The White House Correspondents Dinner is a propagandist gala, a celebration of compliance, full of pageantry and almost deliberate neglect of extremely important stories if those stories are not convenient to the agenda of the powerful. While everyone else was celebrating what they would call the White House Press Dinner, numerous people were chanting, "Shame on you, shame on you" in protest at the lack of coverage of the event. In this episode of the Rumble Chat, Russell Brand and his co-hosts discuss why the dinner is so important, and why we should all boycott it. Russell also discusses his recent baptism and why he believes it is a necessary step in his journey to becoming a Christian. He also talks about his new found faith and how it relates to his new-found spirituality and his new relationship with God and with God's creation, and how he is ready to share it with the rest of the world. Outro music: You're Going to See The Future by Shadydave In this video, you're going to see the future. Stay free! Thank you for joining us for the first 15 minutes of our new streaming service, Rumble. We'll be widely streaming, reaching as many people as we possibly can. After that, we'll be exclusively on our home, the place we're proud to call our home - the place where we can speak freely. That's where across the world, we're making the right choices in alignment with my principles, and I'm sure yours as well. - RUMBLE - where censorship is becoming an issue, and we can't wait to make new connections and freedom to speak freely and make connections. . Rumble's mission: The Mystery of Why? The challenge of holding together the various worlds by Russell Brand, The Rise of the Real Goodbyes, The Good Baby and The Challenge of the Good Baby? - The Good Thing in this video by Sisyphus and The Good Idea? by C.S. Lewis (Music by Sensitive Hearts and C.C. Daffee Music by Sondre Daffdaffdafdavil is out now by SONGS . . by The Good Day & C. and the Good Day Project on the Good Thing Project by Squeak , The Good Side
00:00:31.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand and what a glorious new start it is for all of us.
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00:01:16.000All of you Awake and Wonders that are here on Locals, the members of our community, I'm so glad that you're here with us today.
00:01:21.000We're talking about the White House Correspondents Dinner in today's show, and in particular, I suppose, how It fundamentally appears to be a propagandist gala, a celebration of compliance full of pageantry and almost deliberate neglect of extremely important stories if those stories are not convenient to the agenda of the powerful.
00:01:46.000Indeed, there was a litany at one point of journalists around the world who are imprisoned and no one ever said, Julian Assange?
00:01:55.000Julian Assange is currently in Belmarsh waiting to be extradited to the United States.
00:02:04.000We asked you earlier in the day which stories you were most interested in.
00:02:06.000You were really interested in the ongoing AstraZeneca lawsuits that we were talking about.
00:02:13.000And what's interesting about the AstraZeneca lawsuits is they have for the first time admitted and acknowledged That their product has side effects.
00:02:23.000Now I know to many of you that will hardly be news at all but for many people that is an important acknowledgement and certainly from a legal perspective it's an important acknowledgement.
00:02:34.000AstraZeneca have admitted that there are We'll be talking about that.
00:02:42.000And of course, the other topic I'm talking about is my baptism.
00:02:45.000There are aspects of it that will, of course, remain private to protect the innocent.
00:02:51.000But I'll be talking generally about the rise in spirituality, the rise in Christianity, and how I believe it connects to a turning away from our collapsing institutions.
00:03:02.000Our broken leaders and our crumbling principles and value systems.
00:03:07.000If you want to become an Awakened Wonder, we do meditations every day together.
00:03:10.000We did a meditation just today on the subject of a fresh start.
00:03:15.000Now, I may be Christian now, I am Christian now, but I reach out in faith and in friendship to all of you.
00:03:22.000To anybody who's interested, because I've been like Christian for 24 hours, you know what I mean?
00:03:27.000So I'm not like, and now I'm through with Muslims!
00:03:30.000I don't want no Jews coming on my show!
00:03:38.000We do a weekly book club, and our weekly book club currently And it's no coincidence, it's focused on mere Christianity, the epochal and significant book by C.S.
00:03:49.000Lewis, which has been certainly instructive in my journey into faith.
00:03:52.000And every single week we do an additional video that's just for our awakened wonders like Sensitive Hearts and CW212, who's congratulating me on my baptism.
00:04:03.000When you are on there, we do a bunch of additional streams, additional videos, additional meditations.
00:04:08.000We just do a whole bunch of additional content for our supporters, and plus we get to grow this movement together.
00:04:13.000If you're watching us on YouTube, for example, you'll understand that we'll only be there for about another 10 minutes, because here we can speak freely.
00:04:20.000That's why Rumble aren't available in France.
00:04:28.000That's why Rumble are opposing what's going on in New Zealand, even right now.
00:04:33.000Now, while everyone was arriving at the gates of the, what is called the White House Press Dinner, numerous people, protesters I guess you would call them, were chanting, shame on you, that we'll be covering this story in some DL later.
00:04:47.000I suppose they were, oh look, look, there are the guests, and look, look at the protesters, look at the drama.
00:04:52.000Look at the challenge of holding together the various worlds.
00:04:55.000Look at the challenge of trying to pretend that this is a legitimate celebration of the free press while the propaganda is becoming evident, observable and plain in real time.
00:05:07.000Good news though, babies are now eligible for spring booster jabs.
00:05:22.000Why don't you give your baby an injection for a condition that almost certainly wouldn't do it any real harm?
00:05:29.000Particularly as AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court its vaccine can cause rare side effects and you will perhaps be aware The clinical trials that involve children were extraordinary.
00:06:05.000birthing rates hitting a record low with roughly 76,000 fewer births last year.
00:06:10.000It is the lowest one-year count since 1979.
00:06:14.000Yeah, I know a lot of you will think that there is potentially some connection between falling birth rates and some of the other stories today.
00:06:21.000I'll be interested in seeing any corroborating evidence that you may have.
00:06:26.000Trump met privately with former GOP rival Ron DeSantis.
00:06:38.000And I will show you some more detail on that in a minute.
00:06:43.000Rumble are defying global censorship trends and taking a stand against New Zealand's free speech crackdown.
00:06:49.000Chris Pavlovsky, our CEO, told Matt Kim that the Free New Zealand Media Channel has now become a de-platforming target in New Zealand for reporting about leaked data from the National Vaccination Database that a whistleblower and former Health New Zealand IT employee Barry Young made available.
00:07:05.000We reported on that Some time ago with Steve Kirsch.
00:07:10.000And the data Young gave to reporters and activists concerns Covid vaccine related deaths and claimed that these facts have been covered up.
00:07:17.000For referring to Young and referring to the data he provided to the public, a letter has been sent to Rumble to remove free NZ media.
00:07:24.000It came from the National Health Authority.
00:07:25.000However, Pawlowski said that the company has decided to refuse to do that or to withdraw from the country and will instead challenge it and see what happens.
00:07:35.000A lot more of that happening now, isn't there?
00:07:38.000Now we'll be showing you, before we come off the various platforms that we don't believe are in alignment with our values, even though of course they purport to be the moral epicentre of the world, even though what we understand now is that they are part of an extraordinary conglomerate of media and corporate and statist interests.
00:07:57.000For example, YouTube or their parent company, Alphabet, belong to the Trusted News Initiative that amount to an alliance of propaganda comparable to what we see celebrated at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which we'll be talking about in more detail later.
00:08:13.000We'll have a quick look at Ron DeSantis and Trump's meeting and how the legacy media report on the meeting of these two significant Republican figures.
00:08:21.000But before that, I just wanted, like, you know, I remain a comedian, and as a comedian, I love Jerry Seinfeld.
00:08:29.000This is an interesting piece of analysis from Seinfeld talking about how he believes cultural and political views and rhetoric are destroying comedy and I'd really love to know you lot in the rumble chat, I'm talking to you Rogue Storm and you User2491 and You, Warrior of God for Life 7861, although I'll be honest, I don't expect much in the way of reasonable debate from you.
00:08:59.000We've included a lot of your content over the years.
00:09:02.000Let's have a look at what Jerry Seinfeld has to say about the impact of, I suppose, political correctness and cancel culture on comedy and maybe more broadly, society.
00:09:12.000You think it's Jerry Seinfeld's birthday?
00:09:14.000Happy birthday to you, Jerry Seinfeld, if that is indeed the case.
00:09:23.000They need it so badly and they don't get it.
00:09:27.000It used to be you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, oh Cheers is on, oh MASH is on, oh Mary Tyler Moore is on, All in the Family is on.
00:09:38.000You just expected, there'll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.
00:09:43.000This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.
00:09:50.000When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, here's our thought about this joke, well that's the end of your comedy.
00:10:58.000It's a little sad for Donald Trump, frankly, that he has to now go and pander to Ron DeSantis because his fundraising is so poor and he's wasting so much money.
00:11:07.000You know, it's a normal sort of reconciliation you see in a campaign.
00:11:11.000Everybody tries to get together and support the nominee and use whatever resources they can.
00:11:16.000But I don't know that Ron DeSantis, it feels like he owes anything to Donald Trump.
00:11:21.000The problem for Ron DeSantis is if he wants to have any future, he can't continue to be on the wrong side of Trump voters, and he got himself there towards the end of that campaign.
00:11:31.000So I imagine Ron DeSantis is going to come around because he wants to be a good team player, but I think it's pretty sad that Donald Trump needs to make a journey down to DeSantis and suck up to him a bit here at the start of his general election campaign.
00:11:44.000We'll see if Nikki Haley eventually comes around as well.
00:11:47.000It's certainly noteworthy that Republicans are still voting for Haley in some of these primaries, even though she suspended her campaign long ago.
00:11:54.000Lastly, Brendan, let's just talk about where the 2024 race stands.
00:11:57.000There was a new CNN national poll over the weekend that got a lot of buzz that showed Trump up six.
00:12:02.000That flies in the face of some other recent polling, which shows Biden with momentum in a really tight race.
00:12:16.000I think what we've seen time and time again is this is going to be an extremely close race.
00:12:20.000And so when we do have little bursts one way or the other, the trends that take place just in a small state, we should pay attention to all of those things because any one state could potentially be the one that Do you still see politics within that rubric and framework, or are you beginning to suspect that we need an entirely different framing, an entirely different way of regarding politics?
00:12:47.000Because it seems to me that what we're looking at now At least certainly what I'm looking at is a new paradigm.
00:13:13.000Now, the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner has become a kind of evident gala of corruption and hypocrisy, where journalism is celebrated, where the principles of free speech are espoused, where the foundational instruments and principles of the United States of America are overtly celebrated, while simultaneously absolutely Ignored.
00:13:42.000We're going to be talking about the White House Correspondent Dinner, as well as talking about AstraZeneca's legal struggles.
00:13:48.000And I'll, of course, be talking about my baptism and how it relates to our host of stories, including the recent attack on Bishop Emmanuel Mari, who's now streaming again.
00:14:00.000Are we looking for a morality and set of ethics and indeed vision and direction that can no longer be set out within a set of secular principles?
00:14:56.000Speaking of Republicans who once opposed Trump now...
00:14:59.000Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden.
00:15:06.000Is it me or is that extraordinarily regal?
00:15:25.000Is that a lot of pageantry for Joe Biden?
00:15:28.000Like, many of you will remember this event because it's an opportunity, I suppose, for the President to hang loose and show what an easy, convivial guy he is.
00:15:41.000But this was an unusual White House Correspondents' Dinner because, of course, the jokes were stymied, as one might imagine, but the attempt to ignore the hypocrisy of ongoing war and the deplorable neglect when it comes to the name of Assange was so evident and ever-present that it amounts to beyond an elephant in the room it's a sort of a stampede.
00:17:33.000And state-funded broadcasters and corporate broadcasters are laying off staff everywhere.
00:17:38.000They are frantic and in a panic because they know that you, the people that they attempt to reach, are losing interest and waking up in unprecedented numbers.
00:17:49.000They are aware that they no longer hold the sway or the power that they once did.
00:17:54.000That is why significant figures in the space are continually subject to smear jobs.
00:17:59.000Of course you are aware that Joe Rogan was annihilated, rained down upon by corporate attacks throughout what we know as the Ivermectin era.
00:18:47.000Do you think that they, in that moment, imagine that no one anywhere is thinking about Julian Assange?
00:18:53.000That no one is watching this thinking, hold on, isn't Julian Assange right now in jail for five years?
00:18:58.000What about Gonzalo Lira, who died in prison in Ukraine like he said he would, never mentioned?
00:19:04.000So ultimately what this is, is a celebration of their alliances.
00:19:09.000What this is, is once more the reiteration of their terrible intent to conquer consciousness through deception.
00:19:18.000I wonder too what fine and narrow lines Biden is invited to walk between so that he doesn't error, err, Or spill inadvertent truths in his... No, I don't want to be a day one over Christian.
00:19:56.000We're doing everything we can to bring home journalists, fellow journalists, Austin and all Americans like Paul Weller.
00:20:03.000Also trying to bring home some journalists who've got nothing to do with America, like Julian Assange, who's Australian, who's in jail in the United Kingdom without trial.
00:20:13.000We're doing all sorts of things behind the scenes.
00:20:15.000Gonzalo Lira though, no one's mentioning that guy.
00:20:18.000Why it's significant, as well as the telling sight of people in the audience unsure as whether to laugh or cry, I suppose we can glean from this scenario precisely the agenda of the powerful.
00:20:33.000What is said, what remains unsaid, who is celebrated, who is denigrated, who is framed and who is ignored.
00:20:42.000This used to be a kind of light-hearted event when it was like sort of Barack Obama like Dean Martin or something sort of flexing and sort of glinting and checking his cufflinks and that was as Chappelle I think pointed out the moment where Trump decided I'm running for president.
00:20:59.000Now, what we have, as I've said before, in the near sepulchral figure of Joe Biden, is the zombie embodiment of a dying system.
00:21:10.000An institution that can no longer cope, hiding behind a constitution that it no longer respects, ignoring a Bill of Rights that it would prefer had never been written.
00:21:21.000That's why this event feels so macabre.
00:21:24.000So unusual, so uprooted and lost, because when we look at it, those of us that are trying our best to authentically awake to ourselves and to others and to be present, recognize in this the eerie redolence of constant hypocrisy and deception.
00:21:40.000Who wrongfully detained all around the world.
00:21:43.000I give you my word as a Biden, we're not going to give up until we get them home.
00:21:49.000Whether it's me, Hunter Biden, or that other Biden that I give money to, all the Bidens, we're reliable and I've got the checks to prove it.
00:21:57.000On the third anniversary of January 6th, I went to Valley Forge.
00:22:08.000We've got anniversaries of January 6th now.
00:22:10.000Like, that is an event that needs continual review and scrutiny and analysis that hasn't been exploited and used to legitimise further anti-protest laws that wasn't likely infiltrated by various deep state interests.
00:22:25.000We've not had the final word on January 6th.
00:22:27.000We've not had the legacy media do any responsible reporting on that event.
00:22:30.000We've not had anybody explain why in so much of the footage it appears That police officials were ushering protesters onto the premises?
00:22:40.000What an extraordinary set of truths they seem to live in at the White House correspondent dinner.
00:22:46.000I said the most urgent question of our time is whether democracy is still, is still the sacred cause of America.
00:22:56.000That is the question the American people must answer this year.
00:23:00.000And you, the Prefest, And that they don't get some information that we'd rather they didn't have.
00:23:11.000Information about the origins of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
00:23:17.000Information about who is arming the various combatant nations in extraordinary and egregious wars across the world right now.
00:23:25.000How much it's costing you to fund these wars while infrastructure in your own nation crumbles.
00:23:32.000These are the very stories that they require the free press, emphasis on the free, to continue to neglect in their reporting.
00:23:55.000I, as an English person who doesn't vote in your elections, obviously won't be voting for any presidential candidates in your November presidential process.
00:24:04.000But what I will say is I saw Donald Trump say that?
00:24:10.000I think he was on, was it with Hannity?
00:24:11.000Was he doing a town hall with Hannity and he goes, I'll be a dictator for a day.
00:24:15.000Now, what did Jerry Seinfeld just say about a sense of humour?
00:24:19.000It means we've got no entertaining comedy on TV, but furthermore, we no longer even have the privilege of comedically communicating with one another because Donald Trump's jokes, his use of the term bloodbath, We know that when he said bloodbath it was a very particular reference to trade tariffs that might be imposed on China, and here, in this context, where the floor is controlled, where the brass band plays the tune of Biden, a name that Joe Biden appears to believe is synonymous with truth and authenticity, but out here in the world of those that are taxed,
00:24:51.000Either literally and financially like you, or like the rest of the world, who attacks by the wars that that man and his administration fund.
00:24:59.000Or attacks by the lies that we have to listen to right now.
00:26:44.000Because that lady that he's alleged to have had an affair with and paid hush money fund to from campaign funds via Daniel Cohen in a way that's the worst thing that's ever happened.
00:26:58.000Her name was Stormy, so Stormy's got two meanings.
00:27:01.000Although, you would argue that it being a porn name, she's using Storm to literally mean that anyway.
00:27:07.000But that would leave us without a pun.
00:27:10.000And a pun is all Joe Biden has got right now.
00:27:12.000Between him and the tomb, there is a pun, hun.
00:27:19.000Oh, they're like acting like... Oh my God!
00:27:30.000Trump's so desperate, he started reading those Bibles he's selling.
00:27:35.000He sells Bibles, so, you know, we're all aware of that piece of propaganda.
00:27:39.000In fact, what this speech amounts to is a set of references to a string of propaganda previously delivered by the institutions in that room.
00:27:48.000Let me know if there's any of you in the rumble chat right now.
00:27:52.000Between you 16,500 people, is there any of you that go to the legacy media and trust even a word of it?
00:27:59.000Just a Y or an N. Do you trust a word of their propaganda?
00:28:05.000You shall have no other gods before me!
00:28:10.000That's when he put it down and said this book's not for me.
00:28:14.000Well that's still a significant distance into the Pentateuch and I think he would have done rather well because I don't reckon Joe Biden would have gotten beyond the flickering lights as the light upon the water.
00:28:29.000I don't reckon he'd have got through Deuteronomy or Numbers or Exodus Or any of that stuff.
00:28:48.000The White House Correspondent Association dinner Saturday night.
00:28:50.000Was a disgusting display of subservience by the corporate media to the administration of President Joe Biden.
00:28:55.000It sought to cover up the blood-drenched role of this government, which is a full partner in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and is spearheading the US-NATO war against Russia and Ukraine, bringing the world ever closer to a nuclear third world war.
00:29:09.000Now, you may not agree with some of the terms used in that because you may have a particular religious or national or ethnic affiliation to one of the sides involved in these various conflicts.
00:29:38.000Have a look at Norfolk Grumman stock prices.
00:29:40.000And then have a look at the astonishing litany of lawmakers in Congress that own stocks and shares in those organisations.
00:29:48.000Some 2,600 people, including print and broadcast journalists, their corporate bosses and their invited guests from Washington and Hollywood, rubbed shoulders, which is a disgusting image.
00:29:58.000table included Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, etc. The event was the centerpiece of
00:30:02.000several days of festivities including parties, receptions that were frowned by
00:30:06.000corporate trade groups and lobbyists. Other well-heeled participants all
00:30:10.000participated in it. So it's sort of like a week-long gala of normalizing
00:30:15.000propaganda. How extraordinary. The WHCA banquet is an annual event at which the
00:30:19.000corporate media throws an expensive bash in honor of itself.
00:30:22.000Do you know who I'd like to honor? It's me! I'm doing a great job being me. It
00:30:27.000celebrates its close ties to the administration in power and to the political
00:30:30.000establishment as a whole while mouthing occasional hosannas to press freedom.
00:30:35.000Although always in a way that aligns with US foreign policy.
00:30:39.000That's why some journalist names are read out and honoured, and I believe those journalists should be brought home.
00:30:45.000I don't think any journalists reporting on any side of any war should be held in captivity on foreign soil, and that is why I would include Gonzalo Lira, although alas I can't because sadly, as he predicted, he's dead now.
00:30:59.000And I would include Julian Assange, who whilst he is not an American citizen, he does face extradition to the United States in an unprecedented move simply because he revealed information that was detrimental to the war machine.
00:31:12.000You will have seen, I hope you saw, my fantastic conversation, and I'm not bigging myself up here because all of the stuff that was fantastic came from Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
00:31:21.000A serving colonel in the American military who said that he believes that Julian Assange should be freed.
00:31:28.000That any right-minded member of the forces believes.
00:31:31.000I mean, if you are a service person in the chat right now, let me know.
00:31:54.000It seems to me that Julian Assange in publishing true information is participating in the saving of lives and he is in Belmarsh for that crime.
00:32:01.000The real crimes are crimes against the establishment.
00:32:04.000So while they will happily utilize martyr names of journalists held in prison abroad, who I too believe ought be freed, remember they use those names as pawns in their games.
00:32:15.000The game that you saw augmented there by a brass band breezily playing in while the audience is braying just so that Joe Biden can claim that the name Biden is synonymous with truth.
00:32:30.000Thus, there was much more concern expressed for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, held for more than a year in a Russian prison, and for war correspondent Austin Tice, detained in Syria more than 12 years ago, but no one mentioned the name of the most celebrated journalist currently held in prison, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
00:32:47.000While the dinner's MC, WHCA president and NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell did refer to the journalists killed in Gaza, she gave the numbers nearly 100, although the actual figure is at least 175.
00:32:59.000She did not name the government and military responsible for those deaths, namely the Netanyahu regime and the Israeli Defence Forces, nor did she indicate the man who supplied the weapons used to kill those journalists, who was sitting only a few feet to her right on the platform.
00:33:16.000I don't think there are many people in the world who think that what's happening right now in the Middle East is anything less than devastating and awful.
00:33:23.000If you're at a press gala that is specifically and explicitly celebrating free speech and you do not mention the military relationship between the United States, the recent $95 billion bill to continue to supply Israel and Ukraine with arms to perpetuate wars that are either dreadfully immoral or simply unwinnable, We have to acknowledge we don't have a free press.
00:33:49.000We don't have a free press worthy of that conference.
00:33:52.000Next year, ban that event or invite some real journalists from around the world.
00:33:59.000And real journalists are willing to confront corruption.
00:34:05.000is a real journalist or certainly a real publisher.
00:34:09.000When Biden finally took to the podium his remarks were predictable.
00:34:12.000He devoted a few minutes to scripted jokes about his age and Trump's legal woes followed by a 10-minute pay-in to the free press as his ally in the defense of democracy against the danger of Donald Trump.
00:34:22.000That is why They have to continually escalate the threat of Donald Trump.
00:35:31.000But for Julian Assange and other whistleblowers against the crimes of the CIA and American imperialism, and for the courageous reporters documenting the crimes of the State of Israel in Gaza and on the West Bank, this assurance does not hold.
00:35:43.000What they have done and are doing is a crime according to imperialist warmongers like Biden and Netanyahu.
00:35:53.000Biden was followed by an interminable stretch of flat jokes and limp insults from Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live, the designated entertainment for the evening.
00:36:02.000He closed with a fervent tribute to Biden, declaring that his grandfather, a longtime firefighter who had recently died, had voted for Biden in 2020 because you're a decent man.
00:36:10.000With a straight face, Jost continued, he voted for decency and decency is why we're all here tonight.
00:36:15.000Decency is how we're all able to be here tonight.
00:36:18.000Decency is how we can make jokes about each other and none of us goes to prison afterwards.
00:36:23.000I suppose decency is a kind of tepid word that you might be able to apply to Joe Biden, were you to judge him only by his persona, which seems relatively amenable.
00:36:35.000Decent indeed is a word, but that's only if you're willing to extract the figure of Biden from the policies and wars, whether it's the policies of censorship that prevent us from freely discussing wars or compliant agreements made with various globalist ...organisations, some of which are NGOs or global forces such as NATO or the WHO, or the extraordinary facilitation of the military-industrial complex that continues under his presidency.
00:37:05.000Once you start incorporating that, indeed, if you spend a few moments reflecting on the way that he facilitates the furtherment of his son's career, although, you know, God, as a dad, would I do that for my kids?
00:37:16.000Probably I would, but then I'm not the President of the United States and I'm not advocating for endless unwinnable wars.
00:37:24.000So I suppose I'm perhaps not held to the same standard.
00:37:26.000It's difficult to determine the exact combination of willful ignorance and abject prostration before the capitalist state that produces such statements.
00:37:34.000But all of the participants in this degrading affair are forever besmirched by it in the face of a world historic crime.
00:37:39.000They praise and fawn over its enabler and co-conspirator.
00:37:43.000So in a sense, what we witnessed in that event was an extraordinary celebration of the ability of the state to control a narrative, to extract from their reporting a figure like Julian Assange, who stands head and shoulders over the profession of journalism and the decline of modern media, to ignore That even as they mention in real time the death of journalists in Gaza, they fail to include the causes and costs and manner in which those deaths have been brought about.
00:38:19.000The way that that war is being funded, the way that that war is being perpetuated, the, if not refusal, then reluctance of the United States of America in both the conflicts in the Middle East and the conflicts in Europe to facilitate diplomacy treaties and peace rather than seemingly exploit an opportunity to sell further armaments and certainly that's how it seems from the outside but let me know what you guys think in the chat is happening let's have a little look now a quick word from some of the people that we have the great privilege of being supported by and you'll be interested if you own one of these
00:38:57.000Unreliable little snitches that are doing the bidding of very powerful interest.
00:40:13.000We have our own globalist leader facilitating the aims of an elite establishment who seem hell-bent on decimating our values and our planet.
00:40:24.000Let's have a look at him in a moment as he jogs along and attempts some breezy social media propaganda that may go viral for all the wrong reasons.
00:40:34.000In a minute, we're going to be talking to you about AstraZeneca's Legal complications, and of course I'll be talking to you about my personal baptism this weekend, and how I believe that, in my case Christianity, and in all our cases spirituality, is a pathway out of the hell that the people that we talk about, show after show, the institutions that we focus on and highlight day after day,
00:41:00.000are bringing about our demise and destruction and there is a pathway out of this.
00:41:57.000Would you have believed it if a little while ago I'd have told you that Bobby Kennedy would be on Bill Maher's legacy media mainstream show openly saying that 25% of the American population claimed to know somebody killed by a vaccine and that Bill Maher, who at many times has advocated strongly for the Biden administration, saying quite recently, I'd vote for Biden's corpse over Donald Trump, would give RFK an airing as RFK articulates the concerns of many Americans when it comes to the pandemic and the medical measures that were subsequently implemented and in some cases mandated and in retrospect in particular with AstraZeneca admitting in a legal context for the first time that their product does indeed cause side effects
00:43:49.00052% of Americans believe that the vaccines are causing injuries, including death. 52%.
00:43:58.000Oh, if you look at the clinical trial studies, the actual studies that were done that were released of the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna has not released it.
00:44:07.000If you look at the Pfizer vaccine, there were 22,000 people in the placebo group, 22,000 people who got the actual vaccine.
00:44:18.000And the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate.
00:44:37.000Oh dear, the narrative is changing before our very eyes.
00:44:41.000You, being a well-informed and awakened audience, will be aware of the various legal measures that were put in place, the indemnity granted to pharmaceutical companies to avoid precisely what's beginning to unfold, the injurious side effects of the vaccines, which potentially include the most injurious side effect of them all.
00:45:04.000Many of you will have been investigating excess deaths.
00:45:07.000Many of you will have noticed that My Nation in the United Kingdom has changed the way that it calculates and records excess deaths in order to make that number lower because it was so extraordinarily high.
00:45:19.000You will have noticed because of the research of Pierre Corrie that insurance companies are now charging higher premiums to working-age people because they are dying at an unprecedented rate.
00:45:30.000You know that Let me know in the chat right now.
00:45:33.000Do you know people that suffered vaccine injury?
00:45:36.000Did you yourself suffer from a vaccine injury?
00:45:39.000Or as Bobby Kennedy just indicated, are you one of the one in four Americans that believes you know someone who died?
00:45:48.000Now it's making its way into the mainstream as surely as that spike migrates from the site.
00:45:54.000This narrative is migrating from the control of the White House correspondence dinner establishment and right into the heart of American media because it's unavoidable now.
00:46:05.000Because it's starting to affect insurance company premiums.
00:46:08.000It's starting to affect the way that legal companies do business.
00:46:11.000It's starting to affect the medical industry.
00:47:13.000You know there's a revolving door between the FDA in your nation and Pfizer and Moderna and various regulatory bodies in my country and Moderna and, as far as we know, Pfizer.
00:47:23.000We'll investigate that more thoroughly.
00:47:25.000But for now, let's turn our attention to the legal complications and concerns that AstraZeneca are now facing, having admitting For the first time in a legal context that their vaccines cause vaccine injuries.
00:47:36.000We asked you earlier what story you wanted us to bring to the forefront.
00:47:44.000So AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its COVID vaccine can cause a rare side effect in an apparent about turn that could pave the way for multi-million pound legal payouts.
00:47:57.000The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that this vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and a serious injury in dozens of cases.
00:48:06.000The first case was lodged last year by Jamie Scott, a father of two, who was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and bleed on the brain.
00:48:14.000AstraZeneca is contesting the claims but has accepted in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February that its COVID vaccine can in very, very rare cases.
00:49:46.000That's why they need to be continually engaged in wars.
00:49:49.000That's why they need you to be terrified and afraid the whole time.
00:49:52.000So you don't start thinking, I don't know if I want to pay my taxes.
00:49:54.000For all of these wars, and for these medical products, and to pay for AstraZeneca's legal bills after we paid for the development of the drug, in that particular case, in the first instance, because AstraZeneca was developed at Oxford University, and you can bet that some of their funding comes from taxation.
00:50:11.000In a letter of response sent in May 2023 AstraZeneca told lawyers for Mr Scott that we do not accept TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level but in the legal documents submitted to the High Court in February AstraZeneca said it is admitted that the AZ vaccine can in very rare cases They're so rare!
00:50:28.000Oh, you want to thank your lucky star?
00:50:46.000Further, TTS can also occur in the absence of the AZ vaccine or any vaccine.
00:50:51.000Just in case there might be further legal cases that are coming up for Pfizer and Moderna, causation in any individual case will be a matter for expert evidence.
00:51:33.000Remember how the legacy media, the same legacy media that attend the White House correspondent dinner, softball question after softball question, no analysis, no investigation, a total willingness to support the idea that this is somehow emerged out of a bat cave and wasn't a bioweapon.
00:51:52.000Scientists first identified a link between the vaccines and a new illness called vaccine-induced immune, oh no, thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, VITT, as early as March 2021, shortly after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout began.
00:52:06.000The government has indemnified AstraZeneca against any legal action but has so far refused to intervene.
00:52:12.000Lawyer Sarah Moore, who is bringing the legal claims in, has taken AstraZeneca a year to formally admit their vaccine can cause the devastating blood clots, when this fact has been widely accepted by the clinical community since the end of 2021.
00:52:32.000No, there was a little bit in 2019 where we were all very willing to put cans of food on our parents' windowsills.
00:52:40.000There was a time where we were willing and happy to watch funerals on YouTube, and miss babies being born, and not visit people in hospital, and to do what we were told, and to sacrifice travel plans, and to ignore the fact that our governments were attending parties, whether that's Gavin Newsom over there in Cali Cali California, or Rishi Sunak attending the banquets of Boris Johnson, or Keir Starmer, who's the presumed next leader of our country, who had his own beery boozy events, but he was just working for a better future for you!
00:53:14.000Why won't you just do as you're told and let them help you?
00:53:17.000Why won't you fund AstraZeneca's legal bills?
00:53:20.000Why won't you just agree that whoever they condemn is the people that should be condemned?
00:53:25.000Why don't you agree that your freedom is a problem?
00:53:28.000Why don't you just celebrate the fact that you will own nothing and you will be happy in a materialist hell?
00:53:35.000Designed increasingly by an establishment that seems demonically possessed.
00:53:41.000Our sympathy, in that context, this is good, this is a good bit because we're going to get, we're going to get some quotes from AstraZeneca.
00:53:47.000In that context, regrettably, it seems that AstraZeneca, the government and their lawyers are more keen to play strategic games and run up legal fees, your money by the way, those legal fees, than to engage seriously with the devastating impact that their AstraZeneca vaccine has had upon our clients' lives.
00:54:02.000That lawyer, maybe inadvertently, is speaking for a good many people there.
00:54:06.000Let me know if they're speaking for you.
00:54:08.000In a statement, AstraZeneca said, our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.
00:54:14.000Well, I guess that's the end of it then.
00:54:18.000AstraZeneca, and hopefully Moderna, and Pfizer, and Anthony Fauci, and the FDA, and the various other regulatory bodies, and Bill Gates, and the WHO, they're all sending out their sympathies to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.
00:55:12.000Like, let's have a look at a graph and see how much time is spent on patient safety through the clinical trials, and let's see how much time is spent maximising profit.
00:55:19.000For example, you know that Pfizer engage in stock buybacks.
00:55:23.000Now, I know we're not speaking for Pfizer, but hey, why don't we bundle together all these pharmaceutical companies the way they bundle together all of their vaccines?
00:56:00.000The authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines.
00:56:05.000From the body of evidence in clinical trials and real-world data, the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has continuously been shown to have an acceptable safety profile.
00:56:19.000You wait to hear how much money they're earning.
00:56:23.000Acceptable safety profile and regulators around the world consistently state that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare.
00:59:10.000Bobby Kennedy announcing on TV to Bill Maher that one in four Americans claim to know someone that has died from a vaccine.
00:59:17.000Meanwhile, AstraZeneca, one of the biggest damn companies in the world, have acknowledged legally for the first time That their product is injurious.
00:59:27.000This is seismic, because once one falls, the whole damn lot could fall.
00:59:32.000We were fooled by them once, but perhaps we won't be fooled by them again.
00:59:36.000Maybe this is the time that we can put aside the propaganda.
00:59:39.000Maybe this is the time that we can come together.
00:59:41.000Maybe this is the time that we can find peace between one another and a connection to our land and overcome these institutions of corruption that seek to cudgel us into ignorance and compliance.
00:59:53.000That's for those of us that aren't too damaged and damned by the products they peddle, the bad food they sell, the filthy media that they fill your mind with.
01:00:01.000Let's keep our fingers crossed and that ain't a side effect, baby.
01:00:08.000Anyway, we're going to stay with you for a moment.
01:00:10.000I'm going to give you a little bit of insight because, you know, one way that you can protect your health Is with some pretty glorious products from some pretty decent people.
01:00:20.000Plus we've got the story of my baptism coming up.
01:05:23.000He seems like a pretty decent guy to me.
01:05:27.000Now, from the fire and brimstone of hell, from the dreadful burning flames, to the literal awakening that can only be provided, at least as far as I'm concerned, by a very literal baptism.
01:05:45.000That's turning to Christ is not just me that is experiencing a spiritual awakening across the world.
01:05:52.000There appears to be a return to religion.
01:05:54.000Now I've made my personal opinion clear and I will elucidate, illuminate, espouse, expound, proselytize on that further in a moment.
01:06:06.000But I will say that there are a lot of people that are joining other faiths as well.
01:06:11.000And I personally do not feel that I can do anything other than speak for myself.
01:06:15.000And obviously, if you were asking me for my personal recommendation, I could only use my personal experience as the basis for a personal recommendation.
01:06:23.000But across the world, this seems to me like a time where a set of values not derived from the materialist culture are becoming increasingly relevant.
01:06:31.000When you look at that ghoulish gala that was the White House press correspondence dinner, it's pretty obvious that we are a rudderless society, damned and doomed.
01:06:40.000Obviously, I've been through a lot of things personally.
01:06:42.000I know you've been through a lot of things personally too.
01:06:45.000But for me, I've reached the point where The figure, the personage, the presence of Christ became overwhelming, unavoidable, welcome, necessary.
01:07:35.000A little post on him returning and indeed still saying that he is against censorship and there's been some reports on me getting baptized and later today elsewhere on this channel you'll be able to see our video about Candice Owens Becoming a Catholic.
01:07:57.000We've made a pretty good video on that and I'd love to know what you guys think.
01:08:01.000Now, obviously someone like me who's for a long time was associated with, I don't know, a decadent, hedonistic, Hollywood lifestyle.
01:08:29.000In fact, it's one of the most important things to us here is to create a space of integration and unity because we have some pretty important things to do.
01:08:37.000But this is something that's personal to me and I want to talk about it to you.
01:08:40.000A lot of people, like David Icke, has said that You know that he has some problem with me turning.
01:09:07.000I've known about David Icke, and known David Icke a long time, and I admire David Icke, and I can't wait to have another conversation with him specifically about this, because David Icke has contributed some important ideas and themes to the conversation of, well, whether you call it awakening or anti-establishment, whatever you call it, he's really participated and he's the OG, is he?
01:09:28.000You know, maybe some of you might say, oh, well, what about Alan Watts or Terrence McKenna or the Beats?
01:09:35.000You know, David Icke, when it comes to certainly some of the more, what was once regarded as the realm of the conspiracy, David Icke has done some extraordinary stuff.
01:09:46.000They talk about freedom of speech and convert to the church with a long, long history of mass murder for the crime of having a different opinion.
01:10:16.000A greater share of young adults say they believe in a higher power or God.
01:10:20.000About one third of 18 to 25 year olds say they believe, more than doubt, the existence of a higher power, up from about one quarter in 2021, according to a recent survey of young adults.
01:10:30.000It's always been assumed that Christianity in particular was In decline.
01:10:35.000And of course the arguments about the Crusades, the corruption, the Catholic Church, paedophilia scandals, these are all things that people understand.
01:10:43.000The potential compliance and advocacy of the papacy in the Second World War.
01:10:49.000There are endless scandals around the institutions that have grown out of Christianity.
01:10:56.000And having been Christian for 24 hours now, I can unravel and resolve all of those complex questions for you.
01:11:05.000Obviously, I can only tell you what has personally drawn me towards the faith over the course of our little conversation now.
01:11:12.000But it's interesting to me that people en masse, in particular young people, are recognising that the material world that I sought to find solace and comfort in is no longer serving that function for many young people.
01:11:32.000When I was a kid, I was thinking, yeah, hedonism, excitement, glory, as well as being sort of scarred with a pretty painful addiction and, I know, an emptiness.
01:11:43.000But I've heard a lot of Christians say that that is almost a defining attribute, that we need a direct relationship with Christ.
01:11:49.000And without that relationship, we will feel hollow and empty and bereaved.
01:11:54.000Young adults, theologians and church leaders attribute the increase in part to the need for people to believe in something beyond themselves after three years of loss.
01:12:03.00084% of the world's population identifies with a religious group.
01:12:18.000Of course, the key idea that we have to address, or certainly one of them, is the idea of hypocrisy and indeed the idea that religion causes wars.
01:12:28.000These are central to the arguments of atheists like Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins
01:12:34.000or Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris, that religion as an ideology,
01:12:39.000with the various religions, but they often focus on Islam, I suppose,
01:12:43.000facilitates violence and death and war.
01:12:46.000And to get caught in that paradigm is interesting because you have to, I suppose,
01:12:51.000ignore the endless current secular wars, the Middle Eastern conflicts.
01:12:56.000Are they underwritten by theology or by territory and resource?
01:13:02.000The war between Ukraine and Russia, is this ideological or is it military
01:13:11.000There are different ways to analyze the origins of these conflicts and indeed that's what we dedicate a lot of our time to on this channel.
01:13:19.000So let's have a look at this report on the relationship between religion and war.
01:13:24.000Religion has been implicated in all sorts of conflicts and violence throughout human history.
01:13:29.000There is blood on the hands of the faithful, and no avoiding the fact that in the service of the wrong people, religion can be a force of great harm.
01:13:49.000Dinner party guests are likely to nod in agreement when someone mentions the millions killed at the hands of the church, but historians now suggest Around 5,000 to 6,000 over a 350 year period.
01:14:01.000One a year is terrible, but the reality appears a long way from what we are often served up.
01:14:08.000That's an interesting piece of analysis from the legacy media, and of course any death conducted in the name of God, particularly if you, excuse me, Particularly if you consider God to ultimately be love and unity.
01:14:23.000Particularly if you consider Christ to be God incarnate, come to earth to absolve our sins, accessible within to all of us.
01:14:35.000I've been on a journey that has been, of course, inspired and impacted by suffering.
01:14:42.000You'll be aware of the attacks that took place in the media because they were designed to attract the attention of as many people as possible, undertaken by an extraordinary alliance of media organisations, other NGOs, and it appears to some degree or another, with the participation of various agencies that I'm reluctant to name at this point, What you might not know is that at that time my son was born with some complications and had open heart surgery when he was very young.
01:15:15.000And of course, in a time like that, if you have a loving relationship with a partner, that is where you'll find a great deal of solace.
01:15:23.000Sometimes the material world and human relationships, they're not enough.
01:15:28.000We report on this stuff every single day.
01:15:30.000Corruption, institutional corruption, violence, unnecessary wars, the refusal of the powerful to participate in peaceful solutions, the corruption of powerful groups, the desire of powerful interests to hide malevolent intent behind Beneficial measures.
01:15:46.000We're doing this to help you they say.
01:15:48.000It's for your safety and for your convenience and my whole life long I felt a calling and mistranslated it time after time as various Forms of addiction, substance misuse and drinking too much.
01:16:05.000An overwhelming urge to lose myself in concupiscence.
01:16:10.000Continually looking for love in all the wrong places.
01:16:15.000And any extraordinary, any of you that have experienced this already, to get baptised, do you feel like, how can this ceremony have any real import?
01:16:24.000How can the gentle, or actually in my case, quite radical, immersion beneath water, and in my case, a live river, Make any real difference.
01:16:34.000How can the sins of the past be washed away?
01:16:41.000I suppose to answer that question you have to inquire into what you consider the self to be.
01:16:47.000Whether you're made up just of impulses and urges and memories or whether or not you believe there is a ghost in the machine or more likely a holy spirit if you're willing to invite it into your life.
01:17:02.000For me, I've reached a point in my life where for a long while, in fact, I've known that the material world was not enough and more than that, as many of you are surely already mouthing, it's not even about you.
01:17:16.000This I've learned as an addict in recovery, the pursuit of my own goals and my own agenda always leaves me cold and always leaves me empty and always leaves me wanting more.
01:17:27.000You can never have enough of what you don't really want.
01:17:35.000It is a surrender undertaken in gratitude and in sincerity and I know that it's not something I'll be able to undertake perfectly but for the first time in my life I fully understand that I'm not at the center of my universe and I say that as a parent.
01:17:49.000I've got three really really beautiful kids I'm devoted to and dedicated to but now I know that my function here is to be of service and to be guided and to no longer be in autonomous or authoritative control of the measures and pursuits that are put before me.
01:18:04.000And that aligns so beautifully with what we do here on this show and on this channel.
01:18:11.000This is an opportunity for us to look at corruption in institutions, look at hypocrisy in media,
01:18:17.000look at a planet that seems to be in pretty serious trouble and see how individually and
01:18:22.000collectively we can participate in an awakening.
01:18:25.000So for me, I've done what I believe is unavoidable, inevitable, necessary for me, for all of the
01:18:31.000exotic exploration, for all of the various drugs and substances, for all of the esoteric
01:18:37.000practices I found in that humble place that was at the end of my arm, at the end of my
01:18:42.000street, sat at bus stops, sat in churches, droned on about in school assemblies, in Christianity
01:18:49.000and in particular in the figure of Christ.
01:18:53.000Your journey will be your journey, but I'll be praying for you as many have been praying for me, and I appreciate all of your prayers, and I've felt your prayers, and I've been carried by your prayers, and I will do my best to honor your prayers.
01:19:04.000This is a conversation we can go on having because, hey, we're reading Mere Christianity as part of our book club, and if you become an awakened wonder, and obviously you're very welcome, and if it's not something you can afford, let us know.
01:19:17.000Send us an email at help at russellbrown.com, and we'll give it to you for nothing.