Hutterite turkey farm invasion court date postponed in test case for radical environmental activism
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer and you won't give them an answer? The answer to this question comes from a man who drove all the way from Toronto to cover the Animal Rights extremist robbery case.
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tonight will justice be served in the animal rights extremist robbery case in alberta
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it's november 27th and this is the ezra levant show
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why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know
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there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer
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the only thing i have to say to the government about why i publish it
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well it is so cold the roads are so bad there's so many cars and trucks in the ditch the officer
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behind me in the i-vis vest is telling everyone that the entire court is canceled today no judge
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no prosecutors no nothing the doors will remain locked they have shoveled the walk but just too
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many people couldn't make it in this inclement weather i should tell you that as i drove down
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from calgary this morning i saw probably half a dozen vehicles in the ditch including some very
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large semi-trailers it was at some points visibility was maybe 50 feet so i'm not surprised that court
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is canceled it sounds like everything will be put over until next week um either i'll be here or we'll
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have another journalist here from the rebel covering it i think it's a very important story
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because it's a story not just of a ordinary crime i mean there are robberies all the time that doesn't
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raise to the level of news that we would normally cover here at the rebel but it was a political crime
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and i wouldn't quite go so far as to call it terrorism because they were so cowardly and it's
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hard to be terrified by an anemic vegetarian um but the hutterites who were chosen specifically because
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they're christian and and pacifist so they would be compliant victims and of course the animal rights
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extremists who are running the show are doing this for political reasons they want to shut down
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meat and all farming uh it's an outrageous thing to have a farm invasion of a christian
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basically family commune farm chosen because they're so pacifist but far more concerning to me
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actually was the fact that the police let these people go uh for a month they know worse than that
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the police were there as they occupied the turkey farm and didn't kick them out didn't arrest them in fact
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they negotiated terms with the the uh animal rights extremists and the farmers which included the
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farmers giving uh five turkeys to the uh thieves to go with i mean i bet those turkeys by the way i bet
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they probably died i mean these people don't know how to handle turkeys um that made me mad it made me
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mad when i later discovered that one of the people who in fact was supposed to be on trial today
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uh maxwell maw is his name was a global news reporter and my theory is that this was sort of
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an inside job a media job he was the liaison that tipped off global and global knew about this obviously
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but didn't mention it at all until he was charged and finally why did it take a month to charge these
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people the police had their names they were there for hours they had their photos they had everything
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well documented why did the police let them go and why did it take a month for doug schweitzer the
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left-wing attorney general in alberta to put charges and why the most minor charge is possible you know
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he could have charged conspiracy he could have had a rico-style criminal organization charge he could
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have charged the masterminds behind it he could have charged them with many more things they were
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literally charged with the lowest possible charges that could be made so i came all the way to fort
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mcleod today i flew in from toronto and then i drove down in the snow but i don't mind because
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this is an important story for the reasons i've outlined i'm making my way back to my car as you can
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see it is so cold here i was hoping to warm up in the court but i'm gonna get into the car and
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take a careful drive back up to calgary because the roads are horrendous but this is an important case to
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us and i know that um he'll be able to rely on us to report accurately and in defense of these
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farmers the property rights and against the extremists that are targeting them by the way
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don't think that oil and gas extremists aren't following this case just as closely as we are
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because they know that how these animal rights extremists are treated or let go is a prototype for
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how they will too all right i gotta turn off the camera phone and get in the car well i'm back in
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the car i pulled over it's so cold outside i mean don't i don't want you to think i've gone soft but
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it was minus 14 and windy and i saw a lot of vehicles um on in the ditch including semis so i i'm not shocked
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that they canceled court because frankly i'd be surprised if anyone got there on time and um you know the
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judge didn't come it's it's a the judge does a circuit he's not there's not enough legal business
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in fort mcleod for the judge to be there every day so it looks like this will be postponed a week
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um i came all the way from toronto to cover the case and so i'm i'm heading back now um it's too bad
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that it was canceled but i don't regard it as a wasted effort i think this is an important story
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i just feel like these hutterites were wronged on so many levels and the response by the government
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was inappropriate and remains inappropriate it remains lacking there were up to 60 farm invasion
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robbers that day why are only four being charged and three of them look like cannon fodder young
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know-nothing vegans it's bizarre to me that there's a global news reporter in his 40s or 50s who was
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charged i think we need to really learn more about that but mainly this is a test case i think for
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how the alberta government or any other authorities will respond to eco-sabotage i'm not going to quite
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call it eco-terrorism but i'm sure there's a 100 overlap of the people who would do a farm invasion
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robbery to liberate turkeys and people who would do something like that to block a pipeline now i remain
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convinced that justin trudeau will absolutely not build the trans mountain pipeline expansion
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um he hasn't lifted a finger no one has lifted a shovel it's just not going to happen the reason he
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paid 4.5 billion dollars for the existing pipeline is not because he wanted an existing pipeline and not
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because he wanted to build a new pipeline but because he thought the 4.5 billion which was at least
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one billion over market price would be enough to shut up the proponent who would normally be saying
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why can't we build why can't we build you're really not doing this it was a 4.5 billion
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dollars shut up payment but to trudeau what does he care it's not his money but uh listen it's alberta's
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decision what charges are laid against these uh eco saboteurs and so far the decision is an incorrect
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one they are grossly undercharged anyways look i was there to cover the case there is no case i was there
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to try to scrum uh the defendants they were not there i was frankly going to ask the prosecutor
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some questions um and the prosecutor was not there so i'm headed back to toronto and i'll do a full show
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from the studio tomorrow unless the plane is grounded but i want to show you some highlights from other
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video clips we've done on this subject i spoke to shila gun read about it she went down there
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um we did some work on this and i know you're probably thinking ezra what do you care it's just some
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turkeys it's five turkeys it's a farm in an obscure faraway place well it none of that's relevant
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it's the it's the underlying principle of it all and it's the fact that this is a prototype
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this is a template how we and by we i mean society the government premier jason kenny his left-wing
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attorney general doug schweitzer the police how they respond to these eco saboteurs i think is
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the model for how we'll go forward so it's important to get this right all right i'm going to uh get off
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the phone now and head continue heading back north on this blizzardy highway but let me leave you with
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some clips from our coverage of this in the past months yeah i did a little research on jumbo valley
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because i am the local anabaptist defile i'm a big hutterite fan um jumbo valley is a is a daughter
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colony of another colony so the other colony got big and so they split they bought some land and
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split so jumbo valley runs free range turkeys this is the most ethical if there's such a thing of all
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farming i mean i think all farmers are pretty ethical but these turkeys are living a good life
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as far as meat turkeys go dumbo valley started in 2016 so these are state-of-the-art brand new barns
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that these turkeys are in and they're using state-of-the-art farming methods to run free-range
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turkeys and yet still that's not enough for these activists to come along and accuse them of being
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mean or oppressive to their turkeys i gotta tell you too i think you're right that there's some other
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sinister sort of organization behind these people because in my contact with the people who were
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actually there and i did have a little bit of contact with the activists who were actually there
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they're dumb as a pile of hammers these people have me of all people uh on their media release list
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so they sent me their pictures from inside the barn that shows you just how dumb they are i mean the
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last person i am is an animal rights activist i mean i suppose i i could be in that i like to eat
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well-loved animals because i think they taste delicious and i insist on eating animals that i
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knew personally just so i know where my food comes from but they sent me their uh pictures posing with
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the turkeys looking longingly into these turkeys eyes thinking that i would somehow be sympathetic
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to their story and run with it that just tells you how dumb they are when i saw the names of the three
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adults who were charged obviously i hopped on google to see what their social media profile was and
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claire buchanan and kennedy ray herbert are they're not super young but they're women in their 20s and they
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look like vegan animal rights people i mean uh claire buchanan thinks she's a bit of a instagram model
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or something it's actually pretty funny but you can see she's always hugging animals wearing vegetarian
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shirts she's absolutely playing the part of the 20-something single vegetarian activist girl i mean that's
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no big surprise that she's cannon fodder for this action and same with kennedy herbert and obviously a
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16 year old girl too i'm not going to call them victims although maybe the teenager is but the other
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two they looked the part and you've got all these 20-something and teenage girls and then you've got a 46
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year old man just happens to be in the mix i don't believe it was he an organizer was he
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paid did he pay them for the scoop i just don't believe that a 46 year old global news journalist
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from edmonton just happened to fall in with 20-something girls from calgary and pincher creek
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in a fort mcleod uh home invasion style robbery i don't believe it was just coincidence and i don't
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believe he's a peer of theirs i believe he was some sort of a fixer or a boss or something more senior
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yeah i i think it all goes back to the fact that you know the coverage came from global news calgary
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about this event and the hutterite farm chosen uh they say completely at random i think chosen because
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they're hutterites and they're pacifists and they won't fight back so if you're using young girls and
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malnourished women as cannon fodder the hutterite farm is a safe place to break the law um it's
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it's all very strange how a news crew from two hours away was able to be there right as the story
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happened you know um i've just looked up while we're chatting here on on my laptop uh the edmonton
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journal coverage that's post media ctv coverage they all mention maxwell ming ma's name none of them
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mentioned that he's with global now maybe that's just lazy and they didn't type his name into google
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but why would this to me is a scandal of the highest order in from a journalistic point of view
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yes it's a crime yes it's eco activism um that has to be nipped in the bud if you this is i tell you a
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lot of anti-oil sands extremists are watching how this is being treated and so far the rcmp and doug
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schweitzer have failed but this is a journalistic crisis it's fake news and it's a news organization
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hiding its role in manufacturing the news and i think that we need to do some digging here sheila
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because obviously canada's so-called media critics won't um the the company itself using the present
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tense maxwell ming ma is an employee at global edmonton obviously they're just tickety-boo
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with this they were fine with it the day before it was released in public in fact they were colluding
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to keep it a secret this is a deep deep rot four people were charged yesterday in the nearly two
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month old invasion of a hutterite colony free-range turkey farm in southern alberta the september 2nd
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farm invasion started in the early hours of the morning when dozens of animal rights activists
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took a school bus to the jumbo valley hutterite colony farm near pincher creek and staged a sit-in
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occupying one of the turkey barns and thus jeopardizing the biosecurity of the entire flock now before the
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protesters eventually left and despite the fact that local rcmp had been on the scene and collecting
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names and information for the duration of the onslaught the protesters wanted their demands met
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and the local rcmp helped them to negotiate with the farmers the activists wanted to rescue translation
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burgle five turkeys and they wanted a news crew to be allowed to tour the turkey barns and global news
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was on the scene maybe a little too conveniently and they were happy to oblige the terroristic demands
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of the protesters just watch in the end the farm owners agreed to a deal with the protesters who
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demanded and were given five turkeys to take to a rescue sanctuary group says they wanted media to have
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full access to the turkey barns which we were allowed the owner says he has nothing to hide
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finally yesterday maxwell ming ma claire buchanan kennedy ray herbert and a 16 year old girl whose
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name cannot be revealed were charged with one count each of break and enter and enter to commit mischief
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and later on yesterday afternoon because of course they did several activists chained themselves
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to the edmonton legislature building to protest the arrests police doing something i absolutely wouldn't do
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you unchained these people now if you got all your news from the mainstream media like the edmonton
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journal ctv news okotoks online lethbridge now the calgary sun or for that matter the insufferable cbc
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you wouldn't know that one of those four protesters arrested was a global news employee maxwell ming ma is
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an employee at global edmonton and we find that out in the third to last sentence in the global news
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story on the arrest i suppose they had to divulge that information before somebody else found out
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but it is absolutely not being reported in any of the other mainstream media coverage you know i always
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thought it was a slight bit sketchy how global news ended up being part of these terroristic extortion
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demands done by these farm invading protesters to our peaceful hutterite friends of all the news
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agencies it sure was curious why global news was chosen when the protesters demanded that a news crew
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be allowed to wander the farm and like i explained earlier put the animals at biohazard risk well now we
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know global had a man on the inside or rather the protesters had a man on the inside of global and yet
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in any story that global news did about the protest prior to now they never acknowledged that one of their
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employees was part of the crime when that was likely how global news was tipped off about the whole mess
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in the first place at the very least global news withheld information about a story that directly
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involved them from the public and at worst global news was a willing participant in meeting these
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to start a four-year job maybe an eight-year job at age 79 may not be the smartest thing to do
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um but i think if i thought i could win i would have uh i just couldn't see a path where i could
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get the nomination and to spend the next year and a half two years of my life campaigning no matter how
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much i love campaigning i had three campaigns one of all new york city is anything but an easy place to
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do business and politics it's every problem in the world is here and you got to address everything
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but it's just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me starting where i am
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unless i was willing to change all my views and go on what cnn called an apology tour
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well that man is michael bloomberg the former mayor of new york city and the man after whom the bloomberg
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terminal and bloomberg news was named a bloomberg terminal was a prototype uh fast information computer
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that every stock trader on wall street and around the world used and bloomberg news came out of
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that a multi-billionaire a lefty who copied rudy giuliani's tough on crime policies and managed to win
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new york spending hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to do it but that's nothing for him
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he has surveyed the democratic presidential candidates and found them lacking and he has decided that he
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is the answer interestingly he has announced that he will ban any bloomberg reporter from criticizing him
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or doing any opposition research into him the battle of the billionaires joining us now i refer to
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bloomberg and trump um i suppose mark tom steyer another democrat could call himself a billionaire joining
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us now via skype from the los angeles headquarters of bright bright.com is our friend joel pollack joel
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how you doing good how are you i'm fine you know um i like a guy with chutzpah uh donald trump has taught
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me not to underestimate a billionaire with ambition but trump had a lot of things going for him that
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bloomberg doesn't let's give bloomberg uh the advantage in terms of raw cash uh bloomberg has much more
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money than than trump but trump had a lot of other things going for me at a name a brand uh an audacity
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what do you make of this well i think bloomberg may simply be making a poor decision i think it's as
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simple as that i think he sees that joe biden is weak and there isn't a really strong alternative to
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biden the only other quote unquote moderate and it really is a stretch to call him a moderate
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the only other moderate doing well right now is pete buddha judge who is all of 37 years old and has
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never run anything larger than a small town in indiana and hasn't really even run that terribly well so
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i think there's a sense of panic in the donor class bloomberg was content to let biden run with
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this and biden is still the front runner but he's looking very weak there's not a lot of confidence in
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his chances there's not a lot of confidence in his competence mentally and otherwise so i think
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bloomberg has decided in a sense to make a statement but i don't think he has a real chance at winning
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and i think this may have just been a poor decision almost an emotional one there's no way he can win
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he's going to be isolated in the first four primary contests so for the first month of elections and voting
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we're not going to hear about michael bloomberg at all he's not going to be on the ballot
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in iowa new hampshire nevada south carolina he's jumping in on super tuesday in alabama in arkansas
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these are not states that are terribly hospitable to liberal nanny state bureaucrats from new york city
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and so i think this is a losing strategy i cannot see him picking up enough support he hasn't been on
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the debate stage at all the other candidates immediately pounced on him they are dismissing
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him as a billionaire who thinks he can buy the election there already are some billionaires who
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are trying to buy the election tom stayer is one of them and he at least made the debate stage
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by spending strategically and boosting his poll numbers in one of the key primary states i think
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it was nevada but the democrats are moving away from the billionaires and i don't think there's much
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room for bloomberg to grow among the democratic primary electorate so in a sense it's a vanity
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project and probably a very poor decision yeah you could be right i mean he's a smart man but
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he's smart about certain things a smart man is not necessarily smart about all things um he's 77
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which means that uh should he win on um his inauguration day i think he would be 78 turning 79 a
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i think that's the math so he's the second oldest person in the race bernie sanders is
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the oldest and bloomberg is now second oldest he's younger than bernie but older than biden
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i think bloomberg is mentally very still quite sharp um if he is in four years or eight years
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it's a different story trump is in his 70s i think he's actually older than hillary if my memory serves
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but he feels young he's got very high energy let's say that bloomberg has high energy let's say he's
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100 percent there mentally the charge against him is that he wants to buy the race um well let's take
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that at uh at face value i don't know his estimated wealth but theoretically i mean if he's 77
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this is his last big move in his life i'm guessing so maybe he could theoretically
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spend a shocking and unprecedented amount of money i'm going to pick the number five billion dollars i just
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made that up i mean it would be unprecedented unthinkable i mean hillary clinton and all her
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super packs i don't even think reached two billion in the entire general election
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but theoretically if a guy spent five billion dollars if he had his own media network
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could it win joel well i don't think the media network is going to help much because they aren't
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really going to be able to help him directly they might lay off investigating other candidates in fact
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they might be forced to do so because they've already stated publicly that they're going to
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avoid investigating other candidates i think except for donald trump himself who's the president and so
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they're allowing themselves to do that so they'll investigate trump but they won't investigate
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bloomberg they never do and they are not going to investigate the other democrats so he's not going
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to be able to use his network really to swing the primary election at least maybe in the general it comes into
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play but you know i i don't see this really as a huge advantage remember donald trump was outspent
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something like five to one by hillary clinton and the democratic donors in 2016 and he still came away
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with the wind there so it's not just spending you've got to have a message and it's not clear
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that bloomberg really offers an alternative i mean he would basically say well i ran new york city very
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well well trump can say i'm running the whole country pretty well look at the economy look at
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the fact that we're at peace everywhere yeah we destroyed isis we're in talks with north korea
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we're having a trade war with china but we're also in in trade talks with china we have a new
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agreement to replace nafta once the democrats stop trying to impeach me they'll just pass that the us mca
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agreement so trump has a better record in government than bloomberg and bloomberg by the way nearly got
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tossed out when he ran for a third term the new york mayors were not allowed to run for third term
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then bloomberg changed the rules to allow himself to run for a third term he nearly lost to his democrat
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challenger so i don't know that bloomberg's record is going to be very convincing to most people and
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again it looks like a vanity project a very expensive one i don't know if it's going to help the
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democratic cause or not there's some rumors that maybe he's just trying to see if there's room for
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another candidate after him someone who's more effective younger perhaps more experienced i don't
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know who that would be i think the field is essentially set the front runners are the front
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runners there aren't going to be too many more surprises time is running out the iowa caucuses are
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on february 3rd monday february 3rd and there are four or five front runners in the field it's very
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difficult for me to see anybody getting the infrastructure up in time to challenge their dominance
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and again trump entered the race late but not that late trump entered in june which was you know
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three or four months in but he didn't wait until november and by november of 2015 think back he had
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already been on top of the polls for four months so it's it's going to be difficult for bloomberg to
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make up the kind of ground he needs to to make it to the front of the pack never mind to win yeah i
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remember vividly trump's uh primary campaign he was so completely different from all the others and he
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was more and more shocking every time as people got used to that trump style that it was trump and
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the rest trump and the rest i don't think this will be bloomberg and the rest there's there's a lot of
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um mid-level people each one trying to find their niche but no one has that uh charisma and personality
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like trump so i i think in this crowded feel adding a guy who's pretty bland i saw his speech
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when he announced it was very low energy low charisma he's got a bit of a wine um he doesn't like
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people don't say him and say whoa stop i want to listen to this guy at least that's not the feeling
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i get so so trump the fact that there was a ton of competitors was perfect because it was like snow
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white and the seven dwarfs here you got right a bunch of middle-sized guys and and if you look
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at the polls everyone's you know in the high single digits or low double digits it's a mess
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yeah i think the two candidates to watch right now i think bloomberg's a sideshow the two candidates to
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watch are buddha judge and kamala harris he put a judge is very talented he's a better orator than
00:28:27.580
most of the other candidates he says a lot of nothing it doesn't really make much sense when you
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actually look at what he said but it sounds very good and he's a good campaigner he's got a huge
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infrastructure in iowa and new hampshire he's got a lot of money the one thing he doesn't have is
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support from black voters it's not clear he's going to get it but he has a chance to at least break
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through into the number one number two spot in fact there's a new clinic back poll which says he is
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number two for the first time so he's actually come from the back of the pack and is surging to the
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four on the strength of his money his infrastructure and his debate performances which haven't been
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spectacular but have been solid more solid than some of the others but kamala harris is still
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lurking in the background and she's running a terrible campaign absolutely just one of the worst
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campaigns strategically but she remains i think a default plan b for a lot of people and so if the
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other candidates start to falter she could pick up some delegates maybe in the south maybe in california
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on super tuesday if she doesn't do well on super tuesday that's march 3rd a month after the iowa
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caucus is four weeks and a day if she doesn't do well on march 3rd then she's done but she could make
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a move i would watch those two bernie warren biden they're the three front runners and have been for
00:29:43.180
several weeks they're going to split a lot of the vote if buddha judge and harris can break through
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who knows what's going to happen and we could go into the democratic national convention next summer
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without a clear winner in which case all kinds of other things are going to come into play
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they've reformed the system of superdelegates so that the party elite doesn't get to select the
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candidate on the first ballot but after the first ballot the superdelegates come back in and then you
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have the party power brokers able to essentially choose who they want and that's going to be interesting
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to see if they pick joe biden over somebody else yeah well i remember probably not quite six months
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ago but i remember you and i were just spitballing who we thought was a contender and you and i i think
00:30:24.540
both agreed kamala harris and i thought okay she's youngish uh she's visible minority which counts for
00:30:33.660
something she's a woman which counts for something she's from california she's a lawyer so she's got a
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certain you know she she was a prosecutor like she's got some achievements under her belt and um
00:30:48.940
you know she's she doesn't have a i don't find her a winning personality i think she's a little bit
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clintonian in her fakeness but she but if i look at her i feel like the air has gone out of that balloon
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um you think that people are thinking well maybe maybe she's sort of our our default second choice is
00:31:08.220
that what you're thinking i think so i think so she checks every box and there's not one
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constituency in the party that's particularly offended by her yeah whereas you can look at
00:31:17.260
any of the other candidates there are moderates and people on wall street who will not support
00:31:21.580
warren or sanders right there are radicals who will not support joe biden the black community may
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not support pete budigieg he does have a very difficult relationship with that community right now
00:31:31.180
rightly or wrongly who are you left with yeah yeah let me ask you one more question i find tulsi
00:31:37.900
gabbard of hawaii just interesting from several points of view she's a veteran um she's young she
00:31:46.780
posts videos of herself working out which i don't know maybe that's just an attempt to use her
00:31:52.300
physical attractiveness to get votes but it shows a vigor i think compared to sanders bloomberg biden
00:31:59.020
um she's trumpy in her dislike for foreign entanglements um i i see in the new new hampshire
00:32:10.060
poll it might be quinnipiac that she's up i think six points or something she's almost in that
00:32:15.980
not quite the first tier but that could just be a rogue poll with a high margin of error
00:32:21.740
does tulsi gabbard have any chance at all or is she just a quirky interesting also run she is the
00:32:29.020
latter i think she has a chance at cabinet position perhaps but she right now is in a sense a protest
00:32:37.100
vote against the rest of the field particularly among the anti-war constituency which is the group
00:32:45.900
she's appealing to most the anti-war movement dominated the democratic party when obama won
00:32:50.940
but now since obama turned out not to be a very great anti-war president they've receded somewhat
00:32:58.140
she's the only outspoken anti-war candidate so that's enough to keep her in the race for a while
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but i don't know that the rest of the party will come around to her especially because there's a lot
00:33:06.780
of resentment against her she attacks other democrats on the debate stage very effectively
00:33:11.500
and kamala harris said essentially you're not a democrat anymore she said that basically on the
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on the debate stage and that's how a lot of democrats feel they feel that she is the kind
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of person who is bringing down the other candidates and so i i doubt she can unify the party behind her
00:33:27.020
that's the problem she has now yeah i think you're probably right well i find this very interesting to
00:33:31.100
talk about and uh of course we're up here in canada and we just had our elections so uh we're we're
00:33:37.500
locked into a few more years of bad news up here so at least let us enjoy the spectator sport of
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american presidential politics joel i really appreciate you being our guide through all these
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things yeah take care all right thanks there you have it joel pollack senior editor at large
00:33:53.740
well that's our show for today i'm sorry uh that my very long journey to fort mcleod to cover the
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court case was rather aborted um but i gotta tell you i normally am used to much crazier flights uh seven
00:34:15.900
hours to london each way to cover the story of tommy robinson so frankly a four-hour flight each way to
00:34:21.180
cover a hunterite uh home uh farm invasion robbery it doesn't even feel uh that bad considering what
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i'm used to all right thanks for tuning in today and we will cover this story and many more uh kian
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bexty is now back from hong kong sheila gun reed is away on a secret mission and i'm not even kidding
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about that we will only reveal it once she's back and safe and sound until tomorrow on behalf of all of us
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us wherever we are the rebels around the world to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom