The Geopolitics and Empire podcast is joined by Johnny Vedmore.

He's an investigative journalist and musician from Wales.

He writes for a number of outlets, including Whitney Webb's Unlimited Hangout,

for which he wrote the seminal piece, Schwab Family Values.

He just released a 15,000-word investigation title, The Welcome Five,

the proximal origin of COVID control.

Welcome to Geopolitics and empire, Johnny.

How is new normal life in Wales? Yeah, it's all very strange. It's all like, I mean,

everybody's felt it at the moment. And it's really weird to be in the independent media at this

point. This is a real special place to be. This is a real special situation to be in the independent media at this point. This is a real special place to be. This is a real

special situation to be in because we've seen all of this happen. We've followed it. We've,

we've been tracing it as it's happened. We've been uncovering it as it's going. We've been

learning more. We've been uniting that information together

to a wider audience as much as we can. And now that the agenda is, this part of the agenda,

is coming to a abrupt halt. It was around, you know, it was pretty clear that at the end of December,

Omicron was going to burn through the population quite quickly. It wasn't going to be that

bad. Of course, they were putting out all the propaganda, say, in the opposite. And there was

that feeling in January as we were coming up to the New Year's, and as New Year's happened,

that there was really a new beginning starting, something real special, something where we can say,

okay, well, we collated all of this information and this data for the past two years,

and now we're going to hold you to account. And I feel that there's this weird situation.

I mean, in Wales, it's, it's,

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