Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand on Rumble.
Not exclusively on Rumble, because the first 15 minutes, we're going to be on YouTube.
Then, in fact, you know we're going to talk about X. We want to do some stuff on X. And, if you're on Awakening Wonders on Locals, like Lily Farm Girl, We Used To Be Free, Mrs. CMS... You know, we do additional content there, don't we?
And we'll be providing you with some of that.
I'm just looking at the amount of stuff.
Yeah, break bread, we made that graphic in the end.
It's quite a lot going on today.
I'm just trying to kind of conceptualise it all, because yesterday was pretty mental.
Shall I show them yesterday?
What numbers...
Last three at all things from yesterday.
Have a look at yesterday.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be there for about ten minutes.
On Rumble, we've got more news than I think I'm going to be able to give you.
But just have a look at what's been going on.
I mean, it's insane.
Mar-a-Lago.
Have you been here before then?
It's nice here, isn't it?
Russell Brand is here!
I knew because there were Secret Service here.
I'm very grateful to be in a double act with Mel Gibson all of a sudden.
My life's changed quite a lot.
A little while ago I was a vegan, living a simple life in Grey's Essex.
Now I'm eating steak at Mar-a-Lago.
Funny how the world changes.
When we awaken to the continual and perpetual interconnectivity and flow that he grants us, then we are powerful and real change becomes a possibility.
Amazing.
I gotta follow that?
Oh my god!
Would you like a big girl?
Yeah.
Come here, you, soppy sausage.
Stick to delivering the presents and choosing who's naughty and nice.
Mel, you made a very...
You hit me one time when I heard you...
Finish that sentence.
It's like rain, it does not give a fuck who it falls on, and there's no umbrella for the truth.
Certainly fair ring The consequences of stupid actions I barely Had any power over Now it's over Pretty amazing.
Thank you.
Is this real life or are we in a dream?
This is what happens every day at Mar-a-Lago.
Just at Mar-a-Lago and of course then we have a troupe of pipers and drummers.
Independence is not easy when you've got this accent.
But you are cut of the same cloth, sir.
Thank you.
You are cut from the same cloth, and I see what you are wearing on your chest.
Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Dear Lord, Bring your saving graces upon Russell and the super work that he is continuing to do.
Do you have a cup?
You can take my pee.
My pee is good.
It's clean.
You wait till he's here.
I think you could probably drink it.
Sober Journeys inspired me a lot.
How are you getting on?
Doing alright.
Two years, just the other day.
One day at a time.
We don't drink, we don't take drugs.
One day at a time.
Hey!
So if you want more of that content, stay with us because we'll be doing more of that.
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We'll be doing break bread in a minute after this with Jeff Cavins.
Jeff Cavins is a fan.
Catholic scholar and teacher and we're going to be, we won't be literally breaking bread because of his Catholic faith but we'll be discussing, I guess we're going to be discussing some of the distinctions and sects within the church and Christian unity but I'm trying to understand really today's news cycle from a spiritual perspective because a lot's Going on.
All that stuff, by the way, that was yesterday.
That was just yesterday.
We went to a treatment centre.
We went to Mar-a-Lago.
We went to spend time with Sean Hannity.
I'm absolutely baffled.
You know, we make this content in the Redneck Riviera here in Florida, Russell Brand, to help with the fentanyl crisis.
We've got to help with that fentanyl crisis.
We're making it out in my mate's studio, and I can hear him talking out there, and I can't really complain, can I, because it's his studio.
What can you say?
We've got a guest in his house.
What was that track, Isaac, that you used on that?
Mouth of the Beast.
Yeah, it's about living in kind of a wild world.
It's trying to come out of a wild world.
Well, that is what we're trying to do.
Mouth of the Beast.
Whose track is that?
Christophe Crane.
Christophe Crane, Mouth of the Beast.
What I reckon that is, is...
Yeah, that's in a sense, it's thematically perfect.
Well done, Liam.
I like the trailer.
Thanks as well, Isaac.
Like, because...
This is what I think.
What can I bring to this now?
Because when you talk about the news and watch the news a lot, you will experience a kind of fatigue if you try your best to interpret it at depth.
Because even though it's stimulating, the same things are happening all the time, again and again.
You know, you see sort of comments a lot these days where people go, what's happening on this timeline?
Say, for example, what's his name, the lad that...
He's alleged to have assassinated the healthcare.
He's got like a sort of a lovely...
Luigi Magliani.
Luigi Magliani.
That's like such a man's story.
And then the Daniel Penny story...
Luigi Mangione.
Luigi Mangione.
Daniel Penny.
Like, do you know, even judicial matters feel like sport now.
Like, when something happens, I'm like, which side are we meant to be on?
Is this a good murderer or a bad murderer?
Do we like this?
Which one is this?
And the culture sort of amalgamates around it, and you have to sort of work out what side you're supposed to be on.
There is this old Luigi, there's a lovely little meme in the Awakened Wonder chat with him all banged up.
But what I'm interested in, and I think what you're interested in too, is the seismic collisions that are occurring in real time...
Like, if you take my country to the UK, its democratic institutions are quaking and creaking.
We're going to be covering that in a little while.
You've got my man, Phidias, who's a member of the European Parliament now, launching an app about direct democracy.
Now, you may consider that tangential, but what we're experiencing, I think, are almost tectonic shifts in the way that power operates.
And there's a further story that relates to that exact issue.
When, yeah, Daniel Penn is not a murderer, exactly.
Like, you know, some people will look at...
But, like, if you watch the other half of media, Alagondar, right?
You know, like, yeah, I feel you, man.
He's like a Marine, wasn't it?
Like, that guy was harassing people.
You know, but you know it's all politicised now.
You've got to know, Alagondar, that there's a whole other news narrative, right?
You're aware of that.
Of course, obviously there wouldn't have been a trial if there wasn't an argument to be made.
Yeah, and the same thing will happen with this Luigi kid.
I saw this ex-post where it said, tweets resurface of beloved murderer.
Beloved murderer.
Anyway, I'm going to get into that a little bit later because he shouted that mad stuff, didn't he, sort of briefly when he was being sort of transported on his way to, I don't know, questioning or whatever the hell's going on.
But let's work on a traditional story that's easy to decipher and discern.
More deadly virus samples are being spilled in a slapdash fashion.
Hundreds of deadly virus samples have vanished from an Australian lab in a major breach of biosecurity.
We'll be talking about this at length over the course of the show.
Yesterday, Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced that 323 vials of live viruses are now unaccounted for.
What have you done with M323 vials of live viruses?
These include nearly 100 vials of Hendra virus, 2 vials of Hantavirus, and 223 vials of Lysavirus, all of which are extremely deadly for humans.
Do you remember...
When the pandemic happened, we were sort of talking about gain-of-function research, which initially Fauci claimed it was not an applicable term for this particular type of experiment.
Then over time we realised it was kind of gain-of-function research because...
Fauci was using the definition that it's only gain of function if it was a human origin virus in the first place, that if it was an animal origin virus that was being amended, that doesn't qualify under the gain of function criteria.
Amidst all of the minutiae of that conversation, part of you thinks, why are we, like, trying to make worse viruses?
Why are we doing that?
Well, in the event that there was a bad virus, then we'll be perfectly poised in order to inoculate it because of this research.
Yeah, but what if people keep just...
Losing vials of the stuff or having air vent breakdowns and seeping it out into the giddy streets of Wuhan.
Oh well, then I suppose you would have a problem.
And who would solve that problem?
Would it be the same financial interests that are actually conducting these experiments?
Exactly!
They're the only people qualified.
In a way, it's beyond parody and it's beyond comedy.
And that's my...
Earlier point of when you cover the news for long periods of time, you have to start to examine ulterior perspectives.
You can't operate continually on the hysterical plateau of tribalism.
You can't be like, oh no, I support that perspective, that's a good murderer, that's a bad...
You have to go, what is this?
What is this an expression of?
We'll be looking at that virus stuff.
Over the course of the next hour, as well as analysing my country, the United Kingdom, as it doubles down on its prison island purview with the introduction of Digital ID. That's happening right now.
Digital ID is being introduced.
Government initiative, part of a wider effort to move more state functions online, including paying taxes and opening a bank account.
Safety and convenience.
You're going to be so safe and it's going to be so convenient to be just trapped in a pod, sloshed over with authority.
Let's have a look now at Luigi Mangione screaming.
What he actually says is, it's completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
Let's have a look at that moment because...
What's going on with these stories?
Like, first of all, when it happened, like, a CEO of a health insurance company has been assassinated.
Okay, is this to do with the peculiar shifts that are occurring in American government now, the rise of the Maha movement?
People that were maligned and maligned pariahs like Jay Bhattacharya now, if confirmed, will be heading up the NIH. Marty Makkari at the FDA. Bobby Kennedy, if he survives the media onslaught and various tactics to destroy and smear him, heading up the HHS. Are we seeing the peculiar gangster permutations, assassinations, outpourings of peculiar activity as a result of these shifts?
Is this what this is?
And then a lot of people were somehow supportive of him because it became clear that that executive had dumped Stark and all of that.
And now, what?
Oh, look at that.
Did you know that the four horsemen of the apocalypse have been changed on Wikipedia?
They're now great guys!
According to Wikipedia, this is a Venus siren on locals.
What, they've changed pestilence to conquest?
I don't know what to make of that.
Vic Snick's Maple Maga in the Rumble chat.
Maple Maga.
That's not bad.
That's going to catch on.
Did you coin that or are you just quoting it?
That's not bad.
So, the Luigi Mangione matter, is it an odd symptom of these extraordinary movements and motions in the healthcare system that are growing out of the Maga movement and the Maha movement, or not?
Let's have a look at a guy...
shouting as he's being detained and transferred.
Down, down.
Oh, back up!
I'm completely out of touch and insult to the intelligence of the American people and the life experience!
It's weird that he was sort of obviously not supposed to be shouting, isn't it?
Like, they didn't like that he went, don't you shout!
Interesting.
Interesting.
Yeah, what about he...
They weren't, like, someone claiming to...
Weren't there weird posts going about up that were sort of alleged to be from him?
Can you sort of...
Can you guys post some of that stuff?
I'm trying to understand this situation.
All right.
Again, are we witnessing...
Are we witnessing the observable symptoms of not just incremental decay, but potential seismic shift?
Privatisation by stealth, you said years ago, Russell.
Let me have a look at this.
This is a lovely little news story about Donald Trump.
What's the charge?
Eating a meal, a succulent McDonald's meal, getting my hands off my penis?
Where's that from?
Oh man, you've got to look at the locals chat.
There's some weird stuff flying up on there.
Okay, listen.
Let's have a look at...
This again, I would say, is part of the general and peculiar flow of weird stories of sovereignty as Trump trolls Trudeau saying that Canada will become the 51st or 52nd state.
How are Canadians going to deal with that?
How are people going to deal with Trump's refusal to engage in normal diplomatic conversations and to use the language of the internet to conduct international business?
Let's have a look at this story covered by, I think this is a legacy media piece of content.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his jokes about Canada becoming the 51st state.
On Tuesday, Trump posted to his social media platform Truth Social, calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, quote, governor of the great state of Canada.
The post comes after Trudeau spoke at the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Monday, commenting on Trump's plans to impose 25% tariffs on all products from Canada and Mexico.
President-elect Trump got elected on a commitment to make life better and more affordable for Americans.
And I think people south of the border are beginning to wake up to the reality that tariffs on everything from Canada would make life a lot more expensive for Americans.
Last month, Trump announced a tax as one of his first executive orders.
Shortly after, Trudeau had dinner with the soon-to-be president in Florida, with Trump calling the meeting very productive, and Trudeau telling reporters it was an excellent conversation.
It was later reported that Trump made a joke to Trudeau that Canada should become the 51st United States if he felt the planned tariffs would hurt Canada's economy.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Okay.
Okay.
Trump looks, to me, post-shooting Trump looks a little gentler.
The United States and G7 are now making good on that commitment.
Let's see how much money can be transferred to Ukraine prior to the inauguration.
...commitment.
Together, we will leverage income earned from frozen Russian sovereign assets to provide a total of $50 billion of Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration ERA loans to Ukraine.
This will lend vital support to the people of Ukraine as they defend their country.
And it also makes clear aggressors and tyrants will be responsible for the damage they cause.
Okay, so listen, while we're still on YouTube, I want to start our story on the UK, the country I'm from.
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And remember, we are seeing piloted schemes across the world that usually facilitate further citizen management ability, often for convenience and safety, and disease X. Do we need to be prepared for the next pandemic?
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Now, one of the reasons that the United Kingdom is quaking so severely and seriously is because there's only just been an election that successfully brought into power a centre-left Labour government very much in the sort of mould of...
Tony Blair, there is no such thing as kind of socialism or Christian-derived socialism.
In the UK they say that socialism owes as much to Methodism as to Marx, a kind of socialism born of fraternity and unity and love and kindness.
That...
The kind of idea has been vanquished and abandoned in favour of authoritarianism, usually legitimised by some idea of care.
In this case, in order to legitimise...
Digital ID. In order to legitimise digital ID, let me just put up the still again.
Government initiative, part of wider efforts to move more state functions online, including paying taxes and opening a bank account.
So we're looking at digital ID being sort of normalised and being made all pervasive.
The trouble is we don't really have a great deal of trust in the Keir Starmer government who are elected not in a tidal wave of optimism but just sort of wearily put into office and they're already breaking pledges that they made immediately prior to their election.
One of the things that I suppose we have to be aware of is the rise in popularity of Nigel Farage and the reform movement and the likelihood that what would have once seemed like a radical political transition could actually take place.
Let's have a look at Nigel Farage talking about his support from Elon Musk as well as...
A billionaire donor, Nick Candy, who has defected from the more traditional right-wing British party, the Conservatives, to Farage's reform.
Mr Candy, you were a Conservative Party member and donor from 2009 to now.
Between 2020 and 2020, you donated £270,000 to the Conservatives.
Do you intend to donate similar amounts to reform before the general election, the next one?
No, I've mentioned this morning I will donate a seven-figure sum to reform.
So over a million pounds?
Over a million pounds.
And I will also raise reform more money than has ever been raised for a political party in this country.
And Elon Musk said on X, on the announcement of your appointment, that this was, quote, interesting.
Are you going to try and raise funds from him?
And have either of you had conversations with Elon Musk or his team about donations?
We've had no conversations yet regarding donations.
Elon's obviously very close to President Trump.
Nigel's also super close to President Trump.
As you know, he helped, via my wife, do the largest Republican fundraise ever done outside of America.
If Elon wants to give, and it can be given legally, then of course Reform would be very interested in that.
Elon Musk is very supportive of what Reform is trying to do, supportive of me personally, and we've got good connections with him.
Nick's got good connections with him as well.
He's messaged me this morning.
There you are.
He's messaged you this morning.
Yeah, we're speaking somewhere later today.
What did he say?
I cannot discuss that.
But he messaged you directly.
We're speaking directly.
He's giving us political support.
We have at this stage neither solicited or been offered donations.
Okay.
It's interesting this, isn't it?
See, how do you...
Reconcile our old ideas and understanding of political power with these new relationships.
Do you think there have always been international dimensions and international support in apparently domestic political dynamics?
Because Elon Musk is a kind of world king figure.
And if he offers support to the Reform Party, whether it's financial or just moral or just the support through his platforms and channels...
It's going to be impactful.
Me, what I'm interested in is the potential for technology to decentralise power and radically democratise the world.
And whilst our attention may be on a fascinating story of popular and populist support for nativist And patriotic parties.
I think that this story might be, over time, more significant.
This is Phidias, who's a member of the European Parliament, who got elected on the basis of his online social media campaigning.
Curiously, he's another person that Elon Musk supports, actually.
But he's launching an app to bring about...
And explore direct democracy.
Have a quick look at this.
I believe in direct democracy.
That's why I'm building an app so people can have directly a saying here in the European Parliament.
Since I came here, I put polls on social media to decide on important topics like Do you want Ursula von der Leyen to remain?
Yes or no?
I think making this polls was a great experiment to take into consideration what the people really want and to promote the idea of direct democracy.
But it's true that these polls are in danger of being participated by people outside Europe or by bots.
But now with this app there will be no such problems as it will be much more secure and only Europeans will be able to vote.
I envision this app to be a step Yes...
While I recognise the rise of populism and America First, France First, UK First movements to be significant and a kind of important bulwark against the ascent of globalism, Really what interests me is the possibility of actual democracy, decentralised power, the ability to run your community as locally as possible.
What Phidias is doing is pretty extraordinary.
It's pretty extraordinary, the idea that why would you not, in your community, imagine where you are now, participate in democracy in the most direct way possible, know what the budget is for your community, determine whether it's going to be spent on health or road maintenance or education or welfare.
And that is the pole that opposes...
The intention of globalism and the real threat of globalism, which is to maximise and achieve total control over and centralise power to the highest degree conceivable.
Now, loads of you have talked about Mark Anderson's appearance on Joe Rogan recently, and here is Mark Anderson talking to Barry Weiss about The Biden government's intention to take complete control over AI technology,
any of you that have spent any time with ChatGBT, will be aware of its extraordinary capacity and its ability primarily, I suppose, to replace human function when it comes to logistics, operations, management, can creep into almost every area of human life.
The stat technology could of course be used to maximize democracy if decentralized, but if further centralized, it's going to be absolute chaos and apparently that's a real threat.
Let's have a look at this.
We had meetings in DC in May where we talked to them about this and the meetings were absolutely horrifying and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.
Mark, add so little color to absolutely horrifying.
What did you hear in those meetings?
They said, look, AI is a technology that the government is going to completely control.
This is not going to be a startup thing.
They actually said flat out to us, don't do AI startups.
Don't fund AI startups.
It's not something that we're going to allow to happen.
They're not going to be allowed to exist.
There's no point.
They basically said AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government.
I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon.
We're going to protect them from competition.
We're going to control them, and we're going to dictate what they do.
I said, I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because the math for AI is out there and it's being taught everywhere.
They literally said, during the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics.
And took them out of the research community and entire branches of physics basically went dark and didn't proceed.
And that if we decide we need to, we're going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI. Wow.
And I said, I've just learned two very important things.
Because I wasn't aware of the former, and I wasn't aware that you were, you know, even conceiving of doing it to the latter.
And so they basically just said, yeah, we're going to look, we're going to take total control of the entire thing, and just don't...
And Mark, what was Steel Manit for the listener?
Like, what was their argument?
Well, it's more...
So this gets into this whole, like, all these debates around, like, AI safety, um, AI policy.
So there's sort of several dimensions on it, and I'll do my best to steel man it.
So one is just, like, to the extent that this stuff is relevant to the military, which it is, like, if you draw an analogy between AI and autonomous weapons being, like, the new thing that's going to determine who wins and loses wars, then you draw an analogy to the, in the Cold War, that was nuclear power, and that was the atomic bomb.
Um, and, you know, the federal government, the steel man would be the federal government didn't let startups go out and build atomic bombs, right?
Right.
You had the Manhattan Project, and everything was classified, and at least according to them, they classified down to the level of actual mathematics.
And they tightly controlled everything, and look, that determined a lot of the shape of the world, right?
And so there's that, and then look, that's part one, and then look, I think part two is there's the social control aspect to it.
Which is where the censorship stuff comes right back, which is the exact same dynamic we've had with social media censorship and how it's basically been weaponized and how the government became entwined with social media censorship, which is one of the real scandals of the last decade, a real problem, like a real constitutional problem.
That is happening at hyperspeed in AI, and these are the same people who have been using social media censorship against their political enemies.
These are the same people who have been doing debanking against their political enemies, and I think they want to use AI the same way.
And then look, I think the third is, I think this generation of Democrats, the ones in the White House under Biden, they became very anti-capitalist.
And they wanted to go back to much more of a centralized, controlled, planned economy.
And you saw that in many aspects of their policy, but I think, quite frankly, they think that the idea that the private sector plays an important role is not high up on their priority list, and they think generally companies are bad, and capitalism is bad, and entrepreneurs are bad, and they've said that a thousand different ways.
And, you know, they demonize entrepreneurs as much as they can.
Hey!
Okay, so there you go.
The very precipice of the apocalypse in the clutches of binary claws that we can't even begin to comprehend.
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Alright, so, Disease X. Let's have a quick look at Disease X. Why are you lot talking about Romania?
What is happening in Romania?
We'll check that out in a second.
We'll find something and we'll jump into that together.
Okay, let's look at Disease X. WF warned that countries would have to sign up to the WHO pandemic treaty to be prepared for Disease X. Can anyone please explain how the World Economic Forum had precise knowledge of Disease X a year in advance?
Well, if anyone can explain it, I'm sure it's going to be.
Bill Gates, we'll get to him sooner or later I'm sure.
Let's have a look at...
But Disease X. Let's get ready for Disease X. If you weren't terrified already, be terrified now.
So Disease X is a placeholder for unknown disease.
Alright, so it's just like the idea that there could be.
It's like a placeholder.
This is our working title for the next pandemic.
I just wanted to start by clarifying that because there is already a lot of attention.
If I may, although COVID came immediately, we were preparing for COVID-like disease.
You may even call COVID as the first disease X. And it may happen again.
After we started putting a placeholder, you know, the first that came was in the disease X is COVID. So we have experience now and we are preparing based on that experience.
A lot of assessment has been done.
And then the other key in order to have better prepared and to address the disease X is the pandemic agreement.
The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced, and all the solutions into one.
And that agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.
Because this is about a common enemy.
And without a shared response, starting from the preparedness, You know, we will face the same problem as COVID. Who is that common enemy?
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Where the hell are all of those vials of infectious diseases?
Let's try and get Disease X prepped and ready and out there.
This is where Queensland's secretive testing and research of deadly viruses takes place, but today a very public admission.
There is not a clear record of the destruction of 323 samples that cannot be located.
So I'm announcing an investigation into the record-keeping breaches discovered at Queensland Health's public health virology laboratory.
The blunder relates to a locked freezer storing 93 live samples of Hendra virus, 2 live samples of Hantavirus and more than 200 fragments of Lysavirus.
The freezer broke in 2021 and the materials transferred, but a gap in the paperwork...
A freezer breaking is the kind of situation you should be able to resolve in your own household.
It's an inconvenience and it's a challenge.
But when that can lead to a global pandemic, you're simply going to have to be more careful with your white goods.
But a gap in the paperwork means no one knows where they went.
It is a significant breach of protocol, but I do not believe there is a risk to the public.
It is unusual and disappointing that we've found out about this error and found out so far down the track.
Funusual and disappointing.
Amples were only realised during a change in management in August last year, now Queensland's second lab failure after 40,000 criminal cases were impacted by flaws in the state's DNA lab.
It was brought to my attention just a few weeks ago.
We've seen it happen with the DNA lab.
We've now seen another failure of record-keeping and administration.
The Chief Health Officer believes the most likely scenario is that the samples were destroyed by autoclaving or high-pressure steam.
He says it's highly unlikely the samples were thrown into general waste or stolen.
The first deadly Hendra virus outbreak swept through Brisbane racehorse stables in 1994 today poses a different risk.
The reputational damage is a very significant factor, particularly in this day and age where there's a lot of concern about how we handle these sorts of viruses.
The probe's report is due in June.
Hey, okay.
Let's have a look at...
This is Jeffrey Sachs explaining the...
Let's have a look at this.
This is Jeffrey Sachs explaining the deep state and its foreign policy that has nothing to do with Democrat and Republican vacillation.
The hard part that...
We don't really discuss in America and that is not understood in America is that our foreign policy is deeply entrained at the scale of decades.
So what one observes is not because Obama came in or Trump came in or Biden came in.
We have a deep state.
The CIA is the main continuation agency of that deep state.
And it carries a basic foreign policy.
The foreign policy of the United States since 1945 was to Destroy the Soviet Union and then after 1991 to try to do the same with Russia and if not destroy it to fundamentally weaken it.
In the case of the Middle East, the list that General Wesley Clark provided there is a list that Israel and I should be more specific that Netanyahu And his U.S. backers,
people like Wolfowitz, Douglas Fythe, and a number of others, Richard Perle, set out already in the 1990s and said, our job is to overthrow all of those governments.
And we've been at that for more than 20 years.
This is continuity.
This is not Democrats and Republicans.
Bush versus Obama.
It's a little boring, frankly.
You know, we get all this excitement.
Who's going to win?
No, this is not how foreign policy is made.
Foreign policy is made in the longer term.
Now, think of the seven countries that he named.
This started with Iraq.
It has Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia.
Now, I want people to understand, the United States or its proxies have launched wars in six of those seven countries.
That was a list agreed in 2001-2008.
Based on a list from 1996 when Netanyahu came into office, his theory was Israel needs to be able to do what it wants to dominate the Palestinian people.
So we need to overthrow all governments that support the Palestinians, especially that support them in Militancy through Hamas or Hezbollah or other units, rather than negotiating with the Palestinians so that there's a Palestinian state, we will overthrow seven countries.
Now, that's what has happened.
There's one left on that list.
That's Iran.
But six of them have now been the object of U.S. war.
It started with Iraq in 2003, because there was a fig leaf of legality, just a fig leaf, mind you, in Iraq Liberation Act that Clinton and the Congress signed in 1998, making it official policy to overthrow Saddam Hussein back in 1998, not after 9-11.
Then after 9-11, this list that Wesley Clark was shown became actual war doctrine for the Pentagon.
The idea was go into Iraq, then we'll go into Syria, we'll go into Lebanon, we will go into Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya.
Now what happened?
The U.S. got tied down in Iraq for several years by the insurgency, and so these seven wars in five years did not pan out on the timeline.
But Obama came in, and he was given the instructions.
Mr. President, your job is next.
That's Syria.
And in 2011, Obama launched CIA operations to overthrow Assad.
At...
The behest of Israel.
The United States backed Ethiopia to invade Somalia.
The United States backed rebels to break Sudan into pieces.
And now there's wars raging with millions suffering in Sudan and in South Sudan, thanks to the handiwork of the United States.
Now, in 2011, Obama sent in NATO to bomb Libya.
That's another 13 years of war.
And the one that Netanyahu wants, the big prize, that hasn't happened yet, but he's just trying every which way to get the United States to go to war with Iran.
It's six out of seven right now, and not one of those six This is a devastation that the U.S. has unleashed at the behest of Israel.
And yet, Morning Joe continues to claim that new media is irrelevant.
Everything we do is under fire.
Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, we are the media, you are the media.
My message to Elon Musk is, bullsh**, you're not the media.
You having...
You having a blue check mark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter.
You don't do that by popping off on Twitter.
You don't do that by having an opinion.
You do it by doing the hard work.
Yeah, come on.
Slow clap, everybody.
First of all, I've got to say, extraordinary content.
It needed to be said.
Yeah.
It continues to need to be said.
When all of the garbage is flying around on social media, lying about reporters, lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors do, lying about everything up and And down about not only their alternative set of facts, but alternative set of facts about what people like you do.
Or if social media people lying every day, every hour, What you do matters.
What the New York Times does matters.
What the Wall Street Journal does matters.
What Jonathan Lemire does matters.
What the Financial Times does matters.
What NBC News and MSNBC reporters do matters.
It matters.
Well, he seems pretty excited about it all.
Extraordinary.
It actually doesn't matter.
Well, there have been social forces at work for many years.
Women have advanced and a lot of guys have not.
And we need to address that, I think, before we can say what the Democrats have to do.
But let me ask you this.
While Democrats work on fixing past mistakes, a lot of Americans are disturbed about the future.
Trump is terrorizing migrants by threatening to call on the military.
To round them up on U.S. soil.
He's also imposing tariffs that everybody says could send prices soaring and threats to punish the media who don't fall in line.
Of all of that, Senator, what worries you the most?
Well, I mean, nothing really worries me, you know, because right now nothing has really happened yet.
I mean, Trump now is six weeks out before he's even going to be inaugurated.
But America signed up for this.
It's undeniable.
He won the popular vote, and he ran the table, including my state as well, too.
This is what America decided.
So this is definitely going to go in a direction that I'm, you know, a lot of Democrats aren't going to agree with that, you know, but I'm going to be a part of that conversation.
And there's going to be plenty of people that are going to freak out or they're going to have these kinds of extreme reactions.
But I won't be one of them, but I'm going to react and I'm going to be very selective on picking my own fights on that.
And I just have to, I think two things are true at the same time, whether it's like the border or whether it's with abortion or other of these kinds of issues.
I've been very clear on some of those things, but it's undeniable the Republicans now have the ability to run that table and our party is going to have to respond.
And I think we need to be smart and pick the right fights and not get all worked out over and over every last night.
John!
I gotta go!
What was the music?
Extraordinary.
Okay, so yesterday I was at...
I had an extraordinary day in West Palm Beach, primarily spending time in Mar-a-Lago.
We're doing sort of different content...
We're looking at conducting interviews outside of the studio and also doing investigative and experiential content.
Let's have a look at me and my reflections immediately after leaving Mar-a-Lago.
There is some sort of comment, like you've got to think of all of the galas and fancy events you've been at all your life.
Like what's it like you to go to any fancier event, like at some hotel or some fancy event to do with your work or whatever, where you have to dress up a little bit.
Then for me I've got references from like Hollywood, British aristocracy, pop music, I've seen a lot of it.
Philanthropy.
And it was the same with the RNC. The RNC, in a way, like it was Gareth who said, is like a gala.
They're all like that.
It could be about Lego or anything at the end.
It's like there's something that you recognise about all of it.
It's extraordinary.
Right at the very end, seeing Jim Caviezel, Kid Rock, Mel Gibson giving a speech as we left.
What is it about?
What is it about really?
What are we all looking for in these places?
And, you know, I think it can only be delivered, you know, now for me, I would say through Christ.
But I know that there has to be a profound spiritual change.
And maybe it ain't the job of government to offer profound spiritual change.
Maybe it's the role of government to yield and allow profound spiritual change To happen.
Because power does things to people.
That's hardly an original statement.
But what, you know, for me, it's like the...
I can't imagine, like, you know, when I've been on the way into Vanity Fair parties or, you know, various Oscar do's or, you know, Paris going to the sort of, like, Galliano show before Galliano got cancelled.
Like, going to, like, fancy events.
What I always feel about fancy events is, like, these are the constructions that the world's been built around.
Like, what...
The week before I went to a sort of Galliano fashion show in Paris, I'd been in a dump in Kenya where, like a mass human dump, they call it the Cradle of Civilization, and in that dump, the dump goes on for miles and miles, obviously importing garbage from other places.
And there's cattle grazing on it, marabou stalks sort of swooping in and out of it, and children mining and harvesting the garbage for the odd recyclable or valuable artifact.
And then within a week, I was at a sort of a Paris show, a Paris fashion show, and it was so opulent, so magnificent, so well staged, bubbles filled with smoke, immaculate models, glory.
What I feel like is, what is this lack of integrity or integration?
Here I didn't feel like that it was so jarring, but what I do feel is that something's going to change.
There's a kingdom coming.
There's a kingdom coming.
I wonder how all of this is going to stack up, man.
What do you lot think of it?
Before we leave you today, let's just have a look at the current British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, prior to his election, making claims that he would ultimately reverse when in office.
This is the kind of old-school politics that means, in a sense...
Brought about a state where none of us trust them.
Check this out.
Here he is talking simply about freezing fuel bill prices.
Which, would you believe, since in office, he has not done.
Ella in Sutherland, we want to fit you in.
You're through to Keir Starmer.
Hi Ella.
Hello, I just want to know how you're going to help single parents.
I haven't had a boiler since before Christmas.
I've only just got it fixed.
And yet I still owe £3,000.
Is that for the boiler itself or just on your energy, Ella?
No, for the energy, for the electric.
Yes, exactly.
So it's a hell of a lot of money.
Oh, it's a huge amount of money, Ella.
And is that because you didn't have the boiler working?
No, the boiler wasn't working, but I only had electric.
So I want to know how you're going to help single parents.
Well, Ella, what we're going to do for you and for anyone is freeze those energy bills going forward.
Because, Ella, I don't know your circumstances, but I doubt when you hear the energy companies and the government talking about £3,500 possibly for energy bills going up to £4,000, I suspect, like many, many other people, you shudder at that.
Because these are huge, huge amounts of money.
Which is why we say, under a Labour government, we'd freeze those prices.
We wouldn't allow them to go up, Ella.
What you're already paying is going to go through the roof.
And I don't know how you would cope with that, Ella.
You know, when I was growing up, my dad was a toolmaker, worked in a factory, my mum was a nurse.
We didn't have huge amounts of money.
And I remember struggling with the bills and the telephone being cut off and things like that.
So I know firsthand what it feels like to sit around the kitchen table and say...
We just can't actually pay all this.
And I know that millions of people are in that state of mind at the moment.
They're worried sick.
That's why I thought it was very important for us to have a very clear, simple policy.
We'll freeze your bills.
We won't allow that to happen.
And we'll get oil and gas companies from their excess profits to pay for that freezing of the bills.
It's simple.
It's straightforward.
It's a political choice.
Electricity bills will become more expensive in January after the energy regulator Ofgem announced an increase in its latest price cap this morning.
It will go up by 1.2% to £1,738.
It can't be his fault as an individual.
It's just systems that override The kind of basic ethics and morality that might abide if you were able to govern in alignment with a higher force or even a higher principle, if not a higher force.
That's why I think what young Phidias is proposing is interesting because...
Even if someone before they're elected says, you know, I sat around the kitchen table, I know what it's like to struggle.
Once they find themselves in a position of some authority, they become inevitably a vassal of the systems of governance that, as Jeffrey Sachs described, are able to maintain their power regardless of which nominal party is in office.
That applies in your country, the United States, mine in the United Kingdom, and can probably only ever be altered, amended, improved by decentralized systems of government where, guided by high principle, all of us are guided by high principle, all of us are able to participate in the organization of our community.
That doesn't mean that you abandon expertise, but it means that you stand back from the brink of continual technocracy.
Technocracy is a form of aristocracy where you just nominate experts to run everything for you and relinquish authority and control.
Alright guys, we will be back tomorrow.
We've got Cali Means.
We'll do the Cali Means show tomorrow.
We've got so much content to show you.
We'll be back tomorrow, not with more of the same, but with more of the different.
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