Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Alex Thomson with today’s UK Column News.
Orwellian British Surveillance: Incorporating telcos into the spooknet
00:25 BBC: Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals
GOV.UK: International statement: End-to-end encryption and public safety (accessible version)
Open consultation: Revised Investigatory Powers Act notices regimes consultation
UK Parliament: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay's amendment, After Clause 111
Open Rights Group: Legal opinion finds Online Safety Bill may breach international law
UK Column interview: Where there’s no will, there’s no way: Why artificial intelligence will never rule the world—Transcribed
‘Smart’ Contracts and the Internet Of Things: Central banks’ oathless ‘sovereign immunity’ to program money
08:50 Finextra Research: US instant payment network FedNow goes live
World Bank: Data: Fast Payment System
Bank for International Settlements: III: Blueprint for the future monetary system
21st Century Wire: The 7 Pillars of a Global CBDC System
Waterstones: Tower of Basel by Adam LeBor - Banking
The Guardian (2013): How Bank of England 'helped Nazis sell gold stolen from Czechs'
Atlantic Council: Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker
Gold And Silver UK: Bank for International Settlements general manager Agustín Carstens says Central Bank Digital Currency will give Central Banks “absolute control” over money
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Stop the RESTRICT Act and Pass Real Privacy Legislation
PEPs or PUPs? Farage Says Treasury Forced NatWest Group To Feign Apology For Unbanking Him
22:40 Independent: Pressure builds on Coutts CEO over claims he kept his NatWest boss in the dark over Farage fiasco
GB News: NatWest boss Alison Rose offers an apology to Nigel Farage
Financial Times: Rishi Sunak pledges crackdown on practice by UK banks
Rishi Sunak: “Free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy.”
UK Parliament: Politically Exposed Persons Regime
Kerch Bridge Attack: A British Hand, A Starvation Narrative Outcome?
30:50 BBC: Ben Wallace: Ukraine has 'tragically become a battle lab' for war technology
The Grayzone (2022): EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it
The Grayzone: Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike
Prevail Partners: Prevail Partners Ltd is a British Risk Management company
Thomas in Winslow: About TIW
PBS: Russia launches strike on Odesa in retaliation for attack on Crimea bridge
RT News: Kiev threatens to sink civilian ships bound for Russia
RT News: Five EU nations push to extend ban on Ukrainian grain
Hungary Today: Toxic Contamination Found in Grain from Ukraine
News In France: For the first time, Marine Le Pen calls the delivery of arms to Ukraine “irresponsible”
MI6 Chief Urges Russians To Spy For UK; Makes The Wrongest Possible Claim About Capabilities Of AI
42:30 GOV.UK: Speech by Sir Richard Moore, head of SIS, 19 July 2023, visiting Prague “in a spirit of humility”
I invite them to do what others have already done this past 18 months and join hands with us. Our door is always open.
UK Column interview: Where there’s no will, there’s no way: Why artificial intelligence will never rule the world—Transcribed
UK Column interview: David Cartland—The honest doctor who refuses to be silenced
HOPE Sussex: Freedom Music Festival - 21st, 22nd & 23rd of July 2023
AV: Alternative View Events—AV13, October 2023
Kent Online: We meet the Rebels on Roundabouts spreading conspiracy theories in Kent (photograph of yellow board mentioning UK Column)
BBC: Supporting public service reporting
UK Column Article: Let’s Talk About France: A story of mitigation
Child Sexualisation: Plainly Internationally Coordinated
48:30 Gript (Ireland): Tusla RSE guide urges staff to learn about “crossdressers” & “drag”
Die Tagespost (Austria): Sex education: resistance is forming
CNE News: Child is not a sexual being, Austrian parents say in petition
Vårt Land (Norway): Survey—seven out of ten children and teenagers do not want the minimum age of sexual consent to be lowered
CNE News: Norwegians criticise proposal about sexual consent of children
Reduxx: “Queer” Academic Suggests Pedophilia Be Taught in Schools as an Innate Sexuality
The Christian Institute: Finnish Christian MP cleared of ‘hate crime’ charges over Bible tweet faces new trial
BBC Vilify Is Confused: Tobias ‘Afghan’ Ellwood Is Right And Wrong Simultaneously
53:10 Independent: Tory MP Tobias Ellwood deletes video ‘lauding’ Taliban in Afghanistan
The Guardian: Tory MPs try to oust Tobias Ellwood from defence role for praising Taliban
Daily Mail: Tobias Ellwood 'faces being OUSTED as Commons Defence Committee chair' and is branded an 'idiot' for 'propaganda video' praising the Taliban... as the Afghan rulers water-cannon women rights protesters
Ellwood's tweeted mea culpa
BBC: Taliban: MP claims Afghanistan a 'country transformed'
BBC: Inside the Taliban's war on drugs—opium poppy crops slashed
Moves To Ban Dutch And German Opposition Parties
57:50 Forum voor Democratie: Banning Forum for Democracy? Bosma and Baudet challenge Interior Minister
De Telegraaf: Forum for Democracy seizes opportunity of conversation about democracy to oppose party ban
T-Online (Germany): What the suitability review of the AfD district administrator is all about
Red Pill Germany: AfD Gains Executive Power for the First Time in a German District
Remix News: ‘Open the borders!’—To defeat the AfD party, Germany must bring in more migrants and give them immediate voting rights, claims founder of migrant rescue boat NGO
Hunter Problems—Biden Bribery
1:00:03 Daily Mail: Bombshell FBI document detailing alleged $10M Biden bribery scheme: Burisma CEO said Hunter was 'stupid' but necessary to keep on board because 'his dad' could 'protect' them from 'problems'
Council On Foreign Relations (2018): Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden
So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.)
21st Century Wire: Hunting for Hunter: Evidence Reveals Biden, Burisma Ukraine Bond Scandal, Tied to U.S. Firm