Russell Brand: Self - Panelist

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• Self - Panelist : I brought some facts.

• Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  Out of respect for you and your show, I've brought some facts.

  [crowd laughs] 

  Self - Panelist : Would you... If you like... actually...

  host : No, no. You just get the fuck out of here. This is not the place for that.

  [wagging his finger] 

  Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  It could be... unintelligible... facts.

  [crowd laughing] 

  host : No, we love facts. I love facts.

  Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  I wouldn't have mentioned it, I'm English and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion. But they do pertain to this issue, so may I say something?

  host : Please, please do.

  Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  If they inconvenience you, I'll stop saying them. The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires, Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1000 of profit every second from the covid-19 vaccine. More than two thirds of congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election. Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Time magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing a covid vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money. And of course, Pfizer made a hundred billion dollars in profit in 2022...

  host : [interrupting]  alright... okay... alright... alright...

  Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  And may I just mention finally, and this is also a fact, that you, the American public, funded the development of that. The German Republic funded the BioNTech vaccine. When it came to the profits, they took the profits. When it came to the funding, you paid for the funding.

• Self - Panelist : [Russell Brand]  All I'm querying is this. Is if you have an economic system where pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war, where energy companies benefit form energy crises, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis.

• Self - Panelist : [Russell brand]  I've been on that MSNBC, mate, it was propagandist nutcrackery.