DAILY Roundup ｜ Israel-Hamas hostage⧸prisoner swap, Protesters block infrastructure, Populism rising
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In this episode of the Rebel Commander podcast, Alex Blumberg talks about the U.S. government's sudden shift towards a negotiated settlement in Ukraine, and why he thinks it's a massive 180-degree turn in policy.
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I'm the Rebel Commander here. That's a title I give myself. It's a little bit tongue-in-cheek,
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but we are certainly in an information war. There are real wars going on. I saw startling
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news out of Ukraine two days ago. I don't know if you saw that. According to the Ukrainian
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government, so this is not guesswork by outsiders, the average age of Ukrainian soldiers in the field
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right now is mid-40s, which is terrifying because that suggests that a whole generation of young
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men have been killed in the meat grinder of that war. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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And I say this at the same time that the United States government, can you find that tweet?
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I'll probably find it faster, where out of the blue, the United States government, which has so
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resolutely refused any talk of negotiation or any talk of a little ceasefire, suddenly, here,
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I'm going to put it right in the Slack channel there, suddenly is talking publicly about a negotiated
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settlement. That's got to, yeah, you found it there, exactly. So this is from the U.S.
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a mission to NATO. So this isn't just any old part of the U.S. military. This is the part that is
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engaging with Europe and the other allies in Ukraine. Let me read it to you. Ukraine has taken
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back more than half of its territory seized by Russia's forces since February 2022. Now, I should
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say most of that taking back happened a year ago. In this tough and dynamic battle, it's not really
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that dynamic, though the front lines have been static for almost a year. Ukraine's forces are
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fighting bravely every single day, and they continue to inspire the world with their bravery and courage.
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We will continue to support them to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table
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when the time comes. We continue to stand united with Ukraine while they defend their freedom.
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And then look at the infographic there. We are focused on setting the conditions
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conditions for a just, durable, and sustainable peace. This is a completely new message from the United
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States. It was victory. It was repel the Russians. There was even talk about taking back Crimea,
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which was the part of Ukraine that Russia seized and annexed. They were talking about,
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they were audacious proposals, I don't know how serious they were, of going into Russia proper.
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There was a point in time when Zelensky himself was talking about regime change in Russia.
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And now the U.S. government, and I have no idea if they consulted about this language with Ukraine in
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advance. I mean, it's, you can take it or leave it when they talk about, you know, fighting bravely,
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retaking land, tough and dynamic battle. But that one sentence, we will continue to support them to
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what? To victory? To expel Russians from every acre of land? No. The goal, according to this tweet,
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which has 4.9 million views, is to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.
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What negotiating table? Who said anything about negotiating tables? That was absolutely forbidden
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in the vernacular of the U.S. military until just a month or two ago. I find that absolutely
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astonishing. And although some people who actually wanted Russia to be expelled from every acre,
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and perhaps even the retaking of Crimea, although they will be perhaps demoralized by this,
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and I mean, I think of Trudeau's speech when Zelensky came to Canada,
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we will be with you to the end. No one actually ever said what that end was. And now the U.S.
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military, which is basically bankrolling and arming the entire battle, is saying, we'll tell you what
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the end is right now. The end is a negotiated settlement, and we're going to try and do our best
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at that negotiated settlement. I find that a stunning about-face. That is a 180-degree turn.
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But, you know, let me tell you something. Do you have that clip of when I went to Davos
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nine months ago, ten months ago, whatever it was? Or maybe it was on the previous trip, actually.
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No, it was that one. Sorry. I've only been to Davos once. I'm trying to keep confusing my trip with
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someone else's. We did so much journalism there. It's a bit of a blur. I went to the Ukraine Pavilion
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at Davos. And, you know, Davos, the World Economic Forum, we, of course, were not accredited journalists.
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They would not accredit us, so we were sort of milling around the outside.
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Davos, the World Economic Forum, takes over the entire town of Davos.
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So the conference center and the hotels and certain things are private, and you need access to get in
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there. But there are parts just along the main streets of this town that are taken over for the week
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by companies or governments and turned into sort of like a World's Fair kind of thing. And one of them
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was Ukraine. And I don't want to play the whole video for you, but I went into the Ukrainian
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Pavilion. This is obviously the Ukrainian government, so it is their point of view. Russia was not allowed
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in Davos. That's what I was told several times. So this was the Ukrainian point of view. Critics would
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call it propaganda. But I went in because I wanted to hear what they had to say. And let me play a
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little bit of it for you, because a lot has changed in the almost one year since I was there. Take a look.
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Ezra Levant here on the streets of Davos, Switzerland. This is the annual meeting of the World Economic
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Forum, which is a unique blend of big business, big media, and big government. Well, one of the
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biggest governments in the world these days, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, Canadian taxpayer,
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British taxpayer, is the government of Ukraine, which is in an existential battle against the Russian
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Federation. I say it's an existential battle because, of course, Russia seeks to annex certain regions
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of Ukraine, that Russia claims are ethnically Russian, and that Russia claims are being punished,
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being persecuted by the Kiev-based government that has a different history. I mean, Ukraine's borders
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have changed over the years. There's different ethnicities. And it's quite a brutal battle.
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It's not the first time Russia has invaded Ukraine, and it did it in 2014. But this time,
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NATO, and in particular, the United States, has flooded the zone with money and with weapons. And
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it's turned into a brutal, long-running battle that I'm sure has caught Vladimir Putin by surprise.
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Makes me nervous, the whole thing, because, of course, both sides have nuclear weapons. And
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I don't know if you could ever have a total victory over a foe that has nuclear weapons,
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especially Vladimir Putin with the imperialistic pride that he wields. That's a background. You already
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know that. But here I am at the massive Ukraine pavilion. Now, as I've showed you by walking these
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streets before, there are other countries here and other states of countries, for example, in India,
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that are promoting themselves. We talk with him. We'll show you some of the imagery that was shown.
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Yes. Hello, everyone. My name is Alekh Manochenko. I'm from Ukraine. And this is two projects.
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Ukraine is you and Ukraine, House of Us. It's dedicated to show that Ukraine, Ukraine role in
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the world to show the, to show the Russian crimes in Ukraine, to show, to reveal Russian crimes to the
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world. That's the main point of today's, of today's meeting. And we're happy for, for hosting us
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within the framework of World Economic Forum. So is the president of Ukraine making a presentation
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either in person or by video link? Yes. President, don't leave the country because
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of exception was like a wizard to Washington DC. And he is addressing the guests by the video.
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It will be. And the head of the office president was heading address to the guests. And also
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first lady of Ukraine while there yesterday. She was here in person? Yes. And also some very
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distinguished guests with. I don't want to play the whole thing. It's a long video, but I want
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to tell you the two things I thought there. First of all, they had, they had images of atrocities.
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That's how they describe them of civilian apartments attacked. And it's interesting to contrast
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the world's reaction to those apartments being blown up versus Gaza. It's just a thought that
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popped into my mind. Obviously that was not on my mind then because the Gaza war was not until October.
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But I talked to advocates for the Ukrainian government, including that young fellow. And I
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talked to an international lawyer and I won't take up more time. I don't want to play a little
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video. It's a lengthy video, but you can find it on our website, wefreports.com. Anyways, I talked to
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this international lawyer who was saying, not only are we going to beat Russia, we're going to take
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Russia to the war crimes court. And we're going to take Putin and the oligarchs and the army to the
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war crimes court. And we're going to get them like we got the Nazis. And we're going to make Russia
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pay to rebuild all Ukraine. We're going to seize hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets.
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And, and it was such a maximalist goal. I mean, I, I was very attentive. I let them speak at great
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length. My questions to them were very gentle response. I didn't want to pick a fight. I just
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wanted to hear what they had to say. I guess my point is that was January 2023. So that's 10 months
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ago. So 10 months ago, the stance of the Ukrainian government was not only are we going to kick Russia
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out of every square inch of Ukraine, but we're going to topple the regime, put them on trial for
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war crimes, take all their money and rebuild Ukraine. And now NATO is saying, no, actually,
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we're just going to try and get you as presentable as possible for a peace negotiation.
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I think that is an incredibly underreported story, an underreported story. Wouldn't you say?
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I mean, the number one foreign policy issue of the entire West for two years has been Ukraine.
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People still have the Ukrainian flag as their icon on social media. I, I was at Pierre Polyev's press
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conference yesterday, and one of his staff was wearing a Canada-Ukraine flag pin, like Vladimir
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Zelensky was just in Canada a month or two ago. To go from, you know, we're with you till victory in
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the end. We're going to put these Putin on trial for war crimes to, hey, Ukraine, get ready for a
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peace deal is quite astonishing. And I don't know if it's the fact that the US election is less than
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a year away and American public opinion is falling away, or if it's simply a recognition of the fact
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that Russia has an enormous military, not just in terms of troops, but in terms of replenishing
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ammunition, they've got the military industrial complex, the infrastructure to keep, you know,
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as Professor Mearsheimer says, Russia has a three-to-one person advantage, you know, population
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advantage over Ukraine, but it's a ten-to-one artillery advantage. And of course, then there's the fact
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that Americans are feeling overstretched and maybe war weary, even though US troops have not been involved
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in the war in Gaza. It certainly has taken up a lot of the share of the mind of the American
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public. And yeah, I thought that was really an underreported story. And don't mind me, I didn't
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even plan to talk about that, but I was just thinking about that startling tweet. Would you agree with me?
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I mean, that is a complete about face. Can you call up that video? We've played it several times
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of, I think his name is Kirby, the US spokesman on military and State Department issues. I think he
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works for the White House though. And he, this was like this year where he said, we will not even
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allow talk of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, because that would grant that the status
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quo is somehow acceptable. So look at, this is, and we'll move on after this, but I just want to show
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you how just a few months ago, the US was saying, we will never accept the status quo, not even
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temporarily. Take a look. Hey, that if coming out of this meeting, there's some sort of call for a
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ceasefire. Well, that's just going to be unacceptable, because all that's going to do,
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Mike, is ratify Russia's conquest to date. All that's going to do is give Mr. Putin more time
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to refit, retrain, remand, and try to plan for renewed offensives at a time of his choosing.
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We hope, and we've said this before, that President Xi will call and talk to President Zelenskyy,
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because we believe the Chinese need to get the Ukrainian perspective here.
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Hey. You know, it's so interesting, isn't it? So that he was taking a very hard line,
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even though there was an enormous number of Ukrainian men who were killed. I was talking
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to Conrad Black, and he thought it was about 100,000 young Ukrainian men. I think the number
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is much higher than that. And of course, millions, I've seen a number of 8 million Ukrainians have
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left the country, is one report. I've seen, of course, there's the Ukrainians who've been simply
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annexed by Russia. So the country, it's just a terrible, disastrous outcome for Ukraine. And
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you can see there that that White House spokesman was adamant, no ceasefire ever, that just gets the
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bad guy's chance to recoup. How different, how interesting that that line was the gospel for
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a year and a half. Now it's gone. But Israel is the one being pressured to ceasefire, including by
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the Biden administration, even though their rhetoric is more friendly. Speaking of the Gaza war, I left
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the office yesterday, and I did a little reporting myself, which I, whenever I do it, I'm glad I've done
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it. I got to get out of the office more. Pierre Polyev, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, was at a
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local Toronto synagogue, where he was announcing really nothing new, frankly. He was talking about how he wanted
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to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist group, as other countries have done. He was talking about
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expelling 700 Iranian agents from Canada, based on a global news study, investigative report. He wanted to speed up
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the security infrastructure for, that's where they get alarms and video surveillance cameras for religious
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institutions. So there really wasn't anything new there. But I went and I asked a question about our
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deport Hamas idea. Let me show you how that went. I just want to show you my, and I tried to get a second
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question in, but they would not let me. I tried. Here's my question and Polyev's answer, and I'll talk to you a
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little bit about it. But then I want to show you what some of the other journalists there, there were
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a bunch of other journalists. That was actually far more interesting to me than, than the speech
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itself. Here, so here's my question to Polyev and his answer. Hi, Mr. Polyev, Ezra Levan from Rebel News.
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You mentioned certain things that rise to the level of a crime, but there are many things that aren't
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quite at that level. For example, people marching, calling for an intifada, or say, or, or using language that
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may not rise to the level of a criminal prosecution. And you've said before that you
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respect freedom of speech, even for odious views. But what about people who are not Canadian citizens,
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who are foreign nationals, perhaps here on a student visa to go to our schools, and instead of studying
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at university, they're participating in these hate marches, intimidating people, Jewish restaurants,
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calling for the death of Jews. Again, not criminal level, but these are foreign nationals. Would you
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support canceling the visas and deporting foreign nationals, who instead of doing what they came here
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to do, are spreading hate at these pro-Hamas rallies? Thank you for your question. You raise a number
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of different issues. One, if someone comes here on a student visa and they're not actually a student,
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then on that basis alone, they should go home. We don't want to have, one of the problems we have
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with the student visa program is that it has been used as a fraudulent point of entry, particularly
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for corrupt employers trying to get labour from abroad. So in general, we believe that we should
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shut down all the fraud in the student visa program, and anyone who claims to come here to study
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that is not actually studying should not be here. With regards to protests, I do believe in freedom
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of speech. I believe people should be allowed to say things I disagree with, even things that I find
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appalling. That is the price of living in a free country. The alternative is to have state censors
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who then decide what kind of speech is acceptable and what is not, and who chooses those state censors.
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And then those censors will pick and choose, based on their own political views, which speech is allowed
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and which speech is not. That's why I believe in freedom of expression. You mentioned, for example,
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if someone stands up and calls for violence against a particular group, they can, under the current
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criminal code, be charged with incitement. Those provisions already exist. And I would encourage
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law enforcement to make sure those provisions are upheld for any and all people who incite,
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deliberately incite violence against an identifiable group, because that has been criminalized
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for many years. And anyone who is convicted of that, who is not a citizen, should obviously not be in
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Canada. You know, I appreciate as far as he went, but he didn't go very far. I'm not talking just about a
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hate crime, which is a difficult crime to prosecute. It's very rare. And it does offend the notions of free
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speech. I'm talking not about violating free speech. I'm talking about people who come to Canada's guests,
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temporary guests, to be students or workers or whatever, people who do not have tenure here,
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who do not have a citizenship status, going to these hate marches. And if they were Canadian citizens,
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maybe you have to live with it, unless they do go to the point where they're threatening someone,
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actually doing a crime. But if they're foreign nationals, basically tourists who are allowed to
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stay a little longer to get a degree, why should they be allowed to go to these hate marches? I've
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seen a lot of these hate marches. They are overwhelmingly either new Canadians or people
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who aren't Canadian at all. So why should they be allowed to get on a plane, come here either
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temporarily as a tourist or saying they're students, and then vomit out anti-Semitic bigotry on our
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streets, terrifying and terrorizing actual Canadian citizens. So I think he wiggled out of that one a
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little bit, but I think we should keep at it. I think it's a fruitful line of questioning.
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So I was the only, there was a reporter from the Canadian Jewish News who asked a
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question about these hate rallies too, and it wasn't a particularly thoughtful question.
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Polyev answered it very briefly, again, with freedom of speech answer. But there were about
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half a dozen other reporters there, CBC, CTV, Canadian Press. And I thought their questions
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were more, the most interesting part of the day. None of them had anything to do with
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what Polyev was there to talk about. None of them had anything to do with
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security for Jewish community as the Hamas front comes here. None of that. It was carbon tax questions.
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They were furious that Polyev didn't want a carbon tax to be inserted in Canadian aid
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to Ukraine. They were so, why won't you allow a carbon tax in Ukraine? Like, it was crazy.
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There were some vendetta questions, or like, it was just, the questions were so bizarre.
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A couple of them were about the fact that Polyev briefly said, as did many others,
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that the explosion of the border crossing in Niagara Falls looked like terrorism. And Polyev was actually
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citing CTV. I want to show you, maybe you've seen this clip on social media, but you probably just saw
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the CPAC camera, which was fixed on Polyev the whole time. I had my camera and I pointed it at the
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Canadian Press reporter. And so we did a new little video edit. I want to show you this.
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This wasn't quite apple orchard, Pierre Polyev, you know, when he had that apple and he was schooling
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that reporter in the Okanagan. It was pretty close. And I think that Pierre Polyev should carry an apple
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with him, maybe in his pocket. That might look a little bit funny to have a whole apple in your pocket,
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but maybe he should have an assistant nearby with an apple. And when a question like this comes,
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he should say, apple? And then an assistant who is an apple assistant, who does nothing else,
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other than he or she carries the apple, waiting for the apple. And then the apple is run on to this,
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almost like, you know, in tennis matches, there's people who run to get the tennis ball super quick.
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It's really fun to watch those ball kids run and get the ball super quick. There's one job.
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Get someone that with that kind of speed and attentiveness to be Pierre Polyev's apple handler.
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And the moment you see a question like this, you're getting ready. The apple is taken out of the apple
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bag. You're getting ready. You're getting ready. You're looking at the boss. You're looking at the
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boss. You're waiting for the moment. And then he says, and maybe he doesn't even say it out loud.
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Maybe he just goes, maybe he just mounts it. And you say, oh, that's my cue. And you run with the
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apple and Polyev takes the apple. It takes a bite. And then he answers and it goes like this.
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Do you think it was responsible for you to call yesterday's explosion by the customs,
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by the checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge terrorism when no U.S. or Canadian officials said that was
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like authorities said that was the case. And when the New York governor also said there was no evidence
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to suggest terrorism activity. Actually, you're wrong. Are you with CP?
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Okay. So CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's knowledge, did have to make three corrections for
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falsehoods that they put into a single article. I think that might be unprecedented.
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I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of World Records to see
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if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections for patent falsehoods that
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they admit they had been made in one single article. And now you've made yet another falsehood in your
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question. Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of Canada
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was presuming that the incident was terrorist. So yeah, that was and that's what I said in my remarks.
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You're right. It was a media report. But it's citing media reports and not.
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Which is what I said in the House. I said there are media reports.
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And you think that's a responsible thing to go on to make that kind of a statement at the time without
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speaking? What kind of statement? I didn't. I said there were media reports.
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That's the distinction we're making? Okay. No, there's no distinction. What I said,
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and I was right, was that there were media reports
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of a terror related event. By your admission, there were media reports of a terror related event.
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And that media report, according to CTV, unless you're questioning their integrity now,
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came from security officials in the Trudeau government. So do you think the CTV was
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Do you think it was a responsible comment to make it in the House of Commons?
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Sorry, I'm asking. I have already answered that. Do you think CTV was irresponsible to put that tweet out?
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That's none of my business. That's not for me to comment.
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Okay. I just hope you're not going to print something that you have to apologize for again. Okay.
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I liked it. I mean, I was there for it. It wasn't as delicious, so to speak, as the original Apple
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moment. But I think, you know what? I think he should have a little Apple lapel pin or something.
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I don't know. Like really little. But you sort of have to squint and say, what's that?
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Oh, it's just an apple. How do you like them apples? I should tell you that question was no
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dumber than the other questions that the rest of the media party asked. And no, I thought it was
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astonishing. I did my show on this last night, by the way. I don't know if you're a subscriber to
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the As for LeVant show. It's what we call Rebel News Plus. We put it behind a paywall. It's eight
00:27:11.680
bucks a month, which isn't that pricey. I know that's not a lot of dough to you, but it really adds up
00:27:15.840
for us because, you know, that's how we pay most of our salaries here is with that subscription.
00:27:21.520
Because as you know, we don't get any money from Trudeau. We would never take it even if it was
00:27:26.080
offered and it will never be offered. And we've been demonetized by YouTube. They won't even let
00:27:31.040
us do Super Chats anymore. You might recall when we started our daily live stream during the pandemic,
00:27:36.800
the Super Chats were actually an important source of revenue for Rebel News. And so obviously,
00:27:40.960
YouTube cut that off. And it's because YouTube itself is beholden to woke mindsets, but also
00:27:48.640
beholden to advertisers like Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies, and even more worryingly,
00:27:55.360
to governments. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, he released what he called the Twitter files,
00:28:04.000
showing how the government pressured Twitter to censor even more than they would do so for their
00:28:09.360
own ideological or commercial reasons. I mean, of course, all these social media companies happen
00:28:14.480
to be based in San Francisco, the most left-wing city in America. So by their own nature, they're going
00:28:20.800
to be very censorious of conservatives. But then add in the pressure from, you know, hypersensitive
00:28:30.320
advertisers and then the government. It's extremely bad. Which is why I am interested, nervous, angry,
00:28:38.960
defensive, but also ready when Justin Trudeau says he's got a big announcement coming about a digital
00:28:48.160
partnership targeting artificial intelligence. I wish Justin Trudeau had any sort of intelligence,
00:28:56.720
intelligence. Real intelligence, artificial intelligence, just any sort of intelligence
00:29:00.720
would be a welcome change. But whenever he talks about misinformation and disinformation,
00:29:08.000
that's when I got a hold out of my wallet because I know he's coming to pull a fast one on us. This is
00:29:14.000
the guy who said that Israel fired a missile at a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds. And it was later
00:29:25.680
proven by multiple sources that it was actually an Islamic jihad rocket that went astray. It didn't
00:29:33.200
destroy the hospital. The hospital itself was not actually even hit. There was a fire in the parking
00:29:38.080
lot. As far as we know, there were no casualties. And Trudeau to this day has not corrected himself and his foreign
00:29:45.840
minister, Melanie Jolie. Her tweet on the subject remains up. These are the people lecturing you on
00:29:52.560
misinformation and disinformation. And yeah, here's the clip from Trudeau.
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We're also talking about a digital partnership that is going to make a huge difference. Building on that as we work
00:30:04.400
together to understand the impacts of AI, the impacts of disinformation and misinformation on
00:30:10.160
the social media that people get to get overwhelmed by in so many ways that tend to exacerbate our
00:30:15.440
challenges. That's the big second announcement we're making. You know, when he starts going like
00:30:21.360
this with his head, you know, that's when you know a big lie is coming. You know, 91% of
00:30:29.360
liberal voters in 2021, if I'm remembering the abacus poll correctly, found Trudeau inauthentic
00:30:38.640
and phony. Am I remembering that right, Olivia? I think it was 91%. It was an enormous number.
00:30:45.840
Inauthentic and phony. And the thing is, once people think you're inauthentic and phony, you can't
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re-fool them. I really think the best analogy is when you're sort of enchanted or you have a crush
00:30:59.280
on someone, let's say. Maybe you're in love with them. And then you see something about them. The
00:31:04.560
mask falls. The veil falls. And you see their true nature. You see them do something or say something.
00:31:11.600
And you just instantly realize you were sort of tricked. And you can never look at them the same
00:31:16.720
way. And you fall out of love. But it's not just, okay, you know, things have cooled off. You feel
00:31:22.720
like you were tricked. Like if you like someone and then you don't really like them, you don't
00:31:29.280
necessarily feel tricked. You just think, okay, you know, he's not my cup of tea. But if you actually
00:31:35.280
were emotionally invested in Trudeau because you thought he was passionate and real and smart and
00:31:42.880
hopeful and progressive, and then you come to learn, for example, the carbon tax issue, which is in many
00:31:48.800
ways a dry financial issue. But he claimed it was a passionate issue about caring for the world.
00:31:54.800
We all knew it was just a tax grab. So he gets in trouble in Atlantic Canada because they have home
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heating oil out there and they're going to really get walloped by this carbon tax. And so he says,
00:32:06.480
okay, fine. I'll save you money. I'm not going to bring in the carbon tax for, I think, three years.
00:32:12.640
Well, what did that say? It said, first of all, Trudeau was lying when he said it was
00:32:17.120
revenue neutral because he says this is going to save you hundreds of millions of dollars. So he
00:32:21.600
showed he was lying. But more than that, he showed that his whole passion was phony and inauthentic.
00:32:30.480
That he absolutely would throw away his centerpiece legislation if it meant saving a few liberal MPs out
00:32:38.880
there. I follow on Twitter, Catherine McKenna, the disgraced former environment minister. And she was
00:32:45.120
so appalled by him, she fell out of love with him too. And that's what I mean. Yeah, show that
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abacus survey. Yeah, put that on the screen just for one second. Those who have a negative impression of
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Trudeau and voted liberal in 2021. So understand this, these are people who voted for Trudeau just
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two years ago, but they've soured on him. I don't like him as a person. Only 23% are saying that.
00:33:15.520
But 77% are saying, I'm tired of him. I just don't want to see his face or hear that
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substitute drama teacher sound. He got Canada into this mess. Two thirds of people say that.
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He has a clear vision of where he wants to take the country. Only 14% believe that. And then look at
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the next one. This is the money shot here. He's authentic and genuine. Nine percent say that.
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Whereas look across the row there, 91% say he is inauthentic and phony. These are people who voted
00:33:57.600
liberal in 2021. He's too cautious and doesn't promise enough. Only 18% say that, whereas 82%
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he makes promises he can't keep, you think. Thanks very much. But those, so I think what a lot of
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those show is those are emotional. Those aren't saying, those aren't asking, does he have the right
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tax policy? Does he have the right foreign policy? Does he have the right policy on issue one, two,
00:34:23.920
three, four, or five? Should the tax rate be this percent or that percent? These are not brain issues.
00:34:28.960
They're heart issues, right? They're not testing science. They're testing feelings.
00:34:34.960
And people feel burned by Trudeau. They feel tricked by him. They feel like he's a phony who
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lied to them. And they're just tired of him. They just want him to go away. And that is not easily
00:34:47.680
remedied. Once you fall out of love that hard, I don't know if there's a road back. And that's the
00:34:55.280
thing. And I won't go through the polls right now, but I like looking at them. I like looking
00:34:59.360
at polls from David Coletto at Abacus because I know his company is really a liberal company
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chaired by a liberal operative. And the reason I say that is if they're critical of Trudeau,
00:35:11.280
you know it's true. I mean, if a right-wing pollster, I don't even think there is one in
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Canada, were to critique Trudeau, you'd say, well, that's just a right-wing pollster.
00:35:19.680
But when a liberal party pollster like Abacus says that, you know, you can take it to the bank.
00:35:25.520
Well, it's 1.37. I want to take a short break and run some ads. Since the last time I spoke with you,
00:35:50.820
So let's run an ad. Let's run some ads, including for our Rebel News
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cruise. But I want to show people what I thought was
00:35:57.820
the most fun part of the Rebel News Live conference in Calgary,
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I want to show you that music video of Tamera Leach
00:36:08.020
and her husband Dwayne in concert. It was unbelievable. Here's some ads. Come right back.
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David Menzies for Rebel News here in downtown Toronto. And I got to tell you folks, next March,
00:36:21.360
March 23rd to 30th, to be precise, we are going on a Caribbean cruise. Can you imagine that? And a lot
00:36:28.520
of your favorite Rebels will be there, such as Sheila Gunn-Reeds. We got Alexa Lavoie, the big boss man
00:36:34.880
himself. Of course, he'll be there, Ezra Levent. And how about this? How about this for the cherry on the sundae?
00:36:40.280
Tamara Leach, Canada's number one freedom fighter. She'll be on that boat, too.
00:36:45.720
And look at the itinerary. We're going to be going to Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.
00:36:51.520
And then we're going to jazz it up in Oco Rios, Jamaica. And then there's Georgetown in the Cayman Islands.
00:36:57.120
And finally, Cozumel, Mexico. Can you imagine that? If you want more details in terms of getting aboard
00:37:03.840
the ship, go to rebelnewscruise.com. That's rebelnewscruise.com. All the details are there,
00:37:11.120
the departure dates, the costs. And you know what? This is not just a fun-filled getaway.
00:37:16.960
This is a way in which Rebel News raises some revenue. Unlike the mainstream media,
00:37:23.200
we don't receive a nickel of government funding, nor would we take it if ever offered. So it's win-win.
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So that's rebelnewscruise.com. I hope to see you aboard.
00:37:44.240
Come on out November 25th. It's all aboard the Freedom Train in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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You can check Rebel News for updates and also the Freedom Passports item.
00:37:53.840
Tamera Leach, who led the Truckers Convoy, will be sharing the stage with some of the finest
00:37:58.960
international recording artists. Like the Chopps Horns from New York City, who's played with Alicia
00:38:04.480
Keys, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and many more. Plus New World Sun, just off a European tour,
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and the legendary R&B master, Leroy Emanuel. Get on the Freedom Train with Tamera Leach.
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Saturday, November 25th at Niagara-on-the-Lake Central Community Center, 680 York Road.
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Get your tickets today at freedompassport.ca. The Freedom Train is coming. Know your rights. Know your freedoms.
00:38:34.240
Hey, welcome back. You know what? Did you see that? The Freedom Train concert is tomorrow in
00:38:42.400
Niagara-on-the-Lake. That's amazing. I hear turnout is incredible. I cannot attend for a family reason,
00:38:48.720
but boy, I wish I would be there in person. And it's a great concert, but we had a sneak preview of
00:38:56.880
two of the musicians. And I tell you, I can't believe Tamera Leach has so many different talents.
00:39:03.920
She's not just the brave political prisoner who was jailed for 49 days for leading the Trucker Convoy,
00:39:11.600
who is currently on trial in Ottawa for mischief. But she is in a rock and roll band. And at the end
00:39:19.040
of our Rebel News Live conference in Calgary, six days ago, she and Dwayne played a whole half hour set.
00:39:25.600
It was great. So I filmed this on my, I was in the first row. Obviously, I'm the number one fanboy. Let
00:39:32.080
me just show you one of the songs that they played. And I tell you, I just really, it's exactly what I
00:39:39.840
needed. Take a look at, I think this is Proud Mary, written by Credence Clearwater Revival, later covered
00:39:47.840
by Tina Turner. What a great song. Take a look. Okay. You guys should be able to sing along to this one.
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I got left a good job in the city. Workin' for the man every night and day. But I never lost,
00:40:18.320
come in and sleepin'. Workin' out the way things might have been. Big wheels keep on turnin'. I said,
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rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' on a river. I said, rollin', rollin', rollin' on a river. Two, three, four.
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They left a good job in the city. Workin' for the man in the city.
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Workin' for the man. I left a good job in the city.
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I mean, I like that song and I think I fell in love with that song when I heard Tina Turner sing it.
00:44:13.760
And I want to show you a clip, I mean, Tina Turner, it's one of her signature songs, even though she didn't write it.
00:44:19.440
The raw energy, the showmanship, the entertainment, just the talent, the power, it's one of the greatest rock and roll performances of all time to see her do that.
00:44:31.580
And she's done it 20 times, you can find it online.
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Let me just give you a taste of one performance.
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I just chose this at random and sent it to Olivia, just grabbed it off YouTube.
00:44:40.400
I don't want to play too much of it, but give me a minute or 90 seconds of Tina Turner just rocking to Proud Mary.
00:44:56.820
You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us.
00:45:24.060
But we're going to take the beginning of this song and do it easy.
00:45:37.820
And we're rolling, ooh, rolling, ooh, rolling on the river.
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Now we're rolling about the way the same might have been.
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And we're all about the way the same might have been.
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I tell you, unless you were a paraplegic, you would be on your feet.
00:46:46.700
This song, there's something about it and the way Tina Turner plays it.
00:47:02.860
Till I hissed the ride on the rim of old queen.
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You know, one of my favorite roles for Tina Turner was when she played, I forget the name
00:48:13.700
So when Tamera Leach and Dwayne played that song, I mean, I was trying to behave.
00:48:19.880
Plus, I'm 51, so I don't want people to make fun of me for bouncing around too much in
00:48:34.380
Anyway, one of my favorite things that Tina Turner did was so unexpected was she played,
00:48:37.980
I forget the name of, like some queen rebel or something in Mad Max with Mel Gibson.
00:48:47.500
Imagine what that would have been, like filming Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson and
00:48:54.280
Just play a minute of that and then we'll get back to business.
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I just wanted to indulge my love for Tina Turner there.
00:50:20.140
But I think it still holds up just for sheer entertainment value, drama, and the Mad Max dystopian.
00:50:28.100
I mean, by the way, Mad Max Fury Road is a great movie, too.
00:50:34.880
And it's a reminder of how many amazing things Mel Gibson did.
00:50:41.560
And he has had a few outbursts, granted, that were quite rude.
00:50:45.140
And some could describe his outbursts as racist, and I won't defend the outbursts themselves.
00:50:50.960
But I think he's a great filmmaker, a great artist.
00:50:53.740
I think he has strong ideas about freedom and about America.
00:50:59.360
And I think about him quite a lot when I think about the meaning of his movies, whether it was Braveheart or The Patriot or even Apocalypto or The Passion of the Christ.
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I mean, he was in some movies that are just like junk food.
00:51:16.760
Like, he was in, what's the one where he, oh, shoot, I can't remember.
00:51:26.500
But I think he's actually a meaningful guy in Hollywood who actually thinks.
00:51:31.160
Well, listen, I want to tell you a change that we're making at our daily roundup.
00:51:38.760
What I mean by that is the live stream, which we've been doing pretty much every day from 1 to 2 Eastern, we're going to do it just on Fridays now.
00:51:48.920
We started the daily live streams during the depths of the pandemic when there was an enormous demand for news.
00:51:59.920
And we weren't supplying enough of the news in our prepared videos and in my nightly show on Rebel News Plus.
00:52:07.080
And so every day I would sit here and I would talk over the daily stats and the daily lockdown.
00:52:18.160
First of all, there was an enormous demand, but a tiny supply of contrarian news and views.
00:52:22.780
Second of all, in terms of what we were allowed to do, remember, we were all locked down.
00:52:36.740
But being in the office, this was a way we could still do great journalism from the set.
00:52:42.460
And finally, and not unimportantly, when YouTube had not yet demonetized us, we were making about 500 bucks or more per day in Super Chats.
00:52:57.260
So it was a commercially important project for us to do, especially given that we take no government money and YouTube had demonetized our regular ads.
00:53:07.840
But the live stream in recent years is not those things.
00:53:12.460
It's we're not facing a daily news crisis, although we are, you know, there's always things happening.
00:53:27.980
And I see someone has just chipped in $50, which is incredible.
00:53:32.320
And I want to say thanks to Stefan Aug for 50 bucks.
00:53:37.460
Great to see you engaging on True Social and Rumble.
00:53:45.400
And Bess Araba chips in 20 bucks and says, love the show.
00:53:58.280
I watch the live stream and I see David Menzies on the live stream.
00:54:05.360
But I can't help but thinking David needs to be out in the field doing news in the field.
00:54:10.140
And when I see Alexa on the live stream, I think there's so much news in Montreal on the streets right now.
00:54:17.440
And other reporters who were not hired to be pundits or commentators have been pressed into service to keep the daily live stream going.
00:54:26.760
And after thinking about it for some time, I've decided that those rebel talents should be deployed on other journalism.
00:54:35.900
Now, our dear friend Sheila Gunn-Reed is based at home.
00:54:43.360
And she is a great pundit and commentator, always has been.
00:54:47.600
So our new thinking is that every Friday, Sheila will host the live stream.
00:54:54.600
She may have guests, but typically she will run through the highlights of the week.
00:54:59.520
And she's in a position to know those because she's our chief reporter.
00:55:07.440
So every Friday, Sheila will host a one-hour live stream, sort of reviewing the best of the week.
00:55:14.640
And we will still have ad hoc live stream if there is an emergency, if there is some huge breaking news, and for certain events like elections.
00:55:28.600
They're very successful, both financially and in terms of viewership.
00:55:35.100
But on any given day, we will have our reporters out doing reporting.
00:55:42.900
And I think that's an important thing for Rebel News.
00:55:45.940
I look around the independent news space and I look at our colleagues and our competitors.
00:55:52.020
And some of our colleagues and competitors do live streams, do commentaries, do chats.
00:55:59.880
But I think the thing that makes Rebel News special and different is our emphasis on on-the-ground video reporting.
00:56:11.300
I mean, think of David Menzies, and I'll mention him because he's done the live stream so much.
00:56:15.200
David Menzies shines when he is at a rugby game for a transgender rugby player who's smashing women.
00:56:26.420
And he's getting the candid comments from everyone there.
00:56:30.980
David Menzies is at his best when he's at a pro-Hamas rally.
00:56:37.880
When David was out there, by the way, that had hundreds of thousands of views.
00:56:42.180
Actually, I think that video had a million views because it was so amazing.
00:56:47.180
In this case, there was a male rugby player named Ash.
00:57:00.440
Don't you think that that is the proper use of David's time?
00:57:04.120
Remember when David went out there in Mississauga to a place we call Gaza Plaza?
00:57:12.340
And met a young woman who was wearing machine gun earrings and machine gun shirt and saying
00:57:29.580
And don't you think that that journalism is not only where David shines, but that's
00:57:55.460
So obviously, I'm not criticizing pundits, but pundits, by definition, chew over material
00:58:03.880
that a primary news gathering journalist got first.
00:58:07.380
A pundit is sort of a secondhand dealer in ideas.
00:58:11.180
But the person on the ground filming is the firsthand reporter.
00:58:17.220
As I said in my speech at Rebel News Live last weekend, the greatest source of bias in news
00:58:30.420
I mentioned earlier, I was at the event with Pierre Polyev yesterday.
00:58:33.260
There were six journalists from the regime media.
00:58:35.500
Not a single one of them asked any questions about Polyev's speech.
00:58:40.300
Not a single one of them asked any question that I think an ordinary Canadian would care
00:58:45.520
There was all their own vendettas or their own beats.
00:58:54.240
And so when Rebel News goes and shows things on the ground, that's how you tell the other
00:59:00.140
Not sitting in front of a green screen or in a studio and opining on what someone else reported,
00:59:06.200
because then you're giving the real power to the CBCs and the CTVs of the world, because
00:59:10.520
you're actually letting them choose your subject.
00:59:12.800
This is a very long way of me saying, Rebel News is going to stick to our knitting.
00:59:20.040
If you ask me what David Menzies does best, the answer is he goes out into the world and
00:59:25.680
he finds amazing people doing crazy and fascinating things, and he lets them have their say and
00:59:32.620
If you were to ask me what Alexa Lavoie does best, I'd say she commands the province of
00:59:40.880
Quebec, whether it's Roxham Road or the crazy Antifa protesters in Montreal.
00:59:45.620
That's Alexa Lavoie's highest use to journalism.
00:59:51.580
Not, I mean, listen, I love hearing both of their thoughts about the world as pundits, but
00:59:56.520
I don't want them taking out a swath of the middle of the day to be a pundit.
01:00:01.760
We will still give you the live stream experience that you like every Friday when Sheila Gunn-Reed
01:00:08.780
And we will do live streams on an emergency basis, as we have for years, and we'll do
01:00:14.160
live streams when there is an election afoot or some other momentous occasion.
01:00:19.400
But Rebel News, especially in the post-pandemic world, will be on the streets.
01:00:25.460
And I can tell you, as someone who lives in Toronto, that there is an enormous amount of
01:00:30.080
news on the street every single day because the pro-Hamas activists have taken to the streets
01:00:36.500
and so far, police and prosecutors have not stopped them.
01:00:40.920
Show for a second the shutting down of the major highway in Toronto.
01:00:58.540
We just wanted to show solidarity, and we're going to be on our way.
01:01:02.260
Remember, your brothers and sisters in Palestine, and to say that we will never, ever give an
01:01:09.900
When they die, young brothers and sisters like yourself, who are so concerned about a matter
01:01:20.960
Because as long as we live, and as long as we breathe air, Palestine will never, ever be
01:01:27.800
forgotten, and this is the message that we send clearly to the Zionist Israeli regime.
01:01:35.240
No matter where we are, even if we are at the other side of the world, or the other side
01:01:40.440
of anywhere, Palestine will never, ever be taken away from our hearts, because Palestine
01:01:52.800
I mean, look at what, that is a, I think that's the Gardner Expressway in Toronto, correct
01:01:59.220
It's an absolutely essential major street, and you can see this was a carefully scripted,
01:02:06.160
Drones in the sky, still photographs from the sky, or I mean, this was a production, and
01:02:13.500
you can hear, and this gets back to my question that I put to Pierre Pauly of, who is that man
01:02:19.460
who is obviously speaking with a foreign accent, is he a Canadian citizen, or is he one of those
01:02:26.100
700 agents of Iran, or is he here as a guest in some way, as a tourist, or on a student visa
01:02:32.820
or a temporary work visa, and what is he doing shutting down this critical infrastructure for
01:02:40.720
They brought in martial law when the truckers honked their horns.
01:02:44.400
My point, though, in showing this video now is, where is the news?
01:02:53.160
And we will go to get the news, and we will show you the news that we think is important,
01:02:57.800
not the news that CBC, CTV, or the rest of the regime media thinks is important.
01:03:01.960
And that is our emphasis as Rebel News, gathering the news from the streets, and frankly, around the world.
01:03:09.080
If you want commentary, you'll get it every Friday from Sheila Gunn-Reed on the live stream,
01:03:20.700
Obviously, if you're watching the live stream, that tells me you like it, maybe even you love it,
01:03:25.760
But as the Rebel commander, it is my belief that we must be on the streets, not just in Toronto and Montreal,
01:03:35.780
but in Calgary and Edmonton and Vancouver and Ottawa.
01:03:38.920
And each of those cities I just listed does have a Rebel in it, as well as Avi Yamini in Melbourne.
01:03:44.980
When I think back to the most successful journalistic moments that I have had in the nearly nine years of Rebel News,
01:03:53.240
none of them have been me sitting at a desk giving you my views.
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All of them have been me in the field engaging, interacting, especially with opponents,
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whether it was Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, or Greta Thunberg, both of whom we encountered at Davos,
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or whether it's Sheila Gunn-Reed at the UN Global Warming Conferences,
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or Avi Yamini on the streets of the protests and the lockdown in Melbourne,
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or Alexa Lavoie challenging Justin Trudeau at the leaders' debates.
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Our golden moments have not been when we sit in the comfort of our living rooms or our studios chattering.
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The best moments of Rebel News are when we are out there engaging with the news
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and then sometimes trying to do something about it to make a difference.
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That's what Rebel News is going to do going forward.
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I thank you for your loyal viewership of our live stream.
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I invite you to watch every Friday when Sheila Gunn-Reed does it.
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I invite you, if you want more commentary, to subscribe to Rebel News Plus,
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where Sheila and I have our shows behind the paywall.
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And we need that paywall, because that's how we pay the bills around here.
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And that $8 a month charge, like I say, it's probably not a lot of dough to you, but it really adds up for us.
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We will occasionally have other live streams as events warrant.
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But until then, look for rebels on video and look for them on the streets.
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So it is particularly troubling to see, even though we are seeing a rise of right-wing rhetoric in the United States,
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with MAGA conservatives, across Europe, in certain corners, of right-wing politicians and parties,
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starting to pull their support for Ukraine, starting to parrot Russian disinformation and misinformation and propaganda,
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that suddenly the Conservative Party of Canada would choose to not stand with Ukraine in something that they need,
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And to use the frankly absurd excuse, that it's because Ukraine will be bringing in a price on pollution in the coming years.
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The real story is the rise of a right-wing, American MAGA-influenced thinking
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that has made Canadian Conservatives, who used to be among the strongest defenders of Ukraine,
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I'll admit it, turn their backs on something Ukraine needs in its hour of need.
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That is the danger of the rise of the right-wing influence that is feeling its impact in Canada.
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That's what not just Ukrainian Canadians, but all Canadians should be concerned about
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when the Conservative Party of Canada and Pierre Polyev turn their backs on history,
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turns their backs on the international rules-based order
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and our support for the UN Charter and territorial integrity.
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It is of real concern and should be of concern to all of us
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because we're seeing that spiking up all around the world.