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00:14:52.000What happens, and the reason we're asking you this, There's a number of reasons.
00:14:57.000Elon Musk has challenged... I mean, look, it's difficult to portray Elon Musk as like a plucky little match girl, an innocent victim of circumstance, because he is, I think, the richest human there's ever been.
00:15:13.000He's not coming on today's show, but he's coming on our show soon.
00:15:15.000I could text him sometimes, I could message him now, but I've got just such a terrible history for doing live messages to people.
00:15:20.000If you're a British person, you'll know about this.
00:15:23.000If you're from somewhere else in the world, you won't know about it, and I'm not going to tell you.
00:15:27.000You'll have to work it out in one of your chats over there at StayFreeAF, if you're a member of our community, or just on the Rumble stream, if you're watching us on Rumble, and that's the only place you can watch us.
00:15:37.000That's the only place where we're free to be who we really are.
00:15:58.000Was it like you were texting a new girlfriend or something?
00:16:00.000Yeah, you know like you really love someone and you're not actually sure if they like you yet because you're you're you so you're you know you don't you you know you you're an idiot right so when you're texting someone you want them to love you you're like hi going through various things that you think different personalities you think might possibly work with Elon I'm like I'm trying to be quite cool.
00:17:01.000He's got a wide-ranging and brilliant mind.
00:17:04.000So anyway, when I'm texting him now, also because I want him to come on the show, and he said he's going to come on the show after the deposition, and part of the news is he's getting Twitter, isn't he?
00:17:38.000So like, the reason I suppose that this question of the show is what happens if you challenge dominant power is that Elon Musk, because of his unique cultural position, he's basically a one man country, isn't he?
00:17:50.000Like he's richer than some little countries.
00:18:11.000Like, in that David Foster Wallace book, Infinite Jest, which I've not read all of because it's too hard, it sort of suggests that in the future, countries will become corporatised.
00:18:20.000That, you know, you'd have a whole country sponsored by Apple, and I bet you will.
00:19:09.000Because later on the show, I'm talking to Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, and like, you know, Some of you will be old enough to remember, based on the chat.
00:19:17.000Some of you are too old to control your memory, or to contain it, at least.
00:19:21.000And, like, you know, Julian Assange was a hero initially with WikiLeaks.
00:19:26.000He was sort of, like, the white-haired rock god of hackers.
00:19:32.000He was smeared and slandered and is now in Belmarsh Prison.
00:19:39.000So, ultimately, his wife Stella explained, in a way that's presented as a sort of a legal situation, he's, you know, like, charged with espionage.
00:19:52.000But actually, she says she rejects that entire legal framework.
00:20:11.000He revealed the war crimes of America and other complicit nations, and there was a CIA plot to assassinate him.
00:20:19.000You can't extradite someone to a country that said they're going to assassinate him.
00:20:23.000So a figure like Elon Musk, because of his enormous power, Assange, because of those revelations, both of these figures, I think, in their own way, reveal There is such a thing as dominant power.
00:20:34.000Elon Musk is so powerful that he can say, well, look, do we want a diplomatic solution to this situation between Russia and Ukraine?
00:21:49.000Yeah, so like, there's a lot to consider, and really what we're considering is the location and reality of real power, but here's some other normal, normal news, so just so that you know what's going on, you know, in the world of normal news.
00:22:01.000We're going to tell you some important stuff, and normal stuff as well.
00:24:12.000I noticed when it was written up in the newspaper, it said, the president also told the man, and you'll notice, you can't argue with your brothers outside of the house.
00:24:20.000It just says, it's unclear what the president was referring to.
00:24:56.000You know, and this is kind of like... I think what he's referring to is the idea that in your household, you might be... ...bissin' and a-cussin' and a-roarin' and a-rowin' with your family members, but if anyone else crosses them... Got it.
00:25:11.000I think that what he's trying to do is appeal to a certain kind of blue-collar mentality.
00:25:29.000It's again that politicians have to continually present themselves as normal, but Joe Biden, whatever he is and whatever he once was, it has to be acknowledged that he's a career politician who's been in Congress for sort of like 45 years that has Extraordinary business relationships.
00:25:43.000It's been recently alleged on Tucker Carlson's show that he's indeed significant in Hunter Biden's business arrangements.
00:26:03.000Yeah, so I suppose whilst he operates in a very particular political sphere, he has to present himself as normal in order to be appealing and affable.
00:26:13.000Now he has the additional challenge of the old forgetfulness.
00:26:17.000Let me just do a bit more news for you guys.
00:26:20.000OPEC tries to keep prices high and cuts output by two million barrels in a move that Biden calls unnecessary.
00:26:28.000Yeah, he's angry about this because, you know, he went over to Saudi Arabia, didn't he?
00:26:32.000Do you not remember he did to do the old fist pump with the Grand Prince?
00:26:37.000Yeah, even though they said that they would make Saudi... Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia a pariah if he got into government, but then he did go there a bit and be double friendly with Saudi Arabians because of geopolitical necessities.
00:26:53.000Again, this is how power really operates.
00:26:55.000There's necessary rhetoric, When you're campaigning and then geopolitical realities kick in, the fact is, is there a certain petrodollar and economic relationships that have to be conserved, so whilst it might be plausible to say stuff when you're running for election, you can't make good on those kind of promises within that system.
00:27:14.000Well, it didn't work anyway because so I started a part of OPEC plus and they're the plus part.
00:27:37.000Like Young, he's got a lot, I've got a lot of songs.
00:27:39.000So anyway, this is the world's top oil producing countries who've agreed to cut the amount they export in a decision which will raise prices around the world.
00:27:47.000So they're saying it's doing it to, you know, basically make sure that the prices don't keep going up to kind of stabilise oil prices.
00:27:55.000But obviously Biden's seeing this as a kind of slight on America.
00:27:59.000Also, I suppose this is something that we have to consider in the context of this ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
00:28:07.000And also, whether or not the Nord Stream 2... Not the Nord Stream 1, is it?
00:28:13.000That's a perfectly good pipeline, that's still fine.
00:28:15.000Nord Stream 2 pipeline, has it been sabotaged or did it just accidentally break?
00:28:22.000Certainly, resources and energy are a component in this ongoing crisis and loads of you will want to see again.
00:28:30.000Jeffrey Sachs, an American academic and professor at Columbia University, just sort of overtly stating that he thinks America does it.
00:28:40.000Like, even though, even if you've seen this clip, it's worth watching it again, mostly because of Jeffrey Sachs' chided face.
00:28:47.000Now we know what Jeffrey Sachs looks like when he's told off, and potentially in a whole range of other situations.
00:28:54.000...to make it definitive, the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which I would bet was a U.S.
00:31:14.000Embarrassing these days to say that they're from the US.
00:31:19.000Roberta says, what Was that the ageist comment at 68, her memory is great when you made fun of people?
00:31:26.000No, no, no, someone said they were 81 and I don't think you can really allege that there is no impact on memory as one declines or advances in years when you look at dear old Joe Biden Dodgering his way through life, seldom able to make his way off the stage.
00:31:43.000What kind of comments have you got there, young Putin?
00:31:46.000So-called because you look like young Putin, not because we have anything other than stern condemnation of Russia's military action in Ukraine.
00:31:58.000Do you know, I asked Stella Assange when I spoke to her a little bit earlier, when we recorded it, because we wanted to be sensitive, as a matter of fact, because I thought, this is a person who's living a pretty intense life.
00:32:09.000She's married to someone who she loves, who's in Belmar, whose situation is complicated.
00:32:13.000Anyway, so that's why we pre-recorded it.
00:32:15.000And like, I goes to her, did you think Trump might pardon him?
00:32:19.000And she said she did think that a little bit.
00:32:22.000She leaves, you'll see it in the interview, she leaves a very long pause.
00:32:26.000She goes, I couldn't tell because Donald Trump is... And then she's in that pause, I thought, oh God, what's she going to say here?
00:33:06.000Because the truth is that Julian Assange's case, amongst many other things, demonstrates the general alliance between nations and political parties Clinton, Obama, Bush, Trump, like everyone basically has the same stance and the use of the Espionage Act.
00:33:27.000Anyway, this stuff's covered pretty well in the conversation, but I think it's a good way of understanding
00:33:32.000lack of journalistic integrity, media censorship, collaboration between the government, between global
00:35:16.000But, like, I don't actually know if I want to go space, and I also don't know where that ticket is, and I don't think people did go space in the end on Virgin Rockets.
00:35:37.000Dust off the old ticket, hop down to Penzance and get me up there into space.
00:35:44.000Do you want to, like, listen, tell us in the chat, we'll do a quick poll now and tell us quickly, get ready, do you want to see the, do you want me to tell you ...in depth about Elon Musk and analyse what does support for Ukraine really mean.
00:35:57.000And of course everyone, anyone except for psychopaths, are sympathetic to people suffering in war and anyone wants to end war and suffering.
00:36:04.000Let's take that as read because it's bloody obvious, obvious to most of us.
00:36:10.000Do you want to see me talking about that, or would you like us to talk about a grand chess master with beads up his bum as a communicative tool?
00:36:20.000The next first five people to respond will go with what you say, although we are going to talk about both those things ultimately and eventually because...
00:36:27.000You know, Grand Chess Master accused of using anal beads to win a likely cheat a hundred times.
00:36:33.000I mean, that's... I don't think he's doing it for the chess anymore.
00:36:37.000Once you've, like, done it a hundred times, used anal beads as a communicative tool, it seems to me that chess is secondary.
00:36:44.000I still don't think there's any actual proof.
00:36:46.000I think it's a strange jump to make from, he's winning all these games, to, it must be anal beads.
00:37:51.000Whether it's buying or not buying Twitter, robots that move about like Joe Biden, or trying to solve the Russia-Ukraine war, Musk is a news machine.
00:38:56.000I'm saying that if we are going to, then we should be aware that that's what we're doing.
00:39:00.000Because there's a difference between changing the picture in your bio, putting a sticker in your window, and living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape.
00:39:12.000But you should know that that's what you're doing.
00:39:14.000On Monday, Elon Musk prompted an online row with Ukraine's president after he asked Twitter users to weigh in on his ideas to end Russia's war.
00:39:22.000Now, some of you will say, well, who's Elon Musk?
00:39:57.000In a tweet, Musk suggested UN-supervised elections in four occupied regions that Moscow has falsely annexed after what it called referendums.
00:40:07.000If you're going to have an election, make sure it's properly run and that all the votes are correctly counted and there's absolutely no skullduggery.
00:40:26.000I'm certainly not claiming to be an expert on that complex geopolitical situation.
00:40:31.000We've done numerous videos about the history of the region, NATO escalation, potential sabotage.
00:40:36.000We've done lots of videos on this subject.
00:40:38.000And I just want to clarify again and again, my sympathy lies with people that suffer as a result The Tesla chief executive also suggested that Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014, be formally recognised as Russia, that water supply to Crimea be assured, and that Ukraine remain neutral.
00:40:56.000He asked Twitter users to vote yes or no to his idea.
00:40:59.000So far, it seems to me that a powerful figure is using his platform in order to provoke debate.
00:41:05.000Now, I suppose, up to this point, How can you disagree with that?
00:41:09.000Do you want the Twittersphere and the world of Instagram to be entirely limited to profanity and idiocy and inanity?
00:41:44.000You can see why I'd be into that idea.
00:41:47.000But also with Zelensky, if you look at what's being asked there, is for blind, unquestioning support.
00:41:53.000Now, I don't think blind unquestioning support is a good idea, sort of, ever.
00:41:58.000I mean, even if it was a member of your family or something, like, I'm gonna blindly unquestion... You might do that, emotionally.
00:42:03.000You might say, I don't even care if they murder someone, I'm just gonna love them till the end of time.
00:42:07.000But, some people, you would hope, would remain objective and neutral in that situation.
00:42:12.000Ultimately, don't all of us want that war to end?
00:42:14.000Ultimately, don't all of us want a peaceful solution?
00:42:17.000Ultimately, don't all of us want the individuals of this world and the communities of this world to be free from suffering and for people to have the ability to run their own lives?
00:43:21.000People want, he's got to come up with so many ideas.
00:43:24.000And people seem so interested in his opinions that it's Perfectly natural, I imagine, for him to say, well, how would you solve this conflict?
00:44:13.000In a response to the criticism, Musk said he continues to support Ukraine, but he fears the Kremlin will eventually escalate and trigger a nuclear war if the fight expands to Crimea, which Russia currently controls.
00:44:24.000As evidence of his support for Ukraine, he pointed to SpaceX funding of Starlink in the countries, an internet network.
00:44:30.000SpaceX's out-of-pocket cost to enable and support Starlink in Ukraine is $80 million so far.
00:44:39.000Obviously, we are pro-Ukraine, he wrote in a tweet.
00:44:41.000So on that basis, if it's true, seems like he's pro-Ukraine and he's got an opinion that's pro-diplomacy.
00:44:47.000And the real problem is that there's a very simple line that you're supposed to tow around this subject, which focuses on the thing that's obvious.
00:44:54.000The suffering of Ukrainian people is bad.
00:45:13.000I want the Happy Meals and the football in space, and I want to be a grown-up.
00:45:16.000I don't want to be tyrannised into dumbness by a state and centralised big tech alliances with the state that see me as an idiot and just want me to eat my mush.
00:45:44.000Perhaps not in the particulars of the peace settlement for Ukraine that he recently proposed for his millions of Twitter followers.
00:45:50.000Such a settlement can only be determined over the course of multidimensional diplomatic negotiations.
00:45:54.000But Musk is right that if things in Ukraine continue along their present course, the United States and Russia are headed toward a collision that could have catastrophic consequences for all parties to the conflict and for the world.
00:46:05.000And he is right that America's approach to this mounting problem requires an urgent adjustment.
00:46:12.000Musk appears to grasp what the Biden administration does not.
00:46:15.000That Putin is not following the script we've written for him in Ukraine.
00:46:18.000That script involves a calculation of costs and benefits that will lead him to back away from confrontation with the United States and NATO.
00:46:25.000Musk has done much to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia's invasion.
00:46:28.000Now he is doing Ukraine, the United States and the world a service in highlighting the need for a diplomatic track to accompany the military pushback we've employed so far against Russia in Ukraine.
00:46:38.000Confronting Putin with a choice between humiliation and nuclear escalation is a formula for disaster.
00:46:44.000Seems to me to be a pretty sensible and intelligent opinion.
00:46:50.000Part jobs, Part Trump with his outspoken populist tendencies, part Branson with his ability to understand marketing, he is a peculiar creature of our times.
00:47:00.000No doubt an innovator, and on the personal contact that I've had with him, seems like a pretty good person, and I'm very excited to have him on our show.
00:47:10.000Because he has the power to openly speak and not be afraid of censorship, and because he has the platform through Twitter to reach a lot of people.
00:47:19.000We are doing the work of the censors in trying to prohibit and inhibit Elon Musk.
00:47:24.000He is an unusual and idiosyncratic figure and he is a billionaire and I suppose therefore you could make the arguments you could make against anyone with that much wealth and power and those are arguments that I would certainly like the chance to present to Elon Musk in person.
00:47:38.000But as for this issue in the Ukraine, I guess he invites us to consider, what do you really mean when you say you support the Ukraine?
00:47:46.000Do you support the Ukraine up to the point of nuclear Armageddon?
00:47:50.000If that's where you are, then I admire you.
00:47:53.000Myself, I would prefer a diplomatic solution.
00:47:56.000I would prefer an end to all suffering through war.
00:47:58.000I pray that we are at the point in our personal and social evolution where we are beyond that kind of unnecessary, pointless conflict that only benefits elite institutions and establishment figures and ultimately causes more and more suffering.
00:49:12.000But yeah, I recognise that I'm not a technological great, but he says, young Putin, that if you lot press rumble, like you know what I mean, like rumble rumble, press it, it's good for us in some way.
00:49:26.000Look, we've been censored once on YouTube, we've had a strike, we've had a warning, well rumble, we're not making that mistake again, we're going to rise to the top cream of the crop, aren't we?
00:49:51.000We're going to continue talking about Elon Musk, his unique position, and we're also talking about the complexities of the geopolitical tectonic plates that shift around war.
00:50:04.000But first, here's some stuff you've been sending.
00:50:06.000Keep rambling, you lunatics, around just in focus, said about Elon.
00:50:11.000If you challenge the dominant power, you will be marginalised.
00:50:13.000If you challenge the dominant power and people actually listen, you will be commandeered and your movement will be co-opted by the dollar.
00:50:40.000That's the first time that's ever happened, and it didn't feel authentic, did it?
00:50:44.000But the bit at the end, when he is confronted by his boss, who owns the corporation, that owns the TV network, that he's the TV anchor for, you see there the face of real power, like Mephistopheles, like the power behind the power.
00:50:58.000And he explains, there is no such thing as nation, there is no such thing as your Petty human beliefs and tribal alliances.
00:51:54.000BTC Bobby, tell him, hey Elon, come on the show, let's solve this Ukraine crisis.
00:51:59.000He seems very interested in that with his tweets recently.
00:52:01.000Well, I don't know, I don't want him to think I'm taking a piss, mate.
00:52:05.000This is John Kershaw talking about Julian Assange.
00:52:07.000The fate of Assange is the fate of us all.
00:52:10.000Okay, mate, what do you want to, like, you've got some... Bit of follow-up?
00:52:14.000Yeah, do some follow-up on Here's The News there.
00:52:17.000Well yeah, I suppose speaking of the dollar and the power of money, so some analysts estimate the true figure of the U.S.
00:52:23.000commitment to Ukraine at the moment is up to $40 billion in security assistance or $110 million a day over the last year.
00:52:29.000The relentless stream of funding announcements in the absence of any public discussion of what the U.S.
00:52:34.000is doing to seek an end to the conflict has signaled to critics a recognition that there is no end in sight to the war and that the U.S.
00:52:42.000is committed to supporting Ukrainian defense efforts for the long haul rather than pursue a negotiated end to it.
00:52:47.000The US is really preparing for a long war.
00:52:48.000It's actually preparing for endless war in Ukraine, says Stephen Semler, co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute.
00:52:55.000Now, when we start looking at some stats, the Pentagon has spent over $14 trillion since the start of the war in Afghanistan, with one half of the total going to military contractors.
00:53:06.000That's an extraordinary amount of money.
00:53:08.000So when we talk about, you know, the power of money and the kind of potential reasons for endless war, obviously a lot of people mention the kind of proxy war with Russia, but also another potential way of thinking to endless war is how much money has been spent and therefore accrued by military contractors since the war with Afghanistan started.
00:53:26.000Yeah, because military spending doesn't necessarily mean that service personnel are getting well looked after and taken care of.
00:53:33.000There's a lot of reports that suggest that conditions are deteriorating for American military personnel, even while they're in the military.
00:53:40.000let alone what happens to veterans, which I'm sure you know better than I do, is often
00:53:44.000a life of suffering and homelessness and alcoholism and mental illness. The way that veterans
00:53:52.000are treated is broadly acknowledged as a disgrace. It seems like with the kind of figures that
00:53:58.000you're citing there, Gareth, that Julian Assange's famous quote about the Afghanistan war still
00:54:06.000He says, of course, the goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the United States and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
00:54:17.000The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
00:54:20.000So what we might regard as a success with our Primitive little minds, victory on the battlefield, the achievement of certain strategic goals.
00:54:31.000It's not relevant if what you're trying to do is accumulate or more likely move assets and money around.
00:54:38.000No, and in this time of economic crisis, so last year the average taxpayer in the US contributed $2,000 to the military, and half of that went to corporate military contractors.
00:54:47.000And I'm sure that's money that people would rather be spending on energy bills.
00:54:59.000Because you don't think of it like that.
00:55:01.000Like, you know like how we divide ourselves along the lines of left and right?
00:55:06.000Particularly around the base of like a basis of tax.
00:55:08.000Me, I traditionally would have been regarded as a left-wing person and now like I'm a like rich left-wing person.
00:55:14.000It's like, oh well, it's good that I pay a lot of tax and that kind of stuff.
00:55:18.000But no one really likes paying, like, tax.
00:55:21.000You don't actually want to pay the tax.
00:55:23.000The only way you can justify it is it's like, no, it's helping people.
00:55:25.000If I'm going to be a part of a country like Britain or the United States, whatever country, I want to feel like it means something and that we have good schools and we have good health care and we have good roads and people that live lives of service.
00:55:36.000The key workers that we were proud to celebrate during the pandemic, not so proud to celebrate after the pandemic, they're looked after and taken care of.
00:55:43.000So under those circumstances, I don't mind paying tax.
00:55:47.000But when you find out that in reality your tax, you know, to the tune of $900 a year is going to corporate military contractors so they're justifying foreign action, and I'm not suggesting that's what's happening in the case of Ukraine, but certainly historically it's true, then it's not so easy to lean into the idea of nation.
00:56:04.000And it starts to seem that the notion that a nation is a panacea Used to seduce and distract us.
00:56:25.000She came on here, the other day, telling us about when she, she was in the MI5.
00:56:28.000Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling- What do you mean?
00:56:45.000Basically, she just described spying, didn't she?
00:56:48.000But, also though, she said, it was really good, she goes, they were doing a plan to kill Gaddafi, they were funding an al-Qaeda group, you wouldn't believe this, they're funding an al-Qaeda group that... kill Gaddafi, will ya?
00:56:58.000Them lot in Al-Qaeda ballsed it right up.
00:57:00.000They can't even carry out a simple assassination of Colonel Gaddafi.
00:57:04.000But then years later, when Colonel Gaddafi was killed, it was similarly by a group, well it wasn't necessarily Al-Qaeda, but it was by a group that she seemed to imply, and I don't want to get this wrong because I don't want to put myself or Annie in a predicament, but seemed to suggest that it was potentially a secret agency funded terrorist organisation that killed Gaddafi.
00:57:25.000So, there's all sorts of shady shit going on.
00:57:28.000The old man who led to poor Colonel Gaddafi being jostled about in the back of that Jeep, like Weekend at Bernie's.
00:57:33.000I've always thought, that ain't proper, is it?
00:57:35.000To jostle a fella, when he brown-bred, in the back of a Jeep.
00:57:52.000Let us know in the comments if you're familiar with this thing.
00:57:55.000It's a pretty famous deal, like Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, all those dudes from when the Republicans were the in-power baddies rather than the Democrats' in-power baddies.
00:58:04.000For me, it makes no difference whether you're talking about Assange and the refusal to pardon him from subsequent administrations, or the way that you're taxed, or the wars that go on, or the Iraqi kids that are dying.
00:58:13.000I don't think it matters what bloody, whether it's a donkey or an elephant, the logo, do you?
00:58:17.000Anyway, this is that project for the new American century.
00:58:22.000government plan in the 1990s to protect the petrodollar involving resource wars and regime change in five countries and rebuilding America's defences.
00:58:29.000Years before George W. Bush entered the White House and years before the September 11th attacks, ...set the direction of his presidency, a group of influential neoconservatives hatched a plan to get Saddam Hussein out of power.
00:58:41.000The group, the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, which is not as good as, for example, Tupac, was founded in 1997.
00:58:53.000Among its supporters were three Republican former officials who were sitting out of the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz.
00:59:00.000The group called for the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime of power and a shift towards a more assertive US policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.
00:59:11.000In a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly unless there was some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.
00:59:21.000But I don't feel like I can remember anything happening in like 2000, 2001 that was a galvanizing, catastrophic, catalyzing event like Pearl Harbor or anything.
01:00:01.000See if it does something to the algorithm.
01:00:03.000I don't think you hurt Dick Cheney's feelings, can you?
01:00:05.000I don't think so, because when I've seen Dick Cheney, he don't got the look of a man whose feelings would be easily hurt, when he's sort of like snarling, I support my daughter, Liz Cheney, Donald Trump's son of a bitch.
01:00:43.000That'll have work all over their face when we form autonomous communities in the Confederacy of Unified People that ain't bothered about cultural differences, that are determined to face the elites, that are willing to fight power and corruption wherever we find it.
01:00:55.000Then Dick Cheney will be sorry he called me a man-bitch in my imagination.
01:01:39.000There's some people, someone called Seth, from the Bible, he lived maybe that long, uh, but we don't actually have any proof that that's true, do we, Gal?
01:05:12.000When I was a young man, and I was addicted to drugs, don't know if I mentioned it, I had Lionel Richie's CD, and I was listening to it in my room, in my house, when I was 16, I'd left home young.
01:05:22.000People laughed at me for listening to the line.
01:07:39.000If you think it's funny for someone to do 176 years in jail for a crime they didn't commit, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire Assange's team.
01:07:52.000Julian Assange, right, should be released.
01:07:54.000I had a conversation with Stella Assange, Earlier.
01:07:58.000Here is a bit of that conversation where we talk about... Hold a minute, it was a good bit.
01:08:03.000Yeah, Chris Hedges who used to be in the New York Times and now he's basically doing news down an alleyway to sort of mice because like censorship has gotten sort of out of hand.
01:09:11.000Let us know in the chat, let us know in the comments.
01:09:12.000Anyway, so have a look at this bit of conversation.
01:09:14.000Remember, and if you're in the UK, where we are, go along, support Stella, support Julian Assange and the incredible sacrifices that are being made in order for us to understand the truth of some of the campaigns that the West engaged in in the Middle East.
01:09:28.000led to the massacre of innocent people. Julian Assange revealed that information.
01:09:32.000This Saturday there's going to be a protest. Here's me talking to Stella Assange in yet another
01:09:38.000ludicrously coloured hat. Have a look. And this is a good quote from Chris Hedges who's a prominent
01:09:42.000supporter obviously of your campaign and a friend of Julian's.
01:09:45.000He said, let's name Julian Assange's executioners Joe Biden, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison,
01:09:50.000Theresa May, Lenin Moreno, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Mike Pompeo, Hillary Clinton, Republican or
01:09:55.000Democrat, Conservative or Labour, Trump or Biden, it does not matter.
01:10:00.000Empires always kill those who inflict Deep and serious wounds.
01:10:04.000Do you think that there's something about the, not only Julian Assange's actions, your husband's actions, but also his subsequent condition and conviction that tells us about the way that power manoeuvres and operates and about the insufficiency of contemporary democracy, that there is no significant or prominent public politician anywhere in the world that will advocate for Justice for Julian Assange, or like a fair trial, or a free trial, or even a more unbiased analysis of this case.
01:10:41.000Well, Julian's actually a symbol for press freedom, for democratic accountability in many parts of the world.
01:10:47.000You have the President of Mexico, who on Mexico's Independence Day just two weeks ago talked about Julian's case, how he should be free, how he is a victim of empire.
01:10:58.000And really, Julian's persecution The fact that he's a political prisoner in the heart of London is a symbol of the decline of Western imperialism, of the Western ability to keep the narrative, and it's also
01:11:16.000the West losing the kind of values competition that it's had in the past, during the Cold War,
01:11:24.000where it could say, you know, the Eastern Bloc isn't free, we have press freedom,
01:11:28.000we have all these things. They can't say that anymore. So now you have, you know, China or
01:11:33.000Azerbaijan saying, look at the UK, they're imprisoning a journalist and they're keeping
01:11:40.000him in prison and they're killing him. And then they come to us and talk about press freedom.
01:11:45.000And what that does, it's not just about hypocrisy, because hypocrisy is kind of a bit of a stillborn
01:11:51.000argument, I find. It's what it does is it licenses everyone to do the same,
01:11:59.000to persecute people. It's a global race to the bottom.
01:17:27.000Like, quite often you see that the vibe of the weather is sexy.
01:17:30.000Yeah, I think it's usually because they're doing like normal news and then they go to the weather for a bit of light entertainment in a way.
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01:19:50.000And, oh, also, we've got a brilliant, brilliant news item.
01:19:54.000The EcoHealth Alliance are... Can you believe that the EcoHealth Alliance that were working out of Wuhan at the same time as the old coronavirus started, which definitely came from a wet market, they've given them more grants to study more bat coronaviruses.
01:20:09.000How interested in bat coronaviruses can you be that you're willing to cause all these pandemics?