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00:00:56.000Listen, once we leave YouTube, we're going to be talking to you about natural immunity.
00:01:01.000And if you understand how the YouTube guidelines are formulated, you'll recognize why it is we're waiting until we're exclusively on Rumble to discuss that story, because I've got some things to say about natural immunity.
00:01:36.000We're doing this brilliant presentation on how the word freedom is being redefined before your very eyes to mean, I think, fascism or something.
00:03:37.000They've been transferred to a medical facility for drug rehabilitation.
00:03:41.000But with the temple empty, nearby villagers are worried they can't do any merit-making, which involves... Do you not think that the villagers have lost faith in the entire system?
00:03:49.000They're like, oh no, what, all the monks are off because they were doing meth?
00:03:53.000How are we supposed to do that thing that obviously wasn't even working for the people that were most into it?
00:03:57.000Because the point of being a monk is you give up everything so that God can come completely into you, nothing between you and God.
00:04:03.000If you're not into it, don't just go like...
00:04:05.000Hit up some meth, or however you do it these days.
00:04:27.000Hopefully they'll all be alright, those guys.
00:04:28.000As a recovering drug addict myself, I can offer them a few tips.
00:04:31.000Although one of the things I would have suggested is go and become a monk, so that's not worked.
00:04:37.000The Chinese have got this new trick for how to handle protests.
00:04:42.000You're going to love this, Gareth, because some people worry that you can't handle disruptions and people holding up placards and all that kind of thing.
00:05:40.000Like, if you remove free will from a population, as we are, I think, doing in our own way, what do you think about, like, our kind of Western totalitarianism, where we're sort of blithely subdued by commodity and idiocy, dimly staring at screens till nothing means anything.
00:05:56.000Over there in China, it's a bit more... It's choreographed.
00:07:16.000Air Force just shoot down a party balloon?
00:07:20.000I gave the order to take down these three objects.
00:07:24.000He may be able to bring down balloons, but he can't bring down your drug prices.
00:07:28.000Group of balloon enthusiasts, teens, dads, and grandpas say they believe their $12 balloon, just like the one in this photo... For Joe Biden, that group of men, sort of young whippersnappers, is an upstart!
00:07:42.000Who are these crazy kids releasing balloons?
00:07:58.000If you're watching us on YouTube, remember, we're going to click over into a rumble.
00:08:01.000There's a link in the description in a minute because we're going to be talking about natural immunity and Lord alone knows what would happen to us if we tried to discuss that freely on this platform.
00:08:59.000If you think it was a potentially a propagandist measure.
00:09:01.000One of the things we think is that they were distracting us from that terrible Ohio train wreck and the subsequent environmental disaster.
00:09:08.000We've got a brilliant presentation about that later in the week.
00:09:11.000And we're trying to get Erin Brockovich on.
00:09:12.000I really want Erin Brockovich to come on because of the film Erin Brockovich and everything.
00:09:15.000And what I feel is, have you noticed, and let me know about this in the chat and the comments, particularly from locals, because that's what I'm watching here on locals.
00:09:21.000In fact, Joe, can you come make it work?
00:09:24.000Like, if you're watching us on Locals, I see all of your comments, right?
00:09:27.000What we feel is, like, what troubles me anyway, personally, is the way that environmentalism is used as a kind of calling card, ideologically, to define a political movement, like the Democrat Party.
00:09:39.000Like, we care about the environment, we care about it.
00:09:42.000But then when the environment actually really needs a bit of help, look at what Biden's doing, backing Norfolk Southern's bid to block lawsuits.
00:09:48.000Now, if you really care about the environment, this is an ideal chance to show it beyond rhetoric, isn't it?
00:09:53.000Yeah, rather than, you know, siding with the corporations, of which, no doubt, I mean, they definitely threw lobbyists' funnel money into the Democrat Party and to the Republican Party.
00:10:03.000I mean, we was talking today, weren't we, about 80% of U.S.
00:10:08.000rivers now are, like, polluted with toxic chemicals.
00:10:11.000You know, so this isn't just a one-off, oh God, the Ohio River, that what a, you know, dreadful situation.
00:10:18.000You're not surprised that whether it was a distraction or not from these kind of stories they're not evidently doing what they should be doing.
00:10:24.000It's a brilliant opportunity as most news stories are these days to analyse what the systems of power might actually be like.
00:10:32.000They use rhetoric to convey an interest in environmentalism but when the opportunity comes to act on behalf of the environment they do not take it.
00:10:40.000Joe Biden will say that his administration will protect American workers When it comes to paying rail workers who, you know, I feel like they're in industrial action in your country, America.
00:10:49.000I know that railway workers in our country are getting shafted real bad.
00:11:28.000I guess what he's saying is that Putin thought that he'd have this wrapped up a long time ago, but because we keep giving, you know, weapons and arms and aid to Ukraine, we've managed to keep this going.
00:11:39.000It's $100 billion in total, but you said, what was the figure for the average US household now?
00:11:44.000It's $861 now that this has cost the average American household.
00:11:49.000That's the average American household.
00:11:51.000What worries me about that, I suppose, is it's not like it's going to support Ukrainian troops directly.
00:11:56.000It's military expenditure, much of which will be for-profit military-industrial-complex stuff that will be going to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.
00:12:03.000Those guys, not that they don't do great things like actually build really cool telescopes, I heard the other day.
00:13:44.000I'm busy using my little eyes simultaneously.
00:13:48.000So he said Wednesday that a Ukrainian attempt at retaking Crimea would be a red line for Vladimir Putin.
00:13:54.000It's kind of like they know what Zelensky wants whilst acknowledging how dangerous this would be and yet continuing to supply weapons anyway.
00:14:00.000So it's just an interesting thing that's going on whilst Joe Biden's over there giving more weapons.
00:14:06.000It's kind of like they know what Zelensky wants whilst acknowledging how dangerous this would be
00:14:12.000and yet continuing to supply weapons anyway. It's a strange situation.
00:14:35.000I'm not criticising the person just on the basis of the way that they look.
00:14:38.000But he looks like he's from 30 or 40 years ago.
00:14:40.000He looks like he's from the wrong era, and his facial expression, I don't know why he wants to be in that photo.
00:14:44.000And who thinks, like even if you don't know Putin that well, which I don't, I don't know what makes him tick or anything, but I figure that is not someone you stand in front of in a line-up.
00:14:54.000He seems, from everything I've heard about his background in the KGB and his willingness to kill his enemies, he's someone that's not going to have an ego.
00:15:39.000OK, so while... Oh, the proxy war's got a bit more complicated now because it's a bit proxy-proxy because America is having to fund militarily Ukrainian efforts.
00:15:50.000But now, look, China might start funding Russia.
00:16:03.000UFOs that they are balloon enthusiasts.
00:16:07.000Oh, well, we've decided to, you know, to fund China for a little while.
00:16:11.000Are we going to click over for a minute or can we do our Taiwan thing?
00:16:14.000Let's do our Taiwan thing and then after that we're going to have to leave you guys if you're watching anywhere other than Rumble because I'm going to talk about natural immunity and it's a subject that has to be, well it doesn't have to be censored actually, I don't think it should be.
00:16:25.000I think you should be able to openly discuss things because you are a free adult individual with your own divine connection to the limitless.
00:16:32.000But apparently me and certain other platforms and power structures see things differently.
00:16:37.000Before we go, we'll just tell you this thing.
00:17:20.000It turns they are with semiconductors, and don't pretend you know what semiconductors are, because even though you keep hearing it on the news, you still don't know what they are.
00:17:26.000And if you think you know, let me know in the chat.
00:17:37.000Uh-oh, it's starting to look like No, potentially not, because what you're doing is you're aggravating a powerful nation that are willing to put placards around you, billboard you out of existence and then march you off into whatever is Chinese for a gulag.
00:18:03.000I'm afraid I can't answer that at this point.
00:18:06.000So it seems like, according to our deep analysis, that Taiwan could be the new Ukraine.
00:18:11.000But, you know, it don't matter what we think.
00:18:12.000Tell us what you think in the chat in the comments.
00:18:46.000And then Dark Dev says, YouTube just cut out as soon as you mentioned natural immunity.
00:18:49.000Yeah, that's because we click off as soon as we get into subjects that are going to be censored on that platform, even though that was a mainstream media news report.
00:18:58.000And now there are official studies that state that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines.
00:19:06.000But the YouTube regulations do not acknowledge that.
00:19:31.000Hey, Russell, thanks for having me back.
00:19:32.000Thanks for coming on our last minute after Christian Smalls, Amazon Union leader, didn't get delivered.
00:19:37.000We still think he might be next door at any moment.
00:19:40.000He could turn up as a surprise package.
00:19:42.000In fact, we're hoping to get him on the show tomorrow, but we're thrilled to have you on, particularly with a few very pertinent questions to ask you.
00:19:49.000Firstly, I understand you went to that anti-war rally yesterday in Washington, D.C., and there were balloons floating about.
00:19:56.000Were people terrified of the potential that that balloon could spy on them or drift Yeah, I did see a few F-22s flying around.
00:20:07.000They might have spotted some balloons, but the rally was really great.
00:20:10.000It was the Rage Against the War Machine rally, and it brought together people from all over the political spectrum, which is, you know, our whole thing at AntiWar.com.
00:20:18.000It was organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, Speakers included Jimmy Dore, who I know was on here to promote it, and Ron Paul, which was really amazing.
00:20:40.000There was a few thousand estimates I saw were between three and four thousand, which is good.
00:20:45.000You know, we hope for more next time, but I think it's a good start.
00:20:48.000It's the first kind of rally of its kind during this current, you know, proxy war in Ukraine that brought together, again, everybody from the political spectrum.
00:20:56.000And they got the big names and they spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, which was really great to see.
00:21:00.000And then they marched to the White House and there was more speakers there.
00:21:05.000And again, seeing the libertarians and the leftists and the conservatives just all mingling and talking, that was what made me really happy to see that they could get together on that.
00:21:15.000And I was there with my son, who's 15 months old.
00:21:44.000Meanwhile, over in the... And also, by the way, those kind of political alliances that are forming.
00:21:48.000Libertarians on the right, they're interested in individual freedom.
00:21:51.000People to the left of the Democrat Party who are interested in collective community freedom and the empowerment of communities rather than centralised government.
00:21:58.000Devolution and decentralization, individual freedom.
00:22:02.000These are the banners and flags that we can all march under together, I reckon.
00:22:07.000Meanwhile, in that not a proxy war, isn't it hotting up a bit, mate?
00:22:12.000Because Zelensky does say that it's part of his plan to take Crimea.
00:22:16.000Zelensky has said that he never planned to honor the Minsk agreement about what's going on in Donbass.
00:22:23.000And also, isn't it pretty clear that if Crimea gets taken, We might all find ourselves in a terrible pickle nuclear Armageddon wise.
00:22:32.000Yeah, and there's a few interesting points there when it comes to Crimea.
00:22:36.000So last month in January, there was a report in the New York Times that said the Biden administration was considering helping Ukraine attack Crimea, said they weren't concerned about escalation.
00:22:45.000And this is just based on the fact that Putin hasn't used the nuke up to this point.
00:22:52.000You know, we don't have to worry about it, which is really unbelievable.
00:22:56.000And they quoted somebody in there from the RAND Corporation, if you're familiar with that think tank, you know, they're funded by the US military, they've been shaping US foreign policy for decades.
00:23:05.000And she said, oh, Putin, he hasn't really done anything big in response to attacks on Crimea.
00:23:11.000In October, if you remember the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland, After that is when Russia started the large-scale bombing of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainians without power.
00:23:24.000The fact that she says that and the New York Times reports it that way, oh, they haven't done anything.
00:23:27.000It shows they don't care about Ukrainians.
00:23:31.000Shows how dislocated are from the consequences of their actions.
00:23:36.000For the Ukrainian people, the loss of that energy was a pretty significant loss and a pretty considerable exacerbation in the conditions they're living under.
00:23:44.000And of course, we remember that bridge bombing because I feel like British Special Forces were significantly involved in enacting it.
00:23:53.000That's the British response to that line of inquiry.
00:23:58.000So, what other developments around Crimea are we going to tell us about, mate?
00:24:03.000Yeah, well, so recently, last week, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he acknowledged that taking Crimea would be a red line for Putin, which, you know, we've been saying all along and people call us Putin apologists for that, but here's Blinken saying it.
00:24:17.000And there's also been other indications.
00:24:18.000The Pentagon briefed Congress and said they're not going to be able to retake Crimea.
00:24:24.000officials have been saying this, and then you have the Ukrainians still saying that they're going to retake the peninsula.
00:24:29.000But I think behind the scenes, the U.S.
00:24:30.000is telling them, you know, focus on this other territory for now that, you know, they want to push this offensive over the next few months to retake other territory that Russia controls.
00:24:42.000is saying, there's reports that this aid isn't going to last forever.
00:24:46.000They don't believe that they can get these huge aid packages anymore when this latest one is exhausted, which should be by the summer, they're going to spend all of it.
00:25:31.000These next few months are going to be pivotal, and there's talk that they're going to try
00:25:34.000to wind things down, but anything can happen.
00:25:37.000I mean, the escalation risk is still there, of course.
00:25:40.000The risk of nuclear war and direct war between NATO and Russia has never been higher, and it's just madness.
00:25:46.000So hopefully it ends as soon as possible and that, you know, these next few months aren't too bad.
00:25:50.000Dave, you're getting a lot of love in our community on Locals.
00:25:53.000That's our membership community that any of you are welcome to join at any time and get additional content and the ability to communicate directly live in the show.
00:26:00.000MCMT says, Hi Russell, I really like Dave and I'm really enjoying his contributions.
00:26:59.000And this has been going on for some time.
00:27:01.000I went over, you know, last time I was here, so I don't want to say too much about how the U.S.
00:27:05.000used to handle it, but basically the U.S.
00:27:07.000used to give Taiwan, they would sell them weapons, but they wouldn't encourage them too much to declare independence because they knew that could start a war with China.
00:27:49.000He said, all these weapons that you're shipping to Ukraine, get them over to Taiwan.
00:27:53.000They want to really increase the flow of weapons.
00:27:56.000Some more Republicans just wrote a letter to Biden saying, add $2 billion for military aid for Taiwan in your next budget.
00:28:04.000And again, China is warning, you know, if you keep doing this, it could lead to war in the region, but the US continues to provoke them.
00:28:10.000You know, when they first started passing these bills that had military aid for Taiwan, Mitt Romney, the senator, if you're familiar with him, he said, you know, what we're doing is very provocative and bellicose.
00:28:23.000Mitt Romney said that, and then he voted for it anyway.
00:28:26.000He voted in favor of sending them the aid anyway.
00:28:29.000So that's the path that we're going on there.
00:28:32.000And again, it's not slowing down by any means, because there's no opposition.
00:28:36.000If you know Ro Khanna from California, House representative, Democrat, progressive, He's against the Middle East Wars.
00:28:43.000He's very good on Yemen and issues like that.
00:29:31.000It seems that we have systems that require conflict and crisis in order to sustain themselves.
00:29:40.000And in terms of US politics, currently there is no option that will not give you an escalation of Global agitation.
00:29:50.000It seems like the Republican Party in particular are keen to escalate tension with China.
00:29:59.000The Democrats have, for several years now, demonised Russia.
00:30:03.000And the idea that Diplomacy, multipolar worlds where different regions have different government that don't require intervention.
00:30:14.000It seems odd to me that at this point in our history, when progress seems observable in the areas of technology and medicine in so many ways, that we are making such rudimentary errors when the consequences could be so grave.
00:30:30.000You know, it's great that you're, you know, the war march that you and Jimmy and everyone from Greyzone and all those groups that we're sort of, that we're really supportive of and consider ourselves to be allies with, like, you know, creating a movement around it.
00:30:44.000But it feels like it's something that needs to become pretty radically and significantly popularized and is going to require a meaningful political base.
00:30:55.000And do you see anything like that being able to emerge, Dave?
00:31:01.000Well, again, I was pretty hopeful after this weekend and, you know, I have friends in the Libertarian Party.
00:32:08.000I'm not sure if you're familiar with him.
00:32:09.000He's a comedian It's a podcast called part of the problem He went on Joe Rogan and he told him you know the truth about how the u.s Provoked the war in Ukraine and that got millions of views on YouTube.
00:32:19.000And so I think we're living in a very Good time to be pushing this.
00:32:24.000You know, of course, we have the sensors with big tech, but there's ways around it.
00:32:30.000And it's tough to not get too cynical doing what I do, just writing and researching about all this horrible stuff.
00:32:38.000But again, this weekend, I'm really motivated.
00:32:40.000And I really appreciate people like you who have big platforms and are willing to have us on to speak these truths that people need to hear.
00:32:49.000And much of the censorship and the smearing and the shutting down of dissent and the constant projection of inane stories and the provocation of division and entrenching overly lobbied political parties suggest that there is an awareness that now more than ever the potential for change, because of the information and communicative advances that have occurred in the last 10, 20 years, require extreme effort.
00:33:17.000to control and you know that is cause for optimism. So Dave thanks for coming on here,
00:33:24.000thanks for the incredible work that you're doing and I'm going to be in America in the next couple
00:33:29.000of weeks. I hope that we get to connect soon. Thanks for joining us today Dave, I appreciate it.
00:33:33.000Yeah that would be great. Yeah thanks again for having me.
00:33:37.000Remember that title I gave for your son's potential forthcoming autobiography, March Before I Could Walk, My First Tentative Steps as an Activist?
00:34:03.000We're going to be talking about that story a little bit more and its connotations.
00:34:07.000I like the way that it exposes the hypocrisy and lack of depth.
00:34:12.000To the rhetoric around ecological care.
00:34:14.000Now this is an opportunity to bring people together and look we do we're talking about the ecology, the environment, how much we care about it.
00:34:21.000Here's a chance for us to demonstrate that care through our actions and that's not what's happening.
00:34:34.000I never I think the best is that they've been basically silent and just haven't really been involved in this and at worst are some of the things that they'll ever uncovering which we spoke about earlier and obviously Julie will talk about that tomorrow about them side literally siding with the railroad companies.
00:34:52.000We've got some other exciting content tomorrow for you.
00:35:06.000What's your connections like with the pharmaceutical industry?
00:35:08.000Like, what you need is someone who's got no connections to the pharmaceutical industry, and I hope that they'll start there.
00:35:13.000Please also sign up to our locals community, that's what I respond to.
00:35:17.000And whoever sent that picture, like, of some boobs or whatever, I don't feel like you should do that in this kind of chat.
00:35:23.000I mean, I don't agree with censorship, I agree with free speech, but I also agree with politeness and kindness, but I feel like people are sorting that out among themselves.
00:35:52.000Also, if you're a member of Locals, you can join us for our weekly show, Stay Connected, where we show you how we make this show.
00:35:57.000Plus, I do a weekly meditation with someone from the community.
00:36:01.000Like, they'll go, I've had my heart broken or something like that, and then I do a meditation with them and I'm almost 20% certain it helps.
00:36:08.000My stand-up special will be coming soon.
00:36:10.000You'll get it exclusively for a while on the Locals platform.
00:36:14.000And if that wasn't enough, I'm coming to your country if you're in America.
00:36:18.000On March 2nd, I'll be in LA at the Vermont Theatre.
00:36:21.000And on March 6th, I'm going to be in Tampa at the Bilheimer Capital Theatre.
00:36:25.000You can go to RussellBrand.com and get your tickets.