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00:00:48.000Thank you so much for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:52.000We've got so many fantastic subjects to discuss with you and a glorious guest.
00:00:57.000We're going to talk about Trump, how he says he would end the war in 24 hours.
00:01:01.000Off YouTube, because you might be watching us on YouTube now, you might be one of our 6.52 million Awakening Wonders that are tired of the mainstream news, that are tired of establishment power, that are tired of being lied to.
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00:02:01.000If the WHO didn't interfere with us communicating openly on YouTube, this may not be a public platform, but we'll get to the bottom of all that along with so many subjects.
00:02:12.000And we'll be talking about the morality that undergirds behavior reporting and systemic governance with Jack Kornfield, a world teacher.
00:02:22.000We'll be talking about moral perspectives on AI, on Tucker's revelation?
00:02:27.000Does he have the bodily autonomy to make such a claim?
00:02:29.000Does he have a responsibility as a role model and as a public figure?
00:03:45.000Plus, you know how we believe in freedom of speech.
00:03:47.000We're going to be bringing you some sweet, sweet free speech, along with our caffeine, because directly after this, guess who I'm talking to?
00:05:16.000I love the idea that Zelensky, after talking to Trump, you know, when the Russian invasion was mooted and all these things, that there would have been a call between them.
00:05:25.000But Zelensky got off the phone and he went, you know what?
00:05:42.000What I'm saying is that I know Zelensky very well and I know Putin very well.
00:05:46.000So like the idea that knowing people well is the way to solve these problems because actually what Trump suggests strategically and tactically is saying to Putin we would give Ukraine so many weapons that they would win this war.
00:05:59.000So in a sense he's just saying he would amplify what's happening.
00:06:06.000Because we're now living in a time where there are emerging independent voices, and in a sense you could say Trump was the harbinger of that.
00:06:13.000Whether you like Trump or not, there's no doubt that he was a berserker in the system, a bull in the china shop.
00:06:19.000He is not the preferred candidate of the establishment.
00:06:21.000I think it's safe to say that now and perhaps in his wake we have the emergence of figures
00:07:38.000We're becoming weary of the rhetoric of systemic power.
00:07:43.000The US are pressuring the Ukraine to push harder in the counter-offensive.
00:07:47.000Gareth, you had a point to make on this story.
00:07:48.000No, I just think it's amazing that this is going on, that the US government and the military are getting frustrated with Ukraine for how the counter-offensive is going.
00:07:57.000Despite Mark Milley saying that the counter-offensive is not a failure, which is already going quite far, isn't it?
00:08:41.000So you should have Look how that's happened, hasn't it?
00:08:46.000It's crept in, week by week by week, this is how it gets to it.
00:08:49.000The start is, this is not our war, it's not American troops, we're just providing aid exactly as you say.
00:08:54.000And then the creep comes to the point where you've got the government saying, we're angry about how slow this is and how badly that you're doing, and that this is going to be a long, hard battle.
00:09:05.000No wonder they require absolute control over media institutions and in particular social media.
00:09:12.000You know that federal judge passed a law saying that your free speech are being impeached by Biden administration and Well that has been overturned.
00:09:21.000have been censored, in particular during the pandemic period, and the federal judge said
00:09:25.000it had to stop, that the Biden administration would only interact with social media platforms
00:09:30.000if it were matters of criminality or national security.
00:09:33.000Basically, what the conditions ought always be. Well, that has been overturned. The Biden
00:09:39.000administration will be allowed to continue to collude with social media, continue to demand they censor,
00:09:46.000even as new legislation is being passed to permit it in your country, the United States, in
00:09:50.000Canada, in Australia, in New Zealand, in our country, the UK, and across the EU.
00:09:55.000Of course they have to amplify their message that there is a requirement for censorship because without censorship we will openly communicate and of course there are bigoted people in the world.
00:10:06.000There are people saying hateful things.
00:10:09.000But the The biggest threat is our open communication, not our bigotry, not our potential hatred towards one another, but the fact that we can collude, cooperate, present new alternatives.
00:10:22.000Let me know in the chat right now, press the red button, join us on Locals and let me know what you think about this.
00:10:28.000The Biden administration overturned a rule.
00:10:30.000What's the point in having a ruling if they can instantly overturn it?
00:10:33.000It's not overturned. So they went to the Court of Appeals, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals,
00:10:37.000and it's been temporarily suspended. So all hope is not lost. It's been suspended for now.
00:10:42.000But they're going to continue right now to do what they were doing, what they were told
00:10:45.000immediately to stop doing. So once again, there's a legislative quagmire that can be fired up,
00:10:51.000that's anti-democratic, anti-judicial, which reveals precisely what we continually tell us,
00:10:56.000and what we continually tell you, and what you continually tell us, that these institutions
00:11:01.000are failing, that they're not fit for purpose. Remember, we're going to leave you in a second,
00:11:05.000we'll be exclusively on Rumble to talk about Tucker's admission.
00:11:09.000Acknowledgement that he has taken no shots.
00:11:47.000Shall we have a look at Donald Trump's reaction to the January 6th there?
00:11:52.000The number one thing that bothers Trump about potentially being arrested over the events related to January the 6th is that he received the letter On a Sunday.
00:14:27.000Never been done like this in the history of our country, and it's a disgrace.
00:14:31.000What's happening to our country, whether it's the borders or the elections or kinds of things like this, where the DOJ has become a weapon for the Democrats.
00:14:40.000The DOJ is a weapon for the Democrats.
00:14:44.000Difficult to query that analysis when there is the temporary suspension of verdicts that had been reached by legitimate judicial figures, allowing the Biden administration to continue to censor.
00:15:16.000What I like about this is in his chat with who I can only assume is a delightful old gentleman.
00:15:21.000In the chat, he sort of says, how many jabs did you have?
00:15:24.000And that fellow went, well, how many jabs did you have?
00:15:26.000Which shows, like, that's real playground negotiation tactics.
00:15:30.000Let's have a little look at this clip.
00:15:32.000And once more, it's another example of how it's independent, now independent, media figures like Tucker Carlson who are able to handle the national and indeed international conversation a lot more deftly than supposed political figures.
00:15:45.000Remember when we showed you yesterday Mike Pence talking about how he would double down on the militarization of Ukraine?
00:15:53.000continue to perpetuate this war mentality. It was Tucker that points out, well hang on a minute,
00:15:58.000have you not looked around American cities at the moment?
00:16:00.000Yeah, a lot of people are saying Tucker for president or Davros 200 actually. But I get a
00:16:04.000general impression that what your appetite is for now is anti-establishment political figures because
00:16:10.000the establishment itself is the problem, not the minor differences between establishment entities.
00:16:15.000Would you agree with that analysis generally? Let's have a look at Tucker Carlson's stance on
00:16:44.000Oh, Tucker, going in hard with a zero.
00:16:47.000Now, what I know from when Tucker Carlson joined us on this show is he is able to align his easy, convivial manner, his fluidity and eloquence as a communicator with authenticity.
00:17:03.000He feels like when you're speaking with him, whether it's on camera or off, you feel like you're dealing with a connected person who you may not agree with on everything, but you can speak with in good faith.
00:17:14.000That's why I'm sort of astonished by people that say that Tucker's a white supremacist and that kind of thing, because it just doesn't hold up in person.
00:17:25.000And particularly something like this now.
00:17:26.000Is this the first public figure you've seen say zero shots?
00:17:31.000I also think he's in that amazing position at the moment.
00:17:33.000Obviously he's a highly skilled broadcaster, but now that he's left Fox and has no ties to the mainstream at all, or getting kind of told what he can and can't say, he's able to point out, he's in this incredible position of basically just pointing out hypocrisy.
00:17:49.000And so when he's asked by Asa Hutchinson, Like, how many did you take?
00:17:53.000He can say I didn't take any shots because he knows from the Republican position and all these Republican candidates that he's interviewed is that they live in hypocrisy, whether that's the war or COVID.
00:18:04.000Again, coming back to Trump, you know, again, I don't think there's another figure in politics who could weather the storm of the lockdowns that Trump imposed, the way in which he took great pride in those In the vaccines you know I don't think anyone else could kind of still come through that with the fan base that he's got when there's so many things that you could say his party did at that time and their position on war that just feels very hypocritical.
00:18:30.000Certainly he's granted incredible grace by the surrounding environment of ongoing hypocrisy a lot of people in the chat asking did that politician ever answer the question do you feel increasingly now But we're approaching a point where you don't want to be governed people that even look like that.
00:18:49.000A kind of sort of drabness, the hollowed-out, pallid complexion of these cookie-cutter, off-the-conveyor-belt, political figures who, from either side of the aisle, parrot the same talking points, support the same ideas, went to the same schools, are funded in the same way.
00:19:09.000Isn't there a kind of appetite now for raw rhetoric?
00:19:14.000Let's have a look as well, just based on that issue.
00:19:16.000Tucker's vaccine revelation, we asked you.
00:19:18.000Does it make you like him more, less, or just the same?
00:19:22.00065% liked him more, 33% of you already liked him, less 2%, 98% of you found this made you warm to Tucker a little more.
00:19:32.000Let's have a look at the rest of that clip.
00:19:36.000But I think it's fair and I can see that you look at the zero.
00:19:41.000Is it like they're still applauding him saying zero?
00:19:57.000Because we live in a time of obfuscation and deception.
00:20:01.000Have you seen all these stories about Joe Biden?
00:20:04.000People saying, oh Joe Biden, he's foul-mouthed and filthy-tempered in public.
00:20:10.000He's being abusive to his staff while making declarations in public that anyone that's rude in his team will be out on their ear immediately.
00:20:18.000You don't Even know for sure whether or not this is a tactic to make Joe Biden seem more dynamic.
00:20:24.000We live almost entirely in a spectacle.
00:20:28.000Integrity and authenticity are becoming the currency of our time.
00:20:32.000I'd say I'd rather deal with people that I disagree with but trust that they're telling the truth than people that parrot the points of the contemporary ideology and will parrot other points when they come into fashion.
00:20:46.000And I don't think, honestly, you should be asking people about their medical care, but that became a matter of public policy.
00:20:53.000And I do think that the whole country ought to pause and assess, like, what did we just go through?
00:22:03.000Donald Trump is almost the very definition of a divisive figure.
00:22:08.000In some areas, this man is regarded as the embodiment of anti-establishment force.
00:22:15.000He's for many of our viewers, the only opportunity we're going to have to stand up against hypocrisy
00:22:22.000and corruption within the establishment.
00:22:25.000Notable that he is one of the few voices within the mainstream that is advocating for peace at this time.
00:22:32.000How do you, from the perspective of a spiritualist, a man who is devout and dedicated to spirituality, Ethically deal with the subject of Donald Trump and what he represents.
00:22:44.000How do you deal with the subject of militarism and forever wars?
00:22:49.000What do you feel it tells us when you have figures like Donald Trump and Noam Chomsky saying the same things about war, Cornel West and RFK saying the same thing about war and yet the establishment still advocating for ongoing wars if it's a duty, a responsibility and the only moral thing to do?
00:23:06.000So Russell, you've got the establishment on one side, and you've got the anti-establishment on the other side.
00:23:15.000First, no amount of technology, of nanotechnology, AI, biotechnology, war technology, is going to stop continuing warfare, nor business as usual, because the source of warfare is the human heart.
00:23:38.000But if people are still divisive in their heart and not connected in any way, don't have a society that represents and fosters care, then we get what you talked about, you talked about it on the playground, when kids are, you know, hitting each other with blocks, you say, use your words, you actually teach people that there's another way to be.
00:24:00.000And we have a society that's tremendously divisive.
00:24:05.000And it's not going to be changed, unless also people change inside, which is what I've learned as a as a Buddhist monk, That in fact, if you want the world to be more peaceful, you also have to step out of the—stop the war inside yourself.
00:24:22.000Otherwise, you could have establishment and anti-establishment, and it just carries on.
00:24:28.000Yes, it seems increasingly plain to me that the prima materia of our reality is consciousness itself and the external world, an expression of some ulterior force that is privately accessible to all of us through the subjective experience.
00:24:43.000And perhaps in this spectacular age, and I use that word most literally, Jack, this thirst and hunger for integrity and authenticity comes from Our shared realization that what we're being presented, whether it's from a Republican perspective or a Democrat perspective or from within the mainstream media or by our judiciary or from within the corporatist, globalist world and its evident influence within media spaces, is a lack of integrity and authenticity.
00:25:14.000That's why a figure like Tucker Carlson, I believe, who came on our show and was absolutely fantastic.
00:25:19.000He and I had a sort of a real connection.
00:25:24.000I would say that whilst there are areas of, you know, policy and social matters where he and I would disagree, what I'd accept is that he's a person who comes from a place of integrity and authenticity.
00:25:36.000What do you think of this modern currency of integrity and authenticity?
00:25:41.000And do you feel that it's something that's lacking in public discourse and in particular in political discourse?
00:25:47.000Of course there's something lacking, partly because we live in an addictive society in which the best contribution you can make, you know, is to continue to consume.
00:25:59.000The best person in the society is neither dead nor alive, but more like a zombie and doesn't want to stand up and say, this is what matters to me, whether it's eating carcinogenic food or polluting the environment and so forth.
00:26:13.000So we're missing that because we're being trained in some way.
00:26:20.000Almost as if the society itself is an addict.
00:26:23.000And then secondly, when I was living in the monastery during the time, one of the times of war in Southeast Asia, and there was a firefight near the monastery and the monastery was a zone of peace.
00:26:35.000In the morning I went out with an old monk and there were some helicopters dropping canister bombs Where the so-called terrorists were living.
00:26:46.000And, you know, the firefight was close enough you could see the flashes at night.
00:26:50.000And I said, oh, the military is bombing those terrorists, you know, that we saw fighting last night.
00:26:57.000And the monk said, oh, they don't live there.
00:26:59.000They're in caves down that way, further down the ridge.
00:27:01.000I said, well, why are they bombing there?
00:27:03.000And he said, well, if they killed them all, then no one would continue to give them all these nice helicopters and weapons.
00:27:11.000And you could feel that underneath the war was also this huge economic engine.
00:29:00.000But what is deeply empowering is the fact that all of us, through the private alter within us, do have access to a deep force, can cultivate a different mentality, do have access to a power that actually is the only thing that can meaningfully alter reality.
00:29:19.000Nevertheless, Jack, there are, I would say, accumulating forces of opposition, not least through technology.
00:29:28.000And I understand that you've been communicating a lot with Sam Altman about the potential destructive power of AI, which of course could be utilized like any tool for good.
00:29:39.000But I suppose the fear at the moment is that AI could wreak economic havoc Could annihilate a lot of jobs, could be used to impose further control, could be used to divide people further.
00:29:50.000What are some of the topics and subjects you're discussing with Sam Altman, and what is coming out of those conversations?
00:29:57.000So, I'll answer that briefly and then I'll throw a question your way.
00:30:02.000The question, and the leaders of AI don't know how to do it, is how do you build in Honesty, integrity and ethical values within computer systems and with artificial intelligence.
00:30:19.000And I think it all needs to be slowed down, which is what Sam also agreed to in some way, until that can be established.
00:30:27.000I had a conversation with Charlie Oppenheimer, who's the grandson of Robert J. Oppenheimer.
00:30:34.000There's a film that's just coming out.
00:30:36.000And in 1945, Oppenheimer suggested that there be an international group that hold the nuclear
00:30:45.000explosive power of the bomb, rather than any particular country.
00:30:50.000And there was a two-year period when the U.S.
00:31:01.000The same thing is happening with AI right now.
00:31:04.000And it's possible to pause and say, let's collaborate and do this together rather than make AI Artificial intelligence, global war of whose AI is more powerful than whose.
00:31:20.000The question for us is, do we continue down the path of conflict with one another?
00:31:41.000I mean, we need So how do you how do you create a wise society that's not just individualistic and where people are responsible and ethical caring for the community as a whole?
00:31:55.000I feel that individualism has perhaps reached its apex and perhaps in the reification of identity that is enshrined in identity politics which for me holds many truths We ought be free to become who we truly are, and nobody should impede the self-expression of individuals.
00:32:18.000Our freedom is perhaps one of the greatest principles around which we can organise our lives.
00:32:24.000But there is more to my personal reality than what I want and what I don't want.
00:32:29.000And as an addict, I've fallen into the trap of treating my own preferences and aversions
00:32:35.000like a kind of inner dogma imposed by instinct, impulse, and cultural conditioning.
00:32:42.000What I suggest is that our systems and institutions need a radical re-evaluation of their ethics,
00:32:51.000that it seems to be, to me, that our media and our systems governance promote the ugliest aspects of our nature.
00:33:03.000Powerful forces that are very, very difficult to overcome and impossible to overcome without a spiritual experience.
00:33:11.000Simply the realization that the inner life is the real world and the outer phenomena is on some level a deep expression of this inward experience.
00:33:21.000It takes a great deal of discipline and surrender to access this point.
00:33:25.000The only way for us to proceed at this time, I believe, is to acknowledge what is truly happening.
00:33:32.000Decentralisation and devolution are making themselves felt through the technological advances of the last few years.
00:33:41.000It is no longer necessary to have centralised institutions of finance, capital and power.
00:33:47.000We have real fascism now, if you take Mussolini's definition that fascism is the reconstituting of private power and state power into one oppressive fist.
00:34:00.000We stand on the brink, I believe, not of an Orwellian dystopia, but of a Huxleyan dystopia.
00:34:06.000We're high on Soma, we lay as passive blobs in our cells, our energy harnessed, our consciousness directed towards the lower and basest aspects, most base aspects of our nature.
00:34:20.000An individual awakening is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
00:34:33.000But concomitant with this is the necessity to break down and attack these institutions of corruption, to replace centralised power wherever possible with localised power, democratic power.
00:34:46.000There is a fusion to be had between the apparently opposing ideas of libertarianism, which is
00:34:52.000generally associated with the right, anarchism, which is usually seen as being to the left
00:34:56.000of the leftist most politics, and recognizing that when we have individual freedom meshed
00:35:02.000with community duty, we have the possibility to build new societies.
00:35:07.000But that is not going to be possible without a significant spiritual awakening at the level
00:35:14.000I believe that there will be a tipping point, and I think that we can approach it through spiritual practice and a kind of unity against central corruption.
00:35:24.000That's what we're trying to convey on this show, Jack, and that's what I want to talk to you about, and that's why you're here.
00:35:29.000If you have questions for Jack in the chat, join us, press the red button, join us over on Locals and add Hat team, stay free so that I find your questions in there.
00:35:39.000And guys out there, bring the questions for Jack in, proper questions.
00:35:43.000Jack, what do you think about my little diatribe there?
00:35:45.000I loved your diatribe, and I want to say to people that we can always start again, that we can always begin again.
00:35:54.000It's one of the great spiritual truths.
00:35:57.000If you listen to Lehmann Gbowee and those who won the Nobel Peace Prize in Liberia, where she said, Liberia used to be known for its child soldiers, And now it's known for its women leaders.
00:36:13.000That revolution is that combination of inner revolution to realize that you can step out of your own fears.
00:36:20.000You can step out of your own addiction.
00:36:25.000He said, I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate and ignorance so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain and fear.
00:36:37.000And if we can honor that we're human and we can actually stand up to that, we can look in our own hearts and say, yes, we have our measure of pain.
00:36:48.000And there's something bigger that we can be a part of, which includes then not only the inner freedom, but the sense of connection with others, not based on fear, but based on On mutual care.
00:37:02.000That's beautiful, that James Baldwin quote.
00:37:04.000Let's find that and let's post that when we are sharing this conversation with Jack.
00:37:09.000We've got some lovely questions for you.
00:37:46.000And how do we reduce dependence on the state and the system?
00:37:50.000Well, I look like somebody's dad anyway.
00:37:53.000You know, that's partly the question of empowerment and trust, that if we actually start to build within our communities, that there's something about both the global system that we have to pay attention to and step out of in some way, but we also need to rebuild at the very simplest level.
00:38:13.000In the environment I'm in, with the neighbors that I care about, one of the best things of what happened in the pandemic is that people at the beginning started to care about each other for a time.
00:38:25.000And there was a kind of cheering for that.
00:38:27.000People, you know, on the balconies in Italy singing to one another in the evening.
00:38:32.000And you realize part of what's missing is that deep sense of community.
00:38:36.000And we've been swayed by the media, We've been swayed by the consumerism of the society to say, this is going to make you happy.
00:39:05.000Here's what you can trust. You can't fix the whole system as an individual. That
00:39:09.000would be hubris, but you can make a difference.
00:39:13.000You can reach out and mend and connect and start to build a web of connection from goodwill in your community with others.
00:39:21.000And that's partly the real revolution of changing how we live with each other.
00:39:26.000Very beautiful answer and it's reassuring for me because I have a lot of conversations, I know you do Jack, I know that you communicate openly, that you have an ongoing communication and you're continually teaching and involved in discourse with other great thinkers and like very recently on here we had the survivalist and leader of the global scout movement and former SAS soldier Bear Grylls on here and he's He's saying almost the same things as you.
00:39:53.000He's not quoting James Baldwin, but he's saying get out in nature, experience nature, find connections in community.
00:39:59.000We have a saying in the 12-step community, look for the similarities, not for the differences.
00:40:06.000I think that what our culture continually invites us to do is to focus on the differences and not the similarities.
00:40:11.000Question now from our community here in Locals, and if you want to join us on Locals, press the red button at the bottom of your screen now.
00:40:18.000No Dugganoku asks, Jack, how do you keep in touch with our beloved Ram Dass after his passing and what in Ram Dass' teaching could help us now?
00:41:37.000You got to give me something better than that.
00:41:40.000And so we said, listen, first take a few breaths.
00:41:44.000And before we can start, we lit a candle and put it on the table, go out in the parking lot and bring in a stone for every young person, you know, who's been killed or died, drug overdose, you know, gang conflicts.
00:41:59.000These kids came in with their hands full of stones.
00:42:02.000No young person should know that many dead people.
00:42:05.000And they'd put it next to the candle and say, this is for RJ, this is for Tito, this is for homegirl.
00:42:27.000And you could feel when they saw that circle of stones that they actually cared about each other.
00:42:34.000And it began an entirely different conversation.
00:42:37.000But it means a kind of courage that's not just the outer courage, Russell.
00:42:42.000But it's really the courage of heart to be able to see the suffering that you talk about and to say, I will not contribute to that divisiveness.
00:42:52.000I'm going to listen in a different way and stand up for what really matters and connect not only inner freedom, but that community around me in a different way, a heartful way.
00:43:04.000So maybe Ram Dass is speaking through me in that regard.
00:43:07.000It is an astonishing paradox that the seemingly insignificant gesture of personal awakening can have such a profound effect.
00:43:17.000But under investigation, if we acknowledge that individual change, collectively undertaken, means that reality is entirely altered, that's a very beautiful anecdote.
00:43:28.000And I'd like to add to it this question from Judy Denmark.
00:43:31.000How our individual awakening will not affect Biden and Putin or those who hold the nuclear codes.
00:44:29.000Jack, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:44:33.000And the belief that you can't make a difference.
00:44:36.000And actually, each person who's listening, and this is what you're trying to say right now, Russell, that each person who listens actually has the power to act from a kind of inner freedom and well-being and to contribute.
00:44:49.000And that's what will, in the end, it's going to be us together that will make the change.
00:44:56.000Jack Kornfield, thank you so much for demonstrating that power.
00:44:58.000Thank you for carrying the messages of the great teachers and friends you have known, and thank you for inspiring us today.
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00:45:20.000Now over the course of this show we've talked a lot about how independent voices are now emerging and exposing entrenched establishment corruption that is clearly bipartisan.
00:45:33.000We used Tucker's takedown of Mike Pence It has a jumping off point to discuss exactly this phenomena.
00:45:39.000You are going to love this presentation.
00:45:42.000Let me know if you're enjoying it during the chat and the comments.
00:46:10.000Tucker Carlson, friend of the show, had a debate with every one of the Republican presidential candidates, but the one that's most interesting, perhaps, let me know if you agree in the comments, is the one with Mike Pence, where Mike Pence advocated for further spending on the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
00:46:24.000Of course the Ukrainian people should be protected at all costs, but wouldn't the best way to do that be by bringing an end to the war?
00:46:30.000Let's see what Tucker and Mike said before getting into some fantastic journalism from Chris Hedges and understanding NATO expansionism, war expenditure, where the money comes from, and where these forever wars are going to lead us.
00:46:41.000Along the way, the Biden administration has been slow in providing military support.
00:47:36.000Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
00:47:41.000And yet, your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of US tax dollars, don't have enough tanks.
00:48:12.000Anyone, anyone in politics, anyone in finance, who sits in a public forum and says, this war is about the support of Ukrainian people, I believe is just lying.
00:48:21.000And Tucker raises this significant point.
00:48:24.000Who, in American politics, elected officials there to represent the American people, has the authority to take American tax dollars and funnel it primarily towards the weapons industry.
00:49:19.000Or in the case of Mike Pence there, even seem to realise that that is the tack that Tucker's gonna take.
00:49:24.000Tucker Carlson's success is built upon reading the room that is the United States of America, recognising that the majority of American people might think, well, What are we doing here in America?
00:49:35.000We know there's wars all over the world.
00:49:37.000We know there's atrocities all over the world.
00:49:39.000Some of them have been perpetuated using our taxpayer dollars, historically and contemporaneously.
00:49:44.000So why are we suddenly all righteous about this conflict?
00:49:59.000If you're running for the President of the United States of America, you're not running for the President of Ukraine, you're running for the Presidency of the United States of America.
00:50:47.000They don't even have a connection to the obvious fact that it is their job to run the treasury of a particular nation in accordance with the will of the people of that nation.
00:50:56.000Tucker, I've heard that routine from you before, but that's not my concern.
00:51:01.000I'm running for President of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble.
00:51:04.000Yeah, I think Tucker Carlson is saying that America is in a lot of trouble, and perhaps he's in a lot of trouble, because instead of representing the interests of American people, it's representing the interests of the military-industrial complex, big pharma, big tech, and that the political class has been long co-op by corporate and financial interests that you can safely
00:51:23.000call global because they don't significantly or sufficiently pay taxes in the
00:51:27.000countries in which they operate. They frequently receive subsidies, I'm talking
00:51:31.000about big food and big agriculture, from the countries in which they operate
00:51:35.000and the guiding principle is not what is best for American people, all
00:51:39.000American people, but what can we do to extract public wealth and funnel it
00:51:44.000towards private interests and the number one answer to that question seems to be war.
00:51:48.000And to further augment this globalist agenda and to create a bureaucratic
00:51:53.000structure to facilitate more global conflict, NATO wants to expand.
00:51:58.000Senators Dan Sullivan, Republican Arkansas, and Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Illinois, agreed on Sunday that NATO expansion into Asia was inevitable.
00:52:08.000What about the lack of democracy in that statement?
00:52:49.000Both senators made the comments on NBC's Meet the Press.
00:52:52.000Meet the Press, funded by Pfizer, I assume.
00:52:55.000When asked by host Chuck Todd if NATO expanding into Asia was inevitable, Sullen replied, I think it is, and I think it was a positive summit.
00:53:08.000Here's some analysis from Pulitzer Prize-winning conspiracy theorist Chris Hedges, who in a proper and sensible world would be lauded as an elder and as a wise person of our global tribe who could warn us of the direction we're heading in based on what he's investigated previously.
00:53:24.000But in our culture, he's regarded as some nutjob whose content gets pulled off the internet.
00:53:50.000And by the United States backing of the 2014 Maidan coup, which ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
00:53:57.000Yanukovych wanted economic integration with the European Union, but not at the expense of economic and political ties with Russia.
00:54:04.000The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow's protection, as well as Ukrainian neutrality, which means the country cannot join NATO.
00:54:15.000The longer these negotiations are delayed, the more Ukrainians will suffer and die.
00:54:19.000Their cities and infrastructure will continue to be pounded into rubble.
00:54:23.000That shouldn't be a controversial statement.
00:54:26.000That seems to me to be an accurate diagnosis.
00:54:30.000Ukraine can't join NATO because Russia do have a voice in the world and there are ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and they want autonomy and an affinity with Moscow.
00:54:41.000If that can be achieved, what's the problem?
00:54:44.000I'm sure, as with all geopolitical issues and regional disputes with long, old, historic roots, there will be complexity.
00:54:54.000But we're not talking about how do we achieve perfection.
00:54:57.000We're talking about, is there something better than what's happening now?
00:55:01.000The deaths of thousands of Ukrainians daily, the squandering of American tax dollars, the increasing tension and destabilisation of our planet.
00:55:13.000But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve US interests.
00:55:16.000That's already been publicly admitted by Mitch McConnell.
00:55:19.000The most basic reasons for continuing to help Ukraine degrade and defeat the Russian invaders are cold, hard, practical American interests.
00:55:28.000It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military, and isolates Russia from Europe.
00:55:34.000What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant.
00:55:52.000This is the kind of statement that shows you how globalist, corporatist politics really works.
00:55:57.000This is an insight into the mindset of the people that make these decisions.
00:56:01.000First, equipping our friends on the front lines to defend themselves is a far cheaper way, in both dollars and American lives, to degrade Russia's ability to threaten the United States, admitted Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
00:56:13.000Second, Ukraine's effective defence of its territory is teaching us lessons about how to improve the defences of partners who are threatened by China.
00:56:21.000It is no surprise that senior officials from Taiwan are so supportive of the efforts to help Ukraine defeat Russia.
00:56:28.000Third, most of the money that's been appropriated for Ukraine's security assistance doesn't actually go to Ukraine.
00:56:34.000It gets invested in American defence manufacturing.
00:56:37.000This is not investigative reporting from detractors of the war.
00:56:40.000This is the voice of the people that are perpetuating the war explaining to you what they're doing.
00:56:46.000Remember the era when it was just flags on windows, the yellow and blue bit?
00:57:30.000This assistance means more jobs for American workers and newer weapons for American service members.
00:57:35.000But American workers and American service members are not the object.
00:57:40.000This war is not about how can we help American workers, or American service members, or Ukrainian people.
00:57:45.000It's about the generation of profits and dominion over Russia.
00:57:49.000Once the truth about these endless wars seeps into public consciousness, the media, which slavishly promotes these conflicts, drastically reduces coverage.
00:57:58.000At the beginning, when they're popularizing it, they cover it.
00:58:49.000How many times do we have to go through the process of being told we're in a humanitarian war Realising it's for a profit, that the motivations for the war weren't actually there in the first place, it all gets botched, it's horrible, it's a mess, everything's worse than before it.
00:59:02.000How appealing are these stickers on windows?
00:59:05.000The pimps of war, who orchestrate these military fiascos, migrate from administration to administration.
00:59:11.000Between posts, they are ensconced in think tanks.
00:59:14.000Projects for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, the Atlantic Council, and the Brookings Institute, funded by corporations and the war industry.
00:59:26.000Once the Ukraine war comes to its inevitable conclusions, these Dr. Strange loves will seek to ignite a war with China.
00:59:33.000Navy and military are already menacing and encircling China.
00:59:42.000It will ultimately require our Opposition to these ongoing wars to prevent them.
00:59:46.000These pimps of war con us into one conflict after another with flattering narratives that paint us as the world's saviours.
00:59:53.000They don't even have to be innovative.
00:59:55.000The rhetoric is lifted from the old playbook.
00:59:58.000We naively swallow the bait and embrace the flag, this time blue and yellow, to become unwitting agents in our self-immolation.
01:00:05.000Since the end of the Second World War, the government has spent between 45 to 90% of the federal budget on past, current, and future military operations.
01:00:13.000It is the largest sustained activity of the U.S.
01:00:18.000Like, when Tucker asks that question, like, shouldn't we do something about our cities and our collapsing social institutions?
01:00:24.000The answer is, no, we shouldn't, because our business is war, then distracting you from that war by making you focus on the opposing other one of two teams that you could be supporting.
01:00:35.000No, it's because both are doing that in Russia and China and Afghanistan and Iraq and the list goes on and on and on.
01:00:38.000Chris Hedges is digging pimps of war, isn't he?
01:00:40.000It's because both are doing that in Russia and China and Afghanistan and Iraq and the
01:00:52.000Whether these wars are rational or prudent, the war industry metastasizes within the bowels
01:00:57.000of the American empire to hollow it out from the inside.
01:01:00.000The US is reviled abroad, drowning in debt, has an impoverished working class and is burdened with a decayed infrastructure as well as shoddy social services.
01:01:09.000So Chris Hedges there, who was until everything went crazy regarded as a liberal journalist and used to work for the New York Times, that's when he won his Pulitzer Prize, now believes the same thing as Tucker Carlson.
01:01:21.000Wasn't the Russian military, because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels and severe supply shortages, supposed to collapse months ago?
01:01:34.000Wasn't Putin supposed to be driven from power?
01:01:36.000Weren't the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral?
01:01:40.000Wasn't the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy?
01:01:48.000How is it the inflation rates in Europe and the United States are higher than in Russia despite these attacks on the Russian economy?
01:01:54.000Wasn't the nearly $150 billion in sophisticated military hardware, financial and humanitarian assistance pledged by the US, EU and 11 other countries supposed to have turned the tide of the war?
01:02:05.000How is it that perhaps a third of the tanks Germany and the US provided were swiftly turned by Russian mines, artillery, anti-tank weapons, airstrikes and missiles into charred hunks of metal at the start of the vaunted counter-offensive?
01:02:18.000You never really hear about stuff like that, do you?
01:02:39.000But on his own, you can see him for what he is, just an advocate for the perpetuation of business as usual.
01:02:45.000Wasn't this latest Ukrainian counter-offensive, which was originally known as the Spring Offensive, supposed to punch through Russia's heavily fortified front lines and regain huge swathes of territory?
01:03:15.000How can we explain the tens of thousands of Ukrainian military casualties and the forced conscription by Ukraine's military?
01:03:21.000Even our retired generals and former CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security officials who serve as analysts on networks such as CNN and MSNBC can't say the offensive has succeeded.
01:03:31.000And what of the Ukrainian democracy we're fighting to protect?
01:03:34.000Why did the Ukrainian parliament revoke the official use of minority languages, including Russian?
01:04:09.000These people that perpetuate this kind of economic modality that requires death in order to function are like, the problem is...
01:04:16.000People are being rude about trans people.
01:04:19.000I don't mind wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, perpetual war funding them, ineptitude in the Pentagon, death everywhere, journalists being slaughtered and murdered if it suits our ends.
01:04:29.000But one thing I will not stand is people that are neither male nor female being abused.
01:04:37.000How do we explain the killing of over 14,200 people and the 1.5 million people who were displaced before Russia's invasion took place last year?
01:04:45.000All these things have to be explained.
01:04:46.000All these things have to be explained.
01:04:47.000If you can't explain them, you can't have this war.
01:04:50.000Not under the auspices of righteousness, anyway.
01:05:29.000So there won't be any questions about that war against China to protect plucky Taiwan.
01:05:33.000I'm just sick of the way Taiwanese people are being treated, aren't you?
01:05:36.000In fact, would you like some of my money now to stop that war?
01:05:39.000Or we don't have that war yet, but still on the last one.
01:05:41.000I'll just give you the money in advance.
01:05:43.000How do we deal with the anti-Russian purges and the arrests of supposed fifth columnists sweeping through Ukraine, given that 30% of Ukraine's inhabitants Are Russian speakers?
01:05:52.000How do we respond to the neo-Nazi groups supported by Zelensky's government that harass and attack the LGBT community, the Roma population, anti-fascist protests, and threaten city council members, media outlets, artists, and foreign students?
01:06:06.000Oh dear, it doesn't make sense, does it, if you ask questions?
01:06:11.000How can we countenance the decision by the US and its Western allies to block negotiations with Russia to end the war despite Kiev and Moscow apparently being on the verge of negotiating a peace treaty?
01:06:21.000These questions are difficult to answer.
01:06:22.000The Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if the Western alliance had honoured its promises not to expand NATO beyond Germany's borders and Ukraine had remained neutral.
01:06:31.000The pimps of war knew the potential consequences of NATO expansion.
01:06:45.000You've witnessed a conversation between Tucker Carlson and Mike Pence, in which Mike Pence seems blind and blithering, almost a new Joe Biden in the waiting, one might argue, slightly more articulate for now.
01:06:57.000And Chris Hedges has explained to us the true motivations for this conflict and has listed the unanswerable questions that, if pondered, lead you to the conclusion that the motivation for this conflict is dominion and financial advantage.
01:07:21.000More unanswered questions due to the censorship bills that are being passed everywhere.
01:07:26.000Can you not see the building blocks of globalist tyranny being heaved into space as if we are now a planet of Israelites building the pyramid But that's just what I think.