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Jan. 25, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Bill Gates Said What About Vaccines?! - #066 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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I'm going to go ahead and get a couple of these.
you Hello there, you Awakening Wanderers.
Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
If you're watching this on YouTube, in 10 minutes, we're going to be on Rumble exclusively, where we can speak more freely.
And remember, we use that freedom of speech to spread truth and joy, not to indulge hatred.
We believe that one of the most important things we can do right now is unify and come together, end these cultural wars, end this needless conflict, bring about a true unitary movement where everybody is welcome.
We've chosen to do that over on Rumble.
Now let me get rid of these bloody classified documents and put them there, they should be safe.
You've got some as well, have you?
Yeah, I like to have a couple of classified documents around, keep me relaxed.
We've got so much to tell you about.
Blackrock are going to be piloting CBDCs in Ukraine.
Are they not piloting in Ukraine weapons?
All sorts of stuff.
Biden's got himself a brand new chief of staff.
You'll be reassured to learn that this new chief of staff did make hundreds of millions from the healthcare industry and has got the sort of almost sarcastic name of Jeff Zients.
That's a childish name.
We'll have a look at that story in a little bit.
And we're going to be... You are not going to believe what Bill Gates has said about vaccines.
We can't even show it on YouTube.
We're going to have to wait until we're exclusively on Rumble to tell you what Bill Gates has said about vaccines because, literally, this is not hyperbole.
This is not hysteria.
This is not propaganda.
This is not me trying to explain to you that in a landscape where establishment media works for centralised powers, have a convergence of interest that's so crossed over that you're never going to get truth out of them, therefore you have to join us on Rumble because we are the kind of independent media that are going to Midwife!
A new glorious era where you're truly empowered.
This isn't any of those things, although those things are also true.
It's literally something that would get you banned from YouTube.
Gal, we'd get banned.
We'd be striked.
We'd be red flagged.
We'd be red lighted.
We'd be Roxanne'd.
We'd be out of there.
We've got a fantastic guest on the show later, Helena Norberg-Hodge.
She's, I would call her, I'd hesitate to call her the OG of the localist movement.
I'd hesitate to say that she is the antidote to the WEF, to Klaus Schwab's model that you'll own nothing and that you'll be happy and that all power shall be centralised and there's no need for democracy anymore.
And that you need parental government figures that guide you like the idiot child they believe you to be.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is the world's grandmother who, along with figures like Vandana Shiva, believes that we should be empowered to run our own communities and that localism is the answer to the centralised power that is currently introducing tyranny to every corner of the globe.
Although, are there corners?
On a sphere?
I'm not sure.
I mean, there's debate over that, isn't there?
So let us know in the comments which shape is this crazy little thing we're living on.
But before we get into any of that, let me assure you that the system is fine.
Don't collapse into existential despair.
Mike Pence, like everyone else in the world, has got a bunch of classified documents.
I feel left out.
I ain't got no classified documents.
I know.
It's annoying.
Maybe if we look harder.
We just haven't looked hard enough.
I've got to have some classified documents.
I'm in the back near your Corvette in your garage.
What's that down by the Corvette?
The FBI have been paying money to Twitter.
So there's the headline that he's gotten.
But look at this.
What's really lovely is on CNN, admittedly a mainstream media outfit, or even a stop clocks right twice a day.
Hey kids, check out Mike Pence.
They're thrilled about it, CNN, of course.
It's Mike Pence.
It's the other side.
They're thrilled to see it.
Check out the transition between Mike Pence's interview and then the comment from the news dude.
You'll love it.
Do you see any reason for anyone to take classified documents with them, leaving the White House?
Well, there'd be no reason to have classified documents, particularly if they were in an unprotected area.
Well, there were classified documents and they were in, as you report, an unprotected area.
I did that as well, as a caveat.
He didn't need to say it.
No-one was pushing him to say it.
I mean, what would be particularly bad is if they were in an unprotected, prophylactic-free area where anyone... Where did he leave them?
By the bins?
Like, somewhere on the windows?
Like, had he put them on the windows?
What's an unprotected... What is an unprotected area?
Well, I guess, isn't it a bit like when Biden left them in his garage near the Corvette?
Because everyone was bothered about the fact that Hunter Biden had access to his Corvette.
And he was near the classified documents as if Hunter Biden was, like, some kind of virus or something.
I think if Hunter Biden is ever in a binary decision situation where he's got to choose between a Corvette and some files, all in brown documents and that, he's not going to go, I wonder what's in there?
Corvette, baby!
Let's go!
Bitches!
He's not going to think twice, is he, Hunter?
He's out the door!
Check out what Edward Snowden, former guest on the show, would love to have you back on, Edward.
I'm assuming you're watching.
How is it possible that I have fewer classified documents in my house than the last few White House admins?
The Espionage Act is strict liability crime, good intentions and no defense.
Under the dumb law, these guys are unindicted criminals.
You know, like, because this is one of them stories, Forgive me that I find a bit boring, documents classified, I can't get my head around it because I'm much more, as you know Gareth, I'm a big picture guy Gareth.
Yes.
I'm looking at this in the macro.
I'm saying it don't matter which one of these slaves of the system you bring into power, you're ultimately still going to have ordinary people impoverished the world over, no access to the deep spiritual freedom that is your birthright.
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you agree.
But it is important to consider that dear old Snowden, He's still exiled off in Russia.
Clearly a man who was acting on behalf of his conscience, trying to do the right thing,
trying to reveal the true depth and breadth of government power and intrusion.
And then dear Julian Assange, who's, let's face it, a more complex figure because he's,
what do you want to say, his persona.
He's an intense guy.
I've met Julian Assange.
But the fact is that I feel like, and can we check this, that none of the revelations
that Assange made led to the imperilment of American troops.
And that's always the argument.
You are, Assange put troops in danger.
No, Assange put power in danger.
He's the information that he revealed contradicted mainstream and government centralized the dominate and narratives That's what Assange is great crime is and even though he's not been convicted of any crime He's banged up in Belmarsh baby 23 hours and 45 minutes a day hardly any yard time Daniel Hale, I mean Daniel Hale as important went to jail for revealing Daniel I knew how he went to jail for revealing government secrets.
About drones?
All he done was say, come on son, you're... It was drones, wasn't it?
You're droning all my children.
Yeah, not a million miles off.
I think he revealed that 90% of drones hit unintended targets.
90% of those drones that you operate by phone, they land on little children.
Don't you blame me, son.
Something Lockheed Martin.
Raytheon.
I don't know.
Listen, another piece of wonderful news is...
The Dominator culture is preparing for, essentially, domestic war.
You know, I've seen all those stories that talk about the militarisation of the police force, all of your police forces getting tooled up with, like, military equipment.
Who are they gonna be in a war with?
It's you, baby!
It's you!
Not that I'm an anti-police person.
I know some people in the police force in this country that are absolutely spot-on, fantastic people.
It's not sort of a binary decision between good and bad there.
Well, it's not necessarily the police, is it?
It's the militarisation of the police.
So it's top-down from government through military-industrial complex to the police.
That's the weapons are getting funnelled downwards.
So there's an economic component, because they get to serve up and sell their kit.
And also you end up with a situation where populations can be controlled militarily, should that become necessary.
But I believe it was you that pointed out, mate, that 10 years ago, if there was an uprising, it would have meant boots on the ground, confrontations in the street, man the barricades.
Now, as we saw in Canada, they can shut you down by shutting down your ability to spend money.
They can shut down your access.
And once they get these digital IDs, Tony Blair, He's campaigning for pretty aggressively over at the WEF.
He's campaigning still for digital.
He was campaigning for digital IDs to be mandatory before the pandemic.
By God, you bet he was during the pandemic.
And he's still on about it.
Look, we've got so many stories that once we click over, we can go into greater depth for.
But while we're on YouTube, and I love that platform.
I love that.
I love the Awakening Wonders over there on YouTube.
We have to be responsible.
We have to maintain our access to that platform.
So that we can bring you forward into the light.
Not that I'm claiming to have access to any light other than the inner light that we all have access to.
Shared together though, my God, imagine the fusion of all our lights coming together.
Surely then we could confront power.
Gal, I was just chatting to Martin Goury, the writer of this fantastic book, former CIA operative, although he rejected that term.
Well, I'm not really a CIA operative.
That paints a picture of a man with a gun and all sorts of attractive women.
I was very much behind a desk.
So that's his story.
Anyway, he believes that In order to confront establishment power, we're going to have to investigate new political models.
And in the conversation that you can see on Friday on Rumble, you've got to watch this conversation, we talked about new ways.
And Gal, I was at my very best coming up with new ideas for political systems.
You've been banging on about him all week.
All week I've been banging on about him.
I took the rare step of actually reading a guest's book.
That's how obsessed I am with the guy.
Anyway, it's not just the police that are getting militarized.
Soccer moms.
Do we have soccer moms in our country?
I don't know if we do.
What would they be?
Football mothers.
It's not as good for advertising as that.
You're not going to spend millions at Procter & Gamble or Kraft or whatever trying to get a football mother on board.
But a soccer mom.
Soccer moms now are getting armed up to the teeth driving around in vehicles that look like they're designed for the Gaza Strip.
Check this out.
Thomas, let's talk about the memorable features on the Redsvani Vengeance.
I don't think you should name cars after vengeance.
Vengeance isn't a beautiful quality.
It's just a necessary thing sometimes.
It also doesn't imply that you're protecting yourself, does it?
Vengeance.
It's already happened.
Okay, everything's gone wrong, but this is war now.
I've got a vendetta against that cyclist who scratched the side of my car.
That's why I drive the Vengeance.
Also, cars are meant to be called things like, I don't know, a Mustang or a Chevrolet.
Sort of light things.
Not meant to be called vengeance.
Hatred.
No.
The new Ford kicking the balls.
It's too aggressive for a name for a vehicle, if you ask me.
But look at some of the features.
I mean, this is a car that's preparing you for a post-apocalyptic hellscape, I think.
And so is this vehicle.
For even more protection, you have explosive underbody shielding, bulletproof glass, electrified door handles.
What kind of situation?
Like, what is this for?
I Am Legend?
Yeah.
Like, for when you're Will Smith and you're in a post-apocalyptic New York, but even then, you just need something to put the deers in the back and you've got to watch them zombies.
Also, you've got to be careful.
I mean, if it's got electrocuting door handles... That could go wrong easily.
Easily, couldn't it?
Especially if you're picking up your kids from school, you know, you've got to be very careful.
You're a parent yourself.
I have a parent.
Picking up your kids from school.
Getting the car... Does it always go smoothly?
Not always.
They don't listen.
They won't do what they're told.
Actually, thinking about it, I'd probably use the... I told you to get in the car.
And also this mace thing would be good for managing the crowd in the back.
If you're watching this on YouTube, remember in a minute we're going to show you something that Bill Gates said about vaccines that would get us banned from YouTube.
But Bill Gates, there's a dude that's pretty pro-vaccine as I understand it.
Not that we have a strong position on what you should do with medications here because we believe in freedom.
Your individual freedom.
Your community freedom.
Now let's see what weapons are available on the Vengeance vehicle so we can pick our kids up from school and maybe attack some protesters!
And a Ram steel bumper.
If anyone's following you, you have blinding lights in the front.
Blinding?
That's a malicious way to describe it.
In the back.
Or a smoke screen.
Plus my favorite, pepper spray.
Ma'am, you dropped your purse.
That makes you good, sonny boy!
If you're picking your kids up from the mall, let them know you're there with strobe lights and your intercom.
I feel like this is a future that I want to participate in.
No.
Where I'm picking up my kids from the mall with a strobe light.
No.
Where I'm macing someone for squeegeeing.
Oh, this gets on my nerves.
Like maybe just five dollars or I'm sorry I don't have any cash.
Yeah.
We've got to address this economic crisis that's leading to this amount of vagrancy.
Not the vengeance.
Is the vengeance the answer?
Is vengeance ever the answer?
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments.
Remember, press that rumble button.
It helps us in ways that I'll never truly understand.
Your kids will love that it was styled by a video game designer.
Vengeance is based on the Cadillac Escalade, so mama gets heated and ventilated leather seats, a curved OLED display with augmented reality, a digital rearview mirror, which is Do you think the kind of people that are buying this also have underground bunkers?
They definitely do, don't they?
Yeah, you're in your underground bunker.
It's nice down there.
You've got priceless works of art and everything.
Maybe a little bowling alley.
That's right.
Oh no, I've got to go above to the surface, people.
Those hideous hillbillies and decrepit survivors all are foraging around toothlessly in the dust that we created.
Get into the vengeance, make some good.
In a more tangential way, I suppose we recognise that crime and poverty are not a product of morality, but rather social conditions as a result of centralised power and ghouling greed at the top of our hierarchical pyramids.
That's what I think.
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you think it's a truly meritocratic society that you're living in right now.
When the elites have access to so many resources, when the poorest in the world, the poorest among us are suffering so devoutly and resolutely, do you still think it's about morality or do you think that something systemic is at play?
And we've got a great story later this week about how they're coming from the middle classes.
We're not even talking now about the sort of forgettable, dispensable underclasses that people are willing to consign to history, to consign to the weight.
Now it's like normal people with jobs and that's before the AI revolution.
Listen, we've got to come off of YouTube now because I'm feeling it, Gal.
I can tell.
The light's awakening within me.
I'm feeling the connection.
The spirit is moving me and we're going to tell you in a little while about some interesting, modernist stuff.
I've got the files, baby.
I've got classified documents and I'm going to be reading them.
The only place that will allow me, that's Rumble.
Join us there, where we use our freedom of speech to bring people together.
You are welcome there, whether you're from the left, from the right, wherever you're from.
Those terms mean nothing no more.
It's all about the centre and the periphery.
It's all about creating a new movement and we can do that freely on that platform.
Why don't you join us there?
I dare you.
I double dare you.
I'll see you there.
Become part of our community.
One of us.
One of us.
Make them one of us.
See you over there.
Let's have a look at the rest of what this lady's doing.
Why is she wearing a gas mask?
It's a three-row SUV that seats up to eight people.
She's put herself in her own trunk!
The holy name of God.
What is being anticipated?
Let's see if the stroller fits in.
I had to get a stroller into my own vehicle.
Right.
How did that go?
Not bad.
I didn't dismantle it.
Right.
I just got it in there all as one.
Yeah.
I can imagine you doing that.
Parked outside the train station in a not permitted car parking space because I was... I felt like I was doing it.
I was doing a good deed.
And so I felt like I was doing a good deed.
What?
What was this good deed?
Helping other fellow humans.
You know, like helping them out.
So I felt like, because I was doing a good deed, I thought there's no way I'm parking where I'm in.
Got it.
Like when I'm doing a good deed.
Yeah.
No chance.
I'm parking wherever I want to.
Did you get a fine?
No, I got away with it, as you often will in these situations.
There's always work.
Anarchist calisthenics.
Break some laws.
Not laws that hurt people, I will stress.
But, you know, just administrative, bureaucratic laws where there are no victims.
Every day.
Straight off YouTube and we're already into law breaking.
Straight away.
It's the first thing I've done.
There's some stuff about the militarisation of the police.
1.9 trillion pandemic relief aid package on policing.
So that's a legit statistic.
That's a 1.9 trillion, Gareth.
That's one of them numbers.
I can't conceptualise it.
No, it is a lot, isn't it?
Especially when it was meant to be going on helping people during the pandemic.
We've got to help you out during the pandemic.
Oh, thank you, because you know what I mean?
I can't work, my business is shut down, plus I've been terrified the whole time.
Some people have actually been ill and that.
Well, you'll be thrilled to know.
Look at the police.
What do you mean?
Where are they?
Behind those robots?
No, they are the fucking robots.
Get back in your house!
Better alive, you're coming with me.
Let's look at these people, like lockdowns of the future, gal.
They could be even more aggressive.
Some people are locking them down within a lockdown, like Russian doll-style lockdowns.
They've locked down once, they're locking down twice.
You don't understand what I mean?
You're gonna see some people now.
Lock you down, lock you down.
Layers after layers of lock you, lock you, lockdown.
Look at this.
People in Stockton recently learned the hard way that if you're going to test out dog crates, only one person needs to do the testing.
So, what do you mean test out a dog crate?
Have you ever needed to test out a dog crate?
No, that's never happened.
Because it's not complex.
No.
It's a crate for the dog.
Does it shut?
Yes.
Bam.
I remember building a big dog cage in your kitchen once.
What that was is my dog Bear had to have a hip replacement early in his life, and then because my vet, Noel Fitzpatrick, is a genius, but he's mad, he made us build essentially Guantanamo Bay.
It was huge.
In our kitchen.
And not Gareth, it was like too big.
It was as big as the kitchen.
I know.
But he assured us it was necessary, and because I love the dog so much, and he has the air of a sort of a shaman, Noel Fitzpatrick, I thought, yeah, alright, he's saying build this mess, I'm going to bring this up with him.
He made me build that cage, and you helped build it, did you?
It was enormous.
It was a person's prison.
Yeah, it was mad.
And the dog had that thing on, you know.
It was like those Australian COVID camps.
It was like an Australian COVID camp.
I was waterboarding that dog in there on the regular.
Give us the details.
Give us the facts.
Show me those files.
I fed him a lot of yogurt.
No, muller rice.
You know, like rice pudding.
What, no such pastry?
Sandy face.
He didn't want money.
Okay.
I'll only accept yoghurt.
That's what I like to be paid in these days.
Was it one of the ones in the corner?
Yeah, corner muller yoghurt.
Now, it's the rice, right?
And like I was giving it to my dog, it's what he liked.
And I, up to that point, very much enjoyed muller rice.
I've considered it to be a good snack.
But once you've smelt several times muller rice dry on the side of a dog's face, it's difficult to maintain your... I was going to say erection.
I knew you were.
But I meant to say enthusiasm.
Come on, let's look at these people doing dog crates.
I've got to tell you this, the FDA are considering switching to annual COVID vaccinations.
What's their motive?
Is it profit?
Have they realised there's a lot of resistance?
People are saying that COVID vaccines are going to evolve like an iPhone.
We've got so much to tell you and Bill Gates literally out loud is saying stuff about, well I can't say it now, he's saying they basically don't work.
Let's have a little dog crate face first, come on.
In the video, the man gets in the crate.
His partner then gets into the crate next to his and closes the door behind her.
After a few seconds, the couple realizes, well, yeah, they're both locked in the crates.
They were eventually able to free themselves by maneuvering the crates in front of one another.
The way they solved the problem is good.
Yeah, it is good.
Other than that, it was very stupid.
They were idiots right up to the last minute.
Yeah.
I heard that the colonization of America by the early British colonialists was similar, like it's often portrayed, all especially the bit that's in the film Pocahontas.
Right.
They were idiots.
They only made it because there were so many of them.
They kept dying.
They were getting killed by the native people.
They were eating their own bones out of the ground.
It was a total mess.
But then they did manage to establish what we regard as the world's greatest democracy and certainly the greatest superpower the world has ever known.
And from those humble origins did tiny great big oak trees grow.
You know the thing about acorns and oak trees.
That thing.
I'm saying that.
I'm saying a version of that.
I want to tell you this now.
So the FDA are considering switching to annual COVID vaccinations.
That's amazing.
Do you think this is an economically underwritten idea?
The reality is only 15% of Americans are vaccinated.
OK, that's all cool.
Check out this thing that vaccines are going to evolve like iPhones.
So you'll just be accepted that you get up.
I don't like that.
I don't think it's the right comparison to make.
Why?
Well when you're faced as Moderna and Pfizer are at the moment with like calls of kind of hypocrisy around how much profit you've made and about whether or not these new vaccines even work.
I mean there was literally a CNN piece this week about Moderna themselves hiding data around the efficacy of their booster and that it didn't and make any difference from the previous vaccine.
And yet the government, Biden's administration, spent $5 billion of taxpayer money on it.
So when you're then going on the news, on CNN again, and saying, oh, it's going to be like an iPhone,
i.e. a corporate move that involves, you know, fleecing people out of money.
The problem is, is this is underwritten by an economic ideology rather than a medical ideology.
Far less a sociological ideology.
A producer of a show, Leon, was saying, a producer of our show, not a show, because we don't just let passers-by shout any advice.
The producer of this show, Leon, said earlier, it's like Microsoft altered their business model to a licensing one for Microsoft Windows and they dropped out of the top ten.
You know, like, we're all invited to think that, like, Forbes Rich List is a good thing.
Ooh, who's richest now?
Yeah.
Who cares?
Well, anyway, Microsoft got back in the top 10 by changing to this licensing model.
It's a little bit like the model of addiction.
If you can get 10 of your best mates addicted to smack, your own smack come for free.
If you can get people perpetually getting boosted forever... Sure.
Why are you looking off into the future there?
I just... No, it wasn't the future.
I was just... Where was you looking?
Well, it was just your little... Smack analogy.
Yeah.
Let me talk you through.
No, it's alright.
We can do this.
You're a smackhead.
Okay, right.
You've loved the smack.
You gotta have it, baby, because otherwise you can't relax.
Sure.
You can't afford the smack, because the smack has made you unemployable.
But if you can get ten of your friends addicted to smack, you can say, I'll buy the smack for all of you, and then your smack can come out of that smack.
That's what I'm essentially saying.
Right.
Smack.
Now, let's look at from... Not that we're in any way aligning Moderna, a huge pharmaceutical company with... Lowly smack dealers.
Not at all.
Because often smack dealers have integrity.
They're interested in more than profit.
Like when Gritty, my heroin dealer, when I told him I was going into rehab, he went, yeah, it's probably a good idea.
Even though he knew that would have an economic knock-on effect for him.
A huge one, I imagine.
And his lad Edwin.
But then I guess you had taken him into MTV to meet Kylie Minogue.
Once you've took a drug dealer to meet Kylie Minogue on September the 12th.
2001, big day.
Silly, silly business by me, but as you can tell from the story, I was on drugs.
You've formed a bond.
That's right.
A real bond.
For life.
Also the bond of heroin, because you've got to keep getting more of that bloody stuff.
As I say, a bit like iPhone downloads and what people would like to see, the crazy old world of never-ending boosters.
A never-ending booster.
How much boosting do you need?
When are you going to be boosted, baby?
I've got so much to tell you about lately.
What about that thing about the next pandemic?
Is it Bill Gates that said the next pandemic might be man-made?
What do you mean the next one?
The last one!
As we all know, the last pandemic came out of a naughty fish's ass.
But the next one could be made by me!
Not saying that!
I'm not saying that, I'm just mucking around having a bit of fun for Christ's sake.
Bill Gates warns Australia to prepare for the next pandemic which could be man-made and far more brutal.
Spoiler alert rather than a warning.
He's actually been in the article already and he's been very complimentary of how Australia dealt with lockdowns.
Well, they were one of the worst, weren't they?
They wouldn't even let you over.
Fuck those dog cages again.
Even if you didn't have COVID, you're probably just a bit too good at tennis.
Has he got COVID?
I don't think so.
He's bloody good at tennis.
He ain't coming in.
Kanye, he's not allowed in for anti-Semitism.
I've been to Australia.
They've got plenty of anti-Semites there.
Let me know if you are Australian.
I thought they'd ask the message.
I love Australia and Australians.
I love that place.
I'm just saying, I feel like there are anti-Semites there.
Sure, sure.
That's part of the problem with anti-Semitism.
So hey, check it out.
But Kanye, he ain't allowed there.
No.
For the anti-Semitism.
We'll leave Kanye.
Yeah, leave him alone because he probably might come on one day.
Well, I just mean leave the subject of Kanye.
Leave him.
Don't be an anti-Semite.
Don't be anti-anything.
No, definitely don't be an anti-Semite.
Don't be prejudiced.
Open your heart to the limitless love that is available to you at all times.
Check out this from Bill Gates.
Let's get away from that controversial subject and point out that Bill Gates publicly said vaccines don't work.
Check it out.
The current vaccines are not infection blocking.
They're not broad.
Okay, so they're not broad.
They don't block infections.
But, well, I'm getting hard.
Why should I invest again?
When new variants come up you lose protection.
They don't work, brilliant.
And they have very short duration.
The current vaccines... Okay Bill, well thank you.
Why don't you make those mandatory for everyone?
Whether it's not being affected, limited time of working.
Go on, what's your point then?
No, there's no point.
Look, you know, we've spoken before about, you know, vaccines and how like certainly for certain Members of the population that they are still... Gareth, I'm going to undermine you by pressing your jingle.
Okay.
Come over to the dark side, Gal.
Sure.
No, I won't join you over there.
Biden's got a new chief of the... Oh, no, we'll finish this.
NIH gain-of-function regulations are vague and secretive.
Yeah, of course they are.
If they were explicit and concise, they wouldn't bloody well work.
The National Institute of Health should improve how it regulates lab-generated viruses.
Yeah.
The pros are national security risk according to them folks.
The National Security Advisory Board said enhance pandemic potential pathogens blah blah blah blah.
What do you think about this Gal?
Well this is basically saying that it's literally been found that the NIH and their gain of
function research has not been amazingly...
I think they should stop doing it.
They haven't been transparent about it.
Let me know in the chat and the comments.
Do you want gain-of-function research or not?
Why are they saying it?
Isn't gain-of-function research essentially, so am I being simplistic?
Am I being savantish?
Am I being deliciously idiotic?
Isn't it saying, just in case there's this terrible disease in the future, let's make it now and invent a vaccine for it.
What if there wasn't it in the future?
Can you just go back to that last card?
There's one at the bottom.
Well, I've only answered my question.
So look, privately funded research that risks causing a pandemic, one of those things we just had.
Yeah, I remember that.
Occurs largely in the shadows, the group found.
So, I mean, it's kind of amazing.
Get out of the shadows!
They don't mean bat caves at that point either.
They don't mean bat caves, nor do they mean Cliff Richard's adorable backing group.
They mean the realm of the undead.
Yeah, they do, essentially.
They don't mean that, that was a test.
They are.
What this highlights is that that kind of functional research that was done or tests that were done at the time of the pandemic.
One, there's obviously a huge controversy about whether it should be happening.
And secondly, if there's going to be results, they should be transparent about them.
Then they weren't.
Get Robert Kennedy on this show!
Peter Daszak, who was head of Eco Alliance at the time, also apparently had a big sway in public messaging from the government around this at the time in terms of the origin of the lab leak.
Yeah, alright.
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He's got himself a new chief of staff who made millions from the healthcare industry.
I know it's a little bit late, but he's got a very warming and heartening message full of Christmas cheer.
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This is Jeff Zients.
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I don't know if it's during the pandemic.
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For yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
Merry Christmas.
Fauci there, Walensky there.
Fauci, Walensky, head of the CDC.
I'll tell you what, that's the kind of piety, certainty and haughtiness that has come to define the pandemic period, which in retrospect, and in particular relating to my recent conversation with Martin Goury, I feel has been about creating centralised power above all else and ushering in the opportunity to generate digital IDs.
We ain't conspiracy theorists.
We're conspiracy realists over on this show.
You are going to love today's presentation, Here's the News, because we're talking about if there's one figure that represents globalism and its agenda, it's former British Prime Minister and illegal war starter?
You could say.
Should maybe be in jail?
Should war criminal?
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the comments.
He is obsessed with vaccine passports and digital IDs, and he's still pushing that narrative.
Where?
Where else?
But at the WEF, which we take some credit for, I believe, and only credit given to us by you and as a result of your shine, your power for bringing down.
But it will just send them back into the shadows where they can do proper gain-of-function research.
It's mind-stunning.
If you want to see a little bit more about digital IDs and Tony Blair's involvement, why don't you watch this presentation?
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Something you may not have noticed at the WEF in Davos last week is that Tony Blair, from the Iraq war, was advocating
for more digital infrastructure.
More digital infrastructure, Tony!
Is your legacy not bad enough already?
Tony Blair was at Davos last week advocating once more for digital infrastructure.
What he means by that is everyone should have some sort of passport and we should be able to monitor your transactions so we can introduce social credit scores, so we can shut down people's bank accounts.
Already happening in Canada, you know about that.
So we can deny you access to services.
That's what I think Tony Blair might be up to.
Let me know what you think Tony Blair's up to in the comments and chat.
Let's see what Tony Blair, Klaus Schwab, the WEF and digital IDs are really about.
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for global organisations such as the World Trade Organisation and the World Economic Forum, neither of those things are elected, look who funds them, to push national governments to introduce digital infrastructure that monitors who has been vaccinated and who hasn't.
When the rest of the world is dealing with putting together new data and understanding new narratives and how this story has shifted over time, Tony Blair is still desperately trying to push for the most early hysterical, well everyone should have a digital ID, we should know what people are doing at all times, maybe if we all had digital IDs we could find those weapons of mass destruction.
This issue to do with the technology and the digital infrastructure, I just want to emphasize how important I think that is.
You need the data.
You need to know who's been vaccinated and who hasn't been.
Some of the vaccines that will come on down the line will be multiple.
There'll be multiple shots.
Oh, that's good.
Nice to know.
Let the shareholders in on that in advance.
That's not where we are on the pandemic conversation right now.
It appears, let me know what you think in the comments and chat, that as more data becomes available, that it seems that the entire approach to the pandemic could have been different around lockdowns, masks, medications.
It should have been more particular, more bespoke, less hysterical.
And may I argue, this is my opinion, less profit Driven.
Tony Blair is advocating for a return to the early hysterical globalist agenda.
Everyone get in your houses.
Everyone get vaccinated.
If you're not vaccinated, you're a pariah.
I don't like to lean into conspiracy theories, but when I see a former prime minister who advocated for an unnecessary war, standing on a global stage, funded by taxpayers and billionaires, saying that everyone should carry a digital ID, I start to think there might be an agenda at play.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
So you've got to have the reasons to do with the health care more generally, but certainly for a pandemic or for.
And for vaccines, you've got to have a proper digital infrastructure, and many countries don't have that.
In fact, most countries don't have that.
Yeah, because people don't want it.
Also, where are we progressing to?
According to whose agenda?
Whose objective is it that we're pursuing?
Whose vision?
Tony Blair speaks as if there's a shared vision that all of us have.
Meanwhile, they talk about diversity and respecting different cultures and different sexualities and different identities, which, by the way, I'm totally down with, but that means respecting the individual freedom of everybody.
Some people believe there was already an agenda to introduce digital ID before the pandemic.
Tony Blair was speaking about digital ID before the pandemic.
Now there has been a pandemic, we have to ask ourselves, was it incredible foresight or was it an agenda?
Also, it seems now that advocating for a digital ID on the basis of vaccination is a flawed argument because knowing whether or not someone is vaccinated in order to do what?
Let them into a venue?
Let them out of a country?
What's the argument?
What's the science behind that?
Other than it's profitable for pharmaceutical companies to have as many people vaccinated as possible, and it's beneficial to centralised authority to have as many people as possible carrying digital IDs.
What's the argument beyond that?
Now we've got your digital ID and we can see that you've had this medication.
We're able to what?
It's power for power's sake.
And you know how power ultimately behaves.
It becomes like a sort of a self-perpetuating ideology.
And if you need an example of what that looks like, look at Tony Blair.
What's this dude still doing?
Sit down, mate.
Have a rest.
So again, you've got to say, OK, who are the people that can make this happen?
How do you get the right partnerships in place?
Who are the people?
Who are the partnerships?
Will it be big tech?
Will it be big pharma?
Will it be governments with friendly figures who have attended WEF conferences?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it will be.
You've got to work out.
What is it that you want to achieve in order to make sure that any future pandemic is properly handled?
And what are the partnerships that you're going to create in order to ensure that the answers you get are the right answers?
Can you imagine what an anodyne and sanitised version of a broadcast conspiracy theory might look like?
What you need in the event of a future pandemic is to have the right partners and the right outcomes.
That sounds like the management of information, powerful alliances being formed, undemocratic processes.
That's not how politicians should be talking anymore, with the ability to communicate that we all have.
What you don't want is human beings that are actually no better than than you. They have the same flaws you have, have the same
compulsions, impulses that you have coming together to decide that everyone else is
different than you. They should carry digital IDs, there might be another pandemic one day which
will be super profitable if it's anything like the last one and we should get them all
banged up and jabbed up at our earliest convenience. I don't give that authority to
anybody and neither should you. And then you're going to have to have the mechanisms of
implementation. I also don't like that those mechanisms look like me in the palm of Tony Blair's
hand being karate chopped like Saddam Hussein's neck.
And those mechanisms will be partly through the formal institutions that you have, like the WTO, but they'll also be through organisations like yours, which I think have many advantages because they don't get landed with the same bureaucracy and, frankly, small-p politics around them.
Bureaucracy and democracy, and whether or not people approve of it, and whether or not it's the will of the people, and whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction, and sexying up the dossier, and a million dead children.
Yeah, it can be such a slow, exhausting, oh no, I can't bomb these children whenever I want.
Oh, I can't get everyone to carry a digital ID.
We should resist at all costs the advances of these centralised authoritarians, dressing it up as convenience and safety, as they always do.
If the solution to the problems of the world are always, why don't we centralise authority, bypass democracy, place the decisions in the hands of big tech and big pharma, it's a bit weird, isn't it?
It's a bit weird that they didn't want to get rid of patents.
It's a bit weird that they repressed information about natural immunity, censoring activists calling for generic vaccines to be available.
It seems like all of the solutions create opportunity for profit and centralised power, All of the problems detract from those opportunities and create more individual freedom, need for democracy, need for conversation.
These are the things that I advocate for most.
These are the things that I oppose most vehemently.
Don't matter if you're left or right or any of those, in my view, outmoded, outdated, defunct terms.
That's what we need to do.
But if you want the politicians to focus on a plan, I promise you it's got to be because they think in the next few years, not in the broad future, it's going to matter to them to have that plan.
So there you go, Tony Blair saying create hysteria and panic around another potential pandemic so people do exactly what they're told, create more centralised authority, compile more data and the ability to control people.
What if that information should fall into the wrong hands?
Tony Blair is a person who believes in his own righteousness.
He believed vehemently, weapons of mass destruction, let's go bomb Iraq.
If we'd have been able to have an argument along the lines of there are no weapons of mass destruction and the destabilisation of Iraq may cause problems for years to come, up to and including the creation of ISIS, perhaps it would
have been a very different conversation that would have been had. So for me
Tony Blair don't get a seat of this conversation unless it's a seat that's paid
for by the WEF where I imagine his foundation makes donations. Haven't done that
research yet but I'm pretty confident. It's also about showing people and
showing the political leadership. I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I've become too cynical and jaded.
Let's get a wide shot so we can see who else is at the conversation to make sure that all this talk about vaccines definitely playing a part in the future.
Vaccines potentially being mandated and enforced through digital IDs and a digital ID infrastructure that encompasses the entire globe is only, as Tony Blair himself says, for humanitarian and health reasons.
Cut to the wide!
that you can make a positive difference to your healthcare system by adopting these measures.
Wait, is that Albert Baller, CEO of Pfizer?
Oh, Tony.
Blair's call is the latest of several that he and his non-profit, yeah, right, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, have made for an expansion of mandatory digital surveillance infrastructure.
What word in there is most offensive?
Mandatory!
Digital!
Surveillance!
Infrastructure!
That's a very offensive set of words there.
So how did we get to this position where this is an accepted part of the conversation and ongoing advocacy for the idea is continuing to infiltrate our news media when a few years ago the idea of us all being forced to carry digital passports would have been dismissed as a conspiracy?
Since their inception, COVID surveillance apps have been positioned by authorities as a tool for keeping their citizens safe during the pandemic.
However, governments have been using these digital tools to scoop up a wide range of data on their citizens and combine this with the vast troves of data they already hold.
In many instances, this data is also shared with private companies.
For example, the UK's vaccine passport app was provided by the National Health Service, which already holds citizens medical records and sensitive data.
To use the app, citizens have to provide their date of birth, phone number, postcode and a photo of a government-issued ID document.
They're also prompted to scan their face as part of an optional, for now, verification process.
Not only does this process let the UK government harvest more data, But the facial verification data is also shared with the private company iProve as part of a contract which the NHS has yet to publish details of for security reasons.
Wow, so that's another way that the formerly care-oriented NHS is being used to accumulate data and gain profit.
In Australia, quarantine was being policed by an app that collects facial recognition and geolocation data and sends this to servers that are controlled by the government of South Australia.
Australian police have also used COVID tracing data in criminal investigations, despite promising that they never would.
But I'm sure that it will never, ever happen again.
Although governments are collecting this data through multiple apps and for the most part haven't officially incorporated it into an official unified digital ID system, all of the data resides on government controlled servers and is being used as an unofficial digital ID that allows the governments to identify and surveil their citizens.
So at the moment you can bet that in a situation where they thought it was warranted, they
would use it.
You remember the Five Eyes scandal that emerged from all of the Snowden files and the NSA
revelations that Australia, America, UK, anglophonic countries were collaborating, providing each
other with information.
For them, having a centralised database with everyone's information on it is just an advantage,
there's no downside to that for them.
It's profitable, it gives them more ability to control.
For us, there might be some conveniences, like you might be able to get in somewhere
more quickly.
But where are you going?
Where are you rushing to?
perfect white cell of total imprisonment.
Pre-COVID, citizens were highly resistant to the idea of digital IDs because of their potential to restrict freedom, erode privacy, and place more power in the hands of big government and big tech.
But during the pandemic, governments have broken this resistance by forcing their citizens to use COVID surveillance apps in order to access public transport, restaurants, and many other services they could freely access before COVID.
Essentially, we've been coached into accepting ideas that previously would have been unacceptable.
Stay in your house.
Oh, well, I'll do that.
God, I don't want to kill an old lady.
Get in your house.
Do you want to go to a pop concert?
Gonna need digital ID.
We've been coached into accepting ideas that just a little while ago would have been completely unacceptable to us.
Contract tracing and vaccine passport checking points became pervasive in many countries along with signs that reminded people to use the COVID surveillance apps and employees that enforce this COVID surveillance to comply with government mandates.
As a result of this COVID surveillance push, the process of checking in and displaying a de facto digital ID to participate in society was normalized within less than two years.
The process became so normalized that Apple, which has more than 1 billion active iPhone users, partnered with the U.S.
Transport Security Administration, TSA, to digitalize driver's licenses and state IDs in several states.
That's unprecedented power.
That's a private big tech company with access to information and ...resources on a scale that the magnates of the steel and energy era could only have dreamed of, partnering with big state now with new regulatory capacities with a population that's getting used to being told what to do.
While Apple insists these digital IDs are private and that Apple and the issuing states do not know when or where users present their IDs, it admits that this digitization is part of its vision of replacing the physical wallet with a secure and easy-to-use mobile wallet.
This push to replace physical ID with digital ID from one of the world's most powerful big tech companies will boost the trend that has been set in motion by COVID and accelerate the public's acceptance of having to display a digital ID to participate in society.
I suppose what that shows you is that there need to be political voices that are talking about demonopolization and breaking up big tech companies, which are the which at the moment are coming from extraordinarily the
right, I suppose because the big tech industry, broadly speaking,
allies with the liberal establishment.
But what we are interested in is true individual and community
freedom, not just a different set of centralised interests taking over from this set.
We want you to be in a position of power.
And when you learn that these big tech companies got into that position, not because of some genius,
but because of government subsidies and because of sharing of information,
it doesn't seem so much like a good old R Shucks American success story, more like an agenda
to centralise information and power that can be enacted and exacted at any point.
The data grabs and COVID tracking tools that have been implemented amid the pandemic have bolstered government's surveillance apparatus and allowed them to monitor citizens at a scale that's never been seen before, while also normalising the idea that basic freedoms are now contingent on showing a digital ID.
However, most of this COVID surveillance apparatus is currently split across multiple apps and databases and has yet to be tied together under a single digital ID.
But powerful governments and international organisations are openly pushing for expanded digital IDs that connect all this data and more under a Unified digital ID.
And there is Tony Blair doing that work.
That is what Tony Blair is literally advocating for.
I don't know whether he knows he's doing that.
I'm assuming he does because of the type of relationships, the type of history that he has.
These kind of voices are very dangerous voices.
We've already seen in the last couple of years that mistakes were made.
Let's just assume they're legitimate errors.
We thought the virus died here, but it looks more likely it started there.
We thought the vaccines were less effective.
It turns out they're more likely to be this effective.
We thought natural immunity wasn't effective at all.
Turns out that it is.
We said that we would never freeze people's bank accounts just because they did something we didn't agree with.
Turns out that we will do that.
You don't even need to believe that the people currently in power are evil.
Though if you do, I would understand that belief.
You just have to accept the possibility of, in the future, someone or a group of interests coming to power that would now have at their disposal this degree of authority, this ability to control your life, then you know that you have to resist it.
Then you know that we, the people of the world, truly have more in common with one another than we do with any of the people that attend these WTO, WEF, G20, G7, they've all got the same interests.
Get their money, get control of them, and we are all part of them.
Whatever country, culture, nation, identity, traditional, orthodox, progressive, SJW, you're them.
That's all they care about with their ESGs and their rhetoric and whatever flags or movements they're allying their power drive to this week.
You are just something they want to control.
And unless we're willing to overcome our cultural differences, unless we're willing to take responsibility for our own spiritual advancement, for our own communities, for real, true democracy now, then we are in serious trouble.
And you don't need a database to know that's the truth, Ruth.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
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I was reading it because our next guest was a valued contributor to this and when back in the good old days when me and Gal used to do True's, True News, when we were out on the YouTube trying to just bring down the government in the UK, bring about a better system, that's all we were trying to do.
Helena Norberg-Hodge came on and advised us about a little thing called localism.
That I hadn't heard of then.
Something I bet that you lot already know about.
Of course you're more advanced than us.
That the antidote to centralised power, the antidote to globalism, the antidote to corporatism is you having democratic control of your own community.
Sovereign individuals with free Market communities where you trade among yourselves, where ingenuity, entrepreneurialism can flourish and thrive without the intervention of corporatists in whatever form they may come in.
Helena Norberg-Hodge was the head of the game.
Helena Norberg-Hodge is an elder in this space, ensuring that we gain access to this information.
She is in Australia right now, so she won't be going nowhere fast, I'll tell you that.
Anyone for tennis?
It's Helena Norberg-Hodge.
Are you there, Helena?
I'm here.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for joining us, Helena.
You look really, really well.
The first question I want to ask you is, do you believe, truly, that localism, that any kind of community-oriented, democratic organisation can provide an antidote to WEF-style top-down control that we're seeing increasing?
We're seeing an increase in authoritarianism.
Tony Blair's got real pep in his step now.
Do you think that people can take back control of their communities?
Is there a real alternative?
There's absolutely a real alternative and I think the only obstacle is that people haven't heard that much about it.
We need this paradigm shift.
We need to put on different lenses.
And when we do, we will see that localism is actually happening right under our noses.
But it needs a lot more support, needs a lot more people to see it as the systemic alternative to what's going on as our governments have been handing over power to global corporations and banks systematically, almost since the inception of the modern economy.
It's been about supporting the global traders and the global banks To the detriment of the local, regional and national.
But now it's reaching these proportions that are dead-end.
We've really got to wake up to it.
Helena, the mainstream media continually bludgeon us with the grim fact that there are no alternatives to globalist corporatism.
That we have no hope but to hand over to some AI dystopia.
We're big tech and big pharma and big business, bludgeoning ordinary people the world over into submission while we're lost in an endless and unwinnable culture war.
Can you give us, therefore, examples of localism working?
I first of all, I can give you hundreds of millions, actually billions of people who are not yet so entrapped in that global system.
And they are the people who are less developed.
A lot of them are not doing that well because they've been colonized and before that enslaved for a long time.
But you know, I had that amazing privilege of entering a culture, you know, in the mid-70s that had not been colonized, that had also not been shaped by missionaries.
It was an independent culture in the Himalayas, Ladakh, West Tibet.
And I learned to speak the language fluently and I discovered a world But people were independent.
But Russell, not as individual sovereign, you know, individual identities, they were independent as communities.
We've always evolved in community and we need one another.
So I discovered what it means when you have plenty of people.
Every time you sow a field, every time you harvest, every time you build a house, plenty of people.
For every baby, ten caretakers.
Imagine what a paradise that would be for the mothers of today who are sitting there doing this unnatural thing.
So anyway, I discovered that localized reality, which was not, as I say, some individuals going off and trying to do it on their own.
I met the happiest, healthiest people I've ever encountered.
Later on, I worked in Bhutan.
Very similar thing.
And by the way, it's Schumacher's 50th anniversary of his book, Small is Beautiful.
And he was a highly respected conventional economist who ended up in Burma in the 60s.
And he ended up having to change his whole view on economics, because he also found in Burma, there was no unemployment, there was no poverty.
Now, all of these cultures I'm talking about, were buddhist and this may have something to do with that they were exceptionally well-balanced cultures but anyway the realities in small ways all around the less developed world not in the west cities there inside the western world what you will see if you put on these localist lenses or what
You know, what we call also micro trends.
Everywhere in the West you will find, if you go close to the ground, you'll find examples of local people coming together to create local food system, to create local community-based hospice centers, to create locally-based midwife and natural birth centers, to create healthy medicine centers.
And you will see in every instance that it works better.
It's more efficient, People are able to see the specifics of the individuals they deal with, the ecosystem they're living in.
It's about adapting to the reality of diversity.
So localism is a must.
What's happening now is we're being taken away, step by step, further from nature, from our bodies, from the soil, into the metaverse.
And unfortunately, a lot of people believe that this is going to be better than what we have in real life.
And it's because real life has been made to be so shitty that people now believe the metaverse may be an improvement.
Right, we've been so stripped of hope, so desiccated of the wet joy of being human and being part of nature, that the idea of being strapped into some virtual machine, experiencing reality on some internal screen, starts to seem appealing.
Helena, of course, you're joining us for our three-day event community,
along with Vandana Shiva and Wim Hof and a whole host of others.
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I'm very interested to hear that everywhere around us, there are examples of localism, community, real democracy,
people cooperating.
And it's interesting to see how hard the centralized forces work
at ensuring that these stories are not proliferated, that we're drained of the optimism,
that we're denied the possibility of seeing that there are alternative systems.
It's absolutely vital that these stories are told, even though sometimes, by the nature of these stories, they feel local, parochial, small.
This is not a glistening Apple Store shining at you from the middle of Manhattan.
This is not one of those ridiculous M&M stores that seem to be in every major city in the world.
But it's becoming pretty clear now that the model of consumerism isn't working.
Being cast in the role of a consumer, buying products, sugary products, dumb thumbs, reflective screens to stare at in perpetuity, These ideas aren't working anymore.
What we need are meaning, connection, purpose.
You can see there's a crisis in masculinity, a crisis in femininity, a crisis in community.
And the answers are to return somehow to our nature.
Not like Luddites neglecting technology and the brilliant advances of the geniuses upon whose shoulders we rest.
With a new mentality, with the deployment of some of the principles that you're espousing.
When you come to speak to us at Community, will you talk us through things that we can do right now when it comes to protesting and when it comes to presenting viable alternatives?
In particular, Helena, with bridging the gap Evident and growing gap between poor people and rich people.
Oxfam have just done a study on how inequality is growing.
We know that there's a billionaire elite class now.
And you know, based on what Christina Freeland, the Canadian minister for whatever the hell it is, she's WEF anyway, was saying that, you know, they're coming for the middle class now.
Middle class people are going to be drained of their resources.
This is going to affect everyone.
We're not just talking about old school, bleeding hearts, liberalism.
Oh, we've got to help people, help people that are worse off than ourselves.
This is going to be a crisis that where there's only there's the elite class and then there's the rest of us scrabbling around in real life Hunger Games.
Yeah, but I also wouldn't put it that way.
I wouldn't say they are coming for the middle class.
I really think we have to say that we've got a de facto conspiracy.
It's a structural conspiracy where our leaders, from left to right, to middle, in every country I know of, including my native country, Sweden, they've been going along with a dogma, econometric thinking, removed from nature, removed from people's needs.
And you know, growth increases with cancer.
Growth increases with pollution.
When the water is so polluted, we have to buy it in bottles.
It's good for the economy.
We have a lot of good people going along with that dogma.
And yes, they are marginalizing and impoverishing virtually every human being on this planet.
And a tiny, tiny minority, ever smaller, is winning.
I worked with economists already 30 years ago who were documenting how in America between the 60s and the 90s, the average American had to work one month more per year to stay in place.
I worked with an English economist who did the same thing in England.
And he was just looking at it in terms of spending power.
It was called the growth illusion.
And he was saying, the economy is growing, but you're getting poorer.
But Russell, the problem was, we could not get these things out into the media.
I helped to set up something called an International Forum on Globalization.
I introduced Vandana and other colleagues from the Global South to a funder who then honed a whole process that we had for about 20 years, trying to raise awareness about how the globalizing economy was leading to poverty across the world.
We had Tony Blair and all these You know, left-leaning prime ministers telling us, oh no, we're doing this, you know, don't be selfish.
We've got to move our industries to China.
If you care about poor people, you just be quiet.
Nah.
What we need more than anything to bring about the change is you, Russell, and more like you, it's amazing what you're doing, creating another platform, reaching people with the big picture, from the whole vital understanding of what it means to feel more connected through spiritual practice, but also that connection if we're just sitting meditating alone in a cement Box room in a high-rise building, no connection to other people, no connection to nature.
We won't get that full-fledged embodied spirituality that we all long for.
We've all connected to people and to nature, to the animals, to seeing the sky, to having some trees around us.
And that removal from nature, even in Sweden by the 70s, had led to depression, epidemics of alcoholism, and yet Scandinavia was held up as this model of progress.
So we've got to go deep and look at why is this happening?
It's not just Bill Gates now has had these ideas or Klaus Schwab.
It's been going on for a longer time.
And I think what's really good about seeing that is that we don't really need to talk so much about individuals.
We need to be talking about the systemic diverging path.
If you go along with these new techno greenwashed ideas, You're supporting a system that's basically destroying life.
And we can show, Russell, we can show that exactly the same policies that day by day make fewer and fewer people mega rich, And everybody else poorer.
Those same policies are driving up emissions, destroying, you know, creating climate change, but also decimating biodiversity.
They are linked.
And the thing that's being done is everyone is being pushed into a specialized, narrow, view and a narrow cause.
So whether it's gender, whether it's rich poor, whether it's handicapped or not handicapped, whether it's global south, global north, we're being divided.
And what localism does in a holistic way by understanding that it's a process that's diametrically opposed to the globalizing Corporate power.
It's about do we want corporations to run our lives and our communities?
Or do we want communities to run them?
But that doesn't mean that we don't need the nation-state right now.
Ideally what we'd be doing is coming together with a strong enough voice so that we will only have representatives at the top that are saying we are no longer going to be enslaved to the corporate system of oppression and destruction.
We are taking back that power and we are handing power immediately Helena, thank you for praising that complex idea.
And for most things that we need, it can be very localised.
But we need the protection of coming together in order to withstand the power of the corporations.
Helena, thank you for pricing that complex idea into such a succinct and rousing answer.
Thank you again for being such a fantastic teacher.
Thank you for the long pilgrimage you have made for making this information accessible and for carrying this strong, radical, anti-establishment message that is necessary, pragmatic, plausible and possible to our audience.
And we'll do everything we can to highlight your message to as many people as possible and to ensure that the right people hear it.
And that's all of us.
That's you watching this right now.
I'm talking directly to you.
You can join me and Helena at Community 2023, our three-day festival in Hay On Wye.
Go to RussellBrand.com right now to participate in this incredible event.
Helena, thank you so much for joining us.
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Can I just... I want to say something really important, Russell, can I?
Yeah.
We're having a...
Big gathering in Bristol, end of September this year, end of September.
We're gathering a tribe from all around the world, every continent, to give a big voice to the local.
And we're hoping that you're going to be joining us.
We've got amazing people, many of whom If you sit Helena, I've got to wrap up the show, but send me a link to it.
We'll post it everywhere.
We'll put it on all of the platforms where people watch us and stuff.
We'll make sure that we'll support your event in September.
Please support that.
It's unique.
It's unique.
And we have sent a link.
Bless you.
We'll sort it out.
Helena, thank you very much.
Joining us on the show tomorrow is Kim Iverson.
She'll be there on Friday.
We have Martin Goury.
I've been talking about Martin Goury's book for a long time.
Well done.
I've been talking about Martin Goury's book for a long time now.
I'm very, very excited to talk to Martin.
You are going to love this conversation.
Martin, like Helena there, has an overview of our situation.
He's someone that's beyond the paradigm of left versus right.
He's dealing with what happens when the ability to inform and communicate is out of the hands of established elites.
What happens in the realm of censorship?
What happens in the world of dissent, and most importantly, smearing dissenting voices?
You're going to love this conversation.
That's on Friday.
Remember, sign up to Locals, our membership community, and you can see all sorts of additional content.
I do meditations the whole time.
Me and Gareth do a show Once a week where we respond directly to your questions and your inquiries.
We make the show you want us to make once a week.
Gareth, it's been a hell of a show, hasn't it?
Hasn't it?
Covered quite a lot.
We've covered a lot of ground.
We've talked about Tony Blair.
We've talked about the WEF.
We've talked about Bill Gates saying stuff about his own special cause that couldn't be stated even on YouTube.
We've even had time to go back and look at one of the great books In human history, some are calling it.
Are they?
No, no, I just said that.
We've got a bloke by the name of Bloody Good Dog.
Right.
Oh, I remember it from when I definitely read it.
Hold on a minute.
Definitely read it.
Do not trust Gareth Roy.
There it is in black and white.
Tomorrow, Kim Iverson.
Friday, Martin Goury.
Join up to local so you can watch our show.
Stay connected and join us tomorrow.
Not for more of the same.
We wouldn't give you that.
More of the different.
Until then, stay free.
See you then.
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