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Is Free Speech Finally Back!? Elon BUYS Twitter! - #023 - Stay Free with Russell Brand
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With Rumble, rocking and a-rolling.
With Twitter, Elon and a-musking.
We ask, is free speech finally back, baby?
Is it time to strike up a Diwali light and celebrate that sweet bird that we call freedom?
Is it?
Is it?
That's what we're asking you.
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments.
Right now.
Russell, please invite President Putin onto the show.
Have you got contact, BluePanda64?
Have you got a contact for Putin?
We got young Putin.
We got the next best thing.
He will become Putin.
He's the younger model.
He's better.
He's younger.
He's less deadly.
Copy Pastry Chris.
Decentralise.
You know that's our message.
That's how we defuse these culture wars.
You let people be who they are.
Decentralise power.
Whether it's the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, or Big State, we have to break down power.
We have to unify.
We cannot afford to live in contact... Oh my God, the pound's just shot right up as a result of that.
We can't afford to squabble.
We live in a time of shifting narratives, of shifting tales.
Now that Elon Musk has got Twitter by the wings, pulling it about by the feathers, will it really change?
Is some of that Saudi money still in the mix?
We're going to be asking a lot of questions.
What did he mean by that kitchen sink?
Do you see Elon as a great hero?
Let me know in the comments.
Let me know in the chat.
We've got a fantastic guest on today.
We've got Alan McLeod on.
Alan McLeod's a fantastic journalist who investigates the infiltration by intelligence services into these kind of platforms.
Did you know that Mulder and Scully from the X-Files have literally infiltrated Facebook?
I'm being reductive, but there are members of the FBI and CIA.
No, that's FBI.
F-B-I.
Hannibal Lecter, you know?
Actually, in Twitter, is Musk gonna get him out of there?
Is he gonna hose him down?
Is he gonna sniff him out?
He's sacked everyone else, so you'd think maybe.
He's gone round Saki Saki?
All the execs have gone, I think.
The execs have gone?
Oh my god, what do you think the vibe's like there today?
They're pretty low.
Are they tweeting about it?
Are they going, I've lost my job?
Are they putting it on Twitter?
Because it's news free now, so they can say what they want.
So, yeah.
On our big item, we're talking about Pfizer's blanked out pages.
What's in those pages?
What do you think's in those pages?
Let me know in the comments right now.
Let me know in the chat, because we respond to you.
Look at this.
Pyrodex.
I believe him when he says he loves you, Manny.
I believe Elon.
Like, I had a conversation with Elon.
You know this.
I'm not name-dropping.
I'm not that type of a person.
No, I'm really not.
In fact, I was told once by Barack Obama that I'm one of the least... No, I'm not even going to finish that joke.
You know, like, I like him.
I like him, but this is the world's most rich and powerful man.
So how do you become that?
The way I sort of feel about the royal family, in a sense, if you've accumulated that amount of power, some stuff must have gone down.
Is it all ingenuity, or is there more to it?
These are the questions I want to ask him when we finally get him on this show.
We're going to be speaking to Dr. Joe Dispenza.
Is that today?
When's that?
Not today.
When?
In November sometime.
Get ready.
Hang on to your hats.
Brace yourself.
Sit on your hands.
Chew on your lip.
Learn about Joe Dispenza.
He's going to be a fantastic guest.
And did you see our conversation with Tulsi Gabbard?
It's up now on Rumble.
Don't watch it now.
Watch me doing this now.
Then watch me doing that later.
Shall we have a look at a little bit of that conversation?
This is one of the best bits, wasn't it, Gareth?
Uh, this was one of the strangest bits, but... What was wrong with it?
It was a good conversation.
People remarked on how still I was when talking to Tulsi Gabbard.
I asked her great questions, didn't I, Gail?
About, are you gonna run with Trump?
I asked her about the cultural and social issues.
And significantly and importantly, I asked her about, sort of, God.
Well, have a look for yourself.
Tell me what you think, guys.
Tulsi, I believe in God.
I wonder if you believe in God.
Yeah, you know, I do my very best to please God and to love God with all my heart.
There you go, that's what you get over here.
Tulsi, I believe in God.
Was that unusual?
It was just the left field of some of the other questions you were asking.
The rest of them were more conventional, but that one, yeah, you've got to get to the Crux, isn't it?
Got to know whether people are believing in God or not.
You're going to love this conversation because we're going to dive a little deeper on some of the subjects that matter.
Did you know, for example, that some of the resistance to Musk taking over Twitter is because there are those in power in your country, and by your country I mean the United States of America, The belief he's not bullish enough on Ukraine.
Is it possible?
And let me ask you this question, and you tell me in the chat, you tell me in the comments, that social media is by now a de facto arm of the state.
Alan McLeod knows all about that, so he'll tell us, we will ask him out, right won't we Gale?
Yep.
Alan, is social media a de facto arm of the state?
And do you believe in God?
Alan, do you believe in it?
Do you?
Yeah, I'm going to get that question in.
Should I always, every time we have someone on, ask them a question that's a bit unusual?
At some point, yeah.
Why don't you tell us if you believe in God in the chat?
Why don't you tell us if it's possible to somehow bring together these diverse and currently bifurcated strands of libertarianism and anarcho-syndicalism?
People run in their own communities, people free to be individuals.
Do you think we can ever crush the establishment if we come together as people?
Can we create new movements out of the ashes of what we're currently experiencing?
So that means roll on the autocue, darling, and that means that thing's happening where I've said all of the things that are on the teleprompter and I'm just left there hanging.
Do you know what you're going to ask Jeffrey Sachs next week?
I'm going to ask Jeffrey Sachs things that make him do this.
Anything that makes him do that.
That's always my aim with Jeffrey Sachs, to get him to do this face.
That's what I love about Jeffrey Sachs, that face.
The old God question might do that, you never know.
Shall I go in with it?
Why not go in with an unusual question?
Jeffrey, thank you for joining us.
Do you believe in God?
I once heard that, you know I'm a fan of the, I have long been a fan of Morrissey, erstwhile of the Smiths, and Alan Bennett, the British playwright, said that Morrissey once turned up at his house, without warning, and he said, much too quickly, began to ask questions about a 1950s stand-up comedian called the Clitheroe Kid.
And I thought, if he asked it much too quickly, he must have done it before Hello.
Yeah.
He must have gone, can I ask you about the Clithero Kid?
It must have been so quick.
I'm going to ask Jeffrey Sachs about the Clithero Kid.
The Clithero Kid, who's, I believe, a Lancashire-born pataract comic.
Hit rumble, hit rumble, hit rumble, hit us up with your comments right now.
I need to know everything you believe in most immediately.
Let's see how our friends over on the mainstream media ...reported on Elon Musk's takeover.
Obviously, they're the people, I suppose, that have the most to lose.
That's what's assumed.
Let me know in the chat if you think this.
It's like the mainstream media are against Elon Musk because... what?
Because he just sort of seems to be a free speech advocate?
You feel that under Elon Musk's stewardship, the Hunter Biden laptop story would have been released?
Not suppressed in the manner that it was?
Are all these CIA dark ops folks gonna get booted out?
What is the concern that Alex Wagner on The Tonight Show, I'm sure that's how it's pronounced, on The Tonight Show has?
Let's look at the mainstream media news reporting on Musk.
Breaking news tonight as it appears that Elon Musk has sealed the deal to take over Twitter.
And this morning he tweeted a message to advertisers where he promised that, quote, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where Yeah, and you don't have free-for-all health, Scott.
No, it'd be awful, wouldn't it?
Obviously, I know that you're a sophisticated and educated viewer, so you know that MSNBC is owned by Comcast, which is a subsidiary of General Electric.
That's the 14th largest defence contractor in the US.
So, if you're the 14th largest defence contractor in the US, what is your attitude towards war?
Just as a sidebar, in war you need weapons, and they're the 14th largest defence contractor in the US.
Do you think that that gives them some biases?
They're very explicit about that, aren't they?
When they introduce the news.
They say, oh, by the way, we're owned by... Here's the news.
Mostly, we're a subsidiary of a weapons company.
In other news, we need more weapons.
The only way... It's not connected to that.
Forget that first piece of information.
Stop thinking about the first piece of information.
Forget that ever happened.
We need more weapons.
Don't ask what the MS in MSNBC stands for.
Does it stand for Microsoft?
Oh... He don't own it no more, though, does he, Bill Gates?
I don't know if he owns it.
You never know what Bill Gates owns anymore, do you?
Because what happens with Bill Gates is he sort of primarily presents himself as a kind of philanthropist.
Billy Gates, Billy Gates, going round the world.
Have some medicine, have some pills, have some journalist training.
I'm Billy Gates, I'm Billy Gates.
I'm dancing around the world.
Like, what is his game?
Because that, you know, as you know, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the second largest donator after the country, America, I think it's actually Germany, apparently, recent research.
What, Germany have took over?
The United States.
I think it's Germany first, then... Then Bill and Melinda Gates.
They're staying at number two there.
They've got to get that number one spot eventually.
I think they'll get there.
Yeah, they can't stay bridesmaids in the WHO funding war elite table for much longer.
I didn't mean to call it a war.
But that foundation, for example, isn't it true that a lot of the money in that foundation is untaxed money?
Yeah.
Is Alan McLeod going to know about that?
Not sure.
We can ask him.
We'll ask him about that.
Maybe I'll ask him about that.
The Department of Defense and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies have secured thousands of deals with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook that have not been reported.
Hmm.
Amazon.
Because if you're concerned about Musk taking over Twitter, let us know in the chat.
Let us know in the comments.
Are you concerned about Musk taking over Twitter?
Let me have a look at the chat and comments and see where those guys are going right now because I love to see their little faces.
You think it's not right?
Elon is the richest man in the world.
Only 10% of people even use Twitter, says Jax Rees.
Yeah, good point, good point.
But like other platforms, other big tech companies, who do you think they're all owned by?
Sort of like Disney characters, although Disney have their own problems, don't they?
You know, they're owned by rich people.
You have to be rich.
You don't have to be rich to own them.
Actually, you do have have to be rich to own a social media company. What about
Amazon? We did a great story about them giving ring camera footage to the police without
warrant or consent. Between March 2020 and March 2022, there were 646 instances where big
tech censored criticism of Joe Biden.
140 of those involving Hunter Biden's potentially corrupt foreign deals when his father was
president. And Facebook explicitly banned the claim that COVID-19 was man-made following
consultations with the WHO, which we've already told you is funded by Bill Gates or Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, at least.
And now look at this headline.
COVID-19 most likely was leaked from a lab in China, Senate GOP report says.
The COVID-19 pandemic that's killed millions worldwide was most likely the result of a research-related incident in China and not natural transmission of a virus from animal to human, a new report by Republicans on the Senate Health Committee concludes.
What do you think about that?
Do you think it came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the nearby Stinky old dirty old wet market where people ain't washing their hands properly eating those little armadillos in a cage.
Well if you're reading Facebook you will think one thing and one thing only.
And the reason we're bringing you over here from YouTube is we got a strike simply for mentioning ivermectin incorrectly actually we were incorrect we said that ivermectin had been approved as a result of clinical trials while those clinical trials are actually still ongoing which is why I was so impressed by Tim Poole's celebratory Tweet on learning that Elon's taken over.
Let's have a look at that.
You'll be familiar with it.
Tim Poole simply posting the word ivermectin.
Like, is there a single word that better sums up the transition that's just taken place?
Let me know if you think it's good news or is there more complexity to that?
More complexity to it than that.
Certainly the narrative is shifting.
The narrative around COVID is shifting.
Do you feel sometimes that you're being invited to forget the news?
Like, for example, do you know that there was a recent report that confirms that the Canadia... Is that a country?
The Canadia trucker protests had... They were completely non-violent.
There's no evidence of any violence.
But do you remember at the time there being this sense that it was, like, really violent and really bad?
We have Vandana Shiva on this show a lot.
You should listen to our podcast.
By the way, you can listen to this show as a podcast.
You can listen to it while you're driving your car or...
Or your truck.
Uh-uh, you violent lunatics.
You know, it's been confirmed that there was no violence, but there was a sense that it was violent.
Same with this Hunter Biden thing.
Completely suppressed.
Same with the New York City workers getting sacked for not getting vaccinated.
How many people lost their jobs for that?
Narratives are continually shifting and you're invited to forget that it even ever happened.
Everything appears to be altering at a pace and a rate that's difficult to maintain.
Yeah, I mean that is it.
It's Public Safety Canada officials admitted in an internal update.
So this is something that's been uncovered.
That actually they were saying that the Freedom Convoy so far has been peaceful and cooperative with police.
Whereas at the same time you had Trudeau saying... What was he saying?
We cannot allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue.
Occupying streets, harassing people, breaking the law.
This is not a peaceful protest.
Which seems to, as I say, go against what... I feel like I saw them saying that they were actual Nazis.
Yeah, I mean, he did slam or condemn antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, homophobia and transphobia that we've seen on display in Ottawa.
How can Trudeau keep doing this?
I've told you before and I'll tell you again, I don't like people that are presidents and prime ministers just because they've got nice haircuts.
There's got to be more criteria than that.
What did he do?
Rinse off his black face for the umpteenth time and go out to accuse them?
truckers have been Nazis and then get back into his one-man minstrel show.
A very unusual set of circumstances coming from that dude, I've got to tell you.
And while we cope with this ever-shifting narrative, we're gonna have
to learn to deal with, get ready for this reality, even nuns now, actual nuns, are
watching porn and smoking dope. Now I would have become a nun or a monk or
something much earlier point in my life if I'd have known that that was possible.
That was the one thing that was stopping me.
A life of contemplation and rigid adherence to religious principles but you can watch porn and smoke weed.
Yeah, I don't think that's what the Pope's saying.
What's he saying, the Pope?
It's not like become a nun or a monk and you can watch porn.
He's saying don't do it.
He's against it.
It's just in!
Become a nun, become a monk, get high every day and jerk yourself senseless.
Yeah, the Pope has said it's advice that many people have, many lay people, but also priests and nuns.
And then he says the devil enters from there.
I'm not sure.
The devil enters through porn.
Subi, I know, Subi, you just said mmm in such a reflective way on hearing that the devil enters through porn.
Is that what you felt?
No, I was just like, oh, OK, that's an interesting point of view.
Yeah, the devil's going to find his way in, Putin.
I'm not even going to touch on that subject with a man in your general age bracket.
So that's the way that Satan finds his filthy little way into our lives.
And I've certainly not made, thank God I left Catholicism.
A remnant disciple of Jesus's, thank God I left Catholicism.
Do you want to know something else though?
The Vatican had to launch an investigation in 2020 after the Pope's official Instagram account liked an image of a Brazilian bikini model posing in a skimpy schoolgirl outfit.
Vatican officials demanded to know how the embarrassing endorsement happened amid speculation that someone in the Holy Seas communications team have accidentally pressed a like button while browsing the model's extensive gallery of images.
Oh dear, that is embarrassing, because what are you doing?
If you're running social media accounts for His Holiness the Holy Father... Well, if it was the social media account team.
And not that His Holiness himself.
I think I know how that's happened.
He's Argentinian, isn't he, the Pope?
So I think they had a thing of, right, let's just, for God's sake, put this rivalry between Brazil and Argentina behind us by liking anything that's remotely Brazil-related.
And they saw that saucy-looking, I'm assuming, model.
In a way though, adult human female step in the right direction from some of the revelations around the behaviour, not of this Pope of course, I'm not saying that.
Allegedly!
I don't even think it is allegedly when it comes to paedophilia within the Catholic Church.
I think it's sort of proven again and again and again.
It's sort of borderline a sanctioned hobby.
Right.
When they found this out, maybe there was a round of applause.
Well done!
Someone's masturbating in the Vatican.
Oh, no!
Not again!
Oh, it's an adult!
Oh, well, good work!
Well done!
Bravo!
Bravo!
Right, let me just close that page.
Oh, you monster!
Someone put some smoke out the top of the chimney.
Finally they're doing it to a woman!
An adult woman is specifically what we want from a... Are we in safe ground here?
Certainly not things we'll be putting up on YouTube afterwards to continue the promotion of this platform because we believe in free speech.
Free speech to be loving, open.
Funny.
Adoring.
Not free speech to slam one another, criticise one another, challenge and attack people for things that are their own personal choices.
That's not what we're down with one little bit.
What I'm all about is watching nuns smoke weed every day.
Let's have a look at these saucy nuns living large.
Nuns in charge.
Because I'll tell you what, if there was a religious order that allows you to look at pornography and smoke weed, I think I'd be their Pope.
We'd have lost you years ago, wouldn't we?
Good years ago.
I'd have been their Pope by now.
I'd have been their new Jesus.
Let's have a look at this lot.
They may look the part, but these nuns are not religious, at least not in the traditional sense.
I do say the words holy plant.
Cannabis to me is holy.
Sister Sophia is one of 10 nuns whose devotion to the so-called holy plant has turned into a budding business here on this one acre farm in California.
Well the thing is, monks in abbeys in medieval Britain always brewed mead and ale, so it shows you that there is no sort of objective mentality when it comes to restrictions around substance misuse.
It's more of a temporal and cultural issue.
There may be a time where there's nuns like cooking up meth, just humble nuns cooking up rocks and In the nunnery or abbots in the monastery or whatever.
So this is what I suppose I'm saying about shifting narratives.
Controlling stories is the control of reality.
It's already ordinary to imagine that monks brew beer.
That's no problem.
So nuns, or at least an order of nuns, smoking weed and liking Brazilian bikini models is simply a shift.
I feel like that we regarded there, for a time we regarded that there were these absolute
values attached to the left and right, and this is the sort of stuff I reckon you guys
will like, where the left was like, what's going on with free speech?
Don't censor people.
And the right were sort of like a Christian-derived, somewhat puritanical, this is like 20 years
ago, it's not that bloody long ago.
That was the sort of presumed dynamic.
While the right has always been fixated on individual liberty, they used to be censorial,
just think back to all of that, you know, the censorship of hip-hop, for example, that
was like, usually the wives of people, like Nancy Reagan was all that just say no to drugs
stuff, and what's her name, Tipper Gore, like someone else's wife was trying to get him
down with the hip-hop and criticising and stuff, so it's almost like there is not an
Connection between these ideas.
There's not an organic connection between left-wing politics and freedom and I know like in America and probably in this chat you have very definitive views about sort of the left as being alloyed to actual communism as in sort of old school Stalinist Maoist communism which are atrophying and dead ideas although I'm sure many of you think they're being reintroduced culturally through forms of censorship.
Now of course our position here is a A little more nuanced because I believe absolutely in individual freedom.
Freedom to express yourself however you want to without harming others and I suppose that that includes absolutely beyond tolerance.
Tolerance, don't even come into it.
Love.
Love is the principle that interests me.
I was reading something by Matt Taibbi talking a similar thing about journalism in the way you were just talking about kind of left and right in politics and he writes, a professional journalist who opposed free speech was not long ago considered a logical impossibility.
Things are different now, of course, because the bulk of journalists no longer see themselves as outsiders who challenge official pieties, but rather as people who live inside the rope lines and defend those pieties.
Media has been co-opted by a professional metropolitan class.
There is only centrist politics now.
There are occasional fluctuations that appear to be extreme, but no one discusses anything as extreme as absolute decentralization, public assemblies, real democracy, the ability to meaningfully control, Corporatism and central state dictums, our challenge, the edicts that come down from unelected bodies, IMF, WHO, WEF.
I've told you a personal example of how we have already been regulated and somewhat punished as a result of YouTube, owned of course by Alphabet, automatically adopting the policies of the WHO.
That means that what the WHO says goes.
So that's Or anti-democratic by any measure.
So this idea of decentralisation I think is extremely significant and I think it's a genuine opportunity to put aside the typical oppositionism that can exist in left-v-right type politics.
And I know you agree with me on that.
I do agree on that, Ross.
Because I think people just want to be left alone.
People want to be left alone to live their own lives and to love one another.
I wonder if the WHO might enlighten us to what's in those blanked out Pfizer pages.
WHO!
If you love us so much, if all you care about is the world's health and organising it nicely, why don't you tell us what's in them blanked out pages?
What's the point in producing a report and then scribbling it out in black marker?
For one thing, it's a waste of printer ink to have that much.
In our item, here's the news, no, here's the effing news, we look at Pfizer vaccine hikes, which are currently, like, now that they're going to market with that product, 10,000% above cost, and we look again at these redacted pages.
Why is this happening?
Is this the function of the World Health Organization?
What's the point of an inquiry that's able to be so heavily censored?
Where is the demand for transparency?
Here's the news. Oh, no, here's the other news.
Here's the news. No, here's the fucking news.
Pfizer have had their most profitable year.
They've just jacked up the prices of their vaccine by 10,000%.
So we're asking, how much profit do they need before they'll release those bloody redacted pages?
The EU held a committee, didn't they, to investigate Pfizer?
We already know that Dutch MEP Rob Roos asked this question, eliciting this response.
Was the Pfizer Covid vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market?
Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping humanisation before it's entered the market?
No!
Additionally, Romanian MEP Cristian Taraz, who's also a human rights advocate, made some serious allegations about redacted Pfizer contracts after CEO Albert Baller refused to testify and answer questions posed by the committee.
So obviously when we found out that the CEO of Pfizer Decided not to come and answer questions.
This is not an inquiry committee.
So he was not bound by law to come and, you know, he was not on record, you know, he was not facing any criminal punishments in case he's lying in front of this committee.
But even in that case, he refused to come.
Even without any risk of legal consequences, Albert Baller still refused to turn up to have what amounts to a chat with a nice blue backdrop.
They can't get to them bloody WF meetings quick enough, can they?
What do you have to do to get Baller to show up to your party?
Questions that I think all of us, and all of you, have.
And the first question is, what exactly in these contracts?
What are they hiding?
What, because the pages are redacted?
Because everything's all blacked out and you can't read?
This is how they were disclosed to us.
They're gonna go through that printer cartridge pretty quickly.
And to the public, and to the press.
I mean, the last one looked like Darth Vader's bum.
Well, you want to know what's in those contracts?
Here.
A limitless dark abyss!
An endless nothingness!
A black hole!
A blackness beyond black!
Black!
Black!
Black as night!
What's the point?
Don't even bother sending it.
Just say we're not going to show you.
Save your photocopier.
We've got nothing to hide.
Here's our contracts from Moderna and Pfizer.
There, look!
You command whack job conspiracy theorists.
What do you think we're doing?
We've got absolutely nothing to hide.
Nope, not that bit.
Absolutely nothing at all.
I'm going to need another pen.
Whatever it is that's redacted in that Hewlett-Packard oil spill, it ain't stuff that's going to make you so happy, is it?
And you know where I'm going.
The representative of Pfizer Who was sent to replace the CEO of Pfizer said that they can't fully disclose this contract because they have some commercial secrets over there.
And they have to protect their interests.
No, I'm asking you, what about the interests of our people?
Never mind the interests of your people.
We've got commercial cigarettes.
We were borderline mandated to take that medicine.
People that questioned it and queried it were openly ridiculed.
Well, what do you say to those people now?
How do you say, you know how you were sort of suspicious about, like, the whole vaccine and wanted more trialing and more transparency and more information just to be absolutely certain before you took this medicine that was new and you didn't know much about, broadly recommended by a government you don't trust, a media you don't trust, and a big pharma you don't trust, yeah?
Well, this should put your mind at rest.
A limitless blackness!
A pitiless blank sun!
An unlight!
A necromancer!
A dark force!
A dance with the vampire!
Oh no, this all seems to be in order.
Anyway, it's up to them what they redact.
It's not as if we paid for it.
Oh, no.
Sorry, we did pay for it.
We paid for it out of taxpayer money.
In what other circumstances in this world, other than other examples of government and corporate collusion, would you pay for something and then, on receiving it, accept redaction?
Oh, I'll take one croissant, please.
Certainly, monsieur.
But first...
You must never know!
You must never know what goes into this croissant!
Why is it that lovely shape?
You will never know!
How did you get it so lifelike?
Never know!
But it's my croissant!
Fuck you!
Dark blackness!
Limitless lightness Neverland!
So I'm asking again.
And we are asking again.
Where are they going to hide?
Where do they hide exactly?
Christian Theraz there, holding Pfizer to account.
A man who lives one top hat away from becoming the penguin in Batman.
Oh, Batman!
Why you not tell me how you make that thing that is a grappling hook?
What's in that bat belt of yours?
Hmm, Batman, why you redacting all this information about where Robin's quarters are in the Batcave?
I don't need to tell you where Robin sleeps.
Why not?
Robbing is paid for by the taxpayer!
Let's find out what's got the old penguin so roiled up.
Following an audit report in the EU's COVID-19 procurement strategy, Pfizer CEO Albert Baller, who was previously due to testify before the European Parliament's COVID-19 Committee October 10th, pulled out of the appointment.
Paula was expected to face questions and address the scrutiny surrounding the negotiations for Europe's third vaccine contract with Pfizer signed in May and covering an initial 900 million doses for delivery in 2022 and 2023.
It was the biggest COVID-19 contract signed by the European Commission.
900 million doses?
That's a lot of doses.
Probably there's a lot of scrutiny and examination before doses in that number are doled out.
Certainly not the sort of deal you'd want done by text messages.
The New York Times reported that EC President Ursula von der Leyen and Borla have been exchanging text messages leading up to the vaccine purchase agreement.
In their own investigation, Investigate Europe discovered, deals for doses happened behind closed doors between the EU and pharmaceutical companies.
Why is this stuff...
Also shady.
Why is it the contracts have to be blacked out?
Why are the deals happening in secret?
This is supposed to be democracy.
When Britain left the EU, it was like, oh, that's a regressive step.
It's not very democratic.
The whole point of the culture that we live in when criticizing other cultures, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, whatever, is Not very democratic though, are they?
Well, isn't democracy where government is an enactment of the will of the people?
Now, surely we don't want to vote on when the bins are collected, although actually I do a bit, but we do want to vote on major issues and major deals and global medical emergencies that are funded at inordinate cost and generate incredible profits and then the process is redacted.
That's not democracy, is it?
Let me know in the comments, let me know in the chat.
New variants, international competition and darkness around manufacturing costs have allowed Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna to increase the bill for European taxpayers.
So this darkness, these redactions, this lack of transparency, even if it's not something
nefarious, and who's to say whether it is or not, let me know in the chat if you think
it is, certainly what it does is increases their ability to glean profit without accountability.
You want transparency in a relationship like that.
You've got no power, you've got no transparency, you've got no accountability.
What have you got?
You've got a new form of tyranny.
You've got systems where your voice, your visibility are all irrelevant.
They're doing whatever they want to do.
And even this dude, an elected MEP, ain't even able to get a straight answer.
Where's the real power if an MEP can't compel a CEO to turn up and offer an account after
a global pandemic that's seen record expenditure, record suffering, and record profits?
Tell me where the power is.
Is it with you?
Is it with democracy?
Is it within the European Parliament?
Or does that begin to look like a shallow, phatic exercise while real power marauds about under the cover of darkness of one form or another doing whatever the hell it likes?
Pfizer announced it will soon raise the price of its publicly funded Covid-19 shot to between $110 and $130 per dose in the US.
One of the things it might say in there is like that there's no accountability, no ability to regulate pricing, that they're conceding that.
And if that stuff was built in at the beginning when all of us were... I remember our baller Specifically saying, well, this isn't something we're going to profit from, this is beyond that.
But in reality, redacted, redacted up the wazoo, profits from here next week, and the only thing that's going to the moon is possibly Albert Buller and his own rocket, with cock-loving spaceman Jeff Bezos.
I meant cock-rocket loving, I've no idea what he does in his private time.
But he knows what I do in mine, due to data capture.
The price hike would amount to a 10,000% markup above the cost of producing the vaccine, which is estimated to be as low as $1.18 per dose.
Wall Street was expecting such price hikes due to weak demand for COVID vaccines, which meant vaccine makers would need to hike prices to meet revenue forecasts for 2023 and beyond.
Essentially, this is a marketing exercise and an exercising commodity.
May I offer you, sir, a third booster?
Ooh, smells like you're overcharging us.
The US government currently pays around $30 per dose to Pfizer.
How come?
Why?
When they funded the research, how can you possibly justify all of this?
Unless Assange is right and the function of government is to take money from the public and place it in private hands, i.e.
tax people heavily and divert it all to private contractors, whether it's in the military-industrial complex, pharmaceutical, other areas of health.
I mean, the list just goes on, doesn't it?
Add to it down there in the chat.
The market is expected to move to private insurance after the US public health emergency expires.
Pfizer executive Andrew Lukin said, we are confident that the US price point of the COVID-19 vaccine reflects its overall cost effectiveness and ensures the price will not be a barrier for access for patients.
How can you argue for a 10,000% increase saying that it won't be a barrier for patients when many medical experts say that if there are people that require this booster shot, it's likely to be the most vulnerable among us?
Do you consider there to be a huge crossover between the most vulnerable and the most richest?
Because I've noticed that the opposite tends to be true.
That part of the vulnerability is a kind of economic vulnerability.
So if anything, this vaccine should be even cheaper.
It should remain free.
Certainly if Albert Buller remains true to his initial claim that this was a humanitarian project.
Pfizer said it expects the COVID-19 market to be about the size of the flu shot market on an annual basis for adults.
About the same size of the flu market.
About the same profit.
about the same as the flu market.
About the same as the flu market.
About the same as the flu market.
Pfizer has forecast $100 billion.
So it's not all bad news.
Albert Baller received $24.3 million in total compensation for 2021.
That's a 15% increase over the prior year.
So let's try and focus on the positives, okay?
It's not all about people that are vulnerable being ripped off with a 10,000% price hike or redacted pages or people being unaccountable.
When your neck's feeling down, think about Albert Baller and his $23 million gleaned, to some degree, from human suffering.
Covid vaccines have created nine new billionaires, yet more good news!
With a combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world's poorest countries, which, you know, presumably you would do if you regarded it as a humanitarian thing.
You can have nine new billionaires, or these poor people.
Tell us more about these nine people.
Am I one of them?
Pfizer, along with other pharmaceutical giants, have fervently opposed the patent waiver as it sought to preserve its control over production and distribution of the shots, which were developed using government-funded technology.
So there you are.
A story of fairness, justice, truth, and openness.
Oh, what?
You're still worried about the redacted pages?
You think that the only reason they redacted those pages is because there was information in there that if you had access to it, you'd be so angry you'd probably rise up and overthrow the government?
Those redacted pages were the plans for a surprise birthday party and Albert Baller was actually going to show up even though he's under no obligation to attend.
You're just like your Pfizer.
I mean father.
So there you have it.
Another story of Pfizer helping humanity, whether it's through charging a reasonable price for a drug that makes sense, or open, transparent, dark black pages of limitless nothingness leading you into a sort of quantum nowhere.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
See you in a second.
I thought you meant the person just doing the video.
Sorry, he looks a lot like you.
I know.
We were suddenly separated by a few years.
I made him out of a flake of me.
I made him out of a cell of me.
I made him out of a cuddle I had with myself.
I made him out of a mistake I made.
I made him out of a wish.
I grew a little bastard on a little Petri dish.
Oh, me and my children are so close.
I made him out of me.
It's a weird thing to have said.
Oh, it's good.
Nice song.
Thank you, mate.
I'm trying my best to simply free people from the tyranny of their own minds.
Band D Boyan!
So, even if they are telling the truth, that means that there was no testing, only marketing, since the redacted part, according to them, is a marketing secret.
Oh, do you understand that?
I guess, yeah, I guess what he's saying, or relating that to... Bandy buying?
Yeah, he's relating to the, um, Janine Small thing about, um, not testing it on the spread.
On this platform, like on Janine's, like on YouTube, that's where we got, we, so we nitpicked and tightrope walked around that subject.
But what I felt was, there was definitely a sense, like all that stop the spread crap, huh?
Innit?
Like they were saying that, oh you gotta take this, otherwise you'll kill an old lady.
They were always banging that drum.
Weren't they, Gal?
We've got a headline somewhere.
It might have been from yesterday, but we do have a headline somewhere that said that very thing.
Get a jab or you're a selfish pig.
I don't mind if people get a jab or don't get a jab.
It doesn't matter.
Do what you want.
Travis Mills, $5.
This is your trophy for having the best set on the internet.
Thank you for $5.
I appreciate that, mate.
That's very kind of you.
Monalisa77, anything done in secret meetings is not transparent and democratic.
Period!
And what about them doing those grow-ups?
And what about them doing those text message meetings?
That ain't right.
Do you ever do any deals by text message?
Let me think.
What, like... Booty calls!
I wasn't thinking that.
Is that what you mean?
Is that what you're talking about?
No, large.
Is that what you mean?
I didn't mean that.
Are you talking about sex?
Say it outright!
No, I thought, you know, business deals by text.
I do do some.
I'm a businessman.
Got it.
As you know.
Not really, not really.
Not for 900 million... No, nothing that's been financed by the public.
The public do not finance me.
No.
I've asked them, they've said no.
Right.
They said they're not interested.
Well, what did you call that $5 tip a minute ago?
Actually, thank you for funding me.
You'll get a little text message off of that.
And some transparency?
No, I can't offer transparency, not here.
What goes on in my financial office, that's my private business!
Now, My Brain, My Choice says, when they hide information, it causes mistrust for good reason.
And then on the simple subject of Lord God above, the limitless oneness that underwrites all apparent separateness, Apollocalypse 68 says, absolutely believe in God, but whatever you believe in is your business.
As long as you believe in the betterment of humanity and our planet, then we'll get along just fine.
Apocalypse 68, I couldn't agree more heartily.
I was a bit worried when you started saying apocalypse over and over.
Why?
What did you think was going to happen?
I thought that might just be the rest of the show now.
Apocalypse?
Like I'd gotten in a loop?
That's it, yeah.
Like I'm a robot?
Yeah.
Like I'm a robot.
Do you remember when there's that internet video saying that I'm like Katy Perry's Illuminati handler?
Handler, yeah.
How can I be a handler for the Illuminati?
Having known you both at the time, I can assure you that is not true.
The Illuminati, they've got to focus on their recruitment.
They can't just go, oh those were the days.
My brain might, oh yeah I've done it.
They were some days.
Some of those days were the days.
Cannabis, Project Peace.
Cannabis, hemp, biofuels, energy production makes fossil fuels obsolete.
I hope you're right about that.
I hope you and Woody Harlson, Project Peace, are right about that because I would like new models where we are independent of troubling energy sources, where we can regard this planet with great love, where we can break down all forms of monopoly, energy giants, bogus, peculiar, dubious relationships with peculiar foreign powers.
It would be great, wouldn't it, to run the world a little differently, but we're going to have to change our priorities, as Gandhi said, and I'm pointing up there, Gal, because that's where he is.
There he is.
Gandhi's always watching over us.
You weren't pointing to the heavens, were you?
Although he actually is dead.
But Gandhi, both in the heavens and that's just a stopgap on the way to the limitless oneness that Gandhi's now part of.
There he goes.
It wasn't an official choice, was it, to put him there?
That was you?
I did that on my own.
That's not a part of the actual set design.
Although that's why I'm keeping that $5.
Because I think that that person was referring to Gandhi.
What?
We should go to, we've got to go to Alan McLeod soon.
Hold on, don't you want to, were you going to say something about Elon Musk and stuff, Gal?
Well.
Well, should we bring Alan McLeod in?
Let's bring him in.
Five minutes to Alan McLeod.
What do you think, Hannah?
Bring Alan McLeod on.
Would you want to talk to Alan McLeod?
I think so, yeah, it'd be great.
Oh, there's so much teleprompter just went whizzing by.
There were so many good ideas.
So many good ideas.
But people have decided that Alan McLeod is coming on.
Now, what are you going to ask Alan McLeod before we speak to him?
I am really interested in the government kind of intrusion into this case with Elon Musk.
Government intrusion into the Musk takeover?
Yeah, as in why they've cared so much about why Elon Musk wanted Twitter versus, for example, other billionaire moguls around There are other billionaire moguls.
Media moguls, I should say.
I mean, look at Bezos with the Russian Post.
Was the same kind of interest there from government in that?
Or is it something particular about Musk that they're worried about?
Why does Scalise say, bring back Susie Creamcheese?
Why would you put that in a chat?
That doesn't make sense.
Why are you saying that?
It's not Ben Kingsley, it's actual Gandhi!
Put your questions for Alan McLeod in there as well, please.
Put them in there, we'll ask them to him if they're good.
Carly Hill, where's Gareth's horn?
Mind your own bloody business.
So I would think this is, Only Fans, Babestation, this is a proper channel.
Now I'm going to be asking, Gareth, I'm going to be asking Alan McLeod about, I would say something along these lines probably, it's becoming increasingly clear over the last six years, Alan McLeod, that these people want it both ways.
Bloody people.
They don't want to break up surveillance capitalism or come up with a transparent, consistent, legalistic, fair framework for dealing with troublesome online speech.
No, they actually want tech companies to remain giant black box monopolies with opaque moderation systems so they can direct the speech policing power of those companies to the desired political ends.
I'd probably say something like that.
Yeah, it did sound like you wrote that.
That's right, that's all I've got to say.
And not Matt Taibbi.
Don't be crediting Matt Taibbi for my work.
Taibbi's always taking credit for my endeavours.
So, okay then, let's right now, without further ado, speak to Mint Press's most glorious and golden son, the Scottish Alan MacLeod.
Hello Alan.
You alright guys?
How are you doing?
Actually, we feel pretty upbeat and pretty happy.
Now, there's been plenty of opposition to Musk's takeover, hasn't there?
All over the mainstream media.
Does that include government opposition in your opinion, Alan?
Well, clearly.
I mean, just this week, I mean, it's official.
Ellen Mutt now owns Twitter.
Does he?
But there was lots of reporting going on in the last couple of weeks saying that the US government, the Biden administration, was actually conducting a national security review of the purchase beforehand.
They were basically saying, like Bloomberg, for instance, said that the Biden administration was a bit worried, and I'm quoting here, as they see his increasingly Russia-friendly stance.
Now, in reality, Musk has actually been pretty bullish on Ukraine.
He's supported the Ukrainian government.
He's even sent those Starlink telecommunications satellites over to Ukraine, which their army is using to target Russian military right now.
However, he has said a lot of things online, saying things like, you know, let's compromise,
maybe we should negotiate, end this war.
And that ultimately for the US government doesn't seem to be the right message.
They're really not interested in that sort of, I don't want to say pro-peace, but at
least give peace a chance message.
And so ultimately, I want to say that isn't this very interesting that the US government can block some sort of purchase if the billionaire in question is not sufficiently pro-war enough?
That's very worrying.
We spoke to Tulsi Gabbard yesterday, and it was a very good, and may I say, very professional interview.
And she spoke about the influence and power of the military-industrial complex over the Democrat Party in particular.
And I suppose if they're dabbling in apparently private takeovers between sort of private billionaires, then I suppose that is a suggestion that there is an agenda being asserted from somewhere.
Do you think it simply is a financial Do you think it's an ideological agenda?
Do you think it is driven by the military-industrial complex?
Or do you think there is something beyond even that, Alan?
Well, the United States doesn't really make very much stuff anymore.
They basically make weapons and, you know, some food.
And that's pretty much about it.
Everything we now use is made in China or India or something.
But one place where the United States does have still a lot of control is over media and telecommunications.
And one of them is social media.
So when you think about these big tech companies that we rely on, we like to think of them as sort of transnational existing in the ether.
But no, they're actually bricks and mortar companies, and nearly all of them are headquartered in California.
And so they are subject to American laws.
And not only that, my research over the past couple of years into big tech companies, and who is actually making decisions about content, moderation, trust and security, really was very shocking to me and to people who've read it.
I was really interested in this when the big tech companies basically decided en masse to ban Donald Trump.
I really wanted to know who was actually making the decisions, but they're really opaque and I couldn't really get any sort of answers or any sort of information off of their websites.
Didn't you consider trying a little bit harder and stop being so lazy?
Now what will be the repercussions for the security agencies working inside Twitter that you've written about in your, some are saying not hard enough working, investigative journalism career?
What will happen to those embedded CIA, FBI type agents please mate?
Well, ultimately, I don't know.
If people aren't aware, Twitter is absolutely chock-a-block full of FBI, CIA and NATO agents, or ex-CIA NATO agents.
For instance, Dawn Burton in 2019 left her job as an FBI special agent, and then she just was parachuted into Twitter and became the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations for Public Policy, Trust and Safety.
And there are many more examples like this.
For instance, one of the chief people on Facebook's Trust Safety and Moderation team is Aaron Berman, who until 2019 was one of the most senior CIA agents going.
He was actually writing the presidential daily briefs that Obama and Trump read every day.
Although I think Trump just had them read out to him, actually.
But yeah, ultimately, a lot of people really don't understand how deeply embedded Trump said those things was boring.
Like, he didn't want to read those briefings.
You're not the only one doing investigative journalism, Alan.
We are as well.
And one of the things we investigated, and then journaled, was that Trump finds them things boring and they used to pretend that he was in them to keep him... Hey, you lot have been doing that to me, I've noticed!
So it's a good bit of news about you, Russell.
Go on, tell me a bit more about that.
And here's some other news.
Elon Musk...
Over Twitter.
Should we go with Elon Musk one?
So yeah, they are deeply embedded and they are high-level officials.
So this is not just some, I don't know, like it's beyond a revolving door.
It's an amorphous and diaphanous connection, a sort of symbiosis that's ongoing that challenges the very idea of them being separate entities.
Alan, did your increasingly half-hearted seeming research throw up any insights into how come Jeff Bezos was allowed to buy the Washington Post, please, sir?
Well, you know, I think ultimately a lot of people in Washington don't really like Elon Musk.
He's not exactly an outsider.
I mean, he's literally the richest man in the world, after all.
But at the same time, in Washington, there is an extraordinary consensus about all sorts of things to do with politics, the economy, and how the world should work.
Ultimately, Musk is a bit of a loose cannon in that sense.
He'll just throw out anything.
On Monday, he'll say this.
On Tuesday, he'll say this.
And it's quite hard to keep him under wraps.
Bezos, on the other hand, really plays the game very much down the center and so ultimately hasn't ruffled any feathers in Washington like Musk has.
And so ultimately, I think that's one of the reasons why there wasn't too much pushback to Bezos buying the post.
But there has been a little bit of ruffled feathers in terms of Musk coming over to Twitter.
Yeah, it's peculiar.
Sometimes I do query.
I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, in spite of being frequently labelled as one.
But it does sometimes seem that there is an agenda at play that goes beyond the simple acquisition of financial assets.
Gareth Roy is the producer of this show, and my sense is that he loves you, Alan, in a professional way.
And we might have a question to ask you.
Do you, Gal?
Well, it's interesting to me because obviously looking at kind of media moguls in the States and owning of the Washington Post, I've just mentioned with Jeff Bezos, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, these are all owned by billionaires.
So it's interesting when we get to Elon Musk that there's such opposition to that.
But when you mentioned Bezos there, it brought me to thinking about his connections and Amazon's
connections with the military-industrial complex and the kind of contracts that they have in
place.
And so it seems to me like obvious that they would, if Elon Musk is going to chuck out
these members of the CIA and the FBI, that he's going to break that kind of link between
government and a massive big tech platform, whereas someone like Bezos and Amazon rely
on those relationships to provide so much money through these loads of contracts.
So do you think that could be one of the reasons why there's such kind of opposition to this?
Well, first of all, I do find it pretty funny how columnists at the Washington Post and Bloomberg are writing about the dangers of the billionaire class controlling our media system when they're quite literally owned by Jeff Bezos, formerly the world's richest man, and Michael Bloomberg, formerly the world's ninth richest man.
But yeah, as you said, Amazon has signed a number of huge contracts with the US national security state worth billions of dollars, providing things like cloud computing and other software and infrastructure for Washington and its various three-letter agencies.
Ultimately, people have talked about Twitter maybe being a place that fake news will abound
if Musk picks it up.
But ultimately, Twitter was already owned by billionaires before this.
In fact, the billionaire in question was Prince Alawaleed bin Talal, I think, one of the Saudi
royalty.
So nothing's really going to change in that matter.
I frankly, I haven't seen anything about Elon Musk going to, he hasn't said anything about
kicking out these CIA agents or anything.
I don't know how much is really going to change ultimately for the average user.
He's got all sorts of plans to turn it into this huge app X, he's calling it, whereby
it will become like a chat app, a social media thing, maybe a finance thing as well.
These are all sorts of pipe dreams that may or may not take place.
to come to fruition. But yeah, ultimately, I don't think people in Washington really
care about fake news. They've been pushing it for years.
Every war they start is based on lies. And so ultimately, it's really about the potential
of losing a little bit of control over the means of communication.
Alan, will you please stop calling him Elon Musk? Because everybody knows that it's Elon.
My apologies.
I just need to We have to make sure, even though it's Rumble and there's no censorship, we won't allow that kind of crap.
I think Alan's forgotten that you're a journalist as well.
Well, actually I am.
You could be on Mint Press, couldn't you?
Wait a sec, I could be on Mint Press.
I've got some of my facts right here.
Stay there, Alan.
You may pick up a trick or two from me on a number of subjects.
And I think military-industrial complex, you say.
Sit tight, Alan.
Because here... Are you nearly there?
Is it very near?
Stay... Alan, don't you go nowhere, just practice on your own there saying the word Elon, and I'll be with you.
That's it, well done, that was better.
Because your own name's Alan, it's not... You know, you've got such... You've got a good start by saying your own name, Alan, then Elon.
It shouldn't be... Okay, so...
Get ready for some facts.
Did you know, Alan, for example, over there at Mint Press, that the Pentagon spent 14 trillion dollars after 9-11?
The wankers.
Up to half of it went to for- my research said- Come on, mate.
You can do it.
Half of it went to for-profit defence contractors, and that's what pisses me off, Alan.
I mean, when I was researching that- That's why he does this.
I actually kicked over the bin.
You know, I went straight from the computer to the bin.
I kicked it over because of anger.
Do you ever get like that?
You know, if you go to Washington, D.C., a lot of the U.S.
is kind of in a state of disrepair, but one city that's absolutely thriving is D.C., and one of the reasons is there's just been this explosion of these semi-private companies that are just feeding from the trough of the Pentagon, all these trillions of dollars going into these, yeah, semi-private companies that do work All around the world, whether it's military or whatever.
In fact, there's whole areas of the suburbs of DC that are now called Raytheon Acres, which is a reference to the military company Raytheon.
Also, actually, Alan, that's actually what I call my testicles.
I call them the Raytheon Acres.
Oh, the Raytheon Acres!
They've gone back inside.
Well, it's a cold day.
The Raytheon Acres have been almost sucked up into my abdomen.
Alan mentioned Washington being in disarray.
I thought he was going to blame you for kicking over all the bins.
Well, they do do that when I'm cross.
Did you know, Alan, that the average taxpayer contributed about $2,000 a dues to the military last year?
More than $900 of that went to corporate military contractors.
That's just the same fact slightly repackaged through the lens of a taxpayer, but I still kicked a bin over when I researched it and did the sums required to make that transition, which I done.
How do you feel about that, Alan?
Well, I mean, if I was an American, I'd think, you know, we're paying $2,000 for this, but we don't have free healthcare.
We're paying $2,000 to the military, but, you know, our schools are falling apart.
There's a homelessness crisis, a drug epidemic.
All of this stuff is very much a zero-sum game.
If we're throwing all of this money at Raytheon and the endless wars that are going on all around the world, That means that there's no money for schools, for roads, for hospitals, for primary health care, for health care for drug addicts or anything like that.
And so ultimately, we're seeing the society of the US start to crumble apart and people are starting to turn against each other.
Unfortunately, they're not actually being focused at the real problem, which is the system of neoliberal capitalism, which is allowing this to happen.
Igressino over in the chat, in caps mark you sir, says, Americans are furious.
That's so, he's actually shouted that into the computer, hasn't he?
Yeah.
There's probably a bit of spit on the screen, at least.
At least spit, possibly more.
Alan, this is my final request, journalist to journalist, would you consider coming on our show when you're not in Scotland, which is where you currently are.
I did some research and that's where I happen to know you are.
Yeah, let's do it.
We'd love to have you in here.
You could stand over there where young Putin and Subi are.
It's one of the nicest areas in the studio.
There they are, look, lovely.
You'd be over there somewhere.
Would you be alright over there, do you think?
Yeah, sounds good.
Alright mate, well thanks for joining us.
Thank you for giving us all of that information.
And also, you've got nice eyes, stroke eyebrows, stroke stubble hair.
Thank you very much, yeah.
You'd be murdering guess who?
Because in my mind, that's how I get through life.
All right, I love you.
Thank you, Alan McLeod, for coming on the show and we'll see you again soon.
Now, Gareth, I'm...
I'm a journalist.
Yeah, following on from Tulsu's yesterday.
I'm an investigative journalist.
I investigate it, and then I journal it.
Yeah.
Hold on, what's going on?
This is the investigative bit.
Yeah.
Huh?
I've fucking done that!
You showed him a thing or two.
I did, I showed him.
I think he's over there licking his wounds now.
Yeah, I think he may... He's licking his wounds!
He may change his whole model now, I reckon.
I don't think he's going to want to be a journalist after seeing that.
Why would you?
You've seen the best.
Now try the rest!
Once you've seen journalism at that level, you think, I've been calling myself a journalist, but I ain't doing what that dude's doing.
No.
All of those facts of his.
I investigate it.
Then I journal it down into the journal.
Yeah.
Then that's my job done at that point actually, Gareth.
Sometimes I tell someone else what I've done.
For example, up to a third of all Pentagon contracts go to just five military contractors.
Give the other military contractors a chance!
I bet you can name most of them, can you?
Yep!
Boeing is one, Raytheon's another, Lockheed Martin, and then I think it's Ronald McDonald is the next one.
Sure.
Sorry, Hamburglar.
He's that bloody swine who always after the burgers, isn't he?
I don't know.
Gareth, I didn't care for the way that you asked that very good Amazon question.
Was it good?
Yeah, it was, because you were saying that Amazon have got those military contracts, don't you think?
Amazon, Arbezos, all of that.
I thought it might have been nice to have given me that question.
Oh, I see.
In pre-production.
Well, I had to make it up on the spot because you'd taken all the questions already.
They're on the teleprompter.
Well, I know.
They're for you, but I didn't think you'd ask me to ask a question, so I had to make... Well, I did!
Yeah, I know.
And watch out, because there's plenty more where that came from.
Well, if you could just give me a few tips into your journalism, then maybe next time I'll think of another one.
I'll give you a tip right now.
This is how investigative journalism works.
First of all, you investigate it.
That's the investigative phase.
Now you're into it, then you journal it down.
You just journal it down.
Do you need an actual journal?
Yes.
Right.
What are you going to write it down, the back of your hand?
Well, I don't know.
Ridiculous, that won't work.
Lockheed Martin, who I believe are a military industrial complex weapons contractor, got 75 billion dollars from taxpayers and that's just in 2020 alone, when I believe he was locked up in your house because of a cough that it turns out wasn't actually that bad.
Well, allegedly.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
It turns out, I've right fussed.
No, don't, because what if Sam puts this on something else?
Yeah.
But it's not Rumble.
We're not free everywhere, baby.
Are we?
This is Rumble.
This is what goes on here.
We're free.
And anyway, you don't know what cough I was talking about.
Didn't say his name, did I?
I think we could guess.
Well, you could guess, but guessing ain't facts.
That's what they learned me on day one of investigative journalism school.
Rule one, is it?
Rule one.
They get you there, they gather you around.
Guesses ain't facts.
Bloody hell, let me write that down.
I know, I've not got a journal yet, because this is day one.
Leather bound or moleskin?
It's a moleskin.
Of course.
Sorry, what are you talking about?
Would you like to touch it, sir?
Judge for yourself?
What does your bottom feel like?
Smooth.
Yeah, smooth.
And if it tries playing up and not being smooth, I scrub it till it comes back to screw.
I won't stand for that.
No.
You know?
That's rule two of the journalist game.
Rule one!
Get yourself a journal!
Rule two!
Rule one!
Rule two!
Rule two!
My teacher had a speech impediment actually, gal!
So sorry.
So sorry.
How dare you!
As he would have said, how dare you!
Rule!
No!
What?
Day one!
What year was this?
18th century?
Recently, very recently.
It's a long time ago.
Rule one!
How old are you?
Get yourself a journal!
Rule two!
Get his own facts!
Rule three!
Investigate!
I don't fucking know that, I don't fucking know that, I don't fucking know that.
And then rule four, journal that down in the journal we told you about earlier.
I don't see what's so complicated, do you?
Okay, so is free speech finally back?
It certainly is over here on Rumble, where we're free to speech whatever we like, as are you in the chat.
Now, if you're not a member of our community, as I say it... That's what your teacher told you, isn't it?
Listen, he wasn't a very well man.
He wasn't a very well man.
He wore a personally made trouser.
He had to wear a specially made trouser.
Not off the shelf.
Not off the rack.
Not off the peg.
No, not he.
We've got a great week coming up for you next week.
Why, Russell?
I see you saying in the chat.
I'll tell you.
Right now.
Because we're going to talk to you about central banking digital currency.
You think that I didn't learn about that in investigative journalism?
It's all in there.
It's all in there, every word.
So we're going to be telling you about that because Rishi Sunak, who's a type of Prime Minister now, has been advocating for it.
We've also got a guest coming on, Dr. Bob Gill.
What?
Quiet!
Dr. Bob Gill will be talking to us about stuff that goes on, like healthcare contracts, the sly privatisation, blags, skullduggery, and a little bit of tomfoolery.
And on Tuesday's show, Eckhart Tolle.
There's no point bringing down centralised systems of power and then discovering that you're unhappy anyway because of something you're not resolved within the field of your own consciousness.
You must awaken, and we will help you to awaken.
When we are finished with you, you'll be so wide awake, you won't bloody well believe it.
On Tuesday, next week, at 5am PT, 8am ET, 12pm BST, JP.
You know who I'm talking about, dog.
Doctor... Is he professor or doctor?
Doctor Professor Jordan Peterson.
And on Wednesday, Jeffrey Sachs.
Get ready!
It's coming on the... Jeffrey Sachs!
Guess who's back?
Sachs is back!
Yeah, he's back again!
Sachs is back!
Tell your friends.
Guys, Jeffrey Sachs is on.
We're all doing it.
Then on Thursday, Books with Brad.
You can win artwork around the theme of the book 1984, which I believe was written by a gentleman whose name I'm not going to tell you because it's a quiz.
Alright, now if you're a member of the Stay Free AF community you can join us right now for a Q&A session where you can probably badger Gareth to play the French horn and I will give you investigative journalistic facts that's going to knock your socks right back down again so your feet will be nude and rude.
We'll see you next week for more fantastic shows and it is our explicit endeavour to get Kanye and Elon on the show next week at the same time and see which one says something controversial first, me, them or each other.
See you next week!
Stay free!
Bye bye!
Love you!
See you on Stay Free AF in like two minutes!
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