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00:03:17.000Is it a whimsical notion that Taylor Swift is a Psy-Op?
00:03:20.000I remember that I met Taylor Swift when, years and years ago, I wasn't sure whether it was a Psy-Op, even though she seemed like a very nice human being, as a matter of fact.
00:03:30.000But, The fact is we know that the CIA have departments and tendrils within Hollywood, not suggesting that Taylor Swift is a psy-op, but we do know that celebrities offer endorsements to particular political movements, and we do know that there are curious relationships between deep state agencies and entertainment figures.
00:03:49.000Hey, what was the Epstein story all about?
00:03:51.000So maybe it's not a ridiculous conspiracy theory, even though my personal view is that Taylor Swift is not a psy-op.
00:03:57.000But let's have a look at that idea and let's have a look at the legacy media reporting on it as well.
00:04:02.000War with Iran seems to be a popular idea if you believe the military-industrial complex.
00:04:10.000Certainly Joe Biden seems pretty excited about it.
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00:05:17.000Let's have a look at Joe Biden saying that this was all caused by Trump.
00:05:21.000And if you are in the rumble chat, let me know who would you rather have handling a global crisis right now?
00:05:28.000This adorable gentleman pictured here, Joe Biden, that's number one.
00:05:32.000Or number two, your former love, Donald Trump.
00:05:36.000Let's have a look at Biden on what's causing this escalating crisis in the region.
00:05:42.000Ah, he says, make no mistake, it's Donald Trump's fault.
00:05:45.000Let's have a look at what he said, though, in 2020.
00:05:46.000The world has changed because of what Trump has done.
00:05:50.000The American people, including independents and some Republicans, know how bad he is, know how much he's misrepresented, know how he's getting close to getting us in a war.
00:06:01.000I said, as the walls close in on this man, I'm worried he's going to get us to war in Iran.
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00:06:41.000Now this Taylor Swift psy-op conspiracy theory is gaining traction and I suppose the idea that there are now sort of celebrities that solely exist to support the agenda of a particular administration might be an exaggeration and might even be slightly ludicrous because I've Existed within Hollywood, haven't I?
00:07:32.000Prominent right-wing figures are speculating that her relationship with Travis Kelce is made up and that the Super Bowl will be rigged for Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:07:42.000And the endgame is Swift endorsing Biden after the big game.
00:07:46.000Here are some of the messages, I'm trying not to laugh, circulating on social media.
00:07:51.000Vivek Ramaswamy, I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl next month.
00:07:54.000Podcast host Mike Crispy, the NFL is totally rigged for the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:08:00.000Taylor Swift, I wonder if it is possible to rig sporting events.
00:08:09.000Do you think that's ever happened in history?
00:08:13.000Does the advocacy of certain celebrities influence the outcome of elections?
00:08:17.000Certainly political parties seem pretty keen to get the endorsement of celebrities.
00:08:22.000And one of the things we learned, I think, from the Epstein case, because I was much more interested on the Epstein list In the the people that have been to that island that were prominent political figures or deep state operatives and indeed the theory that now can we do it so that we stay on the we're at 142 on this CNN story right now i'm going to jump to the like this Epstein's thing let's have a look uh like look Jeffrey Epstein ran sex blackmail operation for intelligence agencies new evidence suggests newly unsealed documents include powerful new evidence that Epstein and Maxwell were running what's known as a honeypot a honey trap so that
00:08:58.000You know, there were a lot of pretty famous people went to that island, it appears, and I suppose that needn't necessarily mean they were involved in things that were absolutely nefarious or even illegal, but a CIA asset having connections with famous people and the blackmail operation thing?
00:09:25.000They received support from the Department of Defense in the form of equipment, including jets and aircraft carriers and personnel and tech.
00:09:31.000So, in a sense, that's one connection or another connection between the entertainment industry and the government.
00:09:40.000A year after the CIA was formed, the Pentagon established the position of an Entertainment Liaison Officer.
00:09:45.000The CIA already had similar departments in operation.
00:09:48.000Since 1947, they've assisted and funded the production of 60 film and television shows.
00:09:52.000That's really surprising and it's not nothing.
00:09:55.000And again, I'm not suggesting that Taylor Swift is a psyop.
00:09:59.000It's just when you look at some of the speculation, it's astonishing because at a time where you have Biden openly advocating for further, for more war, while you have People coming on Legacy Media in our country saying that conscription is a real possibility and suggesting that the Defence Department in the UK ought to receive additional tax funding.
00:10:25.000Having kind of light, fluffy stories in affiliation with popular, credible, and I know a lot of people, we've talked to people in the office, a lot of people really, really like Taylor Swift.
00:10:34.000It's not, you know, I'm not part of that demographic, I acknowledge that, but You know, obviously an endorsement from a celebrity is a significant thing in ensuring that the agenda of the powerful remains a kind of cozy and attractive thing rather than something that we increasingly regard as outright, explicitly, observably and overtly nefarious.
00:10:54.000That's increasingly how we regard the establishment and their agenda.
00:11:09.000Swift, Mr. Pfizer, Travis Kelsey, Lara Loomer, a self-described Islamophobe who has been embraced and promoted by Trump.
00:11:18.000They are going to use Taylor Swift as the poster child for their pro-abortion GOTV campaign.
00:11:24.000Right-wing media personality Benny Johnson said Taylor Swift is an op.
00:11:30.000CNN's Oliver Darcy joins me to break all these very bogus claims down and we're going to highlight that, underscore it, bogus claims.
00:11:39.000What you'll like about this piece of CNN reporting, even though I agree with the idea that Taylor Swift is not a psyop, that's fundamentally what I'd say, I would say that the use of celebrities does make certain political administrations and even particular ideologies more appealing, it softens them, it's called soft propaganda, you're all familiar with that.
00:11:58.000What we're interested in here is the kind of haughtiness of this conversation, the superciliousness, the presumption of pomposity, the general condescending tone when people talk about these types of ideas, when we already now know that even if this particular idea is not true, these types of things happen all the time.
00:12:25.000Yeah, Dan, I mean, they're absurd claims, outrageous claims, but they are coming from some of the most prominent voices in right-wing media.
00:12:33.000And so, while us, in reality, consuming credible news information... See that?
00:12:39.000Us, in reality, consuming credible news information on CNN, which I think we now know gets less viewers than, like, a Western broadcasting TV channel.
00:12:53.000deservedly entering into this terminal state on account of its negligent reporting during the pandemic period, its propagandizing, its advocacy for war, their constant platforming of military industrial complex pundits who don't declare their affiliation and association while positing pro-war stances.
00:13:16.000It's when I do little sentences like that, that's when I think I could do a Ben Shapiro style rap with that dude Tom McDonald, who did, he reached out, I think, on X saying, oh, you'd want to do one?
00:13:26.000And I'm certainly, you know, I don't want to get into some sort of this thing.
00:13:31.000That is not the direction I'm going in.
00:13:33.000I'm all about peace, but man, do I enjoy rhythmic, lyrical, rhetoric and orating, high paced, lyrically clashing interconsonants and rolling with the vowels right now.
00:14:11.000Attracted to some of these ideas because they're being inundated by them from some of the most prominent voices.
00:14:18.000You know, it's not just those right-wing internet influencers who are now peddling this stuff.
00:14:23.000Jesse Watters, a Fox News host, earlier this month did a whole segment asking whether Taylor Swift is a Pentagon asset.
00:14:31.000I mean, you can't make this stuff up, but it's out there and it really is ...going to end up influencing a lot of people who rely on these outlets and figures for information.
00:14:40.000Do you reckon both sides of the political conversation enjoy a story like this?
00:14:44.000That CNN enjoy the haughtiness of being able to say, how ridiculous!
00:14:50.000But do you think people on the other side sort of got, like, enjoy the idea that high-profile figures might be shilling for the Democrat Party?
00:15:01.000We believe in new, emergent, independent politics.
00:15:05.000What we require, I believe, and let me know if you agree with this in the chat, is a unified but decentralized response to globalism.
00:15:12.000Precisely like the farmers movement across the world where ordinary people, working people, are coming together to oppose a globalist agenda and as usual are immediately condemned for being racist or Nazi or whatever it is this week that shuts down the right of ordinary people to have When Taylor Swift encouraged her fans last fall to vote, more than 35,000 signed up.
00:15:40.000And with 690 million followers on her social media, if Taylor Swift were to get behind one of the presidential candidates, nearly one in five people say they'd likely vote for her pick.
00:15:51.000I don't know which pop star I would vote in alignment with.
00:15:55.000Let me know in the chat if there are any pop stars that could influence your vote.
00:16:33.000We'll stream it and stuff, bits of it.
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00:16:38.000We just had a brilliant conversation there with Michael Schellenberger and numerous members of our community.
00:16:42.000I'm talking like He Will Love Light and GMFC and Miss Molly and 4Real and Alpine Suite.
00:16:47.000Many of them posed questions to Michael Schellenberger and they're brilliant questions about, well, in a sense, Like, while they're saying that it's ridiculous, puerile, infantile, to talk about Taylor Swift being a psyop, it's increasingly becoming clear that there's been a lot of media manipulation, to say the very least, around January 6th.
00:17:07.000And you will love that aspect of the conversation that John Lennon, that conversation with Schellenberger, and that'll be up tomorrow as well in the Awaken Wonder community.
00:17:15.000Yeah, John Lennon, that is a... Yeah, I would vote in accordance with John Lennon.
00:17:47.000So if you're Nikki Haley, who's running for president, or Ben Shapiro, or half the people I see on television casually mentioning the possibility of nuclear war, or sending Americans to fight in the Middle East, or in any way involving us in a war that has nothing to do with Prosperity and peace at home.
00:18:06.000Nothing in other words to do with us Americans.
00:18:09.000Then I have a right to call you out and be really offended because it's my family.
00:18:16.000And that is the difference between what's happening in the Middle East from what's happening in Ukraine about which I had very strong feelings, but I didn't think there was a realistic possibility that my kids could be enmeshed in it.
00:18:41.000Is it part of the Trusted News Initiative?
00:18:43.000A cartel of media organisations that cooperate together to ensure that independent media is choked.
00:18:50.000That's what the Trusted News Initiative say their purpose in life is.
00:18:53.000And anyone who uses Trusted in their name has got to be investigated.
00:18:58.000I'm just telling you guys, if you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave now because we're going to be talking about the WHO and that community is still regulated.
00:19:06.000But before we go, let's post in the YouTube chat this treaty, this petition that opposes the World Health Organization's treaty.
00:19:15.000This is for the UK one, so I guess you should be a UK resident to sign it.
00:19:18.000If it gets to 100,000 signatures, They'll debate it in Parliament and jeez if you've got my kind of perspective on UK parliamentary democracy you'll already know that I consider it to be a closed book, a facade, a kind of bagatelle, a game that can't be won.
00:19:32.000But sign that petition if you are a UK resident because surely we must oppose this WHO treaty.
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00:19:44.000OK, so let's have a look at this WHO treaty.
00:19:47.000The head of the WHO has been speaking about conspiracy theories related to the pandemic treaty.
00:20:12.000We cannot allow this historic agreement, this milestone in global health, to be sabotaged by those who spread lies, either deliberately or unknowingly.
00:20:30.000Oh my god this wicked man says Grammy Onion.
00:20:33.000I think he seems in some ways pretty sweet but what I will say is the World Health Organization at this point has to be held accountable for some policies they suggested during the pandemic period.
00:20:47.000They surely should be inquired of As to whether it's wise to accept so much funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation when he plainly has a vested interest, and certainly a financial interest, in the development of vaccines.
00:21:00.000It's one of the things he invests in most heavily.
00:21:03.000Surely this is the time for the World Health Organization to look into the subject of excess deaths, isn't it?
00:21:37.000Your spiritual sovereignty is their problem.
00:21:40.000It's extraordinary to me to believe or to attempt to even believe for a second that there are people that trust these kind of organizations at this point.
00:21:49.000Counter these lies by speaking up at home and telling your citizens that this agreement and an amended IHR will not and cannot cede sovereignty to WHO and that it belongs to the member states.
00:25:02.000We had a tough day last night in the Middle East and may I say that I find it rather appalling when politicians hold public silences when it's their actions and decisions that have led to their tragic deaths of those service personnel and that his subsequent actions will likely lead to the deaths of more service personnel.
00:25:19.000If you're going to have a moment's silence it should be a moment of reflection where we look at our aims and our objectives and our politics and the decisions that we make and the consequences of escalating war and tension not just here's a minute's silence Now let's carry on ensuring that loads of people unnecessarily
00:25:32.000Some people might question why there are 45,000 American service personnel stationed in the
00:25:45.000Some people might be curious as to why 1 million people in that region have died in the last decade or so as a result of US interventionism in that region.
00:25:53.000And who might be responsible for that?
00:25:57.000Not in America, it's over somewhere else, the Middle East.
00:26:00.000There's 45,000, a small town's worth, of service personnel and sometimes, occasionally, those people die, which I think is wrong and appalling.
00:26:08.000I also would like to make clear that I think the people who serve in the military are extremely brave and ought be honoured and I also think they ought be led better and decisions ought be made that don't escalate the likelihood of their unnecessary deaths.
00:26:20.000With America already locked in an escalating confrontation with the Houthis in Yemen over the group's continued attacks on global shipping.
00:26:29.000Yes, it's the Houthis that you'd never heard of before, all over your news cycle, getting Lindsey Graham into a frenzy, saying something like, we have to kill all Houthis, otherwise we can't look ourselves in the mirror and say, there is Lindsey Graham.
00:26:42.000Now Republicans demanding a more forceful response from the US.
00:26:46.000Senator Lindsey Graham writing, I am calling on the Biden administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran.
00:26:56.000I find it kind of personally appalling that people that operate in institutions of bureaucracy are willing to use the language of war so casually when so seldom are they directly affected by the consequences of that language.
00:27:10.000But at least we're 100% certain that Iran are definitely involved and it's not essentially a guess, a hunch, a suspicion, a whiff, a convenient assumption that Iran are involved.
00:27:21.000This is the press secretary of the Pentagon publicly admitting they don't even know if it's anything to do with Iran.
00:27:26.000Just to follow up, you said Iran was behind the attack.
00:28:40.000War is very serious and if the President is planning to go to war with Iran, he needs to come to Congress and ask permission and this is something that Congress has to give approval for.
00:28:50.000Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene there saying that Congress should be consulted before embarking on war.
00:28:57.000I mean, I think it's part of the Constitution.
00:28:58.000Now, that rational, sensible, heroic politician Nancy Pelosi claiming that anyone protesting against war is a Putin-apologist.
00:30:00.000Looked at this for a long time now, as you know.
00:30:02.000You think some of these protests are Russian plants?
00:30:05.000Do you see how the legacy media participates in the construction of myths while simultaneously saying, you gotta watch independent media, they're always purveying conspiracy theories.
00:30:12.000So you're saying that these protests are made up of Russian plants?
00:30:16.000How about asking, have you got evidence for this?
00:30:18.000Wait a second, you're making some pretty outrageous claims there, Nancy Pelosi.
00:30:21.000Also, where the hell have you got these hundreds of millions from when you earn a couple of hundred grand a year?
00:30:25.000Instead of that, just tee up an opportunity for Nancy Pelosi to convey propaganda.
00:30:30.000I think some financing should be investigated.
00:30:33.000And I want to ask the FBI to investigate that.
00:30:37.000If anyone's finances should be investigated, it's Nancy Pelosi's and Paul Pelosi's.
00:30:41.000Although, no, they're entirely separate, aren't they?
00:30:43.000Nancy Pelosi's over here, earning 200 grand a year, and then there's Paul Pelosi, curiously and coincidentally, investing in big tech companies.
00:30:48.000And Nancy Pelosi, though, they've got something to talk about at home, but not in an unprofessional way, because she actually regulates big tech companies.
00:30:54.000It's good for the small talk, but they don't let it get involved in the business strategy or their love life.
00:30:58.000Tucker Carlson, who's consistently anti-war, posted this on X, quite a succinct response to the dogs of war and their hawkish proclamations.
00:31:09.000Now though, because we don't want to associate too heavily, right kids, with a right-wing extremist like Tucker Carlson and his right-wing advocacy for peace and harmony, so let's get some perspectives from those other right-wing fascists at World Socialist Organization.
00:31:25.000And you'll note how frequently you agree with everything they're saying, almost as if there's this weird new movement at the center of global politics that's not really right or left in the conventional sense, but I don't know, totalitarian?
00:31:38.000Let me know in the chat how you'd describe it.
00:31:40.000Calls for President Joe Biden to take direct military action against Iran are ratcheting up following this weekend's drone attack in Jordan that killed three U.S.
00:31:48.000service members and wounded over 30 others.
00:31:50.000The United States can and must respond to this brazen attack, said Democrat Senator Mark Warner in a post on X. This attack on U.S.
00:31:57.000and coalition troops in Jordan, our steadfast regional partner.
00:32:13.000But the exploitation and rhetoric around this and the obvious attempt to exploit an opportunity to go to war, which I would say probably is part of a broader project that includes profiteering and projects of dominion, are considered to be an insult to the bravery of those people who have lost their lives.
00:32:27.000I support President Biden in a deliberate and proportionate response, added Senator
00:32:32.000Ben Cardin, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:33:26.000The Biden administration claimed the attacks were carried out by Kataib Hezbollah, a militia group the US asserts is backed by Iran.
00:33:32.000Iran has denied any links to the attacks.
00:33:35.000Now we get into some interesting, bigger picture, geopolitical facts.
00:33:39.000More than 45,000 troops are deployed in the Middle East associated with decades of US wars throughout the region that have collectively killed over 1 million people.
00:33:47.000Would it be sensible to divorce this attack and this escalation, even the current war in Gaza and all events in the Middle East, from this fact?
00:33:55.000There are 45,000 troops stationed there and a million people have been killed in that region.
00:33:59.000Would you say that's relevant or Irrelevant.
00:34:02.000The legacy media will tell you that's irrelevant.
00:34:21.000Over the past two months, US imperialism has provoked a regional war in the Middle East, having already launched multiple attacks on Iraq, Syria, And Yemen.
00:34:28.000And Yemen, that actually sounds like a real country.
00:34:30.000Now the US military is threatening to directly attack Iran, which would engulf the entire region in a bloodbath.
00:34:36.000The Biden administration is playing with fire, creating the conditions for a catastrophe.
00:34:40.000It has systematically provided funding, logistical support and political cover for Israel's war in Gaza.
00:34:46.000Knowing full well that this would provoke retaliation against US forces deployed throughout the region whose deaths would be used as a pretense for further military escalation.
00:34:55.000Many people at the beginning of this conflict said it is a volatile situation and would likely lead to further conflict and those people are now looking like they were accurate in their appraisal as events appear to be becoming more conflagratory and more intense, I would say.
00:35:11.000In response to all criticism of its provocative actions, the Biden administration has responded by declaring that it has no intention of waging war against the countries it is militarily encircling.
00:35:24.000Oh no no, we militarily encircle people as Part of a dance of love!
00:35:28.000And it's one of our proudest traditions!
00:35:31.000Asked repeatedly at Monday's press briefing whether the US government is actively considering potential attacks inside Iran, White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby repeatedly replied, Huh.
00:35:46.000Notably on January 12th, Kirby used the exact same language with regard to Yemen, declaring, We're not interested in a war with Yemen.
00:35:53.000And yet the United States has carried out dozens of missile strikes inside Yemen over the past three weeks, on over half a dozen separate days.
00:36:00.000Funny way of showing you're not interested in a war, And as a further declaration of our peaceful intentions, here's some missiles, here's some attacks, here's a wedding ruined.
00:36:08.000Bloody hell, I'm glad they don't want a war if this is what they do to achieve peace.
00:36:11.000It seems the best predictor of what country the US military will illegally bomb next is the one the US government declares it has absolutely no intention to wage war against.
00:36:19.000The most ridiculous version of this argument was presented in a White House press briefing on January the 16th.
00:36:25.000And then just going back to something you said about the Houthis, how we're not looking to expand this conflict, How do you square that with the mission of degrading their capabilities?
00:36:34.000I mean, how is that not expanding this conflict?
00:36:37.000Yeah, how is bombing someone not sort of a war?
00:36:41.000Oh, this is friendly bombing, kindly bombing, love bombs, bath bombs.
00:36:45.000So on the second question, I mean, by It's a very simple equation.
00:36:51.000It can't be that simple because I think bombing is an act of war.
00:36:55.000It's at best going to be Orwellian doublespeak and potentially absolute nonsense.
00:36:58.000And I can only assume that these people either think we're stupid or don't think very much at all about anything.
00:37:04.000By removing military capability from the Houthis, we are making it harder for them to conduct these attacks.
00:37:14.000These attacks have affected Merchant shipping in the Red Sea, one of the most important international waterways around the world.
00:37:21.000We're just doing this to help the international waterways, in a sense.
00:37:24.000Consider us to be like coast guards, in a way, just ensuring that the waterways are protected.
00:37:29.000Oh no, look, there's a heron, an ibis.
00:37:31.000We must look after the precious marshland.
00:37:34.000It's extraordinary that we're invited to accept that an escalation of military action is the best way to get to peace.
00:37:39.000This is the curious logic of the tyrant, and it's more obvious when you see, like, someone like Stalin adorned with medals and a mad moustache say out loud and outright, if you knew what I know, then you'd do what I tell you, but I haven't got time to explain all this to you, but let me tell you this, if we didn't kill all these people, more people would die down the line, so it's off to the gulags for them.
00:37:59.000That's essentially what's being said here by John Kirby with none of Joe Stalin's panache or Georgian chutzpah, is that if the hoofies are not killed, things are going to get worse.
00:38:09.000They're going to escalate their attacks on these vital shipping lanes and marshlands and precious little reed warblers.
00:38:16.000But it seems to me that what's more likely is there's an agenda in the Middle East, that there's long been an agenda in the Middle East, that's why there's 45,000 troops stationed there, that's why a million people have been killed there, that's why your legacy media is advocating for war, that's why Nancy Pelosi is not being asked any difficult questions, that's why dear old lazy old sloppy old soppy horrific dozy Joe Biden is Having a minute's silence and saying there must be retaliation and reaction because it's part of a broader plan.
00:38:40.000Now, I know geopolitics is complicated, but what is plain and simple and obvious is that there are imperialist projects that relate to the military-industrial complex, American expansionism, and a general agenda of total global control.
00:38:51.000So you, I suppose, have to ask yourself, what is this?
00:38:53.000Is the military-industrial complex just responding to random stimuli and arbitrary events, or is this part of a concerted effort?
00:39:13.000So the very act of taking these strikes, knocking out their capability, in some cases before they could use it, That is, by definition, taking the tensions down.
00:39:21.000You're taking the ability for them to conduct these attacks off the table.
00:39:25.000Well, that's literally the plot of Minority Report.
00:39:28.000In this Orwellian language, any US attack on military forces of any country is an act of de-escalation.
00:39:32.000And if the United States military were to attempt to destroy China and Russia's military capacity by attacking all of their bases with nuclear weapons, that would be the most de-escalatory act of all.
00:39:43.000Seems like an extreme statement, but based on the logic that we've just heard, that's...
00:39:49.000By destroying them, we're making things better down the line.
00:39:52.000In fact, actually, people do literally use that argument about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, don't they?
00:39:56.000Whole Japan would never have surrendered.
00:39:58.000Kindest thing, the kindest thing we could have done was to bomb them into oblivion.
00:40:03.000And in fact, you know, Japan built back better.
00:40:05.000I like that phrase, built back better.
00:40:06.000The absurd verbal gymnastics are an attempt to cover up the White House's far-reaching plans for military escalation from the American population, which overwhelmingly opposes further US military intervention in the Middle East.
00:40:20.000Yeah, like increasingly I think people don't want to be in a war in some faraway place.
00:40:24.000Say if your family are in the services or you yourself are in the services, don't you Well, shouldn't we be doing stuff that's really connected to our purpose as a nation and as a people and as a tribe?
00:40:34.000But, you know, we could be domestically dealing with stuff.
00:40:38.000All of these assumptions that also leads to imperial goals and financial goals being met.
00:40:43.000Oh, probably they're going to do this, and then they'll do that, so your sons and daughters should get out there and die.
00:40:48.000That doesn't seem like something that's very popular anymore, so they have to keep presenting it to us as somehow necessary, inevitable, beyond our choice.
00:40:56.000Look at all the rhetoric at the beginning of this article.
00:40:58.000Democrats and Republicans united together against your children's lives.
00:41:02.000Asked on Tuesday why the White House has not informed the American people about its war plans or sought consent from Congress, which You'd think of two pretty important ideas.
00:41:10.000We're just going to firstly, before we do anything, tell the American people and then have the due process of Congress.
00:41:16.000Kirby bristled at the suggestion, declaring the Commander-in-Chief is not looking at polling or considering the electoral calendar.
00:41:22.000The United States seized upon Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel.
00:41:26.000To immediately surge troops, warships and aircraft into the Middle East in what the US Navy's news publication called the largest mass of US ships in the region in decades.
00:41:35.000This massive military build-up was intended to be used in exactly the way it has been, to carry out a widening series of military attacks throughout the region aimed at reorganising the Middle East under US domination.
00:41:46.000So once that fleet of ships is out there, it seems that it's possible, and they know that the legacy media will support this, that you just subsequently look, for instance, and go, Aha!
00:42:06.000Use that simple philosophical trick of imagining it reversed.
00:42:09.000If Iran had a bunch of ships in the Gulf of Mexico, do you imagine that people would be opening ice cream stands up on the beach for them?
00:42:15.000Or do you think that there could be some conflict in the region?
00:42:18.000In less than 10 days after the October 7th attacks, the WSWS warned, the dispatch of an armada of over a dozen warships to the Middle East is not simply to threaten Hamas, which has no navy.
00:42:29.000The United States is preparing for a much broader conflict in the Middle East, including war with Iran.
00:42:33.000Since then, the United States has bombed Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
00:42:37.000Yeah but just because they've bombed Iraq, Syria and Yemen and Hamas doesn't have a navy, don't see that as a strategic move.
00:42:47.000I mean don't imagine that there must have been a conversation somewhere within the Admiralty, military-industrial complex and pentagons and the conglomeration of those organizations where people said right look we're taking all those warships it's obviously going to be seen as an actor of provocation but given that we've got this plan to escalate tensions with Iran anyway there hasn't There hasn't been no conversations, have there?
00:43:05.000And we already know that the American people haven't been consulted, you know because you are them, and Congress hasn't been approached because it's listed there.
00:43:10.000So by this reckoning, and even by Marjorie Taylor Greene's analysis, this is not a legal escalation.
00:43:16.000What they have to do is go, oh shit, we've got all these warships here, thank God, because these provocative hoofy bastards are lunatics!
00:43:33.000That's the phrase that we've become familiar with.
00:43:35.000They exploit these crises continually to fulfil an agenda that was already desired.
00:43:40.000The US sees the conflict that has now erupted in the Middle East as a critical component of its existential struggle with Russia and China.
00:43:47.000Significantly, the United States, in the words of a recent article in Foreign Affairs, has taken note of China's expanding relationship with Middle Eastern states.
00:43:54.000In particular, Beijing's effort to broker a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
00:43:59.000So China, China, the monsters that they are, bring about peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:44:05.000What the hell are you doing over there bringing about peace in that region?
00:44:08.000We've got a lot of money tied up in that region.
00:44:10.000Shut your bloody mouths and let there be escalating tensions, which we can exploit for profit.
00:44:14.000On Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, a man who publicly admitted that he's been provoking Putin into war with Ukraine, in a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, obliterated any dividing line between NATO's war against Russia and the US conflict with Iran and China, declaring a Russian victory would embolden Iran.
00:44:34.000That matters for Europe's security and it matters for America's security.
00:44:37.000It's interesting how these facts are narrativised.
00:44:40.000I suppose the complexity of modern politics, and perhaps God, even the life of an individual, mean that to a degree we're all narrativising reality, making sets of assumptions.
00:44:47.000Certainly the Pentagon are making assumptions.
00:44:49.000But the idea that the war between Ukraine and Russia has to be perpetuated, otherwise China are like, Hello there.
00:44:55.000By that reckoning, the defeat by Vietnam of the United States during the 1970s would have caused more problems than it inevitably did.
00:45:02.000The lesson of that conflict was not we always have to win wars.
00:45:05.000It was stop starting wars in countries that are none of your business.
00:45:09.000That's a lesson at least that we could investigate.
00:45:10.000The global war that has now been provoked by US imperialism and its allies in London, Berlin and Paris is part of a global counter-revolution in which the imperialist powers are seeking to re-establish direct control over their former colonies.
00:45:22.000At the same time, US imperialism, beset by massive internal social contradictions, is attempting to channel these internal tensions towards an external enemy.
00:45:30.000These wars also create the framework for continuous attacks on democratic rights and an effort to delegitimize domestic political opposition.
00:45:37.000That war does do a lot of jobs, doesn't it?
00:45:39.000It creates opportunities for revenue and it generates the opportunities to crush dissent at home, plainly.
00:45:46.000I would imagine that over the coming years, if indeed these conflicts do escalate, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, if it sees the conscription of UK troops, as has been suggested through our legacy media in our country, if we see escalating tensions in the Middle East and even hostility between the US and China, Think of what reality is like.
00:46:03.000Well, I'll give you an idea, taken literally from George Orwell.
00:46:07.000We're in this state of perpetual war and perpetual fear.
00:46:10.000Authoritarianism seems more and more necessary and understandable.
00:46:14.000We've already seen in the last couple of years that a significant number of people will just stay indoors if told to do so.
00:46:19.000Not necessarily because they're docile and compliant.
00:46:23.000I'm saying that a lot of people, if we're told there's a social project that we should all be participating in, from a position of love and general goodwill, will comply.
00:46:30.000And there's nothing like constantly escalating and threats of death and apocalypse and Armageddon to make
00:47:01.000What interests want this war to happen?
00:47:03.000Who will likely suffer, both financially, emotionally, and most significantly, of course, will experience loss of life of themselves and their loved ones.
00:47:15.000He'll use the hawkish rhetoric of war, but he will not use an M16.
00:47:19.000So what I would suggest is that we remain united in our opposition to escalating conflict and demand that diplomatic solutions are sought.
00:47:27.000And it's a ridiculous demand, really, because we don't have the institutions or personnel in place to seek those kind of conclusions, because this is not an aberration within the system.
00:47:34.000This is the system doing what it's supposed to do.
00:47:36.000Generate conflicts that generate profit and solicit compliance at home.
00:48:07.000Now, remember, as I continually say to you guys, every time you speak with loathing to one another, the globalist elites enjoy it because they want us hating on one another.
00:48:17.000The more we are divided, the better they like it.
00:49:52.000Hail Mary full of Listen, we've got to come together in unity, respect one another's right to be different, respect one another's right to be Jewish or Muslim or Atheist or whatever, because we've got more in common with one another than we have against one another.
00:53:19.000One of the sovereigns of the new world.
00:53:20.000Tony Blair has teamed up with William Hague.
00:53:23.000If you're British you know that those two used to pretend to disagree with each other in parliamentary democracy before realising that there's a lot more upon which they agree in the globalist agenda.
00:53:32.000Him and William Hague have come together to call for the UK to sell off our private health data.
00:53:38.000Our private health data in order to put Britain at the heart of an AI revolution.
00:53:44.000Whether you're American, whether you're Canadian, Australian, wherever you're from on our planet, how do you feel about your private health data being sold in order to facilitate a global AI revolution.
00:53:57.000Curiously, and this is I'm sure a coincidence, Tony Blair's got a foundation.
00:54:00.000You know how all these guys, they love the philanthropy.
00:54:02.000Well, Tony Blair's got a philanthropic organization and Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, who want to be a world leader in digital health data, has given over a hundred million dollars To the Tony Blair Institute.
00:54:14.000We asked you in a poll earlier whether or not you felt there was any connection between those two facts.
00:54:19.000Have a look at the results of that poll now.
00:54:21.000Tell me what I need to press in order to show people the results of that poll.
00:55:35.000We can't believe all the hate and hype that's being pumped out about these farmers.
00:55:39.000The global agriculture movement is continuing to escalate.
00:55:43.000French farmers, German farmers, Dutch farmers, British farmers, Scottish farmers, American farmers, Indian farmers, Sri Lankan farmers, all opposing globalist edicts which are surely about disempowering the agricultural movement and ensuring centralised control over food.
00:55:58.000let's have a look at that ongoing movement.
00:56:26.000When you actually deploy democracy, it's curiously at odds with the agenda of globalists, isn't it?
00:56:32.000That's why you gotta hate people that are willing to rise up and disobey.
00:56:36.000Once we realise that if we put aside our cultural differences in order to unite, to demand decentralised, localised democracy, control over our food, control over our communities, control over our religious and spiritual freedom, control over our identities, give it all up!
00:57:09.000Apparently being a little bit better than us at everything from football to rugby to lovemaking to winemaking.
00:57:15.000Well I support the French and their opposition to the globalist elites who want to control their food.
00:57:21.000Presumably because if you control the food you've got huge power.
00:57:25.000Let's have a look at the French kicking off as usual.
00:57:28.000We know that whatever side of the aisle you may lay on, corruption remains tempting.
00:57:53.000We know that most politicians, not most politicians, I have to explain this to my children all the time, my kids ask me, are the government goodies or baddies?
00:58:00.000I've told them that they're baddies, but then I have to say, well, there have been heroic figures within government throughout history, whether, you know, even though these reframe these days, Churchill, a heroic figure, you'd have to say that Kennedy, heroic figure, right?
00:58:16.000No, it's all been evil since the dawn of time.
00:58:18.000I don't know where you got, I'm like, I'm open to learn but you need corroborating evidence surely.
00:58:23.000Well right now within Congress there is a yet another scandal that seems to be about using campaign funding to facilitate personal Well, this time it is Cori Bush, a member of the Democrat Party.
00:58:39.000There's a legacy media report available on that.
00:58:42.000In addition, there is some data available to how her campaign funds have ended up back in her household.
00:58:48.000Now, we don't know enough at this point to say for sure that it's absolute out-and-out corruption, but at the moment the suspicion has to be, yeah, I see you M for Marcel, Pelosi is a baddie.
00:58:59.000We have to at least be open to the idea that there is a degree of corruption.
00:59:36.000All that's left is a kind of relativist soup in which we all drown.
00:59:43.000A kind of a hopelessness rains down upon us.
00:59:46.000Of course there are people that were, you know, your forefathers in the light of today's ethics made decisions and said things and engaged in practices and policies that are unacceptable.
00:59:57.000And Churchill in his bombing of Dresden, Yeah, is that war crime?
01:00:19.000Let's have a look though now at Cori Bush and the Legacy Media reporting on the potential that her campaign funding found its way back into her household via her husband, who I think was doing her security.
01:00:29.000Bush has just confirmed that she is being investigated by the Justice Department for misusing campaign funds and spending them on security services.
01:00:38.000The Congresswoman says she is fully cooperating.
01:00:41.000NBC News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Delaney is tracking this for us.
01:00:45.000Ken, what else do we know about this Department of Justice investigation and what is the Congresswoman saying?
01:00:50.000Okay, we know that at least two FEC complaints were filed against Representative Bush last year questioning payments her campaign made for security to a man she later married.
01:01:01.000Is this the real life bodyguard or is it corruption?
01:01:09.000In addition to federal spending, Cori Bush's Congressional Campaign Committee has also spent three quarters of a million dollars on security since 2020.
01:01:34.000Like when Barack Obama became president of your country, it's like, my God, this is brilliant.
01:01:38.000This is going to galvanize and bring America together.
01:01:41.000Now we're starting to realize that there are, well you lot, I know you lot know already, that there are ulterior forces that make moves behind the scenes that delegitimize Any of those figures, really.
01:01:51.000Like Tony Blair, it's impossible to imagine that that guy was once a hero.
01:01:55.000Same with Barack Obama, after you've seen him advocating for yet more censorship because your independent thought is his problem.
01:02:03.000If you want to learn about the censorship industrial complex in full, you are going to enjoy my conversation With Michael Schellenberger, one of the great journalists, a legitimate journalist, an educator who will help you to understand how this global censorship complex is gaining yet more power.
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