This week we learn that government continues to double-down on its own paranoia of the public finding out the real scale of its corruption and collusion with dirty corporations, international terrorists and more. How deep does this rabbit hole go?

UK Column anchor Mike Robinson is joined by guest host Patrick Henningsen for this week’s international news round-up.

START – Damien Collins: interim report on disinformation & ‘fake news’ Disinformation: ‘a crisis in our democracy’… Tech companies to be made responsible and liable Government middleman to be created for regulation…? Changing the rules on political campaigning
06:35 – New York Times: meet AG Sulzberger, our new publisher NYT warns Donald Trump that attacks on the MainStream Media are dangerous… The term ‘fake news’ has backfired spectacularly on the MainStream Media MSM propaganda caused violence against thousands if not millions in Middle East New York Times website: public comments section promised last summer… Experienced journalists are being purged across MainStream Media Trump: NYT & Washington Post write bad stories even on positive achievements
13:58 – Reuters: Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones Fascistbook chooses who can and who cannot have free speech Jeremy Corbyn’s Farcebook account now under threat… Facebook gets to pick the winners and the losers…democracy collapses
18:30 – Intimidation in public life: government plans ‘electoral offence’ – the Harassment threat being used by politicians to avoid difficult questions…
20:31 – Reach: new name for Trinity Mirror Group – loses £113.5 million BBC’s Lyse Doucet has a different view on journalism MSM desperate to try and rehabilitate their image…
24:35 – MH370 report: aircraft loss possibly caused by ‘unlawful interference’ 21st Century Wire articles: Boeing’s ‘Uninterruptible Autopilot System’ https://21stcenturywire.com/2014/08/0…MH370 found…? Not quite – now the real whitewash begins https://21stcenturywire.com/2014/03/2…
31:58 – Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in China today China’s Wang Li: The affairs of Hong Kong are domestic affairs of China
34:33 – Syria: are we saving Syrian ‘heroes’ or just importing more fanatics…? The white helmets are exclusively Sunni/Salafi Muslim men Western governments terrified of white helmets speaking to western media…
40:59 – Policy Exchange: border audit proposal – a constitutional threat Presumption of Innocence in danger…? Show me your papers…
44:16 – Barnet Council discusses stripping Jeremy Corbyn of his allotment The ‘antsemitism’ trope is out of control…

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