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00:02:22.000So listen, but once we leave YouTube, we are going to be talking about a new story that suggests that the, you know lockdown, you know quarantines, were the benefits little more than a bloody drop in the bucket?
00:03:48.000I reckon that QAnon shaman came along with mild curiosity on January the 6th, like barely any enthusiasm for the event.
00:03:56.000Then perhaps, well, we can find out because later on in the show we'll be talking once more to Stephen Friend, FBI whistleblower.
00:04:03.000He was on the show yesterday, enjoyed it so much that he's back again with some interesting new insights that he thought were not appropriate to make yesterday, but he's willing to make now, now that we've bonded.
00:04:19.000There's some leggings and I think Bad Graphics Jack has created an image of me wearing them with the minimal effort and sloppy delivery that those of you familiar with his work will recognize by now.
00:04:40.000Yeah, you're in a strange mood in that photo.
00:04:43.000Listen, that's not the mood you'd be in if you decided to dress up as the QAnon Shaman, well not dress up as the QAnon, celebrate him in his merch.
00:04:53.000I feel like the QAnon Shaman, there's a lot of dispute around Tucker Carlson's footage, the thousands of hours of footage that he showed that appeared at points to demonstrate that various officials ushered in particular the QAnon Shaman into the Capitol.
00:05:12.000I didn't see any footage of him looking anything other than an absolute sweetheart, did you?
00:05:16.000Like, I'm not saying that people didn't do bad things, people had those zip ties or whatever, and there was a lot of excitement and hijinks, I'd say, at very minimum, and violence at worst, certainly on behalf of the Capitol Police, that's a matter of record, as well as, as we've demonstrated and as these FBI whistleblowers have revealed, the numerous deep state operatives.
00:05:38.000Yeah, I mean, I think that's the thing about the footage, isn't it?
00:05:39.000One of the things that probably Tucker felt was so important at the time was that the footage that was emerging and that they didn't want to show, we know that some of it was because there were so many Secret Service agents in the crowds that they didn't want to give their identities away.
00:05:55.000And if you get to a point where you're like, there's like hundreds of Secret Service in the crowds, now people are thinking, well, what role did they play in potentially instigating Let me know in the chat what you think the role of the Deep State was on January the 6th.
00:06:09.000Have the mainstream media exploited the event to create new legislation around protest laws, new funding around the Capitol, or was it a scar on America's democracy as many have said?
00:06:21.000One of the worst events since 9-11 I think some people said.
00:06:24.000Later on in the show we'll be talking about Apple's Vision Pro headset As Apple attempts to conquer reality in ways that Facebook simply could not.
00:06:34.000And we're talking about Apple's unique position.
00:06:36.000If Apple were a nation, it would be the eighth biggest nation in the world.
00:08:15.000Even when there are people who have different political heritage to you and a different political perspective, surely all of us advocate for free speech, except for where free speech intersects or crosses over with things that are already a crime, like instigating violence that's already a crime, suggesting other criminal activity.
00:08:32.000Those things are covered elsewhere, but other than those examples, you want...
00:08:35.000Talking a lot about the military-industrial complex, which I think he should be allowed to talk about.
00:09:20.000Shall we have a look at some Dystopian?
00:09:21.000Before getting into Apple and Apple's attempt to conquer reality by giving you a pair of silly swimming goggles that prevent you from making eye contact with your offspring, claiming it's going to somehow be good for your family, let's look at how Dystopia engulfs us in other ways.
00:09:41.000That is when Jack used to make good graphics, way back when Jack made good graphics.
00:09:45.000The Pentagon admitted spending $1 billion per year on killer death rays.
00:09:51.000That doesn't sound like a good product.
00:09:52.000Have you got any more information on that, Gareth?
00:09:54.000Yeah, so they're spending roughly a billion dollars of taxpayer money on research into laser beam and microwave directed energy weapons.
00:10:03.000So this could have unlimited ammunition, be cheaper than regular weapons apparently, melt steel and even make it possible to intercept and take down nuclear missiles if they were fired at the US.
00:10:15.000It's one of the best killer def rays that money can buy.
00:10:17.000Right, apparently though they're less effective in fog or storms and could pose the risk of indiscriminately harming both friend and foe in close proximity to the weapons.
00:10:27.000You don't need to worry about the indiscriminate destruction of friends and foe.
00:10:31.000There's no precedent for people being bombed willy-nilly by friendly fire and collateral
00:10:37.000damage in every single war there's ever been.
00:10:39.000And if that's not enough dystopian news for you, our country, the United Kingdom, are
00:10:44.000upgrading their Skynet satellite system.
00:10:46.000They're trying to make it sound like it's not bad, but they've called it Skynet, and
00:10:51.000even in their attempt to sort of paliate and appease us.
00:10:55.000They've said like, oh no, Skynet, all it is, is a satellite system that allows everyone to be interconnected and use weapons simultaneously.
00:11:18.000Instead, the Ministry of Defence wants to upgrade its military satellites to provide better communication to the UK's armed forces and allies in NATO and elsewhere.
00:12:27.000And often, since they changed their funding model, they're a lot more likely to pass new medicines and drugs first time round.
00:12:35.000That's one of the things that was noticed.
00:12:36.000But it's interesting, Elon Musk was probably speaking, he's a free speech hero, but Neuralink, I don't know about Neuralink's sort of odd wheelbarrow of qualities, isn't there like claims that it can heal obesity, heart disease, mind cancer, and then didn't they say like at the last minute also it's So it's a range of conditions that he's looking to cure, including obesity, autism, depression, and schizophrenia, and to enable web browsing and telepathy, which seems like odd add-ons, I would suggest.
00:14:50.000But just a little warning about NewerLink.
00:14:53.000So yeah, all in all the company has killed about one and a half thousand animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys following experiments since 2018.
00:14:59.000I can do that at will. Give us a rumble!
00:15:19.000Musk said in December he'll be ready for human trials within six months and that he was so confident in it that he would like to see implants in his children.
00:19:40.000Well, Stephen Friend ain't got missing because he's here and he messaged us.
00:19:43.000He goes, I don't want to get off topic when I was on your show yesterday, but I think you'd appreciate that both my siblings have stick figure tattoos of you.
00:21:01.000I'm not cool enough for a tattoo, I'm not like you, but I definitely wanted to experience watching them get that done, and I did.
00:21:10.000I took my bride at the time, who was my girlfriend, and we watched them get about the size of your palm on their left side of the ribcage.
00:21:20.000That's on the ribs, is it, that stick figure series?
00:21:22.000Firstly, it played a real part in the heritage.
00:21:25.000Do you think in some way that inspired you to make the brave decision to stand up against the FBI when you noticed corruption?
00:21:32.000You drew some nourishment from seeing that image on your siblings, thinking, no, I will not let the deep state mislead the American people.
00:21:41.000What would Ol' Russ in the form of all the snow in the film Sarah Marshall have done?
00:21:45.000Well, it looks like, based on that image, he'd have pried his anus open.
00:22:42.000It's a good stick figure, and I'm very glad that I could contribute to your journey to becoming an American hero and whistleblower with my erotic dance.
00:23:36.000And when I texted them and asked for pictures and said that I would be sending them your way, I got a response within minutes from both of them.
00:23:43.000My brother was very upset, though, because he just had Taco Tuesday and felt that it didn't represent his figure very well.
00:24:05.000I think that his response afterwards, where his name was put out, his picture was put out, he seemed to be calling up the FBI pretty quickly and wanting to set things straight.
00:25:36.000Even though Steven Friend's revelations are significant, along with those of Garrett O'Boyle, the FBI is so corrupt, the deep state is so corrupt, my concern is a little more than a drop in a bucket.
00:25:49.000And that is what some people are saying that the lockdown benefits were.
00:25:53.000This is from a mainstream media piece.
00:25:55.000Lockdown benefits are a drop in the bucket compared to the costs as a landmark study.
00:25:59.000Now, we cannot be expected to talk about this on the WHO's platform, YouTube, where they are alive, living in lockstep when it comes to matters of reporting on such matters, where any independent media source is immediately dismissed as a conspiratorial outlet.
00:26:15.000Where in fact what we want is to bring people together in truth, and this is a crazy time.
00:26:19.000People used to say that extraterrestrials were the subject of mere conspiracy, as well as the CIA involvement in a whole raft of former conspiracy theorists.
00:26:27.000I won't even list them now, but by God, I'll list them on Rumble, and we'll be talking about the potential drop in a bucketness Of the whole lockdown measure!
00:26:37.000And also, is that phrase dropping a bucket?
00:26:39.000If you're watching us on Rumble, join us over on Locals.
00:26:41.000If you're watching us on YouTube, there is a link in the description so you can join us on that platform of free speech that is Rumble.
00:27:31.000Imagine if you could see them, all of their lives, all of their beauty, their limitless grace, those lives should be saved, according to a landmark study which concludes the benefits of the policy were, once again, that phrase, drop in the bucket, is the phrase that's sweeping the nation.
00:27:45.000Compared to the staggering collateral costs, that's the other stuff that's in the bucket, scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Lund University examined almost 20,000 studies on measures taken to protect populations against Covid across the world.
00:27:57.000Their findings suggest that lockdowns in response to the first wave of the pandemic, when compared with less strict policies adopted by the likes of Sweden, prevented as few as 1,700 deaths in England and Wales.
00:28:08.000In an average week there are around 11,000 deaths In England and Wales.
00:28:13.000The report of us said the finding shows the draconian measures had a negligible impact on Covid mortality and were a policy failure of gigantic proportions.
00:28:23.000Now what do you imagine might have been, and you can let us know this in the chat particularly if you join us in locals right now, what do you imagine Were there consequences for people that were taking chemotherapy, heart medicine, mental health disorders, addiction?
00:28:58.000So it's about the measures that we take and the impacts that they have on a society.
00:29:03.000And when you, as you just said, when you then take into consideration things like a massive spike in cancer rates, a backlog of 7 million patients in the UK now as a result of these lockdowns, of the effects on children's health and education, economic growth, Um, large increases in public debt.
00:29:23.000You know, in America, for example, the fourth leading cause of death now is poverty.
00:29:28.000And as we know, one of the big, um, uh, things to come from the pandemic was the loss of small businesses and things.
00:29:35.000So poverty and how people are affected by the pandemic economically is a massive factor in this.
00:29:41.000In the chat, G Hill says, that drop landed on my fridge.
00:29:45.000Which is a sentence I'm very, very happy to read.
00:30:11.000When Biology Always Wins says, when are we going to be talking about the many people who need blood transfusions and you want blood from a non-vaccinated blood, especially when you know what happened to so many people?
00:30:20.000Well, that's you've strayed out of the area of science there.
00:31:01.000Like a drop, a dribble it, a snibble it.
00:31:03.000It's a drop all over your free speech.
00:31:05.000Yeah, we've talked about Neuralink, true chimera, and in a minute we're going to be talking about Apple Vision.
00:31:11.000Absolutely fantastic advert to talk about there.
00:31:15.000Sometimes when I look at you speaking and just bringing in all these ideas, I think that maybe you've already had the Neuralink operation done.
00:32:28.000Big tech platforms are trying to take over the world.
00:32:32.000After Zuckerberg's metaverse has plainly failed, can Apple succeed where my BJJ opponent Zuckerberg has yet to?
00:32:42.000Is it possible that the AppleGog pros' goggle boxes for the vision holes could possibly succeed?
00:32:49.000This new advert, brilliantly crafted piece of propaganda, seems to suggest that it might.
00:32:55.000But Apple with their ongoing court cases, Apple with their power of a massive nation, I'm talking Senegal, I'm talking Finland, I'm talking Belgium, one of the bestest countries there ever would be...
00:33:06.000Is it right to have these goggle boxes unleashed on the world?
00:33:11.000And do they make really, really good adverts?
00:33:14.000Let's have a look at this hairy Viking man putting on some swimming goggles that help him to swim into a new reality.
00:33:20.000Dreamer You're nothing but a dreamer Interesting that they're using that track because in a sense he is being put into an illusion, a dystopic one in my view, even though it's well designed.
00:33:40.000It's got a lovely Swedish looking premises there.
00:37:41.000I suppose these are some interesting facts to supplement this.
00:37:44.000Apple makes $1.4 billion but avoids paying tax in the UK.
00:37:48.000The US tech giant also paid $25 million in dividends.
00:37:53.000The tech giant has found a tax haven in the island of Jersey, leaving billions of dollars untouched by the United States.
00:37:58.000Leaked documents revealed in 2017, $252 billion.
00:38:00.000I suppose What we have is an institution, a body, a corporation that's more powerful than nations, therefore able to bias and influence laws, it's able to redirect legislation, and now is pioneering new realms where reality itself may be dominated.
00:38:22.000When you envisage a dystopia where people have potentially chips in their brains, where More and more, when I say they, I mean we, when we're more and more divorced from one another and more divorced from the experience of nature.
00:38:35.000I see these as the sort of incremental stepping stones on our way to a reality where we're more and more cut off from one another and the sensory realm.
00:39:04.000And a bit like with mobile phones, you know, when we talked about the FBI, one of the revelations about the FBI and them spying on us, spying on doing 300,000 illegal searches.
00:39:13.000Well, we know that we are inviting this spying by owning these phones.
00:39:18.000Well, we're going one step further when we're going to put something like this on our edge.
00:39:20.000They famously participate with the Deep State.
00:39:25.000It's possible that even at their inception there was possible funding, certainly in the case of Google and other global Goliaths.
00:39:33.000And when you hear that Neuralink have been rushing, have we got that headline?
00:39:36.000Neuralink are rushing their Neuralink.
00:39:39.000Don't rush it, do it slowly and deliberately.
00:40:47.000Yeah, they're obviously making it about craft and creativity and a certain kind of aesthetic, which Apple have historically been geniuses at.
00:40:57.000It's essentially many people have offered the critique that Apple is primarily about design over function that their
00:41:03.000products look beautiful It's not about their effectiveness
00:41:06.000It's about the feeling that they have and certainly I've been
00:41:09.000beguiled by that type of market into the point where I see of our types of phone or laptop or computer as
00:41:16.000inferior even though many people say the reverse is true, but
00:41:18.000outside of the aesthetics is clearly an appetite for dominion a fierce battle being fought for IP and a
00:41:26.000very kind of a seriousness when it comes to propriety
00:41:31.000Ownership, so is it a good thing that Apple are able to curate new levels of reality?
00:42:37.000I regard religion as scientifically interesting.
00:42:40.000If religious belief is true, then it's a very, very different kind of universe from if there isn't.
00:42:46.000Sometimes it does seem to me that you are almost determined to arrive at a materialistic outcome in the same manner that I am determined to believe in God.
00:44:51.000Now you might think that sounds, oh no, it's a bit boring.
00:44:53.000I don't like ceilings that are made of debt.
00:44:55.000But what's happening is that there's a bipartisan agreement to provide limitless funding to potential wars like the current Ukraine-Russia conflict and any potential conflict with China over Taiwan.
00:45:11.000And it's being presented as if there's like Oh, look at the harmony and wonder, everyone coming together and putting their arms around each other and buying the world a Coke.
00:45:19.000But actually, like under closer scrutiny, Gareth, it looks a lot more like the political class agreeing to fund the military-industrial complex.
00:46:08.000The Democrats and Republicans have decided to work together in giving more money to the military-industrial complex and cutting spending on vital things for ordinary Americans.
00:46:22.000Joe Biden's boasting that he's brought Democrats and Republicans together in some sort of historic moment, but it's not that historic unless your history of the world is horrible events where the military-industrial complex nick all your money to spend it on wars that we'd probably be better off without.
00:46:37.000My fellow Americans, when I ran for president, I was told the days of bipartisanship were over and that Democrats and Republicans could no longer work together.
00:47:11.000Could you stop giving all that money to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin for, I believe, unnecessary wars?
00:47:17.000Because America can never give in to that way of thinking.
00:47:21.000Look, the only way American democracy can function is by funnelling taxpayers' money to the military-industrial complex, by accepting lobbying, by having a donor class that bypass democratic process.
00:48:25.000This bipartisan budget agreement is not an example of more democracy, it's an example of less democracy.
00:48:31.000Both parties have agreed to remove the debt ceiling in order to give more of your money to the military-industrial complex while slashing spending on public amenities, things that are valuable and important and necessary in your life.
00:48:45.000This is being presented to you as good news.
00:48:51.000Because it's essential to the progress we've made over the last few years is keeping full faith and credit of the United States of America.
00:49:00.000On our show we've had Robert F Kennedy, Cornel West, Marianne Williamson.
00:49:05.000All of them are running for president.
00:49:07.000Any one of them would be better, at least at public speaking, than Joe Biden.
00:49:11.000And all of them have more, I believe, integrity than Joe Biden.
00:49:14.000I don't think any of them, if you were to investigate and go, oh look this Did you do a bunch of deals with Ukrainian and Chinese energy companies?
00:49:21.000That won't happen if you investigate Cornel West or Marianne Williamson or Robert F. Kennedy.
00:49:26.000These are all people that I believe are seriously interested in improving the experience of ordinary Americans.
00:49:33.000Dealing with the complexity of all of the different types of lives that Americans lead.
00:49:37.000The complexity of the global issues we're currently confronted with.
00:49:43.000I don't know which one of them would be best, but I know that any one of them would be better than Joe Biden.
00:49:47.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you agree.
00:49:48.000I'm passing a budget that continues to grow our economy and reflects our values as a nation.
00:49:54.000That's why I'm speaking to you tonight.
00:49:56.000To report on the crisis averted and what we're doing to protect America's future.
00:50:00.000Let's have a look at this story a little more closely and with a little more clarity.
00:50:04.000The debt ceiling agreement reached between the White House and House Republicans places no constraints on spending on the war in Ukraine, a White House official told Bloomberg.
00:50:43.000The $113 billion that's been authorised to spend on the war in Ukraine so far was passed as supplemental emergency funds, which is exempt from the spending caps that are part of the debt ceiling deal.
00:50:53.000Would you mind if we separate it off from this military industrial complex expenditure which we'll just call emergency.
00:50:59.000We'll just separate it off as emergency expenditure.
00:51:03.000What kind of emergency is it that requires that you spend excessively on missiles and weaponry for a conflict that, by any reckoning, is not in America?
00:51:13.000According to the Congressional Budget Office, funding designated as an emergency requirement or for overseas contingency operations would not be constrained.
00:51:22.000The emergency funds could go beyond Ukraine and might be used to send weapons to Taiwan or for other spending that hawks favour as part of their strategy against China.
00:52:06.000Is this a bad thing for America that the debt ceiling is being removed but somehow still money's being funneled into wars I don't think are for what they're telling?
00:52:14.000I mean, it's almost immeasurable corruption.
00:52:17.000The bill will cut federal spending by $55 billion in 2024 and $81 billion in 2025.
00:52:23.000Moody's Analytics estimates that thanks to the bill, there will be 120,000 fewer jobs at the end of 2024 than there would be without it.
00:52:31.000It depends on whether you think jobs are a good thing or not.
00:52:34.000We could have a big conversation about whether or not the economy and society more broadly needs to be reorganised but I think in the short term that's bad.
00:52:40.000Whereas the bill would raise defence spending to $886 billion in the fiscal year 2024, an increase of 3.3% and raise it again to $895 billion in 2025.
00:52:45.000year 2024, an increase of 3.3% and raise it again to $895 billion in 2025. It looks like
00:52:51.000what's being built in is systemic corruption and ongoing funneling of your resources, if
00:52:58.000you're an American, towards a particular set of interests.
00:53:01.000That's what it looks like from the outset, while taking money from places that, I don't know, seem like they could be beneficial.
00:53:07.000The multi-year cap on non-military discretionary spending will deprive millions of people of health coverage, food assistance, rent support and other necessities.
00:53:16.000No one in the media cares to mention the origins of the massive levels of debt accumulated by the American government, which have These are important ideas.
00:53:23.000That's what Joe Biden should be sat there quivering, trembling, barely able to articulate.
00:53:26.000with the bailout of the banks and tax cuts for the rich.
00:53:29.000These are important ideas. That's what Joe Biden should be sat there quivering, trembling, barely able
00:53:34.000to articulate. He should be telling you the money that was found to bail out the banks, money
00:53:39.000that's been found for a war between Russia and Ukraine, cannot be found for ordinary American
00:53:45.000Now, I know many of you will have rhetoric in your mind rattling around about, oh, the welfare state, it makes people poorer, it makes people worse.
00:53:53.000These are complicated ideas that perhaps can be discussed at length.
00:53:56.000One thing I think we can agree on is it's not good to continually funnel resources towards the wealthiest,
00:54:04.000most powerful interests in the world. That's not benefiting you. Have I gone crazy? I
00:54:08.000mean, I'm wearing an odd dressing gown. In 2022 alone, Congress approved $113 billion in aid
00:54:14.000to Ukraine, part of more than $1 trillion in overall military spending. Only a few months
00:54:19.000ago, the Biden administration, with the support of both parties, organised the rapid bailout
00:54:23.000of a whole series of banks, guaranteeing the deposits of the wealthy.
00:54:27.000The bipartisan assault on workers' social rights follows the precedent set by the Obama administration, which responded to the 2008 subprime mortgage financial collapse by organizing a multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street and the corporate elite.
00:54:40.000That was followed by the bankruptcy restructuring of the U.S.
00:54:42.000auto industry based on the imposition of tiers, pay cuts, and attacks on pensions and health benefits.
00:54:48.000In 2011, the Obama-Biden administration established the precedent for the current debt ceiling operation.
00:54:53.000Agreeing to cap federal discretionary spending for five years by imposing massive social cuts, Biden led the negotiations with the Republicans.
00:55:01.000So there you go, Biden, whether as president or vice president, has been facilitating bailouts for the banks and cuts That's for ordinary Americans.
00:55:08.000This turn to austerity was bound up with the turn towards war with Russia and China.
00:55:13.000Obama oversaw the 2014 maiden coup which initiated the events that culminated in the escalating US-NATO war in Russia.
00:55:20.000It seems that the political class always favour their own hegemonic aspirations over the needs of the American people.
00:55:28.000Bailing out banks, instigating wars, cutting expenditure that Good news!
00:55:33.000We've got the mafia and the Nazis working together!
00:55:35.000of pretending that this is some unavoidable set of crises and events.
00:55:40.000Bipartisanship sounds like a good thing, but when both parties are corrupt it's not that good.
00:55:45.000Good news! We've got the Mafia and the Nazis working together! Hooray!
00:55:49.000Here are some other achievements of bipartisanship.
00:55:52.000The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
00:55:55.000In the last days of the Clinton administration, the House passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act 29260.
00:56:02.000157 Democrats voted for it, together with 133 Republicans.
00:56:06.000The Senate passed it under unanimous consent.
00:56:08.000By exempting many financial instruments from regulation, This extremely bipartisan bill helped lay the groundwork for the 2008 financial meltdown and the subsequent near-depression.
00:56:18.000In 2013, Bill Clinton privately spoke about his desperate attempts to stop the act from passing.
00:57:42.000It has been used as justification by Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump for military action in 12 countries, including Afghanistan, plus drone strikes and regular bombing in seven.
00:57:54.000Bipartisanship is not good if both parties are bad.
00:57:58.000About 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001.
00:58:02.000All in one, the war on terror is estimated to have caused 4.5 million deaths, a ratio of 1,500 to 1.
00:58:09.000That doesn't seem like a good solution.
00:58:11.000I don't think it's made things any better.
00:58:14.000I think it's legitimised imperialistic behaviour around the world and ultimately benefited the same kind of interests that will benefit from the legislature that's currently being passed.
00:58:25.000Authorisation for use of military force against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
00:58:30.000215 Republicans and 81 Democrats voted in October 2002 to give Bush the power to invade Iraq.
00:58:36.000In the Senate, 48 Republicans and 29 Democrats voted yes.
00:58:39.000Bush fired Larry Lindsay, the director of his National Economic Council, for saying the US might have to spend as much as $200 billion on the war.
00:58:47.000It would eventually cost America at least $2.4 trillion.
00:58:51.000It's almost immeasurably bad to think of all the lives that have been lost, all of the money that's been spent.
00:58:57.000I'm not able to hold in my consciousness the scale of suffering and the scale of expenditure, let alone the idea that it's all being funded by you while you're literally doing your job and working.
00:59:08.000I was living in America during that period, so I paid for some of that and I want my money back.
00:59:58.000It was totally bipartisan with 207 Republicans and 73 Democrats voting for it in the House, plus 44 Republicans and 25 Democrats voting yes in the Senate.
01:00:06.000The rationale for the bill, as is clear from its name, was this was going to create tons of great American jobs.
01:00:11.000In reality, lots of the money from this and other Bush tax cuts went to bigger paychecks for corporate executives.
01:00:17.000Do you notice that during this cost of living crisis, Food companies, energy companies, big tech companies, pharmaceutical companies are making a lot of money and people in the financial industry are receiving bonuses.
01:00:30.000This is not an attack on any individuals.
01:00:31.000This is an attempt to address systemic corruption.
01:00:34.000And systemic corruption takes place when the President of the United States sits there in front of a bunch of family photographs telling you that bipartisanship is an indication of harmony when it is in fact an indication of corruption.
01:00:47.000Corruption in this instance means taking your money, taxpayer dollars, and giving it to the military-industrial complex.
01:00:52.000People will say, no, it's to help Ukrainian people, but come on.
01:00:55.000When you look at this litany of events, this history of malfeasance, do you think that the same people, the same system, the same ideology that created all of these horrific events is suddenly now doing the right thing?
01:01:11.000And I don't think it will ever change until we elevate voices in the political space like those I listed.
01:01:15.000Marianne Williamson, Robert F. Kennedy, and Cornel West.
01:01:19.000People that will change the conversation.
01:01:21.000Then the systems themselves have to alter to prevent corporations and financial interests that are beyond national boundaries dictating the policies of countries like yours, mine, and all of the nations of the earth.
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