A woman dressed her cat up as a baby in an attempt to smuggle drugs into a resort, and she got away with it. Or did she? And why did she do it? And how did she manage to do it in the first place? All this and more on this episode of Awaking Wonders, hosted by Alex Blumberg and Matt Knost, exclusively on Free Speech, the platform where you can freely talk about stories like NATO censoring anti-NATO rhetoric on social media, and 9/11. Also, we're going to be talking about RFK Jr's claims about Anthony Fauci, which literally can't be discussed on YouTube, as well as talking at some length about the 4.5 million people who died in the post-9/11 conflicts, and let's think about how that was framed when it happened. But to ensure that we remain somewhat frivolous, my on-screen assistant and I, our on screen assistant, and I bring you a story where a British regional news reporter for the BBC, which Elon Musk would say is what? State media calling to Elon Musk? Have you seen that guy? Watch her? I don't know, I don t know. Does the news end with Good Boy? It would if it was in your world, would it be in our world? Yes, it would, right? Well, it's a good one, wouldn't it? Yes, well, you are a very good boy. Good boy. You are a good boy, indeed. - Matt and Matt. You're welcome to the voyage to truth and freedom, you're a beacon of light and freedom. - Timestamps: 5:00: 00:00 - What's a baby? 11:30 - Is it a cat? 12:00- Is it not? 13:20 - Did she really dress up her cat in a bag? 14:30- Is she a baby or something else? 15:20- Does she like it that way? 16:40 - Is she okay? 17:15 - How does she feel about it? 18:15- What would you do with her cat? 19:00, is it a baby, or is she a real cat? 21:00 22: Does she think it's not a real baby? 22:30, does she mind? 23:00 Is it an adorable little guy? 24:00 Do you like cats?
00:00:01.000Thanks for joining me on this voyage to truth and freedom.
00:00:04.000If you're watching this on YouTube, we'll be there for about 10-15 minutes, then we will be exclusively available on free speech, or as some are calling it now, Freach Platform Rumble, where you can freely talk about stories like NATO censoring anti-NATO rhetoric on social media.
00:00:30.000Also, we're going to be talking about RFK Jr's claims about Anthony Fauci, which literally can't be discussed on YouTube, as well as talking at some length about the 4.5 million people who died in the post 9-11 conflicts, and let's think about how that was framed.
00:00:51.000But to ensure that we remain somewhat frivolous, my on-screen assistant and I, we're going to bring you a story where a British regional news reporter for the BBC, which Elon Musk would say is what?
00:03:01.000He was alright about it, he didn't know though.
00:03:03.000I think if I'd shown him that it was compromising him, he wouldn't have liked it.
00:03:07.000The thing about this is that already, like, she's, like, they're suggesting that if she'd have done it with a real baby that she might have got away with it.
00:03:14.000But it was the fact that they discovered, first of all, hang on, that's not a baby, it's a cat.
00:03:19.000Okay, let's just check what's going on here.
00:03:20.000Wait a minute, that's not a baby, it's a cat!
00:05:02.000Where's information that will reveal to me that the establishment is corrupt, that we've been lied to, that the mainstream media are corroborating and supporting lies, as in the Russiagate case, then still trying to claim some moral high ground.
00:05:15.000Where is some analysis of succession that shows me in spite of its ingenuity it still functions as a kind of neo-liberal propaganda that suggests there is a bifurcation down the center of American politics where there's goodies on one side and baddies on the other when in fact the establishment is stinking corrupt and needs to be brought down from within?
00:05:43.000We're going to leave YouTube now because we've got to.
00:05:47.000I want to talk to you about some stuff that's pretty serious, as a matter of fact, that I definitely would not be able to talk about on YouTube.
00:05:53.000When we spoke to RFK the other day, he made some claims about Anthony Fauci and gain-of-function research, and in particular, Well, you cut me off at the point where what I'm saying gets too risky, right?
00:06:07.000RFK said that Anthony Fauci was doing gain-of-function research in this country.
00:06:11.000It got shut down by the Obama administration, should be safe so far.
00:06:14.000It got re-initiated by the Trump administration, should still be okay.
00:06:18.000Then he repoed it, because he's like, "Oh, we can't do this in America,"
00:06:22.000to a certain town in China that you may have heard of that sounds a bit like a hip-hop collective whose name ends
00:06:47.000Congress has hearings, 300 scientists write letters to Obama, sign a letter to Obama saying, you gotta shut down Tony Fauci, he's gonna create an epidemic.
00:06:59.000Obama shuts down all of Fauci's projects, orders them closed, has a moratorium, but Fauci doesn't shut them down.
00:07:06.000He continues doing them, and then he starts shipping everything over to Wuhan, Where he can do it offshore out of sight of, you know, these federal overseers and all the nosy scientists like Richard Ebright and the others from the Cambridge Working Group who were horrified by what he was doing.
00:07:23.000And that's kind of why the short story of why, you know, we're doing all this stuff in Wuhan rather than doing it at University of North Carolina in Galveston, which is where they were doing it before.
00:07:35.000Okay so if that's your introduction to RFK you won't be familiar to the fact that the guy is a sort of a truth bomb or at least extraordinary fact bomb or indeed information.
00:07:47.000I don't know if you believe RFK or not.
00:07:49.000Certainly he says a lot of extraordinary stuff.
00:08:15.000The National Institute of Health today lifted a three-year moratorium on funding gain-of-function research on potential pandemic viruses such as avian flu, SARS and MERS, opening the door for certain types of research to resume.
00:08:43.000But certainly, RFK says in his famous best-selling book, The Real Anthony Fauci, that many claims made in extraordinarily small print across a number of pages are all undergirded by cast-iron information.
00:08:57.000What do you think, Gareth, about Fauci reportedly relaunching NIH gain-of-function research without concerning the White House?
00:09:03.000Is that something we have any more information on?
00:09:04.000Well, look, I mean, somebody did, didn't they?
00:09:06.000I mean, whether it was Fauci or not, I mean, it happened.
00:09:08.000I mean, I think they were doing it, but they were doing it.
00:09:10.000I think the issue here is that this, this risky gain of function research was going on and continues to go on.
00:09:18.000I think, you know, it's controversial for a reason and we know what it's potentially led to.
00:09:22.000At the very beginning of the virus, the idea that it in any way would like...
00:09:25.000There were two sort of major things going on.
00:11:57.000Earlier, and let me see if I've understood this correctly, that people that were not showing symptoms were not infectious and that there was a tool available to diagnose that that was suppressed for reasons we don't know.
00:12:13.000We don't know if suppressed but ignored by the CDC.
00:12:16.000Yeah, a special test was developed and the researchers at Stanford, I think this was, yeah Stanford, found that 96% of people who were PCR positive but without symptoms We're not infectious.
00:12:31.000Remember, one of the common myths was, the thing about this, what makes it so bad and so easy to lock down a population that are increasingly difficult to control is even if you're not showing symptoms, you could still kill your nan.
00:12:47.000Well, that weren't true, and it could have been proven at the time.
00:12:50.000Exactly what this article suggests, or what it says, is it undergirded policies on, as you say, distancing, quarantines, masks, all of those kind of things.
00:14:29.000If you're an American person or a Canadian person or a Tunisian person, if you're anything other than the Sylvanian, which I think means the countryside.
00:15:45.000And who better to discuss that with than a former MI5 intelligence officer who blew the whistle on illegal phone taps around the illegal, unnecessary, and I would say a bit out of order, assassination of Colonel Gaddafi.
00:15:57.000We all remember seeing him in the back of that van.
00:16:11.000It's my wife's housecoat, Annie, as a matter of fact, and I don't know what journey I'm on now as I...
00:16:17.000I've learned to dwell happily in middle age, but it appears to be some form of dressing up in my wife's clothes, which used to be quite a conventional way to get through this difficult time.
00:16:29.000There's loads of things we want to ask you about.
00:16:31.000Let me just sketch out the parameters of this conversation, with it finally being revealed that all of the Russiagate allegations were unfounded and untrue, and they were known to be untrue at the beginning, and yet the FBI pursued them.
00:16:45.000With RFK saying that he would disband the CIA and that he believes that the CIA assassinated JFK, he's obviously not the first person to say that, I'd like to ask you, as a former member of the intelligence community, albeit a goodie, much more James Bond than, I don't know, one of them ones that's killing people for the government, Do you think that these institutions are fundamentally corrupt?
00:17:08.000And if the goal was to radically revise our global infrastructure in order to create a fairer and better world, do you think you'd get rid of them?
00:17:16.000Or do you think that they're things that can be saved or things that are necessary?
00:17:22.000There's always got to be a democratic balance, because we do need defences against other countries that are going to be using the same sort of aggressive tactics.
00:17:31.000But if we want to call ourselves democracies, we need to make sure that they are under democratic control.
00:17:38.000So there has to be a proportionality about the powers that they can exert.
00:17:41.000And there has to be a proportionality about what they can legally cover up.
00:17:46.000Otherwise, we don't function in a democracy.
00:17:49.000And so what you were talking about earlier in terms of the linkage between big tech and government is a very dangerous path to go down.
00:17:56.000And this is something Edward Snowden disclosed many, many years ago, a decade ago.
00:18:09.000I feel like you gave Daniel Howe an award pretty recently, but the Twitter files revealed that the FBI were, you know, a little too involved in censorship of information that was posted on that platform, censoring information of legitimate authorities, censoring information that's been proven to be true.
00:18:29.000So it shows you that the deep state is a real thing, that the FBI, excuse me, and the CIA Can't really be regarded primarily as defensive organisations that are stopping us from yielding to the threat of North Korea or domestic radicals of some persuasion or Islamic terror or all of the other reasons.
00:18:51.000I mean, look at Biden pushing through the very legislation That Snowden revealed, like, you know, like the stuff, the Patriot Act stuff that was there to spy on individuals in order to defend Americans from potential attacks, that that is up for review and they want to revive it under the auspices of the threat of American, excuse me, of Mexican drug cartels.
00:19:13.000So, like, what is the essential function of these organizations?
00:19:18.000Is it to defend the American people or is it to control the American people?
00:19:21.000Well, the first question I would ask would be why are we only focusing on America?
00:19:26.000I mean, is this the you know, the democracy?
00:21:30.000And this is something I've written about, as you know, because you very kindly promoted
00:21:34.000my book, The Privacy Mission, which is shortlisted for a very nice award tonight.
00:21:39.000But the key point is, whether or not they knew it was going on, or whether they agreed to it going on, it means that there is this collusion, this interleaving between the intelligence agencies and the global tech companies.
00:21:57.000Of course, this also means that the vulnerabilities can therefore be exploited by the criminal hackers as well.
00:22:09.000One is, of course, we're not condemning individuals that join the CIA, the FBI, MI5, of course, an organization that you're a member of, any more than I would condemn a member of the police force or the National Health Service or the teaching profession.
00:22:24.000People tend to join these service positions, I would like to hope, with the motivation of becoming a valuable member of the community.
00:22:32.000operating, my hope is, on the basis that through love and service you can improve the world.
00:22:38.000But it seems that there's a tendency through institutions beyond deep state espionage
00:22:45.000institutions that operate beyond the tenure of ordinary law that they broadly speaking end up
00:22:55.000allying with the interests of the powerful.
00:22:59.000One of the other Snowden revelations, of course, was the collaboration between what are known as the five I countries, essentially the anglophonic countries, New Zealand, Australia, Canada.
00:23:09.000America sharing information about their domestic populations to bypass the complexity that imposed by their legislative inability to spy on their own populations by sort of doing what are considered to be the international espionage version of wife swapping.
00:23:28.000What I would say, Annie, is that currently all of those countries are trying to push through legislation that enables them to impose fines on emergent pro-free speech organisations like Rumble.
00:24:06.000So like in the UK there's the Online Safety Bill, in the EU there's the Digital Service Act, in Canada there's one, in America there's one, and there's one in that country that's either Australia or New Zealand, I can't tell, because frankly they made their flags too similar.
00:24:19.000They all know that and it's time they all owned up to it as nations.
00:24:23.000Now with that kind of legislation being pushed through, subsequent to Snowden's revelations, with us understanding, or at least you and I discussing, what the role of these agencies are, do you feel that it seems like there's a concerted effort to control free speech, control the narrative, to infiltrate big tech companies with deep state agencies, In order to essentially support existing narratives at a time where it's possible for independent media like us and everyone, the people that are watching this live on our chat, and you can join us on our chat if you want to by clicking on the red button, to prevent us from communicating freely, not because of hate speech, because we wouldn't put up with that here and we certainly wouldn't spread it, we believe that everyone is equal and has the right to express themselves however they want and we celebrate all forms of identity, but because they don't want people criticising the establishment and talking about the very kind of things you and I are talking about now.
00:25:17.000So, for example, in the UK, there was a law that was passed in 2016, called the Investigatory Powers Act.
00:25:25.000And that retrospectively legalized what had been illegal spying, endemic spying by GTHQ and the NSA.
00:25:33.000So this is GTHQ is the UK spying system, and the NSA is the US spying system, which is part of the Five Eyes, but that is the closest intelligence relationship ever.
00:25:46.000And the irony was that countries like Russia and China then passed laws after 2016 saying, well, if the UK can pass these laws to snoop on their citizens, why not?
00:26:18.000And then that can be used as justification around the world for more draconian and more totalitarian regimes.
00:26:26.000So that is the situation we're looking at.
00:26:28.000What we are looking at now, as you just mentioned, with things like the online safety bill in the UK
00:26:34.000and what is known as the C11 law in Canada, is online censorship bills.
00:26:39.000So, oh, it's all done to protect children.
00:26:42.000Well, actually, no, it's actually done to allow governments to censor what we can see or what we can access online.
00:26:50.000So this is completely antithetical to everything that the Internet was designed to be back in the 80s and 90s with the sort of ideologues.
00:26:57.000They just wanted free access to information, allowing free Free knowledge to be spread around the world.
00:27:05.000And that is what is being taken away from us at the moment, with what's going on technologically.
00:27:10.000And in the EU particularly, I mean, I'm based in Brussels, I can see the EU Commission out of my window.
00:27:16.000What we're looking at at the moment is not just the European Digital Act, it's also looking at something called the EU ID card, which basically means that All our information, if you get it, because you have to have an ID card to live anywhere in the EU, means that they can have access to your taxes, they can have access to your health records, they can have access to anything they want about you personally.
00:27:41.000And we don't know what systems they're stored on.
00:27:43.000We don't know what systems they are controlled by, which corporations are controlling them, because lobbyists are big here.
00:27:49.000And we don't know how safe they're going to be.
00:27:51.000But that also means that they can access your bank accounts and shave money off your bank accounts and
00:27:56.000things if there's another economic crisis as in 2008. So it's a really scary thing. There was
00:28:01.000a very good film made by a Dutch film company last year called State of Control talking about
00:28:06.000this. I would recommend any of your viewers to have a look at that. It's frightening. Post a link in
00:28:12.000the description about that chat. Now, here are some of the worst things that the CIA and FBI have
00:28:18.000done that we could come up with quite quickly. Annie, you can tell us if these things are
00:28:28.000I'll be regularly pressing that button in case these things are lies.
00:28:31.000They were involved in the assassination of JFK, RFK at length describing that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA asset.
00:28:38.000Successfully supported coups in Iran, Guatemala, Congo, the Dominican Republic and South Vietnam.
00:28:44.000And the 2014 Ukrainian coup, interestingly, very current.
00:28:48.000At least two of the 9-11 hijackers were recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation, according to an Office of Military Commission's court filing.
00:29:03.000The FBI used the Patriot Act's business records provision to track all U.S.
00:29:06.000telephone calls, as revealed by Snowden's NSA leaks that we've just discussed.
00:29:09.000They were instrumental in perpetrating the Russiagate hoax and censoring the Hunter Biden New York Post story, which could be considered to be electoral fraud.
00:29:16.000Let us know what you think in the chat.
00:29:18.000In 2020, during the arrest of a militia group for plotting to kidnap Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer, 12 out of 14 suspects were FBI informants.
00:29:27.000Essentially, they caused the crime, then solved it by saying, we caused this crime, so that's how we know that it was a crime.
00:29:34.000Which one do you think comes off as worse between the CIA and FBI?
00:29:37.000And would you query any of the assertions made in that recent litany of damnation?
00:29:48.000I would say, though, that all intelligence agencies around the world get involved in dirty tricks.
00:29:54.000I mean, this is why this is one of the reasons why I got involved in supporting my former partner, David Shailer, trying to expose the illegal Gaddafi plot assassination in 1996, which failed and killed innocent people and was illegal.
00:30:08.000And then, of course, he was legally tortured and assassinated in 2011 in the world's full glare of the media.
00:30:18.000So things shift in terms of the information that is available or the information that is seen to be good that the media puts out is the interesting shift in terms of the narrative drive and in the narrative control.
00:30:28.000But yeah, I think we all need to be aware that, you know, Intelligence agencies will get up to naughties sometimes.
00:30:38.000The key thing about them is that if we want them to work effectively in a democracy, to protect us effectively in a democracy, they need to learn from their mistakes.
00:30:47.000They need to be as transparent as possible.
00:30:49.000There are certain things that do need to be kept secret, like ongoing operations, sensible operational techniques, agent names, that sort of thing.
00:30:56.000But I don't see why everything has to be a blanket ban, with national security as the issue, you know, the get out of jail free card.
00:31:04.000So In terms of a balance of proportionality, and in terms of protecting us all better, they need to be slightly more open.
00:31:14.000All these new laws you've just mentioned are dragging them back into greater secrecy rather than more transparency.
00:31:22.000And as aware citizens, we need to have as much information as we can, particularly on the internet, because that's what they're trying to shut down at the moment.
00:31:31.000Annie, you make everything sound so smutty, dirty tricks and naughties.
00:32:32.000You need to go to Smutterholics, in my humble view.
00:32:36.000You can get Annie's book, The Privacy Mission.
00:32:39.000Even that's quite a saucy title, isn't it?
00:32:41.000There's sort of a bit of entendre around that, if you ask me, Mr Roy.
00:32:46.000Annie, is there anything else you want to say?
00:32:48.000We'll post a link to the privacy statement in the chat here.
00:32:53.000As you know, we admire you very much on this show, and we're happy to see that you're on a list as short as a mouse's leg.
00:33:01.000What is it for that you've been shortlisted?
00:33:04.000It's for the Business Book of the Year, and the award ceremony is this evening actually, in the UK.
00:33:12.000So we shall see, but I'm up against a very famous group of authors, so I have no great hopes.
00:33:19.000But I did enjoy writing The Privacy Mission.
00:33:21.000It was a sort of culmination of years of research and years of speaking to hacktivists and to cybersecurity groups and all that sort of thing.
00:33:31.000And also, I had a lot of advice from a wonderful organisation I work with at the moment called the World Ethical Data Foundation.
00:33:37.000And we put on an event every year called the World Ethical Data Forum, which at some point, I might try and drag you into.
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