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00:02:41.000Well, evidently, the military-industrial complex.
00:02:44.000We were talking about the Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson spat regarding the efficacy and necessity for nuclear war, and it's a topic we'll be returning to over the course of the week because we've got Colonel Douglas McGregor coming on the show later this week, as well as Dr. Niels, the writer of this book.
00:03:02.000So we've got some fantastic stuff coming up over the course of the week.
00:03:06.000In this show, we're also talking about the border crisis in your country and the corporations that lobby your government to Essentially dilute the ability of ordinary Americans of all cultures, religions and hues to negotiate for good wages.
00:03:34.000One shaky, quakey, old man signature away from being banned in the United States as the TikTok ban was of course, as you know by now surely, tacked on to the 95 billion dollar war aid bill that's likely to be signed pretty soon.
00:03:49.000So wherever you are now, if you're watching us on YouTube, you gotta click the link in the description eventually because we'll just be here For 15 minutes.
00:03:55.000I want to say hello to all you Awaken Wonders like Sunpatch Patriot.
00:03:59.000All of you guys, did you enjoy the conversation with Colonel Douglas McGregor?
00:04:15.000Hello there Circle Light coming to London early in May and like to talk to me about Bible prophecy.
00:04:19.000We're also talking about the resurgence of Christianity and of course Candice Owen's conversion to Catholicism as well as touching on Bishop Murray Emmanuel's forgiveness of the perpetuator of violence against him, the fella that stabbed him.
00:04:37.000And indeed he believes that that footage should remain up on X.
00:04:43.000Whose moral universe are we living in now?
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00:05:20.000Meanwhile, people are disappointed, it seems on TripAdvisor, that when they went to Loch Ness, they didn't see a monster.
00:05:42.000We'll be talking about the Trump case right away.
00:05:44.000In fact, we're going to talk about it immediately.
00:05:47.000Now, I asked you lot, is Trump being gagged because it's a criminal case and the law is the law or because the judiciary is being used to stymie a political opponent?
00:05:59.000Also, we used it as an opportunity to once again iterate that it's unlikely that impartiality is a possibility in a hysterical temperament like that prevails currently in your nation.
00:06:11.000Let's have a look at the Legacy Media's coverage of Trump being Frightened with contempt of court judges now considering
00:06:20.000whether to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court Prosecutors at his criminal trial in New York say the
00:06:25.000former president violated orders to not talk about the case on social media
00:06:29.000Fox's Caroline Elliott joins us live from the courthouse in New York with what happened in court today
00:06:35.000prosecutors say that Trump violated this gag order with various social media posts including
00:06:40.000attacks on key witnesses like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels
00:06:45.000After the hearing today, Trump continued to post on Truth Social, saying the judge should recuse himself in this case.
00:06:52.000Have a gag order, which to me is totally unconstitutional.
00:06:56.000I'm not allowed to talk, but people are allowed to talk about me.
00:07:00.000So they can talk about me, they can say whatever they want, they can lie, but I'm not allowed to say anything.
00:07:06.000I just have to sit back and look at why a conflicted judge has ordered me to have a gag order.
00:07:13.000I don't think anybody's ever said anything like this.
00:07:16.000I wonder if the case if we can in our minds hold what this case is about and in fact you know of course it's commonly reported or at least understood that to a degree this case is a distraction but how deep a distraction Is it?
00:07:33.000How far away are we, the people of our various nations, we the people, to use a apt little phrase, from achieving the kind of freedom, achieving the kind of autonomy, achieving the ability to pursue happiness that we might believe we're entitled to.
00:07:51.000Now, from a spiritual perspective, of course, we'd have to ask, well, maybe we're not entitled to anything at all.
00:07:58.000If it's not a life dedicated to service, if it's not a life dedicated to meaning.
00:08:02.000But let's just remember that this is what this case is ostensibly about.
00:08:07.000So, the filing of false business reports portraying the money disbursed to Cohen aforementioned as payments for legal services was a misdemeanor and the statute of limitations has long expired.
00:08:21.000DA Bragg, however, leveraged the misdemeanor into a felony by alleging that the false reports So that's the actual facts of the matter.
00:08:27.000to violate federal law even though no federal prosecutor has chosen to bring
00:08:32.000such a case. He charged each of the 34 false reports separately as a four-year
00:08:37.000felony with a combined maximum 20 years in prison upon conviction. So that's the
00:08:42.000actual facts of the matter. Is there anyone who believes that this is not
00:08:47.000about we want to deal with Trump using whatever means we have available to us?
00:08:52.000And is there anyone who believes that this is going to end in justice?
00:09:18.000As for the question of hush money, it's well known that Democratic President Bill Clinton offered to pay $700,000 to Paula Jones to settle her lawsuit over her allegations of improper behavior.
00:09:27.000In that case, right-wing Republican lawyers induced Jones to refuse the money in order to engineer the perjury trap that led to Clinton's impeachment.
00:09:34.000In the current case, A democratic district attorney is using equally underhanded methods.
00:09:39.000There's nothing progressive or democratic in such political cynicism and that comes from a socialist news organisation because ultimately they're interested in an entirely different model of reality and I hope that that's what we're here for too.
00:09:55.000And it's going to be increasingly difficult to have these discussions because, believe me, the censorship industrial complex is real and it's on the rise.
00:10:02.000What's happening in Australia is extraordinary, but not unprecedented.
00:10:06.000TikTok is on the precipice of being banned.
00:10:12.000Rumble have already stopped streaming there.
00:10:14.000And indeed, Rumble, again, remain at the vanguard and forefront of opposing this level of censorship.
00:10:19.000And you know already that the Trusted News Initiative, the organisation, an alliance of news organisations, in fact, from Australia, from the United Kingdom, from the United States, that includes tech giants like Google, have agreed that their real enemy is independent media.
00:10:34.000That means me and you, because independent media means independent minds and it means free speech.
00:10:40.000Our ability to communicate with one another, that we might discover that we have more in common than we have that divides us, particularly when it comes to this corrupted political class, this cycle of corruption, sending evidently aid money out into the ether that the Pentagon can nary well track, that may not even make it to Ukraine or any other intended destination, before once again becoming the donations that keeps the whole cycle moving.
00:11:08.000And if you want to understand that, With a little more depth, then you'll join me for my conversation with Colonel Douglas McGregor that our Awaken Wonder community has already seen.
00:11:18.000Melania, I understand, is going to be selling some jewelry.
00:11:23.000And Melania Trump is taking heat from her former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, who's blasting her for releasing a $245 Mother's Day necklace the week her husband's trial begins.
00:11:35.000It's like a good time in terms of marketing.
00:11:37.000Just in case we think that this judicial effort is indeed determined and designed to bring down Trump rather than to recognise were funds re-appropriated incorrectly and was it wrong to pay that hush money, you know, let's have a look at what's happening to Bobby Kennedy.
00:11:55.000It seems that the Democrats don't want him on the ballot and are using sort of loopholes, really, to restrict his ability to stand.
00:12:04.000So, like, once again, Joe Biden won't debate anybody in primaries.
00:12:09.000The Democrat Party can't keep Bobby Kennedy within it.
00:12:12.000You're not allowed to vote for Donald Trump.
00:12:13.000You're not allowed to vote for Cornel West.
00:12:15.000You're not allowed, in fact, to vote for anybody except Joe Biden.
00:12:19.000And you have to call it democracy while you're doing it.
00:12:22.000So Bobby Kennedy survived the first legal challenge to his ballot access.
00:12:26.000Hawaii State Democratic Party failed to meet its burden of proof to boot Kennedy's newly formed We The People party from the ballot.
00:12:32.000In Hawaii, as in some other states, the signature threshold to get a new third party on the ballot is lower than for independent candidates.
00:12:38.000So they started a party and, you know, turns out they're allowed to do that.
00:12:42.000But look how bureaucracy is deployed to shut down opposition.
00:12:46.000The judiciary is deployed to shut down opposition.
00:12:49.000And remember, I don't believe But any individual, other than from sacred to sublime spaces, is going to change the world.
00:13:00.000I believe we require something a lot more significant than that.
00:13:05.000And this is a time where we have to address and embrace the significance of what we're facing, because we are potentially, on many fronts, on the precipice of Armageddon.
00:13:16.000Even while we're told that what's happening is that your taxpayer dollars are funding Ukraine's war, it increasingly seems likely that there is military, explicit military involvement from US troops in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
00:13:32.000Nearly 100 special forces from five Western countries, including more than a dozen Americans, have been operating on the ground in Ukraine, according to a leaked Document.
00:13:41.000The file revealed the presence of at least 97 service members on the Ukrainian soil was part of a cache of documents marked secret.
00:13:51.000Also, additionally, there are military advisors likely being sent to Ukraine.
00:13:57.000The US is considering increasing its small military presence in Ukraine by sending up to 60 additional military advisors, Politico reported on Saturday, the same day as the House approved $61 billion of spending on the proxy war.
00:14:11.000Did you see, in fact, the moment that Bill Keaton gave Zelensky the good news about that money?
00:14:35.000Their military is much more powerful than was first assumed.
00:14:39.000There's no question that they have been provoked into this conflict.
00:14:42.000There's no reason for the United Kingdom and for the United States to be involved unless there is a project to destabilize Russia in order to create a unipolar world where American establishment interests are represented, initially supported by taxpayer money, before ultimately becoming the globalist project that it's always been designed to be.
00:15:02.000But let's have a look at Bill Keating sort of giving Zelensky your tax dollars as if he's sort of giving him an anniversary card.
00:15:38.000You know when you give someone a gift or something, maybe when you arrive at someone's house with some flowers and like they don't take it for too long, like you know, oh hiya and you don't know whether to take your shoes off and oh am I gonna take my shoes off, is it a shoes off house?
00:15:50.000Like Bill Keaton, like Zelensky though, Who at this point, let's face it, is held up and supported by deep state special forces interests, you know, operating in a country that doesn't have elections, in a country that shut down its media.
00:16:24.000Anyway, Thomas Massie, he's not down with all of the literal flag-waving in Congress and the Senate at the passing of these bills, but it seems that it's not something he's legitimately allowed to complain about.
00:16:39.000Massie posted on Tuesday that he was called up by the House Sergeant-at-Arms who allegedly framed the representative with a $500 fine.
00:16:45.000Think of some of the lobbying money that's spent, some of the donations.
00:16:48.000$500 fine if he did not delete a post with a video from the House floor when Democratic congressmen waved Ukraine flags after a chamber voted to pass this foreign aid package.
00:16:59.000Excuse me, that includes funding for the European nation.
00:17:02.000Let's have a Excuse me, let's have a look at his tweet.
00:17:07.000I've got some terrible COVID, you'll have to excuse me.
00:17:11.000Instead of fining Democrats for waving flags, the House Sergeant at Arms just called and said, I'll be fined $500 if I don't delete this post.
00:18:16.000Before I take anything, I know I'll take it anyway.
00:18:18.000So listen, we're going to be talking about Tucker and Shapiro's spat.
00:18:22.000We're going to be talking about the TikTok ban, and we're going to be talking about Elon and Australia and the censorship industrial conflicts, as well as Candace's Catholicism.
00:18:40.000Let's have a look at the Senate passing the TikTok bill.
00:18:44.000TikTok could be running out of time after the Senate passed legislation tonight that would require the app's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its stake in the platform within a year or face a national ban.
00:18:56.000Both Democrat and Republican leaders say they're concerned about the Chinese government accessing the sensitive data of the app's millions of American users and its potential ability to manipulate content.
00:19:08.000TikTok has denied sharing data with the Chinese government and said in a statement the bill would devastate 7 million businesses and trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans.
00:19:45.000Let me ask you first, are you a Sleepy Joe type character with zero cognitive performance, struggling to muster focus and brain power for basic things like running the United States of America?
00:19:54.000You've got to stop drinking woke, liberal coffee that hates you and your way of life and start your day by drinking Rumble's very own 1775 coffee.
00:20:04.000This is going to be the best tasting coffee you've ever had.
00:20:07.000Seriously good, ethically sourced, from a family farm in the high altitude mountains of Bolivia.
00:20:13.000Not in the Bolivian lowlands, run not by a family but by a single man, still living with a pe- NO!
00:20:18.000Instead of waking up and drinking your big corporation-owned woke ideology coffee that's probably making you sick from the pesticides it's sprayed with, try Rumbles!
00:21:05.000Hello there, just so as I can stave off this, I want to bring you this fantastic and intriguing story.
00:21:11.000For a long time we've been talking about the chaos at the border, but have you considered how the corporations that, through donations, control your Congress, control your Senate, are benefiting from migration and creating despair and poverty among ordinary Americans through their lobbying?
00:21:32.000You know that a $95 billion Dollars of military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan has just been passed and the migration crisis is escalating significantly.
00:21:42.000Immigration policy is being shaped to lower wage growth.
00:21:46.000So now we take a moment to look at who's benefiting from the migrant crisis and the causes of it.
00:22:00.000Your taxes are paying for two current wars and one potential future war.
00:22:05.000Meanwhile, the southern border is in chaos and migrants flood America.
00:22:10.000Who benefits then on excessive availability of cheap labor?
00:22:14.000Rather than focusing on migrants themselves, let's focus on who's benefiting from an open border while your resources are spent on war.
00:22:26.000Congress has just granted 95 billion dollars of aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, curiously, in order to ensure that those nations are able to support interests that apparently, evidently, and obviously align with the US establishment's agenda.
00:22:45.000And do you remember being asked about these issues?
00:22:48.000Because all the while your taxes are being spent on funding foreign military adventures of a variety of hues, the southern border crisis continues, with hundreds of thousands of people, from Latin America primarily, making it into your nation.
00:23:05.000And why is it that this crisis is framed in a very particular way?
00:23:08.000Why is it that there is not more expenditure on securing the border?
00:23:13.000And who benefits from this migration crisis continuing?
00:23:16.000Could it be possible that some of the largest brands in America, some of the most recognizable names in American corporate life, benefit from crushing Your ability to earn fair wages from your work by flooding the market with cheaply available labour.
00:23:32.000And what amount of lobbying goes on to ensure that the border crisis goes unaddressed, that wars continue and that you pay high taxes and yet remain poor and potentially unable to negotiate for better wages.
00:24:12.000After months of delays in GOP infighting, the US House voting Saturday to provide $95 billion to allies abroad.
00:24:19.000A major win for the White House and Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:24:22.000In a rare move, Democrats crossing the aisle to help Republicans clear a series of foreign assistance bills.
00:24:27.000Oh, hey, peace and harmony around the world.
00:24:30.000Democrats and Republicans skipping through the fields hand in hand.
00:24:33.000While ordinary people are funding all of this stuff, and it's likely that they voted not with their consciences, but with their pockets.
00:24:40.000The package would provide $61 billion to help Ukraine fight Russia, $26 billion for Israel, just days after Iran attacked the Jewish nation, and $8 billion for the Indo-Pacific, where the rise of China has national security experts worried.
00:24:52.000A fourth bill bans TikTok if its Chinese owner doesn't divest.
00:24:57.000Okay, so keep that war going with Russia.
00:25:15.000Also, Mike Johnson gets to parade around in a glittery wheelbarrow and gets sprinkled with stimulants and drugs.
00:25:21.000And changes some foreign assistance into a loan, an idea first floated by former president Donald Trump.
00:25:26.000On one hand, 95 billion dollars of additional aid, derived from your taxes, heading out of the United States of America.
00:25:33.000Who's heading in to the United States of America?
00:25:36.000Today, the border crisis was dumped on Southern California's doorstep, at the hands of the federal government.
00:25:43.000Border Patrol mass-released hundreds of illegal immigrants to San Diego streets, as bus after bus arrived at a local transit station, releasing masses of men and women from around the globe.
00:25:55.000Men and women, weird sort of categories and stuff.
00:25:58.000Now just so you know, I like, I'm sure you, I'm sympathetic to people that are struggling around the world, likely in part because of the imperialist behaviours of countries like yours and countries like mine.
00:27:14.000Okay, so who benefits from cheaply available labor?
00:27:18.000Well, I suppose it could be giant corporations that are always telling you how American they are and how much they love America and American people.
00:27:24.000No, that would be really hypocritical.
00:27:26.000Alright, meet giant Tyson laying off 1,200 workers after closing its pork factory in Prairie, Iowa, only later to announce 52,000 jobs for migrants.
00:27:36.000We could sack Americans who are expensive and employ poor people from around the world because we care about them.
00:27:45.000That's why this certainly isn't about our bottom line.
00:27:48.000Let's look at how very powerful interests benefit from migration and therefore from the border not being correctly policed or patrolled.
00:27:56.000And perhaps this is why your tax dollars are being spent on foreign wars rather than domestic solutions that might be beneficial for ordinary Americans.
00:28:05.000A record surge of illegal border crossings in recent years has fueled the debate over immigration and border security emerging as a key voter concern ahead of the US presidential election in November.
00:28:16.000And this is some reporting by Lee Fang.
00:28:18.000When the meatpacking giant Tyson Foods announced plans last month to shutter its pork plant in Perry, Iowa and lay off all 1,200 employees, it brought rare attention to one of the most influential, less scrutinized dynamics of America's mass migration debate.
00:28:33.000That is, The role played by large politically connected corporations seeking to blunt wage growth.
00:28:39.000It's interesting that this is a dynamic that's not often scrutinized.
00:28:42.000Who benefits from no one scrutinizing this dynamic?
00:28:54.000But why is this issue not being addressed differently?
00:28:57.000For this isn't a time of crisis for Tyson.
00:28:59.000The same day the company made the announcement, Bloomberg News quoted Garrett Dolan, an executive, as saying that the firm had been actively recruiting from the waves of migrants who have ended up in cities such as New York seeking asylum.
00:29:13.000Tyson Foods, which already employs some 42,000 immigrants, Which seems like a very high number.
00:29:19.000I hope they ain't got the Stars and Stripes anywhere on their packaging.
00:29:48.000Vance described the company's actions as the decimation of the American dream.
00:29:53.000Tyson Foods is far from alone in acting in this way.
00:29:56.000Many corporations have called for increased immigration as a solution for rapidly rising wages.
00:30:02.000And several business groups are also pressing policy makers to support programs to extend legal protections to those who entered the country without documentation.
00:30:11.000Any pro-immigration policies that would be implemented will benefit us on increasing the availability of labour throughout the country, said Andrew Masterman, the former head of Brightview, the nation's largest commercial landscaping company, when pressed by investors two years ago on how he would respond to upward wage inflation.
00:30:28.000I suppose if there is cheaply available labour, then how are ordinary Americans that work in blue collar or working class fields able to negotiate for higher wages?
00:30:40.000And that's whether that's immigrant labour that exists in the country or whether it's guest immigrant labour coming in.
00:30:46.000He added, according to a transcript of his remarks, we're fans of that.
00:30:50.000This week's special guest, migrant labour, it's these guys who have Hello, hello, we've come here to work.
00:30:56.000the interests of globalist capitalists.
00:30:58.000Hello, hello, we're coming here to work.
00:31:00.000It's like a game show, but that game is your life.
00:31:02.000In 2022, Scott Salmiers, the president of ABM Industries, a nationwide building maintenance and janitorial firm,
00:31:09.000raised similar concerns on an earning call.
00:31:11.000The labor pressures we are currently experiencing are largely unprecedented, said Salmiers.
00:31:16.000He cited reduced immigration, historically low unemployment, and sudden demand from an economy in rebound for raising wages.
00:31:24.000It is a direct result of the pandemic.
00:31:26.000The closure of the border and reduction in foreign worker visas has led to a tight labour market and the most rapid wage increases seen in a generation, particularly among the low paid.
00:31:36.000The current numbers at the border, therefore, while a political nightmare, pose an economic opportunity Wow, so corporate interests are actively lobbying for a change in migration policy.
00:31:56.000This brings to the forefront an important principle.
00:31:59.000Circumstances that may be perjurative and terrible for you, punitive and punishing, might be beneficial to powerful elites.
00:32:06.000For example, during lockdown, many, many people in low-paid jobs were suffering.
00:32:10.000And yet billionaires saw a massive increase in wealth.
00:32:14.000We don't live in the same world, so the fact that we have the same government seems a bit odd.
00:32:18.000And who do those governments work for?
00:32:20.000Is it ordinary people, or is it to advance the interests of these powerful establishment elites?
00:32:25.000Why don't you let me know in the chat and the comments?
00:32:29.000Chamber of Commerce, the influential lobby groups that help mobilize support for the 2017 Trump corporate tax cuts, have turned to immigration reform to confront labor market dynamics.
00:32:39.000In meetings with Congress, the BRT has promoted its agenda of increased agricultural worker visas and temporary protected status, TPS programs, The latter of which grants certain asylum-seeking migrants the legal right to work in the United States.
00:32:52.000The chamber meanwhile backs the legislation known as H.R.
00:32:56.00016 which gives long-term recipients of TPS the ability to obtain permanent resident status.
00:33:01.000It's odd that the same lobby group that helped Trump get some tax loophole stuff passed are now working on getting migrant visas more easily obtainable.
00:33:11.000It makes you wonder where these elite interests actually lie.
00:33:14.000Do they care about patriotism and MAGA and stuff like that?
00:33:17.000Or are there a set of corporate interests that sort of migrate all over Washington and all over the corporate map as the actual parasites, the actual aliens, the actual dominant force hovering above your life parasitically and vampirically hoovering up your resources?
00:33:31.000While many refugees and asylum seekers are fleeing genuine disasters and oppression, others are seeking better jobs, a dynamic welcomed by major employers, especially those in agriculture, food services, slaughterhouses, janitorial work, construction and landscaping.
00:33:45.000BRT That's the Business Roundtable, represents the chief executives of the largest businesses in America.
00:33:52.000And its board includes many firms reliant on low-wage labor, including McDonald's, PepsiCo, Walmart and Yum brands.
00:34:03.000I hadn't really heard of Tyson Foods, but McDonald's, Pepsi, these are sort of all-American brands, aren't they?
00:34:09.000They're sort of a part of every parade and part of every Olympics and very much pride themselves on their connection to America.
00:34:15.000And what is America other than the American people?
00:34:18.000Well, it looks like they are actively seeking opportunities to undermine American workers in the labor force before we even get into the nutritional benefits of their products when it comes to the crunch time.
00:34:30.000And you won't be crunching out because your teeth will be rotting and your gastric system will be being annihilated.
00:34:34.000Donnie King, the CEO of Tyson Foods, is also a member.
00:34:38.000This is too much like Don King and Mike Tyson.
00:35:56.000Tyson Foods was among the sponsors of LULAC's February legislative conference, which focused partly on the need to
00:36:02.000pass greater immigration protections to migrants.
00:36:05.000The event featured recorded messages from several democratic lawmakers and a speech from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Bequerra.
00:36:12.000The National Immigration Forum, which has organised coalition efforts to expand TPS programmes and other immigration reforms, similarly received financial support last year from Amazon, Tyson Foods, Walmart, the BRT, the Chamber and Marek, a construction firm.
00:36:27.000Some pretty There are two powerful American corporations here, Amazon, Walmart.
00:36:32.000I don't reckon, I know in fact, from the way that Amazon treat their workers across the world, that their primary concern is not, are immigrants alright?
00:36:39.000What their primary concern is, can we pay people the minimum amount possible without it being seen as so disgusting that our business model is affected?
00:36:46.000That seems to be the way that these things operate.
00:36:50.000Tyson Foods in-house lobbyist, Nora Venegas, is also active in several immigration reform groups.
00:36:56.000Hey, we've got a lovely partner today.
00:38:42.000Bloody hell, you're so kind we're probably all going to be dead soon.
00:38:45.000Tyson Foods supports bipartisan immigration policy solutions, said Vega at a press conference with other immigration reform leaders in 2021.
00:38:53.000Look at all the language here, bipartisan leaders, he's all just A bunch of people exploiting ordinary Americans and trying to pretend it's kindness.
00:39:16.000Well, no, because there's a bunch of wars and exploitive activity and coups and CIA deep state activity going on in their country.
00:39:23.000They're not stable, but also they are willing to work for pennies on the dollar.
00:39:27.000So let's just keep that little wheel turning, shall we?
00:39:30.000Meanwhile, Tent Partnership for Refugees, a new group connecting migrants with employers, has formed alliances with dozens of employers around the world, including Brightview, Amazon and Walmart.
00:39:41.000And they've been patting themselves on the back for this.
00:39:54.000This is sort of a bit like Schindler's List, but with Schindler sort of making a load of money out of it and then not letting anyone go.
00:40:00.000The Tyson food scandal eventually blew out.
00:40:02.000The company said its executive misspoke and denied any wrongdoing, while parts of the press downplayed the issue.
00:40:07.000It's not really news that Tyson hires many immigrant workers, scoffed the Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler.
00:40:14.000Salon claimed those voicing concerns about corporations replacing Americans with foreign workers were spinning a narrative akin to a racist conspiracy.
00:40:26.000Also, Americans, that term should include Muslim, black, gay, Americans of all colors and hues and cultural persuasion being replaced with cheaper labor.
00:40:35.000They'd like to divide it up and, hey, you're supporting white Americans, you MAGA lunatic, against these beautiful, brown, easily affordable migrants and want us to believe that they're there helping them.
00:40:46.000How long are you going to continue to participate in that game?
00:40:48.000Tyson Foods also moved to counter its critics.
00:40:51.000The company released a statement to Fox News clearing up misinformation about its hiring practices.
00:40:55.000Any insinuation that we would cut American jobs to hire immigrant workers is completely forced,
00:41:00.000even though we actually did that. This is misinformation.
00:41:03.000Just because we did replace a lot of American workers with migrant workers, you can't
00:41:08.000say we did that or it's misinformation.
00:41:10.000And in fact, you're the racist, huh? Not us at Tyson Food.
00:41:13.000No wonder they have to create these categories of discussing stuff makes you racist, because
00:41:16.000that's the only way they can stop you discussing stuff. This is not the most perfect example of
00:41:20.000misinformation, or I think it's actually malinformation. Something that's true, but they'd
00:41:25.000prefer you didn't say. But you did sack a load of American workers and then replace them with
00:41:29.000migrants. Yeah, but that doesn't make us look very good, so it's illegal for you to say that. Oh.
00:41:35.000While it's true that the company's reported recruitment efforts are centered on those with legal authorization to work, such as TPS holders, many did not enter the country legally.
00:41:45.000So they were, at some point, illegal immigrants.
00:41:47.000And many of the refugees who entered the country without documentation later gained legal status through the focused activism of business-funded immigration advocacy groups and business lobbying from interests such as Tyson Foods.
00:41:59.000The company is far from a bystander in the process.
00:42:02.000Just because we've been lobbying to change these laws and then these laws changed and then we benefited from the change in those laws, you think we're somehow involved?
00:42:17.000A lot of the anti-Trump rhetoric is, this racist son-of-a-bitch Trump, he won't let any migrants into the country.
00:42:23.000But we, the Democrats, will do that because we are God-fearing humanitarians who love human beings and people.
00:42:30.000But then you find out that the Democrats are being lobbied by some of the richest, most powerful corporations to let migrants into the company to lower the wages for their corporations.
00:42:40.000You yourself have to ask yourself this question.
00:42:42.000Do you think the Democrats Are they allowing the border crisis to continue because, as they say, they love human beings and they want to help human beings?
00:42:51.000Or do you think it's somehow connected to all this lobbying money that's being spent on getting them to change legislation in order to lower wages?
00:42:58.000So are they doing it because they love human beings or are they doing it because they love money?
00:43:03.000And if it is because they love human beings, maybe they'll pass a bunch of laws banning lobbying and not accept any lobbying money from BRT.
00:43:10.000That will show us for sure, wouldn't it?
00:43:11.000But as long as they continue to accept that lobbying money, at least It's part of it.
00:43:14.000I'm sure it's mostly, you know, they love human beings and the poorer the better and all that.
00:43:18.000They're certainly trying to make your country poorer and my country poorer and people all over the world poorer.
00:43:23.000It seems to be a big part of their deal at the moment.
00:43:24.000You will own nothing and you will be happy.
00:43:33.000And these vested interests are just one part of what constitutes a persistent oversight and discussion of mass migration.
00:43:39.000The role of the business lobby in shaping both migration law and the policies that some argue continue to attract those making the journey illegally.
00:43:46.000As is so often the case, the net result is the relegation of the lowest rungs of America's working class to an afterthought, crushed beneath the imperatives of America's biggest corporations.
00:43:59.000Because when you look at the gala and carnival of American political life, the perpetuation of wars that cost tax dollars, the denigration of ordinary Americans, the influx of cheap labor, you have to ask, Do I, knowing what I know about these people and these institutions and their practices and their susceptibility to lobbying and where they get their donations from and how they spend their money and how they censor information online and how they want to crush dissent, do I think that their interests are helping people or enriching themselves and ensuring that
00:44:32.000Ordinary people have no power even if that's they don't even have the power to nourish themselves or think straight or unify with people of all cultures and colors and religions to oppose this establishment narrative.
00:44:43.000I'm beginning to think that the Democrats leave the border open and fund foreign wars because they want you poor and unable to compete in the job market.
00:44:51.000They want you to own nothing and be happy.
00:44:56.000Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
00:44:58.000Remember, we do an exclusive video every week that you can see, as well as joining us for interviews with brilliant guests, and meditating, and learning about spirituality.
00:45:06.000It's a pretty good offering at a pretty important time.
00:45:09.000more important than any of that if you can please stay free.
00:45:11.000Many switch it, switch on, switch off. Many switch it, switch on, switch off.
00:45:24.000My larynx is back and we've got so much more to talk about.
00:45:30.000Because you can see that when there are unpopular governments making unpopular decisions, the necessity For censorship and incredible control becomes absolutely paramount and that is the world we are living in.
00:45:44.000The situation in Australia that we covered to some degree yesterday is escalating yet further.
00:45:50.000What I find peculiar, indicative and thought-provoking is that it somewhat centers on the extraordinary stabbing of Bishop Marmari Emmanuel who Remarkably, immediately forgave his assailant and interestingly believes that the video of his attack, which of course took place in a church in Sydney, should remain on X. Now, this is what the Australian government are arguing is the type of content that ought be brought down.
00:46:31.000I've never seen any of these sort of executions and the beheadings and those kind of things that we all know are available online because I don't want to look at that.
00:46:37.000I find the world dark enough and disturbing enough without seeking that out.
00:46:41.000In the same way that I don't look at any more For some time.
00:46:48.000Because I don't need the influx of that kind of information.
00:46:51.000It's not a moral judgment on you or participants in that industry, I suppose is what it is.
00:46:57.000But I don't need to seek that stuff out.
00:47:00.000What I also believe is that people within certain obvious lines defined by consent have the right to look at the kind of content they want to look at.
00:47:10.000That your individual sovereignty, your ability to choose for yourself is what's significant.
00:47:15.000Now, Rumble's CEO Chris Pavlovsky and Elon Musk are again posting on Musk's platform regarding this subject.
00:47:24.000So Pavlovsky says, What we're seeing in Australia and New Zealand is coming to Canada, if we do not speak up.
00:47:29.000They're, of course, native Canadians, the guys that started Rumble.
00:47:33.000The Australian government now believes it has worldwide jurisdiction to censor content, because they're saying, in order to avoid the possibility of VPNs being deployed, those of you who saw my conversation with Schellenberger yesterday will know that's something that he brought up.
00:47:45.000And Michael Schellenberger was talking about VPNs, like they came from another dimension.
00:48:00.000We've got to have a censorship industrial complex conversation where we get some of the opposition to this censorship speaking together because in Brazil they're making massive moves.
00:48:13.000In the United Kingdom, online censorship bills were being passed at the exact moment that I was being attacked, curiously, incidentally, just want to let you know that, by some of the key organisations, I mean government departments and government funded NGOs that are particularly interested in censorship of, say, dissenting voices.
00:48:30.000So this is a global problem that requires a global response.
00:48:34.000Indeed, precisely what we learned in the pandemic, of course a pandemic by its nature, Encompasses the globe, that's literally what a pandemic means.
00:48:41.000But what we saw in terms of regulation, legislation, medication, pharmacological support, wealth transfer, exploitation of people, closing down of free speech, surveillance and censorship was an indication of a broader climate.
00:48:54.000So what's happening in Australia right now is extraordinary and the way that The way that the invective and attacks are escalating is significant.
00:49:47.000And the sooner that we can bring rules in or do something about this sort of game playing with our social media, the better off we're going to be.
00:49:55.000But quite frankly, the power that that man has, because of that platform that he's on, it's got to stop.
00:50:11.000So in Australia, they're trying to shut down X. In Brazil, they're trying to shut down X. Rumble has left Brazil already, and Biden has just signed a bill to ban TikTok.
00:50:21.000Is it because of the ability for the Chinese to, I don't know, interfere in elections or to protect children or whatever they're claiming currently?
00:50:29.000Or is it simply because TikTok became a platform where anti-war videos were being prevalently exchanged and we've got an election?
00:50:37.000So is TikTok being banned to protect you?
00:50:42.000Or to protect the US government and Biden.
00:50:45.000So you could say, if you think it's to protect you, press Y. If you think it's to protect Biden, B. Let me know in the chat now.
00:50:54.000Astonishing and staggeringly, one thing we can be optimistic about is the rise of interest in religion and Christianity.
00:51:01.000Now David Icke did an interesting post and I'll let you know I really like David Icke as a matter of fact.
00:51:06.000But he's curious about Candace Owens converting to Christianity.
00:51:11.000Loads of you in the Awaken Wonder chat.
00:51:17.000He's also commented on my interest in Christianity, my chanting of the Holy Rosary.
00:51:22.000And, you know, again, David Icke's a person I really want to talk to.
00:51:25.000I think he's done and said some incredible things.
00:51:27.000I think the reason he's censored is because he's saying stuff that powerful people don't want said.
00:51:32.000But on this issue, I have a different perspective.
00:51:36.000The rise of spirituality is encouraging.
00:51:38.000The rise and resurgence of interest in Christianity is encouraging because it's one way out of this materialistic prison that's being created for us and whose walls are being daily fortified as we're seeing in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland through the hate laws, my country with what's been going on here.
00:51:57.000There's Bishop Marmari Emmanuel who I pray Heavenly Father, that we can get him on the show, has said himself that he wants the content to remain up.
00:52:10.000Now, remember during the pandemic period, how exactly Australia behaved, what their stance was, the positions that they took.
00:53:21.000Elsewhere, let me know what you think about the censorship industrial complex.
00:53:24.000Let me know what you think about this issue.
00:53:26.000Let me know if you think, like I do, that a return to faith, a resurgent spirituality, an alliance among distinct dominions or denominations of faith is going to be necessary.
00:54:15.000I love, by the way, that people on my side—I'll just say, I'll just admit it—on the right, you know, have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians.
00:54:47.000So, with that in mind, like, why would you want nuclear weapons?
00:54:51.000It's like just a mindless, childish, sort of intellectual exercise to justify, like, oh no, it's really good because someone else will get it.
00:54:58.000How about, like, spending all of your effort to prevent this from happening?
00:55:44.000Let's have a look at what Ben Shapiro is saying.
00:55:47.000I guess he responded to Tucker's, in my view, pretty reasonable claim that nuclear bombs are... I guess what they continually say, I suppose, and I've not seen Ben's take yet, is that without the nuclear war, there would have been a greater loss of life.
00:56:06.000When it comes to isolationism, as we've discussed, there are a bunch of different perspectives within the isolationist perspective.
00:56:11.000There is the, we should not get involved in foreign conflicts no matter what perspective because we need the money here at home.
00:56:17.000Which means that you're also in favor of cutting spending by the government on a wide variety of other subjects.
00:56:21.000There's also an isolationism that suggests that whenever America gets involved in foreign conflicts, that tends to taint the United States, not it's about the United States tainting the rest of the world.
00:56:31.000But there is a theory that has now risen on the right, that there is something deeply malign about the United States, something deeply wrong with the United States.
00:56:38.000Most people on the conservative side of the aisle tend to believe that America is a force for good in the world, and as we'll discuss, it turns out that dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was necessary for ending World War II and likely saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese.
00:56:50.000Why are we talking about how many lives it would save?
00:56:54.000If you end up saving more lives than are cost by the dropping of the atomic bomb, then it is morally justified to drop the atomic bomb, and that happens to be the reality of the situation.
00:57:04.000So that's quite a hard argument to make because then you'd have to sort of work out whether the sort of life of what the life versus life metric was as if there could be a sort of a stock exchange of lives or a foreign exchange of life.
00:57:16.000This life is worth more than this life.
00:57:18.000I think once you're in the territory of dropping nuclear bombs it's hard to make any moral argument.
00:57:24.000That's my personal position which I'd happily of course pursue with Ben Shapiro being on Ben's shows and he's kindly ordained to be on this show.
00:57:32.000In this particular instance I'm pretty I'm ardently against the use of nuclear missiles.
00:57:39.000My perspective on isolationism is this.
00:57:45.000The closer power is to the people affected by it, the less likely it is there will be conflict of this scale.
00:57:51.000Because even though we of course have, as long as there have been people, there has been conflict, what we have an opportunity for now are new forms of confederacy, new forms of alliance, new forms of decentralisation.
00:58:03.000New forms of anti-establishment politics that bakes in the idea that whilst you culturally run your community in this way, we run our community culturally in this way, and what you do over there is none of our business, and what we do over here is none of our business, and perhaps you might embed some what you might casually call universal principles around murder, violence, et al.
00:58:28.000Now let's have a look at how The Oppenheimer argument and dilemma actually played out.
00:58:36.000What was really created when Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed?
00:58:43.000Was it ultimately one of the most profitable industries the world has ever seen?
00:58:48.000Was this, in fact, the keystone of the military-industrial complex?
00:58:55.000A 2022 report by Ira Hefland and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War estimated that a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan that used roughly 3% of the world's 12,000-plus nuclear warheads would kill hundreds of thousands of millions, perhaps even billions of us.
00:59:08.000A full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, the study suggests, could kill up to 5 billion people within two years, essentially ending life as we know it in a nuclear winter.
00:59:59.000Well, when you're discussing principles, I suppose, from a truly ethical position, you wouldn't need to know the character or nature of the individual.
01:00:05.000The principle would apply whether it was Britain bombing Dresden, or America bombing Hiroshima, or Russia bombing Ukraine.
01:00:13.000You would just say, well, I'm against that.
01:00:21.000General Eisenhower wrote that when he was told by a Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, of the plan to drop atomic bombs on populated areas in Japan, I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary.
01:00:36.000Okay, so I suppose the argument, according to Eisenhower, president and a significant general, the idea that Japan
01:00:43.000would somehow galvanize an ongoing Second World War, at least by his reckoning, is bogus.
01:00:50.000The film also fails to address, they're talking about Oppenheimer, the health impacts of the
01:00:54.000research, testing and production of such weaponry, which to this day is still causing disease
01:00:59.000and death, even without another nuclear weapon being used in war.
01:01:01.000Victims of nuclear weapons development include people who were impacted by the fallout from
01:01:06.000nuclear testing in the western United States and the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, uranium miners on the Navajo lands, and many others.
01:01:15.000Speaking of the first nuclear test in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Tina Cordova of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium which represents that state's residents who suffered widespread cancers and high rates of infant mortality caused by radiation from that explosion said, it's an inconvenient truth.
01:01:31.000People just don't want to reflect on the fact that American citizens were bombed at Trinity.
01:01:37.000Another crucially important issue has received almost no attention.
01:01:41.000Neither the film nor the discussion sparked by it has explored one of the most important reasons for the continued existence of nuclear weapons.
01:01:46.000The profits it yields, the participants in America's massive nuclear industrial complex.
01:01:52.000Once Oppenheimer and other concerned scientists and policy makers failed to convince the Truman administration to simply close Los Alamos and place nuclear weapons and the materials needed to development under international control, the only way they saw it To head off a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the drive to expand the nuclear weapons complex was on.
01:02:13.000Research and production of nuclear warheads and nuclear-armed bombers, missiles, and submarines quickly became a big nuisance, whose beneficiaries have worked doggedly to limit any efforts at the reduction or elimination of nuclear arms.
01:02:24.000According to nuclear expert Stephen Schwartz, author of Atomic Audit, the seminal work on the financing of US nuclear weapons programs through the end of 1945, the Manhattan Project cost Nearly 38 billion dollars in today's money while helping spawn an enterprise that since cost taxpayers an almost unimaginable 12 trillion dollars for nuclear weapons and related programs.
01:02:45.000That's six Afghanistan's worth of nuclear weapons when there's not even been a nuclear war!
01:02:53.000Nobel Peace Prize winning international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons reports that the US spent $43.7 billion on nuclear weapons last year alone and a new Congressional Budget Office reports that another $756 billion will go into deadly armaments in the next decade.
01:03:12.000Private contractors now run the nuclear warhead complex and build nuclear delivery vehicles.
01:03:16.000They range from Raytheon General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin to lesser-known firms like BWX Technologies and Jacobs Engineering, all of which split billions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon for the production of nuclear delivery vehicles and the Department of Energy for nuclear warheads.
01:03:31.000And such beneficiaries of the nuclear weapons industry are far from silent when it comes to debating the future of nuclear spending and policymaking.
01:03:37.000Northrop Grumman and its 12 major ICBM subcontractors have been busy pushing the Sentinel as well.
01:03:43.000They spend tens of millions of dollars on campaign contributions and lobbying annually while employing former members of the government's nuclear establishment to make their case to Congress and the executive branch.
01:03:55.000So it seems pretty clear on that basis, it seems pretty clear on that basis that Nuclear arms and nuclear armament is just another aspect of the military-industrial complex and the key beneficiaries of nuclear armaments and nuclear missiles and the industry that surrounds it is the same military-industrial complex that appears to have undue incredible influence over American political life, geopolitics, escalating wars across the world, endless conflicts, all
01:04:29.000Funded by American taxpayers and taxpayers elsewhere.
01:04:34.000Surely the day must be at hand where we call ourselves to reason.
01:04:38.000Where we awaken with ourselves that which is beyond reason.
01:04:42.000Love, service and the possibility of genuine change that is unlikely to be delivered to us through the conduits Of bellicosity that we are currently affording perhaps a little too much time and space.
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