Stay Free - Russel Brand - Global Farmer Protests - Great Reset Resisters? - #032 - Stay Free with Russell Brand

00:00:00.000 I'm going to go ahead and get that.

00:00:58.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:01:08.000 Hello and welcome to Stay Free with Russell Bram.

00:01:11.000 We've got a fantastic show for you today.

00:01:13.000 We're going to be talking about the American midterms, but also from a slightly surprising perspective.

00:01:19.000 And this is that perspective.

00:01:20.000 All right, we all know the results.

00:01:22.000 We know the results.

00:01:23.000 Boring!

00:01:25.000 Can't keep going on about the results.

00:01:27.000 We've got to look at whether the American political machine can deliver real change.

00:01:32.000 Forget about your tribal affiliations and instead focus on whether or not you are seeing any real change in your actual lives.

00:01:41.000 Are these political systems able to deliver change?

00:01:44.000 It only seems like a matter of days ago that we were looking at the grandstanding and posturing of the great figures of either party.

00:01:53.000 I'll tell you how we know they're out of ideas, because they're reaching back, retrospectively, through their retrospeculars, into the past, right?

00:02:02.000 Whether it's the Democrats trotting out Barack Obama to sort of present a more liberal and accessible facet or aspect of their party, Or the Republicans turning again to Donald Trump, or even more significantly, Ron DeSantis, the new hope of the Grand Old Party, publicising and promoting himself in a way like he's a Calvin Klein model.

00:02:27.000 That's what I'm going for.

00:02:28.000 So we're going to be looking at some of those promotional materials and asking, ah, sweet lady, liberty, democracy, whither do they lie?

00:02:38.000 Like, you know, what are you really, democracy, is what I'm trying to say.

00:02:40.000 And also, I'm going to be talking to you about some activism and campaigns that I'm personally interested in, notably the, like, the water where I live, that's water in your accent, I live near the River Thames and the water authority that used that River Thames to get water to distribute dumped loads and loads of poo in there.

00:03:01.000 Much too!

00:03:02.000 It has poo in it!

00:03:02.000 Exactly!

00:03:03.000 Filby One!

00:03:04.000 Too much poo in it! 0.99

00:03:05.000 Yeah, drain the swamp, drain the River Thames of human feces. 0.95

00:03:08.000 That's what needs to happen.

00:03:09.000 So I'm going to be talking about that activism campaign and I want to point out how local issues point to global matters and how by awakening locally we can change the world.

00:03:20.000 Not just a local matter, Russ.

00:03:22.000 A new study based on localised surveys of waterways across the United States found that more than 80% of streams, canals, creeks and rivers in the country contain detectable levels of toxic forever chemicals.

00:03:22.000 How do you mean?

00:03:34.000 That scientists warn can cause an array of damaging harm to people, communities and wildlife.

00:03:39.000 I don't like the phrase toxic forever chemicals.

00:03:42.000 Do you like that, you guys in the chat?

00:03:44.000 Because when I think of like forever, I like to think of a forever friend.

00:03:47.000 Like we're forever friends.

00:03:49.000 I'm your toxic forever chemical.

00:03:51.000 I'm going to be getting right down there in your DNA.

00:03:54.000 And what really fascinated me about attending this protest was that in an area of our country, it's known as Henley, which is regarded as conservative, that's sort of the centre-right party, people are sort of demanding that the municipal water authorities, which are foreign-owned, owned by Qatari governments and Canadian businesses, I've got the information on that right in front of me, I think, like it's owned by Currently the largest shareholders are an Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, they own loads.

00:04:25.000 Canadian Pensions Group, they own loads.

00:04:28.000 Kemble Water Holdings, that's who owns it.

00:04:31.000 China Investment Corporation.

00:04:32.000 China? 0.73

00:04:33.000 Oh man, I've never reached for the Donald Trump China with more enthusiasm.

00:04:38.000 It's extraordinary that what you consider to be your country is already being colonised by foreign financial interests and you consider the amount of rhetoric around immigration, which I know to a lot of you is an important issue.

00:04:50.000 But when it comes to foreign money, owning your country, owning your water, what's the significance of a midterm election if no matter who you vote for, your country, your land, your farms, your water, are going to end up owned by foreign interests, by large corporations.

00:05:08.000 And forget foreign, because even if it's domestic, it's ultimately corporate interests that don't care about ordinary people and the lives of ordinary people.

00:05:17.000 For now, let's enjoy a little bit of bipartisan propaganda.

00:05:22.000 A little bit later, we'll tell you more about how local activism is going to change the world.

00:05:26.000 But for now, let's look at some of the stuff that's been going on.

00:05:28.000 What's this Trump-Ohio-Hunter Biden moment?

00:05:33.000 Well, it's just a comical moment that Trump continues to deliver.

00:05:37.000 This time referencing the Hunter Biden laptop situation.

00:05:40.000 I just thought you'd enjoy it.

00:05:41.000 I will enjoy it because I like it when Trump's up on his high horse.

00:05:45.000 As you know I don't believe in either American political party or any political parties I don't think.

00:05:50.000 I think there are some good politicians like around in the world who really sort of care.

00:05:53.000 I wouldn't tar everyone with the same brush.

00:05:56.000 It's the system isn't it?

00:05:57.000 It's the bloody system what's broken!

00:05:59.000 Same as with the dumping the poo in the waterways.

00:06:01.000 That's the system.

00:06:05.000 I do enjoy watching Donald Trump digging people out, railing on people, wailing on people.

00:06:12.000 What do they say in the United States of America?

00:06:15.000 Railing, wailing.

00:06:16.000 You're watching me through the phone.

00:06:18.000 Here I am, look.

00:06:19.000 So let's have a look.

00:06:20.000 We can watch this together.

00:06:20.000 Come on, just snuggle down on my shoulder like a parrot and let's see what Donald Trump's got to say about the laptop.

00:06:25.000 Oh, is it me that has to press it?

00:06:27.000 I'll play it.

00:06:27.000 Go on then, young Putin.

00:06:28.000 But it was the laptop from hell And they said it was Russia disinformation.

00:06:34.000 No, it wasn't.

00:06:35.000 It was from Hunter.

00:06:38.000 Like he would look at the laptop.

00:06:40.000 That'd be baffled by it.

00:06:42.000 Does he mean just the sort of economic and political information, like sort of like the Ukrainian energy stuff and the Chinese energy stuff?

00:06:50.000 Or does he mean like the other stuff?

00:06:52.000 The sort of stuff that's about private life?

00:06:54.000 I don't know.

00:06:54.000 Because I think he would understand both.

00:06:58.000 Yeah, because Joe Biden's been around.

00:07:01.000 One thing you can say about him is he's got experience.

00:07:03.000 He's been alive so long.

00:07:04.000 He's like Mephistopheles.

00:07:05.000 He's like Nosferatu.

00:07:06.000 He's ageless.

00:07:07.000 Yeah, he's basically making a reference to his mental capacity, isn't he?

00:07:11.000 He's basically saying stuff on a laptop.

00:07:14.000 He's going to be baffled by that.

00:07:15.000 You give him a laptop and you think it's like a metal sandwich with a television in it.

00:07:19.000 What's this?

00:07:20.000 What's happened to my grilled cheese?

00:07:22.000 It's looking back at me!

00:07:24.000 Where's this grilled cheese sandwich? 1.00

00:07:26.000 Got my sign fucking in it! 1.00

00:07:29.000 We're allowed to say that. 1.00

00:07:30.000 Can do.

00:07:31.000 Say that on Rumble.

00:07:31.000 It's not live on YouTube.

00:07:32.000 Not live on YouTube.

00:07:33.000 We're allowed to make little jokes like that there.

00:07:35.000 We're allowed to have a little bit of fun.

00:07:37.000 It was just clean fun, wasn't it?

00:07:37.000 Sorry about the swearing.

00:07:39.000 Keep going?

00:07:41.000 Don, if that ever happens to you, if you ever have a laptop...

00:07:45.000 Like that.

00:07:47.000 That's his little laptop, the little one.

00:07:54.000 Oh man, that's so funny.

00:07:59.000 Firstly, his way of talking, it's a funny way to talk.

00:08:01.000 It's like he's got a funny cadence and a funny rhythm.

00:08:04.000 I think his lads decided to save him.

00:08:05.000 I think his lads decided to save him.

00:08:08.000 That's so funny, because he sounds like an actual little boy.

00:08:11.000 I don't know how, like, if I had to choose a side, I'm to the, I don't know, left?

00:08:17.000 I'm beyond, I don't think the categories of left and right matter anymore.

00:08:19.000 That's what Brad Evans said.

00:08:21.000 I don't know why I'm doing this.

00:08:22.000 No, I know, because, I mean, the camera's there.

00:08:24.000 The camera, for God's sake.

00:08:25.000 I've started to prioritise them because they're here now and I love them.

00:08:28.000 Thanks, guys.

00:08:29.000 Oh, what are you doing with some Sellotape?

00:08:30.000 Putin, where are you going?

00:08:31.000 Oh, you're giving me something to lean on.

00:08:33.000 Lean on me when you're not strong.

00:08:34.000 That's pretty good.

00:08:35.000 That was lovely, thank you for that.

00:08:36.000 You guys stay there.

00:08:37.000 You stop right in there and I'll talk to you, the people that are watching this show on a variety of other media.

00:08:44.000 What is it that I'm excited about now?

00:08:46.000 It's loud being inside a stage.

00:08:49.000 How can you not see, if you're a centre-left person, that that's well funny to use your child in such an amusing, irreverent, sort of weird way?

00:09:00.000 If you have a laptop like that, That's extraordinary.

00:09:06.000 That's comedically very sophisticated, I think.

00:09:08.000 I swear, I'll never speak to you again.

00:09:15.000 That's well funny because I feel like some comedians on the left really dissed him, made jokes about his kid and stuff like that.

00:09:23.000 He's fascinating.

00:09:24.000 I can see why people find that appealing.

00:09:28.000 The only way that you would be able to oppose that level of oratory skill, I think, would be pure authenticity.

00:09:35.000 Look, all we care about is challenging big corporations and ensuring that life for ordinary Americans improves.

00:09:40.000 I know Donald Trump's appealing and he's sort of funny and everything, but I've got to tell you, that he's not going to do anything to meaningfully change

00:09:47.000 the life of ordinary Americans.

00:09:48.000 Ultimately he's going to facilitate the military-industrial complex,

00:09:50.000 even though, yes, I acknowledge that Trump didn't declare any new wars,

00:09:53.000 but he did carry on with the droning.

00:09:55.000 He's not going to help the lives of...

00:09:57.000 If you want to own your own property, if you want to have your own job,

00:09:59.000 if you want to have your own time, because of the constraints of the system,

00:10:03.000 he's not going to be able to do anything there.

00:10:05.000 But we are going to. We're going to change the system.

00:10:07.000 That's the only possible way of changing...

00:10:09.000 Yeah, you can't fight with inauthentic rhetoric of your own, can you?

00:10:13.000 Because people see through it.

00:10:14.000 And so they go, well, I prefer the version that's funny.

00:10:17.000 At least this is funny.

00:10:19.000 You know, in a sense, you can't blame people.

00:10:21.000 You know, life is hard.

00:10:22.000 People going through hardships.

00:10:24.000 You know, the country and the world's gone mad.

00:10:26.000 Well, at least there's someone funny talking about his son and his laptop.

00:10:30.000 So funny.

00:10:31.000 Is it nearly over?

00:10:33.000 No, it's a bit more.

00:10:36.000 Eric, that intrudes you, just so you know.

00:10:40.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:41.000 That includes you.

00:10:42.000 Why did you go to the small one first?

00:10:45.000 I know!

00:10:46.000 Because you could have started with Eric. 0.85

00:10:48.000 Because Eric's more appropriate because it's all business deals and crack and sex workers. 0.80

00:10:53.000 Oh my god, that's so funny.

00:10:55.000 So I also imagine that little lad's up there in a sort of a little version of that coat and everything.

00:10:59.000 Do we still know how little he is?

00:11:01.000 Oh right, he might be older now.

00:11:02.000 I don't know, I mean they do grow, don't they?

00:11:04.000 They grow, I've got kids, I've seen them, they're bigger than they were.

00:11:06.000 16 years old.

00:11:07.000 The little one's 16!

00:11:07.000 16 now?

00:11:08.000 Wow.

00:11:10.000 No, the little ones.

00:11:11.000 Does he still wear that little bow tie and stuff?

00:11:13.000 Nah, let's see him now.

00:11:14.000 I want to see him right now.

00:11:15.000 I thought that the little ones, only little, like a little mini Trump.

00:11:18.000 I mean, he was that.

00:11:19.000 It's just Wednesday last time we saw him.

00:11:20.000 Ages ago, because I don't, Bob, I don't look at stuff like that.

00:11:23.000 That's extraordinary.

00:11:23.000 No.

00:11:25.000 Have you got him young Putin?

00:11:25.000 Have you got him?

00:11:27.000 He's empowering these QAnon wackos. 1.00

00:11:28.000 He's empowering these QAnon wackos who literally want to start a second civil war. 1.00

00:11:31.000 He's empowering that, but McCuriosity says, he's... hold on, I just want to respond to this.

00:11:36.000 He said, like, get the image, pull it up. So, McCuriosity says he's empowering these QAnon wackos 1.00

00:11:43.000 who literally want to start a second civil war. Now, listen, I would say perhaps what you're saying is correct, 0.98

00:11:49.000 but what is the liberal opposite of that? You know, I don't think you could say that about Trump without saying

00:11:56.000 that Joe Biden saying that, you know, the MAGA movement are evil is similar invective.

00:12:03.000 Do you disagree?

00:12:04.000 Let me know in the comments, let me know in the chat.

00:12:06.000 Because I'm not a pro-Trump person.

00:12:08.000 And as for QAnon wackos, I feel that this is why you have to decentralise.

00:12:14.000 Like, whether it's on religious grounds, ideological grounds, sexual grounds, civil grounds.

00:12:19.000 People are different now.

00:12:21.000 No one wants to have a centralised system where they go, oh, we're all this.

00:12:25.000 No one wants it anymore.

00:12:25.000 It's over.

00:12:26.000 As Gareth will point out to you, how do you organise a health service?

00:12:29.000 How do you organise a military?

00:12:31.000 How do you organise roads?

00:12:32.000 I don't know yet, but it seems like there is a necessity for some degree of centralisation when it comes to providing municipal facility.

00:12:39.000 But the government should become non-ideological.

00:12:41.000 They should become absolutely practical.

00:12:43.000 Yeah, also I don't think your point was condoning Trump or saying he's the ant.

00:12:46.000 I mean, you literally specified now.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, I don't condone that.

00:12:49.000 The point is to try and understand why this is popular.

00:12:52.000 Why has Trump risen to the place he has?

00:12:56.000 Is he an anomaly or is he a product of a system?

00:12:59.000 You know, it's about looking at not just Trump, but how Trump got there.

00:13:03.000 How did we get to a point where Trump is now?

00:13:05.000 If you don't try and at least understand those things, you're not going to learn anything anyway, are you?

00:13:10.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:13:12.000 No worries, I'm sticking up for you there, but I noticed you were looking at comments instead.

00:13:17.000 No, no, I like your sticking up.

00:13:18.000 I was listening, I can do two things at once.

00:13:20.000 You should, you should, if you knew, I can't, what?

00:13:23.000 And then someone said here, ask about what Moses did in the desert.

00:13:27.000 That's a reference to the Jordan Peterson show that's going out right now. 0.99

00:13:32.000 Oh, shit. 0.99

00:13:33.000 I just blew my own mind. 1.00

00:13:34.000 He's in a vortex.

00:13:36.000 That's a reference to our interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson and it's a fantastic conversation and that's available on Rumble too.

00:13:43.000 Is there any more from... Oh no, we're having a look at Little Lad.

00:13:46.000 Yeah.

00:13:46.000 Right, let's have a look at Little Lad right now.

00:13:48.000 That's him when he was little.

00:13:49.000 He's called Baron.

00:13:51.000 Baron, and he's... He's 16.

00:13:52.000 He's 16 there.

00:13:54.000 Alright, he's 16 now.

00:13:56.000 Can I see what he's like?

00:13:57.000 He's really tall, actually.

00:13:59.000 Oh, look at him!

00:14:00.000 He's bigger than both of them put together.

00:14:01.000 Yeah, that's Barron Trump.

00:14:04.000 Okay, so he's sort of an adult.

00:14:06.000 He's a little adult.

00:14:08.000 Fair enough.

00:14:09.000 Okay, well, it's fairly relevant.

00:14:11.000 It's probably the perfect time to start addressing the laptop issue, aside from the financial improprieties.

00:14:15.000 Absolutely.

00:14:16.000 He's basically having the talk, isn't he?

00:14:18.000 Just in public.

00:14:19.000 Yeah, yeah, but I swear I'll never talk to you again.

00:14:23.000 Brilliant.

00:14:24.000 Okay, is that the end of that?

00:14:25.000 Yeah, I think that is the end of that.

00:14:28.000 Do you want to look at Joe Biden on a stage or do you want to get into some data?

00:14:33.000 Yeah, what on?

00:14:34.000 Well, whatever you'd like.

00:14:35.000 We can talk about some financial aspects of the midterms.

00:14:40.000 Let's just have a look at Biden staggering on a stage and then let's have a look at Joe Biden.

00:14:48.000 Then let's look at some facts around the midterms, donors and lobbying and the impossibility of this system ever delivering real change for you.

00:14:56.000 But before that, once again, the cadaverous but potentially good-hearted Joe Biden.

00:15:02.000 NOS4A2 in about on a stage.

00:15:04.000 Soon to be at COP27 so we've got that to look forward to as well.

00:15:07.000 We want to talk about COP27 as well because do these events, these global events that are apparently talking about the environment, do anything to improve the lives of ordinary people and do they do anything to meaningfully impact the ecological disaster that is their entire raison d'etre?

00:15:23.000 Do all the changes that they're suggesting and indeed implementing make any difference?

00:15:29.000 Or do they ultimately end up penalising and persecuting ordinary people rather than the giant corporations that create 70% of the world's pollution?

00:15:38.000 Are we going to be talking about the New Zealand farmers today?

00:15:40.000 Yeah, we can talk about that also.

00:15:42.000 Is that our video?

00:15:43.000 That is, yeah.

00:15:43.000 Is that playing out in this stream?

00:15:44.000 It is.

00:15:45.000 Oh, you're going to love this.

00:15:46.000 We talked to you a little bit about it the other day, but now we're going to show you, I think, in this stream, yeah?

00:15:55.000 We're going to show you how the New Zealand farmers are standing up to their government who are imposing new regulations, apparently in order to help the climate and help the planet, but actually it looks like it could be the Great Reset.

00:16:11.000 So we're saying, are these New Zealand farmers climate change resistors or Great Reset opponents?

00:16:18.000 Resistors.

00:16:19.000 Send me a better subtitle for that because I don't know how to fuck that up.

00:16:22.000 No, it's fine.

00:16:22.000 I feel like it should be.

00:16:24.000 Are they climate change deniers or great reset resistors?

00:16:27.000 Yeah, that's a better way of queuing that up.

00:16:29.000 Let's have a look at Biden having a stagger about.

00:16:31.000 10, 12, 15, whoops, stepping on them. 0.94

00:16:34.000 There's a... that's black, anyway. 0.99

00:16:36.000 LAUGHTER Whoa, stepping on her! That's black! 1.00

00:16:40.000 It's black, we don't know what he's talking about. 0.98

00:16:43.000 Yeah, because obviously, whatever that was, it would have voted for him, for sure, because if you don't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black. 0.97

00:16:50.000 And that was black. 0.66

00:16:51.000 So ergo, by the maths of Biden's mind, that's a Biden voter right there, certainly in terms of the palette of Well, we were talking earlier about, you know, ultimately how these midterms are funded and how they're lobbied for, how these parties make their money.

00:17:07.000 in the context rather of donors and lobbying. What do you want to point out Gail?

00:17:11.000 Well we were talking earlier about you know ultimately how these midterms are

00:17:17.000 funded and how they're lobbied for, how these parties make their money. We've

00:17:21.000 talked already about how 10 billion dollars is being spent on these midterms

00:17:24.000 most ever and the 50 biggest donors have collectively pumped at least 1.1

00:17:30.000 billion of that to both sides.

00:17:34.000 So billionaire investors, from shipping magnates to casino moguls, they skew mainly to Republican, but they also affiliate with both parties.

00:17:41.000 So I think in terms of percentages, billionaires make up 20% of total Republican donations compared with 14.5% of democratic donations so you know there's about 5% in it it's pretty much you are getting huge billionaire donors

00:17:56.000 Who you would imagine have some influence on what these parties then go on to do, massively funding to both sides.

00:18:04.000 A significant portion of their donations come from billionaires.

00:18:10.000 10% of the total donations constitute donations that are made to both parties.

00:18:16.000 So there's a significant amount of investment that can cater for and handle either potential outcome.

00:18:24.000 What I've been doing lately is I've just been trying to myself curate and understand how much evidence there is that suggests that the movements of democracy that consume so much newspaper ink, that devour our screens, that take up our time, how much of meaningful power movements Happened regardless of which party is in administration.

00:18:50.000 And a good way of understanding that is our interview with Jeffrey Sachs where it just spells out that the military industrial complex can pursue their agenda unimpeded regardless of who you vote for.

00:19:01.000 And I feel that probably if you were able to look at the financial sector, and this is just a snapshot of that, you know, 1.1 billion interpolitical committees and groups competing on both sides, they affiliate with both sides, 20% of total Republican donations are from billionaires, 14% of Democrat donations.

00:19:19.000 That's one sort of class or group, a very small group of people, providing a disproportionate amount of the funding in order to exert influence.

00:19:27.000 Yeah, on top of that, just to jump in, Federal Lobbying is on track to spend record amounts in 2022, receiving over two billion during the first two quarters of the year.

00:19:37.000 That is Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America were in the top four.

00:19:41.000 We imagine that's going to contain many of those big pharma companies that we talk about so often.

00:19:46.000 Meta and Amazon also remained in the top 10.

00:19:49.000 Big banks are also donating millions on behalf of both the Republican and Democratic candidates that they

00:19:54.000 would believe help them slash regulations and preserve predatory practices. So a time again when

00:20:00.000 Americans are suffering, banks are lobbying both parties to receive favorable regulation.

00:20:07.000 So you know, it's not it's not going to help, is it the ordinary person?

00:20:10.000 The point of democracy is not to provide alternatives, it's to preserve the system. And the system

00:20:16.000 is a financial one, a corporate one. And you can just hear from these examples, what the

00:20:23.000 limitations of potential democratic change would be. And I suppose what we have to appreciate

00:20:28.000 and act upon is that once you've heard that and start to understand it, you have to kind

00:20:33.000 of demand real alternatives. I think part of that is through ongoing personal awakening.

00:20:38.000 Like, learning to sort of chew through that data and respond to it, and then not get distracted.

00:20:46.000 Like, whether you're a person that considers yourself to be on the left, ah, QAnon, Trump, Trump, QAnon, and then if you're a person that considers yourself to be on the right, ah, SJWs, ah, like, you have to find out whether, no, hold on, whilst these issues I feel important.

00:21:01.000 I know there's something more important that is less easy to identify and it's the movement of financial and corporate power and the way that that, in alliance with the state, are able to continue to pursue an agenda regardless of what seems to happen politically.

00:21:15.000 I do have to keep saying it.

00:21:19.000 Alright, so Sri, is it time for us to look now at these farmer protests in New Zealand and how it, in a sense, demonstrates how ordinary people are standing up against the Great Reset Agenda?

00:21:36.000 Yeah, we can do.

00:21:37.000 This is, yeah, just another example of farmers, although you'll see actually from the video that they do look, they're pretty well behaved farmers.

00:21:44.000 They're not like riots, these things.

00:21:46.000 Yeah.

00:21:47.000 They're just like addressing each other very civilly.

00:21:50.000 They're very sort of civil farmers trying to organise together.

00:21:53.000 And what I'm starting to notice is that all over the world there are protests that amount to anti-globalist movements.

00:22:01.000 And even the two protests that I've been involved in myself at a national, even a local level, both point to the same problem.

00:22:08.000 Where it's this Thames water protest where I live, which shows what happens when water authorities become privatised, then owned by foreign interests.

00:22:20.000 This demonstrates the principle of corporate ownership and a lack of community involvement in management of their own facilities.

00:22:28.000 Or there's a whole other protest I'm going to talk to you about in more detail.

00:22:33.000 Shall we have a look at these?

00:22:35.000 Let's have a look now at the farm protests in New Zealand and see how you can track the Great Reset Agenda playing out on a national level.

00:22:45.000 Look at how it relates to Bill Gates' acquisition of farmland, the use of heritage laws.

00:22:52.000 These are sacred sites.

00:22:53.000 How it destabilises economies and disempowers ordinary people.

00:22:58.000 It's a fantastic item.

00:23:00.000 Here's the news.

00:23:01.000 No, here's the effing news.

00:23:02.000 Thanks for watching Zik Fox's latest video. 0.99

00:23:05.000 No, here's the fucking news. 0.98

00:23:07.000 New Zealander farmers are up in arms protesting against new laws. 0.99

00:23:14.000 But are they climate change deniers or Great Reset resistors?

00:23:20.000 Farmers in New Zealand are protesting and that protest is in some way being portrayed as being anti-ecological, i.e.

00:23:28.000 these farmers don't want to take the necessary measures to make their farms safe. 1.00

00:23:33.000 Ah, you bastards! 0.99

00:23:34.000 But here's another way of looking at it, that New Zealand is pursuing a great reset agenda In order to bankrupt farmers and take their land. 1.00

00:23:44.000 Now that sounds like a conspiracy theory, doesn't it?

00:23:46.000 So stay to the end of the video because we are going to unpack that for you properly.

00:23:50.000 It's not a coincidence that farmers all over the world are protesting.

00:23:53.000 Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Germany, our country, the UK.

00:23:57.000 And neither is it a coincidence that in your country, the United States of America, Bill Gates has become the largest farmland owner in the world.

00:24:04.000 Well, that's a weird coincidence.

00:24:06.000 Almost as if there's one centralised organisation distilling, distributing and disseminating ideologies and edicts in order to what?

00:24:14.000 Is it to save the planet?

00:24:15.000 Well, you ask yourself.

00:24:17.000 The big corporations in the world, what do they mostly care about?

00:24:20.000 Is it saving the planet?

00:24:21.000 Is that why 70% of the world's pollution is done by 100 of the world's biggest corporations?

00:24:26.000 Yeah, oh no, that doesn't quite make sense, does it?

00:24:28.000 Let's have a look at a few more details from this story.

00:24:30.000 In a world first, New Zealand appears set to introduce a scheme that will require farmers to pay for their agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

00:24:38.000 Is this why a climate change agenda is being pushed everywhere?

00:24:40.000 And remember, I might differ from you guys there because I believe we should be looking after the planet.

00:24:45.000 We should revere it.

00:24:46.000 We should respect it.

00:24:47.000 Whether or not you think man-made climate change is a thing or it's happening because of solar flares or cosmological reasons or epochal events that aren't affected by man or human kind, I respect your opinion.

00:24:59.000 My opinion is We should prioritise this planet.

00:25:02.000 We should love and revere this planet.

00:25:04.000 We are not separate from it.

00:25:06.000 We've become consumed in demented humanism and materialism, forgetting who we are and forgetting where we're from.

00:25:12.000 The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is she a good person?

00:25:15.000 Or is she Lady Trudeau? 1.00

00:25:16.000 Jacinda Ardern said that it would give the country's biggest export market a competitive advantage globally while putting the country on track to meet its 2013 methane reduction target.

00:25:26.000 Seems like reducing methane is a good goal.

00:25:29.000 Seems like respecting the planet is a good goal.

00:25:31.000 Are there going to be any side effects of this?

00:25:33.000 Are any farmers, for example, going to lose their livelihood?

00:25:36.000 Are they going to lose their land?

00:25:37.000 Is this connected to these agricultural protests and even the trucker protests that we're seeing across the world, i.e.

00:25:44.000 Individual, apparently, nations setting out laws and regulations that are ultimately negative to the lives of ordinary people.

00:25:53.000 Is there a trend developing?

00:25:54.000 And if there is, is it because of a centralised ideology?

00:25:58.000 Let's keep asking the questions, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what you think.

00:26:01.000 No other country in the world has yet developed a system for pricing and reducing agricultural emissions, so our farmers are set to benefit from being first movers.

00:26:10.000 Yeah!

00:26:10.000 We're the first movers!

00:26:11.000 We're gonna be nice and poor first!

00:26:14.000 Having all of our farms closed down or being forced to sell our products at an increased price and call them premium. 0.98

00:26:20.000 You know, like whenever you try and buy anything organic, you have to pay through the ass for the bloody stuff.

00:26:25.000 Well, they're suggesting that, not suggesting it, legislating for that to an entire community of farmers. 0.96

00:26:30.000 What's that likely to do?

00:26:32.000 Bankrupt farmers.

00:26:33.000 Now, you guys remember this.

00:26:34.000 I'm a vegan.

00:26:35.000 Didn't I mention it?

00:26:36.000 So I'm not like, hey, let's all have livestock everywhere.

00:26:39.000 That's not my approach.

00:26:40.000 But also what I believe in is your freedom to decide what to do with your life without intervention of a national government, let alone unelected global bodies.

00:26:48.000 But the industry, which altogether farms 10 million beef and dairy cattle and 26 million sheep compared to New Zealand's population of 5 million human people, Well, what have we seen when the manufacturing jobs all closed down?

00:27:04.000 What happened then?

00:27:05.000 Did it reduce the emissions, or did it see a boom in the Chinese and Indian subcontinent, if that's the right way to describe it, economies?

00:27:13.000 Did it mean that all that manufacture moved elsewhere, bankrupting and annihilating a class of working people?

00:27:19.000 Oh look, another class of people being annihilated now.

00:27:22.000 Rural working people.

00:27:24.000 As stated on the WEF website, the UN's Global Roadmap sets out milestones the world must reach to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

00:27:33.000 Also a goal set at COP26.

00:27:35.000 So there you go, a UN Global Roadmap on the WEF website.

00:27:40.000 Now I'm not talking about conspiracy theory stuff here.

00:27:43.000 I'm saying when they get together with the big tech giants and the big corporate folk and the state officials, they set an agenda That infiltrates democratic policy.

00:27:52.000 But net zero is not the same as zero emissions.

00:27:56.000 That's an interesting revelation.

00:27:57.000 Net zero is not the same as zero emissions.

00:27:59.000 While the latter is what all companies should be aiming for in order to meet our climate goals, the former simply makes it look like you've achieved the latter through the use of accounting tricks.

00:28:08.000 This is why some people are attacking the climate change movement and others even what is referred to as the woke agenda.

00:28:15.000 Not because there aren't some brilliant principles being relayed.

00:28:18.000 Equality between all people.

00:28:19.000 Respect and love of the planet, but because big corporations and big government are using those ideas to break down the lives and lifestyles and working lives of ordinary people.

00:28:31.000 Companies can continue polluting as usual while sticking to their net zero pledges as long as they include carbon negative activities on their balance sheet.

00:28:38.000 The problem is that there's very little regulation or standardization as to what constitutes a carbon negative activity.

00:28:45.000 I notice that when it comes to regulating farmers, they come up with very stringent, strict, unavoidable, undemocratic regulations.

00:28:52.000 But when it comes to regulating big business, just do what you can, you guys.

00:28:55.000 I mean, I'm being silly, but it seems the farmers are getting very stringent regulation, ordinary working people, big businesses who are producing the pollution that's meant to be the bloody problem anyway.

00:29:07.000 Hey, just try your best. 0.93

00:29:08.000 Like they're a school bully with a rich dad.

00:29:11.000 Many net zero policies rely on purchasing carbon offsets, essentially buying up a load of land in usually developing countries, which will supposedly absorb the carbon from your other activities.

00:29:22.000 Not only are carbon offsets based on some fairly sketchy science, Oh, I thought we were following the science.

00:29:27.000 I thought the scientists were agreed on climate change.

00:29:30.000 But this sketchy science seems to work as well here.

00:29:33.000 But they are often procuring land by grabbing it from indigenous communities who have a much better track record as stewards of vital ecosystems than polluting corporations.

00:29:43.000 We could let the Dakota people, who have lived in harmony with the land for thousands and thousands of years, continue to be the custodians.

00:29:51.000 But I think these guys at ExxonMobil have got some great ideas.

00:29:55.000 Now, Groundswell NZ, an activist group in New Zealand, had this to say.

00:30:00.000 On the West Coast, over 1,500 property owners have received letters from local authorities informing them that their properties are now subject to restrictions on development.

00:30:08.000 This affects lands with features relating to historic heritage, sites and areas of significance to Maori, ecosystems and indigenous biodiversity, natural character in the margins of water, activities on the surface of water, and designations.

00:30:21.000 These restrictions are turning any land that has cultural, historical, natural value into a liability.

00:30:26.000 So, ultimately, they're creating new regulations and legislations that allow them to diminish the value and ability to work on heritage sites.

00:30:34.000 This piece is from Nick Estes.

00:30:36.000 Bill Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in the US.

00:30:39.000 A 2018 purchase of 14,500 acres of prime eastern Washington farmland, which is traditional Yekima territory for $171 million, helped him get that title.

00:30:49.000 So Bill Gates is buying up indigenous land.

00:30:53.000 I suppose all land is indigenous land, ultimately.

00:30:55.000 But I wonder if Bill Gates was in any way assisted by regulations and restrictions that came from elsewhere.

00:31:02.000 It's an interesting question.

00:31:03.000 Let me know in the chat.

00:31:04.000 Let me know in the comments.

00:31:05.000 Let me know generally.

00:31:06.000 Do you think these farmers have a point?

00:31:08.000 Do you think they are climate change deniers?

00:31:10.000 Oh, we hate climate change.

00:31:12.000 Who cares about this planet that we till and make our living from?

00:31:16.000 Or do you think that they object to these regulations being introduced without time for them to adjust their business model and, in my opinion, with an intention to bankrupt them and take their land?

00:31:27.000 That's just my opinion based on some of the facts we've been reading today.

00:31:31.000 In total, Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland, with assets totalling more than $690 million.

00:31:37.000 To put that in perspective, that's nearly the size of Hong Kong, and twice the acreage of the lower Boral Sioux tribe.

00:31:43.000 A white man owns more farmland than my entire native nation. 0.56

00:31:47.000 So that's Nick Estes, a Native American person, pointing out that Bill Gates has acquired huge swathes of farmland.

00:31:54.000 What is Bill Gates' intention?

00:31:56.000 How has he been aided in this endeavour?

00:31:58.000 They came in droves, driving off the paddocks and into the city.

00:32:03.000 descending on central Auckland with a clear message.

00:32:06.000 Stop the planned agricultural emissions tax and undo the legislation.

00:32:11.000 Oh you out of control climate denier.

00:32:14.000 You've seen these protests all over the world.

00:32:15.000 In Sri Lanka, people invading that palace.

00:32:17.000 In India, farm protests going on for ages.

00:32:20.000 In Germany, in the Netherlands.

00:32:21.000 And I know in our country, the UK, people are pretty pissed off.

00:32:23.000 And I bet wherever you are too, people are getting sick and tired of these regulations suddenly appearing that seem to benefit a particular set of society, a particular Telling the government they've had enough.

00:32:35.000 the elites draw rather than ordinary people as we said earlier in the video. How come

00:32:39.000 they don't regulate the corporations when it comes to the carbon offsetting but they

00:32:44.000 regulate the farmers when it comes to the reduction of the methane? Who does that benefit?

00:32:48.000 Who do you think had their hand in the lobbying, the control, the turning up at WEF me's? Do

00:32:53.000 you think a lot of farmers are turning up at the WEF when it's 50 grand for a ticket?

00:32:58.000 Telling the government they've had enough.

00:33:00.000 Well guess what? We're not going to take it.

00:33:02.000 You're a monster! 1.00

00:33:03.000 We're not gonna take it. 1.00

00:33:05.000 Ah, because you're a Nazi?

00:33:06.000 Well, mostly because I'm a farmer. 0.87

00:33:07.000 A Nazi farmer? 0.87

00:33:08.000 Well, not really.

00:33:10.000 I love my animals, and I love people in general.

00:33:12.000 Mmm, sounds Nazi.

00:33:13.000 In Palmerston North, they paraded their prized machinery... We love this machinery!

00:33:18.000 ...bringing dogs...

00:33:20.000 Good protest.

00:33:21.000 And unconventional props.

00:33:23.000 That's menacing.

00:33:24.000 That's a bit menacing.

00:33:25.000 Farmers worry the proposed emissions tax will rip the guts out of rural New Zealand.

00:33:30.000 Of course it will.

00:33:31.000 That's the point of it.

00:33:32.000 My focus is on working constructively with our food producers to get the best possible outcome for them and for New Zealand.

00:33:38.000 There she is, old lady Trudeau. 1.00

00:33:40.000 It appears that the agenda of the New Zealand government aligns nicely with unelected globalist bodies.

00:33:46.000 At the moment, the COP27's on, But COP26, where these ideas are often discussed and disseminated, doesn't appear to have the impact that they claim they intend to, i.e.

00:33:56.000 helping the planet, helping ordinary people.

00:33:59.000 Perhaps because real change will be at the odds of their sponsors.

00:34:02.000 For example, Unilever, one of the world's largest polluters, which produces enough plastic to cover 11 football pitches per day.

00:34:09.000 If you're serious about changing the world, don't take money from Unilever.

00:34:13.000 Microsoft, Oh, Microsoft.

00:34:15.000 Who is it that used to run Microsoft?

00:34:17.000 I've heard his name somewhere.

00:34:18.000 Microsoft is famous for its questionable work practices.

00:34:21.000 In environmental terms, the company makes the bold statement of intent to be carbon neutral by 2025.

00:34:25.000 But its collaboration with major extractors throws this usefulness of this label into doubt.

00:34:31.000 In Texas, for example, Microsoft helps extract more than 50,000 barrels of oil per day from the Permian Basin.

00:34:38.000 Isn't this exactly what we've come to expect from these globalist organizations?

00:34:42.000 You! 0.99

00:34:43.000 Farmers, cut down on your emissions!

00:34:46.000 We though, we're sponsored by Microsoft!

00:34:48.000 Oi! 0.98

00:34:49.000 Carry on extracting 50,000 barrels of oil a day!

00:34:51.000 Or at least assisting in that process through technological support.

00:34:54.000 I know global economics is complex.

00:34:57.000 I know we live in a challenging world.

00:34:59.000 I'm also beginning to think that globalist edicts are achieved undemocratically and distributed at a national level without consultation from the people that they will ultimately affect.

00:35:10.000 I believe these farmers are fighting for the right to continue to earn a living.

00:35:14.000 I don't think they're climate change deniers, I think they're farmers.

00:35:17.000 And I think it's the obligation of ordinary people, regardless of our feelings about the environment, to support them.

00:35:23.000 Perhaps that's just another way that we can come together and confront real power where it matters.

00:35:28.000 Because it's not ordinary farmers that are buying up hundreds and thousands of acres of land.

00:35:33.000 It's not ordinary farmers that are producing 70% of the world's pollution.

00:35:38.000 It's corporate interests masked by foundations, regulations, legislations, and unelected globalist bodies.

00:35:45.000 But that's just what I think.

00:35:46.000 Let me know what you think in the chat.

00:35:48.000 Let me know what you think in the comments below.

00:35:50.000 I'll see you in a second.

00:35:51.000 Do you think there that you've ever seen the issue better presented?

00:35:55.000 I don't think so.

00:35:56.000 What a great job I've just done in doing that.

00:35:59.000 Gareth, how do you think this relates to...

00:36:02.000 Gareth, I think this relates to COP27.

00:36:05.000 I have not thought of this.

00:36:07.000 You won't have done because I'm an investigative reporter and you're a slouch!

00:36:11.000 While I'm investigative reporting, I investigate things, then I report on them, I investigate it, then I report on it, you're slouching around.

00:36:19.000 Just tell me now if my hunch that COP27 is significant here is correct.

00:36:25.000 Well so yeah, we've got the moment, we've got COP 27 going on, Biden will be there in a few days, Rishi's gone, Pinch Charles has not gone, we don't know why.

00:36:33.000 He's not allowed to go because he's a king and someone said be nice to Gareth, Alex Overton.

00:36:39.000 I will be nice, I love Gareth, I love him.

00:36:42.000 Yeah, he's not allowed to be political basically, that's the thing now, as a king.

00:36:47.000 It's meant to though, because being a king is political.

00:36:50.000 I don't want to be political but what about this thing where you're on top of a pyramid of power sort of with a gold hat on your head and we have to all give you money and it doesn't matter who you vote for you carry on being king.

00:37:00.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:37:01.000 So what is, we're looking into COP 27, what they achieved, this is obviously the 27th of these, they've been going on since 1995 or 1992, potentially was the first one, I know that my maths should do that better, but I think it's 1995.

00:37:16.000 Anyway, just so you know, in that time, global emissions have gone up, I think by 90% so We're not at a stage where these COP events seem to be actually doing anything.

00:37:27.000 So since 1992, when the Earth Summit laid out the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, carbon emissions have consistently risen.

00:37:34.000 The only year this was not true was 2020, when the pandemic shut down large swathes of the global economy.

00:37:40.000 This reduction was reversed in 2021.

00:37:43.000 The system isn't working and the failure of climate policy is a prime example.

00:37:46.000 So I guess what we're saying about this is not necessarily, you know, It's difficult.

00:37:51.000 Climate change is one of those divisive subjects that people are varying opinions on for good reasons.

00:37:57.000 But when you look at an event like COP 27 and all the previous 26 COPs, it's very difficult to escape the idea that this is just another example.

00:38:06.000 Like we talk about the WF of greenwashing, of billionaire washing, not boshing, like in the same way... You could bosh it, then wash it.

00:38:14.000 You could bosh it and then wash it.

00:38:16.000 So an example of that being, A sponsorship deal between this year's UN Climate Conference and Coca-Cola, which has been described as the world's top polluter, has been branded a greenwash by campaigners.

00:38:27.000 Coca-Cola produces 120 billion throwaway plastic bottles a year.

00:38:31.000 99% of plastics are made from fossil fuels, worsening both The plastic and climate crisis.

00:38:36.000 So again, if you are, in a sense, you can take the issue away from it, but you can look at these as being greenwashing events, as being just examples of mass hypocrisy.

00:38:47.000 Simply because they accept the sponsorship of companies whose actual policies and behaviour contributes to the problem that they claim that they're addressing.

00:38:59.000 Well, again, like government, I mean, just going back to the subject we were talking about before, if you have a system in which these political parties can take massive donations from companies like Meta and Amazon and all these kind of things, Big Pharma, how likely is it that anything's going to be done to actually make a difference with those companies?

00:39:18.000 And when we get to a statistic like we've talked about before, whereby rather than the ordinary person not doing their recycling or getting in their car and going on a slightly longer journey than someone else, the 70%, 71% of the world's pollution is caused by 100 companies, then, you know, you can't make sense of it in that way.

00:39:38.000 Yeah, I suppose it makes you wonder, what would you really do if the goal was to reduce pollution?

00:39:44.000 Right.

00:39:45.000 What would be your objective?

00:39:46.000 What would you focus on?

00:39:48.000 Is it that you would accept money from, right, there's Coca-Cola, they're the main sponsor, but did you just say they're also the world's worst polluter?

00:39:56.000 Polluter, yeah.

00:39:58.000 The fact that no one's gone, we probably can't accept money from them.

00:40:02.000 Look, you're the world's worst polluter.

00:40:03.000 Can you stop polluting as much?

00:40:05.000 Then we'll accept your money.

00:40:06.000 Can we give you a bit of money to sponsor the event and then just carry on polluting as before?

00:40:13.000 Yes, you can carry on polluting as before if you give us some money.

00:40:17.000 So then is our function to reduce pollution or to sort of help people pretend that they're going to do something about pollution?

00:40:24.000 Yeah, and then when it comes back to these farmers who are being punished, as I said at the start, one of the stated goals of these COP events is reducing global emissions, this net zero thing that we talked about in the item, where net zero is just another example of essentially a land grab, a way of buying up swathes of land and just dumping all your pollution on them essentially.

00:40:48.000 You should have a look at what young Putin is putting up there.

00:40:52.000 That's just for reference.

00:40:54.000 Coke, world's worst polluter again.

00:40:55.000 Now tell me, Gareth, specifically what you mean when you say that net zero isn't about reducing pollution, but it's about the appearance of reducing pollution and how it creates opportunities for land grabs.

00:41:07.000 Because there's some complexity there, but some significance and it's worth unpacking.

00:41:11.000 Yeah, okay.

00:41:12.000 So again, WEF, UN, COP27, all talking about net zero, have done for the last few years.

00:41:19.000 But net zero is not the same as zero emissions.

00:41:21.000 So while the latter is what all companies, you know, potentially you could say should be aiming for, the former simply makes it look like you've achieved the latter through the use of accounting tricks.

00:41:31.000 So companies continue polluting As usual, while sticking to their net zero pledges, as long as they include carbon negative activities on their balance sheet.

00:41:40.000 So to explain that, the problem is that there's very little regulation and standardization as to what constitutes a carbon negative activity.

00:41:47.000 Many net zero policies rely on purchasing carbon offsets, essentially buying up a load of land in a usually developing country, which will supposedly absorb the carbon from your other activities.

00:41:57.000 So you go on polluting as much as possible because you've bought up this land that doesn't pollute.

00:42:02.000 Oh, I see, so you've sort of increased the amount of land average.

00:42:06.000 Exactly.

00:42:06.000 We've got all that land that's not polluting.

00:42:08.000 Absolutely.

00:42:08.000 But what you're essentially doing at the same time is acquiring land.

00:42:13.000 So while we're talking about these New Zealand farmers, where these government initiatives to lower emissions actually ends up, you know, Bankrupting farmers that then that land potentially then gets sold on to billionaires such as Bill Gates.

00:42:29.000 You've got the same kind of thing going on here and another form of through methods of supposedly good intentions you end up with a situation where you're almost forcing these massive polluting companies into land grabbing from across the world.

00:42:43.000 You know, so essentially you'll get land across the world owned by the worst companies in the world.

00:42:47.000 What a brilliant solution that this is.

00:42:49.000 And at the same time, you've got companies like Coca-Cola sponsoring that event.

00:42:53.000 So it's not like, that's why I say like, you can kind of remove the issue from it.

00:42:58.000 We all want the planet to survive.

00:43:00.000 We all want, you know, good things for the planet.

00:43:03.000 Of course.

00:43:04.000 Yeah, sorry.

00:43:04.000 A lot of people say that are cynical about climate change, aren't they?

00:43:09.000 A lot of people say, well, no, it's about climate change is not being caused by human activity.

00:43:15.000 And in a sense, I like to circumvent that argument by saying that we ought to live respectfully and in accordance with our planet and not generate regulations that clearly create pollution and are detrimental to the planet, even if it's not in a sort of a cosmological scale.

00:43:31.000 According to that argument, it's plainly disrespectful.

00:43:34.000 But when you bring up the techniques that are used to allow them to continue to generate pollution in order to pursue profit, well, this is the bit from Global Witness that I like.

00:43:47.000 Uh, companies can continue polluting as usual while sticking to their net zero pledges as long as they include carbon negative activities.

00:43:53.000 The problem is there's very little regulation or standardization as to what constitutes carbon negative activity.

00:43:59.000 There's no regulation or standardisation.

00:44:02.000 So they can sort of just say stuff is without demonstrating it.

00:44:08.000 And that, the whole climate change movement, is of course what it adheres to is,

00:44:13.000 this is based on science.

00:44:14.000 And I'm kind of like not a climate change denier.

00:44:18.000 I think that, yeah, companies shouldn't be disrespectfully polluting and tainting our waterways, our air.

00:44:25.000 Should live in harmony with the planet.

00:44:27.000 We should prioritise that above profit. 0.99

00:44:29.000 But when they say they're pursuing the science and look, shit like this will be offered up as, 0.96

00:44:35.000 look at the kind of solutions that are coming out of COP 27. 0.97

00:44:38.000 That's not scientific.

00:44:39.000 There's no regulation or standardisation.

00:44:41.000 Many net zero policies rely on purchasing carbon offsets, which Gareth just sort of described to you.

00:44:47.000 Yeah, I suppose that's what shows the duplicity and disingenuity of those arguments.

00:44:53.000 That's what I think a lot of people who are now critical of what used to be regarded as centre-left neoliberalism, and again, I just don't think we're drawing from a big enough palette when we're having these conversations about what constitutes real democratic change, what they're criticising is, hold on a minute, they're just saying they care about the environment, but they're just creating more problems for farmers, as we demonstrated in Here's the News there, Or they're doing unscientific accountancy tricks in order to appear more green.

00:45:19.000 How's that even achieving anything in accordance with their own stated agenda? 0.91

00:45:23.000 That's hypocrisy. 0.89

00:45:24.000 That's lies.

00:45:25.000 It's not true.

00:45:25.000 Yeah.

00:45:26.000 And at the same time, you know, with this land, when we kind of go back to the land grab element of it, what's happening with this land as well that these companies are buying, it's obviously it's often owned by indigenous peoples.

00:45:36.000 You're taking land away from indigenous communities that know how to use that land better.

00:45:41.000 So when we're talking about someone like Vandana Shiva, what she'll say is, rather than these farming techniques

00:45:46.000 of great big corporations, and you've got Bill Gates coming and imposing his ideas on countries

00:45:52.000 with these modern farming techniques, she says, this is about the indigenous relationship

00:45:57.000 with the land.

00:45:58.000 And if you then buy all that land off people, essentially so you can offset your carbon emissions,

00:46:03.000 You're literally taking that land away from the very people who know how to use it best.

00:46:07.000 Vandana Shiva says it's neo-colonialism, don't she?

00:46:11.000 She says it's just a new way of assuming that there's a set or group of people and interests that know better than you or, in this case, farmers in New Zealand or indigenous people wherever that land's been bought up.

00:46:24.000 It's like, again, it's sort of a centralising force.

00:46:27.000 That's why this, again and again, I'm returning to this idea of decentralisation, that we have to form new confederacies New alliances in order to confront centralised power, which we won't be able to do if we're spending all our time sort of arguing about sort of what we call and what you call hot button topics.

00:46:44.000 Yeah, and then you get to the point, you know, you might as well have this COP 27 event and it could be literally a 20 minute meeting and then everyone can go on in their private jets again.

00:46:52.000 Right.

00:46:52.000 That 400 private jets that have flown across to wherever, Egypt, where apparently domestic climate activists have already been locked up, by the way.

00:47:00.000 So it's the perfect place for a climate event.

00:47:03.000 In reality, they're locking up people that actually care about the issue.

00:47:06.000 They're flying there on private jets.

00:47:07.000 It would take 20 minutes for them to just go there and go, listen, we're going to pretend we care about the environment now, only in ways that don't cost any money.

00:47:15.000 Or say, right, these 100 companies who are producing 71%, right, well, we're going to do this to you until you... If we actually care about it, then we're going to make sure that you are fined record amounts of money.

00:47:30.000 Taxed record amounts of money until you reduce your emissions, if you really care.

00:47:34.000 Whereas what actually happens is that those companies such as ExxonMobil, who are at the moment getting record profits, 20 billion in a quarter, as much as Apple.

00:47:43.000 In a cost of living crisis, where energy bills are soaring!

00:47:46.000 They get tax subsidies from the American government.

00:47:49.000 No, Gary!

00:47:50.000 They do, they do.

00:47:51.000 Shell, ExxonMobil, all those companies get... So essentially the American taxpayer is subsidising these companies that are making massive profits.

00:47:59.000 So it's not like, oh, they're big polluters because they're big companies and they got to that position through Moxie and Endeavor.

00:48:05.000 They're getting tax subsidies in addition to profits.

00:48:08.000 Can you see that there is no difference between the left and the right?

00:48:11.000 Can you see there's no difference between the trucker protest, the agriculture protest, the just stop oil protest, that we're all on the same side?

00:48:19.000 That is the great revelation.

00:48:21.000 We're all on the same side.

00:48:23.000 Yeah, again, it's like you can take the issue out of it.

00:48:25.000 In a sense, it's kind of heartwarming.

00:48:27.000 It's heartwarming in a sense, because, you know, Greta Thunberg, or Thunberg as she's talked about, is obviously vilified in certain areas of society and, you know, other people love her.

00:48:36.000 And deified in others.

00:48:37.000 But essentially, when she described this as a greenwashing event, she is right. 1.00

00:48:41.000 And in a sense, you can kind of say, well, maybe that's the unifying point, pointing out the hypocrisy.

00:48:46.000 At the heart of all of this, the fact that you are, whatever side you are coming from, or whichever side you think is right, you are being ripped off on a massive scale.

00:48:56.000 You're being ripped off on a massive scale.

00:48:58.000 COP 27, as the New Zealand farmer protest show, and as the information we've just shared, demonstrates is a greenwashing event.

00:49:06.000 And whether you consider yourself to be on the left or the right, you can surely see that.

00:49:11.000 Fantastic stuff, Gareth, fantastic stuff.

00:49:13.000 Can I talk about my... young Putin's pulled something up there with his usual enthusiasm.

00:49:19.000 Did you want to say anything else before we move on?

00:49:21.000 What are you pointing out?

00:49:23.000 The point I raised with Gareth earlier is like, you know, everyone's saying how ironic it is that all these world leaders are flying private jets.

00:49:32.000 And, I mean, the argument could be, oh, they can't facilitate such a massive travel of all these important people without those private jets because of security reasons.

00:49:41.000 But we know that's wrong.

00:49:43.000 I liked to hear at the Queen's funeral when we made them go on a bus.

00:49:46.000 They hated that.

00:49:47.000 I wouldn't have gone on that bus.

00:49:48.000 I'd have been sat at the front.

00:49:50.000 I'd have gone there.

00:49:51.000 Baron would have carried me.

00:49:52.000 He's eight foot tall now.

00:49:54.000 Baron would have carried me on an electric skateboard.

00:49:57.000 But that's the point, is that they could all just hop on commercial planes.

00:50:00.000 Yeah!

00:50:01.000 Why not?

00:50:02.000 Do it on the phone!

00:50:03.000 COP27's pointless!

00:50:04.000 But not Bill Gates though, because he loves his private jet.

00:50:06.000 He loves it, it's his guilty pleasure.

00:50:08.000 It's his guilty pleasure.

00:50:09.000 My guilty pleasure is a private jet.

00:50:11.000 Can't just go in economy.

00:50:12.000 Vetoed!

00:50:14.000 Ashela on the chat is saying she wants you to talk about this, Gareth, about the Cherokee Nation trying to get a seat, I think, in Congress.

00:50:25.000 Two centuries after the pledge was made, the Cherokee Nation is trying to revive one of the few concessions its ancestors were able to secure in the Treaty of New Echota.

00:50:34.000 The promise of congressional representation.

00:50:36.000 So many of my predecessors were trying to rebuild the nation or keep us from dissolving in the face

00:50:40.000 of great oppression and great obstacles, says Principal Chief Chuck Koskin Jr. who holds the

00:50:44.000 same leadership title tracing back to Ross. So I suppose, yeah, there's many issues coalesce here

00:50:51.000 that include the interests of people on the apparent left and people on the apparent right.

00:50:56.000 Generally speaking, indigenous politics has been regarded as a sort of a left-wing issue.

00:51:01.000 The ability to have decent energy bills to pay a reasonable price for utilities has sometimes been regarded as a right-wing issue, but right at the heart of the issue you find the same interests.

00:51:14.000 It seems to me that we can do something important here.

00:51:17.000 We can call out the hypocrisy of an event like COP27, support Greta Thunberg, support the rights of people that are regarded as like sort of maggot nut cases.

00:51:28.000 That's not how I regard them.

00:51:29.000 I regard everybody from an open-hearted position of love that some might call naive and others might regard as really cool, so that we can all come together in order to confront where real power is, not getting distracted by these sort of superficial differences.

00:51:42.000 Yeah, it's interesting the indigenous land that we talked about.

00:51:46.000 We'll look into that, definitely.

00:51:47.000 But one of the ways I think we mentioned before about how Bill Gates got his hand on all this farmland was buying traditional Ukema territory land.

00:51:58.000 That's how he got to this position of owning the most farmland in America.

00:52:02.000 Maybe we should ask him, I'd like to say to Bill Gates, what do you think you want it for?

00:52:07.000 What's your game, mate?

00:52:09.000 You know, is this all that, like, eat bugs and fake meat stuff?

00:52:12.000 It might be that.

00:52:13.000 I mean, you know, there's a theory that, and it's probably not a theory at all, that at this time of economic crashing, that land doesn't go down in value or will potentially go up in value.

00:52:25.000 It might be for the same reason that you see apparently he's got bunkers underneath all these properties.

00:52:30.000 Who knows?

00:52:32.000 So that's something we'll investigate further.

00:52:34.000 Why is Bill Gates buying up all this farmland?

00:52:36.000 We know it.

00:52:36.000 We've known it for a while.

00:52:37.000 We don't want to fall into hopeless conspiracy theory, but I'd like to just understand it, wouldn't you?

00:52:44.000 It's kind of interesting.

00:52:45.000 Now, can I tell you about what I've been doing with my life?

00:52:50.000 I went down to support a campaign to stop Thames Water dumping poo in the River Thames because I consider rivers to be sacred.

00:52:59.000 It offends me on a gut level, a spiritual level, to dump Human feces in a river. 0.99

00:53:08.000 And they talk about it in a kind of clinical, clerical way if you look at Thames Water's website.

00:53:12.000 This is just a necessary thing when rainfall reaches this level.

00:53:15.000 And Thames Water present themselves, by the way, as like, we're your friends, Thames Water.

00:53:19.000 But Thames Water's not like a bunch of water sprites and fairies distributing municipal facilities to the folk of the Thames region.

00:53:28.000 It's a massive Canadian investment firm.

00:53:30.000 It's an investment firm from Abu Dhabi.

00:53:33.000 The illusion of your heritage is eroding.

00:53:37.000 You look around you at the countryside and you think you own it.

00:53:39.000 You don't own it.

00:53:40.000 It's already been like whether it's Russian oligarchy owning territory in London or sort of Arabian enterprises owning water facilities in the UK.

00:53:51.000 It's a preposterous illusion that we're engaging in because, bless us, we don't think straight.

00:53:56.000 We don't think about what's the bureaucratic undergirding of what appears to be our land.

00:54:02.000 I don't think you should be able to call yourself Thames Water, the River Thames, if you are owned by a Chinese investment corporation, the Kuwait Investment Authority.

00:54:10.000 You should have to change the name of it. 0.99

00:54:11.000 We're now a Chinese, Kuwaiti investment firm, and if that's getting the xenophobia going, we're dumping your shit back in the water and getting you to drink it! 0.99

00:54:22.000 So if that's not irritating enough. 1.00

00:54:24.000 So I'll just tell you a few facts about this. 0.64

00:54:27.000 I went there to support my next door neighbour, Dick.

00:54:30.000 So when you go down to support this thing, the Henley Mermaids are doing it.

00:54:34.000 Can you post a link in the chat for people, for the Henley Mermaids?

00:54:38.000 Right, and what they are is they're people that swim in that river.

00:54:40.000 And I swim in the River Thames, actually, in a sort of a Wim Hof way.

00:54:43.000 In fact, I've gotten in that river with Wim Hof.

00:54:46.000 I thought you were going to say, in fact, one of us, I suppose, was down to me.

00:54:49.000 Actually, I panicked with Wim Hof.

00:54:51.000 He made me take a real in-breath, and I relaxed my bottom, and there it was.

00:54:57.000 So like, yeah, I would never poo.

00:55:00.000 I have weed in there.

00:55:01.000 But I've never pooed.

00:55:02.000 I think we all appreciate... 1.00

00:55:05.000 Fuck you ate the investment fund! One little wee! 1.00

00:55:08.000 And my wee, I don't know if you've ever seen it, but it's actually almost clear.

00:55:12.000 It's lovely stuff.

00:55:13.000 Fair enough.

00:55:14.000 Mine is.

00:55:14.000 Like, where's that card from that coffee shop that I said leave on this desk?

00:55:17.000 Go get it if it's not there please someone.

00:55:20.000 Like, yeah, so I've been in, I love that river, I go in that river,

00:55:25.000 and when my next door neighbour Dick said, will you go down and support this protest,

00:55:27.000 I met a bunch of people that were able to articulate to me in a way that was really brilliant and inspiring what this

00:55:33.000 protest was about.

00:55:34.000 It ultimately ended up being people in Henley, now you might not know this, but Henley is where Boris Johnson, who until recently was the Prime Minister of our country, you know we like to have a new one every couple of weeks, Till recently he was the Prime Minister and he was the MP for Henley for a long, long time.

00:55:46.000 So what I'm telling you is it's a conservative, sort of traditional, sort of right-wing place.

00:55:52.000 Although increasingly I think those labels don't mean anything.

00:55:55.000 And what these people were demanding is that Thames Water, if not be totally renationalised, become beholden to the community.

00:56:03.000 That the community should run Thames Water because, ultimately, if it wasn't a for-profit endeavour, but was instead there to serve people, it would be run with different principles.

00:56:13.000 It's the same when Gareth's talking about COP27 and the polluters.

00:56:17.000 If COP27 is sponsored by organisations that ultimately seek to profit, then, of course, they're going to do what's necessary, thank you, to generate profit.

00:56:26.000 That's what you're going to find in that situation.

00:56:29.000 You have to extract the profit motive from it, otherwise things won't be run

00:56:32.000 in accordance with higher principles.

00:56:34.000 You've got to let go of like, when anti-capitalist rhetoric comes out my mouth,

00:56:38.000 I'm not talking about don't run a coffee shop or a business or even, you know, become super successful and rich.

00:56:43.000 I'm not that ambitious.

00:56:45.000 What I'm saying is don't have models that are propped up in extraordinary ways,

00:56:48.000 where they don't even fulfill their basic function.

00:56:51.000 Like this Thames Water, for example, they're, right, God, my God, look at the words.

00:56:54.000 They dumped untreated effluent into the River Thames for 68,000 hours.

00:56:59.000 Two billion litres in two days.

00:57:02.000 Oh God!

00:57:03.000 We swim in there!

00:57:04.000 That's incredible!

00:57:05.000 And they paid shareholders 37 million last year and 1.6 billion over the last 12 years.

00:57:13.000 What came out of it that this is the Thames water owned by Abu Dhabi Investment, China Investment Corporation, Kuwait Investment Authority aren't paying for vital repairs which means that water is being wasted on an extraordinary scale and that also It's not necessary to dump human feces in the water.

00:57:34.000 It's profitable.

00:57:36.000 They could spend money to create proper sewage treatment plants, but they can't do that because the model won't allow it.

00:57:42.000 They have to deliver for their shareholders.

00:57:44.000 So it's the model.

00:57:44.000 They have to.

00:57:45.000 It's the system that's broken.

00:57:47.000 So whatever it is you look at, whether it's COP27 on a global scale, or Thames War on a very local scale, in, ultimately, a conservative, or let's call it for simplicity's sake, a right-wing area, the model isn't working.

00:57:59.000 People want change.

00:58:00.000 People are ready for change.

00:58:01.000 Now, if you can focus on, well, wherever you are, and whether or not you're an ultra-advanced progressive person when it comes to lifestyle matters, or a very traditional person, wouldn't you like to be in control of your community facilities?

00:58:12.000 Don't you think there should be a people's assembly that has a part to play in how it's run?

00:58:17.000 Because if you were in control of how your water, your electricity, your basic, what have come to be regarded as basic human rights as a result of incredible progressive endeavour, much of which was delivered by a kind of capitalist ingenuity, but that has now, let's face it, gotten out of control.

00:58:32.000 And ultimately needs to bloody well change in the same way that the feudal system only got so far and democracies came in.

00:58:38.000 Can't you see we're at a new point in human history now where genuinely new ideas are required.

00:58:42.000 Where it's not enough to vacillate mildly between left and right and red and blue while delivering the same results.

00:58:48.000 Whether it's a local issue, like Thames water dumping human feces into water, or a global issue, like where COP27 are ultimately a greenwash propaganda wing of global corporations, sponsored by the very corporations that are most responsible.

00:59:02.000 Real change is required.

00:59:03.000 That's why I want to encourage you to engage in these kind of local actions.

00:59:07.000 That's why later this week we'll be talking to some of the activists from that Thames water protest, so that we can advance and explore genuinely new ideas.

00:59:16.000 So you don't just vote for someone who's like, oh, we're going to do the same thing.

00:59:19.000 Well, we'll write them a letter.

00:59:21.000 No one's doing anything.

00:59:22.000 And no one is going to.

00:59:24.000 Only you.

00:59:25.000 It has to become a visceral, personal, spiritual commitment from every individual to change the world.

00:59:31.000 Yeah, maybe this can be a global movement.

00:59:33.000 I mean, going back to that start I said at the start was 80% of streams, canals and creeks and rivers in the United States, 80% contain detectable levels of toxic forever chemicals.

00:59:43.000 There's obviously a problem.

00:59:45.000 It's getting there somehow.

00:59:46.000 And chances are someone's making a good profit out of it.

00:59:49.000 Yeah, when you discover that you're sort of swimming in human feces so that someone else can make money, or you're having to shut your farm down so someone else can make money, and they're always pretending it's for the same reason that they're helping you in some sort of way, it gets on my bloody nerves.

01:00:04.000 I saw a blood moon.

01:00:05.000 Nice one, Lady Pam. 0.94

01:00:06.000 Now let's have a, um, can we have a look at me protesting that day to see if you think anything's funny about it, Gareth, or if I...

01:00:12.000 The only way I can imagine there ever being a solution is if communities were directly involved in the governance of their facilities.

01:00:18.000 Why should Thameswater be extracting profit by pumping in excrement?

01:00:21.000 I think he'll be the person we'll be asking to come on as a guest. Let's have a look at this.

01:00:24.000 The only way I can imagine there ever being a solution is if communities were directly involved in the governance of

01:00:31.000 their facilities.

01:00:32.000 Why should Thames Water be extracting profit by pumping in excrement? What kind of model is that?

01:00:40.000 Yay! 0.99

01:00:42.000 Did you like...

01:00:44.000 Was it a big enough round of applause?

01:00:47.000 No.

01:00:47.000 No, it wasn't.

01:00:48.000 I deserved more and I expected more.

01:00:50.000 It was tepid.

01:00:52.000 It was as tepid as the brown water that I stepped out of.

01:00:56.000 I was very disappointed by that round of applause, Gal.

01:00:59.000 Frankly, we weren't worth clambering up on that part of the show.

01:01:02.000 No, no.

01:01:02.000 I was on the same bill as the Mayor.

01:01:04.000 Oh, yeah.

01:01:05.000 She was there in a sort of proper golden Mayor necklace.

01:01:07.000 I liked her.

01:01:08.000 She's called Michelle.

01:01:09.000 And the vicar, who was called Jeremy, and he was wearing a black cape.

01:01:15.000 Right, a cape.

01:01:16.000 It was a cape, and it was bonded.

01:01:18.000 I bet you can find a photograph of it like in the Henley Gazette.

01:01:21.000 He was wearing like a back Batman's cape.

01:01:23.000 Oh, cool. Windrush. 0.99

01:01:24.000 That's the other organization.

01:01:25.000 Excuse me, that's how we should, yeah, we should get them up as well.

01:01:28.000 Windrush, they were the other people that were protesting that day.

01:01:31.000 And a geezer from there, I think he was called Ash, really, he's the one that explained to me.

01:01:34.000 He started saying that what it is, is that it would cost this much money to repair the pipes correctly, this is what should be done, it's owned by all these foreign interests.

01:01:42.000 I was going, does it sound like it should be re-nationalised?

01:01:44.000 He goes, well you can't say re-nationalised in Hindley because it sounds like too much of a socialist thing.

01:01:48.000 Although, didn't you say that Joe Biden's even talking about socialism now?

01:01:50.000 Yeah, well, no.

01:01:52.000 Joe Biden's talking about how the Democrats aren't socialist.

01:01:55.000 They're not socialist.

01:01:55.000 Very keen to.

01:01:56.000 Socialism's a dirty word.

01:01:58.000 No one wants Maoism.

01:01:59.000 No one wants Stalinism.

01:02:01.000 No one wants the state to be so powerful that your individual liberty is impeded.

01:02:04.000 But we do need to explore genuine alternatives to this kind of late capitalist corporatist model where the media lie to you, where big pharma profit from you, where big energy lies to you and robs you and the state don't do anything about it.

01:02:16.000 Something's got to change.

01:02:18.000 Like, we can't trust these old ideas.

01:02:20.000 I think the myth is over now, isn't it?

01:02:23.000 That corporate capitalism, in terms of the kind of levels that we're seeing now, is working.

01:02:32.000 No one's arguing that anymore.

01:02:34.000 The whole trickle-down economics idea It's not trickling down. 0.99

01:02:39.000 The only thing that's trickling down is your own shit trickling down the river when you're trying to live a nice lifestyle. 0.99

01:02:46.000 So this is that Giza ash that runs that thing called Windrush. 1.00

01:02:52.000 Polluters must be held to account.

01:02:53.000 Let's get him in the week to talk about that.

01:02:57.000 Our next exclusive interview is with Michael Singer on November the 15th.

01:03:00.000 You can watch it first and in full.

01:03:02.000 7am PT, 11 ET, 3 GMT.

01:03:06.000 I don't know what any of those things mean.

01:03:08.000 I don't know what any of it means.

01:03:09.000 Now a lot of people on the right are excited about Ron DeSantis.

01:03:15.000 A lot of people that I respect think that Ron DeSantis is the future of the party.

01:03:19.000 Not Trump, however.

01:03:20.000 He thinks of him as Ron DeSanctimonious.

01:03:22.000 You said earlier that it's sort of a hagiography.

01:03:25.000 It's beyond propaganda.

01:03:27.000 It's sort of like a joyfully self-indulgent piece.

01:03:31.000 People were saying that it's God created DeSantis on the 8th day kind of thing.

01:03:36.000 That it was that level.

01:03:37.000 Because I know a lot of you like Ron DeSantis because I think a lot of you like what he did to Disney.

01:03:41.000 I think some of you agree with him saying that teaching practices in Florida need to be controlled.

01:03:47.000 I know there's some things I agree with on the pandemic.

01:03:49.000 I believe that people should be allowed to believe what they want to believe and be who they want to be and the government shouldn't be telling you what to do and that big corporations shouldn't be marauding all over our lives.

01:03:58.000 So let's have a look at this and see what you think of it.

01:04:01.000 Is it engaging propaganda or is it...

01:04:04.000 Well, let's see what it is.

01:04:05.000 It's definitely a different take to Trump, how Trump would go.

01:04:08.000 Because Trump, I like the bombast.

01:04:10.000 I've gotten used to it.

01:04:11.000 I enjoy it.

01:04:11.000 It's funny.

01:04:12.000 What's Ron DeSantis saying?

01:04:15.000 And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, I need a protector.

01:04:24.000 So God made a fighter.

01:04:27.000 Is it like a joke to say that?

01:04:29.000 To say that he's the guy on the eighth day?

01:04:32.000 I don't know.

01:04:32.000 Because you can't say that, firstly, they're in an eighth day.

01:04:36.000 No.

01:04:36.000 That's actually, ironically, that's sacrilegious to suggest that the whole template of all scriptural study was wrong.

01:04:45.000 That's blasphemous to say that.

01:04:48.000 That's the first mistake.

01:04:49.000 Right, what you've done there is you've offended Christians. 0.67

01:04:53.000 God said I need somebody willing to get up before God.

01:04:57.000 Is that him talking?

01:04:58.000 No, I don't think so.

01:04:59.000 Someone else saying that.

01:05:00.000 And also, is it a bit of a joke?

01:05:02.000 Maybe it is.

01:05:02.000 Maybe it's a bit of a joke.

01:05:03.000 So what he's saying is that that's presidential, isn't it?

01:05:06.000 He's saying, look, you know, that's a great haircut, lovely teeth, young family.

01:05:11.000 Beautiful family.

01:05:12.000 Yeah, OK.

01:05:14.000 So, so far, what's being suggested is this is a person being groomed for more than simply governor of Florida.

01:05:20.000 Absolutely.

01:05:21.000 But at the moment, is this for anything other than Governor Fraud?

01:05:25.000 No, there's no announcement.

01:05:26.000 When they're doing those polls, best polls, best polls ever, they're just speculative.

01:05:33.000 Like it wouldn't be Liz Cheney.

01:05:35.000 No, absolutely not.

01:05:37.000 Oh, she's a good leader. 0.98

01:05:39.000 When I used to read her stories, she was fearless.

01:05:43.000 Mike Pence.

01:05:44.000 Mike Pence?

01:05:45.000 No, Mike Pence is doing better than I expected.

01:05:47.000 Um, but like, Ron DeSantis, uh, like, this is, is this the future?

01:05:51.000 I know a lot of you guys, I know a lot of you like him, but let's see why.

01:05:54.000 His family could buy, travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to serve the people.

01:06:01.000 To save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, their happiness.

01:06:06.000 I sort of like what he's doing in that.

01:06:09.000 I'm just very affected by this kind of propaganda, aren't you?

01:06:11.000 You just like a promo, basically.

01:06:13.000 I like promo.

01:06:14.000 Like, I nearly bought a Coke when I saw they were sponsoring COP 27, even though they're the world's biggest polluters.

01:06:19.000 Oh yeah, I know, I like Coke.

01:06:20.000 They're the world's biggest polluters and they're sponsoring an anti-pollution event.

01:06:23.000 Mmm, delicious though, isn't it?

01:06:24.000 Makes you feel upbeat.

01:06:25.000 I'm feeling younger by the second.

01:06:27.000 Yeah, I'm very susceptible to propaganda.

01:06:29.000 Too susceptible.

01:06:31.000 That's why I like Rhonda Santis. 1.00

01:06:32.000 So God made a fighter.

01:06:36.000 Keep talking about God's direct involvement in Ron DeSantis.

01:06:41.000 It's curious, isn't it?

01:06:43.000 Imagine saying that about yourself.

01:06:44.000 Maybe you like Ron DeSantis, and I'm not saying you shouldn't.

01:06:46.000 I don't mind what you believe politically.

01:06:48.000 I love you.

01:06:53.000 If you believe in God, you would say God encompasses all reality, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient.

01:06:57.000 So he created everything, that's all cool.

01:07:00.000 Specifically created Ron DeSantis.

01:07:02.000 Like he took a bit of extra time.

01:07:03.000 Okay, there's the Amazon.

01:07:04.000 We're going to need someone a bit like Trump.

01:07:08.000 Done Saturn, done Mercury, but a bit like Trump now, but maybe a bit less Trump-y.

01:07:13.000 But still Trump-ish, but not quite so Trump-y.

01:07:16.000 It's DeSantis.

01:07:17.000 It's gonna take a whole extra day, and I'm gonna have to mess with my accepted conditions of what a calendar is, but it's gonna be worth it when I get DeSantis.

01:07:25.000 God made a fighter.

01:07:27.000 God said I need someone to be strong.

01:07:30.000 Advocate truth in the midst of hysteria.

01:07:34.000 Someone who challenges conventional wisdom and isn't afraid to defend what he knows to be right and just.

01:07:41.000 So God made a fighter.

01:07:44.000 God said, I need somebody who will take the arrows, stand firm in the wake of unrelenting attacks, look a mother in the eyes and tell her that her child will be in school.

01:07:57.000 Your child will be in school.

01:07:58.000 Your child will be... That's less intensity, I think, because that's where they sort of should be.

01:08:02.000 I know it's probably a reference to something that went on... The pandemic, although I think he did keep kids out of schools during the pandemic.

01:08:10.000 I think that's one of the things that is levelled at him.

01:08:12.000 Is it, at the end of this we'll say, I'm Rhonda Santis and I approve this message?

01:08:15.000 Because, like, honestly, no matter what my agenda, if someone showed me, like, this video and it was about me, I'd go... It's too much.

01:08:22.000 It's too much!

01:08:23.000 Even though... Few less gods?

01:08:25.000 Can you, like, I can't take, I can't claim that God was so directly involved in me looking a mum in the eyes and saying, I will keep that score. 0.98

01:08:33.000 It seems like I'm too into myself.

01:08:35.000 It lacks the essential value of humility.

01:08:38.000 So I love what you've done, and I'm actually very flattered by this.

01:08:40.000 If they show me a work, do.

01:08:42.000 If, like, say, if you went for your birthday raffle... Is this you telling me, basically, to make one of these?

01:08:46.000 Will you make one of these for me?

01:08:48.000 I'm going to pretend not to approve it, but then I will post it.

01:08:50.000 It'll be up and down all of our platforms.

01:08:54.000 On the ninth day, after he'd done quite a lot of work on Ron DeSantis, God created Russell Brand, with some bits he didn't need for Ron DeSantis.

01:09:02.000 Actually, he's a British guy, so he had unusual sort of teeth and face.

01:09:06.000 He's a bit narcissistic, but he was trying his best.

01:09:09.000 God's really done... He's tried... Look, he put a lot of effort into Ron DeSantis.

01:09:14.000 Here's that Russell on the ninth day, no extra cost.

01:09:16.000 We're gonna put him in with... If you get Ron DeSantis, Russell's coming for free.

01:09:20.000 He looked people in the eye, and actually too much in the eye.

01:09:23.000 It's pretty intense, his stare in the eye.

01:09:26.000 I actually, as God, made a mistake with the eye contact thing.

01:09:30.000 I should have given him a squint or an eye patch or something.

01:09:33.000 Or, I don't know, some way of not looking in people's eyes quite so much.

01:09:37.000 It's annoying.

01:09:38.000 Keep her job, go to church, eat dinner with friends.

01:09:42.000 And hold the hand of an aging parent.

01:09:44.000 They're all things that anyone could do.

01:09:46.000 Eat dinner with friends, hold hands.

01:09:48.000 I know it's also a reference to the pandemic and stuff, but it's curious in retrospect to politicise that as something that God would have to invest someone with.

01:09:59.000 And then, put your shoes on one at a time, sit with your back straight, order a Slurpee, look off into the distance, question what it's all about.

01:10:08.000 Is that a seagull?

01:10:09.000 I like seagulls.

01:10:11.000 All on the eighth day.

01:10:12.000 I like the way he says, aging relative.

01:10:14.000 Like, as if some of the relatives aren't aging.

01:10:16.000 These young relatives of mine, they're gonna have to get by without a handhold.

01:10:21.000 Perhaps a playful punch in the arm, as is the custom for a younger relative.

01:10:27.000 Oh God, made a fighter.

01:10:29.000 God said I need a family man.

01:10:32.000 A man who would laugh, and then sigh.

01:10:35.000 Ha ha! 0.86

01:10:36.000 He's getting too specific!

01:10:38.000 He's a family man!

01:10:39.000 Ha ha ha!

01:10:42.000 It's a funny man who laughs then sighs.

01:10:45.000 What's the matter, Ron?

01:10:46.000 You were fine literally a second ago.

01:10:48.000 Well, I don't know.

01:10:49.000 I was thinking some pretty pleasurable stuff and then I realized I'm gonna die one day because of the aging relative and stuff.

01:10:56.000 So weird to laugh so much.

01:10:58.000 Too specific.

01:10:59.000 And then reply with smiling eyes.

01:11:04.000 Actually, we do need Russell Brand after all.

01:11:08.000 Get Russell Brand. 0.65

01:11:09.000 Actually, the stuff I did on the ninth day, it initially looked like a mistake, but compared to some of this laughing, sighing, monomaniacal mood swing shit that Ron's doing, let's give Russell another chance. 0.94

01:11:21.000 She wants to spend her life doing what Dad does. 0.98

01:11:30.000 Touch you on the hand, go to the hospital.

01:11:32.000 Stand up for justice!

01:11:33.000 I mean, look, I'm not anti-Ron DeSantis, by the way, and for all we know, he didn't have anything to do with the construction of that, but I feel like he maybe signed it off.

01:11:41.000 Yeah, I think it's from his campaign team.

01:11:43.000 Right, campaign team sat Ron down and went, look, we've made this, Ron, and Ron didn't go, stop!

01:11:51.000 Imagine getting signed off.

01:11:52.000 Do you like it, Ron?

01:11:55.000 So is that a yes?

01:11:56.000 So Ron, I'm gonna take that as you like it.

01:12:00.000 Is that a happy sigh?

01:12:02.000 The laugh, was that a maniac's laugh or a laugh of approval?

01:12:05.000 Stop smiling with the eyes, Ron!

01:12:08.000 Ron, what are the thumbs here?

01:12:10.000 No, Ron!

01:12:11.000 RON!

01:12:12.000 I wanted a unilateral president!

01:12:14.000 A man who would certain, not a man who's smiling, laughing, sighing with his eyes.

01:12:19.000 He sighed with his eyes.

01:12:20.000 He twitched in the ear. 1.00

01:12:22.000 Then he did a grin with the tip of his dick. 1.00

01:12:24.000 Ron DeSantis! 1.00

01:12:26.000 Oh God, made a fighter.

01:12:29.000 He's fighting a variety of mad impulses.

01:12:32.000 Must be exhausting.

01:12:37.000 Never stop fighting freedom.

01:12:38.000 Never.

01:12:39.000 What about when you've got it?

01:12:40.000 Keep on!

01:12:41.000 You could get some more freedom.

01:12:42.000 Also, look at the bottom.

01:12:44.000 Paid by Ron DeSantis.

01:12:46.000 So he actually, not only was he involved, he actually said, right Ron, do you like this video?

01:12:51.000 I do, I do.

01:12:52.000 So is that a yes?

01:12:56.000 Sir, are you willing to pay?

01:12:57.000 Yes, I am.

01:12:58.000 Will you write me a cheque?

01:12:59.000 No, I'm not.

01:13:01.000 I won't give you a single penny, but Ron, you're writing a cheque.

01:13:04.000 I don't like it.

01:13:05.000 I think it's too grandiose, and I think it makes it look like I think I was sent here by God on an extra day.

01:13:10.000 I love it.

01:13:11.000 There you go.

01:13:11.000 Here's your cheque.

01:13:13.000 See you next week.

01:13:13.000 I'll see you next week on Octo Day.

01:13:18.000 Which is between Sunday and Monday, a new day that was created just for me.

01:13:22.000 So that's Ron DeSantis right there, a man who's happy signing that off.

01:13:27.000 I'm not anti-Ron DeSantis, I'm not like Trump calling him Ron DeSanctimonious, although after that it does seem like a nickname that might stick.

01:13:35.000 Well, it's been a fantastic show with a lot of ups and downs, hasn't it?

01:13:38.000 So has.

01:13:39.000 Join us tomorrow when we're going to have more fantastic content for you, wrapping up a wonderful week of incredible guests and extraordinary events.

01:13:47.000 I think mostly what we learned is whether it's at a global level or a local level or an individual level, awakening is required if we're ever going to subvert these systems that appear to dominate us.

01:13:57.000 Stay free.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - November 10, 2022

Global Farmer Protests - Great Reset Resisters? - #032 - Stay Free with Russell Brand

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