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Jan. 21, 2022 - David Icke
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Right Now - Gareth Icke Talks To Filmmaker Sean Stone About Human Trafficking And Modern Day Slavery
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This week on Right Now, journalist and filmmaker Sean Stone joins us from America to talk about National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Kathy Jones from the UK's NHS 100K campaign tells us about all the NHS staff that are willing to lose their jobs over mandatory vaccinations.
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And DJ turned author and activist Mark Devlin is in the right now studio talking about his new book musical truth 3
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Boris Johnson has announced that in England all Plan B restrictions are to be lifted on Thursday.
Boris Johnson is also an infamous liar, so forgive me for not taking him at his word.
There'll be a motive behind his announcement and it will be in his and his owners' best interests, not ours, so it's worth holding back the champagne for now at least.
Some truly great news though, the world's 10 richest men have doubled their wealth.
During the COVID era, it's so nice to be able to cover something positive.
We need more good news stories like this, guys.
Funny thing though, Bill Gates, the wonderful man-angel that gives away all his wealth to save humanity, he's managed to add another 30% on top of his wealth to take it to $135 billion, despite giving it all away to save humanity.
It's incredible, isn't it? The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, when the people shall have nothing more to eat, They will eat the rich.
Rousseau would have been all over Kermit Gates.
They love frog's legs, don't they, around that part of the world.
Novak Djokovic has been kicked out of Australia for setting a bad example for the Australian people.
In the words of one of the lawyers representing the government, the fear was that Novak Djokovic may become an icon for free choice.
How utterly Orwellian.
At this point, it's worth reminding ourselves of the Australian national anthem.
Australians, oh let us rejoice, for we are young and free.
You ain't. The whole thing's a PSYOP anyway.
Whether Novak knows it or not, it will kind of depend on who you ask.
But it was about making people feel helpless.
If we can do this to the world number one, to a globally recognised superstar, with all the world watching, imagine what we can do to you.
That's what they're saying. There's one Novak, but there are billions of us, and that is worth remembering.
Our first guest tonight is here to talk about human trafficking and slavery.
Cheery subject, I know, but here at Right Now we pride ourselves on tackling the subjects the mainstream media often shy away from.
This week is American National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
U.S. journalist and filmmaker Sean Stone has made an entire series of films investigating these subjects, and he joins us now.
Sean, thank you so much for coming on to Right Now.
It's National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the States.
You've been looking at these subjects, obviously, for a very, very, very long time.
Do you think that an awareness month or something like that actually makes a difference at all?
I can't say I do because I wasn't aware of it until you brought it up.
But maybe it's because I don't watch mainstream media, so I don't know how much they're addressing these things.
But certainly, you know, it's not just bringing awareness.
I mean, awareness is one aspect.
It's really a question of how do you actually go about combating human trafficking, especially at the international level?
I have to confess, actually, I didn't know it was until Gabe, one of our The cameraman and filmmakers here at Right Now actually brought up the fact that it was an awareness month.
When you focus on subjects like this, some argue obviously that it's too dark, it lowers people's energies and stuff like that.
What would you say to people like that?
Um, you know, it's, it's, it's an interesting point, you know, in terms of where you want to focus.
I, I do tend to believe that everyone has their own path in life, right?
Everyone has their purpose. Um, I am of that orientation that, uh, we have a sort of a soul, a soul's choice to come here.
Um, and there's a, there's a karmic, there's karmic implications to every person's choice coming here.
So if you don't feel that you can potentially Do something, even by spreading awareness around an issue, then yeah, maybe this is not for you to know about.
But once you become aware of something, it's very difficult to become unaware of it, to go back to sleep.
Once you realize that there are arguably more slaves in the world now than ever before in human history, for example.
Millions of children being forcibly trafficked into Slavery, prostitution, things like this, even from North America, let alone from Europe, the European nations from west to east, across Latin America. Asia is a huge, huge trafficking apparatus that goes on.
Obviously, especially when you have poor families, sometimes even selling their own kids into prostitution and slavery.
It's very difficult to say, well, I just don't want to know about it.
It's yes. Once you know, you know.
And the question then becomes, what do you want to do?
Do you want to raise awareness?
Do you want to... Basically advocate or sponsor organizations that are doing their best to combat it, alerting governments, telling governments we have to actually address this and combat this and treat this as what it is, which is an emergency for the human race.
There are different paths forward, of course, but you can't just say, well, I don't want to know about it.
It's happening. It's real.
What was your first introduction to it?
Because, like you say, this is a huge operation that's going on all over the world.
You know, it's...
It's something that I was aware of as a child, because I was in countries like Cambodia, India, Vietnam, and then Thailand.
And I had glimpses of it.
I had glimpses of underaged girls, 13, 14 years old, at that time, especially, let's say, sex tourism.
Or some older men that were actually putting them through school, kind of treating them as though they're young lovers.
But I saw it firsthand in different ways.
And it's something that I've been aware of, I guess, through reading and just talking to people that go out there and actually do operations, rescue operations, taking girls out of brothels, this kind of stuff, right?
And so I knew about it more in Asia, the idea then of how much it happens here.
I mean, people have brought up the fact that human trafficking is huge.
For example, this upcoming month, Super Bowl weekend in America will be huge in terms of human trafficking of women, presumably, but both probably men and women, but boys and girls, let's say, for sexual purposes around these events, this event.
So I learned about it later in terms of America.
I knew about it as a kid in Asia.
I learned about it later just reading books, even things like the Franklin scandal, Franklin cover-up, books like that, talking about the trafficking of kids and how that was actually protected by very powerful politicians.
The Department of Justice covering it up.
Powerful businessmen in America, you know, were named in that book in particular.
So, you know, it came to me through the course of time.
You've made an entire series investigating these subjects.
It's called Best Kept Secret, and we're lucky enough to have it on iconic at the minute for our subscribers.
It's fair to say, obviously, it's a very dark subject, there's lots of rabbit holes.
Was there something that surprised you about it?
You've been aware of it as a kid, you've seen glimpses of it, but were there any parts when making the series that you were like, oh my god, like it literally blew your mind?
No, because my mind was blown.
As I mentioned, that book, The Franklin Cover-Up, which is a must-read.
John DeCamp wrote that one.
He was investigating these kids that were being trafficked.
Essentially, the stories being told by the kids indicated satanic rituals that they were involved with.
Once you become aware of people using kids and basically trafficking them, even from birth, the stories that I've heard of literally You know, babies being taken out of women either for trafficking purposes or to be murdered and ritually sacrificed, right? Once you understand that, there's nothing really that can shock you, right?
Because this is like the greatest atrocities that you can do because it's being perpetrated against children.
It's not like you can say, well, yeah, there's tragedies and there's genocides and things that are done.
But when you're massacring children, I mean, I hate to say it, but I was, in a sense, not numbed, but prepared for this when I was mentioning Cambodia as a kid.
You go and you learn the history of the Khmer Rouge.
Who we know as for this sort of psychotic, communistic apparatus that took over the government in Cambodia.
And when you see the paintings of what they did, and they have this memorial to the victims and the skulls of the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
I can't recall at the moment if it was in the millions, but you see the skulls of the dead
and how they would literally impale babies, rip them, you know, because it was a cultural thing.
You know, if you were educated, if this was a peasant, so-called peasant revolt,
if you were intellectual, if you had glasses, you know, they'd murder you,
but they'd take babies out of women and just impale them because they didn't want to waste bullets.
Once you become aware of that, and I was 12, 13 years old,
it's very difficult to shock someone like me.
Jesus Christ. Do you feel like, because the question, the obvious question is like,
can this be stopped?
Is there a way that you can stop human trafficking?
And I guess to do that you would need to get to the absolute, you know, to the crux of the matter.
What is it that's causing it?
But there's so many different reasons why people fall into this.
Yes. Well, there's an economics.
It's different than the drug traffic, in a sense, because with drugs, you could say, well, it's difficult to get rid of it because there's a demand.
And so long as there's a demand, there'll be a supply.
With human trafficking, it's certainly darker because you're talking about slavery and perversions.
But Essentially, you're talking about an economic model.
When we say there's more of slaves in the world than ever, well, there's this sort of economic drive of basically not having to employ people to work in, you name it, in sweatshops and things like this.
And prostitution, again, is a type of...
That is a type of slavery, depending on how it's conducted.
So the point is that you have this economic model that's feeding the beast.
And this is really where it's difficult to say, well, it's just a demand.
You know, we demand, you know, and we say most people don't demand sex with children.
Most people don't demand children or slaves to be used for work purposes, economic purposes.
But you have an economic model, an imperial model, monetary system that is so predicated in debt slavery, in a sense, right?
Debt slavery, not physical slavery, but debt slavery.
That the system, in a sense, demands that types of slavery be used because it's not a healthy economic system, as we know, as we look at the planet.
Every country is in debt.
Everyone, for the most part, is in debt.
And most people will never get out of that debt.
So this is the ultimate thing that has to be addressed, is the economic system that is predicated in debt, that is predicated in systems of debt, that ultimately in its prettiest form is debt slavery in a Western country, and its worst form is actual physical slavery.
So you think that's the answer then, to start with that, in terms of if you were tasked now, right, Sean, you're in charge with getting rid of slavery and human trafficking, would that be your first port of call then, to just go, let's look at this?
Well, it's easy to say, can you remake the economic system?
It's obviously not in one go.
It's a psychological thing.
It's a technological thing. How do we actually reshape the human economy?
You mentioned Best Kept Secret as a docu-series.
I also looked at A Century of War was a documentary that I put out through Amazon and RT, which looks at how We have been basically predicating ourselves in this scarcity model of economy, right?
And slavery plays into that because it's the idea that there's too many people.
There's only a limited amount of resources.
There's too many people. People are kind of a waste.
We're better off without them.
Let's just get rid of them.
No, actually, I argue that we have infinite resources because it's the human mind creating that actually gives value to things.
Oil has no value unless a human mind figures out A combustible engine, for example, right?
So that creates the resource.
Human creativity is the key.
We have to have a transformation of how we model our economy away from this idea as humans, as brute labor, and actually seeing humans as this amazing creative tool and augmenting higher powers of technology, raising the standard of living.
We're using humans in a way that we actually empower them, not using them, but allowing them to feel empowered on this planet and to transform the way that we see this.
But it's a total psychological spiritual revolution that has to take place from a traumatized human race as we are, that most people are traumatized by Physical, sexual, verbal abuses, children, wars, famines, economic catastrophes, trying to pay the bills.
All these things are different forms of the matrix model to traumatize the human.
So of course you're going to have a system that basically devalues human life, right?
And doesn't look at a human as a sacred being, which we are.
So it's a total economic, spiritual, psychological revolution that has to occur.
Do you think that will happen?
I'm optimistic. I do believe that it's a process, but I feel like we're here for that purpose.
We're here for this time, and we have a greater opportunity now, thanks to technology, thanks to the abilities not just of communication through technology, the powers that are available, I think, with suppressed technologies.
We've all talked to the conspiratorial realms about the secret space program and advanced technologies.
I am more optimistic than ever that we can achieve a better world for our children.
Absolutely. Thank you.
Thanks. Cheers for talking to us, Sean.
Really appreciate it, mate. Absolutely.
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