In this episode, we look back at the 9/11th anniversary of the attacks on the U.S. on September 11th and remember the lives lost. We also look at the new revelations that Elon Musk prevented a Ukraine attack on Russia last year because of his Skylink, Skynet? Starlink? Sounds too much like a train, does it not? And in our news, we'll be talking about Fauci being questioned by CNN on masks and a new take on some of the data that emerged from that period, which I will not discuss with you on YouTube because you know how that platform is regulated. But in a few minutes, we want you to click the link in the description to join us for a conversation with Max Blumenthal, who will be talking to us, presumably at length, about that conflict and revealing stuff that would simply wouldn't be safe to talk about in heavily regulated mainstream spaces. And we look at Djokovic's shot of the day, and the extraordinary hypocrisies around it, and why it is so hard to discern what is really going on in mainstream science and what is happening in the world around it. We'll also look ahead to the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the ATP World Tour Finals between Novak Djokova and Rafael Nadal, and look at what could be the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport. We'll finish with our Shot of the Day from the day from Moderna's "No Douganoku". - is this a pun? Is it a pun, or is it a jinx? And we'll have a new pun? We'll find out in the chat! What do you think of this week's Shot of The Day? - Tom Del Potro? - Is it deliberate or jinxed? - is it deliberate? - or just a joke? - and what does it really matter to you? - can you tell us what you would like to see in the future of tennis and tennis in the 21st century? You can t rumble us a little bit more about it? or do you agree with us, or are you're going to make us pay for the steal? I'm gonna make you pay for this, you can't rumble, no more? RUMBLE us no more! - and let us know what you're watching us a like, give us a ? - press the red button?
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00:00:58.000Those of you watching us from the United States of America, take this This is a great opportunity to reflect honorably with you on the lives of those lost on September the 11th in particular, as someone who behaved so astonishingly at the time.
00:01:10.000That's what I was a crazy young man back then.
00:01:12.000Some of you will be aware of my mad behaviour on MTV way back in those days and now I'm able to
00:01:19.000share with you in acknowledging the horror of those events and actually look at them from a
00:01:25.000new perspective. How it changed history, how it altered our perception of the world, how it was
00:01:31.000utilised, how the Patriot Act was mobilised, how the war in Iraq came about as a result of those
00:01:39.000We're looking also today at the new revelations that Musk prevented a Ukraine attack on Russia last year because of his... What's it called?
00:02:20.000It's like the like has usurped the rumble.
00:02:24.000As the way of acknowledging your approval and registering your content with us.
00:02:30.000We'll be talking in more detail about the, like, Musk's actions in preventing an attack on Crimea.
00:02:37.000And later in our item, here's the news, we'll be talking about Fauci being questioned by CNN on masks and a new take on some of the data that emerged from that period, which I will not discuss with you.
00:02:48.000You 6.5 million awakening wonders on YouTube because you know how that platform is regulated and we love you and we adore you.
00:02:54.000But in a few minutes, we're going to want you to click the link in the description to join us for a conversation with Max Blumenthal, who will be talking to us, presumably at length, about that conflict and revealing stuff that simply wouldn't be safe to talk about in heavily regulated mainstream spaces.
00:03:12.000But first, it's time for Moderna's Shot of the Day.
00:03:17.000Now, if you sponsor Shot of the Day in a major tennis Grand Slam tournament, there's one man who I'd be pretty keen to see bypass.
00:03:26.000I wouldn't even want to see him as a contender.
00:03:29.000But, the fact is, this guy's good at tennis.
00:03:36.000Almost as if he's healthier than the other tennis players that he has some sort of advantage that is indescribable and difficult to discern, particularly within mainstream science.
00:03:45.000Let's have a look at Djokovic's shot of the day and the extraordinary hypocrisies around that.
00:03:52.000The dirtiest shot of the day and it was... The match point to get to number 24.
00:03:57.000There were a lot of shots that were highly impactful.
00:04:15.000investigations where you see the reality of our system.
00:04:18.000just the normalization of Moderna's shot of the day, showcasing the brilliance of Djokovic.
00:04:28.000It's extraordinary and inconvenient. Those of you that have been following these stories
00:04:31.000closely know that if you're from the UK and let us know in the chat if you are and if
00:04:35.000you're watching us on Rumble, press the red button right now and join us in the locals
00:04:37.000community. There's a fantastic chat going on in there right now. Some of you mentioning
00:04:41.000like no Dugganoku. Is this a pun, Moderna shot of the day?
00:04:44.000I mean, I think it is a deliberate pun. I think it definitely is. And yet that pun is placed
00:04:49.000in a new framework by Djokovic's victory and the excellence of his shot.
00:04:54.000And of course, us still being on YouTube, we have to be cautious about what we say.
00:04:58.000But you'll remember, of course, that Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, look at his investment strategy prior to becoming Chancellor and then Prime Minister.
00:05:39.000This will be effective... Well, what time is it?
00:05:42.000I'm afraid we're going to need another one.
00:05:43.000What we can do is we can thwack them at you from across a net and they'll end up where they may.
00:05:49.000Isn't it also incredible that... The thing about having Shot of the Day and Moderna is how normalised it's become that a pharmaceutical company can be one of the main sponsors of a massive tennis event.
00:05:59.000Gareth, you make an incredible point there, because it's the normalisation of the system that makes it kind of invisible to us.
00:06:06.000That it's gone from something where we're like, what?
00:06:18.000You're quite right, it's in the innocuousness, it's in its banality that that's where the true creeping tyranny will be seen.
00:06:26.000This is not the authoritarian dictatorships of the last century in bold primary colours and military uniforms with Evident gulags, executions and genocides.
00:06:37.000The visible, evident, appalling horrors of the last century.
00:06:40.000No, this is a much more sanitised version of control.
00:06:45.000Where you feel afraid to speak freely.
00:06:47.000When you do not know when you will be persecuted.
00:06:50.000When you do not know what's safe to say anymore.
00:06:52.000A society extracted of all but data and only convenient data.
00:06:57.000Where there is no accountability for some organisations.
00:07:02.000That kind of territory by about now on and there's so much more to talk about particularly on this sort of historic week for particularly for those of you watching from the great continent of North America.
00:07:13.000Also the way in which Djokovic was vilified you know I mean again the great irony of all of this is that he's he's won a tournament that he was banned from for two years for not doing something that now we have new information around.
00:08:37.000Max Lugavere has done some unique research into Alzheimer's and the medications around Alzheimer's that, again, we possibly can't discuss here.
00:08:44.000But once again, you can see how there are likely dietary factors that are early markers and indicators and causes, in fact.
00:08:54.000allegedly of Alzheimer's, then there are unaffected medical solutions that are offered and this
00:09:01.000sort of normalisation, the presence of pharma, in the same way that sort of years ago, in
00:09:07.000somehow more sane times, it would be remarked upon as ridiculous that Coca-Cola and McDonald's
00:09:13.000would be able to sponsor the Olympics because we all know that sugar, fat and salt to that
00:09:18.000degree, immersive as it is, readily available, cheap and eaten too readily and likely with
00:09:37.000It becomes impossible to morally adjudicate because we're being stripped of the, almost of a reliable context, it seems, and just in an innocuous and not-inoculating event like that.
00:09:48.000like that is an indication of how far we've come. Let's learn in the chat if you agree
00:09:55.000with that. Coming up is Max Blumenthal. He'll be, as always, I call him the grey zone's
00:10:00.000favourite son. He'll be exposing truth in radical ways to all of us. But before that,
00:10:05.000we're going to talk a little more. Let's have a look, because actually this is a historic
00:10:09.000time for America. When is it not? Joe Biden gave a speech in Hanoi in Vietnam. I don't
00:10:15.000know if it was related to the previous military conflict between Vietnam and America. Imagine
00:10:22.000that's another episode in American history. If you had the philosopher's friend, the time
00:10:28.000machine, go, shall we have this war with Vietnam? Well, probably not actually. Probably just
00:10:33.000leave that alone, shall we? Well, here is Joe Biden giving a speech in Hanoi. Let's
00:10:41.000We talked about, we talked about at the conference overall, we talked about stability, we talked about making sure that the third world, the, uh, excuse me, third world, the, uh, the, the, uh, the Southern Hemisphere had access to change, had access.
00:11:05.000Again, how can we be having these sort of charged conversations about the problems within the libertarian, the independent, even RFK as a potential candidate for the presidency?
00:11:19.000When this is what has been normalised, when this is what's become normal for us, we've been sort of, I think, marched onto a bizarre peninsula where it's just ordinary to say, Moderna's shot of the day, here's Joe Biden in Hanoi saying that the southern hemisphere is the third world.
00:11:40.000Well, especially when we're in a culture now, aren't we, of always having to say the right thing, you know?
00:11:45.000And again, not one that I'm criticising in any way, but when people's pronouns and things are so important, and that's the culture that we're all told that is the right one that we should be following, for then the President to be making remarks like that, Third World rather than Southern Hemisphere, it's like, well, hang on, what's he doing then?
00:12:04.000We don't need to legislate for kindness.
00:12:09.000We can find basic principles, I'm certain of it, around which we can reorganise society.
00:12:14.000But when you have someone that's held up as an emblem, I remember when, about two days ago, Kamala Harris said that thing, and here is the champion of Big Pharma.
00:12:22.000And again it was a sort of an extraordinary carnival of doublespeak where we were told
00:12:27.000that Big Pharma had been reined in, attacked, neutered and castrated when it amounted to
00:12:33.000a handful of drugs that have no generic competition, that have already been on the market for nine
00:12:37.000years, will from 2026 be available to senior citizens.
00:12:41.000So you sort of told it as it like, you know, like Martin Luther King at the pulpit.
00:12:46.000Billie Jean King in the administration.
00:12:48.000I don't know if there's anything really wrong with Billie Jean King, but I thought, you know, it's a good contrast, I suppose, because, let's face it, tennis is not administrating politics, unless you're Djokovic, in which case you better watch out, as he used to say.
00:13:01.000Let's have a look at the rest of Biden's... what should we call it? Oratory?
00:14:10.000Well, he does, because they're in a very difficult position, because they're having to rely on a private company, which, you know, all the ways in which the government relationships with private companies, it's really not that convenient in this case.
00:14:23.000Right, because it's difficult to have a cohesive policy if private entities are required to enact policy.
00:14:30.000Exactly, but those private entities in other ways are very useful to you, you know, and so they'll have massive military contracts with Amazon providing a service.
00:14:40.000They're very useful when we need them.
00:14:42.000When it comes to being put in a position of being critical of them, they have to be careful at that point.
00:14:47.000Let's see how the mainstream media want you to think about this.
00:14:50.000SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has recently confirmed a report that's in Walter Isaacson's new biography of Musk that last year Musk blocked access to his Starlink satellite network in Crimea in order to disrupt a major Ukrainian attack on the Russian Navy there.
00:15:08.000In other words, Musk effectively sabotaged a military operation by Ukraine, a U.S.
00:15:15.000ally, against Russia, an aggressor country that invaded a U.S.
00:16:24.000I mean, so if you owned a company and you thought that your company was potentially facilitating a nuclear war, don't you have the right, as an owner of a private company, to make a call on that, would you not say?
00:16:36.000I think it's actually, as I understand, in the terms and conditions.
00:16:39.000And often you look at terms and conditions and it says things like, we will not let you use our technology to start a nuclear war or an international conflict.
00:17:31.000How astonishing the relationship between big tech and the government literally could intervene as surely as it could facilitate nuclear conflict.
00:17:40.000Yeah, it's a tricky relationship that they have, the government and big tech now, because
00:17:46.000as we've seen, I mean, we've got Max coming on later, but the Twitter files revealed so
00:17:50.000much about the collusion between the government and big tech.
00:17:54.000So they're in a position where they can't be condemnatory of Musk necessarily, because
00:17:59.000they need him for all sorts of things in the same way that they need Facebook.
00:18:03.000Hence why they've allowed all these companies, for example, Facebook, for years to violate
00:18:08.000your personal freedoms, to violate your privacy, because of the need that they have for these
00:18:15.000How can you ever regulate big tech companies when there is such an over-reliance on them?
00:18:22.000When there seems to be a pretty porous revolving door, would that work?
00:18:25.000A porous revolving door between big tech and the deep state with CIA and FBI operatives
00:18:31.000revealed to be working within numerous social media organizations, as well as within conventional
00:18:37.000media, how can there be any trust in these organisations?
00:18:41.000How can there be any ability for these new titans of the globe to respond to the will of ordinary people?
00:18:49.000These are just some of the questions I'd like you to ask and possibly answer and we'll ask Max Bluth or possibly Possibly.
00:18:54.000Over here in the UK, Daniel Khalif, a former Royal Signals soldier and terror suspect, has been arrested after his escape.
00:19:04.000Daniel Abded Khalif has been subject to a nationwide manhunt, having finally been captured 75 hours after outwitting the guards at a London prison.
00:19:11.000and let's have a look at some news footage of that event.
00:22:37.000Yeah, you know, man, we're operating in a beautiful space.
00:22:42.000I'm sure you'll agree that working in this independent media space is free from consequences.
00:22:48.000It's a giddy, buccaneering affair, and you never get the sense that the forces of evil are co-aligning and coalescing to, for example, shut down your GoFundMe.
00:22:57.000Can you tell us a little bit about that story, mate?
00:23:00.000Yeah, well, it's a giddy buccaneering affair for independent swashbucklers like ourselves and our ship was targeted by...
00:23:11.000Apparently national security state pirates.
00:23:14.000We have no idea who they actually are because they hide behind the veneer of the supposedly private Silicon Valley based companies like GoFundMe.
00:23:26.000As you said, you were saying before in the run up to this interview, the FBI has honeycombed its places like Facebook or Meta and Twitter with its own operatives.
00:23:37.000You even have former CIA people there.
00:23:39.000But these crowdfunding sites do the same thing, and it's poorly understood.
00:23:46.000So I'll just tell you what happened to us, and I think your audience will better understand how dangerous it is for them to try to raise money for anything remotely political.
00:23:59.000When you have the national security state operating behind the scenes telling them that they may have to sanction people if their political views go against their own objectives.
00:24:10.000So we launched a crowd funder for three of our contributors.
00:24:14.000You've had one of them on named Kit Clarenberg.
00:24:18.000Three of our most dedicated contributors to provide them with long-term positions.
00:24:22.000And so for our audience, it was a chance to just support independent media that they like.
00:25:16.000Which means that I was basically, when you announce this and go public, you're sabotaging your own fundraiser because no one's going to want to donate if the money's being frozen.
00:25:27.000And eventually we had to force GoFundMe to refund all the money to everyone and move to a different fundraising site called SpotFund, which has been much more trustworthy and responsive.
00:25:40.000We were able to get their chief technology officer on the line who promised us that they would transfer the money immediately, and they've done so.
00:25:50.000That they're working hand-in-glove with the national security state and applying financial sanctions on outlets and causes that threaten the imperatives of the powers-that-be.
00:26:00.000And I'll point directly to the Canadian truckers, the Freedom Convoy.
00:26:05.000Back in early 2022, GoFundMe froze their $10 million that they had raised, $10 million US dollars they'd raised, and then announced that they were transferring it to, quote-unquote, established charities.
00:26:19.000So they were stealing the money from donors to the Canadian truckers protesting Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government's vaccine mandates and the lockdowns, and just giving it to charities of their choosing.
00:26:32.000And they eventually had to relent because this was a violation of U.S.
00:26:43.000Because that liberal government of Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland had declared emergency law in Canada, had told GoFundMe to do that, and they were telling the banks to basically Take people's money who are donating to this because the protest was threatening their policy.
00:27:00.000And so that's what we think happened with us, and we weren't going to let them reroute the money somewhere else, so we just shut it down.
00:27:07.000And the crazy thing is, now they're telling journalists, like our friend Matt Taibbi, who actually called them at GoFundMe, that this was a totally normal procedure and that we voluntarily shut it down, as though we were just going to sit there and allow them to continue this complete Banking fraud forever.
00:27:30.000You know, like Lee's story, we're talking about the relationship between Elon Musk and the American government and how Elon Musk is able to intervene in the military imperatives of the, you know, in this case, the Ukraine.
00:27:45.000I know your views on that war have been pretty well and widely expressed.
00:27:51.000And here we have a story where, once again, the relationship between big tech and the government
00:28:29.000We're hearing more and more stories about the intervention in people's financial affairs.
00:28:34.000It's something that's becoming more prevalent.
00:28:37.000And I'm not surprised that you're a prominent and high-profile organization
00:28:42.000to be subject to that kind of obvious corruption.
00:28:47.000And what does it make you feel about the future of the gray zone and your ability to report independently,
00:28:53.000for example, on the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia?
00:28:57.000Does it make you feel that you are being persecuted?
00:29:00.000Does it make you feel that it's kind of a threat?
00:29:03.000Or do you think that in this sort of new space everything is sort of sanitized, technocratic, I mean that sort of literally, and yet a digital tyranny kind of pervades invisibly like a sort of a binary gas where there's no sort of baddie to locate but just an ideal that can be conveyed and a new type of oppression without clear villains, you know?
00:29:35.000He did a book called The New Normal Reich, which is just a send-up of the Covidian regime that prevailed in Germany, across Europe, and across the West.
00:29:45.000And his book cover features—it's a play on William Shire's The Rise and the Fall of the Third Reich.
00:29:51.000It features a swastika embedded within a mask.
00:29:55.000And for that book cover, Germany, a German court has found him guilty of glorifying a national socialist organization and sentenced him to 60 days in prison or $4,000 fine.
00:30:08.000And the way, I mean, he's facing kind of a jackboot in the face, the hard censorship.
00:30:12.000Germany doesn't really have freedom of speech, although it pretends to be a liberal democracy.
00:30:18.000But what we're facing in the U.S., which has a First Amendment, is kind of the national security state, which we never elected, a
00:30:25.000bunch of faceless individuals who are able to meddle in elections across the world, including
00:30:30.000in our own, meddle in politics, is this kind of soft totalitarian model. Sheldon Wolin, the
00:30:39.000late sociologist, called it inverted totalitarianism, where liberal democracy
00:30:43.000is used as cover for a more authoritarian project.
00:30:47.000And you can get quietly shadow banned from behind the scenes by some operative in an air-conditioned office and disappeared or suppressed or censored without having any recourse or due process because it's being done ostensibly through a private corporation, which just is saying, hey, we're just enforcing our terms of service.
00:31:15.000And the public, whether it's us or anyone else who's been censored financially, like our friends at Mint Press News or Consortium News, they never know who actually pulled the trigger and censored them.
00:32:03.000And it was solely on the basis of their political views that they were disrupting the official narrative that Ukraine was just fighting this glorious war for democracy.
00:32:11.000And Twitter, this is in the pre-Elon regime, actually refused because it was too extreme for them to just ban Americans and Canadians on the basis of a foreign government telling them to do so.
00:32:41.000And so we're existing in this inverted totalitarian model behind the guise of liberal democracy, where most of the public still believes that they have due process and free speech.
00:32:55.000They don't, as long as we're relying on these private companies managed by the national security state as our digital commons, as our kind of speaker's corner.
00:33:03.000God, man, there's so many points I want to pick up on there.
00:33:06.000There were sort of Orwellian images, of course, with the boot on the face of the man who used that image in a mask in a plainly satirical way, and sort of when satire and comedy gets challenged to that degree, you know, bloody hell, Germany, they should be encouraging.
00:33:19.000Robin Williams' famous line, why are Germans so unfunny?
00:33:25.000And he said, because he killed all the funny people.
00:33:27.000But I'm also minded of Huxley, like being the sort of sanitized version of tyranny,
00:33:35.000this inverted tyranny that you describe, as well as the kind of Kafka-esque idea,
00:33:41.000which I'm sure, I guess, was more of a critique of Stasi-style, Soviet-style, communist oppression,
00:33:49.000bureaucracies that were masked, and are oddly diaphanous, and impossible to locate.
00:33:57.000This now seems to have migrated to our countries, the United States, the UK.
00:34:04.000As well as when you were talking about this inverted tyranny, I'm sort of minded of a moment in my conversation with Sam Harris last week.
00:34:10.000It was a point that the great philosopher and friend of the show, actually, Brad Evans first made, I believe, that we've been sort of trained to regard jihadist violence or certain type of violence as extreme.
00:34:23.000And of course, you know, I'm not sort of obviously endorsing any type of violence, but like he made the point that he imagined jihadists to be in ecstatic states and sort of That, for him, made the violence all the more nefarious.
00:34:36.000But the kind of violence that's carried out, for example, under Obama, who we made a really
00:34:41.000good item about earlier today, are these sort of sanitary, as you say, air-conditioned rooms
00:34:46.000where either your funds are shut down or a wedding adjacent to a potential terror suspect
00:34:51.000is bombed, where progress, technology, rationalism themselves are used to mobilize a type of
00:34:58.000tyranny that, to misquote Wilde, dare not speak its name, tells us that it's liberal
00:35:04.000and democratic, all the while gently closing in on our freedom.
00:35:09.000And in one more Orwellian tag, Max, what do you feel about the war, good, peace, bad NATO
00:35:17.000members' concerns that any opposition to a proxy war might drive Ukraine to pursue, oh
00:35:58.000They failed to capture any real territory.
00:36:00.000They were supposed to cut off the land bridge between Russia and Crimea.
00:36:05.000It's not going to happen, and soon there's going to be rain in the eastern regions, the eastern plains of the Donbass region, and it's going to be impossible to get armor through there.
00:36:36.000cancelled negotiations between Zelensky and the Kremlin and said, keep fighting.
00:36:42.000And they sabotaged the Minsk Accords before that, so why trust the West?
00:36:46.000And why negotiate when you could actually start capturing more and more territory, given this terrible state of Ukraine's military and the hundreds of thousands of casualties they've suffered?
00:36:57.000They don't have much left, apparently.
00:37:01.000Then there's the factor of, like, Tony Blinken himself.
00:37:04.000This guy has major skin in the game when it comes to continuing this war.
00:37:09.000He founded a firm called West Exec Advisors, which finesses contracts for the arms industry and big tech through the Pentagon and the State Department.
00:37:20.000And him and his former colleagues from the Obama administration got together and started
00:37:25.000this firm to basically profit off their connections with the major winners of the Ukraine proxy
00:37:32.000war, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, all the Beltway bandits, as we call them here
00:37:46.000And that could be either through a kind of frozen conflict, where Ukraine is transformed into what Zelensky has called a big Israel, and it's just constantly at war with Russia, and its entire society is securitized and mobilized.
00:37:59.000The tech industry will love that as well, because everyone's going to be under surveillance, you know, drones and cameras everywhere.
00:38:08.000Uh, and so, you know, you have all these people who, why would they want to end this conflict?
00:38:12.000It's doing, they're the real winners of this war.
00:38:15.000And then finally, you have the ideological investment, just the hatred of Russia that prevails, particularly among the Democratic Party foreign policy elite, but also within the Republican Party.
00:38:28.000The idea that we just can't lose this war and that this is about democracy.
00:38:34.000So there are all these obstacles to negotiations, but obviously the war isn't going.
00:38:39.000There's no progress for Ukraine in this war.
00:38:42.000They should have negotiated over a year ago, but they've been drunk off of these delusional fantasies spun out of Washington that they can somehow win when victory is never even defined.
00:38:52.000Oh man, those are the kind of home truths that you do not want being funded under any circumstances.
00:39:00.000Do avoid going to spot.fund forward slash defend the grey zone again and donate in to
00:39:08.000Max Blumenthal's incredible endeavours there at the grey zone.
00:39:11.000We'll post the link in the description.
00:39:13.000Now they've got to do it all over again precisely because the news they convey is a threat to
00:39:18.000mainstream narratives and look what happens.
00:39:21.000Astonishing, astonishing the price you pay for telling the truth.
00:42:36.000They went, oh, look, we'll work it out.
00:42:37.000We'll trust you as adults and citizens of a democratic country to do what you want until we have a better understanding of how this deal is gonna go down.
00:42:50.000This bug-eyed dude is giving Fauci hell, but Valtteri ain't taking none of it.
00:42:56.000Note the way that he talks about the difference between sort of individuals and a whole population and the significance of such an observation in a pandemic.
00:43:46.000Now, Donald Trump, and I know a lot of you guys love him, was very proud of those vaccines, right?
00:43:50.000That's probably one of the things you're like, oh, but he does like the vaccine.
00:43:52.000Well, let's see what Donald Trump is saying about the vaccines, lockdowns, and potential pandemic policies going forward.
00:43:58.000The left-wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fear-mongering about the new variants that are coming.
00:44:09.000Gee whiz, you know what else is coming?
00:44:12.000They want to restart the COVID hysteria so they can justify more lockdowns, more censorship.
00:44:17.000I do believe in the general analysis that first there is an appetite to achieve something and then they reverse engineer the way to achieve it.
00:44:40.000And Donald Trump, whether or not he delivers, and you can let me know in the comments what you think about this, he knows the language, he knows the rhetoric, he knows the questions, he knows how to frame these arguments.
00:44:49.000And because what we're offered as an alternative to Donald Trump is such inept Innocuous, vacuous, deceptive politics.
00:44:57.000People claiming that there's a new farmer bill.
00:45:06.000Because of that, this kind of language, this kind of rhetoric is much more powerful.
00:45:11.000And because we were all, generally speaking, so compliant in the lockdown era, and then you learn Sweden, who basically said, oh, go about your business.
00:45:20.000We're trying to cross-reference it with The economic impact of lockdowns, the impact on cancer, heart disease, diabetes, medical health, addiction.
00:45:27.000We're looking at it and we're thinking probably a non-interventionist approach.
00:45:30.000Plus we're a genuinely liberal democracy who don't secretly crave as much authoritarianism as possible.
00:45:36.000Because of that, they had a different approach to the pandemic.
00:45:48.000Arm you with the facts so that when they come to you with the next pack of lies and pack of suggestions that are going to impede your freedom and curiously not affect the globalist corporate state, you can say, but what about last time?
00:45:58.000You said X and Y turned out to be true.
00:46:00.000Let's have a look at those X's and Y's.
00:46:04.000We will not shut down our schools, we will not accept your lockdowns, we will not abide by your mask mandates, and we will not tolerate your vaccine mandates.
00:46:14.000They rigged the 2020 election and now they're trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election, even if it means trying to bring back COVID.
00:46:30.000But they will fail because we will not let it happen.
00:46:34.000When I'm back in the White House, I will use every available authority to cut federal funding to any school, college, airline, or public transportation system that imposes a mask mandate or a vaccine mandate.
00:46:47.000So I suppose the conversation has radically changed because Donald Trump, at the height of the pandemic, of course, declared that the vaccines were a tremendous success and he was in a different position then and there was different information available now.
00:46:58.000But let's just take the temperature of our current moment.
00:47:00.000Donald Trump has assessed the situation and has decided, wow, it's now going to be more effective to say, in government, I would make mask mandates illegal or I'd do anything within my power to prevent them, rather than, you know, we have to deal with this pandemic.
00:47:17.000Firstly, what we're going to assess is what's being proposed right now.
00:47:19.000And then we're going to look at the results of what happened in Sweden.
00:47:22.000And hopefully this is OK to discuss on the YouTube platform, because, of course, the WHO guidelines are what determine the community guidelines on YouTube, which amount to their ability to censor this type of information.
00:47:32.000Let me know in the comments if our videos are still appearing in your feeds, for example.
00:47:35.000Despite very low numbers of people with serious illness, a recent rise in COVID cases has led to a return of mask mandates in a number of institutions.
00:47:43.000In Hollywood, the movie studio Lionsgate issued a requirement for masks, as have several colleges and universities, along with hospital systems in California and New York.
00:47:50.000Some medical Health professionals have even demanded a return of mask mandates in schools.
00:47:54.000So is it a health issue or is it a political issue?
00:47:59.000Now at the very beginning I think we were all scared and concerned and it was an entirely novel thing but the conversations about the measures began pretty swiftly didn't they?
00:48:06.000And it became politicized and divisive rather than unifying pretty quickly.
00:48:10.000Let me know at this point is the pandemic or any potential variant of it a political or health issue?
00:48:15.000The return of required face coverings, of course, echoes official masking guidance and policies that were enacted in many contexts from spring 2020 through early 2022.
00:48:23.000Universal masking was part of a broader pandemic response beyond vaccinations that was based on mandatory non-pharmaceutical interventions that also included quarantining healthy people who were potentially exposed to an infected person, banning gatherings of healthy people in churches and other locations, and long-term preemptive closures of schools and businesses.
00:48:40.000It'll be very difficult for those in power not to conclude from the events of 2019 to 2022 that if required you can control people, you can control people's behaviour, you can massively influence their spending habits, their eating habits, their Their social habits, their habits of worship, their most enshrined values can be altered by government edicts.
00:49:00.000I don't think they've ignored that information.
00:49:03.000And I wouldn't be surprised if we saw attempts to utilise that knowledge, if not through coronavirus pandemics, where there is obvious and explicit resistance in various forms, including us here on this channel, I would have to say, through wars, through climate.
00:49:16.000Significant, important issues that have to be addressed, but I would contest in ways that affect powerful institutions, not ordinary people.
00:49:23.000Let me know in the comments if you agree with that.
00:49:25.000Mask mandates and these other interventions were and are premised on a basic idea.
00:49:29.000A large proportion of healthy people may unknowingly be infected with COVID and could transmit the virus to others.
00:49:34.000The results from a unique new study, however, call this logic into question.
00:49:38.000The paper published in the August issue of the journal The Lancet Microbe found that infected people pre-symptomatically, that is before they develop symptoms, very rarely had the ability to infect others.
00:49:48.000Have you heard that information before?
00:49:50.000I am not claiming that it's entirely true.
00:49:52.000I'm asking if you have seen those studies.
00:49:55.000What this means is that compelling people without COVID symptoms to wear masks in any number of environments, including most controversially, schools, along with quarantining healthy people, closing schools and other social distancing measures, likely yielded far, far less societal benefit than we're told.
00:50:08.000If something doesn't have a rational scientific basis, its qualities are essentially apotropaic.
00:50:15.000Let's see what Fauci, who advocated for masks more strongly than anybody, even though he privately expressed doubts about their efficacy numerous times, that's a matter of record, let's see what he's saying about this new data.
00:50:26.000Brett Stevens in the Times talked about Cochran, put that on the screen.
00:50:29.000As a side note, watch how many times this bloke intensely stares and let me know if that would freak you out if you were chatting to him.
00:50:36.000The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illness, including COVID-19, was published last month.
00:50:46.000Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is the lead author, were unambiguous.
00:50:52.000There is just no evidence that they, masks, make any difference, he told the journalist Mayan Damasi.
00:52:15.000Now let's go back to this horrific, terrible, unnecessary, dreadful, bloody war that can't be won because Russia are a serious country that will not stop.
00:52:24.000Maybe we could offer them some stickers.
00:52:36.000Just go to stickermule.com forward slash Russell and fill out the form.
00:52:40.000Well what about the studies that initially persuaded policy makers to impose mask mandates?
00:52:45.000They were convinced by non-randomized studies, flawed observational studies.
00:52:50.000How do we get beyond that finding of that particular review?
00:52:54.000Now he's already starting with the staring.
00:52:56.000He's trying to stare into Anthony Fauci's innermost thoughts.
00:52:59.000And really what we all want to hear from Anthony Fauci is why did you advocate so strongly for mask mandates when you yourself questioned them?
00:53:05.000Why did you query the lab leak theory when you yourself thought it was plausible?
00:53:08.000Why did you promote the wet market theory so aggressively?
00:53:11.000Because some people thought that might be because that would lead to the conclusion that science itself would generate this problem and therefore should clear up the mess and that there were financial ties between the... There's so many bloody questions and you know all of them.
00:53:21.000Let me know if there's any I've missed below.
00:53:23.000But have a look at how Antony Fauci turvicuscates and provericates in order to avoid telling us the simple truth.
00:53:29.000I was wrong about that and it's unfortunate I make so much money.
00:53:32.000Yeah, but there are other studies, Michael, that show at an individual level for individual, when you're talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole.
00:55:07.000Oh, it's less strong, less firm, not there at all.
00:55:11.000With regard to the effect on the overall pandemic.
00:55:14.000This being 2023 and all, we now have a pretty significant study.
00:55:17.000Sweden had an entirely different approach to the pandemic based on looking at the various factors, economics, other diseases, mental health issues, etc.
00:55:26.000The reigning narrative of Sweden during the pandemic is that the Swedish government took a brazenly hands-off approach to COVID-19 and suffered mass avoidable deaths as a result.
00:55:33.000During the spring and summer of 2020, Sweden bucked the international trend by not issuing emergency stay-at-home orders, mask mandates or school closures.
00:55:41.000With the exception of restrictions on nursing home visits and large gatherings, the country stayed open during that time.
00:55:47.000The concurrent spike in Covid deficit experience, particularly in comparison to its Scandinavian peers, was all the proof politicians and much of the press needed to dismiss its liberal... There's a word that used to mean something.
00:55:57.000Approach as inferior to Chinese-inspired lockdowns that swept the rest of the globe.
00:56:02.000Those are the guys to emulate when it comes to democracy.
00:56:05.000The New York Times called the country a cautionary tale.
00:56:08.000Well, that turned out to be peculiarly perspicacious because, here's the caution, don't trust the government, don't trust the legacy media, trust yourselves, trust independent media.
00:56:18.000Then-President Donald Trump denounced the country's approach on Twitter.
00:56:21.000Trump, like most of the establishment, favoured coercive measures early on.
00:56:25.000On April 30, 2020, Trump tweeted, Yet, this interpretation of Sweden's COVID-19 performance as disastrous and deadly is likely wrong, argues Johan Norberg in a new paper for the Cato Institute.
00:56:38.000The data that's accumulated over the past three years suggests that Sweden's laissez-faire approach seems to have paid off, writes Norberg.
00:56:45.000It seems likely that Sweden did much better than other countries in terms of the economy, education, mental health and domestic abuse, and still came away from the pandemic with fewer excess deaths than in almost any other European country, and less than half that of the United States.
00:57:06.000So now you have to look at the motivations.
00:57:08.000But unless Sweden is the land of the geniuses, and I thought their greatest achievements were the Volvo, the Sauna and Abba, but we can now add to that freedom, liberty, common sense, which I think were Abba's names.
00:57:20.000Sweden has largely been dismissed as a failure on COVID-19 because its COVID death rate was middle of the back of the list when compared to other European countries and much higher than other Scandinavian countries that had harsher restrictions.
00:57:31.000Sweden did get hit harder earlier in the pandemic and it's on this earlier performance that much of the commentary about the country's pandemic failures came from.
00:57:43.000Sweden's comparatively dismal performance at the start of the pandemic was mostly a result of other countries having managed to delay cases and deaths rather than having prevented them, writes Johan Norberg.
00:57:53.000Sweden suffered most of its deaths in 2020 while the Nordic neighbours and many other countries got them in 2022.
00:57:59.000The Cato paper cites one Norwegian public health official as saying, other countries managed to delay some deaths but now three years after we end up at around the same place.
00:58:10.000Let me know in the comments what kind of outcome would you have preferred, particularly if you're watching this in America, and I know the majority of you are.
00:58:16.000Would you have preferred a Swedish approach?
00:58:19.000Norberg's paper repeats a common practical argument against lockdowns, that they're unnecessary because people will voluntarily restrict their interactions with others in response to rising risk of the virus.
00:58:29.000You as an individual are capable of making decisions yourself.
00:58:32.000Can you see how ontologically profound, how ideological it becomes at its genesis?
00:58:36.000When you look at it at the truly molecular level, you are making a case for freedom.
00:58:40.000You're making a case for what is your relationship with your government?
00:59:00.000That people adapt voluntarily when they realize that lives are at stake.
00:59:04.000Swedes quickly changed their behavior and mostly followed the recommendations, writes Norberg, citing data showing a rise in remote work arrangements and a collapse in public transit ridership early in the pandemic.
00:59:14.000So in a sense, what we're discussing is the role of government, the nature of government.
00:59:18.000Obviously, America and countries like mine and other anglophonic and Western nations assume, no, people are stupid.
00:59:25.000You can't say to people, you voted us in to help you guys out, right, and to run your institutions and agencies.
00:59:29.000Look, here's some of the data, here's a variety of opinions.
00:59:32.000We're advocating for staying at home, particularly if you're at risk, or you spend time with people that are at risk, and we'll keep you informed, but we're going to leave it to you guys.
00:59:40.000That actually sounds like the type of government I want.
00:59:42.000Let me know in the comments if that's what you want, and if you think we should move in that direction.
00:59:45.000Particularly when authoritarianism is so often wrong.
00:59:49.000He suggests that the reliance on voluntary compliance meant Swedes were more willing to comply with pandemic precautions for longer.
00:59:55.000Mandatory COVID restrictions in other countries bred backlash to any countermeasures, leading to a greater number of deaths later on.
01:00:01.000Perhaps that's true, but if it is, it doesn't seem any of it made much difference in the deadliness of the pandemic.
01:00:06.000Again, Sweden ended up in basically the same place in terms of overall mortality as its Nordic peers, and in a much better place than many other rich countries.
01:00:14.000Tell me if at the time you were saying, but how's this going to affect the economy?
01:00:27.000Swedish students suffered no learning loss during the pandemic, whereas half of US students did.
01:00:32.000The country's economic growth outperformed the Eurozone and the United States.
01:00:36.000It avoided other countries increased suicide rates and deteriorated mental health.
01:00:40.000All things that could have been prevented, all things that were discussed at the time.
01:00:42.000This is not a 2020 hindsight situation.
01:00:44.000To be sure, Sweden's COVID-19 policies weren't completely anarchic.
01:00:48.000Some of the restrictions the country adopted during the winter of 2020 and spring and summer of 2021 were comparable or even stricter than what many US states had in place.
01:00:55.000The country was nevertheless much more respectful of people's individual choices during the pandemic than other European countries and most US states.
01:01:03.000That additional freedom doesn't appear to have proven more deadly in the aggregate.
01:01:06.000Instead, it seems to have helped Sweden avoid many of the asocial knock-on effects of banning or restricting public life for months or years at a time.
01:01:22.000Liberty, compassion, kindness, people being able to make their own decisions for themselves and their community, an admission from Antony Fauci that mask mandates don't work across a population, they're a decision that should be left to an individual.
01:01:34.000Do you sense that a theme is developing?
01:01:39.000Stop subsidizing and funding media organizations and big pharma companies that seem to benefit from lying to you and backing the government in their desire to control you.
01:01:48.000To me, Sweden's approach makes a lot more sense.