UK Column News - 6th November 2024

Source: ukcolumn

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

 

Trump 2.0: America First, Again?

00:00 Financial Times: Donald Trump elected US president in historic comeback

Axios: “Greatest political movement”: Trump addresses supporters on Election Night

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (YouTube): J.D. Vance on a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class

Nigel Farage (on X): I will join Tucker Carlson from Mar-a-Lago very soon

Council on Foreign Relations: Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Positions

 

The Quiet Hand of Democracy: Unpacking the National Endowment for Democracy’s Global Reach

06:47 South China Morning Post: Trump, Harris both like ‘poison’ for Beijing, says former top US envoy to Hong Kong

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC World): Israel (ISR) and China (CHN) Trade

National Endowment for Democracy: About the National Endowment for Democracy

Ministry of Foreign Affairs The People’s Republic of China: The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) acts as the US government’s “white gloves.” It has long engaged in subverting state power in other countries, meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, inciting division and confrontation […]

Declassified UK: ‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

 

Vanessa Beeley Reports: Israel’s Escalating Airstrikes Devastate Lebanese Towns

13:28 Washington Post: Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south

Financial Times: The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon (Archived)

CBC News: Israeli strikes threaten a Hezbollah stronghold and its nearly 3,000-year-old Roman ruins

Times of Israel: Lebanese media reports Israeli strikes in Baalbek, hours after Hezbollah drone attack

UNESCO: 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

 

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UK Column interview: Rachel Speaking Out for New Zealand

Doc Malik – Honest Health (Substack): Special US Election Live stream On Wednesday 6th, November, 5 pm UK time

Welsh Parliament: Ensure diagnosis and treatment for people suffering from adverse Covid-19 vaccine side effects 

Free People (German): Freedom for Alexander Bittner

 

Climate of Fear: Government Examines Impact of Alarmism on Mental Health

28:13 BBC: Accusations fly in Spain over who is to blame for flood disaster

Wikipedia: 1962 Vallés floods

Wikipedia: 1957 Valencia flood

Flavius FX (on X): Flavius FX’s post

Valencia: The floods in 1340, 1376, 1517, 1589 etc and 1957 were natural but the flood in 2024 was caused by climate change

European Union: European Commission: Water Framework Directive

Wetlands International: Successes of EU Water Framework Directive implementation

In Spain News: Ancient Roman dam in Almonacid saves village from DANA’s devastation

GOV.UK: Mental health and climate change in the UK: call for evidence

UK Column article: Ethical psychotherapy versus the unethical applied psychology of SPI-B and the UK Government

 

Counter-Terrorism or Suppression? Calls to End Powers Targeting Pro-Palestine Activists

33:40 Canada Talks Israel Palestine: Why is the Israel lobby so determined to prevent Canadians (and especially Canadian politicians) from meeting Francesca Albanese?

Al Jazeera English (YouTube): ‘You are the real terrorists’: Belgian MP confronts Israeli ambassador

DawnNews English (YouTube): What is the difference between what Israel is doing and the Nazi gas chambers? Ione Belarra asks

Clare Rogers (on X): Subversivite’s post

I’ve been quiet on here because my life has been turned upside down. My daughter Zoe is in prison. She’s being treated like a terrorist for taking action against an Israeli arms firm

Change: Stop the use of counter-terrorism powers against pro-Palestine activists (Petition)

 

Anti-Genocide Speech Labelled ‘Terrorism’: Professor Haim Bresheeth Arrested by Counter-Terror Police

42:11 House of Lords Library: Threat posed by Hezbollah

BBC (2019): Hezbollah to be added to UK list of terrorist organisations

Good To Go Travel Insurance: Additional Terrorism Travel Insurance Cover

GOV.UK: Foreign travel insurance

Post Office UK: Trip disruption cover - Travel insurance

(including Covid-19, terrorism, natural catastrophes and airspace disruption)

The Guardian: Incendiary device plot targeting UK may have been dry run for US and Canada

Metropolitan police counter-terror officers declined to comment.

Counter Terrorism Policing (on X): TerrorismPolice’s post

Think you have what it takes to protect the UK? Counter Terrorism Policing is more than meets the eye, and you won’t always need a background in security to join! Interested?

GOV.UK: Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill: Overarching factsheet

The Skwawkbox: Exclusive: Prof Haim Bresheeth’s anti-genocide speech before he was arrested for ‘terrorism’

UK Column News Special: Taking the Fight to the Censors

 

Public Money, Private Surveillance: Oxford Nanopore’s New DNA ‘Surveillance System’

53:19 Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Oxford Nanopore announces landmark UK Government partnership to advance genomics-driven healthcare innovation in the UK

GOV.UK: UK to create world-first ‘early warning system’ for pandemics

The National: DNA test ‘surveillance system’ to spot future pandemic bugs

UK Parliament (2022): £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power” 

UK Parliament (2021): “Unimaginable” cost of Test & Trace failed to deliver central promise of averting another lockdown 

 

Hands Off Our Farms: Stop the Land Grab, Show Support to Revoke the Family Farm Tax Policy

56:08 GOV.UK: What are the changes to agricultural property relief?

Savills: Market in Minutes: GB Farmland – Summer 2024

NFUonline: NFU leads calls for family farm tax to be reversed

NFUonline: Public backs NFU campaign to overturn family farm tax

The family farm tax must be overturned. Show your support and call for the government to overturn the family farm tax. Add your name

Politico: Greta Thunberg joins rally against Georgia’s government