On this episode of Locals, host Gareth Roy sits down with comedian, actor, activist and writer, Ayaan Jalili, to discuss the FBI spying on Black Lives Matter protesters in Ferguson, and the implications for the broader anti-establishment movement. They also discuss the latest on Elon Musk's Tesla and the company's plans to develop self-driving cars, and what it means for the future of the space travel industry. This episode is brought to you by Local, a production of Gimlet Media. Local is a community of likeminded individuals who are here to change the world, not only for themselves, but for the greater good of humanity and the planet. We are dedicated to you, the listeners, and we're here to make sure you're getting the most out of your time, your energy, your attention, and your money. You truly are an awakening wonder, and this is where we come to awaken together, individually, collectively, collectively. In the company of my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy, we will be discussing global events, how they're conveyed to us by a media that I believe to be largely corrupt, and how they affect us all. We'll be talking about the way governments, big businesses, and big NGOs work together to make us all complicit in the process. This is a show where we can all be a part of the revolution, and together we can be the change we want to see in the world. Thank you for tuning in! - Gareth and Gareth and I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do to make the world a better, better, and a better place for all of us. - Thank you so much more of you! - P.S. Thank you to our sponsor, Local Media, for supporting the podcasting and podcasting. We're dedicated to all the people who make it possible for us to make a difference in this world, everywhere and everywhere we go, everywhere, everywhere we look and everywhere they get a chance to see the best of what they can get a fair chance to be a good time. Love & peace, love & support, love and gratitude, bye, bye bye. - Tom and bye. xox, bye. xx - EJ & Rory - A.A. & A.B. & Rory. - E.J. & Rachael XOXO - P. & J.A., P.
00:00:33.00050% of Americans may have lost their faith in God, but we will never lose our faith in
00:00:48.000you and we are here to tell you that there are powerful and transcendent forces within
00:00:53.000you, beyond you, around you that we can access to change the world for the better for you.
00:00:57.000You truly are an awakening wonder, and this is where we come to awaken together, individually, collectively.
00:01:04.000In the company of my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy, we will be discussing Global events, how they're conveyed to you by a media that I believe to be largely corrupt.
00:01:13.000Although, you know, there's some great people out there doing their best.
00:01:16.000We're going to be talking about the way that governments and big businesses collaborate.
00:01:20.000We're going to be talking in particular about the attempt to label all anti-establishment rhetoric as right-wing or conspiracy theory.
00:01:29.000This is going to be increasingly difficult as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid on Twitter.
00:01:36.000We already know that Tucker's going to have some kind of affiliation with Twitter and I think that Elon Musk had a few quid in his pocket before this venture even began.
00:01:45.000From the rockets and the tech and the driverless cars and the rhetoric and He's not on Twitter.
00:01:52.000There'll be some updates there. I've got a German Shepherd.
00:01:56.000He's loose in the building, ambling around even now. He's not on Twitter. He's not on
00:02:01.000Twitter and he's the sort of person that would do well there. He would. I would think, because
00:02:05.000he's plucky. He's an individual who's got a lot to say for himself. There he goes. In our
00:02:10.000presentation, Here's the News, No, Here's the F in News, we'll be talking about those FBI
00:02:14.000whistleblowers who'll be joining us live on the show soon. They had some interesting revelations
00:02:19.000around January the 6th, as well as other conduct within the FBI that's worthy, I believe,
00:02:25.000of further scrutiny. And it's in fact the mainstream media's inability to look in a
00:02:30.000relatively unbiased way at stories like that one that I think is leading us to this place of crisis.
00:02:36.000But to a degree, it's beneficial for us because alternative media like us, stay free media.
00:02:40.000Well, we're dedicated to you and you can let us know in the comments if you think we're doing a good job or where we could improve.
00:02:45.000If you're watching this on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble because about 15 minutes in, we're going to be able to talk more openly in particular about those FBI whistleblowers and some of their revelations around January the 6th.
00:02:57.000If you're already watching us on Rumble, Join us on Locals.
00:03:50.000He's a brilliant, brilliant, funny comedian.
00:03:52.000He's going to talk to us about protests in Iran and how he's found himself curiously at the centre of conveying many of those narratives because of censorship and oppression in Iran around this uprising that's been going on there for a little while.
00:04:03.000And I'll be talking to him about the general Global insurgency, whether it's around agriculture, or whether it's around mandates, as in the Canadian trucker protests, and how centralised authority is shutting down on radicalism in all its forms.
00:04:17.000Remember when we spoke to you earlier in the week, we just pointed out that the FBI have been surveilling not only January the 6th protesters, but also George Floyd, Black Lives Matter protesters.
00:04:27.000So wherever you might see yourself on the social scale, they see you in the same way, a potential threat to their ongoing systemic hegemony.
00:05:04.000Next time, have a musical bed for it, Jack.
00:05:06.000What I think happens is, when you do this criticism post the sting now, people think, oh, he's having fun with it.
00:05:12.000But I actually do think he wants to do the sting.
00:05:15.000It should be improved, it's a disgrace.
00:05:17.000Later on in the show I'll be doing my item brandy on Gandhi where I talk about the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and how they can be used to revitalise a flagging and fractured anti-establishment movement across the world.
00:05:30.000He talks a lot about decentralisation and we'll be talking about that.
00:05:34.000I think it's the solution, you know, sometimes people go, people go, what's the solution?
00:05:38.000You know, it's enough complaining, what's the solution?
00:05:41.000You ever worry that with that title that people might think it's that 90s pop star?
00:08:38.000The thing is, when you're negotiating with Elon Musk, what you realise is he's the world's richest man.
00:08:43.000I'm the bloke for getting Sarah Marshall.
00:08:45.000Listen, Musk, I'll tell you now and I'll tell you good.
00:08:48.000If you want another sequel to Sarah Marshall, in spite of the diminishing returns of getting him to the Greek, you will not get a third sequel.
00:09:25.000This is what I want to talk about this.
00:09:26.000I want to talk about how, like, Vanity Fair, look at this, Vanity Fair says that DeSantis and Elon Musk are, sort of makes jokes about them being neo-Nazi sympathizers.
00:09:35.000Like, it's David Duke, isn't he the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
00:09:44.000Then there's of course unconscious racial biases that many people may carry along with all of the other unconscious things that people carry that are by their nature unconscious and therefore it's difficult to dispute or determine and one can certainly argue that there are biases, prejudices and historical abuses of various communities across history.
00:10:05.000But by saying that Elon Musk is a neo-Nazi sympathizer This is something I've started to notice, and I don't very much care for, if I can tell you that, as my friend and on-screen assistant, that if you are...
00:10:19.000Sort of what used to be regarded as a traditional conservative.
00:10:22.000That becomes conflated with far-right.
00:10:25.000If you are anti-establishment like, you know, like I believe I am.
00:10:28.000I'm not anti-establishment from the right.
00:10:32.000I believe in the right to identify however you want to identify.
00:10:34.000I believe in the right for you to be who you are sexually, of course, consensually.
00:10:39.000That you should be able to have the identity that you want to have.
00:10:41.000That you should have as much democracy as possible in your communities.
00:10:44.000We've been labeled like far-right conspiracy theorists and all sorts of stuff by or manner of people and what I've started to notice is like
00:10:52.000right okay so Ron DeSantis he's far right Elon Musk is far right Joe Rogan what about that can we
00:10:56.000have a look at that headline about Joe Rogan and Elon Musk he's saying like these guys oh they're
00:11:00.000not just doing podcasts there and talking about UFOs they're dangerous nutters they said that
00:11:05.000on Daily Beast right so look They're apocalyptic.
00:11:08.000Now they're talking about, as if that's the threat, as if Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are the threats to democracy, while the current Democratic Party is directing us closer and closer to a serious conflict, a potentially nuclear conflict, with Russia.
00:11:24.000Admittedly it's the Republicans that are tearing up treaties, but it's the Democrat Party that are ...arming Ukraine via the military-industrial complex.
00:11:32.000I'm not saying that there's, you know, that Ukraine don't have the right to be armed against Russia that's invaded them criminally, albeit, some would say, after agitation.
00:11:41.000What I'm saying is, is that we're being invited to prioritize and understand information in unusual ways, and there is an attempt to label all information outside of the narrow parameters that they prescribe as either far-right or something else.
00:11:56.000If the problem with Twitter, as you can see from this headline from The Atlantic, is it's become far-right, and that the only thing we want to stop is far-right rhetoric, let me ask you one question in three letters.
00:12:27.000If you don't support the Democratic Party and you're to the right, you're far-right.
00:12:31.000All you can legitimately talk about are the talking points that they want you to talk about within the remit and rubric that they prescribe.
00:12:39.000And I'll tell you this, the Democratic Party aren't, in my view, they're not a left-wing party.
00:12:44.000They're a party that are completely dominated by corporate interests.
00:12:47.000They're funded by the military-industrial complex.
00:15:00.000There's one here about Elon Musk, just to kind of go back to our story about how Elon Musk is kind of being targeted by the mainstream media at the moment.
00:15:07.000So Glenn writes, or the three political figures who are viewed most favorably by Americans are Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
00:15:16.000Musk has by far the highest favorability gap Mitch McConnell minus 24.
00:15:20.000So I guess what Glenn is saying is how out of touch the mainstream media is with the American people.
00:15:25.000If this poll is to be believed, that Elon Musk can't be viewed necessarily, you know, they're painting him as a conspiracy theorist, but if the public are saying he's one of the three political figures who are viewed most favorably, then there is a gap there somewhere, isn't there?
00:15:39.000This is a frantic scramble to maintain hegemony when it's plain that there are a variety of other views out there, ranging from old school conservatism and traditionalism to views that are economically, culturally and socially radical and can't be housed within the Democratic Party.
00:15:56.000Bernie Sanders, who remains, you know, having been an independent for years, a sort of stalwart of their movement, he was not acceptable. The only thing that's
00:16:03.000acceptable to them are the kind of legacy career politicians like Biden and the
00:16:08.000Clintons who seem to me, and let me know in the chat in the comments if you agree with this, in the pockets of the
00:16:13.000donor class. These are the kind of politicians, and I'm not saying specifically and explicitly
00:16:18.000and directly them, that own stocks and shares in the companies that they're supposed to regulate, whether that's
00:16:26.000big tech or big pharma, and that talk in a way that seems recognizable, but legislate in a
00:16:51.000They made sure that he wouldn't become the next representative for the Democrat Party.
00:16:55.000And so, you know, but voters, real Americans, obviously recognize something in Bernie Sanders in the same way that they do for, say, Elon Musk.
00:17:02.000Even if you disagree with people, perhaps we have learned to recognize authenticity, and what we've been advocating for on our channel is conversation from people from across the political spectrum and outside of all recognizable spectra, so that we hear a variety of views.
00:17:15.000That's why we want you to join us on Locals right now.
00:17:19.000Eric Lawall, for example, is saying, is anyone able to describe a plausible scenario where someone ascends to the US presidency without being compromised by the toxic systems they have to rely on?
00:17:29.000Firegirl2020, if Bernie got half the media attention of Trump 2016, Bernie would have won.
00:17:34.000I know you guys are going to want to click that red button and dispute that point right now.
00:17:37.000Freach, baby, freach, a lot of people are saying.
00:17:40.000And a lot of you are very interested in RFK.
00:17:41.000If you haven't seen our interview with RFK yet, it's up on Rumble in full.
00:17:46.000And if you thought that you were a conspiracy theorist, wait till you get a load of that guy.
00:17:51.000He says stuff that I simply cannot say while we're still on YouTube, who, as you know, when it comes to matters of health, Still take their guidelines from the WHO.
00:17:59.000As you also know, the WHO's second biggest donor is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
00:18:06.000It's not conspiracy theory to talk about that stuff.
00:18:26.000A turgid attempt to centralize all communication and control all dissenting views through smearing.
00:18:32.000But when he got to the point where Rom Desantis, a frontrunner for the presidency in the next
00:18:38.000election cycle, is announcing his candidacy on Twitter, an enormous platform owned by
00:18:45.000the most trusted political figure, according to that poll, in America, what you have is,
00:18:51.000I would say, if not a movement, then certainly a platform that's difficult to shut down.
00:18:58.000If you add to the mix Tucker Carlson being over there, if you add to the fact that RFK is going to have to be heard during the time that he's standing for the candidacy of the Democrat Party, the conversation is going to change and we want you to contribute to that conversation and participate in it.
00:19:11.000Click the red button, join us over there.
00:19:13.000I think the main thing it does show is that mainstream media is over.
00:19:17.000If, you know, he's making this announcement on Twitter, he's not doing it on Fox, he's not doing it on CNN, this is now, we are seeing a massive shift now.
00:19:24.000You've got Trump doing everything on Truth Social, you've got DeSantis doing it on Twitter.
00:19:43.000Is it a statue to a time that's long since finished?
00:19:46.000Of course, Elon Musk's Twitterphile revelations from Barry Weiss and Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi revealed the degree to which the deep state was censoring and controlling information on social media platforms.
00:19:59.000Do you still believe that the reason that the mainstream legacy media don't want Musk owning Twitter is because of hate speech?
00:20:06.000Do you think they care about hate speech?
00:21:25.000He's done an investigation into Flashpoint, which is this surveillance contractor who started as a business associated with tracking Al-Qaeda and ISIS, collecting information that they would then sell to the FBI.
00:21:38.000So they've repackaged that, and they're now using it, or have been using it, to monitor the internet activity of domestic American activists protesting both sides.
00:21:48.000Again, it's activists protesting pipelines and COVID vaccine mandates.
00:21:53.000So a little bit like what you were saying before, is that pipeline protesters are usually more on the side of kind of climate change, that kind of thing.
00:22:00.000Or native people's rights, because they like to put one of them pipelines right through a reservoir.
00:22:05.000You can have this little bit of land here, there's we need a pipeline oh we're gonna put a pipeline through that but you could have a casino in that bit of land there so like even if so even if you're a pro what you would consider left-wing issue protester they've been infiltrating yeah and what do we know like pipelines do obviously pipelines go in to make these massive companies a lot more money so when you're surveilling activists who are protesting protesting pipelines not trying to like blow up pipelines in fact they could have used these surveillance to track those deep sea divers earlier
00:22:39.000That might have been a good use of this film.
00:22:41.000What are these deep sea divers up to down there, if we're so interested?
00:22:45.000That's where the issues meet, is with the Nord Stream pipeline, mysteriously blown up by Putin, presumably by Putin.
00:22:52.000But yeah, so this, yeah, this is, as I say, this is Flashpoint.
00:22:55.000They've been surveilling pipeline protesters and COVID-19 vaccine Mandate protesters, and of course this mirrors, I guess, slightly what you could say started to go on, or did go on, in Canada with the truckers protest.
00:23:07.000These anti-Mantis mandate protesters were, I guess, surveilled initially.
00:23:13.000We know that bank accounts were frozen, bank accounts were shut down, people who were contributing to the cause, and so I guess it's just another one of those incidents where things that were brought in for certain reasons, this time around terror, as is Post 9-11 are now being used to turn against average American or everyday Americans in the case of pipelines and vaccine mandates.
00:23:36.000Jim of C137 says, the mainstream media can suck my manscaped deodorized unsmelly balls.
00:25:01.000Now, I'm going to apologize in advance for the graphics, because it's been done by Jack, who we know has a long, troubling history, like the British Empire.
00:25:08.000Well, you know, for creating bad graphics.
00:25:11.000Now, the British Empire did do worse things than create bad graphics.
00:25:13.000There were massacres in India, there's been the exploitation and piracy, murder and annihilation of many of the world's people, but...
00:25:21.000Before you decide which was worse, do look at Jack's graphics, because they are quite bad.
00:25:26.000You might think, well, the British Empire, the sun never set on it, and they've exploited the resources of many of Earth's nations.
00:27:44.000Some of the reasons are these, that he was able to align and alloy spirituality with
00:27:50.000In fact, political activism is underwritten by spirituality, as all activism ultimately must be.
00:27:56.000I'll be talking to Omid Jalili about this in a minute, about what I want to say, how is spirituality commensurate with what's happening over in Iran.
00:28:04.000That's one of the things I'm going to ask him about.
00:28:06.000But what Gandhi did is he promoted ideas like selflessness, duty, Unity, the ability to tolerate people.
00:28:15.000Obviously one of the biggest challenges Gandhi faced was that in getting British out of India, he had to unite both Hindu and Muslim communities.
00:28:43.000Oh, you've just been very disrespectful about his brother.
00:28:45.000Nevertheless, good sports gardening, man.
00:28:48.000Anyway, no, but what's less known about Gandhi is that he said there's no point booting the British out of India and then replicating the systems that we inherit from them.
00:28:55.000We have to create an India ...that is comprised of the 70,000 villages that make her up, and each one shall be fully autonomous and independent.
00:29:04.000Some of you will be aware that there's a small village in southern Spain that seemed to be immune from the profound economic challenges that that part of the country was met with.
00:29:14.000Like Spain, it was nosed right up by the events of the last few years.
00:29:20.000Some of you will be somewhat agitated at the sight of Che Guevara there, knowing that Like many icons, he's a complex figure that's far from perfect and of course you'll be perhaps aware of some of the things that happened post the Cuban revolution that are pretty unfavorable.
00:29:33.000Nevertheless, this autonomous collective, this communist village, was run very successfully and I believe that you should have as much democracy as possible.
00:29:44.000Collectivized power wherever possible.
00:29:46.000In your country, you talk about federalism.
00:29:48.000The beauty of the American experiment could have been that each state was as independent as possible.
00:29:55.000That centralized national power reduced wherever possible.
00:29:59.000This little village here, the town operates a farming cooperative with 2,650 workers.
00:30:04.000During the 2008 economic crisis, 30% of the active population in southern Spain was without work.
00:30:31.000I do not trust power accruing anywhere anymore.
00:30:34.000I think that all of us are too corrupt and corruptible You're saying if you, like, painted over the mural and removed communist, then it could work?
00:30:43.000Get rid of that, but it's easier to, like, even Jack could change that shade of graphic into me with relatively little effort, just to simply remove the beret, really, or just put their mayor up there.
00:30:55.000And then you change it to Bran's model village.
00:30:58.000Well, I think, don't call it a model village, because that could create some confusion as well, because of the way I carried on as a younger lad, but I would say Bran.
00:31:24.000In conclusion, Gandhi once said, I think in the film Gandhi, oh God, and sadly that was his last words because he was murdered ironically by, hinted on ironically, more than ironically.
00:31:34.000So this is Gandhi on Village Republic.
00:31:36.000I've not pictured a poverty-stricken India containing ignorant millions.
00:31:39.000I've pictured to myself an India continually progressing along the lines best suited to her genius.
00:31:43.000I do not, however, picture it as a third-class or even first-class copy of the dying civilization of the West.
00:31:49.000Even then, he had identified that our atrophying, late-capitalist systems were going to lead to cataclysm and cultural decline.
00:31:57.000If my dream is fulfilled and every one of the seven larks of villages becomes a well-living republic in which there are no literates, in which no one is idle for want of work, in which everyone is usefully occupied and has nourishing food, well-ventilated dwellings and sufficient cardi for covering the body, and in which all the villagers know and observe the laws of
00:32:15.000hygiene and sanitation, such a state must have varied and increasing needs, which
00:32:20.000it must supply, unless it would stagnate."
00:32:22.000When people talk about changing the world, they mean change the world without inconveniencing
00:32:27.000the interests of the powerful. That's precisely what an organisation like the WF does. It's a
00:32:31.000PR front for changing the world in ways that never disrupt energy companies, big tech companies,
00:32:42.000Cast aside old models, except for where they are beneficial.
00:32:46.000Be willing to look at the past favorably in a new light.
00:32:49.000Be willing to look at what kind of changes might meaningfully improve your life as a human being.
00:32:55.000The thing that inspires me perhaps most of all about Gandhi is this is a person that resourced his values and his views from his spiritual principles.
00:34:32.000Firstly, I had the devil horns as you just demonstrated.
00:34:39.000In honour of our conversation, I'm going to move it to this and then place it that way for peace, even though they're not as open as I would have them.
00:34:47.000Omid, we've been speaking for ages, mate.
00:34:50.000I've known you since I first started doing stand-up.
00:35:31.000See, you can improve if you're willing to listen and take advice from your elders.
00:35:36.000You did. Thank you very much for doing that.
00:35:38.000Now, Omid, we're here, of course, to reconnect as friends and meet you
00:35:41.000as an elder and a comedian I deeply respect.
00:35:44.000But also you're here to tell me about what's going on in Iran,
00:35:47.000which I'm ashamed to admit that other than the barest of bones,
00:35:52.000I don't understand at all, except there has been a kind of a feminist
00:35:55.000uprising that somehow centered around like dress codes and the icons have emerged within this movement
00:36:00.000and that is not being reported on responsibly or nearly enough.
00:36:04.000Of course, On a platform like this one, we're always interested in how the media report or don't report on a subject, how the establishment exploits it, how certain narratives are promoted and other narratives are ignored, and what the broader objectives would be of Western institutions towards Iran, who we know appeared on the sort of hit list of countries that should be destabilised post 9-11, and many of which have been destabilised since then.
00:36:29.000So can you tell me what's been going on there and how it intersects with broader global narratives, please?
00:36:34.000What's very interesting is that he as a stand-up comedian what I did as soon as I saw what happened there was a 22 year old girl who was They have these hijab laws where women have to wear hijab but in a certain way and I think a bit of her hair was showing so she was arrested.
00:36:48.000She was supposed to be on some kind of hijab awareness course and they beat the crap out of her and she died and there are lots of flashpoints that happen in Iran but this was seismic.
00:36:57.000We've had little kind of aftershocks where there's been uprisings but they've usually been quashed and the way they do it is by cutting the internet, going and killing a lot of people and shutting everything down.
00:37:07.000So this time we knew what was going to happen.
00:38:02.000So, and also the Baha'i faith, which believes in the oneness of God, the oneness of religion, the unity and equality of men and women, they've got to go as well.
00:38:11.000So, I've always been someone who's seen as a second-class citizen in Iran, and Baha'is are not allowed to have jobs.
00:38:18.000A lot of them were killed in the revolution.
00:38:20.000So, This affected me in a very visceral way.
00:38:22.000So what I did was, OK, I thought, right, they've cut the Internet.
00:38:25.000First thing I've got to do is be a voice for the people.
00:38:28.000And I did jokes about it because you've got the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:38:33.000Khamenei, not Khomeini was the original one.
00:38:35.000Khamenei's cut the internet but he's tweeting all the time so he's got Wi-Fi and people go and they go and protest outside his house and the state media says these are not protestations people just trying to get a Wi-Fi hotspot so I was doing things like that have you got I've got two bars what are you good no I've got one bar you know I've got no bars you know this reminds me when I used to live in Wigan this is bullshit so we do jokes about it but it's actually quite serious where They've cut the internet so they can just go and kill people and now there's an epidemic of executions where the men, the men have stood by the women.
00:39:31.000So Iran is currently governed by an Islamic state type of Sharia law, what would ordinarily be termed an Islamic fundamentalist government.
00:40:02.000With the well-reported disdain that the West has for Arab nations, Middle Eastern territories, and Iran in particular, Why are the Western media and or Western interests not exploiting the opportunity to declare this is a progressive movement that's female-led, which by the way I'd of course be fully in support of.
00:40:50.000And I think it's because they're trying to shut women down globally.
00:40:54.000So the first thing they're doing is anyone who speaks out against this revolution is deemed Islamophobic.
00:41:00.000Because this is a group of, this is how the Islamic people want to live their life.
00:41:05.000But actually most Iranians are saying, we never, we're not an Islamic country.
00:41:09.000Iran was ruled by, we had the Persian Empire with King Cyrus that believed in everyone should live together in harmony and unity then Islam came over and they did it with raping, killing and forcing people to become Islamic.
00:41:24.000But this is a certain interpretation of Islam.
00:41:26.000So now you have this, you've got the government and you've got religion and the way they stay in power is by using religion to shut people down.
00:41:36.000And what's interesting is the Western media don't, We've been trying to get the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, which is the group of military people which protects this Islamic regime, who are basically the mothership of all terrorism.
00:41:51.000If you see, we're trying to get them on the terrorist list, but what you have is you've got Hezbollah, Hamas, these people that are on the terrorist list, but they're all being funded by the Islamic Republican Guard Corps.
00:42:02.000It's like an alien, the film Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver, she goes and she sees the big mother laying all the eggs.
00:42:08.000And then she says, don't get away from her, you bitch!
00:42:13.000IRGC, Islamic Republican Guard Corps, is that great big mothership of terrorism.
00:42:19.000Now, governments are not putting them on the terrorist list because they seem to have some kind of influence.
00:42:25.000We seem to be doing a lot of work with them.
00:42:28.000We're financially entangled with them.
00:42:31.000The Iranian people are saying, we're dealing with this revolution ourselves, but if you put the IRGC on the terrorist list, it gives the people within the IRGC, within this military terrorist organization, it gives them an exit strategy.
00:42:45.000They'll leave, then the people of Iran will deal with the Islamic regime the way they want to.
00:42:50.000That girl on the chat loves your metaphors.
00:42:53.000Some people are finding it very emotional listening to you, mate.
00:42:58.000This is a bit of coverage from Western media, albeit Forbes, primarily a financial publication.
00:43:04.000On 19th of May 2023, Iran executed three protesters following their convictions for the vague
00:43:09.000offence of moharabbeh, meaning an enmity against God, after trials that said to violate a due
00:43:14.000process and the right to a fair trial.
00:43:16.000Among the raised issues were concerns in relation to due process violations, significant procedural
00:43:20.000flaws, lack of evidence and torture, allegations that were never investigated.
00:43:24.000The intervention of Western nations in that territory is a sort of a long historic stain,
00:43:32.000whether it's the British Empire's involvement in those nations and territories and even
00:43:37.000the establishment of those territories and nations in the post-war period.
00:43:40.000That's why they don't like the Brits, because there was a coup in 1953, which they blamed the Brits and Americans, because they were there kind of saying, oh, you've got oil here, we'll help you get the oil and we'll give you something.
00:43:50.000And then when they realized No money was coming to the Iranian people.
00:44:23.000They sort of are willing to report on issues that, generally speaking, get ignored by Western media.
00:44:29.000But what surprises me currently is that any instability in a Middle Eastern nation, and even the term Middle Eastern is, of course, by its nature, occidental and prejudicial, can be exploited by the type of Western interest that needlessly exploited the post 9-11 period to invade Iraq
00:44:51.000when it was completely tangential and unrelated. So I'm surprised that we're not hearing
00:44:57.000about like, oh we've got to support this revolution and instill some west-friendly government. That's
00:45:03.000the kind of thing that's a lot of it going on online but as far as the western, well
00:45:07.000like the 1979 Islamic revolution when they all came into power was on it was on TV all the
00:45:12.000time. I was a young 13 year old, very much affected by it and felt that I was tarred with
00:45:36.000They've all we've all become activists now because we feel so much for what's going on what's happening to the people of Iran that they're basically being squashed.
00:45:45.000And they're being killed, and there's like 30,000 people in prison, all just for protesting.
00:45:49.000And no one is doing anything about it.
00:45:51.000I'm so glad that you've got me on here to speak.
00:45:53.000I'm very glad that also you tweeted about this.
00:45:56.000And it's interesting, whenever someone with a big account tweets, I just check, and he said, anyone listening to me and Amit's discussion on Rumble?
00:46:03.000With your 11 million followers, I checked, I lost 12 followers.
00:46:08.000And you probably lost about a million just tweeting me.
00:46:11.000But what we're trying to do is we've become activists and we're just trying to raise awareness because this has been going on for nearly nine months now, Russell.
00:46:18.000It's nine months that women are being quashed.
00:46:21.000People are being executed almost every other day.
00:46:24.000So if I can just come on and just raise a bit of awareness, you can go online and see what everyone's saying and what they're talking about.
00:46:30.000I think that's the best thing I can do to raise awareness.
00:47:24.000I'd say the D, Jalili, the D is silent.
00:47:26.000It's a bit like anus with a silent P. But it never got a laugh.
00:47:30.000But I think there are lots of other accounts like there's a woman called Masih Ali Nejad who's a journalist and she's very much beloved.
00:47:37.000In fact the IRGC, the Islamic Republic, tried to get her bumped off.
00:47:41.000This is the thing that these people The reason why we're talking about this is because it affects our collective security in the West.
00:47:51.000In America, people were trying to kill her.
00:47:53.000We had a hunger striker outside the Foreign Office called Vahid Beheshti and they've now given him a fatwa.
00:48:02.000We're allowing these people to operate in the West.
00:48:04.000We're allowing them to do whatever they want and we're not showing strength, not standing up to these people.
00:48:10.000And I think that's the thing that's upsetting everyone.
00:48:13.000And what the women are trying to do is essentially, it's a non-violent, it's actually a very beautiful revolution, it's non-violent, although I think what they'll do With the Mullahs they talk about tearing them to pieces, but that's by the by.
00:48:26.000But it is a spiritual revolution in the sense that all of us, even myself as a Baha'i, we believe that actually the only way you can affect real change is if you actually talk about the things that matter, which is why we're here.
00:48:47.000And if you teach people this at a young age, then you realize the last thing you want to do is hurt someone.
00:48:53.000So the fact that these people are using religion to execute people for protesting, to shoot people in the eyes, to maim, to kill, to put people in solitary confinement, For about 10 years.
00:49:04.000It's so inhumane, but it means they haven't had the spiritual education I think that really is what the women are saying in Iran that we need to totally realign and reconfigure our our relationships between like the Individual the community and institutions because at the moment institutions just do everything to stay in power and they do it at the expense of normal people and they should be serving the people and But they don't.
00:49:30.000They just use the people, abuse people, and kill them and execute them.
00:49:35.000That's the kind of cycle they're trying to break.
00:49:37.000Brain Wilson, who's been on our show, is, when I reflect on it, inexplicably Baha'i.
00:49:42.000And just before you joined us, I was talking about Gandhi and the impact of Gandhi on activism and the efficacy of non-violent protest and how any movement has to be underwritten ultimately by some pretty hefty principles and values if it's going to get anywhere.
00:50:01.000Of course, Gladwell famously wrote that New movements that coalesce online don't have the robustness
00:50:10.000that, say, for example, the civil rights movements of the 1950s in America have,
00:50:14.000because they are by their nature remote and tangential.
00:50:17.000And if you're going to perhaps sacrifice your life for something you believe in, it usually
00:50:22.000requires a deep affinity, not only with the cause, but with other people.
00:50:27.000Because being human, we naturally undulate in our willingness to sacrifice in our faith
00:50:34.000and belief that change can take place.
00:50:36.000One of the things that I'm keen to inhere into our channel is a sense that what we are
00:50:43.000striving for is something that's transcendent of the cultural values that are ordinarily
00:51:21.000It seems to me, Omid, that these are the very issues that you're grappling with and anyone that's interested in changing their own life and challenging the world is ultimately going to have to have a relationship with ideas of that nature.
00:51:32.000How far, mate, are you willing to take something like this?
00:51:45.000Does it seem plausible at this point in your life that this is something that you could get It's not plausible because I'll probably be arrested as soon as I get to Iran.
00:51:53.000People get arrested and put in prison and there are 30,000 people in jail right now.
00:51:57.000There's over 30,000 people in jail but I think because I'm a Baha'i I would be arrested immediately so what I can do Is remind people of things that have happened like this.
00:52:08.000We're coming up to a 40th anniversary of something that happened that totally shocked me to my core and actually artists in North America on the 18th of June is the 40th anniversary of the hanging of 10 women in a town called Shiraz who attend by women.
00:52:28.000who was 17 years old, and all the others were 20, 25, I think one of them was 35, and all because they were Baha'is, and they were told to recant their faith, and they refused, because they said, look, you're asking us to lie about wanting a better world, you're asking us to lie that we don't believe in the equality of men and women, you're asking us to lie that we believe in the one God.
00:52:47.000So they said no, and they were given many chances to recant, and they didn't.
00:52:51.000So one by one, they were all hanged in front of each other.
00:52:54.000there's a photograph online of the 10 women, they're all young, and it shocked everyone to their core.
00:53:00.000And in fact, this story, when it broke 40 years ago, it moved some artists.
00:53:06.000You can see there's a pop video was made called Mona with the Children
00:53:10.000by Jack Lenz and Doug Cameron, which got to number one in North America.
00:53:14.000Some people might remember it, but it gave you a very good idea
00:54:03.000I'm writing a piece for the Eye newspaper.
00:54:06.000I'm going to try and raise awareness to back the women of Iran because these are the stories that are pushing them now to move forward and say, we've had enough.
00:54:25.000I went, no, if I take it down, it looked like the regime was taking it down.
00:54:29.000So I kept up and speaking to other comedian friends and other people in the diaspora who had a platform, we thought we've got to do something.
00:54:35.000We've got to stand up and we've got to start a wave because social media is like your weapon.
00:54:40.000Because that's the one thing they don't like.
00:54:42.000Whenever they're about to execute someone, we all go online to don't execute this person.
00:57:06.000Look, the Robo Keeper... Is this Messi first?
00:57:08.000OK, Messi's trying... Now, if you look, Robo Keeper is a robotic keeper that actually can see where your eye is when you kick, so it actually anticipates where you're going to kick.
00:57:18.000So if you run the film now, you'll see that Messi tries three times in fact... It's impossible to beat.
00:57:40.000And I'll tell you, just before I did it, I said, is there any chance?
00:57:42.000The bloke who set it up, he goes, just because it's you, what we've done, an inch to one side, if you go top left, we've given you an inch of mistake that you can do.
00:57:52.000If you go top left and you could do it.
00:58:38.000Robo Keeper was actually decommissioned, I think, as if a fat, bald, 55-year-old could do it, they decommissioned it straight away.
00:58:45.000I believe, having seen that, that you can bring about a peaceful revolution in Iran and an all-woman government to replace the Sharia law that's currently incumbent.
00:58:55.000There's just a one-inch margin where we will allow a democratic, feminist-led movement, and Ahmed is the man to lead it.
00:59:00.000Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
00:59:02.000Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
00:59:03.000Go to ahmedjalili.com if you want to see Ahmed support Ahmed's Turkey and Syria earthquake effort, as well as following Ahmed on Twitter.
00:59:11.000Next time I speak to Ahmed Jalili, I want him to say, bloody hell, I've got a lot more followers on Twitter now, and I'm not being constantly spammed with information that you're a conspiracy theorist and a right-wing lunatic.
00:59:22.000But I do believe that if we keep raising awareness, that's the thing in the West, if we keep raising awareness, something will shift.
00:59:30.000And it's, by the way, and can I just say this, this is very, very important.
00:59:32.000This isn't just about a bunch of brown people in a far off land who cause chaos and it's got nothing to do with us.
00:59:42.000If you stub your toe, you stub your little toe, the toe is furthest away from your brain, but it bloody hurts.
00:59:47.000So what's going on over there affects us.
00:59:49.000And actually, If Iran, which is the cause of so much instability, if that place calms down and we get rid of this lot, you'll see a calmer Middle East and that should be good for all of us around the world.
01:00:02.000The collective security of the world will be increased with what the women are trying to achieve there.
01:00:08.000I mean, thanks for educating us on that important issue.
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01:02:33.000Our next guest testified in an explosive hearing About the Bureau's alleged retaliation against their own agents.
01:02:40.000What are your thoughts about what the activities are going on at the FBI?
01:02:45.000I think the FBI has sort of evolved from what we expect it to be, which is federal law enforcement.
01:02:50.000And after 9-11, when the national security branch was grown exponentially, the FBI has now essentially evolved into a domestic intelligence agency with a law enforcement capability.
01:03:01.000Which is what I expressed in the hearing.
01:03:02.000Okay, so the FBI has mutated into something other than what it was intended for at its inception.
01:03:09.000What you have to fundamentally ask yourself is, have many of our institutions evolved beyond the point where they are relevant?
01:03:16.000And in many cases, are they literally doing the opposite of what they were intended to do?
01:03:21.000Governments that don't represent the people, Media that behaves more like propaganda.
01:03:25.000Security agencies that make you insecure.
01:03:29.000Is it possible that all these agencies and organisations have been co-opted by elite power?
01:03:34.000I'm not talking about anything occultist, esoteric or obscure.
01:03:37.000I'm talking about dominion through financial control, through the allocation and manipulation of resources.
01:03:42.000I'm not talking about hysterical conspiracy theory stuff.
01:03:44.000Even though, of course, other centralised institutions that are funded will say that independent analysis and scrutiny of issues such as this is conspiratorial or far-right.
01:03:54.000What we are interested in is how is power functioning?
01:03:59.000It appears, on the basis of the testimony of these whistleblowers, that the FBI isn't engaged in a process of upholding the law and the consensus achieved through American democracy in order to support the Republic, Essentially supporting the interests of powerful groups.
01:04:15.000Let's have a look what else they've been doing and how it plays out.
01:04:18.000And that's a problem because the nature of law enforcement investigations are linear,
01:04:22.000they have a start and an end, and the nature of intelligence operations are circular.
01:04:26.000They just gain more intelligence to gain more intelligence and they never end.
01:05:19.000What a great way to put that into context.
01:05:21.000Garrett, we heard from your testimony, highly emotional and compelling testimony this week.
01:05:25.000I'm curious, from your perspective, I was on this week, we talked about your testimony, your life, you know, that you were essentially put on suspension right after being transferred across the country, left homeless, right when you had a baby being born.
01:05:40.000What was the tipping point for you, Garrett, when you decided, though, hey, I need to talk about what's going on in the FBI?
01:05:48.000I don't know if there was any firm tipping point that I can reach to, but it was more a summation of things that had been adding up and just over and over again saying, this doesn't seem right, this isn't what I was taught in constitutional law courses, or this isn't how you implement people's constitutional rights and balance those rights with the law enforcement responsibility that we have to the people in this country.
01:06:14.000It's weird to see someone who looks so sort of macho and potent talking in terms of introspection and quiet analysis of justice, when to glance at him you think his main priority was fighting Popeye.
01:06:29.000It was more a summation of things that it was repetitive inside the FBI where it was like, this seems wrong, this seems wrong, that seems wrong.
01:06:36.000And so it got to a point where I just couldn't sit back anymore and... It's disgusting, Olive!
01:06:42.000...had to just start exposing some of the nefarious things that the FBI was doing.
01:06:47.000Yeah, Garrett, if you could, I know you testified to it this week.
01:06:50.000Your life has been totally upside down, turned upside down as a result of your choice to speak.
01:07:37.000It's down to us to change individually and collectively in order to hold them to account.
01:07:43.000We must remain capable of discerning truth from fiction, we must remain bold, and like him, we must remember the oaths we've made to ourselves, to our gods, or to our systems of ideals, to our families, and to one another.
01:07:56.000We must believe it's possible to change the world.
01:07:59.000Once we become hypnotized and bound in bureaucracy, we're just sheep, cattle to them.
01:08:05.000Let's learn more about the congressional hearing that these men participated in, and trying to think about whistleblowers as something that's a bit silly, because they're sort of just going, There's been a wrongdoing, boss!
01:08:18.000For decades after the FBI was caught spying on Martin Luther King Jr.
01:08:22.000and abusing its powers for political ends, Democrats emphasized strong constraints on domestic spying and the importance of whistleblowers.
01:08:30.000Now Democrats are savaging these former public servants as threats to national security.
01:08:35.000Well, presumably because their interests have changed and they're utilizing these deep state agencies in order to control the population and the narrative.
01:08:44.000At least two FBI whistleblowers are being persecuted for concerns over how the January 6th protesters were treated.
01:08:51.000Now it can be difficult to talk about the January 6th protests and some of the theories and ideas that surround it, but it seems clear that the FBI have targeted and surveilled protesters from January the 6th, but also George Floyd protesters.
01:09:04.000It seems that it doesn't matter what the issue is per se, per se, I know,
01:09:10.000but whether or not your protest is at odds with the interests of the powerful that they represent and operate
01:09:24.000Steve Friend expressed concerns about the FBI's use of SWAT teams to arrest January 6th subjects.
01:09:30.000Within a month of these disclosures, the FBI removed Friend's security clearance and removed him from active duty.
01:09:36.000Garrett O'Boyle disclosed that the FBI pressured him to violate the law by opening domestic violent extremism investigations without sufficient basis.
01:09:45.000In addition to an indefinite unpaid suspension, the FBI initiated a campaign of humiliation and intimidation to punish and pressure me to resign.
01:09:55.000Ah, they punished him and pressured him.
01:09:57.000The FBI's campaign of personal destruction included leaking friends' private medical information to a New York Times reporter.
01:10:04.000Before you start listening to that whistleblowing, you might want to know a thing or two about this guy's Verrucas and his troubling athlete's foot.
01:10:18.000Not the middle bit, just keep going down.
01:10:20.000Although... FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen got in trouble with his superiors at the FBI, not for peddling conspiracy theories, but rather for sharing accurate news articles, including one apparently based on a report by the New York Times.
01:10:42.000Federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into this sort on the Capitol, wrote the Times last fall, even as it was taking place than was previously known.
01:10:49.000I suppose the problem is, is that the reporting on January the 6th and other nominated events, occasions and dramas, often excludes nuance. Broadly speaking, you're invited to
01:11:01.000look at January 6th as a sort of terrorist attack. That's the kind of framing around it. I've
01:11:05.000never been particularly comfortable with that. I'm an anti-violence person, particularly when it
01:11:10.000comes to the pursuit of political goals, but anti-violence, generally, is a pretty easy principle to
01:11:16.000But I've noticed that when talking about January 6th, there's been a lot of hysteria and condemnation.
01:11:21.000And as I always invite you, if you take the subject out and look at how the machinery
01:11:26.000operates around it, it can tell you a lot. What did January the 6th achieve?
01:11:29.000It was an opportunity to discredit people, it was an opportunity to introduce protest laws, it was an opportunity to introduce surveillance.
01:11:35.000So if you look at how something functions and who benefits from it, you learn a lot.
01:11:39.000Because the subject often changes, but the results are reliable.
01:11:42.000More surveillance, more centralised power, less democracy, more ability to shut down dissent and control the narrative.
01:11:48.000It's an odd phenomenon that I've noticed lately.
01:11:51.000Alan's intentions were plainly constructive.
01:11:53.000He'd apparently forwarded an article to other FBI investigators to caution them that, if they were looking at footage, they should be aware that there were informants in the crowd.
01:12:01.000Court documents indicate that there were at least eight FBI informants, known as CHS's for Confidential Human Informants, in the Proud Boys, which was one of the groups that organized the January 6th protest.
01:12:13.000There is evidence that the FBI also had CHS in the Oath Keepers, another January 6th activist group.
01:12:20.000Because if you think of how you're told the story of January 6th, it's like, Donald Trump caused it, his rhetoric was incendiary, look at those tweets, it's terrible.
01:12:29.000And then when you see people, usually on the internet, alternative independent media like this, some of the people that we share this space with say, there were FBI informants, it was a false flag, this was organised by the deep state.
01:12:41.000And the mainstream media go, oh that's ridiculous, that's a conspiracy theory.
01:12:44.000Well, this whistleblower is saying, no, there were FBI informants within those groups.
01:12:49.000Then when you look at the term FBI informants, it's like, hey, listen, I'm a member of the Proud Boys, but you should be aware.
01:12:54.000Then sometimes it's like that they literally are primarily FBI.
01:12:58.000They're operating on behalf of the FBI.
01:13:00.000I don't know where on that spectrum between operating on behest or in conjunction with the FBI down to full on just are the FBI.
01:13:08.000So you'll be aware of the Chris Morris film where whole terrorist attacks are conceived where basically everyone involved is FBI or kidnappings are planned.
01:13:18.000So whatever you think about January the 6th, you have to take this whistleblower seriously when he says there were FBI informants involved on that day.
01:13:26.000So at one extreme we have, hey, what's January the 6th?
01:13:29.000A false flag event primarily organized by the deep state because it would continue to legitimize the smearing and shutting down of people that are opposed to establishment power. And then at the other extreme, it's
01:13:41.000a mad, crazy riot. It was Donald Trump's fault. If it's entirely Donald Trump's fault, there's
01:13:46.000a fair few FBI informants involved, probably too many for it to be entirely that. What do you
01:13:52.000Let me know in the comments. Former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill told the
01:13:57.000subcommittee that when the Boston office asked for the video footage from January the 6th
01:14:02.000protest, the Washington field office said they could not give access to the 11,000 hours
01:14:07.000of video footage available because there may be undercover officers, known as UCs, or CHSs,
01:14:12.000confidential human sources, on those videos whose identity we need to protect.
01:14:17.000I'm sure loads of you in the comments will point to times where it looked like people were getting dressed up and all that kind of stuff.
01:14:22.000Listen, I think we have an obligation, an odd obligation, to ensure that everything we say is verifiable, is true, that we don't make claims that we can't undergird with facts.
01:14:32.000We are basing this report entirely on the testimony of an FBI whistleblower.
01:14:36.000You know if these dudes were saying stuff that was like, oh, we found out that they were doing stuff that was for Donald Trump, the mainstream news, the New York Times, they'd be all over it.
01:15:23.000Okay, sure, if it's just us and there's no actual Trump people, should we go home?
01:15:27.000No man, I'm going inside there, I'm gonna get me some souvenirs and a photograph done next to that podium, people like.
01:15:34.000Indeed, there may have been hundreds of undercover government agents and informants, both local and federal, in the January 6th crowd.
01:15:41.000According to one January 6th witness, there were 100 to 200 Secret Service agents alone at the Capitol before and during the breach of police barriers.
01:15:50.000At what point does this become a staged event?
01:16:00.000That doesn't seem like the world we're trying to create.
01:16:02.000Can we get to a point where we have a degree of objectivity around these matters, rather than, okay, this story, before I get involved, is it my side or is it the other side?
01:16:30.000Like, someone was shot and killed there.
01:16:32.000Members of the police force died subsequently.
01:16:35.000It's a very interesting thing to analyse, and it's clearly nuanced and complicated.
01:16:39.000Clearly, there is room for discussion.
01:16:41.000If you note that, in part, Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox appears to be related to his reporting on this event, it starts to make me question who is benefiting from this story.
01:16:52.000And as I've always told you when it comes to this, my perspective is a little broader.
01:16:55.000All of the sanctimony that surrounds the invasion of an apparently sacred building is undeserved when I see it as essentially a place where corruption is legitimized by the relationships between corporations and the state.
01:17:07.000One court filing alleges that there are at least 20 FBI assets at the Capitol.
01:17:12.000Another court document from the Proud Boys trial suggests there are at least 40 undercover informant or agents doing surveillance among defendants on January the 6th.
01:17:20.000So this isn't just hearsay at this point because there are whistleblowers testifying in front of Congress.
01:17:24.000So it seems like there's the need for a conversation, a conversation that people are unwilling to have and even that suggests that particular outcomes are likely.
01:17:32.000In a motion to compel disclosure of all confidential human sources of Homeland Security, the defense alleges that in addition to the eight confirmed FBI CHS's, the DC Metro Police had at least 13 undercover plainclothes agents, and there appear to have been some 19 CHS's on January the 6th belonging to an agency called Homeland Security Investigations.
01:17:50.000There's even agencies that are so secret, we don't know that they exist!
01:18:08.000I'm gonna pretend to be his friend and then arrest him in a couple of months after I've got him to come up with a terrorist plot that I'm thinking about.
01:18:14.000One such individual is alleged to have been in the crowd screaming, stop the steal, stop the steal and pushing the protesters toward the Capitol building.
01:18:40.000No, you've got a great body, and you're gonna have plenty of time to work out in prison for Four years!
01:18:45.000Also, don't you know, like, yourself, like, if you're at a wedding or something and, like, some people start dancing, like, wouldn't you maybe be more likely to get up and start dancing?
01:18:54.000I mean, at this point, it's beyond observing and monitoring and dispatching justice.
01:18:59.000It's creating scenarios that therefore enable you to pursue a course of action that evidently you want to pursue.
01:19:05.000And this is not how I want to view these situations.
01:19:07.000Let me know in the chat where you stand on this.
01:19:09.000It is unsurprising that many agencies would send dozens of officers and informants to the Capitol in anticipation of 10,000 to 30,000 people attending a highly charged political rally.
01:19:18.000However, it is troubling that the public has not been given a full accounting of law enforcement officers' activities on January the 6th, given the fact that Democrats have likened the riot to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
01:19:44.000What this is, at very least, is when people are going, oh, they're conspiracy theorists.
01:19:47.000Maybe have a little closer look before dismissing that information, because here we have significant cause for investigation into an event that's being called just a mad, incendiary, MAGA-inspired, sort of idiotic festival of carnage, when in fact what it looks like is something that was very closely monitored, had numerous agencies with many, many operatives inside, and that appears to align very nicely with the agenda of the neoliberal establishment.
01:20:12.000The real problem with Allen and Friend is that, according to the FBI, they espoused an alternative narrative about the events at the US Capitol on January the 6th, 2021.
01:20:22.000So why did the FBI and Democrats attack the FBI whistleblowers?
01:20:26.000Perhaps because they are revealing, at a minimum, the FBI's failure to stop the riot and, more maximally, its role in instigating it.
01:20:36.000It could have been prevented because a lot of people said oh they were being ushered in and it was instigated.
01:20:43.000It's starting to look like there is at least cause to examine the possibility that this event was made worse by operatives and that they benefited from it somehow.
01:20:54.000You can, in a sense, inform your own opinion by looking at what has happened subsequently.
01:20:59.000Has it been used to spend more money creating a capital police force?
01:21:03.000Has it been used to introduce more surveillance and police laws?
01:21:06.000Has it been used to smear opponents of the establishment?
01:21:10.000Has it been used to shut down conversation?
01:21:11.000If the answer to all of those questions is yes, and then additionally there were FBI operatives, there are FBI whistleblowers, then then you have some questions. And what all of this alludes
01:21:21.000to if you ask me is that, put the alleged criminality of these agencies to one side
01:21:25.000for a moment and look at the fact that what appears truly to be happening is you can no
01:21:29.000longer corral everyone together into one centralised, authoritarian narrative. People just
01:21:35.000want different things now and maybe we should look at some different political systems
01:22:08.000It creates an Orwellian atmosphere that silences opposition and discussion.
01:22:12.000Perhaps that's what's happening more broadly in our culture.
01:22:15.000Ask yourself the question, do you imagine that these powerful elites really care about what they would deem and term vulnerable people from a variety of backgrounds who, in my view, all have the right to freedom of expression wherever they are on the political spectrum, whether it's traditional or progressive.
01:22:28.000Freedom means freedom and it certainly means other people's freedom.
01:22:30.000Or are they interested in creating a climate of silence and control?
01:22:36.000Oh, Boyle said that the FBI's action against him had rendered him and his family homeless, and that they could not access their personal effects, including clothing, because they were in FBI storage when he was suspended.
01:22:52.000But throughout the hearing, it was obvious that the Democrats were trying to distract and derail the subcommittee, refusing to engage with the whistleblower's allegations that the FBI has intentionally exaggerated the threat of domestic terrorism through padded statistics and illegal investigations.
01:23:10.000That doesn't sound like the America that we've been living in for the last couple of years.
01:23:14.000What's more, the hearing made clear that the FBI is working with the Democrats, which underscores the agency's increasing partisanship.
01:23:21.000Democrat Stacey Plaskett, who savaged the FBI whistleblower's previously threatened journalist Matt Taibbi with prison for supposedly lying to Congress under oath.
01:23:30.000Do you remember that sham kangaroo congressional hearing where Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger, good men, good journalists, were subject to criticisms, accusations, and threatened eventually with jail time simply for presenting facts that had been given to them as a result of a similar whistleblower operation?
01:23:51.000It seems like there's certain information that people just don't want out there.
01:23:55.000And we, I believe, should be open to having conversations around this stuff.
01:24:03.000The Durham report last week revealed that the FBI's Russia collusion investigation was cooked up by Hillary Clinton to denigrate Donald Trump by tying him to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.
01:24:15.000And that despite knowing it was bogus, the FBI went ahead and launched the ill-fated Crossfire Hurricane investigation while dropping four probes into the Clinton Foundation.
01:24:24.000So some things they really investigate, other things they ignore.
01:24:29.000It's not an objective investigation when a crowd is filled with informants and when whistleblower's testimony within the FBI is being ignored.
01:24:37.000And then when they go public, They are criticised and discredited.
01:24:41.000You can just sort of see the outline of the agenda from all of the actions and behaviours.
01:24:46.000On Friday, a FISA court order revealed that the FBI has been misusing a surveillance tool
01:24:51.000almost 300,000 times in 2020 to 2021, including doing 23,000 searches on January the 6th suspects
01:24:58.000and 20,000 searches on a congressional candidate's donors.
01:25:01.000This is what we continually say to you.
01:25:03.000As long as they have the ability to surveil you and look at your information, then the possibility exists that at some point, you will do something that's at odds with the establishment.
01:25:12.000And given that there are no principles, and given that this is an ongoing circular problem, as our man there earlier described, it could come to you at some point.
01:25:20.000You know, when people say, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what they should now say is, as long as you're willing to continually obey centralised authority, then you've got nothing to worry about.
01:25:29.000The FBI also refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee to hand over documents alleging that Joe Biden accepted bribes to change US policy while he was Vice President.
01:25:39.000In the light of just one week of FBI shame, the latest Harvard-Harris poll showing deep public mistrust in the FBI comes as no surprise.
01:25:47.000Not only do 69% of voters believe the FBI violated its own standards in the Russia collusion probe, 70% are concerned the Bureau will interfere in future elections.
01:25:56.000The FBI is out of control and everyone knows it.
01:25:59.000So now you know, when people say deep state, this is what they're talking about.
01:26:02.000When they say deep state collusion, they're talking about stories like this.
01:26:04.000While the January 6th stuff is still under investigation, based on the testimony of these whistleblowers and some of the information here about informants and assets in the crowd, it seems to To me, a conversation is required before we march forward in the way that we did with the Russiagate stuff into making conclusions that might be convenient to a certain set of agenda.
01:26:25.000Let's look carefully before saying, oh, this is definitely what that situation is.
01:26:29.000Because if it definitely was, Trump caused this by being incendiary.
01:26:33.000It was an attack on our democracy, like 9-11 and Pearl Harbor.
01:26:37.000What you'd want to see is there were no FBI informants, or the presence of deep state agencies certainly didn't instigate or incite the problem, and that there were manageable numbers.
01:26:48.000And then you'd want to see that the event wasn't used for political gain, subsequently to bring about legislation, to direct funding, to increase surveillance.
01:26:57.000All those things, I would say, would be markers of potential corruption.
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