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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #974

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 8th of August 2024 and I'm very pleased to be joined by Calvin Robinson.
	Hello, how are you doing?
	Hello, I'm doing very well.
	We've not done one on our own before.
	We haven't, no.
	It's going to be good fun, I think.
	I think it's quite dangerous actually.
	It is, yeah.
	Today we're going to invoke fate and potentially be bombed, I imagine.
	Wow.
	Maybe get macheted.
	I think macheted is more like, is macheted the word?
	I don't know.
	Stabbed with machetes.
	Hunted down.
	The reason I say that is because we're going to be talking about the developments in the English riots, the intensification of the information wars and the Islamic revolution in Bangladesh.
	So it's a Mohammedan special?
	It is indeed, yes.
	So I've got a bunch of announcements, the first of which is Common Sense Crusade is at 3pm with your very own Calvin Robinson and Of course, that's half an hour after this podcast finishes, so if you want to hang around and watch that, I would strongly suggest you do so.
	Just enough time to put the kettle on and grab some biscuits.
	Yeah, if you're very slow.
	There we go.
	We've also got this video up.
	We've got a roundtable about the riots.
	We're talking about what we think, where we had everyone but Calvin.
	We didn't miss you out on purpose.
	That's not very inclusive.
	I know, yeah.
	I think it was just your availability at the time, but we had both Harry and Connor Zoom link in as well as having a full table, so if you want to see us assemble and discuss what's going on in England, you're more than free to do so.
	You of course have to sign up to the website to do that, but you're already on the website if you're watching this now, so you know what you're doing.
	And finally, I've got lots of announcements, the behind the scenes video.
	Here it is, our election night behind the scenes video.
	There is a part where I eat a packet of crisps very seductively, that is the favourite so far, and rightfully so.
	Are we smoking pipes in this footage?
	I don't think so, I wish they did have footage of that though.
	Yes, it's a full 10 minute video, behind the scenes, only available to premium subscribers.
	And if you sign up to the website now and use the code INCAPITALS, only 121, all one word, you get 50% off for the first three months.
	And I think this is going until the end of the week.
	So there's not long left on this.
	It's only a short one for the behind the scenes video.
	And this applies to anyone signing up for the first time reactivating a subscription or upgrading their subscription.
	And only one-to-one, it's the numbers one-to-one, isn't it?
	Yes.
	So, the word only, numbers one-to-one, all one word, all capitals.
	If you get it wrong, you don't deserve the discount code.
	Anyway, let's get on to the actual news.
	So there were lots of reports yesterday of over a hundred far-right demos, protests, riots, no matter, you know, they're calling them all sorts of different things.
	So here's The Independent saying it.
	Here's Al Jazeera saying it.
	Here is the Telegraph saying it, and then here is the Belfast Telegraph saying it, because of course things are going on in Belfast, as well as outlets like ITV.
	So I think it's safe to say that a lot of the mainstream media Pushed this story.
	All of them.
	All of them, yes.
	And to be fair, you can understand why.
	It's certainly a story of interest to the entire nation that there are a hundred protests planned, supposedly.
	According to who?
	Yes, but we'll be getting into that because These protests did not materialise.
	All these far-right riots, all these thugs we've been hearing about, they just didn't turn up.
	Who are they?
	Well, that's the question.
	Who is this far-right?
	I've been waiting to see them.
	I've been hearing about them for over a week now.
	Yeah, and it's strange how the far-right quite often is a very local phenomenon in a lot of the protests, and even the left-wing media has been admitting this, that a lot of them are sort of organic, happening in the place that they're occurring in.
	So who are the people getting shipped in by the busload with pre-printed professional cards?
	Are they not far-right thugs?
	No, they're not.
	They're very different.
	So I wanted to have a look at some of the protests because what actually happened was they were just the counter protests.
	And what were they countering?
	Well, you know, their imagination.
	You know, the far right turns out, when the far right plan a protest, no one turns up.
	Is the far right in the room with us right now?
	It may well be.
	It's behind the video wall.
	So here is Wolfenstow.
	And this is in London.
	I'm going to go through all of the ones in London, because funnily enough, a lot of these counter protests happened in places that weren't very English.
	I wonder how that happened.
	But here they are.
	Peacefully disrupting traffic.
	Waiting on Tommy.
	Yeah, apparently so.
	They're going to be waiting a long time because I heard he's in Cyprus.
	I think he's actually in Spain.
	He's in Spain now, is he?
	I don't think he was ever in Cyprus.
	Was he not?
	I don't think that was another piece of misinformation.
	Was it?
	Oh, right.
	Well, I didn't want to track where he's going on holiday because I'd get very jealous.
	Some people do.
	They've been doxing him and doxing the public.
	It's disgusting.
	The media are shameless, aren't they?
	Here's some more.
	That is quite a big crowd, actually.
	That is big.
	But also, it's in London, and it turns out that a lot of people might have a vested interest in London to counter-protest these protests and riots.
	Anti-racist mobilisation though.
	Yeah.
	So the assumption there is that there's some kind of racism going on and they're there to stop it.
	Yeah, this is part of the left-wing framing of it, that everyone involved is a fascist or a racist.
	In which case, you know, the fascist movement in Britain is somehow all of a sudden very, very popular overnight.
	I don't know how that's happened.
	Obviously it's not true.
	But there were Islamists.
	Here we are, Andy Ngo, talking about how they were chanting Allahu Akbar in anticipation for the far-right turning up.
	The alleged far-right.
	You can see They're quite Islamic for some reason.
	They're just particularly keen on anti-racism.
	I think that must be it.
	And yes, there's some more crowds here from the ground.
	And notice one thing here.
	Wow.
	The uniformity of all of the placards here.
	They've done well with their cut and paste and their homemade signs, haven't they?
	Yeah, there's a lot of synchronicity to their signage, isn't there?
	It's almost like they may have all come from the same place.
	I'm sure George Soros and or our government had nothing to do with it.
	I'm absolutely certain that that's not the case.
	They would never do such a thing.
	Talking about things that never happen, you know how it's always the far-right and the spooky evil, you know, reform voters that are violent and terrible and evil, and the left-wing obviously, they love peace, they love love, they hate hate.
	In fact, anyone who ever incites violence, whether in real life or online, should be arrested because it's always the far-right that are doing it.
	That's true, yeah, and it's never left-wingers, and let's just have a listen to this, shall we?
	This is in Walthamstow as well.
	Well, that's pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?
	We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.
	Yeah!
	What?
	Yeah.
	We need to cut all their throats and get rid of the road!
	Well, that's pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?
	We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.
	Yeah!
	What?
	Yeah.
	Hang on a minute.
	I don't think that was even going on in any of the rioting.
	No.
	So here we have an Islamist extremist, or an extremist of some sort, promoting the slicing of throats of people he disagrees with.
	And people aren't challenging him, they're applauding him.
	They're applauding him, yes.
	That's an incitement to violence.
	So he's also calling the people they're counter-protesting fascists and racists.
	And of course, by framing people as fascists, even though there isn't a significant fascist movement in Britain, they're justifying violence against them.
	That's the whole purpose of them doing it.
	Because, of course, we fought them in World War II.
	It's part of Britain's mythos.
	It's, you know, our national mythology, if you will.
	Well, it's Marxism.
	It's accused the enemy of doing what you're doing in order to confuse them.
	But the thing is that this guy has a bit of a recognisable face because it's been suspected that this is the same guy.
	And you can see the similarities.
	He is a Labour councillor, which would make sense, and it would also make sense why he's been given a microphone, why he's speaking at this event, because he's someone of some significance.
	And it seems like this is the same guy, we don't know for certain yet, it's not necessarily been confirmed, and people are talking about it like it's been confirmed, but we don't know, maybe he's just got a doppelganger, it's possible.
	If we live in a country where police police without fear or favour and we don't have a two-tiered policing system, which our Prime Minister keeps assuring us, then this chap will be arrested for inciting violence.
	I don't see it happening.
	I'll be very surprised.
	And he'll be rushed through the courts, as all the rioters have been.
	Yeah, I imagine they're going to put him first, you know, at the front of the queue.
	He's going to spend a lot of time in prison.
	He's definitely not going to evade justice.
	Of course, that's not what's going to actually happen.
	And then, of course, the media was running stories like brave Walthamstow protesters blast silly riots with anti-Nazi placards ahead of far-right... Gosh, there are no Nazis in this blooming country.
	Oh, there may be one or two.
	There's no swathes of far-right.
	What is this dream that they're trying to... Also, that brave Where were the... there wasn't a protest.
	Yeah, it's hardly brave when you're like, no one's there to fight.
	Brave surrounded by people that agree with you.
	Oh, apparently, according to Samson... News just in!
	We've got news just in that he has been suspended.
	Wow.
	Thank you very much.
	The Labour councillor has been suspended.
	So, it must be him, yeah.
	Well, there we go.
	I like news coming in as we're talking about it.
	That's very handy.
	So, We've also got, oh here we go, Samson's pulled it up for us, Labour councillor suspended after video images of him urging crowds to cut people's throats.
	Now I am in favour of free speech, as you know, but free speech has its limits.
	Incitement to violence is a limit.
	Explicit incitement to violence, not maybe and silent.
	This is explicit incitement to violence.
	This chap should be arrested and sent to prison.
	Absolutely.
	Telling people to cut people's throats is obvious incitement to violence.
	Using mean words and saying, well, it could lead to violence is not the same.
	You know otherwise all the comedians in the country would be arrested.
	Or good ones anyway.
	Yeah that's true.
	So also another diverse area, Croydon had a visitation from some Muslims who were obviously walking around willing to do some gardening for some old folk with their machetes and you know some knives to cut up some cheese to make them sandwiches.
	Here we are.
	They're going to a snack bar.
	That's true, yeah.
	They're just really enthusiastic about it.
	Yeah!
	But they've got very cold faces because, you know, it is British summer.
	But not all British have cold faces.
	Look at the idiots, honestly.
	This is okay.
	This is approved of.
	This is part of the approved narrative.
	And Kyle rightfully points out that there is no EDL in Croydon, not only because the EDL doesn't exist, but also, yeah, Why would there be an English Defence League when the English have mostly left?
	Well, to be fair, that's where you would need an English Defence League.
	The English people are a big minority, or is it a small minority, in Croydon.
	They need an EDL.
	Unfortunately, there is no EDL there.
	Yeah, well, we're constantly told, aren't we, that being a minority is so terrible in this country and one has to wonder what will happen to the British people when it happens to us.
	We have to protect the minorities, so we have to protect the white, English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish and British in Croydon.
	Yeah, well I very much agree.
	So, in the absence of any meaningful protest, the counter-protesters decided to just riot themselves anyway.
	Here they are, a bit of a grainy video, but throwing rubbish about, making a mess, sort of milling around Yeah, pretty much.
	It does seem to just be a couple of people making a fuss.
	To be completely fair, it doesn't look like it was most of the people there.
	However, this was interesting.
	Eight people have been arrested in London for assaulting emergency workers.
	Fifty people have gathered in Croydon, but aren't linked to protests.
	Instead, antisocial behaviour.
	Okay, this is similar to how... It's not a terror-related incident, it's just mental health.
	It's not linked to the protest, it's just antisocial behaviour.
	Obviously, it's a largely peaceful protest.
	Absolutely.
	Excepting all the non-peaceful parts.
	So, fifty people They injured eight emergency workers and they were in Croydon.
	Well, eight people were arrested for assaulting emergency workers.
	Oh, I see.
	We don't know how many emergency workers were actually assaulted, it's just plural.
	Oh, I see.
	More than one.
	Interesting.
	So, moving on to Finchley, which is still in London.
	Hardly anyone turned up.
	They still had the stand up to racism placards though, even though it was just a handful of people.
	It looks like there are more police than there are actual protesters, if you can see.
	It's not the best picture.
	Maybe there were more and I just didn't see a good picture but it was tiny.
	There's hardly anything to it but Cole nonetheless doing his demographic duty here and pointing out the fact that 29.2% of the people are white, English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British.
	Why are so many areas in London lacking British people?
	Well, that's funny, isn't it?
	So Lewisham, which is South London, here are some more people.
	They got fewer of the signs, but they're still there.
	Look, if you can see the running theme throughout.
	And Karl again pointing out that another white minority area.
	And here we go.
	This is Hastings.
	There's a very clear version of this sign.
	That we've seen everywhere.
	They were even in Plymouth as well when I covered those.
	All the way down there.
	But pretty sizable to be fair.
	And then Bristol.
	And I'm going to torture you all with this one, okay?
	This is probably one of the lamest things I've ever heard.
	So prepare yourself to cringe.
	We are black, white Muslims and we're Jews and we're gay.
	We are black, white Muslims and we're Jews and we're gay.
	We are black, white Muslims.
	Black, white Muslims, Jews and gay.
	Black, white Muslims and we're Jews.
	But it doesn't even fit the tune of the song.
	It doesn't.
	It's so poor, isn't it?
	I know, and the sign where it's just been spray-painted on.
	These are the kind of people who, in school, they got marks for effort, you know what I mean?
	There's plenty a lot of marks there, isn't there?
	Never for excellence.
	Yeah, there is a lot of marks there.
	Keep Bristol anti-racist.
	Yes, I think here's something, is it either anti-fascist or anti-far?
	Something like that.
	Bristol, something or other.
	Where is the sign?
	It'll swing around.
	No, anti-far.
	Oh right, so yes.
	An actual far-left extremist group.
	There you go, there's something to prescribe Keir Starmer.
	But of course he never ever ever speaks about the far-left.
	He doesn't, does he?
	Why is that?
	Well, there's a lot of reasons he doesn't want to do that.
	So here is Brighton, this is the least surprising of all, the gay capital of Britain, not just because it's, I'm not using it in the sort of secondary school sense, but in the actual sense of statistically... It is very gay though.
	Yeah, in both senses.
	You can probably imagine that a lot of people turned out here and you can see the police defending basically four blokes.
	Oh no.
	Imagine being those four blokes in the middle of all that.
	I know, yeah.
	You'd just have to sort of wait it out, wouldn't you?
	Yeah.
	But here we go.
	And they're still trying to have a go at these four bloats.
	So which ones are the Nazis scum in this scenario?
	Supposedly these gentlemen here.
	So not the ones attacking them?
	No, that are masked up with the signs and aggressively trying to push past the police.
	It's the four people stood here.
	Ah, okay.
	It's just ridiculous, isn't it?
	So remind me, my history is a bit loose.
	So the Nazis were the minority standing by when everyone else was trying to attack them?
	I think that's a good reading of history, yeah.
	I think that's what is taught in schools these days, isn't it?
	So, also, things going on in Newcastle, lots of people turned out.
	You get the gist, obviously lots of Palestinian headbands and the likes.
	Who's moving the mouse?
	Get off.
	And Liverpool as well, pretty big counter protest.
	No one to counter of course because no one turned up.
	Here's Aldershot where some people did turn up.
	Here's Nick Tancone, the interim leader of UKIP.
	And if we actually look at the video, there's a bunch of teenagers that hardly anyone really turned up.
	Communist scum off our streets!
	Communist scum off our streets!
	Most of these people are probably not old enough to vote.
	I mean, bless Nick for trying to make something of it, but it was a tiny little protest.
	I mean, it wouldn't even reach the news if this weren't going on across the country.
	Good message.
	Communists, come off our streets.
	Yeah.
	Also, interesting... What is that?
	Yeah.
	I've never seen the white letterbox before.
	I know.
	I've seen plenty of red ones.
	Is that the summer alternative?
	It might be, yeah.
	It's the new version that's come out.
	But yes, also Sheffield.
	This is an interesting one.
	This is certainly one the media doesn't want you to see.
	And here...
	A bunch of Muslims with weapons, running down the street.
	Chasing after a police van, it looks like, actually.
	But remember, the real danger is the far right.
	Not these thugs.
	No.
	What are they going to do when they catch them?
	I don't know.
	But that wasn't all, because there was more.
	Here we go.
	Always after that blooming snap ball.
	I know, but the police are having to retreat here.
	This is sad.
	The police are running away.
	But you get the idea that, yes, no one's going to cover this in the mainstream media.
	No one's going to say Muslims with machetes and pipes and weapons made the police retreat.
	No-one cares about that.
	This is quite scary.
	Imagine just being an ordinary British citizen walking through that.
	I wouldn't want to.
	I wouldn't want to live in Sheffield after seeing this happen, to be honest.
	And of course, the media ran its usual defence.
	BBC said successful night, Met Police Chief says, after mostly peaceful rallies across England.
	So they did the CNN thing.
	Mostly peaceful.
	They did, yeah.
	I screenshotted this this morning, which is why it's purple from me clicking on it, thinking, hang on a minute, this can't be real.
	But it is.
	It is real.
	They are a parody of themselves at this point.
	Also, Met Chief says police presence scared off rioters.
	What?
	Nobody's scared of the police.
	No one turned up.
	We've just seen a load of youths running after the police and the police running away.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yes, these youths just very enthusiastic about Allah for some reason.
	Yeah, the far right are too scared.
	Oh, come on.
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	So this is very interesting to me.
	This was a sort of mask-off moment to my mind.
	So we have the mirror.
	Take note of the picture on the front cover.
	Standing together, thousands of anti-racism protesters turn out to fought far-right thugs.
	Ain't that sweet?
	And then we go to The Express.
	The same picture.
	United Britain stands firm against thugs.
	And then The Guardian.
	Thousands take to streets to counter threat from far-right.
	Same picture.
	And then The Times.
	Thousands take to the streets to confront the far-right.
	Deja vu.
	And I don't know whether we've got the Daily Mail, but they did the same thing as well.
	They were pretty egregious.
	I don't know whether you can pull that up, Samson.
	I thought it was amongst those.
	But I'll move on to the next one in the meantime.
	So there's also these.
	So this is the Daily Record.
	Peaceful protests quash fears of further violent disorder despite planned unrest in UK.
	And then we go to the Evening Standard.
	Peaceful protests quash fears of further violent disorder despite planned unrest.
	These are different publications with exactly the same Could it be that this is the government's response to the unrest that we've seen over the last week and now they're saying it's over, we've fixed it?
	Well there are multiple different explanations and I don't know whether that Daily Mail one is going to come up but it was particularly egregious that supposedly a right-wing newspaper... I'll be showing it next anyway.
	Oh, are you going to show it in your segment?
	Okay, that's fine.
	But this is something that people say has radicalised and caused the riots and it's coming out and saying, you know, anti-racism protest has come out and I can't remember the exact title, but it's basically taking the same line as all the others.
	So I wanted to have a little look at some of these as well.
	Some photo ops.
	So here we are.
	9 year old Hassan Boston Khan tried on a police officer's helmet.
	Obviously that's significant.
	I saw a police officer about that height actually with riot gear on.
	Was it little Khan all along?
	It may well have been.
	And here we are, Good Vibes Only with the police.
	And all of a sudden, you know, there's people hugging our... Our Estein.
	Yes, and there we go.
	One man in Liverpool shook hands with a protester and received a cheer from a crowd after gesturing to them with both their hands in the air.
	Peace has been restored.
	I know, these protests were just so productive, never mind the masked people and the Palestinian flag in the background.
	Never mind the anti-racist shouting for genocide of an entire race.
	No, no, no, that is not of concern apparently.
	But there are lots of explanations to why there were meant to be hundreds of protests and what?
	About four people turned up to one in Brighton and a bunch of teenagers that were probably not even intending to turn up to the protest who were just hanging about.
	We don't even know those four people were protesting, they could have just been stuck there.
	Passers-by, yeah.
	With an England t-shirt on.
	Yeah, and there's this explanation.
	This is obviously a satirical article, this isn't real.
	MI5 uncovers white supremacist plot to just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the United Kingdom.
	I feel like we're living through that.
	The notion that the far-right just tried to wind people up and make them think there was a protest to make people concerned and then just sat back and let it happen.
	I don't think this actually happened, it's a possible explanation.
	Another one is that Hope Not Hate here, they had an update saying we are prioritising 48 locations that have been mentioned as possible targets for far-right mobilisation.
	By whom?
	Yes, exactly, and the circulating information here, I thought I linked their website, but basically they're saying that there will be all these locations, they said several days ago a list of 39 locations was compiled and released in an extreme far right telegram channel, just not far right, extreme far right.
	One of the central online spaces behind this week's racist violence in Merseyside, this hit list of aspirational targets that calls for action up to and including terrorism.
	It by the way...
	Doesn't discourage people from going to these places that they've named and if it was actually genuinely believed that they might conduct acts of terror why would Hope Not Hate be saying well if you're going to here please remain peaceful and you know keep an anti-racist message and things like that rather than It's going to be a potential bomb threat or something like that.
	That's a good point.
	I mean, they've overused the term far-right so much now that when they think there's an actual far-right, they have to use the words extreme far-right.
	If they're linking it to terrorism, let's flip it around.
	If we, from the center-right or centrist whatever we are, saw a potential Islamist terror threat, we'd say avoid this area at all costs because we'd fear for people's lives.
	So this is clearly not the same.
	This is hyping up propaganda.
	Yeah, you could even if you're particularly cynical interpret this as they know that this isn't going to happen and they're encouraging the counter-protest because if they exaggerate the threat of the far right it mobilizes the left.
	Have you got Nick Laws' thing coming up next?
	I do, yes.
	So it goes on to say The single list created by one Telegram channel was likely one individual.
	Differs from the wave of more organically organized riots and violence we have seen over the past week.
	So this is the sort of plausible deniability that they're talking about.
	Most of the previous events were organised by individuals from those locations with support from local far-right activists and racists.
	They had to add that last part.
	But to be fair, that is what people have been saying, that it is a largely local phenomenon to, you know, when even the Southport ones, you can recognise the accents of the people.
	Because there's no far-right organisation, it's just local Brits who are fed up, hurt, upset and frustrated.
	Exactly.
	And yes, they said, we found very little discussion within far-right networks about attending the places on this hit list, which means some locations may see no protests at all.
	Some locations.
	And this was long before any of the protests actually turned out, which I find interesting that they're basically calling the bluff of it whilst no one else was.
	Interesting, isn't it?
	It is.
	But of course, they say, if you're planning to attend a counter-demonstration, please be positive, peaceful and safe.
	Don't let the far-right bait you and your community into lashing out.
	But I thought there was going to be an act of terror going on, hope not hate.
	Why are you encouraging them to go there then?
	That's quite dangerous, actually.
	It is.
	And here's Nick Lowell saying, yes, the list was a hoax, but just look at the front pages of today's papers.
	An anti-racist message is being transmitted to millions of homes this morning in a very uniform way.
	That almost indicates, to my mind, that...
	There is no, um, there's no organic-ness to it.
	It's all come from a single source.
	If everything is the same, it's got a single origin point.
	That much is pretty much obvious.
	And I think that what has actually happened here is that the intelligence services have directed something here because the police do not have the capacity to deal with the riots.
	The ones last weekend already stretched them.
	And then that's no doubt what Starmer in his Cobra meetings has been discussing.
	And When they're concerned about the country turning to widespread disorder without the ability to deal with it, it is perfectly feasible to suggest that the intelligence services carried out an operation to try and de-escalate tensions, which I think is what has gone on here.
	But that in particular looks like Nick Laws is involved in it.
	Maybe I'm misreading it, but it sounds like he's a part of this hoax and he's happy because the propaganda worked.
	Well, there has been a lot of speculation, which I cannot confirm, that there is a connection between them and some intelligence services.
	I've heard many people say it, I haven't necessarily seen any evidence for it myself, so please don't take that at face value.
	Are intelligence services potentially working with commies?
	It's not the first time, is it?
	But I think that the fact that the media parroted the same lines all at the same time, the same narrative, all together using the same images, the protesters had the same stand up to racism placards all across the country that seemingly got out very quickly, didn't they?
	They made available Very easily.
	And maybe just at the onset of these riots, you know, they were just very hot on sending them out and it was just stand up to racism, being very good at logistics.
	It's possible.
	However, the uniformity of everything that has gone on and how this has all been lapped up suggests to me that there is Some sort of planning involved, some sort of intelligence involved, and I think circulating fake protest info to left-wing circles to mobilise them.
	I don't think the people turning up realised that it was something that could potentially be inorganic or a waste of their time.
	And then the gate kept it from the right so no actual right wingers turned up and this ensures only the left turn up.
	It allows them to get photo ops and claim that they had a peaceful protest and it's also worth mentioning that many of the anti-immigration protests stayed peaceful but the media focused on the ones that turned violent because there were counter protesters there.
	And so without any opposition there they could more easily control the narrative and have sort of a free open season in the media to try and shift it as saying well you're not the majority you don't stand for what we believe you know there are lots of people that are anti-immigration and therefore it's an attempt to de-escalate tensions.
	I don't necessarily see it working we'll have to see in the future but it does seem like something suspicious has gone on here.
	Yeah, because what we saw on Sky News, the counter protesters last week were becoming quite violent and aggressive.
	They seemed upset by it because they almost wanted to turn around and say, we're on your side guys, you know, don't let the side down.
	And so this is a narrative that they could control.
	Absolutely.
	And I think that although we don't know for certain what happened, there are lots of interesting questions to ask about why these hundreds of protests that were supposedly planned circulated in all of the mainstream media and then hardly a soul turned up.
	And these lefties, these far lefties with the placards, they're busting everywhere.
	When I used to go to the Drag Queen Storytime protest, you'd see them come get busting with their placard.
	It's a professional unit at this point.
	They are almost paid to protest.
	I don't doubt it.
	So, let's move on to your segment.
	It ties in pretty nicely, I think.
	Oh, sorry.
	I don't have my screen on, so I'm just going to quickly turn that on.
	I'm very professional, don't you know?
	It's not working.
	Oh, there we go.
	Never mind.
	So the last Russian says, thank you for showing the MI5 plot meme.
	I haphazardly made that last night on Publisher.
	Proud.
	Always the lowest effort memes that get the most traction.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, I'm glad you're proud.
	You should be.
	I think that actually it's Pretty good.
	Sammy says, forgive my ignorance, I'm from the colonies, but what has the Royal Family have to say, if anything, about the goings on, or do they truly not matter in any way?
	Thanks.
	Well, it's more that they should stay neutral in these sorts of matters, and it's sort of convention that they stay out of it, and it's a matter for the public and politicians.
	And actually, I think it'd be a bad idea if they weighed in.
	No, I agree.
	A lot of people keep asking, what good is your king?
	He's not doing anything about it.
	It's not his job to do anything about it.
	He sits there constitutionally to protect certain areas like the military, like the judiciary.
	He's not there to step in and be political.
	However, he will be very much aware of this and keep an eye on everything.
	Absolutely.
	So Sad Wings Raging says, well, you guys are getting off relatively light compared to your ancestors.
	You won't have to travel far to get to the next needed crusade.
	It's true.
	It's starting on our doorstep.
	Bonsai Buddy says the anger from the far right is a thin veneer for the middle class who loathe the poor.
	I know the real issue, but they'll be on the first flight to Oz to get away whilst the poors are stuck here.
	And then Biggy Bigfoot says Christ is King.
	Christ is King.
	Sorry.
	Go ahead.
	Okay, excellent.
	Right.
	Let's start with We've been in a culture war, we've been in a spiritual war, but we're also in an information war, and you've alluded to quite a bit of it in your segment, but I want to talk about who is behind it.
	So let's have a look at the Nudge Unit, because people have heard the term Nudge Unit and not realised it's an actual thing.
	Here is the website for the Institute for Government.
	This is a lobby group set up by Lord Sainsbury, yes the one from the supermarkets, with the aim to quote, provide thought leadership on effective government.
	Now these guys are used by the Tories, by the Labour Party, these guys are used as spin units to help them sell things, and so the Institute for Government explains for us what the nudge unit is.
	So established by the cabinet or in the cabinet office.
	So the nudge unit was a part of the government in 2010.
	David Cameron's conservative Lib Dem coalition government set up in the official government with our taxpayer dollars and taxpayers pounds.
	A lot of American politics for that.
	That's disgusting.
	And then spun off into a separate company, as they often do with these NGOs, so that they can claim it's an arm's length away from the government.
	It's not actually the government that's doing the work.
	I've done a lot of research into the nudge units.
	Actually, a lot of the psychology that they use is my research specialisation, because I specialised in behavioural decision making.
	Yes, great.
	So you're on with the right person.
	Okay!
	So, one of the interesting things is, this is the only case of a government department, or a government institution, that has been privately sold off.
	And it's worth mentioning, I think this happened in 2016, I think?
	Right, yep.
	So it got opened up to the private sector partially, and then eventually it got sold off.
	And now it operates in 51 countries, it might even be more since I last did the research.
	And it has basically skyrocketed and is getting to the point of almost competing with the Tony Blair Institute in size of sort of scope and scale.
	That's quite scary.
	And the fact that it has been so profitable and operates in so many countries in such a short space of time indicates to me that there's a significant number of people who are pushing this to succeed.
	Oh, there are indeed.
	And so the nudge unit itself is called the behavioral insights team.
	And as Josh points out, it was split off from the cabinet office and almost sold off, which meant that the people, I mean, the people who are there are still there, but they are able to make money from doing what they're doing on top of our taxpayer pounds, because it's going to be partly funded by the government and partly funded by private investment.
	Well, it went through a phase of being like that, but I think it's now entirely privately owned.
	Is it really?
	It is, yeah.
	Well, they'll still be getting taxpayer money because the government pays them.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes, of course.
	Sorry, I misunderstood.
	No, no, it's fine.
	And so, if we look at who these people are, the psychologist David Halpern, and his area of expertise is experimental psychology.
	So we have an expert in experimental psychology running a unit, which is referred to by the government as the Nudge Unit, consulted by our cabinet, or started in the cabinet, for using experimental psychology on the British public.
	We have a government at war with its people, essentially.
	Whatever they're using the psychology for, a government should not be using experimental psychology on their own people.
	Yes, so experimental psychology is like how you conduct research, but when you're in a position whereby you're advising, say, government policy, and particularly giving policy recommendations, my main gripe with all of this, other than it's horrendously authoritarian, is that The decision-making psychology literature isn't as resounding to say, OK, here is what you need to do for this.
	You can make some recommendations, you can make suggestions to say maybe it's this, but it's not definitively settled because the field of behavioural decision-making is still sort of...
	We're quite young.
	Behavioural economics as a discipline has only been around for, you know, about 30 or so years in any serious capacity.
	And that's not very long in the sciences to have any sort of definitive conclusions.
	You can get some basics nailed down, but you can't say, okay, we definitively know how to deal with this specific issue of public policy.
	And particularly if people have a political agenda, they're going to Design their experiments around proving that they're correct.
	Yes.
	And in a position like this, I don't think it's optimal to do good research and good experiments.
	And actually, it doesn't matter if it's definitive or not, because the purpose of a government is to, well, we have a representative democracy, so they're supposed to represent the needs of the people, not manipulate the needs of the people.
	This is the issue I have with it in terms of how it was used in COVID.
	When they say they proposed, through the Unit's Measures Public, to be drilled for future emergencies.
	The idea that we should push a message so hard that people go along with it, rather than asking the people what they want from their governments.
	Well, this is just something that government does, unfortunately.
	It's no mystery that I'm very anti-state power.
	Quite libertarian.
	And this sort of thing is a complete inversion of what democracy is meant to be about.
	You're meant to be telling the government what you want it to do, not the government telling you what is best for you.
	That is, to my mind, a complete perversion of what it's meant to do.
	Absolutely.
	And so they say the purpose of the Behavioural Insights Team is, the organisation is to influence public thinking and decision making in order to improve compliance with government policy.
	Again, that is completely backwards and inside out from what the government should be doing.
	On the back of that, we have the Behavioural Insights Team, which is called the Nudge Unit.
	That's one arm of influencing and manipulating the public.
	Another arm of it is this.
	This is the Trusted News Initiative.
	Now, this is newer than the Nudge Unit.
	This one was set up specifically for COVID, and this is essentially a collaboration by the Associated Press, the BBC, Canadian state publishers, Financial Times, all of big tech, so Facebook, Microsoft, Google, including European Broadcasting Union as well.
	Yep.
	So pretty much all the Western state broadcasters and print publications, everything, the news in general, in the West, is part of this Trusted News Initiative.
	And their goals are quite simple.
	To alert against the most harmful disinformation, right?
	So who specifies what is disinformation based on the governments that these companies work?
	Well, the government thinks that it has a monopoly on telling the truth.
	Right.
	But actually, there are lots of strong incentives that some of the most harmful lies that could possibly be told in a society are most likely to come from a government because they have the most strong incentives to do so.
	And so, sure, people might believe some silly stuff.
	I don't believe that the earth is flat.
	You have a right to.
	Yeah.
	I think it's silly, but I also think that people should be allowed to believe that if they believe that lizard people are taking over the earth like they live.
	They should be allowed to think that, as long as they're not harming anyone, yeah.
	But some of the governments are explicit in this.
	So Jacinda Ardern was a good example.
	She said, we will be your source of information.
	As in, the news will come from the government.
	And now, call me old school, but journalism used to be about The media holding the powers that be to account, not working for them, not being their voice.
	And so this, again, flips the whole process inside out and upside down.
	They are to discuss trends.
	Media education.
	Again, the media isn't there to educate the public.
	It's there to inform the public.
	It's a nuanced difference, but it's important.
	And then engineering solutions.
	So the Trusted News Initiative is there to engineer solutions to the problems that they see around disinformation and what they call disinformation.
	So what I would find very interesting about this is that this is basically expanding politicians' power over one of their main avenues of criticism.
	And my understanding of the role of politicians in today's politics is that they're sort of paid representatives for corporate interest.
	It would be interesting to see the overlap between who's donating to which political parties and who's supporting this specific initiative because I imagine there will be overlap and I imagine that the reason that they're doing this is because
	It can help push the sort of favourable treatment to certain companies, certain corporations within a nation by not only paying off the politicians effectively, which is what campaign donations are, and also helping neuter any criticism in the press about certain things.
	Which is not a far fetch because if we look at, I mean, last week in my Common Sense Crusade, we covered the fact that if you Google assassination attempt, you won't find the photograph of Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
	If you Google Donald Trump, you'll get results for Kamala Harris.
	That is an obvious, very clear bias.
	That is being implemented by big tech and by mainstream media.
	And we talked just a moment ago about what Sky News were doing.
	The BBC were also doing the same and using these words as mostly peaceful, largely peaceful.
	There's a slant and a bias to all of this, but we'll get to today's most obvious example later on.
	But what I find also disturbing about this is the almost anti-competitive nature to it.
	There's a massive monopoly here.
	So if you're not part of this, You're going to be silenced because, I mean, Google, YouTube, they affect us, the Lotus Eaters.
	Microsoft, Meta, they affect, again, likewise, independent journalists.
	If you have a smaller voice, you have to use the platforms that these guys are on.
	So there's no way around their censorship.
	It is collusion, and it's headed up by our state broadcast to the BBC, which again is an arm's length away from our government.
	So one of the companies, involved in this is the Associated Press.
	And I just found this fascinating.
	It's the first one listed, but as someone who's worked previously in the professional media, Associated Press are very, very influential.
	So GB News is a prime example.
	When people say, why are GB News going woke?
	They're suddenly talking about climate change.
	It's not necessarily that GB News are going woke.
	They don't write most of their headlines.
	They get sent these bulletins from the Associated Press.
	They take their bulletins, put them up online.
	Sometimes they may change a few words, but they just shovel out content that they're being sent.
	Yeah, so I looked into this in great detail actually, and lots of other... Reuters is another example of this.
	Yes, Reuters and AP.
	Yeah, both of those are sort of Providers of resources for journalists in other institutions and we actually, when Lotus Eaters first started, looked at getting photos from the Associated Press for some of our written articles.
	Just the photos, we didn't want the articles because obviously they'd be nonsense, but we wanted to use You know, relevant photos because of all of the usage rights and the copyright law and stuff like that.
	We wanted to make them interesting and relevant and to compete with the mainstream media and I was the one actually leading the process and I learned a lot about how they operate, how these sorts of things work and in the end we realised it was a massive rip-off and not worth it so we didn't go through with it.
	Yes, it's very interesting, and this is part of the reason, I think, that a lot of media organisations have very similar headlines, is that it comes from the Associated Press and Reuters, and if you can control the narrative in both of those, well, you can control the press.
	That's it, exactly.
	You don't need to control the entire press, you just need to control Associated Press and Reuters, and they send out the bulletins, the pictures, the headlines, and the content to all of these agencies.
	And some of them change them, some of them fiddle them around, but a lot of them just push it all straight online.
	And so that is a key part of the problem we're facing right now.
	Now this Trusted News Initiative, which I mentioned was set up over COVID-19 specifically to combat disinformation, which essentially from a government's point of view means not talking about the things that they don't want us to talk about.
	It has moved on.
	So it started with COVID.
	They had their Trust in News conferences.
	The latest one was about these issues here.
	So, Ukraine.
	What is disinformation about Ukraine?
	Well, since we are an ally of Ukraine, and effectively a proxy war with Russia, we can pretty much sum up that certain news is going to be classed as disinformation, whether it's true or not, because they'll mark it as propaganda.
	Nationalization of the internet.
	I genuinely don't know.
	That's horrifying.
	If the internet were nationalized, I would despair for the fate of humanity.
	But in some places it is.
	China have their firewall, North Korea have their blackouts, India have had theirs during the elections.
	It's not too far-fetched.
	Imagine we could have the same very soon.
	Mainstream media have been talking about it a lot this week.
	Should we want to ban social media during riots and unrest?
	It's ridiculous because people will always find ways to communicate with each other.
	Taking away the tools isn't going to get rid of the motivation.
	It's the same with social media, it's the same with mass shootings in the US.
	People blame the tools for what is fundamentally a question of human motivation.
	Blocking one thing just means you use something else.
	Over COVID, they prevented us from going to church and they closed the pubs, so that stopped our association, which is why we did everything online.
	But I mean, if it blocked online, we'd go the other direction.
	There's always a way around it, but of course, they're always going to try to block what they call disinformation.
	Climate change, another very obvious example that there is an approved narrative there that they want to push, and so they will use the Trusted News Initiative to push that narrative.
	Artificial intelligence, again, another concerning one.
	I don't know what the approved narrative is for that, but I do know there are very many clear biases in artificial intelligence or the most prominent AI engines that are in use at the moment.
	So whether you're writing reports or doing research, whatever you're doing, there is a skewed bias towards liberalism.
	The funny thing is there are ways of getting around this, like GPT has obviously had a woke lobotomy, but then I use it
	to tell me what ethnicity perpetrators of crimes are I say what's the statistical likelihood that this person came from whatever country and it will say it's most likely they're from Pakistan or Somalia or something like that because that way it can control through all the list of names you just got to frame it correctly and know how to use it and get good results but it is almost going to be impossible to make it bulletproof without And making it almost useless.
	Yeah.
	But at the same time, you can only work with what data set it has.
	So if it's the liberals pushing the data set, even if you work around it, you've got certain limitations there.
	And another example was people searching about Donald Trump's assassination and the AI would say, nothing, don't know what that is about.
	But then you say, what happened on this date?
	And it will say, oh, the assassination attempt of Donald J. Trump.
	So it has the information, but again, it's hiding it for a political reason.
	And the role in big tech of tackling disinformation was another major topic at this conference.
	So again, they're very explicit in that they want the big tech companies, not just the media companies, to have an impact on what they see as disinformation.
	And we saw this with the Twitter files, when we learned that the FBI, for example, had a backdoor to Twitter to say, block that person, delete that thread.
	I actually looked at some of the specific cases that were listed and some of them were really small accounts tweeting into the void and even then they're just like remove this this this information is dangerous even though it's just an anonymous account with like five likes on the tweet some of them which is absurd that that level is one thing to have censorship at all and obviously I disapprove of all censorship however when it's to that level of pettiness it shows you the lengths that they're willing to go
	Yes, to cover it up at all costs.
	Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the potential presidential candidate, has filed an antitrust lawsuit in Texas against the TNI, against the Trusted News Initiative, which of course is global, and he's saying that it is pretty much similar to what we've said on the show so far, that it's a monopoly of information, it is an antitrust situation, and he called them the disinformation dozen.
	Well, I'm hoping that will go some direction to finding out what happened over COVID in terms of what new sources were blocked, who was prevented from speaking, particularly when it came to the vaccine or the jab information.
	Because what was classed as disinformation at the beginning is certainly truth or allowed at this point.
	And this is a very important thing as well.
	It's good that he's doing it in Texas, but if they're allowed to continue operating, it's going to be the case that Elites, perhaps many of them unelected as well, are going to determine what we can say in our own countries, despite the fact that it's meant to be us that appoint them power, not the other way around.
	It's becoming tyrannical.
	It's an obvious example, but at the start of Covid we weren't allowed to ask about the Wuhan lab.
	That was taken off Facebook, taken off Twitter at the start.
	Now we know that that's the most probable outcome of where it came from, a Wuhan lab.
	And so it was disinformation or misinformation at the beginning, and now it's known as common or commonly known as the truth.
	And so for these people to be the arbiters of truth is a scary prospect.
	And why is it relevant?
	Well, when Boris Johnson was our Prime Minister, He gave a bung, as he refers it, to the media and Dominic Cummings confirmed this, that he heard Boris Johnson speaking directly about this, about giving the media a wad of cash in order to put forward a certain approved narrative.
	And there are investigations into what this meant, what this bungle of cash meant, but the fact that the Prime Minister can have a direct conversation with Lord Agnew, Lord Nebedev?
	Lebedev?
	Lebedev, the only evening standard guy anyway, and say look, This is what we need.
	And then, of course, we saw across all the papers, the COVID, same headlines, same image, the same message, whether it's right wing paper, left wing paper.
	And this is exactly why, because of the government's working through the Trusted News Initiative.
	Which brings me back to your last topic of where we are today.
	All of the newspapers are running the same headlines, whether they're right or left.
	So we had The Times, thousands take to the streets to confront the far right, so a centre-right paper, Versus the Guardian, a far left paper, thousands take to the streets to counter threat from far right.
	I mean, it's one word difference for goodness sake.
	Same layout, same image, same headline.
	This is being fed to them.
	They're copying each other's homework, aren't they?
	We've got the Mirror.
	Again, their unity in that picture.
	And the Daily Express.
	Oh, unity in that picture.
	This is clearly being pushed through the Trusted News Initiative, through the Behavioural Insights or the Nudge Unit.
	One or both of these Government arm's-length bodies are having an impact on what we're seeing in our mainstream media.
	They're trying to manipulate us.
	Here was the other one.
	I think this was the one you were looking for.
	So we've got the Independent.
	So all the newspaper agencies were talking about this so-called 100 far-right demos that were going to happen last night.
	Of course, none of them happened.
	Independent, far-left.
	Al Jazeera, far-Islamist.
	The Standard, center-left.
	The Guardian, again, far left.
	All these papers talking, same headlines, same content, all talking about 100 far-right protests.
	Who told them?
	Where did they get that information from?
	If I was saying it, and nothing happened, I'd be accused of misinformation.
	Potentially arrested at this point, the way the government's going.
	Why is there no consequences for these mainstream media outlets?
	Well, if hope not hate are to be believed, it all comes from one man in a telegram chat.
	One man potentially named Nick Lawles.
	Sky News as well.
	And of course, so that's just stuff in the print, but it's not just print where this is happening.
	Oh, here's the one, Daily Mail.
	Yeah, night anti-hate marches face down the thugs.
	Did they?
	Who did they face down?
	Yeah, no-one.
	No-one turned up.
	What are they, looking in a mirror?
	I love Steve Edgington.
	The Daily Mail backs the Refugees Welcome Pro-Palestinian and Far-Left Islamist Protesters Coalition.
	Yeah, indeed.
	The so-called right-wing paper is backing the hard left.
	Why would that be, unless there was some kind of incentive for them to do so?
	Someone's leaning on them, in some way.
	But it's not just the print, it is also in television.
	There's a pattern developing.
	This was GMB earlier this week, I'm sure it's probably been covered.
	So here we have Ed Balls interviewing his wife, Yvette Cooper, a government minister.
	The topic of conversation ...have done at home since those terrible killings in Southport.
	There have been identifiable individuals on social media who have been inciting not just riot, but violence.
	They've been using racist language, they've been using falsehoods about what happened in Southport.
	This is happening on the social media Doesn't matter what she waffles on, the point is the question from the mainstream media is what are you going to do about social media?
	on the government to stop this happening because it's been happening for a week.
	Well, you're...
	It doesn't matter what she waffles on.
	The point is the question from the mainstream media is what are you going to do about social media?
	Zip forward a few days later, same channel, mainstream media, Good Morning Britain, one of the most watched morning breakfast programmes in the country.
	I think we should stop it.
	It's only a temporary measure in order to limit the spread of inflammatory information, misinformation as well, across the United Kingdom at this point.
	So they found a useful idiot to say yes we should, but the question they're asking, ban social media during unrest?
	Also, temporary measure, just like the lockdowns.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, temporary measure.
	It's only two weeks.
	Oh, don't worry.
	Cutting the curve.
	Also, to keep people safe.
	Yeah.
	To keep who safe.
	Yeah.
	Not us.
	You just need to go in the prison cell to keep people safe.
	But the media is pushing this question now, should we ban social media?
	And of course, it's not about social media.
	It's about Twitter, otherwise known as X. It's about Elon Musk, who has been mentioned to the police chief of the Met.
	And I think the DDP, the Director of Public Prosecutions mentioned him.
	Anyway, the point is that they are clamping down because it's the one platform they cannot yet control the narrative on.
	It's not part of the Trusted News Initiative.
	It's not part of that big tech, Google, Meta, and all those things.
	They see it as a threat.
	Well it certainly is.
	And so to wrap up I'll leave you with a question of, is the far right really the problem or is it the people manipulating us into believing that the far right is the problem?
	Something is clearly afoot here because there were very little far right in Josh's segment, there was very little far right in what I've seen so far but there's lots of evidence of the hard left.
	People saying from the river to the sea, people promoting genocide of Jews and so there are real threats to people, there are real incitement of violence and very few consequences for them, yet there's an imaginary threat of violence from an imaginary far right and they want to do everything to take our freedoms away to protect us from that imaginary threat.
	Something's not right.
	here here we do have some uh more rumble chats the shadow band for 50 that's very nice of you thank you um this stuff terrifies me i want my thoughts and opinions to be my own but uh to know how malleable human opinion is the sharing of so that was me Got jump-scared by an American there.
	Windpill Seeker says, sounds like Nudge, get government grants but no government oversight to ensure plausible deniability like an activist lobby group with a consulting division.
	Yeah, well, it's actually better.
	This is a theme I've heard throughout a lot of modern politics, is that you can do more outside of politics than you can do within it.
	Lots of senior government ministers have said this.
	This is why Michael Gove chose not to stand in the last election.
	Exactly.
	The new power is being an unelected corporatist, because you also make a lot more money.
	You're unaccountable.
	And you're unaccountable.
	So why would people go through politics?
	Why would people use those means?
	Why be the puppets when you could be the puppet masters?
	Exactly.
	All right.
	Well, there's another example.
	this is an old one, but it's just highlighting this media trust news initiative, the idea that we could get every outlet singing from the same hymn sheet.
	False news has become all too common on social media.
	more seen this video before it's very good
	we are fighting the fake news it's fake phony fake anyway i'm not interested in the asset building but i thought this was the longest
	I've got the wrong clip.
	But anyway, it essentially shows that they cannot get them all reading from the same script, all saying the same thing, and manipulating us constantly.
	They're saying that they are fighting against fake news on social media, but actually the fake news is the mainstream media.
	Absolutely.
	Right.
	So, you may have noticed, if you've been paying attention to the news, things have been going on in Bangladesh and you'll probably be saying, well hang on a minute, I'm not from Bangladesh.
	I'm not from Whitechapel.
	Yeah, I'm not from Whitechapel or parts of London, you know, that has a very large Bangladeshi community.
	Yes, there's something going on there that I think is very analogous to what's going on in Europe and perhaps even America as well.
	So there has been what I am dubbing an Islamic revolution and I think it's somewhat fair to say that.
	There are political reasons, she's not part of it, she's been deposed, but the official death figure so far of what's been going on in Bangladesh is at least 440 people including children And the lady on screen here is the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and she stepped down and fled to India.
	Oh so Sheikh is a unisex word?
	Apparently so.
	But she escaped minutes before thousands of people stormed her residence and then subsequently ransacked it.
	She's been serving as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January of 2009 and she also served a term leading up to the 2000s I think from 96 So is this the one who's Tulip Siddiq's aunt?
	I'm not entirely sure.
	I did try and look it up but I just couldn't find out.
	But she's the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Bangladesh and her party is the Awami League and she is the daughter of Sheikh Mujbar Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh and its first president.
	And her family are known as the Banga Bandhu family which is a term of respect for her father's role in the country gaining independence.
	So she entered politics after her father and much of her family were assassinated in 1975 and then she became the leader of the Awami League in 1981 and then served as Prime Minister for the first time from 96 to 2001.
	It's safe to say she's been a fixture of the country's politics and her family have since its independence really.
	Yes it is, this is Tulip Siddiq's office and she's alleged to have disappeared her political opponents and so when Tulip Siddiq was ever asked about it she always says I'm not the MP for Bangladesh even though she ships people over from Bangladesh to campaign for her.
	So, I think part of what has happened here are her beliefs.
	She wanted a secular state that did not oppress the religious minorities and of course Bangladesh is 91% Muslim and 8% Hindu with a small minority of Buddhists and Christians.
	And she cracked down pretty hard on Islamic extremism and terrorism.
	At least that's what people are saying.
	You know, I've not been following Bangladeshi politics closely, but that is what the media is reporting.
	And she tried to seek to prevent sectarianism, which is something that seems to be affecting a lot of the world at the minute.
	And how did all of this start?
	How did it come to be that she was deposed from her office?
	So in July, protests began against job reservations for the families of the 1971, and this is their words, war heroes, which set the quotas that a certain portion of government jobs would go to the families involved in the 1971 independence movement.
	And It had actually been halted in 2018 after protests and then there was a petition from the 1971 families to the High Court which then reinstated the quotas because of course they wanted the nice cushy jobs, right?
	And then the Supreme Court ordered that 93% of all government jobs would be allocated on merit 5% would go for these veterans and then the remaining 2% and I couldn't believe it when I read this, would be reserved for members of ethnic minorities, transgender and disabled people.
	Oh.
	So even in Bangladesh.
	They've got DEI.
	But just for 2% I mean.
	That sounds kind of about right, is it not?
	What percentage of the population is that?
	I don't know.
	I think it's probably, I suppose the Hindus are 8% aren't they?
	But then They might just be a religious rather than ethnic thing.
	Who knows?
	But the protests began in Dakar University, as protests often do at universities that is, and people were saying that it's unfair and that it should be replaced with a merit-based system, which I agree with actually.
	Fair enough.
	If you want a meritocracy, I respect that.
	And then the protests grew and then people were killed in a back and forth because both police and protesters were using live ammo.
	So at the beginning, protests looked more like this.
	That looks like a music video.
	It does, doesn't it?
	Michael Jackson's about to start Moonwalk.
	Yeah, all you need is him in the middle there.
	But it was just people marching around showing their distaste for this policy.
	Sorry, I'm getting a very dry mouth.
	But I think that there is also a vested interest because of course If they come from these families, they're probably going to share this secularisation of Bangladesh that perhaps the Muslim majority don't want.
	And I think that perhaps is a bit misleading because I don't think they want it.
	And then things got a little bit more violent.
	Here is a pretty large protest.
	You can see fires and things getting a bit more out of hand, people marching all in one direction towards things.
	It's very difficult to know what's coming out because the information coming from Bangladesh isn't nearly as clear as it might be from a Western country and so I'm sort of having to read tea leaves a little bit.
	But at the minute there is an interim government led by this guy, Mohammed Yunus, and he is an entrepreneur, banker and economist and worked as a professor.
	So he actually won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for being a pioneer of micro-credit and micro-financing, which is basically where you provide very small loans to individuals and businesses that might not otherwise be able to get them.
	Which doesn't necessarily sound that bad, although he might well be profiting off of the destitute people in the country.
	Yeah.
	Offering them a service, I think, is better than nothing, right?
	And he's also got a United States Presidential Medal of Freedom and the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
	From which president?
	I don't know.
	I didn't look that up.
	Tell us a lot.
	I don't think it was Donald Trump.
	And he will remain until an election is held in the meantime.
	If they have another election.
	That's true.
	There's a lot to be seen.
	So what is interesting, this is the political backdrop, but what's been going on in the streets is very very different.
	So there have been attacks on Hindu temples and homes in Bangladesh.
	So we can see here just the destruction and I've seen lots and lots of videos like this of Muslims going out and just attacking
	Hindu minorities largely I think have been the focus of their eye because of course there's a little bit of tension with India being on their border and so Hindus of course being a heretical religion to the Mohammedans as you call them and so they justify them as being a target There's tension wherever there are Mohammedans, let's be honest.
	That is true.
	And what I'm seeking to show here is that the direction that the country is going is further into Islamism, it seems.
	Yes, exactly.
	So this is what sparked off the riots in our London streets then.
	So, obviously there's an element of Islam cannot co-exist with people of other belief systems, or anything really, yeah.
	Itself.
	Certainly with civilisation.
	And they were targeting things like Hindu temples here, so you see this is clearly a Hindu temple, and they're going in and trying to smash it up, hitting it with sticks and doing all sorts of... Destructive ideology, isn't it?
	I'll tell you what I find really infuriating.
	I saw it in Pakistan where they dug up this many thousand year old Buddhist statue.
	It was a beautiful work of art and then they started smashing it to bits because it was heretical.
	It's just like any belief system whereby you destroy things that have got obvious aesthetic beauty.
	I'm not a Buddhist, I don't have any religious reason, I can just recognise the virtues in the creation of the thing and it shouldn't be destroyed.
	It's it's it completely numbs their mind.
	So things got even more violent here.
	So this is a tower block which 24 people burnt alive in in Bangladesh.
	This is the extent to which they're willing to go to be an absolute majority right and have no minority in that country.
	And it's difficult to tell how widespread this is because a lot of the footage is lacking the context you need to be able to make these sorts of judgments.
	However... This is what happens when Islam becomes the predominant faith.
	Yes, here is an attack on a village here.
	This is a largely Hindu village in Bangladesh and they were setting fires and attacking Hindus in their homes.
	You can see out here, look, They've even got bars in their windows, people setting fires and waiting for people to come out, basically, to do them harm.
	And this is, you know, this is what happens when you have a multicultural society, isn't it?
	Particularly with Islam, is that there is sectarian violence and normally the people who are in the minority are, you know, not the beneficiaries of this.
	And this is, you know, part of the concern in a lot of Western countries as well.
	That if more and more Muslims carry on coming in and the native population has a sub-replacement birth rate, eventually people are going to become minorities in their own countries and then this sort of thing will happen to you.
	Did you note Robert Jenrick's speech this week?
	I did, yeah.
	Saying to ban Allahu Akbar, yeah.
	Well, he said we've got to cut down on sectarianism.
	He kept saying sectarianism.
	I agree with him, we need less of it.
	But he wouldn't identify the cause of the sectarianism, which is the Mohammedans.
	He would only go so far.
	Yeah, well, it's interesting to me that there are lots of other ethnic minorities and religious minorities in Britain, and it's quite often the Muslims that are the ones that are turning out and up for a scrap, basically.
	It says a lot about their character, doesn't it?
	This is blurred obviously for the sake of your innocence, really, but we do have the uncensored version if you're silly enough to want to look for it in the reading list, but I've insisted on having it blurred.
	This is hanging the bodies of people they've killed by the ankles from a bridge to display to the rest of the community what happens if you oppose Islam.
	What brutes.
	I know.
	This is the kind of thing that will be awaiting any country that gets a critical mass of Islam because this is a running trend throughout All countries that have a sizable enough population of Muslims that as soon as the opportunity arises they will take their anger and frustration and their hatred of people from other groups out on them as soon as they're able to.
	This is what I don't understand Josh, we can see this evidence for ourselves all around the world wherever Islam becomes the predominant faith and we know it was founded this way, it was founded by a warmonger who would kill people as they reverted.
	They're also encouraged to emulate the life of Muhammad, so presumably they're going to then marry a nine-year-old.
	Marry a six-year-old?
	Well, marry... Consummated at nine-year-old.
	Yeah, they're getting it round the wrong way.
	But it's evil, it's disgusting.
	It's evil.
	Yeah, it is evil.
	And also the fact that Muhammad went around spreading his message by killing people.
	Yeah.
	Well, it couldn't be clearer, you know, to follow the message of Jesus is not to do that, is it?
	Exactly, it's to do the opposite.
	So I don't understand why the liberals are so in favour of this.
	Nor do I. It's sort of turning a blind eye.
	It's also this idea of we've got to be so anti-racist as to ignore people who are an act of danger to the people around them.
	But this is not a race.
	But if it was a race, I would be racist against this race.
	This is not a good thing.
	This is objectively evil.
	It is, yeah.
	Well, if your belief system leads you to harm other people because they don't have your belief system, you can't exist in a civilization.
	It's impossible.
	This is why no predominantly Islamic country is civilized in the way we would recognize it.
	Yeah, well, this is why the Middle East is always in turmoil.
	There's always a crisis in the Middle East because it's the Middle East and it's Islamic.
	It's ridiculous, you also see these countries in the Middle East that used to be running a more secular line, like Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and when that topples and it becomes an Islamic state, All of a sudden things go wrong.
	So does it look like Bangladesh is going to become an Islamic state?
	It does seem like that's almost certain to happen, yes.
	So there's more stuff here, though this has been unconfirmed.
	They've at least bound Hindu women to these pillars with ropes.
	What?!
	However, there are reports that they're being sold into slavery.
	Oh my gosh!
	Which I've not been able to confirm, but Of course, Islam does approve of slavery.
	It's allowed in the Quran.
	To anyone that's not a Mohammedan, because they're seen as lesser people.
	Exactly, yeah.
	I mean, you only need to look at Libya, for example, a Muslim country.
	Open slave markets in Libya, trading of sub-Saharan Africans.
	You don't hear that talked about very often by the people who care about slavery reparations and things like that.
	It's got to the point where Hindu volunteers have to stand guard of places where they live to make sure none of the robberies, rapes, murders are taking place in their local area.
	So here we can see them sort of hanging around, waiting about, standing guard with weapons because there could be a Muslim mob waiting to attack them.
	As a Christian man, I stand with the Hindus of Bangladesh.
	So, Al Jazeera has also reported on this saying, students, other Muslims protect temples, churches amid Bangladesh unrest.
	I don't know about this.
	Maybe some people are helping protect temples and churches.
	I imagine these are Hindu temples and Christian churches because that would be who the Muslims would go for, right?
	So perhaps there are people that are helping.
	I don't know.
	I've not been able to get much evidence.
	You know what we should do?
	We should send out the Stand Up To Racism lot with their placards.
	They can go and stand up some real racism.
	That's true, yeah.
	I mean, they're persecuting people who are an ethnic minority in Britain.
	And finally, even the BBC is talking about this, there is no law and order and Hindus are being targeted again.
	So it is getting some traction in the mainstream press, which I found interesting because it's basically admitting That the Muslim majority is going around and terrorising people.
	Of course this isn't going to be front page news for multiple different reasons but it's certainly a good cautionary tale about the dangers of Islam and growing populations of Islam in Europe and North America.
	90% Mohammedan, there's no way that that's not going to topple, there's no way it's not going to become an Islamic state now.
	Yeah even if it's put to a democratic vote it's still going to become an Islamic state isn't it?
	So the last Prime Minister allegedly disappeared her opponents but she was seen as a bit of a tyrant but it seems she was a tyrant for political reasons because the other tyrants were even worse and it looks like the other tyrants are going to take over now.
	I could say something quite controversial here, similar to Assad maybe.
	You could say that but you didn't.
	No I didn't.
	He did rule secularly and he did oppose Islamic extremism although in my opinion a lot of the people in that neck of the woods are bad people no matter which faction they belong to.
	I don't really have to pick a side and nor do I want to so I will clarify with that but the gist of my point here is be concerned about Islam.
	So we've got one more rumble rant before we go to video comments and then we've got plenty of time for some written website stuff.
	Chaosisfun says, I'm so confused right now.
	I enjoy listening to Calvin's commentary on subjects, but now that I am far right and racist for liking British values, it's put me in a real dilemma.
	Embrace it, brother.
	We're all far right now.
	Anyone who's British is far right, according to our government, the police and the mainstream media.
	All we can do is brush it off and embrace it.
	Mmm.
	Okay, let's see what people have got to say.
	Elon memed!
	Shut X down!
	What?
	I didn't know Graham Linehan appeared in the IT crowd.
	That was an interesting cameo there.
	He does cameos every now and then, doesn't he?
	Growing up on the North Devon coast as I did, I was aware of the comings and goings of ships at the quay in Biddeford, mainly trading in China clay and the famous Biddeford black ink.
	Just as important to the North Devon coast, Bristol and South Wales was marine aggregate, dredged up around the British coastline and used for construction and reconstruction, particularly important after World War II.
	These two books are a charming history of the superior aggregate that could be recovered from the Bristol Channel, and the companies who strove to make a living from it.
	I was introduced to the book as part of the Dull Men's Club on Facebook, and it was well worth the read.
	The Dull Men's Club on Facebook.
	Love it.
	My family are from North Devon as well.
	I was actually in Bidderford only a couple of weeks ago, driving through to have a game of golf, which is incredibly middle class of me.
	Did you get into any fights when we had scones in the kitchen?
	About which way to cream each other?
	I'm very militant about that, yes.
	I thought you might be.
	Very Devonshire about it.
	It's bred in you guys, isn't it?
	The thing is, people from Devon and Cornwall get along, like, 99% of the time, except when it comes to high tea.
	In which case, the knives come out, yeah.
	The bread knives, the butter knife.
	A Gentleman's Observations of Swindon, Chapter 18.
	The 1970s saw the development of Swindon's transportation and leisure infrastructure.
	In 1971, the opening of the M4 and Swindon's Junctions 15016, and the construction of the Wyvern Theatre.
	In 1972, the construction of the Magic Roundabout, the demolition of the original railway station, and the construction of the London station.
	And the addition of an A&E unit to Princess Margaret Hospital.
	In 1974, the construction of the Brunel Shopping Centre.
	In 1976, the construction of the Oasis Leisure Centre and the David Murray John Tower.
	The final project of Mr Swindon, who oversaw Swindon's post-World War II expansion.
	Additionally, in 1974, the Borough of Swindon and Highworth Rural District were merged to become the Borough of Thamesdown.
	Thank you.
	I do really enjoy these histories although that's sort of a depressing one.
	They tore down all of the nice stuff about Swindon and built ugly, brutalist, disgusting messes that I have to see every day and demoralise me constantly.
	I'm thankful I only see it once a week because it's bad.
	It's not nice is it?
	I mean I grew up right on the edge of the countryside in Plymouth and lived in Bath before moving here.
	So two very nice places and now I live in one of the worst places right in the centre which is the worst part of Swindon.
	The thing is we have no way of changing it.
	A couple of people tried to stand for election, got cancelled.
	We have no democratic means of change.
	To be fair, the suburbs are still nice here.
	Mr. Thane Scotty will scold me if I don't say that, you know, there aren't some nice parts.
	So you see, when you select an authority who will help you to improve yourself, it's like hiring the police out of your tax money.
	And putting them in charge of seeing that you obey the law.
	I mean, can't you take care of yourselves?
	I mean, is this the land of the free and the home of the brave, or isn't it?
	Is that Alan Watts?
	It sounds like him to me.
	But it's not the land of the free and the home of the brave, unfortunately.
	Not anymore, no.
	Yes, I see so many pigeons these days.
	That's another one of the things that are thriving in Swindon.
	Other than drug addicts, pigeons seem to be doing very well.
	But I appreciate you trying to do something a bit more relaxing there.
	Pigeons, is that all of the video comments?
	It looks like it.
	Okay, so let's go to some written comments, shall we?
	So, Greg's cheese and beans pasty.
	I need some white pills after recent events.
	So do I. I've been trying to look for positive news stories.
	I've been looking constantly.
	I spent all day the other day looking for something positive to do and I just couldn't find it.
	It's all buried.
	It's draining though, isn't it?
	All this negativity.
	I'm so tired today.
	It's like the constant barrage of bad news.
	We need a break from it all.
	We do.
	I mean, this is why it's important to have hobbies, do stuff outside of politics and have things that make it all worth it in the end, right?
	I'm going on holiday on Sunday.
	Oh nice, where are you going?
	Skiathos.
	Greece?
	Yes.
	Greek island, sit there in the sun, by the sea and just chill out for a while.
	Well, have a nice time.
	I'm going back down to Plymouth next week.
	Lovely.
	What's going on down there?
	Have you got family there?
	Yeah, I'm going to see my parents.
	Not exactly nearly as exciting going to the place where I grew up.
	They'll be lovely.
	I hope so.
	So Hector Rex says, Father, will you be growing out your Afro again anytime soon?
	Not anytime soon, perhaps if not this winter, next winter.
	When it gets cold, I might grow it, but for now I'm happy with it.
	Thank you.
	You must get fed up with that question all the time.
	I hear enough people ask you it just when you're here.
	No, it's fine.
	So on the topic of the English riots, Bleach Demon says, headline, storm troopers scare off the far right.
	In other news, Englishman enjoys a pint at the local pub, has to avoid weirdos with placards.
	Eloise says, footage from Bangladesh has been so brutal and barbaric, I can only imagine how terrified people must be, feel so bad for them.
	Yes, so do I. It was It was tough to go through it all because after covering all the riots in Britain for so long I could really see some parallels between the two.
	It sort of gets to you after a while.
	Robert Longshaw says slicing of the throat's a very traditional British way of removing undesirables.
	Yeah they are showing themselves up with that aren't they?
	Warlord Wututai says, poor old Met Chief, he's probably desperate for any sort of win after that microphone incident the other day.
	Yeah, I don't feel too sorry for him to be honest.
	So Zachary Woodcock says, I was at one of the protests last Saturday, I talked to some of the Patriot side, and the only talk of another protest was next Saturday, not Wednesday, so it wouldn't surprise me if yesterday was a trap by the security services.
	That's interesting because yeah of course on a Wednesday most patriots would be working whereas the far left wouldn't.
	Yeah because of course they're dependents aren't they, they don't actually do anything productive.
	Holding signs believe it doesn't pay well.
	No.
	Well actually, maybe it does.
	Colin Thompson says one thing about Bangladesh, for some reason these segments have merged together in the comments, is I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of Exclaves of India within it and vice versa, and maybe a few enclaves inside each exclave as well.
	I don't remember exactly what the case is, so if S really, really hits the fan, that might cause a little problem, I don't know.
	Well, we're already seeing that to a certain extent, aren't we?
	Where they're having to police their own areas out of fear of danger.
	Ash F says it feels like the British public has just been gerbilsed and Mein Starmer has just recruited a left-wing mob into his brownshirt brigade.
	It does feel like that.
	I'm sick and tired of not just the riots and stuff but the manipulation.
	So, would you like to read some of your comments?
	Roman Observer says, Nudge unit is typical British understatement.
	Ministerio della Cultura Populare, Ministry of Popular Culture is the way to go.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	Jeroen van Kalkeren says, it's international.
	We in the Netherlands got the same news about 100 riots last night.
	What?
	I'm going to look that up because that's crazy.
	Stephen Merrill, it's a two-tier anti-racist march with Palestinian, not English, flags.
	It wasn't attacked by the violent far-right odd that natives march against grooming or girls being stabbed or blown up at a pop concert.
	They get attacked by machete gangs.
	Good point about the flags.
	Patriots always have English flags.
	UK flags, the so-called anti-racist flags, anti-racist gangs only had Gazan flags.
	Yeah, it's either Palestinian, I've seen some trade unionist flags, and also some rainbow flags.
	It's like the union of hell itself has just appeared on earth.
	It used to be the case you only needed to own a few news agencies to control the narrative, but then some absolute mad lad bought Twitter.
	That's Omar Awad.
	It is, but we can't rely on this one guy.
	Actually, Elon's not that conservative.
	Yes, he believes in free speech.
	Yes, he's anti-woke, so he's aligned with us on some stuff, but we can't just rely on him.
	We need to make sure that all of these platforms are regulated in the same way, or deregulated.
	I think Elon also amplifies a lot of unhelpful accounts, accounts that I think are potentially actually pushing real fake news, not just the ones that the mainstream media are on about.
	I've seen lots of accounts like Ian Miles Chong or End Wokeness, these really big accounts that get boosted by Elon posting genuinely misleading stuff that um is detrimental to our movement and i think these these news aggregator accounts as i call them the ones that just aggregate news and tweet it out for their own personal gain ultimately are really really not helpful ollie london is another one as well he does the same thing where he's just profiting off of sharing other stuff right
	this is the problem with an unregulated market - Yep.
	But then the regulators are also the problem.
	Polyphemus Monocle says, looks like Don't Look Back in Anger is back on the menu, boys.
	I don't know.
	Ruth Day says I shan't be getting over the inflammatory information.
	Phrasing, why would a truth be inflammatory?
	Because they don't want you to know it.
	And they'll get in trouble if you do.
	And Big D says that Eina Wilhelt calling for the banning of social media isn't even British.
	She is Portuguese according to her businesses on Companies House.
	Always now, isn't it?
	Ridiculous.
	Foreign for tax purposes, eh?
	Yeah.
	Sophie Liv, one of the regulars.
	Even Danish papers post articles about the Kardashians as if it has anything to do with Danish news.
	It is insufferable.
	Pop culture news is insufferable to be honest though.
	That's true.
	Although on Twitter, I have a ban on certain public figures' names because you can ban certain words or posts with certain words in.
	So I've got Kardashian and all of their clan and all their associates because I don't want to see it.
	It's just a waste of my time.
	I used to block FBPE.
	Anyone with that in their name was just an idiot to start with.
	Have a go at it with the revolution.
	Sure, so Ewan Baker says Iran is looking to, I think it was Iraq, is looking to change the age of marriage from 15 to 9.
	Yes, I believe it was Iraq or at least it's been reported as so.
	Someone online says there's not going to be any Buddhists or Christians left in Bangladesh soon.
	That's true.
	I did try and find some examples of Christians being persecuted but I simply couldn't find it.
	I think the sort of information black hole sucked it up.
	Yeah.
	So Anonimi says the UK has Islamic boarding schools.
	Kids enter about 6 or 11 and leave at 18 or 19 or even later.
	The problem of Islamic violence will be worse in five years.
	Well, didn't Tony Blair, was it Tony Blair, set up faith schools where you could basically have your own independent Islamic schools?
	And I think that that was the thing that got the ball rolling.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Just breed extremists.
	And one final one from Lars Petter Simonsen says, it is notable that when Muslims of Burma, I refuse to use the military junta name, were being driven out, the news all spoke of a genocide.
	Well, that's a nice depressing note to end on, I suppose.
	Observation, yeah.
	But yes, thank you very much for watching.
	Make sure to tune in to Common Sense Crusade in half an hour's time and thank you Calvin.
	Thank you Josh.
	And thank you for watching and goodbye.

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