In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, host Russell Brand is joined by his on-screen assistant Gareth Roy Sheinfeld and they discuss the latest in the war on terror, the drone crisis in Ukraine, and the media's obsession with drones. They also talk about how much it costs to make a drone and why it's a good idea to have a drone in your own home. Stay Free with Russell Brand on Rumble is available on all major podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, iDance, and Stitcher. Stay Free, and Don't Get Lost in the Storm! Subscribe to stayfree.co.uk/StayFree with RussellBrand to get immediate access to all new shows, shows and events happening around the world. Stay free, and spread the word about what's going on in the world and how important it is to be involved in it. If you like what you hear, tweet me and let me know what you thought of it in the comments section below! Timestamps: 4:00 - What's up? 5:30 - What are your thoughts on a drone? 6:15 - What do you think about the latest drone news? 7:00- What's your favourite drone you ve been spying on? 8:30- What kind of drone are you worried about? 9:40 - Is it spying on you? 10:15- Are you worried that you could be spied on by someone else? 11:00s - How much money is being wasted? 12:00 13: What are you paying for it? 15:30s - Is the drone spying on me? 16:00 | What's the best drone you could I should be spying on right now? 17:30 | What s the point of my job? 18:00 // 17:00 + 17:15 | What do I know? 19:00 / 16:40 | How much do you want to be spying? 21:30 22: Is it a good drone I think I m spying on my own home? 25:30 + 16:20 - Is this drone spy on me, or am I a spy? ? 26:00/16:30 // Is this a drone spy or do I have a problem? 27:00+ - What s my best drone? / Is my drone a spy plane?
00:01:26.000Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand, where we criticise mainstream media, bring you spiritual insights, have a bit of a laugh, muck around, and talk about potential solutions that could be born of new alliances.
00:01:42.000I do the show with my, and he's called this for legal reasons, on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy.
00:01:53.000If you're watching this on YouTube or anywhere other than Rumble, we just stream the first 30 minutes here on YouTube or wherever else you're watching it.
00:02:00.000But then we're exclusively on Rumble, and we've got some amazing stuff when we flick over at being exclusive, including James O'Keefe, that dude that did that Veritas sting.
00:02:08.000He's coming on the show to talk to us about Oklahoma and when he did that Pfizer sting and the consequences that he has faced since then.
00:02:15.000I think one of those includes not having a job anymore.
00:02:49.000Join these people on a crazy voyage through current affairs as we move towards the light burgeoning within you right now.
00:02:56.000The light of pure love and consciousness.
00:02:59.000And if you don't want to move towards that light, you better be careful because you could be being spied on right now by a drone.
00:03:05.000Because the main news in what you might call mainstream media, legacy media, is about that drone that Russia has bought down, an American drone.
00:03:13.000And what's fascinating when you watch this coverage is the piety around it.
00:03:17.000They're talking about this drone being bought down as if it's like the worst thing that's ever happened.
00:03:21.000Also, Russia are denying bringing it down, just to make it clear.
00:03:31.000Unless someone's briefed them to say, personify that drone, talk about that drone like it is a beloved family pet, and like it's got a personality, and it's a really nice, it's a particularly nice drone.
00:04:33.000Like it's not like unconnected it was just flying around innocently over the Black Sea that's somewhat near to and if you look at it on a molecular level interconnected with Russia.
00:04:44.000Watch this and let me know in the chat in the comments if this is the sort of thing you've noticed before.
00:04:47.000They start talking about it financially.
00:04:50.000Unconsciously, they reveal their true perspective.
00:04:53.000That militarism is a financial system.
00:04:56.000This guy, Ross from Friends here, he ain't gonna be able to do even 10 seconds more mainstream media news without talking about how much them drones cost.
00:05:03.000And I'll remind you that in Ukraine, like, kids and stuff are dying, they're blowing up nuclear plants, all that total It's not nuclear plants, we'd know about that, but I'm saying like energy centers and all that kind of stuff, aren't they, Gareth?
00:05:14.000I think it's fair for me to say, but let's see what the cast of Friends have got to say about it.
00:05:42.000What about the lives of the Ukrainian kids that are being needlessly lost as this war continues?
00:05:47.000And I'm not trying to exculpate Russia.
00:05:49.000That's hardly my job, the exculpation of Russia in a military conflict.
00:05:53.000But I'm saying that the pursuit of a peaceful solution, particularly as it looks like there was a deal on the table prior to the escalation of conflict, And, of course, the neglect to mention how we got into this crazy situation with NATO infringing Russian territory.
00:06:06.000As has been argued, you don't even need a NATO now that they... NATO exists to agitate Russia.
00:06:14.000The US says two Russian fighter planes intercepted the Reaper surveillance drone as it was flying in international airspace southwest of Crimea.
00:06:21.000They say Russian pilots harassing the drone for 30 minutes.
00:06:59.000Can I get a smile out of you, tootsie?
00:07:01.000Is it a drone or is it Harvey Weinstein that's flying around up there?
00:07:05.000The White House calling the pilots reckless, dumping fuel on the drone, making All of the language.
00:07:11.000Reckless dumping fuel like it's literally shit.
00:07:14.000Those dirty migs, those dirty sons of guns up there, defecating all over our automatic skybird.
00:07:21.000It's only a remote control object, isn't it?
00:07:23.000There's some kid somewhere, some computer nerd, in Vegas, in a warehouse somewhere, flying that drone, fresh from bombing off a load of innocent civilians.
00:07:32.000I think it's just 90% of deaths in Syria.
00:08:22.000There's no windows, and there's no need for a window because there's no one in it to look out of it, but that still makes it look like a relatively contemporary, shall we call it, pleasure aid oriented towards a female market.
00:09:17.000That's another way of saying nothing happened.
00:09:19.000Nothing happened today when some Russian jets went near a drone that simply shouldn't have been there.
00:09:24.000Now, we're not suggesting that Russia Don't have their own international espionage operations or that Russia don't have their own imperialist projects, but I've heard that mentioned on the news already.
00:09:33.000So it's not like that needs to be additionally covered.
00:09:36.000What does need to be additionally covered is the mainstream media appear to be reporting on this event as if it's been disseminated from a centralized authority right down to the vocabulary that's being used.
00:09:45.000if you see a word like harassment suddenly being used and you've not seen it used in that context particularly before, Then obviously it's a result of briefing.
00:09:52.000Let me know in the chat, in the comments, if you've noticed that a lot, that everyone seems to be singing from the same song sheet.
00:09:56.000And if they're all singing from the same song sheet, and they're all singing from the same song, then it tells you that they're all from the same choir, that they're all from the same cathedral, that they've all got the same belief system, that they've all got a vested interest in the evangelism of the state, of centralized system.
00:10:11.000And we're simply suggesting a true secularism, a true division of the religion of consumerism, commodification, And the militarisation of the planet, particularly for financial ends.
00:10:24.000I also think that it isn't the job of the mainstream media to convey all angles to this.
00:10:28.000And like, when you read it in independent media, they say Russia is denying this, whereas on the mainstream media, it doesn't seem to suggest that.
00:10:35.000Right, let's have a look at a bit more mainstream.
00:11:06.000Life's a beach, man, and then you die.
00:11:09.000...an international airspace over the Black Sea when the Russian fighter jets rapidly approached and began what would be more than 30... Rapidly.
00:12:21.000I mean, we've been watching this stuff.
00:12:22.000We've been trying to work out using our best efforts, haven't we, and all of our available insights and resources to try and present you a better version of this story so we can decide for ourselves whether or not walking towards Armageddon enthusiastically and dumbly is the best possible course of action.
00:12:38.000The Russians shadowed the drone, they made 19 close passes, sprayed fuel on the unmanned aircraft multiple times, while one boy said that the drone got touched on its ass by the fighter jet!
00:12:52.000What is this weird list of sky crimes?
00:12:55.000Shadowed the drone, so didn't touch it, followed it, 19 close passes, didn't touch it, sprayed fuel on it, I mean, this is a war.
00:13:03.000That's not the worst thing that's happening in a war.
00:13:06.000This is spending more time on what this drone has been through.
00:13:09.000This drone, as far as we know, has no subjective reality.
00:13:12.000You know, chatbot GPT aside, we don't know what the internal reality of a constructed digital consciousness might be like, or even if such a thing is possible.
00:13:20.000It's not like the drone's going to come back from this and go, oh, bloody hell.
00:14:14.000There's all sorts of money being spent.
00:14:15.000There's all sorts of lives being ended.
00:14:17.000The escalation of tensions and a potentially earth-shattering conflict.
00:14:21.000I mean, worrying about someone's propeller.
00:14:25.000I'm not able to see the drone with the kind of affection and sentiment that seems easily accessible to the military spokespeople, so I've had to... What I need is a... Because I don't like its windowless face.
00:14:42.000I don't like its sort of dumb... They're trying to make us care about it, aren't they?
00:14:45.000If they really want us to care about drones they need to present them like this.
00:14:48.000Here's a drone that I can really learn to love.
00:14:50.000Have a look at this little guy and he's a beautiful little visage.
00:15:06.000It's worth it to see that adorable little guy.
00:15:09.000They made it a bit like Justin Bieber.
00:15:10.000I'd like to know where they've got That's our team back there.
00:15:12.000We've got youngsters that work for us and that's what they do over the course of the day.
00:15:15.000While we're trying to bring people together from across the political spectrum, while we're trying to create new narratives to help us challenge centralised power and bring peripheral figures together in a new union, some people are there getting that Justin Bieber wig together.
00:15:26.000I think I would pay $32 million for that.
00:15:29.000Well, tell me that even that was actual size, I can think of several uses for that device.
00:15:33.000Looks to me like it could be a valuable ally in times of deep loneliness.
00:15:37.000MSNBC similarly presented the conflict, get ready, similarly presented the conflict in a favourable hysterical and hyperbolic light with this piece of reporting.
00:15:49.000It's a little bit like the opening scenes in Top Gun.
00:16:17.000As well as simplifying it and presenting it to you like you're a dumb idiot, which is you know how they see you, they also, you start to think, who is this guy that they're chatting to?
00:16:25.000He looks like he's got a bunch of authority.
00:16:26.000He seems like a pretty serious person.
00:17:22.000I didn't even know why I even questioned that as a possibility, as if there's anything other than one objective truth that we're questioning here.
00:17:30.000...haunts our national security professionals, especially on the military side, that something like this could precipitate an escalation.
00:17:38.000We've got to recognise that Putin is desperate.
00:17:56.000Because when you look at this guy, you might think, who is this person that they are citing and using to underwrite and legitimise their narrative?
00:18:03.000A person that they're able to bring on.
00:18:05.000to talk punitively and pejoratively about Putin.
00:18:09.000Look at the background, there's a picture of him standing next to Bill Clinton there, so you figure this dude's got a little previous, he's got some connections.
00:18:18.000Well, Seymour Hersh, who's been a guest on this show, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote about Barry McCaffrey in this piece.
00:18:29.000He wrote, Former General Barry McCaffrey may have commanded his troops to kill retreating Iraq soldiers after the ceasefire had been declared and then failed to properly investigate reports of killing unarmed persons and an alleged massacre of hundreds of Iraqi POWs.
00:18:45.000So you should be kind of told that the source we're using, wouldn't you like to know that?
00:18:49.000Like when MSNBC, by the way, the party of peace, the party of love, the party of liberalism and freedom.
00:18:55.000Oh, we're just going to bring on this potential war monger.
00:18:59.000To give you a warmonger's perspective on this situation.
00:19:02.000Also the drone that's worrying about sort of harassment and stuff.
00:19:05.000Let's have a look at the media and military connections first.
00:19:08.000This is great because often MSNBC, CNN, and I'm sure other media organisations as well, it's common practice, let us know in the chat and comments if you've noticed other mainstream media.
00:19:17.000So Fox, whoever man, because we think they're ultimately funded in comparable ways.
00:19:21.000I said that when I was on Fox the other day, huh?
00:19:23.000They bring on experts that are apparently objective, albeit experts.
00:19:27.000There's a degree of subjectivity, of course, because expertise means, by its nature, esoteric knowledge.
00:19:32.000But check out what they don't reveal is the financial connections that many of these experts might have to various organisations, in particular in this context, military-industrial complex organisations.
00:19:43.000Many of the retired military leaders employed by the networks as paid contributors have secondary affiliations, and I wouldn't say they're secondary, I reckon primary, because, you know, you know what money does to a person, that are rarely, if ever mentioned, leaving viewers in the dark about whose interests they're promoting.
00:19:56.000None of the leading networks, including MSNBC, makes a regular practice of announcing its military analysis financial ties to the Pentagon, connections that colour their on-air comments during its Ukraine coverage, MSNBC even failed to include disclosures when the network vied on former Homeland Security Secretary Jair Johnson, who serves on the board of directors at Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor.
00:20:19.000Now to get an unbiased look at this conflict, someone who profits financially from there being a conflict.
00:20:25.000Now to give us some insights on war, a person who may have committed...
00:21:59.000When you go on Bill Maher and talk about MSNBC, it is for these very things.
00:22:03.000You know, that's not responsible by a mainstream media network to have people on who directly profit from war and go on to talk and ramp up all these situations that are going on.
00:22:13.000I mean, the way that they use those adjectives and certain words to create a narrative that we literally do not know if that was the case.
00:22:46.000It's worse than those text messages, I think.
00:22:47.000And also, like, that you should at least have a kind of conscious awareness that, look, admittedly, we do get people on the channel to advocate for military action that have financial ties to weapons manufacturers.
00:23:00.000I mean, that's like, you know, if that is your deal, you're not, like, in the world's... Hey, look at us!
00:23:41.0002,200 civilians were killed and 454 children.
00:23:44.000Now if you think of the time they just devoted to that... I saw a graphic earlier, I don't know if we've had time to show you, where they made the drone turn a different colour after it had the fuel, like someone's going...
00:23:52.000Right, listen, that's when they dump the fuel on that drone, those bastard jets.
00:23:56.000Why don't we depict the drone turning lime green?
00:23:59.000They've, like, went through a lot of trouble to do that.
00:24:02.000Like, Ross from Friends getting all agged out.
00:24:04.000The other woman sort of saying, like, oh, we're doing our best over here.
00:24:11.000We work in media, and I sort of, I've heard it before, but you sort of forget.
00:24:15.000Children, like your children, Children!
00:24:17.000They're not worse than your children, unless you've got some crazy belief or value system about human life.
00:24:23.000The United States Department of Defense remains the largest customer for unmanned systems technologies, with an estimated $7.5 billion budget for 2021.
00:24:31.000I don't know that it happens in such an overt way as this, of them going, oh no, people won't care about this enough because a drone is by its nature an unpersoned craft, they won't give a toss.
00:24:42.000But what they do do is, through their reporting, try to escalate not only the tensions between Russia and America, but the feelings, the affinity.
00:24:50.000And I don't think that kind of patriotism has the hold it once does, because, I mean, people are recognizing that there's a difference between the American people, beautiful human beings trying their best in life, and the systems of governance and control that are biased in very particular, and I would argue nefarious, ways.
00:25:04.000And even the individuals within those systems, if you want the absolute truth out of me, I don't think are Especially culpable because it's a systemic bias that locks them into a mindset that they can't control.
00:25:14.000So when we're joking about these people on news even, like Chomsky famously observed, if you didn't hold at your heart the interests of the system, you wouldn't be sitting in the chair.
00:25:53.000Okay, well this is some stuff that's not connected to anything we've just been saying.
00:25:56.000It's just something to mull over and then we'll have a look at that little tweet about Russia and stuff.
00:26:00.000So the US has increased its dominance as the world's top arms exporter.
00:26:04.000So new research shows the United States accounts for 40% of the world's weapons exports in the years 2018 to 22, selling armaments to more than 100 countries while increasing its dominance of the global arms trade.
00:26:14.000But that's completely unconnected to any of this, so I don't So like all of the reductivism, the simplification, the mentions of Top Gun, the fetishizing of a drone is not connected, or even the war itself is not connected to 40% of the world's weapons.
00:26:28.000That must mean there's a significant number of military conflicts where both sides are using weapons that they... Shame that the weapons don't, sort of, aren't friends.
00:26:37.000Well maybe if you put faces on them they will be.
00:26:39.000Put faces on those drones and it might be like the film Fox and the Hound.
00:26:43.000If I recall, in the end... I wondered whether you'd get to this metaphor, Mr Brown.
00:26:47.000The hound, in the end, will not kill Todd because it remembers they were mates when they were little.
00:28:12.000There's no miles because it's touching it and on occasion on it and bits of Russia are under it.
00:28:19.000Yeah, there might be like a nice beach or something.
00:28:21.000Right, you could go and stand in there on your holiday.
00:28:23.000I don't know because it might not be warm enough.
00:28:25.000I don't know where you go on holiday if you're in Russia because I've been deprived of access to that type of culture because I was brought up to think that Russian people were somehow fundamentally different from me so that I became a little drone, ironically, within the system, unthinking, unquestioning, consuming the information spoon-fed to us by systems of culture that are not our friends and that want us dumb and distracted so that our only means of self-soothing are commodity and consuming.
00:28:46.000How many of these stories do you think they think are going to eventually work?
00:29:03.000Now, to pivot for a while to other aspects of corruption, and we'll be coming off of YouTube in a minute to be exclusively on Rumble for a number of reasons.
00:29:10.000We've got James O'Keefe, that dude from Veritas who done that sting on that geyser that worked for Pfizer.
00:29:15.000You'll love talking to James O'Keefe, I think, because he's going to tell us more inside info about that Pfizer sting, which we obviously can't talk about on YouTube.
00:29:23.000I'm going to show you some of the stuff from my stand-up special, Brandemic, which you get for free if you join our membership community, which you definitely should do, or you can buy it for a one-off $20 fee.
00:29:32.000And right now, we're going to tell you that you know that banking crisis?
00:29:36.000You know how it's nothing to do with 2008?
00:29:49.000Joseph Gentile joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2007 after leaving his position as the Chief Financial Officer at Lehman Brothers Global Investment Bank.
00:29:56.000And why did you leave your last job, sir?
00:30:00.000Just found myself with that cardboard box and a plant wandering around, and she's like, oh my God, it's happening again!
00:30:07.000Meanwhile, recently appointed Chief Risk Officer Kim Olsen worked at Deutsche Bank from 2007 through 2010, when it lied to investors about its mortgage-backed securities, the collapse of which led to the housing crisis.
00:30:17.000Also, she wasn't very good at her job.
00:30:30.000Luckily, the consequences will only be felt by ordinary people and not by the banking community.
00:30:35.000If only we had someone that could come and explain the opacity of the financial world in broad cockney.
00:30:42.000If only we had an ordinary working-class economist come on in and decode their programmatic lingo into stuff that we can understand.
00:30:51.000Unravel the nomenclature of deliberately obscure financial chitter-chatter into something that we, the people, can easily discern and break down.
00:32:06.000We have to hope it won't happen because if it does happen, it'll be a disaster for everyone.
00:32:11.000Let's assume it stays just within this one bank, Silicon Valley Bank.
00:32:15.000If that happens, The banking system will survive and ordinary people will not be massively affected and the reason for that is it's only one bank going under and the loss which sits with Silicon Valley Bank will be spread throughout the whole of society and everyone will pay a few dollars.
00:32:30.000I think the way that it has been communicated has been pretty misleading and we've been told it's not a bailout and Essentially, nobody will pay.
00:32:38.000If there's a loss, somebody has to pay it.
00:32:41.000In this case, you know, they don't just disappear.
00:32:43.000In this case, basically, anyone who has a bank account will pay a little bit more over the next few years.
00:32:46.000And that will be how it will be socialized.
00:32:49.000I think the most interesting thing is the point that you make basically about in many ways, this is a repeat of 2008, in the sense that the banking system itself, and in this case, Silicon Valley Bank, most of the deposit holders are venture capitalists, big businesses, wealthy people.
00:33:05.000They are going to be protected and the loss will be socialised.
00:33:07.000For me, what I think is most interesting is the way that this reminds me of actually the mismanagement of the Covid economic crisis and the way that our society mismanages economic crises in general, which is as soon as the crisis hits.
00:33:21.000Wealthy people can contact the government and they can protect themselves and ordinary people are not protected.
00:33:39.000But I wanted to point out that we are still on YouTube and we are bound by their guidelines.
00:33:43.000In a minute, we'll click over onto Being Rumble, where we can just speak freely and say whatever the hell we like.
00:33:47.000So I just wanted to alert you to the fact that we have to So you're saying, mate, that this is yet another example of creating financial conditions that are beneficial to elites, or at least are not punitive to the elites, while punishing ordinary people, even if not directly.
00:34:15.000So when Joe Biden goes, our taxpayers won't pay this, what does he mean Really, mate.
00:34:23.000It's an example of a management of a crisis in such a way that the rich are protected.
00:34:29.000And the communication given to ordinary people is that nobody will pay the cost.
00:34:33.000And I think the best example of this is at the beginning of COVID.
00:34:36.000Do you know how much money the US government has given out since the start of COVID?
00:34:39.000How much money they've given out in total?
00:34:45.000That is $24,000 for every man, woman, child and baby in the US.
00:34:49.000So if there's a family out there, family of five, mum, dad, three kids, if they don't have an extra $24,000 each, someone else has got it.
00:34:57.000Now, I don't know about you, but if I were going to give out $8 trillion, I would think I should do an analysis of who's going to end up with that money.
00:35:38.000During COVID, you're still paying them.
00:35:40.000If you're a very wealthy person, luxury holidays, going to the theatre, going to bars, you probably know about that kind of stuff, Russell.
00:35:50.000Those expenditures couldn't be made, which meant the spending of the rich collapsed.
00:35:53.000It was replaced by the spending of the government, which means the government pays your wages, you pay your bills, you pay your mortgage, it goes to a rich person, and he can't spend it.
00:36:02.000$8 trillion funneled through ordinary people to the rich.
00:36:11.000So it goes to the rich, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:36:14.000Same in the UK, to all of the rich people in the country.
00:36:16.000What do you think will happen if, in a period where the economy is closed, we give hundreds of thousands of dollars or pounds to all of the richest people in the country?
00:36:26.000When you reopen, you'll have inflation and a cost of living crisis.
00:36:29.000And if you don't believe me, go look at my YouTube.
00:36:31.000In June 2020, I predicted massive increase in inequality Massive increase in inflation and a cost of living crisis because that is what happens when you massively increase inequality and people need to understand that when crises happen we need to start looking at them through the lens of inequality.
00:36:59.000Mate, what about Julian Assange's thing that the function of government is to take money from public hands and to pass it into the private sector, whether that's through military action, exploitation of crisis, or even in economic situations like this one, look for opportunities.
00:37:18.000I think if you look at the last three years, that is definitely what they have done.
00:37:21.000There's a question of why they did it, whether they knew they were going to do it.
00:37:25.000So I worked in finance for a long time and I studied economics.
00:37:28.000I went to London School of Economics, went to Oxford.
00:37:31.000From my observation of wealthy people who understand economics, I suspect they probably did it by accident because I think what it is, is a mixture of greed and stupidity.
00:37:44.000What they want is to protect their interests.
00:37:47.000As long as they're protected, that's all they care about.
00:38:17.000That money is in the bank accounts of rich people now.
00:38:19.000And now we have a cost saving crisis for ordinary people, but ordinary people can't afford, in many cases, to feed their kids at the same time as the biggest and fastest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth.
00:38:30.000The average US billionaire doubled their wealth in the first one year of COVID.
00:38:34.000The average UK billionaire increased their wealth by Ā£630 million in one year.
00:38:38.000And yet here we are now, Where ordinary people, in many cases, can't heat their homes, can't feed their kids, and we're talking about it like there's no money.
00:38:46.000What ordinary people need to start thinking, when there's a crisis, when your cost of living falls, please, please, God, look at the rich and say, is it falling for them as well?
00:38:53.000If your life is getting worse and their life is getting better, Probably what's happening is inequality is increasing.
00:38:59.000If you look at the statistics, that is what's happened here.
00:39:02.000It's a brilliant lens to provide, mate, because it does seem like the very definition of a wealth transfer.
00:39:06.000An energy crisis that leads to profitability for energy companies, even though they receive them subsidies.
00:39:13.000A financial crisis that appears to somehow or another benefit financial elites.
00:39:17.000Wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.
00:39:19.000Medical crisis that benefit the pharmaceutical industry.
00:39:23.000Before you know it, Crisis becomes the state that most benefits the elite, so crisis for ordinary people becomes de rigueur.
00:39:29.000Gary, that is a fantastic contribution to our show.
00:39:31.000I hope you're going to come back and contribute more.
00:39:34.000You can follow Gary on his YouTube channel, Gary Economics, but maybe Gary's the very kind of person who'll be joining us over here at Rumble, where free speech is something we pride ourselves on.
00:39:44.000That was a brilliant contribution, mate.
00:39:46.000How did you end up being in the financial industry before you go?
00:39:52.000I went to London School of Economics and I won a card game.
00:39:55.000Pre-financial crisis, one particular large American bank used to hire one trader to do a card game and I won it.
00:40:02.000He gambled his way into the financial industry and now he's gambling his way back out, all the while sipping a cup of tea and spitting truths.
00:40:37.000And now, me and Gareth, we're like the mum and dad, although we're both dads because we're a gay couple in this.
00:40:42.000We're the Normal News, and now it's the financial person, this threatening, menacing, Stewie from Family Guy, stroke, snatch, supporting cast member, Gary Stevenson, a financial expert, who's gonna menace your ass.
00:40:57.000I come over here to tell you some truth, dog!
00:41:40.000We want you to join us over on Rumble now, because we're going to be bringing James O'Keefe on, telling us about the inside scoop on that Veritas story.
00:41:48.000I want to know where that dude is now.
00:41:50.000You know the bloke that they've done that date with?
00:42:38.000At the beginning of the pandemic you all recall that xenophobia was very much in play and it took the form, an interesting form I'd say, of a simple prefix.
00:42:50.000A simple prefix was where we was introduced to xenophobia during the pandemic.
00:42:54.000I noticed it first with the use of the word wet in front of the word market.
00:44:17.000Crunching up little bat heads with all cum coming down their neck, guzzling, smoking a fag while squatting, eating a bat, all covered in gum.
00:44:23.000It's going to cause a fucking pandemic, isn't it?
00:44:24.000If you're eating a fucking bat, all smothered in cum, bat wing going in your mouth like that, down there, guzzling it down the wet market, all slop and gunk all over the floor, fucking all bat cum dribbling down you, it's going to cause a fucking coronavirus pandemic.
00:44:38.000That's where it's fucking come from, them dirty parts down the fucking wet market.
00:44:46.000Well it's just over here the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're doing gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses!
00:44:59.000Where they're deliberately making bat coronaviruses more infectious.
00:45:04.000I mean, it's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?
00:45:07.000That there is a Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're making bat coronaviruses more infectious and that is the place where this pandemic started.
00:45:50.000Isn't it at least possible that it came from this laboratory where DARPA, an American firm, are proven to invest, where the files from January 2019 were mysteriously deleted?
00:46:02.000Isn't it at least worth considering if even by accident it's possible that there was some sort of accident at that laboratory?
00:46:14.000What fucking spunk on a fucking bat do you need before you start understanding science?
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00:49:07.000it was a set of little dates where Jordan Tristan Walker revealed, or at least said, that he, well he said the Pfizer were using gain-of-function-like, or sort of advanced evolution, directed evolution was the phrase, wasn't it, techniques, which they weren't a good look for Pfizer.
00:49:23.000Anyway, the mainstream media kept it right out and they found a way of getting James O'Keefe, one of Oklahoma's greatest stars, because one of the claims was that he spent company money flying people to see Oklahoma or something like that, I'm really sort of clutching at straws to find reasons why I should.
00:50:07.000Let's find out, because James O'Keefe, newly unemployed due to this weird stuff that went down, perhaps because of the Koch brothers, we don't know yet.
00:50:15.000We found out the Veritas are funded by some interesting people.
00:50:24.000Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, where the wave and wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain.
00:51:16.000It wasāone of the medical directors at Pfizer, Walker was his name, he was caught on tape talking about mutating the virus for Pfizer pharmaceutical.
00:51:28.000I confronted him at a restaurant in New York about a month ago.
00:51:32.000He took the iPad out of my hand, he smashed it on the ground, caught red-handed, and then about a week later, I was thrown out of the organization, Project Veritas, that I founded.
00:51:44.000Some very bizarre series of events here.
00:51:46.000But, Russell, I'm announcing today on your show my new venture.
00:51:52.000I've got an elite team of 10 journalists.
00:51:54.000We're going to continue, including On the Pfizer beat, as it were, one of the whistleblowers inside Pfizer working on the right now to release more information very soon.
00:52:04.000So the revelation, well done mate, and that sounds like a great venture.
00:52:08.000Now, Jordan Tristan Walker, I suppose the story hinges upon his credibility and the fact that he did say that stuff.
00:52:16.000Has the subsequent FISA response, albeit muted and outside of mainstream media as one would anticipate, ultimately been that there's no legitimacy to his claims?
00:52:26.000Is that what their response kind of is, was?
00:52:29.000No, Pfizer kind of gave a non-denial admission that Pfizer said, quote, in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable assessment of antiviral activity in cells.
00:52:45.000In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS.
00:52:50.000So this, remarkably, Pfizer did not deny what Walker said, and albeit buried in jargon, they basically admitted they were doing it.
00:53:19.000Why are the revelations that your sting brought to the forefront not being used to alter the activity within Pfizer or the way Pfizer are treated publicly?
00:53:48.000She had people stalk her at her home, her loved ones.
00:53:51.000They had a red van pull up and spy on her.
00:53:54.000They put her in a room, interrogate her.
00:53:55.000But after I was thrown out of the organization I founded, Debbie Bernal was inspired to go public last week.
00:54:03.000And apparently, Debbie has more coming out.
00:54:06.000So this whole situation with me, whether it was Pfizer or whatever, retaliating, has inspired a lot more people inside Pfizer to be courageous, to blow the whistle, to, you know, jump on the proverbial grenade.
00:54:34.000One question regarding the kind of power of Pfizer and the pharmaceutical industry.
00:54:39.000Has this whole episode and what's happened to you as a result made you more anxious and worried about the power of the pharmaceutical industry?
00:54:46.000Because it seems incredible from just some of the tactics you were talking about there.
00:54:51.000I think it's made me more fearless, and more focused, and more driven, and more motivated than I've ever been.
00:54:57.000Because while there's a lot of evil and darkness in the world, and these companies lie, and these companies lie to their consumers, there's also a lot of people that have reached out to me They're like, hey, I want one of those cameras.
00:55:11.000I want to make a difference in this world.
00:55:13.000I think there's a lot of evil, but there's also a lot of goodness.
00:55:17.000And the goodness is getting more motivated.
00:55:19.000So I walk away from this episode very inspired.
00:55:22.000This website I've launched, you can actually sponsor one of these cameras.
00:55:50.000But doesn't it make you realise that the sort of tendrils of corporate power are so intrusive that they're able to oust you from a company that you founded?
00:56:06.000How did it sort of go from, oh my God, this is brilliant, we've got this revelation where someone's admitted that they're doing shady shit down Pfizer, James, I've got some news for you.
00:56:15.000Remember when you ate that sandwich of Sandra's?
00:56:31.000The fear is the problem in our society.
00:56:34.000Everyone's so afraid, and obviously they're going to try to ruin the reputations of people that expose them.
00:56:39.000But in response, what we have to do, the only way forward, is to build an army of investigators and exposers.
00:56:46.000And I think that Oh, James has dropped off there because what's happened is the mainstream have prevented him from broadcasting even one more word.
00:56:57.000He's been shut down, snatched, defunded and cut off immediately.
00:57:02.000We'll try and get James back, but... God, Pfizer really are pretty powerful, aren't they?
00:57:05.000They can cut him off, like, just at a moment's notice.
00:57:18.000I want to just start communities, peaceful, democratic communities that are autonomous, independently run, that operate in confederacy with one another, where we have a set of agreed upon universal principles and an alliance, but you run your community how you want to, according to your own values, ending in one stroke the culture war and bringing us together against centralised power.
00:58:48.000It's become iconic is what I'm trying to say.
00:58:51.000Shall we look at the bit where Ron DeSantis is badly introduced and someone nicks his podium?
00:58:56.000So Ron DeSantis, who like I know a load of you lot really, really love, but we'll be looking into that dude, or not into that dude, we'll be looking into some of his policies and stuff and inquiring about them.
00:59:07.000But have a look at this where he does a speech and someone nicks his podium.
00:59:10.000Pay particular attention to the people that take the podium, they do it so busily like little Lego men,
00:59:15.000they just dart off as if they had no other care in the world or business other than taking that
00:59:18.000podium away. And also the woman, that's one job was to introduce Rhonda Sanders, to really
00:59:23.000pull in focus when he's trying to begin his speech and adapt to his new podium-less reality check
00:59:38.000I think he's trying to comb his hair up a bit more since the Meatball Ron
00:59:42.000nickname has started to take on a little bit.
00:59:46.000I think he's trying to make his head look less meatball-y and a bit longer.
00:59:48.000Now don't be rude about Ron DeSantis because I think we'll probably get an interview with him at some point and also he shouldn't be rude about people.
00:59:53.000But the Meatball Ron nickname is showing a sign of sticking.
00:59:58.000I just don't get, the people moving the podium at this point, do they not know who Ron DeSantis actually is?
01:00:03.000Do they think that just someone else has wandered onto the stage?
01:00:05.000We don't know what was going on before.
01:00:05.000Perhaps that that podium was being used before, I don't know, was it being used in a net in a sort of a ping-pong-like game?
01:00:11.000What were they doing with that podium before this that they thought that the arrival of Ron DeSantis means we don't need the podium anymore?
01:00:54.000That's why in our show we embrace a kind of lo-fi ethic.
01:00:58.000At least we're not trying to make it all slick.
01:01:00.000So when the clips don't play or the edges are a little rough, or James O'Keefe is executed in the middle of an interview, you just can sort of roll with it.
01:01:09.000But when you're trying to make stuff slick, Can you bring that podium back please?
01:01:13.000Like all the trouble of putting the flag up and everything.
01:01:16.000How much afterwards do you think there was a lot of like chat about that podium moment among the people that are organising that rally?
01:01:27.000It's mad because she's obviously not meant to then interrupt his speech.
01:01:32.000She's making it worse because what's happening is she's panicked there because that's oh no that thing where I've got Ronda Santis and I'm in charge and all that stuff and now it's going wrong but then she's really exacerbated the situation hasn't she?
01:01:57.000I was thinking that might be on Zoom, and I was hoping not necessarily for broadcast.
01:02:01.000Like, everything was backwards, because when he went, you can follow me on the website on the screen, it was something like... I was like, you need a catchier website.
01:03:10.000No, but what I want is to be able to hear an authentic voice of the left, to be reminded that it's not all just liberal establishment Hollow claptrap, which is all we've experienced lately.
01:03:24.000People just trying to grease their own interest just on a black, haughty, supercilious piety being fired off as policy and as a meaningful worldview.
01:03:33.000It doesn't mean nothing to me no more, that stuff.
01:03:36.000I think that those tags, those definitions are melting away and that we have to find something new.
01:03:44.000Whether it's the Cockney economists, or the cocksure confidence of James O'Keefe after being booted out of his own company, you can feel a new and nascent confidence in people.
01:03:57.000I know you've been beat down, I know it's been a tough time, a tough pandemic, damn it, a tough life, but maybe this might be a new springtime.
01:04:04.000Certainly in our hemisphere, the winds of change are blowing, and it's not just my constant flatulence.
01:04:11.000Hey, remember, you can see my stand-up show right after this.