A Few Examples Of How The Lockdowns — Not the Virus — Are Destroying Society
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Summary
The lockdown is there for its own sake, not for our own benefit. It's a worldview, a belief system, a way of life, an ideology, a religion. And I think that's one of the worst things about it. I'll give you some examples.
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Hello, my Rebels. I've got a compendium of stories for you today.
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They might seem unrelated, but I have a common theme.
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And that is the virus isn't destroying our society.
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But the lockdowns are because they're destroying our bonds of friendship and neighborliness.
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And I think that's one of the worst things about it.
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I'll give you these examples and I'll read some news clippings and I'll show you some things.
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Tonight, a few examples of how the lockdowns, not the virus, are destroying our society.
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It's February 19th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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The COVID-19 virus has not destroyed our society.
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It has been named as the cause of death for 21,000 Canadians,
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though there is reason to doubt that all of those people died from the virus as opposed to dying from another cause,
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but also having the virus at the time of death.
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If you look at how the statistics are compiled, it raises real questions about the accuracy of that number.
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And then there's the unusual fact that the public health authorities have just claimed that there simply has been no flu this year,
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which would be an unusual miracle, wouldn't it be?
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Except that it leads me to wonder if flu cases, which are another form of coronavirus,
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But 21,000 deaths over a year in a country as large as ours, over 37 million people,
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and the average age of death is 82, and the average victim has three serious underlying health conditions to begin with.
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It is sad for each of those 21,000 people and their families,
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but it is also true that they were in the sunset of life and had already contracted very serious illnesses.
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Again, I don't for a moment downplay the loss of even a single life,
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That would be a speed bump on the road, but we're coming up on a year now.
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I think it's a superstition for a lot of people.
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I showed you this brutal and factually false ad from the British Home Office yesterday,
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glorifying police brutality, terrifying innocent citizens,
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criminalizing basic acts of family and community, like a baby shower,
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falsely claiming that it is simply illegal to meet other humans.
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But like I say, that's the purest expression of lockdownism.
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It's a way to signal your virtue, your holiness.
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You see it in people who don't have other strong belief systems.
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How else do you describe the kind of personal misconduct?
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Minor misconduct, but, you know, things people remember when they go home.
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It's between ordinary people who used to say hello, hi, friendly.
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Say, cheese, you're in Costco, not wearing your mask, refusing to wear your mask.
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You thought it was going to be a little bit different.
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I'm not wearing a police taking pictures of me because I haven't had a moment to put my mask on.
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Apparently, I'm the one protecting other people by wearing a mask.
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So you can go away with your phone and you can figure out what you need to do with your life.
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And I'll figure out what I need to do with mine.
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You're about to be escorted out of the store if you don't put on your mask.
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You've already been told multiple times to put on your mask by me and employees.
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I take my health and the health of others very seriously.
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What you know about me, ma'am, is that I'm wearing my mask.
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It's Costco company policy that everyone wear a mask in the store.
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Here's the latest Ontario hospitalization stats.
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The cases in intensive care have fallen to just 269 in the whole province.
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So each ICU patient has two whole hospitals to themselves.
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Look, the pandemic is over in any substantial way.
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So the lockdown must get more extreme to compensate.
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The lockdown must become the purpose in itself, the news in itself.
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And violators are the new enemy, not the virus.
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I remember in the early days, people said it was like a war against an invisible enemy.
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But the virus is more or less vanquished everywhere.
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So now we need a new enemy, one that we can see.
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People who dare to believe in other ideologies.
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They actually have something else to believe in over lockdownism.
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Let me do a roundup of things that are shocking or should be, but are just spoken casually about now.
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Hiddenshaw calls Alberta pastor jailed for breaking COVID-19 rules a rare incident.
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Now, you might be thinking she's on the defensive.
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She's saying that arresting and jailing pastors is a rare incident.
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But no, no, incredibly, this Media Party article frames her as the normal one.
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And she's sort of defending Christians, oh, don't hate them all.
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Alberta's chief medical officer of health said Thursday,
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the actions of one pastor or one church do not reflect all Albertans or all faith communities.
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Hey, guys, I just arrested a pastor, but please don't hate all pastors.
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Dr. Dina Hinshaw was addressing a situation with Grace Life Church outside Edmonton,
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whose pastor remains in custody after being arrested and refusing to comply with bail conditions for his release.
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For months, Alberta Health Services has attempted to proactively work with this church
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through education and conversations to make sure church leadership understood the health measures in place
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I mean, it might look like we've jailed a pastor like China does, like the Soviet Union used to do,
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Sure, it looks that way, but you're thinking about this wrong.
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We are having education and conversations with him, and he has to understand.
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So we're re-educating him, and as soon as he agrees to be re-educated, we'll let him free.
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In the Soviet Union, they had no crime, you see.
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They had to be cured of their bad ideas, whether their bad idea was robbery or capitalism or democracy, whatever.
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I shouldn't make a joke about it, but it makes me think of this clip from a TV show with Fred Armisen.
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Where are the armed men who come in to take the protesters away?
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This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Boracua.
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You shout like that, they put you in jail right away.
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Journalists, we have a special jail for journalists.
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You're playing music too loud, right to jail, right away.
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You're charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses.
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You make an appointment with a dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, jail, right away.
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We have the best patients in the world because of jail.
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So yeah, you know, the pastor just did it wrong, so straight to jail.
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These attempts, let me read, this is from the story.
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These attempts to reach out and provide support and education were not successful in bringing the church into alignment with COVID-19 prevention requirements.
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Hey guys, straight to jail until you are properly aligned.
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We'll keep having this conversation until you're properly aligned.
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And the media reported that and no one batted an eye.
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The pastor is in solitary confinement in the Maximum Security Edmonton Remand Center.
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And hey guys, we're just having a conversation with him, just educating him.
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Here's a story about some doctors and nurses who need to be educated about the lockdowns.
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They think that the cure is worse than the disease, that the lockdowns are actually causing more harm.
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And, you know, their own regulators are saying, shut up, they explain.
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As a B.C. doctor and registered nurse gets set to speak at a Vancouver Freedom Rally.
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They put that in quotes because they don't believe it's a Freedom Rally.
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This weekend, their regulatory colleges say health professionals have a duty not to encourage people to violate public health advice on COVID-19.
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And the CBC, which ran dozens of Harper is gagging us stories 10 years ago, they couldn't be happier about the censorship now.
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They actually link to this statement by a federal consortium of provincial medical regulators, the physicians and public statements.
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Physicians hold a unique position of trust with the public.
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They must not make comments or provide advice that encourage the public to act contrary to public health orders and recommendations.
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Physicians must be guided by the laws, code of ethics, and professional conduct or regulatory standards when offering these opinions.
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Physicians work for patients, not for politicians.
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A public health order is not a medical diagnosis.
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The phrase, doctor's orders, that's not actually an order, right?
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And those public health orders are not medical diagnoses or prescriptions, are they?
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This is the conscripting of doctors to make them repeat what the politicians have to say.
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That's obviously illegal and unconstitutional and against their own freedom of conscience.
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I mean, this is the result of a public health order.
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Apologies sought after a woman kicked out of a New Brunswick hospital for holding husband's hand.
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I had to make sure the apologies sought was not the nursing home
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That's how that Alberta pastor case was framed, wasn't it?
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A Riverview, New Brunswick woman wants an apology after her mother was escorted
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out of a hospital by security for holding her father's hand.
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Kim Cravaton says her father, Kendall Terrace, has Alzheimer's and is living at the Moncton Hospital
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She says the 82-year-old speaks very little and communicates best by touch.
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But COVID-19 restrictions at the hospital prohibit contact between patients and visitors.
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Cravaton says the incident occurred a few days after Christmas and there was no need for security
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guards to escort her mother out of the building for touching the elderly man.
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Hey, doctors, how dare you contradict this public health order?
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You know, I've talked about some substantive problems here, some police problems, some laws
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But mainly the story here is how we have been turned against each other, how politeness and
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courtesy and friendship and harmony and community and norms have all been destroyed, not by the
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virus, but by the politicians and their lockdowns.
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The flu virus comes back every year, kills thousands, but that's life.
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The tyranny for which the virus provided the excuse, I regret that will be with us for quite
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a while and it will be quite a lot deadlier and those who survive it will be miserable
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Well, Bill Gates wants to tell you how to live in so many ways.
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The guy made, speaking of viruses, I mean, he made Microsoft one of the virus-prone computers
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I don't know why he doesn't just retire and enjoy his, what, $130 billion.
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He's all over the place commanding mandatory vaccination with no liability to the company.
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I just, literally that, reading those words will make me gag out loud.
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But Bill Gates, I think when you have that much money, you want to transform yourself
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into some sort of messiah, some sort of guru, I don't know, because Bill Gates is telling
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He has become one of the largest landowners in America of agricultural land, and yet he's
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investing in artificial meat, saying that humans will soon love synthetic meat.
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That's not going to make me wretch, the same way as his poop tweet did, but it's pretty
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And now he has a new book out called How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
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Is there anything that Bill Gates doesn't want to tell us how to live our life to?
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I suppose when you're that rich, no one around you dares say no.
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Joining us now is a man who does say no, including the powerful.
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He's our friend Mark Morano, and he's the boss of ClimateDepot.com.
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I'm sorry, I was having a bit of a hard time reading those tweets from Bill Gates about
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He also talks about forcing us to change our diets through regulation.
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Any comments, and I think it was an interview with CBS News, that we'll get used to the taste
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difference as we eat these processed vegetable burgers that are allegedly like meat.
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Now, his World Economic Forum, closely aligned with Bill Gates, they're arguing for printed
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meat that you can just print up pounds of meat a day, and then it'll have the same consistency,
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And a lot of these have 22-plus ingredients, and they're all kinds of weird vegetable oils
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I mean, and some of the reviews are, and this is even on CNN, they're not nutritious.
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You're better off with a salmon burger or a low-fat burger.
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And they have no, this is, all those people out there worry about organic stuff.
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I mean, these are a lot of different processed food.
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If you're caring about buying directly, eating from the earth, which a lot of you think of a
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lot of the climate alarmists and climate campaigners would be, so it makes no sense.
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Now, in terms of his poop, drinking the poop, this, if you isolate what Bill Gates was saying,
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it's in Senegal, and it's some processing plant.
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And the idea is people get all sorts of diarrhea and illnesses from, you know, contaminated water.
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And this is a way to get sort of the sewage and make it drinkable.
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Now, I don't, you know, this was, you know, now years ago.
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But interestingly enough, there was a guy a few years before this that was claiming that
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And they're actually talking about all these burgers.
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They actually did a YouTube video, and then other people said it was a hoax.
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But after now seeing Bill Gates brag about drinking poop water, why would a poop burger
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And if the World Economic Forum is counting printed meat, who knows what we can believe
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Now, the new slogan of the World Economic Forum with Bill Gates is to me, you'll owe nothing,
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be happy, eat poop burgers, and drink poop water.
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I don't know why I'm being so sensitive to this now.
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I just, I think maybe it's because for the first time ever, I think they actually mean it.
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And so I'm taking it perhaps more seriously rather than just some elementary school boys having
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a gross-out contest, each one trying to outgross the other, or, you know, those comedians
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World Economic Forum and the climate campaigners are all pushing eating insects to save the
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And, I mean, that is actually the real push immediately.
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They've even got Hollywood celebrities like Nicole Kidman and others doing videos for Vanity
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I don't know where the animal rights people are, but, you know, they're now pushing that
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I saw an interesting tweet by our friend, Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace,
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He points out that cows eat things that people don't.
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There's things with a certain amount of cellulose in them that cows for, tummies, can digest that
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So it's not like cows are doing, you know, are competing that we should be eating the vegetables
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I mean, I think that there's just no common sense here.
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Cows and meat are so closely associated with humanity since the dawn of civilization.
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As any dentist will tell you, our teeth are called canines because we are built to be carnivores.
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If you want to get right down to evolution or, you know, what is our purpose?
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I'm not even quoting the Bible of, you know, man's dominion over the animals.
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I'm trying not to make sense of this because I don't think there's a scientific case for it.
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Do they really think it's the right thing, Mark?
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How can you actually say eat poop, eat bugs, print meat, don't eat meat?
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Why would they say something that seems actually diabolical is like if they were answering deeply
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honestly, what would they say their real motivation is?
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That's always the motivation for everything, for all of this social change.
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In other words, if we don't act, John Kerry today said we had nine years left to save the planet.
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On the other, interestingly enough, Bill Gates is now the largest farm owner in America.
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So you start wondering, and you heard reports earlier, years ago, of Soros buying up coal
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And the theory at the time was maybe he was buying coal plants in order, you know, once
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they're all shut down, he'll have a monopoly once they're needed, if wind and solar are mandated
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So part of it is, I think it's just an ideology of central planning.
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And the COVID lockdowns have been a great one, as we've seen the last year.
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But it's an enduring one of what their natural instinct is.
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They don't like the idea, the messiness of human freedom and living.
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And they want us to regulate literally every aspect of our lives.
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Bill Gates wants to buy, and he brags in his book.
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I shouldn't say he brags, but he confesses that he's the worst spokesman for this.
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And he took a private jet to the UN Paris Agreement, all this stuff.
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But he's still bidding for the world's largest private jet transport company, for he and his billionaire buddies, number one.
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And number two, on the climate front, you have climate activists saying you can't fly unless it's morally justifiable in a climate emergency.
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This is, you know, George Orwell's, do you want to see the future of the human race?
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It's that central planning, ideological instinct, and they need the scare, COVID, climate, whatever the scare is.
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And they think it's an arrogance of just planning.
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We're going to manage, you know, whether you go to school, we're going to manage what kind of, you know, your thermostats.
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It's just, it's an incredible centralized planning ideology that's just taking over and basically running amok right now.
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Hey, I want to ask you one last thing before you go.
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But Donald Trump is gone, and now you have John Kerry, assumed to be the global warming ambassador.
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One is quite a precise statement that we have nine years left to save the planet, not 10 and not 8.
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There's been lots of predictions like that that have come and gone.
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And that's one thing I'd be curious about your thoughts on.
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Another was, he was asked how removing America from the Paris Agreement of the United Nations in any way changed what America could do for climate.
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And he admitted really nothing other than it looked bad, but no actual changes.
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In fact, America reduced its carbon footprint largely due to fracking.
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What are your thoughts on John Kerry as a global climate diplomat?
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Is he actually going to negotiate any binding deals?
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Or is this just, I don't know, some way for Joe Biden to get Kerry out of the country and to say, look, he's doing important stuff?
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Yeah, no, I don't think the threat is from John Kerry at all.
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John Kerry, he believes that he is morally justified to be a climate fear promoter, but fly a private jet.
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The best summary of John Kerry's entire career was by a congressman whose name fails him at the moment, but he's a senator, who said this is John Kerry's opportunity as Biden's climate envoy to travel around luxury European hotels and negotiate bad deals for America.
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And that's literally what John Kerry is going to do.
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Even Bjorn Lomborg is making fun of John Kerry today for saying that.
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But of course, we know, you know, we've shown at Climate Depot, tipping points go back to 1864 on the earth.
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And we've had them down to minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years.
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But Kerry at least was honest, as you mentioned, Ezra.
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He admitted the UN Paris Agreement has had no impact.
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In fact, at Climate Depot today, I have the chart.
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Every United Nations climate treaty going back to the 90s has only seen skyrocketing emissions.
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And every United Nations treaty has always been declared as a planet saving treaty, even though it's done the exact opposite of what it intended.
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In other words, emissions, trying to control CO2 emissions, they've gone and continue to skyrocket around the world, except for the United States, which has led the world in reducing them through innovation, which those days will be coming to an end.
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I'm sorry I was so squeamish talking about some of those bizarre lifestyle changes proposed by Bill Gates.
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But I'm afraid and I'm depressed to say we'll be hearing a lot more of eat insects, eat poop in the months and years ahead.
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And I'm so glad you're out there with ClimateDepot.com.
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One of our favorite guys, Mark Morano from ClimateDepot.com.
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Jay writes, interesting how the most draconian lockdown countries in the world are Commonwealth countries, including Canada.
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I think Toronto is the most lockdown city in North America.
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I'd have to check other cities, but I actually think it's the worst.
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But the crazy thing about that is that Ontario actually has the lowest rate of the virus in Canada, other than the very small population Atlantic provinces.
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DHHD writes, they even show violence to threaten people who won't comply.
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And I think there's certain people who find it very erotic, the idea of smashing skulls.
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Paul writes, all the churches need to be opening.
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And after talking to that lawyer last night, we've decided to send a bunch of reporters to cover the church on Sunday morning.
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Until Monday, keep watching our YouTube videos.
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And on behalf of all of us here, to you at home, keep fighting for freedom.