UK Column News - 17th February 2025

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today's UK Column News.

 

Ukraine: Western Media Lies and Propaganda 

00:34 The Sun: Brit, 18, killed by Russian drone minutes into first mission on Ukraine frontline as pal says ‘he didn’t stand a chance’

Sky News (2023): UK pledges hundreds of new attack drones to Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks 'jets coalition'

GOV.UK (2024): UK to supply more than 10000 drones to Ukraine

GOV.UK (2025): 30000 new drones for Ukraine in boost to European security

Gravity (YouTube): Soldier losses in World War II

 

Fear and Safety: The Same Old Tricks

14:23 World Economic Forum: Annual Meeting 2025: Scrolling Media's Future

Bloomberg: SpaceX Order Drives British Smallcap Filtronic to 16-Year High (Archived)

BMJ: The UK government’s attempt to frighten people into covid protective behaviours was at odds with its scientific advice

NASA: Coming April 2025: Planetary Defenders Documentary 

GOV.UK: Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures - 22nd March 2020 (PDF)

NASA: Planetary Defense: NASA Continues to Monitor Orbit of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4

National Library of Medicine (2020): Social Distancing, Safe Spaces and the Demand for Quarantine (PDF)

 

From the Group of Thirty to The Elders—Leading to Project Dandelion

24:52 Project Dandelion: Homepage

A WOMEN-LED global campaign for CLIMATE JUSTICE. Learn · every Issue is a climate issue.

Catalyst Now (YouTube): The Not-so-secret Secret To Accelerating The SDGS

LinkedIn: Emily Bancroft’s video

Our climate is in crisis. I am a Dandelion because every issue is a climate issue. If we don't solve the climate crisis, we won't ever meet our health goals. Dandelions believe that together, we can solve the climate crisis

The Elders: Member of The Elders: Mary Robinson

Global Encasement, Inc: 7 Bold Demands of Project Dandelion & Women Tackling Climate 

Wilton Park: Where women lead, action follows

Group of Thirty: Leadership

 

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UK Column shop: UK Column On Location — Cheltenham — 5 April 2025

PCPW Event: Public Child Protection Wales Conference 2025 - 22nd February 2025, Cwmbran

GoFundMe: Urgent Help: Keep Our Ethical, Raw Milk Dairy Running (Organiser: Jonathan Cook)

UK Column interview: Raw Truth: Unadulterated milk and food security, with Jon Cook

GOV.UK: Scottish rocket launch boost to get Britain back into space race 

 

UK Column Covered the Sodium Valproate Scandal While the BBC Covered It Up

42:51 BBC: Mum's 20-year fight for epilepsy drug compensation

UK Column (June 2008): Bridgend Hospital Clinical failure, Lies, Epilim and Missing Body Parts.

UK Column (2015): UK Column Live Special - Paediatric & Drug Company Abuse

The Guardian (2024): The mothers fighting a scandal bigger than thalidomide

BBC (2016): 'I nearly died in a medical drug trial'

 

The “Space 2030” Agenda: Aiming for the Stars, Green for Net Zero, Of Course

48:15 Octopus Ventures: Climate investments

GOV.UK: Climate Change Adaptation Report (PDF)

Europeans Spaceflight (2023): SaxaVord Owes Contractors Money it Can’t Pay

Fortune: Tiny Scottish island, with more sheep than people, becomes the U.K.’s first spaceport for vertical rockets

Orbex: UK Government Invests in UK Orbital Launch Capability for First Time

United Nations Office For Outer Space Affairs: The “Space 2030” Agenda - Space As A Driver Of Sustainable Development (PDF)

GOV.UK: Plan for Change - Milestones for Mission-Led Government

UK Column archive: UK Column News - 29th July 2020 (Timestamp 51:10 – UK’s first ever space launch…?)

 

Brainwashing the Next Generation: What Do Kids Really Think About AI?

57:24 Sky News (YouTube): FYI: What do kids think about AI?

Queen Mary University of London: Queen Mary University host world's first Children's AI summit

The Alan Turing Institute: Dr Mhairi Aitken

University of Oxford: Paris AI Summit misses opportunity for global AI governance

 

From UK Column News Extra

Peter Wood Music (YouTube): New March for Frank Strang of SaxaVord Spaceport fame, the tune is called “The Mars Bar”. Blast off

Resistance GB (YouTube): Liberty - The Blockheads