Bill Gates says we're on the brink of a civil war, and we wonder if Bill Gates benefits from these kind of social fractures and fissures, and that kind of conflict, as Bill Gates has a lot of influence in the media. We also hear about Joe Biden and why he should take his medicine. And we're joined by Batya Ungar-Saga, a Deputy Opinion Editor at Newsweek, to talk about this and much more. And, as always, thank you for supporting Stay Free with Russell Brand. You can support the show by pledging $5, $10, $15, $20 or $50, and you can also become a patron patron of the show if you like what you hear on the show. Stay Free, and remember, you can chat to us because we're streaming live, so you can be part of the conversation. And remember, if you don't like what we're putting out, then you can send in a donation. And if you're feeling unwell, then send us a message and we'll send you some medicine. if you can manage to keep your eyes open and your ears open for the next episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand! Stay free, and thanks for listening, and stay free, thank you. xoxo, Russell and Gareth . - The Duke and Lady Gaga. - Thank you so much for supporting the show, and for all the support, we really appreciate it. and we really do appreciate all the love and support we get from the support we're all out there! - thank you, so much love, all of it's really helps us out here. Thank you, really really means a lot, really, it means it's a lot. We really means it, it really does mean it. We appreciate it, really does, really means the chance to help us to make it, we appreciate it... and we're not just a little bit more than that. Thank you. - R.B. - MRS. - XOXO, R. & R.A. - Thank You, Thank you... - P.S. - BABY! - RABY - RAVY. - PRAISE ME. - ETC. - KAVY, KEVY, RYAN AND KEVAN AND AYO - MURCHES, P. M. AND KELLY.
00:15:39.000Benefits for these from these kind of social fractures and fissures and that kind of conflict and stuff You know like as Bill Gates has a lot of influence in the media.
00:15:49.000You've got an incredible amount of influence So when he says something incendiary you have to wonder why he's saying it We've got fantastic guests coming up on the show later.
00:21:26.000Bad news, there's that hurricane still happening.
00:21:29.000But don't worry, because your president and mine, if you consider the United States of America to be the dominant cultural force on our planet at this time, It's basically all our president.
00:21:40.000Joe Biden knows precisely what to do, and you're not going to like this.
00:21:43.000Geyser have sent us $5, which will go to the Stay Free Foundation, which we give to drug addicts.
00:22:16.000If you're in a state where hurricanes often strike, like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas, Yep, he knows all of the ones where it might happen.
00:22:27.000He's already doing better than... Remember George Bush when Kanye... That's the first time a lot of people heard of Kanye when Kanye goes, George Bush, you don't care about Black people.
00:23:08.000I mean, maybe there's more to it, but it feels like he's kind of saying, if you feel your colleague is talking about you behind your back, you know what you need to do.
00:23:15.000Like, the things are getting less, I don't know, serious.
00:23:32.000Make your mind up, Joe, is what I would say.
00:23:35.000So, like, we talk about the mainstream media a lot on this show, and often we criticise them.
00:23:39.000The reason we criticise them is because they are often funded by corporations, they give you biased information, they don't communicate with transparency and clarity, they'll bring out pundits to advocate for war without declaring, perhaps, that those pundits have affiliations with corporations like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, companies that will specifically benefit from ongoing conflict, But in this instance we've got someone from the mainstream media who I would say is pretty committed to their work.
00:24:28.000He says, give me a second, doesn't he?
00:24:30.000Like, something's going to act massively change in a second.
00:24:32.000I would say over the next second, conditions will continue.
00:24:36.000Like, of course, all change is incremental on some level, but I'd say, well, let's check in one second, see what the weather's like in one second.
00:26:37.000People in the mainstream media so committed to the news and reporting the news.
00:26:40.000And by the way, if you've been involved in that hurricane, if you've been personally affected by it, certainly you're not being frivolous, but it's terrifying, is it?
00:27:46.000Get syphilis because it makes you a genius!
00:27:50.000The fact that, whether it's being one of the best presidents, an abolitionist president, whether it's inventing new countries where I had no one else in them, being Beethoven, syphilis is the disease for you!
00:28:02.000You could finish off Beethoven's Unfinished Symphony.
00:28:05.000A little classical reference for you there.
00:31:16.000We've given you a right sideways look at the situation.
00:31:18.000We've even told you that when you comment, and let's have a look at some of those comments now, when you comment and you make those donations, we give them donations for the Stay Free Foundation.
00:31:34.000Yeah, I don't mind what religion you are.
00:31:36.000I think it's all a journey to a unitary force.
00:31:40.000So if he's a Muslim, or a Christian, or you're a secular person, or you're Jewish, or you're Hindu, or you don't have no religion at all, I think it's just important to somehow embody and transmit love, and recognize that all of these things that we externally identify, corruption, selfishness, they're within us also.
00:31:59.000The things that we talk about in these systems, they have passed through the human psyche.
00:32:04.000This is why it's a problem to have a figure like Bill Gates, who's... around whom so much power has coalesced.
00:32:10.000You might not know this about Bill Gates, I bet you do, because you're so clever and well-informed.
00:32:13.000Probably because of the news that you watch, our news.
00:32:16.000Did you know that the Gates Foundation has made 300 million dollars of donations to media funding projects?
00:32:23.000Things like NBC and MSNBC and The Atlantic, which is a pretty good... I once read in The Atlantic an article about... Every time I hear The Atlantic, I always want to say they're good.
00:32:47.000So, alright, because a lot of you might not like the Atlantic or whatever, but it is weird that Bill Gates is giving them donations, because whatever MSNBC is, he isn't a charity, is he?
00:33:10.000Rachel Maddow will come out and go, like, oh, whatever, I should have a view.
00:33:14.000But they ain't going to do nothing about it.
00:33:15.000Anyway, $300 million Bill Gates was given to funding media companies, $38 million to training journalists.
00:33:21.000And we've got this amazing story for you because, of course, Bill Gates says that America's on the precipice of civil war.
00:33:28.000But who benefits when we are culturally divided?
00:33:31.000Who benefits when some people are saying, Lizzo shouldn't be touching that bloody flute!
00:33:35.000And others are saying, oh, it's the biggest breakthrough in history that she is touching that flute.
00:33:40.000When we identify excessively with these cultural issues, does it, you tell me, tell me in the chat right now, does it distract us from Here's the news.
00:34:35.000Many of you will have seen or at least heard that Bill Gates has said that America is on the precipice of civil war, that polarisation will reach the point where there are hung parliaments and it's impossible to implement power and that it will lead to social breakdown.
00:34:50.000We contest that Bill Gates has more power than any nation.
00:34:56.000That governments will come and go, Democrat, Republican, and Bill Gates' power will remain largely unimpeded.
00:35:03.000We also ask, what is the role and nature of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the donations in particular that they make to media organizations and organizations that train journalists?
00:35:14.000We'll touch upon, too, his role in Indian agriculture and the impact that he's had on it, for good or for ill.
00:35:21.000Bill Gates is worried about domestic polarisation in the US.
00:35:46.000Now, we couldn't be more sensitive to misinformation on this channel because, as you know, we've had one YouTube strike for misinformation and a lifelong warning.
00:35:55.000But Whose misinformation is the most deadly misinformation?
00:35:59.000Is it mainstream media misinformation, which in my view could lead to all sorts of complications?
00:36:03.000For example, if you believe the misinformation that vaccines are 100% effective or 90% effective and stop the spread, as alleged by Rachel Maddow on this MSNBC clip.
00:36:12.000The vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.
00:36:18.000Or contrasted with genuine mistakes to which we've owned up and immediately corrected.
00:36:22.000I cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.
00:36:26.000How does the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spend its money?
00:36:30.000And while I'm telling you this, why don't you, in your own mind, that God gave you, determine what the intention could be of this expenditure?
00:36:37.000While other billionaires' media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Bill Gates' cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not.
00:36:45.000The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.
00:36:51.000Recipients of this cash include many of America's most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS, and The Atlantic.
00:36:59.000Now, I don't know whether you like those organizations or don't like those organizations.
00:37:03.000I've read things in The Atlantic, for example, that I've really enjoyed, and I've probably seen things on CNN over the years that I've really enjoyed.
00:37:09.000But what I do know, it's not charities, are they?
00:37:11.000It's not like an endangered panda, is it?
00:37:13.000Brian Stelter is not an endangered species.
00:37:32.000Why are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation making donations?
00:37:36.000And are these donations always transparent and are you always aware When you are consuming content that's come from that organisation and are therefore able to assess what biases may be embedded in it.
00:37:47.000Bear that in mind because in a minute we're going to read you something from the Indian Times that's going to knock your little socks off.
00:37:53.000Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organisations.
00:37:57.000Gates continues to underwrite a wide network of investigative journalism centres as well, totalling just over 38 million dollars.
00:38:03.000The foundation also puts up the money to directly train journalists all over the world in the form of scholarships, courses and workshops.
00:38:10.000Now that looks like a type of philanthropy doesn't it?
00:38:13.000But later on we're going to be talking about philanthropy and where that philanthropy ends up and the nature of that philanthropy.
00:38:19.000You'll be astonished to learn that some of these foundations from the outside appear little more than untaxed bank accounts with no legislative commitment to spending that money on anything philanthropic at all.
00:38:32.000We'll be talking about that in Stay Free in a minute.
00:38:34.000But for now, let's jump into the times of India.
00:38:36.000In a little unbiased piece of mainstream media called, What Bill Gates thinks the world can learn from India.
00:38:43.000Well, some of you will be aware that India has gone through some pretty significant and radical social engineering lately, amounting to, some would say, the annihilation of their agriculture in order to implement ideas and technologies that don't fit in with the way that their country has traditionally been run.
00:39:00.000Many people will make the argument, of course, oh, this is progress, AI and technology will save the world, and certainly there are situations where that is evidently, plainly true, or at least it's advantageous to more than just the people that own those organisations.
00:39:11.000But in the case of India, the suicides, the devastation, it would seem that there are two sides at least to that conversation.
00:39:19.000Let's ensure that both of those sides are heard.
00:39:21.000Beading up progress towards a healthier, fairer and more prosperous world depends on commitment and innovation.
00:39:28.000Innovation means technology and commitment means do as you're told.
00:39:32.000You'll be astonished to learn that this piece in the Times of India is not just written by some journalist Some plucky little journalist who just wants to tell the truth.
00:39:40.000It just says, the writer is the co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
00:40:04.000The idea that there's a place that we're heading and we're going to reach it through technology, ingenuity and materialism.
00:40:10.000India, under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, has made great strides in implementing many initiatives that show promise for accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.
00:40:19.000Now these Sustainable Development Goals is a new sort of metric for evaluating progress, I suppose.
00:40:25.000But who determines what those measurements are?
00:40:28.000The country's upcoming G20 presidency provides an opportunity for Indian leaders to sharpen the world's focus on health and development issues and share lessons and innovations that can improve and save lives.
00:40:39.000For me, that sounds like by capitulating to a globalist agenda, India can be used as a kind of poster boy for this new progressive Great Reset-esque ideology.
00:40:49.000Another area worth emulating is India's comprehensive approach to digital technology.
00:40:53.000Progress in this area can help address many of the world's challenges from pandemic recovery, vaccines, poverty, give us all your data, to lack of access to medical care, vaccines.
00:41:03.000India has used digitisation to transform healthcare as well.
00:41:06.000Many of you were concerned about the overreach of big tech and their ability to implement social credit score So all of this unbiased stuff about progress and innovation and what India's got to do and don't worry about the suicides was written by someone anonymously that we only know is a trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
00:41:20.000time, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what your feelings are about
00:42:12.000Let's see what she says about the digitization of agriculture and the application of these technologies in an area where she's an expert.
00:42:20.000And ask yourself the question, who knows more about India?
00:42:23.000Vandana Shiva, an Indian woman who happens to be an expert in quantum physics, agriculture and activism, or Bill Gates?
00:42:31.000Gates Ag One is one type of agriculture for the whole world, organised top down.
00:42:36.000This includes digital farming, in which farmers are surveilled and mined for their agricultural data, which is then repackaged and sold back to them.
00:42:44.000This is a way of taking ordinary, independent, empowered agricultural workers and farm owners and turning them into tools of a centralised agenda via the promise, as always, Of convenience and ease through AI and technology.
00:42:57.000Let me know what you think in the comments.
00:42:58.000Let me know what you think in the chat.
00:42:59.000It all stems from an overreaching theme of arrogance and the desire for recolonization and a global empire.
00:43:05.000The idea is to imply or create the environment in which survival isn't possible without technology.
00:43:10.000They're making us dependent upon them.
00:43:12.000How many times have you seen that narrative play out in colonialism and imperialism?
00:43:19.000They mess with the systems that are in place.
00:43:21.000And all of a sudden, you are dependent upon your imperialist masters.
00:43:25.000If you look beyond the models of nationalism and towards one of globalism, you can see that the same thing's being applied right now through centralized big tech power.
00:43:35.000And if you think I'm joking, just remember how you felt last time you left your house without your phone.
00:43:39.000It's a denial of the richness of agroecological knowledges and practices that are resurging around the world.
00:43:44.000The good news is people all over the world are learning how to farm the land again.
00:43:49.000New systems of animal husbandry, or arcane ones, emerging again.
00:43:53.000Knowledge of actually, if people were to localise their food sources, much of the unnecessary trade, much of the unnecessary centralised power could be limited.
00:44:02.000Tech giants in an effort to drive home digital agriculture are working to reduce life to software while advancing digital surveillance systems.
00:44:10.000Here, Vandana Shiva tags the broader point that a human being is more than just information.
00:44:15.000A human being is more than just material.
00:44:17.000But there is something sacred, something spiritual.
00:44:28.000We cannot allow centralized tech authorities to turn us into just a list of binary code.
00:44:33.000We cannot allow powerful tech giants who are essentially modern-day sovereigns, empires, tyrants, kings astride the globe, unable to be regulated, Free to do whatever they want, free to travel the world, beyond nation, to have so much power that the needs and requirements of ordinary people are neglected.
00:44:52.000In the stream we're going to have a look in more detail at foundations and what foundations really mean and where that revenue actually goes and what the obligations are when people say We're going to give billions to this person and that person.
00:45:03.000We're going to have a deeper look at it.
00:45:06.000Do you think we're on the brink of a civil war because we have a media landscape that continually highlights the fractures, fissures, gaps and conflict between people instead of pointing out that if we come together as one, If we return to an ancient understanding of the world while implementing technology sensibly, not just for profit, we could reorganize our future individually and collectively.
00:45:26.000Is that ever going to be possible with the media the way it is, funded in the way it is, and with global tyrants like Bill Gates in the position they are?
00:47:10.000Okay, so, Gareth, you've got some information on this, haven't you?
00:47:14.000And by the way, before we leap into it, Vandana Shiva there, who articulates such a beautiful response to Bill Gates, as she does, the great matriarch that she is, will be appearing at the community festival Next year, as she did this year, there's a link in the chat if you want to come and join us for that day.
00:47:30.000Wim Hof, Vandana Shiva, a wonderful free day event we did one day last time.
00:47:34.000I'll tell you more about it a little bit later.
00:47:35.000Now let's dive a bit more deeply, Gal, into these foundations and what they're up to and see if the people in our chat are right with their cynical appraisal.
00:47:44.000Yeah, our educated viewers are not wrong at all.
00:47:46.000So Gates the other day was speaking at the Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit.
00:47:52.000Well, this is where he spoke about civil war, but he also talked about giving billions of dollars away to the foundation, which he plans to wrap up in 25 years.
00:48:00.000So we thought we'd look into foundations specifically here.
00:48:02.000Can I ask you something, right off the bat?
00:48:04.000If you think that there's going to be a civil war and a whole society's going to shut down, how come you've still got your foundation for 25 years?
00:48:22.000I remember when he predicted if I was going to get a terrible cough, started working on the medicine, and sure as eggs is egg, terrible cough come round.
00:48:35.000Alright, so a decade ago Bill Gates and Warren Buffett organised the Giving Pledge to inspire their fellow billionaires to donate more money to charity.
00:48:42.000There's nothing in the pledge that specifies what exactly the donations will be used for, or even whether they are to be made now or willed after death.
00:48:50.000It's just a general commitment to using private wealth for ostensibly public good.
00:48:54.000It's not legally binding either, but a moral commitment.
00:48:57.000I don't think that should be allowed, right?
00:48:59.000Because say if I went... I'll tell you what, I'm not going to pay no tax.
00:50:26.000I don't think that's right, all of that wealth transfer during the pandemic.
00:50:28.000Let me know in the chat how it makes you feel to know that some of the people that were in those sort of central, influential positions during the pandemic, that were making all those suggestions.
00:50:38.000Remember, like, Bill Gates, I don't think he's got a degree in medicine, but he was right up there, wasn't he, telling you what tablets to have.
00:51:07.000I've got absolutely... If you think that you can flummox me by suddenly mentioning corn, I'll tell you that you cannot.
00:51:13.000Because I know what you're going to say is that Bill Gates has done a land grab and he now owns more farmland than Ronald McDonald, Farmer Giles, Paul Bunyan and all conceivable agriculturists combined.
00:51:27.000He loves a bit of farmland and he did that thing, that ghouling thing where he did that corn thing, didn't he?
00:51:43.000I don't think that should have happened and that you shouldn't do that.
00:51:45.000And if you've got that much money, you shouldn't be allowed to be so bloody silly.
00:51:49.000There's another side to this corn business, isn't there?
00:51:52.000Yeah, so this is all basically about synthetic corn.
00:51:55.000What he refers to in the video is more resilient corn, by which we think he means synthetic corn.
00:52:01.000So, uh, synthetic corn, which would be using Western science and technology, but then it becomes what Vandana was talking about, is what about the patents for this corn, and who owns those patents?
00:53:21.000Oh my gosh, I'm so honored to be here in your first week.
00:53:24.000I've been watching the show for a couple weeks now and it's so great and I'm just so excited to be here with you and with your audience of spiritual skeptics.
00:53:42.000How is media objectivity compromised by corporate interests Broadly, Batya, we're talking about how Bill Gates has made about $300 million worth of donation, or at least the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has.
00:53:55.000What type of biases is that likely to instantiate?
00:53:59.000And as a journalist, how have you encountered this sort of compromise induced by them kind of practices?
00:55:44.000Gareth, you've got a question, you might...
00:55:48.000You're talking about the kind of class of people that become journalists.
00:55:51.000Does the kind of way that Bill Gates funds journalism have anything to do with that?
00:55:57.000Right, so I think that it has a lot more to do with something that happened within journalism over the last 50 years to where there was a status revolution among journalists in America, actually in the UK as well.
00:56:12.000So 50 years ago, the kind of person who became a journalist was really, you know, a working class person.
00:56:16.000You didn't need a college degree to become a journalist.
00:56:18.000It was considered a very low status trade, not really an elite job.
00:56:23.000Today, it's a very elite It pays really, really low in the beginning, which means that if you're going to live in New York and become a journalist, somebody has to pay your rent for you.
00:56:32.000And then as you get further and further along in the industry, you make more and more money.
00:56:36.000And to me, you know, here's the thing.
00:56:38.000Okay, here's where you might disagree with me.
00:56:40.000But to me, it seems like the kind of people become journalists, just like Bill Gates.
00:56:47.000They're not sitting there going, hey, we're going to consolidate all the money and all the power.
00:56:53.000And we're gonna have all the money and the power and everybody else is gonna be poor and living, you know, on our generosity if we decide to dole it out.
00:57:01.000What they are are people who have allowed themselves to believe that people who disagree with them on certain issues are evil and deserve to be deplatformed, deserve to have their votes taken away from them, deserve not to get to choose what to eat or what to farm.
00:57:18.000They will tell them what kind of car to drive.
00:57:21.000What I'm trying to say is, They have hoarded resources and then they justify that by hoarding their sort of morality, their virtues, what they see as virtue, and then imposing that on the people whose resources they've taken from them in the name of that virtue.
00:57:37.000So it's like a little bit less evil, but the reason I'm making that distinction is because I think this should give people hope because we still have the power to say no to that, you know?
00:57:48.000The problem with Bill Gates is not that he's a billionaire.
00:57:50.000The problem is that he can use his billions to buy power and influence.
00:57:55.000The thing is with Bill Gates is that he has such extraordinary power.
00:58:02.000He has such incredible influence in the field of agriculture.
00:58:08.000He's had this impact on farming in India that's, in the words of Vandana Shiva, contributed to sort of like... genocide is much too strong a word, but sort of 10,000 suicides is a pretty significant figure.
00:58:25.000I know that there's this sort of opacity, it's concealed by bureaucracy, it seems somehow anodyne and sanitised, but I don't feel that we can allow that to, what do I want to say, mitigate the Powerful negativity of these figures, and even like the way these foundations operate, you know, like me, what Gareth and I were discussing just then, the way that they negate, they negate, they contribute in to the society that they have this undue influence upon.
00:58:57.000You know, like, the avoidance or evasion of tax.
00:59:00.000You know, like, so, I don't... I don't agree that there's, like, any robes involved.
00:59:06.000Robes and marduk, the owl, or, like, uh, ceremonies or that kind of stuff.
00:59:10.000And I don't think it's helpful to get distracted by that stuff, personally.
00:59:14.000But I do think we're talking about power that transcends democracy, power that transcends nation, power that can't be checked, that for most people, ordinary people, is inaccessible.
00:59:49.000I guess that's what I'm saying, Batya.
00:59:51.000Okay, so let me give you one potentially counter example, and you'll tell me if you think that's compelling.
00:59:56.000So just like, let's take the media, okay?
00:59:58.000So nobody has ever come to me from management and said, look, Bill Gates gave us this money.
01:00:03.000Actually, I don't think he gave Newzik any money.
01:00:05.000But I promise you, nobody has gone to anybody who works at NBC and said, Bill Gates gave us this money.
01:00:10.000We have to report this story in this way.
01:00:12.000The problem is they don't need to because the class incentives are already there to make the media report in a certain way.
01:00:21.000But he's not actually influencing the direction of the reporting, except maybe at an unconscious level way.
01:00:27.000And more importantly, and this is the point I really want to know what you think about, The American people are just saying no to the media across the board right now.
01:00:34.000There's a mass consumer boycott underway, which is why people are tuning into amazing shows like yours, because they don't trust the media anymore, meaning they've taken their power back.
01:00:43.000They've said, we know we don't hate our fellow Americans just because they vote for a different party.
01:01:15.000It's almost as if there is an atrophying system that's trying to keep itself animated through corruption, preventing us gaining access through traditional democratic means.
01:01:26.000Whether it's because we have a Congress awash with lobbying money and Congress people that own stocks and shares in the companies that they're meant to regulate, or whether it's these Globalist organisations like the WEF and WHO, to which Bill Gates, or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are the second largest donors.
01:01:45.000Or a media class that will not report accurately, not as you say, because of an explicit agenda, but because of a kind of cultural affiliation.
01:01:55.000With this deracinated, what do I want to call it, neoliberalist, hollow, empty, nihilistic, soulless, I don't know what I want to call it, but I feel like that they are no longer in the service of people.
01:02:10.000That aspect of your analysis I completely agree with.
01:02:13.000And I feel like whether it's new media, like the media that we're practicing in, or new forms of democracy, new forms of protest, I feel you're right.
01:02:25.000And I also feel that we as individuals have to undertake a process of personal awakening, and we have to be sort of willing to overlook exactly the kind of cultural and political divisions that we're being invited to divide ourselves along.
01:02:40.000I think we have to be willing to look to one another openly and lovingly.
01:02:45.000So yeah, there's loads in what you've said there.
01:02:47.000Bacha, thank you so much for joining us on the show.
01:02:51.000I wonder if you will be a regular contributor to our little show here at Stay Free Media.
01:02:56.000I wonder if you'll do podcasts and stuff like that with us.
01:03:03.000And I'll just throw this last line in because I wanted to say this listening to the first hour of the show.
01:03:08.000You know, I think the most important thing to take away, the thing I take away, is when the elites tell us that we're polarized, that civil war is coming, you know, that Americans have never been this partisan or at each other's throats, the correct response is, you wish Because that's how they get their power, and I'm so thrilled to be here with you.
01:03:27.000Thank you so much for having me and for what you're doing to remind us all how much more unites us than divides us.
01:03:42.000Do you know, or you should do, because I've told you already, that in addition to our work online here, which we enjoy, we love the opportunity to communicate with you live, keep commenting in the chat.
01:03:54.000I know that a lot of you are really cynical about anyone that has any affiliation or involvement with any form of mainstream media at all.
01:04:00.000And I can completely understand that, because you've been lied to for a long while.
01:04:04.000It's understandable that you'll be cynical and sceptical, but Batya, I think she's a great journalist, and I think she's a sort of, I think, I think she's an open person.
01:04:12.000I really enjoy her work and her writing.
01:04:15.000Listen, I really would love you to join us if you can.
01:04:18.000If you're in the United States of America, it would involve a little bit of travel.
01:04:20.000If you're here in our country, why, it would be a breeze for you to join us at Community 2023, a three-day event where Wim Hof Vandana Shiva, who we've been sighting throughout the show today, and also Eckhart Tolle.
01:04:33.000I'm going to try and get him to come along and do some meditations and stuff with us.
01:04:57.000I got Eckhart Tolle's phone number to just interview him, but then I thought, I've got Eckhart Tolle's phone number now, so I just called him whenever I wanted.
01:05:04.000And that's quite a lot, because I've got a lot of problems.
01:05:06.000So I was always ringing Eckhart Tolle.
01:07:20.000So it was closed only four hours after it opened, initially, because it was so fast that kids were being chucked right into the air, apparently.
01:07:32.000Yeah, and so one part of the people testing it to see if it should be reopened was that fellow, which I don't think was a ringing endorsement, was it?
01:07:38.000Well, he looked like he was shitting himself.
01:07:41.000Like, it really took its toll on his bum.
01:07:44.000There's one bit, like, can we just look at it one more time, please?
01:08:04.000Like, don't you ever been down, like... Have you ever been down them slides you can do, where it's like, you can have them at a war park, or you know, there's a place near me, Odds Farm, right?
01:08:11.000It's just like, they've got animals there or whatever.
01:11:30.000Yeah, that's interesting, because obviously what it is is that Elton John backs initiatives to support people suffering from HIV and AIDS and that.
01:11:38.000Strange phrase to go in with it's all this guy's fault. It's the wrong phrase
01:11:42.000Let's have a look again because you can't trust this dude with this stuff
01:11:45.000Can you and then let's have a look as well after this?
01:11:47.000Let's have a look at him once again failing to get off a stage
01:11:50.000So I'm just gonna like this have a look at him just do this phrasing again
01:11:53.000Concerned we're spending six billion dollars in taxpayer money this what to help age. Oh
01:14:12.000Plus we've got, like, a union official coming on here to, like, talk to us about, sort of, The British Unionism, like it's Mick Lynch he's called, you'll love him, he's proper plain speaking geezer, we love him on this show.
01:14:23.000But we'll talk about the trade union movement in your country as well, like in particular in I feel like big tech spaces, that's where unionisation is going to become increasingly relevant and necessary.
01:14:35.000And if we don't have Proper movements of working people, how will we ever oppose hegemony?
01:14:42.000You know on this show we don't agree with centralised power in any form, whether it's leftist statist power or right-wing corporatist power.