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June 24, 2024 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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THEY’RE PLOTTING SOMETHING HUGE! Putin and Kim Jong Un meet - Stay Free 392

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	I'm going to go ahead and do that. And then I'm going to go ahead and do the other side.
	I'm going to go ahead and do that.
	Oh Brought to you by Pfizer.
	Hello, this is Gregory. Hi.
	We are getting some breaking news. We've got a live shot there.
	Join me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	It's an extraordinary journey that we're about to undertake together in an extraordinary world.
	There are times when it's just enough to reflect that at least Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are getting on well.
	And actually, Kim Jong-un, if you take him out of context, and believe me, in the modern world where information is everywhere, fragmented and strewn in a never-ending montage of mis-dis and mal-information, It's hard to maintain context, but if you can take Kim Jong-un out of context, he's actually quite cute.
	You know, he's quite cute looking.
	Yeah, Kensi 67 attack on Russian beach killed and injured many NATO missiles, or aren't they more specifically US missiles?
	You better believe we'll be talking about that and the consequences of war.
	And indeed the General consequences of unconscious assumptions.
	Like that we just assume that it's enough.
	I am not wearing a 12 year old girl's hat!
	Be quite young.
	Are you German now?
	Do you know what?
	Sometimes I don't even actually know what angle I'm going to be attacked from in the rumble chat.
	If you watch this on YouTube, you want to come over a rumble.
	Not just for the fact that you can speak freely there.
	By all means, turn on the notification bell on YouTube.
	Then you'll know You all know that we're making this content.
	We're still making it, you know.
	Have a look at the videos.
	They're doing very well.
	But you know that the algorithm does not want you to become an awakened wonder.
	It does not want you to become critical.
	It wants you to find a silo either on the left or the right or be strewn and shipwrecked adrift in a culture that increasingly celebrates idiocy, It's not a mouse's hat!
	It's not a mouse hat!
	That's in the local stream.
	Dalai Lama quote, suck my tongue.
	Do not say that about His Holiness.
	The Awakened Wonder chat is brilliant.
	That's where you can now, if you're a fan of The Chosen and Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, portrayed by Jonathan Rumi, that chat is up right now on locals.
	What we do for our Awakened Wonders is we put the content up earlier there to just give people a bit of time to, you know, get on with it.
	We've got some great guests coming up this week.
	Neil Oliver.
	Aka Coast Guy over there on X. He's coming on and so is Dr. John Campbell.
	A man who stuck his neck out, got a jab in it, and then learned the cost of that kind of trust in this topsy-turvy crazy old world.
	Now listen!
	Out there in the... Where's my subscription for getting the Genius Andrew tape?
	BobMatthews43?
	Your subscription's on the way.
	Send an email BobMatthews43 in the rumble chat.
	You will get one year free as an awakened wonder.
	You will be able to see Westboro Baptist Church revisited.
	In fact, let's pull a clip of that and by the end of the show I'll show you a little clip of that thing.
	Was the suck tongue thing AI?
	I don't think so.
	I think that was the real Dalai Lama.
	Let me know guys if that's possible to get a clip of me revisiting the Westbury Baptist Church.
	It's one of our most viral YouTube clips.
	I got the Westbury Baptist Church on and I thought I'm gonna act as Christian as I can even when I wasn't Christian you know.
	I was like I'm just gonna be nice to them and loving and Excuse me.
	I like, even with the LA audience, they were like, boo!
	Because I got these gay guys that I picked up in Melrose.
	Anyway, all this is in the video.
	All that's in the video.
	And if you want, our man there, Bob43, you can... BobMatthews43atDreamer just puts his email straight in the chat.
	I love you people, man.
	I love you.
	I just doxxed you, brother!
	I just doxxed you!
	You mean, I doxxed you!
	I'll doxxed you into the middle of next week!
	I'll doxx you so hard, mate!
	I will doxx you!
	Do you notice sometimes that stuff you've known for like ages now, like for example, possibly you've known that The United States and NATO countries to a degree provoked Putin's actions in invading Ukraine.
	That doesn't excuse them, by the way.
	This is a thing called nuance that we used to have in the world.
	It doesn't excuse the actions.
	It doesn't mean it's okay that Ukrainian people have died or Ukrainian cities have been destroyed.
	But do you remember when we were saying, hang on, Haven't NATO's actions contributed to this?
	Hasn't Boris Johnson scuppered a potential treaty between Zelensky and Putin?
	Well, you've known that for a couple of years.
	Please send all your best dick pics to Bob Matthews.
	I'm not reading the whole email.
	You have to.
	If you want to trouble Bob Matthews with pictures of your genitalia, get on over to the Rumble chat.
	But you probably, possibly, I don't know, let me know in the chat, did you see Piers Morgan talking to Jeffrey Sachs, that brilliant academic, along with Mir Shaima, one of the people I think you can actually trust on the complexity of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and that's what we want to cover today, the complexity.
	It ain't great that Ukrainian men are being forcibly conscripted.
	It ain't great that Russian holidaymakers in Crimea are being bombed with NATO weaponry or US weaponry.
	Fuckin' Frank, Russell, please tell me you didn't pay money for that hat.
	No, I stole it, actually, from a holiday.
	Alright?
	I stole it from a holiday.
	I was on holiday in Tuscany, and I saw it hanging up.
	I was staying in quite a nice place, and there was a hat hanging on the wall.
	I thought, I'm having that hat, and I nicked it, and I... Do you know what?
	Regret it now.
	Become an Awake and Wonder like Venus Siren or USA Now.
	Some of our friends in the Awake and Wonder chat, you all love it over there.
	We make extra content for you and we have lovely little chats.
	For example, the Geoffrey Roomie Chosen, not Geoffrey Roomie, excuse me, Jonathan Roomie chat.
	The hat needs its own social media account.
	WSA4, why don't you start it?
	Um, Russell, can you explain the intro song?
	I'm a black man and I could never be a veteran.
	Yes.
	It's a Tricky song.
	If you watched it on YouTube, you won't hear the music, because when we did a deal, of which I think was 25 grand, to use that content, right?
	It didn't, the contract didn't cover YouTube usage.
	I'm still angry about that now.
	It's a Tricky song.
	Tricky was a brilliant, and is a brilliant, UK hip-hop artist, or whatever the British equivalent of hip-hop is.
	He used to collaborate a lot with Massive Attack, and he came out of a 90s Bristol music scene that included Portishead.
	That, I believe, is a cover of a public enemy song.
	I got a letter from the government the other day.
	Opened it and read it.
	Said they were suckers.
	They wanted me for the army or whatever.
	Picture me giving a damn.
	I said, never.
	This is a land that never gave a damn about a black man.
	I could never be a veteran.
	On the strength of the situation, I feel like a raw deal.
	Now I'm looking for a steal.
	Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell.
	How long has it been?
	They got me sitting in a state pen.
	It's like saying, I ain't doing... Yeah, I got a letter from the other... I got a letter from the government the other day.
	Reddit said they were suckers.
	That's the line I like.
	The letter from the government.
	Oh, who's this?
	It's the government.
	What do they want?
	They want me for the army or whatever.
	We want you for the army or whatever.
	Just like your relationship with the government is like...
	What do you want now?
	What do you... What do you want now from me?
	What?
	I've driven too fast?
	What?
	I parked somewhere I don't want to park?
	Why don't you fucking mind your own fucking business?
	That's how I... Is that how you feel about the government?
	Trip-hop.
	Yeah, that's what he was.
	B.V.O.
	Jeans 25.
	Yeah, I contemplated a plan on the cell floor.
	It's not me singing that song, JK Jerome, if only.
	I used to think it was Rodney singing the theme tune for Fools and Horses.
	I always thought it was Billie Eilish.
	What?
	Fools and Horses?
	Billie Eilish would never do this.
	Yeah, that's right, this is happening.
	Let's get into some content that's relevant to this demographic.
	We're on Rumble now, streaming freely.
	Remember, we're not here because of right-wing politics, although hey, what's wrong with right-wing politics?
	God knows we need a change.
	No.
	We're here because we believe in free speech.
	We believe in decentralization.
	We believe in true, radical change.
	We believe, in fact, that many of the world's problems, environmental, economic, social, cultural, spiritual, would be solved if we were able to bring down the titans as surely as David slew Goliath, that we may be free together.
	And create new principalities, new kingdoms, new freedoms.
	And guess what?
	If each community were independent wherever possible, there wouldn't be so much need for division.
	And remember, it may not be perfect, but it's gotta be better than this, hasn't it baby?
	It's gotta be better than this.
	Let's see what's been going on on that thing we call the internet.
	Brian Stelter is back!
	Guess who's back?
	Back again!
	Stelter's back!
	Tell your friends!
	Stelter and his neatly clipped hair are back!
	And he's back primarily to tell you, it's the same thing Brian Steele, he's always telling you the same thing.
	Why don't you listen to me?
	You shouldn't listen to me!
	He claims that actually Joe Biden never shut himself that day.
	Now as you know that as a spiritual man, I take no delight in an elderly person defecating.
	I can't think of a context where I would delight in an elderly person defecating, perhaps on the toilet, on time, as a result of a high fiber diet.
	That's the only way.
	But what our man, uh, Stelter claims is that this whole thing happened as a result of, uh, cheap fakery.
	Cheap fakery is a new phrase that they want you to sort of hook onto.
	A bit like, I don't know, Coke Zero or something.
	It's just a new thing to care about.
	Cheap fakes.
	Here is Brian Stelter complaining that we should be... Could you put me on the correct page on the stream to sit deck, guys?
	Here is Brian Stelter complaining that we should be listening to him.
	Oh no.
	Could you put this on the right page, guys, please?
	Could you put this on the right page?
	Can you let me know that you can hear me?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I'm pressing it.
	Yeah, no. I'm pressing one baby. And what's coming up is the observers view on Vladimir Putin's
	reckless visit. If you can play in Brian Stelter from the gallery, I would, I would thank you
	warmly. I'd love that up because I can't kill my microphone and get it on here.
	What's live? They're not getting any sound either.
	Right, so there's no video or sound, so stop.
	Sound is back.
	Can we play the video?
	I'm watching the chat now.
	Here are the chats.
	Muted, sound too low, no audio, sound very low, volume, volume.
	That's the delay.
	Can you press the button on the stream deck again?
	Right, so nothing still.
	We'll put it in here.
	I've not got it on the floor.
	Is someone doing something to get me on the floor?
	Keep up the comms with me guys.
	We're just going to carry out a quick sound check here in the gallery.
	Hello everyone watching the stream on YouTube.
	We're just going to do a live sound check.
	Now, guys, what's the next video clip?
	Young Trump.
	So I'm just going to do this to check.
	Someone go find the stelter clip and I'm going to press button two now to check audio.
	So we need the speaker on the floor to work.
	Right so I've pressed 2 and that didn't work either.
	So come over, so send a tech in if you don't mind to work with this.
	We'll be on the point.
	Playing an advert from the studio.
	Playing an advert from there.
	Guys we're just going to play an advert while we work this shit out.
	Playing an ad.
	From the gallery.
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	Instead of waking up and drinking your big corporation owned woke ideology coffee that's probably making you sick from the piss inside it's sprayed with dry Uh, you know, my husband and I use the phrase, cheap fakes.
	Uh, the idea of cheap fakes.
	Wait, somebody explain what that is to people.
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	My favourite? It's dark of course.
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	Oh, come on.
	Why choose, you know?
	Okay, back to the content.
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	Now, guys, we're going to have to continue this tech check.
	So guys, what number is Brian Stelter on?
	Should be on 1.
	So I'm going to press Brian Stelter now.
	We're the president's mother.
	Good.
	Right.
	Let's go back.
	Hope you guys enjoyed that.
	Now you know that we're not controlled opposition, because if we were controlled opposition, the Gates Foundation would not put that on.
	Do not lose your shit, Russell.
	I know, actually, I know, it's all good.
	You need union workers, says enlightened spirit.
	Can you hear Russell giving him the gears in the background?
	Yeah, so the mic was up as well.
	We know that.
	Okay guys, so let's make sure that our checks are working when we do this tomorrow.
	People are still mostly talking about the hack.
	Brilliant.
	Okay, so listen.
	Remember what we're talking about here over on YouTube.
	We are talking about Brian Stelter.
	Of course acknowledging that there was a little bit of craziness there.
	CNN hacking you.
	You had an open mic.
	Nobody's perfect.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much, you are worth the wait.
	Appreciate it, appreciate it.
	Let's get back into what we're doing.
	This bit of Brian Stelter content.
	Okay, let's have a look at him.
	Where the president's defecating in public.
	Imagine we're going to be by...
	Actually, I'm going to put this play again from the beginning.
	About where the president's defecating...
	We play... Is that... Is it 49 seconds long, the clip?
	Is it 49 seconds long?
	That is the beginning.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Well, the president's defecating in public.
	Imagine what we're going to be by October.
	You know, the White House president used the phrase cheap fakes, the idea of cheap fakes.
	Let me explain what that is to people.
	We've been worried for years about AI deep fakes, that computer generated images are
	going to trick people into believing something that's totally false.
	Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler.
	They're cheap.
	They're just distorted, out-of-context videos, chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways.
	That's what we're seeing.
	That's what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign is so worried about right now.
	But make no mistake, they are worried about this.
	This is a real problem.
	This is not some made-up fiction.
	The videos are oftentimes made up, but the problem is real.
	Because some of us, Abby, watch a 40-minute speech by Biden.
	We see the full context.
	Other people only Wait for it, it's coming up a little later.
	The president's defecating in public.
	I imagine we're going to be by October.
	Fast forward that to about 20 seconds, if you don't mind.
	And remember the thing I said about Westbury Baptist Church?
	See if you can pull that like a clip for the Westbury Baptist Church episode.
	Nice one.
	In fact, there's always have a locals ad ready to play into the rumble stream.
	Let's do our Brian Steltz stuff.
	They are worried about this.
	This is a real problem.
	This is not some made-up fiction.
	The videos are oftentimes made up, but the problem is real.
	Because some of us, Abby, watch a 40-minute speech by Biden.
	We see the full context.
	Other people only watch a five-second clip.
	And that's going to be something that's going to, I suspect, follow Biden for the rest of this campaign.
	What it's really about, as it always is, is you should trust us, not yourself.
	Amidst the myriad chaos of that clip and this stream in general, were you still able to detect Brian Stelter's central message?
	We watched the entire 40 minutes of a clip.
	You only watched five seconds of a clip.
	Do you see that what the legacy media's fundamental issue is, is they don't like you being able to access information directly.
	Now if you look at the last 15 minutes of this show, you can see that we don't have the capacity for duplicity.
	We can only give you the online space's primary currency.
	Authenticity.
	That's all we can offer you, is an authentic take on CNN, Or legacy media elsewhere, or the origins of a particular conflict.
	We can't offer you what they do, which is a 360 global take on international politics or Domestic politics that excludes, oddly, nuance.
	That is a kind of streamlined approach to information.
	All of us are aware these days that if you watch one particular silo of information, you could be absolutely, resolutely certain that Israel's perspective on the Middle Eastern conflict is 100% correct, that they have their right to their sovereignty, but if you watched a different silo, you would have the exact opposite opinion.
	That this war has to be ended immediately, you would start describing it differently, and using certainly more aggressive language.
	The fact is, though, that we need to use these spaces to create nuance and conversation.
	And until we're able to do that, we're in pretty serious trouble.
	One of the people that understands this space pretty well, pretty well, is your man.
	Your man, not ours.
	If you watch us on YouTube, let's run the timer now.
	We're going to be spending the rest of the time talking about the complexity of reporting on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
	We're going to talk, too, about Putin's visit to North Korea.
	We're going to talk about how, in a sense, Russia are allowed their own narrative.
	They're allowed their own reality.
	They're allowed their own economy.
	They're allowed their own diplomatic relationships.
	We can't stop that or control it.
	That's why this conflict is so terrifying.
	Click the link in the description as we analyze the shifting sands and surprising voices that are ahead of the curve.
	Join us over on Rumble!
	Okay, let's have a quick look now at Donald Trump meeting a kid that's cosplaying as him.
	And try and watch this, if you will, from a kind of neoliberal perspective.
	How will they find a way to hate on this?
	Make sure he gets a special sandwich for himself.
	Awww.
	Yeah, I'm gonna do something.
	Come here.
	You're gonna hit Pindu.
	You know what?
	What?
	Look at him, huh?
	You want my phone?
	Don't get me involved.
	Okay, I'll look for him.
	You know that it's terrible.
	Yeah, it's not a good show.
	I don't want to sign it for you.
	We're going to make it happen.
	We're going to add some value.
	Look at this.
	Aw.
	How cute.
	Oh, look at this.
	Aw, like Timmy.
	This is super cool.
	All I'm saying is...
	Wendy McGroin in the Rumble chat.
	Biden would have sniffed that wig right off.
	Joe Biden would have spent the rest of the day with that wig attached to his olfactory system, waiting for an appropriate moment to turn it into a diaper.
	Now that is not a cheap fake Brian Stelter.
	That is the cheap truth.
	That is the absolute facts of the matter.
	Now let's get into today's main story.
	Putin, given that he's in charge of a major nuclear superpower, is doing what the hell he likes.
	Conducting diplomatic visits to North Korea.
	What's extraordinary about this, if you ask me, is the sheer volume of events they've managed to pack into one day.
	After we've watched this rather light-hearted piece of propaganda, after we've questioned the nature of pageantry, we'll get into the reality of this ongoing and escalating conflict and what might be likely to bring about an end to it.
	Because the problem is precisely this.
	Russia have relationships with North Korea.
	They have, curiously and perhaps now given this improving relationship with North Korea, relationships with China.
	They have a powerful economy.
	They're part potentially of the... Is it BRICS?
	Is it BRICS?
	That alternative set of global currencies that could bring down the dollar?
	It seems to me that what's happening at an ulterior level is a challenge for a unipolar world or whether or not there can be separate power bases in Russia, the United States, China, or God, get this, more and more decentralized nodes so that all of us have more access and control over the institutions that affect our own lives rather than allowing this sort of casual drift
	Towards a unipolar, globalist, corporatist world in order that we're safe and protected.
	Let's enjoy for a moment Putin and Kim Jong-un driving around together.
	I'm quite curious to see that Vladimir Putin is actually driving himself.
	He looks quite nice.
	Kim Jong-un when you see him Out of context.
	In fact, I'm not even sure what the social issues are in North Korea that we're meant to care about.
	Here they are, having their own military parade.
	I reckon it's Kim Jong himself who came up with the idea of having kids with balloons.
	Yo!
	It's me.
	I'm a balloon.
	["The Star-Spangled Banner"]
	Pageantry is about power, whether it's the coronation of King Charles or the inauguration of a new power.
	It's a ceremonial demonstration of a state or nation's ability to assert its own will, its own might, and its own story upon the world.
	North Korea, I suppose, is by definition isolationist.
	America at the moment is going through a revival of isolationism.
	You're an American, are you?
	Don't you feel more and more that you would just like to focus on domestic issues, domestic infrastructure?
	Stay out of foreign wars, focus on supporting the people that are in America, protect America.
	What about what's happening in my country, the UK?
	Increasingly it seems like the UK doesn't want to be part of Europe.
	Of course there's ongoing conversations about Brexit and whether Brexit was executed correctly or whether Brexit was the correct thing to do, but more and more when I speak to people Actual people, I mean people that aren't caught up in media and professional urbane classes, seems that what people really want to do is get on and live their own lives without the ongoing fear that they're going to have either state or corporate intervention in their own lives, that the rules are going to change around them, that there's going to be less economic opportunity, less ability to have sovereignty and control in your own individual life.
	When you see this, this is North Korea doing their thing.
	This is them saying, We're a country, we're doing our shit, and we've got our own relationship with Russia.
	It's not just North Korea are the baddies, or Russia is the baddies, or even the UK is the baddie, or God, let's take it even further, any particular political party or individual within them is either good or evil, as Solzhenitsyn says, and I continually remind you that the line between good and evil runs not between nations, states, religions, creeds, or even Korea.
	But through every human heart.
	It's not South Korea good with like very like top sucker stars populating the world and North Korea bad with that adorable man toddler leading it.
	It's a complex thing and Russia can continue to assert their own dominance and their own political will upon the world and they can't be stopped.
	What I enjoy is actually seeing how it's propagandized and how it's sort of sentimentalized.
	Do you think that this is a This is a kind of demonstration of masterful editing.
	Surely Putin and Kim Jong-un aren't waving to each other quite as enthusiastically as this viral video suggests
	Pretty sentimental stuff.
	I can't imagine that they're waving that many times.
	Now, on button 30 on the deck, which is the next page of the deck, guys, there's an Observer story.
	Now, as you know, the Observer is a legacy media organisation, and as such, will find various ways of carrying the message that the establishment wants you to hear.
	They are indeed, as we discussed when talking about the theme tune to this very show, sending the government's letters right to you.
	to ensure that you stay on point and correctly propagandized.
	Here's their take on Putin's visit to North Korea.
	Here we go.
	So he talked about Putin's visits to North Korea and Vietnam, and it caused a lot of consternation, writes The Guardian, but this I believe is in The Observer, which is a subset, it's the same legacy media outlet, among Western powers, which was undoubtedly his intention.
	The Russian president is keen to demonstrate that notwithstanding the widespread condemnation of his illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing diplomatic ostracism and sanctions, he still has international support and can raise the cost to his opponents of continued backing for Kiev.
	If anyone doubted the extent to which the war in Ukraine has become a truly global issue, here was conclusive proof of its almost universal impact.
	Putin and North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defence treaty that commits each country to provide military assistance to the other with all means at its disposal in the event of the attack.
	The treaty represents a significant boost for Kim's isolated regime and for Putin's efforts with China to build up an anti-democratic, anti-Western international alliance.
	How dare you!
	How dare you!
	How dare you have a treaty!
	Might I ask, what is the sole basis for NATO intervention into the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
	Do you, whatever the complexities of this situation might be, believe anywhere, in any iota, in any modicum, In any cell of your being that NATO and the military-industrial complex are doing this because they care about Ukrainian people, Ukrainian buildings, Ukrainian children?
	Or do you imagine that whatever treaty is being enacted in order to facilitate the supply of weapons that are being used now on Russian territory, do you imagine that it's humanitarian?
	Do you imagine that open border policy is about humanitarianism?
	Do you imagine that their policies in COVID were about humanitarianism?
	Have you got any part of you left?
	Any inkling, any thread, any tendril, any synapse that isn't fulfilled with dread every time one of these bureaucracies says, we've got a plan to help you.
	I know you're doing that Reagan quote right now.
	I'm from the government, I'm here to help.
	The nine most terrifying words in the English language, or however many it is.
	The simple truth is, North Korea and Russia can have a treaty, if they want to, in the same way, I suppose, that the United States of America and Ukraine can have a treaty.
	The same way that Zelensky can crop up at the Golden Globes and say, thank you Black Rock, thank you Goldman Sachs, keep funding this war, American taxpayers, peace out.
	That is an extraordinary use of soft power meets military power.
	And indeed, it becomes clear over the course of the evolving conversation around the attacks on the beach in Crimea that Russia are fully well aware that it takes American military expertise to continue these attacks.
	While we are glibly supporting, or maybe I'll take some responsibility for myself, opposing this war and all current conflicts that we are involved in in any way, we should consider We should consider that Russia and many of the people affected by these wars don't see it as a kind of, oh, you know, let's just put a flag in the bio and just breezily support some issue.
	Wave some flag from another land and just hope that history will understand.
	Because what we're engaging in, in all honesty, in all seriousness, is increasingly beginning to resemble the scenarios that preceded both of the world wars in the last century.
	And my personal horror Is this, that the people that lead us believe that their power can withstand global conflict and in fact will be enhanced by it.
	If you consider that a health crisis and an economic crisis for the majority of people led to a wealth transfer, increased power for the elites that govern, for want of a better phrase, do you not think that in the same shady cadres where those decisions were cooked up, what's that event?
	Event 19?
	Do you not imagine that by now they're beginning to consider, well we got our Hawaiian bunkers baby, we'll live through it, we'll be fine.
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	Don't you imagine that they're already beginning to believe that a nuclear war for them is not the same as a nuclear war for you.
	The treaty represents a significant boost for Kim's isolated regime and for Putin's efforts with China to build up an anti-democratic, anti-Western international alliance.
	Just again, I'll just remind you that elections are suspended in Ukraine.
	I'll just remind you that even in your country, my country, all our countries, the power Of big tech to manipulate and control narratives is such that you can't really claim democracy in our countries anymore.
	Is it really democracy as intended by the Greeks or by the founding fathers?
	I know what you're saying, Republic, Republic, I hear you, I hear you, I see your comments.
	Do you really think that their intention was a couple of barely distinguishable parties controlled by the same undergirding squabbling in a leather-bound Oak-clad room claiming it is on behalf of ordinary people.
	Is that the intention?
	Is that the point these days?
	The deal directly contradicted Russia's past support for UN Security Council, council sanctions intended to rein Pyongyang's proliferating regionally destabilizing nuclear weapons and missiles programs.
	Putin linked such mooted arms supplies to Western arms supplies Putin links such mooted arms supplies to Western arms supplies to Ukraine and in particular Biden administration's recent decision to allow its longer-range missiles to be used by Kiev to hit targets inside Russia.
	As usual, Putin claims to be acting in response to provocative Western actions when in reality it is he who's doing the escalating.
	There's no doubt who bears the primary responsibility for this destructive spiral.
	The country that believes it's okay to invade another's sovereign territory.
	I just wonder how the writer of that article would contend with CIA intervention in the 2014 maiden coup, the use of US-made weapons in Russian territory, the various CIA bases across Ukraine, the numerous pledges that have been broken.
	Let's start with the main one.
	When the Berlin Wall came down and Germany was reunified, It was agreed between the United States and of America and the Soviet Union that there would be no impeding upon former Soviet territories.
	That's the big one.
	Again and again, Russia have been provoked.
	I'm not apologizing for Russia.
	I've got no interest.
	Well, I've got interest in Russia.
	I think it sort of sounds like an amazing place actually, but I'm not chilling for Russia.
	If I'm chilling or grifting for anything, it's peace.
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	Now apparently there's a DDoS attack on Rumble right now.
	So are we still streaming on Rumble?
	Or are we streaming solely on locals?
	Yes, we are streaming.
	But the chat is down.
	So, you guys, if you're trying to chat, you'll notice that the chat ain't working.
	So, is it a DDoS attack?
	You saw how crazy the beginning of the show was.
	I mean, how far will these people go?
	Is it potentially true that they could be inside my actual consciousness?
	Is it potentially true that all reality is now being created by the same people behind this?
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	These developments again underline the urgent need for an end to the Ukraine crisis with its ubiquitous negative ramifications.
	One man, the same man who triggered it, could haunt it today if he so chose.
	By refusing to do so, unscrupulously, infinitely reckless Putin proved again last week that he is global public enemy number one.
	That is old school propaganda there.
	Now, think about how the Guardian would review this show.
	They'd say, Brand was shilling American insurance, he was selling Rumble's coffee.
	They're so haughty and hateful and loathing of the ordinary men and women of American malls, of the ordinary men and women of British streets.
	There's so much loathing.
	They so strongly detest ordinary people.
	They're so confident and certain in their views.
	Think about what we've seen today.
	Brian Stelter, Brain is an unfortunate slip because, let's face it, he appears to be lacking one in all but the most basic facility.
	They would happily claim, you know, I can understand because I watched the entire 40 minutes and I can see Joe Biden shitting himself in context!
	But you guys don't understand!
	It's the same thing here in The Guardian.
	They're saying that Putin is solely and singularly and totally responsible for that conflict.
	Putin is the person that's saying, don't let Ukraine join NATO.
	This shit's over already.
	The territories that we've reclaimed are ours.
	So we are funding a...
	Do you want to call it a squabble?
	It's a costly and mortal, terrible squabble over land and territory, costing Ukrainian lives and Russian lives.
	For what?
	For what?
	Who benefits?
	All you have to do is watch Yeah, watch me by all means, but watch Jeffrey Sachs or John Mearsheimer or watch any of the many experts that will plucidly inform you of history, not opinions, history and what has led to these events.
	And you will understand that what legacy media give you is propaganda.
	That even in the ridiculous spectacle of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un parading quite literally around releasing children's balloons.
	All you're watching is their version of what we do all the time.
	And wouldn't it be easier for all of us if we were able to break out of our own heads and for a moment understand As Edward Said famously wrote in Orientalism, that we have different perspectives and different views, all of us.
	You might believe that one culture is superior to another, another civilization is superior to another.
	You might have all sorts of views.
	But unless you believe in absolute authoritarianism, you're going to have to believe in other people's rights.
	Let me know what you think in the comments!
	And, you know, heaven forbid not be democratic, particularly if the country that you're living in
	doesn't support democracy through freedom of speech, freedom of ideas, freedom to disagree
	with one another, freedom to have political and cultural affiliations that are outside of the
	rather static and homogenous cultural ideas. They're increasingly gaining dominance in all
	of our societies. But that's just what I think. Let me know what you think in the comments. If
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	Now let's see what's been going on in Crimea.
	Let's have a look at the real price of war.
	Let's have a look at Nigel Farage, British populist leader's opinions on the origins of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the attacks that he has subsequently received on the BBC from mainstream political parties.
	Let's watch this together and understand it.
	Let's have a look at Piers Morgan and Jeffrey Sachs Seemingly discovering for the first time some complex truths about the origin of this war.
	And then we'll get to maybe Andrew Cuomo on the Trump trial.
	That's pretty revelatory and pretty interesting in itself.
	But first, let's look at the events on this beach in Crimea, which are pretty disturbing and awful actually.
	Pretty upsetting.
	And yeah, see where we get to.
	Excuse me.
	So where's the...
	That's there, is it?
	Okay, so let me have a look at this.
	All right, so let's have a look at Piers Morgan and Jeffrey Sachs for a minute, just to set this up, because this is probably a point in the argument that you guys have been at for some time.
	You seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview, rather than perhaps the stark reality of the barbarism with which he's executed this war.
	Yeah, maybe because I know too much about the United States.
	Because the first war in Europe after World War II was the U.S.
	bombing of Belgrade for 78 days to change borders of a European state.
	The idea was to break Serbia.
	To create Kosovo as an enclave and then to install Bondesteel, which is the largest NATO base in the Balkans, in the Southwest Balkans.
	So the U.S.
	started this under Clinton that we will break the borders.
	We will illegally bomb another country.
	We didn't have any U.N.
	authority.
	This was a, quote, NATO mission to do that.
	Then I know the United States went to war repeatedly, illegally, in what it did in Afghanistan,
	and then what it did in Iraq, and then what it did in Syria, which was the Obama administration,
	especially Obama and Hillary Clinton, tasking the CIA to overthrow Bashar al-Assad, and
	then what it did with NATO illegally bombing Libya to topple Muammar Gaddafi, and then
	what it did in Kiev in February 2014.
	I happened to see some of that with my own eyes.
	The U.S. overthrew Yanukovych together with right-wing Ukrainian military forces.
	We overthrew a president and what's interesting by the way is we overthrew Yanukovych the day after The European Union representatives had reached an agreement with Yanukovych to have early elections, a government of national unity, and a stand-down of both sides.
	That was agreed.
	The next thing that happens is the opposition, quote-unquote, says, we don't agree.
	They stormed the government buildings.
	And they deposed Yanukovych.
	And within hours, the United States says, yes, we support the new government.
	It didn't say, oh, we had an agreement.
	That's unconstitutional, what you did.
	So we overthrew a government, contrary to a promise that the European Union had made.
	And by the way, Russia The United States and the EU were parties to that agreement, and the United States, an hour afterwards, backed the coup.
	Okay, so everyone's got a little bit to answer for.
	In 2015, the Russians did not say, we want the Donbass back.
	They said peace should come through negotiations, and negotiations between I don't know how Brian Stelter would handle this because we just watched, I think, two and a half minutes there of Jeffrey Sachs, who's been on this show several times, probably over a year ago now, explaining to us what he just explained to Piers Morgan, who, to give him credit, quietly listened while Jeffrey Sachs gave us a view so contradictory to what we would read in our own neoliberal legacy media outlets that it amounts to an entirely distinct and different reality.
	At the moment, we're being told that there's a crisis in our democracies.
	In Europe in particular, people are concerned about what they call the rise of the right.
	In British politics, we're seeing Nigel Farage garner popularity at a rate that is alarming for establishment figures.
	But I suspect even more deeply than that, we're in a climate where people are beginning to deeply mistrust authority.
	Fiercely oppose establishment corruption.
	Doubt every single institution, from the media, to the judiciary, to the electoral process itself.
	People are going to have to adjust.
	Institutions are going to have to adjust more than people, in fact, because I sense radical change coming.
	I've sensed it for a while.
	I'm trying to take credit for it.
	I mean, like, you know, you remember years ago I said there's going to be a revolution.
	Do you remember me saying that?
	That's another clip we should...
	Pull up at some point.
	Like, for a while I've been saying, this system's gonna fall apart, man.
	Now, I don't have the Nostradamus-like perspicacity to foretell precisely what political hue it will be of, but what increasingly seems likely It ain't gonna come out of liberal leftist spaces because they are, it seems, all too willing to parrot the talking points of the establishment.
	And maybe it'll change when there are right-wing governments in power in every major nation.
	Maybe then it'll be the left advocating for freedom.
	Certainly we've seen some interesting switcheroos around issues in the Middle East.
	People changing their perspectives on free speech and right to protest.
	Makes me...
	Makes me question what the virtues and principles behind all of this are.
	But here's Nigel Farage saying that he, some time ago, said that NATO countries have been provoking Russia.
	And Nigel Farage, in this country, as we said on a previous show, is the closest thing that there is in Britain to a Donald Trump.
	Lot of people still loathe Nigel Farage, certainly people in the establishment loathe Nigel Farage, certainly liberal, you know, the kind of people that write that Guardian article, I guess, loathe Nigel Farage and what my own reservations would be, I suppose, is about When most of your ideas are predicated on border control, I see the significance of that.
	I see how important it is to ensure that ordinary working people have the ability to command good wages in the job market.
	I was pretty struck when George Galloway made the same point, and hey, George Galloway is a pretty left-wing politician, and when you see people from what would once have been regarded as, well, once would have been regarded as the normal left, but now gets kind of called the extreme left, and people on the right saying that immigration is a bloody issue, There needs to be some control over our borders and whatever you think, whatever you think the motivation behind the various migration crises in numerous nations is, it ain't that the establishment really cares about helping vulnerable people.
	It isn't that.
	That we can rule out straight away.
	Let's have a look at a few things Nigel Farage has said on this issue and for a moment query what this means about the rise of populism and what this means about the change in media spaces because the problem is now that Jeffrey Sachs is out there saying that Brian Stelter is going to have to desperately claim that you have to watch 40 minutes of Joe Biden to tell whether or not he's shat himself.
	But most of us can use our own eyes in the blink of one to determine what's going on with the establishment.
	And there's certainly a lot more mysterious and stinking things going on than the contents of Joe Biden's underpants.
	What we have to look at now is what the likely political response is going to be as people in droves and en masse stop trusting the media and the judiciary and all of our institutions.
	Here's Nigel Farage on the BBC and I recently watched a Nigel Farage speech and when he spoke out against the BBC and in particular the tax that British people pay to fund the BBC, it was one of the sort of high points People hate the establishment.
	People hate the media.
	And they're right to, other than the sort of general pejorative consequences of hatred on the human spirit, which we should probably...
	Do our best to transcend and overcome, but that's pretty tricky.
	Let's have a look at Farage.
	The NATO expansion, is that a judgement you stand by?
	Right.
	I'll tell you what you don't know.
	I stood up in the European Parliament in 2014 and I said, and I quote, there will be a war in Ukraine.
	Why did I say that?
	It was obvious to me that the ever eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man a reason To his Russian people to say they're coming for us again and to go to war.
	But you were echoing him.
	I was, sorry?
	You were echoing him.
	That's what Putin says.
	No, no, no, no.
	Sorry, I've been saying this actually since the 1990s.
	Ever since the fall of the wall.
	So has he.
	But hang on a second.
	We provoke this war.
	Of course it's his fault.
	He's used what we've done as an excuse.
	But we provoke the invasion of Ukraine.
	Yes, and very interestingly, once again, ten years ago when I predicted this, by the way, I'm the only person in British politics that predicted what would happen.
	And of course, everyone said I was a pariah for daring to suggest it.
	George Robertson, former Labour Cabinet Minister, who went on to become the Secretary General of NATO, has in the last couple of weeks said the war is a direct result of EU expansion.
	I'm asking you because it's your judgment you want to be prime minister let me ask you about someone else.
	My judgment has been way ahead of everybody else's in understanding this.
	Pretty amazing how the legacy media handles this and it's pretty amazing too to see how establishment politicians respond to this in conjunction with legacy media in the UK using the kind of rhetoric that anyone that followed media around the second world war particularly obviously in retrospect given the likely age that you are We'll see that it chimed and echoed with the type of propaganda that we were familiar with then.
	This is not very Churchillian.
	This seems like appeasement to me.
	It's extraordinary how it's changing.
	Given that this is the age of video and television, we can check the receipts and see if Nigel Farage did say that in 2014.
	Let's have a look.
	The desire to arm the rebels in Syria has been the unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin.
	This EU empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago.
	Just to make that worse, of course, some NATO members said they too would like the Ukraine to join NATO.
	We directly encouraged the uprising in the Ukraine that led to the toppling of the President Yanukovych, and that led of course in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting.
	And the moral of the story is if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don't be surprised when he reacts.
	Now, just to continue with that, today we are rushing through an association agreement at undue speed with the Ukraine.
	And as we speak, there are NATO soldiers engaged in military exercises in the Ukraine.
	Have we taken leave of our senses?
	Do we actually want to have a war with Putin?
	Because if we do, we're certainly going about it the right way.
	Perhaps we ought to recognise That the West now faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life that we have seen for over 70 years.
	The recent beheadings of the British and American hostages graphically illustrates the problem.
	And of course we have our own citizens from our own countries engaged in that struggle too.
	In the war against Islamic extremism Vladimir Putin, whatever we may think of him as a human being, is actually on our side.
	I suggest we grow up I suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries, communities and societies.
	We stop playing war games in the Ukraine and we start to prepare a plan to help countries like Syria, like Iraq, like Kenya, like indeed Nigeria, to try and help them to deal with the real threat that faces us.
	Let's not go on provoking Putin whether we like him or not.
	There you go, that's from 2014.
	Let me know if you'd like to see us have a conversation with Nigel Farage in the chat, particularly You Awaken Wonders, because many people are saying that they will vote for reform, but a lot of people have got questions about the funding of reform and whether or not Farage remains ultimately an affiliate of the financial industry.
	Some interesting things to discuss.
	I'd love to discuss those ideas.
	Openly, let me know if you'd be into seeing that.
	Certainly it's interesting to see Nigel Farage talking about this war that will affect all of us, regardless of our political affiliations.
	And it makes you, in a sense, recognize that there might be points in history where unusual alliances have to take place.
	Where perhaps a kind of tokenistic liberalism might not have the necessary potency required to overthrow an establishment that seems pretty determined to lead us, to marshal us into what looks increasingly like potential nuclear war.
	You tell me what you feel when you see Vladimir Putin on an Asian tour.
	Tell me what you feel When you see that American military equipment is being used on Russian soil.
	Tell me even what you feel when you equate what is happening now with what Joe Biden said just a couple of years ago.
	Why?
	That would be World War Three for God's sake were we to use troops or American-made artillery in Russian territory?
	How are we going to aggregate the sheer volume of lies into some kind of reason and common sense amidst so much propaganda and hysteria?
	Who among you wants war?
	PuppyLove90631, you should have Trump on.
	Farage isn't a racist, this is a...
	I say good for Putin, says Kellyanne Katz.
	Lots of interesting views among the awakened wonders there.
	And my God, it seems to me that across the political spectrum in most of the kind of anglophonic nations, as well as many nations in Europe, people want significant and real change and increasingly don't really care I'm not so sure.
	they get it. They want control of their own country, they want control of their
	own borders and in a democracy or any electoral process worthy of the name, the
	will of the people, ought be able to be exacted and enacted through the ballot.
	Is that what's happening in your country? I'm not so sure.
	It seems to me that unless these institutions become a little more reliable and
	a little more transparent and significantly more accountable, they may
	collapse. But hey Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
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	Incredible content for our members, for our supporters, who we love, like you, Dday99, and you, Curious Carmella, like this, a revisiting of my conversation with the Westbury Baptist Church.
	How, since I've become a Christian, do I feel about the conversation I had with such devout and radical Christians over 10 years ago?
	Up until recently, it was certainly one of the most viral clips on YouTube, and Lord alone knows they shadow the band the hell out of that stuff these days.
	Let's have a look.
	Please welcome my guests, with love, Steve Drain and Timothy Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church.
	It's a type of religion.
	Don't be mean, don't be mean!
	Which one are you, mate?
	I'm Steve.
	Steve, sit down, bruv.
	Which one are you?
	Timothy.
	Hello, Timothy.
	Sit down in comfort.
	I wanna bring you a sign, first of all.
	This says Fag Pimp Brand.
	Absolutely, absolutely.
	Make yourself comfy, mate.
	Now this, of course, is clearly offensive.
	That's pretty funny.
	Now this, of course, is clearly offensive.
	You can join us for that content right now.
	It's up now.
	Let me know what you think of it, Barb182, and let me know what you think in the rumble chat, you poor souls, under a continual artillery rain of cyber attacks, it seems.
	So, let's have a look now at Bill Maher talking to Andrew Cuomo.
	This is an interesting take from the former attorney on, or, you know, actually the Attorney General of New York State, on what... Yeah, is that what he is?
	Is that his role?
	Let's have a look at what he's saying about the Trump trial and whether or not that trial would even have taken place if it were, yeah I do still have that poster, if it were not for his very particular surname.
	The trial in New York.
	The one he got convicted for was the greatest fundraising bonanza ever.
	He is now, he was lagging behind Biden and now he's pulled quite a bit ahead.
	That trial was the greatest reason people had to send their checks for 5, 10, 25, whatever dollars to Donald Trump.
	And I was always with you on the one in New York, the hush money trial.
	I don't think they should have brought that one.
	It was just always going to look like a sex case and people were always just going to look at it that way.
	That case, the Attorney General's case in New York, frankly, should have never been brought.
	And if his name was not Donald Trump, and if he wasn't running for president from the former AG in New York, I'm telling you that case would have never been brought.
	And that's what is offensive to people.
	And it should be.
	Because if there's anything left, it's belief in the justice system.
	Well, there you go.
	Essentially it's becoming not people that are Republicans or people of the right or people online who have their doubts about the nature of that trial and the lawfare that continues to prevail across the United States of America and the inability to conduct a legitimate campaign.
	Seems now that the establishment is collapsing in on himself.
	I don't know what Andrew Cuomo's game is or what he wants to achieve now or whether he's getting back into politics.
	Who knows?
	Over there, Vega CI agent in the rumble chat certainly ain't got a lot of empathy for him, I can tell you that.
	But the simple fact of the matter is, is these narratives are falling apart, unraveling in real time.
	We're going to jump off the show now.
	I hope you guys survived those cyber attacks out there.
	We will be back tomorrow when we'll be joined by...
	The Coast Guy, Neil Oliver, will be joining me for the entire hour tomorrow for conversations on matters such as these.
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