Russell Brand is back with a brand new episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand, and it's full of chills. He's talking about the future of the world, and why the word freedom is being redefined before our very eyes to mean fascism or something like that. And he's joined by comedian Tennessee Williams to talk about why subtext is so important in the modern world. And a mystery guest who was supposed to be on the show, but hasn't been delivered yet. Stay free with Russell and stay free, friends! Stay free, and remember to tweet us if you enjoyed this episode and/or have any thoughts or suggestions on how we can improve the show. Timestamps: 3:00 - Joe Biden's Ukraine trip 4:30 - What are the criteria for choosing a new country? 5:20 - What do you think of the Ukraine? 6:40 - What's the criteria? 7:00 - Is Taiwan the new Ukraine the next Ukraine 8:15 - What does it take? 9:30 - What is the criteria to choose a country 11:00- What is a good country to choose? 12:30- What are we looking for? 13:20- What do we need to do? 14:20 15:40- Is it possible? 16:15- How do you get subtext? 17:15 18:15: What are you getting subtext in the subtexts? 19:00: What is subtext here? 21:00 + 16: What's your favourite subtext 22:10 - Who do you like subtext?! Is it a Buddhist Abbey Abbey Abbey? ? 23:10 26:40 27:10- What does a monk lose it? 26 - Does it lose it after it lose all its meth? 29:00 | Is it all positive or does it lose its meth for me? 30: Does it loses it after its meth after a test? 35:40 | What do they lose it for me after it's a place in a place? 36:10 | How do they become a monk? 31:30 | What kind of meth do you become a Buddhist abode? 32:00 // 33:00 / 36:00/37:00 Do they lose all their meth?
00:02:22.000Listen, once we leave YouTube, we're going to be talking to you about natural immunity and if you understand how the YouTube guidelines are formulated, you'll recognise why it is we're waiting until we're exclusively on Rumble to discuss that story because I've got some things to say about natural immunity.
00:03:01.000We're doing this brilliant presentation on how the word freedom is being redefined before your very eyes to mean, I think, fascism or something.
00:04:46.000This temple in Thailand lost its monks after they all tested positive for meth.
00:04:52.000The four monks including an abbot all tested positive yesterday and were defrauded
00:04:56.000I guess you could say I deserve a drug abbot come on
00:05:01.000They've been transferred to a medical facility for drug rehabilitation
00:05:06.000But with the temple empty, nearby villagers are worried they can't do any merit-making, which involves... Do you not think that the villagers have lost faith in the entire system?
00:05:52.000Hopefully they'll all be all right, those guys.
00:05:54.000As a recovering drug addict myself, I can offer them a few tips.
00:05:57.000Although one of the things I would have suggested is go and become a monk, so that's not worked.
00:06:03.000The Chinese have got this new trick for how to handle protests.
00:06:07.000You're going to love this, Gareth, because some people worry that you can't handle disruptions and people holding up placards and all that kind of thing.
00:07:06.000Like, if you remove free will from a population, as we are, I think, doing in our own way, what do you think about, like, our kind of Western totalitarianism, where we're sort of blithely subdued by commodity and idiocy, dimly staring at screens till nothing means anything?
00:07:22.000Over there in China it's a bit more... It's choreographed.
00:08:42.000Air Force just shoot down a party balloon?
00:08:46.000I gave the order to take down these three objects.
00:08:49.000He may be able to bring down balloons, but he can't bring down your drug prices.
00:08:54.000Group of balloon enthusiasts, teens, dads, and grandpas say they believe their $12 balloon, just like the one in this photo... For Joe Biden, that group of men, a sort of young whipper-steppers, is an upstart!
00:09:07.000Who are these crazy kids releasing balloons in the sky?
00:09:24.000If you're watching this on YouTube, remember, we're going to click over into a rumble.
00:09:27.000There's a link in the description in a minute because we're going to be talking about natural immunity and Lord alone knows what would happen to us if we tried to discuss that freely on this platform.
00:10:25.000If you think it was a potentially a propaganda- Distraction technique, yeah.
00:10:27.000One of the things we think is that they were distracting us from that terrible Ohio train wreck and the subsequent environmental disaster.
00:10:34.000We've got a brilliant presentation about that later in the week and we're trying to get Erin Brockovich on.
00:10:38.000I really want Erin Brockovich to come on because of the film Erin Brockovich and everything.
00:10:41.000And what I feel is, have you noticed, and let me know about this in the chat and the comments, particularly for on locals because that's what I'm watching here on locals.
00:10:47.000In fact, Joe, can you come make it work?
00:10:50.000Like, If you're watching us on Locals, I see all of your comments.
00:10:53.000Right, what we feel is, like, what troubles me anyway, personally, is the way that environmentalism is used as a kind of calling card, ideologically, to define a political movement, like the Democrat Party.
00:11:05.000Like, we care about the environment, we care about it.
00:11:08.000But then when the environment actually really needs a bit of help, look at what Biden's doing, backing Norfolk Southern's bid to block lawsuits.
00:11:14.000Now, if you really care about the environment, this is an ideal chance to show it beyond rhetoric, isn't it?
00:11:19.000Yeah, rather than, you know, siding with the corporations, of which, no doubt, I mean, they definitely threw lobbyists' funnel money into the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.
00:11:29.000I mean, we were told today, weren't we, about 80% of U.S.
00:11:34.000rivers now are, like, polluted with toxic chemicals.
00:11:36.000You know, so this isn't just a one-off, oh, God, the Ohio River, you know, what a dreadful situation.
00:16:01.000I'm not criticising the person just on the basis of the way that they look.
00:16:04.000But he looks like he's from 30 or 40 years ago.
00:16:06.000He looks like he's from the wrong era and his facial expression, I don't know why he wants to be in that photo.
00:16:10.000And who thinks, like even if you don't know Putin that well, which I don't, I don't know what makes him tick or anything, but I figure that is not someone you stand in front of in a line-up.
00:16:20.000He seems, from everything I've heard about his background in the KGB and his willingness to kill his enemies, he's someone that's not going to have an ego.
00:16:28.000yeah shifty i call him a shifty little guy
00:16:37.000guy yeah luckily he's just like reading the vibe of the people either see the
00:16:41.000side of it going well yes I stand with these guys he's for the left she thought
00:16:46.000alright no problem here but look at like the person they've got they've got the
00:16:49.000perfect person lined up to solve this little dilemma Oh
00:17:05.000Okay, so while the proxy wars got a bit more complicated now because it's a bit proxy proxy because America is having to fund militarily Ukrainian efforts.
00:17:15.000But now look, China might start funding Russia.
00:17:29.000UFOs that they are balloon enthusiasts.
00:17:33.000Oh, well, we've decided to, you know, to fund China for a little while.
00:17:36.000OK, listen, I think we're going to have to... Are we going to click over for a minute, or can we do our Taiwan thing?
00:17:40.000Let's do our Taiwan thing, and then after that, we're going to have to leave, you guys, if you're watching anywhere other than Rumble, because I'm going to talk about natural immunity, and it's a subject that has to be... Well, it doesn't have to be censored, actually.
00:17:51.000I think you should be able to openly discuss things, because you are a free adult individual with your own divine connection to the limitless.
00:17:58.000But apparently me and certain other platforms and power structures see things differently.
00:18:03.000Before we go, we'll just tell you this thing.
00:18:46.000It turns they are with semiconductors, and don't pretend you know what semiconductors are, because even though you keep hearing it on the news, you still don't know what they are.
00:18:52.000And if you think you know, let me know in the chat.
00:19:17.000No, potentially not because what you're doing is you're aggravating a powerful nation that are willing to put placards around you, billboard you out of existence and then march you off into whatever is Chinese for a gulag.
00:19:28.000I'm afraid I can't answer that at this point.
00:19:31.000OK, so it seems like, according to our deep analysis, that Taiwan could be the new Ukraine.
00:21:24.000Questioning Natural Immunity from the start, which a lot of people, you know, as we've spoken about before, the hashtag was banned on Instagram.
00:21:30.000It was very much in the realm of conspiracy.
00:21:33.000Now to have something where they're saying not only is it equal to, but better than, and NBC are freely allowed to report on that, it does seem like something nefarious is going on.
00:22:00.000That's a story from when the machine wanted that result, November 2021.
00:22:05.000And now here we are, in reality, immunity acquired from a COVID infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death.
00:22:19.000In today's Daily Health, there's a new study that looks at our body's immunity after getting COVID.
00:22:25.000Yeah, it finds the immunity that naturally builds up in our bodies after a COVID-19 infection is as protective as the two doses of the mRNA vaccines against severe illness and death.
00:22:37.000Oh okay, so you guys are conspiracy theorists right now.
00:22:40.000I mean this is the way that the narrative is traveling.
00:22:43.000So what I recommend to you as a discerning and awakening wonder, that's what I'm going to call you, is that you stay present with us.
00:22:49.000We don't claim to know anything but we do claim to legitimately inquire.
00:22:53.000We do claim to consider as many sides of the argument as possible.
00:22:57.000And we do claim to bear our own interests and biases in mind as we embark on this journey in good faith with open hearts together.
00:23:06.000And frankly, it's lucky that our hearts are functioning at all!
00:23:09.000Some of the things that have been recommended these days!
00:23:12.000The strange thing about that clip for me, well not the strange thing, but the odd thing is that they introduce this item and talk about natural immunity as if it's something that nobody has ever heard of that before and this hasn't been a massive divisive point all the way through the pandemic.
00:23:25.000There's this new thing called natural immunity.
00:23:29.000It once was the enclave of only crackpots.
00:23:33.000Another thing is that mRNA protein spikes may leave the site of the injection and migrate to other tissue, like your heart, causing myocarditis and pericarditis.
00:23:47.000Well, we know that they are already kind of saying things like that.
00:23:52.000Data has shown an elevated risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, inflammation of... after the second mRNA vaccine dose among males aged 12 to 39, with those in their late teens and 20s most affected.
00:24:07.000It's very interesting that the group affected by myocarditis and pericarditis co-align beautifully with that 30% spike in people dying of heart disease.
00:24:16.000Listen, should we have a look at a presentation that we've worked very hard on together as a team?
00:24:23.000One of the ways that our environment is shifting, altering, is through the use of language.
00:24:28.000You may have seen elsewhere this fantastic story that the word Freedom is being reframed in order to make it a kind of forbidden piece of language so that the idea, the concept of freedom, which I would say is absolutely universal, that we have our rights to individual freedom, it's enshrined, I think, in your constitution, and collective freedom.
00:24:48.000If you make the term freedom Here's the news!
00:24:51.000term that's somehow laden with far-right meaning, that's what's being suggested,
00:25:29.000Have you seen that the word freedom is now being repackaged as racist at a time that the Democrat Party is becoming increasingly elitist and using subjects like diversity to mask lobbying and corporate interests?
00:25:42.000Just to let you know where I stand right from the very top, for me, freedom means you're right as an individual to be the person that God or the universe Intended you to be, beyond culture, beyond religious orthodoxy, beyond race, your right to be you, your right to your freedom.
00:26:00.000Not your right to tell other people what to do, from whatever perspective.
00:26:03.000And I believe in your freedom of expression, whether that's on the right or the left.
00:26:07.000As long as your freedom of expression doesn't involve oppressing others, I believe in your freedom.
00:26:12.000Just to make that absolutely clear from the top.
00:26:14.000Now then, Let's see how language is being manipulated to grant more power to already powerful establishments and to prevent dissent.
00:26:39.000Almost like they want freedom and feel like their freedom is being shut down by a raft of new laws that have come from a centralised authority that no one voted for.
00:26:46.000Almost as if there was an attempt to apply an emergency act illegitimately.
00:26:50.000Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy.
00:26:56.000For many, freedom is a malleable term that's open to interpretation.
00:27:08.000Is there such a thing as objective, meaningful words?
00:27:12.000We're in a sort of territory of post-modernity and post-structuralism now, but I would argue that this is a bad faith argument.
00:27:18.000That, for example, those Canadian truckers, when talking about freedom, and most people now, when they're talking about freedom, mean this.
00:27:25.000I want to be left alone by the government, and more importantly, by centralised, globalist organisations that have never been elected anyway.
00:27:34.000To see the word freedom bandied about as part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elizabeth Anker calls violent forms of freedom.
00:27:42.000We're just tired to give up violent freedom.
00:27:43.000By the way, if anyone said, I want to be free, I want freedom, and I asked, oh, what kind of freedom do you want?
00:27:48.000Freedom to be horrible and racist and to persecute people.
00:27:55.000Let me use language deliberately and specifically.
00:27:58.000But if people say, by freedom, I want to live as I am, I want to be free from government intervention, I don't want to live in a corporatised world where there is no democracy, where I can't leave my house, where I can't work at my job, then I would advocate for that freedom.
00:28:11.000Similarly, freedom to express yourself however you want to, to be spoken to using language that suits you and your identity?
00:28:20.000Freedom is an absolute concept as far as I'm concerned, and this is a nefarious argument that's being used to shut down legitimate protest by working people.
00:28:29.000This is a trend that's been happening for the last 30 or 40 years.
00:28:32.000There is no representation of ordinary people in countries like Canada, the United States of America, presumably France, presumably elsewhere.
00:28:39.000I know for sure in my country, the United Kingdom.
00:28:41.000Because the parties that used to be about representing ordinary people, what used to be regarded as the left, have become increasingly professional.
00:28:49.000Increasingly dominated by the same financial, corporate and military interests that have always been associated with a particular brand of politics.
00:28:56.000Let me know if you disagree on the left.
00:28:57.000I'm referring to Cheney, Wolfowitz, old-school, rand, think-tanks, let's-go-to-war-and-make-a-profit parties, are now both political parties in America, for example, and in my country, the UK.
00:29:07.000Both parties represent ultimately elitist interests and will not stand up for the rights of ordinary people against centralized, globalist, corporatist interests.
00:29:16.000Freedom is a slippery concept, said Anka.
00:29:23.000But in the right hands, freedom means you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone, we'll come together and cooperate where necessary, which could be quite a lot.
00:29:30.000Because a lot of people think, and I'd have to include myself here, that these arguments around supporting diversity are often actually a mask to underwrite and advance corporate interests.
00:29:42.000And we've got a fascinating example of that exact thing coming right up.
00:30:09.000Have you noticed that working people across the world are starting to be negatively affected by centralist, globalist, corporatist interests and there is no movement to represent them?
00:30:20.000Why is it that there are now no parties that represent the interests of ordinary people?
00:30:24.000Here's an article about an interesting demographic shift that could help explain that.
00:30:27.000The rise of college educated Democrats.
00:30:30.000In the last 15 years, the Democratic Party coalition has undergone a dramatic demographic change.
00:30:34.000The white share of the party are far more likely to be college educated than in the past.
00:30:38.000In 2020, for the first time on record, the college educated white share, 27% of the Democrats, exceeded that of non-college educated whites, 25%.
00:30:47.000Those with a college education tend to be wealthier and have higher socioeconomic status than those without.
00:30:52.000But they also tend to be more socially liberal and more likely to prioritise post-material moral concerns over kitchen table issues.
00:30:59.000Essentially what that's saying is that the Democrat party has now become a party that's more interested in postulating rather than dealing with economic inequality that affects guess who's more affected than any other group by economic inequality?
00:31:13.000Oh, the very people that you claim to care so much about.
00:31:15.000So ultimately there's been a cultural and demographic shift within the Democratic Party that means that they're no longer interested in addressing inequality.
00:31:23.000If you don't have a political party that's addressing inequality, and I mean economic and social inequality, then what you'll get is a cry, a void, a need, For those concerns to be addressed, for those needs to be met, the Democrat Party aren't going to do it, the Republican Party ain't going to do it.
00:31:37.000You're just going to end up with demagoguery, pedagogy and rhetoric around those subjects with no one making meaningful moves to help ordinary Americans, ordinary Canadians, ordinary people from all over the world.
00:31:47.000That's where I start to believe that we have more in common with one another than we do with the centralised systems, whether they're corporate or governmental, that prevent these kind of conversations or political movements taking place.
00:31:58.000Let me know what you think about that.
00:31:59.000Perhaps one of the reasons is they're more interested in symbolic displays of helping people than actually getting on and helping people.
00:32:06.000They have become masters of finding ways of pretending to address those issues while actually carrying on with business as usual.
00:32:15.000Christina Antelo, a corporate lobbyist known for her reach within the Democratic Party, held court last month at a gala where her clients and other lobbyists rubbed shoulders with lawmakers and congressional staff.
00:32:26.000Such a scene would be familiar to anyone who has spent significant time on Capitol Hill.
00:32:30.000Lobbyists host parties and fundraisers on a nightly basis in order to forge connections with policy makers, gather political intelligence, and nudge politicians into actions that benefit their clients.
00:32:42.000But this time the influence effort was branded as a righteous celebration of racial progress, exploiting the cultural emphasis of liberal institutions to lobby on issues that have nothing to do with increasing diversity.
00:32:54.000So they're pretending that the event is about helping diversity, increasing diversity, supporting people that may not have conventionally been supported by their establishment to just carry on with corporate lobbying.
00:33:05.000It was a night to welcome and celebrate diversity in the 180th Congress.
00:33:09.000The event was titled Diversity Across the Aisle, featuring a dozen sitting members of Congress and many staff members.
00:33:15.000The lobbying shop, Ferox Strategies, currently represents a range of interests including Walmart, Reynolds American and Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical companies and retail giants with incredible profits and incredible power.
00:33:35.000In one photograph from the event, Irene Bueno, a lobbyist for Pfizer and Comcast, huddles with staffers to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
00:33:44.000Well, to be fair to Pfizer, they don't care about race.
00:33:45.000They'll stick a vaccine in an arm of any colour.
00:33:48.000So this is an example, I would say, of illegitimate, demonstrative, but not authentic use of diversity with no intention of aiding or helping the necessary issues that ought be addressed, but simply to create lobbying opportunities.
00:34:03.000Ferox Strategies stands out as one of an emerging set of influence agents that have exploited the appetite for virtue signalling around diversity to push policies benefiting their clients.
00:34:13.000The firm often flaunts its access to identity-based organisations in Congress to leverage client relationships, Many people think, for example, that ESGs that the WEF recommend are not about helping the environment, simply are about ensuring that establishment power has new ways to hold on to that power.
00:34:32.000New ways to appear to be addressing problems, while really it's business as usual.
00:34:37.000Do you think that these groups genuinely care about diversity?
00:34:41.000Genuinely care about helping people that are disadvantaged, either economically or because of long-standing cultural issues?
00:34:46.000Or do you think they care about increasing the profits of Walmart, Pfizer, Comcast, Eli Lilly, let me know in the chat.
00:34:52.000In its message to clients sent after the event, Ferox bragged about using the diversity as a way to ingratiate its corporate clients with democratic leaders.
00:34:59.000Ferox clients, Walmart, Alexian, and Waste Management joined a who's who of corporate sponsors to generously celebrate the most diverse Congress ever.
00:36:12.000Obviously, they're simply exploiting an opportunity to continue with their agenda as they have always done.
00:36:18.000I believe the issues that they're pretending to care about are important issues.
00:36:22.000And if these issues were correctly addressed, along with all inequality, most notably economic inequality, you would see real change in society.
00:36:30.000Real change in society means diminishing the potential for the powerful to continue to operate within systems that always prefer their desired outcomes.
00:36:42.000The system will always happily make gestures.
00:36:44.000The system will always happily fund jamborees and galas that don't change anything and provide opportunities for Walmart.
00:36:50.000What we need is legitimate change, legitimate alliance, legitimate care and love that looks beyond identity and cares truly and authentically about all of our feelings.
00:37:00.000The advisory board to the CHCI, for instance, features representatives from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mastercard, ExxonMobil, Apple, Airbnb, DeVita, Toyota, Reynolds American, Microsoft, and New York Life Insurance, among other interests.
00:37:15.000Those kind of corporations with that kind of power do not want radical reorganization of society, do not want radical reorganization of profit, do not want the disempowered empowered.
00:37:24.000What they want is the appearance of change, business as usual.
00:37:27.000Last month, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Bequerra, appeared with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to swear in its first year class of nine new members.
00:37:37.000The event featured live music and a message from Jeffries.
00:37:39.000But before Bequerra could administer the oath, Marco Davis, the president of the CHCI, paused the program to thank the sponsors of the swearing-in ceremony, including Genentech, Google, Amgen, Walgreens, and Target.
00:37:51.000We must have equality between Google, Amgen, Walgreens, and Target.
00:37:59.000Do we not all want Walmart to succeed at any cost, paying people the minimum amount possible, extracting as much profit from America, insuring through lobbying that democracy becomes an empty, hollow shell?
00:38:11.000And if in order to maintain this appearance of a system that meaningfully represents people, Once in a while, we have to promote a person who looks a bit different from most powerful people.
00:38:21.000Now, here's some people that look a bit different from most powerful people, but ultimately, their elevation, temporary, will not make any difference to the interests of Walgreens.
00:38:34.000Dammit, we must build a better, more profitable world.
00:38:37.000He then handed the microphone to Omar Vargas, the head lobbyist for General Motors.
00:38:42.000At General Motors, we do not discriminate against anybody.
00:38:46.000And on occasion, when knowing there was something wrong with our vehicles, when it was discovered the callback cost was more expensive than the insurance payouts, we just let those people blow up and die.
00:38:58.000Here are some people of a variety of colors and identities who we would let blow up if we could make money from it.
00:39:04.000Now please enjoy the free bar, which is tax deductible.
00:39:07.000To be very honest with you tonight, said Vargas, General Motors and I are personally extremely committed to diversity in the public policy profession.
00:39:15.000As long as it makes no difference to profits.
00:39:17.000If you had a political party that genuinely cared about helping ordinary people, the kind of policies that you'd hear them talk about would be ending lobbying, Not finding new, novel ways to do it.
00:39:26.000Stopping people in Congress owning stocks and shares in the companies that they regulate.
00:39:30.000Stopping enormous expenditure on wars that ultimately end up in the hands of the military-industrial complex.
00:39:35.000And ensuring that big companies in energy, for example, couldn't extract enormous profits while saying that there's an energy crisis.
00:39:43.000They might stop the annual wage theft of $50 billion that happens to workers based on this story.
00:39:48.000Employers steal billions of dollars from workers every year by paying less than minimum wage, making employees work off the clock, Not paying earned overtime, misclassifying workers as independent contractors and more.
00:39:58.000While wage theft is all too common, it is rarely reported.
00:40:01.000As a result, stolen wages are rarely recovered, leaving already low-wage workers even poorer and bosses even richer.
00:40:07.000That is the kind of thing that, if addressed, would make a meaningful difference to the interests of ordinary people and would negatively impact the interests of powerful institutions, whether they are corporate or governmental.
00:40:17.000So when people talk about the freedom is a dubious term, What they're attempting to do is prevent galvanisation.
00:40:24.000Prevent people coming together, of all races, of all colours, with a wide range of interests, that all ultimately could sit within the framework of a popular movement where we all enjoy more freedom, where we all enjoy more access to resources, and more importantly, democracy.
00:40:37.000Sometimes life does involve suffering.
00:40:39.000Sometimes life does involve sacrifice.
00:40:41.000But what it needn't be about is increasing centralisation.
00:40:45.000Increasing institutional power, increasing surveillance and digital IDs, increasing bigotry and hatred of people of all hues and colors, turning people against one another in order to simply ensure that systems can continue to operate as they currently do for maximum profit and power without any concern for the impact it might have on you.
00:41:41.000And then Dark Dev says YouTube just cut out as soon as you mentioned natural immunity.
00:41:44.000Yeah, that's because we click off as soon as we get into subjects that are going to be censored on that platform, even though that was a mainstream media news report.
00:41:53.000And now there are official studies that state that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines, but the YouTube regulations do not acknowledge that.
00:42:25.000Hey Russell, thanks for having me back.
00:42:27.000Thanks for coming on our last minute after Christian Smalls, Amazon union leader, didn't get delivered.
00:42:32.000We still think he might be next door at any moment.
00:42:34.000He could turn up as a surprise package.
00:42:36.000In fact, we're hoping to get him on the show tomorrow, but we're thrilled to have you on, particularly with a few very pertinent questions to ask you.
00:42:44.000Firstly, I understand you went to that anti-war rally yesterday in Washington DC and there were balloons floating about.
00:42:50.000Were people terrified at the potential that that balloon could spy on them or drift into
00:42:55.000them, maybe brush past them and cause static?
00:42:57.000Yeah, I did see a few F-22s flying around.
00:43:01.000They might have spotted some balloons, but the rally was really great.
00:43:05.000It was the Rage Against the War Machine rally, and it brought together people from all over
00:43:09.000the political spectrum, which is, you know, our whole thing and antiwar.com.
00:43:13.000I was organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party.
00:43:16.000Speakers included Jimmy Dore, who I know was on here to promote it, and Ron Paul, which was really amazing, Chris Hedges, our guy Scott Horton, just a whole list.
00:43:26.000Max Blumenthal, Dan McKnight, just a great lineup.
00:43:30.000I mean, I'm missing a lot of people because there were so many speakers.
00:43:34.000There was a few thousand estimates I saw were between three and four thousand, which is good.
00:43:39.000You know, we hope for more next time, but I think it's a good start.
00:43:42.000It's the first kind of rally of its kind during this current, you know, proxy war in Ukraine that brought together, again, everybody from the political spectrum.
00:43:51.000And they got the big names and they spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, which was really great to see.
00:43:55.000And then they marched to the White House and there was more speakers there.
00:44:00.000And again, seeing the libertarians and the leftists and the conservatives just all mingling and talking, that was what made me really happy to see that they could get together on that.
00:44:10.000And I was there with my son, who's 15 months old.
00:44:13.000He just started walking, so my attention was focused on that.
00:44:17.000I wanted to write up kind of like a proper report on it, but I had a great time.
00:44:20.000It was great to meet people there, and it really invigorated me, you know, gave me some new motivation.
00:44:25.000I've got some pitches now for your son's autobiography if he goes on to be a significant public figure.
00:44:31.000March, before I could walk, my first steps in the activist movement.
00:44:36.000That's completely free, you can have that.
00:44:38.000Meanwhile, over in the... And also, by the way, those kind of political alliances that are forming, libertarians on the right, they're interested in individual freedom.
00:44:46.000People to the left of the Democrat Party who are interested in collective community freedom and the empowerment of communities rather than centralized government, devolution and decentralization, individual freedom.
00:44:57.000These are the banners and flags that we can all march under together, I reckon.
00:45:02.000Meanwhile, in that not a proxy war, Isn't it hotting up a bit, mate?
00:45:07.000Because Zelensky does say that it's part of his plan to take Crimea.
00:45:11.000Zelensky has said that he never planned to honour the Minsk agreement about what's going on in Donbass.
00:45:17.000And also, isn't it pretty clear that if Crimea gets taken, we might all find ourselves in a terrible pickle nuclear Armageddon-wise?
00:45:27.000Yeah, and there's a few interesting points there when it comes to Crimea.
00:45:30.000So last month in January, there was a report in the New York Times that said the Biden administration was considering helping Ukraine attack Crimea, said they weren't concerned about escalation.
00:45:40.000And this is just based on the fact that Putin hasn't used the nuke up to this point.
00:46:05.000In October, if you remember the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland.
00:46:11.000After that is when Russia started the large-scale bombing of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainians without power.
00:46:18.000The fact that she says that and the New York Times reports it that way, oh, they haven't done anything.
00:46:22.000It shows they don't care about Ukrainians.
00:46:26.000Shows how dislocated are from the consequences of their actions.
00:46:30.000For the Ukrainian people, the loss of that energy was a pretty significant loss and a pretty considerable exacerbation in the conditions they're living under.
00:46:38.000And of course, we remember that bridge bombing because I feel like British special forces were significantly involved in enacting it.
00:46:48.000That's the British response to that line of inquiry.
00:46:53.000So, what other developments around Crimea are you going to tell us about, mate?
00:46:58.000Yeah, well, so recently last week, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he acknowledged that taking Crimea would be a red line for Putin, which, you know, we've been saying all along and people call us Putin apologists for that.
00:47:50.000But then you see Biden flying to Kiev today, or however, he maybe he went on a train.
00:47:55.000I'm not sure how he got in, but to show Zelensky, you know, that support from the US.
00:48:00.000And I think that's pretty big symbolic when it comes to the proxy war, the president of the United States entering a war zone.
00:48:07.000But maybe behind the scenes, you know, in private meetings, he's telling them, all right, you know, this this aid spigot isn't going to be open forever.
00:48:14.000You got to start gaining some territory, which is what the US wants them to gain territory and then negotiate.
00:48:20.000But Russia has been building up its forces for months and months, and they're starting to gain territory.
00:48:25.000So these next few months are going to be pivotal.
00:48:28.000And there's talk that they're going to try to wind things down, but anything can happen.
00:48:31.000I mean, the escalation risk is still there, of course.
00:48:35.000The risk of nuclear war and direct war between NATO and Russia has never been higher, and it's just madness.
00:48:40.000So hopefully it ends as soon as possible and that, you know, these next few months aren't too bad.
00:48:45.000Dave, you're getting a lot of love in our community on Locals, that's our membership community, that any of you are welcome to join at any time and get additional content and the ability to communicate directly live in the show.
00:48:55.000MCMT says, Hi Russell, I really like Dave and I'm really enjoying his contributions.
00:49:01.000Trilo, Bitterus, our government only cares about world political and economic domination, not the lives of Ukrainians or Russians.
00:49:10.000What do you think, mate, about Not only this conflict, but the ongoing escalation of tension between Taiwan, China and the United States.
00:49:20.000We did earlier on a little item of how the various ways in which the territory of Taiwan, to forgive the use of that term, is comparable to Ukraine, i.e. vital resources, in this
00:49:33.000case like the semiconductor industry, strategic benefits for the United States already in a place
00:49:41.000where there is sort of militarization taking place. And also what about the story that China are
00:49:49.000So with Taiwan, you know, there's a lot there and this has been going on for some time.
00:49:56.000I went over, you know, last time I was here, so I don't want to say too much about how the U.S.
00:49:59.000used to handle it, but basically the U.S.
00:50:02.000used to give Taiwan, they would sell them weapons, but they wouldn't encourage them too much to declare independence because they knew that could start a war with China.
00:50:18.000What really concerns me with Taiwan, Is that in Congress there is some opposition to the war in Ukraine and it comes from a lot of Republicans.
00:50:26.000It's small but it's still significant.
00:50:29.000When it comes to Taiwan, a lot of them are all for sending these weapons, not to Ukraine, but to Taiwan.
00:50:36.000If you know Josh Hawley, he's a senator from Missouri, and he really encapsulates this line of thinking.
00:51:05.000You know, when they first started passing these bills that had military aid for Taiwan, Mitt Romney, the senator, if you're familiar with him, he said, you know, what we're doing is very provocative and bellicose.
00:51:18.000Mitt Romney said that, and then he voted for it anyway.
00:51:21.000He voted in favor of sending them the aid anyway.
00:51:23.000So that's the path that we're going on there.
00:51:26.000And again, it's not slowing down by any means, because there's no opposition.
00:51:31.000If you know Ro Khanna from California, House Representative, Democrat, progressive, He's against the Middle East Wars.
00:51:37.000He's very good on Yemen and issues like that.
00:52:35.000And in terms of US politics, currently there is no option that will not give you an escalation Of global agitation that seems like the Republican right or the Republican Party in particular are keen to escalate tension with China.
00:52:53.000The Democrats have several years now demonized Russia and the idea that Diplomacy, multipolar worlds where different regions have different government that don't require intervention, seems odd to me at this point in our history, when progress seems observable in the areas of technology and medicine in so many ways.
00:53:19.000that we are making such rudimentary errors when the consequences could be so grave and you know it's great that you're uh you know the walmart that you and jimmy and everyone from gray zone and all those groups that we're sort of that we're really supportive of and consider ourselves to be allies with uh... like i i you know create enough by movement around it
00:54:04.000I focus my work at Antiwar.com, and we're a non-profit, so we can't do political work, but I am a supporter personally.
00:54:11.000And, you know, the Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the U.S., and right now they're focusing on local elections.
00:54:19.000And, you know, that's kind of our whole thing as Libertarians, is decentralization and localizing, and so that's really important.
00:54:27.000And again, it comes to the coalition, I think it's very important just to be able to drop it.
00:54:32.000I mean, we had Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich at this rally, and back when they were in Congress, Kucinich, the progressive, and Ron Paul, the right-wing libertarian, they worked together on all sorts of issues that they aligned on.
00:54:45.000And luckily, you know, we're always talking about the mainstream media, how they control the narrative.
00:54:50.000I mean, since I've been on your show, I've been checking out Rumble More, and I see these shows on here getting huge audiences, and I think that's really encouraging.
00:54:57.000And also Joe Rogan is the biggest media in the world.
00:55:01.000And my friend Dave Smith, I'm not sure if you're familiar with him,
00:55:04.000he's a comedian, it's a podcast called Part of the Problem.
00:55:07.000He went on Joe Rogan and he told them, you know, the truth about how the US provoked the war in Ukraine.
00:55:11.000And that got millions of views on YouTube.
00:55:14.000And so I think we're living in a very good time to be pushing this.
00:55:19.000You know, of course, we have the sensors with big tech, but there's ways around it.
00:55:25.000And it's tough to not get too cynical doing what I do, just writing and researching about all this horrible stuff.
00:55:33.000But again, this weekend, I'm really motivated.
00:55:35.000And I really appreciate people like you who have big platforms and are willing to have us on to speak these truths that people need to hear.
00:55:44.000And much of the censorship and the smearing and the shutting down of dissent and the constant projection of inane stories and the provocation of division and entrenching overly lobbied political parties So Dave, thanks for coming on here.
00:56:01.000Thanks for the incredible work that you're doing.
00:56:03.000I'm going to be in America in the next couple of weeks.
00:56:31.000Remember that title I gave for your son's potential forthcoming autobiography, March Before I Could Walk, my first tentative steps as an activist?
00:56:49.000She's reporting on the Ohio train wreck and the lobbying by rail companies to avoid safety measures that haven't led to... Oh no, there's been a massive train wreck!
00:56:58.000We're going to be talking about that story a little bit more and its connotations.
00:57:01.000I like the way that it exposes the hypocrisy and lack of depth to the rhetoric around ecological care.
00:57:09.000And this is an opportunity to bring people together.
00:57:12.000Look, we're talking about the ecology, the environment, how much we care about it.
00:57:15.000Here's a chance for us to demonstrate that care through our actions.
00:57:22.000I think, you know, what's been labelled the bad administration and I think the best is that they've been basically silent and just haven't really been involved in this and at worst are some of the things that they'll ever uncovering which we spoke about earlier and obviously Julie will talk about that tomorrow about them side literally siding with the railroad company
00:57:46.000We've got some other exciting content tomorrow for you.
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00:58:03.000What you need is someone who's got no connections to the pharmaceutical industry and I hope that they'll start there.
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