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Aug. 14, 2024 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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“They Will All Be JAILED!” Britain’s Post-Riots Authoritarian NIGHTMARE - SF 430
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I'm going to go ahead and get the camera out of the way.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello, this is Frederick.
Hi.
We've got a live shot there.
Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
We are in Britain, the UK, 2024, and yet we are free, and that in itself is a kind of miracle.
If you're watching us on Rumble, welcome to a free speech platform that will not censor.
They will, of course, if you were to incite violence, that's a crime.
If you were to use rhetoric that was plainly illegal, that would already be a crime.
There are already laws for criminals, but The creation of new laws and the creation of new powers.
Who will benefit?
Let me know in the chat about a Mexican car rhino.
Welcome back, red-pilled Americans.
All of you guys, let me know who benefits from new power and new authorities.
Authority, excuse me.
And Awakened Wonders in the local chat.
You let me know as well how you are enjoying the additional access that we grant to you guys over there.
We do stand-up comedy analysis over there.
We pray.
We meditate.
We spend good time together.
Trying to better understand the world and occasionally I do create too much saliva out of the excitement.
Caesar 880, Russell Brand does drugs.
I'm afraid I do not do drugs and have not done drugs for 21 and a half years and now I receive the powerful light that is the only drug you will ever need, the light and the truth.
The one narcotic, not a narcotic I suppose because that suggests sleep, it is an awakening and powerful, powerful energy that we've been granted access to.
For the first 15 minutes, wherever you're watching us, you could be watching us on X, you could be watching us on YouTube, you could be watching us, I don't know, in a reflection, in a refrigerator door, in Acapulco, you are free, you can do whatever you want to do.
But, after that, we're gonna...
Cut the stream and we'll only be available on Rumble.
Why?
Because we're talking about the UK.
We're talking about censorship and authoritarianism and we are talking once more, as we were at the beginning of the pandemic, of the way in which crises are exploited in order to legitimise authority.
How long has this been going on?
How long have we had the pattern of problem, reaction, solution?
Let me know who you credit That too.
It'll tell me a lot about you.
Will you say Chomsky?
Will you say Whitney Webb?
Will you even say David Icke?
We won't judge you whoever you say because the principle remains true.
We are living increasingly in a globalist authoritarian system that is using as its chief bogeyman the populist nationalist politician who may be a threat.
I have no strong view on that.
But what's definitely a threat to you are these Kafka-esque, Huxley-esque, insidious, bureaucratic authoritarians who will find a way to control you.
This is what we've been discussing for the majority of today's show.
We're going to start off, though, just covering a few things, just having a little bit of fun before we get to the juicy stuff only available on Rumble.
That's why if you're watching us on YouTube, you've got to click the link in the description, get on over there and join us.
Now, as you know, we're friends with Tucker Carlson.
I'm going on Tucker Carlson's live show in September when he's appearing in Phoenix.
Remember, if you are an awakened wonder, we're going to be doing live shows here at our HQ.
If you're an awakened wonder, You can come for free whenever you want.
You have to apply using a postal link, would you Dan?
You have to apply for your ticket there because otherwise we could be inundated with spies!
You know, who knows what kind of Gestapo these new authoritarian regimes will throw up, but we will fight for freedom as long as we have breath in our bodies and we will continue to have breath in our bodies because of medical measures that we either took or did not take.
And here's Tucker Carlson talking about His greatest achievement.
It may surprise you.
See if you can predict what you think it will be.
Stay with us.
We'll be talking about Starmageddon in 15 minutes.
The new phase of authoritarianism, a global phenomenon.
Let's have a look though.
First of all, at Tucker Carlson talking about his greatest achievement with the great comedian, Dave Smith.
So someone just texted me and I don't know if this is actually true, but that he had six shots.
I mean, which would make sense.
I think that's, that's the recommended amount.
Yeah.
How do you... Eminem only gets one shot.
Fauci, he get another five.
You get, if you've been vaccinated six times against something, how do you get it?
You should have taken eight, I guess.
You really just always need more, uh, always need more vaccines.
No, but I mean, it's just kind of to your point, leaving aside the, I think the vaccines poison.
I've thought that for a long time.
Um, some people are fine when they take it.
Other people, including a couple I know, have their lives destroyed by it.
But either way, whatever you think of how toxic it is, it clearly doesn't work.
And so why is this still on the schedule?
And why doesn't anyone say that?
I just feel like we're living in this moment where the most obvious things go totally ignored.
Yeah, and also just the fact that there is essentially, statistically, zero risk for the vast majority of people from COVID.
I mean, at this point?
I mean, this was true in the original strains.
It's clear that getting the vax and getting the boosters makes you more likely to get COVID.
I mean, the numbers seem to show that.
I never got vaxed.
Not to brag, I hate to rub that in people's faces, because I'm obviously very proud of it, one of my greatest achievements.
But I got COVID once.
I've been super healthy ever since then.
I never wash my hands, never wear a mask.
I'm like the dirtiest person you've ever met.
I'm happy to breathe the breath of strangers on crowded commercial flights.
And I never got COVID again.
Here's a fact she's had three times.
Biden keeps getting it.
What is that?
Why does nobody say anything about this?
Yeah, well, same with me.
Never got the vax.
I had COVID twice.
Mildly sick and it was I would have rather not yeah, you know, but like whatever it's fine And then I know so many people who who got it and some of whom had the same Experience as me got kovat a few times and just were mildly sick.
A lot of them got it several more times than I did.
And then I do know a few people who developed heart conditions, who developed different
problems.
And again, it's one of those things where, you know, you can never like with 100 percent
certainty trace it to the vaccine, but it seems like the overwhelmingly likely thing.
What we can say is that it doesn't work.
For sure.
And what we can say with 100 percent certainty is that the thing was sold on lies.
Alright.
One thing that seems clear to me is that long Covid is being used potentially to mask Let's call it what it is, likely consequences of vaccines.
How many people do you know that have got sick or potentially died where you have some deep inkling, unlikely to ever be demonstrated through clinical trial, for who would pay for such clinical trials, but that you suspect might have been caused or Exacerbated by a vaccine injury.
People with heart conditions, people with turbo cancers.
Notably, God rest her soul, the former CEO of YouTube who lost her life.
We're going to have to learn and investigate new methods of tackling new diseases.
We're going to have to open our hearts to a new fusion of holistic medicine ...and pharmaceutical medicine, a new pharmacology undergirded not by industry and a constant desire and demand for profit, but for the Hippocratic Creed to heal, to do no harm.
We were speaking recently...
With Dave Martin who plainly claims that Anthony Fauci is a sociopath.
So let me know how you feel about the measures that you took during the pandemic and let me know how you feel about long Covid and the incessant need for these booster shots.
What's the motivation?
I know what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
I saw in the Rumble chat there, John Seeks was saying, I bet you won't cover the Nord Stream explosions and German police reportedly seeking a Ukrainian diver.
Now the Nord Stream pipeline story is a fascinating one because now we are aware that we are in a global information war.
And the American presidential campaign is likely to be, excuse me, its greatest ever front.
Why I say the Nord Stream Pipeline story was so exciting is because when that story broke, we saw that wave of information.
The Nord Stream Pipeline, it was blown up by Putin, Putin did it himself, and then quite quickly, Due to social media, for, you know, we talk a lot about its eels and ales, but one of its benefits is new nodes and networks of communication couldn't emerge to convey truth.
Well we're talking about the situation in Britain later and the potential threats of free communication, threats to the establishment.
Potentially.
Let's have a look at what those threats amount to.
But the Nord Stream Pipeline story showed us that the first wave of propaganda could easily be thwarted and opposed by an informed public.
What do you imagine the establishment fears most?
Misinformation that leads to unrest in the streets?
Or information that challenges the authority that they need to control us?
Just let me know in the chat.
Let's have a look at this story about the German police Seeking the Ukrainian diver that presumably was involved in the explosion of the Nord Stream Pipeline.
I remember at the time we had Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL on the show, and we asked, you know, would you be able to do that?
And he'd say, yeah, that'd be no problem.
Blowing up a pipeline, I'd do that before breakfast, he said.
And I don't think it was a euphemism.
Let's have a look at this story.
German media are reporting that prosecutors here have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect behind the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
It is believed that the Ukrainian man was one of the divers who allegedly planted explosive devices.
Two underwater explosions were registered on the Nord Stream pipelines off the Danish island of Bornholm in September 2022, months after the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The pipelines were supposed to bring Russian gas into Europe, but were not in operation at the time of the blasts.
DW correspondent Matthew Moore is standing by for us.
Matthew, what more can you tell us about this arrest warrant?
Terry, this is a very significant development on a story that has drawn a lot of attention in the last two years.
And the case had really run cold.
And now today we've learned, according to German media, that in June an arrest warrant was issued by Germany, a European arrest warrant was issued for an individual, a Ukrainian individual, with a link, with an address in Poland.
As we heard, his name is Volodymyr Tsed.
We only know the first initial of his second name, according to German law.
And this man is supposed to have worked with two other individuals, a woman and a man, all Ukrainian nationals, to have prepared the Nord Stream bombing in September in 2022.
And until now, the German prosecutor has declined to comment on these reports this morning.
So it's worth just pointing that out.
But it's really a significant development because There hasn't been any news since early last year when German authorities searched a yacht on a seaside resort in northern Germany.
Even tonally, this news report is somewhat anomalous, isn't it, for those of us that have become accustomed to an unceasing Deluge of fast and fatuous information.
Just to pause and stop for a moment and be reminded that the Nord Stream pipeline was likely blown up by deep state operatives.
Potentially this person, although I would never never miss the opportunity to say innocent until proven guilty, is a reminder of the power of new media.
That they can convey their propaganda but it will be countenanced.
Most of us No longer believe them.
Most of us no longer trust them.
The next American presidential election will be a showdown between new media and old media.
Certainly not my position as an English person nor as a Christian to tell you which way to vote, mostly because what do I know?
But I do know what authoritarianism, bureaucrats, A new form of technological dictatorship looks like, smells like, tastes like, and the real fascinating aspect of it is it's a truly global phenomena.
Whether it's Gavin Newsom in California, Kistama in the UK, or any one of a number of political figures that are emerging to say, we must control agriculture, We must control information.
We must deny the spiritual and divine dimension of human beings.
There seems to be an agenda.
You can feel it, can't you?
I feel it too.
Surely this is the opportunity for us to find new alliances, to use this technology and this ability to communicate immediately.
To create a decentralized, unified opposition to their corruption.
Because we have the means now to expose their corruption.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat guys.
Now we're going to be on YouTube for a couple more minutes.
Then I'm going to move on to what's happening in my country.
Lockdown part two.
New laws, new rules, new authoritarianism.
Amnesty International are even looking at the implementation of some of these rules.
This is unprecedented power.
This is part of the experiment for amplification of Prison Planet.
Do you agree?
Do you agree?
Let's get into it.
Before we do that though, Let's enjoy CNN questioning the increasingly invisible Kamala Harris, ever since it's been announced that she will be taken over from the ethereal and mysterious Joe Biden, who's disappeared like a breath of sepulchral dust.
Blown from the crypt into memory?
Who decided that this guy was no longer the presidential candidate?
Who decided that that debate was just one fluff, grumble, stumble and mumble too far?
Who was it that decided en masse that Kamala Harris was some new messiah?
How is this coordinated campaign of hagiography and worshipful Time magazine covers being coordinated?
How galling it is to witness the lack of scrutiny, the lack of policy, the lack of inquiry, damn it, the lack of democracy itself.
Even CNN and their Never shy of picking up the bugle and giving it a blast for the system, are beginning to question where Kamala Harris is, what she stands for, and what this campaign is about.
Will the world change for you?
Improve for you?
Do they have the answer?
Is the Democrat Party the solution for you?
Let's see what CNN think.
In those states I mentioned, those Great Lake Battleground states, Trump was underestimated by nine points on average at this point in 2016.
How about 2020?
It wasn't a one-off.
Look at this.
He was underestimated by five points.
That's good.
That's actually, this is, I love this guy.
He analyzes graphs on CNN and he's one of my favorite CNN pundits because he's enthusiastic about graphs.
But the bit I want to show you is this one.
Where they're talking about, you know, they're not condemning Kamala Harris, but they're curious about where she is.
But you know that the Dems know that the way to beat Trump is to get out of the way.
That's the tactic and game plan they mastered with Biden.
Park Biden in the attic where he's happiest and let Trump stir up hysteria with what some people will consider to be witticism and charisma and other people will consider to be demagoguery.
What some people will consider to be plain common sense and other people will consider to be fascism.
Let's have a look at how CNN are taking to Kamala's strategy.
What's on the vice president's schedule today?
Well, she's traveling and talking to voters and getting her message out there to the American people, something that she's been doing from the very start of this campaign, and something that she certainly did when she was President Biden's running mate as Vice President.
But look, you just mentioned the speech she's going to be giving in New York.
I was asking about today, and I don't think she's got any campaign events on the schedule today, does she?
Well, she and Governor Walz have been traveling across the country.
They hit nearly every battleground state last week.
On the campaign trail, they raised $36 million within the first 24 hours of Governor Walz joining the ticket.
And what she's going to be doing Friday is taking her economic message directly to the voters in North Carolina.
I certainly don't want to get in front of exactly what she's going to say.
But she's going to talk a little bit about how she's going to make sure that she's putting
consumers first as part of her economic plan.
She's going to take on corporate price gougers, she's going to take on junk fees.
And that's something that John, she did when she was Attorney General of California, something
she continued to do as the United States Senator of California.
So she's going to be taking that message out to voters and I look forward to seeing what
she does.
Brilliant isn't it how propaganda works.
Because the media space we live in is so immediate and responsive, you can see when they're like, right, we're just going to say someone's weird.
We're going to try this tactic.
We're going to present someone as stately.
We're going to focus on their career as an attorney.
We're going to put consumers first.
I see you say, in the Rumble chat, people are saying about that.
Yeah, that's it.
Is that it?
Is that our aspiration?
And what did you do?
How did you live your life?
I was a consumer.
I consumed.
I was granted the mysterious gift of life by an unknowable cosmic force that some might call Jesus Christ and I spent my time eating and drinking and looking at stuff and I made into my gods Pleasure.
And I made into my gods money.
And I became a consumer.
Now I'm not seeking to judge anybody.
I've consumed a lot.
I've consumed all sorts of extraordinary stuff in all sorts of very, very, very silly ways.
But even an aspirational framing of Kamala Harris gives you this.
She puts consumers first!
Oh yeah!
Is that the ambition?
Is that it?
Is that what this election is about?
Someone that will put consumers first?
Take a breath and imagine what this world could be.
Take a breath and imagine what paradise may be like.
Take a breath and imagine what it would be to participate in love and to get beyond the prison that they're trying to construct for us.
Let us awaken together.
Hey, listen, YouTube, we're out of there, baby, because we're going to start talking freely now.
I love that platform.
I love what that platform has done for us.
But the fact is this.
It has been co-opted by centralised authoritarian forces.
It's not occult and draconian.
Maybe.
I mean, I saw the Olympic opening ceremony.
But media forces, commercial forces, political forces own Google Alphabet now.
It was set up in ways that make that clear and it's run in ways that make that clear.
If you want the truth, if you want the uncensored truth, click the link in the description.
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We're going to be talking about the United Kingdom.
And is it now part of the prison planet?
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The UK has fallen to authoritarianism.
Starmageddon has begun.
Keir Starmer, democracy harmer.
No one is safe.
Anyone could be jailed.
Don't look at it.
Don't even think it.
Let alone say it.
Elon Musk could be going to jail.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovsky could be going to jail.
Some of the deep state resources and AI forces that were monitoring during COVID are now being used to monitor and control you right now.
They're looking at the comments, they're looking at what you're saying, they're looking at what you're thinking, and they're going to find ways To criminalise you.
The UK is obviously at the vanguard, the new frontier of global authoritarianism.
But this is of course, by its very nature, not a phenomena limited to the United Kingdom.
We saw how Australia behaved during the pandemic.
Setting up what some would regard as internment camps.
We saw how Canada behaved during the pandemic.
The control of people's finances.
The shutting down of bank accounts.
The vilification of the truckers.
And now the UK has moved to the vanguards.
Do you sometimes think Americans that the ancillary nations that share your language and in our case gave you it are used to pilot new modalities and methods that will ultimately be deployed in your country if you don't keep hold of the means to defend yourself for surely
We appear to be in a revolutionary moment and the globalists have got the reins.
If we don't find ways of uniting, ways of overcoming our superficial differences, ways of coming to consensus and agreement around the most contentious issues, we will be damned and we will fall.
Surely we mustn't lose our sense of humour because in times like these, even looking at a riot is enough to get you in trouble.
If you watch the riot from the sideline, you will be refused bail.
So if someone riots near you, you just, you look away.
We were told you're not meant to cross by on the other side.
That's the message of the Good Samaritan.
Get on that other side and shut your eyes.
If someone starts rioting, cover your face, get on your knees.
It's over, baby, in the UK.
You could be a tech oligarch or you could be a person who just happens to glance across a riot.
I don't know, maybe your ball rolled across the street, or an apple if you dropped a shopping bag.
Don't follow its pathway, because if there's a riot or disturbance over there, if there's something over there that the authoritarians don't like, you will be in serious trouble.
Was it ever thus?
What happened to the wide-eyed idealist Keir Starmer?
Who went head of the CPS, that's like being our Attorney General for the whole country, believed in free speech, believed in the right for people to speak freely and openly, to in the marketplace of ideas come to some sort of unity and unison, to acknowledge that there are many ways to be human and many ways for us to align and ally and oppose authority.
What happened to the guy that said that Too many Twitter prosecutions could damage free speech.
That guy is long since perished and he's been replaced by a new authoritarian.
But that's the nature of globalism.
It's not a condemnation or criticism of the individual.
You can see when you watch Keir Starmer talk when he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service, that's the head of our legal system in the UK, that he has a brilliant legal mind.
But, like many globalist figures, They can become co-opted.
They indeed must be co-opted.
They are ultimately vassals of a less clear but still discernible global force.
Why do you think, across the world, farmers are protesting?
Could it be that there are some centralised edicts that are playing out so that food could be controlled?
Why do you think censorship is being discussed everywhere?
Of course it's a response to a truly global phenomena like the internet, where immediate global communication is a possibility, but more importantly, it's a response to the potential that the ability to communicate grants us with.
We can no longer be lied to In the same way, of course there's disinformation, malinformation, misinformation.
Of course people post dumb stuff, felonious, erroneous and untrue stuff on the internet.
But what we ought be granted and what we indeed ought demand is the right to decide for ourselves what we believe to be true. And the more power we grant to
already authoritarian systems, the less likely we'll be able to complain about it in the
future. Here's Keir Starmer way back when, talking about the importance of free speech,
which you'll remember. Do you remember?
Do you remember?
Because it may only be six weeks ago, but it might be 10 billion megabytes ago.
Because time now is not measured by the clock, but by the freight and weight of information.
That once it was the left that cared about civil rights.
Once it was the left that cared about freedom.
Once it was the left that cared that there would be no more war.
Well, that ain't the case.
Not no more.
Here's Keir Starmer talking about free speech.
Maybe 10 years but a million lifetimes ago.
Where communication is, as it were, merely offensive, grossly offensive, etc, then principles of free speech and free expression require there to be a high threshold and dictate that a prosecution is unlikely to be in the public interest in many of those cases.
The factors which will suggest people might not be prosecuted include things like deleting it quickly if you've sobered up in the morning.
Can you explain about that?
One thing that's very important in this area is that where free speech protects the subject matter, a prosecution must be proportionate.
And when considering whether a prosecution is proportionate, The question of whether a communication is removed quickly, whether the individual expresses remorse, whether access to the communication is blocked, these are obviously relevant to any assessment of proportionality.
And will it be more or less likely for individuals to be prosecuted criminally now when they're using Twitter or Facebook, do you think?
It's not possible to say whether it's more or less likely.
There simply haven't been enough cases.
But this is clearly signalling that in those cases that are protected by freedom of expression, then there's a double safeguard, a high threshold and consideration of the public interest before a prosecution will be brought.
That's a man that you might disagree with.
That is a clear, legal mind.
It's a systemic mind.
It's a well-educated mind.
And, we have to say, that is the mind of a self-made man.
It's not an autodidact.
He's highly, highly educated, but he comes from a humble background.
Now, the same as someone like Gavin Newsom I would contest, or Kamala Harris, this is a person that is ultimately a vassal for state and globalist power.
This man here is talking about the importance of free speech, proportionality, redemption, remorse, conversation, openness.
What happens to them?
What are they plugged into when they get into government?
Do you imagine for a moment that a different leader in our nation would have a different policy?
Are you that naive?
Rishi Sunak would be the same.
Almost any leader would be the same.
These centralised systems are in place to ensure that the systems remain Preserved.
They are there as the throne and enthroning of authority.
So the individual is not what's significant.
You can see there some time ago he had different principles and we can see now that his principles are in alignment with the interests of the powerful and if they weren't he wouldn't be sitting in that chair.
Here's Robert Malone who made his bones in COVID after he came up or significantly contributed to mRNA technology and then was Sort of somewhat hysterically judged to be anti-vax when he himself invented forms of vaccines.
The UK is under a totalitarian regime.
It has fallen to tyranny under Keir Starmer.
One former member of parliament told me this morning Andrew Bridgen surely, that close to a thousand arrests
have been made for sharing online posts in the last week.
The same MP advised me that even a stopover through Heathrow isn't safe for Americans
who have spoken out about immigration issues.
One key aspect that makes this apparent crackdown on social media particularly shocking to critics
is that the British government is threatening to extradite American citizens from the US
to be jailed in the UK for violating their rules about political speech online.
Now even that, and then he says Britain is now under siege.
You can see the thumbnail now baby!
Britain is under siege!
But even that is not unprecedented because you remember just a couple of weeks ago Australia was saying, oh because people might use X with a VPN, hey we can advertise those baby!
Because people might use X with a VPN, we should have the right to arrest people abroad.
This is how globalism has to ultimately play out.
You can't respect sovereignty, not of the individual and not of the nation, not of ideas, not of discourse.
It demands absolute power, whether it's in the form of Keir Starmer, a once brilliant young litigator, Kamala Harris, whether you love her or loathe her, and I know you loathe her because you're watching this kind of media, She was once a brilliant attorney, or a hustler, or however she made her bones.
I don't know.
We make our way through life in all sorts of peculiar fashions.
Ultimately though, they have been co-opted by a system that will use them for as long as they have some utility, and will discard and dispatch them whenever it is necessary.
What is our duty?
To remain optimistic?
To remain awakened?
To refuse to hate?
To refuse to be violent, to refuse to attack one another, to refuse to burn down buildings, but to become unified in absolute light.
Can you imagine their ontological terror, when one day, in spite of our many obvious differences, We are able to stand together regardless of our political or religious affiliations and demand the right for individual autonomy and community autonomy.
We will then be able to resolve whatever disputes we have around sovereignty and culture truly democratically among one another.
As long as the serpent's head remains engaged, we are doomed.
And as long as we remain in endless pirouettes of circular and senseless dispute with one another, We are malleable.
We are fools.
We are exactly as they would have us.
While we're reflexively posting hate online, they've got us where they want us.
When we are charring in hateful rhetoric about people because of their race or religion, they've got us where they want us.
When we are condemning people because of their class, their education or their poverty.
When we are objectifying one another.
We are exactly where they want us.
We have a demand upon us heavier than it has ever yet been to awaken and become enlightened right now.
Otherwise we're in trouble just for watching things on the sidelines.
I don't even know where the sidelines are.
Let me just look at that again.
Did you watch that on the sideline?
I didn't know that was the sideline.
I didn't know that the sideline was a legal term.
You're on the sidelines.
You were looking at a right.
Go to prison!
Do not pass go!
Do not collect £200 and get a bloody vaccine and get your umpteenth booster shot!
You could get yourself a cough, couldn't you?
Okay, let's have a look at how they're handling this stuff.
Secretive Covid-era spy agency brought in to monitor social media during riots.
I am personally familiar with these AI organisations that are government-funded that surveil social media in order to accumulate information that they can utilise, amplify, de-amplify or deploy.
This is the game now, and it's a game that's going to affect all of us.
So don't be excited if authoritarianism temporarily goes your way.
My side won!
It's my side that's using this authority!
Well, let's hope that it remains your side if laws are passed that grant this kind of staggering power to despotic individuals or a despotic system.
Forget the individuals.
The individuals ain't relevant.
You may remember The kind of invigorated rejection that Starmer experienced when, during the lockdown era in opposition, where he also, may I say, attended an illegal event, like Boris Johnson, like Rishi Sunak, like the baddies back then, Keir Starmer had his own illegal lockdown.
But we were working, we were working.
I was wearing a mask under the table.
You might not know that while he was head of the CPS, when there were riots in this country before, they opened courts 24 hours a day.
They tried minors in crown courts instead of magistrate courts in order to process them more quickly.
This is an authoritarian system that is being implemented.
We're already familiar with the legal system being used as a weapon against enemies of the state.
It will continue unless we oppose it.
Peacefully, lovingly, Graciously and gracefully, without hating our hearts.
If we don't have enough light within us to achieve that, then we're not going to win.
We're not going to win.
And it's a pretty important battle, I would say.
Alright, here's the... To enjoy the light side of this for just a moment, here's Keir Starmer being booted out of a pub.
And watch how authority behaves.
Watch how it behaves.
We're not allowed in my pub!
That's that geezer's pub!
That's his pub!
Check him out!
We'll check out the droog chucking him about.
Probably that guy will be an ex-military or ex-old bill police, you know, probably a really decent guy, wearing a mask, working for the system right now.
If you work for the police force, if you are a service person, ultimately Who, in whose thrall are you?
I'm not going to physically hurt him!
That man!
Oi!
I really hate that energy as well, don't you?
Of like, when you're being sort of manhandled by someone like, THAT MAN, HE DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO COME HERE!
Like, that geezer's got some heft behind him, innit?
Have you ever tried to maintain your dignity while being thrown about by someone stronger than you?
It's not an easy gig, baby.
That man is not allowed in my pub!
Get out of my pub!
Brilliant, because the whole thing would be a press event as well.
It would be a kind of like, Just to show you that you're a man of the people, Keir.
You know, just having a pint.
Just a man of the people.
Yeah, you know, I'm a man of the people.
We're men of the people.
Yeah, I've just popped in for a pint.
I remember what you did in lockdown!
Get out of my pub!
Get out of my pub!
You're authoritarian!
Right, get a droog on him!
Get a heavy on him!
Weigh in!
Lay in!
Impose the power!
We have to awaken from this.
We have to awaken from partisanship.
We have to awaken from the illusion immediately that either side of a system of this scale and power represents our interests.
Let us awaken together.
Let us be smart and clever enough to stick to the principles espoused and practiced by Martin Luther King or Gandhi of absolute non-violence.
Absolute non-violence.
As John Lenin said they know how to handle violence.
If you push them or shove them, they'll bang you up.
But if you remain smart and peaceful and loving, they don't know how to deal with that.
India were able to get Britain out of their country through non-violent protest.
Of course it went wrong afterwards because globalist forces and colonial forces found a way of co-opting it once more.
But temporarily, there was an opportunity.
And if right now you're thinking, Martin Luther King had affairs!
Or Gandhi slept in that bed with his nieces!
Or John Lennon, he hit his wife!
If you are, right now, infused only with zealous iconoclasm, then it's going to be a tough, tough road for all of us because there was only one perfect person born and none of us are that person.
Come on, calm yourself down.
Get out of my pub!
Calm down.
Great point in the chat.
Deborah Davitt pointing out that he was head of the CPS while Julian Assange was in prison.
He was head of the opposition while Julian Assange was in prison.
Wouldn't it be great if Julian Assange, when he came to premiership, was able to go, hey, you know, all the while that the conservatives were in power, I was like, get Julian Assange out of Belmarsh.
The dude's not at a trial.
I should know.
I was head of the CPS.
But what was he doing?
Taking mysterious meetings with the CIA.
This is what has been reported.
So, Again, don't get caught up in the individuals.
The individuals are just occupying temporarily positions that the authority demands of them.
Let us, ourselves, focus on the only individual we should be focused on is ourselves and our personal participation in this crusade or quest, if the word crusade troubles you, for glory.
Now then, let's have a look at what Schellenberg got to say on this thing, because he's always pretty smart when it comes to how liberalism has been metastasized into an authoritarian force.
For hundreds of years, liberals have been fierce opponents of authoritarianism.
It has traditionally been liberals.
Indeed, the word liberal means freedom, doesn't it?
Not conservatives who have fought against restrictions on free speech, defended the right to privacy from the government, and fought abuses of power by government agencies.
In contrast, conservatives have placed a higher value on maintaining social order and upholding traditional moral hierarchies.
Do you accept Schellenberger's theses?
Let me know in the chat.
But increasingly, it's been liberal politicians who have demanded authoritarian restrictions on free speech.
Surely this is true.
And personal freedom.
In December 2022, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz Who some call Tampon Tim, who some say shook his wife's hand in an unusual way, who some people liken as a hunter and a fishin' and a football coachin', but who does he work for?
WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR?
WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR?
He said there's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech in a cinch, and especially around our democracy.
In fact, the first amendment protects both and in 2020 we'll also implement a COVID snitch line and encourage residents to report violations of pandemic restrictions.
We're going to implement a snitch line.
Don't let it become unpopular just because it's called a snitch line and all of us know that snitching is fundamentally a negative thing to do to betray your peers and to make yourself an informant to power.
Now there's a way back Free redemption for all of us.
But a snitch line surely is not the way forward.
It turns out he wasn't alone.
The Civil Rights Department of California Governor Gavin Newsom introduced last year a snitch line and urged citizens to report their fellow citizens for alleged hate speech.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for greater censorship of social media platforms and British police have over the last few days arrested three people for what they posted online.
How you establish a causal link for an online post and a real-life event is going to be an interesting legal precedent but you can bet your life They will get there.
This list that Schellenberger uses is the epitome of globalism.
Professional people that probably one way or another are brilliant or have been brilliant but now are marshalling their talents in the services of authority.
Isn't it curious that now Gavin Newsom has opposed a bill as being too costly that would allow children more protection from sex offenders?
Isn't it curious that prison room is being found for people affiliated with these riots?
Even if you looked at it from a sideline!
Is there an absolute principle on prisons?
Is there an absolute principle on the availability of funds for prosecution and legislation?
Or is there only utility?
We have prisons available for these people.
We don't have prisons available for these people.
We have funds available for these causes.
We don't have funds available for these causes.
Now you might say that's common sense.
You're going to spend more money on medicines than you're going to spend on booze, although I bet that statistic's not true.
You know, i.e.
having a hierarchy around expenditure would be a sensible way of budgeting, but when all of the money and all of the effort and all of the intention and all of the propaganda heads in a single direction, the direction of giving them more power and more authority, you have to start questioning.
What's happening?
And if you don't question what's happening, I don't know if you're part of the problem, but if you support and facilitate what's happening, and claim that it's okay just this once, then you are, I'm afraid, part of the problem.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has demanded greater online censorship, froze bank accounts of protesting truckers, and is pushing legislation that could send a person to prison for life for speech.
What could you say that would warrant that?
Well, what about when the Pope, Pope John Paul II, forgave the bloke that shot him and visited him in prison?
Aren't these the kind of principles that we want to be aspiring to?
Forgiveness!
Redemption!
Russell, could you refer to them as protests instead of riots?
Good point, Michael Aylin.
Yeah, you know, I've been propagandized.
You think I'm, you know, I'm under no illusions that I'm not subject to these systems, man.
Each of these men would defend such measures as required for public safety.
It will always be public safety.
They would argue that misinformation and hate speech online lead to real-world violence, like the riots we've seen in Britain.
Or protests, according to our audience, because language is important.
COVID-19 transmission threatened public health, and something had to be done to peacefully end the trucker protest.
Isn't it an extraordinary time where, in order to achieve safety, in order to receive convenience, we are willing to yield to authority?
This is a final bit of Schellenberger's article, and it's available on his Substack, I would imagine.
None of those measures was required because there were other ways to deal with those problems.
It's a gross simplification to attribute Britain's recent riots, or protests, to online misinformation, and the best antidote to misinformation remains good information, not censorship.
There was never any reason to think that people outside not wearing masks were a sufficient threat to public health to justify a snitch line reminiscent of a communist totalitarianism.
We need a snitch line fast!
Violating both privacy and personal liberty, and the government had other ways to end the truck of protests, and indeed used them.
Making bank freezing a gratuitous and authoritarian overreach.
What's more, the authoritarian measures imposed by these leaders were highly selective in nature.
As such, liberal politicians like Walt, Newsom, and Trudeau, and Starmer, are simultaneously creating greater authoritarianism and greater anarchy.
I would say that anarchy might be the solution.
Decentralized, fully democratic, local sovereignty.
This is in stark contrast to liberals who in the past fought authoritarianism and demanded greater free speech, personal freedom and privacy.
What exactly happened?
How did liberals become advocates of anarcho-tyranny?
And is this time for us to transcend those labels?
To cleanse ourselves of those words?
To look with new eyes with scales fallen at reality?
And to look for alliances?
To look for opportunities to unify, to demand the right to protest peacefully and to insist that those we protest alongside protest with dignity and poise in spite of the great burning, anger, loss and tragedy that served as an inciting incident which has already almost been forgotten for the tragic events in our country, the United Kingdom, in recent weeks.
How quickly we forget.
Inundated by information.
Perhaps now a better way to measure time is the passage of information rather than seconds and minutes on the clock.
Because doesn't it already seem a lifetime ago that Biden and Trump debated?
Probably that was six weeks ago.
Or that Trump was shot.
Or that Biden resigned.
We are moving so quickly now.
We are not evolved to receive this amount of information this quickly.
We have to return to the true vitality of real principles.
We have to find it within ourselves and within one another, otherwise we will truly be victims, and not in the way that seems so powerful these days, victims of an authoritarian state posing as liberators.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
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Funny thing to post.
Hey, listen, if you're on Awake and Wonder, you guys over here, have you seen our Ed Byrne thing that I've done lately?
It's on button 36, guys.
Can we flip over to the other panel just for a sec?
You might have heard the comedian Ed Byrne, but I'm talking about stand-up comedy over on Locals.
I love chatting about that stuff.
I love getting into it.
And Massey, who edits our stuff, says you can join and watch me doing these stand-up comedy breakdowns.
And, you know, when you're looking at this news all the time, it's just relentless, isn't it?
And agonising.
And I love talking about Christ and that journey, but I recognise that even can be divisive, although my prayer is that it won't remain divisive for long.
So have a look at this stuff where we chat about stand-up.
This is a little bit of Ed Byrne.
I don't know which...
It is, but I know that he's talking about the song Ironic by Alanis Morissette.
And he made the brilliant joke that the only thing that's really ironic is there's a song being written about irony by someone who doesn't know what irony is.
is cool.
Not unless you're a town planner.
Yeah, this is what I really enjoy, is when he constructs the circumstances that would amount to irony from the lyrics of a song.
That's why I enjoy this game.
The game is, she just says, it's like a traffic jam when you're already late, and Ed Byrne goes, no, it would only be under these circumstances.
and he does that for each alliance and that's the game.
We've been talking about the litany of globalists and their sort of, you know, by their nature
we're talking about alliances between Justin Trudeau and Keir Starmer and Yaman Walsh,
Now, like, the reason I guess people like me that would previously not have been sympathetic to Donald Trump are, is because the system bloody well hates him.
Now for people that are right out there, they're like, no, but he's still part of the system and yeah, you know, I get it.
But like, My point here is that the real menace is the authoritarian globalism that we've been discussing through the lens of Starmer and the British riots in the last 20 minutes or so.
Gavin Newsom is another comparable globalist threat.
Gavin Newsom!
One day, will he be president?
He's certainly a good candidate, for he loves authority.
In my chat with Adam Carolla, we talked about the paddleboarder that was arrested during the pandemic for, I don't know, paddleboarding without a mask, I suppose, but there's such a solitary thing to do, isn't it?
Paddleboarding, like, unless there was other people on that paddleboard.
There's people with comorbidities on that paddleboard!
They could have been killed!
Well, this is an interesting story.
Like, Newsom there, he actually is opposed, or at least his California finance department is opposing a bill that would make buying children for sex a felony because of the potential cost.
I mean, of course buying children for sex isn't ideal, but it is costly to make it a felony.
Yeah, okay.
Could we contrast that with Buying children for sex?
Isn't that somewhere near the apex of all sin?
Of all conceivable wrong?
If you climb the mountain of horror that we're being invited to contemplate, wouldn't you find somewhere near the peak?
Buying children for sex?
Yeah, but making it a felony is costly.
We just can't afford it.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry about that, mate.
This proposal to ramp up the penalties for child sex buyers is known as SB 1414 and it is still working its way through the states.
We gotta consider this from the perspective of the child sex buyers, you know?
They're not all bad.
Not all child sex buyers are bad.
Has anyone thought to listen to their side of the story?
You know, of course, in the eyes of the Almighty, all are redeemed and all can be and must be forgiven.
But when it comes to legislation, you know, is that worth investing in?
Let me know in the chat.
Lawmaking process, but not without some debate.
So today, the Assembly's powerful Appropriations Committee held a brief hearing on the bill before placing the proposal on what's known as the suspense file This is basically a list of bills that are expected to cost the state a significant amount of money.
And next week, lawmakers will decide if the bills on that list pass or die without public discussion.
But in today's discussion, Governor Newsom's Department of Finance said right off the bat the intentions of this bill are good, but strictly for money reasons, it's against SB 1414 because it will cost the state a lot and increase California's prison population.
Can't have people in prison.
Ooh, they've been buying children for sex.
I know, but it's very... You've got... It's pros and cons, really.
State Senator Shannon Grove said people who buy children for sex need to be behind bars.
That was an absurd argument.
To say that it's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars to lock these individuals up that buy children for sex and it would roll back their prison exodus that they've been letting people out of prison is ridiculous.
If you look at traumatized youth that have been bought and sold for sex, it costs the state upwards of $300,000 just for basic services.
If you take a 13-year-old that you'd have to take care of until they're 18, And then not even that, but the trauma that that person as an adult would experience all their life.
Lower income jobs, those kinds of things that dramatically affect these kids.
Is it expensive to keep Jeffrey Epstein in prison?
Well, what if he was... Did you take his shoelaces and his tie when you processed him?
No, we actually left him with his shoelaces in his tie.
Did you though?
Did you?
I mean, what happened to that guy?
All this while, you know, is anyone doing it?
Who's on that list?
Who's on the list, baby?
It's ridiculous.
Now another issue that has divided lawmakers over this bill, how it affects 16 and 17 year olds.
For now, the bill as written gives district attorneys the ability to charge someone who buys these older teens for sex as either a misdemeanor or a felony.
Grove is fighting to get this changed to have it be a felony no matter what across the board.
She's asking the Appropriations Committee to make that change.
We'll see how that shakes out when the committee makes its final decision on the bill next week.
Make that change, as Michael Jackson used to say, and that's the only connection he has to that issue.
Well, budgeting is a tricky thing and globalism is an issue that's going to define our time.
The Epstein file still yet to be released.
What a complicated Age we live in, baby.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
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We've got more on the UK riots and we've got, what's the legal, the response to those riots?
Got any more guests coming up this week or no?
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