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This morning, Gareth discusses the 48hr doomsday blitz Netanyahu has unleashed on Iran as fears grow he's racing to blow up Trump's peace deal. Apple brings in age checks for iPhone and iPad users in the UK that will ask them to verify if they are adults to access "certain services". And Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has announced that the government will replace the Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green.
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, or good afternoon, or good evening, depending where you are. Welcome to today's episode of Trending. I don't know why I keep fiddling with my mic. Today we're going to talk about what's going on in Iran. Obviously, lots of stuff's changing every I was going to say few hours then, but few minutes to be honest. We're also going to look at digital ID in the UK and how that's being snuck in in a totally kind of you know underhanded way. It's not so much, let me be clear, and all that nonsense. They're kind of, you know, come in the back door. That's what they do. And we're also going to talk about this ambulance situation in Golders Green. It's all very strange. Thanks for joining us, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, so this is from last night. Netanyahu, of course, Prime Minister of Israel and America. Netanyahu unleashes 48-hour Iran doomsday blitz in Secret Bunker Summit as fears grow, he's racing to blow up Trump deal. That's wild as a headline. It's not wild the fact that he would be trying to, you know, scupper any chances of negotiation or peace or anything like that. That's, you know, blatantly obvious. It's the fact that outlets like the Daily Mail, which is a massively pro-Israel outlet, of course, as 99.9% of them are, the fact that that's openly suggesting that any deal that Trump might try and negotiate in terms of peace and bringing this conflict to an end and stopping people dying, and of course, opening, therefore, the Strait of Hormuz and allowing, you know, energy to flow and all that kind of stuff could possibly be scuppered and destroyed by Benjamin Netanyahu. It goes to show, ladies and gentlemen, just how far the Israel mask has slipped in the eyes of public opinion and, of course, the media in general. Benjamin Netanyahu gave Israeli commanders a 48-hour deadline to destroy Iran's weapons industry from his Tel Aviv bunker after reviewing Donald Trump's proposed peace plan. That's mad, isn't it? I don't know why I'm laughing. I've been shown the peace plan, right, lads. So what I'm thinking is we just blow the living daylights out of them for 48 hours. That's not a normal response. It's it's it's mad. Netanyahu, who ordered the Israeli defence forces, offense forces, uh, to strike as many high-value Iranian targets as possible as the US submitted a 15-point peace plan on Tuesday. That's since been rejected, of course. The Israeli Prime Minister and his top military advisers were alarmed. They were alarmed, they're ever so worried, that the US plan did not go far enough. What's far enough, mate? Didn't go far enough to curb Tehran's military capabilities, despite the tight restrictions on Iran's missile stockpile and nuclear program. It's never been about the nuclear program. That's pretty obvious, really, isn't it, ladies and gentlemen? It was never about that at all. Israel wants, of course, their man in charge of Iran. That that would be great. Regime change. And as I always reiterate, I've got no skin in the game for the Iranian regime. I've got no skin in the game for any regime, actually, because when you go high enough, they're all the same and they all tie into the same web anyway. So I'm not one of those people that's picking sides and going, oh, I like that government. No, I don't, I don't like any government. Don't like any of them. Any of them. I'm very consistent. I dislike them all equally. However, on the face of it, when one of those particular, and you know, others as well, including the US, including the UK, when those particular governments are leading us to a point of no return, I'm going to call it out. And I get a little bit annoyed when certain governments aren't allowed to be called out. So you can call out Putin as much as you want, not a problem. You can call out Xi Jinping as much as you want, mate, not a problem. Don't call them out. That bugs me, and I have a problem with it. So Israel want their man in charge of Iran. Of course they do. You know, the son of the Shah is kind of, you know, he's licked the wall a few times and he's tipping himself to be the next guy. So basically, they can get on with the Greater Israel project, they can get on with their expansion, they can get on with destroying Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and Syria and everywhere else, Iraq and obviously the Sinai and Egypt, these areas that are part of this Greater Israel. And what they don't want is a powerful force within the Middle East, Iran, that can counteract that and can stand up to that. Don't want that. They don't mind, you know, some Houthis in Yemen and maybe a little bit of Hezbollah or whatever. Not big enough to really stand up to them, but enough that you can get a bit of sympathy. And so, well, we have to go into Lebanon because it's self-defense. We have to go into Syria because it's self-defense. We have to go into Gaza because it's self-defense. Same with the West Bank. So they don't mind little pockets, they don't mind Hamas. They have a problem with that. That's why they've been funding it from the beginning. And admittedly funded up until as recently as 2019, probably after that as well, to be fair, but on record, out of the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu, as recently as 2019, still still allowing money to be funnelled into Hamas because that will stop a two-state solution. So they're over he's openly saying, even then, keep funding them because they're causing enough of a problem for peace to prevail and for the international community to be able to say, Bosy, come on, guys, let's let's have peace. Right? No. So they're fine with that. What they don't want is a big regional power that can that can counterbalance Israel's dominance. And of course, it's not their dominance, it's American dominance and it's British dominance, it's the West dominance, it's the Epstein class's dominance. Because on its own, I mean you can drive around it in a day. So it's not their dominance. They're basically the the yappy little dog that's gobbing off at all the other dogs, but just happens to have a massive GERT pit bull behind it. Um and of course, yeah, like I say, they want to go ahead with the Greater Israel project, and and no one in the West is going to say no to that. If you look at what's going on now in Lebanon, obviously what's happened in Gaza, what's happened in the West Bank, what's going on in Lebanon, killing medics, bombing hospitals, multiple um hospitals, displacing millions of people, no one's saying anything about it, no one cares. Like everyone in the West, particularly in Britain, is freaking out about these four ambulances that were set on fire in gold is green. So, whilst I don't think anyone should be setting fire to anything, for you to be so offended by four ambulances that didn't have anyone in that were set fire to, whereas ambulances that had people in, medics in that are getting blown up, hospitals that are blown up, not bothered. So they know the West are going to say nothing. Whereas Iran, it's kind of saying sank. And they don't want them saying anything either. Netanyahu's Thursday deadline reflects deep concern within the Israeli government that Trump could reach a deal with Tehran at any moment. Just think about that. Just for a second, just just think about that. They're petrified that there could be a peaceful negotiation. It's mad, innit? Bearing in mind, their country is being bombed as well. So it's not like, you know, Israel is somewhere over by the Philippines and they're not they're not being affected by it, and this whole kind of um war is going on in the theater of the Middle East that it's not really affected. They're right in the middle of it and they're being bombed. And, you know, Israeli citizens are in bomb shelters for what, a couple of weeks now at least? And they don't care. I don't know about you, but if I was if I was a genuine prime minister or a genuine president that was genuinely representing the people, don't worry, I know, none of them do, but let's pretend. And there was a situation where my country's being bombed, my citizens are in bomb shelters, or they're you know being killed or injured or whatever, and someone is trying to negotiate an end to that, a peace deal that will stop that happening, you'd think you'd be, you know, you may maybe want to kind of you know dot a few I's and cross a few T's in terms of the T's and C's of it, but you'd want some involvement and you certainly wouldn't be alarmed by it, right? You'd be like, yeah, well, okay, let's get some some level of peace. Whereas Gollum is is giving his orders um from a bunker again, you're in a bunker, mate. You're you're being bombed, but they don't care because the ends always justify the means, and that's not just Israel, that's every country. The ends always justify the means, and war is the best way to achieve those ends in this particular instance. So therefore, it's fine. Not bothered about it. Don't care about how many um Iranians get killed, don't care about how many American soldiers get killed. Couldn't care less, mate. Plenty more, plenty more to put in the meat grinder, mate. And couldn't care less how many Israelis get killed either. Don't care, mate. They don't they don't care about Jewish people, actually. They they use them as a shield, and they have done since the beginning of the State of Israel in 1948. And someone, some of you may listen to that and go, oh, that's whoa, that's quite an outlandish statement, to say that Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel doesn't care about Israelis or the Jewish people. Well, I don't know. Well, okay. So during COVID, right, he's very proud of himself, Benjamin Netanyahu. He made a phone call, didn't he, to Albert Ball or a Pfizer to make sure they got a load of um vaccines first. And then he said, on the record, that Israel was a lab, was basically a lab rat for Pfizer. They were basically lab rats for Pfizer. It's almost like he doesn't care about them. Israeli officials uh present at Netanyahu's underground meeting described the atmosphere as tense. I was hoping it would say intense, so I could say it was like a camping holiday. I mean, it's a bit of a dad joke there. Uh Iranian regime officials rejected the proposal via state media on Wednesday. Okay, so what's really going on here? Well, there's lots of different scenarios, and of course, lots of them can be true at the same time, and there can be a lot of crossover. I think the mistake that a lot of us make, we've all made them, is you look at things in in black and white in some way. So it's like, oh no, no, it's not, it can't be that. I think they're doing that. Well, they can be doing that and that. There can be a little crossover here and there. You can use one stone to take down a flock of seagulls, right? So is Trump trying to negotiate peace? Is that true? Is he trying to do that? And Netanyahu and Israel are trying to scupper it. That's an option, and that's of course what the Daily Mail and others are alluding to, um, particularly in this particular article. And of course, there could be truth in that. There could be truth in that. Is Netanyahu planning on taking out the Iranian negotiators? So that kills the deal or any chance of negotiation and peace. Are the targets that are referred to in this in this um article this this important targets, these crucial targets? Just disconcertainly vague term, right? You hear crucial targets, you think, oh, maybe a bomb-making facility. The crucial targets could actually be the people rather than the infrastructure. It could be the people within the Iranian regime that Trump is talking to, or Trump's people are talking to. And of course, Trump alluded to that when he was being interviewed, uh, I think it was about two days ago, maybe three days ago, I think two days ago, really relevant, but um, when the interviewer, I want to say CBS, but whoever it was, was was saying, Well, who are you negotiating with? Because obviously you've told us you've basically killed everyone, so you're negotiating with, and he didn't give up the name, he didn't want to give up the name. And when asked why he wasn't giving up the name, he said because he didn't want them to be killed. Now, if you believe that Trump is in charge of America, I don't, but if you do, that's that's what we're supposed to believe. Why would that person be killed if he gave up the name? He's in charge. Surely he's the one would order it. And if there's people underneath him that can go behind his back and kill people, he might want to have a word. What he's alluding to there is that Israel will kill him. So is that part of it? Could be, of course, or more likely, in my opinion, you may disagree, other opinions are available. Is this yet more Israel, United States mind games? Because, of course, we had the 12-day war last year, and how that started was there were negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians, which at the time everyone seemed to think was going particularly well, it was going great, and you know, a deal was in was within reach. The Iranians had basically agreed to give up quite a lot because, believe it or not, they're not actually building a nuclear weapon in two weeks. That's just nonsense. And then suddenly America attacks um the Iranians during a negotiation. And of course, you know, that caught Iran by surprise. It shouldn't really, you shouldn't trust anyone, but there you go. And so then you had the 12-day conflict. Uh Iran gave Israel a bit of a battering, and then there was an off-ramp and whatever. Then we circle back around, and with this particular conflict, again, it started during a negotiation, one that sources within the UK and within the Gulf states says was going great. The Iranians had agreed to pretty much everything the Americans had demanded. They'd booked in another round of negotiations, suddenly Israel attacks Iran out of nowhere, again taking them by surprise, which shocks me given that you I mean you got done the first time. You think you'd expect it the second time, but there you go. So, with that in mind, is it really a stretch to think that actually what what is going on here is we have all this talk of negotiations and peace, again, like we did the last two times, and Israel, on the face of it, isn't overly happy about it. So they bomb the living daylights out of Iran for 48 solid hours, taking out as much as they can, of course. 48 hours is a long time to be bombing someone, especially with the military capabilities they've been handed by the US taxpayer. And then when Iran is picking itself up after 48 hours of bombardment on the 49th hour, the American troops land for their ground invasion. Something that's being set up and is openly being admitted to have been setting up. You've got all these troops being sent over to the Gulf. Is that too much of a stretch? Do you reckon? That actually they're playing or at least attempting to play Iran again. Oh, yeah, let's talk about peace again. Of course, there's stuff going on with the markets and you know, insider trade and all that stuff. That's that's another element to this, of course. But is that part of it? That actually they're they're trying to, you know, lure Iran into a false sense of security. Israel gives them 48 hours of bombardment, then when they're you know dusting themselves off from that, suddenly, bosh, you've got American troops on the ground. That is possible, of course. But then at the same time, if I'm sat here and I've thought of that, you'd think the Iranians would have thought of it as well. But the evidence would suggest possibly otherwise, given the last two attacks took them by surprise during negotiations. Um, or is it even more sinister than that? Like I'm asking these questions genuinely, and also, you know, they can all be true, or none of them true at the same time. Um, will Israel blitz Iran? 48 hours, that's what he wants, blitz Iran, knowing that Iran will retaliate, and then they can use that as an opportunity to destroy Al-Aska Mosque, say it was the Iranians, which has already been spoken about in Israel, by the way. Um, and at that point, things really kick off. Now, someone made quite a good point to me, actually. Because I asked this question yesterday on social media, like, is this what's going on here? There's all these things that could possibly be true or possibly not true. We'll see. And um, and I said, you know, obviously, there's that talk in Israel about the fact that they want to well, there's no secret about they want to get rid of Temple Mount Alas Kamas, they want to replace it with a third temple. Like, we know that, that they don't hide that fact. So, is it beyond the realms that it could be taken out, uh, claimed to be the Iranians, and they get to build their third temple or whatever, you know, that is a possibility. And this person came back to me and was like, well, why would they deny it? I think that Israel will just take it out and be quite bold as brass with the fact that they've done it. And that is a possibility too. Because underneath this, you do have this uh crazy messianic end-of-days uh Gogamagog war element to this stuff, and of course, in that prophecy, it says that the nations will turn against Israel. Well, if Israel takes out Alaska Mosque openly, you will find that several nations will turn on Israel, and at that point, we have got a serious powder cake, which is exactly what they want. They need this war to do enough to destroy the old world, to destroy the old world order, to bring in the new world order, the build back better, the new normal. You'll own nothing Alan, you'll be happy. So, is it beyond the realms that actually that's exactly what could play out? Now, the reason I'm asking all these questions is to get people thinking. Because what will happen is suddenly we will be presented something on the on the nine o'clock news or whatever, with all the talking bubbleheads putting their spin on it and whatever, and we will be expected, because that's the conditioning, to react in a certain way. And what that reaction, the one they desire, will be to give consent for further escalation, give consent for further freedoms to be taken away, or whatever. So that's why I think it's really important to ask so many questions, even if it's just to plant seeds, even if it's listen to this. It could be nothing, but just listen to this. So that when you get presented with stuff as fact and packaged in a way so as to make you react, to make you give an emotive response, so that you hand your consent for further escalations for whatever, that actually people go, hang on a minute. I've heard this before. I saw some prat with trending written behind his head who was asking this question. So now I'm going to ask it too. That for me is the point of asking questions. Another element, just finally, was what I was talking about on on um Garethite this week, yesterday. Um, and that's an interesting episode, too, ladies and gentlemen, on iconic.com. Because I actually spoke to a journalist in Lebanon and he'd set himself up on top of the building in Beirut, so you had like the cityscape in the background, looked great, it was like cool, and then he was like, Oh, hang on. And there was an Israeli airstrike went over the top, and it's like this is the reality of this madness. Everyone's playing video games in the West, it's like a reality TV show. Whereas over there, no, it's just freaking reality, mate. And so he actually ended up having to stop, go and move to another location. So it's it's crazy. Anyway, at the start of the show, I was making the point, several different reasons why this is going on, why there's this talk of peace. Now, this war's not meant to end. It's not meant to end because no wars end. They just move to another theater and they give you another actor, another good guy, and another bad guy. So this war ends in the Middle East. Brilliant, well done, we've got peace, we've got liberation, we've got X, Y, oh no, another one's kicked off over there. Oh no, that one's done. Well done, everyone. Great negotiations, cool, 100,000 dead. Oh well, what's that among friends? No, oh no, it's kicked off here again. Whereas every war is exactly the same. It's them versus us, it's the 1%, the globalists, the deep state, whatever you want to label them, it's them versus the people. Every war has two sides, and it's the same two sides, right? So then you ask yourself, why, if it's a forever war, just as Julian Assange said it was, the the with the war on terror and all this stuff, it's never meant to end. It's meant to just flare up, slow down, flare up, slow down, but it never ends. Why then would you talk of peace and all this kind of stuff if it's a forever war and you know it's a forever war? Well, if people know it's a forever war, they're gonna fight it, they're gonna do something about it, they're not gonna agree to it, because why would you? But if you think, oh, maybe it's over in a week, maybe it's over in two weeks, then you're more inclined to either sit back and do nothing and trust the plan, or go, okay, well, okay, I'll support it. I'll I'll pay a little bit more at the petrol station. Okay, you know, I'll pay a little bit more for my groceries, maybe I won't eat so much, maybe I won't travel so much, because it's only a couple of weeks, right? So the carrot of peace is not within reach. Can't grab it, but you can see it. You have to be able to see it. Because the minute you can't see it, the minute it's out of sight, it's gone. Well, now I've got a problem. So they keep it dangling. And I was making the point, innit? That's why they said two weeks to flatten the curve and not two years to flatten the curve. Because if they'd have told you to stay at home and watch Bargain Hunt for two years, you'd have said not tonight, Henry, no chance, mate. But when they said two weeks, you go, Oh, it's only two weeks. It's two weeks of misery for a long-term happiness and a long-term safety, right? No, mate. They just told you that. And it's the same here. And um, and as someone that's you know followed Israel and Palestine and the Middle East, you know, since probably about 2009, I went out and played beat soccer for England against Israel, saw things that I didn't like and saw things that didn't tally with what I was being told on the television news. And at that point, I kind of got interested in it. And what I found over all these years is that the days before a ceasefire or the hours before a ceasefire is meant to start are the most dangerous. Now, of course, a ceasefire hasn't been negotiated, but we're being told, Carrot, we're being told that Trump's negotiations are are ongoing. We're being told that Netanyahu's freaking out that within 48 hours there could be a negotiation resolution. So he's going right 48 hours, we're gonna we're gonna carpet bomb, right? There's nothing new. So for me, what I've never understood with ceasefires, if you agree a ceasefire, start it now, mate. Start it like literally done, but they don't. Ceasefire starts in six hours. We've seen it in Gaza not just in this particular instance, but in previous in 2009, in 2014, 15. Oh, we're gonna we've negotiated a ceasefire, starts in in six hours, and then that six hours are the heaviest bombardment sometimes of the entire conflict. It's like I need I need to get as much death and destruction in before, you know, before my alarm goes off. So when Netanyahu sat there saying, you know, 48 hours, you know, believe him. Okay, that's the end of the um free social media section of trending. You can head over to iconic.com. The the URL is in the description below. Head over there, you just need to pop your email in, it's completely free. And um, and we're gonna talk about um digital ID, um, Apple bringing in age checks for UK iPhone users. Snuck that one in there, didn't they? And we're also gonna have a look at this situation in Gold's Green, which has now become a global news story, um, where the British government is now replacing these ambulances um following a charity arson attack.
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