The Ezra Levant Show： Some scientists are now claiming vaccine-hesitant people are more dangerous drivers
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Unvaccinated? Well, a new study suggests that you re probably a really bad driver. Toontes the driving cat? Well, obviously, he isn t vaccinated either now, is he? And by the way, if you don t get jabbed with the COVID19 vaccine, well, your motoring skills are equivalent to those of Toones the Driving Cat.
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Tonight, are you unvaccinated? Well, a new study suggests that you're probably a really bad driver
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to, oh, give me a break. It's Thursday, December 15th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra
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Levent Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. Well, folks, there are so many indicators out there
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that suggest things are starting to return to normal now that the very worst of the COVID-19
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pandemic is behind us. Fewer people are wearing masks. Social distancing isn't really a thing
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anymore. All those silly directional arrows on the floors of retail stores, well, they have more or
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less disappeared. And by the way, did all of that signage nonsense ever work in reducing COVID-19
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transmission in the first place? But I digress. For the other day, I visited my friendly neighborhood
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Petro-Canada gas station and could barely believe my eyes. Those intrusive plastic shields had been
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removed from the counter, and the guy behind the counter was not masked up as if he was about to,
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you know, perform a surgical procedure as opposed to cashing me out. Hallelujah. Because I don't know
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about you folks, but in the past two years, trying to have a conversation through reams of PPE
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impediments from plastic shields to fabric face diapers, well, kind of resembled the sort of
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discussion the Peanuts gang has with their teacher. Anyway, these days, it's beginning to look a lot like
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Christmas, the 2019 edition that is, and that's a jolly good thing indeed. But hold on to your horses,
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folks, because when it comes to the quest for normalcy, we're not quite there yet. That's because
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the vilification and demonization of the unvaccinated continues unabated, at least in certain circles.
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Case in point, a new study from some Sunnybrook Research Institute scientists was just released.
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And get this, the study suggests that those who have an underlying hesitancy to get vaccinated against
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COVID-19 are the same people who are essentially bad drivers and that they get into traffic accidents.
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I swear, folks, I'm not making this up. The Sunnybrook shysters are basically stating that if you
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don't get jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine, well, your motoring skills are equivalent to those of
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Toontes the driving cat. Remember that little kitty?
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Toontes the driving cat. See? See, I told you he could drive. Toontes, look out!
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Well, obviously, Toontes the driving cat isn't vaccinated either now, is he? By the way,
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are we vaccinating cats and dogs yet? I mean, that would make a whole new profit stream for Big Pharma,
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aided and abetted by their cheerleaders in the mainstream media.
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CNN Tonight. Brought to you by Pfizer. Early start. Brought to you by Pfizer.
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But instead of this Sunnybrook study paper being used to line a birdcage, this propaganda was actually
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published in the American Journal of Medicine. And here are some of the details.
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Using a population-based approach, the study included over 10 million adults and more than 6,000
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traffic crashes throughout Ontario. Dr. Donald Rettelmeyer, the principal investigator and senior
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We identified adults who had or had not received a COVID vaccine and followed each person for a traffic
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First of all, does that not seem a little weird or downright creepy to you, this business of following
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up on car crash victims and checking on their vaccination status? And by the way, aren't we in
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a health care crisis right now, you know, with certain hospitals at standing room only capacity?
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And yet there are some health care professionals who have enough time on their hands to cook up
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weird science papers? I mean, come on, guys, get back to the ER or at least get back to your song
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I do my head tall, check my nails, baby, how you feeling?
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Head tall, check my nails, baby, how you feeling?
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Wow, isn't that special? I guess if the nurses are dancing these days, I wonder if the dancers down
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at the Zanzibar or the House of Lancaster are providing nursing services. If so, finally,
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I now have a valid reason to patronize a strip club. But I digress. The study also found unvaccinated
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adults accounted for 1,682 traffic crashes, 25%, equal to a 72% increased relative risk compared
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to those who were vaccinated. The increased traffic risk was more than the risk associated
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with diabetes or dementia, and second only to the relative risk associated with a history
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of alcohol misuse. Wow, I'd hate to see the accident stats for those afflicted with diabetes
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and dementia and alcoholism. And worst of all, they happen to be, gasp, unvaccinated too.
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Oh, give me a break. Here's another statement from Dr. Frankenstein, or sorry, I mean Dr. Rettelmeyer.
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Quote, our study demonstrated traffic risks were 50 to 70% more frequent for adults who had not
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been vaccinated compared to those who had. This does not mean COVID-19 vaccination directly prevents
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traffic crashes. Instead, it suggests that adults who do not follow public health advice may also
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neglect the rules of the road, end quote. Oh, man. I'm so glad Dr. Rettelmeyer clarified that getting
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jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine doesn't turn a bad driver into a good driver. You know, kind of like
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how being bitten by a radioactive spider might give you superpowers a la Peter Parker.
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By the way, for what it's worth, folks, when it comes to getting jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine,
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I think I'd rather get bitten by a radioactive arachnid, even if it doesn't give me super strength
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and spidey senses. But back to the study, I think this is a textbook example of that which is known as
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jumping to conclusions. Again, check out the preponderance of weasel words, i.e., the study
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suggests that adults who do not follow public health advice may also neglect the rules of the
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road. I'm sorry, but using the words suggest and may, well, that hardly makes for a definitive
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scientific conclusion, wouldn't you say? And check out this whopper, quote,
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the authors recommend that individuals who hesitate to take the COVID-19 vaccine reflect on their
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choices and recognize how such decisions have repercussions in ways they do not imagine.
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Strategies to avoid a traffic crash include obeying the speed limit, minimizing distractions,
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and never driving drunk, end quote. Well, there you have it, my fellow members of Club Unvaccinated,
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because you chose not to get injected with an experimental vaccine that does not work. Well,
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that means when you get behind the wheel, you likely have a lead foot and you might even be as
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drunk as a skunk and you are prone to distractions, whatever that means. Yeah, these doctors are basically
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suggesting that the unvaccinated are all variations of that classic Saturday Night Live character
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unfrozen caveman lawyer. Your world frightens and confuses me. Sometimes the honking horns of your
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traffic make me want to get out of my BMW and run off into the hills or whatever. Sometimes when I get a
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message on my fax machine, I wonder, did little demons get inside and type it? I don't know.
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My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. Yes, my unvaxed friends, you are all so frightened
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and confused. Oh, but the good doctor isn't done yet, says Redelmeyer, quote,
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We don't want unvaccinated people to feel persecuted and are not suggesting they stop driving. Instead,
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we suggest they drive a bit more carefully. Physicians counseling patients who decline COVID-19
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vaccination could consider safety reminders so their patients do not become traffic statistics,
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end quote. Holy moly, does it get any more condescending than that? Oh, and I'm sure family
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doctors are really going to embrace Redelmeyer's advice and more from physician to, oh, I don't know,
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a new age version of Elmer the safety elephant next time an unvaxed patient drops by.
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Sorry, I bumped into you, Elmer. I guess I didn't watch where I was going.
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You must always watch where you're going. Then you won't get hurt in traffic.
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Say, whatever happened to Elmer the safety elephant? Oh yeah, I think he got cancelled in
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favour of drag queen's story time. Anyway, talk about conflating the truth, which is to say it seems
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to me that the quacks behind this study use two completely separate ideas or sets of information
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that are factually unrelated to deliver a conclusion that is both flawed and dishonest.
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I'll give you an example of conflation. Jim Smith likes to drink champagne. Adolf Hitler also liked
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to drink champagne. Conclusion, Jim Smith is a Nazi. Indeed, I'd love to see the empirical evidence that
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went into this Sunnybrook study, if it even exists, that is. You see, I think these doctors
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began this study with a predestined conclusion that they were going to make the unvaccinated come
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across as so stupid they'd be unable to competently drive a motor vehicle. It's equal parts preposterous
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and egregious, and I would also argue it's immoral and unethical. And how will this so-called data
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be put to use when it comes to penalising the unvaccinated? For example, how long will it be before, say,
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car insurance companies demand to know the vax status of their clients? And if you're unvaccinated,
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well, guess what? That will be an extra 7% increase, sir, on your premium because there's now evidence
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to prove that you are a bigger risk when it comes to your driving ability. Oh, I know it sounds
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outrageous, folks, but given what we have witnessed these past two years, would this come as a surprise
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to you? Not for me. Enough is enough already. At the height of COVID-19, the unvaccinated were always
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demonised and vilified and treated as second-class citizens. We saw the introduction of medical
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apartheid. The last thing we need now is for doctors with too much time on their hands to continue the
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demonization and vilification of the unvaccinated as COVID-19 mercifully enters its extinction event.
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Well, you might recall when I first talked about Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter and Twitter's
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knee-jerk reaction to it, which was a hard no. I went through the board of directors of Twitter,
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as it then was, and I noted that there really weren't people who knew about tech or who knew
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about media, but there were a lot of people who could be called the deep state. I used that phrase,
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people who were experts in foreign affairs and national security and spying and intelligence. Of
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course, there were foreign personalities. The Saudis, of course, have always owned a large
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stake in Twitter. And it was my thesis back then, and I wasn't alone, but I remember calling it early,
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that Elon Musk understood, or at least I thought he understood, that he was buying not a free speech
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organ, but rather a censorship organ. That its value was not that it gave people a voice, but that it
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actually filtered that voice in the interests of the deep state that controlled it the same way that
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the Chinese-based app TikTok, well, you could call it a free speech app, but it actually is an app that
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puts out and takes in information that serves the Chinese government. And so it is that as Elon Musk
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has taken over Twitter and replaced that external board of directors and now runs the place himself,
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and only now that we learn who was running Twitter on the inside, do we see that the deep state was
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not just at the board of director level, it was hardwired throughout the organization in censorship
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functions. And joining me now to talk about this is the author of this outstanding new piece in the
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New York Post. The headline is Inside Revolving Door Between Democrat, Deep State, and Big Tech. I'm
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talking about Benjamin Weingarten, one of our favorite U.S. commentators. He joins us now via Skype.
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Ben, great to see you again. I wasn't completely serious when I said that Twitter was an organ in
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the deep state, but I looked at all these directors of Twitter. I thought, these people do not know
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about tech. These are not young, hip, tech-savvy people that you might find in an IT startup.
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These are people who care about shaping the information battlefield in Ukraine. These are
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the people who are interested in promoting, you know, a certain globalist agenda or a certain,
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and I might agree with that agenda from time to time, for example, a pro-American foreign policy,
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but they didn't give a hoot about free speech. They were in the information business
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with their own message, not to be an empty platform. That's what I saw back then. Your
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story today proves that's actually how the place was run.
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Yeah, and I think to add to your argument, not only was it, in effect, a censorship platform,
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but also, in effect, a platform for surveillance, hoovering up information on individuals,
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as well as controlling the information that people could access. And I think what you see in terms of
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the idea of this being something of a captured entity of the deep state is that we ought to stop
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thinking of, in some respects, there being a real distinction between the administrative state
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writ large, and in this case, when it comes to particularly these strategically significant
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areas of communication or tech infrastructure with the national security agencies, that there's
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very little distinction and red lines drawn between the big tech companies themselves,
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the national security state, and then, of course, the national security state stenographers in the
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legacy media companies. And all of these elements are brought together when it comes to the suppression
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of the Hunter Biden laptop story, but it cuts across a whole slew of issues. And if there's one thing that the
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Twitter files have exposed, that I think is more significant, and quite frankly, disturbing,
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than any other, it's that there was censorship and suppression by proxy here, First Amendment
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violations by proxy, where you have the national security apparatus clearly coordinating with Twitter,
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and by the way, other platforms as well, including Facebook, for that matter. When it came to censoring
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and suppressing a whole slew of content across a wide variety of areas. And of course, we know this with
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respect to the Chinese coronavirus, we know this with respect to election integrity in the post 2020
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election period, but it also happened prior to that period. And what I raise in this piece, as you mentioned, is the
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idea that personnel is policy here. And in the form of a Jim Baker, for example, you have the
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personification of this lack of distinction, this blurring of lines between the security state
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and big tech, because you have the he someone who was the FBI general counsel during the heat of Russia
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gate, during some of its most important frauds foisted on us by our national security apparatus.
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And then he finds himself as the deputy general counsel within Twitter calling the shots on suppressing the
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Hunter Biden story. So on the one hand, effectively running an information operation and worse against
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President Trump, while inside the deep state, and then running an information operation also against
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Trump and protective of Biden outside of the deep state on the putatively private sector side.
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And that's one individual among many. And when it comes to the Hunter Biden story, one story among a whole
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slew of them, where we've seen reportage in recent months of this coordination between the deep state and big tech.
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Yeah, what's so incredible is, I mean, seriously, the top lawyer at the FBI, then becomes the deputy top lawyer
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at Twitter, just, it couldn't be more transparent or brazen. But what's unbelievable to me is that he survived
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Elon Musk's takeover. And when Elon Musk started airing out the dirty laundry in what have been dubbed the Twitter
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files, giving internal Twitter documents to, I would say, ideologically neutral or even left-leaning
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reporters like Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss, who certainly could not be called right wing.
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James Baker was still there. He was vetting what was given to the, so even when Elon Musk said,
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we're going to have, we're going to audit ourselves, we're going to air it all out. James Baker was still
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inside Twitter. Only he was deciding what would be aired out. He was later sacked. But it's incredible
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to me that he was still a stowaway in Elon Musk's Twitter. But he's not alone. I'm reading your article
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here in the New York Post. Jeff Carlton, an intelligence analyst for the CIA and FBI. That's what this was.
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I mean, I think the real economic value of Twitter was not the ads it would sell or things like that.
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It was exactly what you say. It was an information asset. It's what the CIA always dreamed about.
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Not only did they collect everything that people look at, but everything they chat about in their
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internal direct messages. And then finally, what they would push out as propaganda, what they would
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choose would be a trending story or what they would throttle. So it never could trend. You know, you
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mentioned other tech companies. I mean, of course, Twitter is the one we're focused on right now
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because of Elon Musk's takeover of it. But Andy Stone, the communications director for Facebook,
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used to be a Democrat. Flack, obviously. Jay Carney, who was well known as Barack Obama's communications
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director, went over to Amazon. No problem. Just slide right in there. We learned that Anthony
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Fauci's daughter was at Twitter. No problem. Like, it's not even a revolving door because that
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says there's a door. There's just no door. This is an adjacent hotel room that the door has taken
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off the hinges. They just go back and forth. I think what's most dangerous about this
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doorless relationship between these putatively separate sectors, the public and the private sector,
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is that here you have collusion, coordination, what I would call a conspiracy to violate our first
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freedom, the First Amendment, and particularly on political speech, which the First Amendment
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expressly is focused on, at least as the courts have arbitrated over it. And here you have suppression
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of that speech on which every other liberty ultimately relies. And as you note, there is this
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easy, frictionless relationship between Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley. And I think Silicon Valley
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would probably get there anyway were Democratic Party made men and women not able to slip right
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through the front door effortlessly into these various functions. But I think what's perhaps most
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disturbing about it is, as happens in tyrannies, it's always on the basis of national security or
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public health and safety that these rampant violations of our rights are justified. Obviously,
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we saw that with the coronavirus. We also see this with election integrity. It's really important to note,
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and this is one of the more chilling lines I've come across in this burgeoning war on wrong thing that
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the national security state has served as the tip of the spear of SISA, which is an agency within the
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Department of Homeland Security, which is focused on securing critical infrastructure, including election
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infrastructure. The head of SISA, the director of SISA, has said that perhaps the most important
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infrastructure of all is our, and I'm quoting directly here, cognitive infrastructure.
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So think about what that implies. If it's the job of a DHS sub-agency to protect cognitive
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infrastructure, and as she sees it and as she has articulated, that implies an obligation of the
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government to counter, quote unquote, mis, dis, and malinformation. That is to run roughshod over the
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first amendment. And SISA is one of the agencies that was in the room during these regular meetings that we now
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know about between big tech and the various national security agencies as well. And SISA also played a
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substantial role in this election integrity partnership apparatus that we've learned about through the likes of
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progressive publications, by the way, like The Intercept, who have shown that the national security state was filtering through
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these requests to censor and suppress information and accounts via this third party cutout, which referred these
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requests onto the big tech companies and allowed them to violate the first amendment, again, by proxy. So there's the
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personnel as policy issue here, there is the seamless ties between the deep state and big tech. And then there's the
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pernicious way that they're justifying these massive violations, which ultimately undermine every single
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other liberty that we cherish so deeply in America, or at least that we used to.
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You know, I can understand and maybe even in some cases, except the United States deploying unconstitutional
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means to target foreign regimes. I don't think that foreign regimes or foreign citizens necessarily have rights
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under the American Constitution. I could be wrong on that. But what irks me is that the CIA and the FBI
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colonized Twitter to deploy it against the American people, to stop what American people see,
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to stop what they say, to spy on them, and to alter the American election. Now, if TikTok is a weaponized
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arm of the People's Liberation Army, and if, I forget what it's called, VK, I think, or something like that,
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just a Russian version of Facebook. If every country has its own social media,
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maybe the idea of Twitter being weaponized against foreign agents is something I could abide if it was
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limited to that. But it seems like the chief enemy of this deep state was Americans, and more precisely,
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Republican Americans, and even more precisely, Donald Trump. And it really was, I don't know,
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it was nothing like a publisher and a free speech place. It was the opposite of it. The whole purpose of
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it was as a spying tool. I think it's amazing that Elon Musk bought it and is airing that out. It wouldn't
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surprise me if there are still other moles left in Twitter. I mean, it's a big place. I don't know if we'll
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ever know everything that was said and done in that place. As a Canadian, I'm very curious what our Justin Trudeau
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did and said to Twitter to get them, for example, to hamstring Rebel News. I'm sure he tried. Why
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wouldn't he? He is a close working relationship with U.S. Democrats. He shares their censorious
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tone. I'm sure Twitter Canada was just as liberal as Twitter in the United States. I wonder how much of
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this was done all around the world. And it reminds me that when Twitter nuked Donald Trump's Twitter
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account, the Mexican president, Angela Merkel of Germany, I think President Macron of France,
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they didn't cheer, even though each of them had their beefs with Trump. They all said this is an
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outrageous stretch by a tech company to censor a leader of a sovereign country. The world said,
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oh my God, what's going on? Because they could see that this was a form of hegemony or a form of
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imperialism by whoever was sitting in Twitter's executive offices. I don't know. I think that
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we've just seen the tip of the iceberg here. Well, and that those world leaders took a more liberal
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perspective in the classical sense than Twitter's internal speech police, I think tells you everything
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you need to know about the character and the nature of the folks serving at senior levels.
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Moles within Twitter. Also important to note, and I think your point is very well taken on this,
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about moles within Twitter. The fact that James Baker continued to work there for as long as he did
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after the acquisition is incredibly disturbing because as you noted, he may well have been
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responsible and Elon Musk has sort of intimated this. He clearly was vetting information and perhaps
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deleted it or scrubbed it. And that's significant because Matt Taibbi himself in one of the early
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dumps of Twitter files noted that we didn't really find smoking guns with respect to what government
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officials were doing and saying and directing Twitter. Well, if Jim Baker was on the inside
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overseeing what was leaked out, do you think he might have had an interest in suppressing that sort
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of information? And so what other information is being suppressed? And then also to your point,
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this goes well beyond Twitter to a whole slew of tech companies because we've seen reportage to indicate
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that the government was meeting, national security agencies were meeting with a whole slew of big
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tech companies in the run-up to the election. And the context for this is really important here.
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Obviously, the big tech companies play a substantial role in the dissemination of information vital in
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a campaign. But beyond that, I always go back to that Molly Ball article in 2021 in Time Magazine
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on this bipartisan conspiracy, that's her word, conspiracy, or cabal to quote-unquote fortify the
00:30:53.260
election. And within that article, there's a line where she talks about the fact that this powerful,
00:30:58.140
well-funded cabal worked hand in hand, including to control the flow of information going into
00:31:04.940
that election. That's precisely what occurred at Twitter, and I suspect it's precisely what occurred
00:31:10.540
across all areas of the information battle space in America and abroad.
00:31:16.460
You know, Ben, I'm 50 years old now. I felt motivated about political matters and injustices
00:31:23.980
ever since I was a teenager. And most of the time, I'm only modestly successful at persuading
00:31:30.700
things or moving the world. And I think that's how it should be. The world should be a very difficult
00:31:35.180
thing to change. I think that's proper. But in my 50 years, there have been a few moments where
00:31:43.820
I've had an explosive success. And I managed to get a message out and people to hear what I thought was
00:31:52.380
a scandalous injustice. And I finally had my platform, whether it was on a huge TV station or
00:31:59.420
a successful campaign of some sort. And I finally had that moment of truth that I had been working for,
00:32:05.020
maybe for years, Ben. And I was able to say what I wanted to say, unvarnished, unlimited, and
00:32:12.940
and nothing. And I couldn't blame anyone because I was successful. I was able to say what I wanted to
00:32:19.980
say. And the world didn't change, Ben. And it's a humbling reminder that not everyone cares about the
00:32:27.260
world as you do. And if they do care, it's hard to change the world. And I don't know,
00:32:34.220
that's sort of a personal way of saying, Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and his revelations
00:32:40.220
that every conspiracy theory was correct. They really were censoring things. It really was hand
00:32:46.220
in glove with the FBI and the CIA. And they really were everything we had. And now here's the proof of
00:32:53.740
it. And even the proof of it has more skullduggery. And this is my point. So this is the perfect moment.
00:33:00.060
It's almost impossible to think, Ben, that there was someone who would spend $44 billion to get the
00:33:06.940
truth. Like that's what I mean by a once in a lifetime truth telling moment. Will it ever again,
00:33:12.620
has it ever before happened that someone mustered $44 billion just to find the truth? It's unthinkable.
00:33:17.980
And here it is. Ta-da. Voila. Everything here that we have alleged, it's proof. QED. Ta-da.
00:33:29.180
And nothing. And nothing. Our state broadcaster here, the CBC, I typed in Twitter. And the only story
00:33:39.900
they had over the last month was that Elon Musk got booed at a Jay Chappelle comedy show in California.
00:33:46.220
That was the only thing they thought was newsworthy coming out of Twitter this past month,
00:33:50.540
just in case you didn't know, Ben. The New York Times, the Washington Post, they're all saying,
00:33:55.580
oh, this is a nothing burger. So this is one of those moments where you have a perfect moment of truth.
00:34:01.980
And I ask you, will anything bloody well change, Ben?
00:34:07.900
Well, and we've had a couple of others too, like with respect to Russiagate,
00:34:11.420
and with the Hunter Biden laptop story, will anything change? More and more, I think marginally,
00:34:19.820
more and more people continue to see the mask being removed, that it is a rigged deck in the sense of
00:34:29.580
every single powerful institution, whether organically or conspiratorially, because quite
00:34:34.940
frankly, it could all be organic, the way these people operate and what their worldview is,
00:34:40.060
do really work together to protect their power, their privilege, their fiefdoms, and to crush dissenters.
00:34:47.740
And as the dissent grows, so too does the ratcheting up of the totalitarian kind of means by which
00:34:55.020
they try to counter it. So I think the worse these actors perform, that's a testament, I think,
00:35:02.140
to the strength of the opposition. So that's somewhat comforting. There's also a question of,
00:35:07.980
does the extent to which they engage in all sorts of these in these activities, and they get exposed,
00:35:12.700
and that these activities keep getting more and more malicious and unhinged,
00:35:16.540
does that suggest a weakness or a strength on their side? And I think that's an important question
00:35:21.660
to always consider. But I also do share your demoralization that it takes one billionaire with
00:35:26.940
$44 billion to buy what he himself has admitted is essentially a crime scene. It's crickets,
00:35:33.340
of course, from a media that is in and of itself implicated in all of this, and so has a vested interest
00:35:39.580
in suppressing it. And all they want to talk about is how Elon Musk paid $44 billion to increase hate speech.
00:35:45.900
And thus, that provides even further justification for worse censorship. And by the way, what censorship
00:35:50.620
is going on right now? What kind of conversations are going on right this minute between national
00:35:54.860
security agencies and the various big tech companies? There's far more to find out. Thank
00:36:00.380
God, some eyes have been open to it. And for that, whatever Elon Musk's failings, it's been a,
00:36:06.140
and not just a national public service, it's been a global public service, this acquisition.
00:36:10.700
Well, and I still hold out some hope. I think it, it is a source of hope. But, you know,
00:36:16.620
you can be the richest man in the world, one of the smartest men in the world, one of the most
00:36:19.900
successful men in the world. But there's always someone or something bigger, the deep state is
00:36:25.580
larger than anything. And sometimes they use means that, I mean, a similar jaw dropping,
00:36:36.300
eye opening, red pill moment, as the kids would say, was the whole Jeffrey Epstein affair.
00:36:41.980
And what came of that? I mean, other than Bill Gates, his wife divorcing him, do we know who the,
00:36:49.420
who the predators were? I don't know. These are difficult things to talk about because you're
00:36:55.020
called a conspiracy theorist for even chewing them over. But then when the facts come out,
00:37:01.580
the response from the regime media is, oh, that's old news. We already knew that. No,
00:37:06.780
you denied it until this moment. You called it a conspiracy theory until this moment. Now you're
00:37:11.420
saying it's old news, so you can skip the part where we talk about it. Anyway, Ben, I don't mean
00:37:15.420
to be so pessimistic. I loved your piece in the National Post. I'd encourage everyone to read it.
00:37:19.500
I am starting to get nightmares. I've seen so many pictures of a half-naked Hunter Biden. But even that
00:37:26.380
in itself, I mean, just the scrutiny that was put on the Trump sons, on Donald Trump Jr., on Eric and
00:37:33.260
like just all the lads and all the accusations that they were profiteering some way off their
00:37:37.980
dad's presidency, I don't think there was any evidence furnished of it. And here you have the
00:37:43.020
first son with no business skills, with no success in life, getting multimillion dollar or even billion
00:37:49.900
dollar contracts from communist China, from Russia, from Ukraine, with no discernible benefit to the
00:37:56.700
payer other than influencing his father. And it's, oh, well, leave him alone. You're picking on someone
00:38:01.180
with substance abuse issues. It's just incredible. That's the world we live in. And hopefully the
00:38:06.380
truth is interesting enough to overcome. Ben, I appreciate you writing the truth in the New York
00:38:11.100
Post and I appreciate you joining us here as you always do. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
00:38:15.500
All right. There you have it, Ben Weingarten. These are tough things to talk about. I find them
00:38:19.340
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It is commonplace for those who have received their third, fourth, fifth doses
00:40:05.820
to get COVID, even if they've been vaccinated. Surely you can all see that the current strategy
00:40:12.060
is not doing what it was purported to do. So here we are more than a year later,
00:40:17.420
our healthcare system on the brink of collapse and the healthcare worker injection mandate continues
00:40:23.500
to be in effect. Despite the vast amount of evidence discrediting the validity of the order,
00:40:31.020
despite every other province in this country and many countries around the world acknowledging this
00:40:37.740
approach is neither scientifically sound nor effective. Despite the tens of thousands of COVID-related
00:40:45.660
sick calls all of our health authorities have received after the non-vaccinated healthcare
00:40:51.340
workers were fired and thus not spreading COVID in the workplace. So again, perhaps someone here
00:40:59.340
can enlighten me as to what is different in BC. In this email, I shared under PHSA's whistleblower policy
00:41:07.340
some of the alarming red flags I noticed related to COVID while working as a nurse for PHSA.
00:41:12.860
Namely, the huge discrepancy in adverse vaccine reactions occurring versus those being reported
00:41:19.820
to the public. In this email, an abundance of credible resources were included. I have yet to receive a
00:41:26.540
response from a single one of you. The public health measures, including but not limited to the
00:41:31.900
experimental COVID injection that you have facilitated, promoted and mandated are causing significant
00:41:38.860
morbidity and mortality in this province. In Pfizer's own post-market trial data in the first three months,
00:41:47.500
ending February 28, 2021, their own data reported several pages of adverse reactions, including over 1200 deaths.
00:41:58.860
Myocarditis, among other cardiac issues, severe neurological issues, and a horrific rate of fetal
00:42:06.220
demise in mothers who discovered they were pregnant when they received the injection.
00:42:12.700
The increased all-cause mortality and decreased live births have been impacted globally at rates
00:42:18.940
never been seen before, not even close to it. Our healthcare system was already failing before COVID.
00:42:25.740
It is now on the brink of irreparable dysfunction. I, as a nurse, one of the many thousands,
00:42:33.420
am now on welfare and lining up at the food bank every two weeks because you continue to uphold
00:42:41.100
a mandate that is not scientifically sound ethical, moral or lawful. I have reviewed your information
00:42:51.900
and I am confident in the evidence the province is using. I will leave. Shame on all of you for not
00:42:59.420
looking into this. There will come a point in time and it's becoming more and more obvious.
00:43:04.860
This is Aurora Bisson Montpetit. Now tell us how you were working as a nurse before these mandates.
00:43:12.940
So initially I was working at 811, the nurses hotline, which is under HealthLink BC. And during this time,
00:43:22.540
people would call in and after the vaccine was rolled out, I would get call after call after call of
00:43:30.540
adverse reactions from people who had recently received the vaccine. I was obviously very
00:43:36.380
concerned about it. I wasn't surprised because I'd been looking into this for quite some time.
00:43:41.740
I had initially tried to raise this concern to my manager and was brushed off.
00:43:48.140
I left HealthLink BC, I think it was around May, June maybe. And then I transferred to
00:43:56.060
Children's Hospital in July and that's where I was fired from was Children's Hospital working in
00:44:01.260
adolescent inpatient mental health, which as we all know, what this has done to the mental health
00:44:07.660
of everybody and to see it happening to the kids in this province has been absolutely horrendous.
00:44:13.420
So I want to flashback just a bit to what you said there. You're getting these calls about these
00:44:16.860
adverse reactions to this safe and effective jab that we were all told about. And then flash forward some
00:44:22.940
months later and you're told you better get this or you lose your job. I have very little patience
00:44:27.500
for people who aren't immunized in healthcare. What was that like? It was horrendous to say the least.
00:44:37.260
I knew it was coming. I was hoping obviously like many of us that things would change before that point.
00:44:43.740
It was the week before the mandates actually came into effect and my manager approached me while I was at
00:44:51.980
work and said, you know, you know what's happening. What are you planning to do? And I said, well,
00:44:58.060
I'm not providing you with my personal private medical information. And she said, well, I already
00:45:03.580
know you're not vaccinated. So a complete breach of my private medical information.
00:45:08.460
Yeah. I think that was something we still haven't completely grasped. Now, one of the questions that
00:45:15.100
people have been asking, including myself over the past months, is how many nurses or doctors or what
00:45:21.820
have you have been laid off without paid or terminated? I recently interviewed another
00:45:29.260
nurse, a former ER nurse who is also not helping save lives right now, thanks to these mandates.
00:45:34.620
She did a freedom of information request to get that number as it pertains to the nurses.
00:45:39.260
Let's just play a clip of that. I had to be very specific. So I use the dates from November 30th,
00:45:45.100
2021 until June 30th, 2022. So one of the questions I asked for how many just specifically nurses were
00:45:53.980
terminated due to the COVID mandates. And so up until June 30th, there were just over 2000 that were
00:46:03.420
terminated. There has been more that have been terminated since then, as they come back from leaves.
00:46:09.660
And this does not actually cover the numbers that left on early retirement. And so the union actually
00:46:18.060
reimburses nurses $200 on their license fees. We have to pay $700 a year for that. And the union
00:46:25.340
reimburses $200. This year, as compared to last year, there were 4,000 less reimbursements. And
00:46:31.580
we sort of look at that as the early retirements, as most of the terminated did keep their licenses.
00:46:36.540
So we're looking at probably six to 8,000 less nurses in the system than last year. I also asked
00:46:44.300
how many COVID sick calls there were. So when you are scheduled for a shift and you can't make it,
00:46:49.580
you have to phone into this phone line and it gives you options as to why you aren't going to
00:46:55.180
be able to make your shift. Illness was one. And then when COVID happened, they actually differentiated
00:47:01.500
between COVID illness and regular illness. So in the six months, November 30th to June 30th,
00:47:07.980
and only four health authorities, because Island Health didn't differentiate for some reason,
00:47:13.420
there were over 20,000 COVID sick calls in double vaccinated nurses. This is just the nurses. I'm not
00:47:19.100
talking about any other healthcare. So 20,000 COVID sick calls. So what you have now is nurses who are
00:47:26.220
sick with COVID and then you've taken out healthy nurses. And then we ran into critical staffing
00:47:31.900
shortages because there was nobody able to cover all of these nurses. So the COVID sick calls, the
00:47:38.860
terminated. And then interestingly enough, I did ask for numbers of nurses last year versus numbers of
00:47:46.220
nurses this year. Now, each of the health authorities brought up that we, there was actually a couple
00:47:52.620
hundred more in each health authority of nurses, which I found interesting until I realized that
00:47:59.020
COVID funding from the federal government actually enabled them to hire back a lot of retired nurses
00:48:07.820
for COVID immunizations, contact tracing. And so there was a lot of nurses that were brought on for that,
00:48:14.060
but not necessarily in the front lines. Now, I found it interesting that Adrian Dick said that he
00:48:20.300
has added 38,000 healthcare workers to our healthcare system. And I would like him to produce the evidence
00:48:27.020
for that because that is not what I found. So thousands of nurses, mind you, this is while
00:48:33.260
BC's healthcare system is completely in shambles. It was already on its last legs before COVID and now
00:48:39.020
it's desperately understaffed. But something Corrine Maury pointed out and you actually pointed out in that
00:48:45.740
meeting was that there were the sick calls after you guys were out of the system. What was that about?
00:48:51.580
Yeah. So after we were no longer allowed to work, there have been tens of thousands of COVID-related
00:48:57.980
sick calls. There's a, there's a, it's called the URL line in which employees call in and say why
00:49:05.740
they're sick, how many days they're going to be off. So the province has the data and the numbers saying
00:49:11.100
how many people, and they break it down into regular sickness, COVID-related sickness. So they
00:49:15.660
have all the numbers of how many COVID-related sick calls, how many times these people have been
00:49:21.260
calling in. So we weren't the ones spreading COVID in the workplace. It was all the nurses and healthcare
00:49:27.180
workers who were still at work. You demonize those like me stating that we were a threat to patients,
00:49:33.740
the public and the healthcare system. While you hypocritically ask nurses with active COVID illness
00:49:41.020
to continue working in the healthcare system. Somehow magically vaccinated nurses who are sick
00:49:46.700
are not a risk to others, but non-vaccinated nurses who are healthy are a risk. Kudos to you. I mean,
00:49:53.180
the way you handled yourself was so good. You were just by yourself, but boy, you were mighty. And I don't
00:49:59.820
know what was going through their heads when they were listening to you. What's happened since then?
00:50:04.300
Did you get any solid answers? No, I still have not received a reply from any of them.
00:50:13.980
I've sent several emails over the last year. The investigation summary in which I mentioned during
00:50:21.580
the video, I haven't received a single reply from any of them, which is obviously very concerning.
00:50:27.500
It's very interesting because there's a number of lawyers that are actually on the board and the
00:50:31.820
executive, and some of them are actually allegedly human rights specialists. So I find that very
00:50:40.700
concerning, hypocritical, ironic. Well, human rights only matter if the government said so, right?
00:50:47.020
Now, I also reached out from Rebel News to try to get some of the answers to the questions that you
00:50:51.900
asked. I have not heard back at this point in time, but if I do in a reasonable matter, I will go
00:50:57.180
ahead and update the written article for this report, which you can find in the description below.
00:51:02.940
Thank you so much, Aurora, for being on Rebel News. Thank you, Drea.
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Till the next report, I'm Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.