EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism
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I m a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism - including: Did you know the stock price for Moderna is down about 30% in the last month? Why is that? Why are those greedy capitalists bailing on Moderna? And I ll take you through some little proof points that suggest maybe we can see the end of this nightmare.
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Hello, my friends. Today's podcast is a little different. I'm going to try and be optimistic
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and hopeful. I'm going to try and come up with reasons to think that maybe there's a light at
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the end of the tunnel that's just not another train. I'm going to give you a few examples,
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including I'll just give you one right now. Did you know the stock price for Moderna is down about
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30% in the last month? Why is that? Why are those greedy capitalists bailing on Moderna?
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Pfizer, too. I'll take you through some little proof points that suggest that maybe we can see
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the end of this nightmare. That's today's podcast. I'd like to invite you to see the video version of
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Tonight, I'm a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism. Let me see if I can
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persuade you. It's January 18th, and this is The Answer of the Vance Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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The story of the pandemic is how fast things went so badly and how little anybody or anything did
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about it. Canada's one of the worst examples. There's some atrocious misconduct in Australia,
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to be sure, but at least there are some institutions, some elected officials, some media, some judges
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there who are skeptical. Same in the United Kingdom, where significant wings of both the conservative
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government and the Labour opposition, including Jeremy Corbyn, have been skeptics of the lockdowns.
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Not so here in Canada. Every government and every opposition party in federal and every province
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are in lockstep. Every judge, every TV station, every doctor, because they've suspended the doctors
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who object. Every chamber of commerce, every official person. It really is this shocking 99% conformity
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from that historical picture of August Landmesser, the one German who didn't give Hitler the salute
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in that iconic picture. I think some people were stunned by what happened to us, almost in a state
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of shock. I don't think that was accidental. I think it was absolutely a psychological operation,
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a psyop. When all the world leaders start using the same hypnotic code words at the same time,
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build back better, the great reset, and all prescribe the same untested, unscientific responses
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to the virus in lockstep. They all use the same trick, two weeks to flatten the curve. They all
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swore by six feet of separation, even though the former head of the FDA himself says no one actually
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knows where that six feet or two meter advice came from. When they all say the same thing about masks,
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don't wear them. Then do wear them. Then the masks you've been wearing for the past year aren't good.
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And it's all a giant game of Simon Says, where they're all just repeating what the other one says.
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It's not science. It's something else that I don't think we've seen before, not in the free West
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anyways, not on this scale. And of course, the tech giants are key to it. It was a snow day in
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Toronto yesterday and again today. I get it. It really was a big blizzard. So the kids did school
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on their laptops by Zoom all across the city, which they've been doing for much of the past two years
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anyways. My point is, if it weren't for Zoom and laptops and broadband internet and all the other
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technologies, the half-baked, demoralizing, anti-social way of doing school from home,
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wouldn't have been possible. And schools would have been back in action in 2020. Tech provided a
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sneaky way for politicians to shut down schools with a half-hearted solution. Same thing with
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everything that closed from Parliament. The Parliament in the UK shut down briefly during the
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Great Plague hundreds of years ago. I think that shutdown was measured in weeks. They actually just
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moved the Parliament to Oxford from London. Trudeau has used Zoom and the other excuses to avoid
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and evade parliamentary oversight for two years. But by far the most important use of technology was
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the brainwashing effect of social media. You're bombarded by news and tweets and Instagram and Facebook
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posts around the clock. You're terrified. You're terrorized. And that's the point. And now they're using
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technology to foment hate against minorities, the unvaxxed. I'm not saying crowds can't go mad without
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the internet and social media and phones. I mean, Hitler managed to whip up people in the age of stadiums
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and newspapers and radio broadcasts and film reels, but nothing like this. It really was what Orwell wrote
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about in 1949 when he wrote his book in 1984 and imagined what he called telescreens. The telescreen received
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and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made about the level of a very low whisper
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would be picked up by it. Moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision,
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which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was, of course,
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no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. Orwell didn't foresee
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telescreens so small you carry them with you everywhere. You sleep with it next to you.
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You can actually be listened to at every given moment because the listening is done by a machine,
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by artificial intelligence, by the algorithm where you're constantly nudged towards approved content
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and away from banned content, which you might never see and which if you publish it yourself might
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never be seen by anyone. Nothing like it before. Social media and cell phones were bad enough before
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the pandemic. A source of mental illness, depending on your social media of choice. Watch Instagram,
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feel envy. Read Twitter, feel rage. They've conditioned us so well. So many people are so
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afraid and they will be long after the last lockdown is legally rescinded. The fear will remain. You can
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see it already. I tell you that without the media and especially social media, no one would have even
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known there was a pandemic. It really was equivalent to a bad flu season, except it was even more skewed to
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the very elderly. Average age of death, 80. Average number of underlying conditions, 4. I mean it would
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be unthinkable to have closed businesses and schools for such a disease before the true disease, the
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mind virus of media hypnosis was in place. But you've heard me say most of this before. I'm here today with
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a different point of view, at least just for today. I'm here to tell you that there are some little green
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shoots of hope. I mean, Orwell himself in 1984 wrote, if there was hope, it must lie in the proles. By
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proles, he meant the proletariat, the working class, ordinary people, not the ruling class. My previous
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point about mass hypnosis, mass fear-mongering through social media, through our cell phones, might blunt
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any belief that the proles could save us, but I think there's still some truth to it. I see it in my own small
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travels, the latest lockdown in Toronto. Moms and dads who were compliant, even obedient before, maybe even
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amateur self-appointed enforcers before. They now have tiny acts of rebellion as a matter of course,
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like someone who at 3 a.m. might stop at a red light at an intersection, realize there's no one
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around for miles, and then just decides to go through the light anyways. That kind of rebellion,
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not a showy rebellion, or one that's rational, not driving through a red light in midday, but I don't
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know, a gymnastic studio or a hockey rink that was told to close, but that finds a way to open quietly
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under the radar for parents who are tired of having their kids' lives disrupted. I've really never
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worn a mask in public. That still attracts some mass scolds, but not as often, not as adamant. In fact,
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I'm trying to think of the last time it was enforced against me in a way that altered my course in any
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way other than some banter. Jordan Peterson is an example of, I think, the change that's going on.
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He got his jab somewhat reluctantly, it seems, because he did so to remain active in his public
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life. He's just given her. He travels a lot. He likes to go to public venues like theaters,
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be a full citizen. He kept his end of the bargain, but when the government didn't keep its end, when they
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still subjected him to tests and rules and inspections and limits, and now to lockdowns like
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the dirty unvaccinated, he rightly said, hang on, what's the point? I have to laugh. All the people,
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especially in the big provinces of Ontario and Quebec, who got jabbed just for the privilege of
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living a normal life, when they were put under curfew and lockdown, just like the unvaccinated,
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didn't they feel like they were cheated, like the social contract was torn up? In many places,
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Israel being one, two doses is now called unvaccinated. You're back to square one.
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Here's the CEO of Moderna getting really excited about how many more doses he has in store for you
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and how many more hoops you're going to have to keep jumping through to remain a clean person.
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Is how do we make it possible from a societal standpoint that people want to be vaccinated?
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And we're trying to do this by preparing combinations. You know, we're working on the
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flu vaccine, we're working on the RSU vaccine, and our goal is to be able to have a single annual
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booster so that we don't have compliance issues where people don't want to get two to three shots
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a winter, but they get one dose where we get, you know, a booster for corona and a booster for flu
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and RSV to make sure that people get their vaccine. So yeah, it's a new kind of vaccine skeptic, not the
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die hard, I'd rather go to jail type, more the Canadian go along to get along, reasonable, even
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passive type, who played by the rules and sees that the rules have just been changed.
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That's a different kind of objector. And then add to that, the fact that the vaccinated are now
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catching the Omicron variant at the same rate or even more than unvaccinated people are. The
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cognitive dissonance is strong, strong enough for some to break them out of their social media
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hypnosis. There's an amateur comedian in Toronto, he's on social media mainly, he does different
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impressions, pretty funny, really normal guy, not political at all, never seen him talk politics
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before. He makes lots of cultural jokes in a friendly way. I think he's Persian himself.
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He did this rant yesterday about Doug Ford's latest lockdown, and Justin Trudeau's insults to
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the unvaccinated. Now it's two minutes long, I'm going to play it for you. Now maybe you don't find
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him as funny as I do. Maybe you can't quite understand his Persian accent, which he really
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ratchets up here. But none of that's really my point. My point is that this is a normal guy,
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not quite a celebrity, but a normie, an apolitical, friendly fellow, very pro-Canadian,
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friend to all type of guy, who has decided that he's done being quiet and compliant and obedient,
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and he's going to speak up just a little bit. He's frustrated. I think he's jabbed. And he obviously
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feels safe to speak out now. So watch for two minutes. I think it's funny myself, you may not,
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but the point is you would not have had a normal person like this say these things six months ago.
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Hello. Hello. Hi. Mr. Dougie Dougie. How are you doing? Okay. Listen, um, idiot. Just I have one
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question. Why you're so stupid? Huh? Just I don't get. I don't understand. Uh, how do you do one more
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lockdown? I, I just, I can't take. It's too much. Okay. If you are, uh, the longest lockdown in the world
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now, how is possible? Please tell me how many, how many times I can drive my white, um, luxury Mercedes
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C-Class in the neighborhood? Just I am tired. I can't, I can't do. Okay. I want to get back to normal life.
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I want to go to club, pick the white girl, do some dancing, shake my shoulder. Okay. What the hell
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you're doing? And please tell your idiot friend, Justin Trudeau, that Ola, Kessafat, Bishur, Ahmaq, go.
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Please tell him he is more a super than you. Yeah. Yeah. Because listen, um, Dougie, I am full vaccine.
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I take the two shots. Okay. Uh, like the tequila. Uh, actually my friend Javshid, he give me the booster,
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booster, whatever. Some of my friends, they are not wax. Uh, uh, it's, it's okay. But how the hell
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Justin is saying they are the racist. When this guy, he do the black face. Are you crazy? Huh? You're
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Haji Firouz? You, you are racism, not my friend. So kiss my ass, shut your mouth. And please,
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Mr. Dougie, please. Stop talking of the shit Tim Horton and, um, uh, egg bacon sandwich. You're too fat.
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Go for walking. Swim in lake. Put the right food in your mouth. Okay. Stop telling us to stay inside.
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How about you can go somewhere else for long time and let us, the people, be free. One, again. Okay. I can't take.
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Please. Okay. Anyway, uh, I go now. Shut your mouth, please. And, um, take care. Okay. Be sure. Take care.
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Now he's not going to dethrone Dave Chappelle anytime soon for world's funniest guy,
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but mocking Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau and mocking Trudeau calling anti-vaxxers racist. I like that.
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Uh, that's a sign of the times, I think, but let me give you some real proof now, bigger proof,
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more meaningful proof than just the little details in my own modest social life and my own modest
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online life. Uh, let's, let's start here. This is the stock market price for Pfizer for the last
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one month. It's down more than 10% in the last month. Here's the same one month chart for Moderna.
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One month, it's down more than 30%. Why? Obviously they're both still way, way up from where they were
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in 2019. I mean, Moderna never actually managed to sell a single dose of any drug before the
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pandemic. Did you know that? This is their first drug. So they're all billionaires many times over,
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but in the past month, the market, which is a way of saying the collective judgment of thousands or
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even millions of very self-interested people, greedy people, if you like capitalists, people motivated
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by nothing, but making a buck. That's why you're an investor. They have decided to get out of these
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stocks. Democrats or Republicans, pro-vax or anti-vax, none of that matters to the question, do you believe
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in these two companies enough that in the future they will pay you enough so you want to invest their
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money now? And the answer is more people are selling these stocks than buying them. That wasn't true
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before. That hasn't been true until now. What's changed in the past month? Now, every seller of the
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stock has their own reason. Is it the general recognition that vaccines aren't really working anymore?
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And that sure, Pfizer and Moderna managed to con the dumber world leaders like Justin Trudeau into
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buying years and years worth of supplies. Trudeau has got to be the worst for that. But those windfall
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contracts are already priced in. They're already signed. It's all downhill from here. The smart money
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is out. I mean, sounds like Bill Gates himself has moved on. Economic damage, the deaths, it's been
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completely horrific. And I would expect that will lead the R&D budgets to be focused on things we
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didn't have today. You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help
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you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmissions. We need a new way of doing the
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vaccine. Here's the head of Pfizer himself saying the first two doses, well, they didn't really do
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anything against Omicron. But he really, really promises you that the third dose of the same
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vaccine will. And we know that the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection,
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if any. The three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and
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deaths. So yeah, when completely amoral, completely financially oriented capitalists are selling their
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vaccine stock. It tells you the party's over, at least from that one point of view. But maybe that's
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something else going on. I don't know. Well, look at this news. Look at this news from the weekend in
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the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's a state with about 8.5 million people in it. Same population as in
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Quebec. The new governor was sworn in on the weekend. On his very first day, he canceled the state's mask
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mandates and vaccine mandates. Just canceled them, freed millions of people. And Virginia abuts
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Washington, D.C. It's sort of carved out of Virginia. Many people who work in D.C. live in
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Virginia. Remember, Virginia voted for Biden by about 10 points over Trump just a year ago. Now it has a
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strong Republican rolling back lockdowns. And just a week or so ago, as our friend Janine Younis explained to
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us, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled six to three against Joe Biden's vaccine mandate that
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applied to more than 80 million workers who were covered by federal occupational safety and health
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laws. Six to three. So it wasn't just Republicans on the bench. Biden himself is at a record low in the
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polls, just 33 percent. A lot of things are behind that, of course. Inflation, the price of gas,
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soaring crime, general lawlessness in cities like L.A. and San Francisco, New York. Biden clearly losing
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his cognitive abilities. But it's not just the failure of the lockdownists. It's the success
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of the anti-locker downers. I mean, I enjoyed reading this article in the Miami Herald.
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Who will challenge Jimenez Salazar for seats in Congress? Don't ask Florida Democrats.
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What? Can you believe it? It used to be that Latino voters were Democrats, but under Ron DeSantis,
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the Republican, and in reaction to the pro-Cuba, pro-Venezuela, pro-communist Democratic fringe
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and Joe Biden's failures, the Democrats don't seem to be able to find any strong candidates
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to run against three Latino Republican congressmen in Miami. Would you ever believe that?
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No Democrat wants to run and lose in Miami? It's a Republican city, not all of it, but it's
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about freedom now. Yes, I know by many measures it's never been worse here in Canada. No important
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wins in court yet. But then again, no appeal courts have had a substantive case yet, and not our Supreme
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Court yet. Justice is very slow in Canada. The curfew was back in Quebec, but you know what? It was so
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palpably unpopular that it was quickly repealed. Did you know that? Did you see that?
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I saw a new opinion poll yesterday that puts Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, at an all-time low,
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30% approval. Here's the rest of the poll, which is just as interesting. It's a little bit small
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to show you the whole thing on the video screen, but we'll put a link to it on the website. It's an
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Angus Reid survey. I recommend you just poke through. It's pretty quick. I mean, Doug Ford is very
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unpopular, and specifically, so for us handling the pandemic, but so are some of the most abusive
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locker-downers. Jason Kenney being the most brutal and also the most unpopular in Canada.
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Here's one of the questions they asked. Do you think the following are doing a good or bad job
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handling the COVID-19 pandemic overall? And the answers are interesting by different demographics.
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A majority of Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick disapprove
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of their government's handling. But look at the age and sex breakdowns. Young men are the most upset,
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70% of young men. Young women not far behind, 66% young men. Of course, almost no young healthy
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men get seriously sick from COVID, but they are the highest at-risk group for myocarditis and
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pericarditis from the Pfizer and Moderna shots. But more to the point, they want to work. They want to
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go to the gym. They want to go to a restaurant. They want to meet people. They want to live their lives,
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start their lives. Young women, too, obviously. And they have the added concern that the jabs have
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not been tested in a long-term basis. How will these jabs affect reproductive health?
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I showed you the other day that studies show that the jab affects women's menstrual cycles. Oh,
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oh, just that, hey? Oh, I'm sure it's nothing. I mean, listen, those pharma bros need to make their
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next billion. Come on, ladies. You can trust this male feminist pickup artist. He truly cares about
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your female health. So yeah, here's my point. The reason the politics and the media are getting so
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extreme is precisely because they need to do so, because what they're doing isn't really working,
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not working against the virus, and not working to keep their promise to voters who took the jab
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and now have remorse over it. Canada's democracy is obviously not as healthy as America's. Our
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checks and balances are broken. Our media is bought off. Our courts are timid and slow. Our politics
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are a monoculture. We're too passive. Yes, yes, yes, I know that. But if there is hope, it lies with the
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proles. People are sick of this. Not that you can do anything about it. What are you going to do?
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Vote for the opposition, who propose identical solutions? No, but I put it to you that the
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smart money is moving. And when America votes out the lockdownists in November, when half a dozen
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other states join with Virginia and flip from Democrat to Republican, and when the Congress itself
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returns to Republican hands, I think that will spill over our borders too. At least I hope so.
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So there it is for what it's worth. My attempted optimism. Stay with us for more.
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Well, as you know, in December, I had some unfortunate news for Rebel News, which is we
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applied for a commercial mortgage in Calgary with the Royal Bank, had a great series of meetings on
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the phone and by Zoom with the commercial mortgage lenders in that city. They loved our application,
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said it was very strong. Rebel News has no debt. We have strong cash flow. So they approved the
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mortgage and in fact offered us $200,000 or $300,000 in a line of credit, which we didn't
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even ask for, a sign of how strong they thought our application was. But the Toronto head office
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scotched the deal. And as you know, when I spoke to the mortgage lenders, they said it was
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not for any financial reason, but rather for our strong opinions. Apparently Rebel News or myself
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or both are on some sort of internal enemies list, a blacklist of people who for non-financial reasons
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are not allowed to get mortgages. A shocking turn of events. But apparently I'm not alone. Neither is
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Rebel News. Here's a story in Blacklock's reporter. You know Blacklock's one of the few independent
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journalists left in this country. They were on a Zoom call with the Bank of Canada, which is not a
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lending institution like the Royal Bank, but rather the Canadian version of the Federal Reserve. It's
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the government's bank and they lend money to the banks who lend it to you in America.
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And I guess they didn't realize that reporters had already joined the call because they started
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talking amongst themselves. I'm talking about the Bank of Canada media handlers about which reporters
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they had in their pocket and which reporters they hated or banned. There's a couple of people here who
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I am absolutely, I'll check the list to make sure who's listening, absolutely not keen to give questions
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to. I do not want to be in a situation where we're allowing Blacklocks to be asking us. So yeah,
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that's about where we're at. The only non-government funded media on that call,
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our friends at Blacklocks, were banned from asking any questions. It was a hot mic moment here to talk
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with us about it, is our friend Spencer Fernando, who himself, like us and like Blacklocks, is one of
00:25:15.640
the few media companies in Canada that does not take money from Trudeau. Spencer, great to see you
00:25:21.040
again. I'll go through some of the details here, but are you surprised that government agencies
00:25:26.620
have blacklists of folks that they just don't talk to, that they ban, that they shut out?
00:25:33.920
I'm not surprised because we've been caught up in that ourselves, even in the leaders' debates,
00:25:38.060
but the Bank of Canada, that's supposed to be a pretty non-partisan place, isn't it?
00:25:42.400
Yeah, you'd think so, although we've certainly seen them become more and more partisan and,
00:25:46.380
you know, interventionist and kind of backing up big spending liberal policies, right? I mean,
00:25:51.180
every time the government goes into more of a deficit, they kind of make it easier for them
00:25:54.460
to get away with it, right? They keep interest rates low, they print more money, they spread all
00:25:58.480
the money around. And so it kind of dulls the pain of these policies. So really, it's not surprising
00:26:03.020
that they would be, you know, not wanting to talk to people who would actually ask them tough
00:26:06.700
questions, in large part because I don't think they really want the public to make the connection
00:26:10.700
between what they're doing and what people are seeing in terms of prices and shortages,
00:26:14.560
right? They don't want people to make that connection. They just want them to blame,
00:26:17.640
oh, it's just the big mean capitalist companies all there to blame. The government has nothing
00:26:21.140
to do with it. Don't worry about us. So certainly they wouldn't want any tough questions.
00:26:25.400
Yeah. You know, it's not just that they were blacklisting Holly Doan and Blacklocks. It's
00:26:31.460
the reporters they were favoring because these reporters were so, you know, interwoven with the
00:26:38.600
government. They basically said to the government, what do I write? I want to quote to you
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from Blacklocks. So like I say, this is a Zoom call where the microphones are on because the Bank of
00:26:48.900
Canada, they don't really, they're not aware that reporters are already on the call. So they think
00:26:54.160
they're talking amongst themselves. And I'll read to you in a moment what they said about Blacklocks,
00:26:59.340
who are the good guys. But here's what they said about a Bloomberg reporter. Bloomberg, of course,
00:27:04.260
the big financial news agency. Michael Bloomberg was his founder. Here's what they said about a
00:27:09.420
Bloomberg reporter named Theo Argetus. They said, Theo Argetus gave me a call just to sort of do the,
00:27:16.700
hey, what's my lead here? You know, as a former colleague of mine and lead spelled N-E-D-E is the
00:27:23.620
media term for the lead sentence, the breaking news. Sum it up for me in one sentence. So you have
00:27:29.900
Bloomberg calling up the bank spin doctors and say, OK, can you basically tell me what I should write?
00:27:36.480
So they, because we're all friends and we're all in the same club. So they'll, they'll do business
00:27:42.640
with Bloomberg because that just repeats Trudeau propaganda. But the one reporter on the call who
00:27:48.060
doesn't take Trudeau money, Blacklocks, they won't even talk to. That's, I guess that's very
00:27:53.480
unsurprising, isn't it? Yeah, it just shows much of the media has become literally an extension of the
00:27:59.380
government propaganda apparatus, right? Normally the Bank of Canada, where the government would have to put
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out a press release and actually, you know, there's, there's transparency in that. The government
00:28:07.760
certainly has a right to share information, but it should be shown that it's from the government.
00:28:11.300
So you know what the bias is and, and it's likely propaganda that it serves the interests of those
00:28:15.700
in power. But when you have obviously Bloomberg saying, oh yeah, we'll just, just tell us, you know,
00:28:21.200
kind of what the, what we're going to say about this. Well, then it kind of hides it from people,
00:28:24.960
right? Because people will read an article thinking, OK, I'm reading a journalist opinion,
00:28:29.520
or reading their analysis of events when it's really just something that the Bank of Canada
00:28:34.520
wants people to read, but without being that honest about it. So I think, you know, it's not
00:28:39.160
surprising that the Bank of Canada would try to do that. I think, you know, politicians are pleased
00:28:43.840
to try to buy up the media and make it just an extension of the government, but the rest of us
00:28:48.800
should be pretty disturbed to see that. Yeah, I guess it's natural for spin doctors to want to talk to
00:28:54.180
comply. I mean, you know, way back in the day when I was in my twenties, I was a press aide to
00:28:59.900
Preston Manning in the Reform Party. And obviously we had a number of more sympathetic reporters and
00:29:05.700
some hostile ones. So sure, that's natural, I guess, for the Bank of Canada. I mean,
00:29:09.500
why wouldn't they be thrilled that they have some soft touch at Bloomberg? I think the embarrassment
00:29:14.880
there is on Bloomberg, which is supposedly this first rate professional news gathering agency
00:29:19.800
with no fear or favor will tell you what's going on. Oh, really? They just really published Trudeau's
00:29:25.160
press release. You're right. It's embarrassing on Bloomberg more so than on the government. But let
00:29:30.520
me read you what what got Blacklock's ears perked up, because like I said, you got you got 23 different
00:29:36.320
journalists signed up for the Zoom call. It's the big Bank of Canada Zoom call. They're going to talk
00:29:41.540
about inflation and things like that. But the bank people don't realize their mics are on. And here's
00:29:47.640
what they said. So you just heard what they said about their lovey-dovey reporters at Bloomberg.
00:29:53.280
Here's what they said about Blacklock's. Again, Blacklock's reporter. It's a small website. It's
00:29:57.280
about 300 bucks a year to subscribe. But we're proud to be subscribers because like you, Spencer,
00:30:02.120
like us, they don't take any government money. They said there's a couple of people here who I am
00:30:06.600
absolutely check the list to make sure who's listening. Absolutely not keen to give questions to.
00:30:11.320
I do not want to be in a situation where we're allowing Blacklock's to be asking us.
00:30:17.000
Um, so, um, yeah, that's about where we're at. That reminds me of when Rebel News was kicked out
00:30:23.780
of the leaders debate. We had to go to federal court to get in. I don't know what Blacklock can
00:30:27.920
do about it. I mean, I suppose there's no rule that you have to take a question from any reporter,
00:30:32.420
but it's just pretty gross to see that you're not going to take a question from the only independent
00:30:37.780
journalist in the room. Yeah, I mean, the Bank of Canada literally is in charge of Canada's money
00:30:43.300
supply. So you'd think they would be open to the opinions of all Canadians, right? That's like,
00:30:48.020
it's the bare minimum you'd expect from them considering they're supposed to be a public
00:30:52.300
institution for everybody. But no, I mean, they, they obviously don't want any tough questions.
00:30:56.800
They're trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public, just like Justin Trudeau is, which is,
00:31:00.940
again, as I said, not letting people ever make the connection between what they're doing and what
00:31:05.200
people are seeing in terms of prices. So yeah, I think, I think they're running pretty scared right now.
00:31:09.540
They know that if people realize what's going on, a lot of people are going to be pretty upset and
00:31:13.500
are going to demand a lot of changes and they don't want to see that happening. So I would expect them
00:31:18.240
to keep doing this. They're obviously going to be a little more careful on their Zoom calls going
00:31:22.000
forward, but I'm sure the internal policy is not going to change. Yeah, I think you're right. You
00:31:26.200
know, I can't help but think back to the Trump administration for all his flaws. Let me tell you
00:31:30.420
one thing about Donald Trump. He loved taking questions from the roughest, toughest oppositional
00:31:36.940
journalists in the room. Like Jim Acosta of CNN built his career on being Trump's antagonist.
00:31:43.760
He wrote a book, didn't he? Sorry, go ahead. He wrote a book, I think, didn't he?
00:31:48.140
And yet every single day, Trump asked him a question. Every day. Like it's, it, Trump wasn't
00:31:54.320
afraid of him. Trump wasn't, I mean, I don't even know if he was mad at him because I tell you,
00:31:59.100
I don't think anyone got more questions from Trump than the number one Trump hater, Jim Acosta.
00:32:03.700
And for, you know, for all of the criticisms of Trump, oh, he's, you know, he's calling us fake
00:32:10.280
news. He's really mean. He would take hour-long press conferences and exhaust them. Like it was
00:32:17.560
ridiculous compared to, you know, Trudeau and the Bank of Canada hiding. And Joe Biden, who doesn't
00:32:23.380
even take questions. I miss that part about Trump. Yeah, it was so interesting to see people, you know,
00:32:28.920
call him, you know, a fascist or a dictator when he's literally standing there fighting with the
00:32:32.700
media. I mean, that's, that's a free country. The media is allowed to criticize a politician
00:32:36.940
and the politicians allowed to criticize the media, the media, you know, a real fascist or
00:32:41.480
authoritarian or communist state. And you look at history, that's where the media gets bought off
00:32:45.660
and controlled by politicians. So I think people should be very careful in not looking at the
00:32:50.260
outward appearance of conflict as if that means there's some sort of problem there. There actually
00:32:55.500
should be some conflict and disagreement in a semi-functioning democracy. And in Canada,
00:33:00.100
you don't see much of that. You see a lot more, it's a much more polite, but that's much more
00:33:03.860
insidious because your people are being denied the debates and the information that we should be
00:33:08.260
getting. Yeah. You know, I think it's about to get worse. We know that Justin Trudeau has been
00:33:13.260
threatening to bring in an online censorship bill. He's been talking about it for years. He gave a bit
00:33:17.820
of a hint of it in the spring. I know it's coming back this year. And again, that's something Donald
00:33:22.320
Trump never did. I think he should have taken on big tech and broken up some of their monopolies and
00:33:27.060
strengthened free speech. He never touched them. Here comes Justin Trudeau. He's going to censor
00:33:32.200
the internet. And I think most journalists are going to support him. Yeah. Well, it's because
00:33:36.000
he's going to go after their competition, right? They're dependent on government money and they
00:33:39.820
don't like the fact that people can pick and choose independent outlets to compete with them. So they
00:33:44.740
just want to shut them down. Right. It's really, it's disturbing to see what's happened to the media.
00:33:48.360
It's totally been twisted around. Yeah. I'm not the first person to say it, but the media
00:33:52.540
used to speak truth to power and now it speaks power to truth. And that's, that's a pretty big
00:33:57.680
change for them. And that's why independent media has grown so much. People can sense that
00:34:01.700
something's wrong with the media and they want an alternative. And we're seeing the growth of
00:34:06.000
independent media, but also obviously the backlash from those who have a vested interest in things
00:34:10.980
not changing. Yeah. Well, listen, you're one of the good guys. Spencerfernando.com is your website.
00:34:16.920
I love it. Great writing, very fast on the news. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining us today.
00:34:21.300
All right. Take care. All right. There you have it. Spencerfernando.com. Stay with us. Mo ahead.
00:34:33.840
Hey, welcome back. Your viewer feedback. Sean Robbins says,
00:34:37.100
I just was denied to my father's memorial service because I'm not jabbed. The irony and stupidity
00:34:43.360
and pure evilness of it all is mind boggling. You know, the things that are being done to countless
00:34:49.600
millions of people on such a vast scale. Two, three years ago, this would have been this little
00:34:57.060
story you've just told would have been a shocking national news item where people would have reacted
00:35:03.360
normally and like fellow humans. But now it's like half the world says, well, were you jabbed? Were you
00:35:09.500
masked? If not, you deserve anything bad. The police brutality, the economic brutality,
00:35:15.260
firing workers, you know, governments enforcing jabs on you. So much for my body, my choice.
00:35:21.860
Every day, millions of things are happening that two and a half years ago, two years ago,
00:35:26.180
would have been a national scandal, including what you've just described.
00:35:30.920
Garland 53 says, liberals appear to be using the same tactic as the Nazis did by demonizing a group
00:35:36.780
based on lies to mostly deflect from their own failures. Well, I mean, I think the Nazis demonized the
00:35:43.380
Jews more than just to deflect from their failures. It was, it was, it was a more active thing. It
00:35:49.880
wasn't a reactive thing. But I take your point. You have a demonization of a minority, calling them
00:35:54.840
unclean, blaming them for your lack of health. I mean, the Jews were blamed by the Nazis for typhus.
00:36:02.780
And they were compared to rats, not just physically, but in terms of a public health threat.
00:36:08.740
You know, people say, oh, don't make comparisons to the Nazis. But I'm not comparing the lockdown to
00:36:15.560
the death camps. But I'm comparing the psychological manipulation, the bullying, the segregation,
00:36:22.160
the demonization. The death camps didn't happen right away. The death camps came almost 10 years
00:36:27.900
after Hitler first took power in 1933. We can observe the incremental way in which German civil
00:36:34.740
liberties were destroyed. German democracy were destroyed. We can observe that and remark on the
00:36:39.720
similarities. And especially when it comes to forcing people to get an injection, taking away
00:36:46.500
their informed consent, putting them under duress. That is one of the very specific lessons we learned
00:36:52.800
from the Nazis. And the doctor's trials, when the Nazi doctors were put on trial after the Holocaust,
00:36:59.080
that's where our whole understanding of informed consent and medical ethics in the modern age came
00:37:04.320
from. It was in reaction to the horrific experiments and things done to the concentration camp victims
00:37:11.040
that we came up with our do not harm, our modern version of do not harm, that ancient Hippocratic
00:37:16.860
oath. So yeah, it is absolutely fair to make a comparison to the Nazis on a spot basis. I sure hope
00:37:24.840
that we don't go too far down that road. But so far, no one's really pumping the brakes, are they?
00:37:30.520
That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you
00:37:36.340
at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with our video of the day, our friend
00:37:41.040
Avi Amini, setting the record straight about Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, the tennis tournament.
00:37:49.720
What's he different? Why is he different? It has nothing to do with it. But that's not why he got kicked out.
00:37:56.440
No, I'm not Croatian. I just have the shirt. And it has nothing to do with...
00:38:00.300
He didn't get kicked out because he was jacked.
00:38:12.660
Well, come, I want to explain to you something.
00:38:20.400
I'm like thinking, why is she calling me an arsehole?
00:38:30.560
Is that people believe the mainstream narrative.
00:38:32.700
You see, what he just said to me, why he's so upset and why he thinks...
00:38:36.080
He said he follows me on Facebook, he likes my stuff, I'm just wrong about this.
00:38:40.100
But the thing he doesn't know is he's just fallen for the government and mainstream media's narrative.
00:38:44.980
He thinks Novak Djokovic was kicked out because he was un-vaxxed.
00:38:55.960
Avi Amini here for Rebel News in Melbourne, Australia.
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Outside the Australian Open for the very first night when Novak Djokovic was supposed to play.
00:39:08.460
But less than 24 hours ago, the tennis number one was deported from our country.
00:39:14.400
So I'm here to find out from those attending the Australian Open, firstly, how they feel about that decision to deport him.
00:39:24.700
Well, I think it was just a big PR stunt by the government.
00:39:28.440
He made them look like dickheads and that's it.
00:39:30.660
I think he's been made out to be a little bit of a scapegoat.
00:39:32.460
The politicians know how to play here so that, you know, it works in their favour.
00:39:38.380
They knew they could get him on that technicality and stuff like that and make him look like the bad guy
00:39:42.860
when it wasn't even really the point they were arguing in court.
00:39:55.700
You have to be vaccinated to come here, don't you?
00:40:12.640
The government rules of being vaccinated to come to the country.
00:40:20.620
Um, the only thing I know is that he lied on his thing.
00:40:39.120
But if he was arrogant enough to lie on his visa applications, arrogant enough to not respect
00:40:48.840
So, do you know why he was deported at the end?
00:40:53.760
This is what's interesting because we're talking to people and it seems like everybody's got
00:41:03.620
Originally, when he got here, they kicked him out because they said that he didn't have
00:41:08.920
But then, uh, the federal government and the state government, uh, both conceded he did
00:41:16.360
So, then they changed it and they tried to tell everyone he lied on his documents.
00:41:19.100
But it turns out the lie that they were making out to be such a big lie was like, you know
00:41:23.640
when you go into an airport and you tick all the boxes and you tick the wrong one?
00:41:27.140
It doesn't really make a difference which answer they just...
00:41:31.660
So, they didn't even kick him out on that either because that wasn't really grounds.
00:41:34.680
What they kicked him out on is that they believe, without any real evidence besides
00:41:44.840
They believe that he has anti-vaccine, you know, thoughts.
00:41:50.200
He believes in anti-vax ideas and that would encourage anti-vax sentiment in the community.
00:42:01.520
It wasn't because he didn't break the rules, it was because someone thought he was going
00:42:10.760
Because he's a champion and people are going to follow his lead.
00:42:14.840
Oh, so he's like a person in the media or someone who's famous and because he's not
00:42:20.720
Well, that's a different conversation, I suppose.
00:42:29.820
He also has a superpower where he can take vaccinated people and un-vax them?
00:42:39.220
Everybody kind of followed the media and the government narrative.
00:42:42.620
Now, knowing that, even if you like him or dislike him, do you think it's fair he was deported?
00:42:46.520
Because I got this feeling that, tell me if I'm wrong, you could have some pretty dirty
00:42:51.420
Imagine getting into Thailand and they deport you for those thoughts you have.
00:42:56.580
Because Novak got kicked out because he might be having bad thoughts.
00:43:10.400
He got deported because he was going to incite something.
00:43:14.060
That's a bit of a different conversation, I suppose.
00:43:16.540
Do you think that's fair that they can kick you out on your thoughts?
00:43:24.260
So he can have the opinion, but he can't come here with the opinion?
00:43:28.040
Well, I mean, if the rule is that you have to be vaccinated and he decides not to,
00:43:34.140
But, no, the rule is that he has to be vaccinated unless he had an exemption, and he had the
00:43:39.540
But he had an exemption that was accepted by the Victorian government and Tennis Australia,
00:43:45.480
At the end, it was accepted by the federal government.
00:43:48.300
Yesterday, the immigration minister, Hawke, who you just mentioned, he conceded that it
00:43:56.780
So it wasn't his vaccination, it wasn't that he lied, it was that they said that him being
00:44:08.960
Well, I don't think people would change their minds because he's here.
00:44:18.340
So do you think it's fair he was kicked out then?
00:44:20.500
Or do you think the government was just using that as an excuse?
00:44:27.460
Do you care what Novak thinks, or do you care how he plays?
00:44:44.400
Do you think people need a smile now after the week they've been through here at the Australian
00:44:54.140
So you've been in Australia for four years, from Venezuela.
00:44:57.760
How do you feel knowing that the government can deport you based on what you might think?
00:45:23.160
You're here at the tennis and you don't have an opinion either way?
00:45:29.860
But listen, be careful, because apparently in Australia nowadays, they're deporting people
00:45:41.120
So now that you know all that, do you think it's still fair that he was deported?
00:45:46.000
Yeah, I mean, the information I have is a bit different than what you described.
00:45:50.120
Do you think that's a fair reason to deport someone from a country, because you think you think
00:45:58.440
Behind us here in front of the Australian Open, you have a small contingency that are supporting
00:46:03.580
the number one tennis player who was deported from our country less than 24 hours ago.
00:46:10.340
Yeah, he stood up for his rights, so yeah, that's what we need to do here as well.
00:46:14.280
I'm taking it you're happy with the Djokovic decision?
00:46:24.700
I'm not aware of his evil thoughts, apart from standing up for free choice.
00:46:30.380
What's going on with those little caps on your head?
00:46:36.600
If Novak was watching this right now, what would you tell him?
00:46:38.860
I'd probably tell him, it'd be good to see you here, but yeah, I don't know.
00:46:45.560
That's about as Aussie as a response as you can get.
00:46:48.300
It's just disappointing when it's political rather than about, especially for us tennis
00:46:52.800
And no Djokovic, there's a lot of excitement missing.
00:46:56.720
Whoever wins really came second, we can say that, yeah?
00:47:00.380
The greatest player of all time, Djokovic, 100%.
00:47:05.940
You're going for Nadal and you thought this was the only way you were going to win.
00:47:08.280
Do you think that they deported him because, not because they were worried he was going
00:47:13.880
to spread the virus, but that he was going to spread dissent?
00:47:17.940
I don't think I'd get that close to the great man, but no, I don't think I would have gotten
00:47:24.720
It's probably just as risky to get it from anyone else that's attending, vaccinated or
00:47:32.820
He donated so much charity to the bushfires and stuff and then they just kick him out.
00:47:38.820
I reckon there's a strong mix of people that disagree with, you know, what's going on.
00:47:43.560
But then there's a lot of people, I think it's just in the class of, oh, I had to do
00:47:47.780
They should be more angry at the buddy mandate than as opposed to the, you know, one person
00:48:10.740
You just got to go to rebelstore.com.au, get yourself one of these t-shirts and you can
00:48:18.920
What would you say to Novak now if he was watching this?
00:48:36.340
According to their own narrative, he's so hated, although I've been out here.
00:48:44.380
I think most people are just uneducated, read headlines and base their judgments and opinions
00:48:48.840
off that, but that's the world we're living in at the moment.
00:49:14.920
She's laughing at Novak getting kicked out, but I think we might need to get the AFP.
00:49:27.540
You see, most people here tonight who seem to be for his deportation, when you present
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I'll see you in Melbourne, Australia, for Rebel News.
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