Stay Free - Russel Brand - July 11, 2023


So, Is Fitness Far-Right NOW?! Rogan UNLEASHES On Media - #165 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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Adam Andrzejewski Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk Russell Joe Biden Oliver Stone Nick Cage Kestrel Tucker Vladimir Putin Joe Rogan Gareth George W. Bush Thierry Breton Jake Sullivan Fred Barry John Fox William Proxmire Ivan Dra Bitcoin and 54 more
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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.

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00:00:00.000 HORNBEE Brought to you by Foggy
00:00:27.000 So I'm looking for the CEO, looking for the CEO...
00:00:32.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:00:35.000 The future is here.
00:00:45.000 It must be an awakened wonder, elsewise you'd ne'er be here, would you?
00:00:49.000 And what a day it is today to be alive this Tuesday.
00:00:53.000 Glory be unto they that shine down abundantly upon us.
00:00:56.000 The limitless consciousness that we all participate in right now shall become unbridled as we reach to territories new.
00:01:04.000 Let us unlock our great psychic potential.
00:01:07.000 Let us throw off the shackles of the mainstream.
00:01:09.000 If you watch us on YouTube, we're going to be Live only on Rumble in a matter of minutes.
00:01:13.000 Why?
00:01:14.000 Not because of hate speech, but because of our old friend Free Speech.
00:01:16.000 We're going to be speaking pretty freely about some pretty important subjects.
00:01:21.000 For example, we're going to be talking about the new attempt to label Sweet Lady Fitness herself as far-right.
00:01:30.000 Could fitness be far-right?
00:01:31.000 Maybe if you're exercising only that arm.
00:01:33.000 Right.
00:01:34.000 For a See Kylie way.
00:01:35.000 Right.
00:01:35.000 Right over this way.
00:01:36.000 Right that way.
00:01:37.000 And also, just that bit of it, but also, you know, in that famous gesture of those baddies of the last century.
00:01:45.000 Also, yeah, because I'll tell you why, because I'm particularly invested in fitness.
00:01:49.000 I don't know if you know this yet, but I've got to do a pull-up, I said pull-up challenge with RFK.
00:01:54.000 Me 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.
00:02:00.000 That's why I'm guzzling testosterone like it's going out of fashion.
00:02:04.000 Well, not testosterone.
00:02:05.000 Turkostosterone.
00:02:06.000 I can't pronounce it yet.
00:02:06.000 I don't know.
00:02:07.000 But anyway, I'll tell you all about it.
00:02:08.000 It's doing me the power of good anyway.
00:02:10.000 I feel better than ever, baby!
00:02:12.000 Is that a good sign that you're glugging down medicine that you can't even pronounce?
00:02:15.000 I'm glugging I may not be able to pronounce it, but by joke, can I swallow it?
00:02:20.000 And if these hairy palms are anything I go by, RFK's in a lot of trouble.
00:02:25.000 I'm gonna be pulling him off like it's going out of fashion.
00:02:28.000 Did I say pull off?
00:02:29.000 Did I say pull off?
00:02:30.000 Who knows anymore?
00:02:31.000 We can only be on YouTube for a little while because of the censorship and whatnot.
00:02:35.000 There's loads of stuff to tell you about.
00:02:37.000 Look at the US State Department guy.
00:02:42.000 What's he called?
00:02:42.000 Millie Michaels?
00:02:44.000 He's the US State Department spokesperson.
00:02:44.000 Matthew Miller.
00:02:46.000 He's speaking for them, but he can't speak very well for them.
00:02:48.000 It is his actual job.
00:02:49.000 He keeps getting Russia and Ukraine mixed up.
00:02:52.000 What's the problem, bruv?
00:02:53.000 Sort your life out.
00:02:55.000 Check him out.
00:02:56.000 A few things.
00:02:56.000 So I will say, with respect to your first question, we believe the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine.
00:03:02.000 The Secretary spoke to this and... Sorry, his job is to do propaganda!
00:03:08.000 You're a spokesperson!
00:03:10.000 You're doing the opposite of your job!
00:03:12.000 You're propagandizing in the wrong direction!
00:03:15.000 ...he gave in Helsinki last month, I believe it was.
00:03:21.000 What's that?
00:03:21.000 I'm sorry, excuse me, a strategic failure for Ukraine.
00:03:25.000 Thank you Oh, you've done it again, you nitwit! 0.99
00:03:28.000 Do you know that we're in the age of Freudian slips? 0.98
00:03:30.000 Some of you will know already that I am a spiritual person.
00:03:33.000 I've mentioned it before.
00:03:33.000 Yeah?
00:03:34.000 Because I love the Lord.
00:03:35.000 I love the light of the limitless Lord.
00:03:37.000 And what I reckon this is, is unconsciously they're telling the truth.
00:03:40.000 It's beyond a Freudian slip.
00:03:42.000 It's a Jungian stagger! 0.97
00:03:44.000 Something like that.
00:03:45.000 The archetypes are tumbling out in linguistic streams.
00:03:49.000 They can't stop themselves from telling the truth.
00:03:51.000 They know that they're propagandizing.
00:03:53.000 They know that they're backing Ukraine simply because they want to sell weapons and destabilize Russia. 0.64
00:03:58.000 And the deaths of Ukrainian men and women is a price that they're willing to pay. 0.97
00:04:02.000 But that's just what I think.
00:04:03.000 Let me know what you think, guys, in the chat.
00:04:05.000 If you're watching this on YouTube, first 15 minutes we'll be there.
00:04:07.000 Then we'll be slipping over into the home of free speech rumble.
00:04:10.000 And we will not be using that free speech to propagate hate.
00:04:13.000 But 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.
00:04:22.000 Like 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.
00:04:27.000 I 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.
00:04:35.000 If you believe in freedom, you believe in other person's freedom.
00:04:38.000 And that is what scares these people here.
00:04:40.000 Have you seen this in here?
00:04:44.000 It's a little thing called magic.
00:04:46.000 Now, also, is he going to say Ukraine one more time?
00:04:50.000 Well, what's so interesting about this is the way that the assembled press really try and help him out.
00:04:55.000 No, no, no, you didn't mean that.
00:04:56.000 You didn't mean Ukraine.
00:04:58.000 That's how it feels like to me.
00:05:00.000 Come on, we're trying to help you do your propaganda.
00:05:02.000 Just tell us what to type.
00:05:03.000 Tell us what to write.
00:05:04.000 I can't keep writing that Ukraine is doing badly.
00:05:07.000 What are you going to say next?
00:05:08.000 If cluster bombs are bad when Russia use them, they're bad when America supply Ukraine with them. 0.92
00:05:14.000 Either cluster bombs is bad, baby, or cluster bombs ain't bad.
00:05:17.000 If 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.
00:05:26.000 This is the first time at the podium for a week.
00:05:29.000 Remember this from George W. Bush, our enemies are strong and determined and so are we.
00:05:33.000 They never stop, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good stuff, it's very good stuff.
00:05:36.000 Let's just see the end of this propaganda from the state, shall we?
00:05:39.000 For the correction, which is, oh, I need more than one correction today.
00:05:45.000 A strategic, this is the first time at the podium for a week, I'm apparently a little rusty.
00:05:49.000 Sorry, I've forgotten how to lie.
00:05:51.000 During my week off, I became honest because I was with my family and I had to tell the truth.
00:05:55.000 How do you feel about that?
00:05:56.000 You missed the... Funny, is it?
00:05:57.000 It's actually not funny what's happening.
00:05:59.000 A thousand Ukrainians are dying every day.
00:06:01.000 The counter-offensive is not an endgame for Ukraine like it was purported to be by the New York Times.
00:06:07.000 That isn't the case.
00:06:08.000 And then to stand up there and just kind of laugh this off, this error that you've made.
00:06:13.000 It's in bad taste, I think.
00:06:14.000 The propaganda's not funny.
00:06:15.000 We're against it.
00:06:16.000 We agree with free speech over here.
00:06:18.000 Sorry, Ian Drummo.
00:06:19.000 I did your joke wrong.
00:06:20.000 He's corrected me in the stream over here on locals.
00:06:23.000 Press the red button if you want to join us.
00:06:25.000 This is what I was supposed to say.
00:06:26.000 My apologies to all you guys in the stream.
00:06:28.000 Remember this from George W. Bush.
00:06:29.000 Our enemies are strong and determined, and so are we.
00:06:31.000 They never stop coming up with ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. 0.99
00:06:35.000 Oh, double yeah, you silly old sausage, yeah. 0.99
00:06:37.000 You've only inadvertently accidentally told the truth because it was there, tumbling out of your consciousness 0.99
00:06:43.000 like the current war of Iraq.
00:06:44.000 I mean Ukraine. I mean Iraq. I mean Ukraine. Oh, it is confusing, isn't it?
00:06:47.000 Unless you tell the truth! Tell the truth! Shame the devil!
00:06:50.000 Then you don't have to remember the lie.
00:06:51.000 Hey, we did a poll earlier asking you, who do you trust with free speech more?
00:06:56.000 We're gonna show you the results of that poll in a second.
00:06:59.000 But first of all, have a look at the mainstream media propagating on behalf of Fred. Oh, they love Fred's, don't
00:07:05.000 If you love Fritz, then why don't you marry Fritz? 0.68
00:07:05.000 they? 0.68
00:07:08.000 If you love it so much.
00:07:09.000 Threads and the mainstream sitting in a tree.
00:07:12.000 K-I-S-S-I-N-G. 1.00
00:07:14.000 Love Threads.
00:07:15.000 And the way they are propagating for it, I'd call it barefaced, gal. 0.98
00:07:20.000 And I don't use that phrase very often.
00:07:22.000 I hold it back.
00:07:23.000 I hold off. 0.98
00:07:23.000 While we're watching this mainstream media, I'm going to draw a pair of little nipples on my shirt, just to lighten the mood. 0.98
00:07:28.000 But let's have a look at the mainstream media now. 0.91
00:07:31.000 Peddling for Threads.
00:07:32.000 Or Threadling, as some have called it.
00:07:35.000 Have a look.
00:07:36.000 Mark 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.
00:07:44.000 The text-based app, known as Threads, looks nearly identical to Twitter and has seen more than 30 million users sign up since...
00:07:53.000 They're even selling that as a good thing.
00:07:56.000 If you really, really hate McDonald's, you can't then go, Burger King's good though!
00:08:02.000 It's got to be a general thing that you've got some principles against.
00:08:05.000 What is it you don't like McDonald's? 0.79
00:08:06.000 The letter M, that weird clown that they've dropped right on time.
00:08:10.000 People are all starting to wonder what his objective was down at the old burger joint.
00:08:14.000 Celebrities from Oprah to Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Lopez already joining the app that looks fairly similar to Twitter.
00:08:25.000 The 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?
00:08:35.000 Do 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?
00:08:47.000 Where was the mainstream then?
00:08:48.000 Do you see the mainstream report about that?
00:08:50.000 Suddenly a new bloody app that censors is on the market.
00:08:54.000 Look at them!
00:08:55.000 They're tumbling over themselves in a giddy, priapic, gleeful Baton passing chase to propagandize it! 0.74
00:09:03.000 How many posts users can read per day?
00:09:05.000 The change is led by controversial billionaire, Elon.
00:09:08.000 Controversial billionaire?
00:09:10.000 What, Zuckerberg's not controversial?
00:09:11.000 He's not controversial to censor?
00:09:13.000 We're trying to get Zuckerberg on the show.
00:09:14.000 We sent him a special message.
00:09:16.000 That was the content of the message.
00:09:16.000 Come on the show.
00:09:18.000 But like, Elon Musk, is he more controversial than Zuckerberg?
00:09:21.000 Tell me, like we asked you in the poll, by the way, who do you trust with free speech?
00:09:28.000 I 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.
00:09:38.000 I don't believe that!
00:09:39.000 That can't be true!
00:09:40.000 It can't be true!
00:09:41.000 Something that's not mentioned on the mainstream when they go on about how controversial Elon Musk is.
00:09:46.000 They don't say, also Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are a bit controversial as well.
00:09:50.000 I'm going to say, if that's not true, I'm going to censor you so hard.
00:09:53.000 Look guys, go on the internet now and find out, is that true?
00:09:55.000 Were Facebook fined by the EU for selling private information to America?
00:10:00.000 Because 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!
00:10:05.000 Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda!
00:10:07.000 I'll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it.
00:10:12.000 Meta describing its vision as creating positive and creative space to express ideas.
00:10:18.000 Ideas that we agree with try expressing an idea that we don't disagree with.
00:10:21.000 That clip that they use of Musk again is purposefully trying to set him up
00:10:25.000 as the devil in all of this.
00:10:27.000 If we lose money, so be it.
00:10:29.000 Yeah.
00:10:29.000 It's like Ivan Dra, very much Ivan Dra.
00:10:31.000 If he dies, he dies. 0.79
00:10:33.000 If Rocky Twitter die, it die. 1.00
00:10:35.000 Yeah?
00:10:36.000 I mean, I think Elon Musk saying, if I lose money as a result of committing to free speech, means he's got principles.
00:10:43.000 Surely, isn't it?
00:10:45.000 Have we gone mad?
00:10:45.000 Isn't it?
00:10:46.000 Has he gone mad over it?
00:10:47.000 He's making claims.
00:10:48.000 Did the EU provide the evidence over on Locals?
00:10:50.000 Press the red button on your screen now.
00:10:51.000 Tell me, is he right?
00:10:53.000 Did the EU have to fine Facebook for selling private data to America?
00:10:58.000 Either it's true or it's not.
00:10:59.000 Either it's true or it's not.
00:11:01.000 Facebook is partially owned by USA... Whoa, hold on.
00:11:04.000 That's an allegedly... You're not getting away with that.
00:11:07.000 You better show your working out.
00:11:08.000 You better show your receipts.
00:11:09.000 If we're going to bring down the government, we're going to do it responsibly by Jove.
00:11:12.000 Shall we have a look at the rest of this propaganda?
00:11:13.000 Tell me in the chat.
00:11:14.000 Tell me in the chat.
00:11:15.000 Come on.
00:11:15.000 It's crazier.
00:11:16.000 Go on.
00:11:17.000 Leveraging Instagram's more than 2 billion users.
00:11:20.000 Posts on the app can be up to 500 characters long with links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes.
00:11:26.000 Elon Musk flew into a rage after the chief product officer for Mark Zuckerberg.
00:11:31.000 No, did he?
00:11:32.000 Were you there?
00:11:33.000 Were you there, though?
00:11:34.000 Did you see him?
00:11:34.000 Have you got footage of it?
00:11:35.000 Did he fly into a rage?
00:11:37.000 I think this is related.
00:11:39.000 No, I'm just asking.
00:11:40.000 I'm messaging.
00:11:41.000 I think this is related to him calling out Zuckerberg and say it's suggesting that they have a fight, which I
00:11:46.000 think is humorous.
00:11:48.000 I think what he will do is to reduce this to a fight, a kind of play fight between the two of them.
00:11:54.000 You're actually doing this, are you?
00:11:56.000 When I make a pledge to our audience, I follow through on it.
00:11:56.000 Why not, Gareth?
00:11:59.000 Not only are they a drawing of nipples, they're actually historically accurate! 0.91
00:12:06.000 The historically accurate nipples that I've just drawn there.
00:12:09.000 Is that some kind of metaphor?
00:12:11.000 Not necessarily, mate.
00:12:12.000 It's probably just... I'm on the precipice of a real rage as a result of some of this propaganda.
00:12:19.000 That's it. 0.96
00:12:19.000 Brand flew into a rage and drew some nipples on his shirt. 0.96
00:12:23.000 Who would do a thing like that? 0.98
00:12:23.000 He's out of control. 0.98
00:12:25.000 I'd agree with them on that.
00:12:26.000 They're right.
00:12:26.000 You're meant to be my press officer.
00:12:27.000 Sorry about that.
00:12:28.000 You're meant to stop me saying stuff like this.
00:12:30.000 Let's have a look.
00:12:31.000 Meta said their Twitter competitor, Threads, would be sanely run.
00:12:37.000 An obvious dig at the Nazi-friendly dumpster fire. 0.75
00:12:39.000 Nazi-friendly dumpster fire! 0.70
00:12:41.000 You can't just say that, can you? 0.99
00:12:42.000 Friendly to Nazis. 0.95
00:12:43.000 Now, I don't know if it's true or not.
00:12:45.000 Let me know.
00:12:45.000 Do your own research at home, guys.
00:12:46.000 If you're watching this on YouTube, do your research.
00:12:48.000 But be careful, because we have to watch out for... Politically.
00:12:52.000 Sweet lady community guidelines.
00:12:54.000 Here she comes. 1.00
00:12:55.000 I'm just guidelining you right up the community into a compliant silence.
00:12:59.000 But, is it true or is it nary true that there were Nazi battalions in the Ukrainian army?
00:13:09.000 That are like literally actual, like they do the salute, they wear the badges, all of the proper mad genocidal views and all that.
00:13:15.000 I think it's been proven.
00:13:15.000 Is that true?
00:13:16.000 Has it been proven?
00:13:20.000 Unbelievable stuff.
00:13:21.000 I 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.
00:13:29.000 That 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.
00:13:39.000 Now we have to censor ourselves around.
00:13:41.000 We have to Let's centre ourselves about Nazis. 0.81
00:13:43.000 You 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.
00:14:01.000 These are not controversial statements, at least they shouldn't be.
00:14:04.000 And 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?
00:14:25.000 Also, and what's most important in my view, is this war's got to stop, hasn't it?
00:14:29.000 It'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.
00:14:40.000 That's what I think.
00:14:41.000 I don't know.
00:14:41.000 Is that controversial now?
00:14:42.000 Well, yeah, but some of the things that you're talking about here are things that could potentially be censored on Threads.
00:14:47.000 On Threads' first day of operations, users already reported having their posts taken down, mainly for political reasons.
00:14:53.000 Same kind of things we've seen before.
00:14:54.000 Some accounts are being blacklisted or greylisted.
00:14:57.000 So this is a place that, you know, Michael Schellenberger has talked about.
00:15:01.000 About how this is not about friendliness.
00:15:04.000 Is it about friendliness?
00:15:05.000 As Zuckerberg talks about. 0.82
00:15:06.000 Do you think that my nipple drawings look a little bit like their new logo? 0.70
00:15:06.000 It's about censorship. 0.70
00:15:11.000 That's what I will say.
00:15:12.000 A little bit like it.
00:15:12.000 A little bit.
00:15:13.000 They're sort of like an eccentric nippler, I would say. 0.97
00:15:17.000 Yeah, a little bit, says Claude.
00:15:18.000 Yeah, a little bit, says Barry John Fox.
00:15:20.000 That's what the people think over there on Locals.
00:15:22.000 That's a social media platform where you will not be censored. 0.99
00:15:25.000 Like my arse, see? 0.99
00:15:27.000 That should be censored. 0.99
00:15:28.000 But we won't censor it.
00:15:29.000 Just let people say whatever they want.
00:15:31.000 They can say it.
00:15:32.000 They can say what they want.
00:15:33.000 We're free.
00:15:33.000 It's free speech.
00:15:34.000 We love you in there.
00:15:34.000 Not sure about showing it at this stage.
00:15:37.000 No, not an ass. 0.99
00:15:38.000 No one wants to see that saucy little devil, do they? 1.00
00:15:41.000 Let's have a look at the poll result.
00:15:41.000 We'll do a poll on it.
00:15:43.000 Who do you trust more with your free speech?
00:15:46.000 Is it Mark Zuckerberg or is it Elon Musk?
00:15:48.000 Baby, it's a landslide.
00:15:51.000 35,000 of you voted.
00:15:52.000 98% of you said you trust Musk.
00:15:55.000 There's a little thing that we call democracy in action.
00:15:59.000 I guess, you know, this is a very positive piece.
00:16:00.000 They're using their free speech to be very silly over there on locals, but it's free speech that you would trust Elon
00:16:05.000 Musk I'm messaging him gal. I'm messaging him. Do I always
00:16:08.000 regret this? Do I always?
00:16:10.000 You 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
00:16:14.000 I guess you know, this is a very positive piece of my team.
00:16:18.000 This is yeah, this is a positive piece. It's a good bit.
00:16:21.000 Right All right, Elon mate. I hope you're okay. I hope I'm not
00:16:25.000 waking you up. I'm a brok- what are you saying?
00:16:27.000 I'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.
00:16:38.000 We want to talk to you.
00:16:39.000 Can we get an interview booked in this week?
00:16:41.000 Are you asleep right now?
00:16:42.000 You're coming across as a bit lazy.
00:16:44.000 You're coming across as a person who's not committed to working enough.
00:16:47.000 Whenever I call you, you sound asleep.
00:16:49.000 Come on, Elon.
00:16:50.000 Elon!
00:16:52.000 I regret sending it!
00:16:54.000 I regret it already!
00:16:56.000 That's the quickest ever regret I've ever had!
00:16:57.000 The start was very strange for me.
00:17:00.000 I was like, alright there Elon!
00:17:02.000 Let's play it back and see if it sounds unusual.
00:17:04.000 I'm going to press keep on this message and I'm going to play it back and see if it sounds good.
00:17:07.000 Alright Elon Musk, I'm hoping I've waken you up. I'm Broco.
00:17:11.000 What are you saying?
00:17:12.000 Alright.
00:17:13.000 I'm saying alright.
00:17:15.000 I shouldn't have done this.
00:17:15.000 You're in it!
00:17:16.000 What have I done?
00:17:17.000 No, that's a mistake!
00:17:17.000 That's a good bit.
00:17:18.000 I shouldn't have done this.
00:17:20.000 What have I done?
00:17:22.000 We want to talk to you.
00:17:24.000 Can we get an interview booked in this week?
00:17:26.000 That's a good bit.
00:17:28.000 No that's a mistake!
00:17:30.000 Oh no.
00:17:32.000 Come on Elon.
00:17:34.000 EEEEEEEEELOOOOOO! 0.99
00:17:36.000 That bit sounds like you're drunk.
00:17:38.000 It does sound like that.
00:17:39.000 Have I made a mistake-er?
00:17:41.000 I don't know.
00:17:42.000 It's no worse than the previous ones.
00:17:44.000 Is it going to be okay?
00:17:45.000 Tell me in the locals' community.
00:17:46.000 They're saying calm down.
00:17:47.000 Why did you say that?
00:17:48.000 Why did you say that?
00:17:49.000 They're doing it for your own good, Russ.
00:17:50.000 Apologetic impression. 0.99
00:17:51.000 Russell, you junkard. 0.99
00:17:53.000 Blame Gareth. 1.00
00:17:54.000 No.
00:17:55.000 Yes, no.
00:17:56.000 That's a good point there.
00:17:58.000 No, that is a good point.
00:17:58.000 I wouldn't say.
00:17:59.000 Blame Gareth for not gatekeeping.
00:18:02.000 You didn't gatekeep very well there, mate, did you?
00:18:05.000 Call that gatekeeping?
00:18:07.000 Meanwhile, the digital dollar threatens to... Oh no, have we seen the rest of this propaganda?
00:18:11.000 No, let's watch the rest of this propaganda.
00:18:12.000 Then we're going to talk about the digital dollar.
00:18:13.000 Do you know about this?
00:18:14.000 They're pushing ahead with digital dollars.
00:18:15.000 They're going to control you right down your pocket holes in ways that are almost unmentionable to a fellow like me. 0.99
00:18:20.000 And I say that as a man who proudly shows his nipples. 0.98
00:18:22.000 Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda. 0.52
00:18:27.000 That 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.
00:18:36.000 Threads.
00:18:37.000 It's unbelievable.
00:18:39.000 It's unbelievable.
00:18:42.000 This 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.
00:18:51.000 But that aside, This one believes in censorship.
00:18:54.000 This one says it believes in free speech.
00:18:56.000 Why don't you decide?
00:18:57.000 Decide which one you want.
00:18:59.000 Shouldn't be.
00:19:00.000 We've got a clear preference and it's because we believe in their model.
00:19:05.000 We believe that when they censor, they'll censor in favour of our agenda.
00:19:10.000 It's actually disgusting.
00:19:12.000 We shouldn't be laughing about this.
00:19:13.000 Also, again, they're very much in line with their kind of corporate sponsors.
00:19:16.000 Meta's business model is about getting the public to spend more time online so Meta can profile us more and make advertising money.
00:19:22.000 For that reason, Threads has next to zero privacy protections, allowing companies to know one's location and consumer preferences.
00:19:29.000 That, I would say, as a news piece...
00:19:31.000 That should probably be on the news.
00:19:33.000 Now before you go believing Gareth, let's check if what he said about the EU fining Facebook was true.
00:19:38.000 Meta hit with a record breaking 1.3 billion fine over Facebook data transfers.
00:19:45.000 That's bigger than the Fox fine for the Dominion scandal.
00:19:49.000 Isn't that interesting?
00:19:51.000 Has it been reported in the same way?
00:19:53.000 People are all over that Fox Dominion thing.
00:19:55.000 Did you notice that?
00:19:56.000 If you're watching this on Rumble, press that red button at the bottom of your screen.
00:19:58.000 Join the conversation on Locals.
00:20:02.000 Look at people. 0.99
00:20:03.000 Some people are talking about my nipples. 0.98
00:20:04.000 Some people simply won't join, Fred. 0.97
00:20:06.000 Some people love us.
00:20:07.000 It's going so fast.
00:20:08.000 There's so many people chatting down there.
00:20:09.000 It's a fantastic conversation.
00:20:11.000 Let's have a look at the rest of this thing.
00:20:13.000 Did we get to the end of it?
00:20:14.000 Had more than 30 million subscribers.
00:20:18.000 It 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.
00:20:28.000 They're following because they've got all your data, because they're snoodling about in your phone.
00:20:34.000 Creating instant community and familiarity.
00:20:37.000 And now there's word Twitter CE.
00:20:39.000 Community is an overstatement.
00:20:41.000 Community. We've created a lovely little community by spying on you and censoring you.
00:20:46.000 The word they kept using is congenial.
00:20:49.000 Look at how language is being rebooted and altered around us.
00:20:52.000 Congenial means the ability to censor and control dissent.
00:20:57.000 Words like safety means we're going to control you to protect you.
00:21:01.000 But I don't want a corporatized state that behaves like a parent.
00:21:06.000 I'll take care of myself, thanks very much, and I'll be taken care of in a community that I'm a consensual part of.
00:21:12.000 I don't want dictatorship.
00:21:14.000 By the back door, don't be childish. 0.99
00:21:16.000 Don't be so bloody childish. 0.97
00:21:19.000 Elon Musk is threatening to sue the rival platform. 0.97
00:21:23.000 Musk tweeting, competition is fine, cheating is not.
00:21:27.000 Meta denying any wrongdoing.
00:21:29.000 In an interview with The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Asare calls Twitter a pioneer in the space, but says
00:21:36.000 its volatility under Musk has opened the door for threats.
00:21:40.000 NBC News has reached out to Twitter for comment, but just received an automated response.
00:21:46.000 Zuckerberg.
00:21:47.000 So funny, isn't it?
00:21:48.000 Even that's ruby.
00:21:49.000 Oh, even I've got the time to respond.
00:21:50.000 Let's see if Elon's come back to me.
00:21:52.000 Already I'm regretting it.
00:21:53.000 I regrets it, but oh no.
00:21:55.000 Oh no, message is silenced.
00:21:56.000 Oh no, this is not good news.
00:21:58.000 If 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.
00:22:04.000 We're going to be talking about the digital dollar and the threat to financial privacy.
00:22:07.000 Do you think they'll misuse those powers?
00:22:10.000 Macron is threatening to shut down social media in France.
00:22:12.000 Can this be real?
00:22:14.000 All 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.
00:22:25.000 We've got to talk about this stuff.
00:22:25.000 Don't you agree?
00:22:27.000 We're going to be talking to Adam Andrzejewski a little bit later.
00:22:31.000 He works for a company or an organisation, excuse me, called Open Secrets.
00:22:31.000 He's brilliant.
00:22:35.000 Open the books.
00:22:36.000 Open those smirkly little books.
00:22:38.000 We 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.
00:22:45.000 He's going to knock your knickers down and then blast them out the bleeding door. 1.00
00:22:49.000 So you are going to want to click that link in the description and join us over on Rumble right now.
00:22:54.000 Stay free, you Awakening Wonders.
00:22:55.000 Now, if you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button at the bottom of your screen and join the conversation.
00:23:01.000 LittleRenegade 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.
00:23:12.000 I can't...
00:23:13.000 Keep holding it.
00:23:14.000 Uh, ourselves to be driven to hysteria by a distorted world view.
00:23:17.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:23:17.000 Good point, little renegade.
00:23:19.000 We've got to spend time out in nature.
00:23:20.000 We want you here, awakened.
00:23:21.000 We 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.
00:23:28.000 We 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.
00:23:41.000 for you, alongside you, unless the establishment gets its way.
00:23:45.000 Look at that saucy Fed. They've been trialing digital dollars. 1.00
00:23:49.000 Why is this a problem? Because it means they're going to be able to control and switch off currency.
00:23:53.000 Because they've called it a successful trial, ultimately.
00:23:55.000 And this is something that 130 countries around the globe are doing. So representing 90%
00:23:59.000 of the global economy and now exploring digital versions of their currencies with
00:24:04.000 almost half in advanced development, either piloting or launching stages. So this
00:24:09.000 is happening. And it's something that obviously we talked about CBDCs for a while and the danger
00:24:12.000 of them being able to track.
00:24:14.000 I mean, in the UK, a digital version of the British pound may feature a way to verify the
00:24:18.000 holder's age and citizenship status. So this is not just about what you can buy and then being
00:24:25.000 able to potentially change interest rates and ultimately control people's spending habits.
00:24:30.000 But it's things like we've talked about before about digital passports, what else is of what
00:24:35.000 other information is available through these currencies.
00:24:37.000 When cryptocurrencies first became popular, notably through Bitcoin...
00:24:42.000 What we heard again and again is we can't trust them.
00:24:44.000 They're bad for the environment.
00:24:46.000 They're unreliable.
00:24:48.000 You can't trust them. 0.99
00:24:49.000 They stink. 0.96
00:24:50.000 They'll turn your fingers wrinkly.
00:24:51.000 You'll go all unusual.
00:24:53.000 You'll have nightmares.
00:24:54.000 But as soon as they're able to centrally control it, CBDC's become a solution.
00:24:59.000 It's like cluster bombs.
00:25:00.000 It's okay when we do it.
00:25:02.000 Nothing has a principle behind it, only an agenda behind it.
00:25:06.000 Yeah, it's bad when it's Bitcoin.
00:25:08.000 It's good when it's Britcoin.
00:25:09.000 Aha! 0.94
00:25:10.000 That's the very way to describe it.
00:25:12.000 Trust Gareth Roy, my press secretary and on-screen assistant, to come up with the perfect description.
00:25:17.000 France gives law enforcement the power to remotely activate and listen in on other people's devices.
00:25:21.000 You're kidding me!
00:25:22.000 To remotely activate, like a phone like this one?
00:25:24.000 Yeah, well, there's that, but... No!
00:25:26.000 Yeah 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.
00:25:50.000 That's something they just can't stand.
00:25:51.000 That's exactly that.
00:25:52.000 But Thierry Breton at the EU is the one we've spoken about before, threatening Elon Musk with that kind of crazy, threatening mafia language.
00:25:58.000 He was using gangster language, wasn't he?
00:26:00.000 Saying, listen, this is where bad ideas come to die. 1.00
00:26:03.000 I will take you down, you motherfucker. 1.00
00:26:05.000 He said things like that, Gav. 1.00
00:26:07.000 Not exactly that.
00:26:07.000 I'm not saying it's exactly what he said.
00:26:09.000 That is a misquote, plainly, but it's the general effect. 0.99
00:26:11.000 around your snout like a dirty self-loving elephant. 0.99
00:26:13.000 He said things like that, Gav. Not exactly that. I'm not saying it's exactly what he said. 1.00
00:26:17.000 That is a misquote, plainly, but it's the general effect.
00:26:20.000 What's he saying now?
00:26:21.000 Teary Brit on a web he calls himself. What he's basically said is Macron threatening to regulate
00:26:24.000 a cut of social media, which is obviously social media, as we have been talking about with
00:26:28.000 Elon Musk and Twitter, is the way that ideas are shared now.
00:26:33.000 When we want to talk about, you know, about free speech, about...
00:26:37.000 Things that Matt Habe and Michael Schellenberg have been revealing.
00:26:40.000 This is how this is shared so quickly.
00:26:42.000 So the ability to shut down social media is a massive thing.
00:26:46.000 And Thierry Breton has basically said social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat will face possible shutdowns under these new EU laws.
00:26:55.000 If 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.
00:27:06.000 Now what does revolt mean?
00:27:09.000 What's the definition of revolt?
00:27:11.000 I suppose what it means is to replace the current corrupt systems and institutions with new democratic ones. 0.99
00:27:16.000 So censor that, Breton, you saucy bugger! 0.97
00:27:19.000 USA Now has posted a really funny sort of racing car thing with a police chase after a bronco. 0.94
00:27:25.000 Can you grab that out of the locals chat so we can show it up on Rumble as well?
00:27:28.000 USA Now's poster.
00:27:30.000 Get it as an asset for us guys so I can share that.
00:27:32.000 Lovely.
00:27:33.000 Feel free to post your memes and your gifs there, guys.
00:27:35.000 It's a free speech platform.
00:27:37.000 Uh, social media riot back down.
00:27:40.000 Social media riot shutdowns possible under EU continent.
00:27:42.000 Ah, that's it.
00:27:43.000 That's that Breton.
00:27:44.000 And I'll say this, you know, aside from all the gangster language, he looks like a little old lady. 0.93
00:27:49.000 Looks like a harmless little old lady of all that. 1.00
00:27:49.000 Doesn't he? 1.00
00:27:51.000 Does he do kiss your mother with that mouth? 0.91
00:27:54.000 Let's have a look at the next one.
00:27:56.000 Apparently now, this is the story where we came off YouTube for.
00:28:00.000 Apparently, doing press-ups now is akin to Sieg Heiling.
00:28:04.000 MSNBC is saying that fitness is far right.
00:28:08.000 Rogan, our man, tweeted about it. 0.99
00:28:11.000 He says that holy fuck, being healthy is far right now. 0.99
00:28:15.000 What do you think about that? 1.00
00:28:16.000 Excuse me.
00:28:17.000 Let me know in the comments if you think that... I mean, look.
00:28:20.000 I suppose that this is how you could tangentially get there.
00:28:23.000 The 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?
00:28:52.000 Well look so Contained in this article it says far-right groups have
00:28:56.000 exploited the popularity of at-home fitness during the pandemic to radicalise individuals in the MMA and combat
00:29:02.000 sports communities.
00:29:03.000 Now I'm sure there might be an element of radicalisation in certain communities, but I guess Joe Rogan's point at this
00:29:10.000 stage is the reductiveness of an article written by the mainstream media again.
00:29:16.000 When 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.
00:29:24.000 I 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.
00:29:43.000 What 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.
00:29:54.000 They want you weak. 0.99
00:29:55.000 They want you dumb. 1.00
00:29:56.000 Congenial. 1.00
00:29:57.000 They want you on threads, just trading dumb memes, objectifying yourself and others. 0.94
00:30:03.000 No awareness of the sacredness within yourself. 0.56
00:30:05.000 No awareness of the sacredness within the world.
00:30:07.000 no awareness that your imagination, your individual consciousness is a powerful tool
00:30:12.000 that can be used to change the world.
00:30:14.000 That you should love and respect yourself.
00:30:15.000 This is not a judgment on what you look like, how you identify, how you express yourself,
00:30:19.000 but the fact that you regard yourself highly.
00:30:21.000 I'm a person that's had body issues in the past.
00:30:24.000 I've been bulimic, I've been a drug addict, I've self-harmed, and now I exercise, I feel better.
00:30:29.000 And I recognize that it's an important part of psychological wellness to embody healthiness,
00:30:34.000 to become fit.
00:30:35.000 I've never felt better since I've started doing yoga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu and eating
00:30:40.000 And 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.
00:30:50.000 But to suggest that it's somehow malfeasant to want to be well, that in itself is the problem.
00:30:56.000 Yeah, and I think you're absolutely right.
00:30:57.000 I think it did start in the pandemic.
00:30:59.000 I 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.
00:31:07.000 Yeah, 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.
00:31:18.000 Yes, he took certain things, but it was his fitness routine.
00:31:21.000 I hated that.
00:31:22.000 They did not like that.
00:31:23.000 The mainstream media did not like that.
00:31:24.000 MSNBC, in particular, did not like that at all.
00:31:27.000 And 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.
00:31:41.000 Yeah, why were they not recommending just measures of wellness?
00:31:44.000 Did you notice that?
00:31:44.000 Did you guys notice?
00:31:45.000 They 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.
00:31:55.000 It is important to take care of yourself.
00:31:56.000 It 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. 0.97
00:32:04.000 So silly.
00:32:05.000 Those were the narratives that were being propagated at the time. 0.95
00:32:09.000 Here is this brilliant meme from USA Now.
00:32:12.000 Is that you being chased around on the internet?
00:32:14.000 Stockholm syndrome, cognitive dissonance, indoctrination.
00:32:17.000 And there you are.
00:32:19.000 I suppose the inconvenient truth is that you're OJ Simpson in that meme.
00:32:26.000 But other than that, it's fantastic.
00:32:27.000 Do you know what I believe in more than anything else?
00:32:29.000 Freedom of speech.
00:32:31.000 And where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
00:32:33.000 and where free speech meets you get freech.
00:32:35.000 Let's use our free speech to love on one another.
00:32:45.000 Let's use our free speech to make one another feel better and more connected.
00:32:49.000 Let's use our free speech to criticise me, Ashella says, as a result, because I burp sometimes a lot on this show, don't I?
00:32:56.000 Sometimes.
00:32:57.000 It's a lot.
00:32:57.000 Is it frequent?
00:32:58.000 I've only done one today, haven't I?
00:32:59.000 I think so, actually.
00:33:00.000 But today was a good day, in the words of the great Ice Cube.
00:33:08.000 I demand justice for shamans.
00:33:09.000 We will get justice for shamans. 0.91
00:33:11.000 I think it's because I've seen somewhere something where shamans... I think I've been worked on once by a shaman.
00:33:16.000 What do you mean worked on?
00:33:18.000 I went out with the shaman.
00:33:20.000 He was doing a bit of this.
00:33:22.000 He was called Kestrel.
00:33:23.000 A massage?
00:33:24.000 I don't want to call it a massage, Gal.
00:33:26.000 You're trying to diminish my shaman and me.
00:33:28.000 Me and my shaman, what me and my shaman do is our own private business.
00:33:33.000 Me and my shaman, what we do in his parlour, in his wiped down parlour, he's called Kestrel.
00:33:39.000 That's his name, Kestrel, Kestrel the Shaman.
00:33:41.000 He's a bloody good shaman down in Glastonbury Way.
00:33:44.000 Not only is he my shaman, but by God did he conduct Nick Cage's, excuse me, I get mixed 0.94
00:33:50.000 up with the Nicks, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Nick Cage.
00:33:52.000 This one's Nick Cage, actor Nick Cage.
00:33:55.000 He done he's wedding.
00:33:56.000 He done he's wedding.
00:33:58.000 He done his son's wedding.
00:33:59.000 When Nick Cage's son got wedded to someone, oh, Kestrel's your man.
00:34:03.000 Kestrel and Jay, they're the shaman that you can trust.
00:34:07.000 Anyway, he was doing a bit of shamaning up and down me.
00:34:09.000 Oh, God, I'd never felt better.
00:34:11.000 Which bit in particular?
00:34:13.000 He says, this area needed work.
00:34:15.000 He said, this is where all the bad energies are.
00:34:19.000 And then, like, he shamaned me right up the bracket.
00:34:22.000 And he goes, he done some belches. 0.92
00:34:24.000 He goes, oh, sorry, that's the spirits.
00:34:27.000 That's a new one.
00:34:28.000 Oh, there's a spirit.
00:34:29.000 Oh, there they go.
00:34:30.000 All those spirits.
00:34:31.000 Oh, they're a muggy bunch, them spirits.
00:34:33.000 Oh, there you go.
00:34:34.000 There's another one. 1.00
00:34:35.000 Oh, there's a dirty bastard. 1.00
00:34:39.000 I'm still mucking about! 1.00
00:34:41.000 Well, he was farting out spirits left and right, he was.
00:34:44.000 Sorry to diminish the sacred art of the shaman.
00:34:47.000 The original religion where people connected to themselves, nature and their tribe by recognising the sacredness between us all.
00:34:54.000 And sometimes there has to be a bit of profanity, baby, to explode new psychic territory.
00:34:59.000 And that's where you need the trickster to come in.
00:35:01.000 And that's why sometimes you need A sweet man in a bowtie that I'm about to introduce you to.
00:35:06.000 You better be wearing a bowtie. 0.91
00:35:07.000 I'm going to... At Synchronicity says about free speech, the media is totally and completely over-the-top ridiculous. 0.96
00:35:12.000 I don't know how any of them look in the mirror each day with the amount of lies they spew. 0.90
00:35:15.000 I don't think they care.
00:35:16.000 I don't think they're aware of it, mate.
00:35:17.000 Rockamun, this is insane.
00:35:18.000 The judge said it was against the constitution to suppress free speech.
00:35:21.000 They're against the constitution.
00:35:23.000 There's no doubt about it, baby.
00:35:25.000 Ace07, it's essential that the most extreme speech be protected and remain uncensored.
00:35:29.000 Once you start accepting limits on speech, you lose.
00:35:31.000 And who picks the decision makers?
00:35:33.000 Who does do that?
00:35:35.000 Who does?
00:35:36.000 Who do we trust now?
00:35:37.000 Who has the moral authority to censor you?
00:35:41.000 Who has the moral authority to govern you?
00:35:43.000 I'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.
00:35:55.000 It's been going on for ages and ages.
00:35:57.000 Thankfully it comes to a stop now thanks to a man Who I know and trust.
00:36:03.000 A 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.
00:36:19.000 Adam is here now!
00:36:21.000 Ah, Adam, you honour us in that tie.
00:36:23.000 You look more handsome than I remember you.
00:36:26.000 Well, thank you, Russell. 0.86
00:36:27.000 Hey, 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. 0.85
00:36:35.000 But they don't dominate here. 0.84
00:36:37.000 You've put together a platform where people watch, they listen, they comment.
00:36:42.000 And that strikes me a lot like what the scientific method used to be, where people could question, give criticism, be skeptical of ideas.
00:36:52.000 And at the end of the day, that's how you get the best public policy.
00:36:56.000 That'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.
00:37:07.000 Well, I thank you very much. 0.99
00:37:09.000 And I will echo the sentiments of our friend here on Locals, Barry John Fox, who, referring to you, says simply, you handsome bastard. 0.85
00:37:18.000 Now, Adam, some of your research shows that the federal complex is becoming increasingly militarized. 0.97
00:37:24.000 Is it true?
00:37:25.000 Because I can't believe that it is.
00:37:26.000 This better not be fake news.
00:37:28.000 This better not be misinformation.
00:37:30.000 How 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?
00:37:41.000 Tell me you're making that up.
00:37:42.000 Tell me it ain't true, Adam.
00:37:44.000 We're the subject matter expert on this, Russell, all the way back to 2016.
00:37:47.000 With our then-honorary chairman, Dr. Tom Coburn and I, we published an editorial at the Wall Street Journal, Why Does the IRS Need Guns?
00:37:56.000 We've recently updated our numbers, and here are the findings.
00:38:00.000 Since 2006, The Internal Revenue Service has purchased $35 million worth of guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.
00:38:09.000 But $10 million of that, of those purchases, have come since the pandemic started.
00:38:16.000 So ahead of the pandemic, here's the numbers on the IRS gun locker.
00:38:19.000 They own 4,500 weapons, including 600 shotguns and 500 long barrel rifles, which are AR-15 style weaponry.
00:38:29.000 They own 15 submachine guns.
00:38:33.000 Who knew the IRS had submachine guns in their basement?
00:38:36.000 They had stockpiled 5 million rounds of ammunition.
00:38:41.000 But 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.
00:38:58.000 This is astonishing, it's extraordinary.
00:39:01.000 If it weren't coming from a source as reliable as you, Adam, I would say it had to be disinformation.
00:39:06.000 Because 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?
00:39:21.000 Almost as if They want themselves heavily armed, and they want you with nothing in your hands that can do any damage at all.
00:39:29.000 That's astonishing.
00:39:31.000 Well, let's look at the entire federal complex, even beyond the IRS.
00:39:35.000 So 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.
00:39:49.000 Now, 27 of those agencies are traditional federal law enforcement agencies.
00:39:53.000 They're housed at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
00:39:58.000 But 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.
00:40:14.000 Those 27 agencies have loaded up on weaponry as well.
00:40:18.000 In 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.
00:40:32.000 That's astonishing.
00:40:33.000 Over here on our chat they're saying they're making death and taxes one department.
00:40:38.000 That's a fantastic quote from our chat.
00:40:40.000 The two inevitabilities have ultimately aligned.
00:40:45.000 Excuse me, Adam, is it also true that the FBI is spending a staggering amount on paying informants?
00:40:52.000 Is that true?
00:40:54.000 So here are the latest numbers, and in 2021, I put these numbers up in my then-column at Forbes.
00:41:00.000 The 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.
00:41:17.000 If you break that number down, the FBI spent about $300 million between 2012 and 2018 paying informants.
00:41:26.000 They did not disclose the number of their paid informants.
00:41:30.000 The DEA spent about $200 million.
00:41:33.000 They did disclose their informants.
00:41:37.000 18,000 people were paid to be an informant between the years of 2011 and 2015.
00:41:42.000 The ATF paid about 2,000 people to be informants, and they spent about 20 million dollars.
00:41:49.000 What does this suggest to you about the nature of government and the way that it is funded?
00:41:52.000 What does it suggest to you about the nature of government and their relationship with media?
00:41:58.000 Given the depth and breadth and detail of your experience, Adam, what type of government would you like to see in America?
00:42:06.000 What 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?
00:42:19.000 So here's what we can all agree on, Russell.
00:42:21.000 I don't care if you're left, right, or center.
00:42:23.000 People on the left, they want their tax dollar to serve people who have real needs.
00:42:28.000 The people on the right, you know, they want to be left alone.
00:42:31.000 They want to limit government to the core of services.
00:42:33.000 But here's what we can all agree on.
00:42:36.000 That every dime that government taxes and spends within reason should be online in real time.
00:42:44.000 Now at OpenTheBooks.com, we actually have a phrase for this.
00:42:47.000 Every dime online in real time.
00:42:50.000 And I want to invite everybody watching the program here today to our website at OpenTheBooks.com.
00:42:55.000 Last 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.
00:43:08.000 So if you're concerned about the policies in your local school district, you can come to our website.
00:43:13.000 You 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.
00:43:23.000 What 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.
00:43:42.000 So close to Independence Day, it's surely worth noting that your great nation declared itself independent from another Better. 0.92
00:43:51.000 Better nation.
00:43:52.000 Better.
00:43:53.000 Probably a bit better.
00:43:53.000 Better one.
00:43:54.000 Better flags.
00:43:55.000 Better uniforms and stuff.
00:43:56.000 And perhaps your revolution was somehow masterminded by British generals behind the scenes.
00:44:01.000 That that independence was wrought from and brought about precisely because of taxation without representation.
00:44:09.000 And yet, from what you're telling us, Adam, that's exactly what's happening to this day in spite of the revolution.
00:44:15.000 Well, we fight, we dig, we keep digging, we keep clawing to make sure that every dime goes online in real time.
00:44:21.000 Russell, 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.
00:44:30.000 And it was $16 billion that went out the door on 7,500 port projects.
00:44:37.000 So Congress literally went nuts.
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.
00:45:01.000 You got $3 million, $3.6 million that went into the Michelle Obama trail down in Atlanta, Georgia, phase two.
00:45:08.000 Phase one was actually paid by local county taxpayers.
00:45:12.000 Phase two is paid for by all of us.
00:45:14.000 But 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.
00:45:26.000 It literally got flushed down the drain in a community where the average home price is $600,000.
00:45:33.000 Adam, 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.
00:45:40.000 Were 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.
00:46:06.000 Why should today be different from any other day? 0.98
00:46:09.000 Adam, I beg you, with all that is decent and holy, to open those damn books and read us something! 0.97
00:46:16.000 Sure 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. 0.99
00:46:26.000 Senator from Wisconsin, William Proxmire.
00:46:29.000 He did the Golden Fleece Award for years.
00:46:31.000 Here are just two of the examples of a Golden Fleece Award from the 1970s.
00:46:35.000 In 1975, Proxmire gave the award to the FAA.
00:46:41.000 For 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.
00:46:55.000 Here's another study from 1978.
00:47:00.000 Proxmire 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.
00:47:14.000 We've got to be accurate about what's going on in this brothel. 1.00
00:47:17.000 I just need one more night. 0.98
00:47:19.000 And while we're in there, I can give my buttocks a good measuring. 0.97
00:47:22.000 And by the way, Adam, that is not how you say the word buttocks. 0.92
00:47:27.000 It's not buttocks. 0.70
00:47:28.000 It's not buttocks! 1.00
00:47:30.000 Is it, Adam? 0.97
00:47:31.000 It's buttocks. 1.00
00:47:33.000 Buttocks. 0.99
00:47:34.000 British style.
00:47:37.000 Well, hey, I'm here in Chicago.
00:47:40.000 You know, it is what it is, Russell. 0.97
00:47:42.000 All the time, buttocks! 1.00
00:47:45.000 Buttocks! 0.99
00:47:46.000 Here in Illinois, it is the Super Bowl of corruption.
00:47:49.000 So to the extent that we say our words wrong, you know, that's just another thing wrong with It ain't necessarily wrong.
00:47:59.000 Maybe that's just how you say it, Budax.
00:48:01.000 What good shall I do this day?
00:48:02.000 What a lovely phrase you've got behind you there.
00:48:04.000 You're a beautiful man, Adam.
00:48:05.000 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:48:07.000 Thanks once again for being illuminating, energetic, rigorous, assiduous, and damn good fun.
00:48:13.000 It's always a joy to spend time with you, mate.
00:48:15.000 Thank you.
00:48:16.000 Thank you, Russell.
00:48:17.000 See you again soon.
00:48:18.000 You can find out more about Adam and his work by going to OpenTheBooks.com.
00:48:23.000 You've seen what he's doing.
00:48:24.000 He's a fascinating man.
00:48:25.000 I think that he's the sort of person that should be supported.
00:48:27.000 I don't know if you can find out more about him at OpenTheBooks.com.
00:48:30.000 Will it say, like, what's he like?
00:48:31.000 What makes him tick?
00:48:32.000 I'd actually would like to know that.
00:48:33.000 Right.
00:48:34.000 Because I'm fascinated by him.
00:48:35.000 I should add a personal section.
00:48:36.000 Have a personal section on OpenTheBooks.
00:48:39.000 I'd like to do a special session, OpenTheBooks on Adam.
00:48:42.000 Let's have a chapter on you.
00:48:44.000 That's, yes, well, not my financial dealings.
00:48:47.000 No, no, I'm in a chapter on you, Adam.
00:48:49.000 Oh, Adam, yeah.
00:48:50.000 We want to open the books on Adam and then we see a series of photos of Adam.
00:48:54.000 Leisure wear.
00:48:55.000 Maybe just a bathrobe.
00:48:55.000 Yeah.
00:48:57.000 Nothing.
00:48:57.000 Yeah.
00:48:58.000 I'm not talking bad taste, Gareth.
00:48:59.000 Swimwear of some sort.
00:49:01.000 Yeah, swimwear.
00:49:01.000 You know, so we're not talking, we're not talking about any nipsies.
00:49:04.000 No, no.
00:49:04.000 We're not talking about the, we're not talking about this.
00:49:06.000 Let's take a good look at this.
00:49:07.000 He's a luscious serum, I tells you.
00:49:10.000 He's still there, Adam, watching us beaming.
00:49:12.000 And yeah, we love you, mate.
00:49:16.000 It's a great conversation, guys.
00:49:17.000 I appreciate it.
00:49:19.000 I appreciate the showcase.
00:49:20.000 We want to be the information for everybody watching the show, an information machine for democracy. 0.98
00:49:28.000 I will give you such a slap on the buttocks if you don't stop behaving, Adam. 0.98
00:49:33.000 Hey, for next time, I'm going to practice saying that word. 0.99
00:49:36.000 No, don't you change, mate.
00:49:37.000 Don't you change anything about you.
00:49:39.000 You're absolutely terrific and perfect the way you are as the Lord made you.
00:49:42.000 Thank you, Adam, for joining us.
00:49:44.000 There he goes.
00:49:44.000 Well, there you go.
00:49:46.000 Adam Andrzejewski. 0.98
00:49:47.000 One of the goddamn finest fellas we ever did have on this show. 0.91
00:49:52.000 And 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. 0.94
00:50:07.000 Let us know if you've heard about it.
00:50:09.000 Then 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.
00:50:22.000 It's a really brilliant conversation.
00:50:25.000 And if you want early access to these conversations, sometimes they, due to availability of guests, take place at unusual times, join the locals community.
00:50:34.000 Then you can see my conversation with people like Oliver Stone.
00:50:36.000 That's coming up soon.
00:50:37.000 Oliver Stone who made JFK.
00:50:38.000 I once made a documentary of him.
00:50:39.000 Do you remember that?
00:50:40.000 Certainly do.
00:50:40.000 It was a difficult time.
00:50:41.000 Oliver in the end, he said, I'm going to bring it up.
00:50:43.000 I'm going to ask about it.
00:50:44.000 He said he stopped making it in the end, didn't he?
00:50:45.000 He went, someone else is going to have to do this.
00:50:47.000 He made Platoon based on his own harrowing experiences in Vietnam.
00:50:51.000 But when it came to working with old Russ, he drew the line.
00:50:54.000 You weren't there, man!
00:50:55.000 You weren't there!
00:50:57.000 I was a couple of hours late.
00:50:57.000 I wasn't there.
00:51:00.000 Like when I made that film with Michael Winterbottom about like financial corruption.
00:51:03.000 I remember that too.
00:51:04.000 He went, why won't you come here?
00:51:06.000 Why are you so late all the time?
00:51:08.000 I don't like it.
00:51:08.000 I don't like doing stuff like this.
00:51:10.000 Oliver Stone accused me of wearing the same shirt twice in a row.
00:51:13.000 You deserved that.
00:51:14.000 And I think you were.
00:51:14.000 Did I?
00:51:15.000 Like you went to his office and Oliver said, well you're wearing the same shirt.
00:51:17.000 You're wearing that shirt.
00:51:17.000 Sure, sure.
00:51:18.000 You wouldn't get away with that with old Zebra.
00:51:20.000 Would you mate?
00:51:20.000 No.
00:51:21.000 Well black and white there with old Strobey. 0.93
00:51:22.000 You wouldn't get away with that in normal telly.
00:51:25.000 Hey, listen, yous lot, guess who's coming on later?
00:51:28.000 Ron DeSantis.
00:51:31.000 So if you're a member of our Locals community, press the red button and join.
00:51:31.000 He'll be live.
00:51:33.000 It's pretty easy.
00:51:34.000 You get access to some beautiful content.
00:51:38.000 It's the inside track.
00:51:39.000 If you're watching us on Rumble, we're doing our absolute best, but we've got to have you close.
00:51:42.000 If this movement's going to succeed, we need you close enough to feel the brush of these sweet treats.
00:51:49.000 Anyway, I've told you everything I can tell you.
00:51:53.000 It's time now to have a close look at cluster bombs.
00:51:56.000 Not too bloody close, they're actually dangerous.
00:51:58.000 No matter who's using them.
00:52:00.000 No one wants a cluster bomb up in their grill, do they?
00:52:03.000 Be it Russian, or be it Ukrainian.
00:52:06.000 Either cluster bombs are bad, or they ain't.
00:52:09.000 So why are the mainstream media propagating for the use of cluster bombs in this ever-escalating conflict?
00:52:15.000 And where will it lead if we don't stand up now?
00:52:18.000 If we don't speak openly?
00:52:19.000 If we don't demand peace of our crazy elite leaders?
00:52:22.000 What will become of us? 0.56
00:52:23.000 Here's the news.
00:52:25.000 No, here's the effing news. 1.00
00:52:30.000 No, here's the fucking news! 0.99
00:52:34.000 Last year, the White House said if Russia used cluster bombs, that would be a war crime. 0.99
00:52:38.000 This year, they're saying they're going to use cluster bombs, and if you don't let them, that would be a war crime.
00:52:44.000 What is a war crime? 0.83
00:52:48.000 Somehow we must not fall into the amnesia.
00:52:50.000 Somehow we must remember that a year ago the White House said, oh, cluster bombs, Russia is using them, that makes them criminals.
00:52:57.000 And 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.
00:53:05.000 So how can that make sense?
00:53:07.000 This is good, this, because it will help you to learn stuff.
00:53:09.000 It's certainly helped me to learn stuff.
00:53:10.000 Either cluster bombs are bad, or they are not bad.
00:53:13.000 You can't determine the value of a cluster bomb based on who's being blown up by it.
00:53:18.000 Cluster bombs, are they good or bad?
00:53:20.000 Well, who's being blown up?
00:53:21.000 Someone I don't like.
00:53:22.000 I like cluster bombs.
00:53:23.000 Who's being blown up?
00:53:24.000 Someone I agree with.
00:53:25.000 Oh, cluster bombs.
00:53:27.000 Boo.
00:53:27.000 Oh, that's not fair.
00:53:28.000 Boo, cluster bombs.
00:53:29.000 Oh, they've just killed somebody.
00:53:30.000 Hurray!
00:53:31.000 I like cluster bombs.
00:53:33.000 Here's some propaganda from the state.
00:53:35.000 Tonight, the United States commits to supplying Ukraine with perhaps the most controversial weapon of this war so far.
00:53:41.000 You know, it's a very difficult decision on my part.
00:53:44.000 Oh, thank God.
00:53:45.000 Everyone go back to sleep.
00:53:46.000 It's OK.
00:53:47.000 I 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.
00:53:56.000 And 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.
00:54:05.000 Weapons are capable of causing massive damage.
00:54:07.000 They carry smaller bombs with the ability to spread out over a large area.
00:54:12.000 Amazing.
00:54:13.000 But in 2023, that's going to get used.
00:54:16.000 That we're not capable of saying, listen, we've got these cluster bombs. 0.96
00:54:19.000 We're going to blow up all that Russian people with mums and dads and families and stuff. 1.00
00:54:22.000 Before we do that, though, should we have a chat about maybe how to end this conflict? 0.92
00:54:27.000 They also put civilians at risk.
00:54:29.000 The decision comes as Ukraine reports its counteroffensive is gaining ground against Russian forces.
00:54:35.000 Cluster munitions, banned in more than 120 countries, scatter mid-flight and then rain down small bombs across a wide area.
00:54:35.000 Is it?
00:54:45.000 Progress.
00:54:47.000 Progress.
00:54:48.000 They can cause massive indiscriminate damage.
00:54:50.000 But do they discriminate, though?
00:54:52.000 Oh, no.
00:54:52.000 It's indiscriminate.
00:54:54.000 Progress.
00:54:55.000 And bomblets that don't explode on the ground pose a significant risk to civilians, especially children.
00:55:01.000 Especially the children.
00:55:03.000 Ah, it's for the children.
00:55:04.000 Oh, there goes one now.
00:55:06.000 Or bits of one.
00:55:07.000 The Pentagon says Ukraine is running low on artillery shells and needs the munitions to help the counter-offensive.
00:55:13.000 We recognize that cluster munitions create a risk of civilian harm.
00:55:16.000 But we don't care.
00:55:17.000 Because, like, a year ago, you said it was wrong when Russia were doing it.
00:55:20.000 So what can you say now?
00:55:22.000 What can you possibly say?
00:55:23.000 Let's see.
00:55:23.000 But there is also a massive risk of civilian harm if Russian troops and tanks roll over Ukrainian positions.
00:55:31.000 This is how government works.
00:55:38.000 What do you need to say in order to do what you want to do?
00:55:42.000 Everyone sort of knows that technique in your own life, but it doesn't usually result in the death of children.
00:55:48.000 This one does.
00:55:49.000 What do we need to say in order to do what we want to do?
00:55:52.000 That not doing it would be worse?
00:55:54.000 Yeah!
00:55:55.000 No matter how bad something is, if not doing it would be worse, then we have to do it, right?
00:56:00.000 The only thing that would derail that is if you didn't trust those people, then you'd be in trouble.
00:56:04.000 But 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.
00:56:14.000 has previously condemned cluster munitions use by Russia.
00:56:14.000 The U.S.
00:56:18.000 It's okay, when will you do it?
00:56:19.000 Here, just six days into the war.
00:56:21.000 We've seen videos of Russian forces moving exceptionally lethal weaponry into Ukraine.
00:56:29.000 Do those masks help against cluster bombs? 0.87
00:56:31.000 That includes cluster munitions.
00:56:33.000 Boo! 0.83
00:56:34.000 Russian cluster bombs! 0.99
00:56:35.000 Bad, bad Russian cluster bombs! 1.00
00:56:37.000 But desperate times may have called for desperate measures.
00:56:41.000 It's different when we do it.
00:56:42.000 Some Democrats have said that giving cluster munitions to Ukraine undermines America's reputation as a human rights defender around the world.
00:56:42.000 Thank you.
00:56:51.000 Oh, you're just so confused. 1.00
00:56:52.000 This is why you need your information censored, you, because you're stupid. 1.00
00:56:55.000 Some cluster bombs, they are defending human rights, whereas other cluster bombs, they're, oh, they're bad cluster bombs. 1.00
00:57:01.000 Some cluster bombs go to heaven, and other cluster bombs, they go to hell.
00:57:04.000 See, that's the bad ones.
00:57:05.000 Don't you understand? 1.00
00:57:06.000 That's why you need a centralized authority to control information that you get, because you're too stupid to work all this out. 1.00
00:57:10.000 Don't worry, the mainstream's got your back. 1.00
00:57:12.000 What's the White House response?
00:57:13.000 I mean, we don't believe that it undermines our... There she is, Corrine Jean-Pierre.
00:57:19.000 Oh, God, another day at work.
00:57:21.000 I was an idealist.
00:57:22.000 Now I'm going to have to say that cluster bombs are good. 1.00
00:57:25.000 Cluster bombs are good.
00:57:26.000 What about if they kill children? 0.99
00:57:28.000 Still good, because them children would have died anyway, but by a Russian cluster bomb. 0.99
00:57:33.000 Progress!
00:57:34.000 Freedom!
00:57:35.000 Our 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.
00:57:46.000 We certainly, the president never shies away.
00:57:48.000 He does shy away.
00:57:49.000 You never see him, do you?
00:57:50.000 And when he does, he can't speak properly.
00:57:53.000 Amazing.
00:57:54.000 Amazing!
00:57:55.000 Astonishing!
00:57:55.000 Baffling!
00:57:56.000 Hypocrisy! 0.97
00:57:57.000 Of almost inconceivable proportions!
00:58:00.000 Let'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.
00:58:14.000 Let'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.
00:58:26.000 That's progress.
00:58:27.000 Facing 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.
00:58:36.000 Things Yes, yes, that does seem like a way to peace and humanitarianism.
00:58:45.000 Destructive, indiscriminate weapons.
00:58:48.000 Critically, the announcement precedes next week's NATO summit in Vilnius.
00:58:52.000 At which the United States and NATO are planning to massively expand their involvement in the war.
00:58:57.000 So whatever you're thinking about the war, like should there be a diplomatic solution?
00:59:00.000 Could 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?
00:59:09.000 All of those ideas, don't worry about them, forget those.
00:59:11.000 What's happening at NATO is massive expansion.
00:59:14.000 Do you remember when you voted for it?
00:59:15.000 You 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. 0.62
00:59:27.000 That's my patriotic duty.
00:59:29.000 Driven into a corner by its miscalculations, the Biden administration is compelled to take even more drastic measures.
00:59:34.000 Yeah, 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.
00:59:42.000 The 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?
00:59:50.000 No!
00:59:51.000 Don't regard that!
00:59:52.000 That's there!
00:59:53.000 Look there!
00:59:53.000 Oh yeah, it's better now!
00:59:55.000 Ow! 1.00
00:59:55.000 My legs! 1.00
00:59:55.000 Ow! 1.00
00:59:56.000 Ow! 1.00
00:59:57.000 Ow! 1.00
00:59:57.000 Don't regard that now! 1.00
00:59:58.000 Okay. 1.00
00:59:59.000 Is to kill as many Russian soldiers as possible. 0.99
01:00:02.000 The reasoning that led in the past to the use of Agent Orange and napalm. 0.96
01:00:05.000 How is it different?
01:00:06.000 And which will be used to sanction the use of tactical nuclear weapons is presently at work.
01:00:11.000 The U.S.
01:00:11.000 on the eve of Vilnius is clearly sending a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
01:00:16.000 NATO will stop at nothing.
01:00:18.000 And Putin will stop at nothing.
01:00:19.000 So, that's good, isn't it?
01:00:21.000 Definitely don't consider a diplomatic solution where two opposed superpowers with nuclear armory have both stated publicly that they will stop at nothing.
01:00:29.000 There's only one thing we can solve this.
01:00:30.000 Cluster bombs.
01:00:31.000 In a briefing Friday announcing the move, U.S.
01:00:34.000 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan justified the decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine as a means of staving off military disaster.
01:00:41.000 Oh yeah, cool.
01:00:42.000 There 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.
01:00:51.000 Sullivan 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.
01:01:03.000 Instead, the offensive has produced a bloody debacle.
01:01:06.000 You know that significant breakthrough?
01:01:07.000 Yeah.
01:01:08.000 How significant was it?
01:01:09.000 Pretty significant, actually.
01:01:10.000 It's been a bloody debacle!
01:01:12.000 Progress?
01:01:13.000 Freedom?
01:01:14.000 Ah, my legs!
01:01:15.000 Shh, look over there! 0.76
01:01:16.000 Far 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.
01:01:25.000 Because the Ukrainian military cannot defeat the Russian military because of history and the present and reality and some pretty solid stuff.
01:01:34.000 We recognise that cluster munitions risk creating civilian harm from unexploded ordnance, Sullivan said.
01:01:40.000 But we had to balance that against the risk that Ukraine might not have sufficient artillery ammunition.
01:01:45.000 In other words, the Biden administration weighed the cost of killing and maiming generations of Ukrainian civilians against the benefits of killing more Russian troops.
01:01:54.000 It decided that the deaths of Ukrainian children from unexploded ordnance was a sacrifice America's oligarchy was willing to make.
01:02:01.000 Oh, God bless that oligarchy. 1.00
01:02:03.000 Is there nothing they won't sacrifice that doesn't affect them at all?
01:02:06.000 Every 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.
01:02:15.000 That's a brilliant point, isn't it?
01:02:16.000 They'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. 0.65
01:02:43.000 OKAY THEN!
01:02:44.000 The stationing of US tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine has already been directly raised by an American think tank.
01:02:49.000 Oh my god, they're already, they're discussing it.
01:02:51.000 They're discussing it.
01:02:52.000 Moreover, the deployment and possible use of nuclear weapons in the conflict will no doubt be on the agenda at the upcoming summit in Vilnius.
01:02:59.000 Every 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.
01:03:08.000 But 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.
01:03:19.000 But it is that, isn't it?
01:03:20.000 It's not anything else, is it?
01:03:21.000 Because 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.
01:03:32.000 The 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. 0.67
01:03:40.000 How could they not, if it was the principle?
01:03:41.000 The principle stays firm, as we always discuss.
01:03:44.000 In 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.
01:03:57.000 In 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.
01:04:05.000 We also have to make sure the International Criminal Court really looks into this.
01:04:09.000 But not previous wars that we've been involved in.
01:04:11.000 Otherwise, we're going to have to go to prison as well.
01:04:13.000 Literally, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the war criminals of Iraq will go to jail. 0.97
01:04:17.000 So we want the International Criminal Court.
01:04:19.000 Could you look over there?
01:04:20.000 Oh, no, that's not good.
01:04:21.000 That's really bad.
01:04:22.000 And also, what?
01:04:22.000 No, nothing else.
01:04:23.000 That's the end.
01:04:23.000 Goodbye.
01:04:24.000 Thanks for coming.
01:04:24.000 Here's some donations.
01:04:25.000 Bye!
01:04:26.000 In 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.
01:04:34.000 Oh, now I understand.
01:04:35.000 The 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.
01:04:45.000 Doesn't it?
01:04:45.000 There's a simple question.
01:04:46.000 Are you on the side of cluster bombs or not?
01:04:48.000 Is cluster bombs a subject you want to equivocate and prevaricate on?
01:04:52.000 If you just said to someone out of nowhere, tapped them on the shoulder, cluster bombs, are they good? 1.00
01:04:55.000 Oh, tell me, God, what is a cluster bomb?
01:04:57.000 Oh, 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.
01:05:04.000 Oh god, no, I'm against them.
01:05:06.000 Okay, 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.
01:05:11.000 Well, then I do like cluster bombs.
01:05:14.000 Sorry about what I just said, I didn't realize that it was part of a partisan conversation.
01:05:18.000 In fact, the US-led war against Russia and Ukraine is a war for American global hegemony, in which Ukrainians are mere cannon fodder. 0.67
01:05:27.000 That line is basically all you need to know.
01:05:30.000 This is entirely in line with the series of criminal wars of aggression waged by the United States over the past half century.
01:05:35.000 Do you require some evidence?
01:05:36.000 Here's some.
01:05:37.000 It's called history.
01:05:38.000 Oh, don't look at that.
01:05:39.000 Look over there at the Russian cluster bomb.
01:05:41.000 Over 110 companies, countries.
01:05:44.000 Easy to get mixed up these days, isn't it?
01:05:46.000 Over 110 countries have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, CCM, which prohibits the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions.
01:05:53.000 The United States, which has killed more people with cluster munitions than any other country, is not a signatory. 0.51
01:05:58.000 Hey, would you sign this, please, sir?
01:05:59.000 And what is that, my good man?
01:06:01.000 I'm a defender of democracy.
01:06:02.000 Let me sign your democratic innovation.
01:06:04.000 Oh, it's that we don't want to use cluster bombs.
01:06:06.000 Look over there.
01:06:07.000 Look over there.
01:06:08.000 There's some Russians. 0.99
01:06:09.000 Poor, that Russian guy farted. 1.00
01:06:11.000 I think Putin's got cancer. 1.00
01:06:12.000 Look at that bastard. 1.00
01:06:13.000 This latest escalation by the United States must be seen as a warning. 0.99
01:06:17.000 Washington 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.
01:06:25.000 The 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.
01:06:37.000 And how can you argue with that?
01:06:38.000 If 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? 0.87
01:06:45.000 We're just going to do this.
01:06:46.000 We're just going to stop the spread. 0.63
01:06:47.000 We're just going to help Ukraine for a little bit.
01:06:49.000 And then by then they do the stuff they were going to do in the first place, because their real agenda is always control and dominion.
01:06:55.000 And they will always use safety, security or convenience.
01:06:58.000 That's generally more through commerce, but certainly security and safety is what they use to assert authoritarianism.
01:07:03.000 Everything is so dangerous, you might as well let us be in control.
01:07:05.000 And hypocrisy is just part of it.
01:07:07.000 Propaganda is necessary.
01:07:09.000 And principles are gone right out the window, as if blown up by a cluster bomb.
01:07:14.000 But don't worry, because it was an American one that you paid for. 0.96
01:07:17.000 So it must be good. 1.00
01:07:18.000 Otherwise, they're all fucking liars. 1.00
01:07:20.000 But that's just what I think. 1.00
01:07:21.000 Until next time, stay free.
01:07:29.000 Many switches, switch on, switch off.