Fight Back Against the Media, the Government, The Propaganda - CLICK
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Summary
In this video, I talk about how a narrative is being spun about something that amounts to nothing, and how an actual thing is ignored. And I tell you how you can fight back because it's important as we move through this year of 2026, it's going to be more important than ever.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 504 a.m. Monday, April the 27th. I hope you're having a
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great start to your Monday. Hope you had a good weekend as well with the big blue mug of coffee,
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which I tipped to you today. It seems a lot of you liked my video yesterday describing liberals
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and their supporters as the Borg from Star Trek or The Collective. Thanks a lot for watching it.
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More than 40,000 of you have. I'll put a card at the end so you can watch it if you haven't
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already. So today, this is an important message. I hope you'll watch until the end.
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This isn't a rant about anything that the Liberals are doing in Ottawa or about the people
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who support the Liberals or any policy right now, but this is an important video. In this video,
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I'm going to talk to you about something you already know, okay? But get past that. I'm just
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going to get to that briefly in just a moment. I'm going to show you how a narrative is being
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spun about information that you trust. I'm going to show you how a narrative is being spun about
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something that amounts to nothing and how an actual thing is ignored. And I'm going to tell
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you how you can fight back because it's important. And as we move through this year of 2026,
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it's going to be more important than ever. So I came across this article from Juno News,
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and this is just from yesterday and this is a great article link in the description
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and thank you to juno news i don't give attribution to enough on this channel i need to do it more
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but juno news is doing great work here as our other independent media and that's what this
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video is about as other independent media are doing in this country journalism was meant to
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challenge power now it just echoes it the legacy media have traded the pursuit of truth
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for partisan activism. And just a little bit of the story, Canada's media is not failing because
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people stopped reading it. It is failing because people stopped trusting it. For decades, the media
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was one of the central pillars of a free and democratic society. Its role was straightforward
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to hold power to account, present competing viewpoints, and give citizens the information
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they needed to make informed decisions. There used to be a saying you'd hear quite a bit when
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it came to the media, and it was this. Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Finley, Peter Dunn, American Humorist. This was often said about print media, but this is really
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the job of media. Now, recently I was at an event for Jason Levine. It was called Bearing Witness,
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and he had me speaking about my experience. I used to be in news media, and Bearing Witness
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means I'm somebody who observes what's going on, and I am conveying it to people like you. And this
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is what i had to say at jason's event in red deer a couple of weeks ago and a few years ago i left
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radio but it definitely is not the same business that i worked in i noticed a shift about 10 years
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ago it was around 2018 2019 when the liberal government started funding the news media
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now the news directors and management of the places i work for over the years
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They would consider it a threat to editorial independence,
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an erosion of public trust, a risk of political favoritism.
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They would be disgusted that citizens would be forced
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to support news organizations that they may not agree with
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through their tax dollars and other things as well.
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These people and their beliefs, like me, are now gone.
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the news media line up like pigs at a trough for their government handouts george bernard shaw said
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the politician that robs peter to pay paul will always have a friend in paul and that's what it's
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like with the news media these days going back to the juno news story they basically say the same
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thing when media organizations depend on government programs to survive incentives change stories that
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challenge power become riskier. Editorial decisions become more cautious. Coverage begins
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to align, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly, with the prevailing narrative. Link in the
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description. And you already knew about this. This is confirmation bias. And I'm going to address
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that in just a moment. So these are things you already know. Now, the next thing is, how is the
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narrative being spun about information that you trust? Well, you start to see stories like this.
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Network of YouTube channels pushing U.S. annexation and Alberta secession narrative report fines.
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You read the story, a network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices
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is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation,
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reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report.
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It's not until you actually get down here that they say this is AI, and much of it is.
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And you probably know about this story because of Derek from Unacceptable Fringe.
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he got lumped into this story as AI. I can assure you I have met Derek. I have spoken to him. I
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shook his hand a number of times. He is not AI, but this is how they're going to try to discredit
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people like me as being an inauthentic voice for Alberta independence. I can assure you
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I am a real person as well because the stories start to change. They start to morph. It's like
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what you used to call Chinese telephone. You go to a party and somebody would whisper in somebody's
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ear. And then everybody would whisper it to everybody else. And by the time you got to the
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end, the story had completely changed. Because if you read this from the TIE, this is how they
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spin the story. The dishonest online campaign to support Alberta separatism. A research group
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raises red flags about foreign interference in the province's independence referendum. You can
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see how the story is all already morphed into this. It doesn't really talk about the AI in the
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headline. A lot of people just scan the headline. So it's trying to discredit people who actually
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speak truthfully about what is going on here. It won't be very long before I'm being accused of
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being on the payroll of Donald Trump. I fully expect that. And I can assure you that is not
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happening. It's not happening and it never will. And nobody in the independence movement in Alberta
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is on the payroll of Donald Trump. But you're already hearing that from people like Jason
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Kenney and Thomas Lukasik, who heads up the fake Forever Canadian campaign. So that's what's going
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on here. You see this story here as well. This from the CBC. Alberta separatist leader unconcerned
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about influence of YouTube's slopaganda videos.
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So what we've heard now are the first two things.
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is how a narrative is spun about information that you trust.
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Watch the video I did just a couple of days ago.
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they show you how the narrative is spun about something that amounts to absolutely nothing
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while ignoring the big thing. And we get to a story like this one right here. Read this.
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So, treaties in Alberta are not optional agreements. First Nations gather at City Hall
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rally against separatists. This story should have been ignored by CTV News completely.
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Why? Well, I used to do media in a small town of slightly over 50,000 people, and the program
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director I worked with said, we show up when 500 people are there, or we don't go, because it's not
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worth our time, and it's not an event. It's not a news story until it hits 500. This amounted to
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several dozen Calgarians braved the cold Saturday to join in the treaties are forever rally at City
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hall. Several dozen in a city of more than, what, 1.3 million people? And look what they said here.
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Braved the cold on Saturday. I can assure you it was not that cold on Saturday. Wasn't a nice day,
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but not that cold. And then you get stories like this. Another one. Door knocking begins for Alberta
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NDP campaign to keep province in Canada. The For Alberta, For Canada campaign aims to mobilize
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Albertans, look how many people they got in this shot. This amounts to absolutely nothing. And
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then there's a story like this. For Alberta for Canada campaign kicks off in spite of frigid
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snowstorm. Not true. It was not that cold on Saturday when this picture of a few dozen people
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was taken. But what have they ignored? For the last four months, thousands of people have been
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sitting on street corners, in parking lots, all across Alberta in some of the worst weather you
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can imagine, collecting signatures for the independence campaign, and they have been
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virtually ignored. Not a single story. And I'll tell you, it was pretty frigid and it was pretty
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cold a lot of those days. That campaign just ended yesterday. This is how they turn something
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that is nothing into something and ignore the big story. And you're going to see a lot of this,
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a lot of it. You know what's fascinating? Nahed Nenshi has made the fight against the
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independence movement political. Mitch Sylvester has told me here he does not want this to be
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political. He wants to bring everybody in, a big tent. This is the number of people that are
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following the NDPs for Alberta for Canada campaign right now on X. It even says here,
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authorized by the Alberta NDP, 359 followers. This was launched more than a week ago.
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This is a huge failure. So now you know how they turn the little thing into the big thing
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and ignore the big story. This is where we're going forward. Now, the other thing you need to
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do is how you can fight back against the narrative and the propaganda and the lies. And I'm only
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using the independence movement as an example. This happens everywhere with everything. You know
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it. I know it. When you go to a YouTube video, I'm not just talking about me and I'm not going
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to start listing off all the great voices who may be considered conservative in Canada because I'll
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miss somebody. But you, when they ask you to subscribe or you see the button come up, click
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on subscribe. You probably watch videos where people say, only 7% are actually subscribed to
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my channel. Subscribe to these channels. Like the videos if you like them and share them if you like
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them, because this is how the message and the truth gets out. Because as we move forward in 2026,
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some of these voices may be silenced. And you need to support them now, because there is strength
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in numbers, and you are part of the fight against the narrative we're being pushed by the media.
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It's very important that you do this. On a final note, and I had already finished doing this video,
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but I wanted to make sure I mentioned this at the end, so I'm editing it in. Know what the other
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side is doing. Don't always look for the confirmation bias. Don't always go for the
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stories that you agree with. It's easier to fight back against the other side if you know what
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they're doing. And I'm going to show you one more quote here, and it's a good one. I think I may
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have shown it here on the channel before. It's from Sun Tzu from The Art of War. If you know the
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enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself
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but not the enemy for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you neither know
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the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Thanks a lot for watching. If you liked
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share it if you like it, and I will see you in the next one.