Russell chats to Stacy Malkan about corruption in our food systems, the power of big agriculture, big food, pesticides and Bill Gates’ food agenda. Stacy is Co-Founder and Editor of the non-profit investigative research group U.S. Right To Know (USrtk.org) who have published a new report entitled "Merchants of Poison”. For access to watch guest interviews, join in with weekly meditations and see an exclusive show, become a member of the Stay Free Community: https://russellbrand.locals.com/Come to COMMUNITY Festival 2023 - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/
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You happen to be joining us on the very day that surveillance reached ironic levels.
Yep, look at this.
Commemorative plaque to George Orwell is also the site of a surveillance camera.
The creator of words like big brother, wrong think, surveillance state, forever war.
There's almost a surveilling his residual vapour, his spirit now observed as he spins in his grave.
We've got loads of globalist stories for you.
The WHO are pushing for world surveillance powers, wouldn't you know.
There are other globalist scams, digital wallets, biometrics, stuff like that we'll be discussing.
We've got a great guest on the show today, Stacey Malkin.
She's going to talk to us about the exposure of corporate corruption.
in food and health.
We've had a few guests around this subject and it's fascinating because fact is we all need food like the same way that 10% of the United States gets its water from a little river running through Ohio.
Hopefully nothing toxic's been spilled there lately.
If you're joining us on YouTube now you're going to want to click over onto Rumble because we're going to be talking about this extraordinary thing.
I don't know if you've heard about it There's been this massive spike, and I use the word spike deliberately, to demonstrate that heart attacks in young people has gone up by 30% since the pandemic.
It's almost like something happened during the pandemic that caused young people to start having heart attacks.
Obviously we won't be discussing that on YouTube, but we'll be discussing it in a moment.
But In other news, democracy is functioning fine.
We've got a new presidential candidate, the first one, the first rival to Trump, I suppose she is, Nikki Haley.
Let's have a little look at her speech and see if you spot any veiled digs at any current power players.
Just see, watch this very carefully, see if you can spot who she might be having a dig at.
We'll have term limits for Congress.
And mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.
Hmm, hmm. What are you saying?
Why would anyone need a mandated competence test?
I can't think of anybody that would benefit from having their mental state tested, can you?
America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.
I think we all enjoy that kind of rhetoric, you know, that in the post-Trump era, populist rhetoric has returned.
Talking about curbing the amount of time that people are in Congress, making sure that incompetent folk out of legacy and connections can't just rise to the top.
But here's a list of some of the billionaires that are funding Nikki Haley's campaign.
16 of them.
16 billionaires.
And what do you get?
Have a look at a piece of her promotional material.
Pretty good bit of promo.
Check it out.
Some people look at America and see vulnerability.
The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite history.
When you call these people the socialist left, I know in your country you've been really coached to not like socialism and quite rightly, after the failure of the Soviet Union, Maoism and the concentration of power that traditional conventional socialism awards government, which we are totally against.
We believe in decentralised models and your ability to democratically run your community.
But calling these people socialists, look at that, $140 million between them.
Nancy Pelosi there.
I don't think you can call yourself a socialist if you've got $120 million, much of which may have been accrued from your partner's stock market trading, and he may have picked up a few tips, given that she heavily regulates, or doesn't heavily regulate, but is involved in the regulation of some of the industries he owns stocks in.
Well done.
Nicely done.
Do you see that?
I'm a pro, man.
That's what we have to do.
Half of Congress are millionaires.
Half a congress.
12 times richer than the typical American.
So those socialists and, you know, obviously when she's talking about term limits, I can see the benefits of that.
And that's something I can wholly get behind.
But when you hear that she's backed by 16 billionaires and she's not mentioning things like, I will end lobbying in politics.
I will end people earning stocks and shares in the companies that they regulate.
No one's going to say that.
When she says end the professional class of politicians, why not go further and start having government by assembly?
Everyone recognises the world needs to change.
Change means doing things differently.
The idea that you'd have people's assemblies, assemblies of people like you.
Oh no, we couldn't have that.
You need professional people with ties to corporations receiving lobbying money, owning stocks and shares in the corporations.
that they're supposed to be regulating.
Without that, everything would fall apart.
You're damn right it'd fall apart.
And what you might get are different systems, more just, fair systems.
Because, let's face it, what we are living in now is not democracy.
We are living in a globalist, corporatist state, where many of the laws and regulations that affect your life are determined by bodies that are unelected.
Gareth, had you even heard of, until very recently, of a thing called... Like, we've all heard of the IMF.
We've all heard of WHO, W-E-F.
But have you heard of the World Government Summit?
I have not, no.
There's a thing now called the World Government Summit.
In plain sight.
Just out there, the world's going, what are, all these sort of, oh, what, you think they're trying to achieve a new world order?
You think there's an aim to have a world government?
Where do you come up with these crackpot conspiracies?
Next you'll be saying that they cut money and expenditure on trains and that led to a train crash that's polluting American rivers and killing American fish.
Well, this crazy talk of there being a world government seems like little more than the rantings of a conspiracy theorist.
Over now to the World Government Summit with Elon Musk addressing them beautifully.
I should say, I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.
If I may say that we... Who booked this guy?
It's ruining.
This is our first World Government Summit.
You've brought someone on who says that world governments are not a good idea.
Might as well just add a sound of...
In the back.
Klaus Schwab's at this Government Summit.
He is.
They all show up at these places.
Yeah, that's it.
I was looking at it.
It's a bunch of 250 ministers, 20 presidents, dozens of CEOs and Klaus Schwab.
But the idea that there's a plan to create a world government at the World Government Summit is a conspiracy theory.
They must love these events.
There's so many of them.
There's so many.
G20, B20, World Economic Forum, you know, whatever this is now, World Government Summit.
It's like a golf tour.
It's like every country's got its own globalist little adventure.
And it's not like it's meaningless.
It's not like it's a simple corporate jamboree.
The WHO now are lobbying for a treaty to be passed that would implement the greater ability for global surveillance, biometric data to be captured.
We'll be talking about this in our presentation a little later.
They've released an international pandemic treaty which will give them new sweeping surveillance powers.
The treaty requires the WHO's 194 member states to strengthen the One Health surveillance system.
It's only 98% of all countries in the world though, Ross.
That belong to it.
I think you're getting a little overly Well it's only 98% and what about that 2% countries that have not got even proper flags?
Hopefully those guys are going to rally pretty hard.
They obviously are using Covid-19 to legitimise the necessity for global surveillance but many of us believe that the pandemic shows why you need more democracy, why you need more open discourse, why you need more openness, why you need science to be open and empirical rather than ideologically led and I think you'll agree with us that more and more evidence is being revealed and released that suggests that that isn't the template that's being followed.
Later of course we're going to be talking about the rise of 30% in death by heart attack in young people which we cannot talk about on YouTube because by some weird coincidence by some weird conspiracy theory Google are regulated by the WHO nominally and electively.
They use the WHO's guidelines to regulate their community.
You can check that for yourself.
So on Rumble, we'll be talking about that in more depth.
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Here we list some of the globalist main players and some of their Latest crazy little schemes.
Now, you might not have heard of Ursula von der Leyen.
She came to prominence on our show.
I think we brought her to the forefront.
We did, yeah.
Her and Albert Baller, CEO of Pfizer, were texting to do massive orders worth billions of euros without it being passed.
There's a council and a committee that were meant to sanction that.
When the EU was spending a bunch of money on buying more jabs or whatever, it's meant to be signed off at the level of government.
But they were just sorting that stuff out on text.
Ursula von der Leyen, Well, Vonderland with her name that could be in an episode of Seinfeld.
You know, they have that.
They use names like that in Seinfeld.
She's refusing to disclose those texts.
Why?
Again, unelected, uncooperative.
What's going on there?
Check out these new DNA smart cards.
Another little globalist adventure that's on the way that you're fascinated by, Gareth.
Aren't you?
Because it sort of coagulates a whole bunch of data into one convenient place.
Convenience!
Just to come back to Ursula von der Leyen.
So there was an investigation by Investigate Europe who found deals for doses happened behind closed doors between the EU and pharmaceutical companies.
New variants, international competition and darkness around manufacturing costs have allowed Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna to increase the bill for European taxpayers.
So this all came about when she was meant to, obviously she's meant to disclose these texts and hasn't done.
Albert Borla, do you remember when Janine Small from Pfizer revealed something that we can't talk about on YouTube until later, but revealed something fairly important.
At that same committee, Albert Borla was meant to testify and pulled out of the appointment himself.
So no one's really saying anything about something which involves 10 billion euros of public money being spent on these vaccines.
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Rogue Nation says, I don't understand the mind of these individuals getting off on controlling the world.
And once again, Blessed El Bird, I wonder how much these medical experts get paid.
Yeah.
And then someone says, Juanita952 says, congratulations on being the seventh most spiritual living person.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I am quite proud of that.
We've got a really important and exciting guest coming on now.
Stacey Balkan is the co-founder of US Right to Know, which Gareth will tell you a little more about later.
We have to find reliable sources for our content so that we don't end up using the witterings of hysterical lunatics.
Instead, we find truth tellers in the case of Right to Know, expose corporate corruption and government failures that threaten our health, and in particular, Our food systems.
Stacey, thanks for joining us today.
Thank you so much for having me, Russell, and thank you for taking a stand on these issues and providing a platform for truth.
You know, the things we're going to talk about today really matter to the health of all of us, so thank you.
Oh, thanks so much, mate.
The first thing we wanted to talk about is the power of big agriculture and how technology and in particular the use of pesticides
is creating huge health risks for the planet and disrupting our food systems.
Can you give us an overview of what's happening please Stacey?
Sure.
So our food system is really in the hands of a handful of corporations that have a long history of corruption.
Pesticides and seeds, most of them in the world, the majority are sold by four corporations that have consolidated in recent years.
And it's sort of a consolidation of corruption, a survival of the most brutal business tactics.
So all of these companies, as I said, have histories of hiding and denying the harm of their products.
And we just came out with a report at U.S.
Right to Know called Merchants of Poison that is based on a years-long investigation into Monsanto's own documents.
And we have a huge trove of documents, and I hope we can talk a little bit later about how we do our research at U.S.
Right to Know.
But we report through these documents to lay out and explain what they show about how the company runs its science denial Disinformation campaigns it likes a tobacco industry like the fossil fuel industry although I think in some ways more effectively because they have the power of Mainstream academia on their side with many professors and universities who seem to be independent but they're not as our research has shown many of them are actually getting paid by
Monsanto and working directly with pesticide companies to do their public relations and lobbying for them.
So we lay out the key tactics that they use.
I'm very aggressive.
It's sort of an astonishing array of tactics.
It's really a lot of desperate tactics, in my view, I think is the bottom line finding of our report that it takes to support this business model that the pesticide companies have.
So we can talk about the tactics.
I'd love to.
I mean, Merchants of Poison sounds like a very good paper and a bloody good thrash metal band name.
I know Gareth in particular uses Right To Know a lot.
Gareth, what in particular do you want to follow up on that Stacey was asking you about?
I just think it's really interesting the way that your organisation, as Russell says, we use you a lot and you do some fantastic investigations, but you've also been smeared and discredited by some of the mainstream media now, and you were just talking about the ways in which universities are funded by Monsanto and things.
What do you feel about censorship at the moment and the way that you've been kind of discredited yourselves and what direction is that going and is it becoming harder to tell the truth like you're doing?
Well, it's very intense and we were attacked right out of the gate when we started our organization in 2015.
And the reason was because we were looking where Monsanto and the pesticide companies didn't want us looking.
And we first came up against Monsanto about 10 years ago when we tried to label genetically engineered foods in California.
I was part of that effort.
And it was a question put to voters.
And as you can imagine, there was overwhelming public support for right to know and labeling.
About 65 to 70 percent.
But then Monsanto led campaign in the span of about 30 days.
They were spending about a million dollars a day on just a blizzard of lies and confusion that tanked the ballot initiative.
But what was interesting about that was so many seemingly independent, reputable sources We're singing the lyrics of Monsanto.
So we wanted to get under the cover of that and figure out how did that happen?
How do they do it?
So my colleague at that time, Gary Ruskin, and I started US Right to Know, and he filed many public records requests For the emails of academics that we suspected were working with Monsanto, over the years we've dug up tens of thousands of pages of documents from agrochemical industry, now also the ultra processed food industry.
We also investigate the origins of COVID-19.
And we found many news breaking documents that have led to our own investigations, front page investigations in the New York Times and many other media outlets.
So they have tried to discredit us.
We at one point, revealed that Monsanto had an entire PR campaign to try to discredit our group.
There's a 31-page Monsanto document, a PR plan involving 11 Monsanto employees, several PR firms, and we were three people.
So this is how threatened they are by transparency, by their own documents and what they show about how they run their business.
That's so astonishing that they will go to so much trouble to repress the truth rather than behaving ethically.
Clearly what is often pointed to as science, continually this term is used, as if it's a new orthodoxy, a new unequivocal monolith of truth, when in fact it's often been funded, paid for.
Food monopolies preventing information entering the mainstream, Even about recognized, popularly eaten and ordinarily recognized brands like Pepsi, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola.
As I understand, many of these processed food brands spend a lot of money publishing, like on influencing studies and repressing information about the damage that their products do.
Is that true, Stacey?
Yes, absolutely.
And the Monsanto documents, again as an example, show many ways that the company was manipulating the scientific record over decades.
So, like ghostwriting studies, choosing friendly scientists to write particular narratives, strong-arming regulatory agencies, shoddy science.
There was a recent study looking at the corporate science that was provided to regulatory agencies for glyphosate approval, And many of the studies were based on old, outdated
scientific methods.
They didn't include research that would identify cancer risk.
So it's just really bad science, but they, they present themselves as pro-science and
their front groups present themselves as pro-science.
The Genetic Literacy Project is an example, scientific literacy.
But those groups are at the forefront of attacking individual scientists.
who raised concerns about pesticides.
And we talk a lot in the report about the very aggressive, unprecedented campaign that they ran to try to discredit the World Health Organization's Cancer Research Agency, which found in 2015 that glyphosate was a probable human carcinogen.
So they personally and viciously attack scientists.
And it's just sort of a playbook 101.
In a sense, this is the very essence of what's meant by systemic corruption, the inability to tell truthful stories, to convey information that's beneficial to people that gets in the way of profit.
Now, I don't want to give the impression that the man's gotten into my head too much, because I did literally dream about Bill Gates recently, which I talked about on our show that's available for our locals community.
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Bill Gates, is a lead investor in biotech companies that patent food.
Vandana Shiva is a great friend of our show and a great mentor of ours, and she talks continually about the negative impact that Bill Gates has had on her country, India, and on many countries in the continent of Africa.
Is there anything in your research around Monsanto and elsewhere in Big Agra, Big Food, and tech that has brought Bill Gates's name and his funding entities to the forefront?
Very much to the forefront.
I've done a lot of reporting on Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, particularly focusing on their campaign to expand industrial chemical intensive agriculture in Africa.
So they spent about $6 million on that effort under the banner of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
And this is despite the No evidence showing that it's achieved anywhere near the things they, you know, wildly and boldly promise about feeding the world and helping the poor.
African groups across the continent have protested against the Gates Foundation, have tried to bring their views to the Gates Foundation.
They've been almost entirely ignored as they double down on these efforts to push Corporate controlled agriculture, seed laws that actually can criminalize seed saving and seed exchanges.
In some cases, that's a huge fight happening in Africa right now.
And I've also written about, you know, what is Bill Gates food agenda in?
Plans to transform our food system, which he talks about all the time under the guise of helping the climate and feeding the poor But really what it's about is monocultures patented foods and ultra processed foods and this push for techno foods, you know, basically the the pesticide industry scheme is patented seeds A handful of crops, getting farmers to grow huge monocultures that depend on pesticides and fertilizers that are harming the soil, that are harming people and our health.
And these crops don't even feed people.
They're used mostly for cars, for cows, and for ultra-processed food factories.
Oh, Stacey, you're getting a lot of love from our community down here.
People like Feel The M and Susan, Maria Hall, all sending love and very grateful for the work that you're doing.
Gareth, have you got any more inquiries about your fellow journalists there at US Right To Know?
Yeah, it's so interesting about Bill Gates, you know, obviously the kind of hero-worship that he's had over the last couple of years, and yet at the same time we have discovered that he's the biggest farmland owner in the United States now.
How much of a connection do you see between that ownership of farmland now that he has, and these plans for ultra-processed food and changing the food systems?
Yeah, well, you know, he says he bought the farmland because his investment company told him to.
So that gives you a clue right there.
He's expecting, you know, maximum returns on his investment, which means the profit scheme of corn and soy monocultures.
And what are they going to do with all that corn and soy?
Ultra processed food factories.
You know, they're building more of these factories and if you look at what's actually in these food factories and companies like Ginkgo Bioworks, which Bill Gates is a big investor and I've written a lot about that company.
You know, it's energy intensive, plastic intensive, ultra ultra processed foods that consumers are not even saying they want.
Fake meats and so forth.
So, You know, is this the food system that we want?
And I think people don't want this food system and that we need to find ways to de-escalate, decentralize, bring food back to local communities and grow it in ways that are based on agroecological principles and that actually help farmers and communities.
The farmers in Africa are really mad at Bill Gates and he's not listening to them.
No, what he does, dear Bill Gates, is he claims he's helping people.
He turns up on the internet nibbling on a corn cob, claiming that everything he does is for the benefit of mankind.
This week we've been speaking about big food and how diabetes, heart disease, cancer would be considerably reduced and some have even suggested ...eliminated altogether were processed foods to be removed from our diet.
It seems increasingly that we are encouraged not to look at, and obviously to financially support, agricultural dietary measures that are bad for the planet, bad for us individually, bad for our health, bad for our culture, bad for our society, and then when someone like you and your organization questions it, You become the subject of smearing campaigns.
This is precisely in microcosm, and indeed globally, how we've come to imagine and assume these systems are working.
But it's always so valuable, Stacey, to get an opportunity to access the research that you have done that stops it being the wild conjecture of a madman and brings it into a place of journalistic integrity.
Thank you so much for joining us today, Stacey, for that fantastic interview.
I know that we'll be talking to you more, at least I hope so.
Thank you so much.
I hope so too.
And everyone, you can follow our work at USRTK.org and please also sign up for our weekly free newsletter to find out about our investigations because we have lots more going on in the food industry, COVID-19 origins, and lots more on the pesticide companies.
Oh, they'll love that.
They'll love that.
Look, I mean, they're going mad here.
Bill Gates, Fauci, Ulysses, these conspiracy theorists on the chat on Locals.
They're going crazy for this information.
Stacey, thank you so much for your time.
It is wonderful to be in your company.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Russell.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, mate.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
Gareth, I think that interview went actually rather well.
Good.
Amazing.
She was an interesting person.
I've got so much respect for these people that kind of dedicate their lives to finding out truth, you know, and when there's so much pushback against them, it's pretty amazing.
Right to know.
Open the books, it was amazing.
That's right.
In a way, this for me helps to demonstrate that it increasingly is not important what your cultural or even political identity is, but that you are interested in freedom.
Freedom, which by the way is now subject to a campaign to turn it into a word that is divisive and even bigoted.
You know, when we talk about freedom, we mean your individual freedom to be who you are, obviously, without harming other people.
Freedom for your community.
We've got a fantastic story coming up about that soon.
And yeah, you're right.
Groups like Right To Know are doing diligent, fastidious, necessary work to demonstrate and prove that what many of us feel, that something isn't right, that we're not being told the truth, that they're making decisions that are not for our benefit, Claiming that it's for our safety, for our convenience, their kindness, all these extraordinary tropes that we hear again and again and increasingly becoming suspicious of.
The work of people like Stacey demonstrates that it's true.
And then you get, you know, again, it's not always to paint Bill Gates as the biggest villain.
I mean, it's quite plainly, it's not just the realm of conspiracy that he's up to these things.
Like Stacey, we've just been talked through some of the things that he's up to.
But when he goes on the media and the most that he'll get is someone either talking about Jeffrey Epstein or saying, do you think it's bad that you take those private jets all the time?
And that's it.
That's the end of the question.
He says, oh, I think it's fine.
I think my carbon offsets deal with that.
End of.
Well, if we had him here.
Like in my dream.
We'd want to go, what's with all that farmland, mate?
What was with buying up those shares and then selling them?
What are you hoping to achieve with your investment in the WHO?
That sort of thing.
Why are you investing in all these media companies?
And then would we just plainly go, look, we think this, Bill, you're totally loaded and that.
You've gone a bit mad and you want to wind it in a little bit.
I think Bill Gates will just always have an answer of, this is designed for the good of humanity and the good of society.
You know, he'll always have, like with these food systems at the moment and the ultra-processed food, as with the stuff in Africa, it's always, they've got a problem in Africa, we need to go and help them, this is the only way it can be done.
But when you then hear that people in Africa are like, we don't want this and it's not helping, you know, that's the side that you don't hear.
You just hear of the philanthropy that, you know, even though as we have spoken about recently, they seem to have more money coming in than going out at that foundation.
That's right.
There's been billions in profit, which seems like an extraordinary way to run a charity.
There's some really interesting lines of inquiry coming up on the chat.
You're full of shit, Bill.
Says Curiouser and Curiouser.
Let us know how you want us to approach these subjects.
Not that it's likely that Bill Gates will come on as a guest, but I'll tell you who did come on.
Tim Pool.
I had a fantastic conversation with him, which is the subject of tomorrow's episode of Stay Free.
Have a look at a little clip of that.
In the absence of shock, people will invent shock.
And we're seeing stories that make no sense all of a sudden are generating millions of views.
And it seems like this is destabilization.
And I'm wondering if we're at that point where people have no strong morals anymore.
The only thing that's driving the media ecosystem is to be as shocking as possible.
And then when there's literally nothing at the top, people invent things to be shocked by.
And then the system destabilizes.
Yeah, that's a good that.
Do you know what he kept mentioning?
He kept mentioning this geezer called Yuri... Hold on a second, let me find him because I've got a clip of him from my mate Tony Robbins sent me this.
Like this guy called... What's he called?
Like he's a Soviet defector... Hold on, his name comes up.
Yeah, Yuri Bezmenov.
Have you lot heard about Yuri Bezmenov?
He was a Soviet defector who talks about the four stages of deterioration.
I think we're going to do a story on it.
We will.
It's pretty good.
You'll like this.
And he talks a lot in the show about instability, that we're living in a time of instability and how it may have been engineered.
If you want to learn more and get more deeply involved with our stuff, and if you're interested in meditation, which I strongly suggest you do get involved in because you need to have access to peace.
It's an intense world and it's intense time.
On our locals community I do a weekly meditation with someone from the community.
I did one earlier today with Farrah on the subject of self-love.
She's probably on the chat right now.
We did one last week with another friend of mine.
Meditations that address what you're feeling personally.
Also you get a look at the show behind the show where I talk about crazy dreams and we go deep don't we sometimes Gareth?
It's a moment of relief and respite from the intensity of talking about these data-oriented, challenging stories.
Sometimes there's strikes on YouTube, there's complex things for us to deal with here, death threats, lots of fascinating stories when it comes to the show behind the show.
So join us on Locals, just click on that red button, you can join us there and that's the chat I tend to look at when we're up live.
Okay, so hey, tomorrow, Tim Paul.
Another fantastic conversation and we've got some wonderful conversations coming up next week and I'll be letting you know about how you can come and see me live if you're in Florida or Los Angeles in about a week's time because we're going over there to do Rogan and Bill Maher and Tucker and all of that kind of stuff.
We're going to be over there soon.
Anyway, join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
