Russell Brand is a man of many talents. He is a comedian, a podcaster, a writer, a public speaker, a thinker, and a thinker. And yet, in September of 2013, he was accused of sexual assault by a woman who claimed she was sexually abused by Russell Brand. What was even more shocking was that this was the final scene in a long film that had been playing out for the preceding couple of years outside of public view. Who was responsible for this cover-up? And why did the mainstream media cover it up? And why was it necessary to keep him out of the public eye? In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, we take a look at the events leading up to the scandal, and how the media covered it up to protect a man who was a bad man, a sex criminal, a crook, a bully, a fraud, a liar, a criminal, and someone who should have been punished for his crimes. Stay Free with Russell Brand! Stay Free, and enjoy the episode. Remember, there s an episode every single day to educate and elevate our consciousness together. You get early access to an exclusive conversation between me and Tucker Carlson that you cannot get without becoming a supporter of our content. You get to participate when we interview what I would call "real journalists" and get an exclusive access to a conversation between Tucker Carlson and myself that you can t get without getting an early copy of. . Thank you for your ongoing support and for being part of this movement as we oppose clear, coherent, cogent and cogent interests in order to become free together. We really appreciate you, and want to support us, and bring you more of the best in the culture you ve ever heard of the things you need to become a free thinker and a free, woke, free, informed, and free world. -EDUCATION. In order to be free together, we need to learn how to become an Awakened Wonder! - Edible, not just free, not Just Free Together. -Edible, Enlightened, Not Just Free, Not Less Restored, Not Stagnant, Not More Free, not Less Restless, Not Socially Savvy, Not Stoic, Not Allowed to become Free Together, and Not Stressed, Not Better Together, Not Without a Brave, Not Educated, Not Safe, Not Loved, Not With a Brave Minded, But With a Mindful Minded Mind.
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00:01:34.000Let's have a look at it together and allow me to give you some additional information and show you how the timeline unfolded in a little more detail.
00:01:41.000Back in September, media outlets around the world, almost all of them here in the West and the English-speaking world, ran headlines that shocked a lot of readers and viewers.
00:01:50.000Russell Brand, the movie star, the comedian, now the podcaster, was a sex criminal, a bad man, a sex criminal.
00:01:58.000A lot of people pointed out at the time, you're not in any mainstream movies, you're not on the TV, you're not in the media, you're a marginal figure.
00:02:05.000How extraordinary this amount of time and attention is being spent.
00:02:15.000And I still feel, as I said on Tucker, it seems sort of Grandiose to go.
00:02:19.000Oh, yeah, the system's out to get me because this sort of seems somehow preposterous And in fact, it's beyond that in a way these systems as we are learning are about data and information They don't care about an individual.
00:02:33.000This is information that we don't want talked about deamplify that this is information we do want talked about and if you happen to be associated with one set of data You are in serious trouble Now, none of the outlets ran the names of the accusers who had been sexually abused by Russell Brand.
00:02:53.000This is a very bad man, and he needs to be taken out of public view for the sake of the rest of us.
00:03:00.000What was interesting about this is that, in fact, it was the final scene in a long movie that had been playing out for the preceding couple of years outside of public view.
00:03:12.000This was an attempt to make Russell Brand shut up.
00:03:16.000Russell Brand has views that diverge from those of most Western governments on big issues, not small things, big issues, questions of economic policy and war and peace.
00:03:25.000And they decided we have to make this man be quiet.
00:03:28.000Well, because in contrast to a lot of us who give our opinions for a living, Russell Brand had the capacity to win people over from the other side.
00:03:37.000He hadn't spent a life identified with the far right, just the opposite.
00:03:41.000Russell Brand was a man of the left, and to most people, a cultural figure.
00:03:47.000And so he had the power, the capacity to persuade, and that was the threat.
00:03:53.000So here's some additional information from our own internal research facilities.
00:03:58.000March 2022, UK government organisation Coda Story publishes a story on its anti-disinformation newsletter linking Russell Brand broadcasts on Ukraine with pro-China propaganda.
00:04:08.000The organisation is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, the non-profit under the State Department that was spun out of CIA initiatives in the 1980s.
00:04:16.000You can go back and look at the content we were making in March 22.
00:04:19.000A lot of it stands up pretty well, actually.
00:04:21.000We were asking questions about the handling of the pandemic worldwide.
00:04:25.000We were also questioning the legitimacy of Western funding of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and its potential to escalate out of control.
00:04:32.000Look at what's happened in the meantime.
00:04:34.000It's extraordinary, isn't it, to see the UK government, CIA-inspired organisations, accusing an online public commentator of spreading Chinese propaganda.
00:04:43.000To this day, I don't know what that I don't have strong views about China.
00:04:48.000I certainly don't advocate for China's political policy or cultural policy.
00:04:51.000I'm sort of a bit interested in Buddhism and ninjas.
00:04:55.000September 2022. Logically AI is hired and paid 3.2 million dollars by the Department of Digital
00:05:01.000Culture, Media and Sport. Logically AI disputes Brown's criticism of the central bank digital
00:05:07.000currency and claims such concerns are just conspiracy theories without evidence.
00:05:11.000Ironically providing us with some evidence that many of these theories have some validity.
00:05:16.000We would have been talking about central currencies and their potential to be manipulated and to facilitate social credit score type systems where in conjunction potentially with passports for certain medical measures they could be used to for example Free people's bank accounts, as has happened already in China.
00:05:34.000Or people who haven't taken certain medications could be refused access to certain venues, as has happened across the world already.
00:05:40.000Or people applying for universities might not be permitted to get into that university, as recommended by Anthony Fauci when talking about universities and said, when people are told they won't be able to join a certain university, they'll lose their ideological bullshit.
00:05:53.000So many of these stories, all of these stories in fact, are either based on publicly available content, the views of academics, and admittedly when it came to the pandemic, often the views of academics who themselves have been censored.
00:06:04.000And much of the reporting that we've looked at indicates that I'm not alone in this kind of censorship, I'm just one of the more public and visible figures conveying information that is widely available.
00:06:13.000Indeed, in the comments under here, many of you are going I've known this for ages, won't you?
00:06:17.000I knew this years ago, what took you so long to catch up?
00:06:19.000When it comes to the Ukraine war, or the CIA, or Project Paperclip, or disinformation, or malinformation, or misinformation, there's no claim that this information is exclusively available here, just that clearly it must have caught the attention of people that care about it, and indeed we've made Freedom of Information Act a request to many of these organisations, and it's astonishing when you do it, they really drag their heels, they do not want to hand over the information about how extensively they've been spying on you, surveilling you.
00:06:44.000The full concern about CBDCs to be dismissed as a conspiracy theory is yet more ridiculous when we know that during the trucker protest people did have their bank accounts frozen and it's since been decreed that that was illegal activity.
00:06:55.000We were simply pointing out that CBDCs would make it even easier for governments to shut down private citizens' personal finances than it already is.
00:07:05.000We already know that many tech sites that handle finance and funding will cooperate with governments and we commented some years ago, I mean the content's up, you can go and look at it yourselves, We simply commented that this would be vulnerable to exploitation, and I think that's pretty legitimate.
00:07:19.000Indeed, many of the stories that we cover are centrally about the transference of individual personal sovereignty to state or corporate interests, and often significantly, partnerships between corporate and state interests, which is precisely what's happening here.
00:07:32.000Groups like Logically AI, or many of the other agencies that seem to be involved in just this story, receive government funding, that's taxpayer funding, that's your pounds and dollars in taxes, in order to spy on you, surveil you, and clearly, as you'll hear later, publicly attack you.
00:07:46.000November 2022. Think Tank, the institute for strategic dialogue hired by the Department
00:07:51.000of Digital Culture, Media and Sport. You've heard that name a couple of times now,
00:07:54.000and that is the department that Caroline Dynage MP runs.
00:07:59.000Caroline Dynage is, of course, the member of parliament that petitioned X, Rumble,
00:08:04.000Facebook, YouTube, Instagram to demonetize, censor and control our content. And in the case of YouTube,
00:08:19.000Think Tank, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue hired by the Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport, targets Russell Brand as a conspirituality influencer that promotes anti-climate narratives.
00:08:31.000Multiple UK newspaper articles, from newspapers including the Times, Telegraph and Independent, label Russell Brand a conspiracy theorist for his videos regarding big pharma vaccines and US government foreign policy and the military-industrial complex, although there were pieces also in the New York Times, the Atlantic and numerous other legacy media sites.
00:08:47.000We also have reported somewhat extensively on the Trusted News Initiative, which are a conglomerate or cartel of legacy media organisations that allied together against independent media and can support
00:08:58.000one another. The days of legacy media companies competing with one another for scoops are long
00:09:03.000gone. They are competing against independent media and essentially, as they themselves explicitly admit,
00:09:09.000attempting to choke out, control and destroy independent media, usually through
00:09:13.000misinformation and malinformation type angles. August 2023. Public Good Partnerships, a content
00:09:19.000moderation non-profit funded by a lobby group for Pfizer and Moderna, repeatedly targets Brand as a
00:09:24.000conspiracy theorist for pointing out revolving door corruption in the UK and for discussing
00:09:28.000evidence that the US government misled the public about the justification for vaccine
00:09:32.000Now I know you're a well-informed audience so you know how well undergirded those Arguments are.
00:09:37.000I also know that you are aware of that actual revolving door and you can actually see the faces and know the names of some of the people in that revolving door.
00:09:45.000Jonathan Van Tam, who was significant in this country for advising people to take vaccines, now works at Moderna.
00:09:50.000You'll be aware that at least two FDA officials now work at Moderna.
00:09:55.000The fact that there are financial ties and relationships between private corporations, in particular big pharma, military-industrial complex, the financial industry, the energy industry, and the state, is hardly a conspiracy theory.
00:10:07.000You can observe that, you can track that, it's visible, it's understood, it's evident, it's obvious.
00:10:12.000Nowhere in his reports on brand did Moderna highlight any incorrect information but the reports noted that they monitored brand because he has a large platform with over 6.6 6.7 that's misinformation 6.7 million YouTube subscribers and over 21 million followers across multiple social media platforms Moreover, his videos are widely circulated in anti-vaccine spaces where he's viewed as a truth teller and a threat to authority and the brand maintains support from Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk.
00:10:38.000These are just a few of the peculiar investigations and operations involving the government, deep state, former employees, deep state inspired agency, big pharma funded organizations prior to the legacy media attacks in September.
00:10:55.000Brand is subject to an investigation by the Times, the Sunday Times, and Channel 4's dispatches.
00:10:59.000Themselves, legacy media organizations, cooperating in a shared endeavor.
00:11:03.000YouTube demonetizes Brand's channel without there being any content violations on the platform.
00:11:07.000This is the first time a content creator has been financially punished by the company for reasons other than the videos published on the site.
00:11:14.000Joe Ondrak, Logically AI's Investigations Head provided different quotes to nearly half a dozen news outlets including Vice, Wired, the BBC and two separate articles in the Times that depicted Brand as a dangerous purveyor of misinformation who had finally been held to account.
00:11:30.000So Joe Ondrak, Logically's Head of Investigation, is essentially a government-funded proxy whose funding comes from you, the taxpayer, telling you that we convey dangerous information without ever telling you that you fund him telling you that via the government who plainly have an agenda.
00:11:50.000I mean, an agenda, perhaps, is a pejorative term because governments have to have policies, they have to have ideas, you have to decide whether or not you trust them, their ideas, their policies, or agenda.
00:12:00.000Logically claims that social media accounts trotting out the innocent until proven guilty refrain were among those perpetuating common myths about sexual assault.
00:12:08.000The site published a follow-up video reiterating the claim that those seeking the presumption of innocence for brand, a principle dating back to the Magna Carta, were spreading a dangerous myth.
00:12:16.000It's difficult for me to be objective on a subject that so plainly includes me and in this instance is about me.
00:12:21.000But what I can safely say is not about me is the Magna Carta and the presumption of innocence.
00:12:27.000Those are principles that have been valued since the dawn of civilization of this nature.
00:12:32.000The idea that a government-funded agency, paid proxies that exist solely to crush dissent, would start to invite us to challenge some of our deepest-held beliefs about the judiciary, about democracy, about civilisation, about sovereign individual rights, about the Magna Carta itself, shows you that what's being attempted is some kind of cultural reset that will play out Way beyond this individual story.
00:12:55.000For me, this is part of that Orwellian double-speak trend that we're seeing everywhere.
00:12:58.000When you see Jens Stoltenberg saying, we have to continue with the war, it's the only way to get peace.
00:13:04.000That the meaning of language is being flipped before our very eyes.
00:13:08.000A kind of psy-op against an entire population.
00:13:13.000A design to leave us all collectively bewildered about what right and wrong are anymore.
00:13:17.000I mean, don't you increasingly feel like you're not able to speak or open your mouth in case you say the wrong thing, that the rules might have changed?
00:13:25.000Now, innocent until proven guilty is being trotted out as a myth.
00:13:28.000The Magna Carta, a foundational principle, a keystone of most democracies, along with the American Constitution and many other semi-sacred, if secular, pieces of documentation, are being regarded as ideas that can be dispensed with.
00:13:42.000Ultimately what it seems to me is to legitimise control, to shut down dissent, to create a censorship industrial complex, that's already been created, but to ensure that the power of said complex is absolute, that the trajectory of power can continue uninterrupted, that all dissenting voices can be shut down, and the people can be kept in a state of docile, uninformed compliance.
00:14:04.000So I didn't know any I just want to say I didn't know any of this and I was I experienced you because I didn't know you as a viewer and I remember thinking boy that is one of the most articulate critiques of the brand new war in Ukraine I had ever seen.
00:14:17.000I saw one of your videos on the war in Ukraine and this was in the winter of 2022, two years ago,
00:14:23.000and you were making kind of a remarkable case, not against the Ukrainian people
00:14:27.000and certainly not in favor of Russia, but that there might be real implications for the West
00:14:31.000if we get involved in a war that is not our own.
00:14:40.000He's also famously worked on Fox, becoming a phenomena on that channel.
00:14:44.000And I, belonging to the cultural groups that you might assume I belong to, always was somewhat suspicious about Fox anchors.
00:14:50.000Indeed, you can look on YouTube right now and see us Deliberately riling Bill O'Reilly and deliberately trolling Fox as an institution and getting into it on a variety of subjects like war in the Middle East, the nature of their funding, their conservatism, all sorts of, I would say, anti-establishment attacks.
00:15:07.000I've remained anti-establishment for many, many years.
00:15:10.000Clearly Tucker Carlson is a person who's always had a particular perspective in the culture, but the culture has kind of moved around this outspoken pundit.
00:15:18.000Tucker Carlson was kicked out of Fox News for a bunch of reasons that are still quite clandestine and ill understood.
00:15:26.000No one really knows why Tucker Carlson was sacked from Fox, but some people think it's because he became increasingly outspoken around war, specifically anti-war narratives.
00:15:33.000And I'm still struck that claim the mantle of progressive or liberal don't identify that Tucker Carlson is perhaps one of the most outspoken critics of war, or war, anywhere in the world.
00:15:43.000And for me, the position of peace, of diplomacy, Of ending war wherever possible ought be a principle that wherever you are in the political spectrum, you aspire to.
00:15:53.000The idea now that war is becoming normalized as a kind of progressive perspective shows us once again how meaning is being flipped and inverted.
00:16:05.000In a sense, this conversation is a product of a cultural shift.
00:16:09.000Figures that used to exist within the media mainstream are drifting into new spaces, and we're not alone in that.
00:16:16.000Chris Hedges, a journalist who was once a prominent New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner, has been sort of cast out into the wilderness because of his anti-war views.
00:16:24.000Glenn Greenwald, one of the most influential news reporters of our time, Now only works in online spaces.
00:16:30.000Essentially what happens, if you ask me, is legacy media spaces are entirely co-opted and essentially exist to amplify and normalize the message of the establishment.
00:16:38.000Independent media can be representative of a wide variety of views.
00:16:41.000Left, right, different cultural groups, Muslim, Judaic, Christian, secular, Atheistic, materialistic, rational, all racial groups, different types of ideology.
00:16:50.000But what is emerging, if you ask me, is a kind of alliance on the periphery and a distrust of centralized organizations, whether they are state, corporate, or deep state.
00:17:00.000And it's very interesting to see all of these organizations coalesce, stories that particularly relate to free speech.
00:17:05.000Because as is often said, free speech is a fundamental principle.
00:17:08.000Because if you can control the conversation, you can control ideas around war, you can control ideas around profit, you can control all All ideas!
00:17:15.000If people can't speak freely, for example around issues during the pandemic, then you achieve a consensus and you shut down the idea even that there are alternative perspectives and points of view.
00:17:25.000In the end, what you're left with is one homogenised blob of truth, virulently and vehemently controlled by centralised organisations that are struggling to work out how you can possibly control the narrative and vast populations at a time when we can all independently communicate with one another, exchange ideas, reach consensus and oppose the establishment.
00:17:43.000And that, I believe, What I missed and I'm now seeing is that in March of 2022, you were denounced by an organization connected directly to the U.S.
00:17:57.000government as an agent of Chinese propaganda.
00:18:02.000For your views on Ukraine, these in my reading of it is that we haven't, by the way, talked about this affair, but my reading of it is that these were the early seeds of a very deceptive plant that flowered more than a year later in September when you were accused of these crimes.
00:18:20.000And demonetizing and censored as a result of that.
00:18:23.000But looking back, so you were accused by a group called Coda Story.
00:18:29.000It published a story on its anti-disinformation newsletter.
00:18:33.000Now, Coda Story is connected to the UK government, but it's also connected to the CIA.
00:18:41.000How does it make you feel to know that you were in the crosshairs of two of the most powerful governments in the world, and they're intel agencies?
00:18:49.000The UK government censorship that Tucker's referring to was driven by MP Dame Caroline Dainish, the head of the UK Parliament's Culture, Media and Sports Committee.
00:18:57.000That sounds like such an anomalous jump and peculiar marriage.
00:18:59.000Someone that works for the Department of Culture, Sports, Media and Entertainment, but ultimately advocates for censorship.
00:19:03.000implementing behavioral change strategies against ISIS to countering dis and misinformation during
00:19:08.000the COVID-19 crisis. That sounds like such an anomalous jump and peculiar marriage. Someone
00:19:13.000that works for the Department of Culture, Sports, Media and Entertainment but ultimately advocates
00:19:20.000for censorship. Indeed it is she who sponsored the new online safety bill which is alarmingly
00:19:24.000similar to numerous censorship bills across the world in Brazil, in Ireland, across the EU, United
00:19:30.000States, Canada's one's already been implemented and it's an extraordinary detail that her husband
00:19:34.000is a military figure whose particular expertise was psyops in foreign territory against
00:19:40.000Terrorists whose skill set can now be deployed domestically against the homeland population.
00:19:46.000That, extraordinary though it sounds, is not an anomalous or even particularly unusual journey.
00:19:52.000It is very common these days for techniques and ideas that are developed to counter foreign enemies to be utilized with domestic populations.
00:20:00.000What essentially appears to be happening is our independent thought, our freedom, Our ability to communicate, our ability to cultivate relationships, develop ideas, and importantly, oppose authority, is being regarded as a type of terrorism.
00:20:14.000Certainly, at very least, a type of threat.
00:20:17.000This is obviously a story that's continuing to unfold, and that I'm just a small part of.
00:20:20.000That's why I'm very grateful to have conversations with people like Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford, who was subject to the same kind of scrutiny from the same organizations.
00:20:27.000Journalists like Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger who report on the censorship industrial complex
00:20:31.000and why I'm very keen to cultivate and create