Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 19, 2022


You Won’t Believe This About The Freedom Convoy - #049 - Stay Free with Russell Brand


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 2 minutes

Words per Minute

183.8192

Word Count

11,455

Sentence Count

809

Misogynist Sentences

21

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

On today's show, we discuss the dangers of sending missiles to Ukraine, the hypocrisy surrounding the West's dealings with Saudi Arabia, and Joe Biden's latest blunder. We also look at Donald Trump's latest NFT scheme, and look at why he shouldn't care if other people think he's better than them. And we have a special guest on the show, Canadian trucker Benjamin Dicta, who has a very interesting take on the idea that Trump is better than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln... and why that's a good thing. Stay tuned to Free With Russell Brand to find out more about this and much more on this episode of RUMBLE. Stay tuned for our next episode featuring a brand new segment, The Future is in the Sea. Stay woke! - The Future We re a voyage to truth and freedom, where we are the alternative to the mainstream media narratives that will delude you with lies, deception and treachery. - Russell Brand - Free with Russell Brand: The Alternative to the Mainstream Media Narratives That Deluge You with Deception, Deception and Treason, by Roger and Jimmy Russell Brand and the crew at Rumeister, Rene Reddy and our guest, Ben Dikada join us on this voyage to Truth and Freedom, where they talk about the future, liberty and freedom and the future. . and much, much more. We are the Future, you're going to see the future! - by awakening wonders, by awakening to freedom and freedom by Russell Brand, by Rene Brand and Jimmy Rance, by the team at Rene Rooker. , by the Rube Reddy, by our team at the Free Land of the Freeland of Canada . . . by the Free Brand in this episode, by the Revolution, by The Revolution, we're looking for the future . by The Future, in this video, you'll see the truth, by you, by us, by me, by your awakening wonders. by us. and by us , by me. in the future , by us all, by all of you, the awakening wonders . thanks for joining us on the voyage to freedom, by them, by ourselves, by yours truly, by Mr. Rene, , and by the revolution, and so on and so much more!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I'm going to go ahead and get you out of here.
00:00:26.000 I'm going to get you out of here.
00:00:55.000 Roger.
00:01:05.000 I'm sorry, Jimmy.
00:01:06.000 I'm sorry.
00:01:07.000 I'm sorry.
00:01:07.000 So I'm looking for the sea, oh Looking for the sea
00:01:11.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:01:24.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.
00:01:26.000 Thanks for joining us on this voyage to truth and freedom.
00:01:29.000 We are the alternative to the mainstream media narratives that will delude you with deceit and treachery.
00:01:36.000 On today's show, we're going to be talking about the potentially dangerous consequences of sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
00:01:41.000 I believe Russia have said it will be unpredictable consequences, even to them.
00:01:46.000 They can't predict what they're going to do or what they're going to feel.
00:01:48.000 We're going to be talking to you about the hypocrisy around how the West deals with Saudi Arabia compared to Russia.
00:01:53.000 In particular, how Russia is selling their oil to Saudi Arabia and we are buying oil from Saudi Arabia.
00:02:00.000 It's not even that many links in the chain.
00:02:03.000 We're also going to be checking out Donald Trump's latest NFT scheme and look at Joe Biden's most recent fumbling.
00:02:11.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, you can watch us here for 10 minutes.
00:02:14.000 Then we're going to ask you to come over to Rumble where I can be Uncensored, unexpurgated, where I can convey the limitless truth that is accessible to all of us.
00:02:24.000 Not that I'm claiming that I have any more access to truth than anybody else, but what I won't do is deliberately lie in order to prop up establishment interest.
00:02:33.000 That I will not We're going to look at how the United States are looking to make a fortune for years to come from a new bomber that, to me, doesn't look that reliable.
00:02:44.000 We'll be showing you that bomber in a little bit.
00:02:46.000 And our guest today, joining us from the free land of Canada, is Canadian trucker, Benjamin Dicta.
00:02:53.000 He better not do any fascism while he's on this show, I tell you that, because while we support free speech, we do not support fascism.
00:03:01.000 We're going to ask him, of course, about how those protests were shut down by Justin Trudeau, the erroneous and downright false claims that were made about that protest.
00:03:08.000 Remember how Trudeau supports the anti-lockdown protests in China, because there's no consequences, but tried to evoke emergency acts to shut down protests in his own country.
00:03:19.000 But let's start off today with some Light-hearted fun observing how there's nothing to worry about in our system.
00:03:27.000 The system is fine.
00:03:28.000 Don't collapse into existential despair.
00:03:34.000 The first thing to cause you to not worry is that former president Donald Trump is launching some NFTs.
00:03:41.000 As always with Donald Trump when he launches anything, it's with a sense of virility, vigor and a land that's enjoyable.
00:03:49.000 Have a look at him.
00:03:51.000 Hello everyone, this is Donald Trump, hopefully your favorite president of all time, better than Lincoln, better than Washington.
00:03:59.000 Good that he goes straight into it.
00:04:00.000 Better than Lincoln and Washington.
00:04:02.000 They're probably widely regarded as the best ones because you don't even see them from a partisan perspective.
00:04:07.000 They function more like mythological characters now, don't they?
00:04:11.000 Lincoln, I think, stands for patience and Washington for innovation.
00:04:16.000 But I mean, in a sense, they probably, if you actually knew, if they had to exist now, Washington and Lincoln, people would be saying, oh, slave trade.
00:04:23.000 I mean, they would not, it would not go over well, I don't think.
00:04:26.000 But Trump, he's out there saying he's better than them.
00:04:29.000 I just like that that's his first message.
00:04:31.000 He's on there to shift some NFTs.
00:04:33.000 He shouldn't be mentioning about whether people think he's better than other presidents.
00:04:37.000 That's someone who's got such great trust in their own instincts as a communicator.
00:04:42.000 Right, go on there.
00:04:43.000 We're going to sell these NFTs, which amount to just sort of virtual digital baseball cards.
00:04:47.000 It doesn't seem like there's any reason that they should exist at all.
00:04:50.000 You don't need anything by almost by its nature.
00:04:53.000 If it's virtual and digital, you kind of Don't need it.
00:04:55.000 I know there are various examples of communicative tools that perhaps don't fit into that.
00:05:00.000 But yeah, if you're launching essentially a sticker collection for the internet, you don't need to begin by making the outrageous and outlandish claim that you're better than George Washington and Lincoln.
00:05:11.000 Hello, I'm Russell Brand.
00:05:12.000 Welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:05:14.000 What we do here is more important than anything Gandhi or Nelson Mandela achieved.
00:05:17.000 We've got some stickers for sale.
00:05:19.000 It's an interesting and incongruous way to communicate.
00:05:22.000 With an important announcement to make.
00:05:24.000 I'm doing my first official Donald J. Trump NFT collection right here and right now.
00:05:29.000 You like some of those stickers, gal?
00:05:31.000 Yeah, I really wonder how this came about and how this like new business venture of his came about.
00:05:36.000 It must be about money.
00:05:37.000 Yeah.
00:05:38.000 I must want some money.
00:05:39.000 But how is it...
00:05:41.000 Is that the most profitable thing that Donald Trump could be doing?
00:05:44.000 He could be doing a university course, he could be offering up all sorts of tips and insight.
00:05:48.000 Oh no, they have a university.
00:05:49.000 They've probably got that.
00:05:50.000 They have got it, the funding got them into this incredible travel.
00:05:56.000 I suppose the brazenness is what I enjoy.
00:06:00.000 Because what's he saying there?
00:06:01.000 That he represents liberty, is that what he's saying?
00:06:03.000 See the Statue of Liberty?
00:06:05.000 I'm that now.
00:06:06.000 That's just an effigy of yesteryear.
00:06:09.000 Now, it's me.
00:06:11.000 I'm doing that.
00:06:12.000 Now, they're called Trump Digital Trading Cards.
00:06:16.000 These cards feature some of the really incredible artwork pertaining to... What does that one mean, like, pertaining to his life?
00:06:22.000 What does that mean?
00:06:24.000 Yeah, that doesn't pertain to his life at all.
00:06:27.000 When was that bit?
00:06:28.000 Do you know that bit where I was in space?
00:06:30.000 No.
00:06:31.000 My life and my career, it's been very exciting.
00:06:33.000 You can collect your... It's been exciting!
00:06:37.000 There's a way to view it.
00:06:38.000 You can join us in the chat, of course.
00:06:39.000 Let us know what you think about these Trump cards, whether or not you'd get them.
00:06:43.000 But one thing you have to remark on is the man's virility, his ability as a communicator, because in a minute we're going to be looking at the current incumbent of the White House, and I've got to say that he lacks some of the pizzazz and panache of this chap.
00:06:56.000 Trump digital cards, just like a baseball card or other collectibles.
00:07:01.000 A baseball card or a collectible, actually, that's anything.
00:07:04.000 You can collect anything.
00:07:05.000 People collect all sorts of oddities, don't they?
00:07:07.000 Yeah, they do.
00:07:08.000 Here's one of the best parts.
00:07:10.000 Each card comes... One of the best parts.
00:07:13.000 There's a lot of good parts to this scheme.
00:07:16.000 This weird scheme is one of the best parts.
00:07:18.000 Each card comes with the opportunity to meet him, isn't it?
00:07:20.000 With an automatic chance to win amazing pro- He uses weird words like automatic chance.
00:07:26.000 Well, you don't need automatic in there.
00:07:28.000 You don't need that word there.
00:07:28.000 No.
00:07:29.000 I wonder how much of this is scripted and how much is just in- This is my guess with Trump.
00:07:35.000 If I was producing Trump- Go on.
00:07:37.000 Rough script.
00:07:37.000 Rough script?
00:07:38.000 Skeleton.
00:07:38.000 Donald be you.
00:07:39.000 Donald, we can't write you.
00:07:40.000 Yep.
00:07:41.000 You be you.
00:07:42.000 You are you.
00:07:43.000 You are the- I know, yeah.
00:07:44.000 But also, what's he always doing that for?
00:07:46.000 What's he always cutting into?
00:07:47.000 They say DeSantis has started doing that as well.
00:07:50.000 The inward chop.
00:07:50.000 To do that.
00:07:52.000 That it's effective.
00:07:52.000 Chop inward.
00:07:53.000 People like that.
00:07:54.000 People like to think you're bringing things into the stream, I guess.
00:07:57.000 This suggests he's a bit like Willy Wonka now, doesn't it?
00:07:59.000 That's very Wonka, that, isn't it?
00:08:01.000 That's very Golden Ticket.
00:08:03.000 Like, come in to the chocolate factory, just five of you, five very special opportunities, and then there'll be just one child, one will want to get sucked up the chocolate river, one turns into a blueberry.
00:08:12.000 Shouldn't have done that.
00:08:13.000 Very dangerous, very disrespectful to Leon Palumpis.
00:08:13.000 Shouldn't have done that.
00:08:16.000 Very disrespectful.
00:08:18.000 But one kid, one plucky kid, Ron DeSantis, he makes it to the end and you get to run the whole, don't lick the walls of my chocolate factory.
00:08:28.000 I don't know if that's an amazing prize.
00:08:28.000 Dinner with me.
00:08:30.000 Look at him there at the dinner, how he's depicted.
00:08:33.000 He's been self-effacing.
00:08:34.000 I don't know if that's an amazing prize, but that's what we got.
00:08:36.000 That's my favourite bit, actually.
00:08:37.000 But it's what we have.
00:08:39.000 We'll golf with you and a group of your friends at one of my beautiful golf courses, and they are beautiful.
00:08:46.000 That's one of the great Trump tics, isn't it?
00:08:48.000 To reiterate something he's already said.
00:08:50.000 Beautiful golf courses.
00:08:51.000 And they are beautiful.
00:08:52.000 They must be beautiful.
00:08:53.000 They are beautiful.
00:08:54.000 And it's very easy to mock Donald Trump.
00:08:56.000 God knows it's become an industry in and of itself.
00:08:59.000 And I suppose what Trump represented in many ways is this sort of fusion of entertainment and politics.
00:09:04.000 But look at the dudes you got now!
00:09:06.000 Because one of the analyses, we keep offering you this and I'm going to keep offering you this until you agree with me.
00:09:11.000 When George III went crazy and the colonies collapsed, you know, obviously as somewhat as a result of the American Revolution that led to the...
00:09:21.000 First president, George Washington, who's the second or third best president there's ever been behind Lincoln and Trump.
00:09:28.000 We were making the analysis that he went insane.
00:09:30.000 He was an insane king.
00:09:31.000 It's like some ulterior force is telling you, this isn't working.
00:09:36.000 There needs to be a new idea.
00:09:38.000 Democracy emerged in the form of the French and American revolutions and gosh, you know, A little while later, different forms of revolution.
00:09:45.000 But Biden's senility and the sort of entropy, the falling apart of Biden can be seen as a kind of like, this is the signal that something new needs to emerge.
00:09:57.000 I mean, check out this guy.
00:09:58.000 Cisco Systems and Cyber Bastion, a diaspora-owned small business.
00:10:04.000 Is that all those sounds?
00:10:05.000 I don't know what those words meant.
00:10:07.000 There he is.
00:10:07.000 No.
00:10:07.000 He's at a US-Africa Leaders Summit, and this is him talking about various visits that he's made to all sorts of places, so not the thing... It was an historic...
00:10:07.000 That's him.
00:10:16.000 That's the thing, putting things in mouth.
00:10:18.000 This one, this is him talking about a numerous... Again, look at the lethargy and the sort of soporific tone of this communication.
00:10:28.000 Like, Donald Trump can sell you trading cards with more enthusiasm than Biden can sell you democracy itself.
00:10:38.000 And you know, I think that there's...
00:10:47.000 Good enough?
00:10:48.000 It's not good enough, is it?
00:10:48.000 No.
00:10:49.000 Mate, it does actually genuinely make me a bit sad.
00:10:51.000 I mean, when you see Biden in his heyday, he was a pretty powerful communicator.
00:10:56.000 He had sort of 70s Sideburns vibes.
00:10:58.000 He did, yeah.
00:10:58.000 Sort of Anchorman sexuality.
00:10:59.000 Yeah, a bit Gene Hackman, French Connection.
00:11:01.000 He's a bit Gene Hackman.
00:11:02.000 There was a time where Biden was a bit Gene Hackman and there wouldn't have been the French connection, it would have been the Ukrainian connection with various energy companies, both in Ukraine and China.
00:11:12.000 Later in the show, we're going to be talking about the hypocrisy of the current deals between Saudi Arabia and the United States around oil, particularly given that Saudi Arabia are acquiring a lot of their oil.
00:11:26.000 We beat Farmer this year!
00:11:27.000 we're going to be talking to a genuine Canadian trucker so be careful because we don't know
00:11:32.000 when he might try to overthrow us, when he might do something fascistic, when he might
00:11:36.000 do something... I'm going to be ready with my emergency powers act. I hope you've got
00:11:40.000 your own little button for that. Where's my emergency powers act button? We beat farmer
00:11:44.000 this year! No, no, that was when Joe Biden beat farmer earlier in the year. That's no
00:11:50.000 kind of emergency act.
00:11:51.000 That's what Trudeau... You hear that before Justin Trudeau emerges from a party.
00:11:55.000 Uh-oh.
00:11:56.000 No, Justin!
00:11:57.000 Not again!
00:11:58.000 No!
00:11:58.000 No, stop wearing that!
00:11:59.000 It was never appropriate.
00:12:00.000 It was never appropriate.
00:12:02.000 Alright.
00:12:04.000 Yeah.
00:12:05.000 I say, look, believe me, I've got an emergency powers act.
00:12:08.000 If that Canadian trucker tries any insurrections on our show, we've got an emergency act ready to go.
00:12:14.000 It's pepper spray, I think.
00:12:15.000 That's what they used.
00:12:16.000 Actually, yeah.
00:12:17.000 Could we just get some pepper spray and some mace?
00:12:19.000 Because if he tries to exercise his democratic right to stand up for ordinary working people against the might of the establishment, we will use the media to smear him.
00:12:28.000 We will claim that he's a Nazi.
00:12:30.000 If necessary, there's nothing we will not say in order to ensure that ordinary people from across the world cannot come together to confront establishment power, to experience an individual spiritual awakening, to create their own stories, to create new systems.
00:12:43.000 We will not allow that.
00:12:44.000 Now, if you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to have to shut down now because I can feel it coming through me.
00:12:48.000 The spirit is awakening, gal.
00:12:50.000 I'm about to start.
00:12:51.000 Hitting out with some Home Home Truths.
00:12:53.000 We've got a great show coming up, so if you're watching us on YouTube now, come on over to Rumble.
00:12:57.000 It's not as bad as everyone says.
00:12:59.000 It's free speech, but free speech to bring people together.
00:13:03.000 We'll see you in a moment.
00:13:04.000 Goodbye, YouTube.
00:13:05.000 Over on Rumble now.
00:13:07.000 As well as this sort of deteriorating, deleterious clap track that dear old Sleepy Joe's spouting from that podium, the internet is abuzz with what's being put in his mouth by his own wife, who I believe is a doctor, isn't she?
00:13:21.000 Well, she's either an actual doctor or one of those people that calls themselves a doctor.
00:13:25.000 Well, I think it's confusing.
00:13:26.000 Yeah, I think you should be, like, if you claim that you're a doctor, it's got to be, like, stethoscope doctor.
00:13:32.000 Not like, oh, I'm a doctor of pirates.
00:13:32.000 It's got to be.
00:13:34.000 Pirate doctor.
00:13:34.000 Come on.
00:13:35.000 I know everything there is to know about walking the plank.
00:13:37.000 Yeah.
00:13:38.000 I know about TikTok.
00:13:39.000 Should be a different name.
00:13:40.000 Have a new word for that.
00:13:42.000 Come on.
00:13:42.000 It is.
00:13:42.000 It's confusing.
00:13:43.000 I don't even think dentist should be allowed in to that group.
00:13:46.000 Because doctor, doctor means, right, God forbid, There's an accident somewhere.
00:13:46.000 No.
00:13:52.000 Is there a doctor in the house?
00:13:53.000 Yes.
00:13:54.000 What of?
00:13:55.000 Sociology.
00:13:55.000 Well, fuck off.
00:13:57.000 Because that's like, this is not like I want to know why this happened.
00:13:59.000 What's the broader context of why this person's lying on the floor spasming?
00:14:03.000 Administer some care.
00:14:04.000 You want to do a first aid course?
00:14:06.000 I'd love to.
00:14:07.000 I want to do a first aid course.
00:14:08.000 Because that thing that you see on films where they do that, I wouldn't know what I'm doing.
00:14:12.000 I'd do that, mouth to mouth.
00:14:13.000 Would you be worried about that because you're a bit nervous about germs?
00:14:17.000 It's the one where people are frothing at the mouth and then someone has to do that.
00:14:20.000 He's frothing at the mouth!
00:14:21.000 Quick, clamp your mouth on their mouth.
00:14:23.000 Get all froth on your mouth.
00:14:25.000 I don't want none of that mouth froth.
00:14:27.000 I don't want your mouth latte.
00:14:28.000 I don't want your cocaine mouth corners on me.
00:14:31.000 Little cocaine mouth corner.
00:14:32.000 Get that out of there, you little junkie scum.
00:14:35.000 That's why you're fitting!
00:14:36.000 We're off YouTube, right?
00:14:37.000 Yeah, of course.
00:14:37.000 I saw that and then I started drugs.
00:14:39.000 I'm swearing.
00:14:40.000 Ooh, edgy.
00:14:43.000 Curse words, man.
00:14:45.000 In a minute, actually, we're going to be talking about the hypocrisy of the geopolitical relationships between Saudi Arabia and Russia and the United States.
00:14:52.000 And if Saudi Arabia are buying Russian oil, and we're meant to have sanctions against Russia and, in fact, Saudi Arabia, the whole thing is some mad conga of oily treachery.
00:15:02.000 Mm, nice.
00:15:03.000 Admit it, you were aroused by the idea of an oily conga.
00:15:05.000 I was a little bit, yeah.
00:15:07.000 That was I. All right let's see what Jill Biden's doing because look at how the mainstream, this is what the mainstream media are offering you.
00:15:11.000 While we're here doing our level best to awaken ourselves and you, while we're involved in a symbiotic relationship of mutual awakening, look at the dross they're trolling out over there.
00:15:21.000 Let's have a look.
00:15:23.000 It was an historic day at the White House as President Biden signed a bill to protect marriage rights.
00:15:28.000 I don't know what the hell they're on about there.
00:15:30.000 Yeah, I think it's gay and lesbian, things like that.
00:15:33.000 Ah, but you can be married if you're the same gender as a person.
00:15:36.000 Yeah, I find that don't make no difference, does it?
00:15:40.000 Be married.
00:15:40.000 No.
00:15:41.000 Why shouldn't everyone experience it?
00:15:44.000 Find out for yourself.
00:15:44.000 I agree.
00:15:45.000 I agree.
00:15:46.000 There's one moment that was getting noticed.
00:15:49.000 It's when First Lady Jill Biden gave her husband something that he popped into his mouth.
00:15:53.000 She should know better than to do that.
00:15:54.000 She should, yeah.
00:15:55.000 I know they're under scrutiny.
00:15:56.000 Don't give them a pill in a leather glove.
00:15:58.000 He seems very, he takes it straight away though, doesn't even ask any questions.
00:16:02.000 It's like lightning, that's what I was like when I was a drag I think.
00:16:05.000 Here you go mate, take that.
00:16:06.000 What was that?
00:16:08.000 Well I'm afraid that's anthrax.
00:16:09.000 I mean that could have been anything.
00:16:11.000 What I notice Gail is he starts to teeter totter forwards.
00:16:13.000 I think in their case though that wouldn't have been kept in the, above the teeth of a dealer would it was it under the teeth or between the gum
00:16:23.000 right I remember when you told me that I didn't like the sound of it yeah but
00:16:27.000 they don't know I mean they don't matter it's in a little packet you don't I mean
00:16:30.000 I did put it in my mouth after that's drug stuff don't do drugs drugs are
00:16:34.000 obviously bad but what was it mr. president there's lots of speculation today
00:16:42.000 over just what it was that the first lady handed to her husband at a White
00:16:46.000 House ceremony yesterday the moment came just as the president was about
00:16:50.000 to sign the respect for marriage act in front of an enthusiastic crowd
00:16:55.000 you can see dr jill reaching for something off camera then she camera she's reaching for it so they're sort of they're passing it all around this yeah it is shady the way she does it and with those black gloves on as well yeah like with them sort of dr strange love gloves on i don't think that this should this should have been handled backstage as it were shouldn't it because what could be so uh urgent you know have it right now you better have this Otherwise, people are going to think you're like a bit stuttery and stumbery and stumbly and that you can't communicate properly.
00:17:25.000 Perhaps he needs to be... Whatever that is, double it, I say.
00:17:29.000 So you don't really hear pop it in the mouth in the news, do you?
00:17:34.000 No, not as a president.
00:17:36.000 I don't think you should be popping anything anywhere as a president.
00:17:39.000 It's like the Clinton regime all over again.
00:17:40.000 Quickly popped it in his mouth!
00:17:42.000 I'll smoke this one later!
00:17:48.000 Here it is from another angle.
00:17:49.000 They're spraying it down.
00:17:50.000 They're spraying it down like the World Cup final.
00:17:52.000 You can't say enthusiastically just because people are clapping as well.
00:17:56.000 So staged, an event like that.
00:17:58.000 Right, just express your actual feelings.
00:18:00.000 Indifference, really.
00:18:02.000 None of this charade is going to make any meaningful difference to the lives of ordinary people, even though in this instance it seems to be about marital equality, which obviously would be in support of, but broadly speaking, democratic processes only operate within No, because that's not the thing that makes the difference as to whether people are okay in their lives, is it?
00:18:27.000 I mean, for example, you can get married, probably spend quite a lot of money on it, and then you'll still be in a cost-of-living crisis.
00:18:32.000 You're going to be in the cost of living crisis.
00:18:34.000 Your marriage takes place in the cost of living crisis.
00:18:36.000 It takes place within a set of military-industrial complex agenda.
00:18:40.000 You can't get out of that.
00:18:42.000 I mean, that's what I'm starting to think now, is how are we going to get out of this?
00:18:44.000 Is it that we're going to have to acquire land, places, and set up a series of interconnected communes, each one fully democratic, so like we can live in our commune how we want to, you can live in your commune how you want to, but we are no longer going to pay tax or participate in the system, and we consider ourselves to be a radical global revolutionary force.
00:19:01.000 They insist on independence.
00:19:03.000 That's what I'm working on, Gareth.
00:19:04.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't know enough about it.
00:19:06.000 No, well, I know!
00:19:07.000 Don't either, Gareth.
00:19:08.000 I know even less!
00:19:09.000 And yet I'm absolutely determined.
00:19:12.000 I mean, I think I'm probably one of the best people at coming up with anarcho-syndicalist solutions.
00:19:15.000 Oh, yeah.
00:19:16.000 Me and some Russian names I can't pronounce.
00:19:16.000 I'd say so.
00:19:22.000 The president seems to be chewing on it as he sits in preparation for the signing.
00:19:26.000 I hope it is chewing gum.
00:19:28.000 Yeah.
00:19:28.000 Because you don't ever want to chew on a pharmaceutical tablet.
00:19:30.000 No.
00:19:31.000 Horrible.
00:19:32.000 Even those like Rennies and things.
00:19:34.000 Is that what they're called?
00:19:35.000 In America, Tums.
00:19:35.000 Rennies.
00:19:35.000 Rennies.
00:19:37.000 But Tums, they do wild berry flavours.
00:19:38.000 All sorts.
00:19:39.000 I'm not advertising that.
00:19:40.000 Have what you want.
00:19:40.000 I don't care what you do to control your gastric reflux.
00:19:44.000 All right, let's have a look.
00:19:45.000 Mate, what are we looking at now?
00:19:46.000 Are we going to look in at... Oh, Russia are bringing in a circus to entertain the troops.
00:19:50.000 This is sort of another story to belittle Russian people.
00:19:54.000 But I did hear that in Russia, they don't want this war either, like actual Russian folk.
00:19:58.000 I'm sure that's true.
00:19:59.000 Also, the other thing is, circuses are good.
00:20:02.000 I mean, I'm not sure whether morally they're good.
00:20:04.000 I don't know.
00:20:05.000 Animals and stuff, you know?
00:20:06.000 There's no mention of there being tigers.
00:20:08.000 Russia is hoping a circus sideshow can boost the morale of beleaguered conscripts.
00:20:12.000 The whole news narrative is a circus sideshow.
00:20:15.000 Fighting the nation's unprovoked war with Ukraine.
00:20:17.000 Look at how they just call it unprovoked.
00:20:19.000 They just give it that.
00:20:20.000 That war is unprovoked.
00:20:22.000 No.
00:20:23.000 Potentially, there has been decades of provocation.
00:20:26.000 Of course, the war is bad.
00:20:37.000 War is bad, full stop.
00:20:38.000 But what's the difference between this war and the ongoing Saudi war in Yemen, which I've sort of been coached into not caring about?
00:20:45.000 How many people died?
00:20:46.000 What the kind of deals are there?
00:20:48.000 These are the kind of things that I demand to know the answer to.
00:20:50.000 What's the message here as well?
00:20:51.000 Is it that it's either Russians are so backward that their entertainment comes in the form of circuses and clowns or it's look at them laughing and joking with all the clowns and circuses while they're bombing Ukraine.
00:21:03.000 What position are we meant to take here?
00:21:06.000 Yeah, it's a strange headline for those reasons.
00:21:08.000 I think the main position we're meant to take is just an unenquiring acceptance of the bilge that we're dealt.
00:21:16.000 What's the next story we're having a look at?
00:21:17.000 Oh, look, right.
00:21:18.000 In England, in a Worcestershire village, people have created a statue of Vladimir Putin with a penis on his head, which I think is too realistic.
00:21:28.000 Also, it looks like someone with a big head and a centre parting.
00:21:28.000 Yeah.
00:21:31.000 You know, it doesn't look that different.
00:21:32.000 I used to have a hairstyle like that.
00:21:33.000 Well, Gareth, that's all quite possible, but some of the ridges that lead up to the orifice at the top of the penis, I would say that's an excellent rendering.
00:21:44.000 Very good.
00:21:45.000 I actually posed for that.
00:21:47.000 Meanwhile, what's not being reported sufficiently is the unpredictable consequences that Russia have stated
00:21:56.000 may occur if the US sends Patriot missiles to the UK. Responding to reports that the Biden
00:22:00.000 administration is finalising plans to send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine as the country endures
00:22:05.000 waves of deadly Russian missile strikes, a top Kremlin official said Thursday that such a
00:22:10.000 move would be viewed as an escalation in hostilities. Well that is going to happen. Of course it
00:22:16.000 is. They are sending those missiles.
00:22:18.000 Now, meanwhile, the MIC, the Military Industrial Complex, is spending billions on... What is this?
00:22:24.000 What is this new weapon?
00:22:26.000 I think this is an F-35.
00:22:27.000 This is the new F-35.
00:22:29.000 This isn't the new one.
00:22:30.000 This isn't the B-21 bomber.
00:22:32.000 Don't worry about that.
00:22:32.000 We couldn't get that.
00:22:33.000 We're not allowed that booking.
00:22:34.000 That thing's too sleek, too sexy, too high-weighted, the danger zone.
00:22:37.000 Look at them testing out this thing.
00:22:38.000 It's an absolute balls up of a machine.
00:22:49.000 Looks good up to now.
00:22:49.000 I'm enjoying the way that it's hovering down like that.
00:22:51.000 That's enjoyable.
00:22:52.000 Oh dear.
00:22:53.000 Oh no, it's bounced onto a snout.
00:23:01.000 It's gone for a snout bounce.
00:23:05.000 Oh, no, that's not good.
00:23:05.000 That's human life at risk now.
00:23:07.000 Dangerous.
00:23:07.000 But check out the way they handle it.
00:23:11.000 Oh, he just crashed.
00:23:14.000 Oh shit!
00:23:16.000 Whee! Whoever made the ejector seats should have been working on the engine!
00:23:26.000 That thing shot out there!
00:23:28.000 That would be both an exciting and terrifying experience, I think, because the g-force of the initial moment... Yeah, that was a Top Gear moment.
00:23:35.000 Top Gear, Top Gun.
00:23:37.000 Top Gun, very much, I would say so.
00:23:38.000 Yeah, incredible fun, terrifying.
00:23:41.000 Anyway, so that doesn't actually reassure me particularly.
00:23:43.000 Well, no, I mean, that is $120,000 spent on that, just so you know.
00:23:46.000 How much?
00:23:46.000 $120,000.
00:23:46.000 On that experience?
00:23:47.000 No, on that plane.
00:23:52.000 Let's have a look though.
00:23:52.000 That's quite reasonable.
00:23:54.000 Million.
00:23:55.000 Million I mean.
00:23:56.000 Yeah, hundred and ten thousand. I'll be in the market for a while and get my own.
00:23:59.000 Even if I sit here and fly around like that.
00:24:01.000 Okay, but I'd like to...
00:24:02.000 Taxpayer money.
00:24:03.000 Yeah, of course. Fantastic investment.
00:24:05.000 Let's have a look though.
00:24:06.000 What's really important is while we're getting infatuated and fixated on these various objects
00:24:11.000 is we're not paying attention to the economic and resource-based stories that are to a degree
00:24:18.000 dictating the way that this conflict is playing out.
00:24:21.000 Saudi Arabia has doubled the amount of Russian oil it's purchasing as West Peru's oil deals with Saudi Arabia.
00:24:28.000 Saudi Aramco exported 950,000 barrels per day of crude to Europe last month compared to 490,000 in the same period a year earlier.
00:24:37.000 Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, more than doubled the amount of Russian fuel It imported in the second quarter to feed power stations to meet summer cooling demands and free up the kingdom's own crude for export.
00:24:49.000 So ultimately we're in a merry-go-round of acquisition.
00:24:53.000 Whilst there are obviously sanctions and literally a war with Russia, Russian oil is ultimately being consumed by the West because we're increasing the amount of oil we're buying from Saudi Arabia.
00:25:06.000 Whom you'll remember, Joe Biden said he would make a pariah after events like the assassination of old Khashoggi there.
00:25:15.000 And nevertheless, the relationship is continuing, increasing in fact.
00:25:21.000 Isn't it extraordinary that just 20 years ago, someone like Michael Moore could make the film Fahrenheit 9-11,
00:25:28.000 which was all about the concerns that people had about George W. Bush and the Bush family
00:25:32.000 in general's relationship with Saudi Arabia.
00:25:35.000 And now it's just normalized.
00:25:37.000 It's normalized that we have an economic relationship with Saudi Arabia.
00:25:40.000 A figure like Trump would get applauded for saying, well, that's just the way it is.
00:25:43.000 You can't argue with it.
00:25:44.000 That's the nature of it.
00:25:45.000 Have we got any more on this story?
00:25:46.000 For decades, Democratic and Republican administrations have propped up the Saudi monarchy.
00:25:50.000 Lathering it with weapons sales and intelligence sharing, all the while normalizing the draconian,
00:25:55.000 anti-democratic grip on power held by the monarchy.
00:25:58.000 It was the Obama-Biden administration that gave the initial green light to the Saudi-led war in the first place.
00:26:03.000 Barack Obama began bombing Yemen in December 2009 and continued to hit the country with drone strikes and cruise missile attacks.
00:26:10.000 Throughout most of his presidency.
00:26:11.000 In fact, by the time Obama left office, his administration had offered the Saudis more military support, $150 billion, than any in the history of the seven-decade U.S.-Saudi alliance.
00:26:22.000 It appears to be escalating.
00:26:24.000 When Donald Trump was president, a lot of Democrats were given political cover to finally come around to opposing the Saudi-led campaign of annihilation in the Yemen.
00:26:32.000 On the campaign trial, Biden pledged to continue the momentum and end U.S.
00:26:36.000 bodyguarding of Saudi Arabia's crime, saying, I would make it very clear we're not, in fact, going to sell more weapons to them.
00:26:41.000 We are going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are.
00:26:45.000 Well, of course, that has not happened.
00:26:47.000 There is an increase in arms dealing, potentially, allegedly, and it looks like oil acquisition also.
00:26:53.000 Biden made the same promise about another world leader in February when he launched a murderous war against a neighbor.
00:26:58.000 Putin's aggression against Ukraine will end up costing Russia dearly economically and strategically.
00:27:02.000 We'll make sure that Putin will be a pariah on the international stage.
00:27:05.000 So I suppose that at least has been delivered on.
00:27:07.000 Well it has but it's exactly that and there's the hypocrisy there that you can talk about making Putin a pariah, you can talk about making the Saudis a pariah, but the thing is there are economic interests with Saudi Arabia.
00:27:17.000 Arabia, you know, that America need them for oil. They also sell them a lot of
00:27:21.000 weapons as do the UK. I think it was BAE Systems have sold Saudi Arabia
00:27:26.000 17 billion pounds worth of arms in the last few years. So you know, there you go.
00:27:32.000 It's kind of as simple as that.
00:27:33.000 And as you said before, we've got the situation now whereby Saudi Arabia are buying, have doubled the amount of oil that they're buying from Russia.
00:27:42.000 And whilst here in the UK, in America, we're saying, oh, you know, the reason you're all paying more for your gas or for your petrol is because we're making sacrifices through sanctions.
00:27:53.000 But all we're doing is we're now buying it from Saudi Arabia.
00:27:53.000 Exactly.
00:27:57.000 And if you look at that bit of New York Post reporting and the way that it said that, you know, the unprovoked war and like it's presented to you in such a simplistic and reductive fashion.
00:28:08.000 But with just a little research, and I'm not diminishing my own efforts or the efforts of the team, it becomes pretty clear.
00:28:15.000 That there are economic and geopolitical motivations that transcend the moral posturing that determines what we're told about why these conflicts... Yeah, and then you look, obviously, you know, it's devastating what's happening in Ukraine.
00:28:26.000 I think they're estimating at the moment 40,000 people have died.
00:28:29.000 But you look at the situation in Yemen, and they're saying some 380,000 civilians are dead now, and children under the age of five are amongst the most common victims.
00:28:39.000 And this is, you know, a Saudi-backed war that's going on at the moment, and with weapons provided by the West, provided by America, provided by the UK, and without backing.
00:28:49.000 And it's like, well, what is it then?
00:28:51.000 Who are we going to not back in this?
00:28:56.000 You know, we're saying that Russia are so dreadful because of the things that they're doing in Ukraine, but it doesn't apply to Saudi Arabia.
00:29:03.000 It's the utmost hypocrisy, isn't it?
00:29:05.000 If it's an argument founded on moral principles, then surely the nature of a principle-led argument is it can be universally applied.
00:29:15.000 That's kind of what principles mean.
00:29:17.000 If it's a moral stance that's been taken in arming Ukraine in their conflict against Russia, then why would a similar stance not be taken in this conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen?
00:29:29.000 I know it's not particularly original to make these observations, but it's necessary to continue to highlight the hypocrisy of this type of reporting.
00:29:36.000 Let's just have a look at the chart of Google News Story scores.
00:29:39.000 Elon Musk stepping down as CEO of Twitter.
00:29:42.000 49 million stories on that, which we'll be covering in tomorrow's show with our interview with Barry Weiss.
00:29:48.000 She's coming on to, I suppose, give us some deeper insights into what might be going on there.
00:29:53.000 Lionel Messi wore a locally relevant jacket as he lifted the World Cup with Argentina, 34 million stories on that.
00:30:02.000 US sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine, 3 million stories on that.
00:30:06.000 And a statue that merges into a gland, 58,000 stories.
00:30:14.000 on that uh so you know that this leads us to our presentation here's the news now here's the effing news we're looking at how the u.s military industrial complex look to profit for years to come with their sexy new bomber you're gonna love this story because when you see how complicit the mainstream media are in sort of turning the introduction of a very expensive weapon that you're paying for With deals that have been done that would not happen without lobbying.
00:30:44.000 It's extraordinary.
00:30:45.000 You're invited to look at this, you know, new plane.
00:30:49.000 Like, I don't know, like it's sort of Patrick Swayze or something.
00:30:52.000 He's introduced like some sexy new thing.
00:30:54.000 I love that that's your reference.
00:30:55.000 Yeah, Patrick Swayze.
00:30:57.000 There's no complexity, there's no morality, there's no introspection about the complexity of war, the horror of war, the duplicity of the military-industrial complex, the lies we've been recently told.
00:31:11.000 It's presented to you like something from Top Gun.
00:31:15.000 You're gonna love this.
00:31:16.000 Here's the news.
00:31:17.000 No, here's the effing news.
00:31:23.000 Here's the fucking news!
00:31:25.000 War! We all want an end to war even though there is no proxy war between the United States of America and Russia.
00:31:31.000 There certainly hasn't been a new multi-year authority contract made between the American government and the
00:31:34.000 American arms industry because that would indicate an ongoing war would be a financial necessity.
00:31:40.000 Oh!
00:31:42.000 The true power in American politics is the arms industry.
00:31:46.000 No matter which party is in power, the arms industry gets what they need.
00:31:50.000 A recent contract suggests that they have multi-year authority in Ukraine.
00:31:55.000 So any talk of diplomacy, any talk of peace, will be secondary to this contract.
00:32:00.000 Let's get into it.
00:32:01.000 There is legislation pending in Congress that indicates that the US government believes the Ukraine war may continue for years.
00:32:07.000 On October the 11th, the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted its amended draft to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2023.
00:32:14.000 Nestled within the draft...
00:32:17.000 ...is a provision that would establish an emergency multi-year plan to award massive defence contracts to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems and other war corporations to produce weapons for Ukraine and to replenish US stockpiles as well as those of foreign allies and partners.
00:32:32.000 Allies!
00:32:33.000 Partners!
00:32:34.000 Customers?
00:32:34.000 No!
00:32:35.000 Allies!
00:32:36.000 Partners!
00:32:36.000 An amendment spearheaded by New Hampshire Democrat Senator Jan Shaheen and co-sponsored by Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn.
00:32:43.000 Democrat, Republican, but...
00:32:46.000 would allow the Pentagon to award non-competitive no-bid contracts to arms manufacturers under the plan.
00:32:52.000 No bids, good old capitalism.
00:32:53.000 Competition produces entrepreneurship and genius, and without it, we'd all be dead.
00:32:57.000 This weapons contract might bring about a few deaths, but plenty of money.
00:33:00.000 This, as military industrial complex giant Northrop Grumman introduces its B-21 Raider.
00:33:06.000 The B-21, whose development was 30 years in the making and whose total project cost is expected to exceed $200 billion, is tapped to replace the B-2 Spirit.
00:33:15.000 This sounds to me like the kind of weapon that we can all get behind.
00:33:18.000 Not a terrifying machine of death and destruction, but something that ought be fetishized like it was a new iPhone.
00:33:24.000 The United States Air Force has a new strategic long-range stealth bomber and it's built in Palmdale.
00:33:30.000 The military says its destructive power is unmatched.
00:33:33.000 They're talking about it in such glowing terms.
00:33:35.000 Do you see how we've become normalised to the profiteering around the weapons industry, the normalisation of death and destruction, and almost a certain kind of pride in it, in the sense that this isn't something that should be queered, and that it's a good use of public resources?
00:33:49.000 Look, I'm as vulnerable as the next person to the imagery in Top Gun Maverick.
00:33:54.000 I find it very, very enthralling.
00:33:55.000 Wait till you see this stuff, it's going to blow your mind.
00:33:57.000 In some cases, quite literally, without you seeing it coming.
00:34:00.000 She's not talking about a new flavour of Ben & Jerry's.
00:34:07.000 Oh my god!
00:34:08.000 The festive season's gonna be great!
00:34:10.000 There's cinnamon!
00:34:10.000 This is a machine of death and destruction.
00:34:13.000 I think, and let me know in the comments and chat what you think, that the mainstream media should be interrogating and investigating whether this is the direction you want to head in.
00:34:20.000 This is a time of collapse and crisis and conflict of It was unveiled tonight in a ceremony that looked like a Hollywood production.
00:34:26.000 celebrate the introduction of a new weapon seems to me to be an extraordinary approach. What do you think?
00:34:32.000 It was unveiled tonight in a ceremony that looked like a Hollywood production.
00:34:35.000 In a display fit for Hollywood.
00:34:37.000 Why is everyone talking about it being like Hollywood? It's not Hollywood, because in Hollywood people don't die that
00:34:41.000 The Pentagon showed off the new long-range V-21 Raider in Palmdale, California last night.
00:34:41.000 often.
00:34:47.000 Like, it's coming on from under that sheet with, like, all trepidation and stuff.
00:34:50.000 I'm actually feeling a bit aroused, and I don't even think I like war.
00:34:53.000 Amid rising tensions with China, North Korea and Russia.
00:34:57.000 So we're gonna need it because these wars are inevitable.
00:35:00.000 You could say it's a real highway to the danger zone.
00:35:03.000 Oh, nice one.
00:35:04.000 It has quite literally been shrouded in secrecy.
00:35:07.000 It hasn't literally shrouded because it's under that thing.
00:35:10.000 People use literally when they mean metaphorically.
00:35:12.000 America's newest long-range stealthy strategic bomber the B-21 Raider.
00:35:16.000 It's literally shrouded in tarpaulin.
00:35:18.000 Like the B-2 it's meant to penetrate enemy defenses undetected and it's capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
00:35:24.000 Well that is good news.
00:35:25.000 Here I was thinking that you were delivering a puff piece on the militarization of commerce and Celebrating future wars, but it actually can drop nuclear weapons.
00:35:35.000 Oh, that's reassuring.
00:35:36.000 Let me speak to my kids actually and tell them about this.
00:35:38.000 The B-21 Raider is the first strategic bomber in more than three decades.
00:35:43.000 Lloyd Austin there, currently the United States Secretary of Defense.
00:35:45.000 Let's see what he's got on his CV.
00:35:47.000 Worked at Raytheon.
00:35:48.000 God, that's coincidence because you're going to be doing a lot of contracts with Raytheon.
00:35:51.000 It is a testament to America's enduring advantages in ingenuity and innovation.
00:35:57.000 So it's sort of both like propaganda, patriotism, jingoism, distraction, aggravating and agitating for more conflict because it's sort of profitable that we have to regard war positively.
00:36:07.000 We can't be circumspect or tired or weary or frightened or disgusted by war.
00:36:12.000 Do you see how on one hand you're invited to view the tyranny of Putin as disgusting and egregious and then on the other hand the creation of these war machines is brilliant.
00:36:23.000 And ingenious.
00:36:24.000 Now, of course, a simple way of holding those two ideas, I suppose, is, yeah, but it's because of Putin, we have to do this.
00:36:29.000 But do you really believe that?
00:36:30.000 Do you really not think that NATO impingement on former Soviet Union territories contributed to this current conflict?
00:36:37.000 That doesn't, by the way, mean that what Putin's doing is right.
00:36:39.000 Of course it doesn't.
00:36:40.000 That doesn't mean that the people of Ukraine won't be protected, looked after, taken care of.
00:36:44.000 But do you notice that the type of of care that they are being offered and given is profitable
00:36:49.000 for some of the most powerful interests in global economics. Do you think that's a
00:36:52.000 coincidence? Are you noticing that the solutions to the problems we have are always profitable
00:36:57.000 to the world's most powerful corporations? I mean, I don't know! What are they? Is that
00:37:01.000 why they're so successful? Have they got crystal balls? What is it?
00:37:04.000 Even the cost of the B21 has not been made public, although it's estimated at a staggering
00:37:08.000 750 million dollars apiece.
00:37:11.000 Even that we're invited to go, oh, well done!
00:37:13.000 Like it's like a basketball player or a footballer.
00:37:16.000 We must be good then.
00:37:17.000 What do the taxpayers get for their money?
00:37:19.000 A weapon designed to deter aggression or respond to it.
00:37:22.000 How dare they frame it as if it's beneficial to taxpayers.
00:37:25.000 OK, taxpayers, here's those elite Well, couldn't we get some, like, energy for our homes and some food for our mouths and some recompense for the 2008 crash that the same interest also caused?
00:37:38.000 The people that are going to benefit from this are the weapons industry.
00:37:41.000 If it's an inadvertent side effect, a few Ukrainian people are safe down the line when enough profit's been extracted from this situation, that may happen and maybe that's enough for you.
00:37:51.000 But to present it as if it's something that this is beneficial to all and ordinary Americans is just actually a lie.
00:37:58.000 Sometimes we forget, don't we, that the news is just the television program.
00:38:01.000 They're just broadcasting convenient ideas for the most powerful interests in the world.
00:38:06.000 So whenever anything's presented itself as radical, you have to look, well, why would they put that on the television if it was truly at odds with the interests of the most powerful corporations in the world, which, in truth, own significant parts, either directly or tangentially, of these very media organizations?
00:38:20.000 Let me know in the comments, let me know in the chat, how oppositional ideas will ever reach a significant number of people.
00:38:26.000 Look up where it's coming out, that is like Hollywood, they've both mentioned like Hollywood in their scripts, both of those newscasters, and indeed it is because we're not being invited to look at it with any personal integrity or from a sort of a helicopter perspective of hold on what's actually happening here?
00:38:43.000 we want this war? Is this what we really want? I mean this is your life and my life, this
00:38:47.000 is our time on the planet and there's so much bewildering stimuli that you can't ever sort
00:38:52.000 of inhale and go, well who am I really? Is this what I want?
00:38:55.000 Well yeah you're a very lucky taxpayer, look, it will respond to aggression or will
00:38:59.000 deter aggression. Well it better get ready for my aggression. It is ready for your aggression
00:39:03.000 and so are your recently militarized police forces. That's what America does. That's what
00:39:08.000 America does.
00:39:09.000 Steals from the taxpayer.
00:39:11.000 I mean, sorry, profits, Raytheon.
00:39:13.000 No, I mean protects Ukrainians.
00:39:15.000 That's what America does.
00:39:17.000 And here at Palmdale, you have done it once again.
00:39:21.000 That's all it takes.
00:39:22.000 That's all it takes.
00:39:23.000 You have done it once again.
00:39:24.000 Oh, good.
00:39:24.000 All right.
00:39:25.000 Let's go back to our lives and stare dumbly at screens to your next need is to do something ridiculous and outrageous to satiate your constant lust for power and money.
00:39:33.000 It's a pandemic now.
00:39:34.000 OK, it's a war.
00:39:36.000 All right, then.
00:39:37.000 Fucking hell!
00:39:38.000 The world has never seen technology like the V21.
00:39:41.000 It's a shame that Northrop Grumman, which makes very high-tech machines, sounds like something that was invented by a North Yorkshire farmer in England a hundred years ago.
00:39:50.000 I, Northrop Grumman, am very proud to plane.
00:39:54.000 Use this plane to spray me crops.
00:39:56.000 Use it to put bilge into the pig trough.
00:39:59.000 I put on me gumboots and I get into plane.
00:40:03.000 I spray all me bilge down to pigs.
00:40:06.000 Sir, get away from that plane.
00:40:07.000 But I'm a taxpayer, I am!
00:40:09.000 Not in this country, now fuck off.
00:40:11.000 I'm thrilled that the time has come for you and the world to see the B-21 Raider.
00:40:18.000 Maybe that is why the military fund films like Maverick Top Gun, because it all starts to bleed into the same thing, because I saw that film and I loved it.
00:40:24.000 There's a review of it on this channel, it's a great film.
00:40:27.000 But the reason I like it is because it's a film, not because it's I actually haven't.
00:40:30.000 You're really gonna love it.
00:40:31.000 Here it comes.
00:40:32.000 Ah, way to the danger zone.
00:40:34.000 We have to remember how many innocent people have been killed as a result of activity by countries like yours and countries like mine as a result of colonialism, imperialism, propping up the corporate agenda.
00:40:44.000 If it's about humanitarianism, just say to Raytheon and Lockheed Mine, would you mind making these things but just that cost and just extract any profit?
00:40:51.000 So don't have a memo to your shareholders saying that we've got multi-year authority in Ukraine so we can look forward to many years of profit.
00:40:57.000 Take that back though, we've decided, because it's the right thing to do, to make these things at cost.
00:41:01.000 The same way that Albert Baller, CEO of Pfizer, said it would be appalling for us to profit from the vaccines.
00:41:06.000 But I don't know if you know this already, Pfizer had their most profitable year in their history!
00:41:11.000 So how far is that from what they told you?
00:41:13.000 And if you talk about this, you're the conspiracy theorist!
00:41:16.000 How have they got this game so stitched up?
00:41:18.000 Let me know in the chat, man, because I'm baffled.
00:41:20.000 ♪♪ Like a drum beat.
00:41:29.000 People are going to die as a result of that machine.
00:41:31.000 It's not good, is it?
00:41:32.000 It's not good.
00:41:33.000 I mean, America has been through Vietnam now, has been through the soul-searching of what it did to a generation of young Americans and, of course, the people in Vietnam.
00:41:40.000 It's not like we're still at the stage of like, well, show it to Jerry and Hitler.
00:41:43.000 This war is a great and noble war.
00:41:46.000 We just know now that war is always about resources or power.
00:41:49.000 Whatever they say it is, it ain't that.
00:41:51.000 It's about money.
00:41:52.000 Otherwise, it wouldn't look like that on the TV, would it?
00:41:54.000 Like a hair metal bag.
00:41:58.000 Oh, unnecessary war!
00:42:00.000 But we're gonna have to do like Axl Rose come out there and start screaming down your face that this is necessary and good for children.
00:42:07.000 You should be pleased about it.
00:42:08.000 Skullduggery!
00:42:09.000 Kathy, great to be with you today.
00:42:11.000 It's so great to have you here with us, Morgan.
00:42:12.000 Thank you for joining us.
00:42:14.000 Why is Northrop Grumman even on the news?
00:42:16.000 It's a profiteering military industrial complex.
00:42:18.000 Why are you on the news?
00:42:19.000 Why would the news cooperate in presenting this information to you as if it's necessary, beneficial, ordinary, worthy of celebration?
00:42:26.000 Why?
00:42:26.000 Because it's one system.
00:42:28.000 I can't keep telling you this.
00:42:29.000 I really can't.
00:42:30.000 It's a major milestone.
00:42:32.000 Kathy, I just think it's so good that you, a woman, have come to a position of authority in such a male-dominated industry as the military-industrial complex.
00:42:40.000 I mean, this is just great.
00:42:42.000 We're gonna actually, we've got an award for you.
00:42:43.000 Of all the people that have been profiting from death around the world, you are the only one with a vagina, so we've got you this trophy.
00:42:49.000 Sorry about the shape, it's inappropriate.
00:42:51.000 We realize now that we shouldn't have focused on the vagina.
00:42:53.000 And I realize it's a highly classified program and it's been very secretive up until now, but what can you share about what we're going to see at the unveiling tonight?
00:43:01.000 Like it's a premiere!
00:43:02.000 It's a weapon!
00:43:03.000 What the fuck is going on?
00:43:04.000 It's not entertainment.
00:43:05.000 Why is this happening?
00:43:06.000 And how it speaks to the capabilities of this.
00:43:09.000 This bit is called squawk on the street.
00:43:11.000 What does that mean even?
00:43:12.000 What the hell's going on?
00:43:14.000 Is this real news?
00:43:15.000 They say that we're like lunatics and conspiracists.
00:43:17.000 Russell Brand is insane.
00:43:18.000 Don't do a thing called squawk on the street.
00:43:20.000 RAAH!
00:43:20.000 These weapons are great!
00:43:22.000 Get behind it!
00:43:22.000 RAAH!
00:43:23.000 RAAH!
00:43:23.000 You might as well!
00:43:24.000 You fucking paid for it!
00:43:25.000 Well, the B-21 Raider is a long-range strike aircraft, and what that means is it has the range to go anywhere in the world and har- Did you at least say harm people and hurt people?
00:43:36.000 ...in the world and har- keep a target at risk.
00:43:40.000 It also is a platform, though, that is low-observable, and that means it can enter enemy airspace and not be detected.
00:43:47.000 Oh, that is good news.
00:43:48.000 How many weddings are you going to destroy this year?
00:43:50.000 So there's several layers so far to the contracting process around this program.
00:43:54.000 Look at this!
00:43:54.000 They're actually putting on the news that their stock prices are improving.
00:43:57.000 Why do we care?
00:43:58.000 There's a cost of living crisis.
00:43:59.000 There's an unnecessary war.
00:44:01.000 People are falling apart.
00:44:02.000 Existential despair.
00:44:03.000 People don't know what to believe in anymore.
00:44:05.000 The whole culture's collapsing.
00:44:06.000 But look at Northrup Grumman.
00:44:08.000 In spite of their stupid old-timey name, they're making big bucks.
00:44:11.000 Oh, that is good news.
00:44:12.000 Thank you.
00:44:13.000 Thank you.
00:44:13.000 Daddy, can you turn the heating on?
00:44:15.000 No, but Northrop Grumman can turn the heat up on North Korea, Iraq, Iran, and all sorts of other profitable territories.
00:44:21.000 I'm now poised to, with this first flight, which I believe is for early next year, it's scheduled for early next year, right?
00:44:26.000 It's not a tour, it's not One Direction, what's going on?
00:44:29.000 When did this become entertainment?
00:44:31.000 The B-21, it's one of several major programs that Northrop Grumman has right now, the reason that analysts expect this company to grow and be the fastest growing defense prime over the coming decade.
00:44:41.000 That is good news, well done.
00:44:43.000 I feel really great about Northrop Grumman's increasing profits, and I don't see any connection between that and an appetite to remain in this conflict in Ukraine.
00:44:54.000 Oh, come on!
00:44:55.000 Don't be so... Don't be... Grow up, you conspiracy theorist!
00:44:58.000 I guess speak to us about how you are able to grow in this environment.
00:45:02.000 The way we're winning work and being successful on programs like the B21 Raider is because our people are incredibly innovative.
00:45:09.000 Perhaps part of the ingenuity is related to this.
00:45:12.000 House supporters of the bill for a new $850 billion military budget got seven times more money from military contractors than opponents.
00:45:19.000 Fucking hell, that is ingenious.
00:45:21.000 If you keep giving politicians money, they will vote to give you more money in exchange.
00:45:25.000 Brilliant.
00:45:25.000 Of the $858 billion the bill authorises for the Pentagon, private companies should expect over half.
00:45:32.000 That's $450 billion.
00:45:33.000 So that's really interesting.
00:45:36.000 They give money to Congress, then Congress gives money back to them.
00:45:40.000 But more money.
00:45:41.000 It really is ingenious.
00:45:42.000 The 430 members who cast votes on the bill received $14.5 million in campaign and PAC contributions from the arms industry from 2021 through October 2022, according to data from Open Secrets.
00:45:55.000 In 2020, 74% of Lockheed Martin's revenue came from congressionally approved funding.
00:45:59.000 That's their entire business.
00:46:00.000 And from Norfolk Grumman and those geniuses that we just saw there on the news, 84% of it.
00:46:06.000 So that ingenuity that she's talking about is the ingenious idea of taking your money.
00:46:11.000 84% of their entire business comes from bribing Congress to give them your money.
00:46:18.000 That is a good business model.
00:46:20.000 They're geniuses.
00:46:21.000 I don't have enough money.
00:46:22.000 Well, guess what?
00:46:23.000 They've got more than enough fucking money because they're ingenious and apparently you ain't.
00:46:28.000 Why are the mainstream media offering themselves up to make puff pieces of this nature for the military-industrial complex?
00:46:34.000 And do you see a connection between this kind of reporting and an unwillingness to deal with the complexity of the conditions of this horrific war?
00:46:42.000 Let me know in the comments.
00:46:42.000 Let me know in the chat.
00:46:43.000 Trust in national media has declined to an all-time low.
00:46:46.000 No wonder!
00:46:47.000 All they're doing is lying to you on behalf of their paymasters.
00:46:50.000 By the numbers, for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in traditional media, according to data from Edelman's annual trust barometer shared exclusively with Axios.
00:47:00.000 56% of Americans agree with the Well, just look at that news broadcast, and no wonder there's so much machinery in place to create an air of misinformation and disinformation and doubt that causes you to be suspicious of information you might get from independent media.
00:47:19.000 Of course, I know that social media has a lot of nonsense on it, but there's also a lot of independent journalists that are endeavoring to try and tell you the truth, and we count ourselves among them.
00:47:27.000 58% think that most news organizations are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position than with informing the public.
00:47:34.000 So what we have here is a media machine working hard to create popular support through grammar, reductiveness, simplifications, and just mind-numbing corruption, deceit and simplicity, celebrating the profits of companies like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, But that's just what I think.
00:47:50.000 where there's a massive cost of living crisis, when people are choosing between heating and eating.
00:47:55.000 You shouldn't have news stories where people go look at this glistening
00:47:58.000 $750 million airplane at a time where people are starving hungry and freezing cold
00:48:04.000 and blaming Putin, who in fact, seems like the biggest benefactor
00:48:07.000 the military industrial complex could wish for.
00:48:10.000 Merry Christmas!
00:48:11.000 But that's just what I think.
00:48:12.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and I'll see you in a second.
00:48:15.000 Thanks for choosing Fox News.
00:48:20.000 Well, what a presentation it was.
00:48:25.000 Moving from one anti-establishment discourse to another, we're now joined by Canadian trucker protest leader, although I believe it was a leaderless organisation, Benjamin Dictor.
00:48:35.000 Benjamin, thanks for joining us.
00:48:37.000 It was a very important popular movement against state authority that you were a part of.
00:48:43.000 As the movement and the protests unfolded, what was revealed to you, mate, about increased authoritarianism, particularly within apparently liberal countries such as Canada?
00:48:54.000 How did you learn about the nature of authoritarianism down on the ground in those protests?
00:49:00.000 Well, I mean, the whole nature of the authoritarian change or authoritarian creep, as I like to say it, had been going on for some time.
00:49:08.000 It just got massively accelerated in Ottawa.
00:49:11.000 It went from just authoritarian creep to full banana republic.
00:49:16.000 And targeting and smearing of us by the government, as opposed to them just merely engaging and talking to us.
00:49:23.000 It's really quite concerning.
00:49:24.000 We saw in this commission that all the police, government officials, everybody was blaming each other.
00:49:29.000 They were doing the, it's his fault, right?
00:49:32.000 And then after three weeks, they went to DEFCON 3 and let's bring in Canada's version of martial law and start beating the most peaceful protests that we've had in Canadian history.
00:49:43.000 It's quite disgusting.
00:49:45.000 Down on the ground, of course, as part of the protest and as one of the organizers of the protest, you were perfectly positioned to experience how peaceful it was.
00:49:55.000 How did it feel when it was characterized as violent?
00:49:59.000 And I'm going to refer to this tweet, mate, when Trudeau on the 1st of February Today in the House, Members of Parliament unanimously condemned the anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-black racism, homophobia and transphobia that we've seen on display in Ottawa over the past number of days.
00:50:17.000 Together, let's keep working to make Canada more inclusive.
00:50:21.000 Within that tweet we can accept that all of those things are unacceptable perspectives and that's why they were so keen to ally your movement with those perspectives when it seemed to most inform people that were following it that what it was was a genuine popular movement against authoritarianism, against lockdowns, against mandates, against unelected undemocratic actions from an authoritarian government just with a nice haircut.
00:50:47.000 How did you feel, mate, when you were labelled and targeted in that manner?
00:50:53.000 I mean, I personally thought it was a sign of weakness, and I responded in an interview, I think that night or the next day, that unlike Prime Minister Blackface, I'm Jewish, and I still have family buried in mass graves in Europe.
00:51:08.000 So it's quite interesting that he thinks this basket of labels, he can just Bring it out anytime he wants and smear whoever he wants to lazily and not thinking there's going to be repercussions from it.
00:51:22.000 And I think it would massively discredit his reputation.
00:51:25.000 You know, after the convoy, I had a broken ankle.
00:51:28.000 I broke my ankle during the convoy.
00:51:31.000 And once I got my cast off and I could leave Ottawa on the end of March, well after the protest, I went to speak at the Bitcoin Conference in Miami, and then I went down to South America to practice walking.
00:51:45.000 And I noticed the change of my friends, and this is one of the themes in the book, The political change that resulted from this, my friends in Latin America who previously thought, oh, Trudeau, he's wonderful, he's a young leader and whatever, now they start referring to him as cara negra fidelito, blackface little fidel.
00:52:05.000 And that's because of the stupidity and the laziness of their arguments.
00:52:10.000 And all they thought they had to do was smear us.
00:52:13.000 And it just didn't work.
00:52:14.000 Finally, it blew up in their face.
00:52:16.000 Obviously, you have to delegitimize protesters as part of a process of shutting down protests that appear to have good grounds in this instance, anti-democratic behavior, anti-democratic mandates, the evocation of emergency action in an unprecedented manner.
00:52:35.000 But one of the interesting components of this story, Benjamin, is that Joe Biden, obviously a foreign leader from across the border, Was appealing to Trudeau to shut this down because of the potential global impact?
00:52:49.000 Were you aware that you were participating in something that could be the spark to light the flame of an anti-globalist popular movement?
00:52:58.000 Did you feel like you were participating in something significant?
00:53:01.000 And were you aware to the degree to which other governments were involved in shutting down this significant movement?
00:53:08.000 Yes, and kind of.
00:53:09.000 So we had information that there were, during the convoy, sister convoys that were started in 30-plus countries, because we were getting the videos from all over the world.
00:53:20.000 I was getting swamped.
00:53:22.000 I was getting tens of thousands of messages and emails per hour.
00:53:26.000 So it was very evident that it was inspiring people around the world.
00:53:30.000 In terms of, you know, the political response to it, You know, I'll just disclose to you, I've run politically in the past.
00:53:38.000 I've run for Parliament.
00:53:39.000 So I know all our MPs.
00:53:40.000 I know them all.
00:53:41.000 I know how they behave.
00:53:42.000 I know their tactics, which is what I used in the messaging of the protests.
00:53:47.000 And I know that what they're doing, what you're discussing frequently, the globalization of our politics, people don't realize they're farming out their policies.
00:53:57.000 This is where the World Economic Forum comes out, but they're not the only one.
00:54:00.000 They far them out to universities, NGOs, and strategic planning firms to tell them what to say and what policy to have, but often they're built on these soft polls that's all fake data, so it's almost like the political class is running blind in many scenarios, and that's why you see there's no difference.
00:54:22.000 Doesn't matter the party that you go to.
00:54:25.000 In England, for example, look at the UK Conservatives.
00:54:28.000 Whether you're a Conservative or not is not the point.
00:54:31.000 The Liberals need to behave like Liberals.
00:54:34.000 The Conservatives need to behave like Conservatives.
00:54:37.000 So everybody has something that appeals to them.
00:54:40.000 But now it's just become the global uniparty.
00:54:43.000 And this was a big threat to the globalized uniparty.
00:54:47.000 And I think that's why they acted so aggressively.
00:54:50.000 And then one little asterisk, I was communicating, listen, I'm pretty open.
00:54:54.000 I spent 10 years on a university dealing with the progressive nature of the student body and the university faculty and a business I used to own.
00:55:04.000 So I'm kind of used to working within that frame.
00:55:07.000 And we had 30 plus liberal MPs that were communicating to me through a conduit telling me they're trying to form a coalition within the Liberal Party To schedule a non-confidence vote to get rid of Justin Trudeau, because even they know he's no longer liberal.
00:55:31.000 If he was liberal, great!
00:55:33.000 Then at least we can engage in an open discourse and conversation, which is what this book is about, man.
00:55:40.000 This is not an echo chamber book.
00:55:43.000 This is not designed for people to preach to the converted.
00:55:47.000 This is to give to people who supported the convoy, to share with their friends who are in the progressive camp or the liberal camp, to understand this beautiful moment in Canadian history where all of us, irrespective of our personal political views, we came together as one country.
00:56:06.000 That's what happens when the media and the politicians get out of the way.
00:56:10.000 We all unify.
00:56:11.000 And it was a beautiful moment.
00:56:13.000 The consistency of language in the lockdown era was evidence of the centralised origin of much of the messaging.
00:56:23.000 Of course, perhaps in a pandemic, given the nature of a pandemic, it's global by its nature, A centralised message kind of makes sense in that context, of course, but we're seeing increasingly authority that is not democratically earned being instantiated, whether that's censorship of social media platforms, whether it's anti-protest laws around the world, infiltration of apparently neutral or even private business interests by deep state agents, and referring specifically to CIA involvement in Twitter.
00:56:55.000 And what we genuinely need, as you have just said and as you outline in your book, Honking for Freedom, fantastic title by the way, is a discourse.
00:57:04.000 Now on this channel we welcome people with traditional perspectives, progressive perspectives, because ultimately we believe that the thing they fear most of all is us coming together to achieve alliances that are transcendent of their centralized agenda.
00:57:19.000 And I think that whether you consider yourself to be a liberal person, a progressive person, a traditional person, a conservative person, None of these things are important to me.
00:57:26.000 I believe in individual freedom, community engagement, and our ability to have a discourse.
00:57:31.000 And right at the beginning of our conversation, you said that one of the things that was interesting is they didn't want to come down and speak with you.
00:57:37.000 They didn't want to communicate with the protesters.
00:57:39.000 They wanted to shut you down, ultimately with violence, whether you got a nice haircut or not.
00:57:43.000 If you move to violence that quickly, that is authoritarianism.
00:57:46.000 Trudeau's been explicit about his admiration of Chinese tyranny.
00:57:50.000 Even while recently applauding the protesters there, the protesting against the lockdowns, without noticing the irony of his previous actions towards you and your movement.
00:58:02.000 Now, I think it's going to be necessary more and more for people to organize against centralized authority as the authority of this nature increases.
00:58:09.000 What can you tell us, Benjamin?
00:58:11.000 What practically are we going to need to know?
00:58:13.000 A few tips on how we can organise in an inclusive way against centralised authority.
00:58:20.000 I'm sure that's covered in your book, but are there a few things you can tell our viewers now?
00:58:24.000 Yeah, one of the things I've started doing is I've started live streaming during the day.
00:58:29.000 Just, you know, let's have coffee and let's talk about positivity and how we can look how the world is going to change.
00:58:36.000 I believe, me and Stephen, Professor Stephen Hicks talked about it a few years ago, that we're on the crust of Enlightenment 2.0, the digital enlightenment.
00:58:47.000 I think, you know, we've gone through a lot of bumpy periods right now, but after the COVID era, that's where we're going to end up.
00:58:54.000 And one of the things I try to tell a lot of people, the people who follow me, who we've become, you know, a community of friends, all different backgrounds, by the way, there are people who are progressive, there are people non-progressive, but they like the idea that there's a positive vision forward.
00:59:10.000 That what we need to do is we need to reach people in our families, in our communities, our friends who disagree with us politically.
00:59:19.000 That's the important part.
00:59:20.000 We all need to have friends on the opposite end of politics.
00:59:25.000 We'll get into a little bit of heated debates once in a while, but then we learn to drop it and let's focus on our friendships.
00:59:31.000 Because you know what?
00:59:32.000 If we all unify and we accept each other's differences, the government bureaucracy has no power.
00:59:38.000 That's a perfect way for us to end.
00:59:40.000 Benjamin, thank you very much for joining us for this conversation.
00:59:43.000 Honking for Freedom is Benjamin's book that outlines his experience and hopefully gives us some information for how we can organize when necessarily we oppose the sensorial, authoritarian, globalist interests that currently dominate our democracies wherever we are in the world.
00:59:59.000 Benjamin, thanks so much for joining us, mate.
01:00:00.000 I will put your details in the chat.
01:00:03.000 Tomorrow.
01:00:04.000 Thanks, mate.
01:00:04.000 Nice one.
01:00:05.000 Congratulations on your protest, if that's the right thing to say about.
01:00:09.000 Well done.
01:00:10.000 Well done.
01:00:12.000 Congratulations.
01:00:16.000 Russell.
01:00:16.000 Yes, Russell.
01:00:18.000 One more thing.
01:00:18.000 I just want to tell you, I just learned last week, you know, all our bank accounts and credit cards and everything were frozen.
01:00:24.000 Do you remember, do you remember the woman who had was with the Walker that the police horses trampled her?
01:00:30.000 Yes.
01:00:31.000 Well, it was a democratic police horses.
01:00:33.000 Let me ask.
01:00:34.000 I met her last week and guess what?
01:00:36.000 She had her bank accounts frozen.
01:00:38.000 So what did she do wrong?
01:00:40.000 She was under a horse.
01:00:41.000 That was her crime.
01:00:43.000 Well yeah, get off that horse's feet!
01:00:48.000 Tomorrow actually, or later in the week, we're talking about CBDCs, we're talking about centralised currencies, we're talking about the risks that we will face when we hand over the power to control currency to these evidently authoritarian forces.
01:01:01.000 Thank you so much Benjamin, what a fantastic contribution.
01:01:04.000 On tomorrow's show, we'll be talking to Barry Weiss, one of the journalists, along with friend of the show, Matt Taibbi, who broke the Twitterphile story, and we'll be talking to her about Elon Musk.
01:01:13.000 And, you know, what does it mean, Elon Musk stepping down as CEO?
01:01:17.000 We, on this show, feel like Elon Musk is not a person who makes missteps like that.
01:01:21.000 He wouldn't have put that up there.
01:01:22.000 Oh, no!
01:01:22.000 They voted for me to step down!
01:01:24.000 But...
01:01:25.000 Barry Weiss knows more than us, and we'll be talking to her tomorrow.
01:01:29.000 We've got a fantastic week here on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
01:01:32.000 And now, the show continues for me and Gareth.
01:01:35.000 Oh, we'll be discussing very many things.
01:01:37.000 We'll be talking about the modern-day Magi and Nostradamuses, if that's how you pluralise Nostradamai.
01:01:44.000 What is it if you have more than one Nostradamus?
01:01:46.000 He didn't predict that, did he?
01:01:48.000 He didn't predict the need for a pluralising noun.
01:01:51.000 Calls himself a soothsayer.
01:01:52.000 Me and Gareth will be continuing to talk and we'll be answering your questions on Stay Free AF, that's our community on Locals, which you can join.
01:02:00.000 We'll be talking about the terrible horror that can be inflicted upon us with a simple Christmas decoration, but ultimately we're going to be opposing centralised authority in all its forms and trying to evoke spiritual awakening, both individually, communally, And globally.
01:02:12.000 We'll be doing that right now, so join us in a second on local.
01:02:17.000 See you tomorrow with Barry Weiss.
01:02:18.000 We love you.