This week on AWAKING Wonders, we have an interview with Richard Dawkins, we talk to FBI whistleblowers, a near miss for Chinese warships, and we ask whether the mainstream media are funded by the military-industrial complex. We also have a special guest appearance from a man who thinks he might be a Christian. Welcome to AWAKening Wonders, a voyage to truth and freedom, where you can join in on the fun, find out what's going on in the world, and find out who's coming on the show this week! Awakening Wonders is on all of the social medias, if you search for it, you'll find us. Subscribe and comment to stay up to date with the latest Awakenings Wonders news and discuss the latest in current events. This episode is brought to you by LaCie and Caff Monster Mashup. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends, family and colleagues! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Is Richard Dawkins a Christian? 4:30 - Is there a Jesus? 6:40 - Is he a Christian or not? 7:00- Does he believe in God? 8:15 - Does he have a problem with the Bible? 9:20 - What does he think of it? 11:30- What is it take? 12:15- Is he an atheist? 13:00 14:30 15:20- Is there any such thing? 16:40- Is it possible? 17:15: Does he like it or not?! 18:00? 19:00 | Is it a Christian, or is he a Muslim? 21:00 +16: Is he Jewish? 22:00 / 17:00/16:00 & 17:30? Can he be a Muslim, or a Hindu? 25:00?? 26:00+???? 27:30 + 27:40 Is he not a Muslim ? 28:30+?????? 29:30 & 30: Is there such a thing that he is a Christian?? 35:00 And so what do you think of this stuff? 36:00!! 37:00 // 35:40 + 36:10 39:00! 41:00 ? 42:00?! 40:00 Are you a Christian?!
00:01:48.000Garrett O'Boyle, he'll be here, and Steve Friend.
00:01:52.000They're sick of the FBI, they've been working there, they've had enough of it.
00:01:54.000They're going to be telling us all about it.
00:01:55.000We've got a brilliant presentation on Rachel Maddow doing that Military-Industrial Complex conference funded by Lockheed Martin, and we asked some questions about the mainstream media and their relationship with the Military-Industrial Complex.
00:02:08.000And whether or not it means that wars get reported on favorably, peculiarly, especially by the left, who used to be all double, let's not have a war, as I recall.
00:02:19.000Let me know in the chat, in the comments, if you think that the way that the media is funded, particularly through companies like Raytheon, Lockheed, Martin, and of course General Electric, who own MSNBC?
00:02:53.000Uh, we're, like, we're gonna be talking about, like, yeah, we're gonna talk to them FBI whistleblowers, and we're gonna be analyzing the news and stuff, right?
00:03:02.000This is an ABC News report about a near-miss for these warships, and it's really good how they report this, because they're like, uh, this Chinese warship got in the way of an American warship!
00:03:36.000Right, so you're sending drones up above Russia.
00:03:38.000Yeah, we've been trying to annoy them.
00:03:40.000And all this is, of course, because of the changing economic tides that China is set to become the most economically powerful nation in the world in the next... By 2035.
00:03:49.0002035, or as we say in England, 25 to 9.
00:03:50.0002035 or as we say in England 25 to 9 so first of all sorry so but
00:03:56.000Well, I'm gonna do stuff like that sometimes I mean, come to work in a dressing gown, what do you expect?
00:04:02.000Let's have a look at this warship thing.
00:04:03.000Firstly, from a perspective that makes it look really bad.
00:04:06.000And then from another perspective that makes it not that bad at all.
00:04:08.000Let's have a look first at the bad one.
00:04:10.000Tonight, tensions flaring after that Chinese warship nearly collided with a US military destroyer.
00:04:17.000Did you say, like, that Chinese warship?
00:04:27.000If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be exclusively on Rumble in a minute, talking to a couple of whistleblowers, Garrett O'Boyle and Stevie Friend.
00:04:36.000We'll be talking to them about, they're going to talk about January the 6th.
00:04:39.000They're going to reveal stuff that you're going to love, so you're going to want to join us over on Rumble for that.
00:04:42.000I suppose you'd freak out if you were on it.
00:05:02.000Also, do you know that people always use that analogy, don't they?
00:05:05.000Like, you know, if you set off on a thousand mile journey on a battleship and you're just one degree off, By the time you reach your destination, you'll be thousands of miles off or whatever.
00:05:43.000Accidents could happen that could cause things to spiral out of control.
00:05:46.000Joe Biden, we were talking about this a bit later as well, Joe Biden banging on about semiconductors, making their own bombing factories, all sorts of sort of ludicrous semi threats.
00:06:47.000The near collision, the latest episode straining an already tense US-China relationship.
00:06:53.000We're showing you this because it's the amplification of tensions between China and the US and you simply wouldn't be seeing things like this on the news unless there was an appetite for there to be some kind of conflict.
00:07:03.000If they didn't want a conflict, they wouldn't put this on the news.
00:07:06.000So it's another example of how the media supports favourable narratives That support outcomes of the military-industrial complex will benefit from.
00:07:15.000And the mainstream media still somehow presents itself as the sort of arbiters of peace and morality.
00:07:20.000And a figure like Rachel Maddow, who I've told you before I like, like she's on MSNBC sort of like, in 2011 she said like that Congress are in the pockets of the military-industrial complex.
00:07:31.000Well now she seems to have joined them in that pocket because she appeared at an event for Lockheed Martin.
00:07:53.000First of all, Garrett, let's talk about the January 6th revelations.
00:07:58.000What in particular do you feel has caused you to get so much blowback?
00:08:02.000What is it that you have said that's caused so much consternation?
00:08:06.000What in particular did you observe about January the 6th and the FBI handling of it and FBI instigation and involvement in those protests that's caused you to find yourself in such a lot of bother?
00:08:19.000So my January 6th example that I whistle blew about was I received a lead from the Washington field office.
00:08:30.000So in the U.S., in law enforcement, anonymous tips don't hold a whole lot of weight, especially when there's limited information.
00:08:37.000You can't recontact the person who made the claim, things of that nature.
00:08:41.000And there's Supreme Court case law that helps dictate that.
00:08:44.000And so in mine, it was very limited info.
00:08:48.000And so I thought, OK, I'll do my best, my due diligence to run this down.
00:08:52.000And as I'm working on that for a day or two, I get some additional information from the same special agent in Washington who sent me the original lead, and they were asking me to
00:09:07.000Request a federal grand jury subpoena on the person that the original lead was on as well as a separate website where they made an illogical leap linking a username that we had no information about and with the person that I was supposed to be investigating.
00:09:25.000So as I'm trying to figure all that out, I then get a facial recognition match and By this point I had already had the most current driver's license photo of my subject and the quote-unquote facial recognition match was someone who was about 150 pounds lighter and had a full head of hair whereas the person I was investigating was bald.
00:09:47.000So I was really confused at this point and As I dug deeper, it turned out that someone in my field office had submitted a driver's license photo that was approximately 25 years old to the people in the lab who do the facial recognition stuff.
00:10:05.000And so at that point, I was like, okay, this is really out of bounds.
00:10:09.000there's no due process being had here for the person that they want me to investigate.
00:10:15.000And eventually I was able to make contact with that person and they told me they didn't wanna talk to me
00:10:49.000I was just completely flabbergasted at that point because it's completely outside any constitutional norms that I had ever dealt with inside law enforcement, which I had been working in it for eight years total.
00:11:47.000Garrett and I have been acquainted basically since we both became whistleblowers last September.
00:11:52.000And it's a small network we call ourselves the Suspendables, which we kind of did on a lark just to think of future Employment opportunities, maybe we could be mercenaries somewhere and rip off Sylvester Stallone.
00:12:03.000But apparently the New York Times found it very nefarious sounding and put it in the newspaper record.
00:12:10.000So we have taken that mantle and you can see Garrett wearing some Suspendables gear right now.
00:12:22.000I mean, you have to laugh or you'd cry.
00:12:25.000It's been sort of an out-of-control bureau in the way that they've gone after Garrett and myself and many others who, you know, we came forward with the best of intentions.
00:12:34.000We didn't want to be talking to you, Russell.
00:12:37.000We just wanted to, you know, alert the people that were in a position of authority to make corrections and thought things were kind of out of whack.
00:12:45.000We wanted to go back to just doing the Joe Friday, just the facts.
00:12:50.000But unfortunately, the FBI has just become out of control at this point.
00:12:55.000I suppose your detractors will say that you have a particular political persuasion and that you are agitators on behalf of the same movement that they would say are behind January the 6th but actually some of your revelations indicate that there were a considerable number of FBI operatives in that crowd who were perhaps doing more than monitoring and observing Allegedly!
00:13:23.000but in fact possibly instigating and exacerbating the conditions and there is some precedent for
00:13:28.000that allegedly within the FBI. Numerous cases where their investigations have gone beyond
00:13:37.000investigation and have become instigation. Furthermore as I heard you in your testimony say
00:13:43.000Steve, the surveillance has gone beyond the observance of certain criminal acts to an
00:13:49.000ongoing cycle of surveillance that is unending and limitless.
00:13:57.000So back to you now, Garrett, because it is your turn and I'm determined to do this fairly and justly even though it has to be said your flag is not as big as Steve's and that makes you seem a A bit unpatriotic, I'd have to say.
00:14:10.000So, tell me, mate, have you got any more information on FBI instigation on January the 6th and elsewhere?
00:14:20.000Regarding January the 6th, there was another whistleblower whose testimony was played at our hearing.
00:14:25.000His name's George Hill, and he had some information regarding Washington field office not wanting to release a video to the Boston field office where he was working because they were concerned about revealing identities of FBI informants and or undercover employees.
00:14:42.000So I think once that revelation came to light, it became clear to everyone who already wasn't paying attention that there was Most likely a heavy law enforcement presence involved with the events of that day, but it certainly is something that the FBI takes under consideration in many, many different types of cases.
00:15:02.000So in the FBI, a confidential informant is known as a confidential human source or CHS, and it's FBI policy that FBI agents have at least one CHS on the books.
00:15:17.000Many have more than one, and It's the purview of the agency to push agents to implement CHS use as often as they can.
00:15:26.000So they will never release the amount of CHS's that the agency has as a whole, but it is a considerable number and they try to put those CHS's and undercover employees into a wide range of different type of investigations.
00:15:41.000There's a recent story about Biden and bribery, as well as a new report, or poll at least, that suggests that the majority of Americans want the FBI to be reformed or shut down.
00:15:55.000Steve, given your recent experience, do you think reform is possible, or do you think that the entire organisation needs to be disbanded and started again?
00:16:04.000I think it's a six on one half dozen of the other situation.
00:16:06.000I think the amount of reforms that are going to be necessary to make the FBI function properly in federal law enforcement are going to be so enormous that maybe starting all over again might just be the simple task at this point.
00:16:19.000But I think that the elected officials are very scared of being labeled as Uh, defund the police candidate for office.
00:16:27.000So there's, there's all this reticence that surrounds that, but those guys just need to talk to the people that are boots on the ground, the Garrett O'Boyles, the Steve friends who actually worked in the FBI and can tell you that it's, it's really all about empowering local law enforcement.
00:16:44.000That should be what the FBI prioritizes above anything else.
00:16:49.000It's this whole thought where you have a central hub in Washington, D.C., and they send out cases around the country to be worked is just farcical.
00:16:58.000All the good cases that the FBI works, They come from the police forces and the sheriff's offices where we have our small offices around the country.
00:17:06.000And we just really have to be there to support those guys because they don't have the finances and the cool gadgets that the FBI has.
00:17:13.000And maybe thinking about it in that way might make it more palatable to the reforms that are necessary.
00:17:19.000Gareth, do you have a question for Steve or Gareth?
00:17:46.000Gentlemen, I just wanted to talk briefly about the Congressional hearing and the Democrats and The way in which you've been treated by I guess both the FBI and the Democrats.
00:17:58.000Obviously we know recently about the Durham report and the findings there.
00:18:03.000And also about the 278,000 legal searches that were done by the FBI that's been reported on as well.
00:18:09.000And a sentence written by Michael Schellenberger and I just wondered your opinions on it.
00:18:13.000He said, so why did the FBI and Democrats attack the FBI whistleblowers?
00:18:17.000Perhaps because they are revealing at a minimum the FBI's failure to stop the riot And more maximally, its role in instigating it.
00:18:25.000And I wondered if it was going too far to suggest the FBI had a role in instigating Jan 6th, and what your thoughts were on that.
00:18:41.000Yeah, I think that the demand for domestic terrorism in this country by our elected officials and by leaders in the FBI vastly outstrips the supply of it.
00:18:49.000And unfortunately, the FBI essentially has a quota system that bosses get bonuses for if they open a certain number of cases.
00:18:57.000So domestic terrorism is popular and they want to open up a lot of cases.
00:19:01.000So they've contrived ways to work smarter and not harder.
00:19:05.000As a result of that, the FBI has evolved into this intelligence-driven agency, and it deploys its informants, its confidential human sources, and its undercovers, and oftentimes infiltrates these groups that they label as possibly domestic terrorists or could become domestic terrorists.
00:19:23.000And as a result of that, you have an incident that happens on January 6th, or even on a smaller scale, like the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, where it was sort of revealed in the trial for those individuals that they were essentially entrapped, that they were not predisposed to commit that.
00:19:39.000That offense, but because of the infiltration on behalf of the government, not that the government set up the group, but they infiltrated so heavily that they encouraged these guys to do things that they were not predisposed to do.
00:19:51.000And I think that you saw that on its worst example on January 6th, where there are a lot of organizations that were there just to support Donald Trump or to protest and redress their grievances in front of the Congress, which is their First Amendment protected activity.
00:20:03.000But because there were infiltrators afoot, they encouraged them to do something that was illegal.
00:20:08.000You are getting a lot of love here in the chat, as well as some inquiries.
00:20:12.000Georgie Gal says, presumably AI will replace the FBI.
00:20:16.000If you want to join us on Locals, just press the red button on your screen now, and I can see your questions.
00:21:27.000I would say I align more as a libertarian than anything else.
00:21:31.000In 2016, I voted libertarian across the ballot.
00:21:37.000But especially as an FBI employee, and furthermore as an investigator, Your job is to be as unpartisan as possible, or nonpartisan as possible.
00:21:48.000And that's something any police academy, the FBI academy, any constitutional law course you might take, they try to teach you that and drill that into your head.
00:21:58.000But as we've seen with something like the Durham Report and the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, Things of that nature.
00:22:05.000It's the top echelon, especially, of the FBI that are the ones that are partisan and are seemingly having an agenda to skew the law enforcement activities one way or the other in this nation.
00:22:19.000And You know, it's incumbent on every investigator to have it at the forefront of their mind that they come from a certain background and certain experiences that have helped shape and mold them, so they have to always remember that they have their own biases.
00:22:34.000I do, Steve does, they're probably different in some ways, and that's why it's on us to always remember.
00:22:39.000Okay, am I looking at this investigation or the facts that I'm discovering in this investigation as impartially as possible and following the rule of law as best as I can without my own agenda?
00:22:51.000And I think for both of us, the answer was that the FBI as a whole was the institution that was not partisan, or that was partisan rather, and that in part is what led us to come forward.
00:23:05.000When I was deposed in February, I told both Democrat lawyers and Republican lawyers that these issues are not partisan in nature, or they shouldn't be.
00:23:15.000And then, lo and behold, a few weeks later, it was the Democrat side who leaked small snippets of that testimony and tried to paint me as some deep mega-operative, and that couldn't be further from the truth.
00:23:27.000And when something like that happens, it was clear to me that they are the ones with an agenda.
00:23:31.000They don't really care about the facts or substance of our Protected disclosures.
00:23:36.000They care only about protecting the party, only about protecting the FBI, and that couldn't be more clear to me at this point.
00:24:28.000No, I think my default setting is similar to Garrett where I'm a libertarian by nature.
00:24:33.000I like to look at each individual candidate for a particular office.
00:24:36.000I kind of view politicians as being plumbers.
00:24:38.000I just want them to solve the problem and then, you know, not really get personally attached to any one of them.
00:24:43.000I think the one thing that gets lost in the attacks that came after me on the Democrat side during the hearing, where they tried to attribute some sort of sympathy towards the political side.
00:24:55.000I brought my whistleblower concerns forward, not because I had sympathy for the subject, but because I thought we might be putting our cases in jeopardy.
00:25:05.000If it was a righteous prosecution, and we were not buttoned up in what we were doing, and the FBI is not following the rules, I thought we could lose a trial.
00:25:13.000And then I was also concerned that there was a public safety risk in using a SWAT team to arrest somebody who had already pledged to be cooperative with law enforcement.
00:25:21.000A simple phone call to an attorney and ask to surrender is more than adequate in that situation.
00:25:28.000It was not because I was trying to, you know, get my fellow MAGA guy out of jail for free.
00:25:31.000I just wanted, I would think of myself more as a system idealist.
00:25:35.000And, you know, I think of criminals as system disruptors that we have to push back on.
00:25:40.000And now at this point, the FBI is really the system disruptor.
00:25:54.000The FBI denied me the ability to seek outside employment, which I requested, and they denied in one calendar day.
00:26:01.000My wife lost her job under very suspicious circumstances very shortly after I was put in unpaid indefinite suspension.
00:26:09.000The FBI leaked my private medical information to the New York Times and told them that I was accused of shooting a firearm in my backyard.
00:26:16.000And then the inspection division within the FBI also said that they tried to put a gag order on me to prevent me from speaking to an attorney or even my family about the situation.
00:26:25.000So it was a long train of abuses and eventually ended with my resignation in order to... I had a job offer on the table and had been unpaid for long enough that I had to provide for my family.
00:26:38.000Again and again in the chat here on Locals, press the red button if you want to join.
00:28:06.000Uh, join us tomorrow, uh, but if you're on Locals, get over there, press the red button on your screen, join us on Locals, we're gonna have a right laugh, we'll carry on.
00:28:12.000But this is vodka in here, I'm gonna be, like, dancing like Boris Yeltsin in a minute.
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