Rebel News Podcast - October 08, 2022


EZRA LEVANT ｜ When it comes to the mainstream media, they just can't get enough taxpayer-dollars


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

145.6643

Word Count

6,637

Sentence Count

384

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

When it comes to the media and its now insatiable desire for more and more taxpayer dollars, the title of a James Bond flick comes to mind, namely, The World Is Not Enough. Thus that the CBC received more than a billion dollars annually in taxpayer money in recent years, and my God, where, oh where do they spend that money? Oh, you weren t a consultant? Well, suck it up, buttercup. You see, the Trudeau Liberals know what's best for you. Kind of like Rogers did back in 1994. Remember negative option billing? It was chutzpah on steroids.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight, the lamestream media hates you, but they love your bailouts and they want more.
00:00:23.400 It's Friday, October 7th, 2022. I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:42.720 When it comes to the media and its now insatiable desire for more and more taxpayer dollars,
00:00:53.400 the title of a James Bond flick comes to mind, namely, The World is Not Enough.
00:00:59.440 T'was ever thus that the CBC received more than a billion dollars annually.
00:01:04.440 And my God, where, oh where, do they spend that money?
00:01:09.440 But in recent years, the non-CBC mainstream media has been receiving taxpayer bailouts too.
00:01:16.440 Oh, you weren't consultant? Well, suck it up, buttercup.
00:01:21.040 You see, the Justin Trudeau liberals know what's best for you.
00:01:24.840 Kind of like Rogers did back in 1994. Remember negative option billing?
00:01:29.640 It was chutzpah on steroids, really.
00:01:32.720 Rogers decided to add a whole bunch of crappy channels to their subscribers' playlists,
00:01:38.280 which would be kind of nice if it was a gif, but it wasn't.
00:01:43.940 You see, if you didn't want the channels, it was incumbent upon you to contact Rogers
00:01:49.940 and cancel those channels.
00:01:53.400 Otherwise, you'd be billed for content you never asked for and never planned to view.
00:01:59.480 Thus, negative optioning.
00:02:01.440 By the way, that was yet another brilliant idea cooked up by Toronto Mayor John Tory.
00:02:09.380 But the thing is, what is happening with the government-funded media properties is even worse.
00:02:15.520 You see, at least old man Rogers gave you the option of opting out of such negativity.
00:02:21.920 The Trudeau liberals are much like the nefarious Borg from Star Trek.
00:02:26.140 You know, resistance is futile, self-determination is irrelevant.
00:02:30.180 Sugar Daddy Trudeau will continue to fund media properties with your money, whether you like it or not.
00:02:39.360 You might make an argument that this is what government does, unfortunately.
00:02:44.720 It picks winners and losers in the marketplace and cuts checks, again with your money,
00:02:50.500 and bails out those companies it takes a liking to.
00:02:53.980 General Motors, Chrysler, Bombardier, and the list goes on and on.
00:02:58.340 The thing is, the idea of government, aka taxpayers, constantly propping up losers,
00:03:05.700 is completely opposite to how a free market economy should function.
00:03:11.760 The free market subscribes to an economic version of Darwinism, namely survival of the fittest, evolve or go extinct.
00:03:19.920 There should be no safety net, at least no safety net paid for by citizens who have absolutely no say in the matter.
00:03:30.000 But as bad as it is to bail out manufacturers of automobiles and aerospace equipment,
00:03:36.060 it is immeasurably worse to bail out media companies.
00:03:40.020 That's because there are several ethical and moral issues at play when the watchdogs of society are paid off by the very entity that it should be holding to account.
00:03:52.720 It is a grotesque conflict of interest, and it is incredible to see that it has become the new normal.
00:04:01.220 You know, the other day, I dusted off my old copy of this, Morals and the Media, subtitled Ethics in Canadian Journalism.
00:04:12.040 Now, folks, this edition was published in 2006, not really that long ago.
00:04:17.040 And yet I was stunned that this book, through no fault of its author,
00:04:21.760 has been rendered obsolete in 2022, given the current lay of the media land in our great dominion.
00:04:28.880 For example, consider the chapter, The Media and Money.
00:04:33.860 There's a sidebar entitled Canadian Association of Journalists on Accepting Gifts.
00:04:39.280 And it reads like this, quote,
00:04:40.820 We should not accept or solicit gifts, passes, or favors for personal use.
00:04:47.120 We must pay our own way to ensure independence.
00:04:51.420 If another organization pays our expenses to an event that we are writing about, we should say so.
00:04:58.880 So that the reader, viewer, or listener can take this into account.
00:05:04.280 We will promptly return unsolicited gifts of more than nominal value.
00:05:09.400 If it is impractical to return the gift, we will give it to an appropriate charity or institution.
00:05:16.160 End quote.
00:05:16.580 Like I said, folks, this 16-year-old book is irreparably obsolete and broken,
00:05:24.380 given the way in which journalism is funded by the taxpayer today.
00:05:28.480 And yes, I do think that mainstream media outlets that are being funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year
00:05:37.460 does indeed meet the benchmark of, quote,
00:05:40.980 a gift of more than nominal value.
00:05:43.680 End quote.
00:05:44.920 But the media minions, they're quite content to devolve from society's watchdogs to Justin Trudeau's lapdogs.
00:05:53.940 Golly, I'd love to know what Bell Media's Evan Solomon has to say about journalistic ethics being so brutally compromised these days.
00:06:01.940 Oopsie, I forgot this just in.
00:06:05.540 Yesterday was Solomon's last day at Bell Media.
00:06:08.440 You see, Solomon was recently named the new publisher of GZero Media,
00:06:14.280 a global affairs news site and a subsidiary of New York City-based political risk analysis firm Eurasia Group.
00:06:22.400 Now, that rings a bell.
00:06:25.280 This isn't the same Eurasia Group that has as its vice chairman, Gerald Butts,
00:06:30.400 a.k.a. Justin Trudeau's favorite boyfriend.
00:06:33.960 Oh, yes, it is.
00:06:35.960 So, you see, this is what happens when journalists like Evan Solomon are so loyal to Prime Minister Blackface McGroper.
00:06:44.380 They are put on the fast track for promotion.
00:06:47.060 For the past seven years at Bell Media, Solomon has proven to be a wonderful little train seal.
00:06:53.420 And his reward is not a fish, but a nice New York City gig and undoubtedly a salary in the high six figures.
00:07:01.920 Hey, there's hope for you, Rachel Crymore.
00:07:04.680 But please keep your blouse on.
00:07:07.460 The liberals are looking to appoint more operatives in political risk analysis firms.
00:07:12.780 They're not so much interested in recruiting waitresses for Hooters or dancers for the Zanzibar.
00:07:19.340 By the way, speaking of ethics, I should point out that prior to his Bell Media gig, Solomon was a CBCer.
00:07:28.580 But he had to part ways with the public broadcaster in 2015.
00:07:32.680 You see, there was an internal review of his side business of brokering high-end art sales.
00:07:40.700 And that included guests that had appeared on his programs.
00:07:45.120 Oh, man.
00:07:46.200 Gee, I guess Solomon never read Morals in the Media.
00:07:50.400 Certainly not that chapter pertaining to media and money.
00:07:55.020 That's okay.
00:07:56.160 He's out of the journalism racket now.
00:07:58.280 He'll be a good little useful idiot when it comes to advising Justin Trudeau on censoring the journalism business.
00:08:06.760 You know, the industry from which he came.
00:08:09.760 Unbelievable.
00:08:11.080 But at least there are some scribes still around who are calling out the media party for its unethical and immoral behavior.
00:08:19.140 Consider the superb commentary last week in the Epoch Times penned by Peter Menzies.
00:08:24.640 No relation.
00:08:26.080 Entitled, You Can't Build a Viable Media Culture on Bailouts and Political Favors.
00:08:33.160 Quote, According to Advocates for Canada's Online News Act, Bill C-18, Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media baron's shakedown of online web giants Meta and Google,
00:08:45.780 has already saved the newspaper industry down under.
00:08:49.340 And once this country passes its legislation, it's going to be jobs, jobs, jobs for journos.
00:08:57.760 Jason Kint, CEO of Digital Content Next, a U.S.-based trade organization slash lobby group,
00:09:06.020 flew into Ottawa from Washington, D.C. to appear before the House of Commons Heritage Committee on September 27th.
00:09:13.340 There he dismissed highly respected critics, such as Dr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet Law at the University of Ottawa,
00:09:24.640 of spreading misinformation, declared the Aussie rules to be a sweeping victory for journalism,
00:09:31.460 left me with the general impression that anyone who disagreed with him was paid for by global web monopolists and flew home.
00:09:41.760 In terms of lobbying, it was a masterful performance.
00:09:46.880 All Canada had to do, he assured those listening, was to follow Australia's Murdoch-inspired model.
00:09:53.880 And judging by the warm reception he received from Liberal MPs, that's what Canada intends to do.
00:10:01.680 Trouble is, while I can't find evidence it has helped Murdoch's market-dominating Australian News Corp,
00:10:08.680 he also owns the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Dow Jones, HarperCollins, the UK Sun, the Times, the Sunday Times, etc.
00:10:16.800 I'm having trouble finding proof these latest subsidies are going to be enough.
00:10:23.920 After all, the first $119 million a year in tax credits that Canada's newspaper industry managed to squeeze out of taxpayers in 2019 hasn't created any more jobs.
00:10:37.480 Sure, the pandemic was an issue, but there was additional subsidies for that.
00:10:42.300 And if you don't want to believe me, take it from Jamie Irving, chair of News Media Canada, the trade group lobbying for online loot.
00:10:53.720 The financial pressures facing Canadian news outlets due to the current market failure are only becoming more dire,
00:11:01.100 he wrote to the Commons Finance Committee earlier this year.
00:11:04.680 We are forecasting annual losses as an industry of about $500 million a year.
00:11:10.740 It would appear that even if the Canadian news industry lobby that now includes CBC, Bell Media, and other broadcasters
00:11:19.240 is able to shake $500 million annually out of Mark Zuckerberg's and Google's pockets,
00:11:26.620 the best they can do is break even.
00:11:30.020 So, still, no jobs, end quote.
00:11:33.000 Well, there you have it, folks.
00:11:34.020 Millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and in the CBC's case, more than a billion dollars.
00:11:40.540 The gravy train just hurdles down the track delivering content that less and less of us, you know, the consumers, want to consume.
00:11:50.720 And look at some of these parent companies, will you?
00:11:54.040 Bell Media is owned by Bell Canada Enterprises, and BCE recorded an income of $2.89 billion last year,
00:12:02.640 which was up from the income of $2.7 billion in 2020.
00:12:08.900 So, maybe if Bell wants to be a media baron as well as, you know, a co-owner of a hockey and basketball team,
00:12:16.400 it should dig into its own bank account to prop up its media properties.
00:12:21.980 And if those media properties, as opposed to professional sports teams, are not moneymakers,
00:12:28.940 then I would suggest Bell has a decision to make.
00:12:33.580 Either run the media department as a charity case,
00:12:36.880 or it could sell off Bell Media and stick to those businesses, you know,
00:12:42.780 cell phones, internet service, etc., where it can actually make money.
00:12:47.980 But for a multi-billion dollar entity like BCE to come cap in hand to the government
00:12:54.580 and demand taxpayer dollars so that it can continue to broadcast woke garbage
00:13:02.520 that fewer and fewer of us want to watch or listen to,
00:13:07.220 I'm sorry, that is sheer unmitigated gall on both sides.
00:13:12.320 Bell, the recipient, and the Trudeau liberals, the sugar daddies.
00:13:16.360 But here's the crux of the matter.
00:13:19.220 The credibility of mainstream media journalists has never been lower.
00:13:24.340 While the likes of Soyboy Solomon and Rachel Crymore gasp when they are confronted by members of the public
00:13:30.040 chanting, fake news, fake news, right in their sourpuss faces,
00:13:35.080 they are oblivious to the fact that by hurrying themselves out to the Justin Trudeau liberals,
00:13:40.960 they have hoisted themselves upon their own petards.
00:13:44.700 And yes, I have the proverbial proof in the pudding.
00:13:48.800 Check out this story from June headlined,
00:13:51.620 Canadians, trust in the news media hits a new low.
00:13:55.760 Quote, according to the Reuters Institute's 2022 digital news report,
00:14:01.900 trust in the Canadian news media has sunk to its lowest point in seven years.
00:14:07.720 The study produced by the Reuters Institute for the study of journalism at the University of Oxford
00:14:15.000 has found that trust in the news has dropped 13% since 2016.
00:14:21.980 Only 42% of Canadian respondents trust most news most of the time.
00:14:29.180 Slight drop from last year's 45%.
00:14:32.060 It's possible that government support programs for news media, such as federal tax credits,
00:14:39.400 are linked to the more negative perceptions about the media.
00:14:44.660 To be sure, these funding programs have allowed the Canadian news media much-needed breathing space
00:14:51.440 to recover financially, in addition to a boost in advertising revenue during the pandemic.
00:14:58.160 But they have also generated criticism and fueled concerns regarding journalistic independence.
00:15:07.660 End quote.
00:15:08.100 Well, knock me down with a feather.
00:15:11.400 You mean to tell me that the majority of Canadians,
00:15:14.380 one, don't trust the mainstream media,
00:15:17.060 two, aren't willing to support the mainstream media by purchasing subscriptions,
00:15:22.620 and three, doubt the validity of journalistic independence and integrity,
00:15:28.240 given they are increasingly funded by the federal government?
00:15:32.240 You don't say.
00:15:34.040 And now that the government's grandiose plans to prop up friendly media outlets
00:15:40.260 isn't working out all that well,
00:15:42.900 well, the censorious thugs who comprise the Trudeau liberals
00:15:46.160 are putting away the carrot and they're picking up the stick.
00:15:50.380 Which is to say, for those independent media outlets, such as Rebel News,
00:15:55.780 you know, the ones who refuse to play ball,
00:15:58.500 well, then, it's obviously time to regulate, i.e. censor, the internet.
00:16:06.000 As Peter Menzies notes in his column,
00:16:08.400 quote,
00:16:08.720 The Trudeau government is already well on its way to regulating the internet
00:16:13.600 in order to enrich one class of approved creators at the expense of another.
00:16:20.040 And it's planning to crack down on speech,
00:16:22.760 of which it and certain classes of people disapprove at the expense of others.
00:16:28.500 Now, with the Online News Act,
00:16:31.420 it appears ready to insert the state into the newsrooms of the nation.
00:16:37.620 End quote.
00:16:38.260 Unbelievable.
00:16:39.820 Oh, sure, such bills need Senate approval.
00:16:43.140 And even if that is achieved,
00:16:45.800 you can expect years and years of legal challenges ahead
00:16:49.440 as our dominion becomes more like China
00:16:52.540 and less like, well, Canada classic.
00:16:56.460 Our other source of hope is regime change.
00:17:00.320 I can tell you that when I covered several Pierre Polyev rallies
00:17:04.260 when he was running for the CPC,
00:17:05.620 the one pledge that always generated the loudest and most prolonged standing ovation
00:17:14.180 was Mr. Polyev's statement that if elected prime minister,
00:17:19.100 he will defund the CPC.
00:17:22.840 This current liberal government is morally and ethically bankrupt,
00:17:27.560 just like the state-sponsored members of the media party
00:17:30.860 who serves this government.
00:17:33.300 For those who cherish freedom
00:17:36.080 as opposed to the basic dictatorship of China
00:17:39.540 that Prime Minister Blackface so admires,
00:17:43.260 we need a new sheriff on Parliament Hill,
00:17:46.140 one that will end the grotesque subsidies
00:17:49.420 to failing media properties
00:17:51.700 and someone who thinks that contrary to popular belief
00:17:56.100 in certain elitist circles,
00:17:59.480 that censorship is not a good thing.
00:18:02.900 I think most people here, virtually everybody, would agree with that.
00:18:18.680 I guess there's a lot of people experiencing buyer's remorse
00:18:21.980 from the 1979 revolution.
00:18:24.460 Yeah, I agree with that.
00:18:25.700 And that's why we all here
00:18:27.580 and we're supporting the people and our people
00:18:30.060 and their voice in here.
00:18:33.340 And, you know, it's such a shame
00:18:35.360 what happened to Miss Amini.
00:18:38.100 She was arrested by the morality police,
00:18:41.240 died for not allegedly wearing her hijab properly.
00:18:44.940 How can this force be called the morality police?
00:18:48.460 That seems to be the most immoral thing possible,
00:18:51.400 killing someone for not wearing clothing properly.
00:18:54.060 That is just shameful and this is not right.
00:18:57.460 Well, folks, that was the scene in Richmond Hill last Saturday
00:19:00.920 when more than 50,000 mostly Persian Canadians
00:19:05.220 showed up to protest against the Iranian regime.
00:19:09.160 But these people realize they have no true ally
00:19:13.120 in the Justin Trudeau Liberals.
00:19:15.240 The very MP for Richmond Hill, after all, Majid Johari,
00:19:18.820 is pro-Iranian regime, if you can believe it.
00:19:21.080 And this government, for reasons that remain baffling,
00:19:25.520 has yet to put the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:19:28.980 on the terrorism list.
00:19:31.000 Then again, when it comes to Prime Minister Blackface McGroper,
00:19:34.740 he has admiration in his heart
00:19:36.520 for the basic dictatorship that is China
00:19:39.000 in terms of, you know, getting things done.
00:19:42.360 Maybe he also admires Iran for the same reasons.
00:19:46.880 Absolutely despicable.
00:19:48.160 And joining me now to try and make sense of it all
00:19:51.400 is Nikki Ballou, the author of eight best-selling books
00:19:55.060 and someone who left Iran for a better life in Canada
00:19:58.120 many years ago.
00:19:59.620 Nikki, welcome to the Ezra Levent Show.
00:20:02.680 Before we get into Canada's response to Iran
00:20:05.680 or what you'd like to see Canada's response to be, Nikki,
00:20:10.220 here's the big picture, I think.
00:20:12.520 Here's the crux of the matter.
00:20:13.720 What we're seeing in Iran with all these protests,
00:20:17.120 all these girls throwing their hijabs off,
00:20:20.480 cutting their hair, chanting death to the mullahs,
00:20:24.580 is this just a blip that's going to be violently extinguished?
00:20:29.620 Or are we indeed seeing the very beginning of a regime change
00:20:33.700 and the end of the rule of these murderous mullahs?
00:20:37.660 Well, listen, it's difficult to really predict that
00:20:42.080 with any level of certainty, David,
00:20:43.900 but I certainly pray and hope fervently that this will be the case.
00:20:48.360 You know, these women are fighting not just for women,
00:20:53.400 they're fighting for men.
00:20:55.480 They're fighting not just for the people of Iran,
00:20:59.060 they're fighting for people everywhere.
00:21:00.520 Because if any one of us is unfree anywhere around the world,
00:21:04.820 the rest of us are unfree.
00:21:06.780 These women have shown tremendous courage.
00:21:09.080 Mahsa Amini, you know, was murdered for the crime
00:21:12.220 of not having all of her hair covered.
00:21:16.460 A wrestler in Iran by the name of Navid Afghari
00:21:19.240 was killed because he stood up against the local regime official
00:21:24.700 trying to get food for the people of his village.
00:21:27.620 This man was a world champion wrestler and they hung him for that.
00:21:32.400 It's unbelievable.
00:21:34.020 And, you know, what is incredible too, I find, Nicky,
00:21:37.640 I mean, our friend Tarek Fatah had a very interesting column
00:21:42.220 two days ago in the Toronto Sun, which was entitled,
00:21:47.020 Why Weren't Canada's Feminists and Leftists at the Big Iran Protest?
00:21:53.360 And I think one of the conclusions Tarek comes to
00:21:57.780 is that the world is so perverse and so woke and so politically correct
00:22:02.860 that maybe to take a stance against the Iranian regime
00:22:07.880 might be interpreted as Islamophobic,
00:22:11.180 which is nonsense in my book,
00:22:13.320 because the greatest victims of the Iranian regime
00:22:16.900 are Iranians in Iran.
00:22:19.180 Well, he's absolutely 100% right.
00:22:22.840 But the other thing that you need to understand
00:22:24.560 is that the left actually is the racist entity in the world.
00:22:29.920 The Democrat Party in the United States
00:22:31.800 has always been the party of racism.
00:22:33.620 They're the ones who held the slaves.
00:22:35.400 They got angry at the Republicans for,
00:22:37.260 you know, freeing their slaves.
00:22:39.480 And then they realized that they couldn't be so open
00:22:42.160 in their racism.
00:22:43.420 So they became crypto racists.
00:22:45.980 And what they do is they point fingers at other people
00:22:48.580 and they falsely accuse them of racism
00:22:50.500 to cover up their own racism.
00:22:52.000 I mean, you spoke about our Prime Minister,
00:22:54.800 Justin Trudeau, wearing blackface.
00:22:56.700 I mean, there are three separate occasions
00:22:58.700 in which this man is on camera wearing blackface.
00:23:03.320 That tells you everything you need to know
00:23:05.720 about the true racism that resides in the hearts of the left.
00:23:09.500 But as far as Iran is concerned,
00:23:11.100 right now there's been a lot of pressure
00:23:13.160 by the Conservative Party.
00:23:15.560 Pierre Poiliev has been absolutely magnificent
00:23:17.980 in getting up and speaking for the Iranian people
00:23:22.000 for freedom.
00:23:23.940 He was out in Ottawa speaking
00:23:26.000 to the gathered protesters over there.
00:23:28.080 And the pressure that Poiliev and the Conservative
00:23:30.980 have brought down on the Liberal government
00:23:33.560 has forced them to announce
00:23:34.820 a whole bunch of sanctions today.
00:23:36.620 So I think that they need to keep that pressure up.
00:23:39.140 And I think the people of Canada
00:23:40.380 need to keep that pressure up.
00:23:41.420 I'd like to see another set of demonstrations,
00:23:43.540 but I don't just want to see Iranian people
00:23:45.780 out at those demonstrations.
00:23:47.200 I want to see Canadians in those demonstrations.
00:23:50.020 I mean, these folks are fighting for freedom
00:23:52.460 for everybody.
00:23:53.400 They're fighting for freedom for Muslims,
00:23:55.100 for Christians, for Baha'is, for Jews, for Hindus,
00:23:58.520 for white people, for black people, for Asian people.
00:24:02.120 They are fighting for human freedom.
00:24:04.700 And we all need to stand up with them.
00:24:08.360 And I love what you folks at Rebel News are doing.
00:24:11.720 You're reporting on this and other issues
00:24:13.940 is forcing the Liberal government here in Canada
00:24:17.900 to pay attention and take notice.
00:24:20.360 The Canadian people are seeing the horrible,
00:24:23.140 horrific things that are being done
00:24:25.200 to these brave men and women
00:24:26.720 that are fighting, bleeding, and dying
00:24:28.760 for the rest of us to enjoy freedom.
00:24:31.640 You're 100% right, Nick.
00:24:33.960 And you referenced Justin Trudeau announcing
00:24:36.320 very recently more sanctions against Iran.
00:24:39.640 I think that's baby steps, quite frankly, Nick.
00:24:42.360 I think, why can't we have Justin Trudeau
00:24:45.740 sanction those members of his caucus,
00:24:48.940 first and foremost, the MP for Richmond Hill,
00:24:52.140 where this incredible protest took place last Saturday,
00:24:55.880 Majid Johari.
00:24:56.740 And, you know, I have a feeling
00:24:59.620 there is something in the air about these uprisings,
00:25:02.420 that there might be a positive outcome,
00:25:04.240 that we might see regime change.
00:25:06.280 And I say that, Nicky,
00:25:08.100 because if you look at Johari's recent tweets
00:25:11.960 and what he's stating on social media,
00:25:14.300 he's all down with the Iranian people all of a sudden.
00:25:17.880 Sorry, Majid, as the saying goes,
00:25:20.480 a leopard cannot change its spots.
00:25:22.600 We know how you really feel.
00:25:24.460 But first and foremost, Nicky, that's what I would do.
00:25:29.900 I would purge the caucus of people like Johari
00:25:33.840 who are friendly to the regime
00:25:36.660 because I don't know what they're doing there.
00:25:40.200 I would also prevent members of the regime
00:25:43.600 freely coming into Canada who have blood on their hands
00:25:46.740 and they get into our country easy peasy,
00:25:50.780 nothing to see here.
00:25:51.800 And then when it comes to the IGRC,
00:25:54.660 I mean, Nicky, why isn't that on the terrorism list?
00:25:59.180 Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
00:26:03.080 But for Justin Trudeau, this is a nothing burger?
00:26:07.180 Well, like I said, the pressure that Rebel News
00:26:10.120 and the Conservative Party are bringing
00:26:11.940 on the liberal government is magnificent.
00:26:14.820 You got to keep pushing for the IRGC to be put on the terror list.
00:26:21.940 And I agree.
00:26:23.380 I think the Liberal Party should be pressured
00:26:25.480 to expel members of their caucus
00:26:28.240 that have supported the Iranian regime and the IRGC.
00:26:31.820 And, you know, Mr. Johari, no question about it that he's done that.
00:26:36.080 He's got to be made to be held to account for his positions.
00:26:40.580 And Justin Trudeau would be giving a strong message to all Canadians,
00:26:45.780 but especially Iranian Canadians.
00:26:47.920 And any Canadian that has come here escaping tyranny,
00:26:52.940 come here for a better life,
00:26:54.840 to live in freedom for themselves and their family,
00:26:57.040 should be clear that unless Justin Trudeau kicks out members of his caucus
00:27:02.760 that are supporters of those tyrannies,
00:27:05.380 he has lost all moral authority,
00:27:09.080 all moral authority to be able to claim
00:27:11.580 that he represents freedom and the Canadian tradition.
00:27:15.380 And therefore, all these folks need to make sure
00:27:19.480 that they do not vote for Trudeau and his liberals
00:27:22.000 and they vote against him.
00:27:23.520 Even if you've never been a Conservative before,
00:27:25.080 this isn't about Conservative versus Liberal.
00:27:27.880 This is about freedom-loving versus tyranny.
00:27:30.380 This is about Canadian values
00:27:32.200 versus the types of values that are abhorrent to Canadians.
00:27:36.280 And all Canadians need to stand up against this
00:27:38.720 because the Liberal Party no longer represents Canada.
00:27:42.360 I believe that we need to push the Liberal Party
00:27:45.860 to change its colors.
00:27:47.780 The colors of red and white,
00:27:49.060 which are the same colors as Canada,
00:27:51.000 the Liberal Party right now, based on how it's acting,
00:27:53.560 does not deserve to have those colors represent their party.
00:27:56.680 They need to put some other colors in there,
00:27:59.500 you know, maybe black and red,
00:28:01.500 because it seems to be that they're representing fascist ideals
00:28:05.100 more than they're representing Canadian ideals.
00:28:07.860 Those are my thoughts on the issue.
00:28:09.940 And I hope to God that Reblus will continue to pressure,
00:28:14.100 the Liberals will continue to bring this out to light
00:28:16.820 and will continue to expose Majid Johari
00:28:19.860 and people like him that are supporting the Iranian government.
00:28:22.880 And I hope that Pierre Paliyev watches this.
00:28:25.860 And Pierre, please, please press the Liberals
00:28:28.760 to expel anyone in their caucus
00:28:32.440 who has supported the Iranian regime.
00:28:34.840 I think that's the next step.
00:28:36.120 I think it's a powerful step.
00:28:37.480 I think it's an important step.
00:28:38.760 And if he takes that step,
00:28:41.300 then everything, I believe, is going to start to build in Canada
00:28:45.500 and that the global energy to help bring freedom to Iran
00:28:49.800 is going to just take shape
00:28:52.300 and it's going to help change the regime.
00:28:54.880 Because I'm telling you, these brave men and women,
00:28:57.740 Mahsa Amini, Navid Afghari,
00:28:59.960 and the men and women that are being attacked
00:29:02.160 and killed in the streets,
00:29:04.380 they're not just fighting for their own freedom.
00:29:06.440 They're fighting for the freedom of every man, woman, and child,
00:29:11.160 not just in Iran,
00:29:12.420 but in every country that's being oppressed.
00:29:15.140 Not just in every country that's being oppressed,
00:29:17.680 but even in our own home country of Canada
00:29:20.460 and in the Free West.
00:29:21.820 They are, with their bravery,
00:29:23.380 reminding us of what true moral courage looks like.
00:29:28.360 They're bleeding and dying for Baha'is,
00:29:32.160 not yet born.
00:29:33.280 They're bleeding and dying for Muslims in Iran
00:29:35.600 that are not yet born.
00:29:37.380 They're bleeding and dying for Christians.
00:29:39.380 They're bleeding and dying for Hindus, for atheists.
00:29:44.520 They're bleeding and dying for every single human being
00:29:47.440 who believes in freedom.
00:29:48.780 And I've got to tell you,
00:29:49.960 they make me so proud to be an Iranian,
00:29:52.100 so, so proud,
00:29:53.540 because they represent the very best in us, my friend.
00:29:56.180 A hundred percent, Nicky.
00:29:57.400 And I mean, I think, you know,
00:29:58.640 if we turn back the clock to 1979,
00:30:02.220 certainly the Shah, he was no Boy Scout.
00:30:05.360 I grant you that.
00:30:06.600 But every Iranian I've ever met post-1979,
00:30:10.900 they are suffering from buyer's remorse.
00:30:13.180 If they could reverse the, you know,
00:30:15.960 the calendar to 79,
00:30:18.540 there would be no revolution.
00:30:19.580 But that's the thing.
00:30:21.200 Are we on the cusp, potentially,
00:30:22.920 of another revolution?
00:30:25.160 I think usually when the tide turns for a dictatorship
00:30:29.700 is when members of the police and the military
00:30:32.860 stop following orders
00:30:34.800 and turn their guns on the dictatorship
00:30:37.460 as opposed to the people.
00:30:39.320 I'm wondering, Nicky,
00:30:40.420 you left Iran many years ago,
00:30:42.460 but I assume you reach out to members of the,
00:30:46.680 in Tehran that you know of,
00:30:50.000 people who live there.
00:30:51.300 What are they saying about the situation on the ground,
00:30:55.700 about what could potentially happen
00:30:58.220 in the days and weeks ahead?
00:31:01.600 Look, my friend, you know,
00:31:03.480 folks aren't going to be speaking on a live phone call
00:31:07.220 because phone calls outside of the country are monitored.
00:31:10.340 Okay, so I'm just going to be straight with you about that.
00:31:12.480 So let's not put anyone in danger.
00:31:15.300 But what I will tell you this
00:31:17.380 is that they're all hopeful.
00:31:19.740 They all have had enough of this government.
00:31:22.980 And honestly, they want people
00:31:25.620 to have the right to just live life,
00:31:28.900 live life, be able to go outside,
00:31:31.100 not have to worry about having their hair uncovered,
00:31:33.680 be able to like go get the kind of job
00:31:35.920 that they want for themselves.
00:31:37.980 Be able to travel freely outside of the country.
00:31:40.640 They want to have a government there
00:31:41.820 that isn't so corrupt
00:31:42.800 that it's stealing all of Iran's wealth
00:31:44.800 for a privileged few.
00:31:47.020 And they want the bounty of Iran
00:31:49.680 and its natural resources
00:31:50.980 to be available to the people.
00:31:53.380 They're yearning to breathe free, my friend.
00:31:55.820 You know, what is it that,
00:31:57.300 that wonderful kind of inscription
00:31:59.120 at the Statue of Liberty in the,
00:32:01.460 in the US that says,
00:32:02.740 give me your poor,
00:32:04.200 you're tired,
00:32:04.800 you're huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
00:32:08.220 Those are the people of Iran.
00:32:10.320 And honestly,
00:32:10.820 those are oppressed people everywhere.
00:32:14.100 Everywhere.
00:32:14.900 I'm surprised the Antifa types
00:32:16.920 haven't toppled the Statue of Liberty yet,
00:32:19.680 Nicky,
00:32:19.960 but give them time.
00:32:21.920 You know,
00:32:22.320 the one noticeable absence
00:32:23.780 at that protest,
00:32:25.060 as you mentioned,
00:32:25.920 Pierre Polyev was there
00:32:27.080 and he addressed the crowd
00:32:28.420 to rousing ovations.
00:32:30.460 But Prime Minister Trudeau,
00:32:32.180 he wasn't there.
00:32:33.040 I know there was some urgent state business
00:32:35.060 that day in Canada.
00:32:35.940 I can't remember
00:32:36.820 if it was surfing in Tofino
00:32:39.400 or going bungee jumping.
00:32:41.920 But I thought
00:32:43.240 that showed
00:32:44.420 an incredible measure of contempt
00:32:46.740 for this regime.
00:32:48.440 And when you think of it,
00:32:49.560 Liberals should be all about
00:32:51.500 the freedom of assembly,
00:32:53.080 the freedom to protest
00:32:54.060 women's rights,
00:32:55.380 for goodness sake.
00:32:56.220 And this is such
00:32:57.260 a misogynistic regime
00:32:59.200 that you'd think
00:33:00.320 it'd be a no-brainer
00:33:01.260 for the Prime Minister
00:33:02.480 to be there.
00:33:03.860 But he was a no-show,
00:33:06.260 as usual.
00:33:06.880 We've got to wrap it here, Nicky.
00:33:08.540 If there were,
00:33:09.800 let's put it this way,
00:33:10.880 if you had the ear
00:33:11.980 of the Prime Minister,
00:33:12.940 either the current one
00:33:13.920 or the next one,
00:33:14.900 presumably Pierre Polyev,
00:33:16.760 and you were to advise him
00:33:18.660 on what he could do tangibly
00:33:20.800 to help the Iranian people
00:33:23.400 right now
00:33:24.360 in their moment of need,
00:33:26.460 what would it be, my friend?
00:33:28.820 Well, you know,
00:33:29.620 in the 80s,
00:33:31.260 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney,
00:33:33.600 who was a conservative,
00:33:35.540 led the Commonwealth
00:33:36.700 and the world
00:33:37.900 in putting up sanctions
00:33:40.280 against the apartheid regime
00:33:42.540 in South Africa,
00:33:43.900 which was a bad regime,
00:33:46.540 but compared to this regime,
00:33:47.860 they're a bunch of boys.
00:33:49.120 Okay?
00:33:50.420 And Canada led the world
00:33:52.280 against even their great ally
00:33:55.920 in the United States
00:33:56.960 and against their great ally
00:33:58.640 in the U.K.
00:33:59.940 when they led the world
00:34:01.280 in taking a strong,
00:34:03.540 resolute moral stand
00:34:04.860 against an evil regime.
00:34:06.560 And I believe
00:34:07.780 that Canada can do that again.
00:34:10.040 If Pierre Polyev becomes
00:34:11.360 Prime Minister,
00:34:12.620 he too can lead the world,
00:34:14.500 can lead the Commonwealth
00:34:15.480 in strong sanctions
00:34:18.500 against this government
00:34:19.800 and saying that Canada
00:34:21.620 today will no longer
00:34:23.700 tolerate this kind of behavior.
00:34:24.860 And if Iran wants
00:34:25.820 to be recognized
00:34:27.120 as a, you know,
00:34:28.900 a full valued member
00:34:30.860 of the global community,
00:34:32.040 the government of Iran
00:34:33.640 needs to change
00:34:34.720 its policies
00:34:35.500 toward its own people.
00:34:37.320 That's what Brian Mulroney did.
00:34:38.700 It was one of his
00:34:39.460 most courageous
00:34:40.740 and notable achievements
00:34:42.620 as Prime Minister.
00:34:44.080 And I believe Pierre Polyev
00:34:45.380 can do the same thing.
00:34:46.200 I don't hold out much hope
00:34:47.460 for Justin Trudeau doing it,
00:34:49.180 but if I had his ear,
00:34:50.340 I'd tell him to do it.
00:34:51.840 And I believe
00:34:52.400 that the next Prime Minister
00:34:53.420 is going to be
00:34:55.000 Pierre Polyev.
00:34:56.660 I believe that he will
00:34:58.000 win the next election
00:34:59.100 and I believe
00:34:59.720 it will be a landslide.
00:35:01.340 I don't believe
00:35:01.940 there's going to be
00:35:02.480 a whole lot of Liberal
00:35:03.300 or NDP seats
00:35:04.500 left after that election.
00:35:06.240 And Mr. Polyev,
00:35:07.740 please do that.
00:35:08.840 Please become
00:35:09.540 the Brian Mulroney
00:35:10.540 of the 2020s
00:35:12.260 and help us
00:35:14.100 bring the evil
00:35:15.720 that is being brought about
00:35:17.820 by the Iranian regime
00:35:19.360 toward women
00:35:20.200 to an end.
00:35:21.940 These women
00:35:22.540 are the true feminists.
00:35:23.660 They are truly fighting
00:35:24.580 for women's rights.
00:35:25.800 God bless them.
00:35:27.020 God bless Mahsa Amini.
00:35:28.400 God bless the women of Iran.
00:35:30.040 And Nikki,
00:35:31.080 maybe that's what
00:35:32.440 we should all hope for.
00:35:33.380 Not only regime change
00:35:34.620 in Iran,
00:35:35.660 but regime change
00:35:36.620 in Canada.
00:35:37.260 Because, my friend,
00:35:38.340 as you know,
00:35:38.900 the clock is ticking.
00:35:40.240 For some reason,
00:35:40.960 the Biden Democrats
00:35:42.640 thought it was a good idea
00:35:43.740 to rip up the
00:35:44.980 nuclear sanction deal
00:35:46.500 with Iran.
00:35:47.760 Iran is working
00:35:49.780 as hard as it can
00:35:50.920 to literally go nuclear.
00:35:53.020 That would totally
00:35:54.220 destabilize the Middle East.
00:35:56.940 And maybe regime change
00:35:59.320 in that neck of the woods
00:36:00.180 can be brought around
00:36:01.280 sooner rather than later.
00:36:03.420 Let's hope and let's pray.
00:36:04.960 Nikki, thank you so much
00:36:06.260 for your time.
00:36:07.120 Greatly appreciate it.
00:36:08.900 Thank you, David.
00:36:09.700 Thanks for having me
00:36:10.220 on the show.
00:36:10.580 God bless you.
00:36:11.300 Keep up the good work.
00:36:12.760 Thank you.
00:36:25.260 Well, folks,
00:36:25.740 lots of response
00:36:27.180 regarding my monologue
00:36:28.340 on yesterday's version
00:36:29.760 of the Ezra LeBent show,
00:36:31.560 namely that giant cricket
00:36:33.660 producing farm
00:36:34.720 in London, Ontario,
00:36:36.660 the largest cricket factory,
00:36:38.220 if you will,
00:36:38.640 people in the world.
00:36:40.100 Right now,
00:36:41.020 they say the crickets
00:36:42.120 are destined
00:36:43.360 just for pet food.
00:36:45.720 I just wonder
00:36:46.460 if it'll make business sense
00:36:47.920 in the future
00:36:48.600 to have those bugs
00:36:50.560 go into human food.
00:36:52.080 If so,
00:36:53.200 I'm sorry,
00:36:54.240 count me out.
00:36:55.940 In any event,
00:36:56.760 Kat,
00:36:57.340 B-R-B-A,
00:36:58.760 writes,
00:36:59.320 this story bugs me.
00:37:01.200 Well,
00:37:01.380 I can see what you did there.
00:37:02.920 Yeah,
00:37:03.220 you know,
00:37:03.420 it's kind of funny.
00:37:04.180 The World Economic Forum,
00:37:06.060 they're all about
00:37:07.220 having us,
00:37:08.660 you know,
00:37:08.960 get rid of steak and potatoes
00:37:10.140 and putting crickets
00:37:11.680 and mealworms
00:37:12.460 on our plates.
00:37:13.040 They're all about us
00:37:13.860 giving up our cars.
00:37:15.340 This is what I say
00:37:15.940 to Klaus Schwab
00:37:16.820 in the World Economic Forum.
00:37:18.140 How about a compromise?
00:37:19.340 Namely,
00:37:20.200 I'll drive
00:37:21.800 a Volkswagen Beetle.
00:37:23.980 Okay?
00:37:24.600 So I'm still driving
00:37:25.720 and that's as far
00:37:27.160 as I'm going
00:37:27.760 in terms of being
00:37:28.480 a consumer
00:37:29.160 of bugs.
00:37:30.640 Warren Zoell,
00:37:31.780 writes,
00:37:32.840 may Aspire
00:37:33.860 go bankrupt.
00:37:35.280 You know,
00:37:35.540 I got mixed thoughts
00:37:36.380 about that
00:37:37.140 because there's
00:37:38.760 tens of millions
00:37:39.540 of dollars
00:37:40.220 of taxpayer money
00:37:42.160 behind Aspire
00:37:43.220 so we'd be getting,
00:37:44.840 we'd be taking
00:37:45.660 the haircut.
00:37:46.600 And that is the other
00:37:47.420 major point I made.
00:37:49.080 Look,
00:37:49.560 folks,
00:37:49.840 if you want to eat bugs,
00:37:50.760 if you want to be a vegan,
00:37:51.880 a vegetarian,
00:37:52.680 a carnivore,
00:37:53.900 your body,
00:37:54.860 your choice.
00:37:55.640 But if
00:37:56.340 raising crickets
00:37:58.040 for food
00:37:58.820 is indeed
00:37:59.880 a viable business,
00:38:01.520 proposition,
00:38:02.940 why does Aspire
00:38:03.880 need all this
00:38:05.040 taxpayer money?
00:38:06.840 I'm sorry,
00:38:07.460 that's not how
00:38:08.100 a free market economy
00:38:09.140 should work.
00:38:10.640 Frogman 2
00:38:11.520 writes,
00:38:12.240 I smell a rat.
00:38:13.580 I would like to know
00:38:14.420 how much
00:38:14.980 McGill University
00:38:15.940 gets funded
00:38:17.080 from Big Pharma
00:38:18.200 and the WEF.
00:38:20.060 Just another
00:38:20.800 woke graduate
00:38:21.780 who has learned
00:38:23.040 what to think,
00:38:24.520 not how to think.
00:38:25.820 And why are millions
00:38:26.920 of Canadian tax dollars
00:38:28.560 going to this
00:38:29.880 McGill grad?
00:38:30.860 Well,
00:38:31.440 like I just said earlier,
00:38:32.640 that is the crux
00:38:34.200 of the matter,
00:38:34.700 isn't it?
00:38:35.480 If this is a viable business,
00:38:36.920 it should fly
00:38:38.120 on its own accord.
00:38:39.280 Why do we,
00:38:40.060 the taxpayers,
00:38:41.160 have to prop it up?
00:38:42.840 And
00:38:43.060 J.D. Power
00:38:44.060 writes,
00:38:45.360 Maggot Burger,
00:38:46.440 meanwhile,
00:38:47.120 someone
00:38:47.440 goes
00:38:48.400 friggin'
00:38:49.140 bungee jumping.
00:38:50.680 How much
00:38:51.320 did that cost?
00:38:52.260 Yeah,
00:38:52.440 and by the way,
00:38:53.280 I'd like to see
00:38:54.640 these elites
00:38:56.020 who keep talking
00:38:57.620 about bugs
00:38:58.980 as a protein
00:38:59.940 source for us.
00:39:01.040 They talk about
00:39:01.580 how 2 billion people
00:39:03.360 around the world
00:39:03.980 are eating bugs.
00:39:04.620 What they forget
00:39:05.080 to mention,
00:39:05.660 of course,
00:39:06.000 folks,
00:39:06.300 is that these people,
00:39:07.860 unfortunately,
00:39:09.000 are in third world nations
00:39:10.500 and it's either
00:39:11.900 eat bugs
00:39:12.740 or eat nothing.
00:39:14.020 They failed to mention that.
00:39:15.660 And yeah,
00:39:16.220 when Justin Trudeau
00:39:17.320 and Klaus Schwab
00:39:18.420 give up their
00:39:19.780 filet mignon steaks
00:39:21.140 for a cricket sandwich,
00:39:23.420 maybe then
00:39:24.220 I'll give this
00:39:25.300 a second thought.
00:39:26.160 Oh,
00:39:26.300 what am I saying?
00:39:26.960 No,
00:39:27.220 I'm never going to be
00:39:28.160 a bug eater.
00:39:30.260 Anyways,
00:39:30.860 folks,
00:39:31.200 thank you so much
00:39:32.100 for tuning in
00:39:32.920 to this edition
00:39:33.940 of the Ezra Levent Show.
00:39:34.880 I believe we have
00:39:35.500 a best of edition
00:39:37.120 on Monday,
00:39:38.280 Canadian Thanksgiving.
00:39:39.340 Ezra will be back here
00:39:41.420 live on Tuesday.
00:39:43.940 In the meantime,
00:39:44.960 I wish you
00:39:45.800 and your friends
00:39:46.500 and family
00:39:47.080 have a wonderful
00:39:48.400 and blessed
00:39:49.060 Thanksgiving Day
00:39:50.520 on Monday.
00:39:51.580 And in the meantime,
00:39:52.600 as always,
00:39:54.320 stay sane.
00:39:55.340 I saw this article
00:39:56.320 in LifeSite News
00:39:57.640 and it absolutely
00:39:58.300 turned my stomach
00:39:59.080 not just because
00:40:00.000 of the content
00:40:00.700 of the experiment
00:40:01.820 the article addressed
00:40:03.660 but the absolute
00:40:05.240 inhumane way
00:40:06.300 that Western elites
00:40:07.180 treat children
00:40:07.880 in the developing
00:40:09.180 world.
00:40:09.860 It's a common theme
00:40:11.200 with these people
00:40:12.160 though,
00:40:12.560 especially with all
00:40:13.960 of their green
00:40:14.680 agenda ideas.
00:40:16.300 They use the
00:40:17.220 developing world
00:40:18.020 as guinea pigs
00:40:19.120 for their experiments
00:40:21.660 and it makes sense
00:40:22.600 because the green agenda
00:40:23.900 grows out of a mentality
00:40:24.920 that there are just
00:40:25.560 too many people
00:40:26.180 on the face of the earth.
00:40:27.620 These elites,
00:40:28.680 of course,
00:40:28.980 don't mean that
00:40:29.600 there are too many
00:40:30.160 humans like themselves.
00:40:32.020 They mean,
00:40:32.660 you know,
00:40:32.920 those people over there
00:40:34.140 with all the kids
00:40:35.140 and their families
00:40:35.820 and their traditional
00:40:37.160 social structures
00:40:38.340 and traditional diets.
00:40:39.540 There's too many
00:40:40.000 of those people.
00:40:41.380 They're disposable.
00:40:42.520 Plus,
00:40:42.820 they're way over there
00:40:43.560 on the African continent
00:40:44.560 so we don't have to
00:40:45.360 look at all their
00:40:46.020 suffering we're imposing
00:40:47.240 on them.
00:40:48.180 Anyway,
00:40:48.880 here's the thing
00:40:49.580 that I found
00:40:50.140 in LifeSite
00:40:51.740 that was so appalling.
00:40:53.500 Poor African kids
00:40:54.320 are the subject
00:40:54.860 of an experiment
00:40:55.880 to determine
00:40:57.080 whether regular
00:40:58.300 bug consumption
00:40:59.160 can improve
00:40:59.740 their nutrition
00:41:00.400 without consideration
00:41:01.540 of potential
00:41:02.440 inflammatory effects
00:41:03.920 from insects.
00:41:05.280 The UK government
00:41:06.320 is funding
00:41:07.180 an experiment
00:41:07.740 to assess
00:41:08.340 the effects
00:41:08.860 of eating
00:41:09.780 insect-based
00:41:10.860 porridge foods
00:41:11.880 on the nutritional
00:41:13.060 status of children
00:41:14.620 in Zimbabwe,
00:41:16.180 a practice being
00:41:17.000 pushed by environmentalists
00:41:18.880 as a sustainable
00:41:19.900 diet choice.
00:41:21.720 The United Kingdom
00:41:22.660 Research and Innovation
00:41:24.060 Backed Project
00:41:24.940 is feeding poor
00:41:26.100 elementary school
00:41:27.420 children
00:41:27.960 mopane worms
00:41:29.260 and soldier termite
00:41:30.540 flour
00:41:31.000 on a daily basis
00:41:32.260 for a year.
00:41:32.780 The study will examine
00:41:33.600 the effects
00:41:34.160 of the insect
00:41:35.580 supplementation
00:41:36.740 on the children's
00:41:37.520 height,
00:41:38.440 weight,
00:41:39.100 and micronutrient
00:41:40.240 status as well
00:41:41.000 as their cognitive
00:41:41.740 function as determined
00:41:42.980 by their school
00:41:43.960 performance.
00:41:46.100 The project summary
00:41:47.300 notes that this is
00:41:48.300 all fine and dandy
00:41:49.620 because insect foods
00:41:51.020 are culturally acceptable
00:41:52.340 in the African region
00:41:53.880 and they've been used
00:41:55.300 by some Zimbabwean
00:41:57.040 rural communities
00:41:57.900 out of extreme necessity
00:41:59.300 to avoid malnutrition
00:42:00.680 during drought
00:42:01.400 and poor harvest.
00:42:02.420 Now all of this
00:42:04.280 completely disregards
00:42:05.740 the very real potential
00:42:07.240 for problems
00:42:07.900 from eating bugs.
00:42:08.680 I've previously
00:42:09.300 reported on that
00:42:10.220 here at Rebel News
00:42:11.180 about a study
00:42:12.560 published in 2019
00:42:13.560 that found parasites
00:42:14.560 in 81% of insect farms
00:42:16.520 that were examined
00:42:17.620 and in 30% of those cases
00:42:19.880 the parasites were
00:42:20.800 quote,
00:42:21.580 potentially pathogenic
00:42:23.340 for humans.
00:42:24.080 That study called
00:42:25.740 Bug Farms
00:42:26.780 an Underestimated Reservoir
00:42:29.560 of Human and Animal Parasites.
00:42:32.400 So these mad scientists
00:42:34.100 from the UK
00:42:34.880 could be funding
00:42:35.740 a study
00:42:36.780 that evidence
00:42:37.860 has previously shown
00:42:39.280 could actually make
00:42:40.860 these kids sick
00:42:42.000 with a parasite
00:42:43.220 and these kids
00:42:43.940 are already
00:42:44.740 potentially malnourished.
00:42:46.680 That's why they're
00:42:47.180 in the study.
00:42:48.200 But why are we feeding
00:42:49.280 these children bugs at all
00:42:50.680 when we can give them
00:42:51.900 chickens
00:42:52.320 which will eat the bugs?
00:42:54.400 It's the same reason
00:42:56.340 that we eat beef
00:42:57.760 because we can't
00:42:59.120 eat grass.
00:43:00.820 We eat animals
00:43:01.680 who eat the things
00:43:02.520 that we can't
00:43:03.200 to get the nutrients
00:43:04.020 that we need
00:43:04.660 from them.
00:43:06.460 A study of malnourished
00:43:07.820 children in Thailand
00:43:09.000 from rural areas
00:43:10.540 found that eating
00:43:11.360 just three eggs per week
00:43:13.440 can correct the problem
00:43:15.280 of protein malnutrition
00:43:17.420 among primary school
00:43:19.360 aged students.
00:43:20.720 Another study done
00:43:22.000 on children in Africa
00:43:23.600 in Uganda actually
00:43:24.940 found that just
00:43:26.100 one to two eggs
00:43:27.240 per day
00:43:27.880 resulted in a
00:43:28.820 significant increase
00:43:29.960 in height
00:43:30.540 and weight gain
00:43:31.560 and muscle growth
00:43:32.860 and those are just
00:43:33.740 the physical attributes
00:43:34.820 of eating an egg
00:43:35.780 besides the benefit
00:43:37.000 of B12
00:43:37.780 on the developing brain.
00:43:40.140 But I'm not sure
00:43:40.880 the world elites
00:43:42.020 want the people
00:43:43.040 in Africa
00:43:43.560 to be strong
00:43:44.440 healthy
00:43:45.140 and thoughtful.
00:43:46.680 I think they want
00:43:47.520 to use them
00:43:48.420 as human meat sacks
00:43:49.720 impoverished
00:43:50.580 unthinking
00:43:51.580 weak robots
00:43:52.980 and crash test dummies
00:43:54.480 for their crazy theories.
00:43:56.960 For example
00:43:57.480 the elites
00:43:58.740 expected Sri Lanka
00:43:59.960 to go completely organic
00:44:01.380 with their fertilizer
00:44:02.460 used to meet
00:44:03.300 climate change targets
00:44:04.340 and you know
00:44:04.820 what happened next?
00:44:06.300 Crop failures
00:44:07.060 food insecurity
00:44:08.260 and then
00:44:09.320 government toppling riots.
00:44:11.080 But the people
00:44:12.240 who came up
00:44:12.800 with these crazy ideas
00:44:13.740 the rich global elites
00:44:14.980 at the World Economic Forum
00:44:16.400 and at the United Nations
00:44:17.900 you know
00:44:18.660 their troughs
00:44:19.380 are always full
00:44:20.600 and their snouts
00:44:21.800 are always in those troughs
00:44:23.460 aren't they?
00:44:24.380 And don't get me started
00:44:25.620 on the insufferable
00:44:27.480 disgusting
00:44:28.520 working conditions
00:44:29.800 if you can call
00:44:30.620 slave labor
00:44:31.440 a working condition
00:44:32.500 that children
00:44:33.360 in the Congo
00:44:34.140 have to survive
00:44:35.320 to produce
00:44:36.380 rare earth minerals
00:44:37.580 so that
00:44:38.060 western elite
00:44:39.160 fancy people
00:44:39.980 can have electric cars.
00:44:42.260 African nations
00:44:43.200 are constantly
00:44:44.280 disincentivized
00:44:45.340 from developing
00:44:46.000 their own natural
00:44:46.780 gas resources
00:44:47.780 while 3.8 million people
00:44:50.140 die prematurely
00:44:51.260 each year
00:44:51.720 on the African continent
00:44:52.840 due to the effects
00:44:54.220 of indoor air pollution
00:44:55.840 because
00:44:56.360 2.6 billion people
00:44:58.380 in poor countries
00:44:59.200 still burn
00:44:59.820 wood, coal, charcoal
00:45:01.200 or animal dung
00:45:02.540 indoors for cooking.
00:45:04.440 These people
00:45:05.200 get to cook their food
00:45:06.260 over a turd
00:45:07.300 while some
00:45:08.160 well-kept Norwegian
00:45:09.360 or Canadian
00:45:10.120 or Brit
00:45:10.600 pats themselves
00:45:11.280 on the back
00:45:12.100 while reaping
00:45:13.460 the benefits
00:45:14.100 of fossil fuels
00:45:15.360 for themselves.
00:45:16.960 Africans
00:45:17.460 poor people
00:45:18.520 are just collateral
00:45:19.320 damage in the
00:45:20.120 first world's quest
00:45:21.020 for a carbon
00:45:21.820 neutral future
00:45:22.820 and if a few kids
00:45:24.280 die of cricket
00:45:25.440 parasites along the way
00:45:26.620 well that's just
00:45:27.340 the price of going
00:45:28.600 green.
00:45:29.660 No thanks.
00:45:30.800 No thanks.
00:45:32.000 For Rebel News
00:45:32.600 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.