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 UK terror alert raised to 'severe' as imminent attacks likely, according to security officials. AI spells the end for travel agents. KLM is the latest airline to halt flights over jet fuel crisis and finally, fertiliser company boss claims Iran war is putting up to 10 billion meals a day in jeopardy.

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SPEAKER_03 0:05

The UK terror alert has been raised to severe in the wake of the Golders Green attacks in North London. What does that actually mean? Well, it basically means they're expecting terror attacks imminently. And that people should be prepared, they should be vigilant, they should be watchful wherever they go, watchful of suspicious activity, suspicious-looking people, white vans, just things that don't feel quite right. So what's that gonna do? That's gonna mean people are feeling apprehensive, they're feeling anxious, they're feeling uncomfortable in areas where they should normally feel and would normally feel safe. What does this do? It occupies people's minds, it makes people feel uneasy, it adds another layer of stress, another thing to be scared about, which creates more energy, more negative energy. I mean, I've seen this a few times over the years. I remember years ago when this happened and it was raised to the even the next level up, which was critical after a couple of things uh supposedly had been uncovered about an attack planned in London, which never then happened, and nothing happened in the week following. But it did occupy people's minds. It was everything and anything people were talking about. Do we live in a very, very volatile time? Of course we do. Do we live in a time where any news story that you see would surprise you? In my case, certainly not. I I don't see anything I think that would surprise me anymore, unless all of a sudden everyone in positions of power quit and the world became a nice place. That would surprise me right now. But but realistically, today, any particular news story I don't think would would come as too much of a shock because we live in such turbulent and volatile times. But this this this essentially is telling the public to remain alert and vigilant, but not be alarmed. Well, those two things kind of don't go together. If you're being asked to remain alert, you're being asked to remain vigilant and suspicious and all of those things, then you're gonna be nervous. You're going to be alarmed. You don't feel those things unless there's a reason to feel those things. So this could be one of two things. This could be a way of creating that chaos within people, that fear. It's also a distraction. It distracts people from the devastation that's going on, whether it be their inability to put food on the table, the struggle to survive, whether it be the turbulent nature of the world seen at the moment, it creates a distraction from all of those things where I just need to I just need to be making sure that I'm not walking past the wrong place at the wrong time at the moment. I need to protect my kids, I need to protect my family. You know, that's that's my number one priority right now. Well, all of a sudden, then all those other distractions, or not distractions, that distracts you, I should say, from all those other things that would normally occupy your mind and that anger towards your government, who are the ones who are facilitating you not being able to afford this, not being able to afford that. The war in the Middle East that's basically created by two blokes, and all the knock-on effects of that that are causing your prices to rise, your holiday to be in jeopardy, all of those things kind of fall into the background a little bit when your fight for very survival is put on the table. And it feels like that's a situation they're trying to create. Trying to create a situation where, again, also, when people are in positions of fear, usually people come together to a degree and they try and stand up against what they see or perceive as some kind of common enemy. So there could be a faction there, a factor there that they are trying to, in a sense, bring about a little bit of unity towards an enemy that isn't the state. Because most people will probably agree that the state essentially are some are an enemy, whether you believe they're an enemy because of incompetence, or whether you believe they're an enemy because they are cold and calculated in terms of their destruction or attempted destruction of humanity. Most people look at the state and know that it's us versus them because it is, it really is. Yet all of a sudden, now, if there's a bit of anger against Iranian sleeper sales, let's say, in Great Britain, of which I'm sure there is some, then all of a sudden the anger towards the state diminishes significantly, and that unity is put towards another party. That could be very well be what they're trying to create here. Another option is also the energy I mentioned earlier. We know that low vibrational energy like fear, like anxiety, is like food and sustenance to these people, and they try and create as many environments that that create that energy as possible. That's why you only have to look around the world, basically. Um, Dan Jarvis, who the hell is Dan Jarvis? Dan Jarvis, the Security Minister, Dan Jarvis, sorry, uh, has said uh the increase to the threat level is not solely as a result of yesterday's attack, but also driven by an increase in broader Islamist and extreme right wing threats. The stabbings, which have been declared a major incident, a terror incident by the Metropolitan Police, are the latest of a string of incidents targeting the UK Jewish community. The severe threat means that a terrorist attack is highly likely to be committed within the next six months. Well, it's highly likely, I'd say, to be committed in the next six days, to be honest. There's something, you know, there's something going on at the moment every single week, it feels like. But to touch on the Jewish community a second is I know Gareth covered the Golders Green stabbings extensively yesterday, so I won't go into the details of those. Just more on a, you know, a metaphoric level. You couldn't say a word about Israel 10 years ago. You couldn't say a word about what they were doing in Gaza. You you couldn't say anything about their regime without being instantly cancelled from your media career, from your sports career, from your job. Even if you were, you know, working in a very standard job, they would contact your employers, they would try and uh you know create pylons on social media against you. And then all of a sudden, in the last few years, now people are saying even you know some quite extreme things that even I would look at and go, it's a bit too far. Where they are associating, they're doing what what the the Israeli regime used to do, which is they are trying to associate all Jewish people with the actions of that regime when there's many Jewish people who don't agree or stand or or support what that regime does whatsoever. But their protection was always been combining the two criticism of Israel with criticism of Jews. And also now you've got on the other side where people are just saying it's the Jews, it's the Jews, it's the Jews behind all this, when it's not, it's a faction that are using the Jewish community as a shield and as a protection, it's a mindset, and you don't have to have a particular religious ideology to possess such a mindset. Hence why there's people in on the Christian side, there's people in the uh Muslim side, all that share the same mindset, which is that basically we'll do what we want. But by allowing, well not allowing, but by this extreme rhetoric, you are gonna get martyrs and people that do things like this in gold as green. You're also gonna get coldly calculated and organized attacks on people, like we've seen in the last few weeks, whether it be attacks in the street, attacks on synagogues and so on. And in my opinion, what this could be designed to do is to create an extreme, so then they can bring in the counterbalance to that extreme, which is a brand new definition of anti-Semitism, which includes basically criticism of anything related to the Israeli regime, and all of a sudden you've silenced people. It's like you know, you create a situation where if you want to come to here, you don't offer the public this because you know usually people will push back on whatever your first offer is. You go here, you overreach slightly, and then they push back and you settle, and you reach what is considered some common ground where you've both maybe conceded a little bit. The public didn't quite want this, but you wanted to go further, so you meet in the middle. Well, what if the the meet in the middle was what you wanted all along? We spoke about this analogy when we talked about digital ID, where they reached for something so extreme, knowing probably they weren't going to get it, but they did get their foot in the door. We didn't even want them to get their foot in the door, but they have now. Whether it's the same thing with this, where they've allowed people to go so far that when they then bring in this new law, which they'd have struggled to do a few years ago, now all of a sudden they can justify it, or in the public eye, justify it because look at these attacks. Look at these attacks, look at these hate crimes. We can't allow this to continue, we have to do something to stop this. Just a possibility, just throwing that idea out there. But but fundamentally, all of this comes back down to a very simple thing, which is people hating each other, people attacking each other, vilifying each other for just sharing a different belief system. Now, to me, I think I've made it very, very clear that I think religion in all its forms, in in the way that it completely controls your mind, is a form of madness, a form of mental illness, a form of mind control. I think if you've got faith, like I have faith, your faith that you believe something is bigger than I bigger than you, when you die, something happens, you go somewhere, there's something more than this place. That's a faith. Faith that there is some kind of malevolent force that is guiding you. There's nothing wrong with that, I don't see. But when you live to the such extremes where you must hate another person because their belief system is different to yours, you must kill, or you are exonerated from responsibility for killing or harming somebody who shares a different belief system to you. When your your mind is so closed and so controlled by one particular ideology that you read in a book, or one particular preacher who tells you everything and gives you all your thoughts, that for me is way too far because those thoughts are not your own. That's not a faith, that's a control. That's a control system. That's mind control. What's the difference? Mind control, you have somebody else implanting thoughts and making you do things that sometimes you don't even know you're doing. What is the difference between that and a God dictating to you your daily life? For me, they're they're one and the same. And religion is the fundamental cause of pretty much every conflict we have ever seen, whether it be conflict in the streets on a local level, or whether it be international conflicts involving militaries and weapons, they pretty much all come back to religious ideologies and religious religious disagreements and disputes. If you look at the number of people that have been killed in the name of whatever different religion you want to pick in the last hundred years, two hundred years, you'd be astonished. Or or maybe you wouldn't, because it would far outweigh any other reason for conflict. And this probably is another example of that. This guy these guys were attacked. If these guys were walking past and they weren't dressed as Orthodox Jews, they were dressed in Adidas tracksuits, the guy would have probably carried on and waited for the next person he saw. How about we just get on with each other on a human level? How about we just deal with people in as individuals and then make of them what we will based on their actions and their behaviour. Martin Luther King still said it right. Judge someone by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Well add on to that, not their religious ideology, because there's crazy lunatics, there's lovely people, and there's everyday run-of-the-mill people in every different demographic in life, every different religion. Whether it's Jews, whether it's Christians, whether it's Catholics, whether it's Muslims, there's lunatics in all of them. And there's also some really lovely genuine people in all of them. So maybe stop allowing ourselves to be divided and falling for the trap of divide and rule. Right, thank you for watching on Twitter or YouTube. If you head over to iconic.com, we'll watch the rest to watch the rest of today's episode. We're gonna talk about AI, we're gonna talk about weather spoons, we're gonna talk about flights, and we're gonna talk about food. Quite a varied show. This morning, I'll see you over there.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

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SPEAKER_02 12:59

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