00:00:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.660Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.420If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.620War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.
00:00:48.020Thursday 18th of June Anno Domini, 2026, Harnwell here at the helm on Steve Bannon's
00:01:03.520Warren Mobile. Before we start the show proper today I have somewhat of a public service
00:01:10.760announcement let's call it like that. For those of you active on Polymarket, over the
00:01:16.020last 24 hours there's been an absolute scandal breaking out on one of the
00:01:22.140trades, one of the markets. It was to do with permanent peace in between the
00:01:27.540United States and Iran before a series of dates. For those of you who don't know
00:01:32.060Polymarket, you're not interested in it, just stay with me for two minutes. And for
00:01:37.380those of you however who are interested in this, and I know a lot of people sort
00:01:41.340of do follow the show and take pointers off some of the analysis that comes out
00:01:45.420there has been this is one of the pony market's largest trades actually in
00:01:53.460terms of volume in the geopolitical sector for sure little less than half a
00:01:59.400billion dollars have been traded on this and the scandal is effectively this I
00:02:04.440mean that the criteria of resolution is what they called for an event contract
00:02:11.600were quite specific. No permanent peace that explicitly ruled out by
00:02:17.660definition temporary ceasefire extensions. Okay it was a permanent peace
00:02:26.060fire. Now this is a message that I would like to get out to all the folks on
00:02:32.660Polymarket. I'd be grateful for those who are active there if they clipped this
00:02:36.640posted it and put it out on discord and wherever that it seems to be the case and this is the
00:02:45.740suggestion is literally one person commenting after another on this talking about class action
00:02:51.400lawsuits it seems to be the case that the adjudicating authority that polymarket uses to
00:02:59.140decide whether an event contract has been resolved or not, called UMA, U-M-A, was
00:03:07.240that the nine anonymous crypto wallets that had that vote were large holders
00:03:13.580in the yes position. What I'd like, everybody I would like who has, who's
00:03:18.640perhaps lost money on this, perhaps interested in getting together for class
00:03:22.720action lawsuit contact me send an email to Ben at Harnwell dot IT for Italy
00:03:31.700Ben at Harnwell dot IT get that message out and let's say I want to know I want
00:03:37.660to hear from you do you think that the that the that the resolution criteria
00:03:43.660were resolved and an underhand fashion perhaps you're concerned that the 98 or
00:03:50.62099.8% of those votes from UMA came in before the text of the Memorandum of Understanding had even been released.
00:04:00.360All these sorts of things. People are extremely agitated.
00:04:03.160I'd like you to come here onto the war room, share that information with me, ben.harnwell.it.
00:04:10.040A lot of anger there. I've been noticing this myself.
00:04:13.280Some people have lost millions of dollars over this.
00:04:16.160It would appear to be the case that on some of the larger markets,
00:04:21.720polymarket isn't so much as a predictions market on specific events happening or not.
00:04:27.400It's a prediction market is how will the adjudicating authority of URMA resolve?
00:04:34.120Are they invested in one side of the position or not?
00:04:36.680Big, big things, considering that a lot of newspapers these days
00:04:40.040are going to the predictions markets for source material.
00:04:44.880Okay, thanks for that. As I say, ben.harnwell.it for Italy. Please do get this clip out, get this message out to everyone who needs to see it. Invite them to contact me.
00:04:57.100So on with the show. First guest of today is Vadim Dirksen, the senior editor of Junger Freiheit, who has been on the show many, many times before.
00:05:08.840Vadim, thanks for coming on. We're going to be discussing two things today really related to the suppression of free speech in Germany.
00:05:18.820Let's talk off. First of all, I gather that that your superb newspaper has been suppressed by Mark Zuckerberg's meta, specifically your channel on WhatsApp.
00:05:33.760Is that correct? That's correct. Yes. I was the admin of this channel.
00:05:39.300we we um established it was started the channel uh three years ago uh when the function was rolled
00:05:47.380out and we gathered lots of people already and we were posting on a regular basis just our articles
00:05:54.500and the last time i was here in the show i think i talked about a subject um where i have to be
00:06:02.680very careful about the words i'm using i don't know where you're going to post all these videos
00:06:06.740except x and other platforms uh but if i'm gonna talk about some or use some words they might be
00:06:15.380blocked on meta anytime so it was the subject was uh we we just um reported uh some some outraged
00:06:25.860parents came to us and they said the there's some dudes at our school funded by the government and
00:06:32.760they show gay porn to our kids and uh we were reporting that we we we just uh
00:06:39.880uh wrote an article about that and i posted this link onto our channel
00:06:47.720uh the next morning i'm waking up uh uh usually what i do i check my whatsapp and i
00:06:53.720i didn't get in it said it was blocked and then um i understood why immediately because that was
00:07:03.640i saw the channel was deleted also i tried to get access from the different number i have a second
00:07:11.860one and i was just dead so they not only deleted the whatsapp channel our official channel they
00:07:21.660also deleted my private number where i was admin with so um all my contacts were now dead i could
00:07:30.980not usually if you change your number you know how it works you get a new number you it automatically
00:07:37.360notifies every uh contact of you that uh you have now a new whatsapp number and they can save it
00:07:44.400i wasn't able to do that so this number belongs to me like 15 years i have good dear friends from
00:07:51.540old times there and i cannot write them and tell them hey guys you can't reach out to me on this
00:07:58.220other number or telegram or whatever this is dead
00:08:01.760let me just let me just make sure i understand that are you drawing apart are you drawing are
00:08:13.000you connecting dots here are you suggesting it was the fact that you came on the wall i remember
00:08:18.360this it was it was like a month or so ago you were talking about the the the the the porn and
00:08:23.540the lgbt uh indoctrination in schools i i remember it we had to we had to tone down the photos you
00:08:30.380um you yourself if i remember correctly you you shaded over some the photos that they're showing
00:08:36.060to kids in schools would were too graphic for us to be able to show on the war room are you telling
00:08:41.440me that as a consequence of your appearance on the war room you believe your channel on whatsapp
00:08:48.840younger freiheit's channel on whatsapp and your own personal uh profile were both cancelled within
00:08:55.02024 hours of you appearing here on this show not about specifically that moment but we uh this
00:09:03.760article this link which you uh from our website i posted it on the channel and it had all these
00:09:12.220uh these these words and the buzzwords in there like pornography uh homosexual children and
00:09:22.040everything like that so i think the the the algorithm snapped in the and they they deleted
00:09:31.220it so the funny thing is hang on vadim yeah let me get this right let me get this right
00:09:37.520so you posted to your channel on whatsapp your appearance on the war room that presumably it
00:09:45.720was that it was either the x the clip for x or on twitter or the rumble or the other clip on rumble
00:09:51.820one of those two clips you put out posted that on your channel and you think as a consequence
00:09:56.460of that either innocently because of the words that were in the the the film or because of
00:10:03.360political suppression your um your your channel uh was suppressed so the funny thing is we we get
00:10:11.960lost i mean uh it might be zuckerberg but i also think it's more the eu who is blocking it under
00:10:19.440So the appearance of child safety on the Internet, they block and delete sensitive information and they try to push the censorship on the social media networks.
00:10:41.020So, just imagine, the government implements a law against child pornography.
00:10:50.540This leads to the deletion and cancel of our news channel.
00:10:56.840At the same time, they fund guys who go into the schools and show them the porn stuff, let's say, offline, just print it out and they hand about them and tell them and show them just pure, uncensored pictures.
00:11:15.580So this is so absurd. I don't believe the government is really interested in healthy kids and sexual relationships, that they grow up in a healthy environment.
00:11:28.680All they are about is just to censor all the alternative media and the social media, where we can, let's say, more or less speak freely about our issues in our countries.
00:11:43.320and and this is what they try to block using children as their shield
00:11:49.000um i couldn't agree with you more um and i'm glad you said this this is a point i make
00:11:57.160repeatedly on the war room the the the half of these people right the global elites are
00:12:04.120pedophiles anyway right that the last thing they are interested in doing is protecting
00:12:09.400children that i think is pretty obvious it's a pretext they've been hammering on at apple
00:12:16.620right it's a pretext they're using the protection of children as a pretext to diminish and dilute
00:12:27.040privacy controls on people's phones because they want to know what we're saying and who we're
00:12:32.680saying it to they want to monitor it they want to trace it our politicians they are childless
00:12:39.420they don't have any children how do they know how to care about children how do they know how to
00:12:45.760take care of to grow children if they are all childless it it's a the the the the it's a
00:12:53.180pretext they are trying it's a backdoor pseudo innocuous pretext for them to take what few
00:13:02.000genuine privacy protections that we have left because who's going to see who's going to come
00:13:07.480out and say oh you know i'm for the the trafficking of photos of kiddie fiddlers um uh on uh on
00:13:15.520smartphones no one's going to make that argument um because no one will make that argument because
00:13:20.280you know it's about 0.00001 percent of the population that are interested in that
00:13:25.980Everyone will be bullied into silence and they will therefore have full access to our phones.
00:13:31.820It is so bad in the UK that the government can put a court order down and get backdoor entries via social media platforms to your private messages like on Twitter.
00:14:14.480So you've got that aspect. You've got the case up in Massachusetts. No, where was it? Minnesota, excuse me. The state of Minnesota, a couple of weeks ago, under the pretext of wanting to clamp down on the prediction market platforms.
00:14:35.200we were talking about that just a moment or so ago in a different context in the introduction,
00:14:39.760have now effectively set up the legislation at the state level to prohibit the use of VPNs, right?
00:14:48.920I mean, even China, unless you're going to follow the route of China and check people's phones
00:14:54.000to see that they don't have VPN apps on, again, that's the pretext that they're using.
00:15:00.260It's about protecting you, so therefore you won't be able to use a VPN, and they'll make that illegal, and they want access to DMs, and it's really a very subtle and perfidious way of the state realizing that it's losing political control, that the power is slipping away from them.
00:15:23.920It gives them the instruments, all the instruments they need to persecute people who don't go along with their officially sanctioned thought.
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00:17:34.800Well, continuing then the theme with Vadim Dirksen, senior editor of Jünger Freiheit, which is, I think, youth freedom in English.
00:17:46.200Young freedom. Thank you. I need to polish up on my German.
00:17:52.180The state of Lower Saxony, which is basically, I think, the state in Germany where the AFD has its strongest showing in the polls.
00:18:01.880if i'm if i'm not mistaken am i mistaken on that it's we have many uh states with with the name
00:18:09.540saxony this is the lower saxony we have saxony anhalt and so on so and then we have only saxony
00:18:16.960so yeah it's kind of confusing but the afd is also strong with 20 percent there in this
00:18:23.180state so it's all beautiful all right all right okay i i need to brush up on my on my teutonic
00:18:30.300geography um the state however and this is why it's going to be interesting i think for our
00:18:36.440largely american audience on this one the state in lower saxony via its ministry for justice
00:18:42.880um has set up this system which to me it sounds pretty much from the southern poverty law center
00:18:50.560copy book which is basically you you get an article planted by a compliant left-wing journalist
00:18:58.460And then you get an organ of the state to cite that article as an authoritative source as to why such and such an organization needs to be suppressed via the suggestion that it's really some kind of super right-wing agitating outfit.
00:19:21.800And then you get, via more of these articles, which are then sourced and cited and directed to, you then start picking off those organizations that aren't necessarily in the same field as the populist, nationalist, right-wing organization, but perhaps in the conservative right-wing sphere.
00:19:43.800For example, the guest that we're going to have on just after the break, and you say, look, this guy here, who's just like a moderate centre-right Christian Democrat or Conservative, that guy is beyond the pale because he's guilty by association with younger Freiheit.
00:20:06.800And it's the whole infrastructure, the instruments of actually suppressing the free exchange of ideas and the free exchange of thought.
00:20:16.400Vadim Dirksen, what exactly have you uncovered here with the Ministry of Justice in Lower Saxony?
00:20:22.980What are they doing and how are they trying to clamp down on you and those who aren't necessarily fellow ideologues with you, but just willing to talk to you or be associated with you in public?
00:20:33.700so the the problem is even deeper than uh you just mentioned what happened in the united states i
00:20:40.760think uh this is a direct program of the ministry of justice so it's not just an ngo who is working
00:20:50.940and then the the they use this information in the in the social uh or in the justice department
00:20:58.220or whatever no it's a direct government program and it was originally the idea behind it was a
00:21:05.720direct radicalization program um to support potentially violent extremists in avoiding
00:21:13.000criminal activity and ruining their lives you know young guys uh raising on the streets becoming
00:21:20.100neo-nazis you know and there's a wheel they they cannot get out so there's a program which tried
00:21:27.380to help them but not only for them they're also more in extremes we know we have them also in the
00:21:34.080muslim communities but also on the left side interestingly we don't have any program for
00:21:40.020these groups just for the right wings um and um but but this program it's it's they they perverted
00:21:48.400it into something where they try to control the minds of the people they now uh try to
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00:38:07.700Well, well, first of all, you talk about the freeloading aspect.
00:38:12.680But of course, the War Room's audience is mostly American.
00:38:18.060It is an international audience, but it is also mostly lion's share of our audience is American.
00:38:23.720They'll be listening to you talk, Gunther, and they'll be thinking, well, hang on a minute.
00:38:27.520It's us. It's us, American taxpayers, that's subsidizing all of European defense, NATO and otherwise.
00:38:36.760you know so isn't that also the case that we europeans here in continental europe are freeloading
00:38:45.200off the back of um of american taxpayers whether we're in nato or not whether we're contributing
00:38:51.300but we europeans also spend 400 billions it's not as much as you do but we also take it very
00:38:59.320seriously look at poland for example poland is almost spending five percent of its gdp not even
00:39:04.820america does that and when you look they have just now relaunched the procurement program of 33
00:39:10.020billion this is enormous and that's very effective look at the ukraine it's taking defense extremely
00:39:15.780seriously and they are very capable and look at the germans they just raised 500 billion
00:39:21.140additional debt in order to rearm their country and it's a powerful army they are building and so
00:39:27.220you know you really should go to the ones which are the problem like the austrians like the irish
00:39:32.580like the spanish as well they are also backstabbing socialists but not europeans yeah all europeans
00:39:40.740is simply not correct because we have many good europeans who are standing with america
00:39:46.100who are supporting you who are hoping for american leadership and also defeating the russians and
00:39:51.860they're doing a lot on that one and you should look case by case country by country which is a
00:39:57.380a good country doing their share and which is a bad country like the irish or the multis and the
00:40:04.100spanish socialists um i think you see you're one of the few people that will actually engage with
00:40:14.360me on the whole of the nato issue here you're what you just said about poland is exactly the point
00:40:22.120It is good and necessary that they're spending so much on their national defense, 5% of their GDP, because they are living next door to Russia.
00:40:32.020The problem is, the reality is, post fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the USSR, the reality is this. The risk is asymmetric across the Western nations, across the Western NATO nations.
00:40:52.860The risk is asymmetric. I mean, I don't consider it particularly high probability, but there's a non-zero risk that Russia might invade Poland.
00:41:05.620There is a statistical zero risk that Russia will invade the United States.
00:41:11.540So it's wise for Russia and the Eastern Europeans to be spending a little bit more.
00:41:17.160So the risk is asymmetric. But if you contrast that Gunther Ferlinger yarn, not only is the risk asymmetric, but the financial contributions are asymmetric as well.
00:41:30.740Because as we were just saying a moment or so ago, America is paying by far the largest share of proportion and contributions into NATO. An analogous situation would be like me being a drinker and a smoker, I don't know, a drug addict, going to next door where they're teetotal fitness freaks and saying that they've got to pay for my health insurance.
00:41:56.380Well, they say, well, of course, Hanwell, why should we pay for your health insurance?
00:42:49.260It's the warmongering which is the opportunism.
00:42:53.740let me put that to you neutrality is a parasite island ireland yes i totally agree with my own
00:43:02.500and it should be punished i hope that the listeners you know there were many americans
00:43:09.860were in solidarity with ireland because of the past but today it's absolutely just unjustified
00:43:15.980please yeah this is totally immoral what they are doing and i want the americans to know that
00:43:21.780To know that, you know, there's a big difference between Ireland, which spends basically nothing on defense, and Poland, Estonia, Lettland and other countries, which are taking the defense and the time of war very seriously and are also very grateful to America.
00:43:37.960And we believe in NATO. We believe in American leadership in NATO.
00:43:42.600We want a strong America. We want a strong America as the city on the hill, the defender of freedom in the world.
00:43:49.340And we will win and we will defeat our enemies.
00:43:52.640You will see Ukraine is winning now and you can be part of this story.
00:43:56.760Ukraine will also join NATO. So will Bosnia, Kosovo and many other countries.
00:44:01.100And it will be the greatest alliance of the free world ever.
00:44:04.020and America can be proud to have it, to let it, and you will be very successful in it.
00:44:10.320And this is also the cornerstone of our whole global system of the freedom and prosperity of America
00:44:16.380is the security created and stabilized by NATO, and it will be lasting forever.
00:44:22.160This is the greatest alliance in history, and we can all be proud, and it will be enlarged.
00:44:30.100There will be many, many more countries member of NATO.
00:44:33.080Have at it, have at it, have at it, all the countries that feel that there is a risk, have at it, pool your resources and stand forward proudly providing for your own defence.
00:44:50.000But NATO, its moment, I'm so sorry to tell you this, my dear chap, NATO's moment has passed, right?
00:44:57.48030 years ago, we had the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and now it is time for NATO to go in the same direction.
00:45:06.080Folks, back with Gunther Ferlinger-Yuan in two minutes after this quick ad break.
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