EZRA LEVANT ｜ What does Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin？ I’ll show you.
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What does Justin Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin? I ll show you tonight on The Ezra Levant Show with Ezra Levant. Ezra Levant is a Canadian journalist and host of the show Rebel News Plus.
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Hello, my friends. I got some questions about a protest in Vancouver that not only supports
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Vladimir Putin indirectly, but does what the truckers do. They're blocking roads.
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How do you think the police and Trudeau reacted? Well, spoiler alert, this was an environmental
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protest, so you can probably guess. I'll show you images from that protest and I'll show you
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Tonight, what does Justin Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief
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and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin? I'll show you. It's August 15th and this is
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the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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I've been covering left-wing protests for decades. I've covered anti-pipeline protests in Vancouver,
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anti-pipeline protests in Ontario. One of my favorite protests to cover was the Occupy Toronto
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protests in that city because it was so obviously artificial and fake. If you recall, Occupy Wall
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Street was a left-wing anti-capitalist movement, but they actually had one good argument. Why were
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the so-called capitalists of the big banks on Wall Street bailed out by taxpayers after the financial
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crash of 2008? Their solution was worse, by the way. They wanted socialism, but they had a good
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question. The fact that one of Wall Street's richest oligarchs, George Soros, was bankrolling
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the anti-Wall Street thugs was a delicious irony. But in Canada, it was just weird because, as you may
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recall, not a single Canadian bank failed in the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, it was the unionized
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automobile sector, Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. megacorporations. They're the ones who got the
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massive taxpayer funding. But for some reason, the left-wing protesters weren't directed at them. But
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you must admit, it's weird to protest the bailout of failing banks in a country where no banks actually
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failed. It was fake, fake, fake. Here's some of what I saw at that phony event.
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Dave, how many G20 anarchists are here today? Dave, are you the proud face of the environmental movement?
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Well, that was back when my life was simpler. I was a journalist for the Sun News Network.
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I wasn't a boss. I was a working journalist. These days, I spend too much time in the office managing
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the 60 or 70 people who work for Rebel News. So I don't do as much in-the-field journalism as I used
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to do or as I'd like to do. My solace is that we have an amazing team that collectively does 10 times
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more than I ever could do as one person. I mean, just for example, here's the lovely Alexa Lavoie at a
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You have to ask me questions. I'm not concerned. If you want to go, you can.
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But stop putting me in the face of the people who tell me no.
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You're coming to me. Don't touch my microphone.
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Stop putting me in the face of the people who don't want to talk. What do you do?
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I just ask you why you come here. Why are you coming here?
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I'm talking to other people. Do you understand? Do you have the consentement?
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Yes. When people talk to me, it's the consentement.
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We're going to continue. We're going to continue because some people are not happy.
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And so we have some people who try to intervene, but I'm just here for asking questions and see
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the other side of the story of the people. But it seems like people are not agreeing with that.
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They say that I should not be there and I'm not welcome. And how I should, like,
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I'm able to sleep at night. But I'm just here to ask simple questions to them.
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I didn't like the fact that the protesters were so aggressive towards her. And I'm reminded of our
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duty to provide security to our journalists, a regrettable duty, as Trudeau has normalized
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hostility towards us by setting an example of having his own personal bodyguards beat us up.
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What are you doing? Get off me. Hey, I can. Hey, this is assault. I'm on a side. What is this?
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I'm on a sidewalk. I am on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot touch me. Not rushing or working.
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Hey. Hey. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? I told you. What is this? You can't. Am I under arrest?
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Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Because otherwise you have no right.
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I hate watching that. But my point is I've been covered, covering oil and gas and pipeline and
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mining and anti-capitalist protests for almost two decades. That's how old I am. And one of the most
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eye-opening things for me was that I saw the same professional protesters at each one. I got to know
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them by name even. I'd see the same guy at an anti-mining protest and then at the Occupy Toronto
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protest. And then the same people were out in Hamilton in an anti-pipeline protest. And then
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the same people were at an Idle No More protest. Same people. Same leaders. Now, the leaders knew a
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little bit about what they were doing, but the rent-a-mob did not. Some of them were literally
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street people who were paid 50 bucks to hold the sign for the day. 50 bucks and a hot lunch.
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They didn't have a drop of politics in them at all. Some of them were mentally ill people
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being used as cannon fodder. It's very sad. I remember one young woman, Trish Mills was her name.
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I still remember her. She had a blog about her deep mental illness. It made me extremely sad
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to read about it and then to see how the environmentalists took advantage of her,
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egged her on to commit the crimes. She was the one who got charged and convicted and punished
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while the bosses didn't get themselves in trouble. They literally used marginalized and damaged and
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mentally ill people as their weapons to commit political crimes for fundraising. It made me sad
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and mad, not just at the environmentalists, but at the media party who obviously that saw the same
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things I saw. That all these many events were organized by the same professional organizers.
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None of them were organic. Most of the participants were clueless about their mission. They were just
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doing what they were instructed to do. How different from, oh, say the truckers. The trucker convoy was
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authentic, organic, real people. And if you actually stop to ask any one of them why they were doing what
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they were doing, oh, they would tell you at great length. No one put them up to it. They had some leaders,
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but I call them more symbolic or spiritual leaders like Tamara Leach. Yes, there were millions of
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dollars raised to pay for the truckers, but you'll recall very little of any of it actually flowed.
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They were seized by GoFundMe, then seized by the government. And when that wasn't enough,
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they actually seized the bank accounts of hundreds of peaceful protesters without court process. So it was
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the opposite of a bought and paid for campaign. It was penalized and punished. There were endless crimes
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committed in the shanty towns of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Toronto. I saw it with my own eyes.
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The drugs down there, there were weapons, marginalized people, and of course there was crime, including
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sexual assault, including rape. Such a light police touch though, if any. Compare that to the heavy-handed
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arrest and jailing of Tamara Leach for inciting mischief or literally deploying the Mounties on horseback to
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stomp peaceful protesters. You'd never see that against George Soros' occupied Toronto rabble. I
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wonder why. So I tell you all this to tell you that there's nothing new under the sun. These protesters
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on the left are and have always been an artificial creation. Black Lives Matter too, an American
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phenomenon that is being grafted onto Canada. But we abolished slavery 250 years ago here, or at least
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the slave trade and soon the slavery itself. There was so little slavery here to begin with actually.
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There were actually more Canadian slaves who were indigenous people enslaved by other indigenous
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tribes than there were white slave owners. Did you know that? Did you know that the total
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black population of Toronto at the time of the slave trade when it was abolished
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was 16 people? Not 1600, just 16. We were the good guys in Canada. We were the place that runaway slaves
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in the United States ran towards. We're a place where black lives have always mattered.
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This is an attempt to graft a foreign grievance narrative onto our own country. Why was Trudeau
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taking a knee? For what exactly? We abolished the slave trade almost 250 years ago, but here's my news
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today. I told you all that background to remind you that paid foreign-funded instigators are normal,
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even if the media party hides it all. But look at this example of another boring left-wing stunt,
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but it hits a little different this time. Take a look at this. Video. Protesters just poured molasses
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all over the Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver. The new group says plans to block traffic and bridges
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this week too. So let me stop there. So vandalism, mischief, more than happened during the entire
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Trucker Congo, by the way. There was a national media meltdown when someone merely put a sign in the
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hands of that Terry Fox statue. That was called desecration. That was called vandalism because
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that was literally all they had against the truckers. Here you have vandalism and trespass and mischief and
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a promise to block roads, including ambulances and fire trucks and people going to work and people picking
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up their kids. Everyone's business. And where's the emergencies act? Where are the riot police? Where are
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the bank account seizures? I'm kidding. That's only for Trucker peaceful protesters, not for Justin Trudeau's
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allies. I'll read a little more. This is from Thursday. A protester climbed up a ladder and poured molasses over the
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Gastown Steam Clock as part of an anti-fracking demonstration. Stopped fracking around. A new civil
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disobedience group launched its anti-fracking campaign in Vancouver on Wednesday, August 10th
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morning just after 10 a.m., pouring molasses over the tourist attraction at the corner of Cambium
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Water Streets. The group says the thick syrup represents fracked oil and the demonstration will
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possibly involve arrests for its non-violent civil disobedience. Taylor, stop for a minute and
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acknowledge how lame this is. How stupid, how pitiful. I mean, it really is the stupidest protest I've ever
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seen and I've seen stupid. Our timekeeper is pouring molasses on the steam clock.
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This molasses sweet smelling symbolizes oil and gas, which is not only poisoning this world,
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there are greater monuments that are scheduled for demolition by oil and gas. Entire communities and
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ecosystems are at risk by the unrivaled oil and gas industry.
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I'm embarrassed for them, really. Here's a bunch of cops just milling around. Now, let me be clear,
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I don't want jackboots. I don't want police stomping their horses on anyone. I don't want them being shot at
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like Trudeau's cops shot our reporter Alexa Lavoie. But I think, I don't know, giving these folks a ticket is
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probably appropriate. Charging them with mischief, making them go to answer before a judge, and
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maybe that judge would sentence them to 30 hours of cleaning up messes and sweeping up garbage in
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the Gastown area. That seems proportionate to me. Maybe not even a criminal record, a conditional
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discharge if they just spent 30 hours cleaning up the streets that they mucked up. That seems like
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proportional justice in the public interest, doesn't it? Now, do you really believe that
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Stop Fracking Around is a new group? Or do you think it's just the same old losers with a new name?
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Well, the left-wing website that reported this news was happy to include a link to the website of
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this group, which I clicked on. And yeah, it's the same old losers, professional protesters. You can
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see their contact person, Brent Eichler. He's a perpetual protester and, you know, frankly,
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good for him. He seems mainly peaceful. I haven't done a lot of digging. Pouring molasses over a public
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square, making it gross and dirty. That literally does sound like the definition of the word mischief,
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right? The same charge that Tamara Leach has spent nearly 50 days in prison for, right?
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They talk about Eichler a bit. Activist Brent Eichler, formerly of Extinction Rebellion's Vancouver
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chapter and the Save Old Growth campaigns, spoke to Vancouver is awesome from the scene of the
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protest. We want the people who are flying here from all over the world to see the demonstration,
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he said. Around 11 a.m., Eichler said roughly 20 Vancouver police officers were at the scene and
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the demonstrator who climbed the ladder would likely be arrested for refusing to come down.
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I actually don't think that's a crime. While some of the protesters are Extinction Rebellion members
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or were part of the Save Old Growth campaign, Eichler underscored that this is a
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brand new group that is specifically trying to get the Canadian government to end fracking,
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including the immediate cancellation of the coastal gas link pipeline.
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So these are foreign-funded activists. I mentioned Extinction Rebellion. That's who this guy is
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or some of these supporters are. That's a multi-million dollar UK-based extremist group.
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That's not grassroots. It's funded by billionaires like Eileen Getty.
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Foreign-funded activists paid to do stupid mischief in Canada. Isn't that what they shut down GoFundMe
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and Give, Send, Go for when it was the truckers? And this, Stop Fracking Around is planning another
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rally on August 15th at 9 a.m. at City Hall, where they will be joined by members of the Witsud and
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First Nation for a larger demonstration that will likely involve blocking intersections and
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bridges. And indeed that happened. Our friend Drea Humphrey was on the scene. She tells me that they
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did indeed block the roads and they also swarmed Drea. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on,
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hang on. When the truckers did that, didn't they seize their bank accounts? When the truckers did that,
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didn't they declare an emergency when the truckers did that? Didn't they seize, stomp, arrests?
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So just another wacky day in Vancouver, isn't it? But isn't it a little bit different now?
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Isn't blocking roads now, even in a stupid way like they do in Vancouver,
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well, didn't Justin Trudeau and David Lamedi and Marco Mendocino said that these are high crimes,
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tantamount to treason. That's what Trudeau said. Don't we call on the cops? Don't we throw people
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in prison now? Don't we seize bank accounts now? Now, I don't want it to be that way.
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This really is just mischief. But there won't be a single ticket issue now. Will there be?
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And what are they protesting? Natural gas. Haven't we learned about natural gas this year,
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as in Russia's stranglehold on natural gas supply to Europe not only funds its war on Ukraine,
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but prevents Germany and other European countries from really doing anything about it? Germany can't
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put sanctions on Russia. They have to be careful Russia doesn't put sanctions on them by cutting
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off gas to them. Does Vladimir Putin want natural gas exports from Canada to the world? He does not.
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These protesters are literally running errands for Vladimir Putin and silence from the media,
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who will denounce anyone and everyone that they don't like as being Russian agents except for the
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people actually helping Putin here. Another day in Vancouver's paradise. Just the same BS, but it proves
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nothing they said about the truckers being an economic or criminal threat was true.
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Nothing they said about their concern about Russia's power was true.
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It was always just an excuse to attack their political enemies.
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Stay with us for more with the rebel's newest recruit.
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You might recognize the young lady next to me. She was one of our three
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terrific journalists who went to the Netherlands to report on the Farmer Rebellion. A few weeks ago,
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we had our UK reporter Louis Brackpool there, as well as Lincoln Jay from here in Toronto. But Katie
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Davis Court came all the way from Seattle, Washington to spend some time with us, did great journalism on
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the ground. And I am so delighted to announce that Katie is joining Rebel News full-time, based in
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Seattle, but traveling around the USA and even the world. And today is her first day. So she's here at
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our Rebel World headquarters to sort of meet the team and say hi to everybody. Great to see you in person.
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You too. It's great to be here. I'm so excited to join the team. We have a lot of work to do,
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and I can't wait to get started. Well, you have been very courageous. I don't know if all our viewers
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know, but being in Seattle, you really are at ground zero for the Antifa wars. Seattle, Portland,
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which is not too far away in Oregon. Those, those are beautiful cities. Like they're gorgeous. They're
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some of the best places to live in terms of natural beauty and economically strong. But there is this
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disastrous, hard left, violent undercurrent in both of those cities, isn't there?
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There absolutely is. And it's underreported. So when Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the riots of 2020,
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they overthrew a six block radius of Seattle. It was hardly reported on by our local news in Seattle.
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And so that's when I kind of started getting my start. I started out as an independent reporter a
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little bit before the riots started because there wasn't a focus on the desecration of the city of
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Seattle by the hands of the progressive policies that have been enacted. And I said, why is there
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only one side being shared? So I went out and I started reporting the other side of the story,
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like what Rebel News does. And it is not being shared. So I'm excited to continue my work there.
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Well, the fact that you had that contrarianism, that you were not afraid to tell the story that
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the mainstream weren't is impressive. That's the essential character element to be a rebel.
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Are you willing to stand apart from the crowd? But physically, to film Antifa, I mean, they are by
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definition violent. They, by definition, believe in shock tactics. They hide their identities.
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They have the style, the black walk where they're indistinguishable. They all dress in black from
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head to toe. They are violent. They burnt cities and they would hurt you if they could. Now,
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you were very wise about how you went about it. But in my mind, it takes a little bit of courage to
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stand down what is really the brown shirts of our age. Oh, I absolutely agree. And so when I started
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going out there in the beginning, they would they like to attack reporters because they consider people out
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there with phones as cops. They think that cameras are cops. So they hate the police and
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reporters go and they don't want their crimes to be filmed. So they I've actually been attacked by
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them a few times, not any violent assaults, but they use intimidate intimidation tactics to silence
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who they believe is their opposition. So not only have they physically assaulted me, but they have
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come to my apartment and they know where I live. They have slashed my tires multiple times and they
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have put flyers of me around my city. They put flyers of my own family members around my city,
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all to try to intimidate me to not report on their actions. And I just think that it is insane that
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our city council, the Seattle City Council actually kind of supports them. They are pro Antifa. They
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are still using the phrase that, you know, Antifa is that is an anti-fascist group. You know,
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there's no they're very fascist. You just look at the definition of that word. They act like fascists.
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Yeah, they are. Huh. You know, I didn't know all those details. I didn't know about the pamphleting.
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I didn't know the slashed tires. Now, you're careful and you stand in a place. But, you know,
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one of the things that we take pride in here, and I told you this on the phone the other day,
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is that we provide security for our reporters in situations where we think there's a risk. So,
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you know, you were brave and maybe you were a little bit lucky. And I don't want to take away
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your bravery at all. But for you to go out in the world and do the challenging journalism you do,
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I think it behooves us to give you some physical support because they have no compunction about
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hitting anyone, let alone hitting a woman. Right. You know, what I think the rest of us would recoil at,
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they see you as an enemy and the ends justify the means. So I think it's important to protect you
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as we protect our other journalists. Yeah. So you really made a name for yourself in the
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Pacific Northwest, but you also travel around the United States. And tell us, you know, I saw your
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reports, but give me your sense of how it was covering a political movement in another country.
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I take it that you, like me, don't have a particular collection to the Netherlands. So,
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you know, the Dutch language and the politics is as new to you as it is to me. But I think you guys
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figured it out pretty well and did some good coverage. What was it like out there?
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Yeah. So it was definitely challenging. And I think for me, the most eye-opening part was how
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educated the people from the Netherlands are about the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset. And they
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all knew what was happening on a larger scale behind the scenes. If I were to ask people about the Great
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Reset or the World Economic Forum in the United States, I think hardly anyone would know what
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they even were. Yeah. So the fact that these policies, that the World Economic Forum is actively
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imposing these policies on the people, the Dutch people, and they are fighting back against it.
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You ought to go, this is going to, this isn't just going to happen in the Netherlands. It's going to be
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happening on a global scale. So how do you educate the people? And that's why I think it's so important
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that Rebel News went out there to share this important story. It is, it was definitely a
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challenging experience. I've never reported internationally before. So figuring out leads,
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who to talk to. I know Lewis and Lincoln and I did a great job trying to figure out where the protests
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were. There wasn't one central location. Yeah, because it was very organic and popping up like
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whack-a-mole. It was. And so the country is pretty small. So we would be, we would wake up super early,
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drive to one protest, try to cover it, get a new lead. Let's check this out. It was great. And I think
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that we all did a great job sharing the story and the documentary that you guys are putting out is
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excellent. And I think everyone should watch it. Well, I think you guys did do a great job and the viewers,
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the viewership and on, um, both on video and even on Twitter, uh, you Lincoln and Lewis were almost
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the only voices in the English language telling the story of the Netherlands around the world.
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And what's interesting to me is how the government journalists, and there's a lot of government
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journalists in the Netherlands. I think most journalists there either work directly for the
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government or are subsidized by the government. You can see how they sort of circled the wagons and said,
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who are these, uh, foreign journalists who are not under the same control that we are?
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How dare they describe a different narrative in English to the rest of the world? It was fascinating
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that Dutch journalists were more concerned about your reporting in a different point of view than
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they were about covering the news itself. I thought that was very telling and very, very scary.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. So they would rather, uh, report on the foreign reporters than the issues
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that are facing the Dutch people, which according to polls, it was about 85% are standing with the
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farmers. So for the media to be against them and not, but that's how I took it. The media seems to be
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more against the farmers than they are for them. And so when they're against that, they're against the
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people and they're kind of acting as the political arm of the prime minister.
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I think you're right. I mean, one of the conceits of journalists is they speak truth to power.
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They're the David versus Goliath. They're the Aaron Brockovich taking on the big company. But in
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reality, I think journalists serve power. And instead of holding the powerful to account,
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they were trying to hold you to account. They're trying to hold the farmers to account,
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which is an inversion. They're supposed to take on the toughest, biggest, baddest people,
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but they serve the toughest, biggest, baddest people. It's so upside down. I like your style.
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I like the fact that you had high energy. You worked very hard for a solid week. I don't think
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you took, you know, you slept at night, but that was about it. I'm looking forward to you joining the
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rebel team. And there's so many adventures that we have in mind already, not just in America,
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because there's a lot of stories there, but even doing things that we like to do. We have a tradition
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of going, for example, to the global warming conferences that the United Nations
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host. Yeah. And our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed has been to almost all of those since our company was
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born. The next global warming conference by the UN is in Egypt. Wow. Which is going to be interesting
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because I can tell you right now they're going to be using air conditioning in the desert.
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Of course they will be. And I can tell you right now that they'll be flying in private jets. So
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I hope you can join our squad going there. There's so many fascinating events around the world. And now
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that flying is slowly opening up again, I think you're going to do some great journalism. So welcome
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aboard. I can't wait. Thank you so much for having me. Well, we're just delighted. And I know our viewers
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are going to come to wait for your videos every day, just like so many of the citizen journalists.
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I love the story that you started as a citizen journalist, just doing what the mainstream
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media wouldn't do. And that is the story of Rebel News. So I think you are, you've been a rebel even
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longer than you knew. I think so too. Well, it's great to have her. There she is, Katie Davis Court,
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based in Seattle. She's here in our world headquarters for a couple of days, just meeting the team
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and seeing how we do things. And you'll see her back out on the streets. That's where the news is.
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We have lots of opinions. I share them with you nightly here from the studio, but
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the news is on the street and it's around the world. And Katie will help bring it to you. Stay with us.
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Well, everybody, it's great to be back in the chair. I'm always grateful to my friend David Menzies for
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spotting me off. I was doing a little bit of traveling. You know, I'm taking some time this
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summer to go out and visit some of our rebel supporters in different cities. As you know,
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I've sort of been on Trudeau's no-fly list like millions of other Canadians for a year. So I'm
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slowly getting out and about during the summertime to say hi to folks, even to say hi to my own family.
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I visited my folks in Calgary the other day. So I'm going to keep doing shows as often as possible
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this summer. But typically I will miss Friday, which is a great opportunity for other people at
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Rebel News to have a seat in the chair and try things out, whether it's David Menzies or Sheila
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Gunn-Reed. I will be here for some Fridays, but others I am going to try and continue my journey.
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I'm meeting with our strongest supporters in different cities, and hopefully that includes you.
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That's our show for today. What do you think about Katie? I am very excited to have her on the team.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home,
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Sleep easy tonight, Nabisco, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hershey's, and Pillsbury.
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Breathe a sigh of relief, PlayStation, Microsoft, and Apple. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus,
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you guys are off the hook too. Because the stark rise in lifestyle-related illnesses stemming from
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childhood obesity and a Western sedentary lifestyle, well, experts say it's not your fault,
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and it's not your bouncing baby butterballs fault either. It's not the fault of the junk
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food companies or the lockdowns or tech companies either. If you're fat and if your kids are fat,
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well, good news, you get to blame it on climate change.
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My talk at the table is a new study showing how climate change, specifically higher temperatures,
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is making our children more inactive and more obese. The study published in a journal temperature
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found today's children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age.
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Look at this. We'll read it from the hill. But this story was published in just about
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every single mainstream media outlet last week for about three insufferable days straight.
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Warm and global temperatures fueled by climate change are making children less physically fit
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and more obese than ever, a new study has found. A less active lifestyle caused by higher temperatures
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is putting kids at greater risk of suffering from heat-related health problems, including dehydration,
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heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke, according to the study published in the journal
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Temperature on Friday. As the world warms, children are the least fit they have ever been.
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Author Shonda Morrison, an environmental exercise physiologist, what on earth is that,
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at Slovenia's university said in a statement. I mean, this completely disregards that in the winter,
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us Canadians, at least anecdotally, get fat because we're forced to stay inside and do nothing
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just to survive because it's too cold, but okay. However, these science-y types have been pushing
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this nonsense since about 2008, that it's just too hot outside for people to be active,
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which will then prompt them to sit in the basement and eat, craft dinner, and play video games,
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which might make sense if you look at the nine billion people on the face of the earth through a very
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narrow western world view. The western world is experiencing increasing rates of obesity,
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but parts of the world where it is much warmer, much, much warmer, they don't have the same obesity
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and illnesses that sedentary processed food eating westerners have. It's not climate change,
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it's lifestyle, but anything to pass the blame away from personal failures and bad choices, I guess.
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Obesity is the real public health crisis. Now, I said I first saw this idea about obesity being
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caused by climate change in 2008, but it appears as though about every six months some self-described
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reputable medical or scientific organization publishes a study on this, and heavy, heavy on
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the air quotes when I say medical or scientific. For example, this one is from earth.org. Boiled down,
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it says that since children are getting fatter, and since these people have decided that climate
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change is definitely happening and it's human induced, one must be directly correlated to the
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other. Probably has absolutely nothing to do with the complete inversion of the food pyramid and all
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those processed carbohydrates that kids take in out of convenience or necessity these days. And this
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article from WebMD poses the chicken or the egg question, but again for this ridiculous topic.
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You see, obesity is going to make climate change worse. Or will climate change make obesity worse?
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Or is this just a snake eating its tail and I should probably just get out of its way and let it happen
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and enjoy the uncomplicated view from over here where I love single-use plastics, burning my garbage
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and eating way too much steak. And let me be clear, I'm not making fun of obese kids or obese people. I
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feel terrible for them and I'm angry at the decision makers who led society down this path,
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damning our young people to an existence inside a body that doesn't do what they need it to do.
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Society has failed kids on this issue, on many issues. We feed them garbage, we make them lazy,
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we make them depressed, we make them anxious, we make them shut-ins, and we addicted them to technology
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which reinforces all the other problems of depression, anxiety, hermetism, and grabbing garbage
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food in between video games and Instagram reels. And we did it all the same way we did these last two
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years. The last two years, we let big pharma influence us. The last 50 years, we let big
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processed food do it. Big food influenced the government long before big pharma ever did.
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And boy, is it ever handy for those responsible for all of this mess to have the weather be the
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scapegoat for what they've done to our kids? For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.