Live Recording of The Big Issue & The Protagonists on The World Today.

Hour 1: Trans Kids - The Politics Of Capture

While Governments and their enablers in the media bleat about the importance of child protection, horrific and obviously harmful medical procedures on children are acceptable. Of course the language used hides the horror of some of the most invasive and dangerous medical treatments, where there can be no consent.

Gender affirming care is defined politely as supportive, holistic, medical, psychological, and social therapies helping transgender, gender-diverse, and gender-exploring individuals align their lives with their internal gender identity, including counselling, hormone therapy, puberty blockers, surgery, and social/legal changes, "all delivered with respect and tailored to personal goals." In reality many of these treatment can only be seen as experimental or worse, involve castration, genital mutilation, breast removal - treatments that are irreversible and condemn children to an adult life of psychological trauma and ongoing and expensive medical treatments.

We ask our panel today to help us understand why our politicians are supportive of these cruel treatment of children, who or what forces - corporate, or medical are behind this phenomena of trans kids and how they have been so influential. What is what is the ultimate agenda of these social engineers and political apparatchiks and why are so many of us oblivious to the harm being done to our children before our eyes.

Mike Ryan HOST

GUESTS:

Michelle Pearse is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Christian Lobby, a Christian organisation that works to lobby lawmakers and policymakers around Australia to ensure that Christian values influence the way Australians are governed. As a dynamic leader and speaker, she is passionate about changing culture and transforming society through the truth of the gospel. In her twenties, Michelle was ACL's Western Australia State Director and National Spokesperson for Women's and Children's Issues. She also worked in an advisory role for a member of Parliament in Western Australia before moving to London with her husband to pastor a church for five years. Sequel to this, Michelle returned to Australia as CEO of ACL."

Dr Julie Sladden is a retired medical doctor and freelance writer with a passion for transparency in healthcare. Her op-eds have been published in both The Spectator Australia and The Daily Declaration.

Penny Marie is a New Zealand based independent investigative reporter, researcher, writer, coach, speaker. In 2023 she founded Let Kids Be Kids, a grassroots organisation dedicated to informing and empowering families in NZ, primarily around the issues of comprehensive sexuality education in schools, and the removal of parental rights.

Hour 2: The Eu Sanctions Colonel Jacques Baud, Xavier Moreau…and others.

On 15 December the European Council adopted sanctions against 12 additional individuals and two entities for Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) and malicious cyber activities against the EU and its member states and partners.

The Council listed "notable foreign-policy analysts embedded in institutions, think-tanks and universities closely linked to or affiliated with the Kremlin's policy and messaging apparatus, and influencers promoting pro-Russian propaganda and conspiracy theories on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as anti-Ukraine and anti-NATO narratives. Some of these are Western European former military or police officers."

The Council imposed other sanctions.

The Council statement said restrictive measures now apply to total 59 individuals and 17 entities. Those listed are subject to an asset freeze, and EU citizens and companies are forbidden from making funds, financial assets or economic resources available to them. Natural persons also face a travel ban that prohibits them from entering or transiting through EU territories.

Our panel is here to discuss these sanctions, their meaning and validity and their application to two well known and distinguished people. Col Jacques Baud, a retired Swiss colonel and intelligence officer and Xavier Moreau, journalist and ex-military officer of French army.

Are we witnessing as Prof Alfred de Zayas civilisation collapse. The EU is sanctioning Baud for publishing books and articles expressing views on the Ukraine war contrary to those of the NATO leadership? Or is this blind panic? Where to from here for Europe?

Mike Ryan HOST

GUESTS:

Prof. Alfred de Zayas, one of the leading academics in international law.

Dr John Laughland is Director of Forum for Democracy International and a lecturer in political science and history at the Catholic Institute of the Vendée in Western France.