraine: How to frame Bakhmut bloodbath? - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Clip: (t.me/Evgeniy_Lisitsyn) Horror of drone strikes on armoured vehicles
- Daily Telegraph—Inside Bakhmut: The strange and senseless death trap draining Ukraine’s tired army
Brian Gerrish analysis: The article is written without the mental acumen to understand what is happening
Admission in article:
“The Russians are in no hurry as Bakhmut draws thousands of Ukrainian forces and reinforcements to their death”
- Brian Gerrish analysis: Russia fires nine shells for every Ukrainian shell, yet the West will not stop the war
- Clip: White phosphorus or thermite used horrifically to clear Ukrainian troop concentrations from tree lines and villages—huge areas now being laid waste in this fashion
- Social media reporting: Casualties increasing among Western mercenaries
- Brian Gerrish question: Why is the gender-obsessed BBC not calling for equality on the Ukrainian front lines?
- UK Defence Journal: Britain, Italy and Japan merge combat aircraft projects

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

EU: Democracy without a demos - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Clip: Ryszard Legutko MEP (professor of philosophy) speech on the 70th anniversary of the Parliament
“This Parliament ignores reality and law, and shuns accountability.”
- David Scott commentary: This could equally be said of the devolved or Westminster parliaments in the UK
Footage shows some MEPs unable to process the dissent and treating the speech as an unexpected intermission in proceedings
Legutko's book, The Demon in Democracy, was one of those reviewed in Episode 4 of UK Column's podcast series A Dissident's Guide to the Constitution
- Angela Merkel’s admission (covered on Friday) that the Minsk Agreements of 2014–15 were playing for time
Putin response: I didn’t expect to hear this from Merkel—I thought she had been sincerely striving for a settlement
- Kremlin response: Dmitry Medvedev and Maria Zakharova stress that if long-range weapons are given to Ukraine, Russia will have recourse to new weapons and will regard the West as a direct party to the conflict
- EU: Council adopts €18 billion assistance to Ukraine
Mike Robinson analysis: These turn out in the small print to be loans, with the EU’s member states covering the bulk of servicing the interest as a grace period for Kiev
David Scott question: Is this being funded using resources robbed from the Russians?

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Oil price cap: G7 faces Asian blowback - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Bloomberg: Easy freight helps Russian oil hold above G–7’s $60 cap in Asia
Mike Robinson analysis: Siberian oil seems destined to be bought in China
- OilPrice.com: Why supertanker rates are suddenly crashing
— Large crude oil ships’ earnings are down two-thirds in a matter of weeks, collapsing the cost of shipping
- Economic Times (India): Russia offers India help in leasing and building large-capacity ships to overcome G7's oil price cap // Russia welcomes India's decision not to support G7's price cap on Russian oil

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

The new world of funny money: All is changed, changed utterly - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Pursuant to M2 (money supply) chart shown last Monday (09:00 here)
New chart courtesy of viewer—plotting the degree of historical inflation by commercial banks versus inflation by central banks: All the money supply growth has been central bank-generated since Covid (source: St Louis Fed)
David Scott analysis: This might not just be paving the way for digital currencies; it could be the harbinger of something new that we do not yet fully grasp
- Interest rates—Daily Telegraph: Four-way split on rates looms at Bank of England as strikes stoke downturn
David Scott summary: Nobody knows how to play it from here since the economy went down to zero interest
- Guardian: Average asking price of UK homes down by 2.1% in a month, says Rightmove
Mortgage Solutions: Bank rate to fall ‘further and faster’ than expected in 2024—Capital Economics
David Scott commentary: The yarn spun continues to be “We’ll have sorted it all out within a year”—the only uncertainty as to the interest pate pivot is the date
- Meme: Father reading The National Debt and What You’ll Owe to his horrified infant
Conservative Way Forward: A Charter for Tax Cuts (Julian Jessop, June 2022)—We are already paying too much on debt interest
Announcements
- Latest Doctors for Covid Ethics symposium: up imminently on the home page
- Scottish former abused schoolgirls' Fornethy Conference: St Luke’s, Bain Street, Glasgow; Sunday 22 January 2023
Possible UK Column event to be held in Scotland on Tuesday 24 January with Brian Gerrish
- Education Not Indoctrination UK Column seminar on Thursday 15 December: seven excellent speakers to be followed via ukcolumn.org/live and community.ukcolumn.org/live
- Vanessa Beeley’s segment from Friday’s UK Column News Extra on sanctions against Syria is now on the home page

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Global Cities movement: NGOs are taking on global governance directly to modify us - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Mark Anderson commentary: Global cities used to be merely an annual talking point at the Council on Foreign Relations but is now being seeded into academia and the media year-round
- New hobby-horse, World Society Theory—emphasises the role of “global culture” in modifying the behaviour of individuals
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs (formerly Chicago CFR): Better city network data empowers climate action from below
Mark Anderson analysis: The nation state is being elbowed out
- University of California Press: Toward global urban climate mitigation: linking national and polycentric systems of environmental change or doi.org/10.1525/sod.2021.0018
David Scott commentary: This is being seen in practice in the likes of Edinburgh with 20-minute neighbourhoods, but the city councils omit to mention that it is global policy
Mark Anderson commentary: The fix is in globally; the Delphi technique involves presenting a faux choice for a fait accompli

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

UN's IPCC tells cities what "difficult choices" to make - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- The Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC Sixth Assessment report series was launched at COP 27
SUP has already written three reports (consolidated here) on policy for cities, penned by IPCC members working as individual “volunteers”
- SUP Volume I: What the latest physical science of climate change means for cities—takes anthropogenic climate change as a given
Mark Anderson commentary: Very difficult to determine the accuracy of such predictions because their causation model of climate change is so narrowly gauged
- Clip: SUP fear porn—“Cities are becoming sites of human distress … difficult choices have to be made … no-one left behind”

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

#TwitterFiles: Second batch - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Bari Weiss thread:
“A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.”
- Examples include Trends Blacklist (example victim: Dr Jay Bhattacharya), Search Blacklist (e.g. Dan Bongino) and Do Not Amplify (Charlie Kirk)
- Yet Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, has already stated (18 November):
“New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.
Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.
You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.”
- Mike Robinson question: How is Elon Musk’s Twitter any different from previous Twitter, then?

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Wokery costs poorest British cities dear: A compelling report - UK Column News - 12th December 2022

- Daily Telegraph: Jeremy Hunt faces Tory rebellion over £7 billion spending on ‘woke’ projects
Sun: Woke ‘waste’—£7 billion of taxpayers’ money splurged on woke roles and activities
Sun: Jeremy Hunt faces Tory revolt as bombshell report reveals £7 billion of taxpayers’ cash is wasted on woke projects
- The report itself—Conservative Way Forward: Defunding Politically-Motivated Campaigns
Brian Gerrish commentary: Case studies in Section 2 are particularly interesting, as they illustrate the introduction of toxicity into society by charities
Mike Robinson commentary: This is, of course, unlawful for charities
- Graphic on screen: BBC has no coverage of this report
Brian Gerrish criticism: Conservative Way forward did not ask the key questions about the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion billions—
1 Which department(s) responsible?
2 Which ministers responsible?
3 Which civil servants responsible?
- David Scott commentary: While identifying the individual decision-makers proves very difficult, the funding is clear enough. Not external agitation, not individual consciences being changed; we bring this about by the taxes paid to our councils
- And Finally—Far Side cartoon blast from the past: “All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names”

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022

Privatisation—turning the NHS into a brand - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- NHS Confederation: Health leaders welcome new Elective Recovery Taskforce—but no guarantees
British Medical Association—Outsourced: the role of the independent sector in the NHS
- Debi Evans commentary: This deliberate destruction has been a long time in the making; private healthcare outfits in Britain often use less safe NHS cast-off kit 
- Roy Lilley and Duncan White have given interviews to UK Column bearing upon the question of NHS privatisation
- MHRA: Pfizer/BioNTech Covid–19 vaccine authorised for use in infants and children age 6 months to 4 years
Mike Robinson commentary: Very telling that MHRA CEO June Raine was silent on the authorisation
Debi Evans analysis: Responsibility is now being shifted to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
- Many medical signatories against the use of mRNA platforms to vaccinate children

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Strep A panic: Unprecedented antibiotics scattergun- UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Daily Mail: Ninth child dies of Strep A // Preventative antibiotics for Strep A
Irish News: Sharp rise in scarlet fever cases, fears over increase in serious Strep A infections
Debi Evans analysis: Invasive Strep A (iGAS) is extremely rare; regular "strep throat" is mild
10:36 Milton Keynes University Hospital guidance on Group A streptococcus (GAS):
"As a parent, if you feel that your child seems seriously unwell, you should trust your own judgement."
- Independent—Strep A: Antibiotics could be given to entire year groups in affected schools 
- Daily Mirror—Strep A: UK school closes for 'deep clean' after suspected scarlet fever outbreak
Daily Mail: Thousands of children could miss school as parents vow to keep their children at home after Strep A
Manchester Evening News: When to take your child to A&E with Strep A
- The Sun—"Running out": Britain faces critical shortage of vital drug used to treat killer winter bug Strep A
Daily Mail: UK faces penicillin shortages until end of December amid Strep A outbreak
Daily Express: Britain faces shortage of key drug used to treat Strep A amid deadly outbreak
World Health Organisation: The world is running out of antibiotics

- Debi Evans commentary: Pharmacists are warning of prolonged penicillin shortages, but is something more sinister coming?
- Metro: Is there a vaccine for Strep A and how is the infection treated?
CEPI: 100 Days Mission (turbocharged vaccine development for anything trending)
CNN: Pfizer/BioNTech seek FDA authorization of updated Covid–19 vaccine for children under 5
Popular Science: Covid–19 vaccines are still essential in preventing death in children and teens
Brighton Argus: NHS urges parents to get their children vaccinated with Covid booster jab
US National Library of Medicine: Update on Group A streptococcal vaccine development (2020)

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

MHRA Yellow Card artificial intelligence admission; Covid harms to children - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Debi Evans receives a letter late on Sunday evening from Andy Morling, enforcer at the MHRA
- Debi Evans question: Who is the actual Head of Criminal Enforcement at the MHRA—is it Andy Morling or the non-board-attending Dr Sarah Branch?
- Pfizer CEO Dr Albert Bourla says no to a return visit to European Parliament's committee of Covid inquiry, in a letter to Kathleen Van Brempt MEP:
“Since the October COVI hearing [at which a Pfizer executive had to admit there had been no testing of the jab for its effect on human transmission], we have no further information to share with the committee, so respectfully decline the invitation to again revisit these issues.”
- Daily Clout: 189 “fringe scientists” fight for the European Parliament to recognize the rights of children during the Covid–19 pandemic—article author tells UK Column that it was a convoluted fight to get the European Parliament to take any interest at all
- Same Covidian disregard for children in the UK—Broken Custodians blog: There was no assessment of harms for masks in school
- Book by the same two mothers: The Children's Inquiry: How the state and society failed the young during the Covid-19 pandemic
- "Dear Parent/Guardian" letter from Helen Harvey, Service Manager, School-Age Immunisation Service, NHS Harrogate:
“I f you select NO [to a nasal flu vaccination for your child], you will be asked a series of questions to establish if your child is eligible for an injection.”
- UK Column viewer's response to Harvey:
“Why do you use behavioural manipulation techniques? Is it not more reasonable to assume that those that say no are saying no because they know vaccines are useless and in some cases cause severe harm or death?”

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Powerful toy of behavioural change: A strategic reordering away from the nation state - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy—Net Zero: Principles for successful behaviour change initiatives (October 2021), heavily implicated with the ever-elusive Behavioural Insights Team (formerly of the Cabinet Office)
House of Lords paper on net zero and climate change
Behavioural Insights Team podcast: Decarbonising our food, transport and energy
- Who is involved?
Moira Nicolson, ESG and climate engagement expert, Cabinet Office (LinkedIn profile)
Professor Dame Theresa Marteau DBE PhD FMedSci AcSS, Director of Behaviour and Health Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
Valentine Quinio, Senior Analyst, Centre for Cities
Brian Gerrish analysis: The city-state agenda, replacing the nation state, is never far away
Lord David Sainsbury, author of Progressive Capitalism: How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice
- Brian Scott reminder: Common Purpose had a piece on its website by Sir Ralf Dahrendorf on civil society—Dahrendorf, like George Soros, studied under Karl Popper, the progenitor of the Open Society doctrine
- Guardian: The George Soros philosophy—and its fatal flaw
Alex Thomson commentary: Popper was not as malevolent as his acolyte, Soros—but he did hold that there must be maximum flow between countries, eroding national heritage
 

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Dealing with "science denialism" and abolishing cash while "brandishing a face" - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Opinion in British Medical Journal: Understanding and neutralising Covid-19 misinformation and disinformation (Wang, et al.)
- Authors criticised in article comments for not having read those they malign: UK Medical Freedom Alliance, HART Group, paediatrician Dr Ros Jones
- Tender P0786 by Birmingham City Council: seeking "national and international genealogy services" provider for locating next of kin regarding funerals
Viewer's summary of real aim:
“After we've dispatched you, we'll send the bill to your family, whether you speak English or not. We're not even pretending that we're not collecting data.”
- Free Speech Union says there is still a need to legislate to stop the likes of PayPal cancelling wrongthinkers

- Central Bank of Nigeria brings maximum cash withdrawal ceilings down to the equivalent of $45 a day and pushes its CBDC, the e-Naira, as something much fluffier than other central bank digital currencies
Mike Robinson commentary: And this when nearly half of the Nigerian population still lacks electricity
- Viewer's e-mail: Mastercard now stops domestic British purchases of gold from going through British banks, as a "security risk"
- Der Spiegel reports Germany has outlawed the use of cash and cryptocurrencies to buy real estate, as an "anti-oligarch measure"

- UK Government: UK and USA energy partnership agreed to guarantee supply of huge amounts of American LNG to Britain, on the pretext of stopping dependence on Russia
Institute for Economic Affairs tweet calls for fracking in Britain:
“The UK will pay a premium to import US fracked gas, while sitting on 50 to 100 years of our own reserves”

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Ukraine: Corruption crackdown and policy steering as $1 trillion is called for - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Kyiv Post—Exclusive insight: Crackdown on corruption in Odesa—precipitated by "what will Western donors say" worries
Kyiv Post—Rebuilding Ukraine: London forum highlights opportunities and barriers—UK trade envoy Baroness Meyer bashes her native Germany for not being sufficiently on-message regarding weapons to Russia
Newsweek: Boris Johnson's Ukraine trade envoy says Germany "not totally our friend" (April 2022)—Meyer again, favouring the launch of a Council on Geostrategy report
- Clip: Council on Geostrategy promotional video in which a Lithuanian presents herself as more British than the Scots
Council on Geostrategy's mission statement and advisory council
- Alex Thomson commentary: This is a Henry Jackson Society brainchild in Westminster; the USA is in control of it, not Britain
Financial Times: Zelensky is man of the year for promoting liberal democracy (!)
- Brian Gerrish commentary: The Henry Jackson Society's home page is deeply offensive and calls for a second Western front against Putin
- One of the Council on Geostrategy's international partners is Ukrainian Prism Foreign Policy Council, likewise doing Washington's bidding

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Health: Many good events; Antimicrobial resistance as the next global fear factor - UK Column News - 7th December 2022

- Reminders to support UK Column and watch fifth Doctors for Covid Ethics symposium
- French publicity clip by Jean-Pierre Eudier: 10 December co-ordinated Covid freedom event, Témoignons (Let's Bear Witness)
- NHS and Covid: Roy Lilley and jab damage victim Adam Rowland interviews announced
- World Health Organisation: Antimicrobial resistance
- Debi Evans commentary: Davies is also a trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Cambridge Board
- Debi Evans commentary: David Cameron commissioned the O'Neill Report on AMR in 2016 after Dame Sally had bent his ear in a café
- Debi Evans analysis: Clearly an aim undertaken in concert with the United Nations

- New Statesman—Sally Davies: "Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does"
Guardian: Thérèse Coffey criticised for giving leftover antibiotics to a friend
Daily Mail: Thérèse Coffey wants people to be able to get antibiotics from the chemist without asking a doctor
- Learning, Science and Society blog: Sally Davies on why Antibiotic Resistance just won't go away
Antibiotic Research UK: Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer [at the time], speaks at Antibiotic Research UK's Annual Lecture 2017
- Debi Evans question: If it is so grave, why has Britain not done any significant research into antibiotics since the 1960s, and why is Davies not promoting more British antibiotics research?
Debi Evans analysis: All rather similar to the scenario mapped out in Chapter 16 of The Spars Pandemic 2025–2028
- And Finally: Remember that most drugs have two names; the less pronounceable one indicates the active ingredients—look out especially for the suffixes -vir and -ab / -mab as indications of scant testing
Blood Cancer UK: Antivirals and monoclonal antibodies—what's the difference?

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-7th-december-2022

Held every year in the second half of December, Millenniyule is a warm-hearted celebration, overview and consolidation of cultural dissidence.
UKC:
Thursday 22nd December - 8pm

https://www.millennialwoes.com/millenniyule?y=2022