00:01:04.000Thanks for joining me on Rumble for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:01:07.000If you're watching this on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble, particularly after about 10, 15 minutes or so, where we will be using freedom of speech to say the most uncanny, absurd, and ultimately truthful things.
00:01:19.000Things that might not please the establishment, but will certainly present opportunities for you to awaken, form new alliances, and ultimately new systems that will replace This corrupt carnival that's taking place even now, particularly around Donald Trump's arraignment and ongoing criminalization.
00:02:42.000to this reporter trying to discern and diagnose anger from the side of someone's head like using a still listen to it like i mean i've been obsessively in love with people over the course of my love life over the course of my life i've been obsessively in love with people But I've never, like, scrutinised a person's face, like, trying to discern some sort of real emotion in quite the manner that this CNN reporter scrutinises Trump, trying to divine anger as if it was some hidden stream being pursued by a rod.
00:03:34.000Look at, like, that, like, also, wouldn't you just freeze someone?
00:03:38.000Like, and actually, one of the ways that I can tell a really good actor in a movie is, you know, sometimes when you press pause in a movie, not for any nefarious or onanistic reason, you're just pausing it because you do now, the same way as you watch everything with subtitles on now, the way the world's all changed and everything.
00:03:51.000Do you watch everything with subtitles?
00:04:26.000It might have started as a misdemeanor, but by God, we're going to amplify it.
00:04:29.000It'll be a felony by the time we've finished with it.
00:04:32.000It's either amplify this to a felony or address the fact that our political movement offers no meaningful alternatives to systemic corruption, and we ain't going to be doing that anytime soon.
00:04:42.000Yeah, if you pause a film, you can tell.
00:04:43.000Like, say if you pause Daniel Day-Lewis, probably at any moment in There Will Be Blood, he'll always be sort of going, Hey!
00:06:59.000The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent.
00:07:09.000They can't on CNN go, look, to be honest... Don't know what he was thinking.
00:08:12.000There's no alternative but to feel the screen.
00:08:15.000Otherwise there would be an Irredeemable void.
00:08:19.000We're back in the Byzantine situation where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal itself from the fact that God no longer exists.
00:08:27.000That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.
00:08:38.000That they're terrified that they cannot provide an alternative to the nihilism that materialism and post-enlightenment rationalism has created.
00:08:47.000If all that matters is what you want as an individual, if your religion is just your preferences and your aversions, Then who are we?
00:08:55.000If you negate the possibility of the unknowable, the possibility of the mystery, the possibility that we are infinitely and limitlessly connected to one another in ways that are difficult to discern, if you accept that we are somehow connected to one another, and even if that's from a cosmological perspective, i.e.
00:09:11.000we are all in the same little pinhead that exploded into the universe, then you have to have a different set of obligations.
00:09:17.000You can't lose yourself in banal sectarianism the way we have done around the Trump Trump.
00:09:23.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if you agree with me on that little piece of analysis.
00:09:44.000We're going to be talking about what's happening with NATO expansionism ongoing.
00:09:48.000But for a moment, let's enjoy the banality of this.
00:09:52.000Essentially, ABC News, Frota reporter, and listen to this, she describes something as surreal, but It's one of the realest things I've ever heard.
00:10:00.000She just described someone walking in a room and sitting down, I think.
00:10:03.000It's not like someone, like, has an orange fall out of their ear, or sort of like blows their nose and peanuts come out of it, or they open their mouth and like the universe is seen forming within it.
00:10:18.000Uh, let's bring in ABC News investigative reporter and producer Olivia Rubin, who was inside the courtroom today when Donald Trump was there, along with... Big day inside the courtroom.
00:10:28.000Again, sort of magnifying the situation and sort of suggesting to you that the reporter has access to something intimate.
00:10:35.000But you've probably seen some of the footage inside there.
00:11:36.000He entered the room and he didn't manifest himself within it or drop into it in the form of molecules and then recoagulate as a solid object.
00:13:06.000Essentially what they should be saying is, look, come on, nothing's happened except actually we are funded by the pharmaceutical industry and we get military industrial complex employees on and claim they're experts offering you A reliable, unbiased opinion.
00:13:25.000When Baudrillard talks about in the silence there is like this sort of truth, like the godlessness, I would say that there is still, because I'm a religious person, that God is in that silence and you're confronted with the deception that you've been watching.
00:13:37.000Deception or distraction, ultimately the same in a way.
00:13:40.000Imagine if I broke down Gareth's movement.
00:13:42.000at the DA's team who was speaking. He at times leans side to side speaking with his attorneys
00:13:48.000and that was sort of how the former president...
00:13:50.000Imagine if I broke down Gareth's movement. Gareth looking down now, he's nodding his head a bit.
00:13:56.000Doesn't look like he's spent as much time combing his hair as he usually might.
00:14:01.000There's a little bit of a forelock falling over on the left side of his face, possibly because he himself is moving closer to the left in response to the allegations that this is a far-right channel.
00:14:12.000You could endlessly commentate on Mnuchai if you wanted to, but what was...
00:14:16.000Better, I think, is to acknowledge that they are amplifying the significance of this trial, amplifying misdemeanor into felony, amplifying the importance of the entire narrative, because systemically and centrally, there will be no meaningful change as a result of, or you know, whether Trump stands again, doesn't matter, like this is, the stories that are important cannot be covered.
00:14:36.000by virtue of the fact that they would potentially lead to significant change.
00:14:39.000And the kind of stories that we should be looking at are ones like this.
00:14:43.000Finland, who hate Russia so much that they possibly even participated in the Nord Stream Pipeline explosion.
00:15:06.000Russia will beef up forces, beef them up, in the northwest as Finland joins NATO.
00:15:11.000Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko has said that Russia will beef up its military presence in its northwestern territory in response to Finland joining NATO.
00:15:20.000Finland's ascension into NATO will more than double the alliance's territory on the Russian border.
00:15:24.000The Russian-Finnish border is about 810 miles long and will now become More militarized.
00:15:29.000They're militarizing the Russia's borders.
00:15:46.000There's no harm in amplifying a potential nuclear conflict.
00:15:49.000I mean, what this does is it plays into Trump's hands.
00:15:52.000When Trump can go to Mar-a-Lago, the historic Mar-a-Lago, and say stuff like, they've tried hoax impeachments in the past, they silenced the Hunter Biden laptop report, they're bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war, You can't say those things aren't true.
00:16:10.000Let me know in the chat, in the comments, what you think.
00:16:13.000So if you actually despise Trump so passionately, isn't it beholden upon you to alter your own ethical and moral stance on significant geopolitical events rather than continually fetishizing Trump?
00:16:26.000Even if you believe it to be to his detriment.
00:16:28.000I mean, it's just that I can't understand the world view.
00:16:30.000Have a look at this piece of reporting on CBS, of course, another mainstream media outlet.
00:16:37.000You know, sometimes on The Simpsons where, like, they show the class, like, you know, zinc!
00:16:41.000Like a video on the importance of zinc or something like that, or hormones, you know, and you think, God, this is so reductive and oversimplified.
00:16:50.000It's like a Jebediah Springfield video.
00:16:53.000Yeah, like when they sort of explain, Jebediah Springfield, okay?
00:17:26.000Because he's complicated, and confused, and difficult, and plus he had to make his own way in this life, and you know what happened when the necklace got pulled off his mum, and you know... Are you drawing comparisons between yourself and Batman?
00:17:36.000I'm like Batman, except that bit where he dresses up like a bat and solves crime, which some say are his defining characteristics and what makes him so interesting.
00:17:49.000Let's have a look at NATO being described by the mainstream media in a reductive, and I would say, let me know if you agree with this in the chat and the comments, in an insultingly reductive way.
00:18:00.000NATO's a defensive alliance that protects the US, Canada, and most of Europe.
00:19:56.000In the lead-up to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, he complained about NATO's expansion in Europe, but I... Complained.
00:20:04.000Hey, I don't like... I do not like the way that Russia is expanding in Europe, because it is an aggressive act that is against many historic agreements.
00:20:15.000It was more like, you said you weren't going to do this, and therefore we're going to have to... You know, it wasn't a complaint.
00:20:21.000A complaint sounds like you've just kicked a ball into someone's garden or something.
00:20:25.000NATO borrowed Vladimir Putin's lawnmower, and then when Vladimir Putin said, could we have that back, he said, that's always been our fly, Mo.
00:21:03.000You've not understood, right, as is often the case with American media reporting, they've
00:21:07.000not understood the meaning of the word irony, and that probably offends me more than bringing
00:21:12.000us all to the brink of Armageddon, actually.
00:21:15.000After Moscow attacked its neighbour, that surged to around 80%.
00:21:20.000It's a good thing I have a good heart.
00:21:21.000Since Finland's frontier with Russia is over 800 miles long, its membership has more than doubled Russia's border with NATO states.
00:21:30.000And right next door, Sweden's also seeking to join the alliance.
00:21:35.000Finland's military is considered one of the most capable and modern in Europe.
00:21:41.000Moscow says that if forces from other NATO countries are now deployed to Finland, it'll respond by bolstering its own military in that region.
00:21:50.000Noam Chomsky says that one of the ways that the media treats us is a kind of an ongoing infantilising process.
00:21:59.000Most ads targeted towards the general public use discourse, arguments, characters with especially childish intonation, often targeting frailty as if the viewer were a creature of a very young age or mentally impaired.
00:22:10.000The more you try to fool the viewer, the more childish the adopted tone.
00:22:14.000If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then due to suggestive quality, the other person tends, with some probability, to respond or react with much the same thought as a person of 12 years or younger would feel.
00:22:25.000So they're talking to us like children, placing us in the roles of children.
00:22:28.000There's a kind of paternalism at play.
00:22:30.000Yeah, that's exactly what that report was doing.
00:22:54.000NATO and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet.
00:23:01.000Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
00:23:10.000NATO expanded its footprint, violating promises to Moscow once the Cold War ended, to incorporate 14 countries in Eastern and Central Europe into the alliance.
00:23:17.000It bombed Bosnia, Serbia, It launched wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, resulting in close to a million deaths and some 38 million people driven from their homes.
00:23:27.000It's building a military footprint in Africa and Asia.
00:23:30.000It invited Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea, the so-called Asia-Pacific four, to its recent summit in Madrid at the end of June.
00:23:36.000It's expanded its reach into the southern hemisphere, signing a military training partnership agreement with Colombia in December 2021.
00:23:42.000It's backed Turkey with NATO's second largest military, which has illegally invaded and occupied parts of Syria, As well as Iraq.
00:23:53.000Just defending there, just a little alliance.
00:23:55.000NATO is like a, you know in the playground when you hold hands with another child, well it's a bit like that.
00:24:01.000Like it's a really sort of insulting way.
00:24:05.000to present that and I suppose that's what is so all-pervading that we forget to even criticise it.
00:24:12.000Like the attitude towards us is you are children, you don't need to participate. How could you even
00:24:18.000begin to legitimise censorship if you didn't believe that the recipients of that information
00:24:25.000are incapable of discerning for themselves whether or not the information is legitimate.
00:24:31.000Like, even just 10 years ago, you could talk to people with all sorts of crazy crackpot ideas and just go, well, that's cool and interesting.
00:24:38.000I don't think it's true though, but nice one.
00:24:40.000I mean, let's face it, some people think some of the most literally Religious perspectives in the world are ridiculous.
00:24:48.000On one hand you've got Richard Dawkins, on the other hand you've got the Catholic Church, and you just sit and listen to both and go, oh cool, cool.
00:24:54.000The irony of all this is that Chris Hedges, who literally wrote that about NATO, was obviously censored in terms of when RT was censored.
00:25:14.000But yeah, the very fact that these are the kind of things that they don't want out there.
00:25:17.000When we're talking about censorship, it is from facts like this about NATO, because what they want us to know about NATO is what was in that news report.
00:26:14.000This is why war is carefully sanitised.
00:26:17.000This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill, but are spared from seeing war's consequences.
00:26:23.000The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining.
00:26:26.000You remember during 9-11, in the end, they wouldn't show the people leaping from the buildings rather than dying within it because a decision was made that that's too unbearable.
00:26:38.000But in the ongoing wars that are sponsored by the military-industrial complex,
00:26:43.000from which they benefit, that the media continues to tacitly support through their reductive reporting,
00:26:49.000support through their reductive reporting, to prevent us having adult conversations about,
00:26:53.000they are sanitizing exactly the way that Hedges describes.
00:26:56.000The wounded, the crippled and the dead in this great charade, swiftly carted off stage.
00:27:02.000They are war's refuse. We do not see them, we do not hear them.
00:27:06.000They are doomed like wandering spirits to float around the edges of our consciousness,
00:27:30.000If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to click over to be exclusively on Rumble now, where we're going to give you a fantastic insight to how your houses are going to be taken away from you by the financial industry.
00:27:45.000In short, you will own nothing and you will be happy.
00:28:20.000In a climate where we're being distracted by admittedly alluring and exciting criminal trials, reality and centralised power continues uninterrupted.
00:28:31.000We're talking specifically today about Wall Street buying up family homes and how that relates to the Great Reset Agenda.
00:28:42.000Not if by 2030, 40% of family homes are owned by the financial sector.
00:28:47.000This is a significant shift in the balance of power.
00:28:50.000These are the kind of stories that aren't sufficiently reported on and observed.
00:28:54.000These are the kind of things that will happen whether you have a Republican in the White House or a Democrat in the White House because we believe they're part of a corporate globalist agenda that will not be interrupted while we're distracted by sectarian politics.
00:29:11.000Eager to buy a first home in Fishers, Indiana.
00:29:13.000Attracted by the good schools and proximity to work.
00:29:16.000But pursuing the American dream has proved daunting.
00:29:19.000As real estate investment groups buy up houses in cash and rent them out, in some cases, to the very families who dreamed of owning them.
00:29:27.000In a sense, it is our sweetness and innocence that defines us.
00:29:32.000We don't fully understand the way that the financial world works, that houses are being bought up, that agricultural land is being bought up, that pharmaceutical companies spend as much money managing the prices of their stocks by investing in them, by buying them back, than they do investigating new and potentially beneficial drugs.
00:29:51.000We live on a layer of reality that prevents us from accessing the bigger and perhaps more significant picture when it comes to determining the outcomes of our lives.
00:30:00.000And here, when it comes to those most basic of amenities, the basis of Maslow's Pyramid of Needs, shelter, even there, true power is getting involved.
00:30:38.000Oh my god, he's left her! You bastard Collier!
00:30:42.000Four times in recent weeks, they've been outbid by investors with all cash offers.
00:30:46.000It can be, you know, discouraging when you get overbid by, you know, companies.
00:30:51.000How do you save when you're spending $2,200 a month just to rent?
00:30:57.000In a sense, what they're intelligently, I suppose, on the mainstream media news doing is using the Collier family to represent an ordinary American family and demonstrating how the difficult to observe movement of the financial industry and the increasing cost of living are affecting ordinary Americans.
00:31:14.000What the mainstream media will not be able to do, is what we will do, is tell you exactly why this is happening and what is required to stop it.
00:31:21.000So these companies have you on both ends?
00:31:38.000In some Fishers neighborhoods, investors own more than half of the homes, according to realtor Laura Turner.
00:31:44.000This is one of the neighborhoods that investors have really targeted.
00:31:47.000They're coming in, they're buying it at cash, and then they're going to hold them as rentals.
00:31:50.000Remember something as fundamental as Julian Assange's claim that the function of government is to extract public money and put it into private hands?
00:31:56.000These sort of simple maxims help me to understand the nature of reality, i.e.
00:32:00.000in this instance, the function of real estate development ought to be to provide homes for ordinary Americans.
00:32:06.000One might imagine that in the 1950s, for all of its cultural problems and challenges, it was a simpler ...metric or mechanic that existed between the construction industry and the American citizen or consumer.
00:32:16.000But now the financial industry has become so deregulated and sort of terrifying and vast.
00:32:21.000There's like, hang on a minute, if we buy up all the homes, then we'll be able to profit by 5%.
00:32:26.000It's like some terrible, terrible mathematics that's revealed that you should just fuck ordinary people to death.
00:32:32.000Fisher's mayor, Scott Fadness, is frustrated by the surge of distant, faceless landlords.
00:32:37.000I like the surge of distant, faceless landlords.
00:32:54.000Try and tell from looking at his face.
00:32:57.000So take, for instance, if you have a high grass and weed issue, a code enforcement issue.
00:33:01.000I mean, if they own 4,000 homes, who is the individual that you can go talk to about a specific problem?
00:33:07.000Excuse me, the plum is not working very well.
00:33:10.000After getting outbid time and again, the Colliers say they've given up on fishers.
00:33:15.000Is the American dream still accessible?
00:33:17.000I think the American Dream is changing.
00:33:20.000We all know that it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.
00:33:24.000Our society may be going in that direction where we are getting further away from ownership.
00:33:30.000But I don't think it's the right direction.
00:33:32.000I actually think Mr. Collier should be in charge of the country.
00:33:35.000His upbeat demeanor is exactly what we need right now.
00:33:38.000Okay, so this proxy war we're engaged in and the prosecution of Trump, which is a distraction from the fact that centralized government's never gonna do anything about issues that are affecting me and you.
00:34:57.000It was that rare opportunity that attracted the institutions to build a portfolio out of these foreclosed properties, said Steven Zhao, an assistant professor of finance and managerial economics at the University of Texas, Dallas.
00:35:10.000It's another example of what's a crisis to ordinary Americans or people across the world being an opportunity for those dominant financial interests.
00:35:17.000We've seen this play out again and again.
00:35:19.000You know that's what happened in the pandemic.
00:35:20.000We presume that's what happens in a military crisis or indeed a war.
00:35:24.000And It demonstrates that there is a fissure between your lives and needs and the requirements, methods and agenda of powerful institutions.
00:35:32.000Well, at least it's just free market economics and it's stuff that's not costing you any money and you're not paying for it even after the criminality of 2008 where you bowed out the people that plunged your country and you personally into economic despair.
00:35:43.000What's outrageous is your tax dollars are helping Wall Street buy up single-family homes.
00:35:48.000Representative Ro Khanna said in an interview with CNBC.
00:35:53.000It's not like they're brilliant business and economic minds, they're just people that are operating in a legislative space that is deliberately unregulated that allows what is essentially a type of criminality to take place.
00:36:07.000In the midst of this hysteria around the Trump trial, where because of a kind of minor technicality, money from the campaign fund was spent on hush money that might lead to this, can it be a misdemeanor or felony?
00:36:21.000While that's being focused on, stuff that should be a crime, like the deregulated corruption that led to 2008, the exploitation that's going to lead to your home likely being owned by a Wall Street bank instead of you or your children, No one's doing anything about that, and we participate in it.
00:36:49.000Since the early 2010s, Tricon Residential, Progress Residential, American Homes for Rent, and Invitation Homes have each bought thousands of homes.
00:36:59.000Some of these companies are financed by private equity firms such as Blackstone, and investment managers such as Preeti and Partners.
00:37:06.000It's almost a captive market, said Jordan Ash, Director of Labour Jobs and Housing at the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
00:37:13.000They've been very explicit about how people are shut out of a home buying market and are going to be perpetual renters.
00:37:20.000I don't have Enough of an understanding of global economics and real estate to determinedly tell you that it's best for you to own your own home.
00:37:30.000But I do, from a general moral and philosophical perspective, sense that what you want is authority and control in your own life.
00:37:38.000This particular issue seems to suggest that what's happening is that power and resources are becoming increasingly centralised.
00:37:46.000This is exactly what they mean when they say you will own nothing and you will be happy.
00:37:51.000They like to pretend, oh it's just a conference, it's just a bit of fun, oh it doesn't matter that both the leader of your country and the leader of the opposition of your country are all going there and the biggest companies in the world are all going there.
00:38:01.000I'm not suggesting it's anything I'm not suggesting it's anything other than PR for the globalist agenda so that the solutions to the problems we all face can always be presented in a way that won't disrupt the agenda of the powerful.
00:38:13.000That's exactly what I'm suggesting it is.
00:38:14.000But the ideas that emerge out of there are ideas like this.
00:38:17.000And if you spoke to these companies like, you know, Progress Residential, American Homes for Rent, There'd be someone nice that you'd speak to, that would tell you that they're going to provide better homes and better services and all that kind of stuff.
00:38:53.000These calls come after fierce housing inflation hit many sunbelt states,
00:38:57.000including Texas, Florida, and Georgia, according to the National Association of Realtors.
00:39:03.000The prices in some Sunbelt markets have outpaced national figures for rent inflation.
00:39:07.000Between January 2020 and January 2023, rents for a two-bed detached home increased about 44% in Tampa, Florida, 43% in Phoenix, and 35% near Atlanta.
00:39:14.000Florida, 43% in Phoenix and 35% near Atlanta. That's compared with a 24%
00:39:19.000increase nationwide. So not only are you not gonna own your own, you're gonna be
00:39:24.000extortionately overcharged for your rent.
00:39:27.000This is ultimately another one of those wealth transfer techniques, where low-income, ordinary folks, middle-class folks, all will pay more money for stuff, and it will aggregate in the hands of the elites.
00:39:38.000Plainly that, it's a technique to do that, and it's being soft-sold to us.
00:39:41.000By 2030, the institutions may hold some 7.6 million homes, or more than 40% of all single-family rentals on the market, according to the 2022 forecast by MetLife Investment Management.
00:39:53.000We heard from community organisers who are surprised at how many of the homes on a particular block will be owned by corporate landlords, PESP Housing Director Jordan Ash told CNBC.
00:40:04.000Home ownership is the main way in this country that people build wealth.
00:40:08.000And while in some ways it may not look very different if someone is renting or owning a home, financially it's very significant both for that individual family and for communities, whether or not they do own the home.
00:40:19.000Part of the problem with private equity involved in housing is that they're in it for the short term, Ash continued.
00:40:24.000Their goal is to take a company, increase cash flow in order then to sell it or to take it public, which they did in the case of invitation homes.
00:40:31.000Unlike smaller landlords, who are still looking to have a profit, maybe in it for the long term and see it as a long term investment, are more concerned in terms of stability, concerned in terms of satisfied tenants and wanting there to be less turnover, with private equity it's really about maximising the short term returns.
00:40:46.000So in a sense, it's a mentality that you don't want to play a role in housing.
00:40:52.000And in particular, the housing of families that are looking for stability.
00:40:55.000Not that people that are single or live different types of lifestyle aren't also worthy of secure instability.
00:41:00.000But they've probably long been subject to the mentality that is now beginning to prevail in this particular market.
00:41:06.000What this is evidence of is the kind of expansion that prevents choice, even while we're told that free market capitalism is leading to more and more choice for all of us.
00:41:26.000Once that kind of thing starts happening because of market forces in homes, you're ultimately moving towards a time where you live in a cell and are attached to a drip.
00:41:33.000And if you can't offer the machine something of value, you'll ultimately be criminalised, homeless or executed.
00:41:39.000I mean, that's the general direction, isn't it?
00:41:40.000What do you think about that, Mr. Collier?
00:42:06.000The general trajectory, while we're told it's progress, and in certain ways, technology, medicine, in certain fields, it obviously is, it's also centralising and aggregating and accumulating wealth in a very particular direction.
00:42:18.000Let me know in the chat, in the comments.
00:42:19.000From 2007 to 2011, 4.7 million households lost homes to foreclosure and a million more to short sale.
00:42:28.000So that means that 2008 was a period of great opportunity and advantage.
00:42:33.000It's a bit like the pandemic, isn't it?
00:42:34.000Like the pandemic and the financial crisis definitely have comparable components in that it was a devastating crisis if you were in a particular strata of society, but an incredibly lucrative opportunity if you were in another strata of society.
00:42:47.000Private equity firms developed new ways to secure credit, enabling them to leverage their equity and acquire an astonishing number of homes.
00:42:54.000After the 2008 crash, the unprecedented supply of cheap housing in good neighborhoods made corporate single-family home management feasible for the first time.
00:43:02.000It's only regarded as a financial opportunity.
00:43:04.000That's homelessness from another perspective.
00:43:06.000Neighbourhoods that were formerly ownership neighbourhoods, that were one of the few ways
00:43:10.000that working class families could build wealth and gain stability, are being slowly or not
00:43:15.000so slowly turned into renter communities and not renter communities owned by mom and pop
00:43:19.000landlords but by some of the biggest private equity firms in the world, says Peter Coons,
00:43:23.000the former Los Angeles director of the activist group Alliance of Californians for Community
00:43:28.000In some ways I'm glad because it's now so magnified, amplified and obvious that there
00:43:33.000is corruption that it's affecting everybody.
00:43:35.000So whether you're sort of part of an underclass, ordinary working class, middle class, even affluent middle class, they're coming for you in the rhetoric of Donald Trump.
00:43:43.000What is really dangerous to tenants and communities is the full integration of housing within financial markets, says Maya Abood, who wrote her graduate thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the single-family rental industry.
00:43:56.000Because of the way our financial markets are structured, stockholders expect ever-increasing returns.
00:44:01.000All of this creates so much pressure on the companies that even if they wanted to do the right thing, which there's no evidence that they do, all of the entanglements lead to an incentive of not investing in maintenance and transferring all the costs On to tenants.
00:44:14.000Blackstone spent over 5.5 million dollars lobbying in 2022 with several members of Congress owning stocks in it.
00:44:23.000Centralizing financial interests in alliance with a government that they lobby, with people in Congress who own stocks and shares in their company, moving in a direction that is not beneficial to you and will eventually reach a tipping point Where ordinary people are so disempowered we can no longer participate in the game.
00:44:39.000All the while, eyes are on Donald Trump for minor legislative foibles and failings, and if they're illegal and justice is consistent, anyone who breaks the law should be subject to the punishment that are associated with breaking those laws.
00:44:53.000But we all know that that's a political trial, and we all know that everyone benefits from the distraction
00:46:28.000If we're far right, I don't know where he is on that particular spectrum.
00:46:33.000He has the honour of being known by the Guardian as the most prolific spreader of disinformation.
00:46:38.000So let's, while we're having this conversation, carefully observe and pay attention to make sure he's not misinformationing us right where it hurts.
00:46:57.000Straight after you, we're going to be speaking to Oswald Mosley, the far-right British politician from the 1940s and the starter of the Brownshirt movement.
00:47:09.000Mate, we wanted to talk to you actually about the expansion of NATO, the Finland recently joining NATO and also the sort of broad framing of NATO as a force for good in the world.
00:47:23.000And if you wouldn't mind tying that all into the sort of current show trial of Donald Trump and how the exaggeration of these misdemeanors into felonies is a convenient way to maintain a convenient framing of American politics at a time when perhaps we could be looking at more important geopolitical issues.
00:47:45.000Well, the indictment of Trump ties into issues like the expansion of NATO because back when Trump first broke into the political scene in 2015-2016, one of the things that he was saying that really freaked out the political establishment in the U.S.
00:48:02.000was that he was questioning the existence of NATO.
00:48:06.000And people couldn't believe someone could possibly in the political spectrum say such a thing.
00:48:12.000And I think that was one of the factors in all this freak out about Trump and all the motivation to then paint him as a Russian agent is because he was actually saying things that you're not supposed to say inside respectable NATO state politics.
00:48:29.000And we've seen now in the real world the results of NATO and this drive to expand it uh in this proxy war in Ukraine.
00:48:40.000The fact we're having this war now is an outgrowth of a you know three decade long policy of pushing NATO to Russia's borders uh trying to bring in states like Ukraine and Georgia and doing so in despite doing so despite pledges to the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War that we're not going to expand NATO one more inch to the east and that's been violated and that's a major reason why we have this war today.
00:49:04.000So, Finland joining the club is just one more provocation.
00:49:09.000It's not to me as serious as the attempt to bring Ukraine in, because Ukraine has an actual historical tie to Russia.
00:49:16.000There are millions of people inside Ukraine who consider themselves to be ethnic Russians.
00:49:24.000And Russian officials have long warned that any attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO would put Russia in a bad position because basically, as William Burns, the then ambassador to the US, wrote back in 2008, if Ukraine joins NATO, Russia feared that that would trigger a civil war and that would force Russia to intervene on the side of people who support Russia.
00:49:45.000And that's pretty much what has happened.
00:49:47.000And so Finland joining NATO, I don't think is Something Russia is too concerned about, but certainly expanding NATO's borders to Russia does increase the tensions.
00:50:00.000And the idea that NATO is supposed to be defensive is just, as you've talked about, is a joke.
00:50:05.000I mean, look at its recent record, destroying Libya, invading Afghanistan, you know, destroying
00:50:13.000Yugoslavia and turning that into separate states.
00:50:16.000I mean, that's the real nature of NATO.
00:50:18.000And the idea that it's there to protect people is just completely undermined by its own record.
00:50:22.000They have an explicit relationship with the military industrial complex.
00:50:28.000Is there any evidence that they are involved in the brokerage of arms deals, that they
00:50:33.000facilitate it, that an expansion of NATO somehow leads to the expansion of the military industrial
00:50:39.000And also, Aaron, just to say, that is fascinating what you... When Trump, who I'm not broadly speaking a... like some... he's not something I blithely support.
00:50:48.000I enjoy him as an establishment wrecking ball, I do have to say.
00:50:52.000But when he sort of mentions something like, you know, don't have to be in NATO, there's something that I enjoy about that kind of anarchic and sort of outsider perspective.
00:51:03.000So, yeah, I just wonder if you can just talk about NATO's relationship with the military-industrial complex and the possibility of disbanding NATO.
00:51:12.000Yeah, well, on Trump, I mean, that's why elites hate him so much.
00:51:16.000Not because he's actually a threat to their agenda, but sometimes he blurts out the wrong things.
00:51:21.000So he'll question the existence of NATO, while still policy-wise, he encourages NATO states to spend more on the military-industrial complex.
00:51:29.000So policy-wise, he pretty much continued the NATO agenda, but sometimes, occasionally, he'll speak the truth.
00:51:37.000Also, in Syria, for example, when he announced that US troops were staying after he initially tried to withdraw them, he said we're staying to take the oil.
00:51:50.000And that's why there's constantly attempts to undermine him.
00:51:53.000Not because he's actual policy-wise, he's a threat to the conventional agenda, but because sometimes he just speaks out of turn.
00:52:00.000And yes, in terms of NATO's relationship with the military-industrial complex, if you look at the multiple rounds of NATO expansion, And how that's been received in the U.S.
00:52:10.000Congress, which has to vote to approve these expansions.
00:52:13.000Every time that happens, there's a massive influx of lobbying money by the military-industrial complex in support of NATO expansion because the military-industrial complex recognizes that NATO expansion is hugely profitable for them.
00:52:28.000Back in the 1990s, there was a lobby group in the U.S.
00:52:31.000called the Committee to Expand NATO or something like that.
00:52:34.000And it was headed by a guy named Bruce Jackson.
00:52:36.000But that wasn't Bruce Jackson's only job.
00:52:39.000Bruce Jackson's day job was that he was a vice president at Lockheed Martin.
00:52:44.000So he recognized that expanding NATO was very good for Lockheed Martin.
00:52:48.000So yes, I mean, because if you expand NATO, your military has to be up to NATO standards, which means spending billions and billions of dollars on weapons.
00:53:13.000He's there to sell the public on the need to spend more money on weapons.
00:53:18.000Aaron, you know Russia arrested that Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gerskovich, and the Biden administration are up in arms saying you can't just arrest journalists and put them in prison without trial.
00:53:32.000What do you think You can't just use the Espionage Act as a catch-all way of arresting people of dissident voices that you don't agree with or approve of.
00:53:41.000What do you make of that while dear old Julian Assange is banged up in Belmarsh here in Blighty and dear Edward Snowden abides in exile in Russia?
00:53:57.000I mean, I think this arrest of this Wall Street Journal happened just as Assange marked 1,000 days inside Belmarsh, this maximum security gulag inside Britain.
00:54:10.000And that was on top of all the years he spent locked up in the Ecuadorian embassy because he couldn't leave or else he would be Put in prison then.
00:54:19.000So yes, of course, it's massively hypocritical.
00:54:22.000It's a joke to see NATO state leaders in the US and UK and elsewhere complain about the arrest of this Wall Street Journal reporter.
00:54:30.000And it's just like, I can't even think about Assange sometimes.
00:54:35.000I don't know how you feel about it, but it's so depressing.
00:54:39.000It's like I have to try and think, there must be something I'm not understanding about this because otherwise it shows that aside from aesthetics we do live in a kind of banalised tyranny because otherwise you wouldn't be able to put journalists in prison.
00:54:56.000without trial and claim it was somehow legitimate. So yeah, I went to see Julian Assange when he was
00:55:03.000in that embassy. He later described that in his diaries as the worst day of his incarceration.
00:55:09.000Like, yeah, so I'm in touch with Julian Assange's wife and I feel like it's, in a way,
00:55:19.000I hold on to the idea of Assange and Snowden when I'm attacked for being far right or a
00:55:25.000conspiracy theorist because they're kind of the ace aren't they?
00:55:31.000You know your liberal, righteous agenda?
00:55:34.000What is it doing about this and why can't it address it?
00:55:37.000It's kind of a Vulcan death grip on their bullshit because they have to sort of go, They have to sort of shut down the debate there.
00:55:46.000And that's when you know what the establishment is.
00:55:48.000So I suppose, aside from the sort of deep personal agony that they as a family and the individuals must be facing, I feel that they are sort of avatars of what the reality of our sort of deep state corruption is.
00:56:05.000I mean, no one in the world has done more to expose state crimes than Julian Assange.
00:56:09.000And Forest Services, rather than being given every journalistic award in the world, which he deserves, he's being caged in a gulag with no sign of him being able to get out.
00:56:22.000I think the plan from those torturing him and imprisoning him is just to hold him for as long as they can behind bars and hope he dies behind bars.
00:56:33.000And the media in the US especially is totally complicit in this.
00:56:38.000There are sometimes, you know, establishment journals speak up in defense of Julian, but not nearly to the level that they should be.
00:56:44.000And they still run all these smear pieces that take part in the propaganda effort to demonize him.
00:56:50.000And so we're all just sitting by and watching it happen as, you know, this, the most important journalist in, I think, in Western history is being murdered, tortured.
00:57:06.000And so, yes, so what Russia has done to this Wall Street Journal reporter, by all accounts, it looks terrible.
00:57:14.000I do, though, have to question the wisdom of his editors who sent This reporter to a really sensitive Russian military industrial complex site and asking questions of people.
00:57:26.000They must have known that this would arouse suspicion from Russian authorities and would possibly put this reporter in danger.
00:57:33.000So I hope, of course, that he's freed, you know, immediately.
00:57:37.000But I do have to question the wisdom of whoever sent him to this really sensitive site to ask these questions, especially at a time Of such high tensions between the U.S.
00:57:44.000and Russia, people are going to be used as pawns to negotiate for the release of other prisoners, and it looks like this Wall Street Journal reporter has gotten caught up in that.
00:57:53.000Yeah, well, you would say that, Aaron, because you are a conspiracy theorist and you never miss an opportunity to attack the establishment.
00:58:01.000Aaron, I'm going to have to wrap it up there.
00:58:02.000It's always fantastic to speak with you.
00:58:04.000Thank you for your honesty and your wisdom and your ongoing integrity.
01:00:09.000They're not fools, these people, are they?
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