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Balloons vs Missiles - What’s Going to Start WW3?! - #074 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	So, I'm going to go ahead and put this in the water. And I'm going to let it sit for a little bit.
	So, I'm going to let it sit for a little bit.
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	And I'm going to let it sit for a little bit.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	Thanks for joining me live right now on YouTube and exclusively on Rumble.
	We'll be staying with you for a moment.
	If you're watching this on Rumble right now, smash that Rumble button.
	Actually, just press it, you don't need to smash anything.
	God, there's enough violence and chaos in the world, isn't there?
	On the show today, we're talking about balloons versus missiles.
	Who will win?
	Will it be balloons or will it be missiles?
	Is of course the story that there are Chinese spy balloons being spotted over the States.
	We're talking about Shell's record profits that oddly have occurred During an energy crisis, there's this curious pattern where crisis seems to create profit.
	When we click over to being exclusively on Rumble, we'll be talking about Ukrainian corruption, and in particular, how one recently removed oligarchs got peculiar ties with everyone's favorite laptop DJ.
	It's Hunter Biden, everyone.
	Burisma rhymes with charisma.
	It's an energy company in Ukraine.
	That has recently been revealed to have oligarchical ties.
	Zelensky's booing people out of government, this dude's one of them.
	He's got ties to Hunter Biden, that's the sort of thing.
	Oh no, we're not going to tell you too much about that.
	You might have, I don't know.
	Stay with us if you're watching this on YouTube, but do click over at Rumble when you can.
	On the show as well is our guest Dave DeCamp.
	He's news editor at AntiWar.com.
	He's going to be talking to us.
	about Ukraine potentially being used to pilot CBDC schemes and about the missile stuff and also also the West in particular the United States and I don't mean to offend you if you are American we love you and we love your country But your government and the set of corporate interests that it represents are starting to provoke China into a potential global conflict.
	Is the first silo in this potential geopolitical nightmare come in the unlikely form of that friendliest of objects, a lovable, silly old, soppy old, stupid balloon?
	Let's have a look at how the mainstream media reported this story.
	It's the balloon making headlines.
	It's from China, and it's now floating over U.S.
	airspace.
	The Pentagon says it's a spying mission flying directly over MISO silos in Montana, and that's led to calls to shoot it out of the sky.
	In a way, this bit of news is quite infantilizing.
	The phrase, he spotted the balloon, and this sort of glum little character there.
	And also, it's the balloon that changed the world!
	Just like the sort of tone of it.
	She starts it with, it's the balloon making headlines, like that's a regular thing.
	Like, oh now to our regular feature, the balloon making headlines.
	This week's balloon, it's one outside of a car showroom!
	Yeah, like that's not a normal story.
	Also as well, I think there's a bit of a tendency around this story, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments if you think this, they're kind of personifying the balloon.
	As if it's an autonomous, like... Naughty balloon.
	Ho ho ho, I've come over here to have me a little look-see.
	What's that, a missile base?
	Munitions factory?
	Also, balloons are old school news, aren't they?
	Balloons, like, you know, it's like an anomalous tale when something peculiar happens.
	Have a look at this... It's the war version of a cat up a tree, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's a jolly geopolitical anomaly.
	This general, though, he's... he don't like the balloon at all.
	The balloon has violated U.S.
	airspace and international law, which is unacceptable.
	The balloon came around my house and looked at me strange and touched me under the table.
	I don't like the balloon.
	It's floating around up there in the sky.
	This American congressperson, he's coming in pretty hard.
	Check him.
	One Montana Republican congressman had three words of advice.
	Shoot it down.
	But the idea that Americans are performing according to stereotypes here, I think is a little unfair.
	Don't you, Gareth?
	Absolutely, yeah.
	I like that it's advice.
	But it's not advice, is it?
	Shoot it down!
	Yeah, that's not advice in any other context, shoot it down.
	That's a command, it's a statement of military intent, but also... It did work.
	Yeah, it was brilliant.
	You shouldn't...
	Float a balloon over... It's provocative.
	I mean, if it was happening to you as an individual, if a balloon just sort of hovered above you, like in a Peanuts cartoon, Cloud, whatever, you wouldn't like it.
	It's undermining.
	What about those stories where, like, a kid will let a balloon go and then it ends up in another country and then someone in... I love that story.
	Everyone loves that story.
	That's a joyful story, except ecologically.
	What about, though, having you ever on a birthday, as I once did, tied a balloon to you and then had that balloon float around above you?
	That's right, yeah.
	I've shot that son of a gun straight out of the sky!
	It's shiny!
	but it's not spying on you. But if someone said to you that balloon's...
	Spying on you.
	It's got your worst interests at heart.
	How do we know the balloon just didn't float off of its own accord?
	Like it was a birthday balloon.
	Well, we don't know what happened to the balloon because it was shot down in a real
	Yahoo, yippie-aye-aye fashion that I'm afraid does showcase some aspects of American culture
	that American detractors would use to attack America.
	So it's like, I've shot that son of a gun straight out of the sky!
	It's shiny! Four more years! USA! Woo-hoo!
	Look at this.
	Here we go baby! Get it!
	Get it!
	Get it!
	Yeah!
	Woo!
	It's quite cool.
	Yes!
	It is nice.
	Satisfying to shoot something out of the air like that.
	Perfect little symbol of Chinese aggression, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	You send up a balloon, we send up a missile.
	I also feel like it's like when you see a sperm egg.
	Oh yeah, sure.
	You know, maybe in a microscopic video of that kind of thing.
	At school.
	Yeah, at school.
	You know when they showed you them at school and then you got a bit embarrassed when they showed you it.
	Bloody Chinese spying on us in utero.
	Have a look at the journey of the balloon.
	The balloon's journey across the world has been charted.
	There it went from Alaska via Canada.
	No one spotted it in Alaska.
	No one cared about that.
	Canada.
	the balloon. Canada they were focusing on the oh there it goes like little Estobo. They enjoyed just
	watching it go by. Once it got to Montana though, hey, you better watch out. That's where things got
	pretty serious for the balloon. But it has been observed that the balloon's journey across the
	United States, the saucy spying little voyeur that it is, little full of hot air, is as nothing
	according to John Pilger, the great English journalist, compared to an arc of military
	bases being built around China.
	This is likely one of those stories where we're told, oh, China spying on us.
	But look at the encroachment on Chinese territory That this arc of military bases represents.
	Pilger's tweet says, Congratulations to US sharpshooters who after several attempts, that's very dry, very Pilger, to sort of criticise their attempt to, they didn't get it in one shot, not a very wild bunch, shot down a Chinese balloon straight near the land of the free.
	Oh god, he's actually quite anti-American, isn't he?
	Below is a map...
	Some of the 400 U.S.
	bases that surround China, spying, probing, several with nuclear arms, the U.S.
	describes the bases as a noose.
	Well, so there you go.
	One of the things we're talking about over the course of this week shows is the potential escalation of tension between the U.S.
	and China and how that maps onto the current proxy war, which is, you know, what we're kind of forced to call it these days.
	Between America and Russia via Ukraine.
	And this is a story, by the way, about those arcs.
	If you want to look, the US has secured access to four additional military bases.
	Four more bases!
	Four more bases!
	But before we get into this story about the increase in regional tensions and how that plays into geopolitical narratives and increased global tension in the pursuit of a unipolar World I want to tag a few more instances around this conflict in Ukraine the Ukraine are replacing the defense minister in their first major reshuffle since the invasion some people saying that Zelensky's clearing out his closet Eminem style clearing out some Ukrainian ministers that are corrupt and stuff and oligarchical but a First dude that's getting replaced in this reshuffle.
	He was my phone number He's the best one!
	I love this one, he's the one that kept going, Oleski Reznikov, he's the one that kept, if you don't know him, he's the one that kept going on telly going, well we're de facto members of NATO and we spill our blood and the Americans are back and else we miss.
	He kept going on the TV making the fatal error of accurately describing what's going on.
	In that conflict.
	Of course none of this is to say that Russia's invasion isn't egregious or criminal or that Putin isn't a tyrant.
	Simply that we all have access to the complexity of facts that may not necessarily conform to mainstream media narratives and the unipolar agenda of the globalist state.
	And this is a story that sort of helps us to understand that in real time.
	Shall we check out Rezhnikov?
	He's been booted out and this is him before in his old more carefree days at the ministry shouting off at the mouth about the way that Ukraine's basically a NATO.
	Have a look.
	Ukraine as country and the armed forces of Ukraine or our sector of security and defence
	became the member of NATO de facto.
	Not the EU, but de facto.
	So remember, like, there were times where Biden has gone on your TV set and said, no, no, no, we can't have Ukraine join NATO.
	That would be World War Three.
	We can't arm Ukraine.
	That would be World War Three.
	And incrementally, these various pledges and oaths are being broken.
	In a minute we're going to talk about Gareth, the oligarch who owned Burisma, and his connection to a certain little laptop-yielding son whose laptop tends not to make it onto certain social media sites.
	The naughtiest little laptop in the West.
	Delaware's sauciest laptop, the laptop of Hunter Biden.
	And what's weird about this story is like, when you hear like, oh, the oligarch who owned Burisma is getting shut down, you think, I've heard of that before, Burisma.
	Why do I even know about Ukrainian energy companies and stuff?
	And you think, oh, that's why, because it cropped up on that laptop that was meant to be Russian disinformation.
	So we're going to be talking about that.
	In a bit more depth.
	We can't take the risk of talking about that on YouTube.
	We love YouTube.
	We love being on YouTube.
	We love you, you Awakening Wonders.
	The only reason we broadcast on Rumble is because they have guaranteed freedom of speech.
	They have guaranteed us the right to attack establishment interests.
	They have given us the right to have an agenda that supports you, all of us, in our attempt to collectivise, organise and present alternative narratives to the mainstream media lies, deception and claptrap that you're regularly fed.
	Round the clock, we've got to oppose it somehow.
	And Rumble are thankfully affording us that ability.
	So click over from YouTube and you can say, I'm going to take my g-lay off.
	That's how agitated I am.
	I'm getting ready for some truth.
	I've seen what's under there.
	It ain't pleasant.
	It ain't pretty.
	It's dirty.
	What's on Hunter Barden's laptop, mate?
	Here, I want you to lift the lid on that.
	Oh, that's going to take you to another level.
	Does that annoy you that I've done that?
	A little bit.
	If I'm watching this and I'm seriously into the news, I'm thinking, I like Glenn Greenwald.
	Maybe I like, uh, who's the lady that's real good?
	Kim Iverson.
	Kim Iverson.
	Yeah, and then you think, all right, I'll give this guy a chance.
	What's he doing that for?
	Talking about your undercarriage.
	Talking about his undercarriage?
	That's not even a word I want to hear ever.
	I tolerated the frivolity around the balloon.
	It was harmless fun.
	Balloons are fun.
	Who don't love a balloon?
	Stick around though, we've got some great facts coming up.
	On the other side of this we're going to be talking to Dave DeCamp about these kind of geopolitical stories in a sensible, responsible way.
	We've got an amazing story for you about how Ukraine is being used not only to pilot missiles, test them for potential future conflicts, how there are bloody biolabs and... Allegedly.
	Allegedly, that's allegedly, that's alleged that.
	It's probably that defence minister who said that.
	Of course we have!
	You're fired!
	Get out of here!
	And how they're testing CBDCs, digital currencies, and a new surveillance state can be piloted.
	This is a brilliant piece of content that you will see exclusively, and certainly initially, here on Rumble.
	So if you're watching on Rumble, click over and let's get all saucy together.
	Let's start pursuing some freedom together.
	Start collectivising, unifying, looking at ways to come together.
	See you in a minute, YouTube.
	Rumble!
	Let's have one more look at this guy getting himself the old heave-ho, getting himself the old tin-tac, getting himself fired and mired in all sorts of controversy.
	Let's listen to him.
	So they need to spend their weapons.
	What do you think about that, Gareth?
	We are carrying out NATO's mission today without losing their blood, with losing our blood.
	Therefore, they need to spend their weapons.
	So they need to spend their weapons. What do you think about that, Gareth? How does that make you feel?
	Ukraine.
	Yeah, I mean it's strange what's happening at the moment, isn't it, with certainly the kind of corruption issues in
	Because obviously, Zelensky is getting rid of certain members of his government, like our man there.
	But also, the kind of corruption crackdown is happening at a time when...
	When I mean, we covered this last week, the BlackRock is now getting involved.
	And, you know, we've talked about the kind of privatization.
	And really, it's like Ukraine is being primed for Western investors to come in.
	And so this kind of corruption crackdown is basically as they enter talks to be in the EU and also primed for privatization through American corporations.
	The lot.
	I remember a certain hombre naranja.
	That's Spanish, Gareth, for orange man.
	That was very good.
	Hombre naranja.
	A certain orange man saying, Ukraine, most corrupt country in the world.
	Totally corrupt.
	So corrupt.
	Well, Bill Gates said it recently, didn't he?
	I remember a little man with glasses whose best friend's a little paper.
	Yeah, it's corrupt.
	Yeah, it's a corrupt little place.
	Vetoed!
	So they're all saying it now.
	Zelensky's Great Purge continues, launching police raid against oligarch who fell out of favour with Biden administration.
	The significance of the story regarding Zelensky's turning on his long-time patron and Kolominsky's other significant ties was entirely buried.
	What?
	Why are the mainstream media not telling us this?
	By foreign and state media, With most merely referring to the situation as another in a series of anti-corruption actions.
	Just doing some anti-corruption actions.
	A quick rundown on why Mr Kolomoisky is significant.
	He owned Burisma when it employed Hunter Biden.
	It's just so mad that this is tying up.
	Yeah.
	Why is this tying up?
	Why is this happening?
	You think of why it might be a good idea that he didn't, he wasn't around anymore.
	Like at the time that that laptop came out and he's like, this is just Russian propaganda.
	Well, you know, it says that there's a connection between corrupt Ukrainian officials.
	You're going to be having a proxy war between Ukraine and Russia.
	100 billion in American taxpayer money ultimately spent on weapons, primarily profits, going to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, et cetera, usual suspects.
	And there is an explicit connection.
	He's extraordinary.
	He financed Zelensky's entire television business and political career.
	Oh, he's going to be furious, isn't he?
	You'd think so.
	Well, if I financed someone's entire career... Let's say it was mine.
	Right, it's you.
	And actually, I have done most of yours.
	Imagine you started off television and then you went...
	Actually, I want to get into business now.
	I'll go, all right, I'll continue to do it.
	Actually, now I've decided I want to run a whole country.
	Bloody hell, this is a bit of a departure.
	Yeah, actually, that was a pretty big task because Zlansky was mainly famous for playing the piano with his penis, wasn't he?
	He was making a bit of a shift.
	From tickling the ivories, with what I call his Winky Woz name, straight into, I think, well I seem to have mastered this.
	What's the next natural... Having mastered the keyboard with my penis, I think I'd like a new challenge.
	What are you going to do?
	Play a trumpet with your arse?
	No, can I be in charge of the whole country?
	Yeah.
	If you don't mind.
	It's a bit like you going from Sarah Marshall to bringing down the government.
	It's been done before.
	I'm the bloke out of Sarah Marshall.
	Get rid of that government.
	But I've not said yet that I think that I should actually be in charge.
	No, not yet.
	Not publicly.
	Not exactly.
	It's too much.
	It's a lot of pressure.
	I think that's why I say collectivisation, absolute democracy, regionalise it and just help bring about conversation.
	You put one person in charge, they'll become corrupted by it.
	That's what it does to people.
	It turns them into nutters.
	I've seen it before, Gal.
	I've seen it with you.
	Right, so imagine if I'd funded your career in television, business, politics, including your rise to the presidency, and then you give me the sack, first chance you get.
	He once funded Ukrainian militias, those guys, but later argued that Kiev should engage in a détente with Russia.
	Détente, yeah.
	What's détente mean, mate?
	Well, it's a deal, a pact.
	Towards peace, towards demilitarisation.
	Who wants to talk about peace in a time like this?
	In a time when there's an escalating conflict and we're potentially moving on to provoking China?
	That's a great, we've got a great story for that over the course of the coming week, talking about that BRICS Plus deal and how relationships between China, Russia and a few other nations is the actual global threat that these kind of actions are attempting to curtail and interrupt, disrupt I suppose.
	So yeah that was the critical point apparently when he was saying that we should be looking for a peace deal because at that point his relationship with the West and the US shifted dramatically at that point.
	Zelensky's keeping his hand in with his elbows.
	With his winky.
	Yeah, I know.
	That was a joke.
	Yeah, I knew that was what you were doing.
	Thanks.
	In a way... Because you had both your hands on the desk for a start.
	Yeah. Ding ding ding ding. Ding ding ding ding. Da da da da da da da da da. If you could do Rachmaninoff... Da da da da.
	Da da da da da da da da da da.
	Is the implication, if you're playing the piano with your penis... Yes. ...that you would have to be erect?
	Because you can't, otherwise what are you doing?
	Like, how are you motivating it?
	It's not prehensile when it's on the flaccid or on the soft, as we say in the UK.
	Either way, you've got a tremendous amount of control over it.
	If you're playing the piano with your penis, and if you're watching this to bring down the government, we will bring it down.
	Dave DeCamp will be on soon.
	Dave!
	Dave!
	How exactly is it?
	Do you think it's on the stiff or on the soft, Dave?
	Good point Dave, good point.
	Because you need a lot of prostate control to unck unck the case.
	So in a way he should be Prime Minister or President or whatever he is.
	I'm being told to wrap this up.
	Really?
	Yeah, this isn't what we're paid for.
	Hold on a second, let me just wrap up this news story.
	Since then he's become the subject of an FBI probe, don't be childish, and US sanctions.
	He has since had his assets seized, don't be childish, and nationalised by the Ukrainian government and potentially the Biden family, that's allegedly.
	And he's been stripped, don't be childish, of his Ukrainian citizenship despite being born in Ukraine and living his whole life in Ukraine.
	He's as Ukrainian as natural gas, this guy!
	And wheat!
	Why has he been treated this way?
	Ukraine launches a wave of anti-corruption busts ahead of EU summit.
	So is that it?
	They're turfing people out.
	Why?
	Because of the EU summit.
	Well, yeah, because, well, you can't sell Ukraine as a corrupt nation with, you know, corrupt oligarchs with all sorts of ties here, there and everywhere.
	Particularly not, Gareth.
	If you want it, you know, essentially privatised.
	If you want to be my lover.
	Particularly, Gareth, if what your plan is, is to present Ukraine as a digital utopia.
	A place where BlackRock can try out new technologies and new investment opportunities.
	A place where digital IDs and CBDCs can be safely piloted much in the manner, and this is just my opinion, that the pandemic was used to offer ideas out like lockdown, digital IDs, increased surveillance in order to help meet needs.
	Ukraine now is a A nation that presents unique opportunities to practice and pilot control.
	Any nations that's being rebuilt after horrific war are going to be desperate for aid.
	It makes me feel pretty bad for Ukrainian people that they are being exploited in this manner.
	And even Zelensky, one of the world's best pianists, I said pianists, is being misused in this way.
	Ukraine also hopes to team up with big tech for plans to make the war-torn country digitally instructable.
	So, isn't it extraordinary that this opportunism is being deployed in such a severe humanitarian disaster and at a time of geopolitical instability?
	Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what you think about this.
	This presentation is going to help you to understand these complex issues, I believe, a lot more deeply.
	We've done some great research.
	I did most of it myself, but some other people joined in as well.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news.
	Here's the fucking news!
	Mandatory digital passports, CBDCs, social credit scores, the future that all of us are craving, according to the global elite and WEF attendees.
	Now, where's the perfect place in the world to test out all of these new controversial globalist tools under the guise of humanitarianism and test some weapons to boot?
	Let me hear your first guess.
	Let me hear your first guess.
	It's Ukraine.
	Thanks for helping them.
	We've got to talk about what's going on in Ukraine against a corrupt dictator in Putin to prevent the criminal invasion of Ukraine.
	The things that are definitely true is Ukrainian people must be supported and prevented from suffering in a dreadful and unnecessary war.
	Without going any further, let's reiterate the mainstream media globalist narrative.
	This is a humanitarian conflict to help and protect Ukraine, and there's absolutely no way that this is a proxy war where the military-industrial complex get to test out new weapons.
	How Ukraine became a testbed for Western weapons and battlefield innovation.
	Okay, that seems to suggest it is, but that's just a one-off.
	For Western weapons, the Ukraine war is a beta test.
	OK, a two off.
	But there definitely are no bio labs over there.
	Oh, that's just a clickbaity headline.
	It's not as if anyone in government has actually admitted it.
	Someone that's worked for successive administrations for the deep state over 20 or 30 years.
	Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
	Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops may be seeking to gain control of.
	But there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that Ukraine is not only going to be privatized subsequent to the war by companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, etc.
	You heard Zelensky's list, right?
	It will not be used as a place to pilot digital IDs, CBDCs, a mass surveillance society such as they're trying to impose on all of us.
	At least we can relax and not worry about that.
	Or can we?
	During the WEF annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov said that he wants the country to be the best jurisdiction for crypto assets and plans to receive his salary in Ukraine's central bank digital currency, CBDC, the E-Hivernia.
	What we're suggesting to you now is not only is Ukraine being used as a testing ground for weapons and an opportunity to create profit for the American military-industrial complex, but subsequent to the war, where they're also creating privatisation opportunities for companies like BlackRock, they'll also use it as a testing ground for favoured globalist modalities such as mass surveillance, digital IDs and CBDCs.
	It's an everybody wins, except for Ukrainian people of course, but we didn't care about them anyway.
	Oh, no, no, they're the whole reason for the war.
	Oh, well, what about these tight union laws that are going to prevent them from being paid properly?
	Look, if you think too much, the world won't make sense.
	Just shut up.
	Just last year, the BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he believed the Russia-Ukraine war could be used to accelerate the adoption of digital money controlled by central banks.
	Sometimes I think that what we're doing is incredibly controversial and we're at the vanguard of information truth.
	Other times I think we're just reading out stuff that people have said they're doing and putting it all together and not being bloody little idiots believing what we're told by the mainstream.
	What do you think?
	Let me know in the chat.
	Let me know in the comments.
	Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink have agreed to coordinate investment in rebuilding Ukraine.
	Yes, imagine that Zelensky will have a good deal of influence when dealing with Larry Fink, a man who plays the piano with his penis versus a man who plays with the global economy like it is his penis.
	In a letter to shareholders, Fink wrote that this could prove to be one of the outcomes of the war that are currently, by and large, under the radar.
	Listen, this is under the radar now.
	And we're testing out some great new radars over there, which you can profit from, by the way.
	According to Fink, whose company manages $10 trillion worth of assets, countries around the world will be re-evaluating what he called their currency dependencies.
	And hopefully they're moral codes.
	The BlackRock CEO's letter shows that the trend of major financial players starting to take cryptocurrencies seriously continues.
	Do you remember at the beginning of digital currencies?
	This stuff, it's bad, it's wrong, it's immoral, it's evil.
	Are they still doing it right?
	We're in charge of it.
	We should be allowed to do it.
	Give it to us.
	It's not fair.
	And now it's like Larry Fink and top global players and Rishi Sunak.
	CBDC, we've been interested in them for a long while.
	In fact, I invented them.
	CBDC is the best thing ever in the world and we're in charge of them.
	Born out of the 2008 financial crisis.
	Oh, what a coincidence because BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs were also involved in the 2008 financial crash.
	It's amazing how these guys just keep cropping up.
	This form of money was treated with distrust and even derision for a long time.
	But now Fink writes that BlackRock's clients are becoming increasingly interested both in cryptocurrencies, stable coins included, and in the blockchain tech that underpins them.
	And for that reason, BlackRock now considers centrally controlled digital money as an emerging class of assets that the corporation is studying in a bid to serve its clients better.
	And, of course, the people of Ukraine.
	Those main beneficiaries, the people of Ukraine.
	What are we going to do to help the people of Ukraine?
	Would it help them if we made loads of money?
	Let me think.
	There must be a way that we can make money out of these dead children.
	I think I've thought of something, boss.
	If we say we're helping them when we make profit.
	No, no one will believe that.
	They're too stupid.
	But what if we just tell them that all the time until in the end they can't think straight?
	Yeah, no, that'll work.
	We'll do that.
	In the past, while overall positive about the future of digital money, he didn't appear to be a big fan of decentralized and freedom-associated Bitcoin.
	I wonder why?
	Could it be the association with freedom and decentralization, meaning that it couldn't be controlled and might be useful to ordinary people who haven't passed through the hierarchical systems at which these establishment and elite figures sit at the summit, dictating to the rest of us through the WEF and their relationships in government what we can and can't do?
	Let me know in the chat.
	In his letter to shareholders, he noted that even before the war in Ukraine, several governments, including the US, were looking into cryptocurrencies and ways to regulate their use.
	But it is risky, and it is expensive.
	What we need is a war-torn country that we could pilot these ideas in.
	Oh, well, that's good, because we're testing weapons over there, and guess what we're telling people?
	No, go on.
	So we're doing it to help Ukrainian people.
	But ultimately, won't it be worse for Ukrainian people if this war is sustained against a superpower with missile capabilities and if in the post-war climate Ukrainian people can't get good jobs and can't work under reasonable conditions?
	I know, but they keep believing it!
	Ukraine also hopes to team up with big tech for some big plans to make the war-torn country digitally indestructible, reports citing statements made by officials during recent conferences suggest.
	The main goal is to move towards a cashless society, heard this anywhere?
	By introducing non-crypto digital money and use AI systems even for purposes like producing pre-trial and pre-sentencing reports assessing the risk of a suspect re-offending.
	So even justice and humanity can be passed over to AI for a profit.
	Not guilty!
	Not guilty!
	Give me your money!
	That's not bad, Zelensky.
	And also, we could use that voice for the robot.
	An initiative called Digital for Freedom.
	If we put freedom in its name, people won't notice that it's about tyranny.
	Yeah!
	Was presented by Ukraine's Deputy PM and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhailo Fedorov, in Switzerland.
	Fedorov is described as longtime friend of President Volodymyr Zelensky and a fellow enthusiast in ushering in ever greater levels of digitalization.
	The initiative is to make Ukraine the most digital state in the world.
	The initiative, the plan, the vision, the scheme.
	While we're continually told things that may or may not be true, that Russia's attack was unprovoked, it doesn't seem that that's true, what definitely is true is that some of the most powerful interests in the world are benefiting from and profiting from this conflict.
	My concern is that Ukrainian people will not benefit in the short term.
	There's the potential for nuclear conflagration.
	And it looks like now, even for the rest of us, an opportunity to pilot ideas and schemes, in many ways the pandemic served a similar function, that will ultimately lead to more and more centralised authority that cannot help but lead to less individual and community freedom for you and your family.
	So your differences between people that have a different political or cultural ideology are less significant than your differences with this increasing globalist centralizing force that is using incredible technology, pandemics and wars to advance an agenda that it seems that they had anyway and use these crises simply to legitimize things that they've always wanted to do and find ways to maneuver that that's actually the solution.
	In order to help Ukrainian children, we are going to give them a vaccine.
	No, sorry, that's the last one.
	A digital passport that will help us to monitor them as they go to and from their dead end job.
	Get in line!
	Get in line!
	President, you don't have to do this anymore.
	We've got robots now.
	Oh yeah, thank you!
	The general promise is that in the future the Ukrainian government and Big Tech will be closely interlinked.
	Interlinked.
	Interlinked.
	That's what you want.
	You want Big Tech and the government closely interlinked.
	Sort of like people from the deep state working at social media platforms or social media platforms and email platforms and providers giving information to the government.
	That's exactly what we want, piloted.
	The push presented by Fedorov is to make Ukraine 100% digital, and he has a lot of faith in storing data on Amazon's and Microsoft's servers.
	We're talking about the bricks and architecture of potential tyranny being put in place.
	Even if you don't want to go full woo-hoo about it all and say, well, no, these people, they're just business people, they don't really matter.
	The potential for it.
	I'm not going to try to convince you that we already have a cadre of very powerful people that are bypassing democracy through a series of institutions and globalist organisations, and we should stop it immediately.
	I am saying that a bit.
	But even if you were like, no, they're all trying their best, what they're putting in place is the architecture for it.
	Like when you see those robot dogs.
	This robot dog could help a blind person to the shop.
	Yeah, but the way the society is currently organized, does it seem like our absolute priority is helping blind people to the shops, or does it seem like total domination over all people as inequality increases?
	No.
	Blind person to the shop.
	Get to the fucking shop!
	Get to the fucking shop!
	Hey, you don't need to do this anymore.
	Nobody's filming this.
	There's a war in China now.
	The plan is to allow Ukrainians to use digital services for all administrative tasks like car, property and land registration, paying customs duties and starting businesses.
	And you can see how in a climate where the narrative you're sold is a humanitarian one, that these companies are here to help you, where Zelensky's turning up the Golden Globes to say thank you to Black Rock and JP Morgan and all of that stuff, that you You don't think, hey, hey, wait a minute!
	Aren't they going to be able to track all of our movements?
	Aren't they going to be able to shut down dissent?
	Once you have digital surveillance and the ability to shut down their bank accounts and stop them driving their car, identify exactly where they are in your 100% digital society, what you're getting is a pilot for dystopia, a practice ground, first for the weapons, then for what follows for all of us.
	Now you can see what the motivation might be.
	You just have to ask yourself the same question I ask myself when I'm confronted with this Do you think that centralised economic, financial and governmental interests are primarily motivated by humanitarian drives or by economic and financial drives and by dominion more broadly?
	If you go no, actually having looked at the last 20 years and that, everything always seems to be about humanitarian.
	Whether I look at Iraq or Central and Latin America or Edward Snowden and Julian Assange's revelations, all of the past wars, all of the pandemic and that, I just think these guys are so keen to help people that they've turned into psychopaths.
	More sectors slated for similar transformation other than the payment system that is supposed to completely do away with paper money are education and healthcare.
	Brilliant!
	Got it all sewn up.
	Now your children know exactly what to think and if you're sick, you better be obedient.
	Be a good patient!
	It's time to check your temperature!
	Well, at least it's the finger.
	Have you seen him play the piano?
	In his own appeals made on several occasions, Zelensky made it clear he expects big tech to build this infrastructure.
	Oh, they'll build it.
	And they'll own it.
	Ukraine, meanwhile, already has pilots that produce pre-trial and pre-sentencing reports assessing the risk of a suspect re-offending, the reports say.
	Maybe I've gone mad.
	Maybe I'm thinking too much and reading too much of this information.
	I'm sure there is no plan to turn Ukraine into a techno-dystopia and attract globalist interests, piloting new schemes that will benefit centralised big tech surveillance government relationships while disempowering ordinary people and offering favourable tax breaks too.
	Let's have a look at a video that Fedorov published outlying his vision.
	This will put us all at our ease.
	The history of the new Ukraine is studied all over the globe.
	Why?
	Because Ukraine became the most digital and convenient country in the world.
	So convenient.
	Scripts have replaced bureaucrats.
	500,000 former public servants are successfully integrated in the new economy.
	That means you've privatized government.
	No more red tape, but paperless.
	All that red tape, protecting people.
	No more banknotes.
	All that paper, meaning you had physical contact with your own resources?
	I could sort of say that you'll own nothing and be happy.
	No!
	Don't say that!
	Wrong slogan!
	Join us!
	You are going to prison!
	for the IT industry and the most affordable e-residency.
	Join us!
	Ukrainian courts are guided by artificial intelligence and all notarial acts take place online.
	You are going to prison!
	You are going to prison!
	There's no job you can get nowadays.
	Customs clearance and car registration can now be done in three clicks from your smartphone.
	We have built the most flexible in modern digital education.
	Brave military and civilians get quality treatment with modern remote monitoring and e-health systems.
	Modern remote monitoring?
	That means you're being spied on all the time.
	Ukraine also has the most effective cyber defense in the world.
	They're presenting this as a kind of advert.
	They're not saying, don't let anyone find out that this is what we're planning.
	Otherwise, they'll recognise that this war, at best, is being exploited in order to advance globalist interests and possibly was exacerbated in order to create a conflict that would legitimise all of these actions that we want to take anyway.
	Don't let anybody find out.
	They are actually, to their credit, I suppose, putting it out there.
	The Ukrainian government is digital, more like an IT company in terms of the efficiency of implementing decisions.
	Ukraine is the freest in digital.
	This is all because international partners and the world's leading technology companies supported the Digital for Freedom initiative.
	Digital for Freedom.
	If it's got freedom in the title, it must be good.
	And who do we look to when we want freedom?
	Why, it's big tech, the big state, and unelected globalist bodies funded by the same old faces.
	Well, there you go!
	That may at first glance look like a Huxleyan dystopic vision that implements all of the globalist agenda that many of us have long feared.
	But surely, if it's all for the benefit of Ukrainian people, who we're supposed to be helping, right?
	It all makes sense.
	Zelensky's government has imposed some of the world's most aggressive anti-worker.
	And remember, worker means people.
	Policies passing legislation that deprives around 73% of workers, people, of their right to union protection and collective bargaining.
	And once they're up against a cyber state, underwritten by big tech, where your every action is observed, where your every transaction, whether that's financial or even biometric, is observed, tracked, exchanged, they are going to need some sort of human connection.
	And don't you feel like me that all of this ingenuity actually could be used for good, of course it could, of course there's a utopian version of that and I don't know how they're managing to make it seem so bloody terrifying actually because it could be wonderful and brilliant if everything was democratic, if people were involved in it, if it was voted for, if it was understood.
	If the end point was not profit, but the advancement of our kind, the protection of one another, the right for individual and community freedom, then these would all be fantastic advances and endeavours.
	But when you look at the names involved, and the agenda so far, and history, do you feel that that is where this is heading?
	Do you still feel that this conflict is a humanitarian one, with no interest other than helping Ukrainian people to survive under the advances of a foreign aggressor?
	Russia is a big scary country and Putin is a big scary guy.
	But there's clearly so much other stuff going on that ought be discussed, reported on, subject to democratic process.
	Forget the Armageddon.
	I mean, I never thought I'd say that.
	Forget potential Armageddon.
	It looks like in the event that there isn't a nuclear war, they've got very clear visions for what the future is going to be like for you, for your children, your money, your health going forward.
	Unless you think this is still just to help Ukrainian people.
	I'm a bit suspicious.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think.
	I'll be reading some of your comments in a second.
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	editor, news editor, antiwar.com, which is a very important resource actually for our channel when
	we're doing our investigative journalism. Thanks for joining us Dave. Thanks Russell.
	Thanks for having me on.
	Mate, you said that you were interested in the story that former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that the US blocked his efforts of mediating peace between Russia and Ukraine.
	It's a story you reported on that hasn't been picked up much.
	Why is that?
	Do you think that there was a potential peace that has been blocked and what would be the reasons for that, mate?
	Yeah, so this is a pretty huge story.
	So Naftali Bennett, he was the Prime Minister of Israel when war first broke out, when Russia first invaded, and he took his role to be a mediator.
	And he actually went and visited Putin on March 4th, so that's less than a week after, you know, the invasion and things really, you know, were heating up.
	And in this interview that he just posted on his YouTube channel over the weekend, he really detailed his mediation efforts.
	And he said he met with Putin on March 4th.
	He called Zelensky right away.
	He was talking to them back and forth.
	And he said he coordinated the entire thing with the U.S.
	The UK, the German, and the French.
	And he said there was real will on both Putin's side and Zelensky's side to reach a ceasefire.
	He said he got major concessions out of them.
	Putin dropped his demand of the denazification of Ukraine, which he defined as basically regime change, removing Zelensky.
	He said Putin also dropped the demand of demilitarization.
	On Zelensky's side, he said that he renounced trying to join NATO, which this is Bennett, you know, former Israeli Prime Minister, explained was the reason for the Russian invasion was how close Ukraine was to NATO.
	But Bennett said, again, he coordinated this with all these Western countries, and he told the interviewer that there was a decision among the Western countries that they wanted to keep striking Putin, how he put it.
	This is translation from Hebrew.
	And he was asked, did they block the talks?
	And he said, yes, they blocked my efforts.
	And that wasn't the last attempt at peace between Russia and Ukraine.
	Again, this is March 2022.
	Fast forward a few weeks, Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Istanbul.
	And they came close to a deal, according to a lot of reports.
	And then a few weeks later, Boris Johnson visited Kiev.
	And according to his own office, he urged Zelensky not to negotiate.
	Reporting in Ukrainian media, Ukraine's Kapravda said that he said, even if you're ready to sign a deal with Putin, we are not.
	And he was speaking for the collective West.
	So they stopped this war.
	Sorry, they stopped the negotiations.
	They wanted to continue the war.
	Turkey, the host of those Istanbul talks, said that they thought the war was going to end.
	But some of their NATO partners wanted to continue the war to weaken Russia.
	And then just a few days later, again, this is April 2022, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, former Raytheon board member, came out and said, we want to weaken Russia in Ukraine.
	So it's just more evidence that the US and its allies blocked the negotiations at the beginning of the war and wanted this thing to continue.
	Even if we don't become ensnared in the broader morality of inciting war when peace is available, we surely have to address the way that the media has reported on this conflict, denying most people access to the details that you just We've focused on several fascinating aspects of this story, notably the profiteering of the military-industrial complex and more recently Black Rock's investment in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
	If you could just talk a little about that for a moment, Dave, then we'll move on to a even broader geopolitical narrative that involves unipolar incentives and ongoing American hegemony and the likely forthcoming conflicts between the United States and China, especially if they keep sending those terrifying balloons.
	But first, can we talk about their reconstruction and the investment opportunities that that's offering American corporations in particular?
	Yeah, sure.
	So the clear winner right now of continuing this war to weaken Russia is Raytheon, Boeing, you know, the weapons makers, the American military-industrial complex, the $100 billion, much of that is going to them.
	And it's not just that.
	European countries are sending their old, you know, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, they're getting rid of their old Russian-made weapons, buying some new shiny American weapons.
	They're really making a killing.
	But, as you have been covering a lot, the reconstruction of Ukraine is going to have a huge price tag.
	The World Bank estimated in December that it would cost between $500 and $600 billion to reconstruct Ukraine.
	Zelensky put it at $750 billion.
	That was a few months back.
	As the war goes on, more people are being killed.
	The country is being destroyed.
	That price tag is going to go up.
	And that's where you see these companies like BlackRock.
	They're going to get in on this reconstruction and they're going to be able to create all this new infrastructure because Russia has been destroying the infrastructure starting in October as the war has continued.
	It's just going to get worse and worse for the people of Ukraine.
	And that, you know, $600 billion that it's going to cost or $750 billion might even get up to a trillion.
	You know, that money is going to be loaned.
	There's going to be interest payments.
	There's going to be grants from the governments that are backed by central banks so they can just print money.
	I mean, you know, it almost makes the $100 billion seem small, the amount that they're going to be able to make off of Ukraine's reconstruction.
	And unfortunately for the people of Ukraine, you know, they're the ones that are suffering right now dealing with rolling blackouts and not being able to heat their homes, you know, in the harsh Ukrainian winter.
	Not to mention that the conditions in Ukraine economically will likely be favourable to a great many globalist imperatives.
	We talked about in our presentation just there the opportunity to create a 100% digital state and that's like that was not conjecture.
	Ukraine themselves have produced a piece of publicity material, video in particular, outlining
	a vision that you can have an entirely centralized surveillance state with biometrics, deeply
	immersive ability to observe.
	So there's the profit for the military-industrial complex, there's the reconstruction profit,
	and there's the kind of opportunity to turn Ukraine into a pilot state for numerous imperatives
	that have been discussed openly over the last five, six years around digital ID, social
	credit scoring, even more enhanced surveillance techniques.
	So it's very easy to see how there is an agenda alongside the obvious humanitarian agenda that elsewhere in geopolitical history has not seemed to be at the forefront of corporatist American interests.
	Yeah, and a big part of this too is about, you know, with all those companies building the infrastructure and besides just turning Ukraine into a de facto NATO member, which I think it's pretty fair to say they are now, as Reznikov has said, the defense minister who's being replaced, you know, giving them this foothold in Ukraine right on Russia's border to turn it basically into this Western client state right in Russia's backyard, I think was a big part of the goal.
	A big part of the reason why the U.S.
	kept pushing this and pushing this and was involved in Ukraine, you know, going back
	to the 2014 coup and supporting Ukraine in the war in the eastern Donbass region through
	all that time.
	You know, there was reporting right before Russia's recent invasion, not recent, it's
	been almost a year now, but there was reporting from Yahoo News that CIA paramilitary officers
	were deployed on the front lines of the Donbass war, you know, during that whole time.
	So again, you talk about the narrative.
	It's a snapshot for the corporate media from February 24th until now.
	For us, we have to look at the big picture.
	It even goes beyond 20, way back before 2014 with NATO expansion and all that.
	So that's why people are buying up this narrative because again, they give them that snapshot.
	Not to mention the Nord Stream pipeline and the shift now in Americans' ability to sell resources across the world, which was another explicitly stated goal prior to the commencement of this conflict.
	We want to be the number one provider of liquid gas, which I believe is another one of the objectives that has been subsequently met.
	It helps us, doesn't it, Dave, to see geopolitics in the form of a broader narrative.
	In particular, the attempt to destabilise Russia, potentially because of a burgeoning partnership and set of treaties that they've cultivated with China.
	Now, of course, America's... Every time I say China, I want to say China.
	Their relationship with China is, of course, in the headlines because of that terrifying, awful, bloody balloon.
	But also, there is a wider global narrative about US hegemony and unipolar intentions and the potential for China and Russia to disrupt that.
	Are we likely to see this story becoming increasingly incendiary over coming weeks, months, years, Dave?
	Yeah.
	And, you know, one point is that the people running American foreign policy, you know, the neocons who control it and other people, you know, part of the deep state, there's different factions and some of them are not very smart.
	And those are the ones right now that are controlling the Biden administration, I think, you know, Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland.
	What they're doing to Russia and China clearly is going to bring them closer together.
	They're both facing Western sanctions.
	They're both facing Western military buildups.
	And now they're shaking hands and making deals.
	And it's creating this kind of new, like you said, multipolar world, potentially, with Russia, China, Iran, even Venezuela, all these countries that are being sanctioned by the U.S.
	They're kind of creating this enemy.
	And we know that, you know, just look at the history of the U.S.
	foreign policy.
	They've done this before.
	You know, they opened up China And got all this industry there and really built them up and now over the past few years China has really become the boogeyman.
	So now there's a lot to this China thing in the balloon and right now what people have to do is just stop for a moment and not get kind of whipped up into a frenzy about this scary Chinese spy balloon that went over the US.
	You really have to ask questions.
	And the big thing I think is that, you know, so China says it's a weather balloon.
	The U.S.
	says it's a spy balloon.
	China says it accidentally drifted over the U.S.
	Who knows?
	It's not exactly clear.
	Then you have the Pentagon saying this has happened before.
	And one thing I pointed out in my article that I wrote up about it, it's on antiwar.com today.
	Is that just a few years ago, you know, surveillance aircraft from a foreign country over the U.S.
	wouldn't really be that big of a deal because the U.S.
	and Russia had a treaty called Open Skies, and it allowed unarmed surveillance flights over each other's territory.
	Trump pulled out of it in 2020.
	Russia actually tried to salvage it, but the Biden administration rejected the offer.
	You know, that was another thing that led up to this war is the decline of arms control treaties between the U.S.
	and Russia.
	So anyway, so maybe a balloon Floating over the US for a little while wouldn't have really raised alarms back then before this treaty was scrapped.
	I'm not really sure, but we have to ask these questions.
	And the timing of this whole balloon thing, you know, the Pentagon announcing it right before Blinken is supposed to go to China.
	And Blinken cancels his trip.
	And it shows what a pathetic diplomat he is.
	Right now, what he should be doing is, oh, there's a balloon.
	This could be an issue between the US and China.
	I got to get on the phone.
	I got to get over there and talk to them about this.
	But no, of course, he cancels the trip.
	When it comes to Russia, Blinken has totally failed as a diplomat since Russia invaded.
	You would think if you're the top diplomat in the United States, you would try to be talking to Russia every day to stop this war.
	But nope, he cut off communication with Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
	They only spoke one time, that we know of at least, since Russia invaded, and that was to discuss a prisoner swap.
	So he's a totally failed diplomat.
	But I think that might have something to do with the timing of the announcement by the Pentagon.
	Of course, also people did just see it.
	They looked up and saw it, so who knows if the previous ones were that visible.
	But this is against the backdrop of this U.S.
	military buildup in the Asia-Pacific.
	Just last week, the U.S.
	announced it's opening four new military facilities in the Philippines.
	The week before that, the U.S.
	Marine Corps opened a new base on Guam, and these marine leaders, these military leaders in the Asia-Pacific, they say they're doing this to prepare for war with China.
	Just a few weeks back, the top U.S.
	Marine Corps commander in Japan said, told Financial Times that, you know, they're increasing cooperation with Japan, the Philippines.
	We're doing this, we call it setting the theater, as we set the theater in Ukraine after 2014, comparing it directly to that war.
	And now with Taiwan.
	Taiwan, of course, is the big one.
	If you remember last summer, Nancy Pelosi's little stunt, she went over there and it provoked the largest Chinese military drills around Taiwan that have ever happened.
	They fired missiles over the island.
	They simulated a blockade.
	They never did that before.
	It was clear China was going to react like that.
	She went anyway.
	And now we have Kevin McCarthy, the Newhouse speaker.
	He's saying he's going to go too.
	And Taiwan's a tricky one because a lot of people don't understand the situation.
	But since 1979, the U.S.
	has not had diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
	That was how they opened up with China.
	It's the foundation of U.S.-China relations, is kind of this weird scenario.
	And you could go back further.
	U.S.
	intervention in the Chinese Civil War, backing Chiang Kai-shek when the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan.
	The US intervening militarily in the 1950s to stop Mao from trying to take Taiwan.
	All this stuff is very important that people need to understand.
	But right now, what we've seen in the past few years, Starting really under the Trump administration is that they're changing the relationship from Taiwan.
	It used to be kind of an issue between the U.S.
	and China, and now they're using it as an opportunity to kind of poke China.
	And, you know, these visits, Nancy Pelosi going over there is a big deal because she was the Speaker of the House, and that China views that as an affront to the one-China policy.
	The U.S.
	has been selling them more weapons.
	The National Defense Authorization Act, the 2023 military spending bill that Biden just signed, Include military aid for Taiwan for the first time ever.
	They've always sold them weapons.
	They've never financed the purchase.
	And China reacted more drills around Taiwan.
	They're telling us if you keep doing this, this could lead to war between the US and China.
	They're telling us outright, but they're not listening.
	So it's going to be a similar situation where the U.S.
	is going to potentially provoke a war over Taiwan.
	And just like the U.S.
	and Russia, the U.S.
	and China cannot go to war.
	China doesn't have nearly as many nukes as Russia and the U.S.
	do, but they still have plenty to destroy the world if there is a nuclear exchange.
	And the narrative, if you see people telling you that Joe Biden is owned by China, that's just a false narrative.
	Because yes, Hunter Biden made some money over there.
	But if you paid attention to Biden's foreign policy, he's been tougher on China than Trump was.
	He's increased all these sanctions, trying to cripple their semiconductor industry.
	And not just U.S.
	sanctions, they're trying to get the Netherlands and Japan to get in on these sanctions.
	And again, these military buildups.
	And his Pentagon, his State Department, the CIA, the FBI, just about every federal agency under Biden has said China is our number one threat, our top enemy.
	So we have to think very cautiously about all this balloon You know, frenzy when that is the backdrop.
	That's the situation we're in today.
	US-China relations are so low.
	Seems like there is an aggressive agenda being subversively deployed almost uniformly and continually, whether it's this current conflict and its preceding provocations, or what we appear to be seeing now is kind of comparable to the gradual encroachment around territories that have associations with China.
	Building of a narrative that there is a necessity for a conflict.
	I suppose that what we will look out for over the next six months to a year is like, oh, Taiwan, there's this humanitarian crisis.
	We've got to help these Taiwanese people.
	They're doing their best.
	China's invaded.
	Or we'll be invited to forget the provocation.
	What dear Blinken, if he's any kind of a diplomat, should be doing is getting himself on a balloon and going to China Buy a balloon on a global balloon tour for peace.
	That is the sort of diplomatic opportunity that ought to be embraced.
	Dave, thank you for describing these complex events in such an accessible, thoughtful, and I would say inclusive way.
	Antiwar.com has, as I understand it, no left-right political bias.
	What is the agenda of Antiwar.com?
	Is there any clues in the name, for example?
	Yeah, so I mean, that's basically our bias is that we're anti-war, non-interventionist.
	We're a libertarian staff, so we're what most people would consider, you know, right-leaning.
	But we have columnists from all over the political spectrum, and that's been the mission of the website.
	It was founded in 1995 by Eric Garrison and Justin Raimondo, and Justin was the columnist who was a genius, but unfortunately he passed away.
	In 2019, but the whole time it was about building a coalition.
	You know, we would run columns from, you know, Daniel Ellsberg and Pat Buchanan, just completely different ends of the political spectrum.
	And we still do that today.
	And that's what we pride ourselves on.
	Because, you know, this issue, especially now, as we're looking down the barrel of a potential war with Russia and China now, a nuclear war, we really need to unite to stop this.
	And that's what We're all about, and the site is entirely reader-funded, that's why they've been able to do this and go against these narratives, and I'm very honored to be working for them.
	I started doing it full-time in 2020, and I just write short news articles every day.
	I sort through hundreds of articles in the mainstream media every day and kind of filter it through to give people a short understanding, so that's what we're about.
	Again, I think your viewers, you know, would appreciate what we do over there.
	And also, if people don't want to read, I condense it into about a 30-minute daily podcast.
	It's called Anti-War News with Dave DeCamp.
	You can listen to the audio version or we also have a YouTube channel.
	We're also on Rumble and all that stuff.
	So yeah, I think, you know, our views align a lot, Russell, in that politics are kind of secondary when you're When we're in the situation we are today, and people really need to wake up, and I know you had Jimmy Doran promoting that anti-war rally February 19th in Washington, D.C.
	We're going to be represented there by Scott Horton, who's our editorial director.
	He's a human encyclopedia.
	People are familiar with him.
	But yeah, so that's what we're about.
	We're going to be represented at that march by Gareth, who's a human centipedia, very much like that terrifying film where people did all manner of filthy stuff.
	In a way, true opposition these days has to be bipartisan and transcendent of those kind of divisions because it's quite clear that centralist interests, whether Left or right, both have a pro-military agenda, both pro-surveillance, both pro-digitization, and really what is required is a coalition of the awakening in order to truly oppose what appears to be a relentless march towards the apocalypse.
	I mean, when we're in the Armageddon, we won't have time to check what rosettes the other zombies are wearing.
	As we pick through the ashes and rumble.
	This is a Democrat zombie.
	This one's a Republican zombie.
	Let's just get on with some new transcendent truly democratic populist movement that embraces freedom from across the political spectrum.
	So I think Dave's told you a great deal about anti-war.com.
	I know that Gareth and the rest of the team use your resources.
	Quite a lot in generating the narratives we use for our content.
	Although, to be honest, most of the work is just done by me on the spot.
	I just improvise news myself.
	I just come up with stories.
	It's all up there under one of my elaborate hats.
	Dave, thank you so much for joining us.
	Thanks for your brilliant work today.
	I appreciate it.
	Yeah, Russell.
	Again, thanks so much for having me on.
	I really appreciate it.
	You've got a kind, wonderful face of a Christ-like figure, Dave, isn't he?
	Dave, thanks for joining us, man.
	Thanks very much.
	On tomorrow's show, Matthias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, is joining us, talking about Mass, about mass formation and how the elites are controlling us.
	What about that?
	That's a guest that I've been in conversations as a result of our forthcoming American tour where we're going on some great shows.
	Rogan, Ma, Tucker, some big shows coming up over there in your country if you're in America.
	I've made some interesting connections.
	Wow.
	You're doing the guest bookings now as well.
	Girl, I'm a one man, they call me one man brand.
	Right, let's go on the rest of us.
	If I could just crack that French horn, we don't need any of you guys.
	As a matter of fact, I've got all the switches.
	One man brand.
	Here is the effing news.
	If you want to see how this show is actually made and want to ask us questions directly and join the conversation, experiencing the show behind the show, join our locals community and watch Stay Connected, a weekly show where me and Gareth here have a right old laugh.
	We can really express ourselves, and sometimes I eat food during it.
	It's a lot more of an intimate connection to us.
	Enjoyable, isn't it, Gal?
	Very much so, yeah.
	We really see our interests in football and stuff like that, robots, that kind of stuff.
	It's pretty good.
	On the show, and also, yeah, we've got a great show coming up for you later in the week, but I want to tell you, this is very important, you can see a meditation that me and Deepak Chopra are doing.
	You're never going to awaken to be a part of a transcendent populist coalition to bring down the war machine if you don't know how to access your innermost self, are you?
	No, it's not possible.
	So, uh, you know, if you join locals, that's another thing that you get.
	Also, we tend to choose our comments from the membership community, like this comment here from, uh, cool guy at 2020.
	You're welcome.
	Unity is the key.
	Say paw paw seven operation.
	Paperclip explains why the US is so brainwashed.
	Probably shouldn't have read that one out.
	That sounds like it could be controversial.
	Also, my stand-up special will be up there soon.
	First, initially, exclusively for people on local.
	So, join up to that.
	And please, join us tomorrow.
	Not for more of the same.
	Who needs that?
	We've done that already.
	But for more of the different.
	Until then, stay free.

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