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Hello there, you awakening wonders, and what a glorious day it is, for surely everything has changed. The two anti-establishment candidates have aligned to form a challenge to the uniparty problem. You might say, what? Donald Trump? He is the epitome of the problem. Or you might say, RFK? That wacko crackpot.

And that probably means you've consumed too much legacy media or astroturf YouTubers who parrot the points of the establishment, telling you gleefully that Kamala Harris's speech means that Middle Eastern problems will be resolved, war will be ended, equality achieved by all. But we know propaganda.

when we see it. And we were looking at it live during the DNC. Let me know in the chat if you join Neil Oliver and I for our live watch along. But the news cycle moves fast these days. And from the moment the RFK stepped out onto the stage in Arizona, the Democrats had a new problem. You know what our position is here on this show. We believe that the greatest threat

To your freedom is the sets of institutions represented broadly by, for example, the Democrat Party or the Labour Party in this country or Macron or Trudeau in Canada. Globalism. Sets of bureaucrats that want to usher us into technological dictatorship. Trump is clearly pretty far from perfect by many of your assessments, although I know there's a lot of MAGA people out there and I welcome all...

because now what we are focused on is the creation of an anti-establishment alliance. How can you argue that anything other than a Trump-Kennedy presidency will lead to further dictatorship, further technological feudalism? This is an opportunity for mass disruption. Remember, Kennedy is the man that wrote the book, The Real Anthony Fauci. Do you remember that when it was in the New York Times bestseller list?

No, you don't, do you? Because the New York Times wouldn't publish the figures when that was the best-selling book. Why? Because if you read the real Anthony Fauci, you will see with incredible receipts, with incredible diligence, the participation of Fauci in particular and the sets of agencies that he represents in a variety of catastrophic events, most notably and obviously the COVID pandemic.

but furthermore, events that took place in the 80s with regards to HIV and the subsequent AIDS. Not pandemic, but crisis, certainly crisis. So this is an important moment politically. You can see how the legacy media are grinding, hustling, working incredibly hard to ensure that your focus remains on the hot button topics where they know they can galvanise their audience, talking about little but problems.

pro-life issues or the hair's breadth social and cultural issues that they know that they can galvanize and attract using. But this is an important moment. This is a moment for us to challenge legacy media, institutional power, globalist corruption, which all loosely these days it seems corrals and coalesces around globalism.

politicians that still somehow maintain the hue of leftism. But leftism these days just means state power versus the people, using the idea that they're going to protect us and look after us and provide us with convenient little consumer cultures to protect us from what? To protect us from whom? Let's get into these stories straight away and let's talk about how

important it is that we take the opportunity, or you do because I'm not an American, you take the opportunity to disrupt the bandwagon of corporate globalist power that had its great jamboree at the DNC only to wake up to find that the world had already changed with RFK joining Trump. Let's get into it. He is a great person. I've known him for so long. For the past 16 months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

There goes my hero, watching this night.

I love a bit of fanfare and I love a firework, but one of the things you'll be aware of if you've been watching the DNC is the lack of significant address of real policy issues. The inclusion of RFK means three significant things. Free speech. What

What happened to the principles of John Milton, once cherished by the left? That censorship is a problem. You know that the party that wants to censor you are the Democratic Party. You know in our country, the UK, it's the Labour Party that crave censorship, that crave the control of information, because if you can control information, you can control reality. One thing we're all aware of in this campaign is the escalating hysteria means that we have

little idea of what the actual policies are. You may have some vague idea that Kamala mentioned price gouging then stepped away from a bit. You may remember from her speech some bombast about Joe Biden being involved in augmenting peace between the people of Israel and the residents of Gaza, which seems pretty implausible to me. What we have here is an opportunity to focus on some actual policy declarations. One, free speech. Two,

Two, health, in particular the health of children. And three, an end to the Ukraine-Russia war. These are actual important ideas. Remember, if you're British, Keir Starmer, day one of his premiership, straight over to Ukraine to assure Zelensky that funding will continue. Remember, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, hundreds of thousands of Russians have lost their lives. Why? And for what? You are funders.

ending this desperate debacle of death and destruction. Why should we continue to? Well, because you've got no choice. If you vote for Rishi Sunak, the war continues. If you vote for Keir Starmer, the war continues. If you vote for Kamala Harris, the war continues. But here you have an opportunity to end war. So this is, in a sense, an invitation to people that consider themselves liberals or people that consider themselves members of the left or people that consider themselves the children of the civil rights era, that consider themselves

themselves to be members of some kind of counterculture? Do you believe in free speech? Do you believe in ending war? Do you believe in health and challenging big pharma and big food? Well, finally, you have an opportunity to vote for someone. Now, I can see in the comments, what about Israel? What about Palestine? What about, what about, what about? Well, what about the certainty that continuing to vote for the centrist, globalist, bureaucrat, managerial, Huxley-esque, Kafka, occupying, bureaucrat, barbarian,

you up for nothing and condemn you on the basis of mere murmurs has to be confronted at some point. And maybe today is that day.

Let's have a look at the impact that RFK's alliance with Trump is already having on the election. Well, I think there's a tremendous upside. I think it's tangible and substantial. Tony Fabrizio, who is a pollster that I've known and worked with for a long time, is the lead pollster for the internal Trump polls, released a memo today going through the seven battleground states that a lot of people have focused on, talking about North Carolina and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia.

And in every single one of those seven battleground states, all of these RFK voters, RFK junior voters break towards Trump. Some of them, Trump is getting two thirds of the of the RFK voters and he's getting about four percent, three percent in these states. And in a state like Pennsylvania, where it could well come down to, you know, tens of thousands of votes.

Half a point or three quarters of a point, that may well make the difference in who the next president is. A lot of people have said that Pennsylvania is going to be the key for Kamala Harris. Democrats cannot win the presidency without Pennsylvania. That is the conventional wisdom. If RFK Jr. makes the difference in other states,

and Pennsylvania, it really could spell the difference in this campaign. This should be taken seriously. This is a big day in the campaign. And let me tell you, Kamala Harris did not want this to happen on the first day after her convention. She wanted to come out of there riding high. They say, of course, that the Democrats can't win the election without winning Pennsylvania. That's an adage as consistent as the left look for traitors and the right

look for converse. Whatever the new politics is that's about to emerge, and I will remain sceptical about the ability of state institutions that have strong ties to corporations, particularly global ones, that hasn't made a clear commitment to

end the deep state, being able to deliver the kind of change that we want to experience. The fact is now there is an anti-establishment alliance. We will see the media working particularly hard now to continue to simultaneously condemn Trump using the

with some of his clumsy language and indeed some of his policies. I, again, don't really care what your perspective is. I mean, I care about what your perspective is, but I'm not trying to change your perspective. What I'm saying is the inclusion of RFK now means that this is a deliberate and demonstrable anti-establishment alliance and the establishment will have to work double, double hard

to simultaneously convey Trump as a misogynist and a hateful figure and inept and old now that he's not against Biden. And now they're going to have to focus, I suppose, on Bobby Kennedy being a crackpot and a wacko. Whereas, of course, if he was their man, if he had joined the Democrats, if he had formed an alliance with them, he would be an environmental lawyer. He would be a Kennedy. He would be an advocate for free speech.

What this gives us an opportunity to do is perhaps for perhaps the first time in this campaign to focus on issues. Do you want big pharma to be challenged? Do you want big food to be challenged? Do you want your children and your family to be healthy? I urge you, if you've not read it already, to look at the book, The Real Anthony Fauci, and see why the Democratic Party might hate Fauci.

the person that wrote that book. A person that's willing to go out on a limb and outright condemn the various federal and non-federal agencies that prop up the pharmaceutical industry. The legacy media are already working incredibly hard to condemn and

Bobby Kennedy. You know how the legacy media works. If the legacy media hates them, they must be doing something right. You know that my own personal journey towards being somewhat more open to the idea of Trump, who I, like everybody else from my kind of background, was willing to condemn when he came down the old golden escalator in 2015. You know that

I became more open to the idea that Trump was a wrecking ball to the establishment simply because he was condemned so vociferously, so vehemently and so consistently. Now, let's have a look at the legacy media repoing themselves to say, well, Trump is bad because he said these things and Bobby Kennedy is bad because he said these things and come

Marla Harris is good because she doesn't say anything at all unless it's scripted down to the last syllable. Do you think it's right that a presidential candidate can only appear in the best light with every single word penned and examined before you're allowed to hear it while free speech is under threat, while your children's health is under threat, while perpetual wars are being offered to you as almost unconscious policies? Let's have a look at the legacy media going to work against Bobby Kennedy.

If you've never heard of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the context of this current political moment and all that is broken and bad about it, first of all, lucky you. Sorry to ruin that. We'll start with a quick word on who he is and, crucially, who he is not. R.F.K. Jr. is, as you likely surmise, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, the highly regarded...

brother of President John F. Kennedy. RFK Jr. is not a scientist. He is not a doctor, although that has not stopped him from spreading lie after lie after lie on topics of public health and vaccine safety. It'll be fantastic to break down what is considered lie after lie after lie. Our locals member will already be watching RFK.

our interview with Jay Bhattacharya, one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration that came out significantly earlier than you might have heard of some of these ideas in the pandemic period where he said, we should consider the importance of natural immunity. We should consider the importance of shielding the elderly, perhaps,

as a priority above generalized lockdowns. We should consider the impact on children might not be significant. We should consider the fact that generally speaking isn't wise to vaccinate during an epidemic and we should be very clear about whether or not these medications, if indeed that's what they are, have been trialed for anti-transmission efficacy. All of these things were 100% true and at the time were considered 100% false and lies and were censored at the time.

Of course, we understand that when someone is vilified by the establishment, it's because they challenge establishment interest. Look at how quickly MSNBC, which stands for, as you know, Microsoft NBC, which means that even if it doesn't still have economic and financial ties to Bill Gates, it's very much part of the globalist Bill Gates purview, which of course means that it's connected to the WHO. I don't mean in a literal...

financial sense, but as a general ideology. We clearly now have an opportunity to challenge this fragile sphere of globalist power that immediately engineers realities that are detrimental to the advance of our cause, whether that means condemning Bobby Kennedy or condemning any other vocal opponent of the establishment. Why?

Also, that the pharmaceutical interests that they continually frame, showcase and give platforms to can continue to succeed unabated. That's but one reason that the establishment walks together in lockstep against your free speech and your freedom more generally. RFK Jr. is, however, an overwhelming source of misinformation and disinformation, a purveyor of

conspiracy theories and fake science. - We're gonna leave YouTube now, click the link in the description to join us. We're talking a lot about Bobby Kennedy, but we're also talking about other areas where this issue of global censorship and global control comes to the forefront. I'm talking about the arrest of the Telegram founder and how some tech billionaires are good

And some tech billionaires are bad. And some tech billionaires are good for your safety. And some tech billionaires are bad for your safety. It's an extraordinary story. You're going to love it. We're going to talk a lot about Bobby Kennedy. Click the link in the description. Get on to Rumble where we care about your free speech and we're determined to use ours. He's linked chemicals in our water supply to gender dysphoria, antidepressants to school shootings and assisted COVID vaccines were a tool to control people.

Seriously, he's that guy. Take that one example there. Like he's linked to water supply to gender dysphoria. I bet what that is, that is that birth control pills leave estrogen traces in the water and that has been clinically proven to affect testosterone levels.

That's something that even I, also a non-scientist, has just peripherally picked up as being absolutely true. Note here that that is presented to you in the most incendiary and condemnatory language. He's a hysteric, he's a lunatic, he's a maniac, but it's becoming increasingly difficult for them to avoid the very same charge that they're offering. Because if you are an absolute propagandist,

You have to continue to amplify your message. And they've got 70-odd days of this now. How are they going to continue to maintain the veneer and sheen that they've managed to temporarily place on Kamala Harris and continue to condemn, in the case of Bobby Kennedy, a man who is...

in, I would say, many regards, a hero. Sure, he's idiosyncratic. He's got an unusual voice. He's into falconry and stuff. Look at how you'll get Stephen Colbert come out and just say he's a weirdo. Well, hold on a minute. Are we allowed to be... Well, let's talk about the issue of gender identity and LGBTQ plus issues. Are we allowed to be weird? What are we trying to create? A heterodoxy?

absolute hegemony is it okay to be weird or is it not okay to be weird is it good to be a billionaire is it bad to be a billionaire can you have bernie sanders come out and say oh billionaires billionaires of both parties have got to be condemned before a billionaire comes out it's called like jeff pritzker i can't memorize all these people's names but it's a name that if i did need to check on it there's a certain little black book from old swingy from a rope in prison somehow mr island

and plain that might have that name in it. Are billionaires good or are billionaires bad? Depends on whether or not that billionaire will carry the message of the state or not, the global corporate estate.

Are tech billionaires bad and tech platforms bad? Same metric is used, same measurements used continually. RFK Jr. is not a person who can claim the high ground on the topic of race. Having just recently suggested COVID-19 might have been genetically engineered to target, quote, Caucasians and black people, end quote, and to spare Jewish and Chinese people.

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Let's get back to the video. RFK Jr. is someone who has recently been rebuked by some of his own very famous and highly regarded family members. So it doesn't matter that he's a Kennedy, but it does matter that they're Kennedys. There's good Kennedys and bad Kennedys. There's good billionaires and bad billionaires. Do you see? Do you see how it works?

What we're in is a situation where the nepotism of Trump is bad, but the nepotism of Biden is fine. Where the corruption of Trump is bad, but the corruption of the Biden family is fine. Where one Kennedy is good and another Kennedy is bad. So they,

you know, we can have a position here. We have to look at it this way. There is an attempt to centralize power across the globe using crisis generally to legitimize measures of authority that would otherwise be rejected. Figures like Trump, I believe, are somewhat almost unconsciously opposed to this because they're kind of libertarian individualists. And figures like Bobby Kennedy are old school civil rights cowboys.

ethical left wing, actually, politicians who are against establishment power. And as he says himself, you don't need me to speak for him. Free speech, children's health, ending the war in Ukraine. There are some policies. Now, listen to what Kamala Harris said in her speech. I had a person stay around my house once and that's given me some principles. My mum made this type of dinner. Like those things, you can't build governments around that. You can't build power around that.

And finally, and perhaps most alarming of all, RFK Jr. is a candidate for president. On the Democratic side, he is second behind President Biden, having polled as high as 20%. For all those reasons, you can see why today Republicans handed him a bullhorn. RFK Jr. was on Capitol Hill testifying in front of the GOP-led and ironically named Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the topic of censorship and free speech.

Go figure. Here's how he responded to delegate Stacey Plaskett. I've never been anti-vaccine, but everybody in this room probably believes that I have been because that's the prevailing narrative. Anti-Semitism, racism. These are the most appalling, disgusting pejoratives. And they're applied to me to silence me. And by the way, I want to say this while I'm on the record.

That in my entire life and why I'm under oath in my entire life, I have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-Semitic. Again, it's been rebuked in the last 72 hours by many members of his very famous family.

Delegate Plaskett, you start. What was the purpose? We'll deal with the substance of what was conveyed, but what was the purpose today of having... Must we deal with the substance? We don't have to.

There is no substance unlike Kamala's fantastic speech that was full of substance. Did you see the bit where she said, let's get down to business and then for nearly an hour said thank you to her husband and that tubby VP guy? That's substance. There's substance. Did you not know that Taylor Swift was this close to coming that Beyonce

Beyonce was nearly there. That substance, we've got some substance. The substance of it is the maintenance of centralized power. These are not the inheritors of the mantle of civil rights. These are the enemy of your personal freedom. These are the enemy of real liberty. This is an opportunity for us to finally oppose the disgusting corruption that has been prevalent and ever

since when? I don't know. Did it begin with Clinton Bush? Did it begin in the Obama era? When did it become, when did it fully fulminate? When did it come into its apotheosis? I don't know. But I do know that now it needs to be significantly and radically disrupted. And this is an opportunity for that. Let's have a listen to Bobby Kennedy in one of the two speeches he's given over the weekend on policy.

President Trump had been reaching out to me. And I talked to him a few hours after the assassination attempt. And we had a long conversation by phone. I then had two extensive meetings. And there were issues, the broader issues that were most important to me, the ones that brought me into the campaign, which was ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children's health.

We're all reforming our food supply, all the things that we need to do to make our children healthy again. Those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on. And he invited me to form a unity government. We agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don't agree.

But these issues are so important in their way of unifying our country. We need in this country to reach a point where we love our children more than we hate each other. What an important and powerful message. Health.

Do you imagine for a moment that you will see significant opposition to the pharmaceutical industry from the party that bought you? We beat Big Pharma this year, which amounted to very limited caps on selected medicine. Do you imagine that the legacy media groups that bought you ivermectin, the world's worst thing to ever have happened? Do you imagine that they are going to go out to bat against the pharmaceutical industry? Do you

think for one minute that you can continue to support the pseudo-intellectual leftists, both online and in media, that will scurry, flurry and scrabble to condemn RFK so that they can continue to collect their professional metropolitan elite paychecks, pretending to care about

vulnerable minorities while only caring about themselves continuing to condemn as racist anybody that opposes the establishment their loathing and hatred for whether you want to call them the working class blue collar or proletariat it matters not because the words that i would use to describe them as normal people everyone else except for those that are willing to continue to carry water for this disgusting and corrupt set of institutions that will be content with nothing but

Absolute global power. Here's Trump on the subject of health. Even if we were to focus on this one issue, what we have here is an opportunity to disrupt big food, big pharma, big power, big time.

That's why today I'm repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility, and many more. We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life.

Oh man, I think they're in a lot of trouble over there in the establishment because I wonder when these autoimmune deficiencies and autism began to spiral out of control. I wonder if there were a genuine study that was not funded by pharmaceutical companies or academicians

academic institutions corrupted by pharmaceutical companies or governments corrupted and controlled by the donations of pharmaceutical companies. I wonder what we might discover then. I wonder if we might discover that there are various medications that are worthy of further scrutiny. I wonder if we might discover that our diets have been so corrupted and have become so infuriating

with pollutants and toxins that we've been taken so far from the conditions of our origins and the foods that will be good for us that we're little more than guinea pigs and potential patients to the powerful interests that dominate our culture. One of the things I enjoyed in Bobby Kennedy's speech was a shout out to our friend and ally, Cali Means, who you may have seen first here. You might have seen him on Tucker, but wherever you've seen him, you'll know that he stands up powerfully to the corrupt,

interests of big food, having once worked for them. Here's the shout out that Cali Means received in Bobby Kennedy's speech. Thank you. Thank you, President Trump. Thank you. A few hours after the assassination attempt at Butler, I got a call from a safe food advocate named Cali Means, who's been fighting for many years to try to

end the corruption at CDC and FDA and USDA. And these institutions, these regulatory agencies are actually run by the big food processing companies, the big ag and the chemical companies that they're supposed to regulate. And he said to me that he'd been advising me for many years and on my campaign. And he told me that night that he was also advising President Trump.

And he asked if I would talk to President Trump. And I said, of course. And about a few minutes later, I got a call from the president. And we talked. We had a very good talk. And then he invited me to come see him the next day. And I went to Minneapolis and saw him. We met again a couple of weeks later in Florida. And we talked about not about the things that separate us because we don't agree on everything.

but on the values and the issues that bind us together. And one of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic. And I want to ask you again, don't you want a safe environment for your children? Don't you want to know that the food that you're feeding them is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease?

And don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again? Thank you all very, very much. And God bless you. And God bless America.

Putting health to the forefront of this election campaign is going to be very difficult for the legacy media, sort of, that are funded by Big Food and Big Pharma to oppose with a straight face without us going, yeah, but surely you take all your advertising money from them. Surely the Dems take all their donation money from them. How can we trust you? How can we rely on you? How indeed is the obvious answer?

Thank God Bobby Kennedy gave that shout out to Cali means thank God we have vocal independent voices now operating in this space that are difficult to oppose. It's impossible not to see the moment of alliance of Trump and Kennedy as a real true turning point in this election. Think of how they will have to marshal their forces now to oppose what looks like a meaningful alliance. Think again how crazy.

constructed and corrupted and ridiculous the DNC was. People continually referring to hot button topics to defibrillate and jolt you into a perpetual state of endless fear and doubt and moral confusion while offering you little but the promise of pop stars

that never arrived to keep your palate moist. This is a significant moment indeed. Have a look at this other perspective of Bobby Kennedy's arrival and note the welcome and the good heartedness and the reconciliatory spirit. Some will say, oh, Bobby Kennedy sort of offered an alliance to both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, even if it is now the MAGA movement, ultimately. Well,

Well, why were the Democrat Party unable to reach out reconciliation? Do you think it was their principles? Because they're so principled, aren't they? With their endless wars and the control that they yield to global corporate power. Is it more likely that the inclusion of a figure like Bobby Kennedy, who openly condemns Big Pharma, is an impossibility for a party that exists primarily and only

ultimately to serve the interests of the powerful. If you think that they exist in order to serve you, then I don't know, maybe you did fall out of a coconut tree. ... ... ... ... ... ...

Here's my prediction. The legacy media will continue to condemn RFK as they've been doing already because he's an independent candidate and an independent voice. You'll hear a lot more about brain worms and eating dogs because they have to condemn Trump for being a misogynist. They'll condemn RFK for being weird and they'll condemn anyone who threatens to derail their gravy train of corruption and deception. Remember, the Democrats are not the party of the people or the

party of the left or the party of Martin Luther King or the party of freedom or equality of any form they are an institutional corrupt global corpus deep state quango existing solely to ensure that individual and community freedom can never be achieved and while there may be significant repercussions

room for improvement in both of those individuals and indeed any individual as we are all fallen, as we are all full of sin? Is it not somewhat encouraging to see at last an alliance that can oppose the kind of institutions, both state and corporate, that otherwise have an unthreatened, un-

trajectory towards global domination where we have years to look forward to defined only by increasing crisis that further legitimize centralized control. This could be a stick in the spokes. It could be a disruption. It could be a disruption in a variety of ways. At the moment, this is the best chance you have of opposing the ascent towards forever wars and global tyranny. But that's just why I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments section

and the chat. Now, the problem of communication and free speech, one of the issues that Bobby Kennedy has brought to the forefront, continues at large. You might not be aware that Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has been arrested in France because what they always claim is that Telegram, oh, that's used by criminals. It's criminals that use Telegram to communicate in the same way that they would say that...

platforms, racist and lunatics or whatever. But if you really had a moral position on whether or not a platform was dubious, then surely you would be concerned about Meta's recent accusation of child exploitation. So let's have a look at the arrest of Pavel Dorov, what Telegram is about, and what tech billionaires are good, and what tech platforms are bad.

Now, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram has been arrested in France. Pavel Durov was reportedly detained after his private jet landed at the Bourget Airport outside Paris.

Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world and it's particularly popular in Russia. But its focus on privacy has raised questions about its use by criminals. So let's find out a little bit more about this. Molly Malone is here with me. Criminals. We don't mean the kind of criminals that have global insidious power. We mean like little criminals that...

don't he really need to worry about? Hi, Molly. So what do we know about this arrest then? So firstly, just a bit about who he is, because he's not exactly a household name. He's Russian-born, gained French citizenship a few years ago, but he's really famed for founding this encrypted private messaging. Encrypted, eh? You mean...

privacy could be possible for people instead of privacy for the state and absolute transparency for the people. When what you could argue would be a good model is transparency for the state because that's your money they're using to control you and privacy for people because you have a sacred right to privacy. Yeah.

telegram and suggestions in French local media this morning that the arrest and potential investigation relates to this app for its potential lack of moderation and potential criminal activity. It's not being moderated. You're not letting the government moderate it. You're not letting us control you. Let us control you. You're probably a pervert or a racist or something. There must be something we can get you for.

But just for some context about the app, because it's actually not potentially as well known here as it is across the globe. It's one of the most downloaded... You may not have been conditioned to hate this yet, so let me condition you now. ...apps after the likes of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, with upwards of 950 million users. It's an encrypted private messaging app, effectively protecting data from being intercepted with, as you said, a big focus on privacy. It's been in recent...

privacy bad he is particularly popular in russia and you russia bad crane it was actually banned back in 2018 in russia because it's of its refusal to release uh data confusing now and for people here well it's really been talked about in recent months and recent weeks because of what we've seen on the streets in parts of northern england and elsewhere probably it

Did a riot, did it? Probably Telegram caused the riot, did it? Probably none of us should be allowed privacy, should we? Probably we should just let the government plant chips inside our mind and observe our every thought while the government just does what it does best over their perpetual wars. I'm sure, I'm still sure they've got our best interests at heart.

Riots, many of those riots, protests as well, were advertised on Telegram by far-right groups, also advertised selling the likes of flares and fireworks. That's probably... For a wonderful moment, I thought they meant flare trousers. I thought, my God, this censorship's getting harder and harder. Those trousers are not narrow enough.

Get to prison! Okay. Why people might have heard about it over here, but Mr. Jurov actually did an interview with the American right-wing commentator back in April, a man called Tucker Carlson. People might know him from Fox.

He's bad as well. He won't do what he's told. News, and he actually said there that he wants to keep the app away from geopolitics. And that interview did, though, actually lead to kind of accusations that he was trying to kind of court the right-wing press. Tucker Carlson has tweeted to say that he believes Mr. Jurov has been arrested for...

because of his refusal to censor the truth, obviously relating to the app and its kind of private encrypted nature. So lots of speculation about exactly why he was arrested when he landed at that French airport just north of Paris earlier today. But clearly there'll be, you know, the Russian foreign ministry, for example, have said that it's looking into the circumstances to try and clarify the situation.

Here is his conversation with Tucker Carlson. And he probably is a bad person. Otherwise, why would you want privacy? We get too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the US. So to give you an example, last time I was in the US, I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram. And there was an attempt to secretly hire

my engineer behind my back by cyber security officers or agents wherever they are called the u.s government should to hire your engineer that's my understanding that's what he told me to write code for them or to break into telegram they were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the telegrams app you know on the client side and they were

trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into the Telegram's code that in my understanding would serve as backdoors. Would allow the US government to spy on people who use Telegram. The US government or maybe any other government because a backdoor is a backdoor regardless of who is using it. That's right.

And you're that's a little surprising to hear. Maybe it's not surprising. It's offensive. You're confident that happened? Yes. There is no reason for my engineer to make up the stories. Also because I personally experienced similar pressure in the US. Whenever I would go to the US, I would have

two FBI agents greeting me at the airport asking questions. One time I was having my breakfast at like 9 a.m. and the FBI showed up at my house that I was renting and that was quite surprising and I thought, you know, we're getting too much attention here. It's probably not the best environment to run. Why would they have, had you committed a crime?

No, they were interested to learn more about Telegram. They knew I left Russia. They knew what we were doing, but they wanted details. And my understanding is that they wanted to establish a relationship to, in a way, control Telegram better. I understand they were doing their job. It's just that

For us running a privacy focused social media platform that probably wasn't the best environment to be in. We want to be focused on what we do not on government relations of that sort. What increasingly seems like

is that wherever there is the opportunity for private communication and free speech, your government and their global backers are looking for ways to smear and prevent that from happening. They're looking for ways to undermine it. Any way that you might have potential freedom, via which you might explore alternatives to their tyrannical centralized control, is being endlessly examined and shut down. On the other hand,

Compliant big tech organizations, compliant platforms seem to be able to get away with things that elsewhere might be considered a little bit criminal. Let's have a look at Elon Musk commenting on the story that Meta have been accused of child exploitation.

because he's already caved into censorship pressure. Instagram has a massive child exploitation problem, but no arrest for Zuck as he censors free speech and give governments backdoor access to user data. Now, when you saw Pavel talking about that video,

potential employment at the beginning of the video by the government of one of his former staff members, you'll see how insidious and immersive the attempt are to get absolute control. And if you've watched our content and seen our conversation, for example, with Mike Benz, where he talked about how Serge Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, had their PhD at Stanford, I think funded by a CIA cutout. It's likely that backdoor access to the deep state of big tech platforms is baked into the, uh,

a more diaphanous connection between big tech and government. In short, if a big tech company does not comply with the government, they will face opposition. They will personally smear the founder or use lawfare against them or bring them down in some way so that they can maintain complete control of not

only actual physical space but almost your psychic space the space inside yourself they want to colonize that in the same way that they might have once colonized territory of physical territory

Let's have a look at the news reporting on this child exploitation story. Facebook and Instagram. New Mexico's attorney general is accusing the social media giant and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, of enabling child sex abuse and trafficking on its sites. CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jolynn Kent reports on the undercover investigation that used AI.

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Hey, Awaken Wonders. I hope you're enjoying the additional content, the conversation with Jay Bacharia that's up there right now. And I hope you're enjoying Russell Brand's stand-up breakdown where I analyze stand-up comedy. And with free speech being all over the news, did you watch the Mr. Bean breakdown? I mean,

Mr. Bean's campaigning for free speech. He doesn't speak at all. But Rowan Atkinson recently gave that fantastic talk. Well, it didn't recently, it was about 10 years ago, but it's prescient and relevant today. So if you're a member of Locals, you can watch that right now. And also, if you're a member of Locals, you can,

by emailing the address in the chat, attend my live stand-up shows. There's one coming in a couple of days. As long as you've got the email, you can just show up. It's a live stream show. We'll be streaming it on Locals anyway. It's me, just off the top of my head, sermonizing and speaking about the issues that I believe matter to our community. Click the link in the description. If you're not an awakened wonder yet, become an awakened wonder now. Let's get back to the content.

New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torres says his investigation into Meta found that Facebook and Instagram's algorithms created a marketplace for the sexual exploitation of children. The civil lawsuit alleges Meta enabled adults to find, message, and groom minors, soliciting them to sell pictures or participate in pornographic videos.

Law enforcement set up an undercover operation using test accounts like this one, showing AI-generated photos of a fictional 13-year-old girl from Albuquerque.

The complaint says followers flooded the account with unsolicited messages filled with pictures and videos of genitalia, which she received at least three to four times per week. That would strike me as a parent as a pretty staggering and important issue. And if the genuine concern of the government when pushing for censorship is the protection of children, then surely they'd care about that.

In the same way, they might care, for example, about other aspects of child safety, like their health and the food that they eat. That's why issues are important in this election. And that's why when it comes to censorship, you have to think about who you're granting the authority to censor to. Can you trust them or are they simply using child safety as one of the means for

via which they can gain control over your freedom to communicate. Because if it is actually about child safety, then they should be addressing this issue. Apparently, this has had to be pursued as a civil matter, which is perhaps an indication that legally there was foreclosures of the usual portals that would be pursued. But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments in the chat. Good billionaires, bad billionaires. Good tech billionaires and tech platforms, billionaires.

bad billionaires and tech platforms. I wonder what the continuum and the theme is. I wonder if some people are smeared and condemned and controlled, whereas others are celebrated. I don't know. Look into it. I don't have a great deal of personal experience on the matter. Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat. Now, the DNC may have passed

with little more than fireworks and empty hollow messages only to be near immediately usurped and upstaged by the inclusion of Bobby Kennedy into a potential Trump government that means there is now a genuine anti-establishment movement. But...

the trolling of the Dems inside the DNC continued unabashed and rather brilliantly, if you ask me. Have a look at this compilation from this excellent young comedian approaching, trolling and gently ridiculing people who seem to be unaware of the plain hypocrisy of this institution. The very fact that there don't seem to be any meaningful policies other than the hot

button topics and the bells they continually clang to create the sturm and drang to distract you from the fact that it's the establishment itself that needs to be brought down. Remember, we don't have to all like one another, but we all have to find some unity and love to oppose this globalist institution that seems hell-bent on imposing top-down

Would you rather have a democracy or access to abortions?

Either or. I feel like that's a very tough question to answer. I feel like that's almost not possible to answer. I feel like I couldn't pick one or the other. Even if you had to choose? If I had to choose. Can we get a final answer? I know it's hard. I guess access to abortions. It's Bratz summer. The queen of the Bratz has arrived. Yes, queen.

Do not come. Are you as hard as I am right now? She's something special. Can we please, this year, it'd be so brat, have a higher tax rate for rich white men?

Well, if we have a democratic Congress, we certainly will. Yeah, baby. Tax those rich old whiteys. Come on. Are you worried Donald Trump's going to weaponize the justice system if he gets in power? I'm concerned about Project 2025. And it's important that individuals understand that Project 2025 basically consolidates power in the hands of one dangerous man. And so it's really critically important. You're prosecuting his political enemies. Exactly. Guys, I have to say, you are even more beautiful in person. Oh, I am.

I love him. I love you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Give me your best pickup line. My best pickup line? I'll pay. Who are the cuties in the Democratic Party that are speaking? Oh, no. Talk to anyone who lives in D.C. It's hard to find a cute Democrat.

Oh my god, shots fired. No, I mean that's the tea. Ask anyone who lives in DC and who works in Democratic politics. It's hard to find the cute ones. The Republican guys are hotter? Yeah, but they're evil. So like, I don't know. I don't know. We kind of love evil. Oh my god. You are so bad. It's time to call the red carpet the blue carpet because the conservatives have like literally no cool famous people.

What do you eat after a long day at Congress? Did you get your vasectomy yet? No. Oh, it's gonna be a wild weekend, baby!

Tim Walz has the best shot in Congress. He has the best back shot. One final game. Yes queen or no queen. Okay. I'll give you a yes or no. How about that? Okay. Amazing. Can you do yes queen or no queen? I can't do that. Oh really? Free abortions. Yes queen. Free gender affirming care for migrants. Yes queen.

Child tax credits for dogs. Yes, queen. Ban standardized testing. Yes, queen. Yeah, my ADD is so crazy. Get rid of those things, please. Yes, queen. Amazing. Different tax rate for white men. Yes, queen. Amen. Love you. Love her energy. She's a yes, queener. My girlfriend needs to get an abortion. Could you help me cover it up? Please, I need help. I need to do it the street way.

Oh. So there you go. We have to remain humorous. We have to remember that we are in comedy. And certainly now, perhaps for the first time in a long time, we have something to laugh about. The RFK and Trump alliance is cause for celebration. Those of you that have doubts about Trump, well, for a moment, perhaps put them aside in the same way that a liberal might...

I urge you to hold your nose and vote for Kamala because even though it seems a bit light on policy and a bit empty and hollow and she never gives interviews, you have to do what you can to oppose Trump. I would offer you the exact opposite analysis. Kennedy and Trump together means that we have an opportunity to oppose globalism, corporatism and institutional corruption, which will amalgamate and coalesce power until we have no individual freedom. It will ridicule our values, bewilder us and attack our values.

natural institutions of say family and individual freedom and individual thought and privacy everything is up for grabs as this rapacious machine consumes all before it finally now we have a chance to oppose it and oppose it we must but that's just what i think why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and chat remember if you're not on awake and wonder yet because

come and awaken wonder immediately and watch that brilliant interview with Jay Bacharia let me know what you thought of the John Rich conversation we've got some fantastic contributors coming up this week including a brilliant conversation tomorrow with the great Neil Oliver join me then not Oliver join me then not for more of the same but more of the different until then if you can stay free