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Feb. 26, 2024 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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Serviceman Sets Himself on FIRE! What This EXPOSES About Global War - Stay Free #312

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	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	Thanks so much for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	We've got a fantastic show for you today and much to discuss.
	Of course, the self-immolation of service person Aaron Bushnell, God rest his eternal soul.
	We'll be talking about how that relates to the pervasive, immersive and progressing forever wars across the world.
	We'll be talking about Google Gemini and its extraordinary Misinterpretation of American history and what that might indicate about the lack of objectivity and the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness and the impossibility, in fact, of artificial consciousness.
	Let me know if you can hear me in the chat.
	I want to say hello to all of you guys that are watching right now in the Rumble stream.
	If you're watching this on YouTube, we'll be available for the first 15 minutes, but then will we flee into the stream where we feel free?
	The stream that is Rumble.
	Who we appreciate for supporting our free speech and being such fine advocates for our free speech.
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	You'll love that stuff and I have some personal insights having been friends with Amy Winehouse when she was alive.
	MsDivine66 is in the rumble chat.
	I'm sorry to hear that you are dealing with breast cancer and I wish you a speedy recovery from that and recovering wanker, I have to say the word because that is your name, and Redook, you both want to see Gareth.
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	Gareth is now Kept in a cube and only revealed to people that are willing to subscribe.
	Before we get into the rather sad story of Aaron Bushnell's death, we will be looking at a few lighter matters and later in the show we'll be looking at the federal censorship industrial complex as described and demonstrated by the brilliant Mike Benz, who says that what people mean by democracy these days are institutions rather than elections, whether that's on a global or national level.
	I think that's such a good diagnostic.
	StillToad1, I want to see Bear.
	You are not going to see Bear, or Gareth, or any of this community of people until you cough up hard cash on a monthly basis by becoming an Awakened Wonder.
	You'll have to simply put up with our brilliant analyses of global events derived much from Gareth's work and other members of our team, like young Putin.
	It's just because he looks like him.
	He certainly doesn't share his expansionist agenda.
	And if the term expansionist agenda Worries you?
	Consider this.
	Joe Biden says that good sex is the key to a long-lasting marriage.
	Here's the headline.
	There's an expansionist agenda that I do not want to envisage.
	E178 asks who's Aaron Bushnell?
	Aaron Bushnell is the service person who sadly set himself on fire as an act of protest against escalating Middle Eastern war or what he described as the genocide in Gaza.
	Here's a slightly lighter story.
	What happens when two political populist figures collide?
	Because Xavier Millet met Donald Trump backstage.
	Now, it's pretty interesting to see this, if you ask me.
	Show us your tits, says someone in the chat.
	I simply will not do that anymore.
	I think, given recent events, these guys are staying under wraps.
	Unless you're willing to join our awakened... No, no, no, under no circumstances.
	Now listen, what's interesting about watching Javier Millet meet Donald Trump is that I feel like Donald Trump is usually accustomed to being the charisma tornado in any room that he's in, you know?
	Like, I mean, when Donald Trump met Kanye, that was interesting.
	When Kanye was there, all sort of full of vibration and his Kanye-ness in a chair, in the White House as it was then.
	And Trump sort of holds it back.
	Watch what it's like when Trump meets Javier Millet.
	It's, uh, Millet wants the Falcons back, says which ego.
	We can have them, as far as I'm concerned.
	I mean, they are pretty near to Argentina.
	We probably shouldn't have got involved in that war.
	It's probably a bit mad.
	Uh, so, have you renounced the Freemasons, Brad?
	I have.
	I don't know if it'll mean much to them, given that I'm not in the Freemasons, because, you know, look at me.
	Here, let's have a look at Javier Mille meeting Donald Trump for the first time backstage.
	And if you want to be part of our conversation, get into Rumble!
	That's where the chat is happening, baby!
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	Come on, let's have a look at Javier Mille meeting Trump.
	Just sort of examine the social dynamics of this moment and tell me what it makes you feel.
	Oh no, sorry, wrong one.
	Let me have a look.
	Here it is.
	President!
	Is that the shout of President?
	Is that Trump?
	That's Millet, so that's how he behaves.
	President!
	Because what I feel like, say if you did a magic spell on a hedgehog to bring it into person form, that's what Javier Millet is, you know?
	Like a hedgehog, you do even have those in America.
	Hedgehogs?
	What the hell is this limey bullshit?
	It's too intense.
	Donald Trump's recoiling, isn't he?
	He's recoiling.
	He's leaning back.
	Like, you can hear him.
	He's using his thorax, I think, to create distance.
	Like, that's very, like, that's, I think that's like a Thomas Hearns, Marvin Hagler dynamic.
	Like he's using his height to get distance.
	No, you're hurting me!
	I said that out of honour for me!
	I'm hurting you!
	It's definitely affection, isn't it? What Javier Mille is expressing.
	He really likes him.
	But the arm slaps.
	Trump's not going to like those arm slaps.
	Can I ask, why is YMCA playing there?
	Why is that the choice?
	I know that plays a lot of Trump events, doesn't it?
	Like, is it because he does that to it?
	He does his dance.
	But why not this?
	Why not the original dance to it?
	And obviously it's all of its connotations in gay culture.
	It's an extraordinary moment.
	These two, like, first face it, they're not young.
	They are men and this is a very sort of... there's eroticism in the encounter, certainly on the
	follicular level.
	Triple 07 says the service man looks very twitchy.
	Yeah, like Trump security's like, oh, I don't know, like he's going to get, he's going to be having words with him.
	If that happens again, just five seconds, move him on, move him on.
	Thank you.
	No problem.
	Make Argentina great again.
	Come on, let's have a photo.
	He's moving it onto the photo.
	That's, that's the jog on, isn't it?
	That's in Britain, we would call that the jog on.
	That's like, that's enough now!
	Let's do the photos, because the photos is the summit of the event.
	Once you've asked for the photo, you're basically saying, this needs to end.
	But, some say Javier Millet is doing magnificent work over there in Argentina.
	Some people say he's collapsing the infrastructure.
	I'd love to know what you guys think about it.
	It's extraordinary, it's extraordinary stuff.
	See if there's anything else in this exchange.
	It's a bit too much.
	Yeah.
	Make Argentina...
	Colorado Watch says in the Rumble Chat the same people who like Bojo also like
	Millet. Both puppets of US hegemony.
	Harsh analysis there in the rumble chat but that's the kind of analysis you get here.
	707 says simply I am a woman.
	I don't know if I did I say anything that denied that I if I did I apologize and
	madam That was a good deal of fun analyzing that
	Now we have to move to the tragic and difficult story of Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation and protest burning.
	Now anyone who's seen these images will know how disturbing they are.
	We're just putting up a series of stills because having watched it myself it's not the kind of thing that I would want to promote or put in front of you.
	If you guys want to see it you can certainly find it for yourself.
	Maybe we can even post it in the chat to stop people Leaving us, but I found it very very disturbing.
	On the way to the event Aaron Bushnell, in fact, can you go back a little bit guys where you were on the prompter because I was happy where we were.
	That's cool.
	Stay there.
	Thanks very much.
	Cheers.
	Well earlier on in the video Aaron Bushnell describes his reasons for doing it.
	It's a protest about US involvement in Israel's occupation in Gaza and what he described as the ongoing massacre there.
	Once he's there he covers himself in a highly flammable liquid and then sets himself on fire.
	Now what's extraordinary is the response of the first responders and the subsequent activity.
	Think of the other times you've seen acts of martyrdom like this.
	I think Tibetan Buddhists did it, or excuse me, Vietnamese I suppose, Buddhists did it in
	Vietnam, yeah, cruising bun said Vietnam.
	But if you consider that, those were people that were devout spiritualists, specifically Buddhists,
	he called it a genocide, Russell says, Blue Nose Bob, fair enough. And think also of the image of
	the child running away from the napalm attacks or the Tiananmen Square image.
	There's certain sort of images that you will never forget once you've seen them.
	Now, I don't know how much of this you've seen in legacy media, or indeed if you lot even business with the legacy media anymore.
	One of the things that I think is worth noting is if this event could be used to promote an authoritarian agenda, it would be.
	But this is an extraordinary indictment of current US foreign policy when a service personnel member Ends their own life as a protest while Congress are advocating for further military expenditure.
	Let's have a... Do we have anything else?
	Have we got the Caitlin Johnston post?
	We're not going to do that.
	We're just going to move to like a still headline, huh?
	Let's have a look on button four.
	I'm pressing button four.
	That's not coming up.
	It's button four, still headline.
	This is that.
	Americans overwhelmingly don't want US to risk war with Russia in aiding Ukraine, a poll finds.
	So war is not popular at the moment.
	Look, 17% of Americans support the ongoing war in Ukraine.
	A majority of Americans would not be willing to serve in the military were the US to enter a major war.
	Quinnipiac polls show 84% of America worry about getting pulled into war in the Middle East.
	Some 65% want a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza, not US action.
	President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House this week to press lawmakers on passing the $95 billion national security package that bolsters aid for Ukraine and Israel, as well as the Indo-Pacific.
	So, What I think we have here is a pivotal moment in the trajectory of this ongoing set of wars that are being funded together, so perhaps have to be scrutinised and analysed collectively.
	It's not that long ago where it was impossible to criticize US military activity without being seen as unsympathetic to the sacrifice that service personnel make on behalf of national security, on behalf of patriotism, maybe it could even be said on behalf of community, but what's happened now is it's become unignorable that it's the agenda of the military-industrial complex that's being served in this set of wars, it's become unignorable The powers behind your nation have an agenda towards a unipolar globe where the ascent of Russia or even the relatively contained domestic power of Russia is regarded as a problem and the regional power of China is regarded as a problem.
	Let me have a look at this.
	The Pentagon spent in its total over 14 trillion dollars since the start of the war in Afghanistan with one half of the total going to military contractors.
	A large portion of these contracts, one quarter to one third of all Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five major corporations.
	Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.
	Imagine the power of those organizations.
	I'm minded of Mike Benz's recent statement.
	In fact, post, I think he might have posted this just today, Mike Benz said that when we talk about democracy now, we don't mean an electoral process and therefore the will of the people.
	What we mean are A set of institutions.
	He said that in relation to Ukraine, who haven't had an election in three years now, and that's somewhat understandable.
	They are engaged in a pretty serious war.
	Here is that post from Mike Benz.
	They just cancelled elections again in Ukraine, third year now, and the place they're telling you is the democracy we need to defend.
	Remember, and burn this into your brain, democracy means institutions now, not elections.
	Institution just means the organizations and outlets of the blob, a new emergent phrase to describe the So in this new martyr Aaron Bushnell what we have is a reminder that the military personnel themselves don't believe in these wars.
	The American public don't believe in these wars.
	Who believes in these wars?
	We asked a little question Earlier in a poll.
	Can we have a look at those results now?
	Thank you.
	Uh, let me show you.
	Uh, serviceman Aarish Bushnell cast himself on fire.
	What does it tell you?
	We should stop funding wars to support the troops.
	Uh, in our piece of content tomorrow on Here's the News, we'll be talking in some depth about the conditions that American service personnel find themselves in more broadly.
	Even serving members often find it hard to feed their families and keep a roof above their heads.
	Now, This is an interesting piece of footage, given where we find ourselves now, where Vladimir Putin, to an audience that I'd love to know, is explaining how Ukraine during NATO and attempting to bring Crimea back by military means will escalate to war.
	This is in March 2022.
	So, What I think is interesting about this is we've, all of us, shouldn't all of us have had the opportunity to determine whether or not we want to contribute to the escalation of a conflict that is always being clear has the potential to go nuclear?
	Let's have a brief look at Vladimir Putin making it pretty clear what this would lead to.
	If you're watching us on YouTube We'll stay with you for a couple more minutes, but then we've got so much more content.
	Indeed, Mike Benz, whose post I just showed you, we're going to be analysing that in some detail.
	Not just that post, we're going to be analysing his conversation with Tucker and how much it revealed about the censorship industrial complex.
	Indeed, not since Edward Snowden's revelations have we had a better understanding of how the government is using proxies to shut down free speech and control narrative.
	If any of you think that the legacy media is anything other than an amplification device for the establishment, or as we now call it, the blob, then I want to know what you're watching or reading on there.
	What have they done for you lately?
	Let's have a look at Vladimir Putin talking about Ukraine during NATO back in 2022.
	I want to emphasize this again.
	I said it, but I would like you to hear me after all, and to convey it to your readers, viewers and users on the Internet.
	But do you understand or not that if Ukraine joins NATO and returns Crimea by military means, European countries will automatically be drawn into a military conflict with Russia?
	Of course, the potential of the United Nations and Russia is insurmountable.
	We understand, but we also understand that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers, and on some components, even today, it is ahead of many.
	and in retrospect pretty accurate in terms of how things have played out for
	Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen has now demolished the narrative of the unprovoked war in Ukraine.
	This is an extraordinary bit of footage where you get the sense That we've been kind of walked into this conflict when people knew what the likely consequences would be.
	Let's have a look.
	I have read references to the US guarantees that it gives Israel for its security.
	Is that very much like what we're talking about here with Keefe?
	Yes, it is.
	Obviously, there are differences between Ukraine and Israel.
	But basically, we have modeled the Kiev Security Pact over the security arrangement between the US and Israel.
	We should not just repeat the language we decided already back in 2008.
	So in 2008, a decision was made that Ukraine would be joining in NATO.
	In 2022, Vladimir Putin said, if you attempt to allow Ukraine in NATO or retain Crimea, we're going to get in some serious trouble.
	That Ukraine will become a member of NATO.
	We decided that back in 2008.
	It isn't sufficient just to repeat that.
	We should do something more.
	And I think NATO should decide to say, OK, we outline a roadmap towards Ukrainian membership of NATO.
	Step two, in the run-up to the NATO Summit in Vilnius, some countries led by the US should sign a document giving security guarantees to Ukraine until Ukraine can
	join NATO.
	We'll need some time to figure out exactly how could Article 5 cover a country that is maybe still at war.
	How do you think Russia is going to react to this?
	I don't care.
	Okay, nuclear war then.
	That'll be great.
	Here's Victoria Nuland discussing Ukraine's democracy and America's self-interest.
	Those of you that are familiar will know that Victoria Nuland has worked for successive administrations on both sides of the Irrelevant aisle in perpetuating wars and globalism.
	Again, consider what is meant by democracy now.
	Does it mean the interests of us, the people, or does it mean the interests of certain institutions, sometimes on a national level, sometimes on an international level, which is to say globalist interests.
	Let's have a look at Victoria Newland on this.
	They've been out in their districts hearing from the American people after they have heard from Ukraine, they have heard from Europe, which by the way just passed 54 billion in additional aid itself, that we will do what we have always done, which is defend democracy and freedom around the world, not just for victims of tyrants like Putin, but in our own interest in preserving a free and open international order.
	That's what we need to do.
	We've done it before.
	And by the way, we have to remember that the bulk of this money is going right back into the U.S.
	economy to make those weapons, including good-paying jobs in some 40 states across the United States.
	Good paying jobs for ordinary Americans.
	Can you really believe that, having seen Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire while still in active service, that these wars benefit anyone than military, industrial, complex interests?
	Isn't that astonishing to see that perspective conveyed, as always, by an unquestioning and compliant legacy media?
	You know who they work for.
	Let's see what Glenn Greenwald had to say.
	Imagine how dumb Victoria Nuland thinks everyone is that she feels comfortable with saying with a straight face, we will do what we have always done, which is defend democracy and freedom around the world.
	As fraudulent as the Iraq war was, more lies were told in February 2022.
	Now we're going to leave you if you're watching us on YouTube, but by God do we have some fantastic stuff coming up.
	We're talking about the Google Gemini AI images and what that shows you about the difference between intelligence and consciousness and how it reveals a kind of agenda at the heart of the globalist AI revolution.
	In our deep dive item, we're looking at Mike Benz's conversation with Tucker.
	In some detail with additional information about how the censorship industrial complex is managing and controlling reality and of course we're gonna cover Trump's victory in South Carolina.
	Is Nikki Haley viable anymore or have people lost interest in her?
	Also, become a member of our Awaken Wonder community to get additional content!
	Right, you guys, the first thing that we're looking at is Google have issued an apology for Gemini for overcompensating, leading to inaccurate historical images.
	Let's look at how that's covered on Legacy Media.
	We're all familiar with this.
	George Washington as a person of colour, Vikings with hues of pigmentation unlikely to occur in that region at that time.
	Is that what's important or is it more interesting that it's the revelation of a lack of objectivity in a piece of technology that's likely to become more and more central when it comes to building a future around social credit scores, facial recognition technology and presenting Versions of reality that are deemed absolute when plainly they are highly subjective and, in some cases, just damn wrong.
	...artificial intelligence tool Gemini because of inaccurate depictions of race.
	The chatbot was incorrectly generating images of historical figures including America's founding fathers and Nazi soldiers as people of color.
	People were blasting the snafu on social media saying AI models are struggling with the concept of race.
	Google says it's working to fix the issue and plans to release an improved version of the tool soon.
	I'm actually not that interested in this story.
	I can't even believe I'm having to deal with this.
	Let's have a look at some of those images.
	There they are, of course.
	I'm actually quite fond of the black Nazi.
	I think that's something I could really be into.
	Elon Musk posted this.
	What's that?
	Don't take that out of context!
	Elon Musk posted this.
	Gemini AI will be at the heart of every Google product and YouTube.
	This is extremely alarming.
	The senior Google exec called me again yesterday and said it would take a few months to fix it.
	Previously he thought it would be faster.
	My response to him was that I doubt that Google's woke bureaucratic blob would allow him to fix it.
	Unless those who caused this are exited from Google, nothing will change except to make the bias less obvious and more pernicious.
	By the way, kudos to Caitlyn, he means Johnston, for posting that she would definitely prefer Oh, Caitlyn?
	You mean Caitlyn Jenner?
	I would definitely prefer misgendering to nuclear apocalypse.
	Because of that post, is it okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse?
	Now, that's sort of trolling this piece of tech, I suppose, but in so doing, revealing that there's a total lack of clarity, intelligence, and objectivity at the heart of AI, and it's ultimately a tool of the global establishment that one day may be utilized to identify who, not what races, ought be represented in what way, but What people might be deemed terrorists or people of interest as it facilitates a minority report reality where all of us are presumed criminals based on our previous posting history or the preferences of a machine that as I say is not objective but is rendering reality
	On the basis of the ideology of a small group of people who, again, do not really care about democracy, they care about power, profit, the management of reality.
	And indeed, when we look at the Shane Gillis SNL, did you see Shane Gillis on SNL?
	We have another opportunity to note how the culture cannot accommodate even good-humoured communication between people.
	The assumption of cruelty in place of comedy and conviviality.
	We'll be talking about that and looking at that in more.
	DL later in the week.
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	Now, What's going on in the South Carolina primary?
	Does this mean that the Nikki Haley experiment has totally failed?
	Can you snort?
	It says Cat 2901.
	You actually can, I suppose, but it is at your own risk.
	I should do that in that bit where I speak quickly.
	If you ingest it nasally, it's at your own risk.
	You can put it in your ears, put it in your butt, do whatever the hell you want to do with it.
	Any artist says Bill Hicks.
	I do Do you remember that?
	I feel the world has had to alter with the radical invention and advent of independent media.
	In Bill Hicks' time, you did not have global corporations turning on individual comedians.
	In fact, we're going to discuss that more in the Shane Gillis piece tomorrow, which I know you guys are gonna absolutely love.
	Let's have a look at what went on in the South Carolina primary.
	CNN literally immediately called it for Donald Trump.
	It was just that fast.
	Let's have a look.
	Trump will win the South Carolina Republican primary, defeating former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in her home state and securing his fourth major early victory in the GOP primary season.
	The former president taking another critical step toward winning his third Republican presidential nomination and continuing his dominance over the race.
	Wow incredible.
	So I suppose it's inevitable that we will get Trump v Biden unless Trump is incarcerated and Biden, well I mean sort of there are some health issues that could catch up and lead to who?
	Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama?
	Certainly that's what Vivek thought when he was on here.
	Let's have a look at Nikki Haley.
	She is undimmed and confident.
	I heard this week that no matter what happens in South Carolina I would continue to run for president.
	It's interesting, isn't it?
	Because this even looks like an infomercial now.
	I say that Nikki Haley is a failed experiment, and this is because of independent media.
	All of us now know that Nikki Haley is a military-industrial complex candidate.
	You wouldn't have known that in the old days.
	In the old legacy media days, they would have been able to sort of make her, frame her as an innovative new face of republicanism.
	But now it's just straight away you think Nikki Haley. She's funded by arms companies
	I'm a woman of my word You
	You you
	Thank you.
	Here's the production.
	It's not real.
	Here's Gavin Newsom talking about it.
	Billy or Trump would be easier to beat for him.
	First of all, I think she's one of our better surrogates.
	So I hope she stays in. I hope she does well tomorrow.
	All the nasty stuff she says about Trump.
	She's spot on. 99% of it.
	So I'm enjoying this primary and I hope it continues.
	So I wish her luck.
	I've never seen Gavin Newsom talk before.
	He's got a sort of helium feature to him.
	He looks like he's sort of held up by gas, is what I would say about Newsom.
	All I know about him is he had that dinner party during COVID-19, but all of our politicians in Britain were literally partying their way through that pandemic like it was 1999, when it was about the time that many of the medications for that period were patented, curiously enough.
	Hey, we got a feeling about 20 years from now, you're gonna be needing a little vaccine, but I don't want a vaccine!
	You know what else is gonna be popular?
	Mandates, baby!
	You're gonna take it!
	Hope you've seen our piece of content, of which I'm very proud, created in-house here at Stay Free Media, on the new French laws, and our comments on that very funny bit of news media, where I think they were local news in Florida, where they go, like the two news people, like the woman that's doing the news, the news anchor's going, Wait a minute, I took all those jabs and I got myocarditis last week!
	It's really, really, well it's not funny, it's not funny that she got myocarditis, it's just funny the way this stuff's playing out.
	Hey, listen, you're going to love this.
	We're talking about the Federal Censorship Industrial Complex.
	Tucker Carlson's interview with Mike Benz detailed the emergence of what Benz calls military rule.
	Now Mike Benz, we've got to get him on this show, we've got to find him, we've got to track him down, we've got to bring him on.
	He talks about an online censorship industry and how powerful it's become, how corrupt and tyrannical the U.S.
	defense and foreign policy establishment is now.
	So, after the 2020 election and COVID-19 pandemic, the two most censored events in human history, can you believe that?
	More censored than the Army, uh, the Library of Alexandria.
	More censorial than the Nazi Party and their book burnings.
	Now what's burned is American service personnel protesting wars that they themselves are supposed to be fighting in.
	What does this new censorship industrial complex, backed in the way that it is by the military, mean for future elections and terrifyingly, pandemics?
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news.
	See you after.
	No, here's the fucking news!
	The 2020 election and the 2019 pandemic were the most censored events in human history Mike Benz has revealed on Tucker.
	So has the US foreign policy and defense industry become the most tyrannical instrument in the history of the world?
	We now know as a result of the fascinating interview between Mike Benz and Tucker Carlson that there's a new emergent political force operating on a global stage that you may have heard referred to before by authors like Martin Goury but will now understand in great depth as this censorship industrial complex truly emerges which means that the 2020 election and the 2019 pandemic were the most censored events in human history that now the US foreign policy and defense industry have unprecedented power And with 2024 being the year of elections, it's likely that we will be experiencing more censorship than ever before.
	Nick Clegg, a former British politician and now head of Aspect of Meta, has 40,000 employees over there dedicated to censoring free speech in order to preserve what he bizarrely refers to as election integrity.
	And the word integrity does not belong in this conversation.
	We are in a war for freedom of information right now.
	We are in a war to control the perception of reality.
	Independent news sources such as this one, the ability to communicate immediately and with as little friction between us, the way that we currently can, is under threat.
	Democracy itself is under threat.
	International relationships are under threat.
	The ability to challenge the legitimacy of wars and measures taken by our government, often under the guidance of global organisations, is under threat.
	We have to wake up immediately. Several people have sent me this interview
	saying it's hypocal and given that Tucker Carlson's done two very important interviews
	recently, he did that one with Putin, then he had a little chat with another guy who gets
	a little bit of heat from the mainstream media. Yes, old Russ himself, but this is the
	one. This is the one to watch because Mike Bent explains how information and therefore
	reality is controlled by some very powerful interests. We're going to look at some of it
	together, then we're going to analyse it further and then we're going to organise against
	this machine together.
	They explicitly said on tape that they were set up to do what the government was banned
	from doing itself.
	And then they articulated a multi-step framework in order to coerce all the tech companies to take censorship actions.
	They said on tape the tech companies would not have done but for their pressure.
	Which involved using threats of government force because they were the deputized arm of the government.
	They had a formal partnership with the DHS.
	They were able to use DHS's proprietary domestic disinformation switchboard to immediately talk to top brass at all the tech companies for takedowns.
	So what we thought of as big tech censorship was always government censorship.
	Governments have proxy organizations within social media, and actually social media itself, operating to control the information that is accessible.
	Generally speaking, this is just my personal opinion, it's information that would arm you with sufficient facts to become a dissident, for you to become suspicious and cynical of your own government's actions.
	In short, Apparatus that was designed, and this is explicit and becomes more explicit over the course of this conversation we're having now, that was designed to control what was referred to as terrorism, foreign terror threats, has now been turned inward onto domestic populations.
	This happens in my country, the United Kingdom, where you have the 77th Brigade, which has peculiar ties to Caroline Dynage, who was specifically the politician who demanded that I be demonetised.
	And when I say peculiar connections, it's her husband ran it.
	Psy-ops that were utilized to control foreign dissidents when it was convenient and necessary are now being used to control domestic populations.
	And for a moment, pause just here on the semantics of this situation.
	They were regarded, weren't they, groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, they say quite rightly, as terrorists.
	But we regarded the key feature of terrorism to be sort of violence, and maybe because of the way that we were generally coached, perhaps some of the religious and cultural paraphernalia That doesn't belong to the idea of the terrorist.
	But now we know that what terrorism truly means is a desire and potentially the ability to disrupt the agenda of the powerful.
	Because guess who's a terrorist now?
	You and me.
	And anyone that's interested in opposing their narrative.
	Even if that means simply having a conversation on reasonable matters like personal medical pursuits.
	Or having a perspective that might be contrary to the popular or mainstream view regarding a war.
	You are terrorists now.
	And they bragged on tape about how they got the tech companies to all systematically adopt a new terms of service speech violation ban called delegitimization, which meant any tweet, any YouTube video, any Facebook post, any TikTok video, any Discord post, any Twitch video, anything on the internet that undermined public faith and confidence in the use of mail-in ballots or early voting drop boxes Excellent.
	People are in prison as a result of that, by the way, now.
	And remember that France has just introduced laws to prevent you criticizing Pfizer.
	under this new delegitimization policy.
	Excellent. People are in prison as a result of that, by the way, now.
	And remember that France has just introduced laws to prevent you criticizing Pfizer.
	This is happening right now.
	And look, to Ireland, too, the new hate speech laws that are peculiarly diffuse and oddly draconian.
	And our country, the online safety bill, championed by someone who has connections to psy-ops that were previously deployed against terrorism.
	I don't want to sound like a hysterical, ranting conspiracy theorist.
	I'm simply pointing out that global organisations with global reach have a singular policy that they are deploying against vast populations.
	And someone like Mike Benz here on Tucker's platform, gracefully delivered by Elon Musk, That they only adopted because of pass-through government pressure from the Election Integrity Partnership, which they bragged about on tape, including the grid that they used to do this and simultaneously invoking threats of government breaking them up or government stopping doing favors for the tech companies unless they did this.
	That's brilliant, because do you remember all the demonopolisation conversations?
	I remember being broadly supportive of that.
	Yeah, you should break up Facebook.
	You should break up Big Tech.
	You should have that communally run, democratically by the people.
	No, no, no, not the last bit, but we should break them up.
	All that was was a threat to get Big Tech platforms to be obedient and start acting as proxies for the government.
	Now, these are things that we're all experiencing.
	If you've had a single post disappear, let alone if you've been subject to massive psyops yourself, this is this policy in action.
	As well as inducing crisis PR by working with their media allies.
	And they said the government, DHS, could not do that themselves.
	And so they set up this basically constellation of State Department, Pentagon, and IC networks to run this pre-censorship campaign, which by their own math had 22 million tweets on Twitter alone.
	And mind you, they did this on 15 platforms.
	This is hundreds of millions of posts.
	Which were all scanned and banned or throttled so that they could not be amplified or they existed in a sort of limited state purgatory or had these frictions affixed to them in the form of fact-checking labels where you couldn't actually click through to the thing or you had to, it was an inconvenience to be able to share it.
	I've always been cynical about online activism, but now simply by sharing posts like this, you are becoming a dissident.
	You can contradict the intentions of the state powers that Mike Benz is describing.
	Now they did this seven months before the election.
	This took out... Wait, wait, may I ask you to pause right there?
	So what you're saying is, what you're suggesting is, they knew the outcome of the election seven months before it was held.
	It looks very bad.
	What an extraordinary suggestion.
	But even something as apocal as election rigging, which in a way is just a technological evolution of ideas like gerrymandering and manipulation and uniparty policies and comparable politics within both of the major parties in most democratic nations, it's Shocking, astonishing, to a degree, but also, God, if you're living in this space, hardly surprising.
	Let's look in more detail now about this age of censorship that we've entered into, and how censorship's not just like what it used to mean in the old days, a sticker across explicit images in a potentially erotic magazine.
	No, what it means now is the control of reality itself, the control of elections, the control of global policies around health, the control of your mind, your reality, the control of everyone you love, everyone you care for, being filtered for and dominated by systems that you didn't vote for.
	And if you do vote for them, that vote may not count, it seems.
	Let's get into it.
	Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, explained to Tucker how a constellation of federal agencies and publicly funded institutions under the pretext of countering misinformation rigged the 2020 election and are right now smothering the First Amendment and rigging the 2024 election through massive state-sponsored censorship online.
	The 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, says Benz, were the two most censored events in human history.
	And 2024 is shaping up to be the same, thanks to the emergence of a federal censorship industrial complex.
	In a sense, this is the pinnacle of stories we've been covering for a good while now.
	The censorship industrial complex is a term that we learned from Michael Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi.
	Recently, because of Lee Fang's reporting, we were able to understand that Moderna had been spying on our channel.
	We know that the government spent money ensuring that our content got curtailed and shut down.
	The stories were being planted in the media.
	It's astonishing what's taking place here and it's astonishing that it's continuing.
	Think for a moment that Julian Assange is having those hearings.
	Think for a moment about the revelations of Edward Snowden some time ago that had comparable
	revelations but now looks like some old timey hacking like where the five eyes nations all
	exchanged information on one another's populations in order to get round pesky freedom of information
	and privacy laws in those domestic territories themselves.
	Now what's happening is this is metastasized into a vast unstoppable cyborg of censorship
	and control.
	The problem here is profound with deep historical roots that go back to the aftermath of World
	War II and the creation of the CIA along with a host of US funded international institutions.
	But for our purposes it suffices to understand the problem in its two most recent stages
	the period from 1991 to 2014 and from 2014 to the present.
	What's being referred to are the establishment of the legacy news media and its implicit connections to the state from their inception, Operation Mockingbird and various other ways that the CIA and deep state organisations have always infiltrated media.
	And the problem occurred when legacy media's power base became diminished with the rise of social media and the internet.
	At the outset of internet privatisation in 1991, free speech online was seen as an instrument of statecraft.
	At that time, says Benz, internet free speech was championed by the US foreign policy and defence establishments as a way to support dissident groups around the world in their efforts to overthrow authoritarian or disfavoured regimes.
	That's why freedom of speech used to be a neoliberal issue.
	That's why, as you might say, as people say, the left used to care about free speech.
	At that point, free speech could be used to destabilize foreign governments.
	Hey, these dissident groups, they should have free speech because that free speech means that we'll be able
	to corrupt their democratic processes and install a puppet government.
	Now free speech means that you might start challenging your establishment, the United States government,
	the UK government, the Australian, Canadian government.
	Now you are the dissident and free speech is not so popular.
	That's how and why that change took place.
	I've always been curious about it.
	Didn't the left use to talk about free speech?
	Didn't I grow up thinking free speech because of women's rights, because of civil rights, because of rights of gay folk, because it's important that we can all speak to one another?
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It was a convenient tool to support it then and it's convenient to shut it down now.
	Astonishing.
	It allowed the U.S.
	to conduct what Benz calls insta-regime change operations in service of the State Department's foreign policy agenda.
	The plan worked really well.
	Among other things, free speech on the internet allowed U.S.-backed groups to assert control over state-run media in foreign countries, making it much easier to overthrow government.
	Every time you hear someone say, in Tehran, oh, they're sexist over there, don't care about women's rights, Now we can learn to tune in to what's actually happening.
	Hold on a minute.
	We know they don't care about women's rights.
	They're obviously trying to institute a regime change in that country.
	So just watch out for it now, because the legacy media will do it again and again, because that's what they do.
	The high watermark of this way of deploying free speech online, Benz explains, was the Arab Spring in 2011 and 2012, when governments the Obama administration considered problematic.
	Egypt, Tunisia, Libya all began falling in the so-called Facebook and Twitter revolutions.
	During that time, the State Department worked closely with these social media companies to keep them up and running in those countries to be used as tools for protesters and dissident groups that were trying to circumvent state censorship.
	So if your agenda is in alignment with their agenda, they will support you.
	If it isn't, they won't.
	Say, a figure like Zelensky, who just becomes a hero overnight and he's turning up the Golden Globes and billions of dollars are going his way, do you really think that that's because they care about Ukrainian people?
	Or do you think, just temporarily, Zelensky becomes, oh look, use this guy quick, baggage him up like a mule with funding just strapped on him like dynamite and sent in to explode conveniently for their narrative.
	And if Zelensky at some point becomes inconvenient, just ask Colonel Gaddafi what happens when you're no longer useful to the establishment.
	Oh, you can't cause, you know, dead now because they facilitate his death.
	We came, we saw, he died.
	So this is a significant moment when you look at the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the ongoing vilification of Vladimir Putin, who I acknowledge is a tyrannical figure, war criminal, all of that.
	It's a serious thing.
	But look at it through the lens of utility and exploitation.
	And again, the 2014 coup, which we talk about all the time, comes up.
	This is fascinating.
	All that changed in 2014 after the US-backed coup in Ukraine toppled the government of Viktor Yanukovych, and there was an unexpected pro-Russia counter-coup in Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine.
	That's literally the advent of the war we're involved in now.
	Last same year, says Benz, when the people of Crimea voted to be annexed into the Russian Federation.
	That was the last straw for the concept of free speech on the internet in the eyes of NATO.
	For a moment we can question what NATO does and what NATO's for.
	Do you think NATO is for you?
	We care about free speech.
	Free speech, everyone.
	And now, let's hear from the people of Crimea using their free speech.
	We would like to belong to Russia.
	Yeah, I don't like this free speech.
	That's bad.
	Free speech.
	That's a hate crime.
	I heard some hate crime right there, did you?
	It sounded like hate to me, boss.
	Let's get Victoria Nuland.
	Let's get all of our state marionettes in to say that hate speech is on the rise.
	Oh my god, all of this hate speech.
	Thereafter, NATO, the CIA and the State Department, together with the intelligence agencies of our European allies, did an about-face on internet free speech.
	Oh, you don't like free speech all of a sudden?
	They began instead to engage in what amounted to hybrid or information warfare to censor what they saw as Russian propaganda online.
	These efforts quickly spread beyond Ukraine and Eastern Europe to include the censorship of populist groups on the right that were emerging across the EU as a response to the Syrian migrant crisis.
	We all saw this take place as well. We remember the vilification of far-right groups. Now
	whatever your politics are, you're actually in a democracy entitled to them. Personally,
	I would suggest hating individuals or groups of people on the basis of their culture is
	not acceptable, but I can understand people having national identities because for a long
	time we were told that we were meant to be protecting our nations and going to war to
	protect our nations and sacrificing our lives to protect our nations and actually fighting
	wars in some of these territories. In fact, that's what's caused the migrant crisis is
	these are the same bloody countries that are being bombed by the exact same interests that
	are telling you that you're racist for having concerns about your countries.
	So, wow, a lot to learn.
	By the time Brexit emerged in the summer of 2016, explains Benz, NATO and the foreign policy establishment felt there was a real crisis afoot.
	The problem was spreading west from Central and Eastern Europe, and it had to be stopped.
	If it wasn't, then Brexit might trigger the collapse of the entire EU, along with NATO, and the entire constellation of supranational institutions that relied on NATO.
	Looking back at it as an inhabitant of this nation, what do you think their real connection to the EU and NATO and all that stuff is?
	Hey!
	We love the EU!
	It's obvious in retrospect that what they don't want is the disruption of their ability through these agencies to evade democracy and the process of democracy.
	Referendums and referenda like Brecht Brexit or the mad giddy election of Donald Trump is obviously an anomaly and a disruption to a global trajectory wherever you stand on either of those issues and whatever you think they're about because I notice that they're generally rendered as being about hate but since then I've learned that hate is one of the ways and hate speech and racism and the persecution of minorities which I'm pretty convinced the global establishment don't actually care about is one of the ways that they legitimize censorship and control and through that lens I look at Brexit a little differently.
	The entire post-war architecture of institutions might come crashing down, all because the hearts and minds of the people were being swayed.
	We're told that that architecture is to maintain peace, but even that's something that I might want to interrogate a little.
	So went the thinking anyway.
	As far as the National Security Establishment was concerned, citizens were being swayed by Russian and far-right propaganda, and we can't have that.
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	Under these circumstances, free speech was the last thing that could be allowed to flourish online.
	Censorship became the order of the day.
	As Carlson put it, these NATO and EU leaders identified their new enemy as democracy within their own countries.
	Their own voters, in other words.
	They feared that their people, the citizens of their own countries, would get their way.
	And they went to war against that.
	And doesn't it make sense, really, that you, if you become awakened, enlightened, and in tune, and demand real power in your own life, and that means the ability to disrupt the interests of the institutions and groups that are currently powerful, because at the moment there is a wealth transfer, it seems that more and more we're living within a fuel and energy crisis, inflation, explosion of grocery prices.
	If you want to influence that, or interact even with that, You would be impacting their current strategy and their current structures.
	And so therefore you are the problem.
	And then Trump was elected.
	From that moment, and indeed as we know from the Russia collusion hoax, even before Trump was elected in November 2016, the US foreign policy and defense establishment, which has done so much to censor and weaponize the internet overseas, turned their attention to American citizens.
	This is a theme you hear again and again.
	Infrastructure that was deployed overseas to create regime change, to control dissidents, to arm, to inspire, to utilize dissidents has been deployed in domestic populations.
	You've experienced it.
	I've experienced it.
	We've all experienced it.
	Sometimes I think it's as simple as they've got the technology and they sort of can't help but use it.
	But other times I think it's about absolute and total control.
	Initially, their predicate for domestic surveillance was Crossfire Hurricane, the fatuous notion that Russia had infiltrated the Trump campaign and that Trump was a Russian asset.
	That's still going on.
	Nancy Pelosi is still making claims along those lines.
	Literally, like right now probably somewhere.
	Once that collapsed, they needed another excuse to spy on and censor Americans who held disfavored opinions or who spread misinformation, to put it in the parlance of the censorship industrial complex.
	To do that, they had to get around the prohibition against the CIA operating on American soil.
	Since they couldn't very well get away with openly spying on and censoring American citizens, they decided to house the bulk of their censorship operations inside the Department of Homeland Security, specifically in a part of DHS tasked with reducing and eliminating threats to US critical physical and cyber infrastructure. Hence,
	domestic misinformation, which is really just a term for opinions and information that the national
	security state doesn't like or that run counter to State Department policy, was classified
	as an attack on critical cognitive infrastructure and could therefore be censored. What it
	amounted to was an end run around the First Amendment.
	We're told that the internet creates these silos, these bubbles of opinion, these worlds
	of escalating extremism. But on a personal and interpersonal level, did you not notice
	that in your own family, you used to have people that had different political views
	and at Thanksgiving or Christmas or whatever, you'd just go, oh, he's a bit Republican or
	they're a bit of a hippie or a lefty.
	Then you got on with your life rather than it being a frontier for a new war.
	Where is this new atmosphere actually coming from?
	Well, we've just had it explained to us.
	It's to legitimize regarding ordinary citizens as terrorism and differences of opinions as an existential threat.
	But even DHS couldn't do this directly, so it outsourced online censorship operations to third parties like the Election Integrity Partnership, or EIP, which consisted of four separate organizations.
	The Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, and a firm called Grafica.
	These private sector partners did the nitty gritty work of mapping out entire online networks of people who helped spread certain disfavored opinions or what the censors called false narratives.
	Essentially they were deputized to censor Americans on behalf of the government.
	Do you remember when you first saw like maybe a graph about the dark web and Joel Rogan is a gateway to being a racist he's a right-wing Portal Gateway.
	That was the result of these organisations, many of which are government funded or privately funded by vested interests.
	Certainly that Atlantic Council needs a bloody good looking at.
	And what they did is just created the idea that you can't trust powerful online sources whose opinions run counter to establishment narratives.
	Once they determined that that was the desired outcome, they set about finding ways.
	Well, you shouldn't listen to this person because they're a racist.
	You shouldn't listen to this person because they're a sex offender.
	You shouldn't listen to this, but they just filled in the blanks.
	These managers and their partners inside the US government went about their task with gusto, including a seven-month pre-censorship campaign ahead of the 2020 election.
	Any content challenging public faith in mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot drop boxes was flagged for violating new rules about delegitimizing elections.
	The censors, along with their governments, had strong-armed the social media companies into adopting these rules as documented in great detail last year with the release of the Twitter files.
	You'll remember when Schellenberg has come on our show, you can watch these interviews, they're up now, he talked about pre-bunking, how journalists are often invited to conferences and told, hey, there's going to be all this disinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop, so when that does come out, will you go ahead and pre-bunk that for us?
	We know that now.
	Indeed, the Twitter files exposed a massive effort by the federal government to deputize Twitter and other social media companies to do what it could not, at least not legally.
	But in some ways, the Twitter files just revealed the tip of the censorship iceberg.
	One of the problems I have with the liberal left, even though I really admire some brilliant online broadcasters and comics, for example, is their unwillingness to address that figures like Trump or Elon Musk, who might be out of alignment with some of their cultural views, are serving this vital function by disrupting exactly this narrative.
	Elon Musk's The acquisition of X is a problem for them because they lost a compliant partner in a space that they needed to control.
	And subsequently Elon Musk is dealing with a lot of stuff and a lot of flack and all of that.
	And you can have your own views about what his overall function is.
	But when it comes to this particular problem, and I believe that this is THE problem, the control of information and therefore the control of reality, Elon Musk is disrupting that trend and tendency, as did Brexit, as did Trump, wherever you stand on the cultural purview around each of those issues.
	And I would Also start to be open to the possibility that I personally may have misunderstood the cultural purview because where did I get it from?
	Who gave me that context?
	The State Department, through grants and product development assistance to private entities
	like the Global Disinformation Index, GDI, and NewsGuard, was actively intervening in
	the news media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable by funding the
	infrastructure development and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private
	censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.
	One of the moments in that interview that I enjoyed was when he said, what are you going
	to do when the New York Times is reduced to the power and capacity of an average or at
	least somewhat large Facebook page?
	This is what's taken place in the last few years.
	The legacy media's control of the minds of the population has been significantly challenged, reduced, castrated, annihilated perhaps even, and what we are experiencing now is an attempt to reassert centralised power.
	The State Department then gave these tools to companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to target disfavoured media outlets.
	Through these and other methods during the 2020 election cycle and the COVID pandemic, the government-backed censorship industrial complex throttled millions of online posts, suppressing news traffic to news sites and undermined revenue streams for a host of outlets and influencers with disfavored or dissident views.
	Both the GDI and State Department's Global Engagement Center, GEC, developed censorship tools that included supposed fact-checking technologies, media literacy tools, media intelligence platforms, Social network mapping and machine learning, artificial intelligence technology, all these tools are being deployed now to control information.
	But this isn't a thing of the past.
	All the censorship infrastructure described above is still intact, still functioning, and is firing on all cylinders right now ahead of the 2024 election.
	Is there one politician that is right now saying, I will dismantle this?
	Bobby Kennedy is.
	He's saying on day one, I'll dismantle this.
	Is Trump saying it?
	I don't know.
	You let me know in the comments and chat.
	This is a global problem that should be addressed.
	If anything, the censorship industrial complex is more robust than it was four years ago.
	Just last week, META's President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, boasted on CNBC that he currently has some 40,000 employees, which is nearly 60% of META's entire workforce tasked with censoring speech on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
	Clegg also claimed META has spent about $20 billion, including $5 billion in the last year, on censorship efforts.
	Or what he euphemistically called election integrity.
	Sometimes you wonder where power is now situated and a paragraph like that tells you where power has gone.
	If politicians seem replaceable and interchangeable, if democracy seems intransigent, turgid and static, where is power?
	Well, it's there when you've got billions being spent on controlling information that directs the outcome of elections and even beyond that, global policies.
	What does that mean in practice?
	We don't have to guess.
	Remember that Facebook infamously censored the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020 at the behest of the FBI.
	With 40,000 employees now charged with censoring hate speech and ensuring election integrity, we can be fairly certain that if another Hunter Biden laptop story comes along this election cycle, it too will be quashed by the censors.
	Difficult to dispute.
	Why exactly is our government doing this?
	It's not merely a partisan preference for ensuring Democrats stay in power, but something deeper and more insidious.
	To circle back to Carlson's interview with Benz, it's because the national security state has come to regard democracy not as the will of the people expressed for elections, but as the constellation of government agencies, government-backed institutions, corporations, media outlets and non-profit groups.
	Protecting democracy in this view means protecting these institutions from the people they were putatively meant to serve.
	It's almost like over a broader time frame, there's been a return to something like an aristocracy or even a monarchy or oligarchy.
	There was a sort of a brief blip where you had, oh, this is representative democracy.
	Here are these separate states and cities that might all interdependently be run by elected councils and officials and true democracy could be achieved.
	That idea has been crushed by a broader trend towards, let's centralise power, let's tell people they've got democracy, but what we've got is total control.
	What's being described there is total control.
	As Benz at one point says in the interview, the relationship between the managers of the American empire and the citizens of the American homeland has broken down.
	And that's played itself out in the story of the censorship industry.
	I think what we have there between that interview and this article is a good understanding, as we are likely to achieve, of what's happening in the world right now.
	The potential for information, for dissent, for diverse opinions, for conversation, for discourse, discussion, contradiction, democracy, power, as local as the individual, as diverse as the planet, has exploded into a set of systems that were simply not ready for it.
	And we're now witnessing those systems try to regain control, introducing new laws to regain control, exerting new influence over the companies that have access to all of us, i.e.
	the big tech and social media platforms that we all now use as part of everyday life.
	We are nothing less than a war for the control of our minds and our reality is taking place and all of us are somehow confined to very narrow bandwidths of conversation.
	Little issues here or there, local or topical, or what about this and should that have happened and what about this?
	When in fact what we all need to collectively do is take a broader perspective together and say the people I disagree with on the local and individual level have so much more in common with me than these vast institutions that are attempting to assert
	and exert mass control.
	And unless we find ways together of forming a collective manifesto,
	of demanding a decentralised but unified opposition to the problem of globalism
	and the global censorship required to achieve it, as outlined in these two pieces,
	then we're going to be in real serious trouble.
	So get ready to make some new alliances right now.
	Get ready to, as they used to say, hold your nose and form friendships and alliances with cultural groups, ideas even, that you might not agree with because the alternative is plainly in sight now.
	It's a centralised technocracy where a cadre of experts, powerful institutions, have near total control, executed through technology in forms of social credit scores, digital currencies, absolute control of media, that is absolutely unprecedented.
	And while we're all distracted Oh no, are these people like new Nazis or populists or is that hate speech?
	They are quietly but very deftly like a sliding saber slicing right through the heart of everything that we're supposed to hold dear.
	Freedom of speech, representative systems of government.
	We're going to lose all of it unless we wake up now.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the chat.
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	Abats, do you speak in metronome, Russell?
	Just wondering if it's rhythmically consistent.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think I use a lot of cadences and rhythms, I thought.
	So, just fuck off, alright?
	And what about this from Xander86?
	No shit, Russell.
	Welcome to 3.6 years ago.
	Do you have any idea how hard we are working?
	Extreme Steve says the intelligence community are the real terrorists.
	Ooga booga!
	Censorship isn't just convenient, it's advantageous to absolute tyranny.
	Ruby C. Kinglet, welcome to the loving community of domestic terrorists.
	Yeah?
	Yeah?
	You hear me?
	You hear me now?
	There are some demons being triggered, said CP Vexin.
	Yeah, what do you think about that, those demons?
	Do you think there are real demons in real life?
	A lot of the Christian, uh, yeah, that's right, YouTube videos I watch, they say, look at these demons in real life.
	And it's like people sort of going, rah, rah, rah!
	And you're like, oh my God, are we going to be OK?
	So listen, you'll like this.
	The legacy media insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Ukraine is winning that war they're in with nuclear power, And well-led country by an old-school tyrant who's very, very confident in himself.
	He's fit as a fiddle, that Putin.
	I mean, I'm not advocating for him, but he's as fit as a fiddle.
	Let's have a look at this mad thing.
	This is made by Matt Taibbi.
	He's alive to me.
	His company, Racket, make these compilations that show how legacy media all sing from the same hymn sheet.
	Can I have one?
	Thanks, mate.
	Those are the headlines tonight.
	But are they behind?
	Like, yesterday's news is the real truth.
	The Ukrainians are winning.
	We know that Ukraine will win.
	This is inevitable that Ukraine is going to defeat Russia.
	Ukraine is winning this war.
	Ukraine is winning this war.
	Ukraine will win this war.
	Ukraine is winning this war.
	Ukraine will win this war.
	Ukraine will win it.
	Because I have been there, I have worked there, I know.
	He said Ukraine will win.
	Winning the war is now nothing.
	Someone says, legacy media will just cover today's episode as Russell Bryant says Putin is as fit as a fiddle.
	Question.
	Ukraine will win and it will happen very soon.
	We can finish everything in weeks.
	Victory will be in very short period.
	They say Ukraine will win.
	Ukrainians will win.
	And I haven't met a single person yet who doesn't say Ukraine will win.
	Russia's bad, Ukraine is good.
	What else do you need to know?
	That's amazing news.
	A stalemate which only brings death and suffering.
	A true solution can only be found at the negotiating table.
	YouTube bans RT.
	There's no way the Ukrainian army would be able to win.
	Fox fires Tucker.
	This war cannot be won.
	Banned.
	Ultimately unwinnable.
	Defunded.
	Ukraine is not winning.
	Banned.
	But everyone you meet without exception still insists that Ukraine will win.
	We know that Ukraine will win.
	Ukraine will win.
	Putin's already lost the war.
	I've never been more certain.
	There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine.
	He's already lost that war.
	He's already lost that war.
	I know that Ukraine will win.
	Ukraine will win.
	No amount of propaganda can hide the fact that Ukraine is winning this war.
	That's good.
	We should do that.
	We could do that again, couldn't we?
	It's really good.
	Which one was Albert Mueller?
	Wasn't he?
	He was one of them.
	Also, I know about this.
	There's another thing I've got an opinion on.
	You're not even a scientist or a war expert.
	Hey, guess who's coming on later in the week?
	Rand Paul.
	So, click the red button, join our Awaken Wonders, and then you can join that conversation live and put your questions to Rand Paul.
	And I'll tell you what I'll do to make sure I do it, because sometimes I forget.
	Once I'm actually with Rand Paul, I'm like, I can't glance down at this bit of paper.
	I've really got him on the ropes now.
	Not even I've got him on the ropes.
	I've got him I've established a rapport, more likely than it.
	It's not like, ooh, I'm winning.
	It's more like, I'm doing well here with Rand Paul.
	I won't say this.
	This is what I won't do.
	It'll go, Randy, you came and you gave.
	No, don't do that.
	Don't do that.
	Uh, alright, well listen, it's gonna be a proper good interview.
	Anyway, you can join it and improve it, perhaps, with a little thing called Research.
	As well as that, if you're an Awakened Wonder, you get access to the additional content we make each week, like my, uh, Amy Winehouse thing.
	Let me have a quick look at this.
	You'll like this.
	There's a new movie about Amy Winehouse that's being celebrated in the mainstream media.
	I wonder if they will remember to point out that they contributed to her death by vilifying her continually and treating her like shit while she was alive.
	That's good.
	That's a good one.
	That's a very good bit of promo post.
	Well done, whoever selected that.
	Uh, new members of our community include Scopurgy, Jackiect, Trifena, Puddingtown, Kjira2004.
	Look, see your names go along there.
	Feel loved.
	It's a cult, I tell you, saying someone in the Awake and Wonder chat.
	Guess what I've started doing in the Awake and Wonder chat?
	Telling people to send us properties, like, to start a... what we're calling a community!
	Send us, we've got a nice one in Oregon, Gal.
	My wife, I showed it to my wife, goes, what do you think?
	And she goes, it looks like a disused Quentin Tarantino set.
	And I think what she means is, you know, when they did that Charles Manson bit in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
	I'll tell you one thing, Inglourious Basterds is better than you remember it.
	How do you remember it as being?
	It's better than that.
	It's better than that.
	You wanted Gareth, I gave you Gareth.
	That, I assure you, like a poltergeist on the other side of a dimension into another sort of a wall in time, that was Gareth.
	You keep the old dollars coming, we're gonna have old Gareth!
	We'll get him in a whole strip, we'll get him stuck in a lollipop, we'll get him with a little widow's peak like a vampire.
	Whatever you want, we can do it if you're willing to cough up the cash.
	All right, guys, listen, this is a revolution that we're participating in here, so stay awake.
	It's gonna be a great show tomorrow.
	We'll probably talk about Shane Gillis more.
	We'll talk about, well, it's up to you, you tell us.
	We'll talk about all that stuff.
	Negligent Banana, amazing movie, yeah.
	Inglourious Bars is brilliant, I'll watch it again.
	We need a photo of Gareth with today's newspaper, says Kyle Rino.
	No chance!
	There he is, holding a, A newspaper from 2019!
	And a Pfizer vaccine!
	Whoa yeah!
	Satire, baby!
	Join us tomorrow.
	Remember, join our local community to join my conversation with Randy Paul and ask him questions.
	Randy, you came and you gave without taking!
	I'm actually going to be very respectful because he's a good guest for us.
	All right, thanks very much for joining us.
	Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
	Until then, if you can, stay free!
	Switch on.
	Switch off.
	Many switches.
	Switch on.
	Switch off.
	Many switches.
	Switch on.

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