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June 22, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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“BIGGEST DANGER TO MANKIND” | Bill Gates Funded Wuhan Lab? - #152 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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I'm a black man and I could never be a veteran.
Rock you, boss!
In this video, you're going to see the future.
We're going to the breaking news.
We've got a live shot there.
Hello there you awakening wonders, it's Thursday and as yet Jesus Christ has not returned to earth, but we need you Jesus!
Come back, let us know in the chat and comments if our Lord Jesus has made himself clear, plain to you through some sort of apparition.
Doesn't count if it's in toast, doesn't count if it's in the cloud, or an actual Yes, it certainly is.
incarnate emanating light to change the world because we need it. Do them Trump documents
show an intention to invade Iran? Is Rand Paul ratcheting it up a little bit, gal?
He is. He certainly is.
Is he ratcheting it up a bit? Oh no you didn't, Rand. You didn't just go there in Bill Gates
world, did you? I certainly did.
Rand goes to Gates land because a lot of people aren't willing to start saying in public,
Bill Gates and Fauci were costly contributors to the pandemic.
It's Thursday.
You tell us in the chat right now, what do you think the role of Bill Gates was in the pandemic?
What do you think Fauci's influence was?
Benign or malign?
If you're watching us on Rumble right now, press the red button and join us on Locals.
That's our community.
We've got a community.
That's what people need, isn't it, Gal?
Community?
That's right.
If you're watching this on YouTube or Twitter or something so young and modern I ain't even heard of it yet... Tweet!
Say you're... For all I know, you're watching this on Twitch.
For all I know, you're extraterrestrial nation watching this in the future.
You got it out when them pods people used to do.
Don't do that so much now, do we?
No.
Like pods for the future.
They were always doing that when I was a kid.
We're gonna bury this in the pods for the future now.
We ain't got a future!
If you've got something, don't put it in a pot, sell it!
Sell it before the Mad Max apocalypse times are upon you-ly!
So, uh, yeah, um, hold on a minute, I've got some really vital and important points to make, yeah.
Rand Paul!
Rand Paul!
We want Rand Paul on this show.
If you know Rand, or if you are Rand, look at yourself now.
Oh yeah, I am Rand.
If you are Rand, come on!
Come on, and we want to talk to you about this stuff, because even though he's a Republican, isn't he?
Yep.
And didn't he have some shares in some sort of pharmaceutical company?
Oh, we won't get into that.
It's not as bad as other people's.
Because I think he's a good independent political voice and if there's going to be change within the system it's going to come from alliances from people from the left and the right that are willing to challenge establishment authority and Rand Paul is willing to do that.
I like his hair, it's like a baby's hair.
In terms of like that alliance you just said then, there were moments a few weeks ago, a couple of months ago, where Rand Paul and him and Bernie Sanders were both interrogating the boss of Moderna and he was like, No, look, working together.
You're charging too much for your vaccines, they were saying, weren't they?
They were saying stuff like that.
Allegedly.
Might be a reasonable price for a booster.
Everyone needs a little boost once in a while, and some people are willing to pay through the snout hole for it.
So, um, we've talked about that, Rand Paul.
I'm doing a bit of yoga later.
Stay with me for that.
Why are you laughing, folks?
I've hurt.
I'm trying my hardest.
I'm trying to get through my life.
I'm just a human being.
I've got a digestive system just like anybody else.
I've got all sorts of systems that I'm running simultaneously.
I'm breathing.
I'm digesting.
Cells are being created.
I'm in tune with subtle realms.
I'm doing my very best.
Let's have a look at this.
And oh, by the way...
Like once we, like, because I've got to tell these people, my on-screen assistant, my friend, like you might be watching us on YouTube, in a minute we're going to go and rumble because we told you during the pandemic that powerful political figures were not obeying their own rules and regulations and well now we know for an absolute fact that they weren't.
While you were watching funerals on YouTube, while you were missing the birth of your baby, while you were losing jobs and losing your mind, They were having the jingle bell mingle.
This is during tier three.
Do you remember tier three?
Tier three said things like, do not move a muscle, you'll kill a nan right up her lung pipe.
And they were jingling and mingling during that.
Look at this.
Like this is tier three.
You're prohibited from socializing with anybody you do not live with or have not formed a support bubble with, support bubble, in any indoor setting, private gardens or most hospitality venues.
You are not going to believe this video that we're going to bring you when you see the powerful boogieing on down while you were locked up in your home.
But there's no room for any systemic change.
Everything's fine.
Just keep voting.
Just keep handing over your tax money.
Barack Obama, he ain't handing over his income tax.
He's getting advice on how to avoid laws that he helped pass.
Before we get into all of that, and by God, you've heard,
there's a hell of a lot happening.
It's a crazy world we're living in.
We're gonna have a little look at Rand Paul.
And Rand, if you're out there, and we know you are, come on our show.
And if you've got access to Rand, make sure he sees this video.
Look how nice we're being about Rand.
Right, here's Rand on Fox, questioning Bill Gates and Fauci
and their role as architects to the pandemic response and whether or not they benefited in ways
other than, of course, helping everyone, which is always their main motivation.
You know that now.
That's what billionaires do, isn't it?
And bureaucrats.
They help us.
Thanks.
Thanks for your help that's made you so rich.
You must have helped us to be that rich.
You must have helped me so hard.
You must have helped me so hard in my privates.
Let's have a look at Rand Paul on Fox right now.
But we all know that Communist China covered it up initially.
How are you going to get the truth now?
They won't even allow an investigation into the Wuhan lab.
Yeah, it's not easy and they haven't been forthcoming.
I think the only way to convince them is that it won't all be about blaming them because we participated in funding this.
The blame equally should go not only to Chinese authorities but to Anthony Fauci and all those who advocated for this.
But there has to be a reassessment.
Look, Bill Gates has been over there recently.
Bill Gates is the largest funder of trying to find these viruses in remote caves and bring them to big cities.
So what happened in China is they... A beautiful way of framing it, that's part of what gain-of-function research requires, finding novel viruses that as yet haven't made an interspecial jump, experimenting with them in order, supposedly, apparently, and most plainly and overtly in order to create a vaccine for a disease that doesn't exist yet.
Just if some stories are to be believed.
I'm talking about Schellenberger's recent revelations on this show that the Wuhan... Sorry, why did I call it the Wuhan virus?
The coronavirus began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which I think is in... China.
Yes, that's where it is.
And I heard that the first three people Who, you, and Zoo were all working in that lab.
Don't be childish.
And so, if Fauci, of course, because under Barack Obama, gain-of-function research was banned in the United States, so they transferred it to a little old place, might have heard of it, called Wuhan.
And indeed, it seems that Bill Gates, and we can't prove this, and we've got to be careful about this, haven't we?
Especially on YouTube.
Rand Paul is saying, and we've got no reason to doubt him, I don't think, that Bill Gates is the number one- His research.
He's funding it.
That's what he's saying.
Certainly, he significantly funds the WHO.
88% of its total philanthropic donations come from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Certainly, Bill Gates set up the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
$750 million he put into that.
For the first part of his life, it was all paperclips and windows, wasn't it?
It was all about... He helped us in a much more mercantile and observably profitable way.
Now, Bill Gates' help has moved in a much more diffuse And yet still helpful forms, mostly medicines, isn't it?
Yeah.
I thought it was interesting how he started there and kind of not buying into the anti-China narrative, which you could say that maybe would be, you know, the kind of typical thing that Fox would do.
It's certainly something that he's complained about himself in terms of members of his own party.
Who are, you know, in terms of, like, war with China, beating the drums, I think he said last week.
But his point about, like, Bill Gates and Fauci, I mean, when you look into that, we obviously, we want to investigate further.
Having him on the show would be great to find out what the details are about Bill Gates funding this kind of function research.
But if you look at it in terms of, like, the cause of the pandemic, we now know because of Michael Shellenberg and Matt Taibbi, Can you have more than one patient zero?
who Fauci was a head of, funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan that led to patient zeros
and then potentially the start of this pandemic.
Can you have more than one patient zero or is that like a really bad combo on a padlock?
When 8 to 10 hours south of Wuhan, 2 to 300 feet deep into a cave, found viruses and took
them back to a city of 15 million.
There are many, many scientists who think that Bill Gates is wrong in funding this, that our government's wrong, that the Chinese government What do you think?
Do you agree with Rand Paul?
Do you want that kind of research done?
It seems to me that it's the very kind of topic that should be exposed to the searing heat of democracy.
Do you want gain-of-function research or do you want bureaucrats and billionaires deciding that you want gain-of-function research, funding it, potentially profiting from it, even though it sounds risky and potentially that risk has already been realized in the last three years?
Let me know in the chat where you stand on that and Is this a matter for an evolved democracy?
Isn't it interesting as well, the way these issues are continually framed?
It reminds me of a story that we're going to be doing in a little bit, and of course, everyone's covering Trump and the secret boxes.
People talk about, oh, why has Trump got those boxes?
But isn't the more important subject, what is in the boxes?
If there's plans for a war, then that's the story, really.
And when it comes to a matter like gain-of-function research and whether this virus began in a bat cave, in a wet market, in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, One of the neglected narratives is should this even be happening?
And who benefits from this happening?
And aren't we right now in a time where we're interrogating the validity and veracity of our systems of government and commerce?
And isn't this the very kind of idea that should be scrutinized?
Let me know in the chat because I'm genuinely interested if you're like, no we've got to have our Precious gain-of-function research.
It's not the NFL.
It's not the Premier League.
It's not like part of our culture that we just can't give up, is it?
It's not the MTV Awards, which we all know is where the great presenters shine most brightly, don't we?
We do know that.
I've always agreed that.
I think the other important point about this is that, you know, highlighting Bill Gates and Fauci might seem a bit like, well, is it really just those two?
And it can maybe feel a bit like, well, you know, you can't just blame two people.
But we know If Michael Schellenberg is correct that Fauci was involved through the NIH in the funding of this in Wuhan that could have led to the whole pandemic starting.
We know that both of those were involved in the explanation of it.
They were sending emails that were redacted and uncovered by Jimmy Tobias of The Intercept and other journalists who found that they were, in terms of the proximal origins theory, encouraging this idea that this started in a wet market.
Well they were themselves discussing the possibility that it had a clinical origin and closing down that line of inquiry perhaps precisely because gain-of-function research is risky and are we now experiencing those risks and how irresponsible those that have conducted it have been.
It shouldn't perhaps be happening in the first place.
We also know obviously that the last part of that is that they were both involved in the pandemic response.
Fauci obviously few His role, which we all know about, and Bill Gates through the WHO and Carvey.
It was all over the TV, Winnie Fowchee, every ten minutes, telling you to put this on and take that off and stand over there.
And let me tell you, the British government were happy to stand behind podiums with flags behind them, advocating for you to sit down and shut up as usual.
Miss your job or attend your job, depending on what economic class you exist within, were themselves ignoring their own advice.
Why?
It's Christmastime.
You gotta mingle and jingle at Christmastime, haven't ya?
Do you remember that?
When, like, in our country, you might not know this.
Let me know if you're watching this in the UK, by the way, so as we can, you know, be British together and have bad teeth and talk all cockney.
But do you remember when Boris Johnson said, oh, you know, we're not going to cancel Christmas?
Then we are going to cancel Christmas.
But what difference did it make to them?
Because they didn't cancel their own Christmas.
We're going to be exclusively discussing that on Rumble, because unbelievably, we have to censor ourselves when we're attacking the establishment.
Indeed, we believe that's what the censorship industrial complex is primarily about.
It's not about protecting you from harmful information, like we might advise you to take a tablet that's going to give you a bunion.
It's much more likely we're going to give you an opinion that's going to make you less compliant.
What do you think?
Let me know in the chat.
Have you noticed what the elite establishments seem to be most interested in?
Is it your safety?
Or is it your compliance?
Let me know in the chat.
Let me know in the chat.
And while we're on that subject, they're collecting your data in unique and nefarious ways.
Because it's illegal for the state to spy on you, because Edward Snowden exposed the level to which they were spying on you, because Julian Assange, a resident of Belmarsh here in the UK, without trial currently, Revealed how your government's actions abroad are at odds perhaps with your own domestic requirements.
We are, excuse me, still discussing the ways that they access your data.
It seems the government are purchasing private data from private companies in order to skirt round various regulations and rules to prevent them spying on you.
Now you remember during the pandemic when they said that the vaccine passports were only a temporal measure and it's not going to lead to social credit scoring?
Remember the ways and the breadth of their deception and their lies?
Well it seems now that they're acquiring private data by purchasing it from private companies.
Can you tell us a bit more about this, Gareth, the scope and scale?
Is it sort of just the US?
It's the US at the moment, but you're absolutely right.
Yeah, government agencies tend to have to navigate an array of laws that prevents them from tracking Americans without like a warrant or a court order.
In this case, there aren't any legal restrictions on private companies that buy, repackage and
sell personal data.
We've talked about it before with mainstream media and we've talked about how those corporations
themselves package and sell your data.
So another way in which the kind of irony of the mainstream media coming and telling
us about all these things that are dangerous, whilst not telling us about the wars that
are dangerous, they're also packaging and selling off your data to the government.
That's why they can't accurately report on the scale of data capture and the way that your data is used because they are some of the primary beneficiaries of being able to bundle and sell your data more even than, and I don't like to say this word in mixed company, more than pornography sites.
Not that I use them.
Not that I use them.
I merely went onto that pornography site to see if whether or not it captured my data.
And it didn't capture nearly so much as it as CNN or MSNBC or Fox because hey they're all the same if you ask me baby.
The thing is what the government will come back and say is oh it's not you know we don't know private things but this is a government report that has revealed commercially purchased data can reveal sensitive and intimate information about the personal attribute attributes private behavior social connections and speech of U.S.
persons and non-U.S.
persons.
What about my private Well, plenty I would imagine in your case.
I ain't done that and be ashamed of!
I was only, as I said, I was looking at that porn site simply as research and I went straight
over AMSNBC who I know will take care of me and will protect me from information that
would stop my think box from its hurty-bads.
Let's have a look at the mainstream...
Just to jump in quickly.
Why?
Because, you know, we had recently, of course, the way that this was all being talked about with relation to TikTok and China, and we know why that's being used, to that anti-China narrative.
To go back to what Rand Paul said at the start, this kind of anti-China narrative that will escalate tensions.
You're creating a macro narrative about the relationship between the US and China that played out when they were saying that TikTok's dangerous, but then really what we think they were saying is use TikTok to carry our message.
But also, We're doing just as bad.
You know, we talk about TikTok spying on American citizens.
You ain't no better at TikTok!
You ain't no better in it!
Let's have a look at this story.
This is a mad-looking news story called The Bottom Line with Dagan Duffy.
He's a bloody good broadcaster.
Actually, I don't know which one's Dagan Duffy.
Is it him or her?
Who cares?
They're both nuts.
I don't know if you've seen them before.
Have a look at them.
Your personal data is up for sale, and... I like it, baby!
See, that sounds like Cher in that Bubble Voice song.
Yeah, a bit like that.
If I could turn back time... Yeah, what's the other one?
The more modern one that she did?
Can't break free... That one.
That's it.
Oh, I wish I had... Hold on a sec.
Wait, it's worth it.
This'll be good.
I can't break free...
Wasn't worth it, wasn't worth it.
Let's get back to the news.
It's being bought by spy agencies at the federal government.
A report released by the director of national intelligence reveals that US intel, military
and federal law enforcement agencies are buying and selling personal information.
So they're buying it from them probably.
They're buying it from Fox, MSNBC, CNN.
These people are not your friends.
There's Terrence McKenna, the great, late Terrence McKenna, that psychonaut, that ethnobotanist, that genius of the plant mind would say.
The culture is not your friend.
Of course the culture generates magnificent things.
It created Jimi Hendrix, it created David Bowie, It created John Updike, it created thousands of geniuses, it created you and me together right now.
But, ultimately, what is the function of a culture?
It is to contain you, condition you, to conform you, to institutionalise you, and to make you passive.
Now listen, we're going to leave you now on YouTube, or Twitch, or Twitter, or social bot, or hand clap, or truth social, whoever the hell you're watching this, to show you what you've long believed.
Now you're going to want to click on the link.
Click that link in the description to join us on the home of Free Speech Baby, which is Rumble, to have a look at exactly what parties the Powerful were conducting while they were telling you to sit down, mask up, and shut up before you coronavirus-ed lovely old grandma.
Look at what they were doing.
In the background of their parties, you can see their signs saying, stand two meters apart, While they're agadooing and boogieing on down in a conga of absolute deception and treachery.
Join us only on Rumble.
We cannot show you this stuff.
It's too explosive.
It's gonna... It's gonna incite revolution, this.
It's gonna incite revolution.
I told you.
I told you that you'd incite revolution.
Join us right now on Rumble.
Are we off yet, Cal?
Because I'm... I don't... Are we off?
Are we off?
Are we safe?
Are we safe?
Right, okay.
Let's have a look at this.
So this is, like, in this country, this is... Some cheese and wine?
Yeah, why not?
Why don't we spit in each other's mouths, for God's sake?
Who's to say that these pandemic rules are doing anything at all?
I mean, look, I know what a lot of you think.
Tell me in the chat right now.
A lot of you think, like, oh, so they weren't scared then.
So why aren't they scared?
That's, like, a big key point here.
No, they should be bloody scared.
Look at how rubbish their parties are.
Look at how, like, they firstly look like the British office, which is the original office.
I hate to remind you that we invented your language and a good majority of your culture.
Let's have a look at, um, this is the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's administration partying on down, while the rest of us were not mixing with other households, staying apart, maximum of six.
Watch out for, you know, schools, that could kill a nan.
Overnight stays, that could kill a grandad.
Old uncle could be killed by a place of worship if it's outside of your support bubble.
You could... A lovely old uncle could be folded up like a bloody deck chair.
But look at what this lot were doing throughout the whole farrago.
This footage belongs to Daily Mirror, which is a type of newspaper, I suppose, reflecting you back at you.
That's right.
It's what I suppose it's claiming to do.
Let's have a look.
I feel very happy about that.
That looks like it's taking place in a care home, actually.
They don't look well, those two people.
Are they fully compliant?
They're Boris Johnson aides.
They work for dear Boris?
Yeah.
Hmm.
He wants to work on his job interview process.
They're out of hand, aren't they, the pair of them?
Well, they're probably very drunk.
That's what it is.
They're drunk.
They're drunk.
Why don't they change the lighting for the party as well?
I don't know.
You're not going to cop off with no one in that kind of lighting.
Well, maybe Boris Johnson, because as you know, he has a long litany of illegitimate children.
Too many to name, I think.
Well, not name.
They've probably named him.
I mean, what, it's amazing actually that it was so bright, because you'd think that they'd be a bit more secretive about it.
Turn the lights down, we're not meant to be doing this, but no, brazen!
Brazen!
Light as you like!
So then they were going out, that was the same day that our health minister at the time, Matt Hancock was his name, went on the telly saying, this is really serious, wasn't it?
Get into tier 3 restrictions.
We're getting a tier 3 now, we're having to go up a tier, I hate doing this.
Yeah, jingle to, yeah he'd said, uh, to contain the surging number of COVID infections.
My god.
Was that really, really embarrassing for the government?
And I suppose my analysis of that is, you know what you think about your government?
That they're pretending they're there to help you and serve you,
but in fact they're there to control you and serve corporate interests,
and deep down they don't believe in their own rules or obey their own rules,
because they have access to information that they would prevent you from seeing.
Well, there you go.
It's observably, palpably, plainly true.
If we had more sense, if we had more dignity, if we had more stamina, if we had the ability to communicate and stay awake, we simply wouldn't tolerate it, would we?
We would demand fairer, better systems of government.
Do you know what will happen with this?
It will be used by the opposition party, who will be more or less the same.
They might be a little bit nicer around a few issues, but they'll be basically the same.
I think, you know, the twin story to this, to go back to what we started with and ran Paul, is that, you know, similar time to this, Anthony Fauci and members of the Bill Gates Foundation were creating the proximal origins theory to basically quell any idea that this came out of a lab and that the US funding had anything to do with it.
And so what you've got is, in this country, uh your government telling you you know you need to be locked down because this is really serious um and what you know we care we care about you um and in the united states you know both sides are essentially lying to us one is like saying um it's a this came out of nature and because it came out of nature there's nothing that we could have done about it and there's nothing that we could know about this and you just stay at home and we'll sort out a solution to this whereas actually what we know is
What's happening is these guys were partying and in America they were coming up with a whole different narrative.
So let me know in the chat right now if you have had your faith in democracy shaken a little harder.
Still to come is Adrienne Mishler from Yoga With Adrienne, one of the most influential figures in the world of yoga.
Please hit the red join button and come to Locals with your yoga mat and put your question to Adrienne at the end of the stream.
Now though, another story that helps us to understand the ways in which the brinkmanship of media narrativisation operates.
We are in the midst of a great scandal where there is an attempt to indict Trump, presumably to prevent Trump running again, on the basis of his possession of boxes of secret documents.
But what is in those boxes?
Apparently, As we heard yesterday, golf shoes and golf shirts and golf memorabilia.
That's part of it.
But also, potentially and perhaps more interestingly, although equally interestingly, plans to invade Iran, which seems extraordinary.
Here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
No, here's the fucking news!
What's in the boxes?
Stop talking about the fact that he's got boxes!
What's in the boxes?
Is it plans for a war with Iran?
What's in the box?
We live in a world where people will censor Trump's post-arraignment speech.
Also, we're fetishizing the fact that Trump has got these boxes.
How dare he take those boxes?
It's a transgression.
It's awful.
We can't have the contents of those boxes revealed.
Why?
That would give the Russians or the Chinese or whoever we are supposed to hate this week a terrible advantage in their ongoing potential perennial war against us.
Or is there a possibility?
And just let me know in the comments if you agree.
But contained within Trump's boxes are plans for a war against Iran.
Has been alleged in some quarters.
If that's true, that's more important and indeed chimes quite nicely with the previous revelations under Cheney, Bush et al.
There was a global imperialist plan for the next American century to invade Iraq.
Done.
Afghanistan.
Done.
North Korea.
Working on it and Iran.
Let me know in the comments where you stand on this story.
And let's have a look, first of all, to get started, let's have a look at MSNBC's decision not to broadcast Trump.
They have such a complex relationship with Trump, don't they?
Oh, we've got to show Trump, but not too much Trump.
Can't we just cut off a bit of Trump and have it in the corner when we're talking about how bad Joe Rogan is or something?
We just need a bit of Trump, but not too much Trump.
There's always the mainstream Trump tipping point.
You know, guys, I don't think Trump is the solution to your problems.
I know loads do.
Let me know in the comments.
But they need enough Trump because no one will watch us if we don't show Trump.
Not too much Trump, he's bloody appealing.
Aaaaaah!
The Trump paradox.
Now tonight, after his arraignment on federal felony charges, he's speaking again, this
time to an audience of his supporters that's gathered for a campaign fundraiser tonight
at his golf club and summer home in New Jersey.
We knew heading into this that he was planning to make these remarks.
We are prepared for his pre-fundraiser remarks tonight to again be essentially a Trump campaign speech.
Because of that, we do not intend to carry these remarks live.
I can't.
We cannot trust you to judge Trump for yourself.
It's mad, isn't it?
What they say about Trump, this guy is so alluring.
If you hear him, it's going to blow your mind.
I mean, it's pretty funny and stuff, but I think I can sort of like keep a clear head.
I'm not like going, oh, I didn't get it.
Ah!
Tell me what to do, boss.
It's extraordinary, isn't it?
Because we know that MSNBC's attitude to censorship Fluctuates.
They were very happy to carry certain messages around the vaccines which have since been plainly, objectively, scientifically disproven.
You know how they covered Russiagate, the idea that Trump, who they're plainly obsessed with, was peed on and that he essentially was an agent for Russian interests.
That's been disproven.
It was never credible and they were happy to carry that all the time.
So when Maddow talks about the responsibility of the media to convey truthful information, It's just, isn't it the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard?
Is there anyone now, alive, that thinks that the mainstream media isn't essentially there to amplify their preferred perspective and ignore information that contradicts it?
That's what they do, isn't it?
If they're right-leaning, they'll amplify Republican messaging.
If they're left-leaning, they'll amplify Democratic messaging.
No one will amplify this message.
You cannot trust either of those parties.
They're both owned by corporate interests that are globalist in their nature.
If you don't demand decentralized democracy, your lives and the lives of your children will be a form of mediated penury and slavery.
As we have said before in these circumstances, there is a cost to us as a news organization to knowingly broadcast untrue things.
The idea that the media is responsible and conveys information on the basis of its veracity is simply untrue.
It conveys information that is expedient.
The objective is use Trump to increase views, but not so much Trump that the Democrats don't win the next election.
We want Democrats to win because, you know, Rachel Maddow, who I keep telling you I think is a nice person, who I actually like, ...appears at Lockheed Martin-funded events.
The world has gone all unusual.
In the 1980s, would it have been plausible that a military-industrial complex company like Lockheed Martin, who make missiles that blow up kids, could sponsor gay pride?
Because the idea behind the LGBTQ plus movement is tolerate and love everyone.
You can't have a weapons manufacturer sponsor that, it doesn't make sense.
And yet, MSNBC and CNN are willing to platform pundits to speak about war, in particular the Ukraine-Russia conflict, that have ties to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon without declaring their credentials.
You know this is a very common phenomenon.
They're presented as military experts.
Well, I think there should be a war.
And why do you think there's a war?
Because I sell stuff that goes through the roof in wars.
And when I say go through the roof, I mean it goes through the roof, into the living room, blows up a whole wedding party.
Many of the retired military leaders employed by networks like MSNBC as paid contributors have secondary affiliations that are rarely, if ever mentioned, leaving viewers in the dark about whose interests they're promoting.
None of the leading networks makes a regular practice of announcing its military analyst financial ties to the Pentagon, connections that could color their on-air comments.
During its Ukraine coverage, MSNBC failed to include disclosures when the network invited on former Homeland Security expert Jay Johnson, who serves on the board of directors at Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor.
This military industrial complex agenda becomes significant again when you contemplate what's in the boxes.
Stop focusing on Trump and how bad or crazy or brilliant and fantastic you believe him to be and figure out what is in there because there is at least one fairly legitimate claim that plans for an American war against Iran is in those boxes.
So you will be able to observe perhaps over the coming months how agitation with Iran begins escalates until it's necessary because of humanitarian crises to go to Iran.
I feel like we've seen this playbook before.
We are here to bring you the news.
It hurts our ability to do that.
We can't advocate for war if people keep saying war is bad and kills children.
So we're just going to get people on that work for Lockheed Martin who won't talk about that.
If we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations no matter who says them.
No matter who says them!
Oh my god!
Hunter Biden laptop!
Hunter Biden laptop!
Let me know in the comments which thing that CNN and MSNBC have ignored is agitating you most in that moment.
We can't fund this without adverts from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Norfolk Grumman.
I just want to say sometimes it's worth having a war just to see how good their missiles are.
Don't think about that.
No, it's not for them.
think too much about that. Enjoy this bit. Woo!
Pfft! Oh, damn it! Don't worry! Oh no!
They're just like us! Ah! Don't think about that! No. It's not for them. It's for probably
some other sort of company, which I pray don't benefit from wars.
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This is by Branko Markatic, the great left-wing writer, writing in the left-wing organisation Jacobin.
So if you're a person who's, like, traditionally Republican, or right-wing, or libertarian, or independent, let me know in the comments.
Listen to this.
This is from the left.
This is one of the things, like, with me.
Oh, he's a conspiracy theorist.
He's right-wing.
I'm not!
The case of Donald Trump's latest indictment has monopolized national attention the past few days with a broad range of commentators expressing outrage and condemning Trump for potentially compromising US nuclear secrets, weapons capabilities, defensive vulnerabilities, and plans for waging war on Iran.
Wait, war with Iran?
Yeah, hold on, are we supposed to be having a war with Iran?
Oh yes, it's war with Iran now.
Oh, I thought it was Iraq.
We've done that war.
But Iran?
Yep, Iran.
But, I don't know, is it none of our business?
It's our business.
Why?
I don't know, they're being mean.
It's like, look, we're just having a war with Iran.
Are you a conspiracy theorist?
It's just like, you're suddenly saying you're going to war with Iran.
Who's going to pay for it?
Yes, in a detail that's been almost entirely glossed over, central to this case are a set of secret government plans for attacking Iran.
Other than as a pure factual matter or to stress how recklessly Trump treated classified information, this is This has been little remarked upon.
Just for a moment, think about that.
Like, what we're focusing on is Trump took them boxes.
That's bad.
It's classified information.
OK, full stop.
What's in the boxes?
Oh, we're going to have a war with Iran.
Do you want a war with Iran?
Well, actually, no.
I don't see how that's going to help at all.
Well, we'll just keep telling you stuff until you do want a war with Iran.
It's good because of independent media like this, and because of Branko Markadic's writing, we're able to tell you now.
And in fact, you'll be able to watch this unfold.
You'll be able to see, like, you'll watch the mainstream here.
The issue stems from Trump's apparent frustration with what he claimed was a false narrative being pushed by the press that after losing the 2020 election under the advice of then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, You're always going on about Benjamin Netanyahu.
Let it go Len, you're never going to meet him.
Who was briefly removed from power before returning last November and the coterie of Iran hawks he'd surrounded himself with, Trump was dangerously close to ordering strikes on Iran that could have triggered full-scale war and had to be talked down from it by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Millar.
Milley. According to the indictment in a recorded interview Trump gave at his New Jersey golf club
in July 2021 to a writer and publisher working on an upcoming book, the former president maintained
the reality of the situation was the exact opposite. That it was Milley and the Pentagon
who were pushing for an attack on Iran, on a reluctant Trump, and that the classified documents
he kept were proof of this. That sounds very Trumpy to me, doesn't it? Like, I'm keeping
those boxes. Also, you know that the Pentagon and their partners in the military industrial complex
require ongoing war.
If you're an ice cream salesman, you like a nice long hot summer, right?
Specifically, Trump showed them a pages-long set of plans for attacking Iran that he said were independently drawn up by the military and presented to him.
Sir, we've got these plans for attacking Iran.
Why?
Good for business!
I'll keep that.
While the Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Carol Leonig's book, I Alone Can Fix It, alleges that Milley told a confidant that he viewed preventing war with Iran before the 2021 inauguration as one of his missions, it also depicts Milley as one of the advisers urging on Trump's drone assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander General Qasem Soleimani.
New York Times reporter Peter Baker's own reporting on that assassination at the time didn't depict Millie in the best light, as he justified the reckless strike on the basis of reportedly vague intelligence about threats that actually didn't come to pass.
Oh, it's probably gonna be some attack.
Oh no, what should we do?
I don't know, go to war with Iran?
This comes in the midst of years of ratcheting up tensions between not just Iran and the United States, but maybe more dangerously, Iran and Israel.
Yeah, that doesn't sound good.
The latter's government has been pushing the Biden administration to take a more aggressive posture toward Iran for years.
Pressure that has been ratcheted up under Netanyahu's current hardline government, which has carried out its own strikes inside Iran and done several major and threatening joint exercises with the US military, including one just last week.
That's why it always starts.
We're just doing this military exercise.
Is it above someone else's airspace?
Yeah, it's above their airspace.
Like, they always say stuff like, a Chinese warship got in our way!
Where were ya?
China?
Hey!
One of our drones got knocked down by Russians!
Where were ya?
Russia, stop bothering people in their own countries and then saying it's their fault!
More recently, the Discord leaks of Pentagon intelligence revealed that the CIA itself doesn't know how serious Israel is about its threats to attack.
Even so, the White House has signaled it would approve of whatever Israel decides to do, even if Israel ends up sparking a regional war or even drags the United States into the fray.
The existence of US war plans for Iran suggests it wouldn't take much for Israeli attacks to draw the United States into yet another disastrous war, particularly if Iran retaliates, particularly if it winds up killing Americans in the process, whether intentionally or not.
If I had plans here to smash up Tim Pool's studio, like, would you think, oh, I wonder if, like, they're gonna smash up Tim Pool's studio?
Go and smash up Tim Pool's studio.
We're doing this to protect you from Tim Pool.
You shouldn't even have been looking in that box by Tim Pool smash up his studio plans.
That's between me to your fascist conspiracy theorist pig.
Go and smash up Tim Pool's studio.
We're doing this to protect you from Tim Pool.
Any such war would be a calamity, not just for innocent Iranians.
Pffft, who cares about them?
But around the world, further destabilising oil prices and adding to the economic havoc from the war in Ukraine has already caused much secondary human suffering while potentially creating the conditions for a much bigger and more dangerous confrontation.
Iran's deepening alliance with Russia, after all, could draw Moscow into the war, turning the country into the second front of a global proxy battle between two nuclear superpowers, the United States and Russia, while adding a third nuclear power, Israel, into the volatile mix.
Woohoo!
Do you know what this situation needs?
Diplomacy, ongoing negotiations, clear, cool heads and a willingness to look at humanity and the spiritual world as a whole.
Yes, yes, all of that.
But also, Israel and their nuclear weapons.
We're not nearly there yet, but it's incumbent on all peace-loving people in the United States to work now proactively to stop this scenario from coming to pass, not just to ensure the past year's rhetoric about illegal wars, imperialism, human rights and international law isn't mere, hollow, cynical posturing, but to prevent even more needless death and suffering.
Unfortunately, what seems like collective disinterest in the US-Israeli march to war in the press and otherwise doesn't bode well for these efforts.
So why are MSNBC in this instance in the form of Rachel Maddow saying we can't show you Donald Trump?
It's too dangerous.
We have a news organization, have a responsibility.
Trump could swear he could say something crazy and maybe even amusing that'll make you like him too much.
Is that a more significant That's a significant priority than bringing on people that have financial ties to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to advocate for and agitate for war with China over Taiwan, with Russia in a proxy war in my view over Ukraine and potentially Iran over as yet to be determined issue that they'll just make up.
What could have more negative impact on your life, on the planet?
Is it wars with faraway lands that are frankly none of our goddamn business?
Or is it the easy charisma of Donald Trump and his ability to somehow reach people and make them believe that he might be part of the solution?
So what you clearly have is a mainstream media that wants just enough Trump to keep us interested but not enough Trump to take away votes from their war-loving, hypocritical, censoring, surveilling, lying affiliates No.
in Washington. If they cared about dangerous information, they wouldn't put on shields for the military-industrial
complex and call it the news.
But that's just what I think. Let me know what you think in the chat. See you in a second.
Thanks for watching.
Now, here's the fucking news.
What fantastic points I made just then about the news cycle.
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Cause I believe the independent media has a role to play beyond conveying information.
Let's face it, the mainstream media is curating information and creating propaganda.
So independent media has to become a movement.
We have to create an axis where spirituality, activism, personal and collective awakening all alloy
into a glorious new, I'm gonna say obelisk rather than phallus of change and transition.
And I'm very excited to meet one participant in that in some ways very much a child of lockdown.
Adrienne Mishler, better known as Yoga with Adrienne, which is an interesting name, but nevertheless, we aspire after Adrienne in so much as she has created an online community sharing hundreds of free videos with over 12 million, is it 12 million YouTube subscribers worldwide?
Thank you very much, and if you've got a question for Adrienne, let me know in the chat, and guys over there in the gallery, highlight the questions and just bring them to me in an unfussy way and present them to me.
Adrienne, thank you so much for joining us.
Hi there, thank you for having me.
It's good to see you again.
Likewise.
The first point I want to make is that you are in a sense a creation of lockdown.
I don't mean that you are a grim Frankenstein figure, a result of a terrible laboratory accident.
Allegedly.
More, more that you came to prominence and popularity during the lockdown period because many people necessarily, understandably and wisely sought solace in yoga during that time.
When you began your channel, how did you imagine it might go?
What were your intentions and how do you deal with it now, now that it's become a very significant cultural movement?
The funny thing is, oh there's Benji getting Going to his spot.
He knows.
He knows.
He's like, oh, this is where I belong for this conversation.
The funny thing is we started the channel in 2012.
I think a lot of people may not know that or realize that the channel is over 10 years old.
And I met my partner in the channel, Chris Sharp, on the movie set of a film that he had co-written and was directing.
and I was acting in, playing the role of Polly in a punk rock band of three women, naturally.
And so we really enjoyed working together and I was already devoted to being a yoga teacher
and practicing yoga.
I was a theater artist from a very young age.
So it kind of started from the kind of passion project space
that one has as a creative person.
And I think that's the real blessing of the whole bit is if we had set out to start a business or a channel that reached millions, you know, it would have been tough because it's really hard to be yourself, believe it or not.
So the fact that we were like low stakes, starting this as a passion project, hoping to make a little bit of extra money, maybe to make some movies, You know, that was the original intention.
In 2015, we did the first 30-day yoga journey in January, and I think that's when things started to really pick up and we realized, wow, we can really help people here and make this more accessible.
My assumption is that if you practice a lot of yoga, a lot of mindfulness, a lot of meditation, it cannot but change you.
I don't see yoga as a sort of ancillary to the New Age movement that can sometimes seem Well, by its very nature, somewhat traditionless and rootless, I see it as a way to cultivate a different type of awareness, conquering the constant, caroming inner activity, the endless and nagging thoughts that
Sometimes won't leave me alone, and I was very curious to learn that since we last spoke, and I hope this is an unrelated subject, you've been recovering from panic and anxiety disorder.
How can you have suffered from that when you are a yogi?
Doesn't it sort of somehow protect you from that?
Because I know a lot of people watching this right now We'll be suffering from anxiety.
Let me know in the chat.
I'm looking at you guys, SensitiveHearts25.
I'm looking at you all.
Let me know if you've suffered from anxiety disorders and panic and if yoga is one of the things that you guys are going to.
So were you surprised and concerned and has it shaken your faith in the ability of yoga and comparable techniques to help you deal with those kind of things?
Yes, I'm so glad you brought this up because for many, many moons, I was quiet about my experience with anxiety and panic because of the very thing you mentioned, because to me, it was so astonishing that me, yoga with Adrian, like this ridiculousness of how could I get so hard hit with nervous system breakdown?
And all I can say is that I'm finally in a place where my nervous system can actually say, This is a serious subject for us to tend to our nervous system and to consider all the parts that contribute to nervous system balance.
That's hormones, that's like, you know, talking about the news, like the type of information we intake.
But I think with the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Coupled with, admittedly, a personal share, doing hormone therapy to freeze my eggs, you know, at my age.
The combination of those things just tipped the boat for me.
And we all have these moments where the boat tips, and that's when we need to remember that yoga practice is all about showing up with what is.
I think we all wanted to show up and be helpers so much so in 2020, 2021.
That I just kind of lost track of my own practice and my body reminded me, um, we have to come back.
We want to be of service.
What are people saying about their anxiety?
Young Toast says, Adrian, you truly got me to love yoga.
I was never into it because I found it boring, but now I basically need it at least a couple of times a week on my rest day.
It makes me get back into my body, which I have a hard time ever doing, especially as an autistic and ADHD adult.
I liked it that you said that you took your panic attacks and anxiety as a kind of route back to embodiment.
Can you explain that a bit more, please?
Well, you mentioned the word faith.
Like, did it, did it kind of allow me to lose faith or garner more faith in yoga?
And it, it scared, honestly, it scared the shit out of me because again, I was like, how could this happen?
How could I let this get so far away?
And part of it is like, you know, I did do some hormone therapy, but the world is a crazy place.
We're inundated with so much.
using this ancient practice to get back to the interior.
And remember that the roots of yoga, right, are deeply, deeply rooted in spirituality.
So that doesn't mean religion, that doesn't mean one thing over another, but it is a connection back to yourself, right?
And the opportunity, this vocabulary to connect to something bigger than yourself, maybe the divine.
And so I feel like If anything, it was, I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is how I feel.
I believe this.
It was a reminder from the divine of like what this practice is and what I can do to help communicate and share the depth of that.
Like what I can do to communicate that to more people moving forward, especially after the pandemic where so many of us came to it for mental health and physical wellbeing.
Fascinating that you talk about access to the divine.
If you're watching us now on Rumble, join us on Locals.
press the red button. That gives you the opportunity to join these chats live and also exclusively
after we finish streaming on Rumble, we'll be on locals and me and Yoga, not me and Yoga,
me and yeah, well me and Yoga, but me and Adrian, aka Yoga with Adrian, are going to
do some yoga. You're going to talk me through some asanas, some positions, so you can join
us for that. But that's only on locals. Press the red button and join us there. I mean,
why are you embarrassed about talking about divinity, Adrian? Because isn't that the whole
point of yoga really to get past the limitations of the individual mind and access the latent,
even unconscious forces that make up the sort of whole of our psyche and give us, you know,
when you come to a point where you're suffering from panic and anxiety, you need a different
You need to access something else.
You need to visit the edge lands.
You need to get beyond the ordinary parameters of your consciousness.
Why do you feel embarrassed about talking about divinity like that?
That's a good question.
I suppose I'm not embarrassed to talk about divinity.
In fact, I feel what I'm really relaying like, and I can hear myself now, and this is great for me as well, is that I'm being reminded of the divinity that's in this practice in a major way.
I think what the, maybe not so much the embarrassment, but just the awareness and attempt at humility of And not wanting to just blatantly be like, and this experience reminded me, I am the chosen one to communicate divinity through yoga to the people in this day and age.
I didn't want to make that sort of statement.
But I love that you asked me that because I think now is the time to stop being afraid of talking about the spirituality in the way I feel compelled to for so many years.
I wanted to make this practice, and I still continue to want to make this practice accessible, but I wanted it to be so inclusive, so easy to drop in for so many different types of people over the world, that I was very careful about the way I included the spirituality.
And I think since 2020, 2021, I kind of, yeah, I'm like, no, this practice is deeply rooted in spirituality.
It makes sense to come back to that and remind people of that.
People need spirituality now because the material world and its institutions are beginning to fail people.
I don't mean that nature is failing people, but it's become plain in the last few years that we're in some seismic shift.
It's the end of a particular era, the birth of something new.
I'm glad to hear you admit that you don't see yourself as the Lady Christ of online yoga, but there are a lot of comments here that seem to countenance a claim that you aren't willing to make, or rather support that claim.
Listen to some of this.
Firstly, Claus says, Adrian, have you got any advice for aspiring yoga teachers?
We'll answer that over on Locals.
Press the red button, you can join us there if you want to hear the answer to that question.
But look at this, look at all this praise bordering on hysteria, Adrienne.
SueBiz22, I've been with Adrienne on YouTube long before lockdown.
I fell in love with her immediately because of her purity and her incredible authenticity.
Marci Sova, SovaMama1 says, She saved my life.
Thank you, Russell, for acknowledging this amazing young woman.
Tajimo, looking forward to this.
I found out by Adrian from your last interview, you've been doing yoga with her since.
I love Adrian's yoga channel.
That's it.
And then Zache says, nice, let's do some yoga together.
I've suffered from a major depressive disorder, says CCS Ranch, and Adrian has helped me with that.
Thanks, all of you, for those positive comments.
Adrian has that.
In stark contradiction to the principles of yoga and spirituality everywhere, made you feel a deep sense of vanity, narcissism and personal power?
No, no, no, not at all.
In fact, it again just It is a true gift to get feedback at all, right?
And I think that it's, yeah, it feels good.
It's positive feedback.
And it mostly, you know, this sounds so like cliche and like lip service, but it restores my faith.
In so many ways to just hear people have that connection because you have to remember a lot of what a lot if not almost all of what I do I give away for free so people can pause it they can stop it they don't have to do it they don't have to take my crappy humor I mean Benji's cute so I'd log in for that any day but you know there's so many opportunities to do Something for yourself in this setting and the fact that anyone would choose to do it with me and that would, they would finish and then they would come back when there's no money.
There's no, I'm not there like challenging people.
Uh, you know, to me, that's pretty heroic.
And I think I mentioned this last time we chatted, like to me, to be able to show up and do something with a beginning, middle and end for yourself without an audience, without anyone watching you, without giving any money in exchange.
Pretty amazing.
So, if anything, I'm just, like, happy to hear it.
Carry on our conversation, Adrienne, with your permission, on local.
So, if you're watching us on Rumble, press the red button and join us now.
I see your Benji, who is compliantly on that mat, almost like a chimpanzee from Mary Chipperfield Circus.
Doubtless whooped into shape by a life of constant cruelty.
And now my dog Bear is going to join us.
We let Bear in the studio.
We're going to do yoga, not only with Adrienne, but with our recalcitrant hounds.
Here comes Bear.
Let's look at Bear.
Come in here, mate.
There he is.
Look at that.
There's Bear will be joining us for yoga.
So it'll be me, Adrienne, Benji, and Bear.
Join us on Locals in addition to yoga with Adrienne, plus our canine accomplices.
You also get exclusive access to interviews with RFK Jr., Richard Dawkins, a whole host of things, meditations, podcasts, so much stuff, as well as my live festival community, which you should be coming to, Adrienne, in all honesty, between the 14th and 17th of July.
Hay on white.
What you doing?
Where are you right now?
I'm in Washington State.
So out of the Texas heat, you know, I'm from Austin, and I am in Washington State, and it's beautiful, drizzly morning here.
Come England, we'll pay ya to be at Community.
We've got a fantastic show tomorrow.
We've got Simon Jordan, who's a social pontificator, football expert, and some say the most important and radical voice in the world's game since Brian Clough.
Join us for a fantastic conversation around sport and the culture and business of sport.
That's going to be fantastic.
But now, if you're on Locals, you can join me and Adrian.
We're going to do some yoga with our dogs.
What's that going to be like?
It's going to be weird, isn't it?
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same.
Oh, no, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
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