Meet the anti-oil lobbyist attacking fossil fuel and meat consumption in Canadian schools
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Why are Alberta schools allowing an anti-oil lobbyist unfettered access to children? Why should others go to jail when you re the biggest carbon consumer in the world and you won t give them a chance to ask for forgiveness?
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I talk about a curious case of a Greta wannabe. His name is Steve Lee,
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and he's 26, so he's not 16, and he doesn't really have any charisma or passion or knowledge,
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but he's a plugger. He plugs away, and he's going school to school scaring children about
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global warming, and he's no dummy. His charity, quote-unquote, that he runs made $760,000 last
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year. So my question is, how come schools are letting this propagandist in? I'll go through
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the details and tell you more of who he is. Before I do, let me invite you to become a premium
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Tonight, why are Alberta schools allowing an anti-oil lobbyist unfettered access to children?
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Why are any schools? It's November 22nd, 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, the why I'm publishing, is because it's my bloody
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I'm looking forward to Jason Kenney's oil and gas war room to be launched. I don't think it's
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been launched yet. They've announced this budget, a whopping $30 million a year, and its boss,
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a former journalist and political candidate named Tom Olson. So I'm hopeful, but I'm getting old,
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and it's almost 2020, and there hasn't been a lot of wars fought by the war room yet. Wars have been
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fought against the oil patch. Greta Thunberg, the child actor who has been weaponized by anti-oil
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lobbyists. She came to Alberta, and other than our own Kian Bexty, who scrummed her here in Edmonton,
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as you can see, really no one in the whole province pushed back against her. I think they were afraid
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because she's young and that might look mean. Well, yeah, that's why she's so effective. She's young, but
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she's just a sock pocket pet being controlled by others like a ventriloquist dummy. If you can't
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even bring yourself to say that, you're not really fighting a war, are you? You're losing a war.
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I hope the war room lives up to its name whenever it's launched, and I hope it can be the bad cop
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to Premier Jason Kenney's good cop. You know what I mean by that, good cop, bad cop, that the war room
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will be tougher, that it'll do things that might raise an eyebrow if it were to be done by the Premier
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or a cabinet minister or even a bureaucrat instead. But if it were done by an arm's length war room,
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would be excusable because that's at arm's length and that's what war room means. If it's just going
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to be a tame and meek public affairs branch of the government, don't expect anything to come from it
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other than $30 million going to more bureaucrats and ad agencies who will do more useless feel-good
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ads about how you really shouldn't hate the pipelines, you guys, because you see it employs
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female engineers or something. I mean, look, thanks for that, but that's not a war room.
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That's not going to stop someone from hating the oil patch. A war room is the kind of thing that,
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for example, does deep opposition research against anti-oil sands proponents.
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So the kind of people who should have dug up Justin Trudeau's blackface videos when he first ran in 2015,
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for example, that's what a war room should be doing. It doesn't just publish thoughtful op-eds in
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the Globe and Mail. I mean, we've been trying that for four years of Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau,
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and a decade before that, a war room sues protesters who commit trespass or vandalism.
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Just for one example, a war room challenges the charity status of charities that engage in illegal
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behavior, for another example. A war room would ask Greta Thunberg's handlers why they're in Canada
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during an election campaign, but not reporting their campaign expenditures to the elections
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officer, like this. Will you be disclosing your finances, and will you be registering as a third
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party operative? Will you be registering as a third party operative?
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I mean, if I were running the war room and had 30 million bucks, I'd probably have spent 100 grand
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running a short TV ad in front of every single YouTube video featuring Greta Thunberg. You know
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that little skip now video that appears in front of YouTube vids? I'd probably spend 100 grand just
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showing a clip of this. So when I was 11, I became ill. I fell into depression. I stopped talking,
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and I stopped eating. In two months, I lost about 10 kilos of weight.
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Later on, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism.
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Yeah. I mean, you get 10 million people to see the truth about this mentally ill child actor being
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abused by her handlers. They're going to react differently when her beauty pageant crazy mum
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pushes her in front of a microphone. I mean, I'd probably spend 100 grand promoting
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a videoclip about her pageant crazy mum. This one.
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Now I'm going to go down and handle a little food. It's nothing strange at all. No, no, no. And it's not a
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lot of assistants or so that people may think. No, no. Just me and my dancers. I handle just as normal people do.
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Mmm, tacos and pizza. And I have no Russian kaviar here. It's not what people may think.
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Yeah. That's how you do it war room style. The thing about life, though, is there's always
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something else, isn't there? And so here comes a lame Greta wannabe. He's not that compelling,
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to be honest. He doesn't have the crazy eyes. He doesn't have Greta's flair for the mentally ill
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dramatic like this. How dare you? How dare you? This new guy is named Steve Lee. He's not
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a 16 year old who looks 12 like Greta. He doesn't have her fake purity of, for example, only sailing
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across the oceans. Steve Lee jets around endlessly. His name is Steve Lee and he's not even a child.
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He's 26 years old, though he looks a little younger. And whereas crazy leftists are saying that
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Greta has some mystical stature. Well, Steve actually says that about himself.
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Here's his official biography. I love to administer justice and mercy,
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and I invite others into the work of justice as well. I restore cynical, bitter, and ultimately
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self-righteous hearts to loving, graceful, and indignant hearts. I try to live right and make
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things right to uplift the human personality. Climate change is happening right now, mainly
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caused by human activities, and we are the final generation who can solve it. Holy Messiah complex,
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much you administer justice and mercy. I think that's what Jesus says, not some UN spokesmodel.
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You make us graceful and loving. You try to change the human personality. We're in the
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end of times. This is the final generation. Oh, just get over yourself. I guess maybe Steve's a little
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bit crazy too, but in a different way. But here's the thing. Greta came for a few days to Alberta to do
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some photo ops, and she was accompanied by her reality TV show producer. See, I bet most people
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didn't even know that the whole Greta thing is a reality TV stunt. She's accompanied by her film crew.
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Why didn't Albertans know that? I mean, we reported that here at the Rebel, but I didn't see it elsewhere.
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Anyways, here's the news, and it's reported by the Edmonton Journal's David Staples.
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Give him credit. The news is that Steve Lee is bringing his propaganda mission into Canadian
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schools, school by school. He's going through the schools, having unfettered access to school children,
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no parental consent, no other opinions to rebut him. He's crazy, and he's coming with the I'm here
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to heal you with global warming semi-religious BS talk. It's being allowed into the schools.
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Here's a story by David Staples. Oil and gas and cattle industries under fire at Canadian schools.
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The Canadian oil and gas and cattle industries are under fire at schools across Canada. Climate
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activist Steve Lee is taking aim at fossil fuel and meat consumption as part of his crusade to turn
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students into fellow activists. Lee's crusade, known as the Three Percent Project, is funded in part by
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green groups like Environmental Defense and Equitair, which are part of the ongoing campaign to landlock
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Alberta oil, backed by major US foundations. Good for Staples. He says that Lee refuses to do an
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interview with him, of course. So Staples publishes his interview questions to the world, questions he
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would ask Lee if Lee could answer them. Here's some of them. Do you want to landlock the oil sands? Are you
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aware that if we can't export Canadian oil, this will have no impact on climate change,
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as world demand will be met by the United States, as well as by various dictatorships with atrocious
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human and women's rights? Are you aware that fossil fuel use is the main driver that has pulled
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billions of people out of poverty and into prosperity? You warn of a possible apocalypse and
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have said that we burn greenhouse gases into the atmosphere so much that it's equivalent to
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400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs blowing up into the atmosphere every single day. That's an insane
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amount of energy. Apocalypse? Hiroshima? Why use such fearsome and unrelated imagery to describe fossil
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fuel use? Those are just a few of his questions. They're good points. But the bigger point is,
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why is an anti-oil lobbyist, why is any lobbyist being given unfettered, unfiltered access to minor
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children without parental consent? That's how Staples ends his column. He makes a really good point. He says,
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in the end, some might well ask, why should Lee be granted any access to impressionable young minds
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on our public schools? To that, I'd simply ask, isn't it best that young people be exposed to
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many viewpoints on numerous topics? Of course, if Lee is given this platform at schools, there's a moral
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and educational imperative to give equal access to resource and industry groups to present their case.
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The most productive response here is to counter bad ideas and information with good ideas and better
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information. Right, that's a good journalistic point of view. That's a pro-debate point of view.
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David Staples knows his stuff. But again, where's the government here? Where's this 30 million
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dollar war room? Because these are mainly government schools, right? So why is the government school that
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is operating in loco parentis? That's the law speak. That's Latin for in the place of parents.
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When you give your kid to a school, they have a fiduciary duty to take care of your kids in your
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place. Why are schools letting in a lobbyist into these government schools and given access to your
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kids? Is it because some local activist teacher or some teachers union is anti-oil and lets them in?
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Well, they don't have constitutional control over the schools. The province does. The provincial
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government. Jason Kenney as premier does. Isn't this something that a war room should fight against?
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If you're having trouble understanding this, how would you feel if another kind of lobbyist wanted
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to recruit young children to his cause in the schools on school time without parental consent?
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How about a lobbyist for Exxon? How about a tobacco lobbyist? How about a foreign diplomat
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lobbying, say, for Iran's dictatorship or Cuba? As in, why is a lobbyist allowed in at all?
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Why doesn't Jason Kenney or his education minister simply ban such lobbyists? Especially weird,
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know-nothing, working for the green lobby, UN lobbyists like this Steve Lee. Why don't you ban
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them and tell any schools it's against policy to let them in? And then if they want government funding,
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if they want independent management control by principals and superintendents,
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they better abide by the rule. And if not, they'll be cut off or fired or replaced or whatever.
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Why won't they do that? Because the CBC will squawk? So what? The CBC has had a registered
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lobbyist, David Suzuki, on staff for decades. They're not one to talk. They should just
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stay out of this one. They'd never give a show on the CBC for decades to a pro-oil lobbyist like they
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did for Suzuki. And here's the facts about Steve Lee. He's a child actor in his own way, like Greta,
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even though he's now 26. Listen to this crazy man tell kids that using oil and gas is like
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detonating atomic bombs. That's what David Staples mentioned. Listen to this rambling,
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fact-free rant. I'm going to let about two minutes roll so you see that I'm not taking it out of
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context here. Take a look. When we consume at a rate that we're doing so now, we burn greenhouse
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gases into the atmosphere so much that it's equivalent to 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs
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blowing up into the atmosphere every single day. 400,000 atomic bombs every single day, 365 days a year.
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That's an insane amount of energy. And our planet is protected by a surprisingly thin layer of atmosphere.
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It's so thin that scientists say it's comparable to the skin of an apple. But it looks so vast from
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our perspective looking up into the sky because it looks endless. But it isn't. But because our
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perspective is different, we dump all the greenhouse gases with no responsibility. And when the greenhouse
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gases go up, it thickens the atmosphere, it warms the atmosphere, so the temperature rises. When
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temperature rises, we experience heat waves. Here in New York City, we're going through a bit of heat
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wave. It's an inconvenience to us. But to people in India and Pakistan, this is a matter of life and
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death. Last year alone, 1,200 Pakistanis died from the heat wave. So this year, they dug 2,500 graves in
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advance. And every one of them found its owner. The heat waves really are an impediment to the global
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agenda. And it's not just the heat waves. When the heat goes up, 90% of the heat goes into the ocean.
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So the ocean temperature goes up. Then the ocean water evaporates. What goes up must come down. So all
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this water that's going up needs to come down at some point. And all this comes down at the same time.
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That's why you experience the downpours that are so great, the hurricanes. And those who came from the
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Philippines, those who came from the East Coast of North America, we experience and understand the
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power of the downpour that we experience. And we cannot afford those crises anymore. And we really
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are the final generation who has a fighting chance to curb climate change, to avoid its most extreme
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measures against us. We must take action on climate change.
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Pure propaganda, no authorities cited whatsoever, made up stories, extreme analogies.
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Hiroshima, the problem with Hiroshima wasn't the energy. It was the nuclear radiation. Imagine telling
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children that it's like nuclear bombs detonating. Imagine letting such a freak show into a school.
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Cool. He's such a strange one, this kid. Luckily, he has no charisma. He's not like Greta that way.
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But you still give this kid one hour's unfiltered access to your children. Don't be surprised
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if they start to mimic him. Now look at this next clip. I love this next clip. This is at a children's
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meeting at the UN. So there are kids from other countries. They're mainly, obviously, from the Third World.
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And they're poor. And some countries still have famines. But he's telling them to stop consuming so
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much, to stop eating so much, especially meat. Seriously, take a look at them.
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All right. All right. Awesome. Yeah. So welcome. Welcome to this chamber. Happy International Youth Day.
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Yeah, Steve. Those are kids from countries that don't have enough to eat. I don't think they need
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to eat less, buddy. For their own health, they probably need more meat, not less.
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Here he is hating steaks. I'm guessing he looks like he's eating his share. Oh, and I love that
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all of this is while there's a plastic single-use water bottle on the table behind him. Look at the top
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right of the screen. He's railing against that sort of thing. And he's got his water bottle right there.
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Take a look. A pound of beef would require so much water that if you didn't take shower for six months,
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you would have saved a pound of beef that takes the water to make. So really, to make an effective
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change and really contribute to solving the problem itself, it's no-brainer that you reduce your meat
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consumption, that you eat less meat. And it's not just the meat. When we are looking at all the
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different products, whether it's the chocolate you buy or the plastic bottled water you buy,
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every time you're buying something, you're saying that I care more about just what I'm buying.
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I care about how it was made, how the workers were treated when it was made,
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how it was delivered to me, and how it's going to be thrown away after I use it.
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So who is this guy? This fact-free, weird messiah complex, Greta Knockoff, who's coming up on 30.
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Oh, he's not a scientist. He has a bachelor's degree in global health. That's what his LinkedIn page says.
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And that's it, actually. Since he got that bachelor's degree, he's been a globalist
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UN child spokesman. Listen to how he describes himself on his LinkedIn page. He says,
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Steve Lee is a 26-year-old climate change activist, a policy advocate to the United Nations,
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and a global speaker. He is the executive director of FES, Foundation for Environmental Stewardship,
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and its 3% project. Hmm. A globalist UN speaker. Gee whiz. I'm shocked that he's pushing a global warming
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line. Let me read a little bit more. Steve is a voice to the voiceless youth globally,
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voice to the voiceless youth. That's perfect. Globally in policymaking and is currently serving
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as the capacity building officer in the Secretary of the United Nations major group for children and youth.
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The UN General Assembly mandated space. He has moderated and drafted policy outcome documents,
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lobbied diplomats and businesses, and negotiated deliberations with UN officials, heads of state,
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and industry leaders. Steve is personally trained by Al Gore. Yeah, I could sort of tell. I could sort of tell.
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But what Steve doesn't show on his LinkedIn page or in his propaganda in the schools
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is that he's bought and paid for. Now hats off to the guy. This is from the Canada Revenue Agency
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website for that Foundation for Environmental Stewardship, of which he's the boss. They raked in
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$762,000 last year, of which the overwhelming amount was gifts from other charities.
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So good for him for raising the money, but also not really. I mean, do you really think
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just a kooky guy who says he thinks he's Jesus, he's going to heal the world, do you think he could
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raise $760,000 on his own? No, no. Just like Greta has handlers, so does kooky Steve. Here's the board of
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directors of Steve's charity, again taken from its Canada Revenue Agency disclosures. I don't know if you
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can see on there the name Devin Page. That's the executive director of an anti-oil sands lobby group
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called Ecojustice. They're anti-oil sands litigators. And then there's Maya Danjal, another Al Gore
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acolyte, so she says, who works for a carbon trading scheme. There's a Tesla lobbyist on his board. It's
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important that they keep their government subsidies coming, and Audrey Depot is their lobbyist in Canada.
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And there's also Dvorka Svitkovic, who runs another electric car marketing firm. This one called Plug and
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Drive. Look, if you want to buy a Tesla, go for it. I hate the fact that I have to subsidize it, but you
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want to buy a Tesla, you do it. If you want to sell things, electric cars, go ahead. If you're a
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propagandist, go ahead, free country. But this Steve Lee, he doesn't disclose that he's a bought
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and paid for propagandist in his talks. He doesn't disclose that he's paid by lobbyists. He doesn't go
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in like a race car driver with all the logos of his sponsors on his jacket. He pretends he's just a guy
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who has these thoughts himself, but he's not. He's literally funded and directed by a bunch of anti-oil
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sense lobbyists and pro-electric car corporate lobbyists, most of them foreign funded. Which
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brings me back to Jason Kenney and his war room. You don't need to spend 30 million dollars stopping
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this. You actually don't need to spend a dollar. You just ban lobbyists and child actors and their
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puppets from coming into schools with children of tender years to tell them wild stories about
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nuclear bombs. This Steve Lee is not a scientist. He's not an expert. He's a bought and paid for
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propagandist who talks like he thinks he's the Messiah. He gets 760 grand a year for his propaganda
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agency and he's walking right into school and scaring children. Stop it. And if teachers and
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principals won't stop it, stop them. You don't have the right to terrorize children. Stay with us for more.
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Hey, a little bit earlier in the day when I was dressed a little bit differently, I got a Skype call
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from our own Kian Bextie who has safely landed in Hong Kong. I didn't want to announce his visit
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before he got through into Hong Kong through the border and customs because I just didn't want any
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chance he'd be kept out. So he's there and as soon as he got through customs he Skyped me and I want
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to show you a little bit of our conversation. Here take a look. We managed to make a connection with
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Kian Bextie who is now in Hong Kong. There he is right now on the screen. Hey Kian, how you doing?
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Good. How are you? Good. Le ho ma. I think that's how you say hello in Cantonese.
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That is, yeah. Well, can you hear me all right? I can hear you great. Can you hear me?
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Yeah. Okay. Well, give us an update. First of all, what time of day is it in Hong Kong?
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It is about, it's almost 1am. We had, we just landed, myself and my cameraman landed here
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in the Hong Kong International Airport after layover in Tokyo. It was a very, very long flight,
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but we finally got to our hotel and started exploring the streets. It's pretty quiet right
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now where we are, but we can see the signs of the protests pretty much wherever we go. I don't know if
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you can see right behind me. I'm going to try and show this on the screen. Can you see that? Yeah.
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It's a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh, which has become a
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common theme in this protest. The protester, well, Xi Jinping himself has said online at least that he
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really dislikes that image. So it's been posted on a lot of polls around the area. And what's
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interesting about right now, we came at a really good time because on Sunday are the general
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legislative elections. So there's actually campaigns going on throughout Hong Kong amid the protests.
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We've seen one of the, one of the actual council candidates had lost his ear from a rubber bullet
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just earlier last week. So things are quite tense here. People are on edge. And it's sad to see Hong
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Kong like this, actually hotels are dirt cheap right now, which is good for us coming here. But you can
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see, we were talking with the hotel agent as we checked in and he said, business is just dead.
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The Hong Kong dollar has dropped. And for the people of Hong Kong, it's just really upsetting. We were
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talking to some more at the airport and they said that they've never been so sad about Hong Kong and they're
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thinking about leaving. In fact, they're actually going to visit family in Canada and they figured
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they might just stay there. Wow. Now, if I'm not mistaken, you say it's after midnight there. So
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that's, you would be there very early Saturday morning. So it's, it's late Friday night there.
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Am I right with the date zone and what the international date line? Yes. Yeah. Now, if I'm not mistaken,
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the weekends are generally when the big mass demonstrations happen. Is that correct? Are you aware that
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there will be mass demonstrations this weekend? That's what we expect. Last weekend, the large
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demonstration was at the university. People were firing, flaming bow and arrows and throwing Molotov
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cocktails to defend against police who were aggressively coming in with what looked like live rounds.
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So I'll just go through right now what the Hong Kong protesters are demanding. There's the five demands
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and the metaphor is the five leaves on that Hong Kong flag. The first one is that they want the full
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withdrawal of the extradition bill. Right now, the bill is claimed to be dead, although it's not been
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totally pulled and claimed to never be brought back. The chief executive here has committed to never
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bringing that bill back. And that has some protesters upset. That's what originally brought the protesters to
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the street was the fact that they could be extradited from Hong Kong, the city of Hong Kong,
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which is a special administrative region, as per the agreement with the United Kingdom during the handover.
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They could be extradited, political dissidents, media personnel, political opponents of Beijing.
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They could be extradited to the mainland and sent to gulags, basically, which they're not happy about.
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That bill is quote unquote dead, but it's not been fully withdrawn. The second demand is a full inquiry,
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open inquiry into police brutality. We've seen right now over 4,000 protesters be arrested
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for for various things from gathering where they're not supposed to,
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to actual vandalism and things of that nature. The third is
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Don't worry about it. You've been traveling nonstop for 18 hours and you're jet lagged.
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I'm not trying to quiz you on all the five points. We have heard them before. They're very modest.
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One is to, the government had said it's criminal to protest. They wanted the decriminalization of the
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protests. They wanted an investigation into police brutality. Very, very modest. I should point out,
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none of the five demands were for independence or separation or for the overthrow of Beijing.
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And I say that because these are not actually radicals. A radical would say Hong Kong should
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be independent. That's not one of the five demands. But the thing is, it's got, I think I was saying
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before you hooked up with us, I was making a comparison to the Roman Empire. If they had an
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uprising in some far flung province, they would throw everything at it. Not because they cared so
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much about a little uprising, but because if, if it became known that little Judea could have an
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uprising, well, maybe they'd have an uprising in Gaul. They had to, and same here, if you could have an
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uprising in Hong Kong, maybe you'll have one in Tibet or Xinjiang where the Uyghurs are. So that's my
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theory. What do you think about that? Is this now about China proving that it's tough?
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Well, I know that, and hopefully you can hear me over the sirens, a bunch of police vans are actually
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driving, actually their entire semi-trailers driving right by us right now with sirens on full blast.
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No, I think you're right about that. And what's been said about these elections that are coming up
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here on Sunday is that it's a referendum on the protests. And if some key councillors are elected
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to a few of the seats that are actually electable seats, it's going to be seen as a major blow to
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Beijing and Xi Jinping, especially in Hong Kong. And you're right in that they said that this isn't a
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plea for separation. They don't want to return to the British Empire. They don't want to become a
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city state on their own. They simply just want to maintain the liberty that was given to them from
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the British Empire when they were handed over. They want the agreement to be respected at least
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for the next few decades until it eventually expires, which has protesters on edge, I'm sure, because
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if you knew that your rights were going to expire in 23 years, I think it is, well, you would be
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protesting too, I would imagine. Yeah. All right. Well, listen, I'll let you get going there because
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you probably want to snooze because tomorrow is going to be a very big day.
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Be careful. I mean, obviously, we want you to cover the news, but we don't want you to be
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hit by a rubber bullet or God forbid, a real one. But we do want you to cover the news and we want you to
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champion democracy because I think that other world events have distracted the mainstream media.
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And especially in Canada, there's such a love for communist mainland China. I don't think they're
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giving proper attention to this democratic uprising in Hong Kong. I really think it's important that
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you do this work. Our friend Avi Yamini is back in Hong Kong, too. I hope you can hook up with him and
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just, he did great work for us last time. For our viewers at home, people can see all your reports
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at hongkongreports.com. And you and our cameraman, we flew you there. You're staying in hotels. You need
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ground transportation. I don't remember what the total bill is, but I think between your flights
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and the hotels and other costs, we're probably looking at about $5,000 Canadian. Is that about right?
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Yeah, that's about right. We tried to cut costs as much as we could. And the Hong Kong dollar is cheap
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right now. But when it comes to, I mean, for example, to get from the airport to our hotel, it was about
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$50 Canadian. And you've, I mean, I don't want to give away secrets, but I don't think it's a problem
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to mention that you've brought gas masks to deal with the tear gas. Is that right? Yeah. How much did
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those costs? Gas masks, helmets, they're about 150 bucks a piece. All right. We just want to make
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sure our brains stay in our skull here. You know, reporters, we've seen videos of reporters being
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arrested, reporters being hit with, you know, the elbows of police officers and thrown to the ground.
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So we're not going to take any chances when we go to the actual protests to get footage
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and interview the protesters. We're going to make sure that we're as safe as possible.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't think they're going to come for you. I don't think they're doing that. And of
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course, taking on a foreign journalist from Canada would be very bad PR from them. So I don't want
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to scare you off. And it sounds like you're taking good precautions, obviously. I mean, I'm not going
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to call it a war zone yet because it's, it's not quite a war zone, but Tiananmen Square turned dark
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pretty quickly. So how long are you going to be there for? We'll be here for about a week. And then,
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uh, then we come home. Hopefully, uh, if we're not in a gulag in Beijing by then we'll be,
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we'll be back on Canadian soil by probably Wednesday next week.
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Well, let me ask you one last thing yesterday. I, I, on my, on my evening show,
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um, I talked about an idea. I mean, Canada takes refugees from all sorts of places,
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many of whom don't speak English or French, don't have a modern education, don't have any modern job
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skills and frankly are a poor cultural fit for Canada. I'm referring obviously, uh, to Justin
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Trudeau, Syrians five years later, 90% of whom are unemployed. And I, you know, obviously Canada
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can't take all of Hong Kong. And the idea is to fight for Hong Kong and keep it free. But God forbid,
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if they go full Tiananmen square, part of me thinks those protesters, they love liberty. They
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love independent courts. They love democracy and they're willing to pay a price for it. They speak
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English as all Hong Kongers do. They're well-educated. I mean, it's all students who are leading the
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battle. Uh, they're not welfare state people. It's an entrepreneurial culture. They're smart.
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And frankly, here in Canada, we could use some Hong Kong Chinese to be a counterweight to the
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pro mainland Chinese, which I think are the bulk of Chinese Canadians who are political these days.
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Part of me thinks that, God forbid, if things turn sideways, we should have real refugees that
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would be great Canadians. I don't know what the number would be, if it would be 5,000 or 10,000 or
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whatever. But if you're a student leader in Hong Kong fighting against communist China
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for free press, freedom association, rule of law, you're my kind of person. That's my thought.
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That's what we set up a website called realrefugees.com. We've got a bit of a petition going
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there. Um, I don't know. Why don't you ask people over the course of your week there,
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I bet most of them are going to say, no, no, we want to stay and fight. But if,
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if it goes to the full Chanaman Square, would they be interested in coming to Canada? I mean,
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I, when was the last time we had refugees come to Canada who were freedom-loving
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democracy activists? We could use, I think, people like that.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. Because you know, as well as I do, our prime minister is
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a big fan of the basic dictatorship in Beijing. So as many Hong Kongers as we could have come over
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to Canada to offset our prime minister who loves authoritarian regimes, that would be awesome.
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You know, you said something about the protesters being smart, well-educated, employable. And,
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you know, the first time I realized that these protesters were like nothing I've ever seen before,
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that they were actually really high IQ people, was when I saw a student come out onto the street
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and take a can of tear gas and solidify the toxins with liquid nitrogen. I don't know if you have the
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video. And I'm sure people have seen it because it went viral. But these people, they deserve to live
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in a place like Hong Kong used to be under the British Empire, back when freedoms were respected,
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when you could protest against the governments, when you could do business without fear of police
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brutality happening right outside of your business doors. I think it would be great to have Hong Kong
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protesters come to Canada, especially and specifically the ones who are at risk of being
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extradited should the extradition law eventually pass. And you probably have seen this as well as I have,
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the videos of protesters being put on trains to go to places where it's not been released. Those trains
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very well could be going to mainland China. And every every Hong Konger that is sent to a gulag in China
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is one that we should be bringing to Canada to keep safe, I believe. But these Hong Kongers are loyal to
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their country, they're loyal to their city. And I imagine they don't want to leave unless it's a
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worst case scenario kind of thing. Yeah, we're I think we're showing right now that clip of them grabbing
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the tear gas, grabbing it, putting it in a cone, pouring the I think I think that's liquid nitrogen
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on it. I think that's what they're doing. We're watching it right now, Kian. And yeah, I mean,
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it's just a very, very interesting what they're doing. All right. Well, listen, my friend, stay safe.
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Give us as much news as possible. They don't have to be long reports. If there's some very short thing
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that you think is remarkable, I don't care if it's a 30 second video, our people want to see it
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because they sure won't get that kind of information from the CBC.
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You're right. We're going to be trying to post things live and very quickly and very frequently
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on our Instagram channel. I believe that's rebel.news on Instagram. So people should check
00:38:15.620
that out so that you can see what we're doing live as it happens. I'll also be posting on Twitter
00:38:19.940
quite frequently as well. Great. And of course, your longer pieces we'll have on YouTube and on
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our website as usual. And we'll post all of these things at Hong Kong reports dot com. And I'd like
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to invite people to chip in. I mean, there's the airfare, there's the hotels, there's on the ground
00:38:37.620
costs and there's the cost of your gear. I think I'd have to do the accounting, but I think it's about
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five grand all in for you and the camera and stay safe, my friend. And I look forward to the updates.
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This weekend's going to be a lot of big news. So I look forward to your news over the weekends.
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Okay. You take care out there. Thanks for making the journey.
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Okay. There you have it. Kian Bexty joining us live via Skype. He just got off the plane. They went
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via Tokyo and then to Hong Kong. And there they have it. They checked in their hotel and they were
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already on the streets and they saw some evidence of the protests to come.
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about BC wanting to ticket hateful behavior. Wendy writes,
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so sick of the left pushing their hate to control the masses. Well, that's the thing. I mean,
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when liberals are pouring over with their hate, I mean, look at how they hate Donald Trump. It's
00:39:42.900
truly deranged. They hate Doug Ford in the same way. They hated his brother, Rob, even more. They
00:39:47.940
hated Stephen Harper. They hate Jason Kenney. That's not called hate. I mean, you just type in any social
00:39:54.260
media, the search term assassinate Trump. You'll get a hundred such comments a day. That's not the subject of
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hate investigations. But someone says up yours to Catherine McKenna and it's a week-long teachable
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moment in Canada. The left hates as much or more than the right. But for some reason, it's never
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discussed, let alone targeted. Peter writes, Callan is being incredibly vague about the hate crimes in
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groups organizing in BC communities. I demand solid statistics on exactly what's going on here.
00:40:29.460
Exactly. I mean, look, if there's a terrorist group, let's find out. If there's some crimes,
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let's find out. But just saying ban people in yellow vests, yellow vests isn't even a brand or a
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corporation. It's a style. It's really like saying ban the pink pussy hats group. It's just a hat.
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On my interview with Sue Ann Levy, Brett writes, when you bring in 80 single unemployed men from
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Nigeria into a Toronto neighborhood and spend $5,000 a head per night, there's no need for a
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gender-based analysis. That's only for Canadians who move in to do work. Yeah, it's a million bucks
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a month for 200 people, so it's $5,000 a head per month. But I take your point about the gender
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analysis. You know that old clip I always show you of Catherine McKenna saying if you have a big
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industrial project, you bring a couple hundred men and you need a gender analysis before it's
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approved, releasing that many men in the community. Yeah, it's a very good point. You release a hundred
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single men into a neighborhood. Men who don't necessarily know our cultural mores, how to
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handle yourself with women who are uncovered. Yeah, where's the gender analysis there? That's a very
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perceptive point. Well, that's our show for today. I'm really excited that Kian and our cameraman are
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in Hong Kong. I think they'll be safe. They've got some gear, like some tear gas masks in case things
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get a little rough. I think they've got good judgment and a healthy enough dose of fear in them
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that they won't put themselves in jeopardy. I expect we'll get some amazing footage. You can tune in at
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HongKongReports.com. And by the way, our friend Avi Amini is over there now too. He's on his own
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this time, but hopefully we'll meet up and have a chance to talk to him and get that on tape. So
00:42:21.700
very exciting weekend. So make sure to tune in to HongKongReports.com. I sure will be. I'm very
00:42:27.140
excited about what Kian's doing there. If you want to help chip into the cost of that flight, you can do
00:42:31.420
so too at HongKongReports.com. All right, that's our show for tonight. Until Monday, on behalf of all of us
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here at Rebel World headquarters to you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.