I'm George Galloway and I am Steve Topol
and we are toppled Galloway 14 Russians
lie at the bottom of the Mediterranean
Sea shot down in an exchange of fire
between Israel and the Syrian
anti-aircraft batteries Russia is
unequivocal as to where the blame lies
they say that this was a deliberate
provocation by the Israeli Air Force
f-16s hid behind the transponder of a
Russian reconnaissance plane with 14
spotters on board and they then started
firing missiles at the Syrian coast
around Latakia and in the inevitable
anti-aircraft response the Russian
aircraft was thus deliberately shot down
deliberate by Israel it's quite a
serious escalation Steve it's been
brewing Russia had earlier identified
fire from a French frigate you would
have thought when macron can't provide
jobs or public services for millions of
poor and working people in France he
didn't have money to burn off the
Levantine Coast but he clearly did it's
like Suez 1956 all over again
Israel and France working in concert
against an Arab country in this case
Syria in 1956 of course Egypt over the
Suez Canal engage yes I mean the the
thing is George this we both know this
has been brewing for years and years and
years and there's order we're almost
waiting for some sort of major event to
happen early waiting for World War 3 I
know yeah I mean I I vote in 2016 that
this is the first world war of the 21st
century because you have every country
has got some sort vested interest in
Syria for whatever reason and I think
we're just waiting for that escalation
is this going to be the tipping point I
think the next few days will tell and as
we're recording we know the US have gone
nothing to do with
Scalf it have washed their hands of it
even though the clues in the world f-16
the one who sold them to Israel no give
them okay we sell their big yeah no of
course us have denied any knowledge of
this as I've been no statement so far
from the UK government however I think
that's going to be probably brewing as
we speak so it's going to be interesting
to see how it pans out but what hasn't
been reported don't know if you've seen
this it's very interesting regards to
Syria the Dutch government came out last
week a very quiet statement and I've
already reported it Dutch government
came and said they are no longer funding
rebel groups in Syria and they
specifically noted that they're
withdrawn funding from December of this
year for the white helmets because they
are concerned about this money's
actually going to terrorists so while
the US and the UK's position on Syria is
clear and France as well and Israel it
looks like maybe some other sort of
Western partners weren't getting a good
point and goodbye Troy of course what
the Dutch statement made that big
particular attack - it gayatri is Dutch
so I sent it to her immediately what's
significant about it is it's a an
admission that they had previously been
fighting terrorism in Syria but it's
also by extension a very clear signal
that the Netherlands allies are still
funding terrorism in Syria the situation
is even worse though because this
happened yesterday let me say that again
because this happened on the very day
this week when Russia and Turkey had
made a military agreement significant in
itself because turkey is a member of
NATO so a NATO country made a military
agreement with Syria to halt the Syrian
Russian advance on eaglet and therefore
deprive the United States and France and
Britain of the pretext of their
intervention as a result of some big
conflict
in lib may or may not involve a flagged
false or otherwise of a chemical weapons
attack but that was swept off the table
on the very day that the Israelis staged
this provocation with the Russian
reconnaissance plane so it's like
someone shot their Fox they were waiting
for the idli battle to start so they
could then intervene there's now not
going to be an ad-lib battle so they've
started anyway yep that's what it looks
like to me now maybe I'm being naive
imagine imagine that this close call
that's not a close call for the 14 dead
Russians they're already dead in Davy
Jones locker but this close call in a
sense might just might bring people to
their senses that's how close we are to
World War I think so yeah I mean the
turkey thing is fascinating because what
did we say on this program in the last
series the Cherokee obviously is now
moving more towards BRICS they came out
and said they wanted to become a member
of brick so it'd be bricks
and and they're my bricks dough should
not be brixton brick leave oh yes and we
set that on this program those very
interesting techy and obviously we saw
that with the deal that was reached
between Turkey and Russia so and I'm
slightly more skeptical than you I think
on this I can't see knowing just what
vested interests are at play in Syria
I'm not sure that this this will be a
opportunity for game changer no I mean
you're right more likely than not it
will not but for example I've been
reviewing the international press
coverage of it and there is a sense of
alarm in even countries that have been
gung ho for the war like the Guardian
for example just become the pro-war
Gazette imagine The Guardian The
Observer the pro-war Gazette I see
imagine how does the observer actually
supported the Suez war in 1914 is it I
spent many decades later
from people like me being described as
the pro-war observer and I people didn't
quite know what we meant by that were
men the sewers were but the Guardian
today has as its second headline it's
strapline russia blames israel for
provocation so it it seemed to reflect a
sense of alarm and alarms the least of
it I mean this is the anniversary of the
end of the first world war the first
world war began with an inexorable like
an iceberg drifting towards the disaster
and that's what it feels like to me in
Syria as you put it when all these
countries have got something invested in
in a conflict in our war
it only takes a spark like this for the
whole balloon to go up no absolutely no
coercing I mean in the background to all
this there's so much other stuff going
on as well isn't there there's the
pipeline saga that's rumbling Tony Blair
went to the meeting with the italian
Foreign Minister I believed in he about
a one time on behalf of democratic
indeed yes
democratic what we're not sure Democrat
by plane but yes so and you've got that
you've got that and then you've got
Angela Merkel I'm wanting the
russian-backed pipeline and so there's
this sort of play going on in the EU at
the minute as well and as we said to
them and the Netherlands were drawing
the support for and for the rebel groups
and is it it's an extremely complex
situation but the problem is obviously
as we know with the media it's drilled
down to very sort of basic kind of right
and wrong it is amazing I resisted these
pipeline storage for quite a long time
because the they smacked of conspiracy
theory to me but they're undoubtedly
true yeah I mean the first world war
began over a squabble for colonies yeah
and the next world war might begin over
a squabble for pipeline yes this
Azerbaijan Baku the Baku Baku Baku have
actually hired
Tony Blair I mean that's what's come to
the British prime minister has been
hired
by a potentate in baku to go around the
world negotiating with other governments
on his behalf so that a pipeline can be
built thus making russia's pipeline on
economic and now the germans are
standing up against it in fact that's
one of the stories of this age we should
discuss a more lengthy sometime
Germany is breaking free from us
hegemony it's making a turn towards
Russia yep the German Minister foreign
minister has openly stated they want to
break from the dollar in terms of bank
transactions yeah because they believe
it gives the US on warranted power and
allows the u.s. to dictate to the EU and
Germany itself on what its foreign
policy should be and Germany's big
enough and strong enough to actually
make a stand on that exactly this leads
kind of side issues which don't appear
connected in any way to Syria which are
actually connected because because it's
all diplomacy than the - Syria and Iran
because of course the proximate cause of
EU disaffection with the u.s. is the EU
unilaterally withdrawing from the Iran
nuclear deal and then there's a Paris
Clym Accord and then there's trade Wars
I mean next Monday the US is about to
launch if that's the world or impose two
hundred billion dollars worth of
economic sanctions against China China
will respond so trade trade Wars
pipelines all the ingredients are in
place there for the balloon to go up
a new line of coke may soon be available
I cannot miss coke please may soon be
the request in bars restaurants and
shops that's right the giant Coca Cola
is looking forward to the day I don't
mean that they want the day to come I
mean that they are speculating that the
day will come when cannabis will be
legal and therein talk Steve with an
Australian company why are your eyes why
are you licking your leather
they they're in talks with an Australian
company about manufacturing a new line
of coke yes he can
bisque okay don't think about me well
they're coming the thing is it we all
know the story behind Coca Cola that
originally had cocaine in it and it said
I have issues with this on numerous
levels not least and obviously because
it's a huge multinational corporation
cashing in on the yet the next sort of a
liberal fad if you like but also for me
on a serious note underscores the issues
surrounding legalization of cannabis
because for people who use it
medicinally there's great concern that
this sort of the the movement of the
minute for legalizing cannabis for
medicinal purposes is basically handing
it to the control of government and big
pharmaceutical companies and because
they're amongst people who use it
medicinally is that obviously the big
pharmaceutical companies the price will
go through the roof it will be watered
down what's it going to be made with
who's profiting from it Salman and this
always happens when things which are
inherently sort of social almost
Underground's phenomenon if you like
which which kind of issues is are given
to the hands of corporations and
coca-cola just sort of jumping on the
bandwagon I mean what they're doing I've
read up on it what they're doing they're
using the non non psychotic elements of
cannabis CBD which is a which is the
part of the plant which has medicinal
purposes allegedly and they're going to
be using that and is going to be
marketed and am I right Sakurai douching
call
of the nation yeah it's wonderful
coca-cola we're doing what it does best
making us all healthy I think though
that you you make a really important
point in it for to those in the
counterculture which clearly are not and
judging by your shoes you are and the
counterculture becomes the culture of
course capitalism takes all yes I
predicted long ago when legalizing
cannabis had much less support then it
seems to have now I'm still against it
myself but I predicted if it's legalized
W D and H or wills or whoever the
cigarette manufacturers are no no will
open factories and will run off cannabis
cigarette just as they then were running
off ordinary killer cigarettes and of
course that which seems edgy
countercultural slightly subversive
revolutionary even know will just become
another part of the cash Nexus yes
master dies basically yeah I mean coke
will not withstanding the point you make
about the medicinal point part of the
plant yeah as soon as they are able to
though they'll be producing as will all
the multinationals a cannabis on a mass
basis now it's my reason for opposing
legalization that that can only increase
the number of people effectively using
drugs you may say that Nestle a harmless
or less harmful than other drugs and I
accept that they're less harmful than
alcohol
no da less harmful than smoking twenty
number nine forty cigarettes a day but
nonetheless they are part of the stupa
fication of the masses and that level of
stupid fication can only go up because
once a full advertising campaign backed
by molten
shanell investment in by the big
corporations well the people smoking
drinking cannabis that would never have
thought to insure before now you say
it's a really interesting point and the
my views on drug legalization are quite
rigid as we've discussed before however
I'm quite receptive to that point
actually about the stupid fication of
the masses because we see it with
everything else we see it with social
media which is used as a tool by the
capitalist establishment if you like to
quite often dumb down the masses you say
with Facebook removing news from the
fees trying to push people into Facebook
what's your submission the guys yeah
well it is but don't you think that it's
actually leaving a big gap that's gonna
fill I think so yeah is it it's a lot
but plotting his own funeral almost and
so ya know your point about duplication
base is very interesting and I'm quite
receptive to that even though likes I am
in favor of legalization but Koch
getting their hands on it
I did just sums up the whole issue with
what's going to happen when canvas is
effectively legalized so not good news
in my book it's the real thing
capitalist kook
quick it's another chop mania
flash sale we've got 50% off half-baked
articles buy one get one free on crazy
propaganda and and when you spend a
hundred fifty pounds on more you get
free fitting on government messages
subliminally given to the public but
quick nacelles only lasting until the
public is dumbed down enough that's
right it's not a choc its mania it's not
a choc mania it is a known fact if if
you're lucky enough the government will
buy your house or your restaurant a
vastly inflated price I will terms and
conditions at
www.cannainsider.com/trends
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have taken gravely ill in another
restaurant another Italian new front in
Salisbury it's the eyes that did it
isn't it now well yeah I mean it's it's
pasta it's passed at a time
that's that time that we got to the
bottom of this it was a spaghetti carry
hook this whole thing an endless
spaghetti group and not only were two
people struck down by Nava choc months
later another two and months later a
third two always couples always men and
women single people seem safe yes all
really don't get married couples even
seem like safe in Salisbury but men and
women are in grave danger in Salisbury
restaurants and you've got to ask what
it must be doing to the economy in
solving devastating for it I mean the
thing is they're saying that these this
couple dog got ill one is allegedly it
has been rumors that one of them is
actually a Russian a single no it's not
what's the odds on a Russian still being
in Salisbury what is the attraction
this is Salisbury if you are us the
cathedral don't you know it cease fire
it's the biggest clock in the war
listen slush it's the snow no I mean if
you were Russian would you be happier as
far as the girl the Russian government
hasn't issued the state to announcement
saying do you not travel there I mean
the thing is they're saying no no no
it's nothing we don't it's not no good
job we don't think it's anything and
there's nothing untoward here but what
was interesting was the was another
another job well that you see that the
people suffered exactly the same
symptoms it was again in a restaurant
food-related food-related you know maybe
it isn't of a job but maybe none of them
are vizak no absolutely I mean the thing
is as well when you sort of watch this
story breaking if you like it was a
master class in some sort of media
manipulation and bias because the thing
is we all know and done mr. Chomsky
documented this very well in the 80s how
what manufacturing consent once there's
a story which which the the
establishment press want pushing as was
the case with the scribble story from
the outset and this kind of continues in
soft propaganda almost where any sort of
other incident which could be partially
related to it it's blowing out of all
performance and just to keep that sort
of fear and that edginess amongst the
public's are getting to keep that
momentum of the story and the propaganda
surrounding her going and this was a
classic example though I mean it was
immediately jumped on hazmat suits an
emergency response yet street sealed
often customers in the restaurant some
for Italian joint yet taken out of the
restaurant locked up in an empty pub no
one does an empty empty at oh this is
probably a good time to invest yeah in
Salisbury in property Nasri rock-bottom
you could probably buy a restaurant in
Salisbury no for them what we've got in
our pockets right now right let's move
down there and open the knowledge cafe
the hottest thing in online gaming at
the moment is a computer game called
fortnight's where players battle each
other out in teams pitting themselves
against enemies hacking shooting
dismembering each other until only one
team is left standing um oh and it's the
Labour Party conference starting on
Sunday and George in the spirit of for
tonight which my stepson plays almost on
a daily basis um there are two games in
fortnight once called save the world and
the other is called battle royale you
could almost say that the Labour Party
conference will be a case of Jeremy
Corbyn trying to save the world in a
battle royale against the undie the
right swing whatchamacallit
yeah I'm considering you didn't script
that that's a pretty brilliant somewhere
out of the Labour corner top of my hair
must say the topple of your head topple
of hiring the nice hat by the way
the July my shoes lovely tutorial from
the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
mmm the most anti-racist man in Britain
in fact a man quite I would say obsessed
by anti racism and the most achingly
politically correct in sexual gender
matters I mean Jeremy Corbyn doesn't
make passes at girls with glasses or
girls at all Jeremy Corbyn although he's
been married three times and perfectly
sure all three of his wives had to grab
him and tie him down to the bed his
molarities make a pass of one of his
marrows from his allotment exactly yet
this man is still being assailed as a
effing anti-semite and racist by one
woman
Labour MP Dame mod Raj Nair who's
doubled down and Jess Phillips who just
accused them of being to blame for the
fact that the Labour Party is no longer
safe for women so according to her it's
not safe for Jews and it's not safe for
women
who is it safe for the well exactly now
even if that were true as opposed to any
other party or any other part of our
society main chase women haven't forfend
even if it were to how could that be
Corbin Sport know exactly how can I mean
how could it be could they never the
problem with these allegations and well
as you say it could be any other
political party in these issues exists
and it's just a walk wider example of
the issues that exist in society it's
gonna be in any political party but no
one can quantify these allegations no
one can say well waste okay so X many
people have had this done to them the
Labour Party and but you thought brings
us on to a broader issue around a
conference doesn't it because I think I
mean we're three years into Corbin now
this will be his third conference went
to them if my math says maybe yeah yeah
faragonda chair um do we think this is
going to be the tipping point in a duly
fight between the right and the left i
do the only question left open is
whether the right wing then leave know
they're in a bit of disarray at the
moment first of all they can't agree
that took up with should be their leader
yes and chuka will not leave unless he
is the leader who is a poodle he's a
showgirl talk and he will not agree to
jess phillips being the leading it for
example so there's a battle royale going
on in the right wing as to whether they
should leave and if they leave on what
basis the new name to they link up with
the Liberal Democrats and who will be
the leader the left are definitely going
to win really significant victories in
Liverpool I'm sure that the shaking nail
that a lot of MPs have got their coats
currently hanging on will fall from the
wall there will be a new form of Reis
election and if I'm right it will
probably be automatic yeah everyone will
automatically have to be Reis elected
before every election you know it's such
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the US Republicans and Democrats have
had in place for a hundred years
secondly policy will henceforth be made
digitally by the mass membership of the
labor play he's been pushing for that
since day one has definitely and I'm
sure that that's going to go through
again that's not wildest or the Green
Party it's one member one that ya know
that's very significant because we'll
the labor membership vote to spend
perhaps a hundred billion pounds on
tried near renewal will the membership
want to remain in NATO when it's
involved in wars all over the world
never mind the North Atlantic and many
other things I think opens a door that
when I was fighting for Labour Party
democracy well over thirty years ago
nearly forty years ago we hadn't even
thought of because of course the
internet and yet been invented by Al
Gore
so it's going to be a momentous labor
conference I look forward next week
which is our last three week to having
having a proper discussion about what
has happened but what I predict will
happen is that Jeremy Corbyn will
finally properly be in charge of the
Labor Party at the end of the Labor
Party conference in Liverpool he's been
an office but not in power he's now
about to be in office and in power I
agree I think that's quite good so
summing up at the situation I think
we're good you can see coming out of the
Corbin labor and pace at the minute you
can sort of see the hints at what's what
confidence is in the end what's going to
be on the policy table Angela rain is
coming out very vocally about inequality
in education I'm using a big push as
well around welfare and there's a hot
debate going on about that the minute
where the labor because the team you see
a new Knights have come out calling for
universal credit the DWP and the
government's flagship new benefit
they've come out Gordon for that to be
completely scrapped so there's pressure
on labor to do that I think they may
give some movement in that but I think
welfare education it's all gonna be
surrounding
I think they're tying it in as well
cited to the ten-year anniversary of the
financial crash I mean lot stuff around
inequality and social mobility and
improving people's life chances and
that's the that's the feeling I'm
getting looking looking behind what
people are saying at the minute but yeah
I think you're right I think he's throw
years in I think he will don't think is
going to hold back this time or rather
his machinery isn't gonna hold back in
pushing through their policies and
finally delivering what many of his
supporters one which is some radical
democratic socialism which which he's
been promising for but it can't happen
Steve with the current crop of MPs
either the current crop of MPs have got
to change or they have to be changed
yeah there has to be a mass Damascene
conversion to the ideas that the labor
membership want to see implemented
that's possible I mean it's already
happened with I think a significant
number of Labour MPs that were trying to
get rid of Corden before but now no
better yeah but there's the
irreconcilable and they are larger
number they are scores in number who
cannot be trusted to even allow Corbin
to get in the taxi to go to Buckingham
Palace to accept the seals of office and
become Prime Minister they could mount a
coup against Corbin after it won a
general election and they simply can't
be trusted you know I could name names
but everyone watching us already know
segment names to come on our Jess
Phillips Tom Watson I don't I wouldn't
trust any of these people to you know
mind my glass of water while I went to
the bathroom now is that I mean Tom
Watson especially I mean its
participation in restaurant indeed yes
some drinking a can of cannabis coke I'm
there Tom Watson specials preposterous
situation in fact he's pulled out of
giving the speech I mean it's the deputy
leader of the Labour Party has what is
he any longer it's I dunno why you know
why they can't remove it because a
contender would have to get 45-year
nominations
amongst Labour MPs and there's not even
45 Labour MPs would be prepared to
nominate somebody against Tom Watson hmm
that's important to grasp because it
shows just how few MPs that Jeremy
Corbyn has been able to counsel very
good I was bigger now than it was before
and yeah now absolutely but I think I
think it's going to be fascinating and I
think it will be interesting as well it
will cement
I mean it's unarguable already but it
will cement further the notion that the
grassroots members of the Labour Party
really should be and will be driving the
party almost if you like I think this is
a conference that's going to cement
calkins positions cements the grassroots
membership in their position of control
which in my opinion not a Labour
supports that I am but in my opinion the
membership in control Louis is odd kind
of organisation where the members are
not in neutral and that's how it is the
minute and said so I think I think it's
the idea that the members pick a woman
or a man to get a very highly paid and
very comfortable job clean no heavy
lifting and plenty of money and that the
people you've given that privilege to
should actually be in charge of you to
realize the a of course it is I mean
lately you've had a lucky break getting
made a Labour MP I was one for almost 20
years and the idea that you should then
be in charge of the people who gave you
the lucky break think about it that's
completely zany
it is only yes exactly so I think it's
gonna be fascinating and I think we'll
have a lot to talk about
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just one more thing if you follow my
work on the canary you'll know I write a
lot about the Department for Work and
Pensions and the policies that rolls out
and how it affects disabled people and
some of the poorest people in our
society there's a big push at the minute
for the Labour Party to adopt a position
of stop and scrapped universal credit
universal credit is the new Department
for Work and Pensions benefit which
rolls six previous ones into one this
policy is extremely dangerous it was
devised from a group of people as are
documented who think that the poor are
blame are to blame for their own poverty
and misery and that they need to help
themselves out of it's essentially
universal credit was designed to roll
all the undeserving poor as they see
them into one place it can't be fixed
this policy needs to be stopped for
numerous reasons as I've documented
labour
you must adopt this at the party
conference this year Jeremy Corbyn if
you're watching you must adopt to
scrapped universal credit I'll be
watching with interest and I'll be
following up on next week's show about
this as well Russia's relationship with
Israel's a bit like one's relationship
with one's ex-wife complicated there's a
love-hate issue in there Russia was the
first country in the world to recognize
the State of Israel in 1948 other Soviet
countries like Czechoslovakia supplied
the weapons that fueled the Hagana as
conquest of almost all of Palestine at
that time but things have certainly gone
sour the decision by the Israeli Air
Force to hide behind a Russian
reconnaissance plane and caused the
death of now 20 Russia
service personnel in what Russia is
describing as a deadly provocation which
gave only 60 seconds notice to the
pilots and the crew who now lie at the
bottom of the sea mean big trouble
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