COVID-19 is the new Global Warming for justifying an attack on civil liberties
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Today, I give you a roundup of how the anti-lockdown, anti-masks movement is going around the world. I'll show you a fascinating new report from Berlin, where there was a huge rally for freedom on the weekend, and I'll also give you some interesting thoughts from Britain's best teacher on what schools are going to be like, and what they should be like.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I give you a bit of a roundup of how the anti-lockdown, anti-mask movement is going around the world.
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I'll show you a fascinating new report we have from Berlin, Germany, where there was a huge rally for freedom on the weekend.
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I couldn't believe it. I'll also give you some interesting thoughts from Britain's best teacher on what schools are going to be like,
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and school children in particular, with mandatory masks. She's got quite a take.
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Tonight, a massive anti-mask, anti-lockdown protest in Berlin, Germany.
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It's August 31st, 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'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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It's August 31st. Tomorrow is September already.
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We've been in this pandemic madness for half a year, which is odd.
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But all they told us was two weeks to flatten the curve, two weeks to slow the spread, by which they meant it's impossible to stop the spread of a virus unless we literally shut down life and all social interaction.
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But if we slow down the virus, it won't overwhelm our hospitals.
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And the two weeks part, they said that was the time it took to incubate the virus, so two weeks was enough to see if we could do it.
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Turns out there was never actually a curve to flatten.
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Justin Trudeau and Theresa Tam followed panicky public health models that said we'd have between 50,000 and 350,000 deaths from the virus that would overwhelm our hospitals.
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But in fact, the total number is about 9,000, and that includes a death for any reason where the person also happened to have the virus.
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So they'd count a heart attack as a virus death.
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The other day when I was researching virus deaths in Alberta, I learned that even at the maximum, the peak number of patients in that province who were in intensive care units, ever, province-wide, was 22.
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In the whole province, it never got higher than that.
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Literally seven people in the whole province in ICU.
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In a province of four and a half million people, there was one single person in all of Calgary in intensive care.
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But as our friend Mark Morano told us last week in a chilling interview, this is the new thing.
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It has replaced climate change as the universal panic that politicians will use to control us because people are actually scared of it in a way that no one really believed the global warming stuff.
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No one changed their lives as if they truly were worried about global warming.
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But people are panicking about COVID-19, which is no deadlier than the annual flu.
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So it's going to replace global warming as the excuse to do anything and everything, from new spending and new taxing and new borrowing to suspending your civil liberties.
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Joe Biden's talking about a federal lockdown in January if the scientists say it's necessary.
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Why would it be necessary to get cases down to zero?
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The mask actually the other way, even in hospital settings, cases of influenza and viruses go up because people end up either coming, you know, not taking the other protocols or they touch their face.
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A mask makes your face a target for your hands, which have many viruses.
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So going back to the 1970s, masks studies actually show that masks aren't effective in preventing viruses.
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I see that most people believe that mandatory masks are BS.
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But if they're forced to wear it, well, they want you to be forced to wear it too.
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If they see you not wearing a mask, they feel permitted to be a dissident too.
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But far more in my observation, people hate wearing the mask and they hate that they have to submit to it.
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So if you don't submit to it, in some ways you're shaming them because they're so submissive.
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They go into full Karen mode, you know, scolding, tattling.
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I hate it because it's turning people against each other.
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It's turned people into informants and snitches and scolds and tattlers because they don't want to wear the mask.
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Let me show you a video report from Berlin, Germany.
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A huge anti-mask, anti-lockdown protest with the theme, think for yourself, use common sense.
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Oh, the authorities hated it, calling it Nazi-like, of course.
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There was a whole spectrum of people, including, to my surprise, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Here, watch the video, which you might have missed since we just put it up on YouTube yesterday.
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In the heart of the city of Berlin, thousands of people are gathering today peacefully to send a signal to the German government against the COVID-19 restrictions,
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which are on many people's view, way too extreme, not necessary, and violates fundamental human rights and dismantle democracy.
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The organization behind it, called Queer Denken, translated as critical thinking, highlighted very specifically on the website this week
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that this should be the most peaceful demonstration ever, and that all participants should be respecting the guidelines set out by the city council.
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The mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller, member of the Social Democrats, responded in a talk show earlier this week.
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They're traveling from Frankfurt, Stuttgart to Berlin, and make riots in our city.
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They don't know what the facts are, and therefore risking the health of other people.
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Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel, declared on Wednesday on the mainstream news,
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I am not prepared to accept that Berlin is misused as a stage for COVID-19 deniers and right-wing extremists.
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Like, from the beginning, there was never a violence, anything, it's all in the media.
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You know, there's like many, many, many thousands of people coming peacefully together,
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What media is lying to us, what politicians are lying to us.
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For example, here we start with Corona, there's like a pandemic situation which is not happening.
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There's not much of a mortality rate in the world.
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Like, I don't know, in other countries, but in Europe, in Germany especially,
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Initially, the city council banned the demonstration.
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To make it even more confusing, the anti-protests against the COVID-19 protests were allowed.
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I'm standing here because I can't allow that Nazis and the fascists are marching together
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with these weird, crazy people from Tiananmen here in Berlin, and they are here in the thousands,
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and I just cannot allow this to happen without protesting against it.
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Like, all the really right-wing, right-extremist, fascist groups have mobilized today here.
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So, like, huge parts of the group, of the demonstrations, are just against the coronavirus,
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But, like, a lot of right-wing groups mobilized here today, and they are very obviously right-wing
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I mean, people can believe in all kinds of stupid shit, but they should not march together
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It seems to me that the police is taking a little bit of a demonstration of power to
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Currently, the police stop the people and lock down all the streets because people didn't
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And all these people are, well, kind of stuck and waiting for the next step.
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So, you see the conflict between the right-wing and the police in Berlijn.
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So, the march has been officially banned and people walking, well, on their own, to the
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Siegesäule, where the official demo will take place.
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And this behavior of the city council is exactly the reason why the people are going to the
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You are allowed to demonstrate, but not against government rules in a crisis as such.
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Whether it's still a crisis or did it have become a political duel.
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You are allowed to say, because you don't want anyone to live and think about it.
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And I'm here with the Grundgesetz, that has been more than 70 years, the Grundrechte guarantee.
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It is the best thing, what has been happening today, but we couldn't be in the year 2020
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not to be able to protect the government, that the government will always be able to be
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They're going to report that, yes, I was here and I spoke to maybe 3,000 to 5,000 Nazis.
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I see people of every color, I see people from every nation, every religion, all caring
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about human dignity, about children's health, about political freedom.
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They love pandemics for the same reason they love war.
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Because it gives them the ability to impose controls on the population that the population
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The only thing a government needs to make people into slaves is fear.
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50 years ago, my uncle John Kennedy came to this city because Berlin was the front line against
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And today again, Berlin is the front line against global totalitarianism.
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He proudly said to the people of Germany, each benign their leader.
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All of us who are here today can proudly say once again, each benign their leader.
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It has long since to be about criticism of the decisions that had to be made during the pandemic
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But it's much more about the public's voice guarding the thin line between governments
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caring for its people who wanted to control them.
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I found that hopeful, but of course they'll be flattened by Angela Merkel, who has always
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been against freedom, especially freedom of speech.
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Und all die, die dauernd behaupten, sie durften nicht mehr ihre Meinung sagen, denen muss sie
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Und wenn sie prononciert ist, der muss damit leben, dass es Widerspruch gibt.
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Es gibt keine Meinungsfreiheit zum Nulltarif, das alle zustimmt.
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Und die beginnen da, wo gehetzt wird, da wo Hass verbreitet wird.
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Die beginnen da, wo die Würde anderer Menschen verletzt wird.
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Und dagegen werden und müssen wir uns stellen in diesem Hause.
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Und das werden wir auch hinbekommen, meine Damen und Herren.
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Denn sonst ist diese Gesellschaft nicht mehr das, was sie jetzt sagen.
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Und you'd think they'd be a bit more defiant in the face of big government.
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Maybe they'll care once they get the bill Boris Johnson's finance minister's about to
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bring in the biggest tax increases since World War II to pay for all this.
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In a country of over 65 million people, sometimes days pass without a single death from the virus.
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Other than as an ongoing excuse to tax and spend and regulate and censor.
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There was an anti-lockdown protest in London's Trafalgar Square too.
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Piers Corbyn, the dissident semi-conservative brother of Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader.
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He was the key speaker at an anti-lockdown demonstration.
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He was fined 10,000 pounds for that by the government.
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He made the mistake of having a peaceful protest as opposed to a violent riot or wrecking the
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The Czech Republic seems to have an independent spirit.
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It was set to impose a massive mask law, but it pulled back.
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Perhaps they're too recently freed from the Soviet bloc to give up their liberties as
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We had a Canadian rally in the same vein over the weekend on Parliament Hill.
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A variety of speakers, lots of science, certainly more than you'd hear at any left-wing rally.
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I'm not sure if I agree with every word said there, but again, peaceful.
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Nobody tearing down statues of Johnny MacDonald.
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And the CBC was pretty excited to see it torn down, to be honest.
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And silence for more than a day from Justin Trudeau, the local MP.
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That's how criminals are treated by the Canadian political establishment.
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Well, the CBC calls anyone who doesn't like the lockdown a conspiracy theorist or a kook.
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Yeah, I think you're projecting a bit, you guys.
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Speaking of Trudeau's state broadcaster, I wonder what their coverage will be of this news
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from the United States, that only 6% of U.S. deaths from the virus happened from the virus alone.
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As in, the other 94% had one, two, three other causes of death.
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So the stats are about as accurate and reliable as global warming models.
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Remember what Ontario's deputy health minister, health officer, excuse me, said about that?
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If you test somebody today, you only know if they're infected today.
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And in fact, if you're testing in a population that doesn't have very much COVID,
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you'll get false positives almost half the time.
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Hey, school's about to start over the protest of teachers' unions.
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There's a certain class of people who have loved this lockdown.
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They get all of the pay, but none of the work, or reduced work.
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Let me leave you with a series of tweets about masks in schools.
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By Britain's leading school headmistress, Catherine Burblesing,
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her specialty is minority kids in tough economic circumstances,
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tough social circumstances, kids who are normally forgotten
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She turns them into outstanding learners and achievers.
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Here she is responding to official rules about masks being required in schools.
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For example, four masks, four washed masks per day per student.
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Some come to school with unwashed uniforms, hungry, not having slept.
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Are these families really going to provide them with four washed masks daily?
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Your masks in schools' opinion depends on how bad you think school behavior can be.
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If you think schools are an oasis of calm, sensible behavior, masks seem fine.
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you instantly see how masks will make them less safe.
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SLTs, school leadership teams, under pressure to make right decisions for their intake.
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If you feel masks needed in corridors, then why not classrooms too?
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How can pair work and group work be fine in classrooms, but corridors need masks?
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What I can't bear is the dishonesty in this discussion.
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Kids will be constantly touching their faces to readjust their masks.
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SLTs, that's school leadership teams, should create environments where teachers can teach.
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And finally, why is Mykela, that's her school, behavior so good?
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It is because we preempt behavior with accurate precision.
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We create environments where they will not misbehave in the first place.
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They make us feel better, but they are the enemy.
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Britain's top teacher with the toughest kids to teach.
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Some kids will be momentarily scared into wearing masks.
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Kids look around and see that no one else is really taking masks seriously,
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on, off, whatever, just to comply with arbitrary rules.
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And, you know, some are bullies and some get bullied.
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I think we pretty much know what kids will do here.
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But what, I wonder, will the so-called grown-ups do?
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Are they going to kick kids out of school by the hundred, by the thousand?
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They want less school, less work, but more unionized teachers and more pay.
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They just want this spending carnival atmosphere to continue.
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This is a bigger scam than even global warming.
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In the heart of the city of Berlin, thousands of people are gathering today peacefully
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to send a signal to the German government against the COVID-19 restrictions,
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which are on many people's view, way too extreme, not necessary,
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and violates fundamental human rights and dismantle democracy.
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The organization behind it, called Queer Denken, translated as critical thinking,
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highlighted very specifically on the website this week
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that this should be the most peaceful demonstration ever,
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and that all participants should be respecting the guidelines set out by the city council.
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Well, that was an outstanding report that we were lucky enough to publish yesterday.
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who is a freelance journalist who attended a massive protest,
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a peaceful protest in the main, in Berlin, Germany,
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Joining us now via Skype from Berlin is Maureen Pulse.
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Well, what a pleasure to have you do on-the-ground journalism for us in Europe.
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Because of the pandemic, we can't travel there.
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And I think it's important enough to, you know, to find that connection.
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And although this is, I believe, our first interview,
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I know you've talked to my colleague, Sheila Gunn-Reed,
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Just to tell our viewers who may not be familiar with that,
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tell us a little bit about some of the past journalism
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it's still existing, an independent documentary maker.
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And I covered documentaries about climate change,
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which I think it's journalistic, very interesting to do,
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And, you know, stranding somewhere in the middle.
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It's about tribalism, which we're facing today.
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And currently I'm working on the third independent story
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It will be released in two weeks, I guess, on YouTube,
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which is about, well, it's all about coming home.
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And I think that it's about time to come home as humanity
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I made documentaries mainly in development countries,
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report the situations as well where we're in today.
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It's a turbulent time and it's very interesting,
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Well, I was very impressed with the quality of your work
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She was so adamant that they were actual members
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I mean, it's an absurdly powerful and sharp insult
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But in Germany, that's like dropping a bomb on someone.
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When you pressed her, she really didn't have a good answer.
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I'm standing here because I can't allow that Nazis and fascists
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are marching together with these weird, crazy people
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And I just cannot allow this to happen without protesting against it.
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right-extremist, fascist groups have mobilized today here.
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of the demonstrations are just against the coronavirus,
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But, like, a lot of right-wing groups mobilized here today.
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I mean, people can believe in all kinds of stupid shit,
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And I think that proved that she was just there to call names.
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I find that that's how a lot of the left works these days.
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I don't think that protester there actually listened
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to the legitimate complaints of the protesters.
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And, in fact, there were people of all different backgrounds there.
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Yeah, I think, you know, I didn't take that too much serious what she was saying to me.
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But, you know, as I am a journalist, I try to cover both sides, and that's what I did.
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But what I saw was the opposite of Nazism, the opposite of, you know, nationalism.
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It has, you know, the horizontal fight wasn't there.
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It was just from, you know, we the people against the politics, against the media.
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And I did try to find some Nazis, and I did try to find some right-wing extremists.
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But, you know, to be honest, I couldn't find them.
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But nowadays in Germany, when you walk with a German flag, you are a right-wing extremist.
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And I think that's, you know, that's kind of, yeah.
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Well, in fact, the most surprising thing in your report, it just hit me.
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I was not ready for it, was a guest appearance by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
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who I regard as a left-wing activist in the United States.
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And I don't think he would be attending any Nazi rally in Germany, I can tell you that.
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Let's play a quick clip of RFK Jr., who I had no idea was concerned about pandemic panics.
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Here's a quick clip of this from your report for us.
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They're going to report that, yes, I was here and that I spoke to maybe 3,000 to 5,000 Nazis.
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I see people from every nation, every religion,
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How did the mainstream media in Germany cover this icon of the American left?
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Maybe not the far left, but he's certainly a Kennedy.
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How did the mainstream media in Germany handle his presence there?
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Because this is a very dangerous speech for the mainstream media.
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I was left in tears after the speech, I must say.
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this is a very dangerous thing for the media to,
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and all the tapes of the mainstream media weren't running on that particular time.
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could take that story and make it a story of hope and inspiration.
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some little uproars and they are focusing fully on that,
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go in a field with my camera and report the sites,
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And I think it's a very honest display of what happened that day.
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And they were highlighting very specifically on the website that,
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have a peaceful event like that with tens of thousands of people.
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and it wouldn't surprise me if it was much more than the official number of 40,000.
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I understand from your report that there were attempts to ban this protest,
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I take it that censorship in Germany is a fairly regular occurrence,
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whenever you say what the government narrative is,
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but if you're saying something against the narrative,
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or a COVID-19 denier or a right-wing extremist or a climate denier,
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And they do it to give you a certain frame that you're done.
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nobody wants to speak to right-wing extremists.
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they are more awake as the whole West because they,
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but it was just one day before that the judge said,
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and these were the one and a half meter distance.
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to protect that guideline of one and a half meter,
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And then I saw the police taking a little bit of a demonstration of power to,
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stand up in a line and push the people inwards.
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So they couldn't have that space anymore of one and a half meter.
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we decided today and we're banning this March for the demonstration.
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that's a really concerning thing that the police is above the judge.