Protected under publication bans： From sex abusers to social justice warriors, the public is kept in the dark
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A judge grants a publication ban on a Canadian man accused of throwing human feces on five people in three separate incidents. Is he a Canadian citizen, or is he just passing through? And why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer?
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Tonight, does the public have the right to know what's going on in Canadian courts?
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Well, thanks to publication bans being handed out like candy at Halloween,
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I'm David Menzies filling in for Ezra Levent, and this is the Ezra Levent 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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Iqqar Mao of Guelph, Ontario was due to make an appearance in a Brampton courtroom this morning.
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Now, if that name doesn't ring a bell, he's the genius who flew over to Turkey last July.
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Why would anyone in their right mind visit Syria these days?
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Oh, well, Iqqar Mao is allegedly one of those terrorism tourists you read about these days.
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You know, the type who leaves a decadent Western nation in order to join ISIS
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so that he could have a gay old time in the Middle East.
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He was detained near the Syrian border and deported back to Canada in mid-October.
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However, I didn't go to his court appearance this morning,
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It's just that, yet again, a judge in his infinite wisdom
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has granted a publication ban regarding details pertaining to this case.
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And that would severely hamper what I could report to you.
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And I have to say, folks, I'm getting really tired of those accused of committing
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being consistently granted a media cloaking device.
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Once upon a time, publication bans were relatively rare.
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Today, judges are handing them out as freely as one does with candy on Halloween.
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Indeed, the last four court cases I've covered,
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there was a publication ban issued every single time.
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who made a brief appearance on Tuesday in a Toronto court.
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But for whatever reason, there is a publication ban on this case.
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was gracious enough to conduct a media scrum outside the court.
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But I think the only thing that was accomplished by that
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Can you tell us anything about his background, perhaps?
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but I can assure you that the case has nothing to do with immigration.
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You know, I think that was a harmless query that I asked.
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Is Mr. Opoku a Canadian or is he just someone passing through?
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But the lawyer declined to answer that question.
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How would his citizenship status affect Opoku in any way
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just consider the case of Mohamed Mohamed of Toronto.
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Some of the charges include 14 counts of sexual exploitation of a youth,
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in terms of what Mr. Mohamed is alleged to have done.
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And then there's the bizarre case of Talia Davidson.
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during her visit to Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.
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Obviously one of those hateful right-wing white supremacists, right?
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Davidson has a long documented history of being a leftist.
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She was obviously pretending to be a sheer supporter to smear conservatives.
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And yet, when she had her case heard in September,
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That meant I had to seek answers outside the courtroom,
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which is where I confronted Davidson and her lawyer.
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Ms. Davidson, what was the agenda you had in doing that stunt last month?
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Okay, it was the bursting of the liberal bubble.
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Why won't you speak about your misneeds, Ms. Davidson?
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No, there's a publication ban that was clearly made out of court.
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That I was violating the publication ban simply by asking questions in a public space?
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And let us not forget that esteemed gentleman, Jordan Hunt,
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who had this curious little habit of physically assaulting women who are pro-life supporters.
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Remember this debate Hunt had with Marie Claire Bissonette,
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which ended with a despicable roundhouse kick to her torso.
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If somebody gets raped by somebody and they're like,
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If someone was raped and she gave birth and she decided to kill her three-year-old child.
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But even this coward was granted a publication ban,
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meaning that during the trial we had to resort to Plan B,
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which was interviewing him outside the courthouse.
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Jordan Hunt, do you have any words to say to Marie Claire Bissonette?
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Well, not quite a roundhouse kick, but what kind of an assault was that?
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Jordan, it doesn't seem that you're very tough when a man is asking you questions.
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By the way, how come your hair isn't purple and you don't have a flower anymore there?
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How come you have to use cameras like these to record?
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How come you, did the budget end at like the cheap suit?
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Well, you know, I mean, you're very touchy-feely,
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but why is it that you like to assault women so much?
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Yep, that's the sort of cat that the judges are protecting from the glare of publicity these days, folks.
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My final example is perhaps the most outrageous and egregious one of all.
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You see, initially, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal granted Jonathan Yaniv
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a publication ban regarding his numerous complaints against female estitians who rightfully refused to do a bikini wax on him
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because Jonathan is a male who is pretending to be a female.
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Oh, here's a clip of the poor victim Yaniv in action back in August when I attempted to interview him.
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Why do you send sexually expressive messages to young girls?
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As you can see, folks, in addition to pretending to be a woman, Jonathan also appears to be pretending to be disabled.
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But here's the thing, as I mentioned previously, the BC Human Rights Tribunal actually initially granted a publication ban regarding the Yaniv case.
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A human rights tribunal is not even a real court.
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In fact, I'd call the BC Human Rights Tribunal a kangaroo court, except that I don't want to insult the marsupial community.
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But I must add that in a perversely ironic twist, the BC Human Rights Tribunal itself actually revoked the publication ban.
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Well, one individual out there continued to violate the ban.
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Yep, the one and only, thank God, Jonathan Yaniv, the very person the publication ban was originally meant to protect.
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In the final analysis, the issuance of publication bans is out of control in Canada.
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Once there had to be exceptional circumstances for a publication ban to be granted.
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Now it seems that a defence lawyer merely has to ask for a publication ban.
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And a publication ban shall be granted, no questions asked.
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This trend has to stop because the public really does have the right to know.
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To bar the media from reporting the facts of a case, any case, makes a trial a secretive process.
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To be effective, the justice system has to be open and transparent.
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No reasonable person surely wants justice to be done via star chambers.
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Especially given that, in my experience, so many of the people who are receiving protection via publication bans
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Now folks, while our rebel commander Ezra Levent is away on assignment today,
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he did pre-record an interview with Mark Moreno of Climate Depot.
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Well, Greta Thunberg, or as she's more popularly known in the media,
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Saint Greta has finally landed in Portugal after a bizarre journey by boat across the Atlantic during winter.
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Never a wise idea, but the whole point was that Greta could say,
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Now, fact is, the skipper and all the folks with the boat jetted to America
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to let her sail across so she could remain pristine.
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She came to America by boat on the first place,
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thinking that the global warming conference by the United Nations would be held in Chile.
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However, anti-carbon tax protests, yeah, that's right,
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the protests were sparked by rises in the price of fuel and transit.
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They caused Chile to abandon the global warming conference,
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As you know, we will be sending two of our best to cover that UN conference,
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And one person that we love talking to when we go to these global warming conferences,
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he's our expert to deprogram us in case our people start to, you know,
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fall victim to the global warming cult, is our friend Mark Moreno.
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He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com, and he joins us now from the United States.
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I'm heading over in two days, and I'll be there for the whole week next week,
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dealing with the new, and it's new terminology, the Climate Emergency Conference in Madrid.
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And if the government says it's an emergency, well, we'd better listen to them.
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We're sending Kian and Sheila, I think they're heading out on Sunday,
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We, as usual, are being kept out, but I find that we can do even better journalism
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because we're not just being managed and spoon-fed press releases.
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Sheila, especially being locked out, does great work outside of those conferences
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because so much of the activity, first of all, there's a green zone, a blue zone,
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all kinds of areas, and outside is where a lot of the NGOs are,
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And you can also get world leaders coming and going.
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These conferences, this one in particular, I expect it to be a heavy dose of anti-Trump activism,
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and it's going to be looking forward to the 2020, because in the United States,
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it's a 2020 referendum on the Green New Deal, the U.N.-Paris Agreement.
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If Donald Trump loses, the U.S. is back in in a way that the Washington Post said
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He's considered a conservative by the Washington Post because they are going to go so far beyond
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what Obama did, particularly in climate and energy, any Democrat that wins,
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So I expect the U.N. to be really ramping up the anti-Trump rhetoric.
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Yeah. Well, I'm going to ask you about Greta Thunberg in a moment,
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because you've got a fun story on Climate Depot about her I'd like to ask you about.
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But I remember in 2016, the Global Warming Conference, that was right after Trump won.
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Now, he had not yet been inaugurated, but it was like a funeral march there,
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because everyone knew Trump had called it a scam, a hoax, a cash grab.
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And Trump has actually served notice under the terms of the treaty that the United States
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So it's now or never for the global warming set, if America absolutely leaves,
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But with America not even participating, it becomes really pointless.
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Trump's whole first term when it comes to the U.N., he's only announced the intention to withdraw.
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It does not become official until after Election Day next November 2020.
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So right now, this is the referendum coming up.
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And I think a lot of these European leaders don't want to actually believe that the U.S.
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They keep hoping at the last minute he'll look for some concession and come in.
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And that's another four glorious years where we're not going to be part of this.
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However, you know, the United Nations is still going to continue.
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But I think it's going to be a lot harder without the United States in this.
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And you could have a lot more defections, you know, leading the way with Brazil's Bolsonaro
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and possibly other developing world countries if they're not getting their money.
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By the way, Ezra, an interesting side note here.
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They had a chart on all of the countries sending delegations to the U.N. summit.
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Who do you think had the largest number of delegates per area?
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The Democratic Republic of Congo leads the way.
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These countries in Africa are the ones poised to get the $100 billion U.N. slush fund,
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They're the ones that are going to get the money to keep their people poor,
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So, of course, they're sending the most number of lobbyists, delegates, representatives to these conferences.
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I was going to guess Canada because, of course, in 2015, Trudeau had just won.
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So, literally, everyone in cold, chilly Canada wanted a wonderful week in the City of Lights.
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Well, listen, my friend, I've got one last question for you.
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And you show us all the interesting things because you've been doing this for a while.
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There's a great article in the Daily Wire written by Ryan Saavedra.
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About colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression.
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Or, again, maybe she didn't say a word of this.
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Maybe this was all drafted by her managers and her beauty pageant mom back in Sweden.
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But she's just gone full Marxist here, hasn't she?
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A trip like that could just sort of let down your inhibitions.
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I mean, she's never said anything to this extent that I'm aware of.
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But what this is, actually, it's an evolution of the climate movement.
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I did an article about two months ago about how identity politics has overtaken the climate debate.
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First of all, Greta's senior advisor is George Monbihan, the U.K. environmentalist, who said that we have to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.
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This is her sort of spiritual climate guru, if you will, aside from her parents.
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And so it's not surprising she's gone down this route.
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I was just sort of surprised that it came out of nowhere and now she's on record.
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But this idea, the woke climate debate, if you will, it's been going on now for years and it's coalesced this year on every issue.
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You have African scientists now blaming hurricanes and cyclones in Africa on white people, on the white man's science.
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You have multiple instances of people basically saying that climate is now a racist thing where blacks and Hispanics are suffering, created by whites, the climate crisis.
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You have Bill McKibben saying that white climate deniers are to blame for the crisis because we voted for politicians who are climate deniers.
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So Greta is just following the lead of this movement and it really has become identity politics.
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Old people are being blamed for global warming.
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We had young kids on Capitol Hill here the day Greta was in New York in front of the Capitol saying that mom and dad trashed the planet, their generation.
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Kind of sarcastically, it's turning young against old, black against white, Hispanics against white.
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This is what they're trying to do is divide and conquer.
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And Greta is now fully willing to embrace that what I call identity politic agenda.
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Yeah, it's very weird for a daughter of privilege, a white millionaire from Sweden to be calling others racist or privileged.
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Well, and I look forward to you connecting with Kian and Sheila in Madrid.
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I think you guys, you on the information side, on the content side, and of course, Sheila and Kian are going to report the heck out of everything.
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And you'll be their guide a bit as you have in the past.
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Look forward to seeing your reports from over there.
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Mark Morano, he's the boss of ClimateDepot.com, and I regard him as the foremost expert on global warming politics.
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And as Ezra likes to say, keep fighting for freedom.