In this episode of Hornbeeee, Tucker and FOGG discuss the Ukraine crisis, the new attempt to label Sweet Lady Fitness as 'far-right' and the US State Department's propaganda campaign in Ukraine. Also, Tucker talks about testosterone and why he thinks it's going out of fashion. And we discuss the dangers of free speech and how it can be used to spread hate and spread division. And of course, there's a quiz. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and we'll be watching you live on Rumble in a matter of minutes! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. All rights reserved. This episode was produced and edited by Tall Tales Productions. All opinions expressed are our own and not those of our companies, unless otherwise stated. We do not own any of the rights to any music used in this podcast. All credit given to any of our music. except where otherwise credited to any artists. Thank you for any music provided by our patrons and record labels. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us directly or indirectly through our social media if you've enjoyed this podcast and/or have a question or suggestion for us to be featured in the next episode. If we'd like us to use our music, we'd love to have a shoutout in our next episode of the next week's episode. Thank you! - Thank you. - FOGTucker and Foggy. FOGGY - The CEO - The CEO, FOGGI - Mr. FOGGS - is a great humanist and a wonderful humanist, and we're looking for a good time and a good friend of the culture and a great place to listen to the music we're listening to you, too much of it's music too much, too many of it too much and we love you, thank you, it's a lot of it, so please don't forget to send us a review or a review, we really appreciate it, we're grateful for all that's a good thing and a big thank you and a lot more than that's not just that, so much of that's good enough, we appreciate you, so we really do it. thank you so much, really really, really good.
00:01:37.000And also, just that bit of it, but also, you know, in that famous gesture of those baddies of the last century.
00:01:45.000Also, yeah, because I'll tell you why, because I'm particularly invested in fitness.
00:01:49.000I don't know if you know this yet, but I've got to do a pull-up, I said pull-up challenge with RFK.
00:01:54.000Me and him are doing pull-ups to raise money for his campaign and I've got to be able to do more pull-ups than him, which is going to be a challenge.
00:02:00.000That's why I'm guzzling testosterone like it's going out of fashion.
00:04:03.000Let me know what you think, guys, in the chat.
00:04:05.000If you're watching this on YouTube, first 15 minutes we'll be there.
00:04:07.000Then we'll be slipping over into the home of free speech rumble.
00:04:10.000And we will not be using that free speech to propagate hate.
00:04:13.000But to bring about unity, to bring about love, to reveal what we have always known, like came from our conversation with Tucker, we have more in common that could ever divide us.
00:04:22.000Like I said to Tucker, would you be willing to stand on a platform, and he said, oh, whoa, whoa, I'm not standing for office.
00:04:27.000I goes, Tucker, Tucker, I know you ain't standing for office, Tucker, but What we do agree on is that it don't matter how you identify.
00:04:35.000If you believe in freedom, you believe in other person's freedom.
00:04:38.000And that is what scares these people here.
00:05:08.000If cluster bombs are bad when Russia use them, they're bad when America supply Ukraine with them.
00:05:14.000Either cluster bombs is bad, baby, or cluster bombs ain't bad.
00:05:17.000If you're watching this on Rumble, press that red button now and join us on Locals, like Carolina Jeep Junk, who is using her free speech to say, I need more than one correction today.
00:05:26.000This is the first time at the podium for a week.
00:05:29.000Remember this from George W. Bush, our enemies are strong and determined and so are we.
00:05:33.000They never stop, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good stuff, it's very good stuff.
00:05:36.000Let's just see the end of this propaganda from the state, shall we?
00:05:39.000For the correction, which is, oh, I need more than one correction today.
00:05:45.000A strategic, this is the first time at the podium for a week, I'm apparently a little rusty.
00:07:36.000Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta, has launched its new app that's expected to compete with Twitter, which has faced backlash under the ownership of Elon Musk.
00:07:44.000The text-based app, known as Threads, looks nearly identical to Twitter and has seen more than 30 million users sign up since...
00:07:53.000They're even selling that as a good thing.
00:07:56.000If you really, really hate McDonald's, you can't then go, Burger King's good though!
00:08:02.000It's got to be a general thing that you've got some principles against.
00:08:06.000The letter M, that weird clown that they've dropped right on time.
00:08:10.000People are all starting to wonder what his objective was down at the old burger joint.
00:08:14.000Celebrities from Oprah to Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Lopez already joining the app that looks fairly similar to Twitter.
00:08:25.000The launch coming just days after Twitter announced limits on its app including Twitter is not as good, and this is almost as good as... This isn't news, is it?
00:08:35.000Do you remember when the Twitter files happened, when it was revealed that the Deep State had FBI agents at Twitter that likely Facebook and other social media sites were also censoring true information, as Zuckerberg himself has admitted?
00:09:18.000But like, Elon Musk, is he more controversial than Zuckerberg?
00:09:21.000Tell me, like we asked you in the poll, by the way, who do you trust with free speech?
00:09:28.000I think the poll is about privacy which actually leads me to the fact that Facebook and Meta were fined one and a half billion dollars for a privacy infringement.
00:09:41.000Something that's not mentioned on the mainstream when they go on about how controversial Elon Musk is.
00:09:46.000They don't say, also Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are a bit controversial as well.
00:09:50.000I'm going to say, if that's not true, I'm going to censor you so hard.
00:09:53.000Look guys, go on the internet now and find out, is that true?
00:09:55.000Were Facebook fined by the EU for selling private information to America?
00:10:00.000Because if what this man has said is true, we've got a bloody problem on our hands and I haven't even had time to draw the nipples on the shirt yet!
00:10:05.000Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda!
00:10:07.000I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.
00:10:12.000Meta describing its vision as creating positive and creative space to express ideas.
00:10:18.000Ideas that we agree with try expressing an idea that we don't disagree with.
00:10:21.000That clip that they use of Musk again is purposefully trying to set him up
00:13:21.000I guess the very fact that you're kind of slightly worried about even mentioning it on the platform that we're on at the moment is a measure of the way in which censorship has got to us.
00:13:29.000That something that has been talked about, has been written about, I think was being written about a lot in the mainstream media pre-Ukraine war, is something that now we have to tiptoe around.
00:13:39.000Now we have to censor ourselves around.
00:13:41.000We have to Let's centre ourselves about Nazis.
00:13:43.000You can, like, obviously, you can still believe that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was criminal, that there have been other comparable criminal invasions that have been backed by the United States in history, that this war is being used efficiently and expediently to generate profits for an economic model that requires endless war.
00:14:01.000These are not controversial statements, at least they shouldn't be.
00:14:04.000And yet Ukraine has a complex sociological history and that their army does have elements within it that are Well, Nazi, I suppose, and I'm trying to be careful, guys, but like, how can you call Twitter a Nazi dumpster fire when elsewhere we are prevented from discussing the true complexity of the current conflict?
00:14:25.000Also, and what's most important in my view, is this war's got to stop, hasn't it?
00:14:29.000It's got to stop as soon as possible so more Ukrainian and Russian lives are not squandered in order to just facilitate imperialist and Capitalist objectives.
00:16:10.000You do, you do. I know but I've got to get him. I've got to message him. I've got a voice note him
00:16:14.000I guess you know, this is a very positive piece of my team.
00:16:18.000This is yeah, this is a positive piece. It's a good bit.
00:16:21.000Right All right, Elon mate. I hope you're okay. I hope I'm not
00:16:25.000waking you up. I'm a brok- what are you saying?
00:16:27.000I'm saying all right, I'm being friendly All right, Elon, we're on the show at the moment, but obviously, listen, we're talking about Threads, and we're talking about censorship, and we're talking about the mainstream media going out to bat for Threads.
00:18:14.000They're pushing ahead with digital dollars.
00:18:15.000They're going to control you right down your pocket holes in ways that are almost unmentionable to a fellow like me.
00:18:20.000And I say that as a man who proudly shows his nipples.
00:18:22.000Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda.
00:18:27.000That fight hasn't happened yet, but Zuckerberg's Threads launched yesterday and it's looking like it actually has a shot of besting Twitter in less than 24 hours.
00:18:42.000This should be, there are two very similar platforms, one that existed before this other one, that's now potentially facing a lawsuit for literally copying Twitter.
00:18:51.000But that aside, This one believes in censorship.
00:18:54.000This one says it believes in free speech.
00:20:18.000It has an innate advantage compared to the many other Twitter alternatives that have cropped up, since you can automatically follow everyone you were already following on Instagram, and they can automatically follow you.
00:20:28.000They're following because they've got all your data, because they're snoodling about in your phone.
00:20:34.000Creating instant community and familiarity.
00:21:58.000If you're watching us on YouTube now, you're going to have to click the link in the description and join us over there on the home of free speech.
00:22:04.000We're going to be talking about the digital dollar and the threat to financial privacy.
00:22:07.000Do you think they'll misuse those powers?
00:22:10.000Macron is threatening to shut down social media in France.
00:22:14.000All these liberal leaders with fantastic haircuts that came to us telling us they were going to bring us new inclusive democracy are behaving like tyrants, whether communist or fascist.
00:22:38.000We always talk to him and he's in front of a bookshelf and he's going to be telling us stuff about how much money the FBI have spent on informants.
00:22:45.000He's going to knock your knickers down and then blast them out the bleeding door.
00:22:49.000So you are going to want to click that link in the description and join us over on Rumble right now.
00:22:55.000Now, if you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button at the bottom of your screen and join the conversation.
00:23:01.000LittleRenegade says, how about we don't join one more social media site and instead go outside and actually talk to people and integrate with the local community in person instead of living online and following... Oh, quick, you're communicating so quickly, you guys.
00:23:21.000We want you participating with us in the content that we make for you every single day, but it don't mean as much to me as your mental health and as your freedom.
00:23:28.000We want you to get outside, live among nature, talk to one another, embrace one another, and just trust us as your new source and as a new, emergent, independent media movement that is going to change the world with you.
00:23:41.000for you, alongside you, unless the establishment gets its way.
00:23:45.000Look at that saucy Fed. They've been trialing digital dollars.
00:23:49.000Why is this a problem? Because it means they're going to be able to control and switch off currency.
00:23:53.000Because they've called it a successful trial, ultimately.
00:23:55.000And this is something that 130 countries around the globe are doing. So representing 90%
00:23:59.000of the global economy and now exploring digital versions of their currencies with
00:24:04.000almost half in advanced development, either piloting or launching stages. So this
00:24:09.000is happening. And it's something that obviously we talked about CBDCs for a while and the danger
00:25:26.000Yeah that is that is one of the things that's happening but also he's threatened to regulate or cut off social media during these riots that he's saying is about curbing violence but as we know that and what's amazing as to what we've talked about recently in terms of these EU laws this Digital Services Act Yeah, they're saying that if social media sites don't censor the information that they say they've got to censor, they could be fined up to 6% of their annual turnover.
00:25:50.000That's something they just can't stand.
00:25:52.000But Thierry Breton at the EU is the one we've spoken about before, threatening Elon Musk with that kind of crazy, threatening mafia language.
00:25:58.000He was using gangster language, wasn't he?
00:26:00.000Saying, listen, this is where bad ideas come to die.
00:26:03.000I will take you down, you motherfucker.
00:26:21.000Teary Brit on a web he calls himself. What he's basically said is Macron threatening to regulate
00:26:24.000a cut of social media, which is obviously social media, as we have been talking about with
00:26:28.000Elon Musk and Twitter, is the way that ideas are shared now.
00:26:33.000When we want to talk about, you know, about free speech, about...
00:26:37.000Things that Matt Habe and Michael Schellenberg have been revealing.
00:26:40.000This is how this is shared so quickly.
00:26:42.000So the ability to shut down social media is a massive thing.
00:26:46.000And Thierry Breton has basically said social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat will face possible shutdowns under these new EU laws.
00:26:55.000If they threaten to, for example, where there is hateful content, he says, content that calls, for example, for revolt, they will be required to delete the content.
00:28:17.000Let me know in the comments if you think that... I mean, look.
00:28:20.000I suppose that this is how you could tangentially get there.
00:28:23.000The sort of supremacy and excellence can be sort of regarded as fascist ideals but if you're exercising our self-love because you want to be well because you love yourself and you respect your body and you want to take care of it and you don't judge other people's bodies or their right to be how they are and look how they are and you're not got some sort of hierarchy of these are supreme and beautiful bodies and these are disgusting and people should be shamed I don't know what how you get to far right from there do you?
00:28:52.000Well look so Contained in this article it says far-right groups have
00:28:56.000exploited the popularity of at-home fitness during the pandemic to radicalise individuals in the MMA and combat
00:29:03.000Now I'm sure there might be an element of radicalisation in certain communities, but I guess Joe Rogan's point at this
00:29:10.000stage is the reductiveness of an article written by the mainstream media again.
00:29:16.000When you're writing something with a headline, why the far right is really into home fitness, you are reducing this to something that people again will become politicised.
00:29:24.000I think a more important piece of analysis to offer is when we were locked down, it was never discussed that we could be eating healthy, Getting well, getting sunshine on our face, vitamin B, which is now demonstrably good for you, particularly in relation to the conditions around the pandemic, and taking exercise, taking care of yourself.
00:29:43.000What they want, I think, and tell me if you agree with this, they want us to be like sort of slumped larvae, impotent automatons who are unable to become activated and awake.
00:30:35.000I've never felt better since I've started doing yoga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu and eating
00:30:40.000And I recognize I'm fortunate to be able to spend the time doing that because I know many of you have social and economic conditions that prevent you from being able to look after yourself as well as you might.
00:30:50.000But to suggest that it's somehow malfeasant to want to be well, that in itself is the problem.
00:30:56.000Yeah, and I think you're absolutely right.
00:30:59.000I think the the issue that they're conflating here is that people who were calling for lockdowns being the wrong thing for us to do.
00:31:07.000Yeah, and they're actually getting out and exercising a lot like Joe Rogan said at the time the ways that he was able to able to recover from COVID was Making sure that he stuck to fitness.
00:31:18.000Yes, he took certain things, but it was his fitness routine.
00:31:23.000The mainstream media did not like that.
00:31:24.000MSNBC, in particular, did not like that at all.
00:31:27.000And so this was the start of actually, you know, where were the mainstream media in discussing how important it was to stay fit, to make sure that we were taking care of ourselves, make sure that... I love watching you grape for that because it's so close to your laptop.
00:31:41.000Yeah, why were they not recommending just measures of wellness?
00:31:45.000They were spending more time demonising Joe Rogan and the things that Joe Rogan was saying than actually saying to their viewers, actually look, it is important to do this.
00:31:55.000It is important to take care of yourself.
00:31:56.000It is important not to sit down and like the Mayor of New York was offering at the time, people to get free hamburgers and chips for getting vaccinated.
00:35:37.000Who has the moral authority to censor you?
00:35:41.000Who has the moral authority to govern you?
00:35:43.000I've been learning a lot about the history of our sweet little monarchy and all history is is a bunch of establishment elites corralling populations into a kind of an order and exploiting them and then pretending them to do it for their own good.
00:35:57.000Thankfully it comes to a stop now thanks to a man Who I know and trust.
00:36:03.000A man by the name of Adam Andrzejewski, who comes from OpenTheBooks.com, where the government are tracked and held to account to see how they spend their money and how they use your taxpayer dollary dues to corrupt you right down your snout pipes.
00:36:27.000Hey, first off, I just want to say that the elites in this country, they take us all for fools, and they dominate in the media and the government.
00:36:37.000You've put together a platform where people watch, they listen, they comment.
00:36:42.000And that strikes me a lot like what the scientific method used to be, where people could question, give criticism, be skeptical of ideas.
00:36:52.000And at the end of the day, that's how you get the best public policy.
00:36:56.000That's why in the first two times that you've had me on this year, I've called you Mr. Brand out of respect for the platform that you have created here to educate all of us.
00:37:30.000How can the IRS, who are an organization who have the simple job of innocently collecting taxes for the betterment of American civilians and citizens, be spending money on guns?
00:38:33.000Who knew the IRS had submachine guns in their basement?
00:38:36.000They had stockpiled 5 million rounds of ammunition.
00:38:41.000But just in the past two and a half years, they've purchased 10 million dollars worth of additional weaponry and gear, including a million dollars worth of AR-15 style long barrel rifles, a half million dollars worth of shotguns, and 3.8 million dollars worth of other gear.
00:38:58.000This is astonishing, it's extraordinary.
00:39:01.000If it weren't coming from a source as reliable as you, Adam, I would say it had to be disinformation.
00:39:06.000Because how can the government that continually advocate for tighter controls with some reasonable arguments on the weaponry and armoury of the American public be spending so much money on arming themselves?
00:39:21.000Almost as if They want themselves heavily armed, and they want you with nothing in your hands that can do any damage at all.
00:39:31.000Well, let's look at the entire federal complex, even beyond the IRS.
00:39:35.000So since 2006, we've quantified at OpenTheBooks.com That the 103 federal agencies have purchased $3.7 billion worth of guns, ammunition and military style equipment.
00:39:49.000Now, 27 of those agencies are traditional federal law enforcement agencies.
00:39:53.000They're housed at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
00:39:58.000But there are 76 Ranking file traditional paper-pushing agencies like Health and Human Services or the Environmental Protection Agency like the IRS, like the Department of Education for crying out loud, like the Social Security Administration.
00:40:14.000Those 27 agencies have loaded up on weaponry as well.
00:40:18.000In total, Russell, There are now 200,000 federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, and that number exceeds the number of United States Marines at 180,000.
00:40:54.000So here are the latest numbers, and in 2021, I put these numbers up in my then-column at Forbes.
00:41:00.000The FBI, the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, during six-year and five-year periods, they spent $550 million on paid informants.
00:41:17.000If you break that number down, the FBI spent about $300 million between 2012 and 2018 paying informants.
00:41:26.000They did not disclose the number of their paid informants.
00:41:37.00018,000 people were paid to be an informant between the years of 2011 and 2015.
00:41:42.000The ATF paid about 2,000 people to be informants, and they spent about 20 million dollars.
00:41:49.000What does this suggest to you about the nature of government and the way that it is funded?
00:41:52.000What does it suggest to you about the nature of government and their relationship with media?
00:41:58.000Given the depth and breadth and detail of your experience, Adam, what type of government would you like to see in America?
00:42:06.000What level of federalisation, localisation, democracy do you think is required to stop what appears to be inherent governmental corruption that is not a bug but a feature of a deeply corrupted system?
00:42:19.000So here's what we can all agree on, Russell.
00:42:21.000I don't care if you're left, right, or center.
00:42:23.000People on the left, they want their tax dollar to serve people who have real needs.
00:42:28.000The people on the right, you know, they want to be left alone.
00:42:31.000They want to limit government to the core of services.
00:42:50.000And I want to invite everybody watching the program here today to our website at OpenTheBooks.com.
00:42:55.000Last year we filed 55,000 Freedom of Information Act requests, and we captured nearly, not all, but nearly every dime taxed and spent at every level of government across the entire country.
00:43:08.000So if you're concerned about the policies in your local school district, you can come to our website.
00:43:13.000You can search even the payrolls, and oftentimes the vendor checkbooks, right in your local municipality, county, or school district, all the way to Washington D.C.
00:43:23.000What a fantastic facility you're offering, which is indeed transcendent of bipartisan politics, because regardless of the affiliations you have with a particular flavour of democracy, and God knows I believe that those flavours have become banal and centralised to the point of near redundancy, we all want clarity and transparency in our government.
00:43:42.000So close to Independence Day, it's surely worth noting that your great nation declared itself independent from another Better.
00:43:56.000And perhaps your revolution was somehow masterminded by British generals behind the scenes.
00:44:01.000That that independence was wrought from and brought about precisely because of taxation without representation.
00:44:09.000And yet, from what you're telling us, Adam, that's exactly what's happening to this day in spite of the revolution.
00:44:15.000Well, we fight, we dig, we keep digging, we keep clawing to make sure that every dime goes online in real time.
00:44:21.000Russell, just recently we issued a report on the earmarked spending of members of Congress in the last six months ago in the year-end budget bill.
00:44:30.000And it was $16 billion that went out the door on 7,500 port projects.
00:44:40.000$1 million to the Macadamia Nut Initiative in Hawaii.
00:44:44.000$2 million went on an earmark, a local pet project into Baltimore, Maryland, to the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, where the member who asked for that earmark was ensconced in a wax figurine just six months of of ahead of the year mark.
00:45:01.000You got $3 million, $3.6 million that went into the Michelle Obama trail down in Atlanta, Georgia, phase two.
00:45:08.000Phase one was actually paid by local county taxpayers.
00:45:14.000But all of that is dwarfed by the $5 million from the Republican member of Congress, Byron Donalds, down in Naples, Florida.
00:45:22.000$5 million went into the Naples septic system.
00:45:26.000It literally got flushed down the drain in a community where the average home price is $600,000.
00:45:33.000Adam, it's very difficult to listen to these things, and if it wasn't for your physical and spiritual beauty, I don't know if I'd be able to stand it.
00:45:40.000Were it not for the face of an angel, the eyes of a pear-soaked model, the twinkling teeth Adam, it's customary when we have you on our show, and thank God we have the privilege of having you on pretty regularly, for you to pluck almost at random a book from your shelf of sexy knowledge and read us arbitrarily a paragraph of deep wisdom.
00:46:06.000Why should today be different from any other day?
00:46:09.000Adam, I beg you, with all that is decent and holy, to open those damn books and read us something!
00:46:16.000Sure enough, I actually was prepared for this, Russell, so I pulled right off our shelf Fleecing America, done by the former really good, good government U.S.
00:46:26.000Senator from Wisconsin, William Proxmire.
00:46:29.000He did the Golden Fleece Award for years.
00:46:31.000Here are just two of the examples of a Golden Fleece Award from the 1970s.
00:46:35.000In 1975, Proxmire gave the award to the FAA.
00:46:41.000For a study of 432 flight attendants where they measured the distance between their knees when they were sitting and the length of their buttocks and they spent $300,000 on that study.
00:47:00.000Proxmire gave the Golden Fleece Award for a federal study of the activities inside a Peruvian brothel, where the researchers kept coming back repeatedly, all in the interests of accuracy.
00:47:14.000We've got to be accurate about what's going on in this brothel.
00:49:47.000One of the goddamn finest fellas we ever did have on this show.
00:49:52.000And this week continues to reach such giddy heights Because tomorrow we've got Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard talking about their new movie, Sound of Freedom, a film that I think perhaps due to its production model and its PR model, and indeed its subject matter, has become quite controversial.
00:50:09.000Then on Friday, one of my favourite YouTubers, The Critical Drinker, will be joining me For a conversation talking about the nature of movies, entertainment, the obligation to make movies that are representative versus propagandist ideologies.
00:50:25.000And if you want early access to these conversations, sometimes they, due to availability of guests, take place at unusual times, join the locals community.
00:50:34.000Then you can see my conversation with people like Oliver Stone.
00:52:48.000Somehow we must not fall into the amnesia.
00:52:50.000Somehow we must remember that a year ago the White House said, oh, cluster bombs, Russia is using them, that makes them criminals.
00:52:57.000And this year they're sending cluster bombs to that war that they're not involved in other than helping people because they love humanitarianism so very much.
00:53:47.000I know cluster bombs are bad and that civilians might be harmed, but when they're being blown up, I just want you to bear in mind that it was a difficult decision for Joe Biden.
00:53:56.000And that'll be of some comfort to you as you watch your legs and limbs being scattered around some unnecessary battlefield so that faraway people can become rich.
00:54:05.000Weapons are capable of causing massive damage.
00:54:07.000They carry smaller bombs with the ability to spread out over a large area.
00:55:55.000No matter how bad something is, if not doing it would be worse, then we have to do it, right?
00:56:00.000The only thing that would derail that is if you didn't trust those people, then you'd be in trouble.
00:56:04.000But I suppose if they were able to censor information and stop you disagreeing with them publicly, then even you not trusting them would become irrelevant.
00:56:14.000has previously condemned cluster munitions use by Russia.
00:56:42.000Some Democrats have said that giving cluster munitions to Ukraine undermines America's reputation as a human rights defender around the world.
00:57:35.000Our reputation of being human rights offenders, this is something that we say all the time, right, when it comes to human rights, when it comes to having those conversations with either our partners or other heads of state.
00:57:46.000We certainly, the president never shies away.
00:58:00.000Let's see if we can somehow try and understand this without reaching the conclusion that we're being governed by a corporatist, globalist state that lies to us and does whatever it needs to do in order to meet its incentives, and its incentives are always about its own advancement, never about yours, but they have to mask that.
00:58:14.000Let's see if we can reach another conclusion using On Friday, the Biden administration said it would send cluster munitions, weapons that scatter unexploded bomblets, across a wide area killing and maiming civilians for decades to Ukraine.
00:58:27.000Facing the failure of Kiev's military offensive, the United States is desperately seeking to use the provision of ever more destructive and indiscriminate weapons to reverse its setbacks on the battlefield.
00:58:36.000Things Yes, yes, that does seem like a way to peace and humanitarianism.
00:58:48.000Critically, the announcement precedes next week's NATO summit in Vilnius.
00:58:52.000At which the United States and NATO are planning to massively expand their involvement in the war.
00:58:57.000So whatever you're thinking about the war, like should there be a diplomatic solution?
00:59:00.000Could we force Zelensky and Putin to the table by withdrawing Western support for this war and preventing military-industrial complex profits from skyrocketing even further?
00:59:09.000All of those ideas, don't worry about them, forget those.
00:59:11.000What's happening at NATO is massive expansion.
00:59:14.000Do you remember when you voted for it?
00:59:15.000You know, you remember when they asked you, because you're funding it with your money, remember when they went, I don't mind a few hours of my working day going towards cluster bombs to blow up children.
00:59:29.000Driven into a corner by its miscalculations, the Biden administration is compelled to take even more drastic measures.
00:59:34.000Yeah, the miscalculation is, it's easy to have a proxy war with Russia, an armed nuclear superpower, which people like Jeffrey Sachs have been telling us from the get-go.
00:59:42.000The aim of the decision to use cluster bombs, regardless of its long-term impact on civilians, Should we regard its long-term impact on civilians?
01:00:21.000Definitely don't consider a diplomatic solution where two opposed superpowers with nuclear armory have both stated publicly that they will stop at nothing.
01:00:29.000There's only one thing we can solve this.
01:00:31.000In a briefing Friday announcing the move, U.S.
01:00:34.000National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan justified the decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine as a means of staving off military disaster.
01:00:42.000There is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions and take more Ukrainian territory and subjugate more Ukrainian civilians because Ukraine does not have enough artillery, he said.
01:00:51.000Sullivan made this statement a little over one month after Ukraine launched its spring offensive, which the American press has touted as an endgame for Ukraine, leading, in the words of retired General David Petraeus, to significant breakthroughs.
01:01:03.000Instead, the offensive has produced a bloody debacle.
01:01:06.000You know that significant breakthrough?
01:01:16.000Far from inflicting a crushing defeat on Russia, the Biden administration has been driven to one escalatory move after another in an effort to shore up the Ukrainian military.
01:01:25.000Because the Ukrainian military cannot defeat the Russian military because of history and the present and reality and some pretty solid stuff.
01:01:34.000We recognise that cluster munitions risk creating civilian harm from unexploded ordnance, Sullivan said.
01:01:40.000But we had to balance that against the risk that Ukraine might not have sufficient artillery ammunition.
01:01:45.000In other words, the Biden administration weighed the cost of killing and maiming generations of Ukrainian civilians against the benefits of killing more Russian troops.
01:01:54.000It decided that the deaths of Ukrainian children from unexploded ordnance was a sacrifice America's oligarchy was willing to make.
01:02:03.000Is there nothing they won't sacrifice that doesn't affect them at all?
01:02:06.000Every line employed by the White House to justify sending these weapons of terror to Ukraine could be used to justify the deployment or even use of tactical nuclear weapons in the conflict.
01:02:16.000They're gonna turn up on your TV one day going, listen, you know, you've always thought nuclear bombs was a bad thing, but some nuclear bombs, American ones that you paid for, are good though because of how they would be not as bad as a Russian one, so we're gonna Yes, the White House would argue nuclear fallout poses a risk to civilians, but this risk must be balanced against the risk of Russian military advances.
01:02:52.000Moreover, the deployment and possible use of nuclear weapons in the conflict will no doubt be on the agenda at the upcoming summit in Vilnius.
01:02:59.000Every official statement by the United States about its involvement in the war is justified on the basis that it is once again saving a country through military violence, this time Ukraine.
01:03:08.000But in sending cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine, the United States has made clear that this is nothing but a hollow pretext for pursuing its aim of prevailing over Russia and China in great power competition.
01:03:21.000Because all of the things they said were true, like cluster bombs bad, cluster bombs good, that's all falling apart and all that's left is, we'd kind of like our economic interests in this geopolitical war to prevail.
01:03:32.000The very words used by the United States and its allies to condemn Russia's alleged use of cluster bombs in Ukraine now fully apply to the US decision to send this weapon to Ukraine.
01:03:40.000How could they not, if it was the principle?
01:03:41.000The principle stays firm, as we always discuss.
01:03:44.000In February 22, the US envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, accused Russia of using cluster munitions in Ukraine which are banned under the Geneva Convention, which we will mention when it's convenient, but ignore when it isn't, and have no place on the battlefield.
01:03:57.000In March 2022, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, we have seen the use of cluster bombs, which will be in violation of international law, he added.
01:04:05.000We also have to make sure the International Criminal Court really looks into this.
01:04:09.000But not previous wars that we've been involved in.
01:04:11.000Otherwise, we're going to have to go to prison as well.
01:04:13.000Literally, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the war criminals of Iraq will go to jail.
01:04:17.000So we want the International Criminal Court.
01:04:26.000In fact, all these denunciations of Russian actions on the part of the US and NATO were merely hypocritical pretexts for escalating US involvement in the war.
01:04:35.000The decision by the United States to send cluster bombs to Ukraine exposes all of the pseudo-left defenders of US involvement in the war in Ukraine as shameless apologists for the US military's war crimes.
01:04:46.000Are you on the side of cluster bombs or not?
01:04:48.000Is cluster bombs a subject you want to equivocate and prevaricate on?
01:04:52.000If you just said to someone out of nowhere, tapped them on the shoulder, cluster bombs, are they good?
01:04:55.000Oh, tell me, God, what is a cluster bomb?
01:04:57.000Oh, it's like a bunch of bombs that blows up and is indiscriminate and unexploded bombs remain there in the ground for years and kill children and civilians years later.
01:05:06.000Okay, I just want to say that it's now they're using cluster bombs for something you've been coached into agreeing with through propaganda.
01:05:44.000Easy to get mixed up these days, isn't it?
01:05:46.000Over 110 countries have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, CCM, which prohibits the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions.
01:05:53.000The United States, which has killed more people with cluster munitions than any other country, is not a signatory.
01:05:58.000Hey, would you sign this, please, sir?
01:06:13.000This latest escalation by the United States must be seen as a warning.
01:06:17.000Washington will stop at nothing to prevent further military setbacks for its proxy force in Kiev and achieve its military goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
01:06:25.000The same homicidal logic that justifies the deployment of depleted uranium rounds and cluster bombs will be used to justify even greater and more reckless crimes, from the direct entry of NATO into the war to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons.
01:06:38.000If at the very beginning, Joe Biden said, in order to support Ukraine, we're going to use cluster bombs, do you notice that at the beginning, they just sort of edged their way in?