UK Column News - 16th October 2024

Source:  ukcolumn

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

 

Dawn Sturgess Inquiry Kicks Off With A Few Disclosures: Is There Something to Hide?

00:00 Temple Garden Chambers: The Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess begins on 14th October 2024 in Salisbury

The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry: This is an independent Inquiry into the circumstances of Dawn Sturgess’ death in Salisbury on 8 July 2018

The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry (YouTube): Dawn Sturgess Inquiry Live Streams

Channel 5 News (on X):  An inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who was poisoned with Novichok in a perfume bottle, heard it was “enough to kill thousands”

The Independent (2018): Wiltshire incident: Police seal off parts of Salisbury and Amesbury as couple exposed to ‘unknown substance’ fight for life

Clinical Services Journal (2018): Response unit called as Salisbury Hospital declares “major incident” 

Wayback Machine: Clinical Services Journal: Response unit called as Salisbury Hospital declares “major incident” (Archived)

Sky News (2018): Amesbury poisoning: Here’s what we know about the novichok victims

Salisbury Journal: Dawn Sturgess Inquiry: Police apologise for ‘overdose’ claim

The Mirror: Almost 50,000 animals killed during military testing at secret UK research base

UK Column article: Pablo Miller: The people working alongside the real James Bond

 

NATO’s Current Nuclear Exercise: “Steadfast Noon” Begins

11:32 RAF Lakenheath: New F-35 Field Training Detachment facility at RAF Lakenheath

Federation of American Scientists: NATO Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercise And Base Upgrades

Segment ends 13:12

 

AJAX: Warnings Ignored, Lessons Unlearnt, Leading to a New £17 Million Infrastructure Project

14:17 GOV.UK: New Ajax facility fitted out at Warminster Garrison 

UK Defence Journal: Warnings ignored over Ajax safety issues

GOV.UK (2023): Ministerial statement on Ajax Lessons Learned Review

Defence Equipment & Support (2018): Innovative threat detection system for Ajax

UK Parliament: Ajax: The British Army’s troubled armoured vehicle programme (PDF)

GOV.UK: UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

We will sustain £3 billion a year in military aid until 2030 to 2031 and for as long as it takes (announced on 10 July 2024).

 

The Expanding Zionist Conflict: Escalation and Global Repercussions

19:08 U.S. Department of Defense: Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Deployment of a THAAD Battery to Israel

The Cradle (Telegram): Shaaban al-Dalou, 20 years old, died along with his mother after burning alive following Israel’s attacks on tents next to Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza

Press TV (Telegram): Warning: Viewer discretion is advised - In yet another massacre, Israeli forces bombed the tents of displaced Palestinians outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza
 

 

Syria and Iran Targeted Once More: Rising Pressures and Strategic Moves

26:50 Vanessa Beeley (Telegram): Director of the Russian Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin:

The agreements between Ukraine and the armed terrorist groups in the Syrian Arab Republic are being made with the help and blessing of the American and British intelligence and with the tacit approval of the Turks.

GOV.UK: Meeting between EU High Representative and Vice-President and Foreign Secretary: joint press release, 14 October 2024 

UK Column series: EU Military Unification

The Jerusalem Post: IDF tanks cross into Syria

Reuters: Israel’s demining near Golan signals wider front against Hezbollah, sources say

Israel Today (Telegram Hebrew): Identifies fitness time and increases training: the Syrian opposition reports that the rebels are preparing for a major attack on the Assad regime

Vanessa Beeley (Substack): British former ‘diplomat’ promotes war against Iran

Enab Baladi: Russia accuses the US of training “terrorists” in Syria

 

Germany’s Self-Determination Law: Choose Your Gender, Whenever—Except When It Comes to Conscription

35:19 Library of Congress: Germany: New Self-ID Act for Transgender, Intersex, and Nonbinary Persons Enacted

Openly News: Why does Germany want to limit trans self-ID during wartime?

 

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37:55 Support Independent Journalism from the UK Column with only £5 a month

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UK Column event: UK Column On Location—Saturday, 19th October 2024 (Bristol)

Eventbrite: (Project Libertas events in Stroud) Expose 2024: Your Life In Their Hands

Alternative View: Event Tickets

UK Column News interview: He is “not a UN soldier”—A proud father speaks out for his son—Daniel New

 

England Suffers Second Worst Harvest on Record: Climate Change or a 107% Increase in Uncropped Arable Land?

42:07 Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU): Confirmed: England has second worst harvest on record with fears mounting for 2025

World Weather Attribution: Yet another hurricane wetter, windier and more destructive because of climate change

Imperial College London: Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment

Our mission is to lead on world-class research, policy, training and innovation that supports effective action on climate change.

Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Living on a finite planet (where no-one likes to hear bad news) by Jeremy Grantham (PDF)

Bezos Earth Fund: Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein Launches at Imperial With $30 Million Funding

GOV.UK: Agricultural land use in England at 1 June 2024

Uncropped arable up 107% (581,000ha)

Office for National Statistics: National population projections: 2020-based interim

 

Tony Blair’s Constitutional Vandalism: Transforming the House of Lords into a House of Stooges

49:35 UK Parliament: Parliamentary Bills: House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

 

New Report Released: “Future of the Subsurface”—What if Urban Planning Went Underground?

52:31 Google Blog: New nuclear clean energy agreement with Kairos Power

UK Column News archive: UK Column News—26th June 2024

(34:53 Bill Gates’ Perfect Timing, Again)

Office for Nuclear Regulation: Geological disposal

GOV.UK: Future of the Subsurface: What would happen if we turned planning upside down?

 

War is a Racket: Eugene V. Debs and the Fight Against Exploitation

57:45 History Is A Weapon: The Subject Class Always Fights the Battles (Canton Speech by Eugene V. Debs)

Journal Storage (JSTOR): In The Debs Archive—The papers of American labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926)