This week on Stay Free With Russell Brand, we're joined by Adam Andrzejewski from Open the Books to talk about the privatisation of Ukraine, Joe Biden's Golden Globe speech and the nature of US propaganda. We're also joined by a brand new Royal Rumble WEF Watch Along, hosted by Gary Vaynerchuck and William. Stay Free with Russell Brand is on all of the social medias, if you search for Stay Free, you'll find us. Stay free, you're listening to Stay Free. This episode is sponsored by Vanguard, the world's biggest investment firm, who, along with BlackRock, are one of the best investment firms in the world, are an investment firm. They're not as good as Vanguard, but they're better than BlackRock. And they're still good enough that they're good enough to make you feel like you're going to see the future. And that's a good thing, because we'll be talking about it next week on Royal Rumble, where we're at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the most powerful people in the old world come together to come up with edicts and ideas, whether it's solar panels, solar panels or eating bugs, or staying in your house for whatever reason it is. And we're excited about it. Stay Free! Stay free! We'll be back next week with another brand new episode of Stay Free: You're Going To See The Future! with Gareth and Gareth! - stay free, baby! See you next Monday, you can t have it all the way to the bottom of the universe. - Gary and Gareth, stay free! xoxo - Your host, Gav & Gareth R. Baddeley and your host, Russell Brand (and you're gonna see the world in a world where you can be free, no matter where you're at it, and you can do it all, no one's gonna know where you are going to be able to do it and you don't have to pay for it, so don't be scared of it, you won't have it like that, you have to be brave, you don t have to go to Davos or you're not going to get it, it's going to have it, right here, right? And you can have it in the Davos Davos! You're not gonna wanna miss it!
00:01:30.000You're watching Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:01:33.000Me and my online assistant Gareth Roy will be bringing you a unique take on world events and of course today we are sponsored by Vanguard.
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00:01:52.000Vanguard won't be participating in the redevelopment of Ukraine like BlackRock will be.
00:03:03.000We're going to see how the most powerful interests in the world from big We're gonna be watching along with you with some fantastic guests.
00:03:09.000to come up with edicts and ideas, whether it's solar panels or eat bugs
00:03:13.000or stay in your house for whatever reason it is this week.
00:03:17.000We're going to be watching along with you with some fantastic guests.
00:04:02.000Don't collapse into existential despair.
00:04:09.000The first thing not to be terrified about, and if you're watching this on YouTube, remember in a minute we're going to be talking about Bouchy and the money that was earned during a particular medical emergency.
00:04:25.000And we're going to be talking about BlackRock's redevelopment of Ukraine in the post-war environment.
00:04:30.000So presumably this war is going to end at some point when it's expedient, when the military-industrial complex is about to go, then it can end.
00:04:36.000That's not to say that Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't criminal.
00:04:43.000Multiple things can be true simultaneously.
00:04:45.000And I've noticed, I don't know if you've noticed this, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments, that often world events appear to be dictated by the interests of the powerful, almost as if that's what power is, the ability to set and enact an agenda.
00:04:57.000Now, in case you was thinking of getting a little bit of work on the doors at a strip club, them days are gone, baby.
00:05:03.000The world's biggest strip club hires robot suits that turn bouncers into Terminators.
00:05:08.000Let's have a look at those robot bouncers.
00:06:13.000Well, let me share some news that just broke.
00:06:15.000We just received a statement from the President's Special Counsel about these classified documents.
00:06:19.000You know, we'd seen reporting that there was an additional batch of documents found at his private home in Wilmington, Delaware.
00:06:25.000We just received confirmation of that in a statement from the Special Counsel saying that lawyers did search his two homes in Delaware and also in Rehoboth Beach.
00:06:35.000Excuse me, Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, obviously both Delaware.
00:06:38.000But they did find some classified documents in the garage Well, let me share... Why they got all of these classified documents in their houses?
00:08:24.000Why are they classifying all of this information in the first place?
00:08:27.000Look at some examples of classified documents historically and look at, you need glance only at the great hero Edward Snowden to recognize what happens when people make revelations that I don't understand that.
00:08:39.000of the powerful Snowden tweeted, worth noting that the president seems to have absconded
00:08:43.000with more classified documents than many whistleblowers.
00:08:45.000For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to five years just for one document.
00:10:33.000Yeah, I think what would happen is he'd go to blow a whistle, a little fart would I think so.
00:10:37.000Shake hands with a Salvation Army volunteer thinking it was a member of the Secret Service.
00:10:42.000Dose off, drift off to the smell of his own farts.
00:10:45.000Now listen, we want you to stay with us for a bit longer if you're on YouTube, but remember a bit later we're going to be talking to you about the revelations, the Twitter revelations around censorship with our guest Adam Andrzejewski.
00:11:00.000Yeah, that's who we're going to be talking to.
00:11:02.000The Golden Globes was on the other night.
00:13:04.000Ukraine is not over yet, but the tide is turning and it is already clear who will win.
00:13:11.000There were still battles So it's not, like, really a message for peace.
00:13:15.000It's a rallying cry for an ongoing conflict, which we know is profitable to the military-industrial complex.
00:13:20.000Look at how the mainstream media are reporting this.
00:13:22.000If you're watching us on YouTube, get ready to click over on Rumble, because we're about to convey information to you that we would be censored for conveying on YouTube.
00:13:29.000But we really want you to stay with us.
00:13:31.000Look, the New York Times, Zelensky thanks the free world in a video message at the Golden Globes.
00:14:12.000They're saying that they're close to victory.
00:14:14.000And without diplomacy and peace talks, which it seems to be forbidden to even discuss, there's no way of reaching meaningful peace.
00:14:22.000Evidently, peace is going to happen at some time.
00:14:24.000We know this because a deal has been done with BlackRock for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
00:14:27.000So that means it's almost a guarantee.
00:14:29.000But we also know that companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have said to their shareholders, for the next quarter at least, things are looking good because the Ukraine conflict is going to continue and we're going to be able to it continues to sell weapons. Now, if you're watching us on
00:14:42.000YouTube, we're about to show content that is explicitly and literally Russian propaganda,
00:14:47.000which we obviously can't show on YouTube. It's banned. We would be booted off the channel.
00:14:51.000That's specifically why we are on Rumble, so we can give you balanced messaging. Our
00:14:55.000nations create propaganda and, of course, Russia creates propaganda as well.
00:14:59.000But what's astonishing are the similarities between the propaganda that we create in our nations and the propaganda that they use.
00:15:07.000So if you're watching us on YouTube and you'd like to have a look at some Russian propaganda and you want to stay with us for our fantastic guest who's going to be making revelations around They do that thing, don't they?
00:17:56.000Just saying that ultimately there are oligarchical interests at play within both narratives and you tend to be presented with the most convenient narrative depending on the whatever interests are in control of the machinery within which you operate.
00:18:10.000Biden deepens involvement in war by inviting Ukrainian troops to the US for weapons training.
00:18:14.000Now remember this is a war that the US are explicitly not involved in and have spent
00:18:39.000All we're doing is training a hundred guys to operate a Patriot missile defence system.
00:18:44.000I also can see why they have to work so hard to control the narrative.
00:18:49.000With all of the Twitterphile revelations about how much information is censored, with the overdrive people go into to demonise dissenting voices, you've probably experienced it on a personal level.
00:18:59.000You're a conspiracy theorist, you're in that case, that's That's the system catching up with the technological revolution that means that information can be immediately conveyed, that we have the ability to organise now.
00:19:11.000If only we have the discipline not to yield to their ongoing and constant propaganda, the possibility for change exists.
00:19:18.000When you feel disheartened, when you feel down, when you feel alone, remember how hard they work.
00:19:23.000to prevent you from awakening. Remember how hard they work at commodifying your consciousness,
00:19:29.000at deluging you in commerce and take heart from that.
00:19:32.000Remember that awakening and revolution remain continual possibilities. That's what I offer people,
00:19:37.000I agree with you and actually in our presentation that we'll be going to in a minute, I think
00:20:08.000Precisely what Russia feared after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union, that NATO would encroach on surrounding territories one way or another, even through the agency of global organizations such as NATO, or through economic imperatives, i.e.
00:20:24.000Black Rock are going to charge with the reconstruction of Ukrainian territory.
00:20:55.000I mean, it was good when Ricky Gervais did it.
00:20:57.000Then it's worth watching when he's firing off home troops at that rate.
00:21:01.000But, like, why would you bother having a Golden Globes if you're... Like, look at the sincerity of, like, this guy's a hero, he's a spearhead.
00:21:08.000Then Lenny comes out with that bad voice.
00:21:50.000Before we go, can we turn up the levels in here and just have one more look at Klaus Schwab singing I'm So Excited I Just Can't Hide It, because it really cheers me and lifts my heart to hear it.
00:22:00.000Turn up the levels in the room, though, so we get it.
00:22:01.000And remember, the next week, it is Davos week.
00:22:10.000Providing you an alternative story for the crazy stuff they're up to with them insect crunching solar panel made in a concentration camp making loonies over at Davos.
00:23:09.000BlackRock has done a deal with Zelensky to reconstruct Ukraine after the war.
00:23:15.000But don't start thinking that a taxpayer-funded war where billions of your dollars end up in the military-industrial complex means that there's anything to consider or anything to think about when it comes to the origins of this conflict or the desired outcome.
00:23:29.000Because that would make you, uh... Oh, where's my bloody hat?! !
00:23:34.000Today's story is that BlackRock and Zelensky have done a deal to reconstruct Ukraine after the war.
00:23:41.000Who's going to benefit from this situation?
00:23:43.000And does that present us with the possibility to inquire about the origins of this war, the nature of this war, the funding of this war in a way that in any way contradicts the Putin is evil, Russia is bad, their invasion is criminal, all of which is bloody true.
00:23:57.000But surely the best way to handle things is openly and honestly.
00:24:03.000Last week, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to coordinate investment efforts to reconstruct Ukraine.
00:24:12.000Let's coordinate these investment efforts.
00:24:14.000What do you mean we could conspire together?
00:24:17.000No, not conspire, just collaborate, collaborate.
00:24:19.000And again, I'm not saying that Zelensky is anything other than a Heroic leader of Ukraine.
00:24:23.000I'm saying that BlackRock's involvement in the reconstruction of Ukraine means it's ultimately going to be profitable because the investment company BlackRock don't do things that aren't profitable the same way as Pfizer don't do things that aren't profitable and if you have the media unwilling to give you balanced reporting on a subject, a subject upon which massive powerful interests stand to substantially benefit, Maybe this is just another one of those crises that's hugely profitable for some of the world's most powerful interests, but what they're trying to do is humanitarian.
00:24:55.000By accident, it was really profitable for everyone, but what they were trying to do was help, and then just by accident, they're just like sort of someone from a fairy tale, just wandering down the street, helping people, and just a load of gold ends up in their pocket.
00:25:07.000Vladimir Zelensky and Larry Fink agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy.
00:25:20.000If I try to be devil's advocate, and I mean the devil, for a moment, of course, after a war, Ukraine is going to require reconstruction.
00:25:28.000But don't you remember like about 20 years ago Iraq after the Iraq war required reconstruction and like Halliburton were right there to sort it out weren't they and to profit from it and had relationships with people.
00:25:41.000Do you think that in the last 20 years things have got So much better!
00:25:47.000You know, there's so much more transparency now, isn't there?
00:25:49.000There's so much more access to secret files and such a lack of ability to surveil and censor that obviously nothing like that could ever happen again.
00:25:57.000Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments.
00:25:58.000Critics have complained that BlackRock's new role in Ukraine could draw accusations of corruption.
00:26:06.000With some noting that the company's managing director, Eric Van Nostrand, was hired straight into a senior advisory position in the Biden administration's treasury department just this past August, explicitly to shape US economic policy on Russia and Ukraine.
00:26:20.000Oh, you think just because the company's managing director Eric Van Nostrand was hired straight into a senior advisory position in Biden's administration and now BlackRock are actually going to be actively involved in the reconstruction of Ukraine that there's some sort of corruption?
00:26:36.000Eric Van Nostrand is a party coordinator that we booked to give you the best birthday party ever and all BlackRock has ever wanted.
00:26:49.000Others have noted that BlackRock is a top beneficial owner of shares in major arms manufacturers who are reaping immense profits from the war in Ukraine with tens of billions invested in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.
00:27:02.000OK, so what we're going to be doing is we're going to be spending a lot of American taxpayer dollars on buying arms to defend Ukraine from Russia, which will obviously escalate this conflict, meaning Ukraine will suffer critical damages and will need reconstruction.
00:27:15.000Oh, my God, that's going to be expensive.
00:27:16.000Yes, that's part of the beauty of the plan.
00:27:19.000Because we sell the weapons that mean that they get more bombed, and then when they need to rebuild Ukraine, guess who rebuilds it?
00:27:31.000But BlackRock are not just profiting from the war in Ukraine that you're funding, they're also profiting from your poverty in the housing market as well.
00:27:39.000So whether it's in foreign overseas wars that America are not involved in, or in your inability to afford a home, BlackRock are benefiting.
00:27:48.000A report from the Wall Street Journal over the summer claimed that BlackRock was one of several major investment firms causing distortion in the housing market.
00:27:55.000The report laid out how BlackRock and firms like it are using their massive amounts of capital to buy up single-family houses, jacking up prices in the process.
00:28:02.000So if you can't afford a home, if you suddenly find yourself owning nothing and not being
00:28:06.000quite so happy, recognise that's not just happened by accident, it's happened because
00:28:09.000the convergence of interests has orchestrated it.
00:28:12.000In Houston, for example, the billionaire Fink reportedly accounts for one quarter of recent
00:28:35.000Arguing whether you want to be left alone because you're libertarian or you want to be left alone to identify in whatever way you want to identify.
00:28:41.000Do you note that there is not much mainstream coverage of BlackRock acquiring entire neighbourhoods, negatively impacting the housing market for ordinary Americans?
00:28:50.000Not only are the government not representing you by preventing something that could be prevented through the exertion of democratic power, if democratic power meant a centralised authority that acts on behalf of the people, that's what I thought it was meant to be, I don't know.
00:29:04.000Not only do they not do that, They're also employing party planner and friend to the poor Eric Van Nostrand to work right in the heart of the organisation.
00:29:13.000That's how tightly the convergences interlock.
00:29:17.000It's a lockstep system that disempowers you.
00:29:20.000So BlackRock gets paid by US taxpayers via the Ukrainian government to devise a plan that ensures the success of their future investments in Ukraine.
00:29:29.000Made from money gained by making American housing unaffordable.
00:29:33.000With a deal like that for our financial and political elite, why would they ever want peace?
00:29:58.000In case you think you're listening to the words of a madman who was once in the film Sarah Marshall, have a look at Mitch McConnell, who I don't believe was in that film.
00:30:06.000And let's be clear, the reason that a big bipartisan majority of the American people and a big bipartisan majority in Congress support continuing to assist Ukraine is not primarily about inspiring speeches.
00:30:20.000Well, if I can say that, you're the most boring person I've ever seen in my life.
00:30:23.000You're like a grey ice cream melting into my mind.
00:30:27.000President Zelensky is an inspiring leader, but the most basic reasons for continuing to help Ukraine degrade and defeat the Russian invaders are cold, hard, practical American interests.
00:30:57.000In fact, it's going to be worse for you because you're not going to be able to afford houses because BlackRock will use their investments elsewhere to bias housing markets not in your favour.
00:31:07.000There's an elite strata of people that benefit from these things and then there's American people and English people and Senegalese people and people all over the world getting royally fucked.
00:31:17.000Helping equip our friends in Eastern Europe to win this war is also a direct investment in reducing Putin's future capabilities to menace America and threaten our allies and contest our core interests.
00:31:33.000I think Mitch McConnell is using boringness to conceal the fact that he's just actually revealed centralist globalist conspiracy.
00:31:41.000Actually really we can't lose here because we won't have troops involved we'll use Ukrainian troops and of course we've been agitating Russia through NATO infringement on decrees that were made with Gorbachev.
00:31:53.000Later 90s, and we're all gonna profit from it because we don't want a powerful Russia.
00:31:58.000And when I say unipolar world, we don't mean American hegemony that means the American way of life will benefit ordinary Americans.
00:32:03.000I mean American elites and American corporations will benefit, and I'll just be able to drizzle away and melt into a pool of gray sperm just there, quivering on the ground.
00:32:12.000In October, the IMF executive board approved the disbursement of 1.3 billion dollars to Ukraine.
00:32:59.000Like, I'm not 12, so I recognise what capitalism is and I know that sort of stuff happens, but shouldn't that sort of just be plainly stated on the news by the mainstream media instead of them going, Hey listen, Putin just shit in his nappy while coming down the stairs, is that evil?
00:33:15.000Here's Zelensky rescuing a kitten in a blue and yellow flag.
00:33:25.000We're being reduced to a state where Mitch McConnell can drizzle out a wad of doldrums and we don't even spot it as evidence that the whole system is corrupt and cracked.
00:33:35.000Since the invasion, Ukrainian dollar-dominated bonds, which were issued as part of its 2015 debt restructuring, have been trading at around 25 cents on the dollar.
00:33:43.000This reflects the high risk of default, but also means that if Ukraine continues to make its debt payments, Western bank and hedge funds could make profits of 300%.
00:33:51.000The response of multilateral institutions has been to give even more loans to Ukraine.
00:33:56.000These new loans have been piled on top of Ukraine's already unsustainable debts.
00:34:00.000If Ukraine are leveraging that amount of debt, you know, seems like some of it's going to be profitable for the lenders, based on what we're discerning here.
00:34:07.000But also, Ukraine's just been co-opted by Western interests.
00:34:11.000There was a deal not to allow that to happen in order to ensure world peace between the former Cold War powers of Russia and the United States.
00:34:19.000So essentially, they've co-opted Ukraine financially through this conflict.
00:34:23.000Putin didn't just out of nowhere go, we're invading.
00:34:26.000This has been a process of agitation that's involved regional disputes.
00:34:31.000It's a complex thing, and you can look into it.
00:34:32.000Jeffrey Sachs will tell you about it in more detail.
00:34:34.000But once it becomes profitable and observable, you can see that there is a Western interest.
00:34:39.000And if that's not being reported on mainstream media, then you also know that the mainstream media can't be relied upon.
00:34:43.000The IMF leverages aid loans to push governments to adopt policies friendly to foreign investors.
00:34:48.000The IMF is funded by and represents Western financial capital and governments, and has been at the forefront of efforts to reshape economies around the world for decades, often with disastrous results.
00:34:57.000Now the results were disastrous there, but... We're gonna give you another chance.
00:35:01.000In Ukraine, the IMF had long planned to implement a series of economic reforms to make the country more attractive to investors.
00:35:08.000Following the Russian annexation of Crimea and military conflict in Donbass in 2014, Ukraine faced economic and financial crisis and was forced to take on more foreign loans from international institutions.
00:35:28.000This prescription of foul policies is familiar to many lower income countries across the global south where the IMF has imposed similar conditions on loans for decades, unleashing long lasting damage on their economies.
00:35:38.00020 years ago, when I was a wee lad growing up, you could read about stuff like this in books like Naomi Klein's No Logo, where often Latin American countries would be destabilised and then would be offered loans of this nature in exchange for favourable economic conditions.
00:35:50.000It used to be an issue that belonged to the cultural left.
00:35:53.000Now that their liberal establishment has relationships with the military-industrial complex and the financial industry, they don't talk about that stuff anymore, almost as if they don't care about other people at all, they just care about being in a position of power, and that's why suddenly you get people criticising the left from positions that traditionally would have been regarded as the left, and now those people, like me, have to be called conspiracy theorists or nutters, because the alternative to all of us being nutters and conspiracy theorists would be for them to have some principles, and to have some morals, and to have some values, and there ain't no way they're doing that.
00:36:22.000If Western governments were serious about helping Ukrainians amid a devastating war, they would push for those debts to be cancelled.
00:36:27.000And they are serious, because you see it on the mainstream media every night.
00:36:29.000So soon, they'll be pushing for those debts to be cancelled, right?
00:36:32.000Still... Just... No, I'm sure they're pushing for the debts to be cancelled.
00:36:35.000Perhaps a brief glance at history will tell us that things of this nature continually happen.
00:36:41.000Here's your friend and mine, Hillary Clinton, offering up economic opportunities in the aftermath of the illegal and devastating, duplicitous and deceitfully achieved Iraq War.
00:36:51.000Iraq has one of the largest customer bases in the entire Arab world.
00:37:19.000Also, a lot of them are feeling a bit vulnerable and a bit bombed at the moment, so they'll be extra keen to really put their shoulder to the grindstone.
00:37:27.000Today, Turkish, Chinese, French, Jordanian, Iranian companies are lining up to do business.
00:37:36.000But very honestly, we see too few American companies alongside our soldiers and our diplomats.
00:37:45.000Get in there and exploit those poor people!
00:37:48.000Iraqis are looking to rebuild every sector of their economy.
00:37:53.000Uh, not only their oil sector, but agribusiness, transportation, housing, banking, and many others.
00:38:01.000And so it's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq, uh, as a business opportunity.
00:38:33.000That's, I think, a million children, certainly people, died in that conflict.
00:38:37.000That's a sacrifice for your economic freedom.
00:38:40.000Justin Trudeau now says that violence is violence against the economy.
00:38:43.000Way back there, that trailblazer, that glass ceiling shatterer, Hillary Clinton, was saying that freedom means freedom to make money from dead children.
00:38:53.000So when you're accusing people of being conspiracy theorists or whack jobs, It's all on the internet.
00:39:57.000Over here, Hillary Clinton's giving them opportunities.
00:40:00.000And over there, they're giving her money.
00:40:02.000But to suggest there's a connection between those two things because it's the same person makes you a conspiracy theorist.
00:40:08.000In the aftermath of the Iraq war, the Bush administration pushed to privatise wide swathes of the Iraqi economy.
00:40:14.000Many prominent political voices charged that the conflict was not about national security or a humanitarian mission against the dictator, but was instead an attempt to use military force to open up Iraq's closed economy to foreign corporations, including oil giants like ExxonMobil.
00:40:27.000But nothing like that that could ever happen again, you know, like if there were
00:40:31.000any prominent political voices saying the conflict was not about national security or
00:40:34.000humanitarian mission. It's almost like they have to really emphasize national security and
00:40:38.000humanitarian mission because if you were to just put your eyes there, you'd see, oh look,
00:40:43.000there's a lot of economic opportunity emerging almost in the way that Mitch McConnell said on
00:41:10.000And said that in meetings with corporate executives, US government officials returned to the theme that the US government stands ready to help US firms operate in Iraq.
00:41:50.000Forget about ever having a connection to nature or building a life that has any purpose or meaning.
00:41:54.000Just sit down and shut up and eat You're bills!
00:41:58.000All of the same questions keep arising almost as if there is an ulterior system that's operating that leaves clues and traces that are available to anyone if you watch them on the TV saying it.
00:42:35.000Hello there, my little friend, my little foamy pal, my little conduit of vibration.
00:42:40.000It's not often in this crazy world, is it Gal, that we get to bring people some...
00:42:44.000Good news, with that we get to welcome a genuine hero.
00:42:48.000Someone who is a crusader for truth, justice and the American way.
00:42:52.000Not Superman or Batman or any of those people.
00:42:55.000In this case, it's Adam Andrzejewski, founder of Open The Books, who are an organisation that filed 50,000 freedom of information requests last year to help people find the truth.
00:43:03.000You know when stuff's classified and you simply can't find out the truth because the truth is not expedient to the interests of the powerful?
00:43:08.000Well, Adam is a person that ensures, as best he can, that we have Thanks for having me on.
00:43:12.000truth which means of course he was cancelled by Forbes for making revelations about Anthony
00:43:16.000Fauci who you might have heard of. He's a person who works for the government. He's
00:43:20.000got a lot of knowledge around medicine. Adam, thanks for joining us.
00:43:24.000Well, Mr. Brand, thanks for having me on. It's great to be here.
00:43:27.000I really like you already. I don't get to meet.
00:43:33.000I don't get to meet very many Hollywood stars.
00:44:19.000Well, Elon Musk has been throwing some bombs lately, that's for sure.
00:44:22.000I think one thing about OpenTheBooks.com that I just want to lay on the table right away, we're all about hard facts, no spin.
00:44:29.000Mr. Brandt, think of us as a Public Information Act machine, and you've got millions of your awakening wonders in your audience, and you're on a discovery voyage with them.
00:44:42.000So like you said in the introduction last year, we filed 50,000 Freedom of Information Act request to capture, over the course of the last two years, $19 trillion worth of federal, state, and local spending.
00:44:56.000And we do this primarily so regular people can follow the money.
00:45:00.000So we, ourselves, your listening audience, so we can hold the powerful accountable.
00:45:05.000Republicans, Democrats, and unelected bureaucrats.
00:45:08.000So I think there's like three keys to the public health space in America.
00:45:13.000Number one, the first key is, is that it has a culture of secrecy.
00:45:18.000And today we'll talk about the secret revenue stream that our auditors at openthebooks.com uncovered, $1.4 billion of these secret hidden third party royalties over at the National Institutes of Health.
00:45:31.000The second key is just what you put on the table with the Fauci's.
00:45:35.000So if US public health was a game show, If it was a reality TV show, I think we'd have to call it Meet the Fauci's.
00:45:44.000Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife, Christine Grady, most people don't know that she is the chief bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health.
00:47:03.000And as a testament to the quality of the work, Forbes has left my author archive live.
00:47:08.000Extraordinary, mate, that that's happened.
00:47:11.000What I suppose I want to understand, mate, is that can you just tell me a little more about the NIH's 30 billion government grants and the 56,000 recipients and the way that these royalties operate and how they are distinct from, I don't know, bribes?
00:47:28.000Well, Mr. Brand, I think during the pandemic, the American people, we kind of got the sense, the feeling, that big government was very close to big pharma.
00:47:37.000And because of our work at OpenTheBooks.com, now we know just how close they are.
00:47:42.000NIH, the National Institutes of Health, is actually a revolving door.
00:47:47.000Every year, they dole out about $32 billion worth of grants.
00:47:52.000To about 54,000 healthcare entities across the United States.
00:47:57.000Think pharmaceutical companies, universities, research outfits, the entire public health complex.
00:48:02.000That buys you a lot of friends, that buys you a lot of allies.
00:48:06.000And now because of our Freedom of Information Act request, followed by our federal lawsuit to enforce it, We now know, coming back through the other door, over the course of the past 12 years has been $1.4 billion worth of these hidden secret third-party royalties that enriched the agency, its leadership, and 2,400 of its scientists.
00:48:30.000So I suppose this is comparable in a sense to the FDA's ability to regulate the pharmaceutical companies that it is funded by, or at least in large part funded by, that when there are so many financial incentives, it's difficult to maintain the idea that these organizations are in any way objective, and ultimately it appears that These organizations are interlocked, so they have the same agenda.
00:48:57.000And when that is coupled with the consequences that you suffered for your free columns, it seems like information is being controlled.
00:49:05.000It appears that people are being financially rewarded.
00:49:09.000It starts to sound very much like corruption.
00:49:12.000Can I ask you, Adam, I would start calling you mister, because I'm loving this Midwest manners thing.
00:49:30.000So Moderna is actually suing the National Institutes of Health.
00:49:34.000You know, the National Institutes of Health, I guess, is suing Moderna because Moderna left three NIH scientists off of its patent application.
00:49:42.000So this is a big dispute between the health care agency and Moderna.
00:49:52.000And they profited big time through the license to Pfizer for the COVID vaccine.
00:49:58.000Their third-party royalties in 2021 doubled to $127 million in 2021 because Pfizer licensed COVID vaccine technologies invented at the taxpayer-paid labs over at the National Institutes of Health.
00:50:17.000NIH is claiming that Moderna actually did not recognize that technology and they're
00:50:24.000suing them to get on the patents at Moderna.
00:50:53.000They redacted the name of the third-party payer, so we don't know which pharmaceutical company actually paid the individual scientists.
00:51:00.000We don't know the amounts the individual scientists Like the leadership, like Fauci, like Collins, like 2,400 scientists received, and they also redacted and blacked out the inventions, the license numbers, and the patent numbers.
00:51:13.000Those scientists were paid by us, the American taxpayer.
00:51:17.000They invented these things in taxpayer-funded labs, and NIH is redacting this.
00:51:23.000Yeah, I mean, it's redacted so much that if we didn't employ forensic data scientists, these disclosures would have been absolutely worthless.
00:51:32.000I dislike the paternalism inherent in these behaviours.
00:51:36.000Well, I was going to say, Fauci's denied so far, hasn't he, about these royalties.
00:51:39.000And I guess the reason that he's been able to deny them so far in Congress to other, you know, other congressmen, other politicians, is because of these redactions.
00:51:47.000And I just, it's incredible, isn't it, that these can still take place when we know now that there's a relationship where people like Anthony Fauci are getting paid money from pharmaceutical companies and we are not We're not being given the data on that.
00:52:01.000How does that happen in a world where questions can be asked in Congress and yet these documents can still be redacted in the ways that they are?
00:52:08.000So we launched our report on the third-party royalties in May, and that's when Mr. Brand did that great podcast, 15 Minutes, on the situation, and it immediately led, 36 hours after our release, to congressional hearings.
00:52:22.000A powerful hearing in House Appropriations, where the acting director, Lawrence Tabak, he was there to get his budget from Congress, but he had to face questions on the third-party royalty report that we issued.
00:52:33.000And he admitted that, yes, Every single one of those 56,000 payments over the course of the last 12 years has the appearance of a conflict of interest.
00:53:12.000And they found that Fauci had burned down all the firewalls.
00:53:16.000He had received $45,000 worth of royalties for an AIDS therapeutic that he had invented.
00:53:23.000As the director of the agency he had invested another 36 million dollars of taxpayer money to enhance his invention and he once this was exposed He said he would donate his royalties to charity.
00:53:35.000His deputy director, Clifford Lane, said he wouldn't donate his $45,000 of royalties to charity.
00:53:44.000So look, that's just one instance, one example of the last time when we were able to follow the money.
00:53:50.000We can't follow the money now, and we need congressional action.
00:53:54.000Signora Andrzejewski, I could see why they have to tightly control the narrative when so much of the information that's revealed through your intrepid research and tenacity is so detrimental to the version of reality that they would have us believe.
00:54:10.000When I think of the way that Fauci has been celebrated, lauded, presented as a counter-cultural figure almost, as a truth-teller, as a legitimate scientist and doctor, that is deeply at odds with many of these revelations.
00:54:26.000I wonder if you can take a little deeper, Monsieur Andrzejewski, into the nature of these COVID aid programs, the 3.6 billion COVID stimulant payments, and where some of those payments ended up.
00:54:41.000So, the COVID aid bills that passed through Congress very quickly, they had the law of unintended consequences.
00:54:49.000Mr. Brand, they were basically a license to steal from the American taxpayer.
00:54:54.000It is the largest public fraud in the history of the country on what was stolen from our unemployment insurance when the When Fauci and the politicians locked down the economy, it threw 40 million people out of a job at the peak of the pandemic.
00:55:12.000Obviously, these people had real needs.
00:55:14.000Congress authorized $800 billion worth of unemployment aid.
00:55:19.000And now we know up to half of it Four hundred billion dollars was stolen by criminals, con artists, and crime syndicates from around the world.
00:55:29.000Mr. Brandt, it is an open question as to whether the Chinese military and Russian military hackers stole enough of our unemployment aid that was supposed to help people who had real needs, obviously, The Chinese military budget is $200 billion.
00:55:44.000The Russian military budget is $80 billion.
00:55:47.000It is an open question as to whether those countries stole enough of our unemployment insurance to cover a full year of their military budgets.
00:55:58.000With US debt as high as it currently is, why are US taxpayer dollars being wasted on packages such as those as you have outlined and a ludicrous project to blow lizards off of trees?
00:56:12.000Is that real or is this something I've dreamt?
00:56:21.000They got $75,000 for a project to go find 100 lizards by leaf blowers and literally blow them off the trees to see how they reacted during hurricane winds.
00:56:34.000If that project had merit, Harvard could have funded it themselves.
00:56:38.000They need to lighten the load on the American taxpayer.
00:56:40.000You know, over the course of the last couple of years, here are just some examples of what we found worth of taxpayer abuse.
00:56:47.000We found that NASA received a million dollar grant to prepare the nation's religions for the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
00:56:55.000We found that Cornell University, Ivy League University, they received a million dollar grant on a study where it hurts the most to be stung by a bee.
00:57:07.000And my favorite study comes out of Health and Human Services.
00:57:11.000They gave 1.4 million dollars to California prostitutes for sex education.
00:57:18.000And they could probably teach the class.
00:57:22.000Mr Adam Andrzejewski, sir, you claim to be from OpenTheBooks.com and yet I challenge you to open a book at random from behind you and read a passage purely at chance to see what it says.
01:01:07.000Plus, for those of you that are members of our special Stay Free AF community, me and Mr Roy will be doing... I'm going to call you that for a while, I wear off eventually.