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BOMBSHELL Report: AstraZeneca ADMITS Covid Vaccines Harmed The Public! - Stay Free #354

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	Outro Music.
	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 and what a glorious new start it is for all of us.
	If you're here with us for the first time, thank you for joining us for the first 15 minutes.
	We'll be widely streaming, reaching as many people as we possibly can.
	After that, we will be exclusively on our home, the place we're proud to call our home, Rumble, where across the world, as censorship increases, Rumble appear to be making the right choices.
	Choices in alignment with my principles, and I'm sure yours as well.
	Freedom to speak openly to one another.
	Freedom to communicate.
	Freedom to make new connections.
	The Mystery of Why, thank you for joining me in the Rumble Chat.
	All of you Awake and Wonders that are here on Locals, the members of our community, I'm so glad that you're here with us today.
	We're talking about the White House Correspondents Dinner in today's show, and in particular, I suppose, how It fundamentally appears to be a propagandist gala, a celebration of compliance full of pageantry and almost deliberate neglect of extremely important stories if those stories are not convenient to the agenda of the powerful.
	Indeed, there was a litany at one point of journalists around the world who are imprisoned and no one ever said, Julian Assange?
	Julian Assange is currently in Belmarsh waiting to be extradited to the United States.
	His name never came up.
	Why is that?
	How does power operate?
	We asked you earlier in the day which stories you were most interested in.
	You were really interested in the ongoing AstraZeneca lawsuits that we were talking about.
	And what's interesting about the AstraZeneca lawsuits is they have for the first time admitted and acknowledged That their product has side effects.
	Now I know to many of you that will hardly be news at all but for many people that is an important acknowledgement and certainly from a legal perspective it's an important acknowledgement.
	AstraZeneca have admitted that there are We'll be talking about that.
	I am feeling better, thank you.
	And of course, the other topic I'm talking about is my baptism.
	There are aspects of it that will, of course, remain private to protect the innocent.
	But I'll be talking generally about the rise in spirituality, the rise in Christianity, and how I believe it connects to a turning away from our collapsing institutions.
	Our broken leaders and our crumbling principles and value systems.
	If you want to become an Awakened Wonder, we do meditations every day together.
	We did a meditation just today on the subject of a fresh start.
	Now, I may be Christian now, I am Christian now, but I reach out in faith and in friendship to all of you.
	To anybody who's interested, because I've been like Christian for 24 hours, you know what I mean?
	So I'm not like, and now I'm through with Muslims!
	I don't want no Jews coming on my show!
	Or atheists!
	Everybody's welcome.
	But I know what my path is now, thank you.
	And I'll be talking about that.
	We do a weekly book club, and our weekly book club currently And it's no coincidence, it's focused on mere Christianity, the epochal and significant book by C.S.
	Lewis, which has been certainly instructive in my journey into faith.
	And every single week we do an additional video that's just for our awakened wonders like Sensitive Hearts and CW212, who's congratulating me on my baptism.
	When you are on there, we do a bunch of additional streams, additional videos, additional meditations.
	We just do a whole bunch of additional content for our supporters, and plus we get to grow this movement together.
	If you're watching us on YouTube, for example, you'll understand that we'll only be there for about another 10 minutes, because here we can speak freely.
	That's why Rumble aren't available in France.
	Here we can speak freely.
	That's why Rumble's had to extract themselves straight out of Brazil.
	Here we can speak freely.
	That's why Rumble are opposing what's going on in New Zealand, even right now.
	Now, while everyone was arriving at the gates of the, what is called the White House Press Dinner, numerous people, protesters I guess you would call them, were chanting, shame on you, that we'll be covering this story in some DL later.
	I suppose they were, oh look, look, there are the guests, and look, look at the protesters, look at the drama.
	Look at the challenge of holding together the various worlds.
	Look at the challenge of trying to pretend that this is a legitimate celebration of the free press while the propaganda is becoming evident, observable and plain in real time.
	Good news though, babies are now eligible for spring booster jabs.
	It's springtime.
	The daffodils are up.
	The presence of life is everywhere.
	Fecundity abounds.
	Why don't you give your baby an injection for a condition that almost certainly wouldn't do it any real harm?
	Particularly as AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court its vaccine can cause rare side effects and you will perhaps be aware The clinical trials that involve children were extraordinary.
	We covered that earlier this week.
	Let us know if you guys saw our content.
	It was pretty astonishing.
	That girl Maddie, man.
	It was appalling.
	Apparently, the US birth rate has dropped to a record low, I understand.
	Let's have a look at that.
	New data from the CDC shows U.S.
	birthing rates hitting a record low with roughly 76,000 fewer births last year.
	It is the lowest one-year count since 1979.
	Yeah, I know a lot of you will think that there is potentially some connection between falling birth rates and some of the other stories today.
	I'll be interested in seeing any corroborating evidence that you may have.
	Trump met privately with former GOP rival Ron DeSantis.
	Have a look at that.
	And please, if you don't mind going up the assets, guys, thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	And I will show you some more detail on that in a minute.
	Rumble are defying global censorship trends and taking a stand against New Zealand's free speech crackdown.
	Chris Pavlovsky, our CEO, told Matt Kim that the Free New Zealand Media Channel has now become a de-platforming target in New Zealand for reporting about leaked data from the National Vaccination Database that a whistleblower and former Health New Zealand IT employee Barry Young made available.
	We reported on that Some time ago with Steve Kirsch.
	Perhaps you saw that episode.
	And the data Young gave to reporters and activists concerns Covid vaccine related deaths and claimed that these facts have been covered up.
	For referring to Young and referring to the data he provided to the public, a letter has been sent to Rumble to remove free NZ media.
	It came from the National Health Authority.
	However, Pawlowski said that the company has decided to refuse to do that or to withdraw from the country and will instead challenge it and see what happens.
	A lot more of that happening now, isn't there?
	Now we'll be showing you, before we come off the various platforms that we don't believe are in alignment with our values, even though of course they purport to be the moral epicentre of the world, even though what we understand now is that they are part of an extraordinary conglomerate of media and corporate and statist interests.
	For example, YouTube or their parent company, Alphabet, belong to the Trusted News Initiative that amount to an alliance of propaganda comparable to what we see celebrated at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which we'll be talking about in more detail later.
	We'll have a quick look at Ron DeSantis and Trump's meeting and how the legacy media report on the meeting of these two significant Republican figures.
	But before that, I just wanted, like, you know, I remain a comedian, and as a comedian, I love Jerry Seinfeld.
	This is an interesting piece of analysis from Seinfeld talking about how he believes cultural and political views and rhetoric are destroying comedy and I'd really love to know you lot in the rumble chat, I'm talking to you Rogue Storm and you User2491 and You, Warrior of God for Life 7861, although I'll be honest, I don't expect much in the way of reasonable debate from you.
	Blue Nose Bob, you are reliable.
	We've included a lot of your content over the years.
	Let's have a look at what Jerry Seinfeld has to say about the impact of, I suppose, political correctness and cancel culture on comedy and maybe more broadly, society.
	You think it's Jerry Seinfeld's birthday?
	Happy birthday to you, Jerry Seinfeld, if that is indeed the case.
	Let's have a look.
	Nothing really affects comedy.
	People always need it.
	They need it so badly and they don't get it.
	It used to be you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, oh Cheers is on, oh MASH is on, oh Mary Tyler Moore is on, All in the Family is on.
	You just expected, there'll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.
	Well guess what?
	Where is it?
	This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.
	When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, here's our thought about this joke, well that's the end of your comedy.
	They move the gates, like in skiing.
	Culture, the gates are moving.
	Your job is to be agile and clever enough that wherever they put the gates, I'm gonna make the gates.
	So, hey, so there we go.
	That's Jerry Seinfeld on that.
	What do you think about that guys?
	Are you interested in that?
	Let's have a look now at Ron DeSantis meeting with Trump, which is asset number six, so it's in the other direction.
	It's in the other direction, the opposite direction to the one you're going in.
	Thank you very much.
	Well done, mate.
	Thank you very much.
	Cheers.
	Speaking of Republicans who once opposed Trump now supporting him, he met with his former rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday.
	It doesn't seem, this seems sadly inevitable, although it's unclear how much campaigning DeSantis will actually do for Trump.
	Give us your sense here.
	Were you at all surprised by this?
	What does it tell you?
	It's a little sad for Donald Trump, frankly, that he has to now go and pander to Ron DeSantis because his fundraising is so poor and he's wasting so much money.
	You know, it's a normal sort of reconciliation you see in a campaign.
	Everybody tries to get together and support the nominee and use whatever resources they can.
	But I don't know that Ron DeSantis, it feels like he owes anything to Donald Trump.
	The problem for Ron DeSantis is if he wants to have any future, he can't continue to be on the wrong side of Trump voters, and he got himself there towards the end of that campaign.
	So I imagine Ron DeSantis is going to come around because he wants to be a good team player, but I think it's pretty sad that Donald Trump needs to make a journey down to DeSantis and suck up to him a bit here at the start of his general election campaign.
	We'll see if Nikki Haley eventually comes around as well.
	It's certainly noteworthy that Republicans are still voting for Haley in some of these primaries, even though she suspended her campaign long ago.
	Lastly, Brendan, let's just talk about where the 2024 race stands.
	There was a new CNN national poll over the weekend that got a lot of buzz that showed Trump up six.
	That flies in the face of some other recent polling, which shows Biden with momentum in a really tight race.
	Where do you think things stand?
	And is it frankly just too early to care about these polls, or is it an important snapshot?
	What do you think?
	I do think it's too early.
	I think what we've seen time and time again is this is going to be an extremely close race.
	And so when we do have little bursts one way or the other, the trends that take place just in a small state, we should pay attention to all of those things because any one state could potentially be the one that Do you still see politics within that rubric and framework, or are you beginning to suspect that we need an entirely different framing, an entirely different way of regarding politics?
	Because it seems to me that what we're looking at now At least certainly what I'm looking at is a new paradigm.
	What are you saying here?
	Dems and Uniparty Republicans must be outed at all costs.
	We can deal with the Israel crap by putting pressure on Trump and Congress to do so.
	That's Davros200 in the Awakened Wonder chat which is lighting up with extraordinary opinion.
	on this subject.
	Now, the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner has become a kind of evident gala of corruption and hypocrisy, where journalism is celebrated, where the principles of free speech are espoused, where the foundational instruments and principles of the United States of America are overtly celebrated, while simultaneously absolutely Ignored.
	We're going to be talking about the White House Correspondent Dinner, as well as talking about AstraZeneca's legal struggles.
	And I'll, of course, be talking about my baptism and how it relates to our host of stories, including the recent attack on Bishop Emmanuel Mari, who's now streaming again.
	Are we looking for a morality and set of ethics and indeed vision and direction that can no longer be set out within a set of secular principles?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	So many valuable points.
	If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to leave you now.
	So start the countdown.
	We're going to move into the Biden White House correspondence.
	There's a link in the description.
	Click that link.
	Join us over on Rumble.
	One of the stories we're talking about, in fact, is Rumble opposing New Zealand's further attempts at censorship.
	In addition to that, I'm going to be talking about AstraZeneca's legal troubles, as well as baptism.
	Let's start with the White House Correspondents Dinner.
	Let's start with a little bit of ordinary, regular legacy media propaganda.
	Click the link, join us.
	Speaking of Republicans who once opposed Trump now...
	Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden and First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden.
	Is it me or is that extraordinarily regal?
	Is that a lot of pageantry for Joe Biden?
	Like, many of you will remember this event because it's an opportunity, I suppose, for the President to hang loose and show what an easy, convivial guy he is.
	But this was an unusual White House Correspondents' Dinner because, of course, the jokes were stymied, as one might imagine, but the attempt to ignore the hypocrisy of ongoing war and the deplorable neglect when it comes to the name of Assange was so evident and ever-present that it amounts to beyond an elephant in the room it's a sort of a stampede.
	Let's have a look.
	Oh, that's a weird vibe.
	There's a weird vibe in that place.
	OK, let's have a look at Biden's ode to the free press.
	And I want to remember that at the moment, your tax dollars are funding several extremely unpopular and ultimately unwinnable conflicts.
	The United States's ability to negotiate and suggest and impose diplomacy is not being implemented.
	And it seems now that the Biden administration is on the precipice of annihilation, just on the eve of a very significant election.
	Let's have a look at that speech.
	That's why I want to close the night with my genuine thanks to the free press.
	There are some who call you the enemy of the people.
	That's wrong and it's dangerous.
	You literally risk your lives doing your job.
	Do they risk their lives doing their jobs?
	Or do they risk their jobs by living life?
	Seems implausible.
	I mean, let's face it, we know the legacy media is in significant trouble.
	Terrestrial broadcasters!
	And state-funded broadcasters and corporate broadcasters are laying off staff everywhere.
	They are frantic and in a panic because they know that you, the people that they attempt to reach, are losing interest and waking up in unprecedented numbers.
	They are aware that they no longer hold the sway or the power that they once did.
	That is why significant figures in the space are continually subject to smear jobs.
	Of course you are aware that Joe Rogan was annihilated, rained down upon by corporate attacks throughout what we know as the Ivermectin era.
	Tucker Carlson's on CIA hit list.
	I've been subject to some extraordinary attacks.
	But this is it.
	This is where they try to double down on the idea that what they represent is freedom.
	Covering everything from natural disasters to pandemics to wars and so much more.
	And some of your colleagues have given their lives and many have suffered grievous injuries.
	Other reporters have lost their freedom.
	Journalism is clearly not a crime, not here, not there, not anywhere in the world.
	It's weird, isn't it?
	Do you think that they, in that moment, imagine that no one anywhere is thinking about Julian Assange?
	That no one is watching this thinking, hold on, isn't Julian Assange right now in jail for five years?
	What about Gonzalo Lira, who died in prison in Ukraine like he said he would, never mentioned?
	So ultimately what this is, is a celebration of their alliances.
	What this is, is once more the reiteration of their terrible intent to conquer consciousness through deception.
	I wonder too what fine and narrow lines Biden is invited to walk between so that he doesn't error, err, Or spill inadvertent truths in his... No, I don't want to be a day one over Christian.
	I've got to hold it together.
	I've got to hold it together.
	But he's, you know, he's Botoxed into facial compliance.
	But what about the necessary neurological compliance?
	And Putin should release Evan and all suit immediately.
	Thank you.
	Yes, we're doing everything we can.
	We're doing everything we can to bring home journalists, fellow journalists, Austin and all Americans like Paul Weller.
	Also trying to bring home some journalists who've got nothing to do with America, like Julian Assange, who's Australian, who's in jail in the United Kingdom without trial.
	We're doing all sorts of things behind the scenes.
	Gonzalo Lira though, no one's mentioning that guy.
	Why it's significant, as well as the telling sight of people in the audience unsure as whether to laugh or cry, I suppose we can glean from this scenario precisely the agenda of the powerful.
	What is said, what remains unsaid, who is celebrated, who is denigrated, who is framed and who is ignored.
	This used to be a kind of light-hearted event when it was like sort of Barack Obama like Dean Martin or something sort of flexing and sort of glinting and checking his cufflinks and that was as Chappelle I think pointed out the moment where Trump decided I'm running for president.
	Now, what we have, as I've said before, in the near sepulchral figure of Joe Biden, is the zombie embodiment of a dying system.
	An institution that can no longer cope, hiding behind a constitution that it no longer respects, ignoring a Bill of Rights that it would prefer had never been written.
	That's why this event feels so macabre.
	So unusual, so uprooted and lost, because when we look at it, those of us that are trying our best to authentically awake to ourselves and to others and to be present, recognize in this the eerie redolence of constant hypocrisy and deception.
	Who wrongfully detained all around the world.
	I give you my word as a Biden, we're not going to give up until we get them home.
	All of them.
	I give you my word as a Biden.
	Whether it's me, Hunter Biden, or that other Biden that I give money to, all the Bidens, we're reliable and I've got the checks to prove it.
	On the third anniversary of January 6th, I went to Valley Forge.
	We've got anniversaries of January 6th now.
	Like, that is an event that needs continual review and scrutiny and analysis that hasn't been exploited and used to legitimise further anti-protest laws that wasn't likely infiltrated by various deep state interests.
	We've not had the final word on January 6th.
	We've not had the legacy media do any responsible reporting on that event.
	We've not had anybody explain why in so much of the footage it appears That police officials were ushering protesters onto the premises?
	What an extraordinary set of truths they seem to live in at the White House correspondent dinner.
	I said the most urgent question of our time is whether democracy is still, is still the sacred cause of America.
	That is the question the American people must answer this year.
	And you, the Prefest, And that they don't get some information that we'd rather they didn't have.
	Information about the origins of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
	Information about who is arming the various combatant nations in extraordinary and egregious wars across the world right now.
	How much it's costing you to fund these wars while infrastructure in your own nation crumbles.
	These are the very stories that they require the free press, emphasis on the free, to continue to neglect in their reporting.
	Make an informed decision.
	A defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy.
	He said he wants to be a dictator on day one.
	We'll remember that.
	It was a joke.
	It was a joke.
	I, as an English person who doesn't vote in your elections, obviously won't be voting for any presidential candidates in your November presidential process.
	But what I will say is I saw Donald Trump say that?
	I think he was on, was it with Hannity?
	Was he doing a town hall with Hannity and he goes, I'll be a dictator for a day.
	It was a joke.
	Now, what did Jerry Seinfeld just say about a sense of humour?
	It means we've got no entertaining comedy on TV, but furthermore, we no longer even have the privilege of comedically communicating with one another because Donald Trump's jokes, his use of the term bloodbath, We know that when he said bloodbath it was a very particular reference to trade tariffs that might be imposed on China, and here, in this context, where the floor is controlled, where the brass band plays the tune of Biden, a name that Joe Biden appears to believe is synonymous with truth and authenticity, but out here in the world of those that are taxed,
	Either literally and financially like you, or like the rest of the world, who attacks by the wars that that man and his administration fund.
	Or attacks by the lies that we have to listen to right now.
	The name Biden doesn't mean truth.
	The name Biden means despair.
	And when they directly cite occasions that we can recall that were jokes.
	Astonishing.
	So much more.
	He tells supporters he is their revenge and retribution.
	When in God's name have you ever heard of another president say something like that?
	And he promised a bloodbath when he loses again.
	We have to take this seriously.
	Eight years ago, he could have written off as just Trump talk, but no longer, not after January 6th.
	Not after that!
	Not after January 6th!
	Did you see our man Glenn Greenwald's post on this?
	this, he was responding to another post by Greg Price, the only value of this sleazy, gaudy spectacle has been to
	highlight the real role of US corporate media, part of the Royal Court, quarters
	of it. That's why they can't include Assange on their list of persecuted
	journalists, it's done by the King whom they can't displease. The White House Correspondents
	Dinner, says Greg Price in his post on X, did a whole presentation on
	wrongfully detained journalists around the world, there was no mention of
	Julian Assange in that extraordinary. Let's have a look at Joe Biden roasting
	Donald Trump, there is it but it's an extraordinary roast, it's a roast undertaken
	using merely embers or perhaps a single struck match. I had a great stretch
	since the State of the Union.
	Well, Donald's had a few tough days lately.
	You might call it stormy weather.
	I'll tell you why that's so funny.
	I'll tell you why it's so funny.
	Because that lady that he's alleged to have had an affair with and paid hush money fund to from campaign funds via Daniel Cohen in a way that's the worst thing that's ever happened.
	Her name was Stormy, so Stormy's got two meanings.
	Although, you would argue that it being a porn name, she's using Storm to literally mean that anyway.
	But that would leave us without a pun.
	And a pun is all Joe Biden has got right now.
	Between him and the tomb, there is a pun, hun.
	Oh, they're like acting like... Oh my God!
	World singer!
	Hey, I wouldn't want to be Stormzy Daniels right now.
	What the hell?
	Trump's so desperate, he started reading those Bibles he's selling.
	He sells Bibles, so, you know, we're all aware of that piece of propaganda.
	In fact, what this speech amounts to is a set of references to a string of propaganda previously delivered by the institutions in that room.
	Let me know if there's any of you in the rumble chat right now.
	Between you 16,500 people, is there any of you that go to the legacy media and trust even a word of it?
	Just a Y or an N. Do you trust a word of their propaganda?
	Then he got to the first commandment.
	You shall have no other gods before me!
	That's when he put it down and said this book's not for me.
	Well that's still a significant distance into the Pentateuch and I think he would have done rather well because I don't reckon Joe Biden would have gotten beyond the flickering lights as the light upon the water.
	I don't reckon he'd have got through Deuteronomy or Numbers or Exodus Or any of that stuff.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's day one of a Christian, baby.
	Of Christianity for me.
	And I'm citing that Bible.
	Let's have a look now at some extraordinary reporting on that event.
	This is out of the World Socialist Organization.
	You'll love this.
	The White House Correspondent Association dinner Saturday night.
	Was a disgusting display of subservience by the corporate media to the administration of President Joe Biden.
	It sought to cover up the blood-drenched role of this government, which is a full partner in the Israeli genocide in Gaza and is spearheading the US-NATO war against Russia and Ukraine, bringing the world ever closer to a nuclear third world war.
	Now, you may not agree with some of the terms used in that because you may have a particular religious or national or ethnic affiliation to one of the sides involved in these various conflicts.
	Maybe you're Ukrainian.
	Maybe you're Israeli.
	But what you have to be first, surely, and let me know in the chat if you agree with this, is a human being.
	And what we surely have to acknowledge together is there are some very powerful interests benefiting from these wars.
	Have a look at Lockheed Martin stock prices.
	Have a look at Raytheon stock prices.
	Have a look at Norfolk Grumman stock prices.
	And then have a look at the astonishing litany of lawmakers in Congress that own stocks and shares in those organisations.
	Some 2,600 people, including print and broadcast journalists, their corporate bosses and their invited guests from Washington and Hollywood, rubbed shoulders, which is a disgusting image.
	Why would you do that?
	Do you know who I'd like to honour?
	It's me!
	table included Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, etc. The event was the centerpiece of
	several days of festivities including parties, receptions that were frowned by
	corporate trade groups and lobbyists. Other well-heeled participants all
	participated in it. So it's sort of like a week-long gala of normalizing
	propaganda. How extraordinary. The WHCA banquet is an annual event at which the
	corporate media throws an expensive bash in honor of itself.
	Do you know who I'd like to honor? It's me! I'm doing a great job being me. It
	celebrates its close ties to the administration in power and to the political
	establishment as a whole while mouthing occasional hosannas to press freedom.
	Although always in a way that aligns with US foreign policy.
	That's why some journalist names are read out and honoured, and I believe those journalists should be brought home.
	I don't think any journalists reporting on any side of any war should be held in captivity on foreign soil, and that is why I would include Gonzalo Lira, although alas I can't because sadly, as he predicted, he's dead now.
	And I would include Julian Assange, who whilst he is not an American citizen, he does face extradition to the United States in an unprecedented move simply because he revealed information that was detrimental to the war machine.
	You will have seen, I hope you saw, my fantastic conversation, and I'm not bigging myself up here because all of the stuff that was fantastic came from Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
	A serving colonel in the American military who said that he believes that Julian Assange should be freed.
	That any right-minded member of the forces believes.
	I mean, if you are a service person in the chat right now, let me know.
	Let me know.
	Do you think Assange put American military personnel's lives in danger?
	Or do you think Joe Biden is putting the lives of American military personnel in danger by escalating conflict in the Middle East?
	Escalating conflict against Russia?
	Preparing for conflict with China?
	Who is risking lives?
	Who is saving lives?
	It seems to me that Julian Assange in publishing true information is participating in the saving of lives and he is in Belmarsh for that crime.
	The real crimes are crimes against the establishment.
	So while they will happily utilize martyr names of journalists held in prison abroad, who I too believe ought be freed, remember they use those names as pawns in their games.
	The game that you saw augmented there by a brass band breezily playing in while the audience is braying just so that Joe Biden can claim that the name Biden is synonymous with truth.
	Thus, there was much more concern expressed for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, held for more than a year in a Russian prison, and for war correspondent Austin Tice, detained in Syria more than 12 years ago, but no one mentioned the name of the most celebrated journalist currently held in prison, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
	While the dinner's MC, WHCA president and NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell did refer to the journalists killed in Gaza, she gave the numbers nearly 100, although the actual figure is at least 175.
	She did not name the government and military responsible for those deaths, namely the Netanyahu regime and the Israeli Defence Forces, nor did she indicate the man who supplied the weapons used to kill those journalists, who was sitting only a few feet to her right on the platform.
	I don't think there are many people in the world who think that what's happening right now in the Middle East is anything less than devastating and awful.
	If you're at a press gala that is specifically and explicitly celebrating free speech and you do not mention the military relationship between the United States, the recent $95 billion bill to continue to supply Israel and Ukraine with arms to perpetuate wars that are either dreadfully immoral or simply unwinnable, We have to acknowledge we don't have a free press.
	We don't have a free press worthy of that conference.
	Next year, ban that event or invite some real journalists from around the world.
	And real journalists are willing to confront corruption.
	That's a necessary part of it.
	Julian Assange.
	is a real journalist or certainly a real publisher.
	When Biden finally took to the podium his remarks were predictable.
	He devoted a few minutes to scripted jokes about his age and Trump's legal woes followed by a 10-minute pay-in to the free press as his ally in the defense of democracy against the danger of Donald Trump.
	That is why They have to continually escalate the threat of Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump is a dreadful menace.
	Him and his January 6th combatants and insurrectionists will bring down democracy.
	So that's why you can only vote for one person.
	Okay, why won't you debate in any primaries?
	There's another reason for that.
	Why are you spending so much time smearing RFK?
	There's another reason for that.
	Is it that the only person we can vote for is Joe Biden and you want us to still call it a democracy?
	Now you're getting it.
	Now go report that in the New York Times and next year we'll have another gala celebrating the free media.
	You literally risk your lives doing your jobs, continued Joe Biden, having paid tribute to their patriotism and heroism.
	Some of your colleagues have given their lives.
	Many have suffered grievous injuries.
	Others have lied for years and years, smearing people for telling the truth.
	Other reporters have lost their freedom.
	Journalism is clearly not a crime.
	It is the way they do it.
	Not here, not there, not anywhere in the world, which could be the start for some sort of song.
	Have you seen Dr. John Campbell on Midazolam desk?
	We'll be talking to him, mate.
	I see that.
	I see that comment in the rumble chat, guys.
	Keep it coming.
	But for Julian Assange and other whistleblowers against the crimes of the CIA and American imperialism, and for the courageous reporters documenting the crimes of the State of Israel in Gaza and on the West Bank, this assurance does not hold.
	What they have done and are doing is a crime according to imperialist warmongers like Biden and Netanyahu.
	Moreover, it is punishable by death.
	Biden was followed by an interminable stretch of flat jokes and limp insults from Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live, the designated entertainment for the evening.
	He closed with a fervent tribute to Biden, declaring that his grandfather, a longtime firefighter who had recently died, had voted for Biden in 2020 because you're a decent man.
	With a straight face, Jost continued, he voted for decency and decency is why we're all here tonight.
	Decency is how we're all able to be here tonight.
	Decency is how we can make jokes about each other and none of us goes to prison afterwards.
	I suppose decency is a kind of tepid word that you might be able to apply to Joe Biden, were you to judge him only by his persona, which seems relatively amenable.
	Decent indeed is a word, but that's only if you're willing to extract the figure of Biden from the policies and wars, whether it's the policies of censorship that prevent us from freely discussing wars or compliant agreements made with various globalist ...organisations, some of which are NGOs or global forces such as NATO or the WHO, or the extraordinary facilitation of the military-industrial complex that continues under his presidency.
	Once you start incorporating that, indeed, if you spend a few moments reflecting on the way that he facilitates the furtherment of his son's career, although, you know, God, as a dad, would I do that for my kids?
	Probably I would, but then I'm not the President of the United States and I'm not advocating for endless unwinnable wars.
	So I suppose I'm perhaps not held to the same standard.
	It's difficult to determine the exact combination of willful ignorance and abject prostration before the capitalist state that produces such statements.
	But all of the participants in this degrading affair are forever besmirched by it in the face of a world historic crime.
	They praise and fawn over its enabler and co-conspirator.
	So in a sense, what we witnessed in that event was an extraordinary celebration of the ability of the state to control a narrative, to extract from their reporting a figure like Julian Assange, who stands head and shoulders over the profession of journalism and the decline of modern media, to ignore That even as they mention in real time the death of journalists in Gaza, they fail to include the causes and costs and manner in which those deaths have been brought about.
	The way that that war is being funded, the way that that war is being perpetuated, the, if not refusal, then reluctance of the United States of America in both the conflicts in the Middle East and the conflicts in Europe to facilitate diplomacy treaties and peace rather than seemingly exploit an opportunity to sell further armaments and certainly that's how it seems from the outside but let me know what you guys think in the chat is happening let's have a little look now a quick word from some of the people that we have the great privilege of being supported by and you'll be interested if you own one of these
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	We have our own globalist leader facilitating the aims of an elite establishment who seem hell-bent on decimating our values and our planet.
	Let's have a look at him in a moment as he jogs along and attempts some breezy social media propaganda that may go viral for all the wrong reasons.
	In a minute, we're going to be talking to you about AstraZeneca's Legal complications, and of course I'll be talking to you about my personal baptism this weekend, and how I believe that, in my case Christianity, and in all our cases spirituality, is a pathway out of the hell that the people that we talk about, show after show, the institutions that we focus on and highlight day after day,
	are bringing about our demise and destruction and there is a pathway out of this.
	Let's talk about that together.
	First, let's have a look at Rishi Sunak running along.
	Have a little listen.
	If you're not British, the word wanker is not a compliment.
	Let's just go back a little bit because I do enjoy that.
	family relationships in a finding work that you have.
	Let's just go back a little bit because I do enjoy that.
	Without the benefits of, what I want to say is that, strong family relationships in a
	finding work that you have.
	Do you think it's someone in that truck?
	You fucking wanker!
	That is what I like about England.
	That might be the best thing about England.
	It's extraordinary.
	It's extraordinary to just hear people... someone sees the leader of their country and that's their natural response to it.
	The world is changing.
	The world is changing extremely quickly.
	We sense that.
	Would you have believed it if a little while ago I'd have told you that Bobby Kennedy would be on Bill Maher's legacy media mainstream show openly saying that 25% of the American population claimed to know somebody killed by a vaccine and that Bill Maher, who at many times has advocated strongly for the Biden administration, saying quite recently, I'd vote for Biden's corpse over Donald Trump, would give RFK an airing as RFK articulates the concerns of many Americans when it comes to the pandemic and the medical measures that were subsequently implemented and in some cases mandated and in retrospect in particular with AstraZeneca admitting in a legal context for the first time that their product does indeed cause side effects
	Potentially fatal side effects.
	Is this a turning point?
	I want you to let me know what you think in the chat.
	Let's have a look at Bobby Kennedy on Bill Maher.
	All right.
	So but your vice presidential pick wants to recall the Moderna vaccine.
	That's the one I got.
	She's packing up.
	Do you agree with that?
	Now, Bobby Kennedy barely reacted there, and in his case it's not because his face has been immobilised by a paralysing vaccine.
	He's simply chosen to sort of suggest via his face, yeah, you've took the Moderna vaccine, there could yet be consequences for that.
	Recall it.
	I think those vaccines need to, we need to have, again, true double-blind, placebo-controlled trials on that.
	There's 25% of Americans who believe that they know somebody who was killed by a COVID vaccine.
	Killed?
	Killed.
	25% of Americans.
	52% of Americans believe that the vaccines are causing injuries, including death. 52%.
	Oh, if you look at the clinical trial studies, the actual studies that were done that were released of the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna has not released it.
	If you look at the Pfizer vaccine, there were 22,000 people in the placebo group, 22,000 people who got the actual vaccine.
	And the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate.
	From all causes.
	At the end of that study.
	But that could not be the disease itself?
	No, well... Because we know that... If it is, then the vaccine doesn't work, does it?
	Well, it certainly...
	Oh dear, the narrative is changing before our very eyes.
	You, being a well-informed and awakened audience, will be aware of the various legal measures that were put in place, the indemnity granted to pharmaceutical companies to avoid precisely what's beginning to unfold, the injurious side effects of the vaccines, which potentially include the most injurious side effect of them all.
	Death.
	Many of you will have been investigating excess deaths.
	Many of you will have noticed that My Nation in the United Kingdom has changed the way that it calculates and records excess deaths in order to make that number lower because it was so extraordinarily high.
	You will have noticed because of the research of Pierre Corrie that insurance companies are now charging higher premiums to working-age people because they are dying at an unprecedented rate.
	You know that Let me know in the chat right now.
	Do you know people that suffered vaccine injury?
	Did you yourself suffer from a vaccine injury?
	Or as Bobby Kennedy just indicated, are you one of the one in four Americans that believes you know someone who died?
	As a result of those vaccines.
	Now it's making its way into the mainstream as surely as that spike migrates from the site.
	This narrative is migrating from the control of the White House correspondence dinner establishment and right into the heart of American media because it's unavoidable now.
	Because it's starting to affect insurance company premiums.
	It's starting to affect the way that legal companies do business.
	It's starting to affect the medical industry.
	It's becoming unignorable.
	And a huge part of that is your awakening.
	A huge part of that was your direct refusal to just take your medicine.
	And I don't just mean the literal medicines that they try to mandate.
	I mean the medicine of the mind.
	Your compliance.
	Your refusal to dumb down.
	Your refusal to lay down supine and just take what they're giving you.
	your insistence on awakening.
	Let's get into some of the facts around AstraZeneca, a British-based firm that was pulled,
	their vaccine at least, was pulled pretty early in the process, precisely because there were concerns
	around clotting.
	But you know there's a lot more to this story.
	You know that Moderna has an extraordinary history.
	You know indeed that that bloody wanker.
	You just saw running around the streets there Rishi Sunak.
	Before he was Prime Minister, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
	That means he's the head of our treasury.
	Before he was head of our treasury, he worked at a hedge fund and that hedge fund invested heavily in Moderna.
	That's right.
	So you know stuff's going on.
	You know there's a revolving door between the FDA in your nation and Pfizer and Moderna and various regulatory bodies in my country and Moderna and, as far as we know, Pfizer.
	We'll investigate that more thoroughly.
	But for now, let's turn our attention to the legal complications and concerns that AstraZeneca are now facing, having admitting For the first time in a legal context that their vaccines cause vaccine injuries.
	We asked you earlier what story you wanted us to bring to the forefront.
	This is what you told us.
	This is what we are doing.
	Let's get into it.
	So AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its COVID vaccine can cause a rare side effect in an apparent about turn that could pave the way for multi-million pound legal payouts.
	The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that this vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and a serious injury in dozens of cases.
	The first case was lodged last year by Jamie Scott, a father of two, who was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and bleed on the brain.
	AstraZeneca is contesting the claims but has accepted in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February that its COVID vaccine can in very, very rare cases.
	They're so rare, these cases.
	If you've got one of them, you should almost count yourself lucky.
	You should almost start clapping your hands and singing and dancing.
	Whoopee!
	I've got a rare blood clot in the brain.
	You might not be able to clap because your coordination may suffer.
	It's called TTS, which stands for thrombosis with thrombisopathenia.
	Let me say that again.
	Thrombocytopenia.
	Thrombocytopedia.
	Thrombocytopedia syndrome.
	Thrombocytopedia syndrome.
	It causes people to have blood clots and low blood platelet counts.
	AstraZeneca's admission made in a legal defense to Mr. Scott's High Court claims follows intense legal wrangling.
	Of course it does.
	There was indemnity granted prior to the release of these drugs.
	And remember, bear in mind this.
	Just think for a moment.
	See if you can guess.
	See if you can guess in the chat or in the comments.
	Who do you think's paying for AstraZeneca's defense for these cases?
	Have a little think.
	Have a little think.
	Here's a clue.
	Go find a mirror.
	It could lead to payouts if the drug firm accepts that the vaccine was the cause of serious illness and death in specific legal cases.
	The government has pledged to underwrite AstraZeneca's legal bills.
	Now, when you say the government, you know, the government don't have any money.
	The government's money is your money.
	That's where they get it from.
	The government don't have a side hustle.
	You're their main hustle.
	That's why they need to be continually engaged in wars.
	That's why they need you to be terrified and afraid the whole time.
	So you don't start thinking, I don't know if I want to pay my taxes.
	For all of these wars, and for these medical products, and to pay for AstraZeneca's legal bills after we paid for the development of the drug, in that particular case, in the first instance, because AstraZeneca was developed at Oxford University, and you can bet that some of their funding comes from taxation.
	We'll check our facts on that.
	In a letter of response sent in May 2023 AstraZeneca told lawyers for Mr Scott that we do not accept TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level but in the legal documents submitted to the High Court in February AstraZeneca said it is admitted that the AZ vaccine can in very rare cases They're so rare!
	Oh, you want to thank your lucky star?
	You lucky, lucky bastard!
	My dear heaven is to be allowed to get a blood cot from AstraZeneca!
	You must thank your Lord God Almighty!
	They must think the sun shines out of your arse!
	Very rare cases.
	The causal mechanism is not known.
	Further, TTS can also occur in the absence of the AZ vaccine or any vaccine.
	Just in case there might be further legal cases that are coming up for Pfizer and Moderna, causation in any individual case will be a matter for expert evidence.
	And we are right now.
	Buying up every single expert we can.
	Lawyers argue that the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine is defective and that its efficacy has been vastly overstated.
	Claims AstraZeneca strongly denies.
	Well, when they were saying that the vaccine was 99% effective, do you remember that bit?
	Do you remember Albert Baller and his moonshot?
	Admittedly, that was from Pfizer.
	But do you remember his hubris?
	And his pride?
	Oh, it might be a hundred percent effective.
	They were so pleased.
	Do you remember?
	Remember how the legacy media, the same legacy media that attend the White House correspondent dinner, softball question after softball question, no analysis, no investigation, a total willingness to support the idea that this is somehow emerged out of a bat cave and wasn't a bioweapon.
	Extraordinary reporting.
	Scientists first identified a link between the vaccines and a new illness called vaccine-induced immune, oh no, thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, VITT, as early as March 2021, shortly after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout began.
	The government has indemnified AstraZeneca against any legal action but has so far refused to intervene.
	Lawyer Sarah Moore, who is bringing the legal claims in, has taken AstraZeneca a year to formally admit their vaccine can cause the devastating blood clots, when this fact has been widely accepted by the clinical community since the end of 2021.
	What about our community?
	When did your community start to think, hmm, this is a bit unusual?
	Sometime like in midway through 2020?
	No, there was a little bit in 2019 where we were all very willing to put cans of food on our parents' windowsills.
	There was a time where we were willing and happy to watch funerals on YouTube, and miss babies being born, and not visit people in hospital, and to do what we were told, and to sacrifice travel plans, and to ignore the fact that our governments were attending parties, whether that's Gavin Newsom over there in Cali Cali California, or Rishi Sunak attending the banquets of Boris Johnson, or Keir Starmer, who's the presumed next leader of our country, who had his own beery boozy events, but he was just working for a better future for you!
	Don't you see?
	They're just trying to help you.
	Why won't you let them help you?
	Why won't you just do as you're told and let them help you?
	Why won't you fund AstraZeneca's legal bills?
	Why won't you just agree that whoever they condemn is the people that should be condemned?
	Why don't you agree that your freedom is a problem?
	Why don't you just celebrate the fact that you will own nothing and you will be happy in a materialist hell?
	Designed increasingly by an establishment that seems demonically possessed.
	Our sympathy, in that context, this is good, this is a good bit because we're going to get, we're going to get some quotes from AstraZeneca.
	In that context, regrettably, it seems that AstraZeneca, the government and their lawyers are more keen to play strategic games and run up legal fees, your money by the way, those legal fees, than to engage seriously with the devastating impact that their AstraZeneca vaccine has had upon our clients' lives.
	That lawyer, maybe inadvertently, is speaking for a good many people there.
	Let me know if they're speaking for you.
	In a statement, AstraZeneca said, our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.
	Oh.
	Well, I guess that's the end of it then.
	Because, you know.
	AstraZeneca, and hopefully Moderna, and Pfizer, and Anthony Fauci, and the FDA, and the various other regulatory bodies, and Bill Gates, and the WHO, they're all sending out their sympathies to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems.
	So you've got your sympathy.
	So why are you still talking?
	Why are you still complaining?
	Why are you not sitting down and shutting up?
	You've had their sympathy.
	Is that not enough?
	You've had their vaccine and now you've had their sympathy.
	What more do you want from these people?
	Justice?
	Honesty?
	Transparency?
	Clarity?
	Democracy?
	Freedom?
	Well, you're not going to get it from them.
	You're only going to get that from yourself.
	And we can only get that from one another in true alliance against these evil forces that seem determined to control us.
	Patient safety is our highest priority.
	Patient safety is our highest priority.
	Is it higher than profit?
	Like, let's have a look at a graph and see how much time is spent on patient safety through the clinical trials, and let's see how much time is spent maximising profit.
	For example, you know that Pfizer engage in stock buybacks.
	How does that help patient safety?
	Now, I know we're not speaking for Pfizer, but hey, why don't we bundle together all these pharmaceutical companies the way they bundle together all of their vaccines?
	One happy little vaccine!
	This one will do flu and COVID and eczema and alopecia and thinking too much!
	And oppositionism!
	And rebellionism!
	And spirituality!
	And awakening!
	And a refusal to drink down their grim gruel!
	We got a vaccine for that!
	We got a vaccine for that!
	You name it, we got a vaccine for that!
	Want a nice new pink hat?
	We got a vaccine for that!
	How about this mug?
	We got a vaccine for that!
	Christianity?
	We got a vaccine for that!
	You're free fool?
	We got a vaccine for that!
	The authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines.
	From the body of evidence in clinical trials and real-world data, the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has continuously been shown to have an acceptable safety profile.
	It's acceptable.
	We can accept it, as long as the profits keep rolling in.
	You know that this company, AstraZeneca, you might not have heard of them.
	You might think they're small fry.
	You wait to hear how much money they're earning.
	Acceptable safety profile and regulators around the world consistently state that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks of extremely rare.
	You're lucky if you've got one!
	They're extremely rare and it's extremely fair.
	If you got one, it must have come from Jesus.
	Thank you, lucky stars.
	Thank you, lucky cars.
	Thank you, lucky health czars.
	You've been touched by Jesus.
	The side effects, they're trying to render them as a sort of kind of miraculous blessing.
	The World Health Organization said the vaccine was safe and effective for all individuals aged 18 and above.
	Look at how they're peddling them for babies now.
	And the adverse effect that has prompted the legal action was Very rare.
	It's so rare.
	Oh, it's like having a little kingfisher come and land on the tip of your winky-woo and just peck you gently.
	Oh, it's so rare.
	It's like having a giant panda put on a porn show for you.
	Oh, it's so rare.
	It's like Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman getting it on for your amusement.
	Oh, it's so rare.
	It's like Joe Biden finishing a speech without a fluff or a lie or advocating for a war.
	Oh, it's so rare.
	It's rare indeed.
	In the months after the rollout, the potentially serious side effect of the jab was identified by scientists.
	Lawyers representing families suing drugs companies argue that the vaccine was not as safe as the individuals were entitled to expect.
	And let me see, what next?
	AstraZeneca has previously argued in court papers that claims against the company are confused.
	That's probably because they've got brain damage from your mad product.
	And wrong in law, because the law's been built to support companies like yours.
	In the defence filing, AstraZeneca said the benefit-risk profile of the vaccine was, drumroll please, positive.
	It remains positive.
	AstraZeneca is the second largest publicly listed company in the UK.
	Amazing.
	They're still doing really well.
	They're doing really well.
	How would your business or your work do if once in a while, very rare though, very rare, you killed someone!
	You think that might affect the bottom line?
	I think maybe it would.
	With a market capitalisation of more than £170 billion.
	That's pounds now.
	Them's got the queen on them, for now.
	They could have the king on it soon, soon enough.
	Maybe not for too long.
	But these are pounds, not dollary-dos.
	Its chief executive, Sir Pascal Sauriot, is the highest paid boss among FTSE 100 companies with earnings close to £90 million.
	And he deserves every penny.
	Who among us would dispute the right of Sir Pascal Sauriot to earn money?
	There's just a few klutz here or there.
	There's a new product on the market.
	Wait a minute, you don't get to know about that new product just yet.
	We'll be talking to you about that in a matter of moments.
	Perhaps you'd like to know though.
	Oh no, let me wrap that up.
	Excuse me.
	So, there you have it.
	Bobby Kennedy announcing on TV to Bill Maher that one in four Americans claim to know someone that has died from a vaccine.
	Meanwhile, AstraZeneca, one of the biggest damn companies in the world, have acknowledged legally for the first time That their product is injurious.
	This is seismic, because once one falls, the whole damn lot could fall.
	We were fooled by them once, but perhaps we won't be fooled by them again.
	Maybe this is the time that we can put aside the propaganda.
	Maybe this is the time that we can come together.
	Maybe this is the time that we can find peace between one another and a connection to our land and overcome these institutions of corruption that seek to cudgel us into ignorance and compliance.
	That's for those of us that aren't too damaged and damned by the products they peddle, the bad food they sell, the filthy media that they fill your mind with.
	Let's keep our fingers crossed and that ain't a side effect, baby.
	I can still move these digits.
	Hey!
	That's all that I think.
	Anyway, we're going to stay with you for a moment.
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	Is that a good idea?
	It looks like... Well, yes it is.
	Now, do you remember when they started doing these things?
	When they started normalising these robo-dogs?
	Do you remember we said, they're making them cute now, but how are you going to feel when they start putting guns on their back?
	They're putting guns on their back.
	They're putting flamethrowers on their back.
	Something out of a sci-fi movie.
	And now you can have one of these flamethrowing robots for yourself.
	They're available on the open market.
	Like, we can get them on eBay.
	We can have one.
	I mean, do you think... Do you want one?
	Do you want a flamethrowing dog?
	I mean...
	Sort of.
	The answer is yes.
	But I don't want the state having them!
	But would you really want one?
	It's called the Therminator.
	An awful pun.
	That's a pun so bad that could be part of a Joe Biden White House press correspondence speech.
	The remote control robot dog just hit the market with a price tag of $9,420.
	It has a built-in tank for gasoline or, get this, napalm.
	It shoots flames.
	Napalm?
	Have we not learned the lessons of history?
	Like that image of the little Vietnamese kids running away from the village with the napalm bombs?
	Do you know what I want?
	Is to be able to administer those injuries on children with a robot dog.
	You're probably scratching your head, wondering why anyone would need a flamethrowing robot dog.
	I was wondering, but please tell me, do they have other uses?
	Could I make schmores?
	Could I singe my eyebrows into compliance?
	The Ohio-based company selling the Therminator claims the robot dog is useful for snow and ice removal, and get this, entertainment.
	Firstly, I got a problem.
	There is snow and ice, and I simply can't think of any way... Oh, how about a shovel?
	Shut up!
	...any way to remove that snow or ice.
	Could we just chisel it, maybe, with an ice pick?
	Ice pick?!
	Do you have any idea how Leon Trotsky was killed?
	It was using an ice pick.
	Those things are dangerous.
	I got myself a robot flame-throwing dog thing.
	Bring it out!
	So, Therminator!
	How can I stay mad at you?
	As you can imagine, not everyone is on board.
	Sounds dangerous, goes one comment.
	This is a joke, right?
	What could possibly go wrong, goes another.
	This is definitely a no-go.
	It is not a toy.
	I'm a fire safety expert.
	Can you see any concerns with this Robo flame-throwing dog?
	Yeah, I mean I'm a fire safety expert and former member of the New York Fire Department and I don't think it's sensible.
	It's a very dangerous apparatus that will take lives, it will cause destruction and it should be immediately taken off the market.
	Then there is this exchange on... Still, the state will have them.
	NYPD have probably already got them.
	CNN.
	I like all dogs but not that dog.
	On CBS Mornings, Natalie Morales had one question.
	Is this legal?
	It is legal because flame throwers are unregulated in most states.
	The Terminator.
	Really?
	I do like his little jumps.
	Can someone come and turn that alarm off from this office, please, guys?
	Come and turn that alarm off.
	Thank you.
	I love this little guy.
	He seems like a pretty decent guy to me.
	Now, from the fire and brimstone of hell, from the dreadful burning flames, to the literal awakening that can only be provided, at least as far as I'm concerned, by a very literal baptism.
	But it's not just me, is it?
	That's turning to Christ is not just me that is experiencing a spiritual awakening across the world.
	There appears to be a return to religion.
	Now I've made my personal opinion clear and I will elucidate, illuminate, espouse, expound, proselytize on that further in a moment.
	But I will say that there are a lot of people that are joining other faiths as well.
	And I personally do not feel that I can do anything other than speak for myself.
	And obviously, if you were asking me for my personal recommendation, I could only use my personal experience as the basis for a personal recommendation.
	But across the world, this seems to me like a time where a set of values not derived from the materialist culture are becoming increasingly relevant.
	When you look at that ghoulish gala that was the White House press correspondence dinner, it's pretty obvious that we are a rudderless society, damned and doomed.
	Obviously, I've been through a lot of things personally.
	I know you've been through a lot of things personally too.
	But for me, I've reached the point where The figure, the personage, the presence of Christ became overwhelming, unavoidable, welcome, necessary.
	Suffering is not fun, is it?
	You know what it is to suffer, right?
	You know what it is to lose people.
	You know what it is to be attacked.
	You know what it is to be persecuted.
	You know what it is to sometimes feel the actual presence of evil in your life.
	Where do you turn to?
	Where do you turn to in those moments?
	Well, a lot of people across the world are turning to religion.
	Were you struck by the stories about Bishop Marmarie Emmanuel?
	He's returned to work after surviving stabbing.
	This is from Avi Yemeni.
	A little post on him returning and indeed still saying that he is against censorship and there's been some reports on me getting baptized and later today elsewhere on this channel you'll be able to see our video about Candice Owens Becoming a Catholic.
	We've made a pretty good video on that and I'd love to know what you guys think.
	Now, obviously someone like me who's for a long time was associated with, I don't know, a decadent, hedonistic, Hollywood lifestyle.
	Maybe a move like this.
	I mean, you tell me what you think about it.
	A lot of people maybe are surprised by it and think it is Surprising.
	Grammy Yannon, turn to Jesus, not to religion.
	Well, that is indeed the decision and the step that I've made.
	I recognize that I'm not everybody and I want everyone to feel welcome here.
	I really, really do.
	In fact, it's one of the most important things to us here is to create a space of integration and unity because we have some pretty important things to do.
	But this is something that's personal to me and I want to talk about it to you.
	A lot of people, like David Icke, has said that You know that he has some problem with me turning.
	Have a look.
	Well, let me read these exact words.
	What the F is happening to the mainstream alternative media?
	Now, like, you know me.
	I've known about David Icke, and known David Icke a long time, and I admire David Icke, and I can't wait to have another conversation with him specifically about this, because David Icke has contributed some important ideas and themes to the conversation of, well, whether you call it awakening or anti-establishment, whatever you call it, he's really participated and he's the OG, is he?
	You know, maybe some of you might say, oh, well, what about Alan Watts or Terrence McKenna or the Beats?
	You know, David Icke, when it comes to certainly some of the more, what was once regarded as the realm of the conspiracy, David Icke has done some extraordinary stuff.
	They talk about freedom of speech and convert to the church with a long, long history of mass murder for the crime of having a different opinion.
	Extraordinary.
	Something's going on and it's not good.
	Now, of course, many people are aware of the history.
	How can you not be aware of the history of the church?
	Hurl all the abuse you like, it doesn't matter to me.
	It needs saying when blatant cognitive dissonance is so rampant.
	So this is something that I feel like we have an opportunity to address.
	Why is it that people are turning to faith?
	Let's have a look.
	A greater share of young adults say they believe in a higher power or God.
	About one third of 18 to 25 year olds say they believe, more than doubt, the existence of a higher power, up from about one quarter in 2021, according to a recent survey of young adults.
	It's always been assumed that Christianity in particular was In decline.
	And of course the arguments about the Crusades, the corruption, the Catholic Church, paedophilia scandals, these are all things that people understand.
	The potential compliance and advocacy of the papacy in the Second World War.
	There are endless scandals around the institutions that have grown out of Christianity.
	And having been Christian for 24 hours now, I can unravel and resolve all of those complex questions for you.
	Obviously, I can only tell you what has personally drawn me towards the faith over the course of our little conversation now.
	But it's interesting to me that people en masse, in particular young people, are recognising that the material world that I sought to find solace and comfort in is no longer serving that function for many young people.
	That's extraordinary, isn't it?
	People are waking up, people are realising It doesn't work.
	It isn't going to work.
	When I was a kid, I was thinking, yeah, hedonism, excitement, glory, as well as being sort of scarred with a pretty painful addiction and, I know, an emptiness.
	But I've heard a lot of Christians say that that is almost a defining attribute, that we need a direct relationship with Christ.
	And without that relationship, we will feel hollow and empty and bereaved.
	Young adults, theologians and church leaders attribute the increase in part to the need for people to believe in something beyond themselves after three years of loss.
	84% of the world's population identifies with a religious group.
	That's extraordinary, isn't it?
	Members of this demographic are generally younger and produce more children than those who have no religious affiliation.
	So the world is getting more religious, not less.
	It's an interesting consideration.
	Of course, the key idea that we have to address, or certainly one of them, is the idea of hypocrisy and indeed the idea that religion causes wars.
	These are central to the arguments of atheists like Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins
	or Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris, that religion as an ideology,
	with the various religions, but they often focus on Islam, I suppose,
	facilitates violence and death and war.
	And to get caught in that paradigm is interesting because you have to, I suppose,
	ignore the endless current secular wars, the Middle Eastern conflicts.
	Are they underwritten by theology or by territory and resource?
	The war between Ukraine and Russia, is this ideological or is it military
	and economic and territorial?
	There are different ways to analyze the origins of these conflicts and indeed that's what we dedicate a lot of our time to on this channel.
	So let's have a look at this report on the relationship between religion and war.
	Religion has been implicated in all sorts of conflicts and violence throughout human history.
	There is blood on the hands of the faithful, and no avoiding the fact that in the service of the wrong people, religion can be a force of great harm.
	This includes Christianity.
	If we consider the sins of the Christian past, critics have plenty to work with.
	Witch hunts, the Crusades, Christian support of slavery.
	But the picture is much more complex than is often implied.
	Take the Inquisition.
	Dinner party guests are likely to nod in agreement when someone mentions the millions killed at the hands of the church, but historians now suggest Around 5,000 to 6,000 over a 350 year period.
	That's hardly any deaths!
	That's less than 18 a year.
	One a year is terrible, but the reality appears a long way from what we are often served up.
	That's an interesting piece of analysis from the legacy media, and of course any death conducted in the name of God, particularly if you, excuse me, Particularly if you consider God to ultimately be love and unity.
	Particularly if you consider Christ to be God incarnate, come to earth to absolve our sins, accessible within to all of us.
	I've been on a journey that has been, of course, inspired and impacted by suffering.
	You'll be aware of the attacks that took place in the media because they were designed to attract the attention of as many people as possible, undertaken by an extraordinary alliance of media organisations, other NGOs, and it appears to some degree or another, with the participation of various agencies that I'm reluctant to name at this point, What you might not know is that at that time my son was born with some complications and had open heart surgery when he was very young.
	And of course, in a time like that, if you have a loving relationship with a partner, that is where you'll find a great deal of solace.
	But I don't know how you feel.
	Sometimes the material world and human relationships, they're not enough.
	We report on this stuff every single day.
	Corruption, institutional corruption, violence, unnecessary wars, the refusal of the powerful to participate in peaceful solutions, the corruption of powerful groups, the desire of powerful interests to hide malevolent intent behind Beneficial measures.
	We're doing this to help you they say.
	It's for your safety and for your convenience and my whole life long I felt a calling and mistranslated it time after time as various Forms of addiction, substance misuse and drinking too much.
	An overwhelming urge to lose myself in concupiscence.
	Continually looking for love in all the wrong places.
	And any extraordinary, any of you that have experienced this already, to get baptised, do you feel like, how can this ceremony have any real import?
	How can the gentle, or actually in my case, quite radical, immersion beneath water, and in my case, a live river, Make any real difference.
	How can the sins of the past be washed away?
	How can you be born again?
	How can you awaken anew?
	I suppose to answer that question you have to inquire into what you consider the self to be.
	Whether you're made up just of impulses and urges and memories or whether or not you believe there is a ghost in the machine or more likely a holy spirit if you're willing to invite it into your life.
	For me, I've reached a point in my life where for a long while, in fact, I've known that the material world was not enough and more than that, as many of you are surely already mouthing, it's not even about you.
	This I've learned as an addict in recovery, the pursuit of my own goals and my own agenda always leaves me cold and always leaves me empty and always leaves me wanting more.
	You can never have enough of what you don't really want.
	For me, this is a New discovery.
	It is a surrender undertaken in gratitude and in sincerity and I know that it's not something I'll be able to undertake perfectly but for the first time in my life I fully understand that I'm not at the center of my universe and I say that as a parent.
	I've got three really really beautiful kids I'm devoted to and dedicated to but now I know that my function here is to be of service and to be guided and to no longer be in autonomous or authoritative control of the measures and pursuits that are put before me.
	And that aligns so beautifully with what we do here on this show and on this channel.
	This is an opportunity for us to look at corruption in institutions, look at hypocrisy in media,
	look at a planet that seems to be in pretty serious trouble and see how individually and
	collectively we can participate in an awakening.
	So for me, I've done what I believe is unavoidable, inevitable, necessary for me, for all of the
	exotic exploration, for all of the various drugs and substances, for all of the esoteric
	practices I found in that humble place that was at the end of my arm, at the end of my
	street, sat at bus stops, sat in churches, droned on about in school assemblies, in Christianity
	and in particular in the figure of Christ.
	I'm done proselytizing.
	Your journey will be your journey, but I'll be praying for you as many have been praying for me, and I appreciate all of your prayers, and I've felt your prayers, and I've been carried by your prayers, and I will do my best to honor your prayers.
	This is a conversation we can go on having because, hey, we're reading Mere Christianity as part of our book club, and if you become an awakened wonder, and obviously you're very welcome, and if it's not something you can afford, let us know.
	Send us an email at help at russellbrown.com, and we'll give it to you for nothing.
	It's about more than money for us.
	We need to run this institution.
	We need to run this business.
	We need to grow this movement.
	But if you want to join us, you're very welcome to join us.
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	We're reading every week.
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	You're very welcome, but I understand you have a lot of priorities and a lot of demands on your time.
	I hope you've enjoyed this especially long show that we have done today.
	Thank you so much for joining us today.
	Remember, we'll be back tomorrow, of course.
	I want to welcome all of our new Awake and Wonders.
	Perhaps you'll see their names on the screen.
	And thank you for joining us.
	We'll be back tomorrow, not with more of the same, but with more of the different.
	Until next time, if you can, stay free.
	Many switching, switch on, switch off.

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