Rebel News Podcast - January 25, 2020


Authoritarian China responds to coronavirus outbreak with arrests, quarantines and a massive cover-up


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47 minutes

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152.87689

Word Count

7,227

Sentence Count

442

Misogynist Sentences

20

Hate Speech Sentences

34


Summary

Today I make a comparison between how the Soviet Union reacted to their Chernobyl disaster and how China is responding to their coronavirus disaster. I also play some clips from HBO's miniseries Chernobyl, one of my favorite shows of the year.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, folks, today I make a comparison between how the Soviet Union reacted to their Chernobyl
00:00:05.440 disaster and how communist China is reacting to their coronavirus disaster.
00:00:11.940 I also play some clips from HBO's miniseries Chernobyl, one of my favorite shows of the
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00:00:48.440 You're listening to a Rebel News podcast.
00:00:50.760 Tonight, China responds to a massive virus outbreak by arresting people.
00:01:04.260 Yeah, that sounds about right.
00:01:05.680 It's January 24th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:08.420 You know, I don't get a lot of time to watch TV except when I'm on airplanes, which I am
00:01:21.380 too often, and so I clicked on HBO's Chernobyl miniseries, which I honestly thought was going
00:01:40.120 to be very boring, but it wasn't.
00:01:41.780 I thought it was riveting.
00:01:42.960 In fact, I have to admit, I watched the whole thing twice.
00:01:46.640 It was so good.
00:01:47.780 And what I appreciated the most about it was how they depicted the Soviet system.
00:01:53.680 I thought it was filmed beautifully, and the recreation of the actual explosion scene was
00:01:59.780 very well done.
00:02:00.740 I thought it was very dramatic.
00:02:02.320 I was so surprised by some of the things they depicted in the movie that I did some research
00:02:08.840 afterwards, you know, in real life, not on the miniseries, to confirm the accuracy.
00:02:14.040 It was a pretty accurate show.
00:02:15.560 I really didn't know how massive a problem Chernobyl was.
00:02:19.780 Because economically, logistically, literally hundreds of thousands of people in the Soviet
00:02:27.060 Union were pressed into service by the regime to try to fix the problem.
00:02:33.860 I think that Chernobyl, along with the costs of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and their attempt
00:02:41.760 to keep up with Ronald Reagan's Star Wars defense initiative, I think that was really the cause
00:02:48.060 of the fall of the Soviet Union, and I think Chernobyl was probably a bigger factor than
00:02:54.600 the war or the military arms race.
00:02:57.260 I just, that's my belief after watching the miniseries, it was that incredible.
00:03:01.020 But the thing I found the most fascinating about the show was the theatrical depiction of
00:03:07.300 how an authoritarian state, a totalitarian state in many ways, handles a crisis, a crisis that
00:03:14.980 involves danger, but also political embarrassment, and how it prioritizes those two problems.
00:03:22.420 Can I show you two clips from the movie Chernobyl, the miniseries on HBO?
00:03:26.760 Here's one, and this is set just hours after the explosion, the same night that the reactor
00:03:35.240 exploded.
00:03:36.460 So the level of danger was not yet known, but the local Communist Party committee was having
00:03:43.700 an emergency nighttime meeting.
00:03:45.640 And I want to show you their response, which is, of course, there's some artistic license
00:03:53.120 here, but we know the elements are true.
00:03:56.160 Send in soldiers.
00:03:58.360 Cut off telephone lines.
00:04:00.780 Lie to the people.
00:04:02.200 This is a couple of minutes, but watch it.
00:04:04.700 It's really incredible.
00:04:07.320 Detachments of military police to Pripyat.
00:04:09.860 How large of a detachment?
00:04:12.800 Between 2,000 and 4,000 men.
00:04:14.320 What's really going on here?
00:04:19.420 How dangerous is this?
00:04:21.680 There's mild radiation, but it's limited to the plant itself.
00:04:25.120 No, it isn't.
00:04:26.640 Excuse me.
00:04:28.120 You saw men outside vomiting.
00:04:32.280 You saw men with burns.
00:04:34.820 There's more radiation than they're saying.
00:04:37.340 We have wives here.
00:04:38.720 We have children.
00:04:39.940 I say we evacuate the town.
00:04:42.260 Gentlemen, please, please.
00:04:46.440 My wife is here.
00:04:48.860 Do you think I would keep it in Pripyat if it wasn't safe?
00:04:52.540 Prakhanov, the air is glowing.
00:04:56.360 The Cherenkov effect, completely normal phenomenon, can happen with minimal radiation.
00:05:00.960 I wonder how many of you know the name of this place.
00:05:17.840 We will call it Chernobyl, of course.
00:05:21.920 What is its real name?
00:05:23.440 The Vladimir I.
00:05:26.600 The Vladimir I.
00:05:26.760 Lenin nuclear power station.
00:05:29.800 Exactly.
00:05:33.160 Vladimir I.
00:05:35.480 Lenin.
00:05:37.400 Yes.
00:05:38.000 And how proud he would be of you all tonight.
00:05:48.840 Especially you, young man.
00:05:51.960 And the passion you have for the people.
00:05:55.940 For is that not the sole purpose of the apparatus of the state?
00:05:59.320 Sometimes we forget.
00:06:04.860 Sometimes we fall prey to fear.
00:06:09.240 But our faith in Soviet socialism will always be rewarded.
00:06:15.320 No, the state tells us the situation here is not dangerous.
00:06:23.380 Have faith, comrades.
00:06:27.200 The state tells us it wants to prevent a panic.
00:06:30.440 Listen well.
00:06:34.980 It's true.
00:06:36.240 When the people see the police, they will be afraid.
00:06:38.820 But it is my experience that when the people ask questions that are not in their own best interest,
00:06:49.280 they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labor
00:06:53.520 and leave matters of the state to the state.
00:07:01.280 We seal off the city.
00:07:04.800 No one leaves.
00:07:05.740 And cut the phone lines.
00:07:09.760 Contain the spread of misinformation.
00:07:14.780 That is how we keep the people from undermining the fruits of their own labor.
00:07:24.020 Yes, comrades.
00:07:26.700 We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight.
00:07:33.200 This is our moment.
00:07:35.740 To shine.
00:07:40.700 Do you doubt that is exactly what happened
00:07:45.240 in the first hours, first days
00:07:48.400 of China's coronavirus epidemic
00:07:52.960 that is sweeping across that communist regime?
00:07:57.420 Let me show you one more video from Chernobyl.
00:07:59.440 I really recommend the series.
00:08:01.760 The only two other movies I've ever seen
00:08:04.160 that accurately, I think, reflect the tyranny of the Soviet Union
00:08:08.480 was one called The Lives of Others,
00:08:11.840 which was actually set in East Germany.
00:08:14.100 It was about a Stasi spy
00:08:16.020 who listened
00:08:17.540 to listening devices
00:08:19.440 planted in the homes of,
00:08:21.560 you know,
00:08:22.660 dissidents,
00:08:23.340 democracy activists,
00:08:24.320 just normal people.
00:08:25.320 And then there was a movie in 2017
00:08:30.080 called The Death of Stalin,
00:08:33.120 which was great, great actors.
00:08:36.240 Steve Buscemi,
00:08:37.120 Jeffrey Tambor,
00:08:38.100 for so many first-rate actors.
00:08:42.560 It was a dark comedy about Stalin
00:08:45.300 and the Soviet Union
00:08:46.560 after Stalin's death.
00:08:48.240 Now, it's a comedy,
00:08:49.100 but it showed the brutality of Stalinism
00:08:52.480 and the KGB.
00:08:55.400 Absolutely a must-see movie.
00:08:57.460 Anyways,
00:08:58.200 let me show you one last clip
00:08:59.960 from the miniseries Chernobyl.
00:09:02.660 This is when Moscow
00:09:03.940 starts to think
00:09:05.280 that maybe things are more serious
00:09:07.400 in Chernobyl
00:09:08.580 than they were first told.
00:09:11.080 A scientist managed to scare
00:09:13.000 the Communist Party's
00:09:14.740 Central Committee in Moscow
00:09:15.740 into thinking that maybe
00:09:16.700 it wasn't just nothing.
00:09:18.680 Maybe it was something really bad.
00:09:20.800 So, in this scene,
00:09:22.420 the scientist
00:09:23.000 and a Central Committee member
00:09:25.080 were sent from Moscow to Chernobyl
00:09:27.460 and they land in a helicopter
00:09:29.740 and that local committee
00:09:31.760 who you saw meeting
00:09:33.560 in the bunker there,
00:09:34.660 they all put on their best suits
00:09:35.900 and they go out to meet
00:09:37.180 the big bosses from Moscow.
00:09:40.720 And look at this.
00:09:41.420 I think it captures it perfectly.
00:09:44.020 Literally the first thing they say.
00:09:47.040 And I know this is probably
00:09:48.260 artistic license
00:09:49.120 because I don't think anyone
00:09:49.860 would have written down
00:09:50.960 exactly what was said.
00:09:52.540 I don't think we know
00:09:53.100 exactly the first thing
00:09:54.340 that was said,
00:09:54.740 but boy,
00:09:55.800 it sure rings true.
00:09:57.600 It's why I like the show so much.
00:09:59.400 The first thing they said was,
00:10:01.100 here's our list of people to blame.
00:10:02.440 Take a look.
00:10:02.880 Chief Engineer,
00:10:12.700 I mean,
00:10:13.640 Bernadette Pekalov and I
00:10:15.100 are honoured
00:10:15.980 that you're a rival.
00:10:17.020 Deeply, deeply honoured.
00:10:18.520 Naturally,
00:10:19.140 we regret the circumstances
00:10:20.540 of your visit,
00:10:21.480 but as you can see,
00:10:22.180 we are making excellent progress
00:10:23.540 in containing the damage.
00:10:25.340 We have begun
00:10:25.980 our own inquiry
00:10:27.380 into the cause
00:10:29.540 of the accident
00:10:30.300 and I have a list
00:10:31.660 of individuals
00:10:33.400 who we believe
00:10:34.240 are accountable.
00:10:36.960 Hmm.
00:10:38.960 And you know
00:10:39.700 why I'm talking about this.
00:10:40.720 China
00:10:41.060 and the coronavirus.
00:10:44.020 China's first reaction
00:10:45.200 was probably
00:10:45.800 to ignore it,
00:10:46.940 to cover it up,
00:10:47.760 to downplay it.
00:10:49.040 Out of laziness,
00:10:51.120 out of embarrassment,
00:10:52.680 out of ignorance.
00:10:54.500 The incentives
00:10:55.320 are all wrong
00:10:56.180 in China.
00:10:57.420 There's no free press
00:10:58.560 trying to sniff out problems.
00:11:00.540 There's no opposition party
00:11:02.280 trying to catch
00:11:03.220 the establishment
00:11:04.300 making problem.
00:11:05.780 There's no independent
00:11:06.860 entities
00:11:07.480 in civil society,
00:11:08.820 even like a labour union.
00:11:10.600 Like there's no
00:11:11.040 nurses union
00:11:12.100 that might say
00:11:13.260 we're seeing a lot of things
00:11:14.640 and our nurses
00:11:15.540 are in danger.
00:11:16.260 There's nothing independent.
00:11:17.920 There's no check
00:11:18.620 on power.
00:11:19.680 There's no one
00:11:20.340 with an incentive
00:11:21.160 to make a fuss
00:11:22.540 or make a problem.
00:11:23.400 It's actually
00:11:23.980 all the opposite.
00:11:26.980 And then when things
00:11:27.680 finally get so bad
00:11:29.660 that no one
00:11:30.800 can ignore the problem
00:11:31.700 anymore,
00:11:32.080 well then it's about
00:11:32.900 blame,
00:11:34.320 blaming others,
00:11:36.140 scapegoating,
00:11:37.320 saying here's a list
00:11:38.160 of the enemies, boss.
00:11:40.860 Speaking of which,
00:11:41.720 look at this.
00:11:43.760 The Daily Mail reports
00:11:44.820 China spent the first
00:11:45.740 few days of
00:11:46.260 coronavirus outbreak
00:11:47.380 arresting people
00:11:49.140 for spreading rumors
00:11:50.920 rumors that SARS
00:11:52.280 had returned.
00:11:54.000 That's a respiratory
00:11:55.600 illness that started
00:11:57.660 in China years ago.
00:11:58.900 New type of coronavirus
00:11:59.960 began in China
00:12:00.940 with first cases
00:12:01.680 reported in December.
00:12:04.380 China quickly reported
00:12:05.280 disease to world
00:12:06.040 authorities so they
00:12:07.380 could prevent spread.
00:12:09.460 Sure they did,
00:12:10.300 quickly, eh?
00:12:11.460 But among its own
00:12:12.620 people, China appears
00:12:13.480 to have tried to
00:12:14.320 repress the news.
00:12:15.780 Countries spent
00:12:16.580 crucial first days
00:12:17.460 of outbreak
00:12:17.940 arresting people
00:12:19.380 who spoke about
00:12:20.940 the disease online
00:12:22.000 and journalists
00:12:22.980 trying to report
00:12:24.160 on it.
00:12:25.260 Yeah, that sounds
00:12:26.380 about right.
00:12:27.060 That sounds like
00:12:28.560 Chernobyl, doesn't it?
00:12:30.320 Look, there are
00:12:30.860 cover-ups in
00:12:31.660 Western open
00:12:32.660 societies too.
00:12:34.200 Companies try to
00:12:35.220 cover up problems,
00:12:36.560 governments try to
00:12:37.480 cover up problems.
00:12:38.280 I mean, look at
00:12:39.640 Jeffrey Epstein
00:12:40.260 or Harvey Weinstein.
00:12:41.420 Those aren't
00:12:41.960 disease epidemics,
00:12:42.940 but they're massive
00:12:44.060 crime waves on
00:12:45.340 an industrial scale
00:12:46.440 over decades that
00:12:47.880 were fairly well
00:12:49.400 covered up.
00:12:49.980 So the West is
00:12:51.160 imperfect too, but
00:12:52.280 take, for example,
00:12:53.360 an oil spill.
00:12:54.960 Now in Canada,
00:12:55.740 those are reported
00:12:56.360 immediately because
00:12:57.420 there are severe
00:12:58.840 penalties for not
00:12:59.720 doing so, plus
00:13:00.940 there's a culture
00:13:01.600 of ethics and
00:13:02.580 transparency.
00:13:04.020 There's even
00:13:04.560 whistleblower
00:13:05.060 legislation in some
00:13:07.320 cases.
00:13:08.080 There's a scandal
00:13:09.040 hungry media
00:13:10.040 always looking for
00:13:11.340 news and there's
00:13:12.120 crusading politicians
00:13:13.100 and NGOs.
00:13:14.280 All the things that
00:13:15.440 aren't there in
00:13:16.800 places like China.
00:13:18.960 So look at these
00:13:19.380 photos.
00:13:20.500 Now these are
00:13:21.200 shocking photos
00:13:22.900 from the
00:13:24.160 Shingang oil spill
00:13:26.080 in China.
00:13:27.160 That's oil.
00:13:28.400 That's oil.
00:13:29.260 That's oily water.
00:13:32.320 It was as big
00:13:34.420 a spill
00:13:35.560 as...
00:13:37.040 That's oil.
00:13:38.060 That's...
00:13:38.820 It looks like water.
00:13:39.940 That's oil.
00:13:41.100 Look at that.
00:13:41.820 One of those guys
00:13:42.520 died.
00:13:43.120 There's a picture of
00:13:43.940 them dying.
00:13:44.480 I hope we don't
00:13:44.980 show that.
00:13:46.640 That's how they
00:13:47.100 tried to clean it
00:13:48.060 up.
00:13:48.620 It was as big as
00:13:50.140 the Exxon Valdez.
00:13:51.860 But I bet you
00:13:52.560 never heard about
00:13:53.320 it.
00:13:55.100 It's amazing that
00:13:56.080 those photos even
00:13:56.840 made it to the light
00:13:57.900 of day.
00:13:58.360 Greenpeace took
00:13:59.360 credit for those
00:13:59.960 photos.
00:14:00.300 Of course, there is
00:14:00.780 no Greenpeace
00:14:02.260 campaigns in China
00:14:03.460 that's not allowed.
00:14:04.160 They're not allowed
00:14:04.520 to criticize China.
00:14:07.360 There was no
00:14:08.040 grand reckoning
00:14:08.700 in China
00:14:10.380 as there was
00:14:12.080 with the
00:14:12.440 Exxon Valdez.
00:14:15.140 The Exxon Valdez
00:14:16.280 was a disaster.
00:14:18.760 Well, actually,
00:14:19.640 by many measures,
00:14:20.640 it wasn't.
00:14:22.040 No one died.
00:14:23.700 That's one measure.
00:14:25.140 It sure looked bad.
00:14:26.480 I mean,
00:14:26.700 it looked like
00:14:27.060 that Qingyang thing.
00:14:28.540 You know,
00:14:29.080 there's a seabird
00:14:30.140 or something.
00:14:31.640 Thousands of critters
00:14:32.700 did die.
00:14:33.520 It's true.
00:14:34.740 In Alaska,
00:14:35.580 where there are
00:14:36.260 billions of critters
00:14:38.320 and where the ocean
00:14:40.040 and the currents
00:14:40.680 wiped clean
00:14:41.500 that drop in an ocean
00:14:43.300 soon enough.
00:14:44.220 But still,
00:14:45.160 the PR disaster,
00:14:46.380 well,
00:14:47.000 from that came
00:14:47.940 new rules
00:14:48.580 for double-hulled
00:14:49.800 tanker ships
00:14:50.440 and new emphasis
00:14:51.720 on sailors
00:14:52.580 not drinking
00:14:53.280 and the need
00:14:53.960 for tugboats
00:14:55.740 in narrow waters.
00:14:57.500 My point is,
00:14:58.520 good things
00:14:59.340 actually came
00:15:00.180 from that disaster.
00:15:02.180 Lessons were learned.
00:15:03.980 But not from
00:15:05.100 China's disasters.
00:15:07.460 Unless,
00:15:07.980 like Chernobyl,
00:15:08.740 the disaster
00:15:09.280 is so critical
00:15:10.400 that it actually
00:15:11.120 breaks the system
00:15:13.640 as I believe
00:15:14.480 Chernobyl helped
00:15:15.540 break the Soviet Union.
00:15:18.360 And maybe
00:15:18.760 this coronavirus
00:15:19.400 will too.
00:15:20.560 China has now
00:15:21.400 quarantined
00:15:22.340 more than a dozen
00:15:23.340 cities,
00:15:24.540 including Wuhan,
00:15:25.960 the center
00:15:26.460 of the epidemic.
00:15:27.820 41 million
00:15:29.340 people
00:15:30.180 quarantined.
00:15:32.100 They shut down
00:15:32.820 parts of the Great Wall.
00:15:34.700 41 million people,
00:15:35.540 that's more people
00:15:36.000 than live in all
00:15:36.500 of Canada.
00:15:38.300 Now,
00:15:38.820 it's not even
00:15:39.320 5% of China's
00:15:40.360 population,
00:15:41.000 but do you really
00:15:42.280 think this thing
00:15:42.920 isn't spreading
00:15:43.680 anymore?
00:15:44.820 I saw pictures
00:15:45.700 like these,
00:15:46.900 piles of dirt
00:15:47.740 being put up
00:15:48.520 on roads.
00:15:49.560 I'm not sure
00:15:50.420 if that's supposed
00:15:50.960 to stop the virus
00:15:52.360 or stop people
00:15:54.020 from traveling.
00:15:55.400 I'm not sure
00:15:56.280 it's going to do
00:15:56.860 either,
00:15:57.360 but I'm sure
00:15:57.780 the Communist Party
00:15:58.880 Central Committee
00:15:59.480 is proud of it.
00:16:01.000 It looks
00:16:01.500 pretty bad
00:16:02.020 over there.
00:16:03.640 Apocalyptic
00:16:04.120 style hazmat
00:16:05.420 suits.
00:16:06.600 I don't know
00:16:07.100 if they actually
00:16:07.660 do anything,
00:16:08.640 but they're
00:16:09.140 terrifying.
00:16:10.060 I saw a video
00:16:10.620 of someone
00:16:10.960 being put
00:16:11.440 in a cart,
00:16:12.460 like a pod,
00:16:13.260 and wheeled
00:16:13.680 around to
00:16:14.220 contain them.
00:16:15.340 China is
00:16:15.940 excited to
00:16:16.640 announce that
00:16:17.140 they're building
00:16:17.560 a quick field
00:16:19.400 hospital in
00:16:20.200 Wuhan.
00:16:20.840 They released
00:16:21.560 this footage
00:16:22.280 the Communist
00:16:22.960 Party did.
00:16:23.580 Look at all
00:16:24.020 those diggers
00:16:24.820 doing something.
00:16:26.760 Wow.
00:16:27.940 A 25,000
00:16:29.080 square meter
00:16:29.800 mobile hospital.
00:16:30.840 It'll be done
00:16:31.280 in six days,
00:16:32.120 they say.
00:16:33.180 I bet it will.
00:16:35.380 That hospital,
00:16:36.440 even if it works,
00:16:37.520 will house
00:16:38.080 a grand total
00:16:39.200 of 1,000
00:16:43.220 people in
00:16:44.000 one city.
00:16:45.480 Like I say,
00:16:46.300 41 million
00:16:47.240 people have
00:16:47.920 been sealed
00:16:48.400 off.
00:16:48.880 Like the
00:16:49.300 Soviets at
00:16:49.780 Chernobyl,
00:16:50.340 I think they
00:16:51.460 might be lying
00:16:52.960 about the
00:16:53.580 size of
00:16:54.060 the problem.
00:16:55.640 China lied
00:16:56.420 about SARS-2,
00:16:58.540 severe acute
00:16:59.120 respiratory syndrome.
00:17:00.280 Remember that
00:17:00.700 one?
00:17:01.200 That was the
00:17:01.920 last sickness
00:17:03.420 that spread
00:17:04.060 from there.
00:17:05.880 There have
00:17:06.120 been stories
00:17:06.520 about how
00:17:07.040 this coronavirus
00:17:07.760 started,
00:17:08.840 how it spread,
00:17:09.740 including theories
00:17:10.480 that it came
00:17:10.960 from bizarre
00:17:12.440 foods eaten
00:17:13.680 in Wuhan,
00:17:14.620 like bats.
00:17:16.660 I'm sorry
00:17:17.420 to show you
00:17:18.160 something so
00:17:18.920 gross.
00:17:20.440 To eat bats,
00:17:21.600 they're ugh.
00:17:22.160 If you've
00:17:23.100 ever been to
00:17:23.540 China and
00:17:24.060 go to a
00:17:24.660 real market,
00:17:25.600 though,
00:17:25.820 you will
00:17:26.420 see that
00:17:28.260 will not be
00:17:28.880 the strangest
00:17:29.580 thing you
00:17:30.120 see.
00:17:31.140 I have to
00:17:31.640 say,
00:17:31.820 I will not
00:17:32.300 show you
00:17:32.960 absolutely
00:17:34.460 stomach-turning
00:17:35.420 images from
00:17:36.840 Wuhan's markets
00:17:37.860 of live
00:17:38.660 creatures being
00:17:39.520 eaten.
00:17:40.820 It's too
00:17:41.160 gross and
00:17:41.620 too disturbing.
00:17:42.340 I'm getting
00:17:42.760 a gag reflex
00:17:43.640 just thinking
00:17:44.240 about what
00:17:44.700 I saw.
00:17:45.740 Take it
00:17:46.080 from me,
00:17:46.420 folks.
00:17:48.040 Now,
00:17:48.540 it could be
00:17:48.920 that eating
00:17:49.400 bats is a
00:17:50.360 problem.
00:17:50.860 I don't
00:17:52.020 know.
00:17:52.300 I'm not a
00:17:52.740 scientist.
00:17:53.240 It could be.
00:17:55.620 But maybe
00:17:56.240 there's something
00:17:56.640 else about
00:17:57.180 Wuhan.
00:17:58.700 Wuhan.
00:17:59.560 Have you ever
00:17:59.920 heard of it?
00:18:01.880 Wuhan is where
00:18:02.700 China has its
00:18:03.580 biological warfare
00:18:05.500 lab.
00:18:07.840 There's a story
00:18:08.680 from just a few
00:18:09.820 months ago about
00:18:10.540 a Chinese national
00:18:11.480 who was fired
00:18:12.720 from a Canadian
00:18:13.860 biohazard lab
00:18:15.480 after sending
00:18:16.940 secrets to
00:18:18.980 this Chinese
00:18:19.760 lab.
00:18:20.000 Look at this
00:18:20.260 story here.
00:18:22.440 A Canadian
00:18:23.060 government
00:18:23.480 scientist at
00:18:24.260 the National
00:18:24.860 Microbiology
00:18:25.660 Lab in
00:18:26.040 Winnipeg made
00:18:26.600 at least five
00:18:27.180 trips to
00:18:27.620 China in
00:18:28.320 2017-18,
00:18:29.340 including one
00:18:29.760 to train
00:18:30.300 scientists and
00:18:31.000 technicians at
00:18:32.020 China's newly
00:18:32.660 certified Level
00:18:33.580 4 lab,
00:18:34.900 which does
00:18:35.320 research with
00:18:35.860 the most deadly
00:18:36.680 pathogens,
00:18:37.880 according to
00:18:38.420 travel documents
00:18:39.500 obtained by
00:18:40.660 CBC.
00:18:42.420 Xinguo
00:18:42.920 Chu, who
00:18:43.840 was escorted
00:18:44.360 out of the
00:18:44.620 Winnipeg lab
00:18:45.200 in July amid
00:18:45.860 an RCMP
00:18:46.760 investigation into
00:18:48.360 what's being
00:18:48.720 described by
00:18:49.360 Public Health
00:18:49.860 Agency of
00:18:50.380 Canada as a
00:18:50.980 possible policy
00:18:52.580 breach, was
00:18:53.080 invited to go to
00:18:53.740 the Wuhan
00:18:54.140 National Biosafety
00:18:55.400 Lab.
00:18:55.860 I love how they
00:18:56.580 call it a
00:18:56.960 biosafety lab.
00:18:58.500 The Chinese
00:18:59.020 Academy of
00:18:59.520 Sciences twice
00:19:00.200 a year for
00:19:00.620 two years,
00:19:01.260 for up to
00:19:01.780 two weeks at
00:19:02.420 a time.
00:19:04.440 Yeah, that's
00:19:05.160 buying, but
00:19:06.340 then there's
00:19:06.780 Justin Trudeau
00:19:07.620 just plain old
00:19:08.580 giving them
00:19:10.340 biological
00:19:11.980 materials.
00:19:12.620 Look at this
00:19:13.000 story.
00:19:15.060 Biowarfare
00:19:15.660 experts question
00:19:16.800 why Canada
00:19:19.120 was sending
00:19:19.540 lethal viruses
00:19:20.260 to China.
00:19:20.980 Yeah, don't
00:19:21.300 say.
00:19:22.740 I think the
00:19:23.420 Chinese activities
00:19:24.020 are highly
00:19:24.540 suspicious, one
00:19:25.400 expert said,
00:19:26.180 after it was
00:19:26.580 revealed a
00:19:27.100 Winnipeg lab
00:19:27.720 sent samples
00:19:28.760 of Ebola
00:19:30.040 and
00:19:31.980 Henipa virus
00:19:33.720 to China.
00:19:34.820 Why did
00:19:35.880 Justin Trudeau
00:19:37.180 approve
00:19:38.100 sending Ebola
00:19:40.140 viruses to
00:19:41.700 China's
00:19:42.500 government?
00:19:45.160 Taiwan
00:19:45.600 would like
00:19:46.700 to know.
00:19:47.080 Here's a
00:19:47.340 story from
00:19:47.740 Taiwan News.
00:19:50.540 Canada may
00:19:51.020 have assisted
00:19:51.500 China's
00:19:52.080 biowarfare
00:19:52.680 program with
00:19:53.240 transfer of
00:19:53.680 lethal
00:19:53.860 viruses.
00:19:54.800 Canadian
00:19:55.060 National Lab
00:19:55.640 under
00:19:55.800 investigation
00:19:56.280 possibly
00:19:56.700 tied to
00:19:57.060 transfer of
00:19:57.480 Ebola
00:19:57.700 and Nipa
00:19:58.260 samples to
00:19:58.960 Beijing.
00:20:01.520 Yeah, I'd
00:20:02.120 like to know
00:20:02.540 along with the
00:20:03.020 Taiwanese, not a
00:20:03.900 lot of Canadian
00:20:04.400 media curiosity
00:20:05.260 though.
00:20:05.580 Now, I don't
00:20:08.220 know if we'll
00:20:08.660 ever know the
00:20:09.280 facts about the
00:20:10.100 virus outbreak in
00:20:10.920 China.
00:20:11.360 We didn't know
00:20:12.220 the facts about
00:20:13.040 Chernobyl until
00:20:14.320 after the Soviet
00:20:15.460 Union collapsed
00:20:16.560 and only then did
00:20:17.620 the truth come out.
00:20:19.380 It'll probably be
00:20:20.140 the same with this
00:20:21.380 about China and
00:20:22.800 their virus.
00:20:23.840 Was it from
00:20:24.500 bats?
00:20:26.320 Or was it from
00:20:27.320 the biological
00:20:28.020 warfare lab?
00:20:30.160 What was
00:20:30.820 Canada's role,
00:20:31.940 if any?
00:20:34.300 In the meantime,
00:20:35.000 Hank, how do
00:20:35.900 you feel about
00:20:36.240 the fact that
00:20:36.660 neither Canada
00:20:37.300 nor the United
00:20:37.940 States has banned
00:20:40.040 flights from
00:20:41.280 China to our
00:20:42.600 countries?
00:20:44.460 Stay with us
00:20:45.140 for more.
00:20:56.960 Who do you
00:20:57.520 think you are?
00:20:58.460 I'm asking
00:20:59.080 questions.
00:20:59.800 Yes.
00:21:00.340 I want to ask
00:21:01.000 Greta some
00:21:01.400 questions.
00:21:02.160 Don't touch
00:21:02.560 me.
00:21:03.060 What are you
00:21:04.400 doing?
00:21:05.000 Do you
00:21:06.000 apologize for
00:21:06.540 hitting me?
00:21:07.600 Hitting me?
00:21:08.340 Yes.
00:21:09.060 Bullshit.
00:21:09.500 You punched me
00:21:09.880 in the gut three
00:21:10.680 times.
00:21:11.720 Your hands on me
00:21:12.620 wasn't a part of
00:21:13.240 this.
00:21:13.680 You didn't need to
00:21:14.160 be a part of
00:21:14.580 this.
00:21:15.000 You could have
00:21:15.260 left me alone.
00:21:16.400 It turned out
00:21:16.860 fine, didn't it?
00:21:18.200 You could have
00:21:18.740 left me alone.
00:21:19.660 You didn't.
00:21:20.220 And it's going to
00:21:20.600 blow back on you.
00:21:22.000 How does a 15-year-old
00:21:23.640 girl bewitch the
00:21:25.060 world?
00:21:25.860 She doesn't, at least
00:21:26.660 not alone.
00:21:27.340 Greta Thunberg's
00:21:28.200 rise to fame over the
00:21:29.380 course of several
00:21:30.080 months is not nearly as
00:21:31.640 innocuous as it might
00:21:33.140 appear from the
00:21:34.020 outside.
00:21:34.540 Rather, Greta's rise
00:21:35.500 was facilitated by
00:21:36.780 elites from around the
00:21:38.260 world.
00:21:38.680 The campaign to
00:21:39.480 canonize Greta as a
00:21:40.960 saint in the eyes of
00:21:42.400 the world's leftist
00:21:43.360 Zoomers and boomers
00:21:44.260 alike was coordinated.
00:21:45.600 It was orchestrated and
00:21:46.620 executed nearly
00:21:48.160 flawlessly.
00:21:49.080 Nobody has bothered to
00:21:50.320 dig deep into the rise
00:21:51.680 of her messiahhood until
00:21:53.260 now.
00:21:54.180 I've just landed in
00:21:55.220 Stockholm, Sweden to do
00:21:56.380 just that.
00:21:57.020 To expose the lies that
00:21:58.840 Greta's handlers have
00:21:59.960 built her movement on.
00:22:01.180 That is an excerpt from
00:22:03.160 our new rebel documentary
00:22:05.940 called Greta Inc., starring
00:22:09.160 our friend Kian Bexte, who
00:22:11.320 went all the way to
00:22:11.960 Stockholm, Sweden.
00:22:13.980 He joins us now via Skype
00:22:15.520 from Calgary.
00:22:16.320 Well, Kian, congratulations.
00:22:17.780 We launched your documentary
00:22:19.260 three and a half hours ago at
00:22:21.860 the time of our taping this
00:22:23.000 right now.
00:22:23.460 I was just checking the
00:22:25.500 stats.
00:22:25.940 We have approximately
00:22:27.440 50,000 views, 5.2,000
00:22:32.120 people, 5,200 people have
00:22:33.740 liked it.
00:22:35.080 Only 138 don't.
00:22:37.480 And we've had over 1,500
00:22:39.540 viewer comments.
00:22:41.700 I think we got ourselves a
00:22:42.900 hit.
00:22:43.160 What do you think?
00:22:44.500 I think so, too.
00:22:45.660 And you can tell that Greta
00:22:46.720 is a little bit worried.
00:22:49.300 Every now and then when I
00:22:50.160 publish something about
00:22:50.980 Greta, you can always read
00:22:52.440 her tweets and get some
00:22:54.160 cryptic message out of it.
00:22:55.700 And what I find funny
00:22:56.420 today is we've announced
00:22:58.400 this documentary about 14
00:22:59.860 hours ago.
00:23:00.300 We announced it last night
00:23:01.400 and we put it on YouTube.
00:23:03.220 We queued it on YouTube.
00:23:04.160 And since then, Greta has
00:23:05.480 tweeted or shared tweets
00:23:07.560 18 times.
00:23:09.380 And that was basically just
00:23:10.640 this morning when the
00:23:12.460 documentary went live,
00:23:13.740 which I think is hilarious
00:23:14.700 because the mainstream media
00:23:15.760 is going to eat up
00:23:16.640 everything Greta puts out
00:23:18.100 to her 4 million followers.
00:23:19.840 And she's kicking it
00:23:21.780 into overdrive now.
00:23:23.560 Looks like a little bit
00:23:24.480 of damage control.
00:23:26.120 Yeah.
00:23:26.340 I mean, there was a moment
00:23:27.440 in your documentary, and I
00:23:28.540 just want to play this clip
00:23:29.560 for our viewers.
00:23:31.320 Greta has been doing this
00:23:32.700 climate strike for more
00:23:34.280 than a year.
00:23:35.540 And she's been one of the
00:23:38.420 great media hounds of our
00:23:40.400 time.
00:23:42.480 You went down to New York
00:23:43.820 City when she arrived on
00:23:45.360 that boat.
00:23:46.260 There were dozens of
00:23:47.320 journalists.
00:23:47.880 Everywhere she goes,
00:23:48.620 dozens of journalists.
00:23:49.220 I think it's modest and
00:23:52.120 conservative to say that
00:23:53.440 she has met 1,000 journalists
00:23:56.060 in the last year and a half.
00:23:57.800 I mean, that's not that
00:23:59.000 big a number.
00:23:59.880 That's three or four a day.
00:24:01.980 She probably deals with
00:24:03.080 10 journalists a day.
00:24:03.940 That's really all she is,
00:24:04.680 is a PR front.
00:24:07.000 So for her to remember you
00:24:08.860 based on one meeting in
00:24:11.780 Edmonton, let me play that
00:24:13.060 clip from the documentary.
00:24:14.620 Here, take a look.
00:24:15.620 Greta, would you be able to
00:24:16.820 tell me what school are you
00:24:18.440 actually striking from?
00:24:19.640 Yes.
00:24:20.020 Yeah.
00:24:20.540 Tell me your press call.
00:24:21.500 I think it's basically a
00:24:22.700 school.
00:24:23.400 Yes.
00:24:24.000 So when you actually started
00:24:25.160 your school strike, were you
00:24:26.680 leaving the classroom or did
00:24:28.660 you have a day off from your
00:24:30.120 school that you were at?
00:24:31.560 You know that the school you
00:24:33.040 go to, you have multiple days
00:24:34.560 off a week.
00:24:35.500 You don't actually have to go
00:24:36.280 to class nine to five.
00:24:37.220 Did you walk valiantly from
00:24:38.580 the classroom like you've led
00:24:39.520 the world to believe or did
00:24:41.140 you just have days off on
00:24:42.060 Friday?
00:24:43.680 Nice to meet you again.
00:24:44.740 I remember you from Edmonton.
00:24:46.860 Yes.
00:24:47.300 I remember your Tesla.
00:24:48.140 It was full of plastic.
00:24:49.320 Oh, it was not my Tesla.
00:24:50.840 I shared it with many others.
00:24:52.580 So there you are in
00:24:53.860 Stockholm, Sweden.
00:24:56.160 Thousands of miles away from
00:24:57.540 where she met you months ago
00:25:00.200 in Edmonton.
00:25:01.780 But she still remembers you.
00:25:03.520 I don't think she remembers
00:25:06.680 99% of the journalistic
00:25:08.660 stenographers who say,
00:25:10.060 Greta, Greta.
00:25:11.620 But I think she remembered you,
00:25:13.340 Ian, because you were the
00:25:14.440 first and only journalist
00:25:16.220 ever to ask her an
00:25:19.460 accountability style question.
00:25:21.940 Yeah, I think you're right.
00:25:22.900 It's that's accurate.
00:25:25.760 After one question, I actually
00:25:27.680 was asking her a few
00:25:28.740 questions in Stockholm.
00:25:30.420 It triggered her memory and
00:25:32.860 she remembered, oh, the only
00:25:33.980 other time I've ever been
00:25:35.100 asked a tough question is when
00:25:36.560 I was in Edmonton and you're
00:25:37.400 that guy.
00:25:38.100 And then I asked her about her
00:25:38.960 Tesla, of course.
00:25:39.660 And she said, oh, well, that
00:25:41.380 wasn't my Tesla.
00:25:42.300 So it's clear that Greta is
00:25:44.080 actually watching our content.
00:25:45.880 It's clear that Greta is aware
00:25:47.420 of what we're putting out,
00:25:48.880 especially that Tesla vid full of
00:25:51.520 plastic.
00:25:51.860 When we asked her fawning
00:25:53.320 supporters what they would
00:25:54.580 think about someone's Tesla
00:25:56.660 full of plastic.
00:25:57.440 And then we told them that it
00:25:58.420 was actually Greta's Tesla.
00:26:00.260 It shows that what we're doing
00:26:02.300 is stinging.
00:26:03.600 It's seeing both Greta and the
00:26:05.580 cabal of leftist eco elites that
00:26:07.420 are propping her up.
00:26:08.320 So I'm very proud of this
00:26:11.040 documentary because I think
00:26:11.960 that we're doing something that
00:26:12.820 nobody in the world has really
00:26:15.280 done, either reporters in
00:26:16.880 Sweden or the reporters that
00:26:18.260 happily followed her along the
00:26:20.980 intercontinental field trip from
00:26:22.660 the BBC, the ones that flew out
00:26:24.640 to meet her in Edmonton to film
00:26:25.840 that documentary.
00:26:27.040 I'm glad that we were able to
00:26:28.360 release this one before anyone
00:26:30.460 else has really bothered to look
00:26:32.440 into it.
00:26:33.220 Yeah.
00:26:33.760 You know, sometimes I mean, for a
00:26:37.020 couple of years I've been
00:26:37.580 covering the case of Tommy
00:26:38.540 Robinson and I've been shaking
00:26:40.460 my head thinking, why am I in
00:26:42.200 Canada flying all the way over
00:26:44.280 to London when there's 60
00:26:46.700 million plus people there and
00:26:48.260 there's tons of journalists and
00:26:49.340 no one in London will just go and
00:26:51.760 report it straight.
00:26:52.820 And it's always boggled my mind.
00:26:54.800 Well, Tommy is in some ways an
00:26:57.180 obscure case.
00:26:57.940 I think it's an important case.
00:26:59.040 But Greta is a A-list celebrity,
00:27:02.280 no doubt about it.
00:27:03.260 Person of the Year in Time
00:27:04.420 magazine, invited speaker at
00:27:06.380 Davos, invited to the UN where
00:27:08.820 she says, how dare you?
00:27:11.180 So she's ten times the news story
00:27:14.900 that Tommy is, a hundred times.
00:27:16.940 And yet you, a young lad in
00:27:20.200 Calgary, barely a year into your
00:27:22.680 journalistic career, have to schlep
00:27:25.800 all the way to Stockholm because not
00:27:28.640 one reporter on the European
00:27:30.340 continent or one American that I know
00:27:32.500 of, has done that.
00:27:33.880 It's very strange that it falls to
00:27:35.460 us.
00:27:36.320 A low budget online news source in
00:27:38.720 Canada, it's a puzzler to me, but
00:27:40.900 I, you know, I guess if that's our
00:27:43.320 job, we'll take it.
00:27:45.260 Yeah, you're right.
00:27:46.120 I mean, we look at this, the array
00:27:49.100 of news stories coming out of the
00:27:52.780 international media cabal and we see,
00:27:58.000 well, where's the one-sided coverage
00:27:59.260 coming from and it tends to be from
00:28:01.380 these high-level, high-interest
00:28:05.440 people, Tommy Robinson, Greta
00:28:06.820 Thunberg, Jonathan Yaniv for the
00:28:09.540 first little bit.
00:28:10.960 And then we just go and ask
00:28:13.280 questions that the mainstream media
00:28:14.900 doesn't.
00:28:15.540 We ask the questions that nobody
00:28:16.600 seems to be asking.
00:28:17.540 And it's just, it's so curious to me,
00:28:19.840 someone who didn't go to journalism
00:28:20.900 school, someone who's kind of new at
00:28:23.040 this, this isn't a hard thing to do.
00:28:25.560 I mean, it takes a little bit of grit
00:28:28.100 and determination to try and shoulder
00:28:29.760 past these security guards that she
00:28:31.760 has and it takes a little bit to fly
00:28:33.800 out there and there's a little bit of
00:28:35.340 commitment there.
00:28:35.900 But in the practice of this
00:28:37.200 journalism, it's not really that
00:28:38.620 difficult to ask tough questions.
00:28:40.420 You just have to care enough to ask
00:28:42.460 them or at least not be paid off to be
00:28:44.400 asking the other questions.
00:28:46.100 Yeah, I mean, I didn't go to
00:28:48.060 journalism school either, Kian.
00:28:49.900 And in fact, the only on-air talent
00:28:53.740 we have that did was David Menzies
00:28:55.320 and I don't hold it against him.
00:28:57.860 But just out of sheer curiosity,
00:29:03.460 out of any skepticism, and Greta is a
00:29:05.720 powerful person.
00:29:07.180 Her trick is that she looks like a
00:29:09.300 frail teenager, but there's all the
00:29:12.420 security and PR agencies and capitalists
00:29:16.340 and manipulators behind her.
00:29:18.220 You'd think that of the thousand
00:29:19.920 journalists who have interacted with
00:29:21.360 her, that someone would have just
00:29:24.580 out of curiosity or skepticism or even
00:29:26.800 the desire to be different.
00:29:28.800 Like what happened to the desire to
00:29:30.300 make a name for yourself or to speak
00:29:34.280 truth to power or just take a run at
00:29:36.520 something?
00:29:36.900 That's what is so depressing to me.
00:29:38.960 The Greta story is fascinating.
00:29:40.220 You really nail it in the documentary.
00:29:42.960 But it could be a hundred things.
00:29:45.420 Why are journalists so docile?
00:29:48.200 Not just docile, partisan for Greta.
00:29:52.800 Like they're carrying her water.
00:29:54.420 I see online journalists tutting you for
00:29:58.580 having dared to ask questions.
00:30:00.380 Isn't that what a journalist is supposed
00:30:01.780 to be?
00:30:03.480 Not nowadays, Ezra.
00:30:05.160 The media approved group, the approved media
00:30:10.220 doesn't overstep their bounds anymore
00:30:12.400 because if they ever ask any tough
00:30:13.900 questions, well, they're going to lose
00:30:15.100 their United Nations credentials like
00:30:17.200 Sheila did when she asked some unscheduled
00:30:19.840 questions.
00:30:21.000 And in Davos, we couldn't get media
00:30:23.360 accreditation and that wasn't even UN
00:30:24.800 approved.
00:30:25.180 So it's clear that if you ask any questions that
00:30:29.500 aren't completely complimentary or totally
00:30:33.240 towing this globalist climate change line, well, then
00:30:37.660 you're not going to have the access that you need to do
00:30:39.500 your job.
00:30:40.100 Luckily, we do our job without the access.
00:30:42.640 We go to the interesting places on the ground.
00:30:44.900 We don't go to these scripted press conferences and
00:30:48.320 press release.
00:30:49.060 And we don't regurgitate these press releases that
00:30:51.620 Greta Inc.
00:30:52.580 releases.
00:30:53.460 We go to where the interesting stuff is happening,
00:30:55.680 whether it's her political rallies in Edmonton or her
00:31:00.540 sadly small rallies in Stockholm.
00:31:04.160 I was surprised to see it was only seven people.
00:31:06.400 There were seven people there and eight security guards
00:31:09.020 there.
00:31:09.220 There was more security guards than actual people
00:31:10.720 protesting.
00:31:11.280 But somehow this is an international sensation.
00:31:14.240 It doesn't really click.
00:31:15.400 But we go to these interesting places and we ask
00:31:17.500 questions.
00:31:18.140 And that's something that the mainstream media just
00:31:19.700 can't be bothered to do.
00:31:20.780 Because if they do, they'll lose their cushy chairs at
00:31:24.360 the press conference rooms.
00:31:25.800 Yeah, it's so strange to me.
00:31:29.980 There's one thing I want to bring to your attention.
00:31:31.740 I don't know if you noticed it.
00:31:32.760 I think it happened just yesterday.
00:31:34.100 Greta obviously noticed you when you talked to her a couple
00:31:40.460 weeks ago in Stockholm.
00:31:42.820 We showed the clip of that already.
00:31:45.160 And then when you put your, we announced that your documentary
00:31:49.820 would be coming.
00:31:50.480 We announced it earlier this week.
00:31:51.960 I think it might have been Monday or Tuesday.
00:31:53.820 So Greta would have seen that.
00:31:56.280 And she and her handlers would have remembered the questions you
00:31:59.720 put to her in Stockholm.
00:32:00.920 Did you really go on a school strike?
00:32:03.840 Have you actually been on a school strike?
00:32:06.060 And look at this tweet from Greta.
00:32:09.680 She says she's finishing her gap year.
00:32:15.120 And now a gap year, for those who don't know, is when a student
00:32:18.900 sort of takes a year off from school and, you know, goes
00:32:22.760 backpacking or, you know, goes, takes a break, works a bit.
00:32:26.860 That's what a gap year is.
00:32:27.920 She said, typically it's when you finish high school before you
00:32:31.000 go on to college or university, you gap year, travel,
00:32:33.960 sow your wild oats, run around a bit before you hunker down
00:32:37.940 to something serious.
00:32:40.460 Greta saying, I've been on a gap year.
00:32:42.540 Sorry, a teenager in the middle of high school is not on a gap
00:32:46.020 year at all.
00:32:47.260 That's just not a thing.
00:32:48.960 But more to the point, her whole shtick was,
00:32:52.200 I'm not on a gap year.
00:32:54.260 I'm an enrolled student who is striking.
00:32:58.080 I'm standing up to power by walking out of class.
00:33:02.160 I think, Kian, that that was Greta's way of saying, yikes,
00:33:07.680 Kian Bexty and Rebel News are going to out me,
00:33:10.720 that my whole school strike backstory is fake.
00:33:13.980 I'd better get ahead of that by saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
00:33:16.300 It wasn't really a school strike.
00:33:17.700 I was on a gap year, so you guys didn't actually cast me
00:33:22.860 in anything.
00:33:23.240 That's my theory based on how closely she follows you.
00:33:26.700 That tweet was extremely odd.
00:33:29.000 You're not on a climate strike if you're on a holiday year,
00:33:32.200 sister.
00:33:33.740 Yeah, that's what I was referring to when I said these cryptic
00:33:36.680 tweets, these cryptic defensive tweets.
00:33:39.300 There's another one, and I can't recall exactly what it was.
00:33:41.640 When I was in Madrid with Sheila Gunn-Reed at the COP25 summit,
00:33:45.220 we were putting out our news, and on the other side of the coin,
00:33:51.380 Greta Thunberg was releasing her damage control every time we released
00:33:55.700 more and more info about her campaign and about her political involvement
00:34:01.360 in rallies being staged across Canada.
00:34:04.540 So, yeah, I think it's fair to say that Greta Thunberg is very closely
00:34:07.700 following our coverage, especially when it comes to her plastic-filled Tesla.
00:34:11.060 She was very defensive about that, too.
00:34:12.700 Greta's watching because, and I wouldn't say that we're a huge news
00:34:18.080 outlet either.
00:34:19.360 We're not that large compared to many other news outlets that would
00:34:23.900 consider themselves conservative-leaning, but Greta is paying very close
00:34:27.380 attention to what we're releasing because we're the only ones that are
00:34:29.860 diving deep into Greta Thunberg's story and the lies that she's been
00:34:34.920 releasing or have been released on her behalf by Greta, Inc.
00:34:38.020 Greta Thunberg.
00:34:39.020 innocence in Greta Thunberg.
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00:35:05.020 video people watch for a minute or so this is a 30-minute documentary but it's so well documented
00:35:10.720 you're there on the ground i think that it is possible kian for us to bend the narrative to
00:35:19.160 change the narrative here to start bringing up the other side of the story that's that's our
00:35:24.740 motto you know rebel news telling the other side of the story um that seems to me a pretty basic
00:35:32.320 tenet of journalism i think it's sort of cool that we're doing it i i think this documentary is going
00:35:38.100 to go well and i don't think it should be the end of our greta coverage i think that we should
00:35:43.020 continue on it i'm not afraid to send you on journeys around the world um i mean it costs money
00:35:49.540 flying to stockholm over christmas um i don't i just got your expense account uh we're going through it
00:35:57.820 i i think those tickets were around 1600 bucks each we had you and a cameraman go over and we
00:36:03.620 had a local helper on the ground and we had hotel i haven't looked at the whole thing but i think the
00:36:08.400 total cost all in of this documentary is about 10 000 canadian dollars now there's no way we'll
00:36:15.560 recoup that on youtube i don't even know if they're going to monetize the video we don't have ten
00:36:20.640 thousand dollars to chuck around every month but i think this is important work and if folks want to
00:36:25.500 help us they can go to greta inc.com g-r-e-t-a-i-n-c like greta incorporated greta inc.com
00:36:35.300 and if you want to chip in i can assure you kian flies economy class to stockholm yes and um i'd like
00:36:44.460 to do more of this you were in madrid you were in stockholm you were in hong kong covering the freedom
00:36:49.680 movement there there's a lot of stories and i think you've got that style you're aggressive enough to get
00:36:55.040 the questions but you don't get in deep trouble uh i think you've got to keep doing this kian
00:37:00.040 yeah i'm all in ezra i i want to keep it up too uh because nobody's holding these this these eco
00:37:07.980 elites whether it's uh you know greta inc or or whether it's the communists in hong kong
00:37:12.160 nobody's holding them accountable uh and and i'm honored to be able to keep doing it so i you know
00:37:18.340 what i one last note i think that we've reached peak greta i think when when greta was awarded the
00:37:24.140 person of the year i mean there's no topping that she was denied the nobel well you haven't heard
00:37:28.120 about the nobel prize yet my friend well she was snubbed on that last year at least maybe she'll
00:37:33.520 get it next year um but i i seriously think that you're you're right about us changing this narrative
00:37:38.940 i think that people are finally waking up to greta uh and i think this documentary is going to go a
00:37:43.440 long way to exposing greta as uh for what she is she's a fraud and i i think that the narrative is
00:37:50.020 finally turning and shifting away from uh just this blank face by a blank check buy-in into into what
00:37:57.360 she's putting out there yeah well your video uh when you met her in edmonton i think that has 1.2
00:38:02.960 million views sheila gun reid also did a video when she came to edmonton that video is closing in on
00:38:09.640 a million views um i think all of our greta videos combined have several million views i don't know
00:38:19.080 how many people will watch this documentary i think it is the authoritative documentary about greta that's
00:38:25.960 not just a love letter pr so theoretically this could be the video that everybody goes to for the
00:38:33.440 other side of the story i think we are going to debunk the myth and i think that that's a service
00:38:41.300 to journalism and in our case it's a service to the kind of things that we care about the oil and gas
00:38:47.020 industry jobs fighting against junk science and global governance so uh i'm pretty pleased last word
00:38:53.960 to you and then i'm going to throw to another clip just to show people so give me your final thoughts
00:38:58.280 on this has been an exciting few weeks in stockholm and then working on the edit give it give us your
00:39:03.540 final thoughts uh it i was surprised with how much uh it takes to actually put this stuff together
00:39:09.320 um when i went there i thought oh well we're gonna know this great footage uh and we i mean we put
00:39:14.440 footage together from the fact the fact that she's on a fake school strike to the fact that the person
00:39:18.920 who found greta found in very large quotation marks i had to walk two miles accidentally to
00:39:26.280 accidentally find her on the very first few minutes of her very first school strike we go to her
00:39:30.840 childhood home well the home that she lives now and document her community and show how privileged
00:39:35.560 greta tunberg really is she's not you know she's not someone from uganda or uh or bolivia or
00:39:42.680 bangladesh she's a rich elite we expose it all in this documentary at gretainc.com uh and i really
00:39:49.840 appreciate everyone who pitches in to help this kind of coverage um because you know if we're not doing it
00:39:55.500 nobody else is and i think that it's important work and i hope our viewers agree with me on that
00:40:00.060 all right well that's great for folks who want to chip in go to gretainc.com let's close this segment
00:40:04.720 with um another clip from the documentary that we launched today at 10 a.m eastern time take a look
00:40:11.820 hey what are you doing don't touch me who do you think you are don't we're serious i don't care get
00:40:20.380 the fuck off who do you think you are i'm asking questions yes i want to ask greta some questions
00:40:25.820 yes don't touch me yeah what do you think people are going to say when it gets out that a security
00:40:30.660 yard from sweden punched a reporter three times in the gut uh sure i don't care you don't care
00:40:36.160 oh you know this is communist country oh don't touch me they're pushing just larger larger frame
00:40:44.880 wide angle of this guy being an asshole my feet are planted here oh if you touch me i'll be reporting
00:40:53.120 you yeah sure what are you doing here are you from what are you doing here what do you mean what am i
00:40:57.840 doing here i'm a reporter i'm asking questions now i'm focused on you instead of greta who i should be
00:41:01.760 focus on fuck off don't get so close don't touch me i'm not touching you you're standing on my foot
00:41:07.040 once i haven't moved once hey what are you doing dude i'm not aggressive and you are dangerous for
00:41:15.120 us so no i'm not leave me alone leave me alone stop i'm allowed to do this where are we hong kong
00:41:23.840 china no this is sweden so you have id do you have yeah i do and i'll show it to you thank you
00:41:32.400 no fuck off are you here illegal i think so yeah you're done with this no i'm not i don't think i am
00:41:47.200 huh behave you behave me i will believe me
00:41:59.920 hey welcome back on my monologue yesterday about donald trump's speech at the world economic
00:42:04.000 forum in davos justin writes trump's speeches are so captivating i've never seen anything like it
00:42:11.040 well that speech that i played for you was obviously a scripted speech it was written by a speech
00:42:18.560 writer who obviously gets trump's message but i have to say if you've never watched trump at a rally
00:42:24.880 that's what you gotta watch because he's semi-scripted but he riffs and i gotta tell you
00:42:31.840 half the time it's like a stand-up routine he mocks democrats he mocks reporters he just riffs on things
00:42:40.080 things he saw a tweet he saw a clip he saw he's a master entertainer he's got a message he's got a point
00:42:48.000 i think you got to watch the unscripted uh rally speeches more than the scripted ones and that's
00:42:52.480 half the reason why the media party doesn't run his speeches because they are both informative and
00:42:58.400 entertaining and i put it to you persuasive pj writes what a concept a country's elected leader
00:43:06.320 putting that country first oh yeah you know i just see today that the new foreign minister uh champagne
00:43:14.960 is his last name is talking about the importance of canada getting on the uh security council of the
00:43:20.320 united nations you know the security there's there's a general assembly where every country has a vote but
00:43:25.520 then there's the security council that has the permanent members united states russia china
00:43:34.000 france for some reason and uh britain sorry i almost forgot uh it's funny how how uh france is on
00:43:43.520 there but india is not anyways they elect smaller countries for for terms and canada is or justin
00:43:51.200 trudeau wants to get on because it's a a bragging point for him is that really the point of foreign
00:43:57.360 policy to win votes from other little countries um and what is trudeau and champagne what are they
00:44:05.920 how are they tailoring their messages to win those votes is that the reason why trudeau was so gentle
00:44:11.120 with china on our hostages there is that the reason why trudeau was so gentle with iran after they shot
00:44:17.600 down that jet i think it might be on my interview with fh buckley ron writes your guest said he was
00:44:25.200 confident trump would be re-elected i hope he's right but i also agree with michael medved that the
00:44:30.000 dem candidate will not be any from the clown show but one of the obamas most likely michelle and that's
00:44:36.240 extremely dangerous well i've heard that theory i you know i obviously it's a possibility i don't think
00:44:46.400 so i don't see evidence of michelle organizing um you know she does some speaking tours but that's
00:44:53.440 just to grab some cash and to feel special um i just don't see it and i have to say obama
00:45:00.400 had a certain charm to him i mean i i disliked him deeply but he had an affable look he had a nice
00:45:08.000 face and a nice smile and he could be a charmer michelle obama comes across as scowling and angry
00:45:14.560 and i don't think she ever clicked with people uh other than partisans just my own view you could
00:45:20.160 maybe you thought she was charming i've never heard i've never heard anyone call her charming
00:45:24.320 um hillary clinton however oh she wants back in you can taste it on the conservative leadership race
00:45:34.000 in canada beverly writes rumor has it that harper will seek the nomination so that is why pierre stepped
00:45:39.680 down what do you think we need someone who will be a true conservative not just fiscal i got tired of
00:45:44.240 the party wanting social conservative but throwing us under the bus once they got our vote beverly uh
00:45:51.760 i saw a tweet by michelle uh rempel garner uh an mp from calgary who said she was in direct
00:45:59.760 communication with stephen harper and he's not running again and again i see no evidence that he
00:46:04.320 would run again he's last i saw he was giving some panel discussion in india like he's doing
00:46:10.320 international stuff and i think he is glad to be done with the hassle of things he resigned from the
00:46:16.160 uh conservative party's fundraising board they say it was so he could battle jean shere but who knows
00:46:21.680 maybe maybe uh is that why jean shere quit is that why pierre polyev quit if harper did return that
00:46:32.240 would be an excellent reason for those two to quit but i have some trouble believing harper would want to
00:46:37.520 come back in maybe i'm wrong we'll find out soon i guess because the election of that the leadership
00:46:44.640 contest is less than six months away whoever's going to run and better get going folks that's
00:46:50.000 our show for today and for this week i hope you had a chance to tune in to kian's documentary at
00:46:56.240 gretainc.com or you can find it on our youtube page until next time on behalf of us here at rebel
00:47:02.400 world headquarters see you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom