This is a live stream from the wilds of northern Canada where we are dealing with some technical difficulties, but we are still able to talk about a variety of current events, including China, Russia, and much more!
00:00:00.000Oh, I'm looking pretty pixely. Good afternoon. Good morning, I guess. And good evening, everybody.
00:00:22.080This is the Rebel News Daily Livestream. It's hosted by me, Sheila Gunn-Reed, today. And my guest host is Louis Brackpool, our UK contributor. Louis, I'm looking very pixely, but you are looking great. How's it going?
00:00:38.820Thank you very much. Yeah, everything's okay. Not too bad on my end. How are you?
00:00:44.260Oh, I don't know. We're having internet difficulties out here in the wilds of northern Canada, but we'll figure it out.
00:00:53.860Oh, sorry. Things are really, really, really bad here. Anyways, I should tell everybody what we're doing while I'm still able to broadcast.
00:01:04.840This is the Rebel News Daily Livestream. It used to just be hosted on Fridays by Ezra Levant, but then the pandemic struck and nobody could travel.
00:01:14.180But there was more news than ever, so we thought this is a good way to talk about it with everybody, sort of spontaneously as it happens, and react.
00:01:22.120And it used to be a great way for our viewers to support the work that we do on YouTube through something called the Super Chat.
00:01:27.560But then Biden got elected, and big tech didn't have to pretend anymore, and so they completely demonetized so many conservative platforms, including us.
00:01:36.360So the moral of the story being, we are becoming more resilient in spite of that soft censorship by broadcasting on three other platforms, Odyssey, Rumble, and SuperU.
00:01:48.700They describe themselves as neutral platforms, and that's great because I don't want them to agree with me politically.
00:01:55.040I just want them to agree to leave me alone. And so far, so good over there.
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00:02:24.100And there will come a time on the show today that we will have to sort of sign off of YouTube.
00:02:29.100We start off on YouTube, but we don't say goodbye to our viewers.
00:02:32.840We invite them to continue the conversation with us over on one of those other neutral platforms.
00:02:36.800So YouTube is really strict about the things that we can and can't talk about.
00:02:41.680It's one of my biggest stresses in a day is making sure that we don't publish something that will have the channel destroyed.
00:02:48.240I don't want it to be me. I always kind of thought it would be David Mendez.
00:02:51.360But now apparently that's my job at the company, making sure YouTube, we don't self-destruct on YouTube.
00:02:58.100So that's what we're doing here today.
00:03:01.660And Mr. Producer reminded me just before we went on air that we should give a quick shout out to our podcast listeners,
00:03:10.460because apparently there are thousands of you who watch or listen to us in that way and catch up with us.
00:03:17.280And I think that's phenomenal. We always sort of forget about you guys.
00:07:26.260And like I was saying, China owns a lot of the world at the minute, especially the West in places like energy and lots of different aspects.
00:07:36.220So it's no surprise that they have a lot of control over big legacy media outlets as well.
00:07:44.300So no wonder only a tiny proportion of people in the West, journalists in the West, are actually sticking their neck out to cover what's been going on out there.
00:07:54.900So, yeah, like you said, it's no surprise seeing this from China.
00:07:59.320And I think we're going to see a lot more stuff unravel during 2022, I believe.
00:08:04.580Maybe we can jump ahead to the next story from Black Locks AD.
00:08:13.340They are seeking a parliamentary press pass in Canada.
00:08:17.140So access to our House of Commons, close quarters with our journalists, and not yesterday, but I guess it would be the day before, media directors of the Parliamentary Press Gallery met behind closed doors to consider membership for Xinhua, the official propaganda agency of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:08:35.940The Press Gallery had said it had not discussed the matter with the Prime Minister's office.
00:08:41.640This is a huge security threat, but I think it's interesting that the Parliamentary Press Gallery is even considering allowing Xinhua in because they don't allow us in.
00:08:54.220They say that we are not real journalists, but they're actually giving some, hmm, serious consideration to Xinhua, the spy agency that masquerades as a journalist agency on behalf of the CCP, which is, you know, a genocide state.
00:09:20.140And, you know, I don't even understand the interest that China has in coming to cover the Canadian Parliament since there's this new report out, I think it's in Yahoo News, about how much China doesn't actually like Canada.
00:09:37.360And this is like, I think it's not the Chinese government, but the Chinese people generally don't like Canada.
00:09:43.660Canada, once a hot travel destination among Chinese people, has become China's least favourite country, according to a recent survey from, well, state-run news, Global Times.
00:09:56.160Why do they have to preface it with that?
00:09:58.400If it's coming from China, I'm just going to assume that the state is involved.
00:10:02.380The poll conducted by Global Times Research Centre with market survey firm Data 100 gathered 2,148 responses across 16 Chinese cities from December 5th or 10th to 15th, 2021, showed Canada at the bottom of the ranking with only 0.4% of respondents saying they like the North American country.
00:10:22.900This actually doesn't surprise me, as we were talking in the meeting preparing for this, I think they know they can walk all over Justin Trudeau.
00:10:34.540So I think they kind of, I don't know if they, I wouldn't say they like him.
00:10:38.840They definitely don't respect him, but they know he's a good, I don't want to say asset, but that might be the right word.
00:10:45.260But in Canada, we have a very strong, vocal Chinese immigrant community who came here for freedom, and they are very critical of the Chinese government.
00:11:01.560They are the ones saying, Justin Trudeau, you've got to get harder on them.
00:11:05.220We've got to stop our, some of our citizenship policies where you just have to be born here to be a citizen, because there's a real problem with anchor babies from China being born in the lower mainland of British Columbia.
00:11:22.320And so they are the ones that show up at Conservative Party of Canada conventions saying, we need to bring in this policy that cracks down on China, and this one, and we need to ban Huawei, and we need to call the, what's happening to the Uyghurs a genocide.
00:11:34.600A lot of that rumbling is coming from the Chinese immigrant community, and so I get why China is prickly with Canada about that, because obviously they would just like us to stick all those people in a camp and shut them up, but we don't do that around here.
00:11:58.960But yeah, but I think it's no surprise, really.
00:12:03.140I mean, it's good to see that the strong voices are coming from people who obviously lived through the horrors over in China and decided to make that journey across to the West, to the free West, as we call it, although it's up for debate now whether it's becoming free or not at the minute, but that's a different subject.
00:12:26.540But yeah, it goes to show that the people who are projecting the idea that, of course, China is this big, nice, friendly sort of unit that is there to cohabitate with the West is shocking.
00:12:48.500And I can only see that as just pure media propaganda now from state China media and, of course, co-latering with the Western media, if that made sense.
00:12:58.980It's just shocking to me that all of this evidence of the Uyghurs, of how China's big influence on the West is so out there, you can easily find it, you can see all this information, yet people are still very, very silenced on it.
00:13:15.000When I went to COP26 and there was some protesters outside protesting against the Chinese regime and spoke about the Falun Gong tribe who had been massacred over there that nobody really had heard of, but they were the only ones preaching about, well, not preaching, but explaining to people about the horrors of this regime and what they've done.
00:13:39.820And then I speak to someone else and say, should we criticise China?
00:13:47.340And, you know, China's our friend, China's, you know, we should be looking out for them when they don't actually understand all the horrors that have been happening with this regime over the years.
00:14:02.480But people need to start having these conversations.
00:14:05.380And they are tricky, but I think it's a very, very important one.
00:14:09.820Well, and it's interesting because so much of the opposition to China is coming from ethnic Chinese people, Hong Kongers, people in Taiwan, the Chinese expat community who escaped and did immigration, right?
00:14:25.280You know, they came in the front door and waited their turn.
00:14:27.900And, you know, but when you if you got all your news from the mainstream media, any criticism of the Chinese government is often painted as anti-Chinese racism.
00:14:40.640But when you point to the people who are actually doing the criticism of China, their ethnic Chinese, it's the worst form of gaslighting.
00:14:50.340And it's funny that you mentioned the Falun Gong because I was reading the Epoch Times today and China just Beijing just sentenced a Falun Gong practitioner to eight years in prison ahead of the Olympic Games.
00:15:03.280And you're not going to hear anything about this in in the mainstream media.
00:15:06.700You're not going to hear about any diplomatic pressure being put on China for what they're doing to the Falun Gong.
00:15:35.440And we don't say a word in the Western world.
00:15:37.540We just let them get away with it because we need our electronic components and our cheap clothing from Sheen.
00:15:44.360Well, here's the thing with that as well.
00:15:47.880I mean, you touched upon that when you tried to criticize another country and their regime, you're met with the same sort of silly arguments of, oh, that means, you know, oh, you must be racist then for criticizing China or criticizing this country or that country.
00:16:05.460But like you said, the main people who are speaking about it are ethnically Chinese who have lived through the horrors and have firsthand experience of how the regime works.
00:16:15.640So I think people need to snap out of this idea of just because you're criticizing something doesn't mean that you're automatically this bigoted, horrible person.
00:16:25.840And I think society in general needs to just get over that.
00:16:29.600We should hold people accountable for actions, not not based on, you know, creed or ethnicity.
00:16:48.080I want the Chinese people to be free of their horrible government.
00:16:52.140Ideally, they're the first people persecuted by the Chinese government.
00:16:56.500So a lot of my criticism is not only directed at what China is doing to the rest of the world, but also equally what China is doing to its own people.
00:17:08.320Anyway, I could talk about how bad China is all the time.
00:17:11.360I could devote a whole show to just how awful China is and what a threat they are to the security of the world and health of the world, by the way.
00:17:19.020But we should move along because you're in the UK, so you know what a plague the state broadcaster is, what a burden it is on the taxpayer, how unwatchable it is.
00:17:31.920Although I think more people probably watch the BBC than the statistical rounding error of Canadians who actually consume CBC content, even though we have these Canadian content laws.
00:17:43.240Now the liberals who are just in love with the concept of the CBC, the completely unwatchable CBC, they've decided that they're going to modernize the CBC by making the public broadcaster less reliant on advertising, which is literally the old model of the CBC.
00:18:06.580So I don't know how that's bringing it into the 21st century by doing more of the things we've done for the last 70 years.
00:18:13.700But it's weird how they've made the word modernize interchangeable with subsidize, continue to subsidize.
00:18:25.040Of course, it can't be reliant on advertising.
00:18:27.840How do you sell advertising with those viewership numbers when you're like, oh, you know, like across the entire country of 34 million people?
00:18:36.580A small town in Alberta is the population that watches the six o'clock news of CBC, their flagship news.
00:18:57.620And it's interesting because you're seeing a different shift as well with legacy media.
00:19:03.840I mean, for example, in the UK, they are now talking about freezing funds for the BBC and getting rid of the TV license.
00:19:14.980I don't know if you guys have a similar thing where you have to pay your TV license in order to watch the BBC and they come around your house and knock on your doors to make sure that if you even have a TV.
00:20:10.140And they've so we've been a lot of people have been campaigning to scrap this license fee because it targets people like pensioners who just want to watch TV.
00:21:55.180Yeah, when you go to move into a property, you pay your council tax, you pay all your bills, like your water, electricity, and then your TV license.
00:22:12.620And like in a day and age where like Netflix, all these streaming services, ad-supported streaming services like Tubi, Apple TV.
00:22:21.820You know, I don't remember the last time that I went actually out of the house to watch a movie, also because I don't want to participate in the vaccine passport system.
00:22:31.500But things come directly to Google Movies.
00:22:33.840So, I just buy them there and I can watch them whenever I feel like.
00:23:01.420But, yeah, you pay your TV license and this is all that you get is just, yeah, iPlayer, services, Scotland, online, CBBs, all the radios, Parliament.
00:23:31.080Now, let's move along because there's a – I'm just – I'm so shocked that you have to pay all that money for all that unwatchable garbage.
00:24:16.900Every 37 seconds, someone is arrested for possession of marijuana.
00:24:21.780Since 2010, state and local police have arrested an estimated 7.3 million Americans for violating marijuana laws, over half of all drug arrests.
00:24:32.320Black people are four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana laws than white people.
00:24:37.660States waste $3.7 billion enforcing marijuana laws every year.
00:24:42.840Most of the people police are arresting aren't dealers, but rather people with small amounts of pot, just like me.
00:24:49.360I'm Gary Chambers, and I'm running for the U.S. Senate, and I approve this message.
00:24:55.140Gary, I don't think that's a small amount of pot.
00:24:58.360You're smoking a big hog's leg in your ad.
00:25:01.040I don't think that's a small amount of pot.
00:25:31.040I've been in Canada for, I don't know, a few years.
00:25:37.380I do think that the government has handled it very poorly, as the government tends to do with all these sorts of things.
00:25:47.060For example, where I am, they have these regulations where you have to black out the windows.
00:25:51.600Even though the outside is all like, cannabis shop, cannabis shop, marijuana leaves.
00:25:56.020But they don't want the public to be able to see inside the store.
00:26:01.920And they say it's for security reasons.
00:26:04.180But the flip side has happened, where it's really easy to rob a cannabis store because nobody can see the robbery happen.
00:26:11.120You just go in, rob the place, and walk back out.
00:26:13.740Nobody can see the guy with the gun pointed at the person at the counter.
00:26:18.640Sure. And because of how it was first introduced and how it was sort of left up to the provinces to decide how they're going to legalize and manage it and tax it,
00:26:26.800in where I am, Alberta, or sort of like the Wild West with some of this stuff, but still even the government being involved,
00:26:36.580the government was selling cannabis, like direct to mail, and they lost a bunch of money on it because they were competing with these stores that were just literally everywhere.
00:26:47.320You could throw a rock in any direction, hit a cannabis store, likewise with liquor stores.
00:26:51.700So I'm happy that, you know, there's all these pop-up entrepreneurs, I guess, now.
00:26:57.820I've never even done marijuana. I just don't care.
00:27:03.040I made it this far in my life now. I'm just going to keep on going. I'm not even interested.
00:27:08.160But just how the government rolled it out, and then the government lost money selling marijuana,
00:27:17.040is the perfect synopsis of everything that's wrong with the government, right?
00:27:20.920And then they taxed it. They made it more expensive. They certainly didn't put the local weed man out of business,
00:27:27.260the guy, the dialectoper guy, because the government taxed it so much.
00:27:32.980So, I mean, I guess you can get different products now, and so there's, you know, it's sort of like a cornucopia of things marijuana now,
00:27:41.440which is, I guess, interesting if you're into that kind of stuff.
00:27:44.120And the weed man just had his couple of strains that he sold you in a baggie.
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01:24:25.240Maybe Mr. Producer can tell me who's hosting tomorrow.
01:24:27.240Oh, Dakota, the apparently the best driver at the company, brave the roads to open the company the other day in Toronto during the snowpocalypse.
01:24:40.500And Kelly, she's our journalist in Saskatchewan, in Ratland.