UK Column News - 23rd September 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

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

 

UN’s Summit of the Future: Crafting Their Vision for Global Cooperation

00:28 United Nations (UN on X): News: The Pact for the Future has been adopted by member countries by consensus at UN Headquarters in New York.

The adoption will help pave the way for greater international cooperation for #OurCommonFuture.

War on Want (on X): In a few days, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will jet to New York to meet world leaders at a high-profile UN event: ‘Summit of the Future’.

Finding the money to tackle the climate crisis must be top of the agenda.

United Nations: UN Web TV: Live Schedule

Summit Of The Future: Pact for the Future

United Nations: Summit of the Future: Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow (PDF)

United Nations: Outcome Documents: Pact for the Future, Global Digital Compact, and Declaration on Future Generations (PDF)

World Bank Blogs: Axel van Trotsenburg—World Bank Senior Managing Director

United Nations: UN Web TV: Summit of the Future—Day 2 Closing Ceremony

United Nations: UN Web TV: Pre-Opening segment of the Summit of the Future—General Assembly, 79th session

Europadisc Classical: Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (£12.42)

Club of Rome (2022): Earth for All: a survival guide for humanity (PDF)

ScienceDirect: One Hundred Pages for the Future: Reflections of the President of the Club of Rome. A volume in Club of Rome Publications—Book (1981)

Routledge: The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy edited by James Gustave Speth, Kathleen Courrier

World Resources Institute: WRI is a trusted partner for change

World Economic Forum (WEF): HRH The Prince of Wales: Championing Sustainability for 50 years

Berghahn Books: Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia—Transitioning to an Alternative World System, by Hans A. Baer

The Democracy Collaborative Foundation: Homepage

The Democracy Collaborative: About the Next System Project

United Nations: Meeting summaries

 

Paul Marshall: The Philanthropist Behind the Scenes—Following the Money, and Soros Connections

12:58 Wikipedia: Paul Marshall (investor)

GOV.UK: Companies House: Paul Roderick Clucas MARSHALL (Total number of appointments 20)

Financial Times: Paul Marshall, the financier turned media baron bankrolling GB News

Prospect Magazine: The Marshall Plan

Open Society Foundations: George Soros

Open Society Foundations: Open Society Foundations Announce $220 Million for Building Power in Black Communities 

International Rescue Committee: Help fight child hunger in Sudan, Gaza and around the world

GB News: Labour MP calls for ‘coordinated sabotage’ to block ‘nostalgic’ Reform UK and ‘Far-Right’ Farage ‘at all costs’

 

Ukraine: The Unheard Voices Opposing NATO

20:23 Against the backdrop of Long-Range Weapons for Ukraine, UK Column hosts Major-General Gagan Deep Bakshi, Indian Army (Retired). With Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector.

Kyiv Post: ‘Misplaced Fears of Escalation’—Ukraine at War Update for Sept. 23 [2024]

Ministry of Defence (on X): The human and economic costs of Russia’s mass infantry tactics are increasing to mount for the Kremlin

BBC: Volunteers dying as Russia’s war dead tops 70000

BBC: Checkmate for Russia as global chess ban upheld

LinkedIn: Will Vernon—News Correspondent—BBC News

 

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Access UKC News Extra—UK Column Community

Forthcoming UK Column interview: Stop Medically Transitioning Children – Exploring the Cass Review with Dr Jenny Cunningham—Tuesday 24th at 1 pm

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

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

 

‘Trans’ Updates in Scotland: The Rise of Species Dysphoria

31:45 Daily Mail: Children as young as seven among 352 youngsters referred to specialist gender service for under 18s in the past year alone

Right Decisions for Health and Care: Read standard 10: Gender identity services for young people 

Scottish professionals advising on gender (ScotPAG): Standards, what standards?

Kate E. Deeming (on X): Kate E. Deeming’s post

It is a little known fact that ‘book age’ is referring to ‘reading age’ ,not what is contained in the book itself. There is no age rating on content in libraries.

Queer Lit: Queer: A Graphic History, by Meg-John Barker (£14.99)

Amazon UK: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Deer, by Ember White

Daily Mail: Howling mad! Fury as school allows pupil suffering from ‘species dysphoria’ to identify as a wolf

Alex Stein (on X): Fighting for the Rights of Furries at Plano [Texas] City Hall!

 

Woke Fascism: The Unholy Alliance of Intersectional Marxism and Fabianism

39:30 The Guardian: Lammy’s Kew speech seeks to put UK at centre of a reinvigorated climate fight

Blavatnik School of Government (LinkedIn): David Lammy, UK Foreign Secretary, has appointed Ngaire Woods, our founding Dean, to lead a review of the UK’s global impact

Google (Books): Ngaire Woods

The Hill (via Yahoo): UK’s new foreign secretary once called Trump ‘a neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath’

Black Equity Organisation: Who we are (Former Founding Trustee—David Lammy)

Black Equity Organisation caters to the need for a 21st century organisation that holistically champions the needs and dreams of the Black British Community in a dynamic and future facing way.

BrainyQuote: Benjamin Disraeli

London is a modern Babylon.

DavidLammy: Fabian Society speech—David Lammy

Scottish Fabians (2019): Fabian Society speech: Gordon Brown on combatting the far-right

The Rockefeller Foundation: Rockefeller Foundation Adds Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to Board

Institute for Government (2022): Five things we’ve learned about the Brown Commission on the UK’s future

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (YouTube): Tony Blair on the Tech Revolution and Britain’s Economic Growth

Fabian Society: Fabian Society at Labour Party Conference 2024

Fabians: THE FABIAN MANIFESTO (PDF)

 

Escalating the Conflict: The West’s Increasing War Efforts in Ukraine

50:36 The Guardian: The west’s cautious approach seeks to avoid escalation in Ukraine. It may have the opposite effect

Atlantic Council: Andriy Zagorodnyuk

U.S. Department of Defense: Readout of U.S.–U.K. Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Leadership Group Plenary Session

Rise (Telegram): Ben Rubin’s video in Brixton