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00:02:56.000It's a brilliant story based on reporting by Lee Fang.
00:02:59.000We'll be getting into that in a minute.
00:03:00.000We'll be talking about updates on Julian Assange and the likelihood that he will be extradited.
00:03:07.000You know that they said, look, if we, the British went, if we extradite Julian Assange, will you say that you won't death penalty him where it hurts?
00:03:32.000We're talking about, as well, the main thing you're going to want to see, I think, is when we talk about the Trump Distraction Trial.
00:03:38.000Is this trial artfully designed to prevent us from observing?
00:03:43.000Well, God, it would be enough that Bill 702, the Pfizer Act, is being passed and made even worse, but also the ongoing funding for a variety of wars.
00:03:54.000I do not want to sound hyperbolic, Particularly as that's one of the things that can get you censored these days.
00:04:00.000Emotional speech is cited as one of the qualities that ought be categorized as disinformation.
00:05:35.000A reduction in traffic to help meet the climate goals would only be possible through measures that are difficult to communicate to the public, such as comprehensive and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays.
00:05:46.000Do you see how climate change is being utilised not to penalise, persecute or control the interests of the powerful, but to legitimise further authoritarianism?
00:06:02.000Of course the planet is beautiful and that we should act in conjunction with nature in a spirit of harmony, reverence, respect and love.
00:06:14.000It's difficult not to imagine though that the climate change phenomena is being utilised to legitimise further authoritarianism.
00:06:23.000It is with some interest that I note that the WHO treaty allows them to impose legislation and regulation in the event of further pandemics, in the event of climate change crisis.
00:06:35.000It allows them to censor misinformation and disinformation.
00:07:24.000Lee Fang said, USAID, or USAID, depends how you say it, funded Ukrainian media, USAID funded Ukrainian media are helping Facebook remove alleged Russian disinfo content.
00:07:35.000The same group, without evidence, claim Americans favoring a diplomatic solution to the conflict, Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Glenn Greenwald, etc., are Russian propaganda agents.
00:07:45.000Blumenthal, who's also on the list, along with me, Says the State and National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cutout, are funding shady NGOs in Kiev to smear American critics of the disastrous Ukraine proxy war.
00:07:59.000UK government-sponsored Vox Ukraine has a series of videos attacking me, Jimmy Dore, Wyatt Reed, Rusty Rockets and more.
00:08:07.000Guess which one we're going to show you a little bit of now.
00:08:11.000Let me know in the chat if you think I'm going to show you a bit of propaganda attacking Max Blumenthal, Jeffrey Sachs, Who do you think it's gonna be?
00:08:20.000Russell Brand is a British actor, publicist, and broadcaster who began his career as a comedian.
00:08:26.000Brand leads an outrageous lifestyle and is constantly placed in all sorts of scandals.
00:08:31.000YouTube has already stripped his channel of ad revenue for violating its creator liability policy.
00:08:36.000To be fair, that's not her actual voice.
00:09:08.000I would know because I am me and I was there.
00:09:12.000So I know what I've done and I know what I've not done.
00:09:15.000And isn't it extraordinary that deep state agencies are spending money to convey the idea that this is a pro-Putin... I don't think that Russia should be granted dominion over Ukraine.
00:09:31.000I think that the war should end for the benefit of everyone involved, just if you're interested.
00:09:37.000Now the channel has 6.5 million subscribers is devoid of monetization.
00:09:42.000That's why you've got to subscribe to Rumble, guys.
00:09:46.000Some of those conspiracy theories include that lockdowns might have had penurous, difficult and injurious consequences on other conditions like heart disease and cancer, mental health, addiction.
00:10:07.000They may even have contributed to rising suicide rates.
00:10:11.000Certain medications were not trialed for their impact on transmission, but there is some interesting information emerging when it comes to adverse events.
00:10:23.000You let me know in the chat what within that is covid misinformation or misinformation of any description but what becomes clear is that misinformation is a category that's being created specifically and deliberately to afford the ability to censor
00:10:44.000Indeed, even in their own description of the term misinformation and disinformation, some of the CIA carve-outs and the groups that they're funding admit that emotional rhetoric and jokes and well-communicated ideas are the type of information that has to be censored.
00:11:03.000It's not about truth, it's not about facts, it's about control and power, and anyone that opposes the narratives that the powerful would prefer is in serious jeopardy right now.
00:11:17.000The legacy media, the judiciary and the state are operating way beyond the remit of representative democracy to assert a globalist agenda that increasingly seems to me like it will result in all of us, to one degree or another, Being tyrannized.
00:11:35.000And because it doesn't resemble the types of tyrannies that we are familiar with from previous centuries, militaristic, marching, shiny boots, fantastic logos, but ultimately terrible genocides, we are becoming distracted.
00:11:50.000What we are being confronted with Is technological dictatorship, the misuse of data, the ability through surveillance to control entire populations, the ability through social media and the censorship of social media to convey and amplify narratives that are useful for the agenda of the powerful and to remove, annihilate and discredit any narratives or purveyors of narratives that are not convenient to the agenda of the powerful.
00:12:22.000Let me know what you think about that in the rumble chat, while the rumble chat is still an option, because it's becoming clear that organisations such as Meta and Alphabet Google are participating to a various degree in various types of endeavour that include censorship, and that's putting it rather gently.
00:12:42.000I hope everything's going okay in locals, guys.
00:12:45.000SueBiz22, you guys, is the stream all okay?
00:12:54.000That's how confident we are in our content.
00:12:57.000You know me, I could talk about myself all day, but we know that there are much, much, much, much more important stories to convey.
00:13:05.000Not least of all, the story of Julian Assange, who moved one step closer to extradition today when the US predictably offered the assurances that the UK judiciary sought before agreeing to extradite him.
00:13:19.000If we extradite... No, sorry, I've got to do British first.
00:13:21.000If we extradite this Assange character, do you promise you'll give him a fair trial?
00:13:26.000Absolutely, we will give him a fair trial.
00:13:31.000So let's get into this story, let's see what Stella Assange, the leader of his campaign and his wife, has to say and let's look at where censorship and indeed what happens when you purport to convey and relay information that's adversarial to powerful interests, what happens to Julian Assange, what happens when people do it today and are even now Bills and laws being passed that afford more surveillance than we would have ever deemed possible.
00:14:40.000has guaranteed it won't impose the death penalty if Assange is convicted, that his Australian nationality won't prejudice his trial or sentence, and that he can seek to use the U.S.
00:14:51.000Constitution's First Amendment right to freedom of speech in his defense.
00:14:55.000In a statement, Assange's wife Stella called the assurances blatant weasel words.
00:15:00.000The case will now return to the High Court in London next month, where lawyers on both sides will make their final arguments to the justices.
00:15:07.000A decision will then be made on whether or not he can be extradited, or if he'll be given another right to appeal.
00:15:14.000As his legal avenues in the UK dry up, efforts to broker a diplomatic deal become more desperate.
00:15:34.000And it's interesting actually because you can hear from how Stella breaks this down that they're not saying No, he's got the First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, that's a right.
00:15:45.000And freedom of speech, look, increasingly we're seeing he's not a right.
00:15:48.000Listen to the story we've just told you.
00:15:50.000It's as if Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, it's as if that whole thing never happened because the deep state are spending money Censoring information, smearing dissidents, your money, by the way, even now, today, in relation to current conflicts, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, at a time when bills are being passed for even more, billions of dollars of taxpayer money to go on funding wars in the Middle East, wars in Europe, wars in the South Chinese Sea.
00:16:27.000It makes no undertaking to withdraw the prosecution's previous assertion that Julian has no First Amendment rights because he is not a U.S.
00:16:49.000The diplomatic note does nothing to relieve our family's extreme distress about his future, his grim expectation of spending the rest of his life in isolation in US prison for publishing award-winning journalism.
00:17:00.000The Biden administration must drop this dangerous prosecution before it's too late.
00:17:05.000Let's see what Caitlin Johnston has to say because she's a brilliant, brilliant journalist who I think he's always able to articulate precisely how power and the various intersections of power ensure that tyranny is always presented as some kind of health and safety measure that's for the mutual benefit of us all.
00:17:30.000The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia's request to end the case against Assange and they're proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about U.S.
00:17:39.000In order to move the extradition case forward per a British High Court ruling, U.S.
00:17:44.000prosecutors needed to provide assurances that the U.S.
00:17:47.000would not seek the death penalty and would not deprive Assange of his human right to free speech because of his nationality.
00:17:53.000But all of our free speech is under threat.
00:17:56.000The bill that's going through your Senate Right now is not only a reiteration of the Patriot Act, but an enhancement of it, meaning that the United States could be turned into a nation of spies that you will never again see heroes like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning or global heroes like Julian Assange.
00:18:51.000The US provided the assurance against the death penalty, which they previously opposed doing, and for the free speech assurance they said, only that Assange will be able to raise and seek to rely upon.
00:19:08.000What they're saying in the phrase raise and seek to rely upon is there's nothing wrong with him mentioning it and trying to use it but we're not going to allow him to use it because if he was allowed to use it this entire scenario would be unraveled because actually all Julian Assange ever did was publish award-winning Journalism and revelations about massive international corruption.
00:19:36.000As Chatterx says on RumbleNet right now, when exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you're being ruled by criminals.
00:19:51.000A decision as to the applicability of the First Amendment is exclusively within the purview of the US courts, which is basically just saying, I mean, you're welcome to try to have free speech protections.
00:20:02.000They're just squeezing and squeezing this man as hard as they can for as long as they can get away with to keep him silent and make an example of him to show what happens when journalists reveal unauthorized information about the Empire.
00:20:12.000Just like Gaza, the persecution of Julian Assange makes a lie of everything the US and its Western allies claim to stand for and reveals the cruel face of tyranny beneath the mask of liberal democracy.
00:20:25.000Let me know what you think about that.
00:20:26.000Sounds like a pretty succinct summing up of the situation.
00:20:30.000If you're watching us on YouTube, we're gonna leave you there.
00:20:40.000A piece of legislation that's going to inhibit your freedom even further and potentially turn the entire United States into a nation of spies.
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00:23:30.000The US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
00:23:40.000I mean, do you ever hear that sound and it not be connected to corruption?
00:23:44.000And may even strengthen them with language that, according to US Senator Ron Wyden, will force a huge range of companies and individuals to spy for the government.
00:24:31.000If you don't understand the gravity and import of this situation, let's see what Edward Snowden's got to say.
00:24:37.000The NSA is just days from taking over the internet and it's not on the front page of any newspaper because no one has noticed.
00:24:47.000This is a post from, I'm now beginning to realize, a rather brilliant person, Elizabeth Goytin, who writes...
00:24:54.000If this bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides any service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored, such as routers, or maybe you guys say routers, servers, cell towers, etc.
00:25:12.000Seems to be cause for some concern, doesn't it?
00:25:16.000Now, Elizabeth Goytin has written in detail about this, so let's see what's going on.
00:25:24.000But the idea that the NSA is days from taking over the internet is concerning enough.
00:25:30.000When that's coming from Edward Snowden, who's currently in exile in evil, bad Russia.
00:25:36.000Just to let you know, I don't think Russia's great or it's really bad Russia.
00:25:57.000Indeed, as I've said before, and I'm sure I'll have cause to say again, it was the Russian writer Solzhenitsyn who, from the Gulag, wrote the line between good and evil.
00:26:18.000Let's have a look at what Elizabeth Goytin is telling us about Section 702 and how it's going to enhance your government's ability to spy on you, even though it's called the Foreign International Surveillance Act.
00:26:34.000Look at what they're doing to Julian Assange.
00:26:36.000Look at what they've done to Edward Snowden.
00:26:38.000Look at what these organizations are doing to anyone who opposes military action.
00:26:43.000To be anti-war is not to be pro-Russia.
00:26:46.000To be anti-war does not mean you condemn any national or cultural group.
00:26:51.000It just means you're anti-war and anti-violence and believe that in 2024 human beings might have access to other realms of consciousness and different solutions.
00:27:02.000And when they continue to mire us in mindless violence they deny our sacred nature.
00:27:08.000And isn't that the point of the project?
00:27:12.000To ensure that we inhabit limited environments of foolishness, low horizons, so every child grows up now baffled and confused and uncertain, disoriented, unsure of nature, unsure of truth.
00:27:25.000But we have access to great power and it's within us now.
00:27:29.000Let us unify and let's learn what Elizabeth Goitein's got to teach us about this new draconian measure that I reckon, when we wake up tomorrow, will have been passed.
00:27:41.000Buried in the Section 702 Reauthorisation Bill, RISAA, passed by the House on Friday, so it's already been passed by Congress, is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act, which was of course a response to an atrocity, the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, which subsequently led to military interventionism and action in Iraq and Afghanistan, which in retrospect did not make sense ...meant that millions of people died, that terrorist organisations were created.
00:28:17.000Indeed, you could argue that some of the conflicts that are unfolding even now are the legacy of some of the decisions that were made at that time.
00:28:28.000But what's happening now is the ability to oppose militaristic measures is being increasingly prohibited and limited, whether it's the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Or conflicts that are escalating in the Middle East.
00:28:41.000As this becomes a real issue for Joe Biden, as this makes an unpopular president even less electable, this conversation is being exorcised from the internet.
00:28:51.000Remember, it's not that long ago that Aaron Bushnell, American serviceman, set himself on fire in protest against actions in Gaza and what he perceived to be tacit American support for those actions through the supply of weapons.
00:29:06.000Now, Your country, the United States of America, and my country, the UK, we are involved in that conflict since Iran's escalation, which in itself was a response to the bombing of a consulate.
00:29:17.000The way that these things are narrativised matters.
00:30:05.000But the fact is, important though that is, that has nothing compared to our mutual ability to communicate freely with one another so that we can oppose the larger agenda of globalism and forever wars.
00:30:17.000An agenda that is well underway and if not opposed immediately and with great vehemence and great dedication.
00:30:23.000Dedication that will not come from the cowed, denied and supplicant people that we're becoming under their tyranny.
00:30:30.000That will only come if we're able to engage with a different power.
00:30:34.000A different force, a gentler voice, where might we find it?
00:30:39.000Where are we going to find this power from?
00:30:41.000Where are we going to find anything other than endless, continual escalation?
00:30:45.000Where in ourselves will we look to find the resources and force required to change the world?
00:30:50.000Because it looks like the clock is ticking and it's not a chicken in the oven, it's a bomb in the basement.
00:30:58.000I'll explain how this new power works, continues Goitein.
00:31:02.000Under current law, the government can compel electronic communications service providers that have direct access to communications to assist the NSA in conducting Section 702 surveillance.
00:31:13.000In practice, that means companies like Verizon and Google must turn over the communications of the targets of Section 702 surveillance.
00:31:20.000The targets must be foreigners overseas, like me, I'm overseas, although the communications can and do include communications with Americans.
00:31:28.000I'm communicating with Americans right now.
00:31:57.000Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of electronic communications surveillance provider, note that fact that it's innocuous, note that fact that it's bureaucratic creep of tyranny once again that we're confronted with, an amendment offered by House Intel Committee, HPSCI leaders and passed by the House, vastly expands the universe of entities that can be compelled to assist the NSA.
00:32:22.000If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides any service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored, such as routers, routers, servers, cell towers, etc.
00:32:39.000That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S.
00:32:41.000businesses that provide Wi-Fi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit.
00:32:48.000Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist offices, the list goes on and on.
00:32:54.000Essentially anywhere, anywhere that has Wi-Fi would have to hand over information.
00:32:59.000And do you notice as well the manner in which they tack these things on?
00:33:04.000The extraordinary manner and covert Sly methods that are deployed to control you, to manipulate and target you.
00:33:14.000It also includes commercial landlords that rent out the office spaces where tens of thousands, tens of millions, oh my God, tens of millions of Americans go to work every day.
00:33:24.000Offices of journalists, lawyers, non-profits, financial advisors, healthcare providers, and more.
00:33:29.000When the amendment was first unveiled, one of the FISA court amici took the highly unusual step ...took the highly unusual step of sounding a public alarm.
00:33:40.000Civil liberties advocates noted that the provision would encompass hotels, libraries, and coffee shops.
00:33:46.000The version of HPSCI leaders offered Friday therefore exempts hotels, library shops, and coffee shops, plus a handful of other establishments.
00:33:55.000But as the Pfizer court amicus promptly pointed out, the vast majority of US businesses remain fair game.
00:34:03.000The amendment even extends to service providers who come into our homes.
00:34:07.000House cleaners, plumbers, people performing repairs and IT service providers have access to laptops and routers, routers, inside our homes and could be forced to serve as surrogate spies.
00:34:20.000What happens to me when I'm reading this, I'm sort of like, oh god, this is sort of a little bit boring.
00:34:24.000But hold on a minute, what they're doing is they're facilitating endless espionage and spying while hypocritically condemning Julian Assange for espionage and seeking to extradite him.
00:34:37.000And all right, they're saying they're not going to execute him, but he may have to spend the rest of his life in jail.
00:34:42.000And he can't say, well, what about free speech?
00:34:56.000None of these people or businesses will be allowed to tell anyone about the assistance they were compelled to provide.
00:35:01.000They will be under gag order and they would face heavy penalties if they fail to comply with it.
00:35:06.000So do you see once again, like when you look at something like 1984 and you see the sort of grey drab Soviet derived dystopic vision that Orwell rendered, that it is in fact Accurate in terms of the power and ability of centralised forces to dominate and control, but the aesthetic is very much Brave New World.
00:35:25.000Sublime, divine, sweet, anodyne, astringent, clean and hygienic dictatorships, where drones immaculately fly and rationally dispense with opponents of the state.
00:35:40.000Where sovereign nations are of course free to make their own decisions and you are of course not free to decide whether or not you want your taxes to continue to fund foreign wars, to continue to fund censorship that ultimately prohibits you from learning the truth, or if not learning the truth, having access to a variety of opposing opinions And then forming your own view and taking your own choices for yourself, for your family, for your community.
00:36:09.000They want your reality curated and pre-tuned and they want you docile, supine, on a chair, obedient and broken.
00:36:21.000Unlike Google and Verizon, most of these businesses and individuals lack the ability to isolate and turn over a target's communications, so they would be required to give NSA access to the equipment itself or to use techniques or devices, presumably provided by the NSA, to copy and turn over entire communication streams ...and or repositories of stored communications, which would inevitably include vast quantities of wholly domestic communications.
00:36:46.000I urge you, if you've not seen the documentaries, I think it's called Citizen Four, is it Citizen Four?
00:36:52.000When Snowden made these revelations, he was like a person that had been given an epiphany, a glimpse into another world.
00:37:01.000They can spy on you through your phones.
00:37:03.000They're listening to what they could be listening to us right now.
00:37:06.000We still live in the vision granted to us by Snowden, conveyed, not that particular piece of journalism, but comparable pieces of, comparable revelations were made by Assange.
00:37:18.000We are appraised and apprised of the information.
00:37:22.000They've told us at great sacrifice the truth, and yet we are still willing somehow To remain docile, malleable and calm.
00:37:33.000I'm not opposing tranquility or serenity or inner peace.
00:37:37.000This is the firm basis upon which our opposition must be built.
00:37:48.000The NSA having wholesale access to domestic communications on an unprecedented scale would then be on the honor system to pull out and retain only the communications of approved foreign targets.
00:38:01.000HPSCI leaders deny that the administration has any intent to use this provision so broadly.
00:38:07.000Supposedly, there is a single type of service provider that the government wants to rope in, but they didn't want anyone to know what that service provider Do you see how often broad, vague legislation is being passed?
00:39:17.000Ukraine, whose democracy has become somewhat stripped back since they've taken control of the media and stopped elections and shut down political opposition, which is, you could argue, understandable during a war.
00:39:30.000It all becomes a little more difficult to understand when you appreciate that there was a treaty on the table, but between the United States and the UK, Zelensky was persuaded not to sign it.
00:39:58.000But if this is something that's been passed by Congress and is likely to get passed by the Senate, do you not think that it's potentially time for us to look at new systems of government?
00:40:09.000It doesn't seem to be working very well.
00:40:11.000Even if the targets Excuse me, even if the targets are supposed to be foreigners, a power this sweeping will be abused.
00:40:20.000Well, whether it's the ongoing trials and incarceration of Julian Assange or the escalation of powers such as this, it's pretty clear that we are living in a 360 sphere of total power where the legacy media, judiciary and government are all individually weapons within a globalist artillery that won't rest until we are all entirely subjugated.
00:40:47.000This is all the more serious because we stand on the precipice potentially of an apocalypse.
00:40:52.000Our former globalist prime minister and currently globalist foreign minister David Cameron says that Israel will likely respond to the Iranian attack and I think of course we imagined and expected that there would be a response even though extraordinarily We are talking about a region of the world that is defined by spiritual traditions and the birth of the Abrahamic faiths.
00:41:19.000And the point, surely, of religion, tell me, you tell me, you know more than I do, isn't the point of religion For us to access an aspect of ourself that is connected to a force that allows us to discern moral truths that enable us to live well materially, to have relationships with one another that are guided by principles other than spite, vengeance and vendetta.
00:41:45.000And ultimately, oughtn't the most powerful voices and most powerful forces on our planet be deployed to assuage and de-amplify violence rather than facilitate further violence?
00:41:56.000Here is David Cameron saying that retaliation against Tehran in Iran is inevitable, necessary, something that all of us, whether we are Israeli or Palestinian or British or French or American or Senegalese should be contemplating.
00:42:17.000We should be looking at what the impact is likely to be on all of us.
00:42:21.000Foreign Secretary, how concerned are you by Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran?
00:42:27.000Well, look, it's right to be here in Israel today to show solidarity after that appalling attack by Iran.
00:42:33.000We made clear our views yesterday about what should happen next.
00:42:38.000But we also said Israel is an independent, sovereign country and gets to make these choices.
00:42:44.000And how concerned... Israel is an independent, sovereign nation, gets to make these choices.
00:42:52.000Didn't the RAF and American military participate in the response?
00:42:59.000And aren't Lockheed Martin and various military industrial complex organizations participating in the ongoing arming?
00:43:07.000And isn't a bill being passed right now to continue to provide military aid?
00:43:18.000And are you that we're right on the brink of a full-scale regional war here?
00:43:21.000Well, the situation is very concerning.
00:43:23.000It's right to show solidarity with Israel.
00:43:27.000It's right to have made our views clear about what should happen next.
00:43:31.000But it's clear the Israelis are making a decision to act.
00:43:35.000We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible and in a way that, as I said yesterday, is smart as well as tough.
00:43:43.000But the real need is to refocus back on Hamas, back on the hostages, back on getting the aid in.
00:43:50.000You see, actually, that his function is framing, isn't it?
00:43:55.000Hopefully they will respond in a way that escalates it a bit, but not too much.
00:43:59.000But the really important thing is to ensure that we talk a lot more about Hamas and hostages and a lot less about Gaza.
00:44:07.000Well, one of the things that we should perhaps be considering is that the House Speaker Johnson has unveiled a $95 billion foreign military aid bill.
00:44:18.000Mike Johnson unveiled three military aid bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan totaling over $95 billion in spending, some in the form of repayable loans.
00:44:28.000Also, the language around this, like grants and loans, as if we're not dealing in extraordinary brutality.
00:44:37.000From all perspectives, the language I want to see from my government, from the global community, is we are doing everything we can to prevent this escalating further, to ensure that this is resolved diplomatically immediately.
00:44:55.000Johnson as well though is a sort of, plainly, it says here the Israel bill totals 26 billion dollars, Ukraine's getting 61 billion dollars.
00:45:02.000So you're funding the war, you're funding the censorship of people that speak out against the war.
00:45:07.000That's actually something that I forget, that amidst all of this, somewhere, is the reality that while you're working, you're paying for all of this stuff.
00:45:17.000The money doesn't come from somewhere else.
00:45:20.000Okay, Mike Johnson says he's a wartime speaker now in a sort of an extraordinary act of grandiosity in an apparent U-turn in his position prior to ascending to the role.
00:45:30.000House Speaker Mike Johnson called himself a wartime speaker on Tuesday as he defended himself after Thomas Massie called for his resignation over a plan to hold separate votes on military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
00:46:00.000He re-appropriated funds in order to, oh, Stormzy Daniels, justice, justice I tell you, must be deployed.
00:46:10.000Is it that there is a judicial principle being pursued here or is this an attempt to shut down a political opponent and to distract The population of perhaps an entire planet but certainly the United States from the fact that you already live in an authoritarian regime hell-bent on global war.
00:46:26.000So is it a distraction or is it justice?
00:46:29.000We asked you earlier and you said that You would prefer that the whole damn system be on trial?
00:46:36.000You'd prefer that Joe Biden be on trial?
00:46:39.000You are unlikely to get your wish, for indeed Donald Trump today was in court for the third day of his hush money trial and finally now I can tell you That they have found seven people that can claim to be impartial and unbiased on the subject of Donald Trump.
00:46:58.000But, listening to this, the threshold is, I think, too low.
00:47:02.000Because some of these people are saying stuff like, I hate Donald Trump!
00:47:10.000Seven New Yorkers have now been chosen to decide if former President Donald Trump is guilty of criminal charges in his hush money payment trial.
00:47:19.000They're the first of 12 jurors and six alternates, seated after being questioned by both the prosecution and defense.
00:47:27.000So far, there are three women and four men.
00:47:30.000The four men is originally from Ireland, and there's an oncology nurse who said, no one is above the law.
00:47:36.000And when asked her opinion of Trump, responded, I don't really have one.
00:47:52.000A teacher who has two family members in law enforcement said President Trump speaks his mind, and I'd rather that than someone who's in office who you don't know what they're thinking.
00:48:02.000There are two attorneys from big law firms and a grandfather originally from Puerto Rico who called It's really weird this, isn't it?
00:48:09.000It's like some sort of weird Avengers.
00:48:11.000There's two attorneys, an oncologist, and a grandfather.
00:50:05.000A lot of you in the chat are interested in David Cameron's relationship with the porcine community, the sow species, the old oinkers, the old pig snouts, aren't ya?
00:50:20.000So a lot of people are saying that David Cameron may have, I mean, I think it's actually, he did, I feel like at some point, potentially, his reproductive organ Was in a pig, but that's alleged.
00:50:36.000Blue Nose Bob puts it simpler, pig fucker, is what he said.
00:50:43.000We're free to speak about David Cameron, globalist, former Prime Minister, and in the words of Blue Nose Bob, pig fucker, and here he is now.
00:50:54.000I had a very, um, good meeting with former President Trump.
00:50:58.000And actually, I noticed... It's like really impressed with their meetings that they have, aren't they?
00:51:03.000I remember the days, I had a pocket square in, I looked brilliant.
00:51:08.000I sat in a wicker chair, and he looked at me, and I could tell he respected me.
00:51:12.000Then I noticed in the garden, sad to say, a hog wandered by, and I smelt bacon.
00:51:18.000And there was a stirring, and there was a rising, and I was out there in the yard!
00:51:23.000...that over the weekend, or just before the weekend, Speaker Johnson met with President Trump, and obviously it's American politics and one shouldn't get too involved, but... Don't get too involved!
00:51:34.000We don't really get involved in other people's politics or anything, you know.
00:51:37.000We don't send money, for example, to censor dissenting speech about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and we certainly don't supply weapons to one side of a conflict.
00:51:47.000We try and keep our mouths shut and our trousers down and our pigs entertained, if you know what I mean.
00:51:53.000It sounded to me as if they are now thinking about how to turn that money from America to Ukraine that's so vital, perhaps to turn it into a loan rather than a grant.
00:52:05.000And that to me looked like good progress.
00:52:07.000When you consider the state the world is in, do you feel especially reassured?
00:52:15.000We've been looking at it, we've bought over the Limeys, we've got our British friends over, and a lot of those grants we've turned into loans.
00:52:23.000Well, might I suggest that what you do instead is take some ayahuasca and go on a deep, deep voyage within your clearly very damaged psyche.
00:52:32.000And within there, you will discover the essence of the divine.
00:52:37.000And within that, you will discover that we are one glorious family of humanity, and that if we're not able to overcome our separateness, we're going to destroy each other.
00:53:45.000Everything they said, excuse me, we just had some technical things, we've got a deck there with a bunch of buttons on and we've only got a certain amount of buttons and then we have to change stuff.
00:53:53.000Everything they said would happen under Trump is happening under Biden.
00:53:56.000From prosecuting political opponents to criminalising protesters, authoritarianism via lockdowns and mandated experimental medical treatments, a genocide of brown people in plain sight and now war with Iran and World War Three.
00:54:08.000Anything they accuse Trump of doing is a confession of their own.
00:54:10.000We are ruled by 100% corrupted enemies of the people, and only a revolution can change how this ends.
00:54:17.000That's from my fellow Putin-apologist and Russian propagandist, Jimmy Dore.
00:54:56.000Trump's sexual encounter with Stormzy Daniels is of interest only to his wife and family.
00:55:03.000The money paid to Daniels during the 2016 election campaign to keep her from selling her story to the media is likewise of little interest.
00:55:10.000The manner in which the funds were routed from Trump through his personal fixer Michael Cohen to Daniels constitutes at most a technical violation of federal election law which would ordinarily be settled with the payment of a fine.
00:55:25.000Under state law, the filing of false business reports portraying the money disbursed to Cohen as payments for legal services was only a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations has long expired.
00:55:36.000DA Bragg, however, leveraged the misdemeanor into a felony by alleging that the false reports were an element of a conspiracy to violate federal law, even though no federal prosecutor has chosen to bring such a case.
00:55:48.000He's charged each of 34 false reports separately as a four-year felony with a combined maximum 20 years in prison upon conviction.
00:55:58.000I think I said confection because the whole thing's plainly a construct.
00:56:05.000Both the substance and the timing of the case are clearly calculated to benefit the Democratic Party in the 2024 election.
00:56:10.000A little like the Russiagate scandal which proved to be false.
00:56:14.000A little like the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story which proved to be true and was said to be false.
00:56:21.000At least in part by confining Trump to the Manhattan courtroom away from his own presidential campaign every day of the trial which is expected to take many weeks.
00:56:28.000The political calculation could well be utterly mistaken.
00:56:32.000Are you more or less Likely to vote for Trump now.
00:56:41.000The Democrats' differences with Trump have largely revolved around foreign policy, particularly over the use of Ukraine as a political and military spearhead against Russia.
00:56:51.000This goes back to the 2014 maiden coup under the Obama-Biden administration, which ousted an elected pro-Russian president and installed a virulently anti-Russian right-wing regime in Kiev, backed by fascist and neo-Nazi groups.
00:57:08.000The Mueller investigation, based on false allegations of widespread Russian interference in the 2016 elections, and the first impeachment of Trump, based on his temporary withholding of US military aid to Ukraine, were both examples of this clash over foreign policy.
00:57:21.000Today, the central issue in official Washington is how to push through another $60 billion in emergency military aid to Ukraine, despite the opposition among a section of House Republicans.
00:57:30.000Nothing of this political reality is acknowledged in the coverage of the Trump trial in the corporate media.
00:57:37.000Instead, there are solemn, hush-voiced commentaries about historic character of the first ever criminal trial of a former president.
00:57:49.000The obvious question, never voiced of course on the network news, is why Trump should be the first.
00:57:54.000Every ex-president in living memory should have been criminally prosecuted on charges like sanctioning mass murder, waging illegal wars, supporting military coups, authorizing torture, ...and spying on the entire world, including American citizens.
00:58:09.000But these actions, committed in defense of the worldwide interests of the U.S.
00:58:12.000ruling elite, are not considered crimes by the U.S.
00:58:17.000The criminalization of private sexual conduct is fundamentally reactionary, as are sex scandals in general.
00:58:23.000They degrade popular consciousness and drown political understanding in a geyser of sensationalism and prurience.
00:58:32.000The use of such allegations always involves an effort to conceal from the masses the real political differences being fought out within the ruling elite.
00:58:45.000As for the question of hush money, it is well known that Democratic President Bill Clinton offered to pay $700,000 to Paula Jones to settle her lawsuit over allegations of improper behavior.
00:58:57.000In that case, right-wing Republican lawyers induced Jones to refuse the money in order to engineer the perjury trap that led to Clinton's impeachment.
00:59:04.000In the current case, a Democratic district attorney is using equally underhanded methods.
00:59:08.000There is nothing progressive or democratic in such political cynicism.
00:59:13.000The fact that the attacks on Trump are always undergirded and portrayed with such piety, haughtiness and condescension that we are always expected to believe that it's the neoliberal establishment that holds the higher ground even as they use language mired in class hatred, the basket of deplorables, these idiots.
00:59:34.000Plainly what is the play here is to instantiate further centralised authoritarianism To eliminate the possibility of a Trump presidency, not through the ballot box, but through the judiciary.
00:59:50.000Anyone who believes that this trial is about, hey, you're not supposed to use campaign funds like that, while, meanwhile, they are censoring anti-war voices, they're extraditing Julian Assange, they're funding and escalating wars all around the world, they're not using American military might, moral might, or the power of view!
01:00:10.000The real power resource to bring about world peace or true progress or even to live in accordance with your own constitution and your own sanctity and your own sacred values.
01:00:23.000They're doing it to further enrich themselves and to further subjugate you.
01:00:53.000Listen, if you're gonna call that show Morning Joe, at some point, you're gonna have to fucking wake up.
01:00:58.000Here they are on MSNBC looking at Donald Trump's face and pretending it's the news and that they're better than you, as always.
01:01:06.000While you are sitting there in the jury pool, listening to the judge describe this case to you, Donald Trump is sitting at the defense table looking like this.
01:01:24.000Let's take that back down to a half screen of Donald Trump.
01:01:28.000Now, we normally don't allow Donald Trump.
01:01:31.000You know that episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets accused of sexual impropriety?
01:01:37.000Mr. Simpson, your silence is only condemning you further!
01:01:41.000Mr. Trump, tell me, did you give Stormzy Daniels money out of campaign funds?
01:02:12.000The reason I mention it now is because look at the response ...of true Christians to a violent attack.
01:02:20.000I'm not saying that religion is the determinate, or any particular religion is the determinate in how to respond, because surely much violence has been undertaken in the name of every religion.
01:02:34.000But in this instance, when faced with a knife attack, you have to consider the response.
01:02:40.000Good evening, I'm outside the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, which is the scene of a second mass stabbing event in Sydney.
01:02:47.000This church and its grounds are now a crime scene after a man approached a clergyman mid-sermon and stabbed him multiple times whilst it was being live-streamed.
01:02:57.000We can't show you much of the very confronting video but I can tell you many members of the congregation leapt to the defence of the Bishop and in doing so sustained multiple wounds.
01:03:06.000Police have arrested the attacker whilst eight ambulances are currently treating the wounded.
01:03:11.000It is an incredibly chaotic scene here with many members of the community outraged and crowding the streets.
01:03:17.000Bishop Mari is a brilliant YouTuber actually and a wonderful communicator.
01:03:22.000You may have seen him on PBD or a variety of things and I hope he comes on this show as soon as he's well enough to.
01:03:29.000Look at the church's response to these attacks.
01:03:33.000In the full statement, Christ the Good Shepherd Church pleads with all Christian faithful followers of Bishop Marmari Emmanuel to keep peace with one another and your neighbour as the Lord Jesus Christ has commanded.
01:03:44.000The church denounces retaliation of any kind.
01:03:47.000The church categorises this attack as isolated and awaits police findings into the motive of the attacker.
01:03:53.000Our Church also condones the behaviour of the non-compliant and asks the public to respect civil order while keeping the peace which has been sanctioned by Almighty God.
01:04:02.000A separate statement also states, it is the Bishop's and Father's wish to pray for the perpetrator.
01:04:10.000Isn't that the solution to what we're facing across the world right now?
01:04:15.000An attitude of forgiveness, of faith, a belief in something higher, that we're not just here temporarily and materially to grab things from one another, whether it's favours or money or cash or entire countries or resources, that we are here in the service of one another, to awaken together, to become beautiful together, And we have discarded Christianity and religion as a hopeless superstition while being told that rationalism and neoliberalism and the pursuit of economic power and military power is the real solution.
01:04:47.000Meanwhile, ordinary Christian Americans, and Americans of all faiths I'm sure, are being sneered at by an establishment that would never Deemed to entertain a position and stance so sublime, lofty, and more important than that perhaps, likely to bring about a peaceful solution.