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00:00:30.000The only regulation required is your own principles and your own morality.
00:00:34.000Where do you stand on the subject of free speech?
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00:00:58.000of course you're worried that we're about to have a global financial collapse. Is the
00:01:03.000collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank the in augur, the impriture of 2008 Part
00:01:09.0002? Because you remember how they dealt with...
00:01:27.000From the intercept about the banking collapse and where it's likely to lead us all.
00:01:32.000Then, once we're exclusively on Rumble, we'll be talking about all sorts of crazy stuff from Pfizer and January 6, all sorts of things that you're going to absolutely love.
00:01:42.000I'll be talking about my appearances on Fox News, meeting Tucker Carlson, all of that stuff in our presentation.
00:01:48.000Here's the news now, here's the effing news.
00:01:51.000But, For a while, shall we just revel in the simplicity of the wonderful world of entertainment?
00:02:17.000I wanted to keep that but I thought I can't in good faith keep this Oscar for best short film as I haven't made any short films at all.
00:02:25.000Well I think we've made lots of short films.
00:02:27.000Well actually don't you think that those films we make every day where we do our level best to expose hypocrisy and corruption and bring people together in spite of cultural differences are worthy of an Oscar?
00:02:35.000Well the Academy do not think that and that's why I'll be boycotting the Oscars, not that they've noticed.
00:02:41.000Hugh Grant though, fellow Englishman and wryly intelligent Brit, was at the Oscars and of course he's... You can see that what's happened to Hugh Grant is he's stopped caring about things like this.
00:02:53.000Yeah, he's sort of... I'd say it's like Neo.
00:02:56.000He's sort of woken up and he finds himself still at the Oscars, obligated I imagine to attend due to his commitments to certain projects that he's attached to and starring in.
00:03:05.000But while there he's thinking, oh don't make me do this.
00:03:07.000And that's really plain when you see him talking to this attractive journalist.
00:04:36.000It's because it's pageantry, I suppose.
00:04:38.000People talk about nihilism and materialism and the meaninglessness of our contemporary culture, predicated as it is on consumerism and commodification, but we still intuitively reach for meaning and purpose.
00:04:51.000Sort of set of signals that indicate to us that life is not just an empty, occasionally stirred morass of nothingness.
00:04:59.000And the Oscars, like they were setting up for Oscars when we were recently in Los Angeles.
00:05:03.000They shut down all of Hollywood Boulevard.
00:05:35.000And obviously Hugh Grant, who I know a little bit, not very well, But he's like a very intelligent person who's having to answer questions about his clothes and not to discredit the other person, she's just doing what her job is.
00:05:48.000Isn't it like, don't you think, tell me in the comments in the chat if you feel the same whether you're watching this on YouTube or if you're watching this with us now on Rumbles or our membership platform Locals.
00:05:57.000Do you find it harder and harder to participate?
00:05:59.000Like when I see stuff like this I'm like oh god is this still Going on, is this still happening?
00:06:03.000Of course there was a time where I craved it, like I really wanted to be involved in that.
00:06:07.000I remember standing backstage, there I am look without a beard, of course one of our mates says that when I don't have a beard I look like when Darth Vader takes his helmet off.
00:06:15.000Like standing there backstage and seeing all their moscas lined up together.
00:06:19.000It's weird to see a coveted item abundant, that's the That's the idea that motivates Andy Warhol isn't it?
00:06:24.000If you endlessly repeat Marilyn Monroe or Elvis you recognize everything has become commodity or if you reify a can of soup you sort of say oh everything could be celebrated as a work of art and for me now I don't know about you guys I start to feel like is this still happening?
00:06:40.000I mean I do care about football though so I am still engaged in cultural ephemera and I know brilliant films are still made and beautiful artifacts emerge continually from the culture but I do Yeah, because it always does come back to the same thing.
00:06:52.000friend holds true that primarily these festivals these ceremonies serve as a
00:06:57.000kind of way of regalvanizing your interest in stuff that you sort of
00:07:02.000shouldn't really care about. Yeah because it always does come back to the same
00:07:06.000thing what are you wearing like it's a kind of reset of...
00:07:10.000As you are aware we are all dying What are you wearing while you are dying right now?
00:07:17.000At the end of it, Hugh Grant, like so if you could see he's sort of got this almost ennui and despair.
00:07:23.000If you want to click over and watch us on Rumble right now you really ought because the second half of this we're talking about January 6th and the media's misrepresentation of it and the sort of Tucker Carlson controversy and how January 6th is being used.
00:07:33.000We'll also be talking about some of Pfizer's new post-pandemic deals and I really loved it.
00:09:04.000I've never been comfortable with that stuff, but let's just see that despair on Hugh Grant's face before clicking over into a financial crisis that might be a repeat of 2008, in which, of course, quantitative easing was introduced to bail out the big banks, even though Biden's saying taxpayer money won't be used.
00:09:37.000He's brilliant in film, so that's good news in some regard, I suppose.
00:09:41.000Now, let's have a look at the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank.
00:09:45.000The Silicon Valley Bank has collapsed.
00:09:46.000There's a number of reasons for this, like there's been a 4.5% increase in interest rates, so bonds that they bought are now less valuable and stuff like that.
00:09:55.000You know, Gareth and I, you may not know this, we're not financial experts, but sadly, neither are the people that are organising these bailouts.
00:10:01.000They're usually lobbyists This story shows you everything you need to know about the symbiosis between Wall Street and Washington.
00:10:09.000It tells you a lot about the lobbying industry.
00:10:11.000It tells you a lot about the lack of lessons learned from 2008.
00:10:14.000It tells you a lot about how convergent interests around both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party ultimately align when it comes to the big issues like finances.
00:10:23.000And it shows you how the media will always lean into partisanship.
00:10:27.000Do you think I've done the story justice there, mate?
00:10:28.000I mean, the kind of reporting of it, if you look at the right or the left, you know, from the right, it's focusing on like woke issues, which I don't think has anything to do with deregulation of the banking industry.
00:10:39.000From the left, it's all about blaming Trump when actually what we know is the kind of deregulation of the regulations that were meant to be put up in 2008 to protect ordinary Americans were then, you know, watered down in 2018.
00:11:32.000Five years ago, when Republicans were last in control of the House of Representatives, they used the opportunity to roll back banking regulations put into place after the 2008 financial crisis.
00:11:58.000Now, in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act was brought in, but I need that full screen to read it, please, if you don't mind.
00:12:04.000The Dodd-Frank Act brought in by the Congressman Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd was designed to tighten banking regulations to prevent another 2008 crash.
00:12:13.000It was supposed to prevent risky investments.
00:12:15.000Note the names Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
00:12:18.000Try and remember them just for a few seconds.
00:12:20.000In 2015, Greg Becker, Silicon Valley Bank's president, submitted a statement to a Senate panel pushing legislators to exempt more banks, including his own, from new regulations.
00:12:31.000I'm here mostly on behalf of banks in general, but also the bank that I work at.
00:12:36.000Passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
00:12:39.000A couple of months later, SVB added the former Obama Treasury Department official Mary Miller to its board, noting she had previously helped oversee financial regulatory reforms.
00:12:49.000So that whole revolving door idea that many of us think is significant when it comes to politics and finance is exemplified here in this story.
00:13:07.000Well, he knows the most about regulation, Russ.
00:13:09.000Oddly, he was pushed to ease banking regulations after joining the Signature Bank board.
00:13:14.000I mean, it's another one of those stories that shows you that how you intuitively think these things work is exactly how these things work.
00:13:21.000Over at Signature Bank or SVB or whatever bank, they go, I know how to get past some of these regulations.
00:13:26.000Why don't we get hold of one of the Congress people that drafted the bill and get them to lobby on our behalf and say, You know, I know I drew up this regulation, but I was, you know, I was much too regulatory that day.
00:14:20.000Just like Trump to be jostled by all those jostlers.
00:14:23.000Then 2021, the Biden administration came in.
00:14:25.000The regulations Trump had changed remained the same.
00:14:29.000We beat Farmer this year, all of the excitement, all of the Sturm und Drang.
00:14:33.000Yeah, 50 Republicans and 17 Democrats.
00:14:36.000So, you know, it was a bipartisan effort to deregulate what we were told was put in place to protect ordinary Americans.
00:14:43.000And now, not Obama, but Biden himself is saying that Taxpayers won't be footing the bill, but a lot of financial experts are saying that that's not strictly true.
00:14:52.000Not strictly true, that tangentially they ultimately will be.
00:14:55.000The final point on our little financial timeline, and why don't you take a screenshot of this, then you can do your own TV show to your pals.
00:15:02.000President Biden has reassured Americans that, oh yeah, Gao just did that bit.
00:15:07.000Let's have a look at Joe Biden now, looking all presidential and stuff.
00:15:11.000Oh yeah, look, here's a bunch of people that voted for both Trump and Obama.
00:15:13.000We know about all that kind of stuff, don't we?
00:15:14.000So ultimately, it's the same sort of system, same sort of results.
00:15:17.000And man, you know, even if you're a person that dislikes right-wing politics for your own reasons, or you dislike left-wing politics for your own reasons, you have to acknowledge that there's a symbiosis and a kind of flow between these administrations that Obama's actions in 2008 contributed to the election of Trump because of the alliance of the same financial interests that ultimately benefit whoever is in government.
00:15:42.000Here's Biden trying to make it clear that we will not see 2008 Part 2 and that taxpayers won't foot the bill.
00:15:48.000But some experts, even as this story breaks, are saying that's simply not true.
00:15:51.000And we will tell you a little more about that after we watch the man himself this go.
00:15:54.000I want to briefly speak about what's happening in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
00:16:00.000Today, thanks to the quick action of my administration over the past few days.
00:18:05.000Some of this is about inflation, the recent increase in inflation.
00:18:08.000And I'll be honest with you, I don't know much about finance and stuff.
00:18:11.000I'm just trying to learn along with you.
00:18:12.000And in a minute, we've got a guest on the show, Ryan Grimm, who's going to teach us a whole lot more about this subversive, sly banker bailout on the lowdown.
00:18:22.000In 2020, look at that sharp increase of the number of US dollars in circulation.
00:18:26.000And if you want to amuse yourself for a moment, you'll note that it's like a phallus suddenly emerging.
00:18:31.000Like if that was in a physical landscape, that if you were like, you know, you're walking along, it's 1970, 80, 90, it's increasing a bit there, 2000, even 2010 and around the sharp increases of cash in circulation around the financial crisis.
00:18:43.000Nothing compared to this 2020 sharp incline like that.
00:18:47.000Don't you feel that that's going to have some fundamental economic repercussions?
00:18:52.000I mean, I'm not an economist, but I know that when you see something like that on a graph, it's not good news, is it?
00:18:56.000No, I also worry, you know, there was obviously a lot of talk about how in the Obama years, Wall Street really went for Obama.
00:19:05.000You know, they put a lot of money into Obama's campaign.
00:19:10.000It was with the Republicans between those two.
00:19:13.000Well, I just think any, you know, any government that's in power who's taking so much money from the financial industry and Wall Street, are they ultimately going to punish the banks in the way that Biden's talking about?
00:19:23.000Let me know in the chat in the comments.
00:19:25.000If your funding comes from the banks, how likely are you to punish the banks?
00:19:31.000Do you think there's a relationship between the way that the Democrat Party is funded and the way that the Democrat Party governs?
00:19:45.000I mean, I'm going to do my level best with someone from The Intercept.
00:19:48.000And remember, the back half of this show where we're talking about January the 6th and some of the peculiarities around its reporting and the way it's being utilised to introduce legislation and different types of regulation will be discussed in the back
00:19:58.000half of this show tonight as well as us looking at Pfizer's brilliant new not all heartbreaking and
00:20:05.000potentially evil scheme to keep those profits up now that the pandemic is it okay to
00:20:59.000I think what I would add to it is the stick side of it.
00:21:03.000Like what does the government need to do to these bankers in order to, because they talk about this moral hazard.
00:21:12.000And so they say, well, if you bail people out, then they're just going to be reckless.
00:21:16.000And, you know, they're going to keep doing this just the way, you know, they did it in 2008, they did it in the 1930s.
00:21:21.000If there's no penalties, then what's going on?
00:21:23.000But the question is, are we really going to make the depositors suffer the penalties?
00:21:28.000I might be fine with that if you're depositors who have millions of dollars and you're in a risky bank like Silicon Valley Bank.
00:21:34.000But just realistically, from a political perspective, we're always going to make depositors whole.
00:21:39.000So if we're going to make depositors whole, then thinking through this, how do we monkey around with this moral hazard?
00:21:47.000And to me, it would be Not only do you wipe out all the shareholders of Silicon Valley Bank, not only do all the executives get fired, you also do something like bankrupt the executives.
00:21:57.000So if you say, look, if you run a bank into the ground to the point where it's going to cost Taxpayers, and ultimately it's going to be taxpayers.
00:22:08.000Taxpayers, you know, millions of dollars, we're going to you first before we hit up the rest of society.
00:22:14.000Then I think you would have executives who all of a sudden are a lot more cautious about the bets that they're making and the way that they're running the bank.
00:22:22.000The other thing I would, and we could talk about this too, is this wild tech chain among all of these tech founders and funders.
00:22:33.000There were 200 founders who were in this text chain who on Thursday started saying, hey, maybe we should all take our money out of Silicon Valley Bank.
00:22:43.000And if you really were scared that the bank was going to collapse, what you would do is you would go to the bank and you would take your money out.
00:22:52.000You wouldn't text 200 of your richest friends and suggest Hey, maybe we should all take our money all at the same time out of this bank.
00:23:02.000That makes absolutely no sense if your goal is self-preservation of your own wealth.
00:23:06.000If you think the bank's going to collapse, you call the bank, say, here's my wire instructions, get my money out of that bank.
00:23:13.000What they did is they created a bank run with that text chain.
00:23:17.000And then you have to ask, why did they do that?
00:23:21.000Please, speculatively, and I know it's purely speculation, Ryan, why would you do that?
00:23:26.000Is it because you know that if the bank collapses you're going to be bailed out and ultimately it's going to be more beneficial than taking the money out in the first place?
00:23:33.000Yeah, so one of the theories that's going around is that this entire tech economy requires low interest rates and massive amounts of quantitative easing.
00:23:44.000That chart that you showed That money flows into asset prices, houses, that's why housing prices are going crazy, rents are going crazy, but really what it funnels is into big tech.
00:23:56.000Without the quantitative easing the last decade, you don't have this big tech explosion over the last decade.
00:24:02.000Now that they're starting to turn that spigot down, you're seeing all of these tech companies lay everybody off, you're seeing everything collapse.
00:24:09.000So the speculation is, what could these tech bros do That would get the Fed's attention.
00:24:15.000That would say, look, if you keep jacking up interest rates, you're going to blow the economy up.
00:24:20.000You're going to cause real problems here.
00:24:40.000It's so that I don't have to sort of step over, you know, it can be embarrassing on Zoom calls.
00:24:44.000So like one of the phrases we've picked up in this space, Ryan, is it's not a bug, it's a feature.
00:24:50.000That things that sometimes that appear like aberrations or anomalies or flaws are actually design features of the system.
00:24:56.000If the military, and this is obviously speculative, but it appears that the military industrial complex requires ongoing military conflict in order to underwrite its model and what you've just articulately explained to us and to our community.
00:25:10.000is that the big tech model requires quantitative easing and and in order this is like a sort of warning shot you're saying this is a sort of a dialogue being played potentially I know you know you're not Nostradamus or whatever or some sort of soothsayer but but potentially this is part of a kind of dialogue taking place between the state treasury and the banking system that's letting them know that there are ways of precipitating financial disaster unless there's compliance and favorable legislation and regulation.
00:25:40.000Yeah, nice little economy you've got going here.
00:25:42.000Shame if there was a bank run and a bunch of contagion that just wiped it out.
00:25:47.000So yeah, so now the New York Times is reporting just now that the FBI, Department of Justice are going to look into the causes of this meltdown.
00:25:57.000And the 2018 rollback, the executives who cashed out a bunch of bonuses, that's all going to get looked at.
00:26:04.000You know, to me, they ought to actually look at that text chain.
00:26:08.000You got 200 people, you got 200 phone numbers, call those folks in.
00:26:14.000Ask them, you know, why did you tell your closest 200 friends to take their money out of here?
00:26:21.000Why didn't you just take your own money out?
00:26:24.000At the same time, Peter Thiel's, what's it called, his founder's firm, they did a call on that day where they called money in, like on that very day.
00:26:34.000That required then a bunch of their partners, or urged a bunch of their partners to pull money out as well.
00:26:42.000Did this have anything to do with this?
00:26:43.000I think these are reasonable questions that investigators ought to be asking because the other explanations just don't make a lot of sense.
00:26:54.000So it's unlikely that the investigation will look into these aspects of the case.
00:26:59.000What about Biden's public claim, overt, obvious and plain, that the consequences of a failed capitalist venture are bankruptcy?
00:27:08.000Like you said, the bankers involved are unlikely to face bankruptcy.
00:27:11.000You said that should be the first step and that the consequences of those actions should be felt.
00:27:16.000Is this something where the right people will pay the price or will this ultimately, as them experts in The Guardian said, ultimately end up being the bill being footed by taxpayers,
00:27:26.000if not directly through taxation, but likely through bank fees and stuff, simply because
00:27:29.000there isn't enough money in that fund that they keep banging on about to cover a loss of this
00:27:34.000scale. If it goes the way it went in 2008, then the bankers will just be fine. And they'll, you know,
00:27:41.000they'll move on, they'll move on to other banks. And nothing will nothing
00:28:00.000You're seeing a lot more anger about this.
00:28:02.000And you're going to see, I think because of alternative media, you'll see the mainstream media also being unable to kind of move away from it as quickly as they might otherwise want to.
00:28:11.000So we are in a slightly different place 15 years later than we were then.
00:28:15.000And I think no politician wants to be on the side of bailouts.
00:28:19.000And that's why you're seeing Biden do all of these semantics and gymnastics to try to say that actually, well, of course, this isn't a bailout.
00:28:28.000If both parties are pro-deregulation, and that is ultimately the way that it went when there was the opportunity to maintain regulation or decrease it, as has happened, and you see reductive reporting from both sides, i.e.
00:28:42.000MSNBC, this is all about Trump, without saying, but we could say that the quantity of E's in the decisions made by Obama in 2008.
00:28:49.000When you have this kind of systemic environment, How, Ryan, will there ever be disruption of these systems?
00:28:58.000If you have a systemic problem of this nature, how can you alter it without significantly altering the system, please?
00:29:05.000I don't know that you can, because you also saw this with the train derailment in Ohio.
00:29:12.000The media ignored it for a very long time until They could find something that they could pin on Trump.
00:29:18.000They're like, oh, wait, Trump did some deregulatory stuff when he was in office around railroads.
00:30:11.000And it seems to continually lead us, Ryan, to the obvious conclusion that neither party can meaningfully intercede when it comes to improving the lives of ordinary people, introducing the type of regulation, legislation, movement, systems, ideas that would alter significantly the lives of most folk.
00:30:31.000That there's generally a consensus and a willingness within the media to keep the conversation framed in a particular way.
00:30:37.000I mean, I know we're sort of straying from the territory of your expertise.
00:30:49.000But it does seem now that what's required is new political alliances and significant systemic change.
00:30:56.000And neither party is offering that, right?
00:31:00.000Yeah, and for a long time, to me, the way that you could most effectively influence politics was by kind of playing inside the Democratic Party in primaries, like the way that, say, Bernie Sanders challenged Hillary Clinton in 2016, ran again in 2020, and by that way influenced the party.
00:31:23.000But I now think that That opportunity exists in both parties.
00:31:28.000And I think that, you know, regular people who consider themselves to be either independents or Republicans, but they are independents, but they vote in Republican primaries, you know, have an opportunity to influence the Republican Party too, and say, look, you voted for this Roll back in 2018.
00:31:45.000I'm going to support a candidate that didn't do that.
00:31:48.000None of that is going to work, though, unless you get some type of reform to the way that campaigns are financed.
00:31:53.000To me, it's got to come from matching funds from the government, because the way the Supreme Court is now, they're not going to let you cap spending or cap the amount of giving.
00:32:04.000And so all you can do is equalize things.
00:32:07.000There was a bill that said that there would be a way that you would get a six to one match.
00:32:13.000If you have 50 bucks, that actually becomes 300 bucks and that you can give it then to a couple of your
00:33:25.000I'm lobbying for radical change in every conceivable area.
00:33:28.000So if you're watching us now on YouTube, we're about to slip off exclusively onto Rumble because we're going to be talking about Pfizer's latest sly little move.
00:33:37.000And I mean, sly, I suppose is... Allegedly.
00:34:05.000There's a real one in the eye for Albert Baller in there.
00:34:08.000Now, one of the things, this is some bad news, since the end of the pandemic, if indeed it's ended, things ain't been going quite as well for Pfizer because they were dead by coincidence.
00:34:18.000By coincidence alone, they did really well.
00:34:21.000One of the inadvertent side effects of there being that terrible pandemic that ruined your life, ruined your kids' education, locked you up in your home was, it's not all bad, Pfizer did very well.
00:34:31.000Sadly, now people aren't gripped by continual perpetual terror locked in their homes.
00:34:36.000It has had a negative impact on Pfizer stock prices.
00:35:04.000Unable to do even the merest amount of exercise?
00:35:06.000The good news is your cancer is Baller's dollar bills.
00:35:10.000So Pfizer CEO says it will be able to deliver Segan's cancer therapy at a scale not seen before with a 43 billion dollar deal.
00:35:16.000Of course they're gonna sell that as old whoop-dee-doo.
00:35:18.000We're all gonna get access to this new cancer drug.
00:35:20.000Pfizer CEO Albert Baller said that the pharmaceutical giant will be able to deliver Segan's cancer therapy to the world at a scale that's not been seen before.
00:35:27.000Well you've had some practice delivering medicines at scale.
00:35:30.000Also, for a price that's not been seen before, I would imagine.
00:35:32.000It is going to be a little bit more pricey.
00:35:34.000And you'll be taking this cancer medication, whether you want it or not!
00:35:48.000Look at you, you've been off YouTube for about a minute.
00:35:51.000Freedom baby, this is the sweet sounds of freedom.
00:35:55.000Glory in here, glory in the sweet sounds of freedom.
00:35:58.000Segan is a leading developer of a medicine called antibody drug conjugates which are designed to directly kill cancer cells and spare healthy ones.
00:36:29.000Let's have a look at Albert Baller cropping up on the mainstream media on a puff piece, presenting this financial news about how he's going to profit, trying to dress it up like we live to help people who have got cancer.
00:36:39.000They probably really take him to task, I would imagine, though.
00:36:44.000I think they'll be saying, you know how with the vaccine that you profited 100 billion last year, you know how you're talking about putting it up by 10,000% of what it costs?
00:36:55.000People aren't being forced to take it, so we've got to raise the price.
00:36:57.000Would you do the same thing with this life-saving cancer drug?
00:37:40.000So seems I've got to ask you some questions.
00:37:42.000Where have you got all this money from, you bastard?
00:37:45.000Are you going to give people any of their money back, you swine?
00:37:48.000That's what you want, Hugh Grant on the bloody news, not this darling, grinning, innocent, lovely woman who's obviously an expression of the limitless light of the Lord trying to do her best in the dog-eat-dog world of CNBC.
00:38:03.000Uh-oh, I pressed the wrong button, guys!
00:38:04.000Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, joins us now.
00:38:07.000Albert, great to see you this morning.
00:38:24.000This is where I think, like our chat with Ryan there, when you recognise, oh no, the system is really rigged.
00:38:30.000In order to cause all sorts of problems, you could sort of see it, even if you don't understand it.
00:38:34.000Same with the pharmaceutical industry.
00:38:35.000I don't think anyone begrudges people making a profit out of entrepreneurship and ingenuity, even though there's certainly an argument that there might be a better way of organizing society in reality.
00:38:45.000But even if we just say, let's have a slightly more reasonable reform system, The idea that people are grinning from ear to ear about cancer.
00:38:56.000This is when we talk about the mainstream media, when we get criticised for going on Fox or going on and having discussions about how both sides are as bad as each other, when the mainstream or from the left criticise about that.
00:39:09.000And then they get on Albert Baller to basically give him some propaganda, give him a puff piece.
00:39:14.000They've done it all the way through the pandemic.
00:39:16.000Now they're going to do it about him making probably massive profits off people having cancer.
00:39:21.000It's quite incredible. They do the same things with the military industrial complex.
00:39:24.000And yet, apparently we're the conspiracy theorists.
00:39:26.000The conspiracy theory is this. Let us plainly state it.
00:39:29.000That the media operate in conjunction with corporate interests to present an agenda
00:39:35.000that's favorable to their profits and dominion in a light that is appealing to ordinary people
00:39:40.000so that we don't rise up in angry unison against their agenda of corruption and division.
00:40:32.000If we keep you anxious and distressed the whole time, look at the line getting higher and higher!
00:40:37.000Look at the numbers, they're green now!
00:40:38.000The numbers that people are affected is even larger, because people, if not as patients, they will be affected as husband or wife, they will be See that, isn't it, Gal?
00:41:01.000Why don't we piggyback to a new dimension on their profits?
00:41:04.000Like with the banking crisis, we're told all of this financial industry is really complicated and we wouldn't understand it.
00:41:09.000And that's why quantitative easing, we had to do it.
00:41:12.000And that's why you had to foot the bill for all of it.
00:41:14.000Actually, you look at that graph and it's pretty simple.
00:41:16.000Pfizer's profits are going right down because people don't want to take the vaccine anymore.
00:41:20.000So we need to get this cancer drug, which their profits are going right up.
00:41:23.000And what about the argument that you continually made, and I know that David Sirota at The Leathermaid, that Pfizer are presented as this sort of bunch of geniuses, people getting tattoos and buying jackets with Pfizer on it, but all they'd done was bought up BioNTech, developed the vaccine, using taxpayer money in Germany, and now they're buying up this cancer drug, not with the goal of helping people with cancer get better, but with the goal of increasing profit.
00:41:47.000Well, the point is, Hopefully it will.
00:41:49.000Hopefully it will help people with cancer and that's a great thing if it helps people with cancer but if the byproduct of that is that they're charging exorbitant rates for this cancer treatment and people can't afford to get it or are basically for the rest of their lives tied to a drug that they can't afford.
00:42:05.000And they're monopolizing and managing profits and prices through their practices.
00:42:10.000I would go so far as to say, and let me know if you agree with this in the chat and the comments, particularly if you're on Locals, if you're a member of Locals, I see your comments first, that you getting better from cancer is an inadvertent side effect.
00:42:27.000They will make decisions that lead directly to your death if there's a profit in it.
00:42:32.000That's just based on the opioid crisis, that comment.
00:42:34.000And even for me on Rumble, where I'm free.
00:42:36.000By coincidence, a couple of years ago, dear old Jill Biden cropped up on your TV set saying that cancer was, look at that, and they're even using the words there, cancer moonshot, which is a phrase they introduced during the pandemic to say, somehow, maybe, maybe if all the stars align, We'll make a hundred billion dollars from you being locked in your home with a disease with a very low fatality rate that Matt Hancock's texts reveal that even Chris Whitty, who was the scientific advisor and leader in our country, he's our version of Fauci, even that dude was saying, oh, I'm not sure you need to vaccinate a population for something with such a low mortality rate.
00:43:17.000So the moonshot they're talking about is the moonshot of taking public money and putting it into private hands.
00:43:23.000And if you, when you run out of pandemic, You better jump aboard that cancer train, baby, because cancer ain't going anywhere as long as you live in a culture that essentially causes you cancer.
00:43:32.000Let's have a look at Jill Biden's new initiative to massage cancer policies into the public consciousness.
00:43:41.000So nice and there's someone in a white coat and there's a woman of colour and we're being all friendly and stuff and I don't know man, aren't you tired of this?
00:44:12.000For the small annual fee, you'll get all of our content, additional ad-free content, as well as my stand-up special, Brandemic, which you will enjoy as I skewer some of these corporate interests.
00:44:21.000Time now, though, for a little look Look at the type of alliances that we are trying to cultivate.
00:44:26.000While we were in your country, America, we met people from, as Gareth said, apparently so-called right-wing news organisations.
00:44:33.000Now, the idea of me going on Fox a little while ago, and I asked you guys if you thought I should go on Fox, it would have been unimaginable, inconceivable, and yet I went on Fox.
00:44:41.000I've got to say, Greg Gutfield, bloody lovely.
00:44:44.000Tucker Carlson, I can't see Tucker Carlson's face now without feeling my heart swell with love.
00:44:49.000People say, oh Tucker Carlson, he's a white supremacist and obviously white supremacy is wrong.
00:44:55.000I don't feel like Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.
00:44:58.000People right now are saying he's reporting on January 6th, he's irresponsible.
00:45:01.000I feel that people should be able to deal with the facts for themselves.
00:45:04.000It's possible to go, no, I don't agree with that.
00:45:06.000You've edited that footage to make it look not as bad.
00:45:08.000What about that when they're smashing up them windows?
00:45:23.000When we went on Tucker, what I was able to do, and one of the things that I was most pleased with is like, because I chatted to my mates, Conventional Dems, you know, like Shepard Fairey and that.
00:45:41.000I mean, one of the things that we kept pushing when we were on these conversations with, like, Ben Shapiro, who I actually think he's a good guy.
00:45:48.000Like, he's got a different perspective than me, but I think he's acting in good faith.
00:45:51.000And, like, if you... This is what I believe, and this is... I think this might be the secret.
00:45:55.000This might be the main thing we can offer together.
00:45:56.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if you agree.
00:45:59.000I said to Ben, would you stand on a platform with people from Black Lives Matter, with trans rights activists, the people that on your show you continually are in adversity with, would you stand on a platform with them to confront centralised power?
00:46:14.000I said to Tucker Carlson, I'm not at ease with some of the stuff you said about homeless people because I feel like that's condemning the most vulnerable people in society.
00:46:23.000And Tucker Carlson's response was brilliant.
00:46:38.000Kelly P. Russell, I'm learning so much about how to have Respectful conversations with diverse people.
00:46:42.000Then she says a compliment that I won't read out loud, otherwise it looks like I just used the comments to... We'll discover that you actually wrote it.
00:47:04.000Me and Gareth were chatting about it and we were saying like, oh, maybe what it is is like the right or the Republicans, let me know if you agree with this, benefit from voter apathy and disinterestedness in partisan politics.
00:47:15.000So ultimately, if everyone thinks the whole system's corrupt and stop voting, old people will still vote because they love it.
00:47:21.000And right wing politicians will get in.
00:47:23.000But hey, man, you know, you can't make an omelette without What?
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00:51:15.000Like, as Seinfeld famously says, it's like someone who's read the inside of the Monopoly lid, you know, and so knows what community chest means.