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Aug. 22, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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OH SH*T, They NEARLY Started A Pandemic In AMERICA!! - Stay Free #195
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**music** In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Thanks for joining us with Gareth Roy for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
A show where we freely discuss truth with integrity and authenticity.
Where we bring you guests who will shed light and spread truth at a time where telling the truth becomes an act of... What's that thing?
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act?
Is that what we're saying?
There you go, you've got it.
We're saying something like that.
So we're talking about the lab leaks with our special guest, Alison Young.
She's going to be on in a moment.
Guess who's back?
COVID's making a comeback.
COVID's back.
Tell your friends.
COVID's back.
Boost your friends.
Because there is a new booster and all.
Plus, in here's the news, we're going to be looking at the Moderna government revolving door.
One minute you're working for the government recommending Moderna, next minute you're at Moderna selling Moderna products.
What a crazy, topsy-turvy, but don't say corrupt world it is.
But Who do you like better?
Is it our sweet Lord God, or is it Donald Trump?
Is it the unending Lord, or is it Donald Trump?
A lot of people, it's Donald Trump.
That's why we asked you in a poll, who do you like better, Joe Biden or God?
And let's see, we've not seen those results.
There are 33,000 votes and most people do like God a bit better than they like Joe Biden.
There you go.
So between Trump and God, we've got something resembling a solution.
Biden's got the atheist vote.
Yes he has, hasn't he?
He's an atheist.
But even if I were an atheist... You'd still think you'd go for God?
I prefer a god that I just absolutely do not believe in rather than a president that it's surely impossible to believe in at this point.
One of the things about rational materialism is it comes to an abrupt end, certainly when it comes to the Big Bang Theory, what precedes it, what happened on the Tuesday before the Big Bang, why is there that inflationary period where the expansion of the universe abruptly altered, And why are CNN so bloody selfish?
Look at this lovely bit of mainstream news where CNN start to panic about the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency by looking at polling numbers.
You'll enjoy this.
Check out the mainstream, bebe.
And we've had three polls that have come out over the last week here.
And I want you to take a look at how close this race is at this particular point.
Granted, the general election is over a year away.
The largest lead for Joe Biden is just three points within the margin of error.
No clear leader.
Funny isn't it?
No clear leader sums up Joe Biden, doesn't he?
Like undermining it with his green finger bob.
His green line?
He's not very useful really.
This is children's news.
You could just look at that poll and just have some music on.
It wouldn't help.
You could listen to Shady's bag.
You could watch A Little Smoky and Vietnamese Baby while that's going on.
Not on YouTube!
Because a smoking baby would contravene the World Health... I know what I'm saying, actually.
Radical, anti-authoritarian though I am, I'm not endorsing little smoking Vietnamese babies.
No.
Other than he is adorable.
You do like him, though.
I love him.
We'll have a look at him over once we're... Because if you're watching us on YouTube, right, we speak freely here.
We do our best.
If you're one of our 6.5 million Awakening Wonders, we could not be more proud of you.
You glorious pilgrims.
You devoted wanderers in search of truth.
That's why we recommend you get here fast.
You join us on our mission in person.
This isn't a media organisation.
This is a movement.
Come one, come all.
Flood us with your... Let us start commuting.
We haven't got much room here.
There's plenty of room, but it's like an ark.
Get on board.
It's very awkward to get here as well.
Get on the love train!
I wouldn't recommend it.
Come easily, regular buses.
Listen, it's easy to get here.
Come here.
Join us.
Join the movement.
If you had enough of the mainstream, tell us in the chat.
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And watch us on Locals.
You can join in with all our little pals, like Thomas Beard and Art by Wendy Klein.
Look, they're all coming.
They're on their way now.
It's like a... What?
Yeah, they're coming here.
They're all on their way.
Don't get under our feet.
Don't get under our feet there!
You're gonna graft for a living!
Uh, look at it.
So, look, let's go back to the mainstream.
At least we provide a bit of colour when we do the news.
A few jokes, a few jives.
What's up today?
Green line.
Green line?
That's colour.
What do you want?
No, you're right.
Fair enough.
The beat is there.
I haven't done no lines, have I?
I've got the sign, though.
I've always got that.
That's our colour.
Let's see where he goes with this nut job.
One point.
One point.
If you go back at where we were at this point four years ago, Joe Biden's lead was high single digits to low double digits.
Out of that phrase, low single digits to high single digits.
He goes like really New York with that as well.
That's like what, 8 to 12?
8 is a high single digit, 12 is a low double digit.
Like when Leon down my road goes when I was 10, double digits for the rest of your life now.
And unless I reach 100, he's right, sadly Leon did drown when he was in his teens.
What's the moral of this story?
Learn to swim.
This is significantly closer than what we were four years ago.
Don't swim drunk or on drugs.
Right.
Those are several morals.
He's a good lad, Leon.
God rest his soul.
Turns out he wasn't as wise as he came across.
He's only little, mate!
He was only about 18 when he drowned drunk.
Like he was a new prophet or something.
Sorry about that.
He was a good lad down my road.
I liked him.
He was a good lad.
Never mind.
We go on, don't we?
Maybe this is a bit of a draw.
Statistics now.
So this idea that Donald Trump can't win the general election, I want you to lose that idea.
In telling me what to do about losing my ideas.
Like the mainstream media are selfish.
Like this guy, like we're watching today because he's funny, but then morning Joe's interpretation of events is literally like people trying to cling on to their jobs while doing their job.
It's crazy.
This is very very close and Donald Trump is polling better right now.
All the time he's saying all of this is the numbers 47 and 46 are similar to each other.
We know what we know the sequence of numbers don't we?
Also losing ideas.
Lose that idea.
Strange concept.
How are you gonna lose an idea?
It's like saying forget about it or something.
Forget about it baby.
Look at him he's just peculiar little Lego man.
Now then basically at any point during the entire 2020.
After four indictments.
After four indictments.
It just doesn't really seem to matter.
That's fascinating.
Harry Antin.
How fascinating!
He says, it doesn't seem to matter, she says it's fascinating and yet somehow they muddle
along.
They could have literally gone, the whole item, it's closer than you think, you know?
Yeah, closer than you think.
Some numbers over there, mate.
If you want to look, fascinating.
Doesn't really matter, though.
I mean, what an extraordinary couple of extremists.
Morning Joe have made it even more insular.
Remember, over the course of this show, we're going to be talking to Alison Young about the lab leak theory.
We're going to be showing you in a minute Joe Biden arriving in Maui.
And whoa, I ain't seen crowds that excited since young Elvis Presley come on the scene.
Joe Biden, Joe the pelvis, although that pelvis is crumbling like chalk even now.
Over on...
One of his aliases.
It's all JRB!
Let's have a look at Morning Joe advocating for their own continued employment.
Even though I've been on that show and I don't think they should even have jobs now.
They're alright.
Let's have a look at them.
Make no mistake about it, and this is why I get so enraged with not the far-right fringe, but the Republican, the establishment Republicans.
Do you not understand that if Donald Trump wins, nothing else matters because it's over?
Morning Joe might act, just to take a little example, Morning Joe might not exist anymore.
You got my vote.
I've never felt more inclined to register myself as an American citizen.
Like, get him off!
That's a really odd analysis.
Really mad.
That's the priority, is it?
Morning Joe?
It's not very good Morning Joe.
I'm amazed he's on it this time.
And he turns up once in a while, he's made himself outrageously blonde, like he's seen
the Barbie movie and kenned himself into oblivion, bleached himself senseless, staffed sod.
Morning Joe's not very important.
Also, who is more authoritarian and censorial than the current Democrat regimen?
Like, they're the ones that are looking to ban free speech the whole bloody time, if
you ask me.
What's wrong about this?
Have I gone crazy?
Let's see what other outrageous claims they make.
Donald Trump has said, as all autocrats say, what they will do.
And he said, if I'm elected, I want the FCC reporting directly into me.
And he will cancel the show.
I mean, you need to think that...
Oh, you shouldn't be on the telly.
You're coughing too much.
Can you imagine?
Even a seasoned broadcaster, like me, I'm still, hey, I think Covid's back.
Covid's back.
Tell your friends.
Like, you don't deserve to be on the telly.
Firstly, your suit's too light.
People don't dress like that.
What do you think you're in?
Bugsy Malone?
Scream.
It's over.
Freedom is over if Donald Trump gets elected.
It's that hysterical!
Freedom's over!
That's madness.
The news, again.
Here is the news.
Freedom is over.
Remember, what's that thing about the chains that we did the other day?
You never notice how chained you are.
If you don't move, you better pull the chain.
Here we go.
He's got it this time.
Here comes sweet lady freedom.
He's got it.
Like, if you don't... Those who do not move do not notice their chains.
Nice.
And who said that?
It's that fella.
No, it's Rosa Luxemburg.
Simple.
No other issue matters.
Every other issue sprinkles down from that.
However you feel about the economy, however you feel about whatever...
He's wearing under the table.
He's got socks on.
He's got no socks.
His ankles and his heel are nude as the day.
He's naked.
He's naked from the ankle down there and he's got jeans on.
Who is this fella?
No, that cut shouldn't be allowed.
Donald Trump will end freedom.
That's the kind of hysteria.
Do you know what I'd like to do with that fella?
Mate, what do you think about this thing?
Where Donald Trump's going, Hunter Biden made millions from those deals, and Joe Biden's going, that's not true!
How do you deal with that?
How do you deal with keeping the laptop story out of the news?
What do you say about Russiagate?
What about them, the DOJ, hassling that judge, saying about the First Amendment rights of the man himself, Trump, there, are being impeded?
You're right, when he says freedom will be over, what about the social media censorship?
There's massive social media censorship that's still continuing.
They're lobbying judges and courts to continue censoring on social media and then you're saying freedom is over.
It doesn't make sense.
What they mean by freedom is their set of preferences being backed by the state.
Real freedom are the preferences and views of other people.
I think some time ago they abandoned in their minds the idea of blue-collar working-class Americans.
Once they were abandoned this kind of sort of elitist Insanity was unleashed to the point where you can have Mourning Joe suggesting that Mourning Joe is the sort of epicentre of the treasures of democracy and if that were lost it would be a problem rather than an enormous bonus to everyone.
We turn into an autocracy.
What our forefathers fought for 250 years ago is over.
That's what's at stake at this election.
Everything else is a subtext to that.
Oh, it's all subtext.
It's not subtext.
It could be secondary.
It's an extraordinary piece of analysis.
Hey, and there's a pun if you want one now.
I'm assuming that's come from Jamie.
He says, we'll be mourning Joe.
And what he's done is he's put you in the word mourning.
Well done.
Not you.
We'll be mourning.
We won't be mourning, Joe.
We don't care what happens to them.
Hey, guess what?
The presidential primary debate will be on rum-rum-rum-rum-rum-rum-rumble tomorrow at 9pm EST.
You can watch them presidential.
Are you going to watch them, the primaries, if you are going to watch them?
Definitely.
Watching on rumble?
Are you going to?
Yeah, on rumble.
On rumble, yeah.
We'll be sat here, won't we?
Yeah, on rumble.
Watching them on rumble, won't we?
Yeah.
It'll be in it.
Vivek, he'll be there.
We'll understand.
It's all our friends on the show.
I should be there, shouldn't I?
I wonder if they'll do a shout-out to you, maybe.
They'd best mention me.
Right.
In the old days, we would have gone, here's a mention in the primaries.
Like, I'll tell you who has been texting us.
Dave Rubin.
Oh, yeah.
He'd be going, are you coming?
Are you coming?
I'd go, I don't know, mate.
Like, we'd pay for us to all come.
We'll go then.
If he's a jolly, if there's a few quid in it, we'll be out there for them primaries.
I think he's going.
Commitment from Brander.
I ain't bothered about things like that.
As you know, I don't think that those kind of systems are going to generate real meaningful change.
But I'll tell you who I would go out there for.
Bobby.
Bobby F. Kennedy.
Of course you would.
Or Cornel West.
I like both of them.
They're my favourites.
I like Cornel West because I like how he talks and everything.
I like how passionate he is.
I like how often he brings up jazz.
Yes, he does.
And RFK, obviously because of the old pull-up competition I'm a bit nervous about.
Well, you're going to have to go out there anyway.
Got to do that thing at some point.
Sooner or later I'm gonna have to face facts.
I've been asking Dave Goggins, you know Dave Goggins, he's a sort of Navy SEAL and all-round, I would say tough guy, for some advice on pull-ups and help on slaying my inner bitch.
Oh yeah.
That's what he helps with.
Even though I love Cornel West and RFK, Most people love Joe Biden.
Some even like him more than God.
4% of you.
And the people of Maui, they welcome him as if he were a conquering Caesar.
Let's have a look at that footage now.
We've had to beep out the expletives because we're still on YouTube.
Have a look.
Wow, he's finally here!
Wow, yeah!
Awesome, awesome!
Yeah, thanks for nothing!
Thanks for nothing!
F*** you!
I think that no comment moment where Joe Biden asked, have you anything to say about the Maui fires and they went, not really, I'm not bothered about things like that.
I think that's actually backfired.
Backfired almost as much as the incendiary matters themselves.
Let's have a look at this mainstream media reporting on the matter.
Check it.
There's a lot of real estate speculation happening right now that is really frustrating, and I just want to remind all you real estate investors around the world, like, Lahaina is not for sale.
Please don't reach out to these families and take advantage of them during the most devastating time.
On the news, don't do what?
Don't reach out to them and offer these desperate people money for their land.
Oh, don't do that.
Okay.
What are you doing now?
Not, I'm not doing that.
Hello?
In a sense, you can't stop every crisis being exploited by establishment elites.
In unrelated news, we'll be talking to Alison Young later about the lab leak theory and the ensuing crisis provoked potentially by that.
I'm not saying that's definitely how that went down.
I suppose it's odd that the assumption is that these fires will lead to opportunities for elites.
That's not a conspiracy theory, is it?
It's not a conspiracy at all.
I mean, there's a chronic housing shortage there already.
Wealthy second home owners buying up the land.
that the locals at the moment are worried that that's going to continue happening amid this crisis.
Of course, they're correct. It is going to happen. We've got billionaires like Oprah and Jeff Bezos
buying up massive parts of land. You've got tax breaks for Zuckerberg buying agricultural land in
Hawaii. I mean, they get agricultural tax breaks when they're not actually starting farms. They
take advantage of them. I mean, all of these things do gear you towards sceptical thinking.
Well, also, and the anger that we've just seen towards Joe Biden, when his response was so long,
when he was talking about $700 versus the $900 that people have paid out to this war in Ukraine
at the moment, the lack of funding and infrastructure that potentially caused these
electrical faults. All of these things, also, as well as the kind of land issues we've just
talked about, of course, people are angry. They're furious about this situation.
My dog's done such a bad fart.
He has, hasn't he?
It's really affecting my ability to broadcast.
I've just got it now.
Normally it's me that's done a thing like that, and I'll just sort of subtly indicate to you, sorry about that pal, I ain't been well.
But this one's bare, and he's down there, he's pumping out... What's his facial expression like?
He looks to me pretty satisfied.
Does he?
He looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
He looks like him shit don't stink!
But the truth is it do!
He ain't no Paul Saladino, I'll tell you that.
Our fantastic guest Paul Saladino, dietary expert, who doesn't even bother to wipe his own body because he drops out little crystal egglets.
Later on the show we'll be talking to Alison Young, not about her private, no wait, we'll be talking about Covid variants and lab links.
I'm not going to talk to every guest.
No, not two days in a row.
Well, that's just, that was a one-off.
Space it out, at least.
Over time.
Perhaps, you know, sort of like, we're going to have a break soon.
And then, like, when we're coming back, we've got Candy Soins coming on.
We've got Ben Shapiro coming on.
Ask her about it.
Ask him about it.
Eckhart Tolle.
Ask him about it, mainly.
Oh, well, Russell, of course, I like to relax into a hot bath.
I'm already doing a poo right now.
Eckhart Tolle is quite relaxed.
Pride Faults on the locals chat says my cat never farts, but I simply don't believe that.
If you're watching us on Rumble, subscribe to their channel right now.
If you're watching us on YouTube, I think it's time for us to go.
I think it's time to leave and talk about the Covid comeback.
Reports on the new variant, and would you believe it by some incredible coincidence, the new boosters too.
What you're going to love.
And remember, if you're watching us on YouTube, you're going to have to click on the link in the description because the mainstream media are basically doing an advertisement.
They don't present the information to us in a favorable way.
Like, you know, it's not that bad chill.
It's like there is a new variant, and luckily there's a booster.
But to hear that you've got to join us over on Rumble.
If you're watching us on Rumble, remember, subscribe right now.
Click the red button and join the conversation on Locals.
While we look right now at Lester Holt.
Lester Holt doing a sort of infomercial for COVID, that gorgeous beige egg of a man.
Let's see what he's, let's see how he kicks off this advert.
COVID is making a comeback this summer.
So many of us would like to leave it in the past, but cases are.
Ha ha ha, so many of us.
How's that adding anything to this?
Many of us would like to leave it in the past.
All of us.
All of us, surely.
Yeah, who doesn't want that?
Who's going like, I actually quite like it?
Ah, Baller.
Fair enough.
Albert Baller, CEO of Pfizer.
Maybe some of the people that used to work for the British government but now work for Moderna and they're benefiting from it.
Centralist, authoritarian, globalist bodies that are able to regulate now in ways that they previously never could.
Bill Gates, who's invested, some say, in those... Allegedly.
Vaccines, as well as funding the WHO.
One person who'll be thrilled to see it back is our little friend, Vietnamese smoking baby.
I miss that little Vietnamese smoking baby so bad.
He's gonna have respiratory trouble, if anyone is.
He's right in the myocarditis line of fire.
He's chuffing on the fags like a nut job, but he's so gorgeous.
How can we ever stay mad at this little smoking baby?
We'll just have a look at him just to cheer ourselves up, really.
Why don't you have a look as well?
The toddler goes crazy, screaming, slamming his head on the floor, even getting sick if
he doesn't get his two packs a day.
He was lighting that one too early in my view because he still had a whole fag there and
he thought, I take the risk, I get into it.
That kid needs to cut down on his fags.
Still glorious pre-Covid times though.
A happier time when Babies could freely smoke without intervention, interruption
or condemnation.
Let's have a look at the mainstream media talking about this new variant getting you
whooped up into a frenzy so that you can get boosted to within an inch of your life, depending
on whether or not you're a male aged 18 to 35 and therefore in the myocarditis window.
Let's have a look.
...in the past, but cases are once again on the rise.
So when will new booster shots roll out?
Anne Thompson asked the CDC director.
Promo, look at the way the information.
There's gonna be COVID, so when will there be no more booster shots?
Oh, look, the booster shots are available.
It's propaganda.
They love it as well.
The news love it.
COVID's back is dream news, isn't it?
Yeah.
For the mainstream.
You know, COVID's back.
We can start the fear-mongering again.
The only thing that would make him happier is if Trump was going around coughing in people's mouths.
Perhaps with that Vietnamese smoking baby, coughing in mouth after mouth while people were laying in high intensity units.
This summer, most Americans left COVID in the past.
Bye-bye, baby!
See you later, COVID!
I'm off for a holiday!
Gathering together once again, mask-free.
But tonight, signs of a COVID resurgence.
What's behind this uptick in COVID that we're seeing?
The main driver of this is a variant that's relatively newer to the scene, EG5.
It's easier to give and get, so that makes it kind of easier.
Easier to give and get.
EG5.
Catchy little names they've got.
Very catchy.
We have a conversation with Dr. John Campbell on Friday where we go into incredible depth into his pandemic journey
where we talk about some more of the controversial angles.
There's sort of, we talk about does do mRNA vaccines potentially alter your DNA,
but also he's actually quite a conservative analyst of the pandemic period.
He's very sort of open-minded, but it's interesting to hear a dedicated health
professional make the journey from broadly speaking, trusting authority
to having total cynicism about the goals of a centralized authoritative institutions,
in particular because of the way Moderna have conducted themselves in Australia,
our country, the UK, your country, America, Canada, everywhere really.
It's been almost a year since the last COVID booster came out.
CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen.
The new COVID booster is expected to be approved by the FDA.
Wow!
Where do you get these unique insights from, I wonder?
And we will make recommendations from the CDC probably by the second or third week of September.
Will it protect against this new strain?
Yes.
The booster is tailored to what we are seeing circulating now.
We likely will see this as an annual COVID shot.
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, booster shots!
It's fun for everyone!
They want it in the calendar, just as part of life.
Sometimes you zoom back and look at the overarching narrative in which we're regarded as barely sentient blobs being continually injected with products of varying efficacy kept sick by big food and big agriculture treated by big pharma sometimes ineffectively it's all part of this smilingly anodyne vision of hell that we're being marched into you can imagine a kind of black friday can't you for uh boosters because we're at a point now where they're not free anymore people are paying for them themselves or they certainly will be soon and you can just imagine sales for
50% off only this week!
New boosters!
If that does happen, we should mark that to see if Gareth predicted it.
Because who would have thought that the Avengers would be advertising jabs?
But we've already had that and Sesame Street.
I mean, everyone's getting involved.
It's a real trend.
They're like pogs!
It's like the flu shot.
Just in time for fall when we'll also face RSV.
Can you take the flu shot, the COVID booster, and the RSV vaccine all at once?
Asking for a friend.
For flu and COVID, yes.
RSV again is only available for older adults.
That's one where I'd say talk to your doctor about what's right.
Talk to the doctor now, can you?
Unlike that poor fella, old Dr. Merrick, who was booted out of his job because he prescribed ivermectin, which you can now recommend, even though the FDA still do not recommend it.
Also, yeah, only certain medication for the elderly, but COVID boosters for everyone!
You can be 6 months, 10 years, or 80!
Pregnant!
There's something for everyone!
For you.
So until the new COVID booster comes, get prepared.
Stock up on at-home tests.
They do cover that new strain.
A little bit put into the kind of language and mentality of consuming.
Stock up on tests and masks.
As well as in a secondary but significant way, promoting fear and anxiety.
Commodifying continually your health.
When are they going to say, get outside, exercise a lot, remember to eat well, don't eat dirty, processed, stinking food that's making you sick.
Stay fit and healthy.
Don't watch too much of our fear-mongering bullshit.
It's not making you any better.
Yeah, also as we have been talking about in terms of the death rates of young people, that has nothing to do with Covid, that Covid's a tiny side issue.
I think we'll come to that in a second.
We can come to it right now.
They were the young Americans, young Americans.
Young Americans are dying at alarming rates, reversing years of progress.
I think there's been a significant, maybe even 10% rise in Americans dying from what are called diseases of despair.
Yes.
Suicide, alcoholism, addiction and significantly obesity.
Let us know in the chat, do you think that that's the real pandemic?
Is the real pandemic this kind of spiritual decline, this lack of purpose, this loss of meaning?
I tell you what, I feel that if they could profit from these deaths in the same way that they profited from the pandemic, they would promote it differently.
Yeah, between 2019 and 2020, obviously key years that we talk about all the time, 8.3% rise in overall mortality ranges ages 1 to 19.
And then that added another 10%.
So we're talking nearly 20% rise in mortality rates for the ages of one to 19 during that period,
which is, as you've kind of already alluded to, Ross, why weren't we hearing about that during that period?
We were hearing constant reminders and constant updates of fluctuations in COVID rates.
No one said, oh, by the way, 20% more young people are dying
as a result of nothing to do with COVID.
So extraordinary that there's a news item there where they're almost walking you down the CVS aisle
to get your bloody booster shot.
But when it comes to this pandemic among the young, a pandemic of suicide, a pandemic of despair,
it's obfuscated.
You have to sort of pick it out of various news sources, piece it together.
We saw a report on PBS where we're talking about that in some depth later this week.
And to learn more about the pandemic and the potential corruption that was revealed during that period, you don't want to miss our fantastic conversation with Dr. John Campbell.
We value Freedom of speech.
We value free speech when it opposes our own views.
And when freedom meets speech, you get free speech.
and when free speech meets, you get freech.
Oh, I like this.
This is in the locals chat.
USA Now, who has as their avatar, a John Deere tractor, just sent this meme.
It says, you stay safe, I'll stay free.
You stay compliant, I'll stay defiant.
You say bar, I'll say nah.
Yeah, baby.
We should post that on the show somewhere.
If you can drag that out of the locals chat.
That's the kind of rhetoric I enjoy.
I like things like that!
Put it on a t-shirt!
And if it's t-shirts you like, look at this sweet son of a gun!
Look at that!
Very nice.
Get out!
Look at that lovely crow!
Did you cut your own neckline there?
I've actually got B-Ron who works with us here to do it.
She's done it.
It's nice, isn't it?
Looks alright, doesn't it?
You can get one of them for yourself if you want.
It's merchandise.
We support, through the Stay Free Foundation, organisations that help people with mental health and addiction issues, which as you've just seen are getting considerably worse, perhaps because of the Evil, malfeasant manner in which we are governed, directed continually to tawdry solutions in a world bereft of meaning.
But we will find freedom, we will find meaning, by God we shall.
Now let's hear a little bit more of your free speech.
This is from ZZ.
I got distracted at the end of yesterday's show.
Well, that's unforgivable.
Are you and Gareth releasing a movie about bumholes?
No, mate.
I don't think so.
Although... Or are you releasing a movie called Bumholes?
Is Bad Graphics Jack in it too?
Bad Graphics Jack will be involved in the marketing of our buddy cop movie, Bumholes, where two mismatched cops make their way through a number of crises, particularly the crisis of authority that the world's currently experiencing, investigating the actions of global elites who won't tell us the truth, trying to bring about a global revolution.
Yeah, we're different.
And who's going to be the one that's only got 48 hours till they retire and then, you know, you die or whatever?
Do you want me to be me?
Please, because I'd like to be in the sequels.
You know me.
Sequels and remakes is where I really, really come into my own.
Now, as you know, I'm in a contest, a battle of wits, strength, biceps and sex appeal with presidential candidate Bobby F. Kennedy, who I increasingly adore.
He throw down, I pick up.
He challenge me, I accept the challenge.
If there's another area where I could be easily defeated by a presidential candidate, it's tennis.
This is from Beetle Boy.
RFK looks like he means business.
You're in big trouble with those pull-ups, Russ.
Maybe you should challenge Vivek... Vivek, I think you say his name correct, to a game of tennis.
Let's have a look at Vivek, the rapping presidential candidate, playing tennis.
It's fun, isn't it, the world, really?
Yeah.
People doing stuff like this.
I know.
Grunting.
No, who came up with that?
We're going to film you doing tennis.
It's good luck.
People like stuff like that.
Yeah.
Do some tennis.
Don't hold... Shall I hold back on the grunt?
No, no.
No, do them.
People like that.
People like it.
Yeah, he looks good, though, I will say.
What, at tennis?
At tennis.
Or are you saying you fancy him?
Well, maybe both.
Are you not bothered, mate, these wearing black socks and I'd say are too dusty of a trainer?
Sneaker.
No, I wasn't focusing on that.
Don't care about what I was, because I got the idea pretty quickly.
He's playing tennis with his top off.
You've really focused on the tennis.
It's good forehand.
Very powerful.
That's a powerful forehand.
I think so.
What are you saying?
This is impressive, isn't it?
You think you can beat me?
Almost certainly.
No wonder he's just behind Trump these days.
What are you saying?
Are you going to give him a retry?
Is that what you're saying?
Is that what you're offering?
Oh, the dog's done another fart.
He's not normally like this.
It's because I've put him on a new drug.
He's got a bad back.
I shouldn't have done it.
Okay, listen.
Is there any more free speech?
Let's do a bit more free speech.
Dr. Peter Attia.
A high OT.
Next time Dr. Pete's on the show, can you ask him if a vegan or carnivore diet is better for the ball bag?
No, I can't, because I'm a serious journalist and potentially revolutionary leader.
Death marks.
Biden said he was going to prioritise unions and then screwed them over after he was elected.
The steel unions, the dockers, the truckers, he screwed them all over.
And then Michael L. Ross, I'm ex-Teamsters Union.
They hated Joe Biden.
J Wild.
Biden has a long history of fibs going back at least 50 years.
That's a response to our guest yesterday, Faz Shakir.
Well-intentioned man, I believe, who advises Bernie Sanders.
But part of what we're trying to do is bring people together from across the political spectrum so that we can establish new independent, decentralized, even federalized political spaces where the maximum amount of democracy is created rather than these increasingly centralized units of despotism and corruption.
A little bit of comment, your comment, in fact, on the wildfires.
This is Barry John Fox.
In Maui, the ordinary people seem to be helping more than the government.
Respect to Tulsi, Tulsi Gabbard, who is on the ground.
Wow.
Helping out.
She looks like a superhero anyway because of that streak.
The sort of thing.
I think there is a superhero with that.
You know that great streak?
Yeah.
Probably one of the Fantastic Four maybe had that.
I think that comment is true as well.
Locals have been in terms of finding a solution.
Am I focusing on the wrong thing again?
Like Vivek's black socks?
Tulsi Gabbard?
Good question.
She does look like a superhero.
Or Dickie Davis.
Sorry about that.
That's a sports commentator from the 1980s who should not have been mentioned in 2023.
Not for any reason other than it's not relevant to an American audience.
Pride faults.
Not another dollar should go to Ukraine until Maui is rebuilt and local residents given the assistance they need.
What do you think about that?
Join us on the chat.
Let us know if you agree with that perspective.
Now, one of The stories that we've necessarily had to continually cover as the narrative has evolved is the lab leak theory.
What went on that crazy old day in Wuhan?
Couldn't they keep their windows shut?
Ain't they washing their hands properly?
What are they doing with that We've got Alison Young on the show now.
She's an investigative reporter and author of Pandora's Gamble, all about the dangerous lab leaks that happen not just in Wuhan, not the one that you're most suspicious of, but lab leaks that are happening all over the gaff, all over the globe, all over the time.
Thanks for joining us, Alison.
It's a pleasure to have you here.
Thank you for having me.
Alison, why were concerns about a lab leak in Wuhan dismissed as a conspiracy theory, even though emails revealed that scientists were taking the lab leak theory very, very seriously?
Will you please answer that for us?
Otherwise, you're going to have to take down that backdrop of Pandora's Gamble, a title that you'll have to at some point explain.
Answer the question.
Why don't you answer the question?
Please answer it, Alison.
You know, I think there are many reasons that the lab leak hypothesis was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
There are a variety of interests that are at play when it comes to biological research.
And the thing that I've learned over my 15 years reporting on lab accidents is that regardless of whether we're talking about a lab in Wuhan, labs all over the United States and around the world, when lab accidents happen, there are extraordinary efforts to keep that information secret.
And that is one of the The things that I detail over and over and over in Pandora's Gamble are examples of how government entities, scientists, and others try to keep this information secret.
Now, you've been in a somewhat unique position, certainly on our show, of having actually met and interviewed the Pandemic Don himself, the King of Corona, Anthony Fauci, right in the midst of the pandemic.
What did he tell you, and how does that conversation look Now, as the lab leak theory has evolved and even as email chains that he was involved in seem to reveal that he had some indication and even belief that it could have come from a lab.
Also, did he observe social distancing?
Did he wear a mask?
And did his hands smell fairy fresh?
Well, there definitely was social distancing because it was a phone call.
I was working on an article for USA Today about a secret meeting that had come out in emails that occurred in February of 2020.
So this is very early in what would become the pandemic.
And the emails indicated that a group of international scientists had come together And had discussed the very disturbing and shocking possibility that COVID-19 may have been an engineered virus.
And, you know, as your audience is aware, this is a pretty shocking thing that these viruses that we are told are are universally coming from nature, that some of the world's leading scientists were behind closed doors, taking very seriously the possibility it had been engineered was a shocking thing.
And the only reason that we know that is that the Freedom of Information Act was used to get some of these And as part of that I reached out to NIH and requested an interview with Dr. Fauci.
It was an interesting situation because normally you are told that you're going to have an interview with someone like Dr. Fauci.
I was not told I was going to have an interview.
My phone just simply rang one day while I was on my way to my car and a very familiar voice said, this is Anthony Fauci.
I understand you want to talk with me.
Oh, that's exciting.
And where had you left your car?
You know, at that moment, you're scrambling for pens and you're pulling out your notebook.
And what I wanted to know from him is, what was the discussion in this meeting?
Because the emails show that within A matter of a few days after this meeting, one of the key participants, a scientist who has gone on to be one of the most vocal proponents of the natural origins theory, abruptly changed their mind, at least in terms of what the email records showed, and went from being concerned that the virus had been engineered to then saying in emails to other scientists that this was a crackpot theory and part of a conspiracy theory.
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One of the many advantages, as well as getting guided meditation from me, is you get to ask questions to our guests while they're here.
Like our friend Ashella, who right now, live on the chat, asks, can you ask Alison about the role of the military-industrial complex in the development and leak of COVID-19?
And perhaps If you'd care to, Alison, I know this world is killing you.
My aim is true.
Could you tell us also about RFK Junior's claims that post the 9-11 anthrax attacks originated from a CIA Pentagon lab?
So there's a few questions there.
One is Ash Ella from our community, and one's all my own, and the other one's a quote of Elvis Costello, which I shouldn't really have done.
Hey, I love that song, and he spells the name correctly in that song.
So there are several questions there at once.
The question about military and labs and the like, you know, spoiler alert, my book does not solve the question of where COVID-19 came from.
I wish that I had the answers to that.
I wish the world knew where COVID-19 came from.
There are two very plausible hypotheses, the lab being one and natural origins being another.
But the issue of where the military comes into and biodefense research comes into play is that after the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks in the United States, there was an absolute explosion in the growth of funding of of research into dangerous pathogens under the effort to try to prevent pandemics and also to develop countermeasures for bioterrorism.
But one of the things that has been lost in the whole lab leak debate is that there are non-partisan groups like the U.S.
Government Accountability Office that have been warning for more than a decade That the proliferation of labs that are doing this biotechnology research, the more of these labs we have, the greater the opportunities for a catastrophic lab accident.
So that's where some of these things come together.
Now, in terms of anthrax and military labs, the FBI, ultimately in their investigation, pinned the anthrax attacks on a researcher from USAMRIID, which is the U.S.
Army's biological research lab at Fort Detrick, just outside of Washington, D.C.
There are those who dispute whether that was the case or not.
Can I ask you a simple and plain question, Alison?
Yes.
I don't know that there are any, but yes.
If there is such a risk of these lab leaks, why ain't there no universal regulation of biosafety in labs, please?
That is an excellent question, and it's one of the things that people do not realize, is you would think that there would be very stringent regulations of the safety in labs, but there isn't.
Not on the international level, not on the national level.
It is a very fragmented area, and it's largely self-policing.
And one of the things that the public doesn't realize is that Where there is some limited regulation, in the United States it's with a certain subset of pathogens called select agents.
It's done by some of the same agencies that are funding the research and doing research in their own labs.
And some of these agencies, the CDC being one of the agencies that is the primary regulator in the United States where there is a limited amount of regulation of safety, They have labs that have had extraordinarily shocking accidents with their safety.
One second, Alison, because I think we're going to make life a whole lot better.
This indicates an important moment in journalistic history.
It's Gareth's special question, and it's for you.
And while Gareth ponders his notes, I will compliment you on Pandora's Gamble.
Is that because of Pandora's Box out of the Greek myth?
And what was Pandora's?
She didn't have a gamble, did she?
She just wanted to know it was in the box, I thought.
Exactly, and the whole idea behind Pandora's Gamble is, I mean, we are trusting these scientists, in many cases blindly, that their curiosity is not going to unleash the world's evil, which is essentially what happened with Pandora.
And let me be clear, I mean, science does miraculous things, and I am someone who believes that, you know, I mean, we would not We would not be where we are now without the kinds of vaccines that have saved countless lives all over the world.
But the public does need to know that these labs are operating safely and right now there is very little transparency or way of finding out when accidents happen or whether labs are operating in unsafe manners.
Thank you, Alison.
Primal Collins says in our locals chat, It was a jar, and the only thing left in it was hope.
But I have to say, Primal Colin, that you didn't back me in the pull-up competition against RFK, so I'm very, very angry with you indeed.
And PrideFault says, you are not alone, Gareth.
I think in support of you after I pressed that button.
What's your question, please, for Alison?
I wondered, really, what would the ramifications be if we were able to eventually prove that this was a lab leak?
What's the defense of this?
Why are people so seemingly protective of that information coming out if it could ever be proven?
And secondly, why do there seem to be so few politicians pushing for answers?
So when I've asked that question of scientists across the spectrum, what they have said is that if COVID-19 were proven to have come from a lab accident, it would have been essentially the equivalent of the Three Mile Island nuclear attack or Chernobyl.
For the research community, this is a community that has historically enjoyed very little regulation.
Very little transparency when accidents occur and and so even now with this the lab leak hypothesis being given credibility including by some of the major elements of the US intelligence community.
That is leading to greater calls for regulation and oversight.
And it's also coming with pushback from the scientific community, who really have opposed that as somehow shutting down the ability to move forward with important experiments.
That was a good answer to the question.
Hey, will you give us a signed copy of your book Pandora's Camp Pandora's Gamble to give to our community and I'll give this t-shirt and a beautiful piece of state free merchandise as well to them and then I've had a beautiful t-shirt as well as a glimpse of the old This thing that I... Why won't you look at me?
Can't you stand to look at me?
Not you, Alison.
You're under no obligation.
But you!
You're supposed to look at me if we're going to be in this.
I'm going to give this T-shirt and a copy of Pandora's Gamble to the first person that can answer... Hmm... Could you set us a question, please, Alison?
You want me to do what?
Firstly, stop ogling me like I'm a piece of cheap meat!
And secondly, can you come up with a question for our community to win a free copy of your book?
Oh, okay.
How about, what is the name of the lab that is at the centre of the lab leak hypothesis?
If you can't answer that question at this point, you don't deserve Alison's book and this t-shirt.
And the only thing that's leaking out of this baby is pheromones.
Plain and true.
Pheromones that will take you to a new dimension.
If you want to win that, this t-shirt and Alison's book, answer the question now in the chat and one of our team will pick out the right person.
It will not be Primal Colin, who didn't back me in my pull-up contest.
No, I need to look good in that.
Primal Colin, you could have had these!
You guys work on commission, right?
Big mistake.
Big mistake!
You pig!
Oh no, I've thrown it on the camera!
It's landed on the camera!
What have I done?
What have I done?
Thank you so much for joining us.
That shouldn't be there.
Thanks very much for joining us, Alison, for this conversation.
I hope that your book does very well.
It's amazing because you used to work at USA Today.
They won't have you back after this conduct, I wouldn't have thought, would they?
Luckily, they're still good friends of mine, so thank you so much for having me.
Thank you.
Good luck with your book, mate, and please send us that signed copy.
Otherwise, I'll have to fraudulently sign one.
We don't behave like that around here.
That's not the way we do it.
Thanks, Alison.
You can get her book, Pandora's Gamble, by clicking the posted link in the description right now.
Now, by God, what a week it is!
Because, well, tomorrow Critical Drinker's coming on to talk about movies.
What go wrong with movies?
Can we trust Rotten Tomatoes?
And don't you tickle these Rotten Tomatoes!
These little beauties.
Also, Dr. John Campbell's going to be on the show talking about Moderna payouts, myocarditis controversies, YouTube censorship, that kind of stuff, and ivermectin.
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You could even say something like, you know, stick a bottle top on your head or take your top off in the middle of the show and I'll probably do it.
Yeah, I think you will, yeah.
I'm easily influenced.
Now, one of the stories we didn't get to cover with Alison, and that's probably your fault.
No, I think it is.
Because you were gadding about like a nitwit, unable to take your mind for a single second off that little Vietnamese smoking bag.
Can we just have one more look at that little bit?
Smoking baby, see what he's doing.
Let's see what he's doing, that little darling.
Ah, there he goes.
Come on, get him moving.
He's crazy, screaming, slamming his head on the floor, even getting sick if he doesn't get his two packs a day.
Pause him there, pause him there.
He shouldn't be lighting that fag yet.
What I tell my children, finish the cigarette you're smoking before you light your next one.
Greedy.
We're not made of money, kids!
Absolutely not.
Especially my newborn.
Okay, so listen, Moderna has paid a tiny amount of money back to the US government after making billions.
It's 400 million dollars.
I wonder where it'll end up.
Does this look like conflict of interest?
Does this look like further corruption?
Of course they made a lot of money from them vaccines that were funded by... Who was it that funded funded it oh yeah it was you you funded it and the uk's
former covid medical officers just taken a job at where is it again save the children unicef no it's
madonna madonna he took that job out is there corruption is there a revolving door you betcha here's
the news no sunny jim here's the f in news madonna made a fortune during the pandemic
selling vaccines to the government that were funded by your taxpayer dollars
Now a former government worker that bought all of those vaccines has taken a brand new job.
Guess where he's working?
Let's have a look at how Moderna's vaccine project was funded, where the profits have gone, and I'm going to ask you, do you think it's right that someone that worked for the government during the pandemic is able to take a job at Moderna subsequently?
And with all these new stories about vaccine side effects and vaccine injuries, let's have a look at how much money Moderna put aside to cover their liability in the event that a single person had an adverse reaction to a single vaccine.
Not that I'm suggesting that happened anywhere.
Major profits, does Moderna plough back into helping people who are injured by the vaccine?
Thank you. I was going to say, we're aware that there is a sort of a...
Once you start saying sort of a in an official inquiry, it looks like the next thing that comes is either going to
be a lie or not helpful.
an indemnity for COVID-19 suppliers, but indemnities are a policy matter for government to decide.
I can't comment. So Moderna doesn't put any of its profits back into helping the victims of
injuries from the Moderna vaccine, is that correct?
So Moderna is a company that's focused on manufacturing vaccines.
They certainly are focused on it, but they like the funding to come from you, the public, whether it's in Australia, the United Kingdom or the United States of America.
What an incredible business model that is.
You fund the research, they take the profits.
People that worked for the government go and work for Moderna, and when studies reveal that the vaccine may not have been as effective as first claimed, there's no liability, even in the event that you were specifically injured by the vaccine.
I wish I could have a business model like that, don't you?
The matter of indemnity for vaccine suppliers is a matter for government.
Oh, so in the event that there are vaccine injuries, you pay for that as well.
Because government, as you know, don't have their own money.
That's your taxpayer money.
You fund the vaccine.
The vaccine may not be as effective as they say it will.
People that work for government go and work at Moderna.
In the event that the vaccine is not effective, you're not allowed to even talk about it.
No wonder you're not allowed to ask questions, because otherwise the whole racket falls apart.
So you're not prepared to underwrite the risk of your own vaccine?
This is a truly global issue.
Australia, the United States of America, the UK, everywhere in the world.
Except for poor countries for some reason, they didn't get as many vaccines.
You're not prepared to actually put money where your mouth is when it comes to the safety of your vaccine, is that correct?
So just before you answer this question, Senator Rennick, I'll have to go to Senator Antic after this answer's given.
Yeah, that's just the last question there.
Back to you.
You know you're getting close to the truth when someone interrupts an inquiry.
Just before you answer that question, did you know I can fart waltzing Matilda?
Doesn't sound that much like it.
I've actually gone to the toilet in my trousers.
Hope you've put some liability aside for that.
Actually, no we didn't.
I'm not paying my own dry cleaning bills.
That's taxpayer.
Just yes or no you're not prepared to underwrite the safety of your own vaccine?
We take safety of our vaccines very seriously.
People just say stuff like that, don't they?
We take it very seriously.
Do you back it financially?
No, not that seriously.
We have a very good pharmacovigilance process in place, in fact a comprehensive one.
However, I would only reiterate that Indemnities are a matter for policy makers.
But what about a moral social... Yeah, I think you're going in the wrong direction when you start talking about moral social consciences, because if you had a moral social conscience, you perhaps wouldn't use taxpayer money to fund a vaccine, not have a fund for the liability of vaccine injuries, employ people from government that previously worked at Moderna, then go back to work at Moderna afterwards.
When at the beginning of this pandemic, people saying, I've got a few questions, Is it right that we should be taking these vaccines?
Is it right we should be locked in our homes?
Because the past has taught me maybe not to trust big pharmaceutical companies and the government, particularly when they're working together.
Guess who was called crazy?
You, conspiracy theorist!
Social conscience of putting some of your profits back in helping victims of the vaccine?
Zero?
Is it zero dollars?
I might just before you again, Dr. Leong, just before you answer that, I appreciate...
Well, it's just that she's not answering, Tim.
Don't you love Australian politics?
You're like, come on, Rob.
Plainly, you've ripped off the whole country and possibly the whole world.
Look, we take safety really seriously.
Just before you answer that, ish-nay on the vaccines not working-nay.
If I touch my glasses, it means you're about to ruin our business model.
Stop talking!
I respect you're asking the questions.
I just want to make sure we can get to Senator Antic and get to our timetable.
I'll just take that as a zero, thank you.
In the United States of America, a recent $400 million payment has been made to the NIH.
Let's look at that.
Is it enough money?
And what's it for?
And where will it end up?
As Moderna racked up tens of billions of dollars in sales of its coronavirus vaccine, the company held off on paying for the rights to a chemical technique that scientists said it had borrowed from government-funded research and used in its wildly successful shot.
We just Borrowing this technique.
Very interesting, because of course at that time everything was a rush, there was an international global emergency, but I noticed that a lot of the decisions seem to have benefited a certain strata of government, a certain strata of the corporate world, and when it comes to injuries, damages, consequences, costs, small businesses closing, suicide rates, people taking their own lives, mental health, addiction issues, it seems that there's been no contingency there.
Very peculiar.
But Moderna and the government have now reached an agreement.
The company said on Thursday that it had made a $400 million payment for the technique that will be shared by the National Institute of Health and two American universities where the method was invented.
Extraordinary.
$400 million sounds like a lot of money.
It is a lot of money.
So imagine how much money Moderna must have made.
Presumably it's a great deal because they're taking on all sorts of new staff members at the moment.
Some of whom, by coincidence, worked at the government when they were buying the Moderna vaccines.
What a small world.
What a small, corrupt world.
The payment disclosed in Moderna's latest earnings report represented a small victory for the experts and activists who long argued that the company had resisted acknowledging its debt to the government and academic researchers.
If pharmaceutical companies are going to make billions of dollars, which they are, it seems reasonable that the scientists who helped generate some of the initial intellectual property in the universities also share some of the gains, said Jason McClellan.
Moderna is still locked in a separate high-stakes dispute with the NIH over who invented the central component of the vaccine, the genetic sequence that helps recipients produce an immune response.
Like, when my children argue, they have conversations like that.
I was gonna wear that anyway, then she wore it, and I was gonna, like... This is, like, the NIH and Moderna.
This is billions of dollars.
Your billions of dollars, curiously.
We was gonna invent that anyway.
You just said it before.
Do you know what's really annoying?
I came up with the idea for Harry Potter, and then bloody J.K.
Rowling wrote it.
The NIH said its scientists, some of whom have been collaborating for years with Moderna, had helped to design that sequence.
Moderna also received nearly $10 billion in taxpayer funding to develop and test the vaccine and to provide doses to the federal government.
The company has sold roughly $36 billion worth of coronavirus vaccines worldwide.
What do you think?
If indeed the taxpayer helped create that vaccine, then the taxpayer bought that vaccine,
then the taxpayer pay if that vaccine goes wrong.
Meanwhile, people question the efficacy of that vaccine.
It seems that some of that $36 billion, more than $400 million, a tiny, tiny percentage
of it, should find its way back to the taxpayers.
What do you think?
Let me know in the comments.
Moderna has benefited richly from government largesse and it does owe a public duty, but
it's been very begrudging and slow in acknowledging that public duty, said Lawrence Gostin, a
Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
Oh, yeah, I don't know, I suppose so.
I suppose you did give us that money.
Okay, here's some of the profits.
Boink!
Mr. Gosling said the agreement announced on Thursday, which was finalized in December, was a small token in the right direction.
What is this?
A monopoly?
Yes, we acknowledge that you did fund that whole vaccine, and we could never have invented it without you, and that you gave us all of the money and we took all the profits.
And in order to acknowledge that... Here, where... Oh, God, where is it?
Hold on, let me spot it.
Ah, use this microscope.
Ah, there it is.
Let me get some tweezers.
There you go.
A small token.
We used these microscopes when we was coming up with a vaccine.
Or when you came up with a vaccine.
I can't remember anymore, it's so confusing!
Chris Ridley, a Moderna spokesman, said in a statement that the company and the government have been engaged in productive discussions since 2020 regarding the licensing of certain patents related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Well, I'll tell you what the rest of us have been involved in since 2020.
A terrible, terrible economic disaster, a mental health crisis, and a global nightmare.
They've been having productive discussions.
How about some of that money back?
No!
I could offer you another small token!
where is that small token? He added, it was always our intention to reach an agreement and we were
pleased to have done so this past December. Oh you lovely guys, they always intended to. We didn't
intend to just make a massive profit and then give you a small token. The company has forecast
Covid vaccine sales of five billion dollars for 2023. A great time to be working for Moderna.
That's why so many government officials that did work for the government are now working
for Moderna. In fact by a weird coincidence Jonathan Van Tam, whose name is too much like
John Claude Van Dam and Jonathan Van Ness's names, he was in charge of part of the Covid
response in our country, the UK, during the pandemic.
Guess where he's just got a job.
You're going to love this.
Meanwhile, Sir Jonathan Van Tam.
Sorry, Sir Jonathan Van Tam.
It's almost like the establishment are all working together to reify and make people seem real reliable and efficient and better than you, while they're one minute working for the government and the next minute working for Moderna, but they're better than you, remember?
You don't have a sir in front of your name.
I can't afford a sir in front of my name!
Sorry, I didn't hear that.
You sound like someone in need of a token.
So Jonathan Van Tam, the UK's former deputy chief medical officer who became a household name during the pandemic, has become a senior medical consultant to the COVID-19 vaccine maker, Moderna.
That's the sort of thing you don't want happening.
Imagining if at the beginning of the pandemic, when people say, Listen, you lot, this is our World War II.
Why don't you all just join in?
That's not patriotic.
Listen, we should be shaming those people.
Imagine you said then, what if high-level government officials that are involved in the recommendation of these medical solutions then take jobs?
Well, that won't happen, you idiot, you conspiracy theorist.
It is happening, though.
It is.
It actually is happening.
Jonathan Van Tam, whose name suggests he lives somewhere between an action star and a type of biscuit, has just been given a job at Moderna when the whole way through the pandemic, guess what he was saying?
You know what the answer to this is?
Moderna.
Named by the initials JVT.
Oh cool, oh cool, he's got a nickname!
That makes all the corruption just melt away!
As long as we're getting shafted by people that have got cool initials, I love it!
Anthony Fauci, hey AF's on the way to F you up the BH!
He was remembered by the striking metaphors he used during down the street briefings on the progress of the virus.
Perhaps now he'll be remembered for the striking doctors and nurses who suddenly aren't as popular as they were during the pandemic.
Remember the rainbows in the window?
Remember the clapping for carers?
It seems like with all that money being made, none of it seems to be trickling down towards doctors and nurses.
That's strange, isn't it?
He took up the role as part-time clinical advisor to the American Biotechnology Company on the 2nd of May.
Van Tam, a professor who was knighted in the 2022 New Year's Honours.
Oh!
That is exactly how it works.
Isn't it exactly how you believe it works?
Okay, Jonathan Van Tam, or JVT as we call you.
Arise, Sir JVT.
Well done with your fantastic work.
And if this knighthood isn't enough, here's a job at Materna.
What about the rest of the country?
My small business is collapsed.
Tokens, anyone?
...was a member of the government's vaccine task force during the pandemic, which made decisions on supply contracts for COVID jabs and investments in manufacturing and clinical opportunities.
Oh, wow.
So during the pandemic, it was up to him to decide who to give your money to.
And then after the pandemic, he got a job at one of the companies they gave your money to.
I'm going to need a pretty big token, baby.
The UK government bought tens of millions of Covid jabs from Moderna during the pandemic and struck a 10-year partnership with the US drugmaker to boost research and development of mRNA vaccines in the UK, including constructing a new vaccine factory.
There's a point where I would have thought the legacy media Who used to investigate stories like this, who used to be proud of their investigations into financial corruption and the relationship between the state and big corporations, might have to say, oh no, that COVID thing, it was what the conspiracy theorists said it was.
It was a racket.
It was opportunism.
To use a JVT style metaphor, we took our eye off the ball and we've been shafted right up the shitter.
Don't tear the pants out of it.
When are they going to start looking into this as ordinary standard corruption?
The kind of corruption that those kind of newspapers used to investigate.
Moderna's chief medical officer, Paul Burton, said, Professor Van Tam's significant experience and expertise
as a specialist in influenza, influenza, influenza, more like it,
including its epidemiology, transmission, vaccinology and pandemic preparedness,
although many people say that one of the main problems is we prepared for an influenza pandemic
rather than what this was, which was a different type of pandemic,
though it was very profitable for old Van Tam.
As well as a globally renowned academic and educator, we'll be a vital asset to Moderna as we work to improve population health security.
Yeah, and possibly relationships with the government, and also perhaps ease the passageway between your taxpayer money and their profits, which seems to be a pretty fluid passage right now.
Van Tam is prohibited from using privileged information from his time in government to further his business interests, Well that's good then, because we've really seen over the last few years how we can trust everybody, because it's not like everything they said at the beginning has been a total pack of absolute lies.
So don't worry, because look, he's not allowed to share privileged information, so you can all go back to your cosy little beds, safe in the knowledge that there's nothing to worry about.
When Van Tam left his government role, the then Health Secretary, Saeed Javid, praised him for his unique approach to explaining crucial information to the public.
JVT's one-of-a-kind approach to communicating science over the past two years has no doubt played a vital role in protecting and reassuring the nation, making him a national treasure.
I'm surprised there's any treasure left for the nation after how much Madonna and this mob have taken out of it.
Do you see how they patronisingly enjoy the idea that JVT apparently used sports metaphors in his communicating of pandemic policy?
Which I actually regard in retrospect as somewhat patronising.
Perhaps if it had been shown that the pandemic had been expertly handled, that the medicines had been highly effective, Maybe I'd look back on JVT's sports metaphors as an indication that he's one of the lads, that he's one of us, that the people are being governed fairly by people who speak their language and understand their rules.
In retrospect, what it looks like is manipulative, propagandist corruption from someone who went on to work for the companies that benefited financially from the pandemic.
Van Tam became known for giving COVID updates in a light-hearted way, often using football or other analogies.
Okay, it's nearly kickoff, so sit down on your seats and get ready for game time.
After this, I'm going to get a nice little massage from the guys at Moderna because we're all one big team together.
Yeah?
In late 2020, he told the BBC that in the early stages of the pandemic, the away team gave us an absolute battering.
And presumably he meant the away team was the coronavirus itself.
But no, it looks like the away team was the pharmaceutical industry and their relationship with your government and your taxpayer dollars.
And indeed, they did give us an absolute battering.
Adding, in the 70th minute, we've now got an equalizer.
Oh, he's using 70th minute.
He's just like us.
OK, we've got to hold our nerve now and see if we can get another goal and nick it.
Oh, he got another goal and nicked it, all right.
Guess where he's working now?
Moderna!
In fact, if you want a metaphor, it's like he played in goal for one football team, let in a load of goals, and then went to work at the football team that scored all those goals against him.
There's a sports metaphor I'd like to see him unpack.
The announcement of Van Tam's appointment to Moderna raised some eyebrows.
Raise some eyebrows?
Wait a minute, a person that was working for the government and setting up all of these Moderna contracts is going to work for Moderna?
Oh, this looks like corruption.
Okay eyebrows, do your worst.
Rose Whiffen, the senior research officer at Transparency International UK said,
when companies employ former officials, regardless of whether they worked in that
industry before their government role or not, it raises the risk of privileged information
being misused for commercial benefit. It's not the risk of that, it's the point of that.
That is why that's happening.
Do you seriously think there is no connection at all between dear old Jonathan metaphor using eyebrow raising Van Tam having a position where he was able to facilitate massive profits for Moderna taking a job at Moderna and while you're answering that question do you think there's no connection between Rishi Sunak the British Prime Minister being an investor in a hedge fund that invested in Moderna and refusing to talk about whether he profited?
There's a lot of coincidences going on And when the number of coincidences becomes unignorable, I think what you have is conspiracy.
Currently, there are only minimal safeguards against abuse of the revolving door between the public and private sector.
Yes, that's because it's institutionalized corruption.
The government should prohibit ex-senior civil servants and ministers from taking up positions where they have substantial responsibility for policy relevant to the hiring company.
You know why they've not done that?
Because then people wouldn't take those roles.
They'd go, So hold on, why should we work in government if we can't use that experience?
That's the whole point of it.
That's the whole point of it.
The knighthood.
Taking a sort of comparatively low paid civic role before taking a hugely paid role at a corporation.
That is literally, you know already, don't you, how the system works.
If you stop that, you're changing the system.
That's why you need parties, politicians, organisations that say what we're going to do is introduce policies that prevent that.
And if you don't get that, you don't really get anything because that's, in a sense, the nucleus of our problem.
Van Tam has also been a consultant to the World Health Organization on influenza since 2004.
The World Health Organization that provide your community guidelines here on YouTube, if that's where you're watching it.
It's almost like all of these things are connected.
Not only is this a disgusting, appalling story in and of itself, but it's also a perfect template for how things work more broadly.
What is it when the mainstream media bring on military consultants to advocate for war that have undeclared relationships with Raytheon or Lockheed Martin?
What is it when a government official one minute is telling you that you ought be taking these vaccines, that it's the only solution, that we could score a goal on the 70th minute and nick it, and then the next minute is working at Moderna?
That is the system.
It's what you've always known.
It's what you've always suspected.
It's what you imagined was going to happen at the beginning of the pandemic.
You realised it more quickly than we did, even.
And now there's proof that that's what's happening.
happening. He worked in the pharmaceutical and vaccines industries from 2000 until 2004 for
SmithKline Beecham which became part of GSK, Roche and a joint venture between Sanofi Pasteur and MSD.
Additionally, Rishi Sunak, the current Prime Minister, basically President of our country,
also has some interesting ties to Moderna. Here they are.
In 2020, then Chancellor, means in charge of the money, Rishi Sunak refused to disclose
whether he would profit from a surge in the share price of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Moderna,
one of the biggest investments held by the hedge fund he co-founded before
entering Parliament.
Before entering Parliament, he came up with a hedge fund, a bunch of money.
They invested a lot in Moderna.
Then while he was in charge of the British public's money, they invested a lot of money in Moderna.
Then when asked, hey, are you going to profit from that?
He refused to answer it.
Presumably.
Because his answer was gonna make us so happy that he thought, oh, oh what?
You thought because I'm not answering this question about whether or not I'll profit from Moderna just because I co-funded a hedge fund which invested in Moderna and now we're buying a bunch of Moderna vaccines.
Those vaccines were a surprise for your birthday and you've ruined it.
You're just like your Pfizer.
Cheers, been a while.
Well, now that I've set up this hedge fund, I've got to pursue my real dream of serving the British people in government office.
Moderna and one of the executives managing its US office.
He left the firm in 2013, returning to the UK to pursue his political career.
Well, now that I've set up this hedge fund, I've got to pursue my real dream of serving
the British people in government office. I just wonder if all those experiences that
I've had investing in Moderna will ever come in handy in my new role being in charge of
all the money of the British taxpayer.
Wouldn't that be wonderful if those two things at some point interacted?
It is not known whether Sunak retained any investment in the Thulem fund after leaving.
Thulem is registered in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven, which does not make the company records public.
Well, there you go.
Government officials benefiting from investments made by you
and officials that have worked at the WHO and Moderna, working at government, profiting from your money.
I mean, the whole thing is literally exactly what we thought it would be all along, except perhaps actually a bit worse.
Just remember some of the stations of the cross on this journey to your awakening.
Remember the moment where the mainstream media said people that were cynical about vaccines should be shamed.
Just remember the moments when people were getting Pfizer tattooed on their bodies.
Just remember the moments when Anthony Fauci was held up as if he'd scored a Super Bowl touchdown in the Last few seconds of the game.
Just contemplate for a moment where that $400 million that the NIH are getting might actually end up.
Do you reckon that that money is going to benefit you in some way?
Think for a second about the biolabs across Ukraine and how they're funded and where that money's going and what could happen if it falls into Russian hands.
And think for a moment if you can trust a single thing they tell you ever.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
Until next time, if you can, stay free.
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