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June 5, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Biden FALL & Next Presidential Candidate EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED - #139 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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I'm a black man and I could never be a better man.
On the street, I'm a black man.
I brought up all of you, so I'm good.
I'm a black man and I could never be a better man.
On the street, I'm a black man.
I brought up all of you, so I'm good.
I'm a black man and I could never be a better man.
Oh, I'm so grateful.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello, you Awakening Wonders.
Look, we're back.
We're back with you live on Rumble and on YouTube.
We're live across the world.
There's nowhere you can be on this planet where you cannot access this content if you want to.
And why wouldn't you?
Why don't you join us as a member of our locals community like Sensitive Hearts 25 sending... Actually, she's not sending me love.
They're sending love to one another, Gareth, my on-screen assistant.
You look better than ever.
Thank you so much.
You're wearing a lemon top.
That's right.
You look like you're getting younger and more efficient.
That's exactly what's happening.
Unlike the dear and forever tumbling president of the United States who requires naught but love and support if you ask me, but perhaps more urgently, replacement by an intellectual giant.
We've had RFK on the show talking about his candidacy and the vision for America that he'd like to bring to the world.
Today we have Cornel West, Dr Cornel West, Joining us for an exclusive announcement.
We love Cornel West.
He's one of the most credible, radical, philosophical voices in American politics, who's able to effortlessly infuse emotion, vision, spirit, and pragmatism.
I'm very excited he's joining us.
I'm just feeding a dog under the table.
That is not a euphemism.
That is not a euphemism.
Just feeding a dog under the table.
Imagine if it was a euphemism.
What a disgusting euphemism.
And I had to just go along with it.
This is a thing that he does where he puts porridge in his underpants.
Oatmeal in his briefs.
Yeah.
I suppose is what you'd say.
Yeah, there's my dog just to legitimize that.
We're talking about a new bill that's being passed to remove any potential limitations to expenditure in the Ukraine.
We're talking about that not because we don't support the efforts, the humanitarian effort to help Ukrainian people, but because we're a little bit worried that all that money ends up in the hands of the military-industrial complex on a basis of Research!
We're going to be going exclusively on Rumble.
If you're watching this on YouTube right now, God we love you and we welcome you, but you know that the WHO regulate the content that you watch there, or at least are able to offer sensory advice.
YouTube take their guidance and establish their guidelines based on the WHO's principles.
So we've got a few things to talk about.
Google renewing their partnership with the WHO and new research that ...reveals what the impact of certain medications are on transmission, whether or not the medications were beneficial or... Actually, worse!
Worse!
Actually worse, Gareth!
If.
The big if.
I'm just saying if that, hang on a second.
It's been a while.
We've had a week off, so just let us warm back into what we're doing for a living.
Do I look like I've got a bit of a tan?
You do?
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mention your glorious tan.
I mean, you're looking so well.
Mentioned the tan.
We've got a fantastic week coming back.
We've got brilliant guests over the course of the week.
We're coming back with a bang.
We've improved the sound.
Let us know in the chat and the comments if you think the sound's better.
We've got them FBI whistleblowers coming on, and we'll be able to hear their whistles so beautifully in here, even the upper notes.
Who else have we got?
Tulsi Gabbard's coming on.
Elon!
I forgot to ring Elon!
You know, like, that night... I think it's probably a good idea.
He's coming on.
Leave him at home for a night.
I'm gonna get back on him.
Because Elon, he done Ron DeSantis the day, like, we had a date in the diary, I swear to you, I'm not lying about Elon, let us know if you believe me, right?
We had Elon locked down, but then he done... DeSantis.
Who's gonna be the... Well, potential.
President of America.
And then tonight he's doing... RFK.
In a bit.
Do you want me to finish all the sentences?
Right, I can do a few of them.
Listen, do you know that one in eight men have the absolute nerve to take a prophylactic to a funeral?
What kind of pervert turns up at a funeral, potentially of a loved one, with a condom?
Well, I read this in two ways, and one is not a nice way.
One was with a condom.
One was, did you take a necrophiliac view?
I did.
Unfortunately, I did.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
We shouldn't be talking about necrophilia.
I'm pretty sure the WHO... They won't like that one bit.
Although, ironically, you cannot convey disease to someone in that condition.
And if you do, it matters not a jot.
We're going to be looking at the mainstream media's attitude to Joe Biden taking a tumble.
I don't take any pleasure from the elderly tumbling.
Do you?
No, no.
No, I don't.
I really don't.
You mustn't.
You mustn't.
Think of your nan, your grandad, taking a tumble.
No, I wouldn't like that.
No, awful.
I wouldn't like that at all.
But you don't like it?
No, it's just I guess my nan and grandad are not and never have been the President of the United States.
Do you expect me to believe that?
Do you?
Do you expect me to not have one grandparent as the commander-in-chief?
Let's have a look.
Do we need to see it happening?
We've seen it happen loads of times.
I want to see the mainstream media trying to mitigate it.
This is kind of that.
They're offering up reasons why it might have happened.
Barry John Fox says you look tanned.
That's over on Locals.
Press the red button on your screen.
You can join us on Locals right now.
Let's have a look at the mainstream media talking about Joe Biden taking the tumble.
If I was there, I'd have shot out of that audience and I'd have helped him right up.
Like the Good Samaritan out of the Bible.
What good are those cadets if they're not going to help the president up?
They should be on their feet.
That's the kind of thing.
That's a man down!
They're not alert enough.
They're just breezy.
Come out of college, haven't they?
Yeah, they're high as kites.
Not at cadet school.
No.
Well, remember, I used to be in the Marines that day.
Well, of course, yeah.
We were very much.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Right.
No wacky-jabacky.
You'd put the time in.
You'd put the time in by then.
Yeah, by then I'd learned the culture.
All right, let's have a look at Joe Biden's tumble in the mainstream mitigation.
The president had been standing for about two hours handing out diplomas to all.
It's done really well.
Standing for two hours.
What do you expect?
That's almost nearly all of Godfather.
It's just around the scene where Sonny's getting shot.
Spoiler alert.
When Sonny goes to the toll booth.
Around that bit, Joe Biden's like, enough's enough.
I'm going over.
Santino should never have been Don anyway!
He's a hothead!
Right, you're absolutely right.
Mixing narratives here a little bit.
It's weird that she said 900 or so graduates, like that makes a difference.
President Biden fell as you see.
Oh, she took a real tumble, I don't like that.
It's weird that she said 900 or so graduates, like that makes a difference.
I guess maybe, I think the fact is he apparently shook all of their hands
and they go to great lengths to tell us that he did that as well.
Think about it right, look, before you judge Joe Biden, President of the United States,
who refuses to vote, sorry, debate Marianne Williamson or RFK,
won't have a debate with him.
It's a blunt refusal.
The Democrat Party want him.
Remember when it was Bernie Sanders?
Didn't want him.
Bernie Sanders, who our man Dr. Cornel West supported.
Now I know a lot of you are Bernie Sanders.
You think he's a bit of a globalist and you don't trust him.
But we were interested in Bernie Sanders's willingness to regulate corporations.
We don't think it matters left or right anymore.
Discard those old taxonomies, those old categories.
Who is interested in representing the people against institutional power and the revolving door between, say, Washington and Wall Street and big tech?
You know what's going on, guys.
You don't need me to tell you.
And I think Dr. Cornel West Kelly is about people and bringing people together.
That's why we're excited to talk to him about his... Have we even announced what the secret is yet?
We haven't done that.
Big old secret.
It's a big secret.
We don't want to tell you.
Let us know in the chat if you think you know what the secret is.
And remember, you can join us on Locals by pressing that red button.
So anyway, look, ask yourself, how many hands would you have to shake before you start thinking, oh, I can't keep standing upright like that.
I'm going over.
I'm going down to the old terra firma for a bit of light.
I'm sick of looking at all these officer and a gentleman hats and everything.
I'm going for a little lay down.
Let's have a look.
On the stage, the president then got back up and returned to his feet.
That's the bare minimum after a tumble.
You can't just stay there, can you?
Like that song, Chumbawamba.
Remember them?
You might not, because you might not be English.
Chumbawamba.
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
You're never gonna keep me down.
You can't go, I get knocked down, stay there for a while actually, thinking about whether or not I prefer it down there.
That's no kind of rallying cry, and they were anarchists actually, and the anarchists, they should have a vote, they should have a voice at the table.
True anarchy is not about chaos, it's about non-domination, non-dominion, and how institutions will always become corrupt.
Curiously, some anarchists believe that you should de-school society, radically change the education system, Acknowledge that the education system is about preparing you for the job market and conditioning you.
What kind of views do you want your children inculcated with?
Some of the questions an anarchist might ask if one was here now.
Because you don't really like my dog, do you girl?
He has his head right in the frame.
That's a dog's head there.
That's my hand coming into frame on my dog's head there.
See?
You don't like him.
He just has a presence about him that I'm sometimes uncomfortable with.
What do you mean?
It's just, uh, they can do anything, can't they?
And I don't trust them.
They can't do anything?
I don't trust them.
They can't do anything?
Well, you might turn.
Yeah, I don't trust them.
Do you picture him making love?
Is that the problem?
All right, let's see the rest of this clip.
I want to know what the mainstream is saying.
He's walking off there under his own power.
He seems They're trying to make, you can't say he's walking off under his own power.
That's the trait of a real president.
Who else, even like Oscar Pistorius when he's got those legs to replace his own legs lost in an amputation and then didn't he go on to actually do a murder.
He did all that under his own power.
Fine it's about what 65 degrees in Colorado Springs with 47% humidity but of They've all been out for that time.
Not everyone fell over, did they?
It should have been everyone falling over like that Radiohead video.
You know how everyone loves that Radiohead video, don't they?
for anyone to stand outside for such a time.
They've all been out for that time! Not everyone fell over, did they?
It should have been everyone falling over like that Radiohead video.
You know how everyone loves that Radiohead video, don't they?
Where everyone's just laying down like that.
That's right.
That'd be nice, wouldn't it?
A little lay-down.
For everyone, a little lay-down, like in that radio video.
You know the one I mean.
Tell us the title in the chat.
Joe, can you come and re-do this, because it's stuck on one bit.
It ain't moving.
Joe works in the sound in here.
All right, let's see what the press secretary, Carine Jean-Pierre, says.
Actually, I'll tell you this.
I know a lot of you folks are more towards the right, but I really like Carine Jean-Pierre.
Not her job or anything.
I just like it when I see her.
OK.
Let's have a look at what she's doing now.
And just to make sure we clear the record here, he tripped over a sandbag on the stage and briefly he tripped and got up.
Oh, briefly.
Everyone's just sticking up for him.
These are actually quite nice things.
Well, it is nice, Ross, but there's a reason behind it, is that this is a huge deal for his opposition now.
Absolutely, and we know that the major concern with all voters across the board in America, but certainly Democratic voters, is that Biden's too old.
32% barred him as the mental sharpness, 32% and only 33% thinks he's got the physical
health needed to run the country.
So I mean this is...
I don't think they have...
The reason why they've actually all leapt to his help, actually should have done that
Get there quicker!
Exactly.
But they're doing it now because it's like a PR thing now.
They need to nip it in the bud straight away.
He's fine.
He just tripped.
He'd been shaking loads of hands.
He was out there for two hours.
He's absolutely fine.
Well, listen, Gareth, you're not the only one.
I learned a statistic.
You're not the only person who can cite a poll.
No, I know that.
I can.
Here, I'm going to do it.
58% of Democratic-leaning adults want to nominate someone else besides Biden.
That's Democrat ones.
People have already decided it's definitely going to be someone from the Democrat Party.
Who, though?
Not him, say 58%.
They want someone like RFK or Marianne Williamson and other people that Biden will not debate Possibly because he shook too many hands, it's 65 degrees out, there's a sandbag, he could go over any moment like a sack of spuds, like a bag of potatoes.
We're going to be talking to Dr. Cornel West who's got a fantastic, important, significant announcement for those of you that are interested in democracy, for those of you that believe that democracy could deliver meaningful change, that could possibly end the tension that exists between the world's people right now by bringing about more democratic, decentralised solutions.
Let's see what Karine Jean-Pierre says.
Jean-Pierre, very French sounding surname, Yes it is.
Yes it is.
And also it's a man's name, so like I'm leaning into Jean-Pierre, but her name is
Karin, really, just Karin.
And he got right back up and continued what he was there to do.
He did not...
I'm trying to sort of spin it as a positive.
That's right.
But in life we're all gonna...
It's actually more about the fact that he got up than he went down.
Never mind.
Look at that guy getting up.
Look at him getting up.
He's brilliant, isn't he?
What did he do just before that?
He slumped lifelessly to the floor like a thin anemic skeletal.
Four more years.
Four more Tumbling is your bag of bones, yeah.
Join us over on locals like Firegirl2020.
She's saying he continued doing what he was there to do.
Go and sit down.
And then Elizabeth77 saying she's a Karen.
But it's spelled with an I though, not an E. And then Tolson718.
It's not about how many times you fall down, it's about how many times you get back up.
And Joe Biden has gotten back up more than most presidents.
I'd like to see Abraham Lincoln get back.
What did he do?
One little bullet to the back of it.
You don't hear from him again.
Do you?
Well, that's insensitive, Russell.
Well, if you're not over Abraham Lincoln by now, mate, you know what I could have done?
And you know the decision what I made?
I rejected a more recent assassinated president.
Well done.
Didn't I?
Because I respect to RFK.
But Lincoln, mate, what are you going to say?
Oh, I've got one of them cars that Matthew McConaughey advertised.
That's offensive.
No, but he's got He got back up again.
You're focusing too much on this bit.
about what your point is that he hasn't died at this point and well done and everything. He got back up again. He got
back up again. But I think the fact is... You're focusing too much on this bit. Yeah. Focus on this bit. Sure. I've
got some tablets and they're natural that do a comparable thing.
We'll give you a little advert for them later, don't spoil it.
I think that, you know, when you look at statistics about people of his age and his age that he would be when he's president again.
That kills him.
He could, there's a very real possibility of him dying during his presidency.
You break a hip!
You break a hip at that age, it's curtains for some of them, honestly.
But then the American... How many more granddads have I got to lose?
No more, I'm out of granddads.
Then the American public have got Kamala Harris as president.
So, I mean, it's all kind of, it's quite fun, and it's maybe just a trip, and maybe everyone's making too much of it.
But the reality of this is, first of all, the American public don't think he should be running.
Secondly, he might die if he became president again.
And thirdly, no one's getting to kind of vote on that.
He's going to die whether he becomes president or not.
Yes, that's true.
As will all human beings, and that's something we're simply going to have to come to terms with.
Let's see what Karine says again.
I like her.
There was no need for the doctor to see him, as it was related to the fall, and he's doing fine.
You saw him last night when he returned, and he was fine, wasn't he?
Getting off Marine One, he spoke to this, so I would refer you back to his comments, and so I'll just leave it there.
Yeah, just leave it there.
What's there to discuss?
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
It's fine.
Donald Trump's reaction is predictably wonderful.
He was on Hannity, and I think I'm going to go on Hannity.
He wants you to go on.
I know.
When I was being on Fox News, I ran into Hannity, literally in the corridor.
Have we got any photos?
See if you can find the photos of it.
One of them guys out there in the gallery.
Do you want to see our team in the gallery?
It takes a couple of seconds to see them.
That's our gallery.
Oh!
Gallery cam?
Gallery cam now.
There they are.
When did you install that?
I installed that during the breakout.
You're meant to tell people about that, Russ.
I'm telling them now.
I'm watching exactly what you're doing.
There's none in the toilets.
That's their own time.
When they're in that lavatory, when they're making a stool, when they're parsing the floor, whatever the hell are you doing there?
Well, why did I have to hand over that plastic object to you?
That was simply for my own requirement.
I see.
The gallery there, see if you can find that picture of me meeting Sean Hannity, or is it on my phone?
I met him.
Did I not publish it?
It's on my phone.
Someone will have something.
I've got it, I've got it on my phone.
You might just have to give me a little bit of time.
I met Sean Hannity, but then I was getting so much grief going on Fox, I thought, don't put up a picture of me with Sean Hannity, find a picture of me with someone else.
Right.
Put that up instead, change the perception.
Well, I enjoyed that.
It was like, for a little while you could describe it as a confrontation.
Yeah, then you came and you were like NATO or the UN and Menabee.
Well, not NATO.
Oh, Menabee.
Yeah, like Menabee.
You didn't come in and sell one of us some weapons or make the situation even worse.
I didn't infringe on Hannity's borders, did I?
You left Hannity's borders well alone.
I left them well alone.
You didn't claim there was a humanitarian crisis and then make a fortune out of it.
No, I didn't position like nuclear bases all around his chin or something.
Like it's Gulliver's Travels, but...
With nuclear missiles.
No, you actually were very responsible and I had a nice chat with Hannah E. and I agreed to go on Hannah E.' 's thing and I'm going to go on it.
It was heated in a kind of exciting way.
He said, I'm Irish, we're first generation immigrants.
I go, we've got decentralised power, we've got to have more fairness, control corrupt institutions.
Okay!
And now Hannah E.' 's now meeting up with Donald Trump and Donald Trump predictably teasing Joe Biden.
He's only, I think, is he four years younger?
Four years, yeah.
I wouldn't say actually Trump is even really teasing.
Four more years!
He kind of just says it's very sad, it's very sad.
And he's right.
So he's not actually ridiculing him, he's being quite sweet, is he?
Oh, by the way, hey listen, if you're watching this on YouTube, when we go over to Rumble, we're going to be talking about their World Health Organization.
I've learned a lot of things about how they're funded that are going to knock your socks off.
We're going into more detail about that later in the week.
We're also going to be talking about a recent trial at the second best hospital in America that reveals that potentially certain medications may not have been as good as not having certain medications?
Allegedly!
I think you could probably say it that way.
Allegedly!
I could say that.
Couple of little crow farts and we're all fine.
Let's have a look at Donald Trump dealing with life.
I want to start with the current president.
Did you see the video of when he fell?
Yeah.
And did you see the video?
He actually said, by the way I met with... Who are those guys that are gonna fly over shortly?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's your president right now.
Not too good.
It's sad, it's sad. It's sad.
Like he's, like, look, Trump, I don't think should be, I don't think Donald Trump will solve all the problems.
I know a lot of you love him, go on, tell me in the chat that you love him, go on.
And, like, but I don't think Donald Trump... Well, he's been President, if things weren't... What was different? I
don't know, man.
I don't remember things becoming decentralised. Was the swamp drained? Is there a swamp? When Biden went back in,
was there an empty swamp that needed to be radically refilled?
Of course, you know, I agree with you. What Biden said to the donors while he was campaigning, nothing will
fundamentally change.
That is a key piece of information. And whether or not you think the deep state curtailed Trump's ability to meaningfully
alter America, or you loathe Trump on account of some of this social
rhetoric and indeed actions, many might argue, I feel that the change that comes along with altering
individuals is not a significant enough change for you American people or for us.
One of the big things I guess that's gonna play a big part in you know Trump versus DeSantis will be like lockdowns and things and Trump's approach and he did you know he did lock a lot of people down.
He describes those vaccines as beautiful vaccines like DeSantis you know like again even like people have a variety of views on those medications but Ron DeSantis's Florida approach a lot of people like it.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting.
Going to be interesting.
What we really need is some genuinely new philosophical voices in the space.
We need some radicalism within politics.
That's why we were pleased to talk to Marianne Williamson.
That's why we were pleased to talk to Robert F. Kennedy on this show.
That is why we are excited to talk to Dr. Cornel West later on the show for an important announcement.
Make sure you tell people, if you lot there are watching us on local, to come over and join us.
Should we watch any more of Trump?
Is it funny?
Do you like it?
Should we carry on watching Trump?
Let us know in the chat.
There's Assange.
People are posting pictures of Assange.
Someone just said, no, we'll go with the first five answers.
If you tell us not to carry on, we just won't carry on with it.
That's genuine democracy.
We've got other stuff to talk about.
All right, let's go.
Someone says do it.
Look, can you post a bit quicker because I'm trying to actually run a democracy here.
No, we're not doing it.
No, you've just said no.
Right.
So, okay, let's go.
There's going to be no limits to Ukrainian aid.
Is this a new bill that's been passed?
Well, it's the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which sounds incredibly boring, but basically this is all to do with the debt ceiling that has now been raised.
So the Democrats... Nice.
It's lovely actually.
I'm not even advertising it, that's the irony.
So there's been a cross-party agreement between Democrats and Republicans who've agreed to like lift the debt ceiling.
Not have a ceiling!
Well no, they've got a ceiling but they temporarily lift that.
Just lift for a couple of years I think.
Still there!
but and and what's happening as a result of that is lots of federal spending cuts so 55 billion in 2024 81 billion in 2025 but what does not fit under these cuts guess what is spending on military industrial uh in on the military so everything's getting cut yeah except for Military spending.
That carries on going up.
Because what it's under the banner of is emergency funds.
That's emergency funds.
So they slip that under there as emergency funds.
That can relate to any Ukraine military spending and also potentially Taiwan as well.
Do you reckon the lobbying done by the defence and military industrial, defence industry and MIC, military industrial complex, led to that clause being inserted?
How could you ever suggest such a thing?
That's what I'm wondering.
Let us know in the chat what you reckon.
What about that other thing, mate, then, that think tanks are spilling into, like, all of the weapons firms are influencing the Ukrainian debate.
Tell us a bit more about that, would you?
This is pretty amazing, yeah.
This is a new study that was done by, I'm just trying to find it, oh right, the Quincy Institute.
Quincy Institute, thank you so much Ross.
So this is, how they work this out is looking at ways in which think tanks dominate the media market relating to primarily the Ukraine war but also all war in general.
They found that 78% of the top-ranked foreign policy think tanks in the US receive funding from the Pentagon or its contractors, so either the Pentagon or the military-industrial complex.
Now what this means is think tanks will think, what is a think tank?
I'll answer that.
Okay.
It's a tank.
And in there are some people thinking neutral, helpful, beneficial thoughts.
What's your take?
Well, the think tanks are what the media constantly quote.
According to a think tank, I'm always hearing that.
So basically, the narrative that you're receiving from the mainstream media, this is New York Times, Washington Post, all the big players, are informed by think tanks.
And what this has uncovered is that nearly 80% of these think tanks receive funding from the Pentagon or its contractors.
Gareth, how are you supposed to run a think tank without a bit of funding?
Thinking costs funding.
Yes.
That's what I've always said when I was in the think tank game.
But again, this is why the mainstream media, why we're constantly saying don't trust the mainstream media, although they can't be relied upon.
Media outlets were more than seven times as likely to cite a think tank with defence sector support as they were to cite a think tank without it.
So media like the New York Times is approaching think tanks seven times more likely to be funded by the military industrial complex.
I've had nothing from the military-industrial complex and I want to tell you
something. It's about time you did. A few pence off Lockheed Martin, a few pence off Raytheon.
What's wrong with that? I'll tell you something, you know Rachel Maddow? I do.
Who, like now right, if you're watching this on YouTube you can still go and
Google Rachel Maddow vaccines, right?
And have a look, and I believe Rachel Maddow is on there on MSNBC saying, and you can work out for yourself how true this is, I've not said anything about it have I?
No.
If you take a vaccine you will not be able to spread Covid.
Yes.
Well I don't know.
It stops, it stops.
It stops, she said.
Now I like Rachel Maddow, some of you like, tell me now if you like Rachel Maddow, I like her.
She was appearing at an event for Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, a friend of the show, Max Blumenthal, he turned up from Greyzone, asked her questions about Russiagate and all that kind of stuff.
He was escorted right out of there.
Truecon, that was that event.
Truecon was the name of the event.
But really, Truecon, it was Lockheed Martin were the biggest sponsor.
Someone called something like Pryapic or... Palantir, I think.
Palantir, which sounds a bit too much like the Emperor's name in Star Wars.
Can we check that?
I think that's the Empire.
It's called Palatine, isn't it?
Right.
That's like Palpatine.
Yeah.
Horrible name.
It is too similar, you're right.
Too similar, because I believe the Empire was not very good.
Not a very nice chap, that wrinkly fella.
So like, anyway, she was at that event, funded by the defence industry, members of the Democrat Party were there.
These kind of events, this kind of think tank, what we're essentially saying and seeing is how Information is being funded by certain interests.
Other information is being censored.
All around the world right now, bills are being passed, proposed, and put together that curtail our ability to convey truthful information to you.
It's happening in this country, the UK.
It's happening in your country, the US.
What is this one called?
The GRIP Act, or the Restrict Act.
It sounds like something awful.
It sounds like something that a sphincter would do when it was under pressure, doesn't it?
The restrict act.
Like a glove's gone on a hand.
Go on.
Restrict act.
Okay, it's restricted it, has it?
Yeah.
It's not allowed it to penetrate.
That's what I'm suggesting, Gareth.
I've got it now.
And I think the truth should be out there.
I like you in airports.
What do you mean by that?
Well, I remember stories, and actually I remember waiting a long time for you in airports.
They always take me into the second room at the airport.
They say, Mr. Brand, you've made mistakes in the past.
We're going to have to take you to a special room.
The glove goes on.
Put that glove on if you will, sir.
And suddenly, you're having a lovely time for a couple of hours.
I always take one of those gloves to a funeral.
Yes.
You never know, I always say.
In one in eight funerals, you might get lucky.
That's how I've worked it out.
As you know, I love a statistic.
You do.
Time now for... Well, do you want to say anything else about Ukraine war?
Now it's all being bolstered.
Now it's all a con and we shouldn't worry and Russia are such great guys.
There's nothing wrong with Putin and he's ever so friendly.
These are all untrue things.
Of course we know that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was criminal but in fact that the US cannot testify that to the ICC or they themselves will be hoisted by their own petard due to the number of criminal invasions that they've conducted in the last 20 years or so.
I just think it's ironic and obviously that was Max Blumenthal's point that when Rachel Maddow's there talking about things like disinformation and misinformation we know about the censorship industrial complex that's going on at the moment That you discover that the media is using think tanks that are funded by people who are profiting from these wars.
It's ridiculous.
It's absolutely mad.
In other news, you know those Mexican drug cartels?
I do know those, yeah.
Doing a difficult job under very tricky conditions.
The Mexican drug cartels actually have got their hands on weapons that were meant to be in Ukraine.
I mean that doesn't seem very good, particularly because Mexican drug cartels are being used to legitimise the ongoing ability of the American government to surveil American citizens abroad.
They're continuing with that.
All of Edward Snowden's revelations, all for naught, and at home, in America, doesn't matter where you go.
Mmm.
You know, the Mexican drug cartel has been blamed for that and now they've got their hands on an anti-tank missile launcher.
Which, I've been to Mexico a couple of times, love the place, love the Mexican people.
Have you seen any of those?
A lot of Mexican friends.
Did I see any anti-tank missile launchers?
No, I didn't.
Actually, I didn't see any.
But if I did see one... You're not a very good correspondent, are you?
I was on holiday, actually.
Okay, fine.
That's your excuse.
I didn't realise that I was meant to be.
And it weren't recently.
I was over there.
I didn't realise I was meant to be watching out for the cartel.
I was edgy, just because of some of the decapitations they do.
Yeah, I'd just come out of the airport.
I'd been bothered.
I'd had the back door bothering.
All under the auspices of apparently legit investigations.
So, you know, like we've heard that 70% of those weapons that are going to Ukraine can't be correctly tracked.
We don't know where they are.
We know that the Pentagon's failed five audits.
That's CBS News, by the way.
That's not a conspiracy theory.
No, it's not.
Now this tank and missile launch has ended up in Mexico, and we're the conspiracy theorists.
What kind of topsy-turvy world is it?
Not just Mexico, Ross.
Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.
I mean, I'm surprised that the Mexican drug cartels have got a branch in Finland.
Hats off, I say!
Sombreros off to these Mexican drug cartels.
Now, that's not racist, I think, because they're a drug cartel, aren't they?
Yes.
And if you're sticking up for the drug cartels now... On the wrong side.
It's a crazy, bonkers world.
Listen, we're going to leave you.
If you're watching us on YouTube, do join us in a minute.
We're going to be talking to Dr Cornel West, one of the greatest thinkers of our time, one of the great communicators of our time, a man who brings love to the political debate.
Furthermore, we're going to be talking about Google and YouTube renewing their partnership with the WHO and we've got a lot to tell you about the WHO and how they're funded.
We've been diving into that over the course of the week and I'm afraid we're going to have to tell you some stuff about vaccines which some of you are going to absolutely love and some of you are not going to like very much at all but it's too controversial to talk about on YouTube.
That is why we need you to click on the link right now.
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We believe in the freedom of your community.
We believe in your right to be whoever you want to be.
And people that tell you otherwise, they're just, I don't know, against free speech.
They're against people coming together.
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See you there in a second.
We've got some real saucy truths here.
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Now I can say what I want now, I can't. Oh no, no Dugganoko's back!
What?
He's saying FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
And I can say that now because I'm just on Rumble. Wow.
You know, no Dugganoko says he's gonna make you live in his house.
Oh that's right. Or her house. I don't know the gender of no Dugganoko.
Ashella says Mexican drug cartels are stealing from the USA budget.
You look down there.
You wanna join them in that chat?
It's lovely.
It's a pretty good place to meet people.
I'm not offering it as a dating service.
Okay, right.
I don't know.
I've not done anything.
I've not been on it.
Well, get on there.
Why not?
Meet someone.
Meet some people.
Oh, hold on a minute.
They're now talking about sex trafficking.
We'll stay well out of that.
I'm ready for some Rusty Truth Nuggets.
Alright, I'll give you a Rusty Truth Nugget.
Google and YouTube.
Rusty Truth Nugget.
Awful.
Is that after that search at the airport?
Sir, we found a Rusty Truth Nugget up there.
I ain't been well!
I'm not well!
I'm not well!
Listen, so Google and YouTube are renewing their partnership with the WHO.
Of course they bloody well are.
Tell us some more, Gareth, if you love the news so much.
Why don't you marry it?
I've thought about it, Russ.
Go on.
I've thought about it.
Facts!
Well, I don't know.
I mean, that is essentially it, Russ.
Facts!
That's it, all right.
But what about this?
All right, I'll tell you this.
Gareth, right, listen, the number of vaccines you take might make you more likely to get COVID.
I mean, that don't seem right, does it?
After all the fanfare, after all the hullabaloo, after all the shaming and the anti-vaxxery, what is this new study revealing?
Yeah, so this is the Cleveland Clinic, as you said, ranked as the second best hospital in the world, apparently.
Wonder how they rank them?
I don't know, yeah.
Like, because it's not good down the hospital.
No.
It must be a good one.
I was in one the other day.
Oh.
Had a little look round.
People seemed a bit, I'll be honest with you, ill.
Okay.
They were laying about in bed.
There weren't much pep in their steps.
Okay, right, right.
Some of them were in a coma.
Tubes on them and that.
What were you doing lurking around that?
I was simply trying to sell some of my wares.
I'm a representative of a lovely little company named Pfizer, and we are doing our best to solve the world's problems at a price that's right, I'd say.
No, I was there visiting a mate.
She's come out of a coma now.
She was in a coma for a couple of months.
She's all right now.
But they try to say you can't take your children in the hospital.
I go, they'll be alright, they like it.
My children like a good look around an hospital.
Yeah, they do, don't they?
They've got a strange fascination with it, haven't they?
That's right.
Alright, so tell us this story, Gal, because Dr Cornel West is coming on here in a minute and we need the voice of love, we need the voice of reason, we need a man that's willing to bring people together at a difficult and fractured time.
Yeah, so it's a tricky one because it can be interpreted in different ways.
Yeah, you don't need to put that syllable in there, mate.
Why are you putting syllables in?
So the Cleveland Clinic found that the higher number of COVID-19 vaccine doses received increased the risk of infection with COVID-19.
Right, so all their staff were getting COVID jabs and they were getting COVID at a rate of knots.
The more jabs that they had, the more times people registered having COVID.
Oh dear.
Could they be testing more?
Could they be being exposed to Covid-19?
They'd be a devil's advocate.
This is exactly it.
See?
There's your conspiracy theorist making reasoned arguments.
But the first time that this came out a few months ago it was not peer-reviewed and now it has been peer-reviewed and I think a lot of again the pushback was like oh is it older people who are higher at risk but it was mainly young people young participants who were involved Young spunky doctors.
Yeah.
And like the overall conclusion of this was still that vaccines work at preventing hospitalisation.
So it wasn't like vaccines don't work.
But I guess one of the comments to kind of come from this is whether there are now, if this is to be believed, which why would it not be, that there are diminishing returns in getting more vaccines.
And obviously the interesting thing with vaccines at the moment and the mandates that are still going on in the United States are that they're mainly... They're still mandates!
Well, mainly in places where young people go.
So it's colleges, universities, things like that.
And I guess when you're looking at that is...
Statistically the least at risk category.
Statistically the least at risk?
And now we know that the more you get potentially, the higher the risk of getting COVID is, then it really does massively call into the question boosters, mandates, all of these things that the conspiracy theorists have been saying shouldn't have been existing in the first place.
Well, listen, what I will say is that much of that information, if you alloy it with the RFK interview that's up on Rumble right now, our brilliant conversation with RFK, why bother going on to Twitter where it's a pound to a penny that bloody audio won't bleed, people won't bloody hear a bloody thing or don't even work properly.
Not on Rumble, is it?
The original free speech platform, we was doing free speech when Elon was still trying to make cars run on electricity, weren't we, eh?
We was doing free speech right back then!
We love Elon Musk, and we want him to come on here, so let's not antagonise him.
Firstly, a little drawing I've been working on.
That's just something for you to bear in mind going forward, if it's of any value.
It's nothing to do with the airport, is it?
That's simply a map for the people that work at the airport.
Oh, that's a mouth, not a... fine.
Absolutely, you dirty devil.
How could you even think that?
Shall we have a look at... Now, I love free speech.
You love free speech.
Let's do some free speech together!
Let's have a look, first of all, at what our team of absolute morons have put together in terms of, like, you know the apocryphal monkeys, you know if you get an infinite number of monkeys they'll recreate the work of Shakespeare, will they though?
It's never been proven.
Never has.
Can't get the monkeys!
No.
Can't get the staff.
I've noticed you've got a new shed out back there.
There's a lot of screaming coming from it.
They're doing perfectly well in there, the lads and lassies.
It's not like Elon Musk knew a link, is it?
I killed all those monkeys.
Well, these ones are doing very well.
Thousands of them.
For example, shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, give us a benight.
No, I told you so many times!
Concentrate, you damn marmosets!
Is that a type of monkey?
I don't know that it is.
Yeah, thanks.
Alright, let's look at free speech.
You like free speech, I like free speech.
Let's look at free speech together.
It's done by some people that we're employing currently.
For money.
Let's see.
We're giving them money for this.
Let's see what they've done with the money and the time.
When you do this criticism post the sting now, people think, oh he's having fun with it.
I'm sick of it.
It should be improved.
Terrible.
Next time, have a musical bed for it.
Freach.
Where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
Where free speech meets, you get freach.
Bad!
Still bad!
Unnecessary montage at the beginning of it.
The second half was bordering on acceptable.
Yeah, yeah.
Unnecessary, the photos of me.
It should be like, what you could do, like use Terry Gilliam's sort of like cut and paste style animation.
Have a bit more animation in the text.
Right.
Cornel West's probably already here watching this.
He'd be still here.
I wouldn't be surprised if Cornel West just said, I'll take my business elsewhere.
That's right.
I'll give my exclusives to someone else.
I'll give my exclusives to someone else.
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If it wasn't for you, this world would be too difficult for me.
Here in Spain, nobody speaks about the matters you do.
They might be, but they might be just saying it in Spanish.
I find light in your weekly email videos, or luz in espanol, and email videos and also hope.
I hope you never stop doing this amazing work.
Thank you, Patricia.
That's a really lovely thing to say.
Whereas Lavender Sarah says, what does Gareth do in his free time?
Does he have any hobbies?
Does he?
I'm playing tennis tonight.
Why?
I just thought I'd join a group.
All right.
He does tennis.
Now, with some important information... Cornel West is still listening.
He's being furious about this.
He's a serious person.
He knew my mother's name last time we spoke.
He reached into my heart, held it in the palm of his hand.
I'd follow him to the ends of the earth, this philosopher king.
Now, why don't we play a flattering trailer?
Did we make this, or someone at Cornel West's team?
We made this.
Not Jack, though, I'm assuming.
Not Jack.
Right, have a look at this.
This is how to put together a montage.
You're gonna love this, guys.
Tell us... Join us on Locals.
Press the red button.
Join the chat there.
People are having a lovely time.
Alright.
Someone says, I bet Gareth has a mean backhand in their saucy butt, can't they?
How dare you!
Don't you be so saucy!
Hey!
We're trying to run a news organisation over here!
Right, let's have a look at this montage to introduce the great Dr. Cornel West.
We wanna let the world know We're not just on the move, we're going to win this thing.
Dr. Cornel West, philosopher, political activist and free thinker.
We're going to teach the world a lesson.
You know what?
I'm going to put myself out here and try to exemplify the very thing I'm calling for.
I want to be a force for good.
I want to be a force for good.
All right.
Joining me now is Dr. Cornel West, philosopher, political activist, civil rights leader and free thinker.
Thank you for joining us, Dr. Cornel West.
It's a pleasure to have you with us.
My brother, you know, I want to salute you, your brilliance, the fact that you are such a genuine force for good and have the courage to be yourself.
But I want to salute Brother Garth.
Garth got it going on.
He's wonderful.
And Brother James.
And Brother James, you all make a magnificent team.
And there's no doubt that when I decided to make my announcement and talked it over with my beloved wife, Anahita, I said, if I have a choice, I want to say it on a show that I watch regularly, religiously.
Why?
Because you're a truth teller and you are a justice seeker, my brother.
Dr Cornel West, thank you very much for that flattery and praise, although in the case of Gareth and James, it was misjudged and misdirected.
They are both borderline psychopaths.
Dr Cornel West, you have a very important announcement.
We are honoured that you've chosen our platform to make this announcement.
Please, tell us why you are here talking to us today.
Well, you know, my dear brother, that I have been fighting for truth and justice for 55 years, beginning when I was 15 years old there in the chocolate side of Sacramento, Shiloh Baptist Church, and working with the Black Panther Party, never joined the party, was deeply, deeply committed to their fundamental concern for poor and working people.
And now, 55 years later, I've decided to continue that fight for truth and justice by running for the president of the USA on the People's Party.
To ensure that we can reintroduce to America the best of itself.
And the best of America is Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
It's Edward Zaid.
It's Grace Lee Boggs.
It's Chief Joseph.
It's Louisa Marino.
All of these different peoples of different colors and genders and sexual orientations of James Bond and Audre Lorde doing what?
Telling America the truth about itself and the condition of truth is always to allow the suffering of precious, poor, and priceless working people to be heard.
And yes, you're right, it is about love, because justice is what love looks like in public.
But by love, what we're talking about is looking at the world through the lens of those Frantz Fanon called the wretched of the earth, of poor and working people, not just in America, in the American empire, and this very fragile democratic experiment in the midst of that empire.
But around the world.
That was another reason why I wanted to be on your show.
I wanted to be international.
I wanted to be concerned about human beings, no matter where they are, no matter what color, no matter what gender, no matter what sexual orientation, no matter what national identity.
And that's why we're calling for a paradigm shift, brother.
We need a spiritual awakening and a moral reckoning in the face of institutionalized greed.
That greed can be in Wall Street, it can be in Silicon Valley, it can be in the Pentagon.
Greed at the top, especially.
And I believe, of course, we've got greed inside of all of us.
But I'm talking about institutionalized greed with predatory capitalist tendencies that tend to suck everything up for money and for profit.
And then we've got the neo-fascism escalating, especially in the Republican Party.
And what is that?
That's institutionalized hatred.
It plays on the fear of people.
And see, Trump speaks to a number of white brothers and sisters who are catching hell.
Who are, in fact, in deep trouble.
Who deserve an attention in terms of having their basic needs met.
That's precisely why I want Medicare for all.
That's precisely why I want free education.
That's precisely why I want access to living wages.
That's precisely why I want to make sure people have access to quality housing.
And so the question is, you cannot defeat neofascism by milquetoast neoliberalism.
There's no way you can do it.
You got to get at the roots of it.
You got to bring vision and passion to convince person, not people, not to follow neo-fascist Pied Pipers, but actually let them know that there are persons on the so-called left, which is simply say persons of integrity, honesty, and decency looking at the world through the lens of poor and working people.
That's really what it is.
So I don't want to get into the labels.
I'm talking about the substance.
I'm talking about those who really have a deep care and concern about suffering people, no matter where they are.
And in that way, you cut against a lot of the truncated public conversation.
You get a realignment of not just perceptions, but of people.
People finding themselves in coalitions they had not planned on being there with.
That's crucial.
That's exactly what we need.
And what's at stake, my brother?
You know better than I. You talk about it every day.
The destruction of the species.
The destruction of democracy.
Not just in the American empire.
Everywhere.
And most importantly, it's the destruction of our capacity to love, though, brother.
See, that's a spiritual emptiness.
So I run as a jazz man of politics.
Because jazz is about three elements.
It's about the blues, and the blues is about catastrophe.
Catastrophe lyrically expressed.
Catastrophe genuinely engaged.
Catastrophe transfigured by compassion and community.
I come from a blues people, the catastrophe of slavery, of Jim Crow, of Jan Crow, of mass incarceration, of being taught to hate ourselves.
And yet here comes Ma Rainey, here come Bessie Smith, here come Muddy Waters.
What are they doing?
They're telling the truth.
You're telling the truth about America.
We're not talking about America's race problems or class problems or gender problems or sexual orientational problems.
No, we're talking about catastrophes visited on indigenous peoples, visited on black peoples, visited on women.
You're talking about U.S.
foreign policy.
It could be in Iran.
1953.
It could be in Guatemala in 1953.
It could be in Panama.
It could be in Iraq.
It could be in Afghanistan.
Those are not problems.
Those are catastrophes visited upon precious human beings in every life in Iran, in Tel Aviv, In West Bank, in Gaza, in Afghanistan, in Lithuania, in Ethiopia.
Each precious life there has the same value as a life in London or a life in California.
That's the best of America!
That's what Martin King was talking about.
That's what I am running on.
That's the tradition that runs through my veins.
That's the tradition that runs through my heart, mind, and soul.
And that's what I'm trying to present.
To the American people as the presidential candidate for the People's Party, my brother.
Blues on the one hand, swing is the second element.
You have a different conception of time, so you don't feel closed in, bound to a two-party system.
We know the two-party system in America is a major obstacle for the empowerment of poor and working people.
Both parties are in the back pocket of Wall Street, in the back pocket of the Pentagon, in the back pocket of big money.
So you need a different conception of time, but here come Duke Ellington.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.
You got a different conception of temporality that opens up possibilities, opens up new potentialities.
So you thought that court was closed, but here comes Monk.
He got a new note.
He got a new way of doing it.
Here come Mary Lou Williams, and we haven't even got the John Coltrane love supreme yet.
Blues on the one hand, Swing on the other end, then improvisation.
And this is what I love about you and your show, my brother.
You are improvisational.
You're flexible.
You're fluid.
You're protein.
You don't get locked in the dogma.
You don't get locked in the ossified, petrified ways of looking at the world.
You got to be new.
You got to be novel.
You got to be open.
You listen to others.
You can't be a jazz musician.
You can't be a blues woman unless you learn how to listen to others.
Jazz is the highest level of democracy in symbolic expression.
What is the anthem of my black people?
Lift every voice.
It's not lift every echo.
No.
What we have for the most part of public discourse in America, echoes of silos.
Echoes of silos, expressions of very polarized spaces where no one wants to listen and lift their own voices, think critically for themselves in such a way that you can improvise.
Improvisation is not Simply an artistic skill.
It's a species of phronesis, what the Greeks call practical wisdom.
You have to be able to judge, to get your timing right.
So you tell the truth about catastrophe on the one hand, you authorize a different future in light of a different conception of time in the present, and then you improvise.
And you improvise based on what?
Because you love something bigger than yourself.
Oh, what a great people I come from.
Yes, indeed.
And it's not a function of skin pigmentation.
There's a whole lot of black gangsters and black thugs.
I got a lot of gangster and thug in me.
But it's people who choose to be creative, people who choose dignity, people who choose defiance, people who are willing to live and die for something bigger than them.
And that's very much what we're talking about.
And that's why we're going to run this campaign in such a way it's going to be so unique and singular and different and distinctive from what America's used to.
They better get ready.
That is a beautiful, incredible and inspiring soliloquy.
How I enjoyed the litany of great heroes that you shared with us and precisely this spirit is the spirit that we need to have unleashed on ossifying American politics right now.
Why I feel that your voice is so important is because many of the radical critiques that
are attacking institutional corruption at this time appear at least to be coming from
conventionally regarded as right-wing places, right-wing spaces.
And I believe deeply in unity and revolution and a need for a different type of discourse
and for new ideas to be introduced into a very restrictive and suffocated political
space.
And I recognize too that you can't achieve anything with hate.
That love needs to be reintroduced into the conversation around American politics and
American power.
And indeed, the period of American isolationism and American imperialism.
Must be brought to an end.
That America needs to come to the world with open arms and an open heart if we're to ever change this current economic dynamic that appears to be predicated on perpetual war.
It's one of the things we're reporting on today.
One of the things we're repeatedly, continually reporting on.
The use of humanitarianism to underwrite yet more exploitation and ongoing war.
And I feel that even the timbre of your speech, the references of jazz, of which Gareth will be most grateful, for he himself is a jazz musician, a French horn player, and a blue note slayer.
He'll be overjoyed to hear that kind of rhetoric.
I want to ask you, Doctor, you've been Although I can't begin to contemplate the amount of prejudice you must have endured to get to where you are as a much admired and decorated philosophical figure teaching at some of the most respected institutions in the world.
I recognize that must have been a very difficult journey.
Latterly, though, you are held in high esteem by the establishment.
I'm speaking, for example, of the fact that you sort of speak on, like, that sort of high profile, like, mentorship course, you know, like that online place.
You're kind of adored and a darling of, like, the legacy media.
How do you feel that even beginning to have these kind of conversations attacking institutional power, which have Oddly now, our issues have migrated to the right.
How do you think it's going to affect your standing?
And how do you think you're going to make a significant impact in a political and media landscape that is locked up in financial interest and is most intransigent and unwilling to allow genuinely radical voices into the space?
You saw what happened to Bernie.
I know you campaigned for Bernie.
And this is much more radical than that.
So what kind of attacks do you anticipate?
Oh, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised at a variety of different kinds of attacks and assaults coming at one, but I'm not preoccupied with those attacks and assaults at all.
Anytime you embark on a fallible pursuit of truth and justice, you focus on what you can do, how you can cultivate your own gifts and work with others in community in order to be a force for good.
That you're always going to be misunderstood, misconstrued.
You're always going to be attacked.
There'll be character assassination, may even be a literal assassination.
You just don't know.
You're willing to take that risk.
You're willing to bear witness.
It's not so much about what's coming at you.
It's how you respond to what is coming at you.
And most importantly, you recognize, at least for me, you see, as a black man in America for 70 years now, That I've been on borrowed time for a good while.
I probably should have been dead a long time ago in terms of the vicious kind of attacks I've had to deal with.
So that for me, it's a matter of being true to myself, being true to my calling, and not being surprised by evil or paralyzed by despair.
And at the same time, I'll never allow anybody to drag me so low that I will hate them and completely foreclose their possibilities.
Everyone can change.
Everyone can be transformed.
Everyone can choose to go another way.
Everyone can be better than they are.
They choose to be gangsters, they choose to be gangsters.
If they were gangsters and choose to overcome gangster activity in terms of egoism and narcissism and cruelty and manipulation and subjugation of others, they can change.
And that's a beautiful thing about we human beings.
We're so wretched on the one hand, and yet we're wonderful on the other.
We can change.
And so, the future's open-ended, my brother.
You just don't know.
You don't know.
You know, the whole planet might go under.
America could easily go neo-fascist in the next few years.
We'll be fighting against it.
So, you can't foretell the future in that way, but you have to be committed to your call, and you have to attempt to live a life of integrity.
And integrity is not about popularity.
And anytime you challenge establishment or status quo, you're gonna get strong backlash.
Dr Cornel West, here at least, you're receiving a great deal of love over on Locals.
Press the red button, you can join us on Locals.
People are very excited by your announcement.
What a beautiful man says it's being, and lots of people are excited to just hear this kind of language and these kind of ideas being introduced to the political space.
What are the key pledges, doctor, that you'll be running under?
In fact, we have them to put on the screen now, but if you could talk us through them in some detail, it would be helpful.
Well, one, I am a thoroughgoing abolitionist when it comes to poverty and homelessness.
In fact, I told my beloved wife that when I win, and I intend to win, my attitude is I don't want to even go into the White House until every fellow citizen has a house.
She said, oh, that might not be too practical.
Well, that's the spirit that I proceed.
That is the attitude that I have.
That office is simply a vehicle to pursue truth and justice that begins with abolishing, completely eliminating poverty and homelessness.
It has to do with a commitment to a strong support of trade unions.
So that living wages becomes a reality for every worker, no matter what color, no matter what gender, no matter what sexual orientation, no matter what region.
It has to do with access to health care, Medicare for all, the very thing that my dear brother Bernie Sanders made so much of, and rightly so.
It has to do with a tremendous indictment of the greed of the 1% at the top in ways in which we can get some accountability.
I love your talk, Brother Russell, about decentralization.
I think you're absolutely right that the state has become captured by corporate power.
And I know my dear brother RF Kennedy talks about that, Junior, and he's right as well.
We resonate with the ways in which the state has been captured by corporate wealth.
But the question becomes, how do you empower everyday people and working people in such a way that it doesn't reproduce centralization that tends to reproduce domination?
And here we need to bring together some of the best minds.
I'm not in any way suggesting that I have definitive answers.
As a jazz man in politics, I know, just like Mary Lou Williams or Duke Ellington or Count Basie, I need a band.
I got to have a variety of different voices and they come in all colors.
They come in all genders.
They come from all nations in a certain sense, because it's an international conversation that we're having.
I'm calling for end of mass incarceration.
Very important.
It is part of the legacy or part of the afterlife of slavery in the United States.
I've taught in prison for 41 years.
And my dear brother, who I love so much, Chris Hedges.
My God, that brother, he wrote a piece this morning that was just extraordinary.
We've been working together now for many, many, many decades.
We taught in prisons together, and he talks about that as well.
But I carry with me my experiences, and so I'll never forget the brothers and sisters who I met on the reservations.
I'll never forget those in the mass incarceration.
I'll never forget those in the hood.
I'll never forget those fighting for the attempt to mistreat our new immigrants, my brown brothers and sisters.
We had to march against Obama even to get DACA way back then.
Well, that's still part and parcel of one's commitment.
And the same is true around the world.
My brothers and sisters in Chile, the others, 9-11.
We'll never forget that toppling.
of those precious democratic possibilities there.
Foreign policy, domestic policy intertwine.
The bombs that are dropped in various parts of the world land in white, poor communities in Appalachia.
They land in Harlem.
They land in East Los Angeles, which is brown.
They land in Little Korea.
They land on In any poor and working class community, all that money for guns, where's the money for butter?
Where's the money for social programs?
That's the kind of calling for a fundamental transformation of priorities, given the warped priorities in which we live.
Same would be true in education.
We're calling for the cancellation.
Student debt, free tuition, the kind of things, again, Brother Bernie talked about now we're following through in a much more substantive way.
And because we're free of the corruption of the neo-fascist Republican Party and the neoliberal Democratic Party, we're able to fundamentally speak the truth.
It's like being a jazz man.
You don't have to play in the military band no more.
Go on to Birdland.
Go on to the Apollo.
Blow your horn.
Sing your song, Sarah.
Sing your song, Billie Holiday.
You don't have to fit into the narrowness.
Of a mainstream that tells you you've got to somehow contain yourself.
That's what it is to be a part of the People's Party.
That's what it is to be a part of the People's Movement.
That's why we are going to not just constitute a major challenge and threat to the status quo.
We want to give concrete, fleshified hope in action to people who are losing hope.
The people who are feeling helpless, people feeling as if there's no way out of this corporate duopoly.
And I think in the end, it's still very much about style and the smile, though, man.
We're going to preserve our style no matter what.
And we're going to have a smile because we're coming together.
Solidarity is about sustaining that kind of strong spine where you straighten your back up.
And you speak what's on your mind and you fight for poor and working people wherever they are.
Dr. Cornel West, I feel that it's possible to detect in the political conversation over the last 20 years and perhaps even beyond that an appetite For real change.
Indeed, that's perhaps the word that defined Obama's campaign and eventual election.
In the disdain that became apparent through Trump's candidature and eventual election for institutional corruption, and perhaps best embodied in the easy maxim, drain the swamp, which we've already brought up today, the kind of despair that I feel people are beginning to feel around the presidency of Joe Biden so many of the pledges made during his candidacy reneged on now and the sense that in his atrophy and visible decay he somehow is the perfect avatar for a system in decline an unwillingness for a fragile aging career politician to wield
To wield power well or yield it when necessary.
To hear your vivacity, your passion, your intensity, your integrity and easy wisdom I think is exciting for a lot of people.
I feel for a long time There's been a real appetite and need for significant change.
The figures that I've just listed all in their way representing it.
You worked with Bernie Sanders, who I know a lot of people feel was sold out having voted along with militaristic policies since the election of Biden.
And perhaps Bernie would have been better off remaining an independent.
Do you feel that with the media operating in the way that it does, you will be given the sufficient opportunity to convey these points and indeed to build the band and make the alliances necessary for an undertaking like this?
For if institutional or centralist politics means anything at all, it is the ability for these systems to represent the needs of those who most need it And to regard as important the individuality and freedom of people from across the cultural spectrum of America.
People that have traditional perspectives around their religion and the way they want to organise their individual societies.
People that have very progressive views.
All of these voices have to be heard.
And indeed, for those kind of policies to be implemented, it seems, as you've just alluded to, that decentralisation would have to be A significant part of it.
Are you willing to be the voice and carriage of an ideology that to a degree would be dismantling many of the corrupt deep state institutions that have bought America low?
To break down some of the relationships between corporate interests and the democratic institutions that have meant that it's almost impossible for the voice of ordinary people to be heard?
It seems like, like you said in your answer earlier, these are the kind of ideas and words that get people killed and that require, I think, a great deal of support.
Before you answer, should we leave this and go exclusively on to locals for our locals community before we get Dr Cornel West?
I'll leave it to you.
What do you think, Galleria?
Or do we stay on Rumble?
Should we stay on Rumble for the audience?
We're going to stay on, we'll stay on Rumble now, but do join us over on Locals.
We'll see if Dr. West has time to join us a bit longer.
So could, could you please, yeah, answer that question for me about the, you know, what do you think those voices that were talked about change from Obama through to present day mean?
And are you happy to carry a message that, um, that is by its nature truly radical and therefore dangerous?
Well, one, I mean, the good news is that we have shows like your own.
We got sister Amy Goodman.
You know, we got Sister Sabby, you got Sister Brianna, you got Brother Tavish, you got Brother Roland, you got a whole, you got a network of people that are trying to allow certain voices to have impact without being completely devoured by the corporate media.
And the corporate media now is experiencing a level of legitimation crises, very much like the Republican Party's establishment that went under as neofascist Trump moved in and the establishment of the Democratic Party that we almost pulled off with Brother Bernie.
We almost pulled it off.
And then they all came together, the call from Obama, Pete drops out.
Amy drops out.
Next thing you know, they said, anybody but Bernie.
Why?
Those corporate interests were being challenged.
Why?
Those militaristic policies were being at least examined.
I mean, I wish Bernie was even more radical when it comes to militarism.
That's all right.
He's always my brother.
I can disagree with him and still acknowledge that I have my own calling and I go my own way.
He played a very historic role.
It just didn't go far enough.
He missed that moment, and that's just my own view about this thing, but he still plays a very important role.
So, I always like to begin with the good news, though, brother.
The fact that you've got all of these men and people around the world listening to your powerful voice and vision and calling for the enabling virtue, which is courage.
Because without courage, all the other virtues are empty.
In my courage, we're not talking about self-righteousness.
This is not a self-righteous campaign.
You can't be a self-righteous jazz person.
You have to be humble.
You gotta learn from people.
You gotta listen to other voices, listen to other arguments, no matter where they are.
The neo-fascists don't remain neo-fascists forever, just like we know a whole lot of leftists who become right-wing.
People change, and you have to be open to their change, but We don't put up for one moment with forms of xenophobia against the most vulnerable trans precious folk, gay brothers, lesbian sisters, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Uyghurs in China, the Dalit in India, the Roma in Europe.
Landless peasants in Brazil.
My own black folk catching so much indescribable hell in the American empire for 200 and some years up to this very moment.
Police, murder, we can go on and on and on.
Corrupt criminal justice system and so forth.
So we don't have any patience with that, but we still recognize that people can change.
And that to me is a wonderful thing.
It's like Brother Malcolm.
You know, Malcolm Little was a gangster before the Honorable Elijah Muhammad loved him.
And the next thing you know, he becomes one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, such that he even has to call into question the Honorable Elijah Muhammad himself.
He's growing, but there's still no Malcolm without Elijah.
So that sense of acknowledging we're all in process.
And that's true for empires as well, as well as people.
Doctor, I think I've got a good question for you from our chat.
You can join us on Locals pressing the red button.
This is from Bucky's Gal, who I'm guessing would be a kind of a person that would vote for Trump, I'm guessing.
You tell me, if you're still there, Bucky's Gal.
She says, or he says, Dr. West, everything you're saying sounds nice in theory, but how can we care for other nations when we can't take care of our own?
When the government gets money from taxing the people, how do you plan to fund your endeavours without it coming out of our paychecks?
Now I think Bucky's Gal there speaks for a lot of people who have concerns that Ideas that are supportive of people that are dispossessed.
We've got an interesting statistic about inequality in American politics.
You can flash that up when you get a chance, guys.
That it somehow is going to be punitive on ordinary Americans.
I feel like that the emerging libertarian movement gets a lot of juice from these kind of arguments.
Doctor, how would you answer that question?
Well, one, I appreciate the question because we're here for conversation and dialogue.
There is no doubt that what I'm talking about in terms of satisfying the basic needs of the masses of folk in the country, and I'm concerned about the masses in the world, but poor and working people, requires a massive redistribution of wealth downward.
In the last 40 years, we've seen a massive redistribution of wealth upwards.
Upwards.
Working people making roughly the same wages 30 years later, but CEOs, those part of the well-to-do, moneyed elite, heading to the bank daily with millions of dollars.
See, people don't like to raise that question.
There has been a redistribution of wealth.
It's just been upward.
This is one downward.
What form does that take?
Well, first, It has to do with a serious cutback in the millions and millions of dollars tied to the military-industrial complex.
Secondly, it has to do with subsidies for corporate America.
There has been, and this is where Brother Ralph Nader is absolutely right, there's been corporate welfare.
For the last 45 years of free money, if one slice of that could have gone to poor people for education and housing, we'd have a different situation.
If one slice of that had gone to dealing with our precious homeless brothers and sisters on the block, on the corner, in our cities.
So you got, and then you've got taxes.
Now, of course, taxes is a difficult thing because the well-to-do have clever lawyers.
They have tax evasions, they've got tax shelters and so forth.
So yes, we must have significant taxation, but it's very difficult to get at it.
Very difficult to get at it.
But believe me, you know, when we went to war in Afghanistan, how much money did we spend?
Still counting.
Trillion-some.
When we went to Iraq, oh, there was no serious talk about austerity.
Not at all.
When it comes to military as a whole, look at the recent agreement in the last couple of days.
What is distinctive about the Democratic Party and the Republican Party when it comes to military expansion?
They are exactly the same.
Consensus in that regard.
Same is true in terms of our precious Palestinian brothers on the West Bank.
What does the West Bank look like from the vantage point of Democrats and Republicans?
It is exactly the same.
And to my Jewish brothers and sisters who would immediately come at me and say, oh, Brother West, you seem to be so preoccupied with the Palestinian brothers and sisters, you must be an anti-Semite.
Let me tell you directly, And if there was a Palestinian occupation of Jewish brothers and sisters, I would be saying exactly the same thing in solidarity with Jewish brothers and sisters that I'm saying of a vicious Israeli occupation of Palestinians for Palestinian brothers and sisters because
A Jewish baby has exactly the same value as a Palestinian baby, and a Palestinian baby has the same value as a Jewish baby.
I learned that in Shiloh Baptist Church on the chocolate side of Sacramento, California, and I will be faithful unto death to have that kind of moral and spiritual stance.
So you can call me anti-Semitic, call me any name you want, but I'm not selling out.
Oppressed people no matter what color they are, no matter where they are.
Dr. Cornel West, you're taking some incredibly important risks and explaining some really complex issues in beautiful language.
A lot of people already asking in the chat how they can contribute to your campaign.
Go to cornellwest24.com.
Right, that's exactly right though, brother.
campaign to become president of the United States of America and I guess
you're gonna need a lot of grassroots support as well as all of the
independent media support that you can muster. Right, that's exactly right though
brother, very much so. I feel like by bringing these complex issues to
the forefront you do give us an opportunity to look differently at the
divisive issue of race, the divisive issue of class.
It seems that we're living in a very divisive time where ordinary people, and in a sense we're all ordinary, magnificent though we may be, are unable to address that where power is centralizing and how power is operating because we are focusing instead on other vulnerable people just like us give or take a few superficial differences the kind of differences that ought not be points of conflict but points of mutual learning and opportunity for new unity
Doctor, thank you so much for joining us.
We'll do everything we can to support your campaign, to spread your message, to facilitate conversations between you and Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy and voices that emerge elsewhere on the political spectrum because I think what is important is the ability for people to have intelligent conversations about the nature of power, the nature of corruption and how meaningful change will be brought about and I think no one has contributed more to that in recent years.
In fact, in the last 25 minutes Thank you so much, doctor.
Thank you for joining us.
Love you, love you, love you, my brother.
You stay strong, though, man.
God bless your loved ones, too, though, man.
Thank you so much.
We're here to serve.
I love you, Dr. Cornel West.
Thanks for coming on.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hey, thanks all of you lot in the chat as well for your fantastic questions and observations.
I think we're doing... Are you all right, Gareth?
How are you feeling?
I think you enjoyed the jazz bit.
I love the jazz bit.
That was a good bit for you, wasn't it?
Yeah.
He's dropping those names, didn't he?
He knew a lot.
I mean, some of them, I don't know because I don't know enough about jazz.
I know the main ones.
I know the best ones.
It's lovely to have Dr. Cornel West on.
When I was listening to him, what I felt was, it's amazing that he's entered the conversation and he sees as the target the same people that are regularly identified on our show and our channel because Dr. Cornel West, in common with Vandana Shiva, cannot be written off in the way that many people would be.
Of like, oh, you're a right-wing fascist, you're a conspiracy theorist, you're a racist,
the kind of things that are normally leveled at people that are really interested in attacking
establishment power.
Of course, there's such things as racism.
Of course, there's such things as conspiracy theorists.
But what's really important is that there are centralized, corrupt, authoritarian institutions
that we are not able to openly discuss anywhere That's why we're grateful to you for joining us here.
And I think the radical and powerful voices such as his and the names that you've mentioned in RFK recently are kind of growing in numbers and mentioning the same things over and over again.
The things that we talk about.
I mean it's fascinating how much you mentioned the military-industrial complex there.
Things that across the board we're talking about and also these other people are talking about.
You know, literally we just spoke about it earlier today.
He's talking about censorship.
He's talking about surveillance.
He's talking about wealth transfers.
All these things that we talk about and consistently get bundled in with your, you know, conspiracy theorists and this.
And it's feeling to me much more like, as I say, that the kind of voices are growing in these areas that we've been talking about for a while.
I think we're on it!
I think we're talking about the right stuff and if you look at the various censorship laws that are being passed around the world we talked about it before on the show we've done a video on it and we were talking about it earlier today then you you have to question are or More centralised authoritarian structures preparing to shut down this type of discourse, wherever it's coming from.
If it's coming from an avowedly and identifiably right-wing figure, or a pretty plainly left-wing figure like Cornel West.
They don't want people saying, hey, the Deep State's corrupt, it's been totally corporatised, but the bi-party system can't be relied on.
Figures like this.
He's a nightmare for them.
Are a nightmare.
And RFK, they don't know what to do with them.
We've got to get them videos out everywhere.
Let's cut that up into all sorts of sizes.
Because they'd love to say right-wing fascist conspiracy theorists.
They'd love to say that.
But they just can't.
They can't say that.
I wonder if he'll come to community.
Is he going to be free?
You're inviting everyone, aren't you?
I've asked RFK earlier.
I said you won't even be able to talk, you're just going to have to be in a tent.
It's going to be tough for him in there.
He'd give you a run for your money, wouldn't he?
Well, it was hard enough having Wim Hof there on day one of the festival last time, running around with his top off, playing the guitar at anyone who'd listen, and some who wouldn't.
I mean, it was very difficult for me, because I'm quite a shy person, actually, aren't I?
Oh yeah, incredibly.
Hold on, you said that in a way.
That was weird the way you said that.
No, I'm complex.
I'm a deep and complex character!
That's what I am.
Yeah.
Can I offer you a drink?
No, I'm fine, thank you.
I didn't think so.
OK, now, on the show tomorrow, we've got a couple of sweet-sweet FBI whistleblowers.
Whether it's that one, who looks like one of Popeye's enemies, or the other one, who looks like the bloke who does Moe's voice in The Simpsons, Hank Azaria, he looks a bit like, and the other one, a bit like Bluto's Italian cousin.
We're actually going to be talking to them in real life tomorrow.
They're the FBI whistleblowers.
I think their testimony before Congress could establish the very foundations of the FBI.
B.I.
Couldn't they, Gail?
Yeah.
Well, they're going to be here tomorrow.
What are we going to ask them?
Why don't you send us our questions?
Nodaganoku goes, did you think this was just a football show?
Why?
What are they chatting about?
Footballs?
I love you guys, but I'm so tired of politics.
It's my Israel.
Well, we'll talk about football later on in the week.
What do you want to talk about that's not politics?
We talked about a fella taking a condom to a funeral.
Is that not enough for you?
What else was there that was non-political?
That wasn't Conor West was it?
No, not with Dr. Cole or Mel West.
He's a dignified man.
Oh yeah, I just wondered for a second.
He's not the sort that'll turn up with an opportunity in his wallet.
Over the course of the week, we've got some fantastic content coming up.
Some wonderful guests.
Tulsi Gabbard.
I better sort out Elon, ain't I?
I better do it.
Yeah.
Do you think the sound's better today, by the way, guys?
Do you think so?
We're going to wrap up the show in a second.
We're going to leave in a minute.
But just let us know, do you think the sound's good?
Do you like it?
Sounds good, doesn't it?
How are you, Russell?
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm alright.
Why?
Of course I'm okay.
Why are you...?
That wasn't a valid question!
Was that from our producer?
Yeah, Leon.
Says you're alright.
Get on with the show.
Wrap it up.
The show's over.
Hey, listen, why don't you join us on the locals community?
Just click that red button, you get meditations, you get access to the podcast, you get news on events like community, you get exclusive access to our private parts, No, you don't really.
There's no membership required for that with dear old Gareth.
Just book a tennis lesson and get yourself a trumpet and you're away.
And guess what?
We've got tomorrow Dickie Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, the foremost atheist in the land, talking to me, one of the world's most religiousist folks.
I mean, how's it going to go down?
It's going to get hot.
He's going to be answering some questions about numinism, the religious experience, cultural mythology, panpsychism.
I've got a lot of questions about the nature of the Lord.
Nogodoku, will you guys cuddle?
What me and Dickie Dawkins?
Is he live in studio?
Yep.
He's live in here?
Yes, he is.
Right, okay, come on then.
I'll cuddle him.
I like him.
I'm not going to start with a cuddle, but I'm going to build up to one.
Yes, I'm the religious-est, blessed old bird.
All right, that's enough.
Shall we listen?
We've got a really good presentation for you here.
You'll like this, I think.
Right.
You know smart checkouts?
Of course you do.
You have to check out yourself.
This is amazing.
They're asking for tips.
You know what you have to do yourself.
You can't find out what a barcode is.
It's annoying.
Oh no, where's the barcode?
You can't do it.
Your kids do it.
They put a thing down on that thing and then they take the bag.
It's confusing.
You have to start again.
You know that, don't you?
I do, yeah.
Now it wants a tip.
Meanwhile, we've found out that many of the price hikes in recent years aren't even about helping you, Crane, at all.
Absolutely right.
You're not helping Ukraine one bit!
It's about making money.
I keep being told I'm helping Ukraine.
They're up to no good.
Not a job.
I'm getting sick of it, gal!
I know.
I've had enough.
OK, so we'll be back tomorrow with Sir Dickie Dawkins himself, Richard Dawkins, talking about atheism and the light of the Lord in studio, in this very studio.
And I hope you'll stay.
Of course I will.
Bring your French horn.
But before that we're going to wrap up the show with a little by looking at these smart checkouts and these price hikes where money has been taken from the world's most vulnerable people to bloody well fat cats on Wall Street!
Am I getting sick of this?
I really am!
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the fucking news!
Self-checkout machines are asking you for tips.
Who are you going to give the tip to?
Yourself?
All the while massive corporations are accruing incredible profits while blaming P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Putin.
But where are those profits going and why is no one doing anything to regulate the excesses of this corporate behemoth?
Is it because they fund both political parties?
Self-checkout machines now are asking you for tips.
Who are you going to give the tip to if you did the work?
Let's have a look at the mainstream news.
This morning, a growing number of shoppers are reaching their tipping point.
Some companies have been implementing a tipping option at self-checkout lines, even when the customer has minimal to no interaction with an employee.
We are told that we're in a cost-of-living crisis because of Putin or because of Brexit or because of whatever, but a significant contributor to this cost-of-living crisis is wealth and revenue is being extracted from ordinary people, and that means basically everyone from the dirt poor to the ordinarily wealthy.
Your wealth is being extracted and is being deposited at the very top of a very, very tall pyramid, and I believe that this is part of that process.
According to a Forbes 2023 digital tipping culture survey, 95% say they leave a tip at least sometimes.
76% say they tip always or often.
And one in three people feel pressured to leave a tip.
It shows, doesn't it, how we can formulate reality based on what customs and ideas we promote.
And similarly, it shows that we have an impulse to be generous and kind to one another.
That even economic and financial exchanges can be, if we choose, underwritten by kindness But we could create different types of economy, gift economies.
I recognise that it is necessary to have established and recognisable metrics, but it is possible that instead of fear and greed and scarcity and desperation and exploitation being behind all of our economic models, there are different ways that we could form financial systems.
My daughter was at the airport, a robot made her coffee.
Many are programmed to accept tips, but there's no guarantee the money's gonna go to staff.
I'm all for tipping a human, Sandhya.
What about you?
I'm totally with you, Larry.
What about the robot?
What about the robot, though?
Are we gonna tip a robot?
When you think about the now popular catchphrase of the globalist movement, you will own nothing and you will be happy, You can see that most financial systems appear to be designed to extract as much revenue from you as possible and to limit the amount of power you have in your own life to choices like, shall I tip this robot 10% or 20%?
Or should we tip a robot at all?
Yeah, they're calling it emotional blackmail when we're being asked to tip in a situation where we wouldn't normally think to leave a tip.
It's extraordinary, isn't it, that we are trained to believe that the union movements are negative things, probably on these same news channels.
You cannot have these unions making these unreasonable demands, but then you get little ten-year-old kids working in a McDonald's.
Can you get the manager?
Thank you.
And machines asking you for a tip, all the while knowing that elsewhere in society huge wealth is being accumulated.
That is the area that needs to be addressed.
We're not talking about ordinary people being taxed more.
We're not talking about ordinary people paying tips to bloody machines.
We're talking about powerful transnational organizations that avoid tax.
That is the problem.
And that narrative, I don't frequently see that narrative brought up on the mainstream media.
At a time when inflation has already increased costs, many are wondering, where are their tips going?
If after 2008, the people and institutions that were primarily responsible get away without consequences, isn't it clear that there's not enough financial regulation to control propriety when it comes to financial exchange?
Let me know in the chat.
And welcome back to The Factor Uncensored.
I ask, have you lost your rabbit-ass minds?
No, not you, the viewer, but some of the bastardized, busybody business owners out there.
He's furious about this.
It's not enough because of inflation.
The price of food is high as a giraffe's... Well, you know what I mean.
Dick, let me know which part of a giraffe you think he's referring to.
Who does this tip even go to?
If there isn't a human serving us, that's the questions you should be asking.
Hell no, you should say.
Such a mad story actually, because the point of a tip is to acknowledge a human interaction on one level and subtly address the fact that those people aren't being paid enough for what they do for a living.
Why don't you start saying, oh there's also these other people we're exploiting that you can't see because they're behind the scenes, they're overseas, they're down a cobalt mine, we've got people weaving boxes around out back, there are children toiling away in the subcontinent.
Well, I don't think the issue now is tips, is it?
The issue now is a broken system that urgently requires addressing.
Yes, yes.
And if I help you work that out, little extra for me?
We all must tell those business owners we won't be pimped like a cheap trick on a Saturday night.
Lovely reference, Isaiah.
And find another trick to play.
While this additional tax is being extracted from ordinary consumers, what is happening in the upper echelons of the globalist financial world that is being masked by these extraordinary low-level AI exploitation tales down among the people?
Of course there is.
Let's hear it.
As the US government on Wednesday released its latest inflation report, the watchdog Accountable US put out a new analysis detailing how Americans face food insecurity while major food corporations are padding their profits with price hikes.
They're padding their profits with price hikes.
It's not in order to sustain or to endure or because it's necessary or because Putin's a psychopath.
It's because they want more money.
Even that tip story is just someone somewhere's going, do you know what?
If we just have the option of adding a tip, we calculate this many people will do it and we'll be able to keep some of that money, if not all of it.
The system itself is psychopathic.
I know it's a well-worn expression in this area, but it describes it so well.
Now, if people are suffering at a time when elsewhere there is excess, doesn't it make a kind of sense to deal with it in that way?
I'm not talking about you, an ordinary person that earns ordinary money for a relatively ordinary job, or even someone like me, who does well now, having lived in various economic categories throughout my life.
I'm talking about a kind of tyrannical, feudalistic, baronial, new sultans extracting huge amounts of wealth and not paying it back.
That's the problem that needs to be addressed.
Big Food's staggering increase in earnings shows they did not need to raise prices so high on consumers, but did so anyway to maximize record profits, says Liz Zelnick, Director of Economic Security and Corporate Power at Accountable US.
So in your head, you have the story, because you've heard it so many times, oh, we've got to pay so much more money for fuel and for food because of the war, because of Brexit, because of whatever.
Well, if that were true, then the companies wouldn't be making record profits.
It would be the same, or it would still be in decline, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't it?
Tell me in the chat!
The Accountable US report takes aim at General Mills, Kraft Heinz, and Mondelez, three of the top at-home food companies in the United States, based on market capitalization, focusing on January through March, the first quarter of this calendar year.
The company's combined net earnings for the quarter rose by 51% year over year to a combined $3.47 billion, and the trio collectively spent over $1.3 billion on shareholder dividends, Accountable US found.
You can't extract 1.3 billion dollars from something that is suffering as a result of Putin's price hikes or as a result of some other legitimate force majeure.
This is exploitation.
They have looked at this crisis and said it's an opportunity, as has been happening relatively consistently, certainly in the last few years.
Oh look, there's a legitimate crisis, let's look at it and what caused it, whether it's a pandemic or a war, what were the conditions that led to it.
Now, how can we use this?
And in order to benefit whom shall we use it?
What I'm suggesting is that in a democracy, which I think we're still living in, whether it's a crisis or peacetime or any circumstances, the The order and direction of politics and national or local or international strategies should be to benefit the majority of people, not always to benefit powerful elites that are able to fund political parties, that are able to lobby for the change of law, that are able to slip in, why don't you tip a robot?
Because we're all too bewildered by the ongoing terror of poverty and disease.
General Mills saw its net earnings increase by nearly $2 billion year on year for the first nine months of financial year 2023, as the company spent over $2.16 billion on its shareholders through a combination of dividends and stock buybacks.
It's a Weird, mad game.
That's stock buybacks.
You're buying back, you artificially inflate the price of the stocks.
I mean, these are things that are just normal.
They're not illegal.
But when you're dealing with crises, when it comes to resources and energy, which an extraordinary number of people are now, let me know how you've been affected in this cost of living crisis in the chat below.
And give us a thumbs up and share this video around, why don't you?
A time like that, extracting dividends of this nature seems at odds with the nature of the challenge that we're being told about on the mainstream news.
The report also emphasises recent omissions from economists that corporate greed is driving inflation, which progressive organisations and experts have been stressing for months in response to the Fed's interest rate hikes.
So it's corporate greed that's driving it, not Putin.
Putin and Russia's criminal war are plainly bad, particularly bad for Ukrainian people who are suffering on behalf of all of us and this system.
Inflation is being driven, it says here, by corporate greed, i.e.
if they were less greedy, inflation would go down, regardless of what happens with Putin, Russia, et al.
Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, said, businesses are betting that consumers will go along because they know about supply bottlenecks and higher energy prices.
We don't see all reality.
We see the reality that our senses can appreciate and the information that the news media If we're continually told they're a bot on X, is that because this or this or this?
It's very difficult to comprehend the financial news that these companies are extracting record profits.
Somehow we don't detect that.
Somehow that's not as vivid and visceral and as affecting as, there's a war in Russia, it's because of this.
That's why the information we're trying to give you is this information.
It seems to me important that Accountable US are revealing that corporate greed is driving inflation.
And when you add to it a rather fun and somewhat silly but also pernicious story like you're being asked to tip nothing.
You're being asked to tip literally the system.
Give me a bit more money than you deserve even though we're already charging you more money than we should because we've made record profits and we've extracted all of the jobs from this sector by sacking people who could be doing this job.
Oh, there you go then.
Fuck you!
They are confident that they can convince consumers that it isn't their fault and it won't damage their brand, Mr Donovan said.
It's our kindness, it's our sweetness, it's our innocence.
We have to close our hearts to love.
We have to shut ourselves off from the fact that we're actually quite nice people.
It's the world that makes you sceptical and cynical.
One year ago, as price hikes were becoming a major national concern, the world's third richest man touted his newspaper columnist asserting that corporate profits were not a driving force behind inflation, blaming temporary COVID-19 pandemic aid instead.
They're always telling you that it's something else, not them, aren't they?
They're always saying, oh, it's this war, we can't do anything about that.
That war, is that driving profits elsewhere?
Is that creating the ability to regulate and control the narrative and distract people from domestic problems?
Are food companies making a profit?
If they are, then the problem cannot solely be scarcity.
That profit should be eliminated to keep the costs down.
Are energy companies making profit?
Are energy companies being subsidised?
That is an economic system that has stitched into it wealth redistribution.
Your wealth.
Your wealth is being redistributed and they want you to tip them for the privilege.
While Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and others were trying to steer the inflation discourse away from a focus on business profiteering, there was already data showing that most of the price increases Americans were experiencing could be attributed to larger corporate profit margins.
Those figures were hardly surprising Corporations that have been permitted to grow into oligopolies during the era of lax antitrust enforcement were now able to leverage their outsized market power to hike prices and to do so with less fear of competitors undercutting them.
It's racketeering.
I've said this to you before.
This is why films like Godfather are fascinating because you realize that the line between criminality and corporatism is basically accents and aesthetics.
And yet, corporate media outlets ignored the available data, choosing to publish and platform pundits who scoffed at accusations of what they derisively called greedflation, and who insisted that the problem is workers being paid higher wages.
That decision delivered devastating consequences for America's working class.
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They will obfuscate.
They will distract.
They will deter you from realizing.
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As with the WMD lies used to justify the deadly Iraq war and financial deregulation triumphalism leading to the 2008 financial crisis and bank bailouts, the fake media narrative about inflation became conventional wisdom.
Now this is a less sexy story than aspects of the pandemic and even aspects of the war, but similarly we're given a version of reality that prevents us from assessing our situation correctly.
Why is there inflation?
Oh, it's because of that war and because it's difficult trade.
You're deluged with that continually.
Visceral information that keeps you in a fight-or-flight state so you can't so calmly go, wait a minute, if we were starting now, today, wouldn't we say that we should have collectivised, localised democratic systems that best reflect our nature and our
evolution. For hundreds of thousands of years didn't we live in groups about 50 people
where we understood what our resources were and pursued them. Is it
possible to consider the values of such a system without going, oh what do you
want to go and live in a cave again? Do you want to give up medicine and technology?
It's not binary like everything else these days.
The fake media narrative about inflation became conventional wisdom, was echoed by lawmakers and justified specific policies.
So not only that, they tell you that lie, then they legislate around that lie so it becomes truth.
Now, in this case, the narrative provided government officials justification to cut off pandemic aid, block new spending, abandon any push for a minimum wage increase.
Yeah, but you could just tip people.
They don't need a minimum wage.
Just tip them, tip them.
Thank you so much.
I've got five little robots to raise at.
And raise interest rates with the express goal of driving down workers' wages.
Oh my god, tipping the machine further empowers a system that will lead to less jobs for ordinary people.
It's brilliant!
It's so evil that in the end you just have to stand there and ejaculate in appreciation of their wickedness.
The results, a sharp increase in the number of Americans who can't afford to pay their bills and now mass layoffs amid a slowing economy.
Directing blame for inflation away from corporations and toward government spending that temporarily boosted the working class was lucrative for the world's wealthiest like Bezos and for the giant companies that belong to corporate lobbying groups like the US Chamber of Commerce.
The discourse manipulation helped store momentum for anti-price gouging legislation, higher taxes on the wealthy and an excessive corporate profits tax.
The propaganda also provided a justification for companies to keep jacking up prices as the government inflicted economic pain on workers and families.
2008 crash?
Who suffers?
The banks that caused it or you?
You.
Pandemic?
Who suffers?
The pharmaceutical industry or you?
You.
The cost of living crisis?
Who suffers?
Great big companies that make food and make energy or you?
You.
Are you beginning to spot a pattern?
Let me know in the comments.
It's a bit mystifying that there are still some who are surprised that corporations and their executives, left to their own devices, engage in unscrupulous and sometimes deadly behaviour.
Coca-Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America.
General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire in collisions.
Tobacco companies hid the cancer-causing properties of their products for decades.
The catalogue of the ethical and moral crimes of corporations is impressive.
These ethical and moral failings of Boeing, Coca-Cola, General Motors and many others are the norm, not the exception, because that is the mindset.
The mindset is profit or cost.
It's the system that has to change.
Now this is where finally some good news happens.
Your consciousness is a participatory unit in the creation of reality.
That's why all of this propaganda has to exist and has to be pushed so hard.
Because if you refuse to believe it, if you refuse to participate in it, if you refuse to become dulled by this kind of information, Then it becomes possible to change the world.
It becomes possible to create new systems.
It becomes possible to step outside of their atrophying and failing systems and create new ones.
Now for that information, I will require just a little 10% tip.
Yeah, could you just put your card in there?
Oh, there's some information on the screen.
I don't know what it's about.
I don't know what it says.
Oh, just fill it in, you bastards!
So there you are.
The corruption is institutional and systemic.
The stories we are told are untrue stories that are designed to distract us and focus our ire in places where they can do no good at all.
But you are awakening.
You are wonderful.
You and we are on a journey together to change all of this, and I couldn't be happier to be on it with you.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
See you in a second.
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