IMMINENT THREAT! “They’re Coming For The CONSTITUTION!” America’s WAR On Freedom Of Speech – SF455
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Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. We begin the show, of course, with a deep prayer so that on some level, at least, the divine and sacred forces that undergird all reality may join us as the world slides deeper into an unrecognizable form of madness. Have you ever known a crazier, wilder time, a giddier time, a

a time where people make claims that are verifiably untrue. We're going to just pause for a moment to look at Kamala Harris's no troops in a combat zone rhetoric. We're going to be talking about the attack on the New York Constitution. We're going to be talking about whose misinformation is the worst misinformation and the length that the legacy media will go to to discredit Bobby Kennedy. In any sensible world, the legacy media would right now be saying there is at last a peripheral alliance attacking the establishment.

People and movements and groups from across the political spectrum are aligning in alliance against what appears to be an attempt to establish technological feudalism of an unprecedented degree. The old school liberals, scamper and type, trying to justify clinging on to the coattails of Kamala as she marches with macabre,

Trudeau, Starmer et al. towards the technological feudalism that they crave. The last line of defence is you. It is down to you and I, quite literally, with all of our flaws, with the knowledge of all of our failings, to stand up against this extraordinary, unprecedented wave of dark globalist power. But fortunately, there are some things to be optimistic about. For example, Joy Behar doesn't

seem to be able to intimidate usher into saying that he's gonna vote for kamala well done usher thank you for staying true we'll be talking to you awake and wonders remember to let me know in the comments and chat about some fantastic offerings that are coming up including in our

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media history. Before we get into all that, I'd like to reassure you that there are no... This is particularly going out to troops in combat zones around the world. You don't exist and you certainly do not matter.

Well, I'll tell you, I agreed with President Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did. And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war. And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, the first time this century. Wait, what?

But let's understand. So where the fuck are we right now?

that is going to be very difficult to continue to condemn donald trump for his terrible attitude towards the military or his lack of respect towards veterans while that clip exists out there made for troops by troops it's going to be difficult i would have thought for hillary clinton to continue to condemn those americans that are spreading propaganda while we have a woman who's campaigning to be president lying to troops about their whereabouts that's

This is why a clip like that shows you why there is an increase in censorship. If they had total control of X and meta, etc., then that's the very kind of clip that would be discredited and condemned as misinformation. Certainly, Hillary Clinton wants to create criminal charges and civil penalties against Americans that engage in spreading propaganda. And you can bet that

that the clip we've just watched would qualify as misinformation under the definition of Hillary Clinton. Let's have a look. Just as Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in...

direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016. But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged.

is something that would be a better deterrence because that's extraordinary isn't it the attempt to criminalize all inconvenience is one of the hallmarks of this new regime that we face we want the ability to enforce vague laws keep them vague so that we can use them only when we need to

I had a brilliant conversation with Majid Nawaz about that very subject. It's a brilliant conversation between a British Muslim

and, well, me, I'm the other person in the conversation, because you get to tackle some of the social tensions and the ideas around them, including migration, Islam, Christianity, secularism, the growing social tensions in my country, but I don't know what immigration is like in your country. I suspect it's something you care about. For this month, for the next week only, if you use the code NAWAS, N-A-W-A-Z, then you get one month free.

for free. So please, if you want to become an Awaken one, then get access to our content. Please use that. If I needed to make that any simpler for you and make it a little more patronizing, I could always lean on the skills of Tim Waltz's wife.

Who can make any information at all in the world seem so simple, so accessible? Let us turn a new page together into the great encyclopedia of corruption that the globalists want us all to be staggering about beneath the weight of. The image I'm using is, you know, when people carry a book on their head at some sort of finishing school. You've seen things like that. But I kind of liked it when she did this.

I remember not liking that. I remember feeling patronised by that. I remember thinking this is one of those things they think is really clever and that they're going to repeat ad infinitum, believing it to be some sort of catchy little motif that we're all going to be sort of swept away.

want to turn the page on my life. Things have gotten a little bit tiresome. It is like that. Life is like a book where you can turn pages. This is the ongoing infantilization of the electorate, whereas independent media grants us the opportunity for open discourse, sometimes carooming and rambling, but also

always respectful. I hope on this channel, for example, we always approach our conversation as equals, communicating often on subjects we disagree. That's why you'd like that Majid Nawaz conversation, because I know loads of you will disagree with loads of it. Like with the Matt Walsh conversation I had previously. In fact, isn't instantaneous communication and the miracle of a kind of omnipresent communication network that isn't

part of that the recognition that there are no longer polarizing discourses there are nebulous networks of agreement that can

appear and i uh appear and become uh not enforced or imposed what i want to say that can be developed in order to impose oppose centralism that's why i'm so excited about bobby kennedy joining the trump movement that's why i'm excited about tulsi gabbard joining the movement and there are two stories about each of them coming up before we leave you on youtube we'll be off in about four

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So I need you to be with me and practice with me. What are we going to do? We're going to turn the page. Oh, pretty good. Do it again. We're going to turn the page. And we're going to turn.

We're going to actually disobey. We're going to disobey en masse. We're going to oppose. We're going to refuse to listen to your propaganda and your prejudice. We're going to refuse to let your sort of cosy affability and your tubby hubby make us believe that we're on the side of the righteous.

We shall recognize this project of infantilization for what it is, an attempt to paternalize the entire planet. You know that care and control have a crossover. We really care for you so much. We don't want you to get this virus. So maybe if you take this medication, maybe if you stay in your house, maybe if you live the rest of your life like a little mouse, turn

Turn the page. We're going to be watching you because when I see Wisconsin... Which if we lose, it's impossible for us to gain the White House. And I'm going to watch you nationally on TV because it's a pretty important place and Minnesota will help you practice it with this. You just show me this. Turn the page. Right? Turn the page. And you know what else that looks like? Bye. Bye-bye, old trout. We are turning the page!

Thank you.

That disgusts me. I actually find that disgusting. I'm not easily disgusted, am I? I've got quite a strong stomach. I lived quite a life as a younger man. But that actually disgusted me. Here's MSNBC calling 72 million Trump supporters despicable. They've learned nothing from the basket of deplorables, except they need a deeper, thicker weave in which to...

carry half the population, or at least half the voting population, off to hell in a handcart inn. Let's have a look at that. Also, to do things, Ellie, that one would think are career-ending. The way he desecrated Arlington National Cemetery would be career-ending for a normal politician. His constant... I've seen over a point on that. I've seen that

they were doing some photographs and they were invited by veterans families to do that. I saw the moment when he said blah blah blah blah blah where he was talking about tariffs with China. I've seen the moment where he said dictate it for a day. He was talking about drilling and building the wall. If you are actually watching enough media it's impossible to believe in this stuff. I know that other perspectives are available on what I'm saying. You could watch Benny Johnson. You could watch Dave Packman. You could watch that guy. What's he called? Kyle who's married to the lady at a breaking point. I can't memorize that dude's name. There are

other people with different political perspectives and i believe that you should absorb them and beyond political spiritual look beyond the narrow purview of materialism and rationalism that even this space offers you but what i can tell you certainly is the way that you receive information on msnbc is pre-chewed to the degree where if you spat it into a baby bird's mouth you'd risk patronizing constant lies but even this piece about saying well my building was the tall

until, you know, they brought down the World Trade Center. Now it's a second time. I mean, everything he does is despicable. The reason why it doesn't end his career is because his supporters are just as despicable. All right. Like Trump's whole thing. He's a narcissist. Right. And so his whole thing is to have a complete lack of compassion and empathy for everybody else. It's all. How?

I would say there's a pretty lacking in compassion and empathy to say that only because you are certain that you're saying it in an echo chamber.

A silo of continual approval because that's something to me. When I went to like Cheesecake Factory in a mall in Sarasota, delicious, by the way, I was thinking these people are Trump supporters. It's not all like red hat, MAGA wearing, like a painted chest, fully down with it. The people that are mayor of the RNC, who are also pretty lovely as well, by the way. It's about ordinary Americans that are probably concerned about

as I am, about the trend towards globalism within the Democratic Party that is being masked with issues that centre on ethnicity and vulnerability, about which, by the way, I don't think they actually care either. So to make that statement that the narcissist's traits are an inability to empathise, which is a clinically relatively accurate definition of that particular phenomenon,

pathology, to make that condemnation is in itself, ironically, narcissistic. All about him. That's why he lies about 9-11. It's all about him, him, him, me, me, me. He's probably the least compassionate president we've had in 200 years since Andrew Jackson. That's interesting, isn't it? Because you're going to have to think about...

some of the numerous like i mean let's say barack obama really brilliant public orator excellent communicator really interesting personal history up through the legal system and education system but you know the bombing of syria that's pretty you know and then to sort of out of office just straight into netflix production or like you know even someone adorable like

Jimmy Carter, who is really willing to put his principles ahead of political expedience, for example, with the hostage negotiation around the Iranian embassy stuff, he still is participating. And that's before you get into your Nixons and your W Bushes and your Bill Clintons, who literally ejaculated his way through eight years in office. It's a

an outrageous claim. And I wonder what these people thought of Donald Trump when he was just cropping up on The View, because people seemed, by and large, to think he was a pretty nice chap. - It works for him because his supporters are just as ungenerous.

and have just as little compassion and empathy for others. So when he is seen out there, essentially, as you guys have put it, desecrating our national symbols, when he is seen out there putting himself above all else, his support...

It's interesting that while the claim is being made of the desecration of national symbols, their legacy media are literally questioning the legitimacy of the constitution itself, which is beyond a national symbol. It's a national artifact. And when you consider the ongoing iconoclasm when it comes to the hauling down of statues, it's an odd phenomenon.

argument to make and when you consider even from what we've been talking about today kamala harris saying there are no american troops in combat zones anywhere in the world a point that's not being refuted by a political opponent but by the troops themselves you have to consider that this narcissism's insidious reach may be in places where this particular pundit is not looking for it hey if you're watching this on youtube you're gonna have to click the link in the description we are

you. Not because we don't adore you and love you. Of course we do. And over the course of the next hour, we've got some brilliant stuff. We've got Bill Maher calling Trump an abomination. We've got Musk's outcry against declining fertility rates. We've got the brilliant John Mersheimer and Jeffrey Sachs talking about why Kamala's on

Thank you.

His supporters also want that to be the case. They want to do that in their own lives. That's how they think of themselves. And that's why it never hurts Trump when he takes these crass asses

classless actions is because his supporters think that being crass and classless is actually kind of cool. Yeah, and they also he hates the people they hate so when he makes up this idea that these Muslims in New Jersey were cheering and they're Americans in New Jersey cheering supposedly for the towers to come down he's like well yeah because my supporters don't like them right the same way. This is the precursor

This isn't the kind of conversation that's going to bring about peace. Let's immediately turn to prayer. For all of the people, Joy Reid and the other contributors, I pray for the highest possible outcomes for all of them. I pray that we find common ground. I pray that peace between us all emerges as a result of this election. I mean that most sincerely. Amen. You know, things are pretty tricky in our country as well. I mean, I'm holding back tears as I tell you this, but do you know that...

Our Prime Minister, what's that guy's name? Keir Starmer and his wife. What do they believe in? I mean, whatever's necessary. Well, they haven't got, it's difficult to say this, because I know you're suffering, aren't you? Are you paying a lot for your groceries? Can you afford your medications? Are you sick and tired of funding wars around the world, massacre and death, wherever you look? Well, spare a moment for Keir Starmer, who's dedicated his life to various incarnations of authoritarianism in the deep state. Him and his wife can scarcely afford new threads. I recognise that.

But I also recognize that...

I also recognise that in our country, there isn't a budget for the prime minister's clothes or his wife's clothes. In some countries, there's a substantial budget. I've just come back from America where there is a substantial budget to ensure that the US president and the first lady, their appearance matters.

can never be challenged. That is not the case in our country. That doesn't seem like a good use of resources. Maybe you should look into that in your country if that's true. I'm sure it is true. Let's have a look here at Joy Behar. You know, off The View. Joy Behar. Like, our show was on there recently and they're pretty keen for The View, which, by the way, 20 years ago, I feel like I could...

I could go in there and talk about... I think I was in there talking about Innocuous stuff. It was like pretty...

elastic, trivial, and light. Now, everything, everything's so hotly politicized, our whole cultural space, febrile and oppositionist. - In this emergency that we're in, I think that the Who's artists just come out and speak for Kamala against Donald Trump, 'cause he is an existential threat to the country. What do you say to that? - You know what, I don't get too deep into politics. I didn't get a chance to watch the debate last night. I obviously have been watching

say it say it's an existential threat so it's an existential it's like so easy isn't it i said easy and necessary like from particularly now like taylor swift's invaluable endorsement has been offered to kamala the assumption is that that's just the standard position for a a pop star or a cultural figure but i'm not just saying this because it's not the world i exist in anymore i'm wondering if did let me know in the comments in the chat do you care what

famous people think about politics. I know that I'm sort of a famous person talking about politics, but...

I really don't expect you to care. And I, you know, like this, this, isn't this Dave Chappelle's jar rule on 9-11 moment all over again? Do any of us care? I mean, is it not really evident that Taylor Swift would be a conservative? I don't mean culturally or socially conservative. I mean, conservative in the sense of would want things to stay the way they are because she's,

operating in a very particular cultural space of making significant money from a very particular set of systems taylor swift's hardly gonna be taking out some flaming sword of justice thrashing away at the citadel of corruption that affords taylor swift her income that's not condemnation of taylor swift it's a suggestion that we don't need to pay

pay too much attention when it comes to anything other than songs about, you know, heartbreak and the other stuff. Some of which, by the way, seems to be getting weirder. My kids would listen to it every day. I was thinking, I don't know about this. Some of it seemed, I would say, borderline Luciferian. Like everybody else, I think voting is an individual choice. And I think that...

You're right. You have to look at the reality of the country that we are and the country that we want to be and find the candidate that you feel both are who fits the category of where we want to be. And that's it. And that's what you vote based off of who you highlight and how you choose to highlight it on whatever platform you have is your prerogative. Yes.

Usher there running the clock down. You can vote for whoever you want to like you used to be able to in, I don't know, the 90s. Now the 90s no more, Usher. Now you have to come out and condemn people and say stuff. I like older Usher, by the way. So seeing Usher, he was always just young. That's the first time I've seen Usher since then. That's the first I've seen him without a singlet on.

All right. So Bill Maher continues to be on a journey of many vicissitudes when it comes to his political alliances. He was once the epitome of the vocal Democrat on TV advocating for Joe Biden. Better dead Joe Biden than a living Donald Trump, he once said. But through his podcast and through various conversations with figures from alternative media spaces, we've witnessed Bill Maher transform democracy.

say that perhaps everything in the pandemic period wasn't exactly as we were told, that maybe mistakes were made, that maybe these endless wars could be inquired into. Well, nevertheless, when it comes to it, Bill Maher still believes that Kamala Harris is going to win the election and that Donald Trump,

like the host of The View would believe, is an abomination. There's a lot of people in this country who are tired of the hate and the hating, and I am one of them. I don't want to hate half the country, and I don't hate half the country. I would never vote for Trump, and I think he's an abomination. And Kamala, you know... You know, there's no evidence at all that he's an abomination.

It's interesting to hear people in alternative media spaces, even if they are legacy media figures, calling for an end to hate. While on MSNBC, 72 million Trump supporters have just been referred to as narcissists in that segment. What interests me about this is that

far from alternative media being the extreme and misinformation laden space that the legacy media and their online affiliates would have you believe is indeed the mainstream that is the place that houses most contentious and more extreme views perhaps that's one of the big changes we're experiencing now only perhaps on MSNBC would you have a pundit saying Donald Trump and his supporters are narcissists which is a

Pretty serious condition, actually, adjacent to being a straight up and down psychopath, which, well, given that they've spent a significant time calling Trump the closest thing our century has to Adolf Hitler, even psychopath is an upgrade on that when it comes to an adjective. So what I would say...

or now, I suppose, in that context. What I would say is that when there have been pretty regular assassination attempts now, relatively regular, there's been a couple of them, no sense that they're going to dry up anytime soon, and all of the information is either immediately extracted and scrubbed, or the information that's available in the case of the second assassination attempt is highly evocative and suspicious,

Seems like what Bill Maher is calling for, an end to hatred, seems pretty sensible. In fact, the conversation between Bill Maher and Jordan Peterson is at least the conversational equivalent of a kind of easy truce. It's at least, I would say, a furthering of the emergence of the spaces that are going to need to become better furnished and better evolved.

if we are to have a healthy dialogue. Do I have to love everything? No, and it's fine. And I thought she was great last night, and I can't be more thrilled that I would put my money on that she's going to win the election.

But I don't hold my tongue about what is insane about the other side because it is it's not nearly as threatening as not conceding elections Which Trump does not do so that's where I am on that, but I also understand that Trump I think will go away After this I think he's kind of finally reached his Joe McCarthy stage where it's like people are tired of it and

It just took longer. But Trumpism won't go away. And I would define Trumpism as a fear of the insanity of the far left, which is not completely unjustified.

And therefore, anyone is better than that. And Trump proves it because he is that anyone. Hmm. Isn't that extraordinary? But at this point, what is what is the information that's permissible? Like if we want to extract Trump from the conversation because he is the font and cause of all incendiary discourse and all cultural conflict, then what is it?

that Antony Blinken requires of us, as he suggests a global censorship campaign to pressure countries into censoring Russian media. Do we want less conversation and more censorship right when it seems that Trump

is the candidate, certainly in this election, that is most likely to facilitate peace between Russia and Ukraine. Let's have a look at, in relation to what Bill Maher just said about the sort of climate of hate, there only is any one thing that's worse than the cultural climate of hate, and that's nuclear war, the manifestation of hatred.

And any blink in here wants to censor all Russian media. And I would say the ongoing adversarial attitude towards Russia, whether it's allowing missile strikes that are ultimately NATO missile strikes deeper inside their nation or censoring all their media is a step in exactly the wrong direction. Let's have a look. "Response today, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada

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to share the evidence that we've gathered on RT's expanded capabilities and the ways it's being used to target individual countries and the information ecosystem that we share. Now, each government of course is going to decide how it responds to this threat, but we urge every ally, every partner, to start by treating RT's activities as they do other intelligence activities by Russia within their borders.

Now let me be very clear, the United States respects and champions freedom of expression.

We really champion it when we're endorsing and enforcing global censorship, when we're claiming that we want to bring about cultural and social peace while shutting down half the country and condemning them as narcissists. We believe in peace and open discourse and free speech so strongly that when it comes to legislation and the advancing of our political purview, we can afford to do the exact opposite. So whether or not it's

Bill Maher claiming that Trump is a spent political force, that Kamala will win and this will all girt a new age, turning off the page. Or it's the American various state departments continuing to ignore the threat of Armageddon. It seems to me that change is...

is required and we cannot trust the current cabal of globalists with that change but that's just what i think why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat remember becoming awakened wonders to get access to a wide variety of fantastic content here's just a moment of one of my fantastic bibles it was not fantastic bible study it's an insightful brilliant and enjoyable bible study have a little look at this paul

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Why don't we for a moment reflect on that? These are two. Here are two of the best academics on the subject of geopolitics, politics, excuse me, and war in the space right now. John Mearsheimer, who will just flatly tell you, no, don't do that. That will lead to a nuclear war. That's the history of Russia's various wars across the last century. This is how they respond in these situations. Or Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs was one of the first people to say, oh,

I think the CIA were involved in that coup in 2014. The two of them have finally got together like some academic super band, like cream itself to talk about the fact that there is no anomaly in Cheney support in Kamala because it's war, war and yet more war, a war that we could potentially avoid by endorsing even more,

particularly unusual new alliances. Let's have a look at that now. I think it's obvious there's basically one deep state party

And that is the party of Cheney, Harris, Biden, Victoria Nuland, my colleague at Columbia University now. And Nuland is kind of the face of all of this because she has been in every administration for the last 30 years. She was in the Clinton administration wrecking our policies towards Russia in the 1990s.

She was in the Bush administration. See how extraordinary it is to have this kind of media. Now, this is like some sort of symposium held presumably in the outer reaches of academia or some sort of conference somewhere. And you have these brilliant academics explaining to you

Victoria Nuland is. Now I know you know who Victoria Nuland is, that she's worked for successive administrations, that she's advocated for war, that she knew about the bases, the CIA bases in Ukraine, that she's clearly part of the cartilage that exists between globalism, the deep state and the government, that she's one of the funnels of taxpayer money that ends up in the pockets and in the stock price bottom line of military industrial complex companies. But now in 2024 we are

all know their names. We know how it works. And this is one of the miracles of modern media because that conversation, maybe there were 500 people in attendance. I don't know. Maybe they did it at a stadium. But what we have now is the opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people, maybe even millions of people to participate in a discourse that would otherwise have been most esoteric and includes, I would say, very...

...accurate diagnostics of the reason we have a military-industrial complex, the reason we have an American foreign policy that we have, the reason we have a NATO that seems to be opposed to peace rather than pro-peace. Well, these are the parts of the miracles of the online space that we should all be grateful for, in particular for John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sands. ...Junior with Cheney wrecking our policies towards NATO enlargement...

She was in then the Obama administration as Hillary's spokesperson first and then making a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. Not a great move. Started a war. Then she was Biden's...

Undersecretary of State. Now, that's both parties. It's a colossal mess. And she's been Cheney's advisor. She's been Biden's advisor. She and makes perfect sense. This is the reality. We're trying to find out if there's another party. That's the big question.

John, what's your thought on that? Do you see any difference between Republicans and Democrats? No, I like to refer to the Republicans and the Democrats as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. There's hardly any difference. I actually think the one exception is that

former President Trump when he became president in 2017 was bent on beating back the deep state and becoming a different kind of leader on the foreign policy front but he basically failed and he is vowed that if he gets elected this time it will be different and he will beat back the deep state he will pursue a foreign policy that's fundamentally different

than Republicans and Democrats have pursued up to now. And the big question on the table is whether or not you think Trump can beat the deep state and these two established parties. And I'd bet against Trump. What an extraordinary conversation. How beautiful it is to see lucidly described the connection between Kamala Harris and the Chinese and Victoria Nuland and how globalism works. It's not just a conspiracy word. It's not just an alt-right conspiracy.

It's not a word that means that people have taken leave of their senses and replaced their rather lovely wide brim hat with a tin foil hat. What this kind of conversation gives us access to is the receipts and back channels through which power is established, through which war is perpetuated, through which information is controlled. And I'm personally extraordinarily grateful that these kind of media spaces exist so that academics and bold

individuals that are willing to communicate truthfully are platformed in a way that keeps all

all of us well educated and well armed for the conversations coming up that are only going to get more complex in the run-up to the election but that's just what i think why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat remember to like and subscribe wherever you're watching this if you're watching this in our wonderful home of rumble subscribe on rumble like get involved in the chat if you're watching on youtube turn on that notification bell it's the only way they'll let you know that this is happening because as you know

The legacy media is in full flight. It's flight, fight, freeze mentality now. The New York Times has gone, I don't want to say full, am I going to say full? Full asterisk tarred with their claim that the Constitution itself is dangerous. Now, it's one thing to pull down a statue. It's another thing to pull down the founding documents of an entire nation.

What does it mean for American culture when the New York Times attacks the Constitution and it's left to that great new monolith within the alternative media space, although it's no longer the alternative, is it? Let's face it, this is the new mainstream. Joe Rogan to defend the Constitution against the New York Times. Let's have a look. Oh yeah, of course. The Constitution is sacred. Is it also dangerous?

Right. One of the biggest threats to America politics might be the country's founding document. What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. One of the biggest threats to America's politics?

Might be one of the greatest documents that any country was ever founded on if not the greatest ever Mm-hmm, that could be a threat to America's politics. What politics are we talking about? Like what how could you possibly? Gaslight me enough to go along with you on this. Yeah, it it's incredible I mean it's on the one hand completely predictable right right because there's obviously an authoritarian force there that just

grinds its teeth at night over the Constitution and the fact that it prevents it from doing things that it just wants to do last week, you know? Remember, me and Brett Weinstein on the 29th will be appearing in Washington at

The rally he's organized, which includes Bobby Kennedy. Have a look at the poster now. There we are. I'll be there along with many others on that magical boat. Do join us if you can. Let's get back to Joe Rogan's ire with Brett Weinstein on this matter. And so, of course, they're like scratching their heads. Like, can we come up with an argument for why it might be time to get rid of that thing? And, of course, if you're a normal thinking person, this is complete insanity. But...

If you're a New York Times reader, I'm sure that fits with the kind of ethos that's been cultivated. Well, this is why a person like Trump is so important to them. Because if you don't have someone that is an imminent threat on the horizon in three months, it's very difficult to justify all this shit. So if you have Kamala Harris and she's competing against Ron DeSantis, if it's just Kamala Harris and Ron DeSantis and Trump doesn't exist, maybe he died.

Maybe he died in the last few years. You know? How could you... You wouldn't be able to make that argument. You wouldn't... There's no imminent threat. Right. Right? Let's say Mitt Romney. Let's say someone even more moderate as a Republican. Yep. Even more palatable. You can't make that argument that we don't need... We can't have a First Amendment because the First Amendment is getting in the way. The First Amendment is allowing people to say things that aren't true, misinformation and disinformation, and...

You know, right here, we're September 2nd. I think yesterday was the first day where Brazil banned Twitter. I know. So X is illegal to have in Brazil as of today, as of yesterday. And not only is it illegal, but you go through it through a VPN and they will charge you $8,000 a day.

I know. It's incredible that we are watching this. Insane. At this point, how can you continue to ignore the evident and obvious fact that we are in a type of global war when it comes to freedom of speech, when it comes to the right to protest, when it comes to the right to communicate freely, when it comes to the right to actually be a free citizen? I see now...

the coalescence and connection between advancing geopolitical crises, the utilisation of health crises, the advancing of authoritarianism, and now the attack on even the undergirding documents of national democracies or republicanism, depending on how you see it. What we are moving towards is a late phase in national sovereignty and an advance towards globalism, where the power of groups like the WEF, NATO, WHO, IMF,

It becomes yet more explicit, yet more immersive, where they legislate and control on behalf of governments that you elected to deploy laws that you may not agree with, but you'll definitely fund. But that's just what I think. Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat. If you're watching this on YouTube, remember, turn on the notification bell. And if you're watching us on Rumble, our great and glorious home,

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They have a pound sign that goes down and down and down. Siv! Apostrophe S's. I like that apostrophe S's bit. I remember watching that as a kid and thinking, oh yeah, he's describing the pound signs and the apostrophe S's. Isn't it amazing? Amidst all them people, you probably did your read about Julie Waters and Robbie Coltrane, the great footballer from Liverpool and Scotland, Ian St John and Ringo, man, out of the Beatles, who also name drop. When I met him at Arlowe's, he goes...

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Isn't that fantastic? Now, I'm very proud to show you some exclusive first look footage of our Oracle series. In our Oracle series, we bring together experts on a variety of subjects to get right into it when it comes to the most difficult and contentious subjects of our time. We've already made an episode on the military industrial complex and the deep state. And it's this episode that I want to show you an exclusive clip of. I spoke to Max Blumenthal.

the incomparable Mike Benz and the brilliant Kim Iverson about the recent assassination attempt and the extraordinary connections that Ryan Ruth has. That he's definitely someone that will be on FBI watch lists. It's inconceivable that he wouldn't be. He's been to the Ukraine, he's been recruiting people. What an extraordinary individual he is. To get Mike

Mike Benz's insights and Max Blumenfeld's insights is fantastic. Have a look at this exclusive bit of our Oracle series and let me know if you've seen better insight and commentary into the Ryan Roof assassination attempt than this. You know, the fact is, is what this guy was doing. You know, he's obviously something of a crazy person.

And the way that I currently see it, just based on extremely preliminary research, is that this guy appeared to have been some sort of –

As I see it, it appears likely that this person was some sort of subcontractor of a subcontractor for the for the recruitment effort to bring people from Pakistan to Ukraine. Now, there was a big influx after 2014 of ISIS fighters to to Ukraine. They're basically trying to stuff up bodies there.

almost for the past seven years, to try to top up the ability for the Kiev government to retake eastern Ukraine. And the idea that this person was just a humble construction worker from North Carolina, this guy was involved in the mass acquisition of passports from people from the most intense CIA conflict zones,

that we have. And his whole Facebook, I've archived hundreds of these posts where he's talking about, I've got thousands of passports. Send me your passport. Send me your passport. I need your passport because the only way I can bring you is there is if you, is to get you a visa is if you send me over WhatsApp a copy of your passport. His website actually has instructions for all these ISIS fighters effectively.

to come to Ukraine saying, don't talk to your local embassy. He says this twice on his website, big, bold, all caps, do not talk to your local embassy first. Literally, send me your passport info, get on a plane, go straight to Ukraine or go to Poland and then take a bus to Ukraine. Don't tell anybody, it's...

And when you understand, so, you know, I talked about this last night, but there's a whistleblower named Michael Springman, who is the chief of the visa division of the JEDA consulate, the U.S. State Department's JEDA consulate in Saudi Arabia, in the romp to 9-11. And he wrote a book called Visas for Terrorists.

And it was about how everybody around him at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah was working for the CIA. The CIA is basically the underside of the State Department. They just do the covert work, the plausibly deniable work that the State Department wants to do but has to effectively outsource to them.

And so he was talking about how basically everybody else at the embassy, everybody else at the consulate was CIA, including his State Department boss, who was also working for the CIA. And remember, at the time in Saudi Arabia, John Brennan was the head, was the chief of station for the CIA in Saudi Arabia. John Brennan would then go on to be the head of the CIA, the entire CIA for the Obama administration.

But in this book, Visas for Terrorists, he talks about how people were showing up with shady or fraudulent passports and that he was told by the by the CIA folks around him and by his by his boss, who is the again working with the Saudi CIA there to issue these no look passports.

visas to fraudulent passports in order to bring people to the United States, bring terrorists to the United States for military training, to move terrorists around the world. And this guy, Ryan Ruth,

appeared to be doing the exact same thing. In fact, some of his posts even show that he appeared to have been working with, in his own words, the U.S. embassy in Kiev. So this guy is working with the State Department. He's doing effectively military intelligence, human trafficking of terrorists, and he's even back-channeling to get no-look visas for these terrorists. So it's

You know, it's it's kind of extraordinary how deep the rabbit hole goes on this. I don't think he would have been formally employed by the agency. I think the agency worked with subcontractor. The subcontractor worked with dozens or maybe hundreds of people like Ryan Ruth, whose jobs were to scour Telegram and social media and WhatsApp for interested people from the Arab world to to come to Ukraine to provide additional human resources.

cannon fodder for the war on Russia. Max, it seems extraordinary that within 24 hours Mike can have accumulated such an extraordinary litany of insights with regard to what's essentially a breaking news story. And it's a further indication that there are sets of relationships now that are established that are going to be

increasingly difficult to conceal. Your investigative work, as Mike alluded to at the early part of his answer, has brought you to, it seems, a great deal of personal risk. And I wonder, as you continue to report on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, escalating crisis in the Middle East and various geopolitical issues, if you feel that the way that these stories are unfolding, and I mentioned this to Kim just prior to your arrival, particularly as we

approach the election. Do you get the sense that the consequences for people like you that openly communicate about these matters might get even harsher? And also, how do you continue to remain sanguine and rational when reporting on matters that even just quietly listening for the first 15 minutes here induces in me a kind of yawning terror? Well, yawning is...

uh, the operative word there 'cause I got my time zones mixed up, so I haven't had my coffee yet, so I might not be as sharp as your other guests. Um, you know, and Mike did a really good job of framing Ryan Ruth as someone who could not have possibly had their hands clean of government contacts. There's simply no way. And, I mean, I was just, uh, this morning

trying to plow through the rest of his book, "Unwinnable War," a 291-page de facto manifesto that he put for sale for three bucks on Amazon. And I was able to glean a lot of insights into his thinking last night. But then today, I just came across a page where he's posing with José Andrés of World Central Kitchen, who's a very close ally of the Biden administration, of Tony Blinken. He's a State Department culinary ambassador.

At a major USAID event where they were rolling out new technology for the Ukrainian, for Ukrainian citizens that, you know, was deeply dystopian. I can talk about that in a second. Jose Andres was seated right in front of me in a VIP seat. And then there he is in Kiev with Ryan Ruth sitting.

Ryan Ruth was, you know, definitely mentally unstable. But I think we need to put him into a larger context here of other people who were mentally unstable, who were attracted to the Ukrainian battlefield, who were also grifters,

kooks, mercenaries, killers. Some of them were actually fleeing murder charges in the US, as we've reported, at the Gray Zone. And they all flocked to something called the International Legion or the Georgian Legion, which is run by a Georgian warlord named Mamula Mamashvili, who himself is a CIA... He's for sure a CIA asset. He has meetings on

Capitol Hill with top lawmakers, military officials, goes on tours of the U.S., has a special visa to travel around the U.S. He's a proxy that has been used in the war on Russia. And he's someone who's accused by eyewitnesses

And Ivan Kachanovsky, who's written this peer-reviewed paper on the Maidan assassination that drove the bloodshed in the Maidan Square in 2014 and led to the ouster of the elected president and the current regime coming into power, the nationalist oligarchic regime coming into power in Ukraine, basically setting the stage for war. There was this series of massacres of protesters in the square

Many people were saying, well, the fire was coming from a hotel controlled by the opposition side, the Ukrainian nationalist side. And this guy, Mamula Mamashvili, is implicated in bringing snipers there, Georgian snipers. There's so much material on this. So this is the guy who runs the Georgian Legion. And Ryan Ruth comes to Ukraine through this, along with, as I said, killers, like people who are fleeing murder charges in the U.S., white supremacists,

Other people like Malcolm Nance, who are fanatical, you know, resist Trump, MSNBC, NatSec commentator, who, according to Ruth's book, appears to have been friends with him. And it's in this context that I think Ruth was kind of radicalized and decided that he was going to, my theory, which seems pretty plausible, is

He decided that while he wanted to assassinate Putin, he talks about this at length in the book, the easier thing would be to assassinate Donald Trump, especially after a major security breach or having another would-be assassin expose how weak Donald Trump's security was. He managed to get 300 yards from Trump at his personal golf course. This is someone who's been around people with weapons. So...

We have to learn more about what the government knew because Ryan Ruth would be the perfect person for the FBI to follow around because he has so many contacts and for other intelligence agencies to follow around. He's gathering so many contacts. Today, I found a page that Ryan Ruth runs called

called the Taiwan International Legion. And he was trying to raise up an army of volunteers from Ukraine to move to Taiwan, where he thinks the next conflict will be with China over the Taiwan Strait. He puts the contact info of all sorts of people, including people from the Middle East that he has brought to Ukraine up on that page. It's archived. It's still live. Anyone can look at it. Go call some of those contacts. He has

journalistic contacts, from NBC, from Newsweek. This is someone who is in the mix, who is very motivated, and then he's back, he's, you know, flying back to the U.S. He has a background, as you probably already mentioned, of someone who held, who was arrested after a hostage standoff in 2002, or some kind of armed standoff where he barricaded himself in a building with an assault weapon.

How is he getting around? Who's following him? Did the FBI encourage him in any way in his activities? What did they know about him going to the Trump residence? These are key questions. And I think one area where we can learn a lot

is through direct messages on Twitter where Ryan Ruth maintained a prolific presence. And who controls those direct messages? Who has access to them? Well, we're told as Twitter X users by Elon Musk's new regime that they have access to our DMs and can read them at any time. Ryan Ruth's account was nuked on this supposed free speech platform. We don't know what happened to the DMs.

But presumably these would be in Elon's possession, just like the Twitter files were, and we would know who he was communicating with and how. So I think there's a lot that the public should know, and there's a lot clearly that the government wants to cover up, which is why they nuked all of his social media accounts.

I shudder to think what you might be capable of after a double espresso, Max. That was incredible insights there. Thank you for joining us today. Remember, that will be coming soon. That's our Oracle series. There's already so much fantastic stuff.

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