Stay Free - Russel Brand - Dave DeCamp (Rage Against The War Machine)

00:00:00.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

00:00:02.000 Thanks for joining us for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

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00:00:15.000 I'm a real world person.

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00:00:22.000 Russell, you're fantastic.

00:00:23.000 I made that up.

00:00:24.000 This is what we'll be talking about today.

00:00:26.000 Joe Biden's in Ukraine.

00:00:28.000 That's where he's gone, doing a little bit of dealing.

00:00:31.000 And we'll be asking and demonstrating whether or not Taiwan has the right criteria even to be the next Ukraine.

00:00:38.000 You know, you've got to make sure that the criteria is correct.

00:00:40.000 You're suggesting it is the new Ukraine then?

00:00:43.000 That's the subtext.

00:00:44.000 Got it.

00:00:45.000 You're bringing the subtext to the text.

00:00:47.000 I just thought I might.

00:00:48.000 That's Tennessee Williams.

00:00:49.000 What if people don't get subtext, Russ?

00:00:52.000 Like your little red button that's not there.

00:00:55.000 Press it! 0.99

00:00:55.000 That's really there. 0.99

00:00:56.000 Listen, once we leave YouTube, we're going to be talking to you about natural immunity.

00:01:01.000 And 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.

00:01:11.000 I can't say them yet, can I?

00:01:12.000 No.

00:01:13.000 I can't say them!

00:01:15.000 Not even subtext at this point.

00:01:16.000 Hold on.

00:01:17.000 No, I can't.

00:01:17.000 Not even subtext.

00:01:18.000 There's a WHO of banned subtext.

00:01:22.000 W-E-F, they don't like it. 1.00

00:01:23.000 They do not like subtext.

00:01:24.000 They like everything to be nice and clear.

00:01:27.000 Like my bubbly, gargling spit.

00:01:29.000 My ever-forming mouth.

00:01:33.000 Also, we're doing a wonderful presentation.

00:01:34.000 Did you like that?

00:01:35.000 Very nice.

00:01:35.000 Come on.

00:01:36.000 We're doing this brilliant presentation on how the word freedom is being redefined before your very eyes to mean, I think, fascism or something.

00:01:44.000 I mean, that's literally Orwellian, isn't it?

00:01:47.000 To subvert and invert the meaning of particular words.

00:01:51.000 Hate speech.

00:01:52.000 Yeah!

00:01:53.000 We've got a mystery guest coming on.

00:01:54.000 It was meant to be Christian Smalls. 1.00

00:01:55.000 He might be coming on tomorrow.

00:01:56.000 He's the union leader for Amazon, and ironically, he's not been delivered on time.

00:02:01.000 We don't know where he's gone.

00:02:02.000 Where is he, Christian Smalls? 0.97

00:02:03.000 He was meant to be here.

00:02:04.000 He's a union leader.

00:02:04.000 He hasn't been delivered.

00:02:05.000 Maybe he's round near the bins or something.

00:02:07.000 We left him with your neighbour.

00:02:09.000 Excuse me, did you get a union leader?

00:02:11.000 Oh yeah, they're always dropping these off.

00:02:13.000 Yeah, so hopefully we'll see him tomorrow.

00:02:15.000 But before that, I want to assure you that the system you're living with, within, on Planet Prison Prison Planet, Absolutely fine.

00:02:27.000 Buddhist Abbey loses all of its monks after they all test positive for meth.

00:02:31.000 All of them.

00:02:32.000 Not a single monk in the place.

00:02:34.000 Do you know one of the reasons I didn't become a monk?

00:02:36.000 There's two.

00:02:37.000 And one of them was because you can't do meth.

00:02:40.000 And the other one was obvious.

00:02:42.000 I feel like they might as well have been doing that.

00:02:44.000 Look at that, a Thai Abbey's four Buddhist monks.

00:02:46.000 There's only four of them.

00:02:47.000 Hold on.

00:02:47.000 They've been defrocked, dismissed and sent to rehab after they've all been on methamphetamine when the police sprung them.

00:02:53.000 The monks were then sent to a clinic to undergo drug rehab and then they're going to be replaced at the temple.

00:02:58.000 I think they were lonely.

00:02:58.000 There's only four of them.

00:02:59.000 I thought it was a whole abbey full of monks.

00:03:01.000 I got the idea that that was them.

00:03:03.000 That's them all acting really spiritual.

00:03:06.000 Actually they're doing well to sit still like that if they're on meth because it's a very edgy substance is my understanding.

00:03:13.000 Not that we're endorsing drugs, drugs are obviously bad for you.

00:03:17.000 Here's the mainstream media news telling you about that stuff.

00:03:19.000 Let's have a look at those guys.

00:03:20.000 This temple in Thailand lost its monks after they all tested positive for meth.

00:03:26.000 The four monks, including an abbot, all tested positive yesterday and were defrauded.

00:03:31.000 I guess you could say I had a terrible drug, abbot.

00:03:35.000 Come on.

00:03:37.000 They've been transferred to a medical facility for drug rehabilitation.

00:03:41.000 But 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?

00:03:49.000 They're like, oh no, what, all the monks are off because they were doing meth?

00:03:53.000 How are we supposed to do that thing that obviously wasn't even working for the people that were most into it?

00:03:57.000 Because the point of being a monk is you give up everything so that God can come completely into you, nothing between you and God.

00:04:03.000 If you're not into it, don't just go like...

00:04:05.000 Hit up some meth, or however you do it these days.

00:04:07.000 And all of them?

00:04:08.000 Every single one of them.

00:04:09.000 It's really caught on.

00:04:11.000 You know the thing we've been doing?

00:04:12.000 Yeah, meditating all the time, letting go of all our desires.

00:04:15.000 Well, I've got another idea, and I think it's better.

00:04:17.000 Talk me through it.

00:04:18.000 It's meth.

00:04:19.000 Okay, it's a bit different from what we're here for.

00:04:21.000 It's in fact the opposite.

00:04:22.000 It's literal dependency on the material and chemical world.

00:04:26.000 I don't know.

00:04:27.000 Hopefully they'll all be alright, those guys.

00:04:28.000 As a recovering drug addict myself, I can offer them a few tips.

00:04:31.000 Although one of the things I would have suggested is go and become a monk, so that's not worked.

00:04:37.000 The Chinese have got this new trick for how to handle protests. 1.00

00:04:42.000 You'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.

00:04:49.000 Well, look at the Chinese. 1.00

00:04:50.000 They've got this new technique that's shielding protesters.

00:04:53.000 Let's have a look.

00:05:05.000 Look out!

00:05:06.000 Urgently, they move.

00:05:08.000 Then another one.

00:05:10.000 When you see the Chinese mid-round, I know they've been sped up so, you know, they're not that quick. 1.00

00:05:22.000 It's not like the methamphetamine monks whizzing their way through meditation.

00:05:27.000 The way they hold them belts like that, I think they will be good in a war. 1.00

00:05:31.000 Yeah, I mean one positive thing you've got to say about totalitarianism is that it's, you know, it looks good, doesn't it?

00:05:38.000 They've got that under control.

00:05:39.000 They really have. 0.59

00:05:40.000 Like, 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.

00:05:56.000 Over there in China, it's a bit more... It's choreographed. 0.96

00:05:58.000 It's beautiful.

00:05:59.000 It's like America's Got Talent over there.

00:06:00.000 It's enjoyable.

00:06:01.000 It's like the masked singer, the masked protester.

00:06:03.000 Just cover him up.

00:06:04.000 Who's that inside there?

00:06:05.000 It's Kylie Minogue.

00:06:09.000 Let's go on, let's see more of what they do.

00:06:13.000 They've nicked him.

00:06:15.000 But you wait till you see, like once they walk off, this guy's already got Stockholm Syndrome.

00:06:21.000 He marches off with them and it's like he's actually quite into it.

00:06:23.000 Have a look.

00:06:27.000 Oh, no, it goes back to the beginning.

00:06:28.000 Oh.

00:06:28.000 No.

00:06:29.000 We didn't see the end.

00:06:30.000 Last clip, pal.

00:06:31.000 Last clip.

00:06:31.000 The bit at the end, yeah, he starts walking off with them.

00:06:33.000 Best bit of the whole clip.

00:06:35.000 Oh.

00:06:35.000 Oh, these guys.

00:06:36.000 Oh, well.

00:06:36.000 I don't know.

00:06:37.000 The whole show ruined.

00:06:38.000 Or is it?

00:06:39.000 No, get off.

00:06:40.000 Turn off the audio now.

00:06:41.000 Don't try and do it now.

00:06:41.000 That's playing out in here, you loonies.

00:06:43.000 Leave it. 0.95

00:06:44.000 Stop.

00:06:44.000 I've moved on.

00:06:45.000 I've moved on.

00:06:46.000 I move on fast, don't I, Gal?

00:06:47.000 You know that about me.

00:06:48.000 I don't hang on to resentments.

00:06:50.000 I can't afford to and that's another of the lessons that monks are going to have to learn. 0.83

00:06:53.000 Don't hold on to resentment.

00:06:55.000 Let it go.

00:06:56.000 Let it go.

00:06:56.000 Move forwards.

00:06:57.000 We've got more information for you about the balloons that have been expensively shot out of the sky.

00:07:03.000 400 grand to shoot a balloon out of the sky.

00:07:05.000 Let's have a look at it on the mainstream news because apparently it's just a nice little Christmas balloon or something.

00:07:10.000 It might have been a Valentine's heart.

00:07:13.000 It was just a festive item.

00:07:15.000 Let's have a look.

00:07:16.000 Did the U.S. 0.86

00:07:16.000 Air Force just shoot down a party balloon? 0.86

00:07:20.000 I gave the order to take down these three objects.

00:07:24.000 He may be able to bring down balloons, but he can't bring down your drug prices.

00:07:28.000 Group 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!

00:07:42.000 Who are these crazy kids releasing balloons? 0.95

00:07:44.000 You punks! 0.99

00:07:45.000 Oh, you punks! 1.00

00:07:46.000 I'll take you down like corn pop! 1.00

00:07:48.000 Corn Pop would have been a cheaper way of bringing down a balloon.

00:07:52.000 That's all you do.

00:07:52.000 It's inexpensive to just simply pop a balloon.

00:07:54.000 That is the best way.

00:07:55.000 He should have used his old style skills a little bit, shouldn't he?

00:07:58.000 Yeah.

00:07:58.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, remember, we're going to click over into a rumble.

00:08:01.000 There'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.

00:08:10.000 Hey, so yeah, let's see what's next.

00:08:12.000 What is this game, by the way?

00:08:13.000 Balloon Enthusiasts.

00:08:14.000 Enthusiasts.

00:08:15.000 They're enthusiastic about it.

00:08:17.000 Generational.

00:08:18.000 Generations of balloon enthusiasts.

00:08:20.000 Although I say that there's a drop-off in interest.

00:08:22.000 There's a few elderly, some middle-aged, a couple of youngsters, I'd say 10-20 years.

00:08:27.000 Also enthusiastic.

00:08:28.000 I mean, I'm, I would say, enthusiastic about balloons.

00:08:31.000 Not enough.

00:08:32.000 They're going to a gathering.

00:08:33.000 Sure, sure, yeah. 0.99

00:08:34.000 It's rubbish, that one, though. 0.94

00:08:36.000 That one looks like a Victorian prophylactic. 0.99

00:08:39.000 I would say, doesn't it?

00:08:40.000 It's like a sexual measure.

00:08:43.000 Alright, let's have a look at what's next with these guys.

00:08:45.000 Was the balloon shot down over Alaska by a $400,000 missile?

00:08:50.000 You'd have to say pro rata, that's an expensive solution for that problem.

00:08:54.000 You'd say so.

00:08:54.000 Although, if, you know, all the news that they got out of it, it might have been worth it.

00:08:58.000 Oh, I see.

00:08:59.000 If you think it was a potentially a propagandist measure.

00:09:01.000 One of the things we think is that they were distracting us from that terrible Ohio train wreck and the subsequent environmental disaster.

00:09:08.000 We've got a brilliant presentation about that later in the week.

00:09:11.000 And we're trying to get Erin Brockovich on. 0.99

00:09:12.000 I really want Erin Brockovich to come on because of the film Erin Brockovich and everything.

00:09:15.000 And 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.

00:09:21.000 In fact, Joe, can you come make it work?

00:09:23.000 It ain't working properly.

00:09:24.000 Like, if you're watching us on Locals, I see all of your comments, right?

00:09:27.000 What 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.

00:09:39.000 Like, we care about the environment, we care about it.

00:09:42.000 But 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.

00:09:48.000 Now, if you really care about the environment, this is an ideal chance to show it beyond rhetoric, isn't it?

00:09:53.000 Yeah, 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.

00:10:03.000 I mean, we was talking today, weren't we, about 80% of U.S.

00:10:08.000 rivers now are, like, polluted with toxic chemicals.

00:10:11.000 You know, so this isn't just a one-off, oh God, the Ohio River, that what a, you know, dreadful situation.

00:10:16.000 This is going on everywhere.

00:10:18.000 You'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.

00:10:24.000 It's a brilliant opportunity as most news stories are these days to analyse what the systems of power might actually be like.

00:10:32.000 They 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.

00:10:40.000 Joe 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.

00:10:49.000 I know that railway workers in our country are getting shafted real bad.

00:10:52.000 They never take those opportunities.

00:10:54.000 The reporting in the leather there is certainly worth taking a look at.

00:10:57.000 They're an affiliate of this show, I'd go so far They're fantastic, yeah.

00:11:01.000 Where is the real national security threat?

00:11:03.000 That's one of the questions we're posing.

00:11:05.000 Are you more at risk from enthusiastic balloons floating across the sky or from serious pollution in your rivers?

00:11:13.000 And as Gareth's just told you, 8% of your rivers already have that pollution.

00:11:16.000 It's a really, really worrying story.

00:11:19.000 Biden, though, is in Kiev as he thought Putin could outlast us.

00:11:23.000 In what context does he mean there?

00:11:26.000 In a coital situation?

00:11:28.000 I 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.

00:11:39.000 It's $100 billion in total, but you said, what was the figure for the average US household now?

00:11:44.000 I think you said $806.

00:11:44.000 It's $861 now that this has cost the average American household.

00:11:49.000 That's the average American household. 0.89

00:11:51.000 What worries me about that, I suppose, is it's not like it's going to support Ukrainian troops directly.

00:11:56.000 It's military expenditure, much of which will be for-profit military-industrial-complex stuff that will be going to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.

00:12:03.000 Those guys, not that they don't do great things like actually build really cool telescopes, I heard the other day.

00:12:07.000 Sure.

00:12:08.000 But in this instance... And that plane that...

00:12:10.000 And that missile.

00:12:10.000 We've got this brilliant plane.

00:12:12.000 It's pretty expensive.

00:12:13.000 When we had Seymour Hersh on it, he said that was the first mission that plane had ever done.

00:12:17.000 It's cost billions for him to make it.

00:12:18.000 I think that's that one we've seen skipping about like that, isn't it?

00:12:20.000 That's it, yeah.

00:12:22.000 The one you've seen sort of up on its wrong end.

00:12:23.000 That's it.

00:12:24.000 Sort of like farting itself into the sky, then scutterbugging off like Clippity Clop's mum.

00:12:30.000 Mitch, what's old Mitch up to?

00:12:32.000 Mitch McConnell's there, the great deer. 0.99

00:12:34.000 He's like frozen semen, grayly melting down a... 0.99

00:12:39.000 The palm of your hand. 0.99

00:12:41.000 But yeah, I was thinking of it as an ice cream.

00:12:42.000 Right.

00:12:43.000 Because that's how we all like to... Most of us consume semen as a sort of delicacy. 0.62

00:12:50.000 What's he got to say?

00:12:51.000 Oh yeah, this is a bit of mainstream news.

00:12:53.000 Where's Fox?

00:12:54.000 You know, so right-leaning, mainstream stuff about expenditure in Ukraine.

00:12:58.000 You might have to figure out a way to get more funding so that we have enough ammo for ourselves and to give to allies like Craig.

00:13:05.000 What is Biden's responsibility?

00:13:07.000 Look at the size of that bloody television set they've had to get in order to convey how much money's been spent.

00:13:13.000 That's a serious widescreen telly that they've had to use.

00:13:16.000 Some of that budget has been spent on TV sets to get all the zeros on, to be honest, though.

00:13:23.000 There's Putin.

00:13:23.000 Do you want to say something about that?

00:13:25.000 I've got a little fact about me blinking, if you want it.

00:13:28.000 How unlike you, Gareth, to startle me with a fact.

00:13:32.000 Sorry about Antony Blinken.

00:13:34.000 I think Antony Blinken's surname describes what he's doing when there's important business going on.

00:13:40.000 He's just blinking all the time while they're letting balloons out.

00:13:42.000 Antony, are you looking at this?

00:13:44.000 No, not really.

00:13:44.000 I'm busy using my little eyes simultaneously.

00:13:48.000 So he said Wednesday that a Ukrainian attempt at retaking Crimea would be a red line for Vladimir Putin.

00:13:54.000 It's kind of like they know what Zelensky wants whilst acknowledging how dangerous this would be and yet continuing to supply weapons anyway.

00:14:00.000 So it's just an interesting thing that's going on whilst Joe Biden's over there giving more weapons.

00:14:06.000 It's kind of like they know what Zelensky wants whilst acknowledging how dangerous this would be

00:14:12.000 and yet continuing to supply weapons anyway. It's a strange situation.

00:14:16.000 Yeah, it's extraordinary.

00:14:17.000 And Putin is not a man to take aggravation lying down.

00:14:21.000 Have you seen this thing where someone comes and stands in front of him in a photo op?

00:14:25.000 Have a look, you'll enjoy this.

00:14:29.000 There's a very strong bass in that track, and who is this little egghead that's getting in front of him firstly?

00:14:34.000 What's that haircut about?

00:14:35.000 I'm not criticising the person just on the basis of the way that they look.

00:14:38.000 But he looks like he's from 30 or 40 years ago.

00:14:40.000 He looks like he's from the wrong era, and his facial expression, I don't know why he wants to be in that photo.

00:14:44.000 And 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.

00:14:53.000 I'll get in front of him.

00:14:54.000 He won't mind.

00:14:54.000 He 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.

00:15:02.000 Yeah.

00:15:02.000 [Russian rap music]

00:15:09.000 Shift D!

00:15:11.000 I call him a shifty little guy.

00:15:13.000 I think he's just reading the vibe of the people he's decided.

00:15:17.000 I stand with these guys.

00:15:19.000 He's to the left, she's to the right, no problem here. 0.93

00:15:22.000 But look at the person they've got.

00:15:23.000 They've got the perfect person lined up to solve this little dilemma.

00:15:28.000 Out you come, son.

00:15:30.000 You've had your fun.

00:15:32.000 Yes, please.

00:15:34.000 Yeah, that's more like it.

00:15:35.000 Well done.

00:15:36.000 That's well done.

00:15:36.000 Good team.

00:15:37.000 Good work, team.

00:15:38.000 Yeah, nice.

00:15:39.000 OK, 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.

00:15:50.000 But now, look, China might start funding Russia.

00:15:54.000 Yeah.

00:15:55.000 So now it's like actual Russian dolls of funding load again, bigger and bigger and bigger funding.

00:16:00.000 I mean, who's going to fund China?

00:16:02.000 I know.

00:16:03.000 UFOs that they are balloon enthusiasts.

00:16:07.000 Oh, well, we've decided to, you know, to fund China for a little while.

00:16:11.000 Are we going to click over for a minute or can we do our Taiwan thing?

00:16:14.000 Let'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.

00:16:25.000 I think you should be able to openly discuss things because you are a free adult individual with your own divine connection to the limitless.

00:16:32.000 But apparently me and certain other platforms and power structures see things differently.

00:16:37.000 Before we go, we'll just tell you this thing.

00:16:44.000 Is Taiwan the next Ukraine? 0.98

00:16:46.000 We have created a set of diagnostics to help us understand.

00:16:50.000 When we ask simply, is it?

00:16:51.000 Now let's have a look at the first criterion.

00:16:54.000 Right, is it next to a superpower?

00:16:55.000 Yeah, yes or no?

00:16:57.000 Yes!

00:16:57.000 Because China.

00:16:59.000 So what's the next question?

00:17:00.000 There's some information on it from the great journalist John Pilger.

00:17:02.000 Does a superpower want their land?

00:17:06.000 Yes or no?

00:17:07.000 You can play along at home.

00:17:08.000 Play along in the chat.

00:17:09.000 Come see if you can beat us.

00:17:12.000 What's the next question?

00:17:12.000 There it is.

00:17:13.000 That's how you define it.

00:17:15.000 Is Taiwan resource rich like Ukraine is?

00:17:18.000 Yes or no?

00:17:18.000 Go on, try and guess along.

00:17:20.000 It 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.

00:17:26.000 And if you think you know, let me know in the chat.

00:17:28.000 Go on, tell me in the chat then.

00:17:29.000 It's semiconductors, they make loads of them.

00:17:31.000 Is that it?

00:17:31.000 Have the US been giving them weapons?

00:17:34.000 Oh, is it yes or no?

00:17:34.000 Have they?

00:17:35.000 Yes, they have been doing that.

00:17:37.000 Uh-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.

00:18:03.000 I'm afraid I can't answer that at this point.

00:18:06.000 So it seems like, according to our deep analysis, that Taiwan could be the new Ukraine.

00:18:11.000 But, you know, it don't matter what we think.

00:18:12.000 Tell us what you think in the chat in the comments.

00:18:14.000 Stay free with Russell Brand.

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00:18:42.000 Gaz needs a hat.

00:18:44.000 I suppose you, they mean.

00:18:46.000 And then Dark Dev says, YouTube just cut out as soon as you mentioned natural immunity.

00:18:49.000 Yeah, 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.

00:18:58.000 And now there are official studies that state that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines.

00:19:06.000 But the YouTube regulations do not acknowledge that.

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00:19:17.000 This is why we insist on having guests who, like us, are pro-truth.

00:19:22.000 This is why I'm proud to introduce as our guest now, news editor at antiwar.com and friend of the show, Dave DeCamp.

00:19:29.000 All right, Dave.

00:19:31.000 Hey, Russell, thanks for having me back.

00:19:32.000 Thanks for coming on our last minute after Christian Smalls, Amazon Union leader, didn't get delivered.

00:19:37.000 We still think he might be next door at any moment.

00:19:40.000 He could turn up as a surprise package.

00:19:42.000 In 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.

00:19:49.000 Firstly, I understand you went to that anti-war rally yesterday in Washington, D.C., and there were balloons floating about.

00:19:56.000 Were people terrified of the potential that that balloon could spy on them or drift Yeah, I did see a few F-22s flying around.

00:20:07.000 They might have spotted some balloons, but the rally was really great.

00:20:10.000 It 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.

00:20:18.000 It 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.

00:20:27.000 Chris Hedges, our guy Scott Horton.

00:20:30.000 Just a whole list.

00:20:31.000 Max Blumenthal, Dan McKnight.

00:20:34.000 Just a great lineup.

00:20:35.000 I mean, I'm missing a lot of people because there were so many speakers.

00:20:39.000 And it was a good showing.

00:20:40.000 There was a few thousand estimates I saw were between three and four thousand, which is good.

00:20:45.000 You know, we hope for more next time, but I think it's a good start.

00:20:48.000 It'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.

00:20:56.000 And they got the big names and they spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, which was really great to see.

00:21:00.000 And then they marched to the White House and there was more speakers there.

00:21:04.000 It was really just a good showing.

00:21:05.000 And 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.

00:21:15.000 And I was there with my son, who's 15 months old.

00:21:18.000 He just started walking.

00:21:19.000 So my attention was focused on that.

00:21:22.000 I wanted to write up kind of like a proper report on it, but I had a great time.

00:21:26.000 It was great to meet people there.

00:21:27.000 And it really invigorated me, you know, gave me some new motivation.

00:21:31.000 I've got some pitches now for your son's autobiography, if he goes on to be a significant public figure.

00:21:36.000 March before I could walk, my first steps in the activist movement.

00:21:40.000 No need to thank me, Dave.

00:21:42.000 That's completely free.

00:21:43.000 You can have that.

00:21:44.000 Meanwhile, over in the... And also, by the way, those kind of political alliances that are forming.

00:21:48.000 Libertarians on the right, they're interested in individual freedom.

00:21:51.000 People to the left of the Democrat Party who are interested in collective community freedom and the empowerment of communities rather than centralised government.

00:21:58.000 Devolution and decentralization, individual freedom.

00:22:02.000 These are the banners and flags that we can all march under together, I reckon.

00:22:07.000 Meanwhile, in that not a proxy war, isn't it hotting up a bit, mate?

00:22:12.000 Because Zelensky does say that it's part of his plan to take Crimea.

00:22:16.000 Zelensky has said that he never planned to honor the Minsk agreement about what's going on in Donbass.

00:22:23.000 And also, isn't it pretty clear that if Crimea gets taken, We might all find ourselves in a terrible pickle nuclear Armageddon wise.

00:22:32.000 Yeah, and there's a few interesting points there when it comes to Crimea.

00:22:36.000 So 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.

00:22:45.000 And this is just based on the fact that Putin hasn't used the nuke up to this point.

00:22:50.000 That's all they're basing this on.

00:22:51.000 He hasn't done anything yet.

00:22:52.000 You know, we don't have to worry about it, which is really unbelievable.

00:22:56.000 And 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.

00:23:05.000 And she said, oh, Putin, he hasn't really done anything big in response to attacks on Crimea.

00:23:10.000 But that's not true.

00:23:11.000 In 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.

00:23:24.000 The fact that she says that and the New York Times reports it that way, oh, they haven't done anything.

00:23:27.000 It shows they don't care about Ukrainians.

00:23:30.000 They're suffering much more.

00:23:31.000 Shows how dislocated are from the consequences of their actions.

00:23:36.000 For 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.

00:23:44.000 And of course, we remember that bridge bombing because I feel like British Special Forces were significantly involved in enacting it.

00:23:51.000 Remember it?

00:23:52.000 By Jove, we did it.

00:23:53.000 That's the British response to that line of inquiry.

00:23:58.000 So, what other developments around Crimea are we going to tell us about, mate?

00:24:03.000 Yeah, 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.

00:24:17.000 And there's also been other indications.

00:24:18.000 The Pentagon briefed Congress and said they're not going to be able to retake Crimea.

00:24:22.000 It's unlikely.

00:24:24.000 A lot of U.S.

00:24:24.000 officials have been saying this, and then you have the Ukrainians still saying that they're going to retake the peninsula.

00:24:29.000 But I think behind the scenes, the U.S.

00:24:30.000 is 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.

00:24:41.000 And there's talks that the U.S.

00:24:42.000 is saying, there's reports that this aid isn't going to last forever.

00:24:46.000 They 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.

00:24:55.000 So, that's pretty significant.

00:24:56.000 But then you see Biden fly into Kiev today, or however, maybe he went on a train.

00:25:01.000 I'm not sure how he got in, but to show Zelenskyy, that support from the US.

00:25:06.000 I think that's pretty big symbolic when it comes to the proxy war, the president of the

00:25:10.000 United States entering a war zone.

00:25:13.000 Maybe behind the scenes in private meetings, he's telling them, all right, this aid spigot

00:25:18.000 isn't going to be open forever.

00:25:20.000 You got to start gaining some territory, which is what the US wants them to gain territory

00:25:24.000 and then negotiate.

00:25:26.000 Russia has been building up its forces for months and months, and they're starting to

00:25:29.000 gain territory.

00:25:31.000 These next few months are going to be pivotal, and there's talk that they're going to try

00:25:34.000 to wind things down, but anything can happen.

00:25:37.000 I mean, the escalation risk is still there, of course.

00:25:40.000 The risk of nuclear war and direct war between NATO and Russia has never been higher, and it's just madness.

00:25:46.000 So hopefully it ends as soon as possible and that, you know, these next few months aren't too bad.

00:25:50.000 Dave, you're getting a lot of love in our community on Locals.

00:25:53.000 That'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.

00:26:00.000 MCMT says, Hi Russell, I really like Dave and I'm really enjoying his contributions.

00:26:06.000 Tree low, bitterest.

00:26:08.000 Our government only cares about world political and economic domination, not the lives of Ukrainians or Russians. 0.91

00:26:15.000 What do you think, mate, about Not only this conflict, but the ongoing escalation of tension between Taiwan, China and the United States.

00:26:25.000 we did earlier on a little item of how the various ways in which

00:26:30.000 the territory of Taiwan, to forgive the use of that term, is comparable to Ukraine, i.e.

00:26:36.000 vital resources, in this case, like the semiconductor industry, strategic benefits for the United States

00:26:45.000 already in a place where there is sort of militarization taking place.

00:26:49.000 And also, what about the story that China continuing to militarily aid Russia?

00:26:56.000 So with Taiwan, there's a lot there.

00:26:59.000 And this has been going on for some time.

00:27:01.000 I went over, you know, last time I was here, so I don't want to say too much about how the U.S.

00:27:05.000 used to handle it, but basically the U.S.

00:27:07.000 used 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.

00:27:15.000 But in recent years, the U.S.

00:27:16.000 is really ramping up that support, and China is reacting immediately by increasing its military pressure on Taiwan.

00:27:22.000 So that's all happening.

00:27:23.000 What really concerns me with Taiwan is that in Congress, there is some opposition to the

00:27:29.000 war in Ukraine, and it comes from a lot of Republicans.

00:27:32.000 It's small, but it's still significant.

00:27:35.000 When it comes to Taiwan, a lot of them are all for sending these weapons not to Ukraine,

00:27:40.000 but to Taiwan.

00:27:41.000 If you know Josh Hawley, he's a senator from Missouri, and he really encapsulates this line of thinking.

00:27:47.000 He wrote a letter to Antony Blinken.

00:27:49.000 He said, all these weapons that you're shipping to Ukraine, get them over to Taiwan.

00:27:53.000 They want to really increase the flow of weapons.

00:27:56.000 Some more Republicans just wrote a letter to Biden saying, add $2 billion for military aid for Taiwan in your next budget.

00:28:04.000 And 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.

00:28:10.000 You 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.

00:28:23.000 Mitt Romney said that, and then he voted for it anyway.

00:28:26.000 He voted in favor of sending them the aid anyway.

00:28:29.000 So that's the path that we're going on there.

00:28:32.000 And again, it's not slowing down by any means, because there's no opposition.

00:28:36.000 If you know Ro Khanna from California, House representative, Democrat, progressive, He's against the Middle East Wars.

00:28:43.000 He's very good on Yemen and issues like that.

00:28:45.000 He just went to Taiwan this weekend.

00:28:47.000 I mean, there's no opposition.

00:28:49.000 And that's what really scares me.

00:28:50.000 That's why I think we have to wake a lot of people up to understand that the U.S.

00:28:53.000 preparing for war in the Asia Pacific, encouraging Japan to double its military budget, giving

00:28:59.000 South Korea everything it wants, sending more bombers to the Korean peninsula, increasing

00:29:03.000 bases in the Philippines, opening a new base in Guam, expanding their military presence

00:29:07.000 in Micronesia.

00:29:08.000 Did people vote for that?

00:29:10.000 To expand the US military footprint in Micronesia or Palau or the Marshall Islands?

00:29:15.000 This is all happening and people need to wake up to it and say, we can't be doing this because

00:29:21.000 we're going to provoke another war and it's the people over there, unless it turns nuclear 0.99

00:29:24.000 right away, it's the people in Taiwan, it's the people in Southeast Asia, it's the Chinese

00:29:29.000 who are going to suffer.

00:29:31.000 It seems that we have systems that require conflict and crisis in order to sustain themselves.

00:29:40.000 And in terms of US politics, currently there is no option that will not give you an escalation of Global agitation.

00:29:50.000 It seems like the Republican Party in particular are keen to escalate tension with China.

00:29:59.000 The Democrats have, for several years now, demonised Russia.

00:30:03.000 And the idea that Diplomacy, multipolar worlds where different regions have different government that don't require intervention.

00:30:14.000 It 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.

00:30:30.000 You 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.

00:30:44.000 But it feels like it's something that needs to become pretty radically and significantly popularized and is going to require a meaningful political base.

00:30:55.000 And do you see anything like that being able to emerge, Dave?

00:31:01.000 Well, again, I was pretty hopeful after this weekend and, you know, I have friends in the Libertarian Party.

00:31:08.000 I'm a member.

00:31:09.000 I'm not too involved.

00:31:10.000 I focus my work at antiwar.com and we're a nonprofit, so we can't do political work, but I am a supporter personally.

00:31:17.000 And, you know, the Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the U.S.

00:31:21.000 and right now they're focusing on local elections.

00:31:24.000 And, you know, that's kind of our whole thing as Libertarians is decentralization and localizing.

00:31:30.000 And so that's really important.

00:31:32.000 And again, it comes to the coalition, I think it's very important just to be able to drop it.

00:31:38.000 I mean, we had Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich at this rally.

00:31:41.000 And back when they were in Congress, Kucinich, the progressive, and Ron Paul, the right wing

00:31:45.000 libertarian, they worked together on all sorts of issues that they aligned on.

00:31:49.000 That's really what we have to push.

00:31:51.000 And luckily, we're always talking about the mainstream media, how they control the narrative.

00:31:55.000 I mean, since I've been on your show, I've been checking out Rumble More, and I see these

00:31:59.000 shows on here getting huge audiences.

00:32:01.000 And I think that's really encouraging.

00:32:03.000 And also, Joe Rogan is the biggest media in the world.

00:32:06.000 my friend Dave Smith.

00:32:08.000 I'm not sure if you're familiar with him.

00:32:09.000 He'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.

00:32:19.000 And so I think we're living in a very Good time to be pushing this.

00:32:24.000 You know, of course, we have the sensors with big tech, but there's ways around it.

00:32:28.000 And it's exciting.

00:32:29.000 I'm excited.

00:32:30.000 And it's tough to not get too cynical doing what I do, just writing and researching about all this horrible stuff.

00:32:38.000 But again, this weekend, I'm really motivated.

00:32:40.000 And 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.

00:32:47.000 Thanks for saying that, Dave.

00:32:49.000 And 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.

00:33:17.000 to control and you know that is cause for optimism. So Dave thanks for coming on here,

00:33:24.000 thanks for the incredible work that you're doing and I'm going to be in America in the next couple

00:33:29.000 of weeks. I hope that we get to connect soon. Thanks for joining us today Dave, I appreciate it.

00:33:33.000 Yeah that would be great. Yeah thanks again for having me.

00:33:37.000 Remember that title I gave for your son's potential forthcoming autobiography, March Before I Could Walk, My First Tentative Steps as an Activist?

00:33:43.000 Might become relevant, I don't know.

00:33:45.000 That's pretty great, yeah.

00:33:46.000 It was alright, wasn't it, that I came up with that?

00:33:48.000 Thanks, Dave.

00:33:50.000 Cheers, mate, take care. 0.93

00:33:51.000 On the show tomorrow, we've got Julia Rock coming on. 1.00

00:33:53.000 She's from The Leather.

00:33:54.000 She's reporting on the Ohio train wreck and the lobbying by rail companies to avoid safety measures that haven't led to... Oh no!

00:34:01.000 There's been a massive train wreck!

00:34:03.000 We're going to be talking about that story a little bit more and its connotations.

00:34:07.000 I like the way that it exposes the hypocrisy and lack of depth.

00:34:12.000 To the rhetoric around ecological care.

00:34:14.000 Now 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.

00:34:21.000 Here's a chance for us to demonstrate that care through our actions and that's not what's happening.

00:34:26.000 No it isn't what's happening.

00:34:27.000 I think you know what's been labelled at the Biden administration and booty judge as well is that you know.

00:34:33.000 Well said.

00:34:33.000 You actually said his name right.

00:34:34.000 I 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.

00:34:52.000 We've got some other exciting content tomorrow for you.

00:34:54.000 You've got to join us.

00:34:55.000 We're speaking to Dan Cohen on the NIH's search for the new Fauci.

00:34:59.000 I hope they do it like a talent show, like America's Got Talent.

00:35:02.000 New Fauci.

00:35:03.000 Do you like royalties?

00:35:05.000 Have you got a good history?

00:35:06.000 What's your connections like with the pharmaceutical industry?

00:35:08.000 Like, what you need is someone who's got no connections to the pharmaceutical industry, and I hope that they'll start there.

00:35:13.000 Please also sign up to our locals community, that's what I respond to.

00:35:17.000 And whoever sent that picture, like, of some boobs or whatever, I don't feel like you should do that in this kind of chat.

00:35:23.000 I 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.

00:35:31.000 Stop looking at it!

00:35:33.000 They're not mine!

00:35:36.000 I've not got it up.

00:35:37.000 I'm not looking at it right now.

00:35:38.000 I'm looking at the normal chat.

00:35:39.000 Hold on, let me just make sure whether that's wrong or right.

00:35:43.000 No, that's definitely wrong!

00:35:45.000 That's wrong!

00:35:46.000 No, we are anti-censorship.

00:35:47.000 I'm also pro-respect, am I?

00:35:50.000 Yes, you are.

00:35:52.000 Also, 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.

00:35:57.000 Plus, I do a weekly meditation with someone from the community.

00:36:01.000 Like, 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.

00:36:08.000 My stand-up special will be coming soon.

00:36:10.000 You'll get it exclusively for a while on the Locals platform.

00:36:14.000 And if that wasn't enough, I'm coming to your country if you're in America. 0.99

00:36:18.000 On March 2nd, I'll be in LA at the Vermont Theatre.

00:36:21.000 And on March 6th, I'm going to be in Tampa at the Bilheimer Capital Theatre.

00:36:25.000 You can go to RussellBrand.com and get your tickets.

00:36:28.000 Although they're on my mailing list.

00:36:29.000 I think they got those first.

00:36:30.000 Join us tomorrow!

00:36:32.000 Not for more of the same, but for more of the different.

00:36:35.000 Why are you looking at me like that?

00:36:36.000 No, just watching it all happen.

00:36:38.000 This is it.

00:36:38.000 This is me doing my work, doing what I do best.

00:36:41.000 Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - February 21, 2023

Dave DeCamp (Rage Against The War Machine)

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