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00:01:23.000In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:01:42.000If you want to free yourself from this prison planet that sees you merely as fodder, one of the tools you're going to need is an independent media.
00:02:03.000That's why we need you to let us know in the comments and chat what stories you want to see covered and how you think we're covering today's stories.
00:02:09.000Like, we're going to be talking about... We're also not funded by the government, are we, Russ?
00:02:14.000Every week I go back to the government, any of them, Hong Kong one, Burma, I've spoken to people in Senegal, and I've said, would you be interested in investing in some independent media?
00:03:16.000We're going to be looking at those French protests.
00:03:19.000What we love about it is the way they targeted Black Rock.
00:03:22.000They started protesting outside an investment firm.
00:03:24.000So even though they're protesting, of course, about their age of pension being raised in France, robbing them of a couple of years of lazing about, sipping wine and being all French. They actually took it to the steps and doors of
00:03:37.000Blackrock, understanding at least tangentially that the problem is democracy itself doesn't
00:06:37.000This is, I know it's being sort of like pseudo-ironic and playful, but this pseudo-irony is what's, I think, contributing to the decay of trust and a sort of sense that we're on a prison planet and nothing is quite real or authentic.
00:06:54.000You know, like, if you watch the kind of news that us lot are into, you'll know that there's just been a bunch of revelations that they're lying to us about the war between Ukraine and Russia, sustaining it unduly even though they don't believe it's winnable, presumably in order to continue funding the military-industrial complex.
00:07:12.000Aware that they're never going to address inequality.
00:07:15.000You'll know that during the pandemic there was a massive wealth transfer that affected ordinary people, destroyed small businesses, messed with the education of ordinary kids, while generally speaking politicians carried on having high-profile bashes only wearing masks on camera.
00:07:29.000That's allegedly that last one, but there are like a bunch of examples of that kind of stuff.
00:07:34.000Like I'm talking about old What's the one called in California?
00:07:39.000And our lot, like Rishi Sunak, he's like our 19th president in a prime minister, I don't know what we call him anymore, in like just the last couple of months.
00:07:47.000But he was in, uh, he was the chancellor when Boris Johnson was having, having a party every half hour.
00:07:53.000Like he only left one party to go to another party during the pandemic.
00:07:56.000All the while they were saying, you better stay in your house.
00:08:14.000I'm doing allegedly just in case, but if you've been fined... I was thinking about the situation with Shuma there and the way he was talking to the, I guess it was the press, whoever it was, like obedient children.
00:08:26.000And when we know the kind of questions that the press came back and asked the press secretary around the Pentagon leak recently, they were all in that manner.
00:08:35.000It was like children, the best children at class get to ask that.
00:08:39.000You know when someone would come to your school and give a talk and your best kids... Sit them up the front.
00:08:44.000Sit them up the front, ask the questions.
00:09:30.000It's falling apart the That is good news for those of us that are radical and that's why using the analysis that it's no longer left versus right but periphery versus center, even the world's richest man can be a rhetorical radical because he's asking the right questions and he is a disruptor.
00:11:06.000Maybe the reason that the machine is glitching and falling apart is because they're pumping us full of...
00:11:12.000Vapid, innocuous information like a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
00:11:16.000In a minute we're gonna look at Elon and Tucker chatting about Facebook and Elon's assertion that Zuckerberg's essentially a propagandist for the Democrat Party.
00:11:42.000Either way, carb lovers in the US will have a new treat, a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
00:11:48.000It's the brainchild, if you can call... It doesn't sound like it being a brainchild, a child out of someone's brain that's made out of cream cheese in a donut.
00:12:02.000They're advertising wars, weapons, and now cream cheese stuffed doughnuts.
00:12:07.000And that's why radical figures, whether you like them or not, like Tucker and Elon, start to get more traction because Tucker Presents an interesting discourse.
00:12:19.000He is also a kind of an attack dog for the emotions of the masses.
00:12:27.000And Elon, in spite of being the world's richest man, yeah, you cried, someone there, Stone Owen, said, I lasted three seconds with them donuts before I started to weep.
00:12:35.000Let's have a look at Elon and Tucker chatting together.
00:12:39.000I've got one little point about that because it's like a funny innocuous essentially advertisement isn't it that's what we're looking at there is what you'd prefer them to come out and say because the reality is CNN have been paid to do an advertisement for whoever that was Philadelphia or Do you think they've paid them for the bagels?
00:12:59.000They advertise and therefore they get to, you know, it's... But basically this is the big pharma in action.
00:13:06.000This is just an innocuous, light-hearted version of what happens in the pandemic with the pharmaceutical companies.
00:13:12.000Yeah when you see stuff like Chuck Schumer go and put your hands up it's reiterating the dynamic that you are children and the obedient children of the press will receive attention and get some focus and some shine and the more recalcitrant children will be ignored.
00:13:31.000Rishi Sunak's apparent transparency of like oh you can ask me any questions because we know it's a mock scenario that you couldn't actually say Yeah, can you tell me, did you profit from that hedge fund that was the main investor in Moderna?
00:13:51.000Tell us then, tell us what was going on when you were attending those parties.
00:13:55.000You know your wife's firm, they are partners with Davos and the WEF.
00:14:00.000Do you think that's a conflict of interest when you have to represent a sovereign nation which will sometimes put you at odds with globalist interests?
00:14:08.000When a country has voted for Brexit, meaning they don't want to be part of an administrative body like the EU, whether or not you think that's to do with racism or anti-migration, it also seems like it's against centralised bureaucracy.
00:14:21.000Why are you thinking of yielding authority to the WHO?
00:14:24.000They don't want a serious conversation.
00:14:27.000They want a conversation where you think about donuts, and bagels stuffed with cheese,
00:14:32.000because that's how they think of your consciousness, your attention, mind continually located
00:14:38.000and attached continually to meaningless, empty, hollow stories.
00:14:42.000CNN are not a public broadcaster, they're a private broadcaster,
00:14:46.000but they're significantly funded by the pharmaceutical industry,
00:14:49.000at least in terms of their advertising.
00:14:51.000They make a lot of their revenue by bundling up your information,
00:14:54.000your private data and selling it to other marketing firms.
00:14:58.000And they are to a degree owned by Vanguard and BlackRock, I'll bet you.
00:15:01.000And in this country, like there's about six people
00:15:11.000They can't have the real conversation, so they can...
00:15:14.000Emphasize and amplify emotion in areas where you can't do anything, because either party would do the same thing, for example military-industrial complex expenditure on wars, either party will do more or less the same thing, or they'll distract you with culture war issues, or on a good day, a bagel stuffed with cream cheese.
00:15:33.000Now that's why people like Tucker Carlson, even if you don't like Tucker, and I met him and he seemed like a pretty decent guy to me, I really liked him, Like, people say, oh, he's doing a bunch of dog whistle racism.
00:15:46.000And I actually asked them about stuff like that, and they're like, oh, I just want to live my life.
00:15:51.000You know, let's not have all... Like, I reckon what we need is to decentralise power, and you run your community however you want, and it diffuses the argument.
00:15:59.000There's no need for us to be having these arguments.
00:16:01.000Certainly not on YouTube where I have to be careful about what I say.
00:16:04.000Let's click over on the rumble where we can talk about real freedom.
00:16:06.000We're on here, not so that I can say crazy and divisive stuff or be irresponsible about the way we report about the pandemic in the last couple of years.
00:16:15.000In spite of my out-of-date headwear, You can rely on me more than any of those sideways Ross from Friends news anchors, or those stuffed shirts on CNN, or people that don't have the ability or right to speak truth to you because they're bought and paid for.
00:16:31.000Let's see Tucker chatting to Elon, see if we can glean any truth out of these.
00:16:34.000The goal of new Twitter is to be as fair and even-handed as possible, so not favouring any political Ideology, but just
00:16:52.000I know that Zuckerberg has said, and I take him at face value, that he... Well, I do, actually, in this way, that he is a kind of old-fashioned liberal who doesn't like to censor.
00:17:03.000He has, but he, you know... Like, why wouldn't a company like that take the stand that you have taken?
00:17:09.000It's pretty rooted in American traditional political custom, you know, for free speech.
00:17:17.000My understanding is that Zuckerberg spent $400 million in the last election nominally in a get-out-the-vote campaign, but really fundamentally in support of Democrats.
00:18:22.000Hey, so listen, what we're actually fundamentally talking about is how information is funded and whether or not the funding of the information creates an inflection and cadence within the information, whether there's an intention behind it.
00:18:34.000In a sane world, the media would be objective, or at least be aspiring to objectivity by offering impartiality.
00:18:42.000Objectivity might be philosophically impossible to achieve, but what is possible to achieve is say, look, we think this about the I don't know war between Russia and Ukraine but there's also this perspective uh or during the pandemic we believe this is the best course of action however we would be remiss if we didn't include these voices and these concerns and doubts or it's a continually evolving story these are the latest studies that's not how the media behaves the media
00:19:07.000Essentially, they're henchmen of the state.
00:19:11.000That's why when the young buddy boy Texera makes those releases, the Pentagon Papers Part Deux, that what you ultimately get is a media not only conveying the exact messaging that the government would want.
00:20:55.000In a minute, we're going to talk about those protests in France, how legit they are, and how the highest court in the land has verified Macron's undemocratic decision to ignore the protests and pass laws, meaning French people will work even longer.
00:21:14.000Biden's got an army of digital influencers now, ready for his next election campaign, optimistically.
00:21:21.000Elon is saying that the CBC is bugging them online, look, saying they're 69% government-funded media.
00:21:28.000Trudeau, who I think is one of the worst of these pretend-to-be-nice-actually-not-nice-type politicians, great hair but does he care, Trudeau, is it Trudeau?
00:21:38.000Like, have a look at him here saying, like, oh, Elon Musk's bang out of order, etc.
00:21:42.000I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:21:44.000A joke he made in private is going to knock your little socks off.
00:21:47.000Look at him now complaining about Elon declaring that government funding binds certain media
00:21:55.000I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada.
00:22:00.000They're choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations, journalists who are working
00:22:08.000hard to keep Canadians informed and support our democracies.
00:22:12.000So all they're working hard to do is support them and support democracy, sponsored by Ericsson.
00:22:18.000Look at Trudeau a few years ago, not that long ago, I think it's in 2019, it says there.
00:22:24.000Check it out, what he just plainly admits.
00:22:26.000You sometimes hear about liberal bias in the media these days, how they're constantly letting off our government, letting our government off the hook for no good reason.
00:22:49.000Because it was at one of those press dinners.
00:22:51.000Which is another way that you know that the government and the press actually get on extremely well.
00:22:56.000Because in America and Canada, and here, they do dinners where government officials and prime ministers and leaders do jokes and stuff for members of the press.
00:23:05.000It's like, oh, OK, you know, if you want us to think that you're not linked in the way that Elon Musk is talking about, maybe stop doing those dinners?
00:23:11.000I think I've been invited to one of those dinners.
00:23:13.000The Americas one, where it's the, you know, we do jokes about the president.
00:23:32.000So, in our country, the government spent more money than every single corporation and commercial interest in their endeavour to make us like them.
00:24:50.000I mean this, you know, when you discover, and I think Michael Schellenberg was talking about this the other day, maybe yesterday, and the kind of trust from the American public in media, it's no wonder, is it?
00:25:00.000The more and more access to information we have about things like this, that the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest sponsors of basically network cable Yeah, give us information.
00:25:11.000You know, it's like, no wonder trust is diminished to an all-time low when you know things like that.
00:25:15.000They complain about figures like Elon Musk and Tucker, but actually what they never address is the problem that's led to the rise of disruptive voices.
00:25:25.000If you had a decent, moral government, A fair, authentic, and transparent media, then these radical voices wouldn't seem so extraordinary, exciting, and enlivening, because there wouldn't be an environment that's so thirsty for authenticity of any kind, and that isn't to undermine some of the things that Donald Trump said that were a little bit out there, let's face it.
00:25:48.000Okay, Lee, if you're watching us on YouTube and you're having the time of your life right now, I understand why, because you're getting dosed up on truth.
00:25:56.000There's more truth in this show than there is cream cheese in a new New York bagel, baby.
00:26:01.000We're stuffed brimming over with truth, whether it's wisdom and insights into Lovejoy, a 1980s British TV show, or an interrogation on advertising expenditure within the mainstream.
00:26:54.000So the member states of the World Health Organization have agreed to a global process to draft and negotiate a convention agreement or other international instrument under the constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic Prevention, preparedness and response.
00:27:08.000What an irritating little tongue twister that is.
00:27:09.000Let's have a look at the bullet points.
00:27:11.000According to the draft, half the pandemic products allocated to the WHO should be donated while the other half will be bought for an accessible price.
00:27:19.000So a lot of it's about finance and profiting.
00:27:22.000No less than 11 of the draft's 49 clause preamble deal in one way or another deals with intellectual property rights Signalling the key battleground for upcoming negotiations.
00:27:33.000Do you remember that during the last pandemic, the nations that were most heavily vaccinated were the ones that would pay for it, and the ones that wouldn't pay for it or couldn't pay for it, or they couldn't get patents sorted or manufacturing deals sorted, they just didn't vaccinate them.
00:27:46.000Can we have a look at what the figures are for how Covid played out in those territories where they didn't have access to the vaccine?
00:27:53.000Presumably you can say, oh they lost this many people, there were this many deaths from comorbidities, One thing those poor nations are good for is case studies for what happens if you can't afford vaccines and whether or not it is only beneficial.
00:28:13.000These clauses in this new treaty they're drawing up recognise the protection of intellectual property rights is as important for the development of new medical products but highlights the impact on price and access.
00:28:24.000So, like, you'd think the World Health Organization should be solely about the health of the world's people.
00:28:29.000They should be about, one, preventing pandemics, two, treating pandemics, three, having a global perspective on what a pandemic does to a population, its economic impact, its psychological impact, the effects on addiction and mental health and economic.
00:28:43.000You have to have a holistic Approach to something that's as complex and all-encompassing as a pandemic.
00:28:48.000They went down the route of lockdowns and vaccines and masks.
00:28:53.000They made it divisive and politicized.
00:28:59.000They created more opportunities to surveil.
00:29:02.000They did all of the things that on the surface of it seem beneficial to states that want the ability to control and pharmaceutical companies that
00:29:49.000All this while the people of France are burning down their own cities and towns out of frustration.
00:29:55.000Riots, riots is the voice of the voiceless.
00:29:58.000Riots is what you do when you've had just about enough.
00:30:02.000Riots is what you do when there ain't nothing left to you.
00:30:05.000So let's have a look at this direct quote from this zero draft treaty cost.
00:30:08.000So this is, I guess it's a preliminary draft of something they're going to try and push through.
00:30:12.000to prioritise and increase or maintain domestic funding by allocating in its annual budget,
00:30:17.000it's not lower than 5% of its current health expenditure to pandemic prevention. So it's
00:30:21.000wanting to centralise 5% of all health expenditure from all of the countries that are members.
00:30:28.0005% will be 7.5 billion for our country and Wales. Half the general practice budget, general
00:30:34.000practice means going to see like your regular family doctor, which is a crisis in these
00:30:38.000countries. People can't get to see doctors and one of the things they like to amp up
00:30:41.000is because of immigrants and stuff like that. But you know what it comes down to funding,
00:30:45.000all the funding's get funnelling upwards, you know that there's been a wealth transfer.
00:30:49.000So that's what's really happening. Gail, you got to say your facts.
00:30:52.000Yeah, I mean, I guess the thing that we haven't touched on yet is I mean, I know it seems
00:30:55.000maybe a bit cliche and obvious, but Bill Gates role in this.
00:30:58.000I guess one of the things that has come through this treaty and that people are kind of warning against is the amount of money that might be generated through this.
00:31:05.000If governments are giving 5%, for example, in England and Wales, 7.5 billion, that's quite a lot.
00:31:11.000Between all the members of the WHO, that's quite a lot of money generated.
00:31:14.000And obviously Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation, is the second largest contributor to the WHO.
00:31:19.000As of September 21, it invested nearly 800 million in its programmes.
00:31:23.000So it says in quotes, for an intergovernmental organisation such as WHO to be so reliant on private philanthropy, especially one whose leaders of personal interest and investments in healthcare, is problematic.
00:31:33.000Private foundations resources tend to be more dependent on the stock market and other investments and could have financial interests that run contrary to their state admissions.
00:31:42.000So that is the risk, I suppose, of Doing something whereby you know multiple countries sign up to something that then the control is down to potentially one person or one foundation.
00:31:55.000Do you think that Bill Gates through his Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is able to exert undue influence over an apparently democratic body like the WHO even though none of us vote for it and the democracy achieved there is through the Representatives that participate within those kind of little elections that they hold there.
00:32:13.000Elections within which we are not consulted.
00:32:17.000Where do you think the influence and power is coming from?
00:32:21.000And do you think that this atrophying democratic process, the failure of our current systems, is what's leading to people rising up on the streets?
00:33:53.000Is this global protest a response to the fact that we're never gonna build back better?
00:34:00.000Today's story focuses on the ongoing protests in France.
00:34:04.000The highest constitutional courts in the land have just verified Macron's decision to raise the pension age.
00:34:11.000But really what French people are protesting is the fact that democracy is meaningless now and that their government clearly operates on behalf of corporate and financial elite.
00:34:22.000This is a global problem, and the fact that they're protesting outside Black Rock is not an indication that they think Black Rock are directly involved, although Black Rock are involved in a hell of a lot of things.
00:34:31.000It's just that people have started to intuitively understand that democracy is not the answer.
00:34:37.000If you can have administrative and legislative action take place that's clearly against the will of the people, then it's necessary to protest.
00:34:44.000is necessary to mobilize and you'll notice that simultaneously police are becoming more militarized, protest laws are being introduced, almost as if the elites are preparing now for the next phase.
00:34:56.000Let's have a look at the story as the mainstream media would have you understand it.
00:35:00.000Anger that's been growing in France boils over into red hot rage.
00:35:07.000Thousands gathered for one final protest before the country's constitutional court cleared the path for the president to bring in his pension reform It's interesting that they're protesting around those Olympic rings.
00:35:24.000But the people of France are enraged and furious.
00:35:27.000They're a country more given to protest than a country like mine, the UK.
00:35:31.000But even here, nurses and junior doctors and healthcare workers are protesting for the same reason everyone's protesting, really.
00:35:38.000Global elites are increasingly finding ways of bypassing democracy.
00:35:43.000During the pandemic, there was a huge wealth transfer and people Democrats feel a general sense of unease and are obviously painfully aware of economic inequality, of a deterioration in the conditions of their life, and the inability to do anything about it through democracy.
00:35:57.000We know that in most countries, all significant parties are generally owned by the same financial and corporate interests.
00:36:04.000That's why people are taking to the streets.
00:36:06.000And even with all these protests, the highest constitutional court in France verified Macron's decision, increasing the age before which you can receive a pension.
00:36:15.000Isn't it interesting how bewildered we've become?
00:36:18.000We regard the state like a parent that we have to appeal to and continually appease.
00:36:22.000We forget that they just work for us, actually.
00:36:24.000All of their money, all of the money that's ending up at the military-industrial complex, all of the money that's being spent in various ways that most of us don't approve of, comes from us.
00:36:33.00040% of your time, 30% of your time, 50% of the time, depending on your country and your tax bracket, is being spent working for them.
00:36:40.000You should have some say in how they behave.
00:36:43.000And the fact you have to Burn down your own cities in order to be heard shows you the point we're at historically.
00:36:49.000And the general apathy that many of us feel is not the apathy of, oh no, I just want to watch the new Mario Brothers movie.
00:36:54.000It's the apathy of, this doesn't do anything, does it?
00:36:57.000It doesn't matter if you vote for Blair or Clinton or Obama Or whoever, you're going to get the same result.
00:37:05.000That's why whether it's in Sri Lanka, or the Netherlands, or the UK, or France, or across America, you are seeing the rise of protest movements.
00:37:12.000And instead of parties emerging now that are addressing the concerns of these suddenly emergent mobs, what you're getting is the militarisation of the police force, more surveillance laws, more distraction, more crap.
00:37:30.000We're just more angry to not be listened and we will not go home now.
00:37:37.000They say they intend to keep fighting, but constitutionally this is the end of the road.
00:37:43.000The problem with mass uprisings is it's harder for the mainstream media to do the job of the government and smear them.
00:37:51.000If it's just one person they can say, oh this person's a crackpot, look at their history.
00:37:54.000But when it's a mob in the street it becomes difficult, not impossible, you remember the Canadian truckers, to smear them and say, oh what these people are motivated by is, oh they hate our freedoms, oh they're misogynist, oh they're The fact is that ordinary people, generally speaking, have more in common with one another than they have with the elites that govern them.
00:38:13.000And, generally speaking, we understand and know that.
00:38:19.000Stories of division, of fracture and fragmentation, have to be continually told.
00:38:23.000The culture has to pump you full of divisiveness so that we can't awaken from the fog and say, hang on a minute, we could organise things better than this, couldn't we?
00:38:31.000President Macron is yet to address the public in the wake of the court ruling and showed no signs of concern on a visit to Notre Dame Cathedral while protesters marched through the streets.
00:38:42.000As usual, the ridiculous allusion of the politician in the hard hat.
00:38:47.000Oh, Notre Dame is coming on really well.
00:39:18.000I suppose one of the things that's promising is that it's not a left-wing or right-wing
00:39:22.000protest, it's a popular uprising. This is what we're going to need more of in order
00:39:27.000to change the systems that we currently live within. We can't say, well I only like these
00:39:32.000kind of right-wing protests or I only like these left-wing protests.
00:39:35.000We're going to have to put aside those kind of divisions and focus on what's important.
00:39:38.000That seems to be happening somewhat organically in France.
00:39:41.000Perhaps if these protests are successful, we will see attempts to dismiss them or define them as right-wing or fascist in order to undermine the legitimacy of the protest.
00:39:51.000That's what happens continually, is what they're protesting for, Is it legitimate?
00:40:10.000So, even if it's not a direct protest against BlackRock, it is an understanding of the tangential relationship between BlackRock and pensions more generally.
00:40:45.000In his first term, the National Assembly was reduced to a rubber stamping chamber where the president's majority voted in lockstep for any government project.
00:40:53.000Issues as important as the war in Ukraine, arms deliveries to Kiev, and sanctions against Russia were not subject to serious debate or put to a vote.
00:41:01.000The unemployment benefit reform was given an accelerated passage and controversial measures have been introduced stealthily by decree.
00:41:08.000As soon as disagreement arises, Macron resorts to force, ignoring checks on power to power, not even deigning to meet the union's campaigning against the pension reform, despite their repeated requests.
00:41:21.000It's a man in a white hat outside a cathedral while Paris burns.
00:41:25.000This arrogance can only fuel disillusionment with democracy and strengthen the feeling that the political game is inaccessible to most.
00:41:32.000This is true in your country, America, in Canada, in the UK, in the Netherlands, in India, in Sri Lanka.
00:41:38.000Our governments have been co-opted by centralised financial and corporate interests to varying degrees.
00:41:43.000What we are given are palliatives and distractions rather than democracy.
00:41:48.000You can argue about things that do not affect their economic interests.
00:41:51.000You can watch things that do not affect their economic interests.
00:41:54.000You can get involved in cultural debates.
00:41:55.000What you cannot do is impede their attempt to fulfill their agenda.
00:41:59.000It also illustrates the arrogance of elites when confronted with popular anger and their propensity to deceive, lie, and to conceal to achieve their ends, while at the same time revealing institutional decay.
00:42:11.000So if BlackRock are not directly involved in this, maybe they are, it's difficult to tell.
00:42:35.000BlackRock's aggressive initiatives, a mix of lobbying, campaign contribution and networking were key to this success.
00:42:41.000BlackRock has also forged deep connections to Washington's political class following in the footsteps of banks like Goldman Sachs.
00:42:48.000So how do you think democracy works really?
00:42:50.000Do you think your little vote makes a difference or do you think the lobbying, campaign donations and networking are more significant in forming the shape of the systems that most of us live within?
00:43:01.000In April 2021, during the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported BlackRock's profits rose 49%.
00:43:08.000So a time that might have meant closure of small business, a time that might have meant your children stopped going to school, a time that might have meant that you saw loved ones die.
00:43:15.000No matter where you stand on the spectrum, and believe me, I don't feel that that's the most important issue anymore.
00:43:24.000If the most powerful interests in the world benefit from crisis, what incentive is there to stop crisis from happening?
00:43:31.000So while we were told we were going to be building back better, what actually happened in the last couple of years?
00:43:37.000According to Oxfam's annual inequality report, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic.
00:43:46.000Their fortunes soared by $26 trillion, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to The breakdown of these figures exposes how, on a global basis, extreme wealth is accumulated not by innovating or increasing production, but by taking advantage of rising prices and exploiting labour.
00:44:04.000In this effort, wealthy people are enabled by a lack of regulation and taxation.
00:44:08.000The result is a bonanza of plunder with no sheriff in town.
00:44:11.000We're continually told that if you were to regulate markets or try to control this kind of globalist interest, that that's stopping entrepreneurs and free market capitalism.
00:44:22.000This wealth transfer is not a result of geniuses in laboratories coming up with stuff, it's a result of people buying, accumulating, spread betting, stuff that's more akin to informed gambling than true free market ingenuity.
00:44:35.000This has been happening for a while, but the pandemic accelerated the trend.
00:44:39.000They benefited from rising costs by using them as an alibi to charge higher than inflation prices, then distributing the rewards as dividends instead of higher wages.
00:44:48.000Food and energy corporations made a killing, making $306 billion in windfall profits in 2022, then distributing 84% to shareholders.
00:44:56.000They benefited from stimulus packages that pushed up asset prices.
00:45:00.000They benefited from low interest rates that helped them to expand their property empires.
00:45:04.000According to Credit Suisse, lower interest rates and government support programs resulted in a huge transfer of wealth from the public sector to private households, which saw their debts lowered and the value of their assets, shares and properties rise.
00:45:17.000The obscenity of this system is made possible by the dramatically diminished bargaining power of labour.
00:45:25.000The purpose is to transform the human worker into a machine that can be switched off when not in use.
00:45:29.000In 2020, Amazon's UK sales soared by half to 19.4 billion.
00:45:35.000In 2021, an investigation in Britain found that the company was bypassing its own employment standards by hiring thousands of zero-hours workers through agencies.
00:45:43.000These workers have no employment protections, their shifts can be cancelled at the last minute, and there is no guarantee of tenure out of employment.
00:45:50.000But it is successful tax avoidance that is the strongest pillar propping up global inequality, and its dismantling would be the quickest solution.
00:45:57.000There is little chance of that happening soon.
00:45:59.000Tax regimes, like much of the conventional economic wisdom about the benefits of wealth creation to all, are increasingly out of step with not only the needs of poor people, but with what is required for the health of our economies.
00:46:11.000What's most striking about the post-pandemic profit boom is the truly global nature of the problem.
00:46:17.000It's not only the hope of a world recalibrated by Covid towards stronger public infrastructure that is turning to dust in our mouths.
00:46:24.000An older dream is dying too, of a post-Cold War globalisation that was supposed to bring us all closer, usher in a utopia of free trade, growth, employment and sustainable development.
00:46:35.000What this model of globalisation ended up achieving was standardising ways for wealthy people to pay as little as possible, concentrating economic activity on those with purchasing power, and hanging the rest out to dry.
00:46:47.000So what is globalisation about really?
00:46:51.000Or is it about creating a utopia where powerful elites can enact their agenda in countries as diverse as Sri Lanka, France, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, all the while creating narratives that suit their agenda wherever appropriate?
00:47:08.000That this country's suddenly racist, that this country doesn't care about the climate, that these nurses and doctors are greedy.
00:47:14.000This behemoth stands astride the globe and is able to legislate freely without opposition.
00:47:20.000And even when opposition does rise up, they know that the police are getting militarized, protest laws are coming, and an obedient media will portray protesters however is convenient to shut down meaningful protests.
00:47:37.000Will it be able to interrupt this globalist agenda?
00:47:40.000What I believe is we now have to form a true global movement that focuses on whatever agenda is applicable in our nation, overlooks cultural differences in order to come together temporarily in order to achieve shared goals.
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00:49:14.000Now, let's go back to other version of me talking about the government, big tech, the military-industrial complex, and things that are a lot more opaque than this.
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00:49:54.000But before we do anything else, Russell, before you threw to the break there, you intro'd me.
00:50:00.000I wrote it down because I thought it was so curious.
00:50:02.000You said, a certain type of gay we claim.
00:50:07.000I thought the we claim there was the interesting part.
00:50:33.000That's actually the dream of most gay men, but I am what I am, it's all that I am, you know?
00:50:38.000I love you for that, Dave, and that is precisely what we've been highlighting.
00:50:43.000Yes, I've seen some of those videos where the gay man likes to convert, seduce, or inveigle the non-gay man into what can only be described as gayness.
00:50:57.000There's probably some other ways you could describe it, but yeah.
00:50:59.000You know, it's funny though, for real, like, there's this weird thing with gays that they're obsessed with straight acting, you know, this is a thing, like, if you just sort of act.
00:51:21.000You know, I like sports and I like comedy and that kind of thing.
00:51:25.000But I always sort of when I would meet guys who were like a little more effeminate, I kind of liked it because I was like, oh, they are who they are.
00:51:32.000I thought I was just like some sort of repressed mess.
00:51:35.000Like there was a little gay man inside me trying to break forth, like a little gay midget in here, just like trying to get out and free himself.
00:51:42.000But that was, I just tried to be gay for you.
00:52:08.000I mean, I was definitely repressed and closeted for a long time, really into my mid to late 20s.
00:52:15.000I'll tell you, actually, this is completely true.
00:52:18.000The first person that I came out to, believe it or not, was my friend Mike.
00:52:24.000We were in the Times Square subway station at about 12 30 a.m.
00:52:29.000on September 11th 2001 literally seven hours later in New York City that horrific disaster was about to happen but I had had this secret I was 25 years old already Finally reveal this secret.
00:53:33.000There's no relationship between tectonic plates and sex with someone with the same genitals as you've got yourself.
00:53:39.000Now we've touched upon 9-11, which was utilised in order to bring about the Patriot Act.
00:53:46.000The Patriot Act was underwritten by those terror attacks in 9-11.
00:53:49.000Now the Pentagon leaks are being utilised to bring about the Restrict Act, Will these leaks, cheer-led by the mainstream media, no one questioning the content of the leaks themselves, only seeking to condemn the leaker, who I believe is called Buddy Boy Texera, that it will lead ultimately to more surveillance and more early 20s-style Dave Rubin repression?
00:54:16.000Are you worried that the Pentagon leaks will lead to more surveillance, more restrictions, more censorship, less freedom?
00:54:25.000Yes, my friend, you are completely right.
00:54:29.000This is the Patriot Act for the digital world, and it is actually almost irrelevant what was released on those Discord channels, because they are using this, as you said, for the pretext to make sure that whatever little bit of our digital identity on this little black mirror that we're all holding, whatever remains ours and is not theirs yet, They're going to make sure that they get every piece of it, whether that is every message that you and I send privately to each other, whether that's every video that you share, whether it is whatever your family pictures, etc.
00:55:04.000They look, we may already have crossed the Rubicon where they already have access to everything.
00:55:08.000And now this is just window dressing around it.
00:55:11.000You know, they're just trying to dot the I dot the I's and cross the T's on this stuff.
00:55:15.000But yes, they're coming for every bit of digital existence.
00:55:19.000I don't know if you saw it, but Tucker interviewed Elon last night on Fox, and he was talking about, because he's really trying to fight some of this stuff, he was talking about how one of the things that he's doing with Twitter, he said it'll take about a month to roll out, he wants to do end-to-end encryption on the DMs, because the DMs, which obviously are the private messages that you can share with people who you follow and they follow you, The government and Twitter employees have been allowed to read them.
00:55:44.000It was very obvious to me for 10 years.
00:55:46.000I never wrote anything in a DM that I wouldn't have wanted to be seen.
00:55:49.000But, you know, a whole bunch of people thought, oh, it's a direct message.
00:55:55.000And the only thing that can stop this is decentralization.
00:55:58.000It's encrypted messaging, you know, one-on-one messaging with no middleman and Bitcoin and that sort of thing.
00:56:04.000One of the things that was fascinating, Gareth here pointed it out as a matter of fact, is that they implied that one of the things that led to the arrest of young Buddy Boy Texera was that he'd shot those papers from above, revealing a little bit of his kitchen countertop and the tiles on the floor.
00:56:20.000And those geniuses at the New York Times who were inexplicably involved in investigating and catching him rather than reporting objectively on the story, along with their pals in the Feds, were able to piece together the tiles and the countertop to locate where he lived.
00:56:37.000Isn't it more likely that they are in fact already able to Use the spying techniques such as you just outlined, you know, following your every transaction, your every message.
00:56:48.000Do you think that in reality even the arrest of that lad was utilizing sort of spying technology and do you think that as Snowden, even Snowden's revelations suggest that they have a greater ability to surveil us than they're willing to admit to and more than is legal?
00:57:05.000Yeah, dude, I mean, everybody watching the show is walking around with this in their pocket.
00:57:09.000You're walking around with something that has GPS attached to it.
00:57:12.000You're walking around with something that you're sending messages from.
00:57:15.000They're not just going to somebody else's phone magically, right?
00:57:19.000They're going through a network of systems.
00:57:21.000So someone is tracking all of this one way or another.
00:58:33.000It was just to just suck our freaking minds and then mine that data so it could basically be used against us either in advertising or for whatever the hell the government's trying to do.
00:58:51.000It's a big move from Rubin on that day.
00:58:54.000Do you think that Elon Musk is, through his investigations and attacks on government-funded media, making the mainstream more transparent?
00:59:03.000Or does he risk highlighting Government funded media rather than privately funded media which has, in my view, equally toxic, if not more, biases.
00:59:15.000I think he's doing everything that anyone within this system can do.
00:59:20.000You know, when I had you in the studio a couple weeks ago in Miami and we were talking a bit about DeSantis and why I was saying I like him, and then you were taking a slightly different approach.
00:59:27.000What I said is a system exists and there's some people that do the best they can within that system to alter it in a positive direction.
00:59:36.000I think that's what DeSantis is doing.
01:00:52.000He voted for this woman, Mayra Flores, who is a Congresswoman and a border town, because he saw what was happening, you know, with all the migrants coming from Mexico.
01:01:01.000And then of course he moved to Texas because he left crappy California with high taxes and crime and all that
01:01:06.000to move to Texas where there's freedom and lower taxes and everything else.
01:01:10.000So I think he's going through his own political awakening, leaning more towards freedom.
01:01:14.000But I would say if we all exist within a system, he's one of the good guys within that system.
01:01:20.000Dave, will you stay with us for a couple more questions exclusively on locals
01:01:25.000to drive people to a platform that you frankly invented?
01:01:31.000I'm going to be asking Dave about moving to Florida and why Dave believes that the Sunshine State is the only place to be, making claims that homelessness has been eliminated.
01:01:42.000I also want to know if it's true that Ron DeSantis is turning Disneyland into an open prison And sewer.
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01:02:09.000Tomorrow, we've got comedian and political commentator Kat Timpf, who I met when I was on Fox News, being like an exchange trip student from another world.
01:02:19.000See you on Locals in a second with more from Dave Rubin talking more about his private personal business and reasons to move to Florida.
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