Putin’s state broadcaster joins Trudeau's CBC in mocking North American ethical oil
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Summary
In this episode, Ezra plays a Russian rock song in Russian, and talks about the government wanting to make fossil fuels "masses of freedom" and "mixed molecules of freedom gas." Also, Ezra talks about why the word "free" is such a funny thing.
Transcript
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Hello, my rebels. Aren't you in for a treat for today? I'm going to sing you a song.
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I'm going to sing you a song in Russian. But before I do that, I'm going to play a Russian
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rock video sung by someone who's an even worse singer than me. So you're probably thinking,
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I don't want to listen to Ezra singing. I just don't want to put myself through that punishment.
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Well, you'll listen to the actual Russian singer first, and I will be like relief.
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Tonight, Vladimir Putin's state broadcaster joins Trudeau's state broadcaster in mocking
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North American ethical energy. It's May 30th, 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'm publishing it is because it's
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I came across this on Twitter, and I know there's a lot of junk out there. I mean, this is really
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just some random liberal journalist, one of a thousand, just pumping out boring, vanilla
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leftism from a cubicle in Brooklyn, probably. Anything anti-Trump, anything cynical, and
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never a patriotic thought, never an original thought, and God forbid, never a dissident thought.
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This is the tweet here by Ryan Cooper. It says,
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actual Trump administration, quote, increasing export capacity from the Freeport liquid natural
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gas project is critical to spreading freedom gas. Freedom gas! He said gas! Or, I don't know,
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was that the funny part or was it the freedom part? I think it's the gas part. I think that's
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the junior high school level humor here. Yeah, he said freedom gas.
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There's a wonderful and exciting world out there when we discover that we don't need TV to
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entertain us. He thought ain't us. Yeah, look, I don't know what was so funny. Maybe the joke was
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the gas part. Maybe the joke was the freedom part, which is odd because the town in question from which
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the LNG will be exported is called Freeport. There are a lot of cities and towns called Freeport,
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actually, and the name absolutely has to do with freedom. But I guess freedom, it's such an
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old-fashioned, you know, old white male thing or something. Again, I'm not quite sure what the
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comedy here was, but this tweet linked to this article in a left-wing website owned by the
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Washington Post. The left-wing website is called Slate Magazine. I'll read a little bit. I'll just
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read the headline there. It says, the Department of Energy is now calling fossil fuels molecules of
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freedom and freedom gas. That's what they said. Now, right away, there's a photo there. You see
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that photo there? Let me read the caption on the photo. From now on, this is known as a freedom flame.
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It's actually a natural gas flame in New Mexico. So there's a lot to laugh at. I guess to them,
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the word freedom is funny. Say the people who enjoy the greatest freedom in the history of the
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world, the freedom never before enjoyed by their ancestors, a freedom so longed for by most people
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in the world to this day. But it's funny. I mean, freedom, that's so Trump, eh? He's so stupid.
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These are people who make up phrases about solar and wind power, being clean energy,
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even though solar and wind power often need rare earth metals that are mined in the dirtiest mines
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in the world, in China. And wind turbines use steel, which cannot be made without coal. So the liberal
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left makes up words for wind and solar power. They call it clean power, which is not true. But they hate
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when Trump uses the word freedom in natural gas that is made in a free country. No surprise there.
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Let me read the story. The Trump administration loves fossil fuels, but apparently has decided
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that they need some rebranding. Or so E&E news editor Ellen Gilmer discovered Tuesday when she opened up
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what should have been the world's driest press release. Yeah, I guess anything real, you know, oil, gas,
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tankers, exports, real life, actual people who work as opposed to just type on Slate website, is dry
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to people who prefer doing journalism, like the top 10 moments where the Game of Thrones was just
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like real life in high school, or top 10 ways to argue with your right-wing uncle about trans rights
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at Thanksgiving dinner. So I guess real life stuff is dry by comparison. Now, Slate links to the actual
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government press release. Let me read from it a bit. This is the press release from the Department of
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Energy. Department of Energy authorizes additional LNG exports from Freeport LNG. Now, I'm going to read
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a paragraph, the one that they mocked. I liked it, actually. Now, remember, LNG, that's for liquefied
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natural gas. So the gas is fracked that makes tiny little cracks on the ground to release the gases
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pumped to the surface. Now, they cool the gas to make it into a liquid, which is way smaller in volume.
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So they make it extremely cold. It makes the gas turn into a liquid. And then they put the liquid on
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ships. And they sell up to places like Europe, displacing the conflict energy that they import
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from Russia and OPEC countries. That sounds pretty great to me. And it's what we would be doing in
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Canada by now if we didn't have a substitute drama teacher blocking anything with carbon in it. So
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here's the story. Approval of additional LNG exports from Freeport LNG furthers this administration's
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commitment to promoting American energy, American jobs, and the American economy. Further, increased
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supplies of U.S. natural gas on the world market are critical to advancing clean energy and the energy
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security of our allies around the globe. With the U.S. in another year of record-setting natural gas
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production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient
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regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world, said
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Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Steven Winberg, who signed the export order and was also in
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attendance at the Clean Energy Ministerial. So that's hilarious, I guess. But it really is clean
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energy. If you care about carbon, which I don't really, other than I like carbon, because like you,
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I am made of carbon. Carbon in the form of natural gas burns more cleanly than, say, coal. I like coal,
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too. And yeah, natural gas from America. I said gas, guys, is cleaner morally than gas from Russia
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or OPEC. I mean, it's all the same molecule, but it's ethically cleaner. You could call it ethical
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oil. It's ethical gas. They say freedom gas, same thing. This is huge news, actually. You know,
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America, I had trouble believing this because I've been studying American oil and gas for about a decade
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since I wrote ethical oil. America used to be a huge importer of energy, the largest in the world.
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Now America is a net energy exporter. What a change. A change even from Obama, who threatened
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to shut down coal, blocked a lot of oil drilling, whether in the Gulf of Mexico or in the Arctic.
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And if he could, he would have shut down natural gas fracking, too. Trump is full tilt on all of
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these plus coals. So I guess it has to be fart jokes or something. Let me read from the Washington
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Post-owned slate again. And now it's the Trump administration's official line, as one of my
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colleagues put it, spreading freedom gas. Sounds like what happens when you're newly single
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and suddenly have the apartment to yourself. Which raises the question, did the Department of Energy
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mean to make a fart joke in official statement? Or are we just lucky? The world may never know.
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Oh, hey, guys. Now, you might be wondering, why am I telling you about all this stupidity?
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Well, because as always, the Washington Post slate is in sync with America's enemy. Just
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to get back at Trump or whatever. Because look at this, at the exact same time as the Washington
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Post slate writers were bashing, ha ha, they said gas, the concept of freedom gas, which is
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surely what they would call it in the Baltics, in Poland, in Ukraine, which are right now at the
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mercy of Vladimir Putin's state-run gas company called Gazprom. Because Gazprom has actually turned
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off the taps for the natural gas as a political weapon in disputes with Ukraine, for example.
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They've cut off the gas several times in the dead of winter. And when they do deign to ship the gas,
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they charge extortion of prices when the taps are on. Yeah, I bet the people in Ukraine and Poland
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and Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, places like that, I bet they would call gas from Donald Trump freedom
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gas too. And I'm guessing they're a little bit too busy defending their freedom from Putin to make
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fart jokes. He said gas. But one of Putin's state broadcasters called Russia Today, RT, I actually
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follow RT because they have interesting takes if you discount for their Putin bias. Now they have
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several different Twitter accounts for social media memes. And so RT, Putin's broadcaster, did this
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tweet. This is from Russia. Introducing Freedom Gas TM, the latest in American ingenuity from the US
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Department of Energy. And then you can see the little hashtags there, molecules of freedom. And they had
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embedded in that tweet, this short video, I'm going to show you the whole thing. So this was produced by
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From the men that brought you Freedom Fries, comes a new product with those same American values.
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Freedom Gas. Exporting US Freedom. Molecule by Molecule. Freedom Gas. Freedom liquefied.
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Now they're a little bit stupid over there because they think that gas, as in natural gas, means gasoline
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that you pump at the gas station. But that was their attempt at being funny, I think. Now they
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thought it was funny. Here's a follow-up tweet they did. How's that for true American genius?
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Real Donald Trump in your face! Yeah, they thought they were pretty funny. I mean, America is pretty
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awesome, let's be honest. And I'm saying this as a patriotic Canadian. They were just mocking
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American things, like beautiful women in bikinis shooting guns. Now, that's actually not my style.
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It's a little over the top for me, but it is actually a lot of freedom, isn't it? I mean,
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there are no women in bikinis allowed to go out in public in Iran or Qatar or any other OPEC countries.
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Are they certainly not allowed to shoot guns? They're not even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. So yeah,
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America has its excesses. But tell me which country you'd rather be in as a woman, Saudi Arabia
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or a country that lets you wear a bikini and shoot a gun. I guess America just can't be as classy
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as Russia. And Russia today, when it comes to gas videos, talk about class. Here's the boardroom
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of the Putin-controlled company called Gazprom. Yeah, that's their style. It's like Studio 54.
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It's like the Sopranos plus Vegas plus third world thugs. But that's the biggest natural gas
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company in Russia, Gazprom. It's 51% owned by the Kremlin, just like that Twitter account video
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is owned, controlled by the Kremlin. Can I show you a Gazprom video, though? This is an official,
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real Gazprom video. Did you know they have a music video? They have an official song. Wouldn't that be
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weird to have like an official song at, you know, I don't know, Petrocan or something? They have a
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professional soccer team. Gazprom does. Isn't that funny? Like a real team that people go and watch.
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It's owned. It's like the Gazprom team. I'll come back to the soccer team in a moment. But first,
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can I play for you a full two minute of Gazprom's official music video? This is real. Now,
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the singer here, the one with the tone deaf voice, which is why I'm only going to subject you to two
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minutes of it because I like you. I don't want to hurt you. So I'll only show you two minutes of it.
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The singer here is Vladimir Tumayev. He's a senior Gazprom executive. He helps run this gas company.
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Now, he wrote the song. That's a warning sign. He performed the song in the official company music
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video. You're darn right. Not a single one of Gazprom's thousands of employees dare to say,
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excuse me, boss, maybe we ought to hire a professional singer. Are you kidding? You tell
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senior executive of Gazprom, he's not good enough to be in a rock video. You're going to sleep with
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the fishes. Okay, here's the Gazprom music video. I'm only going to subject you to two minutes of it.
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I swear this is real. I'll come back in two minutes and I'll tell you what it meant. Take a look.
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Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for the Russian gas company.
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To not finish, so that it was, even if it was, even if it wasn't easy, it would be easy.
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Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for the Russian gas company.
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Go for you. Go for you. Go for you. Go for you.
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Go for us. Go for you. Go for us. Go for you. Go for you. Go for us. Go for everyone who has lost the earth.
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Go for you. Go for us. Go for us. Go for us. Go for you. Go for us.
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Let's drink to you, let's drink to me, let's drink to this russiski gas.
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Everything in Russia is a drinking song when you think about it.
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Including the very dangerous industrial work of drilling for an explosive natural substance.
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Sung by a tone deaf senior executive for Gazprom that nobody in that whole, I mean, writing
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the song, producing it, making the video, probably 100 people were involved in that.
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And not one of them dared to say, hey, can we just try out some professional voice talent?
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So yeah, Russia today, they're all class, unlike Americans calling American energy freedom
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Can I read to you, just because it's funny, this was in my book, Ethical Oil.
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Can I read to you a little bit more about Vladimir Tumayev?
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Like I said, Gazprom has a professional soccer team.
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It would be as if Petro Canada owned the Calgary Flames or something.
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And Vladimir Tumayev, besides being an outstanding oil and gas executive and a rock star, he's
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And you know he's almost as good at that as he is at singing.
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He insisted that he be a player on the team in their matches too.
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And he's going to play with these 20-year-old professional athletes.
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And again, you're going to tell him, no, boss, it's not a good idea.
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He is most known for actually playing for his team, making his professional debut at 45 years
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of age and playing well into his 50s, while his team was playing on the second highest level
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He would usually come in as a substitute close to the end of the game, which was already decided.
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He played his last professional game so far in the Russian Second Division on October 29, 2005,
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On the last day of the season, scoring a goal in a 3-2 victory.
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His penalty kick was saved by Neftek-Mech Goldkeeper, who was later sent to Gulag.
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He was 58 years, 10 months, and 19 days old on that day, making him the oldest professional
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soccer player ever in Russia and possibly Europe.
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And let me just say, that goaltender who let him score was a very, very smart man.
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Hey, pro tip, if you're ever golfing with your boss, let him win.
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If you're ever playing poker with your boss, let him win.
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And if you're ever playing soccer, if you're this fit professional athlete, 20 years old,
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and you're playing goal, and this 55-year-old guy with a bit of a punch comes huffing and
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puffing and maybe even hear him say, the vice of us, the vice of us, and he comes and kicks
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One day, the United States of America will be as classy as Vladimir Tumayev and Gazprom and
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You know, I understand why Russia is mocking Freedom Gas.
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Because Freedom Gas is displacing Russian Gazprom gas and OPEC Sharia gas.
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It doesn't just take money away from Gazprom and OPEC.
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You can't have an Arab oil shock if America is oil independent.
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They can't hold European countries hostage anymore, can they?
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It's the list of countries by natural gas reserves.
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Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria, China, Algeria, Iraq, Indonesia,
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America is the only good guy in the top dozen countries.
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I don't know what God was thinking when he was handing out natural gas, but he gave it
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And Donald Trump is pumping and drilling and fracking and mining as fast as possible.
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Jobs for Americans, energy independence for the country, freedom imports for the world's
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democracies, now dependent on OPEC and the Russians, taking market share away from dictatorships.
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I mean, I know some fool at the Washington Post's slate makes some fart jokes.
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And our own fool, Justin Trudeau, has done his best to stop our own LNG, freedom gas, just
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like he stopped our ethical oil from the oil sense.
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But for the rest of us, in the real world, this really is great news about freedom gas
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Well, censorship and deplatforming doesn't just happen online.
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In fact, often leftist thugs threaten violence to any theater, any meeting room that dares
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just let a conservative or even just an alternative voice have a get-together.
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And today, the current victim of deplatforming is our friend, Phelan McAleer.
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He's a playwright and a filmmaker, and he's got this great idea called verbatim theater,
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where in particular cases, he has actors read out actual lines from transcripts in court
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It's not fiction, it's just selected readings from the truth, from real life.
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And so he had pledged to go ahead with a play called FBI Lovebirds Undercovers.
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It was about the FBI lovebirds, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who conspired to undo Donald Trump.
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It was a reading of their text messages that were revealed, and he had two big-name actors lined up for it.
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Dean Cain, known to many Americans as having played the role of Superman,
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and Christy Swanson, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Well, it was all set to go until, well, I'll let Phelan himself tell you what happened.
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Did I accurately describe your play called FBI Lovebirds Undercovers?
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Yeah, well, it's their text messages, their glorious lover anti-Trump text messages.
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But also what we've done is they were grilled for a couple of days in private congressional hearings.
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The transcripts of those have just been released.
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So I've melded their text with the grilling they got about those texts and their pathetic defenses of them.
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So, and then, you know, we were all set to the play.
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And the thing was, we're going to film it and release it online afterwards.
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It was just them reading their text, acting out their text, acting out the Q&A from congressmen.
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And, you know, they didn't, the resistance didn't look well.
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You know, they were obviously plotting to undermine Trump.
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As Trump says, they were, you know, Strzok at one stage says, well, it looked like Trump was going to get elected.
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And that's when they started the Russia investigation.
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At one stage, Page says, he's not going to get elected, is he?
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This is the head of FBI counterintelligence saying we're going to stop a democratic decision.
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So, we were all set for this very interesting play.
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Then, on Tuesday, got the word from the theater in D.C., we are cancelling your booking even though we have a signed contract because we don't like the truth because they can't handle the truth.
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I don't think the theater has an excuse to cancel it.
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If they were getting violent threats from Antifa or whatnot, the proper answer is to work to get security, either Washington, D.C. police or even private security.
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It's one of the most highly guarded, highly policed cities in America.
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Was it a real threat or was it the theater themselves that got called?
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The only threat that exists, the only threat that exists is one guy on Twitter who says something and when he was called out on it, he deleted the threat.
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Now, this is an excuse by cowardly hypocrites, by the theater set, who keep giving themselves awards for bravery.
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They keep telling themselves how brave they are and give speeches about how brave they are.
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And then the first and you should read the studio theater, the Meade Theater's website.
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You know, we're going to challenge ideas and challenge assumptions and bring fresh ideas.
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And the first time somebody challenges assumptions, first time somebody makes them think again, they are cowards.
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And you're not even doing anything that isn't a already in the public record.
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That's the whole brilliant idea behind verbatim theater is you're bringing to life selected excerpts from actual testimony.
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So you're democratizing what can be sort of a, you know, a dense legal matter.
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So you're not even doing anything other than portraying the truth as spoken by these people.
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Portraying the truth is a dangerous occupation.
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And in America these days, it doesn't get you very far, apparently.
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As Dean Cain said, he said he hasn't spoken much about this play, but he did say,
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I look forward to playing Peter Strzok in the words, I don't know, as written by Peter Strzok.
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I look forward to playing Peter Strzok as written by Peter Strzok.
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This is what they said when they thought no one was watching.
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Now, we've had our challenges with deplatforming too.
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Sometimes we try and toughen up our vendors in advance.
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Did you tell these folks that it might be spicy in advance?
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How come they agreed to it in the first place if they turned out to be cowards?
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I just read their website and believed them that they were going to challenge ideas and challenge assumptions, you know.
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When I did the play Ferguson, which, again, was verbatim based on the grand jury testimony,
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the actors arrived thinking that anything about Ferguson would automatically be a lie and tell a lie that Michael Brown was shot by a murderous cop.
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When the eyewitness evidence quite clearly showed the opposite, and that's what we're reading.
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And when they got to the rehearsals and saw the truth, they ran a mile.
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Remember, nine actors walked out of the Ferguson play during rehearsals.
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So I think what happens is they see FBI undercovers, FBI lovebirds undercovers, and think, oh, this will be about James Comey's honorable fight against, you know, Trump or Mueller's fight against Trump or whatever.
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And then when they see the truth, that it's based on actual texts, messages, when they see, they don't want that out there.
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I mean, they really don't want it filmed and distributed online.
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Well, let me ask you this, because, you know, there's a lot of politically correct censors.
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I would imagine, unfortunately, that many theaters and artistic groups are the same way.
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But Washington, D.C. does have a Republican side, an independent side.
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There's embassies there from every country in the world, many of whom are controversial.
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So there are ways that, you know, dissident ideas like yours can get out.
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I mean, wouldn't it be amazing if Donald Trump himself said, I want to see that play?
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You can play it in the theater at the White House.
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We're hoping that Donald Trump will do that, actually.
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I mean, the Trump Hotel is very, very expensive.
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And that's one thing that this has done is really has pushed the costs of this through the roof.
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We're hoping the Trump Hotel, we're hoping the White House.
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I mean, a few weeks ago, Trump showed the Gosnell movie in the White House.
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It was the first political movie to be seen in the White House.
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He didn't come to the screening, but I met him afterwards at the Trump Hotel.
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He, you know, this is the first movie, first political movie that they've had in the White House was Gosnell.
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So he's open to this kind of, you know, stirring it up.
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And I'm hoping that he will come on board this time as well.
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Well, I mean, I say again, listen, your work is outstanding, even with talent that's not world famous.
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I mean, I'm not a stargazer, but those are serious names that a lot of people like that.
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And wouldn't that be amazing if the Mead Theater was the censor and Donald Trump was the one defending the First Amendment?
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The tolerant ones are really the intolerant ones.
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I mean, when I had Ferguson in New York, a couple and their daughter drove from Ottawa to New York to see Ferguson.
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So people are very welcome to fly into D.C., drive to D.C. from Canada.
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Let's get the truth out and let's stop the cover-up.
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Does that mean there is a show that people can come to or is that to be decided later?
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If we have to do it on the theater outside, on the pavement or sidewalk, whatever you guys call it, sidewalk, outside the studio theater or the meet theater, we will do it there and shame them.
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But it is going ahead in D.C., let me tell you.
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Well, Phelan, I'm glad to hear it and I like your confidence.
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Well, Phelan, let me tell you, as you've just told me this seconds ago, we will send one of our roving reporters, Kian Bexte, to cover the event wherever it is.
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And maybe if you could put in a good word with the boss, we could get a few moments with Dean Cain and Christy Swanson.
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But just as importantly, he'll review the political situation.
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So I will buy a ticket right now for Kian Bexte and he'll be there in Washington.
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Listen, your supporters have always been great supporters of ours and always helped us out.
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So we're always a great welcome to anybody in Canada who wants to come.
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One of the great freedom fighters of our era who's in a particularly tough battlefield, that of arts and the entertainment, Phelan McAleer.
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I got to check with Kian if he's available, but I'm sure he will be.
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On my show yesterday from outside the Alberta legislature in Edmonton, John writes, Notley
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We need you and Sheila to keep on top of the issues in the West.
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Hey, thanks for saying that word, damnatio memoriae.
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I know it's an obscure thing, and people are probably tired of me saying it, but I think
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It's like start, it's like wipe your, you know, there's a button on your cell phone.
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You can wipe out everything, wipe out your computer, wipe out your hard drive, just remove
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That's what Alberta's got to do after four years of the NDP.
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Bob writes, you spoke of NDP appointees being paid severance to go away all across the country,
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whether it is provincial or federal changes to government, Canadian taxpayers are on
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the hook for millions of dollars in severance pay.
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Why are these appointees not given a finite agreement that ends with the fall of the political
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These people are just being paid back for their support of that political party.
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Well, look, you have to pay some severance to people, otherwise you're never going to
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And I'm not even talking about a number of the permanent bureaucracy.
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I'm not saying fire, you know, a frontline person working at a desk in the, I was going
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to say the Motor Vehicles apartment, but that was a privatized number.
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I was going to say the liquor stores, but that was a privatized number.
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I'm not saying fire, you know, a ground level nurse, let's say.
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I'm talking about all the tens of thousands of political appointees.
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Chris writes, about once a week, I call or email my MP or MPP about an issue I was made
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Frequently, I'm asked about where I got this information.
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Often, there are two or more sources of information about any issue.
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Would you prefer that I mention the rebel as often as possible?
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Well, Chris, I mean, whatever is the actual source of your information, and what you're
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saying is you have several sources, I mean, sure, mention the rebel.
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Sometimes, that can cause a liberal MPP or a liberal MP to close their ears and harden
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But I like to say, I like to think that most of our rebel reports have a lot of proof points
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And by that, I mean, if I say something verbally, at the same time, I like to show you an excerpt
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And we have had literally thousands of access to information requests we've filed over the
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So I think that if you refer to the rebel, you will be doing yourself good in terms of
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The only question is, if it's a hard-hearted, closed-minded, intolerant liberal, would that
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I'm going to have like a whole two days in a row here in our world headquarters.
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I mean, I think Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian, excuse me, bully.
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I don't think he is the menace that China is in the world or Islamism.
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In fact, I think Putin has been a better ally than others in the war against ISIS.
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I think we need to be careful of Russia and stop its territorial ambitions in places like
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But I think, ironically, the Democrats and the leftists who have been in Russia phobia
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for the last two years, they actually don't care about Russia in Ukraine or Georgia or
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They never cared when Barack Obama and George W. Bush let Putin devour those parts of Europe.
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They only use Russia as a tool to beat Donald Trump.
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I've been criticizing Russia since I wrote the book Ethical Oil a decade ago.
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Highquarters, you at home, good
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night and keep fighting for freedom and freedom gap.