GoFundMe Freezes Donations with Max Blumenthal

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Russell chats to Max Blumenthal, Editor and investigative journalist at The Grayzone about the politicisation of fundraising as GoFundMe freeze donations to his organisation, citing "external concerns". Max shares his thoughts on what's really going on as well as tell us about his new fundraising efforts to back his team's journalistic work. To support Max and the Grayzone, go to: http://spot.fund/DefendTheGrayzoneAgain Become an Awakened Wonder: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come see me LIVE: https://www.russellbrand.com/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/ WATCH the FULL SHOW: https://bit.ly/stayfree-204-Elon-Prevented-This

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0:00.0	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Over the month of September, I'm doing a handful of live shows that are a combination of spirituality, breath work, individual awakening, community building and challenging authority.
0:11.9	How do you bring down the system while bringing up children?
0:19.9	How do you try to bring down bare grills while you're on running wild with bare grills?
0:24.7	And bear grills is much better at that stuff than you.
0:27.8	How do we find new ways of challenging authority while trying to live normal lives?
0:33.4	So I'll be doing stand up, breath work, meditation as well as conducting polls and votes because I believe democracy works.
0:40.3	Are you happy with your current government? No.
0:42.3	With you live in theatres like Hayes on 12th of September. That's a little intimate London gig.
0:48.3	I'm at Wembley Park Theatre on the 16th of September. Windsor on the 19th September.
0:53.3	Plymouth on the 22nd and Warverhampton on the 28th.
0:57.3	To get tickets, go to Russellbrand.com forward slash live. That's Russellbrand.com forward slash live.
1:02.2	The link is in the description. Stay free.
1:06.6	Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thanks for joining me on our mutual voyage to truth and freedom.
1:12.7	Together, we can create new systems, new communities. We can analyze these extraordinary times together independently.
1:21.5	Those of you watching us from the United States of America take this opportunity to reflect honorably with you on the lives of those lost on
1:29.3	September the 11th in particular, someone who behaved so astonishingly at the time was as well
1:33.9	I was a crazy young man back then. Some of you'll be aware of my mad behavior on MTV way back in
1:40.1	those days and now I'm able to share with you in acknowledging the horror of those events
1:46.5	and actually look at them from a new perspective, how it changed history, how it ordered our
1:53.0	perception of the world, how it was utilised, how the Patriot Act was mobilised, how the war in Iraq
1:59.2	came about as a result of those tragic events.
2:02.9	We're looking also today at the new revelations that Musk prevented a Ukraine attack on Russia last year because of these, what's it called?
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