On this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, Russell Brand takes a deep dive into the role of the mainstream media and the establishment in stifling dissent and stifling freedom for the masses. He uncovers the deep-rooted conspiracy theories that have been spreading across the internet for years, and how the establishment has been using them to stifle and stifle freedom and freedom for millions of people around the world. This episode is brought to you by Awakening Wanderers, a production of Native Creative Podcasts. If you like what you hear here, please consider becoming a supporter of our content, and it means that this movement will have a chance to grow. Remember, support our content if you can, and we need your support now more than ever. This is nothing short of a war for freedom and intellectual freedom, and without your support, we won t be able to do what we need to do in order to make a difference. Stay Free with Russell Brand! Remember there s an episode every single day, 7 days, to educate and elevate our consciousness together. Stay Free, and enjoy the episode! - The Root - No, Here s the Fucking News! No, here s the fucking news. - It s all fake news, and here s what it s all about. We re giving you the truth and we re telling the truth. . - What s going on here, you need to know about the truth, and what s really going on in the real world, not just the fake news? - And we re the truth about it. - and the lies we ve been fed to us by the establishment? , and the truth that s coming to us from the real life version of what s happening in our public square, and why we re all of us should be listening to us, not what s going to be told by us in our own heads and our own truth, not by our own minds, and not by the media? - and we should all of the truth we should be paying attention to the truth by our government? - we re going to have to the real story, not the lies that s being told to us. - - and that s the real truth. - And that s gonna be our truth, right here, not our truth? - the truth is coming from the truth . - we are all in this together. - Welcome to the first episode of Awakened!
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00:01:01.000Farmers, truckers, everywhere, people are rejecting centralised authority.
00:01:05.000People no longer trust the media, and with good reason, because there are numerous agencies that are being deployed to crush dissent when it comes to important issues Like, well, public protests for one thing, dissent against war for another, the whole handling of the pandemic.
00:01:20.000And we've got vital information based on the reporting of Li Fang, you should follow him on Substack, who has exposed the involvement of numerous agencies when it comes to shutting down dissent.
00:01:30.000One in particular called Logically has been particularly vociferous and aggressive against me.
00:01:34.000We're going to look at who they've been controlling this year, and we're also going to look at How the legacy media and mainstream benefit from being able to control narratives and how it is their job to normalize and amplify the agenda of the powerful.
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00:01:52.000This is nothing short of a war for freedom.
00:01:55.000Not the kind of war that your governments are advocating for, of course, where they're talking about introducing conscription in actual European countries now, literally like this one, but intellectual freedom, spiritual freedom, personal sovereignty.
00:02:07.000That's why it's so interesting to see someone like Barack Obama, an elder statesman of the establishment now, someone who swept into power under words like change and hope, but governed from a position of total control, bailing out the bankers, giving BlackRock unprecedented power.
00:02:23.000Check it out and look into it when it came to that financial crash.
00:02:26.000Let's look at Barack Obama now talking about misinformation and disinformation.
00:02:30.000It's astonishing the way that he actually inverts truth.
00:02:33.000We've got to shut down independent media.
00:02:35.000They muddy the water on important issues.
00:02:48.000Understand, it's not necessary for people to believe So he's saying that misinformation is dangerous even if you don't believe it.
00:02:58.000That's to stop you saying, well, I'm able to watch content myself and decide for myself whether or not I think something's true.
00:03:04.000If I see something as plainly ludicrous, some outlandish theory, I'm able to discern and decide using my intellect, my relationships, my understanding whether it's true.
00:03:18.000He stands there at Stanford University Ironically, one of the institutions who suffered greatly during the pandemic, for example, Jay Bhattacharya, works out of Stanford University, had much of his information, notably the famous Barrington Declaration, shut down by the very establishment that Barack Obama is standing there advocating for right now.
00:03:35.000You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
00:03:40.000As a side note, if Donald Trump used incendiary language and evocative imagery, like free speech being compared to raw sewage, liberals would say, oh my god, I can't believe that Donald Trump compared free speech to raw sewage.
00:03:50.000But there's Barack Obama doing it, but he's at Stanford and he's, you know, got a documentary on Netflix, so it's all cool.
00:03:55.000You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, Conspiracy theories like, for example, the virus emerged from a laboratory, it's possibly the result of bioweapon research, that lockdowns may not have been effective, that NATO may have participated in the escalation of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia by allowing Ukraine to join or flirting with Ukraine and inviting them to join, that the Nord Stream pipeline was not blown up by Russia but by allied NATO interests.
00:04:28.000All of these conspiracy theories are, as you know by now, let me know in the comments, true.
00:04:32.000And that doesn't mean that there's not a Wikipedia pop-up or some warning pop-up under there, because the establishment, of course, does not benefit from you being awakened and tuned in.
00:04:41.000It benefits from you being dozy, sleepy, slumbering, and tuned out, and that's how they want to maintain you.
00:04:47.000That citizens no longer know what to believe.
00:04:52.000Once they lose trust in their leaders, In mainstream media, in political institutions.
00:05:01.000But of course we've lost trust in our leaders.
00:05:02.000Barack Obama himself, after saying he would govern in peace, did more drone strikes in Syria than anyone else during the 2008 financial crisis, bailed out the banks when he could have bailed out ordinary American families.
00:05:13.000When it comes to the legacy media, they reported a bunch of lies throughout the entire pandemic period.
00:05:26.000In the possibility of truth, the game's won.
00:05:32.000So that is Barack Obama, statesperson for the establishment, mouthpiece for establishment interest.
00:05:37.000I'm not judging Barack Obama on anything other than his record while in office.
00:05:42.000The drone strikes, the 2008 crash, how he responded to it, and what he does now.
00:05:46.000We have some excellent reporting here from Li Fang that explains to us exactly how the government is able to create a censorship industrial complex through the deployment and employment of peculiar non-government agencies that essentially function as the cartilage between corporations and national government and how the two of them work together to shut down dissenting voices.
00:06:05.000I'm particularly passionate about this because I'm one of those voices.
00:06:20.000Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security, reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governments Board, the panel formed to actively police misinformation.
00:06:31.000The board, which was proposing April 2022 after he left DHS, was quickly shelved by the Biden administration in a few short months in the face of criticism that it would be an Orwellian, state-sponsored Ministry of Truth.
00:06:44.000In a July podcast, Murphy said that the threat of state-sponsored disinformation meant the executive branch has an ethical responsibility to rein in the social media companies.
00:06:53.000American citizens, he said, must give up some of your freedoms that you need and deserve so that you get your security back.
00:06:59.000You will hear this offering many times.
00:07:01.000We have to give up some freedom in order to get security.
00:07:04.000We all know there's going to be some sort of cyber event coming, I would imagine, in the coming months or at most years, that will be used to legitimize new measures to prevent ongoing encryption.
00:07:15.000Whitney Webb knows a lot more about this stuff than I do.
00:07:17.000You can see our interview together by clicking the link in the description, following our content there.
00:07:22.000The legal problems and public backlash to the disinformation government's board also demonstrated to him that the government has a major role to play, but they cannot be out in front.
00:07:30.000The government recognizes that they have to censor, otherwise they will lose respect and they will lose, therefore, control.
00:07:37.000But the job of censorship has to be done.
00:07:39.000This is how they've solved this problem, by appointing groups like Logically, who have been involved in everything from shutting down dissent around the pandemic, true dissent, dissent around the war, True dissent, and are going to be used in your forthcoming election to shut down your conversation.
00:07:52.000You might take an educated guess right now, which side they'll be batting for.
00:07:57.000Murphy, who made headlines late in the Trump administration for improperly building dossiers on journalists, has spent the last few years trying to help the government find ways to suppress and censor speech it doesn't like, without being so out in front that it runs afoul of the Constitution.
00:08:12.000If only we could be out in front, but this damn Constitution, could we burn it or defecate on it?
00:08:20.000He has proposed that law enforcement and intelligence agencies formalize the process of sharing tips with private sector actors, a hybrid constellation including the press, academia, researchers, nonpartisan organizations, and social media companies to dismantle misinformation campaigns before they take hold.
00:08:37.000Generally, I have to say, they are more interested in misinformation that happens to be true than misinformation that is false.
00:08:43.000Because misinformation that's true is what's likely to mobilize and galvanize you and to make you disobedient and awakened, to make you recognize that we are now at a pivotal moment where we're talking about potential world wars and total control of the individual.
00:08:57.000More recently, Murphy has worked to make his vision of countering misinformation a reality
00:09:45.000It also maintains a public-facing editorial team that produces viral content and liaisons with the traditional news media.
00:09:51.000The traditional news media and government have a pact together, as perhaps best enshrined by the Trusted News Initiative, which we've reported on before, which amounts to a relationship between legacy media organisations, some corporate and some state, that work together to oppose and crush independent media.
00:10:07.000Because they are allied with one another.
00:10:08.000They are allied with the Globalist Project.
00:10:10.000It differs from others in this industry by actively deploying what they call countermeasures to dispute or remove problematic content from social media platforms.
00:10:18.000So they actively censor and shut down private information.
00:10:24.000The businesses even experiment in with natural language models, according to one corporate disclosure, to generate effective counter speech output.
00:10:30.000output that can be leveraged to deliver novel solutions for content moderation and fact-checking,
00:10:35.000meaning that your comments would have stuff like, Hey, that's not true. That's not actually true.
00:10:39.000Let me know in the comments and chat if the bots are already busily at work.
00:10:42.000Because if this is what we know, imagine what we don't know.
00:10:45.000Imagine what is masked and veiled under the auspices of top secret and other legislative
00:10:50.000measures that are used to control the information you've got access to,
00:10:52.000because of course you're too stupid to think for yourself and speak for yourself.
00:10:55.000You've just heard Barack Obama explain that to you, right?
00:11:07.000So straight away you'll say something, that is true, but the government wish wasn't, and a flood of comments will appear.
00:11:13.000I wonder if any of you have noticed anything like that already?
00:11:15.000In many respects, Logically is fulfilling the role Murphy has articulated for a vast public-private partnership to shape social media content decisions.
00:11:23.000Its technology has already become a key player in a much larger movement that seeks to clamp down on what the government and others deem misinformation or disinformation.
00:11:31.000A raft of developing evidence including the Twitter files, the Moderna reports, the proposed government disinformation panel and other reports has shown how governments and industry are determined to monitor, delegitimize and sometimes censor protected speech.
00:11:45.000The story of Logically AI illustrates how sophisticated this effort has become in its global reach.
00:11:49.000The use of its technology in Britain and Canada raises red flags as it seeks a stronger foothold in the United States.
00:12:16.000Logically now has broad contracts across Europe and India and has worked closely with Microsoft, Google, PwC, TikTok and other major firms.
00:12:25.000Meta contracts with Logically to help the company fact check content on all of its platforms, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
00:12:34.000You've got the government and private social media firms working together With a private organization that has the ability to demonetize, criticize, condemn, shut down, control, shadow ban your content, as well as, if it ever became relevant, providing a vast army of bots to dispute content that you were creating, whether it was true or not.
00:12:52.000Remember, malinformation, even by their own diagnosis and analysis, is information that's true, but not convenient.
00:12:59.000The close ties to Silicon Valley provide unusual reach.
00:13:02.000When logically rates a piece of content as false, Facebook will significantly reduce its distribution so that fewer people see it, apply a warning label to let people know that the content has been rated false, and notify people who try to share it.
00:13:14.000Meta and Logically announced in a 2021 press release on the partnership.
00:13:18.000Have a look right now under this piece of content.
00:13:20.000During the 2021 local elections in the UK, Logically monitored up to 1 million pieces of harmful content, some of which they relayed to government officials, according to a document reviewed by Real Clear Investigations.
00:13:32.000The firm claimed to spot coordinated activity to manipulate narratives around the election, information they reported to tech giants for takedowns.
00:13:39.000Remember, Logically are going to be working in your country coming up to 2024.
00:13:43.000I wonder what type of information they'll be amplifying.
00:13:46.000I wonder what kind of information they'll be controlling and censoring.
00:13:49.000Let me know in the comment and chat who you think Logically will be working for in the forthcoming election in your country.
00:13:54.000The following year, the state of Oregon negotiated with Logically for a wide-ranging effort to monitor campaign-related content during the 2022 midterm elections.
00:14:02.000In a redacted proposal for the project, Logically noted that it would check claims against its single source of truth database, which relied on government data, and would also crack down on malinformation.
00:14:12.000A term of art that refers to accurate information that fuels dangerous narratives.
00:14:17.000Accurate information that fuels dangerous narratives.
00:14:20.000Let me give you what my take on that is.
00:14:22.000If you knew the truth, you'd stop cooperating.
00:14:42.000The firm similarly sold Oregon on its ability to pressure social media platforms for content removal, so they told them that's what they're going to be doing.
00:14:52.000The company has piloted programs for the Chicago Police Department, and Pentagon records show that the firm is a subcontractor to a program run by the U.S.
00:15:00.000Army's Elite Special Operations Command for work conducted in 2022 and 2023.
00:15:05.000Questions swirl over the methods and reach of the firm as it entrenches itself into American life, especially as Logically angles to play a prominent role in the 2024 presidential election.
00:15:16.000So look at the power that this organization has, look at the funding that it's receiving, look at its apparent goals, shutting down true but inconvenient information, and think about how that may play out in the next election in your country.
00:15:27.000The reason that the reporters know so much about Logically is because of the way they behaved in our country during the COVID pandemic.
00:15:34.000In March 2020, as Britain confronted the spread of COVID-19, the government convened a new task force, the Counter Disinformation Unit.
00:15:42.000The secretive task force was created with little fanfare, but was advertised as a public health measure to protect against dangerous misinformation.
00:15:50.000Caroline Dinege, a Member of Parliament overseeing media issues, later explained that the unit's purpose was to provide authoritative sources of information and to take action to remove misinformation relating to misleading narratives related to Covid-19.
00:16:02.000It's of course Caroline Dinege that spoke to YouTube asking if they would be demonetising our content after that curious scandal and attack era a couple of months back.
00:16:12.000Caroline Dinege also sits on a committee that regulates social media and she also proposed the Online Safety Bill, Which ultimately amounts to censorship on the auspices of, you guessed it, protecting children.
00:16:23.000The CDU, it later emerged, had largely outsourced its work to private contractors such as Logically, which received a total of roughly $3.2 million.
00:16:37.000That money went into far-reaching surveillance that monitored journalists, activists and lawmakers who criticised pandemic policies.
00:16:44.000Logically was also involved in pandemic work that blurred the line with traditional fact-checking operations.
00:16:49.000In India, the firm helped actively persuade patients to take the vaccine.
00:16:53.000In 2021, Jain, the founder and CEO of the company, said in an interview with an Indian news outlet that his company worked closely with communities that are today vaccine hesitant.
00:17:01.000Remember now what we know about vaccine hesitancy, given some of the things we've subsequently learned about AstraZeneca and potential fatalities, Johnson & Johnson and blood clots, Pfizer and myocarditis, potential effects on pregnancy.
00:17:14.000There's certainly reasons for hesitancy.
00:17:18.000But that's the kind of information that, presumably, Logically were involved in censoring and shutting down.
00:17:22.000The company, he said, recruited advocates and evangelists to shape local opinion.
00:17:27.000In 2022, Logically used its technology on behalf of Canadian law enforcement to target the trucker-led Freedom Convoy against COVID-19 mandates, according to government records.
00:17:36.000Now you know how the government felt during that period.
00:17:38.000They illegally evoked an emergency act.
00:17:43.000It seems wherever you find dissent in voices, wherever you find the potential for people to come together and oppose state globalist power, you will find organizations like Logically deamplifying the information, creating evangelists and advocates to blur and confuse the conversation in precisely the way, actually, that Barack Obama said independent media do.
00:18:03.000But it seems to me that while misinformation could take place in any community, the independent media's problem is not that it's dishonest, but that it's honest, that it's truthful, that it treats the audience as a member of a community that is interested in conveying information that is not helpful to what seems to be a globalist agenda.
00:18:19.000Logically's team floated theories that the truckers were likely influenced by foreign adversaries.
00:18:24.000A widely repeated claim used to denigrate the protests as inauthentic.
00:18:28.000You will see Nancy Pelosi right now this week saying that anti-war protesters are probably funded by Putin and it should be looked into.
00:18:39.000In some cases, Logically has piled onto news stories to help discredit voices of dissent.
00:18:44.000Last September, the anti-misinformation site leapt into action after British news outlets published reports about the sexual misconduct allegations surrounding comedian and online broadcaster Russell Brand.
00:18:55.000One of the outspoken critics of government policy in Britain.
00:18:58.000Brand, a vocal opponent of pandemic policies, had been targeted biologically in the past for airing opinions critical of the US and UK response to the virus outbreak and in other moments for criticizing new laws in the European Union that compel social media platforms to take down content.
00:19:13.000Specifically because I believe these censorship laws are not about protecting us, but about controlling us.
00:19:17.000That these censorship laws are about pushing legacy media outlets that amplify and normalise the narratives of the powerful and shutting down dissenting voices.
00:19:26.000Indeed, logically, in all their snooping and spying and surveilling and censoring and shutting down, that nothing that had been said on this channel was untrue.
00:19:33.000But the site took dramatic action when the sexual allegations, none of which have been proved in court, were published in the media.
00:19:39.000Joe Ondrak, Logically'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.
00:19:55.000This is where you have to look at the content for yourself.
00:20:20.000This is the person that works for Logic League, government-funded, that employs people from the FBI and Deep State.
00:20:25.000This is his statement about me and this content.
00:20:27.000He follows a lot of the ostensibly health yoga retreat, kind of left-leaning, anti-capitalist figures who really got suckered into COVID skepticism.
00:20:35.000Yeah, that means that during COVID, my attitude towards COVID and the measures altered based on information and science.
00:20:41.000Before, I was just sort of like, yeah, yoga, quite left-leaning, bit anti-capitalist because I'm worried about sort of issues of control and power.
00:20:47.000Then, hang on a minute, is this some sort of massive weird scam?
00:20:50.000There's generating a wealth transfer, where big pharma are getting richer and richer, where people that work for regulatory bodies are taking jobs in big pharma, there's legitimizing state authoritarianism, where true information's being shut down.
00:21:01.000That sort of thing does make a person a bit cynical.
00:21:03.000Covid denialism and anti-vax and then spat out of the Great Reset at the other end.
00:21:07.000Ondrak told Wired, look into the Great Reset and it's a little truer than people like Joe Ondrak would like.
00:21:12.000In one of the articles published by the Times, Ondrak aired frustration on the obstacles of demonetizing brand from the Rumble streaming network In an interview with the BBC, funded by taxpayer money, Ondrak, funded by taxpayer money, gave a curious condemnation, noting Brand stopped short of airing any actual conspiracy theories or falsehoods, but is guilty of giving audiences the ingredients to make the disinformation themselves.
00:21:38.000During the pandemic period, I've seen a lot of lying and censorship of true information, ironically.
00:21:43.000During the trucker protests, I noticed a tendency to vilify the participants in a protest movement, probably, I reckon, to shut down the potential of future protest movements.
00:21:51.000I'm very cynical about the way that farmer protests are being reported on and not reported on and being claimed to be racist.
00:21:56.000During the reporting around the war and the escalation of tensions between Ukraine and Russia, while I'm sympathetic to Ukrainian people, I'm noticing that there's a lack of reporting on why Russia might be involved in this conflict due to the complexities of regional disputes in the area.
00:22:08.000Once part of the Soviet Union, the Newall Street Pipeline story seems to be a bit ridiculous.
00:22:12.000It's unlikely that Russia blew that up themselves.
00:22:14.000All of which I think is kind of spot-on actually true.
00:22:18.000All of which was undertaken in a participatory investigative With inquiring and interrogative spirit, rather than, this is the truth, stop thinking, do as you're told, forever.
00:22:26.000Which seems to be the agenda of these organisations.
00:22:29.000Dynhage, the Member of Parliament who spearheaded the CDU anti-misinformation push with Logically during the pandemic, also leapt into action in the immediate aftermath of the scandal.
00:22:39.000She sent nearly identical letters to Rumble.
00:22:41.000TikTok and Meta to demand that the platforms follow YouTube's lead in demonetizing brand.
00:22:46.000Logically's editorial team went a step further.
00:22:49.000In its report on the brand allegations published on Logically Facts, it claimed that social media accounts trotting out the innocent until proven guilty refrain for the comedian were among those perpetuating common myths.
00:23:00.000Innocent until proven guilty is not a common myth.
00:23:27.000The 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.
00:23:36.000Innocent till proven guilty is being presented as a dangerous myth.
00:23:39.000What kind of cyber mind, what kind of AI, what kind of globalist agenda would conceive of such a notion?
00:23:45.000Is this yet another example of the Orwellian inversion?
00:24:02.000You need to be told what to do, told what is true, kept from access to information that is true that might make you think for yourself, using the ingredients of truth to create disobedience and dissent.
00:24:13.000And most of all, you need to be kept compliant and told that a choice
00:24:17.000between either this party or this party is all that we can offer you in 2024 on the precipice of
00:24:23.000new global war. I would say that innocent until proven guilty is a pretty important
00:24:28.000principle. The unusual advocacy campaign against Brand represented a typical approach for a company that has
00:24:33.000long touted itself as a hammer against spreaders of misinformation. The opportunity to remove
00:24:38.000Brand from the media ecosystem meant throwing as much at him as possible despite any clear
00:24:42.000misinformation or disinformation angle in the sexual assault allegations.
00:24:47.000Rather, he was a leading critic of government censorship and pandemic policy, so the scandal represented a weakness to be exploited.
00:24:54.000And of course, it was at a time when Caroline Dainich is advocating for, lobbying for, the introduction of new, unprecedented censorship laws in this country.
00:25:03.000And new, unprecedented censorship laws are being asked for in the EU.
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