UK Column News - 17th January 2025

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today's UK Column News.

 

Starmer Commits to a 100-Year Partnership with Ukraine: Meanwhile, Sky-High Energy Costs and Inflation Grip the UK

00:21 UK Defence Journal: Britain commits to help protect Ukraine for 100 years

GOV.UK: UK and Ukraine sign landmark 100 Year Partnership to deepen security ties and strengthen partnership for future generations 

GOV.UK: Policy paper: UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration 

The Telegraph: What British boots on the ground would look like in Ukraine

BBC: Rachel Reeves says she won't let critics get her down

 

NHS Appoints 'Big Brother' to Track Missed Appointments

08:30 GOV.UK (2019): Speech: PM speech to the UN General Assembly, 24 September 2019 

You may keep secrets from your friends, from your parents, your children, your doctor – even your personal trainer – but it takes real effort to conceal your thoughts from Google. And if that is true today, in future there may be nowhere to hide. Smart cities will pullulate with sensors, all joined together by the “internet of things”, bollards communing invisibly with lamp posts

United Nations (YouTube): United Kingdom - Prime Minister Addresses General Debate, 74th Session

NHS Digital: National Data Opt-Out - NHS England Digital

GOV.UK: Power to patients as government sets out plan to cut waiting lists 

NHS England: NHS AI expansion to help tackle missed appointments and improve waiting times

GOV.UK: Hospital Outpatient Activity, 2022-23

In 2022-23, there were 124.5 million outpatient appointments.

UK Column interview: The Numbers Don’t Lie: Excess Deaths—Ed Dowd

Good Reads: "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022

UK Column search: Keyword: John Beaudoin

 

Trump Trolls with Portrait Ahead of January 21st Inauguration: Guest List Revealed

15:43 BBC: Donald Trump's and JD Vance's official portraits released

Politico: Who’s been invited? World’s far-right populists pack guest list for Trump’s inauguration 

 

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The Hancock Lies: Admits Vaccine Risks, Yet Extreme Coercion Persisted

24:46 UKCVFamily (on X): UKCVFamily is a Registered Charity in England & Wales, 1207178, Supporting those adversely affected by Covid-19 vaccination. You Are Not Alone

UK Column interview: The Brave Spirit of Scotland—Scottish Vaccine Injury Group with Ruth O’Rafferty

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YouTube: UK Covid-19 Inquiry

 

UK to Launch Largest Pandemic Response Exercise: Mobile Phone Emergency Alerts Will Be Used

33:27 GOV.UK: Largest ever national pandemic response exercise to strengthen against future threats 

The Times and The Sunday Times (YouTube): Disease X is coming: The lab preparing for the next pandemic

UK Column article: Exercise Cygnus: UK Government Exercise Justifies Covid-19 Lockdown

GOV.UK: Lessons Management Best Practice Guidance: Executive Summary

GOV.UK: About Emergency Alerts

University of Liverpool: The Pandemic Institute

 

Trump's Return to Office Looms: Think Tanks Launch Attack

39:01 Chicago Council on Global Affairs (YouTube): World Review: Trump's Expansionist Ambitions and Tech Titans' Disruptions

Project Syndicate: PS Roundtable: The Return of Trump by PS Commentators

New America: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Currently CEO of the think and action tank New America, Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar, and public intellectual

U.S. Department of Defense: CMSSF visits Pituffik Space Base at the “Top of the World”

 

Who Are 'Our Future Health'? And Why Are They Offering Money for Your Data?

50:46 Our Future Health: How our volunteers benefit from knowing their cholesterol levels

SussexWorld: Major national health project coming to Hastings

Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): Charity Details: Our Future Health, SC050917 

GOV.UK: Charity Commission: Our Future Health, 1189681

Total income includes £62,000,000 from 1 government grant(s)

Our Future Health (2022): Dr. Raghib Ali: ‘we can change the whole paradigm of healthcare

 

From UK Column News Extra

WBMA: Mysterious 'fog' has people worried about chemical exposure

Medium: The L.A. Fires: Disasters Are an Opportunity by Donald G. McNeil Jr

Surrey Comet: Robot-guided ‘smart biopsy’ technique tested on patients in UK first

Building (2013): Government primes Islamic bond to boost UK infrastructure

The Guardian (2013): David Cameron to unveil plans for £200m Islamic bond

Metro (2016): Five Whitehall buildings operating under Sharia rules

Australian League of Rights: The Guernsey Market House Scheme 

Money Network Alliance (Monneta): The Guernsey Experiment - Pamphlet by Olive and Jan Grubiak (1960)

Federal Reserve History: The Second Bank of the United States

Exploros: Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the U.S.

The Schiller Institute: Lincoln Financed the War By Taking On the British-Backed New York Banks

The issuance of government legal tender paper currency (the greenbacks)

UK Column interview: Justin Walker: The Bradbury Pound and Fraudulent Banking

Monneta: 7th Law & Macroeconomics Conference

American Monetary Institute: 20th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference, 2024

According to the NIH, the purpose of these experiments is to study how different species, such as cats and monkeys, respond to motion sickness.

Smithsonian Magazine (2015): In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco