In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, host Russell Brand is joined by the Awakened Wonder's own Russell Brand to discuss a variety of topics, including the latest on the latest in the ongoing war in the Middle East, and the ongoing question of whether or not Joe Biden has what it takes to be president.
00:03:03.000We're talking about how surveillance programs introduced after 9-11 are being prolonged, exploiting this ongoing escalating global tension across that region, but across the world more broadly.
00:03:19.000In fact, if I was to theme the show today, the theme would be Oh no!
00:05:23.000I guess the majority of you don't want him to remain in office.
00:05:26.000Have you seen the story that Trump's popularity... I mean, if there's anything that indicates the deep loathing of the establishment, it's how Trump's continued But and continuing indictments and trials and court cases seem to simply function as a promotional campaign.
00:05:49.000If you hate the establishment, then the establishment's enemies are your friend.
00:05:54.000If you don't trust the legacy media, the people that the legacy media don't want you to like are Probably on your side.
00:06:02.000If we could advocate for anything here, and actually we can because we're on Rumble, it would be, please, I pray, I pray to you, almighty God, may we be strong enough to overcome our differences as individuals and cultural communities, to unite, to create a decentralised but unified opposition to systemic Corruption.
00:06:22.000Certainly, you can no longer claim that Biden and the Democrats are a unifying party, not even, as they used to famously claim, among ethnic minorities, specifically African-Americans.
00:06:35.000Remember when Joe Biden said, if you don't vote Democrat, you're not black?
00:06:40.000Reading in the crosstabs, the most important part, as Phil reminds us, just all of those, from women to Hispanic voters, black voters, 22% of black voters behind Trump, that is not seen in the modern era for a Republican frontrunner, right?
00:07:02.000I looked at the Democratic response, Kevin Munoz, the spokesman for Biden, and this idea that, you know, we have a year, we can turn things around.
00:07:12.000I think you have to look at this being a challenge from the very beginning, right?
00:07:15.000Black voters from the very beginning were saying that we will help you get Joe Biden into office.
00:07:20.000Stoic perception says they're all puppets.
00:07:22.000The sooner you realize they all work for something other than us, the sooner you can get over future disappointments.
00:07:28.000Then that rather insightful comment is brought low by a nefarious monster with his, I'm assuming his, usual praise for glory holes and curious advocacy for Christianity.
00:09:54.000After that little moment of amnesia, it's difficult for me to criticise Joe Biden because, you know, I just forgot something pretty bloody important.
00:10:07.000You'll all have seen this at some time because Biden continually tells this story about, you know, travelling on an Amtrak train, meeting a guy called Angelo who pinched his cheek.
00:10:19.000It's a really sort of weird story and it's untrue in so many ways.
00:10:24.000Like, I think he says he's on his way to visit his mother and his mother, God rest her eternal soul, had already expired.
00:11:51.000And he grabbed my cheek, he said, Joey, baby!
00:11:53.000And he said, all this time, because that's published in the newspaper, that I had travelled a million two hundred thousand miles on Air Force planes as vice president.
00:12:37.000As well as that, do you remember when in Hawaii, speaking to the many grieving, desperate people in the wake of the tragic fires, he said that he'd had a fire in his kitchen once when his lake got struck by lightning, and that Proved to be a dubious little yarn.
00:12:51.000I suppose it's only sort of folky homespun anecdotes that Joe Biden can offer now.
00:12:57.000No wonder his popularity is plummeting.
00:13:01.000What's extraordinary as well is that as we still advocate for ongoing war publicly with Russia, with new packages being demanded, I think another 60 billion dollar package has just been requested, Vladimir Zelensky seems to be fretting that funding is approaching an end.
00:13:23.000Have a look at Zelensky now on American media, sort of saying he's begging for credit.
00:13:50.000And this story ain't any better because there's now a missile sub in the Middle Eastern region, which I suppose is to amplify... What's the story about the dying dog?
00:14:34.000That Suez Canal seems to be a little avenue of disaster for former colonial powers.
00:14:40.000The UK, the country I'm from, got a bloody nose in the 1950s in a dispute around that region, and to see a nuclear submarine making its merry way down like an atomic whale is a foreboding sign for the future.
00:14:55.000The Rio Rocket, I don't care about subs.
00:15:20.000So let's bring in CNN Pentagon correspondent Oren Lieberman with more on this.
00:15:23.000So despite being forthcoming about these additional reinforcements, Orrin, we continue to see an increase in the number of attacks against U.S.
00:15:46.000Correct, so let's deal with both of those separately.
00:15:48.000First, there's the issue of the submarine, a guided-missile submarine, an Ohio-class, heading through the Suez Canal.
00:15:54.000I think someone's saying that the submarines are always in that region, but do you not remember Trump getting some heat for revealing the locations of submarines?
00:16:05.000Well Darren, that joins a list of US forces, certainly naval forces, already in the region.
00:16:09.000Two carrier strike groups, an amphibious ready group, that's more than 10,000 sailors right there alone, as well as that submarine.
00:16:16.000The Navy and the Pentagon are normally very secretive When you say 10,000 sailors, that sounds a bit less menacing.
00:16:23.000Just sounds like rather a nice evening.
00:16:25.000Marine, for Jesus Christ, why are we watching CNN?
00:16:37.000We're watching CNN so that we can critique the manner in which they convey news, the unquestioning version of reality that they present, just to give us the opportunity to, you know, even if we're just gonna make a few jokes about that guy's hairline.
00:16:53.000This canal there, a message very much to Iran and its proxies, but they have not been silent either.
00:16:59.000has attributed many of the attacks, and we've seen 38 since October 17th against U.S.
00:17:04.000forces in Iraq and Syria, many of those attributed to or blamed on Iran and its proxies in the region.
00:17:10.000Most of those have been carried out by suicide drones, one-way attack drones, Let's have a look at Ryan Paul now.
00:17:24.000Ryan Paul is slamming the heads of the FBI and DHS for pressuring big tech to censor Americans.
00:17:35.000That was already revealed in the Twitter files, but let's have a look at that.
00:17:38.000Is DHS still meeting with social media companies to discuss content moderation?
00:17:46.000Ranking Member Paul, you and I have discussed this before.
00:17:50.000We do not meet with social media companies for the purpose of instructing them to take down content.
00:17:58.000You've never had any meetings with the social media companies to discuss content moderation?
00:18:05.000What we have done in the past, Ranking Member Paul, as I shared with you previously, is we, along with other federal agencies, have met with social media companies in a public-private partnership to speak of the threats to the homeland so that those companies are alert to them.
00:18:23.000Do you think a threat to the homeland is a discussion of vaccine efficacy?
00:18:31.000I'm a ranking member of Paul, and I should say... If you think that just by saying ranking member Paul, he can keep this sweet, don't he?
00:18:38.000I must say, I've never seen Rand Paul doing anything that I disagree with.
00:18:41.000He's the only person that says stuff you wish that you had the opportunity to say, isn't it?
00:18:46.000He's always going, like, Fauci should... Oh, no, I won't get into that while we're still on YouTube.
00:18:49.000But, like, he has the kind of confrontations that you kind of are crying out for someone within the system to have.
00:18:57.000If you'll have your staff read, and I think it'd be good for you to read also the Missouri versus Biden case, it lists time and time again discussion of constitutionally protected speech that has nothing to do with national security.
00:19:11.000So when you say you didn't meet to do that, yes, you were meeting, you just disagree with the characterization of it.
00:19:17.000Were you meeting with social media companies to discuss content moderation?
00:19:52.000I'm sort of, at the moment, wondering which geopolitical crisis is going to escalate to the point of our shared nemesis.
00:20:00.000Is it going to be that we can't communicate?
00:20:02.000Is it that legacy media is attempting to stomp all independent media and all ability for us to openly communicate?
00:20:09.000Is it the constant escalation of all wars?
00:20:12.000Is it the sort of constant cultural conflagrations that we seem unable to overcome?
00:20:19.000Is it the annihilation of the spiritual dimension of human life?
00:20:23.000I mean, what is it that's gonna take us out first?
00:20:26.000There's 20,000 of you guys joining us today and I'm so glad that you're with us.
00:20:30.000Let's see how this lovely person gets through the rest of this hearing, mostly by saying ranking member, Paul.
00:20:37.000In a minute, tell us what you'd like to see first.
00:20:39.000Do you want to see Edward Snowden talking about the King of England's new speech, or do you want to see Albert Baller talking about Pfizer's new spokesperson, the fella what goes out with Taylor Swift?
00:20:52.000You got one name because you're American, he's a big star.
00:20:54.000Kousa, Travis, I can't get into the details, that's not my job.
00:20:58.000Edward, so do you want to see, press one for the Snowden on the King, two for Albert Baller discussing Taylor Swift's fella.
00:21:06.000We met on a periodic basis with other federal agencies and a group of social media companies to speak with them about the threat environment that the homeland faced.
00:21:37.000And the reason the meetings aren't occurring is because a federal judge placed an injunction on you and the Biden administration acknowledged that they're not having the meetings.
00:21:51.000So you at least acknowledge that the court is talking to you about this and saying what you were doing was violating the First Amendment.
00:21:59.000Is the FBI still meeting with social media companies?
00:22:04.000We're having some interaction with social media companies, but all of those interactions have changed fundamentally in the wake of the court's rulings.
00:22:13.000We've had to just wind that in a little because people are frankly a little suspicious about it.
00:22:21.000Here's his post about the King of England.
00:22:25.000The masculine nurse complained about the cost of living from your gold chair while wearing your mama's snow leopard snuggie and egg-sized diamond hat.
00:23:57.000Join us over on Rumble right now to watch that.
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00:24:37.000We all recognize that the attack by Hamas was devastating.
00:24:42.000We can all see now that the subsequent military activity is a humanitarian disaster that may yet escalate into a global holy war that could kill us all, particularly if it were to co-join with the escalating tensions in Russia and potential events in China.
00:25:02.000But what's also pretty bad is it's being used, as always, to exploit the domestic population of the UK, the USA, excuse me, by maintaining surveillance laws that there's no place for.
00:25:15.000What you're going to love about this is a conversation between a member of the legacy media and a member of the government machinery where you can see the coziness between those two institutions, neither of whom are going to do anything To protect your freedom or to ensure that you can have open communication.
00:26:03.000Thank you so much for staying with us at a time of crisis and difficult conversations that have to be undertaken because it seems that the more crisis there are, the more exploitation by centralized authority is undertaken in order to, for example, introduce mass surveillance bills that were first introduced after 9-11 but have continued Ever since, usually under the auspices of spying on terrorists or preventing terrorism, homegrown terrorists, far-flung terrorists, terror terror everywhere and not a drop to drink.
00:26:32.000Terrible as this crisis is for everybody involved, difficult though it is to see a solution that's not going to mean havoc across the world, death and suffering of vulnerable people everywhere.
00:26:43.000We have to continue this conversation along the lines of who is exploiting it, And to what end?
00:26:49.000The mass surveillance programs that were introduced after 9-11, as Edward Snowden pointed out at the time, were against all of our civil rights.
00:26:57.000These bills and measures we use to spy on US citizens abroad, foreign citizens elsewhere, domestic citizens.
00:27:03.000It's a very messy piece of legislation and it's continuing.
00:27:07.000Have a look at this conversation between a member of the legacy media and a member of the government where they talk about this legislation as if it's all upside.
00:27:14.000As if this legislation hasn't been continually misused to spy on people unnecessarily and illegally.
00:27:20.000So I want to turn to something that was discussed earlier in this program and that is section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
00:27:33.000Complicated issue is euphemism for it's illegal.
00:27:42.000But notice how a member of the legacy media just hands a question to a government official in a way that's just entirely, in a sense I suppose, collaborative.
00:27:52.000It's not like, this is a journalist, this is a journalist, do you remember there was a time when a journalist would go, excuse me, what the hell's going on?
00:27:58.000Why are you using this piece of legislation to spy on your own citizens?
00:28:01.000How on earth can Hamas's terrible attack on Israel and the spiralling disaster that's emerging from it justify us spying on our own citizens?
00:28:09.000Tell me now how these things are connected.
00:28:11.000That's not how the media treats the state.
00:28:14.000The media, the state and corporatism are all 100% aligned against You!
00:28:19.000Just take 30 or 40 seconds and explain to this audience... I mean, look at the atmosphere of this.
00:28:25.000They're just a couple of mates having a chat.
00:28:27.000The subject of this is, just so I can give you a different interpretation, is it all right for the government to spy on citizens without their permission?
00:28:35.000Remember Edward Snowden's Revelations, like where he had a sort of a freaky meltdown?
00:28:38.000Did you ever see that film, Citizenfour?
00:28:47.000Now, listen, let's take 30 seconds or so to discuss this.
00:28:51.000Why is it so important that we don't have any law and order except for poor and ordinary people?
00:28:57.000Also, they make it sound so bloody boring, don't they?
00:28:59.000Section 702... It's so tedious, you can't wrap your mind around it.
00:29:04.000But what it actually is, is they're spying on you, you can't trust the state, you can't trust the media.
00:29:09.000Just take 30 or 40 seconds and explain to this audience 30 or 40 seconds?
00:29:15.000Let us not spend, you know, for example, hours and hours justifying why we should be able to spy on all of our citizens, why it's ordinary to expect that you are like a subject or a child and the government is like your parent and you have no power and it's okay to tax you and tell you what to do and lie to you and spy on you and deceive you.
00:29:36.000What's been going on for the last three years?
00:29:38.000Have you not noticed yet that crises are used to generate opportunity for the powerful?
00:30:08.000What section 702 allows you to do and why you think it's so important?
00:30:14.000Well, thanks for the opportunity, because let me tell you, David... Well, thanks for not asking me any difficult questions or saying, you know, this is disgusting, it's abhorrent.
00:30:22.000If this was taking place in a country that we had some grievance against, we would use it as an example of it being a banana republic or a crazy dictatorship.
00:30:30.000It's so important to me that I can just trot out trite answers and never be challenged.
00:30:35.000That way we can keep people dumb and distracted, particularly with the ongoing attempts to crush dissenting voices in the independent media.
00:30:42.000And thank you, by the way, for helping with that.
00:30:44.000If we lose this authority, it is catastrophic for our national security efforts.
00:30:51.000Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a foreign intelligence authority that allows our intelligence community to go after the communications of non-U.S.
00:31:34.000I've been watching what's been going on in the news.
00:31:36.000Plainly, we're living in a fractured world where better voices need prevail.
00:31:40.000Granting authority to the state with a legacy media that never asks any difficult questions, that just amplifies their message, is not going to help you.
00:32:12.000Non-US persons, foreign individuals, operating outside the United States.
00:32:18.000It is vital to our ability to understand threats, from cyber threats, to nation-state adversaries, to Russia, Chinese, Iran, North Korea plans and intentions across a whole host of threats.
00:32:33.000It's like a list of things to be terrified of.
00:32:36.000What a terrifying and awful world it is when viewed through this lens.
00:32:41.000There's no question that there are competing ideologies.
00:32:44.000There's no question that the world can be a pretty terrifying place.
00:32:46.000But one of the things that's most terrifying is the willingness of the state to exploit crisis in order to assert more power over you, not anybody else.
00:33:20.000A huge amount of that intelligence is gathered as a result of this authority.
00:33:26.000Now, why is it vital to the job I do today, to the job of the FBI, whose job is to protect
00:33:33.000the United States, to protect the homeland?
00:33:36.000I don't know that that's entirely true.
00:33:37.000I feel like there's been one or two stories lately about the FBI creating fake crises in order to arrest ordinary Americans.
00:33:44.000I feel like there are several stories about the FBI infiltrating organizations and creating false flag situations.
00:33:50.000Let me know in the chat in the comments if you know what I'm referring to.
00:33:53.000In a sense, what the media and the government are demanding of you in this conversation is that you trust them and that you regard them as kind of parents.
00:34:00.000Is that the relationship that you want, particularly when you know that these are malign, corrupt, untrustworthy parents?
00:34:06.000And indeed, don't you actually just want authority in your own life, in your own community, your own relationship with a higher power, your own relationship with one another?
00:34:14.000Do you want the constant intercession of the state?
00:34:17.000So how are they going to get you to comply?
00:34:19.000By terrifying you continually and denying that there's any alternative.
00:34:23.000It's because our ability to actually take action, and the FBI is solely responsible for taking action to prevent what happens from those adversaries here at home.
00:34:38.000What is simple is that the state wants power and that the media doesn't want to ask difficult questions.
00:34:44.000Their ability to do that successfully is really dependent on their ability to have that information from 702 and to be able to access it and understand it.
00:34:57.000Our ability to understand what China, Russia, Iran are doing in cyberspace against our critical infrastructure, we get to understand that because of this authority.
00:35:07.000And then the FBI gets to act to prevent that, to mitigate those threats.
00:35:12.000Okay, well that sounds terrifying and reasonable enough.
00:35:19.000Let's have a look at some alternative perspectives and analysis on this piece of legislation and how it might be exploited and used against you.
00:35:26.000And just remember what's been going on for the last three years and how crises have been used to manipulate you.
00:35:31.000The people that are talking to you there didn't After the 2008 financial crash, we're just going to investigate these financial interests, find out exactly what went on, and make sure that the perpetrators are handled judiciously.
00:35:41.000During the whole pandemic crisis, did the legacy media ask relevant questions of people in power, people that are making decisions, or did they unquestionably amplify their message?
00:35:50.000You let me know in the chat before you grant any more authority to these corrupt individuals
00:35:54.000and corrupt institutions to spy on you whenever they want to, not that they really need your
00:35:58.000authority or permission. During a senate briefing last week a federal counter-terrorism official
00:36:02.000cited the October the 7th Hamas attack while urging congress to reauthorize a sprawling and
00:36:07.000controversial surveillance program repeatedly used to spy on US citizens on US soil. Of course the conflation
00:36:13.000of these ideas is important if you want to legitimize new legislation that grants ongoing
00:36:20.000You have to say this is like that in order to do this.
00:36:24.000In the same way that the funding of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the conflict in Israel and a potential conflict between China and the US are all being bundled together financially, it's an odd way of approaching things.
00:36:35.000I recognise that there are budgets and that there are departments, but when there are complex and disparate and distinct conflicts, Wouldn't it be better to look at them individually and recognize that these complex ideas need individual analysis?
00:36:48.000As evidenced by the events of the past month, the terrorist threat landscape is highly dynamic and our country must preserve counterterrorism fundamentals to ensure constant vigilance, said Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Christine Abizade, to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security after making repeat references to Hamas's attack on Israel.
00:37:18.000Do you know now that a lot of the messaging that we received was inaccurate?
00:37:23.000And a lot of that messaging they knew was inaccurate when they gave us it.
00:37:27.000So this kind of language, the perpetuation of a state of continual fear, is necessary in order to have a compliant and obedient population, which is what a lot of people have become.
00:37:36.000A lot of people will watch this and just go, oh I see, that's why you need surveillance.
00:37:39.000If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.
00:37:41.000If you've got something to fear alright, it's centralised authority that one day might decide that you are its enemy.
00:37:47.000She pointed to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which enables the US government to gather vast amounts of intelligence, including about US citizens, Oh, oh, what?
00:38:04.000Do you see how key principles are just being discarded as centralized power just coalesces and grows and augments like some fierce Thanos-like beast at the center of government?
00:38:16.000Section 702 provides key indications and warnings on terrorist plans and intentions, support international terrorist disruptions, enables critical intelligence support to, for instance, border security, and gives a strategic insight into foreign terrorists and their network overseas, Abizaid said.
00:38:33.000I respectfully urge Congress to reauthorize this vital authority.
00:38:37.000I'm sure they probably will, because when it comes to important matters, it seems there's generally consensus.
00:38:44.000The controversial program is set to expire at the end of the year, and lawmakers sympathetic to the intelligence community are scrambling to protect it, as some members of Congress, like Senator Ron Wyden, push for reforms that restrain the government's surveillance abilities.
00:38:58.000According to Representative Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, plans are underway to prepare a stopgap measure to preserve Section 702 of Pfizer.
00:39:09.000As a long-term reauthorization containing reforms is hammered out.
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00:40:20.000Sean Vicka, Senior Policy Counsel at the Civil Liberties Group Demand Progress, told The Intercept that now is the time to enact lasting and dramatic oversight of the 702 authority.
00:40:30.000The government has completely failed to demonstrate that any of the privacy protections reformers have called for would impair their national security, so now we're seeing people grasping at straws trying to turn everything into an excuse for reauthorisation.
00:40:51.000It's never from people that are inside the system, is it?
00:40:54.000It's always people that are outside it, even if it's sort of maverick, libertarian, occasionally, or independent-minded politicians.
00:41:00.000They're speaking against the general momentum of power.
00:41:04.000Created in 1978, Pfizer was vastly expanded in the aftermath of 9-11 to provide federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies enhanced surveillance powers.
00:41:13.000While it was originally described as a way to collect information on foreign entities, the law enables the targeting of US citizens in contact with foreign nationals.
00:41:33.000This loophole makes it easy for federal agencies to target wide swathes of the US population, and it has for years been condemned by civil liberties advocates who view it as a clear-cut instance of governmental overreach.
00:41:44.000The 702 authority has been abused to such a great extent that President Joe Biden's own intelligence advisory board recommended curtailing the FBI's ability to manipulate the authority to investigate and prosecute Americans.
00:41:56.000That's like when someone's being beaten up by gangsters.
00:43:10.000Oscar the Grouch, what's he so grumpy about?
00:43:12.000Mostly because we think they're probably friends with Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il, and the Iranians.
00:43:18.000All those guys, you know, listen to prayers.
00:43:21.000It's a complicated business, international espionage.
00:43:24.000Civil libertarians have proposed various reforms to the authority, including limits on the types of communication the FBI can search, the implementation of stringent warrant requirements to restrict FISA searches, and an end to the loophole that allows federal agencies to surveil Americans by purchasing data from private sector brokers.
00:43:40.000Oh god, America, what are we going to do?
00:43:45.000So like, look, look at what the lady said there, Lisa O Monaco.
00:43:48.000She didn't sort of go because she was trying to do it in 30 seconds in compliance and collaboration with the bloody mainstream media over there.
00:43:54.000She didn't go, well, it's not strictly true.
00:43:56.000Any Americans that speak to someone with a different This must be stopped.
00:45:16.000Edward Snowden's exiled in Russia now for trying to tell people the truth.
00:45:19.000As explained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Section 702 authorizes the U.S.
00:45:24.000government to routinely collect and search the online communications of innocent Americans without a warrant through what are commonly called Upstream and PRISM, now called Downstream Surveillance.
00:45:34.000Because PRISM was what it was called when Edward Snowden made those revelations.
00:46:01.000These activities violate Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.
00:46:06.000None of them amendments are doing anything, are they?
00:46:08.000People don't care about them, might as well have not done them amendments.
00:46:10.000The details of PRISM were disclosed by Snowden in a series of documents that indicated it is the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports.
00:46:19.000The program enables the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency to gather targeted electronic communications from the major internet service providers on demand without a warrant, store them in massive databases, and search for them as they see fit.
00:46:31.000So they just capture everything, en masse, just get it all together in case they need it later.
00:46:38.000This is terrifying and should be stopped.
00:46:41.000And the only way that you would legitimise that is, I suppose, one, if you were terrified all the time, and two, if you trusted the government, which none of us do, and I suppose if you felt there's just no alternative and it's just over and just run out of energy and you've not got enough power in yourself or inner resources to go, no!
00:47:03.000But that's actually quite exhausting, so I don't know, maybe just lay down and die in a ditch.
00:47:08.000In a letter dated February 28th to the four leaders of the Senate and House, Attorney General A.G.
00:47:13.000Merrick Garland and Director of National Intelligence, D.N.I.
00:47:16.000Avril Haines, say the prompt renewal of the surveillance law is urgent because it has proven invaluable again and again in protecting American lives and U.S.
00:47:24.000I suppose if you look at these things as kind of code, American lives and US national security, then it sort of makes sense.
00:47:43.000Because it allows people to be continually targeted, for all of us to live in a sort of state of fear, like we're being perpetually observed.
00:47:50.000That we can't trust ourselves or one another, that we don't have any privacy, that we don't have any right to privacy, that privacy is akin to criminality.
00:47:57.000And all that stuff is just throbbing away in some terrifying database somewhere.
00:48:02.000And if ever you become a problem, they can unperson you pretty quickly.
00:48:07.000The Biden administration officials give a sketchy description of the procedures of the FISA law, including the functioning of the Secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, oh this bloody place, and its annual comprehensive review of the program.
00:48:59.000The lair goes on to say that Fisk has consulted with outside advisors on multiple occasions as it exercises its rigorous and ongoing oversight of the US government's implementation of and compliance with these procedures.
00:49:25.000That's down to five decimal places approving of spying on you since 1998.99998.
00:49:32.000However, as numerous oversight and compliance reports have shown, those performing the surveillance have routinely violated the procedures of FISA law and continue to carry out queries and electronic spying on US citizens, claiming that such crimes were an inadvertent mistake.
00:49:45.000No one has ever been charged or prosecuted for these violations of the US Constitution.
00:49:49.000Even though there's 99.998% chance of getting a warrant, they still can't be bothered saying it was an inadvertent mistake.
00:49:56.000Oh no, I've accidentally spied on a bunch of people!
00:49:59.000That's so many layers of corruption, hypocrisy and ineptitude, that again, it's enough on those stories, like when you look at the pandemic and what happened for a couple of hours, that you realise, Oh God!
00:50:08.000We're going to have to completely re-evaluate our entire system of government.
00:50:11.000There are entire agencies and regulatory bodies that have to be totally disbanded.
00:51:13.000Those performing the surveillance have routinely violated the procedures of the FISA law and continue to carry out queries and electronic spying on US citizens claiming that such crimes were an inadvertent mistake.
00:51:23.000I suppose if you've got all these data I don't know.
00:51:43.000There are so many good people out there.
00:51:46.000But the problem is, is that we're killing those people and sending them to Russia instead of putting them in charge of whole agencies.
00:51:51.000The persistent and widespread violations by the FBI.
00:51:55.000Persistent, that means they're doing it all the time and it's not like narrow, it's all spilling out everywhere.
00:51:59.000Which part of the Department of Justice includes searches for information related to crime victims, protesters arrested after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd and people suspected of breaching the U.S.
00:52:12.000Oh, so here's an opportunity for the two apparent extremes of American political life to come together.
00:52:16.000Whether you're like, Black Lives Matter and defund the police, or I absolutely love Trump and the election must stop, all of that the state doesn't like you, doesn't trust you, and is spying on you.
00:52:27.000You'd be better off forming an alliance with your worst cultural enemy than going, well, I'll just hope that my side of the government wins, and then you'll be for it, my apparent enemies.
00:52:45.000If we don't, we don't actually have to, but the alternative is, I'm afraid to say, death.
00:52:49.000The Biden administration in recent months has urged Congress to reauthorize Section 702, including in a February letter to top Democrat and Republican lawmakers from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence.
00:53:01.000Albert Fox Kahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, argued that the data collected under section 702 is nothing short of a loaded gun aimed at the heart of democracy.
00:53:12.000A lawless digital dragnet systematically abused by those who swore to uphold the law.
00:53:29.000After all, we've got a loaded gun aimed at the heart of democracy, a lawless digital dragnet systematically abused by those who swore to uphold the law.
00:53:40.000As civil rights groups warned would happen, FBI agents just couldn't help themselves.
00:53:44.000Rather than follow the limits that were supposed to protect Americans from this international dragnet, agents used this terrifying tool to target protesters and domestic suspects.
00:53:53.000And the abuses should be chilling to all of us, no matter where we sit on the political spectrum, as was just demonstrated.
00:53:58.000It would have been disturbing if these sorts of egregious examples happened just a few times, but to see the FBI's systematic misuse of these resources proves that it, and the rest of the federal government, and here's the conclusion, Simply can't be trusted to wield this sort of power.
00:54:33.000There is no crisis that will not be exploited by the state to create more opportunity for power, for spying, for surveillance, for censorship, for control.
00:54:44.000Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, you could be a social justice warrior that believes in the most progressive new idea.
00:54:51.000You could believe in the most traditional religious orthodoxy.
00:55:12.000And they have that ability in spades because guess what we're doing?
00:55:16.000Arguing with one another while they pass regulations and legislation that enables them to perpetuate this corruption that's just been described here as a loaded gun pointing at the heart of democracy by those who swore to uphold the law.
00:55:30.000Can you envisage any deeper corruption?
00:55:32.000Yes, perhaps the way the pandemic was handled, perhaps the way these wars are funded, perhaps the way the Pentagon is audited.
00:55:38.000We have to do something about all of it, and we have to do something about all of it right now.
00:55:43.000Let me know what you think in the chat as well as any stories you want to see us cover in the second half
00:55:47.000In Dale I'd love to see Russell on lotus II as Ali Ryan, have you been waxed, Russell?
00:55:58.000I sometimes think when we make a piece of content like that, we have described this story perfectly.
00:56:03.000We've shown how global crises are exploited to further tyrannise the people of America and the world, that they divide us, that we may not unite against them.
00:56:12.000But a good many of the comments are For example, Jenzu, Russell's v-neck is very distracting.
00:57:21.000Ashella, our friend over there in the Awakened Wonder community, says, And Kurt Boss says, This is what happens when capitalism goes global.
00:58:22.000Unite beyond your religious differences.
00:58:24.000That's my great prayer for all of you.
00:58:25.000A lot of you want to see Alex Jones in a very, very peaceful state.
00:58:29.000And what was the... Are we going to show...
00:58:32.000You know, like, now that people don't want to have vaccines anymore for a variety of reasons, here's a few, they don't work and they might make you even worse and they cause terrible heart diseases, the Pfizer corporation has had to resort to employing top stars like Travis Kalsa.
01:00:43.000Also, do you think it's right that BioNTech, the technology that you purchased, which was funded by German taxpayers, was ultimately profitable?
01:00:53.000How come you said you wouldn't profit at all from the Pfizer vaccines and then had your most successful year in history entirely as a result of the vaccine?
01:01:04.000Why were we not allowed to talk about natural immunity?
01:01:06.000And there's quite a lot of questions, isn't there?
01:01:08.000How come that whole lab leak, I'm not bothering with the lab leak, Will you get Gareth if you get to 24,000, says the nerd far away in the rumble chat.
01:01:15.000Yeah, but you've got, you've not got time.
01:01:17.000Let's have a look at the rest of Albert Ball.
01:01:21.000Call him Mr. Pfizer in order to mock him.
01:01:25.000But the fact is, sir, isn't that the kind of awareness that you need in order to be able to... Sir, is it true that it's been a good appointment for you?
01:05:39.000Joshua Hunt, who is now subject to a sexual risk order and banned from wearing black all-in-one clothing at night in public... You will not wear black all-in-one clothing anymore, my man, and do not slither under any circumstances.
01:05:53.000...is seen crawling on the ground covered in mud.
01:05:55.00020-year-old Alex Warren was walking home with a mate after a night out at the pub last October when they bumped into the 32-year-old Hunt.
01:06:08.000They were initially said to have laughed off the incident and gave Hunt a cigarette before sending him on his way.
01:06:13.000Joshua Hunt was found guilty of two offences under the Section 4A Public Order Act.
01:06:17.000Seems like he's actually getting off on that, but I don't know.
01:09:43.000I always try to avoid the poop on the sidewalk.
01:09:47.000Why don't we get their Somerset Gimp to slither around the city streets washing the soles of people's feet with his eager tongue?
01:09:56.000If you have young children or babies crawling on those floors or carpets, you obviously don't want them to be exposed to potentially pathogenic bacteria.
01:10:05.000But how much of that bacteria can get tracked back into your home?
01:10:10.000To demonstrate, we had Emma, the ballet dancer, keep her sneakers on and walk across this carpet with fluorescent paint on her soles.
01:10:18.000There she goes, look, across her carpet.
01:10:22.000Then we turned off the lights and shined a UV light on the floor.
01:11:09.000You know, Zelensky, he was on the front of Time earlier this week, but Time is running out for Zelensky.
01:11:15.000Zelensky is kind of like in a kind of real-life Truman Show, where everyone's told him, we're going to support you in this war for a certain amount of time.
01:11:21.000He don't know that things are heading in the wrong direction.
01:11:24.000We'll be covering that in some detail tomorrow, so that's why you've got to join us live.
01:11:50.000Mostly you guys want us to make Alex Jones so relaxed, but Let's see.
01:11:55.000You join us with the best 10 questions we'll convey to him.
01:11:59.000Remember, we do meditations together, we do Bible readings, we do all sorts of stuff, so become an Awakened Wonder if you can, if it's within your means, but we need your attention much more than we need your dough, baby.
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01:12:17.000Okay, so tomorrow, If you're a member of our Awaken 1 community, like Sue Biz or Dawny or Les Boyle or Critical Thought or No Takenoku, you will be able to join us for the chat with Alex Jones.
01:12:30.000If you're a member of our Rumble community, we've got a fantastic chat.