When is the flu not the flu? When we need to control you, get in your house. Here s the first of today s stories about the new pandemic in the UK, the flu one. They re forgetting though that they ve already used this lie recently of COVID and masks, and in their reporting state funded media like the BBC are tripping over their own feet in error. And we remind you too, what happened in 2020 when they actually cancelled Christmas.
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00:00:24.000We're talking about the new pandemic in the UK, the flu one.
00:00:27.000They're forgetting though that they've already used this lie really recently of COVID and masks and in their reporting state-funded media like the BBC are tripping over their own feet in error.
00:00:38.000And we remind you too what happened in 2020 when they actually cancelled Christmas.
00:00:43.000Looking back just with a half a decade of hindsight, the whole thing looks absurd.
00:00:49.000We're talking too about the Ukraine and Zelensky and the way that people are beginning to recognize now that Ukraine was always a pretty corrupt country.
00:00:56.000That's not a unique attack on Ukraine, certainly not on Ukrainian people, but it's just the government of a country is not the same as the people of a country.
00:01:02.000Whether you're talking about Israel or the United Kingdom or the United States of America, generally speaking, governments are aligned with and enmeshed in sets of globalist interests and maybe things that are even darker than that.
00:01:15.000And the people are human beings and children of God and one world family.
00:01:18.000And Lord, I pray that one day we're able to return this.
00:01:21.000So we've got Zelensky, we've got COVID and also the EU versus X. What a battle that's shaping up to be.
00:02:53.000Why don't you talk to the many doctors and nurses that regret taking the shot?
00:02:57.000Why don't you talk to the members of the military that have had to be readmitted after not taking the shot?
00:03:02.000I know they're not making the claim that this is directly analogous or identical to COVID, but it's similar enough to warrant your cynicism.
00:03:10.000At Sunderland Royal, and you can see the campaign is very clear indeed.
00:03:15.000That's because in the past couple of weeks they have seen the number of patients with flu here and at their sister.
00:03:41.000What's going on in the UK or up, as I call it, because it's that's kind of reflecting the national picture as well, where last week, 1700 patients across England were admitted and they were suffering from flu.
00:03:57.000Why don't we have a ticker across the bottom of the screen telling us how many people are dying of flu?
00:04:01.000They've had Titan Pull Christmas tree up.
00:04:02.000My God, the UK is crazy and it's in serious trouble, but don't worry, it's going to be okay.
00:04:07.000We are going to organise some meaningful resistance, whether it's opposing the digital ID or the getting rid of trial by jury or any one of any facial recognition, potential war with Russia.
00:04:18.000I can do a longer list if you want to.
00:05:47.000Partly because of the number of flu cases putting those pressures on.
00:05:50.000And we know that up in the northeast, this isn't the only hospital that has introduced the mask wearing and, of course, that washing of hands that we have been talking about.
00:06:00.000So the message is: if you're coming into hospitals, please do wash your hands, wear the mask, because then you're going to stop the spread.
00:06:10.000And hopefully reduce the pressure that is being put on services.
00:06:15.000Look, we know that some people can present with mild symptoms.
00:06:18.000And bosses here are saying you may have mild symptoms, but if you pass it on to somebody who's vulnerable, that's going to possibly cause more problems because, ah, the old vulnerable technique, you see, someone vulnerable.
00:06:29.000There's always these imaginary vulnerable people that the BBC and the government are protecting.
00:07:28.000And when it comes to conditioner, I'd take her advice to the ends of the earth.
00:07:32.000But when it comes to masks, she's plainly lying because we've already been on this roundabout.
00:07:37.000As the familiar health warnings of 2020 begin to dominate once more, fresh scandals rip through the institutions that shape the pandemic years.
00:07:46.000So are we finally seeing the cracks in a system whose hidden incentives may have steered a nation's fate?
00:07:58.000Schools across the UK are falling back into lockdown as a flu outbreak sweeps classrooms and public health officials urge mask wearing, even though they admitted last time that masks don't work.
00:08:22.000Public health officials urge mark wearing with the same familiar language that dominated the winter of 2020.
00:08:26.000Yet the timing's more alarming because three major revelations have erupted at once, tearing open the sealed vault of decisions that shaped the pandemic years.
00:08:36.000The stories breaking in 2025 are the very scandals that were dismissed as paranoia and misinformation or conspiracy in 2020.
00:08:46.000First came the disclosures that England's chief medical officer pressured government ethics advisors to stop putting their concerns in writing.
00:09:16.000Is this a moral void that we've been living in?
00:09:18.000Yeah, it's a moral void because you killed God and replaced it with, well, Satan, but via Dominion, property, profit, stuff like that.
00:09:27.000But as soon as MIAG raised concerns about lockdown harms, vaccine passports and the rushed push to vaccinate children, it was pushed aside.
00:09:37.000Chris Witty went as far as advising the group to stop putting its recommendations in writing.
00:09:42.000Don't write any of this down because it might look bad in a couple of years, but everyone finds out we were lying.
00:09:48.000Who remembers the bit when Chris Witte was jostled by youths?
00:09:52.000Those youths got pretty punishing sentences as well, as I recall.
00:09:57.000And this is when I sort of realized that I kind of love dumb culture.
00:10:01.000It's because what happened was, is like Chris Whitty was like our chief medical officer and he was like sort of like a bald like scientist guy.
00:10:08.000He was not even as charismatic as someone like Fauci, right?
00:10:10.000He was sort of like a hello and he looked a bit like he might have sort of an undercurrent of eczema, you know them people where they've not got eczema but you could see that they could easily get it right.
00:10:19.000He looked like that and like these lads saw him in a park, like football lads, and because the culture's so stupid now they just sort of treated him like a celebrity.
00:10:28.000Hey, Chris Witty, they sort of shook him around.
00:10:33.000It was awful because poor Chris Whitty is a human being, but it's also funny because the culture has used media and semiotics in such a trite and trivializing way, like i.e everyone tried to turn Fauci into a sort of celebrity.
00:10:48.000Well, that's what people do like you think I've not had to deal with stuff like that as a famous person people getting like too fucking hands-on and aggressive crazy man.
00:10:56.000Members reported feeling sidelined and effectively banned from discussing the pandemic, while ministers pushed ahead with unprecedented restrictions when the group prepared a memo stressing that vaccines for healthy children were invasive, irreversible and may have long-term side effects.
00:11:49.000It was advised by experts in the same way that you are.
00:11:52.000Like I was reading Robert Malone or Peter McCulloch or Jay Battachari or Martin McCario or Robert Kennedy or other people that are subject to attack, even if they're in government at this point.
00:12:02.000And we were making our own independent assessments and you know, we followed the actual science, discourse analysis, clinical trial.
00:12:09.000And it turns out that we, that collective we, the anti-establishment dissidents, were right.
00:12:16.000And it turns out that if you do that, they will try and destroy you.
00:12:31.000Yes, some children may have died from COVID shots, they now acknowledge.
00:12:34.000The Telegraph, who of course reported the stories, Russell Brown rapists, they now admit how COVID vaccines can cause heart damage.
00:12:40.000Articles like these would have been unimaginable in the media landscape of 2021 when even asking such questions invoked smears, bans and professional destruction.
00:12:50.000Now they read like late confessions from institutions trying to outrun the truth while simultaneously telling you to believe in super flu.
00:12:58.000We've got the James Gunn version of super flu now.
00:13:07.000But the most chilling report may be the one showing that 26 members of SAGE, the scientific advisory group whose modeling and council shaped every lockdown policy, get ready guys, failed to disclose more than $200 million in grants from the Wellcome Trust.
00:13:25.000Wellcome, if you didn't know, is one of the world's most powerful medical research funders with deep, deep, yep, let me emphasize that, deep ties to the pharmaceutical sector and had publicly declared early in the pandemic that drugs, vaccines and rapid diagnostics were the only exit strategy.
00:13:44.000Many of the same sage voices that were urging the government towards that path were simultaneously receiving millions in funding from Wellcome.
00:13:51.000Funding the public was never ever told about.
00:13:55.00026 scientists in positions of immense influence shaping politics that affected every citizen, every child, while withholding financial relationships with the very sector that stood to profit from a pharmaceutical first pandemic response.
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00:16:36.000Here's Scott Gottlieb, but you could just call him Scott Lieb, save yourself a syllable.
00:16:40.000A man who looks like a little boy out of the monsters and talks like a person who worked at the FDA only to go and get a job at Pfizer because that's what he is.
00:16:50.000They're systematically trying to dismantle components of the vaccine approval process and make sure vaccines won't be available.
00:16:56.000That's in fact what the memo was Friday, and they did it under the pretext of these tragic deaths, which I think is really inappropriate.
00:17:24.000The tragic death of Jesus Christ to say that death can be conquered if you obey certain edicts and laws.
00:17:30.000Oh, well, don't, because that's what we do.
00:17:33.000These deaths and children, if they think there's a causal relationship between the COVID vaccine and those children's deaths, that warrants exhaustive investigation.
00:17:41.000What about what Scott Gottlieb does when he's not on the news telling you to take vaccines?
00:17:49.000But they tried to slip in in announcing that their readjudication of that data, which had previously been reviewed very exhaustively by the FDA, they tried to slip in this wholesale remaking of the vaccine approval process for vaccines that have nothing to do with the COVID vaccine.
00:18:06.000Yeah, I'm just going to keep using that for context.
00:18:08.000Remember, we even approved the HPV vaccine, which is on the cusp of ending cervical cancer on the basis of these immunobridging studies.
00:18:15.000This has been an important tool for FDA to get new vaccines on the market.
00:18:20.000I think what they want is no new vaccines on the market.
00:18:22.000And look, there's some people, I will give them credit, who have been very honest about that.
00:18:26.000I think the Secretary Kennedy has been very honest about his intentions.
00:18:30.000I think Prasad, not so much, in implementing these policies, hasn't been transparent about the eventual goal of what he's trying to achieve here.
00:18:38.000But we're at a point right now where there's been such degradation at the FDA.
00:18:43.000I really worry the wheels are coming off that agency at a real critical time in the biotechnology industry.
00:18:55.000That's putting a bid under the market.
00:18:57.000You're seeing the IPO market for biotechnology stocks reopen.
00:19:00.000You're seeing really stunning data readouts.
00:19:03.000And so this is really a renaissance period in biotechnology at a point in which we're trying to compete with China, which is really surging their investments in life sciences.
00:19:12.000And now you have a deliberate effort to degrade the agency.
00:19:16.000And there's been a lot of departures from that vaccine review division.
00:19:20.000They're going to be at a point where they can announce these policies and there's literally going to be no one left to implement them at the agency.
00:19:25.000Meanwhile, Big Pharma is not retreating.
00:19:27.000Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now works for where does he work?
00:19:31.000Oh, what it was was when he left the FDA, the regulatory body that governs Big Pharma, he went, from now on, I just want to make sure that, you know, children everywhere are helped.
00:19:40.000So I'm going to do this charity work at schools, man.
00:19:43.000I'm going to dedicate all my time to making sure that children with conditions like eczema or asthma or nah, not really.
00:19:51.000Is already pushing back against reports linking vaccines to child deaths, claiming instead that the FDA is undermining critical components of the vaccine approval system.
00:20:00.000The conflict of interest is staggering.
00:20:06.000Taken together, these disclosures paint a picture far darker than incompetence.
00:20:09.000They suggest a pandemic response shaped by political pressure, undisclosed financial entanglements, strategic suppression of ethical concerns, and a media ecosystem that only now dares to admit what it once helped obscure.
00:20:24.000As public trust erodes, these revelations feel less like transparency and more like preemptive damage control.
00:20:29.000What was once dismissed as fringe concern is now breaking into mainstream coverage, not because institutions have grown more honest, but because the truth can no longer be fully contained.
00:20:38.000Let me know what you think about that in the comment and chat.
00:20:40.000The public was told to trust the science, yet the science was shaped by incentives they were never allowed to see.
00:20:45.000They were told decisions were guided by ethics, yet the ethics advisors were silenced when the confusions became inconvenient.
00:20:51.000And the people offering the recommendation had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
00:20:56.000I'll tell you now, I'm following the science right now.
00:20:59.000Here's what I'm scientifically deducing.
00:21:42.000Millions of people across England have been placed under stringent new coronavirus restrictions for the festive season.
00:21:49.000Boris Johnson made the announcement today after scientists said a mutation scientist scientists said a mutation of COVID-19 was spreading rapidly.
00:22:21.000Although we have learned that, for example, Hugh Edwards, a very prominent BBC news broadcaster, has, I think, recently been convicted of pedophilia.
00:23:26.000Oh, well, what it was was, God came to earth in the form of a baby through the Immaculate Conception to prove that here on the carnal plane, you can achieve divinity and operate on the level of universal good.
00:23:47.000And a lot of these people won't believe in that.
00:23:49.000A lot of them will go, you can't believe in Jesus, that's made up.
00:23:51.000Now get in your fucking Christmas bubble.
00:23:53.000Listen, if we're making stuff up, how about we make up something that empowers us, that believes that you are beautiful, that you're vital, that there are things that are more important than the appeasement and appeal of the senses, that there is glory.
00:24:07.000That all sounds good, but it might burst your Christmas bubble.
00:24:10.000Get-togethers will be restricted to meeting one other person in an open public space.
00:24:15.000That is the level of control that they're aiming at.
00:24:20.000You can meet one person in a public place.
00:24:23.000All they have to do now, now they've established some principles.
00:24:26.000Now all they have to do is convince you that the conditions exist that legitimize it, i.e. a war with Russia, some sort of terrible financial crash.
00:25:36.000The measures undertaken were a construct.
00:25:38.000You're living in a counterfeit reality.
00:25:41.000And the very people that tell you that Christ ain't real and it's a fairy story for children will tell you that it's time to get in your Christmas bubble and bow down at the altar of their peculiar bureaucracies.
00:26:23.000How many people do you know that died of flat out COVID that wasn't either comorbid, like super obese, heart conditioned, or extremely old?
00:26:33.000We know in retrospect that excess deaths have increased in the subsequent period.
00:26:39.000More people are dying now than died during COVID.
00:26:43.000That whole time was full of deception and lies.
00:26:47.000You can prove it if you pay attention.
00:26:49.000Their primary technique to prevent you from making these realizations is to distract you and bombard you and bedazzle you continually.
00:26:58.000All they have to do to prevent you from awakening up to the revolutionary state that this would induce in the sanest, most rational person is bewilder and distract you the whole time.
00:27:08.000You'd be able to say, look, I know all these people that died from COVID.
00:27:11.000Now, I know there's that wall opposite peculiarly, the houses of parliament, where there's always this spontaneous tribute to those that died of COVID.
00:27:20.000A graffiti wall of hearts for every person.
00:27:23.000Like, if you go through and investigate it, go through every single one.
00:27:27.000And say, right, well, that person, how old were they?
00:28:55.000Eventually, they'll coach you into such rhythmic childishness, such a facsimile of innocence that you won't be able to think or identify reality.
00:30:19.000In our conversation with Dr. John Campbell, he revealed that the UK government are refusing to release the statistics about the number of people that have died from vaccine injury.
00:32:01.000Get off that globalist scam and into the sweet arms of Rumble, baby.
00:32:05.000Professor Whitty, if someone is packing a bag right now, listening to or watching this, trying to leave the Southeast by midnight tonight, what should they do?
00:32:14.000My short answer would be, please unpack it at this stage.
00:32:18.000They're telling you what to do in your house.
00:33:01.000Who was it that started that remake of Douglas Moore's Arthur?
00:33:04.000Questions from that year never went away.
00:33:06.000And now, as the country inches back towards the language of restrictions, the question hangs ominously in the air.
00:33:11.000If another crisis emerges, will the same machinery activate itself again quietly, automatically, and without the transparency that was promised?
00:33:19.000Because if the last few weeks have shown us anything, is that the truth was not just delayed, it was buried.
00:33:24.000And those who buried it are still holding the shovels.
00:34:14.000To hit X with the fine after a two-year investigation into the company under the EU's Digital Services Act.
00:34:20.000Now, last week, the European Commission had said that infractions by X, which included what it called the deceptive design of X's blue check mark for verification.
00:34:29.000Look, whether you like Elon Musk or not, I can tell you that how this process will have worked is something along these lines.
00:34:41.000Okay, well, what can we possibly say is distinctly and uniquely wrong with X that wouldn't apply to Facebook or Instagram or YouTube or more favorable social media sites that we already have the leverage over and control that we require.
00:36:41.000They revealed the depths that deep state departments within the United States have been involved with managing and censoring information, and presumably that wasn't unique to the USA.
00:36:51.000With the lawyers, with sociologists who understood that they have to behave in some decent way, not to cause really big harm to the society.
00:37:05.000I always felt that this notion of responsibility was there.
00:37:10.000So this is what I don't feel from Elon Musk personally.
00:37:15.000As the European Union moves to fine X 120 million Euros, which isn't real money, under the guise of transparency, is Elon Musk correct in suggesting that the EU should be dismantled?
00:37:26.000And do familiar foes such as Hillary Clinton link the censorship industrial complex on either side of the Atlantic?
00:37:34.000Clinton and the EU, there's something for everyone.
00:37:41.000The European Commission's decision to fine X 120 million Euros is officially a matter of transparency, at least that's the claim.
00:37:47.000Yet the deeper one looks, the harder it becomes to ignore that this is less about consumer protection and more about disciplining a platform that refuses to fit into Europe's preferred structure of public communication.
00:37:58.000The Commission insists that none of this involves censorship, but when regulations target visibility, verification, access to data, and government-aligned researchers, the line between transparency and speech control begins to blur.
00:38:10.000The Digital Services Act is built around a model in which regulators and government-affiliated groups determine which information poses a systemic risk.
00:38:19.000They then pressure platforms to treat the material as dangerous.
00:38:22.000In practice, it creates a hierarchy of voices.
00:38:25.000Under the older Twitter model, verification was a selective privilege often granted through opaque internal decisions or expensive advertising commitments.
00:38:33.000Elon Musk's decision to make verification accessible to anyone disrupted that hierarchy.
00:38:38.000The Commission now describes this shift as deceptive, but the truth is that it undermined the old media and political order that relied on verification as a badge of institutional authority.
00:38:48.000Indeed, sigils, signs and emblems of power are precisely what's under threat right now.
00:38:54.000Does anyone believe in the BBC anymore?
00:38:57.000Does anyone trust the Conservative Party or the Labour Party or even the Republican Party or the Democrat Party?
00:39:13.000Because I recognise my own brokenness.
00:39:15.000I recognise that I'm nothing if not a conduit for the higher truth of Christ Jesus, that you can get that more directly from the Bible and you'll ultimately receive it within yourself.
00:39:23.000And you don't need anybody else, but you do need everybody else in order to receive it.
00:39:28.000That's why you can trust me, because I'm explicitly telling you I'm flawed and broken.
00:39:33.000What they're telling you is that they're reliable.
00:39:35.000And when they can't persuade you that they're reliable, they will control you.
00:39:40.000And when they can't control you anymore through direct violence, they'll control you through an environment of continual crisis so that violence seems favorable and you're in such a fierce state induced by overstimulation that you can't think straight no more.
00:40:33.000The cage in the second experiment was only a foot and a half high, and if the dogs wanted to, they could jump out.
00:40:39.000They could get out of the cage if they wanted to.
00:40:41.000Group A, that had in the previous cage had access to a lever, all got up and jumped out.
00:40:46.000Group B, that had never had access to a lever, all just laid down and accepted it.
00:40:50.000Remember that ultimately all of the information you receive is understood ultimately by you as an electromagnetic signal neurologically.
00:40:59.000Even this voice now, which is vibration coming in through your ears or the light information that you're receiving through your eyes, is being received electromagnetically neurologically.
00:41:08.000We are all in a cage where we're being, if not shocked, stimulated.
00:41:13.000Occasionally you are shocked, but mostly you're in a state of continual stimulation.
00:41:17.000Add to that that you're eating bad food, you're receiving deceptive information, you're being lied to and controlled continually.
00:41:26.000Some of us have been given access to levers in the past, so we know there's a way out.
00:41:32.000Other people don't believe there's a way out, so they're lying down and taking it.
00:41:36.000What I'm telling you, all of you, whether you're in group A or group B, whether you believe it's possible to transcend, to escape, to reach the kingdom, or if you think there's no point, there ain't no point.
00:41:47.000I'm not just lay down and take the thousand shocks that flesh is heir to, to quote Shakespeare.
00:41:53.000The truth is that freedom is possible.
00:41:55.000But in order to do that, you have to first survive, then escape, then control, then submit.
00:42:00.000Those are the rules of jiu-jitsu, and those are the rules of life.
00:42:20.000How is it that cells know whether they're dental or oral?
00:42:24.000How is it they know whether they're skeletal or cardiovascular?
00:42:28.000The cells in your body are guided by a field.
00:42:31.000All of the information within the cells is activated by an ulterior, evident, present, but less easy to observe set of information that's part of a greater whole.
00:42:41.000Hey, complicated stuff, but what do you want to do?
00:42:48.000The rhetoric of transparency also masks how the DSA empowers government-selected researchers to access platform data for monitoring speech trends.
00:42:56.000Many of these groups have previously collaborated with NGOs and law enforcement to flag political content for moderation.
00:43:03.000This kind of stuff was happening to us all the time during the pandemic.
00:43:07.000The Commission frames this as neutral oversight.
00:43:12.000Musk frames it as feeding a censorship machine.
00:43:15.000In either case, once governments decide who qualifies as a researcher and which post-war investigation, censorship no longer needs to be explicit.
00:43:22.000It settles in quietly through data access requirements, compliance expectations, and the constant threat of fines.
00:43:29.000It's no coincidence that the great Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, when depicting demonism, depicts them as within a bureaucracy.
00:43:37.000You can't be evil if you tell people you're being evil.
00:43:40.000You have to tell them you're helping them.
00:43:43.000This is happening at the same time that European political leaders are pursuing more overt forms of speech regulation.
00:43:49.000Emmanuel Marcon has called for a system that would create an officially certified class of media outlets.
00:43:56.000The French state would effectively define which journalists count as legitimate and which do not.
00:44:01.000I wonder if he's willing to do that with vaginas.
00:44:03.000In Germany, Friedrich Merse has filed hundreds of criminal complaints over online insults.
00:44:09.000Some cases have even led to home searches and phone seizures.
00:44:13.000Germany already enforces some of the strictest online speech laws in Europe, and the idea that calling a politician a fool might trigger criminal procedure reveals how low the threshold for state involvement has become.
00:46:30.000We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted.
00:46:45.000But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.
00:47:02.000Across the whole Atlantic here in the U.S. of statesland, familiar voices are cheering Europe on.
00:47:08.000Hillary Clinton has praised the Digital Services Act as a necessary tool for confronting what she describes as disinformation and extremism.
00:47:17.000She's argued that platforms should be more accountable for the content they allow and has expressed concern over how young people are forming views on issues such as Israel and Palestine.
00:47:26.000That our students, smart, well-educated young people from our own country, from around the world, where were they getting their information?
00:47:36.000They were getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok.
00:47:42.000That is where they were learning about what happened on October 7th, what happened in the days, weeks, and months to follow.
00:47:53.000It's a serious problem for democracy, whether it's Israel or the United States, and it's a serious problem for our young people.
00:48:00.000And it was frankly shocking to me how little the students we were encountering, not only in this class we teach, which is a very large class, international relations about crisis decision-making, but students more generally.
00:48:15.000And that's why I mentioned the social media piece of it, because when you would try to talk to them to engage in some kind of reasonable discussion, it was very difficult because they did not know history, they had very little context, and what they were being told on social media was not just one-sided, it was pure propaganda.
00:48:39.000And so when you think about how to tell Israel's story, and it's important, it's not just looking internally, it's looking externally, and particularly looking at young people, because, you know, it's not just the usual suspects, it is a lot of young Jewish Americans who don't know the history and don't understand.
00:49:03.000Eric, I was talking to Condi Rice, and she said in an interview that I did after the 20-point plan came out, she and I were on CBS, and she said, you know, when people were chanting from the river to the sea, she would ask the students what river, what sea they didn't know.
00:49:41.000They are seeing short-form videos, some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing, and that's where they get their information.
00:49:56.000Her comments align closely with the broader censorship model that's developed in the United States and our country up, oh no, the UK, where government agencies, academic institutions, and large NGOs operate as a kind of distributed authority over digital discourse.
00:50:11.000And I think the dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing.
00:50:19.000And it's part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue.
00:50:30.000You can't, you know, there's no, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact have kind of been eviscerated to a certain degree.
00:50:40.000And people go and people self-select where they go for their news or for their information.
00:50:47.000And then you just get into a vicious cycle.
00:50:49.000So it's really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I've been involved in this.
00:50:58.000And, you know, there's a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you're going to have some accountability on facts, et cetera.
00:51:11.000But look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence.
00:51:29.000So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully having, you know, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change.
00:51:44.000Now, obviously, there are some people in our country who are prepared to implement change in other ways.
00:51:51.000I'm not thinking really if democracy can survive unwrapping.
00:51:57.000I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing.
00:52:08.000And to me, that is part of what this race, this election is all about.
00:52:13.000Will we break the fever in the United States?
00:52:17.000Taken together, these developments evoke historical echoes that are very difficult to ignore.
00:52:20.000During the McCarthy era, the United States government justified sweeping investigations and loyalist tests by invoking the need to root out subversion.
00:52:28.000Senator Joe McCarthy's 1954 hearings targeted individuals for their associations, views, or insufficient enthusiasm for official narratives.
00:52:36.000There was no formal ban on dissenting speech.
00:52:39.000Yet the pressure exerted by the state and cooperating institutions chilled public expression.
00:54:00.000He shouldn't be fighting communism, should focus on fighting male-pattern baldness and cultivating that weird horn in the center of his forehead, trying to cover his kind of cover a molten shoot of sins without any.
00:54:11.000I will tell you that I will root out baldness.
00:54:14.000I will use this little strand of inexplicable forehead hair to cover my whole brow.
00:57:42.000We will not walk in fear, one of another.
00:57:45.000We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine.
00:57:51.000I've got this magnificent new machine, the teleprompter, where you can appear to be looking down the lens, but actually reading the whole time.
00:58:57.000Wherever it continues to exist in the world.
00:59:00.000But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
00:59:04.000The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies.
00:59:48.000The Red Scare was a reminder that censorship does not always come in the form of book burnings or explicit bans.
00:59:53.000It can arrive wrapped in the language of safety, responsibility, and public integrity.
00:59:57.000It can present itself as a polite request for cooperation.
01:00:00.000It often relies on a network of aligned actors who enforce norms on behalf of the state, allowing governments to claim they're not directly restricting speech.
01:00:07.000The pattern maps uncomfortably well onto the system emerging in Europe and the transatlantic network that supports it.
01:00:13.000The Commission insists that its fight against X is not about content.
01:00:18.000But regulations that determine who gets verified, who gets data, which researchers qualify for privileged status, and how visibility is algorithmically shaped, are entirely about content in practical and actual terms.
01:00:29.000They define which voices rise and which sink.
01:00:32.000They determine which topics become suspect and which narratives are approved.
01:00:36.000Europe's own foundational documents state that every individual has the right to receive and impart information without interference from public authority.
01:00:43.000It's difficult to square that principle with a regime that increasingly polices public communication through fines, pressure, and officially sanctioned gatekeepers.
01:00:50.000If transparency becomes the pretext for a managed public sphere, the question is not whether censorship exists.
01:00:56.000The question is how long governments can deny it while building the architecture for it in plain sight, which is the name of that documentary that the filthy, lying media, hard cash, Times, Sunday Times made about old Russ, a man who believes in freedom, sanctuary, glory, consent, and Christ.
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01:02:05.000As Western leaders continue to pour extraordinary sums of money into Ukraine, despite mountain evidence of entrenched corruption at the highest levels, is the narrative surrounding Vladimir Zelensky finally impossible to uphold?
01:02:20.000For years, Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky has been presented in Western media as the heroic face of democratic resistance, even though he speaks a bit like a Dalek.
01:02:30.000Any suggestion of corruption or misuse of Western funds was dismissed as propaganda.
01:02:38.000In a striking term, the New York Times of all of the institutions in the world has acknowledged that Zelensky and his top aides facilitated the siphoning of billions in aid, the racists.
01:02:47.000Remember, you couldn't say stuff like that.
01:02:48.000You couldn't say like missiles are cropping up in cartel hands.
01:02:51.000You couldn't say about the pipeline and all that.
01:02:53.000The paper that once championed him is now documenting how his administration systematically, hydramatically, Greece lightning, sabotaged anti-corruption mechanisms, sidelined over zeitboards and cleared the path for embezzlement.
01:03:10.000A sprawling energy sector corruption scandal is rocking Ukraine.
01:03:15.000Last Friday, the country was shocked by the exit of President Vlodymir Zelensky's chief of staff, Andrei Yermak, also Ukraine's second most powerful man.
01:03:24.000He resigned after the state anti-corruption body raided his home.
01:03:28.000As special correspondent Jack Hewson explains, it's a crisis striking at the heart of government as the country fights for survival against Russia's brutal invasion.
01:03:37.000The scandal centers around Timor Mindich, Zelensky's former media business partner, and a number of cabinet members, including former Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Chernyshev.
01:03:47.000The group were accused by investigators of embezzling public money that should have been spent on repairing Ukraine's energy grid.
01:03:54.000Then on Friday, Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was raided.
01:03:58.000It's not confirmed if it was in connection with the energy scandal, but he has since resigned.
01:04:05.000Zelensky came to office six years ago on a wave of popular revulsion against corruption.
01:04:10.000For decades, Ukraine has been synonymous with the word, and Zelensky's promise of a new leader untethered to the system led to a landslide.
01:04:21.000Even long-standing defenders in the legacy press are beginning to concede what critics have argued since the beginning of the war.
01:04:27.000The Times investigation describes the deliberate dismantling of guardrails meant to prevent abuse of Western money.
01:04:32.000Leaders in Kiev even rewrote company charters, says the Times, to limit oversight, keeping the government in control and allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent without outsiders poking around, the report notes.
01:04:43.000Supervisory boards and key institutions, including the state-owned electricity provider, were neutralized.
01:04:48.000A corruption scandal has erupted involving Zelensky's inner circle and the embezzlement, that's embezzle, bezel bezelment, baby, of $100 million from Ukraine's state-owned nuclear company.
01:05:14.000Here's friend of the show, Gavin DeBecker, on Joe Rogan's show, offering the most brilliant analysis of Zelensky-Zelensky's rise and what Zelensky is really.
01:05:35.000He was an outsider to politics, zero experience or interest in government or politics.
01:05:40.000He was a comedian and with no manifesto, no party ties.
01:05:44.000And he does a TV show, a planned TV show called Servant of the People.
01:05:49.000And the main character in the show does a YouTube video that calls out oligarchs and corruption and eventually becomes popular and is drafted as a protest candidate and eventually becomes president.
01:06:00.000So Zelensky played on a TV show a person who becomes president by popular demand.
01:06:07.000In real life, the TV show is supported by an oligarch named Kolomoyski who owned the TV channel.
01:06:15.000And Kolomoyski did a huge non-stop promo on that TV show to make it the number one show.
01:06:20.000Prime time slots and ads everywhere and crossovers with the news and what have you.
01:06:25.0002018, a year before the show goes off the air, Zelensky forms a political party called Servant of the People, the same title as the show.
01:07:44.000During the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers exposed how successive administrations concealed billions in US funds being lost to corruption within the South Vietnamese government.
01:08:14.000You can say, the Iran Contra Fair pulled back the foreskin on secret funding networks operating in Central America.
01:08:23.000The scandal exposed the diversion of money, all this is still true, from weapons sales to Iran in order to finance the contra rebels in Nicaragua.
01:08:32.000It showcased how shadowy financial channels hidden from public oversight could flourish under the cover of national security.
01:08:38.000The parallels to Ukraine's supervisory boards being stripped of all foreign are difficult to ignore for anybody.
01:08:43.000Similarly, after the US invasion of Iraq, sums of reconstruction money simply disappeared.
01:09:33.000I thought this was going to be some like uncontroversial historic 1980s fun news, but oh, here we go.
01:09:38.000According to the Washington Post, Mr. David Kimchi of the Israeli Foreign Ministry suggested arms and spare parts as a way America could show good faith to Iran.
01:09:50.000By September, it said the first delivery was underway, flown from Israel via Portugal to Tehran.
01:09:57.000The authoritative Madrid newspaper El Pais says at least five American arms flights went to Tehran from Spanish airports in the past two years.
01:10:17.000Why would Russia blow up their own pipeline?
01:10:19.000So really all it is is now we've got a million monkeys in real life at typewriters continually and once in a while you get the perfect works of Shakespeare, notably from Edward Morrow.
01:10:30.000One delivery in mid-September last year was immediately followed by the freeing in Lebanon of the American hostage, the Reverend Benjamin Weir.
01:10:38.000Three months later, Robert McFarlane came to London for secret talks, followed in Washington by President Reagan's secret authorization of arms deals.
01:10:47.000By the spring, Mr. McFarland was in Tehran itself on a secret four-day mission.
01:10:52.000More arms followed in the summer, and another hostage was freed, the Reverend Lawrence Jenko.
01:10:58.000Then this autumn, the same again, apparently another delivery, another hostage out of Beirut, Mr. David Jacobson.
01:11:05.000Thus, the two most outspoken opponents of international terrorism, Israel and the United States, participated in moving arms shipments to Iran despite an American-imposed ban on doing so.
01:11:16.000Any link to hostage releases is still denied.
01:11:19.000The Foreign Office here said today they had known nothing of the deals.
01:11:23.000But the former Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owens, said that Britain too had been cheating on supplying arms to Iran as recently as two years ago.
01:11:34.000My fellow Americans, I've said on several occasions that I wouldn't comment about the recent congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra matter until the hearings were over.
01:11:44.000Amazing, the tactics, some of the tactics remain consistent.
01:11:47.000I'm not even going to comment on that Epstein business.
01:11:49.000I'm not even going to dignify that with a response.
01:12:14.000If you compare Reagan's handling of Iran-Contra and then look at the current White House's handling of the Epstein files, do you note the tactics are pretty similar?
01:12:23.000Like, you know, look, we don't need to talk about this.
01:12:57.000I requested three of those investigations, and I endorsed and cooperated fully with the fourth, the Congressional Hearings, supplying over 250,000 pages of White House documents, including parts of my own private diaries.
01:13:13.000Once I realized I hadn't been fully informed, I sought to find the answers.
01:13:21.000As the Tower Board reported, and as I said last March, our original initiative rapidly got all tangled up in the sale of arms and the sale of arms got tangled up with hostages.
01:13:32.000Secretary Schultz and Secretary Weinberger both predicted that the American people would immediately assume this whole plan was an arms for hostages deal and nothing more.
01:13:44.000Well, unfortunately, their predictions were right.
01:13:47.000As I said to you in March, I let my preoccupation with the hostages intrude into areas where it didn't belong.
01:13:55.000The image, the reality of Americans in chains, deprived of their freedom and families so far from home, burdened my thoughts.
01:14:07.000My fellow Americans, I've thought long and often about how to explain to you what I intended to accomplish, but I respect you too much to make excuses.
01:14:16.000The fact of the matter is that there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.
01:14:22.000I was stubborn in my pursuit of a policy that went astray.
01:14:26.000As is it with Reagan, all of this is happening.
01:14:29.000So much has passed in the interim, and I still think, primarily, what a fantastic head of hair.
01:14:35.000Ukraine now appears to be repeating these stinking patterns.
01:14:38.000Before the war, it was already considered one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.
01:15:00.000And of course, what they'd say at the Guardian is, yeah, but everything changed because, you know, Zelensky was changing Ukraine and Ukraine wanted to join NATO and modernize.
01:15:10.000But another argument would be, you can't trust the media.
01:15:13.000The Pandora papers revealed offshore networks and questionable business dealings surrounding figures close to Zelensky.
01:15:19.000The infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars since 2022 did not transform the system.
01:15:24.000Instead, according to the New York Times, you and men alike, because you know the old days, it enabled the very people responsible for reform to entrench themselves further and profit from the chaos.
01:15:36.000Yet portions of the US media continue to deflect attention.
01:15:39.000While the Times investigates Ukrainian graft, popular hosts such as Rachel Madow and Stephen Colbert revive the familiar narrative that Donald Trump is compromised by Russia.
01:15:49.000You remember, they said he got weed on, stuff like that.
01:16:05.000I mean, literally, they wrote the plan for what they want Ukraine to do, and the White House put it on its letterhead and said, here it is.
01:16:13.000And, you know, Russia is a podunk country.
01:16:16.000They're a huge landmass, largest physical country in the world.
01:16:19.000They've got an economy like the size of Italy, right?
01:16:22.000They've got a kleptocratic, sclerotic government run by a guy who's never going to leave until he dies.
01:16:31.000The idea that we work for him, that we work for them, is so humiliating and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness.
01:16:41.000I don't know what Putin has on him, but he works for Putin and it's an embarrassment to this country.
01:16:49.000I'm not taking those people seriously anymore, are you?
01:16:51.000I just refuse, the Colberts, the Mad Owls.
01:16:55.000The unraveling of the Zelensky narrative raises a fundamental question.
01:16:58.000If the country was mired in corruption before the war, and if its leadership is spending years dismantling oversight while receiving unprecedented foreign funding, and we know that stuff happened in the past, how deep does the rock go now?
01:17:09.000Western governments justify the flow of money on the grounds of defending democracy, like always, democracy, got to defend democracy.
01:17:16.000Yet the evidence suggests that those funds have bolstered a system that undermines the very values it claims to protect.
01:17:25.000When vast foreign resources collide with weak institutions and geopolitical urgency, there is corruption.
01:17:31.000Ukraine is following the same script and the consequences are only beginning to surface.
01:17:36.000And people that were ages ago raising questions like good old Rusty here, will we be proven right or will we just be rounded up and put in jail?