In this episode, Russell Brand sits down with author and journalist, Andrew Yang, to discuss his new book, Deception: The Great COVID Cover-up, and how the government covered up the existence of dangerous bioweapon research, and the cover-up of the truth about it, in order to protect the corporate and pharmaceutical interests that fund it. Russell Brand is a writer, activist, and journalist. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and other media outlets, and is a frequent guest on the radio show Morning Joe. He is also the author of Deception, The Great CoVID Cover Up: How the U.S. Government Created a Virus That Could Kill You, and Deceives the People Who Created It, a book that details how the CIA, FDA, and pharmaceutical companies conspired to keep it secret from the public for years, even though they knew it was a deadly virus that could kill millions of people. Join the conversation by using the hashtag , and find out what it means to him, and why it s so important to him that he s fighting for freedom and truth in the 21st century. Stay free with Russell Brand! Stay Free, and Remember, there s an episode every single day, to educate and elevate our consciousness together. Stay Free! - Stay Woke, and enjoy the episode! No, Here s the Fucking News! by Russell Brand. - No, here s the fucking news! Thank you for joining us on our voyage to truth and freedom. . by Awakening Wonders. by and by The Truth and Freedom . by Bill McKinnon by Jordan Peterson, Jordan Peterson by Sam Harris by Gabor Mate by Vaynerchuk by R.R.K Jr by Dr. Vandana Shiva, and many more. Once a week, we bring you in depth conversations with guests like Jordan Peterson and R.K. Jr., Sam Harris, and Vadana Shiva by Rand Paul, and more. and more! . We love you, and want to bring you more content like that? by v=AQ&a&t=3&a=a&c=1&q&q=3 , we re bringing you more than you can t get enough of it? we love you love you - by Timestamps:
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00:01:11.000Otherwise, what you might end up with is a bureaucrat class that are tied to pharmaceutical interests supported by the legacy media and completely corrupt.
00:01:18.000Of course, it's a paradigm that's more difficult to maintain now that we have journalists like Tucker Carlson in the space, who, whether you support his former associations or not, appears to be asking the relevant questions to important people and bringing stories to the forefront that are doubtlessly challenging to the interests of the powerful.
00:01:34.000Like this curious, fascinating conversation with Senator Rand Paul, who really, every time I see Senator Rand Paul, He's asking relevant, important questions.
00:01:42.000And don't you get a sense, isn't this what politics is meant to be like?
00:01:47.000Let's have a look at this conversation and see where it leads us when it comes to the handling of the pandemic, the shutting down of dissent, and what should be done about it now.
00:02:07.000government, at the behest of Anthony Fauci, funded it.
00:02:11.000The fact that they knew it was dangerous research and that they did not allow the research to go before the normal safety committee.
00:02:18.000See, we paused this dangerous research.
00:02:20.000They call it gain-of-function research, where you combine parts of two different viruses and you get a brand new super virus that has never before existed.
00:02:31.000You have created it, which is an amazing thing, but not a good thing.
00:02:35.000Due to the curious times we live in now, most of us are familiar with terms like gain-of-function research.
00:02:39.000Do you remember the first time you heard that?
00:02:41.000And we're becoming increasingly familiar with dual-purpose research and the potential that COVID came from bioweapon research funded by American interests.
00:02:50.000It's extraordinary the rate at which this has unfolded.
00:02:53.000And the confidence with which dissenting voices are shut down.
00:02:55.000Remember, we've done stories recently about Moderna's expenditure, surveillance and observation of dissenting voices, including myself, which was at its height about a month before I faced a series of very, very damaging attacks in the legacy media.
00:03:08.000So this conversation is important and impacts almost every facet of public life, because how much can you trust the media?
00:03:14.000How much can you trust various systems of authority from the state to corporations?
00:03:18.000The depth of corruption that's been exposed by these stories, That is staggering.
00:03:21.000Andy Fauci becomes a pivotal figure when trying to understand what tyranny in the 21st century looks like.
00:03:27.000Bureaucrats that work for government agencies, that aren't quite corporations but certainly aren't entirely of the state, that have peculiar funding, strange relationships, are peculiarly clandestine.
00:03:37.000And it's interesting to see this level of investigation.
00:03:40.000An analysis on a media source that can't be shut down, because if it could be shut down, it would be.
00:03:45.000And there are a spate of censorship laws being introduced that mean that this kind of conversation is exactly the sort of thing that would likely be shut down, particularly if the WHO treaty passes.
00:03:53.000When you create these viruses, there's a danger they leak out from the lab, but we had funded that.
00:03:57.000So between 2014 and 2016, people became very worried that scientists were now aerosolizing, taking a virus that was 50% lethal, like Ebola, that spreads by bodily fluids like AIDS, so it's not as contagious just like sitting in a room.
00:04:13.000And saying, well, why don't we see, hey, let's see if we can mix it with this other virus and see if we can make it aerosolized.
00:04:18.000They were doing that with the avian flu.
00:04:20.000The avian flu is deadly, but it mostly kills chickens, doesn't infect humans very well.
00:04:24.000But they're like, hmm, wonder if we can make the avian flu more infectious and see if we can transmit it through the air.
00:04:44.000When Rand Paul describes that, what are the medical benefits?
00:04:46.000Oh, we're just trying to get ahead of nature by developing diseases that are worse than current diseases so we can invent a cure and then, in the event that it happened, we'll be able to cure it.
00:04:54.000But of course, it's the research itself that's likely creating the problem.
00:04:58.000And also, doesn't it show you how far away and remote power has become?
00:05:02.000That this sort of thing's happening and you're just, like, watching it on your television and going, That doesn't seem right.
00:05:07.000It's not that there's a conversation or a debate.
00:05:09.000It's just accepted that you have to be kept in a position of ignorance and also kind of infantilized as to not even want to participate.
00:05:17.000Oh, that's just the way the world is, is it?
00:05:19.000Are we going to war with the Houthis now?
00:05:21.000Are we doing gain-of-function research now?
00:05:23.000You've got our best interests at heart, have you?
00:05:25.000Look at the questions that flood from just that piece of information.
00:05:55.000We could follow the science if you didn't keep eyeing the science all the time.
00:05:58.000Also exposes the odd fissures and contradictions in geopolitical life.
00:06:01.000How is it that China and America are increasing hostilities when it comes to military matters and yet have all of these weird pharmaceutical and financial relationships?
00:06:10.000What is the layer of reality that we're supposed to take seriously?
00:06:13.000Is it when they all meet in San Francisco cleansing the homeless from the streets?
00:06:17.000Or is it when we see on the television we have to increase hostility against China?
00:06:20.000Now, I recognise that geopolitics is a complicated business, but perhaps it's being needlessly complicated when there are relationships between scientific interests and various defence organisations like DARPA, EcoHealth Alliance, that appear to be leading to research that's not really beneficial to anyone except for the people that profit from it continuing, which seems like it might include Anthony Fauci.
00:06:39.000Certainly that's what's being suggested here.
00:07:30.000I was the only one on the Senate floor.
00:07:31.000I went back after I recovered from COVID and said, no!
00:07:35.000Let's get over this COVID and get in there and oppose it.
00:07:37.000It's extraordinary, isn't it, that you can be a senator inside the system and be trying to access information and ask those questions and you still can't get it.
00:07:46.000So doesn't that make you wonder if the system might be somewhat turgid?
00:07:49.000What chance is there for you and I if you write, all right, I'll become a senator, right, I'll file a Freedom of Information Act.
00:07:55.000Excuse me, the five-year period, so I still can't get the information.
00:07:58.000So that is a massive cover-up, isn't it?
00:08:00.000I mean, think of all the times you've gotten information, whether it's the anecdotal information that you've got, because I see the comments, I read the comments all the time, people that you know that have got sick or even died as a result of, you know, by your reckoning, recent events, let's say.
00:08:12.000Like, think of all of the questions that have come of like, oh, well, they told us this, but that was true, or they didn't test it for transmission, or what the Johnson & Johnson calls his clots, or the AstraZeneca calls this.
00:08:22.000Then when there is an inquiry, we're not going to give you all the information, we're going to keep that back.
00:08:25.000Or the COVID inquiry in our country, £145 million in, we're going to suspend that till the summer, after the election of a comparable, if not identical party.
00:08:33.000Can you see the extent, the breadth, the function of the system itself?
00:08:37.000Even people that are within the system, whether it's set around poor MPs like Andrew Bridgen, who's trying to go, oh, excuse me, I've got some questions about the stuff that's gone on the last couple of years.
00:08:46.000And the general discourse around that is, that's just the way things are.
00:08:49.000If only there was something we could do.
00:08:51.000Well, can we just say, you know, make Andy Fauci and NIH hand over all the relevant information?
00:08:56.000That's the kind of stuff that has to happen.
00:08:58.000But the reason it's happening so slowly is plainly at this point, because if we knew what had happened, it would likely create civil unrest, disobedience, total lack of trust.
00:09:07.000We're already at the total lack of trust phase.
00:09:08.000So what they focus on, I think, is making it diffuse, spreading it out over time.
00:09:39.000I read this like 25-page story and I'm like, oh my god, they created this in a lab.
00:09:45.000And I began investigating this and became intrigued by it.
00:09:48.000But then what really got me to write the book was I saw this exchange of emails between Anthony Fauci on January 31st feeding into February 1st of 2020.
00:09:58.000They start about five or six o'clock in the afternoon and it's a crescendo.
00:10:04.000And you know, as you read something, even if it's not stated in words, you can feel the tension build, you can feel his fear build, and you can see his heart clenching up like this.
00:10:22.000Other people knew him, but I didn't know who he was.
00:10:24.000Get me Bob Cadillac on line one, and also Mr. Lincoln and Don Chevy, all of my buddies.
00:10:31.000And then, Bob, I'm sending this article here, you know, sort of in the middle ground, but it was an article basically saying, nothing to see here, this came from nature, not the lab, at three in the morning.
00:10:40.000He can't sleep at three in the morning.
00:10:43.000About a year later, we're now two years into this, I meet Bob Cadillac, and he was working for the Senate committee, the Republicans, Doing a report on the origins of the virus.
00:10:53.000And I said, Bob, why did you get that email?
00:10:55.000And he says, well, I was in charge of the Safety Committee, the pandemic committee that should have reviewed the Wuhan.
00:11:01.000And he didn't say this, but my implication is he's sending him an email because He's going to discover that the research that caused the virus was supposed to go before his committee and he never saw it.
00:11:13.000So, as things come together, to me it is the greatest cover-up in our history.
00:11:21.000A million people died in the United States, maybe 20 million, 10, 15, 20 million worldwide, and it was funded by government, approved by Anthony Fauci, and then the cover-up.
00:11:48.000The stymying of research and information that could lead to truthful conclusions emerging.
00:11:54.000In a way, perhaps the Orwellian idea that we touch on a lot, the reversal of meaning, you know, war is peace, peace is all of that sort of craziness, perhaps that's because what the function of government is, is completely at odds with what's declared.
00:12:07.000It's about total control, subjugation, not about protection and service, which is what it declares that it's about.
00:12:13.000Think of when the two political parties campaign, the kind of values they talk about, and then Think about the values that are clearly at play when it comes to a sort of a very high-profile, America's most durable public servant, Anthony Fauci.
00:12:59.000So not only, my point is, he not only has not been punished, he's living, continuing to live at public expense at the highest possible level.
00:13:08.000He's being lauded When does someone get punished for what has got to be the greatest crime ever committed?
00:13:16.000He has a limo and a limo driver and security 24-7.
00:13:20.000We're not sure that Anthony Fauci's not still being paid.
00:13:24.000We've asked whether he's being paid and we've asked who's paying for his security.
00:13:27.000We do know that when he was active, he made about, between him and his wife, his wife was in charge of ethics.
00:13:33.000So if there was ever a problem with Anthony Fauci not being ethical, his wife would review the ethics, which I'm sure she was sure to tell him that if he was doing anything unethical.
00:13:45.000Nancy regulates big tech companies, finds out how new laws might affect them.
00:13:50.000Then Paul Pelosi, he invests a lot in big tech companies.
00:13:53.000There's no hypocrisy or contradiction there.
00:13:55.000Andy Fauci, he's sending his emails, he's talking to the CIA, he's giving grants to EcoHealth Alliance and DARPA, he's involved in all this extraordinary stuff.
00:14:03.000Then he just says to his wife, what do you think of that, honey?
00:14:42.000The whole culture is mad and redundant and irrelevant and exists solely to facilitate ongoing corruption.
00:14:49.000That's sort of all it really is, is it's sort of like a tablecloth over essentially a gun held to your head to prevent you ever asking relevant questions or investigating how power operates.
00:14:59.000Moderna shares the patent, and you say, well, that's fair.
00:15:01.000The scientists at NIH did a lot of research.
00:15:04.000$400 million went from Moderna to the NIH.
00:15:07.000It may sound fair, but how can the NIH or any of these people be objective now in deciding whether we should have to take a vaccine because they got $400 million?
00:15:16.000Wouldn't that conflict you as far as deciding whether we had a mandate that every six-month-old get a vaccine?
00:15:23.000So it just never ends here, but Anthony Fauci lied to Congress, and the bottom line is he deserves to be in prison.
00:15:30.000If he'd have been a Trump supporter, he'd have been in prison long ago, because you're right, there are two sets of standards, and this is one of the things that's tearing the country apart, and I fear will lead to chaos in our country if it gets worse, and that is that people will come to believe that it depends on my ideology, not the color of my skin, but the shade of my ideology is what will get me in trouble.
00:15:51.000In a sense, what this story, as many of the stories centering around the pandemic reveals, is that we've been presented with a version of reality that's entirely untrue.
00:15:59.000So the more you learn about that version of reality, the more you are exposed to a deeper truth.
00:16:05.000What I would say is that there is cause for optimism because this is actually happening.
00:16:10.000And again, as I always remind us, because I'm reminding myself at the same time, If they're working this hard to control information, if they're working this hard to destroy people and create dissent, they must be genuinely scared that there's going to be change.
00:16:23.000Whether you consider the farmer protests, or the trucker protests, or yourself, your turn away from ordinary legacy media, the emergence of this new space, people that are within the establishment, whether it's Rample or Andrew Bridgen, people who You might not agree with on everything, but bloody hell, if you don't agree with him on this, I don't know what side you're on.
00:16:41.000Because, what he's plainly saying is, Anthony Fauci isn't what we thought he was.
00:16:45.000He was making a load of money, his wealth increased during a period where he was supposed to be dealing with a total national emergency.
00:16:52.000We were told that, well he told us that he was the science, but really, perhaps a better catchphrase for Anthony Fauci would be, I am corruption.