The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1515

00:00:00 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1515 for the 28th of September

00:00:06 2026. I'm your host Luca, joined today by Harry. Hello. And Firas. All right. Wonderful. And today

00:00:13 we're going to be talking all about the attack on RAF Fairford. We're then going to be talking

00:00:18 about why Larry Ellison is buying CNN with the Qataris and Jared Kushner. That was a fun

00:00:24 discovery this morning. Yeah, quite the revelation. You're like, Luca, you'll never guess what the

00:00:29 turn this story's taking i couldn't believe it uh and then we're going to be talking about the

00:00:34 wyvern fellowship and why it's helping us to take back our own side and why it's a great thing and

00:00:41 i think we should be encouraged by its arrival anyway so before we get on with the first segment

00:00:47 just to let you know announcements for today of course uh we've had a weekend so the latest

00:00:51 episode of chronicles is out we've now got part two of mine bow and samson's discussion all about

00:00:57 the fantastic sharps tiger chronologically uh the first novel in sharps military career at the

00:01:06 siege of syringa patam in south india written by bernan cornwell and his writing is just

00:01:12 magnificent uh honestly this was such a page turner so definitely check out our discussion

00:01:18 in that on that and of course as well it is monday so realpolitik will be live at three o'clock

00:01:24 uh today and you're going to be talking about china but china today yes by popular demand

00:01:29 right by popular demand we don't talk enough about china this is this might be the first of

00:01:33 more than one episode right well there you go you see asking you shall receive so with that all said

00:01:39 then um fear us okay so some things happened over the weekend uh we discovered yesterday that

00:01:47 And based on the official story, a woman coming back from a party at around 1 a.m. in close proximity to RAF Fairford, which is a pretty important military base for the Royal Air Force that is being used by the United States, including by strategic bombers, the B-1s and B-52s, although the B-52s are no longer there.

00:02:10 But apparently this lady shows up in the middle of the night, finds three vans parked where they shouldn't be, and then tries to contact the base on an emergency number that they were given.

00:02:25 No response.

00:02:26 Then she calls 999 and a while later armed police show up because she said that these three vans were there and that she had seen Middle Eastern men scampering away.

00:02:38 never a good sign

00:02:40 never a good sign

00:02:41 five men were arrested

00:02:44 and the authorities

00:02:46 deployed

00:02:47 bomb disposal robots

00:02:50 to the vans

00:02:51 the men were first arrested under the

00:02:54 explosives act and then

00:02:56 they were arrested on terrorism charges

00:02:58 this is what we know so far

00:03:00 and the story

00:03:02 is that

00:03:03 this was only caught

00:03:06 because of this woman's vigilance she noticed the vans and she called and she is saying that

00:03:12 basically the authorities and the intelligence agencies should be very embarrassed for having

00:03:20 been caught in this way now um that is what we know so far and here are some photos of the

00:03:30 bomb disposal robot operating near the vans uh you could see that some things may have been taken

00:03:36 out i i don't know really we don't know enough yet um but it's important to note that uh when this

00:03:43 happened the next morning it's around 7 8 a.m uh police evacuated 85 homes in this village

00:03:51 and it seems that the van was found somewhere here within 350 meters of the base itself

00:03:58 and you could see from the imagery that there are in fact military aircraft parked there

00:04:03 And so this looks very serious, shall we say.

00:04:10 Telegraph reporting the same thing,

00:04:12 counterterrorism police investigating, etc.

00:04:16 Now, a couple of things, though.

00:04:21 First, the memes, which we have to address.

00:04:24 We do.

00:04:26 For years now, the authorities have been saying

00:04:29 that really rural areas are too white and too racist.

00:04:32 and so officially a farmer notices that there were middle eastern men in the countryside

00:04:39 just calls the police and towards the terrorism attack right well it's not just that as well is

00:04:44 it it's the it's the inversion of it as well as we had with the manchester arena terror attack as

00:04:50 well where some of the staff on site in that on that particular terrible night uh were suspicious

00:04:55 but decided that it would be racist to point it out and therefore people lost their lives where

00:05:01 should have been raised yes absolutely so it really goes both ways um secondly trump says

00:05:10 that apparently they knew about this beforehand and that the men were being investigated previously

00:05:17 and that um this is this wasn't as much of a surprise as it um as it is being presented by

00:05:30 British media and he says that the men were being investigated we had them under investigation they

00:05:36 were looking to do big damage and working with the British worked out great we have them under

00:05:41 view for a long time and we got them so now this seems contradictory and with this also it becomes 0.82

00:05:53 even more suspicious because the night before, some random social media account says that the

00:06:01 Pentagon had reliable intelligence pointing to a threat at RAF Fairford. But rather than this being

00:06:07 just a conspiracy, it might actually be how these things work in the sense that you get intelligence

00:06:14 that an activity is being planned. Logically, Fairford was probably going to be the target

00:06:21 because firstly of its importance, it's the HQ for the U.S. air wing dealing with Europe, 0.60

00:06:28 and secondly because the Iranians had explicitly threatened the base.

00:06:36 And so it might have been that there was some information on this attack,

00:06:41 but the full details were not known.

00:06:45 And then when something was noticed in close proximity to it,

00:06:49 the response kicked in basically and armed counterterrorism police which you would expect

00:06:58 them to be deployed in very close proximity to a base like this it seems would have been activated

00:07:02 strange that i mean from i i know very little about this because um i didn't have time to pay

00:07:07 attention to it yesterday but it seems almost like chance that the woman was there so if the

00:07:12 woman wasn't there then what should we have expected to have happened if everyone was so

00:07:17 knowledgeable about well in a suspected attack then you would expect my assumption would be that

00:07:24 either they were driving vans full of explosives to blow up the HQ within the base kill a lot of

00:07:30 people that's one option option two is that they would have had sticky bombs in the vans and would

00:07:38 have tried to attach them to as many aircraft as they could and then detonate them these are the

00:07:45 two possibilities basically and i mean it is not entirely impossible that the authorities would

00:07:55 have known that there was an attack being planned without knowing exactly who was responsible and

00:08:03 where were they going and when were they going to do it it's it's possible that these contradictions

00:08:10 can be reconciled. So long as they, you know, don't enmasse the conspiracy in a racist way.

00:08:17 That matters, and we will get to that in a moment. Now, some of the reactions here. Andy Burnham says

00:08:25 that this is deeply concerning, and he thanks the police and counterterrorism police, etc. The

00:08:32 safety and security of the public is our first priority, and I want people to know that we will

00:08:36 take every step necessary to protect our communities and keep our country safe.

00:08:40 Sure. This is a lie. Of course. This is a lie and I will explain why in a minute,

00:08:47 but you all know that this is a lie. The investigation remains ongoing and I would

00:08:52 urge people not to speculate while the authorities establish the facts. This is also a lie because

00:08:59 here's Andy Burnham contradicting the instructions from the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor saying that

00:09:06 people shouldn't comment on the case of Danny Tomo who was arrested for stabbing an empty boat

00:09:13 and he inserts himself into the case and condemns Tomo as a racist. It's kind of important to put

00:09:22 these two things together because on the one hand it was literally according to the official

00:09:27 narrative it was noticing foreign men near an air base that led to the attack being thwarted

00:09:34 but also racism is bad and these two things are contradictory frankly well this is all very well

00:09:42 trodden ground at this point isn't it when they say don't speculate you know that you have every

00:09:47 reason to speculate on such things and it's the same language every time there's an instant so

00:09:53 Exactly.

00:09:54 They telegraph it themselves.

00:09:58 Rupert Lowe points it out and Jamais Vu reminds us that concern over mass migration is a terrorist

00:10:07 ideology itself.

00:10:09 So being worried that there are foreign men frolicking near an airbase is terrorism even

00:10:16 though it literally thwarted a terrorist attack.

00:10:19 And I don't think the government can keep pushing the lines that it's pushing because

00:10:22 It's just become so bloody blatant, and it's become too extreme.

00:10:27 Shabana Mahmoud says the same thing.

00:10:30 Don't comment.

00:10:32 We're not going to be speculating, etc.

00:10:35 But when 20 people were arrested for flying a drone over a Muslim gathering,

00:10:45 we had Shabana Mahmoud immediately commenting and saying,

00:10:50 this is extreme right-wing terrorism and it's a threat of lives it's a threat to the lives of

00:10:55 muslims i think if i'm sorry it's a little bit of a tangent but if i'm not incorrect as well uh

00:11:03 barham is a place that is seems to be uh is reported to be emulating piddington now as well

00:11:10 with thoughts of an independence referendum uh based on how the government are treating them

00:11:15 yeah yeah so i mean it's just so so bankrupt to have this government in charge here

00:11:23 uh and as you point out magister arena bombing

00:11:29 a bit more racism would have saved the day and you know it's becoming increasingly obvious to

00:11:35 people that the way that the british state is operating is as an occupying force uh deeply

00:11:43 hostile to the british stopping you from making any common sense connections

00:11:49 uh now iran is under investigation and is the most likely suspect and i kind of

00:11:54 agree with that because firstly it wouldn't be russia's style to send people with sticky bombs

00:12:02 to place them on american aircraft in britain this is the kind of thing that would fail to

00:12:08 generate any kind of deterrence and russia's objective is to deter europe from continuing

00:12:14 to support the ukrainians uh blowing up planes that aren't attacking russia in britain isn't

00:12:21 really going to be the way to do it it will be sabotage against energy targets it will be attacks

00:12:27 direct attacks on military bases this kind of stuff just doesn't seem very plausible i mean the

00:12:35 guys see someone and then they run away and then the counterterrorism police find them afterwards

00:12:40 this doesn't seem to have been a very competent plot to begin with well is um is it not possible

00:12:47 that it was isolated in the sense that fine they might have been sympathetic to the iranian regime

00:12:53 but they were just homegrown domestic terrorists um you know that had some sympathy towards it i

00:13:00 I mean, they are capable of making these.

00:13:02 That is a possibility.

00:13:04 That is a possibility.

00:13:06 It's going to happen at some point, isn't it?

00:13:08 That is a possibility.

00:13:08 Given all the people we've brought in that are hostile.

00:13:11 Yes, absolutely. 1.00

00:13:14 Certainly, Jihadis, as opposed to Shia Jihadis,

00:13:17 who would be pro-Iran, 0.98

00:13:19 these guys' typical attack style

00:13:21 is to just go after civilian targets.

00:13:24 A train station,

00:13:25 attacking people during rush hour, trying to blow up a shopping mall, something like that.

00:13:33 Their style tends to be mass casualty attacks at a concert, at a mall, at an airport, etc.

00:13:43 It's not really their style to go after military assets.

00:13:47 Plus, the two most capable Sunni Jihadi groups, or the three most capable, are the Taliban,

00:13:53 the group in Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and the Arabian Peninsula, and Al-Qaeda in Syria. 0.81

00:13:58 And right now, the U.S. has good relations with all three of them.

00:14:02 And that would mean that there would be intelligence penetration,

00:14:05 and these kinds of plots would be detected,

00:14:07 because they are also working against the more radical elements on their side, the Islamic State.

00:14:14 So that just doesn't seem very credible.

00:14:17 This leaves really the Iranians as the primary suspect. 0.93

00:14:20 Now, whether it is self-motivated or instructed from abroad, I think that the fact that the IRGC 0.78

00:14:26 made explicit threats against this base and mentioned it in one of their statements on the

00:14:32 23rd of July, I think that points to it being centrally coordinated. And if it is centrally

00:14:40 coordinated, then this is probably not going to be the last time they tried it. Because this time

00:14:47 they went with something a bit ambitious which is to get the vans into the base or whatever was on

00:14:53 the vans into the base and conduct an attack that way next time they'll probably use drones they'll

00:14:59 probably use drones with with fiber optic cables that can't be jammed things of that nature that

00:15:07 are intended to hit aircraft on the ground be it the refueling aircraft in maidenhead or the

00:15:15 bombers in Fairford. These seem to be the next logical steps, or they just go against a plainly

00:15:24 civilian target, a gas import terminal, a power station, something like that. But what this means

00:15:33 is that we are in a new phase of the war, and that the Iranians have probably decided to activate 0.70

00:15:39 their overseas cells. And this is quite important because every year on the last Friday in Ramadan 0.92

00:15:47 there are mass protests called the Quds Day or the Jerusalem Day. The Jerusalem Day, this is one 0.99

00:15:56 of the reports from 2014, but it happens pretty much every year. It just happened in London and

00:16:01 a bunch of people are arrested. Jerusalem Day was instated by Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic 0.96

00:16:07 Revolution of Iran, as a way of making Shia Muslims remember the importance of taking

00:16:14 Jerusalem from the Israelis. 0.84

00:16:17 And there are protests every year throughout the West in support of this.

00:16:23 And these happen in Calgary, in Australia, in Melbourne, in Sydney, in Ottawa, in Montreal. 0.67

00:16:33 Traditional strongholds of Middle Eastern politics.

00:16:35 Exactly. In Dearborn, in New York, in D.C., in London, Munich, Frankfurt, Paris.

00:16:43 These protests happen there every year almost.

00:16:47 And what this shows, and these protests are organized by groups linked to the IRGC,

00:16:52 who have financial networks in Britain and who have a wealth of supporters

00:16:58 from the Lebanese Shia, from the Yemeni, from the Iraqi Shia, from various other Muslim communities.

00:17:08 These are only 15% of the global Muslim population, and they're probably only 15% of the Muslims in Britain. 0.89

00:17:17 But they are linked back to their states and organized by state agents in order to create unrest on the streets and show their strength. 0.64

00:17:28 And so this is actually going to turn out to be an immigration story, because when they release the names of the people that were arrested, odds are they aren't going to be any John Smiths there or Robert Johnsons there.

00:17:48 There is going to be Muhammad something, Ali something, Hussein something. 0.91

00:17:53 These are probably going to be the culprits. 0.84

00:17:55 And so this is the element that is actually slightly more important than whether or not the group was surveyed in advance, as Trump suggests, or they were detected completely by coincidence, as is the current narrative of the British state.

00:18:13 the more you have people who sympathize with people that you're bombing or civilizational enemies

00:18:20 the more you're going to get this kind of activity and there is no way of going around

00:18:26 we've just had something highlighted uh on our screens below us here okay oh here it is

00:18:32 mails from westminster and camden and wilson

00:18:35 uh okay again but all the uk nationals does not at all mark out the idea that these people could

00:18:45 just be second generation immigrants no i mean i i was speaking on a previous episode basically

00:18:51 when you get on a plane to lebanon it's full of people who are lebanese who happen to have

00:18:58 paperwork like I do but that doesn't change people's basic identity and 0.98

00:19:04 loyalty and it is an irrelevance here so yes there is every possibility that 1.00

00:19:09 these are second-generation migrants and two things to remember basically on the 0.98

00:19:19 same night that this happened or the day before actually you had a bunch of far

00:19:26 lefties conducting an attack in the same region, in Gloucestershire as well, against a company

00:19:33 that is tied to Israeli military purchases. Whatever you think about the Israelis, the 0.92

00:19:41 minute that you're going around attacking buildings in Britain, you have a problem.

00:19:49 and what you get is the persistence of you know this alliance between the jihadis and the leftists

00:19:57 well wasn't uh what got palestine action prescribed that they broke into an raf base too yes yeah

00:20:04 and braked a and broke a uh broke the back of a female police officer with a sledgehammer

00:20:10 um yes so you're seeing the same kind of tactics being used by the far left

00:20:14 and this isn't going to change. 0.98

00:20:17 And you see that a lot of members of the Iranian elite

00:20:20 have big chunks of property in Britain

00:20:22 and are present all over the country,

00:20:28 particularly in London.

00:20:31 So, and you still see, even as this is happening,

00:20:35 this is yesterday,

00:20:38 the state picking up more illegal migrants

00:20:40 with no way of verifying their identity

00:20:43 and dumping them and you see on top of that a new plan by uh what's her name shabana mahmoud i was 0.67

00:20:52 gonna say shamima bagam but you know now that would be something uh well you know under labor 1.00

00:20:58 she could be home secretary in 20 years time you never know under labor this could happen 0.98

00:21:03 but she is bringing in a new batch of afghans and of people from gaza because this is the way 0.96

00:21:13 forward and this is the only way to do things well this is how they've always framed it you

00:21:17 could always tell it wasn't a question of um stopping anyone from actually coming here as

00:21:22 many numbers as they want to make themselves feel good it was just a question of the illegality of

00:21:28 the route itself but if we could just make it legal yeah then there's no limiting principle

00:21:33 in theory to them because on how many people we bring on when actually the public's position is

00:21:38 we just don't want these people here i mean i i saw a story um just the other day as well where

00:21:43 it was um there was um a whole group of them coming across the channel and uh they gang raped

00:21:50 a woman inside the boat and tossed her baby and tossed her baby overboard yes keep bringing them

00:21:56 guess so i mean what the british state never wants you to notice is that actions have consequences

00:22:04 and that different groups have different identities and different loyalties

00:22:08 um we don't know the identities of these people we're going to find out soon enough at some point

00:22:14 uh so far they're saying they're uk nationals maybe it could be some insane far left fringe group

00:22:20 But the far-left lunatics are acting in full alliance with Islamists, and always have been. 0.72

00:22:28 They share the same objective of simply destroying Western civilization. That is 0.98

00:22:34 the end point here. And the Labour government, like the Conservative government,

00:22:39 like certain leading members of reform, have been leading partners in this whole mess. So

00:22:46 So this is what we know about the incident.

00:22:52 We will wait and see what additional details are revealed.

00:22:56 But it's either a massive intelligence failure followed by a very lucky coincidence or something

00:23:06 is a bit off about this and both of them can be explained with the same underlying causes.

00:23:13 And that's what I wanted to mention about this.

00:23:17 Not looking good, is it?

00:23:18 Not looking very promising, no.

00:23:20 Base8 for $2 says, the only, oh, it's disappeared from my, there we go, it's back. 1.00

00:23:25 The only thing that makes me feel safe in the UK is knowing how retarded our enemies 1.00

00:23:31 are. 1.00

00:23:32 Yeah, but that also makes them dangerous as well.

00:23:34 And I don't understand the whole, I don't understand that they saw this woman, then

00:23:38 dispersed, then came back, got arrested.

00:23:43 yeah peculiar well i'm sure we'll understand more as yeah developments come out and things

00:23:48 get leaked etc we'll see no chance it could have just been allowed to happen

00:23:54 i mean you wouldn't let them get that close would you i don't know i'm not in the intel agency so i

00:24:02 don't know how they they work one of these debts costs millions and millions of dollars

00:24:08 and they're hard to replace and uh i'm i'm just purely speculating that i have no evidence for

00:24:15 that it just like popped into my mind just then who knows yeah so i'll move on to something um

00:24:21 a little a little bit less terroristy uh for this one and that is an update on what's been going on

00:24:28 in california with the paramount warner brothers merger the antitrust suit that was being put

00:24:34 forward by 12 attorney generals primarily Rob Bonta in California. Just to clarify we're going

00:24:42 from physical terrorism to information terrorism. Yes and how it's all being consolidated under the

00:24:47 Ellison's that being Larry and his son David Ellison who runs who owns Paramount for those

00:24:54 of you who aren't aware David Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison who is the chief executive

00:25:01 operative operator officer officer yes sorry i'm i'm very tired to it today folks um of oracle who

00:25:10 are the ai company who have big links in with the american government donald trump and tony blair

00:25:15 he says that his first big client was the cia they all were yes they all were for palantir

00:25:20 yeah palantir google um all of these big ai and tech companies were at first secret branches of

00:25:29 the American government, particularly the CIA, being used for information warfare purposes

00:25:35 of one kind or another that grew into what we know as the internet today, but what existed

00:25:40 before the internet? Well, we had more traditional media, which was massively overtaken most recently

00:25:45 when you talk about television and even films in many ways, by streaming, and that has left a lot

00:25:51 of the old traditional studios in Hollywood in a bit of a pinch, and I covered the developments of

00:25:56 this just a few months ago, where as a negotiating tactic, Paramount was threatening that it

00:26:02 would up sticks and move out of California, out of the traditional home of Hollywood,

00:26:07 where all of these studios set up in the first place, and maybe move to Texas or somewhere

00:26:14 else. Spoiler alert, that was just a negotiating tactic. That segment that I was talking about,

00:26:20 we discussed some of the implications for California. None of it's come to pass because

00:26:24 we have received a settlement now the settlement does still need to be signed off on by a judge

00:26:29 but the attorney generals have agreed to it as have the actual studios involved that being warner

00:26:34 brothers and paramount skydance sorry i should say warner brothers discovery because you've got

00:26:39 to remember with mergers like this these are mergers on top of mergers on top of mergers

00:26:43 all of these companies have been slowly but surely consolidating into one gigantic corporate

00:26:51 abomination. Yes, a gigantic

00:26:53 slop machine. So, what are

00:26:55 the details and who are the big winners

00:26:57 and what is the secret at

00:26:59 the heart of this that might

00:27:00 explain why all of this

00:27:03 started to begin with? Well,

00:27:05 as it says in this article, Paramount has

00:27:07 settled lawsuits paving way for Warner Brothers. This is

00:27:09 reported by Bloomberg

00:27:11 Law. Paramount, the parent

00:27:13 company of CBS, MTV and other

00:27:15 media businesses, announced in February

00:27:17 that it was buying Warner Brothers after

00:27:19 outbidding rival Netflix.

00:27:21 incorporated the 110 billion dollar deal will combine two of hollywood's most storied movie

00:27:27 studios although regulators in nearly 70 jurisdictions blessed the acquisition the 12

00:27:32 state attorneys general and the writers guild trade union sued sued to block the merger

00:27:38 saying that it would stifle competition for film and cable tv distribution raise prices for consumers

00:27:43 and in the writers case lower their wages a trial date was set for march it's been all

00:27:48 negotiations since then obviously the big worries was that in any kind of monopoly merger what would

00:27:53 end up happening was that they would merge immediately cut the kind of production costs

00:27:57 that they had to deal with previously cut a bunch of people's jobs produce less and charge more for

00:28:03 it because they hold the monopoly on production so that's what these attorneys general were trying

00:28:09 to trying to prevent and it seems that they have gotten a few one or two little stipulations out

00:28:16 of this but um it's only extending to a five year uh five years in the future and we'll see what

00:28:22 ends up happening uh after that so uh rob banter led the litigation brought by the states has said

00:28:27 he prefers structural changes such as a sale of assets rather than behavioral remedies that are

00:28:33 hard to enforce which is what paramount was going for well guess what bonter lost paramount won so

00:28:38 it seems that what he was going for sale of assets he was hoping that they would be able to either

00:28:43 sell to California-friendly

00:28:45 private organisations or

00:28:47 sell directly to the state or federal government

00:28:49 which is not what these big

00:28:51 corporations wanted and they got their way.

00:28:53 Paramount Skydance Corp has reached

00:28:55 a settlement with California

00:28:56 and they are going to be

00:28:59 once a judge has signed off on it

00:29:00 merging. Settlement talks came

00:29:03 to fruition over the weekend after four

00:29:05 states that had opposed terms of a deal outlined

00:29:07 with California conceded, said

00:29:09 the insider who had spoken

00:29:11 to bloomberg about this who has not to be named the settlement is expected to be uh one of the

00:29:16 largest mergers in hollywood history and importantly what it does is through the merger

00:29:22 gives the ellison's ownership over both cbs which i believe has been handed over to barry weiss in

00:29:29 the past year and really changed the structure of its reporting and cn more pro israel to become a

00:29:36 lot more pro-trump as well uh it's given david ellison uh through warner brothers and this

00:29:43 acquisition ownership of cnn once it's all been signed off and this is hot off the heels of uh

00:29:49 trump the trump administration basically stopping cnn from reporting at the white house

00:29:54 which david ellison actually attended right he attended in person cnn were blocked from doing

00:29:59 so because cnn are known for being a very anti-trump news outlet oh yeah obviously everybody

00:30:05 knows that yeah and so looking at the information sorry may i interrupt you for a moment that means

00:30:12 that if you want to run as a democratic candidate you have to be in larry ellison's good books

00:30:17 essentially yes well there are some safeguards that through this acquisition

00:30:22 are being put in place the settlement is trying to put some safeguards in uh the problem is we

00:30:28 i don't see these safeguards holding very well so the states that held out the longest uh if my

00:30:33 notes can come back up there we go did succeed over the past week in securing an independent

00:30:37 editorial board for cbs and cnn as part of the deal according to the insider strengthening the

00:30:44 board's independent was part of the reason the holdout states ultimately agreed to the deal

00:30:48 the board will be composed only of journalists who as everybody knows are impervious to bribes

00:30:54 with no executives or shareholders allowed to join adding that the book you had it run by

00:31:00 a team of prostitutes picked up in la it would have more integrity pretty much so the the only

00:31:08 editorial safe guys you can feel however you want about it but i do think the worries that a load of 0.82

00:31:13 massive news corporations being being joined under one gigantic conglomerate is something

00:31:19 that if you care about freedom of the press not that i'm a particularly big fan of cbs or cnn

00:31:24 in their current or former states uh that people do get worried about and obviously with bloomberg

00:31:29 and other left-wing leaning publications what they're worried about is they're not going to

00:31:33 have a big news network to attack Trump from anymore but still at the same time you should

00:31:39 be worried that people like the Ellisons are getting huge amounts of power to distribute

00:31:44 information all joined under themselves because as I've said before people like Ellisons who I

00:31:52 think could be charitably characterized as merchants have what could be described as

00:31:57 shifting allegiances they are people who will try to join with whoever benefits the most right now

00:32:05 if in the future that changes then they'll change their allegiances they're not working on principle

00:32:11 they're working at what other than the profit principle essentially or the power principle

00:32:16 is the biggest single individual donor to the idf and he is i mean although

00:32:24 not a practicing religious Jew. He is incredibly and insanely pro-Israel. And so in the middle of a

00:32:34 war that is tanking the American right and potentially with it a chunk of the European

00:32:40 right, it is relevant that they gain this level of control over information and the ability to

00:32:47 influence the democratic platform which is probably going to succeed trump and try and they

00:32:54 would try to push to sort of maintain the status quo of that trump created which is a pretty long

00:33:00 and and uncertain war with iran especially if you see the trajectory of the democratic party

00:33:07 being with these rising firebrands like mamdani who are literally saying if netanyahu ever sets

00:33:12 foot in new york yeah yeah yeah but that's an empty threat no i know it is but i'm only 0.97

00:33:17 commenting on the actual rhetoric of the party itself the dsa are a bunch of clowns who engage 0.97

00:33:25 in a lot of fiery anti-israel and anti-white rhetoric to win radicals over to the democrat 0.96

00:33:30 party sure but still ultimately end up getting folded into the democrat establishment so that

00:33:35 they can continue to happen with what's her face uh aoc aoc but when it comes to like people like

00:33:41 ellison i'm not even the reason they get forted folded back into the fold is because people like

00:33:46 that on the media yes i mean but i mean with ellison and stuff i'm not even talking about

00:33:51 the fact that he's um i think he's half jewish um or anything like that uh i mean i'm talking

00:33:56 broadly just about the merchants as a class i would say the same of jeff bezos for instance

00:34:00 who owns the washington post yeah yeah washington post and who they because because they're owned

00:34:04 by jeff bezos who they support will be determined by who jeff bezos thinks will get him the best

00:34:09 deal right now yes that's that's how these things work uh but i mean in terms of like paramount and

00:34:16 warner brothers people mainly know them also as movie studios it's amazing how much their remit

00:34:21 has expanded over the years but i suppose when the u.s government taps you to make all of their

00:34:26 propaganda during the second world war yeah you're going to have a lot of influence the terms are

00:34:31 said to include a financial penalty if the company fails to make good on new promises to distribute

00:34:36 30 films per year in theaters now i looked into this and this is not treating these studios as

00:34:44 like independent bodies i mean for the time being while the merger is still ongoing we'll see

00:34:50 how these terms end up working but i looked into it and last year paramount distributed i think it

00:34:56 was 18 films and warner brothers distributed 30 sorry 15 films so if they're seen as joint

00:35:04 actually you may be able to say that they can actually cut some production because they've

00:35:10 made 33 films between them last year 30 films great we can save ourselves the money and produce

00:35:15 three less because otherwise the penalty for missing a film would be 30 million dollars for

00:35:22 each film that falls short of the goal it would also be potentially forced in a situation like

00:35:28 that to sell studios smaller studios uh under their umbrellas like miramax the terms are still

00:35:34 being approved although we can say that chris bond sorry rob bonter has said that yes this deal

00:35:40 is going ahead we even have an official page from his uh from his website as a california attorney

00:35:47 general uh saying as much uh it was also um let me go into some more details with this so paramount

00:35:56 one of the reasons this is happening was that

00:35:58 Paramount announced in February it entered into a

00:36:00 definitive agreement with Warner Brothers

00:36:02 in a deal that valued Warner Brothers

00:36:04 Discovery at $81 billion in

00:36:06 equity value and $110 billion

00:36:08 in enterprise value. As I said

00:36:10 earlier, this whole thing was valued at

00:36:12 $110 billion. The transaction

00:36:14 was funded by, if these

00:36:16 screens will stay on,

00:36:18 $47 billion in equity

00:36:20 and that is from

00:36:22 private equity funds and

00:36:24 $54 billion in

00:36:26 debt syndicated out by a consortium of banks and institutions oracle co-founder larry ellison

00:36:32 david's father personally guaranteed the bulk of the equity portion so this is something that was

00:36:37 personally invested in by larry ellison as well as david ellison so this is a joint family venture

00:36:44 and 54 billion dollars in debt of course also means that wall street gets to have a nice nice

00:36:50 piece of the pie for themselves as well and in fact from what i was looking at wall street was

00:36:55 actively fighting over who gets this enormous contract right 54 billions in debt just that's

00:37:03 a lot of interest payments that's yeah imagine that that'll double like two or three times before

00:37:07 they even finish paying off the interest i'd imagine um and uh you know then we get into the

00:37:14 question don't we why was it for sale in the first place and this is where some of the more interesting

00:37:19 stuff comes through that i've already mentioned some of but let's just go through so the simplest

00:37:23 answer according to this article will will these screens ever stop flickering samson

00:37:30 john use my laptop no no no i should start bringing my own laptop in um to the studio

00:37:37 the simplest answer is uh that um warner brothers wanted to cover for other failed mergers the

00:37:42 history is long and complex but going back to the 1970s warner communication was formed out

00:37:47 of the historic warner brothers studio and other assets in the 70s merged with time inc incorporated

00:37:52 to form time warner in 1990 time warner merged with aol known famously as the worst merger in

00:37:57 history in 2001 time warner was eventually left with warner brothers hbo and time war and the

00:38:04 turner network of channels that included cnn tnt tbs tcm and others at&t then bought time warner in

00:38:11 2016 um and then there was the merger with discovery back in 2022 which left the entire

00:38:19 company because obviously all of those will need to have been funded wall street needs to get their

00:38:23 slice off the top and what that left them was 53 billion dollars in debt as of 2022 and then

00:38:31 there was attempts at hostile takeover by ellison he launched aggressive hostile takeover bids of

00:38:40 warner brothers discovery after his skydance media closed an eight billion dollars acquisition

00:38:45 of paramount he's the one who started these hostile bids which were rejected at first by

00:38:50 david zaslav but apparently according to reporting that i've seen this is what pushed warner to

00:38:56 formally put itself up for sale in the first place so warner brothers putting it up for sale

00:39:00 going up for sale to begin with was pushed by ellison david ellison triggered this whole chain

00:39:07 of events in the first place netflix were the ones who were originally going to be buying them out

00:39:11 which other people saw as oh my god this is a big monopoly consolidation of all sorts of different

00:39:19 programs and brands under Netflix but Paramount are the one who've been able to start this and

00:39:25 then push themselves through to be the ultimate winners of this and part of me has to wonder

00:39:30 given a lot of the connections that we see here with the American political administration that

00:39:35 we have right now that this was intentionally done so that they could just like control all

00:39:41 this media all of all of these um propaganda outlets you could say this is a quick side note

00:39:48 uh i think it was the ceo of netflix but somebody top in the company is on record as having said

00:39:54 that he made an agreement with the saudi crown prince muhammad bin salman to remove certain

00:40:01 comedy shows on netflix that were mocking him yes in exchange for uh netflix being allowed to

00:40:07 broadcast pro-gay programs into Saudi Arabia just or the trade-off incredibly principled decision

00:40:17 right there I mean Netflix will already have major connections with the Saudis if only through the

00:40:21 fact that Netflix has the big acquisition deal with WWE who themselves have very personal ties

00:40:28 to the Saudi royal family and negotiated a deal almost 10 years ago now to be able to start doing

00:40:34 stuff in saudi arabia where where there's been a lot of accusations of abuses a lot of accusations

00:40:41 of overworking staff members working in terrible conditions etc and at first there was also a wwe

00:40:48 quite an amusing shift in the saudi regime's approach because at first they didn't let women 0.56

00:40:53 um wrestle at all but now they've shifted it so they are allowed to wrestle just as long as they 0.98

00:40:59 completely cover up right which must be great in the baking to be fair it's air conditioned

00:41:05 well not when they're outdoors they do only outdoor stadium shows in saudi arabia so it is

00:41:12 in the boiling heat even in even when it's like approaching midnight but that's a different so

00:41:17 that's just a different subject the saudis have their fingers in all manner of pies

00:41:20 uh so yeah as it says here um this here's something interesting before the merger

00:41:26 announcement warner brothers was planning to follow in comcast footsteps and split off its

00:41:29 cable channels into a separate company the proposed netflix deal give me a moment was only

00:41:37 for the warner brothers studio hbo and hbo max paramount were the one who forced them to the

00:41:42 table to put cnn in the negotiating table as as well the same way that they did cbs news

00:41:49 The streaming world was

00:41:51 Capitulated to the pre-Paramount

00:41:53 Decree era

00:41:54 The big worry was that there was going to be

00:41:57 Massive price raises, that's what they were talking

00:41:59 About at the time

00:41:59 It goes on, obviously this is very 1.00

00:42:02 Morally loaded language but I'll read 1.00

00:42:05 Through this because this has some very interesting

00:42:06 Info here

00:42:08 The oligarchs and trump hangers-on coming together

00:42:11 To bully their way into giving

00:42:12 Warner Brothers to Paramount instead of Netflix

00:42:14 Have different designs but will fundamentally

00:42:16 Lead to the same outcome ruining Hollywood

00:42:18 a merged paramount and warner brothers with jared kushner and a bunch of middle eastern sovereign

00:42:24 wealth funds behind the seed behind the seeds of the financing simply wipes out one major hollywood

00:42:29 studio entirely just like the sale of fox assets to disney ended up with fox just not being here

00:42:35 anymore right and i thought oh that's that's interesting so were they actually directly

00:42:39 behind this yes yes jared kushner's um asset equity company affinity partners the private

00:42:47 equity firm led by jared kushner is part of paramount's hostile takeover bid for warner

00:42:51 brothers discovery according to a regulatory filing and if you go into it as well you can find

00:42:57 more information here other outside this is part of page 44 of the paramount filing other outside

00:43:03 partners include the public investment fund kingdom of saudi arabia so that's the one directly

00:43:08 controlled by mbs yep lamid holding company pgsc abu dhabi the qatar investment authority

00:43:17 from Qatar, and Affinity Partners from Jared Kushner. And they are all directly involved in

00:43:23 getting all of the equity together for this gigantic merger payment.

00:43:26 So this is very reminiscent of when Epstein was emailing the Saudis, having his photo with MBS,

00:43:35 talking constantly to the Emiratis, and working to bring together the Qataris, who were subject to

00:43:44 uh the steve bannon trump muslim ban with steve bannon yes so it's the same kind of network or

00:43:52 the same circles of networks operating together to gain control of u.s media officially it says

00:44:01 they forego governance rights but we know that money talks loudest obviously we do so what it

00:44:07 seems like is that they just wanted there was this um group of people including all of these figures

00:44:14 who wanted the gigantic media conglomeration under their power essentially so that they would be able

00:44:20 to control the flow of information and control potentially the outcome of elections or force the

00:44:25 people who are going to be involved in the elections in the first place to make it so you

00:44:29 want a seat at the table you have to do what we want and ultimately what it seems to come to as

00:44:34 to what you were saying about um they're having a what was it a five-year you'd mentioned the

00:44:39 fact that there's um five-year terms on this uh the the five-year terms would mainly just be towards

00:44:45 the actual film production right okay like i say the more interesting story to do with all of this

00:44:51 is the consolidation of media and information controlled power under all of these people that

00:44:58 will of course influence the actual production of these films yes kind of messaging that these films

00:45:02 have but a lot of the initially the films will be less anti-muslim more anti-white potentially

00:45:10 yeah well i mean that's not really changing all that no that's not changing anything as far as

00:45:15 i'm concerned uh so yeah a lot of the worries about hollywood moving out of california seem

00:45:20 to have simply been a negotiating tactic pulled off by ellison to put pressure onto rob bonter

00:45:26 and the other attorney generals and in particular gavin newsom himself was pressuring bonter to just

00:45:31 settle just settle this we can't afford hollywood to start moving out of california my career can't

00:45:37 take this they're where we get all of our money from as such you know they kind of just got what

00:45:43 they wanted yeah we've got a independent regulatory board we're gonna have independent

00:45:47 journalists making sure that cnn is just as straight-laced and neutral as it always was

00:45:53 yeah i'm sure you can tell in yourself that buddy anyway i'll go through um rumble rants here this

00:46:00 This one was related to you, Okchigdor.

00:46:02 Knowing US intel agencies, they probably did know

00:46:04 but would do nothing to get more info, probably

00:46:06 how the men were arrested so quickly.

00:46:08 Very possible. And another one from Okchigdor.

00:46:10 Don't forget the Saudis trying to buy

00:46:12 EA games. I mean, how could 0.98

00:46:14 EA get any worse?

00:46:15 I was just thinking that

00:46:18 as you said it. Alright, if we

00:46:20 could go to my segment, Samson. Thank you.

00:46:26 Alright, so friends, every now and now

00:46:28 i'm gonna start that again it is it is monday you're allowed one or two of those

00:46:34 all right friends every now and then when i can i like to put together a segment just highlighting

00:46:40 some really important work that i think is being done by a local charity or an organization or

00:46:47 just someone within our circles who i think are doing something that is an overwhelming force for

00:46:52 good and I just like to raise awareness and you know if you like what you hear here then you can

00:46:59 you know decide to join up and affiliate with them and obviously I've done that in the past I

00:47:03 spoke about Nathan Hood's wonderful Pendragon project in which they um which managed to get

00:47:09 quite a few volunteers involved where Nathan Hood and I've seen the footage of all of this now going

00:47:14 about and starting to restore uh Britain's castles getting rid of a lot of the decay off of some of

00:47:20 them and also as well the wider project as well of not simply making them look um less derelict

00:47:27 but also actually in reintegrating the castles with into the community as well to actually get

00:47:33 the castle out of this sort of ahistorical end of history uh sensor that's put itself into now

00:47:40 where it's only ever going to now serve as a museum piece to the end of time so there's that

00:47:45 I also talked about the fact that, again, Nathan Hood and many other wonderful volunteers are currently at hand organising for the King's Flame Festival next year as well, because it is going to be next year the 1,000th, 100th anniversary of England, and I don't exactly trust Andy Burnham's government to organise an appropriate celebration for it.

00:48:12 And so my point with all of this, whether it be castles or celebrations of England, is that it falls upon us, because if we don't do these things personally, if we don't start organising collectively in order to be the change that we want to see, then we're well past thinking that the establishment have any care for these things whatsoever.

00:48:34 And so the point of the segment today is to highlight another, as you can see here, not-for-profit NGO that has arisen.

00:48:43 The more that I've paid attention to it, I think is something that should be very encouraging to all of us.

00:48:50 And that is the Wyvern Fellowship.

00:48:52 Now, as they say here on their ex-account, preserving heritage, building resilience and securing our future.

00:48:58 because even though I am ultimately of the opinion that because there is many people of course who

00:49:05 you know not without reason say actually electoral politics is all merely an illusion you can't

00:49:12 actually accomplish anything this way what you need to do is you need to be building your own

00:49:16 NGOs your own charities your own institutions so that they can you can have like a secure

00:49:22 foundation to build out from meet people in real life get offline and obviously start making some

00:49:29 tangible good now i actually agree with both of these positions because i think if we don't win

00:49:35 electorally then any of the good things that we try to make in the meantime such as this

00:49:40 will eventually just get cast away through legislation once we become a minority and so

00:49:46 i don't think that they're going to outlive the replacement either but i think that the two are

00:49:51 very important at the same time, in fact. I think it's going to take both to gain us

00:49:57 victory, and so I wanted to highlight the Wyvern Fellowship here. Now, one thing that

00:50:03 they make a point of, and I think it's a very valid point to make, is the fact that, as

00:50:08 they say, in the UK, there are 2,973 Muslim charities, 1,833 Jewish charities, 425 Hindu

00:50:18 charities and 310 Sikh charities. In fact, in total, there are over 9,000 BAME charities and

00:50:27 community groups in the United Kingdom. Do you know how many advocacy groups exist in the United

00:50:32 Kingdom for the English, Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh? Zero. Now, obviously, on the one hand,

00:50:38 this is not surprising, because in the time when all such charities would have existed and we were

00:50:44 merely a homogenous nation we wouldn't have had to have framed it in this way because it would

00:50:50 have simply been a given that all these charities were made to serve actual british people but what

00:50:57 we have seen increasingly as well as a proliferation as they point out here of these

00:51:02 more sectarian charities serve to you know put the interest of minority religious communities

00:51:09 and ethnic groups as well first is the fact that not only that but those that had been sort of just

00:51:15 staples of you know um of britain being things like oxfam and all the such just became eventually

00:51:24 just given over to the ideology that is corrupting us all as well and actually ended up you know

00:51:30 obviously siding with the illegal invasion of britain against us and so actually i think the

00:51:35 framing from the Wyvern Fellowship is very very strong here because as they say zero until now

00:51:41 join the Wyvern Fellowship Britain's first NGO led by and for the British and so we have to bear

00:51:48 in mind that this is a fellowship that is working within the legal straitjacket of the British

00:51:56 of the British government as it exists right now but nonetheless there is a clear mission statement

00:52:01 here that it is looking at everything that is being handed to the foreigners and all of the

00:52:08 money swelling about in these charities and organizations and it's thinking well we're

00:52:12 going to have to start making them for ourselves aren't we in just the same way that you look at

00:52:18 the save europe act on the continent and martin selner's attempt to try and try and create a

00:52:24 really robust NGO on the continent to lobby the EU, etc. So let's learn a little bit more about

00:52:33 them, shall we? So one of the first things to talk about is, well, what is it set up to do?

00:52:39 Well, it's to build a nationally connected network of individuals, families, and local groups

00:52:44 focused on mutual support, community resilience, and the preservation of shared cultural heritage,

00:52:50 promote economic cooperation mutual aid so communities become more self-sufficient and

00:52:57 members facing hardship are supported provide practical family and mutual aid services including

00:53:05 support for new parents and vulnerable members always within safeguarding inequality law because

00:53:11 it has to be interrupt you there for a moment please um before the advent of the nhs something

00:53:16 like 80% of all British people were part of some kind of mutual aid society that would have helped

00:53:23 them take care of their health care costs whenever they were needed. So mutual aid is a way of a

00:53:32 community creating a community pot of money on a local level to cooperate and take care of their

00:53:40 members and of their poor as and when needed. This is a very old tradition, and it was the way

00:53:47 that local people could organize themselves and protect each other before the state decided to

00:53:54 take over all charity work. So it's not that people in Britain were sort of dying because

00:53:59 they couldn't get health care until Labour created the NHS. It was, in fact, there was an organic

00:54:06 growth within the British community that led to these kinds of mutual aid societies that

00:54:13 took care of the most vulnerable when needed, and that people paid into their entire lives

00:54:18 voluntarily as a form of local cooperation.

00:54:23 So just sort of highlighting that this is an important tradition that exists.

00:54:30 This isn't some crazy innovation.

00:54:31 these guys are genuinely being conservative because they are focusing their charity at

00:54:37 the local level rather than pretending that you know you owe welfare to some random guy in

00:54:43 whatever zimbabwe yeah and and it gives you greater control over where your money goes

00:54:49 as well yes um the thing is this sort of thing uh should be normal and there there are still

00:54:56 it used to be there are still things that are informal across the country uh it used to be

00:55:03 called community but part of the actions of the government over the past few decades

00:55:07 have been to intentionally break up communities uh and it's more and more difficult for these

00:55:13 things to naturally occur when not only do people not know their neighbors anymore a lot of the time

00:55:19 because of various pathologies that are popping up around the younger generations people are scared

00:55:26 to know their neighbors people are increasingly isolated people are increasingly self-medicated

00:55:33 you can still have local communities where you all know each other you can go and you can introduce

00:55:38 yourself to say a local pool team dance team anything like that just get to know the people

00:55:43 at your local pub but that's informal and so there needs to be more formalized networks

00:55:50 to be able to help each other and to create these communities.

00:55:56 The sad fact of the matter is communities don't pop up organically anymore.

00:56:00 They have to be brought together.

00:56:02 Yeah, very true, very true.

00:56:03 And as it says here in point four as well,

00:56:06 offer lawful information, advice, and signposting

00:56:09 to members facing legal or administrative difficulties

00:56:12 and to organize community events, heritage projects,

00:56:15 seasonal gatherings, skill-sharing workshops, and educational talks

00:56:19 that strengthen local bonds this is vital stuff especially given the ideological propensity of

00:56:27 the state to always in every case put the foreigner first and especially when you see

00:56:32 all of the dei initiatives being put forward which is seeing us being disadvantaged in our

00:56:41 own workplaces in all sorts of communities and i think as well that quite what you were saying

00:56:49 harry if we can have some official ngo to actually bring people together around it invites strength

00:56:56 and it invites confidence and actually it's very encouraging to see that you're not alone and

00:57:01 actually there is somewhere you can go that is going to be somewhere that will allow experts

00:57:06 to flock in people who will understand whatever particular career or profession it is that they're

00:57:12 coming from from and also as well something that as i say the money is within the particular pot

00:57:18 of the fellowship itself and it is there designed to help you because this is um uh members these

00:57:26 are members it is the members that are the guarantors of this as well so so this is everything

00:57:32 that they're aiming to do there's more there's more that they're aiming to do uh throughout here

00:57:36 uh take us through what they've actually achieved what have they actually set up in support of all

00:57:42 of this yes all right then so we'll get to that right i will say that this is certainly in its

00:57:47 infancy i would just like to say before we begin because um like say i think that it's a very

00:57:54 encouraging thing but obviously it's up to you listening whether or not you wish to uh to join

00:57:59 it but as they say here how we're run which is obviously very important uh the wyvern fellowship

00:58:04 is a company limited by guarantee not a private business there are no shareholders and there's

00:58:09 no profit to hand out. Every subscription, donation and grant we receive is locked to our

00:58:14 mission, which I've already outlined. So in terms of your question about what are they actually

00:58:20 doing? Well, the first initiative is this one here, which as you can see is a pilot project

00:58:25 entitled First Ticket. Now, as they go on to say, we spent a long time getting the fellowship to a

00:58:32 point where it can actually do something rather than talk about doing something. And now that

00:58:37 were there the question is what to start with there are no shortage of things we can do and

00:58:41 there are a lot of people we would like to help but we can't do everything to everyone straight

00:58:47 away and we didn't want to spread ourselves thin across a dozen good ideas and deliver none of them

00:58:52 properly so we picked what we're calling a first ticket so what is it well this autumn it says that

00:59:00 they're running the first of two free training courses in the west midlands in partnership with

00:59:05 an accredited safety training provider and the courses lead to recognized industry qualifications

00:59:12 the kind that sit on the card in your wallet and the site manager will recognize on site and the

00:59:18 sorry they are the same courses a firm would pay to put its own staff through and so for the young

00:59:25 people on them they're free the training on its own isn't the whole point though a certificate

00:59:31 doesn't just get you a job on its own so we're building the rest around it everyone who comes

00:59:36 through the course will get help when with the site card that goes with it help getting to and

00:59:42 from the training a session on cvs applications with people who actually do the hiring and most

00:59:47 important importantly an introduction to employers and trades people inside the fellowship who have

00:59:53 said that they'll give our people a fair look and so you can see that this is the beginning of the

00:59:59 networking and making sure that our young people who are entirely disadvantaged by the state and

01:00:07 are going to be overlooked due to dei initiatives even when they run into farcical outcomes as we

01:00:16 see in cambridge with people being given if given perfect jobs there where that they're just simply

01:00:22 not entitled to and don't deserve these are also practical skills i mean if this is trades and

01:00:28 services site um like site skills that they can take to a practical job and along with all of the

01:00:34 other stuff that they're offering here potentially get a real job out of um we are currently on the

01:00:41 midst of a massive skills crisis yeah in this country uh the amount of vital skills that are

01:00:47 needed to be able to run the practical infrastructure that keeps this country going 1.00

01:00:52 are mainly held by a lot of old people who are carrying the industry on their shoulders who are 0.73

01:00:58 all going to be retiring out of the industry right very very soon younger people beneath them are few

01:01:05 and far between we don't really have the numbers to be able to maintain the infrastructure as it is

01:01:10 i've seen it speculated this might be why they want to move over to like green infrastructure

01:01:15 for instance part of the reason because they know that oh god when all of these people retire all

01:01:20 of this stuff isn't going to be manageable anymore so let's move over to something else and just get

01:01:25 it all from sent in from china because we can try and rely on china for it um brilliant plan a great

01:01:31 great plan uh but we need these skills we need practical skills we need people who know how to

01:01:37 keep the lights on and there are people in our sphere like alex masters for instance who has a

01:01:44 well thought out long-term plan on how to build infrastructure that will be sustainable that will

01:01:51 be able to work within government regulations and will not draw attention by sticking bright

01:01:56 flashing lights on itself and going i am a dissident movement please don't bully me of course

01:02:01 and get then getting shut down and he will people like him and anybody else who try and come up with

01:02:07 plans like that will need practical skills and those skills are either not being taught or not

01:02:14 being advertised or are too expensive through qualifications that you need to go through

01:02:19 and so something like this to be able to build those skills from the ground up

01:02:23 within people who are on side is actually really useful i quite agree and they all as you point out

01:02:30 with the case of alex masters they all feed into one another and then it becomes this this great

01:02:35 successful network where it's like, oh, well, I know this guy who worked for this and he could

01:02:39 help you with this. And not only does that help to build both a local and a more national sense

01:02:47 of community amongst ourselves as we're currently divided, but it also as well will give young

01:02:53 people a sense of confidence in their own people that actually you won't just find the state might

01:03:01 have ignored you and not help provide you with the skill set you need and might not have allowed you

01:03:06 to feel that you were capable of getting anywhere beyond just the worst minimum paying job but

01:03:13 actually your own community and the people out there they believed in you they saw your potential

01:03:19 and they weren't willing to abandon you um in all of this and um one thing as well i'll just say

01:03:26 here is that they say towards the bottom of this one we'll be filming the courses and talking to

01:03:31 people who take part before and after so that people can see what this looks like in practice

01:03:37 rather than just take our word for it at the time of recording this this has not been filmed yet

01:03:42 because this hasn't taken place but this is part of the reason i'm recording this now because if it

01:03:47 interests you then it would be a wonderful thing for you to perhaps investigate and see what you

01:03:52 take away from it now as respects to the site cards that they were talking about as well this

01:03:58 is one of the other things because it's not just as simple as having the qualifications or going to

01:04:06 university and doing the degree or technical college or whatever it must be it's also the

01:04:11 case of now needing many of these cards on the construction sites as well as this website points

01:04:18 out here one of the most common questions asked by people entering the construction industry is

01:04:24 can you work on site without a CSCS card?

01:04:29 And the simple answer is yes, but this is becoming less and less red.

01:04:32 Now, this is not a legal requirement,

01:04:35 but it has become sort of the new industry standard.

01:04:39 And this will require you to pay for your own training

01:04:43 and all these sorts of things,

01:04:44 which is why it's important to have something like the Wyvern Fellowship,

01:04:48 which is going to allow our young generation

01:04:51 to actually have greater access to these things because as they say here the car demonstrates

01:04:56 an individual has the appropriate training qualifications and health and safety knowledge

01:05:01 needed for their role in the construction industry and there are obviously several

01:05:06 tiers of it here well see here's the thing i don't actually uh you know i have worked very

01:05:12 very very briefly in the past uh not on a no it was it was a proper site i was not doing proper

01:05:19 of site work but i have done that sort of stuff uh i don't think it's uh i'm not so i can't really

01:05:26 speak from major experience here um please anybody who does work on sites correct me if you think i'm

01:05:32 talking out of my ass um you know i don't think it's wrong to have people on site who you know

01:05:37 that they're better qualified than some random guy off of the street uh to actually be there know 0.99

01:05:43 what he's doing and know what to do in a situation where maybe there is a health and safety crisis

01:05:46 maybe there is a safety issue where somebody gets hurt what do you do in a situation like that

01:05:51 that is not a problem is the gatekeeping for access to these qualifications which is always

01:05:56 the worst thing for people because even if you are able to pay to get this qualification

01:06:03 how are a lot of people going to pay to get qualification and this was tony blair's thing

01:06:08 with education education education oh it's all about getting the qualifications to get a proper

01:06:12 job no it wasn't tony it was about getting young people who don't know any better into debt for the

01:06:17 rest of their life so a lot of people are probably going to be getting these qualifications by taking

01:06:22 out some form of loan that they're going to end up having to pay back so the gatekeeping mechanisms

01:06:27 for these qualifications is always some form of debt serfdom yes and so the wyvern offering

01:06:33 potentially hopefully this can be sustainable an alternative so that people can get these

01:06:38 qualifications without having to take on a loan that's going to hang over their heads for decades

01:06:43 to come that's fantastic it is we want as little if no usury in our economy as possible yeah i agree

01:06:52 and obviously the the larger this builds theoretically speaking the more potential it

01:06:59 has to i mean because obviously this here with construction skills is just the beginning of it

01:07:03 but they have many other things that they're aspiring to do um and obviously the more members

01:07:08 sign up for it the more people work the more people from across the professions come into it

01:07:13 as well the greater that allows the possibilities of helping people across all of these sectors

01:07:19 um now as they say here as well they are of course looking for and this brings me to the

01:07:25 point of partners as they say here uh the wyvern fellowship connects a nationally growing network

01:07:30 of fellows and local chapters and as you can see here they've got several um instances of what

01:07:36 they're trying to do in terms of networking, visibility, local ties, and mutual aid. I'll

01:07:42 just let you look at that in your own time. But as they point out here as well, they're trying

01:07:49 to build something that lasts, and they obviously want people to be a part of it too. And I will

01:07:55 just say, sorry, it's a bit of non sequitur, but across their X account as well, not only do they

01:08:02 talk about what they're currently doing as well but they do every now and then make a post

01:08:06 about whatever political issue might be in the news and generally speaking I think they've been

01:08:13 on the money with many of them I think they've got they seem to have good instincts about them

01:08:18 I can't I don't know anyone inside it professionally I've they don't even know I was making this

01:08:23 segment it just looked very interesting to me but it says you know the Wyvern Fellowship is

01:08:29 growing fast we need people with real skills who want to get stuck into real projects not just

01:08:34 watch from the sidelines and i think that this is um an even more pertinent message when we have

01:08:42 people like um sir jim ratcliffe of man united you know talking about oh how terrible it is with

01:08:49 what's going on in britain right now it's like yeah if only you had a lot of money at your

01:08:53 disposal jim that you could do something about it with but you know there are a lot of people out

01:08:57 there who like to complain but then refuse to put their money all their expertise into being a

01:09:04 positive development and influencing the change that they want to see and so i think having a

01:09:09 fellowship that encourages people to get on board where they can see tangible good that it can bring

01:09:15 to people's lives is something that's very necessary for us yes um it says um well we need

01:09:22 business owners uh help to build the local economic partnerships that make communities

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01:09:50 so i think this is all really encouraging and uh if you are interested in it um in everything that

01:09:57 i've said here then you can go and join it they have several tiers uh for you to become a fellow

01:10:03 under but if you do off the back of this go and join it and become a part of it i will be really

01:10:09 interested to see how this develops because in theory uh i think it fills a hole that we have

01:10:16 desperately needed um something to enter into and i think it's something as well that like i say

01:10:25 has the potential to network with lots of other uh organizations as well in our fields um and yeah

01:10:34 so i think uh this is a positive development and if it interests you go check it out it's good

01:10:41 do you know who actually runs this then no i don't sorry samson

01:10:49 oh right really i just i runs wyverns in the chat apparently so um well that guy he runs it

01:10:59 there you go frequently asked questions okay yeah yeah cool it all seems yeah

01:11:06 worth checking out um and like i say and actually as well i will just say if you go back here and

01:11:12 look at it it's being followed by very sensible people like uh charlie downs and one fear asmo

01:11:17 dad as well so um oh um all right then so i'll just go to the rumble rants if i can drag it's

01:11:28 it's not left anymore you've got to drag it down instead yes they they changed it oh just to confuse

01:11:34 you well thank you um all right where we're going the screen looks doing this uh hapsification was

01:11:41 one regarding mine funny enough the saudi pif also owns newcastle united are trying to create

01:11:46 their own uh version of manchester city's city group emirati royal family man city have been

01:11:51 found guilty of 114 charges 114 charges of what i i would like to know but just as a sort of fyi

01:11:59 the reason they're investing in football clubs the saudis are investing football clubs

01:12:03 is because the emaratis and the qataris did it so they're just following it along so they figured

01:12:09 why can't we have one of them yeah i suppose so yeah they make a lot of money um that's a

01:12:16 random name says with just five pounds a month you can keep britain usury free now isn't that

01:12:22 i wish i wish it was that simple i honestly do wish it was that simple and instantly for five

01:12:28 dollars uh 141 paladin says didn't restore announced that they will end student debt

01:12:33 loans for uk nationals oh they'll just cancel the interest on them yes they will they will forgive

01:12:37 all of the interest which if you look at what's happening the interest is accumulating as a at an

01:12:43 insane oh mine's doubled oh i checked it for the first time since i'd left it bloody terrified

01:12:48 yeah well uh the rule of thumb if you want to know on compound interest how long it will take

01:12:55 a debt to double uh you look at the interest rate you take the number 72 and divide the

01:13:01 interest divide 72 by the interest rate so at i believe 4.1 percent is the standard interest rate

01:13:07 for a student debt in this country it will double in about 18 years that's lovely that's very that's

01:13:15 absolutely ridiculous the point of compound interest like that is to ensure that you can

01:13:21 never pay it off so you will have that debt overhead hanging over you for the rest of your

01:13:27 life and by the way this is with fake government fiat money right the only reason the government

01:13:35 doesn't just directly pay the universities to administer the courses and cover all the costs

01:13:41 themselves is because by giving that money as a student loan to the students instead it means

01:13:48 that those students get forced into debt serfdom for at least 30 years anyway the government is

01:13:54 working with imaginary fake money there is no currency uh it's there is no real uh real

01:14:00 commodity that it is pegged to either way like the the money goes into the universities and goes out

01:14:07 into the economy through the people that they're paying anyway right the effect is the same i just

01:14:11 have to pay back and so that money that i'm paying back to the government for my student loan isn't

01:14:16 going into my local economy to help my local butchers or anybody else who's running a local

01:14:21 business it's going to an imaginary government spreadsheet which it doesn't need to go to in 0.99

01:14:27 the first place because they can just magic the money out of nowhere it's it's shit is what it is 0.98

01:14:32 it is um all right video comments on samson thank you 0.99

01:14:51 the slave fortress in sierra leone does not exist

01:15:05 based this is the liberation of a the tumbuk 2 slave fortress or some i couldn't quite hit the

01:15:13 pixels might make out uh lomboko does it say i can't but two is up in the desert so it wouldn't

01:15:21 make sense oh yeah yeah good times yeah well manza musa who ruled tembaktou was the richest

01:15:28 african and his empire was entirely based on slavery so i mean also his the claims of his

01:15:35 wealth uh there's an interesting youtube channel whose name i've forgotten but i'll send you the

01:15:38 video right massively overstated because of course they were i think there's only like four sources

01:15:44 that they come from right and it all is just like oh he had so much gold that blah blah blah and

01:15:50 and the question just becomes like where did the gold come from what was the trading i forget the

01:15:54 exact arguments against it but i'll find the video and send it to you because it was very convincing

01:15:58 i'm sure he was very very wealthy for the time but when they say the richest guy ever right yes

01:16:05 although he definitely was a slave trader as as many were back then well you know i like to um

01:16:12 highlight uh black stories and so i think we should make the film that is amazing uh do you

01:16:19 want to go through comments for me yeah sure if the screen stays uh omar awad says it's frustrating

01:16:25 just how much of this nonsense could be avoided if only the state weren't so determined to pull

01:16:29 the wool over its own eyes like some kind of ideological safety blinders yeah it's just

01:16:35 happening everywhere in the west at the same time and it's just uh fira is a solar powered canoe

01:16:42 beautiful is this a reference to a previous yeah somebody was doing a segment about aid to africa

01:16:49 and it included god knows how many millions to for to fund solar powered canoes because that's

01:16:56 exactly how you should power a canoe as opposed to just i thought canoeing was just like you row it

01:17:02 i i i yes you'd like to think that you don't much uh i love how in the raf fairford case the hot

01:17:11 fuzz they ain't around here mentality saved the day they ain't from around here mentality saved

01:17:16 that yeah yeah yeah there's a reason we developed it in the first place it's literally just 0.63

01:17:22 self-protection for communities i mean prejudice reflects ancient wisdom and i stand by that

01:17:29 uh economic zone 17 how are they going to blame the far right for this one

01:17:35 yeah they always find the way i mean they're going to say that it was russia working through

01:17:40 some far-right faction because whatever they're just going to say yeah you stopped the terror

01:17:45 attack but you did it racistly yes which is a crime in and of itself he stopped a terror attack

01:17:51 racist yeah it sounds like one of those sort of girl fan fiction they're not fan fiction these

01:17:58 you know what i'm talking about yeah yeah you know female goona fiction yeah we yes

01:18:03 yeah sadly tragically it's all right for us put down the shovel stop digging how much do you want 0.64

01:18:09 to bet they will arrest the woman for it for causing an increase in islamophobia well don't 0.67

01:18:14 you know they were uk nationals so yeah surely it was a bunch of guys called john smith all of them

01:18:21 yeah and bob they're all welsh uh that's a random name uh visiting fairford oh beautiful i'm old

01:18:28 enough to remember when the war in the middle east was advertised as fighting them there so we

01:18:32 don't have to fight them here and i'm not even 30 yeah yeah that one that one feels real that one

01:18:39 although random name you are brown enough that if you did visit fairford i'm sure someone would

01:18:44 call the police on you all right you all go for yours all right so if you live uh just amazed at 0.83

01:18:55 the ability of owning all of dc looney tunes harry potter lord of the rings and more and still

01:19:01 managed to get into billions of dollars of of debt well that's the thing though isn't it you

01:19:05 take out loans from wall street and as i just spelled out with the magic of compound interest

01:19:12 and that's at a 4.1 percent interest rate if you're terrible at negotiating and get a worse

01:19:17 interest rate it's going to double quicker than that yes and when you find yourself in 53 billion

01:19:22 dollars of debt it doesn't matter how successful your films are maybe you strike out and you get

01:19:28 a billion dollar lord of the rings film that's not going to make a dent i mean you get you get

01:19:33 trapped in this very very quickly and and and this it is designed for this reason and that is why

01:19:39 everybody with any sense always condemned usury sort of that's and and

01:19:45 maimonides says that you are meant to charge the maximum amount of interest in order to burden the 0.58

01:19:53 gentiles so it's just important to remember that debt is seen as a punishment and it is intended 0.59

01:19:58 to work you know i always remembered i heard people i don't know where from it's just some

01:20:02 form of cultural osmosis where people would mention maimonides as one of the great philosophers

01:20:08 and then you actually hear what maimonides had to say and you go hold up there hold up there

01:20:14 something's a little bit fishy about this one scoob i think we've got a mystery on our hands

01:20:21 uh that's almost as impressive as owning star wars marvel mickey mouse and still losing

01:20:27 billions every year yeah yeah uh also sophie there is a dragon ball theme park being built

01:20:34 in paris by the saudis i'm not even mad i just want to know which saudi prince is just a mega

01:20:41 dragon ball fan so he had to have the deeper one surprise will i will i end up going for pure

01:20:48 childhood nostalgia sake to the saudi built dragon ball theme park the crown prince needs

01:20:54 me to go to dragon ball world yeah he's a gamer how how sad of it would it be if they have a

01:21:02 literal like chamber that you can go into where you can pretend to go super saiyan and it'll do

01:21:06 all the special effects for i might have to go if that's the case it'll be so sad it'll be terrible

01:21:13 all of those years from like five or six onwards of me screaming ah trying to go super saiyan

01:21:19 finally finally oh god oh god maybe i am a millennial after all uh michael trey belbis

01:21:26 when disney was buying up studios everything was fine now when the number two and three studios

01:21:31 need to merge to suddenly survive it's a problem uh yeah yeah um again it seems like they would

01:21:39 have had less of an issue if it was netflix buying them up i think the big problem for california

01:21:46 was an ideological one of we don't want larry and david ellison flipping cnn pro trump i think

01:21:54 that was the main issue for them also michael remember bonta is the ag that wouldn't allow

01:22:00 the merger between jet blue and spirit airlines and we see how this turned out i don't know

01:22:05 actually i think i mean from what i know spirit airlines should be isolated dreadnought logan

01:22:12 harry forgetting about ego and how much someone will do when their ego is hurt um someone might

01:22:17 write for president over it dreadnought logan harry they're already moving they're moving to

01:22:22 nashville not texas they already paid for the office space built out yeah they paid for some

01:22:26 office space uh about two weeks ago that was all negotiating flow right that as far as i've seen

01:22:33 from reports since then as recent as yesterday they're staying in california the whole thing

01:22:38 was just to scare gavin newsom and other politicians within california into forcing

01:22:44 them into forcing bonter to just settle because california if huge huge companies like um like

01:22:52 warner brothers and like paramount left the state yet it would have ruined the state la would have

01:22:57 been a even more of a wreck than it already is mark sermon so ellison is seizing the seat means

01:23:02 of production also these settlements are getting out of hand all right and then from my segment

01:23:08 uh he put settlements and quotes by the way for god's uh sophia says i can't believe this sort

01:23:16 of thing isn't more common in england here in denmark every city has at least one middle age

01:23:21 of viking market a year uh some of them massive uh we got so many of them that people are getting

01:23:27 sick of it uh but it's of course popular for families with kids and tourists and we do love

01:23:32 our heritage yeah but obviously with our cities being the most populous parts of the united

01:23:38 kingdom these are taken over entirely by people who have no care for the heritage heritage of

01:23:43 them that just one example that really leaps out at me uh i think it was last year was the end of

01:23:49 Smithfields Market

01:23:51 that had obviously been around in

01:23:53 London since the Middle Ages, since

01:23:55 before the Peasants' Revolt and

01:23:57 that's just closing now because not enough people

01:23:59 are going there and obviously what does

01:24:01 Sadiq Khan care about

01:24:03 keeping such a thing open?

01:24:06 People just, yeah

01:24:07 it's very sad. But I'm glad to hear that

01:24:09 about Denmark. I'd rather that be

01:24:11 the problem for us of

01:24:13 having too much. HM Butterknife

01:24:16 Permit Registry says

01:24:17 i'm definitely sold on the ideals uh behind the wyvern fellowship it's the exact uh sort of

01:24:24 community i feel we need more of and harry hit the nail on the head about people feeling isolated

01:24:29 we all crave purpose and this is a very worthy one from the sounds of it yeah i agree it is a

01:24:34 little sparse on detail at the moment and obviously i'll have more of a sure idea about

01:24:39 it all once things develop and people start attending but um like say on paper i think it

01:24:44 sounds very promising indeed um your solar power canoe speaks once more yeah to tell us organizations

01:24:51 like the pendragon foundation and the wyvern fellowship are absolutely essential to show

01:24:56 the people of britain that they are um they are carriers of a civilization and as we protect the

01:25:03 past and its creations we must protect ourselves and our future yes very well said uh omar awad

01:25:09 says charity uh went the way of tipping what started as an individual voluntary act of goods

01:25:15 turned into an expectation then entitlement uh never missing an opportunity to mandate quote

01:25:21 being a hecking good person the government hollow out the last vestiges of moral worth

01:25:27 it was quite the they talk about tipping culture it was a shock when i did go to america and it was

01:25:33 just mandated yes and expected is it true that it really is just something that has been

01:25:39 smuggled into the culture so that companies don't have to pay the staff as a decent wage would

01:25:45 hardly surprise me i i i wouldn't be shocked but it's a little bit duplicitous in that case 0.99

01:25:52 just pay your damn staff um oh uh hm uh butter knife says uh the cscs uh card was a pain to get 0.98

01:26:00 personally i had to retake an exam on the elect um electrical regulations out of my own pocket 0.99

01:26:06 for it despite passing it before i've since passed my um 2391 uh for testing and i'd love to go to

01:26:14 that event to help others who have struggled with the process well i think the contributions would

01:26:20 be very welcome sir uh memidon 2010 says how long before uh some foreign chancellor brings legal

01:26:26 action against the wyvern institute for being exclusionary well that's the point it's not

01:26:30 exclusionary at all it can't be legally it cannot be uh but as it points out as well it's simply

01:26:38 looking at um a very left behind group of people in society and is trying to give them a leg up

01:26:45 which is all any of us can do also again just the important part for the wyvern foundation

01:26:51 if they're trying to make a serious go of it

01:26:53 is just do not put flashing lights on yourself

01:26:57 saying, shut me down, government, I'm breaking the law.

01:27:00 Second it, yes, don't do that.

01:27:02 I mean, everything on their website says

01:27:05 within the law and with respect to the Equality Act

01:27:07 and all of that.

01:27:07 It all looks neutral with an old-fashioned aesthetic.

01:27:10 Yeah, that's how it should be.

01:27:12 Memedon 20th Sense says,

01:27:15 how long before...

01:27:16 Oh, right, sorry, I've just read that, I have.

01:27:18 And That's Random Name says, 0.99

01:27:20 Isn't it crazy how the moment the government took over charity, it not only turned to shit, but it has actually led to a disintegration of our nations? 0.99

01:27:30 Yeah, crazy, but foreseeable. 0.99

01:27:33 Foreseeable, unfortunately.

01:27:34 We did get a few other rumble rants.

01:27:37 Random name, if you read my first comment on the site, you'll see they already did.

01:27:41 I'm not going to go trawling all the way through the website just to find out that somebody called the police on you because they thought you were scary and dark and intimidating.

01:27:50 JC Warlock, still no one talks 0.92

01:27:52 about the fact that Mohammed bin Salman co-owned

01:27:54 the Greater St. James with Jeffrey Epstein

01:27:56 in the island right next door to Little St. James.

01:27:59 Is that true? I didn't know that.

01:28:01 Well, that's interesting.

01:28:02 And Otrigdor, as much as I love the movie, remember

01:28:04 the main character of 13th Warrior

01:28:05 was a Middle Easterner. You are

01:28:08 allowed... Played by Antonio Banderas.

01:28:10 Well, yes, you are allowed to like

01:28:12 films where the main

01:28:14 characters are Middle Easterners. I'm a big

01:28:16 fan of Four Lions, for instance. 1.00

01:28:18 yeah different kind different kind entirely we have no truck with the pakistanis all right

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 28, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1515

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