UK Column News - 16th August 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

Brian Gerrish, Mark Anderson and Debi Evans with today’s UK Column News.

The British Cabinet’s Ukraine Proxy War Against Russia

00:25 Kyiv Post:  Five Things Worth Knowing About Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive in Russia

How many British service personnel have died and how many have been injured in Ukraine?

The Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales: Homicide: Murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing or allowing the death or serious injury of a child or vulnerable adult

Legislation: Offences against the Person Act 1861

If British Special Forces and servicemen are being killed in Ukraine under these circumstances have they been unlawully killed at the hand of the UK Government?

Daily Mail: Tommy Robinson and Reform MP Nigel Farage will be scrutinised by the security services amid fears Britain’s far-right riots are being fuelled by the Putin regime, former MI6 officer claims

Legislation: Serious Crime Act 2007 (Section 44: Intentionally encouraging or assisting an offence)

Legacy Media And Google Go All In For Their Next President 

12:40 American Free Press: Issue 33/34: Kamala Coronated Left-wing Media Goes All-in To Get Harris Elected (PDF)

Time Magazine: Covers from 2024—Covers from 2006

Axios: Harris-sponsored Google ads suggest publishers are on her side

Office of Governor Tim Walz: Governor Walz Launches ‘Kids Deserve a Shot’ Vaccine Incentive Program for Minnesotans 5–11 Years Old

Organ Donation: What Are Deemed Consent, Deemed Authorisation And Presumed Consent?

22:30 The Independent (2004): Forgotten for 25 years: now the 1,000 infant bodies found after Alder Hey can be laid to rest

GOV.UK (2001): The Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry Report

Human Tissue Authority: A guide for the public to the Human Tissue Act 2004 (PDF)

NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): The best thing you’ll do today: Confirm your decision to be an organ donor

UK Column article (2018): No TIME to Die by Dr Mike Williams 

UK Column article (2010): Without Consent by Martin Edwards

UK Column content: Debi Evans Blog: 8 August 2023

NHS Blood and Transplant: Parents of 11-week-old baby who needs urgent heart transplant urge families to think about organ donation

NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): Waiting To Live: Campaign shines a light on children waiting for a transplant

The Behavioural Insights Team: Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation

GOV.UK: Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation—Preliminary results from a randomised controlled trial (PDF)

The Decision Lab: Sludge

Sludge is essentially the opposite of a nudge. While nudges try to push people to make better decisions by making certain choices easier than others, sludges make a process more difficult with the goal of creating friction, which makes the consumer less likely to continue the process.

GOV.UK (2019): Opt-out organ donation: Max and Keira’s Bill passed into law

NHS Organ Donation: Register your decision

ODT Clinical: Transplant units in the UK: Download a report of the number of transplants performed by each transplant unit (PDF)

ODT Clinical: Organ Donation and Transplantation 2030: Meeting the Need

NHS Organ Donation: UK laws

NHS Organ Donation (YouTube): Organ donation law in England has changed 

BBC: Organ harvesting: Trafficked for his kidney and now forced into hiding

Yahoo News: ‘Miracle boy’ Trenton McKinley, 13, wakes up after being declared brain dead and parents agreed to donate organs

AOMRC: A code of practice for the diagnosis and confirmation of death (PDF)

NHS Blood and Transplant: UK launches world’s largest ever randomised controlled trial in organ donation

UHN Toronto (YouTube): What happens with organ donation after death

The World Economic Forum (2022): Gene-edited pig heart transplanted into a human patient

The World Economic Forum (2015): How 3D-printing could transform heart surgery

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

37:50 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)

UK Column interview: Laughter in an ugly world with Alistair Williams

Hope Sussex Community: HOPE Freedom Music Festival 2024

It’s All About The Covid in New Zealand

39:50 NHS England (YouTube): NHS England Board Meeting—25 July 2024

Ministry of Health NZ: New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A framework for action

Is Anyone Taking The WHO’s Public Health Emergency of International Concern MPOX Seriously? 

46:20 GOV.UK (2022): UK cements 10-year-partnership with Moderna in major boost for vaccines and research 

World Health Organisation: WHO invites mpox vaccine manufacturers to submit dossiers for emergency evaluation

World Health Organization: WHO Director-General declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security: Clade X

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR): New mpox vaccine being tested in the UK

mPower project: Partners

US Media Deception: State of Georgia Election Board

51:30 UK Column interview: Georgia Voters’ Group Has Strong Proof Of Major Election Breaches

VoterGA (Rumble): Garland Favorito shreds 3 years of Fulton Co. & GA SOS election lies in 15 minutes

BNC News: Georgia gives local officials new powers to investigate election results

This is all a facade, blaming Republicans, if Kamala Harris doesn’t do well, then GOP meddling can blamed. There is nothing ‘new’ here. Georgia law already gives counties plenty of leeway.

Reddit: UK police may now arrest people for “retweets” deemed hateful

From News Extra: Greener NHS, “Don’t Debate the Science”, Starmer Cut His Teeth via Marxist Youth?

The Social Review: Starmer’s Socialist Alternatives

Libcom: Keir Starmer: From ‘Marxist’ to ‘Cop in an expensive suit’

Montgomery Toms (on X): Montgomery Toms’s post

A Short (angry) Message To Kier! We Won’t Forget

UK Column News archive: UK Column News—17th July 2024

NHS Confederation (2021): Sustainability in the NHS—what’s the theory and what’s the practice?

NHS England: Greener NHS

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP): Green physician toolkit (PDF)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Fact sheet – Health (PDF)

Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP): Greener Practice: Sustainability in general practice

SOS-UK (Students Organising for Sustainability): The RCGP’s Green Impact for Health Toolkit and Awards 2024