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

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

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