Stay Free - Russel Brand - Pandemic 2.0? The Promise of Disease X - SF512

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00:00:06.000 Thank you.

00:08:58.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:09:02.000 Hey.

00:09:06.000 Hey.

00:09:12.000 Hey! 0.99

00:09:13.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.

00:09:14.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand on Rumble.

00:09:19.000 Not exclusively on Rumble, because the first 15 minutes, we're going to be on YouTube.

00:09:26.000 Then, in fact, you know we're going to talk about X. We want to do some stuff on X. And, if you're on Awakening Wonders on Locals, like Lily Farm Girl, We Used To Be Free, Mrs. CMS... You know, we do additional content there, don't we?

00:09:48.000 And we'll be providing you with some of that.

00:09:51.000 I'm just looking at the amount of stuff.

00:09:52.000 Yeah, break bread, we made that graphic in the end.

00:09:54.000 It's quite a lot going on today.

00:09:56.000 I'm just trying to kind of conceptualise it all, because yesterday was pretty mental.

00:10:01.000 Shall I show them yesterday?

00:10:02.000 What numbers...

00:10:05.000 Last three at all things from yesterday.

00:10:07.000 Have a look at yesterday.

00:10:08.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be there for about ten minutes.

00:10:10.000 On Rumble, we've got more news than I think I'm going to be able to give you.

00:10:14.000 But just have a look at what's been going on.

00:10:17.000 I mean, it's insane.

00:10:18.000 Mar-a-Lago.

00:10:20.000 Have you been here before then?

00:10:22.000 It's nice here, isn't it?

00:10:23.000 Russell Brand is here!

00:10:24.000 I knew because there were Secret Service here.

00:10:26.000 I'm very grateful to be in a double act with Mel Gibson all of a sudden.

00:10:30.000 My life's changed quite a lot.

00:10:31.000 A little while ago I was a vegan, living a simple life in Grey's Essex.

00:10:36.000 Now I'm eating steak at Mar-a-Lago.

00:10:38.000 Funny how the world changes.

00:10:39.000 When we awaken to the continual and perpetual interconnectivity and flow that he grants us, then we are powerful and real change becomes a possibility.

00:10:48.000 Amazing.

00:10:51.000 I gotta follow that?

00:10:53.000 Oh my god!

00:10:54.000 Would you like a big girl?

00:10:55.000 Yeah. 0.90

00:10:57.000 Come here, you, soppy sausage. 0.72

00:10:59.000 Stick to delivering the presents and choosing who's naughty and nice. 0.86

00:11:03.000 Mel, you made a very...

00:11:05.000 You hit me one time when I heard you...

00:11:07.000 Finish that sentence. 0.99

00:11:10.000 It's like rain, it does not give a fuck who it falls on, and there's no umbrella for the truth. 0.99

00:11:16.000 Certainly fair ring The consequences of stupid actions I barely Had any power over Now it's over Pretty amazing. 0.98

00:11:29.000 Thank you. 0.96

00:11:30.000 Is this real life or are we in a dream?

00:11:33.000 This is what happens every day at Mar-a-Lago.

00:11:36.000 Just at Mar-a-Lago and of course then we have a troupe of pipers and drummers.

00:11:40.000 Independence is not easy when you've got this accent. 1.00

00:11:58.000 But you are cut of the same cloth, sir.

00:12:02.000 Thank you.

00:12:02.000 You are cut from the same cloth, and I see what you are wearing on your chest.

00:12:07.000 Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

00:12:09.000 Dear Lord, Bring your saving graces upon Russell and the super work that he is continuing to do.

00:12:17.000 Do you have a cup?

00:12:19.000 You can take my pee.

00:12:20.000 My pee is good.

00:12:22.000 It's clean.

00:12:23.000 You wait till he's here.

00:12:24.000 I think you could probably drink it.

00:12:27.000 Sober Journeys inspired me a lot.

00:12:28.000 How are you getting on?

00:12:29.000 Doing alright.

00:12:30.000 Two years, just the other day.

00:12:32.000 One day at a time.

00:12:33.000 We don't drink, we don't take drugs.

00:12:34.000 One day at a time.

00:12:36.000 Hey! 0.99

00:12:37.000 So if you want more of that content, stay with us because we'll be doing more of that.

00:12:42.000 You can join Rumble Premium or you can join us on locals like Claude and Kelly P.

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00:12:52.000 We'll be doing break bread in a minute after this with Jeff Cavins.

00:12:57.000 Jeff Cavins is a fan.

00:13:01.000 Catholic scholar and teacher and we're going to be, we won't be literally breaking bread because of his Catholic faith but we'll be discussing, I guess we're going to be discussing some of the distinctions and sects within the church and Christian unity but I'm trying to understand really today's news cycle from a spiritual perspective because a lot's Going on.

00:13:26.000 All that stuff, by the way, that was yesterday.

00:13:28.000 That was just yesterday.

00:13:29.000 We went to a treatment centre.

00:13:31.000 We went to Mar-a-Lago.

00:13:33.000 We went to spend time with Sean Hannity.

00:13:37.000 I'm absolutely baffled.

00:13:39.000 You know, we make this content in the Redneck Riviera here in Florida, Russell Brand, to help with the fentanyl crisis.

00:13:48.000 We've got to help with that fentanyl crisis.

00:13:50.000 We're making it out in my mate's studio, and I can hear him talking out there, and I can't really complain, can I, because it's his studio.

00:13:58.000 What can you say?

00:13:59.000 We've got a guest in his house.

00:14:00.000 What was that track, Isaac, that you used on that?

00:14:06.000 Mouth of the Beast.

00:14:07.000 Yeah, it's about living in kind of a wild world.

00:14:12.000 It's trying to come out of a wild world.

00:14:15.000 Well, that is what we're trying to do.

00:14:16.000 Mouth of the Beast.

00:14:17.000 Whose track is that?

00:14:18.000 Christophe Crane.

00:14:19.000 Christophe Crane, Mouth of the Beast.

00:14:21.000 What I reckon that is, is...

00:14:24.000 Yeah, that's in a sense, it's thematically perfect.

00:14:27.000 Well done, Liam.

00:14:28.000 I like the trailer.

00:14:29.000 Thanks as well, Isaac.

00:14:32.000 Like, because...

00:14:34.000 This is what I think.

00:14:35.000 What can I bring to this now?

00:14:37.000 Because when you talk about the news and watch the news a lot, you will experience a kind of fatigue if you try your best to interpret it at depth.

00:14:47.000 Because even though it's stimulating, the same things are happening all the time, again and again.

00:14:54.000 You know, you see sort of comments a lot these days where people go, what's happening on this timeline?

00:14:59.000 Say, for example, what's his name, the lad that...

00:15:02.000 He's alleged to have assassinated the healthcare.

00:15:06.000 He's got like a sort of a lovely...

00:15:08.000 Luigi Magliani.

00:15:09.000 Luigi Magliani.

00:15:11.000 That's like such a man's story. 0.99

00:15:13.000 And then the Daniel Penny story...

00:15:16.000 Luigi Mangione.

00:15:17.000 Luigi Mangione.

00:15:19.000 Daniel Penny.

00:15:20.000 Like, do you know, even judicial matters feel like sport now.

00:15:26.000 Like, when something happens, I'm like, which side are we meant to be on?

00:15:29.000 Is this a good murderer or a bad murderer?

00:15:32.000 Do we like this?

00:15:33.000 Which one is this?

00:15:34.000 And the culture sort of amalgamates around it, and you have to sort of work out what side you're supposed to be on.

00:15:44.000 There is this old Luigi, there's a lovely little meme in the Awakened Wonder chat with him all banged up.

00:15:49.000 But what I'm interested in, and I think what you're interested in too, is the seismic collisions that are occurring in real time...

00:15:59.000 Like, if you take my country to the UK, its democratic institutions are quaking and creaking.

00:16:04.000 We're going to be covering that in a little while.

00:16:06.000 You've got my man, Phidias, who's a member of the European Parliament now, launching an app about direct democracy.

00:16:14.000 Now, you may consider that tangential, but what we're experiencing, I think, are almost tectonic shifts in the way that power operates.

00:16:24.000 And there's a further story that relates to that exact issue.

00:16:28.000 Yeah, it's Trump calling Trudeau, Governor Trudeau.

00:16:33.000 When, yeah, Daniel Penn is not a murderer, exactly.

00:16:35.000 Like, you know, some people will look at...

00:16:37.000 But, like, if you watch the other half of media, Alagondar, right?

00:16:41.000 You know, like, yeah, I feel you, man.

00:16:42.000 He's like a Marine, wasn't it?

00:16:43.000 Like, that guy was harassing people.

00:16:46.000 You know, but you know it's all politicised now.

00:16:50.000 You've got to know, Alagondar, that there's a whole other news narrative, right?

00:16:55.000 You're aware of that.

00:16:56.000 Of course, obviously there wouldn't have been a trial if there wasn't an argument to be made.

00:17:02.000 Yeah, and the same thing will happen with this Luigi kid.

00:17:05.000 I saw this ex-post where it said, tweets resurface of beloved murderer.

00:17:13.000 Beloved murderer.

00:17:16.000 Anyway, I'm going to get into that a little bit later because he shouted that mad stuff, didn't he, sort of briefly when he was being sort of transported on his way to, I don't know, questioning or whatever the hell's going on.

00:17:28.000 But let's work on a traditional story that's easy to decipher and discern.

00:17:34.000 More deadly virus samples are being spilled in a slapdash fashion.

00:17:42.000 Hundreds of deadly virus samples have vanished from an Australian lab in a major breach of biosecurity.

00:17:48.000 We'll be talking about this at length over the course of the show.

00:17:50.000 Yesterday, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced that 323 vials of live viruses are now unaccounted for.

00:18:00.000 What have you done with M323 vials of live viruses?

00:18:04.000 These include nearly 100 vials of Hendra virus, 2 vials of Hantavirus, and 223 vials of Lysavirus, all of which are extremely deadly for humans.

00:18:14.000 Do you remember...

00:18:15.000 When the pandemic happened, we were sort of talking about gain-of-function research, which initially Fauci claimed it was not an applicable term for this particular type of experiment.

00:18:27.000 Then over time we realised it was kind of gain-of-function research because...

00:18:31.000 Fauci was using the definition that it's only gain of function if it was a human origin virus in the first place, that if it was an animal origin virus that was being amended, that doesn't qualify under the gain of function criteria.

00:18:48.000 Amidst all of the minutiae of that conversation, part of you thinks, why are we, like, trying to make worse viruses?

00:18:55.000 Why are we doing that?

00:18:56.000 Well, in the event that there was a bad virus, then we'll be perfectly poised in order to inoculate it because of this research.

00:19:03.000 Yeah, but what if people keep just...

00:19:05.000 Losing vials of the stuff or having air vent breakdowns and seeping it out into the giddy streets of Wuhan.

00:19:12.000 Oh well, then I suppose you would have a problem.

00:19:14.000 And who would solve that problem?

00:19:15.000 Would it be the same financial interests that are actually conducting these experiments?

00:19:20.000 Exactly!

00:19:20.000 They're the only people qualified.

00:19:22.000 In a way, it's beyond parody and it's beyond comedy.

00:19:25.000 And that's my...

00:19:26.000 Earlier point of when you cover the news for long periods of time, you have to start to examine ulterior perspectives.

00:19:34.000 You can't operate continually on the hysterical plateau of tribalism.

00:19:44.000 You can't be like, oh no, I support that perspective, that's a good murderer, that's a bad...

00:19:50.000 You have to go, what is this?

00:19:51.000 What is this an expression of?

00:19:54.000 We'll be looking at that virus stuff.

00:19:56.000 Over the course of the next hour, as well as analysing my country, the United Kingdom, as it doubles down on its prison island purview with the introduction of Digital ID. That's happening right now.

00:20:11.000 Digital ID is being introduced.

00:20:13.000 Government initiative, part of a wider effort to move more state functions online, including paying taxes and opening a bank account.

00:20:22.000 Safety and convenience.

00:20:23.000 You're going to be so safe and it's going to be so convenient to be just trapped in a pod, sloshed over with authority.

00:20:34.000 Let's have a look now at Luigi Mangione screaming.

00:20:38.000 What he actually says is, it's completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.

00:20:47.000 Let's have a look at that moment because...

00:20:52.000 What's going on with these stories?

00:20:54.000 Like, first of all, when it happened, like, a CEO of a health insurance company has been assassinated.

00:21:02.000 Okay, is this to do with the peculiar shifts that are occurring in American government now, the rise of the Maha movement?

00:21:10.000 People that were maligned and maligned pariahs like Jay Bhattacharya now, if confirmed, will be heading up the NIH. Marty Makkari at the FDA. Bobby Kennedy, if he survives the media onslaught and various tactics to destroy and smear him, heading up the HHS. Are we seeing the peculiar gangster permutations, assassinations, outpourings of peculiar activity as a result of these shifts?

00:21:39.000 Is this what this is?

00:21:40.000 And then a lot of people were somehow supportive of him because it became clear that that executive had dumped Stark and all of that.

00:21:49.000 And now, what?

00:21:51.000 Oh, look at that.

00:21:52.000 Did you know that the four horsemen of the apocalypse have been changed on Wikipedia?

00:21:56.000 They're now great guys!

00:21:57.000 According to Wikipedia, this is a Venus siren on locals.

00:22:01.000 What, they've changed pestilence to conquest?

00:22:04.000 I don't know what to make of that.

00:22:06.000 Vic Snick's Maple Maga in the Rumble chat.

00:22:09.000 Maple Maga.

00:22:10.000 That's not bad.

00:22:11.000 That's going to catch on.

00:22:11.000 Did you coin that or are you just quoting it?

00:22:13.000 That's not bad.

00:22:14.000 So, the Luigi Mangione matter, is it an odd symptom of these extraordinary movements and motions in the healthcare system that are growing out of the Maga movement and the Maha movement, or not?

00:22:31.000 Let's have a look at a guy...

00:22:33.000 shouting as he's being detained and transferred.

00:22:36.000 Down, down.

00:22:38.000 Oh, back up!

00:22:43.000 I'm completely out of touch and insult to the intelligence of the American people and the life experience!

00:22:50.000 It's weird that he was sort of obviously not supposed to be shouting, isn't it?

00:23:02.000 Like, they didn't like that he went, don't you shout!

00:23:06.000 Interesting.

00:23:07.000 Interesting.

00:23:08.000 Yeah, what about he...

00:23:09.000 They weren't, like, someone claiming to...

00:23:11.000 Weren't there weird posts going about up that were sort of alleged to be from him?

00:23:16.000 Can you sort of...

00:23:16.000 Can you guys post some of that stuff?

00:23:18.000 I'm trying to understand this situation.

00:23:20.000 All right.

00:23:22.000 Again, are we witnessing...

00:23:26.000 Are we witnessing the observable symptoms of not just incremental decay, but potential seismic shift?

00:23:35.000 Privatisation by stealth, you said years ago, Russell.

00:23:39.000 Let me have a look at this.

00:23:43.000 This is a lovely little news story about Donald Trump.

00:23:46.000 What's the charge? 1.00

00:23:47.000 Eating a meal, a succulent McDonald's meal, getting my hands off my penis? 1.00

00:23:51.000 Where's that from? 1.00

00:23:52.000 Oh man, you've got to look at the locals chat.

00:23:54.000 There's some weird stuff flying up on there.

00:23:56.000 Okay, listen.

00:23:57.000 Let's have a look at...

00:23:58.000 This again, I would say, is part of the general and peculiar flow of weird stories of sovereignty as Trump trolls Trudeau saying that Canada will become the 51st or 52nd state.

00:24:16.000 How are Canadians going to deal with that?

00:24:19.000 How are people going to deal with Trump's refusal to engage in normal diplomatic conversations and to use the language of the internet to conduct international business?

00:24:31.000 Let's have a look at this story covered by, I think this is a legacy media piece of content.

00:24:35.000 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his jokes about Canada becoming the 51st state.

00:24:42.000 On Tuesday, Trump posted to his social media platform Truth Social, calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, quote, governor of the great state of Canada.

00:24:52.000 The post comes after Trudeau spoke at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Monday, commenting on Trump's plans to impose 25% tariffs on all products from Canada and Mexico.

00:25:03.000 President-elect Trump got elected on a commitment to make life better and more affordable for Americans.

00:25:11.000 And I think people south of the border are beginning to wake up to the reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life a lot more expensive for Americans.

00:25:25.000 Last month, Trump announced a tax as one of his first executive orders.

00:25:29.000 Shortly after, Trudeau had dinner with the soon-to-be president in Florida, with Trump calling the meeting very productive, and Trudeau telling reporters it was an excellent conversation.

00:25:39.000 It was later reported that Trump made a joke to Trudeau that Canada should become the 51st United States if he felt the planned tariffs would hurt Canada's economy.

00:25:48.000 Hmm.

00:25:49.000 Hmm.

00:25:50.000 Okay.

00:25:52.000 Trump looks, to me, post-shooting Trump looks a little gentler.

00:25:59.000 The United States and G7 are now making good on that commitment.

00:26:04.000 Let's see how much money can be transferred to Ukraine prior to the inauguration.

00:26:09.000 ...commitment.

00:26:09.000 Together, we will leverage income earned from frozen Russian sovereign assets to provide a total of $50 billion of Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration ERA loans to Ukraine.

00:26:22.000 This will lend vital support to the people of Ukraine as they defend their country.

00:26:28.000 And it also makes clear aggressors and tyrants will be responsible for the damage they cause.

00:26:36.000 Okay, so listen, while we're still on YouTube, I want to start our story on the UK, the country I'm from.

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00:28:19.000 Yeah, that's right.

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00:28:21.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, you're going to have to click the link in the description and join us over on Rumble.

00:28:26.000 Over the next 40 minutes or so, we're going to be talking about Keir Starmer, two-tier Keir Starmergeddon's new plans to introduce ID. As always, it's their help.

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00:29:03.000 Okay, here is...

00:29:04.000 Now, one of the reasons that the United Kingdom is quaking so severely and seriously is because there's only just been an election that successfully brought into power a centre-left Labour government very much in the sort of mould of...

00:29:23.000 Tony Blair, there is no such thing as kind of socialism or Christian-derived socialism.

00:29:30.000 In the UK they say that socialism owes as much to Methodism as to Marx, a kind of socialism born of fraternity and unity and love and kindness.

00:29:43.000 That...

00:29:44.000 The kind of idea has been vanquished and abandoned in favour of authoritarianism, usually legitimised by some idea of care.

00:29:54.000 In this case, in order to legitimise...

00:30:03.000 Digital ID. In order to legitimise digital ID, let me just put up the still again.

00:30:11.000 Government initiative, part of wider efforts to move more state functions online, including paying taxes and opening a bank account.

00:30:17.000 So we're looking at digital ID being sort of normalised and being made all pervasive.

00:30:27.000 The trouble is we don't really have a great deal of trust in the Keir Starmer government who are elected not in a tidal wave of optimism but just sort of wearily put into office and they're already breaking pledges that they made immediately prior to their election.

00:30:45.000 One of the things that I suppose we have to be aware of is the rise in popularity of Nigel Farage and the reform movement and the likelihood that what would have once seemed like a radical political transition could actually take place.

00:31:01.000 Let's have a look at Nigel Farage talking about his support from Elon Musk as well as...

00:31:08.000 A billionaire donor, Nick Candy, who has defected from the more traditional right-wing British party, the Conservatives, to Farage's reform.

00:31:18.000 Mr Candy, you were a Conservative Party member and donor from 2009 to now.

00:31:24.000 Between 2020 and 2020, you donated £270,000 to the Conservatives.

00:31:30.000 Do you intend to donate similar amounts to reform before the general election, the next one?

00:31:35.000 No, I've mentioned this morning I will donate a seven-figure sum to reform.

00:31:38.000 So over a million pounds?

00:31:39.000 Over a million pounds.

00:31:40.000 And I will also raise reform more money than has ever been raised for a political party in this country.

00:31:46.000 And Elon Musk said on X, on the announcement of your appointment, that this was, quote, interesting.

00:31:51.000 Are you going to try and raise funds from him?

00:31:54.000 And have either of you had conversations with Elon Musk or his team about donations?

00:31:59.000 We've had no conversations yet regarding donations.

00:32:02.000 Elon's obviously very close to President Trump.

00:32:04.000 Nigel's also super close to President Trump.

00:32:07.000 As you know, he helped, via my wife, do the largest Republican fundraise ever done outside of America.

00:32:12.000 If Elon wants to give, and it can be given legally, then of course Reform would be very interested in that.

00:32:17.000 Elon Musk is very supportive of what Reform is trying to do, supportive of me personally, and we've got good connections with him.

00:32:25.000 Nick's got good connections with him as well.

00:32:26.000 He's messaged me this morning.

00:32:28.000 There you are.

00:32:28.000 He's messaged you this morning.

00:32:30.000 Yeah, we're speaking somewhere later today.

00:32:31.000 What did he say?

00:32:32.000 I cannot discuss that.

00:32:33.000 But he messaged you directly.

00:32:34.000 We're speaking directly.

00:32:36.000 He's giving us political support.

00:32:37.000 We have at this stage neither solicited or been offered donations.

00:32:41.000 Okay.

00:32:43.000 It's interesting this, isn't it?

00:32:45.000 See, how do you...

00:32:50.000 Reconcile our old ideas and understanding of political power with these new relationships.

00:32:58.000 Do you think there have always been international dimensions and international support in apparently domestic political dynamics?

00:33:07.000 Because Elon Musk is a kind of world king figure.

00:33:10.000 And if he offers support to the Reform Party, whether it's financial or just moral or just the support through his platforms and channels...

00:33:19.000 It's going to be impactful.

00:33:21.000 Me, what I'm interested in is the potential for technology to decentralise power and radically democratise the world.

00:33:32.000 And whilst our attention may be on a fascinating story of popular and populist support for nativist And patriotic parties.

00:33:45.000 I think that this story might be, over time, more significant.

00:33:50.000 This is Phidias, who's a member of the European Parliament, who got elected on the basis of his online social media campaigning.

00:33:58.000 Curiously, he's another person that Elon Musk supports, actually.

00:34:02.000 But he's launching an app to bring about...

00:34:05.000 And explore direct democracy.

00:34:08.000 Have a quick look at this.

00:34:09.000 I believe in direct democracy.

00:34:11.000 That's why I'm building an app so people can have directly a saying here in the European Parliament.

00:34:19.000 Since I came here, I put polls on social media to decide on important topics like Do you want Ursula von der Leyen to remain? 1.00

00:34:27.000 Yes or no?

00:34:28.000 I think making this polls was a great experiment to take into consideration what the people really want and to promote the idea of direct democracy.

00:34:38.000 But it's true that these polls are in danger of being participated by people outside Europe or by bots.

00:34:46.000 But now with this app there will be no such problems as it will be much more secure and only Europeans will be able to vote. 0.98

00:34:55.000 I envision this app to be a step Yes...

00:35:25.000 While I recognise the rise of populism and America First, France First, UK First movements to be significant and a kind of important bulwark against the ascent of globalism, Really what interests me is the possibility of actual democracy, decentralised power, the ability to run your community as locally as possible.

00:35:54.000 What Phidias is doing is pretty extraordinary.

00:35:58.000 It's pretty extraordinary, the idea that why would you not, in your community, imagine where you are now, participate in democracy in the most direct way possible, know what the budget is for your community, determine whether it's going to be spent on health or road maintenance or education or welfare.

00:36:16.000 And that is the pole that opposes... 0.94

00:36:23.000 The intention of globalism and the real threat of globalism, which is to maximise and achieve total control over and centralise power to the highest degree conceivable.

00:36:37.000 Now, loads of you have talked about Mark Anderson's appearance on Joe Rogan recently, and here is Mark Anderson talking to Barry Weiss about The Biden government's intention to take complete control over AI technology,

00:36:55.000 any of you that have spent any time with ChatGBT, will be aware of its extraordinary capacity and its ability primarily, I suppose, to replace human function when it comes to logistics, operations, management, can creep into almost every area of human life.

00:37:16.000 The stat technology could of course be used to maximize democracy if decentralized, but if further centralized, it's going to be absolute chaos and apparently that's a real threat.

00:37:27.000 Let's have a look at this.

00:37:28.000 We had meetings in DC in May where we talked to them about this and the meetings were absolutely horrifying and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.

00:37:38.000 Mark, add so little color to absolutely horrifying.

00:37:41.000 What did you hear in those meetings?

00:37:43.000 They said, look, AI is a technology that the government is going to completely control.

00:37:49.000 This is not going to be a startup thing.

00:37:51.000 They actually said flat out to us, don't do AI startups.

00:37:54.000 Don't fund AI startups.

00:37:56.000 It's not something that we're going to allow to happen.

00:37:58.000 They're not going to be allowed to exist.

00:38:00.000 There's no point.

00:38:01.000 They basically said AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government.

00:38:10.000 I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon.

00:38:13.000 We're going to protect them from competition.

00:38:15.000 We're going to control them, and we're going to dictate what they do.

00:38:19.000 I said, I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because the math for AI is out there and it's being taught everywhere.

00:38:26.000 They literally said, during the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics.

00:38:31.000 And took them out of the research community and entire branches of physics basically went dark and didn't proceed.

00:38:38.000 And that if we decide we need to, we're going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI. Wow.

00:38:45.000 And I said, I've just learned two very important things.

00:38:49.000 Because I wasn't aware of the former, and I wasn't aware that you were, you know, even conceiving of doing it to the latter.

00:38:54.000 And so they basically just said, yeah, we're going to look, we're going to take total control of the entire thing, and just don't...

00:38:58.000 And Mark, what was Steel Manit for the listener?

00:39:00.000 Like, what was their argument?

00:39:02.000 Well, it's more...

00:39:03.000 So this gets into this whole, like, all these debates around, like, AI safety, um, AI policy.

00:39:08.000 So there's sort of several dimensions on it, and I'll do my best to steel man it.

00:39:10.000 So one is just, like, to the extent that this stuff is relevant to the military, which it is, like, if you draw an analogy between AI and autonomous weapons being, like, the new thing that's going to determine who wins and loses wars, then you draw an analogy to the, in the Cold War, that was nuclear power, and that was the atomic bomb.

00:39:26.000 Um, and, you know, the federal government, the steel man would be the federal government didn't let startups go out and build atomic bombs, right?

00:39:33.000 Right.

00:39:34.000 You had the Manhattan Project, and everything was classified, and at least according to them, they classified down to the level of actual mathematics.

00:39:42.000 And they tightly controlled everything, and look, that determined a lot of the shape of the world, right?

00:39:49.000 And so there's that, and then look, that's part one, and then look, I think part two is there's the social control aspect to it.

00:39:56.000 Which is where the censorship stuff comes right back, which is the exact same dynamic we've had with social media censorship and how it's basically been weaponized and how the government became entwined with social media censorship, which is one of the real scandals of the last decade, a real problem, like a real constitutional problem.

00:40:13.000 That is happening at hyperspeed in AI, and these are the same people who have been using social media censorship against their political enemies.

00:40:22.000 These are the same people who have been doing debanking against their political enemies, and I think they want to use AI the same way.

00:40:29.000 And then look, I think the third is, I think this generation of Democrats, the ones in the White House under Biden, they became very anti-capitalist.

00:40:36.000 And they wanted to go back to much more of a centralized, controlled, planned economy.

00:40:40.000 And you saw that in many aspects of their policy, but I think, quite frankly, they think that the idea that the private sector plays an important role is not high up on their priority list, and they think generally companies are bad, and capitalism is bad, and entrepreneurs are bad, and they've said that a thousand different ways.

00:40:54.000 And, you know, they demonize entrepreneurs as much as they can.

00:40:57.000 Hey! 0.99

00:40:58.000 Okay, so there you go.

00:41:00.000 The very precipice of the apocalypse in the clutches of binary claws that we can't even begin to comprehend. 0.99

00:41:11.000 Extraordinary and astonishing to contemplate.

00:41:16.000 Alright, so, Disease X. Let's have a quick look at Disease X. Why are you lot talking about Romania?

00:41:21.000 What is happening in Romania?

00:41:22.000 We'll check that out in a second.

00:41:23.000 We'll find something and we'll jump into that together.

00:41:27.000 Okay, let's look at Disease X. WF warned that countries would have to sign up to the WHO pandemic treaty to be prepared for Disease X. Can anyone please explain how the World Economic Forum had precise knowledge of Disease X a year in advance?

00:41:42.000 Well, if anyone can explain it, I'm sure it's going to be.

00:41:46.000 Bill Gates, we'll get to him sooner or later I'm sure.

00:41:49.000 Let's have a look at...

00:41:52.000 But Disease X. Let's get ready for Disease X. If you weren't terrified already, be terrified now.

00:42:00.000 So Disease X is a placeholder for unknown disease.

00:42:08.000 Alright, so it's just like the idea that there could be.

00:42:11.000 It's like a placeholder.

00:42:14.000 This is our working title for the next pandemic.

00:42:19.000 I just wanted to start by clarifying that because there is already a lot of attention.

00:42:24.000 If I may, although COVID came immediately, we were preparing for COVID-like disease.

00:42:36.000 You may even call COVID as the first disease X. And it may happen again.

00:42:45.000 After we started putting a placeholder, you know, the first that came was in the disease X is COVID. So we have experience now and we are preparing based on that experience.

00:43:02.000 A lot of assessment has been done.

00:43:03.000 And then the other key in order to have better prepared and to address the disease X is the pandemic agreement.

00:43:11.000 The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced, and all the solutions into one.

00:43:19.000 And that agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.

00:43:27.000 Because this is about a common enemy.

00:43:29.000 And without a shared response, starting from the preparedness, You know, we will face the same problem as COVID. Who is that common enemy?

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00:44:57.000 Where the hell are all of those vials of infectious diseases?

00:45:02.000 Let's try and get Disease X prepped and ready and out there.

00:45:07.000 This is where Queensland's secretive testing and research of deadly viruses takes place, but today a very public admission.

00:45:15.000 There is not a clear record of the destruction of 323 samples that cannot be located.

00:45:24.000 So I'm announcing an investigation into the record-keeping breaches discovered at Queensland Health's public health virology laboratory.

00:45:32.000 The blunder relates to a locked freezer storing 93 live samples of Hendra virus, 2 live samples of Hantavirus and more than 200 fragments of Lysavirus.

00:45:42.000 The freezer broke in 2021 and the materials transferred, but a gap in the paperwork...

00:45:48.000 A freezer breaking is the kind of situation you should be able to resolve in your own household.

00:45:55.000 It's an inconvenience and it's a challenge.

00:45:57.000 But when that can lead to a global pandemic, you're simply going to have to be more careful with your white goods. 0.99

00:46:05.000 But a gap in the paperwork means no one knows where they went.

00:46:09.000 It is a significant breach of protocol, but I do not believe there is a risk to the public.

00:46:15.000 It is unusual and disappointing that we've found out about this error and found out so far down the track.

00:46:22.000 Funusual and disappointing.

00:46:24.000 Amples were only realised during a change in management in August last year, now Queensland's second lab failure after 40,000 criminal cases were impacted by flaws in the state's DNA lab.

00:46:36.000 It was brought to my attention just a few weeks ago.

00:46:39.000 We've seen it happen with the DNA lab.

00:46:40.000 We've now seen another failure of record-keeping and administration.

00:46:43.000 The Chief Health Officer believes the most likely scenario is that the samples were destroyed by autoclaving or high-pressure steam.

00:46:50.000 He says it's highly unlikely the samples were thrown into general waste or stolen.

00:46:55.000 The first deadly Hendra virus outbreak swept through Brisbane racehorse stables in 1994 today poses a different risk.

00:47:04.000 The reputational damage is a very significant factor, particularly in this day and age where there's a lot of concern about how we handle these sorts of viruses.

00:47:11.000 The probe's report is due in June.

00:47:14.000 Hey, okay.

00:47:15.000 Let's have a look at...

00:47:16.000 This is Jeffrey Sachs explaining the...

00:47:21.000 Let's have a look at this.

00:47:22.000 This is Jeffrey Sachs explaining the deep state and its foreign policy that has nothing to do with Democrat and Republican vacillation.

00:47:30.000 The hard part that...

00:47:32.000 We don't really discuss in America and that is not understood in America is that our foreign policy is deeply entrained at the scale of decades.

00:47:43.000 So what one observes is not because Obama came in or Trump came in or Biden came in.

00:47:50.000 We have a deep state.

00:47:52.000 The CIA is the main continuation agency of that deep state.

00:48:01.000 And it carries a basic foreign policy.

00:48:04.000 The foreign policy of the United States since 1945 was to Destroy the Soviet Union and then after 1991 to try to do the same with Russia and if not destroy it to fundamentally weaken it.

00:48:21.000 In the case of the Middle East, the list that General Wesley Clark provided there is a list that Israel and I should be more specific that Netanyahu And his U.S. backers,

00:48:36.000 people like Wolfowitz, Douglas Fythe, and a number of others, Richard Perle, set out already in the 1990s and said, our job is to overthrow all of those governments.

00:48:53.000 And we've been at that for more than 20 years.

00:48:58.000 This is continuity.

00:48:59.000 This is not Democrats and Republicans.

00:49:03.000 Bush versus Obama.

00:49:05.000 It's a little boring, frankly.

00:49:08.000 You know, we get all this excitement.

00:49:09.000 Who's going to win?

00:49:10.000 No, this is not how foreign policy is made.

00:49:14.000 Foreign policy is made in the longer term.

00:49:17.000 Now, think of the seven countries that he named.

00:49:21.000 This started with Iraq. 0.73

00:49:23.000 It has Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia.

00:49:33.000 Now, I want people to understand, the United States or its proxies have launched wars in six of those seven countries.

00:49:43.000 That was a list agreed in 2001-2008.

00:49:48.000 Based on a list from 1996 when Netanyahu came into office, his theory was Israel needs to be able to do what it wants to dominate the Palestinian people.

00:50:01.000 So we need to overthrow all governments that support the Palestinians, especially that support them in Militancy through Hamas or Hezbollah or other units, rather than negotiating with the Palestinians so that there's a Palestinian state, we will overthrow seven countries. 0.90

00:50:24.000 Now, that's what has happened.

00:50:27.000 There's one left on that list.

00:50:30.000 That's Iran. 0.99

00:50:31.000 But six of them have now been the object of U.S. war.

00:50:39.000 It started with Iraq in 2003, because there was a fig leaf of legality, just a fig leaf, mind you, in Iraq Liberation Act that Clinton and the Congress signed in 1998, making it official policy to overthrow Saddam Hussein back in 1998, not after 9-11.

00:51:04.000 Then after 9-11, this list that Wesley Clark was shown became actual war doctrine for the Pentagon.

00:51:14.000 The idea was go into Iraq, then we'll go into Syria, we'll go into Lebanon, we will go into Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya.

00:51:25.000 Now what happened?

00:51:26.000 The U.S. got tied down in Iraq for several years by the insurgency, and so these seven wars in five years did not pan out on the timeline.

00:51:36.000 But Obama came in, and he was given the instructions.

00:51:41.000 Mr. President, your job is next.

00:51:43.000 That's Syria. 0.87

00:51:44.000 And in 2011, Obama launched CIA operations to overthrow Assad.

00:51:52.000 At...

00:51:53.000 The behest of Israel. 0.94

00:51:55.000 The United States backed Ethiopia to invade Somalia.

00:52:00.000 The United States backed rebels to break Sudan into pieces. 0.52

00:52:06.000 And now there's wars raging with millions suffering in Sudan and in South Sudan, thanks to the handiwork of the United States. 0.58

00:52:16.000 Now, in 2011, Obama sent in NATO to bomb Libya.

00:52:22.000 That's another 13 years of war.

00:52:26.000 And the one that Netanyahu wants, the big prize, that hasn't happened yet, but he's just trying every which way to get the United States to go to war with Iran.

00:52:39.000 It's six out of seven right now, and not one of those six This is a devastation that the U.S. has unleashed at the behest of Israel. 0.97

00:53:00.000 And yet, Morning Joe continues to claim that new media is irrelevant.

00:53:07.000 Everything we do is under fire.

00:53:09.000 Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, we are the media, you are the media. 0.97

00:53:16.000 My message to Elon Musk is, bullsh**, you're not the media. 0.97

00:53:21.000 You having... 0.99

00:53:27.000 You having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter.

00:53:35.000 You don't do that by popping off on Twitter.

00:53:38.000 You don't do that by having an opinion.

00:53:41.000 You do it by doing the hard work.

00:53:44.000 Yeah, come on. 0.77

00:53:45.000 Slow clap, everybody.

00:53:48.000 First of all, I've got to say, extraordinary content.

00:53:52.000 It needed to be said.

00:53:54.000 Yeah.

00:53:54.000 It continues to need to be said.

00:53:56.000 When all of the garbage is flying around on social media, lying about reporters, lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors do, lying about everything up and And down about not only their alternative set of facts, but alternative set of facts about what people like you do.

00:54:17.000 Or if social media people lying every day, every hour, What you do matters. 0.88

00:54:29.000 What the New York Times does matters.

00:54:32.000 What the Wall Street Journal does matters.

00:54:35.000 What Jonathan Lemire does matters.

00:54:38.000 What the Financial Times does matters.

00:54:41.000 What NBC News and MSNBC reporters do matters.

00:54:46.000 It matters.

00:54:48.000 Well, he seems pretty excited about it all.

00:54:51.000 Extraordinary.

00:54:53.000 It actually doesn't matter.

00:54:55.000 Well, there have been social forces at work for many years.

00:54:59.000 Women have advanced and a lot of guys have not.

00:55:02.000 And we need to address that, I think, before we can say what the Democrats have to do.

00:55:06.000 But let me ask you this.

00:55:09.000 While Democrats work on fixing past mistakes, a lot of Americans are disturbed about the future.

00:55:14.000 Trump is terrorizing migrants by threatening to call on the military.

00:55:19.000 To round them up on U.S. soil. 0.96

00:55:21.000 He's also imposing tariffs that everybody says could send prices soaring and threats to punish the media who don't fall in line.

00:55:29.000 Of all of that, Senator, what worries you the most?

00:55:35.000 Well, I mean, nothing really worries me, you know, because right now nothing has really happened yet.

00:55:42.000 I mean, Trump now is six weeks out before he's even going to be inaugurated.

00:55:46.000 But America signed up for this. 0.66

00:55:47.000 It's undeniable.

00:55:48.000 He won the popular vote, and he ran the table, including my state as well, too.

00:55:54.000 This is what America decided.

00:55:56.000 So this is definitely going to go in a direction that I'm, you know, a lot of Democrats aren't going to agree with that, you know, but I'm going to be a part of that conversation.

00:56:05.000 And there's going to be plenty of people that are going to freak out or they're going to have these kinds of extreme reactions.

00:56:11.000 But I won't be one of them, but I'm going to react and I'm going to be very selective on picking my own fights on that.

00:56:18.000 And I just have to, I think two things are true at the same time, whether it's like the border or whether it's with abortion or other of these kinds of issues.

00:56:28.000 I've been very clear on some of those things, but it's undeniable the Republicans now have the ability to run that table and our party is going to have to respond.

00:56:39.000 And I think we need to be smart and pick the right fights and not get all worked out over and over every last night.

00:56:46.000 John!

00:56:46.000 I gotta go!

00:56:49.000 What was the music?

00:56:50.000 Extraordinary.

00:56:52.000 Okay, so yesterday I was at...

00:56:55.000 I had an extraordinary day in West Palm Beach, primarily spending time in Mar-a-Lago.

00:57:04.000 We're doing sort of different content...

00:57:06.000 We're looking at conducting interviews outside of the studio and also doing investigative and experiential content.

00:57:18.000 Let's have a look at me and my reflections immediately after leaving Mar-a-Lago.

00:57:24.000 There is some sort of comment, like you've got to think of all of the galas and fancy events you've been at all your life.

00:57:30.000 Like what's it like you to go to any fancier event, like at some hotel or some fancy event to do with your work or whatever, where you have to dress up a little bit.

00:57:41.000 Then for me I've got references from like Hollywood, British aristocracy, pop music, I've seen a lot of it.

00:57:50.000 Philanthropy.

00:57:52.000 And it was the same with the RNC. The RNC, in a way, like it was Gareth who said, is like a gala.

00:57:58.000 They're all like that.

00:57:59.000 It could be about Lego or anything at the end.

00:58:02.000 It's like there's something that you recognise about all of it.

00:58:07.000 It's extraordinary.

00:58:09.000 Right at the very end, seeing Jim Caviezel, Kid Rock, Mel Gibson giving a speech as we left.

00:58:18.000 What is it about?

00:58:20.000 What is it about really?

00:58:21.000 What are we all looking for in these places?

00:58:26.000 And, you know, I think it can only be delivered, you know, now for me, I would say through Christ.

00:58:33.000 But I know that there has to be a profound spiritual change.

00:58:37.000 And maybe it ain't the job of government to offer profound spiritual change.

00:58:42.000 Maybe it's the role of government to yield and allow profound spiritual change To happen.

00:58:50.000 Because power does things to people.

00:58:54.000 That's hardly an original statement.

00:58:57.000 But what, you know, for me, it's like the...

00:58:59.000 I can't imagine, like, you know, when I've been on the way into Vanity Fair parties or, you know, various Oscar do's or, you know, Paris going to the sort of, like, Galliano show before Galliano got cancelled.

00:59:15.000 Like, going to, like, fancy events.

00:59:17.000 What I always feel about fancy events is, like, these are the constructions that the world's been built around.

00:59:23.000 Like, what...

00:59:24.000 The week before I went to a sort of Galliano fashion show in Paris, I'd been in a dump in Kenya where, like a mass human dump, they call it the Cradle of Civilization, and in that dump, the dump goes on for miles and miles, obviously importing garbage from other places. 0.99

00:59:45.000 And there's cattle grazing on it, marabou stalks sort of swooping in and out of it, and children mining and harvesting the garbage for the odd recyclable or valuable artifact.

00:59:57.000 And then within a week, I was at a sort of a Paris show, a Paris fashion show, and it was so opulent, so magnificent, so well staged, bubbles filled with smoke, immaculate models, glory.

01:00:12.000 What I feel like is, what is this lack of integrity or integration?

01:00:17.000 Here I didn't feel like that it was so jarring, but what I do feel is that something's going to change.

01:00:25.000 There's a kingdom coming.

01:00:26.000 There's a kingdom coming.

01:00:28.000 I wonder how all of this is going to stack up, man.

01:00:32.000 What do you lot think of it?

01:00:34.000 Before we leave you today, let's just have a look at the current British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, prior to his election, making claims that he would ultimately reverse when in office.

01:00:49.000 This is the kind of old-school politics that means, in a sense...

01:00:55.000 Brought about a state where none of us trust them.

01:00:58.000 Check this out.

01:00:59.000 Here he is talking simply about freezing fuel bill prices.

01:01:06.000 Which, would you believe, since in office, he has not done.

01:01:09.000 Ella in Sutherland, we want to fit you in.

01:01:11.000 You're through to Keir Starmer.

01:01:12.000 Hi Ella.

01:01:13.000 Hello, I just want to know how you're going to help single parents.

01:01:16.000 I haven't had a boiler since before Christmas.

01:01:19.000 I've only just got it fixed.

01:01:20.000 And yet I still owe £3,000.

01:01:25.000 Is that for the boiler itself or just on your energy, Ella?

01:01:28.000 No, for the energy, for the electric.

01:01:31.000 Yes, exactly.

01:01:32.000 So it's a hell of a lot of money.

01:01:34.000 Oh, it's a huge amount of money, Ella.

01:01:35.000 And is that because you didn't have the boiler working?

01:01:38.000 No, the boiler wasn't working, but I only had electric.

01:01:41.000 So I want to know how you're going to help single parents.

01:01:44.000 Well, Ella, what we're going to do for you and for anyone is freeze those energy bills going forward.

01:01:50.000 Because, Ella, I don't know your circumstances, but I doubt when you hear the energy companies and the government talking about £3,500 possibly for energy bills going up to £4,000, I suspect, like many, many other people, you shudder at that.

01:02:03.000 Because these are huge, huge amounts of money.

01:02:05.000 Which is why we say, under a Labour government, we'd freeze those prices.

01:02:09.000 We wouldn't allow them to go up, Ella.

01:02:11.000 What you're already paying is going to go through the roof.

01:02:13.000 And I don't know how you would cope with that, Ella.

01:02:15.000 You know, when I was growing up, my dad was a toolmaker, worked in a factory, my mum was a nurse.

01:02:20.000 We didn't have huge amounts of money.

01:02:22.000 And I remember struggling with the bills and the telephone being cut off and things like that.

01:02:26.000 So I know firsthand what it feels like to sit around the kitchen table and say...

01:02:31.000 We just can't actually pay all this.

01:02:33.000 And I know that millions of people are in that state of mind at the moment.

01:02:36.000 They're worried sick.

01:02:37.000 That's why I thought it was very important for us to have a very clear, simple policy.

01:02:41.000 We'll freeze your bills. 0.91

01:02:41.000 We won't allow that to happen. 0.91

01:02:43.000 And we'll get oil and gas companies from their excess profits to pay for that freezing of the bills.

01:02:48.000 It's simple.

01:02:49.000 It's straightforward.

01:02:49.000 It's a political choice.

01:02:50.000 Electricity bills will become more expensive in January after the energy regulator Ofgem announced an increase in its latest price cap this morning.

01:02:57.000 It will go up by 1.2% to £1,738.

01:03:02.000 It can't be his fault as an individual.

01:03:06.000 It's just systems that override The kind of basic ethics and morality that might abide if you were able to govern in alignment with a higher force or even a higher principle, if not a higher force.

01:03:21.000 That's why I think what young Phidias is proposing is interesting because...

01:03:27.000 Even if someone before they're elected says, you know, I sat around the kitchen table, I know what it's like to struggle.

01:03:32.000 Once they find themselves in a position of some authority, they become inevitably a vassal of the systems of governance that, as Jeffrey Sachs described, are able to maintain their power regardless of which nominal party is in office.

01:03:50.000 That applies in your country, the United States, mine in the United Kingdom, and can probably only ever be altered, amended, improved by decentralized systems of government where, guided by high principle, all of us are guided by high principle, all of us are able to participate in the organization of our community.

01:04:14.000 That doesn't mean that you abandon expertise, but it means that you stand back from the brink of continual technocracy.

01:04:25.000 Technocracy is a form of aristocracy where you just nominate experts to run everything for you and relinquish authority and control.

01:04:33.000 Alright guys, we will be back tomorrow.

01:04:35.000 We've got Cali Means.

01:04:36.000 We'll do the Cali Means show tomorrow.

01:04:38.000 We've got so much content to show you.

01:04:41.000 We'll be back tomorrow, not with more of the same, but with more of the different.

01:04:45.000 until then if you can stay free many switching switch on switch off many switching switch on switch off many switching Switch on.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 11, 2024

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