DAILY | Liberal apologizes to Rebel, Kenney says vax is a choice, Xi opens Davos Agenda 2022
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Summary
Sheila and Adam talk about the crazy weather our friends in the east are dealing with, and how they're dealing with it, and what they're doing to try to make it through it. Plus, Ezra and Sheila talk about what it's like to be a mom working from home in the midst of bad weather.
Transcript
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I'm your host, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and I'm joined by my co-host in Calgary, Adam Sos.
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I hear our friends in Toronto are dealing with some mildly apocalyptic weather.
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You know, it actually, there was four warnings of terrible snowstorms and wind and everything
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Last night I'm coming home, went home, got some drinks with my family, and suddenly everything's
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fine, I'm walking, and then this howling wind blew all the straws away.
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Since then and overnight, it was snowing quite a bit here, actually, and it was very windy.
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I guess it was gusting up to 90, but I don't think quite anything compared to what our friends
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They were, as people probably noticed yesterday, we were unable to get to the stream because
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people couldn't get to our studio, even the firefighters that were having a tough time
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Yesterday, I was driving in the worst conditions I've ever driven in, in my...
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There might be some of those horrible weather conditions we're talking about out there.
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Hopefully, Sheila is ready to join us again at some point here.
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For those of you who aren't familiar or who are new to the live stream, this is something
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that we used to do once a week, and it was so much fun hanging out with you guys, chatting
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with you guys, touching base on some of these stories that we started doing it every single
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This was also an opportunity for you guys to interact with us, have some conversations
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You can actually make a contribution through Super Chats, Rumble Chats, lots of these other
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And that way, towards the end of the show, we're going to respond directly to your conversations.
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I was just saying, but at some point, we have to leave YouTube.
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The roads and the driving conditions are so bad where I live that for the second day in
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And so I decided I'm not going to take my life in my hands to drive them to school.
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So they were all on the internet at the moment that we were on the live stream.
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So anyways, those are mom work from home problems.
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So as Adam was pointing out, this is Rebel News daily live stream used to just be on Friday
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But then the pandemic struck, we were all sent home and there was more news than ever to
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Although you wouldn't know that if you got all your news from the mainstream media who
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We decided one of the best ways to talk about the news of the day is sort of spontaneously
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and react along with you, which is how the live stream expanded from just Friday to
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And it used to be an opportunity for people to support the work that we do completely
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They're trying to cut us off from our nearly 1.6 million YouTube subscribers, even the ones
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So that's why we continue to stream on YouTube.
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But we also stream on three other neutral platforms, platforms that don't really care about
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I don't care about theirs, which is, I think, is ideal.
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And they allow you to support the work that we do completely willingly.
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And on all three of those platforms, they have different ways that you can support us.
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I won't get into that because I think we had my delay sort of set us back a little bit.
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And if you do that, we'll read your question, query, comment, story, idea on air.
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And Adam or myself will do our very best to address that.
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And there will come a time where we can no longer broadcast this show that we're doing
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right now on YouTube because we will start talking about things that are YouTube unsafe.
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There are certain things that we cannot talk about on YouTube.
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And one of those things is questioning the advice of a public health officer because they
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Adam, you and I know that when the Pope says things, sometimes they're infallible.
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And apparently we have to treat Teresa Tam the same way.
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So there will come a time where we'll say not goodbye to our YouTube viewers, but just
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join us on one of those other platforms and we'll continue the unsafe conversation over
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Really quickly, too, I do want to mention that the shows are also uploaded as podcasts.
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So if you are one of those people who maybe wants to head to the gym or doesn't want to sit
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there or wants to listen to something while working, but wants to catch up on the news
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of the day, well, go to rebelnews.com, find the podcast, and you can listen along that
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One more thing I want to point out because it was the snowpocalypse in Toronto and, you
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know, Albertans, maybe we're just a little bit better prepared for this.
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I was saying in the morning meeting, it is a symbol of how much your husband loves you.
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If as a wife, you have aggressive tires on your SUV, where I'm from, that's it.
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The more aggressive your tires, the better wife you are, or the better wife that your
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Because he braved the snowpocalypse to go into the office where it was so bad at the
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Dakota was all of a sudden the showrunner for Ezra Levant's show.
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If you watched or listened to Ezra Levant's show yesterday, it's because Dakota was so
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confident in his driving and confident that Jesus was his co-pilot, that he went all the
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way to the office and we would have had nothing yesterday if it was not for Dakota.
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Now, we should talk about something that came out this morning and it happened over
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the weekend and we wanted to talk about it yesterday, but since we had nobody in the office
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to run this show and, you know, the learning curve would have been pretty steep for Dakota
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since he was already doing literally everything else at the company yesterday.
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We wanted to talk about something that happened over the weekend and that is the hilarity of
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Nathan Stahl is a former member of the Ontario Science Panel and he quit the science panel,
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the completely apolitical science panel to run for the Ontario Liberal Party provincially.
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And he, apropos of nothing, accused rebel journalists, and he never said which one, of harassing him
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or a rebel journalist, of harassing him at a farmer's market on Saturday.
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See, today a rebel news reporter harassed me at a local farmer's market for promoting vaccines.
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That same reporter made use of the market shopping service where volunteers personally shop inside
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for those without a vaccine certificate. Reasonable accommodation demands civility.
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So there's a lot going on here. And the one thing that stuck out for me was that he doesn't think
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that people who disbelieve in the efficacy of vaccines or perhaps believe in choice or maybe
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just not participating in medical segregation, that they shouldn't be allowed to even use
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Canadian values is the word you're looking for there.
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Yeah, that's right. That's right. Sorry. They shouldn't even be allowed to be near the
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farmer's market. But the thing is, immediately when we saw this, Ezra checked with all of us
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to find out if any of us were at a farmer's market. I wasn't in Ontario. So it wasn't me.
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It wasn't you. We checked with all of our Ontario staff. None of us were at a farmer's market yesterday.
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Although Tamara Ugolini has been known to haunt them. That's her jam. She loves a good farmer's
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market. But it wasn't Tamara. It wasn't any of us. He completely made it up. And you can tell that
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there's some attempt here to hide his malice because he didn't tag Rebel News in it. He made
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sure that we would have to look to see or someone would have to send this to us before we ever saw
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it. As it turns out, it wasn't Tamara. It was somebody that Tamara had interviewed five months ago
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who has never worked for us because how do bylines even work? So he said, speak with Rosemary Fry.
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Rosemary Fry describes herself as an independent researcher journalist. And he links to a story
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where the byline is Tamara Ugolini interviewing Rosemary Fry. Rosemary Fry has never worked for us.
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I don't even know if she confronted him at the farmer's market. I have no idea. It's all simply
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an allegation. Who can trust a word this guy says to start with? See, this guy. Yeah, your link is to
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an article where she's interviewed. She's not the reporter. Literally took me 30 seconds of research
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to figure out. She claims to be an independent journalist and was interviewed by Rebel News. Do
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people even read anymore? Not in Canada, apparently. This guy took to the internet, tweeted that we
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harassed him. He received sycophantic reply, sympathetic replies from everybody on the other
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side. The Globe and Mail health reporter, Andre Picard. He's like, he retweets it. That girl who
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used to work at Chatelaine. I can't remember her name. She's with the Narwhal now. It doesn't matter.
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You've never heard of her. But, you know, she's saying, can you quit spreading disinformation because
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you called them reporters? No, that wasn't disinformation, as it turns out. I don't even
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think she deleted her tweet. But then Ezra tweets, we're going to sue the pants off you. I'll paraphrase,
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but put on some clean underwear because that's all you're going to be wearing after we sue the pants
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off you. And so then he goes through and deletes all of his tweets, never apologizes, never says why he
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deletes them, never even admits that he gets it wrong. Then he deletes them and just pretends like
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nothing happens. Just move along. I completely libeled these people. I falsely accused him of
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what is now a crime, by the way. It's a crime to harass a medical professional. And this guy
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apparently is a doctor. So he accused us of something that is criminal. Well, this morning,
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he offers an apology and a retraction, but there's a reason for that because yesterday morning we hit
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him with a notice of libel. So this is from Nathan Stahl. Would you mind, uh, Adam, I don't know if
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you can see that. Maybe you want to read through it. I've been talking. I can attempt to. Yeah. It's a
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little, uh, little blurry on my end, to be honest, you can grab that. I've got plenty to say, however,
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though. Okay. Let's do this. So, um, I'm just going to bring up his tweet here so that I can
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see it on my side. Sorry, I should have done this in advance. Yeah. I got it. While you're pulling
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that up though, absolutely. Oh, so you got to go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. Yeah. On January 15th,
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while attending a local farmer's market and anti-vaxxer advocate yelled at me for the work
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I've done as a physician advocating for seniors, public health and COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.
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Also for Pfizer, but that's just me reading something in, in a previous similar encounter,
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the individual had shared that they were an investigative journalist and was aware of,
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and I was aware of at least one story where the individual was featured on the rebel news website
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and attacked my work promoting COVID-19 vaccines for Ontario's long-term sector. Then he links to the
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article, which wherein she was interviewed in, wait, let's keep going.
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Yeah. Then he goes on to malign us. And this is him saying, it's okay to lie about them because
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they did this to me. And he preface it by saying in unconnected events, well, then why even mention
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it? Why even mention it if it's unconnected? Why are you putting it in here then? Uh, in unconnected
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events in December, 2021, uh, rebel news staff that wasn't, it was Ezra. He's he owns the company,
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uh, placed cash bounties on me. It wasn't a cash bounty. It was the cash reward for evidence of
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locker downers, public health locker downers, um, enforcement officials and pro lockdown politicians
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breaking their own COVID regulations and recommendations that they force on the little
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people. We put a cash reward on images of them doing that. We didn't put a cash bounty on any
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one person, by the way, if you aren't breaking the rules, why are you scared? Yeah, exactly. The only,
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the only reason to be so upset about this is if you were a scofflaw yourself and heaven forbid you be
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held to the same standard you're holding absolutely everyone else on earth too, but sorry, carry on.
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Let's go to the fake apology. Right. And anyways, $5,000. If you have those images and we only want
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the images, we don't want you confronting the people stand afar, treat it like wildlife photography.
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Don't disturb the individual in the act of breaking the rules. Just snap a picture, send it to us.
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That's all. Um, in tweeting about the incident at the farmer's market, I described the individual as
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a rebel news reporter, as I had believed that to be the case. Why did you believe that? You didn't even
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read the article. Um, I have since been informed by rebel news and literally the entire internet that
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day, by the way, that I was wrong in making that connection. The individual does not work for rebel
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news. Although they were featured by them in the first article linked above upon learning this
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information, I deleted the tweet. No, he doubled down and continued to tweet and continued to tweet
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that this was evidence that she somehow worked for us. Um, the only time he deleted his tweets was when
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Ezra's like, I hope you have a good lawyer because you're going to need one. Anyways,
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despite this today, oh, despite that he lied and lied and lied, didn't offer a retraction or an
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explanation and simply deleted everything on the hopes that the whole affair would go away.
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Poor, poor Nathan got a notice of libel. It goes on despite this and everything he did to cover his
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tracks. Today, I was delivered a notice or a libel notice from David Elmola of
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relaw LLP who has been hired to represent rebel news. David's the best, by the way,
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David's amazing. So Nathan should be scared. He, the right thing was to offer an apology because
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David's amazing as it was an honest mistake on my part. I wish to clear the record representation
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for rebel news has informed me the following statement was required in order to avoid litigation.
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So let me state not, uh, I want to retract and apologize because it is the right thing to do
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because I got this wrong and I damaged the reputations and I falsely accused someone of a
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crime. Let me avoid getting sued. That's where his moral compass is at. As it, uh, he goes,
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I falsely accused a rebel news reporter for harassing me at a farmer's market, January 15th,
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2022. This is not true. I retract my prior statement and I apologize to rebel news and all of its
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reporters for the false accusation. Once again, back to the unrelated baloney unrelated to the
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aforementioned incidents. I must stress that I will continue to use whatever platforms I have
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to defend my fellow healthcare professionals and members of our community who deserve better than
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to be harassed while trying to do their jobs. I had people threatening to assault me because of
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his false accusations. I had people saying, Oh, it's perfectly legal now to, uh, kick a rebel news
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reporter in the nuts. Well, I don't have those being a lady, but I will tell you that if you put
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your hands on me, if they put their hands on me, I will drop you like a sack of hot garbage and then
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you're going to be sued. Um, and that is because he let those false accusations that we were wild and
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crazy harassers just hang out there in the world. He's the one who incited violence against us because
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of his misinformation, but he's still the victim. If you follow him on the internet, anyways, let's
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keep continuing. Um, I'm also grateful to the Canadian medical association and the federal liberal
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government. Of course, here's the partisan garbage for the recent passage of C3, which as of January 16th,
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2022 makes it illegal to intimidate a healthcare professional or patient. Dr. Nathan Stahl liar.
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So, so like within that statement, once again, as I think another instance of libel where he is
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stating that someone placed a bounty on his head and implying furthermore that we are harassing him
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or people involved with us are harassing him and breaking the law and therefore should be criminally
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prosecuted. Um, this victim mentality comes as no surprise to me when their Supreme leader,
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Justin Trudeau himself is Mr. You must've remembered it differently. These people are the bullies.
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These people are the tyrants. These people are the liars. And as you said, the sycophantic response
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from people stating that, Oh, rebel news is all misinformation blatantly unaware that they're
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reinforcing a misinformation narrative. And this all in line, it's so liberal, even though this is the
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Ontario party, not the federal party, but that little tip of the hat to Mr. Trudeau. Um, these are the
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bullies. These are the misinformation spreaders. And listen, the thing, unlike a Dakota whose parents can be
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very proud of him, this gentleman, if his parents are still with us, should have a chat with him about
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doing the right thing. Rebel news. If we make a mistake, we will apologize for it. We won't say,
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well, you're terrible and you do all these terrible things and you should be criminally charged.
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I'm legally required to state if we get something wrong, we say, Oh, we got something wrong. Here's a
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clarification. Or if someone responds when we're following up on a story saying, well, actually,
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here's some additional information. Maybe you didn't have, we post a correction. That's quite
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simply the right thing to do. It doesn't matter if you agree or don't agree. We're always told,
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follow the story where it leads you. What happened here is he had the course of several days to issue
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an apology and delete the tweets. He didn't even delete the tweets right away when it was made
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abundantly clear that they were not true. He carried on and carried on because he thought that
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this was going to be a shining moment. He thought this would endear him. And inevitably these people
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are all totem pole climbers, so to speak. Um, and his intention with that nod to the liberal
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government is some federal politics down the line. This was what he thought was going to get him that
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leading role. Um, I jokingly say juicy sommelier moment as Dave Chappelle says, but, um, this is that,
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uh, moment where he was like, Oh, this is my, I've been victimized and I can climb up into the ranks of
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the liberal elites. Um, unfortunately, uh, the real fact checkers were on this one and you got caught
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right away. Frankly, you could have addressed this right off the bat. You could have deleted it or
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tweeted. I I'm sorry. I thought this was a rebel. That was completely the impression I was at. We could
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make fun of your reading comprehension skills and that would be the extent of it, but no, you decided
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to leave it up. You decided to put out this half-hearted apology, um, and let the consequences fall
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to where they may. You say that you're going to continue standing up for doctors in whatever
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platforms you can. Well, fortunately we have a boss who stands up for us in the court of law. So
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I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. And even still today, people are saying, I'm so sorry. You had to
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go through this, go through what I'm skeptical that anybody even yelled at him at this point because he
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just nuked his own credibility. I need to see pictures or it didn't happen. I know what we didn't do.
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I know what he did. And I know his credibility is completely shot, but the fact, and then people
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are saying, Oh, some people just live on frivolous lawsuits. Oh, this is not frivolous. You defamed us.
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You defamed us and you libeled us and you did it for sympathy and clicks and likes like for clout.
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Yeah. And you're a political, this is an average Joe with 10 followers. This is a political candidate
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with former basically public office. He was on the science council, um, moving his way up. And this
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was retweeted and shared by a bunch of media advocates and, and activists and members of
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political influence. So the, the, the question of whether or not this was damaging is, is I think
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beyond question it's self-evident. Yeah, there we go. Yankee clipped out the only part that should
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have been included from that entire thing. That is the crux of it. Uh, yeah. Nathan Stahl falsely accused
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rebel news of harassing him. That's it. That's the extent of it. That's it. That's it. Yeah. And
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this poor, poor man here, um, that he had to apologize for his lies. Um, while I'm getting
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people saying, Oh, it's perfectly fine to, to assault you now, if you're out and about and I see
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you, I'm going to assault you because of what Nathan Stahl lied and said we did anyway, don't
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even try to touch me people. You'll be so sorry. The lawsuit will be the least of your worries.
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For me, it goes without saying, but yes. Unreal. Anyways, we should, um, since this. Yeah. Let's
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talk, let's talk about other politicians, um, expecting special treatment and maybe,
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maybe not telling the entirety of the truth. Um, get into that one. Casey Maddow.
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Yeah. So the minister of justice. Yeah. So the minister of justice for Alberta, um, is going to
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take a step back while, uh, premier Jason Kenney launches an investigation. Now, this is a story
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that's been sort of milling in the background. Um, and I guess it's been a week where there hasn't
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been an official statement coming out. So I think they were hoping that this would go away while it
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isn't going away. So ultimately what has happened here is that, uh, Casey Maddow, who is the minister of
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justice in Alberta, um, was basically caught talking on his cell phone, um, while driving in a playground
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zone. He then received a ticket. Um, what what's troubling here is, and apparently he did pay the
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ticket, but he placed a call to the police chief to discuss this matter, which very much seems like
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interference. Now, what they're saying about this, and I don't know how true this is. It may be true,
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but the fact that he's stepped back and there's been an investigation, um, there was some questions
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about, uh, dubious police practices within the police force. Um, and apparently Casey Maddow simply
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called to say, we are saying you need to clean up your act. And I was not on my phone and suddenly
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I'm getting pulled over and getting tickets. Is that the core of it? So the police chief did confirm
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that he never at any point asked for the ticket to be scrapped. He was just saying, is this on the
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level what's going on? Um, but I think there are more appropriate, um, judicial processes to
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investigate such a thing than personally calling up the police chief yourself. My other major concern
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here is there's been longstanding sort of allegations or suggestions out there that some
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of the persecution taking place of Christian pastors has been at the best of ministers or politicians
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calling, uh, calling police chiefs, particularly here in Calgary, Edmonton. Um, and what this may
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very well do is set up a precedent that we are seeing governor officials calling police chiefs and
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inquiring through informal channels, uh, to maybe, maybe have favors done, maybe have things looked into
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a little more closely. And that is extremely troubling. And frankly, there's no excuse and he should know
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better. Well, and I I'll, I'll be perfectly clear of the politicians in cabinet. I probably liked Casey
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the most. Um, you know, he's got a great story. He's a immigrant to Canada. He worked his way up from
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the absolute bottom into a law degree. And then he's the head lawman in Canada. He was the epitome of the
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conservative work ethic, but then he started locking up pastors, not doing anything about it,
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being completely silent on the issue. And he, in the past, he did something that I agreed with. He
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ended carding in Alberta. I kind of used to be pro carding and I still am in some instances where
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it's used as an intelligence gathering tool, but this was just like stopping people and asking them for,
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um, their ID apropos of nothing. And this wasn't like, Hey, I know that guy is running around with
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that gangster. Let's, let's put together the dots and figure out who the known associates are.
00:26:08.840
It wasn't like that. It was just like, again, to use the phrase apropos of nothing, just stopping
00:26:13.180
people on the streets and getting their ID. Not cool. Um, so he ended that in Alberta and I was kind
00:26:18.380
of happy about that. Yeah. But then nobody put two and two together that now you're vax carding people.
00:26:24.680
And nobody thought like, Oh, you ended that. And everyone was like, yeah, that's a great social
00:26:29.720
justice thing. Why are you vax carding people who incidentally tend to be minorities, the unvaccinated,
00:26:35.120
right? Um, and now even this, this conversation, the statement that Casey had, um, it just rubs me
00:26:45.820
the wrong way. He said in the morning of March 10th, shortly after leaving my home, I was pulled over by
00:26:51.080
an officer of the Edmonton police service. The officer indicated that he had observed me
00:26:56.240
driving while distracted, alleging that I was on my phone. I disagreed stating that I was not on my
00:27:02.100
phone as it was inside my pocket. Okay. Well, this is just a matter for like, take it to the judge,
00:27:06.780
tell it to the judge. I think Yankee got a distracted driving ticket once. Um, you know,
00:27:11.320
it's just something the cops give out. Um, and if you didn't do it, uh, we're all for fighting
00:27:16.640
tickets that if you think you have a legal leg to stand on, fight it. And I'm pretty sure Casey
00:27:20.700
made, who's a lawyer. So fight that ticket, but that ticket, you're a lawyer, right? Anyways,
00:27:26.540
he goes, later, I spoke to chief Dale McPhee during the timing of the incident. I wanted to ensure that
00:27:32.660
I was not being unlawfully surveilled following the controversy surrounding the Lethbridge police
00:27:38.560
service. So this was, uh, the Lethbridge police service were, um, I think it was Shannon Phillips.
00:27:45.400
She was the environment minister at the time. And she alleged that she had been, uh, unlawfully
00:27:50.840
surveilled as a member of the NDP. Um, so anyways, he wanted to say, Oh, are they, are they following
00:27:57.060
me? I'm pretty sure the cops like to stake out school zones early in the morning. We've all seen
00:28:03.060
this. This is not like a sting operation, like what they pulled with Carrie Diot years ago. This was,
00:28:09.440
uh, just, you know, they're in a school zone looking for distracted drivers, people going too fast and
00:28:14.660
not paying attention. He, and then maybe you also says, I also raised concerns around profiling of
00:28:20.600
racial minorities that was in the media at the time. McPhee assured me that this was most definitely
00:28:26.320
not the case. And I accepted him at his word. This is a run of the mill distracted driving ticket and
00:28:35.000
we've got social justice issues just hammering. Yeah. There's two possibilities here. Um, one,
00:28:42.580
and I mean, I think it's funny cause if it, if, if it's the latter, then this is ridiculous, but
00:28:47.780
so the two possibilities are here. One, he got a ticket, um, and then called to sort of see if he
00:28:54.980
could make it go away. Um, and it didn't really work and he got caught. So now he's making a giant
00:29:01.400
story about how there's racial profiling and they're surveilling him and the police forces
00:29:06.480
inherently corrupt. That's possibility. One possibility too, is that the police force is
00:29:11.940
entirely corrupt and racist, um, which is a narrative that I don't think existed prior to
00:29:18.000
him wanting to get out of this ticket. So those are the two possibilities. So, I mean, if it, if it
00:29:23.040
isn't true that that was Casey's concern, um, it's crazy that that much, those, that level of
00:29:30.960
allegation was brought forward, um, in response to this. So if there's not, no truth to that
00:29:38.660
surveillance race, uh, narrative, then the fact that he brought all of this up to cover up a
00:29:45.880
distracted driving ticket, which frankly, and I mean, talk about Streisand effect, he could have
00:29:51.040
just paid it. And then that would have been that, um, that's it. I don't, it's not demerits. I think
00:29:55.580
he got it in the mail. Like it's, or no, I guess he got pulled over. So maybe there's some
00:29:58.280
demerits, but regardless, um, little ticket, you pay it. That's, that's it. That's a couple
00:30:05.140
demerits. He turned it into this giant calamitous event where he now has to step back and is being
00:30:11.260
investigated. I am very much interested to see what this investigation reveals because
00:30:15.580
it's either that maybe there was a little bit of dishonesty or an attempt to cover something up
00:30:20.920
or that there's like inherent underlying systematic racism and corruption and political pressure coming
00:30:27.460
from a police force. Um, so that remains to be seen and we shall certainly follow it moving
00:30:33.540
forward, but, uh, certainly not the scandal that UCP needs right now, given how they're faring.
00:30:41.300
So, uh, yeah, not, not ideal. Uh, speaking of police forces, not necessarily doing their jobs,
00:30:47.900
maybe now we can jump to this insane. Sure. Great segue. Great segue. LA train footage,
00:30:53.940
which is absolutely unbelievable. So Vady can pull it up for those unfamiliar. Yeah. Here's,
00:31:00.020
here we go. We keep hearing of train burglars in LA on the scanner. Uh, so we went to Lincoln Heights
00:31:04.100
to see it all. And there's looted packages as far as the eye can see Amazon UPS. It looks like Bombay
00:31:12.060
doesn't look that bad. Like it's actually on a level that that third world countries, like it's not
00:31:20.160
quite there. And the wild thing with this, that's absolutely unbelievable is like, this is all there's
00:31:27.040
another tweet somewhere where there's like a delayed package. Someone went there and scanned a UPS code
00:31:31.680
in one of the looted packages. And they found out the person had like a delayed notification,
00:31:36.480
but this is LA they're just like running up. There's other footage too, where they're just like
00:31:41.380
storming the train when it stopped and unloading TVs and people are walking away with TVs and the police
00:31:48.420
are doing nothing. This is the defund the police world that we're living in. Um, it's absolutely,
00:31:54.020
there we go. Like, look at that. They're just strolling away with TVs. There's nothing to be
00:31:59.280
seen. And it's absolutely unbelievable. Cause if some kid went into a convenience store and stole
00:32:03.920
a pack of bubble gum, they'd probably put them in a, some yeah, young offenders act. But then here,
00:32:10.580
this is happening and they're just looting TVs. Like, why is the SWAT team not being sent
00:32:15.600
and a paddy wagon to lock these guys up? And it's cause it's California and they don't want
00:32:20.940
to escalate things. So they're going to allow looting and rating and
00:32:24.460
Who's the DA there? This looks like Soros influenced DAs, um, where they say, okay, well,
00:32:32.920
we're not going to prosecute shoplifting. We're not going to do the whole broken windows policing
00:32:39.080
that cleaned up New York when New York at the height of its like worst crime, uh, explosion.
00:32:46.200
I think they had 2000 murders a year there. And then they said, no, we're going to broken window
00:32:52.340
policing. So we're going to not tolerate the little things. Um, and also deal with the big things,
00:32:59.040
but this is the reverse. And this is like, you look at this and when I say it looks like Bombay,
00:33:03.960
I mean, maybe like this looks worse. Like, look at that. It does. Yeah. Yeah. And there's like,
00:33:11.920
there's like, yeah, there's COVID tests, there's medical supplies, insulin, like all this stuff
00:33:18.240
just looted, absolutely destroyed left by the wayside. And this is just like the, the outcome
00:33:25.660
of this sort of defund the police mentality in society where certain groups of people can do no
00:33:32.280
wrong. And it's wrong to enforce this, uh, that, that is being stolen from companies. Like every
00:33:38.300
one of those instances, stealing one of those massive TVs is major, major theft and they have
00:33:44.280
footage of it and they simply will not enforce or act on it. Uh, yeah, it's unbelievable. Like this
00:33:50.240
footage is absolutely something I'm sure. I'm sure people elsewhere in the world. I mean, Canada
00:33:55.820
included are looking at this and saying, Oh my gosh, uh, this country is going down the drain.
00:34:00.340
It's brutal. Like the extent of it, the stretch, it's just going to fill up and they know this is
00:34:07.540
happening and they're absolutely failing to act. Well, and just think like, this is not a free crime,
00:34:14.980
right? Like these, the costs of theft and replacing this stuff gets factored into the cost of your goods.
00:34:22.320
So this rises the price for the concern consumer who's actually buying these things as opposed to
00:34:28.820
stealing these things. So when you think, Oh, you know, like this is a victimless crime,
00:34:33.040
the big companies are just going to eat the cost and they'll just reship the item to the person who
00:34:37.500
bought it. Oh no, no, my friend, um, this stuff trickles down to the consumer. There's nobody eating
00:34:43.980
this increased cost except you at home. Every time you order something online.
00:34:49.380
Well, and I mean, and how many people there's medical equipment they're waiting on,
00:34:53.260
how many people won't get a present in time for a kid's birthday? Like it, that, that stuff going to
00:34:58.980
people to live their lives, not to mention that we're dealing with massive supply chain issues.
00:35:04.200
And then not only, not only are we dealing with that, but now it's okay to intermittently loot the
00:35:09.600
limited supplies that we do have. And authorities won't do anything just like they're not doing
00:35:14.220
anything about the supply chain issues. It's absolutely ridiculous and absolutely staggering.
00:35:20.520
And for another smooth segue, as long as you're okay with this, um, it's funny how reflective this
00:35:25.780
is of the Biden, uh, saying that George Floyd's death was more impactful than Martin Luther King's
00:35:34.440
on Martin Luther King Jr. Rather on the MLK holiday. I don't know if AD has that clip. I'd love to get
00:35:40.000
that audio because for people who can't believe it, let's listen to this. But even Dr. King's
00:35:45.720
assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's death did.
00:35:55.580
Yeah. Like to say, to say that like is absolutely staggering. And I think sadly that that is what
00:36:06.440
this movement started by people like Martin Luther King, uh, junior, that movement, that beautiful
00:36:13.200
thing about equality and justice has turned into victim narratives and don't get me wrong. The
00:36:19.060
police officers went overboard. I completely agree with that, but George Floyd is not caught. He held a
00:36:25.440
gun to a pregnant woman's stomach or head. I can't believe he was a drug addict with a repeated history
00:36:31.220
of violence and aggression. And the only reason that that blew up to the extent it did, unlike the
00:36:36.720
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was a passionate preacher, advocate for rights, advocate
00:36:43.420
for equality, um, all around. I mean, there's some sort of stories going around about some of his, uh,
00:36:49.040
personal life, but regardless, generally well-respected individual, um, George Floyd was very,
00:36:55.000
yeah, I know very much set up to be like that, but then the facts just simply didn't pan out.
00:37:03.820
And for any sort of sane movement whatsoever, uh, mourn the passing of George Floyd, hope that
00:37:11.860
there's deescalation strategies implemented, all that stuff is absolutely fine. But for the president
00:37:17.500
of the United States to say that his death is more significant and had a bigger global impact
00:37:23.360
than the death of Martin Luther King is absolutely staggering. It's, it's, it's unbelievable that he
00:37:30.600
said that, and it wasn't one of those, right after he said it, you could see his face kind of go,
00:37:35.100
Oh, well, maybe I didn't really mean to say that. He was all in on that statement and all in on that
00:37:40.400
sentiment, which I can't believe. I can't believe that the president like that Donald Trump, he said
00:37:46.940
some wild and outlandish things, but I don't know if he ever said anything quite so crazy as George,
00:37:52.960
George Floyd's death was more significant than Martin Luther King's.
00:37:55.860
It's grotesque. I think Alveda King, she's the niece of, uh, Martin Luther King Jr. She was on Fox
00:38:04.000
News last night and she was having none of this, like absolutely none of this. Imagine how that
00:38:08.600
sounds to the family of Martin Luther King, by the way, that, you know, your, your father,
00:38:13.720
the civil rights leader, uh, he's, he's sort of playing second fiddle to George Floyd these days.
00:38:19.620
It's just gross. Um, AD going back to the story, we just talked about, about the train looting.
00:38:27.420
I just want to go back to that for a second, because I said something about George Soros
00:38:31.500
funded DAs. And before people think that I'm a conspiracy theorist, like, um, I'm just obsessed
00:38:36.800
with George Soros. I'm definitely not. Um, this is an article from the New York post that I just sent
00:38:42.340
to AD, uh, because I read the entire internet every day before I go on air. And, um, the LA district
00:38:50.300
attorney, George Gascon was backed by George Soros and has presided over a crime spike since he was
00:38:57.280
inaugurated in December, 2020. So, um, Tom Cotton, God love that man. Everywhere Soros backed prosecutors
00:39:05.400
go, crime follows, said Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton. These, he calls them legal arsonists.
00:39:11.360
These legal arsonists have abandoned their duty to public safety by pursuing leniency, even for the
00:39:15.920
most heinous crime. And they often flat out refuse to charge criminals for shoplifting, vagrancy,
00:39:20.520
and entire categories of misdemeanors in Los Angeles, where critics say that criminal justice
00:39:25.860
reforms have recently led to a wave of looting and violent crimes. Soros funneled more than $2.5 million
00:39:32.140
into a California political action committee to support Gascon. That's the district attorney there
00:39:37.180
who left the San Francisco district attorney's office to run against incumbent Jackie Lacey in
00:39:42.960
2020. The Cuban born Gascon who moved with his family to the U S in 1967 said in his December,
00:39:49.060
2020 inauguration speech that the rush to incarcerate generations of kids of color had torn the social
00:39:56.640
fabric of our communities. The status quo hasn't made us safe. And so they're just deciding not to
00:40:04.580
prosecute these things. And this is like a, a thing George Soros does with prosecutors. And, and
00:40:11.180
it's, it's the poor people actually have to live with this because crime doesn't come to rich
00:40:17.980
neighborhoods. They can pay for private security and fencing and surveillance. The crime comes to
00:40:22.700
poor communities and poor communities have to live with this billionaire deciding how they deal with
00:40:29.240
crime in their community. Yeah. It's, and I mean, I figured you're looking something up on that. It's,
00:40:34.960
it's unbelievable. The other thing too, is the, the underlying racism of it, like the racism that, well,
00:40:41.540
these people are going to commit crimes because that's in their nature is very, and I'm not saying that I'm
00:40:46.340
saying this is very much the mentality of people like this. And we can't really, we can't really go after
00:40:51.720
them for this. That's, that's active racism, not, not applying the same standards of behavior for
00:40:57.740
conduct within society to everyone evenly is racism. And it's funny, these progressives very often,
00:41:04.360
they will, they will espouse the bleeding heart talking points, but in action and in policy,
00:41:11.160
it's anything but equality or anything but equal opportunity. It's, it's absolutely the way that they
00:41:19.880
operate, they create, they want people to fit into these boxes. They want people very much to fit
00:41:25.640
token roles. And when people don't fit into those boxes, they don't like them again, going back to
00:41:30.960
the Biden connecting these stories. Um, what was it? He said, if you're, if you're, if you don't vote
00:41:34.980
for me, you're not black basically, or if you vote for Donald Trump, you're not black. Like you don't
00:41:38.680
get to pick those boxes. You don't get to say that certain communities do this, certain communities do
00:41:43.860
that because we is, we believe in society as individuals. If you group people together
00:41:49.660
and judge them as a group that's stereotyping at the least or, or racism at the very worst.
00:41:55.280
And that's ultimately what these policies do, because I can assure you if a bunch of white
00:42:00.220
rednecks rolled up to a train and stop the train and started looting, there would be a SWAT team there
00:42:06.620
and it would be some Waco level incident. That's what would happen because unfortunately lots of these
00:42:11.440
progressives do enforce politics in a very racist way. Yeah. It's the bigotry of low expectations,
00:42:18.800
which in and of itself is paternalism, which these progressives won't shut up about,
00:42:24.420
but they're guilty of it. We, we should move on to, uh, the genocide Olympics because that's in the
00:42:31.660
news. Um, that's coming up very shortly. We've got a report from Sports Illustrated saying that
00:42:39.620
athletes headed to Beijing for the Olympics, the genocide Olympics are urged to use burner phones
00:42:46.580
and disposable commute computers because, um, of the high risk for cyber spying at the 2022 Beijing
00:42:55.080
winter games. The Olympic committees for the Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada
00:43:01.120
issued recommendations for their athletes as each country anticipates China to implement strong
00:43:06.840
surveillance during the winter games. Why are we going to these winter games? These feel like the
00:43:12.820
Hitler Olympics. And we're just like, yeah, we didn't learn anything from that. Let's go again.
00:43:18.320
Why do, why does this, like, why is this allowed to carry on? Why, why are the same people involved
00:43:25.200
with the Olympic committee who keep choosing China while they're committing a genocide? Why is, and we'll
00:43:31.160
talk about the Z speaking at the, um, the Davos agenda as though he's some heroic world leader.
00:43:38.760
Like they are literally telling these athletes that they should use burner phones, VPNs to mask their
00:43:46.520
information, discard any sort of electronics. So you're not tracked when you're back at home because
00:43:51.500
of the government of China who we're allowing to host the Olympics is going to spy on you.
00:43:56.780
What sort of wacky nonsense world are we living in? It's absolutely unbelievable. We, we talk about
00:44:03.760
like North Korea as this sort of out there crazy country. We don't deal with them that would that,
00:44:09.120
that they should just be left in isolation because they're, because they're egregious treatment of
00:44:13.480
human beings, their lacks of freedoms. Well, China is that plus they meddle in international affairs
00:44:19.380
on a level. You can't believe all of these international committees ranging from the world
00:44:24.200
economic forum to the United nations, to the Olympic committees, to the sporting committees
00:44:28.880
are clearly bought and paid for. And I mean, I think that goes without saying when someone
00:44:33.840
committing a genocide is on a bunch of peace councils and women's rights councils and all
00:44:39.460
these other things, it's absolutely vexing. And I, for one thing, it's insane and absolutely
00:44:44.560
unethical that any modern civilized country is attending these Olympics plain, like period,
00:44:51.160
plain and simple, have some other games and some real country that doesn't want, I mean,
00:44:56.580
with COVID, we can't talk about this too much, but how many countries are fully respecting people's
00:45:01.220
human rights, but regardless, um, find a country that isn't actively carrying out a genocide,
00:45:05.820
maybe to have your Olympics in, uh, instead of just jumping between China and say maybe one of
00:45:12.300
the other countries that doesn't have a ton of freedom, Russia, just jumping between those two
00:45:15.640
countries. Um, absolutely wild and unbelievable. Well, China is as bad as North Korea, but smarter
00:45:24.480
because North Korea isolated themselves and China thought, no, no, no, the way to take over the
00:45:29.500
world is to engage them, is to own them. And we will look back on these Olympics. If China doesn't
00:45:35.940
successfully take over the world, um, we will look back on these Olympics the same way we look back
00:45:41.260
on Hitler's Olympics as a propaganda exercise that the world should never have participated in.
00:45:48.100
And, uh, we will be judged appropriately for this. I think again, if China doesn't take over the world
00:45:54.040
and rewrite history, looking back, uh, people are going to say, well, knowing what you knew,
00:45:59.340
why the hell were you there? And I asked that question today.
00:46:04.940
Speaking of China taking over the world, um, Klaus Schwab, um, introduced to the president and
00:46:16.240
dictator of China at the Davos agenda 2022, um, as the keynote speaker, a model citizen that we should
00:46:23.920
all be looking up to. Um, do we have the footage of that introduction? By the way, for those who don't
00:46:28.340
know, Klaus Schwab, one of the architects of the great reset. Here we go. Yes. At this pivotal moment,
00:46:35.340
I see several priorities for the global agenda. We must continue to fight against the global pandemic.
00:46:44.460
We must revitalize the global economy and accelerate its transition to net zero.
00:46:53.600
We must preserve biodiversity by deploying nature-based solutions. And we must narrow the gap between the
00:47:04.520
rich and the poor to achieve more sustainable global development.
00:47:10.460
And now with, now with more on this, we're going to go to the leader of China, the number one
00:47:18.400
polluter in the world with the greatest gaps in wealth between the poor and the rich. And, uh,
00:47:24.220
like, it's absolutely insane that after saying those comments, some of which are general and fine and
00:47:31.800
others are clearly globalist climate control, uh, propaganda, but after making those comments,
00:47:37.940
throwing to, uh, the leader of China, the dictator of China, uh, as the model that we should follow
00:47:46.540
for this. And he went on to rant at link about how bad Western countries that are rallying against
00:47:52.180
China are. Um, the Davos agenda should be called the China agenda because what more is it than that?
00:47:59.180
It's absolutely unbelievable. In a speech for this guy, sorry, sorry, just give me a second in a
00:48:05.780
speech where this guy is intro introducing net zero, as you know, the climate, uh, we're already
00:48:13.880
demonetized. So I can say the climate scam is, um, is, uh, near and dear to my heart. Um, because,
00:48:21.240
uh, you know, we are unfairly attacked as killing the planet. Um, and don't get me wrong. I love coal.
00:48:29.160
I love coal fired electricity. I think we should never get off it. Alberta is the Saudi Arabia of
00:48:34.040
coal and the cleanest, some of the cleanest burning coal on the planet, by the way. So we should be
00:48:37.940
using it. Um, but mainland China has the greatest number of coal fired stations of any nation on the
00:48:44.920
face of this beautiful earth. As of 2021, there are nearly 1100 operational coal fired plants in the
00:48:52.160
country, four times as many as India, which is second. And every single day, China accounts for
00:48:59.320
over 50% of the total global coal electricity generation. And I got to listen to how China
00:49:05.740
is the partner for net zero and I've got to phase out the oil sands. Yeah. And the, the, the wild thing
00:49:16.900
here is I think what China and these globalist elites have in common is that they're both unflinching
00:49:23.480
in line. They're there. Yeah. China. Yes. Yes. Yeah. China. Yes. 100% net zero green. Good,
00:49:30.360
good, good. Justin Trudeau plays the same game. If you're one of the people who no matter what you do,
00:49:35.240
it doesn't really matter what you do in their world. You can do whatever you can be in the sky
00:49:39.980
palace. You can drive a sports car. You can have a yacht and 10 houses. Um, you can have a concentration
00:49:45.440
camp full of Muslims in China, for example, that's all fine. As long as you nod your head to the great
00:49:51.400
reset talking points, um, then you're part of the club. If you dare pose any challenges or suggest
00:49:57.420
maybe that we should defend human rights, that transitioning off of industries like, uh, they did when
00:50:04.140
they tried to force a mass industrialization from agriculture and China, the great leap forward
00:50:08.740
where what a hundred million people or so died. Um, if you're suggesting that maybe we shouldn't
00:50:13.260
be transitioning to this ultra renewable green energy when it just isn't ready because we're
00:50:17.640
all going to die. Um, and we don't want people to die. Basically, if you're advocating for human
00:50:22.620
rights in any way, shape or form on principle, beyond these empty talking points that don't have
00:50:27.740
any sort of substance, um, if you're, if you have any principles at all, you're not part of this
00:50:32.500
group, but you can do anything, including, uh, the biggest slave labor plants in the country,
00:50:38.340
um, which by the way, a massive source of China's wealth is the fact that they have slave labor.
00:50:43.120
Very often when you see these empires grow, it's because they're violating people's rights.
00:50:46.840
Um, if you're one of those people, but you're willing to nod your head and tip your hat, well,
00:50:50.960
then you're part of the boys club and you get to sit at the globalist table. This goes back to the
00:50:55.600
train looting and those rich communities that you've talked about. These rich people want
00:51:00.940
everyone else living in relative squalor and scrapping and just struggling to get by like
00:51:07.240
the vast majority of people are in China so that their little inside club can be rich and live in
00:51:12.860
their gated communities behind walls. Because the less we have, the more they have. They want every
00:51:17.340
one of us renting, not owning land. They want every one of us using a car share service instead of
00:51:22.100
buying a car. They want every one of us paying monthly for everything and never owning anything,
00:51:27.620
never acquiring anything because the only people in their minds who have the right to acquire,
00:51:32.140
spend, consume natural resources, jet around the world, be on mega yachts is them. Nobody else.
00:51:38.220
So that's what their end game is. The whole mentality of this great reset being some sort of, uh,
00:51:44.400
thing for the masses to reset everybody's debt, to make things be great for everybody. The,
00:51:50.500
the, the, the vast population is simply not true. None of their actions speak to that purported end
00:51:58.180
goal. All of their actions speak to centralized control and a lessened quality of life for the
00:52:03.460
rest of us. Hallelujah. Should we, uh, should we move on to the next thing? Because we have nine
00:52:12.620
minutes left in the show. Of course, we're probably going to go over, but, um, speaking of anti-human
00:52:18.380
agendas, um, there's, uh, Pope Fauci moaning about disinformation. So we're going to show this and
00:52:27.480
then we're going to get into the things that they won't allow us to talk about on YouTube because
00:52:32.160
we're not allowed. Yeah. And one of the things that, that we, I believe the entire world is facing,
00:52:40.240
but we certainly are facing it in a very, very disappointing way in the United States is the
00:52:46.320
amount of disinformation that is accompanying what should be a problem where everyone pulls together
00:52:54.600
against the common enemy, which is the virus. We have disinformation that is entirely destructive
00:53:01.280
to a comprehensive public health endeavor. You know, one of the things. Yeah, entirely. You're
00:53:09.220
entirely right. And most of it is coming from you. Um, like just, I, we're not, I know what not to
00:53:15.920
question officials, but I'm going to, he's saying this to himself, what he said mere moments, mere weeks
00:53:22.340
prior, he is then sort of correcting and then saying that that was misinformation, but he was the one
00:53:27.960
saying it very Orwellian. But I think on that note, we are going to transition off of YouTube
00:53:34.600
where we can continue to talk about this without overlords ruling over us.
00:53:42.540
So as we were saying, uh, the disinformation that is out there on COVID-19, um, and we've said this
00:53:51.220
time and time again, and we say it almost every week, but the quote unquote conspiracy quacks out there
00:53:56.100
who were saying, well, there's a difference between of COVID and with COVID and things like
00:54:00.740
that, or the vaccines don't seem to stop the spread crazy stuff like that. That is now the
00:54:06.600
information there has actually, I think been far more accuracy, medical accuracy, scientific accuracy
00:54:14.280
that is now accepted by Fauci and everyone included the position held by Fauci right now is much closer
00:54:22.120
to what conspiracy quacks would have said three, four months ago. That is now the science and anything
00:54:29.820
else is disinformation. So was it disinformation? And this is funny. This is the wild thing. And it's
00:54:34.540
so Orwellian most people like the story we started with the Nathan, Nathan stall thing, where they say
00:54:39.840
we're the misinformation. Um, most people probably actually believe, and this is unbelievable. And this is
00:54:47.980
how far we've lost critical thinking that it was true then. And now the new information is true.
00:54:55.840
I don't think for many people out there who are in line with all of us, they're, they're realizing that
00:55:02.120
these people were wrong and that there was information out there. I think they're like, well,
00:55:07.300
this is the new accurate information. No, it was always the accurate information and everybody knew it.
00:55:12.880
And everybody's been saying it and you called them crazy and you called them conspiracy theorists,
00:55:17.820
but on many of these fronts, aside from the really out there sort of conspiracies,
00:55:23.180
most of what people have been saying is now being espoused.
00:55:27.840
A couple of lizards having a conversation there.
00:55:31.040
Yeah, exactly. Well, you know what, at the rate we're going, it's probably true. I mean,
00:55:38.880
if you say a conspiracy, it just becomes true now in this COVID world of ours. Um, let's skip
00:55:46.800
through some stuff. Cause we've got a lot, uh, going on here. Yeah. Like I was just going to say
00:55:52.040
like the conspiracy theory that maybe you're going to get on an endless wild ride of boosters and none
00:55:57.020
of them are going to be effective, but they're going to be like, just take the third. No, just take
00:56:00.620
the fourth. Fourth one didn't work. Maybe you take the fifth one. Fifth one didn't work. Let's get
00:56:04.360
around to the 11th booster. See if that one works. And then you're just like boosted right up. You
00:56:08.620
don't even have blood left. It's all just vaccine. Um, and apparently that's, that's the case in
00:56:13.340
Israel. Any one of us who are like, no, maybe, um, this is going to be an endless, um, just, uh,
00:56:20.180
tornado of boosters. And they're just going to keep trying things and trying things and trying
00:56:24.920
things to make sure they work. Maybe like flu shot consumption was right way down and they wanted
00:56:32.420
to get people into a new version of the flu shot and wanted everybody to buy in. And this was a really
00:56:37.880
good opportunity to make a ton of money for pharmaceutical companies. Maybe just maybe
00:56:43.620
that is the case. And it's funny that we saw that Costanza meme forever ago, ago, when you're
00:56:48.960
looking for your, uh, Vax papers for the Omicron variant. And then we're literally, that was like
00:56:53.900
a year ago. That was long before this. And that was a joke. And that became reality. That was a
00:56:59.440
conspiracy joke. I know doctors who are very pro vaccine. And even a year ago, they were saying,
00:57:05.860
well, the whole, like getting into third and fourth boosters is not scientific. If you need
00:57:10.460
that, that clearly something's gone wrong and they need to rework it. Well, some of those people are
00:57:15.140
still encouraging getting vaccinated again, changing information. Um, the other thing that
00:57:21.400
we've seen, uh, you know, I don't think we have time for this video. Um, we were seeing people get
00:57:26.200
or should we get into the Costco video? I want to talk about Satan con too. Yeah. Let's watch the
00:57:31.540
Costco. No, let's talk about Satan con. Let's talk about saying, yeah, let's talk about Satan
00:57:35.320
con. I'm in full church lady mode. Let's do it. Oh my God. This is so, so like, I mean,
00:57:43.220
it's a little on the nose, right? Yeah. The theology, the theology behind Satanism is kind of
00:57:50.660
it. There's a very much a do what thou wilt type mentality. Um, some people argue. Yeah. Yeah. And I
00:57:58.660
mean, there's people out there arguing, well, compassion and blah, blah, blah. But I mean,
00:58:02.500
like the Satanists talk about conspiracy theories. How many people have been calling this the mark
00:58:07.700
of the beast and now Satan con insists that you'd be vaccinated in order to attend. Look at it. Was
00:58:13.920
that Baphomet with a mask on? It's about the stupidest thing you've ever seen that he belongs
00:58:22.840
with a mask on bloody loser. Anyways, ridiculous. Um, these, these, these bad boy rebels, this is
00:58:29.640
just the new rage against the machine. You were wearing a mask and you had to show your backs pass
00:58:34.400
to get in and you're, you're singing along with, uh, doing don't do what they told you. Like it's
00:58:40.360
Oh, yeah. What a meme. This is a meme. Yeah. This is only possible in 2022. Satan con max
00:58:47.960
fax, vax mandates mandatory, uh, living meme. And it's funny because, um, yeah, the philosophy
00:58:57.620
of Satanism or I think it's Levain Satanism is do what thou wilt, which is, um, basically
00:59:05.260
the mantra of so much like self-help garbage that you listen to these days. Um, if it feels good,
00:59:13.280
do it right. The pursuit of happiness instead of the pursuit of goodness, which seems to be
00:59:17.660
what's happening in the world today, that's underlying, like that's, that's the same thing
00:59:22.380
as this stuff, but they don't really actually believe do what thou wilt because you have to
00:59:28.460
follow the public health orders to go to Satan. It's just, it's so on the nose, you bunch of posers.
00:59:34.880
I think just maybe they're afraid of where they're going. So they're extra afraid of dying.
00:59:40.820
You know what? It confirms a lot of suspicions I have about your run of the mill, like Satanist
00:59:48.140
LARPer where it's like, they literally worship the government and maybe the government isn't
00:59:53.820
benevolent, which check that box. Yep. Check that box. Yep. So it's confirming all my biases I have
00:59:59.280
about this sort of stuff. Clearly. I mean, the people attending this act like they're heavy metal
01:00:05.520
hardcore. And then they're like afraid to ask for extra ketchup for their French fries and they get
01:00:09.260
their dad to do it for them. Um, that's, that's the people attending this event in my suspicion
01:00:14.900
on a bit of sort of good news here. If we can call it that, if anyone is skeptical of what Jason
01:00:22.540
Kenny says, it's me because I'm the one who asked him if there would be Vax passports. And he said,
01:00:26.720
absolutely not. It's illegal and unthinkable. And anyone who's worried about that is crazy. Well,
01:00:30.860
then a couple of weeks later, you know, a couple of months later, maybe they brought them in.
01:00:34.000
So I'm skeptical of anything that Jason Kenny says, but I'm optimistic. Um, and maybe I don't
01:00:41.980
forget. We're going to have the audio here. We're just gonna have the tweet, but, uh, we'll just keep
01:00:45.660
talking to save time here. But, uh, Jason Kenny has said that there's going to be no mandatory
01:00:51.280
vaccines. He's reinforced and repeated that sentiment. He also came out and said that, that what
01:00:57.340
happened in Quebec with the plans to tax the unvaccinated is completely unethical and un-Canadian.
01:01:04.600
Um, so this is very much a doubling down while he's backtracked on some other, um, promises like
01:01:10.000
no Vax pass. Um, he's publicly come out repeatedly and said that these relatively strong statements
01:01:16.480
that they will absolutely not be mandatory. Now I again, take that with a grain of salt because when
01:01:21.180
you're taking away people's jobs, Vax carding them, uh, stripping their livelihoods, not allowing
01:01:27.260
them to participate in society, creating a mental health crisis, I would argue you are forcing it.
01:01:32.460
I would argue that it is functionally mandated vaccines. Um, cause I mean, if you take a dad,
01:01:37.980
take his job away from, make it so that he can provide for his family, you may as well point a gun
01:01:42.120
at his head. Um, that's a situation you're in. We've seen lots of people hesitant or apprehensive
01:01:46.960
to the vaccine who have unwillingly gone and got it because they were afraid they were going to lose
01:01:52.020
everything. So Jason Kenny, this is a step on the right path. I'd say it's a step on the path
01:01:57.420
towards moralization, uh, to quote Paul Benedict, but you're still missing that key central tenant.
01:02:04.560
You have to step up your game and you have to insist that nobody is fired and fired without
01:02:11.560
severance more, most particularly in the province that you are the leader of, because that
01:02:16.800
is a very much a vaccine mandate. This has to be enforced actively. If you're going to say that
01:02:22.180
you will not see this in your province, you have to go beyond just not literally having people.
01:02:27.480
It's not much of an ask to not ask that people be pinned down and vaccinated. That should be a
01:02:31.880
pretty standard thing. Um, I think, I think you hopefully are waking up to what's happening here.
01:02:38.480
And I hope so. And I hope that with this, with Omicron, with this opportunity to say that these
01:02:44.440
aren't the solutions and people cannot be fired for cause and not receive severance or EI based
01:02:50.260
on their vaccination status. So Jason Kenny, not bad, but step it up. Yeah. I'm, I'm thankful
01:02:58.740
for his strong words, but I'm not optimistic that he's going to stick to them. How many times did we
01:03:03.760
hear him say, I don't even know. I don't even know what a vaccine passport is. And then when he figured
01:03:09.020
out what it was, he was like, Oh, totally opposed. And telling you not only would he oppose, but also
01:03:15.440
resist any efforts by the federal government to install a vaccine passport. Um, and then it was
01:03:22.540
like, Oh, ta-da, here's my vaccine passport, which we won't call a vaccine passport so that I can sleep
01:03:28.280
at night. It's called the restrictions exemption program. And it does all the things a vaccine
01:03:32.700
passport system does. We just called it something else. So, so our consciences are clean, I guess.
01:03:38.640
Um, so yeah, he's saying all the right things. Is he going to stick to it? I don't know,
01:03:43.140
but also I would love to hear him say, look, given the, um, spread of Omicron through the
01:03:50.680
vaccinated population, the restriction exemption program slash vaccine passport system, it's
01:03:56.880
basically been nullified by this, um, variant that is escaping the vaccine. So, um, there's,
01:04:03.640
well, there was never any justification for the segregation, but you can't even claim that it's,
01:04:08.500
it, it, it makes any sense at this point. I would love to see him end that.
01:04:12.740
That would be where, then I would start to believe him a little more that he's had a bit of a come to
01:04:17.000
Jesus moment on this issue. I'm not there yet, but, uh, you have, you're a more graceful Christian
01:04:21.880
than I am. I think, you know, I'm, I'm, I, like I've said, I'm, I'm not, uh, I'm the one who has
01:04:28.400
had the opportunity to ask Jason Kenny the most questions on this issue. Um, so for anyone out there
01:04:34.760
thinking I'm looking through rose colored glasses, um, I'm possibly the most disappointed, um, and
01:04:40.460
most, most skeptical because this was someone that we were hoping was going to the, to do the right
01:04:45.520
things by Albertans. I think the Christianity in me maybe just has some hope that Jason Kenny is
01:04:52.060
realizing this isn't right. And he's trying to figure, how do I get out of this final words to
01:04:58.220
this? If you don't mind, you're not going to win over the NDP radical lockdown people
01:05:04.640
ever. It doesn't matter what you do. I know at one point you had stated that you want a new base,
01:05:11.760
but you will not get that base. Um, ultimately at the end of the day, I know you are a professed
01:05:17.760
Catholic. Um, you're accountable for your actions. So put the political posturing aside and do the
01:05:26.540
right thing as a leader, be a good shepherd, so to speak to all of us and simply do the right thing.
01:05:31.860
If that means you're not the leader or you're not the premier come the next election. So be it,
01:05:37.480
at least you'll be able to sleep at night. And at least you will have stood for fundamental
01:05:40.820
freedoms. Very rarely do provincial leaders get to make these types of stands where they do
01:05:46.620
something virtuous, where they do something moral and they say consequences be damned, continue to take
01:05:51.800
measures to attempt to save lives, do all that stuff. But vaccine mandates are not saving
01:05:56.280
lives. They are costing lives. So I'm very hopeful that you will have a awakening of sorts to reason
01:06:02.100
and do the right thing. As you said, at the UCP AGM political consequences be damned.
01:06:08.840
Uh, Adam, do you, I think we should just do one more story then we'll go into chats. Uh,
01:06:13.320
do you have a preference of which one you want to get to? Uh, no ladies choice.
01:06:18.280
Okay. I want to do the op-ed writers who are the reason that we exist. Um, both of these people,
01:06:27.200
um, Tasha, I don't even know how to say her last name carried in. Uh, she fancies herself to be sort
01:06:35.160
of a right of center, but mostly centrist kind of person. And then there's Heather, Heather Malick,
01:06:40.980
who, um, is known in, uh, conservative circles as Heather Malick. Um, she's just an awful human
01:06:49.840
being. Um, anyways, they both wrote these op-eds where they were just advocating for segregation
01:06:58.240
and they didn't realize how much people would hate their op-eds. So yeah, this is the Heather Malick
01:07:06.480
one. The unvaccinated cherish their freedom to harm others. No, they, they're not actually
01:07:10.880
harming anybody. They're just want to be left alone. How can we ever forgive them? Well, I'm
01:07:15.460
sure that a lot of people can go through their date, not caring if, uh, Heather Malick has ever
01:07:20.480
forgiven them. Um, and Tasha carried in, she wrote an article. Um, the crux of her article was basically
01:07:28.320
like, what do we do? How, how, how do we deal with these prickly unvaccinated people? And to what
01:07:34.860
extent should we segregate them from society and look at us? We're good people for thinking this
01:07:39.640
way. She wrote that got immediate blowback from a lot of vaccinated people who were like, I don't
01:07:46.320
care where you fall down on the vaccine issue. I'm against coercion and force and segregation.
01:07:52.240
And she absolutely just got her like, and she got tuned in on social media. Um, and she was shocked
01:07:59.460
to see it because the reason we exist is because these people are in a bubble where they don't
01:08:05.280
actually communicate with real people and care about real issues. They only talk to other like
01:08:09.920
pro fancy locker downers. They never talked to the truck driver who's going to lose his job. And
01:08:15.160
the guy in the oil patch, who just got a stick stuck up his nose three times today, even though
01:08:20.040
he's vaccinated. Um, they don't care. They don't talk to the nurse.
01:08:23.840
That's why they need government money to survive.
01:08:27.520
Thank you. That was the point I was going to get to. That was the exact point I was going
01:08:31.720
to get to. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy here. Um, it's or a self-flushing toilet, if
01:08:37.180
you will. Um, so they continue to produce content that nobody wants to consume. So then they need,
01:08:45.420
but they produce content. The government wants people to see. And because nobody wants to consume
01:08:50.140
it, the government continues to subsidize it. And it just keeps going around and around and around.
01:08:54.260
And every time there's a round of layoffs, they go, boy, why, why did that even happen?
01:08:58.320
Well, we're over here. And I'm like, I need a legislature reporter because there's too much news.
01:09:02.780
Um, and they can't, they just can't figure it out because they are so incompatible with how normal
01:09:08.180
people think. And there is this perpetual, very Nathan's Dallas victim narrative. These people are
01:09:14.840
putting out articles saying like in the Jyoti Gondek style of like, why should we allow
01:09:19.960
these people to exist? Um, these people should be limited. How will we ever forgive them? Sorry
01:09:25.220
to break it to you, but, uh, only the vaccinated people spread Omicron internationally because
01:09:30.440
unvaccinated people had to be tested. So this is very much a pandemic of the vaccinated Omicron is
01:09:36.000
spreading through vaccinated people and it wouldn't have spread rapidly internationally through the
01:09:40.120
tested unvaccinated people. So the real question is how will we ever forgive you? Except I'm not
01:09:44.820
insane. I don't think like that. I like, like Dr. Fauci and some of these other people said
01:09:49.700
think we should be coming together and be united and we should respect each other and do everything
01:09:55.040
we can to save lives. What we shouldn't do is tell people that they shouldn't be allowed to
01:10:00.640
participate in society use. And I, it's not necessarily even dramatic anymore. Early Nazi style
01:10:07.180
rhetoric about a group of people saying that they're lesser thans and they shouldn't be allowed
01:10:12.340
to participate in society. And we need to use this health pass. Um, the rhetoric of how will we forgive
01:10:17.780
this group of people? How many of the people experience who can't wear a mask because they
01:10:22.140
experienced abuse or experiencing serious medical conditions, or simply don't want to be injected with
01:10:28.160
a new and dubiously effective vaccine. Those people, your question is, how are we ever going to
01:10:34.740
forgive them? How can you even ask that? How can you think that furthermore, how on earth, this is,
01:10:41.080
this would be one thing if it was some kook out there on Twitter blasting out a tweet, but you wrote
01:10:46.760
this, reviewed it, edited it, put it through your editorial board. It was published and no one in
01:10:53.360
that entire process thought, Hey, this is stupid. We shouldn't say this. No one in that entire process
01:11:00.440
said this sort of rhetoric is not the thing that Canadians are all about. No, but that doesn't matter.
01:11:06.340
It doesn't matter that that's what Canadians think, because that's not what the government's paying you to say.
01:11:10.480
I'm not anywhere close to forgiveness. I don't know. I don't know if I'll ever even get there.
01:11:20.180
They can repeal all these vax mandates. They can issue groveling apologies. And it's going to be a
01:11:24.900
long time before I can get past how vile and vicious these new segregationist medical Jim Crow people are,
01:11:35.940
who were so eager to install the biomedical police state on their fellow citizens for the reason it's not
01:11:45.220
even about health. That's, that's clear because we see what's happening with Omicron. It's tearing
01:11:50.100
through the unvaccinated and they still hang on to this unwarranted virtue that they were the protectors
01:11:55.640
of society. This is because the uncontrollable would not allow themselves to be controlled.
01:12:02.820
That's what this is about. These people would not do what their moral and intellectual superiors told
01:12:09.260
them to do. And for that, they must be punished. And it is going to be a long time before I find it in
01:12:14.060
my heart to offer any sort of forgiveness to these people. But I will try, Adam. I will try the best I can do.
01:12:20.920
Let's get to some of these chats. CanadianMom1997 says, Sheila, we can't be surprised anymore.
01:12:28.280
The left have gone off the deep end. These people must be held accountable. And I hope
01:12:31.440
Rebel News wins big in court. I think we're against it. Talking about Nathan Stahl there.
01:12:35.740
Rebel are the only ones selling the truth. Well, we're not the only ones, but it is a small
01:12:40.260
collegial clique of people who are telling the truth. That's one of the things I will say about
01:12:45.580
independent media in this country, between us, post-millennial, True North, and Western Standard.
01:12:52.600
We get along really well. There's only a few of us in the landscape. And we sort of work together.
01:12:56.580
We all do something different. And we're all cheering for each other. There's no punching on
01:13:01.940
them or cutting them down. We've all got a big job to do.
01:13:06.040
Even there, though, I think the tides are changing, though. You see some people, David Staples out of the
01:13:10.820
Edmonton Journal, some of these other people, many of them vaccinated, saying, whoa, whoa, whoa,
01:13:14.860
what are we doing here? I think the tide is changing. And it is shocking that so many
01:13:19.640
journalists are still just harping. Like, they're going to be absolutely, they're already left in
01:13:23.860
the dust compared to Rebel News, let's be honest. But they're going to be left in the dust, harping
01:13:27.880
their talking points. And when a real government eventually comes in, hopefully, hopefully it's not
01:13:32.240
the Chinese government, but when a government comes in, they're going to be left dead in the water.
01:13:37.160
Absolutely. Yep. My buddy Mike from Freedom Honey gives us $5. Well, thank you, Mike. He is an
01:13:47.200
advocate for keeping suspected sex offenders in jail, awaiting trial instead of letting them back
01:13:54.260
out into the community where many of them re-offend. What's Going Down gives us $20. Well, that's very
01:13:59.200
generous. Hey, everyone, call Now Radio at 780-489-4669. This is an Edmonton radio station,
01:14:09.720
or text them at 56789 one hour after the show and request Matt Brevner's More of Us would be great
01:14:19.680
to mention that he is Canadian content. Yeah, I was talking to Matt about this. All these, like,
01:14:25.040
Canadian entertainment journalists completely ignored the fact that Matt trended at 11 on
01:14:30.700
the global YouTube music charts. They completely ignored that. And it's such, put aside the
01:14:42.240
politics of it. This is an incredible Canadian success story that independent musician, independently
01:14:51.500
produced video, um, very compelling story featuring real people, but they can't get past their politics
01:15:00.660
to see the quality of what Matt has accomplished here. And the wild thing is they were even blocking
01:15:05.800
him from promoting it on ads. So like without any sort of artificial promotion, it got to 11th
01:15:11.500
worldwide on YouTube music. This isn't just in hip hop or some narrow category. This would have been on
01:15:17.280
your page on your music page. So shout out to Matt Brevner. Definitely watch that on YouTube. Check
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it out. Um, call in all your radio stations, top forties, everything, and request that incredible
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Canadian content from our very own Matt Brevner. Yes, I think it's brevner.com. Um, and you'll find
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links to his, um, band camp for download. And I think she, he's got some new merch coming up,
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which I love merch. So I'll have to get me some. It does. Yeah.
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Zoom in of my glasses on, but I know that I need my prescription adjusted, but I just,
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I don't want to be that old lady where it's like, Oh, my eyes are getting worse. Yeah. There there's
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way more of us. That's great. I mean, it's promoting Matt's song and his work, but that's just a great
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message. Yeah. Cheers. That's a nice, uh, that's very nice. We'll be sure to pass that along to
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Matt. Yeah, that's great. Good job, Matt. Uh, sea lions gives us 10 bucks and says, missed you
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yesterday. Yeah. We were all set to go. And then we were like, Oh yeah, who's going to run the show?
01:16:26.780
Nobody can get to the office. Um, waiting to see David back on air again and play some menzoid
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bingo, sending him best wishes from the West coast. Um, it sounds like David will be back. Um,
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co-piloting with me next week. Um, he's got the rest of this week off and, uh, much deserved break.
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He has really in the last six and a bit years, not really taken any time off work. So, um, given what
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happened to him with Justin Trudeau's mercenaries, um, and then the Christmas season, uh, he's just taking
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some time off, but he will be back. Don't worry. You'll see his smiling face and his jovial giggle
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back on the show. Very time. Very, very soon. Uh, DRB 1313 gives us five bucks. As long as the
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genocide is carbon neutral, Justin Trudeau is fine with Uyghur concentration camps. You know what?
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I know you're being facetious, but that is 100% true. Um, they don't care how they get to carbon
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neutral as long as they get there and all that other stuff, the parting out the Falun Gong, like they're
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an old minivan, uh, selling their organs to well-connected Chinese, uh, communist affiliated
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bureaucrats. They're perfectly fine with that as long as, and they don't even care about getting
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to carbon neutral. I don't care about getting to carbon neutral. Neither do these, these people,
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they just like to talk about it because if China cared about carbon neutral, they wouldn't have,
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you know, all of the world's carbon or coal facilities. Um, they don't care about it either.
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They just care about talking about it. So. Well, they care about the tax money and the funds they
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get for it. That's all they care about. I've got an access to information story coming up about our,
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uh, partnership on the China council. Um, the Canadian partnership working with the communist
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Chinese on the China council and just how much that costs us. Why are we giving any money to China?
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We still send them foreign aid depending on the day they might be the world's largest economy.
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We still send them foreign aid on what planet? Anyway, I could go on about China forever.
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Uh, C1 CAS, cause it's two bucks. There's a current epidemic in John China, which is not far from
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Beijing. Don't allow our athletes to go to the Olympics and stop all flights from China.
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Oh boy. Um, we've got, um, access to information documents. I just actually filmed the story yesterday.
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It won't be up for a couple of days about, uh, the military world games, which they think is
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actually the very first super spreader event. And it was in October. So before the January,
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when things sort of came on the radar and before March, when the global pandemic was called and
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Kian Bexty, my former colleague, he sort of broke the story that, um, the Canadian government
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would not, after the fact, allow the military athletes to be tested for COVID antibodies,
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even though the rest of the world said, well, we better find out when these guys actually got
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COVID because we need to adjust our numbers about when, and our timelines about when this
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came into our country. The Canadian government didn't do that because they were sort of trying
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to protect the Chinese narrative about when the pandemic actually started.
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Sheila, that's clearly conspiratorial because the UN said there was no person-to-person
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transmission in China. So clearly that's not true, right?
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Completely. Even though it ended up in a house, um, foreign affairs committee, uh, report on the
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issue and, and four other countries tested their athletes that came home and they had antibodies.
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So they know it started much sooner. Uh, Georgie Georgie gives us a buck quick question for you,
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Albertans. Do you guys really think Alberta will separate in our lifetime? Don't threaten me with a
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good time. Georgie Georgie. Uh, do you think people have had it with Kenny? I will. I follow
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wild rose on Twitter and I feel like they can win. Um, I'm not sure if, um, I know I'm a reluctant
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separatist. I've tried to make the relationship work. I just don't see the, how it could possibly be.
01:20:23.320
Am I optimistic that we could ever leave? I'm not sure. Um, do we have a charismatic leader that
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would, um, motivate people and sell those ideas? Uh, not quite yet. So I don't know, but people have
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definitely had it with Kenny. I'm worried that the UCP is going to lose the next election with him
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as the leader. If there is not a prompt leadership review, Adam, what do you think?
01:20:47.400
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think that 100% there's a lack of confident leadership, even when we're
01:20:55.160
talking about the leadership of the UCP, the names that come up are basically failed candidates from
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the past as the new future leader. Um, what Alberta very much needs is a leader that stares down Justin
01:21:08.420
Trudeau and does not back down and says, this is what's good for Alberta, take it or leave it.
01:21:13.280
Um, there's very much the similar spirit between Quebec Quebecers and Albertans, maybe not the
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politicians and the people, but the, the, the spirit for freedom, the speed and spirit for
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independence. And when they had strong leadership that basically said, give us what we want or shove
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off, they got a ton of special treatment. Um, so I don't think Alberta wants special treatment,
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but we would love some fair treatment. So if we had a politician who actually stood up for Albertans
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and was like, listen, we don't need them. We're not dependent on the federal government. We have all
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these resources. We can become a world superpower. And if Canada is going to treat us like crap,
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we're out of here. If we had a strong leader who is in that sort of position, people would be
01:21:52.220
motivated, but as it stands, uh, we don't have strong leadership. We don't have people willing
01:21:57.500
to speak to the difficult issues. Jason Kenny time and time again, talks about these minor little
01:22:02.000
victories, but Alberta is very much in a state of identity crisis. We're seeing the separatist, uh,
01:22:08.100
sentiment increase in the province, uh, but there's no real leadership to fall. It seems
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to fall. There's dozens of small splintered parties, and there's not really anyone who's
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a full-time charismatic leader for the movement. So it splinters, but I think that with sufficient
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leadership, perhaps we wouldn't separate, but certainly Alberta could get a seat at the big
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kids table and start demanding what we deserve. Yeah. To pull a bit of a Quebec to say, you know
01:22:33.720
what? We will leave. We will leave, but while we're here, we're going to flex our muscles and
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you're not going to like it. And we don't care. Um, last, um, super chat from Alberta. Dawn gives
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us two bucks regarding the justice minister that received the distracting driving ticket. Yeah.
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This is a really good point you're making here. Is there not a new law in Alberta that says you
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can't fight a traffic ticket unless you pay 150 bucks in court costs? Yes. Which is probably
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that now this law just came into being, so this probably didn't influence what, uh, the justice
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minister was doing beforehand, but this definitely affects the little guy. And actually it means that
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the poor don't really have the opportunity to fight their tickets because what happens is, um,
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you have, once you get a ticket, here's what, what they're trying to do is divert, uh, tickets away
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from the court system because, um, our court systems are overwhelmed and we can't manage to
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hire prosecutors. Um, but we can, you know, prosecute all these people with public gathering
01:23:40.340
tickets and people who went to church. We've got all kinds of time in the world for that,
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but we can't hire prosecutors. And, and I wonder why, because prosecutors probably want to fight real
01:23:49.380
crimes and not, um, you know, casters. Anyways, um, I just brought up the CTV Calgary article on this
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about 2 million traffic tickets will be diverted away from court and it will free up at least 10
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prosecutors who will be able to handle criminal matters instead. Instead of getting a speeding or
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distracted driving ticket with a court date on it, it'll all be handled digitally through an online
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portal. People will instead have just a week to review a ticket with an adjudicator rather than a
01:24:21.180
judge. The cost to review is a non-refundable fee of 150 bucks, depending on the amount of the fine.
01:24:32.580
So, um, what you get is instead of giving you the right to a trial, you don't get to go to trial.
01:24:38.520
You're, um, not really presumed innocent until proven guilty. You're proven guilty until proven
01:24:44.800
innocent. Um, and it's sort of backwards. So you have to, if you want to fight the ticket,
01:24:50.160
you have to cough up 150 bucks. Um, and then you still might not win your court case. Yeah. So
01:24:58.980
this denies, this is not access to justice at all. Yeah, no, no. Yeah. This is like, well,
01:25:05.320
you see what we can do is if we simply, uh, circumvent the legal process, we can free up
01:25:10.540
some judges. Well, well, yeah, that that's self-evident, but I mean, that is a violation
01:25:16.560
of that's, that's the entire point. It's like, if we just let the gas, the oil flow over land,
01:25:21.300
we don't have to build pipelines. The lack of thought on this is vexing. I know Sarah Miller has
01:25:28.000
talked to quite a few people on this. Um, I will be doing an interview with her when she's back in town
01:25:33.020
here about this, but very much, this is circumvention of justice. It'd be a different
01:25:38.040
story if there was no cost and they have specialized educators instead of judges. So judges can focus
01:25:44.580
on criminal matters. There are certain minor processes. You don't need technically a lawyer
01:25:50.280
or a judge. So if there was a sufficient and adequate alternative adjudication process that
01:25:55.520
saved us money. So you're not paying hundreds of dollars an hour for a judge to be talking about
01:25:59.520
petty little tickets. That might be, that might be logical. That might be a move. I see what they
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were trying to do with this, but ultimately the way the policy has been shaped, it makes no sense.
01:26:09.180
And it circumvents law. You shouldn't have to pay $150 to review a ticket or at the very least,
01:26:14.980
there should be a opportunity where if you're then proven right, or if you're proven wrong,
01:26:20.760
whatever it may be, uh, those funds go to the ticket or they're refunded, but just to have to pay
01:26:25.720
$150. Even if you're like, you have no proof. I committed this crime. I have proof that I
01:26:30.320
didn't. They're like, okay, you're off for the ticket. Here's a hundred, you owe us $150.
01:26:35.780
Yeah. That doesn't, that doesn't make any sense.
01:26:39.240
Sarah Miller one time described fight the fines and the democracy fund as Canada's largest access
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to justice initiative. And she's not wrong. So she's, she's got strong opinions on this kind
01:26:50.940
of stuff and making sure that, uh, the less fortunate have access to a fair and equitable
01:26:58.620
legal system. And this ain't it. This ain't it. Um, now we should wrap up the show because we are 26
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minutes past the hour. So you're getting like a show and a half today, people. So, um, so I think
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we should thank everybody in the office for braving what apparently are still treacherous roads to put
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the show together. Thank you everybody at home who tuned in Adam. Thank you so much for being my
01:27:25.120
cohost today. Thank you to everybody. Thank you. Thank you to everybody who pitched in a few bucks
01:27:31.660
to keep the lights on. Um, I'm not quite sure who's hosting the show tomorrow, but I do know indeed
01:27:37.420
there is a show tomorrow. So, um, you can catch that here at the same. Sorry. Perfect. Mr. Producer
01:27:46.440
tells me it's a Matt and Andrew. So if those guys are your favorite tune in, um, and again,
01:27:51.400
remember, as Adam pointed out off the top of the show shows available as a podcast too. So,
01:27:55.660
I mean, the visual elements to watch are kind of fun, but I think you can get the gist of everything
01:27:59.580
that we're talking about through the audio. So that's everything. Um, I'll see you back here.
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I guess I'm back in the driver's seat on Thursday. And as David Menzies, my beloved David Menzies
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says, stay sane. Happy new year. My name is Abe Layden, chairman of the board of county commissioners
01:28:19.780
in Douglas County. And I'm honored to be joined by the president of the Douglas County school board,
01:28:24.480
Mike Peterson, and the president of the Douglas County board of health, Doug Benevento.
01:28:29.180
As a Douglas County citizen, you likely have questions about Omicron as we begin 2022
01:28:33.820
and how Douglas County will be addressing it. As we have for 21 months, we continue to receive
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and monitor new COVID-19 data daily while working closely with local state and regional public
01:28:45.300
health emergency management and hospital officials. And in doing so, we remain nimble
01:28:50.460
and prepared to adjust our policies accordingly. As your county school board and board of health
01:28:56.040
leadership, we would like to provide you with an update on our perspective and address questions
01:29:01.340
that you may have about what is next. So let's begin with the facts. Omicron is contagious and many
01:29:07.420
will get it, including even those that are vaccinated and boosted. Reports are that for
01:29:12.480
most, the symptoms are mild and less severe than Delta. In order to care for hospitals and frontline
01:29:17.980
healthcare workers, we encourage you to talk with your provider about the COVID vaccine.
01:29:23.780
We will never mandate that. Vaccination is your choice, not ours. Also, if you have a medical background
01:29:29.900
and left work due to fatigue, lack of childcare when schools were shut down, retirement, or other
01:29:35.060
reasons, we encourage you to consider coming back to work to help your colleagues in healthcare.
01:29:40.120
Our perspective in Douglas County for 21 months has been not to react to case numbers, but to severity.
01:29:46.980
That is, how bad are the symptoms? What are the trends in hospitalizations and deaths?
01:29:51.760
While there are intermittent spikes in these metrics, we are not seeing sustained marginal increase
01:29:56.780
in the rate of hospitalization. That said, we are aware that many more people are testing due to
01:30:02.080
mandates that may come from all sectors of employment. And so, it is not surprising to see
01:30:06.940
an increase in reported cases as a result. Unfortunately, like you, for two years, we have
01:30:12.800
witnessed policymakers react emotionally to case counts with fear. An institute one-size-fits-all
01:30:18.620
mandates and restrictions, such as universal masking, vaccine passports, and closing schools and businesses.
01:30:24.640
Let's be clear. Until we see significant severity metrics, such restrictions will not happen
01:30:30.840
in Douglas County. Again, instead of reacting to case counts, we will respond to severity. Instead
01:30:37.560
of responding with fear-driven mandates and restrictions, we will respond with courage and
01:30:42.680
freedom of healthcare choice. We will continue to monitor the data daily, and if things become
01:30:47.960
more severe, we will make adjustments. However, the reality is that COVID is a coronavirus like
01:30:54.440
thousands of other coronaviruses, which change and mutate as viruses do.
01:30:58.700
As you are now beginning to hear from both sides of the political spectrum, this is not a pandemic.
01:31:04.300
It is endemic, and we are simply going to have to live with COVID. You've heard it from us for 21 months,
01:31:11.220
but the President of the United States and our Colorado Governor are also now speaking to that
01:31:15.960
reality with this common-sense approach that you have probably already adopted for some time now.
01:31:21.840
Bottom line, under the data we are seeing right now, we will not be forcing you into masks or shutting
01:31:27.660
down your businesses. And we are committed to in-person learning in our schools.
01:31:31.900
In Douglas County, the sky's not falling. The sky's the limit. Thank you, and have a blessed 2022.