Russell Brand is back with a brand new episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand, exclusively on Rumble, where he talks about the latest in the world of politics, including Mike Pence's transition from vice president to president, Bill Gates' anti-vaccination rant, the FBI's new chief of staff Jeff Zients and much, much more! Stay Free! - Russell Brand is a stand-up comedian and podcaster. He is the host of the popular podcast Stay Free With Russell Brand and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, USA Today, CNN and the Washington Post. He's also a frequent contributor to The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post and The Daily Wire, and he's one of the funniest people in the whole wide world. You won't want to miss this one! Stay Free, my friends! - stay free! And remember, we use freedom of speech to spread truth and joy, not to indulge in hatred. We believe that one the most important thing we can do right now is unify and come together, end the cultural wars, end these needless conflicts, end this needless conflict, and bring about a true unitary movement where everybody is welcome. We ve chosen to do that over on Rumble where we can speak freely, and remember, freedom and joy. - we use that freedom to spread truths and spread them everywhere. RUMBLE - we believe that this is a place where everybody has a chance to be heard, not just in the truth, but in every corner of the globe. . And we believe in unitaryism and localism is the answer to tyranny, not only in every sphere. We believe in localism and democracy, not in any sphere but in a unitary democracy in a world where everyone is welcome everywhere and we all of us are welcome. Stay free, everywhere! RULY welcome to Rumble RMRUMBLE, RAAAAAARRRRRRRR! RAAAARRR RAAAARAAAARRRRAAAARRRRREEEEARRRRRRREEEEEEEEARRAAAAAAARRRREEEARRRRRRRARRR!!!! RAAAAAAAARRREEEEEEARREEEEERAAAAARRRAAAAYYRRR!!! ROOOORRRR!!!! on Rumble exclusively on YouTube! ROOOO RAAAAARRR RAAAAIRRRR, ROOOOR
00:00:00.000I'm going to go ahead and get a couple of these.
00:02:13.000you Hello there, you Awakening Wanderers.
00:02:16.000Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:02:18.000If you're watching this on YouTube, in 10 minutes, we're going to be on Rumble exclusively, where we can speak more freely.
00:02:25.000And remember, we use that freedom of speech to spread truth and joy, not to indulge hatred.
00:02:32.000We believe that one of the most important things we can do right now is unify and come together, end these cultural wars, end this needless conflict, bring about a true unitary movement where everybody is welcome.
00:02:43.000We've chosen to do that over on Rumble.
00:02:44.000Now let me get rid of these bloody classified documents and put them there, they should be safe.
00:03:04.000Biden's got himself a brand new chief of staff.
00:03:06.000You'll be reassured to learn that this new chief of staff did make hundreds of millions from the healthcare industry and has got the sort of almost sarcastic name of Jeff Zients.
00:03:24.000We're going to have to wait until we're exclusively on Rumble to tell you what Bill Gates has said about vaccines because, literally, this is not hyperbole.
00:03:33.000This is not me trying to explain to you that in a landscape where establishment media works for centralised powers, have a convergence of interest that's so crossed over that you're never going to get truth out of them, therefore you have to join us on Rumble because we are the kind of independent media that are going to Midwife!
00:03:49.000A new glorious era where you're truly empowered.
00:03:52.000This isn't any of those things, although those things are also true.
00:03:54.000It's literally something that would get you banned from YouTube.
00:04:03.000We've got a fantastic guest on the show later, Helena Norberg-Hodge.
00:04:08.000She's, I would call her, I'd hesitate to call her the OG of the localist movement.
00:04:12.000I'd hesitate to say that she is the antidote to the WEF, to Klaus Schwab's model that you'll own nothing and that you'll be happy and that all power shall be centralised and there's no need for democracy anymore.
00:04:24.000And that you need parental government figures that guide you like the idiot child they believe you to be.
00:04:29.000Helena Norberg-Hodge is the world's grandmother who, along with figures like Vandana Shiva, believes that we should be empowered to run our own communities and that localism is the answer to the centralised power that is currently introducing tyranny to every corner of the globe.
00:06:16.000What's an unprotected... What is an unprotected area?
00:06:19.000Well, I guess, isn't it a bit like when Biden left them in his garage near the Corvette?
00:06:23.000Because everyone was bothered about the fact that Hunter Biden had access to his Corvette.
00:06:27.000And he was near the classified documents as if Hunter Biden was, like, some kind of virus or something.
00:06:32.000I think if Hunter Biden is ever in a binary decision situation where he's got to choose between a Corvette and some files, all in brown documents and that, he's not going to go, I wonder what's in there?
00:06:55.000How is it possible that I have fewer classified documents in my house than the last few White House admins?
00:07:00.000The Espionage Act is strict liability crime, good intentions and no defense.
00:07:04.000Under the dumb law, these guys are unindicted criminals.
00:07:08.000You know, like, because this is one of them stories, Forgive me that I find a bit boring, documents classified, I can't get my head around it because I'm much more, as you know Gareth, I'm a big picture guy Gareth.
00:07:20.000I'm saying it don't matter which one of these slaves of the system you bring into power, you're ultimately still going to have ordinary people impoverished the world over, no access to the deep spiritual freedom that is your birthright.
00:07:31.000Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you agree.
00:07:33.000But it is important to consider that dear old Snowden, He's still exiled off in Russia.
00:07:39.000Clearly a man who was acting on behalf of his conscience, trying to do the right thing,
00:07:43.000trying to reveal the true depth and breadth of government power and intrusion.
00:07:48.000And then dear Julian Assange, who's, let's face it, a more complex figure because he's,
00:08:12.000He's the information that he revealed contradicted mainstream and government centralized the dominate and narratives That's what Assange is great crime is and even though he's not been convicted of any crime He's banged up in Belmarsh baby 23 hours and 45 minutes a day hardly any yard time Daniel Hale, I mean Daniel Hale as important went to jail for revealing Daniel I knew how he went to jail for revealing government secrets.
00:08:56.000Listen, another piece of wonderful news is...
00:09:04.000The Dominator culture is preparing for, essentially, domestic war.
00:09:08.000You know, I've seen all those stories that talk about the militarisation of the police force, all of your police forces getting tooled up with, like, military equipment.
00:09:21.000I know some people in the police force in this country that are absolutely spot-on, fantastic people.
00:09:27.000It's not sort of a binary decision between good and bad there.
00:09:29.000Well, it's not necessarily the police, is it?
00:09:31.000It's the militarisation of the police.
00:09:33.000So it's top-down from government through military-industrial complex to the police.
00:09:38.000That's the weapons are getting funnelled downwards.
00:09:40.000So there's an economic component, because they get to serve up and sell their kit.
00:09:43.000And also you end up with a situation where populations can be controlled militarily, should that become necessary.
00:09:52.000But I believe it was you that pointed out, mate, that 10 years ago, if there was an uprising, it would have meant boots on the ground, confrontations in the street, man the barricades.
00:10:01.000Now, as we saw in Canada, they can shut you down by shutting down your ability to spend money.
00:12:55.000Like, for when you're Will Smith and you're in a post-apocalyptic New York, but even then, you just need something to put the deers in the back and you've got to watch them zombies.
00:13:20.000Actually, thinking about it, I'd probably use the... I told you to get in the car.
00:13:26.000And also this mace thing would be good for managing the crowd in the back.
00:13:29.000If you're watching this on YouTube, remember in a minute we're going to show you something that Bill Gates said about vaccines that would get us banned from YouTube.
00:13:35.000But Bill Gates, there's a dude that's pretty pro-vaccine as I understand it.
00:13:39.000Not that we have a strong position on what you should do with medications here because we believe in freedom.
00:14:45.000It helps us in ways that I'll never truly understand.
00:14:51.000Your kids will love that it was styled by a video game designer.
00:14:54.000Vengeance is based on the Cadillac Escalade, so mama gets heated and ventilated leather seats, a curved OLED display with augmented reality, a digital rearview mirror, which is Do you think the kind of people that are buying this also have underground bunkers?
00:15:22.000Oh no, I've got to go above to the surface, people.
00:15:25.000Those hideous hillbillies and decrepit survivors all are foraging around toothlessly in the dust that we created.
00:15:33.000Get into the vengeance, make some good.
00:15:35.000In a more tangential way, I suppose we recognise that crime and poverty are not a product of morality, but rather social conditions as a result of centralised power and ghouling greed at the top of our hierarchical pyramids.
00:15:47.000Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you think it's a truly meritocratic society that you're living in right now.
00:15:52.000When the elites have access to so many resources, when the poorest in the world, the poorest among us are suffering so devoutly and resolutely, do you still think it's about morality or do you think that something systemic is at play?
00:16:02.000And we've got a great story later this week about how they're coming from the middle classes.
00:16:05.000We're not even talking now about the sort of forgettable, dispensable underclasses that people are willing to consign to history, to consign to the weight.
00:16:13.000Now it's like normal people with jobs and that's before the AI revolution.
00:16:17.000Listen, we've got to come off of YouTube now because I'm feeling it, Gal.
00:19:15.000I remember building a big dog cage in your kitchen once.
00:19:19.000What that was is my dog Bear had to have a hip replacement early in his life, and then because my vet, Noel Fitzpatrick, is a genius, but he's mad, he made us build essentially Guantanamo Bay.
00:19:33.000But he assured us it was necessary, and because I love the dog so much, and he has the air of a sort of a shaman, Noel Fitzpatrick, I thought, yeah, alright, he's saying build this mess, I'm going to bring this up with him.
00:20:16.000And like I was giving it to my dog, it's what he liked.
00:20:18.000And I, up to that point, very much enjoyed muller rice.
00:20:20.000I've considered it to be a good snack.
00:20:22.000But once you've smelt several times muller rice dry on the side of a dog's face, it's difficult to maintain your... I was going to say erection.
00:20:41.000Have they realised there's a lot of resistance?
00:20:42.000People are saying that COVID vaccines are going to evolve like an iPhone.
00:20:45.000We've got so much to tell you and Bill Gates literally out loud is saying stuff about, well I can't say it now, he's saying they basically don't work.
00:20:52.000Let's have a little dog crate face first, come on.
00:20:54.000In the video, the man gets in the crate.
00:20:57.000His partner then gets into the crate next to his and closes the door behind her.
00:21:02.000After a few seconds, the couple realizes, well, yeah, they're both locked in the crates.
00:21:07.000They were eventually able to free themselves by maneuvering the crates in front of one another.
00:21:12.000The way they solved the problem is good.
00:21:20.000I heard that the colonization of America by the early British colonialists was similar, like it's often portrayed, all especially the bit that's in the film Pocahontas.
00:21:38.000But then they did manage to establish what we regard as the world's greatest democracy and certainly the greatest superpower the world has ever known.
00:21:45.000And from those humble origins did tiny great big oak trees grow.
00:21:50.000You know the thing about acorns and oak trees.
00:22:15.000I don't think it's the right comparison to make.
00:22:17.000Well when you're faced as Moderna and Pfizer are at the moment with like calls of kind of hypocrisy around how much profit you've made and about whether or not these new vaccines even work.
00:22:28.000I mean there was literally a CNN piece this week about Moderna themselves hiding data around the efficacy of their booster and that it didn't and make any difference from the previous vaccine.
00:22:39.000And yet the government, Biden's administration, spent $5 billion of taxpayer money on it.
00:22:44.000So when you're then going on the news, on CNN again, and saying, oh, it's going to be like an iPhone,
00:22:49.000i.e. a corporate move that involves, you know, fleecing people out of money.
00:22:54.000The problem is, is this is underwritten by an economic ideology rather than a medical ideology.
00:23:02.000A producer of a show, Leon, was saying, a producer of our show, not a show, because we don't just let passers-by shout any advice.
00:23:09.000The producer of this show, Leon, said earlier, it's like Microsoft altered their business model to a licensing one for Microsoft Windows and they dropped out of the top ten.
00:23:17.000You know, like, we're all invited to think that, like, Forbes Rich List is a good thing.
00:23:53.000You can't afford the smack, because the smack has made you unemployable.
00:23:57.000But if you can get ten of your friends addicted to smack, you can say, I'll buy the smack for all of you, and then your smack can come out of that smack.
00:27:06.000Look, you know, we've spoken before about, you know, vaccines and how like certainly for certain Members of the population that they are still... Gareth, I'm going to undermine you by pressing your jingle.
00:29:04.000Peter Daszak, who was head of Eco Alliance at the time, also apparently had a big sway in public messaging from the government around this at the time in terms of the origin of the lab leak.
00:30:09.000I'll tell you what, that's the kind of piety, certainty and haughtiness that has come to define the pandemic period, which in retrospect, and in particular relating to my recent conversation with Martin Goury, I feel has been about creating centralised power above all else and ushering in the opportunity to generate digital IDs.
00:30:29.000We're conspiracy realists over on this show.
00:30:32.000You are going to love today's presentation, Here's the News, because we're talking about if there's one figure that represents globalism and its agenda, it's former British Prime Minister and illegal war starter?
00:31:00.000But at the WEF, which we take some credit for, I believe, and only credit given to us by you and as a result of your shine, your power for bringing down.
00:31:10.000But it will just send them back into the shadows where they can do proper gain-of-function research.
00:31:43.000Is your legacy not bad enough already?
00:31:47.000Tony Blair was at Davos last week advocating once more for digital infrastructure.
00:31:52.000What he means by that is everyone should have some sort of passport and we should be able to monitor your transactions so we can introduce social credit scores, so we can shut down people's bank accounts.
00:32:00.000Already happening in Canada, you know about that.
00:32:01.000So we can deny you access to services.
00:32:04.000That's what I think Tony Blair might be up to.
00:32:06.000Let me know what you think Tony Blair's up to in the comments and chat.
00:32:09.000Let's see what Tony Blair, Klaus Schwab, the WEF and digital IDs are really about.
00:32:14.000Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for global organisations such as the World Trade Organisation and the World Economic Forum, neither of those things are elected, look who funds them, to push national governments to introduce digital infrastructure that monitors who has been vaccinated and who hasn't.
00:32:32.000When the rest of the world is dealing with putting together new data and understanding new narratives and how this story has shifted over time, Tony Blair is still desperately trying to push for the most early hysterical, well everyone should have a digital ID, we should know what people are doing at all times, maybe if we all had digital IDs we could find those weapons of mass destruction.
00:32:52.000This issue to do with the technology and the digital infrastructure, I just want to emphasize how important I think that is.
00:33:09.000Let the shareholders in on that in advance.
00:33:11.000That's not where we are on the pandemic conversation right now.
00:33:14.000It appears, let me know what you think in the comments and chat, that as more data becomes available, that it seems that the entire approach to the pandemic could have been different around lockdowns, masks, medications.
00:33:24.000It should have been more particular, more bespoke, less hysterical.
00:33:26.000And may I argue, this is my opinion, less profit Driven.
00:33:30.000Tony Blair is advocating for a return to the early hysterical globalist agenda.
00:33:37.000If you're not vaccinated, you're a pariah.
00:33:39.000I don't like to lean into conspiracy theories, but when I see a former prime minister who advocated for an unnecessary war, standing on a global stage, funded by taxpayers and billionaires, saying that everyone should carry a digital ID, I start to think there might be an agenda at play.
00:33:51.000Let me know what you think in the comments.
00:33:52.000Let me know what you think in the chat.
00:33:54.000So you've got to have the reasons to do with the health care more generally, but certainly for a pandemic or for.
00:34:01.000And for vaccines, you've got to have a proper digital infrastructure, and many countries don't have that.
00:34:06.000In fact, most countries don't have that.
00:34:16.000Tony Blair speaks as if there's a shared vision that all of us have.
00:34:19.000Meanwhile, they talk about diversity and respecting different cultures and different sexualities and different identities, which, by the way, I'm totally down with, but that means respecting the individual freedom of everybody.
00:34:28.000Some people believe there was already an agenda to introduce digital ID before the pandemic.
00:34:32.000Tony Blair was speaking about digital ID before the pandemic.
00:34:35.000Now there has been a pandemic, we have to ask ourselves, was it incredible foresight or was it an agenda?
00:34:41.000Also, it seems now that advocating for a digital ID on the basis of vaccination is a flawed argument because knowing whether or not someone is vaccinated in order to do what?
00:34:55.000Other than it's profitable for pharmaceutical companies to have as many people vaccinated as possible, and it's beneficial to centralised authority to have as many people as possible carrying digital IDs.
00:35:40.000What is it that you want to achieve in order to make sure that any future pandemic is properly handled?
00:35:47.000And what are the partnerships that you're going to create in order to ensure that the answers you get are the right answers?
00:35:53.000Can you imagine what an anodyne and sanitised version of a broadcast conspiracy theory might look like?
00:35:59.000What you need in the event of a future pandemic is to have the right partners and the right outcomes.
00:36:05.000That sounds like the management of information, powerful alliances being formed, undemocratic processes.
00:36:11.000That's not how politicians should be talking anymore, with the ability to communicate that we all have.
00:36:15.000What you don't want is human beings that are actually no better than than you. They have the same flaws you have, have the same
00:36:22.000compulsions, impulses that you have coming together to decide that everyone else is
00:36:26.000different than you. They should carry digital IDs, there might be another pandemic one day which
00:36:29.000will be super profitable if it's anything like the last one and we should get them all
00:36:33.000banged up and jabbed up at our earliest convenience. I don't give that authority to
00:36:36.000anybody and neither should you. And then you're going to have to have the mechanisms of
00:36:39.000implementation. I also don't like that those mechanisms look like me in the palm of Tony Blair's
00:36:44.000hand being karate chopped like Saddam Hussein's neck.
00:36:47.000And those mechanisms will be partly through the formal institutions that you have, like the WTO, but they'll also be through organisations like yours, which I think have many advantages because they don't get landed with the same bureaucracy and, frankly, small-p politics around them.
00:37:05.000Bureaucracy and democracy, and whether or not people approve of it, and whether or not it's the will of the people, and whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction, and sexying up the dossier, and a million dead children.
00:37:17.000Yeah, it can be such a slow, exhausting, oh no, I can't bomb these children whenever I want.
00:37:22.000Oh, I can't get everyone to carry a digital ID.
00:37:24.000We should resist at all costs the advances of these centralised authoritarians, dressing it up as convenience and safety, as they always do.
00:37:32.000If the solution to the problems of the world are always, why don't we centralise authority, bypass democracy, place the decisions in the hands of big tech and big pharma, it's a bit weird, isn't it?
00:37:42.000It's a bit weird that they didn't want to get rid of patents.
00:37:44.000It's a bit weird that they repressed information about natural immunity, censoring activists calling for generic vaccines to be available.
00:37:50.000It seems like all of the solutions create opportunity for profit and centralised power, All of the problems detract from those opportunities and create more individual freedom, need for democracy, need for conversation.
00:38:03.000These are the things that I advocate for most.
00:38:05.000These are the things that I oppose most vehemently.
00:38:07.000Don't matter if you're left or right or any of those, in my view, outmoded, outdated, defunct terms.
00:38:15.000But if you want the politicians to focus on a plan, I promise you it's got to be because they think in the next few years, not in the broad future, it's going to matter to them to have that plan.
00:38:25.000So there you go, Tony Blair saying create hysteria and panic around another potential pandemic so people do exactly what they're told, create more centralised authority, compile more data and the ability to control people.
00:38:36.000What if that information should fall into the wrong hands?
00:38:39.000Tony Blair is a person who believes in his own righteousness.
00:38:41.000He believed vehemently, weapons of mass destruction, let's go bomb Iraq.
00:38:44.000If we'd have been able to have an argument along the lines of there are no weapons of mass destruction and the destabilisation of Iraq may cause problems for years to come, up to and including the creation of ISIS, perhaps it would
00:38:54.000have been a very different conversation that would have been had. So for me
00:38:58.000Tony Blair don't get a seat of this conversation unless it's a seat that's paid
00:39:01.000for by the WEF where I imagine his foundation makes donations. Haven't done that
00:39:05.000research yet but I'm pretty confident. It's also about showing people and
00:39:09.000showing the political leadership. I don't know.
00:39:12.000Maybe I've become too cynical and jaded.
00:39:14.000Let's get a wide shot so we can see who else is at the conversation to make sure that all this talk about vaccines definitely playing a part in the future.
00:39:21.000Vaccines potentially being mandated and enforced through digital IDs and a digital ID infrastructure that encompasses the entire globe is only, as Tony Blair himself says, for humanitarian and health reasons.
00:39:42.000Blair's call is the latest of several that he and his non-profit, yeah, right, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, have made for an expansion of mandatory digital surveillance infrastructure.
00:39:57.000That's a very offensive set of words there.
00:39:59.000So how did we get to this position where this is an accepted part of the conversation and ongoing advocacy for the idea is continuing to infiltrate our news media when a few years ago the idea of us all being forced to carry digital passports would have been dismissed as a conspiracy?
00:40:14.000Since their inception, COVID surveillance apps have been positioned by authorities as a tool for keeping their citizens safe during the pandemic.
00:40:21.000However, governments have been using these digital tools to scoop up a wide range of data on their citizens and combine this with the vast troves of data they already hold.
00:40:29.000In many instances, this data is also shared with private companies.
00:40:32.000For example, the UK's vaccine passport app was provided by the National Health Service, which already holds citizens medical records and sensitive data.
00:40:40.000To use the app, citizens have to provide their date of birth, phone number, postcode and a photo of a government-issued ID document.
00:40:47.000They're also prompted to scan their face as part of an optional, for now, verification process.
00:40:52.000Not only does this process let the UK government harvest more data, But the facial verification data is also shared with the private company iProve as part of a contract which the NHS has yet to publish details of for security reasons.
00:41:04.000Wow, so that's another way that the formerly care-oriented NHS is being used to accumulate data and gain profit.
00:41:12.000In Australia, quarantine was being policed by an app that collects facial recognition and geolocation data and sends this to servers that are controlled by the government of South Australia.
00:41:21.000Australian police have also used COVID tracing data in criminal investigations, despite promising that they never would.
00:41:27.000But I'm sure that it will never, ever happen again.
00:41:30.000Although governments are collecting this data through multiple apps and for the most part haven't officially incorporated it into an official unified digital ID system, all of the data resides on government controlled servers and is being used as an unofficial digital ID that allows the governments to identify and surveil their citizens.
00:41:46.000So at the moment you can bet that in a situation where they thought it was warranted, they
00:42:15.000perfect white cell of total imprisonment.
00:42:18.000Pre-COVID, citizens were highly resistant to the idea of digital IDs because of their potential to restrict freedom, erode privacy, and place more power in the hands of big government and big tech.
00:42:27.000But during the pandemic, governments have broken this resistance by forcing their citizens to use COVID surveillance apps in order to access public transport, restaurants, and many other services they could freely access before COVID.
00:42:38.000Essentially, we've been coached into accepting ideas that previously would have been unacceptable.
00:42:49.000We've been coached into accepting ideas that just a little while ago would have been completely unacceptable to us.
00:42:54.000Contract tracing and vaccine passport checking points became pervasive in many countries along with signs that reminded people to use the COVID surveillance apps and employees that enforce this COVID surveillance to comply with government mandates.
00:43:06.000As a result of this COVID surveillance push, the process of checking in and displaying a de facto digital ID to participate in society was normalized within less than two years.
00:43:14.000The process became so normalized that Apple, which has more than 1 billion active iPhone users, partnered with the U.S.
00:43:20.000Transport Security Administration, TSA, to digitalize driver's licenses and state IDs in several states.
00:43:28.000That's a private big tech company with access to information and ...resources on a scale that the magnates of the steel and energy era could only have dreamed of, partnering with big state now with new regulatory capacities with a population that's getting used to being told what to do.
00:43:45.000While Apple insists these digital IDs are private and that Apple and the issuing states do not know when or where users present their IDs, it admits that this digitization is part of its vision of replacing the physical wallet with a secure and easy-to-use mobile wallet.
00:43:57.000This push to replace physical ID with digital ID from one of the world's most powerful big tech companies will boost the trend that has been set in motion by COVID and accelerate the public's acceptance of having to display a digital ID to participate in society.
00:44:10.000I suppose what that shows you is that there need to be political voices that are talking about demonopolization and breaking up big tech companies, which are the which at the moment are coming from extraordinarily the
00:44:20.000right, I suppose because the big tech industry, broadly speaking,
00:44:23.000allies with the liberal establishment.
00:44:25.000But what we are interested in is true individual and community
00:44:29.000freedom, not just a different set of centralised interests taking over from this set.
00:44:34.000We want you to be in a position of power.
00:44:36.000And when you learn that these big tech companies got into that position, not because of some genius,
00:44:40.000but because of government subsidies and because of sharing of information,
00:44:43.000it doesn't seem so much like a good old R Shucks American success story, more like an agenda
00:44:48.000to centralise information and power that can be enacted and exacted at any point.
00:44:52.000The data grabs and COVID tracking tools that have been implemented amid the pandemic have bolstered government's surveillance apparatus and allowed them to monitor citizens at a scale that's never been seen before, while also normalising the idea that basic freedoms are now contingent on showing a digital ID.
00:45:06.000However, most of this COVID surveillance apparatus is currently split across multiple apps and databases and has yet to be tied together under a single digital ID.
00:45:15.000But powerful governments and international organisations are openly pushing for expanded digital IDs that connect all this data and more under a Unified digital ID.
00:45:24.000And there is Tony Blair doing that work.
00:45:26.000That is what Tony Blair is literally advocating for.
00:45:28.000I don't know whether he knows he's doing that.
00:45:30.000I'm assuming he does because of the type of relationships, the type of history that he has.
00:45:33.000These kind of voices are very dangerous voices.
00:45:36.000We've already seen in the last couple of years that mistakes were made.
00:45:39.000Let's just assume they're legitimate errors.
00:45:41.000We thought the virus died here, but it looks more likely it started there.
00:45:43.000We thought the vaccines were less effective.
00:45:45.000It turns out they're more likely to be this effective.
00:45:47.000We thought natural immunity wasn't effective at all.
00:45:56.000You don't even need to believe that the people currently in power are evil.
00:46:01.000Though if you do, I would understand that belief.
00:46:03.000You just have to accept the possibility of, in the future, someone or a group of interests coming to power that would now have at their disposal this degree of authority, this ability to control your life, then you know that you have to resist it.
00:46:17.000Then you know that we, the people of the world, truly have more in common with one another than we do with any of the people that attend these WTO, WEF, G20, G7, they've all got the same interests.
00:46:29.000Get their money, get control of them, and we are all part of them.
00:46:40.000That's all they care about with their ESGs and their rhetoric and whatever flags or movements they're allying their power drive to this week.
00:46:48.000You are just something they want to control.
00:46:50.000And unless we're willing to overcome our cultural differences, unless we're willing to take responsibility for our own spiritual advancement, for our own communities, for real, true democracy now, then we are in serious trouble.
00:47:02.000And you don't need a database to know that's the truth, Ruth.
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00:48:59.000Yes, good stuff this, very good stuff.
00:49:01.000I was reading it because our next guest was a valued contributor to this and when back in the good old days when me and Gal used to do True's, True News, when we were out on the YouTube trying to just bring down the government in the UK, bring about a better system, that's all we were trying to do.
00:49:15.000Helena Norberg-Hodge came on and advised us about a little thing called localism.
00:49:22.000Something I bet that you lot already know about.
00:49:24.000Of course you're more advanced than us.
00:49:26.000That the antidote to centralised power, the antidote to globalism, the antidote to corporatism is you having democratic control of your own community.
00:49:35.000Sovereign individuals with free Market communities where you trade among yourselves, where ingenuity, entrepreneurialism can flourish and thrive without the intervention of corporatists in whatever form they may come in.
00:49:48.000Helena Norberg-Hodge was the head of the game.
00:49:50.000Helena Norberg-Hodge is an elder in this space, ensuring that we gain access to this information.
00:49:56.000She is in Australia right now, so she won't be going nowhere fast, I'll tell you that.
00:50:12.000The first question I want to ask you is, do you believe, truly, that localism, that any kind of community-oriented, democratic organisation can provide an antidote to WEF-style top-down control that we're seeing increasing?
00:50:27.000We're seeing an increase in authoritarianism.
00:50:29.000Tony Blair's got real pep in his step now.
00:50:31.000Do you think that people can take back control of their communities?
00:50:48.000And when we do, we will see that localism is actually happening right under our noses.
00:50:54.000But it needs a lot more support, needs a lot more people to see it as the systemic alternative to what's going on as our governments have been handing over power to global corporations and banks systematically, almost since the inception of the modern economy.
00:51:16.000It's been about supporting the global traders and the global banks To the detriment of the local, regional and national.
00:51:25.000But now it's reaching these proportions that are dead-end.
00:51:31.000Helena, the mainstream media continually bludgeon us with the grim fact that there are no alternatives to globalist corporatism.
00:51:40.000That we have no hope but to hand over to some AI dystopia.
00:51:44.000We're big tech and big pharma and big business, bludgeoning ordinary people the world over into submission while we're lost in an endless and unwinnable culture war.
00:51:55.000Can you give us, therefore, examples of localism working?
00:52:02.000I first of all, I can give you hundreds of millions, actually billions of people who are not yet so entrapped in that global system.
00:52:12.000And they are the people who are less developed.
00:52:14.000A lot of them are not doing that well because they've been colonized and before that enslaved for a long time.
00:52:21.000But you know, I had that amazing privilege of entering a culture, you know, in the mid-70s that had not been colonized, that had also not been shaped by missionaries.
00:52:33.000It was an independent culture in the Himalayas, Ladakh, West Tibet.
00:52:38.000And I learned to speak the language fluently and I discovered a world But people were independent.
00:52:45.000But Russell, not as individual sovereign, you know, individual identities, they were independent as communities.
00:52:54.000We've always evolved in community and we need one another.
00:52:58.000So I discovered what it means when you have plenty of people.
00:53:03.000Every time you sow a field, every time you harvest, every time you build a house, plenty of people.
00:53:43.000And by the way, it's Schumacher's 50th anniversary of his book, Small is Beautiful.
00:53:50.000And he was a highly respected conventional economist who ended up in Burma in the 60s.
00:53:57.000And he ended up having to change his whole view on economics, because he also found in Burma, there was no unemployment, there was no poverty.
00:54:06.000Now, all of these cultures I'm talking about, were buddhist and this may have something to do with that they were exceptionally well-balanced cultures but anyway the realities in small ways all around the less developed world not in the west cities there inside the western world what you will see if you put on these localist lenses or what
00:54:30.000You know, what we call also micro trends.
00:54:35.000Everywhere in the West you will find, if you go close to the ground, you'll find examples of local people coming together to create local food system, to create local community-based hospice centers, to create locally-based midwife and natural birth centers, to create healthy medicine centers.
00:54:59.000And you will see in every instance that it works better.
00:55:04.000It's more efficient, People are able to see the specifics of the individuals they deal with, the ecosystem they're living in.
00:55:12.000It's about adapting to the reality of diversity.
00:55:19.000What's happening now is we're being taken away, step by step, further from nature, from our bodies, from the soil, into the metaverse.
00:55:30.000And unfortunately, a lot of people believe that this is going to be better than what we have in real life.
00:55:37.000And it's because real life has been made to be so shitty that people now believe the metaverse may be an improvement.
00:55:44.000Right, we've been so stripped of hope, so desiccated of the wet joy of being human and being part of nature, that the idea of being strapped into some virtual machine, experiencing reality on some internal screen, starts to seem appealing.
00:56:04.000Helena, of course, you're joining us for our three-day event community,
00:56:08.000along with Vandana Shiva and Wim Hof and a whole host of others.
00:56:11.000Very, very excited that you'll be joining us there.
00:56:14.000There's a link in the description if you want to get tickets to see that.
00:56:30.000And it's interesting to see how hard the centralized forces work
00:56:34.000at ensuring that these stories are not proliferated, that we're drained of the optimism,
00:56:39.000that we're denied the possibility of seeing that there are alternative systems.
00:56:43.000It's absolutely vital that these stories are told, even though sometimes, by the nature of these stories, they feel local, parochial, small.
00:56:52.000This is not a glistening Apple Store shining at you from the middle of Manhattan.
00:56:58.000This is not one of those ridiculous M&M stores that seem to be in every major city in the world.
00:57:03.000But it's becoming pretty clear now that the model of consumerism isn't working.
00:57:08.000Being cast in the role of a consumer, buying products, sugary products, dumb thumbs, reflective screens to stare at in perpetuity, These ideas aren't working anymore.
00:57:19.000What we need are meaning, connection, purpose.
00:57:22.000You can see there's a crisis in masculinity, a crisis in femininity, a crisis in community.
00:57:28.000And the answers are to return somehow to our nature.
00:57:31.000Not like Luddites neglecting technology and the brilliant advances of the geniuses upon whose shoulders we rest.
00:57:38.000With a new mentality, with the deployment of some of the principles that you're espousing.
00:57:43.000When you come to speak to us at Community, will you talk us through things that we can do right now when it comes to protesting and when it comes to presenting viable alternatives?
00:57:55.000In particular, Helena, with bridging the gap Evident and growing gap between poor people and rich people.
00:58:00.000Oxfam have just done a study on how inequality is growing.
00:58:04.000We know that there's a billionaire elite class now.
00:58:06.000And you know, based on what Christina Freeland, the Canadian minister for whatever the hell it is, she's WEF anyway, was saying that, you know, they're coming for the middle class now.
00:58:16.000Middle class people are going to be drained of their resources.
00:58:20.000We're not just talking about old school, bleeding hearts, liberalism.
00:58:23.000Oh, we've got to help people, help people that are worse off than ourselves.
00:58:26.000This is going to be a crisis that where there's only there's the elite class and then there's the rest of us scrabbling around in real life Hunger Games.
00:58:34.000Yeah, but I also wouldn't put it that way.
00:58:36.000I wouldn't say they are coming for the middle class.
00:58:38.000I really think we have to say that we've got a de facto conspiracy.
00:58:43.000It's a structural conspiracy where our leaders, from left to right, to middle, in every country I know of, including my native country, Sweden, they've been going along with a dogma, econometric thinking, removed from nature, removed from people's needs.
00:59:01.000And you know, growth increases with cancer.
00:59:12.000We have a lot of good people going along with that dogma.
00:59:16.000And yes, they are marginalizing and impoverishing virtually every human being on this planet.
00:59:24.000And a tiny, tiny minority, ever smaller, is winning.
00:59:29.000I worked with economists already 30 years ago who were documenting how in America between the 60s and the 90s, the average American had to work one month more per year to stay in place.
00:59:44.000I worked with an English economist who did the same thing in England.
00:59:48.000And he was just looking at it in terms of spending power.
00:59:53.000And he was saying, the economy is growing, but you're getting poorer.
00:59:57.000But Russell, the problem was, we could not get these things out into the media.
01:00:03.000I helped to set up something called an International Forum on Globalization.
01:00:07.000I introduced Vandana and other colleagues from the Global South to a funder who then honed a whole process that we had for about 20 years, trying to raise awareness about how the globalizing economy was leading to poverty across the world.
01:00:26.000We had Tony Blair and all these You know, left-leaning prime ministers telling us, oh no, we're doing this, you know, don't be selfish.
01:00:34.000We've got to move our industries to China.
01:00:36.000If you care about poor people, you just be quiet.
01:00:41.000What we need more than anything to bring about the change is you, Russell, and more like you, it's amazing what you're doing, creating another platform, reaching people with the big picture, from the whole vital understanding of what it means to feel more connected through spiritual practice, but also that connection if we're just sitting meditating alone in a cement Box room in a high-rise building, no connection to other people, no connection to nature.
01:01:16.000We won't get that full-fledged embodied spirituality that we all long for.
01:01:22.000We've all connected to people and to nature, to the animals, to seeing the sky, to having some trees around us.
01:01:33.000And that removal from nature, even in Sweden by the 70s, had led to depression, epidemics of alcoholism, and yet Scandinavia was held up as this model of progress.
01:01:48.000So we've got to go deep and look at why is this happening?
01:01:52.000It's not just Bill Gates now has had these ideas or Klaus Schwab.
01:01:59.000And I think what's really good about seeing that is that we don't really need to talk so much about individuals.
01:02:06.000We need to be talking about the systemic diverging path.
01:02:10.000If you go along with these new techno greenwashed ideas, You're supporting a system that's basically destroying life.
01:02:21.000And we can show, Russell, we can show that exactly the same policies that day by day make fewer and fewer people mega rich, And everybody else poorer.
01:02:33.000Those same policies are driving up emissions, destroying, you know, creating climate change, but also decimating biodiversity.
01:02:44.000And the thing that's being done is everyone is being pushed into a specialized, narrow, view and a narrow cause.
01:02:55.000So whether it's gender, whether it's rich poor, whether it's handicapped or not handicapped, whether it's global south, global north, we're being divided.
01:03:06.000And what localism does in a holistic way by understanding that it's a process that's diametrically opposed to the globalizing Corporate power.
01:03:18.000It's about do we want corporations to run our lives and our communities?
01:03:22.000Or do we want communities to run them?
01:03:25.000But that doesn't mean that we don't need the nation-state right now.
01:03:30.000Ideally what we'd be doing is coming together with a strong enough voice so that we will only have representatives at the top that are saying we are no longer going to be enslaved to the corporate system of oppression and destruction.
01:03:47.000We are taking back that power and we are handing power immediately Helena, thank you for praising that complex idea.
01:03:55.000And for most things that we need, it can be very localised.
01:03:59.000But we need the protection of coming together in order to withstand the power of the corporations.
01:04:05.000Helena, thank you for pricing that complex idea into such a succinct and rousing answer.
01:04:13.000Thank you again for being such a fantastic teacher.
01:04:16.000Thank you for the long pilgrimage you have made for making this information accessible and for carrying this strong, radical, anti-establishment message that is necessary, pragmatic, plausible and possible to our audience.
01:04:30.000And we'll do everything we can to highlight your message to as many people as possible and to ensure that the right people hear it.