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June 28, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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IRS Insider BREAKS Silence on Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal!! - #156 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	I'm a veteran, and I could never be a veteran on the streets.
	I'm a veteran, and I could never be a veteran on the streets.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	There you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand exclusively on Rumble.
	I say exclusively, we're streaming right now on YouTube, but can that go on forever with the censorship industrial complex rising up like a mighty binary titan devouring all before it with its great fangs of censorship and I don't mean Lee Fang there, he's
	one of the reliable ones, him, Taibbi, Schellenberger, Barry Weiss, Greenwald, there are
	great journalists out there, let us know your personal favourites in the chat below, we love
	them all. If you're not watching this on Locals right now, watch us on Locals, you only have
	to press the red button like Ashella and Claude and Miles Driver, free to you better
	believe there's going to be free speech because free speech leads to more freedom. That's
	what I believe and I'm pretty damn sure my on-screen assistant Gareth Roy is of a like
	mind, are you?
	I certainly am Russell.
	That's the way we see the world together and that's how we manage to just jog along talking
	about some of the stories that are defining our culture and defining our time.
	When we leave YouTube in a minute, and we love you, you 6.4 million Awakening Wonders, it's simply because we're going to discuss stories that we cannot openly discuss on this platform.
	For example, there's an inquiry going on in our country, the United Kingdom, about the COVID pandemic era.
	And measures that were taken that were ineffective with one scientist, in fact, the head of the scientific team that provided COVID guidance, admitting that the lockdowns were political rather than scientific.
	And I'm looking to Gareth now because he knows the law and he knows how draconian these measures can be.
	And we do not want a strike, baby, unless it's a global strike of the world's working people coming together in order to decentralise power and create new democracies.
	We're going to be talking about that story and Matt Hancock's testimony.
	A little bit later, but you'll have to join us on Rumble for that.
	There's a link in the description.
	We'll also be taking an interesting look at the Titan's submersive implosion.
	What does that story really tell us?
	What does it tell us about economics?
	What does it tell us about the value of certain lives?
	What does it tell us about new exotic extreme tourism?
	What does it tell us about the deep Jungian archetypes that are being explored at this epochal time,
	this end of an era?
	But first of all, what kind of Rumble news show would we be if we didn't talk about the Hunter Biden
	whistleblower story?
	Someone from the IRS has come forward.
	Let me know if you're following this stuff.
	If you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button and join us on Locals.
	That's where all the questions are.
	You're gonna love it.
	A whistleblower has come forward to say that anybody else who had done what Hunter Biden's done,
	and I say this with compassion to a fellow drug addict, anyone else would be in prison.
	That's what he said, isn't it?
	Yep.
	He's also saying that basically this investigation where they were prevented from taking investigative measures that could have led to Joe Biden.
	So it's not just now about this whistleblowers is not making these claims just about Hunter No.
	They prevented the investigation from going further lest it should lead all the way to Joe Biden.
	Now that's an allegation.
	That's not true.
	But that is the testimony of this whistleblower.
	Who do you believe?
	I'm asking you this question directly.
	I'm looking into your eyes and I'm asking you.
	Who do you believe?
	This whistleblower from the IRS who's saying that anybody else who had done this would be in jail.
	Or do you go, stay on the single for this, darling.
	Come on, look at what I'm doing.
	I'm leaning into the camera.
	Come on, sweetheart.
	Or do you believe your own president, Joe Biden?
	Let's have a look at the whistleblower.
	Would have already served their sentence.
	There were personal expenses that were taken as business expenses.
	Prostitutes, sex club memberships, hotel rooms for purported drug dealers.
	How much did Hunter Biden owe?
	That's quite compassionate, to provide a hotel room for a drug dealer.
	Because, you know, there's bring your daughter to work day, there's provide your drug dealer with a hotel room day.
	What you cannot question is Hunter Biden's hospitality.
	I'll take two of each.
	Would you like a junior suite at the Holiday Inn?
	These are just things that are, of course, being alleged.
	And again, I continually reiterate this out of kind of solidarity for those of you that know people with addiction issues.
	But I suppose out of the interest of egalitarianism, you have to ask.
	Like, you know, I'm an addict and there's been consequences to my addiction.
	How's this dude getting away with this stuff?
	I mean, the text messages to the Chinese business partner, it's not absolutely, definitely known.
	The veracity of these text messages, as I know, is still a matter of question and inquiry.
	But it seems in a single text message, The figure of Joe Biden is mentioned three times.
	My father's right here.
	I don't know how my father's going to feel about this deal.
	And according to this IRS whistleblower, this inquiry, if properly undertaken, would have led all the way to the White House.
	Let me know in the chat how you feel about this.
	While Donald Trump's being indicted, we're going to be looking at that in more detail later in the show.
	No, we're not.
	We're going to be looking at that tomorrow.
	We're going to look.
	We've got some great stuff on that story for you tomorrow.
	While Donald Trump's being indicted for the old rifling through the censorship shoebox there, Oh, look at this one.
	That's secret.
	I definitely shouldn't be showing you this one.
	What's worse?
	Tell me now!
	Who do you think's worse?
	Can we have a poll on this?
	Is it possible to have a poll?
	What's worse?
	Is it being tangentially connected and shutting down an inquiry or is it rifling through the shoebox?
	Can we get a poll?
	Is it possible to have a poll?
	You know I love a poll.
	Oh yeah.
	Let's have a look at the rest of this whistleblower.
	So from 2014 to 2019, it was $2.2 million.
	I documented exactly what happened, and it doesn't seem to match what the Attorney General or the U.S.
	Attorney are saying today.
	It was just shocking to me.
	There were certain investigative steps that we weren't allowed to take that could have led us to President Biden.
	And you wanted to take them?
	We needed to take them.
	And you weren't allowed to take them?
	That's correct.
	That's impeding an investigation.
	You have to put that alongside the previous allegation that the CIA were evoked in order to shut down the laptop story.
	The chat is lighting up and you are not going to want to miss it.
	Some people in Drummo saying, well, what if in the text message he was lying about Joe Biden being in the room?
	But was he lying about his dad being in the room?
	Primal Colin, what does tangential mean?
	Tangential means off, out.
	Also, I think to that comment, the point to that comment there is that they do know through internet records that he was at Joe Biden's house when he sent that message.
	Well, it's likely.
	I mean, if you're in his house, it's not unthinkable that he would be in the room.
	Although Joe Biden, he does sometimes, and here's the word tangent again, he does sometimes wander off a tangent.
	Joe Biden, he might have been in his house one minute, gone out to, I don't know, mow the lawn, water some plants, carried on walking.
	Ended up in Delaware or something.
	He's in Delaware, wrapped up in a blanket, giving a speech about corn pop somewhere at the side of a freeway, shouting at passing cars, corn pop!
	Let me sniff you on the scalp!
	Allegedly.
	So what's this about a second whistleblower saying that they moved cash through China?
	Is that washing it?
	Is that giving it a little wash?
	This is allegedly that he's used basically China to deal with a tax issue.
	It's just a kind of tax evasion issue that he evaded paying a portion of his taxes by moving his earnings from Burisma to a Chinese firm and then getting the money back through a loan and this is what one of the IRS whistleblowers has testified.
	So again, kind of murky, underhand, potentially legal, although... Do you know what I think?
	Whoever's running the IRS, poor they've been charged with the CIA and the FBI.
	They're always the ones, if you notice this, their investigations are always better.
	I mean it's almost hackneyed to observe that Al Capone was eventually, and not that I'm saying that the Biden's a crime family, I am not Saying that the Bidens are a crime family.
	But Capone was brought down because of tax matters.
	I say, put the head of the IRS in charge of the FBI.
	Is that a crazy dream?
	Is it just a kid with a pipe dream?
	What's this?
	The Bidens are the best.
	House Oversight releases stunning text Hunter Biden apparently sent to Chinese executive.
	What's this one?
	What is this one?
	We've got so many stories.
	Are you able to keep up with this?
	Press the red button and join us on Locals.
	Join the chat.
	Join the chat.
	What's this?
	Two whistleblowers.
	Whistleblowers, people are talking about a number of whistleblowers.
	So this is the second whistleblower.
	So apparently he allegedly texted a Chinese business executive bragging about his ability to serve his client.
	And this is in the text.
	The Bidens are the best I know, being one of them, I would imagine.
	He's moving in a small circle though, the lad.
	And he only knows the Clintons and the Bidens.
	We're better than the Clintons.
	I mean, have you seen where that guy goes on holiday?
	Every year!
	I've not seen him pay a penny for it!
	Bill Clinton, when did he ever pay for an airfare?
	He's always on the same plane, always free, always sitting up the front, always turns left on his way in, always first class, never coach for Bill.
	Get that saxophone out, baby!
	Keep them lips a-pumping!
	Go on, hit us with a fact.
	I could do sex during it.
	This is the text message. The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership,
	Hunter Biden texted, according to the House Oversight Committee.
	The following day, one of Biden's shell companies was paid $100,000 from CEFC, the committee discovered.
	So this is essentially, again, kind of more bragging and more communication between Hunter Biden and previously it's
	been Burisma, now it's these Chinese firms that he's been involved in.
	And the whole thing is basically, should he have been able to use the influence of his father, whether or not this,
	you know, bribery thing is something that they were paid $5 million each to stop.
	That's what an FBI informant claims isn't it?
	Whether or not that's true or not.
	Allegedly.
	The situation that they were being in, they were obviously making a lot of money that then he wasn't paying taxes on, is a serious issue.
	Sounds pretty serious to me.
	Let me know in the chat.
	Press the red button and join us on Locals.
	We have got a fantastic week coming up for you.
	Here's some facts for you.
	Jack Dorsey, he's back on.
	We almost lost Jack Dorsey through bad Wi-Fi when that guy left Big Tech.
	He really left Big Tech.
	Not only am I not running Twitter no more, not only, I wanna know, what's he gonna say
	about the Twitter files?
	Why didn't you do Twitter files, Jack Dorsey?
	That's my first question.
	Tell me what other questions you've got for Jack Dorsey.
	He leaves Twitter, he can't even get Wi-Fi no more.
	What does he do?
	Throws his phone over his shoulder, he wants to be among the literal budge.
	If that's not enough for you, RFK is coming back on, and me and RFK were in regular contact.
	Those of you that saw the show yesterday would have saw me spontaneously messaging RFK with
	me top off, which even as I say out loud, doesn't seem like the right thing to do, does
	it?
	So I took my top off, I don't wanna say sexted, but I texted, voice noted RFK, and I laid
	down a challenge, and RFK has accepted that challenge.
	We are going to do a pull-up challenge to raise money for his campaign.
	My big concern is, am I going to be able to beat him?
	Now, while you're telling us who do you think should be facing indictment, Trump or Biden, let us know that.
	Who should be facing indictment?
	Let me know who do you think is going to win the pull-up challenge.
	Have you been prancing?
	Yeah, I have been.
	I was practicing earlier.
	I'm ready to juice, baby.
	How many can you do at the moment?
	I can do three.
	I am ready, so as long as he can only do two, I'm going to be rich!
	I'm not going to be rich, because I'm giving it back to the campaign.
	I'm moving between six and seven, but that's narrow grip.
	The true pull-up is the wide grip.
	I've got to move to wide grip, and I'm not going to be able to do that without bum jabs.
	It's pull-ups, it's not push-ups.
	I know!
	Push-ups!
	He says pull-ups!
	He said pull-ups!
	He better check!
	I think, let me just see what he said.
	Let me see what he says.
	And he says he loves me, so that's good, isn't it?
	He says, looking forward to our workout, RB.
	Let's do a pull-up contest!
	Pull-ups!
	How do we make money out of that?
	I'm gonna start juicing, hope you don't have strong views on Big Pharma.
	I said, pretty good joke, I thought, let me know if you like that joke.
	There he goes, let me see if we can devise a way.
	Right, so then he says he loves me.
	So, let's do it, let's raise some money for RFK's campaign.
	Who do you think's gonna win?
	Have you seen how jacked that guy is?
	Yeah, well we saw that video where he was doing push-ups, but he seemed like he could only do two or three.
	Maybe he's hustling you, who knows?
	It's like the classic hustle.
	He does a couple of push-ups, Oh, I can't do it.
	I don't know how I got these.
	I don't know where these big bad babies come from.
	He knows.
	Where do you think I found those?
	There in the back of the sofa?
	Where do you think I found those?
	Investigating Big Pharma?
	Where did these guys come from?
	Prosecuting Monsanto?
	No, he's hustling!
	He's hustling.
	He's a hustler.
	That's the very kind of hustler you need running the United States.
	A hustler for good.
	You don't have to give up your hustle.
	You don't have to give up your muscle.
	You don't have to give up your rustle.
	You just have to face it in the holy direction of our Lord and bring about the utopian spiritual revolution we're craving, baby.
	You've started taking those pills already, have you?
	I've on them tablets, they make me feel unusual, Gareth!
	I've got a headache in my body!
	Now, this topsy-turvy carnival world continues to rotate and vacillate in extraordinary directions.
	I ain't ever met a big-tech billionaire who ain't having a cage fight.
	I'm in a pull-up competition with RFK.
	Elon Musk and our man Lex Freedman are practicing BJJ.
	There's no footage of it, I think, just stills.
	Lex's tweet, a big shout-out to Lex I've got to do this show when I'm over there in October.
	Lex, he's training everyone, isn't he, Lex?
	He's going to train Elon Musk.
	He's training Zuckerberg.
	That's the kind of conflict of interest we're trying to shut down, isn't it?
	I bet as well, isn't it, Lex?
	He's been to BJJ for 15 years.
	He's got 10 years of judo experience.
	He's going to be a serious, serious martial arts practitioner.
	Even when I heard him explain what BJJ was, I felt a bit scared.
	Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art where you seek positions of dominance and then achieve submissions by breaking an arm or a leg or choking a person out.
	God, I'm actually a bit scared of that.
	I'm a bit scared of what's being said.
	I'm out.
	I'm tapping out.
	Oh, that'll do.
	That sounds intimidating.
	That's before anyone's put on a bloody rash guard or a gi or anything.
	I'm a bag of nerves.
	Nevertheless, Friedman is training both Zuckerberg and Musk.
	And we're asking, and we're going to delve into this over the course of the week, was Elon Musk Is it his cage fight with Zuckerberg, which Lex Freeman
	does acknowledge here in his tweet that it's a sort of a bizarre carnivalesque sideshow, or is
	it his fight against the EU?
	You might not know this because you're probably in North America right now.
	Let us know where you are. Are you in Canada, home of freedom?
	Are you in America, where you're being closed down on in all sorts of crazy ways?
	Are you with us in Europe?
	What's being threatened is new legislation in the EU that will mean that Twitter could be literally booted out of
	Europe altogether.
	All together. All together.
	Or find up to 6% of their turnover.
	This will apply to all big tech platforms.
	But as you know, most big tech platforms, they're going to roll with that, right?
	I mean, are we still on YouTube?
	Should we get off YouTube before we get into this?
	We probably should.
	We better get off YouTube.
	We're going to get into this.
	Now, look, if you're watching us on YouTube, you've got to click the link in the description because I'm hankering after free stuff.
	I'm nearly taking my bloody top off again.
	I'm getting RFK style.
	You know what happens when he does that.
	That's when the freedom starts flowing.
	A future president gets texted.
	The top comes off and Future Presidents gets texted.
	I'm lactating freedom right out of these babies.
	The sweet milk of freedom is flowing your way.
	If you're watching us on Rumble, press the red button now and join us in the chat.
	Who's going to do more pull-ups?
	Is it going to be me or RFK?
	Who should be indicted?
	Is it Trump or Biden?
	What kind of justice is there if there's no moral centre to this corrupt, hypocritical system?
	And how are we going to overcome our differences to confront it?
	That's something I'll be talking about later in the week in our Censorship Industrial Complex conversation with me, Schellenberger, and Tayibi.
	Special guest appearance from, oh, I can't even say.
	Next week, we've got a big one.
	We've got a big one.
	There's no way I'm announcing that on YouTube.
	Shall we get a bit deeper into what the EU are planning to do to make sure that social media sites are corralled and co-opted and controlled in the way that legacy media have been for a long time.
	The Twitter files revealed, thanks to Schellenberger, Barry Weiss and of course Matt Taibbi, that the deep state are involved in censoring even true information.
	Zuckerberg admitted that.
	Um, yeah, okay, okay, okay.
	Try to ride it out, baby.
	Ride it out, because I'm still walking towards you.
	I guess we're off YouTube now.
	We're off YouTube, are we?
	Mm.
	Okay.
	Uh, like, okay, so... Oh, I can just relax.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But you're right.
	You're right.
	Zuckerberg did admit it.
	He admitted it!
	To Lex again.
	I mean, Lex is everywhere.
	He's getting people to admit things.
	He's fighting them.
	Unbelievable.
	He's the Zelig of the online news space.
	He's appearing everywhere.
	Maybe that's how to do it.
	Maybe now we need to literally wrestle these big tech owners to get information out of them.
	When Jack Dorsey comes on next week, the first thing I'm going to do is get his wrist and give him a real rag around.
	There you go.
	I beg your pardon.
	I'm going to give you a lot of luck, old mate.
	I'm going to give you a right twist on his nipple.
	Oh that, okay.
	I'll get hold of his nipple, I'll twist it like that.
	Give us some information.
	Come on, tell us the true-true baby.
	Hit me with the old school true-true Jack Dorsey.
	Jack Dorsey, RFK, Tulsi Gabbard.
	Also, the person I can't even name, special guest, let me know in the chat who you think it is, guys.
	It's so exciting, I can't even tell you out loud.
	So this new EU censorship law, what is most shocking about it is that bureaucrats are now using the language of war and violence.
	Let me tell you specifically what I mean.
	What's he called that dude, Breton?
	Yeah, Thierry Breton.
	Thierry Breton is some sort of EU pen-pusher-point-dexter-bureaucrat over at the EU.
	He's saying, he's honestly saying stuff like this, Gareth will read it to you in a minute, he's saying stuff like, you can run but you can't hide, you don't do what we tell you, we'll kick you up your nutbag, you see these, you'll get a knuckle sandwich, you ready for this, I'll take you down, I'll take you down to Chinatown.
	And you fabricated some of that.
	Some of those things were outright lies, but some of them were true, and that's what I'd like you to focus on.
	Let's read the story.
	No, you're absolutely right.
	Yeah, so, um, Thierry Breton, he is the European Union's Internal Markets Commissioner.
	Ooh.
	Ooh, you're odd.
	Ooh, you're an Internal Markets Commissioner.
	If I had a dime for every EU market commissioner I had to take down, huh?
	Ah, you motherfucking nook.
	So yeah, he warned Elon Musk the platform cannot hide from obligations to censor content.
	You can run, but you can't hide, Britain threatened in a tweet.
	This followed France's digital minister, Jean-Noel Barraud, threatening Twitter also, saying, Twitter, if it repeatedly doesn't follow our rules, will be banned from the EU altogether.
	Bretton Fretton's, our new item.
	Art by Wendy Klein says, I may leave to meditate.
	No, get back here, Wendy.
	I'm not leaving to meditate.
	Meditate after.
	If you're a member of Locals, we do regular meditations.
	You stay here with us.
	Tell Gareth he's good for Russell.
	He knows it, but words are powerful.
	That's from True Chimera.
	I think what I'm saying, good words.
	A lot of people are guessing that it's Edward Snowden.
	No, Snowden, we're working to get Snowden on.
	We have a good connection with him.
	It's difficult to reach him because he has to keep his location quite private because people are trying to kill him.
	So he has to keep it down a little bit.
	Yeah, this is the Digital Services Act.
	Sounds very boring, but that's exactly why they do it.
	They make it sound boring.
	The DSA, the Digital Services Act, but essentially it's a way of creating legally binding laws to censor the internet.
	Ultimately, we've seen as emergency laws were passed during the pandemic to pass all sorts of things.
	We've seen how emergency laws are being passed during the Ukraine conflict at the moment, and now they're being used to essentially police the internet so that companies, exactly as you say, will be fined 6% of their global Uh, earnings, which is, uh, mass billions and billions of dollars, something that, um, you know, Elon can't afford to lose at this time.
	No one can afford that.
	That's seismic.
	That's, uh, that's, uh, that's, that's would bring down a business.
	I love this bit.
	The EU are saying that this will be a new law that will allow the bloc to declare a state of emergency on the internet.
	The law referred to as a crisis mechanism is part of the act.
	So what they're, remember when earlier we've told you that the WHO want to be able to take
	5% of your country's health budget for their pandemic response.
	Now we're telling you that the EU are going to impose laws that entitle them to impose
	a state of emergency.
	Who decides what an emergency is?
	Oh, they do.
	They decide what an emergency is.
	Now just cast your mind back to what happened in Canada.
	We're in a state of emergency.
	That hasn't been invoked since the Second World War.
	They used that to shut down people's bank accounts, shut down financial transactions.
	We said at the time, it's bad enough that it's happening in Canada, but what's more
	terrifying is it has the potential to become a global phenomena.
	Now Zuckerberg has admitted he regrets his, I don't want to call it collaboration because
	I don't want to bad mouth the man because we're trying to get him to come on our show
	as a matter of fact.
	We'll wrestle him if that's what it takes.
	If you have to give someone a violent cuddle, an angry cuddle to get them on your show,
	by God, I'll do it.
	But he has said that they sense it debatable or even true information.
	Here he is saying that on Lex Rieman.
	So misinformation, I think, has been a really tricky one because there are things that are kind of obviously false, that are maybe factual, but may not be harmful.
	Um, so it's like, all right, are you going to censor someone for just being wrong?
	It's, you know, if there's no kind of harm implication.
	It's like in retrospect, he's arrived at the place like that version of Mark Zuckerberg, surely at the time would have said, well, hang on.
	Surely we must allow there to be conversation and consensus achieved through consent, through conversation.
	And then ultimately legislation achieved through democracy.
	All these ideas are already out there in the space instead of what happened Was they defaulted to totalitarianism?
	How did they do that?
	Well, here's my take.
	The potential impact of COVID was, if not exaggerated, the worst case scenario was used as the barometer.
	That facilitated aggressive regulation.
	Simultaneously, the idea that all human life is sacred was used, and indeed that's a principle that I actually agree with.
	However, you don't see that elsewhere in regulation, legislation, corporate practice, geopolitics.
	That's not a principle that seems to be in practice elsewhere.
	Then, they hurried towards a solution that was potentially profitable.
	I mean, RfK on our show on rumble had a take on this that's just I can't go into it I mean I could go into it now but you can watch it on rumble and he explains it better than I ever could so we found ourselves in a situation where true information was being censored and now even as these tech titans debate and question inquire reflect on whether or not they did the right thing new legislation is emerging that it won't even be a matter of choice they won't be asking people to censor information that's true or debatable they'll be telling them
	As our man Breton said elsewhere, we will enforce this law.
	We will enforce this law.
	Now, I don't remember ever voting for them.
	Now, Britain left the EU, which everyone says is a universally terrible, terrible decision, but I'm not a fan of these kind of bureaucratic bodies.
	I'm not a fan of centralised power.
	I don't believe that they have the moral or political authority to govern life in the way that they have been.
	Yeah, and again, it all comes down to what is this information?
	The way of, you know, who decides?
	Who decides?
	And so you can essentially get to a position where if you're able to impose a fine on a company for not censoring the kind of things that you decide is disinformation, then they're going to do it, aren't they?
	And I think as Matt Taibbi pointed out, At that event, we're arriving at a point now where it's not just about what they're censoring of us, but what we're censoring of ourselves.
	We've got to a point now where we're so scared of free speech and what we can say and what the implications will be that we're now policing ourselves.
	At least in our community, people are fighting to remain free.
	This is in the local chat.
	Press the red button if you want to join it, like SMH56.
	God does not exert a control over us.
	Free will is my motto.
	I'm glad that you lot recognize that free will begins with you, that you have to, at some point, take responsibility for your free will.
	You remember, of course, that Fauci and Zuckerberg were corresponding.
	Have a look at that.
	That was at the advent.
	Remember, this is just a little while ago.
	In our climate of amnesia, you're invited to forget this stuff.
	And meanwhile, it's not just the EU that are imposing these laws.
	The Five Eyes nations all have online censorship bills that impose economic penalties on platforms that will not toe the line, as well as this
	new UN hate speech proposal.
	I mean just look at what talk your way through this like apparently friendly little graph of
	wonder, pause, fact check, react, challenge. Look at that, it all looks so sort of amenable, human,
	communicable, easy. Yeah look at it man. Again this is like the third stage to this.
	So we've already talked about the fact that social media will kind of police itself, will censor itself and censor its users.
	Then we're talking about policing ourselves, that we're so scared of saying anything that we start to police ourselves.
	And now this is essentially about snitching on other people.
	So the United Nations has taken to Twitter in a new campaign to battle speech that it finds objectionable Urging social media users to push back against hateful content and report offenders to the police and other authorities in extreme cases.
	We're getting to the point where it's like snitching on everyone else.
	Do you feel afraid to communicate freely?
	Do you feel that you're being censored?
	Are you unable to be yourself online?
	Do you shut yourself down?
	Tell us now in the chat.
	Press the red button because I'm telling you that here you can be yourself.
	You can say whatever you want.
	We have faith that your free speech will not lead to hate or disinformation.
	That it will lead to inquiry, discourse, conversation.
	We are not afraid of free speech here.
	Freedom of speech is vital here.
	Where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
	Where free speech meets, you get free-ch.
	A lot of people saying they feel safe in this community like the unicorn plug Jay Gwynn
	Hate speech is just anything that could be described as a challenge to the official narrative.
	A lot of people just simply screaming Freach.
	People sending love to you, Gareth, like Sensitive Hearts 25.
	Poisonous.
	Oh God, the comments are coming in at such a rate.
	It's very difficult.
	People are being hacked for their songs.
	There's a lot going on.
	I think our community is like a perfect example.
	I think if people were saying things on there that were so objectionable, and defamatory,
	and insulting towards other people, I think the community would regulate themselves.
	They don't need to start snitching on each other, they don't need to start making it
	law.
	For example, True Chimera says, to be honest, I liked the bad graphics, they were fun.
	And you're free to say that!
	And we welcome that, because we love Jack.
	He's a good lad.
	We love him.
	He's a good lad.
	He's just not very good at graphics.
	But you're right.
	Like, you have to trust.
	In the end, you have to acknowledge that, like, I suppose, this is what I believe.
	I personally don't have the right to regulate or control anybody else's free speech.
	I don't have that right.
	And I don't want anyone else imposing it on me.
	This is where you get into interesting moral arguments, because I've recognised over the years that I'm libertarian, except in so much as I do believe that we have a responsibility towards one another, that community is vital and we should take care of one another.
	I don't think the state should be imposing that, neither do I think we should live in economic conditions that allow corporate gargantuanism.
	But what I ultimately believe is I don't want anyone telling me what to do at all about anything.
	I don't want people telling me to wear a seatbelt.
	I don't want people telling me to do anything.
	It's my life.
	It's my decision.
	Now, there's an interesting point where the conversation can become complex.
	For example, do you want the state or any authority interceding if you thought the life of a child was in danger?
	What if, God forbid, a child wasn't safe in their own home?
	At what point do you start thinking, oh yeah, I suppose you do need the ability to intervene, because wouldn't you intervene to protect a child?
	I mean, what, are we to become some vigilante mob of renegades?
	I do believe that one of the solutions is decentralisation.
	That many of the problems we face are the problems of scale.
	When you have communities of hundreds of millions, 50 million, 60 million, you try to create a centralised ideology and then ask everyone to live by it, and it simply doesn't work.
	If we lived in communities and tribes, of course there's going to be crime, of course there's going to be flaws and fallibility, and even, I suppose, forms of abuse.
	But the community and tribe can deal with that through their own systems of judiciary, their own systems of law, custom.
	That's, I guess, what I'm working towards.
	Yeah, I also think, you know, your example then of protecting a child, your point earlier about whether or not this is about protecting us or controlling us.
	I think we were talking earlier about you saying that it's about where this is heading towards.
	It's not necessarily about where we are now, about controlling disinformation at this point because of how, you know, Disinformation can be so, I don't know, how it can affect us negatively.
	When someone says something actually hateful or something that's untrue.
	But it's about where they're noticing how the online space is growing.
	And as we've talked about RFK saying that this election will be the first one won via podcasts and independent media.
	You've got to wonder if the shutting down of platforms, the censoring of social media
	sites is not about, oh, it's about hate speech and controlling people being mean to each
	other, but where this is all leading to.
	This is great.
	Ian Drummer says, yes, protect your child from abuse, but not from their parents having
	a different perspective from the government.
	And I think that's what's true.
	At the moment, I think we're at greater risk of people censoring themselves and being censored,
	controlled and shut down than we are of the kind of egregious horrors that I'm alluding
	to with the example that we've just outlined.
	Some of your comments on the Trump leaked audio, Maximum Ties 444.
	It's wild they're trying to send Trump to prison, but all he's really doing is bringing
	their corruption to light.
	That's an interesting perspective.
	It's one where we've explored, isn't it, mate?
	Of course, you know, it is by letter of the law, not legal for Trump to share classified
	documents, but we both believe that some plans are important.
	They were speculating on Fox yesterday that he leaked it himself.
	So basically to kind of exonerate himself and to kind of say, look, I was right all along, which would be a mad move if that spot's discovered.
	But it's a Trump move.
	It's a Trump move, though.
	Trump, ironically, thinks outside the box, but he gets his information from inside it.
	Apologetic pest.
	If you had access to classified documents, wouldn't you want to know things?
	Trump's curiosity has been blown out of proportion.
	I like the apologetic pest.
	It's like he's just curious.
	What's in that box?
	Oh my god.
	I think he was allowed to see it when he was president.
	It's like he's nicked it and showing other people.
	Our general perspective is that the contents of the box are more significant than the fact that the box's contents have been linked.
	Hit the red button, join us on Rumble.
	There's a fantastic conversation going on.
	People talking about child abductions that are going on.
	People talking about state intervention when it comes to children.
	I know when it comes to my kids, I don't want anyone involved in their morality or their ethics.
	But I don't want to be involved in anyone else's kids' morality and ethics.
	It seems to me like it's a self-regulating system where most of us just want to be left alone and are willing to accept that we have to leave other people alone as part of the bargain.
	The problem comes when your morality and ethics are about what other people are doing.
	What are you doing over there?
	What's going on down your trousers?
	It's my own business.
	People are doing what they're doing.
	Get on with your own bloody life.
	This is on RFK.
	Zen Hillbilly says, RFK is now the middle, not left or right.
	He represents normal common sense.
	Do you guys agree with that in the chat?
	Do you think that now, Gareth?
	Well, I think it's amazing that his content is getting removed from YouTube when he's talking about things like changes to society, changes to the Democrat Party, changes to all sorts of structures.
	When he's not implicitly kind of talking about vaccines, the thing that they can always like get him on because it contravenes WHO guidelines, but still things are getting removed.
	He's obviously threatening the establishment.
	We have a position now where one presidential candidate in the form of Donald Trump is being threatened with indictment, hounded and harangued.
	Seems to be one take on it.
	You have RFK, who's campaigning for presidency within a Democrat party, being censored.
	I mean, that, a few years ago, you would think that that wouldn't be possible, wouldn't you?
	You think you can't censor a presidential candidate from within the Democratic Party.
	But at least with Trump, you can say, well, if this is a, you know, legally, if he has done something that is, whether it's right or wrong, You know, legally.
	Illegal.
	You can say we've gotten that.
	But guidelines on YouTube are not laws.
	They've been, you know, they've come, as you always talk about, they've come from the WHO.
	You know, RFK's opinion, our opinions, that's all that they are.
	This is a free speech matter at this point.
	You could say that Donald Trump would be entitled to free speech about the Iran stuff as well, but I guess they can get him on the...
	The legal aspect.
	Barry John Fox on the subject of Musk versus Zuck says, never underestimate a nerd.
	Musk just needs to train harder.
	I hope you enjoyed your free speech.
	Press the red button.
	Join the locals community.
	We do regular meditations.
	We're a right little bunch of darlings over there on Locals.
	It's a great self-regulating community where free speech is used to inspire open debate and conversation, where we're free to critique establishment narratives and the establishment themselves.
	But it is self-regulating.
	There's no need for hate.
	There's no requirement for hate.
	But was it ever thus?
	What went on this week in history?
	Can you believe that this week in history in 2009, Michael Jackson,
	the king of pop, he sadly died. Whilst in 1988, Donald Trump, he sat
	down for a lovely chat with Oprah Winfrey, don't have an impression of
	her, to talk about his presidential ambitions. And while the US
	government was busy trying to debunk the Roswell incident, yeah,
	because I'll tell you, that's one thing all of you lot that think that
	the UFO stuff is a distraction. You won't believe how the Roswell incident
	was spoken about in like the 1980s.
	Some wackos believe there's aliens!
	And there's an amazing report that we have from Britain in 1971 where a woman is sent to pinch men's bums, posterior's asses, in the interest of sexual equality.
	But this is an important day because on this very day, 52 sweet years of our Lord ago, Elon Musk emerged either by caesarean section or from the reproductive orifice of his mother, Mrs. Musk, Who doesn't want him to fight, apparently?
	She says don't fight?
	She said she doesn't want him to do it.
	Don't do it, Elon!
	Don't do it!
	Resolve your differences with code!
	With code and speculation and mushrooms, for God's sake!
	Look at this report of Elon.
	I think it's on his birthday.
	He bought himself a supercar for himself on his birthday.
	Elon Musk was a different dude back then.
	Let me know in the chat what you think about him.
	Check him.
	Hi, Elon Musk.
	How's it going?
	I expect to receive a car that I've just bought, which is called McLaren F1.
	I think he's got the vibe of young Putin in some ways.
	You know, young Putin who works for us.
	You know, like he's got the... It now makes me think, young Putin.
	Have a look in the gallery.
	Could you face the camera, young Putin, a little bit so we can see you?
	And in fact, why don't you stand up and move a bit closer to it so we can see you?
	And would you put on a beige jacket if you have one?
	Because he won't put... Look, see, he won't cooperate.
	Now, do you see that?
	I'm in a way his boss.
	He's a disruptor.
	Marvelous.
	He's a young disruptor.
	He's a young disruptor.
	He's not prematurely balding, but he's a young disruptor.
	I'll tell you that.
	You want to be nice to him?
	Because he might own a tech platform.
	Right.
	He's just scribbling away the data.
	Don't let him take any hard drives home.
	That's what I will tell you.
	Because I bet you... Oh, he's been doing it for years!
	He's building his own business!
	Like, even though he's 28.
	I don't know, man.
	Yeah, it's not like you couldn't predict, I suppose, that he was going to go on to become a massive tech titan.
	It's a sweet piece of news in a way, and it shows you how quickly people change.
	Because if you look at Trump in 1988, like, he's a lot of things.
	He's sort of quite handsome, and he's quite suave.
	And look how much the world's changed.
	Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump can have a perfectly congenial chat on the television.
	It doesn't seem so intense.
	That's one of the things that we kind of mean.
	Like, when RFK is presented as an extreme figure, and Trump is presented as an extreme figure, you feel like it's extremeness itself is being amplified as a concept.
	I remember we used to all just be out chatting to each other.
	Oh, you're a conspiracy theorist?
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	Oh, you're a bit right-wing?
	Oh, yeah, a bit right-wing.
	Oh, you're not racist or nothing?
	Oh, no, no, no, none of that, except in maybe an unconscious way.
	People used to just be out chatting about stuff.
	Oh, you're left-wing?
	You don't want to centralise all power and execute people down Gulags?
	No, no, we're just thinking a bit more money on hospitals.
	Everything seems to have gone out of hand.
	Look at Donald Trump.
	He's maybe a bit sexier, but he's definitely not so Trumpy.
	He's like Trumped himself right up.
	Have a look at him on Oprah.
	I'll talk to you about whether or not you want to run.
	Would you ever?
	Probably not.
	Oh, we're a bit frozen.
	We're frozen on that image.
	We froze on Oprah there.
	And someone says, oddly, in the chat, she looks like Medusa.
	That's apologetic pest.
	And Medusa, of course, turned people to stone.
	Well, she clearly glanced in a mirror there.
	And I've got nothing against Oprah.
	I once saw her directing a show.
	from the gallery when I was on Rosie O'Donnell's show.
	And Oprah, man, she was powerful.
	And then I got back to my dressing room and I was explaining to someone, oh man, Oprah Winfrey, I just see her directing the show with no shoes on.
	And then she just swung open the door of the dressing room and came in and I was talking about her.
	And I wasn't saying anything disrespectful, but I was talking about her.
	But you know, I thought, oh, I'm not going to act like I wasn't talking about her.
	So I'll just go, All right, Oprah!
	I was just talking about you there, saying how I saw you directing the show from the gallery, and I just watched her, as I've seen with many powerful famous people before, sort of shut herself down from me.
	Not this guy.
	You're like RFK.
	You're gone.
	You're out from YouTube.
	But since then, actually, I have been on one of Oprah's shows talking about addiction and all that, getting better with her, so that's all good.
	Let's have a look again.
	Audio in here, baby.
	Would you ever?
	Probably not.
	But I do get tired of seeing the country.
	There's two tracks of sync.
	Tidy that stuff up for us.
	Let's see if you can make it work.
	Can you test it in there?
	Maybe young Putin won't be able to come a tech titan.
	Although maybe Elon then couldn't.
	But there's power.
	This is what you get now.
	Imagine in 10 years time when he's running.
	Turn it off, let it quiesce, restart, you're welcome.
	That's from Miles Driver.
	They're actually providing practical online help.
	Let's go to the next clip actually.
	Let's go to the Roswell clip.
	This is the US Air Force.
	This is the denial of Roswell.
	The way they talk about Roswell now, those of you that think that all this UFO stuff is a conspiracy, what's Gut Bucket?
	Can someone explain please?
	That's Putin's new business venture.
	Join us on Gut Bucket, the only social media site you can trust.
	You better copyright patent that name right now says I own it because I want to be in the background like if he's gonna be Musk I'm gonna be Bill Gates silently running things.
	What was you doing on that airplane?
	I don't know.
	I just like him.
	He's alright He was just helping me for charity stuff.
	What you went to the island 20 times.
	I thought it was just an holiday Alright, so let's have a look at all the news.
	Now, those of you that think that the UFO stuff's a distraction, check out how the news used to speak about it in 1997.
	This is on ABC or one of your mainstream news channels.
	They're like, some nutjobs think UFOs are real!
	And they're totally carrying the propaganda around Roswell, which I've heard off the record from a very credible journalist, was a total, legit incident that live and dead extraterrestrials were recovered from that incident.
	The diplomatic relationships began at that time between the United... I mean, I know that's pretty out there stuff.
	But anyway... Well, it's not out there if you're going to take these whistleblowers at their word at the moment.
	Those whistleblowers... Them tell the truthio, do you think?
	Have you ever known there'd be so many whistleblowers?
	There's a lot of whistleblowers.
	So many whistles, you can't... It's like tinnitus.
	They're all lining up everywhere now.
	The IRS ain't right.
	There's UFOs everywhere, buddy.
	The FBI's not being run proper.
	I got a tattoo of you on my dick.
	That's the FBI, remember?
	That espionage act is going to be used quite a lot, isn't it?
	Will some people ever be convinced it's UFOs again, we fear.
	Get the old espionage act, you can bang up anyone for that, can't you?
	Yeah, you should have a whistle. The unicorn plug says there should be a whistleblower emoji.
	Good idea, let's get one, see if you can make one.
	Young Putin, that'll be his first billion.
	Hmm.
	Oh, invented the whistleblower emoji.
	Yeah, let's have a look at the news criticizing bloody Roswell, saying it ain't real.
	Check it.
	Will some people ever be convinced it's UFOs again, we fear?
	Yesterday we told you about the Air Force's latest attempt to close the case on the so-called
	Roswell incident.
	That's not so-called Roswell, that's just the place name.
	Like, they're actually, like, breaking that down.
	So-called Roswell.
	Who's to say there even is a Roswell?
	As in aliens seen in Roswell, New Mexico 50 years ago.
	Today the Pentagon released videotape it thought would settle the issue.
	He's already in the cynical mood before he's got to the information that requires it.
	Okay, so now it's time for Roswell, which is a...
	Place in America!
	No, this isn't the cynical bit yet.
	This is just the normal bit.
	Be cynical when you start saying, they say there's aliens there.
	Oh, just don't.
	Just report the news.
	It's the same as now, isn't it?
	Just say the news!
	Stop editorialising it!
	Tell us the news, then we'll decide.
	Like, you don't have to intone like it's a sort of, like a subcontinental language.
	They have to intone that it's true or not true.
	Give us the information and we'll decide whether we believe it or not, won't we?
	We'll make it, we'll decide it in our own heads.
	Right.
	In our own private lives.
	Exactly.
	Down in our own trousers.
	And in the end of the... Oh!
	There was nothing there, the Air Force says, but as ABC's Barry Serafin reports, good luck.
	The Air Force tried to explain everything and had video to back it up.
	People who saw these saucer-like objects it said were actually looking at NASA space probes tested in New Mexico in the 1960s and 70s.
	And they made them after and put them there.
	Did you hear that first sentence?
	The Pentagon had everything and tried to explain everything.
	Like, they're basically doing the Pentagon's bidding for them as they do now.
	Exactly as they do now.
	It's just in a different context now.
	Now they'll just have people from the Pentagon on the news to be like, this is why we need to go to war.
	Back then it was, the Pentagon's done all they can to try and explain to these not-jobs why these things are perfectly explainable.
	Do the same thing, basically.
	Do you know as well, at the time, if you guys check this out, like there was a sort of a local news report at the time going, some aliens have landed in Roswell and we have greeted them and they're a great bunch of guys!
	There's a spaceship, look it's over there!
	I thought that off, like Building 7 style.
	Like I just went, oh yeah, it's a weather balloon, I don't know.
	What was that you were saying yesterday?
	I don't remember any of that.
	Like there's an initial sort of rather innocent report.
	It's not as dramatic as I've just outlined.
	You know me, I exaggerate.
	But like they changed it and subbed it in for the preferred propaganda.
	Like Building 7, where there's just the news people going, well look, there's this building blowing up.
	We don't know who did that.
	Well, that never existed.
	Don't ever mention it again.
	These silvery devices, it said, were actually radar reflectors from a secret project in 1947.
	And these were not aliens, but dummies.
	Made all this stuff in the 50s and 60s, though, innit?
	Like, in the 1940s, like, you know, they've clearly gone, oh, look, like, the one bit in this bit coming up in a second, they say they put the mannequins in body bags.
	Why would you do that?
	Oh, no, this... Just thrown it from space.
	They say, oh, we need to protect them, so we put them in body bags.
	Out of respect.
	So stupid.
	Out of respect for the dignity of this mannequin, we're zipping it up in a body bag.
	We don't want you to... Well, you're just for our fucking satellite.
	Yeah, but we don't want you to see its dick.
	High-altitude ejection tests in the 50s.
	but the answers just triggered more questions since the new pictures were mainly from the 50s and
	60s. Amazing that thing on its own merits that sort of weird jellyfish balloon. I'd be pretty
	happy with that. 60s while the Roswell Flying Saucer reports occurred earlier in 1947. Well
	I'm afraid that's a problem that we have with time compression. But cool because even though
	this ain't that long ago 1997 I still feel like you don't get deep south generals cropping up on
	the TV with the same regularity.
	This guy sounds like, well listen, it's time compression, which for me sounds more amazing than aliens if you can compress time, that's pretty crazy.
	Towards the end of it though, there's a really crazy bit where he goes, is this true?
	Like this stuff, do you believe it?
	Do you believe it?
	They ask some questions, one of them goes, how do we know we can trust you?
	How do you know that you've been told the truth?
	Really interesting inquiries actually from the Look at that!
	are assembled for that conference.
	Shift D!
	And he sort of does this mad expression.
	Those of you that are into body language and stuff will blatantly see it.
	He sort of goes, he tightens his lips up, and then sort of looks off to the side
	like he's starring in a photograph called The Face I Do When I'm Lying.
	You can show, oh yeah, just show, yeah, just the end bit.
	Do you believe in UFOs?
	Personally, no, sir.
	But millions do.
	Look at that, shift D.
	Wow.
	Did you have sexual relations with that woman?
	Do do do do do do do do do do do do.
	Going over to Baker Street.
	Do do do do.
	I ain't paying for no planes.
	I don't need to.
	I got a buddy.
	Yeah, man.
	It's crazy out there.
	Good old sexism.
	Thankfully, it's a thing of the past.
	In the past, though, they were... Oh, no.
	It's 46 minutes.
	We can go.
	Are you okay in there?
	Hello!
	This is a good one.
	We'll save it for another day.
	Well, it'll be a year, won't it, now, because it's this week in history.
	Listen, we ain't got time for no more.
	Thank you so much for joining us in Locals.
	Have you had good fun?
	Hadn't it been amazing?
	Listen, tomorrow we're doing our Censorship Industrial Complex special, and before you go, stay with us.
	This is an amazing week we've got coming up.
	Jack Dorsey from Twitter's coming on the show.
	We're going to ask him about the Twitter files and why he goes places where he don't have Wi-Fi.
	He's overcorrected, isn't he?
	Yes.
	He's gone from being a big tech titan to, I don't know Wi-Fi.
	I'm not even going to use pens, man.
	These are the devil's instruments.
	I'm on 3G these days.
	I'm on 3G.
	I only use 3G.
	I write my shopping list with bogeys.
	Jack, you've overcorrected!
	You've overcorrected, Jack!
	Then we've got, who's the other one that we can confront?
	Tulsi?
	Tulsi's coming on, RFK's coming on.
	Me and RFK, we're doing pull-ups together.
	That's a lovely poster for the Censorship Industrial Complex.
	Bad Graphics Jack has made it.
	Go on, just check that.
	Well, see if you can guess.
	God, you can replay if you want.
	I don't know.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	That's Bad Graphics, Jack, telling you that on Friday we have got an exclusive Matt Taibbi and Schellenberger explaining how we will defeat the censorship in Dutch Recommendation.
	Is that me the night?
	I look pretty cool there.
	Right.
	Look at Taibbi beaming like a schoolgirl.
	Look at Schellenberger like a deputy headmaster.
	Look at me, Jim Morrison.
	What a badass.
	See if you can guess in the chat.
	Press the red button on Locals Now and guess who you think See if you can guess who's coming on.
	We've got such a big guest coming on.
	Oh, have we got a clip?
	Guess who you think's coming on.
	It's a guest that's a seismic this.
	It's such an exclusive that if we actually don't ruin it, like you know often we ruin it because I nearly have Elon Musk on then I send him a mad text and delays it for a month and he goes on.
	Don't do any.
	No communication with them this week, please.
	It's not Hillary Clinton.
	A lot of people are guessing it correct, but I cannot confirm.
	Is it bad graphics, Jack?
	It will not be bad graphics, Jack.
	No, we cannot confirm because it's too cool.
	It's not Trump, though.
	It's not Trump.
	Stop it!
	It's so exciting!
	I want to tell you, because you know me, I believe in free speech.
	I believe in your right to have the information for yourself and assess it for yourself.
	Tim Ballard, I don't know who they are.
	It's not going to be that.
	Is it Queen Elizabeth's ghost?
	Grow up!
	It's not Her Majesty's... You think that we would conduct some ceremony to rise up Elizabeth Vagina's ghost to pull it up out of the grave using cosmic mojo and voodoo?
	Rise up Queen Elizabeth's ghost to bring her... I would do it if I could.
	No, I know you would.
	I would.
	I'd have her on.
	I'd sit her down.
	I'd go, well, how do you feel about it now then?
	You'd have to build it into the daily schedule around here.
	Was it worth it, Liz?
	Was it worth it?
	All that pretending, all that dressing up, now you know there's an afterlife and material gain in this life is meaningless.
	It was beautiful the way you surrendered yourself to a living symbol, but in the end it did set up a lot of hierarchical systems that needed deep investigation.
	What's it like?
	Did you meet God?
	Did everyone have a cool people up there?
	Hendrix?
	He's gonna be great.
	It's not that anyway, it's not that.
	Some of you are getting it right though, some of you are getting it right.
	Hey, listen, if you remember that Locals community, you get so much... I want my privacy!
	That's a funny episode.
	It's a worldwide privacy tour!
	Come on, come on!
	And listen, we've got to go.
	We've got to go.
	We're not leaving altogether, though.
	If you join us on Locals, there's meditations, bespoke meditations for you.
	We now, though, have got At last, a proper take on the Titan submersive.
	You've listened to the claptrap.
	You've heard the rest.
	Get ready for the best, because have you wondered what Jungian archetypes are being evoked?
	Have you wondered whether or not this is a story of inequality in itself?
	Have you wondered if the Titanic is being called upon, risen up as a great living metaphor, because that was the end of a particular industrial age?
	And are we now on the precipice of a new order?
	All of the hubris around the Titanic precipitated World Wars 1 and 2.
	What do we stand on the edge of now?
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	Is this a foreboding and ominous warning about what happens when that which is at depth is brought back to the surface, even in our imagination?
	Or is it just a distraction from all the corruption?
	I'm fascinated by the Titan substory for these reasons.
	If indeed there is a collective consciousness that we all participate in, what does it mean when there is a renewed interest in the Titanic?
	The Titanic of course represented the zenith of industrial achievement at the time that it was built.
	The largest moving object ever made by the hand of man in all history.
	It's been a news story at the time it was launched.
	It was a news story when it sunk.
	It was a news story when the Titanic movie became one of the biggest cultural artifacts of the time.
	And now the Titanic is back in the collective imagination because of new technology that allows us to make 3D models and technology that evidently does not allow us to go thousands and thousands of fathoms deep to investigate.
	Why, once again, is it billionaires and economic achievement that is defining our culture and defining our age?
	What does it mean when at this time of universal chaos, UFOs, billionaires fighting one another, new peculiar mysterious wars.
	What does it mean when we go down to the depths and try to bring up the past?
	What does it tell us that billionaires are able to go on expeditions that are, let's face it, indulgent, and I mean that with all due respect to those that have lost their lives, when there is so much poverty elsewhere?
	Is there a kind of unconscious meaning that can be gleaned from this extraordinary story?
	New details coming in about the investigation into the Titan sub-disaster.
	The Canadian ship that launched the doomed vessel returning to port in Newfoundland with flags at half-mast.
	Oceangate's CEO stalked in rush among the five people killed in the catastrophic implosion.
	Human beings have always had an aspect of our shared culture that's about intrepid investigation.
	Down into the very depths of the sea, where potentially extraterrestrials lurk, we now learn.
	Out into the outer reaches of space, the highest mountain peaks.
	It used to be how we defined our culture, through excellence, expertise and shared intrepid adventure.
	Now, of course, this is the preserve of a particular economic class.
	The idea that Together we're going to explore space is ridiculous because our whole culture is undergirded by economic models that require hierarchies and privilege and seem to me to be marching relentlessly towards a state where there is centralized power and the rest of us become somewhere between an automaton and a blob constantly engaged by our tech expressing ourselves through consuming no meaningful democratic power or communal power at all.
	The reason this story interests me is because of the narrative of the Titanic At its time, it represented power.
	It now represents intrigue.
	And those that have gone down out of hubris and curiosity to investigate it, a luxury and a privilege, they have curiously been claimed by it, added to those that died at the time.
	What is it that the Titanic represents in the ongoing myth of our culture?
	What is this great sepulture that lays at the deep, this tomb, this ongoing tomb, that seems to be denying even contemporary experts from investigating it further?
	I'm not saying that this is a rationally accurate analysis, I'm saying that this is what can be mythically drawn from it.
	Loads of you watching this now think, I don't care what happens to a bunch of billionaires that can just afford to pay 250 grand to go and explore the deep.
	Loads of you I know, let me know in the chat in the comments, will be saying this is just a distraction from important stuff that's going on with the Biden administration, the charge to hunt a Biden.
	And potentially those things are true as well.
	But surely you've noticed that our global culture seems to be extraordinary.
	Isn't this story part of an odd new collection, a new menagerie of mad stories about exploration, weird cage fights, peculiar wars, UFOs?
	Have you looked at the raft of stories that are being released lately?
	Is it possible that something seismic just below the surface is taking place?
	All five passengers on board instantly killed in a catastrophic implosion.
	Authorities also hoping to recover audio recordings.
	They say investigations typically take anywhere from 18 months to two years.
	I mean, it's odd because now there's got to be another set of investigations into an extraordinary event that wasn't really meant to yield anything other than pleasure.
	It's a pleasure expedition, isn't it?
	It's just a sort of sub-aquatic Brothel of the mind that's being visited.
	And now, more expenditure, more time.
	In a way, this is the perfect story that shows you how, even though we're living in an increasingly globalist culture, it's defined by very peculiarly diverse and varied interests.
	Where you might have one part of the earth defined by famine and poverty, where you might find that your democracy is falling apart, that you don't have any meaningful political alternatives because both of the dominant parties are basically the same, while you're not invited to vote on whether you're going to be locked down in a pandemic or whether a new war should be embarked on or whether gain-of-function research should happen or whether or not you think it's wise to engage China in a war, the eyes of the world are on this.
	The resources of the world are on this.
	Isn't it an interesting diagnostic tool that tells us that there is something wrong under the depths?
	In dream analysis, the ocean represents the unconscious.
	Something like the Titanic, a vessel that we're all aware of, represents some kind of grail, some kind of quest, something that we're all looking for.
	And really, what's a more important pursuit?
	Going down to explore the Titanic out of mere curiosity?
	Or coming up with new and radical solutions for how we might live together as a culture when it appears that there are social, ecological, political, economic, militaristic disasters on the horizon in almost every direction in an unprecedented way?
	I know you would have progressives say, Why 80 years ago it was the second world war and hundreds of years ago people used to live outside sucking on a pig's teat to survive.
	I recognize there are aspects of civilized culture that are extremely beneficial but clearly we're still looking for something and we're not going to find it at the bottom of the sea.
	Now the world of exploration takes a breath, as difficult decisions remain about a potential recovery mission to the bottom of the Atlantic.
	A place known for tragedy, now fresh for five more families.
	And I suppose that's the brutal truth.
	There are five families now grieving needlessly because of this expedition.
	Let's have a look at some analysis from elsewhere.
	First of all, certain painful but telling historical ironies come to mind.
	There are similarities now played out on a miniature scale between the sinking of the original RMS Titanic and its present-day shadow, the Titan.
	There were prominent wealthy victims of the 1912 disaster, too, including John Jacob Astor IV, business magnate and the richest individual aboard the doomed ship, and Pennsylvania Railroad executive John Thayer.
	This time, like the time when the Titanic was launched and sank, is a time that's, in a way, defined by a sense that we're at the periphery of new exploration.
	At that point, industry had brought about great, miraculous ventures like the Titanic herself.
	Now we stand on the brink of AI.
	And similarly, perhaps, we have new warnings because the Titanic went down just before the First World War, quickly followed by the Second World War.
	Now we stand on the precipice of all this potentially new and miraculous technology But many of us, and let me know if you agree with this in the comments, sense that there is a foreboding, an eeriness to our time, a weirdness, a strangeness that suggests that we need to awaken from a kind of peculiar illusion.
	And imagine what was heralded by the sinking of the Titanic.
	Imagine if we could have stepped back from that time and said, all of this industry, all of this exploration, all of this ambition is going to lead to massive conflagration and the loss of millions of lives in those two world wars across Europe, across the entire world, of course.
	Are we similarly now at an axis point where we need to step back and take a review of the direction we're heading in?
	I know I believe we are.
	The 1912 sink in and enormous death toll, as various investigations have shown, were entirely avoidable.
	They were the combined product of corporate profit hunger, ill-conceived plans, countless errors and simple stupidity.
	Likewise, there seems reason to believe that Oceangate's activities merit scrutiny.
	In 2018, the company's director of marine operations, David Lockridge, presented what's described in the media as a scathing quality control report to senior management, including CEO Stockton Rush, and was fired for his efforts.
	Lockridge prefaced his report by insisting that it was time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel and that numerous issues pose serious safety concerns.
	And there are the appalling matters involving the rescue efforts.
	Famously, the Titanic carried only 20 lifeboats, able in theory to accommodate 1,778 people, a little over half the 2,200 people on board, and many of those put to sea only half filled.
	You know all those guys dancing downstairs?
	Well, fuck them!
	Even if the submersible Titan had been located, efforts to save lives would have been hindered by the fact that virtually no rescuing capabilities presently exist, at least in government hands.
	A Forbes comment points out astonishingly that as the global market for extreme tourist adventures has emerged, submarine rescue has now become a largely privatized endeavor and most governments have little to offer the missing mariners if they are trapped underwater.
	The decline in America's rescue capabilities has been dramatic.
	In 1960, the US Navy boasted nine dedicated submarine rescue ships and two fleet tugs fitted out for undersea rescue work.
	Today, the service lacks a single dedicated undersea rescue vessel.
	Once, the pursuit of space travel and moon missions captivated the attention of the globe.
	Now, it is the private enterprise of billionaires like Bezos that take us to the moon.
	Figures like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg have now in the public imagination replaced figures that seemed before to represent a nation.
	Perhaps one thing this alludes to is we may still have national pride and a connection to our flags and our nations, but increasingly there is nothing behind it.
	When it comes to it, Private enterprise has come in and taken away the power that would once have been the source of a nation's pride.
	Think even and significantly of military spending in the country of the United States of America.
	We know, of course, that 50% of it goes straight to private companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.
	And that the Pentagon, once the home of the American military, can't even pass an audit.
	That there's extraordinary anomalies in their accountancy and expenditure.
	Sometimes I wonder if this new entrepreneurial, intrepid spirit of endeavor is an indication that the age of the nation is over.
	Let me know if you agree in the comments.
	Once again, America's vast military, security, and anti-terror apparatus only proves capable of ending lives, not saving them.
	That's an interesting diagnosis, and it shows us where we stand.
	There is the capacity to expand through war, but there is not the capacity to protect.
	And what is it known as?
	The defense industry.
	Where's the defending?
	The present tragedy does not cast extreme tourism in a positive light.
	Designing to see the five individuals alive and well does not signify approving of their foolhardy adventures.
	All too often, individuals with too much money, too much time on their hands, two little brains in their heads, and ugly, overwhelming hubris put their own and other people's lives at risk.
	New York City is still full of buildings that bear the names of Rockefeller and Carnegie.
	Those were the great emblems of that age.
	The 1980s, once again we saw people exploring the skies, hot air balloon races, fast cars, land speed records.
	Always the pursuit of excellence is used to justify extreme wealth and disproportionate power.
	Essentially inequality.
	But the fact that these ventures are starting to fail now suggests to me we're at a point where we need to examine our paradigm more heartily, more thoroughly.
	This is a time where we need to be diving down to the depths of our social models and seeing what fallen sunk wreckages lie there that we are still allowing to define our time instead of moving boldly forward to new models.
	This summer Virgin Galactic will finally start flying paying customers to the edge of space in the company's rocket-powered plane, Spaceship Two.
	The first flight, a mission named Galactic 01, will launch as soon as June 27.
	Customers pay between 250 grand and 450 grand apiece.
	I do think that when on one part of the planet you have ludicrous, hubristic, explorative trips like that, and elsewhere there's just chaos and suffering and Penury and poverty is telling us something.
	Don't you agree that it's somehow ridiculous that, on one level, we are all here on this planet, that we should be, through consensus and democracy, creating systems, ideals and goals that are a reflection of all of us, not just Marx, privilege and extreme elitism.
	That seems to be an indicator that something is very wrong.
	The question of class intrudes in both tragedies like a knife blade.
	Of the approximately 709 Titanic passengers in third or steerage class, an estimated 537 died.
	Being poor is fantastic!
	Dance with me, Jack.
	Some 80% of male third-class passengers perished, while only 3% of first-class women suffered that fate.
	As has been well documented, steerage passengers on board the Titanic were confined to their area in the lower decks by grilled gates, some of which were never unlocked as the ship filled with water.
	If a culture collectively chooses a story as a metaphor, it means it has resonance in it.
	Why is everyone fascinated by the Titanic?
	Why?
	What is it telling us?
	There's information in there.
	Not just rational, materialistic data.
	How many people died?
	Did they drop a necklace down there?
	Let's find that thing that Leonardo DiCaprio dropped.
	Not just that, there's power in it somehow, there's something mesmeric and intriguing, and that kind of data helps you understand that.
	Because in the microcosm of the vessel itself, it shows you you live in an unequal society, and in the event that even a ship sinks, you are not bonded by the fact that you're all on the same ship, because some lives are more valuable than others.
	So part of the energy behind this Titan submersive story is our awareness That these people were representatives of a particular economic class and their pursuit to go fathoms deep in order to sort of go on a deep aquatic safari has led to death.
	Of course that's really bad and really sad and all lives are valuable and I'm not the kind of person who gets off on death.
	You know what I mean?
	That's a weird trip.
	But what I will point out is that the story has a thread running through it that's trying to tell us something.
	Well, trying's not the right word.
	Can tell us something.
	111 years later, class divisions have reached an even higher and more malignant stage.
	It has now become a tailing fact of two distinct vessels, the Titan on the one hand, and the fishing boat that sank on June 13th in the Mediterranean, killing hundreds of desperate refugees on the other.
	Now, I know a lot of you will say, oh, refugees coming over here and all of that, and you're quite reluctant to take on board those kind of narratives.
	But my personal feeling is people that are willing to get on boats and risk their lives are frightened and desperate.
	And it's worth looking at the relative values of those lives.
	Which lives matter?
	Which lives are more important?
	How do you determine the value of a life?
	Why is it that some lives should have millions spent on saving them and supporting them and protecting them?
	Not just in crisis!
	All the time systems are held up, subsidies are offered, tax breaks are given.
	All the time.
	You notice it in a crisis because suddenly there's drama and allure and intrigue and a little maelstrom of energy that's easy for us to observe because it seems to step out of the norm.
	But it's always happening.
	Whereas other lives are, well, you know, they shouldn't be trying to, why don't they get in their own country?
	Why should I pay taxes?
	And I hear all of those arguments and totally I'm sympathetic to those arguments.
	But just ask yourself why that is allowed to happen.
	And what are you being shown by this?
	Let me know in the comments, because I'm here to learn as well.
	Their mass flight has largely been precipitated by the imperialist wars and other operations carried out by Western powers, the very regimes now presiding over their deaths at sea.
	If your own government's actions have somehow precipitated a refugee crisis, either through war in order to pursue resources or some other political action in those territories, then when does the point come where we start to recognise, hang on a minute, we've got more in common with the people fleeing those nations than we do that thin slender thread of elite interest that are causing those wars.
	Isn't it a necessity, you tell me, for us to all come together in sympathy and compassion and recognize that whilst it's not fair that some of our taxes is spent on helping and feeding displaced people, it's even less fair that the majority of our taxes go to elite interests like the military-industrial complex, subsidies offered to big energy firms, subsidies offered to big agri, subsidies offered to big food.
	It's just a question I'm asking you.
	Let me know what you think in the comments.
	Can you see what I'm trying to say?
	We know that these kind of extreme tourist trips are enjoyed by a particular class of people.
	Now, is it that they earned that money in a hustle bustle, social Darwinism, concrete jungle of capitalism free market competition?
	Or are there other rules that are less obvious to observe that we maybe have to go a little deeper and investigate in our own little submarine?
	Amazon, a trillion-dollar company, has received at least $5 billion in US-based tax breaks and other subsidies.
	So that's Amazon.
	You know, Jeff Bezos is not the CEO anymore, but he was for a long time.
	And you might recall that Bezos built that superyacht that they had to take a bridge down somewhere in Europe in order to get it out.
	Bezos took his cock rocket out into space, didn't he?
	Do you see now?
	5 billion in tax breaks, cock rocket expeditions.
	I know that there is more complexity than that, but those things I've said are all true.
	Offering tax breaks and incentives to attract businesses, common practice for state and city governments, politicians want thriving local economies and jobs for their communities.
	In the US, these kind of subsidies amount to at least 30 billion dollars annually.
	But recent research from Princeton didn't find strong evidence that company-specific tax incentives increase broader economic growth.
	So that's the myth.
	These tax breaks will trickle down to everybody.
	Do they trickle down to everybody?
	Does everybody end up going on sub-aquatic explorations?
	Or are these kind of elite tourist pursuits only accessible, like elite tax breaks, to a very small group of people?
	Are we seeing that some lives are more valuable than others?
	Are we seeing that there is indeed something at depth that is trying to tell us something?
	Watch out!
	Watch out for hubris!
	Watch out for elitism!
	Watch out for a system that doesn't acknowledge the fact that while we're all on the same vessel, some people are in steerage and others are in first class.
	And it makes a big, big difference if the ship should ever go down.
	But that's just what I think.
	Until next time, stay free.

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