Russell Brand is back with a brand new episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand. This time, we're talking about Joe Biden's secret documents, and how the powerful have access to secret material that we have to be protected from. We're also looking at how a robot army of robot dogs are preparing for the moment when dissenters rise up against our corrupt government and the globalist corporate movement, and why Donald Trump stands a better chance than most of them of winning the 2020 election than Joe Biden. Stay Free with Russell Brand is on all of the social medias, if you search for Stay Free, you'll find us. Stay free, and stay free, because we're here to help you stay free. Stay free! - Russell Brand's new show 'Stay Free' is out now, and is available on all good podcasting platforms. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: STAYFREE at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase. We'll be giving away a copy of his new book, 'Keep Free: A Man Who Wants to Make America Great Again' on Amazon Prime and Vimeo, and we'll send you a free copy of the book, too! If you're in the mood for something a little weird and weird and unusual, you can be sure you'll love it! We're giving you a discount code: stay free with us! at stayfree.me/keepfree and we're listening to Stay Free. to help us spread the word of the word 'free. Stay Free! Thank you, stay free and keep it free, we'll tell us what you're listening, and you'll get a discount on the best of what you can do best, and send us a review of the best thing you like it, and get the most of it and we won't know what you get in the rest of the world's best of your chance to win it, too get the best deal on our ad-free version of the podcasting experience, and more like it's that and more of that, too much more like that, and so you'll be helping us to send us the most amazing things like that and we can do it and more! that's not just that, right here, right there's a review and more and more, right in the next episode, coming soon!
00:01:38.000We're going to be talking to you about yet more documents that Biden has concealed, and also beyond the documents themselves, the very notion that the powerful have access to Clandestine material that we have to be protected from, when in the most recent case in history, the revelations say from WikiLeaks and Daniel Hale, usually that information is not about stuff that would make you incredibly happy and compliant if you had access to it.
00:02:07.000We're going to be talking about Trump's reaction to Biden's documents, which is brilliant, like he hones in on some really odd details.
00:02:14.000The US indeed are sending tanks to Ukraine.
00:02:17.000If you're watching this on YouTube now, stay with us.
00:02:20.000We stay on YouTube for about 10 minutes because we want access to you.
00:02:24.000But after about 10 minutes, we go over to Rumble explicitly, exclusively because we're going to talk about stuff that you cannot talk about on this platform.
00:02:34.000In this instance, we're talking about the NIH's poor oversight of COVID research that was taking place Well, that doesn't mean anything.
00:03:05.000We're also going to be looking at Zelensky's love letter to US corporations.
00:03:10.000It's extraordinary if you're an anti-establishment, anti-corporatist person, whether you're from the left or right, to see someone list corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan with such reverence and optimism.
00:03:27.000But before we get into any of that, perhaps we should look at that Delicious little army of robot dogs that are preparing now for the moments when you rise up en masse against your corrupt government and the globalist corporate movement.
00:03:40.000Don't worry about anything because there's just a robot dog army being prepared to bring down dissenters.
00:03:50.000Let's have a look at those little guys.
00:04:27.000I went through a lot of things emotionally.
00:04:29.000I respect the Marines, that I'll tell you, but I struggled to be one.
00:04:36.000You may be disillusioned with Joe Biden.
00:04:39.000God love him, the cadaverous, juddering, shuddering, half-asleep, dopey old sausage.
00:04:45.000And occasionally, it's a joy to see Trump talk in that peculiarly human and odd manner that only he does.
00:04:53.000In this instance, he's talking about Biden's endless docks, I suppose as part of his campaign to make America great again again again again
00:05:01.000again again in 2024 potentially against Ron DeSantis who's gonna win though in
00:05:05.000that that battle of those two colossi of the right. Let's have a look at him
00:05:10.000talking about the documents I love this.
00:05:14.000We have two standards of justice in our country One for people like you and me, and one for the corrupt political class.
00:05:21.000What I like about that is that Donald Trump has put himself in a category.
00:05:26.000I sometimes feel like I'm pushing it a bit.
00:05:29.000Ordinary people like us, because I'm a bit weird, I wear strange stuff.
00:05:33.000I'm unusual, I'm peculiar, but I am basically a normal bloke from Essex who's been in Hollywood for a bit and now I'm on the internet.
00:05:40.000Donald Trump is different from everyone in the whole world.
00:05:43.000There's no one else that's like Donald Trump.
00:07:23.000Now we've gone from a matter of international security down to whether or not he's got rising damp in his garage or whether he needs lagging.
00:07:50.000That's why whenever you see Biden communicating, it seems particularly lacklustre.
00:07:56.000Specifically, I think, when Biden, in the mode, modality and timbre of an ordinary politician, is making pledges upon which you know he will later renege.
00:08:05.000Prior to this conflict in Ukraine, he outlined specifically and deliberately the impossibility of military equipment being sent to Ukraine because it would be, literally verbatim in his words, World War 3.
00:08:22.000Look, the idea, the idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews.
00:08:33.000I think anyone thought Thomas the Tank Engine was going to go to Ukraine.
00:09:35.000Well, are there going to be some cranes also?
00:09:40.000I guess he just never stands up well against Trump when it comes to pure oratory.
00:09:46.000No, because Trump would have found a way for that to sound like Trump was doing a good thing.
00:09:51.000I mean, the way that he Describe those documents.
00:09:53.000Essentially all the news at the start, certainly the say CNN news, was about how Biden's documents just wasn't as serious as Trump's.
00:10:02.000Trump's like managed to flip that with one little phrase about how secure Mar-a-Lago is.
00:10:07.000He'd have probably done the same with the trains and the tanks.
00:10:10.000Yeah he would have made that sound better.
00:10:11.000Did you see the mainstream media talking about how many documents Joe Biden Actually has.
00:10:19.000Look, Gareth, try and think of a way of visualising a number of documents and I want you to do this at home as well and let us know in the chat and the comments and if you're watching this on YouTube, stay with us but remember, click over to Rumble in a minute when we start talking about that NIH story and the origins of the thing that must not be discussed.
00:10:34.000Let's look now at the mainstream media Offering us the opportunity to envisage, using analogy and metaphor, the sheer amount of files Biden has.
00:10:54.000We now have new information on the bulk of documents that Joe Biden donated to his alma mater, the University of Delaware.
00:11:01.000According to lawyers representing the parties who are trying to get to these documents, there are 1,850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of electronic records consisting of the so-called Biden records.
00:11:14.000The documents are said to fill up two tractor-trailer trucks.
00:11:18.000It's a really odd tongue twister because she sounds like she could do... That's not a sentence she should be tackling.
00:11:26.000Two trailer tractor trucks full of Biden documents!
00:11:29.000Yeah, that sounds like a warm-up you would do before you go on air.
00:11:33.000Two toads totally tired of trying to track the trailer trucks!
00:11:38.000But the thing is, is that even in spite of this escalating conflict, there is still more chance of us dying of climate change as opposed to nuclear war.
00:11:59.000I'm not like, when I was a teenager, I didn't fall asleep at night thinking, oh no, it's getting hotter and hotter, sea levels are going to rise, ultimately.
00:12:08.000This is, in a sense, something that you have to hold in your consciousness, along with solar flares, the inevitability of death.
00:12:18.000Nuclear war is so immediate, so impulsive, so easy to connect to the kind of emotional tunes of rage, conflict, greed and mendacity that you continually hear being played.
00:12:32.000For me, it feels like a much more vivid phrase.
00:12:33.000I mean, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments, what are you more concerned about right now?
00:12:39.000Listen, if you're watching this on YouTube, click over and join us on Rumble.
00:12:43.000We've got a fantastic guest coming up talking about new global movements, the CIA spying on politicians in our country, Britain, as well as your own, and the necessity for new communities and organisations if we're ever going to stand up to elite, centralised, globalist forces.
00:13:01.000Join us in a minute and also we're going to be talking about that NIH story about the protocols and breaches of security and just basic hygiene and safety that were taking place during a very important time.
00:13:12.000I'll go too much DL on YouTube but it seems that the NIH weren't as careful as they could have been with experiments and clinical trials.
00:13:19.000Who was in charge of the NIH at that point?
00:13:21.000A little known and underappreciated man called Anthony Fauci who's a good guy who just doesn't have nearly enough fanfare around his... No.
00:13:31.000Many unrewarded, unfinancially motivated achievements in this crazy world.
00:14:00.000But you should click over, join us on Rumble where we're going to talk about that NIH story and on our presentation today, here's the news, no here's the effing news, we're going to be talking about Zelensky's deals with major globalist corporations to reconstruct Ukraine.
00:14:16.000You won't believe how plain, how evident and obvious the opportunities for profiteering are.
00:14:23.000This is not conspiracy theory, this is business as usual.
00:14:26.000Almost like that was the plan all along, almost like.
00:14:29.000I'm saying it could be Has there ever been in history America dabbling in foreign affairs, instilling or installing a favorable leader in a nation, ultimately toppling them, rebuilding that country for profit?
00:15:10.000We're going to look at this NIH story.
00:15:12.000Shall we have a quick look at this, Gareth?
00:15:13.000Help me to say it in a way that's responsible because this is how I understand it and I want to explain this to everybody watching.
00:15:19.000Let me know in the chat and comments if you've heard this story.
00:15:21.000The NIH were funding trials in Wuhan at the Wuhan Institute of Virology Through the EcoHealth Alliance, that's that Peter Daszak dude, him that likes to go down the bat caves and snoop about, prodding bats up the gland, squeezing out their dirty little bat juices and seeing how you can make them a bit worse.
00:15:41.000But luckily we'll be able to find a solution as well, right?
00:15:44.000I think I'm understanding this story correctly.
00:15:47.000So the NIH were funding trials at the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the time that the coronavirus pandemic began, which is widely understood to have began in Wuhan.
00:15:57.000Some people say down the old stinky old dirty old wet market.
00:16:00.000Some people say in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and some people say it's bioengineered.
00:16:05.000Those are the three theories that emerged at the point of the origin.
00:16:10.000One of those theories was prized and presented and the other two were, broadly speaking, neglected.
00:16:14.000Well, there's news stories to say that the National Institute of Health were somewhat remiss in their general handling and reporting on that incident.
00:16:23.000Apparently there's a report that's saying they did not properly track EcoHealth Alliance who were studying coronaviruses.
00:16:30.000And this has reinforced concerns about the federal government's system for monitoring research with potentially risky pathogens for obvious reasons
00:16:38.000because if you've got a now what's coming to light if you've got a group like EcoHealth
00:16:42.000Alliance and Peter Daszak that you spoke of yeah that are conducting studies on coronavirus at
00:16:46.000the World Health Institute of Virology and now we're hearing well through this report
00:16:50.000things about missed deadlines confusing protocols misspent funds. It's like they're uh sort of a
00:17:22.000That's an interesting, yes it is, and that's an interesting sentence, isn't it?
00:17:24.000Because you'd think that that's slightly suggesting that laboratory accidents being a major plank of pandemic preparedness strategy is like, they're kind of acknowledging these things could occur in a lab.
00:17:38.000Not that it could have obviously occurred in a lab then.
00:17:40.000That's completely different because there was the stinking wet market.
00:17:43.000So it couldn't have happened then, but in the future it could.
00:17:47.000So we're saying now, at the time that the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, the NIH were funding research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology But they weren't doing it carefully.
00:18:02.000We've carefully observed deadlines and diligent protocols.
00:18:06.000They were being, what I might describe, slapdash, cavalier.
00:18:09.000And I would say that if your job at work is to take viruses and pathogens and make them more lethal and deadly, you shouldn't be carrying it out like it's jazz.
00:18:48.000They're being a little bit lackadaisical, a bit casual about something that, well, I suppose it's another enormous and inconvenient coincidence that exactly that time a terrible new virus emerged from exactly that place.
00:19:29.000If we have that progress report, still not got it.
00:19:32.000And that health officials later said contained evidence of viral growth in experiments that was supposed to have been reported immediately.
00:19:39.000That doesn't sound good, because they were two pretty crucial years I would say.
00:19:42.000So the fact that they were two years late on that report...
00:19:45.000Did anything happen during that couple of years?
00:20:01.000He said something was wrong with his taste.
00:20:03.000And he did, he felt this mysterious illness.
00:20:05.000He was coughing and that and all tired.
00:20:07.000It wasn't that bad, but it was, it was, it was like a cold, but a bit worse.
00:20:12.000Some sort of thing you need to stop the whole world for, to bang everyone up in their houses.
00:20:17.000But if Dave, for example, had a respiratory condition, my God, we'd have been really careful there, or if Dave had been very old, then some sort of medicine made at cost, funded by corporations, and if the taxpayer funded it, all those profits would obviously go back to those taxpayers in order to create a fairer world.
00:23:32.000Today we are talking about Zelensky's list.
00:23:35.000Having already in 2022, by the way, rung that bell that opens the stock market.
00:23:41.000And if that's not a clear indication where your affiliations lie, then this list is.
00:23:45.000He lists like JP Morgan, BlackRock, it's essentially the avengers of big globalist corporations who are now going to profit, unless we're still being told they're doing this for humanitarian reasons, in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
00:23:59.000Now that we've heard this list, now that we've seen Zelensky turn up at the Golden Globes and other propagandist events, Is it okay for us to say that this war is about more than helping Ukrainian people confront evil tyranny in the form of Putin?
00:24:14.000Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments.
00:24:16.000Let's have a look at Zelensky's list of heroes.
00:24:19.000It is obvious that American business can become the locomotive that will once again push forward global economic growth.
00:24:30.000Often there are conditions that the globalist establishment requires before doing the types of deals that Zelensky describes.
00:24:38.000You will have seen our previous videos in which we talk about the IMF and the World Bank and the kind of leverage that they require in order to give what they call loans, but seem essentially like opportunities to take control of new territories and economies.
00:24:53.000You'll be astonished to learn that there are strong anti-union laws being implemented in Ukraine to assure that the conditions for massive profit can be created.
00:25:02.000So it looks like what's happening now is essentially Ukraine is being made a NATO member and it's being colonized, i.e.
00:25:08.000opportunities for growth for profit are being created.
00:25:12.000Now, how can you use taxpayer money to generate these conditions?
00:25:15.000Well, I suppose only if you were to say that Putin is like a shitting himself Hitler and we're only doing this to help people.
00:25:22.000Oh yeah, under these conditions I suppose you could.
00:25:25.000What I believe this war offers us the opportunity to do is recognise how reductive our media have become.
00:25:31.000Part of the formula these days is to present a situation as humanitarian or a crisis that needs a necessary resolution, then in effect powerful elite interests benefit from it.
00:25:42.000Have that formula in your mind and then we can use it together to critique situations as they unfold.
00:25:48.000We have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of the international financial and investment world as BlackRock, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs.
00:26:01.000These are not unequivocal forces for good.
00:26:03.000JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are not charities.
00:26:07.000They're not philanthropic organizations.
00:26:09.000Even philanthropic organizations Aren't that philanthropic?
00:26:15.000While the United States and Europe flood Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars of weapons using it as an anti-Russian proxy and pouring fuel on the fire of a brutal war that is devastating the country They are also making plans to essentially plunder its post-war economy.
00:26:31.000These are evocative words, but this is the kind of evocative language that's required to balance the vanilla narrative we're continually fed.
00:26:39.000We're continually told, you know, help Ukraine, help Ukrainian people.
00:26:43.000And of course, the reason you're told that is because that is the right thing to do.
00:26:47.000But I don't believe that that's what's happening.
00:26:52.000Representatives of Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland last July to plan a series of harsh neoliberal policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labour laws, open markets, drop tariffs, deregulate industries and sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.
00:27:08.000That is a formula for corporatisation.
00:27:12.000If you're familiar with the term neoliberalism, then you will know that this is what's happened in Western democracies in the previous 20 or 30 years.
00:27:20.000Asset stripping, finding publicly owned assets, selling it off to private organisations when these assets were built using public money.
00:27:28.000That's a fantastic way to make profit.
00:27:30.000Of course what we're seeing now in countries like ours, and probably yours if you're American, is that there is a devastating impact on the economy that We live in.
00:28:21.000Ukraine has been destabilised by violence since 2014 when a US-sponsored coup d'etat overthrew its democratically elected government, setting off a civil war.
00:28:30.000That conflict dragged on till February the 24th, 2022, when Russia invaded the country, escalating into a new, even deadlier phase of the war.
00:28:38.000So it's essentially saying that the war began a lot earlier.
00:28:41.000In fact, when Jeffrey Sachs came on our show, he said that this war is eight years in the making.
00:28:46.000Even the framing of the duration of the war is a mainstream media construction.
00:28:52.000This geopolitical situation is comparable to the pandemic.
00:28:55.000We're only being shown a tiny, tiny slice of the information, because if we were to have access to the entire picture, we'd say, hey, hold on a minute.
00:29:02.000Aren't there different ways to approach this?
00:29:04.000Aren't there different solutions that are available?
00:29:06.000And isn't it possible that in your pursuit of your own corporate globalist goals, you could take us to the brink of Armageddon?
00:29:12.000If you have awakened investigative citizens saying, forget left and right, forget everything else, just tell me the information so I can determine for myself and for my family and for my community what I believe is best, they can't allow that.
00:29:22.000That's why we're continually turned against one another, that's why we're continually fed pure old ridiculous narratives that fit only for children.
00:29:28.000Washington had sent large sums of weapons to Ukraine and provided extensive military training and support over several years before Russia invaded.
00:29:36.000Meanwhile, starting in 2017, representatives of Western governments and corporations quietly held annual conferences in which they discussed ways to profit from the civil war they were fueling in Ukraine.
00:29:46.000In these meetings, Western political and business leaders outlined a series of aggressive reforms they hoped to impose on Ukraine, including widespread privatization of state-owned industries and deregulation of the economy.
00:29:57.000On July 4th and 5th, 2022, top officials from the US, EU, Britain, Japan and South Korea met in Switzerland for a so-called Ukraine Recovery Conference.
00:30:06.000There, they planned Ukraine's post-war reconstruction and performatively announced aid commitments.
00:30:11.000Let's hold a Ukraine Recovery Conference.
00:30:34.000All of the global elite interests can benefit from this war.
00:30:38.000At the beginning, it was like, well, how could there be anything other than just Russia's egregious criminal invasion, Putin's evil tyranny?
00:30:44.000Oh, look, by some weird coincidence, all of the world's most powerful interests are going to benefit.
00:30:49.000It's a bit like the pandemic, really, when by helping us all to get better, some of the world's most powerful interests benefit.
00:31:11.000The Ukraine Recovery Conference was not new.
00:31:13.000It had been renamed to save the expense of a new acronym.
00:31:16.000In the previous five years, the group and its annual meetings were instead referred to as the Ukraine Reform Conference.
00:31:23.000The URC's agenda was explicitly focused on imposing political changes on the country, namely strengthening the market economy, decentralization, privatization, reform of state-owned enterprises, land reform, state administration reform, and Euro-Atlantic integration.
00:31:39.000That sounds a little bit like corporatize it, privatize it, Get it in NATO.
00:31:43.000Before 2022, this gathering had nothing to do with aid and a lot to do with economics.
00:31:49.000It's a shame that this is all to do with economics.
00:31:51.000If only there was some war or humanitarian angle that would really bolster our efforts.
00:31:58.000So what they're calling the Ukraine Recovery Conference is starting to sound like a convention for corporate interests and profiteering opportunity.
00:32:07.000Documents from the 2018 Ukraine Reform Conference ...emphasized the importance of privatizing most of Ukraine's remaining public sector, stating that the ultimate goal of the reform is to sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.
00:32:21.000Along with calls for more privatization, deregulation, energy reform, tax and customs reform.
00:32:26.000Just in case you think that you've turned into a conspiracy theorist and are believing things for which there's no legitimate basis, here are some world leaders and political players and leaders on the corporate stage openly stating that they are going to benefit from reconstructing Ukraine.
00:32:40.000Well I can tell you that the UK will be sticking by Ukraine for as long as it takes.
00:32:54.000And here we are taking the money out of Ukraine.
00:32:55.000Here's Ursula von der Leyen explaining to the assembled leaders and corporatists and big tech giants at Davos that they are required to rebuild Ukraine.
00:33:05.000You might think, I've heard that name, Ursula von der Leyen, before.
00:33:09.000It's when Albert Baller was texting her directly, doing deals for billions of vaccines, coincidentally, that didn't pass by a council of approval.
00:33:17.000We raise the necessary investment for reconstruction, and it is a perfect opportunity to take investment and reform to pave this way for Ukraine towards the European Union.
00:33:32.000And what we need is not only investment with the public sector, but the private investment and your knowledge.
00:33:58.000The people of Ukraine really deserve it.
00:34:00.000So there you go, there you see everything tying the morality, the necessary duty we have to help one another, to help the suffering Ukrainian people, with the interests of the establishment elite.
00:34:10.000As long as you can converge those two ideas, then dissent becomes criminal.
00:34:15.000People will say that I'm a crackpot conspiracy theorist for saying it and you're a nutcase for believing it, but they're admitting BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs are going to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.
00:34:28.000If something is truly humanitarian, here's a good way of demonstrating it.
00:34:31.000Extract the profit from it altogether.
00:34:37.000Ukraine was ultimately a place that was too resource rich and had too strong a ties with Russia historically, politically and even ethnically in some cases.
00:34:56.000In September 2022, Zelensky symbolically rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange via video stream.
00:35:03.000The Ukrainian leader declared that his country was open for business with more than $400 billion in investment options.
00:35:10.000At the same time, Zelensky published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal calling on Western corporations to invest in the future of Ukraine.
00:35:18.000One way of looking at the framing of Zelensky is that he is indeed a heroic leader who is galvanizing a nation that is suffering under the military attack of a more powerful aggressor that is important and worthy of praise.
00:35:30.000Another way of looking at Zelensky is that his interests align with the interests of the most powerful economic institutions in the world, some of the most powerful corporations and most powerful nations.
00:35:42.000Their agenda and Zelensky's agenda temporarily line up like Gaddafi's agenda once did, like Saddam Hussein's agenda once did.
00:35:49.000I hope for Zelensky's sake that the agenda stays in alignment because I don't know what's happened to Gaddafi but I'm I feel like he ended up with a bit of a jostly jeep ride and Saddam Hussein.
00:35:58.000The Ukrainian government cited corporate executives at Google, Alphabet and Microsoft who urge more Western companies to buy up the country's assets.
00:36:07.000It's just literally there in plain sight.
00:36:09.000In December 2022, Zelensky held a video conference with billionaire Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager.
00:36:16.000Zelensky's office said that BlackRock will advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country's reconstruction funds and is coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country.
00:36:28.000This means that under Western tutelage, Ukraine has essentially privatized and outsourced its economic policy to BlackRock, one of the world's most powerful corporations.
00:36:37.000Often we show you charts of how the most powerful economic entities in the world are no longer nations, they are corporations.
00:36:43.000Other than a few and you know their names, the most powerful nations in the world, the most powerful and influential entities on our planet are corporate.
00:36:51.000And here we can see how they've been charged with creating the economic policy of an entire nation.
00:36:56.000Right now the world's attention is on Ukraine and Ukraine's future policies are going to be determined by BlackRock's interests.
00:37:20.000During a recent WEF session in Davos, Larry Fink spoke of his plans to help coordinate billions of dollars worth of reconstruction financing for Ukraine, saying he hoped the initiative would also turn the country into a beacon of capitalism.
00:37:35.000The very fact that they're saying it in this public way, I don't even know what the counter-argument to this is, actually.
00:37:39.000I don't know why they say, well Russell, of course after a war it's going to need reconstruction and you're going to want the most powerful interests in the world.
00:37:47.000But that's essentially our argument is would you include in your media narratives the fact that the most powerful interests in the world are going to benefit from this and stop giving us these reductive simplistic tales of good versus evil which could in fact lead us to an apocalyptic conflict because that's unreasonable and unfair and And most importantly, untrue.
00:38:05.000Give us the truth and stop creating narratives that only benefit elites when they could in fact be detrimental not only to all of you watching this, but the Ukrainian people themselves.
00:38:15.000They're going to find it difficult to work.
00:38:16.000They've had a war that could have been stopped earlier.
00:38:19.000What I object to, I think, is the lying.
00:38:21.000David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, spoke cheerily of Ukraine's post-war future.
00:38:26.000There is no question that as you rebuild there will be good economic incentives for real return and real investment, he said.
00:38:32.000In one way, I'm almost tempted to just go along with it and invest in it.
00:38:36.000Zelensky's government has imposed some of the world's most aggressive anti-worker policies.
00:38:40.000So if you love Ukraine, which obviously he does, I'm not saying that Zelensky doesn't love Ukraine, but aggressive anti-worker policies, passing legislation that deprives around 73% of workers for their rights to union protection and collective bargaining.
00:38:54.000Oh, how it's good is you can now do deals with Goldman Sachs and Ukraine, and they won't do those deals if you're like, hey, obviously, though, as leader of Ukraine, I've got to make sure that Ukrainian people They're the people that should benefit.
00:39:03.000After all, they're the ones who had their children killed and suffered from all the bombing and the turmoil.
00:39:08.000Oh no, you know who's really suffered from this?
00:39:17.000We're dealing with a monumental amount of bullshit and are meant to sort of say thank you while we eat it as if it's chocolate cake.
00:39:23.000In an interview with Multipolarista, economist Michael Hudson compared the new emergency anti-labour laws imposed by the Ukrainian government to the brutal neoliberal policies implemented by Chile's far-right Pinochet dictatorship after a CIA-backed coup in 1973.
00:39:37.000In Chile, there was a democratically elected government.
00:39:40.000That government was destabilised and a military dictatorship was installed on the condition that Afterwards a bunch of money will be made by all of these corporate interests as long as you set up favourable conditions for anti-labour unions, privatisation and all that.
00:39:54.000So this doesn't on one level seem that different from the kind of stuff that we've known that America through the CIA have done for years and years.
00:40:01.000It's just now that somehow it's become harder to track.
00:40:04.000It used to be like almost our duty to be anti-war.
00:40:30.000Somebody's loss is turned into somebody else's game.
00:40:33.000Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, but it'll also be the richest country in Europe for the 1%, Hudson concluded.
00:40:39.000Well there you go, I don't know how much more explicitly it needs to be stated.
00:40:41.000I think we're entering into a bizarre new age where global events are presented to us in a way that kind of doesn't give you the right to question the moral authority of what's happening, whether it's the response to a pandemic or the response to a war.
00:40:54.000They use our collective beliefs, so clearly there is some sort of universal sentiment that we should be helping one another and that war is bad and we should be protecting people that are suffering.
00:41:03.000They somehow managed to manipulate that into opportunities for profit for, you know, according to this, the 1%, the elites.
00:41:11.000So what do I think we should be doing?
00:41:12.000I think we should be campaigning for an end to this war.
00:41:14.000I think that we should be campaigning for diplomatic solutions, for peace, for the Ukrainian people, for an end to the hysteria around this subject, for a media that tells us the truth and that every time there's a crisis it doesn't get turned into an opportunity for the most powerful interests in the world to profit from it.
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00:43:14.000I can't believe that stock market thing.
00:43:16.000Hey, it was just fascinating to hear, I think in particular, a list of global corporate, let's not say villains, because there'll be fine people working in all of the organizations like BlackRock, JP Morgan.
00:43:34.000All, you know, I believe in salts and neats.
00:43:37.000Solzhenitsyn's edict that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart, but nevertheless it does perhaps point to an agenda other than humanitarianism in that conflict on behalf of the West when you hear those names listed.
00:43:48.000I'm incredibly excited to introduce our guest today.
00:43:51.000Len McCluskey is a union leader and a key part of the last anti-corporate, anti-establishment movement to get anywhere near to power in this country, even though it was ultimately crushed by the mainstream media and even The deep state, not even from our country, the CIA evidently had files on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of that movement.
00:44:16.000Len, you're talking now about the necessity for a new political movement.
00:44:20.000I think many people feel a sense of political vagrancy, that no mainstream political party represents them, that we are dealing really with a co-opted political system Where the voices of both parties, you know, in countries like ours, the UK and in America, have been co-opted by corporate forces, co-opted by the finances of powerful institutions, private institutions primarily, and that democracy is veiled, truncated, castrated.
00:44:49.000Is a new political movement something that interests you?
00:44:51.000Is that something that you're involved in currently?
00:44:54.000What I've been saying, Russell, is that there's a danger that Labour, the Labour Party that has always represented working people, ordinary people in Britain, is liable to lose its soul because of what's happening at the moment.
00:45:08.000Democracy in the party is being attacked.
00:45:11.000It's the most authoritarian that I've ever known and I've been a member for 50 years and I'm basically warning that if Labour continues that way then people will start asking the question, does Labour speak for ordinary people anymore?
00:45:27.000And so of course debates and discussions about What you do about that are very prevalent in the UK at the moment, and that's really a debate that will take place over the next few years if Stormer continues to try and take away the soul of the Labour Party, which is effectively a socialist ideal of what our society should be.
00:45:52.000The Labour Party was organised around representing ordinary working people.
00:45:59.000It's obviously been through numerous mutations, most notably recently under Tony Blair's leadership, where it became a centralist, neo-liberal establishment party.
00:46:10.000And you saying that Keir Starmer, the current leader of the Labour Party, is an establishment figure that wants to neuter You're spot on, Russell.
00:46:20.000and essentially turn it into a party of power.
00:46:22.000We thought it was very interesting to see Keir Starmer attending the WEF Davos conference, for example.
00:46:26.000That's not normally a sign of a dissenting voice.
00:46:30.000The reality is, of course, that what Blair wanted and didn't actually fully achieve
00:46:37.000was to try and turn the Labour Party into a mirror image of the Democratic Party in the States.
00:46:44.000And what happened in 2017 when Jeremy Corbyn almost won power?
00:46:50.000The forces of reaction within both the UK and indeed in America, the CIA and all the rest of them, were absolutely beside themselves that almost a man with socialist ideals and a vision almost captured power.
00:47:08.000And they made a decision there and then that they were never going to allow that to happen again.
00:47:14.000And they try to destroy Corbyn and anybody close to Corbyn try to destroy Corbynism.
00:47:20.000And in Kiev, they seem to have captured an individual who can be a puppet of theirs, who is constantly attacking the left wing, forcing the left of the Labour Party out of the Labour Party.
00:47:34.000And that's the danger that we have to be aware of.
00:47:37.000It is becoming clear that globalist and corporatist power is transcendent of national sovereign power and democratic power.
00:47:47.000And when a figure, whether from the left or from elsewhere on the political spectrum, emerges that is a challenge to those centralist establishment forces, they will use deep state means to shut it down.
00:48:01.000They will use their allies in the mainstream media to create There's no doubt.
00:48:39.000How have you allowed a man like Corbyn to almost get into power?
00:48:44.000Let's make certain it doesn't happen again.
00:48:46.000Your previous piece that you've just done, which was brilliant, by the way, absolutely brilliant, I mean, you're the best investigative journalist I've come across in recent times.
00:48:58.000But BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, the corporate elite, they're the people who run our nations.
00:49:33.000We're being attacked and the same problems occur in in Texas and in California as they do in Yorkshire and London.
00:49:42.000Working people all over the world are becoming increasingly aware that they are being crushed by globalist forces and that democracy has been hollowed out as you just described Lyn and thank you very much for the compliment by the way and obviously I'm merely the mouthpiece of a team of dedicated hard-working people that do great research and we work In coordination with one another to bring about stories that hopefully challenge mainstream narratives.
00:50:04.000Whether you're talking about the farmers and the way those farmer protests have been in Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, Germany, here in this country, across the United States, because of Big Food and Big Agra, or whether you're talking about The pandemic and how key workers, nurses, doctors, teachers, people that had to continue working were rightly celebrated, rightly supported, only to be abandoned now at a time when their rights are being compromised, when they're not being supported financially or in terms of their working conditions in the manner that they ought be.
00:50:34.000Earlier this week we had Christian Smalls, one of the new emergent leaders of the big tech union movement that we're very excited about because it's truly populist, truly diverse and unifying.
00:50:45.000It's very interesting that our country, the UK at the moment, has action all over the place as ordinary working people fight for their rights to work with dignity.
00:50:54.000Whether that's in the healthcare industry, the same things happen in America.
00:50:58.000We were astonished and disgusted to learn that 34,000 nurses in New York Lost their jobs in the pandemic because of their refusal to take medications that are meant to be voluntary.
00:51:08.000We're disgusted to learn about the number of care workers in this country that, while simultaneously being celebrated, lost their right to work.
00:51:16.000What can you tell us what we can learn from the way that the NHS, which is our national health service in the UK, was celebrated during the pandemic and now the people that work for it, the people that hold it together, are being abandoned?
00:51:28.000What does that tell us about the values of this country and the values of the establishment, Len?
00:51:32.000Well, the values of the establishment are very clear.
00:51:37.000The reality, of course, of what you've just explained, and it's spot on, I know about what happened In New York, absolutely disgraceful.
00:51:44.000The only organisations that can protect workers from the attacks that are currently taking place are trade unions.
00:51:53.000And in all of these countries, and certainly in dictators, what you just said about Ukraine, where they're going to limit the powers of trade unions, is spot on.
00:52:03.000Trade unions are the only defence that working people have.
00:52:07.000And in Britain at the moment, today, half a million workers I've walked out on strike because they've said enough is enough.
00:52:15.000I've been involved in strikes for the last 50 years, hundreds of them.
00:52:33.000They only go out on strike when they sense an injustice against them and they don't have anything else they can do but try to protect their living standards.
00:52:44.000And I'll make this quick point and it applies in America as well as the UK.
00:52:48.000Whenever there's a war Billions of pounds are found like that in order to promote the war and, as you say, the aftermath of the war where the global elite make huge amounts of money.
00:53:03.000Governments, and certainly the UK government, should find the money in order to settle the disputes for our nurses, our NHS, all our public sector workers, who rightly are saying there's a war against us.
00:53:18.000It's called the cost of living crisis.
00:53:21.000So we want our government to be on our side.
00:53:24.000This Conservative government at the moment hasn't got a clue.
00:53:29.000But trade unions, both here and in the States, is the way to protect working people.
00:53:36.000The US clearly are too deeply alloyed to their corporate paymasters and globalist partners to ever support working people.
00:53:44.000A genuinely new populist movement that is inclusive is required right now to attack these centralised establishment forces before it's too late.
00:53:54.000And I suppose the pandemic offered us an opportunity to view this dilemma through a new lens.
00:53:59.000The same way that Putin and the war is being blamed for spiralling Energy crisis when energy companies continue to make these incredible profits while workers are unable to be paid a fair and decent wage.
00:54:10.000And of course we're all aware of the looming AI revolution that will further disempower ordinary working people.
00:54:17.000It seems to me that this is a time for new populism, new politics, for people to come together across conventional boundaries and divides so that we can at last confront that power.
00:54:29.000Russell, once again, you've raised an incredibly important point.
00:54:33.000The question of automation, we're told by independent studies, will result by 2035 in the loss of 45% of the jobs in America and 35% of the jobs in Europe.
00:54:50.000There has to be a movement of ordinary working people And by the way, the wealth will increase enormously in that period.
00:55:11.000I know that one of the things we feel in our culture today is that we are bereft of elders and leaders, that we live in atomised cultures without values, that we can't turn to one another in communities of support and love.
00:55:25.000So I'm really honoured to have you on our show.
00:55:28.000I know you've dedicated your life to organizing people to confront corruption and establishment power.
00:55:34.000It's a great privilege to have you on.
00:55:36.000I'm excited to read your new book, Always Read, where presumably you tell the story of how you've been involved in this movement and hopefully tell Those of us coming up behind you, how we can organize in new and innovative ways to face the challenges that will doubtlessly be upon us as a result of automation, globalism, corruption, hollowed out democracies, and certainly in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom.
00:56:01.000Not having any true political representation and having a media that is determined to lie to us and keep us dumb and distracted and continue to deny us the alternatives that are our birthright.
00:56:11.000I want to thank you again for your work up to this moment Len and I know that you do great stuff for like Julian Assange's campaign.
00:56:17.000I know that you are relentless in your pursuit of righteousness and justice and it's great to have you on.
00:59:01.000I won't do the bare minimum of reading before embarking on a complex show that requires brinkmanship, expertise and understanding where we exist in a space with dedicated people like Jimmy Dore and Tim Pool, people from across the political spectrum.
00:59:53.000On Friday's show, we'll be talking to Deepak Chopra so that we can cultivate an inner light that will mean, perhaps, that we have recourse ...to some inner resources that will mean that we're not reliant on this external stimuli for satisfaction.
01:00:06.000They've turned us into addicts and fools.
01:00:09.000If we don't cultivate an inner abundance, a belief in ourselves, a belief in one another and community... I mean, what's the point, Cal?
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