UK Column News - 21st August 2024

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet and Vanessa Beeley with today's UK Column News.

 

Pattern of Life—Pattern of Deaths: Darktrace's Remarkable Closeness To The Deep State

00:00 BBC: Missing tycoon's co-defendant fatally struck by car

The Guardian: Sicily yacht sinking: Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer among missing

Invoke Capital: At the Heart of European Technology

Darktrace (2013): Invoke Capital makes first investment in fundamental cyber security technology

Darktrace (2016): Darktrace Royally Rewarded for Innovation

Darktrace (2018): UK Government Department Signs Multi-Million Dollar Contract with Darktrace

Darktrace: Data Sheet CrowdStrike Integration

GOV.UK: CrowdStrike—Falcon Platform—Cloud Security

Darktrace (2013): Sir Jonathan Evans joins Darktrace Advisory Board

Sir Jonathan is the former director-general of the UK's Secret Service, MI5, where he spent thirty-three years focusing on internal and domestic counter-terrorism and cyber-threats […]

Declassified UK (2020): Revealed: How Britain’s profiteering spymasters ignored the country’s biggest threats like coronavirus—and endangered the public

GOV.UK: Sir Jonathan Evans, Director General, Security Service

 

Nuclear Ambiguity: The Threat Of Israel's Samson Option

10:18 The Strategic Vision Institute (SVI): Deconstructing Israel’s Samson Option

Politico: Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an option 

The Progressive Magazine: The Samson Option: Israel’s Plan to Nuke Its Opponents

Right Livelihood: Mordechai Vanunu: “For his courage and self-sacrifice in revealing the extent of Israel's nuclear weapons programme”

Al Jazeera: Palestine IAEA rep: Israel not international community’s ‘darling’ any more

The Jerusalem Post: Israel to upgrade plutonium in Dimona nuclear reactor

The Unz Review: Israel Goes to Court for the Crime of Genocide

The Cradle: Israel isn’t crazy, it’s just MAD [Mutually Assured Destruction]

The Palestine Chronicle: ‘UN Building Should be Wiped off Face of Earth’—Outgoing Israeli Envoy

Mondoweiss: 65% of Israeli Jews oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian detainees

 

Journalism Not A Crime: For First Time, Journalist Returning To UK Arrested (Not Detained) For Terrorism

17:39 Richard Medhurst (YouTube): I Was Arrested at Heathrow Airport as a “Terrorist” for My Journalism

Legislation: Terrorism Act 2000, Section 12

Counter Terrorism Policing: Schedule 7

 

UK Column On Location: Bristol—October 2024 (Early Bird Tickets Available)

24:02 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

UK Column Shop: Agenda 21—Your Life In Their Hands by Martin Edwards

UK Column shop: UK Column Really Live: Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

Forthcoming UK Column interview: The Preservation of Fantasy: Transgender Ideology with Kevin Lister—Thursday 22nd August 13:00

UK Column interview: Real analysts should aim to change the paradigm: Calistrat Marvin Atudorei

Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival 2024

Eventbrite: Heritage Party Conference 2024

Event: Died Suddenly Exhibition: London, November 2024. Exact location TBD; contact: jakehfern@yahoo.co.uk

Children’s Health Defense: Attack on Food and Farmers and how to fight back Symposium—September 6th and 7th

UK Column symposium: The International Center for 9/11 Justice and UK Column presents: AVIATION IMPOSSIBILITIES—Deconstructing the Official Story of the 9/1 Hijackings and Air Defense Failures—Sunday, September 8 2024 6–10 pm BST (1–5 pm EDT)

 

Corny Campaign to Make Noise For Ukraine

27:48 GOV.UK: Make Noise For Ukraine

 

Space Wars

29:42 UK Space Command (on X): UK Space Command’s post

And Tyche is away! The team at Surrey Satellites will now operate the satellite and make sure it's working. Tyche is the first satellite in space as part of Programme ISTARI, which will deliver a family of satellites for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

Britannica: Tyche (Fate, Fortune & Mythology)

GOV.UK: UK Space Command successfully launches first military satellite 

Defence Equipment & Support: Tyche satellite procured by DE&S launched into space

GOV.UK (2022): UK cutting-edge space defence backed by £1.4 billion

GOV.UK: Dstl: The Science Inside 2022

Bloomberg: SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210 Billion

Dstl (YouTube): AUKUS: Autonomy and AI collaboration

Advanced Television: SpaceX building a spy satellite network?

Space: SpaceX reveals 'Starshield' satellite project for military use

 

US Space Command: ‘Space Fires’ To Establish Space Superiority

35:00 Karman Space & Defense: Space & Missile Defense Symposium

Breaking Defense: ‘Space fires’ to enable ‘space superiority’ are top SPACECOM priorities for FY27

Army University Press: Army Space Vision Supporting Multidomain Operations

 

The ‘Sadistic Farce’ Ceasefire—with Vanessa Beeley

39:26 PBS: Blinken says Israel agrees to a U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire, calls on Hamas to do same

Middle East Eye: Netanyahu added new conditions to ceasefire proposal

Tribune: Hamas rejects Israel’s 'new conditions' in Doha ceasefire talks

BBC: Israel accepts 'bridging proposal' for ceasefire deal—Blinken

Alon Mizrahi (on X): Alon Mizrahi’s post

Did you notice this pattern where Blinken always announces on Netamyahu's behalf that Netanyahu 'agreed to the deal', but Netanyahu never says so himself?

Here are some examples. Note the different dates. It took me 5 minutes to find them, I'm sure there are more

Mouin Rabban (on X): Mouin Rabban’s post

Al Mayadeen: Israeli attack on Lebanon's Bekaa kills one, wounds 5 children under 8

The Cradle: Israeli jet hits Gaza school killing at least 12

Forbes Breaking News (YouTube): Sec. Antony Blinken Says Israel Has Accepted Gaza Ceasefire & Hostage Release Deal

 

AUKUS To Take The Brakes Off Arms Deals: Former Aus PM Says It's A Forty-Year Lock-In By USA

48:10 GOV.UK: AUKUS statement: 16 August 2024

GOV.UK: Historic Breakthrough in defence trade between AUKUS partners 

 

Chucking The Green Belt Rules Out Of The Window With ‘Renewable’ Planning Applications

54:09 GOV.UK: Open consultation: Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system 

Irwin Mitchell: The New NPPF—a consultation and a written ministerial statement (Brownfield Land, Green Belt & Grey Belt)

GOV.UK: Renewable Energy Planning Database: quarterly extract

10 Downing Street (on X): Find out what Great British Energy can do for you

Cornwall Insight: Cornwall Insight release final forecast for October price cap

This is a rise of 9% from the current price cap which was set at £1,568 per year for a typical consumer. Ofgem will announce the October cap on Friday 23 August.

Ofgem: Energy price cap