Dec. 19, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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| So just so you know, Julian Assange, if you read everything that's on the still, you've | |
| got that one job for what day it is. | |
| Oh, that's for Stella. | |
| We're here? | |
| Yeah, but it's on the skill that you've got. | |
| Nice. | |
| Alright, cool. | |
| Thank you for doing that. | |
| UK side and American side, and then she went to the police and filed a suit. | |
| Thank you for doing that. | |
| This is the order he was got. | |
| Thank you. | |
| In this video, you're going to see the future. | |
| Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. | |
| Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. | |
| This is where the movement is galvanized. | |
| This is where we come together, where the peripheral figures that loathe the establishment bind and unite against their tyranny. | |
| And we've got a fantastic show for you today. | |
| Those of you that are watching us on Rumble, you heard the hot mic, right? | |
| And now you know that even when we don't think we're being listened to, we live for you. | |
| We live in your service. | |
| There is nothing else. | |
| What if the earth is not our final destination? | |
| What if this is just a temporary assignment and we are here to serve the Lord? | |
| Please awaken the spirit within me, God. | |
| We've got a great show today. | |
| What a day to be doing the news. | |
| Firstly, finally, Julian Assange is getting a hearing. | |
| What a victory that would be. | |
| What a victory that would be for freedom if Julian Assange was released. | |
| Tell me where you stand on Assange, because it don't matter if you're a Democrat Or a Republican, if you're a politician, you ain't no fan of Assange. | |
| Is he in Belmarsh prison right now because he's a threat to your safety or because he's a threat to their power? | |
| Press 1 if you think it's your safety or 2 if you think it's their power. | |
| Also, a judge has decreed that we're getting the Epstein names, baby. | |
| Let's get some predictions. | |
| Who's going to be on the Epstein list? | |
| Let's see some of those names in the chat. | |
| Why the legacy? | |
| Because I thought the legacy media were interested in stuff like that. | |
| Oh, oh did you not? | |
| You're not investigating that? | |
| Got no resources? | |
| It's funny how they find the resources when someone's a threat to power. | |
| Amazing! | |
| What a day to be alive, what a day to be challenging the establishment who got so much for you. | |
| If you're watching us on YouTube, it's all two, no one's pressing one. | |
| it's all it's all it's all it's all twos it's all two yep yep i see some of those names i agree with you excellent excellent excellent oh really you think so oh yeah there's a lot of people oh it's not going to be it's going to be rough oh god this is quite good the chat i'll tell you what the rumble chat's good also you could become an awakened one to become a member of our locals community do you want to support this movement do you want to be part of this a movement Do you think it's time for us to fight back against the state, against the government, against these corrupt systems that want to shut us down? | |
| We've got a great story today because, hey, if you thought Google were a problem when they were controlling your internet searches, imagine what they're going to be like when they own your home! | |
| Google are buying up real estate. | |
| We've done a fantastic story on that. | |
| You are going to absolutely love it. | |
| If you're watching it on YouTube, prop Which are part of the Trusted News Initiative, where state and corporate media come together with big tech to oppose independent media figures, to shut down dissenting voices. | |
| If you're watching us on YouTube right now, remember you can join us in Rumble, where people, where you're seeing the word Clinton. | |
| But there's also some interesting celebrity ones as well on there. | |
| Oh, wow. | |
| No, yeah. | |
| I feel for him, man. | |
| I feel for him. | |
| Because it ain't easy to get attacked like that. | |
| I mean, I don't know, though. | |
| Hey, Epstein must have known. | |
| For Epstein to get that necktie, he must have known some stuff, man. | |
| People don't get a necktie like that just for nothing. | |
| It shows you. | |
| You're dealing with real power. | |
| You're dealing with the kind of power that can... You are in prison. | |
| The surveillance cameras... | |
| That's power, man. | |
| That is power. | |
| Terrifying. | |
| Terrifying! | |
| Okay, so listen. | |
| This is what we're going to be talking about. | |
| We're going to talk a bit about Jeffrey Epstein and the 170. | |
| Most of which, you lot seem to know who they are anyway. | |
| You seem to have guessed them all. | |
| And yeah, yeah, that's what... And also we're going to talk about Assange. | |
| And we're going to be talking about the new Elon thing. | |
| You know, like the... Elon is under attack now. | |
| He's under attack from X. He's under attack from... He's under attack from X and he's under... | |
| Sorry, he's under attack from X. He runs there. | |
| That's his buddy. | |
| He's under attack from the EU. | |
| I ain't on that list, man. | |
| I'd remember if I'd been to that island. | |
| You don't need to worry about that. | |
| This is good. | |
| This is going to muddy the water. | |
| What's that? | |
| 170s out and about. | |
| So, listen. | |
| We're going to talk about the EU attacking Elon and we're going to be talking about the Biden administration attacking Elon. | |
| We're going to go into that in more depth later in the week but we've also got this amazing speech from Barack Obama when he talks about the need for censorship to censor you because apparently you can't determine truth from fiction. | |
| Apparently you need to be spoon-fed like baby food information to keep you nice and compliant and still in your cell. | |
| Let's have a look at the Epstein headline first of all. | |
| And also we'll get into that Senate sex tape. | |
| That was amazing, wasn't it? | |
| Let's have a look at the Epstein headline. | |
| So 170 of Jeffrey Epstein's high-profile associates will be named in court documents set to be unsealed in the first days of 2024. | |
| Happy New Year! | |
| So it says 177 does who are Epstein's friends, recruiters and victims within coming weeks. | |
| The material related to defamation case brought by Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Roberts in New York against Epstein's Madame Ghislaine Maxwell. | |
| The hundreds of files will shed new light on the late financier's sex trafficking operation and his network of Influence. | |
| That's going to be fascinating. | |
| What I say is, what happened in that cell, man? | |
| What happened in that cell? | |
| So some of these names, they're going to be interesting. | |
| So that's that. | |
| But what's been going on, you know, it's not just Epstein's list that are at it. | |
| There seems to be sex in the Senate. | |
| And like, when you see a lot of those Senators, you think they shouldn't be, they should be keeping themselves to themselves. | |
| But that ain't how it's going down. | |
| And developing on Capitol Hill, a U.S. | |
| Senate staffer who worked in Maryland Senator Ben Cardin's office is out of a job after video allegedly shows him having sex inside of a Judiciary Committee hearing room. | |
| Aidan May Swarovski reportedly recorded I suppose you know that stuff goes on, right? | |
| And I suppose what it shows you is that they try to distance themselves... Like, what this... Do you know what even this frivolous, uh, and somewhat, um, prurient story tells you is that people should, uh... | |
| Recognize that you don't, you don't, everyone's having sex. | |
| Nobody's perfect. | |
| People are doing that stuff. | |
| Why have you got this strata of society that are pretending that they're better than everybody else? | |
| Pretending they should censor information. | |
| Pretending they should be in a position of judgment. | |
| Pretending they should have access to information that appears to influence the way they invest in stocks and shares. | |
| Why should you have a person in British government Sitting on a, uh, the board that is able to sue social media companies proposing censorship, uh, legislation. | |
| I'm talking about, uh, Caroline Dynage. | |
| Then, demanding, or not demanding, asking that social media companies censor our content. | |
| That, you know, so, it's interesting, man. | |
| Do you think they're better than us? | |
| They think they're better than us. | |
| ...himself in the act. | |
| Senator Cardin released a statement confirming that he is no longer employed by the U.S. | |
| Senate, but did not elaborate any further. | |
| That former staffer also released a statement admitting he showed quote poor judgment. | |
| It was poor judgment. Have you seen the graphic? Is that graphic up on our screen now? It's not that poor. | |
| I mean, what outfit is that? | |
| I know that the Capitol building is sort of subsequently added, but those pants, I've never seen anything like that before. | |
| That's what's going on in the Senate. | |
| In a way, that's the most authentic thing that's probably happened in that room. | |
| At least there's someone truthfully expressing themselves. | |
| I feel a bit like this, rather than going in there and saying, I think we should give more contracts to Raytheon. | |
| Wouldn't it be a good idea if Pfizer were granted 75 years and legal indemnity? | |
| That, He's honest! | |
| People going good honest! | |
| S-E-X in a Senate building. | |
| God rest their eternal souls, man. | |
| Well, not rest their souls, they're still alive. | |
| God bless them. | |
| Let's move on to some important news because is there any... You, listen, watch it you. | |
| He bit me yesterday. | |
| I'm in a bad mood with him. | |
| Be quiet, bad dog. | |
| We're reaching 21,000 already, baby, and the Rumble chat is crazy. | |
| We're getting a lot of Bongino people coming over here. | |
| Rumble is finally earning the views it deserves as a free speech platform that is absolute in our principles. | |
| You know, Dan Bongino and I are working out a time for next year for us to do, I'm going to say mash-up, although I prefer a better phrase, really, We're going to go on on Bongino's show. | |
| He's going to come on our show. | |
| Great way to start the year. | |
| Brandino! | |
| Oh, that's like when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got married. | |
| Brandino, is that what we're calling it? | |
| Let's call it that, Brandino. | |
| Can you think of a better portmanteau? | |
| That means amalgamated word. | |
| If you can, let us know. | |
| We're nearly at 21,000 now. | |
| Let's keep that soaring up because this is a day of celebration. | |
| We're getting the Epstein list. | |
| Merry Christmas! | |
| Who's on the naughty list? | |
| Oh, oh no. | |
| Even Socks the cat? | |
| Is there a Clinton that's not on it? | |
| Hey, hey, let's not get too excited yet. | |
| We don't know who's on it yet. | |
| We don't know who's on it. | |
| We don't know everybody that's on it yet. | |
| Brandino, people are calling it. | |
| Yeah, so that's it. | |
| And as if that wasn't enough, Assange is getting a hearing. | |
| Absolutely fantastic. | |
| Thank God for justice. | |
| Please, God, Julian Assange will not be extradited. | |
| Please, God, Julian Assange will not have to appear on trial for espionage. | |
| Made up crime. | |
| So let's have a look. | |
| We're friends with Stella Assange and the campaign to free Julian Assange is one that we unreservedly support. | |
| Let's read about it. | |
| The UK High Court has confirmed that a public hearing will take place on the 20th and 21st of February 2024. | |
| The two-day hearing may be the final chance for Julian Assange to prevent his extradition to the United States. | |
| If extradited, Assange faces a sentence of 175 years for exposing war crimes. | |
| Almost a year for everyone on On Epstein's client list there. | |
| Exposing war crimes committed by the United States in the Afghan and Iraq wars. | |
| War crimes? | |
| Hey, don't you expose those war crimes? | |
| That's mad, isn't it? | |
| Exposing a crime is a crime, but the crime itself is not a crime. | |
| It's a wild world, baby. | |
| In the U.S., a bipartisan resolution co-sponsored by Representative Paul Gosar, Republican Arizona, expresses that regular journalistic activities are protected by the First Amendment. | |
| Remember that? | |
| Remember the First Amendment? | |
| And that the U.S. | |
| government should end its prosecution against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is accused of publishing classified U.S. | |
| military documents. | |
| You can find, if you're watching this in the United States, and we know that most of you are, and we love you, because we want a unified, decentralized, anti-establishment movement, and we'll never get that without heroes like Assange, we're going to post a link in the description right now. | |
| Demand that your representative supports this Bill. | |
| We're sticking up for Julian Assange. | |
| There you go. | |
| Our team's just posted it in the chat, okay? | |
| So, see if you can get it posted in the Bongino chat. | |
| See if you can get it posted wherever people are interested in freedom. | |
| And we know that's all over Rumble. | |
| Read it. | |
| I should read it. | |
| Actually, can you put it back on the screen, guys? | |
| It's not on my screen. | |
| Can I see that, please? | |
| Put the thing on the screen. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Find your rep and how to contact them here. | |
| Congress.gov forward slash members forward slash find dash your dash member. | |
| We'll post that In the chat right now, okay? | |
| Let's get on with the show. | |
| Here's another person who's under threat because they won't sit down and shut up and parrot the talking point. | |
| The Rusty Bong Show. | |
| That's not bad. | |
| It's silly. | |
| That's why I like that. | |
| The Rusty Bong Show. | |
| I could probably do that on my own, couldn't I? | |
| Hello, welcome to the Rusty Bong Show. | |
| I think the Rusty Bong Show is what we've seen go on in the Senate. | |
| It's the Rusty Trombone Show. | |
| It's democracy! | |
| So listen, yeah, Rusty Bong Show's not bad. | |
| We can vote for that. | |
| If you want, what do we say, Brandino or Rusty? | |
| For Brandino, put one. | |
| For Rusty Bong Show, two. | |
| It's gonna be a landslide, gal, because people will not be out of this. | |
| Resist Rusty Bong, is what we're saying. | |
| The EU's launching an investigation into Elon Musk, of course it is, because of X's breach, breaching its obligations to prevent the dissemination of illegal content. | |
| Meanwhile, Sticker Mule continue to be a grand organisation that send out stickers. | |
| And Black Forest, they're giving me all sorts of power, I'll be telling you more about that later in the show. | |
| Let's have a look at this. | |
| The EU is investigating Elon Musk's ex, formerly known as Twitter, while the bloc's regulator is probing the social media platform for its suspected failure to counter illicit content and disinformation, a lack of advertising transparency, and what it calls a suspected deceptive design of the user interface. | |
| It's the first move in the EU's landmark Digital Services Act. | |
| So what the EU is going to do is they're going to do an investigation. | |
| I mean, they're going to find something. | |
| That seems pretty, pretty certain. | |
| They'll find something. | |
| You know, they're going to have a good look. | |
| If they don't like you, if you are a dissenting voice, they will. | |
| They'll start looking. | |
| Rusty Brand. | |
| Yeah, Brand Gino. | |
| Yeah, man. | |
| I tell you what, this is what it's like. | |
| Do you think this guy looks a bit like Captain Kirk on Botox? | |
| And then the question is, what happens after that? | |
| They can fine the company, and the law says they can fine it for up to 6% of its annual revenue. | |
| Given that X seems to be in pretty bad shape right now, that would be sizable. | |
| So there's a lot to look forward here. | |
| In terms of anything like this that's going to happen in the United States, I don't know. | |
| I mean, Congress is always talking about trying to Trying to do something to reign in social media or do something. | |
| That's pretty gangster isn't it? | |
| That's racketeering taking six percent. | |
| Do you notice now that sort of bureaucrats like Thierry Breton, an EU official, talks like Don Corleone. | |
| Don't post things like that in the Awakened Wonder chat you lunatics. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I mean, like, in the Rumble chat, I expect a lot of chaos, but over in the locals chat, I don't know, we'll do what you want. | |
| Free speech, free speech. | |
| I guess it's what we've got to advocate for. | |
| Please, Heavenly Father, guide us to our highest potential. | |
| I know we can find love. | |
| I know there is a great power in love. | |
| I know we can transcend all this. | |
| Yep, there's a lot of excitement for the Dan Bongino mashup. | |
| So, yeah, I think a lot of people like Brangino. | |
| Will Dan agree to that, though? | |
| Let him know in his chat that it's being proposed, because I quite liked Rusty Bong. | |
| But that's another story. | |
| So there you go. | |
| You find now that bureaucracies and state agencies act like gangsters, determining for themselves what can be regarded as truth and what ought be regarded as misinformation. | |
| At that AmericaFest thing, Charlie Kirk, and as you know what it is, it's an America First event, isn't it? | |
| And it's obviously like a conservative, libertarian, right-wing type of deal. | |
| I see that Tim Pool was there, a bunch of people. | |
| I was supposed to go myself, had a lot on lately. | |
| So have a look at what Charlie Kirk's analysis of the situation. | |
| The best thing is use X and Twitter because it's obviously a threat to them. | |
| They wouldn't want to shut it down or go after Elon if it wasn't working. | |
| The greatest hope we have in 2024 is we have a sliver of the public square back that we didn't have in 20. | |
| And that's why they're going to try to either indict Elon or they're just going to try to crash Twitter through a DDoS attack or some sort of DDOS attacks, that's a new thing, isn't it? | |
| That's happening a lot more frequently now. | |
| Happened to Rumble the other day. | |
| They like to blame China for it. | |
| The fundamental question you have to ask yourself here is, are they attacking Elon because they think Elon's a threat to you, or because they think Elon's a threat? | |
| Foreign threat? | |
| Once you've answered that question, you can see how this game works. | |
| Anyone that's a dissenting voice eventually will be attacked, | |
| and then you have to decide, is that because they're a bad person? | |
| Indicting Elon, is that possible? Should Elon be indicted? | |
| Do you think he will be indicted? That's a little talking point for you guys in the chat. | |
| Let's let Charlie Kirk finish up. | |
| A foreign threat. They're gonna try to take Twitter down by the summer. | |
| The EU's going after him now. | |
| Yeah, of course, obviously. | |
| People are saying things on Twitter that you're not allowed to say. | |
| And they're going very viral, very quickly. | |
| And public opinion is changing too rapidly. | |
| Have a look at this from Barack Obama. | |
| He's got a new movie out. | |
| You know, and it's interesting, isn't it? | |
| Because when Trump sells those stickers, you know, those baseball cards that he sells. | |
| They're not stickers, are they? | |
| That's stick-a-me-all. | |
| You know, when Trump does those sort of weird baseball cyber cards, what would you call them? | |
| Digital cards, NFGs. | |
| Yeah, when Trump does that, everyone's like, oh my god, this is so vulgar. | |
| Because they don't like you, and they don't like that kind of language. | |
| But Obama, he can go around the world, he's got movies here, he's got books there, it's all classy, it's all elegant, it's all too good for you. | |
| Now, Barack Obama's out there talking about Miss Information. | |
| You are going to love this because guess how they decide what constitutes misinformation? | |
| Information that damages state narratives. | |
| Information that discredits the legacy media. | |
| Information that empowers you to stand up against authoritarianism. | |
| This is fantastic because you could almost believe them if it hadn't been for 2008. | |
| If it wasn't for the incessant dronings during his administration. | |
| If it wasn't for the fact that a man elected on a tidal wave of hope and optimism crashed that into the rocks of state imperialism with the way that the banks were bailed out and with the way that people across the world were droned in the name of military industrial complex interest. | |
| Note the excellence of this piece of rhetoric. | |
| How Obama paints a brilliant picture of why censorship is a good thing with Out ever addressing why people don't trust the state. | |
| Why people don't trust legacy media. | |
| It's excellent. | |
| No wonder they're... Well, I don't know if they're winning. | |
| Maybe we're winning. | |
| Are we winning? | |
| Is this good? | |
| You know, Assange might be freed. | |
| It's possible that Elon Musk can make a stand. | |
| It's possible that we might finally be dismantling them. | |
| Maybe people from this world will start taking up positions of political power. | |
| It's possible. | |
| It's possible. | |
| Let's have a look at Barack Obama. | |
| Understand, it's not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions. | |
| That's interesting. | |
| So it doesn't matter if you believe it, because you might say, I can decide for myself whether or not I'm going to believe information. | |
| I don't need you stepping in and censoring it on my behalf. | |
| But notice Barack Obama brilliantly says that's irrelevant. | |
| And why does he say that? | |
| He says that Because now they can legitimately start censoring information, not because you're stupid and you can't discern for yourself, but because it muddies the water. | |
| Now, he stands there at a pulpit at Stanford. | |
| You'll remember the Barrington Declaration that was shut down, where Jay Bhattacharya and a number of other brilliant epidemiologists and academics pointed out that lockdown measures might not be successful, that you don't vaccinate at the height of a pandemic. | |
| What was that called? | |
| Answers in the chat? | |
| That was misinformation. | |
| Oh, that's interesting. | |
| So even Stanford University espouses misinformation when it's not convenient to the interests of the powerful. | |
| And note how across this address never is the subject raised of the culpability and responsibility that the state bears for the lack of trust that most of us feel for the state, for the legacy media. | |
| Check this out. | |
| It's brilliant propaganda. | |
| You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage. | |
| Raw sewage. | |
| Now imagine if Trump used the phrase like raw sewage. | |
| That'd go crazy. | |
| He compared it to raw sewage. | |
| That's feces! | |
| That's body muck! | |
| That's backdoor porridge! | |
| Trump's out of control! | |
| But what Barack Obama is referring to as feces there is anything that's inconvenient to the interests of the powerful. | |
| Why? | |
| When that Barrington Declaration came out, that ...was a drift in faeces. | |
| When people were offering valuable, important information, that was faeces. | |
| What was in the ceramic enshrinement of sanitised information was the shaming of people that were vaccine-hesitant, was the mad propaganda and musical numbers promoting that medication. | |
| So when we're talking about misinformation, malinformation, disinformation, what we're fundamentally talking about is information that is antithetical to the interests of the powerful, right? | |
| You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. | |
| Once they lose trust in their leaders, In mainstream media, in political institutions. | |
| But why have you lost trust in your leaders? | |
| Is it because in 2008, when Barack Obama could have supported the American people and ensured that there weren't en masse foreclosures of homes? | |
| He could have regulated the banks. | |
| Remember, not one person has been imprisoned as a result of that financial crash and that financial corruption and that exploitation. | |
| That was a key moment in recent American history. | |
| That is when many of us learned, oh wow, the neoliberal establishment is absolutely corrupt. | |
| They will always support the interests of the powerful. | |
| They will always support the elites. | |
| And why do people not trust the legacy media? | |
| Because the legacy media has spent the last three years propagandizing and We're advocating for measures, whether they were social measures or medical measures, that have proven subsequently to be worthy of a lot more exploration, discussion and analysis. | |
| And those of us that wanted those conversations were smeared and attacked and called dissenters and shamed. | |
| You've seen the propaganda. | |
| You've seen people say they shouldn't be allowed to go in hospitals. | |
| It's an extraordinary time. | |
| But it's done so elegantly. | |
| Look at the backdrop. | |
| Look at the insignia of the Obama Foundation. | |
| The name Stanford suddenly Respectable in this context, not respectable when it's Jay Bhattacharya saying that these measures are unreliable, that these measures should be subject to more scrutiny. | |
| Then Stanford is an institution full of crackpots. | |
| There is no fundamental truth. | |
| There are no values or principles that are rigidly stuck to. | |
| There is just an agenda of exploitation that is utilized and mobilized however it's convenient that day. | |
| So that's why at any point, if you can see Where do they invest their money in stocks and shares? | |
| Just tell me where they invest their money. | |
| Just tell me who they take money from. | |
| Just tell me who's donating. | |
| That's all you need to know. | |
| This is from Jen Psaki, who formerly was, of course, the White House Chief of Press Secretary, wasn't she? | |
| Now it's Carrie Jean-Pierre, who you can tell every time you see her, just looks knackered and is just waiting for her own TV show. | |
| Jen Psaki's got her own TV show now. | |
| You can see propaganda live. | |
| She talks about Hunter Biden right and sort of about like you know it's a bit tricky the Hunter Biden situation but she spins it live like Joe Biden he's a good dad though isn't he? | |
| Now can you imagine them saying that about Trump if he was sticking up for Eric or Don Jr or any of the Trump kids? | |
| Understand, it's not necessary. | |
| It's not Jen Psaki. | |
| That was a bummer again. | |
| He's everywhere, this guy! | |
| Look, I think if you're sitting in the White House right now, you're like, please, Hunter Biden, we know your dad loves you. | |
| Please stop talking in public. | |
| This is not helpful to any of them for him to be out there. | |
| Can't we just conceal it, forget about it, not cover it, say it's Russian disinformation? | |
| Meantime, the president loves his son. | |
| That takes precedent over anything else. | |
| That is appealing. | |
| What's the headline? | |
| President loves his son. | |
| Not information was repressed, lied about, it was admitted. | |
| Did you see that bit where the head of the CIA went, well it might have negatively impacted the election. | |
| The phrase negatively impacted an election should be an anomaly. | |
| It shouldn't exist. | |
| Why? | |
| Because there is no negative election. | |
| There's the will of the people. | |
| That's all there is. | |
| Negative shows you Think of the woman in your focus group who talked about family. | |
| He loves his son. | |
| He loves his family. | |
| He's worried about his mental health. | |
| But yes, the White House would like him to probably go away right now. | |
| Yeah, well, let's see how the old Epstein list pans out. | |
| He could be going missing at any minute. | |
| So George Santos, he's an interesting figure, isn't he? | |
| I don't claim to understand him. | |
| He's probably someone that's going to end up being on our show, isn't he, sooner or later. | |
| He's sort of, what is he? | |
| Is he adorable? | |
| I once played Fat Sam in Bugsy Malone at school, and it reminds me of how I was then. | |
| He's sort of a chocolate-eyed and adorable young fella, in a way. | |
| Let's have a look at him. | |
| I can't understand what he is. | |
| He was a congressman. | |
| This is brilliant. | |
| Well, everyone's corrupt. | |
| They're all corrupt. | |
| Republicans and Democrats alike. | |
| Swampy, slimy people selling this country down a river. | |
| Who else in Congress is committed? | |
| The swampy, slimy people selling us down the river. | |
| And this interview, I mean, she's extraordinary. | |
| What a woman. | |
| Being fraud. | |
| They're all frauds. | |
| Name them. | |
| If you were to put me... Isn't the news gone mad? | |
| Like, just how it looks now. | |
| Like, him in his velvet suit. | |
| Both of them with their plunging necklines. | |
| It's astonishing. | |
| Name them. | |
| If you were to put them... Name them. | |
| All under the same scrutiny I was put under, you'd fucking vacate the whole goddamn building. | |
| Wow, now that's an interesting point. | |
| If you put them under that level of scrutiny, wow. | |
| So who do they put under scrutiny? | |
| Who do they interrogate and investigate? | |
| At the moment, Elon Musk is being, like, if you saw, and we're doing a piece on this later this week, you're gonna love it, the number of agencies that you fund that are currently attacking Elon Musk is like, you know, the people that are in charge of aeronautics, the people that are in charge of employment law, even the people that are in charge of the fisheries. | |
| That's not even a joke, like the fisheries. | |
| Fisheries! | |
| I don't even know what Elon Musk does that's connected to fish, but they're investigating Elon Musk. | |
| Government is weaponized against those that threaten its existence. | |
| They will use those state agencies to destroy, and the legacy media of course will amplify those narratives, if ever you become a threat to them. | |
| Can I name them and you just wink if I... Go ahead! | |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene. | |
| No. | |
| Kevin McCarthy. | |
| Yes. | |
| This is like a podcast, isn't it? | |
| This is not- No, it is a podcast. | |
| It is a podcast. | |
| Oh, fair enough. | |
| That makes sense. | |
| Because I like this game. | |
| I'm like, what is it we're asking about them? | |
| Would you- Okay, so it's Mary Scrooge. | |
| He doesn't pay his rent. | |
| Dan is owing $180,000 worth of rent right now on his $45,000 monthly rent, which is | |
| what most Americans f***ing make a year. | |
| So hey, did you see Trump at that rally used some pretty powerful rhetoric and of course the MSNBC machine rolled into action. | |
| Have you noticed how often they compare Trump to various historic dictators, never noting that all of those historical dictators were in charge of either the military or paramilitary. | |
| Used to be a necessary component. | |
| But I would agree with this aspect of their analysis. | |
| Dictatorship looks different. | |
| What we live under now are technological dictatorships that are anodyne, that are somehow pristine. | |
| Dictatorship now is the censorship industrial complex. | |
| Dictatorship now is you can vote for any party as long as it's this one. | |
| Dictatorship now is groups like the Trusted News Initiative ensuring that independent media are the enemy and all trusted news organizations parrot the same information. | |
| Have a look at the legacy media and how they report on Elon Musk. | |
| All of them will say stuff like Misinformation is a real threat. | |
| And maybe there's antisemitism. | |
| All of them. | |
| All of them will use information to legitimize the attack and takedown of Elon Musk because dictatorship now is not militaristic. | |
| It's big tech and administrative. | |
| It's the alliance of new technology with old school state regulation. | |
| Funded by corporatism and you all remember that what Mussolini said of course is that fascism is the alliance of the corporate world and the state world and we've already got fascism fundamentally if that by that analysis. | |
| Let's have a look at MSNBC comparing Trump to Hitler and even claiming to know what Donald Trump has on his bedside table. | |
| Let me know in the chat what you think it is. | |
| If you're watching us on YouTube remember you're going to have to come over to the citadel of free speech itself that is Rumble. | |
| There's a link in the description. | |
| Join us over here. | |
| Join our movement. | |
| No hate speech. | |
| Only this unifying speech of love. | |
| Although I can't vouch for the chat because people say what they want in there and there. | |
| Those guys are pretty crazy. | |
| So if you want to see Trump being compared to Adolf Hitler and let me know if... Russell, you should wear a Ketterd beanie. | |
| The Bible. | |
| Has he got the Bible? | |
| That's what people are saying. | |
| Diet Coke. | |
| Yeah, that's probably... He's definitely got Diet Coke. | |
| Little bit of caffeine, can't sleep. | |
| So listen guys, yeah, we're going to be here for another nine seconds. | |
| If you're watching us on YouTube right now, click the link and join us over on Rumble. | |
| We're going to see how is Trump like Hitler today? | |
| Fantastic new story. | |
| Okay, here's MSNBC News. | |
| President Biden and the White House are comparing this to the words of Adolf Hitler and specifically the words that were written in Mein Kampf. | |
| As a historian, Doug, what did you hear in the former president's remarks? | |
| I heard a former president who is jiving on fascism. | |
| There's no question about that being the line from Mein Kampf. | |
| He knows it. | |
| He's been dabbling in Adolf Hitler his whole life. | |
| Keeps Hitler's speeches at a bedside. | |
| Mein Kampf seems to be the... They can't know that. | |
| They can't know what Trump's got on his bedside table. | |
| ...book that's inspired. | |
| How about that faeces thing that Obama just said, no? | |
| The raw sewage, raw sewage. | |
| It's interesting. | |
| It's interesting. | |
| I agree that there are such things as fascistic rhetoric. | |
| I agree that that is a concept. | |
| I agree that we should be bound together, that we should find unity with one another. | |
| That all of us, regardless of our culture, or our religion, or our nationality, should find ways to unify. | |
| Not just because it's what I believe Jesus Christ and our Lord and Savior would want, but because without that, without that, we will be destroyed. | |
| In a 50-50 fight, we're going to get destroyed by the establishment. | |
| We must transcend that. | |
| We must be unified, but decentralized against true tyranny. | |
| And when we're not making an anti-Trump comment when we're saying, he is a fascist, guys, that really we're dealing with a fight in our country between democracy and fascism, and Trump's telling you that. | |
| He doesn't really mind the Hitler comparison because, at heart, he admires Hitler. | |
| Don't Bible thump, Russell Somerset, but I do love the Bible. | |
| But what about the way? | |
| And what about the Gita? | |
| And what about all the holy books that can awaken us? | |
| Now listen. | |
| What will tyranny look like in the future? | |
| Will it look like populist demagogues? | |
| Will it look like ethno-nationalism? | |
| Will it look like the movements across the world where people are throwing off the establishment? | |
| Where people are resisting the censorship industrial complex? | |
| Where people are resisting the legacy media and their lies? | |
| Or will it look like Google Town? | |
| Google and Facebook are buying up real estate and creating new cities and if you think they crossed the line with some of their practices of spying on you when it comes to their online cyber life, imagine what they're gonna do when they own actual reality. | |
| How come Bill Gates is buying up farmland? | |
| How come they're buying up our Are they trying to conquer reality itself? | |
| Do you think Google and Facebook getting into the real estate business could facilitate Klaus Schwab's glorious vision? | |
| You will own nothing and you will be happy. | |
| Could it? | |
| Time to meet your new landlord, everyone. | |
| It's Google. | |
| Stay with us in the chat. | |
| We're nearly at 27,000. | |
| Maybe we'll hit that 30,000 number. | |
| We'll be taking your questions. | |
| We've got some wonderful stories about Tucker coming up in a second. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| Google owning reality. | |
| Here's the news. | |
| No, here's the effing news. | |
| Here's the fucking news! | |
| With housing becoming unaffordable to all but the richest of elites and big tech becoming insurmountable powerhouses across the globe, we've got some tremendous news. | |
| Big tech are taking over housing! | |
| You will own nothing and you will be happy. | |
| The power of big tech is straying into territories unimaginable just a few years ago. | |
| Physical territory. | |
| The same way that cyberspace has been monopolized by vast big tech powers, actual space will be and is being Monopolised by comparable, or in some cases literally, the same powers. | |
| You're probably interested in why Bill Gates is buying up agricultural space across the United States. | |
| Some of you will assume that if you can control food sources, you could create scarcity, you can control whole populations, and these are certainly theories I'm interested in even while they currently remain unproven. | |
| Although farmers across the world seem Pretty angry about something, don't they? | |
| Now, Google and Meta and big tech spaces, having conquered all of cyberspace, like digital Alexander the Great, have turned to the real world to find new kingdoms to conquer. | |
| Is it possible that you, unable to afford literal real estate, will have to have Mark Zuckerberg Or the Alphabet Corporation as your landlord. | |
| Let's first of all see how the legacy media report on this and how this is being presented by the propaganda of these organizations that are acquiring vast tracts of San Francisco and stuff. | |
| Tonight Google is revealing its plans for a big development in Mountain View that includes affordable housing. | |
| What that should say is it's planned for world domination, isn't it? | |
| Because that's what's happening. | |
| Some of you will have read David Foster Wallace's book, Infinite Jest. | |
| Not all of it, because it's too bloody big. | |
| But in it, he posits that vast corporations will take over the world. | |
| In a way, why have France? | |
| Why have the United States of America, the UK, when you could have Facebook land, metacountry? | |
| Alan Martin is here with the details, Alan. | |
| Liz, Ken, the tech giant says its goal is to help solve the Bay Area housing crisis. | |
| That'll be its goal, because one thing I've noticed about big tech giants is they care mostly about poor people and the concerns of ordinary people. | |
| There's never been an undercurrent of tyrannical centralisation, authoritarianism and making deals with the state that make ordinary democracy and individual freedom a near impossibility. | |
| So hopefully we'll all be in lovely little Google homes by, I don't know, end of the month? | |
| And tonight, we're learning more about its new plan to redevelop parts of Mountain View. | |
| Here is the bird's eye view of North Bay Shore in Mountain View. | |
| One of the clues is they're using Google's logo while still doing the report. | |
| Is there going to be any discernment, analysis, scrutiny, investigation, attack from the legacy media? | |
| Remember, we're continually telling you now about the Trusted News Initiative. | |
| A group that includes state media organisations as well as big tech companies. | |
| You will notice how often their interests absolutely align. | |
| You will notice now that the legacy media is part of the establishment. | |
| It's one of the things that Donald Trump noticed and exploited brilliantly. | |
| Fake news. | |
| He literally coined that and the reason it was effective is because it's true. | |
| Now the legacy media, instead of going, is this right that you're doing I mean, how much power do you guys need? | |
| What's this going to do? | |
| Aren't you going to be able to massively bias and control real estate prices? | |
| Does this mean that people are never going to own their houses? | |
| Hang on a minute. | |
| Aren't corporations like Google, by their nature, globalist? | |
| And haven't we heard rhetoric from the WEF saying that you will own nothing and be happy? | |
| Is it possible that administrative bodies like the WF are kind of the ideological front for corporations like Google? | |
| And what will happen is that governments will just start passing legislation that facilitates this kind of stuff and no one's asking any questions. | |
| And when you do ask questions, for example if you're part of an independent media movement, then you will be shut down. | |
| And you will be happy. | |
| Just north of Highway 101, off of Shoreline Boulevard, full of office buildings. | |
| But now Google wants to transform the space. | |
| It plans to add shops, restaurants, offices, and housing, spanning two new neighborhoods. | |
| Here's a look at the renderings. | |
| Lots of open space and homes. | |
| If you go to modern, developed places now, it's like they've fallen from the sky. | |
| Even a city like London, which, when you walk through it, used to have layer after layer of rich, historic buildings. | |
| A bit of an old Roman wall, and Elizabethan blocks, and Tudor housing, Georgian, Victorian, then a skyscraper, all meshed together like something that had grown, like fungus, like an architectural fungi that was an expression of a collective. | |
| Now, what you get is things that, like, drop from above. | |
| Bam! | |
| That's what globalism feels like. | |
| Anodyne. | |
| Banal. | |
| Mundane. | |
| Lacking in humanity. | |
| There'll be sort of speakers on the trees there. | |
| Time for bed now. | |
| There is a pandemic. | |
| Time to return to your homes. | |
| And then like, you know, cameras that are doing all face scans on you. | |
| You can sort of feel it. | |
| You've seen it in Isaac Asimov. | |
| You've seen it in Black Mirror. | |
| This is now the bureaucratising and delivery of those sci-fi dystopias. | |
| Whether you approach this with centre-left narratives like climate change or centre-right narratives like the deterioration of society, this ain't helping anyone. | |
| And look how they're repeating the word affordable, affordable. | |
| Would you like a house that's affordable? | |
| I would like to be able to afford a house, yeah. | |
| Well, this is affordable. | |
| That's the word they're pushing, not dystopic. | |
| Google's proposal includes up to 7,000 residential units. | |
| About 20% of them would be affordable housing. | |
| It's cool, man. | |
| I guess just... It's cool, man. | |
| I've come on here to sort of make it like a piece of San Francisco news. | |
| I could be Dave Grohl. | |
| The legacy media just sort of casts people, trots us out to advocate for their perspective. | |
| Just get someone, like, that you feel represents that community and get them to say something that's positive about it. | |
| So the reality we interact with is not Actual reality. | |
| You're not interacting with whatever maneuvers have been made with the state or with local authorities to get some special deal to build this. | |
| All of the things that will have happened behind the scenes to make this profitable and unownable and to ensure that power migrates further upwards. | |
| As happened in the pandemic period, as has been happening in the last 20-50 years, you tell me in the chat. | |
| The legacy media presents this story as entirely positive, doesn't offer any questions, any interrogation, any doubt, any discernment. | |
| It's possible that you would have a legacy media that would go Listen, we're a bit concerned about this. | |
| This Google housing project looks a bit worrying. | |
| Does this seem right to you? | |
| Haven't they got a bunch of deals with the government, like around surveillance and data capture? | |
| Do you want them to have more power? | |
| How much money do they spend on lobbying? | |
| How many donations do they give to the Democrat Party and the Republican Party? | |
| Actually, this isn't right. | |
| If we're ever going to have the America proposed in the Constitution, these are the very kind of projects that we're going to have to oppose. | |
| Giving more housing opportunities to people, that's important. | |
| a second and see that you are facing a Titan. | |
| And if you don't bind together and face that Titan, you will be, some might argue quite rightly, | |
| crushed by it because we weren't able to awaken. | |
| Quick, wake up! | |
| Giving more housing opportunities to people, that's important. | |
| There's no doubt that the need is immediate for affordable housing. | |
| The city says it's working with Google on the new plan. | |
| Better believe the local authorities are working with Google. | |
| They're not going to oppose them, are they? | |
| How that is implemented is really going to be something that we as a council are going to be discussing next month in March and really digging into what those details are. | |
| Really just finding ways to present this so there can be no opposition. | |
| Back in 2019, Google announced a $1 billion investment in housing across the Bay Area by repurposing its own land. | |
| That's not investing in housing, is it? | |
| Repurposing your own land. | |
| That's an investment in your own portfolio, in your own projects of profiteering, isn't it? | |
| That's not like, how the hell can we help the people of the world? | |
| Think how far away we've moved from what indigenous cultures might have once existed there. | |
| And one day, perhaps Google will repurpose this land. | |
| It already has other development projects in the works, including 80 acres west of downtown San Jose. | |
| Do you know the way to San Jose? | |
| Google map it, then Google live in it, then Google fuck off to your Google grave. | |
| In a statement, Google's development director says in part, we're committed to helping our hometown communities recover | |
| from the pandemic. | |
| Oh yeah, no, that is, you are so committed to that pandemic that you exploited, | |
| profited from, censored true information about. Thanks for all of your help. | |
| We're looking forward to continuing to work with the city and community on the next steps. | |
| I live in an illusion. | |
| That piece of language is deceptive. | |
| The way that it's reported is deceptive. | |
| The entire claim being made about the project is deceptive. | |
| The economic system that undergirds it is deceptive, telling you things like, it'll all trickle down, it'll all be distributed. | |
| The rhetoric exchanged about it in news media and in Congress, Senate, or whatever political spheres you hear it discussed in. | |
| We've got to move to the left. | |
| We'd better move to the right. | |
| All of it is a total and absolute illusion. | |
| It's almost impossible to remember. | |
| You are in infinite space right now. | |
| You have an aspect of consciousness within you that's sort of still some sort of weird miracle or mystery and it's possible to imagine new realities if you're willing to overcome your own obstacles to progress. | |
| It's extraordinary that we're willing and satisfied to live in some pixelated version of reality that doesn't allow us to be free. | |
| That was all very complicated and existential. | |
| Why don't we trust Google to give us a version of reality that's got a lot less questions in it? | |
| Music, optimism, hopeful, right? | |
| Silicon Valley has been the cradle... | |
| ...of this sort of series of innovations that over the last decades have propelled technology and world economy. | |
| I've already got some questions. | |
| Sometimes I do marvel at the miracle of tech. | |
| Of course I do. | |
| There are sort of meditations and connections and sort of miracles of culture all over your phone. | |
| But those things are inadvertent. | |
| Side effects of its actual function, which is to control you, sell you stuff, prevent you gaining access to information that might activate you, further centralise already centralised authority structures, advance globalist projects, create dissent, disruption and opposition amongst ordinary populations. | |
| Big tech is not working towards solutions at all. | |
| It's working towards power. | |
| You know when they say, we decided to repurpose this land to help poor people. | |
| If you want to help poor people, society wouldn't look like If you wanted fairness and equality and freedom of expression, society wouldn't look like this. | |
| Look, my first suspicions in the pandemic period were not based on data. | |
| They were based on intuition. | |
| They were based on, hold on a minute, do we care about the sanctity of human life though? | |
| Do we always put the most vulnerable people to the forefront of our minds? | |
| That doesn't seem like the world that we've been living in. | |
| That was just a quiet question at the beginning, but that question grew louder and louder and in the end became just a statement of fact as things progressed. | |
| And using that attitude, that perspective, you can sort of analyse all news. | |
| In fact, that is what we do on this channel. | |
| Come on! | |
| How are we going to get it to work with nature? | |
| I don't know. | |
| Don't build it. | |
| Don't use materials that are exploitative. | |
| Don't have a profit motive. | |
| I mean, the whole thing actually just becomes unfeasible and implausible within this system. | |
| I find even the questions I'm proposing, that's just not how things work. | |
| That's not how things work. | |
| So why are we pretending that the goal at the end of this is like sort of a happy, diverse family, abundant and robust oak tree? | |
| We're really making sure that we make spaces very open and accessible. | |
| So it's just not for Googlers, but it's for anyone who lives in the area to come by. | |
| Googlers now. | |
| That's the type of a person is a Googler. | |
| How could that become your identity? | |
| I'm offended when on the news they go, consumers are getting a great deal. | |
| Now it's Googlers. | |
| You're a Googler. | |
| Like, you're not American, you're not French, you're not English, you're not South African, you're not Belgian. | |
| What you are is a Googler. | |
| You're a person who uses and is utilized by Google. | |
| You are just sort of a blob at the end of tendrils that lead back to Google. | |
| And when there's a time where Google don't need you, Google will let you know about that. | |
| In order to assist nature, we're going to use you as fertilizer. | |
| And then the last piece, which is... | |
| Really Google at its heart in anything we do, trying to leave the project, giving something back to the world. | |
| We've invented this thing, this bit of paper thing. | |
| Oh, thanks. | |
| Oh, the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. | |
| Pay your taxes! | |
| That they didn't have before we started. | |
| I'm familiar with Buckminster Fuller. | |
| I know that there are no right angles in nature. | |
| I'm aware of intuitive, natural, biological design. | |
| I'm aware that we could be living in a different world. | |
| In fact, as with politics, what's most offensive is that there is so much that's spoken that's actually true. | |
| It's not that we need new ideas, it's just that we need to use the ones we already have. | |
| The Magna Carta in this country, enshrining the rights of the individual. | |
| Constitution in your country, full of amazing ideas like, Can we get round that in some way? | |
| Yeah, you could get round it this way. | |
| And what they're doing now is like, can we use the kind of general aesthetic of, let's call it wokeness for want of a better term, to present Google moving into the acquisition of land and the development of real estate and make it look like we're doing everyone a massive favour. | |
| Yeah, we could. | |
| Just like, you know, look, I got this thing. | |
| I know you're hiding things at school. | |
| Who will it marry? | |
| Yes, it be. | |
| Google owns your house now. | |
| Oh, shit. | |
| Can I try a different one? | |
| But all of these have got Google owns your house now under it. | |
| No, no, that one's Mark Zuckerberg. | |
| That one's even worse. | |
| Yeah, stick with the Google one. | |
| Let's check this rather more discerning piece of journalism. | |
| The typical US home value at the beginning of 2020 was about $230,000, according to Zillow data. | |
| Today, it's shot up to more than $330,000. | |
| All told, as of 2022, median home prices and rents in America hit all-time highs. | |
| This is great for those who already own, as their property values continue to soar. | |
| But for many Americans, little is left over for the rising cost of everything else, like food and health care. | |
| Let alone to save for a house. | |
| Who's to say you even need food or healthcare? | |
| Ultimately, the dream of home ownership or an affordable rental is becoming unreachable for more and more Americans. | |
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| What happens when the next global crisis strikes? | |
| Well, I'll tell you. | |
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| Now let's get back into this, shall we? | |
| The digital renderings of North Bayshore, a massive proposed development in Mountain View, California, are crowded with glistening buildings and cheerful animated pedestrians. | |
| There's a lot to show off, including 7,000 new homes, three distinct neighborhoods, and nearly 300,000 square feet of retail and community space. | |
| Notably though, the gleaming images don't bear any hints of the company behind the whole endeavour. | |
| Google. | |
| Wow, it's like, at this point they've realised, yeah, just cut back on the Google branding. | |
| Some people have got questions. | |
| Companies like Google and Facebook's parent, Meta, conquered the digital realm a long time ago, setting the ground rules for how we search, interact and shop online. | |
| Not content to stop there, however, these firms are now making huge bids to expand their reach. | |
| They want to be landlords too. | |
| Now we own the online world, what about the offline world? | |
| And what about space? | |
| And what about your children's dreams? | |
| And what about your pets' frustrations? | |
| I don't think we can monetize that. | |
| Oh well, don't do the last one then. | |
| Across the country, corporations are using their considerable sway and resources to build modern company towns, mini-cities that will feature all the trappings of traditional civic life, including housing, shops and and public spaces. These new projects won't have corporate | |
| logos on every building and many of the units will be available for the general public, not just | |
| employees. But in the grand scheme of real estate, they're distinct. After years of running up | |
| against housing shortages in their backyards, companies like Google, Meta and Disney, not | |
| exactly known for building new homes, are taking matters into their own hands. Their creations have | |
| boring names like Middlefield Park and Willow Village, but they might as well be called Zooktown | |
| or Google City USA. | |
| And while the developments promise thousands of new homes, the plans are also a tacit acknowledgement of the bleak state of the American housing market and the roles these companies have played in driving up home prices near their sprawling HQs. | |
| I like the way it's sort of masked in banality, words that don't cause you to sort of stop and ponder, mount in view, willow this. | |
| Everything now is meant to sort of pass by your eyes, unquestioned, that you're only disrupted when the media disrupts you. | |
| Be afraid! | |
| This new thing's happening we want you to care about. | |
| Meanwhile, you've just been sort of sucked. | |
| into a banalizing, centralized life where you have increasingly less power. | |
| It seems to me the more that power aggregates and accumulates in these | |
| establishment sets of authoritarian systems, increasingly unlikely it becomes | |
| that we will ever be able to oppose them. If you have an alliance between the | |
| media, the state and vast corporations such as Google, great example Google, or | |
| Meta, then how are you ever supposed to oppose it? | |
| How are you ever supposed to say, can we have a different vision of America? | |
| Can we have a different vision of a community? | |
| I maybe don't want to work 12 hours a day or 10 hours a day. | |
| You should have as much freedom as possible. | |
| This will not result in more freedom. | |
| This will result in less freedom. | |
| And it's been sold to you as if it's some sort of ecological wonderland. | |
| The companies behind these projects argue that they can help solve the country's lack of affordable housing. | |
| That they caused. | |
| But it's fair to approach the plans with a healthy degree of scepticism. | |
| America's single-employer company towns have a long, bloody history of exploitation and labour strife. | |
| While the current plans hardly represent a return to those dark days of the 19th and early 20th centuries, they probably won't usher in a new era of futuristic techno-utopias either. | |
| Judging by the plans that have been publicly unveiled so far, The Googles and Metas of the world aren't aiming nearly that high. | |
| Instead, their visions of city living spaces look a lot like what we're already used to seeing from the modern real estate developers. | |
| Glassy office buildings, verdant parks and walkable main streets with coffee shops, salad bars and alluring apartment buildings. | |
| It's nice, but not exactly groundbreaking stuff. | |
| In a sense, the new conservatism now is this kind of neoliberalist corporatism. | |
| Let's just maintain that. | |
| But less and less people can afford all these little treats, nice little salads, nice expensive coffees. | |
| Doesn't matter. | |
| Soon we will have automated labor instead of them. | |
| Keep your mind on the big vision. | |
| Rather than from the floating cities or domed villages once dreamed up by science fiction writers, these watered-down plans show that what these companies have been after all along is a way to one-up their competitors. | |
| They want to attract and retain top employees and ideally get them back into the office too. | |
| hurt that right now residential real estate looks like a pretty good bet. It's interesting | |
| that a couple of years ago it was considered ingenious that Facebook and these kind of | |
| companies would have nice bars where you could get breakfast and stuff and little pods to | |
| sleep in. When I used to visit them when I was working more in legacy media I used to | |
| think, God, this is so ingenious. Look, there's a bowl of Skittles. They're free! | |
| The idea behind them is, you never leave here, you eat those Skittles and then you sleep in that pod. | |
| Then you can play foosball for a couple of hours and it's back to coding! | |
| Now what they're doing is, they just want to own all of reality. | |
| And in a sense, they kind of already do. | |
| It's just, we're just waiting for the timeline to edge along with us to the point where they own your mind, they own your attention, they own your screen, they own your opinions, they own your office space, they own your home. | |
| No one is going to prevent this happening, except for you. | |
| It's literally only you that can do it. | |
| The noble aim of building more housing, including affordably priced units, is the cherry on top. | |
| But make no mistake, these companies will only pursue these plans as long as they fit their business goals. | |
| In June, Mountain View City Council approved the master plan for Google's North Bayshore project, | |
| a partnership between the tech giant and the Australian real estate firm Lendlease. | |
| The new community will replace a suburban office park with a sprawling new neighbourhood in the heart of Silicon | |
| Valley. | |
| The plans call for as many as 7,000 new homes across a mix of income levels. | |
| mix. As well as parks, restaurants, shops and more than 3 million square feet of office space on 153 | |
| acres. Roughly 15% of those units will be priced below market rate, although the city hasn't | |
| sailed upon the exact income thresholds that will determine who can apply for the units. | |
| So 15% of these properties will be below market rate. | |
| This is the fact of the matter. | |
| That's not very many, is it? | |
| 15%. | |
| And look, they've not established any income threshold that would determine who can apply for the unit. | |
| That means that, essentially, they could sell below market rate properties to people that it's expedient to sell those properties to, perhaps because they work at Google or whatever. | |
| So, while it's using the kind of Face off. | |
| We're helping people. | |
| In reality, it's not making any commitment. | |
| Do you notice how, in our techno-dictatorship, how common the lack of definition around language crops up? | |
| Hate. | |
| What is hate? | |
| Whatever we say it is. | |
| 15%? | |
| What is 15%? | |
| Whatever we say it is. | |
| What is affordable? | |
| Whatever we say it is. | |
| Do you see? | |
| That's how tyranny works now. | |
| They're not going to come with, like, a gun and a bayonet and force you. | |
| This is your new lovely apartment. | |
| There's a salad bar over there. | |
| You don't even know you're not free anymore. | |
| That's what's terrifying about it. | |
| Mountain View also greenlight the master plan for Middlefield Park, another Google development that proposes to tear down existing office and industrial buildings and construct nearly 2,000 new housing units as well as more office and retail spaces. | |
| How can any local authority body oppose a Goliath, a gargantuan company of this nature? | |
| Think of the type of relationships that exist. | |
| Remember that content we did where Fauci did an interview with the BBC? | |
| Bouncy, how are you? | |
| Look at how entrenched and interwoven these interests are. | |
| They're just there to facilitate now. | |
| That's what the state at the level of a whole nation or a local authority does. | |
| It facilitates the interests of the powerful. | |
| Then the legacy media tells you that that's not what they're doing. | |
| They're helping you. | |
| You're going to get an affordable house, 15% of you. | |
| What do you mean affordable? | |
| I'll tell you later. | |
| Is that a real commitment? | |
| What do you mean? | |
| That's not even a word. | |
| It is if we say it is. | |
| Google wasn't a word, but you better believe it is now, you little Googler you. | |
| Other household names are getting in on the action. | |
| Last year, Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously in favour of the plans for Willow Village, Facebook's 59-acre project that's affectionately, or cynically, referred to as Zooktown. | |
| It promises more than 1,700 homes, as well as office, hotel and retail, right next to Meta's headquarters at one hack away. | |
| Walt Disney World also plans to break ground next year on 1,400 affordable housing units across 80 acres, a few miles from its flagship theme park in Florida, the company said in the spring. | |
| Remember once more that philosophical point that we make sometimes? | |
| I think it was Baudrillard that said the fact that Disneyland is in America distracts you from the fact that America is Disneyland, that the whole thing is in fact a corporate project, that it's not visible. | |
| Remember how in the pandemic things became visible to you, or us I suppose, that we hadn't seen before? | |
| Hang on a minute, the media is just supporting this ban. | |
| Wait a minute, they're censoring true information. | |
| Hey, the deep state are involved in this. | |
| Whoa, the media. | |
| Hey, this is happening everywhere. | |
| It just becomes more pronounced when you look at it in microcosm. | |
| This can't be Disneyland. | |
| That's Disneyland. | |
| The whole world can't belong to Google. | |
| That bit belongs to Google. | |
| The whole thing belongs to Google. | |
| This just provides you with some context. | |
| Nearby, the competing resort company Universal is also building a thousand affordable apartments. | |
| It's interesting actually because what we're seeing is a type of decentralisation like Universal Land, Disney Land, Google World and Metapark or whatever. | |
| And I sort of think this is the corporatised version of what might work nicely actually. | |
| Imagine if it wasn't owned by oligarchs but your community was owned by you and you democratically vote on Oh, we want migrants or we don't want migrants. | |
| We want our schools to teach this or we don't want our schools to teach this. | |
| We want to send this much money to the Pentagon or we don't want to send this money to the Pentagon. | |
| Democracy, democracy, democracy. | |
| You determine what happens with your resources. | |
| Where do your taxes go? | |
| All of this is possible now. | |
| Do you want to participate? | |
| No, I'm going to nominate someone to participate at a local level. | |
| You could have democracy as close to you as possible. | |
| These kind of things show you that when facilitating corporatism, they're able to create little local citadels, aren't they? | |
| It's not too complicated then, is it? | |
| It's not too difficult then. | |
| Oh, suddenly we can do that. | |
| That's interesting, you lucky little Googler. | |
| It's no surprise that the largest of the new developments are the brainchildren of Silicon Valley giants. | |
| The modern tech industry was built on a California-tinted brand of utopianism and the belief that connecting people is the answer to many of the world's problems. | |
| After all the digital ad dollars have been hoovered up and all the attention squeezed out of our screen-addled eyeballs, the next logical step is building a new city where the founding principles of the tech world can be put into practice. | |
| But companies are also ruthlessly pragmatic profit-making machines beholden to shareholders who closely watch their every move. | |
| High-minded ideals aside, the modern company towns also make for sound business propositions. | |
| I think that's how you end up with that peculiar mix of idealistic language and visionary rhetoric, but actually just sort of That doesn't sound very profitable. | |
| Okay, what if we just say we're going to do that? | |
| they are all owned in quite a conventional way where you can't go, | |
| we're just going to build a bunch of affordable housing. | |
| Well, that doesn't sound very profitable. | |
| OK, what if we just say we're going to do that? | |
| Yeah, that could be profitable. | |
| These firms are interested in two things, retaining skilled labour | |
| and drumming up positive publicity that makes them look civic minded. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Building houses near their HQs checks off both those boxes. | |
| Commuting is the top reason employees don't want to go back to the office full-time, according to Gallup. | |
| In a recent piece for Harvard Business Review, the economist Edward Glazer and the consultant Atataki argued that companies should think of housing assistance as just one part of a broader benefits package next to on-site chefs or an office gym that encourages employees to stick around and be more productive. | |
| Like, people always talk about cults as if, like, cults are, like, a terrifying and a bad thing, but this is a type of cult. | |
| It's just a cult that's so sort of mundane and banal and called such boring things, and it's based on materialism and rationalism, so you don't notice that you're in a cult already. | |
| If a cult goes, hey, why don't we detach from all this? | |
| Because we're gonna die anyway, and love's the most important thing in all our lives. | |
| You maniacs! | |
| We got you a chef! | |
| You can stay at work all day! | |
| Okay, but what about love? | |
| What about love, you crazy little Googler? | |
| The company towns of the 19th and 20th centuries also bore some of that utopian flavour, at least in theory. | |
| In many cases, company towns were a practical response to the need for housing near factories or lumber mills, which were typically located in barren locations without the kind of amenities that would keep workers happy, like churches or libraries. | |
| But the idea of a place dominated by a single corporation where your boss not only owns your home but also runs your church and your kids' schools and sells you everything you need at the company's store was always a fraught proposition. | |
| In many company towns, the corporations used the setup to maintain their social control, threatening disgruntled workers with eviction from company housing if they went on strike. | |
| When your company is your entire world, the stakes are infinitely higher. | |
| That's why globalism is a bad thing. | |
| That's why social credit scores Or a bad thing. | |
| That's why digital ID is a bad thing. | |
| That's why being able to debank people is a bad thing. | |
| Learning how, on a global scale, to do something that's been proven to be bad at a local, feudal level. | |
| Given the history of company built housing, it's fair to wonder which way the new iterations will | |
| lean. Towards the idealized version of cheaper housing and prized amenities, or a more dystopian | |
| outcome in which we will become more reliant on companies that have already infiltrated every | |
| aspect of our lives. Let me see which way the wind's blowing. Yeah, it's globalism, isn't it? | |
| It's evil tyranny, isn't it? | |
| That's the way the wind's blowing. | |
| If Hitler had gone, I'm gonna do Hitler housing, he would have gone, well, hopefully this time he's learned his lesson. | |
| You know, you'd know what the move was gonna be. | |
| Well, can we just see what they've done in cyberspace? | |
| Well, they've monopolized it, they've done deals with the state, they're controlling people, they're censoring true information, they're stockpiling our data, their business model isn't even what they tell us it is, they tell us what they No. | |
| doing is like say in the case of Google providing searches but what they're actually doing is | |
| capturing all of our data and selling it to advertisers. So if we start letting them control | |
| reality and I'm not saying that reality is more important than the cyber world and certainly not | |
| any metaphysical prima materia of consciousness itself which by the way they're probably trying | |
| to own right now I would say is a fair bet that the dystopian trajectory is the one that they will | |
| be pursuing. But that's just what I think let me know what you think in the chat see you in a second. | |
| Now here's the f*****g news. There won't be pets in Google Town. | |
| In Google Town, there won't be fun. | |
| In Google Town, you'll turn that frown right upside down. | |
| In Google Town, in Google Town, in Google Town, you won't be free. | |
| In Google Town, you will not see that you are just data. | |
| You can have your freedom later. | |
| You're living in Zuckerberg's world right now. | |
| Hey, my kid asked me, is the government baddies? | |
| And I said, I suppose I'm going to have to say that they are. | |
| There are good people in government, there are great leaders, there are great idealists, and there are people in government that want the best. | |
| But in terms of just a simple narrative, my darling daughter, I'm going to have to tell you that the government are baddies. | |
| Did I do the right thing? | |
| One for... well, just say yes or no in the chat. | |
| Let me know. | |
| It's hard, isn't it, to raise these kids these days. | |
| Look at my dog. | |
| He bit the hand that fed him. | |
| He bit it! | |
| He bit that hand that fed him! | |
| All right, so we got some lovely comments back from you. | |
| Frank Rizzo 1. | |
| So the economy is F'd. | |
| The corporations have to buy the homes so we can rent affordable housing. | |
| Have you read David Foster Wallace, one of your great writers, Americans, who Predicted this very kind of dystopia. | |
| Yeah, Bear's okay. | |
| Trish McLeod. | |
| You know what he's like. | |
| I'm moving to Google Town. | |
| I'm moving to Google Town! | |
| Here's the yellow hat. | |
| I'm moving to Google Town just to get away. | |
| No, I love him so much. | |
| Let's give him a biscuit. | |
| He's so lovely. | |
| He's so lovely. | |
| Yeah, I did the right thing, did I? | |
| Oi! | |
| Don't bite me! | |
| Take it gently. | |
| Gently, I've told you before. | |
| What's wrong with these people? | |
| Dog people. | |
| Um, hey, what else did we get? | |
| Liquor giant. | |
| Just go into a c-c-c-cocoon and let them harvest your energy. | |
| That is what it'll be like. | |
| First, it'll be Google Town. | |
| Then it'll be like your Google Pod, won't it? | |
| You just gotta get in that pink soap stuff that Neo was in and have a lovely little sleep. | |
| We're just gonna attach this cable to the back of your head. | |
| You'll be fine. | |
| Go to sleep now. | |
| Go to sleep. | |
| Pride faults. | |
| Exactly. | |
| They can take your home if you don't take your medicine. | |
| Orange Tosh and you won't be able to leave. | |
| You won't need to leave in Google Town. | |
| You won't need to leave in Google Town. | |
| Hey, so listen, did you see the thing about Eric Adams talking about New York City and why it's so good? | |
| Because one minute you could be having a 9-11 and the next minute a shop might open. | |
| Sorry, a store might open. | |
| Does that seem to you to be the best thing about New York City, for heaven's sake? | |
| Hey, I'm enjoying the chat. | |
| You guys are doing fantastic. | |
| And yes, this is available for merch. | |
| Get yourself a little bit of merch. | |
| Join us over in the Awaken Wonder community where we do live chats and where we discuss solutions together. | |
| Still toad right now. | |
| Posting a picture of their dog. | |
| Is that a German Shepherd or is that that German Marmoset or whatever they call German Malinois? | |
| Malinois, is that the right word? | |
| Okay, so here's New York Mayor Eric Adams saying why New York City is the best city in the world because 9-11 could happen any day. | |
| Well, depending on the planning of the CIA. | |
| I'm not saying it was an inside job. | |
| I'm saying it's investigated properly and respect to the many people who lost their lives that day. | |
| Let's have a look at it. | |
| Mr. Mayor, we've come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023, right? | |
| So when you look at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it, and it's tough to do, in one word, what would that word be and tell me why? | |
| New York. | |
| That's two words. | |
| I mean, I know New York, New York, so good we named it twice, but you do have to acknowledge they're different words. | |
| This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a That's not... That's not like a tour... point of a tour... That's a terrible point! | |
| Can't keep doing it! | |
| 9-11, by its very nature, was happening just on one day. | |
| Terrible thing that it was. | |
| A person who's celebrating a new business that's open. | |
| Oh, bless him, he just looks exhausted, doesn't he, Eric Adams? | |
| Poor fella. | |
| This is a very, very complicated city, and that's why it's the greatest city on the globe. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I mean, I'd say sort of the culture, the bars, the people themselves, the rich history of the five boroughs, the sort of feeling that, you know, CBGBs and the Ramones at any moment, you could Punk or Jay-Z and there's so many magnificent things. | |
| Well, no, it could be a terror attack any minute of dubious origins that won't be correctly investigated. | |
| Astonishing, really, mate. | |
| All right, you lot. | |
| Hey, you know how we love you. | |
| Remember, we've given you some suggestions today. | |
| The Julian Assange thing. | |
| Let's repost that in the chat. | |
| Support Julian Assange. | |
| If there's one thing we can do to stick it to the establishment, it's ensure that that man gets freed. | |
| We've talked about Epstein today. | |
| We've had a good laugh. | |
| I've worn this hat. | |
| I'm wearing this hat. | |
| Join the locals community where I'm now going to do a meditation. | |
| Read some holy books, have a little bit of fun together. | |
| I love you. | |
| I respect you. | |
| Well done for being a firewalker, for awakening the divinity within you, for being willing to overcome your own prejudices, for being willing to find great forces and great resources within you. | |
| We must awaken from this slumber. | |
| We cannot let them steer us into oblivion. | |
| We cannot let them control our minds. | |
| We've got Jonathan Pageau coming on the show for a beautiful Christmas special where we talk about Mythology. | |
| Christianity. | |
| We talk about awakening. | |
| You'll love it. | |
| We talk about... Excuse me, guys. | |
| Could you move the teleprompter up? | |
| I can't see no more talking points. | |
| Thanks very much. | |
| That means we can set this as a bit of sign language. | |
| That means keep it moving, baby. | |
| And join us on... We've had a hot mic today. | |
| We're explaining all of the stuff. | |
| You can... | |
| Behind the curtain. | |
| This is it. | |
| We're letting you in. | |
| We've got nothing to hide here. | |
| We've got nothing to hide, baby. | |
| We're coming to Wake and Wanda to get access to interviews, readings, podcast solutions. | |
| Plus, we're doing a promo. | |
| You can give the gift of Locals this Christmas by going to There's a link in the description. | |
| Here's a few people that have joined us lately. | |
| Steverus, Paula D, Infinite Harmony, Paul Tanner70. | |
| Join us over there. | |
| Join the likes of Janice Six, MySockPuppet, Katie Beth, Tiffanel. | |
| We're going to do like a meditation. | |
| We're going to look at the Bible. | |
| We're going to look a little bit at Rumi because we must cultivate the soul. | |
| Because this is the resource we are going to use to win. | |
| The greatest battle! | |
| The true Armageddon! | |
| The war for our freedom, where we will unite against establishment corruption! | |
| Thanks for joining us in the Rumble Chat! | |
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| Merry Christmas to you! | |
| See you tomorrow! | |
| Not for more of the same! | |
| We'd never insult you with that! | |
| It's a whole new day! | |
| A whole glorious new day to join this movement! | |
| See you then. | |
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