Rachel Maddow and Kamala Harris attend Dick Cheney's funeral. What does she really believe? And why does she think it's a good idea to do so? And what does it mean to truly step outside the narrative and reclaim autonomy in the holy name?
00:00:37.000Then we look at Candace Owens, who's a friend of mine, and Tucker Carlson, also a friend of mine, and their public claims about deep state assassinations.
00:00:48.000We're going to look at that carefully and respectfully.
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00:01:10.000If I didn't have Christ, I think I would become some kind of terrorist, honestly, because that's the there's only two options now: either become a sort of a radicalized terrorist against these corrupt systems or become a Christian, which is a kind of radical position now, anyway, because it means that you believe in the supernatural, you believe in God, you believe that all of this is sort of ultimately a kind of illusion and that you obey a God that's completely inaccessible to these Luciferian and corrupt powers.
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00:02:18.000In a world where political labels are wielded like weapons, media figures flip-flop between outrage and cordiality and ideological loyalty often masks hidden alliances.
00:02:28.000What does it mean to truly step outside the narrative and reclaim autonomy in the holy name?
00:02:37.000Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow attending the funeral of Dick Cheney, a man Maddow once denounced as the maestro of terror politics, alongside Zorhan Mamdani, branding Donald Trump a fascist mere days after a cordial meeting and months after Trump had labelled him a communist lunatic signals a disturbing collapse of meaning in political language.
00:03:03.000I heard that it took the Catholic Church 350 years to apologize for calling Galileo Galilee a liar when what he had in fact done is told the truth about astronomy.
00:03:16.000Well, how long will it take for this system to apologize for the COVID pandemic?
00:03:21.000Has there been apologies from Dick Cheney?
00:03:49.000If you're old enough to remember the vehement damnation that they applied to Dick Cheney, much of it deserved, I can still instantaneously call up that dude in the cowboy hat going, man, now listen, that Trump's motherfucker.
00:04:08.000If ever there was a person that seemed to have made a deal with Mephistopheles, it were Cheney, the architect behind the hated George W. Bush's administration.
00:04:19.000Well, if all that is up for reconsideration, why would you believe a single thing they're telling you right now?
00:04:24.000Is Rachel Maddow going to turn up at the funeral of Donald Trump?
00:04:35.000I'm not condemning Rachel Madow, nor am I condemning Dick Cheney, nor am I condemning Donald Trump, nor am I condemning anyone because guess what?
00:04:43.000I'm not in a position to judge anyone and neither is anyone else.
00:04:48.000Otherwise, your justice is not based on supreme principle, but the arbitrary churn of human reason when applied to whatever they happen to want that day.
00:05:00.000It's good that we hate Dick Cheney today.
00:05:10.000Terms like left, right, fascist and communist no longer describe ideology.
00:05:16.000They're weapons of control deployed to manage perception and constrain thought.
00:05:20.000Even the term terrorist has lost its force.
00:05:22.000Donald Trump welcomed Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharra to the White House just days after he was officially listed as a specially designated global terrorist.
00:06:08.000I've been wrong a lot about, gosh, almost everything and wrong a lot about Trump in particular.
00:06:13.000But the one thing I identified pretty early on is that he was explicitly what other people were implicitly.
00:06:20.000Probably Dave Chappelle said it better and funnier in his SNL monologue when he said he's doing out in the open what people have always suspected politicians did.
00:06:28.000My own version of it was almost like a sort of a gargoyle.
00:06:31.000Like here you are now confronted with the reality of it.
00:06:35.000Now, as you know, if you watch this show a lot, that I find Trump pretty enjoyable in terms of his public persona, his rhetoric, even his just his sort of manner and way.
00:06:45.000I feel like I'd find it amusing to spend time with someone that in particular, the example I always think of is at that UN speech talking continually about not getting the contract to build that building or just having the time to be personal at times of such global crisis.
00:07:28.000You'll get additional access to Mug Club, that's Crowder's Gig, Tim Cuss, that's Tim Paul's racket, and Glenn Greenwald's additional content.
00:08:24.000George Carlin's warnings about it being a big club that we ain't in feel eerily prophetic.
00:08:30.000The elite manufacture conflict and choice, funneling society into predictable channels while the mechanisms of power operate unchecked, obscured, and nearly untouchable.
00:08:40.000Into this controlled theater steps Madame Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:08:46.000Her resignation from Congress, coupled with an apology for her role in toxic politics, disrupts the expected script.
00:08:54.000In an era where political actors are rewarded for loyalty to spectacle and ideological signaling, Green's choice to step aside and acknowledge her complicity is striking, almost unnerving.
00:09:06.000You posted on X that President Trump is, with his comments, fueling a quote, hotbed of threats against you.
00:09:13.000Obviously, any threats to your safety are completely unacceptable.
00:09:17.000But we have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism from the president at other people.
00:09:48.000And it's been something I've thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that I'm only responsible for myself and my own words and actions.
00:10:00.000And I am committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately to put down the knives in politics.
00:10:08.000I really just want to see people be kind to one another.
00:10:12.000And we need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people.
00:10:17.000Because as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we're on, we have far more in common than we have differences.
00:10:25.000And we need to be able to respect each other with our disagreements.
00:10:29.000So just to put a button on this, you regret the things that you have said and posted in the past.
00:10:36.000The Facebook post that was taken down of you in 2020 holding a gun alongside the squad, encouraging people to go on the offense against the socialists, liking a tweet of somebody calling for the execution of Nancy Pelosi and former President Obama.
00:11:44.000She's like a real woman, a real earth person.
00:11:49.000And the lady done, of course, she's a human being as well.
00:11:52.000But you can see in the kind of slightly more scene pinchedness of her expression that she's still in the constraints.
00:11:59.000What Marjorie Taylor Green has done is thrown off, at least temporarily, and I pray that it has the impact that such action warrants, the shackles and imposition that many people feel when they operate within those spheres.
00:12:15.000And like when I met Marjorie Taylor Greene, it was at the RNC convention in Milwaukee, and I felt like, oh man, she's cool.
00:12:26.000And I've just seen her being attacked by a bunch of people and criticized.
00:12:48.000But, you know, it's cool that she's taken that stand.
00:12:51.000Please God, it will have a positive impact.
00:12:53.000Her recent positions challenging U.S. funding of foreign wars, speaking against the devastation in Gaza, pressing for Epstein files while standing alongside alleged victims, suggests she is rejecting the performative confines imposed on both left and right.
00:13:08.000By stepping away from the stage entirely, she hints at something more dangerous to the system than mere dissent.
00:13:15.000The possibility of autonomy, of moving beyond the constructed narratives that keep the masses obedient.
00:13:24.000Muhammad Ali sacrificed everything to refuse the Vietnam draft, defying a system prepared to crush him for the sake of conscience.
00:13:32.000I ain't got no beef with a Viet Cong is a phrase I still think of regularly to remind us that just because you're told something so, you don't have to accept it.
00:13:42.000My culture won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America and shoot them for what?
00:14:13.000Ali more than held his own against students who had a far better formal education than he.
00:14:18.000I'm saying you're talking about me about some draft and all of you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London.
00:14:27.000I'm not going to help nobody get something my Negroes don't have.
00:14:30.000If I'm going to die, I'll die now right here fighting you.
00:14:47.000Muhammad Ali, as he demonstrated, become a great boxer, but he could have become almost a great anything.
00:14:52.000I suppose, like that other more contemporaneous great athlete, Michael Jordan, you get the idea that guy could have just sort of done anything.
00:15:01.000And I suppose why it's doubly exciting with Muhammad Ali is he stepped in to the public arena and was willing here right now fighting you.
00:15:26.000You my opponents when I want equality.
00:15:28.000You won't even stand up for me in a hurry for my religious beliefs.
00:15:31.000And you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home.
00:15:36.000In a way, what Muhammad Ali demonstrated there, although it might be difficult and uncomfortable to hear some of the racialized language and a racialized dispute broadcast in that way, was demonstrated the qualities of heroism which are inseparable from the qualities of Christianity, i.e. willing to die for what you believe in.
00:16:15.000And when you see Muhammad Ali doing it, you remember.
00:16:18.000You're reminded, hold on, we can be glorious.
00:16:21.000How have I allowed myself to be thresholded and curtailed by the low ceilings of a lowly culture?
00:16:27.000Malcolm X returned from Mecca transformed, breaking with rigid ideologies that previously defined him.
00:16:34.000And this is what I had to become aware of on my pilgrimage to Mecca.
00:16:38.000I could see then that there are many white people in this country who will side with the Negro in whatever he has to do to protect himself.
00:16:45.000But that's a considerable change of opinion in Malcolm X.
00:16:51.000Formerly, I spoke for Elijah Muhammad.
00:16:54.000And everything I said was, Elijah Muhammad teaches us thus and so.
00:16:58.000I'm speaking now from what I think, from what I have seen, from what I have analyzed and the conclusions that I have reached.
00:17:04.000Then the white man is no longer the devil and he is no longer bound to be evil.
00:17:09.000If I judge a man by his conscious behavior, I am not a racist.
00:17:13.000I don't subscribe to any of the tenets of racism.
00:17:15.000Then there are good whites and good blacks and bad whites and blacks.
00:17:19.000It's not a case of being good and bad, good or bad, blacks and whites.
00:17:24.000It's a case of being good or bad human beings.
00:17:27.000When you watch Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, it's striking that this country has chosen to follow the wrong leaders and to follow the wrong ideas.
00:18:02.000Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy were not perfect men.
00:18:07.000All of them, actually, it seems like there was pretty, you know, some interesting appetites went on with those guys.
00:18:13.000But what we've replaced greatness with is a kind of mass-marketed mediocrity, a kind of a deliberate bureaucratized kind of ordinariness, ordinariness.
00:18:26.000If you kill the great people, I don't know what you're going to get as a society.
00:18:32.000Bobby Kennedy, Sr., after the murder of his brother, recalibrated toward a moral clarity that made political calculation secondary.
00:18:41.000The whole question of whether we are lowering the barriers with communism and on one side of the world and we're signing a proliferation treaty of control of atomic weapons in one part of the world and in another part of the world we're killing people because they're common.
00:18:57.000Sounds inconsistent and it is inconsistent.
00:19:00.000Or the whole question of, for instance, of drug.
00:19:26.000And then we're going to have to do it.
00:19:29.000There is tremendous economic power behind those people and so that we don't pass laws to deal with that even though our Department of Health has said that they're so dangerous.
00:19:41.000Although there is this great wealth that I talked about and yet there's great poverty.
00:19:48.000There are speeches made about the fact we're going to treat everybody equally and yet we don't treat everybody equally.
00:19:53.000There's talks given and pronouncements made and laws written that everybody's going to have an opportunity to have a job and have decent housing.
00:20:01.000And yet 43% of the people that live in the city of New York and live in this city live in dilapidated and rundown housing and are bitten by rats.
00:20:09.00017,000 people bitten by rats and the poverty in rural areas is worse.
00:20:14.000So if we weren't sanctimonious about it, if we weren't hypocritical about it, and we didn't perhaps tell untruths about ourselves, then I think that's and safe stuff to reality.
00:20:26.000Then I think our country would be much better off and our people would have much more confidence in those of us who are public officials and in our government as a whole.
00:20:34.000These moments share a common thread, the individual breaking free from imposed scripts, refusing to play the role assigned by power structures.
00:20:42.000Green's move echoes that dangerous impulse, but in the hyper-mediated post-ideological terrain of modern politics, such departures are rarer and more destabilizing than ever.
00:20:54.000The modern moment amplifies the threat of such awakenings.
00:20:57.000Political labels are no longer merely slippery.
00:21:00.000They're instruments of conditioning, shaping not just what people think, but how they experience reality.
00:21:05.000The public consumes outrage as if it were sustenance, reinforcing the system's boundaries while the elite manipulate outcomes with impunity.
00:21:14.000Greens, stepping outside that system, is akin to the red pill in the matrix, a confrontation with the hidden forces of control, a refusal to participate in the illusion, a destabilization of narrative.
00:21:26.000In a world where obedience is rewarded and insight punished, such departures carry ominous potential.
00:21:32.000They remind us that the machinery is not only pervasive, it is fragile if challenged from within.
00:21:38.000The broader implications are chilling.
00:21:41.000When politicians repeatedly betray ideological consistency and when the media amplifies conflict while concealing collaboration, society becomes a conditioned population responding to labels and narratives rather than reality itself.
00:21:53.000Yeah, moments like Green's resignation expose the cracks, the possibility that individuals may choose awareness over compliance, conscience over spectacle, the labels, the outrage, the carefully maintained divisions.
00:22:05.000All of it, all of it, absolutely all of it relies on widespread submission.
00:22:12.000Once that submission follows, the entire architecture of control becomes vulnerable.
00:22:16.000The danger for the ruling class is not opposition that mirrors the status quo, but a single actor stepping beyond the script, refusing to obey and inviting the public to question the illusions they've been fed.
00:22:27.000And this is an opportunity we can all share in.
00:22:29.000Like Marjorie Taylor Green, we can all resign from whatever role we're supposed to be playing.
00:22:34.000I've resigned from mine many, many times.
00:22:41.000We belong to a source of power way beyond their malleable systems of total control.
00:22:47.000We can be direct agents to the principle of God rather than controlled by the ever-changing vicissitudes of a culture that has no moral moorings.
00:22:57.000This is the ominous question the moment poses.
00:22:59.000If ideological labels no longer map to reality, if political actors can flip between fascist and communist accusations at will, and if even the most extreme partisans can apologize and disengage, then who truly controls the narrative?
00:23:14.000Society teeters between conditioning and consciousness, and those who step outside the controlled story threaten the system built on obedience, hypocrisy, and the illusion of choice.
00:23:25.000Green's resignation is not merely a personal recalibration, it's a tremor in the foundations of managed reality, a hint that the cage might one day be opened and that the public might glimpse the mechanisms that have long shaped their perceptions and constrained their minds.
00:23:40.000Or to use a metaphor from classic Greek literature and philosophy, we are turning at last and facing the light.
00:23:48.000No longer content to look at the silhouettes and shadows cast by a machine of total control.
00:23:54.000The reality of God is accessible to all of us and more and more people are awakening to that truth.
00:24:00.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
00:24:02.000A who's who of the nation's political elite gathered for Dick Cheney's funeral.
00:24:08.000Former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden with their first ladies Laura and Dr. Jill.
00:24:13.000And former Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
00:24:18.000Fitting in a way that a funeral is the venue for dropping the bullshit because the bullshit is not just the political system, it's the BS we all engage in when we prefer a persona over reality.
00:24:30.000Indeed, the very word persona, the etymology of the word personality, suggests and indeed means a mask.
00:24:39.000Only temporarily is this your identity.
00:24:44.000If you ever had a moment of peace, if you ever had a moment of prayer, then you might experience that as I have done.
00:24:50.000You might experience the truth that I have been granted.
00:24:53.000You have to attend, in a sense, your own funeral, the funeral of Russell Brand, the funeral of whoever you are, to awaken to the truth within you.
00:25:00.000For surely you will be attending those funerals.
00:25:02.000Not your own, of course, you'll be in a box for that.
00:25:05.000But hopefully one day by the glory of God and through the sacrifice of Christ, you may be resurrected.
00:25:11.000Certainly what awaits you is the death of everyone you love.
00:25:15.000We all know that, and yet we keep it at arm's length.
00:25:18.000And perhaps the death of your dreams, the death of your beliefs, the death of your artificial stimulants that holds you together and make you a participant in this illusion.
00:25:54.000Until we recognize the incredible potential of this very technology, we're going to rattle around in these ridiculous paradoxes and this stupid mudslinging.
00:26:04.000What you could have is empowered city-states made up of boroughs, each of those boroughs run by councils, representative democracy reduced to the minimum possible level, and direct democracy increased to the maximum possible level.
00:26:21.000That would mean participatory democracies and referenda in a city like New York or London.
00:26:26.000If I were the mayor of London, that's exactly how I'd run it.
00:28:22.000Even Trump, with all of his robustness and all of his bellicosity and all of his personal groundedness and interpersonal authority, still deploys very unusual body language when dealing with something that's socially awkward.
00:28:38.000It's very un-Trump, that wrist, isn't it?
00:28:41.000And look at our man Mamdani there clutching away at his genitalia, putting essentially a manual cod piece over his vulnerability, you'd have to say.
00:28:51.000Now, you might see that as cod psychology, but I'd see that as a manual cod piece over his genitalia.
00:28:58.000And the fact is, is that they're just two human beings saying what they have to say in order to facilitate their function in a very narrow and increasingly ephemeral public space.
00:29:08.000What I mean by that is this vapor is floating away and there is a great revelation coming.
00:29:20.000Now, when not trapped in the embarrassing dynamic of personal proximity, what does he say?
00:29:25.000At a press conference with President Trump, a reporter asked you whether you believe that President Trump is in fact a fascist, a word that you've used in the past.
00:29:54.000And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement about the politics that has brought us to this moment.
00:30:03.000And we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.
00:30:10.000So what does fascist actually mean then?
00:30:13.000Fascist literally means a bundle of weak things tied together to make them strong, which is a pretty good thing.
00:30:20.000It doesn't really mean that though, does it?
00:30:22.000It means Mussolini and it means Hitler and it means baddie.
00:30:26.000While in fact, etymologically and actually, what it means is if you bind together many weak things, they become strong.
00:30:33.000So fascist actually is a pretty good thing.
00:30:35.000And where fascism comes from is if you want to challenge centralized global forces, the people have to come together.
00:30:42.000It's not dissimilar to socialism in its goals.
00:30:47.000And that, again, is why I believe that Christ is the answer.
00:30:51.000Because the problem is, is whether it's a fascistic model or a socialistic model, if it's human beings that are operating the levers, it will become diabolical.
00:31:01.000It will become split, dualistic, Luciferian, satanic.
00:31:06.000The dark forces, whether you want to see them as supernatural or natural, I don't care anymore, will ultimately take command.
00:31:13.000The only way out of that is to make a deep commitment to be willing to die for what you believe in.
00:31:19.000Once you've made that, then you're cool.
00:31:22.000Syria's ex-jihadist president, now Donald Trump's new bestie.
00:31:25.000He was a jihadist with Tim Million Bounty.
00:31:27.000Now Trump is welcoming him to the White House.
00:31:29.000But, you know, what was Fidel Castro before he became president of Cuba?
00:31:35.000What would George Washington have been if the British had won the War of Independence?
00:31:40.000He'd have been a traitor and a terrorist.
00:31:43.000So in a sense, these terms have always been somewhat mobile.
00:31:46.000The challenge is now that we're confronted with this at a pace that we can't contend with.
00:31:51.000I was about to say we can't put Marjorie Taylor Greene in the same category as Muhammad Ali, Robert Kennedy, or Malcolm X, such verifiably great men, but perhaps we can.
00:32:11.000But if America is going to be great again, the greatness will be to acknowledge the greatness of the individuals within America and the potential collective greatness that that may lead to.
00:32:22.000And that can't be brought about through systems of inoculation and castration.
00:32:28.000We must revere and honor and love greatness as a reflection of the God that's within each of us.
00:33:27.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
00:33:31.000Candice Owen claims the Macrons orchestrated an assassination plot against her.
00:33:36.000Public trust in authority is collapsing.
00:33:39.000With accusations once dismissed as unthinkable gaining traction, what does it mean when so many people no longer believe the government's version of events?
00:33:50.000Candice Owen's claim that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron orchestrated an assassination plot against her, now echoed by Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and Tucker Carlson's allegation that the FBI is hiding crucial information about the attempted assassin of Donald Trump.
00:34:05.000These allegations and claims have been ridiculed by the establishment, of course, as hysterical fabrications.
00:34:11.000These are videos the FBI has worked hard to make sure you haven't seen.
00:34:16.000They're from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks, the man who on July 13th, 2024, showed up at the Butler County, Pennsylvania fairgrounds and tried to assassinate the frontrunner, Donald Trump.
00:34:28.000And look what happened to our country.
00:34:31.000That day, Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country.
00:34:37.000And yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it.
00:34:43.000That's because for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know.
00:34:58.000Since the start of their investigation, the FBI has claimed that Thomas Crooks acted alone and that he was a virtual ghost online with no presence at all.
00:35:07.000Their only substantive claim about Crooks' motive was that he was a right-winger.
00:35:13.000We learned that from FBI Deputy Director Paula Bate, who said this to Congress just one month after the attempted assassination.
00:35:21.000Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019-2020 timeframe.
00:35:32.000There were over 700 comments posted from this account.
00:35:36.000Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.
00:35:49.000The social media account Abate was describing was Crooks' YouTube comments.
00:35:54.000When the FBI made that claim, we had to take his word for it.
00:36:13.000These are genuine, written by Thomas Crookes.
00:36:16.000But although Crooks's comments are interesting and give tremendous insight into why he did it, they're not the only story.
00:36:23.000The other story, in fact, the far more significant story, involves the government, the DOJ, and the FBI, which have hidden from the public what they know about Thomas Crookes.
00:36:35.000The purpose of this report is to reveal details of Crooks' social media accounts and to confront a series of key questions.
00:36:43.000Why is the FBI keeping Crooks' views a secret?
00:36:47.000Why are they ignoring congressional subpoenas to divulge information?
00:36:52.000Why are they pretending that there's nothing to see here?
00:36:55.000And more than anything, what are they hiding?
00:36:58.000Yet the speed with which these claims spread and the intensity of public attention that they attract reveal something deeper and far more ominous than the claims themselves.
00:37:07.000It reflects a growing widespread belief that government institutions, intelligence services, and security agencies have forfeited the moral authority required to be taken at face value.
00:37:18.000If you ask me, this process began in the 1960s when mass media brought to public attention brilliant countercultural voices like James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and even had people in significant positions of power like the Kennedys who were willing to take unusual stances.
00:37:36.000These institutions are now met not with public trust but with suspicion.
00:37:40.000A growing portion of the public no longer assumes that official explanations are true.
00:37:44.000They assume that something is being hidden.
00:37:46.000Whether or not you believe Candice Owens' story of an international hit squad or Carlson's warnings of an FBI suppression, the instinct to question power has become a rational survival strategy in a political culture built on secrecy, manipulation, and documented historical crimes.
00:38:07.000Do you want to believe another lone gunman story like the lone gunman that killed the Kennedys, like the lone gunman that killed Malcolm X, like the lone gunman that killed Martin Luther King?
00:38:18.000Or do you want to investigate the potential that perhaps something unusual is happening?
00:38:25.000I'm not even sure what the right questions are other than qui bono, who benefits, who benefits.
00:38:32.000And probably your belief about who conducted these murders or assassinations is an indication of the kind of information that you've consumed and where you locate evil.
00:38:43.000And, you know, that's why ultimately we're going to need a supernatural story because it's beyond what we can comprehend.
00:38:51.000This distrust is not rooted in fantasy.
00:38:53.000It's rooted in the undeniable record of the last 70 years.
00:38:56.000In 1953, the CIA helped engineer the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohamed Mostai, by bribing officials, planting propaganda, and staging violence to justify the return of a monarch more compliant with Western oil interests.
00:39:13.000It's actually been an open secret for decades, but for the first time now, the CIA has released documents that show its role in the 1953 coup.
00:39:22.000That is the coup that toppled Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, had moved to nationalize oil production in Iran.
00:39:30.000Well, the U.S. was concerned at the time that that would mean a victory for the Soviets in the Cold War.
00:39:35.000So shortly after his election, the CIA began to plan his overthrow, teaming up with Britain's MI6.
00:39:43.000Now, the CIA, we've seen it spelling out its involvement in a series of newly declassified documents.
00:39:49.000These are the actual documents marked confidential, top secret, eyes only.
00:39:54.000It's the stuff of crime and mystery and spy novels.
00:39:57.000This one talks about the security implications of CIA letters of commendation for those who served in that operation codenamed TP Ajax.
00:40:07.000And this one, dated July 22nd, 1953, almost a month before the coup, it talks about preparing an official American statement to follow a successful coup.
00:40:26.000Robin, this is an event that the Iranians still talk about 60 years later with surprising frequency.
00:40:33.000What have you learned from these documents that you got to get a look at?
00:40:37.000Well, I've written about this episode in three different books.
00:40:40.000So this is, as you point out, not something new, but the fact is the United States has finally openly provided the documents and details.
00:40:46.000And it talks about how this was approved at the highest levels of government.
00:40:48.000It details the amount of money that went into buying currying favor among the various sectors of Iranian society.
00:40:56.000And it points out how important this really was.
00:40:59.000Little did the CIA understand that this would have extraordinary repercussions 25 years later.
00:41:06.000And, you know, one of the things that's fascinating is like it is an open secret.
00:41:09.000This is something that we've heard from former Secretary of State Malin Albright, President Obama as well.
00:41:14.000Both of them referring to this as this cooperation that happened.
00:41:18.000But the first time that the CIA has really acknowledged its role in this, do you think there's going to be any kind of shift or a change or a way that the new president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, can open up a new dialogue with the United States?
00:41:33.000Well, the release of these documents were as a result of a Freedom of Information inquiry.
00:41:38.000So this was not something that the United States voluntarily provided, but it does come at a very curious or interesting time because Iran has a new president who's talked about moderation and trying to engage in really serious dialogue with the outside world, the world's six major powers, and even hinted at direct talks with the United States.
00:41:57.000And it's very interesting how this release of documents is playing in Tehran.
00:42:02.000The fact that the United States has acknowledged it, openly, put it out there on the table may actually help both sides get beyond it.
00:42:09.000The United States has formally apologized for it in the past, but in vague terms.
00:42:14.000Now the details are known and kind of fessing up may change the atmospherics at least.
00:42:20.000And Robin, you know, this case perhaps explains to some Americans, to some of us, why are in the Middle East, in countries like Iran, some of the public opinion is so mixed and negative really when it comes to the U.S. We're still feeling the after effects of that coup, which was carried out at the height of the Cold War to this very day, right?
00:42:44.000It did lead to the abortion of the evolutionary political process led to a revolutionary process 25 years later, for which the United States is still trying to recoup.
00:42:57.000Iran had been one of the two pillars of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and this was a tremendous loss, not just because it's an oil-producing country.
00:43:04.000It has very valuable geostrategic consequences.
00:43:08.000And this is a moment that turned everything, two very close allies against each other.
00:43:18.000And this is a moment that these documents kind of illustrate the consequences of opting for stability over democratic values, which resonates in terms of what's happening in Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East today.
00:43:36.000The American public did not learn the full truth for decades because the government lied about it, denied involvement, and destroyed records.
00:43:42.000That same pattern of covert manipulation defined entire generations of intelligence work.
00:43:47.000MK Ultra used citizens as unsuspecting test subjects for mind-altering experiments.
00:43:52.000CIA honey traps operations target diplomats, dissidents, and politicians for sexual blackmail.
00:43:58.000The public was told none of this until whistleblowers and congressional investigators forced the truth into daylight.
00:44:05.000Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation, American journal?
00:44:21.000We do have people who submit pieces to other, to American journals.
00:44:26.000Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?
00:44:42.000This, I think, gets into the kind of getting into the details, Mr. Chairman, that I'd like to get into in an executive session.
00:44:50.000At CBS, we had been contacted by the CIA.
00:44:56.000As a matter of fact, by the time I became the head of the whole news and public affairs operation in 1954, the ships had been established, and I was told about them and asked if I'd carry on with them.
00:45:05.000Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services, AP and UPI?
00:45:26.000Well, again, I think we're getting into the kind of detail, Mr. Chairman, that I'd prefer to handle in an executive session.
00:45:32.000Senator, do you think that you named the new organization's new final report?
00:45:38.000I think it was entirely in order for our correspondents at that time to make use of CIA agent chiefs of station and other members of the executive staff of CIA as sources of information which were useful in their assessments of world conditions.
00:45:56.000Well, I would think probably for a reporter it would continue today, but because of all of the revelations of the period of the 1970s, it seems to me that a reporter's got to be much more circumspect in doing it now, or he runs the risk of at least being looked at with considerable disfavor by the public.
00:46:15.000I think you've got to be much more careful about it.
00:46:20.000By 1975, the situation was so dire that the church committee hearings revealed a catalog of abuses, domestic spying, infiltration of civil rights groups, mail interception, illegal wiretapping, and covert operations designed to manipulate public opinion.
00:46:36.000These were sworn testimonies backed by documents that agencies fought to keep secret.
00:46:41.000Every revelation proved that institutions built for national security were willing to violate the rights of citizens, subvert democratic accountability and lie until caught.
00:46:50.000Trust died not because people were paranoid, but because government agencies had proven they could not be believed.
00:46:57.000The lingering doubts around the JFK assassination only reinforced the pattern.
00:47:02.000Official investigations contradicted each other, witnesses were ignored and key records remained classified long past the time when disclosures should have been automatic.
00:47:10.000Even today, Partial releases arrive with redactions that raise more questions than they answer.
00:47:15.000In this environment, scepticism is not an ideological choice anymore.
00:47:18.000It's a logical response to the government's long tradition of secrecy and self-preservation.
00:47:22.000The same dynamic plays out now in public reactions to establishment figures who demand unquestioning loyalty to official narratives.
00:47:29.000When individuals like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel present conflicting public statements about what they knew regarding Jeffrey Epstein, even as the FBI under Donald Trump promised the new transparency, people notice the inconsistencies.
00:47:43.000They notice what is never explained and they draw the only conclusion that fits the pattern.
00:47:47.000The institutions claiming to protect the public are capable of hiding the truth when it suits them, which seems more often than not these days.
00:47:57.000This is the context into which Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson's claims come.
00:48:02.000Whether or not their specific statements are accurate matters less than the cultural function they perform.
00:48:08.000They remind us, the public, to think independently, to interrogate official accounts, to follow evidence rather than authority, and to understand that historical precedent justifies suspicion.
00:48:18.000Independent media figures may get things wrong, but they serve a purpose that government institutions resent.
00:48:23.000They disrupt the expectation of obedience.
00:48:26.000They ask questions those in power would prefer remain unasked.
00:48:29.000They force attention onto the details authorities would rather bury.
00:48:33.000Think for a moment about Muhammad Ali's brave stance when the Vietnam draft came through.
00:48:38.000Imagine them trying to contain Muhammad Ali now.
00:48:41.000Imagine them imprisoning Muhammad Ali now.
00:48:43.000The lesson is not that every accusation against the government is true, nor that skepticism must always curdle into belief.
00:48:50.000The lesson is that citizens cannot afford to accept government claims at face value because history shows that those claims are often incomplete, misleading or intentionally false.
00:49:00.000Trust has to be earned and these institutions have failed to earn it.
00:49:03.000The prudent path forward is radical change.
00:49:07.000These institutions have broken our trust and they themselves are broken.
00:49:12.000We can never again trust that the official line is the real story.
00:49:16.000Don't assume the release of partial information is the same as transparency.
00:49:20.000Do not outsource your judgment to agencies that repeatedly abuse the power they wield.
00:49:24.000In this age of institutional decay and public deception, independent thought is not a political virtue, it's a civic necessity.
00:49:32.000And the contemplation and mental interrogation that we conduct individually is likely to lead to radical collegiate change.
00:49:44.000Why do we need this degree of centralized authority?
00:49:47.000Is it not possible now to have forms of direct democracy that reflect the technology that we have and the corruption that we face?
00:49:57.000Yes is the obvious answer, but that's just what I think.
00:50:00.000Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
00:50:04.000As corporations push fake food on their customers and COVID inquiries deliver predictable reports while telling the public that ever tight controls, drills and behavioural conditioning are for our own good, how much of this is really preparation for safety?
00:50:20.000And how much of it is preparation for something far darker?
00:50:27.000In the face of a novel and deadly virus spreading rapidly around the country.
00:50:32.000Did you ever go visit that dumb wall opposite the houses of parliament where hearts were put up to commemorate dead relatives?
00:50:38.000Didn't you see already that that was an attempt at create in a kind of apparently organic piece of folk culture?
00:50:44.000What absolute bullshit we've been subject to throughout this pandemic period?
00:50:48.000There is nothing they will not do to control you.
00:50:51.000Have you seen Keir Starmer weeping about the wedding and apparent beating of his gay niece?
00:50:57.000There's nothing they won't say or claim in order to convince you that they're human beings with human feelings.
00:51:03.000I pray that Keir Starmer's niece and her partner are happy and I pray that they were not publicly beaten.
00:51:10.000And I pray that we're able to traverse through this weird, peculiar time where even personal anecdotes are subject to such cynicism because we know what Keir Starmer's about.
00:51:23.000Maybe he doesn't even know it, I sometimes think.
00:51:25.000In the same way that I know that potentially good journalists deceptively wrote untrue stories about me, I suspect that even higher-ups don't know what they're participating in.
00:51:36.000The alternative is they're lying and they know that they're lying and they know that we know that they're lying and yet the lying continues.
00:51:45.000Possibly they're all caught up in some amdram sham where they believe what they're saying.
00:52:12.000Politicians and administrators in the UK government and the devolved administrations were presented with unenviable choices.
00:52:22.000Whatever decision they took, there was often no right answer or good outcome.
00:52:30.000They also had to make decisions in conditions of extreme pressure and initially without access to data or a full understanding of the epidemiological position.
00:52:42.000Watch what they're saying now, even in this carefully managed piece of propaganda, and try to avoid the conclusion that I'm about to offer you.
00:52:51.000Well, if you are unable to do your job of protecting the public and managing crisis, how about you stop playing that role, decentralize power, absolutely, incorporate direct democracy and respect the individual sovereignty of all of us.
00:53:50.000They knew that it weren't that bad for you.
00:53:53.000That COVID only kills people that are going to die anyway.
00:53:57.000I mean, obviously, that's a category that we're all in, but it's only really dangerous if you have a bunch of comorbidities and you're not very well.
00:54:03.000What they should have been telling you is if you're healthy and young, crack on this vaccine.
00:54:09.000If you are an old, vulnerable person, my God, maybe try this vaccine.
00:54:13.000But I've got to tell you, every time I hear about a heart attack or a stroke, my first question is, I suppose don't even ask it because I know the answer.
00:54:58.000You'll use reason to pursue your own agenda, whether you know you're doing that or not.
00:55:04.000Devolve power wherever possible, except as to where it pertains to foreign external threats and stop creating external foreign threats to legitimise ongoing power, whether it's military threats or health threats.
00:55:19.000How are they incentivized to stop crisis when crisis has become their primary tool for management and when crisis isn't a crisis for them, but opportunity?
00:55:27.000When we live in different tiers where the executives at Campbell's can say these disgusting peasants can eat our filthy vile soup and kind of get away with it.
00:55:37.000What needs to change is you need a culture where people don't bleed and well eat Campbell's soup anymore because we eat food that's been grown by us where we live.
00:55:45.000Indeed, we must now, in a sense, not reverse the glorious revolutions of agriculture and technology, but deploy the technology sensibly.
00:55:56.000Now we know that monoculture leads to bad health across populations while apparently solving starvation.
00:56:04.000Now the problem is people aren't getting enough nutrition.
00:56:06.000So is it possible to have permaculture localized organic farms where people that don't have jobs and you're talking about universal basic income work on the land to feed themselves and their families in the community?
00:56:52.000Get into it quick, fast, quick, smart before you lose the choice.
00:56:58.000All four governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat or the urgency of response it demanded in the early part of 2020.
00:57:08.000I've got no interest in hearing an inquiry where they don't go, well, you know, Rishi Sunak, you know, he had shares in the company that funded Moderna when they had like five, 10 employees and he's cashed out of that now.
00:57:20.000And meanwhile, while he was in government, both as Chancellor and Prime Minister, Moderna got a bunch of contracts that are still operating right now, 10-year massive long contracts.
00:57:29.000Unless your inquiry looks into money, then it ain't interesting to me.
00:57:34.000What kind of inquiry can you have that's broadcast by Sky News and is conducted by, she's presumably a member of the House of Lords, right?
00:57:50.000I don't know how to really end the analogy.
00:57:52.000There shouldn't be a trusted to do anything at all ever.
00:57:56.000Relying in part on misleading assurances that the UK was properly prepared for a pandemic.
00:58:03.000In the UK, they're looking to get rid of trial by jury, except for the most serious crimes.
00:58:09.000I'm on trial for an extremely serious crime and hopefully justice will be served because I've got nothing to fear from justice.
00:58:17.000Imagine for a moment that I was the person that was conducting the inquiry saying, well, I slept around a lot, so I've been in a bunch of bathrooms with a bunch of strangers.
00:58:23.000And yeah, promiscuity does generate some suffering and some grievance, clearly.
00:58:29.000However, that is not akin to bypassing consent.
00:58:32.000And I've conducted my inquiry now and it turns out, you know, I shouldn't have been sleeping around so much, but actually I've done nothing wrong.
00:59:05.000Once the scientific community and the scientific advisors for each nation had become aware that the virus was causing substantially more cases of moderate or severe respiratory illness in China than was being officially reported and that it had spread from China.
00:59:22.000Are they not aware of the world they're living in?
00:59:25.000Are they not aware that most of us know now that gain of function research means that these scientists upon whose opinions they want us to rely are the very people that are responsible for taking back coronaviruses, making them more effective and infectious?