EZRA LEVANT | Rebel News is hiring EIGHT new staff — maybe you might be one of them!
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Rebel News is hiring 8 new full-time and part-time staff, and we want to know who you d like to be a part of the team. We just updated our rebelnews.ca/careers page with a list of the positions we're looking for, and the job descriptions can be found here.
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I'm not going to talk about a political news item.
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I'm going to tell you a bit of a Rebel News plan
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We're actually hiring seven or eight new positions.
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We just updated our rebelnews.com slash careers page.
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Some of these positions are at our Toronto headquarters.
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you know, pass this around, tell someone about it.
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Maybe it's you, or maybe it's someone you know.
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or listen to this podcast as I tell you about them.
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Maybe you might be one of them or know someone.
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It's July 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Well, I gave you a Rebel News update a few weeks ago,
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I think it's clear that we're going to continue
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with the vaccine passports now becoming a reality.
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Of course, the election is coming sooner than we think,
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and I'm worried that Justin Trudeau will win again
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and he'll proceed on some of his more outrageous attacks
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I'm sorry I haven't written back to everyone yet.
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when you're looking to raise funds in a public offering
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How do we businessify what's really a project of the heart?
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people who, you know, make money to help pay the bills.
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you can't save the world if you can't make the rent.
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Now, we are looking to hire some new reporters too.
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And we put the new reporters we're looking for,
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Actually, I think it adds up to eight different positions.
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It's just to integrate it with the rest of our team.
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in the hope that I can encourage people to apply.
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Because I think finding people who believe in Rebel News
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of affiliating with us in this era of cancel culture.
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we are hiring for three new reporting positions.
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And frankly, we'd be looking to fill these positions
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We're looking to hire a reporter full-time in Ottawa.
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So much is just decided by public health officers
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to have a reporter on the ground in Ottawa all the time.
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and Yankee Pollock is being more active there too.
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Do you know someone who would fill that position?
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We're also looking for a China affairs reporter.
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That's someone who is probably a Chinese person themselves
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because they would need to know the Chinese language
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to report on China's influence in our own country,
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and to look at the battles between communist China
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and being a skeptic of the Chinese Communist Party,
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it's been so hard for us to cover those stories
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Those are not going to be money-making projects.
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They might talk about crowdfunding campaigns sometimes,
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but I don't expect reporters to make money in particular.
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We're so grateful to our crowdfunding supporters
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Your subscription of $8 a month means a lot too.
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Well, they'd probably put in parts of the company
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so that we can afford to hire all these great reporters
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Now, the problem is we don't have other Canadian role models
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some friends, our friends at TNC.news, True North.
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They're probably the closest thing we have to a buddy.
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We just don't have someone we can look up to as a model.
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if I wanted to be a government grifter getting a bailout.
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if we had an American history and American reporters,
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So one of the things about being a Canadian conservative,
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is that we have a smaller market to support us,
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what would a real business do to be more sustainable,
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And I thought of four positions that we could hire,
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You wouldn't necessarily see these people on TV.
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but each of them not only would bring more value
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so we could continue to grow on the passion side,
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The first one, I think, by far is the funnest one.
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in the Edmonton area in the middle of the pandemic
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and then the lockdowns came extremely heavy after that.
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But I want to get back into the events business big time.
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the Conservative Public Political Action Committee.
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We would have a day-long, we called them Rebel Live,
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where we would have some of our favorite speakers,
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I mean, Jordan Peterson, before he was big globally,
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and I would hope to revive those two cities at least,
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That was canceled again because of the pandemic.
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Book launches and book talks around the country.
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And also, events for people who are subscribers
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There's so many events I could think of, frankly,
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And if I had to describe what an events coordinator
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it's probably your stereotypical wedding planner,
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is probably one of the funnest jobs at Rebel News.
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Like I say, those of you who've been on Rebel Cruises before
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And financially, it helps our company be strong
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Now, we'll have to go out there and hustle and work,
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but that's much better than getting on bended knee
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Again, you can read the details at rebelnews.com slash careers.
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A campaign is what we call any one of our projects.
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Usually, we have a vanity website like, you know,
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actually several hundred, little campaigns like that.
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And a campaign can be as simple as having a petition
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that we would deliver to that person we're petitioning
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or putting up a still billboard on the side of the highway.
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A campaigns manager probably has some experience in politics
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just blaze a trail because time is of the essence
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It's just not a campaign for a political party.
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you don't actually have to donate anything to Rebel News.
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We have people we call Producers Club subscribers.
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because if people voluntarily give $63 or $630,
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Greenwald an independent journalist I see a few
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party as I sometimes call it no there's nobody's
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Peter Ducey who's become a fixture in the White House
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briefing room so she calls on him because I think
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because well maybe because they feel personally
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walking around outside without a mask they weren't
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I think they're worried about their own personal
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safety and there's nobody else wearing masks in
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week about that issue but in general no nobody's
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holding the Biden administration accountable on
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basically Peter Ducey and Breitbart and a couple
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other people occasionally you get a good question
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in from someone else but most journalists see their
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job as trying to further the agenda of the Biden
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who is the journalist for PBS often asks questions
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that attempt to enforce the left-wing line as do
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several other journalists now if you have a genuine
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leftist asking a tough question that can also be
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converge you mentioned Glenn Greenwald who while I
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disagree with a lot of his views has substantive
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criticisms of the media and of the administration
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conservatives can agree on but in general there is no
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process of holding Biden accountable I mean the
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reporting is largely of a quality of talking about
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how many scoops of ice cream he had yeah I don't
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want to keep you too much longer but there I have a
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few more things I wouldn't mind bouncing off you I
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saw this exchange between Senator Rand Paul who who I
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really my admiration for him grows every year him
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versus Anthony Fauci about gain of function research
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which is a strange way of saying biological warfare I
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think that really is a fancy way of saying take a
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virus and add new functions to it that it didn't
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exchange I I thought Rand Paul came out the better
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discredited is he a polarizing figure is he has he
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become a liability or is he a saint a secular saint to
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the left here here's that exchange Dr. Fauci as you are
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aware it is a crime to lie to Congress section one zero zero
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one of the US criminal code creates a felony and a five
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year penalty for lying to Congress on your last trip to
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our committee on May 11th you stated that the NIH has not
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ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the
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Wuhan Institute of Virology and yet gain of function research
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which was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Dr. Shi and was
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funded by the NIH I'd like to ask unanimous consent insert into
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the record the Wuhan Virology paper entitled discovery of a rich
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gene pool of bat SARS related coronaviruses please deliver a copy
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of the journal article to Dr. Fauci in this paper Dr. Shi credits the
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NIH and lists the actual number of the grant that she was given by the
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NIH in this paper she took two bat coronavirus genes spike genes and
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combined them with a SARS related backbone to create new viruses that
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are not found in nature these lab created viruses were then to
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shown to replicate in humans these experiments combine genetic
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information from different coronaviruses that infect animals but
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not humans to create novel artificial viruses able to infect human cells
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viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to
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gain the function of infecting humans this research fits the definition of the
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research that the NIH said was subject to the pause in 2014 to 2017 a pause in
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the moment and the end of the week and the end of the day that the NIH failed to
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recognize this defines it away and it never came under any scrutiny Dr. Richard E. Bright a
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molecular biologist from Rutgers described this research in Wuhan as the Wuhan lab used
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NIH funding to construct novel chimeric SARS related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and laboratory animals
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this is high-risk research that creates new potential pandemic pathogens potential
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pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab not in nature this research matches
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these are Dr. E. Bright's words this research matches indeed epitomizes the
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definition of gain-of-function research done entirely in Wuhan for which there was
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supposed to be a federal pause Dr. Fauci knowing that it is a crime to lie to
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Congress do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed
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that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan
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Senator Paul I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement
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what do you make of that I is Fauci still helping the Dems do they still love him
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the Democrats and the establishment media love Anthony Fauci conservatives hate him because they
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don't like the fact that he turned on Trump they don't like the fact that he spends all his time in
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the media when he's supposed to be running the coronavirus response and they don't like the fact that his
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advice has been called on to justify all of the restrictions the mask mandates etc now the question of gain of
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function research I was reading into this a year ago or more than a year ago at the start of the
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pandemic and there were experiments being done where they would add spike proteins to a virus the spike
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protein basically is the active part of the virus and it's a legitimate field of research you know not
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just for biological warfare but to test the effects of a virus and to study how it operates there was a
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point at which Fauci as the director of some of the funding for this research instituted a pause in gain of
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function experiments because they were concerned about the ethical problems of security at the
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labs what happens if a virus escapes a lab you could have a pandemic so they suspended or they were
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supposed to have suspended gain of function research for several years until some of these ethical concerns
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were ironed out they then resumed it so it is an area of research that that is active and ongoing
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but I think the question here was why did this particular study at Wuhan that was published why did that
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go along why did that get published why was that study continuing during the pause during the period
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where there wasn't supposed to be gain of function research and Fauci's answer is well we studied that
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particular experiment before we funded it and we determined that it wasn't gain of function and Rand Paul
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described the experiment and said this is gain of function research there's no difference between this
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and ordinary gain of function research so Fauci's position is that what was being done in Wuhan
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basically creating new coronaviruses wasn't gain of function research and Dr. Paul is saying yes it is
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and you're just pretending it isn't because the National Institutes of Health wanted to continue
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funding this research without going through the normal oversight process so it's it's a bit of an
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obscure debate but what people don't like on the right and if you could summarize all the things
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that don't like about Fauci is that he ignores political and economic considerations he was once
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in an exchange with Jim Jim Jordan representative Jim Jordan and Jordan asked Fauci about liberty and
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and the compromises to personal liberty religious freedom freedom of speech and assembly that come from
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some of these restrictions from coronavirus and Fauci said point blank he doesn't care about that
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that's not his job but Fauci doesn't think it should be anybody else's job either he only cares
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about the public health question how many lives can we save that's obviously a legitimate question
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but there are also questions about at what cost and cost in terms of economics and cost in terms
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of liberty and all of those decision makers were in the same room under Trump Trump balanced those
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people out against one another and with Biden I think Fauci's been given free reign to sort of
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declare what will be the gospel and and it's all about eliminating the risk of any kind of transmission
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and and so he's a target for conservatives because he's kind of arrogated for himself a
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political authority that people think is unchecked and ought to be checked yeah very interesting last
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question I appreciate you stinking around so long um Donald Trump uh issues the odd press statement and
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it's covered by the Trump base of course it's censored on all social media uh he gave a speech like
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he gives speeches that are in that Trump style he can still fill a room or even a stadium
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but um I wonder if Trumpism is proceeding without him especially in the manifestation of Ron DeSantis
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I've seen some straw polls by Republicans saying who they're hoping runs next time and Trump still
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does very well usually comes in first but DeSantis is very close after him and I look at DeSantis
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increasingly as someone who has many of the assets of Trump but without some of the flaws and someone
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who's a generation younger who's running a state very successfully an important state a battleground
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state and although I believe that Donald Trump was unfairly dealt with I I feel like perhaps it's time to
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pass the baton to the Trumpist who's not Trump but is Trumpian if I can make a whole bunch of words
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what do you what do you think I don't know that we're there yet I think the straw poll at CPAC in
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Florida showed DeSantis doing very well second place to Trump as you mentioned not not too far behind
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but the recent CPAC straw poll in Texas showed Trump far far ahead of DeSantis in the rest of the field I
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don't know if the rest of the conservative movement is sold on DeSantis and frankly I don't know that
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DeSantis is yet a national opposition figure Trump is still the most important opposition leader in
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America and it's up to him really whether he cedes his place to another candidate or not I think
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the disadvantage of having Trump as a candidate in 2024 is it will largely be about the 2020 election
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he'll be talking about election fraud and so forth and I'm not sure the country really cares anymore
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however that could also be an advantage whatever you think of Trump's claims and they could all be
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empty or bogus they are a strong unifying theme in the same way that Biden's hoaxes were a unifying
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theme I'm not comparing Trump's message to that because Biden was making things up out of whole
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cloth and I do think there are reasons to believe there were problems in the 2020 election but you know
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what Biden teaches is that you just need sort of a narrative that describes the world as you see it
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and there can be problems with the narrative there can even be severe factual problems with the
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narrative but Trump has a strong narrative in complaining about the election even though
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the the evidence isn't yet there for any kind of fraud that would have changed the outcome
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the idea that things were rigged against him I think is one people find compelling I think that's
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probably true so great to see you I hear the phone is ringing our time is up thanks for joining us
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today my friend thank you there you have a Joel Pollack senior editor large at breitbart.com
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boy so many topics south of the border it was great to catch up stay with us more
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hey welcome back on my show last night Lane writes Ezra did we see an investigation into SNC
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Lavalin no did we see an investigation into we scandal no should the non-political appointed
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commissioner of the RCMP conduct said investigations yes so to answer your question the FBI political
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bias is already here and led by the PM appointed commissioner of the RCMP I think you're so right
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at least in the United States they have something called an inspector general it's sort of like our
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auditor general but I think they have a far wider scope the FBI is an inspector general all the
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government agencies it's basically a fraud hunter a reviewer an auditor of every agency I don't think
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we have that in Canada our auditor general has far more limited powers far more limited budget and
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you know investigations can be killed with a phone call by the prime minister's office
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or a justice minister can be turfed for not bending the knee as in SNC Lavalin I'm afraid that we have
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just as corrupt a system in Canada as they do in the United States but we just don't know about it
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there's less chance to catch it and less chance to stop it
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uh Iverson says the FBI has investigated itself and found nothing wrong well that's the thing I mean all
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the deep state agencies the alphabet soup of FBI and CIA and NSA they all seem to be in it together the
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permanent as Eisenhower called it industrial military complex they're there whether it's
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Trump or Biden or Clinton or whomever they're there permanently and I think they're friends
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socially they share an ideology and their self-preservation we have the same thing in Canada
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it's a little bit scary and if Eisenhower himself warned about it more than 50 years ago imagine how bad it
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is now well folks that's the show for today what do you think of my long-winded
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call for businessy positions at Rebel News I always like to hire more reporters and I do want to hire
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someone on the China beat on the Ottawa parliamentary beat I think that's important and someone in the UK
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that's sort of a wish or a dream of mine but really those business positions although like events are
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really fun the purpose is to raise more dough so we can do the journalism I don't know I think we have
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to do that because in my mind I think if a real grown-up were to run Rebel News with with making a
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profit as their central goal what would they do and I think these are some of the answers well
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shouldn't we do them too we should do all the heart stuff the emotional stuff the stuff we love
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and are passionate about we should do the freedom fighting but we also have to make sure we pay the
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bills so I hope that someone out there says that's a job for me and applies and you never know it might
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be you that's our show for today I'm going to be away tomorrow on a very special reporting project
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so my friend David Menzies will be hosting the Ezra Land Show in my absence but we'll have a big report
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when I return in a few days until then on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to
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you at home good night keep fighting for freedom