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00:00:30.000Biden's State of the Union speech maybe doesn't address the truth of America.
00:00:37.000I've got a fantastic guest coming up, Satish Kumar, a genuine hero, an elder, a true Spiritual, potent voice that can provide the necessary sucker that we require at this time.
00:00:49.000He's not a conspiracy theorist, is he?
00:00:52.000That conspiracy theorist Satish Kumar when he was meeting those other conspiracy theorists like Martin Luther King Jr.
00:02:45.000A mass formation because we've been discussing mass psyche and mass hypnosis over the course of the week.
00:02:51.000We get guests on here that can give us unique insights into the reality behind the systems of domination within which most of us toil and grind.
00:03:00.000But now it's our take on the State of the Union Address which is essentially just a propagandist piece isn't it? But like a lot of people think that it was
00:03:10.000senseless fatica, sat's imitative information, no real political value to it, just an oratory
00:05:48.000What we're looking at is how the left have fetishised conflict with Russia in order to pursue a unipolar agenda and how the right potentially is looking at exacerbating the conflict that is already an economic one.
00:06:03.000I suppose Joe Biden has imposed the most aggressive sanctions yet because of semiconductors.
00:06:08.000There's a thing you've never heard of that now you have to learn.
00:06:17.000Yeah, this is how we're going to beat China apparently.
00:06:19.000So I suppose this is what we're asking, is that even though the State of the Union address I'm sure was full of the usual platitudinous patriotic claptrap, are we being groomed and prepped for yet more global wars?
00:06:32.000I mean, the one thing that was good about the proxy war with Russia, I thought, is it's not China.
00:07:27.000Do you remember when like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, all them dudes told their shareholders we can guarantee profits in the next quarter because this war is going to be dragging on?
00:07:36.000Yeah, war with Ukraine is good for business.
00:07:38.000I think, let me know if you agree with me in the chat and the comments, that at this point, because of our ability to curate information from a wide variety of sources, if we truly watch the narratives that are usually suppressed, the ones that you won't see discussed on mainstream media, you We might be able to pre-empt where these conflicts are going and even when they might commence.
00:08:00.000We're already into the sanctions stage, we're already into the condemnatory bombastic language phase, the economic opportunity of war, China encircled by what John Pilger called a noose of missile bases.
00:08:22.000Because an arc, there's positive connotations, like through an arc you pass into spiritual bliss and awakening.
00:08:27.000Through a double arc, maybe even a little McDonald's, but a noose, nothing good comes out of that unless, I mean, I don't even want to get into that territory until we're in the Wild West that is around But this is why we shouldn't be tricked by this whole balloon stuff.
00:09:01.000I'll handle this as carefully as I possibly can.
00:09:04.000Part of the idea that coronavirus originated in a wet market, which still yet may be the truth because there are several theories being discussed and no conclusions have yet been offered, but the wet market was an evocative idea because it plays to the ordinary mistrust that Occidental people may have when contemplating Food sources, different cultural ideas and values.
00:09:30.000When you start seeing the different... It's very basic and primal, the food people eat, the way people are, our atavistic suspicion of the other, of people that are from other communities.
00:09:42.000These things transcend ethics and morality.
00:10:07.000The balloon is literally above America.
00:10:09.000Increasingly likely now that it was a weather balloon, at least that's what they're saying.
00:10:13.000You'll still see people say, oh no, they could have got down into the air force bases and fired off something from a nuclear fission factory.
00:10:21.000Yeah, but even if that is the case, I mean literally when we're talking about this noose and this arc of military bases, perhaps giving the US a front row seat to spy on China.
00:10:29.000And then a point that Caitlin Johnson made in one of her brilliant articles as usual this week was, Talking about Edward Snowden, the revelations around spying with that, it's like we get all in this frenzy about this balloon because it eventually leads us towards this narrative about war with China, but when revelations like Edward Snowden come out that America is spying on its own citizens, oh we bang him up and or let him flee off to Russia.
00:12:08.000So to hear that the war on drugs is back but under the new auspices of liberalism shows you precisely and exactly how hollow this administration is.
00:12:20.000As hollow and as empty as a balloon, Gareth, I would say.
00:12:23.000Well, yeah, the thing with this is it's being talked about and I think it was in the State of the Union where Biden was talking about the trafficking element of this and that we're cracking down on the trafficking element and that's how we're going to solve the problem of the fentanyl issues.
00:12:33.000But it's also that fentanyl, any fentanyl related cases, it's a schedule one drug now.
00:12:38.000So it means that like people taking it, you know, so you're going to end up with the same situation where prisons are going to get filled up with more people.
00:13:31.000A lifelong activist, a significant figure, and I have argued consistently that were there to be a global council of elders, or even, you know, don't have to be global, Satish Kumar would be on it.
00:13:43.000He's the founder of the Resurgence Trust, that's an educational charity that seeks to inform and inspire a just future for all.
00:13:49.000He's the editor of the charity's change-making magazine, Resurgence Anecologist.
00:13:55.000Satish Kumar entered first into public consciousness in 1962 when he walked 8,000 miles, a global pilgrimage, over two years.
00:14:04.000He started at Mahatma Gandhi's grave and walked to Moscow, Paris, London and the United States where he met Martin Luther King Jr.
00:14:10.000and I'm Very proud to call him a teacher.
00:14:14.000Satish, thank you very much for joining us on Stay Free today.
00:14:21.000Satish, you came to prominence in the 1960s where the counter-cultural movement genuinely seemed like it might change the world before it metastasized into kind of individualism and consumerism that is Still morphing into a tyrannical force, an entirely immersive force across our culture.
00:14:41.000During the 60s when you came to prominence people spoke openly about the desire for peace.
00:14:46.000In this time that appears to be defined by conflict of different kinds most Obviously, of course, literal war.
00:14:54.000Do you feel that when there is conflicts that are necessary for the military-industrial complex, one of the most influential and powerful forces on this planet, while there is a war between Ukraine and Russia, when it feels like there are escalating tensions between the USA and China, that peace ought once again become part of our discourse.
00:15:12.000What are your thoughts on these conflicts that are determining and defining our planet right now, sir?
00:15:20.000I'm very saddened to see war in Ukraine.
00:15:25.000And as you say, this industrial military complex, which is kind of benefiting maybe, perhaps, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people suffering and destruction.
00:15:39.000So I think, but politicians have forgotten how to be a statesman.
00:15:47.000The diplomats have forgotten how to practice diplomacy, and religious leaders on all sides have forgotten how to practice religion and love.
00:15:58.000This is why I've written this book, Radical Love.
00:16:01.000Radical love, Russell, is when you are able to love even those you don't like and you don't agree.
00:16:09.000And this is where I think Putin and Biden and Rishi Sunak and Zelensky, they all need to read my book and practice radical love and sit down together.
00:16:20.000And I have a good solution for Ukraine situation.
00:16:47.000Winning these days of war is impossible.
00:16:50.000So it will go on destroying, and there's no win.
00:16:53.000So what my solution for Ukraine is, being like Switzerland.
00:16:58.000Swiss model where Switzerland did not go to First World War, did not go to Second World War, did not join NATO, did not join EU.
00:17:07.000Independent, its own currency, its own system and a very neutral and trading with everybody.
00:17:14.000So if Ukraine can say to Russia that there's no threat from you, from us, for you, there's no NATO, there's no EU, we are independent, we are neutral, like Switzerland, and Switzerland can be rich because they are neutral.
00:17:31.000And Switzerland can be home for everybody.
00:17:56.000Russia would say, yes, if you are neutral and not a member of NATO and not a member of EU and independent, trading with everybody, that's welcome.
00:18:03.000It seems that eventually a solution of that type will have to be reached.
00:18:09.000Currently, what appears to be driving the conflict is the set of interests that are most obviously going to benefit From the reconstruction of Ukraine, some of our investigations and investigations of others, which we have curated as part of our team, suggest that, and it's publicly understood, that BlackRock will be participating in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
00:18:36.000Ukraine want to be 100% digital after this war.
00:18:40.000And assurances that Ukraine could become a place of neutrality surely would make a difference, as well as providing, if there were anything like Switzerland, another potential venue for WEF to host their globalist events.
00:18:55.000The problem, Satish, is that it feels like, in reality, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is about A territorial and economic interests, not all of which are explicit.
00:19:10.000And there is an attempt to reduce these conflicts to simple moral stories of Russian criminality and Putin's evil and radical love.
00:19:22.000I suppose radical love is your book and you wrote it.
00:19:26.000But for me, that suggests an acknowledgement Ultimately, of our fundamental humanism, of our fundamental shared goals, of our fundamental unity.
00:21:22.000I have heard it said that it is ludicrous to apply these external labels and it becomes clear when looking at a baby that there is something ridiculous in saying that a baby is Chinese or French, that you might as well say this baby is a Tottenham supporter.
00:21:41.000A baby in its evident abundance and evident connection defies these external labels.
00:21:49.000But increasingly we are governed in technological dictatorship, Satish, and I wonder what People are talking about artificial intelligence.
00:21:58.000are on the dehumanizing effect of automation, surveillance, and systems of
00:22:04.000control like social credit scores which appear to be increasingly discussed and
00:22:09.000more likely to be introduced in the next few years.
00:22:12.000You know people are talking about artificial intelligence.
00:22:16.000I say to them that human intelligence is not used enough. We have so much
00:23:09.000I would say technology should be in the service of humanity.
00:23:13.000Technology should be a tool to help humans, not replace humans.
00:23:18.000Not replace human thinking, but aid human thinking.
00:23:22.000So technology as a servant of humanity is good.
00:23:26.000Technology as a master of humanity and replacing humanity is a disastrous and bad technology.
00:23:33.000So I want to challenge all the digital dictators that what are you doing is anti-human and anti-nature.
00:23:42.000It's very beautiful and it reminds me of the analysis of the ego, that the ego is a good servant but a terrible master, that when the persona, the set of ideas with which we most strongly identify dominate us, our lives become more materialistic, more wedded to transitory and ultimately temporal things.
00:24:18.000Ultimately, this is what I'm mindful of and this is what gives me most hope.
00:24:23.000When we talk about geopolitical ideas, powerful institutions, the march of globalism, corporatism, the military-industrial complex, the vast power of the technological state to spy on us and manipulate us, I sometimes feel a sense of despair.
00:24:36.000What can we do to reclaim our humanity today?
00:24:39.000What can we do to reclaim our connection to our own spirit right now?
00:24:43.000How do you practice this in your own life with a man who has an understanding of these traditions and has lived these traditions?
00:24:49.000So they are not traditions, they are living practical modalities.
00:25:13.000Small and elegant and simple is beautiful.
00:25:17.000So we should, at the grassroots level, people should come together and say we are going to live a human life.
00:25:23.000Technology as a servant, but human life.
00:25:25.000And we are going to take a Hippocratic oath, the Hippocratic oath like Dr. State, do no harm, do no harm to nature, do no harm to other people, and do no harm to yourself.
00:25:37.000If all of us practice that non-violent Peaceful way of living, the Hippocratic oath, then that Hippocratic oath is oath to loyalty to nature and loyalty to humanity rather than loyalty to business and money and profit and governments and military.
00:25:56.000Our loyalty has to shift at a grassroots level.
00:25:59.000So let us create a movement of the hypocrite out. Everyone, you are a businessman or
00:26:06.000woman or a politician or economist or a scientist, whoever you are, practice non-violence,
00:26:13.000practice the hypocrite out, doing no harm. That is radical love.
00:26:18.000It's very hard though Satish to live like that. It's very hard to live only in love.
00:26:24.000All the great things are hard, Russell.
00:26:29.000Going around the world for two and a half years.
00:26:31.000I went walking without any money for two and a half years through 15 countries and 8,000 miles, that was hard, but that was the real experience.
00:27:47.000This is, I suppose, one of the challenges when you lose your connection to spirituality, which involves things like sacrifice, discipline, focus.
00:27:56.000When everything becomes tethered to the external, when all of our personal validation, verification is externally sourced, we don't have the cojones no more.
00:28:06.000We don't have the spiritual stones, the minerals to sort of go Right, I'm gonna suffer now.
00:28:14.000It's difficult, but I will do it now that you have commanded it on our show.
00:28:19.000I think suffering will make us strong and resilient.
00:28:24.000If you take a tree, A tree stands in the winter, in the snow, in the storm, out in the field as a stronger.
00:28:32.000If you keep a tree in a greenhouse or in a conservatory all the time, the tree will not be strong.
00:28:38.000So resilience comes when we suffer and we make sacrifice and I have suffered and made sacrifice in my life and I am much more strong for that.
00:31:54.000You should eat food that grows where you are, meet your needs wherever you can.
00:31:58.000Gandhi even said that communities should be independent where possible.
00:32:03.000All these systems of aggregation, I think are about siphoning off profit.
00:32:07.000Once you create agriculture, of course you meet loads of food needs, but we all know about food wastage.
00:32:12.000We all know how so many needs go unmet, possibly with the technology we have.
00:32:16.000Well, there's an essay that I've got to read, actually.
00:32:19.000Daniel Peterbeck's always telling me to read it.
00:32:21.000Oscar Wilde's essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, that technology could be used to create Utopias, where we have more time for contemplation, art, and leisure.
00:32:30.000That all of these tools and technologies, in fact, could be used to create a fairer world, but we'd have to change spiritually.
00:32:35.000As long as the most powerful institutions and interests and almost systemic magnetism is directed towards selfish goals, as long as the emotional palette that it's drawn from is greed and selfishness, because a lot of that stuff can be distilled into it, it's unlikely that we'll create the utopias that are possible.
00:32:51.000But what he was saying about things being hard as well, I thought it was really interesting, you know, that's what we've been given.
00:32:55.000We've been given comfort and convenience over freedom.
00:32:59.000That's essentially, that's the bargain that we've made.
00:33:02.000We've entered into that and we kind of forget that we have, but it seems on the surface, all things are alright and we can get these things and, but that's what they've, that's what they've done.
00:33:11.000It's a terrible bargain that we have undertaken.
00:33:13.000And so, you know, you get to a point where, like we were saying the other day about the pandemic and all these 30% of small businesses closing.
00:33:22.000We kind of think it does because we've got this kind of supposed comfort and convenience that even in the pandemic, we could order this food that came in half an hour or whatever.
00:34:12.000You know, that's why it was good to have Christian Smalls on, wasn't it?
00:34:14.000The leader of the Amazon movement from America.
00:34:17.000Because ultimately, human beings are going to have to come together, and as you say, localise, collectivise, and that point of sacrifice you said the other day, that you would be willing to change your diet if you knew, or pay more, you know, if you can afford to.
00:34:31.000If you know that it's fairly sourced, not in some bullshit kind of, you know, fair trade way.
00:34:36.000I think people are at the point now where they see past the convenience of being able to have access to, you know, any food you want at any time of year, because they recognize that the costs that come with that, the cost to themselves, the cost to the people that make it, and I think people are at the point where they'd say, I'll have like a quarter of that stuff, as long as I know it's from local farmers, That people have been paid enough to do it.
00:34:59.000And I really believe we're at a point where people would be willing to do that now.