Bill Gates has a new plan for Africa, and it involves a new kind of passport: a 'WELLNESS passport' for the poor. But is it a passport? Or is it something more like a social credit card? In this episode, we take a look at what Bill Gates has been up to, and why he thinks it s a good idea. And we get to the bottom line: it s not a passport at all. It s a passport to get around the world, but a passport for the sick, poor, and poor in general. And it s designed to make it easier for them to access basic health care and education in their home countries, and to pay for it by using their hard earned hard-earned hard earned money. Stay Free With Russell Brand! To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsorships and use the promo code: "ELISSA" at checkout to receive 10% off your first purchase when you place an order of $35 or more. We'll be delivering a detailed breakdown of current topics that the mainstream media should be covering, but if they are covering, they're amplifying establishment messages and not telling you the truth. You'll get a podcast every day, 7 days a week, every single day, to elevate your consciousness together. Stay Free with Russell Brand. - Welcome to the Journey to Truth and Freedom! - Your Host, There You Awakening Wonders. To join us on our voyage to truth and freedom. by becoming a Friend of Truth and Let's Explore the Truth & Let's Talk About It? - by Guest: Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Gaboror Mate and Gabor Mate, R.K Jr., and many more. Once a week we bring you in-depth conversations with guests like Jordan Peterson and R.R. Kennedy Jr., bringing you in depth conversations about what that means and how to be free in the 21st century in a world that's better than the rest of us are better than you could ever dream of it? - stay free with the truth and let's talk about it. Stay free with us on the journey to freedom and elevate our consciousness together . by awakening to freedom, everywhere we can be free and free everywhere we go. And we'll give you access to all kinds of information and access to everything you need to know, everywhere you can access it.
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00:01:07.000Attempts to ensure that you and me and everyone carry wellness passes.
00:01:12.000It's not a vaccine passport, it's a wellness passport.
00:01:14.000The continent of Africa for Bill Gates has always been a kind of playground for ideas where he might, some would say, be looking to practice for profits that will be gleaned elsewhere after piloting them in African nations.
00:01:28.000If he loves Africa so much, because I'm sure that's why he'd say, oh no, no, it's just I'm doing it because I love Africa.
00:01:32.000But remember at the height of the pandemic, when people said, oh, well, this vaccine's so helpful, you better get some over to the continent of Africa.
00:01:39.000Can you waive the patent so they can make them over there?
00:01:41.000Because as you know, everyone believes this vaccine's super helpful and it's not for profit or anything crazy like that.
00:01:46.000Bill Gates would not waive the patent.
00:01:48.000Because it's not, you don't understand, you're too stupid.
00:01:50.000Let's have a look at the legacy media reporting on Bill Gates' latest, shall we call it scheme?
00:01:57.000The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to raise its spending on health and agriculture in Africa to nearly 1.8 billion dollars per year over the next four years.
00:02:08.000Now in line with prior investments, healthcare will be a key focus for the foundation's work in Africa.
00:02:14.000Give them a good shake, get them working.
00:03:13.000I'm the biggest advocate for kindness?
00:03:15.000It does come at a tough time because the European budgets are deeply affected by the Ukraine war.
00:03:25.000And so right now the trend for aid is not to go up.
00:03:31.000You know, if you take all aid, including all climate aid, we're going to have a few years here where it'll probably go down.
00:03:38.000So essentially what Bill Gates is saying Is in order to get aid, you're going to have to participate in a piloting scheme for wellness passes.
00:03:47.000People don't like that idea anymore because independent media revealed that that is the entry point for social credit scoring.
00:03:54.000But in Africa, they're pretty desperate because aid is going to be stopping, so they'll probably participate.
00:03:58.000Connecting children across the world with vaccinations can be a challenge.
00:04:03.000Despite investments from the public, development and private sectors, millions of children still do not have access to basic immunisations.
00:04:13.000Traditional methods of recording and verifying a child's vaccination status can be difficult and unreliable.
00:04:20.000A few things are difficult and unreliable.
00:04:21.000A lot of the information we were given, a lot of the propaganda was difficult and unreliable.
00:04:25.000A lot of pledges that were made were difficult and unreliable.
00:04:30.000I'm not saying that there are no such things as good and successful medications that are available, but I am saying that we should now be perhaps more sceptical than ever about the information we're given by globalist corporations that spend a lot of money propagandising all information and appear to always have an ulterior agenda.
00:04:49.000Even if that's something as simple as profit.
00:04:51.000And sometimes I question whether it is that simple.
00:04:54.000To strengthen the efficiency and reach of health services in developing nations, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Mastercard have created Wellness Pass.
00:05:04.000When I think of who's going to save the world, I don't think it's going to be Gavi and Mastercard.
00:05:10.000A digital healthcare management system to enable more children to receive recommended vaccines.
00:05:17.000Wellness Pass is built on Mastercard's Community Pass platform, which securely digitizes live transactions for underserved communities, with best-in-class data privacy and protection by design.
00:05:31.000They're just making stuff up, aren't they?
00:05:34.000This whole thing is about data capture, data harvesting, and being able to come to nations and continents where there may not be such desperation and willingness to comply, because there's not an aid crisis because of the Ukraine-Russia war, as Bill Gates spelled out at the beginning.
00:05:48.000The scheme will have been successfully piloted, like that eyeball thing we told you about a little while ago.
00:05:53.000Biometric data taken through the eyeballs.
00:05:55.000It seems to me But the way that the African nations are exploited now is different from the first wave of imperialism and colonisation and slavery and the capture of resources.
00:06:06.000Now it's about, well, we've got this population here, they seem to be quite desperate, almost as if there have been some terribly exploitative projects in the preceding centuries.
00:06:12.000We can go there and now the people in those nations will be more compliant with our weird agricultural medical schemes.
00:06:21.000And the fact that this is wrapped up in philanthropy, I'm not buying it anymore.
00:06:24.000Are you buying it? You're like, "Quick! I need help!
00:06:26.000There's an emergency!" Well, what do you want?
00:07:04.000Luckily I've got this chip under my skin.
00:07:06.000Often these ideas are introduced in situations where it seems perfectly reasonable.
00:07:12.000We're in a continual discourse, I would argue now, with the globalist culture.
00:07:16.000For your convenience, for your safety, so you don't lose your child's vaccine immunisation card.
00:07:21.000It's always presented to you as favourable.
00:07:24.000The pandemic period was used as a kind of window to force through mandatory medications, unusual regulations, I would argue social experimentation, because it certainly wasn't very effective, like lockdowns and social distancing, how compliant will Will people be?
00:07:39.000If you think that's entirely pie in the sky, look at how much analysis was done using modelling and the work of BF Skinner and behaviouralism.
00:07:45.000The state and the media are frantically working out how you control a population that now has access to independent media and the ability to globally communicate.
00:08:05.000That doesn't matter because we might never meet one another.
00:08:08.000What the centralist globalists, and believe me, I feel that Bill Gates is perhaps the epitomising figure, let me know if you think there are others down in the chat, want, is to be able to have as much influence over your life as possible.
00:08:19.000That's what the WHO treaty is all about.
00:08:22.000They'll be able to come up with ideas and schemes, your country will have no choice but to obey.
00:08:26.000That might sound reductive, but it's basically what their WHO treaty is when it comes to pandemics.
00:08:30.000And they decide what a pandemic is, curiously.
00:08:33.000I was so happy when I got this new card.
00:08:36.000Anywhere I go, they will only take the card and put it inside the tablet.
00:08:40.000All the information of the baby, we will get it clear.
00:08:45.000What's happened is that the evolving imagery of philanthropy, that if you're like my age, you grew up with, these very worthy causes in that continent were always undertaken, and, oh, there's just this amount of money will help these people to eat for a day.
00:08:59.000This now is sort of using the same kind of rhetoric and imagery, like this is a person who's being helped.
00:09:04.000I would say that's a person who's being piloted.
00:09:07.000With its first program underway in Mauritania, Wellness Pass will soon launch in Ethiopia for COVID and other care cycles.
00:09:16.000Future-focused and built to scale, Wellness Pass aims to enable and improve healthcare in remote communities across the globe, change lives, and shape a better future for all.
00:09:34.000Yeah, when I see those logos, I don't immediately think everything's gonna be fine.
00:10:11.000Soon as any underserved community is under threat, the forces of global capitalism spring into action to help them.
00:10:18.000Oh no, that isn't what happens, is it?
00:10:20.000Let's have a look at what actually happens.
00:10:21.000Africa is now becoming a testing ground for a biometric digital identity platform developed in partnership between Mastercard, Truststamp and Bill Gates's Garvey Vaccine Alliance.
00:10:32.000Oh Bill, you're so trustworthy and reliable, perhaps we should let you run everything all the time.
00:10:37.000And we could, were it not for these geniuses at Sticker Mule that are fighting back the only way they know how, with this satisfying thing.
00:10:44.000Do you know that Sticker Mule decided to support us even further with yet more of these fantastic stickers?
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00:11:28.000While Trust Stamp provides identification and authentication through AI, Garvey is an international organisation created by tech mogul Bill Gates for supposedly helping underprivileged children access new as well as underused vaccines.
00:11:51.000Have a look at the history of Bill Gates and vaccines in the continent of Africa.
00:11:54.000It will show you some pretty curious results.
00:11:57.000The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the remote and low-income communities in West Africa.
00:12:05.000Garvey and Mastercard have created a digital vaccination record known as Wellness Pass.
00:12:11.000Now the platform will be integrated with this wellness pass.
00:12:15.000The biometric digital identity platform will have the vaccination records from Garvey, a payment system through Mastercard, and AI-based identity authentication via Truststamp.
00:12:25.000That's like you're being closed in on from every angle there.
00:12:28.000As of now, the whole project has been funded via donor funds to Garvey, which amounts to nearly $4 million and a similar donation amount from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
00:12:36.000Once the vaccine for coronavirus is made available, it will be integrated into the whole system to keep track of the vaccinations in West Africa.
00:12:44.000This is a magnificent scheme really because all of our worst nightmares are combined into
00:13:15.000Remember, they couldn't get vaccine passports into Africa initially because people weren't
00:13:18.000carrying smartphones around everywhere.
00:13:20.000Now they've found a way of implementing and testing these measures, bypassing the obstacle
00:13:24.000of people not having access to the tech in these rural communities at scale.
00:13:29.000It's worth noting that the whole biometric digital identity platform is launched with
00:13:33.000a motivation to bolster the markets for vaccines.
00:13:36.000It will bolster the markets for vaccines.
00:13:38.000So already it's starting to seem a bit less like a philanthropic endeavour and a little more like a sort of marketing scheme, an opportunity to pilot a bunch of tech in nations where perhaps they may not be as aware of the potential consequences.
00:13:53.000Because you now, as soon as someone goes, do you mind carrying this card everywhere?
00:13:58.000Well, ultimately insert it under your skin.
00:13:59.000But for now, you just carry it and take whatever medication we tell you.
00:14:02.000Mastercard, which is also in the alliance, Says that it is working for fulfilling its vision of a world beyond cash that it outlined a few years ago.
00:14:10.000Yeah, we know about this vision for you will owe nothing, you will be happy, you won't have access to cash, and every transaction will be undertaken with a simple swipe of your wrist.
00:14:21.000These things are still sci-fi, of course, I reckon, when it comes to chips planted on the skin and stuff, but they have been discussed, people are talking about it, and I would say it is part of an ongoing trajectory.
00:14:32.000What's more, Truststamp, the organisation providing AI-based authentication, is also looking to commercialise its proprietary technologies.
00:14:40.000MasterCard say that Trust Stamp is looking to partner with correctional systems to provide authentication services to individuals on parole without the need for ankle bracelets.
00:14:51.000What seems to be an effort to improve immunization measures can also be an experiment for fine-tuning the technologies involved before they're made available for widespread global use.
00:15:02.000I'll tell you why I think this, because it won't make sense for marketing purposes otherwise.
00:15:05.000In order to authenticate and verify the efficacy of these technologies, they try them out in Africa, as they've done with like agricultural modalities and other tech.
00:15:13.000If they care too much about Africa, you can just answer me this question.
00:15:16.000Why did they not release the patents during the pandemic period for a medication that they said was highly effective?
00:15:22.000You know, and many of you have got Very, very different views on that subject.
00:15:26.000If philanthropy was the goal, then you'd behave differently.
00:15:28.000Also notice how easily these technologies can be deployed for an incarcerated population.
00:15:34.000And notice the tendency to use the kind of language and technology that would make more sense in a penitentiary.
00:15:39.000Notice that ultimately what's happening is your freedom is being limited.
00:15:43.000Your freedom is confined to really the power to consume, your ability to travel and even your ability to consume might be inhibited in future using a variety of justifications and you can determine the legitimacy for yourself whether it's climate change or pandemics or social credit score systems.
00:16:00.000Remember the discussion we had at the beginning of the pandemic was they will never be able to implement measures as effectively as they could in China in democratic nations.
00:16:08.000And I think the globalist elite were astonished at how compliant the majority of people were during the pandemic.
00:16:17.000Not because people are, you know, sheep or we're all idiots.
00:16:20.000But generally speaking, if you tell people that you can help others through a few simple measures, most of us will do it.
00:16:26.000So what would they have the opportunity here to now practice is a cashless society, one of Mastercard's goals, vaccine passports, one of the goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the ability to implement social credit scores and mass observation of entire populations.
00:16:40.000Now, You might say that's a conspiracy theory,
00:16:43.000but then you just have to stop saying it because it's actually happening in parts of Africa.
00:16:47.000People have been discussing versions of that in Canada, all across Europe, across the United States.
00:16:53.000And really what's happening, I believe now, is they pilot the tech, get it on spec, wait for a crisis,
00:16:58.000and then like, oh, we're gonna have to do it here now because of climate or a new pandemic or war,
00:17:02.000or wherever it is, whatever crisis is required to legitimize it.
00:17:05.000A crisis, the effects of which the globalist elite establishment
00:17:10.000And even if this does sound conspiratorial because it's me, Russell Brand,
00:17:13.000someone who's been unpersoned by the establishment, incidentally,
00:17:16.000you might perhaps consider the views of the British Medical Journal.
00:17:20.000The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, magic bullet technical solutions to the complex, historically shaped, politically conflicted problems at root of global health inequities.
00:17:34.000Their August 9th announcement of the launch of a new $5 million, 48 project funding push to launch new artificial intelligence Large language models, LLMs, in low-income and middle-income countries to improve the livelihood and well-being of communities globally is set to continue this hegemonic global health trend.
00:17:53.000There are at least three reasons to believe that the unfettered imposition of these tools into already fragile and fragmented healthcare delivery systems risks doing far more harm than good.
00:18:05.000One reason to oppose the careless deployment of AI in global health is the near complete absence of real
00:18:10.000democratic regulation and control, an issue that is applicable to global health more broadly.
00:18:15.000At the end of the day, the hard sharp edges of capital, command and control are in the
00:18:20.000hands of very few entities and individuals notably including the conflictingly interested
00:18:25.000Microsoft Corporation itself which has invested more than $10 billion in Open AI.
00:18:31.000So the British Medical Journal are concerned that this project could actually make health
00:18:35.000issues worse and is not motivated by a philanthropic agenda but by a commercial one.
00:18:41.000What do you imagine motivates most globalist billionaires?
00:18:45.000But before you make a decision, let's have a look at some of Bill Gates' financial activity in Africa up to now to help us work out whether he's been an influence for good or bad.
00:18:54.000Just by looking at some facts, which we shouldn't be frightened of, right?
00:18:57.000Bill Gates, for so long the world's richest man, who famously announced he would give most of it away.
00:19:01.000He's not got round to that yet, has he?
00:19:05.000Yet as Mr Gates's powerful friends gather in Davos, the latest warning that the Gates Foundation has become too powerful and may not be the force for good, so many world leaders say it is.
00:19:15.000If we can't trust billionaires and world leaders at Davos, I don't know what the world's come to.
00:19:23.000The study from the pressure group Global Justice Now paints a picture of the Gates Foundation, partly as an expression of corporate America's desire to profit from Africa, and partly a damning critique of its effects.
00:19:35.000You could have a case where the initial research is done by a Gates-funded institution,
00:19:40.000and the media reporting on how well that research is conducted is done.
00:19:45.000The media outlet is a Gates-funded outlet, and maybe a Gates-funded journalist from a media programme,
00:19:51.000and then the programme is implemented more widely by a Gates-funded NGO.
00:19:55.000I mean, there are some very insular circles here.
00:20:16.000Private finance initiatives like the one behind this hospital in Lesotho, paid for partly by Mr Gates's philanthropy, also come under attack.
00:20:26.000Is this global philanthropy, or is it like an intercontinental version of the Simpsons Monorail episode where someone turns up in a town and goes, Do you know what you guys need?
00:21:24.000If Bill Gates was doing the slave trade, he'd call it some sort of philanthropic initiative to take people on a cruise
00:21:30.000to America and then a kibbutz working in the cotton industry.
00:21:34.000Some aid experts have warned repeatedly that the focus on high-profile, headline-grabbing diseases undermines wider attempts by African governments to reduce the poverty that causes them.
00:21:44.000Supporters of philanthropy would argue that it can get past corrupt governments and produce results without having to go through the bureaucracy of the United Nations.
00:21:53.000But critics of Mr Gates ask whether it's right that one foundation with more money than entire African countries should wield so much power and influence.
00:22:02.000And the answer to that question is of course, yes it is right, because how else would you be able to impose all these pilot schemes on the people of Africa and still call it kindness?
00:22:12.000Whether it's the BMJ, those charity workers that are on the ground there in Africa, or the people of those regions themselves, it seems like the voices that are most important are ones that Actually oppose what they're saying even though some of us might think that they have an agenda to create a cashless, social credit scored, highly managed, centralised, controlled, authoritarian system where all of the resources and power funnel upwards into an establishment elite and the rest of us are essentially automatons and drones unable to make decisions for ourselves and they can point to the success of Africa.