In this episode of the Awakened Wanderer podcast, Russell Brand talks about the dangers of corporate greed and corruption, and why we should all be scared of the next globalist, globalist Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. Also, the FBI is back, and Bird Flu is back again. And Infosys is doing deals with the UK government. And why you should be worried about what's coming next, and what's in store for the future. This is the last day to use the code GODIS GREAT and get a month for free! You can cancel at any time, of course, and if you're not into it, that's cool. But if you want to become an awakened Wanderer, you'll get to join us for our book club, where we talk about The Problem of Pain, and the Book Club Book Club, which is a book club where we discuss a book about the problem of pain and the solution to it. You'll have such a great time being with us. You'll love it. Use the Godis GREAT code: GRABSWEB to get a FREE month of GRAVING WANDERING and get 1 MONTH for FREE! Use the code: GODISGREAT to get 1 month of the GRAving Wanderer for FREE. That's right, you get a free month of Waking Wanderer! You get to become a Wanderer and get access to all kinds of awesome stuff, including all sorts of awesome resources, including books, meditations and meditations, podcasts, and everything else you could ever dream of! If you're in need of a good time and want to be radicalized, this is your ticket to freedom, then you can be radicalised! We'll be giving you a month of that's gonna change your life, and you'll have a chance to become radicalized. We're going to change the world. by becoming radicalized by being radicalized! - Russell Brand, that means you'll learn how to be a radicalised. . I believe in the truth, and I believe that you can become radical, and that's what terrifies them, not just a little bit more radical. - What does that? - the truth is a good thing, right? - what does that mean that you'll be radical enough, and it's going to terrify them? -
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00:04:18.000But what we're planning to do, ultimately...
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00:04:28.000Eventually we will declare independence.
00:04:30.000If you're an American watching this you will know that you have once before thrown off tyranny and you will throw it off again and why wouldn't you when Our leaders are so crazy.
00:04:37.000We'll be talking about the FBI's corruption in a little bit, in an embarrassing little video, as the FBI attempt to publicly arrest someone.
00:04:49.000I would be scared of Rishi Sunak, globalist, current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and in spite of a lovely haircut, nerd.
00:04:58.000I love being with the kids and setting up the table and making sure that it's all nice and somehow balanced.
00:05:06.000I don't want to see no more political leaders pretending to be normal on Grazia, sat talking with their spouses, normalising themselves while simultaneously living in positions of great privilege and deceiving us.
00:05:17.000Infosys, the organisation owned by her father, does deals and is a consistent sponsor of the WF.
00:06:12.000Do you want to watch this globalist saying how normal he is and how he likes loading The dishwasher, what he won't be telling you, is that he invested heavily in Moderna when he was a partner.
00:06:23.000I think they were called Phileme, a hedge fund that invested in Moderna before they had the good fortune of becoming a pretty prominent product.
00:06:29.000This hat made a noise that, you know, that sort of noise that makes your teeth go in edge, you know, that kind of velvety sort of sound, that felt sound.
00:08:35.000My personal advice to that guy is stay out of parking lots.
00:08:39.000This morning, growing turbulence for one of the world's largest airplane manufacturers, Boeing, as the federal government has launched a new investigation into the company amid allegations about one of Boeing's airplanes.
00:08:51.000The FAA tells NBC News it's investigating new whistleblower claims made by a Boeing quality engineer about the 787 Dreamliner.
00:09:00.000The latest claims, first reported by the New York Times, come after a series of dangerous mishaps involving other Boeing planes in recent months.
00:09:08.000The whistleblower, Sam Salipour, says sections of the Dreamliner's fuselage are put together improperly and that after thousands of flights, it could break apart mid-air.
00:10:41.000Did you see that amazing documentary where it kind of is really beautiful, really, because he was contemporaneous with some amazing African-American athletes that made heroic stands against the oppression that African-Americans were experiencing, certainly then, and many would claim, of course, continue to experience.
00:10:58.000But at a time where the Olympians did the Black Power salute at a time when Muhammad Ali was saying, ain't got no beef with a Viet Cong and continued to be an advocate and significant voice.
00:11:08.000OJ was like, I don't want to be involved in none of that.
00:12:01.000Our thoughts are with his families during this difficult time, obviously, with his family and loved ones.
00:12:07.000and I'll say this I know because that's like she's forgotten that the OJ Simpson narrative
00:12:13.000included a moment where potentially he murdered somebody and was found innocent actually I suppose
00:12:20.000he was found innocent but of course like there's a fat documentary is amazing man where it shows
00:12:25.000that because the conditions in your country and in Los Angeles in particular was so rife with
00:12:31.000injustice that the case became about something other than the event that it was supposed to be
00:12:37.000Astonishing documentary, if you've not seen it, I can't remember the exact name of it, but it's the best one.
00:12:42.000It's astonishing analysis of the cultural event itself and OJ as a figure.
00:12:48.000I mean, I'm sure all of us recognize that when someone develops a kind of cultural cachet, what they have done is unconsciously in all likelihood attuned to some kind of cultural theme that's valuable and important to us.
00:13:02.000I've always thought that American movie stars tell the story to America that America needs to hear at that time even if it's like someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger a non-native American powerful and glorious who along with Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone told the story of Reagan's America And then Sandler became the biggest movie star, a kind of hapless, adorable version of America.
00:13:29.000This is, of course, just my own half-baked analysis, the idea that America's transgressions in the Middle East, for example, somehow were inadvertent.
00:13:41.000Adam Sandler may slip up here and there, but he's fundamentally good.
00:13:44.000Of course, I'm not fundamentally connecting these movie stars to the geopolitical events, merely that on an archetypal level they help us to understand and process them.
00:13:56.000...isn't including all aspects of the O.J.
00:13:58.000narrative and a remarkable, brilliant athlete turned into successful movie star and then somehow harnessing a great deal of energy that day in Brentwood.
00:14:12.000Let's have a look at what's the rest of this, I suppose.
00:14:14.000...that they have asked for some privacy and so we're going to respect that.
00:14:36.000Let's have a look at this report that seems to suggest that Lunchables, which is, you know, a product directly created for kids, has got lead in it.
00:14:46.000Consumer Reports is asking school cafeterias all across this country to stop giving students Lunchables.
00:14:51.000Those are packaged food items that generally are really popular with kids, but the Watchdog Group says it tested them and found that some Lunchables contain potentially dangerous levels of harmful contaminants.
00:15:03.000Nancy Chan has been looking into this for us.
00:15:38.000You Lunchables have really been a longtime staple in lunchboxes across the country.
00:15:42.000But Consumer Reports, an independent nonprofit group, issued a scathing assessment of the lunch kits, saying, quote, we don't think anybody should regularly eat these products.
00:16:05.000Well, I mean, you can put it in your mouth and break it down with your teeth and swallow it, so... Yes?
00:16:10.000This came after testing that allegedly found some store-bought versions contained high levels of heavy metals, lead and cadmium.
00:16:18.000They can cause developmental issues in children even in small doses.
00:16:22.000The study also found concerning amounts of sodium as well as phthalates, chemicals used in plastic packaging that... Come on, man.
00:16:28.000This is getting out of control, isn't it?
00:16:30.000Poisoning children... High levels of sodium, phthalates, lead, cadmium...
00:16:38.000These are the type of stories that breach the surface, are discernible, demonstrable and easily corroborated, that make me more willing to listen to and consider more outlandish theories about, for example, I don't know, chemtrails or things in the water.
00:16:59.000I mean, there is such sort of negligence, disregard and occasionally malfeasance present in big food, big pharma and the kind of systemic abuses that pass masks continually through our lives that how can you
00:17:16.000just outright say oh no that's ridiculous the idea that we would be yeah yeah look
00:17:21.000at Stuart 3-1 poison food air water 5g radiation etc yeah like say 5g let's take
00:17:27.000that you know like there are I understand the effluidation
00:17:32.000Yeah, you lot know in the rumble chat.
00:17:33.000Listen, we're just gonna be available for a few more minutes on YouTube.
00:17:37.000Sooner or later, you're gonna have to come over to our place.
00:17:39.000Come on over where we can talk freely.
00:17:40.000You know, it just seems at least worthy of contemplation that this is systemic, deliberate, if not just the inert practices of a careless system.
00:17:53.000Don't feed your kids Lunchables, but make sure to get them vaxxed.
00:17:59.000113. Okay, well, man, I don't know if I can even watch the rest of this. Let me try.
00:18:04.000...are also known hormone disruptors. Last year, after changing some of the nutritional content,
00:18:09.000Lunchables were allowed into the National School Lunch Program for the first time,
00:18:14.000giving tens of millions of children access on a...
00:18:18.000Someone lobbied to get it permitted to be in the school lunch program so that it could be some
00:18:24.000great catering company's deal to put Lunchables into school catering so they can buy it en masse
00:18:32.000Someone got lobbied, someone got biased, and no one at any point stopped.
00:18:36.000In a sensible and sane world that you can imagine, just on the periphery of your mind, you just go, don't make that product anymore.
00:18:41.000Do you know what we should do actually?
00:18:43.000Right, what we should do is we should feed children food that's either been grown or hunted or Otherwise harnessed from the area that we're all living in.
00:18:53.000That might mean that there are less opportunities for profit.
00:18:57.000But let's focus all of our attention on localization.
00:19:01.000Let's for a minute stop regarding everything solely from a materialistic perspective.
00:19:06.000Lunchables is the pinnacle of the pyramid of commodity that we all lay sprawled upon.
00:19:14.000The base of your spine pierced You, spread-eagled and hopeless, pummeled by a system of deep, deep loathing, and the only way down from this crucifix, and maybe, Jesus, maybe we should just stay on it, is to awaken immediately.
00:20:46.000For God's sake, let us all become radicalized.
00:20:50.000I wonder if Kraft spend any money on legacy media outlets.
00:20:54.000I wonder if sometimes between these shows you see Kraft going, hey, if you don't have time to feed your children food that doesn't have lead in it, how about some food that does have lead in it?
00:21:06.000I mean, the truth is processed food have small amounts of death in them.
00:21:10.000The truth is that if you are a parent, and I am, sometimes you think, well, you know, maybe a little bit of lead will calm them down.
00:21:18.000The simple solution is change your economic and political and social models.
00:21:23.000I don't think Christ is interested in Lunchables.
00:21:25.000I think Christ would be interested in If we explained what was in them, which he will know as he has the mind of God.
00:21:49.000Let's certainly not use taxpayer dollars to subsidize it.
00:21:52.000Let's, from now on, have democracy available at the smallest level of subsidiarity, that people control their own lives and their own communities.
00:21:59.000That way, if there are cultural, religious differences, or differences of traditionalism versus progressivism, they'll be nullified and irrelevant, because in one state, people can believe in this, and in another state, people can believe in something else.
00:22:10.000But what we should believe in, in every single state, is don't poison your children just because it's profitable.
00:22:16.000And Consumer Reports saying it's hurting those kids.
00:22:18.000Especially if you're a mom, Nancy, that's not making the sandwiches and putting them in the paper bag.
00:23:05.000Ukraine's parliament has passed a bill to overhaul how the military drafts civilians in an attempt to boost its number.
00:23:12.000Is that about, it's not about banking?
00:23:14.000Or are they going to freeze their, oh if you dodge it, they freeze your bank account.
00:23:17.000There you go, more piloting, more piloting.
00:23:21.000And also, in a statement beyond irony, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has addressed Congress about the danger of nuclear attacks from... Remember this?
00:23:42.000I'm the leader of Japan and I'm here to talk about nuclear attacks.
00:23:45.000I'm so glad I'm here in the Congress of the United States because, you know, I've got memory and everything so I can remember that... Russia!
00:25:15.000It's never going to be good news, is it, with the FBI at the door?
00:25:18.000Hey, listen, if you're watching us on YouTube, this will be the last item we do, then we'll talk a bit about... I've got such a good story.
00:25:24.000On Alex Jones and that undercover CIA stuff.
00:25:27.000Plus we talk about the complexity of Middle Eastern politics and how that story is being told in a variety of ways now as it continues to bifurcate and break down former alliances.
00:25:41.000That conflict and the language around it and what's happening is, I think, set to be defining an ancient conflict that brings us to the pinnacle of the present.
00:25:51.000Right now though, let's look at the FBI bugging this dude in California.
00:27:10.000The FBI is an embarrassing organization.
00:27:12.000They should be shut down not because of the corruption, not because of the fake operations, not because of their implicit support of the establishment, not because they spent money to manage and control social media ultimately to censor it, but just because they're so awkward.
00:28:48.000Do you know that many Christians are dying in Palestine?
00:28:51.000Does it make any difference what beliefs people have in their hearts and heads when they die as a result of military actions that to some degree at least are supported by the United States of America through the sale and indeed granting of arms?
00:29:10.000all right now look the Australians are up to all sorts of stuff they've always been there I mean I love Australia I love that country but they're creating they're creating a Covid army now look at this I don't like that cartoon style much.
00:29:40.000They've got like an army for the next pandemic.
00:29:43.000Also though, the problem is that, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it like it's been a real sham?
00:29:52.000Premier Roger Cook believes a civilian National Guard designed to ease the be it burden on police during a time of crisis, oh they just want us to be like a snitch army.
00:29:59.000It's worth exploring as a part of a broader effort to be ready for the next global pandemic.
00:30:03.000Yeah, yeah, why don't you turn on one another like animals?
00:30:06.000Maybe we could get them to fight each other in a pit in the nude.
00:30:10.000Why don't we get civilians to fight to the death in a pit?
00:30:15.000...has been proposed by the union representing the federal police officers as part of an ongoing inquiry into Australia's response into Covid.
00:30:21.000Meanwhile, in unrelated news in Australia, cardiac arrests have shot... ...the number of Victorians dying from... ...shot through the roof.
00:30:30.000The number of Victorians dying from sudden cardiac arrest has skyrocketed by 20% over the past five years.
00:30:37.000As Eliza Rug reports, St John Ambulance is working to reverse the trend, rolling out publicly accessible defibrillators in high-risk postcodes.
00:30:47.000Andrew Conway says without his CPR-trained wife Leanne and a defibrillator, his seventh cardiac arrest could have been his last.
00:30:55.000I was in bed and I had an arrest in my sleep.
00:30:58.000Nearly 8,000 Victorians suffered a sudden cardiac arrest between 2022 and 2023, an increase of 20% compared to the previous five years.
00:31:09.000In part because more incidents... What we need is a civilian army to stop these cardiac arrests, to ensure that people are compliant.
00:31:16.000In the event of further pandemics, this 20% increase in cardiac arrest, I don't know, who knows?
00:31:48.000The shame, the campaign, the pressure to comply.
00:31:53.000And now, well, it could be, you know, we've all been under a lot of stress lately and perhaps we're all just having cardiac arrest because of that.
00:32:00.000Has anyone been taking any injections where the spike protein migrates from the site to the tissue around the heart?
00:32:06.000Yes, everyone's been doing that because it was very near mandated and people were rounded up into camps if they refused to cooperate.
00:32:12.000Do you think it could be connected to that?
00:32:13.000Is there any chance that it could be connected to that?
00:32:21.000But we do need a civilian army to ensure that people don't discuss things like that publicly.
00:32:27.000And I am willing, willing to participate in that civilian army.
00:32:32.000Hey, listen, guys, we're going to move now into a fantastic and difficult story about Israel and Israel's actions in In Palestine, it's pretty heavy stuff, man.
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00:34:01.000Joe Rogan has called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
00:34:05.000Tucker Carlson has been attacked for his interview with a Christian pastor inside Palestine, pointing out that Christians are dying in this genocide also.
00:34:13.000Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins has also said that if you lose Christianity altogether, its cultural affectations and expressions, shall we say, you're left in a worse place while still attacking Islam.
00:34:24.000Are we in the most confusing, complex Armageddon the world has yet known?
00:34:31.000Joe Rogan has called Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
00:34:35.000I know many of you will be using that term to describe the events because well I think you know the dictionary tends to take us in that direction.
00:34:43.000Tucker Carlson has been condemned for talking to a Christian pastor in Palestine and whenever anyone speaks out on this subject they are attacked Now, you know that we believe in free speech, and I don't know if you know this, but I personally believe in God, and I'm in the process of a lot of discovery around Christianity and personal religion, and you better believe I'll bore you with that another time.
00:35:00.000But for now, let's talk about this unfolding complexity, because for a moment on October the 7th, we collapsed into a state of simplicity regarding Hamas's actions that day as so atrocious that almost any response was warranted.
00:35:13.000Remember the rhetoric from around that time, people saying they're animals, claims were made about Hamas activity, some of which has been subsequently questioned and whatever happened on October
00:35:23.000the 7th and didn't happen and I'm certainly not disputing You know, let's call it the official version of events
00:35:28.000It certainly seems to have led to the massacre of tens of thousands of people
00:35:32.000Tens of thousands of children people that can't possibly be significantly
00:35:36.000Militarily connected to Hamas and it's brought to the forefront a lot of questions as well as fracturing
00:35:42.000coalescing portions of American political life the alt-right for example has
00:35:46.000Scattered in all sorts of directions around this complex subject our views on this channel are clear
00:35:50.000We do not believe in war any war We do not think that your tax dollars or our tax pounds
00:35:55.000should be funding war We believe that the massacre of innocent people is always
00:35:58.000wrong that the war between Russia and Ukraine should be ended as soon as possible
00:36:02.000That the atrocities in Gaza should end as soon as possible that the attacks on October the 7th were wrong and brutal
00:36:08.000That the escalation of the war in the Middle East the potential involvement of Iran is wrong and certainly provoking
00:36:13.000China seems a bit stupid, too So it's of course a complicated and difficult subject.
00:36:18.000So let's look through some of the most popular commentators of our time that have got stuck into this issue.
00:37:04.000It would be to remind them that when the State of Israel was created, it was not created on an empty land.
00:37:09.000It was created on a land that had millions of indigenous Palestinians there, including Palestinian Christians.
00:37:16.000Already we are in the eye of an enormous global storm where people on different sides of this argument will be spilling invective and outrage already.
00:37:26.000But what we can certainly agree with is that a person's spiritual values, or if nothing else, lead us to a place where what we crave, require and are committed to above all else is peace.
00:37:37.000In fact, One of the obvious problems with institutional Christianity is when it's utilized to legitimize war, when there's been Holocaust denial by Christian leaders, when there's been other atrocities as a result of Christian institutions.
00:37:52.000This certainly, from my perspective at least, isn't an opportunity to say this version of faith is better than this version of faith.
00:37:58.000I believe that should be a personal choice that we all undertake.
00:38:01.000But we're already right in the heart of that whole That's certainly a mistake that I wouldn't personally like to make.
00:38:15.000It makes sense to me that if you are a Christian, or a devout Muslim, or a spiritual Jew, that above all else, you should want Peace and harmony among the people of the world.
00:38:25.000Indeed, it's difficult to argue that this is a religious conflict rather than a territorial conflict that ultimately is about the playing out of power dynamics that involves Israeli politics, American politics, and the cultural and spiritual lexicon is laid upon it merely to obfuscate what appear to be some pretty brutal choices being made.
00:38:45.000And that that state they support, that state they celebrated as a fulfillment of prophecy and a sign of God's faith to the Jewish people, for it to become a state, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including Palestinian Christians, were forced to leave and have never returned.
00:39:02.000And my message to Christian leaders right now is, there is a very very brutal war taking place in Gaza, a war that I've described using the word genocide, because it's a war that has used even starvation as a meme, and fellow Christians are suffering because of that war.
00:39:19.000One of the arguments that's consistently used, and one can understand the use of this argument, is of course the settling of the United States of America.
00:39:29.000One would say, could say, would you say involved a genocide?
00:39:32.000I'm British, we've gone around the world.
00:39:34.000Murdering people, committing atrocities for hundreds of years in order to establish the British Empire.
00:39:40.000And I know that a lot of people that support Israel say, why is it that Israel's actions in that territory are regarded uniquely?
00:39:47.000Why is it that no one cares when a lot of Muslims are killed as a result of a conflict in Syria, but everyone cares when Muslims are killed as a result of this particular conflict?
00:39:56.000With the underlying implication being that there is an anti-Semitic craving that is being fulfilled in the condemnation of Israel's actions.
00:40:04.000From the beginning of this conflict, we've been very careful, I hope, and you let me know in the comments if you agree, to be respectful of all people's religious views and national inclinations and patriotic tendencies.
00:40:15.000But when you have a complete anti-war stance, when you are anti-violence, when you believe the Ukraine-Russia war should be ended as quickly as possible, that a diplomatic solution is necessary, when you believe that brutality in all its forms ought be ended, In effect, those principles and values are transcendent of the dynamics of inter-Arab, inter-Judaic, inter-Muslim, inter-Christian argument.
00:40:36.000In a way, we can't continue to fortify ongoing violence because of a particular perspective grounded in our cultural values and ignore this key value.
00:40:45.000If you love God at all, whether it's as a Muslim, or as a Jew, or as a Christian, or if you love humanity as an atheist, ultimately what you want is for us to find harmonious solutions.
00:40:55.000Not to legitimize and justify the perpetuation of ongoing violence, particularly if it involves the unthinkable.
00:41:01.000And what I mean by the unthinkable is also the unsayable.
00:41:03.000That you can't for too long contemplate what's going on in Gaza, the brutality, the murder of children.
00:41:08.000If you hear one citation of, there's these children, they were trapped in a car, they tried to make a call.
00:41:12.000If you hear any of the one examples of those, now I think about 40,000 deaths, then it becomes unbearable.
00:41:18.000So this is where I suppose some kind of grounded, earned, deliberate faith becomes a requirement.
00:41:24.000Because if you have that, then the inflections of people's religious perspective are less important than the values inherent within those religions.
00:41:32.000It's time that Christian leaders recognize that wars is not the way.
00:41:37.000Whether in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, I mean...
00:41:40.000When will we learn that war does not help?
00:41:43.000When will we take Jesus' words seriously about being peacemakers, about being merciful?
00:41:52.000And so it would be an invitation to listen, to learn more, and to avoid very shallow and simplistic perspectives that are not based on scripture itself, but more based on political equations.
00:42:05.000And I would plea right now, and I will continue to plea that We need to stop this war in Gaza.
00:42:12.000It's killing many many children, women, innocent lives.
00:42:34.000Extreme violence, and many people have called this an escalation of even war.
00:42:38.000Genocide, the deliberate murder of an entire population.
00:42:41.000An interesting aspect of this conflict is the conditions that it's grown out of.
00:42:45.000I don't mean the land disputes, territorial disputes, or history and complexity around Israel and Palestine.
00:42:51.000I mean Our philosophical perspective for the last century, that we live in a materialistic, rationalist reality, that we don't really consider the supernatural or the spiritual to be a priority.
00:43:01.000What we consider to be the priority is what happens here on Earth.
00:43:08.000Who gets to decide who can be killed and who can't be killed?
00:43:11.000Who gets to decide that this set of killings is an atrocity and this set of killings is freedom fighting or a necessity or in order to protect democracy?
00:43:19.000We've lived in a time where actually God has been put on the back burner, where spiritual values have been disavowed.
00:43:24.000And I think part of this peculiar set of circumstances that we're experiencing as a planet right now are the end of that time, where we begin to recognize when we only live rationally, when we only care about that which can be measured and compared and contrasted, when we care only about dominion, something very important is lost.
00:43:41.000Something deep and personal and yet universal has been discarded.
00:43:45.000When, in a minute, we hear Richard Dawkins say that even though he is as atheist as he ever was and he thinks that Christianity is ridiculous and stupid, but he likes living in Christian countries with churches and hymns and Christian values and that he sees them as superior to Islam, David Dawkins, one of the forefathers of the New Atheist Movement, is acknowledging that it appears that spirituality and even religion have a value even just materially.
00:44:09.000Almost as if to say, and this is not my position, if you live as if God is real, if you live as if we are all connected, If you live as if we are one fraternity, all connected to one another, that have shared duties and a shared destiny, and that what happens here on the material plane isn't the most important thing, but is secondary to our spiritual value, our inner value, our deep universal and ubiquitous connection, then perhaps we would make different decisions, because all of the decisions that get made in the world are on the basis that God isn't real.
00:44:36.000Even religious groups aren't acting like God is real.
00:44:39.000If you really believe in God, you aren't gonna kill somebody, or a group of people, On the basis that land is more important than human life.
00:44:47.000You are ultimately going to be willing to make sacrifices.
00:44:49.000Indeed, which of those Abrahamic faiths doesn't say sacrifice yourself?
00:44:55.000Sacrifice in the short term in order to achieve a long-term vision.
00:44:58.000There are clear perennial conditions in all the Abrahamic faiths, and I'm not saying they are not different and that there aren't crazy things in each of them, but there are valuable things in them all that perhaps could help us navigate ourselves away from this set of catastrophes.
00:45:11.000I plead as a Christian pastor from Bethlehem.
00:45:29.000Now, another seismic moment in independent media was when Joe Rogan used his considerable freight and weight and audience to say, it's a genocide.
00:45:41.000There's been a lot of querying the semantics, linguistics and philology around that word.
00:45:46.000But when Joe Rogan says it, it's going to spread discussion.
00:45:49.000Let me know what you think about Joe Rogan's perspective, because it seems to me that this was a pivotal moment in the changing of the conversation around a very difficult subject.
00:45:57.000That Edward Snowden video that he put up on Twitter that shows them drone bombing those kids that are, those men, I should say, unarmed people that were walking towards the rubble that clearly weren't causing any danger to anybody.
00:46:41.000I know there are people to this day that go, yeah, but if we hadn't done that, then Japan would have... But seems to me that it was a bit brutal.
00:46:46.000So, I guess, part of the problem is, and we hear this argument again and again, we can't stop China having their industrial revolution and their period of growth.
00:46:53.000We can't stop India having their technological growth.
00:46:55.000All of these things are built on materialism and rationalism as if the only thing is what's here.
00:46:59.000If you have a set of spiritual values, like, wait a minute, what if this is actually an illusion or some sort of simulation?
00:47:04.000What if our values, our heart and our love are more important than what we can acquire here on this earth, whether that's pleasure or possessions?
00:47:32.000And if you're saying that from a perspective of someone who literally went through the
00:47:36.000Holocaust or your people, your tribe, went through the fucking Holocaust and now you're
00:47:41.000Now, America are practically and fundamentally involved in this because of their relationship with Israel, which includes selling and often granting them armaments in unusual ways.
00:47:52.000Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that it's not a genocide.
00:47:56.000I suppose that's why words matter, because once you acknowledge that it's a genocide, then the arming of the nation perpetuating that becomes less easy.
00:48:06.000Let's have a look at some of the data.
00:48:07.000A group of aid experts said that more than 100,000 Palestinians could be killed by a combination of Israeli strikes, famine and plague if the humanitarian conditions in Gaza are not significantly improved.
00:48:17.000This war depends on an endless flow of weapons and financial support from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union, with Germany in the lead, without which the genocide could not continue.
00:48:27.000As these horrors were being carried out, the Biden re-election campaign held a fundraising event Thursday at Radio City Musical in New York, where three Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, joined forces in defence of the current US policy.
00:48:40.000Hundreds of protesters were outside showing their support for the Palestinian people.
00:48:43.000The response of the three presidents was to reaffirm their solidarity with Netanyahu.
00:48:49.000Obama lectured the protesters on the need to listen.
00:48:52.000That is, to shut up and let experienced warmongers like himself and Biden make the decisions.
00:48:57.000The bulk of the audience, comprised of multi-millionaires paying huge sums for admission, applauded.
00:49:01.000The entertainers who participated in the program, Colbert, Queen Latifah, etc., were fawning in their approval.
00:49:07.000The Radio City Music Hall event raised a record $26 million as the Democrats laughed and joked with bankers and billionaires.
00:49:13.000Both parties are political instruments of the super-rich, unshakably committed to the defense of the profit system at home and American imperialism abroad.
00:49:22.000It's significant that America, still the most powerful and some would say greatest nation on earth, is so pivotal in the perpetuation of wars, not only Russia-Ukraine, which if the United States withdrew their support would have to end, but also this conflict in the Middle East, which we know is becoming increasingly unpopular, even with Democrat Party voters, even where the military and members of the military are having doubts, even where Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in protest at American participation, even through the sale of arms, In this conflict, which many people are calling a genocide at this point, requires funding.
00:49:55.000It requires, at minimum, the majority of us turn away or don't think about it or legitimize it.
00:50:00.000But when confronted with some of the information from inside Gaza or the appeals of that Christian pastor from inside Palestine, it starts to seem like, as with Ukraine and Russia, a diplomatic and immediate solution might be preferable to this ongoing annihilation.
00:50:14.000The homicidal sentiments enveloping the ruling class as a whole were given voice last week by Michigan Republican Congressman Tim Wohlberg, who called for a quick destruction of the enclave on the model of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese cities annihilated by US nuclear bombs in August 1945.
00:50:30.000I saw that film Oppenheimer and I thought the message was, that was good that bomb, let's do some more of them and not think about the consequences.
00:50:40.000Any of our aid that goes to Israel, to support our greatest ally, hardly make it in the world.
00:50:46.000To defeat Hamas, and Iran, and Russia.
00:50:50.000And probably North Korea's in there, and China too.
00:50:53.000Great, it's bundling together a whole lot of wars there.
00:50:55.000I don't think some of those countries have even got relationships.
00:51:17.000People shifting in their seats whilst being advocated for is nuclear war.
00:51:21.000Hundreds of millions around the world are revolted by the images streaming out of Gaza despite the near blackout imposed by the corporate controlled media.
00:51:27.000They are shocked by the escalating military provocations of Israel and the US and NATO forces throughout the Middle East.
00:52:59.000The lineup of democratic presidents at the Radio City Music Hall shows why the mass protests have been entirely ineffective in changing government policy.
00:53:06.000All three presidents are identified with the development of the war policy of American imperialism over the past three decades.
00:53:12.000Clinton, 93 to 2001, oversaw a series of US military interventions in the former Yugoslavia,
00:53:17.000including full-scale air war against Serbia and in Somalia, as well as bomb and missile
00:53:22.000attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan. Obama, 2009 to 2017, continued the wars in Iraq and
00:53:27.000Afghanistan begun by Republican George W. Bush, while bombing Libya in that country
00:53:32.000and in Syria, plunging both countries into bloody civil wars. He extended the global
00:53:36.000pursuit of military confrontation with his turn to Asia, promising to shift the majority
00:53:40.000of US military forces to the Asia-Pacific theatre to confront China.
00:53:44.000When you consider those presidencies in conjunction, it's a bit like a war.
00:53:47.000It looks like the distinctions, whether they are racial, national, or religious, are secondary to the ongoing funding of a ferocious and avaricious war machine that requires the sacrifice of human life for its own perpetuation.
00:54:00.000And I would say that's an ideology that's a lot less favorable than either Christianity, Islam, or Judaism.
00:54:05.000In fact, the main message that I take from this is we're living in a religious, zealous state right now.
00:54:11.000It's just it's a materialistic, consumeristic, capitalistic, militaristic religion that is more extreme than any of these Abrahamic faiths.
00:54:19.000Biden's main focus since taking office has been to instigate and then escalate the US-NATO proxy war against Russia and Ukraine, to which the administration has devoted massive financial and military resources.
00:54:29.000This war, which threatens nuclear annihilation, is now combined with full-scale support for Israeli genocide in Gaza and a continuing war buildup in Asia through anti-China alliances That's a weird thing to call yourself.
00:54:41.000used vague and quickly discarded promises of social improvement at home
00:54:44.000to screen the growth of militarism. Clinton billed himself as the man from
00:54:48.000hope. That's a weird thing to call yourself. I'm the man from hope. Hey come over here cigar. I hope she says yes.
00:54:55.000Clinton billed himself as the man from hope but joined with the Republicans to
00:54:59.000end welfare as we know it. Obama, the candidate of hope and change, uses
00:55:03.000identity as the first African-American president as a cover for a massive bail
00:55:07.000out of Wall Street at the expense of the working class.
00:55:09.000Biden claimed to be fighting to preserve the soul of America against the danger of Trump, and is supposedly the only hope for defending democracy in America, as if this 81-year-old dodgering war criminal is all that stands in the way of fascist dictatorship.
00:55:27.000It's warmongering that is the religion of the West.
00:55:30.000It's warmongering that all three of those presidents, and George W Bush was dropped in the mix as well, are devoted to.
00:55:36.000In spite of whatever claims they may make of other faiths, and obviously I'm not condemning them as individuals, they are merely deacons and priests of the religion of death that requires ongoing war to perpetuate itself.
00:55:46.000Perhaps the words of the pastor that spoke to Tucker Carlson earlier ought be allowed to resonate within each of us.
00:55:53.000If you love God, if you consider yourself a Christian or a Muslim or a Jew or indeed a secular humanitarian, surely the priority is ending war rather than equivocating, prevaricating and justifying why this particular war or this particular genocide has to happen because of this set of reasons.
00:56:08.000That to me sounds like you don't really have any principles, you just are willing to To do what's necessary in order to gain what you want.
00:56:14.000And that is the actual opposite of religion, in a way, because religion, as far as I can tell, is about sacrifice and willingness to change and overcome the kind of crazy desires that seem to dominate our world right now.
00:56:25.000But I'm not alone in turning towards faith right now, because even Richard Dawkins, while maintaining his atheistic stance, is beginning to acknowledge that materialism leaves civilization and society as a whole with some pretty serious shortcomings.
00:56:50.000But there's a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian.
00:56:54.000And so, you know, I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos.
00:57:01.000I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense.
00:57:05.000So I count myself a cultural Christian.
00:57:07.000I think it would matter if we, certainly if we substituted any alternative religion, that would be truly dreadful.
00:57:13.000Which brings me to my supplementary point, which is that, as we know, church attendance is plummeting, but the building, the erection of mosques across Europe, I think 6,000 are under construction and there are many more, I mean, are being planned.
00:57:28.000So do you think, do you regard that as a problem?
00:58:15.000Cultural Christian is an interesting idea.
00:58:16.000I suppose it's taken from the idea of being culturally Jewish from the many Jewish folk that are secular but racially Jewish.
00:58:22.000It's a fascinating piece of language that dear Richard Dawkins, who I admire in many ways, seems to be using to further condemn Islam.
00:58:30.000My personal position is that I'm becoming increasingly persuaded and enamored of Christianity, but I believe and respect all other faiths and people that are Muslim, I have every right to celebrate and enjoy Ramadan.
00:58:43.000And indeed, I would remind you of the phrase, the world doesn't require that more people believe in God, just that the people who do believe in God start acting like they believe in God, which is to say, look for peace, look for harmony, look for love, look for solutions, promote diplomacy, act as if other people's views are as important as ours.
00:58:59.000In fact, when you look at this list of war crimes and these barbarous president and what atrocities were committed in
00:59:05.000their name, many of whom are still regarded as heroes, then you have to see that it's religion in general and the
00:59:10.000principles of religion that are required.
00:59:12.000And of course many atrocities have been carried out in the name of Christianity,
00:59:15.000but I would say that was in the pursuit of power. Many atrocities have been carried out in the name of
00:59:18.000Islam, but I would also argue that was in the pursuit of power, territory, material things, treasures here on earth.
00:59:25.000And now it is being said that atrocities are being carried out, if not in the name of Judaism,
00:59:29.000certainly in the name of Israel, which is by definition a Jewish state.
00:59:34.000So no religion has clean hands when it comes to the subject of genocide and every religion has an
00:59:41.000obligation to motivate each of us individually and all of us collectively towards peace and love and tolerance.
00:59:47.000These may sound like phatic little hallmark card words when they're just said but when they're practiced is the most difficult thing in the world because it means confronting the serpent The behemoth, the monster that has become the secular machine, the establishment that demands war, that demands sacrifice, and that's as every bit as evangelical and as zealous as any of these faiths can be when practiced by those who do not appear to have the faith in their hearts, merely the ornamentation of those religions as a guise of similarly materialistic aims.