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May 24, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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MUST-SEE! DeSantis' 2024 Bid | RFK Jr. Snubbed from Poll - #136 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	I'm a black man and I could never be a veteran.
	I'm listening to the voices of people I brought up for a deal.
	So I'm looking for the CEO.
	I'm listening to the voices of people I brought up for a deal.
	We are going to see the future.
	50% of Americans may have lost their faith in God, but we will never lose our faith in
	you and we are here to tell you that there are powerful and transcendent forces within
	you, beyond you, around you that we can access to change the world for the better for you.
	You truly are an awakening wonder, and this is where we come to awaken together, individually, collectively.
	In the company of my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy, we will be discussing Global events, how they're conveyed to you by a media that I believe to be largely corrupt.
	Although, you know, there's some great people out there doing their best.
	We're going to be talking about the way that governments and big businesses collaborate.
	We're going to be talking in particular about the attempt to label all anti-establishment rhetoric as right-wing or conspiracy theory.
	This is going to be increasingly difficult as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid on Twitter.
	We already know that Tucker's going to have some kind of affiliation with Twitter and I think that Elon Musk had a few quid in his pocket before this venture even began.
	From the rockets and the tech and the driverless cars and the rhetoric and He's not on Twitter.
	There'll be some updates there. I've got a German Shepherd.
	He's loose in the building, ambling around even now. He's not on Twitter. He's not on
	Twitter and he's the sort of person that would do well there. He would. I would think, because
	he's plucky. He's an individual who's got a lot to say for himself. There he goes. In our
	presentation, Here's the News, No, Here's the F in News, we'll be talking about those FBI
	whistleblowers who'll be joining us live on the show soon. They had some interesting revelations
	around January the 6th, as well as other conduct within the FBI that's worthy, I believe,
	of further scrutiny. And it's in fact the mainstream media's inability to look in a
	relatively unbiased way at stories like that one that I think is leading us to this place of crisis.
	But to a degree, it's beneficial for us because alternative media like us, stay free media.
	Well, we're dedicated to you and you can let us know in the comments if you think we're doing a good job or where we could improve.
	If you're watching this on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble because about 15 minutes in, we're going to be able to talk more openly in particular about those FBI whistleblowers and some of their revelations around January the 6th.
	If you're already watching us on Rumble, Join us on Locals.
	There's a red button on your screen.
	Press that.
	Join our community.
	You get access to all sorts of other stuff.
	We read the comments here.
	People talking about who's on there.
	Catherine Anne.
	How's the pen?
	How's the pen?
	What does she mean by that?
	That pen that I sniff sometimes?
	I don't want to talk about that pen.
	That's private.
	That's for the- That's for the locals community.
	That's the private pen.
	Oh, my dog settled down.
	That's a relief.
	Also, I'll be talking to a comedian, actor, and are we going to call him an activist?
	Sometimes people don't like to be called an activist.
	I don't like it.
	Right.
	Earlier today, someone bought me like, like sort of some letter out sign.
	It said like, philanthropist.
	I was like, get philanthropist off.
	That basically like, you know, like the philanthropist is always a cover for something.
	And I just goes, comedian, comedian.
	That's my job.
	And that's enough.
	Everything is coming from that perspective.
	I will talk to Amit Jalili.
	I've known him for ages.
	He's a brilliant, brilliant, funny comedian.
	He's going to talk to us about protests in Iran and how he's found himself curiously at the centre of conveying many of those narratives because of censorship and oppression in Iran around this uprising that's been going on there for a little while.
	And I'll be talking to him about the general Global insurgency, whether it's around agriculture, or whether it's around mandates, as in the Canadian trucker protests, and how centralised authority is shutting down on radicalism in all its forms.
	Remember when we spoke to you earlier in the week, we just pointed out that the FBI have been surveilling not only January the 6th protesters, but also George Floyd, Black Lives Matter protesters.
	So wherever you might see yourself on the social scale, they see you in the same way, a potential threat to their ongoing systemic hegemony.
	Shall we call it that?
	Yep.
	Let's call it that.
	We've got some of your comments though now in an item we call Freech.
	Where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
	Where free speech meets, you get Freech here on Rumble.
	Is there a graphic for that?
	We're going to see that thing such as it is.
	A lot of people.
	Have the word free and the word speech going together like this.
	Free speech.
	And then all the fireworks come off it.
	Free, free.
	Improve this.
	And then that's it.
	Terrible.
	Next time, have a musical bed for it, Jack.
	What I think happens is, when you do this criticism post the sting now, people think, oh, he's having fun with it.
	But I actually do think he wants to do the sting.
	It should be improved, it's a disgrace.
	Later on in the show I'll be doing my item brandy on Gandhi where I talk about the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and how they can be used to revitalise a flagging and fractured anti-establishment movement across the world.
	He talks a lot about decentralisation and we'll be talking about that.
	I think it's the solution, you know, sometimes people go, people go, what's the solution?
	You know, it's enough complaining, what's the solution?
	You ever worry that with that title that people might think it's that 90s pop star?
	Brandi Uncandy.
	Oh, I remember her.
	Careful.
	I wish it was.
	She was gorgeous.
	She could nick that.
	Brandi Uncandy.
	Wouldn't she sing Boys, Boys, Boys?
	I'm not sure what the song was.
	Wasn't that a hit?
	Boys, boys, boys.
	Thank you for the good times.
	Thank you.
	Boys, boys.
	She's a nice lady.
	Thank you for the good times.
	Or what about Wigfield?
	You've sung that before.
	Saturday night.
	Them were the days.
	Good days.
	Some of you are saying things like this.
	saying, human doggos, yesterday we asked if we can come and visit the studio, lots of
	you are asking about Elon, Suki Kuala says I'd like to have Russell as my dad, Doomsayer,
	what's going on with Jack's graphics, FBI whistleblowers, we'll be talking about this
	a little later, Jim Earth C137, locking up whistleblowers is the equivalent of locking
	up the gun instead of the murderer, absurd, wait a minute, carry the one, divide it by
	two, square that, put it out in that column.
	What is that?
	That's not right.
	That can't be the way to conduct things.
	People like brandy on Gandhi.
	Don't worry.
	Got the old Gandhi book.
	Don't you worry.
	It's coming up.
	Have you got a problem with brandy on Gandhi?
	No, it's coming up.
	I'm just saying.
	You don't like brandy on Gandhi.
	I just think you should copyright it.
	Do you not like it when I talk about God?
	In case she steals it.
	You don't like it when I talk about God.
	Well, I will not apologise for my Lord!
	I won't.
	I'm going to keep talking about God.
	You can be a theist if you want.
	And we've got Dickie Dawkins coming on the show.
	Soon we'll be taking a seasonal break.
	Who doesn't take a seasonal break?
	Gary Neville, the footballer, apparently.
	But a lot of people do take holidays and vacations and breaks.
	And what we will be taking is a break.
	And when we come back, guess who's coming on the show?
	Elon Musk!
	Tucker Carlson!
	Billie Jean King!
	Tulsi Gabbard?
	Tulsi Gabbard!
	The original Brandy?
	Billie Jean King!
	Okay.
	Martina Navratilova!
	They're all coming on!
	Wow.
	Yeah?
	Oh yeah.
	Did I say Billie Jean King?
	You did say that.
	She's coming on.
	She's coming on strong!
	Anyway, Ron Desante is... When you say Billie Jean King, do you think mainly of the Michael Jacksons?
	Oh, this is good.
	I'm playing, like, Be Lucky.
	Squares.
	It's a hot square.
	I show my children Michael Jackson.
	No, I mean, like, they've got to know sometime.
	Just the music.
	I love him.
	This is Michael Jackson.
	He's brilliant.
	Down the line, I'll tell you some other stuff.
	Ron DeSantis to launch 2024 presidential bid on Twitter.
	This is it.
	Elon Musk is making moves, baby.
	This is where politics happens now.
	Politics happens on Twitter.
	Free speech happens on Rumble.
	But Elon Musk, who I'm in negotiations with right now, using the telephone.
	Alexander Graham Bell from Scotland.
	He invented that, if I'm not very much mistaken.
	I'm using that to negotiate with Elon Musk about getting him on, but it's quite complicated because he's got to do it on Twitter first.
	We've got to do it on Rumble.
	The thing is, when you're negotiating with Elon Musk, what you realise is he's the world's richest man.
	I'm the bloke for getting Sarah Marshall.
	Listen, Musk, I'll tell you now and I'll tell you good.
	If you want another sequel to Sarah Marshall, in spite of the diminishing returns of getting him to the Greek, you will not get a third sequel.
	Hello?
	Elon?
	Elon?
	I will not give you a single bitcoin unless you bloody well... Listen, if you need a host for the MTV VMAs 2024, you can look elsewhere.
	Because I won't do it, man.
	I won't do it.
	I've got no cards.
	I hold no cards with Elon either.
	Elon says jump.
	I say haha.
	Yep.
	Elon says jump.
	You say.
	Haha.
	Haha.
	Would you like me to jump?
	It's a weird response, really.
	It's going to be interesting.
	It's a match-up.
	This is what I want to talk about this.
	I want to talk about how, like, Vanity Fair, look at this, Vanity Fair says that DeSantis and Elon Musk are, sort of makes jokes about them being neo-Nazi sympathizers.
	Like, it's David Duke, isn't he the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
	I think so.
	They are actual, that's...
	White supremacy.
	Right.
	Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy.
	Then there's of course unconscious racial biases that many people may carry along with all of the other unconscious things that people carry that are by their nature unconscious and therefore it's difficult to dispute or determine and one can certainly argue that there are biases, prejudices and historical abuses of various communities across history.
	That's difficult to deny.
	But by saying that Elon Musk is a neo-Nazi sympathizer This is something I've started to notice, and I don't very much care for, if I can tell you that, as my friend and on-screen assistant, that if you are...
	Sort of what used to be regarded as a traditional conservative.
	That becomes conflated with far-right.
	If you are anti-establishment like, you know, like I believe I am.
	I'm not anti-establishment from the right.
	I believe in individual freedom.
	I believe in collective freedom.
	I believe in the right to identify however you want to identify.
	I believe in the right for you to be who you are sexually, of course, consensually.
	That you should be able to have the identity that you want to have.
	That you should have as much democracy as possible in your communities.
	We've been labeled like far-right conspiracy theorists and all sorts of stuff by or manner of people and what I've started to notice is like
	right okay so Ron DeSantis he's far right Elon Musk is far right Joe Rogan what about that can we
	have a look at that headline about Joe Rogan and Elon Musk he's saying like these guys oh they're
	not just doing podcasts there and talking about UFOs they're dangerous nutters they said that
	on Daily Beast right so look They're apocalyptic.
	Now they're talking about, as if that's the threat, as if Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are the threats to democracy, while the current Democratic Party is directing us closer and closer to a serious conflict, a potentially nuclear conflict, with Russia.
	Admittedly it's the Republicans that are tearing up treaties, but it's the Democrat Party that are ...arming Ukraine via the military-industrial complex.
	I'm not saying that there's, you know, that Ukraine don't have the right to be armed against Russia that's invaded them criminally, albeit, some would say, after agitation.
	What I'm saying is, is that we're being invited to prioritize and understand information in unusual ways, and there is an attempt to label all information outside of the narrow parameters that they prescribe as either far-right or something else.
	If the problem with Twitter, as you can see from this headline from The Atlantic, is it's become far-right, and that the only thing we want to stop is far-right rhetoric, let me ask you one question in three letters.
	RFK.
	Why is there a new poll from Harvard, let's have a look at that, of Democratic Party contenders that doesn't even include RFK?
	What's RFK?
	Is he far-right?
	He's from the Democrat Party.
	No, he's anti-vaxxer.
	Okay, so if you don't support the Democrat Party and you're what?
	To the left, you're anti-vaxxer.
	If you don't support the Democratic Party and you're to the right, you're far-right.
	All you can legitimately talk about are the talking points that they want you to talk about within the remit and rubric that they prescribe.
	And I'll tell you this, the Democratic Party aren't, in my view, they're not a left-wing party.
	They're a party that are completely dominated by corporate interests.
	They're funded by the military-industrial complex.
	Funded by extremely wealthy donors.
	Joe Biden, when campaigning, said nothing is going to change to a room full of billionaires.
	It's plain that there is no room for discourse.
	That the only way they can win the argument is by shutting down the argument.
	We are on Rumble because we believe in free speech.
	We're not on Rumble because we believe in hate speech.
	I believe in you.
	I believe in your right to be you.
	I believe in your right to have your opinion.
	I don't think I know better than you about what you should think about a range of complex geopolitical and social and cultural issues.
	I think the only way to resolve the challenges that our culture faces is through open conversation.
	This tweet was from Greenwald, still grieving from the loss of his husband but reporting nevertheless only 40% of
	Dem voters say they intend to vote for Biden in the Dem primary for whatever reason the
	poll excluded the challenger at near 20% RFK Jr but even many Dems say Biden lacks mental
	fitness and they don't want to vote for him. I mean Gareth look at some of the people that
	have been included in this poll. Yeah Andrew Cuomo is on there. Andrew Cuomo I believe,
	what's his status?
	Hasn't he been in some extraordinary peccadillo's I think it's safe to say.
	They've polled people, Andrew Cuomo and someone else don't know I'm sure.
	Right, no RFK.
	I mean an ex-governor of New York was being charged with sexual misconduct and you'll stick him on the list but you won't have RFK.
	You've got to start wondering if there's an agenda going on here.
	And when it was Bernie Sanders an election cycle or so ago, he wasn't right either.
	So no matter what you present that is an alternative to their hegemony, they'll shut it down for some reason or other.
	Twitter is right-wing.
	RFK, he's anti-vax.
	Because we'll find a reason to ensure that the interests of the powerful remain unchallenged.
	No wonder people have got no faith in mainstream media.
	No wonder people have got no faith in government.
	No wonder people have got no faith in God at a time when people deserve faithlessness.
	But we mustn't allow ourselves to stray needlessly into nihilism.
	We must remain faithful.
	OK, listen, we're going to... I've got just one... I want to hear you.
	I love you.
	I'm right behind you.
	Thank you so much, mate.
	Thank you.
	So Glenn tweeted a few things.
	There's one here about Elon Musk, just to kind of go back to our story about how Elon Musk is kind of being targeted by the mainstream media at the moment.
	So Glenn writes, or the three political figures who are viewed most favorably by Americans are Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
	Musk has by far the highest favorability gap Mitch McConnell minus 24.
	So I guess what Glenn is saying is how out of touch the mainstream media is with the American people.
	If this poll is to be believed, that Elon Musk can't be viewed necessarily, you know, they're painting him as a conspiracy theorist, but if the public are saying he's one of the three political figures who are viewed most favorably, then there is a gap there somewhere, isn't there?
	This is a frantic scramble to maintain hegemony when it's plain that there are a variety of other views out there, ranging from old school conservatism and traditionalism to views that are economically, culturally and socially radical and can't be housed within the Democratic Party.
	Bernie Sanders, who remains, you know, having been an independent for years, a sort of stalwart of their movement, he was not acceptable. The only thing that's
	acceptable to them are the kind of legacy career politicians like Biden and the
	Clintons who seem to me, and let me know in the chat in the comments if you agree with this, in the pockets of the
	donor class. These are the kind of politicians, and I'm not saying specifically and explicitly
	and directly them, that own stocks and shares in the companies that they're supposed to regulate, whether that's
	big tech or big pharma, and that talk in a way that seems recognizable, but legislate in a
	way that's all too familiar.
	Not on behalf of ordinary Americans, but on behalf of corporate interests.
	Well look us forth on that list.
	It's Bernie Sanders.
	And we know the way in which the Democrat Party treated Bernie Sanders.
	They did everything possible to make sure that he wasn't their candidate.
	Everything possible.
	Hillary Clinton did it.
	Joe Biden did it.
	They made sure that he wouldn't become the next representative for the Democrat Party.
	And so, you know, but voters, real Americans, obviously recognize something in Bernie Sanders in the same way that they do for, say, Elon Musk.
	Even if you disagree with people, perhaps we have learned to recognize authenticity, and what we've been advocating for on our channel is conversation from people from across the political spectrum and outside of all recognizable spectra, so that we hear a variety of views.
	That's why we want you to join us on Locals right now.
	Eric Lawall, for example, is saying, is anyone able to describe a plausible scenario where someone ascends to the US presidency without being compromised by the toxic systems they have to rely on?
	What a fantastic question.
	Firegirl2020, if Bernie got half the media attention of Trump 2016, Bernie would have won.
	I know you guys are going to want to click that red button and dispute that point right now.
	Freach, baby, freach, a lot of people are saying.
	And a lot of you are very interested in RFK.
	If you haven't seen our interview with RFK yet, it's up on Rumble in full.
	And if you thought that you were a conspiracy theorist, wait till you get a load of that guy.
	He says stuff that I simply cannot say while we're still on YouTube, who, as you know, when it comes to matters of health, Still take their guidelines from the WHO.
	As you also know, the WHO's second biggest donor is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	It's not conspiracy theory to talk about that stuff.
	It's simply an alternative opinion.
	And by the way, I remember when people used to be able to have a conversation and be wrong about something.
	Oh no, yeah, you've persuaded me.
	That's an interesting point of view.
	It used to be called Discourse, journalism, opining, communing, learning in good faith from one another.
	What have we got now?
	A turgid attempt to centralize all communication and control all dissenting views through smearing.
	But when he got to the point where Rom Desantis, a frontrunner for the presidency in the next
	election cycle, is announcing his candidacy on Twitter, an enormous platform owned by
	the most trusted political figure, according to that poll, in America, what you have is,
	I would say, if not a movement, then certainly a platform that's difficult to shut down.
	If you add to the mix Tucker Carlson being over there, if you add to the fact that RFK is going to have to be heard during the time that he's standing for the candidacy of the Democrat Party, the conversation is going to change and we want you to contribute to that conversation and participate in it.
	Click the red button, join us over there.
	I think the main thing it does show is that mainstream media is over.
	Mainstream news is over.
	If, you know, he's making this announcement on Twitter, he's not doing it on Fox, he's not doing it on CNN, this is now, we are seeing a massive shift now.
	You've got Trump doing everything on Truth Social, you've got DeSantis doing it on Twitter.
	You've got us on Rumble, baby!
	Right, the mainstream, you know, it's crumbling.
	Do you think that's what's happening?
	Are we witnessing the Ozymandias era of the mainstream?
	Is it a falling edifice?
	Is it a tumbling epitaph?
	Is it a statue to a time that's long since finished?
	Of course, Elon Musk's Twitterphile revelations from Barry Weiss and Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi revealed the degree to which the deep state was censoring and controlling information on social media platforms.
	Do you still believe that the reason that the mainstream legacy media don't want Musk owning Twitter is because of hate speech?
	Do you think they care about hate speech?
	I don't think so.
	Do you think that Bud Light cares about trans rights?
	Do you think that Bud Light cares about blue-collar Americans?
	Or do you think they care about selling beer?
	The mainstream care about selling lies in the same way that Bud Light wants to sell beer.
	They care about Elon Musk because they can't control Elon Musk because he's too powerful.
	What's the price of being yourself and speaking your mind?
	Seems that you've got to be the richest man in the world to do it.
	Seems that you've got to be some kind of political maverick to do it.
	Seems like the machine is stepping up, amping up, and them cogs are turning fast to shut you down.
	But we will provide you with opportunities for free speech.
	For just as long as we can here on Rumble.
	If you're watching us on YouTube, click the link in the description.
	Join us.
	Join us in our haven of free speech where we'll be talking about how the FBI infiltrated anti-mandate protesters as well.
	Like, so, well, first they were, like, you know, we've got to infiltrate ISIS.
	We've got to shut down terror.
	Then it's like, oh, these people don't seem that keen to wear masks or to keep distances.
	And let's face it, Gareth, the conversation around those issues has been certainly altered and evolved.
	Can you tell me a little bit about what's been going on with this story?
	Yeah, so this is a story by Lee Fang on the substat.
	We know Lee very well.
	Thank you very much.
	We love him.
	He's done an investigation into Flashpoint, which is this surveillance contractor who started as a business associated with tracking Al-Qaeda and ISIS, collecting information that they would then sell to the FBI.
	So they've repackaged that, and they're now using it, or have been using it, to monitor the internet activity of domestic American activists protesting both sides.
	Again, it's activists protesting pipelines and COVID vaccine mandates.
	So a little bit like what you were saying before, is that pipeline protesters are usually more on the side of kind of climate change, that kind of thing.
	Or native people's rights, because they like to put one of them pipelines right through a reservoir.
	You can have this little bit of land here, there's we need a pipeline oh we're gonna put a pipeline through that but you could have a casino in that bit of land there so like even if so even if you're a pro what you would consider left-wing issue protester they've been infiltrating yeah and what do we know like pipelines do obviously pipelines go in to make these massive companies a lot more money so when you're surveilling activists who are protesting protesting pipelines not trying to like blow up pipelines in fact they could have used these surveillance to track those deep sea divers earlier
	We're in the air, couldn't they?
	That might have been a good use of this film.
	What are these deep sea divers up to down there, if we're so interested?
	That's where the issues meet, is with the Nord Stream pipeline, mysteriously blown up by Putin, presumably by Putin.
	But yeah, so this, yeah, this is, as I say, this is Flashpoint.
	They've been surveilling pipeline protesters and COVID-19 vaccine Mandate protesters, and of course this mirrors, I guess, slightly what you could say started to go on, or did go on, in Canada with the truckers protest.
	These anti-Mantis mandate protesters were, I guess, surveilled initially.
	We know that bank accounts were frozen, bank accounts were shut down, people who were contributing to the cause, and so I guess it's just another one of those incidents where things that were brought in for certain reasons, this time around terror, as is Post 9-11 are now being used to turn against average American or everyday Americans in the case of pipelines and vaccine mandates.
	Jim of C137 says, the mainstream media can suck my manscaped deodorized unsmelly balls.
	Nice.
	And this person here, it's hard to keep hold of this thing, says, Chuck Zatkin says, Lee Fang is pronounced Lee Fong.
	I think it might be.
	I think yeah, yeah, right that that a is an o not a that's how that works
	Okay, so listen, we're gonna have those FBI whistleblowers that what are they called again?
	But one of them is called something coneal one of them is called Garrett. Oh, yeah, Garrett. Oh boil. That's a
	That's got some serious fricatives in it.
	Garrett O'Boyle.
	Is he the big one, do you reckon?
	That's right, he is, yeah.
	He's the one that looks like Obelisk out of Asterisk the Ghoul, and he's a big baldy bearded fella.
	He looks like Popeye's enemy, Bluto, doesn't he?
	Yes, he does.
	He's coming on, and one that's probably a little bit littler and thinner.
	He's called Friend, the other guy.
	Stephen Friend.
	They've got good names for a whistleblower.
	Good, strong whistleblower names, I'd call those.
	So, hey, listen, mate.
	I've got to do my thing.
	Brandy on Gandhi.
	So, listen, yous lot, join us.
	Why don't you join us on Locals?
	You might be at this point thinking, what's the solution?
	We have no heroes left.
	We're turned on one another like dogs warring for the sport of our owners.
	Not anymore.
	New ideas are emerging from the past, yes.
	Because it's important to have heritage, it's important to regard tradition, and it's important to have heroes.
	That is why we're doing this item.
	Now, I'm going to apologize in advance for the graphics, because it's been done by Jack, who we know has a long, troubling history, like the British Empire.
	Well, you know, for creating bad graphics.
	Now, the British Empire did do worse things than create bad graphics.
	There were massacres in India, there's been the exploitation and piracy, murder and annihilation of many of the world's people, but...
	Before you decide which was worse, do look at Jack's graphics, because they are quite bad.
	You might think, well, the British Empire, the sun never set on it, and they've exploited the resources of many of Earth's nations.
	These graphics are very bad.
	Have a look at Brandy on Gandhi, Jack's graphic first, then I'll do the item.
	Disrespectful to me.
	It's disrespectful to Gandhi.
	I think it's mainly to Gandhi.
	Yeah.
	Because actually, look at Gandhi.
	It's like I'm bringing him along like a little tart.
	Yeah.
	I'm bringing Gandhi along like he's my latest thing.
	That's right.
	And in fact, I bet that in that original photo, that was probably from the days when I was a single man.
	Of course it was.
	It's probably just the person.
	Oh no, I've got a wedding ring on there.
	Oh.
	Have you replaced Katy Perry with Gandhi?
	It is.
	You have, haven't I?
	Because I can tell from the wedding ring I was wearing.
	That is one of the most disrespectful things that you have done, Jack.
	And you've done a lot of disrespectful things.
	Not on top of all that, I think my dog's farted.
	Unless it's you.
	It isn't me, no, no.
	The dog's farted, you've disrespected Gandhi, and possibly Katy.
	It's appalling what's happened.
	Play the link again so I can find my place in my Gandhi book, will you?
	Gotta do the audio, I can't even do it twice, what's wrong with me?
	Even the music's sarcastic.
	It is sarcastic.
	So, my best friend, I'm actually advocating for decentralised democracies.
	It doesn't set this up well enough.
	Of course it doesn't, it undermines it.
	Because you want this to be, I'm guessing, kind of profound?
	Yes, profound.
	The notes I gave Jack when I said design that graphic and that essay, I said, Jack, I want this to be profound and respectful.
	I want you to sort of, I want this to be like that, like a BBC sort of like Civilisation, like those documentaries.
	I want there to be like the Attenborough of Anthropology, Jack.
	Like Blue Planet.
	I want it to be like Blue Planet.
	Yeah, you don't see Attenborough, you're using Photoshop to change Katy Perry into Gandhi.
	Look at this dolphin here!
	I've changed it into the one that does country music, what's she called?
	Dolly Parton?
	No, the young one.
	Taylor Swift.
	I've changed this dolphin to Taylor Swift.
	You know, that's the sort of thing it's like.
	Oh, but the purple, purple, purple dolphins.
	That's the camera's like that.
	That's his job.
	That's it.
	My dog's not being well.
	Right, okay, so one of the reasons I like Gandhi is not because, well there's a number
	of reasons.
	Some of the reasons are these, that he was able to align and alloy spirituality with
	In fact, political activism is underwritten by spirituality, as all activism ultimately must be.
	I'll be talking to Omid Jalili about this in a minute, about what I want to say, how is spirituality commensurate with what's happening over in Iran.
	That's one of the things I'm going to ask him about.
	But what Gandhi did is he promoted ideas like selflessness, duty, Unity, the ability to tolerate people.
	Obviously one of the biggest challenges Gandhi faced was that in getting British out of India, he had to unite both Hindu and Muslim communities.
	He had a complex political job.
	One of his grave disappointments, if the film Gandhi is to be believed, it was that he was unable to achieve that.
	I've taken this quite seriously and what I've done is I've watched the film Gandhi.
	So let's get to the bottom of this.
	Right, Nick, before I do an item on this, has anyone made a film about it?
	Yeah, Richard Attenborough, my man.
	Oh, you've just been very disrespectful about his brother.
	Nevertheless, good sports gardening, man.
	Anyway, no, but what's less known about Gandhi is that he said there's no point booting the British out of India and then replicating the systems that we inherit from them.
	We have to create an India ...that is comprised of the 70,000 villages that make her up, and each one shall be fully autonomous and independent.
	Some of you will be aware that there's a small village in southern Spain that seemed to be immune from the profound economic challenges that that part of the country was met with.
	Like Spain, it was nosed right up by the events of the last few years.
	Well, there's one communist village.
	Some of you will be somewhat agitated at the sight of Che Guevara there, knowing that Like many icons, he's a complex figure that's far from perfect and of course you'll be perhaps aware of some of the things that happened post the Cuban revolution that are pretty unfavorable.
	Nevertheless, this autonomous collective, this communist village, was run very successfully and I believe that you should have as much democracy as possible.
	Collectivized power wherever possible.
	In your country, you talk about federalism.
	The beauty of the American experiment could have been that each state was as independent as possible.
	That centralized national power reduced wherever possible.
	This little village here, the town operates a farming cooperative with 2,650 workers.
	During the 2008 economic crisis, 30% of the active population in southern Spain was without work.
	Maranilada had full employment.
	That's an example from the left.
	I know loads of you lot aren't hardly pro-communism.
	How could you be after the way that you were inducted, inculcated and educated during the Cold War period?
	And you are aware of the atrocities, murders and horrors that took place under Soviet communism and Chinese communism.
	And I'm not advocating for centralized state power.
	I do not trust the state.
	I do not trust power accruing anywhere anymore.
	I think that all of us are too corrupt and corruptible You're saying if you, like, painted over the mural and removed communist, then it could work?
	Get rid of that, but it's easier to, like, even Jack could change that shade of graphic into me with relatively little effort, just to simply remove the beret, really, or just put their mayor up there.
	And then you change it to Bran's model village.
	Well, I think, don't call it a model village, because that could create some confusion as well, because of the way I carried on as a younger lad, but I would say Bran.
	It's really small.
	Like, I've got it here and everyone seems perfect.
	What is this village for ants?
	It'll be like Zoolander.
	This village, everyone's perfectly happy and we've got full employment.
	These subbuteo men, these savannian families and this little lego figure have been at work, hard at work this morning.
	That's why I should be president.
	Thank you very much.
	In conclusion, Gandhi once said, I think in the film Gandhi, oh God, and sadly that was his last words because he was murdered ironically by, hinted on ironically, more than ironically.
	Village Republic.
	So this is Gandhi on Village Republic.
	I've not pictured a poverty-stricken India containing ignorant millions.
	I've pictured to myself an India continually progressing along the lines best suited to her genius.
	I do not, however, picture it as a third-class or even first-class copy of the dying civilization of the West.
	Even then, he had identified that our atrophying, late-capitalist systems were going to lead to cataclysm and cultural decline.
	If my dream is fulfilled and every one of the seven larks of villages becomes a well-living republic in which there are no literates, in which no one is idle for want of work, in which everyone is usefully occupied and has nourishing food, well-ventilated dwellings and sufficient cardi for covering the body, and in which all the villagers know and observe the laws of
	hygiene and sanitation, such a state must have varied and increasing needs, which
	it must supply, unless it would stagnate."
	When people talk about changing the world, they mean change the world without inconveniencing
	the interests of the powerful. That's precisely what an organisation like the WF does. It's a
	PR front for changing the world in ways that never disrupt energy companies, big tech companies,
	the establishment.
	What we need is real change.
	Cast aside old models, except for where they are beneficial.
	Be willing to look at the past favorably in a new light.
	Be willing to look at what kind of changes might meaningfully improve your life as a human being.
	The thing that inspires me perhaps most of all about Gandhi is this is a person that resourced his values and his views from his spiritual principles.
	Duty, service, kindness.
	These are not complicated, esoteric political ideas accessible only by ontologists and theologians.
	These are ideas that your grandparents understood.
	These are traditions that we can pass down easily from father to son.
	We can pass down through generations.
	I think that the heroes like Gandhi are the kind of heroes that we need to elevate and maintain.
	That's why every week I'll be doing Brandy on Gandhi until... Yeah, every week.
	Until I watch a film on someone else and I'll do something about one of them.
	Right, so we've got a fantastic guest joining us now.
	He's a comedian, political activist and actor, Omid Jalili.
	Gareth, you're just going to leave, just like that.
	Follow him out.
	Dan, you're not going to shoot him.
	This is like this real motion in the studio, Dan.
	Track it!
	Look at Gareth.
	Look at him escaping.
	Get your hard-on gal.
	And please welcome back on old Russ for the single, as I welcome to Stay Free With Russell Brand, Omid Jalili.
	Then track me cuddling him, Dan.
	I'm going to give him a real cuddle.
	We are, of course, streaming live on Rumble right now.
	It's a pleasure to have you here.
	I've never been happier to be in a place called Britain.
	Don't dox us, Hamid!
	Don't dox us!
	Don't dox us, we're not licensed!
	Is this a secret location?
	Of course it is, for heaven's sake.
	It's a bunker.
	We're a radical organisation.
	We're a free speech organisation.
	We're activists and agitators.
	I'm with you, brother.
	Thank you.
	In fact, that reminds me, I've got to adjust this hand.
	Firstly, I had the devil horns as you just demonstrated.
	In honour of our conversation, I'm going to move it to this and then place it that way for peace, even though they're not as open as I would have them.
	Omid, we've been speaking for ages, mate.
	I've known you since I first started doing stand-up.
	I've admired you for a long time.
	I think you're a fantastic comedian and communicator.
	Do you remember us meeting at the BBC party in 2000, Edinburgh Festival?
	Do you remember that?
	2000?
	Hold on a second.
	No, it's because I was on drugs.
	Yes, in fact, I said, because I came to see your show and he's good.
	You think I was good?
	He said, could you give me some tips?
	I said, you're brilliant, but can I ask you one question?
	Are you on drugs?
	He went, yeah, heroin.
	I said, that's remarkably honest.
	I said, well, if you get off the heroin, because the problem with you, you're very funny, but you don't know when you're being funny.
	So you're doing funny things, but you talk over your laugh.
	So if you just focus your brain, you know, sort out your thoughts, you could be a great
	comedian.
	Then I saw it at the comedy store four years later and you took the roof off.
	See, you can improve if you're willing to listen and take advice from your elders.
	You did. Thank you very much for doing that.
	Now, Omid, we're here, of course, to reconnect as friends and meet you
	as an elder and a comedian I deeply respect.
	But also you're here to tell me about what's going on in Iran,
	which I'm ashamed to admit that other than the barest of bones,
	I don't understand at all, except there has been a kind of a feminist
	uprising that somehow centered around like dress codes and the icons have emerged within this movement
	and that is not being reported on responsibly or nearly enough.
	Of course, On a platform like this one, we're always interested in how the media report or don't report on a subject, how the establishment exploits it, how certain narratives are promoted and other narratives are ignored, and what the broader objectives would be of Western institutions towards Iran, who we know appeared on the sort of hit list of countries that should be destabilised post 9-11, and many of which have been destabilised since then.
	Iraq, of course, and Libya.
	So can you tell me what's been going on there and how it intersects with broader global narratives, please?
	What's very interesting is that he as a stand-up comedian what I did as soon as I saw what happened there was a 22 year old girl who was They have these hijab laws where women have to wear hijab but in a certain way and I think a bit of her hair was showing so she was arrested.
	She was supposed to be on some kind of hijab awareness course and they beat the crap out of her and she died and there are lots of flashpoints that happen in Iran but this was seismic.
	We've had little kind of aftershocks where there's been uprisings but they've usually been quashed and the way they do it is by cutting the internet, going and killing a lot of people and shutting everything down.
	So this time we knew what was going to happen.
	This was seismic.
	And the first thing they did was shut the internet.
	So through this thing called VPN, you can get a couple of videos out.
	If you join Telegram channels, you can get a couple of videos.
	So those of us who were affected by it and someone like me,
	I've been very involved in this whole thing for the last 44 years.
	We've had this crazy... Could you tell us why?
	Because I know you're English, but you have Iranian heritage.
	I'm Iranian heritage.
	I'm also Baha'i.
	The Baha'i faith is a faith that is very much oppressed in the Islamic Republic.
	The first thing they did, actually, when the Islamic Republic came into being in 1979, they'd get rid of the Baha'is, shut women down.
	There was a woman called Shirin Abadi, who was a judge, who went to work.
	She goes, I was all for this revolution.
	Then as soon as I showed up at work, They said, you can go into janitorial or you're a receptionist.
	She goes, excuse me, I'm a judge.
	They go, not anymore.
	All women can't do that kind of job.
	And she realized she'd been played.
	So, and also the Baha'i faith, which believes in the oneness of God, the oneness of religion, the unity and equality of men and women, they've got to go as well.
	So, I've always been someone who's seen as a second-class citizen in Iran, and Baha'is are not allowed to have jobs.
	A lot of them were killed in the revolution.
	So, This affected me in a very visceral way.
	So what I did was, OK, I thought, right, they've cut the Internet.
	First thing I've got to do is be a voice for the people.
	And I did jokes about it because you've got the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.
	Khamenei, not Khomeini was the original one.
	Khamenei's cut the internet but he's tweeting all the time so he's got Wi-Fi and people go and they go and protest outside his house and the state media says these are not protestations people just trying to get a Wi-Fi hotspot so I was doing things like that have you got I've got two bars what are you good no I've got one bar you know I've got no bars you know this reminds me when I used to live in Wigan this is bullshit so we do jokes about it but it's actually quite serious where They've cut the internet so they can just go and kill people and now there's an epidemic of executions where the men, the men have stood by the women.
	So it's a woman-led revolution.
	This is why it's amazing that we can't believe this is not being, it's not out there.
	It's the first time since the suffragettes we're seeing a woman-led revolution and their main aim is to bring down the Islamic regime.
	So currently, thank you Omid, that sketched out some of the territory for me as a person that is woefully unfamiliar with this issue.
	Right.
	So Iran is currently governed by an Islamic state type of Sharia law, what would ordinarily be termed an Islamic fundamentalist government.
	Yes, and has been for 44 years.
	44 years, right.
	And although in the 70s, of course, famously, Iran was becoming sort of somewhat more progressive.
	It was, yeah.
	Then the CIA got involved, shut that stuff down pretty sharp.
	There you go.
	On this occasion, there have been challenges.
	A female-led revolutionary movement.
	I'm surprised that that isn't so.
	With the well-reported disdain that the West has for Arab nations, Middle Eastern territories, and Iran in particular, Why are the Western media and or Western interests not exploiting the opportunity to declare this is a progressive movement that's female-led, which by the way I'd of course be fully in support of.
	Sure.
	But you're not being told anything.
	You're not being shown anything.
	Why?
	I don't understand why.
	Well, this is the very big question.
	It's a female-led uprising, and usually any kind of female-led initiative is usually successful.
	So the first thing they do is obviously cut the internet, and we see very little in the Western press.
	Now, why?
	I think that's... whoops!
	Sorry about that.
	I wanted to get a pen, I wanted to take some notes.
	We're taking some notes.
	The question is why?
	And I think it's because they're trying to shut women down globally.
	So the first thing they're doing is anyone who speaks out against this revolution is deemed Islamophobic.
	Because this is a group of, this is how the Islamic people want to live their life.
	But actually most Iranians are saying, we never, we're not an Islamic country.
	Iran was ruled by, we had the Persian Empire with King Cyrus that believed in everyone should live together in harmony and unity then Islam came over and they did it with raping, killing and forcing people to become Islamic.
	But this is a certain interpretation of Islam.
	So now you have this, you've got the government and you've got religion and the way they stay in power is by using religion to shut people down.
	So that's what's happening.
	And what's interesting is the Western media don't, We've been trying to get the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, which is the group of military people which protects this Islamic regime, who are basically the mothership of all terrorism.
	If you see, we're trying to get them on the terrorist list, but what you have is you've got Hezbollah, Hamas, these people that are on the terrorist list, but they're all being funded by the Islamic Republican Guard Corps.
	It's like an alien, the film Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver, she goes and she sees the big mother laying all the eggs.
	And then she says, don't get away from her, you bitch!
	And she starts firing and things.
	IRGC, Islamic Republican Guard Corps, is that great big mothership of terrorism.
	Now, governments are not putting them on the terrorist list because they seem to have some kind of influence.
	We seem to be doing a lot of work with them.
	We're financially entangled with them.
	The Iranian people are saying, we're dealing with this revolution ourselves, but if you put the IRGC on the terrorist list, it gives the people within the IRGC, within this military terrorist organization, it gives them an exit strategy.
	They'll leave, then the people of Iran will deal with the Islamic regime the way they want to.
	That girl on the chat loves your metaphors.
	Some people are finding it very emotional listening to you, mate.
	This is a bit of coverage from Western media, albeit Forbes, primarily a financial publication.
	On 19th of May 2023, Iran executed three protesters following their convictions for the vague
	offence of moharabbeh, meaning an enmity against God, after trials that said to violate a due
	process and the right to a fair trial.
	Among the raised issues were concerns in relation to due process violations, significant procedural
	flaws, lack of evidence and torture, allegations that were never investigated.
	The intervention of Western nations in that territory is a sort of a long historic stain,
	whether it's the British Empire's involvement in those nations and territories and even
	the establishment of those territories and nations in the post-war period.
	That's why they don't like the Brits, because there was a coup in 1953, which they blamed the Brits and Americans, because they were there kind of saying, oh, you've got oil here, we'll help you get the oil and we'll give you something.
	And then when they realized No money was coming to the Iranian people.
	They got rid of BP oil.
	They got rid of all the Brits.
	And then the Brits, for $60,000, the Brits and the Americans, they did this coup and they took over again.
	So that's why the people don't like the Brits.
	I mean, I'm sure people will write in saying they know what I'm talking about.
	But historically, there's always been this thing that there's oil there and the West wants the oil.
	Also, people are saying that one of the organisations we can rely on for reporting on this are Greyzone.
	We're friends with Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal there.
	They sort of are willing to report on issues that, generally speaking, get ignored by Western media.
	But what surprises me currently is that any instability in a Middle Eastern nation, and even the term Middle Eastern is, of course, by its nature, occidental and prejudicial, can be exploited by the type of Western interest that needlessly exploited the post 9-11 period to invade Iraq
	when it was completely tangential and unrelated. So I'm surprised that we're not hearing
	about like, oh we've got to support this revolution and instill some west-friendly government. That's
	the kind of thing that's a lot of it going on online but as far as the western, well
	like the 1979 Islamic revolution when they all came into power was on it was on TV all the
	time. I was a young 13 year old, very much affected by it and felt that I was tarred with
	the same brush that people at school.
	Oh, you're an Islamic fundamentalist in it and all that kind of stuff.
	And it was on the news every single day for anyone who's in their 50s who remembers that it was on the news.
	This is not in the news at all.
	You see little bits online.
	You'll see a few people like myself all the comedians.
	I know who are like Iranian.
	They've all we've all become activists now because we feel so much for what's going on what's happening to the people of Iran that they're basically being squashed.
	And they're being killed, and there's like 30,000 people in prison, all just for protesting.
	And no one is doing anything about it.
	I'm so glad that you've got me on here to speak.
	I'm very glad that also you tweeted about this.
	And it's interesting, whenever someone with a big account tweets, I just check, and he said, anyone listening to me and Amit's discussion on Rumble?
	With your 11 million followers, I checked, I lost 12 followers.
	That took 12 hours!
	Yeah, exactly.
	And you probably lost about a million just tweeting me.
	But what we're trying to do is we've become activists and we're just trying to raise awareness because this has been going on for nearly nine months now, Russell.
	It's nine months that women are being quashed.
	People are being executed almost every other day.
	So if I can just come on and just raise a bit of awareness, you can go online and see what everyone's saying and what they're talking about.
	I think that's the best thing I can do to raise awareness.
	Of course it is.
	What do you want people to do?
	What accounts can we follow and what media can people who are watching us now gain access to, to understand this issue better?
	Then I want to ask you more about the role of the comedians in this evolving media space and the changing way that activism is being used.
	But first of all, could you tell our viewers what we can do in order to support and learn more about this issue?
	There's a lot we can do.
	You can follow my account, I'm at Omid Jalili on Instagram.
	Your name's so bloody hard to spell.
	Why don't you, we'll post that in the chat on both Rumble and on, cause that Jalili bit's going to get them, and then on YouTube as well.
	Jalili is unfortunately, it's with a D, a bit like Novak Djokovic, but the D is silent.
	He's another guest we could have on here.
	This was, that was a joke.
	He won't take his medicine.
	I never got a laugh.
	I'd say the D, Jalili, the D is silent.
	It's a bit like anus with a silent P. But it never got a laugh.
	But I think there are lots of other accounts like there's a woman called Masih Ali Nejad who's a journalist and she's very much beloved.
	In fact the IRGC, the Islamic Republic, tried to get her bumped off.
	This is the thing that these people The reason why we're talking about this is because it affects our collective security in the West.
	In America, people were trying to kill her.
	We had a hunger striker outside the Foreign Office called Vahid Beheshti and they've now given him a fatwa.
	We're allowing these people to operate in the West.
	We're allowing them to do whatever they want and we're not showing strength, not standing up to these people.
	And I think that's the thing that's upsetting everyone.
	And what the women are trying to do is essentially, it's a non-violent, it's actually a very beautiful revolution, it's non-violent, although I think what they'll do With the Mullahs they talk about tearing them to pieces, but that's by the by.
	But it is a spiritual revolution in the sense that all of us, even myself as a Baha'i, we believe that actually the only way you can affect real change is if you actually talk about the things that matter, which is why we're here.
	Is there a God?
	What's the purpose of life?
	Why am I here?
	Is religion one?
	Is God one?
	Are people intrinsically one?
	And if you teach people this at a young age, then you realize the last thing you want to do is hurt someone.
	So the fact that these people are using religion to execute people for protesting, to shoot people in the eyes, to maim, to kill, to put people in solitary confinement, For about 10 years.
	It's so inhumane, but it means they haven't had the spiritual education I think that really is what the women are saying in Iran that we need to totally realign and reconfigure our our relationships between like the Individual the community and institutions because at the moment institutions just do everything to stay in power and they do it at the expense of normal people and they should be serving the people and But they don't.
	They just use the people, abuse people, and kill them and execute them.
	So that's the thing.
	That's the kind of cycle they're trying to break.
	Brain Wilson, who's been on our show, is, when I reflect on it, inexplicably Baha'i.
	And just before you joined us, I was talking about Gandhi and the impact of Gandhi on activism and the efficacy of non-violent protest and how any movement has to be underwritten ultimately by some pretty hefty principles and values if it's going to get anywhere.
	Of course, Gladwell famously wrote that New movements that coalesce online don't have the robustness
	that, say, for example, the civil rights movements of the 1950s in America have,
	because they are by their nature remote and tangential.
	And if you're going to perhaps sacrifice your life for something you believe in, it usually
	requires a deep affinity, not only with the cause, but with other people.
	Because being human, we naturally undulate in our willingness to sacrifice in our faith
	and belief that change can take place.
	One of the things that I'm keen to inhere into our channel is a sense that what we are
	striving for is something that's transcendent of the cultural values that are ordinarily
	used to separate and divide us.
	That we have access individually and via that, through that, collectively, to a deep power.
	If you are willing to sacrifice yourself, if you are willing to live a simple life of
	service, if you are willing to confront the systems within yourself, my own corruption,
	my own greed, my own biases, my own requirement for power, my own willingness to be hypocritical
	and corrupt, if I'm willing to make conquests on the level of the self, then I can be a
	useful servant.
	In this world.
	It seems to me, Omid, that these are the very issues that you're grappling with and anyone that's interested in changing their own life and challenging the world is ultimately going to have to have a relationship with ideas of that nature.
	How far, mate, are you willing to take something like this?
	Have you considered going to Iran?
	Have you considered, like, even in order to report on it more accurately?
	Does that idea scare you?
	Does it seem plausible at this point in your life that this is something that you could get It's not plausible because I'll probably be arrested as soon as I get to Iran.
	Is that what happens?
	People get arrested and put in prison and there are 30,000 people in jail right now.
	There's over 30,000 people in jail but I think because I'm a Baha'i I would be arrested immediately so what I can do Is remind people of things that have happened like this.
	We're coming up to a 40th anniversary of something that happened that totally shocked me to my core and actually artists in North America on the 18th of June is the 40th anniversary of the hanging of 10 women in a town called Shiraz who attend by women.
	One of them was a woman called Mona.
	who was 17 years old, and all the others were 20, 25, I think one of them was 35, and all because they were Baha'is, and they were told to recant their faith, and they refused, because they said, look, you're asking us to lie about wanting a better world, you're asking us to lie that we don't believe in the equality of men and women, you're asking us to lie that we believe in the one God.
	So they said no, and they were given many chances to recant, and they didn't.
	So one by one, they were all hanged in front of each other.
	there's a photograph online of the 10 women, they're all young, and it shocked everyone to their core.
	And in fact, this story, when it broke 40 years ago, it moved some artists.
	You can see there's a pop video was made called Mona with the Children
	by Jack Lenz and Doug Cameron, which got to number one in North America.
	Some people might remember it, but it gave you a very good idea
	of this kind of handmaid's tale type.
	You know, Margaret Atwood, when she wrote Handmaid's Tale, she probably had the Islamic Republic in mind.
	I don't know if people know that, but these 10 women have actually inspired the women in Iran now because they stood up for something.
	They actually gave their lives for an idea.
	That's what they did.
	You're asking us to lie.
	And that's the one thing people in Iran are saying.
	You can say whatever you like about the Baha'is, but they don't lie.
	And when they're asked to recant their faith to lie, they won't do it and they will put their lives on the line.
	So what I'm trying to do is raise awareness.
	There's been a call for artists, for writers, to people to commemorate this appalling act of violence towards women.
	And that's what I'm going to be doing.
	I'm making a little film.
	I'm writing a piece for the Eye newspaper.
	I'm going to try and raise awareness to back the women of Iran because these are the stories that are pushing them now to move forward and say, we've had enough.
	We've had enough of this oppression.
	Where all the time I was told, keep quiet.
	When I did my first Instagram post on the 20th of September, everyone said, take it down.
	You'll become a target.
	I went, no, if I take it down, it looked like the regime was taking it down.
	So I kept up and speaking to other comedian friends and other people in the diaspora who had a platform, we thought we've got to do something.
	We've got to stand up and we've got to start a wave because social media is like your weapon.
	Because that's the one thing they don't like.
	Whenever they're about to execute someone, we all go online to don't execute this person.
	What they do, they wait.
	And what they've done now, they've started executing people because it's been out of the online news.
	They start killing people now.
	But if you put pressure, it's like, say their name, save a life.
	And I think the women of Iran have said, we've had enough.
	We've had enough of just trying to save people.
	This lot have got to go now.
	And what they've done is, it's become political.
	And that's why people are hijacking it, saying it's Islamophobic.
	But ultimately, the people of Iran want a shot of these people now because they've had enough.
	That makes sense to me.
	Okay, so there's a clear call to action for the get-go.
	Firstly, follow Omid on Twitter.
	We will post the link in the description.
	Let's get back the 12 followers he lost by innocently RTing a piece of promo that I did in his bath.
	So let's do that for a start.
	Let's educate ourselves a little further on this issue and see how it evolves among us.
	Am I right in thinking that you're doing a fundraising event next month?
	Yes!
	Next month.
	I live in Suffolk now.
	I live in Ipswich.
	I've got a comedy club called Tractor and Kebab, which I'll start on the 8th of June.
	But the main thing is a Turkey-Syria benefit I'm doing.
	You know, when the earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, you know, 60,000 people have died.
	And again, that's out the news and we're trying to raise money for it.
	So at the Regent Theatre in Ipswich, we've got some wonderful musical acts coming along.
	We were hoping to get you to come down and do 20 minutes.
	June 17th, Ipswich.
	Ipswich, yeah, which I think you did recently and you absolutely took the roof off.
	Yeah, I like it in there.
	Do you remember that place, yeah?
	Yeah, yeah, I do like it in there.
	They absolutely love you there, so we'd love you to come down.
	Alright, June 17th, I'll have a look at it.
	We'll post a link for that in the description as well.
	That's an event to raise money, of course, for the victims and survivors of the Syria and Turkey earthquake.
	You're doing a lot of good, kind things, Omid, and of course... We've become activists now, that's what we are.
	What else is there to do if you're a comedian?
	Also, if you want to see Ahmed touring, then go to AhmedJalili.com to get tickets, and I can personally recommend Ahmed as a comedian.
	Your name even evokes joy.
	Ahmed Jalili seems like someone that can create joy almost automatically, you great, glorious, radiant man.
	Not to mention that penalty you scored against a robot that Lionel Messi couldn't score against.
	Oh, you've got to show it.
	Yeah, let's have a look at this.
	Oh, look at this.
	You know we love football is nice, don't we?
	This is Lionel Messi.
	Look, the Robo Keeper... Is this Messi first?
	OK, Messi's trying... Now, if you look, Robo Keeper is a robotic keeper that actually can see where your eye is when you kick, so it actually anticipates where you're going to kick.
	So if you run the film now, you'll see that Messi tries three times in fact... It's impossible to beat.
	Maybe Lionel Messi can't do it.
	Lionel Messi failed.
	Couldn't do it.
	Look at this.
	Save!
	Saves for Messi!
	Save!
	For Messi!
	This is Lionel Messi!
	So there it is, the Robo Keeper.
	It stopped Lionel Messi in his tracks.
	But was it ready for Omid Jalili?
	And I'll tell you, just before I did it, I said, is there any chance?
	The bloke who set it up, he goes, just because it's you, what we've done, an inch to one side, if you go top left, we've given you an inch of mistake that you can do.
	If you go top left and you could do it.
	And amazingly, this happened.
	That's amazing!
	See the slow motion now.
	Slow motion.
	Run it again.
	What, you want us to run it in slow motion?
	Are you aware?
	Have you picked up what the... Is that all you got there?
	Because it should run on... You should see it in slow motion.
	Darling, you're lucky they played the clip at all.
	These people are absolutely... It's a miracle that you were... But if you look, it goes... Look.
	Right.
	Bang.
	It's moved.
	And it's that one inch to each side.
	And I made it.
	That's unbelievable.
	That's unbelievable.
	It's the greatest moment of my life.
	Thank you for playing it.
	That really means a lot to me.
	It's the greatest moment of our lives, just so we witness it.
	Don't worry about what's going on in Iran.
	It's complicated.
	There's probably nothing we could do.
	Robo Keeper was actually decommissioned, I think, as if a fat, bald, 55-year-old could do it, they decommissioned it straight away.
	I believe, having seen that, that you can bring about a peaceful revolution in Iran and an all-woman government to replace the Sharia law that's currently incumbent.
	Exactly, thank you.
	There's just a one-inch margin where we will allow a democratic, feminist-led movement, and Ahmed is the man to lead it.
	Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
	Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
	Go to ahmedjalili.com if you want to see Ahmed support Ahmed's Turkey and Syria earthquake effort, as well as following Ahmed on Twitter.
	Next time I speak to Ahmed Jalili, I want him to say, bloody hell, I've got a lot more followers on Twitter now, and I'm not being constantly spammed with information that you're a conspiracy theorist and a right-wing lunatic.
	But I do believe that if we keep raising awareness, that's the thing in the West, if we keep raising awareness, something will shift.
	And it's, by the way, and can I just say this, this is very, very important.
	This isn't just about a bunch of brown people in a far off land who cause chaos and it's got nothing to do with us.
	I believe that all this is connected.
	It's a bit like your body.
	If you stub your toe, you stub your little toe, the toe is furthest away from your brain, but it bloody hurts.
	So what's going on over there affects us.
	And actually, If Iran, which is the cause of so much instability, if that place calms down and we get rid of this lot, you'll see a calmer Middle East and that should be good for all of us around the world.
	The collective security of the world will be increased with what the women are trying to achieve there.
	Well done.
	I mean, thanks for educating us on that important issue.
	You can join our locals community by clicking the red button on your screen right now, where you'll also be able to access our full RFK Junior interview, as well as doing guided meditations with me.
	I do a weekly guided meditation.
	Beautiful.
	Yeah, it's pretty good.
	We've got all sorts of podcasts you can listen to coming up on the show.
	Of course, we've got Elon Musk coming up in about a week.
	We're organizing it now.
	It's difficult to schedule with Elon Musk.
	Are you being serious?
	Yeah, yeah, we're organising it.
	But it's really hard because you've got no leverage.
	You can't go, I say we do it Friday, or these are the conditions.
	Because you think, well, this guy is actually the richest man in the world.
	I'm just going to probably have to do whatever he tells me.
	A little bit around his schedule, I suppose.
	That's the thing with Elon.
	I say, I'm quite busy, Elon.
	I do this podcast.
	Well, I'm going to space in the morning.
	Yeah, so join us on that and you can learn more about community.
	You should come to community, come to community and perform there.
	We do a festival in Hay-on-Wye every July, a three-day event.
	Wim Hof, Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar.
	It's going to be a fantastic event.
	Yeah, come there, do a set, raise some awareness for your issue.
	I'd love to have you there.
	Elmi, thank you for joining me.
	It's so beautiful to see you again.
	Thanks for everything you've done for me and seeing some light in me when I was on the brown.
	I appreciate that and thanks for the guidance and advice.
	later I thought I tell you what he's now that he's cleaned himself up he could be
	one of the biggest voices in the world and that's exactly what you've become
	well look at that that's the kind of kindness that you can end their show on
	join us tomorrow not for more of the same but more of the different but
	before you go we have a fantastic presentation for you you've been
	following I'm sure this story about the FBI whistleblowers and their
	extraordinary revelations we're covering that in more detail now watch the here's
	the news no here's the FB news see you tomorrow until then stay free
	what is going on with the FBI They've committed hundreds of thousands of crimes.
	They're mistreating and ignoring their own whistleblowers that are trying to hold them account.
	Is it time to disband the FBI or would that amount to shutting down a key wing of the Democrat Party?
	We're talking about the FBI who have literally committed hundreds of thousands of crimes.
	We're going to list those for you, not individually.
	That would take too bloody long.
	Also, when people try to blow the whistle on them, they shut that down.
	They ignore them and mistreat them.
	Are the FBI and the CIA protecting Americans and the people of the world, or are they protecting the interests of the powerful?
	Let's get into it.
	Our next guest testified in an explosive hearing About the Bureau's alleged retaliation against their own agents.
	What are your thoughts about what the activities are going on at the FBI?
	I think the FBI has sort of evolved from what we expect it to be, which is federal law enforcement.
	And after 9-11, when the national security branch was grown exponentially, the FBI has now essentially evolved into a domestic intelligence agency with a law enforcement capability.
	Which is what I expressed in the hearing.
	Okay, so the FBI has mutated into something other than what it was intended for at its inception.
	What you have to fundamentally ask yourself is, have many of our institutions evolved beyond the point where they are relevant?
	And in many cases, are they literally doing the opposite of what they were intended to do?
	Governments that don't represent the people, Media that behaves more like propaganda.
	Security agencies that make you insecure.
	Why does this happen?
	Is it possible that all these agencies and organisations have been co-opted by elite power?
	I'm not talking about anything occultist, esoteric or obscure.
	I'm talking about dominion through financial control, through the allocation and manipulation of resources.
	I'm not talking about hysterical conspiracy theory stuff.
	Even though, of course, other centralised institutions that are funded will say that independent analysis and scrutiny of issues such as this is conspiratorial or far-right.
	What we are interested in is how is power functioning?
	What are the FBI doing?
	It appears, on the basis of the testimony of these whistleblowers, that the FBI isn't engaged in a process of upholding the law and the consensus achieved through American democracy in order to support the Republic, Essentially supporting the interests of powerful groups.
	Let's have a look what else they've been doing and how it plays out.
	And that's a problem because the nature of law enforcement investigations are linear,
	they have a start and an end, and the nature of intelligence operations are circular.
	They just gain more intelligence to gain more intelligence and they never end.
	That's interesting.
	What a brilliant piece of analysis.
	They ought to be like, right, there's this crime.
	Will you solve it?
	Like a little film.
	There's been a murder or a crime.
	Solve it.
	It's done now.
	But the process of gathering information is infinite.
	That's what we're learning now.
	We learned through the revelations of Snowden that they were stockpiling information, keeping it in case they needed it in the future.
	This practice still goes on.
	They're prolonging it.
	As our man there said, it began with 9-11.
	That's the real question, isn't it?
	Also, the technology existed at that time, and as soon as that technology exists, there's
	a momentum and a motive to ensure that it's used by the powerful.
	We'll see the same thing with AI.
	Oh, look at this!
	Oh no, is it bad?
	Will children use this to write their essays?
	Oh, it's going to reduce the number of people in work.
	These are both problems of varying degrees, but the real problem will become what happens
	when these powers become co-opted by and utilised by the powerful?
	That's the real question, isn't it?
	Let me know in the chat.
	Let me know in the...
	What a great way to put that into context.
	Garrett, we heard from your testimony, highly emotional and compelling testimony this week.
	I'm curious, from your perspective, I was on this week, we talked about your testimony, your life, you know, that you were essentially put on suspension right after being transferred across the country, left homeless, right when you had a baby being born.
	What was the tipping point for you, Garrett, when you decided, though, hey, I need to talk about what's going on in the FBI?
	I don't know if there was any firm tipping point that I can reach to, but it was more a summation of things that had been adding up and just over and over again saying, this doesn't seem right, this isn't what I was taught in constitutional law courses, or this isn't how you implement people's constitutional rights and balance those rights with the law enforcement responsibility that we have to the people in this country.
	It's weird to see someone who looks so sort of macho and potent talking in terms of introspection and quiet analysis of justice, when to glance at him you think his main priority was fighting Popeye.
	It was more a summation of things that it was repetitive inside the FBI where it was like, this seems wrong, this seems wrong, that seems wrong.
	And so it got to a point where I just couldn't sit back anymore and... It's disgusting, Olive!
	...had to just start exposing some of the nefarious things that the FBI was doing.
	Yeah, Garrett, if you could, I know you testified to it this week.
	Your life has been totally upside down, turned upside down as a result of your choice to speak.
	That's correct.
	It has been.
	And, you know, I'll reiterate.
	I've made my oath to this country, and I'm going to stand by that oath, no matter what the cost.
	And that's all we can do.
	And I want to urge every American to stand by that oath.
	We all have a responsibility and a duty to this nation and to each other.
	And we're the ones who are responsible for making sure that our government and our country runs the way it's supposed to run.
	What Garrett O'Boyle whistleblower appears to be saying is that these institutions now have an inertia.
	They've made their choices.
	That's how they function.
	This is what they're going to do.
	They are not going to change.
	It's down to us to change individually and collectively in order to hold them to account.
	We must remain capable of discerning truth from fiction, we must remain bold, and like him, we must remember the oaths we've made to ourselves, to our gods, or to our systems of ideals, to our families, and to one another.
	We must believe it's possible to change the world.
	Once we become hypnotized and bound in bureaucracy, we're just sheep, cattle to them.
	Let's learn more about the congressional hearing that these men participated in, and trying to think about whistleblowers as something that's a bit silly, because they're sort of just going, There's been a wrongdoing, boss!
	For decades after the FBI was caught spying on Martin Luther King Jr.
	and abusing its powers for political ends, Democrats emphasized strong constraints on domestic spying and the importance of whistleblowers.
	Now Democrats are savaging these former public servants as threats to national security.
	Why is that?
	Well, presumably because their interests have changed and they're utilizing these deep state agencies in order to control the population and the narrative.
	But let's find out.
	At least two FBI whistleblowers are being persecuted for concerns over how the January 6th protesters were treated.
	Now it can be difficult to talk about the January 6th protests and some of the theories and ideas that surround it, but it seems clear that the FBI have targeted and surveilled protesters from January the 6th, but also George Floyd protesters.
	It seems that it doesn't matter what the issue is per se, per se, I know,
	but whether or not your protest is at odds with the interests of the powerful that they represent and operate
	on behalf of.
	I.e., what I'm saying, in case you haven't picked it up yet, is put aside your political differences and start working
	together for God's sake!
	Steve Friend expressed concerns about the FBI's use of SWAT teams to arrest January 6th subjects.
	Within a month of these disclosures, the FBI removed Friend's security clearance and removed him from active duty.
	Garrett O'Boyle disclosed that the FBI pressured him to violate the law by opening domestic violent extremism investigations without sufficient basis.
	In addition to an indefinite unpaid suspension, the FBI initiated a campaign of humiliation and intimidation to punish and pressure me to resign.
	Friend testified.
	Ah, they punished him and pressured him.
	The FBI's campaign of personal destruction included leaking friends' private medical information to a New York Times reporter.
	Before you start listening to that whistleblowing, you might want to know a thing or two about this guy's Verrucas and his troubling athlete's foot.
	His feet are a goddamn mess.
	Yeah, but what about all this whistleblowing?
	Don't worry about what's up here.
	Worry about what's down there.
	Not the middle bit, just keep going down.
	Although... FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen got in trouble with his superiors at the FBI, not for peddling conspiracy theories, but rather for sharing accurate news articles, including one apparently based on a report by the New York Times.
	These guys, you can't trust them.
	They're sharing articles that are true.
	Well, actually, look, we wrote this one.
	Yeah, but, you know... Listen, did I tell you about his feet?
	They stink.
	Federal law enforcement had a far greater visibility into this sort on the Capitol, wrote the Times last fall, even as it was taking place than was previously known.
	I suppose the problem is, is that the reporting on January the 6th and other nominated events, occasions and dramas, often excludes nuance. Broadly speaking, you're invited to
	look at January 6th as a sort of terrorist attack. That's the kind of framing around it. I've
	never been particularly comfortable with that. I'm an anti-violence person, particularly when it
	comes to the pursuit of political goals, but anti-violence, generally, is a pretty easy principle to
	adhere to, broadly speaking.
	But I've noticed that when talking about January 6th, there's been a lot of hysteria and condemnation.
	And as I always invite you, if you take the subject out and look at how the machinery
	operates around it, it can tell you a lot. What did January the 6th achieve?
	It was an opportunity to discredit people, it was an opportunity to introduce protest laws, it was an opportunity to introduce surveillance.
	So if you look at how something functions and who benefits from it, you learn a lot.
	Because the subject often changes, but the results are reliable.
	More surveillance, more centralised power, less democracy, more ability to shut down dissent and control the narrative.
	It's an odd phenomenon that I've noticed lately.
	Alan's intentions were plainly constructive.
	He'd apparently forwarded an article to other FBI investigators to caution them that, if they were looking at footage, they should be aware that there were informants in the crowd.
	Court documents indicate that there were at least eight FBI informants, known as CHS's for Confidential Human Informants, in the Proud Boys, which was one of the groups that organized the January 6th protest.
	There is evidence that the FBI also had CHS in the Oath Keepers, another January 6th activist group.
	That's really interesting, isn't it?
	Because if you think of how you're told the story of January 6th, it's like, Donald Trump caused it, his rhetoric was incendiary, look at those tweets, it's terrible.
	And then when you see people, usually on the internet, alternative independent media like this, some of the people that we share this space with say, there were FBI informants, it was a false flag, this was organised by the deep state.
	And the mainstream media go, oh that's ridiculous, that's a conspiracy theory.
	Well, this whistleblower is saying, no, there were FBI informants within those groups.
	Then when you look at the term FBI informants, it's like, hey, listen, I'm a member of the Proud Boys, but you should be aware.
	Then sometimes it's like that they literally are primarily FBI.
	They're operating on behalf of the FBI.
	I don't know where on that spectrum between operating on behest or in conjunction with the FBI down to full on just are the FBI.
	So you'll be aware of the Chris Morris film where whole terrorist attacks are conceived where basically everyone involved is FBI or kidnappings are planned.
	It's basically the FBI.
	So whatever you think about January the 6th, you have to take this whistleblower seriously when he says there were FBI informants involved on that day.
	So at one extreme we have, hey, what's January the 6th?
	A false flag event primarily organized by the deep state because it would continue to legitimize the smearing and shutting down of people that are opposed to establishment power. And then at the other extreme, it's
	a mad, crazy riot. It was Donald Trump's fault. If it's entirely Donald Trump's fault, there's
	a fair few FBI informants involved, probably too many for it to be entirely that. What do you
	say? Let me know in the chat.
	Let me know in the comments. Former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst George Hill told the
	subcommittee that when the Boston office asked for the video footage from January the 6th
	protest, the Washington field office said they could not give access to the 11,000 hours
	of video footage available because there may be undercover officers, known as UCs, or CHSs,
	confidential human sources, on those videos whose identity we need to protect.
	I'm sure loads of you in the comments will point to times where it looked like people were getting dressed up and all that kind of stuff.
	Listen, I think we have an obligation, an odd obligation, to ensure that everything we say is verifiable, is true, that we don't make claims that we can't undergird with facts.
	We are basing this report entirely on the testimony of an FBI whistleblower.
	You know if these dudes were saying stuff that was like, oh, we found out that they were doing stuff that was for Donald Trump, the mainstream news, the New York Times, they'd be all over it.
	Why?
	Because they care about their agenda.
	They care about their objective.
	They don't care about misinformation, malinformation, disinformation.
	They care about their information and your lack of information.
	So there are no values and principles.
	There's just a clear objective to control the narrative.
	And they'll say whatever's necessary and ignore whatever's necessary in order to achieve that.
	Do you agree?
	And it wasn't just the FBI who had undercover informants and agents in the crowd.
	There were undercover agents and informants from other law enforcement agencies, including the Washington, D.C.
	Metro Police, who were acting like Trump supporters.
	Four more years!
	Donald Trump!
	I'm actually FBI.
	Oh, I'm actually the Washington, D.C.
	Does anyone here even like Donald Trump?
	I don't like him.
	I think he's sexist.
	Have you seen how orange he is?
	And his hands are a bit little.
	Okay, sure, if it's just us and there's no actual Trump people, should we go home?
	No man, I'm going inside there, I'm gonna get me some souvenirs and a photograph done next to that podium, people like.
	Indeed, there may have been hundreds of undercover government agents and informants, both local and federal, in the January 6th crowd.
	According to one January 6th witness, there were 100 to 200 Secret Service agents alone at the Capitol before and during the breach of police barriers.
	At what point does this become a staged event?
	I'm being very cautious about this.
	This is something that's very tightly managed, but according to one source, hundreds.
	Hundreds?
	That doesn't seem like the world we're trying to create.
	Can we get to a point where we have a degree of objectivity around these matters, rather than, okay, this story, before I get involved, is it my side or is it the other side?
	Well, this one is actually your side.
	Well, then it's a disgrace!
	It shall be stopped!
	Oh, it's actually the other side.
	Oh, well, look, people have got to do what they've got to do.
	Of course there are informants.
	No one's got any objectivity or clarity or good faith in these conversations anymore.
	Hundreds of people, most of them pretending to be at a protest.
	Remember, people actually died.
	Like, someone was shot and killed there.
	Members of the police force died subsequently.
	It's a very interesting thing to analyse, and it's clearly nuanced and complicated.
	Clearly, there is room for discussion.
	If you note that, in part, Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox appears to be related to his reporting on this event, it starts to make me question who is benefiting from this story.
	And as I've always told you when it comes to this, my perspective is a little broader.
	All of the sanctimony that surrounds the invasion of an apparently sacred building is undeserved when I see it as essentially a place where corruption is legitimized by the relationships between corporations and the state.
	Let me know if you agree.
	One court filing alleges that there are at least 20 FBI assets at the Capitol.
	Another court document from the Proud Boys trial suggests there are at least 40 undercover informant or agents doing surveillance among defendants on January the 6th.
	So this isn't just hearsay at this point because there are whistleblowers testifying in front of Congress.
	So it seems like there's the need for a conversation, a conversation that people are unwilling to have and even that suggests that particular outcomes are likely.
	In a motion to compel disclosure of all confidential human sources of Homeland Security, the defense alleges that in addition to the eight confirmed FBI CHS's, the DC Metro Police had at least 13 undercover plainclothes agents, and there appear to have been some 19 CHS's on January the 6th belonging to an agency called Homeland Security Investigations.
	There's even agencies that are so secret, we don't know that they exist!
	And they're there!
	I mean, I reckon that that whole January the 6th riot amounts to one MAGA hat-wearing person and their dog.
	Donald Trump!
	Donald Trump!
	You are under arrest!
	I'm arresting him!
	No, I'm arresting him!
	No, we're going to arrest him!
	I'm gonna pretend to be his friend and then arrest him in a couple of months after I've got him to come up with a terrorist plot that I'm thinking about.
	One such individual is alleged to have been in the crowd screaming, stop the steal, stop the steal and pushing the protesters toward the Capitol building.
	Boo!
	Stop the steal!
	Stop the steal!
	Come on!
	Actually, I was here just for a peaceful protest.
	While I recognize that we have a variety of views, we're all Americans, and ultimately, we're gonna... Boo!
	Stop the steal!
	Stop the steal!
	Come on, go in there!
	Here, I bought you a witch doctor's hat.
	Why don't you wear this?
	Here's some face paint.
	I don't know, don't I look stupid?
	No, you've got a great body, and you're gonna have plenty of time to work out in prison for Four years!
	Also, don't you know, like, yourself, like, if you're at a wedding or something and, like, some people start dancing, like, wouldn't you maybe be more likely to get up and start dancing?
	I mean, at this point, it's beyond observing and monitoring and dispatching justice.
	It's creating scenarios that therefore enable you to pursue a course of action that evidently you want to pursue.
	And this is not how I want to view these situations.
	Let me know in the chat where you stand on this.
	It is unsurprising that many agencies would send dozens of officers and informants to the Capitol in anticipation of 10,000 to 30,000 people attending a highly charged political rally.
	However, it is troubling that the public has not been given a full accounting of law enforcement officers' activities on January the 6th, given the fact that Democrats have likened the riot to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
	Well, I don't know.
	You can do your own jokes in the chat and the comments, baby.
	How like Pearl Harbor and 9-11 was it?
	The Grey Zones report that the CIA had operatives on one of the planes.
	I mean, this is very interesting.
	What this is, at very least, is when people are going, oh, they're conspiracy theorists.
	Maybe have a little closer look before dismissing that information, because here we have significant cause for investigation into an event that's being called just a mad, incendiary, MAGA-inspired, sort of idiotic festival of carnage, when in fact what it looks like is something that was very closely monitored, had numerous agencies with many, many operatives inside, and that appears to align very nicely with the agenda of the neoliberal establishment.
	The real problem with Allen and Friend is that, according to the FBI, they espoused an alternative narrative about the events at the US Capitol on January the 6th, 2021.
	So why did the FBI and Democrats attack the FBI whistleblowers?
	Perhaps because they are revealing, at a minimum, the FBI's failure to stop the riot and, more maximally, its role in instigating it.
	Oh no, that's the key isn't it?
	It could have been prevented because a lot of people said oh they were being ushered in and it was instigated.
	It's starting to look like there is at least cause to examine the possibility that this event was made worse by operatives and that they benefited from it somehow.
	You can, in a sense, inform your own opinion by looking at what has happened subsequently.
	Has it been used to spend more money creating a capital police force?
	Has it been used to introduce more surveillance and police laws?
	Has it been used to smear opponents of the establishment?
	Has it been used to shut down conversation?
	If the answer to all of those questions is yes, and then additionally there were FBI operatives, there are FBI whistleblowers, then then you have some questions. And what all of this alludes
	to if you ask me is that, put the alleged criminality of these agencies to one side
	for a moment and look at the fact that what appears truly to be happening is you can no
	longer corral everyone together into one centralised, authoritarian narrative. People just
	want different things now and maybe we should look at some different political systems
	and options.
	Whistleblowers Alan Friend and O'Boyle all commented on the chilling effect of the FBI's
	retaliation. Too many in the FBI aren't willing to sacrifice the hard right over the easy
	And they don't use the phrase hard right in this context.
	They'll use that against you.
	I think we have to follow the hard right.
	Well, yes.
	Do you see?
	This is the problem with these guys.
	They're all hard right.
	No, I'm incorrect.
	Too late.
	You're already in prison.
	They see what becomes of whistleblowers, O'Boyle said.
	This is by design.
	It creates an Orwellian atmosphere that silences opposition and discussion.
	Perhaps that's what's happening more broadly in our culture.
	Ask yourself the question, do you imagine that these powerful elites really care about what they would deem and term vulnerable people from a variety of backgrounds who, in my view, all have the right to freedom of expression wherever they are on the political spectrum, whether it's traditional or progressive.
	Freedom means freedom and it certainly means other people's freedom.
	Or are they interested in creating a climate of silence and control?
	Oh, Boyle said that the FBI's action against him had rendered him and his family homeless, and that they could not access their personal effects, including clothing, because they were in FBI storage when he was suspended.
	But throughout the hearing, it was obvious that the Democrats were trying to distract and derail the subcommittee, refusing to engage with the whistleblower's allegations that the FBI has intentionally exaggerated the threat of domestic terrorism through padded statistics and illegal investigations.
	Padded statistics?
	Illegal investigations?
	Prejudice and bias?
	That doesn't sound like the America that we've been living in for the last couple of years.
	What's more, the hearing made clear that the FBI is working with the Democrats, which underscores the agency's increasing partisanship.
	Democrat Stacey Plaskett, who savaged the FBI whistleblower's previously threatened journalist Matt Taibbi with prison for supposedly lying to Congress under oath.
	Do you remember that sham kangaroo congressional hearing where Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger, good men, good journalists, were subject to criticisms, accusations, and threatened eventually with jail time simply for presenting facts that had been given to them as a result of a similar whistleblower operation?
	It seems like there's certain information that people just don't want out there.
	And we, I believe, should be open to having conversations around this stuff.
	Have a conversation.
	Be open to change.
	Be open to it.
	The Durham report last week revealed that the FBI's Russia collusion investigation was cooked up by Hillary Clinton to denigrate Donald Trump by tying him to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.
	And that despite knowing it was bogus, the FBI went ahead and launched the ill-fated Crossfire Hurricane investigation while dropping four probes into the Clinton Foundation.
	So some things they really investigate, other things they ignore.
	That's not objective justice, is it?
	It's not an objective investigation when a crowd is filled with informants and when whistleblower's testimony within the FBI is being ignored.
	And then when they go public, They are criticised and discredited.
	This reveals an agenda.
	You can just sort of see the outline of the agenda from all of the actions and behaviours.
	On Friday, a FISA court order revealed that the FBI has been misusing a surveillance tool
	almost 300,000 times in 2020 to 2021, including doing 23,000 searches on January the 6th suspects
	and 20,000 searches on a congressional candidate's donors.
	This is what we continually say to you.
	As long as they have the ability to surveil you and look at your information, then the possibility exists that at some point, you will do something that's at odds with the establishment.
	And given that there are no principles, and given that this is an ongoing circular problem, as our man there earlier described, it could come to you at some point.
	You know, when people say, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide, what they should now say is, as long as you're willing to continually obey centralised authority, then you've got nothing to worry about.
	The FBI also refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee to hand over documents alleging that Joe Biden accepted bribes to change US policy while he was Vice President.
	In the light of just one week of FBI shame, the latest Harvard-Harris poll showing deep public mistrust in the FBI comes as no surprise.
	Not only do 69% of voters believe the FBI violated its own standards in the Russia collusion probe, 70% are concerned the Bureau will interfere in future elections.
	The FBI is out of control and everyone knows it.
	So now you know, when people say deep state, this is what they're talking about.
	When they say deep state collusion, they're talking about stories like this.
	While the January 6th stuff is still under investigation, based on the testimony of these whistleblowers and some of the information here about informants and assets in the crowd, it seems to To me, a conversation is required before we march forward in the way that we did with the Russiagate stuff into making conclusions that might be convenient to a certain set of agenda.
	Let's look carefully before saying, oh, this is definitely what that situation is.
	Because if it definitely was, Trump caused this by being incendiary.
	It was an attack on our democracy, like 9-11 and Pearl Harbor.
	What you'd want to see is there were no FBI informants, or the presence of deep state agencies certainly didn't instigate or incite the problem, and that there were manageable numbers.
	And then you'd want to see that the event wasn't used for political gain, subsequently to bring about legislation, to direct funding, to increase surveillance.
	All those things, I would say, would be markers of potential corruption.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the chat.
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