Free speech has had a good few months, but now the empire is striking back. It s June 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show: He s ready for freedom! The Daily Wire, Elon Musk, and calls for censorship in Europe and Canada. And then we have an interview with Mark Morano about a crazy plan to kill hundreds of thousands of cattle in the name of climate action.
00:05:26.820Yeah, someone's like, someone is neither. There's something else. Is that...
00:05:30.520He's saying we have never seen things like those. For a man, he has a penis. For a woman, he has a vagina. So we know this is a lady, this is a man.
00:05:50.620What if it's a woman with a... What if it's a woman with a penis?
00:07:24.900What other kinds of answers have you gotten?
00:07:31.400A lot of, like, this, where you're not answering, and I've gotten a lot of that, so...
00:07:34.400I think it's interesting that you say that some of the people you've interviewed have been reluctant to answer it,
00:07:40.400and I think that has a lot to do with the questions that preceded it and the way that you've conducted yourself in the interview.
00:07:45.900Those are outtakes from the larger movie, What is a Woman?
00:07:49.900And Daily Wire made the decision to air the movie in full on Twitter.
00:07:55.400Now, Twitter is taking full movie-length videos.
00:07:59.400So this was a dramatic moment for Twitter to have a feature-length film put up on it of that caliber.
00:08:05.900And also a big statement from Daily Wire about their belief in freedom.
00:08:09.900Because, remember, one of the most dangerous censorship hot buttons on Twitter for years was the transgender issue.
00:08:18.400If you misgender someone, that is, call someone who was born a man and then transitions to be a woman,
00:08:24.400if you call them a man, if you call them the gender they say they are not,
00:08:28.400that is such a serious offense you can have your account suspended.
00:08:31.900If you also deadname someone, which is use the name their mother gave them as opposed to whatever adopted trans name they've taken on,
00:08:40.900that was the harshest censorship in all of Twitter.
00:08:45.400More even than, I don't know, vaccine skepticism.
00:08:49.900And so imagine taking a film called What is a Woman and putting that on Twitter that used to turn off your account if you just misgendered someone.
00:10:04.900You could see him operating in real time.
00:10:07.900And by the end of the day, mere hours later, in a very dramatic day, all the throttling was removed from the tweet.
00:10:17.900It was allowed to go viral, not just viral, but super viral.
00:10:21.900And in fact, at the end of the day, Elon Musk himself weighed in saying that every parent should watch it.
00:10:27.900So it went from something that was being banned, throttled, defamed as hate speech, to one of the most viral tweets of all time that the proprietor of Twitter himself said everyone should watch.
00:10:40.900There were a couple of staff exits over this kerfuffle, but I don't think Elon Musk cares much about that.
00:10:47.900Last I checked, more than 150 million views of that movie.
00:11:53.900Maybe it would have had 20 million views, like our viral video of the Pfizer CEO when Avi Amini and I were walking with him in Switzerland.
00:12:01.900But to get almost 10 times that number is just so stunning and an enormous success to the Daily Wire and for free speech.
00:12:10.900Such an important battle fought and won.
00:12:24.900You'd better volunteer for it or else.
00:12:27.900Well, Twitter announced that it's going to be leaving.
00:12:30.900At least that's what this report says.
00:12:32.900And here's the European Union Commissioner Vera Jourova said Twitter's compliance with the new Digital Services Act entering force on August 25th will be scrutinized vigorously and earnestly.
00:13:03.900But make no mistake, by leaving the code, Twitter has attracted a lot of attention and its actions and compliance with EU law will be scrutinized vigorously and urgently.
00:13:15.900Now, Vera is a Czech bureaucrat and she was elected by no one to the European Union.
00:13:23.900She grew up under communist censorship.
00:13:26.900But now she does it for the EU, not the USSR.
00:13:43.900Twitter chose confrontation on EU disinformation code.
00:13:49.900Twitter chose confrontation by exiting a voluntary EU disinformation code of practice that lays ground rules for an incoming European law on digital services.
00:14:00.900A European Union commissioner said Monday.
00:14:04.900We believe this is a mistake of Twitter.
00:14:11.900Commissioner Vera Jourova told journalists.
00:14:14.900She said Twitter's compliance with the new Digital Services Act entering force on August 25th will be scrutinized vigorously and urgently.
00:14:24.900The European Commission announced May 27th that Twitter had decided to leave the code of practice to which other major online platforms such as Google, Microsoft and TikTok continue to adhere.
00:14:36.900The Voluntary Pact, which was launched in 2018 and strengthened last year with input from industry players, contains over three dozen pledges such as better cooperation with fact checkers and not promoting actors that distribute disinformation.
00:14:51.900It serves as a test feeder to the DSA, which will impose legal obligations on big platforms and impose penalties that could go up to six percent of a company's global revenues in case of violation.
00:15:04.900Since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, it has cut more than 80% of the workforce and got rid of many moderators who vetted content for disinformation and harmful messages.
00:15:18.900Jourova said, I can't predict what conclusions the commission might make about Twitter's possible distribution of disinformation once the DSA comes into force.
00:15:27.900But she said that signatories in the code of practice would have an easier situation because they would already have cleared the burden of proof.
00:15:34.900There is an interplay between the code of practice, which is a voluntary agreement, and the Digital Services Act, which is enforceable.
00:15:41.900In other words, we're going to go a lot hard on you.
00:16:08.900I wonder what they make of the Daily Wire's movie.
00:16:11.900Here's a Wall Street Journal story on the war against Twitter.
00:16:15.900Twitter to face stress tests this month, top EU tech regulator says, during Silicon Valley tour.
00:16:21.900EU team will review social media platforms content moderation to measure compliance with new law.
00:16:28.900So this is just another take on the same story.
00:16:30.900The first was from the Association France Press.
00:16:33.900And this is from the Wall Street Journal.
00:16:35.900European Union regulators plan to subject Twitter to a stress test to determine how well it complies with Europe's new digital content law.
00:16:43.900A top EU tech regulator said, ramping up the bloc's preparations for enforcing the West's most far reaching digital content law.
00:16:51.900Hopefully it will just apply to Europe.
00:16:53.900Like right now, Turkey or Pakistan have extreme censorship rules and Twitter has to comply to survive in those countries.
00:17:01.900But this rule seems to imply that they would block out Twitter in all of Europe and they would claim the right to find Twitter for revenues it makes around the world.
00:17:11.900I'll keep reading. Look at this. This is my favorite line.
00:17:16.900No one knows, but the Wall Street Journal uses a word.
00:17:18.900A team of roughly five to ten digital specialists from the EU plan to put Twitter and possibly other companies through their content policing paces during a visit to San Francisco in late June.
00:17:30.900Terry Breton, the Blocks Commissioner for the Internal Markets, said in an interview.
00:17:36.900Do you go to school to be that? To be a Twitter specialist? Or is that just something you say?
00:17:40.900The test is voluntary. It's another voluntary test. Wink, wink.
00:17:44.900And Twitter has agreed to be subjected to it.
00:17:47.900It won't carry any fines or other enforcement consequences.
00:17:50.900It will offer companies a dry run for how the EU's Digital Services Act or DSA will be enforced.
00:17:55.900Twitter officials in Europe and the U.S. didn't respond to requests for comment.
00:18:00.900Twitter owner Elon Musk has said the company plans to comply with the EU law.
00:18:04.900The law takes effect in late summer, empowering European regulators led by Breton to levy a maximum penalty of 6% of a company's annual revenue.
00:18:12.900In case of violations, the EU has the power to block a service in the case of certain repeated infringement.
00:18:39.900But Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, they're all American.
00:18:49.900I don't know if Europe is good at creating social media companies, but they certainly seek to be world leaders at regulating and censoring them, are they?
00:18:56.900They want to regulate the West because maybe they don't have any of their own.
00:19:01.900The EU team will also look at why certain content might slip through the cracks, he said, citing a hypothetical example of, quote, fake news that caused disturbances, but was promoted because it generated virality and advertising.
00:19:16.900Did you have enough moderators beforehand?
00:19:30.900Disinformation, fake news that goes viral.
00:19:33.900Does that include the fake news that the CBC and other state broadcasters spread, and politicians mainly, about the origin of the coronavirus?
00:19:44.900Does it include the fake news about the efficacy of masks?
00:19:48.900First they didn't work, then they did.
00:20:00.900Or what about the vaccines themselves?
00:20:02.900We were told were safe and effective and long lasting, but they had to literally change the definition of vaccines to even call these short-term therapeutics vaccines.
00:20:31.900The Privy Council, in an access to information memo, proposed a legal requirement that the CBC broadcast government messaging in a national crisis.
00:21:29.900In the past, services such as producing and broadcasting public service announcements in times of national crisis were covered under previous agreements with CBC Radio Canada, said the report.
00:21:41.900Currently, the government of Canada pays the CBC and Radio Canada like any other media to air ads, but there could be new possibilities to create partnerships to respond to future crises.
00:21:52.900You know, how much closer could their partnerships be?
00:21:57.900And like I say, the CBC literally called the truckers Putin terrorists.
00:22:04.900They would use any crisis, whatever they say as a crisis, to command government control.
00:22:11.900Perhaps the government of Canada could explore legislative amendments to the Quarantine Act to ensure that in the future federally funded organizations like the CBC Radio Canada support communications efforts during a national health crisis like the CBC, sorry, like the COVID-19 pandemic, wrote staff.
00:22:27.900This could include partnerships and the provision of free placement.
00:22:32.900If you think no one trusts the media now, and very few people do, well, this is a good recipe just to finish it off, isn't it?
00:22:40.900Yeah, like I say, freedom of speech is having some very good moments in recent months, but I warn you, the empire is striking back.
00:22:47.900Stay with us for more on these eternal crises that the left is fomenting with our friend Mark Moreno.
00:23:09.900You'll never convince me or half the world otherwise, but other than dogs and let's put cats aside because that's a very divisive subject.
00:23:17.900I think something that we can all agree on is that cattle are humanity's best friend and domesticated cattle have been our friends for centuries, for millennia.
00:23:30.900Whether it's meat or milk and dairy or leather, it's the cows that have helped civilization grow.
00:23:38.900In fact, the Latin word for cow, pecus, is rooted in pecuniary or impecunious.
00:23:45.900If you don't have cattle, you don't have wealth.
00:23:47.900So tied to our civilization is the humble cow.
00:23:56.900In fact, the country of India rather reveres cattle.
00:24:01.900And imagine my shock when I see the news out of Ireland that they are planning to cull, to kill, to euthanize hundreds of thousands of cattle for no reason other than cattle emit greenhouse gases.
00:24:20.900And by that, when they chew and digest the grass they eat, they burp and release some methane.
00:24:27.900And apparently killing hundreds of thousands of cattle in Ireland, which isn't even a speck in the world's emanations of greenhouse gases.
00:24:38.900Apparently that is the moral outcome, so much so that their government seems dead set on enacting it.
00:24:45.900Well, if it's an idea in Ireland, you better believe it's an idea elsewhere.
00:24:50.900Joining us now to talk about this insanity is our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.
00:25:30.900The acceleration of this agenda for us, the unwashed masses, has nothing I've ever seen.
00:25:37.900It's almost as if they think their time is limited, and they're rushing all of this through, almost all of it, without any vote of democracy.
00:25:44.900They're going after collapse of energy, food, transportation, and yes, free speech as well.
00:25:50.900If you dare to complain, it's immediate misinformation.
00:25:53.900But the animal thing goes back to the net-zero commitments.
00:25:57.900This has been on the table for decades.
00:25:59.900I was working in the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
00:26:02.9002007, I believe, they had the report about how cow emissions were more damaging to the planet than the entire transportation sector.
00:27:36.900This was, by the way, the German bill, the daily newspaper, literally on their huge article.
00:27:42.900Only one sausage per month for everyone.
00:27:44.900The German Nutrition Society, I'm sure steeped in the whole climate agenda, corporate wokeness and the whole net zero agenda,
00:27:54.900is now recommending over a 90 percent reduction in daily meat eating.
00:27:58.900And, by the way, when these unelected boards recommend something, usually it's bureaucrats that are fast to impose this on every single society.
00:28:07.900And it's the same thing we saw during COVID.
00:28:10.900If it's a recommendation by Lord Fauci or a public health official, then, by golly, it's the law.
00:28:15.900And there's never a vote on it either.
00:28:17.900And what they're doing in Germany is what they're doing in France.
00:28:21.900And what they're doing in France and Germany is what they're doing in the Netherlands, is what they're doing in what they did in Sri Lanka, what they're doing in Australia.
00:28:29.900They're decimating Australian farming.
00:28:31.900They're doing the same thing now in the United States.
00:28:33.900In the United States, John Kerry announced last week, our U.S. climate envoy announced that they were going to be coming after agriculture, that agriculture had to be part of the climate.
00:28:43.900He doesn't even call it climate change.
00:28:48.900So what this means, and we're seeing it now, EPA, Al Gore's group is pushing these methane restrictions.
00:28:54.900They're going after animal agriculture, period.
00:28:58.900Bill Gates' stated goal in being America's single largest farmland owner is to make us all eat what he calls synthetic meat.
00:29:06.900Now, depending on how you want to define it, that's the vegetable oil process things.
00:29:10.900It's also Bill Gates and Richard Branson have invested billions in this lab-grown meat that's grown in a steel vat in a laboratory from the stem cells and then additives.
00:29:20.900Then get this as printed on a 3D printer as the final coup d'etat, final end of the thing.
00:30:30.900This is all animal agriculture that's done for these net zero goals.
00:30:35.900They're claiming methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which in certain laboratory settings it can be.
00:30:40.900But in terms of the climate, it's been called the irrelevant greenhouse gas.
00:30:43.900They're going after the nitrogen fertilizer, the high yield agriculture, claiming that turns the nitrous oxide and it's going to destroy the planet.
00:30:49.900Now, we've been farming for thousands of years, right?
00:30:52.900And suddenly, now, we can no longer farm.
00:30:55.900The German daily, the Bild newspaper, actually quoted the lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture.
00:31:01.900And they said, even if this plan of 90 plus percent meat reduction were to fully complied with, you'd have less than one percent point closer for Germany to reach the climate goals.
00:31:12.900In other words, they're going after the middle class.
00:31:15.900They're going after the general public.
00:31:18.900They're not going after the same as with France with the two hour flight, two and a half hour flight bans.
00:31:25.900They're not going after the private jets.
00:31:26.900They're not going after the rich one percent.
00:31:28.900And by the way, in case you're worried about all these sacrifices we're making and energy and transportation, giving up our gas powered cars, giving up plentiful food and plentiful energy.
00:31:37.900Prince King Charles announced yesterday that Buckingham Palace, as a show of solidarity with the sacrifice needed to fight climate change, they're going to now lower the temperature in their swimming pool, turn the heated pools down a little cooler.
00:32:34.900The holodomor, which is a Ukrainian word for famine, for a manufactured, fabricated, manmade famine as a weapon.
00:32:47.900I don't know if you know the history, but Joseph Stalin forcibly collectivized the farms in Ukraine, Ukraine, the breadbasket of the region.
00:32:57.900And it was such a disaster, this forced collectivization, that there was a mass manmade Soviet enforced famine that killed literally millions of people in the name of this abstract ideology of communist Soviet farms.
00:33:15.900And I want to talk to James Lindsay more about this.
00:33:18.900But I think he's saying this ideologically driven, centrally planned, anti-human ideology in the name of climate now or whatever may actually have the same result in actually create famines.
00:33:38.900I mean, some might say that's sort of what happened in Sri Lanka.
00:33:44.900But why would we think our authoritarian centrally planned economy meddlers today are any more or why are they any different from Stalin's five year plan experts, Soviet experts who claimed they were doing it for a noble reason, too?
00:34:09.900And not just Stalin's five year plan, but there have been analysis by historian Helen Raleigh, who talked about Mao's great leap forward in China with aggressive deadlines, with massive targets, with a rush.
00:34:23.900And we're all in this together mentality, forcing this sort of transformation of Chinese agriculture.
00:34:28.900And what happened? Millions starved, mass starvation under Mao.
00:34:53.900When they have a vision, a net zero vision, a Green New Deal, a climate utopia, it is a Garden of Eden, utopian vision of the world.
00:35:02.900That's going to compete with a free market private property one that's going to have warts and all.
00:35:07.900Those things are, you're never going to really win that, especially in the hearts and minds of these activists, because they're seeing a utopian vision that's not based on reality.
00:35:16.900And you're arguing from a reality position, so you're going to lose.
00:35:20.900Their vision is going to win out a lot of hearts and minds.
00:35:22.900And that's one of the ways they can recruit people, because they lay this out.
00:35:26.900And it's incredible, because we're watching it happen throughout history.
00:35:31.900Our ruling class, governing class, has literally invented reasons why the rest of us can't be free.
00:35:37.900We've seen it, whether it's terrorism, wartime rationing, and sometimes you could say it was justified on very short timescales, particularly a wartime.
00:35:46.900But then you see the war on terror, how that led to essentially a lot of the COVID stuff with domestic surveillance and declaring, like as you saw with your own prime minister, declaring Canadian citizens to be terrorists for trucker revolt.
00:36:00.900So what they've done is they believe somehow that we're in a unique time in history, but they're not.
00:36:06.900They're just following the tyrannical dictates of every previous historical example of declaring a crisis and taking over.
00:37:22.900They're building more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined, not just in China, but they're building them around the world.
00:37:27.900And I can't get over these pig farm urban skyscrapers.
00:37:31.900I don't know if you've seen these images, Mark.
00:37:33.900Literally skyscrapers where each floor of the skyscraper is a thousands and thousands of pigs in a pig farm.
00:37:45.900I don't eat pork myself, but that's, you know, a religious thing.
00:37:49.900China couldn't be going further, faster, harder on emissions.
00:37:54.900And imagine Ireland or the Netherlands saying we are going to shut down our farms out of good faith here while China is going full tilt without criticism.
00:38:06.900But there's so many, when you reference to the Great Leap Forward, Mao thought every Chinese family could have a little steel mill in their backyard.
00:38:18.900They had to have a little brazier to make iron.
00:38:22.900Mao sent intellectuals into the countryside to till agriculture when the land was still frozen solid.
00:38:31.900And what do these things have to do? These super wise, super expert VVIPs with their utopian idea who are so stupid, they don't know how it really works.
00:38:42.900Stalin probably had well-meaning PhD experts on farming.
00:38:48.900But the peasant farmers in Ukraine actually knew how to do it.
00:38:51.900Mao probably had experts saying, oh, you see, we can get these little foundries in the backyard of every Chinese family.
00:38:58.900No, that's not how it works. And here we have our own super smart idiots, intellectual yet idiot, as Al Taleb says, who have no bloody clue how it works and are going to wreck everything.
00:39:11.900I feel like we're about to relive some very dark chapters of history.
00:39:16.900Go back to you, Mark. Sorry, I took up so much time. Back to you.
00:39:18.900No, that was absolutely spot on. I mean, the Great Reset, the World Economic Forum, one of their visions is you'll know nothing, be happy.
00:39:24.900But they actually have a detailed analysis of this. You'll live in a place that during the day will be rented by a business.
00:39:30.900And so you'll get free rent and then you won't even own appliances because you can just order.
00:39:35.900You'll be able to order up your appliance like a blender on an app and a drone will come deliver.
00:39:39.900You'll use it for an hour and then you'll put it out and then the drone will take it away.
00:39:43.900They actually believe that they can plan these thousands, millions of interactions globally through their masterminding expertocracy.
00:39:51.900And this is if you look back at history and I don't I'm not going to be accused of Godwin's law, but particularly Germany is a good example is you have to look at how people fell prey to this.
00:40:03.900And it's because they're told these are the top, brightest people. These are experts. They know more than you.
00:40:08.900Think back to covid. You have a parent who's upset that their six year old is wearing a mask eight hours a day.
00:40:15.900Well, they go to a school board and complain and the school board's like, wait, what are you?
00:40:19.900You're a plumber. You're you're not an expert. We have epidemiologists with PhDs and 30 years government experience telling us that kids need these masks to be safe.
00:40:28.900Who the hell are you to tell us about public health and what your kids should or shouldn't do? That's that mentality.
00:40:34.900And if you go back, I think it was March 9th. I was on your show in March 9th of 2020, Ezra.
00:40:39.900I was trying to lay out this vision because I saw all the same things happen in the climate debate, the exact same debate.
00:40:45.900They used covid and then they were so excited about how well covid went.
00:40:49.900And the words of the UK House of Lords member, he actually said it was amazing how compliant the public was.
00:40:55.900They've immediately shifted over to climate now. And this is where we're getting this energy restrictions, the food restrictions, the meat restrictions and the travel restrictions happening right now.
00:41:06.900And by the way, everything we're reading about the last week or so minor France, two and a half hour flight ban.
00:41:11.900They originally Greenpeace is calling for a six hour EU wide flight ban in this most latest example of the 200000 cows in in Ireland.
00:41:21.900They're talking about a million cows and some of the proposals. So this is just to wet the public's compliance and to soften us up.
00:41:28.900Their plans are much deeper. I've had so many people come back and say, well, what's the big deal? I don't fly under two hours anyway. It's too short.
00:41:34.900It's like, no, the big deal is they just banned it in the name of the climate and they've admitted it won't even affect emissions.
00:41:40.900They're you're not in charge anymore. That's the whole point. They're locking you down. This is what a climate lockdown looks like.
00:41:47.900This is what the great reset looks like in action in 2023. We're not talking about theoretical scaremongering. We're living in it right now, Ezra.
00:41:57.900Yeah. Let me come back one more time because you say so many interesting things, Mark.
00:42:02.900I think some people are well-meaning but deeply misguided.
00:42:07.900And these are the people who have all their plans and calculations and they think they know how to farm.
00:42:13.900They think they know how to do energy, but they just have never lived in the real world and they've forgotten certain things that they didn't check.
00:42:21.900So there are some well-meaning idiots, but then there are people who are not idiots.
00:42:27.900They are just simply malicious. They know exactly what they're doing.
00:42:30.900They saw how the covid lockdowns worked splendidly, not to stop covid, but to give government power.
00:42:39.900And so they're inspired now with climate lockdowns.
00:42:42.900And you made me think of something and I want to end on this because you and I could go back and forth all day because yes, every time you say something, I want to reply in some way.
00:42:51.900I would like to read a paragraph from an old book written by a French politician and economist born about 200 years ago.
00:42:59.900His name is Frederick Bastiat and he was a real thinker about freedom and economics.
00:43:05.900And he he wrote this about Paris, which has always been one of the world's great cities.
00:43:10.900And it's a story about spontaneous order versus planned chaos.
00:43:17.900It's a story about central control versus allowing ordinary people to make decisions.
00:43:22.900A commissar of agriculture or thousands of individual individual farmers.
00:43:26.900Let me read just a little bit from Bastiat.
00:43:28.900And I know that sounds high minded, but I've remembered this since I read it as a teenager.
00:43:33.900On coming to Paris for a visit, I said to myself, here are a million human beings who would all die in a few days if supplies of all sorts did not flow into this great metropolis.
00:43:46.900It staggers the imagination to try to comprehend the vast multiplicity of objects that must pass through its gates tomorrow if its inhabitants are to preserve from the horrors of famine, insurrection and pillage.
00:43:58.900And yet all are sleeping peacefully at this moment without being disturbed for a single instant by the idea of so frightful a prospect.
00:44:06.900What then is the resourceful and secret power that governs the amazing regularity of such complicated movements?
00:44:12.900A regularity in which everyone has such implicit faith, although its prosperity and its very life depend on it.
00:44:18.900That power is an absolute principle, the principle of free exchange.
00:44:24.900In fact, he goes on to talk about if one person or one team or one government tried to replicate the thousands, the millions of individual decisions and transactions, they would fail for sure.
00:44:40.900No one person knows enough, is smart enough, has good enough judgment.
00:44:44.900But you have a million people making individual decisions of how to get ahead and what to do and what's best for themselves.
00:44:52.900It's precisely because it's not centrally organized that Paris doesn't starve, whereas the Holodomor starved everyone.
00:45:00.900And what they're trying to do, Mark, is they're trying to centrally control not just millions, but billions.
00:45:08.900It's I don't want to seem alarmist, but if you're not scared about this, I think you're hitting the snooze button.
00:45:18.900All right. Well, last word. Let me just tie that theme in directly.
00:45:21.900What happened in the Netherlands, they ended up these climate compliance laws and Bloomberg News had an article on airline flights, cheap airlines, a thing of the past due to climate compliance laws.
00:45:31.900What happens is the small family run independent farmers get crushed up to twelve thousand in the Netherlands.
00:45:37.900The Netherlands would face just extinction if these rules come through.
00:45:41.900Who can absorb these costs? Big multilateral Bill Gates, China, equity asset firms.
00:45:47.900And all that's happening is it's a centralization of power.
00:45:51.900But keep in mind, this is a globalization of power.
00:45:54.900And that is what is so frightening, because it's a concentration of power in decision making and the fewer and fewer hands every day because no small business can keep up with the compliance regulations that they're going to hit, whether it was covid, whether it was climate or whether it's, you know, critical race or transgender.
00:46:13.900All of those things decimate the small businesses and subject them to all sorts of rules and lawsuits, et cetera, whereas the big corporate chains can afford it.
00:46:21.900So what we're seeing is a late stages. Some actually call it disaster capitalism.
00:46:27.900But I don't think it is anymore. I think it's now an oligarchy and corporatism that have taken over.
00:46:32.900And I think that's where we are headed. And, you know, we are literally now run by international corporations.
00:46:39.900That's where the power is. If you can talk to poor people in African nations now, they know the government doesn't even control these corporations anymore.
00:46:47.900And the corporations are working through things like the World Economic Forum through the U.N.
00:46:52.900They're getting their goals and agenda out and only they can absorb the costs and they're crushing their competition.
00:46:58.900This is why Exxon Mobil supported the Paris Agreement, because they could absorb in carbon trade.
00:47:05.900They can absorb the cost. This is why big companies support national health care and mandates, because they can absorb all the costs and the small companies can't.
00:47:13.900It's his late stage. And this is why. And this is I'll end with this. This is why the resurgence of guaranteed and minimum incomes have arrived.
00:47:22.900Even people like Elon Musk supporting it. That middle class is disappearing.
00:47:26.900You're going to have the wealthy ruling class and they're going to keep the peasants happy by a guaranteed income.
00:47:31.900That's where we are right now. Every day it's getting worse on every front.
00:47:37.900And of course, the biggest now is collapsing our transportation and food.
00:47:40.900But the transportation is interesting because going back to your last theme on China, Europe and the United States, Australia, we're getting decimated as we get more and more EV mandates.
00:47:50.900Guess who's taking over global car production? China. They've now passed the U.S., South Korea.
00:47:55.900South Korea. They're going to dominate just like everything else, just like when you walk in a Walmart, everything made in China.
00:48:00.900Pretty soon there'll be no such thing other than a Chinese car if we continue on this path.
00:48:04.900And I see no reason why we're not going to continue on this path.
00:48:07.900Yeah, well, certainly up here in Canada, Justin Trudeau couldn't be a more categorical asset of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:48:16.900I think that's becoming, unfortunately, is going to be his legacy.
00:48:21.900Well, Mark Morano, you and I could go another three rounds on this.
00:48:25.900I've been thinking of things I want to say, but I better cork it now or I'll never let you go.
00:48:30.900My friend, it's always so nice to see you.
00:48:32.900Folks, as you know, we have Mark on all the time and it's because he's the absolute best informed battler on these issues.
00:48:40.900His website, of course, is climatedepot.com, and we enjoy bumping into him at the global warming conferences when we go.
00:48:48.900We were not allowed into the last one in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
00:48:53.900That's the first global warming conference we have not attended since our company was started.
00:48:58.900We were told by lawyers in Cairo that the risk of arrest was simply too high, and I did not want our people to suffer that risk in a fairly authoritarian regime like that.
00:49:08.900But we will be at the next one with Mark.
00:49:32.900I was extremely angry reading the story of Blue Jay Anthony Bass, who foolishly apologized for his personal beliefs and comments.
00:49:39.900In present-day Canada, your beliefs cancel your ability to play special sports.
00:49:44.900First of all, the baseball team and stadium have no business in engaging in Pride Month or anything related.
00:49:50.900This has nothing to do with sports and baseball.
00:49:52.900The Toronto Star was quick to interject, saying Bass must go.
00:49:56.900And stating his advocating Bud Light and Target boycotts go against themes that do not comport with his religious beliefs.
00:50:03.900You know, there was a sports team in LA that not only declared it Pride Month, but celebrated Pride Month with an anti-Christian, I'm going to call it a hate group, because they say they're motivated by hate.
00:50:24.900And so they're drag queen activists who are gay, but the expression of their politics is anti-Catholic bigotry.
00:50:33.900And I'm not sure why that's any better than anti-Jewish bigotry or anti-Muslim or anti-Seek or anti-black bigotry or, frankly, anti-gay bigotry.
00:50:42.900And so this LA team, they did a tweet about it.
00:50:44.900They had a special day with this satanic anti-Catholic group.
00:50:48.900And then I guess they realized that Los Angeles actually has one of the largest Catholic communities in America because they're just thinking, oh, I hate that Catholic school mom who taught me 30 years ago when I went to Catholic school.
00:51:01.900No, the Catholics in LA are Latino immigrants who love their church and take it very seriously.
00:51:08.900And all of a sudden, and by the way, a lot of their players are Catholic, too.
00:51:12.900They miscalculated and they tried to patch that up.
00:51:15.900I see there's been some other crazy pride moments, too, that had them be walked back.
00:51:20.900I think it's always instructive to look at Twitter accounts from companies like BMW or Mercedes that during Pride Month make their Twitter account in the West rainbow flag-ish,
00:51:31.900but would never, never, never make their Twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia rainbow flag-ish.
00:51:53.900One more letter from Bike Infinity who says, hi, Ezra.
00:51:56.900I thought David Menzies crossed the line recently by entering a room of Halton School Board secondary school teachers for the purpose of accosting Mr. Lemieux.