Russell Brand's Stay Free With Russell Brand is back with a brand new show that will take you on a tour of the world's most powerful men and women, and the stories they tell us about them. In this episode, we take a look at some of the biggest stories of the day, including the latest in the Iran crisis, the Slovakian government's COID inquiry, and Joe Biden's response to the tragic deaths of US soldiers in Afghanistan. Stay Free with Russell Brand! Stay Free: Stay Free, and Don't Get Lost in the Storm. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: "ELISSA" to receive 10% off your first purchase when you place an order through our website. We're working on transcribing and transcribing all of your favourite episodes, so make sure to send us your voice messages and we'll get them on the show. Enjoy & spread the word to your friends about it! Timestamps: 3:00 - What is it good for you? 4:30 - Who are you fighting for? 5:15 - What's it Good For You? 6:00 7:00- What is It Good For Me? 8:30- What are you Good For? 9:20 - What do you do with your money? 10: What is War? 11:00s - What does it do? 12:30s - Who do you love? 15: What are we fighting for me? 16:40 - Why do you care? 17: What do we have a little bit more? 18:40s - How do you have a hard day? 19:40- What do I care about it? 21:40 22:50 - How can I have it better than that? 27:10 - How we love you back? 26:20s 28:10- What s it good to be free? 29:00 | What is the most important thing? 30:00 + 35:00? 35:30 | How do I have a good night? 31:00 // 32:30 36:00 / 33:00 Or do you need a good day? / 35:10 32:40 | Do you want me to do something better?
00:02:25.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand, where finally we come together to oppose the censorship industrial complex, where finally we unite against the global elites that want you in constant cultural conflict.
00:02:38.000And we report openly and honestly on the stories that the legacy media will always utilize to keep you distracted and terrified.
00:03:14.000We'll also be looking at the Slovakian COVID inquiry.
00:03:17.000It takes those bastions of democracy in Slovakia to finally hold a proper inquiry where things like excess deaths, vaccine injury are investigated by a government.
00:03:57.000We'll be answering that question over the course of the hour as well.
00:03:59.000Now, the first part of our show is available on YouTube.
00:04:02.000After all, we love you Awaken Wonders.
00:04:04.000Even in spite of the fact that YouTube responded to MP, that's Member of Parliament, Caroline Dinegy's plea to demonetize our content because we do this for so much more than money.
00:06:48.000As well as saying that these soldiers died for the administration, which is extraordinarily partisan, ludicrous even, she sort of fumbles words, says words like folk and stuff.
00:07:01.000See if we can get the pause for the back of the show so we can do that.
00:07:04.000What I will say, our deepest, obviously our deepest condolences go out and our heartfelt condolences go out to the families who lost three, three brave, three brave, three brave, three folks who are free, free, free, free, free, free, free, who are military folks, who are brave, who are always fighting, who are fighting, always fighting.
00:07:27.000They were all waiting for me morning, noon and night!
00:07:46.000They were always fighting for this administration.
00:07:49.000Really, what we are now experiencing, it seems, and we'll be looking at this in more detail over the course of the week, even tomorrow, Gal, will that be up?
00:07:56.000We're looking at how there has been a long-term plan to go to war with Iran, and what we're experiencing now are the sort of pieces being laid out.
00:08:04.000And let me know if you're aware of that.
00:08:06.000Let me know if you're aware that already battleships have been deployed in the Middle East, and that once you've deployed battleships ostensibly to provide support for Israel in their war against Hamas, when Hamas doesn't have a navy, it's already an extraordinary move.
00:10:03.000The Pentagon have literally got no evidence that there are any connections between these drone strikes in Jordan that have killed free US service personnel and Iran.
00:11:53.000We communicate this way, through Rumble.
00:11:56.000We communicate through these channels.
00:11:58.000Now, what's astonishing about this is that the Pentagon's press secretary, therefore presumably the Pentagon, are happy to use generalizations when it comes to, you know, we generally know that Iran backed these groups.
00:12:10.000We generally know When it comes to generalizations in culture, using generalizations around racial discourse or rhetoric, this is obviously something that's unacceptable.
00:12:19.000But generalizations when it comes to bombing people and ending their lives, generally we assume it's Iran.
00:12:25.000Generally it would be economically viable and profitable and expedient to go to war.
00:12:30.000If generalizations are bad, don't go to war on the basis of a generalization.
00:12:35.000We just know that Iran funds these groups like Qatar Hezbollah and other groups that have attacked our forces, but I don't have more to share on As a general matter, yes.
00:12:47.000Hey, you know when the legacy media leave their mics live and accidentally let you know what their genuine perspective is on war?
00:12:55.000By now you've seen Joy Reid saying that F in war is another F in war.
00:13:02.000It's interesting we're talking about the border crisis.
00:13:04.000We asked you a little bit earlier about the migrant crisis and whether you believe there's an inherent connection between not only war but also globalism generally.
00:13:35.000Not only that, if they're involved in globalist projects abroad, does that exacerbate the conditions that lead to migrant crisis?
00:13:43.000And a lot of you, 60% of you over on YouTube, I think is where we conducted that one, we also put the poll up on X, believe that that is the case.
00:13:52.000Now here is Joy Reid, almost instinctively and impulsively expressing a connection between the migrant crisis and war. And what's interesting as well, you'll notice this
00:14:04.000a lot in legacy media, people feel a lot more natural when they're, when they don't
00:14:10.000know they're being listened to, which is not the case with independent media. You get utter
00:14:14.000transparency. Let's have a look at Joy Reid. Over the weekend, President Biden said he's ready to
00:14:18.000take action if Congress is serious about solving the border issue. If that bill were the law today,
00:14:25.000I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.
00:14:45.000Hey, we're going to be available for a few more minutes on YouTube and you are going to want to stay with us because we're discussing a variety of things.
00:14:53.000We're talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene right next about escalating tensions in the Middle East and whether or not We should be lightly and unconsciously wandering towards war.
00:15:03.000You'll notice that Marjorie Taylor Greene is often conveyed as a lunatic, as a harpy, as a hysteric.
00:15:08.000But here, she seems to be saying simply, don't go to war lightly.
00:15:12.000Wars are pretty heavy things to get involved with.
00:15:15.000In a minute, we'll be looking at Nancy Pelosi saying that even Russian pro- Are we looking at that today?
00:15:40.000She's the first female Speaker of the House.
00:15:42.000I think I saw a hagiographic documentary celebrating the achievements of Nancy Pelosi.
00:15:46.000And indeed, it is an achievement when anybody overcomes the odds to rise to the top in politics.
00:15:51.000And nowhere are her achievements More evident than in a bank account where $200 million has been curiously accrued on a $200,000 a year taxpayer salary.
00:16:01.000Let's have a look at Marjorie Taylor Greene, regularly vilified, advocating for peace.
00:16:07.000What are your thoughts on some of the folks, including Lindsey Graham in the Senate, who in light of these three American service members who united over the weekend calling for strikes inside of Iran right now?
00:16:18.000Well, first I just want to say that my heartfelt prayers are with them and their families.
00:16:23.000Those three servicemen were from Georgia.
00:16:44.000War 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.
00:16:55.000Astonishing isn't it really because the recent bombing of Yemen hasn't gone through Congress.
00:17:00.000It seems that it's acceptable, normal even, to embark on foreign military activity without the backing of the American people or even the legal administrative backing of Congress itself.
00:17:11.000That is by its nature illegal, criminal even.
00:17:15.000I'm looking at the rumble chat, I'm looking at you cleanse, I'm looking at plants, Poop.
00:19:07.000Hey, are you guys going to watch me on Tucker a little later?
00:19:09.000It's a conversation with Tucker on Tucker's show.
00:19:11.000And also, in a couple of days, we'll be putting our own conversation, Tucker, with Tucker, excuse me, exclusively up for our AwakendWonder community.
00:19:19.000You guys over there will be watching it very soon.
00:19:21.000Okay, if you're watching us on YouTube, it's time to join us over on Rumble.
00:19:28.000We've got that funny thing where Trump said, I could live to 200.
00:19:31.000We're going to be talking about the Slovakian COVID inquiry.
00:19:33.000What's amazing about that is it's a proper inquiry.
00:19:36.000The inquiry that's held in the UK seems to be peculiarly parametered to ensure that no one asks any questions about dual purpose research, no questions about lab leak origin, no questions about adverse events or excess of deaths or popular uprising against the establishment and total disobedience.
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00:21:45.000This is where she makes an interesting connection between the bombing of Iran and how to be extremely cautious about it and moves into the subject of migration.
00:21:54.000So let's begin the video again where we left off.
00:23:09.000Isn't there a little more to international diplomacy than schoolyard tactics?
00:23:13.000Isn't there? Isn't there? Is Nikki Haley right about that?
00:23:16.000...knows they can't beat America. They've always...
00:23:19.000Also, it's helpful when confronting bullies to be funded by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
00:23:24.000Although I don't actually specifically know which military industrial complex organizations sponsor Nikki Haley, I just know it's some of them.
00:23:32.000And seemingly, I'm not alone in understanding that because people at a rally recognize it also.
00:23:36.000But let's have a look at the end of this little... This is quite an interesting verbal rampage from Nikki Haley.
00:24:31.000Interesting really though, because some of us do want new wars, particularly people that take lobbying money and donations from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the Military-Industrial Complex.
00:24:38.000And isn't it fascinating, let me know in the chat, isn't it great that people know this language now?
00:24:44.000Like the term like Military-Industrial Complex, which I think I first heard Bill Hicks use, so it's probably Late 90s?
00:24:49.000When did we lose the great Bill Hicks, one of your great comedians?
00:24:52.000So the military-industrial complex in that famous bit of stand-up where he talked about Iraq arming the world and then attacking them once they were armed.
00:26:34.000I'm easily manipulated, and that's even without having an implant in my mind and consciousness.
00:26:41.000Now, Elon Musk is a divisive figure on platforms like this.
00:26:44.000Many of you love how he has advocated for free speech.
00:26:47.000Many of you love the way that X has been reclaimed as a platform that people can communicate on, though I've even seen people say that there are interesting new observationary methods and techniques being deployed there.
00:27:01.000I think he's a force for good in the world and I think it'll be a weird day when you find a person you 100% agree with on every single subject.
00:27:10.000How do you feel about the transhumanism project?
00:27:12.000Of course what Elon says is this will ultimately be useful for people that have experienced paralysis and it's easy to see how in many instances technology is valuable.
00:27:21.000Let's see how the legacy media reports on this story.
00:27:25.000The tech billionaire Elon Musk is saying his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.
00:27:35.000He made the announcement on X, his social media platform, saying the procedure happened on Sunday.
00:27:40.000He says the subject is recovering well and that initial results show a promising neuron spike detection.
00:27:47.000Mr. Musk says the product has been given the name telepathy and the plan is for it to enable control of a phone, computer or almost any linked device just by thinking about them.
00:27:59.000Several rival companies have already implanted what are known as brain-computer interface systems in humans after tests were carried out initially on monkeys.
00:28:14.000Paul the String says Elon will be the new Oppenheimer.
00:28:17.000What an amazing reference, because if you see that movie, you know that what Oppenheimer was, was a genius who was ideologically motivated, a polymath, and a brilliant man who made choices that We are still debating to this day.
00:28:33.000There are still people that say it was necessary to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima because it ended the war more quickly.
00:28:38.000Yet there are other people who say, well, no, that was a catastrophe.
00:28:43.000And in a sense, the beginning of a type of imperialism from the perhaps preempted or facilitated the ending of the American people being represented by their government and perhaps the beginning of them being You, if you are American, tyrannised by your own government.
00:28:59.000It's an interesting moment in history.
00:29:15.000With more, here's our North America correspondent, Peter Bowes.
00:29:19.000What Elon Musk's Neuralink is trying to do is what a number of other companies have been attempting for quite a while now, and that is essentially to create a brain-computer interface that will allow a human being to carry out an action through thought alone.
00:29:38.000It's interesting to imagine that people are able to track neurological energy to the degree that it could become utilised, that responsive.
00:29:47.000It's a level of ingenuity that's difficult to ponder.
00:29:50.000This is why we want Elon Musk on, so that we can have these kind of conversations.
00:29:54.000Directly with him, but I suppose when you see the over-technologization of our culture and where it's generally led, I suppose it's that famous adage that a tool can be used for good or for ill.
00:30:06.000The problem has been, I feel like since the Industrial Age, it may be since the advent of agriculture itself, these systems of control have generally created elites, always backed by the promise
00:30:20.000that it would be beneficial somehow to the population at large or in particular the vulnerable.
00:30:26.000Let's just take a sort of a pretty phatic example, and again I wish we had the opportunity to
00:30:30.000talk to Elon Musk about this directly, like white goods, the washing machine, the
00:30:33.000dishwasher. This will mean you have more time for pursuing leisure activities.
00:31:17.000People unified in a common cause together.
00:31:21.000What terrifies me is the emergence of these new agencies that provide the cartilage between private corporations and governments.
00:31:29.000In particular because I have been a victim Of these new, and no I don't want to use the word victim, I've been subject to some of their machinations.
00:31:40.000Certainly we've been observed by an organization called Logically AI.
00:31:44.000In today's deep dive we look at Logically AI and a number of other organizations that are operating on behalf of governments to crush dissent.
00:31:56.000During the pandemic there was censorship that was extraordinary and unprecedented, you know that right?
00:32:01.000Now these public-private partnerships are about suppressing dissenting voices.
00:33:00.000By now you know what the censorship industrial complex is.
00:33:03.000It's governments crushing dissent by proxy on a variety of issues like January 6th, the pandemic, dissent against war, trucker protests, All of these issues have been controlled by public-private partnerships where the governments crush dissent.
00:33:18.000And if that wasn't enough, they're starting to do that stuff against me, as well as putting these agencies in place for forthcoming elections and controlling Pentagon data.
00:33:27.000But it's me I'm really bothered about.
00:33:31.000Farmers, truckers, everywhere, people are rejecting centralized authority.
00:33:35.000People no longer trust the media, and with good reason, because there are numerous agencies that are being deployed to crush dissent when it comes to important issues like, well, public protests for one thing, dissent against war for another, the whole handling of the pandemic, and we've got vital information based on the reporting of Li Fang, you should follow him on Substack, Who has exposed the involvement of numerous agencies when it comes to shutting down dissent.
00:34:00.000One in particular called Logically has been particularly vociferous and aggressive against me.
00:34:04.000We're going to look at who they've been controlling this year.
00:34:07.000And we're also going to look at how the legacy media and mainstream benefit from being able to control narratives and how it is their job to normalize and amplify the agenda of the powerful.
00:34:17.000So remember, support our content if you can.
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00:34:21.000Now, more than ever, this is nothing short of a war for freedom.
00:34:25.000Not the kind of war that your governments are advocating for, of course, where they're talking about introducing conscription in actual European countries now, literally like this one, but intellectual freedom, spiritual freedom, personal sovereignty.
00:34:37.000That's why it's so interesting to see someone like Barack Obama, an elder statesman of the establishment now, someone who swept into power under words like change and hope, but governed from a position of total control, bailing out the bankers, giving BlackRock unprecedented power.
00:34:53.000Check it out and look into it when it came to that financial crash.
00:34:57.000talking about misinformation and disinformation is astonishing the way
00:35:01.000that he actually inverts truth. We got shut down independent media, they muddy
00:35:06.000the water on important issues. But who really muddies the water? Who really
00:35:09.000obfuscates facts and truth? Who really benefits from controlling your attention
00:35:14.000and private personal consciousness? Plainly it's the establishment. Let's get
00:35:18.000into it. Understand it's not necessary for people to believe this information
00:35:22.000in order to weaken democratic institutions. So he's saying that
00:35:26.000Misinformation is dangerous even if you don't believe it.
00:35:28.000That's to stop you saying, well, I'm able to watch content myself and decide for myself whether or not I think something's true.
00:35:34.000If I see something that's plainly ludicrous, some outlandish theory, I'm able to discern and decide using my intellect, my relationships, my understanding, whether it's true.
00:36:05.000You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
00:36:10.000As a side note, if Donald Trump used incendiary language and evocative imagery, like free speech being compared to raw sewage, liberals would say, oh my god, I can't believe that Donald Trump compared free speech to raw sewage.
00:36:21.000But there's Barack Obama doing it, but he's at Stanford and he's, you know, got a documentary on Netflix, so it's all cool.
00:36:25.000You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough Conspiracy theorizing.
00:36:34.000Conspiracy theories like, for example, the virus emerged from a laboratory, it's possibly the result of bioweapon research, that lockdowns may not have been effective, that NATO may have participated in the escalation of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia by allowing Ukraine to join or flirting with Ukraine and inviting them to join, that the Nord Stream pipeline was not blown up by Russia but by allied NATO interests.
00:36:58.000All of these conspiracy theories are, as you know by now, let me know in the comments, true.
00:37:03.000And that doesn't mean that there's not a Wikipedia pop-up or some warning pop-up under there, because the establishment, of course, does not benefit from you being awakened and tuned in.
00:37:11.000It benefits from you being dozy, sleepy, slumbering, and tuned out, and that's how they want to maintain you.
00:37:17.000That citizens no longer know what to believe.
00:37:23.000Once they lose trust in their leaders, In mainstream media, in political institutions.
00:38:02.000So that is Barack Obama, statesperson for the establishment, mouthpiece for establishment interest.
00:38:08.000I'm not judging Barack Obama on anything other than his record while in office.
00:38:12.000The drone strikes, the 2008 crash, how he responded to it and what he does now.
00:38:16.000We have some excellent reporting here from Lee Fang that explains to us exactly how the government is able to create a censorship industrial complex through the deployment and employment of peculiar non-government agencies that essentially function as the cartilage between corporations And national government and how the two of them work together to shut down dissenting voices.
00:38:36.000I'm particularly passionate about this because I'm one of those voices.
00:38:40.000And of course, I recognize that the real important thing is you, your attention, your consciousness, your compliance or disobedience, depending on what stories you pay attention to.
00:38:50.000Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security, reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governments Board, the panel formed to actively police misinformation.
00:39:02.000The board, which was proposed in April 2022 after he left DHS, was quickly shelved by the Biden administration in a few short months in the face of criticism that it would be an Orwellian, state-sponsored Ministry of Truth.
00:39:14.000In a July podcast, Murphy said that the threat of state-sponsored disinformation meant the executive branch has an ethical responsibility to rein in the social media companies.
00:39:23.000American citizens, he said, must give up some of your freedoms that you need and deserve so that you get your security back.
00:39:29.000You will hear this offering many times.
00:39:31.000We have to give up some freedom in order to get security.
00:39:34.000We all know there's going to be some sort of cyber event coming, I would imagine, in the coming months or at most years, that will be used to legitimise new measures to prevent ongoing encryption.
00:39:45.000Whitney Webb knows a lot more about this stuff than I do.
00:39:48.000You can see our interview together by clicking the link in the description, following our content there.
00:39:52.000The legal problems and public backlash to the Disinformation Governments Board also demonstrated to him that the government has a major role to play, but they cannot be out in front.
00:40:00.000The government recognises that they have to censor, otherwise they will lose respect and they will lose, therefore, control.
00:40:07.000But the job of censorship has to be done.
00:40:09.000This is how they've solved this problem.
00:40:11.000By appointing groups like Logically, who have been involved in everything from shutting down dissent around the pandemic, true dissent, Dissent around the war?
00:40:18.000True dissent, and are going to be used in your forthcoming election to shut down your conversation.
00:40:23.000You might take an educated guess right now which side they'll be batting for.
00:40:28.000Murphy, who made headlines late in the Trump administration for improperly building dossiers on journalists, has spent the last few years trying to help the government find ways to suppress and censor speech it doesn't like, without being so out in front that it runs afoul of the Constitution.
00:40:42.000If only we could be out in front, but this damn Constitution, could we Burn it?
00:40:50.000He has proposed that law enforcement and intelligence agencies formalize the process of sharing tips with private sector actors, a hybrid constellation including the press, academia, researchers, non-partisan organizations, and social media companies to dismantle misinformation campaigns before they take hold.
00:41:07.000Generally, I have to say, they are more interested in misinformation that happens to be true than misinformation that is false.
00:41:14.000Because misinformation that's true is what's likely to mobilize and galvanize you and to make you disobedient and awakened.
00:41:20.000To make you recognize that we are now at a pivotal moment where we're talking about potential world wars and total control of the individual.
00:41:27.000More recently, Murphy has worked to make his vision of countering misinformation a reality by joining United Kingdom-based tech firm Logically AI, whose eponymous product identifies and removes content from social media.
00:41:39.000Since joining the firm, Murphy has met with military and other government officials in the US, many of whom have gone on to contract or pilot Logically's platform.
00:41:48.000Logically says it uses artificial intelligence to keep tabs on over 1 million conversations.
00:42:15.000It also maintains a public-facing editorial team that produces viral content and liaisons with the traditional news media.
00:42:22.000The traditional news media and government have a pact together, as perhaps best enshrined by the Trusted News Initiative, which we've reported on before, which amounts to a relationship between legacy media organisations, some corporate and some state, that work together to oppose and crush independent media.
00:42:37.000Because they are allied with one another.
00:42:39.000They are allied with the Globalist Project.
00:42:41.000It differs from others in this industry by actively deploying what they call countermeasures to dispute or remove problematic content from social media platforms.
00:42:49.000So they actively censor and shut down private information.
00:43:29.000In other words, artificial intelligence powered bots that produce, in real time, original arguments to dispute content labeled as misinformation.
00:43:37.000So straight away you'll say something, that is true, but the government wish wasn't, and a flood of comments will appear.
00:43:43.000I wonder if any of you have noticed anything like that already?
00:43:45.000In many respects, Logically is fulfilling the role Murphy has articulated for a vast public-private partnership to shape social media content decisions.
00:43:53.000Its technology has already become a key player in a much larger movement that seeks to clamp down on what the government and others deem misinformation or disinformation.
00:44:01.000A raft of developing evidence, including the Twitter files, the Moderna reports, the proposed government disinformation panel, and other reports, has shown how governments and industry are determined to monitor, delegitimize, and sometimes censor protected speech.
00:44:15.000The story of Logically AI illustrates how sophisticated this effort has become in its global reach.
00:44:20.000The use of its technology in Britain and Canada raises red flags as it seeks a stronger foothold in the United States.
00:44:25.000As is often the case, they pilot in countries like Canada, and our beloved country, And Australia, before introducing measures in the US.
00:44:32.000Look at how aggressive during the pandemic Australia were, and Canada.
00:44:35.000And don't you remember how surprised you were?
00:44:37.000Like, whoever in Canada was sort of cool and relaxed.
00:44:47.000Logically now has broad contracts across Europe and India and has worked closely with Microsoft, Google, PwC, TikTok and other major firms.
00:44:55.000Meta contracts with Logically to help the company fact check content on all of its platforms, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
00:45:04.000You've got the government And private social media firms working together with a private organization that has the ability to demonetize, criticize, condemn, shut down, control, shadow ban your content, as well as, if it ever became relevant, providing a vast army of bots to dispute content that you were creating, whether it was true or not.
00:45:23.000Remember, malinformation, even by their own diagnosis and analysis, is information that's true, but not convenient.
00:45:29.000The close ties to Silicon Valley provide unusual reach.
00:45:32.000When Logically Rates a piece of content as false, Facebook will significantly reduce its distribution so that fewer people see it, apply a warning label to let people know that the content has been rated false, and notify people who try to share it.
00:45:44.000Meta and Logically announced in a 2021 press release on the partnership.
00:45:48.000Have a look right now under this piece of content.
00:45:50.000During the 2021 local elections in the UK, Logically monitored up to 1 million pieces of harmful content, some of which they relayed to government officials, according to a document reviewed by Real Clear Investigations.
00:46:02.000The firm claimed to spot coordinated activity to manipulate narratives around the election, information they reported to tech giants for takedowns.
00:46:09.000Remember, Logically are going to be working in your country coming up to 2024.
00:46:14.000I wonder what type of information they'll be amplifying.
00:46:16.000I wonder what kind of information they'll be controlling and censoring.
00:46:19.000Let me know in the comment and chat who you think Logically will be working for in the forthcoming election in your country.
00:46:24.000The following year, the state of Oregon negotiated with Logically for a wide-ranging effort to monitor campaign-related content during the 2022 midterm elections.
00:46:32.000In a redacted proposal for the project, Logically noted that it would check claims against its single source of truth database, which relied on government data, and would also crack down on malinformation.
00:46:43.000A term of art that refers to accurate information that fuels dangerous narratives.
00:46:48.000Accurate information that fuels dangerous narratives.
00:46:50.000Let me give you what my take on that is.
00:46:52.000If you knew the truth, you'd stop cooperating.
00:47:12.000The firm similarly sold Oregon on its ability to pressure social media platforms for content removal, so they told them that's what they're going to be doing.
00:47:22.000The company has piloted programs for the Chicago Police Department, and Pentagon records show that the firm is a subcontractor to a program run by the U.S.
00:47:30.000Army's Elite Special Operations Command for work conducted in 2022 and 2023.
00:47:35.000Questions swirl over the methods and reach of the firm as it entrenches itself into American life, especially as Logically angles to play a prominent role in the 2024 presidential election.
00:47:47.000So look at the power that this organisation has, look at the funding that it's receiving, look at its apparent goals, shutting down true but inconvenient information, and think about how that may play out in the next election in your country.
00:47:58.000The reason that the reporters know so much about Logically is because of the way they behaved in our country during the Covid pandemic.
00:48:05.000In March 2020, as Britain confronted the spread of COVID-19, the government convened a new task force, the Counter Disinformation Unit.
00:48:12.000The secretive task force was created with little fanfare, but was advertised as a public health measure to protect against dangerous misinformation.
00:48:20.000Caroline Dynidge, a Member of Parliament overseeing media issues, later explained that the unit's purpose was to provide authoritative sources of information and to take action to remove misinformation relating to misleading narratives related to COVID-19.
00:48:32.000It's of course Caroline Dynage that spoke to YouTube asking if they would be demonetizing our content after that curious scandal and attack era a couple of months back.
00:48:42.000Caroline Dynage also sits on a committee that regulates social media and she also proposed the online safety bill which ultimately amounts to censorship on the auspices of, you guessed it, protecting children.
00:48:54.000The CDU, it later emerged, had largely outsourced its work to private contractors such as Logically, which received a total of roughly 3.2 million dollars.
00:49:44.000There's certainly reasons for hesitancy.
00:49:48.000But that's the kind of information that, presumably, Logically were involved in censoring and shutting down.
00:49:52.000The company, he said, recruited advocates and evangelists to shape local opinion.
00:49:57.000In 2022, Logically used its technology on behalf of Canadian law enforcement to target the trucker-led Freedom Convoy against COVID-19 mandates, according to government records.
00:50:07.000Now you know how the government felt during that period.
00:50:09.000They illegally evoked an emergency act.
00:50:13.000It seems wherever you find dissent in voices, wherever you find the potential for people to come together and oppose state globalist power, you will find organizations like Logically deamplifying the information, creating evangelists and advocates to blur and confuse the conversation in precisely the way, actually, that Barack Obama said independent media do.
00:50:33.000But it seems to me that while misinformation could take place in any community, the independent media's problem is not that it's dishonest, but that it's honest, that it's truthful, that it treats the audience as a member of a community, that it's interested in conveying information that is not helpful to what seems to be a globalist agenda.
00:50:49.000Logically's team floated theories that the truckers were likely influenced by foreign adversaries.
00:50:54.000A widely repeated claim used to denigrate the protests as inauthentic.
00:50:58.000You will see Nancy Pelosi right now this week saying that anti-war protesters are probably funded by Putin and it should be looked into.
00:51:09.000In some cases, Logically has piled onto news stories to help discredit voices of dissent.
00:51:14.000Last September, the anti-misinformation site leapt into action after British news outlets published reports about the sexual misconduct allegations surrounding comedian and online broadcaster Russell Brand.
00:51:25.000One of the outspoken critics of government policy in Britain.
00:51:28.000Brand, a vocal opponent of pandemic policies, had been targeted biologically in the past for airing opinions critical of the US and UK response to the virus outbreak and in other moments for criticizing new laws in the European Union that compel social media platforms to take down content.
00:51:43.000Specifically because I believe these censorship laws are not about protecting us, but about controlling us.
00:51:47.000That these censorship laws are about pushing legacy media outlets that amplify and normalise the narratives of the powerful and shutting down dissenting voices.
00:51:56.000Indeed, logically, in all their snooping and spying and surveilling and censoring and shutting down, that nothing that had been said on this channel was untrue.
00:52:03.000But the site took dramatic action when the sexual allegations, none of which have been proved in court, were published in the media.
00:52:10.000Joe Ondrak, Logically's investigations head, provided different quotes to nearly half a dozen news outlets, including Vice, Wired, the BBC, and two separate articles in the Times that depicted Brand as a dangerous purveyor of misinformation.
00:52:55.000This is his statement about me and this content.
00:52:57.000He follows a lot of the ostensibly health yoga retreat, kind of left-leaning, anti-capitalist figures who really got suckered into Covid scepticism.
00:53:05.000Yeah, that means that during Covid, my attitude towards Covid and the measures altered based on information and science.
00:53:11.000Before, I was just sort of like, yeah, yoga, quite left-leaning, a bit anti-capitalist because I'm worried about sort of issues of control and power.
00:53:17.000Then, hang on a minute, is this some sort of massive weird scam that's generating a wealth transfer where Big Pharma are getting richer and richer where people that work for regulatory bodies are taking jobs in Big Pharma.
00:53:27.000There's legitimizing state authoritarianism where true information is being shut down.
00:53:31.000That sort of thing does make a person a bit cynical.
00:53:33.000Covid denialism and anti-vax and then spat out of the Great Reset at the other end.
00:53:37.000Ondrak told Wired, look into the Great Reset and it's a little truer than people like Joe Ondrak would like.
00:53:42.000In one of the articles published by the Times, Ondrak aired frustration on the obstacles of demonetizing Brand from the Rumble streaming network.
00:53:49.000In an interview with the BBC, funded by taxpayer money, Ondrak, funded by taxpayer money, gave a curious condemnation, noting Brand stopped short of airing any actual conspiracy theories or falsehoods, but is guilty of giving audiences the ingredients to make the disinformation themselves.
00:54:08.000During the pandemic period, I've seen a lot of lying and censorship of true information, ironically.
00:54:13.000During the trucker protests, I noticed a tendency to vilify the participants in a protest movement, probably, I reckon, to shut down the potential of future protest movements.
00:54:21.000I'm very cynical about the way that farmer protests are being reported on and not reported on and being claimed to be racist.
00:54:26.000During the reporting around the war and the escalation of tensions between Ukraine and Russia, while I'm sympathetic to Ukrainian people, I'm noticing that there's a lack of reporting on why Russia might be involved in this conflict due to the complexities of regional disputes in the area.
00:54:38.000Once part of the Soviet Union, the Nord Street Pipeline story seems to be a bit ridiculous.
00:54:43.000It's unlikely that Russia blew that up themselves.
00:54:45.000All of which I think is kind of spot-on actually true.
00:54:48.000All of which was undertaken in a participatory investigative inquiring and interrogative spirit, rather than this is the truth, stop thinking, do as you're told, forever.
00:54:57.000Which seems to be the agenda of these organisations.
00:54:59.000Dinehitch, the Member of Parliament who spearheaded the CDU anti-misinformation push with Logically during the pandemic, also leapt into action in the immediate aftermath of the scandal.
00:55:09.000She sent nearly identical letters to Rumble, TikTok and Meta to demand that the platforms follow YouTube's lead in demonetizing brand.
00:55:17.000Logically's editorial team went a step further.
00:55:19.000In its report on the brand allegations published on Logically Facts, it claimed that social media accounts trotting out the innocent until proven guilty refrain for the comedian were among those perpetuating common myths.
00:55:31.000Innocent until proven guilty is not a common myth.
00:55:58.000The site published a follow-up video reiterating the claim that those seeking the presumption of innocence for brand, a principle dating back to the Magna Carta, were spreading a dangerous myth.
00:56:07.000Innocent till proven guilty is being presented as a dangerous myth.
00:56:10.000What kind of cyber mind, what kind of AI, what kind of globalist agenda would conceive of such a notion?
00:56:15.000Is this yet another example of the Orwellian inversion?
00:56:24.000In the same way they were all presumed stupid.
00:56:26.000That's what Barack Obama's position is.
00:56:28.000You aren't able to look at some information and decide for yourself what's true.
00:56:32.000You need to be told what to do, told what is true, kept from access to information that is true, that might make you think for yourself, using the ingredients of truth to create disobedience and dissent.
00:56:43.000And most of all, you need to be kept compliant.
00:56:46.000and told that a choice between either this party or this party is all that we can offer you in 2024
00:56:52.000on the precipice of new global war. I would say that innocent until proven guilty is a pretty
00:56:58.000important principle. The unusual advocacy campaign against Brand represented a typical approach for
00:57:03.000a company that has long touted itself as a hammer against spreaders of misinformation. The opportunity
00:57:08.000to remove Brand from the media ecosystem meant throwing as much at him as possible despite any
00:57:12.000clear misinformation or disinformation angle in the sexual assault allegations.
00:57:17.000Rather, he was a leading critic of government censorship and pandemic policy, so the scandal represented a weakness to be exploited.
00:57:24.000And of course, it was at a time when Caroline Dynadge is advocating for, lobbying for, the introduction of new, unprecedented censorship laws in this country.
00:57:33.000And new, unprecedented censorship laws are being asked for in the EU.
00:59:27.000But when you hear him talk about what went down in Covid, when we're talking about like lockdowns etc, it's a really refreshing perspective.
00:59:37.000Let me know what you think about this, it's exciting.
00:59:40.000At the forefront of people's minds, there was a lot of concern about how well people would tolerate lockdown.
00:59:46.000How well people will tolerate lockdown.
00:59:49.000That language is about sociological responses, isn't it?
00:59:53.000Remember people talking about BF Skinner, behaviouralism, nudges, making sure that young people couldn't go to nightclubs or public events.
00:59:59.000Not for safety reasons, but because they knew that it would be effective, isn't it extraordinary the information that's
01:00:05.000accruing, certainly in Slovakia they are now considering a very, well they're
01:00:09.000gonna do a proper inquiry and when I say proper inquiry I mean into excess deaths, I
01:00:14.000mean into adverse events, not the kind of inquiry you get in the UK now. Did
01:00:18.000Boris Johnson govern this country while having a silly haircut or the kind of
01:00:24.000inquiry you get in your country, United States, all secret behind closed
01:00:28.000Now, Anthony Fauci, are you trying your level best to do a good job?
01:00:36.000You know, what's starting to happen now, and this is, let me know if you're sensing this, Is information is coming out that's likely to legitimise opposition, that's likely to legitimise disobedience.
01:01:32.000Like Fauci, he'd been around, curiously enough, as long as AIDS.
01:01:36.000I'm not saying there's a connection, but that's how long Fauci's been around.
01:01:39.000This dude, he's like an old-school scientist.
01:01:42.000Like, he's not comfortable being on the TV.
01:01:43.000Like, if they started putting, like, t-shirts with him, his face on it, old Professor Warhouse, he's not gonna go, Maybe I am a sex symbol!
01:02:28.000Um, that would, I mean, you'd need to do a, you know, a fairly detailed public health appraisal of where you drew the line.
01:02:35.000Yeah, I think there should be a fairly detailed public health appraisal of where to draw the line because what seems to me is that there was a lean into authoritarianism that was backed up by preferences that were sociologically derived rather than epidemiologically derived and that it was framed to us as these are health measures.
01:02:51.000Who was it that was coming up before you?
01:02:52.000Was it sociologists or was it scientists?
01:02:55.000Like, for example, in our country, Jonathan Van Tam.
01:02:57.000He was the scientist that said we should all be taking vaccines.
01:05:17.000We'll say we're building these vast hospitals and then no one will ever see these vast hospitals and we'll all forget that anyone ever said anything about that.
01:05:46.000Let's have a look at this conversation.
01:05:48.000These accusations appeared and then your own government, which you pay for, reached out without telling you to online service providers and media organizations and said, please kick him off and censor him and take his money away.
01:06:51.000I'll be, so I'll be participating in that conversation with Tucker Carlson at 6 p.m.
01:06:57.000Eastern Time, an 11 o'clock British time.
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01:07:36.000Schellenberger tomorrow, so we'll be talking about the story yesterday, you know, this story that we've just done about the Logically AI and all of these interesting agencies funded by the government working with Big Pharma censoring on big tech platforms.